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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1885)
tt'ttt&&j3 * HJ tTlt. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FRIDAY , DECEMBER 25. 1885. THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA Omrr , Jio , on ANti PIC. FAUNAM ST OrrirK.liooMm.TntntSEitriMiiNO. os OFFICE Xo. ri | ! I'OI'HT IITII : : ST. j' . Tlio hnly Mundiij- morning pnplT irabllalicd in thu Unto. TtiV : iiv JIAH. ! OurYrnr . jjn.mTlirtv Mnntht . JI-V ) fi.nn One Month . 1.00 i : WiinKt.v HBK , PuMMitit r.vrry Wednesday. One Yrnr , wltli jircinlmn . . . t-J.OO Ofif Voni' , without iiri'inliitn . ! ' Hi * MoiMl ( , wlllimn iiroml'im . Uac Month , on trlnl. . 10 All roimmttilrntfoni rclfitlnir to npwa anil r.ll- . tdiintnmtlPlMiouM bo uililros od to the Eul- ! Kill or Till : IlKK. ursiSFPs i.rrrr.ns : All ) ni lnn ? l ttrrs nnd remlltntirp * shoiiM bo nlili-fs'til to Tin : IlKK 1'i'iii.HiltNO COMPANY , 1MAIM. llrafti. clict-ks nml pftilnltlef onlprs to IHI iiinite imytiblo to the oitlcrof tbf compnny. IB ! BEE POBLISHIKBliPAIili K. HOSKWATRIt. RniTOii. THAT cold wave predicted for Wednes day has been sidetracked somewhere. Hf.xnv W.uii ) lln.'ciinu has said his Christinas "How do you do" lo President Cleveland , who profcuted the eminent mugwump wilh a portrait of himself. Giv. : Wn.MAMSOX , ex-land connnis fioner , talks right out In meeting about Commi-slonor Spark" . He virtually calls Mr. Sparks an idiot , but Mr. Sparks can probably stand it. Tilt ; Chicago ACMM * coincides with the lli'.n when it .says : "We think that ono of the first steps toward the decent sup- prcion of polygamy would bo the sup- i of the Salt Lake Tribute. " rniMi r.NT ( > I.KVII.ANI : > had the pleas- urn of making Mrs. ( Irani a very hand- Home Christmas present. Ho has signed Hie bill granting her u pension of $5,000 a year , and she will receive the papers to- dav. IN ( lie distribution of Christmas pros- cuts thn administration did not overlook Nebraska. Two Nebraska postmasters will be madu happy to-day upon reading in the l'ii : : that their commissions have been signed. GISIIAI : ; , MAN-AGGU CALTAWAV prom ises that when the viaduct question is set tled the Union Pacific will begin the erec tion of a new depot. The viaduct matter ought to be settled within the next twen ty-four hairs' , but the probability is that it will bo several months before anything dclinitc will bu agreed upon if the proper ty-owners keep up their wraiiirling. Tn KIM : is no sign in Omaliayct that times arc very hard. There is of course some poverty and distress , but in comparison with oilier cities of our sine wo are pro- Crossing remarkably well. Our retailers have done the host holiday trade in the history of the city. Money is easy. The army of Ihc unemployed is small. These nro facts for which Omaha will wear a cheerful smile on Christmas day. COXOIIKSSMAN WIIICMII ; ; is very posi tive that his bill for the relief of Fit/- John Porter will go through the house with a rush. It is pretty safe to say that it will also bu passed by the senate. The public is pretty well convinced from re cent proofs , especially the testimony of Gen. Grant , that Gen. Porter is an inno cent man , and that justice .should bu dona him. lie certainly has made a long light to remove the fitigma that was placed upon his honored name during thu civil war. Mis'3 CLEVELAND proposes to assort her authority as mistress of the white house by having an edict issued , if possible , prohibiting smoking in thu halls of the executive mansion during receptions. The ladies have complained to her of this nuisance , and in all probability the lovers of the weed will hereafter have to sneak out to the porches and backyard to pull' their llavanas. Mis.s Cleveland is about to make a bold move , but no doubt her big brother will stand by her. SKNATOK VAN WVCK continues to re ceive handsome commendations from all over the country for his energctiu work on behalf of the west. The St. Joe On- xcttc comments as follows.ou his Oklaho ma , bill : ticiudnr Van Wyck of Nebraska ought lo be designated the watchdog of thu hunt de partment , lie has Introduced a bill to put the Indian territory , including Oklahoma and No Man'.s Land , under territorial gov ernment , and proviilliiK the lands In thu two latter localities shall not 1)3 occupied through pro-cmpttoii or comia.itatlim , bat subject only to bona liilu homestead settlement. It i'urtlier provides that a commission composed of two army olllccrs and three ofllclalsof the Iiullan and land burenii shall award asiilUcienoyonundsto tlio Indians in severally and negotiate with thu interested trlbc-sfor the sale of the rcnulndiT to thu Kovcrmnunt to become part ut the public do- jiitilu , 11 further contemplates a repeal of thecraiit of lands Iliroiuh the Indian terri tory to the Atlantic A P.icillc railway ; iinmds nil existing leases except for tiio actual cultivation of the sail ; iKu * the legal rale of interest at 0 per cent and provides for ( lie appointment of Ihu usual territorial olllces , Tin : return of the holiday son on ought to bring lo the minds of all , those in our midst whoso holiday enjoyment is sadly limited by their poverty. There are many families in Omaha lo whom Christ mas day will mean littlu more than a name. There are hundreds of children wliOMi only pleasure will bo that derived irom the buttling streets , thu bright store windows and Ihu happiness1 of others. If Christmas bus any s'gnlllcanca outside of Us religious connection , it is that of a day of lienuvoleneo and of open hearted- ness. It can bo made a day of personal tiolliyhness. The Ucu urges upon Us readers the claims of thu poor and suffering to a parlielpatlon in the happi ness of this holiday. If everyone of its ten thmiMind subscribers should respond to the call even in the smallest degree the blessings of Christmas womd bo widely oxtunded. Lot those who are of com fortable moans contribute out of their iibundanccand thosu who aru less lortitn- ntoglvo In