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OMAHA workingmcn will learn with
interest that Put Gnrvoy wns an ardent
advocate of sidetracking the charter.
"Goi > helps him who helps himself. "
With a practical appreciation of tins
pious precept the corporation creatures
at the state capital are helping themselves
to everything in sight.
GOVEHNOH HII.L , of Now York , is in
vigorous training for the presidential
race , and 5s showing a pace which is
astonishing his supporters of the patron-
ngo and plunder brigade. Hill is a
shrewd politician not overburdened with
scruples , and a thorough believer in the
Pickwickian theory of always hollering
with the largest crowd.
THEKE must bo no deals or comprom
ises on the charter question. The Doug
las county delegation ewe something to
the state as well as to the city of Omaha.
They cannot aflbrdand their constituents
will not ask them to sacrifice their man
hood to save the charter from defeat. The
responsibility for tuoycfeatof the charter
will bo laid on other shoulders than
those of the Douglas delegation.
A ruisiDKNTiAL : poll of the democrats
of the Pennsylvania legislature showed
a majority in favor of Hill for the next
candidate of the democracy. The opin
ion of the supporters of the Now York
governor was that ho would bo very
much stronger with the labor vote of the
state than Cleveland. A largo majority
of the democrats in the Massachusetts
legislature favor the rcnommation of
Cleveland , with Hill most prominent as
a second choice. The republicans in the
legislatures of both stales are largely in
favor of Blamo.
THE legislature should not adjourn
without passing a law abolishing stoves
and oil lames in railroad passenger
coaches. Steam heating is practical and
feasible. It is already in operation on
the Boston & Albany road and on Severn !
other lines. It can bo uscil effectively on
our .Nebraska roads in spite of the pro
testa of the railroad managers. The
single accident on the Vermont Central
losi a'.xty lives every one of which could
hnvo been saved if fire had not been
added to the horrors of the fall. The car
stove and not the broken rail wrought
the dreadful work.
THE veteran Cassius M. Clay is infus
ing a good deal of excitement into Ken *
tuoky politics by an attack upon bourbon
rule in that state which is characteri/.ed
by bis usual boldness and vigor. Ho has
boon .speaking nlmost nightly in various
parts of the state for the past two weeks ,
arraigning democratic methods and gov
ernment as practiced for the past twenty
years , and is said to have found the more
intelligent and progressive democrats
npo for royolt against bourbon domina
tion. Mr. Clay -is understood to desire
the republican nomination for governor ,
nnd his candidacy would give to the cam
paign a national interest. It is not probable -
able ho could bo elected , but ho would
certainly greatly reduce the democratic
majority and thus start a disintegration
which might ultimately redeem the state
from dcmocrat'o ' rulo.
THE recant announcement that the emperor
poror of China , through his various gov
crnors of provinces , had issuud a procla
mation to the subjects of the empire and
to the whole world that henceforth there
should bo no religious intolerance in
China , is gratifying evidence of progress
in that quarter of the world. It is pro
claimed that ovorv city and village in the
whole Cluno.se Empire shall bo free and
open to Christian missionaries , who will
lie allowed to lease lands and build
churches and preach the gospel ; that the
entire army and navy of China , if nocos
eary , will be applied to the enforcement
of this religions toleration , and that no
mercy will bo shown to any who attempt
to stir up religious stnfo. Perfect free
dom is assured to Chinese subjects to ac
cept Christianity , and they will be pro
tected from violence and every form of
Intimidation , the only condition imposed
being that if they become Christians they
shall remain loyal to the emperor. The
government has fully indemnified the
missionaries and their Christian followers
who recently suffered from outrage in
Boveral parts of the empire. The present
emperor of China has { riven other twi-
deuces that ( in is not the least susceptible
among modern rulers to the iutlnonccs
which make for the enlightenment and
udrunccruout of mankind. '
A row Word * With Mr. Cnllawajr.
General Manager Callaway of the
Union Pacific is a man with a reputation
and character to maintain. Ho cnmo to
Omaha with the expressed determination
of dealing openly nnd fairly with the
people of this slate and city. Ho has
proved himself a railroad manager of
ability , accessible , courteous nnd appar
ently frank and manly in his relations
with the public. The impression which
ho has left on those who have mot him to
discuss questions at issue between the
public and the railroads has been that of
a man honestly desirous to henl
up the sores which previous
managements have irritated , and to
build up his road in the confidence of the
community. Assuming all that has boon
said of Mr. Callaway by his friends to bo
tnie , wo desire to nut to him a few ques
tions on topics of general interest and of
paramount importance to the city of
Omaha.
Is Mr. Callaway nwaro that the cor
poration of which ho is the local head , Is
assisting to maintain a gang of disreput
able scunndrols and political bilks at the
state capital to thwart HID wishes of the
people of "Omaha in the matter of self-
government ?
If ho is cognizant of the tact , hew does
ho propose to evade the responsibility
for their action's or to escape the indig
nation among the taxpayers which their
dirty work is arousing in Omaha and
throughout the stale ?
If he now learns for the first time of the
existence of a railroad lobbj in which
Union Pacific employes are leading fac
tors and who have banded together to
dofc.U the will of the citizens of Omaha ,
will ho see his duty in the light of his
past public and private professions of
fairness and honest treatment toward
this community ?
