Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORTPTION ¢ OMATIA OPPICR, No. 914 AND 918 FARNAM STREPY. FW YORK OFPICE, ROOM 05, TRIBUNR a. ASHINGTON OFPFICR, NO. 513 FOURTEENTI BTHALT, CORRESPONDENCE: All communieations relating to news and torial matter should be addressed 1o the Ei TOK OF THK BEE. BUSINESS LETTRRSS AN businoss Jettors and romittances should bo Addrossed 10 TR BE¢ PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 0 be payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Epiron Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, }sl County of Douglas. Geo. B. Tzschnck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Dee 'f:{l the week ending April Sth, 1857, was as 0 14.750 nesday, Avril ednesday, Avril 6 ... Thursday, April7. Friany, April 8..... AVETage....oooeuiant B, GEo. B, 'L Subscribed and sworn_to befol dsyof April A, D., 1887, N. P. FRIL, ISEALI Notarv Publie. Geo, B, 'I'zschuck, boln1 first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage daily circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,537 coples; for fl"" 1886, 13,191 copies: forfor May, 198,12, coples; for June, 1856, 12,208 coples; for July, 1886, 12,314 copies; for August, 185, 12,464 copies; for September, 1880, ' 13,0350 coptes; for October, 1836, 12,080 coples; for November, 1846, 13,348 covles; for December, 1880, 13,237 copies; for January, 1887, 16,906 coples; for Februnry, 1887, 14,195 copies. @r0. B. Tz8cHUCK. Bubscribed and sworn ;o before me this 9th d?r of March, A. D, 18% [SEAL.| N. Notary Publle. Tue people of Texus are praying for rain. A boom and a drought can never o hand-in-hand. — GovERNOR HILL has vetoed the Crosby high license bill. It is hard to tell what & man with a boom will not do. — AbvIces from Queenstown state that emigrants are leaving for the United States at the rate of from four to five thousand per week. POSTMASTER-GENERAL VILAS will vigit the west this month. If he wishes to see a real live city, let him come to the geo- graphical center of the United States. WeBSTER defines ‘‘chump’’ as a short, thick, heavy piece of wood. The only differencg between the real and a legis- lative chump is that the latter can breathe. Tue telegraph yesterday recorded sh- other attempt to assassinate the czar. Unless Alexander intends to adopt the otage he might as well call off nis adver- tising agent. 3 — A FEDERAL judge in Oregon has knocked out the first scction of the inter- state bill, It would not be at all surpris- ing it he would like to knock out the re- muining sections. — TaE big DesMoines distillery has been sold to the Northwestern Distiller’s pool, and will be closed for a term o years. This naturally causes much dissatisfac- tion at Iowa's capital cis) ——— A LouisviLLE, Kentucky woman was fined five dollars the other day for soreaming ‘‘Ah, there,” on the streets. It would never do for Samn Jones to preach in cultured Louisvilie. — e ‘I'ne Connecticut legislature has passed & law prohibiting the Pinkerton detect- ives from operating in that state, as special police. Their last work there was to kill three inoffensive boys. S——— JEFF DAVIS has declined an invitation to visit St. Louis in June. The petti- coated hero of the lost cause is behaving himself grandly here of late. He appre- ciates, 1t scems, that there is an end to human endurance. E——— ‘A Nesnraska editor has been arrested for giving a friend a drink of liquor on election day. This shows the advantage of attending strictly to your own busi- mess. Had the editor drank the liquor himself, the humiliating arrest would mover have been made. 3 —— | PRestOENT CLEVELAND has finally promised to visit St. Louis. When he pays Jay Gould the 85 cents extra for crossing the bridge to get into the old town Mr. Cleveland will see where he missed it not appointing a western man on the inter state commission, It cortainly is time to bring the Mrs. Jame Brown Potter boom to an end. Her dismal failure, of courso, carries with . ita moral. It will teach ambitious wo- men with little money and ‘a very ordi- nary understanding of elocution that it requires talent to make a successful ao- tress. HorrMAN, the Nebraska train-wrecker, was found guilty, there being scarcely any attempt at defense. Now then for a penalty commensurate with the crime of which he was gullty.—St. Joe Herald, Mr. Hoffman will be hanged at Neo- braska City, July 23, Nebraska has few criminals compared with Missouri. And the few we have are not here long. e———— 17 is now thought that the Kansas pro- hibition law is perfect. Undor the pro- visions of the new act a druggist can sell liquors only for medicinal and manufac- turing purposes, and to do this he must first obtain the signaturcs of twenty-five men apd twonty-five women. He must be s graduate in pharmacy, of good moral character, have a stock of goods exclusive of liquors valued at not less than $1,000, and he must not himself use Intoxicants asa beverage. He must also giveo a bond in the sum of $1,000 for faith- ful complisnce with the law. The man who purchases the liquor must obtain a permit from the county judge, which is furnished free of chargo providing tho applicant makes afidavit that the liquor is to bo used as mediocine, stating under oath the nature of the disease. This 18 certainly iron-clad, and will go a long ‘way in solving the question of the ago, “Does prohibition prohibist" BN A THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; THURSDAY. APRIL 14, 1887, The True and the Fafthiess. ‘When the legislature convened. on the 3d of January Iast there was a clear working majority of men in the house pledged and elected to support General Van Wyck, the people’s choice for sena- tor and to legislate on the anti-monopoly issties in accord with the mandate of the