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H f.1mn FUIIFKIT DEPOSITED.
OMAHA , March 11 , 180:1. : Ucccivctl of R.
llosowator llvo certified checks upon tlio
First National bank of Omaha , of fcl.lXK )
eacli and each nmdo payalilo to tlio order
respectively of the Institutions named , to beheld
held by mo In trust and for disposition us
stated , and In accordance with the accept-
nnco by O. M. Hitchcock of the challenge
made by 1C. IJosowator , both of which are
herewith appended. Hcsuv W YATES.
It will he observed that no forfeit has been
exacted from ( . AI. Hitchcock or the World-
J feral J. Ho has not staked n dollar on his
claim of largest circulation and every con
cession demanded by him has boon made
w'thout ' exacting anything from him except
prompt and honest compliance with the
conditions under which the relative circula
tions arc to bo ascertained.
It now remains for the claimant to proceed
without delay , publish his list and earn
$ " > ,000 for the benevolent institutions at Tin :
UKK'H expense.
THKHK la u ttmoll of burning rubbluh
in the air und u sound of carpet beating
and profanity. Tlio spring houscclcun-
ing hits eoinnionecil.
THK behavior of tlio Missouri river up
to ( Into is admifnblo , but all signs point
to a break up that will make things
livolv when it comes.
A PHILOSOPHICAL contemporary says
that the only euro for municipal cor
ruption is to elect no man to olllco who
to not free from debt. Such men would
"bo hard to find , and it docs not follow
that a man in honest because he is out of
ilobt.
THK man who works a horse as long as
the wretched creature can stand up un
der the weight of a harness , and then
turns him into the street a tottering
skeleton to starve to death , deserves tlio j
attention of tlio humane society. There
' have been several cases of that kind in
this city this spring.
IT'is proposed to' colonize with Eng- '
lisli farmers a tract of 80,000 acres in
central Wyoming. Perhaps some of
those farmers will prove to bo miners ,
as might naturally bo expected of Eng
lishmen , and in that case they may exert -
ort an important influence upon the min
eral us well as tlio agricultural develop
ment of that state.
THE benefits to bo derived from reci
procity in trade are shown by tlio in
crease in our trudo with Cuba under the
reciprocity treaty negotiated with Spain
during the last administration. The in
crease in our export trade with Cuba
during one year is from $10,900,780 , to
310,782,014. It pays this country to look
to its business interests.
WlIKN all is said that can be justly
Bald about the legislatures of the west
ern states they still shine brightly by
contrast with some of the state Iciris-
latlvo bodies of the east. The Now
York World says : "New Jersey's shame
is that it has a legislature absolutely
controlled by criminals and blacklegs.
That is the precise situation , and there
is no reason why the .scandalous truth
should not bo told. "
OMAHA will have a larger number of
visitors this year than over before In
her history. It is Important that they
. should bo favorably impressed by the
appearance of the city , and for that rea
son , if for no other , a special effort
uhuuld bo made to keep the streets in
the most attractive condition possible.
Clean streets always create a favorable
impression and uro regarded as proofs
of enterprise and local pride.
REPORTS continue to como of immi
gration to the newer states from the
eastern and middle states. The move
ment has only begun , but it promises tp
bo the greatest that lias been witnessed
in many years. Nebraska has already
received a considerable number of settlers
tlors this spring from beyond the Mis
souri , and there uro many moro to fol
low. All comers who are in search of
permanent homes are wnrmly welcomed.
NOT only In this country but in Eng
land a great deal of interest has been
manifested in the transfer of the steum-
ehips Now York and Paris to thoiAnior-
ican line and their formal "naturaliza
tion" under the stars and stripes. The
recent formal and Impressive adoption
of the New York into the American
family of ships has been followed by a
loss pretentious but equally signlllcunt
ceremony pn board the Paris ; and a dis
patch from London gives u report of a
lunch party on board the New York at
that port at which JO distinguished
guests wore present , including promi
nent English and American olllcluls.
Minister Lincoln presided , numerous
rijwechcs were made and the ships in the
harbor were profusely decorated in
honor of the occasion. On all sides this
transfer of two of the greatest ships in
the world from English to American
registry ttuumu to bo regarded us highly
significant.
.1A' IMPOItTAXT TltADE MOVKMKNT.
