Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1891, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER Enrron, — . PUBLISHED VERY MORNING. AERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday, nm- Year, i months v L One Y One Y OFFICE The Boe Bullding Fouth Onnha, Corner N 20th Streets. Council Blufrs, 12 1 Stroet. | er of Commerce, 1 15, Tribune Bullding urteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating to news and gauorial matto ahould be addressed to the Sditorial De BUSIN All busin be add ress to ‘ashington, 513 Iy LETT s and remitt s should Pubiishing Company, 1 y cks and postoffice orders ade payable to the order of the com- The Bee Pablishing Comnany, Proorietors, Tho seo Bd'g, Farnam and Soventeenth Sts r - = EWORN STAIEMENT OF CIRCULATION. I‘!Mn of Nebraskn, 1 County of Douglas. (%% Georgo I8, Tzschuek, secretary of Tie Bee Publighing conpany, does solemnly swer hat the notual cieeulation of TE DALY Bre for the week ending January ol, 1901, wus ns follows JTanuary % ‘l\ "KHHI.«I esdiy. January Mednesdiy ursdag. | idny. Jinuary 3 Baturday, Junuary . Average Sworn to b presence this dist ¢ being duly sworr y5 that he'ls secretary of THE | ny, that the actual average dully circy of Tik DALY BEE for the month of Febry 1800, 10701 “coples; for March, 1500, 0815 coples; for April, 180, 2,504 20,180 coples; for June, July, 1590, 20.00) coplesi e de- 1500, 20,870 Cople nm, for Novembe or ] nun"! 1k 1. Tzschuc wfore me, ln(l.\n\l-v-rllrl'll in my noc, this dlst day of January, A, D, 161, Notary Publi ————e ey Tue force biliis dropped from the re- publican programme for the vest of the session. That is really the brilliant part of the programme. tNOR Boyp has the distinction of delivering his messago after the in- augural uttorances of nearly all other new governors are forgottes Kworn to Dros GO TrE unique Carter Harrison proposes a solution for the senatorial deadlock in Illinois, Kloct Carter Harrison. The solution lacks 103 votes of being a suc- cess, THE arid region in the vicinity of Sidney will be irrigated today with liquid eloguence. It is to be hoped that it will be followed later by a crop of prosperity. THE supreme court of South Dakota declaros that original packages of liquor are subject to police control. An im- mediate boom in saloon drug stores may be looked for, LET it be recorded to the benefit of Nebraska’s reform legislature that it provided for the salaries of members be- fore any other measure received the sanction of the governor. INVENTIVE skill is increasing at a marvelous pace. The patent report shows a volume of business exceeding that of any preceding yoar, and growing ata greater pace than population. ACCORDING to officinl reports the maintenance of inmates in state asylums costs a trifle over $5 each por week., A large number of sane peoplo would cheerfully exist on the sum and lay by a surplus, e THE western farmer will be the chief beneficiary of the reciprocity treaty with Brazil. Tho object of the new agree- ment is to widen the foreign market for tho products of the west, as well as for tho manufactures of the east. The west can stand a great deal of that sort of statesmanship. THe New England business men ana tne Canadians are working together for reciprocity. At a recent Boston banquet the causo had & big boom. It is quite possible that Mr. Blaine has a surprise in store for these people. It seoms to be his ambition to leave his country’s for- eign trade a great deal larger than he found it. THE argument of Mayor Cushing in favor of concentrating in the mayor and council all appointing power, is refuted by his own experience, 1t is only noces- sary to giance at the list of incomperents foisted into office during the past year to confirm the wisdom of the law relating to the police and park commissioners. THE short-sighted action of the legis- lature in asking congress for $1,000,000 10 help the drouth sufferers is bearing bitter fruit. It makes our reptesonta- tivés at Washington blush for their state, fills the press of the east with that sort of sympathy that blights, and does not increase by a singlo dollar the ap- propriation likely tobe made for seed. It is a mistake which, it is hoped, will nover be repeated again, E——— THE adulteration of food products is carried to an appalling extent in this country, The magnitude of the evil was forcibly shown in the opposition to the oleomargerine law. That measure did not attack the manufacture und sale of the product, but compelled denlers to brand the article and sell it as oleomar- gerine, not as genuine butter, The op- position tothe purefood bill springsfrom like dishonest sources. The merits of the mensure are beyond question, It sooks to check food adulteration under such ponalties as will deter mercenary manufacturers from palming off a bogus for a genuine article. Many of the di- seases ascribed to othor causes have their inception in deleterious substances introduced in articles of food, and their prevention by any possible means is in the interest of public hedlth, The pure food bill may not accomplish the ends sought, It is, however, a stcp in the right direction, which will eventually lead to a thorough examination of all *od produots. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE1'SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1801 GOVERNOR BOY 'S MESSAG Governor Boyd's message to the leg- islature is a well written public docu- ment, and its prevailing tone is conser- vative. ‘While it is not wholly free from partisanship, which was hardly to be expected from the only democratic governor Nebraskn had, it earns estly seeks to establish cordial relations with all elements in the legislature and to unite the exccutive and legislative branches of the government in & com- mon effort to find the conditions of per= manent prosperity, The governor's most earnest and ex- plicit declarations relate to,economy in the public service, and to the enactment of laws to secure ballot reform. He well says that “every dollar paid to a useless employee is a thelt from the pockets of the poor.” He urges that great care should be exercised in ng the number of legislative employes, and advises a thorough investigation of state institu- tions, to the end that no sinecures may be allowed to exist. This isa sugges- tion upon which the iegislature would do well o act be fore definitely deciding on the biennial appropriations. 1t is notorious that certain stato institutions, designed only for the care of those physically un- fortunate, serve as asylums for broken- winded politicians, This is an abuse which should be speedily abolished. The governor deciares emphatic for ballot reform and the Australian s; tem in its main features, Ile gives point to his argument on this subject by reforence to the useloss ex pense involved in the present farcical contest,which, he says, “is divectly tracenble to the defects in our present election laws,” ‘What the governor says about the del- icacy of dealing with the usury laws will meot with the approval of men of all parties, oxcepting only a few eprofes- sional radicals. He favors the strict en- forcement of the present statutes on the subjeet, and the enactment of new laws to wipe out notorious money sharks who loan only for 36 per cent a year, and up- wards, On the subject of railroad legislation the message is conservative to the verge of disappointment. It concedes that the public is now overburdened by excessive charges, but recommends only an attempt to reach the unattaina- bie in the shape of laws that will foster *“a union of the interests of the corpora- tions with those of the people.” The trouble is t this union has been too well accomplished heretofore. The in- terests of the railroad lion and the pub- lic lamb have been united—with the lamb on the inside. Governor Boyd was chairman of the railroad committee of the last constitutional convention, and drew the présent constitutional provis- ions on railroads, which are admirable in many features. It would beinterest- ing now to read his observations on the way in which that law has not been en- forced and has signaliy failed to realize the expectations of its framers. What the governor says about the choice of presidential electors by con- gressional districts is merely the parti san utterance of a democrat. The fram- ors of the constitution sought to rec- ognize sovereign states, not sov- ereign congressional districts, If the people of the United States shall ever decide to depart from the electoral col- lege system it will be to choose the pres- ident by direct vote, rather than by a new and more corplicated arrangement of electors. The democraticidea is that they can secure one electoral vote in Nebraska by manufacturing a sure dem- ocratic district. It is nolan idea that will commend itself to- the common sense of the people. The public will concur with the gov- ernor’s recommendations in favor of an appropriation for the world’s fair, and with his expressions on the subjects of the natiohal guard, the school system, public warehouses, and the enlargement, of the judi The suggestion of a constitutional convention isnot so clearly wise, but is well worthy of considera- tion. The graceful expressions of faith in the future of the state, and the plea for loyal co-operation of all branches of the public service in the interest of the com- mon good, with which .the message opens und closes, will roceive the hearty approval of all citizens. It is to be hoped that the legislature will respond to the governor’s cordial adyances. ever lly THE CONGRESS AT GALVESTON. There will assemble at Galveston, Texas, today, in connection with the celebration of the successful beginning of the deep harbor project, for which con- gress has made a liberal appropriation, a conference of representatives of west- orn and southwestern states. The ob- ject of this conference is to recommend to the national legislature measures in which the interests of tho west are peculiarly concerned, and incidentally toassuro the support of the sections ropresented to the deep harbor pro- jeet. How much more extended the vange of deliberation and gec- ommendation will be made it is unnecessary to predict, but itis hardly possible that the conférence will confine itself to the consideration of practical questions of more or lods distinctly sec- tional concern. As a matter of fact it would be difficult to name any subject calling for legislation by congress in which other portions of the country are not as greatly interested asthe west. Even the important question of irriga- tion, which more distinctively than any other has relation to the future progress, prosperity and power of the