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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE , FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 1U , 188G. THE .DAILY BEE. OMAHA OFFICE.NO. on New YORK UrncEloou ( Gi.TntnuNK Htm.wso Orncn , No. 613 1'ooitTr.KXTii ST. rtiWIslir-tl ovrrymornlniTi except Sunday. The only Monday rooming paper published In the Flnlo. TF.llMS T1V Utr. ! One Tear. elO.POTliron , Monlhs J2.W Fix Months. . . . . 5.00Ono Month 1.03 Titn WKBKtiY linn , PublMicd T.rry Wcdnusaay. TEMJIS , l-OBTIVUDI Onn Yrnr , rrllh premium t2.00 One Yonr. without premium. 1.25 fix Months , without premium . . 75 Ono Month , on trlnl 10 COttltEHrONDEXCE ! All cotntminlcntlom rolntlnir l < > news ntul oJI- Inrlnl mutter * pliould bo nddi-csscd tothoKui- 7011 OK * IIB 1IEK. 1IEK.mrctNES * r.F.rrr.ns ! All tin jlnpaslnltoii nnd remittnnoc ? filiouM bo HddfOSFCll to Tllll llFR l'tlllMMIl > O COMI'AXV , OMAHA. Dinfts. cliod.t nnd jwiitolfico orders to ho inmlu | > ti ) nblo to tlio order of the company. IKE Bit FUBLISHIHGliPm , PflOPRIEIORS E. HOSKWATEH. Kntron. MKANTIMI : Mr. Oardiior conlinucs to draw liis salary with neatness nnd dis patch. L J. TII.UKN lins gained twenty Hounds during the pastycar. This shows AVhat si change of political climnto will do for a moss-back. Mu. SPAIIKS has nindo another ruling in favor of .settlors on nnsurremloral rnlropd grants. Sparks may ho a hard nut , lint ho lias all the marks of being an honest and fearless olllcial. NHAUI.Y eight thousand relatives of peers have been fed on public pap in England since 1850. The common people ple now want a spoonful or two of official patronage , much to the disgust of the titled do-nothings. KANSAS Cmis agitating the introduc tion of the electric motor on its street cars. Slnco the results of the trials In Now York the dale when electricity will displace horse llcsh on strcut railroads is only a question of time. J. 1J. SLAWSON , the inventor of the bob tail car system , died in New York last week. It will occasion some surprise when it is known that he died a peaceful death. Probably no living man has oc casioned a larger amount ot pardonable profanity on the part of a suffering public. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lii. MIT.UK : is rusticating in Now York state , but his organ promises that when' ho settles down in Washington for keeps something will drop. Up to the present time hints of coming slaughter among democrats who fail to train under the packing-house banner arc the only tilings that have dropped here and hereabouts. I'HnSIDENTl'KANKLItjB. ' GOWKN , of tllC Reading railroad , has a clerk who roads all the newspapers that come to his ollice nnd mark every reference to him , tiie pleasant ones with red pencil , and the disagreeable ones with blue. If Mr. Gowen is as unpopular as some railroad presidents , his clerk must use up a great many blue pencils. ACCOKDINO to an exchange , ' 'dolico- cppjwlii" is a now coinage of the occen- f"tvio word-maker that signifies "long headed. " This word looks very much like the production of the Greek editor of the Omaha Herald. Ho should Imme diately supply the demand of the Chicago Times for polysyllabic equivalents for level-headed and swell-headed. GUAND ISLAND has secured the next reunion of the Grand Army of the lie- public in Nebraska , and Gen. John M. Thayer has boon elected grand com- mandor. What with her railroad boom , building boom , and these new additions to her dignity , Grand Island seems to bo knocking down about all the prrsimmons that come within reach of her elongated polo. L of the governments of Europe hnvo taken additional stops to further the cause of technical education. The programme to bo pursued is preserved as a secret , as each nation desires to establish the most perfect and thorough system. Technical schools have boon started in nearly all of the larger cities of Great IJritnin. Franco , Austria and Turkey are increasing the number of their schools and enlarging their scope. Is comparing the volume of our foreign trade and the volume of American rail way trallio since 1880 important conclu sions can bo drawn. The Jluilroad da- gello notes that from 1880 to 183J , the passenger Irallie of American railways increased per milo 42 per cent , the freight trallio 88 per cent ; now in that period our foreign trade declined 20 per cent , our agriculture was sta tionary , our trrcut enterprises pas-sing from activity to stagnation. The Gazette concludes that there must have boon a great development of the minor indus tries , and that "this growth of other in dustries in itself tends to reduce our ox- port.- * , " because wo require for our own consumption , a much larger part of our production. The railroads are less de pendent than formerly on the movement of the great staples and are sustained by the movement of general merchandise. PAKMAMINT : reopened yesterday at Westminster Tlio amount of informa tion extracted from Mr. Gladstone's opening speech In regard to the policy of the government is trilling. The premier is evidently not yet Mire of his position or of Ida following. Ho gave no hint of what both England and Ireland are most an.