Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 11, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TENMS OF BUBLCRIPTION ¢ Duily Moeniag Edition) fucluding Sunday Bep, One Year, . or 8ix Months ... or Threo Montha ity e Omaha Swndny By, muiled t0' any address, Ono Year. Wit ATIA OFFICE, NO. 014 FW YORK OPPICK. R ASHINGTON UFFICE, 10 00 "o 2 200 00 FARNAM STREFT: I\, TRINEN K BEILDING. 0. 511 FOURTRENTI STREET. OORRESPONDENCR! All communioations relating to news and ed! torial matter should be addressed to the Evr FOK OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS? All business lotters and remittances should ba @ddressed to Tk BEr PUBLISHING COMPANY, MAHA. Dralts, checks and postoMce orders be made psyable to the order of the eompany, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebrask " 5 Coumx,ot Douglas, {* Geo. B. '[zschuck, secretary of The Bee E:lbllshlnz company, does solemnly swear at the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 3, 1857, was as follows: Baturday, May 28. Sunday, May 20, Monday, May wes.my. May 81 ednesday, June hursday,” June 2.... riday,June 8..... Average....iviuis cee +0:14.040 3 0. 8. TZ3CHUCK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of June, 1557, N. P. FrIm, [SEAL.] Notary Publie, Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month™ of for June, 1886, 12.208 copies: for July, 1885, 12,314 ' cop! for August, 1558, 12,464 co}\h‘s' for Septem- ber, 18%, 15,080 coples; for October, 12,09 coples; for November, 1550, eopies; for December, 1 357 copies; 'for Jnnun7 1857, 16,206 coples; for February, 1657, 14,105 coples: for March. 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1887, 14,516 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples, 1899, 13,348 GEo. B. Tz3CHUCK. Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of Juue A, D,, 1587, ISEAL.| N. P, FErw, Notary Public. PeorLe who complained about the drought last week will presently growl about the rainy weather. Some people never will be satisfled. —— PresIDENT CLEVELAND breakfasted with Governor Hill yesterday morning, snd inspected the executive mansion. Mr. Cleveland was in Albany only about four hours, and evidontly did not have time to talk over the political situation, —_— WHEN asked when he would join the @emocratic party Parson Brownlow is teported to have answered, “When hell freezos over and the devil i3 dancing on the ice.” About that time we expect Jim Laird will become governor of Nebraska. Se—— SENATOR MANDERSON 15 about to make pp & ham sandwich. He proposes to furnish his private secretary, Ham, with {lcnly of bread and butter by appointing 1m to the late Ben: Perley Poore’s place. The Ham to be used is of the stalest uality, and very malodorous to people n Nebraska. INCREDIBLE stories continue to come from Mexico about the presence in that gountry of the Spanish pretender, Don . * Usrlos, who is reported to be traveling pbout under the name of Charles Strauss, With & combination of revolutionary yumors all around them and earthquake rumblings beneath them, the Mexican people certainly are n no immediate danger of falling into a state of ennui. ess—— Mg, Jaxy Gourp, who {s cruising around promiscuously in his yacht At- alanta, somewhat startled the quiet deni- Eens of & portion of Washington a few fays ago by anchoring off the shore of Rhe arsenal under the very muzzles of a ot of condemned guns, The captain of the great railroad wrecker's floating pal- mce says Mr. Gould ‘“starts when he Rakes a notion, stops when he gets ready, pnd does not seem to care in what direc- Hon the yessel goes.” Is this an affecta- on of abandon, & symptom of growing klessnoss, or an indication of the appy and buoyant disposition of Mr. Gould in the element he has found most rviceable in floating him to fortune? 'here can bo no doubt abont his partial- Ity for water. ep——— Tae trouble with the average southern er secms to be tuat he doesn’t know business. This Is the charge bluntly made by a writer in the leading agricul- fural journal of that section, who says $hat if a given number of Georgia farm- #rs were given prosperous farms fn Ohio, nd an equal number of farmers from the ¥ state were placed on the now poer #nd unprofitable farmes of Georgia, the southern farmers would soon ruin the Ohio farms, while the Ohioans would jually soon restore the Georgia farms 40 4 profitable condition. This is doubt- * Josa just what m.?" happen from such an experiment, Al 1o $he featon that the Ohlo farmer is industrious snd fuis]- Jigent, while the Georgian is indolent pad stupid, e ALl who are engaged in the sheep in- dustry n this country will be interested in the views of the American consul at Buenos Ayres regarding the introduction here of South American sheep, or more particularly the native sheep of the Ar- gentine Republic. He describes the " larger sheep, the llama and alpaca-—the former of which attain the height of five foet—ns belng animals having many _ points in common with the ocamel, hav- g necks two or two and a balf feet Jong, divided upper and hanging lower 1ip, and capable of being used as beasts of burden. The alpaca is the most valoable of the South American