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    ! THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FlttDAY. MAY 27 , 1887.
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IT now appears thul tbo Chicago Trib
tine's hero , Walter Rldgoly , robbed tin
tram lu Texas the other day.
O'HitiKN is to visit Niagara falls. Hi
probably has no Idea of shooting Niag
urn , but perhaps would like to shool
some of the natives near by.
TIIEUK nro being organized aevera
base .ball clubs composed entirely o
women.Vo do not see but what th <
women can play ball as well as the ruor
do this season.
No itiirouT has yet been received fron
the railway commission which at thii
time is supposed to bo between Norfoll
and Long Pine. The IJ. & M. should sent
out a relief expedition.
THKUK is ono thing gratifying regard
Ing Queen Kapialoni's visit to this conn
try , and that is she leftno"stylo" or "fash
ion" to bo twiggeu by sentimonta
gtishors or painted fashion plates.
MB. HAISTRAI > wants to "have n res
on Kcifcr , " and says ho is "tired of see
ing his name in the papois. " Mr. Ual
stead understands that it is the duty of :
Croat editor to voice the sentiments o
the people.
Tii08. NAST says the mugwumps an
more numerous than over , and that thoj
arc all f.or Cleveland in 1888. Mr. Nast
even while on'u pleasure tour , remombon
the policy of the paper upon which ho ii
employed.
THE Chicago boodlers are now postal
before the blinded goddess , awaiting thi
vengeance of the outraged law. The wa :
Sharp is being treated in New York UN
Cook county thieves believe there is i
hope for them.
BUFFALO BILL'S daughter will shan
her father's glory and is to bo rocetvcc
At court. Mr. Shakosporo wrolo it wel
when ho said there is a tide in tin
affairs of man , in which if you catoh on
leads to fortune.
GovEiurou AMK9 , of Massachusetts , recently
contly delivered a speech at Brooklyno it
which ho waved the bloody shirt until hi
Bhook it to shreds. The bloody shirt i
getting to bo a chestnut. There are arguments
monts more modern and equally oflec
tivo.
THE Illinois legislature , since the ills
graceful fight between two of its mom
* bora lias grown wonderfully and exceed
ingly virtuous. It is only grappling wit !
great moral questions , and expects tiC
-C continue until Juno 15. What is so rar
"
w legislature in June ?
TUB extra session of the Missouri les
Islaturo is busily engaged passing appre
- priation bills. One railroad bill has bee :
introduced fixing maximum rates , bu
permits railroad commissioners to adop
n lower schedule. Such a prlvelogo to
railroad commission will never bo uti
ized.
WITH a monopoly on the fresh bee
supply of the entire country ; the quei
tlon is not "Shall wo live again , " bu
how to live in the immediate- now isiS
problem that will puzzle philosopher ;
All things nro tending to "eombinn
lions. " Even the truthful drcus ndvoi
tisomonts nnnounco roy.il combination !
TIIK attempt of the Celtic to'toloscop
the lirittanio , 350 miles east of Sand
Hook , will cause ocean travelers muc
uneasiness while crossing the banks th
season. The twenty-four hours in whic
a henvy fog always hangs over thnt poi
tlon of the route will be long and dreary-
more tedious than before this last disa ;
tor , although a similar acoidont is n <
likely to occur again.
MR. WILLIAM NYK is evidently a clo.
observer of human nature. During a rei
Idenoe of only a few months In Now Yor
ho palnU the following picture of Ja
Gould : "Jay Gould would nttrnot voi
little attention hero on the streets , but t
would certainly bo looked upon with sui
pioion in Paradise. A man who woul
fail to remember thnt ho had | 7,000K (
that belonged to the Erie road , but wti
dee not forgot to remember whenever li
paid his own hotel bills nt Washington ,
ifte kind of ranu who would pull up an
iS pawn the pavements of Paradise with !
thirty dayn after he got thoro. "
The Chicago Wheat Corner ,
Kvcry day increases the interest in the
; rent wheat dual in Chicago , which U at
tracting as much attention in commercial
circles throughout the country as anyone
ono of the many similar speculations that
mvo preceded it. It has been on now
for three months , nud a ? the tlmo np-
iroaches when it must culminate , in-
. or eat in it of course becomes more in-
.enso , Ono thing that has served to
render this deal peculiarly interest
ing is the fact that no ono
knows who are the principals in
it. There is abundant evidence that the
combination sustaining the market is a
very strong ono financially , but thus fur
all eflbrts to ascertain who are its mem
bers have failed. The ono tact that
seems to bo certainly known is that Ar
mour is not in the deal.
