Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1886, Page 4

4 l. | | 7 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1880 “THE DAILY BEE, 1A OFFICE, NO. V14 AND 018 KARNAM ST kW Yonk Orrice, Roos 65, TRisuNe BurLniNg WASHINGTON O¥FICE, NO. 518 FounTeRNTH ST, Published every morning, excent Sunday. Th o only Monday morning paper published in the state, am- Yenr., ix Months, . Tae WeEkLY B TERME BY MATL: $10.00 Threo Months 00,0ne Month. . Published Every Wednesaay. TERME, POSTPAID! One Year, with premium ‘ One Year, without premium. ix Months, without premiun One Mouth, on trial........ CORRERPONDENCE: + Alleommunications relating to_news and odi- torinl matters should be addressed to the Evr TOR OF “HE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS: ATl bu sinese Jottors and remittancos shonld be 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be minde pryable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. F. ROSEWATER, EoIToR, "~ THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, | o County of Douglas; (% . N. P. Feil. cashier of the Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the ac- tual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending May 7th, 155, was as follows: Morning Evening Date. Edition, Edition, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, '6th. 6,300 6,900 Friday, 7th... 1 1 1 6,600 1 Average 5857 13, i N, P. i, Sworn to and subseribed before me, this 8th day of May, A. D. 1586 SioN J, Fisuen, Notary Public. N. P. Feil, being fiisi duly swora, deposes and says that he is cashier of the Bee Pub- lishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 154, was 10,378 copies; for February, 1886, 10,505 copies; for March, 188, 11,637 copies; for April, 183, 12,11 vorn to_and subscribed before me this 5th day of May, A. D. 15%. SiioyN J. FISHER, Notary Publie. Tue board of trade proposes to see that the Arkansas editors are properly enter- tained when they visit this city next Fri- day. It will be money well invested. Tue Herald calls loudly upon the local democracy to “trust Mr. Cleve- land.” The trust which the west has re- posed in the president has been rudely shaken by s blind disregard of western interests. New Yorkers can afford to Htrust” Mr. Cleveland. He has shown no inclination to go back on hislocal obliga- tions. THE heart rending howls of the boodle gang of editors against Senator Van Wiyck are not disturbing the sleep of the aenator and his friends. He has already announced himself as a candidate for re- election on his record and can afford to patiently await the result. Nebraska and the producers of the state have had an able, fearless and active representative in the senate in the person of General Van ‘Wyck, and they are not disposed to swap horses while ing the political stream of the coming canvass. Pusric works have begun at last. The sewer contractors have set their men at work, and repairing of the Sixteenth- strect pavement commenced. From this time on there ought to be no lack of employment for Omaha's laboring men. The grading, curping and paving will beginin a few days and hundreds of * workingmen will find places. When building starts up as it always does in Omaha several months later than in other cities, the cry of labor for work will be drowned by the calls of contract- ors for workingmen, THE job to build a railroad into the Yellowstone park is still being vigorously pushed at Washington. A majority of the committee on public lands of the senato 18 said to favor it and a strong lobby is urging the measure. Those who know best from a personal survey of the ground are united in protesting against the desccration of the national park. They denounce the proposed railway as uncalled for by any public demand and a8 promoted purely for the pri- wato gain of the incorporators. The Yellowstone Park was reserved for a national pleasure ground. 1tshould opt for the purpose far which it was * intended. Harpy speculators and sharks should be warned off the reserve. - For years to come the interests of the coun- ey will bo best subserved by improving the natural rondways and psreerving the g'l’ld forests and scenery from vandal oration I'rie sonate has now been debating for mmore than & week the Cullom interstate seommoroce bill which was reported favor- _ mbly from the committeo some wecks . The chief feature of the measure " and one of the worst features is the com- maissioner systom which the bill proposes tointroduce as o regulator of interstate _ gommorce, The powers of the commission are to be limited to hearing complants "ot shippers and making recommendations the railroad managers. They are to e no power to enforce their decisions 'sud will be in cffect simply an advisory I board. The bill forbids discrimination and extortion in general terms, but pro- ‘wides no cheap and effective remedy for #he people. 