constitution and the interests of the peo- ple. Every attempt to combine the rail- way and jobbers' factions in organizing the house, proved a signal failure, and the graceful capitulation to the popular choice for speaker, was ounly made be- cause the majority at that juncture could not be handled by the _lobby. By the middla of January the insidious and corrupting machinery which the railroaders and jobbers had set in motion, manifested its influence. Men who had come to Lincoln under the most sacred pledges and solemn obligations wavered in their faith and betrayed their trusts under the most flimsy of pretexts. Men who had called high heaven to wit- ness that they would not accept or re- ceive any bribe or valuable thing from any person or corporation for any vote they would give or withhold as members be- came guilty of rang perjury aud treason to the people. After the infamous sell-out of VanWeyk the scoundrels who had violated their onths and obligations were reinforced from the ranks of the venal and weak- ling members until the house toward the last, became & mere degraded mob, doing the bidding of the hireling lobby and the railroad bosses who had debauched them with bribes and liquor. We have already divided tho sheep from the goats in the review of the upper branch of the legislature, and placed each member before his constitu- ents in the light in which he appeared to the eyes of impartial observers. We shall now complete the task and do justice to the faithful and loyal and fearlessly hold up to popular exgera- tion' the dishonest, untrustworthy and unprineipled. In the first class, we can commend as among the tried and true, Speaker Har- lan and Representatives Andres, Baily, Ballard, Barrett, Bently, Bick, Cameron, Dempster, Ellis, Ewing, Gamble, Gil- more, Harrison, Heimrod, Horst, Jeary, Keiper, Lord, Matthieson, McConaughy, Overton, Raymond, Rief, Satchell, Schwab, Simms, Smyth, Tracy, Truesdel, Turner, Tyson, Underhill, Wethcrald, Wilson, Wolenwebor and Wright. Mr, Harlan is n man of the most unswerv- ing integrity and unyielding devotion to principle. He was besot from the start with numberless obstacles, and manfully fought for rallway legislation that would afford re- lief. He took a very active part on the floor in opposing many bad measures and urging needed legislation, Kven after the house had degencrated into a mob, his mistakes in ono or two instances in appointinent of com- mittees, ware largely due to his anxiety to appear fair to all factors. Mr. Andres was not a blind partisan, but voted his convictions. He represented the laboring classes faithfully and was an Intelli- gent and painstaking member. Mr. Bafly is an honest stralghtforward man whostood by Van Wyck from beginning to end and nearly always voted right, but was often subject to much pressure by the railroad banker lobbyist, Bostwick. Mr, Ballard was among the truest and most faithful men In the legislature, and made an excellout record throughout. 5 Mr. Barret acquitted himsalt nobly toward his pledges on thesenatorlal issues, but taken dangerously sick soon after, he was kept from his seat during balance of the session, Mr. Beutley was a quiet, tirm, and intelli- kent momber. His Integrity 13 unimpeach- able and his record good. Mr. Bick proved himself as loyal and re- liable this time as he had done in former ses- sions, He stood throughout as a true repro- sentative of the people. Mr, Cameron is not a man of many words, but he always stood up and voted for the right and may be depended on. Mr. Dompster was one of the most clear- headed, fearless aud falthful representatives 4n the house. Hae talked and voted his con- victions and lived up to his odligations. Mr. Eilis, although not a man of very great learning, provod himself to be trustworthy ou the vital issues. Mr. Ewing was quiet, dignified and always reliable. Mr. Gamble was¢trueto his constituents and s recorded rizht on nearly all questions. Mr. Gilmore is aman of more than ordinary ability, and his record this time was as good a3 it was at tho session ten years ago, when he was known as honest Joe Giilmore. Mr, Harrlsou was a very creditable repre- sentative, and reliable on all vital issues. Mr. Holmrod was as firm as the everlasting rocks on every vital issue, and made a brave and wanly fight against jobs, steals and ex- travagaut approoriation Mr. Horst s as true as sieel; mever wav- ered in his support of measures calculated to Improve the eondition of the producers, and was at all times an outspeken opponent of jobbery and extravagance. Mr. Jeary was 4 very lutellig ent, painstak- Ing and faithful member. Mr. Kelper was one of the most well in- formed, clear-headed and reliable men In the legislature. He hasa very exemvlary rec- ord. Mr, Lord acted out the pledges of his con- stitueuts in zood faithand was always to be relied on for proper legisiation. Mr. Matthleson withstood all the pressure of his corporate employers and maintained his reputation for integrity throughout. Mr. McConsughy was one of the few men elected in opposition to VanWyek, who bore himself reputably, and was free from the sus- plelon of dishoncsty. Mr. Overton made a very commendable record. Mr. Raymond was the only representative from Lancaster in the house who was in no way tled up with jobs and steals, and whose skirts are perfectly clean from the taint of corruption, Mr. Rief proved -himself to be a man of courage and the highest integrity. He always called things by their right names, which subjected him to the jeers of the rogues who could not repress nor control him. Hels eccentric but knows the difference between a hawk and a handsaw. Mr. Satchell proved himself to be reliable, stead(ast and honest. Mr, Schwab was a very qulet but useful and honest representative. Mr. Simms