Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1891, Page 4

43 THE .DAILY BEE er— ROSEWATER Enrron = s = PUBLISHED JERY MORNING. TFRME OF SUBSCRIPTIO Dafly Ree (without Sunday) One Ve Daily and £undiy, One Yeur. 81 mo Throw Ennday T Eaturday 1 Weekly Bee, Uno Y e OF VICES: ha, The Tee Bullding or N o 29th Streeta Penr Stroot. 17 Climber of Oonmierce, 1,14 md 15 TriDne Buliding Fourtesnth stret. CORRESPONDENCE ations relating to news and 1d bo uddressod to the P8R 00 10 00 800 Cn Bouth Oninha. ¢ Counell Blufs, | Chieago Cflice New York, loon Washing tol All commu editorial n Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Al businessfotters and rémittances should e addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omahi. Drafts, I postofflce orders 10 he made puyable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company. Provrigtors THE BEE BUILDING. BWORN STATEMENT OF CIKCULATION Ftote of Nebrauka, | County of Douilas. o Georgo B3, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bea Pablishing company, does solenmly swear that the actual circalation of TiE DAILY B for the week ending Junc 8, il was as follows: Funday. May Monaay, | Tuesday. Juno Wednesday, June Thuraday. June 4 Eriday. Juno b. Baturday, Juno 6.. bos GEORGE W, 2501 UCK. Sworn 1o Veforo me ond subscriled in my esence this(th day of Junc, 1801, L4 4 N, P, Frin. Notury Public. Average. Etnte of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, (% Georgo ‘B, X, Letng dnly sworn, de- 6 and Kiys t secretury of THE BEFR Foviliing . \t the actual average duily circ TnE DALY BEE for the mont 1600, wiis 2,001 copl for Tuly, 100, ;' for Aucust, 0,750 coples; or, 1400, 2 for Octolor coples: e ber, 660, for, Deceniher, 18 2411 copl 446 covles for Fol'ruary, 1601, 24,05 coples. for for May 1801, 26,810 coples. GEORGE B. T7SCHUCK. Eworn to Vefore me. and subscribed in my presence. (his 2d duy ot June. A, D, 150t Notary Pubile. THE interstate tariffs of Mexico will prove a serious obstaclo to the proposed reciprocity treaties with that country. ITALY has had hard luck lately. - The collapse of IRudini’s blustering bombas- tryis followed by a genuine earthquake. IT SHOULD not create great surprise to learn that the Northwestern rubber company stretehed its eredit $100,000 be- yond its assets. SALT LAKE CITy is going into the congress business also, and is making proparations for a tr: Missourl irri- gation congres: Sik EpwarD CLARKE, of counsel for Gordon-Cumming in the baccarat suit, will not apply for membership in the Marlborough club, WHEN people in New York asks what Governor Hill proposes to do with his presidential boom they aro always re- ferred 1o Senator Hill. OUTSIDE of political circles the three men in whom the world is today most in- terested are Prof. Briggs of Union semi- nary, Rev. Phillips Brooks and Rev. Heber Newton. ABSOLUTE silence in the precincts of the state board of transportation indi- cates very cloarly that the railvonds do _not care to have rates reduced until after the crops aro marketed. SHOULD the people’s party undertake the task of defeating John Sherman in Ohlo this fall, it will come out of the contest full of valuable information, but badly demoralized about the mouth. HIPPOLYTE has murdered perhaps three hundred of his enemies. It will not be safe for any insurance company to take a risk on the life of the Haytian president. Ho has invited a violent death, and the invitation will shortly be accopted. —_—e EASTERN vapitalists loaning money in Kansas now stipulate for payment of principal and interest in gold, This is an immediate result of the fiat foolish- ness of Poffer and his followers. The danger just now is that other horrowing states besides Kansas will find gold clauges in thoeir mortgages also. SENATOR CALL will find o fight on his hands in Washington less bitter perhaps than that in Tallahassee, but perhaps ' more effective. The joint session of the legislature by which he claims to have beon elected contained a majority of the members of both houses, but there were not senators enough present for a quorum of that body. On this point his contest rests. SECRETARY RUSK is investigating the charge made that some enterprising New York butchers ave driving a thriv- ing trade in the shipment of horseflesh to Europe, where it is palmed off as boet. The butchers will probably dis- cover they can got no horses on Rusk. He will make it very interesting for the follows that undertake the 1mpossible in this direction. BARDSLEY, the defaulting city treas- urer of Philadelphia, not only stole the funds paid in for taxes by other citizens, but failed to pay his own taxes. He was among the heaviest delinquents in the city and it is discovered that at the be- ginning of the present year Philadel- phia had $6,000,000 outstanding, two- thirds of which is reported uncollect- able. Philadelphia is a very conserva- tivo oity, cspecially about collecting taxes. THE assessors have made the aggre- gate valuation of Omaha personal as- sots $21,000,000, a triflo more than was returned last year, The fact that there are between $17,000,000 and 818,000,000 in cash on deposit in the banks of Omaha to the credit of her citizons at this-writing brings the absurdity of the undervaluation into very bold rolief. Omaha is worth = $200,000,000, and a valuation for revenue purposes of but 21,000,000 would be ridiculous if it were not such an affront to intelligence, THE OMAHA DAILY BEM, WEDN ESDAY JUNE 