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THE OMAHA DAILY BEEFRIDAY , FEBRUARYS , 1886. THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA OFFICE.NO.OH A NEW VoiiKOrriCKUoo > t C5Tainufii ! HOIMUNO WASIIISOTOS Omcr. , No. 813 I'OUHTEENTII ST. rtibllahfMl every mornlnjf , except Stindfty. The Only Monday morning pupor published la the itnfo. TKH.MS TIT HAtf. ! Onn Vcor . . . . $ in.OOThrpo ' , Montlm . tS.fiO Six Month ? . C.no'Ono Month . . 1.03 THE WEEKLY HER , Published nvrry 'Wednesday. IKHMS , POSTPAID : Ono Venr , with premium . $2.00 Ono Yrnr , without lucmltim . J. > HI * Month" , without premium . 7i Ono Month , on trial . . . . . . 10 cotmr.arONiiEscn : Allcommiinlcntlom rtlntliiz to newsnndoill- torltil matter * Miould bo luldresscU to the Uut < TOII erin : lien. ntjsiNESS Mnrr.ns : All foujlno < n letter * mxl romlttnncos sliotild bo muiii'Moil to TUB linn I'um.tmiisn COMPANY , OMAHA , limits , checks ami poMnfllco orders to bo mmlo pnynblo to the order or the compnny. IHE Bit PUBllSHINUlPm , PROPRIETORS , R noSEWATKH. RntTOn ( rAittAXi > seems to liavo jumped from Iho frying Pan-Electric inlo the lire. Tun St. Paul tec palace is to be stored away in an ice house for use next sum mon Mit < KVAUTS' speech is golden but Iho gold bugs : tre intimating that his sllcnco Is silver. TKXAS comes forward with a claim to one-fifth of the Indian Territory. Tlicro is nothing small about Texas. BLAIR is one of Iho modnl towns of the west. There has not been a ease before the police court in three months. Tun settlement of the viaduct question means the addition of a largo amount of available business and residence property to tlio heart of Omaha. SNOWSTOUMS and frosts are becoming quite common in the southern states. If this tiling keeps up tlio south will lese its grip as a winter resort. Graf. DAVID HUNTEK , on the retired list of tlio army , died in Washington on Tuesday. Ho was president of the mili tary court that tried Mrs. Surratt. IN Albany it is remarked that the dis tribution of railroad passes is somewhat moro open than in any previous year. Perhaps it is an open winter in. the Em pire state. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ LIKI : Saul of Tarsus , tlio Herald is now breathing out threatening mid slaughter against the elect. Uuliko Saul it will take moro than a miracle to reveal to it the fulness of Its mistake. THE government directors of the Union Pacllio have Hied their report. It strong ly supports the Hoar eighty year funding bill. So does every member of the rail road lobby at Washington. JOK PUUTIZKU always wears a bouquet in.bis button hole as lie takes his seat in congress. His ambition now is to add to it a Garland as the spoils of his attack on tlio attorney general's oflicc. . WATER and ice are tlio two great sources of revenue for St. Paul. The lakes fill tiio summer hotels and the ice- carnival crowds the winter hotels. It is a cold day when St. Paul gets left. Cnvo CnrAQK , a prominent citizen of St. Louis and an active member of the Chinese order of Highbinders , lias been found guilty of murder. Ho will take the last degree when the high sheriff binds a rope around his neck. THE immediate delivery system is not a success financially. Tlio special mcs- eongers of the Chicago postollieo received about seven dollars each din-ins the month of January. They ought to strike for higher wages or moro letters inime- diatolv. Tin : people of NowMexicoaml Arizona demand that Geronimo bo hanged to gether with his followers. This would be a cruel blow to the dime museum men , as it would bo robbing them of a great attraction. With Geronimo in the hands of the museum men tlio southern frontier would bo just as safe as if ho were hanged. _ COKOUKSSSIAN GuENTHEit.of Wisconsin , threatens to retire to private lifo bccauso lie cannot save any money in Washing ton. Mr. ( Jucntlier must bo an honest man , otherwise ho could save a fortune in two years out of tlio porquifcots to bo obtained from the monopolists who make it tlioir business to buy up congressmen at fanoy figures. AND now the district attorney will como In for his share of dirt from the headquarters of the packing-houso de mocracy. Mr. Kstullo lias had the tut- dacity to assort that it would bo ridicu lous to bring tlio ease of Marshal Cum- inings before the grand jury on such evidence - donco us that presented before tlio inves tigating committee of the council. Mr. Estolle "must go. " wvn'A minion keep coming to the front. Mr , Charles Hussell , the newly- appointed altornny general of England tmdor the now Gladstone ministry , began life as a reporter for a Dublin paper. Although an Iribliman lie is regarded as the loader of the English bar. No great case baa boon tried in England for some time that did not i'uul him loader on one side or thn other , llo was counsel for Stead of the 1'all Mall ( taxctti1 , for Miss Fortescuo iigainst "Gumboil , " and do- feuded the "Avenger" O'Donnoll ' , who killed informer Carey. His practice lias netted him $100,000 per annum. Mr. Kits- sell is the son of an Ulster byowor and the nephew of a president of Maynooth col lege , Ho is now fill years old Tin : supreme court of Wisconsin has Just decided a case which no doubt will Interest the people of Iowa , Kansas , and otUor prohibition Mates. Thu agent of a JiuH-svillo brewing linn solicited ami ob tained orders for beer in the town of SUnighton , In which the sale of beer was prohibited , The agent , who forwarded the boor according to agreement , was rrct < Ml and found guilty of soiling liquor 1 in Stouglitoit , but the .supromo bench of thoetate htif. rovpi'bcd Hie finding of the lower court. It holds that when tlio beer vsu * delivered to the