sheep, on account of its soft and abundaut wool, its fleece frequently at- taining a length of sixteen inches. Of the smaller varicties of sheop, the guanco and vicuna, the wool of the latter is the most silky known and regarded as the ~* most valuable in the world, while that of the forwmer is found to be the bost in the manufacture of hats and umbrellas. The & guanco runs wild. and its flecce can be A obtained only by the killing of the ani- ~ mal. Most of the animals killed are ' females, whose ouriosity leads them to apbroach the bunters, while it is ex- tremely hard to got within guushot zange of the males, which are more wary. Consul Baker thinks that all these . yarietics could be domiciled with advant- i in the desert portions of Texas, New oxico and Arszona. Somthern State Debts. One: of the chief reproaches of the southern states has been their disrcgard of financial obligations, Most of those states are amenable to the charge of hav- ing in some way, either by complete or partial repudiation, avoided the payment of debts contracted in good faith. In some instances this has been done in the most high-handed and utterly conscience- less manner, and in others by scheming processes hardly less dishonest and repre- hensible. The effect has of course been damaging to their material prosperity, and there is perhaps not one of the states guilty of this course but would be more prosperous and wealthy to-day if it had pursued an honest and straightforward policy, paying off its debts when it could do 80, and when it could not making pro- vision for future payment, But the habit of runming in debt, with little regard to where the means of payment wero to come from, was common with the south- ern people before the rebellion, and the individual weakness and improvidence manifested itself in municipal and state expenditures on borrowed ecapital, with little heed to how repayment was to be made. Thus the tide of debt kept swell- ing, current resources were swallowed up 1n extravagences, and when at last the pressure came for meeting the obli- gations contracted and could not be put off, the dishonest recourse was taken to complete or partial repudiation. Ruined credit was necessarily the consequence, but the desperate spendthrift, grown un- scrupulous with his bankruptey, counts on this. By reason of bitter experience which had utterly destroyed confidence in the integrity of the southern people, for years capital ignored that section, and it ventured back there very slowly after a better disposition with regard to linancial obligations begun to prevail. 1t isimpossible to estimate how much the south has suffered in material prosperity in the delay from this cause of its growth and development, But while this most unwise and perni- cious policy has for a good many years seemed to protect the treasuries of the stutes guilty of it, it is not certain that it will always do so. It is among the probabilities that some day or other every one of these defaulting states will have to pay their honest obliga- tions, with perhaps something added as a penalty of dishonesty., The decision recently rendered by Judge Bond, of the United States circuit court of Raleigh, N. C,, to the effect that North Carolina must provide for the payment of the interest on bonds issued in 1869 by continuing the collection of the special tax ordered for such payment, and sus- taining the suit of citizens against the state, i3 a somewhat radical departure worthy the attention of other common- wealths in a similar situation. An esti- mate of the full scope of this decision cannot be made from the brief dispatch giving its substance, but there is suf- ficent in this to show that it defines a new principle, which 1f sustained will enable the creditors of the repudiating states to enforce a settiement, so far as it is in the power of this court to do this. We do not undertake to pass upon the le gal or constitutional aspects and bear- ings of this decision, but it is certainly to be commended from the point of view of common honesty. ‘The School B Muddle. State School Superintendent Lane has officially interpreted the new board of education law. Mr. Lane takes the po- sition that six members of the board, ‘whose terms of office under the old law were to extend until 1888 and 1889, re- wain members of the new board until their respective terms, as fixed by the old law, shall expire. 