There arrived In Now York n fowdnyrt
ngo a party of sixty-four nuuiufiu'tiiroiM
returning from u l.x weeks trip through
Moxluo. The visit of UICHO American
itmnufucturorH to the Hiritor republic was
with a view to cultivating closer tnulo
rotations , and their reports are highly
favorable. It is the intention of these
representative business men , who have
formed n permanent association In which
the manufacturers of twenty-six cities of
the United Stales are already repre
sented , to nmlro another trip to Mexico
Inter In the year and periodical visits
may bo made In future. In short It
is a thoroughly practical and substantial
movement which alms to draw to thlfj ,
country a largo part of the trade of the
neighbor republic which now goes to
European countries , and there can bo no
doubt that If earnestly and vigorously
pushed It will be successful In doing
this.
this.As
As was said by oiio of these manufac-
turcrn , the United States not only pro
duces what is needed by the people of
Mexico and South America , but it also
uses a largo percentage of the uoinmodi-
tlo.-i which they are prepared to
offer in exchange. With quick
and ruiruliir transportation facilities ,
as well as low established rates ,
it is only necessary that American manu
facturer : * should learn thoroughly the
kind and quality of goods consumed to
be enabled to place them at a fair prolll
on the market needing them. The hope
was expressed by the party that some
plan of reciprocity would before long bo
arranged between the two countries
whereby tlio present dfitiorf. which are
almost prohibitive in some cases , will bo
lowered , if not entirely wiped out. It is
not a now suggestion that the tarlll wall
between Mexico and the United States is
responsible for tlio commercial advan
tages which European countries' have
been able to secure in the former coun
try , and now that American manufac
turers hee and admit it the chance of
greatly lessening or altogether remov
ing the barrier will doubtless be much
bettor. It should be said that the fact
that the barrier exists now is largely
the fault of the United States The
Mexican government has been well dis
posed toward a reciprocity arrangement
for years and once or twice the two
countries have boon at the point of con
summating one , but some American in
terest that wanted the tariff wall main
tained would stop in to prevent it.
The present president of Mexico , who
is a statesman of broad and liberal views ,
has always manifested the most earnest
desire to enlarge the commercial rela
tions between the two countries , while
the Mexican minister at Washington , a
devoted friend of the United States , has
labored zealously to this end. There is
every reason to believe that Mexican
merchants would prefer to do busi
ness with this country if they
can do so on as advantageous
terms as with European countries.
These things being so it would seem
that all American manufacturers have
to do is to scoure the removal of the
diflleultfcj which hinder trade between
the two countries and meet the require
ments of the , Mexican market , in order to
speedily secure control of pretty much the
entire foreign commerce of that republic.
It is a trade well worth working for nnd
the American Manufacturers' associa
tion , which may bo expected to rapidly
grow in strength and influence , has
gone about the matter In a vray that
promises success.
TRUST SKCUltlTIKS
Since the 1st of January this year , a
period of less than two months and u
half , the shrinkage in the values of
securities belonging to companies that
are classed among the chief combines
for the monopoly of products lias been
so great as to attract the attention of
financiers and create the gravest appre
hension on the part of those whoso inter
ests uro in any manner concerned in the
success of the combines affected. In the
coal , sugar , cordage , lead " and whisky
trusts the shrinkage in the value of se
curities within the time named has been
more than $04,000,000. , The greater portion
tion of this decline has taken place
within the last throe weeks. In the case
of the Reading the loss on $10,000,000 of
stock is $17liOO,000 ; general mortgage ,
Si00,000 : ( ' ; first , second and third prefer
ence bonds , $18,500,000 ; total , $10,300,000.
Seldom has the wind been knocked out
of bloated securities at such a rate as
this. But the American Sugar Refin
ing company , or the Tuigar trust ,
has not escaped. On $110,770,000 of
stock it has lost 12 per cent , or $1,400-
000 , and on the snino amount of pre
ferred stock the shrinkage lias been
about $1,000,000. The National Cordage
company has soon its securities dwindle
in vuluo to the amount of $3,000,000 ,
while the National Lead company has
lost $ ; iGOO,000. The shrinkage in the
securities of the whisky trust is placed
at $11,900,000. The total amount of the
securities hero represented is about
$ . 102,412,000 and the loss in values since
January 1 foots up $64,200,000.
Those figures would possess little pub
lic interest if the corporations concerned
were legitimate business enterprises
having due warrant of law for their exIstence -
Istonco ; but when it is considered that
they are combined having no other pur
pose but extortion and plunder it is soon
how closely the public is concerned in
their financial condition , for upon this
and the enforcement or nononforcoment
of law their permanency must depend.
There is some satisfaction in contemplat
ing the fact that the most powerful
and dangerous monopolies that have over
existed in this country uro beginning to
'feel the pressure of public opinion
through channels which lap their very
sources of life. Those trusts have used
their power to extort money from the
l > eoplo , nnd the profits thus forced have
been used to create a demand for vast
quantities of their watered stocks. The
insiders in these deals have made the
people pay money Into their coders and
then have been able o water their
stocks beyond all reason and sell them
upon the strength of the fact that tholr
system of robbery was proving success
ful.
ful.Tho
The men who have bought most freely
of the trust securities whicn nro now so
rapidly shrinking in value are no better
than these who inveigled them into the
speculation , As u rule uobady but a
flhnrp would liavo anything lo do with
Riich RocurlllcH , and tlio man who would
! < eek to prollt by the success of any
Kohaina of public plunder deserves to bo
caught In the ruins when the structure
falls. The trusts and combines are
doomed to go under nnd tholr downfall
will bo attributable to the popular outcry
against them. What the law has failed
to do is being slowly wrought out by the
force of public opinion.
