Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1892, Page 5

R ( \ “merely L THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: “MOADAY, SEPTEMBER 26 1992, PULSEOF WESTERN PROGRESS Bebelion of the Ohinoss Agaitst the Geary Registration Law. BOMPARATIVE COST OF IRRIGATION $istorie Exhibits at the € Washingto Towering Flag Poles— Bout Dakota's Assessment Roli— Summary of Northwest News. Ifornia Fair— Whe Chinese revolt against the law re- Quiring vegistration threatons serious ro- Sults on the coast. That vigorous resistance ‘Wwilt be nade is certain, and a prolonged con t in the courts is about to begin. The ead and front of the rebellion against the 1aw is the ChinesoSix Companios, composed ©of syndicate of wealthy Chinamen in San Francisco. The companies form a composite emperor of tho Chinese on the coast. A ma- fority of the latter are tho slaves of the ormor, and its dictum 15 oboyea as relig- fmlxly as that of the mogul of Pokin. In wiew of tho power wieldad by this organiza- flon, its open proclamation of defiance to United States law and determination to re mist 1ts enforcoment. justly excites alarm. "r'ho prociamation, translated and published y tho Sun FranciscoCall, is a remarkablo ocument, addressed *“To All Chinose 1n the %mmd States,” ana is as follows: Wo give vou in this lotter the Geary bill, cnlled, which is about Chinese registering, t i 18 an unjust law aud no Chinese should oy it. The luw degrades the Chiness and if obeyed will put them lower than the meauest of poople We have got the law as we give 1t from r. Quinn, the man who is 1o enforca it in an Francisco. The law as ho has given it to us 18 as tne white people made it. Tt is a cruel law, It is a bad law. Ttead it and seo how cruel the law is to our people, See how mean and contemptiblo it wants $o make the Chinose. We do not want the Chinese to obey it. We do not believe the Chinese will obey it. In waking this law the people of the Umted States have treated the sworn treaties made t\:im our country and our emperor with con- mpt. oy have aisregarded our rights and paid 10 attentivn to their promises, and mads a l'nw +0 suit themselves, no matter how unjust 0 us. No Chinese can read fLecling of disgust. 1fany olnannopm\mnl« thoy are wiser thun we are and would obey the law, if any oula obey it for the sake of making money, Jot them stop. Do ot do it. You will re- pent it if you do. = Muny white men say this law is not rizht, and those who obey it are not wise, but gnorant and foolish, Let us stand together. We hope all will worlk with us and then wo oan and will break this infamous law. Let 10 white man fool you and tell you the Jaw is different from what 15 hero. Again we warn you not to obey this law, It {s vot right, it is not just. We bave given you the true law. Siznea, Juxa Wan War Quex, The Six Companies. ‘The proclamation is supplementea with an ®ppeal tor protection to ‘“Tien-Tie—the lord ©f our zovernment and the Son of Heaven for thousunds of years.” Irrigation in Four States, A recent census bulletin gives a compara- tive table of the cost of irrigation In the states ot Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, In the first named state itap- pears thav the average first cost of construct- Ing irrigating ditches and bringing water to the land is £1.03 to the acre, and the average selling value of the water vights, if trans- ferable without the land, is $13.15 an acre. The average annual expense of maintaining the ditches i3 75 cents an _acre, consisting of cleaning out the canals where sediment may have been deposited and in re- pairing breaks. The cost of preparing the ground for culti- wvation, exclusive of bringing the water to the land, but includlng such items as clear- {ug the land, whero necessary, of trees and brush, and also of plowiug and fencing, was $10.27 an acre, Adding to this the costof bringing water o the land, £4.03 an acre, and the original cost of the land atthe govern- ment price of 31.25 per acre, tho total cost of cultivated land to tho irrigator was $15.55an acre. In comparison with this the estimatod aver- age value of the land upon which crops were raisod by irrigation 1s placed av $50 an acre, sbowing an apparent profit of $34.45 an acre, less cost ot building. Deducting the average annual expense of water, 75 cents an acre, from the averago annual value of the prod- ucts, $17.00 an acre, it appears that the an- nual retura per acre is §1.34. The followlng table sho the more im- rtant facts in connection with irrigation in ‘ashington, as compared with the states of Oregon, Montana and 1daho. this law swithout a was. |oregn.