west, is voully of vital intorest to the whote coun- try. The roclamation of a vast area, however 10 be accomplished, which would add enormously to the productive vesources and the permanent wealth of the country, cannot proporly be dwarfed into the character of a merely sectional question, although public opinion in the east vory generally so regards it. The conference need not, however, have any trouble in finding subjects to discuss that are of vital concern to the wost. Railrond regulation, the problem of cheaper transportation, the question of immigration, the subject of reciprocity, all are matters that have a very diroct bearing upon the future of the west, and if a united expression of opiaion regard- ing them were made by ropresentative men of a dozen western and southwest- orn states it could not fail to exert an [ nay in time be verified, | the effect ultimately of reducing to any infuence in directing national tion. With regard to the projected deep harbor at Galveston, a groat deal is promised, the value of which only the future can determine, Tho claims en- thusiastically made that it will afford an outlet for western products greatly to the advantage of western producers If it shall have legista- extent the cost of getting these products to foreign markets and lessening the transportation charged on merchandise brought from such markots, it will fully justify whatever expenditure may be required in its construction. It is not safo to conclude from present conditions what the possibili of such an im- provement are. The progress of a fow years may amply demonstrate the ne- cossity and vindicate the wisdom of the enterprise. T TAKE ACTION. County Attorney Mahoney hast another action against the reg deeds and his bondsmen for the recovery of #,565, which ‘has been collected by the register in 1890 and not turned over into the county treasury as required by law. This makes the total deficit for 1889 and 15890 exceed the sum of £9,000, Whether the county will be able to re- cover from Registor Megeath and his bondsmen is problomati The county commissioners have an imperative duty to perform under the circumstances. The mandate of the constitution virtually compels them to declare the office of register vacant, and to fill the vacancy by some citizen whose record as a publi officer is invulnerable. No other con- struction can be placed upon the prov siofof the constitution that declures any person in default of public moneys in- eligible to an office of profit and trust. The position in which Register Me- geath finds himself can only be in- seribed to his own neglect, to use a mild phrase, to keep apart and untouched the funds that came into his hands in ex- cess of the amount allowed to him by law. In any event he should have re- placed the money when his attention was called to the default. e has either had bad advisers or he has shown a reckloss disregard of obligationsimposed upon him, e is entitled to the sympa thy of personal friends and associates in office, but the law is inexorable and friendship cannot shield him from ‘the consequences of his own acts. The commissioners have treated him very leniently so long as they possibly could doso without laying themselves linble to the charge of collusion. Their duty row isvery clear and cannot be shirked. THERE appears to be 1ittle probability that the present congress will take any action upon the bill providing for o postal telograph system. The measure has boen held by th> house committes on postoffices since themiddle of the last. session, owing mainly to the indifferenc or hostility of the chairman, and yester- day it was laid on the table by the com- mittee. This proceeding may not finally dispose of the bill, but it is not the course the committee would have taken if it had earnestly desired to secureaction on the measure. The course of the chair- man of the committee, Bingham of Pennsylvanin, has baen most remark- able in view of the fact that he is on record as having been an ardent advocato of postal telegraphy, and has also declared the proposed bill to be un- objectionable in its terms. Although practically an administration measure, Mv. Bingham has steadily voted with the democrats of his committee against reporting it to the house, and has mani- festod a hostility very suggestive of ex- ternal influence. Legislation giving the country a postal tolograph system will ultimately be secured. The predomi- nant sentiment of the country is unques- tionably in favor of it. But its failure in the present congress will ba likely to postpone it soveral years, and the loss of the opportunity to give the poople & cheaper and botter telegraph service will be unfortunate for them and unfor- tunate for the republican party. A LARGE numher of leading eastern papers discuss alliance principles from the declarations of the national conven- tion at Omaha. They vroceed on the assumption that the government money loaning scheme enunciated at Ocala, and later at Omuha, makes it a cardinal vrinciple of the aliiance party. The truth is that the party is shavply divided onthe question, A strong majority of all delegates at the Omaha convention rejected the proposition in every form and boldly pronounced it impracticable. ority of tho delogates had left for their homes the author of the proposi- tion resurrected it M the presence of a