The clique is said to own ten million of
the thirteen million bushels of cash
wheat now in store. Thn culmination of
the deal must be reached some time with
in the next thirty-four days. On the
10th of Juno there will bo another de
livery day , which is awaited with
a good deal of concern , since
the course of the clique at that time will
determine whether the corner is to bo
maintained and the shorts subjected to a
further squeezing. Until then there will
bo the doubt whether the clique will not
after all transfer its operation1 } over into
July. It is believed its holding for Juno ,
including the cash wheat , aggregates
40,000,000 bushels. The stage has boon
reached in tlio'cornor when it is simply a
question .of money , and if the clique is
financially strong enough to carry the
deal on through June it 19 inevitable that
the shorts must sufl'cr heavily. This
is the important point that will bo de
termined when delivery day is reached
on the first of that month. Tlio manager
of the deal is a Cincinnati man , Wilt
shire , who has figured in other largo
operations. Ho claims not to know who
his principals are , but that Ins orders
came by telephone from the Cincinnati
Fidelity bank. One clique brokerage
house is the richest in the trade and can
command , it is said , $3,000,000 of its own.
Umnlin'n Mnrkot.
No commercial enterprise is contrbuting
BO much to thn welfare , prosperity and
growth of this city as the live stock in
terests at South Omaha. Each day demon
strates more clearly that this is to become
ono of the great live stock markets of the
west. The producers and shippers of this
western country have now an advantage
ous market near homo. By shipping to
Omaha they make a great saving , as the
shrinkage caused by the long haul to Chicago
cage is avoided and the stock is promntly
disposed of. This fact , coupled wlth'tho
other equally important ono that stock
will bring move hero in proportion
than at points farther cast , is
what is building up this market.
To prove the assertion that the
Omaha lira stock market is making
gigantic strides forward , it is only neces
sary to glance at a few figures. In 1885
the total receipts of hogs were only
107,374 , and in 1830 they reached 407,991.
At the present time they are being ro-
ccivod at the rate of live to seven thou
sand per day , and this is by no means
the most busy season of the year. The
most satisfactory feature of all this
is the fact that every hog received
is being slaughtered hero and man
ufactured into the different pro
ducts. Again , all the packing houses
combined , last year , killed only 407,99 i
hogs or a daily nvoraao of about 1,850
hogs. Now ono packing house alone is
killing on an average 2,200 hogs per day ,
or more than all the others combined last
year. There has not been as great an
improvement in the cattle market for
the reason that a general depression has
aftcctod the cattle industry all over the
country. The building of the Swift pack
ing housa will give a great Impetus to
the cattle market at this point , and it is
only a question of a little time when it
will bo a rare thing to see live stock of
any kind shipped beyond the Missouri
river. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A Self-Satisrted Lord.
On last Tuesday the National club ol
Toronto entertained Lansdowne , who re
sponded to a toast complimentary to him'
self. The telegraphic report shows the
speech to have been in some respects a
rather creditable production , and as the
audience was most thoroughly loyal it
was of course received with many demon-
siratlons of approval. A considerable
share of it was devoted to the fisheries
question , and it is to be noted that the
governor general talked quite ra
tionally respecting the relations that
ought to submit between. Canada and
the United States. Ho was disposed to
make a good deal of allowance for the
irritation of the Now England fishermen
as being perfectly natural , but ho coun
seled no moderation on both sides , and
had no doubt If the right spirit were per
mitted to control there need be no appro *
honsion of the result.
The conspicuous feature of interest in
the address , however , was the reference
of the marquis to the event which has
brought him moro prominently into pub
lie attention than any other in his not re
markably brilliant career. His allusion
to this was a quite neat example of rhe
torical indirection. Ho remarked that o
slight touch of electricity had been per
coptibio in the atmosphere , and thai
"certain stars have shot madly from
their spheres into your quiet firmament , "
experiencing the fate which usually over
takes xuch erratic constellations ; but the
disturbance had bcou brief ant
inconsiderable , and ho trusted would
leave no traces behind. As to himself
unstained by the kindness of the class t (
whom ho was talking , the affair did nol
for an Instant interfere with his hnppl
ness or convenience. Ho wont on to express -
press his entire satisfaction with tbo situ
ation so far as ho is personally concerned
corned , and to indicate that ho felt as so.
euro in the loyal confidence of the Can'
ftdiftn people as ho had over boon.
This professed complacency may be
real and it may be affected , but in eitlioi
case it docs not help the causa of the
marquis of Lansdowne. The law wm
outraged , free spoeoh was assailed
and violence was committed ir
Toronto and other Canadian cities b :
his adherents , and having the kuowlcdg *
that these things were threatened and
the power to prevent their occurrence
he did not move a hand or utter a word
for their prevention. And while ye
other outrages wore being threatonci
nd planned , the governor general , ro
spending to a toast of loyal friends in hi
honor , talks flippantly of all this serioui
matter as a "touch of electricity , " a dis
turbnnuo caused by stars that have shot
uadly from their spheres , which , how
ever , was inconsiderable , and ho
rusts will leave no traces behind.
fet a word of regret or reproof for the
awlossncs3 that has put an Ineradicable
jlot on the record of the Dominion. I'or-
mps nothing bettor1 could bo expected of
i man who had not the honor to keep his
contracts with his unfortunate tenantry ,
and who drove men , women and children
from their homes witli relentless cruelty.
