Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1891, Page 4

BEE 1o, DATLY ROSEWATER THE PUBLISHED VERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Bes (without Sunday) One Year.. Dally and Sunduy, One Year Eix months. Thees montie Funday Bee, One Yoar., Satirdny Boo, One Yoir Weekly Bee, One L1800 10 00 500 |1 o 160 10 OF FICES: Omahn, The Tres Rullding Ko ahn. Corner N and 20th Streeta Penrl Street. r of Commerce. Tribune Bullding Y CORRFSPONDENCE Al communications relating to news and editorinl mutter should be addressed tc vhe Editorful Departne BUSINF CETTERS and_remittances should v Publishing C Afts, ks and postofic yable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Poblishing Company. Proorigtors THE BEE BUILDING. be nddrs Omuha. 10 he made BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebrasl T County of Donglas, | " 15, Tzachuck, secrotary of The Beo company, does solemnly swear il ef tion of TiE DAILY BER for the week ending June 27, 180l was as fol- y. June 21 Monday, June Tuesduy, June Wednes Tune Thursday, June Friday, Jino 2 Baturday, June 27 . ........27,010 GER( B. TZSOHUCK €worn to hefore me and subscribed in my presence this Zith duy of June, 1501 ¢ N P Feim. Notary Publio. Average. ... State of Nebraska, ) County of Donglas, (9 George T Tzschuck. being duly sworn, de- JoAes A sava thit o Iy secretary of THE BEK Publishing company., that the actunl average dully elrculat £ Tik for tho month of June, 80, was :0 for Jul 1800, 20,657 copies; for Augiist 18, 0,150 copl for September. 1400, 20, tor Oct 1800, 2,702 coples: for Nov 1803, 22,13 coples:’ for Dec mber, ‘180), pies; for January, 801 28440 coples: fo y. 1801, 25812 coples: for March, 1801, 24,065 coples: for April, 1601, 24028 coples: for Miy, 1801, coples. GronGe B T75CHUCK, worn to before me and subscrit presenco this 20 duy of June, A, D. 1 N P. Fem, Notary Public. TaNATIUS DONNELLY talks far more entertainingly of Bacon than of politics. Heo knows more about that subject. The board of education will cortainly not permit a few ward bummers to inter- fero with_the election of a good man as superintondent of schools. THE chaplain who proackes to Incura- ble insano is clearly after the money which is paid for the service. He knows it can do his auditors no good. THAT lone Ogallala infantryman up at Pine Ridge Agency, who composes Com- pany 1, should be given command and assigned to garrison duty at Camp Sup- ply. SI1STER BONES of South Dakota has abandoned the prohibition party and gone into litigation. She sues a daily newspaper at Aberdeen for $20,000 damages. CALIFORNIA champagne will have a chance this year. The French article will be very high onaccountof ascarcity of the vintage. In other words the oxtra dry season is unfavorable. OMANA’S fair daughter, Mrs. Russell Harrison, is ns much at home in Wind- sor custle or Palace d’ Elyseos as in her father’s lovely drawing room on Sher- man avenue. She is graceful and lovely everywhore. EX-EMPRESS FEUGENIE proposes to bring her waywara boy, Prince Victor totime. She will not bequeath to him her fortune of £1,000,000 unless he agrees 10 bruce up and marry into some royal family. She will put up with no mor- ganatlc or other subterfuge. THE czar of Russia is reported to be angry at the Danish crown prince for protesting against Russian. intolerence to the Jows. If the czar proposes to make it o personal matter he will soon bo angry at all the world and ashamed of himself beside. There is no sort of oxcuse in this nineteenth century for re- ligious intolerence anywhere. STEWARD LIVERINGHOUSE pays the chaplain from the “amusement’” fund, the painter from the drug fund, his mother-in-law from the domestic animal fund, the patent medicine man from the wine and liquor fung, aadsistmseil in Wnfi the wage fund. Steward iveringhouse’s style of bookkeeping is not adupted to the auditing of anything but dishonest accounts. THE Italian chamber of deputios can- not endure hot weathor and has boen prorogued. Ono or two more heated sessions would have cost King Humbert the lives of as many of his subjects as were required to appense the wrath of New Orleans. A stiletto in the haads of & dago statesman is just as deadly as in thoso of o banaan peddler. Rudini was wise in putting an end to the tur- bulence by adjourning the hot headed marcaroni eaters until coolor weatker. THE effort to make a hero out of Colonel Sam Wood, late wire puller of the alliance party of Kunsas, who was murdered in his town of Woodsdalo last woek, and to saddle his assassination upon the republican party, will probably fail. Wood wasa frontiersmanand a dar- ing, turbulent man, but no hulo will glow around his memor; His violent death is to be deplored, but the chief wonder 1s that he escaped it 50 many yoars in a state whore hatred hus led to feuds without number. Tk Omaha guards have gone to Indi- anapolis nnd tho good wishos of the city have gone with them. This trip has two laudable objects in view, The first 18 to win the prize for the best drilling, in which they will compets with fitty of the most famous militia companies in the union. The other is to secure for Omaha the interstate meeting of the military companies of the United States next year. The boys are favorites here, and win a good name for thomselves and their city wherever they go. THE BE expeets them to capture both the prize and the next year’s drill on their merits and the merits of Omaha. The city will stand by any promises they make on her hohalt. WILY DO THEY NOT RESIGN? Surprise is expressed on all sides