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X THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : WEDNESDAY. MAY 25 , 1887. 'THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRIWH or nuiwcntpTiox : t > "Hr fMornl.iR Edition ) Including Sunday Bur , Onn Yimr. . $10 01 forBlx.Monttu. , fit" ) For-Throo Month * 260 Tlio Oinalm Huridny HKE , innllod to liny ' , Ono Year. . 300 PMAIIA Orrirr. No. 914 AMI oil KAHVAV KRWr VOIIK OrrliK. IIOOM fii. TlllnUMB lltMI.IHMI. JVAmiiNUTO.v Office. No.M.1 KouiiTKeNin BriiSEt. All oemmunloiition'i rulatlnBto now * nndrdl * torlnl tnnttor should bo luMrussod to the ElH- roil or THE H KK. All tnielnoM lottorg nnrt remittance ! should bo Addressed to TlIK 11KB rillll.lSIIIMI COMPANY , OMUIA. Drafts , oliocks and r > o toltlcti orders to bo mivlo payable to tlio order of thu compimy , HE BEE POBLISHIIlTcipm , PflflPBIETORS , E. HOSCWATKU. Rniroii. TUB OAlliY IlEK. Hworn Statement of Circulation. Btato nf Nebraska , I County of Doiulns. f S. S. (5co. 1) ) . Tzschucic , secretary of The Heo Publishing company , docs .solemnly swear Hint tlm nctiml clrcnlntloti of the Dally Heo for tlm week ending May 'JO. 1337 , was as follows : Saturday. oMay It 14.3UO Hunday , Mnv in H.ooo Monday. Hay 10 14i" Tuesday , Mav 17 14.100 "Wednesday. May 18 11,100 Tmindav. May ID 11,100 1'rlday , Alay'JO 14,100 Averazc 14.203 ( iKO. It. T/.SCIIUOK. Subscribed and sworn to before tno this Elst day of May , 17. N. 1' . Fr.ti , . f.SEAU ] Notary Public. Gen. 1J. Tzschuck , being lirht duly sworn , dcposp.s nnil sajs tliat lie Is secretary of The Jico Publishing company , that the actual average dally circulation of tlio Dally lieu for the inoiithof Mny.lbHT. , 12.-T.9 copies ; for June , Iby , , ii.aoscoDlt"tfor.luly ! ; , l&sc , 12H4 : copies ; for August , 1S.S5 , 12,404 copies ; for Septem ber , 18. * ) , l.oiO ( : conies ; for October , IkM , 12'JSO copies ; for November. 1880 , 18M3 : copies ; for December , 18M. 1:1,3:17 : : copies ; for January , 18s7 ! , 10,200 copies ; for February. lt , 14.19S copies ; for March , 1837 , 14,400 copies ; for April , 18S7 , 14ilO : ponies. ( KO. H. T/.SCHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of May , A. 1) . , 1887. ISKAL.I N. I' . I--IIT : , , Notary Public. 'J'HK inter-state commission , like Mr. Hill's presidential boom , seems to have subsided. MORI : plunk sidewalks in the very business - ness centre on Karrmm. Have wo a board Of public works ? TUB loss to Michigan by the forest ( ires taglng there the last few days cannot bo estimated. It will take many arbor days to grow the trees destroyed there. A LINCOLN paper speaks of the "al- Ileged discrimination" of Nebraska rail roads. Such reference , to those know- 4ng tlio facts , is the coolest kind of irony. GBKERAL BOOTH , of the Salvation " ; rmy , is going to become an American ( .citizen. What is England's gain in this ( instance , would appear to be America's JJoss. _ _ < _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ THE Illinois legislature will adjourn ,0iino 15. Tno idea of remaining in Cession such a great loncth of time is to jjpass a bill prohibiting base ball playing iSunday. ( IEOWJE says it is strongly xjirobablo that there will be a labor party ' , /oan'didato for the presidency in 1833. Mr. iGeorgo will no doubt aim to head the THE oholura is raging in South Amor- ttoa , and has recently spread with great jcanidity in Chili and the Argentine lie- /public. Southern states are already alarmed. A DYNAMITE borub was exploded in Lon < lon yesterday , doing some little damage. j'Jho biggest Idynamito bomb that has Pbeon exploded out of Europe lately is JEditor O'Brmn. THE San Francisco Chronicle says a ( Cincinnati man listened to the music of vtho Salvation army and then went and banged himself. An Ohio man only would expire to such music. IN getting two missionaries of the ittluudard Oil company in jail , the work * was commendable. It should not stop at ttbnt however. There are many of them running ut largo who are just us bad as itho two indicted ones. THE Louisiana Sunday law closes the -saloons and the cigar stores , but it allows the theaters to remain open. This ts to bo taken us u law to protect the theaters ifrom being interrupted by persons going ut to got cloves between acts. LMIOH quantities of natural gas have jbcou found in PnkntS , and in Kansas .prospectors have been repaid for their 1 labors. Should an effort bo made it is very likely that It would bo found in TKobraska. "MASSACHUSETTS joins Illinois in the proposition to rogulnto the telephone ( business. Nebraska attempted this Ithroutrh the Utoo statesman Mr. Watson. JTho telephone lobby , however , was on ttho ground , and Mr. Watson's bill never jpassod. A PENNSYLVANIA woman has brought tvuit against the government for $1,000- (000. She evidently proposes to engage Itlio services of several contingent law- jyers. Wouldn't Vandorbum's oycs have jglowed with happiness had such a claim ifcecn presented to our last legislature ? JUST as there used to be democrats in jPcnnsylvania who continued to rote for * 'Old Hickory" long after that great * pestle of democracy had passed over to Ulio undiscovered country , so there are 'democrats in Ohio who , at every recur ring political campaign , want Mr. Thur- man as their standard-bearer , despite the repeated avowals of the "noblest Itoman" that ho has put away forever all political ambition. There is nothing in nature loss uonotrablo than the hobotudi- nosity of the average Ohio democrat. TlIK question agitating the oiti/.ons of V 'tlto 1'acillc coast U , simll they