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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1886)
i" 1 ( THE OMAHA DAILY BEE , TUESDAY , MARCH 10 , 1886. THE DAILY BEE. 'OMAHA OFFirE.No.UH ANnoiflFAnKAM ST KEW YOIIK OrnCE.ltoox 65 , TRIBUNE Huit.utsa WASHINOTOX Ol nee , No. i3 ! FOUIITEKNTII ST. Pnt > 1l hr < lcvprj < mornliirCTC"ptSumlny. The only Monday morning paper published In tlio data. TEtuiq nr MAILS Ono Yfflr tiaoo.Tlireo . Months J2.M fclxMonths. t-.mInoMonth l.OJ THE WKKKLV IlEF , Ptit > ll lie < l Kvrry Wcdnusdny. Tr.n > t < ! , POSTPAID ) Ono Vtnr , with prrmlum $2.00 One Vpnr , without prrnilutn ! . ' - > PUMnntlit , without premium 75 Ono Mouth , on trlnl. 10 All cornmtinlcntloin rclntlnir to ncns nntl rxlU torlfll mnttr-rs should bo luldrcsscO to the 1U > 1- von or TUB itr.r. . nrm.Nrs < t r.Trrrr.ns : All In ) ilnrM loiters mid rctnltuinoos should bo imdrMuil to 'Jim HBP. iniiiMsni.fa COMPANY , OMAHA. DrnltF , rhpcUs nnd poMofllco onlcrs to bo mndo } > nj nblo to the order of the company. IRE Bit PDBLISBUCliPllllT , PROPRIETORS. 15. KOSRWATKIl , KntTon. Tin : Rev. Mr. Butler has boon appointed clinplnin of the somite. The name Is ap propriate. Ho lm < * Ji soft job. Tnr. Lnticr case develops the peculiar trait In Inmiiui nnluro that people can forgot a good dual in a short space of time. MiN.vnArot.ia Is now talking ttbont a twelve-story hotel , By the way what ha ? become of OmitlmV * six-story million dollar lar hotel project ? THE question now arises whether all the property purchased in Ibis cit.y by the railroads for speculative purposes is to bo exempted from local taxation. Sr.Gur.TAHV LAMAU has again over ruled Commissioner Sparks. Settlers on the frontier are beginning to look upon Mr. Lamar as an overruling providence. IT was thought the new election and registration law in Chicago would pre vent frauds , but wo see that crooked registration work has already been perpe trated. A luniiEU of Farniington , Illinois , shaved a customer with one band and stole $80 from liis pocket with the other. It is to be hoped that such ambidexterity not become a common practice. PitiSOX life in Michigan lyis its pleasant features as well as its dark side. A few days ago an opera company gave a per formance of the "Mikado" in the prison chapel at Jackson. The song "Taken from a County Jail , " was rapturously ap plauded by the live hundred convicts. A bankrupt road , n scheming capital ist , a railroad consolidation , heavily watered stock , reduced wages of em ployes and a general strike. This is the liistory In a nut shell of dozens ol labor troubles in the United States within the past ton years. ST. Louis people complain that their gas at § 1.50 per 1,000 feet ia proving more expensive than it used to bo at $2.50. It is easier to rcgubito the price of the arti- ole than the rate of the meter. The aver- flgo gns muter la a constant witness to the possibility of perpetual motion. REAL estate continues to jump upward , but the assessors will discover in u few weeks that there is really no foundation for the present boom. Lots worth $2,500 will as usual bo assessed at $ 120 or less , especially in cases whore they belong to rich capitalists who take a band in the election of the assessors. A VEUV important mooting of the board of trade is called for Tuesday evening , to consider the question of encouraging manufactures. Several propositions of great interest to Omaha are to bo consid ered. A full attendance of members is earnestly requested. The board of trade needs u thorough shaking up. AUJIY telescopes are all now pointing towards Washington. Gon. Pope's suc cessor is the new double star for which the military astronomers are searching. Jf the telegraph is to bo believed Gens. Howard , Newton , Miles , Gibbon and Crook will all rise above the horizon of the executive department ready to bo platted on the next chart of the Army REGISTHATION of voters will begin next week. The registrars under the law are required to give notice through the official paper one week before as to time and place whore they will sit. With the constant changes in our voting popu lation and the frequent changes In voters from , ward to ward it becomes necessary that every voter should oorbonally see to it that his name is on the lists. , ACALIFOIWIA mining company is after the scalp of Commissioner Sparks. Ho declines to Issue it patents for its claims , and the French capitalists baok of the company decline to furnish more funds until title to the land is perfected. Meantime Sparks refuses to advance the case for hearing , ajul the mill is closed down. Mr. Lamar should bo called upon to reverse Sparks' rulings , as ho has already done several times In the public interest. WnSTiniN Union didn't pass Its last quarterly dividend , but it did the next worse thing by adding $3,000,000 , of water to the stock of * the company. To pay a dividend in scrip from the surplus , with thq proviso that the ecrip may bo con- ycrtod into slock , indicates u persistence in the pathway of ovor-capltall/.alion that ia inexplicable , unless the directors of the Western Union are themselves in favor Of Mi1. Cyrus W. Fluid's scheme to soil the property and franchises Of the com pany to the government at an enormous iutlatcd valuation. Tnr.nn are wars by tlio railroads nffntust each otluir anil wars between the rallroiulb itiul their oiuployos. Thuro are rumors of coming wars anil coining strikes. Jlnt lliuiuost absurd rumor of J thoni ull was the report that a Kfueral Btriko was to bt-g'n ' toiluy all over