at the assurance of Superintendent Test and Steward Liveringhouse of the Hastings asylum for the incurabie insane. Al- rendy facts enough to warrant their summary discharge have been admittod by both these gontiemen. The situation is eritical enough to expect them to ten- der thelr resignations, and so take the edge off public condemnation, They have utterly failed to refute the damag- ing evidence of their inefficigney, their peculations, and their entire incompoe- toncy for the important positions they hold. They have duplicated vouchers inten- tionally and with the purpose of deceiv- ing tho board of public lands and build- ings. Thesteward hasaflixed signatures of employes to the payroll when thosoe employes were not within the state, and had not performed the service for which they wero alleged to have been paid. The steward has ignored the regu- lations of the board in the ma ter of purchasing supplics with the knowledge and consent of the superin- tendent. Bills have been returned for drugs which the steward alleges were really for other articles. The liguor bill of the institution is out of all pro- portion, and the only explanation offered is that other necess articles were charged up as wines and liquors. Horses to e no way con- nected with the institution were fed at the expense of the state, and relatives of the steward have boen paid exorbitunt prices for the uso of horses which were really not required at the institution. The treatment of patients has been brutal. Deaths have occurred under circumstances to ex suspicion, and no proper investigations have followed. The employes guilty of cruelty have been retained. The whole management of the institution has been confessedly extravagant, looso and positively bad. The admissions of the two officials es- tablish all these accusations. There are other churges sustained by evidence and there is more to foliow of even more damaging character. Why do the officials hold out against 80 clear a case against them? belonging 'sons THE FARMER ON TOP, The fact is being universally rccog- nized that the era of exceptional pros- perity for the farmer is at hand. Mr. Erastus Wiman, an intelligent and care- ful stuaent of existing conditions, con- siders in an eastern magazine the events and tendencies which are putting the farmer on top. He concludes that the period of low prices through which the country has just passed was a natural result of the rapid occupation of the arable lands, but these being occupied and the population of the farmers’ home market, the cities, growing much moroe rapidly than the population of the country, there will not bo a re- currence of low prices. Furthermore, Europe still looks to us for food, and is likely to do so more largely in the future than in the past. This writer refers wholly to wheat, but all practical people understand that if that grain rules high, nearly all food products will sympathize with it to someextent. High wheat assures higher corn and rye, and the advanced price of these is certain to have more or less effect upon other farm products. The present year promises to the American farmers almost unprecedented harvests, and there is excellent assur- anco that prices will be higher than for a number of years past. There is every reason to believe that the immediate futuge at least will be equally favorable to agriculture. It is not necessary, in order to reach this conclusion, to accept fully the opin- ion of the statistician that the wheat area of the world is nearly exhausted, and that within the next five years tho United States will become an importer of wheat. There is capacity in this country for greatly increasing produc tion, but there is every probability that the growth of demand will keep pace with it. 1t was noted that the agricul- tural department in a recent report had advised farmers not to be too anxious about extending the wheat area, lest there be overproduction and consequent depression, but there is very littlo reason to fear any such state of affairs. reached the limit of ,n: i WAy~ give 8 little more in tho years to come than in the years past to tho world’s supply. South America and Canada will add something. But these additions will not make up the annual deficiencies in Europe, and us this coun- try, with a steadily increasing popula- tion, will continue to ba called on, there is the best of reasons for expecting that the American farmers will have an un- interrupted ora oi orofitable prices for their grain. The outlook was never brighter for the agricultural class in this country, if they will but reject the schemes which would inevitably bring disaster to their interests and to all others. VD OF THE PISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of the goyernment onds with today, when all nccounts bo- longing to the your will be practically closed, the books balanced, and tomoe- row a now beginning will be made by tho nutional treasury in its financial operations. All this, however, involves no change of policy or practice, except possibly in minor details, and the vast financial wachinery of the government will move on as though the conelusion of another year of business, during which hundreds of millions of money has been tuken inand disbursed, had not been reached. The beginning of & now fiseal year brings with it large disbursemonts and for the noxt fow weeks the national treasury will send out a very much greater amount of money tha it will take in. A gront deal hus recently been said regarding the condition of the treasury, and unquestionably the