How docs Mr. Callaway and itis rail
road explain the breach of faith by which
the Douglas delegation was deliberately
insulted in the lower house by the side
tracking of the charter in a committee
the majority of whoso members are rail
road men through the votes of represent
atives equally well known to bo the
creatures of the railroads ?
Does Mr. Callaway , a citizen of Omaha ,
know that threats are being made at the
state capital by the allied railroad lobby
that the city of Omaha will bo plunged
into confusion , property values depreci
ated and legal complications innumer
able awakened by the defeat of the char
ter , unless the Douglas county delegation
surrender their manhood and betray
their constituents by yielding assent to
the wishes of the corporation attorneys in
matters of railway IcgisHtion ?
Docs Mr. Callaway , the general man
ager ot a great corporation , largely de
pendent tiDou the good will of the com
munities from which it draws its patron
age , imagine that such a position on the
part of his road , with the consequences
certain to result , will bo a paying invest
ment in the long run ?
Studying the Hill.
Now that iutor-stnto regulation of rail
roads has become inevitable , botli the
railroad managers and their patrons have
begun to study the bill with the care
which its importance demands. The
conclusions arrived at arc interesting
when compared with the loud protests of
a few weeks ago. Then , congress was
informed that the passage of the bill
would mean cither the destruction of the
railroads or the ruin of the west , through
a general reduction or a general advance
in all through rates ana a ruinous com
petition as the result of forbidden pool
ing. Now men like Pool Commissioner
Fink- probably the best informed
expert in the country on the
theory of successful railroading , openly
declares that the law as passed is elastic
enough to adapt itself to the conditions
which may arise without materially dam
aging the corporations or injuring com
mercial interests. On the much abused
long haul clause , Mr. Fink observes :
"If It can be shown , for example , that it
costs a railroad more to carry freight for fifty
miles over Its road than it costs to cairy the
sumo kind and quantity of freight one hun
dred miles , this clause would bo an authoriza
tion for charging more for the fifty mile
service than forthoonehundicd miloservico ;
or if It can bo shown that the rate to the end
of the one bundled miles of a road is fixed by
water transportation , hardly sulliolont to pay
the railroad the cost of doing the work , with
out any , or without an average prolit In the
capital invested in the road , the inllroad com
pany would be justified in making a lower
rate to the station one hundred miles dis
tant that Jt does to the station fitty miles
distant , provided , however , that the rate to
the lifty mlle station is reasonable In Itself
not as low M the cost of walur transportation
would bo , but not higher than the cost of
railroad operation and a reasonable Interest
on the cost of the road. The shippers at the
one hundred mile station enjoy the natural
advantage of their location on a navigable
river , while those who live In the Interior are
necessarily under disadvantage. This dis
crimination exists ID tha nature of things ,
it Is not unjust ; ft Is not the result of the
arbitrary action of the railroad transporta
tion companies , who are compelled to regulate
their charge In accoidanco with the clicum-
stanccs and condition ot the situation as
they find them. "
The clauses prohibiting rebates and
discriminations will bo generally
received with favor. They cer
tainly will iu Omaha , where our
wholesale dealers are now suffering from
the action of the Union Pacific freight
department in rebating to Kansas City
merchants the difference of 10 cents a
hundred over 0111:1 : ha rates oil shipments
to Grand Island and beyond over a dis
tance of 125 miles greater than from
Omaha , while our jobbers are completely
cut out from Kansas territory.
The Coat ol * Congress.
The appropriation bill for tha legisla
tive , executive and judicial branches of
the government aggregates over $20,000- ,
000. In its present shape it is nearly half
a million dollars less in amount than the
Bum appropriated for the current fiscal
year , and more than $800,000 below the
estimates of the secretary of the treasury ,
Additions that will bo made between the
t\vo houses will doubtless bring the
amount fully up to the estimator , and
may exceed them. The cost of congress
Is an interesting part of the information
derived from this bill ,
The appropriation for the senate is
$808,301) ) , which docs not include $41,000
asked for to pay private secretaries to
senators who are not chairmen of com
mittees , and which amount the senate
will certainly n.dd and the house will
doubtless allow. The salaries of the
sovontjvsijr senators amount to $330,000.
There are 310 ofllcors and employes re >
quired to wait upo'n these .seventy-six
senators , at an annual cost of f300,33'J.
It thus appears thai three attendants are
necessary to each senator , the average
arfnual payof the attendants being ? 1,3'J1. '
Hut as the attendants are employed not
more than ten of the twenty-four months
included in a session of congress , the
average salary is ? 278 each for the time
actually employed.
I'ho house is relatively a less expensive
body. The salary of a representative and
a senator Is the same $5OOJ a year. To
pay the 833 mnnibcrs of the house re
quires ? 1,0M,000 , ( a year , But the repre
sentatives uo not require , or at least do
not have , so much attendance ns sena
tors , and the employes are not asa whole
so well paid in the lower as in the tipper
branch. The house has 801 olllccrs and
employes , less th.in one to each member ,
and the annual pay toll for these amounts
to ? 3S3,113 , an average of ? 1,3H for each.