tlso union by all tuo mccliauics and laborers t tjnroliud in labor unions , Such a strike wu dnto say lias nc\er been thought of axcoijt by hairbrained visionaries who tee an armed soldier behind every ba&h. The mechanics and laborers of tins country are too intoll'gont ' to engage in frtrifa. merely to show their power. Ho- fore any very general strike occurs , tunplc time will bo taken for presenting rievuKes if uuy exist , and for mailing lomonds for concessions if any are Taxing tlieLnr > ( l Grnnt.q , Among the various bills introduced in congress for the taxation of the untaxed land grants of the rnllroads , the ono re ported by. Senator Van Wyck from the committee on public lands is the shortest nnd most to the point. The favorable re port accompanying It is equally brief It states that the grave Injustice of exempt ing the lands of largo corporations from taxation has long been felt ai a great wrong by the communities nfl'cclcd and that the clause of the stnttilo requiring pro-payment of the costs of surveying , selecting and convoying , before the issue of patents , has been of great bene fit to the corporations in shielding them from taxation. The refusal of the railroads to pa ) ' taxes on their unpal- ontcd lands was early followed by an ap peal to the supreme court which sustain ed them on the grounds that the govern ment had a Hen on the laud for costs of survey , anil that the snlo of the lands for non-payment of taxes would deprive the United States of Us Inchoate right to land Involved In case the companies should never pay costs and obtain title to the samo. With the object of removing all the objections made in the supreme court decision exempting the lands from stale and local taxation the sen- nto committee on public lands has reported the following bill which , if passed , will subject all rail road lands to taxation the same as the lands of individuals under the laws of the states and territories where they are located : lo It enacted by the Senate and House of Hi'in escntsitlvps of the United States ot Ameilca In Congress assembled , That no lands Krantrd to any lallroad coinoiatlon by any act ot cougicss shall bo exempt fiom local taxation by states , tciiitorlcs , nnd other municipal coiporations on account of any Hun of the United States upon the same for the costs of smvcylng the same , or because no patent lias been Issued thcicfor : Pro vided , That any such land sold for taxes shall be tnkeu by the purchaser subject to the Hen for costs of surveying , selecting , nnd conveying , to be paid In such mannci ns the hacicttuy of the lutcilor may by rule piovido : Piovlded fmtlicr , That this act shall apply only to lauds situated opposite to and co terminous with completed portions of said roads niul In orpanuctl counties. Sec. 2. That If any railroad corporation re quired by law to pay the costs of surveying , selecting or coin eying any lands granted to such company by acts of congress , shall lor thirty days neglect or icfiibG to ] my any such costs after demand for payment theioof by the secretary of the Interior , ho shall notily the attorney general , who shall at once com mence proceedings to collect the same. St > c. 3. That this act shall not affect the right of the aovcrnment to declare or enforce a forfeiture of any lands so grunted. It is better late than never. The whole record of the land grants from their lirst concession by congress to the present time is ono of bribery , fraud and high way robbery of the public for the bcuclit of the corrupt crew of jobbers who have been engaged in wrecking the land grant roads. The Union Pacific grant was made for a spceilic time. At the end of five years from the completion of the road all undisposcd-of lands were to revert to the government. The object of this clause in the grant was. to prevent the railroads from holding the lands for speculative purposes and to stimulate a Vapid sale of the vast do main lying parallel to the roads. Legal chicanery and ofHcial corruption com bined clinched the corporation clutch on the land grant ton years after the Union Pacilic was completed , and a decision of the supreme court fastened their unlaw ful grip on the unsold domain by de ciding that because the road had mort gaged its lands the grant was "disposed of under the meaning of the charter. For more than twenty "years the Union Pacific has retained the lands in Nebras ka and olsowhrro without paying a dollar lar of taxes on this class of property and its course has boon sustained by the supreme court on the grounds staled in the report of the senate committee ns cited. The people of the west have been afforded the instructive spectacle of "a gigantic fraud upon tax payers of mod erate means sustained by the decisions of the highest legal tribunal in the coun try , ono of which declared that the rail road owned its lands because it bad mortgaged them and the other of which assorted that its ownership was sullleiontly perfected to enable it to pay local taxation. It is barely possible that the present congress may rise supo. rior to tlio fnll'trsy ioliy ! uL the capital and pass ono of the several bills intro duced to right this great wrong under which the producers of the west have smarted for many years. Fraudulent Assessments. The controvcry now raging between Chicago nnd St. Louis over the relative Importance of those two cities as shown by their assessment rolls is amazing. No basis could bo less substantial for accu rately determining the relative wealth of any two cities. Chicago complains , and without