LITEHAHY ACTIVITY 'IIKllK A fin
AllllUAl ) .
It Is doubtless the impression of mast
Intelligent Americans who give some
attention to literary matters that the
United States surpasses all other coun
tries in its contributions to literature.
This Idea is a mistaken one. The fact is
that in literary activity , as shown In the
production of books , which constitute a
valuable and permanent addition to lit
erature , this country is behind the
principal countries of Europe , ' England ,
Franco , Germany nnd Russia. The
statistics uro interesting und instructive ,
Hinco they servo to Indicate the intel
lectual trend hero nnd abroad , and it
must be said that they are not calculated
to increase our national pride.
The yearly production of now books in
the civilized world is estimated to be
abjut 00,000. Of this number the United
States supplier less than a twelfth , u
part of thorie being reissues of Imported
works , although we have over one-fifth
of the population which supplies writers
and readers. The number of now books
published in the United States last year
was 4,802 , while in Great Britain , with u
population only n little over half of
ours , the number was 0,254. In Franco ,
with a population but little moro
than half that of the United States , the
number of now bnoks and now editions
was Kl , 132 , in Germany the production
was close to 20,000 , and oven Russia ,
with probably not more than one book
reader to twenty in the United States ,
the number of now baoks published ex
ceeded that hero. Another interesting
fact is that this country produces a
larger proportion of novels than any
other except Great Britain , over one-
fifth of the books published hero last
year being of this class. Germany is
especially distinguished among the na
tions for its contributions to the serious
and substantial work of literary
endeavor , surpassing every other coun
try in the published results of scientific
and historical research , while only a
tenth of its writing energy is employed
in the direction of fiction and poetry.
Franco ranks next to Germany in the
production of what may bo termed
serious books , but at a'good distance be
hind.
hind.Where
Where the United States surpasses
every other nation is in the number of
its newspapers and periodicals , and in
this class of reading the people of this
country are immensely in advance of
these of any other country. In this
respect this is the greatest read
ing nation in the world , so
that the greatsourcesof popular instruc
tion and enlightenment hero , moro than
anywhere else , are the press and the1
magazines. That these are doing a most
important anil valuable work in the
cause of Intellectual development will
not bo questioned , and it is to bo remem
bered that they supply a channel for the
dissemination of n vast amount of scien
tific , historical and practical informa
tion which but for such a medium would
find its way into books and bo less gen
erally distributed. It must be admitted ,
however , that In the higher realm
of literary activity the United
States has as yet little to boast of , and
whether this is duo to a lack of ambition
on the part of American scholars or to a
want of interest , and therefore of ad
equate encouragement , on the part of
the public in literary work of a serious
and practical nature , is a question. It
is not altogether reassuring to know
that the production of books in the
United States last year was only a very
little larger than eight years before , so
that relatively there was no progress
made during these years , but there is
reason to hope that the next ten years
will witness nn increase of literary
activity in this country in the direction
in which wo arc now behind.
FOllKST HKSER
Within the last two years there has
boon a great extension of forest reser
vations in the far west , the future benefits -
fits of which are expected to bo most
valuable. Under the operation of the
law of 1891 , for the repeal of the timber
culture act , millions of acres of forest
land have been sot apart for public pur
poses. The Yellowstone park has' been
greatly enlarged by extensions to the
east and south , aggregating about
l,2oO,000 acres. On the White river
in Colorado a tract of about tlio same
area has been reserved. Two other res
ervations were recently established
in the same state , one of them on
Pike's Peak. A park of 300,000
acres has been formed on thePecos river
in Now Mexico , and a short time ago
1,000,000 aoros were taken ns a park for
the purpose of preserving the natural
beauties of the Grand canyon of the
Colorado rivor. During the last year a
magnificent series of forest reservations
has also boon established "along the
Sierra range in California , the 0,000,000
to 10,000,000 , acres sot apart stretching
from a point behind Los Angeles to a
point north of San Francisco. Around
Mount Ranior , in Washington , a park
of 1,000,000 acres has boon reserved , and
smaller tracts have been set apart in
Oregon.
The benefit of these reservations is
both local and national in securing the
sources of water supply and thus Insur
ing irrigation and bountiful crops , and
in preserving untmnared the glories und
beauties of natural scenery of the west.