1t is intimated that thisview will be sustained by the supreme court. On this point, however, we have some doubs. How the members of, the supreme court could arrive at a definite conclusion without a thorough review of all the legal points involved in this case is inexplicable. The law 18 self-contradictory in several essential particulars. It provides that the board of education in metropoli- tan oities shall be made up of fifteen members, nine of whom are to be elected in 1837 and five in each succeeding year. This would naturally imply that six of the old membersshould continue on the board, the same as the six members of the old city council, whose terms do not expire until 1888, now continue as members of the new council under the metropolitan charter. There is, however, & very striking differ- once between the positions of the six hold-over councilmen and the six hold- over members of the board of education ‘The metropolitan charter expressly pro- vides that the councilmen whose term does not expire in 1887 shall continue in oflice until Decembor 81st, 1888. The school law makes no provision for the continuance of the six old members ex- oept by mere {inference in failing to require the election of more than nine members in 1887. ‘There is another very marked difference. ‘The city council is composed of two $lassed of nicmbers—ward councilmen and counciisian-ai-lagdewriile the mem- bers of the board of education &ié 211 elected at large as representatives of one undivided school district. The six hold- over councilmen represent only their re- spective wards. The extension of the city limits has oansed changes in the ward boundaries, but the residents in the annexed territory have not only been accorded a voice in the election of all the councilmen-at-largs, but each new ward has also olected its own ward council- man. By the extension of the city limits the school distriet from which the members of the old board were elected has been abolished and a new district was created. The old district was consolidated with several other school distriets which had been managed by independent school boards up to the dute of consolidation. Now itfs a very serious question whether the six members of the old board can levy taxes and ex- pend funds for the people in the new school districs without having been ex- pressly authorized to do so by law. If the officers of one of the soveral school districts merged into the new dis- trict can exercise such powers by mere inference the officers of any other district whose terms have not expired bave the same right by inference. This is reallv the knotty question upon which the courts may have to pass, since it involves an issue that goes to the bot- tom of the right of taxation without proper and legal vepresentation. - Two of our moat eminent 1awyers, James M- | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. JUNE 11, 1887, Woolworth and George B. Lake, ate of opinfon that the new school law cannot be construed a5 giving ‘any member of the old board a right to act as member in the new board. Mr. Lane’s opinion iz in conflict with theirsand we do not presume lawyers will differ as to whose interpretation of law is entitled to most weight. Oflicially, Mr. Lane's decision 18 binding until the courts have overruled it —_— WHATEVER may be the final decision of the war department with regard to the rival claims of the Nebraska Central and Council Blufs & Omaba Bridge Com- pany to cross the Missouri at the foot of Dodge street, Omaha must see to it that at least one, if not both these bridges, shall be constructed within the next year. The charter of the Nebraska Central ob- ligates the company to build a combina- tion wagon and railroad bridge, The managers of the Milwaukee & St. Paul road assure Congressman McShane that their plans contemplate an expenditure of $300,000 for the wagon bridge in addition to the cost of the railway bridge. This means something more than a mere side bracket attachment. We can safely assert in this conneotion that Omaha will not be centent with a duplicate of the Union Pacific bridge, and no aid will be voted by this city to any bridge enter- prise unless acceptable plans that will insure ample facilities and accommoda- tions for vehicles and pedestrians are adopted, and proper guarantees are given that they will be faithfully carriea out in the construction of the bridge. Mere verbal promises willnot satisfy this community, Omaha will take nothing for granted the next time she is asked for a bonded subsidy. — GENERAL ROSECRANS is a candidate for the oflice of superintendent of the c survey, and a question has been as to whether he has the necessary scien- tific qualifications, Thisis met by the fact that during most of his life since he graduated from West Point he has been engaged in scientific pursuits, and un- doubtedly it can be conclusively shown that he does not lack in the re- quired knowledge for the posi- tion, The more tenable ob- jection to General Rosecrans is of another kind. He is 80 unfortunate as to have an exceedingly irritable temper and a dis- positiva to domineer and have things his own way regardless of higher authority. This would be very likely to impair his usefulness in an administrative position as well as the efficiency of the service over which he had charge. He has merit and claims, but they are largely offset by his unhappy defects, if he hasnot learned to discipline these better than in the past. Other Lands Than Ours. The British house of commons resumed its session last Monday and returned to the consideration of the crimes bill. The fourth clause 18 under discussion, ana the tactics being pursued by both parties are similar to those which characterized the progress of the three sections upon which action has been taken, The sup- porters of the measure are manifesting a somewhat more determined disposition to push the bill, and tte indications are that there will hereafter