10, 1891, ANADIAN ANNEXATION. The annexationists of Canada appear to have oxtractod fresn hope from the death of Sir John Macdonald. The dis- cussion of tho expediency of union with the United States, which was practi- cally silenced by the result of the last oloction, is being renewed, not perhaps with extraordinary vigor, for it'is too soon after the death of the distinguished premier for the opposition to his policy to develop great activity, but still with a manifestation of earnestness which in- dicates a conviction that the formid- able barrier to growth of anti-imper- ial sontiment in the Dominion has beon removed, and that its progross may now be surer and move rapid. There can bo no doubt of the intention of the annexationists to maintain a contest for the policy they advocate, and it is prob- able that their chances of making head- way huve improved. Very much will de- pend upon the ability of the succossor of the late premier to follow the lines of his policy, and it is questionable whether there is any man in the consorvative party who has the qualifications to do this. Of the provinces which compose the Dominion hardly any two have ider ical interests, and there ace and v gious divisions which widely separ some of them. The political skill of John Macdonald was conspicuously shown in quieting the controversies and staving off the issues incident to theso provineial differences, and keeping alive a dominant sentiment of loyalty to the imperial government. Ho was adroit, \cious, fertile in oxpedients, and ho was anle to make a majority of the peo- ple share his faith ina commanding des- tiny for Cinada. [f his successor man possessing theso qualities tho an- nexationists will probably find pro- gross dificult, at least outside of ono or two provincss, but otherwise they avo not unlikly to voalizo a vigorous growth, There is reported to be a feel- ing in England that the hold of the im- perial government upon Canada is vory likely to bo weakened in the near future. It is doubtless well founded, but if the apprehension has veforence to possible annexation it may be quieted by the thought that the people of tho United States aro quite indifferent to that proposition, and if iv were submitted to them they would probably bo found strongly opposed to it, Undoubtodly there are portions of Canada which wouid be a desivable acquisition. There are people who would very likely be induced to favor annexa- tion by the attractiveness of tho idea of extending the political authority of the United States over the entire conti- nent with the exception of Moxico. There are conceivable' advantages in such a scheme for advancing the power of the republie, which would doubtless win it many supporters. But there are several obvious disadvantages to bo taken into account which balance, if they do not 6utwaigh, the favorable con- siderations, and their intelligent discus- sion would be protty sure to influence a majority of the American peo- ple against annexation. What is rather to , be desired is some fair and equitable arrangement which will establish commercial relations between the United States and Canada mutually beneficial, and tne attainment of this would mean practically Canadian inde- pendence of England. This would be a consummation which would bring all the hest advantages of annexation with- out involving any of the difficulties or dangers possible to the lattor. THE KEYSTONE BANK CASE. President Harrison has notified the mayor of Philadelphia that he will facil- itate a thorough examination of the affairs of the defunct Keystone bank of that city, vecently closed and placed in the hands of a receiver by the treasury authorities. This exceptional interest on the partof the president in a mattor which ordinarily would be left wholly to tho management of the financial de- partment of the government, is due to an implication that the comptroller of the currency did not promptly perform his duty when he learned that the ank was in an insolvent con- dition. The roquest of the pros dent to cause @& thorough in- vestigation was in pursuance of a reso- lution passed by the council of Phila- delphia, which alleges delay in closing the bank and in the appointment of a re- ceiver, The proposed investigation of the af- fairs of the bank promises sensational disclosures. What is alveady known shows adeliborate and prolongzed sys- tem of plundering for which it would bo difficult to find a pavallel in our banking annals. The president of the bank for many years, a man who possessed the fullest measure of public confidence, it was ascertnined after his death had robbed the bank of a large amount. He had been during a long period of pocula- tion successful in deluding the bank ex- aminers and his succossor appears to have been no less capablo in this partic- ular. In this state of affairs the city treasurer of Philadelphia deposited with the bank city and state funds amounting to over 1,500,000, it is presumed, with a full knowledge of the situation, which for a timo served to enable the bank to do business and to continue to deceive the bank examiner. An end to the de- ception was, howover, Inevitable and when the examiner’s oyes were opened to the facts it was found that the looting of the bank had been complete, The prosident of the bank fled and is still in exile. The clty treasurer isin prison. It is charged that when the bank examinor discovered the situation ho did not report the facts fully to