1t was drafted by a friend % of the railrond lobby and is supported by mber of senators who are notorious: und hand and foot to the interests of monopolists. e v is diffioult to understand why the re- oty treaty with the Sandwich Isl- g should stand any chance of being wed. It ongineered through ongross in the fivst place in the interest * of Claus Spreckles and his sugar retiner- ies, and every year of the operation has © put hundeed of thousands of dollars into * the pockets of the Californis monopolists. " When the subject was first broached, the _advocates of the treaty argued that the eatimatod loss of revenue to the United would be about §370,000, and as total production of the islands could be largoly inereased, and would not I any cireumstan exceed 25,000, pounds of sugar per annum, our in- ed exports to the islands would ainly offset that amount. But under influence of the bounty which our “teaty practioally puys to tho planters of tho islands, the importatious of aiian sugar into the United S i 1853 amounted to 169,657,603 po loss of duties to the United States “amounted to #28,3256,608, and the Lot value of our exports to the atinn islands during the same perio beeun considerably less than the duties e have saciliced, Mr. Gladstone's Second Speech. Mr. Gladstone's second speech in advo- oacay of his home rule measure was nei- ther so long or as elaborate an argument as his first great effort. It was naturally devoted largely to answering the objec- tions raised to the bill as introduced, and to strengthening the position of the cab- inct. Inopening, the premier took oc- casion to deny the charge which has been bandied from mouth to mouth during the Enster recess, that he had ever denounced home rule as incompatible with imperial unity. On the contrary, he showed how more than fifteen years he had distinctly aflirmed his favorable leanings towards self government for Ireland as soon as he beeame convinced that it was desired by the mass of the people and could he put into operation. Both eonc being 1n his judgment fulfilled, Mr. Glad- stone announced himself as bouna to further the wishes of the Irish people and the interests of the empire by afford- ing a just and necessary relief to Ireland. Mr. Gladstone professed himself will- ing to modify that clanse of the measure excluding Irish members from West- minister by leaving the question open for debate, to be settled by the judgment ot the house. He announced that the government would not press this point. In answer to other objections against the bill he called upon the opponents to sug- gest a better remedy for the abolishment of discontent, and to restore social order in Ireland. He appealed to Lord Harting- ton to shape his situation of the Irish problem, 1f ho had any. He charged the combined opposition with an ob- struction based upon prejudice, and not upon considered judgment, and concluded amid prolonged cheering by urging the commons to close alongstrifo of seven hundred years by the passage of the moasure. The prospeets of the home rule aro brighter than they were before the Easter recess and Mr. Giadstone's second specch is believed to have driven back into the <liberal fold several waverers who were ready to support Lord H tion for the six month's pos the consideration of the measure. ngton’s mo- The Answer of Experience. Some of our ranchmen friends are in- clined to take exception to the pos of the BEE in encouraging settleme: what they call the desert portion of Nebraska. They shake their heads wisely and insist that two years of “grangering” in the country west of North Platte will satisfy the most ardent farmer. They tell us that the elevation is too great and the rain fall too scanty in the section referred to for crop rais- ing and versist that the immigration which is pouring into the range country will be proved to be a disastrous mis- take. -It would not be a sufficient answer to say that our stockmen friends are too in- terested 1n opposing the loss of their free ranges to give an unbiassed opinion on the question, but it is a good answer to reply that experience is opposed to then position. The same argument has been used for ten years in this state. The time is not long past when farming west of Grand Island was pronounced imprecticable. Six years ago the Reprblican valley was to be the home- steader’s grave. Two years since north- western Nebraska was declared forever unfit for any purposes except grazing. But the range line, in spite of croaking alarmists, has