be more fre- quent applications of the cloture. It is pretty evident that a more aggressive policy was agreed on during the recess, and when it shall be putinto effect is now simply a question of expediency. The motion of Balfour on Thursday, which prevailed, remitting the section provid- ing for the removal of venue to Lon- don, was a concession heartily re- cerved by the Parnellites. This provision of the bill was regarded as one of its most objectionable festures by the oppon- ents of the measure, since under it jus- tice to Irishmen who might become amenable to the Iaw would be almost impossible,and the action ot the coalition in yielding this section shows at least that the battle on the part of the frienas of Ireland has not been entirely profit- less, The government, however, is not to pe credited with any magnanimity in this matter. Its action was forced by a sense of expediency, the conviction that it could not stand the universal condem- nation which the adoption of this section would call down upon it. The reappear- ance of Mr. Parnell at the head of his party has infused fresh courage and hope into its ranks, and although it may not be able to accomplish any more in the future than it has \n the past, it will have mote spirit to continue the fight. The first move of Parnell has been to bring his tollowers into entire harmony with the Gladstonians, so that the home rule party can now ofter s united resistance to the opposition. ..l The speoulation of a fow weeks ago re- garding the proposed retirement of Lord Sufisburv, to be succeeded probably by Lord Hartington, scems to have exhausted itself. As to Hartington, a doubt is ex- pressed as to whether he would be any more willing now than he was a few months ago to exchange the position of independence and authority which he enjoys as leader of the liberal-unionists for the leadership of a coalition ministry. Lord Salisbury might possibly be willing to cege the premiership to him, as he offered sowd time since to do, retaining the foreign secyel 1P, or taking some high titular oflice of the presidency of the councll,of FSEAMMIFG { 1n the cabinet without office, or retiring from the government altogether, But if the chiefs could agree, the followers would murmur and might even mutiny. When Lord Salisbury proposed that Lord Hartington should become prime munister, bringing with him into the cab- inet a contingent of liberal-unionists, the expressions of dissatisfaction among the conservatives were both loud and deep. The conservatives are to the liberal- uniomsts as three or four to ome; and they are not disposed to cede the great places in the state to the representatives of a comparatively feeble minority. Nor is Lord Hartington likely, at such a june- ture as the present, to fake any step which would slter his relations to the liberal party. e French affairs have assumed a very quiet aspect on the surface, but there is some reason to suspect that the under- ourrents are not so placid. There is very little confidence expressed in the perma- nence of the new government. It is in every way a reactionary government, the result of political intrigue between the monarchist side of the chamber of deputies and the moderate republicans, who have joined forces agaimst social and radica! movements and the military party personified by ‘Boulanger. With- out the support of the monarchiets the government cannot stand, and this sup- port eanriot be relied upon. The repub- licane are liable to be betrayed by this element at any time, and then would come a fresh trouble and more serions complications, Those who have the best opportunity to know the popular feel- ing still insist that the French people want Boulanger more determinedly than they have wanted any- thing in a long time, and it is predicted as probable that they will have him be- fore July 14, the day appointed to cele- brate the people's ability to have their own way. Boulanger 18 wisely un- demonstrative, but he remains in Paris close to his friends and is sald to enjoy his popularity and the fuss which has been stirred up about him. Among the least commendable features of the oppo- sition to the new prime minister is one that shows political hostility in France to be as releatless as anywhere else. The fact is recorded that private puapers found in the Tulleries showed that Rou- vier's wife had reccived 500 franes a month from the emperor’s private purse, with no specification as to the seryices for which the money was paid. Mr. Grevy is accused of having made prime minister a man to whose table gen- tlemen cannot bring their wives, and whose wife is not a proper associate for respectable women, Mme. Rouvier is known to be a woman of talent, and a sculptor of considerable ability. There is no proof to maintain the broad insinu- ations made, and which are taken from articles written seven years ago by Mr. Brisson, who now supports the prime minister. * 1 The cession to Great Britain by Tur- key of the island of Cyprus, the affairs of which the British government has pro- visionally administcred since 1878, is an acquisiton of some consid- erable importance. It is a consumma- tion that a number of eminent