Thi ! difference in favor of the house Is an
average of ? M3 ti year for each employe ,
amounting for the number of the senate
employes to a total of { 01,753.
Members of congress are allowed
twenty cents n inilo both ways by the
shortest route between their homos and
the capital. This costs annually ? U3.G2l.
It appears that tno per capita to senators ,
as shown by iho figures of the pending
bill , amounts to131 and to representa
tives ! ? ! > 33.20 the senators as usual hav
ing the advantage. For contingent ex
penses , embracing a multitude of require
ments , some necessary and some not , but
for nil of which the dear people must pay ,
the bill provides $0ll ) > 80 for the senate ,
which divided per capita would give
each senator J)21 ! ) , and for the house
s113 , ! 37 , which wculd give to each mem
ber $312 .1 Jitllo more than a third of
the senate per capita from this fund. The
figures of the pending bill show the
annual cost of congress lo bo $ t,032,482 ! ,
aid this amount is more likely to be in
creased than reduced. They also show
that exclusive of the annual salary cacti
senator costs the people to provide him
with attendance over . 5,307 per annum ,
and each member of the house ? 1,8JO.
The willingness of the American
"house of lords" to generously provide
for itself lias always been understood ,
but the wide disparity in the relative
cost of the two houses to the people , as
exhibited in the above figures , is not
generally known or suspected. Such
lacts are very likely to strengthen the
opinion of those who regard the senate ,
wisely or not , as a more ornamental
than useful part ot our governmental
system , while thov can hardly fail to in
crease confidence in the popular branch
of congress as the more prudent and con
servative guaidian of the public purse.
Shall the Luhhy llule ?
For nearly six weeks past the state
capital has been beset and the two houses
of the legislature hesiejrod by the most
disreputable anil coiHoionc'jluss lobby
which has ever disgraced the political
history of Nebraska. The ablest and
most characterless of corporation attor
neys , tlin most debauched and venal of
broken down political hacks , reinforced
by a horde of bums and dead beats , have
formed the personal following and body
guards of the railroad managers who
have camped on the trail of the legis
lature to corrupt thu people's repre
sentatives and defeat the expressed
will of the voters of this commonwealth.
Forty rooms in a single hotel have been
hired by the corporation managers to
house thuir corruptionLsts who have
swarmed in the lobbies of the Lincoln
inns and alternated in their attentions to
the gin mills and dens of vice and to
such members of the legislature as tljoy
deemed suitable victims of their wiles.
Frorr. the day when the senatorial con
test opened , the railroad lobby iias been
the most prominent factor in the work
of the legislature. With"a brazen dis
regard of common decency they have
flaunted their disreputable profession
in the face of Urn cnriro state
and carried on their villainous
harlotry in reckless defiance of public
sentiment nnd private protest. Those
political procurers of' the lailroads have
not hesitated to crowd the lloors of tin-
two houses at the stale capital , to stand
behind the chairs of members and in the
full light of publicity to debauch mem
bers under the shadow of the statue of
justice and in the very presence of the
law making power of the slate. No
wonder that Senator Caspar , as ho indig
nantly watcheit from his seat the prosti
tution of the sacred trust committed to
the people's representatives , exclaimed in
the white hoalof his passion : "Tho mso-
lunce of these hirelings has become un
bearable. When I see these paid ntlor-
noys hanging over Iho members and
bringing pressure upon them I fool like
taking a club and cleaning out the whole
outfit. "
Senator Casper's indignation will bo
shared by the entire state. The question
to which thu people will demand an
answer is whether the rule of the lobby
shall or shall not he broken , even if a few
necks must be slightly strained to ac
complish it.
THE elections in Canada will occur
next Monday , and the campaign is now
in its very hottest stage. It has not been
conducted with absolute regard for ttio
amenities , but on the contrary has ex
hibited nol a few of those characteristics
which political methods in this country
are charged with bnine largely responsi
ble for , but which really seem to be In
separable from politics everywhere. For
example the dispatches report that the
opponents of the government have
dragged the wife of the premier into the
contest , simply because she possesses a
diamond necklace given her by the pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific railway.
The claim is that this was thu price of
concessions secured by the railroad from
thogovoriunent , whioh as rellecting upon
Sir John Macdonald might bo passed as
justiliablu campaign material , but thuro
is something more implied in thu dccH-
ration of one of the opposition leaders
that "I/.idy Macdonald wore the price of
her shame around her neck , " This is
carrying thu brutality of politics beyond
thu American limit , and survus to show
the bitterness of the fight in Canada , or
more particularly in the maritime prov
inces , where the policy of the govern
ment has boon most severely fult. Thu
defeat of thu government would not bo
surprising , ns the turnout indications aru ,
and it will certainly lose ground oven if
successful.
O.VLV something like ten days and then
this legislature adjourns. It is indeed
true that a knd | of Providence tempera
the.wind to the shorn hnub. Nothing
P.crsoiiul in this regarding Mr. Agee.
Dounuj taxation is oppressive and un
just. The county tax for the maintenance
of the insane should bo abolished and
the moneys duo under the decision of the
supreme court from the various counties
ought to bo proihplly refunded , The
legislature every session makes ample
appropriations for the maintenance of
the insane asylums. It is absurd to tax
the counties in addition by a special levy
based on their representation of Inmates.