kill thn jwals ? The Call says the seals continue 'to oat the salmon aa they ontur the ( ioldon Gato. They follow them up the -'Btraita of C.irqulucz , and oven , accord- ibiR lo ono tishorman , ns far as Sacra- jnonto itself. If they merely killed , nouph to supply themsnlvea with food ; the mischief would not bo so extensive. iVut they are said to bite moro lish than ilhey want to cat , and to kill scores of llbom apparently from more sport. If ttfao seals are killed , onn of the greatest . tt AoUons of which Califoriilans boast ; & * ! Hooka , at the Cliff house , will bo lost : Two Now Labor Champions ; The wage workers of America are of late receiving much fatherly attention from an unexpected quarter. A few days HI > O Chaunccy M. Dopow delivered an addrcsi boforc tlio Brotherhood of Loco motive firemen in which ho vigorously presented the divine rights of railroad Iarons ) and sought to impress upon workIng - Ing men generally the blessings thor share in common with the billionaires who own the New York Central. Chaun ccy Depcw is to the imperial Vanderbllt family very much what I'rinco Uismarck is to the Gorman emperor. His impul sive sympathies for tlio laboring mosses are exhausted in a profuse tender of free fatherly advice. As president of Mr. Vandcrbilt'a Now York Central Mr. Dopow graciously descends to the level of the locomotive firemen to tell them that they can't abolish poverty by spout ing , any moro than they can banish smallpox and measles by pissing resolu tions. It takes a man of ponderous in tellect to find that out ! ThL- , inspired labor lecturer condescends to take his railroad employes into his own confi dence by imparting to them some strictly private information. "They tell you , " said King Vandcr- bill's vice regent , "that the Now YorJt Central railroad earns $31,000,000 a year , and that that money goes lo the bloated capitalists. Does itf There is $12,000,000 goes for wages , $10- 000,000 goes for supplies , $3,000,003 goas for laves , interest , etc. Finally you lind find the capitalist has out of his ? GI,000- 000 only $3,000,000 to bloat on , and when you consider how many there are to share it , they don't bloat much. Y ou would not think they were bloating much if you could stand in the president's room and hoar what they expect. " Twelve millions for wages and only three mil lions for dividends to the bloated stock holders sounds like a very generous concession to the wage workers. Hut a moment's rcllcction will dispel this delusion. Three millions a a year not on an investment of $31,000- , 000 , with taxes all paid tip , is over eight per cent a year , or double the rate Vanderbilt - dorbilt draws on his government bonds. This is not all. Mr. Ucpow docs not re fer to the fact that the thirty-four mil lions of capital on which the New York Central pays dividends is fictitious and fraudulent. \ \ ith tlio water wrttug out of them , his thirty-four millions would dwindle below ono half that sum- possibly below fifteen millions from which a revenue of three millions a year is drawn wrung from the pockets of the people who arc compelled to patron i/.o the Vanilerbilt road. The Now York Central employes may bo well paid , but Mr. Dopow cannot convince ra tional people that ono half of the three millions which goes into the pockets of the bloated stock holders should by rights never have boon extorted from the patrons of the road. With cheaper faros and lower freights the railroad omployo could procure cheaper food and clothing and lower rents. Another now labor champion has pre sented himself to American workingmen in the person of Edward Atkinson. This professional economist has for yours played the role of monopoly mouto sharp. Ho loves to pose as the friend of the farmor/andstuffs the tax-riddon pro ducer with nn array of llgurea which proves conclusively that the poor rail roads are being systematically robbed and plundered for their bcnetit. Atkin son's deceptive statistics , compiled ex pressly for the benefit of stupid farmers , liavo been published in subsidized agri cultural papers and scattered broad cast by the hundred thousand , all ever the land at the expense of the down-trodden monopolies. Atkinson himself has had the sublime chock to appear before congressional commit tees to plead against railroad regula tion in general and Pacific railroad legis lation in particular. Ho always appears as a iioivy shipper in the interest of com merce or as an innocent buyer of wat ered stock pleading for justice to widows and orphans. Ilia latest Intrusion HS a true friend of labor is in full accord with all his peculiar efforts in behalf of the producing and industrial classes. It is imposture upon the credulous. His latest economic contribution on the labor prob lem appears in the May uumbor of Work and Wa < ies. The following extract shows the ingenious drift of Atkinson's polit ical economy : How does one man Ret moro than another ? That Is all there Is In In the labor question. There are two ways of answerlm ; this ques tion. One way to got more than the next man Is to earn It , the other way Is to steal it- Is there any other wsvV A fcood while ago almost every man that had more tlian the next man Imd stolen It. In some parts ol the world , they steal It now. In some other places they steal part and earn part. In this country most people earn what they get and vnrr fnw steal. Some of the nion who call themselves "friends of thn laborer" nay that almost all capitalists steal from almost all the laborers. Others say that the only real thieves are those who own land and won't et any ono else