railway company in f Jnnc.villo the sale was complolo , and t v Jiouco no ealo of liquor look place In Sloughlou , and that ( ho &ulo by the agent was iir.ulo in Jancsyijlo. "For Value to be Kccclvcd. " The methods adopted by great corpor ations and their promoters to influence favorable legislation arc as varied as they arc eflicicnt. They run from a subsidized press to a mirchasctl vote. In most in stances no actual cash passes. Such a transfer is too easily proved. There are other moro delicate but no less cil'cctual means of arriving at the desired result. A free distribution of annual passes over their lines , the promise of employment when the session is concluded , exclusive privileges in trade along tlio route each and all arc frequently employed to awaken personal interest and secure a biassed judgment. Tenders of stock in new schemes , oilers of interest "on the ground floor" in construction companies , "point ers" on the market and hints of coming developments in the affairs of tlio cor poration which will raise or depress its securities arc used with surer results than open purchase. Such means arc less shocking to the sensibilities of the aver age legislator and have Iho additional ad vantage of not subjecting their authors to disagreeable investigations by the courts. Ills tixtromclvdoubtlul whether the lloll managers will succeed in showing any improper action on the part of the gov ernment ofllcials in the stops taken to bring about the suit to vacate the patents upon which the telephone monopoly rests. The publication of the ligurcs showing the expenditures in the depart ment of justice , called for by congress , will probably reveal nothing of material interest lo aid tlio promoters of the at tack on Iho attorney general. Hut the public has already been rendered a service by the exposure of the methods used by ' 'wild cat" corporations to secure a standing in congress by placinir their stock where it will do the most good among senators and congressmen. V hatever the merits of the patents upon which tlio Pan Electric company based its organ ization , there is no question from tlio showing that the company was a purely speculative concern which hoped in the future to benefit from congressional aid. Like tlio Credit Mobeller , it was lavish with its stock in high ollicial quarters , principally in the senate which has always been most open to corrupt influences by reason of the small number of its mem bers. It is manifestly improper for any person serving the government in a legis lature or judicial capacity to accept as a gift tlio stock of any corporation whoso rights and privileges he maybe bo called upon to determine. Such gifts are not nmdo without a condition , im plied or expressed. Shares of stock by the thousand arc not thrown away with no purpose in view. The aim and intent of these promoters of corporation pro jects is to make the representatives of the people personally interested in schemes upon which they may have to pass in their capacity as senators and congress men. The object is to warp their judg ment by increasing their bank account. This is nothing but bribery in advance of the consideration. It is ulainly im proper and deserving of the highest cen sure. While there is absolutely no evi dence to show that Mr. Garland's ollicial action in tlio telephone suits was influ enced by his possession of Pan Electric stock , both ho and Senator Harris are justly censurable for accepting such a gift while members of tlio senate. There is not the least question that their official position was alone responsible for the tender of stock in that corporation , and that its promoters expected to receive full value for letting them in "on the ground floor. " Tlio Evidence Produced. Tlio BKH further oversteps the grounds at good judgment in manufacturing evidence to support the claim that Hr. Bechel is a prop- city-owncr. That paper sent a reporter to the county ofllces yesterday to look up tlio records. Said repoiter questioned County Treasurer Bolln and City Treasurer Buck , and was told that Mr. Bechel has not , during nls term of ofllce , paid any taxes on real estate , only taxes on personal property. But the BEE editorially says : The Indices of the county clerk's office , and the tax stubs of the city treasurer glvo the llo direct to its dirty assault on the presi dent of the council. Why doesn't the Bni : print the rccoids ? It cannot , because It can tlnd no icconls to print. Herald. QTlicro are none so blind as those who will not see. The entire staff of the or gan of the packing house band are af fected just now with political cataract. The charges which it has made and re peated with such malicious perseverance against Mr. Bechel fall to the ground at tlio tirst breath of honest investigation. The records of the county clerk's ofllco , Book 5'3 , p. 81C , shows that on April 2nd , 1831 , Mr. Bechel recorded a warranty deed for property in this city. Tlio rec ords of the city treasurer provo that on January 3d , 1885 , ho paid citj' taxes amounting to $15.33 on Omaha real es tate ; that on January 17th ho contributed ! ? 