represented the wishes of his constituents with fidelity from beginning to end. Mr. Smyth was one of the brightest and most eloquent members. He made a record, and antagonized the aod rallroad lawyers on floor with - groat vigor and effect. He sometimes fought too hard but most of the time for the right. Mr. Tracy made an excellent record as a representative of the laboring and producing classes. Mr. Trueadel was In the maln houest and, reliable. Mr. Turner carried out the wishes of his constitnents to the bagt of his abliity. Mr. ‘Tyson was always at his post as an un- llul:ludvm»t the best 1nterest of the peoble. Mr. Underhill stood mantully by the pen- ple who elected him, Mr. Wetherald was & very iuteiligent and upright member, whose votes were givon fear- lessly for the restriction of corpotate monop- oly and extravagant appropriations. Mr. Wilson went back to York county with the consciousness that he had diseharged his duty faithfully to the best of his abllity. Mr. Wollenweber discharged his obliga- tions with unswerving integrity. Mr. Wright was a_very quiet out honess and loyal representative, - His mistakes were those of inexperience and never intentional. In the second class we group members who made a fair record but proved weak kneed or unreliable on vital issues, and were more or less under the control of corporation influence or appropriation traders. Among these were Messrs. Ab- rahamson, Aiken, Aloxander, Andrews, Babeock, Cannon, Cole, Cope, Craig, Diller, Dickinson, Eggleston, Eisley, Fox, Frantz, Fuchs, Gafford, Green, Hayden, Kenney, King, Knox, Latta, Liesveld, MecGrew, Miller, Minnix, Norris, Sim- anek, Sweet, Thornton, Veach, Ward- law, Wilhelmson, Watson, Yutzy and Young. Mr. Abrahamsen Is in the maln honest, byt aasily misted by potitical assoclates who trained with the railroad and jobbers’ lobby. Mr. Akin is a second edition ot Mr. Abra- hamson ; was chiefly influ enced by Agee. Mr. Alexander would be called a chnmp fi some persons. He bobbed up and down be- tween Church Howe and Tom Majors. He violated his pledges in the sehatorlal choice. Mr. Andrews acted honorably excepting in trades with the appropriation combine, Mr, Babcock was very much the same sort of & man as the two iirst named in this class, Mr. Cannon was a double-ender, playing fast and loose between the lines, notto be depended on. Mr. Cole exhibited a disposition to act honorably and squarely, but was more or less handicapped by appropristion schemes and his proclivities to train with the railroad-Jim Laird crowd. Mr. Cope was rather dull, and while ordi- narily honest, cast most of his votes with the railroad and jobber element. Mr, Craig maintained his reputation up to within a few days of adjournment, when he weakened aud becamne subject to peculiar in- fluences. Mr. Diller would make agood running mate of Caunon, with slight variations. Mr. Dickinson, as one of the representa- tives of Lancaster county, made a tolerably fair record comsidering that nhe was tied down to trades with jobbers and claimants in exchange for votes on appropriation bills. Mr. Eggleston was also stageering under a );lel\'y load of Luncaster jobs and railroad es. Mr. Eisley Is an upright man but in his anxiety to pull through the Norfoik insane asylum appropriations fell in with the job- bers toward the end. Mr. Fox professed to have:good intentions but voted aud trained with the jobbers and frauds, Mr. Frantz was the dummy of Tobe Castor, the B. & M. right of way buas, and never moved far away from his associations. Mr. Fuchs is most decidedly unreliable. Mr. Gafford was posing a good deal of the time as a man of high integrity, but was quietly playing into the hands of the rail- road gang and appropriation grabbers. Mr. Knox may not be dishonest, but ne was 80 completely under the control of the railroads and boodlers that we can only ex- cusoe his conduct on the ground of imbecility caused by advanced age. Mr. Green, as his name implies, was very verdant and easily influenced in the wrong direction. Mr. Hayden was competent, but more or less under the railway influence. He was mainly opposed to reckless appropriations but was the champion of the saline land job. Mr. Kenney is a blatherskite and ready tool of the bad elements of the lobby. Mr. King was a stick and wrong most of the time. Mr. Latta was disposed to be fair, but could not always be relied on. AMr, Liesveld labored under the same bur- don that weighod down Mr. Ezgleston. Mr. McGrew is an able but very unreliable member and like his colleague, Alexander, wavered between the influences of the two Nemaha county tricksters. Mr. Miller may be regarded a sort of back- slider on the railroad issue. Whilelenjoying general confidence he dodged many impor- tant questions and votes. Mr. Minnix was strictly honest and relia- blein the main, except when yielding to pressuro on appropriation bills with which his countv was tied. Mr. Norris made professions of honesty, but was generally untrustworthy. Mr. Simanek 1s a well meaning but rather weak sister. 