have It. Others say the rail road companies are the big thieves. Hardly any ono ever says thief out square , but It all comes to the same thing. If I make use of the law to take away any part of what a man produced without doing anything for him in return , then I am a thief. If I do as much or moro for him as lift does for mo , then I am not a thief. It the law plves mo power to take what I have not earned , then the law must bo a thief. Wo might as well say damn as to think damn. Wo may as well call a man a thief as to think ho Is a thief. Suppose I own a largo piece of land , several houses , a factory , a lot of tools , a piece of railroad , and plmity of cattle ; am I a thief V The law protects my property , if a tramp comes along who takes anv of It the consta ble takes him , and the court puts hi in in jail. Is the law a thief ? This is very plausible , but Mr. Atkin son does not enquire how or by what means the man who owns the land or the railroad came by it ? Possession is ton points of the law with him. Again hero is Atkinson's idea of the blessings of poverty : Now the rich man can't oat cany moro food than the poor man , ho can't wear many more clothes , and he can't occupy many more rooms without hiring a lot of other people to help him take care of them , and then they get their rooms The more there is the more every man has , and then each ono gets what he Is worth. If ho can do anything ho Is wanted , If he can't do anything ho Isn't wanted. The Yanktun Road. Omaha cannot dopcnd upon homo capitalists for the projected railroad to Yankton. Her home capitalists have too ruony Irons in the fire already to Invest to any extent in railroad iron. The only way to Insure the construction of jsuch road Is to hold out inducements to the managers of the Missouri Pnclllaor some other trunk line that has established con nection between Omaha and the seaboard. Talking railroad is mighty cheap , but it takes ready money and a great deal of backbone to engage in such enterprises. Our homo capitalists hare talked and ciURUscd but they are no better prepared for the construction of the Northern Ne braska road than they were twelve months ago , It is a matter of vital importance to Omaha to secure direct rail connection into northern Nebraska. That region is naturally tributary to this city , but the channels of trade have never been opened. Sioux City has been built up largely by the trade of northeastern Ne braska. It i manifestly impossible for Omaha jobbers and manufacturers to compete for the trade of any section with out railway facilities. The necessity of thu road being admitted ou all hands tlio most practical means to expedite the building of the road should be adopted. This can only bo done by negotiating satisfactory terms with parties who are in position to build the projected road and make it a paying investment. The Nco < l of The Frecrtinrn. Ono of the most interesting and really important matters discussed in the Pres byterian assembly in session in this city related to the condition of the frccdmcn in the South and their most pressing need the means of education. The Presby terian church appears from the record to have done , and to bo still doing , a great work among thesn seven millions of people ple who must for a long timoyotcontiuuo to bo the object of the white man's solicitude and beneficence. According to the statement of 3)r. Burehard , of the committee on missions , the Presbyterians are represented among the freed men by U30 missionaries , and they arc ministered to by 217 churches , having a membership of nearly 10,000 , with about an equal number in the Sabbath schools. The work being done , he said , is most en couraging , yet what has boon accom plished is but a very mnnll fraction of what remains to bo done. Of the 1,420- 000 frecdmon who are voters , there are 1,005,000 who can neither read nor write. "Theso illiterate voters , " said Dr. litirchard , "control one-sixth of the electoral vote and ono-lilth of the congressional and senatorial positions. " Sucli a fact carries its own impressive comment. Referring to the great political power exorcised by this illiterate mass , Dr. Al len , secretary of the board of freeilman's missions , said : "Tho perpetuity of the country depended upon the intelligence and morality of the colored pooplo. Sooner or later , if permitted to continue in their presentcondition , the same freedmen - men would undermine the foundations of the country. If a good government bo found in this country twenty-five years from to-day , it will bo because there will bo an abolition of the neglect now prevailing with reference to the ed ucation and morality of the colored man. " It is not political assistance so much as education that the trecdmcn require , was the opinion of ono of their representa tives , a colored clergyman from Georgia. It is not necessary to accept in full the apprehensions expressed by Dr. Allen in order to be able to agree m his view of what is required to bo done for the freed men of the south , and it will certainly bo most unfortunate if the white people of the country shall over become largely indifferent to this requirement. If it bo true that there is now a prevalent noglcct the effort to infuse a frci-h inter est and zeal in the work in behalf of the the frecdmon cannot be begun too sooner or pushed lee vigorously. Whatever other mission any labor may have to suffer that among the frccdmcn should not bo permitted to decline. It is n fam ily affair which our people cannot for n moment allow to go without the most solicitous attention , regardless of