been pushed steadily west- ward and farms and farmers have taken the place of grazing grounds and cow boys. The frontier of ten yearsago is the corn belt of to-day. Whether t! sult is due to climatic changes, incr rainfall, or to the sufficiency of the old amount of rainfall under changed con- ditions of broken soil and increased vegi- tation, the facts are the same. They stand outin census reports, in the traflic re- turns of the railroads and the exhibits of county and state agricultural exhibitions. Success has followed the daring. The men who pushed over the frontier ten years ago wero assailed with the same arguments as the pioneers who are tak- ing up range land to-day. The Business Situation. With indications of ¢losing labor troub- les, trade is beginning to show signs of recovery. The disturbing effect of the riotous outbreaks in Chicago and Mil- waukee and of the labor agitation in all sections of the country has heen felt in every branch of business auring the week past. The movement of freight from Chicago and other wostern centers has been comparatively small, and shipients of manufactured goods have in wmany cases boen held back from tho fear of in- terrupted railroad facilities or from a da- sire to avoid additions to stocks pending a settlement of the Izbor troubles, Operations in most departments reflect actual and immediate wants, and there is gencral reluotance to ¢ngage in new enterprises or to increase obligations the fulfilhuent of which may be retarded or made profitless by some new complica- tion in the labor situation. Under exist- ing conditions the business movement is a8 as it could be expected to be; but the improving tendencies noted at the outset of the spring season have heen seriously checked by the develop- ments of the past few weeks, and in yiew of the depressing wfluences ut work the forecast of manufacturers and traders is naturally disteustful wnd uncertain, Busi- ness failures in the United States and Canada numbered 192 last week, as against 207 the week previons, and 194 the weck before, is little now to note in the tle markets, Wool is slightly firmer, with new wools opening about 8 conts higher than a year ago. This advance is likely to be temporarily sustained by the purel after this early demand has hoen sats- fied, and they will be slow to take hold at higher rates unless sonie unexpected fmprovement in the gencral business outlook stimulates speculation, The dry goods distribution is moderate and con- fined ton supply of near requirements, Many of the woolen mills e orders covering production up to and in some ‘eases beyoud the 1st of July, but few new orders are being recsived for fall wants, owing to the uncer- tainties of the outlook. Specnlation in grain has i benrish on account of the d of confi- dence by lubor troubles and owing also to the favorable crop outiook and the lack of activity n forsign demsnd. On the seaboard, ramors of bad grading in corn bave advanced prices, Much of the corn recently received has failed to grade up to the contract standard, and as there are indications that a good deal of the corn now afloat on the lakes and canal is out of condition, and will not pass in- spection on arrival at New York, the shorts in that market havo been buying in their contracts at advancing prices. Export demand has been very moderate both for wheat and corn, and there has been very little animation in the specula- tive markets. The domestic visible sup- ply statement atthe close of the week, shows a decrease of 1,201,000 bushels of wheat and 1,790,000 bushels of corn, while stocks afloat for Europe show a small and important increase in both items. The Union Pacific Bill, Senator Van Wyck and Congressman Dorsey have promptly introduced in the nd house the new bill to permit the Union Pacific to borrow money in the open market for the extension of feeders to its main system. The bill, as offered, differs somewhat from the one first drafted by the board of trade. One re- sult of Senator Van Wyck's visit to Omaha was the amendment of the pro- proposed measure 80 as to absolutely protect the Union Pacific sy from a repetition of tho 3 jobbing schemes which have brought it s0 nearly to bankruptey. Thesenator’s objections to the original draft were free- ly dhiscussed and met and the bill whien he has now introduced and to which he will give his best support, carcfully guards all the interosts of the government and the Union Pacific stockholders in the matters which it is designed to cover. Neither the people of Nebraska nor of the & ary to the road are inter- ested in seeing the property crippled. In so far as the government has a lien upon the Union Pacific, it is national