|1aano. | Mont tors... Avernge Averago " aan cOst 0f water.... First cost of cuiii- YAUNE. POF ROFO of land un bulldings.. Annual vali product xhibits of Paclile Slope History, Visitors to the siate fair recently held at Sacramentn, Cal., had a good opportunity 1o study the history of the Pacific slope in some Interosting exhibits that wero made in a pa- wvilion devoted to the purpose. Among them ‘wero the flagstaff from the old custom hoase at Monterey, Mexican cannon from Monte- oy, the confessional box used at the Mission SanJuan in 1773 and the mission bolls, missals, vestments and candelabra; Mexl- can low and other implements of ricultu the ploucer Marshall’s saddle; the hat Custer wore when shot by 'aptain Jaok” and a piece of the rope with which “Captain Jack was hanged; Fremont's epaulettes, which he wore when bhe wished to impress the Califormia Iu- dians, and which weighed two pounas apioco; and all the gold miners' weapons, tools and equipments. Modes of transportation were Aptiy illustrated by the Southern Pacific railrond. First in order were tbe poles which the Digger Indian used for bhis lodge by night and strapped to the sides of his mule and bung wm;enm goods and trappiogs by day. Nextwas shown the clumsy mis- slon cart, tho wheels mado by sawing off the end of a log and boring & hole in the middle for a wocden axle; then the wagon ‘with four wheels to which the sturdy oxen were hitched; and last, the tirst locomotive used on the Sacramento Valley railroad ana the mountain climber, with sixteen driving wheais, of today. fuge Flagpoles. A special traln in three sections of fourteen ©oars each boaring tho ten logs destined for the flagpoles of the Washington World's fair buildiug, reached Spokane late last week. Each of the logs equals the length of seven flat cars, though™ they are loaded in such a manuer that the weight 1s carried by two of the cars. With the exception of the two largest the logs are placed two togother on the cars, but it was impossible to load the Lwo lurgest 1 that wanner owing to their euormous weight, ‘Tho two end cars of the sections will sup- Xt the load on a raised hlock working on a vot. ‘I'he other cars will be empty, #ud the logs will extend thew above U car rangoment is necessary, owing to the curves 10 tho road. When the traio is on tke curve the first and last cars of the seotion will of ©eourse pot byl the same straight liney ana if the logs were supportea by all the cars iv would be impossivle to round the curves without breaking either the logs or the cars. To overcome this difficulty the movabie blocks on the two end cars are brought into nlu‘.umd while the empty cars curve around a d i the track ine pivols are also turned, permitung the logs to always rotain ( lottars from the setine commissioner saying the same relative ton with res| to other. On sharp curves the middle of tho load will be entirely ctear of the cars at the center of the section, and will iie paral: lol toa taugent drawn at the outer edge of the ourve, When the curve is passed tho pivots again throw the logs back to their original position. A Mineral Combine. David H. Moffatt, the Denver baoker who, A few yoars ago, exchanged 812,000 for a small flask of caster o1l in ths nands of a nervy robber, 18 pow the head and front of a com- bination which controls the oig mines of Croede, Colo, The mines included in the deal are the New_ York, Ametuyst, Hillsido, Goiden Eagle, Treasuro and Cuba. The group of mines will be consolidated into one huge concern, with a capital of &10,000,000, under the name of the Amethyst Con- solidated.company. The amount of money involved in the purchase of property and the settlement of differences is placed at 5,000,000, sud the deal is therefore ono of the largest, if not the largest, ever closed jn Colorado. Mr. Moffatt thus appears 10 be turning bis Napoleonic mind to projects of the largest charucter. The Amethyst com: pany will now control nearly a mile along the famous vein which bears the same name, and it will have the ground clear of all dis- putos and counter olauns. The suit between the Hillside jand the Hidden Treasure, filed in the United States courts some montbs ago, engaged the attention of the lending attornoys of the west, and bid fair to become as standard as o feature of litigation as the naif dozen big mining suits whose titles have been familiar for years,. Tais legal contest, of course, comes to an abrupt end under tho new arrangement, and the suits will be withdrawn wben the organization of the now and all-embracing company is completed. N. . Creede, founder of the camp, cleans un $1,000,000 on the deal A veracious Mulhatant in Deadwood de- clares the waters of the Black Hill possess in iiberal quantities the property of potrifac- tion. When the pioneer cematery of Dead- wood was recently dug up and the bodios re- moved to the prescnt cemetery on Mount Moriah a large number of tho bodies were found to be partly petrified. The remains of Wild Bill (J. B. Hickok) were thoroughly petrified. Another body ~recently