Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1890, Page 4

) THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 18%0. THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER Lortor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally and Sunday, One Year. Bixmonthe. ..o Three s> 83838 unday | E&'m-kl; e OF Omnha, The Bee Bulld}, Eouth Omaha, Corner N and th Streeta Cy , 12 Pearl Streot. 17 Chamber of Commeroe. 3,14and 15, Tribune Bullding ourteenth Street. L] 10 news and rossed to the s relat editorial matt 1d be add Editorial De b B NESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be add ressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha, Dralt oc and {umlnmeonrdfrl 10 bo riade puyable to the order of the eom The Bec Publishing Company, Proprictors, The Beo B'1d'g, Farnam and Eeventeenth Sts EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Etateof Nobraska. ) o County of Douglas. George I3, Trschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing compuny. does solemnly swear toat the nctual efroulation of Tne DALY Ber for the weex ending Dec. 2, 160, was as foi- Jows. Bunday. Deo. 1 Monday, Tuesday. De Wednesday. hursday. | ridav. Do Eaturday, D presence this 2th |FEAL | Etute of Nebraska, County of Dotiglas, Georgo . Tzschuck, poren s nd says that he Publis éaily month of Decem ber, 1880, w day of D NP, January, 1600, 19,56 copies ruiry. 10,61 con’es: for March. 5 coj for April, 1860, 20,564, * vies; for May, 1800, coples: for June, 1800, %.: for 1 copless 0, 1600, 20,062 coples for Aug! 750 coplo for Eentemter. 180. 20,810 cop) A 1800, 20,702 coples; for November, 188, 22,130 copies. Gronar B. TZSORUCK. Fvorn (o Tofore me. and subscribed in my presence, this6thaay of December, A, D., . (R, Notary Publis wdloss of ex- TiE contest goes on, re; pense. THIRD parties are born every day in Kansas, Fow of them promise to sur- vive until 1892 CONGRESS continues to talk nonsense and allow the country to suffer for definite Inancial legislation. EvEN John Bull is disposed to add his mite to the disturbances kicked up by the notorious Bull family for the benefit of Unéle Sam. ABOUT the only thing that Henry M. Stanley saw in Omaha that struck him a8 offensive and dangerous was the for- est of poles and the tangled network of overhead wires, INGALLS sends word back fron Kansas to Washington that he will surely be re-olected, Perhapshe has joined the Alliance. There is no other explanation of his confidence, THE proposed senate cloture is hailed with sccret delight by democratic organs. Itaffords the desired oppor- tunity of warming over the wild caloric hurled at Tom Reed a your ago. THOsE who 1magine the home rule conferenco in Paris will fail of results, do not comprehend the power behind thesceno. The party split ties up a snug sumn of money In the French bank, and its circulation is essential to union. ——ee ACCORDING to the post-mortem state- ment of the late ‘“wise and vigilant mayor,” Omaha and Nebraska com- mitted an irreparable blunder and re- form contracted a permanent black eye when he was enthusiastically retired to private life. THE motor continues to make mince- meat of men and horses that get in its way. * When will the motor be run on the theory that the public has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- | ness? Probably not until the authori- tles give it an impressive lesson, E— DAVE HILL has & new claim to the presidency. It isthefact that he was snubbed by the mugwump managers of the Reform club dinner, at which Mr. Cleveland claimed that he made the earth. Hill is getting on famously, and may be elected before the day sot for the ceremony. ILLINOIS distanced Nebraska in the aggreguto increase of population shown by the census, but Nebraska now turns the tables and leads the Sucker state in the number of political contests, TIlli- nois squabbles over five petty logisla- tive offices. Nebraska takes higher ground and battles for eight state offices, with the ‘governorship s the leading prize. —_— NEW YORK reveled in another old Knickerbocker blizzard yesterday, the biggest that that Arctic climate has seen since the famous one of 1888. Street trafic was entirely suspended and the town mado a business of keeping in out of the weather. 1t is strange that more than a million and a half of people con- tinue to brave the rigor of that desolate locality while the sunshiny country west of the Missouri is willing to rocsive an- other immigrant. —— Reports from North Dakota convey the cheering intelligence that tho Northern Pacific will pormit the legis- lature to select a United States senator. It seems the company has already named the successor to Senator Pierce, and merely hold the commission out of respect of the law, What caused the change is not known, nor does it matter. "T'he simple fact that the legislature will be permitted to exercise its rights is enough to be thankful for, E—— CORDOV A, the second city and the in- tellectunl center of the Argentine Re- public, has been wiped off the face of the earth and 500 lives lost. Like the people of Johustown, the residents were crim- inally indifforent to the safety of the city, permitted an artificial lake to be maintained at the head of the valley in which the city was built, and took no measures to strengthen the mud dykes. The inevitable disastor came. The ruins 0 city and the appalling lose of life ts of reckless wunicipal