The Marquis of Lansdowne is mistaken ,
however , if ho fancies that the disturb
ance has boon inconsiderable , or that it
will leave no traces. It has made
plain to the world the character ol
man ho is , and the tracn of that
disclosure is so deeply made that nothing
ho may say can efface it. It has put n
stain upon him that will remain an indel-
llblo part of the record of his life. Lot
him find what satisfaction ho may in tlia
approval of the courtiers and the trucu
lent worshippers of royalty , however un
worthy it may bo , .that now surround
him. The indictment that O'Brien has
proclaimed and the great majority ol
English-speaking people believe to be
true , will stand acalnst him for all time
a trace of the "disturbance" which the
marquis would undoubtedly bo willing to
make almost any sacrifice to wlpo out ,
but which is beyond his power to remove
or change. _ _ _ _ _
Is It Another "Trust ? "
A St. Louis paper is authority for the
statement that a gigantic schema is afoot
to consolidate all the cattlu interests ol
the Northwest and form a company
which shall control $15,000,000 worth oi
cattle and graxing lands. The cattle in
terests that are expected to unite in this
project are those of Wyoming , Colorado ,
Eastern Utah , Western Nebraska , South
ern Montana and Southern Dakota , and
it is said that the scheme was precipitated
by the failure ot the Swan
Brothers some days ago. The consequences -
sequences of that failure forced the
cattle men , according to the report , to
take immediate 'action , and they pro
ceeded at once with the business pre
liminary to organization. The capitalists
said to bo interested are located in Cheyenne -
onno , Now York , Boston , Philadelphia ,
and some of them in London , England ,
and Edinburgh , Scotland.
Wo called attention a little while ago to
the organization of the American Cattle
Trust , the purpose of which was sup
posed to bo the care and protection
of the cattle interests of all sec
tions , primarily against the alleged
abuses and injustice of the Chicago cattle
ring. The proposed organization re
ported from St. Louis would snorn to bo
something dill'eront , though in all proba
bility , if there is anything in the report ,
the plan , if not the special object , is the
same. It is not unlikely that the cattle
interests of the northwest would doom it
wiser to have their own organization
than to pool with the intoreats of another
section , while organization elsewhere
would doubtless compel them to
take similar action. But whatever
the circumstances or motives con
ducing to this movement , as
suming the report to be authentic , public
interest in the matter will relate to the
probable ultimate effect upon the mnrKct
price of the commodity which those or
ganizations will control.
It hai heretofore boon said with rospccl
to the cattle "trust" that so long as it
had to fight tliQ Chicago ring the coasura
crs of beef would probably got the bene
fit. But experience shows that the ulti
mate purpose of such organizations is
monopoly , and however fair the
promise and the basis upon whicl
they start out they rarely fail to grow
into monopolies. It is this expotioncc
which causes all such movements to be
regarded with suspicion and distrust
There are certainly excellent reasons foi
viewing with misgivings all schemes foi
the consolidation of special interests and
the consequent destruction of that free
and unrestricted competition which is in
the interest of the public.
An Impolitic Mov c ,
The chairman of the rcpub Ilcan clt :
committee has called the committee to
gcthor on a twelve hours' notice to confer
for , as wo presume , about the proposet
nomination of a board of education
ticket. It now remains for the committee
to dccldo whether partizanship shall b <
foisted upon the citizens of Omaha ir
choosing their school board. Being foi
the most part nmdo up of ward worker ;
th. ) committee is liable to glvo conn ton
anco to this scheme. For our pafwc $
adhere to the vlows heretofore expressed
by the BKK. It is improper if not.'impo
litic to make party nominations fpr.the
board of education. It is contrary to the
spirit of the law and has a powerfuiiefn-
doncyto demoralize our school boarc ,
management by making its member ;
subservient to political "Influences
It engrafts political spoils upon pur educational
cational system. Friends of popular ed
ucation cannot ad'ord togiye it counten
ance or support. From a party stand ,
point the move is decidedly impolitic
The mass of republican voters cannot b <
hold together to support a party1 ticko
for board of education. No imolligen
voter can bo dragooned into voting i
party ticket for school board. The resul
will be disastrous to party discipline
Instead of gaining strength for the nox
political contest , the party will find itaol
weakened by bitter personal contentioi
begotten by the strife for nominations
and the usual crimination and ro-etlmi
nation that follow in the wako of ever ;
nominating convention.
In forcing a political issue upon1 th
community where partisan rancor shoul
bu kept in the back-ground , th
party managers are only inviting popu
Jar revolt. The patrons of our school
want no party hacks in the school board
and will not countenance barter an
trade in school board appointment !
They dcsiro to place the schools undo
control of competent , conscientious am
reputable citizens , and they will , we con
lidently believe , ignore party couvon
tions and reject partisan candidates.
The New liridRO Project.
