Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 10, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BERE: MON DAY, MARCH 10. 1890, 4 THE DAILY BEE. ~ B. ROSEWATER, Editor. FUBLISHZD EVERY MORNING. ol TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday, One Year.. ......... Fix months . e . . Ihree Months simday Nee, (me Year, ¥ Weekly liee, One ar with Premium, OFFICES. Omaha, Ree Bullding. Chicago Ofce, 567 |(Ol-llfl'{ Bullding. New York, Hooms 14 and [5 Tribuns Bullding. Washington, No. 513 Fourteenth Street. Conncil Bluffs, No. 12 Pearl Streot, £onth Omaha, Corner N an 1 2ith Stroots. CORRESPON DENCE, AN communications relating to news and edi- toriul matter should be addressed to tne Editor- 10l Depnrtent. BUSINESS LETTERS. All businesslctters and remittances should e nddressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and Postoflice orders 10 be made payable to the ordor of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. Tiew Building Farnam andSeventesnth Straets. THE BEE ON THE TRAINS. Tiiere 13 no excuse tor a failure to got Trr BER on the trains. 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Tzschuck, being duly sworn, d 10es and says that he 18 secretary of THE 6 Puplishing Company, that the actual aver: amily cireulation of "Ik DALY Bek for t monith of March 18%, 18454 copies; for Apri 9 coples: for May, 1840, 18,099 copi 1889, 18,858 coples: for July, 1583, 18738 1880, 18051 covies: for Sep- 1889, 18,710 coples; for October, 1889, 14007 coples: for November, 1880, 19,310 cople for December, 1889, 20,048 coples: for January, Mmi coples; for February, 1890, 10,761 copies. GEOnGE B. T/SCHUCK. Sworn to vefore me and subscribed in my Frosenc this ot day of March, A D . Seal. | s I'ite discovery of coal along the White river in Dakota isa valuable nequisition to the mineral wealth of the state. ——— BrrweeN the [ndian police and the wmilitary the boomers will find life on the Cherokee strip too live for com- fort and health T experience of My, Crowe is well caleulated to convinee men of peace and food will, such as Omaha rears, that Chieago whisky is liquid anarchy. the state delegation a unanimous vote of thanks for securing a snuy appropriation for a public build- ing. Itwas a plucky and successful fight, but the object was well worth the eliort. i general land office ver) diclares that man and wife cannot oc- cupy the same house and live sepur- ately for the purpose of securing two adjoining homestead claims, It is con- trary to the nature of the matrimonial compact. sensibly rench chamber of depwties has imposed duty of three francs on American corn. Is this to be viewed as a retaliation on the proposed McKinley bill, now pending, which if passea by congress will operate against the silk manufacturers of ¥ Tie 1 talk of prosecuting newspaper orrespondents on the charge of ‘*‘sedi- tion™ for sending to their papers the vroceedings of the secret sessions of the senate, might have some terrors in a country where coercion prevails with a Bulfour and bayonets to enforce it. Disparcnes from Brazil convey the startling intelligence that *‘an internal commotion is feared” and that ‘‘coffee and rubber ave greatly excited. No wonder. A combination of coffee and rubber ave sufticient to not ouly produce & commotion, but an internal rupture. CUHICAGO insists that it ang outs not solicit- de subscriptlons to the world’s fair fund. The increase supply of Chi- cago lubricator in Washington prom- ises o remove the shrinkage in the Jocal guaranty by stimulating enthusi- asm for the old flag and a large appro- priation, Tii Minnesota Farmers’ alliance, alter forty-eight hours’ patient labor, was unable to cipher out the connection between agriculture and Cryptogram Dounelly. Ignatius saved his Bacon, however, by vetiring from the race for the presidency of the ulliance before the members had a chance to slice him with ballof I is the ‘‘general cussodness” of human nature, as Bret Harte would say, which influences hundreds of land scokers to invade the Cnerokee strip . dedpite the warnings of the president. With thousands of acres yet o be had for the asking in Oklahoms, Dakota, Novraska and the Sioux reservation, sympathy will not be wasted on the boomors if they be rvoughly hundled cither by the Cherokee police or United States trooy ON the surface the fight made by the Chicago board of trade in determining to shut off telegraphic quotations of the price of grain in order to cripple the bucket shops appears praiseworthy. But the fact that buying and selling upon the exchunge is nothing more nor less than gambling in futures, the annihila- tion of the bucket shop will sumpiy cause the produce and stock gamblers 1o do their business through the regular commission brokers. Nor long ago Charles Francis Adsms used thestartling words, *'the dishonest niethods of rate-cutting, the secret sys- tom of rebates, the indirect and hidden paymenta made to influence the course of teaftic during the last two years, | do »ot hesitate to say are uunprecedented in the whole bad record of the past.” What stronger language could he today, when the roads with oue hand holding up the farmers of Ne- ska by unreasonable, exorbitant and rates, while with the use other they are trying to eut each others, throat by rate wars? \ PENDING LABOR LEGIS. TION. There