handful of local delegates and forced its adoption. The action of a rump minor- ity should not be considered the voice of a regulur convention, any more than the nine tailors of Tooley street represent Tondon. Ttis due to sensible members of the alliunce in this and adjoining states to correct the impression that they sanctioned any scheme calculated to transform the national treasury into a pawnbroker's shop. THE bill authorizing the construction of the interstate bridge botween Omaha and Council Bluffs lacks only the signa- ture of the prosident to bseome a law. Tt now remains for the projectors to show by works their purpose to give Jthe eity adequate bridge competition and place the railrond interests of Omahu permanently beyond thecontrol of one corporation, 'HE council delays action on the fran- chise foe u competing electric light com- pany not so much to “guard the inter- ests of the city” as to give the existing monopoly time to consult with the mem- bers and combine to kill the ordinanc What other object could the couneil have in referring the measure to the city attornoy, knowing that he had drafted itand carefully protected tha rights of the city? DESPITE innumerable obstacles, the stockyards management is pushing into new fields for business. Having secured a permanent footing among the stock- growers of the central west, the advaa- tages of the Omaha market are being t Now Moxico and the favorable results, ansas City market has introl of that section packed by interested pb to decry Omaha, but Although this market is ¢ want of direct railrond commmunication, experimental ship- ments have resulted favorably in price that a congiderable movement of New Meoxican stdek to Omaha is confi- dently expectetf during the present year: A writer in the New Mexican Stock Grower points ot that not only are prices better in Omaha, sbut that this class of cattle find here an incronsing des mand. . The business of feeding stock is growing rapidly in Nebraska. It af- fords a double profit to the farmer,—a market for his surplus corn and remun- erative prices for corn-fed beef, Loca- ted in the center of the great corn belt of the west, Omaha offers superior ad- vantages as a market to the stock growors of the southwest. The result- ing benefits warrant a more aggresive campaign for business in New Mexico and southern Colorado. spread throug! wouthwest, Heretoforo th held complote Its advocates railroads, atte without suce handicapped fe 80 A MINNESOTA st a bill governing the e dates for office, man has evolved penses of candi- Candidates ave graded into three classes; State, county, and town and eity. Senators and congre men are included in the first class, and are rated at $1,000; second-elass $500 and third-class $250. The schedule is inter- esting us showing the drift of reform, but the figures are not based on what tife office will To limit a senator to 81,000, when a gle vote frequently commands five times that sum, is manifestly unjust to aspirants, It is & penurious candidate, for govornor who can successfully stump a state for $1,000, and the candidate for congress weathering a biennial gale for a like sum would be a political curiosit, Coming down to local spoils, the sched- uleof expenses is a dampener to the growth of political ambition. Five hun- dred dollars would not irrigate a quarter scction of a respect- able county, and $250 would not moro than pay for a first class political jag in alive town, It is barely possibie the would-be reformer took this means of giving the outside public an inside view of the financial distress in political cireles in the Soft Pine state. TiE bill in the legislature, providing that all unimproved land adjoining im- proved farms or.lets shall be listed for purpose of taxation at the same figure as the improved land, would have éne good effect if it should become a law. It would lead to thedmprovement of alarge amount of wild land by its present own- ers, or its sale to persons who would im- prove it, with regulting large material benefit to the skate. The amount of such land in the sfate two years ago was greater than the amount of the im- proved land, and is probably notany less at prosent - At first glance the proposi- tion is likely toappear not exactly just, but why should'the owner of unimproved lands be allowed. to profit from its ap preciation. by . reason of ,the improve: ment of contiguows property without paying for the benefit? Why should the enterprising citizen who cultivates his farm or buildson his property be re- | quired.to pay more relatively in taxa- tion than the man who expends no capi- talin improvements and simply holds his land for spoculation or for an in- crease in valu contingent upon the in- vestments und enterprise of his neigh- bors? There are many cogent reasons in support of the proposed meusure, ADVICES from Washington give strong assurances of the passage of the Farnam street bridgo bill at this session. No serious objection can be urged against the measure. It provides for a single span of not less than 420 feet over the main channel of the river, thus obviating obstruction to mythical navi- gation and disposing of the third-of-a- mile limit. The great importance of a combined railroad and wagon bridge connecting with the main thoroughfare of the city is apparent. It insures com- petition in traffig between