\lous to learn his Irish policy. Prob ably Mr , Uludbtono himself has not clearly formulated in his own mind the extent to which ho Is prepared to go in granting the demands /or homo rule across the channel. The interval bo- twoen now and March 1 , the dale on which ho promises to Introduce the Irish measure , will doubtless bo spent in feeling lor support from the Irish party , in discovering how far the whlgs will follow liberal leadership and in drafting a measure of land reform which will pave the way for local legislation by furnishing a tenant coiibtltuiMicy intore.sli-d in a permanent preservation of law and order in tie | island Mr. ( ilailMouu is wl o enough to sue with Panu < I ! that the abolition of Irish InndlorilN'.nund homo ruloaro prac tically onu , < iml that lifting the load of oppression nnd extortion Irom the shoul ders of the Irish people will bu iJio Ktrougett tie to bind the tluvakuicd uuioti more tirmly together. . . Wooden t'rtroments Again. The contractors who arc circulating petitions for wooden block pavements in Omaha have replied to our strictures on this class of paving material with n lengthy card in which they quote from the records of Chicago to show that that city has embarked extensively in wooden pavements hi the past ten years , nnd endeavor to throw cold water on the verdict of Health Oniccr Do Wolff that wooden blocks and disease go hand in hand. They print the opinion of the Chicago street superintendent to the effect that cedar block pavements are "cheaper than stone , though not so dura ble , easier kept clean , and not so noisy , " facts about which there will bo litllo con troversy. They assure m that "tho above are hard , cold , unrelenting facts , which cannot bo controverted by pimple abuse nor sol aside by calling hard names , " Unfortunately for Messrs. Murphy , Crcighton & Co. , they are facts whioli do not assist their side of the case materi ally when ofi'bct by other facts equally beyond dispute. Chicago has had the wood block fever for ten years past , as asserted. It has to-day nearly a hundred miles of wooden pavements within its corporate limits. Of this entire amount there is not a mile which has been laid more than live years , even where rcpaiis have been made on its surface , which can bo said to bo in anything more than "comparatively good condition , " What the Chicago sticet superintendent con sidered " condition " "comparatively good , is known to all Chlcagonns who were forced lo ride over the stretch referred to after the seven years of continual trallio to which Omaha contractors ulludc with so much feeling. Of the hundred miles of streets paved with wooden block pave ments in Chicago , nearly half are said to bo in n wretched condition. However much this cheap pavement is being extended in the outskirts of the city by property owners who hope to realize on their property by n quick turn in the market , there is no movement to replace the broken and rotting blocks in the heart of Chicago with the same material. The repaying done last year in the business centre was confined to tearing up the cedar blocks nnd replacing them with substantial granite. The chief argument in Chicago , as in Omaha , in favor of wood block pavements is their cheapness. It is the only argument of any weight with property owners. To argue that they arc durable is to fly in the face of experience , to assert that they are clean is to deny the facts as shown in every city where they have been tried. Their nnhealtlifiilncss has been asserted not only in Chicago but in No\v York , in engineers' conventions , and by the best authorities on paving in the country. Discrimination. ARnlngt Omnlin. An Omaha merchant writes to com plain of the continued discriminations against Omaha and in favor of St. Paul by the railroad pools. Ho calls attention to the fact that the freight rates on whis kies from Chicago to St. Paul are 25 cents per hundred for car load lots , and -10 cents per hundred on less than car lots , while the rate on the same class of goods from Chicago to Omaha are CO cents and 75 emits per hundred respectively. From Louisville and Cincinnati the rates to Omaha are stated to be fully double what they are to St. Paul. The facts being as stated , form a strong basis for remonstrance on the part of our wholesale liquor dealers. Omaha is largo enough and strong enough nowadays to make remon strance cflectivo in securing fair treat ment on the part of the railroads. In one instance within the past six months our merchants have won a notable vic tory in organizing to resist the discrim inations of a largo corporation against the interests of this city. Fair play is a jewel iu trade which is valuable enough lo fifjht hard nnd long to secure. The tinio has gone by when railroad managers and pools can ignore the honest com plaints of indignant patrons in this city. The good will and nalronngo of Omaha lias been found of too much value to be thrown over ths > shoulder. For many of the evils of corporate sol- fishnet's our people have the remedy with in themselves ; a remedy which combina tion and pooling cannot entirely shield the companies from feeling. The TarilT and Labor. The introduction of another bill for tariff revision assures a lively debate in congress over the necessity for any change in our present custom laws. The discussion will not follow party lines. Republicans and democrats alike will bo found on the opposing sides , Protected interests will bo ably represented from republican Maine .to democratic Louisi ana. Every monopoly which has fattened from the indirect taxation of the tariff imposts will hnvo its representation on the lloors of the senate nnd house. It is safe to say that any measure which runs the gauntlet of the lobby will bo loss in the nature of a radical reform than of a poorly concealed compromise , between high and moderate protection , on the part of the heavily protected monopolies , at the expense of the smaller interests bcnolitted by the tariff , Present condi tions arc not favorable to a fair hearing of the ttirifl question on its merits. Industrial necessity and political expedi ency will both bo used as powerful argu ments against wholesale tnnlt' revision , The tremendous demands made upon the national treasury , by the ovor-lncroasing pension list , the heavy expenditures pro jected for naval construction and