neg- THE TESTIMONY NEARLY CLOSED. The taking of testimony in the contest for stato offices will close next Monday and the volume of evidence will be put in forin for presentation to the logisla- ture. Unless some very startling disclos- ures aroe made within the next three days the investigation will utterly fail of its purpose and the legislature will be fully justified in declining to waste any time with it. Never in the political his- tory of any state was there amore com- pletely futile effort to sustainan election contest on the ground that the right of sufftage was intorfored with and gross frauds were perpetgated. While the re- sult carries no imputation against the contestants, who it is presumed sincerely believed that a large number of their supportors had been prevented from casting their votes, or that there had been a conspiracy to count them out, it is manifest that Mr. Powers and his col- leagues on the independent ticket have been lmposed on, Vory early in the investigation it be- came appavent that the prohibition man- agers were largoly responsible for insti- gating it, and it is another example, for which the people of the state will have 10 pay o good round sum, of the disposi- tion of these unappeasable marplots to create trouble whentvgr there is a chance to doso. Having sent broadeast over the country the most villianous falschoods regurding the election in Omaha, theso peoplo were anxious to find some vindication of their outra- geous misrepresentations, and their influ- ence was successfully employed 1n induc- ing Mr. Powers to make a con Thoy not only failed to get the vindication they hoped for, but have given the peo- ple fresh reason to regard them asa mis- chievousand unscrupulous element. Itis now an established fact that one of the most important electionsin the history of Nebraska, in which all classes of the people were profoundly concerned, was conducted with exceptional fairness and honesty, Nowhere was any voter pre- vented from exercising his right, and the few disturbances that occurred in Omaha~less numerous than is common to exciting clections in smaller cities— were due Lo the offensive obtrusiveness of prohibition ticket peddlers, and were entirely personal aff The very bost itizens of Omaha—ministors, judges i hable that the clection in this city was remarkably free from disturbances, and no one was found, here or elsewhere, who knew of a single instanceof a voter being pre- vented from casting his vote. In a word, the entire testimony shows that Ne- braska never had a fairer election, and that there has never been less reason for questioning the result as a free and hon- est expression of the will of the people. ‘While it is the duty of the legislature to hear and determine the pending con- tests for state offices it will not be sur- prising if they decline to waste any con- siderable time on the reading and dis- cussionof & contest that has such a slender foundation. SOUTH DAKOTA'S PROBLEM. The legislature of South Dakota has a problem to deal with that would try the statesmanship of any commonweulth. It is the question of meeting the state’s ox- penses with an empty treasury and the fact that the resources of taxation and bond issuing are exhausted. Many causes have contributed to bring about this unenviable situation. Crop failures and hard times had something to do with it, but it can be said on good authority that the recklessness and stu- pidity of the last legislature is princi- pally responsible. Governor Mellotte warned them in his moessage of the state’s precarious financial situation and urged them to keep the expenses down and find meuns of increasing the reve- nue. They did neither. Appro- priations were grandly voted to all sorts of state institutions and new offices croated with a princely disregard of the expense involved. The only method adopted with a view to averting embarrassment was the submittance of an amendment providing for the in- crease of the bonded indebtedness by $500,000. This was defeated by the peo- ple, and now the legislature faces a most dificult question. After cutting down expenses to the lowest possible figure it will still have hard sledding to provide for the necessary expenses of the state for the next twelve months. South Dakota’s embarrassment comes at a time when it is to be more keenly regretted than under ordinary civcum- stances, All western states are feeling very sensitive about their credit in the enst and the value of their securities. The progress of western commodities depends largely on the market for their bonds and mortgages, For this reason, as well as its own credit, it is to be hoped that the South Dakota legislators will find means to provide for the expenses of theirstate government and to p vent any recurrence of the trouble horo- after, During the recent amendment cam- paign South Dakota loaned Nebraska a few of her surplus prohibition orators to advise us that Nebraska must abandon high licenso in order to be prosperous. Nebraska thought differently and can now say to South Dakota, in solemn seriousness, that among other reforms which can be introducea there,to in- crense the revenue and restore the confi- dence of capital, is the repeal of prohi- bition and the pussage of a stiff license law.c That should be oneof the first acts of ulegislature charged with the duty of regaiing for South Dakota the pres- tige it has lost. E—r—— WHAT OF BOYD'S ACTS? Saryt Eowarp Neb.,, Dec. 25.