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Notary Public.
' hits been enjoined from mov
ing his motor. There was no danger
that thu motor would move itself.
WK may as well put tlio brake on our
booms at onro. The Battle Crock ad-
vonti.sts say that the world will vanish
in flro and smoke this year.
IF the Pacific railroad report is cor
rect there tire ut least half do/.on bil
lionaires in the country who should bo
clothed in zebra stripes and earning
their board in a ponitentiary.
Iv there is to ho open executive ses
sions of the United States senate , the
beginning ought to bo miulo when the
Lainar cube comes up. The country will
bo very much interested in knowing
how senators vote on that case.
Tin : farmers of Minnesota arc dissat
isfied with the existing railroad rates
in that stato. One granger association
has sent resolutions to the governor
asking that the correction of abuses
committed by railroad monopolies
against agricultural interests bo not
longer delayed.
IN this age of bombs any method by
which a real infernal machine may bo
distinguished from a bogus ono will bo
welcome. Dr. Edson of Now York , has
discovered a simple but conclusive tost.
Ho recommends lighting the fuso. If
the package explodes and kills you it is
I. - genuine. If not , it is a humbug.
RECKLK8S driving is altogether too
common in Omaha , especially upon the
crowded business thoroughfares. The
time has arrived to station a policeman
at the intersection of Fiirnum and Fif
teenth , Douglas and Fifteenth , and
Dodge and Sixteenth streota for the
protection of pedestrians , who at pres
ent are in danger of life and limb from
reckless and fast drivers. Women and
children frequently are in need of es
corts in making the crossings at these
intersections , and it is the duty of the
chief of police to station olHcers at these
points for tlmt purpose.
Tins Chicago Tribune suggests that re
publican politicians who are troubling
themselves about an issue may find ono
certain to command popular attention
in the reports of the Pacific railroad
commissioners. "What party , " asks
the Tribune , "will take this matter up
and pledge itself to BOO that stops are
taken to punish the crimes of the Pa
cific railroad wrecKers and compel resti
tution , ? " It is very likely that neither
of the parties will have the courage to
do this , for the reason that both of them
will have in view the financial assist
ance which these very wreckers
. may give , but none the loss
the issue has been made be
fore the people and they are
not hkoly to permit it to drop out ol
consideration. This would seem to be
understood by the corporations , which
are already seeking to counteract the
ulToct of the disclosures made by the
commissioners , for that purpose working
over , with Bomo now embellishments
the familiar pleas that have served
them in the past.
THE public judgment unquestionably
is that all express companies should be
subjected to regulation under the inter
state commerce law. The opinion o
the commission , recently rendered , ii
that an express company which ii
merely a branch of railroad comes with
in the operation of the act , but it doci
not regard the law as clearly applyin ;
to independent express companies , am
therefore asks congress to define it
powers respecting such companies if i
is intended that the act shall apply ti
them. It is not easy to sco how an ;
class of express companies doing busi
ness with the railroads in the handllni
nnd transportation of proper ! ;
can bo regarded as outside the categor ;
of common carriers , in howovorre
Btrieled a BOIISO that term may be tip
plied , and if this bo admitted there i
no further question that the act shouli
bo made to apply to them. It is also ini
portant to consider whether , if the lir ,
is not made applicable to these com
panics , a wide door will not bo left ope
for evasion of the spirit of the law thu
would in a measure defeat its purpose
Tlio weight of argument is certainly i
favor of subjecting express compiufk
to regulation , whether operated as
branch of a railroad or as indopondon
enterprise ? , and wo have no doubt till
view will prevail in cougrcs * .
PnclH For Mr. Ulnlr.
s
That somewhat peculiar old gorttlo-
man , Senator Dlalr , of Now Hampshire , ,
whoso quality.of persistence is qulto as
reinurkablo as some of his Ions meritori
ous characteristics , soonis determined to
challenge another defeat of his educa
tional bill at the hands of congrow. ilo
has now been laboring for this pot
measure since 1881 , and though the
close of each session has left him no
nearer success than at the beginning ,
ho has scorned to acquire increased af
fection for his hobby at every repulse ,
and has brought it forward with unfail
ing promptness at the opening of each
gcpilon only to have it knocked
about in the most careless
and irreverent fashion in order
to make "way for some other bill or
allow some senator to start a debate. It
is again being subjected to this sort of
treatment , but its kindly old parent is
not a bit discouraged and will not think
a bit less of his battered and neglected
offspring. On the contrary whenever
the chance is allowed him ho will talk
about it and fondle it in the presence of
the senate with'tho samaold terms and
manifestations of affection that ho has
bo often employed.
Of course Mr. Ulair has not the slight
est idea that there is any loss reason
now than there was six years ago for
Ills bill. Ho in ono of these people
who haying hettled upon a pro
ject , for which at the time
there appears4.o ho some ground , can
not thereafter conceive that there may
have taken place a change of conditions
which nofonger affords any justifica
tion to their project. Very likely Mr.
Ulair doesn't want to learn any facts
that militate against his pot scheme.