proportion. There arc few of us who ilo not know of home poverty and Buffering which wo can assist in relieving or allaying. The various charitable or ganisations should bo liberally remoin- ihorcd. Such Christmas gifts bring the largest returns while they assist In do- .volopinglho best &ido of the donors'na tures. Gladstone's Dcflnncc. Mr Gladstone's announcement that ho will rise or fall in the effort to do justice lo Ireland 1m created a greater excite incut in Knpland than nny other political incident since the stand of Hubert I'cel against his party for the repeal of I ho corn laws. The liberal leader has planted him elf ( Irmly on n home rule platform so wide and so strong that if Is.iac Unit himaelf Were still living ho would stand aghast al its liberality as coming from an English statesman. Ii contemplates an Irish parliament at Dublin , Irish national and local officials , Irish control of ( ho police forcb , and a settlement by Iri h men of the troublesome land question. Instead of the viceroy exercising cxccii' ' live power through the English govern ineni , there shall be an Irish cabinet re sponsiblo to the home parliament. On all subjects relating to finance , trade , ens loins and general defense the im perial parliament in London shall legis Jtitctis al present. Ireland will continue to send representatives to the imperial parliament as usual on the basis of popu lation. While such a programme would secure to Ireland all the rights of local self-government , it would remain an integral gral part of the Itrilish empire. What is of far more practical importance than the political ( ( ucslions involved in this policy i the control which It will give to the Irish people over all legislation relating to land tenure. To the condition of land occupancy more than to nil ether causes can bo 1 raced the miseries which have alllietcd Ireland for generations. When in so largo n population and territory alt the land is in possession of not more than twenty thousand persons , and when less than a thousand persons mostly absent- ecs , own the half of it , the chief condition of orderly and prosperous government is necessarily wanting. What I'arnoll has steadily aimed at is the overthrow of this laud monopoly and the division of the lands into numerous holdings , whoso tenants shall bo enabled lo become own era of the soil on payment of moderate annual rates. This is what he will bo able to accomplish without violence or injustice through a home parliament legislating solely for Ireland. The Eng lish people , who acknowledge the oppres sion of the Irish land system and the necessity for Us reform , will yield all the more cheerfully lo this policy for Ireland inasmuch as it falls far short of political independence or separation. While the Irish people will hayo all the advantages of local self-government they will retain their share in the empire wliich they have so greatly aided in creating. No wonder such a , proposition threat ens lo disrupt the great liberal parly and to strengthen temporarily the hands of the enemies of Ireland in the Dritish par liament. Mr. Foster repudiates the Ctladslonian programme as revolutionary. Mr. Gos'chun declines adhesion to its pro visions. Even Chamberlain and Dilke , the great radical leaders , hold back.whilc all the wings give vent to their resent ment in protests against a committing of liberalism to buch a radical measure. Time will prove tlio wisdom of the grea t liberal leader in pulling himself to the front of advanced political thought and in boldly announcing his belief that home rule for Ireland is not only inevitable but that its inauguration will be at once justice to that country and a bond of im perial union. The present parliament may reject the proposition. Another parliament may throw it out. ISut Iho logic of time will vindicate the foresight of the great statesman who has dared to throw his gauntlet into the arena and to do battle for justice to Ireland. The Last Dollar. The board of education has paid the last interest coupon on the high school bonds. What is more gratifying , tiic treasurer of the board is in position to pay the principal as well as the interest. Tlio SJIOO.OOO arc now on hand to take up the outstanding high school bonds , and in another year when the last $50,000 of common school bonds mature , Omaha will pay oil' thu last dollar of bur public school debt. When the high school bonds were voted in 187J nobody believed that wo would bo able to redeem them at maturity without the issue of additional bonds with which to take them up. The want of confidence on Iho part of capitalists was best illustra ted in the fact that the bonds , issued with a ten per cent coupon , were hard to sell at par. To-day Omaha could dispose of a four per cent bond at par much more easily than she did the ten per ccnHiigh .school bond thirteen years ago. When it was Unit erected the $ )03,000 high school building was regarded by many as a white elephant. It was a building lit for a city of a half a million people. Time has vindicated the wisdom of the men who carried out the project. The high school has not only boon a great ornament to this city , but it has been the best card for years with thu solid people from all sec tions of thu world who chanced to visit Omaha. The splendid financial condi tion of our school treasury is greatly duo to the high license law. Within eighteen months Omaha will not ewe a dollar on school proporlyorbuidingsbtilsho ! will bo able to boast of the best school accommoda tions in the country. More than this , the assured income from high license , which is now nearly $15,0J : ) ) a year , will place her in the front rank of American cities ns an educational centre. The ability to pay high salaries commands the best tal ent and the ability lo supply the schools with laboratories , libraries and apparatus generally , will make the schools of Oma ha peerless m the west. Our citizens may well congratulate themselves on this Htato of things because it forms a sura ba sis to attract puoplo