have been several mensures in- troduced in the present congress in- wended to benefit labor. One of these proposes to create a national commis- sion of arbitration of strikes or lock- outs, It provides for a commission of nine members, to be appointed by the president, and no member of which shall be interested in a common carrier or shall be permitted to accept of passes from one. Each commissioner is to serve three years, and to receive a salary of five thousand dollars. The duties of the commission will be to investigate any disputes arising between railway, stenmboat or telegraph companies and their em- ployes, and recommend an amicable, equitable settloment of the differences. If the terms of arbitration are refused, findings of facts are to be submittod by the commissioners to the United States courts, and if approved vy the judgo the decision must be accepted as final and contending parties must do as advised or be punished by the court. Another bill is to prohibit the importation and immigration of foreigners under con- tract to perform labor in the United States, and a third measure proposes that the government shall set an example in favor of eight hours as a day’s work by limiting to that time the hours of employment of people engaged in the postoffices. The plan of a national arbitration commission has been frequently sug- gested, but has never been regarded with very much favor owing to a doubt as to whether it would be of any practi- cal service. The scheme now proposed does mnot leave the action of the committee dependent on the will of either party to a dispute. In case of a controversy between a common carrier and its employes it would be the duty of the commission to at once in- vestigate the matter and suggest terms of settlement, which if not accepted by the contending parties would be subject 1o judicial determination that would be final. Itisvo be presumed thai in a great majority of cases the terms of the commission would be accepted, since only the most stubborn of contestants would be disposed to take the conse- quences of the delay incident to court proceedings, with the chances largely in favor of their resulting in ap- proval of the commission’s terms. It is obviously desirable that some way be found to settle promptly controversies between com- mon cavriers and their employes that threaten the public interests, and it is equally clear that in order to do this there must be an authority empowered to act independent of the will of either of the parties to a controversy. The difficulty with all plans of state ar- bitration been that the arbitrators do nothing unless both parties to a dispute desired their sevvices and agreed to abide by their decision. There is perhaps no question as to the power of congress to create the pro- posed commission. As tothe other measures noted, the billto prohibit the importation of con- tract labor would seem to be superflu- ous unless intended to supersede and modify the existing law. That law needs amending, as several recent cases arising under it very cloarly show. The proposal to make eight hours a day’s work in the postoffices of the country would effect no very greatchange in those offices, the employes of which gen- orally do not average very much more than eight hours a day. [t is not quite clear, however, that if the government should do this it would have any very great force as an example. RECKLESS RAILLERY. Senator Blair shows the recklessness ot desperation as he sees the promise of the defeat of his education bill grow stronger. The vigorous blow which that measure received a week ago from Senator Spooner has told most effect- ively against it in congress and in the country. The force of the Wisconsin senator’s opposition came not alone from the very able and convincing a: gument he presented, but in an equal or greater degree from the fact thut he had been friendly to the measure. Like thousands of others. who at ono time, when the conditions were widely different from those now prevail- ing, were favorable to the proposal of government aid to educa- tion, and have changed their views be- cause the conditions have changed, nator Spooner has submitted to the plain and incontrevertible logic of the situation, which is all against the Blair bill. The author of that measure, how- ever, unable or unwilling to understand the meaning of existing facts and con- ditions, is utterly intolerant of opposi- tion, and meets the arguments he can not rcfute by attempts to cust reproach on the motives of everybody who or poses him. Mr. Blair has been for soveral weeks entertaining himself by attacking the newspapers because they did not fill their columns with his dreary talk, con- tinued daily for move than a weel advocacy of his bill, and which was ad- dressed to empty benches 4u the senate. He hns denounced the press as b under Jesuitical influenc and has railed against it with reckless indiff ence to truth and common sense. So far as the newspapers are concerned the animadversions of Mre. Bluir ave of harmless, but it is pitiable to a senator of the United Staves thus betray his narrowness and ivritation be- fore the world. In his latest uttérance Me. Blair developed a new theory in de- claring that the fate of the republican pa is involved in that of his meas- ure. The failure of the bill would, he