1n many questions he was dis- posed to do right, but was sometimes misled owing to a lack of nerve. Mr. Sweet was very quiet, but always could be depended on 1o go wrong at the critical time, Healways trained with tue corpora- tlon gang and the jobbers. Mr, Thornton was one of the well-meaning but poorly informed men. He was au ardent admirer and follower of the bell-wather of the judlciary boodlers. Mr. Veach was mainly disposed to do right, but at times was weak and unreli- able. Mr. Wardlaw was very much -a pattern after V each. Mr. Wilhelmson {s very thick around the ears. During the first part of the gession he was the dummny of Jim Paul’and in the latter vart he was in tow of Frank Walters. Mr. Watson made a good fight dur- ing the senatorial contest, but found hims3elt in the railroad eamp before thg ses- sion was halt over. was rather pernicjous than otherwise, more especially in connection with appropriation “combines.” i Mr. Yutsy was common place, uncertain and unreliable . Mr. Young disappointed his friends by falling into bad company and yielding to their influence when he was expected to be firm, The third olass, made up of railroad men who were strictly honest in other re- spects, was *‘precious small,” Mr. White has the honor of being the only representative of this rare species. He opposed all improper or extravagant appropriations, bogus claims and jobs. The last group or black-list comprises men who have proved themselves utterly untrustworthy and dangerous as law makers, [his class includes Messrs. Agee, Baird, Bowman, Brown, Caldwell, Crane, Fenton, Fuller, Garry, Marshall, McCann, McKenna, Newcomer, Newton, Nichol, Peters, Pemberton, Randall, Rus- sell, Shamp, Slater, Sullivan, Tingle, Wilsey and Whitmore. Mr, Agee was defiantly a corporation chaw- plon, and just the kind of a man to play Into the hands of the jobbers’ lobby. Mr. Balrd betrayed his constituents on the senatorial 1ssue, and made a most disgraceful record all the way through. Mr. Bowman was a sleek rascal, who put his acknowledged abilities as a lawyer to bad use. Mr. Brown {s a difSolute corporation cap- per without a spark of decency or honor. Mr, Caldwoll wasa frothy fraud without a single redeew Ing quality. For further par- ticulars see our explanation of charges against judiclary committee. Mr. Crane took great pride in his assocla- 1lon with the boodle gang and was at the leg- islature for revenue only, 2 Mr. Fenton played into the hands of the His tnfluence as a leader | rallroads and jobbers whenever his vote was wanted, Mr, Fuller was the most blatent blather- skite and fraud that ever held a seat in the house. He always fumed like 8 madman and voted like a rogne. i Mr. Garvey was & black sheep from Omaha, and grossly mispepresented his constituents. Mr. Marshall' prgvad @ traitor to every pledge he made before the election and from beginning to end trmined with the monopo- lists and frauds; . Mr. McKennasold himself and the people out for the seat' o which he was never elected. ! Mr. McCann stodd fn with the jobbers, boodlers and brass follared monopolists. He was reputed to be on the make and his course fully justitied the prevailing opinion. Mr. Newcomer was very bad when sober and much worse when in his normal coudi- tion. Ile would haye made a mate for Sena- tor Vandemark it he had been in the upper house. Mr. Newton came In with fair professions which were belied by his desertion of Van Wyck, and the record he made after the sen- atorial contest. Mr. Nichol ‘never pretended to remember any of his pledges or obligations to his con- stituents. While strictly temperate, he was super Iatively bad. & Mr. Peters was always in close communion and actlve sympathy with all the worst ele- ments and while keeping up a show of re- spectability was at all times a ready tool of the corporate lobby. Mr. Pemnberton is a man very much after the style of Mr. Peters, excepting moro so. Mr. Randall was a noisy hypocrite and Im- poster, always pretending to be actuated by high moral principles and never failing to get down to the low. level of the oil room disciples when it came to a square issue be- tween decency and combined rozuery. Mr. Russell was a traitorous Pharisee who vlayed the soy in the Van Wyck camp, and gave aid and comfort to the senator’s enemies and kept his record clear to decoive his constituents. This con- figence game he kept up throughout the sess-* fon. His intimacy with boodiers, jobbers and railroad cappers was an open secret, while his collusion with the gambling con- spirators was cunningly concealed . Mr. Shamnp was a sort of a jobber with railroad attachments, Mr. Slater was the most audacious among the judiciary conspirators, lle started out with the conspiracy on the sénatorial issue, and became bold enough toward he lasc to solicit bribes. His career was thoroughly disreputable. Mr. Tingle who conducted himsglf honor- ablyat the opening of the session, fell from grace soon after the senatorial contest and trained with the boodle gang. His rec- ord toward the last was extremely disre- patable. Mr. Sullivan was a bright young man, but his conduct was that of a railroad at- torney, and belonged to the gaung who called at railroad headquarters for instructions neatly every day of the session. Whilg sound on some imma- torial issues, ho regordea himself with the jobbers and claim-fraud supporters most of the time. i Mr. Wilsey wasa very tit colleague for Agee, witha slignt, difference in favor of Acee for reliability. Mr. Whitmore's eareer in the late session was noted for inslicerity of purpose and doubledealing. Hiseonduct in the senatorial contest was simply infamous, and his subse- quent course was a masterly effort of carry- ins water on both shonl Uniform Sidewalks for Omaha, One of the most valuable recommen- dations embodied in the report ot the late city engineer is that with regard to the construction of sidewalks. Everybody who desiresto see Omaha a metropolitan city in fact, as well as in name, must concede that our streets must be materi- ally improved by uniform and substan- tial sidewalks, At present Omaha can truthfully boast of being the most ele- gantly paved city in the west, but our wretched side'valks are an eyesore and a public nuisance. There is scarcely a single block in the whole city that has sidewalks constructed to grade and of durable material, Under the present method each property owner builds just such a sidewalk as suits him— sometimes above and sometimes below grade, and of