pro- perty. The stringent legislation of the past. which has tied its hands, was forced upon congress to protect the road from the thieves and jobbers who were sucking its hearts blood and wrecking the property to benefit inside rings in the management Now that the Union Pacific is surrounded on every side by vowerful rivals, although largely through its own fault, there is every reason why congress should permit the company to protect 1ts interests and those of the government by entering into active competition for the traflic which is being taken y from its control. Nebraska, while remembering the past history of the corporation and 1ts treat- ment of her people, is cqually interested that the road should extend 1ts branches and give the state the benefit of compe- tition in competitive territory. The sen- timent in favor of the new bill, for the relief of the Union Pacific, is general and strong. Thisis the case, not because Nebraskans or citizens of Omaha regret or recall for one moment the ast op- position to the previous policy of the Union Pacific, but because they feel thut, under the guarantees provided, the re- lief proposed will be for the common benefit, while it will in no way legalize orendorse the swindling operations of the Goulds and Dillons and other jobbers who so long fattened from tyrannical op- pression of the people of the west. TuE sidewalks on our principal thor- oughfares, especially on Farnam and Douglas streets, should be improved at once. They should all be brought to a grade and curb line, and be laid with durable material. Among the’first to moye in this matter should be the owners of the Paxton house. The wooden side- which surrounds that structure, is p grade and does not come to the curb Iine. 1t is a disgrace to the elegant structure, and un eye-sore to the generally. Now that there has been a general settlement of labor troubles in' Omaha and tears of a season of idleness have passed away, our people who had laid plans for building should go right on with the work. Omaha ought to double her building record this yea GLADSTONE and the liberal eabinct stand firm for home rule both in princi- ple and in application. The prophets who vredicted that the grand old man would retrace his steps when the home rule bill came up for its second reading mistook their reckoning. WuENEVER the average editor runs short of subjects he falls back on oleo-" margarine. However, it is a subject upon which too much cannot be said,and the batteries of the press cannot be bot- ter employed than in hammering away at the fraud, ‘' bill to put to put the United States court on wheels and make an annual tour of all the towns in the state is a measure that ought to receive no consid- oration, There are enough traveling shows without adding the United States court to the list. DozkNs of strikes are being declared failures in every section of the country. 8pies'. bomb, which the erazy fanatic pretended was thrown in the cause of labor, has done more to injure labor or- ganizations th lockouts, Tae plano makers hay strike for two we ever, make no difference in the price of the instruments. Dealers will continue tosell at the old profit of 100 per cent clear of all comm been out on a This will, how- WuEeN the Arkeunsas editors invade Omeaha, our citizons should correctly ounce the name of the state from It is Arkansaw, altkough it is improper to pronounce Kun. sus as if spelled Kansaw. rARks declines to go. Lo asks for un incre al mspectors to investigate fr: lent land entries, and promises to make it still livelier for land grabbers and pre- emption syndicates. NG has begun, but there i ug inspector to protect ual and public interests trom faulty work. ‘T'he council has done its duty in the mat- ter, but the mayor has not yet seen fit to act, W hear very little of the removal of Fort Omaha nowudays. The nearest thing to it is the removal of the Fourth infautry from the post, which event is boolkicd for the last of June. A PROPOSITION Las been made to put the Apaches on an island off the Pacitic coast. “Tijis leads the Chicago Zimes to suggest that the anarchists of that oity be similarly disposed of. We would sug- gest that the nnlrflhis’s and the Apaches be put on the samd island. It would be a case of survival ol GREECE protests that she doesn’t want to fight after all, and that somebody has made a bad mistake somewhere. A large fleet of modern then'of-war has haa a soothing effect updn the refractory little kingdom. C— KINGS AND QUEENS. e The queen dowager of Spain loves pickles. Reports that Emperor William is indiposed are unfounded. The Prince of Wales firmly declines to edit the Life of John Brown, King Ludwig of