Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1890, Page 4

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I “ ednesday. 13, 1500, was as fol- i [ De hurudn{ Jee. 11 Fridav, Dee. Eaturday, Dec. 13, Average... Gronan . Trsomvok. Fworn fo tefore me and subscribed in mv presence (s 1ith day of Decemver. A, D.. 1800 1FBAL | N. P. Frit. Notary Publio Btute of Nebraska, fon County of Douglas, George B, Tischuck, beinz duly sworn, de- okes and snys that e §s secretary of The Bee ublishing Company. that the ictual average ily circulation of TuE DAILY Bee for the con'es: 101 April, 1800, 1,564, Die goplen: for June, 180, .72 coples; for Novenhe coples. FONGE B. “TZ8CHUCK. Eworn to before me. and subscribed in my presence, this ith aay ofl'vnmnhvr' A, PRIt Notary Public. ———eee e Tiw Dakota bad lands are objects of considerable speculation. HISTORY repeats itself. Witness the scrimmage of the Kilkenny political cats. Ti1s bonrd of public works should ro- member there is such athingas too anuch paternalism, IF NOTIING else is accomplished, three good Indians will compensate for much of the border fright. 11 18 quite ovident the prohibitionists will never forgive Mr. Boyd for being born beyond the Atlant ST. PAUL has purchased a $300,000 gtove plant and will try to makeit warm for Minneapolis hereafter. Tie report that Apaches were all doad or in jil in vigorously refuted by the vital statisties of Arizona. PARIS is having o gay winter, but that docs not necessarily imply prosper- ity. Paris 15 always gay, even at her funers Moony is still ranning for senator in South Dalota, but the independents and democrats confidently claim thav they will Tripp bim. It 18 predicted that the Omaha ses— sion of the contested election will show that Douglas county was far more sinned against than sinning. . THE condition of the general fund is not likely to improve while the sine- cures are permitted to draw salaries without rendering an equivalent in ser- vices. OCCASIONAL raids are made on the joints of Dakota merely to remind the residents that they cannot lawfully take “a little conversation water for the stomach’s sake. TaE discoveryof a two hundred and forty foot vein of salt in Kansas is par- ticularly timely. It insures a sufficiency of brine to pickle the countless political stiffs strewn about the state. ANOTHER survivor of the late expedi- tion has attacked Stanley. The ex- plorer’s experience in darkest Africa wag very tame compared with the ad- ventures he is having in enlightened America It 18 a cheerful thought to contemn- plate that while the coal baron is squeez- ing you this winter the ice baron is get- ting ready to begin a campaign for the purpose of squeezing what is left of you next summer, — Ir is the hard lot of Washington Me- TLean, who was something of a man him- gelf, to go down in obituary records as tho *father of John R. McLean. The father was fully a$ notable in his day as the son is now. But the world soon forgets. It sEEMS to be settled that the presi- dent will reappoint Mr. Schoonmaker to the interstate commerce commission and patiently wait for Bill Morrison’s term to expire a year hence. Then he will name a republican successor and the gentleman from Illinois will again be Horizontal Bill. MINDEN suffers a severo loss by Satur- day night’s fire. Her people will have the sympathy of the state. Minden, the seat of Kearney county, is one of the brightest and most pushing of our smaller cities, and it may contidently be pre- dicted that she will quickly recover from this sad blow and build bigger and botter than before. That is the Minden style, e ScunLy, the Dublin landlord, who has come into prominence in Irish politics through the home rule split, is not un- known in the west. e is the owner of thousands of agres of land in Illinois, and also the bulk of Nuckolls county, Nebraska. His tyrannical treatment of tonants in both states led to theadoption f stringent alien land laws, and unless XIr. Scully becomes an American citizen ‘before his death, his vast acres become the property of the state. If Scully is considered o typlcal home ruler, it is © gvident the Irish eloctors are not fam'l- rnr with his odious operations as a land- lo:d in Illinols and Nebraska ASSAILING WESTERN INDUSTRIES . Ten years ago when the packeries of Chicago began the shipmentof dressed | meats to castern markets, the railroads attompted to destroy the business by an oxorbitant tariff. They madeno attempt to concenl their purpose to hold the live stock traffic and by unjust charges check the growth of an industry which, while | benefitting the public, materislly affected the rovenue of the corporations. “The schemo utterly failed and the cor- porations were forced o acknowledge that the business had come to stay. Despite the lesson of experience, the western roads are about to emulate the the foolish example of the enstern trunk lines. They have decided to reduce ratoson live stock from the Missouri river to Chicago, not asa concession to western stockgrowers, but to check the growth of the packing industey in Mis- souri river cities. It isin the nature of a premium toshippers to patronize Chi- cagoand give the railroads the benefit of the long haul. This is a revival of the odious system of rates which the public fought for years. Itisthe exercise of the power to make and unmake cities which railrond managers have attempted in the past, and which provoked restrictive legisla- tion and the condemnation of the courts. Carrled