what ever omissions such attention shall ren der necessary with respect to these outside - side of the family. The question is ono of self-protection and solf-preservation , which it is justifiable under all circum stances to give precedence to. As an en lightened people , claiming a place at least in the vanguard of the army of civ ilization and progress , wo cannot consis tently , oven if wo might safely , neglect the great duty of providing for the intel lectual and moral advancement of those f rood men. Itut moro forcibly than all the considerations of expediency , justice demands that wo shall not neglect this duty. This most injuortn : > t work must continue to bo carried on chielly by the ohuro lies , and if it shall happen that their interest in it suffers abatement the work must inevita bly retrograde. It is gratifying , there fore , to lind the assembly of the Presby terian church giving earnest attention to this matter and recommending increased vigor in the work. It will bo ail the bol ter if such action shall inspire other churches with nn emulative interest and /eal. In such a cause church rivalry cannot be too active and earnest. The Now Pulley. The secretary of the interior has pro claimed the now policy which , ajrreo ably to the vlows and suggestions of the president , Is to bo pursued vvith regard to the public lands. The secretary is re ported to have expressed himself as in full accord wilh the position taken by the executive , so that his proposed action is not n merely perfunctory proceeding but ono in which ho has a hearty intcros and will therefore firmly adhere to. Ho has said that ho is fully convinced thai the lands which have been with drawn from settlement in the interest of the land grant corporations ought to bo re-opened without delay , and quickly following upon this expression comes the announcement of a rule requiring the land grant railroad companies , on or before fore the 27th day of Juno , to show cause why the several orders withdrawing lands within the indemnity limits slinl not bo revoked and such lands restored to settlement. Among the companies in tcrcsled in the requirement of this rule are the U. & M , , the Chicago , Milwaukee & St. Paul , the Chicago & North western , and the Chicago , St. Paul , Min ncapolis & Omaha. This prompt action of the Interior department partment , with the assurance conveyed that there will be no unnecessary delay in putting the now policy into full effect , will bo heartily welcomed and com mended by the country. Before the close of present year there will bo many mil lions of acres of desirable land thrown open to the people , all of which will un Uoubtodly be taken up by actual settlers The secretary of the interior has also expressed his hearty approval of the In dian severally lawl nnd promised early iction under it. As soon as the pro visions of this act Sliull' be fully complied with another vast area will be opened to settlement , much of which is the very best land in the country. According to he report of the Indian commissioner over 1:53,000,000 : acres are now included n Indian reservations' , on which 200,003 Indians live. Probably 100,000,000 acres of these lands are available. When those Indians shall have tnkon lands in sever ally , less than 0,000,000 , acres will aflbrd a IfiO-acro homestead to every In dian family , and the vast remainder will jo acquired by the government on terms just to the Indians And added to the pub lic domain , The accomplishment of this will of course not bo the work of n day , but it will come , and the sooner the taik is entered upon the better. The steady and rapid growth of our population makes the demand for new homes constant and ca- er. The Dublin domain available lor set tlement is rapidly diminishing. The gov ernment has no more important duty than to recover for the people those lands which properly belong to thorn and to secure for their use all other lands which can be justly obtained. THIRTY gallant soldiers of the salva tion army have boon thrown into n bastilo down in Kansas City because their parades rados had causwl several runaways and were becoming a general nuisance. The imprisoned warriors have made the Kansas City police station melodious with their hymns and the police arc nearly ready to enroll in the army. Wnn.i : the city council should go slow in granting franchises , it should not refuse those which are fair and honest and which will tend to the material development of the city. The franciiisc sought by the Metro politan Cable company is upon its face the fairest franchise that has yet been asked. OUR self-styled stalwait republican local contemporary continues to villify and abuse the republican governor of Nebraska , and keeps up a bush whacking war on the republican mayor and republican police commissioners of Omaha. This is stalwartism with a ven geance. FOUTUNK ANI > MISFORTUNE. The late W. C. Do Pauw , of New Albany , Ind. , left a fortune of 80,000,000. Ileleno do Ilothschlld , who Is goln ; to marry Captain Van Suiesson , of the Belgian army , is mistress of ,6 0,000.000. Edward ( Jay and' C. Ml. Davis , of Boston , got each a 82,000 pri/.e for landscapes from the American Art ( JalliTj- .Now Vork. General Simon UoUvar Hticlcuer , the dem ocratic candidate for covornor In Kentucky , has over $500,000 worth of ; real estate In Chi cago. cago.A A younc Chinaman employed by a cigar firm on Park row , New Yoik. has won thn second prize for ornamental drawing at the Cooper institute. Senator Stanford recently presented to his brother , Josinh Stanford , the celebrated Warm Sprint ; ranclie , once the mot noted health resort in California. It Is valued at 5250,000. When Jacob Schaelkopf , the millionaire tanner of Buffalo , took his wlt'o around to look at a S."OJCOO residence which he iccontly boimht , her only criticism was that she was afraid If she lived there she "would have to keep a girl. " Christopher Meyer , a ISew York rubber merchant whom nobody seems to know , is said to have enough money of his own to buy the Baltimore & Ohio load on cash terms , lie Is a German by birth , but made his for tune In this country. John McCarthy Is the oldest bootblack In New York , having occupied a stand near the Astor house for twnnty-elght years. Ho has over 520,000 In bank and will .soon retire and do duty as a shining example of the virtue of Industry and economy. An old man who had worked every night for ten years on an ttaelnnent to a mlline machine , and who thought that he had ae- couipllbhcd the work of his life , was well nigh heartbroken the other day when he dis covered that several years ago a patent was issued covering the Identical Improvements that he had made. It Is told of Alexander Mitchell that he once asked hi s Irieml , Mr. Merrill , to go Into a certain speculation with him. The latter declined. A tow weeks later Mr. Mitchell handed him a check for S30.000. "What's this f'oi ? " Inquired Mr. Meirlll. "O. " was the icplv , "that's your share ot the prollts In tlm deal 1 asked you to go Into. You thought vou uert-n't In but you were. " William T. Walters , of Baltimore , values his ait collection nt more than M.000,000. Mr. Walters is a I'ennsylvanlan of Scotch-lilsh ancestry. Ills love for art has bcnn thu rul- Ini : passion of his life , 'llielirat 3" lie ever M'ont ' was for a picture. Kvory year he put aside a part of his Income for art puichases. The result has been a piivate ait gallery which many critics consider the most har monious and beaulllul in the world. The interest In Mr. Wallers' ceramics and pic tures Is Increased by the fact that the vast tortuno ot tlio owner was made by h'b ' own exertions. He Is in the liquor business. The Human Aiiution. < ! ciiijc ( / ' . SJww Hoi heio are lives by the score to sell , . Up to the platform , gents , and bid : Make mean otl'fcr , they'll ' pay you well- All of 'cm ripe tor the colltn lid. Hero Is a woman , pint-lied and pale , 1'lyinic her needle lor dally bread ; Glvti mo a shirt for her mpro on sale , Dying , goiitlomen ilyln.'l dead ! A family , six In number , Mere. Kiesh from a celler in tSoinora' Town ; Mother her sixth conliuumont near. Father and brats with lever down ; 'Twas Resilience spoke then , wus It not' . ' "An open sewer/11 think ho said ; Well , his oiler shall buy the lot , Dying I gentlemen dying dead I Now , good customors'jioro's a chance ; A thousand men in the prime of lite , Wlelders of muskets , sworil and lance , Armed and drilled for the deadly strife , General warfare lifts his hand "A buUut for each. " cries the gent In red No otfor but this fast Hews tlio band , Dying ! gentlemen dylnfe I dead 1 A body of tellers worn an < f weak , Clerks and curates and writing men- Look at the llnsh on each sunken check , Mark the lingers that grasp the pen. Come , good gentlemen , can't we ttenl ? Has Drudmy'H eye for bargains flea ? He offers , at last , the price of a meal- Dying I guutlemen dying 1 dead ! Oppoiflrt to Opposition. lIMvielpMa Ileconl. The railroads and the beneficiaries ot un just discrimination aie In favor of a suspen sion of the lone and short haul clause. This Is natural enough. They wore all opposed to the passage of the clause , which was not rondo for their benolit , but for tbo protection of the public. . . The Jluads , Not the Act. Atlanta ComtHutton. Champions ot the Intcr-stato commerce bill point with pride to the fact that railroad jarnlngi have Increased stnco the act wont Into olTecr. Certainly. This is the beat proof possible that the act has taxed the l > eolo | by depriving them ot the legitimate t > cuellts ot competition. The Uomot HuMitcsB. Onn professor has niado 81.MO this year by discovering now comets and getting the S" > 00 bounty offered. Comet-hunting ts getting to be a profitable employment. When a man can sit down after supper and pick up a S.VW comet tlioie Is no need of Ills family going hungry. If ho keeps on this way , however , such conduct will have a tendency to reduce the ptlco of comets. CHil H.VBKET. II. UIUKII HAooAnn Is writing another novel. Lot him call It Hats. Br.i.v.v hocKwoon Is lecturing In Ne braska. Helva Ann Is looking after her fences for ' i of Buffalo Hill's Indians Is In Ids war paint , the Englishmen think lie Is made up to kill. IT Is celling along to that tlmo of year "what Is so when sad-oyed poets wonder Vare ns a day In Juno' . " ' i do VIUK" : wants to know what a young man won't do when ho Is In love. Well , ho won't cat onions. IN' her next play Sirs. Langlry will bore a hold through the vllllan In live places. This will bo better than boring the entire audi ence. A Fmi.ADF.t.i'itiA pauer cautions Its read ers not to junii ) I torn street cars while they nro in rapid motion. It doubtless means while the readers are \n \ rapid motion. Miss K. DP.LAXCY is dying In a New Lon don hospital from the effects of the bite of a rat. This piobably explains why women arc afraid of mice. IT Is a historical fact that 200 years and more ao beds In England were bays filled with straw or leaves. And It Is another his torical tact that some of tlioM ) same beds are In use In this country to-day. Tin : Fifth Avenue hotel in New York rents for 51 5,000 a year. That's