Ho will hardly fail to hear from some
one , however , that the south , for whoso
special benefit his measure was con
ceived , has been making progress in
educational matters in tlio past six
years , and that some of the states of that
section are really able at this time to
show a percentage of illiteracy no
greater than Mr. Blair's own state of
Now Hampshire. It will undoubtedly sur
prise him to learn that in Virginia ,
West Virginia and Tennessee the school
year has been extended , with a notable
increase in the attendance upon the
public schools ; that in Alabama during
the past four years the number of school
houses has increased nearly one thou
sand and is now 5,000 , , accommodating a
quarter of a million pupils ; that in Ar
kansas and Georgia the figures show a
rapid growth of the public school sys
tem during the past three or four years ,
and that in Florida and Texas there
has boon a steady and marked
increase in the facilities of pub
lic education and in the pop
ular interest regarding it. In
short , all the reports thus far made of
school superintendents in the southern
states for the past year show that the
people of that section are wide awake
on the subject of public education , and
determined that the rising generation
shall not want the advantage of a com
mon school education. Perhaps it
would bo just to Mr. Blair to credit this
awakening in part to his bill , but how
ever this may bo the fact that the south
is pushing forward with most
commendable vigor in educational
work is unquestionable , and haying
caught the spirit , with much greater
ability to carry it out than over before ,
the people of the south can safely bo
loft to take care of their own interests
in this particular.
If there is any greater interest in the
present congress in behalf of the Blair
bill than was shown in preceding con
gresses since that measure was first in
troduced , it will be found among these
who see in it a way of providing for the
expenditure of a considerable part of
the surplus revenue from present tax
ation and thereby furnishing an excuse-
for a less reduction than would
otherwise bo necessary. Wo do
not believe , however , that the number
of such who will dare declare themselves
is suUlcient to give this measure a
chance of success. The party that should
become responsible for voting away the
eighty million dollars Involved in the
Blair bill would simply invite its own
destruction.
A Frionil at Court.
It would scorn that the advocates of
ship subsidies have a useful "friend at
court" in the person of Mr. C. B. Mor
ton , commissioner of navigation. In the
report of this olllcial , just submitted , ho
presents with some elaboration the aids
mid advantages enjoyed by the shipping
of other nations , and presents as hu
conclusion the opinion that it is impos
sible , without a changaof the present
conditions , for the United States to ro'
gain its lost supremacy in the foreign
trade. Ho says our vessels must bo put
on an equality with , foreign ships , by
which ho means they must be pait
subsidies or bounties , or they mus1
bo gradually forced out of the contest
There is nothing now in this statemen' '
of the situation. It has been ropeatct
in every report that has come from tin
bureau of navigation since the subjec' '
of restoring the shipping interest of tin
country has bcun discussed , and it ha :
boon presented in every possible torn
by the advocates of ship subsidies. Yo
it has thus far failed to convince an ;
largo portion of the people that it is tin
policy or duty of the government to g <
into the business of building up a ship
ping interest by a system of bountie
that would almost certainly bo o
endless duration , and the limi
of which in amount , after tin
policy had become established , no ono
can pretend to foretell. We do not np
prohond that the opinion of the prcseni
commissioner is likely to accomplisl
any more in this direction than did
similar views of his predecessors.
As a matter of fact Americans an
now sailing foreign-built ships , under
dor foreign flags , at a profit ,
and it is said that the Pennsylvania
vania railroad company , under anothei
name , is asking congress to permit tin
registry of a licet of ships owned b ;
itself in order that it may sai
them as American ships in the foreign
oign trade without any bounty a
all. This is testimony that th
sagacious and thoroughly practica
corporation sees its way to profitable ro
la | turns in this business , and merely ask
that the absurd laws which discrimiuut
against American slilp owners shall , bo
rolaxcd BO that its ships can call the
seas under the American flag. But if
thifi were not so , and American ship
owners could not sail their vessels at U
profit , under present conditions , why
should the government bo called upon
to jnake good their losses ? It Is obvi
ously no part of the government's busi
ness to pay any portion of its citizens to
carry on a losing business , and clearly if
it could bo justified in doing so with
respect to ship owners It would bo very
difficult to draw the line at which such
a policy should halt. The sentiment
that is infused into the ship subsidy
argument is all very well , but as a prac
tical question , in which character alone
it is proper to consider it , it docs not
and wo bollovo never will commend ,
itself to the favor of a majority of the
people. - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
'Flint Tjlbrnry Itiillftliig ; Scheme.
The scheme to cut up and disfigure
Jefferson square by the proposed erec
tion of a public library building , has at
last taken shape in mi ordinancecoupled
with a proposition to vote 835,000 in city
bunds for the proposed building. Wo
hope the city council will save the city
the trouble and expense of voting upon
this project. JolTcrson square should
bo reserved for park purposes and beau
tified by fountains and monuments. If
the only breathing spot In the heart of
the city is to bo abandoned for public
buildings , lot it bo given up for a great
market houso. For that purpose the
location is admirable and the space
ample. Instead of issuing $85,000 in
bonds to erect a library building which
is not needed at this time , let that sum
bo voted for a market house , which has
been sadly needed in Omaha during the
last ten years. Kighty-llvo thousand
dollars will build an elegant market
house , but it will enable us to build only
a very commonplace library building ,
if that building is to bo ( Ire-proof
throughout. If it is not to bo fire-proof ,
there is no object in 'constructing it.