toits logical conclusion, it means disaster to western industries, for with equal justice the corporations canjuggle rates on other ‘products and exact as great a rate on the manufactured article as on the raw material, If the railroads are to chargo s great a rateon dressed as on the live animal regardless of welght, there is no incentive for indus- trial enterprise at points beyond the eastern termini of the roads. One of the prime objects in view in establishing factories in the west is to uce the weight of the products of the country and effect a saving in the cost of transportation. In numberless in- stances the raw products cannot be mar— keted at a profit, lence the necessity of reduction of bulk without reducing the market value. It was this necessity of reducing bulk that brought about the establishment of oxtensive packeries in Omaha, the investment of millions of dollars and the creation of permanent avenues of employment for thousunds of workmen, It holds to reason that if weight bears no relation to the cost of transportation there is no material ben- efit in slaughtering stock in the west. With equal justico the corporations can declare that raw beets shall not pay a greater rate than the quantity of sugar they will produce. So with gold, silver, lead and copper ore. The principle is the same, and if the corporations are consistent the proposed squeeze on hogs should be applied to all products manu- factured in the west. The proposed action of the railroads should arouse a virorous protest fromall classes. It isan indefensible assault on .| western industries and an unwarranted tribute to eastern markets. ——— AN IMPOSSIBLE COMBINE. Southern newspupers are busy with discussions of the Alliance and its threatened third party movement. They seein it a danger to the present su- premacy of the democratic party and their effort is to turn it into n grand re- inforcement of that organization, During the recent campaign in Ne- braska Tne BEE tried to make it plain to the republican farmors of the west that a separute political movement would inevitably play into the hands of the democrats. The truth of this pre- diction was vividly illustrated in the returns, and the following quotation from the Atlanta Constitution shows how seriously the thing has been taken by the democrats of the south as the hope of a long lease of power: ‘We believe that the southern Alliance men, by their wise and conservative attitude, will nip the third party movement in the bud, and that they will be influential enough to convingce the Alliance men of the west and unorthwest that their proper place is in the democratip party. We base this belief on tho character and purpose of the Ailiance platform recently adopted at Ocala. With very slight modifications, that platform will suit any democrat, and there can be no doubt. that the next democratic convention, recog- nizing this fact, will make an enunciation of principles on which every Allimce man can stand. Taking the Ocala platform as a test, therois little differcuce between 8 genuine democrat and an Alliance man, This is the tenor of southern news- paper commont. They seo that a third party movement cannot possibly sue- ceed unless it unites tho producers of the south and west; that if it should accom- plish that it would reduce the democracy to a hopeless minority; that if the south- ern farmers stand firm and make the de- mands of the alliance in some measure the platform of the democratic party they may stampedo their western broth- ren into the bourbon ranks. Viewing the situation in this light, they are ex- pending the full force of their eloquence to induce the alliance in the south to lead thealliance in the west over to the democrats. If this plot was not plain to everybody before election, surely only a blind man could fail to discern its lumi- nous outlines now. But the southern editors do not look deeply into the situntion, nor behold it with a clear vision. If they-did they would see how preposterous must be the effort to yoke up the democracy and the alliance, or to commit the inter- ests of the republican farmers of the west to the keeping of the bourbon lead- ers of the south., The Alliance demands certain radical reforms, They can only be obtained by an extension of the powers of the gen- eral governmeat beyond anything yet attempted in the history of this country. If the democratic party stands for aay- thing it stands for the rigid limitation of the powers of the general government. Il the time ever comes when thealliance coases to bo the plaything of the demo- cratie politiclans and asserts itself as a sorious and formidable movementin favor of the broad application of power tothe problemsof finance, transporta- tion and the like, there will come a clash which must for the time being annihilate the party .of Jefferson acd states rights. It is nonsense to say that the Ocala platformu *‘will suit every democrat.” The fact is that an attemot to make such doctrine the vlatform of the democratic party would precipitate a revolution in its ranks, It would do violence to all the traditions of that IR Y 8 D00 THE party andto the memory of every fa- mous leader it ever had, The ropubli- can party, which has always stood for a | strong federal government, and a broad | construetion of the constitution, is much more in line with the demands of the Alliance than is the demoeracy. It is too early by many monthsto pre- dict the ountcome of this new element in Amorican polities, but 