Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1891, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY., FEBRUARY 8, 1891.--SIXTEEN THE DAILY BEE l{ ROSEWATER Enrtonr I:UIILY‘GIHCI) EVERY MORNI TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Dally and funday, One Year. Bix months ey . Three months, Bunday Bee, One Year....... Weekly Bee, Ono Year. #1000 500 200 200 100 OFFICES: Omaha, The Beo Bullding. v, Corner N and TS, |3 h O th Streets. nefl Bl Chieago Offic ow York ashingion Ponrl Str Chamber of Commierce, s 13,14 and 15, Trihnine Buliding § Fourteenth strect. CORRESPONDENCE. nications relating to nows and or should be addressed to the All com editorinl 1 Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Allbusiness letters and remiitances should be addressed to The Bee Pubiishing Company, Omala. D cks and_postoflico orders 1o be mude lor of the com- pany. The Bee Publishing Comrany. 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Notary Publie. —_— ACCORDING to the British press, Sir Julian Pauncefote has inserted the last limb of his name where Sir West ampu- tated his official head. ir Julian talks too much, 70 cop oF Novom cember, 151, 2, 2440 conies. Eworn tolefore me, pre: AMID the o of worldly affairs, Chicago does not propose to neg- lect the future state, FHer enterprising boomers have filed a mortgage on Bchweinfurth rad i A 10NUS of $1,200,000 is annually paid to stifle competition in trans-continental traffic. Itis an insignificant portion of the total sum squeszed from patrons of the Pacific roads by the overland rail- way monopoly. THE court of last resort of New York decides that sleeping car companies are responsiblo for the safo kesping of a travelor’s property, whon they afford no better protection than a cutain. Slowly but surely the traveling public is gain- ing an equivalent for extra fares and the payment of the salaries of porters. THE proposed bridge on the boundary line botween Douglas and Surpy coun- tles looks very much like a schemo to hit two birds with one stone. Wo shall not be surprised tosee an urgent demand for a bond subsidy from both counties and the right of way by which the bridge is to escape taxation in either of them. Outrof an estimated population of 28,000 in Alaska less than one thousand are ontitled to the rightsof citizenshig. In the light of these figures it is not sur- prising the movement for n territorial government is enthusinstically sup- ported. It would create just enough offices to go around. ned to ab- second -hand ed Tur Arapahoe Indians dec sorb the Messiah craze and ordered an official investigation of its source. Five stalwart buckscom- posed the committee. They proceeded to the home of the pretender in Nevada and demanded proof of his powers, which was not furnished. They found him a common half-breed, with red hair and alimber tongue, and bearing the imported neme of John Johnson. The report of the investigators is interesting for brevity and congressional tone. “We look upon him as a clever schemer and great fraud, and told him' 80 in plain words.” THE destruction of forests on the pub- domain is attracting wide attention, Millions of acres'of government timber lands have been denuded for mercan- tile purposes. The law permits the cut- ting of timber on public lands for *“fuel and domestie purposes,” but the greater part of the timber is felled for railroad tlos and bridges by workmen employed by mercenary contractors. The spoliation of forests on foothills and mountain sides is & menace to the prosperity of adjacent sottlements. Governor Beaver of Penn- sylvania and Governor Toole of Montana call attontion to the subject in their an- nual messagos and earnestly urgo legis- lative nction to preserve forests, especi- ally at the headwaters of streams. Stato “ana national associations are actively alling the work, and it is probable that logislation, both state and national, will soon bo had to effectively check tho destruction of public fo I7 18 desirablo that the government shall not boj committed to any extrava- gance in connection with the Columbian exposition, but the disposition of some mombers of congress to reduce economy to the point of niggardliness cannot bo approved. The exposition isa national affair, and as such should receive liberal consideration from the government, It is proper to puta reasonable limit to salaries and to provide against waste that may come from unnecessarily fre- quent - meotings of commissions and managers, but a pleayunish policy in there or any other direction will not be creditable to the country and will tend to impair the character of the enterprise in the esti- mation of the world. As was said bv Congressinan Butterworth, the world s looking on to see whether the fair can be carried on successfully a thousand miles from the seaboard, and there ought to be a national pride in the mat- tor, REASSURING DECLARATIONS. The position of Governor Boydregard- ing interost rates in Nobraska. ns stated in his inaugural message, and the action of the sonate in pussing almost unani- mously the resolutions declaring it to be the sense of thay body that the prevail- ing legal rate of interest should not be changed and that it is Inexpedient to ex+ tend the time of stays of execution on mortgages, will have