the Washington authorities. It is also alleged that after the treasury author- itles had been upprised of the facts thoy allowed the wrecked institution to float along two months, thus enabling it to defraud many more people. These are the fucts to be investigated, and the in- vestigation is oxpected to disclose what influences if any, operated to protect this 1nstitution from the prompt enforcement of the law. It is to be hoped that the president will insist that the trensury investigation shall go to the bottom fucts, and meanwhile there is furnished for contemplation an- other ivstructive lesson us to the utility of bank examiners. A dozen cases might be cited from the exgprience of the lust five or six yeurs of hardly less culpable dersliotion on the part of these government officials than is charged and apparent in the case of the Keystone bank of Philadelphia. The plain truth is that very generally the so-called ex- aminations by these well-paid officials are of tho most perfunctory character and do npt conform at all to the require- ments and intent of the law. Thoy do not in fact examine anything, but ac- cept the statements of the bank of- fieials, There is no greater noed in con- nection with the national banking sys tem than a radical reform in the methods of bank examiners, It is not too much to suy that nearly every national bank failuro that has taken place during the past ton years might have been averted if tho banks had been subjected to such examinations as the law provides for. THRE BACCARAT VERDICT. The gambling scandal which has been the sensation in England for two weels post, and which will be memorable because the prince of Wales was in- volved in it, has ended so far as the libel suit brought by Sir William Gor- don-Cumming was concerned, the v dict of the jury being against the plain- tiff. Whether there will be any further scandals grow out of this quarrel of guwbling avistocrats, in which the heir apparent to the British throne played a prominent and evidently discred- itablo part, the future will probably determine. It has been suggestod by London cor- :spondents that in the event of Cum- ming losing his suit he might, in re- venge, oxpose unwelcomo fuets which 20 years of ntimacy with the pr of Wales have made him familiar with. But having lost it he may conclude that he would have nothing to gain from scandalous revelations, and it is alto- gother probable that he could not make any without further blackening his own character. The effect of the verdict is simply to convict him of having cheated ata game of cards, and this vice, it would seem, was by no means un- common with the aristocratic coterie of which he was a member. The evidence showed that the prince himself was not above trickery at the gaming table, and it is doubtful whether any ono of those who were in the habit of gambling at Tranbycroft was guiltless of cheating. He is really, therefore, not very much worse off than those with whom he was associated, and if the verdict against him should not result in his dismissal from the army, and doubtless strong in- fluence will be brought v bear to pre- vent such a consequence, what he knows of the heir apparvent will probably not be divulged. Indeed nothing more that might be disclosed would add much to the popular sentiment everywhore unfavorable to the prince of Wales, The justico of the verdict against Cumming is not questionable. The evi- dence of his having been a cheat was overwhelming. But the result vindi- cates noone engaged in this very dis- veputable case, and thero has been ex- posed a phase of aristocratic Knglish life of which Englishmen everywhere will be ashamed. “It is to be hoped in the interest of common decency that there will be no scandalous sequel to this shameful affair. THE BOARD OF TRADE AWAKE. Although but twenty members of the board of trade participated in the meet. ing Monday evening, those present were fully alive to the important work which lies immediately before that body. No action was taken in regard to a grain and produce exchange, probably for the reason that the grain' men ‘will havea meeting to discuss that subject next Monday night. The board devoted its time, however, to five other very im- portant topics, and took appropriate preliminary action in each caso. The topics referred to ave: (1). Tho discrimination in rates in fayor of Coun- cil Bluffs and against Omaha on Iowa business. (2). The national.party con- ventions. (8). The completion of the union depot.. (4). The trans-Mississippi congress. (5. The pan-republican congress, Incidentally several other matters of local interest were presented and altogether the meeting was both interesting and profitable. . This city has been working for months at a disadvantage with Council Bluffs for the reason that the latter city has a rate five cents lower per hundred pounds on freight to local Iowd points, The Towa city has the same rates to western points us Omaha and in the judgment of Omaha shippers this should be a reciprocal’ 1ata from Omaha to eastern stations. . Appeals have been made from time to time to the local railways and to the various traffic ussociations controlling the rates. These have beeu ignored. Thé -board has therefore decided to take the matter before the interstate commerce com- misgion and the state board of transpor- tation, engaging attorneys to make a proper presentation of the case. Omaha is certain to becomo a grent convention city. All