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THE OMAHA. DAILY BEE : MONDAY , MAY 14 , 1888.
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Mississippi river is acting
like an unmanageable yearling , the
Missouri is quietly ploughing away in
harness through its old furrows.
TUB Butchers' National association ,
numbering 14,000knightsof the cleaver ,
hold a convention at Philadelphia next
woolc. They will have a hone to pick
with the manufacturers of adulterated
lard , and roast thobo packers who sell
thorn shoulders for hams.
So IT was Prince Bismarck who pri
vately gave a tip to the sultan of Mo
rocco to settle his dispute with ua by
arbitration. Kind old Bismarck , ho
may not like American pork , but ho
does not desire to see the United States
go out of hog raising and into the fight
ing business.
CHAIUM A.N BALCOMIJK , of the board of
public Vorks , had been besieged by 258
applicants who want positions as inspect
ors of public works. The work of in
spection has grown to bo one of the sin
ecures which every man feels himself
coaipotont to fill. Omaha is sorely in
need of inspectors who will inspect.
TUB Toledo , Peoria & Western rail
road has just settled the last claim for
damages in connection with the Chats-
worth bridge disaster. It took $300,000
to indemnify the people injured in the
wreck and the relatives of those who
were killed. The Toledo & Western
congratulates itself in getting out of the
scrape so cheaply , lrty > dollars spent
for repairs on the culvert in time would
have prevented the disaster. But then ,
that would not bo railroad financiering.
TIIE assignment of the wholesale com
mission house of William T. Coloraan &
Co. , of San Francisco , is said to have
heon duo to the inability of the firm to
cell two million dollars worth of borax.
The disaster came about through a
speculation in borax lands. Mr. Coleman -
man tried to create a borax trust of his
own and reap the profits when the rise
camo. But there was a screw loose
Eomowhoro in his calculations and the
collnpso was inevitable. Corners in
horax are us treacherous as corners iu
wheat.
The international copyright bill after
many trials succeeded in passing the
senate , and goes to the house for final
action. When the bill becomes law , '
American writers and authors will have
the product of their brains protected
to some extent from the free trade
piracy of foreign publishers. It is one
of the absurdities of our times , that
While co'ngross has protected every
possible form of American industry , it
has turned a deaf oar to the memorials
and bills introduced to accord to liter
ary mo it the protection duo to their
labors. If anything needs protection
to-day It is certainly American liter
ature.
IT must bo interesting to note the
changes which couio upon certain locall
ties of a growing city in the course of
tnany years. Not a great while ago the
lower ends of Dodge , Douglas , Farnam ,
Harnoy and Howard streets wore occu
pied by retail stores , but during recent
years that locality has boon given up
mostly to wholesaling nnd for other
reasons has fallen into disregard us a
suitable district for the bettor class of
retail btoros. The now Douglas street
bridge , however , will doubtless bring
about another material change in the
character of abutting property , and
r.sldo from greatly enhancing values ,
redeem the locality as a profitable ra
tailing district ,
THE people have uguin won a great
victory over fraud , corruption and
rings. In splto of the pressure and
political infiuonco brought to boar to
free the Cook county , Illinois , officials
guilty of embo/zlcment , they have all
been eout to the penitentiary. As a
last resort four of them , Vivn Pelt , Ochs ,
Loydon and Wassormun , appealed to
the supreme court to set aside the ver
dict of the lower court on the ground that
here wore errors in the -original trial ,
Through technical loopholes those bood-
lors expected to escape the clutches of
the law. But the court ruled that al
though there wore Eomo errors in the
trial , they wore not of sufficient import-
nnco to justify a reversal of judgment.
By this decision the Illinois bench has
Bet 11 most importurit precedent. With
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the fate of tbo Chicago and Now York
I * lioodlors fresh in mind , crooUeil ofllduta
ought to have a euillclont warning.
The Second District.
The republicans ot the Second con-
grcBBlona district will to-day nominate
a candidate for congress. Mr. Laird
desires a renomlnntlon , and his friends
have been working ) mrd and zealously
to secure it. The following upon which
Mr. Laird depends is not simply ag-
grcsslvo ; it is daring nnd reckless , and ,
if necessary , unscrupulous. It will hes
itate at nothing in order to win.
Mr. Latrd has no claim upon the rop-
utnblo republicans of the Second dis
trict. His congressional service has
brought them neither honor nor ad
vantage. Ho has not the ability or
the character to command the re
spect and confidence of his col
leagues in the house , nnd such a repre
sentative can bo of no use to his con
stituents. Ho is not in sympathy with
the pcoplo , being the creature and in
strument of the corporations. Con
spicuously weak as a legislator , his per
sonal habits are an affront to the Btato
which ho in part represents.
There are capable and reputable re
publicans in the Second district who
would worthily and acceptably repre
sent that constituency in congress. Ono
of them should bo selected to succeed
Mr. Laird. It is to bo feared , however ,
that this will not bo done. There is
danger that the hotter class of republi
cans will allow themselves , as in the
past , to bo overawed by the
supporters of the congressman , who
will of course ho present in full force to
dominate the convention if permitted
to do so. They must bo mot with firm
ness nnd courage , but unfortunately
thcso are too often wanting at the yital
moment. The republicans of the Second
end district will honor themselves and
the state by retiring Mr. Laird and
nominating a man to Buccood htm who
has both ability and character. If they
omit to do this they may suffer defeat ,
notwithstanding the fact that the re
publican voters of the district are
largely in the majority. That would
not bo a greater misfortune than re
taining in congress a wholly uulit rep
resentative.