such width as suits him. We can point to blocks where property commands from $1,000 to §1,200 per front foot, whuso owners are too stingy to build a decent sidewalk, and in muny n- stances have leff patches of mud four feet wide between the curbstone and their buildings. This disgraceful state of affuirs is largely due to the negligence of the board of public works and the worthlessness of the street commussioner. These officers, even under the present system could have compelled the prop- erty owners to comply with the side- walk ordinances, which require uniform sidewalks of durable material on our vaved streets. The most eflective way of securing uni- form sidewalks of materials authorized by ordinance, is suggested by the late en- gineer. Let the city contract for build- ing and repairing all sidewalks, just as the paving, guttering and curbing of the streets. The board of public works should designate the various materials with which the sidewalks may be built, advertise for proposals on each of these materials and let the contractto the lowest responsible bidder. Have the contractors lay the sidewalks under the diraction of the city engineor and tax the cost against each lot abutting. Under this system sidewalks would all be laid to grade, of material best adapted for each street, uniform in width and without jogs at each connecting sidewalk or crossing. Another advantage: would be that the non-resident propérty owner or the man who is too stingy to bwld a decent sidewalk. -would not have to be coaxed to make a needed improve- ment, which would'afford convenience to the public and mdke our sidewalks ns safe and cleanly as the center of the paved streets now is;, We hope that the present council will enact an ordinance that will effect this' much-needed change w sidewalk cons]tr.hotlun‘ The new charter gives the council ample authority and it should be exercised without delay. — visédt'! Prajects. There has been nfuch talk from time to time about building another story under the Douglas county court house, and there huve been foolish schemes to build tunnel from the street level to.the base- ment of the building, to accommodate people who get tired of climbing the stone stair way, All such projects seem to us a waste of brain tissuc and breath, ‘The most pgactical, A3 well as the least expensive project that suggests itself to any ntelligent observer, wauld be the construction of east and west wings to the main building, which would afford an entrance on the levels of Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets, These wings would nmnot in any way de- tract from the architectural veauty and design of the present building, which would become the centre of thestructure. Built from the same material and in the same style they would give the court house a more imposing appearance, and make it one of the handsomest public bwildings in America. With elevators in each end, visitors or parties who had business in the building would be ac- commodated. The construction of these wings would hardly gost more than put- twg another story under the present structure, which at best would be extra hazardous. Being four stories in height, each wing would afford more office room than could possibly be had in the proposed additional story under the building. it would not be necessary to build and finish both these wings at the same time, so that the expense could be carried over saveral years. We make these suggestions, not with a view of having the building of these wings begun this year, but merely to show the folly of agitating the construc- tion of another story under the court house or tunneling into it. In a Nut Shel Months ago we urged upon our mer- chants, manufacturers and real estate owners the imperative necessity of tak- ing some action that would imvrgve our traflic facilities with sections of the state that should be tributary to Omaha, but from which we are cut off by the rainbow railrond system. While the situation is by no means as alarming asit is pictured the pecuhiar interpretation of the inter- state commerce law by the railroads forces the issue and compels prompt and concerted action of the jobbing and manufacturing interests that center here. I'he most effective remedy at this junc- ture must be the pooling of freizht ship- ments upon such railronds us are giving Omaha fair treatment. This, of course, is more in the nature "of a temporary expedient than a permanent solution of the problem with which Omaha is contending. Followed up by the proposed entrance of the Mil- waukeo road into Omaha, and 1ts exten- sion into the territory monopolized by the Burlington and Northwestern riminative tariffs and policies pre- judicial to her interes! A LOUAL paper has just discovered that the Union Pacific railroad is diserimin- ating against Omaha, With a boast of unparalleled enterprise it is prepared to prove that the Union Pacitic recei lumber billed from Chicago and carri it to interior Nebraska points at a less through rate than -is demanded from Chiengo to Omuha. The statement is also made that the Union Pacific1s un- willingly forced into such unfair treat- ment of our jobbers. Such prattle par- takes of the nature of ancient history, as President Charles Francis Adams would say. Read the BEE files of ten years ago. WeE stili hear about the decline of this paper from readerless sheets that have a free-gift, back-yard circulation, but its forty-three (43) carries who deliver the Ber in Omuha, continue loaded down with all they can carry, to paying sub- scribers, who take the paper on its merits unsolicited. EActi act of Lohengein is very long— 80 long in fact that large numbers of men in the sudience were overtaken with an unquenchable thirst. The saloon across the way did as large a