44.04 , special grading tux , on the same property , and that on December ? th of tlio same year , ho turned over lav monov to the amount of $23.80 , Tlio deeds , tax receipts and cancelled chocks for those transactions are all in Mr , Bochol's pos session , The records are open to public inspection in the county court honso. On what technical point is this malig nant slanderer and party-splitter &tand- ing in this matter ? What is his aim and object in this senseless series of assaults upon an honest olHcial and a good citi zen ? What gain does this organ of dissension < sonsion hope to make for itself individu ally , or the parly collectively , by its blind and baseless attacks upon Mr. Het-hel bc cause ho happens to disagree with its edi tor in furthering the private quarrels of Mayor Boyd ? The Bni ; prints Iho records which give Iho lie to the Herald's mis tntomonts. The public can read them and verify thorn. Ilcrowo propo > o to let the matter drop. Now let the IftraM fulfill its premise to publish tlio evidence. It can then ilovoto its attention to trying to provo that every ollicoholder in Omaha who doesn't wear the P. 11. J ) . brand is a rascal and a thief , a perjurer and a scoundrel , a bribe taker , arinjrster , ami scalawag , and worse than all , a political opponent of its editorial chief and his patron saint. _ Tin : debate upon the right of the bunato to demand from tlio chief executive the reasons for his removals from ollico brings out thu hollowness of the admin istration' * civil service roforni preten sions. Mr. Cleveland docs woII to eland upon what ho is pleased to consider his' constitutional prerogatives , for ho would llnd it a difllcult task to roeogul/.u tlio 100,000 displacements of republican pill- eials made sitico ho assumed the prcai- deuoy with , that part of Jus imuijjural which pledged himself to the pet hobby of the mugwumps. Silence and ex planations alike fall in the face of the rccordt Andrew Jackson himself , the patron saint of the spoils hunters , would stand aghast at Iho thorough work done by the administra tion during its ten months tenure of ofllco. Mr. Cleveland would bo much moro easy in mind to-day if ho had re fused to make such stringent pledges of Impossible performance as those extorted from him tinder tlio pressure of a closely fought campaign for the presidency. Tlio sham of civil service reform really en tered very little into the canvass. It secured to the president only a corporal's guard of-votes. Every practical politi cian knew in advance that it could 'not bo carried out according to programme. It was a concession to the orists and dreamers , and a blow at the royal right of every American citizen to hold whatever ofllcos he could secure. It struck a blow at party organization which no party in power could avoid parrying. Had a republican administration suc ceeded Mr. Arthur's , it would have been , presumably , used to retain ofllcc-holders in the positions which they would have retained if the civil service law had never been passed. With a hungry democracy returning to the feast of patronage from which they had been excluded for nearly a quarter of a century , its enforcement was a political impossibility. . Opening tlio Ucscrvc. The senate having passed Mr. Dawes' bill to open a portion of the Sioux reserve to settlement , the measure now goes to the house for concurrent action. Under its provisions a strip containing nearly 11,000,000 acres and cutting tlio great reservation from cast and west at its cen ter will be thrown upon the market. The remaining 22,000,000 , acres will be di vided into six separate reservations and apportioned among the tribes in sever ally with the title inalienable for twenty- live years. The proceeds of the sale of the tract thrown open to sett lers is to be invested lor the benefit of tlio tribes , and provisions are made for tlio cdnca tion of tlio Indians on the various reser vations. If the bill becomes a law it will accrue to the benefit of all parties con- corned. Tlio money provided by the sale of lands will prove a permanent fund for Iho steady civilization of the nomadio Sioux. The apportioning of the lands in severally will be accompanied by ample moans for providing stock and farming utensils. Schools for the young and rations for tlio old with property respon sibilities for all will bo the means of solv ing in a few years the most troublesome problem of the frontier. To Dakota the opening of the Sioux reserve means the removal of the obstruction which for years has hampered her devel opment and prevented the natural How of immigration to her western Borders. From the Missouri river to the Black Hills has been a forbidden country to tlio iron rails. The section which under Mr. Dawes' bill will be thrown open to settle ment is one of the richest in tlio territory. It abuts directly against what is perhaps the most valuable mineral region in the west. The passage of the Dawes' bill by the house will bo the signal for a race between tlio St. Paul and Northwestern for tlio traffic of that region. With tlio extension of the railroads will come a rush of settlers , which will dot the country between tlio Cheyenne river on the north and the White on the south with thriving towns and villages , supported by a section twice as largo as the state of Massachusetts. THE Ttcrnla means to carry this war into Africa. 11 will punish with as severe a castl- gation as it is able to give , every one of the members of that band unless further ob- stiiiction ceases. If Mr. "Broncho" Furay and Mr. "Citizen" Goodman persist , in ac cordance with an Infamous compact , In pursuing their present tactic * they will bo treated to such revelations as will make them di//.y-headed and glvo them the heaitache for nil time. Herald. That's the case in a nutshell. If the republican membsrs of the council will not make any "further obstruction" to the plans of the Boyd-Miller gang of the packing-hoitso democracy , Iho Herald will cease its malicious and groundless assaults. This explains the Herald's ' spiteful attacks on President Bachel of the city council. Thu probability is that the republican councilman will continue to obstruct tlio spoils-seeking hcheme.s of the packing-house gang , The Herald will have to carry tlio war into Africa. TJTK Omaha liorso