Bavaria gets verfectly Is him **Me Lud.” The ameer of Bakhara is dead. His estate consists of a second hand umbrella and 250 wives, The Emperor William paid 20,000 marks for the original manuscriptof “I'ie Watch on the Rhine.” The Empress of Germany is proud of her old man, aithough the two are very ceremon- fous when they meet on the stairs. ‘The empress of Austria is troubled with sore eyes, but this does not hinder her from taking a high board fence at a gallop. Queen Elizabeth rufiles will certainly come into fashion again whenever the Princess of Wales finds that her neck is getting too thin, “The empress of Kussia is said to be really in love with lier husband, which must be re- garded as quite a remarkable phenomenon in these prosy days. They have started a subseription in Paris to get a wedding present for the Princess Amelie d'Orleans, who is going to marry the erown prinee of Portugal. Queen Victoria has lost none of her royal dexterity in the art of opening exhibitions, but it takes H. I, 0., the Prince of Wales, to onen a bottle of Burgundy, The kings of Wurtembers and_Bavaria are said to be both seriously ill. King Karl 1, of Wurtemberg, is suffering from spinal disease. He remains at Nico. A scttlement of the financial troubles]of King Ludwig has been planned by the Bava- rian chambers, and it is stated that the suits against him will be postponed. Maria Christina, queen of Spain, has two lovely danghters who are still in ignorance of thelr father’s death, and who write letters to him begeing him to return, The Empress Eugenle is to drink milk this summer at Abergeldie, Wales' old Balmoral. A greater man than Wales used topass it by on his pony in the days of his dreamy youth, viz, George Gordon, Lord Byron. London Truth: 1 hear that Prince Alex- ander of Hesse really started for Sofia with the object of endeavoring to reform his son’s domestic arrangements, which are mnot of a character caleulated to iperease his chances of making a good. marmage, but while he wasat Vienna dispatehes arrived from Sofia which caused him tq return home. The circumstances of the prince of Bulgatia’s birth preclude the possibility ot his marry- ing into any of the royal houses of Germany, Austria or Russia, arid it is supposed that he will endeavor to form an alliance with “finance.” ey Wall Street DId It. Sutton (Neb.) Register. “The president vetoed tlié bill making Oma- ha a port of entry. Wall street objected, and the rowdy west has no claims anyway. Bubiodd i i Loaded. Oleveland Leader. ‘The bloody anarchists who have settled in this country have found out that the Ameri- can police and militia are loaded. The In- formation thus obtained is valuable. heeie oo iiba No More Red Flags in Chicago, Chicago Herald. The determination of the police that the red flag shall never again be displayed in this city wiil find cordial indorsement among law-abiding citizens of every nationality and condition. ‘The American flag has red enough In it for any man of zood taste. sty ¥ el Tennyson Has Lost His Grip. Chicago Times. Tennyson seems to have entirely lost his knack for poetry. His recent ode is protty poor stuff, 1t seems impossible for a_poet to see what Is plain to everybody else—that his muse has gone back on him. When the muse of poetry has boyeotted a poet, as in the case with Alfred, he shoutd have sense enough to give up verse-making. s Bl D Advice to Jeff Davis. Cliicago Times. As the friends of Jefferson Davis do not seem disposed to restrain him from making a ridiculous spectacle of himself, it would be quite in order for Attorney Generat Garland to convey to the aged but not venerable rebel, through the nearest United States marshall, an intimation that his speedy return to Beau- voir is desirable, There isno danger that i f the ex-chief of the slave- o will resurrect the “lost vhich he ‘mourns; but there are that make the continuance of the nearly as undersirable as would Lof the lake-front gathering of the Chicago red-flags. —— She Wanted Some Seed. Columbua Dispateh, “I have heard,” sald a maid, *‘of a wonderfnl jan BACT Kuow not in what soil It grows: And I know not the time of its beautiful loom— T have not yet discoyered. Who knows? *“That it grows and is something worth hav- lmf I know, For I read of its yalue last night: And a sliv or some seed L must Of this plant of electrical ligh Then she went to adealer in flowers, and asked For thy rd, First he stood like a rock; The]n hul;:nd. Justas wellas he could between aughs. ‘That the plant grew direct from the stock . e i STATE AND RRITORY, The contract has,becn let for a roller mill at Neligh. i The preliminary tgst.of the Fairmont water-works indicated a puccessful plant., Otoc