the two cities and railroad councction with the heart of the city. “'T1s an )ll wlud that bl(\ws nobody good.” Onsober second thought Kan- sas City finds consolation in the fact the boundary decision makes farming within the city limits a lost occupation, Anything Wrong? Mungey's Weekly. Uncle Sam is giving back tho land that be- long to the Indians—six feet at atime, e An Enemy's Praise, New York World, Judge Gresham has the grip, which is just waiat some other eminent republicans lack. . Hog and Hominy Next. New York World, With Irby of South Carolina, and Pefter of Kansas, sitting side by side in tho senate it looks as if the war was over and cotton and corn had got together at last. A e Handy o Nebraska Chicggo News. The days are ggowlng longer, doubtless out of deference to the @ishes of Illinois legisla- tors, who will n :tty tong days in order to trausact any bsiess at all. Weak-K Mugwumps, American. Senator Gorman has al music the mugwump that, after all, his ef- bill did not amount to press has discovi forts agaiust the anything. to This. orke Sun, many laws passed for the and not with any ra- 3 t they will ever be en- @Gmbug is this amusing There are o g sake of belng pasi tional expectatio forced. So full o old planet. s i Denver News. ““Peffor for president!” Thatis the latest cry of the farmers' alliance. How about Stanford of California and Donucly of Mio- nesotal the calculation. Uncle #am Can Fix Things. St, Joseph Herald, In the Omaba bridge case, the decision of the federal court apposrs to be that all rail- roads have the right to use the Union Pac bridge, but they cannot avail themselyes of | that right unul another contract is entored | into as to & time scheduio for the passing of the bridge. This will take the case to the supreme court with a delay of two or three years, and tho Milwaubo and the Rock Island may find it necessary to build another bridge. All this trouble, expense and dam- age to cities and the public would b avoided if Unele Sam had control of the Union Pa- which he should and may have, by clos- his mortgages on it pediuietals 7 Confidence in ths Mule, Chattanooga News, There has been a proposition to let cars be run across the bridge by electricity and have a single mule walk in front of each car, as this would not frighten horses any worse than horse cars, The idea seems tomeet ‘with publie favor, e How About the Alllance? St. Joseph N The workingmen of this country are enough to'want the news of the world in the columns of the papers which they read. They do not want simply the information which may bo derived from a limited field of interests, They donot call for a “working- men’s paper, any more than thoy do for workingmen's street cars or workingmen's oranything else that is specially designed fora class. A newspaper, to su ceed, must be a newspaper, not a mere repre- scutative of any class interests. Southe There is no fun Now York Herald, y is fun everywhere, in every vs, at all seasons, at every hour of the twenty-four, perpotually, unceasingly, everlastingly, moro and more all thetime, There never was so much fun as today, and tomorrow there will be half as much again, No more fun in congross! Whew, what a de- plorable stato of liver and lights! Better brace up and remember tho great truth of truths: in congross just now.— “Wo may be happy vet, You bet!"” —_— OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The cabinet crisis in Italy is at this momeat the most important and interesting event in European affairs. The latest an- nouncement is that the king rofused to con- sent to a reduction of the naval and military budgets, whereupon a portion of the cabinet withdrew. Crispi's resignation was accepted and & new man called upon to form a cabinet. The cause of the crisis is wholly the ques- tion of financial reorganization, to which Crispi was committed. He had vromised last November that there should be no further demand on the part of the government for the creation of new taxes, and that the alarming deficits in the annual budgets should be covered by whole- sale economies in naval and mgitary expon- ditures. Upon these assurances the govern- ment ticket was elected. But Crispi did not adhere to his promise, and on proposing new and onerous taxes met with an overwhelm- ing defeat in parliament. The cabinet re- signed, but the king asked Crispi to form o new cabinet, hoping that the differences could be adjusted. The position of the gov- ernment regarding the budgets has, however, rendered this impossible, and Crispi, the ablest statesman Italy has had since Cavour, is out of power. There is likely to be a great deal of difficulty in forming a cabinet that ‘will carry out the policy of the government, and when such a cabinet is formed it is sure toencountera powerful popular hostility. Van Wyck of Nebraska is left out of | The situation is conseaneatly a most inter- esting one, involving possibilities of a very serious nature, e Among the questions which this state of affairs in Ttaly suggests, not the least impor- tant relates to the future of the triple alli- ance. The authors of this compact between Germany, Austria and Italy, for mutual na- tional protection aud the preservation of the peace of Kurope, are now no longer in the councils of these countries. ‘Count Andrassy is dead, Bismarck is in retirement, and now Crispi has