all right for the landlord to get high rent , but Its hardly tl > o squaio thing lor tlio landlord to add a months rent to every transient boarder's bill. bill.C. C. W. KM.IS who put in six months at the Jamestown , Dakota , Insane asjluin , and who hasicccntly been trying to get up a town lot boom at Fargo , attempted to make his wife Bit on a red hot stnvo the other ni lit. Th's ' little circumstance shows man's devotion to woman. Dn. CIIASH , of San Francisco , reports a case in which a man lived ten years after having been scalped and tomahawked by In- dlan.s. If this statement Rains a general cir culation throughout the country wo venture to say that no snake stories will be told this season , Tun Philadelphia Record seriously con siders the question : "Can cats bo shot ? " Many a night , when one of these felines pours out his soul on the back shed to his laggard mate , there can never bo found in the household near by one dissenting voice to the proposition that they should be shot. AN Indian , Younc-Man-Atraid-o - Horse , recently killed in Washington terri tory a man , a mountain bear , two wild cats and the largest rattlesnake ever occii on tlio coast. Curious people will attempt to Imag ine the extent of his destruction had the young man not been afraid of his Horse. A NimtASKA : newspaper man advertises for a printer 'ho is a good alto or tenor player In brass band , one who uudorstands both newspaper and job work , will be re quired to work hand press two hours each week. It Is not every man who possesses the rare attainments mentioned above. The man who can pull the Aichlmedlan lever , blow a horn and be siipprlntendtsnt of a Sun day school is only lound In the honored pro fessions. TIIK recent sparring exhibition between two Sucker gladiators In the Illinois state house was the same tiling , only a little loncer drawn out , as happened down nt Lincoln last winter. When Senator Colby paced the Moor mid denounced the entiio state as a coward , lirsl being sure that his man Friday , Tom Majors , was holding Sena tor Keckly ; there was au exhibition of valor on the part ot the Gngo county statesmen that would have miulo the Illinois pugilists weep for shame. Tin : rage of London nowadays Is all for the Wild West show ; "blnomln1 Injuns" and "bloody beasts" Is heard where'er you go. At Buckingham palace and Balmoral , or down \vhcie tlio Thames does flow , at the Hotel Metropolo or tlio Seven Dials , they talk of tlio Wild West .show. Tlio crowned heads of Kuiopo have taken it in , and the gamin come anil so , and the jostling tlnong 6t Chcapsldo street Is nil going to the Wild \Vcst bhow. The moral to this plainly i that a crown and a haughty air , Is nothing to a man Hko Buffalo BUI , .with flowing locks of hair. Tin : Lincoln Democrat during these days when Its columns are burdened with town lot ads , and Its bU Satuiday editions are gathering money into its exchequer , meanly and scornfully Inteipretstho Inter-state law in the following fashion : This paper does not print time tables for railroads. It will advertlso for thorn any time they order It , at regular rates and for cash. It no more proposes to In tor in the public when and whereto take trains than when and where to buy a cigar or a drink era a coat or any other article of merchandise Tlio Inter-stato law lorblds all such discriminations inations- HuoKK.it POND , In a New York court thn other day , when asked If a certain person was dead , replied that he was as good as dead , that ho was poor. To this temark , which was nothing but a facetious chestnut , a southern paper takes Mr. Pond by the frontispiece of his pantaloons and holds him alolt as a pur.se-proud egotist , and a scound rel ana a villain , and reaches out Into space mid writes a moral essay that would wring tear * 1'iom a ghost , Mr. Pond doubt less meant that his friend was dead bioku , a piedlcamcnt In which many men have found themselves. ELT.A WIIEW.BH WILCOX , who ellngs Swinburne Intensity to a degree way above /nro , promises to furnish admirers of her poetry with another volume , when the leaves fall In October. A dear friend of Klla's once wrote her , after ryadlug her last book : Pray put vour nature In nn Ice box , Until 'tis fro/.cn through and through , For lust as wrUIn HS you're a female woman , 'TIs the best and safest thin ? to do. Yet If you deem such task beyond your power , Pray be more careful In delineation , A trillo guarded voll your heart And leave a llttlo something for Imagina tion. It Is to be hoped that Ella will remember this kinu advlco. ST. PAUL was the scene of a touching In cident a few nights ago. One of these mel ancholy occurrences leaving Its Impression In after years. The scone was the city hall , the actors a man named Sterni'gyk and his Indignant motber-iu-law. The mother-in-law oow-ldded her daughter's husband , ' In.a . man- nor that at once showed skill and apprecia tion. Her story was that her daughter had married the party whom stio cxorclspd ; that ho WAS already married , and that she claimed and Insisted that nopolygamUt could gain her affections , and that the man man ) Ing her daughter must love them both. It was in deed a picture that artists would haveenvlcd , and the good nngels of the old time , who took men by thn hand and led them from de struction , would have hid behind n cow-hldo during the matinee referred toiindnpplfiidcd the Indignant woman. St. Paul Is gay and giddy In all things. J. KTKIII.INO MOIITO.V , the s.igo of Arlio r Lodge , relates In his experience as a journal ist an amusing Incident that will assist in smoothing