business as the National Opera company. Ho~NEST men should keep an eye on Paul Vandervoort until after the®pri- maries, if they value clean city govern- ment. By the way, who employs Mr. Vanderbum now, and what 18 his busi ness? TuE city council transacted a land oftice business on Tuesday might. It would have taken an average Nebraska legislature twenty days to do as much as they did in three hours. SE—— KINGS AND QUEENS, Queen Margaret of Italy drinks beer at breakfast, She prefers it to wine. Queen Runavalona IIL. of Madagascar is only twenty-five years of age anda sincere christian, ‘The heirto King William III of Liolland,is the Princess Willielmina, a child in her seventh year. Prince Montleart, who died recently, left the whole of his fortune, estimated at £3,500,000, to the queen of Italy. The queen regent of Spain has given Cap- tain Zeluff of Staten Island, N. Y., a big gold ‘medal for saving some shipwrecked Spanish soldiers. Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, has discov- ered that ahe h & voice superior to Patti. A Bucharest professor told her the truth and disitlusioned her, ‘The queen of Sweden, who Is very seriously ill, has Intely undergone a painful surgical operation, all the absent mewbers of her family having been summoned to her bed- side, ‘The queen-regent of Spain sees her son,the baby king, only once a day, Royal etiquette must be rather an lcy affair when It can so freeze maternal love that a mother will re- main twenty-three hours without seeing her child. London Figaro: The queen, aé J men- tioned a short time awo, was able to draw during 1883 only £50,000 for her private use from her duchy revenues, whereas the heir apparent has had no less than £60,563 3s 3d placed to his bankers’ account. King Christian IX. of Denmark, famous for having married off his children so well, intends to be in London on the occaslon of the celebration of Queen Victoria's jubilee, He is the only sovereign living who was present on the occasion of her majesty’s accession in 1857, The princess of Wales and empress ot Russia are his daughters. ‘The king and queen of Italy will open the natlonal exhibition of fine arts in Yenice on April 25. Great preparations are being made to prepare the royal palace for the probable visit of the empress of Austria. The num- ber of artists exhibiting exceeds 1,700, among them being many Engtish painters residing in Italy. Prince Leopold, of Bavarie, second son of the regent, was recently named commandant of the tirst corps of the Bavarian army., The prinee is furty-one years old and is the hus- band of the Archduchess Gisele, eldest daughter of the emperor of Austria. The Emperor William by this appointment shows he s not inimical to any appolntment that is agreeable to his old friend, Prince Lultpold. e — Powderly's Pusition. New York Star, ‘The most important and significant sen- tence in Mr. Powderly’s address of Sunday Iast was the last one Né époke: “1 am in favor of building up 1nstead of tearing down things.” Thia is the position he assumes as “captain of the Kniguts of Labor,” which he believes to be “a pasition second to none on earth.” e rogarded the occasion as an un- usually important one, and spoke very dolib- erately under an evident deep sense of the responsibility implied in the direction of the great affairs by one who does not forget that “we are all human and all have our fault: It is evident that the conservatism, tast and firmness of Mr. l'owderly’s recent course have resulted in making him stronger in s control of the great army of knights than he ever was before. ——— Talmage's Opinipn of the West, ‘The Rev. Dr. Talmage, who has just re- turned to Brooklyn from his western tour, said in a late sermon to his congregation: [ have never seen such signs of life in busi- ness—1 would it a boom if I did not dis- like the word. The men who took Horace Greeley's advice were right, 1 woald give the same advice to-day; nay, I would go my- sell if any necessity was laid upon me, as I told some of the western people.” —— Sensible Suggestion, New Orleans Picayune The strenght of railroad bridges should be tested at least once a week by running over them a heavily-loaded freight train, carrying all the watered stock, the commissioners, construction contractors, presidents and offi- cers of the road. It the bridge goes down that settles it. Avdrew Hedbrooke, What do we know of the world, as we grow 80 old and wise? Do the years, that still the quicken tho drowsy eyes? At twenty we thought we knew it—the ~ world there, at our feet: We thought we had found its bitter, we . knew we had found its sweet. Now, at forty and fifty, what do we make of heart-beats, Thiere In the sand she crouches, the Sphinx with her gray wings furled. .\‘uu} ml“l‘llmn I'know not, who knoweth, can ortell, ut can I read of fate, even of self I e learnod 8o well? a woman L knpw not; how should I to know, at am foiled by a flower, or the stars of the silent snow; 1 that have never guessed the mind of the bright-eyed bird, Whom even the dull rocks cheat, and the whirlwind’s awful word? Let me loosen the fillet of clay from the shut and darkened lid, For life is a blindfold game, and the Voice trom view is hid. 1faco him as best I can, still groping, hete * “and there, For the hand that has touched me lightly,the 1ips thyt have said, “Declaro 1" Well, I declare him iy friend—the friend of the whole sad race; And oh!'that the game were over, and 1 might see his face! But 'tis too much, though I grope in blind- ness, the Voice that is hid from view May be heard, may be even loyed, In a dream that may come true. Rt < AN B BTATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, The Pierce Call is hushed. The Kansas City & Omaha road will reach Alma by the 1st of August. Two