Knough is as good as a feast.
CITY has a school for the
state's ' blind ; Peru boasts of a state nor
mal school : IJcatrico is the proud possessor
ser of a homo forth" fnoblo minded ;
Kearney glories in a reform school , while
Norfolk is happy over her new Insane
hospital. Yel with this liberal distribu
tion of public buildings every other
town In flic state yearns for a state nor
mal school. Verily , whither nro we
drifting ?
WHAT Iho legislature should do , in
stead of wasting timu on wiluly "rail
road commission" bills , Is to adopt a
tariff for the Nebraska railroads to fol
low , The idea of oharging over one dollar
lar to carry goods three hundred miles
is surprising , and yet iho figures loll
their'siory.
Tun way some of the members are
pleading for new insane asylums rer-
lalnly suggests insanity. A man favor
ing these many wild bills should bo compelled -
polled to plainly dilinc his position.
Aecoumxo to figures being presented ,
a short haul is a very expensive luxury.
The bill for a long haul , however , loses
none of its terror.
Other LinnilH Tlmn Our .
The roaring farce of "Trial by Jury"
is ouco more being enacted in Ireland ,
where the cases of the crown againsl the
nationalists are now in progress. The
courts are organi/.cd for conviction under
rulings from the bench and harangues
from the crown counsel which would dis
grace a police court in a true country.
In the first panel for y jury every name
was thrown out because it bore tiie Irish
prefixes of O' , Mac and Fitz , and every
juror finally selected was only cho'-on
after a rigid examination which seemed
to prove his unfriendliness to the
Irish cause. In the words of an Irish
Nationalist the chances oC conviction are
a thousand lo one in favor of the govern
ment with a packed bench , a packed
jury and subservient court ollicials. The
scandal is so great that on Wednesday
sixty I3ritish muiobers of the house of
commons at a conference adopted a reso
lution to call the attention of parliament
next week to the alleged packmgof juries
in the cases auainst nationalists in Ire-
laud and pledgeiL themselves to arouse
public sentiment in favor of fur : play.
4r
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The result of ( he election in North An
trim , one of the strong Orange districts
of Ulster , which was held Saturday to fill
the scat left vacant by the resignation of
the conservative member chosen at the
last general election , is in some respects
: IWOIMC blowto thu torv government than
thu recent repulse of Mr. Goaiihcn in Liv-
, orpiol. The latest previous vote was
121 , ! > to 1'JIO in favor of this conservatism-
candidate , but now the same home ruler
who was beaten then has polled 3,0'JO , a
gain of 710 , against ; ! , S59 for thu victori
ous lory and -121 for a liberal-unioni-,1 , the
combined opposition gaining only IW
votes over the hiit election. ThU is a net
nationalist gain of 033 , and it certainly
looks as if the oaii'-e ot the Parnullitcs
was fast making headway in the Protest
ant strongholds of the north of Ireland.
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Mr. Gladstone and his supporters have
evidently determined to make the I5iirn-
loy election a test one with the lory-
unionists. They have selected Iheir best
man , Mr. John Shigg , a wealthy manu
facturer ot Manchester , which town he
formerly represented in parliament , as
Ihoir candidate. Ho is interested in vari
ous enterprises in the borough and is a
generous and popular employer. Mr.
Hylnnds , the late member , who repre
sented the constituency for eleven years
and who was very much liked , only
scratched in last July by a majority of
forty-three. Slagg will probably win the
seat this time for the Gladstoniaus. lie
contested IheDanven division of Lanca
shire last July against Lord Salisbury's
son and deserves thu present preference.
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The German elections next Monday
are awaited with feverish anxiety
throughout Europe. The appeal which
is to bo made to the Gurman doctors by
their emperor can hardly prove wholly
fruitless if it takes a different tone from
that of Bismarck's speech in thu roichstag.
Somu of his subjects who care little for
the difference between a sepionnalo and
a tnunnatu may hesitate to deny what is
likely enough to bo tuo fust request of
this character that hu will make
of them. Yet to postpone the manifesto
until Saturday Is u little like the
device against which the American poll-
tician warns his followers when hu tells
them to "beware of roorbaohs published
too late to contradict. " It Is quite evi
dent that , when oven Iho pope and cm-
peror are brought in to help him , Uis-
marck is making a tremendous effort to
carry Monday's elections , It is clear ,
too , that thoru is a great deal nt stake lor
Germany in this contest , The cause of
Gurnum militarism has been committed
to the sueuuss of the current elections in
an unusual way , The issue made by
Prince Bismarck between parliamentary
and Imperial control of army matters
doubtless need not have been so sharply
defined , but havihg been thus made ,
the sequences of the struggle must
bo more momentous , It is nvl-
dcnt f that Iho tide is setting
stronglj in favor of Bismarck and his
military machine. . Thu progressists are
evidently weakened by internal dissen
sions , and only thu socialista , ot the opposition -
position factions , are lighting with great
enthusiasm and hope ot gaining ground ,
It must be remembered , however , that
the news from Germany is likuly to bo
colored moro or loss in the interests of
the government , and the casu of Dr.
Windthorst's follownrs may not bo quite
so dubious as it looks from this distance.
