Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1891, Page 4

g 2095 SR g < THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Y. MAY 24 1891— XTEEN PAGES THE [== = DAILY BEE ROSEWATER SDITOR, BLISHED EVERY TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION, po (without Sunduy) One Ye iy, One Year. MORNING. Funday nturday Be WVeekly Bee, ur WICE tee Building. nd 2th Streeta 2 Pearl Street. ‘hamber of Gom 3,14 and 15, Trib th street. CORRESPONDENCE All communications relating to news and tter should be addressed to the eroe, ne Bullding m ditorial Departm BUSIN ETTERS, and remittances should » Pubtishing Company, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 he made payuble to the order of the com The Beg Pobishing Company, Prooritors THE B! BUILDING. ] INT OF CIRCULATION s EWORN STATEM Etate of Nebraska, County of Doug! George . Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swonr that the nctual circalution of Tik DAILY BEE for the week ending May 2), 801, was as follows: Funday, May 17... Monday, M L) Tuesany. May 10 Nednesday, Thursday, day Friday. 2 Buturday, May 0,1 Average....... Bworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 2ird day of May. A\lll. n’«vu. N. P, Fein, Notary Publie. Etate of Nebraska, | County of Donglas, {8 George ‘B, Trachuck, being duly sworn, de- osex and siys that he'is secrotary of THE BER "ublishing compuny, wat the nctunl average dmiy ~clrculation of ThE DALY BEE for “the month of My, 180, 20,180 coples; for June, 1800, 0,01 coples; for Tuly. 1860, 20,662 copies:’ for August, 1800, 20,750 coples; for tember, 1800, 20,870 coples; for October. 180, 20,62 coples; for Nove ber, 1600, 92,150 coples; for eniber, 180, 20471 copiest for Jununr 446 conies! for February, 1801, 25,312 coy 1801, 24,005 coples. for April, 1801, GEORGE T3, T7Z8CHUCK. Eworn o hefore me. and subscribod in my presence. this 2d day of May, A, 1., —_—— SAINT JOHN is not pleased with the Cincinnati convention. This is no spe- cialdiscrodit to the third party conclave. NEW York stocks have hobbed up a notch since the European banks have found out that America has enough gold for them as well as for hersolf. Tae ‘“‘people’s party” is to turn its forces upon Ohio. Maybo they have a grudge against thestate for allowing the convention to be held in Cincinnati. —_— OMAHA with a population of 140,000 is assossed at $20,000,000. Denver with 103,000 is rated for taxation at $86,000,- 000. Comparisons like these are odious. — A NEW Venezuela stoamer was launched at Wilmington, Del. She “‘draws but little water.” This indicates that Venezuela is the Kentucky of South America. NEBRASKA was not given a ropresen- tation in the executive committee of the poople’s party, but the Elks elected an Omaha gentleman grand treasurer, and we are happy yet. — GRAIN dealers are agreeing to pay 85 cents for this year’s corn to bo delivered at western Nebraska railroad stations this fall. This style of future no re- former will oppose. OctopER is Omaha’s most charming month, The Denver gentlemen who come here at that time to participate in the Trans-Mississippi congross will know what a delightful climate is, after their visit. —— TECHNICALITIES are not confined to law courts. The rules of the prize ring ave decidedly technical, and this ex- plains why the referces of the Corbett- Jackson fight decided after 60 rounds that it was no contest. —_— Tue Vesuvius and her guns have been tested. The boat is too good to be placed in jeopardy by the euns for she is liable to be “hoisted by her own petard.” The guns cannot shoot as straight as a woman throws a stone. A HALF million dollars in cash is to be paid out about June 1 to the Sissoto n and Wahpeton Indians of South Dakota, which means that the whites will soon discover a large 1ncrease in the volume of the circulating mediumin the vicinity of the reservation, THE saloonkeepers of Omaha are in- viting trouble by their efforts to ropeal the midnight closing ordinance. The sentiment of this community is in favor of this reasonable restriction. If the re- tail liquor dealers are not satisfied with twenty business hours out of the twenty-four they will, by forcing tho issue arouse public sentiment which will eventuate in more stringent regulations, BrLAva MuME. SKY {llustrious and self-sacrificing, but the may have been common impression is that she was a shrowd and intriguing impostor. The men and women whom she had attached to herwere chiefly light-brained fanatics and misguided persons who imagined their erratic musings and reflections were profound. heosophy, nonsense and mummery are largely synonymous. Blavatsky lived by her wits and her in- trigues. She was about as intimately related to the next world as any other clairvoyant. MINNEAPOLIS is a city; Minn etonka a lake and Minnehaha a waterfall, Both the lake and the waterfall claim to have dono a greal deal for the city, and this is what puts the city in aquandary. The lake has becomo shallow and wants to build a dam to raise the water and keep up the prices at the summer hotels. It this is done the water will cease to flow over the eataract at Minnehaha and the protty, rvomantic little spot will be ruined