The whole library building scheme is
premature and impracticable. The
interest on $85,000 at 0 per cent is
$5,100 a year , it will cost fully $2,600 a
year for heat , light and janitor ecr-
vico. For one-half of $7,500 a year the
city can rent all the library facilities it
needs , with light , heat and janitor service -
vice , in a lire proof building more cen
trally located than Jefferson square
With the present bonded debt of the
city , ranging over $1,1200.000 , there
should bo no bonds added oxccpt for
paving , sewerage , parks and public
buildings that are absolutely necessary.
THK committee of the board of trade
appointed to induce manufacturers to
come to Omaha should soon give some
sign that it is paying attention to this
duty. The business record tit last year
has been published , and there should
bo compiled from this such facts as neces
sary to show the commercial progress of
Omaha , which together withaprcsonta-
tion of the special and conspicuous au-
vantages of Omaha as a manufacturing
point should bo widely distributed
to manufacturers , particularly in the
eastern and middle states. Judiciously
conducted work in this direction cannot
fail to have favorable results , and it
should bo done with as little delay as
possible. The first thing to bo done is
to arouse an iiHorest among manufac
turers toward Omaha and encourage in
quiries. There are many industrial
enterprises now unsatisfactorily located
that could bo brought here wore reason
able inducements offered them.
PiiEFAlivriox is being made for the open
ing of tlio cooking class in tlio high school.
The idea scorns to incut with general ap
proval. It will bo a new experience for a
good1 many of tlio young misses. 7fc iiWI-
cuu.
cuu.Wo
Wo should like to know who among
the patrons of the public schools have
asked or petitioned the board of educa
tion to engage in this tomfoolery. The
young misses who have no chance to
dabble in dough and wash dishes at
homo are not likely to profit very much
by the novel experience in the cooking
school. The Omaha school board is
more lavish and reckless with the public
school fund than any other school board
in America , San Francisco not oxcoptcd.
They employ more useless teachers , and
have quartered more pensioners on the
public , than any similar body wo know
of. The addition of a cooking professor
ss nothing more nor less than a pension
scheme.
UNLESS Chairman Baleombo BOOS fit
to stop down and out from the board of
public works on his own volition , the re
quest that Mayor Broatch should take
his head oil will bo made in vain. The
mayor has no such power under the
charter. lie may invite an appointive
ofllcer to resign , but ho cannot compel
him to do &o. The power to remove city
ollicials , whether elected or appointed ,
is vested in the district court. The
mayor may prefer charges of malfeas
ance against any olllcial or member ol
the council before the district court , and
if the charges are proven to the satisfac
tion of the court , the ofliccr must go.
That is tlio only method prescribed bj
law for deposing ollicials , and any at
tempt to remove them by any othei
process is simply a wild , goose chase.
the chief of police makes n
specific charge to the mayor and license
board that a certain resort Is disordcrlj
or harbors crooks and thieves , and this
charge can bo backed by the police au >
thoritics and the police court record , the
board has but ono duty to perform , ant
that is to refuse the proprietor of sucl
resort a liquor license. '
Tin : commissioner of navigation ir
his report states that without a change
in the present condition of our naviga
tion wo can not regain our lost supremacy
acy in the foreign trado. The commis
sioncr is doubtless not far from right
but so long as wo have great inland ro
bourceslo develop navigation must oc
cupy a secondary place.
Ai.Tiiourm the Chicago Times has
according to numerous reports , bcoi
sold to a syndicate , the legend , "By W
F. Storey , " still maintains its place a
the head of the editorial page. Evei
death cannpt mako"tho old man" lost
his grip. Ho evidently runs the Time ,
by a private wire from the spirit laud
PKOMlNliNT PERSONS. 'i
The marquis of Lbrno i ; threatened with
cnnoor , ' \
Weston ; the pedestrian , Is nn editor on the
Now York Star. '
Tennyson recolvfcs $25,000 n year from the
sale of his books. * % {
August Holnionl , tlio New York banker ,
won fcil.OOQ with Ills'racing stnblo lust year.
Whlttler's congratulatory letters already
number over live hundred and the end Is not
yet. H i
Queen Victoria- refused to allow Mrs.
Mnckny to bo Invited to a state ball or con
cert.
Joy Gould never smoked but ono cigar In
his life. It made him so 111 that ha never
tried another.
Mrs. Joseph Harrison , the widow of the
nmn who built the ilrst railroad in Hussla , is
worth foKX,000. ( )
San Francisco has nioro representatives In
the United States senate than any two other
cities In the country.
The richest socialist In the United Statci Is
Courthuid Palmer of New York , who ranks
among the millionaires.
Mr. Hundull him introduced m congress a
bill to Increase the pension of General Kick-
ett'H widow to > 0 n month.
Colonel Uobert Ingorsoll 1ms been formally
pronounced dcnd by his associates of a Thir
teen club because tie failed to attend the last
annual dinner.
Hugh M , Brooks , alias Maxwell , the young
Englishman under sentence of death In St.