that is neces Lt to bring this about is for Omaha to, assert herself and bring the facts before the bodies which control these national meetings. The next trans-Mississippi congress con- venes in Omeha in October and will be properly ontertained. The pan-vepub- lican congress convenes also in October and Omaha is pitted against Philadel phin for this mecting. A little’ judicious offort may bring this organization to this city. The threo party conventions of 1892 have not yet selected a place of meeting. Omaha came ...hin one vote on the informal lot of securing u majority of the committee on location of the last republican national conven- tion. This should be sufticient encour- agement to warrant our citizens in again making an effort. We ought to have at least one of these great meetings here. The board of trade has tuken the initin- tive. Lot the other organizations join with them and see what can be accom- plished by determination, and sustained, intolligent effort, The union depot in its present unfin- ished state is an eye sove to Omaha, and makes a bad imp upon travelers passing through on the rail- ways. If it is possible to induce tho depot company to resume work upon any basis fair to the city and all concerned, it is to be hoped the board of trade com- near pssion mittee will bring the inducoment to tho attention of thadepot authorities. Taken altogopher the board of trade did a good esohing's work. Tur Bee hopes this or, nx‘zi ation will continue as it has suddenlybegun, and take hold of affairs with tho vigorous ability shown in the instance “Which has brought out these comments SomE demdggatic nowspapers In tho east, determingd to crash the tin plate industry and with it to injure that of tin mining,have #¢ferred toan investigation made by the Omahn board of trade as evidence that there is little tin in the Black Hills, The fact is that the report of the Omaha delegation was unequivo cally commendatory. The information obtained convinced them that the Black Hills mines are inexhaustible and can supply the world with this metal when worked to their full capacity. These truths do not suit the purposes of a malignant free trade press and they have therefore pretended to quote the Omaha board of trade report as proof of their staterments belittling the possibil- ities of this young but promising indus- try. After visiting fifteen mines more or less doveloped the delegation say, “there is practically an inexhaustivle supply of tin in that district, probably suflicient to supply the markets of the world.” GoverNor Husienrey of Kansas is a vepublican, but his state has gono daft over allinnce vagarios. Judge Horton ofthe supreme court is also a repub- lican. President Harrison has selected him for judge of the court of land claims, Everybody in Kansas except ex-Senator Ingalls is well enough pleased at his ap- poiutment, but if he should resign now or prior to October his successor must be elected by the people and in the pres ont state of Kansas politica the alliance men would capture the place. If tho chief justice resigns in October the gov- ernor will fill the vacanc; Hence an effort is making to induce the president to withhold formal appointment until later in the year. The president may conclude that the exigencies of Kansas polities will not ,permit him to take the chief justice from the state bench or he may hold his commission for a conven- ient season, THE statement of Postmaster General Wanamaker rogarding his connection with the collapsed Keystone bank of in: will be satisfactory to all ir-minded mcn, His relations with that institution were solely as a business man, and he states that he knew nothing of its condition exespt from published reports, and had absolutely nothing to do with the course of the government authorities regarding the institu- tion. The postmaster general’s statement is unequivocakin its statements, and it is to he hoped thoge who huve endeavored to connect him digereditably with the do- funet bank will. jave tho senso of fair- ness and justico{to acquit him of any such accusation:* Tue Council Bluffs Nonpareil contin- ues to urge the advantages of Omaha as the place in which to hold the next re- publican national convention. In a half column editorial that newspaper pre- sents many cogent reasons for taking the matter in hand. It is clear that Iowa will be with us, thanks to the Nonpareil. and Omaha wili have whatever advan- tage comes of being earliest in the field with the backing of a state convention. SEPLOY. one of the leaders of the Man- ipur insurgents concerned in the massa- cre of Commander Quinton and party, was hanged by the British authorities. Plenty Horses, the Indian murderer of Lieutenant Casey, also an insurgent, was acquitted in an American court on the ground that a state of war existed and the gallant army officer was a spy. — THE interment of the remains of the 1ite Byron Reed in Prospect Hill come- tery sets at rest the agitation for the abandonment of that cemetery. Mr. Reed dedicated the ground to cemetery purposes. It is a beautiful spot, care- fully kept, and every way attractive, It will never be disturbed. PERHAPS is is not necessary toremark once more that the coroner’s office needs the disinfectant of a very thorcugh investigation at the hands of the board of county commissioners. NO TIME is to be lost if Omaha would make her influence felt as a candidate for the honor of entertaining the next republican national convention. Crry prisoners will hereaftor exerciso their muscles on the streets repairing washouts and cutting weeds. That is right. A Trunk Line Agreemont. Boston Adu rtiser. The unanimous rush of thoso elephants at thoso annoying Yalo students seems to have been in accordance with a trunk line agree- ment. Al An Unselfish Patriot, Nido York Sun. No man should underestimawa the irre- pressiblo singloness,of purpose now animat- g Hon. Edward Freightpayer Jonos, the most famous | (rperican loutenant gov- error, who for the prosent your is likewise a candidate for govempr. |~.