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ROCKEFELLER AND HIS OCTU
PUH. The great mogul of the greatest trust
of the age has not yet been examined by
the New Yerk Senate committee on
trusts, but his brother has. Mr. John D.
Rockefeller, however, may be expected
to know something about the affairs of
the Standard Oil Company, although he
modestly says: "My brother, William
Rockefeller, is president." Mi. John U.
Rockefeller denies that the compnny is
an "octopus," or anything of that kind.
He asserts that it is just a plain company,
doing business by every-day methods,
and nothing more lie denies that the
company is able to obtain better rates
from railways than private persons are;
and here he differs from the interstate
commission, which has just determined
after four months of investigation of the
compbtint of Mr. Rice that the Standard
Oil Company waa obtaining such unfair
preference as the interstate coninn.rce law
is f-amed to suppress. That, however, is
a bygone act by at least a week, and it
may be that Mr. John D. Rockefeller tes
tified truly when he said that the coii.
pany cannot now obtain better rates th:n
are given to other operators. But if the
rates are now equal the interstate com
mission is to be thanked for the equality.
But the most interesting pnrt of Mr,
Rockefeller's testimony was that which
went to the capital stock of the company
and tha relation of nominal to actual
capital. The nominal capital is $90,000,
000. Of this, as Mr. Rockefeller admits.
$20,000,000 are pure water; not a cent o
it was ever paid in; it was added to Un
original nominal $70,000,000 of capital
etoek dividends, in addition to the
regular cash diyidends." The motive in
making an unpaid addition to stock can
only have been to prevent the ''regular
'cbk dividends' from appearing too
large to the inquisitave spirit of the pub
lic. And yet Mr. Rockefeller represent
the profits of the company as "only mod
crate." He does not go into figures to
illustrate his idea of moderate. But $40,-
000,000 of the original nominal capita
of $70,000,000 would appear to be airy
if not watery; for Mr. Rocckefellcr givt
. the coats of "plants and pipes" at $30,
000,000. Now, the company pays "reg
ular cash" as well as "stock" dividends
on $90,000,000; and as $60,000,000 of
this represents no cash it follows that,
with only 6 per cent dividends, a yearly
revenue of $3,000,000 is raised on a b
sis of nothing at all except the skill and
audacity of the projectors and mnnagti
of the trust It is silly to assume that
this $3,600,000 is derived from auglt
els than an increased price of the good
jn which the company deals.
The principles inyolved in the forma
tion nd management of this great trus'
are not entirely new. It has been tht
custom from time immemorial to allow
for a "promoter's fund" in the formation
of corporate enterprises; that is to say, a
certain amount of stock beyond that paid
for in cash has been, and justly, allowed
to those whose skill and risk was neces
sary to the formation of a company. For
example: if & company with a capital ot
$100,000 were projected, it would be no
more than right to allow those who pro
jected the company an amount of stock,
say $10,000, for their labor and skill in
projecting it. But this trust seems tt
give two thirds of its nominal capital
$60,t)00,000 out of $90,000,000 to its
projecters; $60,000,000 on which the pur
chasers of its goods must be taxed to
make dividends. 1 his would seem to be
carrying an ancient principle to an ex
tremity of apylication. Itl'er Ocean,
More trains are being run every day
by the B. & M. company, yet the striken
still stand firm and eav that as no other
road will touch B. & M. or Q. freight,
thev trill in time brine the Q. to term
even if it should be fortunate enough to
get sufficient help to run its engiues.
which they seriously doubt. Their claim
iny be correct, though we think the en
gineers who have recently made an ex
orbitant demand from the Rock Island
and other companies, that after the ac
ceptance of their demand by the rail
road in good faith, that an engineer
who would turn out and try to cut the
throat of the company that had just be
friended him would not be deserving,
nor would he get any public sympathy.
The engineers claim that they arc of
fered what they ask by Pres. PerSrins,
but that he refuses to give the firemen
what they desire, consequently the strike
is rtjll on.
A mkc!K! of "mt" that is being largely
and gratuitously distributed by the free
trade organs, is that which refers to all
the trusts and combines as beinr the
direct result of a protected tariff. This
is not only a false assumption, but it is
one that to thinking men, the face of the
statement would be sufficient to condemn
it. The idea that all the money and
shrewd grasping financiers of the world
arc located in the United States, and
that English capitalists havn't sense
enough to combine to protect their inter
ests is of itself preposterous. It is also
well known that that the wealthiest and
greediest combination in this country it
the Standard oil combine which is wt
protected by the tariff. Next to it stands
the Anthracite coal barons, who are not
protected with a penny of tariff tax.
