Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1891, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: UESDAY, JULY 21, 1891, e e e et e e e e e e ettt et e e et o RS 5 e A e e e THE DATLY BEE F. ROSEWATER Eprron, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. 71 KAE OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sindiy, One Year Elx months Tlires monihis Sundny Bee, Une ¥ Snturday Hoe, One Y Weekly Bee, Une Yeoar OFFICE: Omaha, The ding. Eouth Oninho. Corner N and 26th Stroota Counell BT, 12 Pearl Stroet, Chieago OfMie, 517 Chamuer of Commeroe, New York. Rooms 34 and i3,/ rihune Buiiding Washing ton, &3 Foi CORRESPUNDEN Al cominunications rolating 1o news and editorinl motter should be addressed tc the Editorinl Departnien BUSINERS LRTTRRS Al husinesslettors and romiitances should be nddre d to The Ree Publishine Company, Oninha. Drafts, cheeks and postofce orders 10 ho made payable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company. Proorigtors 1E BEE BUILDIN Tee I teenth streot CIRCULATION, BWORN STATEMENT OF £tate of Nebroska, | Connty of Dotiglus. | Georee [, Trachuck, socretary of | Pulllshing company, does solemnly 8w ctual ef tion of Tk DALY 1 July 1 was a8 e Bee ar indny. Tuly 12, Monday. "Tiily 11 Tuesdiy. July 14 v, July i ly 18.... Thursd Friday, Baturd GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. me and subseribed fn my ay of July, A, D, 1801, N T Fer, Public. Eworn to bofo presence this 150 Ftate of Nebraska, 1 County of l'otigias, | ecorge B, Tzschuelk, being duly sworn, de- poncs and snys thnt ho isneerotary of Titk BEE *ublishing compeny. that the actnal average dally efrenlation of Tk DALY Bre for the month of July, 1800, 20,662 copies; for Angust, ) copfes: for Scptember. 20,870 ‘or Octobor, 180 coples: for No- 80 copl 1800, T (ber, Coples: f i1 98440 v Felru, ples; L 24065 ¢ s copies; venber, 80, 2 cople Marc ore me and subseribed in ith duy ot June, A, T 1801, presenco Ui 1 Tre board of education must be s peculiar body if it is till in doubt upon the question of selacting a superin- tendent of the schools of the city. T Globe- Democrat editorially de- nounces St. Louis flies as intolerable nuisances. The Globe-Demoerat should move to Omaha. There are no flies on Omaha. THE supremo court of Kansas holds that a combination of insurance agents to maintain premium rates is a viola- tion of the anti-trust law. If this posi tion is genovally held it will play havoe with ‘“‘bonrd rates.” THE board of public lands and build- ings should not permit the Hastings asylum investigation to drag longer. Tts expert accountant can ho prodded into activity if he is not ready to report. Facls enough have already been dovel- oped to warrant the summary discharge of Test and Liveringhouso. ALTHOUGH Governor Boies and his- democratic commissioner of statistics prove conclusively by their own figures that Towa favmers lose 67 cents per acre on corn planted in that state the foolish farmors have planted a larger acreage this year than ever and have hopes of a larger yiold than ever before. The Towa farmer knows by experience that the figures cited by Boies ave mislead- ing and standerous. REPOR Potersburg indi- cate that the czar has at last been brought to a realizing sense of the enormity of his cruelties toward the Jows. Ordors have been given to relax parsecutions, aud newpapers are forbid- den to publish articles exciting animos- ity ngninst them. Itis to be hoped the reports arc true, forthe sentiment of the civilized world was rapidly orystalizing into a solomn protest which even the absolute monarch of all the Russias can- not withstand. CALAMUS had a Fourth of July cele- brution and a Fourth of July sensation. Tt is said that one of the calamity war- blers insuited the flag and howled him- self hoarse in denunciation of the sacred emblem. As a consequence some people who still believe we have the hand- somest flag and the noblest government on earth have been righteously indig- nant. * They have been advertising the Calamus celobration rather vigorously and have placed the two blantant blath- erskites who uttered the traiterous sen- timents on the very painful barb wire fence of the defensive. THE beauties and consistencies of the legal mind are clearly shown in the opinion of John M. Thurston, uttered ina Chicago interview the other day, wherein ho states that the effect of the decision of the Nebraska supreme court is wrong, though the decision itself is right, and finally and sagely concludes that tho decision of tha United States supreme court will make it all right. Mr, Thurston’s opinion is almost as in- tricato as the point at issue, It is sig- nificant, however, as a suggestion of the attitude