predicted, pat an-end to the party. This measure, well named a bill *to promote mendicancy,” proposes to pay out of the public treasury nearviy eighty million dollars in aid of education in the states, the amount for ench state to be determined by the relative percentage of illite A large proportion of the whole would go to less thun half the states, and a few, as for example Towa and Nebrasks, would get almost nothing. Could the republican party succossfully defend o pol- ioy that would inevitably be thus partial in its operation? Could the re- publican party justify voting money out of the treasury, raised by tuxation, as was said by Senator Spovner, to twenty- two states, from eighteon to twenty-two million dollars, which confessedly do not need it, in order to warrant voting aid to certain states that it s alleged do need it? The republican party is in favor of popular educa~ tion, but it is not, as asserted by Mr. Blair, pledged to the policy embodied in his lill, and it could do ure. Tt is to be hoped the presont week will witness the erd of the dis- cussion of the Blair bill, which has been before the country nearly ten years, and fits defeat by a majority that will effectually discour- age any attempt thereafter to restore it to consideration in either housa. The overtaxed patience of the public de- mands relief BOGUS PAVING CERTIFICATES. The battle for the paving spoils wages hot and heavy in Denver. The ‘‘sand- stone ring” and the ‘‘asphalt fakirs” ave terms as lavishly bandied about on the foothills of the Rockies as they were in Omaha a few years ago, and the praises of the yarious materials are sung daily by the respective organs. Viewing the battle from afar, THe L is in position to refute some very wild and . veckless assertions, involving as they do the character of the material used in Omaha. Among the clouds of interviews, letters and certificates pro- cured from leading . business men of this ecity, 13 onme which de- clares that the property owners on Farnam street, between Ninth and Fif- teenth, have determined to uproot the granite blocks and substitute Trimdad asphaltum. The writer, in a letter dated Fevruary 21, 1890, says: *T fully demonstrate what T say by having signed a petition yesterday for the re- moval of stone from Farnam street and the laying of usphalt instead.” The pe- tition veferred to requests the mayor and city councii to make the change “because of a rough, noisy and dis- agreeable stone pavement, traffic has largely deserted Farnam street, and with our constantlv diminishing retail trade has sought the attractive and noiseless asphalt streets, An early application of asphalt will regain our lost prestige as the Broadway of Omaha.” This is ‘“‘newsasis news.” It will surprise Farnam street property owners to learn that a movement to change the pavement is on foot, although a dili- gent search of the city failed to dis- cover the author of the scheme,ora property owner in favor of it. Evi- dently the revised and distinguished firm of We, Us & Co. are actively at work in the dark, without the knowl- edge or consent of the owners of abut- ting property. It is certainly refresh- ing to learn by way of Denver that Far- nam street is losing its char- acter as the Broadway of Omaha. Merchants in the neigh- borhood have not yet discovered it, nor have landlords been forced to reduce rents to hold their tenants. D The trath is Denver is being worked and confused by bogus letters and inter- views. The letters palmed off on the innocents of that town, if not actual forgerics, ave procured by the paving agents throagh courtesy or business ob- ligations. Certainly they do not r sent the honest sentimaats of the s ers. If the people' of Denver desire the facts regarding the paving material used in Omaha, the comparative cost and durabili they should consuit the annual report of the engineering department. Oma- ha’s experience with asphalt has been a costly one, and the costs are annually inereasing. Sixteenth street was paved with that material six years ago, and it has been relaid in whole or in part thrae times. At the expiration of the five vears’ guaranty the city is practically forced to accept the asphalt monopoly’s terms to keep the streets in repair or substitute other material. For business streets asphalt is a luxury, but for light trafic unequalled for cleanliness smoothness. The first cost is greater than any material in use here, and the fact that it is con- trolled by one company is another se- rious objection to its us Wherever it is wanted, the authorities shouald insist on a ten or fifteca year guavanty, so that the cost of repairs shall not be saddled on the public at large tly is and it DOES PARMING PAY ? The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has in- stituted a novel inquiry as to the ques- tion *Does farming pay?” Some six- teen hundred farmers in all parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kaunsas were in- teryiewed for the purpose of ascertain- ing the cost of raising crops as com- pared with the selling price, the average profit per head on cattle and hogs sold, and whether it pays best to sell corn or to feed it. The answers received were varied and conflicting. A true criterion n not of course be established. Enough was learned, how- ever, from the testimony of the ag culturists to be