Louis for murdering Arthur Preller , bus em
braced the Catholic faith.
Congressman "Tom" Kecd , of Mnlno. Is
comparatively poor. Ilo has never taken a
house , kept a carriage nor given a dinner
since ho ilrst went to Washington.
Dr. Mackenzie states that for more than a
month the Crown Prince Frederick William
has been free from the unpleasant sensation
In his throat which ho ilrst experienced last
January. The prince is hopeful and eheorful.
.lay Gould is reported to have said recently
that the speculators have made a plaything of
his lieiillli for years , and that he could shake
Wall street to its foundations by simply
standing on thn steps of the Stock Exchange
building , striking his foroheiid with his hand
und giving u groan.
Theodore Tilton is living in n remote quar
ter of Paris in by no menus uflliieiit oltcum-
stnncps. Ills dress is almost shabby and
with his hair hanging about his shouldais he
presents a peculiar appearance list he w.ilKs
nbout the streets of the Fieneh capital. Ho
does a little literary work now nnd then , but
writes with no regularity.
A Nation nfllicli Heirs.
SltittrfMii.lliulrr.
One of the most profitable kinds of business
hat wi' Isnow of these days is to bo n Choro-
tco Indian. Every child of a Chrtohco is
mm to n foituno of . $7,000 and m.my very
, 'ulu.iblo government miuiuisitcs.
A Monltfj's-C.rln on Fame.
A'em > ( irf tt'orltl.
The sportive monk ? ; ? that fired the town of
Wakcficld , Wis. , b.v"ovcrturnin'a lamp can
Hilin n small place It ) Yho niche of the teniplo
> C fume occupied by tfio cow whose kick eon
llugitttcd Chicago. Jlj
Su
New : jHifc .Sun.
In the west they deli't think that a town
is enjoying much of iVrOal estate boom unless
> coile | are wandering 'around ' with lanterns
ut night ic.uly to cyso ) desirable bargains.
OlnnslcHl KIckerH.
There nraiune Harvard graduates in the ,
( Fiftieth congress-No\vouduv there is kick
ing there.
The Fljjlit for Life.
Ilnticit Lnuii Stcvcnt > n.
Leave not , mi soul , the unfoughtcn field ,
nor leave
Thy debts dishonored , nor thy place dcsort
Without Uue service rendered. For tny life ,
Up. spirit , and defend that fort of clay ,
Thy body , now beleaguered ; whether soon
Or late she fall ; whether to-day thy friends
liuwull tlico dead , or after years , a man
Cirown old In honor and the friend of peaco.
Content my soul , for moments and for hours ;
Each is with service pregnant , each reclaimed
Is us a kingdom conquered , where to loiiifj.
Onn Case of Nightmare Explained.
Clilrauo llcntlil.
Uobert Louis Stevenson is a great admirer
of Wagner's music. Is it any wonder that
he has most horrible dreams.
Astonishing Modesty.
Loularll'e ' dun ttr-Juurnal
The tin und coppei syndicate docs not want
the earth. It wants only a few leading min
erals.
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STATIC AND TKllllITCWY.
Nel > ranlui .lotting" .
The schools of Fremont have abolished
ished the recess.
Dodge county is feeding and Shelter
ing U0,000 Oregon sheep this winter.
Ogallala is alllictcd with a surplus of
thieycs , and a vigilance committee is
talked ot to read the riot act to thorn.
The State Firemen's association will
hold its annual meeting at Plattsmouth
on the 17th , to select time and place for
the reunion.
There was a solitary exception to the
unanimity of the voters of Weeping
Water on the proposition to issue $16,000
In bonds for waterworks. The town
will experience high pressure at an
early day.
The daily press of the state , with two
exceptions , insignificant and envious ,
are unstinted in glorifying the growth
of Omaha in 1887 , and her unrivalled
career as the commercial and manu
facturing giant of the west. The Lin
coln papers are appalled and unable to
express their disgust at the exhibit.
Several enterprising country papers
have gallantly rusjied to the aid ol the
eligible girls anxioiw to swing the pre
rogatives of leap yutw. Lists of unmar
ried men , their looks , dispositions , pros
pects and piles have been published ,
and the maidens of the favored towns
can safely look before they leap into
the surging seas of marriage and
divorce.
Chase county , with barely two years
of settlement , has a population of 4,000.
Imperial is the counU' seat. There are
six or seven thrivirigyoung towns , with
nearly all lines of ' rado represented.
The principal town's ? are Wauncta ,
Chase , Winchester , Imperial , Cham
pion and Can by. Land can bo secured
by relinquishmcnt pr deed. Deeded
lands are selling atjrom $4 to $10 per
aero , while in the remote portions ol
the county government land can still bo.
had.
had.Tho
The republican workers of Nomahn
county gathered in melancholy numbers
a few evenings ago , to gaze into the
empty depths of the political treasury ,
The defeated candidates had exhausted
their surplus in an olTort to exalt them
selves and the party and their condition
cried out in the wilderness of blighted
hopes for reimbursement. The mooting
developed oceans of breath but not n
penny jingled for the suffering. Th <
inner feelings of the members regard
ing backsliders were thus voiced bj
Rufus Leech : "They are mugwumps
lot them go to the dovll and stay there,1
and as ho slapped his hat on his hand he
declared : "Ills mxtanio majesty , .will
all hU modern appliances for roasting
lulling , frying , hasn't a corner one-half
hot enough for republicans wlio will vote
the democratic ticket , and that's the
Hind of a cat I am. "
Town Items.