question complains justly , that her assessors are frauds of the first water ; that in many instances the returns are only one-tenth or one-twentieth of the actual value of iho properly ; that n small proportion of the pcn > onal property has been listed , and that it is the practice of each assessor to recommend himself to bis immediate constituents by assuring them the lowest possible proportion of the various taxes. All of which is as applicable to Omaha as it is to Chicago. No oily has suffered more from unequal assessments than Omaha. The theory of our assessment has been upon n third of tlio actual values of real property , but the practice has been to a sc. 3 upon a fourth to a twentieth of values , according to the relation which tlui property owner has hold to the assessor ser , As a gi'iirnil rule the little homos of poor men nnd tlioso of moderate means have been assessed fully up to the stand ard , while the heavy property owners have escaped with a tithe of the amount at which their lots should justly have been listed With real estate which in the open market to-day would bring $ .100,000,000 , Omaha's last assessment rolls footed up less than tx tenth of that amount for mil tutato and personal prop erty combined. A fair assessment ol real estate iu this city cm n uniform basis of one-third of the actual value would give us at leust $20,000,000 , upon which to base the next tax luvy , Fraudulent assessments keep tlio indi vidual , , who do not need such assistance at the. n.\penso of the community at largo. They injure the financial standing of t.ho community in the great money centers. Capitalists look twiea before investing their money in a city with 70.0CO claimed population aud lesn than $10,000,000 as sessed valuation. They demand explana tions of a tax levy which on its face ap pears outrageously largo while in fact it Is based on an assessment ridiculously low. The growth of the city , which Is respon sible for the rapid advance in property , demands increased expenditures , and the treasury Is cramped for funds because low and unequal assessments prevent such n levy ns will meet the proper de mands for running the city government , and will leave a general fund adequate for the pressing necessities of municipal growth. Largo public improvements , employing labor nnd bcnefittlng tlio whole community , are hampered by the legislative limit which is based on the assessed valuation. The city at largo Is made to pay dearly to benefit the pockets of wealthy property owners and to ad vance the political interests of the ward assessors. And all this is supported nnd endorsed by the tax shirkers , on the ground that a lawful and equal assessment of property in Omaha would increase the proportion of tnxc which the city would turn in to the state treasury while other counties would escape on a valuation as low as thai under which wo are now suf fering. The folly of such an argument can readily bo scon by comparing the benefits which Omaha would derive with the benefits to the state treasury from the incroi : = od taxation and by considering that the state board of equalization has it in its power to adjust any diflerencc.s between tlio basis used for assessment purposes in the various counties. CoN'ottuss can scarcely afford to disre gard the strong pressure being brought upon it by the dairy interests of the country for a stringent law to rcgulato tlio manufacture and sale of bogus but ter. The bill 'introduced by Senator Miller , of Now York , if passed , would go far towards solving the problem in the interest of both producers and consumers of the pure article. It provides that all manufacturers of and dealers in oleomar garine , tmltcrine , lardlno and suina must display conspicuously in their places of business placards announcing that they make or soil the article. It also im poses a-special lax of $500 on manufac turers , $250 on wholesale dealers , and $100 on retail dealers in such articles , compels them to take out annual licenses to carry on such business under penalty of line nnd imprisonment , and requires the kco ping of accurate accounts of all imitation butter manufactured and sold , such account to bo open to tiio inspection of the treasury officials. Tun anti-crank resolution of Congress man Weaver , of Nebraska , has served to lift the gentleman into a degree of notoriety riety that bo might never otherwise have attained. It was indeed a happy thought for Weaver. His name is now in the hands of the fraternity of paragraphors , nnd there is not n paper in the land that has no t something to say about hi and his resolution. The St. Louis Globc- Dcmocral'snys : "Congressman Weaver bad good reason to introduce bis resolu tion declaring that 'whereas ' , it should not bo in the power of a single idiot to prevent the consideration of any mca- snro'therefore , the house rules ought to be so amended as to require at least , two members to make objection in such case ; and Congressman Bill Springer had equally good reason , no doubt , to jump to his foot and resent the proposition. It is ono of Springer's peculiarities that ho never fails to answer when his name is called. " LAST Saturday's statement of the Now York associated banks shows an increase of loans for the week amounting to § 1,348,000 and n loss of $2,400,000 iu specie. Those changes , together with an increase of $2,075,000 in deposits , caused a decrease of $2,459,000 in ' the surplus cash reserve of the banks , which is now only § 21,400,000 above the legal limit of the national banks. The position of