There never has boon an eutorprisi
undertaken to advance the material welfare
faro of Omaha which has not mot nwis
tanco or opposition from some quartet
The proposed wagon bridge botweoi
Council Bluffs and Omaha is no excop
tion. Now that the company has mad <
all the preliminary arrangements fo
building the bridge , and in fact has le
the contract for its construction , obsto
clcs are thrown in its way under protons
that the location of this bridge will prevent
vent the building of a railroad bridge b ;
the Milwaukee road. Now why can'
the railroad bridge bo built higher up the
rivort The proposition to consolidate
the bridge projects and let the Milwaukee
road build a jrallroad and wagon
bridge between the points fixed
for the wnjron bridge docs not
strlko us favorably. A separate
wagon bridge ,1s preferable to a com
bined railroad and wagon bridgo. The
movement of railway trains and vehicles
over a very long bridge Is always a draw
back. This will presently bo demon
strated by the. Union Pacific bridgo.
Omaha wants both1 bridges and wo sec
no serious obstacle to their construction
in the fact thai the wagon bridge com
pany has made Us location at the foot of
Dodge street.
THE rowdy editor whom Governor
Thayer refused to appoint on the police
commission denounces Chief of Police
Scavoy as a bogus chicfand declares that
any arrest made by him or under his
authority is illegal. This may bo very
encouraging to sluggers and crooks , but
they had better not rely too much on
their ability to recover damages from the
city , should the now chief of police or
any of his force rudely interfere with
their professional practice.
PBKSIDKNT CLEVELAND has accepted
the invitation signed by 20,000 citizens of
St. Louis , and will visit that town in Sep
tember. From the length of the petition
it appears thnt St. Louis is guilty of mak
ing a mad chase after party spoils.
IT is estimated that between f 500.000.0CO
and $000,000,000 will bo expanded In railroad -
road construction in the United States
during the current year. By the time
this is properly watered , it will represent
about four times the above amount.
THE St. Paul Ulobc is already jealous
of Omaha's proposed Yankton line , it
says the business of Yankton naturally
belongs to St. Paul , and she is not likely
to give up what is hors by right.
EDITOK O'BuiEtf looked in on an.
American legislature at Albany , and im
mediately loft for Montreal.
8TATK AND TKU1UIUUY.
Nobraslcu Jottings.
J. H. Johannes , a Plattc county farmer ,
is laid up with a brojvon arm , a memento
of a runaway.
Samuel Workman , of Beatrice , has in
vented improvements to the express car
designed to render it burglar proof.
Nebraska City wants n straw-paper
mill , a mineral pamt factory , oleomarga
rine works and a splint fruit-basket shop.
The citizens of Uulo will make it inter
esting to any company or individual that
will locate a porlfacking house at that
place.
Fairmont points1 to two school build
ings going up , a'Masonie ' block , a water
works system ami a now depot , as evi
dence of a prosperous building season.
Schuylor fcay men rejoice that the rate
of $10 per car to' Omaha has been put
into effect by the' Union Pacific. The
rate had been raised to $14 to placate the
long haul.
An outpost of the Salvation army was
showered with decayed eggs in Grand
Island a few days tigo. The hoodlums
who perpetrated the outrage earned a
whole-soled whulirjg.
The Fremont sftopt railway company
has applied to tlw | jty council for a fran
chise. The company agrees to begin the
work of construajjon by July 10 , and
complete one and a half miles by the
close of the your.
The Fremont Tribune announces for
the nine thousandth time that Omaha is
not the state of Nebraska bv a largo
majority. This is an interesting and ven
erable cocoanut of the whiskered variety.
They grow luxuriantly in Fremont.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Carson ; celebrated
their golden wedding at Fairmont , last
Tuesday. The venerable couple wore
surrounded by scores of relatives and
friends and enjoyed the congratulatious
and mementos of the occasion showered
upon them.
Omaha is crowded with Interior decorators
raters this week. The Presbyterians ,
homeopaths and cracker makers are
hero devising now routes to grub , glory
and salvation. As the center of piety
and sugar-coated pellets Omaha scoops
in the biscuit.
The Hon. John Peters , member of the
legislature from Boonc , convinced that
his labors have not been in vain. A rail
road station has bcon named after him.
In Lincoln they honor their representa
tives differently. Additions to the town
are named iu their honor because they
sell readily.
Last week the lightning attacked the
boudoir of a Tecurasoh editor and de
molished the pewter busts of a number of
great men reposing on the mantle pieces.
A generous contemporary came to the
rescue with an iron-bound box of inspira
tion , thus averting the temporary sus
pension of the paper ,
The Lincoln Democrat expresses amaze
ment at the amount of cheuK displayed by
Tratlic Manager Kimball in that city re
cently. It is reported that Calhoun will
pay a good round price for a plaster cast
of it. It would make a whole show in
itself , and would bo worth moro to the
capital than a bubbling salt well.
