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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FRIDAY , DECEMBER 25. 1885.
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tdiintnmtlPlMiouM bo uililros od to the Eul-
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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.
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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.