—To the Editor of Tue Bee: In the daily of the 224 inst, in answer to the lnquiry of M. A. Hostetter, you say that Mr. Boyd would be governar until the supreme court should pass upon his citizensbhip. Should your premises be correct, what would bethe effect of bis ofticial ucts while acting as governor, should the court decide he was not & citizen? Re- rerfully, R F. Wogiams, Every official act of Mr. Boyd as gov- ernor would be legal. The principle that the oficial acts of every public officer are valid during the period of his encumbency is well established. Some years ago lsaac Griffey of Da- kota county was given credentials as dis- trict judge. His election was contested Sy 'by BE. K. Valentine and the supreme court held that Valentine had been olected by a majority of two and a half votes. How the court reached this con- clusion we never have been able to ns- cortain, Suffice it to say that Griffey was ousted from the bench aftor he had occupied it for over twelve months, Al- though the court held that Griffey was not elected and therofore had no right to assume and discharge the functions devolving- upon judges of the distriet court, Jndge Griffey's decrees on the bench were never called in question They were as valid in every respect as those of any other de facto judge. The same principle would apply to the official actsof Boyd during his incum- bency as governor, even though he should be found ineligible for that office by the supreme court. INDIAN EDUCATIONAL WORK. "The committee on Indian affairs of the heuse of representatives will soon give attention to the Indian appropriation bill and one of the things expected of it is an fincrease in the school approvrin- tion, so that the educational work among the Indians may not only be con- tinued but enlarged. This work has made good progress under the present administration and attained a degres of efficiency never bofore roached. New school houses have been constructed and old ones enlarged and supplied with better facilities, a judicious course of study bas boen put into successful opar- ation, toxt books of a uniform series have been provided, the attendance has ed, and the morale of the teaching force has been elevated. The secretary of the interior, in his an- nual report, says there is improvement both in the school children and in the disposition of the parents to have them taught. There are now 28 Indian schools, 94 of which are contract schools, and the total attendance is a little over twelve thousand. General Morgan, commissioner of In dian affairs, whose zeal in his work mer- its and receives the heartiest commend- ation, has just roturned froma tour of observation occupying three months, and he beavs emphatic testimony to tho great improvement that has been wrought in the government schools, their present satisfactory condition and the hopeful outiook for thefuture. Sim- ilar testimony comes from Hon. Daniel Dorchester, suporintsndent of Indian schools, who has been almost continu- ously in the field for more than a year and a half, from General Whittlesoy, secretary of the hoard of Indian commis- sioners, and from Prof. Painter of the Indian Rights association. 1In the cases of séveral tribes almost every available child of suitable age is now in school, and within a comparatively short period there will be in these tribes a new generation of English speaking people with scarcely a vestige of the Indian tongue or Indian customs remain- ing. In other instancesthe great mass of the children are yet unprovided with any proper school facilities, and are growing up in ignorance, superstition and barbarism, making little progross and with little hope of improvement. It i3 manifestly the duty of the govern- ment to do for these tribes what has been done for the others, and there is no good reason for delaying the work. Commissioner Morgan estimates that after providing for buildings, otc., a lit- tle more than $3,000,000 would be re- quired as an annual expenditure for the education of 15,000 boarding pupils and 6,600 day pupils. This sum is not so lavge as to warrant any hesitation in Increasing the school ap- propriations from year to year until tho amount is reached. The appropriation for the current fiscal year is $1,842,000, an inerease of 85 per cent over the ap- propriation of last year. What is asked is a like increase for the next year, which would bring the sum up to about two million five hundred thousand dol- lars, There can be no question that in- telligent public sentiment is ovecwhelm- ingly in favor of making ample pro- vision for giving to all Indian children of school age a common school English and industrial education. —— PUBLIO CONTRA CTS. The people of Omaha have been lavish in creating and fostering franchised cor- porations. Rights and privileges which at first were considered of no great value have been dispensed with reckless prodigality, and monopolies built up that turn to plague the creators. The liberality of the city has been shame- fully abused, and the privileges granted made a vehicle of offensive meddling in political affairs. The rights of these corporations are beyond the reach of legislation. Mean- while the power of the council regard- ing corporations should receive the at- tention of the charter revisers. Under the present charter there is practically no limit to the power of the council