of considerable value. ‘The profits in farming are such variable quantities that even in the same com- munity they fluctuate. Business saga- city, choiee of crops, distance from mar- ket, the amount of capital invested, the variations of soil, the elfects of heat and moisture are all prime factors which must be taken into consideration. The testimony, however, agrees in many particulars. Wheat is numed as the best paying crop to raise for the market, Corn is made profitable when fed on the farm. The cost of raising wheat is estimated at fifty cents a bushel, that of corn is put at twenty cents a bushel. At present prices this would indicate a loss to the farme It is probable, however, that the cost of raising the latter staple has hc\)‘n put too high, But corn fed to cautld and hogs assures the farmers a price var, ing from twenty-five to forty cents. For that reason many of the farmers prefer to sell as littie of the furm products as possible, but to convert them in fatten- ing live stock. Hogs are named as more profitable to raise than cattle, Dairy products as well as poultty have a high commercial value when convenient to markets, while furmers who diversify their crops testify that they have a bet- | want of ¢ nothing more dangerous to its future | than to give its support to that mens- | ¢ of stone, asphaltand wood,” ———— = ter chance far making their tarms pay than if they raised but one staple. Much of tbi4 information is trite. But the inquiry/brought out tho fact that a large p ‘Yuortion of the farming population of tile states named is poor. | Although the juajority own their lands, they are ofton geriously handicapped by ady meney to buy improved machinery orsiock to fatten when corn is cheap. Id' consoquence they are forced to soll their products as soon as vested and . obliged to take, low prices. While much of this picture is dark, the condition of the farmer is not as bad as it has been painted. The trath is, that it takes brains and capi- tal to run a farm as in any other busi- nesh, and without either, the man who puts his hand to the plow hasa hard furrow to break No fair-minded person will question the absolute sincerity of the temper- ance work of Francis Murphy. Nor will any one at all familiar with the labor of Mr. Murphy in the cause with which his name has been for many years identified, both in this country and in Europe, deny that whatever he says regarding the pol to be pursued in promoting temperance is entitled to serious consideration. Probably no liv- ing man has given more intelligent and earnest study to this subject than he, and certainly no one now engaged in temperance work has had greater experience. Mr. Murphy’s pronounced opposition to the third party movement, and his unfavorable opinion of prohibit- ory legislation, ave therefore significant, and suggestive, and ought to have great influence with the sincere friends of temperance reform. Mr. Murphy, like all the foremost reformers in this field who preceded or have been contemporaneous with him, regards the question of temporance as a moral ques- tion, which should have no connection with parties or politics. *“If prohibi- tion is to be a success.” says Mr. Mur- phy. ‘‘the prohibitory law must be passed by each man for himself, and then he will see that the law is en- forced.” There is wisdom in this which the party prohibitionists would do well to carefully and iously ponder ou. CERTAIN local croakers never miss an opportunity to draw ridiculous com- parisons between the enterprise of Omaha and that of interior towns, in which this city invariably presented in an unfavorable light. It is only nec- ary to point to the past and present progress of the city to show the falsity of the comparisons. They spring from that large class of chronics, who, hav- ing acquired a competence through the enterprisc of their mneighbors or the toil of their forefathers, imagine they | possess a natural right to leoture and slander their betters. ~ Jawbone enterprise and Joud breath cannot pass current here for the genuine article. Until the pub- lic scolds can show by their acts that they have contributed a mite tothe permanent welfire of the city, deconcy demands that they plug their gas wolls. DESPITE the. heavy drafts made on the reyenues of the United States for peusions, internal. improvements and the like for tire past decade, this coun- try has discharged its public debt 1n a manner to excite the envy of the world. Comparing the interest paid annually by the great powers with that of the United States, the showing is even moro startling. Today we are paying as interest on our debt thirty-five mil- lions, This is one-seventh of the amount paid by France, one-sixth of what Russia expends, one-fourth of Great Britain’s charges, and one-third of the sum Austria is obliged to meet yearly as interest. THE senate committee on elections has decided by ‘a majority vote that Messrs. Sanders and Powor are the rightful senators from Montana. The decision of the committee conforms strictly with the decision of the Mon- tana supreme court on the legality of the certificutes issued to members of the legislature by the state board of canvassers. Sanders and Power were elected by the properly constituted leg- islature, and will therefore represent Montana in the senate. It is a triumph of justico