of the raillways toward a very prominent candidate for associate justice of the supreme court. ‘Wirh the Ballou-Madsen incident or practical joko™ as the text, the Lincoln Journal devotes a half column to ridi- culing the consistency and honesty of the Omaha couneil, It pretends to find in the facts rovealed regarding the Dbogus $930 check given by Mr, Ballou to Mr. Madson reason for making light of the statesmanship and devotion to pub- lic interests of our municipal legisla- ture. The Jowrnal is very glib-tongued in disoussing the conduct of Omaha city officials, but it is noted that the boodlers of Lincoln have nothing to fear from a newspaper which seldom fails to be at the bank when there is a *‘rake-off” in any municipal game. It would ve far more professional, honest and cour- ageous for that concern to devote itself to the crooked transactions transpiving under its own nose. After it has un- enrthod the corruption of the capital and exposed its own boodlers the Journal can consistently fall upon the thieves and corruptionists of neighboring mu- nicipalities POSTAL TELEGRAPHY. The investigations which Rosewater, oditor of THE making of the operation of the Buropean postal telograph eystoms, with the sanction of the United States postoflice department, appear to have fully confirmed tho views he has long entertained regarding the establishment of postal telegraph facilities in this country. For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Roscwater has held tho oninion that the telegraph systemn of the United States should be under the control of the general government, and he has contributed to of this view moro ment than perhaps any other man. During tho first session of tho Fifty-first congress Mr. Rosewater made a state- ment of his position on this quostion be- fore the house committes on postoftices and post ronds, in which he said he be- lieved it to be of the most vital import- ance w the people of the country that some step should be taken at an earl for the necquirement of the tolc graph lines by the government this statement Mr. ered ail the questions clearly pointed out ple could be more and ellciently served by a postal tolegraph system then by the existing systemr. A bill, the more important fea- tures of which were nccording to his sug- pstions, was introduced in congress, but although favored by a majority of tho house postoflice committee was not ro- ported for aetion. Mr. Rosewater Mr. E Ber, is unble argu- Tosew r consid- involved how the chouply and peo- found that the pos- tal telegraph systems of England and France work most admirubly, and that the effecct of governmont control is to produce a very superior service. The mterests of the public, and not revenue, are the first ideration. To give the peonle quick commun- fcation and the most efficient service, at the cheapest possible rates, is the aim of the governmonts, In Bng- lund overy community of 1,500 porsons enjoys the advantage of postal telegraph facilitics, and the statistics show that they are most liberally used. The gov- ernment is prompt to avail itself of all improvements, and it will surprise most people to learn that in this respoct Fng- land is in advanco of the United States, while in France Mr. Rose- water found a machine wused in telegraphing superior to any other he had seert There is no reason to suppose that our govern- ment would not bo as prompt as Kuropean governments to adopt im- provements and inventions of demon- strated value. Undoubtedly this ques- tion of a postal telegraph system will be brought to the attention of the next con- gress, but whether it will receive from that body the consideration which its importance merits cannot be predicted with any dogree of certainty. Itis a subject that so vitally cencerns the in- terests of the people, however, that agi- tation will not be allowed to die out, and though it may be years hefore the advo- cates of postal telegraph facilities wiil be victorious there can be no doubt of their eventual success. con OMAHA AND THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. While the Real Estate Owners’ asso- ciation and other local organizations are negotiating with eastern capitalists for the location of factories in Omaha, the smaller cities of the state are securing beet sugar factories, starch factories, fruit and vegetable canneries and simi- lar enterprises which not only employ lurge numbers of persons but manufac- ture products grown in their communi- ties. This class of manufactories are of the most valuable character to the lo- calitics in wbich they are established. Thoy are in no sense experimental and depend solely for success upon good management. Take the beet sugar factories of Grand