surplus is lower now than at the end of any fiscal yoar during the past 20, but the treasury is vory far from being bankrupt. An institution with even such vast obliga- tions to provide for as the national trens- ury cannot be considered insolvent while it has available funds w0 the amount of about $47,000,000 in ex- coss of immediate demands and a stoady income. It seems probable that for the next two or three months there THE OMAHA DAILY HBEE: TUESDAY, will be somewhat closer sailing than has been experienced for a number of yoars, but there 18 not the slighteat rea« met, and that to this extent the money market will be helped by the trensury. Whether this assistance will be suf- ficlont to restore confidence, however, remains to be The continued loss of gold, amounting to something like #55,000,000 since January 1, and the un- certainty as to when the outflow will stop, isa condition that naturally cre- ates some distrust. In the ordinary course of trade, and particularly if thero should be, as doubtless there will bo, an unusual demand from Europe for our grain, there would be a return tide of the specie sent abroad within the next 60 days, but there appears ‘o be a teeling that this will not be the course this year, but that European banks and financiers will resist the return of specie to this country. In that case monetar stringency here can hardly be averted, and tight monoy would unfavorably affect both the movement and the valuo of the crops. It will be hardly profitable, howeve to seek for possible dangers in the new financial situation, for all present th ories are quite as likely as not to be e: ploded by future results, Having every assuranco that the national treasury is able to take care of its obligations, maintain the stability of the currency and keep the credit of the government unimpaired, the country can await velopments in other divections without serious apprehension. With an abun- dant supply of everything the world needs, as 18 now promised. we ought to be able to face the future with entire confidence. seon. A DISCREDITED LEADER. President Polk of the national alli- ance has fallen into discredit, and it would seem that he is likely to have a great deal of difficulty in regaining the confidence he has lost, if that be possi- ble. A short time ago Mr. Polk de- livered an address at La Crosse, Wis., in which he was reported by a local paper to have said that “every gamed by the alliance in the south is almost in the face of shotguns in the hands of democratic leaders.” For this alleged statement the allianco leader has been unsparingly denounced by the southern papers, including organs of the allianes, and in the paper of which he is the editor, he of course denies hav- ing made any such statement. It is highly probabie, however, that he was correctly reported, for while Mr. Polk is a good democrat in the south, like the great majority of alliance men in that section, when his mission is to make converts to the alliance cause in repub- lican states in the interest of the third varty, it is not to be doubted that he is quite capablo of abusing southern demo- crats. There is no reason to believe that the reporter of the Lu Crosse paper mis- represented him, and when his evidence is in it will doubtless establish the fact that Mr. Polk was accurately reported. But this is not the only thing which is brought forward to the damage of the alliance leader, who, it may be pertinent to remark, is understood to be nursing the presidential bee. General Boynton, the Washington correspondent of the Cincinuati Commercial-Gazette, whose trustworthiness is universally recognized, reports an interview with a North Carolinian regarding Mr. Polk, in which the fellow citizen of that gen- tleman stated substantially that Polk had but little standing in the state for business or other ability. According to the interview he started out with a little democratic paper at Wadesboro, N. C., on the South Carolina line, which in due course of time was swamped, and subsequentiy he received from the governor the ap- pointment of commissioner of agricul- ture. This was not because he knew anything about agriculture, for the of- fice was absolutely a sinocure, and as a matter of fact Mr. Polk has no practical knowledge whatever of farming. Ac cording to the North Carolinian, who appears tobe thoroughly well acquainted with him, he ‘*‘could much easier make a living throwing somersaults through the eye of a darning needle than he could at farming,” and ac ording to this- somo authority he hns -no-iafluence on A men in North Carolina. o rather amused,” this parigiaus quoted as saying, “‘to see how he dupes the Yankee farin- ors, but if he can make money ous of them by humbugging thom that is all right; he will bring to North Car- olina whatever he makes, and we ought not to object to that.” This North Car- |, olinian said further: “‘If there should be any disposition to injure the demo- cratic party in the south you will hear from us, and if the bugle ever blows for Mr. Polk, you can bet your life he will come home protty quick and make his poace, or he will stay north of Mason and Dixon’s line. He can fool your peo- ple as much as he plenses, but he can’t fool us; we know him.” ; Here is a man who is manifestly with- out honor in his own country, and ho knows nothing about farming, impu- dontly masquerading as the leader of a farmers’ organization and endeavoring to draw the agricultural producers of the north into the support of the wild schemes of which he is an advocate, How long will northern