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PAT. 0. HAVES lias exposed his hand.
It was n bob-tnil flush.
I EASTEU eggs have boon turning stale
since Thurston & Sahlcr have gone into
political partnership. It ia safe to sayno
spring chickens will bo hatched from
their easier eggs.
ANY man who would allow himself to
bo elected to the national convention by
the South Carolina method of ballot-box
frauds , as practiced by John Sahlor , dc-
serves to bo rotten-egged all the way
from Omaha to Chicago.
PAT. 0. HAWES will probably fold his
tent to-night and quietly steal away to
the folding room nt Washington. Ho
might as well stay there forever , as this
county will never send for him again. .
John Sahlor ought to go with him.
CONOItESSMAN IlEAOAN , of Texas , 13 to
apeak at the Iroquois banquet on "The
People , not the Monopolies , Must Rule. "
If Mr. Reagan will simply divulge the
true inwardness of the election of Stan
dard oil Payne , other remarks on bin
subject will bo unnecessary.
DR. NOUVIN GREEN BOOS the handwrit
ing on the wall. Ho BOOS a strong prob
ability of the government establishing a
postal telegraph , and ho now days that if
the ( Tovorment is determined to enter into
the business it ought to buy out the ex
isting lines and manage the work oxolu-
in its own way.
HON J. B. THOMAS , of Plattsburg ,
Mo.who haajust boon elected a delegate to
the republican convention at Chicago , is
one of the leading candidates for the sur
veyor-general's office of Wyoming. Hia
election oa a delegate may bo the moans
of his securing the much doairod office , if
his presidential preference is all right ,
and it is fair to presume that it is.
Mu. BKOATOII has a perfect right to bo
a candidate for the national convention.
But if Mr. Broatch proposes to aecuro
his election by auch high-handed and
infamous frauds as was attempted by
John Sahlor , his ambition has overleaped
itself. No man who is not devoid of all
dense of honor or common decency , would
countenance such outrageous frauds ,
much loss attempt to reap an advantage
by them.
HAVINQ now put the destructive liquor
habit out of the way by legislation , some
of the Iowa papers are addressing thorn-
aelvoa to the next burning question of
reform. In their opinion that is the
"filthy tobacco habit. " Perhaps in
few yearn that will also bo neatly destroy
ed by lavr , and the citizens of Iowa will
bo reduced to licorice and arrow-root for
the purposes of mastication , or as they
would express it , for ' cliawin' . "
TUB American national game of pnkor ,
which Minister Schonck BO successfully
introduced in England , has now invaded
the Dominion of Canada. Several mem
bers of the Canadian parliament , who
have evidently mastered all the intricacies
ot the game , are , as wo are informed by
the telegraph , "supplementing their ses
sional indemnity to a very largo extent by
roping their uninitiated colleagues and
outaido victims into a game cf poker , in
which they always win. " Quo of their
victims has "mado a kick , " to use an
Americanism , nnd now the game is to bo
investigated by parliament to find < out
whether it was oa the square.