the Now York financial institutions of all kinds is no doubt strong ns a whole , stronger than was usually the case 'loforo the small panic of May , 1881 , but there is no longer the great accumulation of idle money which was so marked during nearly the whole of lust year. ANuwYoiiic publisher has issued in pamphlet form the " 'Ostler JOG" poem and has the sublime cheek to ask twenty- five cents for it. Ho is a little late , as iirmri'v liVHiiy nTT'T7Tr7 evei.y uauj J"sl 111 , , , f , , n . . , , n , . in , thn . . , country as well ns every "patent-inside" weekly has published it , and If there is a man , woman , or child who hns not already become tired of seeing and hear ing ' "Ostler Joe , " ho ( she , or It ought to bo exhibited in a dime museum. THE Grant family , while they have had their misfortunes , have boon pretty lucky after all. Mrs. Grant receives a hand- bomo pension , and lias realized $250,000 from Gen. Grant's memoirs , while Buck Grant will come into a fortune of about $1,000,000 through tlio death of his father- in-law , ex-Senator Chaffeo , With this much money in the family it is not likely that Fred Grant or any other member will sutler much , AummvTioN as u means of settling la bor differences is making rapid headway. Several fatato legislatures are considering arbitration bills , among the latest to join In the movement being the legislature of Virginia. While- these proposed bills may not accomplish nil that is intended or wished for , yet they will elfect some good. They are at least a stop In the right direction , IT has been generally supposed that the United States has more olllce-hohlers in proportion to its population than any ether country , This , however , Is an er roneous impression. Little Greece has a native population of only 1,250,000 , , with 10.000 civil ouloinli in tlio public service. Tlio annual revenue amounts to $5,000- 000 , and one-half of itgocs to the support of thu olllcc-liolders , THU rumor that President Cleveland contemplates matrimony has been re vived. This has probably been done to show that ho has not been entirely over come by innocuous dcsuotudo. Tin ; passenger rate to San Francisco is not more than ten dollars , Nobody but n Nebraska legislator would have the cheek to ask for a pass. W nx it is taken intcTconsIderntion that 7,000 bills have b eu introduced in the present congress and that three have become laws , vre can feel assured that the country is safe. What would have become of the country if 6,9&7 of the bills had become laws ? NEVADA has no fcnr or a , Mormon In. vasion. Its soil won'i sjtliport a jackrabbit - rabbit , much less a Mormon. POIiITIOAIi 1'qI.VTS. There are Indication ? that tlio Connecticut democrats will nominate OoiKressman Sey mour for governor. lllrnm Atkins , cJHor ot'tf.o ' . Montpcllcr Patriot , Is immcd ns the rivdl < Senator Ed munds In Vermont , The Philadelphia Times sayl Congressman IMnqhnni , O'Neill nnd Kclby , ot Penn sylvania , will be renomUntcd without trouble. ( lalusha A. Grow hopes to sitecccd Mitchell ns senator Irom Pennsylvania. lie Is said to regai d the present generation of statesmen a poor lot. It Is repotted that the Tennessee republi cans \\lll nominate for governor ( Jon. George Money of Nashville , an cx-confederato brig adier. Money makes tlio mare go. Clmtinccy Black , son of tlio late Judge Black , Is In the race for tlio democratic nomination for goveinor of Pennsylvania , nml ( Jon. Beaver will probably bo the repub lican nominee. Chicago News : Wo believe If Senator Kd- nuinds stood on a barren island 10,000 leagues from any other human being be could put his hand on a candidate for the presidency of the United Suites. Simon Cameron , ace < l sr , has lived to sco an Increase of about 50,000,03d in the popula tion of this country , and ho stilt bates every man of them who does not pull with the Cnmcion clan. Only a shoit limo ago he gave his young grandson a lift of Pennsyl vania politicians who woiked against Don's election as senator , and told tlic youngster to lemembcr them when ho should got into pol- ltlcs $ _ Tlio Klse ol"\VnKCS. Bcufoii Ilcconl. Wages should not bo the hist thing to liso , if they are the liist to fall. Capital niul bailor. VciMotiics Leader , The ambitions of corporations and capital must bo bounded , ami the demands of labor must bo considerate or both will suiter : A Padlock \Vnntcil. Chicago News. Tlio Utah legislature Is detained at Salt Lake City by a deadlock. It would hemoio giatlfylng to see it detained by a padlock. It'as Overlooked. Trc7sitni7tm ? IMclict , The Washington correspondents wcio cu riously negligent last week. The purchase of nlnow iloor-mat for Secretary Whitney's house was entirely overlooked. Valuable Information. Clttcnao Kcicn. The newspapers whlcharo publishing portraits traits of the candidates fucthe several oflices In Chicago aio furnishing to the detective agencies of this county aomo valuable information mation for future use. f- The Use of Lient. , St. Louts GlobctPcmncrat. Lent is now upon us , , uaml the democrats may accordingly comfait themselves with the reflection that tlio fasting to which they are subjected by .Mr. Cleveland's elvll service reioim theory places them for once in har mony with a inevailing rclgl6us ! sentiment. Wliat She Should Have Bald. 1'Utsliurg Chronicle. "March did come in HkjTa lion , didn't It ? " exclaimed Amy , as she me-t , the high school girl on the street yesterday. "That expres sion bus fallen Into Innocuous desuetude , dear , " replied MiUhed ; "you should have