and honesty over confessed fraud and pohitical desperation. It aAY be well to suggest to the various railroad committees appointed during the past three months that a little energetic push would be an ac- ceptable change from the prevailing idleness. If the members are afflicted with constitutional inertia, public in- terests suggest that they resign in favor of live men. THE temporary city scavenger has missed his calling. His determination to secure all the traffic will bear and suppress competition serves to display his eminent fitness for the management of o we THE bill for extras on the hospital job will not down, but like Banquo's ghost loows up, to plague the county board. A Plausiblg Explanation, Wasliginton Post, Porhaps the leakages in the executive sos- sions of tha senate are aue to vhe cracks of the party whip, Mr. Bynum's Self-Assault, Philagelphia Press. Up to the present time Representative Bynum has not sued mself for assatlt and battery on his owereputation. Yet he has clear causo for action, ——rr—— Preparing For '02, Minnzapolis Tribun Grover Clevelund cleared ),000 on the sale of s “Oak View" property near Wash- ingtou. He is evidently anticipating and preparing for campaixn expenses in 184 Norvistown Herald, In case of a fire the galleries in the United States senate can bo emptied wn four min: utes. In case of a speech by Senator Blair on his educational bill they are cwptied in about two minutes. DL S rdleton Will Stay Out. Kansas City Jowrnal, ‘The dem propose to make a test case of the unseating of Mr. Pendleton of West Virginia. Such a proposal is natural and no ouc has uny objection to offer. It will ao Mr. Pe Pendioton, how- will oomplish nothing for Mr. over. He has beon bounced and bounced. ks A Promising Uandidate. Peoria Transerip! Charles G. Davies, s Canadian financial agent, is short 260,000, and is believed to be hiding in the United Statos. In due time ho may turn up as a democratic stato troasurer in Kentucky or Louisiana. ettt STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska, Fillmore county is without a surveyor, V. A. Jones having resigned the office, Mr. and Mrs, Henry Goodge of Schuyler will colebrato their golden wedding March 8, A woman’s relief corps was organized at t week with about forty mem- The Republican Valley Editorial associa- tion holds its next meeting at Orloans March 5. The Crete council has resolved not to sell the electric light plant to an eastern syndi- cate as proposed. The tarmers of Dundy county will put in a larger acreage of wheat, oats and barley this year than ever before. Mrs. Mary W. Lucas, wife of Judge Lucas of McCook, has been admitted to the bar in the Eighth judicial district. About two hundred and twenty-five pro- fessed converaion as the result of the union revival meeting just closed at Crote. Daniel Dodge, residing near Waeo, lost his house and all its contents by fire the other night as the result of a defective flue. The Kearney young ladies who are push- ing the public hospital scheme expect to have the institution in running order by April 1. George A. Smith of McCook was instantly killed by a runaway team last week. The deceased was a brother-in-law of Hon, J. A. Wilcox. C. W. Johnson, a banker of Gering, Scotts Bluff county, reports that corn is selling at $1 per hundred at that place and 18 hard to got even at that price. The Plattsmouth water company is now pumpirg 250,000 gallons of water daily, more than 13 used by any other city in the state except Omaha and Lincoln. The county seat contest in McPherson county last week resulted in no choice. At the next election the town of Helgerson and two government land sites will be the only contestants. The citizens of Benkelman have raised a bonus of $2,000 to secure a $22,000 flouring mill with a capacity of 125 barrels per day. It is expected vhat the plant will be in opera- tion by May 15. Kearney has twenty-three secret society lodees. The latest one organized was Smith Gavett post, Grand Army of the Republic, which was mustered in last woek with tweaty charter members, A. E. Guon, a_ranchman living near Chap- pell, while crossing Lodge Pole creck, broke through the ice und was drowned. His boay was recovered after an hour's search. He leaves a wife and six children. Accordmg to., the Thedford Tribune the so-called sand-hills of Thomas county are proviog to be fully capable of competing with any soil in the state in the production of cereals, vegetables or anything that can be raised in Nebraska. All Thomas county asks is a fair show. A prominent farmer of Perkins county re- ports considerable damago done by a species of small bird in his neighborhood. He sowed twenty-five acres of wheat 8 week ago, but has to do the work all over again on account of the birds eating it up. He says there were thousands of them on his wheat field and he could not find a grain where they had been at work. Says the Nelson Gazette: Considering the fact that about 35,000 acres of land have been leased in this county the past year, and all of iv wild land, and that it is all to be cultivated and sown to crops the coming sea- son and occupied by actual setilers, who were not residents of the county one year ago, and that all of them are to crect build- ings thereon, means quite an area of pros- perity for Nuckolls county this season. Dr. Johnson, the Loomis quack who the coroner’s jury found guilty of administering medicine 1o Miss Roht for the purpose of producing abortion, suddenly disappeared apout the time the warrant was issued for his arrest, says the Holdrege Nugget. He will probably have «business 1n other parts of the globe for some time to come, and the room he occupied in Phelps county is profer- able to his company. . 