1t isas plain as the noonday sun that there canbe no serious fellowship between its members and the democratic party. The guif is 100 wide and too deep. —— THE IRRIGATION PROBLEM. There {5 somo uncertuinty as {o whether congress will at the- present session enact any legislation looking to the solution of the irrigation problem. In his annual report the secretary of the interior stated that the location and se- lection on the public lands of reservoir sites is proceeding with very decided energy under thelaw of August 30, 1800, and he suggested that the present exist- ence of thesites, their continued multipli- cation, and their future use now demand from the people and the government the most serious consideration, for it must be determined what shall be done with them, and upon the proper answer to this question depends in great part the perity of the territories or states in W they are located. The secretary urged that congress should without de- lay enact comprehensive laws determin- ing the national policy in this business. A bill has been introduced at the pres- ent session which proposes the transfor of the reservoir sites on the public lands to tho stetes and territories in which they are respectively situated, the pur- poso of making such grants being to insure the construction of distributing works by the states and territories, so that the accumulated water supplies may be divided at fair rates and without unjust discrimination among the lands needing them. Several hundred thou- sand dollars has been appropriated by congress for surveying and setting apart the lands in which great basins may bo built for holding surplus water, and there is no question as to the ex- pedioncy of this policy. But what shall be done after this important work is ac- complished is a matter for determina- tion hardly less important than that of the location and selection of reservoir sites, There is certain tv be a vigorous opposition to any plan requiring the government to carry out a general sys- tem of irrigation, from some on account of tho great expense that would be in- volved, and from others on the ground that such work cannot properly be un- dertaken by the government. Itis asti- mated that it would cost $1,000,000,000 to irrigate 100,000,000 acres, so that it will be seen there is a rather formidable = reason for opposition to the government doing this work on the ground of cost. The gov- ernment might repay itself from the sale of lands, but thisis so uncertain that its suzgestion will not be likely to dissuade many from opposition to the government assuming 50 enormous an obligation. Probably the solutionof the problem will ultimately be found in limiting the ‘work of the government to the survoy and segregation of water storage sites and transferring them to the states and territories in which they ave situated under conditions that will insure the proper carrying out of an irrigation scheme for the general beneflt. The secrotary of the interior suggests that if the reservoirs are subject to local con- trol congress should particularly guard against such misuse of the powers granted as would either allow the upper lands to absorb the water con- tinuously through the dry season, or the authorities to require any but the cheap- est and miost liberal terms for its trans- portation to the inhabitants and farmers. In any event it is desirable that the pres- ent republican congress shall determine the national policy in this matter, for otherwise it may be many years before the question can be decided, with the vossibility that in the meantime this very important work would be practi- cally abandoned. SENATOR SHERMAN'S VIEWS. The country still has a great deal of confidence in the financial views of Sen- ator Sherman, and perhaps hopeful ex- pressions from no other man would go farther in allaying public distrust. Ina late interview Mr. Sherman expressed thoe opinion that the principal factor in the monetary stringency is the fear of the free coinage of silver, or that some other radical measure may be adopted that will destroy the present busis of value and derange all existing contracts and business operations. This fear in- duces the process of hoarding gold, which is now going on ata rapid rate, and threatens, said the senator, even be- fore the free coinage of silver, to de- monetize gold and change the whole basis of business transactions. There appears to be mno question that gold is being hoarded. Ac- cording toa recently published state- ment there was in the United States treasury and the New York banks at the end of July gold to the amount of $264,- 480,000, and on December 6 the gold in these institutions amounted to $233,308,- 000, a decrense in the visiblo supply dur- ing four months of $31,061,000, only a small part of which represented exports. Assumning the correctness of these figures, over $20,000,000 in gold was withdrawn from ecirculation betwoeen August | and December 1, a faot that bears very strong testimony to the ex- istence of the fear spoken of by Senator Sherman, Mr. Sherman expressed the belief that if no unwise legislation was threatened the business situation will right itself. The fact is there I3 noth- ing 9 the matter with the leglit- mato business of the country except a want of confidence. The trade of the nation, fareign and domestic,is in a most satisfactory condition, and but for the distrust growing out of the danger of some “impulsive legislation,” to em- ploy & phrase from the president’s