English statesmen had sought to effect, and 1ts ac- complishment by Lord Salisbury is very likely to bring him gi credit from those of his countrymen who demand a vigorous foreign policy. As a depot of supplies and bas® of operations Cyprus is deemed to be of very great importance. Its strategic value to a power that aims at predominance in the Levant has been proved by the history of three thousand years. Phwnicians, - Egyptians, Assy- rians, Grecks, Romans, the crusading Franks, the Venetians and the Turks have successively borne witness to it. If, hereafter, when the Russian has su- perseded the Turl [in Asia Minor and the Agean, Englagd is to play the part of Venice in Leyantine waters, she cannot dispense - With the Venetian coign of vantage, » The onc vort of Cyprus could easily "be restored to the depth which, during, the palmy days of Venetian rule, -uahlr hundreds of ves- sels to easily ride Within its roadstead; and a harbor such as that would be a menace to any power sceking to interfere with British interests in India. The very indictment, however, which Mr. Glad- stone drew up agamst the Beaconsfield administration can be made against that of Lord Salisbury. - There 18 an evident attempt to play the swashbuckler in pol- itics, to enter upon ehgagements lightly, and to forget domestic reforms in the lust for empire. e Germany has entered upon the great work of connecting the North sea with the Baltic by a ship canal, the primary purpose being to secure a proteoted route for its own veasels, and particularlv its ships of war, fromn the Baltic to the estuary of the Elbe. The canal, beginning at the bay of Kill, near Haltenau, south of the strong mili- tary works of Friedrichfort, will cross the province of Holstein by way of Rendsburg, and strike the Elbe near its mouth at Brunsbuttel, or between this woint and St. Margarethen, Its dimen- sions will bo such as to allow the pnssage of the largest ironclad in the German navy, the Konig Wilhelm, of 9,750 tons displacement, having sixty feet beam and between twenty-six and twenty- seven feet draught. There are several other vessels in the German navy of equal beam, and as they are to be able to pass each other in both directions at all hours of the tide, it is evident that the new waterway will be commodi- ous. The project of cutting through the Danish veninsula has been under consid- eration for many years, but was evidently only ripe for accomplishment when both ends of the proposed canal passed under the dominion of & power possessing not only the means to undertake it, but the motive for doing so. The strategic ad- vantages of having a route entirely under its control, and quite independent of the Belt, which Denmark could block with her shore batteries and torpedoes, have furnished the impelling motive for Ger- many. In Kiel she has a harbor of the first importance, with fine anchorage, while both ends of her new canal will be proteoted by powerful forts, * e One of the most noteworthy of recent rumors in regard to the vatican relates to & proposal to make the pope king of Palestine, under a guarantea of protec- tion by all the Cathelic powers. It is suggested that this. project may be de- signed as & compromfise in the effort to procure for the pope recognition as a Tinporal sovereign; At is doubtful, how- nverl.: whether the ho!¥ sge could find its wishes uaccomplished by the gfant of temporal power in 8yria as a substitute for its clams ip Italy. The pope would . certainly’ be king over a very mxed , population of christians, Jews and Mohammedans, aid with even the christian community by no means all subject to the Roman church. Indeed, a large nuinber of the Syrian christians reject the supremacy of the pope in his ecclesiastical capacity. Per- haps the recent rumorof an attempt at union between the Greck and Latin churches uader the Roman pontiff, may have had some connoction with this spe- cial Palestive scheme. Practical rule over Palestine would certainly have its full proportion of drawbacks to sdvan. tages. "0 The situation of affairs in two of the Central American states doos not look encouraging for the proposed union which alittle while ago seemed so prom- 1sing. Menendez, of Salvador, and Bo- gran, of Honduras, are in some trouble with their people, and both are menaced with revolutions, The accusation against Bogran is general unpopularity and in- triguing to socure his re-election at the autumn elections; that against Menendez is tyrannical treatment of political oppo- nents, including imprisonment, pressing into the army, anda flogging, Men- endez 18 the leader who, just two years ago the present month, headed the revolutionists n Salvador against Figueron, when the latter had been made president after the resignation of Zaldi- var, After galning several successes in the field, Menendez was accepted as pres- ident, and has so remained during the past two years. How far the refusal of his government to agrec to the treaty re- cently made by the representatives of all the Central American states is concerned with the present disturbances does not avpear. It would not be surprising, however, to hear that revolutions had broken out