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Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-12
PLANNING FOR PLUMBER.
Legislative Maoipn'ailOIS Already Ul'
DIR Way al Lincoln.
The House Plan for Packing
Committees Fully Matuved,
The Land Ring Fortifying Itself
Against Investigations
a Lively Review of Political Schemes
aud SChCmCrs,


Special to TIM BEE.
LINCOLN, Neb. Nov. IL. The election is
scarcely over when the scheming begins. The
election Of Dawes by majority of 1000 less
than Blaine gets in the state surprises no one,
unlessit bo Dawes himself, who has pretended
TO believe that ho would explain the whole
matter Of the school land frauds TO the people
in such convincing manner that he would bc
as clean q fellow ms the world produced: but
now that the legislature Is elected the ringstcrs
will begin TO scheme Church Howe must be
CHAIRMAN or rHE SENATE,
in order 10 put up committees fer tho rail.
roads aud the land ring. In tho house the
same gang will put forward Allen W. Field,
Of this county for speaker. Field IL as un-
scrupulous q pOlittiau rs ever God gave
breath TO- and lis course in the last leRlsatura
was not such as to cOmmoud him to any honest
man He and his strikers are already .circling
around over the state getting pledges from
members elect upon the sreako shin. Carus
has tcen here hob.nohbiug with Bill Stout and
Dawes and no one need doubt but that
ALL THE RINGS Will STAND
in this winter rs successfully as they did two
years ago. II they can get Brad Slaughter for
clerk and Allen Fields for speaker, the house
will be fixed. Then gang Of honest G. men
will be selected by Kendall, Davis ( CO.. for
the committee of public lands and buildings,
ing toward an investigation of the school land
fraud the same will-by some jumping Jack
i'll the interest of the ring-be referred TO the
committee on public lands and buildings,
In the senate, 50 far as heard from, the re-.
publicans will have
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-12

A paper chimney fifty feet high has
been erected in manufactory at Bres-
lau
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-12

FOR SALE-A good family hoF.s
bccgy and harness. l., A, RATH,
Post Office Box 80.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-12
A MAJORITY OF sRy Ey,

and the question of whether the lieutenant
governor shall build up the committees or
whether the same shall be constructed by the
senate caucus will depend upon the votes of
Howell, of York, McAllister, of Platte,
Cherry, of Gage, and the senator from the
Burt. Washington district, whose name | can
not now recall. The railroad gang will be
headed by Church Howe, Nick Paul c. IL,
Norris and the Carues Striker from Seward
If Cleveland is elected the railroad gang will
shout party, party, in hopes TO terrify the
timid fellows and scare them into sticking TO
the party bosses. But tho BEE must stand by
the people and aid in frustrating these little
schomes. WABAsH.
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acid from the pocket formed by the run.
ture OF the tissues under pressure, and
closed the opening. The woman never
knew how near she hnd been to leatb. 7
inade cautious inquiries, and learned that
her husband was the only person who had
oeen III the room since the phial was
placed on the mantel during my last visit.
Before leaving the house sought nm
interview with the husband carving the
phlal exposed in my hand. looked the
man straight in the eye and told him that
ms vile was very i'll needed a nurse to
take care of her, and | should return
with one IN an hour or two, who would
receive all the necessary instructions how
10 act from myself personally The man
acqulesced with an uneasy glance ut the
phlal, and you may be sure kept nv
WORD on the nurse question.
Any old practitioner can give YOU
plenty of similar cases." concludes the
doctor, knocking the ashes from his cigar
And, with such incidents occurring more
or less constantly, doctors take rather CIV.
meal views of human nature. Cases OF
heroic devotion come under our observa
ton often enough to offset these eecre
crimes, perhaps ; but somehow, humani
ty Is so constituted that the crimes MAKE
the deenest impression, and are Longest
remembered. There are scores of thes,
indirect murders that the coroner neveI
hears of. ~"
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Mental Observation
lArkansaw Traveller J