‘r...-mg|(2:mr swallows, Bdsloh Globe, Cheap chairs angl inexpensive deal tables will be a drug in fhe furniture warket today. Our legislators bavo finally docided th +perpendicular” drinking—tho good old way of our daddies—shall once more be logal and proper in the connnopwealth, A Curo for. Kloptomania, 1 h Bekver o The placing of o load of bird shot in the faco and head of a burglar on Sunday night, ith almost fatal rosults, will doubtless cause aismay in the ranks of these night prowlecs who prey ou other people's prop- orty. Its effoct will be quite as wholesomo as the sending of & few of thom to the pen- fenbary. o e That »outhern Bugaboo Soringfield Republican. Congressman-elect Livingston of Georgia has probably got himsolt iuto hot water by his speech before the committee on resolu. tions of the Cincionati conference, which somebody has reported. Livingston's spoech was evideutly not intended for pub.ication, it is t0o blunderingly candid for that, and is all the more Iuterosting ou that account, als though uot necessarily the more trust worthy, because his caudor may have been John Macdonald refused, and no future Can- put on for the purposs of stufing the committee. His story in brief was that there was o genuine foar of negro supremacy at the south, the talk about it 18 “all nonsenso. Wo can bmy the nogro voto whon wo want it Allthis is in direct conteadiction to what we are nccustomed to hear from south ern sources. It is evident enough that some- body has been misrepresenting tho situation, and itis open to eithor Livingston or the southern demoorats to prove the other guilty, gl Her Vivid Imagination. Laramie republican. Colonel Helon Gougar claims to have fin preparation a talo about the prosidential special that will bo so much worse than hor diatribe about the Hoarst funeral train that her hearers will fairly gasp for breath. The colonel is holding the story back for a time in order that it may be given all the trimmings necessary to mako A first class sonsation. And then if she thinks it over industriously for & week or two she will actually beliove it terself. AR LT T Europe's Loss, America's Gain. New York Recorder. The Russian grain crop is extremely bad, and in Germany only fear of losing the farmer vote restrains tho ministry from con- vening the reichstag to lower the grain tarif. In F'rance the ovornment has announced its intention of antagonizing 1a tho senate tho proposed increaso of duty ou pork. Theso facts illustrato the folly of the apprehension that European demand for American pro- duots is likely to fall off. Bl i The Royal Banker. New York Times ‘That the hoir to tho throno of England, at the ago of fifty, should be so frivolous a per- son as to addict himself to gambling for heavy stakes in a country house is a dis closure that to serious peopie does not need 0 bo aggravated by evidence that one of his chosen companions was a blacklez in order to aiscredit him with the great mass of tho Euglish pople, kg s o THE FUTURE OF CANADA. St. Paul Globo: Sir John's death removes tho great barrier to the abrogation of the trade restrictions which his policy has im- posed, and opens the. way for changes of the most radical character. St. Paul Ploncer-Press: 1t will soon bo clear to tho Canadians that therc is but ona way out of the difficulties of their situation, and that is the broad and open way of anaex- ation to the United States. Washington Post: The death of Sir John will unquestionably have an important effect on the destinies of Canada, and it may not ba far from tho truth to suy that it takes out of the way a very considerable obstacle to its progress and prospert Chicago News: A youngor generation of Canadians will tako up the task that Sir dian goverument, whether conservativo or liberal, will bo able to resist the inovitablo trend 'of Canadian sentiment towerd com- mereial union with the Umted States. Sult Lake Times: The outlook, at best, is alittle biuo for tho tory party, and now that their great leader has fallen, a man who held party together through a strong person- ality more than auything else, it will not bo surprising if that party willhave to give way to the stronger forces on the liberal side. Detroit Free Press: The blind faith which the Canadian of the old school felt i the in- tervention of Great Britain is not shared by those of the younger class, and what is morc, they do not care whethor such aid 1s fort coming or not. They feel able to walk alone, and if this is undesivable they know that thero is kindliness and hospitality over the border, St. Louis Globo-Uemocrat: The death of the premier cannot fail to give a powerful and immediate impetus to the Canadian moye- ment in favor of commercial reciprocity with the United States, For several years past the senriment in this direction” has been growing rapidly, and at length it became so pronounced and persistent that even