Deputy Sheriff Carter , of the Dismal
Swamp region , armed hip and shoulder ,
strode out recently in search of the rob
ber of Paymaster Bash , who was hiding
in that section. The bold guardian of
Gandy drove within rillo range of Par
ker's fortification and was saluted with a
shower of lead. The deputy's judgment
overcame his notions of valor , and no retreated -
treated in wild disorder. Parker pro
poses to die with his boodle , and no ono
seems disposed to argue the point with
him.
him."The
"The Yanktonians'and the Wayneitcs , "
says the Yaukton i'-wss , "are stirring up
Omaha and enthusing its people by giv
ing them a glimpse through the open
gateway of the v&Uey of the Jim , the
garden of the Westfrml a hotter country
In every way than is now tributary to
Omaha. No cltv lias.ever had so erood an
opportunity as Orach a now possesses for
taking unto itself thn sinews of wealth ,
The Jim valley is ready made and Omaha
needs only tne connecting link over
which to communicate with its people. "
When wicked woman stoops to devil
ment , mankind Abandons the. field in-
stanter. The wiu-jpf an Arnold man
conceived a disliwufor her lord , and
with the help of alitsculur motho made
the fircsido to warM for his shins. As
soon ho had loft thi mouse they packed
up all movcablcs > T d started a grass
widow ranch in a now section of town ,
Once safely housed in now quarters they
procured n warrant and hxd the "old
man" arrested for robbing a lumber
yard , producing a pile or two as evi
dence of the theft. He was jailed and
the mother and daughter are now en
joying a season of undisturbed hilarity
with Triendly callers.
Iowa .Items.
A woman named Gooding was instantly
killed by lightning at Dayton Saturday
night.
The gas question nt Dubuque is filling
the council chamber with a great amount
of natural ; m of a poor quality.
The giants of Osbkosh have walloped
the conceit out of the DCS Moines club.
The papers , too , have fallen on their
necks with words of ncoru and the wrath
of lost bets. Truly the lifn of the base
balllst is not a happy ono. If hn wins ho
is Intlatcd with stale boor and if lie loses ,
into the earth he is pomulcd by the whole
community.
The Dubuque prohibitionists are said to
contemplate an active war against the
saloons , ttio data of the opening of hostil
ities having been fixed for next week.
Frank Pierce , a collected , olllclous and
chei'ky De3 Monies constable , after a
long career of sneaking raids for liquor
in private end public houses , ran against
the federal authorities last week and was
promptly arrested and lined for obstruct
ing the mails. Ho raided the postollico
and refused to leave the building until a
policeman coaxed him by the collar.
Mrs. Fehlclscr , the young wife of a local
lumber dealer at Newton , has boon quite
sick for several days , and Sunday night ,
while the watchers were asleep , she got
out of bed and left the house. When she
was missed quick and anxious search was
made for nor , but it was not until several
hours later that she was found two miles
from homo wandering around in a. slough
and nearly exhausted. The malady had
effected her mind.
Dakota.
A gas bore Is ripening in Jamestown.
There are 350 Farmers' alliances in the
territory.
Extensive mica beds have been uncov
ered near Minot.
Work has begun on Splnk county's
court house at Ucdtield.
Suslo Wagner a laundry girl at Fargo ,
lost both arms in a mangier and died.
It is a dark and dreary day in Itapid
City that a now railroad is not born to
vanish in the fog of twilight.
In the competitive examination of
Hour at Minneapolis , the Aberdeen roller
mill Hour took first place over all other
entries.
Seven thousand men and 3,000 teams
iiro at work iu northern Dakota , building
the Manitoba railroad. The force is dis
tributed over a distance of 125 miles.
The first settlement of Tower county
was three years ago. The county now
has t.OOO population and so far but two
deaths have occurred in the county.
Saturday's rain lias been heard from
nil over Dakota , and it was heaviest
whore it was most needed , in the Hud
river valley , and lightest where it was
not particularly needed , in the extreme
southern portion of Dakota.
Eli Spotted Boar , a full-blooded Sioux
Indian , has been drawn as a juror for
the next term of the Hughes county dis
trict court. It is said ho cannot under
stand or speak the English language.
The judge will probably excuse him.
A Btuuu Manager.
A maladroit witness turned up yester
day before tlo | iuter-stato commerce
commissioners , in the person of General
Manager Stubbs , of the Southern Pacific
railroad. This interesting person is evi
dently ono of the graduates of that ad
vanced school of railway management
which teaches that the mission of rail
roads is to foster industries at ono point
and depress them at another in the in
terest of favored individuals or corpora
tions. To Mr. Stubbs , therefore , it
seemed entirely naturally that an oppres
sive charge should have boon made for
trunsporting produce from San Francisco
to points in Nevada , for that , in his view ,
was only a reasonable metiiod of build
ing up agricultural interests in the latter
state. Similarly ingenuous was his ex
planation of the reason for fixing the
rate for raw sugar from San Francisco to
the Missouri river. The producers
couldn't pay any moro than fifty cents a
hundred that was "what the traffic
would bear. " So Mr. Stubbs1 rail
road brought Claus Speckle's sugars.
cast at a loss , and taxed local
traflic to make up the difference. Equally
just seemed to the Stubbsian mind the
charmingly simplo'mcthod of computing
rates by wnich consignees at points east
of San Francisco were compelled to pay
for Now York freight the through rate
to San Francisco , added to the local rate
from San Francisco to the point of con
signment. These disorderly notions of
the transportation business that a rail
road company may tear down or build
up industries hero and there by favorit
ism in rates , that freight may properly
bo carried at a loss if the loss bo saddled
upon some other shipper ; and that dis
tance should not bo the principal element
in computing freight rates seem to bo a
part of the mental furnishing of traffic
managers on all trunk lines of railway.