who dusiro lo locate where their children can have the advan tages of a first-class education. "Christmas , " says the proverb , "comes but once a year and therefore let's bo niorrio. " Its patron saint may find no place on the church calendar , but ho is enshrined in every child's heart and finds a warm spot in the all'ections of many a grown up juvenile , For many centuries Kris Kringlo or Santa Clans has paid his annual visits over the civilized glebe , bringing smiles and good cheer with his presence and leaving homo happiness and evidences of love in his wuku. Nowhere has Christmas found such hearty observance as in Germany and England , and among thu descendants of thu Ger man and English speaking people To them Christinas day has been something moro than a religious festival commem orating tlio birth of thu Christ child into Iho world. It has been the dr.y of home reunions , of familj'gatherings , of prnctl cal buncvolencc and of homely cheer. The mistletoe and Christmas berry have become it * symbols and the trco laden with gifts of affection , the smoking haunch of venison and the steaming pudding have become its sponsors. The Puritans vain ly attempted to suppress Chrislmas four hundred j'cars ago , but failed. New England substituted Thanksgiving , but the original and the substilute llourish side by side. The observance of Christ mas is increasing year by year. Chnrles Dickens' carol with Us Scrooge and Hob Craekell , and Tiny Tim , and its senti ment of "God Ulcss Us Every Onc , , " riv ettcd tlio bonds around the heart of every reader of English fiction. Men of all re ligions ami of no religion alike yield to its demands upon the aflections regard less of its origin and mindful only of its pleasures. | The Illnir l-Miiuntlonnl HIM. Senator IJIair has once moro his edtica tional bill lo tlio front and proposes to push it in the present session of congress. Hrielly staled , Mr. Hlair's measure pro poses lo apply Hie proceeds of the inter mil revenue taxes to the fostering of edu cation , the distribution to bo proportion ate to the amount of internal revenue col lected in the various states. Under this plan the larger part would of course go lo Iho south where ( he distilling audio bacco interests are the heaviest , and whore the illiteracy is the most general. This is urged by its advocates as one of Iho chief advantages which would be derived rived from Iho operation of the bill. There are many serious objections to Mr. lllalr's proposal , but the most im portant one is that Us main object is hid den behind a cloak of assumed bcnov olence. Mr. IJiair represents Iho extreme protectionists who some years ago desired sired to entirly abolish the internal rev enuetaxin order to prevent any decrease hi the tarill' . The principal part of our revenue is derived from llieso two sources. Hoth combined give us a treasury surplus which is a standing argument for tax re duction. Experience has proved that the abolition or decrease of the tax on whisky and tobacco cannot bo carried through congress. As a consequence the efforts of the protectionists are now being devoted voted lo dispose of the internal revenue in some way by which it will throw the burden of maintaining the government upon the customs duties. This is Iho true inwardness of Mr. Ulair's bill and the hourly support which it is receiving in some quarters. The time has come when'brains and grit not avarice and cowardice must deal with Ihis problem of tariff reduction. The public is being educated to Iho sophistries of the great industrial monopolists who are bleeding the people of Iho United Slates to heap up enor mous profits and who while howling for protection to American la bor arc grinding down their workingmen and mechanics to maintain thu specula tive profits of the war period. After a suspension of months the iron industry is recovering , and Iho first move is a heavy advance in the price of lhat material. It goes with out saying that there has been no ad vance in the wages of workngmen ! who have been slowly starving while their musters were waiting for better prices with closed doors and blown out fur naces. The revenue taxes will remain , but the tarill'must bo revised. The bugbear of free trade is an impossibility. The bless ing of a reduction in the price of necessi ties and of raw materials used in manu facturing is attainable. As now consti tuted the tarill'is an oppressive , a cruel and a wicked tax laidonlhc consumer for the benefit , of great monopolies. It has pro vented the even distribution of wealth , lias concentrated the enormous profits of industrial advancement in tlio hands of the few , and under the pretense of pro tecting labor has shielded capilal and thrown all the losses resulting from overproduction production- and reckless speculation on the shoulders of the unemployed. Mr. Blair's bill should bo ovcrwhelmly de feated. Nebraska has shown the coun try how education can bo fostered by local taxation , wliich no community is too poor lo bear. The same practical remedy lor the trouble of depleted school treasuries is open to the south. Let them once experience the operation of a good high license law , and they will at oueo find themselves fully equipped lo battle with illiteracy without tlio aid of such a. bill as that which Senator Blair is so be nevolently lathering. Tiinm : is every evidence that the people ple of the United States arc tired of com promise with the 1'acilic railroads and that they will insist firmly that the debts to the government shall bo liquidated when duo. The sixty year extension bill has few friends in congress outside of Iho railroad lobby. It has no reason for existence except in the interests of thu stock jobbers , who hope on its passage to unload their millions of depreciated stock upon a ri.sing market. The Pacific roads originally borrowed ifOI.OO'J.OOO from the government , Tho3' refused to take any steps to meet their interest obli gations until forced to do so by the Sher man act. They now owe the govern ment $102,000.000 , with