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THE DAILY BEE : JANUARY ! , 1881. STfiAIGRT TALK , - launders County Farmer on the Situation. ESTESIA , Saunden Co. , Dec. 28. To the Editor of Tni BIK Your course , in favor of the pro ducing classes , in advocating a jester distribution uf the proceeds of toil as againit railroad monopoly , is worthy of all commendation , and the promi nent political journals of the state which do not second your endeavors , 'are either criminally negligent in re- pect to the best interests of the state , or are in league against the people. I am a farmer , and Nebraska is pre- eminately an agricultural state. She is rich in her possibilities , but not in fact. In her soil ia bread , fruit , cloth ing , upholstery , carriages , horacs , books , echook , and puetry , eloquence , geniu * and song. With all these in our soil in unlimited quantities , aud willing and cunning Danda eager to I tilizelhem , why are we ploddingalong I ; this rate ? Why is our fair state Indeveloped , our colleges few , our I'.hools lean and the teachers of lorallty kept poor ] Simply because \t mammoth railroads are un- Itly absorbing the lions re of our productions , ' \ leave but a pittance for the de- i ppment of the vast interests of the i.e. The farmer is so reduced by erpetusl drain on hia resources 16 is only able by constant toil to ide for the absolute physical wants mself and family , and If he has a he holds it by an uncertain ten- If he has a spell of sickness aud 'jtot'i ' bill to pay , or loses a horse , jquontly necessitates a mortgage is.home. He mutt stop his labt he can neither find time to f. or meats to piy. Such farmers , s they are not few , never have the b of rest , culture , beauty , joy and ity arise on their horizon. Hope eng deferred , and yet he toils on on , and pays his railroad tariff ler protest , and impatiently is wait I the day of retiibution. Certainly this age of surprises has > duced no greater surprise than ) s , th" * "je chss who produce the > d " - . : -othes of the world are eon , clothed and fed ; the classes i hat produce all the wealth are them- i jlvea destitute of wealth , and hold- ; ag in their hands the political power of the nation suffer themselves to be governed by those who ignore their rights , betray them in the councils of ' the state and nation , and rob them of their patrimony ; but , thank heaven , the farmer is getting hia eyes open , and farmers unions are being organ ized , and detectives are put on the track of those political frauds and hogs who have the devil in them , and we intend to drive them into the ana. I haveVfelt the iron fingers of the rail roads and other soulless monopolies on my throat for years , and have struggled under its grip until I here contracted a bid disease ; there is something growing up inside of me , I think it is a young volcano , and then it seems to be catching ; others have got it , and It is spreading , those who are chipping produce and are suffer ing for coal have it wont , and like prudent men we have applied to an eminent physician , whose name is "constitution. He has prescribed the ballot , that In years gone by was ' a panacea for all political ills. We In- ' fietid to give it a thorough trial , bat f Vtht difficulty i to get the remedy i pare , it is frequently mixed with tis- /ue , and then tbe nurses fail in prop erly counting the drops , and then give them to the well instead of the sick , and falling of a cur ; , what then ? Do not say that the people trudge along uuder their burdens too blind to see and too cowardly to resist. Not BO ; t e people are already arous ed and mad. Before changes can take place , there willbe troublesome times. Our fathers plead with their rulers for justice , and when tyrants would not give it , what did they do ? Why , they took it , and with it liberty , and their sons are ai wise and brave as their fathers. And after they exhaust all tbe ordinary means to secure their I " * "T rights , aud do not gat them , they will do as their fathers did take them. \ This nation cannot be run very long ' , v Hn the old grooves that conducted thu S .Roman people to their ruin. They had none , or but little of the light of history to warn them of the h-irrura that lay in their courie , and ( if their final ruin. Not so with u ; we h&vo the light of their history from tbe time p she was struggling up ths hill , tf difficulty , until she stood on Jhe mount of glory. Can ; .his glorious republic , on her road tea a higher civilization , be switched off "by our Sbylocks and corporate king ; , into the grooves of declining Rome ? I answer , Not With the noiie of > -iin it , and the neople , if need ij } utter it with the voica of .i , . > nD ersJ and as hot aa > i rsilroaa . - ' - . , , , ! , iuvius , into the e ri , js | ' _ J the people's money ' -le's representatives , tj7ernment. ! isk me how we are -jiis drifting , and re pent so aa to secure a jf these wealthy cor- chooses to continue : our reprenentatives , of the simple ? I an- . ' , will be done , but just x Smow. Tht how is like .fM * ho wanted a portrait & * l dog , but the dog is A ut of sight the how is 5ht ; but wait until we flore pages of history and ju how we did it. Mean- low you and the editors -iir grists ground at your lave your portraits , we ured your tracks , and we to relax your grip on the labor or hide in the depths pposed to the late movement .ng the vice-president a life- i to that office ; opposed to mak- * pauper of U. S. Grant by raising , and for his support ; opposed to _ idng labor a penalty for crime ; op- Osed to all frauds. PETER LASSXSQ. F [ j The Paris papers record with aston- ijhment the fact that the recent wed- ant ; of Mile. Samary , the actress , rith the son of a rich stock-broker the bride shed tears. The same thing once occurred in Chicago , greatly to the surprise of the young lady's friends , but after tae ceremony it was learned that the groom's fortune had baen wiped out that day by an eccentricgy- ration of the wheat market , the fact being unknown to all but the bride. A CRUCIAL TEST. HOW A SAN FEANCI8CO OIEL WON A DRESS FBOM HER FATHER. Ban Francisco Vest. Woman ia by nature so erratic and inconsistent a creation that it doesn't do to bet on even her most marked chiractemtics. For .illustration , old Air. Punghup , of Neb Hill , WAS com menting on the railroad velocity with which young ladies jabbar to each other whenever they meat , without either in the le .st undemanding or replying to what the other says. "It'ajust a clsan falsehood gotten up by you good-for-nothing men ! " said the youngest Pungleup girl , in dignantly. "All right , " said her father , benignantly - nantly ; "we'll try an experiment. I gee your friead , MUs Gluckerson , coming up the street. Now , I'll wager that new walkirg euit you want so much that you cau eay 'roast turkey and cranberry sauce' in response to the first half-dczan remarks she makes without her noticing the fact. " "I never heard of anything BO par- fectly absurd , " replied Misa P ; "however , I might as well have that suit it's just too lovely for anything so I'll just do it to teach you a les son. " "Hind , now , " said her father , as the front door bell rang , "fair play. You mustn't change your expression in the least , and you muat repeat the sentence in your usual voice and man * ner that is to say , in a single breath all run together , as it were. " Just then Miss Gluckerson was shown into the parlor , and through the library door old P could hear the usual oscuUtory peck exchanged , and Miss G exclaim , without even the smallest comma in the whole re mark : "Oh ! you lazy thing been here a perfect age don't look at this hat per fect fright going to have Sewers set back and bow changed why weren't you nt mitinee Harry was there. " "Roast turkey and cranberry sauce , " rapidly inserted Miss P , accompanying the words with that pe culiar preliminary aud concluding gur gle with which all women , for some occult reason , invariably adorn their conversation , when dosiroun of bsing agreeable. "Going to Mrs. Bladders' party ? " continued Miss Gluckerson , with the serene rattle of a brook of pebbles. "Molly Smith is going they tell mo she paints promised me a phaeton in the spring saw that hateful Mrs. Grap pery on the street bluff overskirt and green ruchiug just fancy " "Roast turkey and cranberry " "Oh , George Skidmore's mother's deal. Ouch ! got a flea in my sleeve little post just eating me up alive bury her next Sunday did you get that edging at Gimps ? " "Roast turkey and cran " "The girls at Clarke's are to graduate next Thueaday. Jennie Giggles is going to be square cut with inside illusion and white kid boots can't yon come around for dinner to morrow and stay all " "Roast turkey and " "Night , and show Milly your new basque ? That man with a light over coat stared at me yesterday Jim O'Neill is going east this candy frightfully stale. " "Roust turkey " "Ma thinks Mrs. Brown ain't proper those ferns are just too lovely look at these cuffs clean this morning are my crimps coming out yomrs ain't Lillie Skippeu said you met Charlie Boggs the other night and he