farmers permit themselves o be dupad by men who have only the most selfish interests to serve in professing to be their friends? THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOL The election of u superintendent of the achools of this city is a matter of grave importance. The city now has a system of public schools in which every vitizen takos pride. In educational civeles the schools stand very high. Graduates from the Omaha high school are ad- mitted upon’ their diplomas to most of the ges and upiversities of the | country. The superintendent is the ex ecutive head of this system. An incom- potent or unworthy man in this high position can do n vast injury to our young people and to the educational reputation of Omaha. No man should be considered for elec- tion to this office who has not already demonstrated his cupacity for managing alargo system of schools. No man of mediocre ability, wanting tact, or lack- ing in experience can satisfactorily con- colley duct the schools of this city, Whether son to doubt that every demand will bo | the presbnt incwmbent is such a man as wo should have or not is a matter for the board th determine. Personal motives shoulgd glnk out of sight in de- termining the qiestion. His record, his education, his eyperience, and his repu- tation nre the eldments to be considered. Of one thing th&board may feel certain: any successor selocted at this time must be clearly the gyperior of Mr. James in all the elomentsentoring into the ques- tion of fitness. fof the place. It will not do to supplant’a man under whom the schools have pregnered with one whose qualifications are to be determined the future. We want no small man from some small citv, If any change is made, wo must have the best man that can be ob- tained. The salary is $3,600 per annum. This is suflicient to warrant citizens in expecting a superintendent who has achioved distincetion in one of the largor cities. THE Lincoln judge who decides that a marringe contract valid in Missouri is invalid in Nebraska, not only affords another strong argument for national laws governing marringe and divorce, but distinetly removes all danger of his own promotion to the supreme bench. The sense and sentiment of the commun- ity resents the iden and tho suprome court will probably roverse the iniqui- tous decision. Missouri’s lax marringe Taws have stimulated weddings all along her borders. If these contracts are void or voidable, there are thousands of families in adjacent states whose lives promise to be very miserable. GENERAL BUTLER'S auto-biography ought to be interesting. If it had been issued 10 years carlior it would have been almost sensational. The author has outlived most of his great contem- porary war heroes and the grave has buried with many of them the keen- edged shafts which the general had ir- tended to hurl and dulled the severity of his strictures upon their characters. It is perhaps better for General Butler’s own good name that his reminiscences have been held for publication until now. ABoUT the meanest thing a man can do is to convey lands before reaching his majority without intimating that he is under age, and then fifteen or more years after attack the legality of the title and seek to recover his former pos- sessions, This differs from ordinary theft only in the fact that it escapes pun- ishment. THUS far the hoard of county commis- sioners has givér no indication of its purpose to have the property of the olectric light company returned from the Fourth ward, or that of certain other corporations now listed in the Fourth returned from the Fifth, where the per- sonality is situated. GENERAL ALTER says Chicago will not make s hard & fight for the repub- lican national convlention as she would have made had sheflost the world’s fair. The fair is taking fip most of her time. This is another regson why Omaha may hope for su ' SOME of the South Omaha packers are s0 well pleased with the new govern- ment inspection law that they will have all meats whether for local consumption or import inspected, certified to and tagged. MAYOR CUSHING will be excusable for losing patience with his board of public works, when he comes homo to find work has not yet been commenced upon the unfinished 1890 contracts for street im- provements, OMAHA desires to thank the news- papers of the state for the cheerful and loyal support they are giving to her as- pirations for the honor of entertaing the republican national convention, PHE board of public lands and build- ings is commended throughout the stato for pushing nside all mere legal tecni- ities in conducting the investigation into the Hustings asylum scandal. = i boardet-caTdtion cannot afford o Tun the schools for the benefit of any individual ambition Yr to vont individual malice. HXgher mdvives must control school affairs. ANY man, woman, or child who would find fault with Hanscom park Sunday will suffer eternal disgust in the better world. ACCORDING to Judgo Hall of Lancaster county, marriage is o failure—in Mis- souri. North Carolina Weather. Tarbore’ Southerner, A man dropped a match on the sidowalk ‘Thursday and it at once igaited. Prohibition Enforced. Washingto. Post. Now that part of Lowa is under wator it can bo said that prohibition has roally gone into effect in that state: L A \'<-ru»2' Incubator, Minne Indian oisims to b he greatest and best egg producing stateA the union. As an in- cubator of political schemes the Hoosier state is not slow either, - Thoe {ory Nightmare. Minneapolis Journal, ‘The British torles havo had Mr. Gladstono half way into his gravedozens of times in the last ten yeurs. The' ‘“grand old man" is probably destined w!survive many of his bitter cuemios, - Don't Bank on Faction. St, Paik Bjoueer Pross. 