as an attraction for visitors. But if the dam is not constructed Minne- tonka must go out of businass, Both points are appealing to Minneapolis for protection, and both claim to be essen- tial elements in the Flour city boom. The dilemma is a sharp one and either horn is dangerous. THE PARK Omaha sadly needs breathing spots for her large and rapidly increasing population. The founders of the city wore very short-sighted in providing no such grounds in the original town ' site. The owners and platters of additions since have been too greedy for lots, ex- cept in two instances, to profit by the evil example of their predecessors. The consequence is that we have but one square in the center of thp city where women and children from hot tenements and business men confined between the close walls of beick and stone can look out upon green grass and sit in the shade to breathe fresh air. In the sub- urbs are three parks, but Omaha is in- adequately provided with theso rest giving and health restoring resorts which beautify the eastern cities and make life in them tolerable for the poor and the hardworked pooplo. The park commission has been in dead earnest in its efforts to relieve the city in this particular, but has been greatly handicapped during its entire oxistence by the want of proper logislative authority to carry out the plans proposed and to a certain dogi elaborated. The last legislature left the commission in a very uncertain position. Itisu question whether or not it ean condemn property for park purposes though the evident intent of the charter amendments was to them unusual power: The commission having taken counsel from their attorney are encouraged to vroceed with the development of their ideas on paper at least, with the hope that they may successfully carry them out before the le \ture convenes again. i, however, it shall appoar impracticable ov illogal to pro- ed without further legislation, they will at least take the nccessary steps preliminary to final action, The great danger to be avoided is the ation of rks which shall not be con- venient to the common people. Wenlthy persons with thelr own carriages may enjoy drivesto distant pleasure vesorts, but the middle classes and per- sons of small means should be accommo- dated within easy reach by cheap con- voyances. It is therefore hopsd the park commissioners will not concludo it to bo their duty to go outside the city limits for all the city parks hereafter to be established. TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. Thero is no topie upon which practical cducators disagree move widely than that of examinations of applicants for positions as teach in the publi schools. At the best the form and e tent of the examination must necessar ily be arbitrarily fixed by some author- ity. Unquestionably some very good teachers fail to pass the required test in give all public examinations, while some thoroughly inefticient in- structors are able to answer a high percentage of the more or less technical questions put to them by the examining ofticers, The only proper tost of qualifications is experienco and efficioncy for older tenchers. Inexperi- enced applicants are exporiments whether they pass a satisfactory exam- ination or not. Nevertheless some test of qualifica- tions must be made and the written and oral examination questions are the only means available for determining them. In the hands of a thoroughly competent, practical committee, which i anxious only to secure good teachers and has no axes of its own to grind or hohbies to advance, the pres- t method is quite satisfuctory. If the committee has favorites to serve, spite to be vented or is lax in interest and in- competent or pedantic, the examination becomes a farce and is merely the ex- cuse for employing ladies and gentlemen whose friends are influential at the pub- lic expense, regardless of the welfare of the schools or of throwing out those who have incurred the enmity of the com- mittee, The exhibition of itselt recently made by an Omaha examining committeo has not been forgotten The arbitrary markings which shut out competent applicants and admitted those unfitted for the school exposed the evils 10 which the system of examina- tion is subject in the hands of persons not conscientiously devoted to duty. The old examining committeo was re- lieved as a result of these revelations and n new one, composed of two excel- lent tenchers and a talented min was substituted. In our opinion t should bo but one teacher, if any, on this committee, but against the thres examiners now pass- ing upon the qualifications of teachers no word of complaint can be made. They are competent,faithful and exporienced. Their conclusions should be final. It appears, however, that some of the applicants fail to pass the not over-rigid test applied, They successfully answer the required proportion of questions upon part of the branches, but fail in others and are refused certificates, To make it possible for these to secure en- trance into the school a rule has been adopted by the board whereby those who fail may try again at the next examination, when they arve tested only upon the branches on which