Island and Norfolk for instance. Each of these industries will probably ex- pend #30,000 for labor the present year, to say nothing of the oxchanges which the purchase of beets and sale of the beet sugar make possiblo and certain. Five thousand acres of land in the vicinity of Omaha ought to be very readily secured for cultivating beets. Ilach acre would represent about $10 worth of cash employment for our boys and men. If a larger acreage were planted a larger sum of money would bo distributed for labor. The greater part of the work is done in vacation time and our school hoys could lenrn habits of thrift and earn considerable sums in the beet sugar fields. It ought to be a very ensy matter to bring a factory to the city in view of the fact that the product of a very large institution of this char- acter is required to supply our rotail sugar trade. The sugar beet industry is no longer an experiment in Nebraska. The con- ditions are favorable for its rapid growth, and each year will see tho growing of beets and manufucturing of sugar incrense. Omaha should thor fore look uhead to the establishment of a large refinery where the raw sugar of twenty-five sugar factories could be re- fined. This city is the natural conter for the distribution of the refined arti- cle, and with the ainty of a rapid development of the sugar making busi- ness in Nebraska, such a refinery here is almost a necessity. The Real Estate Owners’ association would do well to take up the subject and investigate it thoroughly and intelli- gently, No other enterprise offers bet- ter immediate prospects of success, cor VERY SMALL POLITICS. If the democratic state central com- mittee of Towa is responsible, as charged, for the statement recently published regarding the private business affairs of Mr, Wheeler, the republican candi date for governor, itis guilty of what overy fair-minded mun must rogard as very small politics. The principal feature of this statement was that the extensive farm of Mr. Wheeler, which comprises several thousand acres, is heavily mortgaged, as if this were immoral or criminal. During the 30 years that Mr. Wheeler has been identified with the agricultural interests of Towa he has met his obligations, and nobody has questioned that he is in a position to continue to do so. He is the largest farmer in the state, and his broad and i the advoeacy | In | interests of Towa. well-cultivated acres, his fine stock, his comfortable home reflecting intelligenco and taste, and all the evidences of suc- eess with which he is surrounded, attest that Mr, Wheeler is a capable business wan, There are millions of such men in the country who carry mortgages, not necessarily becauso they are compelled to do o, but for the reason that they find it profitable to borrow money for promoting their enterprises. Such transactions are not regarded by intelli- gent people as derogatory to the men* who make them. But the real motive for this state- ment was to show that farming in Towa is not profitable, for, the implied argu- ment is, if the largest and apparentl the most prosperous farmor in tho stato his lands mortgaged, even to tho extent of one-tenth of their value, obvi- ously agriculture is unprofitable. The absurdity of any such assumption nesd not be pointed out to practical men. tut this sort, of thing is exactly in line with w Towa democrats have been talking ever since Governor Boies, in his nddress at the Now York free trade banguet last December, declared that for five years the farmers of lowa had been going steadily from bad to worse, and pictured their condition as deserving the commiseration of the country, This gross misrepresentation, based upon tho testimony of an insig- nificant fraction of the farmers of the state, it is apparently the intentioh of the democrat central commit- teo to stick to, regardless of facts or of possible consequences, affecting the wolfare of the agricultural Fortunately the pro- vailing conditions are such that mis- ropresentation of the Boies kind is not likely to do much injury. No one of ordinary intelligence will believe that this year farming in Iowa is a losing in- dustry. So far as the republican candidate for governor is concerned, he may naturally feel some annoyance at having hi private affairs spread before tho public eye, but the fact that he has a mortgage on his farm, undoubtedly negotiated for sound business reasons, will not lose him a single vote. On the contrary it ought to gain him votes from faiv- minded democrats who have nosym- pathy with such a flagrant and unjusti- finble violation of the proprieties of honorable political warfare. GARDENS AND ORCHARDS NEEDED. All around Omaha are hills and val- leys uncultivated, but