Sanborn la frco of saloons.
Burlington claims a population of
27,000.
Coal of the lower grades , for manu
facturing purposes , la delivered at Bur
lington for GO cents per ton.
The number of hogs packed at Cedar
Rapids this year Is 1)0,000 ) , against 100-
; U2t ) for the previous year.
The total number of arrests made at
Cedar Rapids for the year just closed is
'MO less than the ono preceding it.
Fifteen hundred head of cattle have
been dishorned in the southern part of
Osccola county during the present win1
tor.
tor.Tho
The agricultural department fixes the
average of Iowa's corn crop at a fraction
over twenty-five bushels per acre and
that of Nebraska at twenty-four.
A Charlton man had a carload of
broom-corn from Nebraska , upon which
the freight was $9 per ton , the same as
ho had been paying from Chicago , at
which ho complains bitterly.
Davenport Masons are feeling good
over tlio completion of their now tem
ple. It is supposed to bo among the
finest in the slate , and IB MX 150 foot ,
and four stories high. Its cost was $75-
000.
000.A
A Washington county farmer gavohis
hogs so much salt and water on starting
to town with them that ninu ot thorn
died on the road , end live after ho got
there and before they were weighed.
His little piece of rascality cost him
about $ .1GI ) .
The past year was n prosperous ono in
Davenport. Factories costing $ i.-)0,000
were built ; business blocks $ -l tM , ( ) ( ) and
residences $1M,700. ! The Second street
railway expended $20,000 , and ton miles
of the Davenport , Iowa & Dakota rail
road were completed at a cost of $150-
000.
000.Tho
The biggest holiday exuitomcntatDCS
Moines lint boon created by a bloody
butcher. A largo cattle firm thonglit
that the butchers should either pay a
better price for the beef they were buy
ing or sell lower. They refused , and so
the cattle firm has put in a first-class
market and sells meat at cost , at from o
to II feu U ) per pound for best the lo s
being a out of ( I cents per pound. AH
the eattlo linn has herds of its own , and
plenty of capital , an era of cheap meat
IH 011 the people of the capital city , with
no signs of rebellion on their part.
Dakota.
'Possum and deer are getting coin-
ion in Dead wood.
Rapid City's building improvements
) r the past year amount to $1,000,000.
The actual valuation of Yankton city
rt fti 'iOjOOO , and of Yankton county
O.'JoU.tMW , mid both will double in 1888
inlcss all signs fail.
The Manitoba road has carried to the
ast this season , from Manitoba and
Jakota ranges , 21,000 head of beef eattlo
ml ! ! 0,000 head of sheep.
Yankton has one artesian well which
lows over 2fiOO gallons a minute and
nolher which Hews 1,500 gallons iimin-
ites , the water supply being tapped COO
eet down.
The farming lands of Dakota are said
o bo passing into the hands of actual
.oltlerHtit . the rate of 4,000,000 acres
aeh year. Twenty-five per cent of the
entire territory still belongs to the gov
ernment.
The noted ox-Indian agent , Dr. V. T.
IcGillicuddy , has boon notified that his
iccounta as agent have been thoroughly
examined by the government and a dis-
[ Toponi'y of only 8120.50 found. The
doctor now resides in Rapid City.
Yankton is the cathedral city of the
Catholic diocese of south Dakota , under
, ho dispensation of Bishop Marty. Plans
or buildings which will cost fci,0X,000 ( )
ire being made. These will be con-
tructed during the next few years. The
ite for schools and hoapitills has already
been selected , and the bishop's resi
lience and convent wore built several
i'ears ago.
Lackwanna is the name given to the
now coal Holds in the Black Hills. They
ire ton miles southwest of Hot Springs
Did cover an area of twelve square
niles. The coal is of a bituminous
haraeter but there are thin stratas of a
lard , bright and extremely black coal
which is believed to bo anthracite. If
struck with a hammer it breaks up into
inibes and is remarkably clean. To the
lOuth and between the coal fields and
the Cheyenne river is a wide and beau
tiful stretch of valley comprising about
5,000 acres. The B. it M. survey crosses
the C'hoycnnu river from the south com
ing down Cottonwood creek , and al
touching some of the coal locations.
Colorado.
Denver turned out 14,000,000 cigars
last year.
The authorities of Don venire waging
war on the gamblers.
The San Juan country turned out
12,044 tons of mineral last year.
The government mint at Denver
handled last year $1,07:1,453 : in gold and
$10,401 in silver. The total bullion deposits -
posits from all soilrces amounted to
,84i,258. )
Ricliardson , the collapsed contractor
of thu state capitol building , has sued
the capitol commissioners for $72,000
damages because they refused to accept
his style of work.
Denver's improvement record for 1887
sliows nearly $ : ! 0,000,000 in real estate
transactions , more than 2,000.buildings
erected at a cost of $5,000,000 , and
$12,000,000 in value gained by the re
duction of interest rates.