both in Salvador and Hondu- ras, although it is possible that the ex- tent of the dissatisfaction has been some- what exaggerated. e The Zulus are at last subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, According to Sir Henry Holland, they have been in- formed of the fact, for when he wasasked 1 the house of commons if steps had been taken to obtain the consent of the Zulus, he replied that steps bad been taken by telling them what was going to be done. The figure Cetywnyo's old em- pire now cuts on the map is enough to make that unfortunate monarch turn in his grave. The br domain of the new Boer republic stretches through the cen- tral and finest part of Zululand almostto the sea, leaving the two portions that re- main to the natives joined like the Sia- mese twins by n ligature in the shape of a narrow coast strip. Now that Great Britain has annexed Zululand, her his- toric drum-beat that circles the world may be said also to describe a much smaller cirele around the new Boer re- publie. AND MISFORTUNE. Lincoln’s law firm is sald to have FORTUNE Robert T. an income of 60,000 a year. Emilie Charlotte Langtry, of the Island of Jersey, has invested $20,000 more in New York real estate. She now holds mortgages worth nearly $200,000. tudolf Hertzog is the largest dry goods merchant in the city of Berlin, He says that before he began to advertise he barely cleared expenses, The first year he spent $233 in advertising, and his income rose to 87,140; 80 he went on increasing the amount and his protits In proportion, until at present his ad- vertising bills foot up $100,000 every year. Lieutenant Flipper, the negro West Pointer who was dismissed from the service some years ago, I8 now a large mine owner in Mexico, and is spoken ot as the coming Croesus of his race. Many of those who “shook” this Flipper when he was in disgrace have been among the first to solicit the honor of another shake now that fortune has smiled upon him, Mrs. Mark Hopkins received about $26,000,000 on the death of her husband, and the estate must now be worth £30,000,000. The house which she built at Great Darring- ton, Mass., will cost about $2,000,000, and the date on the corner-stone indicates that it will be ready for occupancy in 1888, The estate will include several hundred acres of the Housatonic meadows, the turf of which pre- sents a beautisul sight at thisseason. 1t wiil be surrounded by a wall tbree feet in height. New York World: Mr. Denis Ryan, the well-known capitalist, of St. Paul, is regis- red at the Hoflman house. He is sald to worth at least $7,000,000, although a dozen years ago he could not cali 8500 in_cash his own. Mr, Rvan I3 self-made and is proud of his days of toll. _Lucky speculations, west- ern mines and business energy has made him what he is. He owns the Hotel Ryan at St Paul, the Galt house at Chicago, a 000 acre tarm in the Red river valley, a 0,000 saw-mill in the Lake of the Woods country, and has cabital invested in all sorts of pay{ng entervrises. Mr. Ryan is of me- dium hegiht, rather stont build, has light blue eyes, brown moustache and regular fea- tures.” Heis a pleasant-faced man and bas agreeabls manners. He is very democratic and altogether tree of purse-proud proeliv- ities. He is only in his fortieth year. It is sald in his honor that since fortune has smiled upon him he has never forgotten the friends of his struggling days, e Paper Wade. Ristng Independent. The Omaha Republicanand & few of its second fiddlere are firing columns of frothy verbiage at Governor Tnayer. Paper wads from such puny pop-guns have no effect upon the breast of a man who has braved bullets. — A Disgruntled Ofice-seeker. If the Republican continues its attacks he |Governor Thayer| will be elected again two years hence by the biggest majority ever given to a candidate west of the Missourl river, The people of Nebraska are not golng to be mislead by the howls and ravings of a disgruntled office-seeker. ot ORI The Governor's Friends. Liberty ‘The rural press of the state are rallying to the defense of Governor Thayer in the con- temptible warfare the Republican Is waging agalnst him. The governor need have mo fear that he will be injured toany xreat ex- tent by the Omaha concern. His old friends from all parts of the state will still be with bim. ——— Content. Sam T. Clover in Dakota Hell. One seeks in vain A fairer country than this broad domain:— here freedom dwells on cotean, hill and lain— And &llle prairies, rich with growing grain, Invite the men of courage, brawn and brain. Hither on breezy wing Far from the pampered enst a-wandering— All gilded cuostoms to the as I flung} Why should my heart to city pleasures cling? My shack’s a castie! and I reign its king. ‘Then come what may. Here in this eabin rade, content I'M stay: Here, at my cabin door I'll whiff away I'he eares and troubles of a yesterday:-- Why ll:;ml(‘l I change my lot? Way further stray? ——e SHORT STORIES OF BIRDS. A bird was noticed fluttering about a tree about to ba sold at the market in 'F\ l'{. An examination diselosed in the branches the nest of a lark,with five ou; in it 4 ig hawk swooped down on one of R‘ifiwfi‘l"s 's“ haln.- at Tabernacle town- ship, 8. 