as fertie as any under the sun. They represent values from $100 to $1,000 per acre. They are worth too much to their owners to be devoted to corn and small grain. Thoy should be converted into gardens, or- chards and vineyards, Over in Potawattamie county there are precipitous hills covered with grapes, small fruits and vegetables, which yield to their owners profits ranging from $100 to $500 per acre. 1In some cases the returns exceed oven these figures. One man who conducts an oighteen acre garden and small fruit farm, employs ten men throughout the season, and his net profits ina single year reach $5,000. Omaha is a splendid market for vege- tables and [ruits. This will be clear to any man who cares to observe the steady stream of market wagons which cross the Douglas street bridge every morn- ing. The prices paid here for these pro- ducts are higher than in any other city along the river. The produce commis- sion business in Omaha which is chiefly fruits, vegetables, poultry and eggs reaches annually the enormous volume of $3,150,000. A very large part of this is paid to producers outside of Nebraska. Hon. Jobn Y. Stone of Glenwood, Ia., has a fruit farm of 800 acres, on which are growing 85,500 apple trees and 40,000 grape vines. There are 40 acres of raspberries and 10 acres of strawber- ries. The farm keeps 50 men constantly employed. What can he accomplished in western Tewa in this direction is pos- sible in Douglas, Sarpy, Cass and Wash - ington counties. These four river coun- ties with tbeir sheltered valleys and Dbluffs ought to be the garden and orchard of Omaha and the supply depot for Colorado and Wyoming. Our land own- ors and our farmers are losing time and money by neglecting their opportunities and Omaha peopleare paying freight on food which should be grown at home. The Beg has received, through the courtesy of Mr. J. H. Stokes, a sheet of American roofing tin manufactured by the N. & G. Taylor company of Phila- delphin, and we venture to say that no better tin for the purpose is made any- wheve. A short time ago we quoted from the Philadelphia Record, which is excellent democratic authority, some fac wwding this company and its Philadelphia plant, and it is now loarned that the company is turn- ing out a monthly average of 1,000 boxes of rvoofing tin, 28x20 inches, each box containing 112 sheets, It may be interesting to state that the house of the Messrs. Taylor is nearly a century old, that for nearly half a century it has been importing tin plates for the open market, and that its business amounts to move than a million dollars annually. The house begun the making of tin plate in this country us an experiment, and the resuit thus far has been so satisfactory that it is now on- larging its plant to two or three times the present capacity. NEBRASKA'S penitentiary has always been a source of more or less scandal, It has made at least two men rich at the state’s expense and its contractors hang like leeches about the lobby of every logislature insisting upon enlarged op- portunities for bleeding the public treas- ury. At the last session the ring faved vather better than usual and as u conse- quence tho state istoday pay contractor wages for work performed by convicts in nddition to the 40 cents per capita per day for their keoping., The honest laborer not only suifers by this cutthroat competition, but the state is paying honest for convict labor which ing. Itisa good time for the luboring wen to protest. g the wages to the contractor costs him noth- THE law requires the board of educa tion to elect a superintendent ut a regu lar meoting in July, This law be suspended in the interest of a faction g cannot There are bif fwo regvlar meotings in July and uxif nt is the cond. Of course the nfuéting tonight can be ad- journed from time to time until the first regular meeting in August intervones if the board so ekires, and still the law will be complistdi with. The board ought not longer delay the selection of a superintendent, however. It is absurd to suppose that intelligent men who have been conisidering the qualifications of candidatosfor weeks have not yet de- termined whe'ds best qualificd. The work of the ensuing yoar must be planned and outlined before the open- ing of the schools. If a new man is elected he will be very busy from now until September acquiring a knowledge of the details of his position, and his ppedecessor is ontitled to know his fate in time to secure a position in the schools elsewhere, The superintendent should in all reason be elected tonight. —— THE executive committee of the ve- publican national committeo will meet July 29, at which time the date of“the convention for 1892 will be fixed. The question of the