During the holiday cold snap , Robin
son , near Leudville , captured the
meteorological icicle. The thermome
ter registered 55 degrees below zero ,
and the mercury was fro/on whenever
it was oxpoaed.
Voreo , the Colorado plug ugly , is a
Virginian by birth and forty-bovon years
of ago. Ho was a guerilla under
Mosby , lived in Cheyenne when the
Union Pacific reached there , and has
since divided his time between Colorado
rado nnd 'Wyoming. Until ho blos
somed out as a full Hedged terror ho
was employed as a cowboy.
Tlio Golden licit.
St. Joe ( Mi > . ) Gazelle- .
It Is well known to all people who
know anything of the geography of thig
country , its topography and resources ,
that tlio region embracing central and
western Iowa , eastern and central Ne
braska , eastern Kansas and northern
Missouri , as well as all other portions of
the state lying along the Missouri river ,
is metaphorically a golden bolt flowing
with milk and honey , and really an ag
ricultural garden. The land is prolific
of corn and every other class of grain
indigenous to a temperate zone , and the
toil is so strong and fertile that not onlj
these flourish with more strength then
elsewhere on the habitable glooo , but
all other kinds of vcgotatior
peculiar to such a climate , flourlsl
abundantly and spontaneously
The region raises the best ani
most suceulont grasses- for cattle , horses
sheep and swine , the growth of timboi
Ifl not surpassed on the earth , slono for
building and coal for fuql is plentiful ,
the seasons 'arc faithful , and altogether
IhU region Is peculiarly the abiding
place of this age of man. The result of
which Is thatmaiiy cities nnd towns have
mining up within the territory men
tioned almost as If by inaglcamlon overv
hand every class of the best and most of-
fectlvo machinery that human ingenuity
has produced Is in constant and satis
factory uso. The reaper and thresher
on the farm , the saw mill in the forest ,
the wind mill and pump on the plain ,
the telephone and press in the towns
and cities , the telegraph and railway
everywhere , and all and singular the
appliances that man's handiwork has
furnished to help and perfect case in
everybody's work , from the noodle of
thn housewife to the pile driver of the
bridge builder.
In every way the region Is flourish
ing and producing and it Is surrounded
by a vast area of country roadv to swal
low up and consume all the golden bolt
can produce and all that its people can
spare , and more too. To the great ex
panse of Texas and the Rocky mountain
region and the grainloss territories of
the northwest go our corn and hogs , us
well as to lands beyond the sea. and for
everything that the Golden Bolt pro
duces there is an illimitable market
throughout the boundless world. This
prosperity makes healthy and pretty
women and children , strong , bighearted -
hearted , broad-minded men , a popula
tion that is the salt of the earth and
pleasing in the sight of heavon.
"If He WantH It. "
I'Mltiftdiilila A merfttiiifrp. ( . ) .
The suggestion has been very cooly
made , and is as cooly received in cer
tain quarters , that "Mr. Blaine can
have the nomination if ho wants it. "
Tnis Is merely ono way of misrepresent
ing the actual situation , in the Interest
of that sort of "boom" which is so
much employed and beloved by Mr.
Blainc's advocates. As a matter of fact ,
there is no possihilty of the nomination
being tendered him by the convention.
If ho should got it at all , which wo do
not now believe possible , It would bo as
the result of a contest , like that of 1881 ,
but more prolonged and severe.
The reason of this simply is that the
party does not want to load up Mr.
Blaine again. It has its own work in
hand , not his ambitions and interests
In 1870 ho was pressed upon it ; in 18SO
ho was again a candidate for
its nomination ; in 1881 his claims
were presented a third time ; and now
in 188S it is still "tho same story con
tinued. " The party is tired of his case.
It has made an earuostand honest effort
to oleet him , without success. It cannot
afford to give a quarter of a century , in
a most momentous period of American
history , to the effort to carry and elevate
a single ono of its members. If Mr.
Blaine were much more entirely its
Icaderand representative ; if his services
to it had been immensely more , valuable ;
if his statesmanlike qualities were mul
tiplied ; there would still bo neither rea
son nor justice in its forsaking its legiti
mate duties to the country , and becom
ing a more pack-horse for his concerns ,
It is perfectly evident , as wo have
said , that there is no general willing
ness to give him the nomination. Any
pretense of that sort collapses the mo
ment it is examined. Every test of the
public opinion of the party exhibits a
thorough distrust of the possibility of
his election , and an anxiety to secure a
stronger candidate. The canvass of the
delegates to the New York state con
vention , the canvaws of members-elect
of the Now York legislature , the can
vass of republican members of congress ,
the inquiry just made among the re
publican newspapers of Illinois , Kansas
and Missouri all those develop the
same state of facts , and prove the wide
spread prevalence of the wish to take
u new man. Moreover , the now men
are already suggested. There are cer
tainly half a dozen other prominent can
didates beside Mr. Blaino. Mr.
Sherman' will have a largo following
nitsido his own state of Ohio. Ho will
invo , wo believe , delegates from fifteen
: > r twenty other states , including Penn
sylvania. Indiana will send , it is now
piito certain , a solid delegation for
General Harrison. Connecticut is very
likely to do as much for General llaw-
ley. And there will bo votes for Mr.