an annual increase - crease of $1,800,000. The Pacific roads have been robbers' roosts through which the government , stockholder : * and patrons have been systematically robbed by tlio very gang who nro now calling for more time in which to meet their obligations. If Iho roads are bankrupt the booner the fact Is madu evident the better. The pub lic would Jose nothing if they were sold under foreclosure and placed in the hands of receivers , TJII3 ClilUSTAIAS HTOOKIXO , Mayor Hoyd hung up his stocklnc for a new city marshal. Omaha's mammoth hose was hung up for unrj inij improvements. Dr. Miller's patrician sock will await an other shako from the appointment sack. A thousand consumers of gas hope that Santa Glaus may bring cheaper nml better illumination. Manager Callawny would present Omaha with n new Union Pacillo depot If the viaduct ipios'tlon weresctllc.il. John MeSliano's short-horn hose may bo conllilcutly expected to contain another rail road proposition to the northwest. Mr , C. V. GalhiKhur does not expect to nud that postmaster's commission In his stocking this Christmas , but somoother Christmas. Heal estate owners arc prayinj ? tlmt Kris Kringlo will bring along with him a lew more outside additions laid out In aero lots. Mr. Oeorge IS. Prltchett would be pleasd to find In Ids stoi-klnp liat ] loncf-delayoil np- polntmcnt for the United Stiles district nt- tornc } . lip ! , but we are'afraid ' that the only thbi ! : Hint he will find In ( hat stocking will bo disappointment. ' IM-KSONS. Wld'tlrr , the artist , h said to bo comln ? to Amerlc.i for the purpose of "raising the wind. " Clara Morris Is said to have died ninre times , hhtiionicaHy , than any American actress. Jacob Haish has given the city of Denver { viOUOJ for a university. , Halsh is more pop ular than ever In that city. Iml-jo D.ivid D.ivK is seventy , and says ho never felt bi'ttor in hl < i life. He wilt spend the winter In Washington. Mrs. Cutter , wlio e pen Is pettlnt ; to ho jnighllcr than wa < her husband's sword , is the guest of Mrs. Lawrence Harrctt , in Hos- teu. llrrr Xell , the Austrian comedian , who died recently , left hmnng his effects fi.OOO love letters , HOplmtivrraptK , and countless locks of feminine hair. Urc-t liarte does not like the air of London MI well as the br.tcliic ntmotpliuro ot the plains , but he finds society there uioio con genial to his taslc < , Mine. Ik'riitiardl is studying a new role , lhat of Marlon Delorme in Victor Hugo's drama of Ihu saaie name , a part originally created by JIarie Dorval. Mrs. A'lllard , wife of Henry Vlllard , the railway manipulator , now living In Hcrlln , is n friend and favorite of "Unser FrllxV frail , the crown princess. Osrar Wilde , at an artists'exhibition in London , weir a coat daintily conspicuous for ils "wonderful plaits in the back. " ' lie mini have looked as if ho had on a black porous plaster. ICossuth , behur no longer able lo earn his I Ivlng by teaching languages in Italy , has now loimd a home In the house of hN sons , who arc shepherds in the valley of Slxt , In Savoy. Marshal Daznino is said lo be living hi Miidildin actual waul. Hi3 wife has left him , taking her fortune with her , and Hie ex- Empress Eugenic will not even answer his begging letters. Calne , the Utah delegate In congress , says that Mormonisiu can never bo stumped out. Hut the polygamists will do a great deal oC stamping when they find out what a mistal.o they made when they raised Calne. Mr. Kvarts thinks that brain workers should eat live sipiarc meals a day. .liidglng from Mr. Kvarl.s' personal appearance we should say that If he gets one sipiare meal in live days ho doc.sn't make any gorgeous dis play. play.Mr. Mr. Spurgeon has completed the seventh and last volume of Ids "Treasury of David. " Mr.SiHirgeoii'shapiiinc.iSoverllio conclusion of his work has found expression in the word "hallelujah , " which ho prinls instead oC "liuis" at the end of the book. Ijoolcs Ijllcua I'c -\Vliict- - . 7Jrfini lliplctln. A dude in one pf llo | new cape coat * has the general appearance o a perambulating pen-wiper. _ , AVill AViitto iTp fCebrntfca Cilu Xaes , Minnie Dlshner is the only Xebra.sk Ian who has gone to sleep and will wake up to llml herself famous. A Brooklyn View of Libels. The. amount of excitement which a man can get from a libel .suit iiir.iin.st a newspaper Is something really remarkable. AVill ( Jo Hunting Ibi' lilacklm-il.s. J. < ( trlHc 6'riiirfe/s/ininiiif. Mr. Tennyson's new poem says the black- Ijirds have their wills. The lawyers will now all go hunting for bkifkbiids. Brilliant Kays I'rom : i Popular Star. C'ifiniW. / ( ( ( < : . Two fainting spells by Sarah licrnhunlt during ouq performance indicate a Midden revival ot her old-liinc dramatic talents. . ThoKnllroiHlttiiU llcal Kstato. Crcitilitim Xeuv. Plenty of railroads' are le.uling into Xorlh- we.-tcrn Nebraska on paper and real estate is climbing towards the top notch in cense quence. Senator Vest as a Fly Catcher. I\'cw I'm * Jlcrnhl. It seems lo us that Mr. Vest" , like lee many other democratic statesmen , is always Ir.v ing to catch Hies with vinegar and wondering that he gets so few. _ Falling into Ijino. 