1owa ltems. Boone's urtesian well is down 2,050 feet. An electric light plant1s to be put in at Indiaola. The state fish commissioner's expenses last year were $2,001.65 The Rock Rapids Presbyterian church has a new bell weighing 1,200 pounds, Battle Creek capitalists will build an op- era house block the coming season. A soldiers’ monument costing $1,000 “will be unveiled at Grand Junction May 1 by the local Grand Army post. For knocking down the attorney who had his sons sent to the reform school, Cornelius Kearns of Mavleton contributed $10 to the state. The spring commercement of the stato university at lowa City takes place this weelc, There are seventy-nine candidates for graduation. ‘An Algoua man shipped 1,000 bushels of oats to the Pacific coast at a cost of $315. Ho paid 17 cents for the oats and the freight wus 80 cents a busiel. A family of white mice was found in the oven of a kitchen stove in Grundy Center the otier morning. ‘They had besn frozen out of their nest in the wall. The Lucas county Agricultural society nas sent u delezate to Des Moines to urge upon the legislature the necessity of passing some practical measure for the protection of farmers against the depredations of wolves. Tho sheep farmers of Lucas county have suffered considerable loss from that source Lately. The Gladbrook Roview tells tho following sad story of one family that went from that locality in the late rush into Oklahoma: ©Mrs, Dingman and family of four children, formerly from near Beaman, but late of Oklahoma, arrived on the late train Wednes- day evening on her way to her tather's, Mr. Burris, who lives south of I Sho re- ported the Oklahoma country sickly, having buried ber husband aud two children since August, the halance of the family being sick most of the tima while there, They drove to that country eleven head of cattle, all of which died,’” Tue usually quiet little town of Rowe, Houry county, indulged in alittle excitement last week. A train laden with liquor was wrecked near tihere the other day and the vessels in which the liquid wus contained burst. Everybody turned out with pails pans, tin cans, ete., and succeeded in saving a large quantity of the spirits. Then en- sued a scene which, according to witnesses, rivalod the bacchanalian orgies of the an- suts, 'The tough clement took possession ¢ iho town and pandimonium reigned su- Il good people of the place bar ded themselves in their houses and waited till the flood had subsided. ‘The circus lasted two days. The Two Dakotas. Bismarck’s charity ball clearad ov A. 0. U. W. lodges ave being organ Eurcka and Ip . ‘Y'ho proposed poutoon bridge across the river from Pierre to Stanley will coutain 1,000,000 foet of iumbx “The farmers of Brown cou buy 75,000 bushels of seed w! they seed all their land. A cow at Elkton has given birth calves within ten wonths—twins lust and twins the prsant month, The commissioners of Brule county will loan noedy furmers secd wheat, taking lien on their crops to secure payment in the fall. A Suuday school convention for east South Dakota will be held at Mitchell April 17 and 18 for the purpose of foriming o state asso- oclation. William Gilchrist, the 21-year-old son of & Presbyterian deacon at Madison, committed sulcide by snooting himself through the head last k, He is supposed Lo have Leen insane. George Swanson, ty will have to 0.t this year if four April to n an Edmunds county farmer, lost a stee last week and after a five days’ buot found it in an old well. The aniwal was fished out and was found to be uninjured, but was suffering terribly from nuBger. [WHERE THE CREDIT LIES. The Coming of the Commission Not Due to Paddock. THAYER AND LEESE DID IT. The Governor on the Adminstration— David Duff's Unique Way of Got- ting Even on a Bad Trade— Palpit and Preachera. Honor to Whom Honor is Due, LiNcoLy, Neb,, Murch 9.—{Special to Tur Bee.|—A Washiogton dispateh in Tne Beg of today’s issue announces that Morrison and Veasey of the interstate commerce commis sion will leave that city for Nebraska to- morrow morning to investigate tho situation in reference to the corn rates. The same dispateh also states that the coming visit is the outcome of Senater Paddock’s resolution, and that it is expected that it will be ex- tremely benelicial to the farmers of tho state. “This dispateh,” said a prominent politi- can, calling Tug Bee represontative's at- tention to it, ‘'is certainly misleading. I am willing that Paddoek shouid have all the glory that justly belongs to him, and very generally 1 think he gots it. The fact of the matter is Paddock introduced that resolution because ho was forced to do it by the impor- tunings of his constituency, and after freight rates had been under agitation here and at Washington for months and months. If I romember rightly Governor Thayer de- maanded reductions of the Trans-Missouri Ratlway association long before Paddock introduced his wonderful resolution. Be