railway company has asked the city council for the right of way across the Eleventh street viaduct. We are in favor of granting tlio request upon one condition that tlio horse rail way company shall either pay its proportion tion for the construction of tlio viaduct along with the Union Pacilic and B & M. , or else pay an annual rental for the priv ilege of running over the viaduct. The cable car company , which aba desires to use the viaduct , should bo put upon the same footing , and if botli cannot run over the viaduct , then let tlio privilege go to the highest cash bidder. It is about time thai Omaha should ccaso giving away valuable franchises , Other cities are abandoning this practice , and are begin ning to realize a handsome revenue from the disposal of franchises. Now York sold the right for a surface road on Broadway for a very largo sum. TIIK HEI : publishes to-day the lire ! part of a story written by Mrs. Alice King Hamilton , wife of Lieut. Hamilton , of the Filth artillery , The second part will bo published to-morrow. Mrs. Hamilton is an accomplished writer , and is a con tributor to some of the leading magazines. She has written several novels , one of which , "Tho Duanos , " was recently pub lished and met with a favorable recep tion. Our readers will find In "The Story of a Typo" much to interest them , TIM : Herald threatens to discover EOVO- nil moro "maro's nests" in city affairs before it finishes its political job of at tempting to bolster up its patron saints by drajjgiug In the mud of newspaper controversy tlio names of honest and reputable citizens. If the Herald is as successful in the future in guiding local democratic polities in Omaha as it has been in the past , it will havu very little to boast of. Iris now oluimod that btmio of the many stor'.w about the reckless expend ! , turcs ami bankruptcy of King Louis of Bavaria nro without foundation , and that instead of abdicating .his roya } nibs seri- otisly contemplates , stilng several newspapers - papers for libel in Kopcs of recuperating his cmptv purse and vindicating his char acter. IP Iho cable cars wilV settle the rapid transit question in'jonlaha they will re ceive a hearty welcome. Omaha has gathered under her wings so many addi tions that better transportation facilities between tlio outskirts and the business centre have bocomofa necessity. THE Herald publisne. a purported in- tcrvicw over the telephone between the representative of this paper and City Treasurer Buck. H is enough to say that there is no telephone in the city treas urer's office and that the intcrvio v Is sheer fabrication. IF the assaults of the packing-house or gan have no moro effect on Surveyor- General Gardner than tlioy do upon President Hechol of the city council , Mr. Gardner need not lose any sleep. is stirring up liberal Germa ny with the distracted Polo. THE FlULD OP IN'DUSTKV. The International union has already paid SSi.ooo lo the sulking cigar makers. In Hlriiiliigham'JOocOworklngmeii and la- boiers are walking about with nothing to do. T. V. Powilcily deplores the proncnessof assemblies lo rush into petty strikes ami boy- cotls. The Sheffield nianufactuicrs tire frightened overthoieportof a combination of German manufacturers to effect a commercial monopoly ely In the Chinese elliptic. The fanners through their grange organi zations are extending greetings to the Knights , and aio picparlag lo co-operate po- litlcally and In oilier dlicetlons. The icmescntatlvo 0C Ihc Texas Grangers said recently , In a con volition o the Knights of Labor : " 1 want lo say Iho Farmers' Alli ance of Texas will stand by you , shoulder to shoulder , 75,000 stroiic. " The United Slates irovcrnment Is the great est printer and publisher In the world. The number or publications Issued annually amounts to about ! 2r , > ooooo of which about 000,000 are bound volume : ) . In a. short time six Bessemer steel woiks will he In operation In Ihc vicinity of Pilts- burg. Only one of these manufactures steel rails. The entire production of the other five will be of mciclmnt slcel ami mateilal for reworking. A co-operalivo shocmaklng concern has been started in Upper Michigan with § 50,000 subscribed , llcznlar weakly wages arc paid and -15 per cent of the profits aiejpaid to cap ital , 40 per cent to labor , 5 per cent for educa tional purposes andw 5 per cent to dealers handling their goodv , The good advice oE Scu'ntor Plait to the worklngmoa , "Do no $ too ] plainly conclude that all public men aie your enemies , " might well be suuplemcntcdfwltli this further coun sel : Do not too readily believe that all pub lic men who protcss dbvotfon to your cause are your best friends. , , , The politicians of Washington .show their zeal for the cause of honest labor by propos ing to make government contraclors adopt eight hours ami pay the iull wastes ; to pro hibit the emnloyiucnfcof prison labor on gov ernment work that competes with honest labor ; to declare thai our letter carriers are entitled to the eight hpur Jj'ulo , and to create a department of agilcnltnre and labor. . lie Didn't-Know. Burltnuton ( Vl.'Frce ) 1'ras. "Try not the pass , the old man said , " but the old man wasn't a legislator. A Crusty Dinner Party. Courier-Journal , There were eleven dukes at Lord Salis bury's dinner. No pic is reported as remain ing over. Wanted A. Fun-Maker. New Ymlt Journal. Where is the fun-maker who can fill the shoes of Sunset Cox ? Congress Is luuigcilng for a humorist to tickle its ribs and keep It In good humor. Pearls Set With Diamonds. Kania * CU\i \ Journal. The latest development In the crank line is the Plllsburg woman who has four diamonds mends hct la her teeth , the jewels taking the pluceot' ordinary