The example of interest in this matter
set by the lust administration should bo
followed by the present one , so far as it
is practicable to do so , und congress
should make rigid regulations for keep
ing these reservations inviolate. It is
to IK ) put down to the credit of the last
congress that it again rejected the
scheme of certain speculators to change
the boundaries of the Yellowstone
park so us to make a route for a pro
posed railroad. This project has boon
urged upon the attention of congress for
several years and repeated defeats' do
not scorn to have discouraged Its pro
meters , who may bo expected to npponr
In the next eoiuosi with their appeal
to have n lurg nlleo of this great na
tional park out off , ostensibly to enable
them to make railroad connection with
a xmall mining town just outside of the
reservation , but really for qtilto another
object. The opposition to this scheme
was able to show , with convinc
ing aloarnoM , that if the pi\-
posetl rallronrt hould lee built It would
result illsiiHtroiGly to the uuino In the
park and to the timber In the Yellow
stone river , which Is the great tributary
of the Missouri ) fit was pointed out that
if the timber on the headwaters of the
Missouri river bo destroyed the immense
fall of water , the rainfall which comes
but once in ton or twelve months , would
rush down a bare and exposed declivity
upon each' side of these waters and would
then sweep In resistless volume through
tlio states contiguous upon the
Missouri and Mississippi rivers until
they reached tlio gulf. The damage -
ago that would result from these inun
dations would bo enormous , and to incur
such a peril in order to accommodate a
railroad company nnd the Inhabitants of
a small mining camp would bo the ex
treme of folly.
It was wise statesmanship that made
provision for these first reservations ,
which us already observed have both a
local and national value , and they should
be extended us rapidly as possible until
all the public domain available for this
purpose lias been thus net apart.
HEASUXAHlE AX/1 UXHKASUbAltljE.
Those who believe that the discrep
ancy between local railroad rales in
Iowa and in Nebraska is not as glaringly
inoiiitublo us has been represented will
do well to carefully study the compara
tive railway rate tables which we re
print in part today and the accompany
ing list of Miiuplo rates between points
on the various lines in Nebraska.
These figures have been vouched for to
us ns reliable. They show conclusively
that local rates in this state nro exces
sively out of proportion with thos.o of the
state adjoining Nebraska on the cast.
Against such stubborn facts the plea of
railway managers that Nebraska rates
arc reasonably low are impotent. It maybe
bo unreasonable to demand that the
rates prevailing in Iowa bo duplicated
in Nebraska , but it is moro unreasona
ble to insist that rates in Nebraska shall
continue from 25 to 100 per cent higher
than these in Iowa.
SUAXDAl * .
A sensation has-.been created in the
official circles o tno Houston & Texas
Central railwayfyy the message sent to
the Texas legislature by- Governor Hogg
in relation to tho" alleged frauds that
have been committed in the manage
ment of the road under its receivership ,
which has now been in force over since
1885. Among \ho chief points made
against the management by the governor
In the course of a long review of the his
tory of the transactions referred to are
these allegation of crookedness : 'That
since 1885 25 per cent of the compress
charges collected by the Houston &
Texas Central railway from the cotton
producers have gone corruptly into the
private purses of tlio receiver and man
aging olljcials and not into the railway
treasury ; that the officials have not been
operating that property for the public
good , with due regard for the interests
of these who liavo capital invested in it ,
but have used it to oppress the citizens ,
to extort unreasonable tolls from the
public and to build up private fortunes
by criminal methods ; that the receiver
and managing officials engaged in this
corruption hold1 their positions under
and by virtue of the authority of the
federal courts ; that duo notice of the
crimes alleged was long ago given to
the federal judge in control of the prop
erty so hold in trusti and that the crim
inals have not been prosecuted ; that this
great public thoroughfare has been
operated by the federal courts for about
eight years to the detriment of public
Interests.
The voluminous and severe message
of Governor Hogg is based upon testi
mony taken in a trial before the United
States circuit court in Austin , in which
the judge granted an injunction against
the Texas railroad commission , by virtue
of which the commission was restrained
from imposingiits regulations upon the
company , upon the ground that they re
duced its earnings to a point below oper
ating expenses. That testimony , the
governor affirms , shows robbary on the
part of the management of the road nnd
collusion on the part of the courts. Not
to attempt to go into a complete review
of the case , which extends over a long
period , it is sufficient to say that the
message of Governor Hogg upon this
subject demands the most careful atten
tion. That there has been n great
swindle perpetrated in connection with
the management of the Houston &
Texas Central seems clear enough , but
has there really loeen judicial collusion ?
That is a question that needs to bo an
swered. The right to Insist upon a thor
ough invcstigutirmjif any question that
involves the hononbf the courts is one
that the pcoplcf v'lll not forego. The
whole truth in ti/n'intorosting ] / case will
make good rcadingiwhon it 0011103 out.