said something nice tell me quick ? " "Roast turk " "Why , how perfectly absurd you are , Linda , interrupted the visitor an grily. "You don't listen to a word I say. I was asking about Charley , not roast turkey ! George Shelley thinks you're awful nice. Now tell me , what did he say ? Good gracious ! What are you hugcing me for ? ' * "And Tilda1 thoughtfully remirk- ed MUs Pungleup after the matter had been explained , and her father admit ted that he had lost by a ccratch , " 1 bsliove in my heart if you h&dn't thought about Charley just then I shouldn't have any new suit this win ter. " A11 of which cos to show that there is HIa < t < m lubjhfct upon which one nuy h < p' t > secure the temporary at tention of t * < in"C"ir r > ln female mind. CONNUdlAi.ITISS. "Marriage , " s ya itn exchange , "is a knotty question. " It is , indeed , but it's nice. Mrs. Cyrus Chapman , of Ledyard , Coun. , eloped with a boy sixteen years of age. Mr. Ever was married to Mis ? Joy. The friends of the victims were shock ed when the presi called her "a thing of beauty , " because she was a "Joy for Ever. " Lord Wentworth , at one time en gaged to MissDudu Fletcher , the au thoress , is about to be mtrri d to Mary Stuart Wortley , eldest dimeter of Rt. Hon. James Stuart Wortley. The marriage of Lieut. Chss. Her bert Stockton , of the U. R. army , and Miss Pauline Lentilhon Klug.wai sol emnized at Grace church , N w York , by the Rev. H. Potter , D. D. , last week. Miss Lily Dickerson , ouly daughter of Edward N. Dickerson , the diat-n- gnished patent lawyer , will ba married to Charles Gould , at Trinity Chapel , New York , In the early part of Janu ary. The bridesmaids will be Miss Minnie Evarts , Mist Palmer , Miss Gould , Miss Nezro , Miss Emily Cur tis , and Miss E. Cheever. The Sultan is about to marry off two of his daughters young things , not yet 15 years old. The bridegrooms , who are Turkish cavalry cficerj , have been allowed to choose their wives for themselves , and for dowrj eich re ceives a pilace , miuy sUvea , and a present of money. A weddinz is to take place in Sin Iranciico next month which is already causing a sensation. There are to be ten bridesmaids , each of whom will will carry a lamp ( in Imitation of an ancient Oriental custom ) , and go in a body to meet the groom and conduct him to tha bride , who , itis ; arranged , will stand , awaiting his coming , un der a canopy of silk , borne by fnur friends. The bride's dress will be de corated with plnqnes of satin , on which wreaths of orange blotsomi will be painted by the fair fingers of the bride herself. The bridegroom in a mock marriage at Hulton , Kinsas , thought it was all in earnest. He had pestered the bride with his attentions , notwithstanding numerous rebuffs , and she had con spired with her friends to make sport of him. A wedding party was gath ered , a ceremony wa * performed by a pretended clergyman , and tbe victim did not know that he had baen impoi- ed upon until tbe time came to retire for the night. Then they undeceived him. AARON BUEK'S LOVE LBTIERS. THE TERRIBLE DEPRAVITY THAT THEY EHOW. When I knew A.iron Burr he was well advanced in years. Ho waa one of the worst men that ever lived. He had no scruples whatever about be traying women , and hechose thu love liest in the land fur his victims. About , the time of hia duel he had dis graceful intrigues iih a dozen or twenty ladies at once in New York , Albiuy , New Haven , Providence , Boston , Baltimore , Richmond , aud and smaller towns between. Some if theae were kept up fur years , but most of them had speedy successors. I speak of them aj "ladies" they were wives of brilliant lawyers or wealthy merchants , or the young daughters of the fashionable old families. There was an agony of fear among these when the duel was fought , lest the guilty gallant should fall and their terrible secret be betrayed , aud this fear deepened to consternation when he died at last Many of the oldest' families of New York , Pennsylvania and New Eng land trembled then. It had been rumored around that Burr had never destroyed any letters from ladies. And this shows better than anything else hia lack of any moral sense what ever for he refused to protect those whom he had graviously injured , when they could have been protected without a moment's thought. lie used to boast that bo had never de stroyed one letter. And with devilish method he had folded them all care fully , and filed them regularly in pack ages each lady's letters by them selves. When Burr died at last , Mathew L. Davis , his only friend , who became hia