no voice in affairs. The alliance still in force, but it has been growing weaker in the eyes of Kurope, even tho parties to it teeling that the peace guardn- teed by the existence of theagreement was purchased too dearly, aud that even war would scarcely be moro ruinous than the terrible drain upon the tional resources involved by the enormous armaments. The indications are that the triple alliance is doomed, and what may fol- low its dissolution opens a wide field for speculation, . ~*x The Spanish elections resulted, as erally expected, in favor of the conser ministry, headed by Seuor Canovas del ¢ tillos, but no one anticipated such sweeping conservative gains as have appeaved in Madrid and Barcolona, both places in which the liberal majority is generally luvge. This, however, was foreshadowed by the municipal elections held a short time ago, it is in consonance with the general course of Spanish politics, under which a ministey in power always wins, and the conservative majority in the cities will be swelled and increased by the vote of the rural districts, where the feeling in favor of the protectionist pblicy of the conservatives isstrong. The conservative premier, who has a strong majority, but a dubious lease of power before him, was in a small minority in the last chamber elected four years ago. Through successive changes in that chamber, Senor Sagasta, the liberal leader, had re- mained in control, but he gradually wore out the enthusiasm of his suppor and the patience of the countr, In January, 1800, his colleagues all resigned in a body, and after ineffectual attempts Lo organize a new minis- try the queen-regent called iu the conservativo leader and, though in a minority, he org ized under sufferance a cabinct which in- cluded a number of previous liverals. It was thon confidently expected that he would lose oftice beforo the present election came on, but by one expedient after another, often mors ingenious than coustitutional, he has main- tained himself in power, the normal influ ence of u Spunish ministry at the polls has od by a popular programme the free manipulation of voling lists inc to a law creating universal suffrage, and the result is a conservative majovity, likely to prove as insecure as most Spanish majorities, The immigration policy Brazil Is expected to contribute rapidly to the progress and prosvecity of that country. A company has been incorporated with a capitalof 25,000,000, contributed by European and Brazilian capitalists, which proposes to establish” twenty agricultural settlements on the public land of the new republic. It will briug from Evrope free of cost 5,000 families, the heads of which are to be practical furin ers or skilled mechanics, furnish them howos and implements, and group them in villages between which the company proposes to build railroad lines, so as to afford ample means of transporta- ton. These villages or colonies are o form anueleus of population, about which the fu- ture immigration to Brazil witl gather, and they are expe to grow into prosperous towns and tbriving cities, which will prove valuable components of the repub- lie. ‘Phis scheme, if it1s caeried into exeeu inaugurated by tion according to the prograrame laid down by the company aud endorsed by the gov ment, which guarautees @ b per cont interest on @ portion of the capital invested, and gives the land to be used froe, can gearcely fail t vlace the incoming populn | lation of the new republic on a solid foundation. Brazil is sadly in need of {ncw blood, and if shois ever to uttain the rank to which her natural advantaces entitle hor as & republic, this now blood must ostab- lishit for her. Under this plan the immi- grant arriving in Brazil after the colonios are established will make his way to one or the other of theso villages, fnstead of boing al- lowed to linger in tho largor cities, where he is ot neoded and where his prosoaco is a hindrance rathor than an aid to the develop- mont of the country. If hels ignorant, as tho great majority of immigrants are, he will find skillea mochanics and practical agricuituralists nooding bis labor and anxlous, for theic own sakes as woll as for his, to in- surict him how to make an honest living and #3d to the wealth of his adopted country. 1f he is & farmer the public lands will offer him afarm or an employment in which his labor will bo in demand for years to como at loast. T'his system attacks the immigration probiem at the outset Instoad of waiting until it has grown t00 unwioldy to be succossfully bandled, and 1t is becauseof this that it holds out such promise for Brazil. «u The proposal to connect [reland and Scot- land by means of a submarine tunnel is at- tracting considerable attention 1 Groat Britain, If the projoct should be carried out the two countries would bo separated by only a half-hour's ride, giving tho Irish people & better chuncoof obtaining work elsewhero and generally improving the social and onomic conditions of Treland, In the con- struction of the tunnel, 1t appears, thero would be no special difficuities encountored. Mr. Maston of Belfast, however, suggests a tubular bridge of steel containing a roadway, to bo sunk sixty fodt below sea lovel and kopt in position by unchored chains attached to the channel bottom. The tube would con- sist of an outor and an inner steel skin, PASSIN Washington