coast defense will prove insuperable obstacles to any marked docrenso in the annual revenue of the nation. However much a radical revision of the tariff is needed on the theory of the free traders it cannot bo accomplished for a long time in the future , A tariff adjusted to the revenue requirements of the gov ernment will mean for twenty years to coma a heavy impost upon the majority of imported goods. What should besought sought by such tariff revision as is possi ble is an enlargement of the free list , the reduction of duties on manufactures already heavily protected by patent pro cesses and a revision of the imposts on feuch articles as enter Into the every day consumption of rich nnd poor. With 400,000 now laborers and me chanics coining to our .shores every year to compote with American workmen in our homo labor market , the chief benefits of our tariff system are after all reaped by the employers and not by the employed. Protection of the products of labor and free trade in labor iuolf is nn absurdity. It restricts the markets for manufactures and thus restricts the number of the employed. On the other hand , while shutting the doors of employment to labor , it opens wide the home labor market to the com petition of tlio world. More than n mil lion workingmcn arc to-day out of em ployment in the United States. Years of overproduction under the stimulus of nn exorbitant tariff have resulted in a con sequent reaction. Mills , factories and forges are either running on half time or else have closed their works down entire ly. Tlio laws which have built up huge manufacturing monopolies for the benefit of tlio protected few hnvo thrown the commerce of the world Into the hands of other countries. The export trade iu American manufactures is trilling com pared with that of England , Franco or Germany in the distribution of their man ufactured product. The logical result of a high tariff which has thrown im passable barriers in the way of a free interchange of commodities , but has stimulated immigration of competing labor , has been lo Hood our own market with moio than sufficient for homo con sumption and to close all foreign outlets. Commercial depression and suffering among the Industrial classes have fol lowed as n natural consequence. THE departure of Dean Millspaugh for Minneapolis , where ho goes on Monday to assume charge of a parish , will bo much regretted in Omaha. Mr. Mills- paugii has been connected for nearly a decade with religious and ' charitable work in tins city and tlto highest compliment wo can pay to the reverend gentleman is to snv that ho counts his most devoted friends among the poorer classes under his late charge. Ho has done much good in our city , qui etly and unostentatiously , but with earn est devotion to his calling as it carried him among those to whom such ministra tions as his wore most grateful because most needed. The parting reception which will be given him on Friday eve ning at the Millurd evidences tlio warm regard in which ho is hold among his friends and associates in our midst. JOHN 1 $ . GOUGH , the veteran temperance anco lecturer , is dead. Ho was a native of England , and came to this country during early manhood to follow his trade of book binder. Ho became a drunkard , but finally reformed and entered the tem perance Hi hi us a lecturer. Ho continued to preach temperance until a few months ago , when ho became physically unable , owing to ago and other causes , to carry on the work any longer. Mr. Gough was an eloquent orator , not only upon his favorite theme of temperance , but upon many other vital questions of the day. No man ever lived who worked harder to promote temperance , and the cause has lost in his deatli its most brilliant advo cate. TWENTY new missionaries and 10,000 , troops have boon punt by England to civ ilize Kiirinah. This proportion of relig ion to force holds good in all England's philanthropic schemes to introduce Chris tianity and British manufactures among the heathen nations of the world. MHS.EWINO , who is authority on pic , is instructing the Cincinnatians how to make a pie that can be eaten at breakfast. The railway companies ought to employ Mrs. Ewing to teach their lunch-stand keepers how to make pics that can bo eaten at dinner or any other time. AVIT.K taking the Papal bull by the horns in his Falk laws , nnd holding on for nine years , Prince Uismarok has finally retired from the struggle. The journey' to Canossa , which he boasted ho would never make , has boon accom plished. Tin : capture of George Q. Cannon has proved a godsend to the paragraphcrs. We have already read (597 ( paragraphs about Cannon going off prematurely , be ing recaptured and spiked , being lircd into the penitentiary , and so on. IN opposing the extensive laying of wooden pavements in Omaha , tlio llr.i : is in line with the best judgment of the most competent engineers in the world , and voices the experience of every city where wooden blocks have been given n trial. Tin : bill for the relief of General Fitz John Porter passed the house yesterday by u vote of 171 yeas and 11U nays. It is to bo hoped that the bill will now pass the hcnnto , and that justice will at last bo done to General Porter. THE Philadelphia Jlcconl aptly remarks that a now terror has boon added to death. It is the anproliension of the pre sentment which the mortuary artists of the HluMlrntcd newspapers will print nnd call them likenesses. THE St. Louis police board Until a policeman $10 tlio other day for taking three drinks. This is at the rate of $ ! 