filling. No excuse for her not being a sparkling conversationalist. The Basis ilo Figured On. ll'nll Street Kent. lli was trying lo beat a Chatham-street dealer down on a suit of clothes , and ho finally obsoivod , "You'll admit that wool is down , won't you ? " l > 0 , yes. " "And cotton is down , and labor Is down. " "Shust so. " " \Vcll \ , then , how can yon call that suit worth S14V" "My friend , yon haf cntliely forgotten dot buttons vlias vay oop. Dot vlmz dcr basis 1 figured on. " Was Not a College Graduate. I'lttfburo Clirontcle. "It Is easy to see that lids preacher Is not a college giaduate , " remarked the spoiling ed- ilor. "What preacher ? " asked Iho liorso edl- lor. % 'A man In New York. Ho preached a sermon from 'Where are the nine' . " " "How docs Unit .show ho Is not a college graduate' . " ' ' Why , a college graduate would have the po- slllon of every base-ball club In the -country right at his finger-ends. " llcmilt of Extortion. CMeaga fi'etes. Two years ago Mattoon had a telephone exchange operating over one hundred instru ments and connected with the Charleston ex change ot sixty Instruments. But Iho com pany's charges seemed exorbitant lo the patrons and they refused to pay them. As a result , some of the subscribers were cut out , others withdrew their patronase , and at last both exchanges were abandoned through lack of business. An almost bjmllnr state of af- alrs exists at Paris , vporaj a year ago thcro ' wcio 147 telephones in'lusei ( , while now only tin co are employed , o i1 Shattered Idols. llotlon * JlU'Jpci , The Uorgla called Litpietla Was a saint , we now are lold , And Tell no'or sliot tlll ) apple From his son's hpad , bravo and bold ; Ami Shakespeare iibverfwrotohlh plays. Kin : ; Arthur waitn myth , And 1'ocahontas , sonittones say , No'er rescued Mr. Smith. Did anything o'er llnppun ? Is wnato want'to ' Know , And have the great'bl ldhtory chaps Keen pulling the lout , ' how ? Pei Imps no ono has has over breathed , And wo'io not living men ; And peihans wo all are \\altlng Kor the Whlchness ot the When. Kind Hum-led Hob. Corittpondcnct I'ltttliurg Jltj > itch , Col. Ingcrsoll Is lliekindust-hoirted man I oversaw , Hiding all day with him between Omaha and Chicago I naw a little Incident that will Illustrate this. On thu train was a pale , blckly-looklng woman with a fivtful baby. The woman wa'j In shabby mourning and was almost worn out with the crying and worrying of her Iltllo one. Tlio passengers were very much annoyed and kept looking around and frowning at the woman , who was evidently lining her bes > t to quiet the child. Filially Mr. lupcrsoll , who had been leading , noticed It. ( Jetting up , hu stepped ftcioss to the woman unit took the babe , Idling .her to takeallttlu iti t j m. ' bo would lake caio 'ol Uio child. . , I'iit Ulu 0110 btoppud crying at once , playing with Ida wntch and chain awhile ami finally nestled Its little head clown on hU arm and went to sleep. The tired mother also dropped to sleep , ami the colonel cnred for upwards ot a hundred miles before the mother awakened and r& llorod him. THE TRUTH ABOUT SHORTHAND , Information Concerning StciloRraphy AVhloli Is Often Asked For. New York Tribune"Can you tell mo what is tlio best svtem of short hand ? Can it bo mnstcrc'd without a teacher , and in what time ? Some people adver tise to teach it in three months' can it bo learned in that time ? Is a knowledge of shorthand necessary to obtain a situa tion as a reporter on a newspaper ? How arc stenographers paid ? By answering these questions you will greatly oblige/ ' etc. etc.The o questions have boon submitted to a highly successful stenographer , who returns Ihoso answers to them : The systems mo t widely practiced hero nro "Ben. " Pitman's , Munson's , I aao Pitman's and Graham's. They are all much aliKc. Practically they all make use of the same material. There are not a few people , however , who spend most of their time in trying to demonstrate that any one of the above systems Is vastly superior to all the rest. Hut that sort of talk is , in the main , nonsense , and tlio student will do well to concern him self litlle about it. Kachof these systems has turned out lirsl-ehws stenographers , ami there are equally good stenographers who write other systems less generally known. More depends on the man than on the system. Generally the practised stenographer docs not adhere closely to any one system , but appropriates sugges tions from all. Shorthand can bo learned by the aid of text-books without a teacher , though , of course , a pupil is likely to make bettor progress with competent instruction , If this cannot bo obtained the student should endeavor to make the acquaint ance of some practical Monographerwho will give him occasional hints and see that Tie keeps on the right track. Most ot the text-books abound in lee many re- linomenls and contractions , whereby a few scratches mav bo made lo represent a whole sentence , much to Iho delight of tlio novice. The only practical objection to tliis sort of shorthand is that such "notes" ' are found to have half a dozen different meanings when ' 'cold , " and perhaps none ot them the correct 0110. Shorthand is a compromise between speed and legibility. The beginner is apt to pay too exclusive attention to the for mer and should therefore bo warned not to bother with too many contractions. The length of time it will take a lad to teacli himself shorthand depends , fir.