administrator , sett for me. I went. There was nothing to administer but the expressions of tenderness which the scoundrel had cajoled from respectable women aud filed away. There was thu will he made the day bjforo his duel with Hamilton. In that he said to his dauchner. Theodosia , his only legiti mate child , then at sea : "In a blue trunk in the attic yon will find some thing to amuse , more to instruct , still more to recret. " That blue trunk which he thus coolly bequeathed to hia only child , and that child a lovely daughter , contained the carefully treasured love letters from a dozen women at a time , proofs of her fath er's depravity. Does that not show that Burr was without any moral sense whatever ? Tbeodosia was swal lowed up by the waves and never saw the blue trunk. We opened the blue trunk , which Davis had partly examined , and I shall never forget my astonishment and disgust at what I saw. It was nearly filled with letters from women filed in packages. We looked at the individual letters. Most of them had been eigned with initials only , or oftener - ener without any name , or with some pet name ; but Burr , with a malignity whose motives I cannot vet under stand , had written out each uame in full. He seemed resolved that others should share his infamy. Some of the names belonged to the most hon ored families in tke land to have re- veiled them would have been to cause terrible anguish , and in several cases probably the breaking up of fami lies. I used to go over and look at them when I had a spare hour. They were strictly guarded by Davis. He was a queer man , but he had a high sense of personal honor. Why Mor- decai M. Noah offered Davis 320,000 for that blue trunk and its contents , but of r.ouree it was spurned , and the insult resented. Matthew Davis , too. had his eccentricities , and one of hia queer notions in regard to these cap tured love letters waa chat they should all ba returned to the writers That seemed to me to inflict needless piia , aud I argued with him about it , but he said the writers would be better satis fied if they hid a chance to destroy them themselves. Some of them were old ladles then , mothers and grand mothers , but Davis undertook the grim t k of returning all the packages of let- tqrs by the hands of trusty friends. A good many he gave back himself. He g vo me one of these delicate packages to deliver when I was going to Providence one day , but I told him I would see him hanged first. But I know that General Scott did accept one of the packages from Mathew Davis and returned it with his own hand to a lady high in society in Richmond. He told me so. I alwaya wondered whether she thanked him or not , but I forgot to ask him. But think of the moral nature of a man capable of deliberately leaving all these letters to his own daughter as a legacy. Burr was quite a small man. Vtry graceful in movement and cour teous in demeanor. A small hand and foot. Not spirited or dashing at all , but his manner waa full of repose , and his voice soft and musical. He would strike one at first as being slightly ef feminate , but he was not so ; he was a bold , strong , capable man. In conver sation , till the last ten years of his life , he was brilliant. But to return to the subject of his wickedness toward women. When he was in Eng land he wa * greatly assisted and ba- friended by a learned professor of Oxford University , whose name I must uot mention. In return for this friendship , Burr ruined his wife. Six years afterwards , Burr got a position for this professor in a Naw York Col lege , for obvious reasons , and when they came over to this city Burr reduc ed their daughter , a lovely girl of 17 , whose confidence he had won when she was a little girl , during his visit in England. In duo time the professor ser died , and Burr became a penniless outcast. Then thii mother and daughter instead of hating and spurn ing him , took him and supported him by keeping a boarding house down town. Tnis w.is on the well-known Keese place , on Bmadwsy , just be low Whll street. Here his food and very medicine was paid for by the two women on whom he had inflicted mortal injury fifteen years before , fie had no sense of sh'ime or of grati tude. He was almost universally hated during his last yers , and was really an object of pity. I r.