1,3)1 ; ) per drink. If this rule wore adopted in Omaha , some of our policemen would need a salary of about $1,000 per month. AM , the largo cities in tlio country are busily employed in ripping up their wooden pavements at tlio very time when Omaha is about to embark extensively in nn experiment which she will afterwards regret as a costly mistake , Tun two Sams have tinibhcd their re vival work in Cincinnati , Wo regret to learn that tlio democratic canvassing board was not apparent to the naked eye when the converts stood up tp bo .counted. WITH ton years' time given them in which to pay for their pavements , there is no reason why tlio property owners of Omaha should not select a material that will wear for at least ton years. PiionuiiTiOK bills of every character continue to bo introduced in the Iowa legislature. Iowa ought to adopt the old Connecticut blue laws at once and inako a complete job. THU "now" Chicago court house , which has become old before it Is finished , is crumbling to pieces , and the repairs nec essary to put it in fair condition will amount to $250,000. THE Union Pacific lias cut down its section men on the 'eastern division fit- teen .cunts n day. On the Omaha & Ho- publican Valley branch line there' are six section men employed between Oiua- ha and Stroinsbtirg. This saves Iho com pany ninety cents a day on that line. Wo take it that the cotiipany proposes to liquidate its indebtedness to the govern ment In this way. Wo would advise it , under the circumstances , to ask for nn extension of eight thousand years instead of eighty. Til 13 FlUIjD OK INDUSTRY. The now Ucthlehcui ( Pa. ) silk company stntts In with a capital of 8100,000. Tlio Central Labor Union , of New York , Is composed of 101 snbqrdlnate branches. The Union Pnclllo 1'nllwny company has contracts out for 20,000 tons of steel rails. The early closing movement Is being woikcd up In several largo cities cnst and west. In the building trader there Is every Indi cation of picat activity , according to bulldcis nnd architects. Spring trade Is beginning among the shoemakers - makers and clothicis , nnd builders evoiy- wbcicnro lull of picp.uatlons. All the great labor organizations nro pushIng - Ing the work of agitation nnd organization with more zeal than ever. The Amalgamated association of Iron and slccl makers Is In excellent condition , and has only 0110 llttlostrlko on band. The building trades ot Now Yoik will bo run on the nine-hour system this year with out any ctfoit to reduce to eight. Idle labor la being gradually nbsoibed In mills nnd factories , and In some sections mining opcratlonsnio also Increasing. In ccitaln sections of the west and south west hundreds of mechanics have been kilo for tlueo months , but nro now lliullug em ployment. A foreign syndicate has puiclusod all the Iron oicbeds In thu Bi-ikshlio valleyln west ern Massachusetts , In order to make car- wheel lion. The spring trade is beginning to show signs of vitality iu all Atlantic coast cities. The manufactuiIng towns of New England are showing agood deal of activity. Employers of labor who'have been coining In contact with the moic intelligent members of the Knights of Labor nro less opposed to the principles nnd practices of the eider than befoio. Machinists nrehiding more employment at hiclier pay , and rnllioad shop labor Is call ed lorpaitlcularly In the west , to make ro- jnilrs caused by the wear and tear of the win ter's woik. The Chicago steel-roll mill Is making 10 000 tons of i ails to bj laid side by side with Eng llsli hammered rails as a. test of siijK'iioiity.- The cxDorimciit will last a long timp , but It will ben conclusive one when icsuits are an nounced. Dining the j ) st week between twenty and thlity manufacturing corjioratioiis in New England announced that they would make fortnightly payments nnd Increase the rate of wages from 5 to 10 j > er cent. Two 01 three locoinotivcwoiksnro gcttluir ready to make textile ! mac'.iinciy when loco- moth e building Is dull. 'Ono establishment In 1'ateisou is now erecting frames for 3,000 .spindles for a silk company. The same con cern has just received auA older for twenty engines. ° The ineiease In wages In the cotton Indus try is now pretty general tliioughout New England , averaging' 10 per cent. In the higher grades of woolen goods no change whatever has been made in jirices , but in the lower qualities nn i advance Is made all mound. i Within the past twp weeks announcements have been made of the intended construction of car works , machine shops and large foun dries in live western rtnd'southern states. In most cases these enterprises sue projected by ot eastern mechanical education. In addition to these , several 'Establishments aic to bo built to turn out railway sujiplles , tools nnd engines of small capacity. The success attending the efforts of tlio executive committee of tne Knights of Labor in settling factions labor complications is likely to result in a greater donmnd tor its valuable services. The committee is coinjoscd ot conservative , broadminded - minded men , who have n clear comprehen sion ot what justice demands on both sides. Their imjvutiiil decisions demonstrate their ahility , nnd remove the iinpiession fioni thu minds of tlio employers of labor that the Knights of Labor is simply n gigantic ma chine ol Injustice. Despite the complaints of narrow margins in textile inanulacturlns establishments , n great many orders are being given out for new machinery. Ono Lowell shop lias just iceeived an order for machinery lo inn 47,000 spindle j. A good many companies nro iu- cieasing the capacity of their buildings by wings and additions of ouu or two stories. Additions nro also being made to some of the silk-mills. Wages will be increased In the Lawieuco mills on March 1. The new mill which two or three PhiUuldphians are to build in Augusta , ( ! a. , will bo' Tw feet long by TO teet wide , and will have 10,000 spindles and will employ 200 hands. That Lll > cl Suit. Wonder how Secri'tnry Hoffman enjoys his libel suit by tills time ? On the Hip. Grand Mind Iiulti > cntlcnt. Tlie slaughter-house democrats appear to have the packing-house democrats on the hip. Our sympathy Is with the under dog. Defying the Lightning. Clilcauo A'cii'c. Lightning performs some strange feats nnd searches out some mlil things to strike , nut vvo think AJax or anybody olsu would bo per fectly safe iu defying It to strike nn honest Now Yoik alderman. On their Ear. Graml Island Independent. The packing-house democrats of Omaha , are on their ear , so to sj > eak , about tlio oxpos- uio of their letters to Washington concerning taleial pationnge , which letters prove dupli city , and double-dealing in a high dcgiec. The Soil HOUHO or Dakota. Ilaiftrr'g Monthlu. 