they failed at the one preceding. This is wrong. A failure at an exam- ination should bar the applicant en- tirvely for at least six months, and the test should be applied with even more igor on the second trinl bocause the scope of the oxamination and general outline of the same is revealod to the applicant on the occasion when he or sho failed, and at a second triul the advantage is in his or her favor as against those who are entering the contest for the first time. The examinations in this city are none too searching or hard at present and any steps toward laxity in upplying the tests of qualifications are fraught with danger. Omaha pays excellent salaries and is entitled to the best teachers in the coun- try. The new rule smacks very much of that sort of good nature which leads oficiuls to overlook the failings of their friends. It opens a wide door for abuses and it should be closed at once and for- ever. Applicants who cannot pass the examinations ought not to be given posi- telligent man in tions and examinations should not be ar- ranged merely to onabie favorites to pass them readily THE WEST FOR PLE: EEKERS, The late visit of Mr, Chuncey M. De- pew to the west appears to have given him a most favorable impression of this section. In an address a short time since before the Union Leauge club of New York, Mr. Depew recommended to his fellow-citizens of the metropolis, who were in the habit of making annual pil- grimages to Europe, that they take o trip into their own country and acquaint themselves with its grandeur and great- ness. He declared that the mountain scenery of Colorado was far super- ior to anything to be found in the Alps, and he might have added that for health-promoting purposes the air of these American mountains s un- equalled. Mr, Depew did not go as largely into this interesting subject as he might have done, for his travels in both continents would enable him to make extensive comparisons between the natural beauties of Kurope and the United States, but the little that he did say in this particular was to the point and timely. Next to the injunction of the ancient philosopher, *“Man, know thyself,” should be placed another as only second in importance, citizen, know thy coun- try. To do this is to learn po triotism in its most comprehensive sense, and to acquire that national and Catholic sentiment which is indispensa: ble to the best citizenship. If every in- this country were to take such a trip ns President [Tarrison made, it would be hardly possible for him to ever again have any sectional fecling, no matter what his previous views or predilections might have been, tensive travel anywhere is instruc- tive and improving to people of intelligent observation, but the man who knows nothing of his own country beyond his place of residence and its imme- dinte surroundings, although largely familiar with other countries, cannot be s0 patriotic as the man who knows much of his own country but is entively ig- norant of other lands from personal ob- ion, and this is especially true of Americans. Of all people there ave the strongest of reusons why they should make themsclves familiar with the vastness, the beauty and the grandeur of their own count When they have acquired this knowledze thoy will bo equipped to better appreciate at its true value what foreign lands can offer for their instruction and entertainment, and then can go abroad with the ability to impart as well as to acquire knowl- edge, and without danger of having their affoction for their own land im- paired. Unquestionably there is no part of the world, and certainly nowhere in Furope, grander scenery than is to be found in the mountain regions of the western United States, and for persons seeking recuperation and health this section of our country offers favorable conditions that are unsurpassed. There are thou- sands of eastern people who annually go to Burope who would be vastly better off morally, physically and fiuancially if instead they passed their summer vaca- tion at the lakes and mountains and health resorts of the west. Ivery year there is a larger namber of people lenrn- ing that this is thecase. Some of them, such as have become surfeited with Juropean travel, or have failed to find in it what they expected, and itis doubts less only a question of time when the westward tide of summer pleasure-scek- ors will rival that to the old world, GEOGRAPHY IS WRONG. Under the title of “Practical Uses of Geography,” Goldthwaite’s (ieographical Magazine publishes an article alleging that a knowledge of geography would have saved hundreds of familes in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma from the distress suffered on account of failures of crops. Geography has always insisted upon a great American desert and thirty years ugo it included almost the entire rogion west of the Missouri river. Year by year it receded farthor west until the maps of today confine it toa compara- tively restricted region between the Sierra Novada range and the backbone of the continent in the far southwest. Even there irrigation has shown the soil to be fertile. The rain belt crossed th 100th meridian moro than ten years ago and