Mr.. Jalmau was arrested for carrying a
pistol. In his defence before a justice Of
the peace, he said
Your honor, tins is II mistake,
"Evidently,' the Judge replied.
every evil course, when oyertaken, is 4
mistake.
81 was absent -mlndedness on my part.
This morning Just ms | WAS starting to
come down town, went up to the mantle
piece to get my pipe. In "A moment of
mental abstraction, thinking Of some
thing | had to write for Il magazine, L
took up the pistol instead Of the pipe and
came away.
Your explanation hristles with rea-
son, =" said the Justice Nothing is more
natural than for a man to mistake pis-
tol for pipe, IN that both are firearms.
The prisoner Thought that he detected
the low swelling notes If sarcasm, but,
being liberal-mindcd, he presented the
Judge with the benefit of the doubt and
continued;
Il did not discover the mistake until
after came down town. Then, wanting
to smoke, | took ..out the pistol, A con
stable, who happened to be standing near,
came forward and arrested me.
I
mp" said the Judge, "but there are n
few features of this case which are not
entirely dlvested of mystery. The Off
Ger SAYS that when he saw you i'll saloon
YOU had drawn the pistol and were at-
tempting TO maui man over the head
with it. You still thought it was pipe.
| suppose
"Yes. your Honor. You see, | have a
very large pipe, aud often | have used 1t
as weapon Of defence. would rather
strike II man with II pipe
"a good strong one, said the Justice.
Eyes, sir | would rather strlke ~
with a good strong pipe, than to Int HIM
with IA hammer.
"No doubt" replied the justice, "but
there are times when the hammer Is hand
Ter. Mr.. Constable, take the gentleman
over and show him a hammer that looks
like pipe. Don't strike the rocks too
hard you might break 'em." "
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corn held with his cultivator, before he
could get the soil in any kind of condi-
Ilon ior the hand hoe. In other instances.
less amount Of team work has left the
neld 80 thoroughly titled that little or no
hand labor was required. Good farmers
are learning that more than half the effort
usually expended in tending hoed crop
might De saved by proper previous pre-
paratlon of the soil. To do this. we
should hrst plough thoroughly. II the
neld Is sod land, the sod shouldbe turned
completely over, and in furrows of uni
form width and depth, and the depth
should be sufficient to allow Of making a
mellow seed bed upon the inverted fur
rows without turning back any of the sod.
Ii the plough runs eight inches deep in
some places, and only two or three inches
deep III other places, or, if the furrows
are partly turned and left upon their
edges, tins mellow seed bed without turf
or sods, will be impossible to obtain, and
the subsequent work of tending a crop
Will be expensive and annoying.
Good ploughing Is Of the very highest
importance IN the preparation Of cult
vated field, and upon it depends very
largely the cost and perfection of all the
subsequent work Of tillage, and the care
OF the crop 1t may be too late in the
season now to apply the principles we
have laid down. so far as the ploughing is
concerned, but it is not too late to observe
the difference between thec Of ten ling
a crop where the previous preparation
has been what it should be, and where
the work has been but half DONE SO, if
any of the readers of the Furmer find
themselves about this time struggling
with fields that are tough, rough and
cloddy, and 80 weedy as to render their
culture doubtful as to profit, let them
look into the matter carefully, and see ii
there has not been some fault in their
previous management, which, il properly
guarded against, would have removed all
such doubt and left them i'll far hap
pier state of mind
The time has come when the cultivation
of the soil here, i'll New England, and il
all the older States, must be done by the
most economical methods possible, thai
our labor may be fairly remunerative
We can no longer afford to spend our time
killing weeds chiefly by hand labor, or by
tue use of crude, ineffective implements
We must get our grounds in such condi
ton by good p!oughing. and good har
rowing before the crops are put in, tina
the later work will be comparatively easy
and inexpensive.
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to him eooorly and briefly told him the
grea, vro5g That had been done him (for
the train oSly stopped for few mlnutes),
md o,tr, ~! him TO visit his wife and
relative ,uo ,form them of his fate.
And berc he IT said that Immediately
unon L,g nontence an exile loses his iden-
titv. WAN Tropoff ceases to be wan
Tropoh and becomes NO l0l. ms
estate is administered upon as though ne
were dead and apportloned, with tne
usual forfeiture to the state, among MS
heirs. SO that it is almost Impossible ior
any one save the authorities to discover
hls whereabouts.
Buplt wos detained for some time at
Irkufgk and IN the meantime his friend,
the merchant trne to his promise, had
hnstcupi 10 tell the circumstances and
conditions of his banishment to the poor
young bride. who, as quickly as she could,
set out f., ;oin him in exile. With wo-
mans wit She managed to apprise HIM by
letter Of her coming and light broke In
upon his rrief Daily, hourly, constant
ly he looked and longed for her, and just
when he knew she must come tGey sent
him on to Yakutsk and from there to
Nerkerausk.
She noor creature, filled with sweet
sympathy and expectation, hoping from
his delay at Trkutsk that he would be per
mancntiy detained there, arrived two
DAYS too late Picture her anguish when
having travelled with wifely devotion 1000
miles over the most rugged country in
the world. she learned the cruel truth.
Still 2OOo miles away-and even then
would she find him? 1t was too much
for the p,or heart. She lost her reason,
raved fora little while in madhouse and
died He received the sorrowful tldlngs,
so different from what he had hoped, and
when saw him he was just recovering
from the effects of an attempt at suicide
by poison.
This Is his sad story as told by himself
and interpreted to me by his friend Leon.
DR.. Buali was not Nihlst or at all in
temperate in his political talk and was
not in consequence very popular among
the other exiles, but was on pleasant
terms with the Espravnik, who liked him
for his own sake Yet he was not allow
ed to practice his profession for profit
but only to perform the dutles OF the
blind old surgeon at the post, who might
reward him or not as the worthy maj
saw fit. No exile is allowed to carry ol
business teach school, till the soil, laboi
at any trade, practice profession or en-
gage IN any work unless through the me
dium of master. If | wanted any ser
vice done an exile would sometimes CONF
and offer to perform it, but | would hav'
to pay his master, upon whose bounty h'
must depend for remuneration.
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Not Paid For.