To Close This Week.
The debate on the tariff bill in the
house of representatives will come to an
end this week. It will thereafter bo in
order to offer amendments to the meas
ure , the advocacy of which will bo lim
ited to five minutes. These will un
doubtedly bo very numerous , and it is
probable that the remainder of the
month at least will bo consumed in the
consideration of amendments.
With regard to the prospects for the
passage of the bill , they are believed
by its supporters to have grown more
favorable. The conversion is noted
of several democrats who at the outset
wore opposed to the measure.
This hag boon brought about
not only by the vigorous application of
the party whip , but also by the influence
of democratic expression throughout
the country. The voice of the party
uttered through state and congressional
conventions has boon uniform in ap
proval of the reform views expressed by
the president , and which the tariff bill
is assumed to bo in accord with. Demo
crats whohaveopposed those views have
boon vigorously notified of the disap
proval of their constituents. A notable
instance is the defeat of Representative
Wilkins of Ohio for renomination , and
the selection of a candidate who favors
the president's position. Judjro Sonoy of
that state found , it necessary to his
political salvation to assure his con
stituents that ho would support the
tariff bill. Both of these are in strong
democratic districts which they have
long represented. Those circumstances
are causing democratic congressmen
who have not favored the tariff bill ,
and who desire to bo re-olected , to see
tnat the way of political safety for them
selves is in acting with the party , and
it will not bo at all surprising if when a
veto is taken Mr. Randall is not found
standing almost alone on the demo
cratic side in opposition to thoMillsbill.
In that case the measure may go
through the house by a very small ma
jority. _ _
It is understood that the republicans
of the ways and means committee are
preparing a bill to bo offered as a sub
stitute for that of the majority , but it is
said they are having some difficulty in
harmonizing the views of the republi
cans of the house as to the sort of
measure that ought to bo brought for
ward. In any event it is apparent that
the determination of the matter will bo
upon party lines , and in this case the
chance of nny measure of tariff reform
passing at the present session is ex
tremely small.
Ono Hundred Years Afjo.
Next year will be as rich in centenary
events commemorating the history of
the United States as was the centen
nial year in which the country cele
brated the signing of the declaration of
independence. On the 4th of March ,
1789 , under the constitution adopted by
the states the previous year , the first
congress of the United States assembled
ut Now York. But the prospects did
not at all open favorably for the young
republic. A number of the states had
not yet sent their delegates and congress -
gross could da nothing but moot and
adjourn until a sufficient number of
congressmen hud arrived to constitute
a quorum. When congress finally
assembled for the transaction
ot business , the electoral
vote was opened and George
Washington was found to have received
the unanimous vote of the electoral
college for president , and John Adams ,
having received the next highest num
ber of votes , was declared vice presi
dent. It was not , however , until April
30 that George Washington was inaug
urated as the first president of the
United States of America.
This momentous event in the first
hundred years of onr republic under
our present form of government will bo
celebrated in a most fitting mnnnor by
the city of New York. Committees are
now at work to make the occasion
memorable in the annals of history.
General Sheridan has - accepted the
duties of grand marshal so that the
pageant attending the celebration will
bo. fully in keeping with the
brilliant episode. On this occasion
the. president-elect and the' vice
'
'president , the cabinet , the
judges of the supreme court , the mili
tary and naval officers , state and clvlo
dignitaries and representatives of for
eign governments will bo present to
take part in the event to bo commem
orated. The more permanent feature o (
this centennial ia to be a six weeks' fair9
at the ball room of the Metropolitan
opera house , at which there Is to bo an
exhibition of mementoes and relics of
the inauguration 100 years ago.
A MOST singular decision has just
boon rendered by Judge Tuloy , of tha
Chicago circuit court , which goes back
to slavery days for its law' . The judge
held that children born in slavery are
illegitimate , whether their parents
wore regularly married- not , slnco
under the law and condition of slavery
slaves wore chattels and no legal mar
riage between them was possible.
That such a decision should como
twonty-flvo years after the extinction of
slavery is barbarous. It reaffirms In ef
fect the dictum in the Drod Scott case ,
whore Judge Tanoy laid down that "a
slave had no rights which a white man
was bound to respect. " Since slaves
wore chattels , according to Judge Tuloy ,
chattels could not marry ; could not own
real estate ; could not muko contracts.
And the issue of such slave-marriage ,
being Illegitimate ; cannot inherit prop
erty loft by the will of an emancipated
slave. The ruling may bo a strict and
logical deduction of law as based upon
customs of the extinct southern slave
institutions. But the judge has en
tirely ignored the emancipation procla
mation of President Lincoln , which in
spirit , if not in BO many words , swept
away all the peculiar legal and political
disabilities affecting the negro before
his emancipation as well as after it.
There is no doubt that Judge Tuloy's
decision on the case will bo overruled by
the higher courts of the state.