it has gradually extended westward as railways ave built, lands cultivated and groves grown. Except a limited territory on the northern border where the Dakota bad lands dip down into the state and an occasional ridge of sund, Nobraska and Kansas ave wholly agricultural, Every old citizen remembers that less than a quarter of a century ago few resi- dents of this state believed agricuiture possible more than thivty milos west of the Missouri river. Geography had placed all thse remainder of the state within a great rainless region, and oarly sottlers huddled together along the water courses, expecting for a lifotime to graze theic herds upon the barren hills. pericnce und immigration correcte the geographers and in a very few yoars proved farm- ing a success as far west as the 100th meridian, but geography warned settlers o go west of that imagi- nary dead line at their poeril. Instead of geography teaching settlers where they may confidently stake out home- steads, the pionecrs are showing geog- raphy its errors and e ging the knowledge of its text book writers. For 20 years Nobraska has had no goneral drouth. Fifteon years ago the grasshoppers destroyed the crops two years in succession and announced that periodical destructive pests could ba expected with- out notice 8o long as the Dakota bad lands afforded them u breeding spot. We have had two years of drouth in succession but it does not follow that the expori- ence will be repeated this year or next or at any definite future time, any wmove than it followed that grasshoppers would continually devastate the country be- cause for two years they hud made lifo miserable among the settlers of the period mentioned. Western Nebraska is no more arid today west of the 100th meridian than iv was 13 years ago east of sclontists its of the that line and orpps at the 1024 mer- idian are no mere uncertain now than they were at the OFth 20 years since. There aro sedtidns of Tllinois and all tho groat praivie states which have not raised a good crop in five years. Drouth, wot weather, in8sdts, hail and cyclones have destroyed thg farmers’ hopes year after year, but thid fact would not jus- tify our geographipe in warning the peo- ple that any such locality is unsuited to farming. Yeurs “of adversity are not convincing and donclusive proof that the future will witness their repetition, Meterologists ‘agtee and experience proves that climatic conditions are changed with settlement. The com- paratively dry sections become more moist and the extremes of heat and cold aro less severe and sudden. In all dis- ssions of climate and productions it is safer to speak of the past and present thun to attempt a forecast of the future. A knowledgo of the physical features of the states is desivable, but it is not conclusive proof that a region is unin- habitable to read so in a work on physi- cal geography. The text books pre- pared by geographers ave far more changeable than the weather in the ‘‘semi-arid” regions of both Kansas and Nebraska. Geographers are not yet up with the times. They can never keep abreast with the discoverer, the fron- tiersman or even the old settler. They must inevitably adopt theories to the experience of the men who discover and develop the country. MR. J. S. CLARKSON, who is journey- ing somewhere in Kurope, will find on his roturn that he has not been quite forgotten. Mr. Theodore Roosovelt, of the civil service commission, is doing his best to keep green the memory of the Towa tourist, and he is having very good The explanation s in the fact that a short time ago Mr, Clarkson con- tributed to an eastern magazine a somo- what trenchant criticism of the civil service commission, saying among other success, things that it is more unfriendly and more opposed to tho re pubiican party under Harrison than it was under Cieveland, Mr, Roosevelt strongly objects to this vicw, ard suggests that Mr, Clarkson is suf- fering under confusion of ideas in mixing up himseif and his friends with the vepublican party, He admits that the civil service commission is hostile to M. Clarkson and the idea he repr sents, and observes that it would fail in its duty if it wore not. The commission, however, says Mr. Roosevelt, is not hostile to the republican party, but on the contrary is striving to carry out the pledge made by the party at the last convention. The defender of the com- mission proves himself to be an uncom- promising advocate of civil service r form in its broadest sense and widest ap- plication, and it need not be said to those familiar with the controyersial ability of Mr. Roosévelt that Mr. rk- son will find him a foeman worthy of his steel. Thus far the former appears to have vory mueh the advantago in the argument, TuE recent excaptionally heavy immi- gration from Italy has stimulated that government to tako action for checking it. It was found that so many young Italians werd leaving, most of them for this country, that it would soon be im- possible to meet the demands for the military service. The government, therefore, issued a circular prohibiting all minors over 18 years old from leav- ing Ttaly without special authorization by the minister of war, . and