said that March made its entree with charac teristics ot a decided leonine nntiuc. " The New Orleans Execution. Kattnaa City Times. It was a bad business from beginning to end , and heaven and earth were moveil to defraud justice. Hut the governor stood firm nnd said : "Let the law bo cairied out under nllclicnmstances. " Tlioso were memorable words. They ought to bo stereotyped and brought north. Good Advice. L'sldlfnc , Dak. , Veil. If the verdict of the community In which you now live seems to bo that you linvo not enough ability to throw stones at the chick ens , don't come out here where , owing to ex cessive anil exorbitant freight charges , cart- ildges with which to practice on you cost two cents apiece. Well Explained. I'litladcliilita 1'iesf. " 1 think yon might go to church to-day. "V.OU used to co every Sunday before wo mar- lied. " "I know that , my dear , but things have changed , the custom has changed. It 1ms been attacked , 1 might say , by Innocuous de suetude. " _ _ a. TrC Cl ! lit" nt'tUuA.iuericau Stage. C/I ( ( IOQ Curmit , Zola announces that ho 1ms authorized a a Ameilcnn theatrical agent to produce In till country a dramatization of his novel , "Ger minal , " the performance of which was for bidden In France. Zola seems to entertain n veiy cm Ions Idea ot the present condition of the American stage. Cannot iSscnpp Kenponslbillty , St. Louis ItcjmlUcan. The Missouri Pacilic company cannot es cape responsibility In the promise * by malt ing It appear that the existing disturbed con dition of the commercial and indiistilal Inter ests of the country Is a matter which coin- meicoand the law of the land must adjust Independent of the railway company. The public will not allow Mr. Gould to unload this dilllculty upon the commciclnl world as he would unload watered sccuiltlus upon the stock market , It Is the duty of the Missouil Pacific company to fiirnUlLmon nnd am Its trains. Should any forcibl * nisistaneo or In- toifeinnceboattempted , anutyl nt once de volves on the people , through their ollicinl loprcsentativcs. lint until there bo some such intci ferenco the company cannot divide the lesponsiblllty , J l A Hint to the I'.rcsldcnt. CMuiyo 'Vrilmne. Now that Lent has com&jhudlho piesldent has n rest from the hoclafj disllpatlous , the terrapin , and the tan-HveJlCft' tootman , ho will have an ounoitunlty to istudy up the duties of his position trom"liepolnt ( ; ol view ns established by the most eminent men In both pai ties and ns perfornifld , | by his pieile- cossois dining n peilod ot If a If n century , Ir ho Is capable of taking n view * of this subject from an impersonal direction and can divest himself of the olleiislvo csotifiin that leads him to believe ho Is the state , nnd that every thing clsi § as fallen into "innocuous desue tude , " It may bo possible for him to mtllzo what the leading men of his own party have always nfllrmed namely : -\s Senator Ud- inunds expi esses It that "every paper ad dressed to the olllccr exoiciblng thoofllclnl function of suspension upon that topic must bo an ofllclnl paper , no matter how vile or false It may bo , " and that ho U usurping pie- relatives and violating law when ho declines to let the senate have papers from the public liJii because they may disclose the giounds upon which ho acted , Thu Great New York Trltmne. Prof. Wiggins , wholesale and retail in weather prophecies , alter a somewhat longed retirement from bualuuad , at the old stand. Ho announces that this Is likely to be n solemn month for the maritime provinces , seeing that Saturn Is golnff to mlso the tldo abnormally high at Quebec , Halifax and SL John. And Wiggins wnrns those who go down to the Atlantic thnt they stand a good chance of bring caught 'In a Icr- rlblc storm bcfoio the month Is over , U Is evident that Wiggins Is himself again , Tlio Kind or Hoys XV o Wnnt. . Hoys of spirit , tioysof will. Hey * of mu clo , brain nnd power , Fit tocopo with anything These nro wniitod every hour. Not the weak nnd whining drones That nil trouble magnify ; Not thn watchword ol ! "I e\n't , " 13ut the nobler one , "I'll try. " Do whalo'cr you have to do With a line nnd earnest /calj Bend your sinews to the task ; Put your shoulder to the wheel. In the counting house or store , Wheiesoovcr you may be , 1' 10111 your Intiuo efforts , boys , Comes a nation's destiny. THE MVI3 niplJF QUKSTION. Discriminations Against tlio Poor Farmer. For Transcendental llo - glslinoss KO to n Hnllrond Cora potation ! The Ijlncoln Jour nal to the Hosctic. To the Editor : A neighbor of mine recently - cently had occasion to ship ono car-load of cattle to Chicago on the 1J. < fc M. rail road. llo wont to the local agent and obtained a form of tlio contract he would have to sign with the company , llo found by this form that ho would not bo furnished transportation for nn atten dant for the cattle unless he shipped two or more cars. As ho was offered trans portation for the round trip with the two cars , ho naturally thought ho could get half as much with one car that is , trans portation ono way. On inquiry ho found ho was mistaken , aud that ho would get no trnnsp9rtntion with ono car. Well , ho began figuring on tin's basis , and nat urally imagined thnt ns the attendant. would hnvo to ride in a caboose on a cat tle train , ho would got a ticket at second or third class rates. On inquiry ho was informed that ho would have to pay lirst class. Examining his form of contract he found that if he desired to ship ono car of mules or horses ho would bo furnfchcd a round trip