1'iiirniiYea ; / * . The county papers Hint are booming Sena tor Van Wyuk's re-election are being added to at the rate of one a week. At thal rate they will soon all fall in line. Ili/mosiclc Sunsnl , Pi'cw Vni fr Jinimnl. It is rumored tlmt Sunset Cox threatens lo resign the Turkish mission. Tlio thought of Christmas , Santa Clans- and all sorts of good things must have made him homeViel ; . That Grand Island .Mourner. ] 'itil < tllltl > lli < l I'ICX * . The western editor who put his paper into mourning on account of Vaiiderhilt's death is a sympathetic soul. It was his brother who wore crape on his hat for a year out of respect for Adam. Kiniiicntly Correct. CVifHi/i | / A'fifs. Charles II. Van Wyck is evidently a candi date for re-election to Hie United States sen ate from Ntbraska. The Omaha Bin ; has begun to refer to him In broad-shouldered brevier as "the people's friend , " lie In Getting a I'lonty of I'Ycu ' JM-ii' ' I'mlloM. / . The Oniud Maud ( Xch. ) Times app 'ars to bo Iho only paper In the United Slates- which went into mourning , lor Vuudurbilt. And yet th editor's name , does not anpear in the list of upueilclarles undo" the will. The Grim AVi/.nril of Wall Street. ItiilttMtiic Timu. Jay Gould is now Hji- richest man In Amer ica , Kliico VainUirhilt'.s mjlllons have been di vided up. Old and wary brokers gilinly shako their heads whim any/ mention of his retire ment from the street is made. Vandeihllt's money has often | MTJIlirliwn \ between ( iould ami his schemes , but iiow there is nothing no obstacle. to tho'grelit imaiiclal spider rcachiu'g torthund gathering In more un suspecting tiles. Ha'iim * almost say with Monte Criato , "Tuo world Is mine. " llel'crs to the Oimiliu "Ilc.rvlil" nml "Kopulilioan. " The Missouri valley papers have become involved In n powerful discussion. One of ilium printed the words "in ktutuo ipio , " whereupon another called It hog-Latin , and said that "in slatu quo" was what was meant. J'lien u third paper pitched In and declined .hat , Inasmuch as Ihn preposition "In" could precede the accusative or ablative , "in Hiatus liio" was correct. A fourth paper observed hat if the noun was used in thoac-tisatlvo he pronoun should also ho In tlio accusative. Therefore , "In status < juum" would ho rl .lit. 'Ko , " cried a Illth. "The pronoun intut bu 01' Iho same gender as the noun ; that would imko It 'In status rpioJ. ' " Still another M per asks : "Why make It 'quod , ' when , If a uan choose , ho can make It Npddi" " So the wltlo of the Titans pro/iettcs nnd Iho whole valley h upheaved. JJut tlu > las umi's sally Indicates that what oucoguvl ( promise ot being A learned and scholarly dis cussion now threatens to degenerate Into driveling , ItrniNllng Idiocy. How to * ' * * Supprcii lolJ'jja ' " Clile.ia'i : V > tr. , Says the Salt Lake Tilbune : "What an in famous hound old Miller , of Iho Omaha Herr - r ld , limit be. " AVe beg to Inform our gentile contcmporniy that Dr. Oeorgo L. Miller I s no hound ; If he were ho would probably bo editing n dally paper In Salt Lake , lying about n certain religion * eet , and doing everything in his power to promote dUconi and bloodshed In a territory that as niitrli belongs lo the Mormons as Plymouth ISock belonged lo the pilgrim father's.Vo think tlmt one of the first steps toward the dcsont suppression of polygamy would be the sup pression ot the Salt Lake Tribune. Two Illch Meu. W. Limit JJrjwMfcmi. Thomas Ciu.v was born lit llorsleydown , ICn liind , in lir ( ! > , His father was a coal merchant and lighterman , but the son did not follow in the paternal footsteps ; being at an early age apprenticed to a bookseller in London , from whom he graduated into busincsi on his own ac count , stnrting wilh a capilal of $1,000. His shop was still standing nol many years ago on Ihc corner of C'ornhill and Lombard street. Jle seems to hayo pros pered from the outset , but his llrst greal pecuniary success was reached by selling liiblcs printed in Holland , which proh- nbl.v gave him the profitable contract for prinling liiblcs for Iho university of Ox ford. His next vent nro vias in a less sacred direction. The government , tor ni Kof rcadj money , then paid ils sailors n notes , or tickets , dun al a certain specified time , Jack , improxidcnl then us now , wanted the cnsh al once , and consequently -old them al a liberal discount - count to those who were milling to pur chase , ( iuy bought largely , and his gains thereby were eoiTc.siondinjly | large. When the famous Smith Sea com pany sprang into existence he invo-lcd heavily in the stock at low figures , and sold when Iho fever of speculation was at its height , lie was never charged vith dishonesty or dishonor in either of these transactions ; and they wore qulio as legitimate in every respi'-t , as the 15'ible selling or Ihe ordinary com mercial operations of our own day. He nol only knew how to make money , but how to . - it ami his s.-no , saving was re duced toscience which strongly resembled systematic stinginessor something worse , lie wore a pair of leather brooches until his neighbors took oil'hats to them be- cau < o of their age. Ho was engaged to marry his housekeeper once , but broke oll'lhe match because the lady ordered si stone laid in the pavement without con sulting him. Hi * unenviable reputation for economy went abroad , and one even ing he received a call from a person known as "Vulture" Howard. Guy , who ' did not know his visitor , opened th'e door and showed him into what passed for a parlor. "Sir , " .said Howard , "lam told that 3011 understand the art of keeping money better than I do , and 1 have called to learn your method. " "If thai be. your business , " replied the ho t , ' 'wemay as well talk in the dark , ' ' and blew out'the candle. "Vulture" thanked him for Ihe economical lesson and straightway de parted. I5ut ( Juy was a miser only to himself. Quo day _ ho stood looking over London bridge with such a woe-begono expres sion upon his lace and such a wretched coat upon his back , that : i passing Mranger thought ho was a pauper con templating Miicidc ; begged liini not to commit 1 IIP rash act , and slipped n guinea into his hand. Guy told him that he was not specially miserable , and did not need the gold ; and when the stranger would not take it , asked his address. Years afterward he saw the name of his bciio- faclor among the list of bankrupts ; went at once to his house , inquired into the circumstances of the iaso , made a satis factory arrangement with tliii creditors , and finally re-established him in biu-im-ss which was successfully continued by two generations of the bankrupt's de scendants. Other generous deeds , equally unostentatious and knov.'ii only to a few , roved that Guy had : i noble motive for } tis miserliness ; but not until he was 7 ( ! years old did that motive assume a mon'iimental shape. In 17 1 he matured