found in the neighborhood Wina cave of the hills, twelve miles rorth of Hot Spriugs, is now on oxhibition ut Lincoln, Nob., and s attracting large crowds. It moasures ¢ feet 115 inches in heignt and weighed in life prob- ably 190 pounds. The feet ang hands are small and shapely. T'he right arm is off halt way below the elbow and the right leg is oft half way from the knee down. These parts were not found with the body. The rema nevortheless, weigh about 800 $ Agents of museum managers in Now York city are now hero endeavoring to secure the remains of Wild Bitl, and they offered alargo sum for the petrified vody of this noted scout. The remains wero remoyved to their present restiug placo on Mount Moriah by Charley Utter (Colorado Charley), tne noted western dead shot ana gambler, and partner of Hickok beforo his murder in this city by Jack McCall. Utter failed to pay for the lot in which the remains of his friend lay, and the cometery company threatens to seil them Lo the New York museum ngeuts. A Monster Tunnel. The tunnel on the Great Northern railroaa under the summit of the Cascade mountains will be 13,000 feot long instead of 8,000, and will require three years to complete it instead of one. When comvleted it will be the second longest tunnel in the United States, tho first being the Hoosac tunnel in Massa- chusetts, four and one-half miles long. The final location of the tuunnel is now being made by A. M. Lupfer, resident engineer. Great care and accuracy are required in ostablishing the alignment and ootaining the correct measurements over the summit. The tunnel will be on a tangent, with a curve at the cast wpproach. No work has been done toward starting the tunnel and it 1s not likely that any will be done this year. The switchback over the mountains has been located and is now under construction. On the eust side it will be nearly finished by October 1; on the west side it will taice a little longer. The maxi- mum grada on the east side is 315 per cent. On the west sido it is 4 per cent, the descent being more rapid and the obstacles groater. At one point the line passes back and forth six times on the same side hill. Tho differ- ence in elevation between the sammit and the point where the swilchback joins tho main line 1s 1,000 feet. The maximum grade on the main line' through the Cascades will bo 2.2 per cent, the same as on the Northera Pucifie. The King Tramps and His Bride. A novel ceremony, which united in mar- riage for betteror worse Hassan Mohammed, the self-styled king of tramps, and Miss Emily 3. Campbell of Sacramento, was por- formed in the Grand opera houso in Ogden, September 18. Mohammed s walking under the terms of a wager from Ciucinnati to San Francisco and back ana reached Ogden on the homestretch pushing his wheeibarrow. Miss Campbell arrived a fow days previous over the Southorn Pacific. Oneof the con- ditions of Mohammed's wager is that on his journey of 10,000 miles he must marry a woman he neyer met before. Miss Campbell was born in Cauada and emigrated with her family to California tea years ago. She Is 28 years of age, and be- come acquainted with Mohammed by ao- swering an advertisement in a newspaper, Sho is @ telegraph operator by profession and her father is in the livery business in Sncramento. Mohammed selected ber out of 1,500 applications received to marry him. She says she marries him becauso sho thinks he is a true man aud not for money, aud even if he fails to win the wager she will stay with him should they be compelled to exist on potatoes and salt. From Ogden the couple went to Salt Lake and then started for Omuha, South Dakotw Valuntion. Tho total valuation of South Dakota, as returned by the State Board of Equalization, is $118,223,307. The total assessment of rail- roads for 1592 is $3.016,608, and the total assossment of telegraphy, telephone and ex- press companies is §338,263. This, added to the assessment ot real and personal proverty, makes the grand total assessment for this year $127,478, The valuation of real and personal property is $118,228,307, as comparod with $119,118,906 in 1801, and 379,005 in 1800, The high assessment in 1800 was brought about by the State Board of Equal- ization making @ raise of the assessment as roturoed by vhe county Boards of Equal- ization, The decreass of nearly $1,000,000 {8} the assossment of 1802 over the year previous was owing to defects in the returns of county wssessors, The legislature in 1501 passed & new revenue law, which was very severe on county assessors who did not return an assessment of all personal property and real estate at a good vaiue. This law had the effoct of making good returns the first year, but this year tho assessors have gotten over the fear of the new law and nave grown lax in their return The C The corn belt exposition at Mitchell, S, D., begius