in creating a brood of minor monopolies, and that power has been exercised in one conspicuous instance. The contract with the Electic light company extends over a period of five yes The corporation enjoys free of cost the right to cumber the streets and alleys with poles and wires, yet the tax- payers are obliged to pay an ex- travagant prico for lights—a price far in excess of a reasonable profit on the investment., The valuable privileges granted this corporation not only does not benefit the city one cent. but have actually made an insatiable taxeater, The power of the council in the mat- ter of contractsshould be shavply defined and limited. In this uge of improv ment it is folly to make long contracts, because new methods and new inventions all tend to a reduction of cost, and the taxpayers should not be deprived of the resulting benefit. Itis the part of wis- dom to encourage competition in public contracts, and to that end the council should be prohibited from making con- tracts for a longer period thap one year. IN the mass of glittering generalities forming Cleveland's stock in trade, there is an occasional glimmer of political truth, The latest comes in the form of a confession, in which he admits that *we, s & party, had, in these latter days, been tempted into paths which avoided toomuch the honest insistence upon the definite and clearly defined principle and fundamental democratic doctrine.” In simple, every day United States, this means that the democratic party will in the future as ifijffhe past dispense with the services of tHd alliagee, labor, pro- hibition, greenbidk, froe silver colnage and all other paffies as soon ns it is ses curely in cont of national affairs, For the present, however, these assist- ant democratic papties must be encour- age d and fostered by lavish promises. THE main reason advanced in justifi- cation of the western railroad combine was the paralysis 6f receipts caused by petty wars. 1t was asserted that busi- ness was falling away and receipts also, and that an iron-clad syndicate was neo- essary to prevent the corporations rush- ing headlong into bankruptey. It s painful to note that a friendly organ, the Railway Age, rudely punctures the pretentions of the corporations. Reports of earnings for 11 months of the year received from 145 railronds show an in- erease, compared with the same period of 1880, aggregating $34,854,020. Only b out of the whole num- ber reporting show a decrease, o trifle of 8222151, Another significant fact is that the largest gains were made by western roads, nearly all of them represented in the new syndicate. The figures demonstrate that the volume of business and the gross receipts wero | greater than ever before, and if the net returns are not satisfactory to the stock- holders and speculators, it is because ex- travagance ran riot in the management of the roads. Any attempt to squeezo the publie, in view of the liberal patron- age accorded to the corporations, should be resisted by every logitimate means. THE democratic press had concluded that Attorney General Miller would bo appointed to the supreme bench and is making up for its disappointment by say- ing that Henry B, Brown isn’t much of a man, The best testimony is tothe effect that he is entirely worthy of the honor conferred upon him. Michigan says so unanimously, regardless of party. IT FALLS to the lot of few men toenjoy public confidence and esteom to such an extent asJudge Gresham. Ina majority of the complimentary references to the now justice of the supreme court, regret is expressed that the honor was not be- stowed on the distinguished Indiana jurist. Ixan interview Mr, Parnell intimates that as soon as he has destroyed the nationalists, the liberals and Gladstono he will undertake to rout the Catholio church. Mr. Parnell is going to be o very busy man for the next few years. THERE is no scarcity of plans for re- forming taxation, but the most desirable reform at present is to assvss and collect taxes on all propoerty in sight. — BEN BUTLER has given up his legal practice, but there is no evidence in sight that he will relinquish the prac- tice of running for president. Iris surprising ‘even to tho council- men the vast ambumt, of tax shirking to be found in the city when they go after o= 3 i —_— THE published reports of the local banks show that the rutors of financial stringency do not apply to their vaults, I the present condition of affairs, tho banks enjoy the coin of vantage, | THE city clerk is determined that no guilty tax shirker shall escape. Song of a Germ. New York Herald, ‘When Iwas an atom I served a torm As offico boy to a cholera germ, But now I've grown 80 great that T Am known as the monarch of the baclllx. gl bk The Lone Star Prohibitionists, Chicago Tribune, Thore were 1,634 prohibition votes cast in Texas last month. The figures show that there s an average of aboutone prohibition voter for every 163 square miles of Texas land, A prohibitionist must be a lonesome man down there. —_— Tho Kesult of Champagne, Chicago Tribune. Mr. Cleveland's attempt in his speech at the reform club banquet to read Blaine out of the republican party indicatos that the fumes of champague from the assembled democrats must have got {nto his head. shiizsoidil Kedigqiesting Warbington and the Insanity Dodge. Kansas City Jowrnal. Young Mr. Warbington of Omaha, whoso senso of modesty impelled him to burla