THE Indians of the Lie Court O'Ruillo
reservation , in the northern pine lands
of Wisconsin , furnish pretty good ovi
donee that the red man is capable o
civilization if ho ia only afforded the
eame opportunities an the white man
During Ute past winter those Indians cu
and disposed of logs to the value o
$180,000 , and each one engaged in th
business realized between $2,000 ana
$3,000. Notwithstanding their Husl
condition , tUey received the other day
us usual , their gorcruuicut allowance
anco of tea puurulu of flou
, and three poandn of pork each
In addition to the flour and pork , tlior
wore dfatribut&d among them a lot o
1 agricultural nud mechanical implements
and house trimmiugg. They all occuj
j 'ood frame houses , and live like whit
people , They panfc eom0 of tliclr vh
t c'a oarninga in good clothes an
Jewelry aud wo aliould not bo surprise
to hwr of BO mo of them spending th
, summer at the feukicnMo summer re
sorts pf TViaxii in. It In flafo to ea
tlt tthere is hardly a idbo of Indiana I
tlw wwt that would nt'fclwoomo RS civiliz
d , Had d pvoiptroui as these Wiiconsii
Jndisua if they had the same vppor
PROTECTION OF RAILROAD EMPLOYES
Senator Bowen , of Colorado , has intro
duced ft bill providing that railroad com
panies shall on and after the 1st of September
tombor , 188-1 , be required to have all
now freight cars equipped with automatic
car couplers , and old cars , when repaired ,
must bo equipped in a similar way. The
bill also provides that when any employe
of n railway company sustains personal
and disabling injury by reason of going
between freight cars for the purpose of
coupling or uncoupling the same , whore
both or either one of eaid crs are in use ,
the company usinq such cars shall forfeit
to the employe or his heirs , if ho should
die , $500 ai a penalty , this penalty to bo
no bar to the recovery of any sum in
damages of such injury , which a compe
tent court may award. It provides further
thor , that any contract entered into l > y
the injured employe prior to the inourr
ing of the injury by which ho may agree
to waive his right to recover damages for
luch injury , ahall bo null and void.
This bill is an eminently proper one ,
and in all probability will bo passed.
There is no reason why freight cars
should not bo provided with automatic
couplers , there being now several differ
ent kinds which have been practically
demonstrated to bo a success. The rea
son that they have not como into general
use is that the railroad companies wish
o avoid the expense of equipping their
ars with improved devices , olthough'tho
oat per car is comparatively a very small
torn. Several railroad companies have
Iroady adopted and put into use auto
matic freight car couplers , and they
ound the device to work very satisfuc-
orily in the handling of trains , in the
aving of time nnd labor , and
what is most important the nav-
ng of limb and life. Although
lie passage of the bill will maka a boomer
or the automatic freight car coupler , its
dvantrges are so apparent that it ought
o bo carried unanimously.
Another most excellent feature of the
> ill is the provision dcclaring iull and
oid any contract between the employe
nd the railroad company , waiving the
mployo's right to recover damages for
njury. It has become a common prac-
co with railroad companies to require
10 signing of such a contract before em-
joying a person. This contract , how-
vor , really does not amount to anything
nd will hold in a court of law.
ovcral suits on this point have boon
ocidod adversely to the railroad com-
mnicB , one of the most recent ones being
n Kansas. An employe , while under n
car , working under the direction of a
> oss , was injured by another car running
gainst the ono beneath which ho was at
work. The accident was the result of
10 negligence of his boss. The railroad
ompany maintained that it was not lia-
> lo for injuries sustained by ono employe
wine ; to the carelessness of another ,
'ho supreme court of Kansas , however ,
ecided that the company was liable , and
10 plaintiff was awarded damages.
SABLEKS LATEST INFAMY.