slices of the earth near Fremont were sold to a syndicate last Monday for $30.000. The Beatrice jail is empty, the occu- pants having moved out without inform- ing the landlord. A prairie fire destroyed 15,000 ash trees on the farm of West'& Schlotfeldt, Hall county, last Friday. A genial and agile young horse thief died of an overdose of lead in Sherman county last Monday. Major Marshall and Colonel Kinkaid, recently appointed judges by Governor ‘Thayer, arc charged with being chronic bachelors, A white crane weighing fifteen pounds and measuring seven feet from tip to tip of wings, was captured by a hunter near Creighton last week. Saturday's gale did considerable dam- age 1 Grand Island. ()Illbuildin{u fences and tender cupolas were tumbled and some glass broken. Sheriff Belden, of Jefforson, chased a horse-thief into Kansas, a distance of 132 miles, andgcorrolled the crook., The job was done in thirteen hours. Neligh's new cemetery is said to be a duisy, This is cheering news, but is modified by the “fears that it will prove too small for the growing demands of our thriving city.”” A Blair carpenter named Jensen at- tempted to square accounts with the world and ripsaw his interior with mor- phine, but & stomach pump quicted the commotion in his bay window and saved hus life. OAn early settlement of the fisheries squabble is now assured and the coun- try can roll along in peace for another season. The news of a militia company being organized at Norfolk will set all anxious hearts at rest. The editor of the McCook Democrat has been arrested for the grave erime of treating a fricnd to wine. Served him right. Any man guilty of such a rash breach of professioual etiquette deserves mnety days on pretzles and Missouri water, A hair-hfting plea goes up from Madi- son against young ladies mutilating the ‘“‘erown” by cutting their hair. The boys, however, unanimously sfimo that the fashion is & blessing, as their coat col- lars will no longer bear evidence of pressing engagements. A well-picked item is running loose 1n Albion, to the softect that a nugget of gold was fished out of & well there last week. The owner of tho surrounding carth is convinced of the richness of the find, but is unable to develop it on ac- count of the slender condition of his purse. He is ready to sell chesp, how- ever. Towa ltems. Creston is figuring out & new $40,000 hotel. A 0,000 Methodist church will be erected at Denison this spring. A wagon aud rlow factory plantis to be moved from Buffalo to Des Moines. The civil service commission will sit in judgment at Davenport on the 15th inst. on all applicants for government posi- tions under the civil service rule. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road pays $185,108 in taxes to the state treasury. It pays the largest amouut of any of the rallroads running through lowa. Fishermen with seines and traps are ulling out fish by the thousand pounds, two and threo times a day, in the lakes of Pottawattamie and Harrison counties, 1 direct violation of the laws. . The Creston Water company, having a eapital stock of $200,000, has filed articles of incorporation in the office of the secre tary of state. Thc incorporators are John Gamble, O, Q. Holman, A. E. Keith and H. Kingston Leonard. The Griswold college, Grace cathedral, and the Episcopal diooeso of lows, were Amot the beneficiarics of Cathariue Lorillard Wolfe, whose death occurred in New York a week ago, and her father, who died a few years since, to the extent of $60,000, at leust. The Sioux Rapids Press reports a pe- cubar elopement. W, Hess, & simple blind boy, and a blind girl named Dru- cilla Congrove, fell madly in love with each other, aud receiving some objec- tions from the boy's parcnts, concluded to elope. The young man managed to tu&nan big’ round tin dollars, and then purchased tickets for Omaha, hav- ing §7 left. [t is a aure caso of the blind leading the blind. Dakota. &I§;nld City is ou the lookout for the . The Northern Pacific is distributing eeveral carloads of seed wheai and other grain along 1ts line to the poor farmer: Thirteen saloons have been licensed in Rapid City. A rrnpusiliun is forming at Sioux Falls for the city to purchase Seney isiand and cultivate 1t as a park and fashionablo summer resort. Secretary Endicott has ordered tho commandant at Fort Yates to issue sup- plies of food and clothing to seventy-six flood sufferers on the bottom lands, . “‘Died By His Own Hand," says tho headline of an account of the recent Mil. bank tragedy, when the fact is tho man took off his boot and pulled the trigger of the shotgun with his toe. At the late municipal elections in Da- kota the tollowing cities cast the follow- ing vo! ‘argo, 1,378; Sioux Falls, 1,109: Yau , 808; Aberdeen, 708; Hu- ron, 703; Bismarex, 550; Mitchell, 53. P. H. Trudell, who was convicted of manslaughter in the tirst degree for kill- ing Joseph Connolly, was sentenced at Dendwood to twenty years in the penis tentiary. As Trudell'is over forty years of age, the sentenco amounts to almost & life's imprisonment. primeitae . “After Investigation,’ New York Herald, Congress enacted that the intoer-state commerce commissioners may “in special cases after investigation® authorize cor- porations to disregard the fourth section of the law—the long and shogt haul olax That is the law. “Have the commission ers obeyed the law? They have issued a decreo “authorizing exis| rates to bo maintained for the time bemng until the commission can make a complets ox- amination of the matters alleged.” Suppose a different case. Suppose A mian set up & gambling shop, which is forbidden by law, Would the eommis- sioners, if they had jurisdiction, decree that he should go on dealing faro until they had made an investigation into the circumstances? Would