the plans of the famous hospital which boars his name , and secured the nece.s.sary ground. In ll-'i the lir.M Mono was laid , and the first patients were ad mitted in January , 1 ? ' . " > , ten days-after Ihe death of the founder. The building cost : i little Ic.ss than $100,001) ) , and the sum bequeathed for it.s perpetual main tenauce was about $ lOllOQO. ! Some sixty years ago a second Guy in practical charity , gentleman named limit , left $1,000,000 to reinforce the work of hispn- ; deee.ssoiThe hospital as it now .stands contains 750 bed * , receives annually 5,000 in-dour patients , and treats b.T.OOOout door , t'oiini'cteii with It , and under the same general management , is one of the be.sl and most clebratcd medical schools in ( lie world. The annual income from the fiiiuU invented for the Mipport of hos pital and > ciool ! is about $ , ' 00.000. Making proper allowance for the dif- fcivnoo in monetary Aalucsj Ihe accnmu- lali-ui.s of Thomas Guy did not , at thu most , o.\cood frJriOO,0iO. ! Of this sum ho gave about ? 1:100OI : ( ) ) nearly half for the building and endowment , of Ihe hos pital , the remainder going to other be nevolent objects and to relative * , A few days ago died William 11. Vandcrbilt , leaving an e.stale eslimaoil at $ % , ' 00,000.- 000. Of this almost incalcukihlu wealth he gave , by will , l-o religious and charita ble institutions $1,100000or about a two-hundredth purl. ' 1 ho rest goes lohis family. An a conlomporary .journal mildly puts it , "Mr. Vandorblll never | ; o-od as a pub- lie benefactor during his lifetime , " so not much was expected from him after death. It it had been , the expectation in griev ously disappointed ; for what ho gave , as compared wilh what , ho had lo give , is simply contomniibh1. Of MJIII'.SO , " a man has a 'right lo ilo what he will with his ( own ; " but this is merely a * legal right , and .should be weighed accordingly. If Christianity , or even the coinnione.it in stinct of humanity. means an lliing , no man has the shadow nt' moral right to give to his felhiw-mcu only $1,100,000 out of $3011,000,000. It sickens any but Iho Hughes. ) heart lo think what V.-indcrbill might have dune , and what he did do. One would .suppose that Iho natural desire - sire lor earthly immortality , to li\ his name and fame in the grateful memory 1 of ful urn gcnoralions , might have in duced him in the absence of a worthier motive lo make u better disposition of his colossal fortune. .SujipuMi ho had ltd ! ? rj.oao,000 to build a "Vaiid.-r- . bill ho ptul" ! in New Vork free forever to all oln.s. cs of patients , rich and poor , white and black , and an endowment fund of $10,000,000. Ills heirs mile-- , nn.-peakablv mean -would not a have mis ed the § 15,000,003 , certainly would not have grudged it ; and what a monument It would have bought , what iminurlalily it would havoseciuvd for the ghor ! Few , very few men in any age have had Mich u splendid opportunity to win the highest and puiv.il j > 'j. t-inortinn renown a Vanderbilt had --and _ throw - away Millions of people have , in Ihu last hundred and sixty ji'ars , blessud tlio nuino of Thomas Guj ; and > long as. his hospital sunivas the .shock of tiinuiind circumstance. , blessing * will fall upon that name like a coh-tiul rain. An hundred ; i and nlxty- cars hence , who will remem ber VaiiderbiUy or remembcrin : ' , earn fur him or his ? Thu mountain ot money Im gathered will only M ni lo sink him into docpiT oblivion ; and nil il > H marbles and bron/.iih his hulr.nmv d-u will du s for William Hohry V uirnurhllt than on ) bed in hi : hu.ipitu | doi ; > for Thoma iuy. WARNINGS ON THE RAIL , Superstitions and landfill Notions of Loco motive Engineers. Tbe Mnnr < Juestlou < Asked by Pas sengers , " \Vlio l\icct | to "See lioro , my friend1 yon In rod a Denver Tribuno-Hopublioan reporter , us ho ran into nu engineer ho know in tlio Union 1'acUio round-houso , "tell niu a few of the superstitious notions enter tained by seine railroad runners. Obi I grant you arc not subject to thorn , but yon must know others who are. anil as tln > y won't talk , I hope yon will. " Tito engineer resignedly beckoned Itis questioner to u scat beside him on a big piece of joist , and , after running ; his hands through his liair a nionu'iit , began : "J remember well , eight years ago , I was riding with a brother engineer un the Memphis < X ; Little Koek road.Vo had just madu a 'know-nothing' .slop near a station , and , lu.ilond of running slowly up to the station , my friend began to lei tin ! engine out. 1 called hia atten tion to a train standing jusl ahead of us , but ho made no reply , keeping right on , and ran plumb into the other train right in broad daylight. Fortunately the rear ear was empty , so no 0110 was Killed ; but the car was a dismal wreck , and the engine had her nose all knocked askew. That engineer said that ( ho spirits told him to do jiis- | what he did. instead of belli ! ! loeked up lie was only discharged. Then he went to lecturing on spiritualism , Un that subject he was a * ITII/.V as a loon , and ought to have been pulled oil' his engine long be fore. fore.And And , speaking of spirits , reminds mn. 1 had a cousin on the Chicago and Alton road , who pulled out of fill lea go one dark , Mormy night with a feeling that everything was not all right. \\oll , lin had run about lifty miles \\lien all of a sudden , when sticking his head out of the cab window , he said he saw a trans parent , misty white lignro waving a gaunt , skinny arm toward him , and mo- tmningdownward with tlio palm as the signal is to stop when yon have no Hag or lantern. Of course , it scared Jack out of a year's grow Hi , lint he had enough sense , he said , to _ shut oil' and slop tlio train with the ajr brakes as soon as ho could. Thou he jumped oil' with his lan tern and ran 100 leel , ahead , and what do you think ? He said Ins found a big ' 'ill' ' gone out where the road master had I'ailed to make the culvert. largo enough to carry oil' the stream that had