the hard lines of those yet In the harness , \Yhcu ho pushed the F fiber on the second p.izo of the Nebraska City News ho was a young man ambitious and eager lor fame. One d.iy ho "spread himself" ou an attlolo relating to the financial condition of tlio countr.y. lie studied hU subject , quoted statistics , made citations from musty volume * of authoritiesventured a piopheay audasked a dur.en questions , which , to him , seemed so profound and logical , that he know ho had written his name Immoital . Ills manu script was sent to the printer early , ho saw tlio tlr.st proof and oulered three re vises. Ho aroart early the next morning , arrived at his olllce at 0 o'clock and read the article as It appeared In the paper as the "leader. " 'Anxious to receive tlio pralso that ho know such wisdom would evoke , ho started to tlio postofllce. A gentleman mot him and said , " .Morton , th.U's the best thing 1 over road , Us " " 1 know It was what you follows would appreciate , " sa'd Mr. Morton as he lolt his friend , anxious for the opinion ot others. Three citizens mot him at the postolllcc-laughlng and sinlllmr. One of thems.ild : "That's the bust thing over In your paper , " and continued to laush. The other two .said It was "so d d tunny. " "But I don't sou anything tunny about it , " said Mr. Morton , fearing that some mistake had been made after all his caro. "Ves , " con tinued one of them , "you see that d d dog had the call by the tall and the wo man had tlm ito. ? by the tall , and " Mr. Morton remembered that a loc.ilcdltorlKul written up a foolish sensa tion and the town was congratulating him as its author , wliilo his financial article had not been road by a slnlo man. "That , " said Mr. Morton , "was the last tune 1 over-spread myself , on the second page. " 8TAT13 AND TKHKITOKV. Nclirawka Jottings. The new land olliup at Chadron will opun for business business on Juno 13. Beatrice is preparing to paint thn horizon zen and liquidate a portion of liberty's ctubt on thi ! "ever glorious. " I. C. Cntz is the signilicent namn of the oflicial butcher of O'Neill City. His patrons do not see it that way. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Benson , of Columbus , tumbled Into a tub of water , and the angels gathered him in. Chadron will hurl a band of howling , painted , civilized Indians at liberty's walls on the Fourth. If Hail Columbia survives the assault , she's a good one. Plattsmouth had a brief business call from H bunch of crooks , Saturday night. They managed to secure expenses and dissolved with the dawn of tlio Sabbath. West Point papers have agreed to en force the long haul on traveling fakirs , and the charitable church fair , festival festival and drama. This will clip the whiskers of the strawberry social. The Plattsmouth Alining and Prospect ing company is the title of the latest bore in the Cass metropolis. The company proposes to dissent the bowels of the earth for traces of coal , gas , oil , salt , or other mineral. The nines of Neligh and Atkinson will meet in deadly contest at Neligh on Juno 1 torf 100 u side and the state champion ship. Should the victors survive the min istrations of thu surgeons , they will in vade Omaha and give the luckless leaguers some pointers on the game. The press of Ord and Loup City have adopted thu the Arizona uodo of journal istic harmony. The Ord Democrats sa lutes its neighbor thus : "Agreeably to the kindly suggestion of the esteemed idiot of the. North Loup Vacuum and Ollico Seeker's Morgue we have disin fected our ollico this week. " The PlattsmoutU Journal reports that Dr. Doggc suddenly departed from that town on the arrival of C. G. Horold , whom ho was instrumental in placing in the penitentiary. "As llcrnld stepped oft' the train from the west Doggo stepped on , and Doggo's wife came Hying down to the depot just in time to sec the train pull out , with her spouse Rtandlng upon the platform blandly waving his hands in graceful adieu. The tenderness of his farewell did not seem to electrify her with blissful emotions , for as she ran to- w.ird him she shook her clenched right hand at him menacingly and her lips beat u wild refrain of cur. os. " Iowa Items. The Hyan murder case has cost Atidu- bon county ever ! ? 1'UUI ' ) ) . Tlic corner Mono of the now $10,030 M. E. church at Creston , was laid with ap propriate ceremonies Friday afternoon. Prophet Foster predicts that the first storm in Juno will cross the Mississippi on the second , and th'j second on the Uth. 1'ivo mtiscatluo people rncniitl.v received $10,000 each from the estate of a rich uncle , William Morrison , of Allegheny , Pa. Pa.Threo Three young men having in their pos session 110 ! pocketknives and twenty-one razors wore arrested Saturday at Sigour- noy on suspicion of bolng burglars. Injunctions were lust Wednesday granted against four prominent citizens ot Spencer for dealing in hard cider. The beverage was analyzed by exucrtH and found to contain from 7 to 8 per cent of alcohol. Gourgo H. Slater , of Clinton , a brakeman - man on the Chicago & Northwest ern railroad , was knocKed from a tram at Bertram by the spout of a water- tank , which had not been properly raised , and in falling struck his head on the ground and broke his neck. Lie was a young man about twenty-two , and the solo support of IIIR father and mother. The I ; < > ntr niul Short Haul Fallacy. To the Editor of the HKIJ : There is more good in the world than bad , more Biinshmo than rain , moru to commend in railroad management than to condemn. Tlio policy of the railroads , prior to the inter-state commerce bill enactment , to bring the far west as near tide water as possible by making long hauls at cost and making intermediate business pay the dividends , was undoubtedly the cor rect one for the past and for the futuro. The greatest good for the greatest num ber , should bo our motto. The operatives of the barrnn New England states must bo cheaply fed that Uiuir products 11133' bo cheaply furnished the farmers of the far west. What is the west without the cast , and vice versa ? Ono is equally de pendent on the other. Thu closer rela tions the butter for the whole country. This closer relation under the inter-state commerce bill is being Kovorud , and the great west is thinking of manufacturing her own poods , and the cast plowing deeper to bring to thu mirfaco fresh soil to raido corn , and thus a Chinese wall will bo bujlt by high rates of freight , to tlio detriment of the whole country and especially the railroads. The low rates for long hauls are de manded by both cast and wist and in- vplvo thu Jifd of our export tradu. , Can not wo have what the majority want , or must we bo governed by that small minority who cannot or who will no1 see the mote.In his brother's isvc , for ( lit Imam in his own ? who cannot see that high rates for short hauls is money In his pockut , as It makes it possible lo got thn long hauls at lower rates , and betiliH him us two to one. For instance , prior to the passage of the inter-stato com nierco bill , a farmer thirty miles west of Omaha say hail to pay -t'JI to get : i car load of twelve tons of corn liuulcd to Omaha ; a high prlcii for thirty miles .surely , but when lutulrd in Omaha , r.nl road competition rendered it ndmissal < < for the merchant lo pay high price I r liis corn , as it could be hauled tlio Ion ; haul tu Chicago for $1 $ , making $ ? J for the whole distance tlnrly miles west < -f Omaha to Chicago. Is the farmer i ( > i bunolitted ? or will this sarnu farmer t. nwrnl n low itrieo for a short haul to Omiiha , say of $ lt ! , for his carload , anil under the inter-.stnte commerce bill ( lo Onmlm merchant must pay $100 to get n carload hauled to Chicagoor $110 fortho wliolo distance , thirty miles west of Omaha to Chicago , which comes out of the farmer , or just $ lOtllHeroneo in favor of the high price for short limit and low price for thu long haul. This is no ex ception , bill applies to many cases under this bill : same result implies to what the farmer buys us to what lie sells. So much for governmental Interference with free competition and unrestricted rates in commerce. Thu roads tempo rarily will make money asshown above , but the ultimate results will be. the east crn manufacturer will start his fnctoiv thirty miles west of Omaha and Iran port his operative * only once over tl e rend in a lifetime , where thu farmer en sell his corn and hogs ns long nstlxy live tuul their children after them , iu.,1 make the goods the farmer buys , and so thu long haul for thu goods bo done anav with. Then again , it often happens that the rate for short hauls does not pay the second handling , and a car must betaken for two tons or less , whilu long hatilH must go in carloads and loaded oy con signor and unloaded by consignee. If largo shippers or merchants must pay same rates : ts small lots ( less than car load ) or consumer , then the middle man must go and the consumer and producer come together , and the great citv of Omaha is a mistake , not needed , ns'tho Nebraska farmer will trade with Chicago direct , or on same theory , Chicago not wanted , all go to headquarters , sea board cities , the points of embarkation and de barkation , and all our centers of trade from Albany to Denver can b dispensed with and allowed to rot and turn the ground into pastures. Or , lias not the policy heretofore pursued in making long hauls at low rates to competing centers , and building up these large marts of trade , which actually benolit the farmer and every man , woman and child in the wliolo country , been the true ono ? If the farmer wants to got what lie wants , at his door , ho must either pay the middle man or bo the merchant himself ho cannot cat the pound of sugar in Now York city unless hauled to him , and if the long haul for small lots ( less than carload ) is so high , ho cannot alford il and must go without. So the long haul at low price and the short haul at high price is perfectly consistent and harmonious in every economic view , and thorefore.thc theory of Iho intor-stato commerce bill is a complete fallacy as to long and short hauls. Every argument herein contained , in regard to our domes tic trade and traiilo , applies with double force to our foreign trade , as our wheat fields and cattle ranches are ao far re moved from tide water that unless low rates are made , wo lose that trade en tirely , and as ovcry nation la prosperous in comparison with what she sells toother countries , wo will faro badly indeed , as no corresponding advance in our broad * stnil's can bo obtained in Liverpool to meet the advanced.f reight rates domand- cd by law. MKUCHANT. SbV ItKADY. " SOBIBNER'S MAO-AZINE FOIl JUNE. CONTENTS : BONAPARTE. Frontispiece. From a pnlnU Inir by AITIAM. SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF NAPOLEON AND HIS TIMESUy JOHN U. Itoi-us. With Illustrntloiu from tlio author's collect- tlun. \CE0RLSL0CFTHNAK A ? ! SHim Ia with portraits imd rumoilnctfonsof drawings by Tlmckoruy. ( To bo continued III furttior numbers. ) MISS PRINCLE'S NEIGHBORS , Uy Mrs. KOIIBIIT LOl'l j i" " AN UNCOMMERCIAL REPUBLIC. y W. T. UuiaiiAM. 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