place of holding it will also be discussed. Omaha must be there to urge her claims and make sure that neither Chicago nor Minneapolis steals a march upon her in advance of the De cember meeting, when the question is finally determined. NORTHERN Wyoming s&hips 50,000 head of cattle and the Omaha market will get nearly all of them after the mid- dle of next month when the B. & M. road is completed to the heart of th ranges. This is good as far as it goes, but this market needs more cattle and cannot rest until the Montana valleys and foothills have been penetrated by direct line of railway. IGNATIUS DONNELLY, the eratic Min- nesota genius, who has made himself famous as a poot, novelist, lectuver, politician and demagoguve, will have most of tomorrow to himself at the Council Bluffs and Omaha Chauauqua grounds. He talks to the farmers’ alli- ance in the forenoon and argues that Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s plays, in the afternoon, Now that the board of trade has post- poned the Montana excursion until fall, let it devote itself with some degree of energy to other important commercial matters. The board appears to be awake —let its members do something to keep it awake. Theré is too much to do for Omaha and in Omaha to make her peo- ple patient with drones. MISTAKES in feminine identities will bring an Omaha contemporary to grief before long. Sensations growing out'of veportorial strabismus aro decidedly embarassing to the victims of the absurd errors as well as the callow scribes who jump at conclusions. THE councit’s scheme for furnishing the city hall daffords very active competi- tion in plans, but none whatever in prices. The proper way is the old way. Let the council determine what furni- ture is needed and then advertise for bids. I¥ Council Bluffs herself does not or- gonize a floral palace, let Mr. Casper and the promotors of the enterprise ar— range with the Omaha Exposition asso- ciation for a great western Iowa fruit and floral show in Omaha in September. EcoNomy should be the watch word of all branches of the city government for this fiscal year. Every wasteful leak should be stopped. We want business methods applied in all departments of the municipality. INASMUCH as most of the devices for smoke consumers are of doubtful utility, the council will be wise if it reconsiders its action of a week ago in adopting a plan not satisfactorily tested. BIRKIAUSER and Squires would both foel better if they could be locked up in a good aivy room until one or the other has yelled “enough.” Tug eight hour law will go into effect as a law August 13 as o fact sometime later. OMAHA’S schools stand ver to Omaha’s heart. near Cmcinnati Commercial, 'he Campbells are comiug”—to grief in Novembor. ey GRS Crowding the Band. Washington Star. vspaper is gradually crowding tho The peoplo want Tho ne brass band out of politics. to think—not listen, kB The Forgotten Olaimant. Cineinnati Commercial, We fail to observe in the Ohio aemocratic | coavention resolutions any reforonce to that great statesman, Grover Cleveland, It is evidently mtended that Governor Campbell shall take first place on the national ticket, e —— A Voicg from the South. BL injngham Age. Tho Now York dajegation In the noxt con- vention will not, he for M. Cleveland, and neither will that frqm Indiana; and we don't believe the democpats of the rest of the Union would undex any condition be willing to give their brethpen of these two necessary states a direct stap o the face. The Kansds Legal Freak, Ihilogllphia Ledgor A judge in Kausas who knows no law re- fuses o hear mertgage foreclosure cases be- cause “they are apiprossing to the people.” He will find that thére is something still more oppressive to thein jwnen they become unable to borrow woney ok any terms as long as such judges are in ofie. Ho is not likely to re- main long, howey for ho has been overral- ing the supreme cdurt by the advice of his follow grangers, und will get himself commit- ted for contempt of court if he does not soon alter kis course, - Campbellism Analyzed. New Yook Tribune (rep). Governor Campbeil bogins the contest with u sharp controversy in his own party to im- pair his prospects of success. Tne strongest democrats 1 Cincinoati declare that his omination means 000 mwajority for the re- publican tickdt in that county. The most in flueutial demwocrats in Cleveland 1o like man. ner declare that he w be beaten in that county by an overwhelming majority. He appeals to the prejuaice in the country di tricts in favor of unlimited colnage of silver, and vet in ew town where business is transacted he will find dewoc not a who will oppose any p which ts few rty commits {tself to A measure so dangerous, His