When the Stubbses of railway manage
ment are introduced to reforms in their
business methods that cnmo in the guise
of compulsory legislation they seem dazed
and instead of meeting the popular re
quirement half way , lean back in their
chairs , and expostulate with thu inevit
able. In studying what the traffic will
bear they neglect to consider what the
public scnso of justice demands.
A lionR-Haul Absurdity.
. St. Lwi * RejndiUcan.
The fourth section ot the intor-stato
commerce law has revealed many curi
osities of railroad management ; but the
greatest curiosity has only just boon pre
sented and it is this : That the Canada
Pacific road can take freight at San
Francisco , have it carried 700 miles by
ocean steamer to British Columbia , reship -
ship it and load it on oars at Port Moody ,
Hud'take it to New York cheaper than
our own Pacific roads can afford to carry
it in a single shipment across the coun
try , although the latter route is about
1,000 the sdorter. And again : That the
Canadian Pacific can take Claus Sprook-
les' sugar at San Francisco , carry it by
sea to British Columbia , thence by rail
to St. Paul , and from there send it to
Omaha 8,800 miles cheaper than our
own roads can bring it from San Fran
cisco to Omaha , only 1.915 miles.
The amusement with which wo road
this oxtraoniinary statement is explained
when wo road the fact that our Pacific
roads , whoso carrying capacity is thus
depreciated by their own officials , have
not cost the companies owning thum a dollar
lar ; they were built by money subsidies
and land grants from the government ;
yet , notwithstanding this advantage , they
cannot compete with a road built through
the wintory wilds of British America
in carrying freights between points in
the United States.
No intelligent man can bo mad a to believe -
liovo such stuff as this. A line that hauls
freight 9,000 miles between two points
can do it cheaper than a line that has to
haul it 3,300 miles to connect with the
same points. All the advantage in com
petition are in favor of the former and
no pleas about haulincr empty cara can
explain away those advantages.
There is nothing in the now law that
forbids our Pacific roads to compete with
the Canadian Pacific : that law merely re
quires that if tliov wish to haul freight
between competing points at low rates.
they shall accord the same privilege of
low rates to non-competing points also ;
if they wish to carry tea , sugar , silks and
wool 3,000 miles at $500 per carload , they
shall not charge moro than $500 pur car
load for carrying the same commodities
1,000 miles.
Asleep mi thn Track.
Mike McCabe came near passing out of
this world last uight in a tragic manner.
Ho was full of whisky , and insisted upon
stooping on the railroad track , near
Boyd's nactcing house , Ho was pullud
out of the way of passing trains sovc-ral
times by parties living near by , who
finally bummuncd the patrol wagon nnd
h&d him removed to the police station.
SHERIDAN'S RIDE.
"Fncn the Other Way , lloya vro nro
Oolnii Hack. "
St. Nicholas ; Sheridan left Washington
on the morning of Oct. 18 , 1801 , by train ,
and passed the night at Winchqstor ,
twenty miles north of the battlefield. On
the morning of thu UHli hu hoard the fir
ing of canon , and sent out to inquire the
cause , but was told thnt it came from a
rcconnolsatico. At 0 o'clock lin rotlo
loisurcly out of Winchester , not dream-
Inc that Ills army was In danger , After
a little while hu heard again the sound of
heavy guns , nnd now hu know what it
must mean , Not half a milu from Win
chester hu came upon the appalling
marks of defeat and rout. Tlio runaways
from the battle , still iu illght , had cot so
far as this in their terror. The trains of
wagons were rushing by , horses and
drivers all in confusion , for thcro is no
worse turmoil in this world than the
( light of a beaten army. Sheridan had
never scon his men in this condition bo-
fore.
fore.Ho
Ho at once ordered the trains to bo
halted , and sent for a brigadu of troops
from Winchester , thcsu he posted across
the road to prevent further straggling.
Then ho called for nn escort of twenty
men , and , directing his staff to stem thu
torrent as well as they could , ho set off
himself for the battlefield. Ho rode
straight into the throng of fugitives , in a
splendid passion of wrath andnotorimna *
tlon , spurring his horse nnd swinging his
hat as ho passed , and calling to the men :
"Face the other way , boysl Face the
other way f
Hundreds turned at the appeal , and fol
lowed him with cheers , for they all know
Sheridan.
it was 10 o'clock before ho reached
the field. Thcro ho rode about hurriedly ,
glanced at the position , and at once de
termined upon his course. Ho rearranged -
arranged the line of these who were still
unbeaten , and then went back to bring
up the panic-stricken remainder. And
now his presence and personal in
fluence told. Ho was in thu
full uniform of a major-general.
mounted on a magnilicunt black horso.
man and beast covered with dust ami
llcckcd with foam ; In ; rose again in his
stirrups , ho drew his sword , ho waved
his hat , and shouted to his soldiers : "If
1 had buisn huro this never would have
happened. Face the other way , boysl
We arc going backl"
The Dying soldiers were struck with
shame when they heard him shout and
saw his face blazing witli rage and cour
age and oagcrnoss for them. They took
up his cry themselves : "Face the other
way ! " It went on from ouu to another
for miles from crowd to crowd and
they obeyed the command. As thu swell
ing shout went on , the surging crowd re
turned. They faced the other way , nnd
along the very road which a cowering
mot ) had taken three hours before , the
same men marched with the tread of sol
diers to moot the enemy. They know now
that they wore led to victory.