Outrageous frauds at primary elections
n Douglas county have boon the rule ,
nd not the exception , but by all odds
10 most high-handed and villainous at-
empt to pack a convention with men
ho wore overwhelmingly defeated , was
made in the Third ward by John Sahlor
n Saturday at the republican primary
lection. Although a candidate himself
n ono of the delegate tickets , John
ahlor took charge of the ballot box as
udgo , and when the polls wore closed
nd the ballots spread upon the table
liowod throe to ono against John
ahlor's ticket , that notorious political
> rickstor , deliberately upset the table ,
cattorcd the ballots without oven at-
ompting to count them , nnd certified
lims'olf and associates ns elected ,
'hnt this audacious trick was a
mrt of a concerted plan be-
ween Sahlor , Pat O. Hawes , and
hat fragrant lawyer , Bennett , there iu
not a shadow of a doubt. They know
alaiost from the start that their only
banco would bo in stuffing the ballot
> ox or counting out their opponents by
mud , and when they found themselves
miked by the vigilance of ono of the
udges of election , they carried out tlipir
iroconcortod ochomo of rascality by scat-
oring and destroying the evidences of
heir defeat. That Sahlor and his do-
oatod "pals" would dare to present their
claims for sent * in the convention tffis
afternoon seems almost as incredible as
t does to thiuk that a respectable man
like Mr. liroatch would countenance
such villainy for the paltry honor of a
dologatoship to Chicago. The whole
conduct of Sahlor iu this business
is infamous , and would put the wore
San Francisco hoodlum to the blush
But political shysters like Sahlor ntu
Hawes will stop at nothing. They are
capable of any thing to gain their ends
It remains to bo coon , however , whotho
the roepeotablo republicans , who com
prise a largo body of the convention , wil
allow such outrages to go unrobukod. I
they do they will give the party in thi
country the worst blow it has ever had
T2IK BTKAM PLO\r \ ,
It ia comparatively only a few year
ago when the work of the farmer was i
slow nn laborious tank. His vrhoat wa
cut with the eytho , bound by hand am
threshed with the flail. Tc-day all thi
work is done by machinery. The smul
grain is cut nnd bound by a reaper , am
threshed by horse or steam power. Am
now comes another improvement in th
art of agriculture the steam plow
Numerous attempts have boon made to
construct a satisfactory steam plow , bu
until quito recently the efforts in this
direction have boon only partially successful
|
cessful ,
i
It ia now claimed , however , that a perj j
feet steam plow lioa been invented. ?
Its trial look place the other dny at Era-
porin , Knnsns , in the presence of largo
number of witnesses fromdifforont sUUs ,
The trial TTOS eminently satisfactory.
The machine was operated by two men
and did its vf ork admirably. Its capacity
is 25 acres ft dny. The total expense of
running it is $10 per day , find its cost is
about $2,000. This plow is destined to
como into universal use in the prairie
states of the west , and the day is near at
hand when the steam plow will go from
farm to farm and do the plowing by con
tract , junt as the thresher now does.
POLICE A11USKS.
The committee of the Now York legis
lature which is investigating the condition
of the Novr York city government , has
como upon some very fragrant disclos
ures. The developments in the police
department alone have boon of a nature
to make the citizen of Now York open
his eyes. The city has always boon sup
posed to possess "tho finest police force in
the vrorld. " Instead of that familiar
boast being true , however , the investiga
tion has revealed at. astonishing amount
of rottenness from ono end to the other
of the polico. It appears that the gamb
ling places , policy shops , lottery swindles
and such forbidden places have syatomat
) cully purchased protection for several
years. The sums paid have ranged from
§ 5 to $50 a week , and the special bribes
have often amounted to several hundred
dollars. Those places , with others of a
still wurso character , have been main
tained in the metropolis without molesta
tion. They have boon as free to ply the
most infamous forms of vice as though
there wore not a law on the statute books.
Almost all classes of officials connected
with the department have shared in the
plunder. Sham raids have sometimes
boon made for the purpose of extorting
blackmail. Now York is a great deal sur
prised nt these revelations. Viewed in
the light of the experience of other great
cities , there is nothing very sur
prising about those disclosures.
There is scarcely a city in the country in
which n condition of affairs , more or loss
similar , does not exist. When the now
city government of Boston came into
power , n short time ago , investigation
showed an amount of rottenness among
the police force almost as bad as anything
found in Now York. In Philadelphia ,
the same things have long boon known
to exist. In Chicago , the corrupt deal
ings of the police with the criminals is
notorious. By the connivance of the po
lice , these outlaws manage to defy jus
tice. Defective laws and ignorant juries
give them every advantage when brought
to trial. In other words , as long as they
"stand in" with the police , they are safe.
It is so in Omaha. There is notoriously
collusion between a class of habitual law-
breakers and the polico. A searching inquiry -
quiry wouldbring out some startling facts.