September 28 and closes October 6. Arrangements have been made for convenl- eut train service. Ou Sunday, October 2, excursion trains will run by the Muwaukee road to the exposition from .Yankton, Chamberlain, Aberdeen, Madison and Sioux Falls, 8. D,, and Sanborn, [a. On this date ugrand sacred concert will be given in the paluce by the lowa State baud. On Thursday, Septamber 20 and Tuesday, October 4, special exoursion trains will run from Sioux City, Ia. On the latter date a speeisl excursion train will also run from adison, 8. D. The regular west and nortb-bound trains for Chamberlain and Aberde:n wiil be held unuil 4:80 p. w, each day of the exposition, ‘The Northwestern road will also ruam ex- cursion trains on September 2, October 3 and Ootober 4. Blasphemous Names Expunged. The acting commissioner of the general land ofice has administered a rebuke Lo the class of prospectors who makes praotice of showiag their love of blasphemy in paming their claims. Two would-be humorists iu the Okanogau, (Wash.) distriot recently named their clauns the ““Holy Moses” aund the “Jumping Jesus,” nd filings under those vames. The recisier and receiver of the Waterville lsad oftice bave just received that these names have been stricken from the cortifioate and recolpt and will not be montioned in the patent when issuod, being oonsidered blasphemous tnd indecent, but that other names may be substituted. Journatistic Change. Something of a stir was created in Raw- lins, Wyo., Iast woek whon the announce- mont was made that Messrs. Davis and Friend had sold their stook in the Journal .0 anew syndicate, which takes charge of the plant this week. A, McMicken, a prominent young lawyer, takes the place of Colonel F'riend, wbo has been editor and manager of the Journal for the pas‘ twelve yoms. Tho other new officers are H. Rasmussen, presi- dent; James H. Clause, secretary: W. M. Daley, J. BE. Osborne and McMicken trustees, James Kgan, a very .trenchant writer, will perhaps fill the editorlal chair. praska, Kimball county’s court house is nearly compigted. The Stanton Register has started on fourteenth year. s The elevatorof August Clair at Delta was destroyed by fire. Nine divorce cases aro pending in the Saline county courts, P. J. Philbio bas startedl an independent paper at Greeloy called the Citizen, Fisher Hartman, a businoss man of Su. perior, died very suddenly of hemorrhage of the lungs. Bud Keen, a Custer county farm hand, fell from his horse at Broken Bow and was fa- tally jnjured, GG. M. Miller, a prominent farmer of Furnas county, dropned dead while at work on his farm of heart aiscase, Six pockethooks, which were stolen on circus day at Norfolk, were found under the depot rifled of their contents. Mrs, John Hughes and Mrs. Clark were soriousty injured in a runaway at Talmaee, both being badly cut and bruised. Lieatenant Davis, a former Weeping Water bov who is & graduate ot West Polnt, has heen stationed at Fort Russell, Wyo. While feeding an ensilage cutter, C. H. Jotnson of Fairmout stuck his hand too far iato the machine and lost three fingers. Mont Johnson of Ashland didn’t know it was loaded ana Captain Harvey is suffering from a severe gunshot wound in the thigh. Charles 1. Hoagkin of Bartley, who went to New York to have a tumor rémoved trom his fuce, died while undergoing the opera- tion El Dean, an Ashland drayman, quarrcled with a man named Landreth and struck him with a batchet, cutting his head wide open. Tho wound is u bad one, but will not prove fatal Fivo thousand dollars in premiums will be offered at the Nemaha Valley district fair, which is to bo held at Falls City October 4 to s, The exhibition prowmises to be a groat success. Jane Barona, the wife of a Plattsmouth fruit poadier, gave birth to a monstrosity. In the placo of eyes nothing but the bone sockets appear. The nose was formed cor- rectly but with ouly one nostril, On each band appear five fingers and a thumb, It livea but a few moments, A. Huffager and wife of Holdrece, while on their way to visita married daughter at Lebanon, Kan,, met with a serious accideat while crossing the Republican river bridze south of Frauklin, which may prove fatal to the lady. They had proceeded to the middle of tho bridge when their team became frightened and bucked off, throwing the oc- cupants to the bottom twenty feet below. Help was summoned and the old couple wero taken to Franklin, where Mrs. Huffager now lies in & critical condition. Willam Rasp, a well-to-do farmer living five miles norteast of Gresham, attempted to commit suicide by drinking alcohol. He sold his farm last week for §7,000. Someone told bim that he sold too cheap; that he should haue received $1,500 more for it, and it so preved on his mind that he became partly insane. Hegot hold of a bottle of strychnine, but bafore he could tako any of 1t his