-member bein on an Albany , steamboat one night , an ; ' seeing a 'crouching form on the deck , I went out , and there was Burr in the cold. I asked him why he did uot go in. He said he was not vtry cold , but wo wont In together. There wna Governor Lewis MorjMn , whom I saluted. I noticed that thry did not speak , so I seated myaelf between them. Finally Burr arose and moved off. "Dju't you know Col Buri ? " I asked him. "Yes/'s id he , "I know the d d roptil . " Thurlow Weed's story to a New York Correspondent. IMPIETIES. r J& The question now agitating a cnl- or d congregation in North Carolina is , ' Who nursed Eve at tha birth of Cain ? " Tha pastor is a scien'ist and manages to keep his Sock by the e.ira most uf thu time with difficult evan gelical problems. There waa a fight imminent between two boys. One of them darkly hinted tht he was bigger than the other. The smaller , who is the son of a dea con , defiantly retorted : "I don't care if you're as hie as a church debt ; yon can't scare me. " A noted sharper , wishing to ingrati ate himself with a clergyman , said : "Parson , I should like to hear you preach more thin I cn tell you. " "Well , " responded the clergyman , "if you had been where you ought to have been last-Sunday yon would have beard me. " "Where was that ? " "In the county jail. " Some philanthropists sent a bible tea a Milwaukee editor in hopes of doing him some good and he thought it was anew publication and wrote a review of it in which ( he slid the production was a failure. If it was intended for a novel it lacked plot , aud if for a his tory it was full of improbable inci dents. He couldn't recommend it. The Rev. Mr Shokey was preach ing at Carson , Nov. , on the swallow ing of Jonah by a whale. There were some sporting men In the congrega tion , aud their faces expressed doubt of the story. Seeing this the minister ssid : "I'll bet $100 , coin up , that I can prove every word of it. Does anybody respond ? " Nobody answered , and he went on wiih his discourse. At a negro prayer meeting , one of the brethren eirnesMy prayed that they might be preserved from what he called their "npaettm" sins. " "Brud- der , " Bald one of the elders , "yer hain't 'zictly cot do hang ob dat ar word. It's besittin' not upaettin' . " "Brudder , " replied the corrected , "ef dat's EO , it's so ; but I was prayln' do Lawd ter sabe us from de sin uf 'toxi- cation , an' ef dat aiu't a apsottin' sin , Idunno. " EDUCATIONAL. The University of Berlin has 4,107 students this session. Philosophy claims the largest number 1,891. The San Francisco school board has made a rule declaring vacant the posi tion of all lady teachers who marry while employed in the school. Nearly 7 000 young people have re cently offered themsalves for the Cam bridge local examinations A third of the number are young girls. Williams College has now 227 stu dents. The freshman class has sev enty-two members. The requirements for adtuiasion hare lately been in creased , and DOW include additional Greek and an English composition. Evangelist Moody's seminary at Northampton , MASS , ia full , con taining now about 100 pupils , includ ing the Indian girla. The latter are making excellent progress ia their studies. They are very fond of music. Tiio trustees of Cornell University hav6 appropriated 8100 000 for imme diate improvements. § 50,000 are to be spent in building and equipping a physical labratory. It is proposed to establish departments of mining , en gineering , metallurgy and music. Superintendent Smart , of Indiana , has been studying the public schools in the south , and has found a surpris ing urowth of the system , especially in Georgia and Tennessee. The color ed people take great interest in the education of their children , and the new generation can , as a rule , read aud write. There are now on the rolls of ohns Hopkins University eighty graduates of other colleges who are receiving the instruction which a gen eration ago they would have gone to Germany to get. Of the 46 gentle men who h < W held the position of fellows In the university 28 have taken excellent posts as instructors in colleges pud othar institutions of a high character ; 2 are attached to * the United States Coast Survey , and 2 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York ; 4 are engaged in the ap plication of science to practical work. 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We make this offer at this moment that all V who have NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS * to buy may get the full advantage. ALL THE 20 OFF GOODS Will be arranged together on our centre tables. It's needless to say that at these prices , the Goods are much below cost , but we prefer to let them out and give our friends a benefit rather than carry them for another year. A merry Christmas and happy New Year to all. f * * " 4