Iv Broatch and Thurston can got an
lonost election from honestly elected
[ elogatos , wo are content , but if they
attempt to force their election by such
roguery and fraud , as exemplified in the
fhird ward by kicking over the ballot-
> ox scattering the ballots , and
counting in delegates who wore over-
vholmingly defeated , they will not only
[ isrupt the party but forever damn
themselves.
HAWKS nnd Sahlcr are a poor fair to
draw to. They are the lowest cards in
.ho . political poker dock.
CITY WALKS AND TALKS.
"Hollo , Coupon John ! " exclaimed a well-
cnown railroader , as ho shook hands with a
rod-faced man beneath the electric light on
.ho Wabash corner the other evening ,
'Where did you drop iu fromt" "Denver. "
'What have you been doing out tUerct"
"Running n scalphiR shop. Same old business
yon know. " ' 'What are you doing hero ? "
around. " "Whoro "
hooking are you going !
I am going to take a drink. Como along. "
Thereupon the two men adjourned to the
other end of the block to take a smile.
"Who's Coupon John ! " nuked n bystander ,
who had bcon listening to the brief conversa
tion. "Coupon John is n well-known character -
actor , " replied another railroader. "Ills right
name IB John Parker. Soon after the com
pletion of the Union and Central 1'aciflo railroads -
roads , Coupon John wont to work iu Omaha
for the Union Pacific for thirty dollars a
month. Ho was given the privilege of roping i
up trunks for the passengers. Whenever ho I
found a broken trunk ho would tie it up with f
rope , and charge the owner fron > 2to 75 1
contu for the job. It waa oftener 75 cents y
than 25. In till a way ho used to make four or e
five dollars a day. They mod to s y that v
Coupon stood In pretty solid with the bapgago-
mnashers , nnd that ho usnd to glvo the.ii a purv
ccnlogo on all the trunks they unathod nulli-
cloutly to render their boitig roped together a
necessity. It wan no uncommon thing for a j
baggageman to refuse to ship a smashed
trunk any furthar , and this of coimo com
pelled the owner to patronize Coupon John. C
Jleslilcrt thta echoino , ho went on the overland (
trains every day and carried on the Imalnoss
of u broker. Ho had the ruuof the trains on
ho used to carry the bairgngu checlm for tlm
checkmen. To the weit-bound paRsensters ho
sold pnhl nt a premium of about Iu cents
on the dollar. At that time paper money waa
at a discount In California , wlioro coin WPS the
circulating medium. After working the west
bound train , ho would jump ontho east-bound
train and buy gold from thn passongeis who
had como from California. Ho made nearly
IU per cent oa hit money each way , thus whip
tawing the day'a tralim. Ho also used to spec
ulate In tickets. WLenovcrhe found u person
holding u ticket over tha Chicago It North
western , and who wantikl to go by aoino other
road , the Burlington for iuatanco , ho would
hunt up a passuuirer Uokotod by the Hurling-
ton , but who really wanted to travel over the
Northwestern , and then ho would malco the
exchange f r them , ibu/gintf each $5 or § 10 ,
thus making $10 or $20 , at the case might be ,
by the transaction. Itvta on account of his ,
Kalplngcoupon tlckoUtluitlio got the name
of Coupon John. It wtvi a poor day when
Oa upon John didn't make more than $ .10 or
875. Ho wan the best scalper I over saw , and
ha had the boat Held in the world for his buni-
n < ! * , His money canio nlinoxt M easily as il
he liul found It , and it weeit about as easily as ,
he got ft. lUd lie taken care of It , ho would ,
have boon u rich mau now. He wua a tlior- |
oushbred tport In those days nud would bet
oil anything- fire punctually , then inmo .