THE failure of Now York to carry out
the promise made to the country to
orcctu monument over the grave cf
General Grunt that should bo worthy of
the fume of the great soldier fully justi
fies the popular opposition that was
made to allowing his remains to bo
buried in that city. For some time past
it has seemed that all interest in the
matter had died out , and that the pro
ject of a monument had boon practically
abandoned. Such , however , appears
not to bo the case , and by way of re
awakening interest it is announced to
bo the intention to have next month
a grand fair and fesUul , the
proceeds of which will go to
the monument fund. Very likely
in this way a considerable sum can bo
raised , but after all it is a small and
potty method of providing a monument
to the greatest soldier of the age. As a
contemporary well says , imagine the
pcoplo of Liverpool holding a fancy
fair for the purpose of raising money
for a monument to the Duke of Well
ington , or Marsoilless doing the same
thing to provide a memorial to Na
poleon the groat. Conceive , if you can ,
of Germany's relegating the construc
tion of a monument to the Emperor
William to the ladies of the principal
cities of the empire , and providing
funds by the sale of relics and memen
toes which the great kaiser hud collected
during his long life. The fact that a
paltry million dollars cannot bo secured
in the wealthiest city and state of the
nation to erect a monument to the coun
try's most distinguished soldier , and
that all sorts of expedients are sug
gested to got together the required
amount , is calculated to make every
American blush with shame , and yet is
the result that thousands expected. The
time will como when the nation will bo
called upon to erect at its capital city
a monument worthy of Grant , but that
time will bo delayed until Now York
has fully demonstrated that she will not
fulfill her promise to the nation.
Now that the "favorite sons" have
been led out on the track for exercise ,
the knowing ones are quietly inspecting
the political racing stables fora promis
ing dark horse.
NEBUA8KA JOTTINGS.
Bancroft is after n grist mill.
Oakland Is Infested with tramps.
Superior Is going to have a cigar factory.
David City is going to have olcctno lights.
Long Pine wants to remove the county
scat.
scat.Nance
Nance county is to have a now democratic
paper.
Republican City expects to get a sorghum
factory.
The Boone County Argus has reached its
twelfth year.
The Fremont Herald announces a now play
Undo Tom's Cabin.
The saloons of Cedar Rapids have closed
for lack of patronage.
York is taking stops to secure a business
college and normal school.
A now paper has been started ut North
Bond called the Protector.
The papers of Dodge county are agitating
the question of u now court house ,
Republican City lias voted bonds for the
erection of an tl)00 ( ) school houso.
Volume 1 , No. 1 , of the Linwood Journal
lias appeared , edited by E. M. Webb.
D Considerable tstnck throughout the state
was lost by lightning during the late storm.
Horse thiovcs are operating In the unor
ganized toriltory west of Gaudy , Logan
county.
Shelton Is terribly worked up over the fact
that It has natives sufllclontly depraved to
steal lumber !
Arthur WInnoy's house , six miles north
of Stuart , was struck by lightning last
Wednesday night.
A once Deautiful Kentucky rifle supposed
to have been sixty years old , was found last
week near North Platte.
The Farmers' Advocate , North Loup , "Is
glad to hear" that u suit against a local M ,
D , has been compromised.
J. R. Clark , of Lincoln , offers to give J10-
000 for d Y. M. C. A. building ut Lincoln , if
$ .23,000 can bo raised elsewhere.
The members of the Lincoln press club ate
titling up some cosy rooms in thoopora house
block for general headquarters.
William Moore , of Wyoming , Neb. ,
' 'skinned up'1 a hollow tree after a coon , The
"coon" was an eighty-pound lynx.
A flash of lightning slid along u wire fence
in Pawnee county , during a storm and killed
niuo head of cuttlo standing in a row.
Two hundred thousand dollars Is to bo used
in the erection of shops atMcCook and really
has advanced 25 per cent on the prospect ,
The druggists convention recommended
that the proper steps bo taken toward adding
a school of pharmacy to the stale university.
The Genoa city council proposes to make
the saloon licenses f-00 if the saloonkeepers
will contribute an equal amount to the water
works.
On Monday Revs. Brass and Powell , resi
dent pastors , presented to the people of Chad
ron the lda of securinc the locution of the
college of the Northvre&tcru. Cong-iegallojul
asf.ociatlon.
Ueuny Dugan , well known to railroad i.04i
on the Black Hills fflvlsldn , was killed urhllo
on duty last week , firing a passenger run be
tween Missouri Tnllcy nnd Sioux City , on the
Sioux City & Pacific.
Superior is at present engaged In the big.
geat building booui < she over experienced.
Over $100,000 will bo invested in brick block *
during the coming dfammor , and a largo num
ber of fine dwellings nro now m course of
erection ,
Two sons of Mr" Flltnan , a farmer near
Stromsburg , aged six and nlno , loaded a shot
gun with a stick , , While the younger was
looking Into the barrel the gun was dis
charged , the stick , passing part way through
the boy's head. "
William Fraud's , a prominent farmer of
Otoo county , near Palmyra , during a
thunderstorm ooo day last week while
strelching a barV wlro on his farm was
shocked by lightning and prostrated for
about three hours ,
A child eighteen months old was killed nt
Fairbury Thursday afternoon , being run oyor
by the cars. The little one had straj cd from
homo and wni playing on the track. It was
run over by the engine and two box cars of a
Grand Island train ,
Two weeks ago Joe Mason nnd Gcorgo
Holt , of Cedar county , ' 'treed" ' a wolf In a
hole In the ground , and when they dug It
outthoy caught seventeen wolves , two old
ones nnd fifteen young ones. The bounty ro-
colved was $3 j > or scalp.
A citizen of Junlata , J. T. Qulnn , Is missing.
The last news from him was In n letter which
ho loft for his fulhcr-ln-law , Informing him
that .ho would never see him again as It was
his Intention lo RO Immediately to the Platte
river and drown his troubles in a watery
grave.
The present indication Is that the gather
ing at Crete this summer , at the mooting of
the Clmtauaua , will be the largest over hold
at that interesting summer resort. The
various professions , churches and societies
will all bo represented , nnd most of them
liuvo headquarters of their own.