the pre- mier was compelled to make some concessions in its favor. New York Tribune: Tho great problem that has so long been impending even ho did not touch. He realized that it marked tho limitation of his power to control the people. IHe vostponed it. He moved it from time to time into the future, and, largely bocause the public attitude toward it was still unde- fined -and _doubtful, he was pormitted to avoid an attempt at its solution. But now it must come on. It will not be settled by one voice. Leaders will play a small part ‘in its settlement. Its post- ponement until now 1s to be taken not so mueh as proof that Sir John lacked the high gonuis which builds empires and writes en- duriug_constitutions as that the day is near wlien these are ceasing to be the acts of in- dividuals and are coming to be the unchal- lenged.right of the whole people. e FPASSING JESTS, Our government may have to try the ro- taliation policy of “tit for I-tat-a’’ on the Chilian rebels. s - Minneapolis Tribune: Tho news that the prince'of Walos stood pat while Siv William linrdon-_Cummlnn was doing his cheating, may avouse some loyal enthusiasm among his future subjects in Ireland AN APPROPRIATE TUNE, 7 Philadelphia Record, He smoked the deadly cigarette, And inhaled the poison in fiendish glee; At last the'smokers’ fato he met, Aund the band played **Nearer, My God, to | Toee.” Washington Post: ““That makes me hot,” exclaimed an I streot real estate man com- ing 1mto his office and slapping a package of papers down on his desk, “What does?” asked his partner with more or lass alarm. “That sunshine out ‘there on the street,” responded tho joker with o grin at his part- nor. Now York Continent: Clara (waking)— Whose poem was that you've just roadi Isnbella—Why, that was Browning's. Clara—I thought so. 1 knew it the moment 1 fell asleop. Epoch: Dolly (the ingenious)—Oh, girls! Chorus of Beautios —Yos, Dolly—Come up to my room. I've been burniug cigarettes here for an hour, and we'll have a splendid timo thinking thero has been & man around. With reforence to hours of labor, Man wants but littlo here below, Nor wants that little long. Harper's Bazaar: “First you had whoop- ing cough, then you got the grp, and now you havo janndice. Seems to me you catch everything in your town,” said Wiggles. “Yes," said the commuter. *Iverything excopt the traiu I want." New York Herald: “McGuire's father was un Irnshman and his mother a Gorman,” “Great heavens! What does ho drinii 0, he's un American—anything." Clothier and Furnisher: First Clork— I've hud this office coat four years. Secona Clerk—You don’t say so! Why, it 100ks as good us new. How do you account for jt lasting so long i First clerk—I don't know, unless it's bo cause I never wear it out. LAYING OF A CORNER STONE. Oeremonies Over the Foundation of the Haish Manual School. TOM MAJORS GOVERNOR FOR ONE DAY. Organizing a League to Perfect Ob- servance of the Sabbath—A Losson in Economy-— Toacher's Institute. Lixcory, Neb,, Juno 9.—~[Spocial to Tur Ber.|—One of the most interesting events of commencement weck at Wesloyan univer- sity was the laying of tho corner stoue of ¢ Haish manual school, an adjuaet to the uni vorsity. The building is to stand on the elevation in the most eastern part of the campus, It is to be threo storics high and is to be built entirely of stone. The school is t0 bo for the benefit of ail students of tho university, whether male or female. The persons who participated in the exercises wero Bishop Warner, Bishop Nowman and Mr. and Mrs, Jacob Haish. Those four wore escorted to tho grounds by the uuniversity cadets, “Tho commencoment oxercises tako place in the university chapol at 10330 a, m. tomor- row. In the evening Bishop Newman will deliver the university address, At tho closo tho chancellor will hold a lovoe. GOVERNOR MAIORS, “Tomorrow Tom Majors will be governor of Nebraska, but his term of oflice is to last ono day only. Ho assumes the prorogatives of chief executive from tho fact that Governor Thayer will go down into Missouri on a pleasuro trip tomorrow. It is not positively known whether or not Governor Majors will la special session of the logislature, but the presumption is that ho will not. Gov- crnor Majors was in the city today on his way home. He will put in tho eatird day to- mortow in plowing corn, withoueh ho will bo tho chiet executive of ' groat stato, Tho governor says that corn is wrowing too fast for im to waste any time putting on any extra frills, A SUNDAY LEAGUE, A movemont is atloat in Lincoln for the or- ganization of & Sunduy league, or a socicty looking to the perfect ovservance of the Sab- bath in Lincoln. The first moeting was held last evening at the Presbyterian church. Difty gentiemen and eleven ladies were pres- ent.” M. L. Trester called the meeting to order and was chosen chairman, Sunday baseball playing was condemnou, but it was conceded that thero was litle Lope of reaching the case this season. Vari- ous methods wore suggested for the suppres- sion of Sunday baseball. William Robertson arose at this junction and declared that he did not wish to have anything to_do with the ocicty if it proposed to fight Sunday ba: batlalore. Hoe wanted the Sunday Inw in goneral enforced. Dr. Dorris wanted to make the temporary organization permanent, and Chairman Tres- ter favored the suggestion. A numbor were opposed to this, and as o result tho porma- nent organization was postponed. A com- mittee, consisting of