party stakes its succoss upon its opposi- tion to the new tariff, and yet in moro than half the counties of the state of Ohlo new manufacturing establishments havo gone into operation within tho last six months because of the new duties 1mposed by tnat tarift. For three months to come the discussion of the silver question and of the tariff question will arouse public opinfon in every county in Ohio, and it will be strange indoed if tho people of that state do not vote, as in times past they have voted, in favor of a sound currency and protection of hore industry. il A BIBLICAL “BULL, Now York Tribune: Now that Russell has come out as a defender of the faith, with strong “bull’” tendencies, who shall suy that Wall street is such a very bad placot Chicago Tribune: Russell Sage is an authority on puts and calls, stocks and money, and he has recontly appeared in theological discussion, *I don’t pelieve in all these now 'isms,” Mr. Sage is quoted ns saying, “They are tearing up the very roots of faith. What we want is to Keep right along in the straight lme marked out by tho fathiers of the church. We must have an anchoring ground or we will b cast about 1n all directions. I am an old school Prosby- n and I don’t want to have anything to do with the Briggses. The Westminister Confession of Iaith is good enough for me." New York Advertiser: If Dr. Briegs sup- pesed at any time that his theological contest would bo confined to the venerablo doctors of canontcal lnw in tne general._assembly must confess his mistake. T and dismay, he finds himself o tho gr of theologians, Dr. Russeil Sage, who stands out for orthodox Presby- rianism and a day of sottlement in religion in Wall street. Dr. Briges may havo bested the striplings of divinity; now’ ho has tomeet one of unsuspected conservatism. Dr. Sage has bought short, and wants to have it understood that if Dr. Briges fails to make £ood on timo his seat is vacant. Chicago Times: There is something de- cidedly humorous about the indignation of that famous Wall street wolf, Russell Sage, over the action of the Union Theologixal sem- inary in rotaining the_herotical Dr. Briggs. *T wouldn’t have Dr. Briges for my spiritual adviser,” said the speculator, and further- more ho bewniled the loss of £5,000 which ho bad given the seminary, and which would now be used to disseminate the doctrines upon which Uncle Russell is, so to speak, o bear. No gontleman pursuing Russell Sago’s benevolent occupation of flecomg tho lambs ever tol- erate any denial of the incrrancy of the scriptures so long as the text *“To him that hath shall be given and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he bath" is found therein. S P PASSING JE Chicago Tribune: morning paper) grieved” when killed hersolf. man to b Wito—That' womun to have! Husband (reading his Here's a woman who was so her husband died that she That's the kind of wife for a the kind of husband for a Boston Transeript: “1s there any troublo brewing in the A, W. & X, railrond? “Not that I know of. Why do you ask?" “Theard t it was going into liquidution." ing intoliquidation! Quite the contrary. twatered the stock 50 per cent and overything Is going on swimmingly.” Puck: He—Well. we wor't quarrel about It any more. but just let it €0 as 1t Is, el She—Yes, But. ¢ ze. dear, for the sake of the future—and o us future—1 think you w 1o beforo we dron It ultogether that you were wrong. Don'tyou, dear? %o Globe: Brer Secall to Colonel Groy vy, Kunul, whaffo' have yo' got youah pantaloons on backwa'ds foih? Colonel G.—Why, yo' _Ignowump chile. to keep dom 'om bugigim in do knees, 1 co'se. Chicago Tribune: At Liberty. Mo.. chicken thieves are so numerous and bold that they are punished by flogeing. O, liberty, what crimes huve been committed in thy henroosts! New Orleans Picayunc: When u child has cholera In phantom there 1S but a ghust of a chance that it may live, Ol somo one beat me in the race— With cunning art he took my place ,'l.\h! as my dream of love bezan. Thus I'm u disuppointed uinn, And I have but—how sad a case!