ALECK SWAN'S FAILURE.
Xlio Cause Found In the Failure of
Uuncti Grass and a Cattle 1'nnlo.
Chicago Mail : Aleck Swan's failure
will bu a great surprise to these pcoplu
who know nothing of the cattle business
and who have kept on calling him "tho
Wyoming cattle king. " The funda
mental trouble with Swan lias bcon , as it
has bcon with all the other great her
ders who got into the business early ,
that after his herds had doubled and re
doubled , the "bunch" grass suddenly
gave out. Millionaire cattle owners
found it sure and easy money making to
put a few cattle on the prairie near good
water , to leave thorn there in charge of
men , and to como back in a few seasons
to find them multiplied , that the thing
was overdone. Then , last summer , the
cattle kings suddenly found that their
steers had pulled up the bunch grass ,
roots and nil. They wont into last winter
as well uwaro of the overwhelming disas
ter that was certain to moot them us they
wore of the seasons coming around.
Then thcro was a desperate attempt to
unload on the English people the prop
erty which had paid so magnificently ,
but which , in these territories where the
bunch grass was gone , was certain to
ruin everybody. The Swans hurried
George Wheaton , a clever Chicago club
man , over to London to do their trading.
Wheaton had pretty well extricated them
from their dilemma. Ho had made ono
very favorable sulo , and was on the
point of getting off the great Consoli
dated Land and Cattle company for a
sum sufficient to make oven the broker
who effected the trade rich , when sud
denly , almost ever night , a panic started
in London over American ranch prop
erty. The-trado was repudiated. From
a furor to buy into those now American
cattle companies thcro grow a panic to
sell. Americans who were ever there at
that moment , and some of whom had put
out as much as $15,000 for advertising ,
found themselves compelled to surrender
all they had spent and return homo.
of Monopoly ,
San Franelecf ) t'/irotitclc.
The tendency of the ago is constantly
toward great aggregations of capital.
Not many years ago a business of any
kind representing a capital of $100,000 ,
was considered an enormous affair , out
to-day scarcely any now enterprise is
undertaken without being backed by
millions of dollars in place of thousands.
In one sense nnd from ono standpoint
this is good economy. The same sii | > or-
intendonco , the same number of clerks
and about the same number of employes
can manage the affairs of a concern with
a capital of $5,000,000 just as olllciontly
as if the capital were but $500,000 , and in
consequence the returns upon thu invest
ment will be so much the greater , M n
dollar saved iu expense is $ dollar
earned.
There are certain lines of business in
which such combinations of capital are
entirely legitimate and work no hardship
to the consumer. Wherever the product
is a luxury it really makes no difference
whetlmr its production is controlled by a
monopoly or not. If a person docs not
choose to pay thn price asked , ho need not
buy. For instance , if all the artificial
llowcrs in thn United States were made by
0110 linn or ono corporation nobody
would be materially affected by it.
But when it comes to the actual necessi
ties of lito , there is an argument against
these monopolistic methods which is ir re
futable , mid that is , that them is no moral
right and should bo no legal right to spec
ulate upon the needs of humanity. The
question of food supply should bu loft to
rugulutu itself , ami not be made subject
to the domination of a do/.cn or twenty
mun , whose combined capital can hold H
nation at its control.
These remarks are suggested by a re
cent dispatch in rcfuruncu to thu forma
tion of a gigantiu corporation , witli ; i
capital of'f.Ti.OOO.OOO. . to sceUro the nias-
tcr.y of shn grout ca'.tlo interests of the
United Status , Thu nominal object of
this combination la to inuroasu , develop
and encourage the ralsinir and handling
of cattle , the ulnughturing of thum by
first hands , nnd the placing of their pro
ducts in tin ) different markets of the
world. It is claimed that this will bo of
great advantage to all rnixurn of cattle ;
but this Hclumio leaves out of sight thu
most important mutter of nil thu elloct
upon thu conMinutr. It is easy to scu
thatmich a plan might readily benefit
thu producer and thu middleman , but
how about thu man who ultimately foots
nil thu bills the consumer ?