St : “Why don’t you mar Mr. Bachelor?” “Well, I've been trying for years to find a girl” “Havo you got any money " “Enough, I guess.” ~ “Then you just hold still awhilo aud the grl wall find you.” Now York Continent: Ingalls fought shy of iridescence in his drcaming, but he saw stars for all that. Harvard Lampoon: Amy—How becoming that garland 15 to Miss Autumn! ko (Jealously)—Yes; ivy always does look well ou ruins, Detroit Free Pross: Bigzs—I believe those peovle at the laundry steal my collars and cuffs. Boggs—Stecl ‘en® Thoy iron mive. Philadelphia Times—Accordiag to the con- stitution o man's life cannot be twice put in jeopardy. What bearing has this on a person engaging the same doctor to attend him more than onco! Smith & Gray’s Monthly : hundred doliars for that sack Dealer—Iut, sir, it's a p Husband —A perfect skin! is. Come on, Ciara! Husband—Six skin, Yes; I inow it New York Herald: A camol géos through tue eye of a needle and a wife goes through her husband’s pockets ; aud thore you are. Detroit Fre Pr have caught a thing. Second 1 ramp —No wonder, any snap to you. First Tramp—T never You haven't New York Herala: Mrs. Chloe Trywater —Theah yo' wglected to git yo' minister a dunnation? Mrs, Dinah Wi N'glectod ! No sech thing! We had a big un all ready to &in him, w'en he heerd on't an’ ’scaped! As Anglomania’s on the wane, What will the gentle dude becomet Will it not_give him mortal pain To have his garments made at homol Young Mr. Dedbroke—I want to marry your danghter. 0Old Man ‘wln‘phl% ~What for? Dedbroke—Well | don’t know exactly, but 1 h(:lpu its fornot less thun a hundred thou- sand. rderground Bank. w York Sun, The imported Canadisn feot of the Hon. Jeremiah Sockless Simpson of Medicine Lodge can never ran for presidont, but ho ought to be sccretary of the treasury if cver there is an alliance prosident of the United States. As a financier, an expert upon circu- lating medium and an inventor of moncy, the Sockless Soerates beats all the other cur- rency cranks of the alliance as ightning beats a mossenger boy, Ho un- folded his views before the people of Wichita last Friday night, and even the scanty ports of his spsech which ha show that F in the hornbook of finance, aud that Jorr, a bigger man than the two of them Jerry Simpsor much as ious metals as circulating medium. was a bitof paper, and_be would prefer to see all gold and silver left in the mountains, where they belonged. He would tave an os. timate made of tho amount under the ground and would issue silver cortificates equivalent in value. Coin in the treasury was liable to v a foreign enemy, but no amount of faith evén could remove' the mountains ang their precious freight.” What s the sub-troasury plan by the side s subterranean treasury plan? Could there oe a bolder stroke of finencial genius 1 to draw checks upon the Bank of Us hoso vast vaults and boundless sub-treasuries are inexhaustible llt‘,nusil Lth incstimuble. How are you goin 3 vour aceount! How are you going Kk tho safe deposit compaiy of tho bowels of the carth? Tn reverent appreciation of the mind of this Canuck Kansan direct the paying teller of the Nibelungs to pay to the orde nial Simpson six thousand (6,000) pots of rain- bows, @ crato of sunshiue cucumbers, and a leatnér medal made out, of the skin of Faf And we adviso all the Kansas alliance men to provide themselves with wands of witeh hazel to find the banks under their farms. And we further advise them to stick to J. S, Simpson, aealer 1w underground securities and dispenser of the treasures of the earth. THE BOY OF OUR FARM mighty we he James Whitcomb Riley in New York Mait and Ex- press. The Boy lives on our Farm, he's not Afeard of horses, noue n op T DACe, er run! stimes he drives two horses, when comes 1o town and briogs n full o' taters nen, roastin’ ears un’ things, er trot, An’ Tywo horses is “'a team,” ho s Au’ when you drive er hiteh, un’s & “noar’’ horse, sl —1 don't know which. The Boy lives on our Favm, ho told Me, v ‘at he can s By lookin® at their te A horso is toa " 1 guoss, th, how old 1 be the gladdest boy alive 1f 1 knowed much as that, Au’ could stand up like him an’ drive, Au’ ist push back wy hat, Like hie comes skallyhootiu’ through Our alley, with o; A-waviu fire-ye- ‘The Boy lives on our Farm! HORNAN A JEALOCS LOVER. The Object of His Adoration Takes Ex- ception to His Methods, AN EDITOR SUED FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL. Mary Briggs Returned to Lincoln— An Aged Father Deserted by His Son and Son-in-Law—Odds and Enas, Lixcoy, Neb, Fob, 0.