The idea is every day gaining ground
that if the general theory of a non-protective
tariff being best for this country,
is as false as some of the statements of
iti newspaper champions, then indeed
we can and will stand together with a
bold front and destrow the un-American
free-trade heresy at the first conflict
which is fast drawing near.
California's towns and Village.
The small towns and villages of Califor
nia will, in a few years, be beautif al and at
tractive, owing to the improvements now
going on. In nearly all of them improve
ment societies arc organized. These socie
ties are continually opening up broad avo
nues, building fine roads out into the country,
introducing the best water and lighting sys
tems available, and doing all that can be
done to popularize the ideas of aesthetic art
end beauty. This is a step in the right
direction, and will do much to attract the
best class of people into the state. -San
Francisco Bulletin.
Concerning Coras.
Are corns a disease? The question waa
argued at court in Berlin, Germany. A news
paper was prosecuted because it had adver
tised 'Huehneraugentod" that Is, "death to
corns" advertising of remedies being pro
hibited by law. Counsel for defenso main
tained corns were not a disease, and, conse
quently, a means against corns cculd not be
called a remedy. The chemical expert de
clined giving an opinion on the point, and as
the lawyers disagreed about it the case had
to be remanded to gain time for obtaining
the opinion of a medical man. Chicago News,
Reverted the Needle.
A surveyor who was caught in a thunder
storm while engaged in the woods at Orlando,
Fife, left his compass on the jockstaf? while
he took shelter under a tree. During the
storm a tree very near the compass was
struck by lightning, and the effect upon the
instrument stas to reverse it so as to moke
the north point of the ieodlo change position
and point south. The surveyor, unaware of
the change, on starting for home with his
compass for a guide, wandered eight or ten
miles in the wrong direction before he dis
covered the fact Chicago Tinu.
A Country Editor In Chicago.
The editor pf The Superior (Wis.) Inter
Ocean has been taking a trip more or less
satisfactory. "Chicago is alrty gjid smoky
and hungry and happy and wild and' boister
ous and keen and savage and grasping and
man killing and pious and wicked and pug
nacious and brave and voluptuous and great
and rich and poverty stricken. &ha js at
once the cesspool and palace of the worst and
the best elements in the "rowdy west I"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Worth and Ills Employes.
Worth, the French milliner, lives in the
suburbs of Paris in n palace that covers sev
eral acres and is gorgeously furnished. Onco
year it is thrown opou to hU employes, and
the fete lasts a day and a night. On 'this day
each of the women employed by Worth is
permitted to select a dress from his stock, and
it is made up according to her directions.
Xew York Evening World,
They Naturally Objected
It is altered that in a fashionable seminary
near New York an old tombstone was used
for a kneading board in the kitchen, until the
girl students objected to having fragments of
an inscription t9 tjj,e memory of some woman
impressed into the bottfiux? their loaves of
bread. Good Housekeeping,
The Jogrlc of Poor Merchant.
The man who fails to advertise in dull
times is on nar with the fellow who refuses
to eat because his tijpach is empty.- Annis
ton (Ala.) Hot Blast.
Pasteur's plan ef exterminating rabbits by
inoculating them with chicken cholera has
been tried at ltlieiuis with success.
How Man Die.
II we know all the methods of approach
adopted by aa ensmy we are the better
enabled to ward off the dasger and post
pone the moment when surrender becomes
inevitable. In many instances the inher
snt strength of the body suffices to enable
it to oppose the tendency toward death.
Many however have lost these forces fcto
uli an extent that there is little or no
help. In other cases a little aid to the
weakened lungs will make all the differ-
ucu between sudden death and many
years of useful life. Uion the first symp
turns of a cough, cold or any trouble of
he throat or lung, g;ye that old and
.veil known remedy Boscjee'fi German
vruo. a careful trial. It will wrove
a
vhat thousands eay of it to be, the "bene
factor of any home."
General Lew Wallace has purchased a
residence in Indianapolis, and will re
move there from Urawrordsville, ind.,
n the spring.