THK great nuurbur of people in Wash
ington who acciirUlng to reports are
suffering from a'Jyarloty ' of throat and
lung troubles , the result of exposure
to the terrific wc'itl ior on inauguration
day , lends forcotiito the proposal to
change the date of'inauguration ' and of
the close of congas to April 30. Sena
tor Sherman is tlio author of a joint reso
lution lntroducoft > Tn the senate which
provides for thoBl' ' misslon to the legis
latures of the states of an amendment to
the constitution fixing April 30 , 1837 ,
instead of March 4 of that year ,
as the limit of the current presidential
term and of the life of the Fifty-fourth
congress , and providing that the terms
of the president and the vice president
and the members of the two houses of
congress shall thereafter begin nnd end
on April 30 instead of March 4. This
matter is not Iwing agitated now for the
first time , but with every recurring in
auguration of a president the sentiment
seems to increase In favor of appointing
a day for this ceremony at a loss in
clement bcuson of the year than the
beginning of March. It has rarely
happened that an inauguration day did
not bring nnotlt the incut ( Unagreeable
wcmlhof of thd year , and the last cno
has seldom Iwcn exceeded hi the Inolciu-
oni-y of the weather , There would
probably be vary little popular opposi
tion to the proposed change of date , the
principal objection to bo expected being
to the proposed extension of the time by
oongroitf , some .holding that tin old
congress , which may have been discred
ited by the people , ought to go out as
soon as possible after the choice of its
successor.
li a law passed by the hut con
gress the government will hereafter bu
able to avail itself of the ability and skill
of the architects of the entire country
in the designing of public buildings , it
is believed that this will secure ro.-ults
In the Improvement architecturally of
the buildings constructed by the govern
ment that will fully justify the legisla
tion , which was first proposed by the
American Institute of Architects. The
trouble under the old system has
locon that. the supervising archi
tect , who wus supposed to make
all designs , could not possibly
perform the work , and a great deal
of It has been loft to subordinates , not
all of whom were well qualified for the
task. Under such circumstances it was
quite impossible in most cases to get
satisfactory results , as many public
buildings throughout the country attest.
The now law gives the secretary of the
treasury authority , in his discretion , to
obtain plans and specifications and local
supervision for public buildings by
the system of competition among
private architects. Ho is au
thorized to employ the archi
tects whoso plans are approved
to superintend the construction of build
ings , and while this is not mandatory it
would doubtless rarely happen that suc
cessful architects would fail of appoint
ment as superintendents of the con
struction of the building they designed.
The plan ought to work a desirable re
form in the architectural character of
the federal buildings.
A NKW system of water works is
about to bo put in operation in the
eholoru-infeotod city of Hamburg and it
is believed that a pure water supply will
greatly reduce the danger of a renewal
of the outbreak of tlio disease which
proved so fatal there last year. It is
not expected , howo'vor , that the terrible
innladyVill bo prevented from becom
ing more or Icsji formidable in Hamburg ,
oven under the most favorable condi
tions , and the commission for the pre
vention of the spread of the disease in
that city is taking every precaution
against it. There liavo boon few
cases reported in any part of
Europe recently , and if the v. arm
weather of spring does not materially
increase their number the hope will be
entertained that the disease may bo
kept down. The next two months wi 1
determine whether this is to bo a cholei a
year or not , but while developments are
being awaited the work of preparing for
the worst must not bo neglected in this
country. It will bo much better to
have made the preparations unnecessar
ily than to liavo neglected them and suf
fered in consequence.
THK Omaha charter has made some
headway in the senate at last and after
a very spirited fight has. been pushed
to the front among bills on third read
ing. Senator Babcock , who had the bill
in charge , made a splendid fight for it
and in this ho was ably seconded by Sen
ator Lobeck. There is now a fair pros
pect that the charter will pass the
senate next week , although materially
altered from the form in which it loft
the Imncjs of the charter committee.
IP THOSK South American republics
would give loss attention to war nnd
moro to the development of their great
agricultural and mineral resources they
would advance much moro rapidly in
civilization and prosperity.
Ccrcul ( irowth Hint nun West.
Fhtlaacliiltla Times.
The proposal that electricity bo used in
the far west to harvest wheat after nUjht is
antedated by the common custom further
east of stacks of wild oats being sown and
cropped by the Klaro of gas and coal oil.
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Qlu' e-Dcmocrat.
The Fifty-second congress was a billion-
ami-a-quarter congress. The republicans
would make some remarks on that body in
the campaign next year were it not for the
fact that the Fifty-third congress Is likely
to afford them better campaign ammunition.
Tliu Oiiino of ( irnb.
I'litlaiMjilila llccnnl.
A , French war ship has taken possession
of the Isleof Desolation , In the Inulan ocean ,
which contains a bed of soft co.il. No island
could bo too desolate for picking up now
adays by some maritime power , if It should
only bo largo enough to plunt a flagpole and
a coal yard on it.