"Ed. Nortlnvay , " says the Dundy Demo
crat , "wllt > resides seven miles southwest of
town , Is under surveillance of the sheriff ,
with chancci favorable for his early trans-
portatlon. Norlhway Is owner of a poor lit
tle pony team , with which ho 1ms been trying
to do farm work. The neighbors say that
one day recently Noilhway became enrapcd
because the ponies could not do certain work ,
nnd to punish oncaftlicm ho cut out Hi
tongue. Norlhway denies this story , but the
onjy explanation ho cau offer is that the
tongue 'Just como off.1"
Labor In California.
Sao amenta Hc < .
The lubor question has been forced
prominently to the front as a burning
question of the hour by the assured fact
that an enormous crop of fruit will need
to bo gathered , packed , cared for ,
cured , or canned within the next live
months. There are not so many
Chinese in the state as there have been
and the hop fields will use many of these
still hero. Every branch of business is
prospering as never before. Manufac
turing of all kinds was never before so
active , and railroad building is going
on at a marvelous rate. This general
prosperity has called into service very
much of the available help in the state ,
and most of it 1ms.been withdrawn from
the orchard and Vineyard to more inter
esting fields. That is to be expected ,
und there is goojl .reason for it. Labor
is bound to go whore it finds the most
profitable and congenial employment ,
und it must bo said that horticulture
has not. so far in , California , offered it
any such inducemunts. As a rule , the
laborer in the ? yanoyard , orchard , oren
on the farm is trpjnlcd with only so much
consideration us Appears just to tolerate
him. Ho is housed in u haystack , fed
no more invitingly than u hog , and
worked us long as he cau stand up. Be
sides , the pay in too often ridiculously
inadequate. Un or such circumstances
it is not to bo wondered at that men do
not care to seek the orchard or the field
to work. The proposition that has been
advanced und partially curried out lo
bring negroes from the south hus some
udvaiitagcs. The best interests of the
state lie in establishing and maintain
ing well paid labor that toil shall not
seem an endless round of hopeless effort
where ambition is dead aud the pros
pect of home mid happiness impossible.
If the negroes of the south are to fur
nish so ugrooublo u solution of the labor
question they will bo welcomed to Cali
fornia.
"Wyoming Notes.
The definition of Wyoming signifies
"tall grass. " During the days preced
ing cattle-raising on the great plains of
this territory the name wasuppropriato ,
but now it is to the casual observer
one of the things of the past. The
buffalo , elk and all other animals of the
plains had the richest pasture on the
glebe , which abounded in the greatest
quantities. Among the most noted val
leys of those days for tall grasses were
the Sweet Water , Sand , Horse nnd An
telope creeks , Topoagic , Twin crook
and all the tributaries of Wind river.
Topoagio has a similar significance ,
"tall gruss , " indicating the tallest of
tulL grass. It is upon this luttor named
stream , in the curly days when the In
dians reigned supreme , whore the first
oil discovery was made and which now
is owned by four of Omiiha's citi
zens , Rogers , Murphy , Lovolt and Lowe.
Prom this discovery nnd development
of this valuable property hus resulted in
the explorations und surveys of the entire -
tire country lying between the Buttle
Snake and Big Horn ranges and be
tween Oil mountain nnd Wind Uivor
ranges , defining what is known as the
muin oil bolt of Wyoming territory.
Some ton yeurs huvo olupscu since these
Oinahu parties first visited the field and
after close observations , geological and
scientific surveys ut great expense , fol
lowed by the drill , throe wells were
completed which uro producing oil with
a fiow of COO barrels per day. This shows
what grit und tenacity have done und it
will soon indicate to the people of
Omaha the bonanza thi s quurtott has
within its grip whontho railroad
reaches the field.
A beautiful green oil is reported to
have been found near the oust end of
the field nnd as soon us the section ,
town , and range can bo positively de
fined , further information will bo given ,
the sample shown is of very rich quality.
Where Nott l'iu Dimes.
The Amoricun street car or the ticket
window of 11 ruilroudistution frequently
offers this unpleasant spectacle : A
well dressed , and.lo all outward nppcur-
uricos , a well bred woman , opens her
pocketbook , picks out a piece of money ,
nnd deliberately put it in her mouth
and holds it there wailo she closes her
purse , readjusts her glovo.und arranges
her many pacKago3. If some modern
Smollot would lay lirforo her eyes the
"Adventures of u Dhno , " if bho could
oven dimly conceive of the unutterable
fullness through which the coin she
holds between her dainty lips hus prob
ably passed , a loathing hiirror would
overwhelm her. But in blissful uncon
sciousness she caresses that which is
the embodiment of all filthiness. Aside
from the view of cleanliness is the ques
tion of contagion. That this nasty
habit is often responsible for the spread
of infectious disease cannot bo doubted.
The Master-Stroke , a powerful 'French '
drama by Muthry , has been bought by The
resa Vaughn. It U described as extremely
bcntation-il.
In Sara Bnrnhardt's auldavit in the La
ToscuNajzda omtioversy , she states that
she has. at ber homo SOO plays , sent to her by
so liiany-emtirydtluSiudQUs , not one-'of which
STRONG FRIEND ON TIIE BOARD
The Railroads Have a Pliant Tool in
Secretary Agor.
SQUARELY AGAINST THE PEOPLE'
Some I'lRttrcs Oltctl to Prove tlio
FalMty of Ills Statements Prepar
ing For the Annual Clam
Unko-Olty Uriel's.