mos- sage, regarding the finances, there would not only - bo no such disturbance as the country is now suffering from, but evorything would bs moving along smoothly and prosperously. = England, whose financial affairs were severely shaken up by the crisis in the Argentine i AT A B ; OMAHA DAILY BER, MON i A 1Y, DECEMBER 15, 1890 Republic whioch threatened the loss of the vast amon of her capital invested there, has ' ‘hlmost entirely recov- ered from;, the shock, and her capitalists ot wondering why there should cofitfoue to bo financiat stringency -and disturbance in this country. Doifitless if 1t had been pro- posed in parlisment to make somo radi- cal departurein the financial policy of the nation, & thete was reason to ap- prehend that those proposing it might develop suffiefént strength to carry it out, the recavgly in England would not have came so speedily as it did. Senator Sherman believes that the silver law of the last sessien should not be disturbed, and this,is unquestionably the opinion of the intelligent and con- servative business men of the country. Free coinage might not result at once, 08 the senator thinks, in the demonetiza- tion of gold, but there can be no doubt that it would inyite that result and thereby work enormous injury to the business interests of the, country. The way to a restoration of confidence, which is all that is needed, is not difficult, but the trouble is there are a good many men in congross who either cannot or will not see it, and unfortunately there is some reason to fear that they may be able, if not now in the near future,to carry thoir unwise plans into effect. It is this fear that is the potent factor in the existing financial disturbance, A REPRESENTATIVE of women's lahor organizations is busy at Washington with an effortto have congress interfore with the board of lady managers of the world’s fair. She says that only“ladies” have been appointed and that *‘women’ have been entirely ignored. This dis- tinction has a real significance as sho puts it, her claim being that the persons chosen owe the honor solely to their po- litical influence and that none of the ac- tive leaders of tho masses of working- women received any attention. Thereis a measure of justice in the complaint. Most of the ladies on the board are good representatives of their sex avd their various states, but there is no good rea- son why women like IHelen Campbell, who are the leuders of important social movements, should not have been also included. The fair should be broad enough to include all interests and it must be carefully guarded against aris- tocratic proclivitios. A MINNEAPOLIS jury found alocomo- tive engineer guilty of criminal negli- gence in running his train at a high rate of spred within the city limits and causing the deith of three persons. The law, as well as, the company’s rules, justified the verdict, and the engineer was bound over to answer the charge of manslaughter, The incident illustrates how readily arailroad company, in case of accident, dodges behind its rules to shield itself and throw the responsibility on trainmen. The bulk of railroad rules were never intended to be obeyed. An engineer attempting to obey them to the letter would soon find himself in search of a job. Between ignoring rules and holding his situation he naturally chooses the latter, ‘takes all rigks, and when in trouble finds himself deserted by those whose commands he obeyed at his peril. T spirit of old Pickwick lives in all its green and vigorous youth in the sen- ate of the United States, On Friday Senator Butler remarked that Senator Hoar was a deliberate and willful liar. Senator Hoar replied that he would say what he pleased without regard tothe behavior of the senator from South Carolina. Senator Butler then ex- plained thatthe senator from Massa- chugetts was oneof the nicest men in the world, and Senator Hoar replied that he had the utmost respect for the senator from South Carolina. Then everybody understood that the red- hot ° remarks of the forenoon were uttered only in the Pickwickian sense, and the senate returned to its normal placid satisfaction with the world in general and itself in particular. Ours is an era of great statesmen, THE Messiah cra: dianfad. Itis at least a century old, and may possibly have been practiced in various forms bofore Columbus sighted the West Indies. A writer in the cur- rent Century asserts the Indians of Cali- fornia. inherited respect for u prospec- tive Messiah, and even after the follow- ers of Junipora Serra wooed them to practical eivilization the redskins fre- quently broke down all restraints, hur- ried to the mountains and went through muscular ceremonies not unlike the ghost dances of today. To some the Messiah was to come in the shape of a snake, to others in the form of a flery bull. The Indians of today slightly im- prove onthe Messiah of their brethren of early mission days by mounting him on a buffalo. FEW men in recent times have under- taken a more discouraging mission than William O’Brien. Checked at the pin- nacle of success in America, he turns his face homeward: Hoping to accomplish what now appears impossible. the old lund united, harmonious, aggres- sive. Ho retunnsto find it rent in twain, passion holding Yiigh carnival, the peo- ple’s nopes sacrificed to ambition, and the paper which “he had, by almost su- perhuman energy, founded and made a powerful lever 4oy, the country’s good, seized by his whilom friend, and his as- sociates foreibly: ejected. On top of this ruin is the ceitainty of six months in jaili It is not to bo wondeved at that Mr. O’Brien facgsthese conditions sorely Aisheartened apd troubled in spirit. Tue official ‘ raport of the progress of the Nicaragua canal presents a strong confrast to the Panama ditch. While the latter isall but abandoned, its ma- chinery wrecked, or rusting in idleness, and work costing tens of millions of dol- lars rapidly going to ruin, the managers of the Niearagua canal are pushing the | work with skill and energy, exercising propereconomy and inspiring confide among investors. The company is good condition financially and s confi- dent of completing the great undertak- ing by 1895, THE conditions which pretentious re- formers now lament were brought about by the oath-bound guog of mercenaries isnot a new In- He left 1 | put T will offor you some ad whose grip they strugaled to fasten upon the city for another two years. The ns- sessod valuation of the city is below that of the provious ‘year, despite the faot, cortified by tho building superintendents, that over four and a half millions were oxpended on building improvements 1ast year. Yot tho combine illegally swelled the list of exemptions, allowed acres of valuable property to be lumped in as ilroad right of way”and purposely failod to compel franchised corporation to bear a just share of the publis bur- dens, THE house committee on invalid pen- sions has agreed to report a bill limiting ponsion fees to two dollars. Under the present law the maximum fee allowed is ten dollars. A radical reform is cor- tainly needed, not only to protect those entitled to the government’s bounty, but to clip the claws of the schools of pen- sion sharks Yostered by exorbitant fees. It is a scandal to the government, an in- justice to the veterans, and any measuro which diminishes the profits of these mercenary agitators will receive the ap- proval of the country. It cannot be too drastic to suit public sentiment. The endorsoment of Major Paddock for government director of the Union Pacific is a neat compliment to a distin- guished farmer. Doubtloss the dolega- tion fully appreciated the fact that the producing classes wore entitled to o voice in the management of the road, and so- locted tho major as a concession to the tillers. As a supervisor of roads Major Paddock can readily discount a Spauld- ing without drawing a field glass. THEREs nowxeuse for tho board of public works going beyond its legitimate functicns to protect material men. It should confine itself strictly to the in- terosts of thecity and let individuals take care of themselve Ak Jay Gould, Boston Journal, Where has the money gone! A hundred millions added to the currency within nine- teen months, and still thero is a cry for more. But where has the money gonef st g Snapping the Sinews. Kansas City Times, When such men as William P. Grace, Banker Eugene Kelly and Joseph J. O'Don- oghue go back on Parnell the Jig is up. Monoy makes the mare o, in Ireland as else- where. et N e Pity This Poor Parrot. Chicago Tribune. A parrot In Connecticut is 118 yearsold. It has been for 100 years in one family, having descended from fathor to son through two or three generations. Think of the marvelous toughness of the bird.,, Probably it has boon asked 36,600,000 times in its lifo it it dian't want a cracker, O B o Will Swear a Man or Two. Lincoln Journal: Mr. Boyd has served notice that he will open a shop at Omaha to take somo testimony himself. It looks as though Mr. Boyd ought to bo allowed to swear a man or two, but whether his evi- dence will be considerea legal by Boss Bur- rows remains to beseen. This court is not occupying itself with the case of Mr. Boyd so far as anybody can sce. Whatit is seeking to establish is that if nothing had been said or done to the contrary, prohibition would have carried in Omaha and in tho state. As pronibition was defeated it is evident that Mr. Powers ought to be seated as tne mnext governor, At ) “GET OFF THE FENCEP An Alliance Man Roasts Mr. Hitch- cock to a Turn, Tie Bee has referred heretofora to the re- quests mado by tho editor of the World- Herald upon alliance committeemen for lot- ters of “endorsement and encouragement.” The editor of that sheet has been flirting with the farmers of late and imagined him- selt a full-fledged ‘“farmers’ -triend’—for rovenuo only. Accordingly ho thought his paper entitled to a little endorsement bacause of its friendly (1) $8 attitude toward theal- lance. These endorsements did not come voluntarily, so the editor sent out hundrods of letters soliciting them. But thescheme wouldn’t work, The reaction has set in, and the editor of the World-Herald is being roasted toa turn by alliance men whom he asked tocompli- ment him. He asked for bread and they uro giving him stones. Here is a samplo;—there are many of the same kind: AN OPEN LETTER TO YOUNG MR, Rosuviie, Neb, Nov., 22—Mr G, M. Hitcheock, Omaha, Neb.—Dear Sir: Your favor of the 17th inst., enclosing a copy of Congressiuan-elect MeIKeighan's letter of the 10th jnst., has been recewed and carefully considered. 