county has completed a commodi- ous infirmary on theipoor farm at a cost of $4,500. . Rev. J. B. Murray, pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal church, * Hastings, has re- signed. Coleridge is af rats, and citizens terminate them, The Bay State ('m(fu company propose to do some experimental farming near Kimball this year. Plattsmouth has 1,754 children ot school age, with an insuflicient number of teachers and schools, The first school house” built in Boone county was sold at uuction the other day d down for §102. It cost $2,000. Forty-seven dead horses and aun equal number of dead hogs diversify the scenery and atmosphere in the suburbs of Hastings. ‘The Tussler and Adams herds of cuttle were sold to the Ogallala Cattle company at Sidoey last week. The two bunches comprise about 8,000 head. George Washington Brewster, the pub- lisher of two papers, “both weekly,"” is clipbing to fame and glory with the ris ing tide of settlement in northwest Ne- braska. The new eounty of. Blaine has ainly have i with a surplus of I'eé organizing Lo ex- lrhl\c\‘l for organization, with the town of Brewster as county seat. The town of Stockyille, Frontier county, is almost depopulated. Twenty- one buildings and their ocoupants were moved last week to the new town of Curtis. A wagon and span of horses were stolen recently from Add Carr, a farmer near Ashland. Mr. Carr offers a reward of #100 and gate receipts for one round with the thief. Four young toughs of Tecumseh have been arrested for carrying riqmls and displaying them in school. The youthful terrors reversed the old custom and at- tempted to shoot *‘the idea.” The pushing capitalists of York rushed to the rescue of a Chicago railroad last week and helped it bridge the striking chasm by paying $850 freight charges on four carloads of tin from Chicago. The G. A. R. post of Fairmont offers a reward of $200 for the apprehension of Earnest H. Myers, who is supposed to have killed Kichard Bascombe, an old G. A. R. man, and his wife, and subse- quently burned their home April 8, 1885, The land department of the Burlington and Missouri in Nebraska sold, net 86,403 acros of land in 1885, for $301,310, an average price of $8.11 pe: In Towa the department has $573,789 in contracts, £88,044 in interest, and 16,412 acres un- sold, valued at §82,061. The editor of the Humboldt Sentinel cheerfully whispers to his less fortunate brethren that nL-, at the scissors and glue pot is not a dreary, barren waste. The immediate cause of his happiness was the ontation of a mess of fish by a ritable subscribers. The monotonous nklers of the editorial waste band disappeared for a day. A surveying corps filling five wagons sailed out of Chadron last week, bound for Cen yoming, to put the' finish- ing touches on the route of the Chicago & Northwestern. Inasmuch as the isalready survey and the Sweetwater, this s of the surveying and engincer corps will settle the much mooted question of whero the Northwestern is going to beyond Wyoming. That the kes will be set through the mountains to Ogden, Utah, before the 1st of next January is highly probable. Towa Items, Rand park, at Keokuk, is being stocked up with prairie dogs. Justice Kramer, of Davenport, during his term of office, has officiated at 610 weddings. The Whitebreast Coal and Mining com- pany, of Ottumwa, has incorporated with a capital of $1,000,000 rlington plow factory was sold s sale for $9,500. The original cost of the plant was b There arc 3,284 pupils enrolled in the Burlington public schools, and an average attendance during April of 2,915, F. Dixon, of Riverton, who was sup- bosed to have made away with himself In Nebraska, turned up sound und serene after an absence of five days. A white headed eagle, measuring six feet and seven inches from tip to tip of 1ts wings, was shot by John DeBruin. near Orange City, one day recently. Mason Long, the reformed gambler, was egged by a lotof hoodlums at Sit gourney, who took exceptions to his re- marks about gambling and drinking. Prohibition is in foree in Fort Dodge. Sunday St. Mark's Episcopal church Id procure no wing for communion s, although the celebration of com- munion had been announced the Sunday before. At Preston, Jackson county, early Thursday morning, C. H. Riley went to his place of business, placed a coat on the floor, laid down, placed the muzzle of a revolver in his mouth, discharged it and blew the top of his head of Twin_lakes, four miles north of Rock- well City, in’ Calhoun county, are fast coming to'the front as a pleasire resort. These lakes cover an a of 1,700 acres and are well stocked with a number of varieties of fish, principally pickerel. D. L. McNeil, of