chair through one of Bouguercau’s paint- ings, bolaly plead guilty upon being arraigned in the district court, until he learned what was the peralty of his offense, when he changed his plea at the expense of his princi- ples and hired a lawyerto defend him, Wo shall next hear of Mr. Warbington setting up the defense of emotional insanity, ity s ey Breezevilln's Horrible Streets, *hicago News. New York and Philadelphia are bewailing the condition of their streets and take occa- sion to berate their respective municipal gov- ernments in the accents of wrath every day, If itis any comfort to these individuals to know that fhelr misery has company they may bo assured that' mauy of the street crossings in the world's fair city are one sticky, mucitagious paste of mud—homogene- ors In color, consistency and composition— impetiginous, defadanit, recrimentitious and nidorous, 16 ——— THE CANDY PULL, A B, Luce mOhicago Tribune, You kin talle abouty'r op'ras, y'r germans, an’ all sich Y'r afternoon o' the rich. 4 Youan foast upow v choclawes an' y'r creams an’ ices full, But uone of em 1s ekl to & good old candy ceptions an’ them pleasures pull. Fer ther’ 1s any parfume like tho 'lasses on the fire. It A bublin’ an” a dancin’, as it keeps & risin’ higher, Whilo the spoon goos stirrin’, stirsin’, till the kittle's even full, No, I reely think theré’s nothin’ like a good old candy pull. Then the oxercise o' pullin’ how it sets tho checks aglow, While the tongue makes merry musicas the hauds go to and fro, An' with scarcely hidden laughter, the eyes ave brimmin® full Ferthe happiness is hdnestat agood old candy pull. It's true we miss the music an' the ball- room's crush an' heat, But ther’ isn'tany bitter that stays bohind the sweet, An’ 1 think the' world be botter, an’ its cup o' joy more full 1f weonly had moro pleasures liko the good old candy pull. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Thedefeat of Mr. Parnell at Kilkeany was asevere blow, but he announces his detor- minaflon to fight on and to got the opinion of every man in Ireland on the lssue. Heo will appeal from Kilkenny to the remaining 102 boroughs and divisions. He is bont upon fighting to the end and rofuses to surrend er unless Irelana by a decisive majority of all the constituencics shall repudiate his leador- ship. Under these conditions the Kilkenny election is not decisive. It is & tomporary reverso for Mr. Parnell in the course of his political adventures, It is only a tentative vindication of the policy adopted by his op- ponents. In view of the lnevitable prolonga- tion of the contest the victory of Mr. Davitt will be reassuring only to those who have been dreading the fatalseffoct of a first triumph of Mr. Parncll In alienating Enghsh sympathies and disheartening Mr. Gladstone. The Irish leader has been repulsed, but not vanquished. The faction fight is to be continued with no imme- diate prospects of the ciosing of the breach., Mr. O'Brien aspires, indeed, to be o peace- maker, but this is an ireprossible conflict which does not admit of compromise. The best policy which the followers of Mr, Me- Carthy can adopt is to challenge Mr. Parnell to resign his seat and then to nominate Mr, Davitt against him. That would be forcing the fighting, and public opinion in the island would be favorably affected by so marked a display of confidence. But even a victory in Cork would not be decisive. Mr, Parnell wouldappeal next month against cork as as he does now against Kilkenny. mistake was made when he divided rty and refused to sacrifice his pride and his ambitiou for the sake of his country and his principles, “Divide and rule” 18 a vetter maxim for an empire than for an un- crowned king—the leader of @ national cause, e Those who have been accustomed to re- gard Siberia with horror as a terrible and desolate waste colonized exclusively by the criminal population of Russia will be sur- prised to learn that thero are two enterpris- ing nations, namely, the English and the Chinese, who consider it sufficiently attrac- tive to be worthy of iuvasion. The conquest upon which thev are bent is of an economic rather than of a political nature, and their object1s to secure possession, mot of the rulership, but of the tradoand commerco of Siberia, tho value of which, according to Baron Nordenskjold, tho highest authority on the subject, is stupendous. Siberia, ho declares, surpasses the North American conti- nent in its area of cultivated soil. Its forests are the largest in the world, and its mineral resources are immenso, While the Russians ave striving by every means in their power to exclude the Chinese who, much to their di , are swarming along the auriferous ks of the upper Yenisel river, they are disposed to foster and assist British enterprise in Siberia. The animosity between the Muscovites and tho English, which is so marked in the European portion of the czar’s mighty empire, seems to be replaced by feelings of warm friendship east of the Ural range. English engineers nave been selected to devise the system of irrigation which is to transform southern Siberia into the greatest cotton-yielding country of the world; English capital has been bespoken for the construction of the Trans-Siberian railtond, and exceptional facilities, including a remission of all import duties, have been grauted to the British pioncers of trade upon the Siberian rivers, * The formal inauguration