Three saloon-keepers in Chicago were
found guilty OF selling TO minors, and the
following is the address Of tho Judge who
sentenced them:
By the law, you may sell to mon and
women If they want it. You have given
bond and you are licensed to sell 10 them ;
no one has right to molest you in your
legal business, no matter what families
are destroyed or rendered miserable no
matter what wives are treated with vio-
lence, what children starve or cry over
the degradation OF parent your bust
ness is legslized, and no one may inter-
fere with you in it. No matter what
mother may agonize over the loss Of a
son, OF sister blush for the shame OF q
brother, you have the right TO disregard
them all and pursue your legal calling ;
you are licensed. You may ft up for
your lawful trade, you may use all your
arts to induce visitors, you may skiliully
expose to view yonr choicest wines and
captivating beverages 4; You may then
induce thirst by all contrivanoes, produo-
ing raging appetite for drinks, and then
you may supply to the full, because it is
lawful you have paid for it |; you have
a license.
You may allow boys, almost children,
to frequent your saloons. You may hold
the cup TO their lips, but you mnst no,
let them drink--thst is unlawful. But
while you have special privileges for the
money you pay, this poor privilege o.
selling to children is denied you. Here
the parents have right to aay =: Leave
my son to me until the law gives you tht
right to destroy. Do not anticipate thai
terrible moment when can assert fol
him no further right OF protection twill
be soon enough for me, for his mother,
for his sister, for his friends and the com
munity to see him take his road to death
: Give him to us in his childhood at least
Let us have few years OF his youth, il
which we may enjoy his innocence, to re
pay, in small degree, for the love we bav'
layished upon him.
This is something you who now stant
prisoner at this bar, have not paid for
! for this is not embraced in your license
For this offence the court sentences yo,
, to ten days imprisonment in the count,
Jail, and that you pay fine OF seventy
five dollars and costs and that you stant
> committed until the fine and costa of thi
prosecution are paid
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Killing Weeds 'heapiy.