pass. Talking with the station agmit about this , ho was informed that the shipment of n car of horses or mules was quite rare , as compared with cattle ; so the company couhl allbrd to give tlio pass in such cases. Now , Mr. Editor , lot us look at this. First , an attendant with a car of cattle shipped to so remote a point ns Chicago is an absolute necessity. The contract , if valid , relieves the company ol all res ponsibility for loss by accident , detention of trains , etc. The train men cannot and do not give stock the attention it re quires. In lact , no one ships cattle with out sending a man in charge. Second. My neighbor did not have the second car load ready to ship , nor the money to buy it ; consequently ho was compelled to ship the single ear. The charge of lirst class fare for his man to Chicago and return amounted to n dis crimination against him of over ? 30 per car. Ho was actually compelled to pay over thirty dollars more per car than the large shipper. Go through i their whole system of clas sification aud tariffs and the sanio in justice prevails. It is unadultoratcd anil unalloyed hoggishncss It has no justi fication in any view that can be taken of it , and is in violation of every fair busi ness principle. Hut you can ( hid iu the Lincoln Journnla , sheet said to bo mainly owned by the 15. & M. and the mouth piece of the fraudulent railroad connuis- hion , arguments every day sustaining and defending thin system. How long will the people of this state endure this thing ? and how long will it submit to see this railroad power war upon men like Van \Vyck , WHO are in favor of controlling this system ? Yours truly , J. liumtows. Swift , tlio Dressed Boer Man. Chicago Mail : Swift , the dressed beef man , who ships on an average 3,000 dressed beeves a dayhits made his money within the last four years , the great bulk of it within the last three. , Because the great trunk railroads , with 'their billion and odd of aggregate capital , have pounced on him and his business , Swift's name is now in the minds of everybody. Hois half us widely known as 1' . 1) . Armour. Swift Is a Yankee and looks it. His frame is big and his carriage shamb ling. His eyes are bright and clear , but his thin and struggling beard make him jook an easy man to confidence. He is in appearance just the kind of a man whom sharp confidence fellows lie in wait. I am told that he seldom puts up at the Fifth avenue hotel , that some dapper fellow docs not rush up anil begin by saying ; "Why , hello Smith. Bless my soul , how are ail the folks at homo1 They suffer a disillusion when Swift turns his sharp eyes on them. His whiskers look guileless , but his oycs have a world ly loolv in them. " 'Why , what's Swift got - - .mrx'haid millionaire a competitor Ull > .i. . . - - -.J "MMtlitnry lir "thing but of his ( town at thu yiuua. f flomo wheels and traps1 ' "Swift , " was the reply to the self-confident millionaire , "Swift haft got something you haven't. He's got something up hero , " touching the forehead. * * Swift is not so very rich. Ho cannot bo compared witli Armour , and is no where near as rich ns Fairbaiik or Allnr- ton or Ncls Morris or Ike Waixol. Ho has probably invested in his business $3,000,000. His equipment is BO vast and his extension so rapid that his working capital is said to bo comparatively small tor so vast an establishment , llo is a man of nma/.ing faculty for business. Ho is a Yankee and full-blooded. Ho was a shipper of caltlo in a small way and a member of the "cvcners" pool. He was a shipper on a very small scale , and was assigned the Grand Trunk road because that was a very poor , rounda bout road which had no facilities for car rying cattle. Ho began shipping dressed bi'of in a very small way. ft is said that he had the backing of the Grand Trunk. At any rate ho made remarkable ad- vannis. Ho now brings and kills one- third of all the cattle that are received at Chicago nearly a million head a year. Gllliert'H Wit. American Register : Gilbert , the author of the libretto of the Mikado , met Burnand , the editor of Punch , at n soiree. They fell into conversation on the subject of the journal in question. "I .suppose you have lots of funny things sent to you by tlio outside public ? " in quired Gilbert , with innocence of man ner. Burnand , oil' his guard , replied. "Yes , great quantities. " Gilbert pulled his moustache , and with a twinkle of liin cynical eye said. "Thou why the deuce don't you put some of them Fui" Too Much CourtiiiK I" tlio Choir , Philadelphia Call : "Mamma , " bald a Philadelphia girl , "I'm ' not going losing in our choir any more.1 "Havo you had any trouble with any of the girls ? " "No , ma , but the other three girls have beaux that sing in the choir , and when , they are courting during the sermon jt maues mo feel lonesome. I'll resign if they don't allow Charlie to sit with mtr. " It has boon the cust m of the Gorman impress for the past nmnyears to present golden crosses , each with an autograph diploma , to- ChoSe lomalo derranls who could show that they had reinuiuud fotty yearsuninterruptedly iu the same family. COUNT BISMARCK'S ' ROMANCE , How the Eldest Son of the Great German Chancellor Secured a Wlfo , Ho BInrrles tlio Prlnceis With Whom Ho Ulopcd Kight Years ARO. All is well thnt ends well. This nt lonst is the verdict of Berlin high society touching n somewhat sensational ro- inniieo Hint terminated a few day ? ago by a , marriage , performed quietly , Indeed al most secretly , in a ohnltoau hidden In Lower Silesia , says n Berlin letter