a reassuring effect upon outside capital. These declara- tions came none too soon to allay the growing feeling of anxiety which hadal- ready operated to induce enstern capital- ists to withhold proposed investments in this state, and in some instances to with- draw capital for vransfer elsewhere. The Washington dispatches of THE sEa few days ago recorded the expor- ience of an Indinna dealer in securities who had visited Now England to ootain loans, there having been proposad in Indiana legislation similar in character to that siggested in raska, He found money lenders indisposed to have anything to do with the securities of states where radical legislation re- gavdipg intorest ana mortgages was contemplated and & gen- oral intention to withdraw from such states capital placed there for in- vestment. While in matters of this nature the proverbial timidity of capi- tal isapt to run to an unwarranted treme, and exaggerated reports of ap- prebonded danger obtain currency, there can be no question that eastern capital- ists who had money here were becoming vory anxious, [uvestigation showed that the actual withdrawal of capital has not been large, but thereis no lack of evidence that the money lenders were preparing to make o transfer of capi- tal as soon as they should become satisfied that there was o real danger of the adop- tion of proposed legislation inimical o their interests, "T'he bankers of Omaha, and doubtless of other es of th te, have answered all calls upon them for informution with the assurance that there would bo no legislation in Ne- braska damaging to outside eapital this has produced a good effect in ing solicitude, but there was needed to fully reassure castern investors an offi- cial expression such as that contained in the message of the governor and the resolutions adopted by the scnate. The wholesome effect of this cannot fail to be at onece manifested insweeping away all anx and uppro- hension, and perhaps inducing n more active inflow of capital than might otherwise have taken place. In that event the agitation will not have been without value, and perhaps inanyevent some good will come of it inan educa- tional way, Itis tobe presumed thata great many members of the legislature have learned to take a bronder view than before of the questions involved in legislation velating to charges upon capital and it investments, and have come to understand that a new state, like Nebraska, which must borrow money for the deo- velopment of its resources, and which is surrounded by anactive competition for capital, cannot afford to imposo any conditions or restrictions upon it mot imposed by neighboring states. Outside cupitalists may feel confident that all danger of legislation unfavorable to legitimate investments in Nebraska has passed. A STRONG LIGHT ON RAILROADS. In the February number of the Arena Me C. Wood Davis, a publicist of vising fame, turns a strong light on modern railroad methods. By a careful compi- lation of official statistics he lays bare the whole iniquitous system of watered stocks, flat securities, fictitiousdividends and exorbitant rate a skillful sur- geon dissects a subject under the knife, No person who reads his exhaustive ar- ticle will wonder that the producing masses are crying aloud for felorm, He reviews the history of railroad financiering in the United States, and makes & merciless comparison of the actual cost of the roads with the ficti- tiovs values represented by inflated issues of bonds and stocks. Reduced to the simplest terms, his showing is as follows: Total mileage in the United States 145.057 Capitalization per mile, (1858 Actuni average cost permile nings per mile on actual in: tuent 000 00 1,021 85 rmings per mile on fietitious capital. .. 1,040 T3 Total yeariy o capital © In computing the actual cost of rail- road construction at $30,000 amile, Mr. Davis appears to be very fair. 1t 15 well known that in the prairie country rosnds are built ata cost of 3,000 to $15,000, He allows the railroads the benefit of 197,000,000 acres of public lands given them by the government and of munici- pal aid donated to the amount of $150,- 000,000 to $250,000,000, In view of these facts he may well say that if his ealcula- tion errs it is on the side of a too liberal allowance for cost of consiruction. What, then, is the conclusion? Simply that the people are yearly paying dividends on more than twice the capital actunlly invested in the railroads, and that in the aggregate the sum thus wrongfully extracted from their pockets amounted, in 1888, tothe astounding total of $36,- rainiss on fictitions The process by which this crime is committed under the form of law is well known, Itls illustrated overy time now railroad is built in the west. Bonds and stock are issued for asum far in ex- coss of the actual cost of construction, which is frequently made very high in order to cover the profits of officials secretly interested in it. Then more stock is issued and placed on the market, and bouds arve sold in order to furnish money to pay fictitious dividends on the fiat wealth thus created. 