If farmers could only be made to real
ize the economy Of a thorough pulverlza-
ton Of the soil before planting or sowing
their seeds, We should soon find very
marked improvement in the appearance
of the cultivated fields Ill the country.
for wherever we 60 we find great deal
of very poor, and very course farm work.
Many farmers seem to make rs hard work
of taking care of field of corn, potatoes,
or other annual crop, and do their work
us "back handed as n carpenter who
should undertake to build house, on
make nice piece of furniture out OF I'M
dressed lumber, and then attempt to
smooth it up and polish 1t off after the
parts are all put together.
The best market gardeners have learn
ed that the highest success III the cult
walton of their crops can only he attained
upon land that has been most thoroughly
prepared, not only by high manuring,
but by repeated ploughing and harrow
ing, aud with implements suited to the
work. Coarse turfs, stones, or hard Jumps
of loan or clay are not allowable IN any
good market garden, and they should not
he in ordinary farm fields Nor ls there
half the necessity for rough, coarse, farm
work that one might infer from the too
common practices of the average Amerl-
can farmer. 1t is not necessary to grow
half crop instead of a full crop. Neither
is there any need of having one half the
product of our lands returned TO us in
the shape of worthless weeds. 1t costs no
more to grow pound of wheat or corn
than to grow pound of weed seeds, and
it costs no more to keep II field clear of
weeds than to keep it half clear, provided
one takes hold of the work at the right
end, and at the right time. Indeed, good
work on the farm saves labor rather than
wastes it, Just rs good work in any other
industry proves economical in the long
run.
No one need travel far in the country at
this time of year, to find planted fields
that were SO rough and coarsely y worked
during the early part of the season, as to
require a great deal of patience, as well
AS hard work, in their cultivation during
the growing period of the crop. All the
work of the present seems to have been
done poorly, and far too much left for the
future, The ploughing having been but
half done, the harrow failed to do its part
of the work of pulvsrzation. The sur.
face beiug left rough and uneven, the
rows could not be planted straight, MOI
could the seeds be covered at an even
depth, nor upon uniformly level surface
The rows being crooked, and the hills
coming at various heights, the work Of
the harrow or cultiyator must be far from
complete.
We have seen, in one instance, a farmer
going four times through each row in hi
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AGitICULTl RIAL,
Arc Hens n. Profitable n. Sheep

/ think they are moro so in cash re-
turns. With hens you get your profits
almost daily, or as often as You choose to
go to market. With sheep the income is
rather prospective than present and more
in future years than III the first. A CON
siderable outlay is necessary for sheep in
building fences necessary to their re-
straint. Then the sheep cost 81 to So per
head, and the cost of winterlng ten of
them is equal to the cost of fattening
COW, which Is two tons Of hay for the
winter, or at Sl2 per ton is S2l besides
roots and grain. Grub in the head often
takes off several every year, and the loss
OF one sheep is equal to eight hens in
value. Six pOuL is of wool to sheep at
BIC is 81. 81. One lamb is worth s., which
makes the receipts So. 81 per head. De
duct from this 50 for feed and you have
SO. 81 net profits without deducting any
thing for fence and pasture. But the
prospective advantage of the sheep is to
be reckoned III subdulug bushes and clear
ing up wild ranges OF pastuage.
If New England is to be occupied by
al agricultural population something
must be done to restore exhausted fertil-
ity of the old farms Every year the
forest is crOwding On the arabic land.
The struggle is between two opposing
forces for the ascendency, aud unless
some cheaper and more permanent meth
Cd can be found that yearly cutting Of
bushes the forest must get the sscenden-
cy Now sheep husbundry tends to keep
up the fertility of the pastures while they
go very far to kill out the bushes. But
even sheep have an enemy III the white
bush, the ivy and the ground Laurel, and
if they are not looked after with timely
application of salt these enemies are like
ly to subdue the sheep. White birch and
alders are the great foes of onr clvlllza-
ton, and if We can overcome them we can
yet maintain our cattle upon Thousand
hills. With the new law concerning sheep
operating to aid the farmer we have faith
to believe that the teecy hocks will pre-
pare the way for the lowing herds on
many failing farm.
The actual income on eleven hens anG
n cock for Is months was SlOl.24 III egg'
and chickens sold or raised. Deduct from
this Si2. 32 for feed aud it leaves sos. ~
profit on the lot or about So. 36 per hen
Most of the grain fed to these fowls wal
brought from a distant market and con
sisted of oats, buckwheat, meal, masheC
potatoes and onions. They were shut up
charged with food and credited with tn,
eggs and chickens marketed. There II
more profit in raising early chickens thai
in selling eggs This branch of business
is II profitable and growing industry
But We must carry on a mixed husbandry
If all go into raising sheep they vii
again be killed off for their pelts as oc
Cured some dozen years ago. And so
too, of eggs and poultry. 1t is busi
ness for women on limited scale, a few
dozen on every farm, and in that way it il
"A paying business. - A, L. L., Hartford
, county. CT.
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ing roots. Ont of cupboard in the wall
L L. 4