sides, Attorney Geroral Leese has been working for such reduction in long and short haul rates for more than four years. He nas addressed petitions time and time again to Senator Paddock asking for his influence and aid, and at the cleventh hour ho steps io and tries to reap the glory. If Ican see tbhrough the glass, the senator saw that something must be done, and stepped in to prevent a 8coop, as you newspaper fellows putit. This credit, if 1t goes for anything, ought to be placed where it belongs.” THAYER ON THE ADMINISTRATION, Mr. John A. Sleicher, Manager of Frank Leslie’s Paper, Corner Iifth Avenue und Sixteenth Stroets, New York—My Dear Sir: You ask for my opinion rezarding the lirst year of President Harrison's administration, Harrison has given the country a splendid administration. Hois faithfully executing the laws. Wehavanow a decided,bold Amer- ican foreigu policy which no one secms asnamed to recognize, but on the contrary every American citizen feels proud of it. ‘I'he only fault I have to find with the policy of the administration is that the pres- ident has kept too mauy ‘“offensive par- tisan” democrats in office. In my judgment it is a mistake to keep political opponents in their places because their terms have not expired. An administration to be success- ful, whether republican or democratic, must put its own friends and supporters in places of responsibility and trust. The party that does not recognize its own friends will go to the wall, as it ought. Very truly yours, Joux M. Tuaver. DEFIANT DUFF. Sometning like a year ago David Duff gave B. F. McCall his promissory note for $125 pavable in twelve months, The note was given in payment for a horse that he had bid in at a pubHe sale. Just before 1t becume due he called on McCall and asked for the note—presumably for the purpose of payi it off—and on getting hold of it deliberately tore of the signatures and handed it back to tho payer, remarking that ue would return the horse'on the following morning, This thoughtless action laid Dufl lable to a serious charge and McCall told him so at the. time. “L will take my chances,” was the deflant veply, wheroupon his arrest was caused. When brought into court yesterday he refused to employ coun- sel or make a defense, notwithstanding the statute fixing couviction for such offonses, which is from one to seven years in the penitentiary, was pointed out'to him. His only explanation for the course he has purs sued is that he does not cousider the horse worth more than $25, and that he tore off the signatures to keep from payiug the note and to prevent a law suit. He has friends, however, and Mr. Blodgett will appear for him tomorrow, & continuanco until that time having been secured Some of Duff’s friends doubt his sanity, for wherever known ne has been considered’ lonorable and up- right. Duff sists that. he will go to tho “pen’’ rather than scttle the matter, and McCall says he will push it unless proper restitution is made. Tho case is amost sing- ular one. PULPITS AND PREACHERS, “Can Vice be Suppressed by Law?’ was the subject of Rev. Stein’s discourse at St. and criticism that filter from the studios of scholars throurh the prlnlhlr ross, tho public tibrary and the rond« ng room, and permentes the subtle me= dium of communication in which all so- clety moves and lives, s repelled from religious nssoolation by dogmas which its common senso will not accept. The prediction in Victor Hugo's tale of the time of Louis XI, that the printing press would kill the church, was true o the ecclesiastical fabric of that time, which is already a curious fossil. Whether it istrue of the universal Christian chureh (h\‘u‘mls upon whether the vitality of that body is in the in- tegumants of ereed and doctrine that have wrapped about it, or in the endur= ing necessities of the human soul. i i Will War Become lmpossible? General Henry L. Abbot in the March Forum: What will be the effect in the near future of these radical changes in weapons and methods of warfare? It i the claim of inventors that they are rapidly making war impo: v ine creasing the powor of destruction bes yond the limits of human endurauco. Butdo the facts sustain such a claim? It must not be forgotton that com- plexity has taken the place of sim-- plicity everywhere, and that consc- quently a degree of skill greater than heretofore is demanded to make effec- tive use of new devices. Ifit were possi- ble to overcome the ‘‘total depravity of inanimate things,” and to divest the soldier himself of human instincis and human fallibility, and transform him while the battle is raging into a passionless automaton, the wonderful powers of these new machines might perhaps be utilized to the full; but this 18 passing the limit of the possible. Aa the difficulty of handlfflg his woapons Paul'sM. E. churen tonight. R. C. Barrow, state evangelist of the Christian church, 15 preaching a series of sermons in Wext Lincoln. His meetings aro said to be well attended. Bishop Kephart will preside at the east Nabrasica conference of the United Brethren chuyeh, which convenes at Strang, Fillmore county, March J9 Rov. L. W, Terry, the new pastor of the East Lincoin Baptist church, delivered a special address before the Young Men's Christian association this afternoon, His subject was *Joshua, the Model Warrior, or How a Young Man Can Conquer His Sur- rounding Evils.”