'When useless purallel lines are built for the purpose of being bought up, more stock and bonds are poured forth from the prolific printing press to pay for them. The people are then assessed to pay divi- dends on the new stock and bouds, and to muke up the losses of the useless parallol lines. Thus year by year the burden on the people’s back is piled highor. Is this iniquitous system to go on for- ever? If so, what will be the rallroad rates lmposed on future generations, who must furnish dividende for oceans of water yeot to come lorth from therock of publio credulityat the bidding of some future Moses of the rallroad tribe? Mr. Davis soes but one remedy for the ovil. This is rigid governmental re- striction of rates on a basis of roasona- able interest for the original cash invest- ment. If this fails, he has nothing to suggest excopt outright government ownership. Sweeping changes in railroad methods and trafiic rates are bound to come. It willbe fortunate for the railroads if their managers have the wisdom to an- tcipate the future by taking immediate steps to moet the people half way. —_— SUCCESSFUL ARBITRATION. Massachussetts has a stato board of ar- bitration and conciliation, whose dutics areimplied in its title. The ann portof this board has recently beon sub- mitted to the legislature, from which it appears that notable success has signal- ized its offorts to sottlo controversies and avert conflicts batween employers and employes. The board has 1o pow: of course, to enfores arbitration. It onlyact upon a dispute on the agree- ment of both partics tosabmit an issue to its eonsideration, But the board has at every opportunity when a controver came to its knowl- edge exorted an influence to bring the parties together on terms of equal- ity in the presonceof an impartial tri- bunal, and by removing friction and re- ducing old of differance to a minimum, sought to effoct o settlemont under which employes and workmen might resume their natural and nor mal relations to eache othor, In me this moethod of employing v conciliation, by a tribunal wholly disin- terested as between the parties and d siring only the general gool, was cessful in effecting settlemonts accept- able to both sides and approved by the gevoral public sentiment. The principle upon which this Massi- chusotts board works, that of constant vigilaneo regarding the relations tween employors and employed, and the impartial character of its investigations of all controversiesbrought to its at tion, has had the natural effect of com- mending the bonrd to the confidence of hoth classes, and asa result appeals to it become every year mors numerous Its influence becomes more and more po- tent in proventing hasty and impulsive action and indueng parties botween whom differences exist that threaton an outbreak to submit the matter for the adjudication of the boar In such 0 the results variably been moro than those following the 1 guration of strikes, and the conse- quent creation on one or both sides of a state of feeling that was in itself an obstacle to any fair and dis- passionate consideration of the gri ances alleged. Another service por- formed by the board that hasbeen of much practical value is that of recom- mending wagoe lists from time to time, many cases in which a question of prices has arisen in somo shop or factory hav- ing heen settled by reforence 1o these carefully prepared hsts of the board Although a number of strikes and lockouts happened during the year that were decided without the interposition of vhe board, and almost without excep- tion disastrously to those who embarked in them, the exertions of the hoard were instrumental in pre ing much more far-reaching injury to the interests of employers and employed than therecord of the year's labor disturbances in the state shows. The report obs that the experience of the paat yewr with controversies which have arisen between employers and theiremployeshastended to prove more conelusively than ever that strikes and lockouts are expensive methods of dealing with differences of opinion. So far as these methods are productive of any definite result, they seem well calculated to leave hind in the minds of the working- men a smouldering sonss of grievances unredressed, and on the side of the em- ployer a_fecling that undue pressure has ‘been exert at a time when he was least able to withstand it. Arbitration cannot be made compulsory between pri- ate purties, and there will always be cases of controversy and conllict which must be fought out betwezn those who engage in them. But the success “at- tained by the Massachusetts board in settling differences without a prolonged contest and in averting others is encour- aging evidence of whnt may he done by abody that has made a claim to the ve- spect and confidence of employers and those who labor. causos S¢ he- se8 rves be- THE SUGAR BEET QUESTION. Tt is plain that the real animusof the movement for the removal of the state bounty on beet sugar is the com plaint of farmers to the effect that they are not sufficiently paid for their labor, In this complaint, as THe BEE hus held fror~ the first, there is a measure of truth. The cultivation of a sugar beet crop s a very different sortof manual labor from that involved in the cultiv: tion of corn. It is harder work, and it costs more to the acre. Thisis one rea- son why itought to bring much bettor pecuniary returns. Another is the fact that there is no claim of an overpro- duction of sugar