Franco ia giving the army party very
little campaign material , and it would
Eeem that the German electors must soon
weary of the attempts to excite their
patriotic fears of invasion ,
. * ,
Brussels is now the prey of a war or-
eitenient like that prevailing in Paris
and Berlin. Bulgiuhi has not only put
her forls'jn roadincss.but has even mobil
ized her troops to protect her territory
from violation by belligerents , The fask
set for the little kingdom is a trying one.
The elaborate concessions of her neutral
ity in divers European Plato papers she
feels to bo worthless ; the presumed pa
tronage of thai neutrality by England
might have been worse than worthless ,
since it might have led a less nlcrl coun *
try to rely on It. Belgium , however , is
taking betimes her measures of self-pro
tection , nnd is oven talking of a general
conscription. Her unpromising outlook
is the pettiness of her utmost force
against the resolute attack of either of
her powerful neighbors who may wish
to use her territory ns a highway. But
this is probably outweighed by a oon-
solousncsa thai eilhnrof them will think
twice before intruding upon her soil at
the peril of giving Us opponent Belgium
as an ally.wllh her vast advantage of a
flank position.
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Auslro-Ilungary has nt last taken the
threatening step long ago anticipated'
nnd wholly prohibited the exportation of
horses. Russia set the example several
days ago , and it looks as if somebody
was preparing for a cavaly campaign on
n hugo scale. Nevertheless , peace may
be maintained for an indefinite period.
Preliminary war measures are too com
mon in Europe to mean much.
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The volumes written in Canada during
these exciting days of thu political cam
paign may be boiled down lo Ihis : The
liberals when in power accumulated n
debl of $7,233,000 , or at the rate of fl-ilO-
100 a year ; the lories have contracted a
public debt of $170.5:1(1,000 : ( , or $12fiO,000 ! )
per year. The lories reply Ihat they have
railroads and other things lo show for
Ihis great outlay , and the liberals retort
that the other things consist ot official
jobs , useless wars and bribery funds.
The death of Iho Prrlice of Wagram , a
son of one of the marshals of thu great
Napoleon , recalls the extravagance of
the first empire and the heavy bunions
that wore laid upon thu people in order
that imperial favorites might bo sup
ported in luxury and idleness. Unlike
some other mushroom families which
weru thus ennobled , but which rapidly
became extinct , the Wagrams have
clung to existence and to pensions with
wonderful tenacity , and even now a de
scendant remains to inherit the annual
income of $00,000 that lias been paid
from grandfather to grandson for the lasl
eighty years.
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IT has been a very r.iro thing in the
history of English politics thai an amend
ment to the queen's speech has been
parsed in the house of commons-and the
defeat of Mr. Parnell's amendment is
not. therefore , so very insignificant. The
debate has hud the olf'jct ' of showing that
the tory party is determined that it will
grant no concessions to Ireland , while
the calm and dispassionate ulluranccs of
Mr. Pnrncll and Ins followers cannot fail
to have tin influence ) on public opin
ion when attempts to enforce further
coercive measures shall ho made.
Mi : . COI.UY is lireless. He keeps pro-
scnting his bill to the legislature. It is
hoped that it will be liquidated.
KINGS AND QUEJUNS.
The c/nr and caiina aie to visit Austria
and ( icunany in the spring.
Queen Victoria will buy some of the
French ciown diamonds soon to bo auctioned
oir.
Empiess Elizabeth of Austria Is colng to
Amsterdam to he put through the niass-iRO
cure.
cure.The
The king ot Corca has made a study of for
eign inventions , social customs and political
relations.
Pnnee Henry of 1'inssia Is going to
Windsor cactle next month to bo niiiilo a
Knight of the Garter ,
Klnir Louis of Portugal has conferred the
order ol Knight of Santiago on the Ameri
can doctor , \V. J. Hoi ! man.
The festivities attending the ninetieth
hhtlulay anniveisary of the emperor of Ger
many will last from .March 10 to 20.
The prince of Wales has set the fashion of
wearing a big double watch chain across his
vest , whore It can bo painfully visible.
Queen Alaigheilta , of Italy , does all her
own shopping anil Is very well able to take
cnie of hcrselt in managing her domestic
allnlrs. '
Empress Elizabeth of Austria will go to
Amsterdam at the beginning of JUmch to re
ceive lor the second time the massage cure of
tlin famous Ur. Motzger.
Tsal-tlen , the sixteen-year-old Chinese em
peror , assumed the responsibilities of gov-
cinmcut. Ills wife Is a great beauty. Ho
selected hortiom a lot of over one hundred
girls sent to him for Inspection.
Kin ! . ' William , of Holland , will , February
10 , celebrate the seventieth anniversary of his
birth. In almost every Nethorland village
ami town there will be great festivities ; In
every church a service will bo held : and
there will bo a genend distribution of bounty
to thu poor.
STATE ANDTBKUITOK1- .
Nebraska Jottlnui.
Ashland's waterworks will cost $13,000.
Lincoln is ( rumbling on the brink of a
real estate boom.
Mindonitcs are endeavoring to revive
the hoard of trade.
Thirty-six converts wore scored at six
weuks * revival in York.