Slmlu-s.
fi'ew I'orlt Aili'ertttcr.
The pleasant exchange of compliments be
tween the outgoing and - the incoming presi
dent of the United States , following so closely
upon the friendly handshake between Profs.
Sullivan nnd Mitchell on the stage of a St.
.Louis theater , seems to suggest the gray
dawn of an era of good feeling.
OnuVuy of l.rminiliitf Crime.
St. Ami ( Hobe.
When wo Americans becoino moro sub
stantial in our sentiments upon criminal
punishment wo will have irndo a long stride
in the direction of lessening the amount of
crime. When the pardoning jMiwur is asked
to extend clemency to Hfo convicts no ground
should bo considered except that of mistake.
and then only evidence showing beyond
question that tlio wrong man had been In
carcerated should liavo the slightest weight.
A Hint on Uimtlny.
I'hlwu" Inter Ocean.
Undo Sam has never been grasping for
territory. Ho long held modestly to the At
lantic coast. Ho hesitated about taking
Florida and Texas , and came within one of
losing Oregon nnd California. Hut his vision
now Is wider. Ho sees from his geogra
phy that three-quarters of the earth Is cov
ered with water , and that it nation that is
prosperous must leave the shore ami sail
ships ; and our grandchildren will belong to
the greatest maritime nation upon the globe.
Tlio 1'rlco l > lii Not Tumble.
Chicago llcmlil.
The consumers of coal for domostio uses
got the worst of it in all ways. When the
Ito.tdlng combine was formed the prlco of
r-onl was advanced half u dollar a ton on 30- ,
000,000 tons of coal mlnod last year , in order
to produce profits for the combine. The
Heading road wont Into bankruptcy , notwlth
standing the tax of f 15,000,000 extorted from
the people , nnd now the receivers keep up
the price of coal for the purpose of paying
the Heading debts. The money extorted
from coal consumers was recklessly squan
dered , and now they must make up the sum
over again by paying thu Increased cost of
coal for this year.
SUMK IWOI'M ? Of NttTtt.
IXIVP , HimOiltiP & IV ) . Irt tlio n.iino of n
.InhnMnwii , 1'n. , linn.
Mr. Olnc.v. Clovolaml'a ntUniiov peiu'rnl , It
Inn owner of a farm In Otx'oiuvoovl county , n
few miles north of Kiirokit , Knn.
M. Cavnlgn.io , tKitnllily the i-omliiK prosl-
( lout of Franco , li of IrlMi dcwcnt , from the
ICavnnnghn , who were klinjn of Initiator. . n
Kx-Uovernor I'mubauU of ImUanal * lectur
ing this .season on "Tho Model Husband , "
whllo it Is the other kind of luinluml who
neeil lecturing.
Motiel Sartori * . a cousin of the late hus-
't'1 ' ' ? / 1 > "clll ° Uiiint , propjsos to colonize
with Kngllsh farmers a tract of about 80,000
acres In central Wyoming.
The last surviving relative of Aaron Hun
ts dead. Ho wus the Inventor of the Hurr
hat machine , which made millions of hats In
a year and revolutionized the trade.
William Onlwny Partridge , the Hoston
srulnlor , gets Jlo.OOi ) for his statue of
bhakespoiro , ami will receive & , W for his
I"r" ' 1 > Hti statue of Oarlleld. Ho Is nnlv ill
years of ago.
A Jranirt. Hewitt of New York Is said to
liavo recovered cnlhvly from tlio Insomnia
that formerly made lifo a Durdon to him and
Is ( dijoylng excellent health , together with a
permanent rest from politics.
It is understood that Hoko Smith Is too
big and good natural a man to bear mallco
against these people who have been making
themselves ridiculous by attempting to poke
fun at him In efforts to conceal their gross
ignorance of his illustrious identity.
Among the veterans of the postal service
whoso photographs are to bo exhibited In the
postonico department of the World's fair Is
iMnlel W. Fowler , superintendent of free de
livery at Milwaukee , Wls. . who has been em
ployed In that olllco since February y. , 1S.10 ,
1'oiiry will have a rival In Arctic explora
tion this coming summer In Frederick Jack
son , who takes a British party up to Franz
'
Joseph Land , and who thinks 'ho will there
have land up to the 81th parallel of latitude ,
possibly further. Thence ho proposes to pro
ceed In dog sledges ,
Kouben O. Smltli , who died at Cleveland
last week at the ago of 70 years , was long a
merchant In Clean , N. V. , and widely known
in western Now York ami in the metropolis.
About ten years ago ho removed with a son-
in-law to Cleveland and became a partner In
a business house founded by the latter.