beets, suchas in very productive years has reduced the prico of corn to a beggarly 13 cents per bushel, For these reasons, farmers who en- goged last year in the cultivation of beets, and netted no more than corn paid them the year before, had a right to complain that they saw nobenefit to bo derived by farmers from the payment of the bounty to the manufacturers. It is mnow announced, however, that the Grand Island com- pany will agree to .pay farmers an extra 50 cents a ton on beots if tho bounty is left undisturbed. This ar- rangement will add from 35 to $10 per acre to the farmers’ profits, and will perhaps be entirely satisfactory. It should at least be carefully considered. There is a broader way of looking at the whole subjectof the date sugar bounty, and the legislature should not fail to study it also from this side. Ne- braska cannot afford to strike a erushing blow at her most promising industry. ¥ the sugar beet business is encournged no man can calculate to what wast proportions it may expand When it is considered that 600 factories § treaty referred to did not work to the the #ize of that/at Grand Island would be required t& manufacture the raw sugar now imported; that the United Statos paid $51000,000 1ast year to Ger- man and Framch producers of this very crop; that if tho state should progress only 8o far a8 t6 make sugar enough for its own consumption, it would keep in circulation ab ‘Home $3,500,000 that 1t now sends annfially to Burope, to the West Indies nnd to Louisiana; that when wo build yp this business wo de- velop town and country together—when these facts are, marshaled before the t begins to see what a great ke it has in the further development of Nobraskaus a sugar stato. The latest indications point to a care- ful study and rensonable adjustment of the question by the present legislature —e MECHANICS® LIEN LAW. Every home builder, prosent or pros- pective, is vitally interested in the move- mont to s a modification of tho mochanics’ lien law, so far as it rolates to dealers in building materials, The present law has been so rigidly construed by the courts that the man who contracts for o house.is at the merey ¥ one or all persons who supply ma- terial for the structure. No matter how faithfully the owner may fulfill his obli- gations, or how*carefully ho may guard against dishonesty, ho is held responsi- ble for the payment of every cent’s worth of material in the building. In a word, he is obliged to guarantes the payment of bills in the making of which has had no voice, The fact is that the law as operated and construed is nothing less than class legislation. Why should the dealer in building material enjoy privileges de nied the gro butcher, tailor or dress maker? Tho latter cinnot enfores a lien within sixty days, or atany time after thedelivory of their goods, yet the material man is invested by law with sments of supdri y and the mere delivery of his goods and their use on alot constitutes a mortgage on both building 3 Tnall other departments of busines: the granting of creait is carefully guarded. The successful merchant in- quires into the standing of the applicant, hisability to pay and his resource The dealers in building materials ar by law relieved of this precaution, eredit is granted promiscuously, r less of the staading of the contr knowing thatin the event of his failure to pay the owner of the building is held The mavifest injustice of the law apparent to all who have had any ex- perionce in building. The most sarious question that at the outset confronts the man who desires to erect a building is how to protect himself against liens. He may secure a good bond from the contractor, but should he deviate a hair from the conditions of the bond, it will not stand the test of cour But this does not protoct him fromliens in case the contractor, proves dishonest. The builder is obliged to pay the latter and sue on the bond with slight chances ~of success. In justice to ‘all concerned, the dealer in buildin{t materialsshotild be uired erve notice on the owner of the build- the first delivery of material, would he held responsible. Failure to sarve such notice should opar- ate as a bar to liens after the building is completed and paid for. This would compel material men to oxerczse caution in givi edit and serve as a protec- tion ag \inst irresponsible contractors, ure is THE CANADIAN PROP0OS ALS. The propositions which the Candian government his suggeste | as subjocts for a veciprocity treaty with the United Statos, are fairly to be interpreted as in- dicating a genuine desire to cffect an reement that will be mutually bene- ficialto the two countrics, The first provosal is for the renewal of the treaty of 1854, with such modifications as the al- tered circumstances of both countri quire, and such extensions as shall be red in the interest of both. The at- It was on isfaction of the United states. the whole a deciaedly i ment from which Cana much the greater benefit. It was not an ag: ment that fairly conkerved the interests of both countries and secured mutual ad vantage: Its termination was wel- comed by all interests in this country, and the experience under it wus such as to croate a nearly iversal sentiment hostile to procity with Canada. That treaty would consequently have to undergo