1t may be in order%0-notify our republican brethren in Ohio thyt ij is signally nawiso to put much trust in the-result of democrativ factional fights. They are full of sound and fury signifying nothing lu the way of repab lican gains, Tho democratic ward bummer may flourish his snickersnes and roar and bellow amain, but the chances are very much in favor of his making n successful dicker with the men he is threatening just baforo the balloting begius, e Some Good, Hard Sense, Omaha Daily Democrat Liveringhouse in his testimony admitted all tho duplication of vouchers charged, and Test was an accessory to tho act. Has Thayer reason 10 suppose that the predeces- sors of Test and Liveringhouse committed the same ucts as they are charged with, and ground! There is nobody on trial but Test { nd Liveringhouse now. They are asked to JUNE 30, 1891. oxplain thoir own acts, not the acts of others. When the presont culorits are disposed of it will bo time to look for others. Liveringhouse testified that Dr. Tost told him they could notafford to go bofore the logislature with a dofleit; that unloss they could make a good shdwing they would be charged with mismanage- ment. So to make a good showing they du- plieatea vouchers, forgod signaturos of em- ployes and fraudulently kept at loast the name of one employoe on tho books fivo months after she had left the asylum,and rogularly forged her nameto a voucher for services which she did not render. It was also shown that the Hastings asylum cost for six months $15,254.58, while tho Norfolk asy- lum, with eighty more patients, only cost for the samo time #11,493.91. This horrid scan- dal briugs a blush of shamoto the choek of every citizen of Nebraska. We cannot undo, but wo ean severely punish, what has been done, and, we hope, guard agaiust its ropoti- tion, i The Way to Get Money. July Forum: The man who wants more monoy will find no royal rond o the wealth ho covets, no patent methods for its acquist tlon. He must give something for it to make it honestly his own, and tho man who sets himself oarnestly to do this will fina that all financial systoms witl bend to his conquering will. The gambler, whether ho plays his game In the exchange, at a faro table, in a policy shop, or with smallor stakes in private circlos at bacearat and progressivo cuchre, will find the 1ssue precarious and unreward ing. Tho way to got more monoy without any loss of peace or solf respect is to earn it by toil of brain or sinew, and the funds thus acquired have no gnawing tooth, All other wealth eats liko a canker. s umph of Education. Boston Gl be, Such a triumph for the crimson as yestor- day’s race on Thames water is worth waiting for. It makes amonds for past shortcomings, and sets a precedent which Harvard will sparo no endeavor to maintain. Yale was uot “in it" for a moment ufter tho oars struck the water. Bob Cook is a mascot no longer. After allowing the foe from Cam- bridgo to take the load from the start, and lengthon it steadily until the close, the “‘conch” on whom the New Haven boys so confidently reliod, will be inclined to fecl his occupation gone, The ] THE IOWA_ISSU Washington Post (rop.): Towa is un- doubtedly a republican state, but the party is not strong enough to carry an overload of isms. . Now York Sun (dem.): Governor Boies is somewhat too much of a frec trader for our taste, but he is a fino old fellow all the same, and a sturdy democrat: and he will have tho best wishes of the democratic party in the canvass. Philadelphia Ledger (rep.): Tows tised to be good for sixty thousand to seventy-five thousand republican majority or plurality in presidential eloctions, and it gave 31,000 plu- rality to Harrison in 1888, yet it is now in tho balance so far as the state olection is con- corned, and may get into tho doubtful col- uma in 1592, New York World (dem.): The democrats of Towa have deserved success in nominating Genoral Boies for re-olaction. It was he who for the first time in a generation redeemed that state from the firm grasp of the ropub- licans, and his conduct in office has been such as to commend both himself and his party to the favor of men who desire good Rovern- ment. Minneapolis Journal (ind. rep.): How the republicans can avoid a clear und courageous stand in favor of the prohibition law, for the oxistence of which that party is responsible, does not appear. The democrats seem to have left no _tonablo middle ground for the does he propose to excuse them on that | republicans to occupy, and possibly au over- whelming majority of the republican party has no desirs to cceupy any. compromise po sition or to modify the attitude of the party on this questiou. Washington Post (rep.): The foremost issue in tho state of lowa relates to the liquor question, and on this the convention adopted the same plank upon which Gov. Boies won an election two vears ago. Itis a straight- forward declaration against prohibition and in favor of a carefully euarded liconse tax luw, the proceeds of “which, they declare, shotld ve applied to the running expenses of the stato and municipal governmonts. In this section of the platform the Iowa demo- crats do not only express the sentimentof the democratic party, but tHfere is a larger sec- tion of the * opublican party of that state which belicves in and advocates the same system. What inroads the democracy will be able to make upon