-t , on the sort of lad ho is , and second , on the amount of time ho can give to it. The master shorthand requires above all tilings patience and perseverance. A lad studying alone will generally have lo stick to it hard for a couple ot years before - fore ho can make it pay. A few may be able to master it in half the timo. People wlio advertise that they can teach shorthand thoroughly in three months should not bo behoved. A knowledge of shorthand is not nec essary to obtain a situation on a news paper ; though , other tilings being equal , a reporter who can write shorthand is better equipped for general newspaper work than a reporter who cannot. As a matter of fact there are not moro than a doxon shorthand writers regularly em ployed on all the great Now York dailies together. In England a reporter must kno\y shorthand. Most ol this work consists of verbatim reporting. Here btrictly verbatim work is not often re quired except for great meetings. The most successful rpnorter is ho who can best present the interesting points of a scene or snccch in a readable , attractive sliapo. Tno American public docs not care much for mere verbiage. Expert stenographers who can take testimony in court often earn handsome sums. But such cxpcrtncss is attained only by jcars of practice and great natural aptitude tor the work. "Half way" stenographers are abundant in New York who are glad to work for $15 a week , often less. A stenographer who is competent to attend to the correspon dence of a railroad official or some man of largo affairs usually gets from § 20 to § 30 a week. Of course if the stenogra pher Is something moro than a mere ma chine man and can do other things well besides writing shorthand , so much the bettor arc his chances of making good wages. There is no mystery about shorthand. It docs not require any unusual amount of brains or any extraordinary powers of memory to acquire'it. But it docs re quire to bo stuck to persistently. Thcro is no recreation in learning it. If only half known it is treacherous and worse than useless. Nobody should take it up unless prepared to make great sacrifices of time and patience. A MERCIFUtTGOviRNOR. A. Convict Granted Ijcavo to Attend Ills Daughter's l < 'iincrnl. A special dispatch from Strcator , Illinois , dated Jan. 81 , says : To-day wit nessed a spectacle unparalleled in Ameri can history , that of a convict in attend ance at the funeral of a relation. In October last one Peter A. Wcaslwho , had led an eventful and checkered career in this city , returned from Europe. Soon after Ins arrival at homo ho discovered that Mr. Thomas B. Parks of Benson , III. , a wealthy grain merchant , had boon usurping rights that were his. Follow ing up the scent ho BOOH found that an undue intimacy had existed between Parks and Mrs , Woast nearly the whole time of his absence. Ho immediately telegraphed Parks to moot him at Streaior , Mrs , Woast sent a dispatch for Mr. Parks to meet her at Hcddliur , four miles distant from the city. The telegrams had the desired olfeot , and Parks and Mrs. Wcnst drove to Strcator , accompanied by tin attorney , At the hotel they were met by Woast and his atlornoy , when an interview was had , which terminated in Wcast shooting Parks in tlio thigh , severing tlio femoral artery. A half dozen physicians attend ed him , performed three separate at tempts at ligature and finally added a filling climax to the butchery by ampii- tating the limb , Death followed a low hours later , and Woast was tried and convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years tit Joliet , On Friday last his 0-year-old daughter died , and influence was brought to bear upon Go ? . Oglcnhy that induced him to grant temporary leave of absence lo the convict to attend the child' * funeral , which occurred to-day. The news that Woast would bo in attendance at the obsequies spread like wildliro , and thin morning fully I.-IOO people had assem bled at the Plumb housn to meet him , and his arriual was attended with a veritable ovation , fully 000 pooplotimoig , : whom were Iho mayor , city ollieor.s , prominent merchants and prominent ladles visiting and shaking hands with him in his room. The church where the funeral sermon was preached , one of the largest in thn cilj- , wan filled to overflowing , several hundred waiting oulsido in the bitter cold until the services wore over and then following the remains to the cemetery. The action of thu governor in thus ostabllshing a precedent without a parallel is variously commented upon , and will doubtless load to legislation upon the Mibjcct of canviefs being granted leave of absence to attend the tuneral of relatives. A mother at Munhassutt L. f. , whoso child was taken ill somn days ago , rofiitod to bend for a physician , Fayingho had conlidtmco in its restoration ( o health by supernatural moans. Her fiUtliwits pain fully shaken by the death of the little ouu. THE EARTH IS A COLD MINE The Phenomenal Success of a Solf-Eolianl Southern Farnien Health , Itnpplncss and Independence FollowcHitRlnesq Methods la Cultivating the Soil. Atlanta ( ( Itnrvla ) Confutation. Mr. Hobert Hood Is a 3'oitng f armor thin , browned , all fiber , slow but casjoi motion , self-reliant and Independent hi Is a line typo of the young southern farmer. "The earth Is a gold mine. " ho says "lo any man that works It diligently.1' ' It has certainly proved to bo ono to Mr. IWod. In seven years hn has made ovoi ? 10,000 in farming not by speculating for ho has lost if 10,000 by that method- bul by the patient tilling of the earth and the .slow transmitting of mmslilne , rain and sweat into corn and cotton. Thu story of his work is significant , and it may bo Improved , so hero it is in para graphs , coaxed from his own lips. "My father said to mo about seven years ago , 'My on , I'm going to die , and 1 leave ! ? 0,000 in honest debts that you must pay. ' In six weeks ho was dead , and i took the plantation In Stewart county , on the Uhattahoocliet ) river. 