Segs's Blood irif)er and Blood
Makr,
No remedy in the world has gained
he popularity that this medicine has, as
i hold on family medicine. No one
-hould be without it. It has no calomel
i quinine in its composition, consequent
ly no bad effects can arise from it. ' We
eop a full supply at all times. O. P.
xirrn Co. Druggist. j23-3mod&w
The standard remedy for liver com
laint is West's Liver Pill; tuny never
iisappoint you. 30 pills 25c. At War
wick's drug store.
LETTERS OPENED BV MISTAKE.
The Tricky Ways of Business Men Whe
Pry Into Each Other's Mali.
The law inflicts a severe penalty upon a
citizen who has been proven guilty of will
fully opening; the mail of another. After a
letter has been stamped and placed in a gov
eminent poetofllee, or other receptacle pro
vided for it, it is supiiosed to be under the
protection of the United States, with on tunny
of ofuccrs of justice to enforce its inviolalnl
ity and punish the citizen who desecrates it.
But on the same principle that one dishon
est citizen steak a coat by buying it and
never paying the tailor, the reader of other
people's letters can get around the law in a
way equally tricky, but equally safe. If he
wants to peer into confidential correspond
ence he boldly opens the letter, reads and
masters its contents, puts the letter back,
and then calmly writes on the envelope,
"opened by mistake," and perhups adds, "not
read."
This is a habit practiced ia many New
York business houses. If an employe is sua-
pected of relations with other iirms, or any
offense that a human being can commit
against the person who hires him, his mail
matter is quite likely to be "opened by mis
take." This is said to be especially truo in
cases where salesmen with a valuable clientele
have left an establishment and taken their
trade with them to some competing house.
By opening mail, wrongly addressed to the
care of their old employer, a good order can
be sometimes filched. The well dressed and
self respecting culprit, who thinks that he is
not really doing anything dishonorable, ap
propriates and fills the order, and if any con
fusion subsequently arises from the exposure
of his method, he explains it away loftily
and haughtily with the familiar, "opened by
mistake; thought it was addressed to the
firm."
The law in a case like this does not punish
a man for his mistake, although the man who
by blunder alone ditches an express train and
kills some of its passengers is quite likely to
be sent to jaiL The excuse "ditched by mis
take" would be met with the rebuke "but you
had no right to ditch the train by mistake.
Of course the opening of a letter is not so
serious as wrecking a train, but a parallel
can be drawn between the two from, a legal
standpoint.
Except in the cases of a fatal accident due
to carelessness, the law always considers the
intent or malice of the accused. Therefore,
if a prosecutor can prove that his mail was
being continually opened and so often aud
under such circumstances as to show a very
strong probability of the 'open by mistake'
inscription being a lie, and couple with thi-
a good reason why the defendant should do
sire to read his mail, a conviction can bo
secured. As the offenders often hold a good
position in the world end only break the law
in the particular line of pilfering from the
mail, it is somewhat difficult to get a jury to
convict.
The trouble and misery that can arise be
tween husbands and wives, women and their
best friends and partners in a firm through
the habit of willfully opening letters by mis
take is very great, ft is hard to tell a man
that you think him mean enough to want to
pry into your private correspondence, and
the man who does it can usually get off soot
free, because of the unwillingness of the vic
tim to hurt his feelings. New York Press.
Washington's Love for His Mother.
Washington's love for his mother was
one of his most noticeable characteristics.
For her pleasure he hastened to bear the
first tidings of every important 'event in his
life hirnsoif, and his letters to her were
models for all sons. His thoughts, notions
and motives were all laid bare before her,
and on her judgment lie relied at all times.
The letters, in spite of the formal wording
in vogue at the time, breathed of his in
tense love for her. They were full
of detail such as mother love craves about
every action and thought, and every event
that concerns her child, for though as time
went on and George Washington came to be
known as first in peace, first in war and first
in the hearts of his countrymen, be was al
ways her son and she his mother. Their
position never changed, as it so often does.
She was always first and he was second iu
their relations. Mary Washington had been
mother and father both to her son, and even
if no pther evidence of her superiority to the
most of women-was at hand. t-Le respectful
devotion of this groat1" man' would 'have
proved it.