1 passed it far out on the jnaliio The liouso of necessity bean ; No lines of its dlnglness vary , So bombio , bo dark , so forlorn. It is bound by measureless acres ; Not n I once or a tree is in sight : lint , though plain as thpdrcss of the Quakers It stands In the sun's bioadcst light. Tlio badger near by mates its lunow , The gopher Ids hillock of soil , And plows , with their mile-lengths of furrow Go round it with inlinite toll. A well-curb , n wash-tub , a woman , With noultiy nnd plw , n\o \ outside ; The ulothos-lino is womnnij.sly human In look , and the vista. how wide. You can go to the sunrise or "sundown" In straight lines , tlio Jotter the right , And leagues of long le'l aienni uown licfoio you escape from it ? sluht. The roof Is well thatched xv'jth lough grasses , A Move pipe jieeis out to tlio sky. 'T is a picture whose jila1un ( } ' > si bin passes All objects that challcngc'tho oju. Twisted hay serves Its owner for fuel , Ho twists | t by ease by tlio lear 01 a hay lite , which panics the cuiol , Harsh bitoot the wind at thu door , Soiitttlmes in an ocean of color ( In summer 'tis yellow or gieen ) It htands. In November a duller Uioaci carpet about it la seen , In winter , while blasts from the prairie Uring "blizzards" that cense not to blow , 'Tis as warm as an Isle of Canary , Deep under the tempest nntl snow , License. Cuurlcr-JouriMl , As a measuie of lestralnt and as a means of revenue the arguments In favor of a high hlcensc , say SJOO for saloons , are unanswer able. The evils of the liquor trallio are been and read of all men. The low dives nnd small ram shops are the centre * of priinlnal Infection. From thorn , lired to deeds of vlo- Icuco , go the wife-beaters , drUukcti fathers , assassins and midnight murderers. If they cannot be suppressed , they can bo dlmlnl thed nnd rcgulntcxl. Ahlgti license menus fewer saloons ; fewer opportunities to drink ; fewer temptations to crime , U means , too , graver lo ponsibllltlcs nttaclitng to saloon-keepers , nnd a stricter surveillance by the police. It works In twodirt < cUom for the benefit of the people : It diminishes crimes nnd Incicnscs the revenue. What a Patent | s Worth. Clitcnao iVcu-J. It the salary of the patent commissioner Is Incieased ho should IMS put under bond to Issue patents that are woith something more than the paper on which they nro written and that is just about what n United Stales patent Is woith unlll it has been through the com (3. ( At the Bnmo Old Stntul. If Dr. Sillier and , I. Stei ling Morton have really made up , as the dispatches seem to In dicate , thopaitncrshlp heictoforo existing be tween Damon and Pythias will bo icsumed and business will be conducted nt the .same eld stand. All genuine candidates for feder al positions may bu identified by the letters , "D&P" blown In thu bottle. STATE AM ) Tn Nebraska .Jolting" . Tccumsch is talking up a $15,000 hotel. Columbus will light up with electricity Saturday night. The Bohemian Turners of Wilber pto- pose to build n hall. Norfolk is nursing a notion that the U. & M. will build to that point. It is calculated by a victim that there are 5,000 insurance agents in the state. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tovvlo , of Au burn , celebrated thcirgoldon wedding on the mh. John II. Ttipker of Aurora has been sentenced to jail for fifty days for brutally boating his slop-children. When ho is released from custody ho will bo put under bonds to keep the peace. An Auburn youth filled with fighting whisky attempted to persuade n young lady acquaintance to play the piano for his amusement , and on her refusal lo do the agreeable , started in to smash the parlor furniture and demolish the door. A bullet took him in the shoulder blade and laid him out , as well as sobered him. Weening Water is sweating under her collar band lost PkiUsmoulh should bo attacked with sufliciont enterprise to build a county court house out of its own pockets. "Citi/.ens of Cass county , " shrieks the bald-headed haj le of the for mer place , "this oiler of Plaltbinoutli , of n court house rent free is a bribe to the county commissioners. They have the power to accept or reject this urnxcn cll'ort on the jmrt ot a few , to rob them of a hope of being able at homo day to see the halls of justice placed somewhere within a reasonable distance of the center of the county. " lown. Items. The Louisa county jail has been emp tied by the district court. II. G. Jewett , of Worth county , is 20 years of asc , is 5 feet and 11 inches in height anil weighs U8S pounds. Mrs. A. B. Arnold , of Gladbrook , has sued three saloonkeepers of Hint place for $10,000 each for belling liquor to her husband. There arc twenty-three citizens over 51 years of tigo in Sherman township. Mont gomery county , who have resided there lor twenty-four years. Of this number seven located there in 18:51. : A. J. Woolson , of Twin Lake township. Cnllionn county , lately marketed twelve jiigs which were eight months old , and received $102.0 ! for the same , which , at the low price of ? ! ! . :50 : per hundred wight , ho considers a , very liberal return for his corn and labor. U. G. Ducr , editor of the Democrat at Corydon , and ox-county auditor of Wayne county , was arrested Saturday upon the charge of forgery. He had forged the names of gooil farmers on notes which he negotiated at the banks , for the sum aggregating about § 1,500. The First Daptist church at Donison was destroyed by lire Sunday night. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary , as there lias been some bad blood growing out of the .settlement of the McKin estate , which j avc the church "several thousand dollars which was claimed by the heirs. The church was valued at $7.400 , and there was $3,000 insurance. The pastor , W. W. A very , lost homo valuable pcr&oual property. Dakota. Wakonda , the now town on the Yank- ton-Centervillo line , is : i rustling little place of about 200 inhabitants. It is estimated that it will require 1,000,000 brick to complete the buildings which are already projected at Rapid City. Christ Miller , living four miles south of Phinkington , sowed fei.v acres of wheat Monday ot last week , while a number of farmers wore running pulverizers and drags. A petition hm boon drafted by the secretary - rotary of tlio board of trade at Yankton , asking for the establishment of mail service - vice over the Yankton extension of tlio Northwestern road. The liutVtilo Gap News says the Into fire at the Gap was undoubtedly of incen diary origin , and significantly adds : "Several parties have boon pulled , but up to date the lire fiend has not been located , and if bo is the chances are that the trees will bo so tall that ho cannot climb them and got back the .same day. " Independence Tor Wage-Workers. riiHadclplila Itccuid. It Is easy to fall into tlio way nnd habit of spending whatever is received as the wngos of daily toil. From the laborer , with his few hundred n year , to the high- salaried htipondary of a corporation , with an income reckoned by thousands , the line of wage-earners includes few who consider it worth while or necessary to lay by any portion of the money they receive. Culture nnd education , as a re sult of their general d illusion among the people , have brought to the minds and hearts of all classes tastes whoso gratifi cation will not bu denied , though the last dollar bo taken to meet the cost. The luxuries of modern life are no longer in accessible to the wage-worker ; but their procurement requires invariably Iho sac rifice of whatever portion of Ins income remains after ncce.siarv expoiuos of liv ing have been met. This holds good whatever the form of indulgence may bo whether literature , art , benevolence or epicurism furnish the motive for distrib- uMng the Mirplusagoot personal rovciiuo. Unquestionably the tendency among men of fixed incomes to go to the furthest limits of their resources without consid ering tlio future is an evil , since it fosters and renders habitual a feeling of cure less irresponsibility , under whoso inllii- once Individual energy is benumbed nnd personal enterprise paraly/cd. Tl o social philosopher sees no relief for the laborer so long as the duty of economy is ignored and the art of having remains un- learned. And the lot of the men whoso earnings are largo ditiers only in degree from that of the humbler worker. Gen eral Hancock , with $7,500 a year , was n government dependent during life , and dying ho left nothing to protect his widow from the pant's of poverty. His noble and soldierly soul responded to every appeal for charity , and no wasted his money royally but it was none the less prodigality and imijrovidcnco , from , which those dearest to him may possibly sufi'ur in the end. Laws regulating wages , or organized movements of bodies oftradusincn to so- euro greater .compensation for the wear and tear of daily toll , are unproductive of good results unless those affected by them nlso follow earnestly and steadily the sound economic rule of spending less than is received. The hand-to-mouth ex istence which is the lot of nine wngo- workers out of every ten would bo sweetened nnd transformed by the Prac tice of the art of saving. Independence ought to bo worth something to human drudges whoso years are now spent in partial slavery. The poor , Iho needy , and the thriftless waste nnnunlly ini- luenso Minis. It is perhaps n rclitioment of senllinentnlisin to Insist thai tobacco and drink are useless outlets to this sort of petty extravagance ; but when the vast amount expended by workers for these two tilings alone Is considered it becomes apparent that somewhere ( hero is woeful wasto. The wealth of * ho Van- derbills would not pay the liquor and tobacco bills of the wage-earners 01 this country for four months. In r , society whore such nn overwhelming prepon derance of its members spend ul ! they get the few who have the talent lor no cumulation are allbrded correspondingly greater opportunities for acquisition. Somebody who keeps it oventunlly gets every dollar that is wasted. And the larger the army of spendthrifts the greater will be the gains of tho-io who ny absorption of lloating earning * have become capitalists. It is really worth while for the wage- worker to save , although the process lias become so unpopular nmoii men of fixed incomes that to follow it is ro- carded almost as a mark of eccentricity , Thu path to inlluenco nnd independence lo ( ho toiler begins and Mcadily follows on the line of small economies applied in daily life. Ten years uiro in n Punn- sylvania manufacturing town n machinist went homo oue evening nnd said to his wife : "I nin tired of this work for others and we'll turn over ; v new leaf. I get ? a n day. Now , wo. will put away $10 a week , and live on the rest. If wo