1 have never been a subscriber to tho World-Herald, but received during the 1ato campaign several copics of iv and became sufficiently familiar with its position on_the leading questions advocated by the alliance to enable mo to form an opinion of its charucter, L am glad that you tool the liberty to write me and to_enclose a copy of McKeighan's letter. I am glad ulso that you toolk tho “liberty” to think as you evidently did, that because Mr. Keighan had writtén the World-Herald a let- ter of “endorsernent and encouragernent’ that I would follow his example. Isay I am glad you have taken theso liberties, for by your example T am cncouraged in taking cor- tain liberties relative ts the manner in which 1 shall reply. T shall thereforo take tho liborty to assumo that the allianco cause for which you profoss an carnest friendshlp will be more effcctually HITCHCOCK. promoted by the appearance of our correspondence in & regular al- liance. journal than it possibly could in any other. Ishall also take tho lib- erty to express my opinion of the courso of the World-Herald, though that opinion per- chance bo_at variance with Congrossman- elect McKeighan's and disparaging to the World-Herald. If McKelghan recommends the World-Her- ald (o alliance men as a reliable friend of their cause on the basis of what it has been and s in the matter of upholding and adyo- cating their principles in proference to the wrinciples of the democratic party, then I am '8 log ‘way from being Tn aciord with him. Because the World-Herald has *“occupled a friendly atuitude toward the allianco and ad- vocated the principles in which the al- liance s intorested” you ask me to write you “a short letter of endorse- ment and encouragement.”’ Let me ask what was the attitude of the World-Flerala toward the alliance during che incipient stages of its growth! What was its attinude toward tho “alliance” ticket in the late cam- paign? Helping the democratic ticket to eat it, was it not! It claims to be friendly to the alifance, but advised its readers to voie for Thompeson, the democratio caudidate for congress, in order to defeat Kem, tho alliance or indepcndent candidate. Sue h 1) Mr. Hitcheock, are the allianc dungerous enetnies. No sir, I caunot give you & “short letter of endorsement and enicouragement’ for what you qave done for the alliance, And I further hop: that no true friend to the alliance will be caught on the hook which you have speciously baited lmhlluim annot endorse and urage you, Get oni one side of the fence, not on the fence, I you waut to be a democrat, bo one, not & part of one. Donot try to servo two masters. Do not try to ride ‘at the same time tho demo- cratio and alllance horses witha foot on @ich. Their diverzent lines will make you very un- comfortable, and your oreatic sttempt will end in speedy, well m-srlled fallure, Yours truly, L P, Commixg, THRS AND THAT, A now species of humor, fresh from the domes of municipal statesmanship, has broken loose In Kansas City, In a recent contest for city privileges between two water- works companies, cortain of the ‘outs" imagined that the “ins” were waxing rich, wads of boodle were afloat, and that itching palms were being soothed with the right stuff, One particular patriot was singled out and boldly accused of askinga ““loan’’ in exchange for his vote and influence, and the fact was sworn to by the man to whom the roquest was mude. On being callod to account tho injured municipal innosent indignantly re- pelled tho allegation and coined & charming definition of aldermanic huwmor. “I'm no long eared chump,” he exclaimed without consulting a mirror, “to make any loud-mouthed breaks before witnosses that make me trouble, Why, the old duffor lies, and the very men he refers to to back him up say so. I'mgoingte suo tho old cuss. You know how Tam._ I'm full of little jokes like evorybody else around a saloon. Hero this old mark comes in and talks around and goes away. After ho goes I say, same as you would: “That old mark thinks we'ro all fools hore. Well!be alu't in it with us a minute! See! Inevorsay money onco. I'd boa birdto go on making a crack about wanting money with a evowd around, if I meantit. The fact is, I was only joking." Of course tho old duffer wasn't in it a minute. Ho didn't know how to take a littlp joke, of which the municipal statesman was full. In fac humor goes with the ofice, and such phrases as ‘“‘What's in it What's it worth to yout” ‘Where do you get your insuranced” and “I'm not here for my health,'” merely suggest the overflow of mirth and jollity which is inseparable from aldermanio life, The Kansas City definition is invaluable. It strikes the scales from public eyes. It is an elegantly rounded protost agamnst the grow- ing disposition to givoa misleading color to words and acts which, it is gratifying to know on unquestioned authovity, are merely little jokes intended to lighten the duil care of public life. When one of the boy papils of the Farnam school was asked Friday to name four of the most noted men in the world, promptly re plied: **Washington, Lincoln, Graut and James E. Boyd. Hon. John L. Webster recoived a lottor Wednesday which for a time led him to think that the late campaign was not yot ended. It was from a prohibition war-horse at Lincoln and predicted that the amandment would bo carried by an overwhelming majority. M. Webster punched himself in the ribs o fow times, and when convinced that ho could not bo dreaming he looked at the date on tho missive nd discovered it had been written Novemberd, Itwas addressd to Fremont, which placa it reached November 6, and since then it has laid in the postolice. Mr. Web. ster was, however, glad to roceive it, for it rominded him of old times, There was the familiar talk about the “dark allics of holl,” the “tools of the arch fiend,” the ‘dovil's own,’ “whisky tubs” and a few other pet expressions