Mayor Weir, Dr. Cur Rev. Gregory and Rev. Baker were ap- pointed to prepare a constitution. Rev. Gregory deprecated the busmess of pool selling. . Ho was seconded by Dr. Cur- us, who told of o highly respectable young man who bet 50 conts on a gumo of ball and mado 85, This money, the doctor said, the younz man spent by, treating his friends to ice croam. The meeting then adjourned until next Monday evening. A LESSON 1N ECONOMY. Tho board of public lands and buildings has been endeavoring to lot the contract for the relaying of the looseslabs in the stone floor of tho halls in the state house, but the lowest bid that was offerod was 125, Iin- ally Warren Hagey, the engineer of the stato house, saia that Le would undortake the job and sce that it was done at cost. He has done s0 and has completed the job at a cost of exactly 810, a saving of over 1,000 per cent of what the job would otherwise’ have cost. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. The fiftceenth annual session of the Lan- caster connty teachers’ institute will be held in this city from June 15 to July 2, inclusive. Regular sessions will bo held daily from 8 a. m. to12m. The instructors will be as fol- lows: E. W, Hunt, A.M., university of No- braska, English: Miss Belle Thomas, state normal school, primary methods and ' school economy; Prof. J. A. Beattio, Cotner uni- versity, mathematics; Prof. K. D. Cotner university, bookkeeping. COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES. The aunual commencement exorcises of the stato university will be held at Funke's opera house commencing at 10 o'clock tomorrow. The procession will form at the university at 9:30 8. m. At the heud ywill be the university band and cadets, next the regents, faculty and students and last of ull tho graduating class.. Tho opera house will not be opened until aftor the procession arri However, Tadios only will be admitted after 9 o'clock. The university oration will bo deliverod by Prof. James H. Canfield of the University of Kensas. The following are the graduates Dogreoof Master of Arts (M A.) —Awarded 10 C. E. Tingley, T. A. Williams and Florenco N. Jouo: Classical Course (B. A.)—William Brown, John Fogarty, Charles Gregory, Anua Rogers, Belle Rogers, Charles Schell, Sara Schwab, William Taylor, Mary Wedgewood, Elinor Williams, Richard Wiliiams, Literary Courso (B. L.)—Fannio A. Baker, Frank 1. Bishop, 1da Honnel!, Thoy ) Chappell, Rose E. Colins, Albert A. I Henry A. Reeso, William'IT, W heoter, Scientific Courso (B, Se.)—Rosa Bouton, Edith M. Brace, Clareuce C. Fletcher, Avery D. Haggard, Harvey B. Hicks, James W. Mc- Jrosky, Per A. Rydberg, Guy P. Thurber, Albert M. Troyer. THREE DAYS A BRIDE, Sophia Katherine Kennedy has filel a po- tition for a divorco from her husband Charlos on the grounds of dosertion. Mrs. Kennedy says that sho became Charlio's wife Decomber 12 Jast, but after hiviug with her threo duys he fled to unknown parts Mrs. Kennody says that her absont husban d is worth £,000, and sho wants a share of his property ns wollas a divorce, THE UNDERTAKERS' CONVENTION, The state undertakers' convention has been in session in Lincoln today. There are 160 delezates in attendance. The secrots of embalming are being discussed and other matters pertaining to the prosorvution of tho dead. The meetings are with closed doors, The convention continues WmMOrrow. THE ORDINANCE NOT RECORDED, Julius C. Wrempener, one of the druggists arvested the other duy for solling hquor without license or proscription, was fined $20 and costs by Judgo Houston today, the prin- cipal evidence mgninst bim being that of the Denver detective, Poters. B, J. Aloxandor's trinl was something of a surprise to the state, His attorney brought out the fuct that although the rules of the exciso bonrd were publisied, the_clerk’s record failed to sthow that they haa been udopted. Tho court took the matier under advisement, s Alexauder's attorneys contended that their client could nov be guilty of violating a law that nover legally existed, 'onns AND ENDS. Tho Cortlandt beach assocation of Omaha has filed articles of incorporation with the socrotary of state, The capital stock is £0,000 and the Incorporators Charies W, Thomas, Louis Schroeder, L. A. Garner, John J. Philbin and Johu M. Daugherty! Harris, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE i The object of the outerprise is to establish ¢ pleasure rosort on Cut-Off island, Tho Lincoln electric railway company has filed amended articlos of incororation, in. crensing its cupital stock to §100,000, THE WAREHOUSE BILL, What Secretary Johnson Has to Sty of the Mcasure. Lixcory, Neb,, June 9.—-ISpocial to Tin Bae.