0., Thereapon Mrs. Brodle caught it and wrung it nedis y Tho burniug of the Fatfersoft Q‘“lr‘a:'k’ (d attributed to the English sparro,., ~he€ SLaTr rows have been noticed carrying straw aus other inflammable stuff and’ building fhetr nests among the girders, and it is believed :gnflum sparks lodging in these nests caused o fire. A tame magple, belonging to a lady of Leeds, Eng., I8 acoustomed to receive daint; little bits from the lips of its owner. Re- cently 18 horritied the lady when, perching upon her shoulder as usual, it dropped an iminense reem, cateipillar into her wouth as a grateful reciprocation. An [rish gentleman presented an intelll- gent parrot to a lad meant to marry. The bird has sinee eaused a suit for breach of promise. It sald, “Come in,” once when he called upon the lady, and entering he saw a oung man sitting on the sota the parrot mitsted & I %fll kisses and laughed fiendishly. Tl the match and the ludy browght suit. T 1 fyi d_buildi 'he pecullar purifying an: ing up owgfn of Hood’s ‘Sarsaparilla make it the very best medieine to take at this season. STORIES TOLD BY LAWYERS. A Obicago Lawyer's First Experieuos on the Pacific Const. AN ATTORNEY'S BACK THRUST. Chief Justice Ryan’s Quaint Wisdom =Contempt of Court—The Fine Was Too Small—-Randoulph of Roanoke. Chieago Tribun he ways of justice are rather startling in the west, as was discovered by a Chicago attorney who gained his first legal experience on the slope. He went west in the fifties, and settled in & little town in Oregon. Being the only lawyer there he was something of & wonder, and was regarded with con- siderable reverence as the only man who could make a speech. He was called upon one day to defend a notorious horse thief, and found court in session in a shanty that was court room in one end and saloon in the other. The judge was a miner and the jury consisted of a half- dozen rough ranchmen. *‘Well, boss," said the judge, *“‘sinco yer here I 'spose we might as well begin, This here cuss has been steulin’ horses, hain't he, pards?” A grunt of assent convicted the prisoner, and he wassentenced to stretch before the lawyer could say a word. He finally cut in, demanded a” formal trial, and on this being refused, asked to make a plea for the fellow’s life, To this the justice said: “*Well, do yer talkin’ to me, an’, boys, you jest take this cuss an’ hist him, an’ I'll listen to the other one.” The lawyer, not thinking that the sen- tence \\'uu?ll be executed at once. pleaded with the judge, who solomnly heard it all, and finally said: “That’s a darnation tine speech, but I'm gettin’ a lectle dry an' I propose we 'journ court an’ take a drink an’ then see what the boys have been a-doin’."’ They did so, and on going a short dis- tance from the shanty saw the defen- dant dangling in the air and not a soul in sight, the jury having adjourned to a saloon after serving as executioners. ‘‘He's done fur,’’ said the court; ‘‘now you jest come along with me an’ we'll see that cuss’ ole man, he sent fur you to do the talkin’,an’ sort o' break itto him."” The father of the defondant was found at his shack smokin}; [y {)hm, and the court said: ‘“This is the feller as made the speech fur the young 'un, Give him agreat send-off." “‘Give me yer hand, pard,” said the old man, “‘so yer spoko right up for the kid, did yer?"” “Yer bot he did: talked right to me while the rest of the boys was a-string- ing the young feller up.” “Mlfimy glad to hear't. Put the boy through all right?"" “Yer bet.” “Said he was a terror?” Shore.’ “Said he'd stole forty hosses?"" *‘Mor'n a 100.” “Talk long?'" “Bet. Didn't give me no chance to soe the fun. Made a jimmy crackin’ speech.” “Course "t didn't save him?” “0, no. They wuz hangin’ him while I wuz list'nin"."” “Gimme yer hand pard,” said the old man. I swan 1 gave him a big trial; better’'n _any man had afore in these parts. Here's the dust,' and the young lawyer got his lirn.fe’c. s Shortly after R. M. La Follett, now congressman from the Third Wisconsin district, was admutted to the bar_he was elected district attorney at Madison. One of his carly cascs was before Judgo Brailey and a jury, where the attorne on the other side was the redoutable Col- onel Vilas, now postmaster general. The ease was but a misdemeanor and Colonel Vilas cvidently knew little about it, as he simply came to make the closin, speech for the defense. The colone! started in with a full flow of pompous eloquence, han"inolicinz the prisoner, but devoting all his powers to annihilate La Follett. “He called him a boy, said he should still be in school, spoke of his youthful presumption in pretending to engage 1n the administration of justice, “My young and learned fricnd,” he said, 1n the most patronizing manner, *is full of zeal to convict, he 13 ambitious of success, and {f the innocence of the pris- oner were the bar to his reputation, he would ruthlessly sacrifice it in behalf of his own advancement.” He overflowed with allusions to the *‘learned and youth- ful’advocate, and closed with the hope that when the *‘learned prosecutor” had become old in wisdom he would look with regret on his youtuful ambition that prompted him