which have fallen into disre- pute since tho close of the prohibition cam- paign, Mr. Webster would be wlad to reply and thank the sender, but the writer's iden- tity 15 hidden under tfie nom de plume of “Sicoligy.” Eugene Field, the Chicago literary feller and humorist, has just been writing of Eng- land and all Europe as a stoveless country, A couple of Omaha young ladies who recently visited theold country have also discovered that it is gumiess, Both girls wore In tho habitof taking a ‘chew” occasionally while on thelr native heath, and it was with con- sternation they discovered that gum could not be bought for love or money in England, Tre- land, Scotland or Wales, In Parls, howover, they found a little shop which had a small stock of the much-wished-for article which the Frenchman had had onhand for tiffy years or less, and they purchased the cntire amount. By economy and carefully pasting the gum or: the headboard of their pad u pon retiving, the young ladies managed to exist until arrival in New York. A swell wedding was celebrated in Chicago recently in which some Omaha people wero interested. Prof. Swing, the popular proacher, tied the nuptial knot and his daughtor was one of the wedding guests, The latter was escorted to dinner by an English aude, who was not aware of the re- Itionship existing between the minister and Lis companion. While discussing the monu the Englishman exprossed himself as greatly ploasod with the wedding arrangements, *It was all perfectly grand,” he whispered to his companion, ‘“until that awkward, country- fled preacher camo on to porform the core- mony. He was enough to disgust a fellow with the whole business.’ There is now a cooluess betwoen Miss Swing and her late English friead, e NEWS OF THE NORTHWENST. Nebraska, The Good Templars of Verdon have reor- ganized their lodge. The Madison Chronicle is eighteen years old, strong and prosperous. A great many cattle have died from eating cornstalke smut in Jefferson connty. Sixteen Pawnes county farmers have or- ganized a swine breeders’ association. A cometery association has been formed at Konnard with a very live membership. Hog cholera and corn sinut are carrying off considerable live stock in Colfax county. T, H. Blatehly, & student at Doane colloge, Crete, was thrown from a bicyclo and had his arm broken, W. T. Hastings has sold the Burwell Quaver to the Eaterprise of tho same place and will seek a now newspaper field. ‘William Kingen, the Scotts Bluff county cattlo thief, has been sentenced at Cheyenne, Wyo,, to eight years in the penitentiary, Ina little fistic encountor between two Ashland young men, one had his nose broken and the other is i deadly foar of arrest. Miss Rebe Skillman of - Arapahoe was thrown from a fractious pony and sustained painful injuries about her faca and neck. Rev. H.J. Hopmanof New York has be- como the pastorof the Lutheran chuich at Dakota City, succeoding 1tov. Mr. Sprecher, who has returned to Illinois, James Yenge and John Hickey, prominent farmers near ‘Tecumseh, have been arrested on complaint of Williawm Verrall, charged with robbing his turkey roost. Mrs, Mary E. Murphy, residing near Wis- ner, has been declared insane and has been sentto the Norfelk asylum, She is twenty- six years of age und the mother of four chil- eren, T'he Business Men's assoclation of Broken Bow has appointed & committes to confer with Mr. Oxnard and the oficials of the B. & M. road relative to establishing a beet sugar A. Kitzmiller of Kearnoy has returned from a hunting trip through Colorado, Tho rosult of his hunting and trapping ex pedition is seventy-five beaver and soveral hundred wink and muskrat peits. Tho now Minden waterworks wera tostod ust o diy beforo the big conflagration thers Suturday night, and were pronoincod satis- fuctory., When the roal fire test came, though, the stand-pipe was cmpty. W. C. Kom of Pawnee Oity has received from fricuds an authentie ¢QY of the Vicks. burg Citizen of July 2, 1843, Phanted on wall paper, two days before tho surronder of the city. It prophocios the total - defeat of tho army of the Patomic lowa. Jefforson county pid bouuty on 0 oliors Tho past year, Two rocent fires at Grian by defective electric light wi Eldora’s new Young Mea's Christinu asso- ciation building was dedicated Sunday. “Thio mayor of Burlington has ordered vhat 15,000 L were causel '.ho front doors of saloons be closed on Sum 'l‘ms ropublicans eleotod twenty-threo of the forty-two judges chosen at tho last elec tion. Tho sixth annual session of the Northern Towa Horticultural society will bo held at Manchester Docember 16, 17 and 18, Captain Hoead of Jefforson hoj to see his bill for the exemption of one-half the tax on mortgages pass the next legislature, The district court at Bloomfleld fs strug @ling with a suit for the possession of a stecr ;vhlcll has cost over $500 in witness foos s ar Tlon. Jeremiah . Gay, a resident of Cedar township, Black Hawlk county, since 185, is dead. He was & member of the Iowa house from 1877 to 1881, Marlk Hallin hias boon sentenced to six yoars in the Anamosa penitentiary for m ter, He was acoessory to tho mur James Rowan, at Clinton, February 2, 150). The Des Moinos Registor says that moro than half the attornoys' fees charged up to tho stato in the trial of the liquor cases are found, on examination of the transcript, to be illegal. Chariton owns its electric light plant. For the month of October, after paying operating expenses and interest on bonds, the plant viclded $124, besides furnishing 102 street ights free. The Salvation army at Keokuk proposes to. &lve the poor children of Keokulk a Christmus - dinner. ‘A canvass of tho town is boing made by the army to discover the needy, for whom clothing and food wil solicited nad- distei- buted. Thero is a tempest in a tea pot at Marshall town over the question whethor Commandant Milo Smith, of the soldiers’ home, prohibited democratic’ candidates from soliciting sol- diers’ votes at the home, TheyTimes-Repub- tican pubjishes a grist of afidavits to prove that the commandant’s conduct in the matter was non-partisan. The grand jury of Polk county has indicted Walter Roan for_assault with intent to kill Ira Perkins, Ho stabbed Perkins in the neck Octobersl, and the injury has caused & partial loss of Perkins' power of speech. The provocation for tho assault was that Porkins took Roan's divorced wife to the theater. About two weeks ago C.H. Paf Srundy Center died. The circumstances in« dicated that all was not right,and a coroner's jury was impancled and local physicians Tound evidenc pduced death “The coutonts of ick of derstood that the test reveals facts similar to the finding of the local physicians, Sensa- tional dovelopments are oxpected to follow. “Constable Mercer yesterday called upon R. P. Clarkson of Clarkson Brothers, propri - otors of the Rogister and owners of the Ree- ister block, not ng him that one Wi Pricbe, occupying o room in the Registe building by virtue of a lease from the Clark- sons, was selling liguor contrary to the law, and lh.ll they would hereafter be held liable for costs and _damages which might- result from any condemnation proceodings against Priebe,” says the Des Moines Loader. The Two Dakotas. Sioux Falls wants the state fair, A. Dickens club has been organized at Pierre. South Dakota state warrants are quoted at 99 cents on the dollar. The bill of the sherift for closing the sa- loons at Sioux Falls 1s $332.80, The Yankton Press thinks the bad lunds will some day bo greater attraction than Yellowstone park. Tt is rumored that Governor Mellotto will bosprung on the logislature us a compromise senatorial candidate. Miss Lucy Bryson of Gettysburg, superin- tend of schools of Potter county, s sald to be the tallest woman in South Dakota. Judge Bartlett Tripp has eight rooms se- cured at the Locke house, Pierre, for his headquarters during the senatorial fight. Incorporation papers for the Sioux Falls aper mill with a patd up capital of $75,000, ans been filed with the secretary of state at ‘Pierre. A South Dakota life insurance company has found business good out on the Indian’ frontier, and has pushed it for all the scaro was worth. Otto Gunderson, arraigned at Aberdecn on chargze of murdering his wife, was committed without bail. All he \\'uuld say was that he wanted ““to be forgive: The Brookings Sentinel tells of an inde- pendent elected to the logislature from Kings- oury county who declares that the South Dakota legislature will surely repeal tho Mo- Kinloy bill this winter The large body of timber on the west sido of the river about fifteen miles below Pierre, over five hundred acres in exteut, is now claimed by Mr. Narcell under his Indian title. 1t is one of the finest bodies of timber on the reservation and is very valuable.~ D. H. Snowden, of the Bank of Verdon, in- forms the Verdon Times that castern parties are writing 1o him, asking that he purchase land for them, in tracts of about one thou- sand geres, lylng in_such shape that it may be irrigated by means of artesian wells. On a late trip to town from his Little Cas- tle Creck ranch, Joe Reynolds told the Rapid City Republican a story of the finding of two skeletons, one of a man, the other of a bear, Iying together near the head of Little Rapid creek. The find was madeby a party of hunters about & month ago. An old rusted hunting knife was also found near the spot These are no doubt all that remain to tell tho talo of a terrible forost tragedy of many yoars ago. sk S SRRl PROMINENT AMERICANS. Senator Tugalls is said to have had an offer of $15,000 a year to edit Frank Leslic's Ilus- trated Nowapapor, Mr. C. P. Huntington began lif. peddler, and while he still has a | tity of tin he does not peddle it. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, asked repard ing the presidency of 1802, repl! “1 think itis between Blaine aud Reed. the situation now is.” Thomas Edison says that although in (taly ho has tho tille of count, he prefers that of “tho old man" by which he 18 better kiown among his employes at Menlo's Park. John Boyle O'Reilly's grave in Hollywood cemetery, Brookline, will bo marked by glant bowlder of conglomerate roclk about twelve feet square and weighing soventy-five tons. Henry Cabot Lodge, an example of tho scholar in politics, claims descent, it is un- dorstood, from Sebastian Cabot, who discov- ered the coust line of this continent at tho close of the fifteenth century. Cal Brioo donles that ho is & caudidato for the presidency. He is arcanging to start i democratic newspaper at Columbus, O. This may not be quite so rapid a way of gotting rid of his surplus, but iu the end ho will find it fully as effectual, Mr. Elliott of the Smithsonian institutios thinks that seven years' inactivity of scal fishing is the only thing that will save the seal from extermination, 1f tho seal sucqio could be run out of fashion for awhilo tho same end would be attained. General Jobn R. 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