poker , or any other game of clnnoo , and on a ,
horto race ho would put up his lust dollar , i
H i rent over to a Council IJIulfc race meeting (
one day and 'blew In' 82,600. It broke ,
him , but borrowing $20 noit day he t
resumed working tha trains , and in flva liars
lie lud over fc' 00. Whenever he got l.roko ho
< > ° yl'l always borrow money. The bank * often
Ifcelpfld him out , without * euirity , in order to
'pot the gold which he purchased from the ea t
-und pMsengew. Coupcu John carried on a
hti trunk-roping and brokerage buitnoaa { or
several yours , but it kept growing poorer each
year after the first null of ilirougli travel \VM
over , and finally ho gave it tip ftnd wont to
work for Murkol & Hwobo , John's boot friend
now in ntu dm ? , n Ron of old Dan. Yon re
member Dan , which Billy Shull owned. Dan
WM the smartest dog ever In Omaha. Ono
evening , throe or four yearn ago , before going
to Denver , John was walking down Tenth
took the dog.That was the name dog that fol
lowed him up the ; street just now. Ho fol
lows him nil over the country , and it would
take a big sum of money to induce John to
part with him. Coupon John ban been run
ning n ticket sculping office in Denver , but
the PcalpingbusIncBB there Is about played out
owing to the $1,000 license required by the
city. Ho wns ono of the principal scalpem ,
nnd fought the liccnso. Ho has won ono suit
ngoinst the city and has another ponding.
But the trouble is that under the liccnso law
the sealpora can't do business with a ticket Imv
ing on it a man's name without forfeiting their
license , and the Union Pacific end other
Western roads now require everybody to sign
tickotc , whether limited or straight first-class.
This boa about wound up the scalpers In Den
ver , and John in looking for n now location ,
Ho IH known from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. "
"Talking about scalping reminds mo
that , there are now five or six regularly cstab
llshod scalping offices or ticket brokers' offices
in Omaha , and it was only three or four years
ago that there was but one , " remarked Another
railroad man , "and they all seem to bo doing
a lund-oQico business. Thcro used to bo plenty
of ticket scalping done ift Omaha during the
years from 18C9 to 1875 , but the scalporn did
not have offices nor any system about their
business , such as the scalpnrs now havo.
The old-ttmo scalpers used to hang around
the railroad ticket offices and the depots , and
it was not an unusual thing for thorn to
'stand in' with oomo of the ticket agents and
depot employes. A traveler didn't have to
look around very long to find a purchaser for
the unused portion of hid ticket going cither
east or wrst. imd If ho wanted to buy n HOC-
ond-lnml ticket at a plight reduction all ho
Imd to do was to make hia wlshoa known
around the depot and ho would bo accommo
dated in a very short time. The biggest
money was made on through tickets from
New York to San Francisco. Upon arriving
here the traveler would sell the balance
of his ticket so na to reduce hid
fnro to Omaha five or ton dollars. The scalper
would turn around and soil the balance
of the ticket to San Francisco and make ten
or fifteen dollars on it , and at the same timu
sell it lower than a through ticket would coat
from Omaha to San Francisco. Thn snmo
plan was pursued with east bound tickets , but
not so much profit was made on them. The
'Benevolent Corner , " located where Strnng's
building now stands , was principal hoa < lriiar- |
ter for some of the shrewdest seal porn of those
days. The 'Benevolent Corner , ' so called be
cause of the liberal donation made by the boys
to the Chicago sufferers , was the ticket oflico
for several years of the Kansas City , St. Joe
& C. 15. railroad as wall as being a general
extern ticket oflico. The scalpers of to-day
are a regularly organized body , having offices
In all the principal cities. Ihelr orders on
each other for rebates , tickets , and money ,
are as good as gold , and the business is carried
on very systematically. Some of these scalp
ers carry an immense Block of tickets , and
they are often called on by railroads to help
them out in their tights by disposing of a
largo number of tickets at cut rates. I re
member that the Wabash sold several hundred
thousand dollars worth of tickets , when it
opened its road to Chicago , by a roundabout
route , and scalpers purchased a Inrgo portion
of these tickets. I don't believe they have all
been worked off yet. It is surprising to
see what amount of business some of
tliso follows do. They make it
an object for the traveler to patronize them
When a traveler sees a sign staring him in the
face tolling him that ho can buy _ a ticket from
Omaha to Chicago for seven , nine or eleven
dollars , ob the case may bo , when the regular
prlco is $15.00 , it is an inducement to him to
luvoatlpata I the matter. If ho saves two or
three dollars , it ia safe to say that the scalper
makes that much on the ticket which he sells
him. Some traveler" always strike for a scalp-
or'u oflica the first thing.eithor to buy or sell a
ticket , and it is only as n last resort that they
visit the regular ticket office. I have known
men to fool around half a day in order to make
a dollar on atickot to Chicago. Why , I have
known fellows to go to a scalper's oflico to sell
an unused bridge ticket , or an omnibus ticket.