Marshal llazaino escaped from the urison
of the Island of St. Murguoriio , but Charles
do Losseps and M. Cotu , who will bo In
terned in the s.imo place , will not Und a con
venient door left open for their escape , as
Hazaino did. Things are not conducted
now as they were in those days. The repub
lic Is very much alive Just now.
Foreign papers s.i.v that tlio youngest son
of Count Ferdinand do Lessops. who has
been serving in the regiments in Soudan ,
will probably novcrseo Franco again. Ho
was taken ill in a march recently ami was
loft , unavoidably it is said , in a village
where were only natives. No hope of his recovery -
covery was entertained by his comrades.
o
Till ! TltKA t > tlf 'J'illXUS ,
The retention of Harrison's cook in the
white house is a proper observance of tlio
civil service rules.
In all the musty pages of history , according
to the Now York Sun , only one man appears
whoso luck was Just as wonderful as 1'resl-
dent Cleveland's. That man was the Hon.
Hlchard Whittlngton and ho had a good cat.
A French syndicate is buying up all the
worn out ponies on the frontier for export to
Paris , the Intention being to convert them
into food for the peoule of the gay metrop
olis. Hippophagy in Franco has evidently
become u disease.
A statesman from Iowa proposes that the
goddess of liberty be permitted to wear anew
now gown. ICvery true woman will appro-
ci.ito the justice of this move when she re-
Hoots that the goddess' clothes are ridic
ulously out of fashion.
Perchance when Kaiulani has looked this
blonmincT country over she will conclude to
sell gcr tin crown to the Junk man nnd bo wld
us. She could go on the stage with the
Sullivan aggregation and make more than
her royal revenues will over amount to.
No record has been made of what the gov
ernor of North Carolina said to the governor
of South Carolina during their visit to
Washington to witness the incoming of
Graver , but the laws of hospitality liavo not
changed much in the south since that his
toric meeting we have all heard of.
The Now York Press clubjias a little un-
patented device whh.h a committee of con
gress should at once investigate. When a
speaker at that organization's dinners ex
ceeds ten minutes a colored boy appears on
the scene with n large brass gong and beats
the dovll's tattoo thereon until the orator
takes the hint and collapses.
Says a prohibition paper : "Thcro are
saloonkeepers who have made hundreds of
widows. No such terrible indictment can
ever bo drawn against a temperance man. "
The moral of this paragraph is all right ,
says the New York Tribune , but its con
clusion Is not accurate. The emperor of
Morocco will make 0,000 widows some day
by dying , that being the number of his
wives , and ho Is a strict temperance man.
An article printed in the Now York Sun
on February 'Jo gave 0,027 feet as the high
est point attained by a railroad in the
United Stat < s. This was an error duo to a
mistake in multiplication while reducing an
accurate table of heights expressed In
meters to feet. The Colorado Midland rail
road at Ilagorman Pass Is 11,528 feet above
sea level. The elevation of the railroad
station at Lcadville is 10,103 feet. Denver
and Hio Gran.de trains go through Marshall
Pass nf"nn elevation of 10.85 feet. The
highest point of Haydcn Pass is ! ) , H)3 ) foot ,
and of Bath ! ) ,528 foot , both measurements
being from the track of the Colorado Mid
land railroad. The other statistics in the
article were correctly given.
, Mon xhoW nil Inleront.
In tlio rovKM of lioupiUlrt * lirciuno tluiy it I
vrnys llko lo know wind M tfoltiR mi ,
Clollilcri'Vilvlyi ( 'rrilllnrTlio con-
wli'iicoHof tluiso IwolmiilmtiilHtippimr to be
vt-ry I'hutlo.Mlifm'cWoll , don't you expect
t-lintlolty In Mnpomlcr : * ?
Wiiihlnitloti Hlnn "It I * very dUlli'iill. " inld
tlu < importing nmii. 'Mogul u Mnilnht tip on n
crooKL'il race truck. "
llrooldyn I.lfoi Hi. IVlcrIPm. . you can't
riinid | n IHTO. UoportorKIU ! S I can. iSlinwn
ImilitiU HI. 1'otcrNot on Hint. That loti you
Jinldo Urn llro lines. Tlili U the other plneo.
Detroit Tree I'rosi ! Slioynwiitna ( ) do llko
n yoiini ; man with some cut-up and go about
him.
lloilmi Unurli'r : It Isn't tlio mnn wliodovolo
tliviiiHulviM to klllliiK tl mo who are tlio most
anxious to Inaugurate uturnlty ,
Inter Ocean : Husband I jiltv the poor
milkman. thN mot-Nina : ho lixiks awfully ells-
conrngiMl. slnco' thcso Inspectors wuro ap
pointed.
\Vlfo YCS , but thu milk doesn't look half so
bluu.