to the Paris Figaro. The exceptional indulgence of which the society magnates of Berlin have given such a striking example iu this cnso Is explained by tlio position of the two piin- cipal characters In this romance , ( ho hero being no less a person than Count Her bert do Bismarck , the oldest son of the chancellor , nnd the now collaborator of the emperor , who passes an hour with him every day. The heroine is a princess more famous for her beauty beauty than for her great name , aud whoso portratit by Riuhtcr , the nephew of Meyerbeer , and the Cnrolus Duran of Germany , attracted so much attention at ( he Uerlin Salon of 1878. She Is a bru nette , with a dark complexion , nn opu lent bust , nnd thoughtful and dreamy eyes ; nnd her portrait , representing he'r standing beside a magnificent Newfound land dog , evokes one of these fascinating visions such as are rarely to bo met with in the mountains of Silesia , where the Princess U. IJ. belongs. These initials were the only indication given in tlio cat alogue of thn Salon ; but it was soon well known that the portrait was that of the Princess Cnrolath Bent hen , who , before her marringo , was tlio Princess Elizabeth do llaUfeliU-Trnchenberg. During the fall term of the Salon lUohtor's canvas had no more fervent admirer than thu young attache of the embassy who to-day is undnr secretary of state for foreign alfaird , and who is destined lo bo tlio fu ture secretary of state ot the Gorman empire. During the winter of 1878 the young count became the di-vuted cavalier and the preferred dancer of the princess , who had loft her residence iu Silesia to be with her husband in Berlin , whose presence there was rendered ncoes-'ary ' by his du ties as n member of the roiclistag , which he discharged with a zeal that \ \ as enough to make him forgot the fact that his prin cess was a beauty that stood sadly in uei-d of vigilant protection while ho was devot ing himself exclusively lo the advocacy of free trade and the study of social ques tions. But in tlio month of March , 1831 , nil Berlin , that had so often seen the prin cess waltzing with the son of the chan cellor , learned that she had suddenly loft for Florence to follow her dancer , who was then attached to the embassy at the quirinnl. Terrible was the anger of the chancellor and great was the scandal of the most virtuous court in Europe. Tlio outraged husband was the only one who remained cool. Ho sent word to the fug itive that ho would facilitate hordivoico without taking from her the chance of re habilitation by a marriage with her se ducer , for the German law forbids the union of a divorced woman with thu man who wns the cause of the divorce. Prinro Carolalh proved himself free from all animosity. A marritigo of the two lovers was believed toboapproaching.bntit was soon learned that the young attache had returned to Berlinleaving his beautiful victim behind him in Florence , where flho was alone nnd sick in n. hired house. The conduct of the count was revolting to scntitive souls , and tlio scandal provoked by the llighL of the Princess was changed Into sympathy for hor. People forgot that bho had arrived nt an age when such escapades are rare ly pardonable , and that she had Mt be hind her a daughter , a big girl of 18. But it was the chancellor who had in tor- posed his authority and threatened to discard his son. To all the entreaties of the latter to legalize his liaiaon the chancellor invariably replied. "No , I will never consent to your marriage to the wife of a friend ; " nnd ho sent him successively to St. Petersburg , the Hague , and London. But the passion of the count for the Princess , although the latter wns somowlmt older than himself she is now forty did not diminish , and ut last ho succeeded in bending the will of the chancellor , who does not want to see his title of Prince fall to the fcmaln line. The marriage , therefore , took place , four or five days ago nt tlio Castle of Trachenborg , the residence of Prince Herman de HaUfeldl , the younger brother of Iho Princess Elizabeth , And hero there is a Htrango , coinci dence : This lady's mother , nee Countess dp Uoichenbach-Cioichutz win also divorced after liftccn years of wedded life , precisely the number of years that her daughter bore the name of Princess do Cnrolulh before she became the Countess and the future Princess de Bismarck. An Ohio lady asks what shn shall give hcrmmiW. 'X * * * ta < Hk * cents. The Cliorryvulo Girls. Minneapolis Tribuuo : Kansas , the land of corn and contentment , is proUlic alee in fair women * anil bravo men. Your Kansas girl is ns plump as a partridge , ns coy na a quail ; healthy , hearty , ac tive , Independent , and happy as the big sunflowers of which that stale i.s so justly proud. And there is a spot in Kansas where female loveliness seems to hnvo been crystallized and oonnontratnd , an It were. That Elysium in very propnrly named Cherryvnlo. ChoiT.yvalof Vuln of Cherries ! Name sugge.stivo of coral lip.i and cherry nhcokrf. Name full of swoetand juicy promise , Ono's mouth waters when ho attempts to pronounce the luscious word , nnd ho thinks of ruby truaburcs half hidden in bright folinge delicious , but hard to get. And the maidens of this modern purndi.se nro just ns pretty and sweet mid plump as flic fruit whose praUes wo hinjj. for. in the iungungo of n nowspnpur printed in that Utopian village : "Nolth bustln nor cor set are worn in Cherryvale , nnU whim a Chrrryvnlo mnldrju hits down in a Knt- ing rink bho gets her money' * ! worth every time. " The paragraph