wife got it from him. A di r administered the proper mediciues and at last accounts the patieut was better. its South Dakota, The Welcome Smeltihg company proposes to build reductioa works in Deadwood. The Dakata School of Mines at Rapid City ovens cext Wednesday, At a depth of 1,000 feot spouting artesian water was struck in two welis near Miller. A pelican, measuring eight feet and four nches from tin to tip, was shotnear Tyndall. South Dakota’s wheat crop 1s estimated at 45,000,000 bushels, an increase of 1,000,000 bushels over last year. A recent strike in the Bristol mine, near Galena, disclosed a considerable bodv of ore, assays on which roturn between $300 and $900'a ton. A thresuing machine working under high pressure near Dell Rapid scattered itself and distributed the fragments of three men over the neighboring fielas. Hot Springs has a water works row on hand. The granting of a frachise stirrod the taxpavers as did the Holly job 1n Omaha eleven years ago, and threats of lynch law are directed toward the disobedient city dads. Six men rolled into Deadwood in a special car last week, whose combined ealth ag- gregates #10,000,000. They were J. E. Searles of New York, J. Scott, banker of Wilming- ton, Del.; Mr. Collier, banker of New York; J. H. Millard, president Omaha National bank; J. rable, cushier State bank of Crawford, and J. C. Grable of Omaha, ac- companied by their wives aud lady friends. The demorats and populists are fusing, and a crop of confusion is brewing. A suit has been commenced at Chegenne to test tho constitutionality of the Wyoming live stock comnmission law. Lamarie is passing the hat for suficient lucre to revive the glassworks. Failure will be a reflection on the towa's enterprise, Wheat, barley, oats and flax were cut at the oxperiment farm near Laramie, and fine yields prove thatsuch orops can be grown, without irrigation, on the plains about Laramie, George W. Weoden, a passenger brake- man between Green River and Ogden, was run over and killed in front of the Pacific hotol in Green River. P. W. Gramley, a frelght brakewan, was killed a few miles west of the station. The government buildings upon the aban- doned Fort Bridger reservation were sold 8t auction last week, The buildings num- bered fifty-nine, large and small, and origi- nally cost over $200,000. Thewr apprased value was only $703, and the whole outfit brought but $1,222. Oane building sold for $105 that originally cost $3,000. Another that cost $10,000 sold for $60, and one 8500 struct- ure sold for §, and all others in proportion. Utal d Idaho, Moutpelier, 1dabo, has granted a franchise for water works to cost §30,000, The authorities of the Catholio church con- template erecting in Boise, ldaho, & church building that will cost when completed and furnishea about $35000, The undertaking may be commenced next spring. Fravk J. Cannon, son of ex-Dslegate and Presiaent Cannon of the Mormon chursh, is the nomineo of the Mormon Republican Ter- ritorial convention for delegate to congress, Thoe Morwmons are bound to be heard. There was a falling off iu the net profit of the big De Lamar Miniug company for Aug- ust, as shown by its monthly reports iust is- sued. The estimated profit was 20,088 for last mouth, but it generally goes us high as $40,000. been struck in the Richmona che county, Utab, After a shaft was sunk 128 feet prospecting was continued vy boring, and within twenty feet the de- posit was struck. The coal burns well and much resembles that trom the Rock Spriags mines. In the Belfast tunnel, on tho Phillips & Sullivan mine, Florida Mountain, Idaho, the vein has been cut about 300 feet south of the ore chute on the upper level and at 8 much greater depth. The ore hers 1s showlog up very rich, surpassing In value any former flud. Juv shows masses of wire and very coarse gold that are very rich, Three or four yoars ago a small seam of very rich @old ore was found in the highest butte of Summit Flat, Idaho, but as it was only from half &b inch to an inch wide, it would not pav. A few days ago three pro- spectors discovered a ledge of which it isan offshoot. It is six wnclfes wide and the ore is very rich, They traced it to polnt several buudred feet below the apex of the moutaln and started a tinnel, Flowin i<their intention to efbEt a small mill before snoi flies, ) Moktiha. Bullding opbrations 1A Butte will foot up nearly §2,000,000 this ene. The Missoula electrfiytight plant was sold ::fllhe Thomson-Hougton company for & It is positively assetbtéd that the Anaconda company will build awshdependent railroad between Butte and Agaconda, Deadly goses, genepated by the fire of a year ago, render work dangerous in the lower levels of the St Lawrence mine, in Butte, The Anaconda company has filed its an- nual statement. The capital stook, all paid in, is $25,000,000, and