LINCOLN DUHEAU or Tns OMAHA. BKB , I
1020 P STIIKDT. >
LINCOLN , May 18. J
For several months a portion of the board
of transportation has been working for and
urging tha substantial reduction of freight
rates in Nebraska for the purpose of afford
ing the people sorno rollof , During nil those
months from ono particular quarter of tbe
tboard there has come constant , Ingenious and
persistent efforts to thwart such reductions.
The apparent success achieved by the delays
lias given ono of the secretaries of the board
courage to como out In n long article in which
UIQ true Inwardness ot the delay Is manifest.
The article was road Thursday last at the
board illcaUnft and has boon largely pub
lished. It Is the work of Secretary J , II.
Acer , Uio ono inombQr of the board whoso
every act and word slnco ho wont upon the
commission has been against rollof for the
people. The record of the board on all Im
portant Questions shows this. In tbo contest
made to determine the power of the law ho
was always against it , and whoa Secretary
Mason was furnishing to the public the exact
facts and figures that showed how Nebraska
suffered in comparison with other stales , it
was Secretary Agor who attempted to
throttle that work. In the light of the rec
ords of the board and the Knowledge of every
man who has watched the complexion of
the board it will not bo surprising
that Mr. Agor comes out before any perma
nent relief is gained nnd asks that the board
ccaso work , that It do not attempt to lower
rates and that It content Itself with mending
pump handles nnd the drawing of salaries.
Mr. Agor's article summed In n sentence ad
vocates that the board make no efforts lo reduce -
duce local rules In tbo slate through adopting
a dlstnuco tariff.
Thcro Is n similarity between the specious
plea of Mr. Ager aud the printed argument
of Thomas L. Klmball before the legislature
that Is very striking in its character , liut
the manifest untruthfuluess of Mr. Agor's
article Is equally lomarkablo. His state
ments are equally conlrndictod by facts and
figuics in possession of the board , that were
published month's ago and wore unchal
lenged. Mr. Agcr states that slnco the 5th
of April , lbS7 , Ihero have been substantial
reductions in both state and inter-state rates.
This statement Is not true. Both the rec
ords and evidence prove the statement fnlso.
The following figures of record disprove the
statement of reduction : At Omaha the
lumber rate prior to April 5,1SS7 , was Jrom
8 to 10 cents net. On April 5 , when the In
terstate law went into effect , the rate was
raised to 20 cents. It was reduced by com
promise to IS nnd by competition since to 10
cents , leaving it still nearly double
tbo amount prior to April C.
In addition to this , prior to the intcr-stato
law , Omaha on lumber and packing house
products was on an equality with Kansas
Oily nnd other Missouri river points , bul is
not now on rales on these products.
The rate on hard coal to Omaha prior to
April 5 , 1587 , was net § 2.50. It was elevated
at that dale to { 4 , nnd has since been reduced
by compromise lo $315 , leaving it slill 03
cenls higher than it was a year ago.
Merchandise from Chicago to Omaha , in
car load lots , was , prior lo April 5. 1S97 , net
20 conls. on that dale advanced to 80 conls ,
since reduced lo S5 cents , 5 ccnls higher than
before the date cited.
Grain , Omaha rate prior to April 5 , 1837.
was 15 cents. On that date it was elevated
to 20 cents and has remained there.
With the above figures on Omaha rales
the following Lincoln rates are in the same
proportion : Lumber rate prior to April C ,
1SS7 , net rate 14 cents , raised April G to 2(5 (
cents , reduced by competition to 23 cents ,
and by competition since to 10 cents ,
being still 5 cents higher than It was April C ,
1S37.
1S37.Hard
Hard coal prior to April 5. 18S7 , not rate
$3.10 , elevated April 5 to $5. This
was so outrageous an advance that
the roads wore ashamed of it and reduced it
to ti , and the compromise brought it Jou-n to
33 00 , leaving It still CO cents u ton higher
than it was April 5 , lbS7.
The Lincoln grain rate prior to April 5 ,
1SS7 , on corn , was net IS cents , raised that ,
date lo 21 cents , and since reduced to 23
cents , 4 cents higher than formerly.
On other articles of shipment the same
character of reduction is manifest and in the
same proportion as these figures show are the
people paying higher rales. These figures
are of record , and It is very ingenious in Mr.
Ager to Insinuate that rales have been re
duced.
It has been the desire of a portion of the
board loget relief from these advanced Intor-
slalo rates by reducing the local distanca
tariff in the state and bv adopting an equal
ized local dlatanco tariff for relief nnd ooino
degree of equity for the people. The fact ia
notorious that Iowa , Minnesota aud the ter
ritory of Dakota enjoy far more reasonable
rates than Nebraska , and whore both the
volume of business and population should
give this state the lower rate. The railroads
lu Nebraska and particularly Ino liurling-
lon have a basis that they act upon thai
uses the first class rate as the unit to figure
from , und from this they make the fourth
class rate from 00 to 75 per cent
of the first class rate. In the fouith class
two-thirds of the local shipments are made ,
nnd a reduction in the fourth class would
reach largely every consumer. It is an estab
lished precedent with roads over the entire
country that the fourth class rate shall bo
DO per cent of the first class , and in
Iowa , Minnesota and Dakota this
plan Is adopted , while In Nebraska
the fourth-class Is rnodo a third higher. The
Chicago , Milwaukee & St. Paul tariff sheets
on lllo at tlio ofilco of the board of transpor
tation show the fourth-class rate on that
road less than 50 per cent of the first-class.