Ottumwa, a brakeman of the Burlington road, ivented and apphed for a patent for an instrument for the placing of torpedoes on the rail from the rearof a train running thirty il an hour. Several successtul ments have been made with the in- vention, and it marks a big step ahead in railroad devices. Dakota, Huron's population is estimaced at A large colony of Russians has lo- cated in the Devil’s lnke region. A paper is to be started at Battle Riyer, a ‘new town between Buffalo Gap and Rapid City. A petrified human skeleton recently 1n limestone near Gordon City. The skull is said not to resemble that of an Indian. D:. F. W. Kordenat, a promincnt phy- sician of Watertown, was bitten on the hand by a rabid dog about two weeks ago, and fearing an attack of hydropho- bia hus started for Paris for trentment by M. Louis Pasteur. oA R A Monopolist President. New York Herald, Congress, early in March, passed a bill giving to certain farmers in lowa the authority to appeal in court in defense of their rights to their farms, on which many of them have been settled since 1855, Their titles are attacked by the Des Moines Improvement comyany, which a great many yours ago received a grant of lands to aid it in effecting an im- provemont of a part of the Des Moines river. This corporation never effectually completed its promised improvement, but it set up a claim not only to the lands included in the urif:inal grant, which lay along the proposed” route of its work, but to & considerable tract lying else: where. Both houses of congress have scen fit to settle this dispute by allowing the farmers to go into court and have w fi decision upon the question whether their farms shall belong to them or to u corpo- ration which claims them for work not done, and claims, as those who know the case assert, much more than it would be entitled to if it had done its work. The ‘yrua"\dunt has chosen in his veto to deny the poor farmers their right to a day'in court. He talks about the sacred- ness of “vested interests,” and suggests that if any “‘mentorious” farmers sufler hardship and loss congress can 1 an appropriation of money for them. In effect he decides in his veto that the e poration’s elaims must not bo disturbad and if the farmors suflea by that, so much the worse for them, We trust congress will take « different view ot this dispute; that it will aahere warmly to its opinion expressed in the bill Mr. Cleyeland has vetoed that the furmers ought to have their day in court D cratic congressmen are becoming alarmed at theé president’s attitude to: ward syndicates and corporations and the land question by his revecation of tho Sparks order, and by this veto. No one wants to see injusticc done 10 0orpors tions, but we advise the admpinistration to stand by the people on this question of land reform. Itis s very “live" quos- tion. G $500N:ot Valled For, It scems strange that it is necessary to persuade men that you cun eure their diseases by oflering & premium to the man who fails to receive beuefit. And undoubtedly cured thou ases of ohstinate catarrh with iis “Catarrh Remedy,'” who would have applied to him, ¥ it-hud not buen for his offer of the -above sum for an- in curabie case. Wi is the next bidder for cure or cashy . | as | hoad “was complotely ver | The President's Marriage. Chicago Herald. The limits of legitimate comment on the approaching marriage of the prosi- dent appear to have been transgressed when the newspapers fell to speculating on the identity of the person who is to pay the expenses of Miss Folsom's Euro- pean trip and to foot the bills for her trousseau. There is an insatiate demand for gossip nowadays which may be harm- lessly gratitied, but there is a little be- yond which it impertinent and inde- centtogo. M Folsom is entitled to chivalrous treatment at the hands of the Ameriean people whether she is to marry the president or not. She 1s represented as & most amiable yonng lady, with many graces ot mind and person, She is not a pauper. She has many relative who are respectable people. She is tray- eling in conipany with her mother, and it is nobody’s business who is paying the oxpenses, Itisto be inferred that her own_family, probably her mothor, is losking ont for this part of the enterprise and there is no reason to suppose that anybody else has anything to do with it. n othier respects the comments that have been on_the approaching white house marringe have been respect: ful and proper. 