! CITY NEWS AND NOTES, Word has been rceeived from Denver of the arrest of J. A. Foster, the crook who was suspected of robbing the residence of M. D. Welch last June. arlet fever is reported at the residence of L. Jennings, 131 South Tenth street. Measures of quarantine nave been taken, and there is little dunger that the disease will spread. O. W. [ifor has resigned his position on the local staff of the State Journal and has accepted a position in the oftice of Kngincer Weeks of the Hurlington. W, Maact succeeds him on the Journal, Lie ladies of Lincoln division, No. 4, Uai form rank, Knights of Pythias, will give a grand masquerado bali in revresentative ball on the evening of Murch 8 I8 intended 0 be the socicty event of the season. W. L. Hunter, late of the Globe, and E. P Michel, late of the State Journal, have en- d into a copurtnership under the name of the Hunter-Michel printing company, and 10 uddition to general job work will manu- Da; too much for his wifo's mother and bis brother. Besides swearing that ho was of logal age to marry and that his intended was ninetcen, ho displayed letter purporting to have been written by Suow, giviag n reluctant consent to r daughter's marvisge. David and Emma w suing fo don. Mrs, Snow still t and Archio threatens to prosecute for perjury and fargory, Charley Met Aultmun Co.'s well known Nebraska man, wos in the city over Sunday. He made u recent trip to his old Canwaa home that afforded_him o of plnasure, en Datective Taylor % Pound rounded up the burglars at ‘Twentieth and J streets Friday evening ho discovered that a systomatic scheme for burglary had been plavned und was under exccuion. Hort Kinge uk Webber, Ray Cawaladri and Will Snyder, and fifteen years of age, and ~ gular gypsy lifs, and were collecting awwunition, shooting irons, clothes, cooking utensils, etc., for thut pur pose. - Why There Are Few Men of intellect ana edu are capable of enthusiasm and acdor in achors, ion, who the service of mankind, are deterred from ing to do that service through the Christian ministry. They cannot honorably accept its doctrinal reauire- ments and will not subit to its mental vestrictions, writes A. K. IMiske in the March Forum, Hence they are ex- cluded from & calling in which they are fitted to nccomplish grest good for the human race. The young gene tion, absorbing as it grows to maturity the knowledge and thought of the liv- ing time, the results ol investigation increases, thoefTects of nervousness and stupidity will increase, and in a much higher raitio. Whatever may be the effoct of modern progress in weapons upon the straggle of the two armies equally provided with the new types, there can be no doubt as to the result when one of the combatants posses: them and the other is equipped nearly in the manner in vogue during our civil war. Can we, if some luckless Samoa should bring a European army upon our shores, afford to be handi- capped as were tho aboriginies when they opposed their bows and arrows to the old *‘Brown Bess” of our forelath ers? And would not that be our pos tion today? The Gambling I ementof Politics. Nevertheless, three-fourths of the gambling element in politics—chance, “dark horses,” stuffed ballot boxes, bosses and political deals—would disap- pear if all appointments were made for merit; and a great many people enjoy the gambling cloment, writes Prof. A, B. Hart in the March Forum. The un- fortunate connection between local and national parties, so clearly pointed out by Mr. Bryce, makes foderal offices seem an essential part of the stakesin state and municipal contests. In a word, not only parties and politicians, but a great number of the poople like the fun of the present spoils system. R The West and the Small Farmer. In eastern Nebraska and Kansas and western lowa and Missour: there were more large farms twenty years ago thun there are today, writes Prof. Jumes Willis Gleed the March Forum. There appears to be nothing in the new wesb to justify what has been said about the decline of the small farmer. It is the big farmer that has declined. It may be said almost without qualifi tion that all industrious and capable and honest farmers in the west till their own farms. What fow tenant farmers there are are lazy, dishonest and incus pable as a class. - The Profits of Money Lendcrs. The broker of the community becomes the capitalist of the community, writes Prof. James Willis Gleed in the Forum for March. The western mortgago brokers have been no exception to the rule. One of them in Kansas has made nearly $10,000,000zsinee 1870, The busi- ness developed rapidl As increused capital has become necessary, individual brok have given way to corporations, There are probably two hundred such corporations now operating in Nebraska and Kansas alone. g 1t is said a man sentenced to stato prison for life at hard labor for the murder of a yoang man at Minto last July may be secn driving a fancy team of horses through the streets of Bismarck any day in the weelk, with nothing to prevent his escape. Laxity in the discipline of the prison is charged by the Grand Forks Herald. Coughing 8 Nature's effort to expel foreign sub- stances from the bronchial p Frequently, this causes inflammation and the need of an anodyne. 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