— Her photograph. Lifo: The stout one—I took you for & gen- tieman whon I firstwet you. The thin one—L took you for a loafer the first time I ¢ 1 eyos on you. The stout Well, lot’s call it squarc, It seems we were both mistaken. Somerville Journal: “I do hate to heara man grumble all the time as that fellow is doing over thore,” said a diszusted pussenger 1o the conductor of the train. sir" exclaimed the conductor in o, “vou evidently do not understand e. That man s traveling on a pass.” Jewolers Weekly: Gold Pen (to the other members of the ‘writing set)--I'm the only membor of this fumily that ever made his marlk. ‘The others (In chorus)--Catch on to his nibs. Baltimore Amerlcan: England may sneer at American Inteliect, but Oxford has been forced to admit the genius of American scul- lership. Epoch: “How pule the cream looks, the housekeeper. “Yes'm” replied “It's whipped, mumm." ald the cook; been A BORDER BALLAD, Washington Post. 15 18 his own ! ere's hopin® Dougtass next shall play his “hand” 1 play 1t somewhat ope Washington Star: * sald a Washing- ton busitigss man us his, wite drove up in 20 horse.” u_don't shy 50! exclnin friond. e doosn't look § Vs, rejoined the business man as ho but- toned s glove, “my wife brinzs him around every duy at exactly half-past two.” -~ THE OLD BELL COW, his sports- Nivon Waterman, When T was but s boy I used sohappily to roam Through every nook and corner ‘of the dear old couritry home. At dewy morn _to pasture I would cows, and whon The sun was fading in the west I drove them home again, There was one among thewr number I romem- ber very well— It scoms but yesterday Tsaw tho cow that wore tho bell was not any breed, But ail the others followed her wherever sho might lead. in my youthful why and now It was that all the cattlo tagged the old bell cow. drive the She prettior nor any better mind 1 used to wonder Strange years of shadow and of sun have passed away since then. And now I minglo daily with busy men. And still T muse mo used to do, men, I find, croatures, too. And some have natures made of gold with- out a speck or flay. While somo are only gilded forms all out with straw, And whilo the modest, worthy world may nover hoed, The counterfeit who loudly brags and takes the lead. The one who makes the noise is nis crowd, and now 1 know why all the cattlo tagged the old bell | cow. the hosts of roestly than what I For aro also quite peculiar padded man the steps in sure to get TERKIBLE CRINE OF A MOTHER, Her and hen Three Children 18 Suicide Nasnvieie, Teno., July 20.—Mrs. Pattio Lochridge, wife of Thomas Lochridge, snot her thres children and herself yestorday av her home in Maurice county. Mrs. Loch ridge was thirly age, the elde child four, the second three years and the tuird four months. The ~ awful decd was doi ith » het gun whilo Mr, Lochriage was at church. The wife is supposed to have heen demented She chilovoformed bath herself and the ohil dren before she used the gun. She loft a or to her husband stating that she bad She Com years. « s several ineffectual attemits beforo, and rogretted that he was not “to go with thewm." MOSHER TELLS IS STORY Nothing Wrong With the Penitentiary Cell House Construotion, BOYD COUNTY'S AGRCULTURAL WEALTH, vernor Thayer's Idea of the Nowly Organized District-—-Rapidly Set- ding Up With a Good Class of Citizens, Lixcory, Neb., July 20,—[Special to Tir Bik.|—~When asked for a statoment about the new cell houso at tho state peniteutiary, which has been the subject of rocent news paper criticjsm, Mr. C. W. Mosher at first esitated, but finally conseuted to talk of it “Such ridiculous stories havo been told about this matter,” he said, “that my first impulso was to pay no attention to them. It is natural for o man to fool indig- nant when grossly misrepresented, but { have been liod about so fr quently that I am hardenod have lost the dosiro to rush into print and deny every new faisehood that is jnvented. The roporter who has tried to maie a sensa- tion of this matter has passed my office prob- ably forty times, and by stepping. in thero could ensily have ascertained how baseless wero some of thestatements and insinuations ho chose to spread before the public. “Tho story started with the chargo of ‘a 75,000 steal,’ when, as a matter of fact, tho appropriation was only $10,000- It was ns- ted that William Dorgan was getting n day for acting as superintendent, although tho records at the state house will show that is only €50 a month. It was insin- At the convict labor was being charged up to the state at the rato of £3 to &1 iy por man, Tho fact is that two or RO an agreement w made with the stato board of public lands and buildings that the state should not be charged more thau 81 per day of ten hours per man for co vict labor. That is tho rate charged in this ase, because tho prisoners cmployed on tho work are o better class of men. 1t is charged that they are new at tho ousi- ness, butit is a fact that quito a number of them loarned stonceutting under W. H. B. Stout whon bo built tho state house. Instead of fifty to soventy-fivo only about thirty-five are employed on this work. “Now, [ wish to say that I nover spoko to the state bourd about tho employment of Mr. Dorgan as superintendent or the mauner 1n which this work should be dome. I had nothing to do with it. A man can sco how the board managod. Thearchitect estimated