can't live on it , we'll starve on it. In two years he had sf 1,000 in bank. With this he began business for himself in n small way , capital was attracted by his energy , and now he is at the bead ot one of tlio largest manufacturing concerns in his section , rich , prosperous and respected. What this man did was nothing of su preme difliculty. A strong , resolute will and a lived purpose wore all that were needed after his determination became lixed. Why should not such an example the attention of other attract wage-work ers , equally able , and of like mental qual ities. It is only the beginning that costs ; after that Iho task of self-elevation be comes easier with each ilav. Army KcwYoit ; Times. lioth the senate and tlio house committee - too on military affairs have shown in the main thus far much discrimination in their action on tlio subjects which come within their domain perhaps more than that which lias been exhibited by some army officers themselves who apply for legislation. The senate committee , for example , has strongly advocated the Maudcrson bill for giving to the infan try regiments the twelve-company , or three-battalion , formation common to the other two arms and conforming to the practice of the lending military na tions of Europu. It 1ms also recom mended the Logan bill foi increasing the efficiency of the army , after making some careful amendments. It has already procured the passage by the senate of the Sewcll bill inuronsmg the annual militia appropriation to $000,000 , and the bill providing for the West Point gradu ates of 18SO. On the other hand it lias made adverse reports on the bills allow ing any officer under the rank of briga dier-general a year's pay if ho will re sign , and that equally remarkable meas ure to allow any ollicer who served in the rebellion to retire voluntarily on the nay of the grade above the one to which he belongs. Appeals for legislation of this latter sort have been much overdone of late by homo olfii'ors , both of the army and the wavy. Kagernoss for promotion is well in its way , but the multitude of schemes just now in vogue for securing that much desired end by coaxing or pushing others from the active to the retired list dis plays a little too much importunity. There is , in the first place , a variety of bills making retirement compulsory for certain grades nt njjes not so advanced as under the existing laws. There are others retiring at tliuir own application , on half pay , officers wlio'-o service as second nnd first lieutenants aggregates twenty years , and so on. In few of these cases is the public in terest looked to at all. There is now , for example , no possibility of reducing the tinny , but some likelihood of increasing it. Why , then , do wo find bills now , of all times , ofioring ollicers a year's pay as _ a premium for withdrawing whenever it may suit their convenience ? To petition at pno moment for a bill which will re quire thu addition of ccpros of officers to the army , and to petition at the next for colling rid of as many as possible of those who are in tlio service is not sj > eo- ially public spirited. A PLEA FOR HOUSE SERVANTS. Why They Are No Better , uiul How to Improve Thorn. K. S. II. . in Now York Star : It is a rare thing to bo twenty-tour hours in any house , hardly possible oven to make an afternoon visit without hearing some- tldng said on that most prolific ol all sub jects , "the servants.1 If it is not their inolllciuney then it is their ingratitude or exactions , us the case may bo. Innsimich therefore , as this question of domestic service is one powerful enough to agitate in some way the minds of almost every housekeeper , its importance lies beyond all doubt. Every one will concede that much of what ono hears is trim , that for every Indill'orent work high wages are paid ; that benefits conferred but too often soon benefits thrown away. Hut in judging of this matter it must certainly occur to any unbiased observer that thuro urn other points of view than those to which prejudices or long established cus toms and convictions have kept one rooted. Wore domestic servants like public ser vants ; wore the work which was required of them n disfinito work , for whlnh , when It was well done , high rad-s wore paid , for which , when it was ill done , they were dismissed the work anil how it was done being the paramount thing then thu wholu aspect of the question would bo changed. Domestic ; .servants nro not , however , like nubile onus , for they alone nro admitted into the privtioy of the homo , They witness our house hold tragedies , ruu > o us wncn wo are ill , sou us in our joys ; wo demand of thnin a faithfulness , a loyalty lo our interests which love alone can render , nnd wo think wo hnvo donn enough when wo hay " for it. " Hut in "wo pay reality wo can do no .such thing , and it Is for this vnry reason , because the service wo require is ono involving moru than dimple payment can cover , that domestic servants have been made n class by thoimulvus , Could a syslom of living bo so arranged that they lived in their own lioincs , ftimply coming to ren der us u distinct servici- , and going again out of our lives , its thu man does who leaves our milk in the morning , or the boy who bweups the hidownlk for us , then the case mi < fht bo dilVercnt. Society. however , bping organUcd as it is , and faurvitnts who live in our house * being necessary adjuncts to it to provide to thu bust of our ability for thorn certainly be comes an obligation devolving upon every householder , Hy so doing ho would only bo obeying motives which should In tlioinbclvcs bo sufficient to gov ern him , fulfilling an obligation which every individual , as an i ntlividilal , owes to another of .whatever Mution or dugrco. At the