conns down the ravine. Thu pa songer.s wen ; thunderstruck al Ihis escape from a fear ful death , and on hearing how it occurred , gave the engineer ! ? " > 00. The train was backed to the nearest station , after siiita- ble precaul ions had been taken to warn all other trains , and the passengers and baggage were transferred in the morn ing. " "You are sure it wasn't simuly a pre monition ? " "No , it was a veritable vision ; but 1 don 'I know of any other ea e like it , " "Did any case of premonition come within your experience ! ! " "Yes. Six years ago , when I was run ning on the Old Colony Itoad , there was a runner who was given to such things. He had tlio boat train that left Boston daily for Fall Kivor at 0 p. in. , to connect with the Nev York boat. Well , one dark winter's night as ho passed Quiuey some thing inside tohl him to look out. and by the time he had got beyond South Itrain- tree Hie feeling got .so strong that he thought ho iiiuci stop , and it was well he. did , lor there just ahead was a misplaced switch leading into a siding that ended seventy-live fed further on at the fool of a great mass of granite , with an embank ment to one side of it. lint , then , such tilings are rare. The great bulk of no tions that come into a runner's head are more fancies. "For instance , a great many men , rath er than run over a hog , will reverse their engines under a full head of steam , and risk breaking their machines in two. Why ? liecause they believe it is a dead sure unlucky sign. You run an engine over a hog and see if you don't get into trouble of some kind before the day is over. Most any runner will tell you that. I have known men to leave an engine af ter killing a hog. " " .Suppose they kill a man ? " "Then they'll leave an engine some- timon , and never go back to her. _ Then men halo to run over a eat , especially if it is black , which in.ikes me remember 1 hat < i good many passengers regard a cat on a train as premonitory of ill-for tune. Last fall , when runn'.nir on the South Park road , some friend ot the con ductor's at Como gave him a handsome Maltose cal , which h-s took on Hi-1 train with him to bring back to Denver. 15.il some of Iho passengers d.dn't propose to have a cal on the cars , so they fired it out of a window. Perhaps the conductor wasn't mad when ho lound the cat was . gone. ' "Then there's another thing. Up in the mountains , during thu winter , the miners turn their burros out lo shift for themselves , ami they gel on the truck and will not get oil' , no matter how much you whistle. .Now , it's a fanciful notion among engineers that to kill one of these locl\ ! : mountain nightingales is a sure sign of hard luck , and you can't beat the notion on ) of their heads. I've heard runners lay the blame of an accident lo their having rim over a burro only a few days before. l > nl I've hit do/ens of them and never have ( rouble. They are stupid things , those jaeka.s.so.s. * "Friday is considered by many an un lucky day. Some engineers won't pack a pis'ion or sU-in ghmd on that day lo.st hey should have lo do il all over agair the'next , iily. Firemen , own , who hav been ' .set up , ' don't want lo lake their engine out on Friday ; and a good many runners though ( hey don't say no , are : il- wa\s nervous on lhat da.v for tear borne- thing wrong will happen. " ' 'I niippo-o Iho unlucky engine racket is hirgoly believed ? ' ventured the re 1 porter , "Decidedly , I believe. In il myself. Soiim engines nro born unlucky ; but why can't SUV. 1 knew an engine on the- Hannibal St. Joe that lay dead in her stall for nearly n year before a man could be found to run her. .Shu fell oil' thu jacks ( mo Friday while in Iho shop and killed siv men. Fohr mouths afterward she laid lhn backhi < ad of her ho.lor over the loot-board and lour men who were in tlio cab travelled over the tender along - with Hie COM ] and things at about lOil feel second. Tin-vk-t.nis wore not buried alive ; they hud 10.1 p'Hinda of coal apiece is lo keep thorn cuniimnj , us the company's undertaker said life was too .short in Ihis world to atlonipt a soparalion. After Iho engine was rcjiared tne master me chanic asked mo to try her. Well , I wasn't pMrliciihtrlv anxious , but I didn't -lock up much on notions , so I ran bur tor a year without trouble. And would vou bol.evoit , I luft her on a side track for chard , and what does she do hut just 5lon down onto the main track and got snarled mi wilh a freight train. To maku long tory short , I lust my job. " A yfiiu : : I'AO' . "Didn't you luav. " the revcr.se lover in Iho middle notch'r" "Yes. " "Then how in time w uld she Mart oily "Coasu your wonderment , my young Friend. When an engine comes iew fniiii Ihe maknr shu couldn't under any a ntait ; but uf'-r ' running awhile thovnlvo sent pets worn and the edges of the valve arc blunted , so that if an en cine is on anything of an incline and she once gets slnrtcd , she'll ninritfiit ; along without stopping. It may bo tha * the steam pipe that blows the oil into fi steam chest is left slightly open , or t ! throttle leaks a little , until gradually I1 steam chest is lilled and the steam len' into the cylinders enough to start the p ton ; and that Is enough. Away she goi and onees the piston is go'ng the val will move just enough to regulate t' ' motion.Vliy , I know engines that wlu . running with a train yon can hook t onto the dead center hnd they'll run ri , ' along just the sanle. " Jus-l then an i glue pulled out of the adjoining sir. "There's a mfin who believes If he met * with an accident two more will happi to him in succession , " said the enginec1. pointing to his brother runner , "and I says he is always right. He has a coup' of horseshoes nailed up in his cab t > scare oil' evil spirits , and if you ask him 'f his spirit * are moist or dry he gels mad ' "I wish you would tell me , by the wnj . before you pull out , Some of the singular ntieslions passengers will ask you , ' said the newspaper man. "Passengers a k nonsensical questions very often. And