The same Is Iruo of the Chicago , St. Paul ,
Minneapolis & Omaha railway , and the same
is tiuo on tlio Chicago , Burlington & North-
cm , u part of the Hurllngtou system , that
gives to Minnesota u fourth-class rate CO per
cent of the first , while In Nebraska a fourth-
class rate 70 per cent of the first Is exacted.
Ono Illustration is very pertinent on this
point. The local distance tariff on live slock
on ihe Chicago. Burlington & Northern for
a distance of 2CO miles Is $40 20 , while the
local distance tailff on live slock 2CO miles iu
Nebraska is t < 5.
Inlhofacoof these facls of record the
hypocrisy of Secretary Ager in staling that
rates are low enough in Nebraska , shines
with the more brilliancy. In the face of the
fact that counties in Minnesota and Iowa
with a populallon no greater uud no greater
volume of business than counties all through
eastern Nebraska , hava u local distance nnd
distribullng lariff 20 per cent lower Ihun the
Nebraska tai 1ft on all the commodities that
make the bulk of trade , it would seem that
there Is u demand for local rcductloim In this
state. Much more slrongly does Urn nrgu-
menl come when Nebraska Is compared wilh
the sparsely settled districts of Dakota in
the faaraa unenviable light ,
Tlio publlo who have watched the facts In
regard to the excessive rules in tills state us
they have been brought out In the cases
heard before both the state boaid and the
Intcr-stalo commission , read llnough Uio
thinly disguised plea for the railroads made
by Mr. Agur , and will await tbo attlon of the
board on the proposed local distance tariff
question with added intuiest. It is very evi
dent that the roads could not select u more
eager and pliant tool to represent them than
Secretary Afc-er has piovcd hlmsolf to bo in
Ills plead In if s to hao the railroads loft alone
in their extortions.
riCEI'JUUTOllV TO A CLAM HAKE.
Deputy Marshal Ed Allen , of Omaha , was
in Uio city to-day atlonding u uieellnf of the
committee who have In charge the foitlicom-
ing bake by the State Clam Hakeii. ' ussocia-
tioti. Mr. Allen declares that the gathering
the present i car will bo the largest and most
noteworthy of anv in the hUtorj of Ino asso
cialion , und Hint Ihora 010 flfty applicant * for
membership in Omaha alone. The committee
will decide both upon the time and place for
the bake , and the noi-ussary products to
secure for tlio feast und the common comforts -
forts unending. Milford secim. to bo favorably -
ably consldoifd for llio location. Ono of Iho.
special attractions will bo to ilotonnlno who
can devour the most clams at ono Bitting ,
General McUndo nt the present time holding
that place of honor.
_ CITT nninrn.
E. T. Oadd of Omaha who lifts recently
located In Lincoln us the financial ugontof
the now Christian university , has published
nu appeal for contributions to nld in the
erection of the first building , The donnllon
given the college to locate hero was entirely
in Innds whore the new institution will bo
built , and It li the dcslro of the board of
trustees to hold these lands for an endow-
mcnt and start the school by getting the
building by popular subscriptions.
The case of Uarnos against Adams county
to restrain the Issuance of n portion of the
Missouri Pacific bonds was hoard before
Judge Field yesterday and ho will glvo his
decision Wednesday next , It Is claimed by
the Missouri Pacific people that the injunc
tion proceedings are a part of tha organized
plan lo prevent nnd harass the Missouri Pa
cific In its extension of lines In this state. It
U claimed that Harnoa Is n right of way mnn
for the 11. & M. officials lu this city. It U
slated that like efforts will bo made to pre
vent the bonds voted by Nuckoll county from :
being issued to the Missouri Pacific.
Passengers who travel over the Uurltnglon
since the strlko are somewhat timid. The
other day nn old lady sat In n coach as the
train was noarlng this city nnd
she clung to the arm of the
seat nnd had such n frightened
look that the passengers nil pitied her.Vhon
the conductor came through she told him of
her fears of nn accident with the Inexpe
rienced engineers in charge , but the conduc
tor was equal to the occasion , nnd told her
there was no danger , nnd that the old en-
placer WHS in charge. With n sigh of relief
she rode without fear the rest of the journey
nnd the scab engineer pulled ono passenger
that had confidence in his Ability.
There will not bo much railroad building
out of Lincoln this year , but it is practically
settled that the Missouri Pacific will , before
anew files , build from this point to Roca In
this county on the Crete Una of the Missouri
Pacific , giving Lincoln a western outlet on
the now lino.
Mrs. Emma Manchester , department prcsl
dent of the woman's relief corps , has Issued
nn order for the general observance of deco
ration day on the part of Iho different
branches of the relief coips in the stale.
There was a largo delegation of enthusiastic
base ball admirers that journeyed to Ouialiu
to day to witness the national game.
Ttio funeral of Charley Eaton lo-day was
ono of Iho largest attended In the city for
some time , und the services wore both beau
tiful and Impressive.
A now tariff schedule lias gene Into effect
on the Elkhornroad that assists Lincoln ship
pers somewhat in reaching northern Nobi asua
points.
Honey In OeorRlix.
After dinner at Mr. Mitchell's , says
the Griffin ( Ga. ) News , wo wore sitting
on his front piazza , smoking , nnd I dis
covered some bees going in and out of a
knot in ono of the largo oak trees in
front of his dwelling. This tree is
known to bo over ono hundred years
old. I learned that sonus years ago a
swarm of bees assembled in that tree as
their now homo , and they hnvo worked
and lived there over since. After they
had been there for three years the col
ony became very largo and strong , and
no attempt had over been made to rob
them of their honoy. At last Mr.