to seek the condemnation of innocence. La Follett, what there was left of him, got up and said his venerable friend had made a grievous error in the tral, and had actually shown himself ignorant of the case. “‘As for myself,” he said, *'1 am W“"F and hope to know more when 1 grow ol der, but I trust I never shall be- come 80 old, or so learned, or so presumptious as to attempt to try a case when I'know nothing about it.” ‘The colonel squirmed and grinned, but said nothing, and the young [awyer won the cause. I’i The quaint wisdom of the bench has never besn more wmll‘y uttered than by the late Chief Justico Kyan of Wisconsin, in docldln? that alawyor appointed to try a.case in place of a prejudiced judge had no authority for the reazon that constitution of the state vested all judi- cial power in certain courts, and these could not delegate their authority. Ho cites a case from Hobart in point which says: ‘‘All kingdoms in this constitution are with the power of justice, both ac- cording to _the rule of law and equity; both of which being in the King as soy- ereign were after gettled In seyeral courts; as the light being first made by God was after settled in the groat bodies of the sun and moon."" After questioning the accuraey of Hobart’s “‘constitutional !aw, both ce- lestial and terrestrial,’’ Judge Ryan says: “Taking the sun and moon according to the common aceeptation and following Hobart’s metaphor, the circuit judge might be likened to the sun of s court; in this cause, and Mr. Cole (the lawyer who tried the case) to the moon, after the fashion of n judicial depnte_in Scot's law, shining with delegated jurisdicti But the constitution mars the compari- son. For by the astronemical constitu- tion the sun appears to take power to delegate s functions of lighting the world, while the state constitution tol- erates no such delegation and appoints a sun only, without any moon, a8 lJuminary of the eirenit court, whose ‘gladsome light of jurisprudence must be sunshine, acr mgonshyne.” [ N £t a1 1 or getsa It is not very oftsp taat 4 laWyer & chance to express his optmion oi & fidge, but a young western attorney came pretty near it when on being fincd $10 for contempt of court he said: *“The fine' is 100 small; make it $1,000,000," A somewhat similar story is told of Tom Corwin, who being somewhut dis- gusted with a eertain judge's ruling in a case on trial, asked to fined for contempt of court, “‘You have expressed no contempt of court, sir, said the judge. “But | have the most infernal contempt for it,” replied Corwin. ‘This was nearly equalled by another barrister, who, also being fined for con- tempt, deciarcd he had expressed no contempt, but on the contiaryphad care- fully concealed his feelings. * When Jobhn !h:m.olnl was sttornoy general and 1n the height of his fame, he was on one of hig trips to Washington waiting impatiently for the public con. veyance, pacing nervously up and down, when he became furiously annoyed by the shrill whiu(llnfof a man in ohargo of the station, Randolph walked directly in front of him and said in his very soverest manner: “Stop that whistling, sir.” “Whyt" “Because [ command it." “And who are you, pray?" “I'm John Randolph, of Roanoke, sir," “Well, who the devilis John Randolph, of Roanoke, sir?”" was the question llult stunned the lawyer (;mnple(\- e dn the early days of law in Minnesota & ‘:ndze who was noted for his excellent udgment, both at law and poker, during the noon intermission of a day’s session, became deeply engaged in a little game of draw. A big pot lay in the center of the table just as the moment for open- im‘ the court arrived. The judge looked at his hand; he had three 1ucks, When it came his turn he said: *‘I open it," but had hardly got the words out of his mouth when the bailiff came in out of breath and whispered hurriedly that he wag waited for to open the court. “Go back and announce,” said the judge ‘‘that this court has just opened a jackpot, and that the other court is adjourned for fif- teen minute: * . A young Chicago r:n\;\'cr, a few days ago, had a case inthe foderal court be- fore a judge who, while noted for his wisdom and his integrity, is_exceedingly impatient of contradiction. The attorney propounded the rule applicable to a cer- tain point, when the court abruptly de- clared: *“That 15 not the law.” “1 beg the court’s pardon,” said the young attorney, “but 1 have a case ex- actly in point,’ *Do you mean to contradict me?' do- Rmmlml the court, mad as a decapitated en. *'0 no, certainly not, I don't. The su- preme court of the United States does, * though, and 1 want to read the case to show you what a (uol that court was." o »*a A Fond du Lac lawyer once set out to argue a case before Judge McLean, and was trying very hard to torce conviction on a cortain law point, when the judge intorrupted him_impatiently with: *'I haye already made up my mind on that point, and there’s no use of your wasting your time any longer, If you don'clike my decision you can take the case to the court of errors.” “‘Yes," said the attorney, ‘‘but there's where I have it now.” Secirgio el Deadwood People. 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