From what is known, through history and
hearsay, of Washington's unusual devotion
to his mother and his continual and open cor
respondence with her, which letters have,
fortunately, for the most part been preserved,
one is led to think that there was a closer
communion of soul between him and his
mother than him and his wife, Martha, though
there is no reason to suppose that ho did not
love his beautiful wife very tenderly. But.
reason shows that there was a greater sim
ilaritypt character and disposition between
motner anq son wan mere couia nave jwn-n
between M&rtha pustis and her husband!
Just how close and intimate was the com
munion between Washington and his wifo
we can never know, for just before his death
ho caused her to destroy all the letters he had
written iiti , b:;t they doubtless contained al
lusions to matters ot only fcuiupl. concern;
and perhaps, too, they contained the out
pourings of a heart that was passionate and
Icying which he felt were too sacred for eyes
other than hep p'ii o look upon. This wbuld
v?ry likely bo tho case with' a man vbq made
stern repression of emotion a duty all his. Uf.
Bo that as it may, and however much of
tender love the husband bestowed upon bLs
wife, his noblest but best affection cvas
given to iiis Adored mother, and his charac
ter takes on an added lufiifci in the light of
that pure and holy love.
Coftl to Succeed Cattle ia Wyoming-.
''The world at lare doesn't know it," said
Capt, Murrjn, -'"but W yoming has the biggest
coal fields in the United States, more iron pio
than can be found anywhere else on .earth,,
big lakes of soda, more oil than wo cou!i
possibly use, veins of copper ore, and stono
and marble quarries. The territory has
wonderful natural resources, and these will
btf fiayeloped before long. The cattle days
are' gone, the ftundreds and hundreds of
miles of wire fences on goyeniment land
Will be .torn down, and the territory wui
(drop far down on the list of cattle producers;
The business has really retarded the devel
opment and growth of te territory, and it
may be for the best after aiL Kansas City
Times.
Shivering In the Street.
In many cities on the continent in these
days of extreme cold, the municipal govern
ments, from a fund previously set apart for
he purpose, place at intervals among the
Crowded neichborhoodrf of thn nnnr In rem
Iron bVaziers, which are kept filled day and
night with hot coals. They are circular up
right receptacles, about tie size of a barrel, '
with an open top and with holes pierced in
the side3 for the purpose of a draught. They
are placed upon the pavement nenr the side- :
walk at the corners of streets, where crowds
may collect about them with the least ob-
st ruction to traffic. Purine the bitter cold
wectber crowds of half frozen people hud-
die aboht tiiese braziers. Boston Advertiser.
Boss's Cnorry Cough Syrup.
Is-the only medicino that acts directly
on the Lungs, Blood and Bowels, it re
lieves a cou:li instantly and in time
effects a permanent cure. Sold by O. P.
Smith & Co., druggists. j25,iuio,d-w.
George W. Cable lectured in the Y. M
C. A. Hull of lioston the other ni"ht am
books for the libiary served os admission
tickets.
Berg's Cherry Cough Syrup.
Is warranted for all that the bibel calls
for, m if it dots not relieve your cough
you can call at our store and the money
will be refunded to you. It acts piniul-
tam-oiisly on all parts of the system
thereby l'-aviug no had results. ). I
Smith &, Co., Druggists. j25-3md&w
Di. Schliemann has gone to Alexand
ria with Professor Virchew, and wil
spend se veral month in Eirypt making
explorations.
AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER
TO AM. WANT! NO if M I'l.OY M F. NT.
we w,int live, energetic, agenta iu every
comity in the United Stalea and Canada to sell
a patent article of nnat merit, on it mekits,
-A n ;u tie e having a large Jsale paying over 100
percent. i:ollt, having no competition, and on
which the agCLt is protected in t!ie exclusive
a;ile by a deed riven for each and e-ery eoun
ly he may secure from m With all these nd
vaiitac s t our ate, its. and the fact that it is
an article tliH can he. sold to every lioun liol :
w. ii might nt be necessary to make "An
hxtraoidiuary Otter" to secure K""d agents at
once, but we .ave coi. eluded to make It to
show, net only one confidence in the incuts of
mr invn.v ion. luit In its HHlabiiity by any acei
that will handle it v itli energy. ur agenta
now p.t work are making from $150 to 300 a
iiioutli clf. r. and tins fact makes it eafe lor ut
to make ourofier t all w lio are tiut of employ
nient. Any agent t u: l win give our bu .iueSH
.i thirty d ys' r;:.l ar.d fil to clear at leavt
g ion in tin time, above all expellees, can re
:urii alixoort" uns.;lI to us a-'d we will refui'd
tlirt money ja d tor tliem. No moll nufloyer
t i.eist i ver dared to make ane.li offers, nor
oii!d we if we did not know that w- liave
. f:-i-ts n w mki"i: more than uoub.e thi
.mount. Our l.'.urt? descriptive cirenlars ex
,i :iin .mr offer luiiv. an t there wo wish to neud
o everyone oir ot employment wlio will end
.is three one cent Maini s for po'tane. Send
nee and secure the agency in ti-;ie for the
!)oi'iu. iieil L'o to work o:i the t rms named iu
mr extraordinary ol'ier. Adiiree-, at unce,
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Dr. David Hostettcr is the most heavily
insured man in this country. The ag
gre-ate ot the policies held ly linn ia
$800,000.