the interesting part of it is I hey Ihinli an engineer has plenty of time to sit down and go fully into details , even though the conductor lie waving Ids hand to pull out of a station. I've had passengers come nj ) , a' < k me how much my engine can pull ami how nianv horse power Him is : whether 1 ever get lee much steam on : what would I do if I ran oil' the track , and after iuipiiringllmo ask how soon the train starts. Xow , in con sidering how much an engine cnn pull. .you must figure on grades , whether u rail is dry , slippery or wet ; whether the weather is hot or cold , whether your boiler Is a good steamer - well , half a doxon other imi'sllons enter into it. Plen ty of linn ) , isn't ( here , to spread these things out before curious passengers. When they ask what 1 do when oil the track t generally say , 'I get on again. ' I'lion they get mad and say the ) 'II complain - plain of my insolence lo the conductor ! The women are the worst. Thev will want to know how often the driving- wheels turn around in a mile , why the re- vcr.se lever-rod connecting with the rock er-arm is only on one side ; steam irenernt- cd in the cylinder * or in the bos below the call ? where does the smoke come from that gels out of the stack ? Is that engine very hoav. ) Then women will want to ride on the engine call or on the pilot. And if you don't let them the get mad and say 'You're awful mean. ' An old nuin wanted to know olio day what those things were that kept ( lipping back and forth under engines as they ran. 1 told him they were the links. lie looked wise for a moment and then said , 'Sho ! ' Presently he wanted to know what they were. for. and I told him to regulate the valves. Then lie : dd 'Sim1 ! again. Well , 1 must have explained to that old duller for live minutes , and about. every sentence he would say ' .Shol' or'Dutell ! ' When I goi through ho knew as much as he did before. A woman , a schoolma'am lee , once wanted to know if the counterbalance on the drivers helped make them go 'round. The touriston the mountain trains arc the worst class of all travelers , and if you knnekli ! to them at all they will overrun you with their insuflorablc airs and cock ney accent. Well , it's time logo , good day. " Filz John Porter's limounnco. Fit/ John Porter's absolute innocence of the charges which led to his dishonor able dismissal from the union army , nearly a quarter of a century ago , is no longer questioned by any per-on capable of intelligently weighing evidence , who has investigated the facts , and who.se mind : s not w.irp'd : by personal prejudice or fanatical partisanship. As a result of Gen. Porter's pi-riistcnt cflbrls lo secure a reversal of the sentence against him , many of the moit eminent legal and mil itary authorities in the country have made a careful study of the proceedings of the conrt-ni'irlial , and of the new ev- idenci ! which has come to light sineu the clo-'e of thu war , and without a single ex ception they have been convinced that not only was ( Sen. Porter not guilty of the oll'cnsc.s imputed to him , but that his conduct in thu battle of August ! i8-"ll , IHW ( , was creditable in thu highest degree. alike to his patriotism , his courage , ami his military skill. Several years ago President Hayes appointed a military court of inquiry to review the case , compo - po > ed ( if ( Seiierals Sfholield , Turry , and other distinguished soldiers , who , after a patient and thorough investigation , made a report wholly exonerating Gen eral P.d'lor. .Soon after the submission of Ihis report ( i.-aeral Grant was induced to lo.ik into the caae. As general of the army , as secretary of war , and as presi dent of tin ) United St.ttos , he had repeat edly refused to take any action looking to a rcoponiug of thu matter , and had made no attempt to conceal his opinion that Porter was guilty as charged , and that the sentence against him ought not to be disinrbi'd. It was with thi'Mj pro- concciMd opinions , and with a prejudice against General Porter which he frankly admitted , that he entered upon his inves tigation. Ilin conclusions , however , were iih'iilical with those reached by IhcScho- field board , mid he madu haste to pub licly acknowledge Ids former error , and to tc-lify in every possible way bin coiiMclion of General Porter's inno cence. Keenly regretting his own share in the responsibility for the continued injustice done ( 'Jen. Porler , ho sought by every means in his power to set him right before the world and to si-enrehisrostora- lion to the army. Nothing in all Gun. y G rant's career was more creditable to him or will be longer remembered in his honor than his manly and chivalrous ef forts de-pile the claims of his warmest ; per.-onal and political friends , to removu tin ; stigma which ho had been HO largely instrumental in fixing upon ( Jen. Porters name. A nninbi-r ot li s letters toGen. _ Porter and others , hitherto unpublished , urn printed this morning , and they reveal - veal , in an even strongl.ght ! than be fore , the depth and hincfi-ity of hi.s con victions regarding thu mailer , and thu imsellish x.eal with vhic-h ho labored to obtain such justice , a < it was then po.s- Mbhtlo render Gon. Porter. "Ah long as ha\o a vo.cc , " said ( inn. Grant , in ono of thc'u letters , "it shall bo rained in your support without any reference to tin ; ef fect it may have upon mo or others. " Ilight faithfully did he redeem this prom ise , nor did ho forget wjiun dying at Mount jMcXircgor , lo plead for justice for 1'ortur. Tliilesthiionv from an honored grave ought to , and douhlh as will , have a pro found ell'ect upon congivss and thu conn Ir.v. The bill u > restore ( Jen. Porter's L-onim ssion should be paned Wilhiintany unnecessary delay. Of lU approval by Lhe president Ihoru can be no doubt , nor there any question that this tardy act of partial justice wdl be warmly sanc tioned by an cnligaloncd public woiui- incut. FOR 1 Man and Beast. Mustang Liniment is older than most men , and used more and more every year.