modifications so sweeping, in order to make it acceptable to the peo- ple of the United States, as to practic- ally make of it a new agreement, and for this reason it would seem to have been wiser on the part of the Canadian government not to have proposed the treaty of 1854 as the basis of a new agree- ment. As to the proposed reconsideration of the treaty or arrangement relating to the Atlantic fisherics, so as to give Ca- nadian fish frec admission into our mar ket in return foe ducilities to American fishermen in Catiadian ports, it isa ques- tion whether it will be acceptable to the fishery interest oft New England. But that interest has'not the claim to con- sideration that it formerly had, and the proposal is to beregarded with refer- ence to the general benefits that might result. The relagation of the coasting taws of the seahoardand the inland waters dividing Canada from the United States might bé’ fone to mutual advan- tage, the fuct haing that so far as the inland waters ‘u¢é concerned the laws have never beeff; Yery rigidly enforced by the United States. Tho fact that'theé Canadian govern- ment appeals to the country on this ques- tion attests its earnestness, but after all it is a restricted reciprocity that1s con- templated. The cabinet ministers as- sort that there is no intention to enter upon & policy that would discriminate against Great Britain, and they believe the Canadian people will not sanction such u policy. It is clear that the influ- ence of the government will be thrown against the idea of unrestricted re- aprocity advocated by the Hberals, and its success in the election is more than propable. Very little has coms from Washington regarding the Canadian movement looking to reciprocity, but it is mot doubted that our government would give respectful cousidera- tion to overtures for negotiations. As to the sentiment of the country, it is questionable whether a majority of the people, and particuls rly the agricultural producers, are in favor of reciprocity with Canada. Tt is ex- tremely unpopular with the farmers of the Now England and middle states, and t is renson to believe that it would not be accoptable toa majority of this class of our people. The election for membors of a now parliament in Canada will take place March 5, and the result will be regarded with agreat deal of interest in the United States. THE SPIRIT OF JINGOISM. A contemporary whose habitat fs a western city secure from hostile foreign ficots or armios remarks that the most popular war this country will over fight will be with England. *“‘England is the great rival of the United States,” de- clares this sanguinary journal from its safe retreat, “*and the day will come when the struggle for supremacy will have to be decided. The mother coun- try is our enemy, and in due time we must destroy her powor.” Sentimont of this kind is far more general in the Uunited States than is commonly sup- posed, and it is not confined to the ignorant or thoughtiess, Some intelligont men, among whom it is presumed the writer in our contempo- rary is entitled to be classed, soriously ieve that the United States will never attain' to supremacy in commereial power without a war with Great Britain in which that nation shall suffer an ovorwhelming defeat. Possibly this feoling is less general than it was a gen- eration ago, or even at amore recent veriod. but late events have had a ton- dency to stimulate it, and it might bo surprising, it a convass wore made, to find how many people entortain it. The sentiment, however,is neithe nor patriotic, It isessentially unworthy of an enlightened and Christian peoploe. The ri botween England and the (Tnited States is wholly commercial, and the enduring conquosts of exmmsree are achivved by suporior enterprise and en- ergy. Is there any reason why the American people should doubt the ulti- male result of a conflict that calls into action these qualities, and if thove we how could a warhelp to the desired suprerr ? War means destruction, in which generally th stor suffors al-’ mast as much as the vanquished, Even were we preparad for a war with Eng- land, to whatever extent we should crip- ple her poy would pretty surely ba injured in nealy or quite equal moasure. Under pros- ent conditions should be at an enormous disadvantaga insuch a con- flict. Wo might inflict heavy damage upon Bngland’s merchant mavine for time, but our defenseless seaports would be at the merey of English ironclads and war ships. To prepare for war would involve the expenditure of enough money to buildlines of shipsto run to every iderable port i the world, and when the conflict was ended much of this would be swep! In aldition there would be a debt to burden the people for a generation or longer. In the event of ctory, could we be sure that the gain would overbalance the loss? The true policy of this republic is one of peaceful conflict for commercial su- premacy, whether against the rvivaley of England or any othe: nation progressof hull a century ought to sure us of the in attainment of supremuacy if the e1tarpriss and energy of our peonle, nided by an enlightened statesmanship anda progressive national policy, do not fail. 