|—In speaking of the warehouse bill today Secretary Jolinson of the state board of transportion thus expressed himself: *“I'he warehouso bill 1s a practical measure boc h individual farmer may avail nefits, Busiiess men have generally eriticised farmers aud accusod them of poor businoss management in crowding their grain on the market when tho price was low and really only about half of what the product ~would have brought n few ‘months luter. The reason for this so-called mismanagenent was not bocauso the farmer didn’t know bot- tor, but because his circumstances compelled alizo re AS 800N 03 possi: ble after his g barveated. Many favmers have not suficiont grausry room to storo thoir grain and many more huvo debts maturing immediately eftor harvest, Here toforo thoy woro not always abla to borrow on the harvested crop, and if they did borrow it was ata cut-thro to from the local money lender who took chances ns to whethor the grain offerad in - mortgage was lly in the bin as represonted or not. But this new luw will cnable each favmer Lo storo his grain, take a warehouse recoipt therefor, and on that rocoint he can borrow money at the very lowest rates, us the sceurity ho offers is of tho be: “Ihere will be 00 oxeuse for tho farmers of this state if thoy aliow this season o pass without availing thomselves of tho benefits of this measure. There is no reason why evers bushel of grain raised in Nebrasica this year 1ould ot ve held in the warchouses of ‘this state unti) it brings the highest market price, Tho world must Liave our grain to live on and we can have the highest price if wo hold it lonyg enough, and we can hold 1t under this new law. A farmor living at Sutton, Mo- Cook or Chadron cau storo his grain there, take his warehouso reccipt it ho neods ready money and, if the local hankor waits to hold him up for 115 or3 por cont per month, he can borrow what money he needs divect from Omahia or othior money” centres at 7 or 8 por cont per annum, just as tho olovator men do. A warchouso receipt is always geot security, no matter to whom it is issued. "I'wo y ago every business man stood aghast at the spectacle of No- br arketing her wonderful corn crop at s when thoy knew it would bring dou- ble that amountin a fow months. 1eoplo sneered at what they called farmor mismin- agement. The business men of the state saw that mistake, and at their suggestion the now law was formulated and passed. Now let the storehouses bo orceted all over tho State, aud if the hungry peovle of the worid want our corn and wheat let us hold it until the willing to pay what it is worth, Lam glad to 1 B take an activo wterost in th warehouse proposition. 1's a schemo that is practical aud immediately available, v newspaper in the state ought take up the subject and discuss it, and overy buuker ' and business mian ought to join with the farmers haud in haud to eroct tho warehouses and bave then ready. In two months from now Nebraska 11 liave more wheat on hand than she. ever bad at any one time before. If tho prico suits us wo cansell. If the prico don't suit us we ought to be in a position to hold it_for a better price. The secretavies will thor- oughly investigate the practical operation of this law as it is in other states where it is in force, and will be ready when the time comes 10 set the machinery in motion 5o as to realize. the most possible benefit to the grain produc- ers of Nebraska.” THE ENGLISH UP 10 DATE. Written for The Beo, We've heard folks cry in days gono by, another good man gone wrong."! But a curions phase of modern days I tho subject of my song. ‘Che men of note for whom wi Are coming it rather strong; And every day we've eause 1o 'say, “Thero's another M. P. gone wrong." The biatant voice of the voter’s choice In purliamont wuxoth loud: With a moral tone that is all his own He lectures the vulgar crowd On the wicked ways of their nights duys Tor the poor aro always wrong. It's such a turn next day to learn, “Thore's another M. . gone wrong." He takes tho chair with a pious air At a meting ouritanical, Whero parsons prate and bigots state that a comic song 15 Satanical; And you feel quite sure nis life is pure, Hi$ virtues and morals stroug. He's up next week bofore the “beak’ “There's another M. P. gono wrong.” voto He's mado a splash with other men’s cash Ho's been for a spreo to **Parry.” He's caused some strife witn another man's wife, He's broken his promise to marry; Or ho's taken fright and his speedy flight Away to the continong. In tho Daily Scroed next day wo read : “There's another M. I, gone wrong.” But when he's caught he surely ought, o suffer for his schomin The law is blind, but then wo find, It is not always droaming Law, with the poor, is swilt and sure, Its'sentenco then is stroug; And yet mothinks it sometimes blinks Wiien a rich M. I. goes wrong. - Clampite dailed Again, J. H. Clampitt was bound over to the dise trict court yestorday afternoon by Judge Helsley in the sum of # ampitt is charged with malicions destruction of prop- erty. Last May ho destroyed a fino oil por- trait belong UALITY FIRS' O Then price. But never price before qualit y Iiret, last and always should be tho quulity of a pisno. Do not be carried awa with the iden that o Pinno which 15 cheap is nooessnr- ily & bargain. If you want true plea- suro and comfort in the onjoyment of your piano during the rest of ur life you need for once to refuse to enter inta the race for pennies—to ignore mere chenpness, Wao have just received from the man- ufaturers an invoico of the widely known and popular BRIGGS PIANQOS. These instrumonts are notable for an exquisite tone us un ac- companiment to the human voice. lach Piano is equipped witn a patentod Soft Stop, which makes practising at all times nnd hours easily possible, without attendant noise, It costs nothing to see and try one of Jhose fine instruments in our warerooms, but it costs & great opportunity not to do it Visitors and purchasers ave equally welcomo. Wo ask you to come and try one of these superb instruments entiro- ly apart from the intention of purchus- ing O COBRIGGS. & CO,; at Office, Factory and Warerooms Boston, Mauss. A MAX MEYER & BRO. CO,, AGENTS BRIGGS PIANOS, 1620 to 1524 Farnam Street, 215 to 22§ South 16th Street, Omaha Neb,