of the congress of Japan, which took place on November 20, is the most important eventof the day. There has never been, in modern times, & success- ful instance of the establishment in an Asiatic country of the institutionson which aveprosentative government rests, An at- tempt was made some years ago to plant a representative bod¥ in Egypt; but when it was explained that the successful working of a parliamentary regime required the co- working of an_opposition party as well as an administration party, not one of the Kgyp- tians was willing to place himself in open o) position tothe government, and the experi- ment was abaundoned. Indeed, in countrios outside of Asiaand Africa, where the people had been previously educated by local self government, it has been found impossible to imbue national representation with healthy life, ThroughoutLatin America, the election of members of national con- gresses is to this day a farce. Outside of the United States, Great Britain and its colonies, France, Germany, Italy, Holland and Bel- gium, there is no real representative govern- ment any where in the world. This does not imply that no such government shall ever exist outsido of these countries. The world moves, and men learn as they live. France has made wonderful progress since the states general met to register the decrees of the king. Spain is slowly learning that the citi- zen’s first duty is to take part in public busi- ness. And from the Japaneso pross it ap- pears thatthe Japanese people are resolved to give their new parliamentary system a fair trial. . W Spain has just tried its first experiment with universal suffrage. The election of one- half of the new provincial councils took afew weeks since and the complote returns have boen received. They show that in forty out of the forty-nine councils the conserva- tives haveobtained asight majority. Madvid, with afine attempt at impartiality, has re- turned ten liberals, two ministerialists and four republicans; while in Catalonia, the Basque provinces, Bilbao, Navarre and Aragon the Carlists have secured a majority. The followers of Senor Sagasta have had s0mo suceesses, but according to Madrid cor- respondents great apathy was shown by the voters everywhore, save in the capitals of the various provinces, At any other time these letters would not have possessed much significance. It happens. however, that tho election to tho now cortes, which has been fixed for Febiuary 1 next, will, owing to the adoption of universal suffrage in both cases, take place under much the same conditions and coasequently the present returns afford soma index to the prospects of Senor Canovas del Castillo and his ministry. As far as can bo judged, the rival parties will meet in the cortes, each suf ficiently strong to harass and hamper the otherand to vprevent the executive from ex- hibiting that strong and serene front which is indispensable to all good government, Senor Canovas, no doubt, has the signal advantags of being in office, and like all his predecessors in power he will doubtless employ the woll rocognized and traditional mathods for main- taining his hold on the constituencies, There can be little question that when Sonor Sagasta, though at the head of a nommal pavliamentary majority, was askad by the orown to make way for the present Spanish prime minister, it was shrewdly computed that Senor Canovas would be able, through the active agency of the minister of the in- terior, to make a considerable impression on the Spanish elactoral bodies. In the prelim- inary cocounter he has obtained only a mod- erato success, and whon the elections to the cortes take place we imagine that the atmost hie can hop to achieve will be to provent his various rivals from ousting him at ouce from his present position. This - rom a Congressman, Siowe City Jowrnal, The number of reprosentatives in congress oughtto be reduced rather thun increased. There are too many members of congress and oo many sessions of congross, The country needs economy and quiet, THOMPSON LEFT TWO WILLS. The Troublo Over an Estato That Was Con- | veyed to Different Heirs, A CONTEST BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS. Another Danger in Wildoat Insurance ~Two Boys Steal Valuable Paint« ings—A Piokpocket Caught— Other Lincoln News. LixcoLy, Neb,, Deo, 26.—|Special to Tnr Ber]—The probate court calendar for this afternoon contains the somewhat noted Thompson will case. James Thompson, sr., was a farmer living near Crounse, in the northeastern portion of the county, with a son named James in this country and one named John in Ircland. The old man made a will leaving his property to James. Ho was cighty years old and was desirous of obtain- taing @ loan of money on & quarter section of land, but the loan agent objected on the ground that the company he reprosented would not make aloanto a party of great age. The loan agent thercupon suggested that the land be conveyed to James A., his son, & man about forty ycarsof age, who would make the loan and give the security. This course was pursued and the loan ob- tained. The old gentleman afterwards wanted the land deeded back to him after the loan was pald, but his son refused to do so. He then began suit to recover the land, and while the suit was pending the old man made anothor will, leaving the farm to John, dying soon af- terwards. John came to this country and prosecuted the suit began by his father against James, The two wills were filed for protest, but nothing was done in the_matter, as the other case had been taken up to the supr eme court. On October 1 that tribunal decided partially against tho son, holding as follows: ‘That a preponderance of the testimony _es- tablished the fact that the conveyance of J. 