'We ara now chal- lenging the vivalry of Europsun nations in the southern half of the hemisphere with eneouraging promise of great re- sults, and when we have gained the ascendaney there we shall be proparod with increased advantages to invade and conquer other fields. The soldicrs this country needs are the practical and in- telligent business men who will intro- duco our wares into every market, and instead of battle ships we must have swift ana commodious steamers that will convey the products of soil and factory wherever there is a domand for them. This is the only sort of warfare which the United St an wisely, safely, and with a true «d for its high example as arepublic, w rinst rivals in the contest for comme: wiso ur owtr wo cou: THE resolution reported in congress, expressing sympathy with the persecut- ed Jews in Russia, might have no effect upon the imperial despot who is réspon- sible for the bitter.sufferings of those unfortunate veople, but it is none the less the duty of this republic to make its voice hoard in rebuke of a policy that outrages humanity and civilization. The intelligent and just sentiment of this country, regardiessof nationality or ereed, unqualifiedly condemns the course of the Russian government toward the dofenseless people who are the vietims of K vindictive and wholly unjustifiable persccution, und there is no good reason why this senti- ment should not be expressed through the representative body of the people. The resolution reported by the foreign affairs committes is unnecessavily amiable in its tone and language, but it would be more creditable to the nation than the omission of all expression in rebuke of this great wrong, The Koch lymph remedy for consump- tion may yet proye to be a failure. The most damaging testimony against it is that of Prof. Henoch of Berlin, a distin- guished medical authority, who statoes thatoutof twenty-two psrsons he treated with the lymph onlyone showed im- provement, while in soveral cases tho patients becawe worse. Ho thereforo abandoned its use. At least half a dozen persons in this country who were inocu- lated with the lympn have died, in some cases very soon after receiving the treatment. It is true that in one or two instances the condi- tion of the patient was hopeless when treated, but still the weight of evidence is ot favorable to Prof. Koch’s discovery. The distinguished German surgeon, Prof. Virchow, declared re® cently insubstance that the indications are that the lymph does not entirely destroy bacilli in tuberculosis, but drives them from the part most affected to other partsof the body, that & pa- tient suflering from tuberculosis of the | refereo c: lungs might be found some time after {noculation to bo suffering from tuborcu- losts in the kidneys or some other organ, Tho concensus of opinion of a number of New York physicians who have exporimented with the lymph is unfavorable to its alloged curative pow- ors, To the great army of consump- tives who have found hope in this dis- covery the evidences of its failure will come with dopressing eff ect. THE bill Introduced in the logislature to prevent foreign bodies of armed men oxorcising police powers in thestate should become a law. A like measure was smothered by interested parties in tho last legislature. The Pinkerton mercenarios should be keptout of the NEHALFof the logislative session will expire Tuesday and the sum total of itslabors is two bills, one to pay the mombers and the other appropriating $100,000 for the relief of the drouth stricken section, —_— IT sHoULp ho Seventh ward s not soriou observed that the getting left to any xtent in the new distribution of al spoils, reol States a Secular B Interview in ths Minneapolis Jowrnal There are alotof men in this world who think they are d—-d important. But they aren't. Use Telephe New York World, Ttis well enough to note that the people of Chicago are not yet going to church in their - He's Built That Way. Chicamn Tribow, Bon Hogan graduated from the prizo ring into the ministry. Rev. Sam Jones —but this may be prematu irty=Threo Days to Live. St. Joseph He ald, The Nebraska legislature has at length con cluded to act with a littlo common sense and get down to practical business, e Wo Are The People. New York World., When o public man reaches that point where he does not care what the newspaners say about him ho very soon to bo a public man, Only conses —_—— Prohibition Don't Prohibit. Kansas City Timne The Towa prohivitionists, who do work by fits and starts, have started sadoat Fort Dodge, Ta. When they are worn out in spirits and cash the joiuts will still be ther their acru- e Wickedness Nt Confined to Cities. Boston Herald. The brutality with which murders are com- mitted under the effects of bad rum or whisky in some of the secluded towns of New England parallels the worst atrocity found in aty life. nough Anvway. Minneapolis Tribune, Dishonesty sometimes comes high. The Sioux war cost the government §2,000,000, not to mention the valuable lives lost. The in- terior department does not *point with pride’ to its record in this regard, - What Ai's Kansas City? Kansas City Star. “The annual report of President Eliot of H sity is full of half.concealea foy over the rising athlotic s y of the institution at Cambridge. ps this is a hintas to the meaningof “The Higuer Educa- tion'nt H: " which Mr. Eliot will soon discuss in the