1 mortgaged the place for J ? 1,000 and wont to work. Tlio first lesson I learned wa economy. 1 darned my own socks and patched my own clolhc.s as they were out When I went to Kufala , L put a bis cuit in mv pocket , and when I irot to town lied my liorse lo a rack and saved hotel bill. 1 ran a plow myself , leading the way for my hands. At night I lit up the foigo and did my ownblaelcsmitliing , learning as I went , f never left my farm a day , anil slept only siv hours a night. " "That must liavo brought success. " "Of course it did , as it would have brought it in any other business. In two years 1 had paid my debt and had money in bank. 1 have made in actual nionev over $ -10.000. This is my poorest year , ami yet I will clear over iy,000. 1 would not give any man live dollars to guaran tee mo $3,000 a year on my ten-mule farm for the next ton years. Farming is the safest business a man can engage in if he goes al it right. " "What are the rules by which you work ? " "First , I raise my own provisions. I have 1,000 bushels of corn , 1,100 bushels of oats , 800 bushels of peas , and 400 gallons lens of syrup now for sale. 1 raise much of my own meat , and would raise it all except that my climate is too warm to euro it in. I never saw a man who did not raise his own corn that made money on colton. 1 never saw a corn-raiser that wasn't a prosperous farmer. You can often figure out that you can buy corn cheaper than j-ou can raise it , but that is only on paper. Corn-raisers pros per the others fail. My cotton crop is always a cash surplus. I make my other crops carry the farm. "Next to raising my own corn , I count personal attention to my business. 1 sow every bushel of oats myself , because I never found a hand thai could do it right. This fall I worked eleven hours a day with a three-nock basket on my arm , and sowed oats ahead of twelve plows , till the ends' of my fingers' wcro bleeding ; . In making syrup Igot along with four hours of sleep In twenty-four , and the result is perfect syrup. 1 superintend every detail - tail of my farming as this. Every Dack- strap of my harness has a bag of moss sowed under tlio leather to protect the mule's back. Thread wouldn't do for that sort of sewing , as it would rust. So every pad is sowed witli copper wire. 1 never had a scald back or a piece of broken skin on a mule since I've ' been farming. "Next to personal supervision is econ omy. Nothing is wasted on my farm. I have 120 tons of home-made manure com posted ftow , and ono ton of composted manure is worth three tons of guano. Not a blade of grass is burned on my place. That , with the refuse of my sugar cane even , is turned under and cnrielies the ground. It is small things that make or ruin tlio farmer. My neighbors use two or three 'sots ' of plow-lino a year ; mine last me two or three years. Lvcry night 1 oil every -wagon on my place , using cotlon oil. Once a month I have every axle cleaned and the old oil rubbed off. This saves my wagons. My stock and crops are all protected the same way. The poorest house oil my place is the house I live in. " "How about your labor ? " "Better than slaves. I pay them $9 a month , half in cash every Saturday night , ono ration , and allow each hand a unit aero for polaloos and an acre for corn , and give them every Saturday afternoon. They work because they know I know it when they shirk. They began stealing from mo. I slept on the ground every night for three weeks 1 bagged three of the thieves , and now am safo. When they are well I make them work , and when they are sick I give them medicine from my own hand , in short , they know I watch them and they work. " "You find Iho life a happy ono. " "Tho freest , happiest , most independ ent life in the world. 1 liavo not been eiek a day in cloven years. When 1 lie down to sleep , 1 ask no man any odds. My broad acres are there and they are exiiausllRss. The best bank a farmer can have is his land Every dollar he puts there Is safe and will pay him interest and principal. Many larmors sell their cotlon seed. That is robbing their land. I buy cotton seed , for willi acid phos phide and .stable manure it makes the best fcrtilucr. The funnel1 is the one in dependent man. " "I cannot understand , " Mr. Bood wont on to say , "why a young fellow will btay in the city and clerk at a small wihiry with no future , when a farmer's ' lifo Is open to him. No man could have had a much worse start than I had. Now. in snito of markets , weather or anything else. 1 can live a freoman'H lifo with health , open-air , exercise , and at the end of Hie year put Irom $ : J,000 to fjtf.OOO in thn bank. This Is not chance ; it is cer tainty. And there is nothing in mo ex cept hard work , attention and a lllllo common sense. If lifly young clerics would go to Stewart county lo-ilay and farm jiibt as 1 do , each ono would reach the .same result. It is no experiment. It Is the most certain of certain things , " And away tlio young farmer went with a gang of friends who had called lor him , Why may not there follow in his footsteps u race of young farmers , sturdy and self-rollnnt , with rfinooth brows , clear nyea and strong arms ? Why may they not como lo thu raicuo of our sou- lion from tlio domination of western smokehouse and cribs , and win for I In : south amid their corn row a fuller and bettor experience than their fathcr.s foughl for twenly-liva years ago1 ! There is plenty of land and more to como. Mr , Hood started with 2,000 , acres , which lie has already cut down to 1,200. " Ho contracts his arable hind once every "Intensive " . ho "Is year , farming , say.s , the policy of tlio future , Thcro is onu war cry under which ( ho south can