quoted shows that Cherryvalo glrl.s have uniplo tourruro and no vanity. In fact they are altogether lovely. IVIOST PERf EOT MADE Turestani'itronecjl Natural Fruit Flavon. Vaptlla. I ruon , OraurfO. Almoaa , Jlosc. etc. , llavor'-aj dellc&tuly ) "i4 auturAlly as tuornllU ' PRICE SAKINQ. POWDER CO' , . CHICAGO. . . . . * TMHTJB ; STRICTLY PURE. IT CONTAINS XO oriCM IN ANTl'DRM J * * fe ; i CENTS CERTS for for y Cough Croup IN THREE SIZE BOTIXES. FRIGE 25 CELTS , 50 CENTS , AND $1 $ PER BOTTLE n K.CEN I BOTTLES nro put \m for the n AnS romtnodntlonof nil who dostre goo nud low priced G&ugh. Gold and GroupRomedy TIIOM : m.sntiMi A IIIIMKIIY ron CONSUMPTION ANT UJETG DISEASE. Should eectuo tlio Ini-uo $1 lioltip * . Direction Acoompanyinir cnoh buttlo. Sold by all Modiciuo Dealers. TO EUROPE A Titim : OVKII [ K < tabll lic < nilO ] Pprlng nnd Summer calllngt nn follows ] raitSitnuUy express mall scrrlcc from NowYork. UMIUtH unllii April ID.Mnvlt. Junpft.JuIvS AtlllAMA snIU April 17 , Mnjr ( S , Juno It. July 10 inillJIllA Ml1 Airll2lMny | S , June jo , July 17 8EUMA snlUMajr l.Mny t , JuneS9Julr Jl Fnst Wednesday otpwfcnko from Bostoni * OnnnoN. . tnllnAlull 31 , May 13 , Juno ] . July II HinTlllA Mtln APIII t\M yre.Jiinot3Juiyjl OAI.MA fnll > lnv6.Tiino2.JimoSU.Julj 21 LO11IMA BAlliMAy U , Jiinod , July 7 , AuijUiti SPECIAL NOTICE. Boiton tirtnor HO nillri IIMIIT Liverpool , thin Kow York , thf Orryan if tjrpfctftt to tim&e f/ir jm < # it7 * Ot ttifl ( Ann ftfr cffff/R. Tlio nbavo fleet U the MrpMf , TiTfr f nna tttoit ititigitltlrrnt Afloat , ntnny of tlu < * Oilw | lit-fnirotrrOSO frit IOIIX.KI feet wide , 7NX ) lum nnd H.WO lioifrpowcr. Thh line N tlio oldest Inetlttcnrp anil hoii never lost d Passonnor. Cabin , Htcrrnco or tntcinuillnte na ; . miKOnt i " < > < n low < u by ) III- * ! dan imv cmcr Hnf J ror furthrr InfotniatlnnpiM'OUriiirnntA In nxm of tbo ttilnciiml trtwn * mid tltlpf , tliiquitnout tbo country , nr F. ( \II1TINU , MannRprof Wcttcm Department , 1st UnnJolpliHIrc'et.Under hbernmn Ilcni oClilaigo.lll. ) Agents * nntnl wbere wo are no ! represented. Ov I lie I.l in r lliibll , roiitlvofy Cured by AdiiUiil-Urrlnff Dr. Unities' Oolduii NpocUlc. It cnn be Riven tu n cup ol cotTuu or ten without the knowledge of the person Diking It , Is absolutely tmrmlen , nnd nlll rflcet n permanent and spctdjr euro , wlictbrr tbo patient I * n modnrntc drinker or iu alcobollc urcrk. It 1ms been given In them- iwndi of cases , and In every Instancrnpcifect cure ha folloni > d. It niiror ( "nils The nystorn once Impregnated nltli tbo Sppcinc.lt becomes nu utter Impossibility for tlio liquor appttltu to oxlst. FO118AM2 BY FOLLOWINQ DHUQaiSTSl' KUITN iV CO. , Cor. 13tli tinil Djaelan. nnd ISlIi iV Cumlnif Sin. , Oinalia , Ncb.l A. U. VUSTUll < k RR < > . , Council Bluflfe , lotra. Cell or write for pnniphlct cnntulnlnfr hundreds Ot testimonial" from thobcit women and men from allDMtsoItliBcouutrv. . _ . 617 Ut. ClmrlenSt. , Ht. I.onts. tq. ArijnlnrsrndunUof two Uedleal Colleiti , h i VnnloOfir f nr > < l In Ibe Fpe--it trcktmeat o f OMnnir , tlrttrnti. Sim .ad HLOOD UMB&HI 'hanaar o'hrr 1'brilelanluSt.Louls. I cltr papers ihoir RCdrll old r ld Dti\BOir. Nervous Prostration , Doblllty , Mental and Physical Weakness ; Mercurial and other Affec tions ot Throat , Skin or Donas , Blood Poisoning. eld SorCS anO Ulcers , nr * treated vllb unp > t > lltUi tueeaif , OB Itteitielictiao priu elplei , 8tf ir. Prlvtlalj. Diseases Arising from Indiscretion , Excess , Exposure or Indulgence , which rro < nee > om > l tb followl&g ( Icet < : Dervoutoeis , dtblllir , dlDQeii cr llb | knddtrtetlre memory , ptciplitOD the. Ine9 , phtitetMftetf , Torilon toth * loelel/of ftualvi , oonruitoB of Idess. 4t . , rocdorln ? Marriage improper or unhappy , * * lured. ramphlilSot ( 6ei ) D thesDore , Cent GrmaDeDtlr , freeto my addre.l. Oenultatl aato& fleeor t > r mail free , InvltedaoftltFletlv C ufl4 atkl. A Positive Written Quaranlco ilttn tant n. S80 FXOES. PIKE PLATE3. clit.nl clelh'kul nt tlalloc. letlidforfiOo. lo p ( U Ser fi.roucCHtjr tassasss&ts _ Whoso TITAMTV la falling Brain IlIJAtNKD a : KXI1 AU HTI.U or Tovrvr I'UI.M ATUItf I.V W AH > tnn find a perfect xnd reliable our * In tbo Adoptcil bvnil Trcnvn r Talclanaolid liolair rniimly and ucte5 fullj Introunuua uur . All tTfiaarmin ? losses ami drains pioinptluiimkeil , TltKAJIHi ; rlvlnff DOWB * pappr mlin.JlcM 'ntlorMmeiitj > , . < ti > . , I'llljl' . Oonittlt v > llun ( oillco of\ij ruall ) with U rmlrilnt duLtori FJIKE. CIVIAI.G AUENCf. No. 174 Fulton StneU New YorlC UtUV. . BciurktUo d ouleli oarei , Trudpitk * ACGl. Head fitalnp for felled i artleuUn. Adiheif , ' Dr. WARD A CO. . tUUlbtANAJ BO. MRVOARBEAGES BJ I AS7MTC. O. D. Sfff Haapr M ! _ _ _ - . _ . OM > . on Mottii \rflAl.rJSAlK"MtniK ; ' I I'AV all ciprro rharetn to nil polnta vltliln 3X ) tnllon. l. < miU'arrUpe to nelett from fU-nil tifoocut stamp fur llhutratol outuloirua. tlrntlon I bin ( uipcr. L , G. SPENCER'S TOY FACTORY , 221 W , MADISON ST. , CHICAGO. A FINK LINK OU Pianos and WGQDBBlDGE BROS' HOUSE OMAHA Do you wmt a pure , bloom ing Coinnloxlon i It1 so , a limy unjiucaUons of Hasan's MAGNOLIA JJALK wll grat ify you to your heart's con tent. It docs awny with Sal- lowness Hcdness , , Pimples , Ulotclies , and all dlscnsos and fmpori'Hctious of tlio sldu , 1L ovcrcomostho Unshod appear- mice ol' Jjeat , fatigue and ox- Gitoti.cnt. Itinnkosalndyol' TJII11TY appear but TWEN TY ; and BO uutiival. gnul nul , and perfect are Ifs ctfects , that ft is impossible to detect its application *