other minors who desire to leave are required to obtain a certificate that there is no legal impediment to their leaving, Over twenty thousand immi- grants to the United States have left Ttaly during the last four months, and it is suid that certain districts are nearly depopulated of men, leaving the work of cultivating the ground to be done by women altogether. It would seom from this that the Italian people have not learned to fear residence in the United States, and prefor taking chances here to enduring the oppressive taxation at home and running the risk of peing at any time called into the military service. There will be no objections here to the efforts of the Italinn government to keep its people at home, il ONERS will be interested to know that a recent report that certificates were being held back hocause of a pos- sible deficiency in the treasury was wholly without substantial foundation, The fact is that there were allowed dur- ing April 81,545 claims under the old and new laws, carrying a disbursement of $3,874,815, It is also shown that there has been no discrimination between classes of claims, and that all are being put through as rapidly as the work can be done officiently. There is nothing whatever, so far as the pénsion of- fice is informed, in the reported dise satisfaction amoag the old soldiers, and Commander-in-Chief Veuzey of the Grand Army is quoted as saying thut the members of that organization have no complaints, 1t 48 undoubtedly true that the work of the pension office, very much greator than aver before, has neyer been more efficiently performed. a6 that the duchess an subject, I has been do: of Marlborough is.an Ameri She is then an Anérican, titled in Kng- land, an inheritor, of English landed property, whose descendants are of the nobility, and this ‘41 though seemingly contradictor, Such a decision may bring in question ‘the citizenship of many Amer on who have been grafted upon seipps of Kuropean no- bility. LLOM has a whole hive idential bees in his bonnet. More year ago his intimate friends wore given the tip and now the literary bu- reaus are quictly passing it around that the man who looks like Abraham Lin- coln possesses so happy a combination of good nature and ability as to be available presidential timber. Trere is much trath in the statement of ox-Commissionor of Pensions Dudl. that no man can successfully manage the pension office unless he is freed from the surveillance and intermeddling of inter- ior department officials in authority over the commissioner and the conspiracies of old employes in the ponsion ofiice. A | | bureau officer is littlo better than a clork. He is really less independont than his own chiefs of divisions. Until the secretary of the interior is given to undorstand either by the president or the law that the heads of bureaus in the department are exective officers and not morely clerks at high salaries the ad- ministration of the bureaus will be handicapped and ineflicient. To the bu- reau officer should be left all matters of detail and all policies incidental to the general course marked out by the ad- ministration. He should be empowered to discharge incompetent and insubordi- nate employes and be helped instead of hindered in conducting his offico, KaTe Fig her D s high place in the affections of mankind by urging husbands to put on dress endangering conts with the same frequency that their wives don Worth gowns. She thinks the head of the household should divest himself of his business suit and “‘dress up” to eat dinner with his family. Kate is very erratic on some things, When a good wie hears the front gate swing shut she knows enough to tell the serv- ant to set the dinner on the table. Thore is nothing half so unhappy or in- corrigible about the house asa hungry husband, and if he had to wait for din- ner ut home to reorganize his entire toilet he would dine regularly at a hotel, Tie Omahn Real Estate Owners’ ass ciation ion which will un- doubtedly have a large influence upon the immediate future growth of Omaha if it meets with the earnestsupport which it deserves. An assoclation i cluding greatand small property owner: and welcoming to its meetings and its rooms the prosence and the suggestions of all men of intelligence having prop- orty interosts here, ought to become a potent force in our affairs, It will be- come s0 if citizens will lend assistunce in carrying forward the good work al- ready 50 woll ‘begun, Lorp BURY is credited with ving that the prospects of an Buro- an war are receding. Fmperor Wi helm said tho peace would continue for at least a year. Germans are strengthen- ing their forts in Alsaco and Lorraine and the il through Schleswig-Hol- stein is being pushed rapidly. Russin has ordered 3,000,000 stand of arms from Peance and Krupp is turning his cannon factory over to the interests of the French, By all this we would conclude a war cloud is liable to rise at almost any time. Theological Fovecast. Tuaianapolis Jowrnal, A distinguished eastera divine rocently remarked that “the heresy of today may bo- come the orthodoxy of tomorrow.” If this is true tomorrow has the promise of more than the usual quantity of