same tlmo ho would bo limkln/J / the condition1 ! of his own life easier. Look at Ih6 effect on the character of any man forced by circumstances to bo niotnly n soloiirner or wanderer over thu earth ; who 19 represented by no perma nent abiding-place , nnd whoso tnstus , aU'eetlons and inclinations can novel' hayo more than a fitful expression I And what is it with Iho men or women sent out to buffet the world alone with that nrmy of lifo-long wayfarers who throng the streets of our great cities , homolet-s in the midst of homes ? What Is It that stands any of them In the time of need ? Principles do for us all in our hours of strength , but dnvs came when one is too tired to light , .vfien the heart has grown hungry , the brain weary , when rest seems swcoter than endeavor and falsn prnKo Is more soothing than self-ques tioning. Then It Is , when all other pow ers of resistance fail us , that some old- time influence will help us keep our purpose pure ; come memory of a time when the world and its pilfnils seemed us shut away from us as the winter tempest beating out.sido our walls : of a time In our lives so happy that nothing i.-t worth the cost of carrying back Into It anything in ourselves worse than that which vvo brought away. These memories ami influences nro po tent factors in ono's moral life , yet how many think of giving to the poor or to people in their employ opportunities for tiny individual life ? In the cnso of do mestic servant- ) , though they are warmed nnd fed , what else is done for thorn ? Certainly not in oun hoiisu out of " 00 ' them any provision made for their com fort beyond a place to sleep in nnd a ta ble at which lo cat. Scores of houses go up year after year in our cities , in which thuro nro drawing-rooms and libraries , and often picture galleries , but in how many of them is there anything built for the servants other than a kitohun or u laundry ? Few enough of our town bouses have oven had laundries , as any QUO knows who has had to look over many of them. Cooking , washing , iron ing , therefore , have all logo in tlto one room , which , when the day's work is done , is the only jilaco where any of them can sit. The cook may bo untidy , and keep the kitchen in disorder. Whatthen , is to become of the other servants , homo of whom may chance to bo above the average ? There is no escape from their surroundings. Take ono in whom the sense of order and fitness is strong. Could anything' more trying to the temper bo imagined ? What becomes of good resolves and bettor instincts ? Why not , then , build better houses ? Lot us b'y all means show judgment and intelli- goncp in the mutter ; but why not have the interests of others at heart ? not merely what ministers to our own temporary well-being. Doctors have for a long time been looking after the children , and have at last gotten their littlu stockings pulled up over their knees , and high-neck drcsjcs drawn across bare shoulders ; play-rooms and nun-crlcs nro no longer ill ventilated and dark ; but who is it that looks after the servants ? Some of us do in a fitful way , but one case of Ingratitude discourages us. Why should wo let it ? For the sake of our natures , if for no other reason , why not learn a lesson from nature ; from the sun that keens on shining down in our gardens , though we shut him out from our drawing-room carpets not ton feet away ? The "Itarlinra Prlotolno" Incident. In describing the march through Fred erick , on the way to Antietani , Lieut. Owen , in Camp and 15attlo , says that the confederates wcro totally unaware of the occurcnco embodied in Whitticr's of "llarbariv Frietchio " and poem , as- eribus it to poetic license. Of course , the Quaker poet accepted the story in good faith , nnd struck his harp accordingly. The following incident , however , didoe- our at Frederick : 'The army passed through in good order , and all in the merriest and jollicst mood possible , in dulging occasionally in good-natured elnitr , ns was their wont. Any peculiarity of costume or surroundings of any per son was .sure to bring out some remark that would set whole regiments in n roar. On a small gallery stood a buxom young lady , with laughing black eyes , watching the scene betoro her. On nor breast she Inn } pinned a small Hag , the 'Stars and Stripes , ' This was observed , and some soldier sang out : 'Look hy'nr Miss , bnt- tur take that fiag down ; wo'ro uwftil fond of charging breastworks1 ! This was cur ried down the line amid shouts of laugh ter. The little lady laughed herself , but stood by her colors. " Proving His Solvency. Hotel Cashier Sorry , sir , but wo do not cash 11113 * checks. " 15ut I am from California and have § 100,000 in bank at San Francisco. " "Very likely , but how are wo to know that ? " "Well , sir , hero is a copy of nn affida vit which Miss Swillurs has filed against mo in a suit for breach of promise , " "I beg a thousand pardons. Happy to accommodate you. If you run short again during your stay just hand your check in at any timo. " Hurt In the Sliopw. A man named Flannory , employed in the new car shops of the Union Pacific , fell from n platform twenty feet high yesterday morning and sustained serious but not dangerous injuries. Absolutely Pure. This powilor mivf'r ' viinos , A iniirveUif puri ty , fctrm > itli nnd ulioli'sumfiiPS'v ' Moio coon- inimical linn tlin onllmiry Kindnnd nuiiiot ! > < > Bold In uniiipi'tltiou "Illi tlioiimltltiHlo of low U' tfclmrt woiiflit , n'liin ' 01 | ilios.ilmto | imirilurH. olil only In unns. Hoi'Al. 1UKINU i'ou'iiiiu Co. , 10J Wull St. , New VorK WEST DAYHNTOIIT Furniture Co , MumiCiU'turors of , Office and Saloon Fixtures 31 imm ) , Uar Screens nnd Hotel I'tirni- tlll'O. 21 S. llth Street , Omaha , .Nebraska Write for d.i 'Ki" nnd 1'urilcuJui * .