Sometimes the purchase of a ticket from a
scalper places a person in an embarrassing po
sition. I remember not long ago a follow
bought a ticket to St. Louis from a scalper ,
and then wont to the regular ticket agent's
office to buy a Pullman ticket. The agent
learning ut > on inquiry whore he had got his
railroad ticket , told him to go back to the
scalper's otlico and get hia sleeping-car ticket
there. The scalper , of course , did not have
Pullman's for sale , nnd the fellow had to ac
commodate himself in the day coach , as ho
found the sleeper all Hold when ho got on the
train.1'
"lo you see that very nervous man
across the street ! " said a gentleman to Tits
BEB'S Man About Town , the other day. "Ho
is J. Murray Fairchild , a Connecticut Yankee
full of invention , and ono who has persistent
ly fought his way along amid difficulties that
have turned others to despair. The unique
device on the fire alarm boxes here in Omaha ,
and in fact in every city in this country , for
holding the key after the box has boon opened
and an alarm turned in , till the 'master key'
of the engineer releases it , is his invention.
Ho sold it to a Now York concern , which has
reaped a harvest from it. Ho Is an export
telegrapher , nnd for manv years was manager
of the Western Union olfico in New Haven ;
also of the Telephone Exchange , superinten
dent of the Fire Alarm Telegraph , the Burglar
Bank Alarm , ami the Kloctrio Light , and
from the latter pobition resigned to become the
export of the United States IClectrlo Light
company. When ho came to Omaha a low
months ngo _ the electric light service was ) very
poor , but is now the equal of any city In the
union. It wan but n snort time ago , compar
atively , that olectria light could bo furnished
morn : than COD feet from the station , but here
In Omaha to-day It Is furnished 2,001 foot
from the station , and Is a steady , brilliant
light. I have known Fairchild lor several
yearn , and never taw him idle , I am glad to
BOO him hero In Omaha , fnr ho Is sure to be a
valuable and OHtuomod citizen. You will hoar
from him In the line of electric invention of
treat Importance before lung , "
' 'I was agreeably surprised upon visit
ing CroIghUn college , " said Mr. Nathan Hose-
water , principal chemist of Strong , Cobb &
Co. , manufacturing chemists , Cleveland , "to
find ] in that institution a chemical laboratory
which is unequalled in any of the eastern
states. They have at Crolghton college a very
complete outfit fnr the practical study of pho
tography Iu all Its details ; ono of the finest tol-
oscopea in the country , with nil the latest im
provements ; u very complete outfit of ongl-
fleering instruments ; a largo eterooptlcon , with
jwlarlscopo and microscope attachments ,
adapted for throwing crystalline bodies and
bodies in solution upon n screen for Illustra
tion Professor Lambert , who has charge of
the laWatory , came hero a few montlis ago
from Chicago. Ho Is n inun of inoro than
ordinary ability. Ho thoroughly understands
chomlutry , mathematics , engineering in all Its
branched , mineralogy , physics , und other
branches. I don't know of any branch of up-
idled tcienco which you find Iu Cu'ighton col-
legu tint U better provided with apparatus
and apnhancej in any eastern Institution , Th
work that U going on at Crnlghtuu college I
something that will be of Interest to drug
rleiks , chemists , and to all who with to ac
quire practical scientific knowledge. It 1s the
embryo of something that Omaha will bo proud
of , and when moro widely known thnso ad
vantages ought to attract ttiulenta from ull
over thn country. Father Lambert ia n man
whom the cultured people of Omaha ought to v
become acquainted with , nnd I nm lurolio al
ways rowlve.1 uud enteitains visitors not only
pIi'Maiitly hut iu on instructive winner which
will bo appreciated. I understand that ho ia
I'reparlut ' , a ferlet of illustrated Hclontllio lec
tures to bo dolivared iu Omah , anil I want to
ay in advance that jour people may expect a
n-ro treat. " a
. * .