1t would be idle to sup- that the president of the United States, who is nothing more than one of y \wupln- selected for a fixed term to act their chief magistrate, could be mar- « during his term of office without ex- citing more or less gossip. The village bridegroom who is known to all does not escape the good-natured bandinage of his fellows, and the president who is quite a8 conspicuous a target for tho en- tire nation, cannot under the same cir- cumstances expect to dodge the witti- isms, the conjectures, and the gossip of » people, who feel that they have a pro- prietary interest in him If these comments are annoying to Mr., Cleveland it is because he has postponed r so long a time a duty which s&mnlxl been attended to early in life,when, with younger blood and more buoyant irits, he would haye cared little for the atter. Asa matter of fact, the White house is a poor place for aman mar wil The average :n of the United tes should fiu married long before he reaches that man- sion, Mr. Cleveland’s long neglect of this important business i ible for whatever annoyance he pickieni-lerined Actors Who Can Address an Audi- ence. Chicago That was a very neat speech Mod joska made last Monday night in rosponse to the Elks' presentation. Ido not know whether it was im tu, but doubtless it was, for the y is very fluent and quick-witted. It is astonishing, how to note how few people of her profession are apt speakers under like cireumstan- ces. At this moment Barreit is the only only one L can remember, besides Mod- jeska, who can step out of his part and address an audience in_improvised and well-chosen language. This » largely from their constant habit of only speaking in public the words which some one else has put into their mouths. The continued use of one function of the brain 1s_only made at the expense of others. There are very few actors who can sveak correctly on the spur of the moment half mutter as is con- tained in this paragraph. I have heard Irving stutter like a schoolboy over two consccutive sentences, and Bartley Campbell does not even seem able to re- peat the speeches he writes in advance and has himself called out to speuk. e Hot Springs Gamblers. A Hot Springs, Ark., corr the St Louis’ Globe-Demo There has been recently in the eir court, now in session here, a profu: of gumiu&f e i number of %mmm., s have be Upon in- formation coming to the nowledge of the court, Judgze Wooul th fi i sued an order to the s| to search the establ Smith, eet out all gaming devi tained theremn and destroy the order promptly carried out, and the tables and implements were dumped in o pile on Central avenue, the main street inthe city, and burned. The burning viewod calmly by sports. The grand jury pnid especial attention to infringements of the gaming law, and found a number of indictments. Judge Wood had particulariy churged the grand jurors regarding the law, and laid stress on the point that the payment of period- ical fines, which was virtnally a license, could not condone the offense which the statutes prohibit. One of the strictest isions regarding gaming is that h causes the forfeiture of the license of any saloon where gambling is per- i . The knights of the green cloth are reading the lesson of the times, and qumhlinz is now defunct at this fesort. 'he cessation, however, may be only temporary. Advice to ant to puy a goat? Very What price you vant to pay?" er—"What are the prices of *Here is 1 goat for ten dol- “Oht That's too cheap. I want mmothmfi better than that.” Dealer—*‘Vell, how high you vant to &0 Customor—*0h, way up!” Dealor—"Vay up! Take de_elevutor.” A LITTLE SUFFERER Cleaned, Purifiedy and Beautified by the Cutivera_Remedies, W givo you this coport of the cure of little grandson by your CUTICURA REME When six months old hisleft bund bogan to swoll and had every appenrance of a Inrge boil. Wo poulticed it, but all 0 no pur- pose. About five after it becamo a running eore. 500 thon had two of Tt Affords. mo plea oh bund, nnd as | nd moro impure 0 broak out. A sor His head was 301 scab, dia- churging & great deal This was his condition at twonty.two umonths old, when T undurtool tho cuaro of hun, his mother haviug died when ho was a littlo more than & year old, of sumption (sorofuls of course), Ho could a littlo, but could not get up if he foll down, and could not move whou in bed, biving of his hands. 1 immediately commonc CUrICuiRA HENEDIES, using the CUTICURA Gnd Coricuna 8oAr freoly, uud when Vkon ono boitle of the CUTICURA RESOLY and ho was yory ozensive proved I overs wi couraged, and continued 3 ulf, One soro aftu ony matfor forming i one o1 of 1heso five decp ones Just boforo hou which would finally krow [W0se wid wors t out: then they would hea! x . O ugly bone formations [ pre ! and s lall b and {8 nov, and healthy o ust always romi steonk, though wo toared oneo hie W bo ablo to iso thow. 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