A branch of thu Irish National leatiuu
has been organized at McCook
Nebraska City Is promised a largo box
factory. This will facilitate the planting
of kickurs ,
A county seat contest Is raging in
Frontier county , with Curtis nnd Stock-
villu in thu ring.
Mrs. John Conloy slid off a load of hay
on thu road to Suward and died of the in
juries sustained ,
Lincoln real estate wont up several
pegs Thursday night , The town was
treated to a shower of mud.
The short horn gamblurs have beun
klokod out of Crawford , but veteran pro
fessionals stand in to watch thu ' 'pot , "
MuCook's now baud goes outside the
corporation limits to practice and their
efforts are highly appreciated in conso-
quuncu ,
A verdant Lincoln youth , while visit
ing rulalivus at Cedar lUpido , la , , was
held up by footpads Monday night and
relieved of all his valuables ,
I'lattsmoulh's mossbacks are unfurling
tliuir ears to catch thu distant rumbling
of a real cstatu ri u. Prices aru b'tilfuning
with thu approach of spring ,
The temperance freshet in Thaycr
county cngulliid 1,000 tipplers in thirty
days. As a consequents a bushul of
corn will now bring three straights nnd
a schooner.
Her itHinu isMrs.Gcorgu Clark and she.
bosses a fiirin near Niobrara * Her claims
to fame rest on VO'J Imsholsof corn husked
last fall to replenish thu family pursuuna
to break thu monotonous round of xlo-
luestio duties.
The now and olotfuql < iraud Army hall
in Hastings will bo dedicated next Tues
day. Hon. John M. Thurslon will desert
the railroad lobby in Lincoln long enough
to preach to the veterans on the beauties
and bonlficcnco of republican Institu
tions ,
I own lt m i.
Fort Madison is planning for a new
collego.
Van Btircn county 1ms 0,81 , ! ) residents
who were born in Ibwn.
Iowa lias twenty-seven evening and
fourteen morning dally papers.
Davenport has a cooking school , and
genllumen are Invited to attend and re
ceive instruction.
A veteran of the war of 1812 , Lcandcr
L. Chapman , died ne.ar Davenport lately
nt the ripe ago of eighty-seven years.
llardin county 1107 hns nineteen in
mates in the insane asylum nt Independ
ence. They cost the county about $3,000
annually.
At DCS Moincs a hey Is dangerously ill
from what the physicians decide is in-
llammation of Iho covering of the stomach
ach induced by constant exorcise at
coasting.
Captain Adam Hinc. an old river man ,
steamboat owner nud captain , died nt
Keokuk Sunday night , aged sixty-BOVon
years. Ho was postmaster at Keokuk
during President Polk's administration.
During the recent heavy hlcct storm a
Mahaska county man came upon an eaglu
whoso movements seemed lobe curiously
hampered in a manner that rendered his
flight impossible. The .noble bird had
boon out all night and was enveloped in
a complete coat of mail so heavy and
thick that ho was almost helpless , lie
now adorns a fine cage in that citizen's
house.
Dakota.
Twenty-four inches of snow covers
Sully counly.
Frozen whisky is sold at 10 cents a
chunk at Hedlield.
A colony is being formed at Piurro to
locale in Alaska. It will leave Pierre
about May 1.
The fourth annual encampment of the
Dakota Grand Army of thu Kopubllc
will bo held at Jamestown March 12 ! , 2U
and 24.
Out of a list of seventeen bachelors at
Key s ton n who three j ears aye resolved
never to marry , eleven are now married
and two arc soon to bo.
The storm was so severe in Hughes
county last week that many of the settlers
were obliged to tunnel their way out of
snow drills that nearly buried their
houses.
The territorial legislature is wrestling
with the railroad regulation problem. As
usual , tlie monopolies control the upper
house , as is shown by a single sentence
in a late dispatch : "The Elliott railroad
bill , fixing thu maximum rates , will pass
thu house , but will bu killed in the sen
ate " Dakota has copied the Nebraska
method.
A " \Vorld or Seeming.
JI. A. VloixJ , in the Ccntmi/ .
It Is a world of seeming ,
The changeless moon seems changing ever ,
The sun sets dally , but sets never
So no.ir the stars and yet so far ;
So small they suem , so largo they are I
It is a world ot seeming.
And so It seems that she Is ( lend ,
Yet go seems only : for , instead ,
Her llfu is juit begun ; and this
Js but mi empty clujsnlis ;
\Vhilu she , unseen to mortal eyes
Now wins her way in brighter sides
Ueyoud this woild of seeming.
Her Hospitality ,
Detroit Free Press : "I'lieso moun
taineers are the most hospitable people
on earth. It is a rude but genuine hospi
tality. They woujd share thuir lasl loaf
with a stranger within their gates. The
latch string hangs out for all. "
U'u were riding down a steep Itocky
n. omitain trail , mi'friend Clate and 1 ,
when Clate made the remark quoted.
He was an enthusiast over the noble traits
ot the honest miner and mounlainoar.
Certain experiences of my own had maue
me skeptical on the subject.
At the base of Iho mountain stood a
little log cabin.
"Now , " said Clate , "I'll prove my the
ory. It's past dinner time , and we're
both wolves. I'll
hungry as wager any
thing you like Ihat we'll gut a good
square meal at that cabin frco ot
charge. "
Five minutes later wo stood before the
closed door of thu cabin.