com- maud Iho Mltialiou. That K 'a halo to the aero , or full corn-cribs , a big com- [ test iictij ) , and a homo on the larin1" ! I'Vankly , now , hasn't jhis broad r-houl durccl young farmer , with his stocl-liKc sinews , his untroubled sleep , como i. . oarer to solving iho problem than dioso of us who , aiming at pliiloring heights , are fighting ami .stumbling along Iho uneven A big petition was presented tq the Portland , Mo. , city government lust week against iiermitting roller bkatlng rinks. [ t was cliiirgiid lhat two clopomiinU. two 'amilv c.stranguniinl.s and Iwonly-throo Addons case * of immorality were directly I'ciceablo to tw ! * < j .iuUUutious in Port ; and. . AN OLD TIMER'S TALE. How n Party of 1'rospcctora In ' 40 Made ft Ittmd Through KlRht Feet of Snow. Denver News : "It makes mo tired , " said Undo Jake Simpson , "to hear these1 fellows who have been snow bound on it passenger train for two or three days kick like mules when they git out. They oughtcr'vo have had my experience on the plains in MO. " "Attacked by Indians ? " asked Tom Howe. "Nothing of the kind , " said Unelo Jake. "No wttxsnowed in down the Plat to here about 100 miles for threa weeks. A parly of m oiilliltod at St. Joe under .llm Drown. There was twenty In the parly , including a nlggor. Wo loft in December , and wai warned not to at tempt tlio journey In the winter time , but we was bound for Callforny , and was go ing to gel there m Iho spring If It busted a hume string. It was a kinder j OP AN Ol'lJX W1NTKU I and wo experience no great amount of trouble till wo reached a point down the Platte I should judge about 100 miles from where Denver now stands , which was , as von know , a howling wilderness then. The loulli day of January , 181 ! ) , wo camped near ngnloh that had enough water for our cattle , and plenty of wood for a rarity. That , night Ihcro was a ter rible snow storm came up. The snow was about two feet on Iho level , and wo concluded to slay until it stopped snow- lug. It kept up that day , that night , the next day and the next night , and the snow was just eight foot on the level. "Wo could dig down and got wood , but we couldn't get water enough for our c.atllc , though we could jrot all wo wanted for ourselves. Wo held several consul tations and came to no conclusion except , that wo was in a bad IIv. Wo couldn't gel our.stock out and if wo staid there our cattle would die for waul ol water. Wo gel out , all tlio same. " "What did yon do ? " " 1 tell you It was a queer plan anil originated , IN Tin : stixn OK TIIK Kinnnn. Wo got to prospecting around on some snow shoes wo rigged up and found that tlio Platte was about live miles away , and up liill from where we were. The nigger said while a scoutling party of us were out that wo might turn the Platte into our camp and wasli a road out. Wo catched at the idea , and it wasn't long before wo had water blurted from the river on our trail from the camp. Wo shoveled on"a section of ground and moved our wagons and catllo lo a place of wafoty and let the water rush. Well , sir , next morning there was as line a looking body of water as you over saw flowing right by our camp , but it was so denied deep tlio Moors couldn't ford it. " "What di'd you do then. " "Jcs made a Hat-boat out of ono of the wagon boxes and carried the cattle up to the river where they could get good foot- In' , and hitehin' ropes to the wagons and other truck wo soon HAD 'KM ON miY r.nouxo. " "Did you have ropes live miles long ? " "Not exactly. Wo had to splice some of 'cm , but wo made out by piecing out , with log chains. " "What did you do then ? " "Tlicro wasn't much snow to speak of on the banks of the river , so wo traveled up the river till wo reached Denver , where wo camped until spring ; that is , wo camped at the mouth of Cherry crook. That's why Isay it makes mo sick lo hear these tourists complain of being snowed in. Why , if they had been in our place every denied one of 'o n would bo where wo camped in tlio first place. They wouldn't 'vo hadsien.so enough to get out , and their bloachin' bones would have been found afterwards and their death attributed to Injuns , and " "Won't you take a drink , Uncle Jake , " asked Tom Rowo. "That's what I've been lalkin' for , " said tlio old man , as ho hobbled lo the bar , and everybody believed him. The sale of stamps and stamped envel opes last month footed up ? 10.pOOH ) , of which sum $8.5507.85 was received for stamps and $ .201.3i , ! ! for stamped envel opes. opes.A A concession has been granted by the Swiss government by a firm of electrical engineers at Geneva for making a rail way up Mount Salene , near that place. The line will bo made with a central Him very similar to that of tlio Rigid line , the toothed pinion which works into it being driven by machinery. Several relics , consisting of various documents in a cylindrical tin case , which liad been deposited by several of the franklin search expeditions thirty years ago , and a statement left by Sir Allen loung when at Beochoy island ia 1878 , were recovered by Captain Fairweatlior , of the British navy , last June , at Prince [ { egent's inlet , and have been turned over to the admiralty by him. Absolutely Pure , Tills powder nnvor i nni > . A iwirvol of pur y , Mionglh nnil wlmlooiimiirH6. . Morn coo n mink'iil iliuii Ilioordliiiiry Mudi , iuid ( nnim'lxt old In OMiiipctlllou wllli tlio multitude of loir ( Rtslioit ufimht , fUimi orpliobpliHto i > < m < Joi * , olil only In CMiin. HOVAI , HAKIM ; J'm\i \ ) > : i ( C'o , , CM Wull St. , Now Yam , USEDINALL i'rlcosdii uppllnillon. ftlltUu bf.il I'lirrlHKti lluliUr ) Atiil Dculrttt. , V. H. A , i. 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