Mitchell came to the conclusion that
the trco must bo full of honey , from
seeing largo numbers of flies and
bees around the root of the trco ; so ho
sot to work to devise some moans to got
the honey without cutting the trco
down. After applying all the tests
known to boo men ho satisfied himself
that the trco was full , and then decided
to tap it like a fellow is tapped for
dropsy. So ho got him a faucet aud an
augur and bored a hole in the trco near
the root , nnd then screwed in the fau
cet , and to his surprise and great delight -
light a solid stream of pure and elegant
honey as clour as crystal gushed forth ,
and the supply slomed almost inexhaus
tible. It continued to pour out until ho
hud filled fix barrels ; mid ho has drawn
each year since that time from three to
four barrels of pure struinod honey
from that old oak tree , nnd up to this
time there seems to bo no signs of a
failure of the supply , as the bees are
still u very strong and healthy colony.
The sumo year that Mr. Mitchell
tapped the old oak tree there was a now
thick growth sprunk up all around the
old oak of nn unusual appearance , hav
ing u smooth bark ana thick , waxy
loaves. Ono day ho pulled oft ono ot
the loaves nnd put it in his mouth and
found it to bo very sweet , and upon ex
amination of the place from which bo
hud plucked the leaf ho discovered that
the plant was blooding or omitting from
the wound a clear , thick-looking juice ,
which , upon tasting and examination ,
proved to bo houov. Ho then com
menced to nurse the now volunteer
growths with the tondoro'st care and at
tention , looking after them daily ;
und as the summer ad
vanced the plants continued to
grow , and in the fall ho selected and
transplanted SOO of them in very rich
soil , thirty foot apurt , and they grow
very rapidly , mulang a beautiful dis
play with their straight , smooth trunks
and their thick and glossy wax-liko
leaves. And the grove was soon and
admired bv all for miles and miles
around. Mr. Mitchell's idea was that ,
us large money was made from the
sugar maple by Dolling the juice , ho
ought to make moro from a tree that
would run pure honey , und hous
right. "When the trees wore four years
old , in the fall of the your , they wore
largo enough to insert faucets. So
ho had 800 faucets made to order und
screwed them into the young trees , and
the following spring tlio result was re
markable. Each trco yielded an aver
age of ton gallons of the richest golden
honey ; the following year ouch tree
yielded an average of twenty gallons ,
and now the average is about a barrel
to each trco during the year , und the
grove continues to grow und flourish
and shows no signs of fulling to supply
in the yours to come. The quality of
the honey is so fine and the flavor BO
delicate that it always commands the
highest prices , and the demand is
greater than the supply.
Fronoli Flower GlrlH.
Several thousand girls in Now York
are employed by the manufacturers of
artificial flowers. Tlio factories cluster
thick in the old French quarter of
West Bleccker und Houston streets ,
and hundreds of pretty girls tripto their
work every morning past the odd little
French restaurants and places of more
doubtful reputation , whoso windows uro
never open until mid-morning. Ono
of the protlicst of these flower workers ,
glancing brightly from out a bower of
golden riiunutfl , suld to the Now York
Tologriun's Uloeckor btreet reporter :
"Wo girls Icnrn this business in from
four to ton months. We make nothing
while louming and huve to pay for in
struction. An outfit of tools costs $15 ,
and wo must buy that ourselves. When
u girl hus learned her trudo she cun
niulvo from 810 to $18 a week. "
"Do you work from nulural flowers1"
'Oh , no , " she laughed. "Somo of us
have seldom seen a nulural flower EUVO
in Iho show windows. Here are our de
signs. , " and she opened u book in which
wore prints of roses , lilies , violets and u
do/.on other flowers in their nutural
colors.
"Hero , " she wont on , ' 'uro our
knives , brushes aud paints. The wax
from which some of the flowers are
made comoh in thin sheetb. Wo cut it
into leuves , stamens und petals with the
knives , und the men curl Iho parts in
the prebsing machines. Wo paint the
wax flowers according to these designs.
Flowers uro ulso iiiudo of cloth It
comes in various colors , mid we select
those suitable for the HoWe.rb wo are
inuking. When the Jlowersare finished
they nro put up in tlssuo paper and
boxed for the wholesale trade. "
'To appear next month qn now uon-
nets. ohV'
"Oh , no , they dent , " she snid with n ,
fresh smilo. "Wo don't make millin
ers' flowers horo. These nro used for
house decoration , for show windows and
theatres. Of course , though , milliners'
flowers nro mndo in Now York and
thousands of dollars' worth are imported
every year. Now tnko this cloth rose
for your buttonhole If you want nn
orange wreath for n , bridal veil you
must go else where. "
A STRANGE SPANISH SECT ,
People AVIio Itollovo In Going Naked
nndVouiullR Themselves.
Your readers may remember that
Bomo ttrao ago I drew attention to a
very romnrkublo phase of religious
fanuticlsmn i the little village of Telex ,
iu the province ol Malaga , which led to
ii state prosecution , Tlio devotees of the
religion , I may call to mind , took itluto
their heads , or , rather wore led to bo-
liuvo by their loader , a woman who de
clared herself a prophetess , that the
highest form of religion was to conduct
the mundane nffalrs of this life in the
simple garb of Adam nnd Kvo bofaratho
fall , This was bad enough , and led , as
I have said , to the intervention of the
Crown ; but it nus not their only diver
gence from the wuyaof ordinary mortals
another portion of their doctrine being
to inflict upon themselves wounds in the
hands , bronst and foot , such na are
shown in representations of the cru-
vltlxlon. They ulso burnt nil , or nearly
all their worldly possessions , in the
belief that a higher power would pro
vide thorn with food. Their behavior ,
indeed , was such Unit , us ntntod , the
government felt called upon to interfere -
fore , and n day or two ngo a number of
loaders of this strange soot were nut
upon their trial. Already the most ex
traordinary revelations have been
made , apart from what may bo called
tno spiritual manifestations which
thcso misguided people declare
have boon mudo to thorn. The most In
teresting feature in connection with
the trial has boon the experiments in
hypnotism , which have boon made on
the defendants by medical specialists
this being the first time hypnotism has
boon resorted to in Spain in the inter
ests of justice.