west. ieslobtl ST Where Does Omasa Come In? Chicago News. Auy Chicago man will refute an assertion now going the rounds of the press that the most beautiful woman lives in London and is the wife of a well known socialist poct. He can easily show that the most beautiful woman in the world—about 100,000 of h faet—lives right here in Chicago. t for So) » Preach an Francisco Eramin On Saturday a man who stole 00 cents’ worth of property was sentenced to two years' hard labor in Folsom prison. John C. Hall, who stole over $200,000, is still at large. Justice is mighty and has a habit of prevail- ingz in story books, but it does not seer to be startlingly successful in real life, of per capita statistics is shown by the figures of German beer drinking. These reveal that the per capita consumption of b kaisev's realm last year was 106 quarts. This represents a little over two quarts a week, which is s mighty small aver- age for the ordinary masculine German, but an extremely large one for women and chil- dren. -~ You Take Your Cholce. Chicago Mail, A bad, bad republican journal in comment- ing upon the fact thatex-President Cleveland aud Governor Hill shook hands at a banget in New York the other nizht rocalls a stmilar occurrence at New Orleans recently, after which Mr, Dempsoy's friends wore disap- pointed. Inthe caso of the New York however, neither man has ever disappoiuted his friends, et Courtesics in Court. Even the conrts do not_overlook the minor courtesies of life. Ithas lony been considered fmproper to compel & female witness to tell her ago unless it Is necessary to the b understanding of the case, and lay os to disclose the interesting sc rsey court has now decided that a nuot compel a lady who is not a party to the suit to raise hor veil, so that sho may be identified by a Witnes - The Vanishing Negro, St. Lows Glabe-Demoerat, Tho main consideration with statesmen and ecouomists is that in the eeneral expansion in population the negro is not bolding his own. He is steadily and rapidly falling behind in the race with his white neighbors, Asa force in legislation his influence is waning. The black bogy which a few fanciful parsons in the south and north had conjured up is de- stroyed effectually and permanently, Prac- tically speaking, the uegro problom is a thing of yesierday, e GOD'Ss MUSIC, F. E. Weatnerly, i Temple Bar, Since ever the world was fashioned, Water, and air and sod, A music of divers meaning Has flowed from the hand of God, In valley and gorge and upland, On stormy mountain height, Fo makes Him a harp of tho forest, He sweeps the chords with might. He puts forth His hand to the ocean, He speaks and the waters flow, Now in a chorus of thuuder, Now in & cadence low. e touches the waving flower-bells, He plays on the woodland streams- A teuder song like a mother Sings to her child in dreams But the music divinest and doarest, Since ever the years bewan, Is the manifold pussionate musio Ho araws {rom the beart of wan RECIPROCITY, Chicago Post: There fsa sortof senti mental fitness in . the notion that the two groatest republics of the hemisphero—the oldest and the youngost—should bo the first to discover common interest in froo trade and reciprocal comity ~ * ke moro the merrier, - St. Paut Ploneor-Press: We put_coffeo, sugar, toa, hides, ote., from Brazil on the free list, while' Brazil reduces import dutics upon Amorican products to~the extent of about fivo millions annually, which is ail she is ablo to do in her present financlal condition. After all this preliminary discussion, reci- Procity hias actually bogun to reciprocate Kansas City Journal: This comu arrangement promises very satisfactor sults and is a complete vindication of the wisdom of Mr. Blaino in lusisting that a iprocity provision should bo placed in the MoKinloy bill, 1t also shows the importanco of making tho tariff legislation of the country alover in arranging our commercial relations with other nations, o5 IKansas City Times: Reciprocity has piped aflute ot n the president’s proclamation and an antiphonal in- Brazil's consent to its torms. A proclamation does not ereate trado; nor does & subsidy. The conditions that make a natural mutual domand must exis Wo got hituo from Brazil excopt coffc Brazil gets little from us. The new arrar ment is nothing to rejoice over, Cuieago News: ‘Timo alone ean demon- al advantages of Mr. Blaine's ovation in the American tariff systom. 1t i ity with the South American coun. tries proves profitable it is possible that an American zollverein embracing Canada, Mex iconud all the Latin-American countries may beau event of the not-distant future. With such a consummation growing out of this oliminary Brazil treaty the fame of Sec- 0 as an enlightened economist Louis Globe-1 alicad of all the other ¢ nent n securing a United & umph is by a *neck’ only, howeve of the otlier nations will undoubtedly enter into a similar avran - mocrat: Brazil gets untries of the conti ty troaty with the ment with us before the year ends e Chuada is evidently anxious to establish a system of commercial recipro with the United States; butshe may bo sure that sho will have to give as much as sho gets. The timo forone-sided treatics has gone by fn our dipl tic histor Minneapolis fully the ad Alize moro eciprocity with Brazil