the republican vote on this issue depends a good deal on the action of the approaching republican convention. Minneapolis Tribune (rep.): The renomi- nation of Boies makes him a presidential pos- sibility. If e is re-elected or if he shall suc- ceed in holding the ropublican plurality down to a matter of two or three thousand he will be aformidabie candidate before the (lemocratio national convention. With this hope ever in view the democracy will make the strongest fight in the history of lowa and it will require the utmost wisdom, energy, and harmony on tho part of tho._ratyiiicun 0 redeom the state._Kortunately times are beuter t -850 or 1800; vhe IeKinloy bill andi-TFociprocity are now’ understood; ~crop prospects are bright and, best of all, the re- publicans hove learned a valuable lesson from defeat. They now realize that repub- lican majorities of thirty or forty thousand without offort are things of tho past, and that henceforth victories can only be won by hard, shrowd work, JUS1:CE DEMANDED, Sidney Telegraph Bk is making o groat expose of the administration of uffai at tho Hastings asylum for tho insane. It finds a state of rottenness there which savors very much of Tammany on a small scale. It i3 to be hoped that the state board will sift the matter to the bottom and punish the kuiity uo matter where tho weight of the blow may fall. Nance County Journal: The republican party cannot afford to shield tho guilty in the Hastings asylum investigation, neither can it afford to condemn tho innocont. Lot the investigation be searching and impartial It cannot be in the very nature of things but that some dishonest men shall creep into oftice, but there Is no excuso for shiolding them after their malfeasance is discoverod. Grand Island Independent: The state of Nebraska uod the republican purty caunot afford to stop auything short of the most thorough investigation of tho Hastings asy- lum affair.., 1t should bo exther the most com- plowe vindication possible, or tho most thor- ough exposure, as the case may be, and if the charges made prove falso there should bo somo way found to punish those making them. Howells Journal: Tho finaucial affairs of tho asylum for the insane at Hastings are suid to bo in & very bad condition. Itis charged that the same bills have been paid twice, . that wages have beon drawn for em- ployes who never worked, aud that numer- ous other crooked methods have been used by those in ocharge of the asylum to get wiouey from the state to which thoy nad no right. The board of public lands and build- ings should make a thorough investigation of the matter. Lot there be no whitowash brush used, but let the guilty be punished. Hastings Nebraskan: Tk OwAua Bre makes some very interesting statements con- cerning the drug business connected with tho Hastiogs asylum and claims that one drug store here has had & cinch on furnish- ing drugs the institution to the exclusion of all others, even to put- ting in bids, A Bik roprescutative has been In Hastings making an investiga- tion for himself and finds that our people and business men domand a_change iu the man- agement. If the present wanagement is to bring diseredit on the city the sooner they g0 the batter. Red Cloud Ropublican: Grave charges have boen made against the management of the Hastings asylum for the chronic insane and the state board of public lands and build ings arc making a thorough investigation of its affwirs. If even & swall per cent of the clarges mado are true an entire chauge in supervision is evidently called for and will | be'made. it is evident from tho prompt | action of the state oficers whose business it | i t0 look iuto those watters that no time will bo lost in unearthing any crooliedness which | may exist, and removing such officers as may bo found guilty of dishonorable couduct. to ras NG JENT Evoch : not 1" ‘Well—-at the u the minute.” “He 18 aging vory rapidly, is ho unl rato, Slxty seconds to Washington Post: “Don’t you long for a ustic bowor 1" she smdt was tho reply, “I don't. Tho last rustio bowers I struck wero up an_innocent farmer's sleove during & game of auchre, That farmer cost me something over $20, not to montioa my board bill and gencral discom- o Life: “T don't meet you at Miss Svelte's any more." ““No: she and I have had a differonce of opinion." “Nothing serious, I hope."! *'Oh, 103 only I thought T was the man she ought to marry and sho thought [ wasn't." YR GUILELESS BARDE. (Tudor Jenks. in Century Bric-a-brac.) I wisto ho was a guiloless barde, Iore eko to plese hys spouse Ho wrought a bitte of poesie Alle daye within yo house, Ho fetched yo scroede untoo yo dame, And whan she opod ye ode, She dealt hyr lord a buffetinge Whereat hys blue bludde flowed. Yo lynos were prottye lynes ynough, And thatte whyche eaused yo stryfe Was butte ye tytle that he chused Yo Bardo to hys firsto wyfe! " Fliegendo Blaotter : what is your husband d in tho stove “He's smoking his midday cigar—I'm not tolet him ruia my curtains with his smoke.,’" “For doing hoaven's sake, there with his Munsoy's Weekly: Temerance Advocate My young friend, it mo counsel you to read this story of the shocking fate of o man in Brooklyn who met a terriblo death from do- WILL HANG GCTOBER NINTH, Date on Which Ed Neal Will Expiate His Orime. GURLEY'S OBJECTIONS OF NO FORCE, Dr. Wilkinson of the Norfolk Asylum Demands an nvestigation Charged with Train Wreoke ing—Odds and Ends. Lixcorx, Neb., June 20.—(Special to Tin | BEr.]