orthodoxy. —-— Ready for Work. N w York Herald Washington Lettey, President Harrison has a grim senso of humor. During his recent five weeks' trip through the south and west ho delivered 140 speeches. [seonthim a polite note stating that the Herald would like to print a tali with him regarding his recent tour. [ re- ceived in answer the following laconio veply: *“Thanks, but I have stopped talking. B.H." —— Always Resolving. Indtanapolis Journal. Democratic party in 1888: Resolved, That we view with alarm the steady uccumulation by the republican party of a surplus in the treasury. Democratic party in 1801: Resolved, That we view with alarm the steady reduction of the surplus in the treasury by the republican party Democratic party always: Resolved, That we view with alarm. . Pulpit and Baseball, Sermon by Tev, Dudly Rhodes, Cineinnatd, “‘Baseball is the most healthful exercise a man take, provided it istaken normally.” “Baseball 1s the noblest height of gymnas- tie exercise,” “‘We have been told that there are sermons 1 stones and in running brooks; so there is, 100, in baseball,” “Baseball has within it the best elements of the old Roman and Greek athletic games,” “The Christian church and the pulpit can- not afford to ignore this game, which is rising to the dignity of a national sport and draw- ing all of the young men and children in the land toward it,” e Nebraska Shows the Way, New York Tribune. Notonly has the fact been denionstrated that sugar-beets can be profitably grown in the United States, but great progress has been made in increasing the amount of sugar in each ton of beef A few years ago three or four pounds of sugar to each 100 pounds of beets was considered a fair yield, but careful culturo and selection of seed and sced beets in Germany brought the average last year up to nearly fourteen pounds to the hundred- weight. The sugar-beets raised in Nebraska were even richer in sugar than that. The amount of land in this country which seems well adapted to the growth of this vegetable is simply enormous. There would seom to b no reason why the farmers of the United States should not produco every pound of sugar used by our people. -— Earned His Citizenship, Philadelphia Record. It is contended on behalf of Mr. Boyd, who was elocted governor of Nebraska, that he was a ¢itizen because his father had taken out nuturalization papers, and because he was an inhabitant of Noebraska wher tho state was admitted into the Uunion, This contention is to be exammed into by the United States supreme court; and it is possi- blo that the ejected offcial may yot bo r stored to the executive station from which lie was deposed with such scant ceremony. It would bo strance and unprecedented, in- deed, if an individual who has twice been chosen mayor of the chief city in the state and has served in numerous other positious of public trust and hounor should be pro- nounced ineligible to be governor of the state in which all bis years of wmaturity have been spent. —_—— SPRING 18 HERE, Irvigation Age. Sho meanders down the streot, Dressol in airy costuine neat, Plcturo sweot from head to foot, Maiden dear. On her hiead sets fortune’s hat, Pater's pocket book is flat, What cares she for all of that, Spring is ne Now thero comes tho gladsome cry As Micky swipes a lofuy fly, Makin he seore once moro a tie, Thousunds cheer, +Out at first,” the game is done Seo the umpive homeward run, Mobbed oy wanins just for fuil, Sprivg is hore NEBRASKA'S WORK OF RELIEF Management of the Commission Distin- guished for Its Prudence, CHARITY ON BUSINESS ~ PRINCIPLES. Every Dollar and All Contributions Accounted For—That Construction State M Elkhorn “Rakeofr " — se News, Lixcory, Neb, May 23.—[Special to Tre Bre.]~The more oue examines into the workings of the relief commission the more cloar doos it become that its agreement has been distinguished for business forvesight and prudence. The commission has made many shrowd bargains in buying its sup- plies, and the distribution has boen hedged in with so many reports and checks as to make it possiblo to show whore almost overy article went and by whom it was recoived The guards against pilfering, fraud and mis- appropriation are elaborate and effective. When the logislature croated the com- mission and passod the first appropriation, the politicians came to the front and de- manded that the supplies be bought of their friends, This was done. The commission discovered that it could do bettor by giving froe competition, and that rule was adopted and adhered to, In one instance the commission bought 5,000 bushels of the fiuest potatoes for % cents per bushel, when the market price in Lincoln and Omaha was $1.34. They were found in the country near North Platte, and wero distributed in that section, saving a considerable sam on froight. When the sellers loarned the market rate they tried to back down on the deal. As a matter of fact they did on two orders of 200 and 500 bushels, and sold them to other parties at #1.10. Other 10ts of potatoes have beon bought as low as cents, sud tho evidenco is that thoy were an oextra good article, Tu another case tho commission bought 10,000 bushels of corn at 55 cents, and