Huru is just tlio vice of all thesu vast
aggregations of capital , whcthir vhoy bu
for purposes of transportation or for fur
nishing food or water or light or any
necessary of life , they have no regard for
thu rights of thu consumer ; it u right
hero that socialism , even in tU wowc
souse , appeals to so ninny. When a pool
man , Avorklng hard every day for a bare
living , finds thu prlcu of meat and Dour
and sugar and other articles of food rising _
higher and higher , although the supply
Is all thu thro Increasing , it is hard to
makn him contented with the maxliiH of
political economy , or to pursundu him
that all such matters are regulated by
Mipply and demand. Ho cannot see-
mid why should hu ? why the moro
wheat is produced in California the
higher should bu thu prlco of Dour , or
why , when thu herds of cattle in Colorado
rado and Texas and Nevada are con
stantly growing lurgur , the price of his
dinner should bo moro.
There can 1m but ono conclusion to all
this modern style of combining capital ,
which is that in time it will become so
unendurable , that the people , who aftur
all aru in the majority , will forbid by law
tlio formation of such , or , possibly , any
corporations , ami compel thn possessors
of wealth to stand on the same footing
with the possessors ot intelligence anu
Industry that of individuality. No gonfe
uinu socialism socks to dupriVo any indF
vidual of his money any moro than of
his brains , but it is not"impossible that
the interest of society may make it neces
sary to prohibit thu pooling of money
ami to require each to stand or fall for
himself. Then thu industrious and
thrifty will not-be permitted to carry
along the weak and shiftless , as they do
now In many cases , and the survival ol
the fittest will result in a strong , individ
ualized well-ordered people.
AUotnnrkablo Hallway Accident.
"Talking about collisions and railroad
accidents , " said a brnkvman , after put
ting a window up for a younir lady pas
senger , and failing to notice nn old
woman who wanted a similar sorvicu per
formed , "let mu toll you of tin inciuont I ,
saw once down in Ponnsylvrnia. There i
was a narrow gaujru road down there ,
which used thu track of the old Atlantic.
& Ureat Wcsturn broad traugu for seven
miles , of coursn running on its own rail ,
set right between thu rails of the other
road. Thn old Atlantic it ( iroat Western ,
you know , is now the Nypano , or Now
York , Pennsylvania & Ohio , a part of tlio
Eno system. Its gauge was six fuel wide ,
and what big cart ) they used to run on
that road I Why , they were like barns.
Well , ono night thcru was a collision bo-
twcun a narrow uaugo train and a broad
gauge train. Some mistake about orders ,
I guess it was. Anyhow , a narrow gauge
passenger train dashed into the rear
end of a broad gauge passenger
train , and with thu curiousost result you
over heard of. That little narrow gauge
engine just jumped right up into the big
cars of the other train , and never stopped
till it reached the tender of the broad
gauge locomotive. And what was the
funniest thing about it. it drew the
whole train after it. thu little cars run
ning right up the aisle of the big train
and never hurting a passenger in either
train , 'cnpt one feller what had his head
outcn a window of the narrow gauge
smoking car. Ho was pretty badly hurt.
It was a mighty queer sight , let mo toll
you , one train inside another , and the
passengers of each talkins : to each other
as comfortable as you please. I was
brnkcniun on the broad gauge train , and ,
as wo were tinder ruunin' orders to
make Sulamauca by a certain min
ute , wo went right along , without
stopping , taking the other train with us.
Thu bust joke of it all was that my con
ductor wont through the narrow gauge
train and made all thn passengers whack
up casli fares.
A Siraniro Ijlfo.
Madison , Ga. , Madisonian : John W.
Martin died at his residence in Morgan
county , Ua. , on the 27th day of April ,
1887 , being at the tlmo of his death sov-
cnty-six vcnru and twenty-four days old.
Ho was born in Franklin county Ua. ,
April 3,1811. Ho was raised in northeast -
east Georgia , and was a twin brother of
W. T. Martin , better known as Major - <
Bill , ol Banks county. Ho was also a
brother of thu late Hon. Philip Martin ,
of TugHie Valley. His father was acoi-
dently killed , before John W. nnd W. T.
Martin were born , the widow having live
bovs and ono girl to raise and performed
her duty ns best she could. At about the
age of seventeen , John W. was at Law-
roncovillo completing his education. Ho
was married in Hall county over fifty
years ago to Miss Betsy Crow , who , to
gether with a largo family of children
and grandchildren survive to mourn his
demise. Ho moved from northeast Geor
gia to Greene Co. , in December 1810 , and
thence to Morgan county in thu following
December , where ho lived up to the time
of his death. Ho raised five boys and
girls , and it is a singular fact thnt they
never were , all of tnom , undur tlio par
ental roof at ono timo. His two eldest
daughters wore married before the war.
His oldest son wis : with Leo in Virginia ,
his voungost daughter was born soon
after the fate war , his daughter , Mrs. Ks-
per , was living in Kentucky at Howling-
Green , when the cholera was raging in
that country three of her ctnldrcd dyina :
almost on thu same day , she determined ,
with her two surviving children , to llco
to her father in this county , but nho , too ,
was stricken down on her way homo at
Atlanta , where her father nnd mother
went nnd lovingly ministered at her
dying budsido. Her bubo survived nnd
was raised by her father. John W. Mar
tin was well known in Morgan county as
n good neighbor and a true friend , and
will bo mourned by nil who know him.
His twin brother proceeded him to thb
spirit land one year and fifteen days.
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