Lincoln , Mr. Allison , Governor Rusk ,
Senator Cullom , and perhaps as many
more.
Nobody presumes to doubt these facts.
They are perfectly well known. What ,
then , do they show ? Do they signify
that the convention is going to tender
its nomination to Mr. Blaine on a silver
plate ? The absurdity of such a theory
is manifest the instant the facts thorn-
solves are admitted. It is evident that
the party is seeking its best candi
date. It is undertaking now , not
futile attempts at redressing the past ,
but the performance of the duties of the
present and future. Thu milk that was
spilled on the ground in 1884 by the com
bined misfortunes which brought defeat
in Now York is spilled entirely. No
amount of bewailing can recompense the
loss , and no sort of effort can gather up
the milk. That captor is closed , and the
plain duty of the republican party is to
go forward upon a fresh line of attack.
Its candidates and itself have now a
clean sheet. There are no old claims.
It owes Mr. Blaine nothing whatever.
If there bo any debt either way it is
from him to the party for the great and
fruitless effort which it made to servo
him , and for the disaster which his
candidacy entailed upon it. Such a
debt Mr Blaine can with dlfllculty
discharge , but ono of the means of un
dertaking to do so would bo for him to
withdraw from the canvass. As it is
plain ho cannot got the nomination , ex
cept by a struggle , and in all probublity
cannot got it at all , ho must certainly see
that the party would bo relieved by his
withdrawal , and that at a time so tre
mendously critical in the history of
American affairs ho should not hellishly
add lo the party's embarrassments and
burdens.
Meantime , lot no ono bo so weak as to
bo deceived by the pretense that Mr.
Blaino's nomination is something cer
tain , "if ho wnuU it. " The sober son so
of tlie republican party docs not want
him , and is showing the fact more
openly every day.
"XV. II. Mac'Doimld on CiiHtern.
Minnoapolas Journal : These who
know W. H. MacDonald , of the Boston-
iaiiB , know that ho is one of the most
graceful actors on the operatic stage.
Ho poiscsics unusual histrionic talent.
But ho was not always thus. When
"Mao" first wont on the stage ho used to
make the statues painted in the scenery
weep. But ho thought ho was im
mensely clover until ono day his brother
came to sco him.
"Well , Sam , what did you think of
my performance ? " asked Mr. Mao-
Donald.
"You sang splendidly. "
"What did you think of my acting ?
I was just a trillo stllT , wasn't I ? "
"Well , I think they could have
moved you about a good deal easier ,
and you would have made a better ap
pearance if you had been on castors. "
That is what made MauDouuld study.
HIRAM HOWE'S NEPHEW.
ICentuoklnn.s nt Draw-Poker
on I tin Coney Island lloulovnrd.
Many frequenters of race-courses and
trotting-lrnckR , as well as roadmen who
speed their horses along tlio Coney
Island boulevard , are aummlntod with
Hiram Howe's nephew , Amort. Albert
is a remarkable man. 1 to Is smaller
nnd weighs less than Tom Thumb did
when Mr. Barnum took him to Kuropo
and made a fortune by exhibiting him.
If It were not for a deformity that mars
the symmetry of Albert's form ho
would bo the most famous
dwarf in America , if not in
the world. Although ho has
reached the age at which the hair of
some men begins lo turn gray , ho has
the piping voice of a child ; but when It
collie's to nerve ho is the equal of any
Long Islander who ever backed a horse
or played an unlimited amount of draw.
Ho Is well versed in horxu lore , and
often talks about the performances of
thorouL'hbreds and trottorsjfrom Boston
and Flora Temple's time to the present
day. Ilo attends all the great races ,
and sometimes places moro money on a
horse than many club men who are
looked upon im heavy bettors. His judg
ment is so good that ho generally car
ries more money away than he takes to
the races , and no always dresses richly
and in good taste. His chief enjoyment ,
however , Is a quiet little game ot
cards.
They toll a story at Hiram's about
several horsemen from Kentucky who
stopped at the roadside hotel nftor a
visit of inspection to the thoroughbreds
at Sheopshead Bay. While partaking
of refreshments a furious rain-storm
came on that made them rejoice that
they were under shelter.
"Lot's have a game of draw lo pass
away the time , " said ono of the party.
Three others were ready to chip In ,
but the man who proposed play objected
to sitting down with less than five.
"I guess Albert will join you , " re
marked a silvor-haired turfman , whoso
dollars run up into the million ,
"Who is Albert ? " inquired the Kon-
tuckian.
"There ho Is , " replied the turfman ,
pointing to the dwarf , who sat with his
back to the parly , ga/.ingat a horse pic
ture on the wall.
Albert turned around at this and in a
modest way said that he had no objec
tion to join I ho party.
The voice struck the Kcnlucklan'H
car with astonishment , and Albert's
size nuulo the poker-player's eyes ex
pand with wonder. "Wo don't want
to play with a boy , " ho exclaimed.
"You will find him man enough , "said
the silver-haired turfman , with a look
of confidence at Albert.