1 "I thought that was a pretty good hit
on the lawyers that the minstrels got off the
other evening ot the opera house , " remarked
ficntlcmun > vho never mlwea a minstrel show
when ho can got hold of a complimentary tick
et. "What was It ) " asked n young lawyer.
"It was during the first post of the pro
gramme. Tim 'coons' made up A pool ot ton
dollar each to bo presented to the man who
could tell the biggest Ho. One told about being -
ing attacked by n boar , and when the animal
opened his mouth ho ian hia arm down his
throat , caught hold of his tall nnd turned him
inside out , whorcujton the bear , having turned
tall , ran off. This wai considered the boss
Ho , nnd they were all about to hand over the
money to the liar , when Sohoolcraft btggod
them to hold on nnd glvo him n chance , as his
money was up. They consented to this , no
ono ox ) acting that lie could knock the boar
t ry silly. 'I know a lawyer once , ' said
Schoolcraft , 'and - ' 'What1 ! all exclaimed ,
Interrupting him. ' - and ho was an
honest man , " concluded Schoolcraft.
Kvory man in the pool at once handed
od him over the monoy. That was consld
orod the champion lio. The story illustrates
the opinion that people generally have of
lawyers. "
"I see that Arthur Maploson , son of
Col. Mapleson has boon arrested in Chicago
for breaking up another man's family , " Raid n
gentleman , while discussing the recent Italian
oporn in Omaha. "I wonder how many sons
old Maploson has lying around loose in this
country , " ho continued. "When Her Maj
esty's Opera Company was playing at Boyd's
opera house , I wont out between acts nnd
took a smile nt a neighboring bar : and while
I was there I ran ncrosn n young follow who
represented himself as Col. Maploson's son.
Ho was well-dressed , was drinking rnthor
frcoly , and was exhibiting a picture of Maple
son. I became Interested in the follow , whom
I [ had seen In different placc-t fora year or two In
Omaha , and upon Inquiring of n man who
claimed to know him , I was told that ho was
a printer , that ho was n careless , happy-go-
lucky character , and that ho had been ditn-
hetlted by the colonel. Certain it is that prc-
vlous to the arrival of Col. Mnplcsou ho was
dressed shabbily , nnd had no money * But
soon after Mnplcson got hero the young man
appeared in a now null of clothes , with plenty
of money in Ins pockets , with which ho liber
ally treated his friends , and over now und
then ho would exhibit the old man's picture. "
No winder spring poetry is bad this
year. Spring is nn awfully hard subject to
got any poetry out of. But wo suppose some
thing is expected , and hence the following is
offered :
Hail horrid Spring ! Hall , llaln nnd Snow !
Then lot thy blustering blizzards blindly blowl
Lot chilling clouds shut out the cheerful sun ,
tVnd stop small boys from having any fun.
The rubber dealers smile in merry mood ,
Frum seeming evil still educing good.
For morn , wet-eyed , appears , mother of dews ,
And bids us not forget our rubber shoes.