the balance of the crib was sold the next day at 65 cents, Theso are but sample fnstances. Many of the supplies were bought in the neighbor- hood in which they were distributed and sov- eral thousand dollars wero saved on freight. The supplies were shipped wenerally to county officers. With each shipren' went an invoice, and the receiving officer was re- quired to weigh, count or measure signment, as the cas headquarters, county ofi his con might be, and report to The records show that the have followed instructions conscientiously, some of them reporting dif- ferences as small asa few ounces, It was thus possible to keep a check on the part selling the goods to the commission. [n oue case a millor who received an order for flour through a Lincoln jobber and_shipped it in lots direct to different counties thought ho saw a chance to make an extra proft, Within five days the commission had reports from every county showing a shortage of from two to five pounds in almost every sack. The commission figared up the toral, amounting to several hundred doilars, deducted it from the account of the Lincoln jobver and let him fight it out with the miller. “The system of reports 1s somewhat burden- some, but it will stand the closest scrutiny ot a legislative investigating committee. The distributing officers are supplied with printed forms and are required Lo take a receipt £ every person getting supplies. That re shows the name and precinet of the s with the kind and quality of each article re- ceived, TIn addition to the receipt on arrival of the supplies and the veceipts from the beneficiaries, the distributing officer is re- quired to make an inventory overy two woeks of the goods on hand and forward it to Lincoln, Knowing the amount_sent to him and the total of the amounts distributed by him, the balance on hand is calculated, and his report must agree with the figures. To the credi of the officers of Nebraska bo it said that the commission has discovered fow shortages and none of largo amount. In one county two sacks of flour are unac- counted for. Thoe clerk andsheriff acknowl- edye having Lad them, but have no record of having given them out. The presumption is that they were stolen. This is said to be the only shortage of any consequence. When the court house of H county was destroyed by fire most of tho records were los The receipts from idual beneficiaries were burned, but the commission has the receiptof the c v oficers showing that the supplies e received. With these exceptions the records in Lincoln show what became of every item of supply. It will be seen readily that this system of reports, receipts and checks entails a groat deal of work, and the commission has seven or eight clerks at work at it. The law re- quires that one copy of the individual re- ceipts be kept on file in the office of the com- mission and another be filed with the secre- tary of state. The original receipts are also to be deposited with the latter. The copying of these papers is an interminable job. As there were over twenty different kinds of supplios distributed, a singlo receipt might involve from twenty to twenty-five entrics, But the commission started out to keop oeverything in apple pio order, and five clerks are kopt busy making these records alone. HAT ELKHORN “‘RAKE OPp." In their trips about the state the members of the board of transportation are twitted about that rake off on an klkhorn construc tion contract until they are sore. One of them suggests that it is hardly fair to put all five under suspicion for an act done by only one, or possibly a member of a former board, The play came up in this manr Willis T, Richardson amd Ira E. Doty of David city were in partuership as railroad contrac- tors. They had sever tnership papoers, and under the last one Richardson was to re- cof two-thirds of the profits as his share, Among their contracts was one with the Elk- horn for constructing a part of its White- wood hne. Ric dson and Doty had a fall- ing out, and the former began a suit last February to compel his partuer to make an accounting and settloment. Among other things he charges that the firm lost 4,000 on this Elkhorn contract by reasou of the de- fendant's neglect and incompetency. Doty filed his answer the other day, entering de- nials and counter ch: s of fraud. Ho al- leges that Richardson seeured the Elkborn contract “with the assistanco of a prominent member of the stato board of transportation.’ Doty denies that thero was a loss in the con- tract, and he says that he was ‘“informed’ that the suid stato officer “was interested in said contract to the oxtent of one-third of the profits.” Mr. Doty is an elusive gontloman, and, if he could be found, would probably décling to county namo the state official referred to. horn contract in quostion was let about & year ago, which clears Secrotary Allen, Com- missioner Humphrey and Attorney Hastings of suspicion, I'reasurer Hill and Auditor Benton, as already notod, say thoy were ot in it with Mr. Richardsob, STATE HOUSE NOTES, The governor has commissioned Rev. Dr, John Askin of IKearney as a delogato to the Intornational Soolety of Hyyiene and Demo- graphy. The princo of Wales is its prosi. dent and it will meet in London August 10, Mr. Askin is a Congregational pastor and is also a dolegato to the Intornational Associa- tion of Congrogational Churchos, which meets in London June 14, Ho will sail Juno 8. The goveruor has two moro commissions for anyone who wishos to attend tho prince's conyention, According to the records of the commission Jobn Fitzgerald bas received reliof, but this John lives in Hayes county. ‘The land department has received a plat of the government survey of the Porca roserva- tion. Alex Schlugel, chief araughtsman, has discovered orrors in it and it will have to go back to Washington, THE PRELIMINARY POSTRONED, Tho hoaring of K. W. Hutchinson for the shooting of Cella Greon, set for 1 o'clock this afternoon, has been put'over tlld o'clock Fri- day morning, A GIRL MISSIN living at Twonty-ninth and ocking her daughter Louise, She went toa cireus Thurs- oning with Guy Wariner, a cook in the restaurant located among the B, & M, t )y and has not been seon since. Sho ran away from home onco before. - < JENTS, The Eik- Mrs. Lindsa; U stroets, is aged sixtoen, day o PassI Ram's Horn: The devil is nov: a handsomo bible on a parlor tab e soarod by New Yo “Man wants but littlo here below," As wo have heard boforo: But when he gots that little, lo! He wants a litt e, Somerville Journal: It is geuerally easy to find fault with another's work, but it is not always wise unless you ure sure that the other is not quick tem e Washington Post: It is only when ho briugs in his bill that the physiciun declates himself in favor of high heals, Fliegende Blattor: The Lattlo Philosopher Hans (who has torn his clothes badly get ting over a fonce)-Ob, dear, what will mamma suy now! 11 Lhad only cut my hoad open she would only suy, “Just like you, you Flicgende Blatter: At a reception “Oh, Count! delighted! 1 haven't v you, 1 think, since you wero four weeks old. But how you have changed Atchison Globe: A man never realizes until he has made a fool of himself what @ laughtor-loviug world this is. THE HAMMOCK SEASON, Washington Post, The hammock's with us once again, A poem full of bliss— The sort that gently swings, and then Goos Down Liko Thi: o TIONS VD AN the Editor of Bek who the 185 the play OMAA, May 2. Please answer in i “The Fool's Reven by Mr Booth of the same can be procured.—A Answer-—The late Tom Taylor wroto *The Fool's Revenge.” You can procuro a copy through uny roputablo bookseller. OMAIA, May the Editor of Tug B Whatls the use of George Francls T produced Als0 please stato where a copy Answer—Ho gives his ago as sixty-two. v, Kun., May 18,—~To the Editor of Will you please the address of the nsas” Traveler, 8 Siftings and Yankes de rkansaw Traveler is published in Chicago, 1L, and Little Rock, Ark. ; Poxas Siftings in New York and_Austin, Tox., and Yankee Blade in Boston, Mass. ATLA, May 21, iditor of Tue B e thr Bk the correct o the late € i m Tecum- v, neral Sherman was born in Lan- caster, O, To the Fditor of Tnk Bek ask a quostion throus n aies, ha 8 not properly give her on Would like to wer: In e o his will in n wa, pravide for his wido third, neither does he d heirs equally, ean th sidd will roforring idow bo or broken and_the remainder | Does it not throw the entire will answer in next weekly issue and Ans.—The widow has the right to eleet which she will take, the provision made for her in the will or one-third of tho estate, an i the widow elects to take one-third of th estate, the remainder will be divided pro ruta, as per will, after paying all indobted- ness, The fact that the widow elects to tako one-third of the estate does not invalidate the will as to the rost of the heirs., OMAHA, May 20.—To the Editor of Tix Ber At the wof the | braska stato medical tion was mude to adjourn sine of this society specify thut t be held annually at a certain t This being th use th would to adjourn sine dic with it th of " dissolution of v practically mean t to ot again? 1 sce from the records of tho procecdings of the state society in the past thut 1t has been wecustomed to adjourning sine die at the end of euch anuual sossion. 15 this nota nusupplication of tho term dlo?" Is ot this oxprossion rather us conventlons, legisiative bodies and org tions which are on the point of dissolvin new congr may have boen elected to and continue the work of the old one, but. tho latter when it adjourns sine die does not ox- pect to meet azidn in rogular sossion. Ploiso RIvO us your views in next Sunday's BEe—-A Member of the State Medienl Socicty. Ans.—A motion to adjourn sine die would not carry with it the meaning of dissolution of the socioty, but would simply mean that the society woula roconveno ai the rogular time specified in the laws. In such enses, howd it would appear to be the better way to conclude the procecdings of the sos- sion by a simple motion to adjourn,the sme die being really unnecessary. hl ne in U ALLIANCE, Neb,, Tk Bee: Wi columns of y v 19, pnsoe U able pi shing fr fen? 1t portation to South Anie give me its adddress.— k. Ans.—We do not know of any such com- i ) the Editor me, throy DD arg population? 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