ing roots. Out of cupboard in the wal
she produced bit of root
This, she said, triumphantly, "1s the
most valuable medicine l possess II
cures every illness we have. We call II
the phystoulu root" she added, land 1t it
both difficult and dangerous to get II
holds very firm to the ground, and, when
rooted up, utters cry like baby; the
person who pulls it up is sure to die.
Some tie the root by rope to mule,
and then the animal pulls it up, and
dies.
1t was quite dark before the table was
spread for our meal, and when served II
was more curious than sumptuous the
water, in which kid had been boiled
with some rice in it, led the way as soup,
and was followed by picked cutie fish;
very hard and unpalatable, but priced
luxury in these islands, especially during
Lput-so much so, tf.at it would pay the
enterprise of picking the many thou.
sands We throw away in disgust to send
ont here. Then came the kid, n delicious
ly tender little thing, one of litter OF six,
our most informed us. After the kid came
the misethra, II standard dish, in the Gre
cian islands, made of curdled milk. l
have tasted exactly the same in Corsica,
under the name of broccio, and always
revel in it. There was a Turkish dish of
rice and sour milk, called pilaff and
yaourte, and which had considerable
difficulty in getting rid of figs and al
monds brought the repast to close. The
VINE was rich and excessively sweet, such
ms, / presume, once was the nectar of the
gods.
The table was laid for four, ourselves,
our host, and his brother. Mrs. Sunday
and her family waited upon us; OCCASION
ally she sat down respectfully in corner,
with bone which she gnawed but when
all was cleared away and the men began
to smoke, she drew her chair up to the
table, took occasional sips out of her hus-
bands glass, and became talkative.
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AsIBERuAN EXILE.
A Practical Exhibition OF Russian
Tyranny.

The following extract is taken from
Engineer Melville's new book on Polar
Experiences. An exile whom Melville took
an interest in was Buali, who lived apart
from the others and fulfilled the duties
Che was a doctor) of the post surgeon,
who had gone blind from cataract. DIR.
Buali had been very kind in his atten-
tions to Danenhower and Leach. His
life held more OF sorrow in it than that of
most men. He had been practicing ply
sician in small town of Little Russia,
had neither committed any crime nor be-
longed to a secret society, and he firmly
believed that his only offence had been
marrying q young woman he loved in a
neighboring village, not knowing that he
had rival.
The story OF his capture and of his
residence in Verkeransk was translated to
me with tears in his eyes by Leon, his
friend and companion in misery. 1t
seems that for week he had been attend
ing the little daughter of the chief of
police in his native town, who at length
80 far recovered that he erased her name
from his visiting list. But one morning
he was surprised by seeing the Cossack
OF the chief of police, who came to tell
him that his masters child was worse,
Would the doctor come at once?" Buali,
not supposing the case serious one, re-
Piled that he would call there after break.
fast.
But the Cossack insisted that he should
come at once and 30 bade him wait until
he got his overcoat. Here again the
Cossack interposed, saying that the chiefs
house was but short distance away and
that breakfast would be served for him
there. Buali supposed that the child
must be seriously i'll and hastened off al
once but the Cossack said they must
first go to his master'r Office.
Buali was surprised, but not dreaming
anything was wrong, followed the Cos.
sack to the police Office. The chief met
him in the vestibule and told him that he
was a prisoner "a batch of exiles,
said the heartless wretch, "are ready tc
start for Siberia tomorrow you will ac
company them" Buali laughed-it was
a good joke but the chief assured hin
it was solemn fact The unhappy doc
tor, completely overwhelmed, gasped out
prayer for delay: "Why am l to b,
deprived Of my liberty?" "Who is my
accusor ?" "What am l accused Off" Nc
answer, save, Government order" H,
asked permission to 60 to his house ant
procure some necessary articles of cloth
ing. Could he not at least return to hi
young wife to bid her farewell ? Tn,
brutal official denied him even this. "AnC
then" said the exile, II walled in an
guish but they placed me in solitar,
confinement to await the departure of th,
detachment, and in IL hours was on m,
way to Siberia"
OF course he was half crazed. Hi
young wife, what would she think o
himp That he had deserted her. !
thousand fears and suspicious racked HI
mind, and he had outlived an age of tor
ture whom, hurried on across the frontie
by rail and steamer, he CHANGED, at Ger
tain railway station, to recognize iron
the close carriage where he was confine,
Al old friend in . merchant He oalle,