the indebtedness is $4,000,000. C. H. Waterman of Moagher county will sond to the World's fair a splendid specimen of Montana grown oats. It stands over six feat high, with remarkably large heads and shows conolusively the productiveness of Montana soil, Along the Const. With one county to hear from, the assess. ment roll ot Washington foots up 2 622 The season’s sealskin catch of the Neah Bay Indians was 1,871 pelts, which wera recently sold for §16,530, According toa Washiugton court, there is no law in that state authorizing the appoint- ment of a guardian for a common drunkard. It is estimated that a fire on the North Santiam, Oregon, has burned over and de- stroyed 1n the neighborhood of 2,000 acres of valuable timber land. Salmon are running quite thick in the Klamath river and myriads them can be scen every day ascending the fish ladders at the Pokeyama river dam. The Puyallup Indlans, near Tacoma, bundred in number, will sell their re«* . & tion for $2.500,000. It pays to be a nobiuv red man, when tho investment can pile up wealth in that fashion. An Indian named “Limpy,” about 40 years old, was arraigned ip the superior court of Fresno, Cal,, on the charge of kill- ing an Indian doctor on Augus! dis de- fense for killing the doctor is that the doctor was a witch. Limpy is honest in his conviction that witches should be killed. The paper mill at Lowell, Wash., has turned out the largest rolls of paper ever manufactured in the world, Each roll weighs 3,600 pounds and if unrolled the paper tn cach would make a strip thirty-five miles long. They were taken to Tacoma to be placed on exhibition and will be sent to the World's fair, The Inquest has thrown no light on the mysterious murder of Lawyer McWhirter of IPresvo, Cal,, further than to prove that his death was not suicide, as his enemies claim. That this crime was no ovdinary one is shown by the big reward of $25,000 offered by the dead man’s relatives and friends. F'resno has swarmed with dotectives ever since the murder, but no clews have been secured. The only hope of discovering the perpetrators 1s that the nien hired to do the bloody work may oetray themselves or their principals when tn liquor. "The killing of two more oficers by the fugitive train robbers in F'resno county has excitea great indignation 1n the county as well as throughout Oalifornia. The scene of the crime was Simpson’s Flat, a notorious rendezvous in early aays for cattle thieves and other desperate. characters, The men who live in the Fresuo mountains are not all lawless, but they have curious notions of property rights, and they are so bitterly hostile to the Southern Pacific company that they will furnish no heip to bunt down any orne who robs the railroad or Wells-Fargo Express company. These twoblood-stained desperadoes, Evans and Sontag, have baen shiolded from capture by miners and sheep- berders, and in return they ambush and murder two officers of a sheriff’s posse that was pursuing them. . The fugitives will now be shot on sight, as the railroad and express companies will pay a reward of $10,000 for the bodies dead or alive, flve ——— IMPROVED MAIL DELIVERY. Pos nster Genaral Wanamaker's Scheme Tested with Excellent Results. Wasiixaroy, DI C., Sept. 21.—[Special to Tur E —The order which Postmaster Geuneral Wanamaker has just issued deputiz- ing the postmasters in free delivery cities, towns and country - communities to but up house letter boxes for colliection, as well a the delivery, of mail, whenever two-thiras of the householders on a given route sigoify their desire to have this new double servios, affecting nearly 4,000,000 residences. The letter ooxes tested in St. Louls and Washing- ton wero solectod aftor two yoars of examin. ation among soma 1,600 models; and in St, Louis especially, where the practical test of the coliection and delivery box was tried un- der the most unfavorablo conditions possible in that or any other freo delivery place, have the results boen especially gratifying to *ostmastor Harlow, and to the department. The test shows that colloctions as well as deliveries are possible without any loss of time on the average, and that where ciroum- stances are favorable, as on compactly set tled routes, time i3 actually saved which may bo devoted, of course, to putting on oxtra deliveries attho proper time. Itis s romarkablajthing to have discovered that this now double' sorvice, that of aelivery without delay to safe roceptacies at everybody's door, und of collections without delay from safo’ places and upon all regular deliveries, at houses whero the little disk indicates that mml is to be collected, aro now possivle; and all tnis is without auy appreciable change of the carrier forco, avd hence with .at expense 10 the departmont, except, of course, as time enough i3 saved to permit the putting on of more