"Hullo ! " roared Clato.
There was no reply.
"Hello , I say I"
This lime Chile rapped loudly on Iho
door. There being no response , ho lifted
Iho latch , when the door swung open ,
showing no one within , although the
cabin was evidently being occupied.
"All right ! " cried Clatu cheerily.
"Come rigiit on in , Ned , and wu'Jl forage
'round and see what wu can find in the
commissary. The folks won't ' care.
They've left the door open on purpose
for wayfarers like us to stup in and help
themselves. It's just like them. It's '
your westerner who knows what true
hospitality is. "
Clato "foraged around" for some time ,
but all he could find was a piece of drv
salt pork and a few Dotatocs.
"We'll help ourselves to what there
is , " said Clare , cheerily. "You build a
fire , Nud. We're welcome lo what we've
found , ' I'll bet on that , for "
He stopped. A tall , lank , gnm-visaged
woman , with a leathern-looking facosud-
donly appeared at a back door. She saw
Clato , and yelled out :
"Drop them lateral"
"Why , madam , 1-1 "
"You drop thftn talons ! "
"Wo are strangers , yon see , madam ,
and - "
"Drop 'em. "
A shotgun hung on the wall. She
snatched it down , brought it to her
ehouldcr with n jerk and mild :
"Drop them tators too quick. "
Clatu dropped them ,
"Drop that pork. "
Clato dropped it.
"Now you fullers git. "
" 1 had already got , hut Clato , abashed
and rubiikod though hu was , linmurud
until thu shotgun was again pointed to
ward him and thu woman said ;
"Clear yoitrseltt I'll learn you how to
walk into a body's housu and help your
self to ono'd yittles. That bacon and
Ilium tati-r.s ain't lo bu bought for lovn
nor money , let alouu ut up by you unsfer
nothin' . Now you light out I"
Wo "lit out , ' hungry and crestfallen ,
and Clatu has been dumb over Kincu on
thu subject of western hospitality.
Htnnloy AH n Huiokur ,
Pall Mall Ga/uttu : "I never allow thu
luxuries of civilisation to dcmoraluu mil ,
and l never * was u gourmand , 1 shall be
happy when 1 tut foot once more on Af
rican' soil and I fall readily into my old
nomadic ways of life. Tua , colfun ,
milk , tobacco , but stimulants seldom.
Yes. here J smoke six cigar * a day. In
Africa 1 have my pipe and mild tobacco.
1 did not begin to .smoke until I was
twenty-five , and could notgrapphi with
a pipit until 1 was thirty. Since then L
have always found tobacco a solace and
an aid to concuntration , 1 rumumbur
when I was on one journey down the
Congo wo were just about to enter a most
dangerous country. 1 knew that it light
was inevitable and told my men to make
ready. I took au observation , lighted
my pipe nnd smoked for fivu minutes to
settle myself for thu action. Wo weru
fighting for our lives H few minutes after
wards and thu battle wont on for hours.
Livingstone never smoked. "
Editor Carroll 15. Smith , of the
cusu Journuj , its a ctuudidatu forcongruss
to succeed Frank Hiscock.
THE DEAD. ALIVE.
A DrowiHMl Sinn Arrested Tor lc
IVnmlliiK mi In.snrnnco Company.
Superintendent Cornish , of riukcrlon'e
detective ngenej' , and Chief inspcctoi
llanscom escorted to police headquarters
a man who , according to the cortilicalo
of death , was drowned moro than four
months ngo , says a Boston dispatch of
February 0 to the Jv'uw York Sun. At
headquarters lie mot the man who had
sworn to seeing him drown , and who wns
so mad that ho exclaimed ; "You fool' H
you got out of the way why didn't MHI
slay out ? " These two turn , with tun
others , were ni rested for conspiring i >
defraud the United States Mutual Aer
dent association out of $5OUO. One of
the conspirators took out a poliej for
that amount , nnd soon afterward was n- .
ported to have been drowned , Applica
tion was made for the insurance money ,
but Iho conspirators made ono or two
blunders nnd failed to got the ea h. Thu
story of thu conspiracy , as confessed by
Saundurs , of Chulsua , were discussing
schemes for making money. They de
cided to try a plan for defrauding the
United Stales Mutual Accident associa
tion , of Now York. On Juno 8 Thomas
procured a blank application , and
Sanndors filled in the necesnary answers
to interrogatories concerning his health
and general condition. A policy of $ .1,000 .
was taken out , and Mary Leonard , who
passed n Thomas' intended wife , was
made the beneficiary. 11 was understood
that Thomas was to die at a certain time ,
and that the money would bu equally di
vided among the conspirators. Two as-
sessmonls weru paid , and then thu men
thought it wnt timu to act. On thu morn
ing of Suptombor SO Iho four men mel in
a .saloon in Boston and decided to drown
Thomas in Buvurly harbor. Thomas
went to his room at Wcsl Springfield
street , packed all his things , and took
thorn away. Then ho went to Bovurly ,
and mot Bray and Frost. They spent
fcomo little tilnc in discussing who should
assist Thomas in his voluntary sacrifice.