they not shut up his gambling shop at once, pending their investigation¥ The Inter-state commerce law was adopted by congress after full and oare- ful debate by both houses. Its provi- sions were intended by the law-making power tomake changes which it was known would be inconvenient to “‘com- mon carriers.”” Congress insisced on these inconvenient changes in the inter- est of the peovle; but it provided that if in any ‘‘speciul case’’ the change should prove to work injustice, in that case, “af- ter investigation™—that is to say, after the commission had been satisfied by full inquiry that such injustice was worked in the “special case” —then, and not before, the commission should have authority to decree a suspension of the clause of the law, Congress clearly intended that the law should be obeyed until “‘after investiga- tion"—that is, until the inquiry into the “‘special case’ is completed. That it 18 not complete, oreven begun, the com- mission confesses, for it appoints certain dates in April and May when at certamn places it will meet *‘for the consideration of the snbject matters of said petition.” The law may be a good or a bad one; it is the law, and we do not like to see the comnussioners undertaking to violate it in their first ofticial act. The petitioning corporations ask to have the long and short clause of the law suspended or nullified in their cases, on the plea of “the existence of water and other competition.”” We do not suppose the commissioners expect to re- move this kind of competition. Or do they menn to dam up the Ohio, nnes see, Cumberland and Mississippi rivers, burn up the steambounts and fill up any canals which may prove inconvenient to the petitioning corporations? It seems to us that the complaint of the roadsis frivolous and that the commis- sioners have violated the law. The object ot congress was to force the railroads to conform themselves to a new systom. The railronds complain to the commis- sion that this would be inconvenient which every man who voted for the bil knew beforchand. But on that shallow plea, and tho other that. they are dis- turbed by *‘water competition,” which congress perfectly well knew to be the fact, the commission, not *‘after investi- gation,” as the law says, but before, au- thorizéd & violation of tlic aw. S The great question to be decided in this country in these days 18 whether the peo- ple or the great corporations are ‘‘on top.”’ By the inter-state commerce law congress intended in certain matters to put the people “‘on tor." Rut if the laws of congress are to be broken by the very men appointed to “"L them into effect the corporations will be more “on top" thau ever. e 3 GIVING AND TAKING A LIGHT. The Manner of Spanish, German, Eng- lish and American Bmokers. There is a cortain yariety in the man- ner of giving and taking a light for a cigar that is interesting to all smokers. The Italians and krench successfully copy the Spanish style, which is the most graceful and elegant of all, the only pos- sible objection to it being that it may sometimes carry politeness beyond a reasonable range, But, after all, itis simple and friendly enough. The Span- inrd bows and asks his noighbor for a light, ‘The latter, returnig the bow, immodintely vresents him ~with his cigar, holding out the lighted end at a shght angle between the thumb and second tinger. The other takes the cigar, and, after procuring the needed fire from it, reverses it skilfully and returns it, tho entire operation being accompanied by another graceful bow, and each raises his hat a8 he turns to go away. The Bpaniard always smokes through his nose. He considers it extravagant to waste any good smoke through his mouth, and inyeterate smokers in all 8 agree with him. 4 ‘The German is more polite in asking for a ight than he 1s in_giving it. Even with the best intgntion in the latter case his offorts have all the appearance of re- luctance. Sometimes, when his cigar is smoked down nearly far enough, he will throw it away immediately after grant- ing request for five. ‘TChis among the Latins is considered rude and boorish in the extreme, and is sometimes regarded as positively insultung, 4 o average Englishman hesitates be- fore he gives a light, and finally acts as if he achieved a mighty feat 1 con - doscension. Instond of lifting his hat, his hand is more likely to go into his pockot, and he is apt to give & parting pufl with .an air of indignation as he stalks away. Possibly this comes from act that he never asks for a-light himself, and is always weli armed with matches. The American, ot late, seems to be sgmewhat ayerse to letting anyone tako a light from his cigar. He takes it for granted that it must be much better than hi! neighbor’s, and, not wishing to con- taminate it, he answers an appeal for firo with a match. Sometimes ho politely lights the match, and in such cases he presents it with an air good enough for any Spaniard. But this somewhat new custom may posssibly be of Irish pareut- age. The Irish peusant always strikes a match for his firciess friond or fellow traveler, and even in a gale of wind he will bold a ligthed mateh in the hollow of hands and humorously issue orders for the captare of the precious flame, _The giving or taking of = light for a cigar is a small affair, but littie things often revealed a great deal of the char- acter, disposition and breeding of men. It should always be offered choerfull; und taken politely. 1n this country it need not be done with that extreme po- liteness and elegance which muy be suid to be the exclusive property of the Latin and which is probably beyond the reach of colder and more sober races; but it should be necompanicd by thut good fel lowship wiich is governed by common sense, the foundation of all politeness.