In hearty every case the defendants
proved to bo "good" subjects. Many of
she experiments tried by the doctors
wore of the most extraordinary char-
actor. Ono of the accused , for instance ,
when in a state ot hypnotism , on being
ordered to perspire , broke out almost
instantly in u state of profuse perspira
tion , while an other ; who wus ordered to
ascend a very high mountain , being
the while in nn ordinary room , behaved
as if ho were actually climbine , his
breathing becoming difficult and his
hcurt boating violently. When this
mnn was told that ho had reached the
summit and might rest awhile , the
symptoms of exhaustion gradually dis
appeared. Others wore pricked with
long pins , and gave no evidence of fool
ing- what was being done to them. The
trial will last several days longer nnd
will probably result in merely nominal
punishment being imposed upon the
accused , who for the most part seem lo
be merely harmless , weak-minded pee
ple.
Points About Pipes.
On an upper floor of a building on
Broadway is an emporium for pipes.
The young man in charge said ton Now
York Telegram reporter that tlio season
for the sale of briar-root pipes had just
set in. "Wo keep them in nil shapes
nnd qualities , and they run in price
from $1.25 a dozen to 89 a dozen. The
Englishman's favorite briar pipe is
called'tho bull dog , ' as it is all head ,
with n long , amborino stem , and bolls
for $7.60 a do/.cn. There are plain briar
pipes without covers on the bowl , and
some with plain nnd fancy Gorman sil
ver covers , which make au additional
expense. Fancy briar pipes go us high
as $25 to $30j according BO the amount of
ornamentation required to bo put on
them.
"Thoro is quite a demand for apple :
wood pipes , which sell at COc up to $2.fiO
a dozen , according as they are lined
with alum or not. The alum prevents
them from burning. All the Italians
use the applowood pipe , which is speci
ally prepared for them , stained a deep
wine color to resemble mulberry wood ,
and the bowl , by and ingenious arrange
ment of the small nail heads , is mad to
assume a thorny surface. Woichssol ,
a German importation , ia popular with
Germans and sells for 05o a dozen ,
though some retailers , by saying they
are the genuine imported article ,
charge as high for a single pipe , ( ioc , as
they would JMVV for a whole dozen.
Laurel wood makes a sweet pipe and is
only 30c a dozen , und should rotuil nt Co
but the doiilors easily got 80o to 4o ( ) for
such pipes. The corn-cob pipe , lined
with plaster of Paris , is greatly sought
by southern pooplo. They boll for 35c a
Uo/.on.
In a largo glass case the meerschaum
pipes were on exhibition : ono nestled
luxuriously in the folds of a rod satin-
lined and plush-covered box , the shape
of a horseshoe , and next to it was a
meerschaum cigar nnd cigarette-holder
and a small brass box for mutches.
"Then there nro rod unid blue plush
albums for meerschaum pipe , fancy
meerschaum cigar-holder , box for
mutches , with clipper for clipping cigar
ends , nnd a steel for pipe clean ing , und
silk and plush sacks , lined with rubber ,
for holding tobacco. Meerschaum bowls
without sterna are worth$0 a do/on. The
full is the best season for the sale of
meerschaum pipes. Tlio Weichssol pipe
soils all the year round among the Ger
mans. Wo have ono man who travels
west to get orders for that pipe alone ,
nnd it is astonishing how well ho doon
with it. Ho curries u largo specimen of
the pipe himbolf , with u long Blum to it ,
und smokes it coustuntly on nls trav
els. "
"Do you keep nny clay pipes ? "
"No. When uny one unks for them
wo direct him to u pluco down the street
whore they muko them a specialty. "
Sweet Things In HUHO null Costume.
Utica has a female base bull club , and
Booms to bo very proud of it , for the
Herald of that city says : "Tho popular
idea that a girl cannot throw u bull ua
well us a boy Is likely to suffer in this
locality this summer , for nine young
ludicBln this city hnvo formed u base
ball club. The organization hus boon
perfected , the officers icgularlyolcctod ,
and the players assigned to their posi
tions In the field. A bubo ball grounds
within the city limits has boon secured ,
und us soon us the wouther und ttuto of
the grounds permit , the practicing will
begin. The ground is so arranged that
no one will ever discover it uniobs ono
of the young ludies betrays the secret ,
Of course the quuttion of costumes is un
interesting ono. Those young ladies
will attempt to win their honors nt the
bat in a blue and whlto co tumo. The
waist is a loose-fitting blouse-like gar
ment of dark blue Borvicoublo cloth ,
trimmed with white braid. A fcoml-
skirt of the same pattern will be worn.
The players will bo bho'l with strong
Hold bhoes , which , with black hose and
soft foil cap , will complete the uniform
of the Utica Female Base Bull club.
The progress of the club will ho looked
for will * the dcojnjst fntorebt" _ ,