deliveries and the employment of more carriers with the money saved. The department has not watched the simple delivery to house letter boxes with much interest, as it has aiways boen known that persons could put into their doors sumple slots for the rocoption of mail: ad, as they never have done this, it has been assumed that it was a convenience not generally cared for, if it involved any cost at all. A simplo delivery box was tried in St. Louis and a saving of time on a whole route was one hour and twenty-five minutes a day. Of course the chief reason why vhe new doublo service will be successful is that tho bousebolder has the advantage, never bofore, of dropping mail at his door. It is & question, as formo:ly, whether per- sous would putin the simple delivery box, anditis & question, even more than form- orly, because the simple delivery box which has been tested and which it was proposed to sell for 25 conts is expeoted now to cost $1. Inasmuch as the inside delivory and colloc- tion box 18 to cost only a do!lar (for the most durabie kind, of course, though, they can be constructed and o rnamented to cost sums much larger than that), these voxes would probably have the call, and the roason, too, that the other collection and dehvery box tested is to be put upon the outside of the doors or doorposts, and in order to drop mail fnto them one must go out of doors, which means that the houscholder iy really not to have the advantage of the chief benefit of the system. There are important incidental advantages in the house-to-nouse collection system. The chief one is, perhaps, that the safoty of the mail would be much greater. Tho chance of securing booty enough to pay for the risk would beto small for a mail robbar, with practically alithe mail dropped at the house doors, and the chance of detection would bo practically sure. Street letter boxes would, of course, bo patronized just the same, but in a degree one hundred vimes smaller. per- haps, and the same reasons would prevail why it would unot be safe for robbersto break them open. Another incidental ad- vantage is that the rovenues of the depart- ment would be, in the aggregate, very much increased, as the test in St. Lonis undoubt edly shows: and there would be no letters kept in coat pockets for wecks aay longer. A third advantage is that the householder would be able througn the medium of the carrier directly to purchase stamps. The postmaster general proposesto sup- plement his first order to the postmasters in free delivery places with moro detailod directions for placing boxes, as soon as the boxes are ready to be placed, and that will bo very soon. An important adjunct to the success of the matter will be the enthusiam of postmasters to make this great departure in the froe delivery service a success, and also tho efforts of the carriers, whose work will be so much facilitated. The departure is also of tho groatest significance to country districts. It is well known that the country free delivery cxper- iment triea in forty-six commnnitias for the past year has baen a complete sucoess, and that itis now continued for another year. The Postal Improvement company, the owners of the St. Louis or inside callection and delivery box, have already vroposed to equip one or more of these country free de- livery routes, free of cost to the department andto the people served, 8o that it might appear, from sctual experieucs, just what the increase of revenue and tho increase of circulation of newspapers would be. washboard, wears out women, too, But, because Pearline makes casy work, don’t think that It's just as harmless as it must do harm., 7) they? They're spared the weekly rub, rub, rub over the That's what wears out clothes, costs no more than the poorest. Peddle Beware you an imitation, be honest—send it back. trated by W. T. SmeoLey, A School for Street Arabs. French Art: With many illustrations. U. S.Ns Tllu TuANET, Homer. First C By Awprew LaNG, In the Historic Moment Series, HARPER’S TA +» FOR OCTOBER .- The Baptismal Font of America. H. Masow. With 14 Tllustrations. Tiger - hunting la Mysore. copviLLE. Wil A. B. 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WILKISON, In elaborate and re the romantie dra; st Repertolre: Thursday—D'Ennery’s famous roman ur do Ra " Vriday and Eaturd 1ght=Dumus' mas rplece, ““T'he Three Guurdsmen.' Saturdu. matinee, double bill—"Kobert Macal; % version of “Cavalloriu Rusti y Euotire new scenery by Albert Grover and Buroridge of Chicago, « d, tho ne Costuines by Bian- {ul of Purls and Van Horne of Philudelphia, orand properties by Gutperte of Parls. Advauce sale opens Wednesday. Four nights comme » THE BUCCESS OF LAST SEABON, A. W. FREMONT, 10 his seusational comedy dram entitiod, WONDERLAND BIJOU THEATER, T New Speclalty Ollo and LANCASH I e—General Adul 0k Sunday Matines Sept.