—As nunouncod oxelusively in Tt B five days ago I2d Neal, tho murderer of Alien | and Dorothy Jones, tho nged uear South Omaha, must hang for his erime, S the supreme court decided today, although the decision was not handed down until 6.5 p. m. The date fixed for Neal's oxecution s Oo- tobor 9, and is to be between tha hours of 10 a.m and4p m The hanging must taka place in the court yard of the Doulas county court house and is to bo under the immediata direction of Sheriff Boyd. It is roported that this will b the first bauging that has occurrod in Douglas county for twenty years, the last occurring on tho present high school site. “T'he oninion of the chiof justice dwolls mainly on the objection of Gurley, that Neal did not have tho privilege of going o tho Pinney farm, the scene of the murdor, with the jurors. ‘Phe judge held that s the ufida vits' showod that that privilege had been otfered Noal, but had been waived, it was no error. 3 conple lirlum tremens. 1t would porhaps inapire ¥ou with a wholesome horror of tho wine cup. _Young Man—Perhaps it mightn't, though. You see, I'm a reporter on the Daily Fake, and I wrote that story myself—pure inven: tion, every word of it. TUHE COMING RACKET. Chicago Times : The noisy Fourth draws nigh a pace, ‘The nervous peoplo fico In crowds for some secluded place, From patriot racket froe, hoards his pennies, and Exuits without his host, Some of him will bo minus hands, Some may give up the ghost. Dotroit Free Press: A I man meta Kentucky colouel rain headed toward Toledo, and as traveling men are lable to do, he made the acquain- tance of the Kentuckian, and they got to talking about the late Italian racket. “It isn’t all over, either,” said tho drum- mer. “I noticed only a day or so ago thata lot of Italians in New York had beaten a doctor almost to death for refusing to take a drink. “Is that so?” citodly. “Of course it is,” asseverated the drum- mer. *By gad, sit" —and tbe colonel clapped his hand down on his lex with a thwack—''why didan’t they kill him " Washington Star: There is an old couple in this city who nave proved to their entire sausfaction, after over thirty years' trial, that marriage is not a failure. It was a birthday occasion with one of them, and they were demonstrative to a degroe that a youth- ful branch of the gencalowical tree considered unseomiy. Strolling over to his mother with s hands in his pockots, he said: “*Mother, what do you think of that for a collectlon of souvenir spoonsi’ oit_traveling cently on exclamed the colonel, ox- ONLY SEAMING. Washigton Post. She sat her down awhils to sew, And gave herself to droaming, And mumured, “Naught is real T know, For life is only seeming.” Munsey's Weokly: Marie—Would you bo surprised if [ told you that Jack White proposod to me last nightd Louiso-Not atall. I knew his oreditors wero pressing him torribly, and I fully ex- pected he would do something dosperato. Epoch: “That’s a mighty poor poem you selocted for the prize,” said a man to an edi- tor who had been conducting a literary con- test. “You think that was a poor one, do you!" ropliod the editor. *You ought to see the SUBANNAIL NORFOLK ASYLUM IMIROGLIO. Dr. Wilkinson, superiutendent of tho asylum for tho insane at Norfolk, was closeted with the board of public lands and buildings for over au hour this afteruoon Tho main objoct of Dr. Wilkinson's pros enco was to insist that tho charges mado against im by Mr. Lee, ono of the attaches of the institution, be nvestigated. The chargos made by 'Leo aro that Wilkinson has both misappropriated funds of tho insti tution and that on account of his overbear. ing disposition all tho bost employes of the institution are leaving. Tho fact that thero oxists a potition signod by all the othor employes of the asylum wsic- ing for the discharge of Leo, causes the mom- boers of the board to beliove that there aro two sides to tho story, In_rogard to misap- ropriation of funds” Dr. Wilkinson asks the oard to investigate tho matter. YOUTHPUL IAILROAD WRECKERS, Detective John Flynn of the B. & M. rall- road company filed complaints before Judgo towart today charging Johuny 1ill, Jimmy Judio, Willie Judie, Paul Milesky, Thoodoro Ward and Eddio Sweeny with pincing threo freight cars on tho railroad track with tho intent to canse a wreck and thereby endanger the lives of tho passengors. Tho dofendants aro all boys angiug in age from ton to fifteen years. All of them were arrested today and taken to the police station. According to the stories told by the paronts tho boys, merely in pluy and without any malicious mtent, moved the and started thew down th Ui maiu track. ‘The cars -were run down to the track and an incoming passenger train was stoppod Just in time to avoid a wreck. A NUNDRED LECHERS. In the police court today 102 persons were arraigned for violating the social law. Of these sixty-two were fomalos an forty men. Al wero fined to the fullest oxtent of the law. This raid on the bawdy houses caught a number of well known citizons who wore rogistered at the polico station as Smith, Jones, Brown and Johnson, but whoso names when sigued to bank' checks look decidedly differont. from auy of these coguo- meons. 