our merchants must study the com meroial customs of South America, which differ from ours in many ways. South Americans have s complained that our shants and acturers have made no to conform to their customs in the S dits and have shown little ing the peculiar wants of outh American markets. With reci- procity must come a reform in this regard and g enterprise or we shall not profit by it in the fullest me: possible Chicago Tribuue: Republicans on wd means co > who have opposed to should medi- tato on what that policy is accomplishing for their constituents, even under the imperfect, fanlty Aldrich endment, They nay reach the conclusion that the st thing for them to do is to own up like the repentant Mills of Texas that they have been wrong, and to promise that they will doall they can to push through beforo March 4—till which time the lamp holds out to burn, and th 1 congrossional sin- ner may returt NEBRASKA NEWSPAL “The Allinneo Herald is & new publication at Springfield, Keya Paha county. It is reported that the Valparaiso Tribuno will s0on come out as an alliance organ. The Linwood Tndopendent is @ new paper published by W. H. McGaflin of Bellwood. L. G. Dustin_proposes to disposs of un,\ Sumner Dispateh and loeate the mercantile business. The Roseland Roporter was ahout to sus- pend when the board of trade came forward with suflicient funds to put the paper on a solia footing. George A Atkinson ( ning unde at Oukdalo in MeArthur has purchasod tho phic, which he has been run- se for some time past, and is now owner as well as publisher of the paper. Messrs, B. L. Kiplingor & § o now editors and propriotors of the Loomis Hou Guard, while Mr. W. A. Rowen, a_former ¢ of the Holdredge Nugget, is pub- Friend ainst himn nco which The editor of the People's Ripsaw overed a boycotting plot a; and offers a rew will lead to the ties connected with the Rev. . C. Yeny, ¢ Guide, has d d his tempt 'the experiment of running a_second paper av Cedar Biufts, Thereis a distanco of 150 miles between the towns where he will act as editor, Editor Hyatt of the Fremont Flail has quit smoking and he found it necessary to oceupy a column of his paper to_explain the matter 10 his readers. Some of his editorials, how- oever, continue to smoke when the major has his “‘roasting"’ jacket on. ““The newspaper business in_these days,'*? says the Columbus Telogram, “does not pro- vide a bed of roses, nor a well filled manger for the editor and’ his employes. The peo- ple seem to be hugeing what few dollars jave rather than put them in_ printer's fuk in the hopes of increasing their capital and business.” Frank W. Spraguc, form Rushville Sun, and lite d for secretar state, has settled in a more congenial clime at Brandon, Miss,, where ho haa engaged in the real estate business, Ho has one cousolation in his new home~if tho democrats should ever nominate im for ofico hie would b sure of au election. A. I, Enos of tho Long Pine Journal has taken his wife with him on two weeks' wur in the eastern part of the Just to show how it is done Mr. | s le i arg o mone; pt for the same, but will pay no bills. If you owe us and your consience troubles you, call in and leave tho cash just the same ns though the editor was at home, but please prasent no bil Just how scarce news is sometimes country town is shown in the following from the Waaneta Bree ast week, in order to spring a little sensational news on an un- suspecting pubiic, we announced that Judgo Iisher was confined to the house with rhen matism, and hired bim to stay at home four tays for o half pound packago of ‘Hard Times' smoking tobacco, but the boy that wo sent to deliver the tobacco stole it and the paper was still hot from the press when lo! here came the*judge over to town after that tobacco, thereby harting our reputation for truth and veracity iu this our native town." - PASSING JESTS, onspiracy. of the Superior plant and will at- v editor of the mocratic candidato Detroit Freo Pross: Ho-That Miss Fan- mug you introduced me to just now would make s man o capital wife, She—Love at first sight, eh? He—O, no, not that; but you see, I havo discovered that she doesn't tilk any, Lowell Citizen: *I can neve: ““Heavens! You can't (" +No, it requires & ministor to do it in this state, you sce.” marry yov." Smith & Gray's Monthly: His Sister Carrie Goldust has just askéd me to bo one of hor bridesmaids, Jack— By jove! Doyou know, I think brides are some of the groatost fools there are! “Why ! “Bocause they nevor marry the best mau. Don’t you know " Philadelphin Times: *Why do_you allow that strange man o address you Without an introductiont”” asked Mrs. Chilcago. “Bocause,” unswered hor stopdaughter “he used to be my pa before father got a dis voree from mother and married you.” The American girl, like There cans Atchison Globe the American pork, goos every whore. 18 10 countey undor the sun whera you not see the one and taste the other. N York Her con Hardscrabble (to passenger requiring three seats for himscl and baggage) —You aro from the city, | pre- sume Mr De our how aid you know itf bule—0O, we butchered :ountry hogs three mouths 4go. - . Josoph News: You are not altogether wrong, Curacos, but you the particular now rovenue culwr you inquire about is not a wacuine for cutliug coupous off bonds, 7 /