THE BUHIjlNGTON ROAR.
Reports that It will Link Itself with
the I > . & R. G. W. nud Build
Various New Branches.
Special Dispatch toTnc BEE.
DENVEH , April 13. Thoforogono con
clusion is reached by railroad men here
that the Burlington road will join issues
with Colonel D. 0. Dodge in the lattor's
iight against President Lovejoy and the
Denver & Rio Grande. General Manager
Potter , of the Burlington , and Colonel
Dodge had a lengthy conference in this
city. AMiat the object was cannot bo
learned , but it isaaid _ that the Burlington
ind Denver & llio Grande Western have
liopes of running a line from Denver to
dale Lake. The Burlington will increase
Its capital stock to § 7,000,000 , the money
bo bo used for construction. Your corre
spondent is informed by an official of the
Burlington this morning that it will bo ex
pended in constructing branches west of
the Missouri river. Four branches are
under way at present in Nebraska. The
rest of the branches will bo in Colorado.
Very certain the Burlington will not re
main standing still. The general mana
ger himself says ho will run mountain
branches if found they will pay , and if
the company can discover any grades. It
is not impossible that the Burlington
and the Denver & Rio Grande Western
will como to an understanding by which
3ithor the Burlington & Missouri will
iave a narrow gauge feeder from Salt
Lake to Denver , or a standard gauge
; rack be laid between these points.
TOIliKIlS AND THE TARIFF.
A Ttmpest in a Teapot Over a TarllT-
Kecluctloii Circular.
PITTSBUUO , Pa. , April 13. A petition
prepared for circulation among workingmen -
men advocating twenty per cent reduc
tion of the tariff is not regarded favor
ably by prominent labor loaders.
Secretary Martin , of the Amalgamated
association , disclaims all knowledge of
the circular , and says that such a reduc
tion would cause a shut-down among the
mills. There is no trouble or dissatis
faction among the men , and ho didnot
think the men to be so foolish as to
throw themselves out of employment
simply to bo revenged on manufacturers
with whom they now have no quarrel.
The petition , ho thought , had bcon
issued by outside parties for political
effect , or to create trouble among the
workmen and the manufacturers.
IiAICRY'S
Diplomatic Barrett Scores a First
Nlfjlit'a Success V/lioro Booth
Fulled.
LONDON , April 12 Lawrence Barrett ,
Yorick in "Yorick's "
as , Love , scored a
decided success this evening. There was
present a large and critical audience from
the highest rank of the theatre going
public. At first the actor was quietly re-
ivod , but as the play progressed the
house wormed into sympathy with him
and at the end of the first act ho was
greeted with a round of applause. The
enthusiasm increased during the per
formance , and when the curtain fell at
the last act Barrett wns recalled several
times. On the recall Barrett said that
during the evening a telegram had been
handed him from Irving , in New York ,
assuring him that ho would havn a hearty
reception from the Lyceum audience.
The Castaways ou I'Jtcali-a Island.
BOSTON , April 13- The ship Mercury ,
from Port Townsend , reports that she
passed I'itcairn island January llth. ]
The inhabitants came aboard and report
ed 105 persons on the island , 52 males
and 53 fmnalns , nnd took their mail , some
twenty live letters , for difl'urent parts of t
the world. <
Cancer Tor Twenty Years.
Mr. W. Itobieon , D.ivlsboro , Go. , writes ,
under date January 3 , 1831 : "I nm ( setting
on finely , the ulcer In gradually healing. I
ft el that Swift' * Specific will euro the horrible
cancer which has been feeding on me for over
20 years.1
Mr. O. G. U&rron , of Manning , Ga. , writes ,
dated Match , 1881 : "Tho soreness has all
gtma out of the Cancer , and my health has
pi eatly improved. I have taken clx bottles of
awiWs SI-KCIWO , for u Skin Cancer , which I
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