—[Special to Tux Bere]~Chapter two of the Hohman- Hartshorn case came to light loday in Justice Brown's court. Mrs, Frances Andersong~ the heroine, is a widow living in tho block at Fifteenth and O strects. She caused the issuance of a warrant today for the arrest of Henry Honman, the music dealer, charging him ot only with threatening to beat, shoot and kil her, but also with brutally assault- ing hpr last night shortly after midaight, Mrs. Anderson s that her assailant com- menced beating on the door us though ho would break it down and when she opened it he pushed himself in, and after delivering himself of the foulest language lmaginable € ave her a terrible beating. Mrs. Anderson says tuat sho has been suf- foring a number of indignities at the hands of Hohman becanso sho rofusos to keep com- pany with him. The two were on the best of terms a number of years, but, aftor sho dis- covered that he was & drinking man sho ro- fused to allow him to call ou her again, he was considorably infatuated with tho fair widow this cut him to the heart. Mrs. An- dorson siys that she loanea the money, held her in trust for herson, to a gentlom: med Mr. Hartshorn, Tho fact that tho lady had business relations with that goutie mai raised Hohmaa's ire, and the result was tho arrest of Hohuman lust summeor for ruise ing a disturbance under Hartsho n's window, Since that time Mrs, Andorson says that she hos been in constantterror of hier life, Matters finally came to a crisis last night when Hohman came to her home and bratally assiulted her, LITTLEFIELD'S LUCK, The last issue of the Nebraska Laborer, a weekly paver edited by B, S, Littlefield, con- tained about three columns of critivism aimed ataimost everybody at prese the past connectea with the city government. W. H. Newberry, chief of the fire depart- mont, was among these, and this afternoon he caused a warrant to be issued from Judgo Houston's court chargiug Littlefield with criminal libel, The paragraph to which the chief takes exception is as follows, and in- clude tho parenthet iditions of his at- torney “W., H, N , the defunct Tammanyite, s ver, ful to let buildings burn down (meaning that this affiant is caro- less, negligent, unskilliul and unqualified, and carelessly allows buildings to be burned down), drinks whisky and takes the boys hat this and men to visit buwa. 1 the city), and sends all over the country t men”to work for hall the wages the eity has to pay (meaning that this affiant inducés and secures the em- ployment of men to act as fircemen, and ex- acts, obtains and keeps half the wages)." THE SHEEDY MURDER, The transcript in the Sheedy murder case was filed in district court by Judge Houston this morning. The findings of the court aro brief, and set forth that the proof being evi- dent and thespresumption great that Monday McFarland and Mary Sheedy are guilty of tho crime as charged, and ordering that they be committed without bail. MARY BRIGGS RETURNS, Mary Briggs, who left a few days ago for Creston, Ta., returned to Liuncoln this morn- ing, at the invitation, itis presumed, of the Creston authorities. ' The county oficials are inaquandary as to what o do with tho ino charmer, who claims that Colonel Sizer and Grant McFarland are her CHARGES PRAUD, Charles F. Wilson complains to tho county court that on May 1, 1835, he entered into an ment with - W. 1. Trvine whereby, in cousideration of the payment of £ . month, the defendant agreed to decd lot 4, block Irvine's second addition. o did not make payments promptly, buton_Fobruary 1, 1859, Invine agreed to extend the timeif Wilson would pay three notes then due, Wilson s ho did 50, but_soon afterwards discov that two months previons to accepting this money Irvine had decded the lob to James Doak. The lot is now worth &350, and Wilson asks damages fo that amount to- getner with the &2 he Las paid. SIE NEEDS A GUARDIAN, The application by Morris Paden for the appointieat of & uardian for his mother, KSlizabeth Paden, whom hie claims is mentally incompeteat_to have tho of hier estate, valued at_§0,000, came Stewart this afternoon, up The sou claims appointment_of a trustec. ) squandering hor that bis mother has been fortune. TURNED OUT TO DI from o son, Council Blufls, was printed in Tire B inguiring the whertabouts of John Colvan or Anna Scott. Yesterday Colvan appeared at the potice station, but b did not caro to take chargo of his wie ler, whom Jack- son described niless and helpless, van_ says that Jack- son is also @ son-u-law of the old gentle- min, anathat Jackson has gotten all the prop- ot vid of him. Mrs, Sweott was at West Point whon last heard from. ATESIN PIN William Chiun, propriotor of the gambling den above 930 'O street, whose placo was raided Sunduy night, was fined 525 and costs this morni The eight othors arrested at the time were discharged, the majority prom- ising to leave towu. ODDS AND ENDS. The session of the United in Lincoln cuded at noon toda; Dundy and the other officials co ¥ the court left on the afterncon traing for Omaha. The next session of the court will be held at Hastings, on the second Tuesday in Mach, A. i. Walstrom, States court L and dudeo nocted with the young fellow who wchioved considerable rotoriety during his stay in the city, bas gone to Kunsas City thout a word of farewell W unyone. The ow's right name is Andrew Harry M uire, by which he was known at his home in Birminghaw, Ala. Coroner Dr. Holyoke, after amining into tho facts surrounding the doeath of Mrs, WhiteLead at the hospital Wednosday nigh decided that an inQUest was nob necessary. Hor son at Broken Bow was communicatod with and the remaiussent there at noon today. The Poct's John Kendrick Ban: s, I sent my verses to the maid who'd wrned my head, Which sho acknowledged ere the waning of L ‘much obliged to you, dear friond,” sho wrote and said; “And s tomorrow morn at ton I'mto bo v Il read thew to my husbaud on our houe, moon.” —— No Help for It, New York Herald, e at me.'’ ring—atchoo 1" Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, Baking - oes POWdeEr 7 I A ), ) before Judgo Stowar : but was ¢ ulinuml./ The matter will probably bo settled by the,