1t is the policy of Mayor Weir not to accept tho customary monthly fine herotoforo imposed upon bawds. He terms the custom- ary system “blackmailing” and declares that all women of easy virtue are to be puutshed to the fullest oxtent of the law, und this action is to apply to men also found mn quos- tionable resorts. ODDS AND ENDS, Notarial commissions were issued today to A. N. Longwel! of Omaha, Willis L. Hand of Kearney, J. W, Burney of Stratton and A. J. Callender of Soward. Governor Thayer has decided not to ap- point Harry Downs to the permanent posi- tion of land commissioner. Au intimate friend of Thayer savs that the governor has good reasons for chunging his mind in regard to thoappointment of Downs. “In fact,” says tho geutleman, “Downs will not be in the W. W, Coolr, in Detroit Free Pres Alack, alas, and woe is mo And woe is me, Susannah | 1 love a maiden fair to see, A maiden, by som fell decree, Who cares for no one—no, not shel— This cruel maid, Susannsh. For oh, and ah, and woll-a-day, And well-a-day, Susannah! Your golden halr wili turn to gray— ‘The rose of youth will fade aw; Decomber sinows may,foliew STiy Beware, anah | So wooed I then in moral tune, In moral tune, Susunnah, I craved hor hand; she gavo the boos But said, “My love, we'll marry soon, Say on the thirty-first of June=" This cruel maid, Susannab, Indianapolis Journal: Minnie—Poor fol- low! I hated to refuse him, but it was impos- sible to do_otherwise. Aud then he went away and got awfully intoxicated. Mamio—I wonder why it is that a man al- ways thinks drinking & necessary part of u celebration. e BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS, Hastings Tribunc: Tur OvAHA BEr | twenty ve s old. Tne BEE s one of th Rilontost papers in the west. 1t ranks with the Chicago Tribune, Now York Tribune, Sun wnd such papers. Rapld City Republican: Tug OMAWA Brr colebrated the twentleth - niversury of its ostablishment last Feiday. ‘The fivst number of that kroat papor upheared Juny 0. 1571, and s tho product of twonty yonrs' growth THE Bex s a striking example of the dovelopmont of Omahit. Th clty has risen from un outpost Ramlet upon the confines of clyilization to w Iarge oity with ull that this today fmplies,and Thr BEE has Kept full pice with that growth; {ndved 1t has [srgoly contributed tothe splen” dld resuits. Omaha supported hor nowspipers and ke othier towns of thiy kind “got thore" in glorlous sty E. T, T 1L Bluffs Nonpa- u Tie entloth birthduy. It hus its majority vet. helng gl sendo, but tho wo'tull of vigor and Jgress, those of Its full grown manhood 6 promise of n giant. » Bk Lias boen i chamiplc Jplo. 1t has battiod for C lal Intorests of thut elty, 1t has con quercd and is now pgerless In runk as an Ainorioan journul: Truo . 1o the best interosss of Omaha, the business men of have given it their prOuK until 1t has rison from u little X1 into prominence und prosprity Wnoqualied by any paper in the west. The Secratof the success of Tug BEE lles in the Whility of its oditorlal corps: it howe Interests and above all tinl support of its howme merc ble. Without which o hapor can With which none can fail. Let us h {oxson, Given # loyal pross dovoted to our lomo interests. supported by the enthusins tit, gonerous patronaze of onr peoplo, ten yoars Council Blufls wiil rank as oity(n Toww, the castern half of the motropo- {5 0f the trins-Missourl reglon teeming with It woalth and myrlads, 1] labor commissioner's office much longer—uot cven as an ssistant. ‘Thayer has good voa- sons for dismissing him, but doos them revealed.” It is claimed that tho dangerous deprassion in the pavemont on South Nintn stroot, be- tween K aud L, 1s due 10 the carcloss ~ WOrk of oither tho gas or water companios. Néither corporation, however, - hus _attompted to remedy.the prosont stato of affairs. e is considerablo unoasiness being folt ncerning the whereabouts of (. W. contly a loan agent here, but who has disappoared, leaving & number of unpaid bills, A drunken rowdy whose namo is unknown was arrestod this afternoon for attempting to kil two unfortunate creatures known ns Lydia Stowart and Frankie Moore. Tha fellow was knocked down by the latter and his revolver taken from him by Sum Hutchins, " An Assessor's Admissions, Assossor Franklin of the Fifth ward wants to admit that he has been wrong in ostimat. ing values in his part of the city. He was boforo the county commissioners with n po- tition asking that he bo allowed to raise tho valuation of tho property of uearly one hun- taxpayers of the ward. o was in- 1ed that, as the books have passed out of his honds bis dutics bave ended and that no cannot make any changes in the assessment unless ho can show a clerical error or an omission. If Franklin's changes woro al- lowed the valuation of the ward would be vaised somathing like §70,000. — - Was Running Amuck. Goorge Melntyro was arrestod yestorday while rounding up the Third ward. Ho is charged with being drunk and threatoning to sioot. George had a great big 4-calibro Colv's revolver and it will probably go hard with hum in police court today. The pris- oner s botter known as “Sober Burns," and was only reloased from tho county jaila few days ago whero ho was hold us o suspect in & highway robbery. *“Sober’ served threo yeu inthe Stillwater, Minn., highway robbery. ponitontiary - for L Police Will Picnic. At a meeting of the polico forco held last night it was decided to hold a general polive plcnic about July 15, and Captain Mostyn, Sergoants Whalon and Sigwart aud O KKeysor, Havey, Savage and Diller wero ap- pointed a cominitiee on arrangemouts, e i Dooley's Case. Tho verdict 1n the Cooley Investigation will not be forth coming for some days yet. The bar committos has com ploted it labors, but the stenographer has ot yot had time to transcripe the testimony. Thero will bo noarly 700 pages of evidence for aud agaiust tho barristor, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U, S. Gov't Report. Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE X not wigh {57 %