'was not intended to be absolute, but to en- able him to effect the loan, and in an action by the father thereafter brought J. would be compelled to couvey subject to the security for the loa 1. Before the death of the testator is not admissible in evidence to show a devisee. 2. The plaintiff having died after the case was submitted to the court, but before judg- ment, and it being apparent that the defend- ant had rights in _the premises, the Se is remanded to the district court ‘with leave to the parties to file supplemental pleadings and take further testimony and for the court to settle the ultimate rights of the parties, Itis upon this status of affairs the case comes up this afternoon, and'if the court fol- lows the ruling of the supreme court, the last will will be probated. The case will go up, it is said. will title in YOUNG ART CONNOISEURS, Among the articies used in_decorating the store room in the Billingsley block, where the Episcopal fair was held lately, were two fine oil paintings from Mr. H. H. Boggs’ parlor, One of them 18 a Rocky mountain sceno and is valued at #100. These two were left in the store room a day or two after the fair and on Wednesday it was discovered that they were missing. "The matter wus put in the hands of the police and it was discovered that the thieves were two twelve-year-old boys named Fred Crum and Clyae Newell. The lads had taken the pictures home and told their parents that they had found the pieces of art inan alley. The pictures were readily sur- rendered by the parents in each case, they being greatly chagrinned when they learned how the boys got the paintings. Mr. Boggs was delighted to get the pictures back and decided not: to arrest the lads. A OASE OF MONNUMENTAL CNEEK. One of the most_consummate specimens of cheek yet recorded in the wild-cat msurance line was ono that was brought to Deputy Auditor Allan’s attention while in Omaha yesterduy, and shows a new financial dan- izer that awaits the dupe of unauthorized in- surance. The victim is an Omaha gentleman who docs not wish his name mentioned while the aggressive party is the ghost of the de- funct Manufacturcrs' mutual fire insur- ance comp: The letter is written by Phomas L. Kennan, receiver of the dead company, and he not ouly notifies the gentle- man that the policy for which ho paid his money was cancelled but also coolly informs hfin that he will be expected to “contribute to the payment of the company’s debts," “What do you think of that? says Mr. Allan. “This is another argument in favor of carrying on the waragainst the wildeats," A PICKPOCKET CAUGHT. A telogram from Omaha this morning gave the information that *“Tug” Robb, a notorious erook, who has been wanted in_ Lincoln for some time, was under arrest there, Detec- tive Malone will go after him this afternoon. 1<obb is said to be in atight boat, the charges of grand lavceny and larceny from the per- son being murked up against him. _Tho spe. cific crime charged is _the stealing of a gold watch from Henry Burcham, a wealthy stockman of Hickman, which 'occurred in Saunder's saloon, at Tenth and P streets, during fair week. Burcham was standug talking to some friends in the crowd which thronged the place, and suddenly discovered that bis wateh chaln was hanging loose from his buttonhole and his valuablo ticker gone, STATE HOUSE NOTES. E. A. Marling and H. M. Branson of Boono county are_fighting over a #4 judgment ob- tained by the former against the latter, To- day Branson appealed the casoto the su- preme court. ODDS AND ENDS, James Sharpenstein, a colored youth of dudish proclivities, was_arrested last oven- ing for pounding J. D. Shuw, porter at tho Elks club room. James was found guilty and in dofault of the fine of §10 and costs was sent to the county jail. Jimmie Dunlap, a young fellow who has living in Cedar Bluffs, arrived in tho city yesterday to spend Christmas with his They had been living in University Plico, but uniuown to Jimaie had moved from there, and ho was therefort disap- pointed. He applied ‘tothe police for aid, and was takon home by Matt Bracken, Up to noon he had not succeeded in finding his people. An overcoat belonging to one of the young men in attendance at the Christmas gather- ingat the Congregational church was stolen by some one. Marshal Metick, after a long and painful siego with quinsy, was able to beabout this morning, and spent the morning at head- . Geor, ues for a divorco from her husband, I of desertion. The two b twenty v w Ohlso 5 vorce Sophie, on the same grounds, A mecting will be held in on danuary 14t 5:30 a. m. to consider the ad- visability of organizing a Nebraska academy of science. Itis in the opinon of mauy de- sirable to start such a society, which shall embraco in its membership all persons within SIR MORELL MACKENZIE EXPERIMENTED WITH PROF, KOCH'S LYMH, results of his experiments will be public shortly. i30th Prof. Koch onzio have for years and recommended the Soden ‘Min- eral Pastilles for Catarrh, Sore Throat, Couvhs, Colds and all throat and lung diseases, r Morell Mackenzie sald in'the