The game was soon in full blast. The
Kentuckians made the cards sail around
the table silently and rapidly. Albert
tilted bib little derby down ever his
forehead to shade his twinkling eyes ,
shufiling and dealing deftly when it
caiiu ) to his turn. He lost his lives and
tens like a little man in the occasional
hots ho made in the opening
half hour of the piny. Then luck began
to turn In his favor. Within an hour
ho had made his losses good , and was
nearly three hundred ahead. TlioKon-
luckian who had objected to playing
with the l > oy who had lost more than
the others. Feeling a little nettled , ho
proposed to raise the limit for $10 lo
$100.
"Barkis is willin' , " said Albert.
They played on with fiucluatiug luck ,
Albert at times increasing his stock of
velvet until one of the purty opened a
jack-pot for $20. All wont in but
one of the party. In the
draw the man who was lying for
Albert called for ono card. Albert
took three and the other players two
each. The boy had next to the hist
say. The first man chipped in $20 and
the second raised him $10 , which Albert
saw. Then the last man said , "I'll raise
you $100 my boy. "
This drove the other two out. The
boy porrod at his antagonist , and then
placed $200 on the pile , saying in a cool
ivay , "I see your $100 , and go $100
better. "
The Kentuckian hesitated a moment ,
nd then , throwing up his hand , asked :
"How old are you , my boy ? "
"Thirty-nine next birthday , " piped
Albert.
The Kentuckian had drawn to a bob
tail Hush. Albert held a pair of eights.
From TOXIIH to W. T.
Seattle Press : Yesterday nftorrfoon
the steamer Josephine loft Yeslor's
wharf for Seabock with twenty-seven
colonists on board eight adults and
nineteen children. The Josephine had
been chartered to take this company of
colonists to Seabeck where claims had
Already been located by them. Ton
years ago these people emigrated from
Tennessee U ) Texas , and during all these
years they struggled to create homes
and competence for themselves , but tone
no purpose. Ono misfortune after an
other came on them , and at the end of
each succeeding year they found them
selves less able , physically and finan
cially , for the battle of life than the
preceding one. Fever and uguo
prevails In almost every part
of Texas , while droughts and hot
winds succeed each other with precision ,
rendering life anything but enjoyable
and property of no determinate value.
During ten years' residence in Texas
they lost 1,400 head of eattlo , the greater
part from want of water , though some
from cold winds and lack of pasture.
Having decided to leave Texas , their
next business was to find the most de
sirable place to locate. They gathered
information from California , Mexico ,
Arizona , Montana , Oregon and Wash
ington ; indeed , for tow years previous
to leaving Texas they were seeking in-
tolllgonco from which to determine
where to locate. The burden of evi
dence was in favor of Washington , and
they decided accordingly. The com
pany six families in all arrived in
Seattle six weeks ago , and the men of
the party have been looking up the
country eVer sinco.
Catarrhal Dangers.
To bo fnodfioni the dancers ot gnlTocutlon
while lying down ; lo brcutlio frt'rlysliup sound-
lv and undisturbed ; to rise refrctltcil , head
clear , brain nctlvo nnd frro from pnlii or ache ;
to know that no poisonous , mil rid mutter do
llies the breath und rots nw ay the delicate ma
chinery of Hindi , tusto and hearing ; to feel thut
the system duoH not , thiouxu Its veins and
nrterlm , Buck up tlio potnon that in Huro to
undermine and destroy , ii induod a blessing bo-
yoml all other human enjoyments. To purchasu
Immunity from Mich n futo bhonlil lie the object
of all uflllctcd. Hut these who Imvo trIM many
remedied und phyaldans despair of relief or
euro.
BANFOun'R lUntOAi , CUIIE meclR overv plmso
of Cutiirrh , from u nlmplo htad < otd to the mont
loathsomi ! nnd do tnictlKtiws. . It I local
und constitutional Inntunt In relieving. p rma >
nent In curing , nnfe , economical nml uu\tr-full- !
HANI OKD'S lUiiicu , TUIIK onnHlstn or one hot-
Ho of the lUmt u , ( niK. one liox of OAT tnnil-
AI. Boi.vr.vr. anil ono IUIIIOVKD IMIAI.KH. all
wrapped In one imcknce , with trc-ntlHn uud di
rections , and sold by all druiglsl : for tl.uo.
1'orrru Diiun it CIIKMIUAI , Co. . HOSTOX.
HOW MY SI DE ACH ES I
Aching Bides and Hack. Hip , Kidney
nnd Utuilno ruins , lllicinnallc , holntlc ,
tNrmidKlc , Sharp nnd bhootlim 1'ulns ,
i 'ianri.it ' vi u IN OM : MIMITK by the CUTI-
OIMIA ANTI'I'AIN I'l.ltiTPII. TIIO flTHt Hllll Only
I'lilnOcllllmt pUktor. A peifcrt , limtmitimoouf ,
noxer fullliiK antldoto lo jiuln , liillaminutlou
nnd weakness. Especially adapted to rclleto
fuimtlo pains and woaknexsea , At ull ilriiKKiili.
U tents ; or ot 1'orrui Uuuu AND UHUUCAU
Co. , IJoatou.