Frost was chosen , nmt hu and Thomas
went to the dock's. Frost and Thomas
spent two hours in examining the yacht
Mayflower , which lay along side of one
of the wharves , and at sundown Ihoy
went to the railroad bridge and hired a
boat , That was the last that was seen of
them until to-day. Late that night Frost
returned to the brldgo alone , and re
ported with ovorv appearance of grief ,
that the boat hau capsized and thai his
companion was drowned. Ho said he
searched for the body , but without suc
cess. All ho could find was his friend's '
hat , which was in the boat. After telling
the boatman where lo look for Ihu body ,
ho drew a wallet from his vest pocket
and paid the man with a note thai had
not been wet , The boatman did not no
lice this Important fact until after Frost's
departure.
The papers announced the death of
Thomas , and on October S , Mary Leon
ard telegraphed to the secretary of the
insurance company , claiming thu amount
of the policy. The agent visited her to
make the usual inquiries , and found her
al a restaurant at No. 80 Dover streel.
Ho asked her how she had learned of the
accident , and she promptly replied that
she had . cun thu account of the drown
ing in the Journal , which was taken reg
ularly by the proprietor. The agent had
not seen it , so hu went to the proprietor
and asked for the paper. The man said
he did not take it. ' 1 he girl's confusion
made the agent suspicious , and an inves
tigation was begun. After patient shad
owing , a man who partly answered the
description of Thomas was seen visit
ing the woman , and was traced to Taun-
ton. where ho wont by the name of
Thompson. He recently moved to Cam
bridge , and thu police- went them to ar
rest him to-day.
"Well , you are looking pretty well for
a man who has been drowned four
months , " said Chief Inspector Han-
seom.
Thomas recognized llanscom and
turned as though to run , but the inspector
specter stooped him. Hu pretended ho
didn't know what the inspector meant.
He denied being Thomas and stoutly
maintained that his name was Thompson ,
but when Dctcclivo Thornhill prodiiccil
a picture of him , tiKnn before his alleged
departure from this world , he confessed.
Hu said Ihat ho and Frost rowed around
thn harbor unlil a specified hour. Then
they rowed to the shore and got out and
met Bray. Front then jumped overboard
in water up to his waist , and careened
the boat until several buckets of water
had been shipped. Then he got in again
and rowed back to the bridge with ins
sad talc.
Frost was arrested in North Andover
to-day , and protested until confronted
with I homas in Inspector llanscom's of
fice. The men stared at each other with
out a sign of recognition. Then Frost
dry
Thomas'arrest and fled.
A Team With Golden Ilorwo-Sliocs.
From the Colonial Mail : In the year
1855 a storukcepor named Donald
Cameron , carrying on business in what
was known as 'tho Woolshed , Victoria ,
was elected first member of parliament
for thu Ovens district , and lie had the
honor unique in the history of Iho
colony of being driven in triumph
from the Woolshed into Beechworth in a
gig with tandem team , the leading horsu
of which was shod with gold.
Just before thu election an eccentric
individual , known as Tinker Brown , who
had made n lot of money on the digging ,
suddenly purchased a circus , with tents ,
horses and wauons complete , and , coin
ing into Beechworth with his company.
ho offered to drive his newly elected
member , and supply golden horseshoes
for thu occasion. The Woolshed bosses ,
who wore greatly olatud at thn result of
the election , warmly took up Brown's
idea , and they resolved in addition , to
present their inumber with a diamond
sc rf plu.
The horseshoes wore made by n work
ing jowellur named Toliuld and weighed
nine ounces oaoh. Thu tuam was dnvun
from Woolshud 10 Brcuuh worth and back
as far a.s La Soruiia Hill , On removing
thu shoes of the loader ( a piebald circus
horsn ) , thov wuru found lo have lost a to
tal of one and thrcu-foulhs ounces. Do-
foru Tinker Brown died ho willed llioin
to a married daughter kuuiiing a public
hoiito at Wagga Wiigga. 'Ihoyuruin
tixbtcnco until about four years atro ,
when thu owner had them incited and
turned into sovornigiiH ,
iK I'1'1 Hurled IlonilH.
St. Josaph Gazette : Whun Captain
Ebunezer Bluckiston died some two weeks
ago it was thought that his estate would
bu worth not fuss than & ! 00OX ) , but ,
judging from the way matters look now ,
it will not yield morn than one-half that
amount. It Is boliuvcd that tiu had
about $100,000 worth of government
bonds whioh cannot bu found , In 1871
hu hud over $715,000 invested in fi-20
government gold-hearing bonds , which
boru interest at thu rate of ( I pur cent.
His son-in-mw , Willium N. Ellsworth ,
helped him rut thu heiul-iiunuul interest
coupons in that year , which mummied
to fuMKK ) , Thu bonds have never beun
heard of from that day to this. His heirs
aru iintler thu impression that hu had
them buried tmmuwhcru in the neighborhood -
hood of his Into rcihlonco , hut on account
of the niildenneHJ of ( us. dea'li ho could
not lull his family whuru to find Illeiu.
In years giinu by hu had alinbUof
burying his money and valuable papers.
During Ihu war hu was "known to burv
fbS.CCii ) in Elvrood , Kan.
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