Now York Horaldi " 1 don't know that you
"vor told inu why you rivslitiiud from your
"It VIIH no plnco fem poor mnn. Tlio luoiu-
bor.sirotto bomostly all plumbers nnd Ico-
mi'ii. "
"How did the 'Merchant of Venice'
take out wi-stV"
"All right ovoiywlicrotivrept In I'tiihi but
HUTU , when l.auiu'eldt ( lobhodeclun'il that , Ml
Is a wlsn fnthor llutl knows hU own child' tlio
| iciili | < nll look lias a pcrMiniil Insult and luff
the house , "
IT'H llr.UK. AdAIN.
Now , mournful fpulliien to unmiko
Against all human nature ,
\\o resurrect tlui niiiMunt Joke
Upon tinlegislature. .
Amliiro tlio members take tlielr seats
Or at their desks can turn ,
The editor that cry repeats :
"Oh , when will they adjourn ? "
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JI1..INTS 7VfO.ll HAM'S JHJK.V.
There Is no gospel In a kick.-
Faith Is a light that never goes out.
Washing a pig will not take from him the
love of mud.
Law wears iron shoes and never cares
where It steps.
No iinattcr who ho is , the man who novcr
gives is a slave.
There is moro newer in gentleness than
there Is In dynamite.
Two great foes of the church the golden
calf and the leathery oyster.
\Vo begin to backslide the moment wo
think wo liavo religion enough.
As soon as Ksau smelled the soup ho
stopped caring for his birthright.
Heaven is only a stop from the penitent
sinner , but millions of miles from the hypo
crite.
Nothing will do moro to nut wrinkles In
your face than worrying about things you
can't help.
It Is doubtful If the devil Is over driven
back an inch by the testimony of a stingy
Christian.
It would demoralize heaven for the angels
to go in company that some church members
consider good.
Tlio dovll hates the prayer meeting , but It
Is snldom that ho has much fault to Had
with the choir.
Some people are so bowed down in seeking
the vanities of this Hfo that they cannot
look up and see the goodness of God.
No matter whether ho has been to college
or not , the man who can keep sweet when
things go wrong is a man of power.
The moro a man looks llko a preacher the
less good ho does the I ord on a street car
platform with a cigar in his mouth.
It will not count for much to refrain from
buggy riding on Sunday , if wo spend all the
rest of the week In throwing stones at people
wo don't like.
"Thin In .Sht'ur NOIISIMIHD. "
"The members of a legislature are not
elected on a state platform ami are not par
ticularly bound by any declaration of prlnol-
oles not distinctly republican In their imturo
except it is adopted by the convention that
put such members in nomination. " Lincoln
State Journal.
Pray , what republican legislative nominat
ing convention was there in the state pre
ceding the last election that dl.l not cudorso
the platform pledges of the state convention ;
And were not the legislative candidates thus
"particularly bound" by its "declaration of
principles ? " The legislative candidates
were thus placed upon the state platform ns
squarely as though It had been originally
prepared nnd adopted by the respective con
ventions that placed them in nomination. To
attempt argument to the contrary is "sheer
nonsense. " II.
A MAIDKS' .MKDll'ATlOX.
San Fiiiiictneu Argonaut.
Hero's I.entonce again on Its annual round ,
( Joodhy now ID feasting and dancing ;
With what great success has this ssuson been
crownud ,
I declare It wus simply entrancing.
Hut now all thobannorsof nloasuroaro furlud ,
No longer Its commit Hushes : ,
Kononnced for the time are the joys of the
world. ,
Hall penance , and Miukcloth and ashes.
'Twas well I accepted Jack's oll'nr last iilllit ,
Diirlng Lent ho will liu entertaining ;
To rocolvo my betrothed will bo perfectly
And iTy'jJa.stur ' ho'll bo In good training.
Hoar fellow , his look WHS of perfect de.spiilr ,
His voice as Inusked mo WHS slmldnu ;
Well , ho's won hociin Inivo nil the time 1 can
Hiiiiris
I'rom tlio bonnet for Easier I'm making.
joH M nmitncturors nn I Rjt iltorJ
of Clothing In tluVorU. .
Song of the Saw
The carpenters saw the wood the people saw
the bargains because
we saw that it was bet
ter i'or us to saw off some
of the price rather than
allow the saw-dust to
get in its work not that
saw'-dust would hurt
the suits any , but that
they were in the way of the saw You saw how
they were saw-ing out the side of the store this
week didn't you Well , if you did , you saw those
new spring suits and overcoats you saw the price
you saw the quality you saw the exclusive
styles you saw nothing like them anywhere else
This one point we want to impress upon you
while the sawing is going on we are prepared and
are doing business just as nicely as ever , and as an
inducement to brave the noise of the saw wo are
offering the greatest bargains you ever saw. See ?
BROWNING , KING & CO. ,
Btoro ocvonrwon In ] till ail yJor / ( , 16tu dOd DDUglaS 31
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