Jour- nal of Larnygology, edited by him (No- vember No., 1887); *The Soden Mineral Pastilles (Tgoches), produced from the Soden Springs by evaporation, are par- ticularty serviceablo in Catarchal In- flammation, Sore Throat, Coughs, Bron- chitis and Lung Troubles.” Dr. Koch said: **A cough for which I tried many other medicines, which had not the slightest effect, soon became bet- ter and has now entirely disappeared.” The genuine Soden Minoral Pastilles must have the testimonial and signature of Sir Morell Mackenzie around each box, the state who are intereatod fn any of the fol. lowing departments of scionce: Anatomy, archwology, botany, biology, bactori istry, enginooring, ethnology, ont , geology, histolowy, mathematics, mi , ornithology, ~physics, physiolog | psychology, zoology. ¢ - THAEIR LAST WOoRDS, ‘ Utterances of ¢ eat Men as Thoy Mes Death, Boston Globe: Kiss me, Har thank God I have done my duty. ! Nelson. Hend of the army,—Napoleon Don’t give up the ship.— Lawrence, It is woll.—Washington. 1 must nlonlv now,—Byron, I fool as if 1 wero to bo mysel Sir Walter Scott. Don't let that awkward squad fire ovor my grave.—IRobert Burns, Clasp my hand, my dear friend, I dio, —Alfieri, Lt the light entor.—Goethe. Into thy hands, O Lorc Tasso. What! is there no bribing death? Cardinal Beaufort. It matters little how the head lieth Sir Walter Raliegh, 4 ¢ Lord afo up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself (ns cending the scaffold). — Siv ~Thomus Moore. I’m shot if T don’t belicve ['m dying,— Chancellor Thurlow. Give Dayroles a chair, field. Lord Chestors Independence forever,—Adams, I have loved God, my father, and liberty.—Mme. de Stiel. Be seriou otius. I resign my soul to God and my daugh- ter to my country.—Jefferson, It is the last of earth.—J. Q. Adams. I wish you to understand the truo prineiples of the government. I wish them carried out. Iask nothing more. —Harrison, I have endeavored to do my duty.— Taylor., A dying man can do nothing easy.— Franklin, Let me die to the sounds of delicious music.—Mirabeau, Let not poor Nellystarve. —Charles 11, All my possessions for a moment of time.—Qucen BElizabeth, It’s small, very small indeed (clasping her neck).—Anne Boloyn. Thore is nota drop of blood on my hands.—Irederick V. of Denmark. Is this your fidelity>—Nero, You spoke of refréshment, my Emilic; take my last notes, sit down at my | liere, sing them with the hymn of sainted mothor; let me hear once moro those notes which have so long been my solacement and delight.—Mozirt. God presorve the emperor The artery ceases to beat. We will now cross over the river and rest undec the shade of tho trees,— Stonewall Jackson. It is use is near.—Gambetta. O Swain!—Garfield. I still live.—Waebster. Longevity and Country Life, How grent thedifference is between an urban and a raral population in the average age of all who die, may ho c veniently illustrated from the regist; tion reports of Muassachusotts, which have now been published for forty-seven chru, writes President C. W, Elliot, of Harvard college in the Decomber Forum, In the thirty years from 1850 to 1880, tho average of all the persons who died in Suffolk county, an urban county on the seaboard, was 234 years; the avorago age of all the persons who died in Barn- stable, a rural county on the same sea- board, was 37, in Franklin, an inland rural county, 38%; while the average age 1 of all the persons in the island tucket during the Yy years was very nearly double the average age at death in Suffolk, namely, 46.15. The same reports show that the annual death rate is unifurmly higher in the densely populated counties than in the sparsely populated one Other causes besides density of population contribute to pro- duce these striking rvesults; but tho main fact remains that a family which lives in the country has a better chaerr of continuance than one that lives in the city. Morcover, if the family history of the actual leaders, for the time being, in business and the profesions of any American city, be studied, it will usually be found that a very lurfia pronortion of them were country bred. The country breeding generally gives a vigor and en- durance which in the long run outweigh all city advantages, and enable the well endowed country boys to outstrip thelr competitors, s He Only Retallated. Boston Traveler: Finnegan (listening to the clock as it strikes)—What’s that? FEliven, twelve, thirtane, fourt— Bad ‘cess t'it! Bye gorra, the divil’sin it! Tek that, me foine timepiece, an’that! Mrs, Finnegan—Wusha, hivin save u s Phelim, fwhat did yez smash the clock fur? It’s the ownly wan we hav! Finnegan—Oi don’t give a contynintal, The clock sthruck furrst, ——— The Difficulty. Somerville Journal: Amicus—I'dlike to write my own obituacy and have what I would say about myself true. Sarcasticus—.'m afraid that what yon would want to say about yoursclt wouldn’t be true. Boils =;nd Pilfiples s efforts to climinate poison from . This result may be accomplished much more eflectually, as well as agrecably. through the proper excretory channels, by the use of Ayer's Sarsaparilli. “ For several years I was troubled with In casting about for a remedy, it oceurred to me that Ayer's Sarsa- parilla had been used in my father's family, with excellent success, and I thought that what was good for the father would also bo good for the son. 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