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Trade supplied by Richardson Drug Co.,
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headache, indirection, constipation or
costiveness vro capnet cure witl
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directions are strictly complied with.
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Nr s:ilp liv nil rl riicmsts. Tlewnrn i
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CALL ON-
Cor. 12th and Granite felreetj.
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Sept. 12-Cm.
JULIUS PEPPERBERG,
MAXTFACTUKER OF AKD
WHOLESALE & RETAIL
EKALER IK Ta3
Choicest Brands of Cigars,
including onr
Flor do Pepperbergo and 'Buds
FULL LFXE OF
TOBACCO AND SMOKERS' ARTICLES
B7.Ai.TH IS WEALTH
YOU WAST
j always in stock.
Nov. 26, 188.1.
I
-I must make
Large Stock of
817
Coming and therefore will reduce till leather goods 20 per
cent, below regular jriees lor enfih only.
All Goods aXarlsod in Plain Figures.
Ladies' French Kid $5 00 20 per cent, discount $4 40
Ladies' French Kid 4 .r0 " 3 CO
Ladies' liright Dongohi .4 00 " " 3 20
Lad ies' Uright Donyola . . .3 00 " " " 2 40
Laeies' Kid : 25 " " 1 0
Dadies' Feb. Goat ii T0 " " 2 00
Ladies' Feb. Goat 2 25 " " 1 80
Men's Burt Shoes S 00 " " 040
Men's Shoe- 4 SO " " 3 CO
Men's Shoes . . '. ... 3 75 " " " 3 00
Men's Shoes ... 2 10 " " 2 00
Childrens "Little Giant School Shoes," the best in the market, iam
reduction. Now is your chance to lay in a cheap t-upply.
PETES
0ST0N MEAT MARKET
Oliver c&.Slamge, !Pr opriotorG.
BE
EF, PORK, MUTTON, VEAL, POULTRY
We keep constantly en hand the finest and freshest line of meat
in the city. Meats ot all kinds in their season.
SUGAR CURED MEATS, HAMS, BACON, LARD,
SAUSAGE AND MINCE MEAT.
And everything to suit the demand our trade. Give us a trinl,
OLIVEE S-SviEO-E,
South Side Main Street, lictwecn Fifth kiicI Sixth.
Eureka
Meat
T.
J. THOMAS,
WHOLESALE AND
Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal and Poultry.
I invito all tc givo 211 a trial.
Sugar Cured Meats, Hams, Bacon, Lard, itc, rlc. Frli Gutters in Can and Bulk
at lowest hying prices. J)o not faij to ive me your atroaae.
K57S OT3 39i BXPi H-r
-AND ALL
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
KITCHEN, BED BOOM,
PARLOR FURNITURE.
X.o-w-sst prices in- til
I. SKJ1B
SIXTU STREET, BET. MAIN AND aNE.
Jonathan IIatt.
Subscribe
for
CDTYImIEAT ewarkht.
PORK PACKERS and dealers in BUTTER AND EGGS
BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL.
TJIE EEST TJIB MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON II AND.
Sugar Cured Meats, Hams.
ot our own make.
The best brands
roota for mv
!
MEKO - ES.
ISETAIL DEALER IN
praoBmab tuna
KINDS OF-
FURNITURE FDD
HALLWAYS, OFFICES.
City. Call and
PLATTSMOUTIf, NEB.
ie Herald,
J. W. M
Bacon, Lard, &c.f
of OYSTERS, in can and bulk ml
pring Goods
market.
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