the cost of tho build- ing at §0,000 to 0,000, but the appropria- tioa was only $i0,000. The structure cannot bo put up for that sum with labor av 3 a day per man. In my contract with the state for the labor of the convicts is the following clause: “‘Provided, that the convicts shall not, por shall any of them be employed in the manu- facture ‘of cigars, brick or the cutting of stone, oxcept such brick and stone as may be required in making ropairs or improvements at the poni- tentiary and in the eroction of buildings and walls for tho confinement of convicts and for the use of officers and guards, nor shall any of said conviets be employed upon any pab- lic buildings except buildings for tho peni- tentiary.’ ““There can be no doubt of the right and propricty of employing the prisoners on work of this charncter. Tho law providing for the new cell houso says it shall be constructed by day labor instead of by contract. That's what is being done. In severai other instances improvements at the peuitentiary have been lot on contracts. Wo bid on_these jobs, but out of contracts aggrezating $15,000 out: captured three-fourths of them—and they lost morey. Tho facts in this matter will bear investigation, and tho records are straight and clear.”’ Mr. Dorgan says that when the building of the cell houso was being discussed by the state board it was taken for granted that tho work would be done by the prison- ers. There was no mention of any other kina_of labor. Tuk Ber corréspond- ent visited the pen this afternoon and saw about the stated number at work on the building. Among the men were three ns clothing, who appeared to bo acting as overscers. Mr. Dorgan stated that no outsiders but theso three had asked for em- ployment. He exhibited his books freely, showing how tho time is kept, and explained that bis aggregates must tally with the warden’s count. It is possiblo there might be some juggling with the time record, buv Mr. Dorgau presumably is under oath to be a faithful_superintendent, and it is‘an easy matter for the stato board to appoint a time- keeper to guard that pomt. Warden Hopkins was seen and said he wouid refuse to let any considerable number of citizens minglo with the convicts because it is demoralizing. Work is slack in othor departments and ho says it is a godsend to tho thirty odd convicts that thoy are enabled to work on the cell house, for otherwiso they would be locked in thoiracells. Tho present house has 240 colls, There are 335 prisoners, which necessitates putting two in mahy cells intended only for one. When the new houso is comploted” Mr. Moshor will have to con- struet eighty cells at his own expeuse. BOYD COUNTY'S CONTE Governor Thayer returned last evening from Boyd county. On_ August 1 it will he his duty to issue & proclamation announcing the organization of the new county, abpoint- ing a clerk and commissionors aud 'designat- ing tho temporary county seat. Butte City and Spencer ctive rivals for the couuty seat, and made such conflicting represen tions that the covernor determinod to visit the county himself. Ho loft O'Neill Friday evening and took a thirty-three mile drive by moonlight. Saturday morning he visited Spencer and the eastorn part of the county. In the afternoon he weat to Butte City, nine miles west of Spencer, remaining four hours, "The citizens held an informal meeting and insisted on hearing a speech from the gov- ernor. Afte Atkinson The goyernor 15 ling of his prefo but ho is_enth Ho says it is supper Saturday evening ho drove to a distance of thirty-five miles, careful not to give an ink- suce for the county capital, tic over tho country. magnificont land, and_he never before saw as fino crops raised on turned sod. ‘Tho country is being settled ramdly. Spencer 15 not three months old, but it 15 thrifty and has a number of credi ablo build Butte City is about a year aud o half old, and of - courso _has & larger population than its rival. Both towus aro near the geographical couter of tho new county. CALLS THEM SHARPERS, The state bank examiners are making war on the loav and building associations whose man mont will nov be the closest scru- tiny. i advorsely on tho East- ern of Byr Y., which apolied for a permit to ¢o business 1n_Nebrasia, and that coucern had the banking board couvenc today to hear arguments for overruling the recommendation of the examiners. The hoard reserved its action, Another of thoso institutions is shown up ia tho following letter LiNcowy, Neb., July 20. r, Mo, Doare \:v Wroply to your Ie \II\I!nL,I “‘\\I‘\»xlu-r the laws of Nebraska would conflict with tho operations of the Plople's nstallment bond {nvestment com= puny of nee, Kan,, the quiry Polie prompred by the offor of the company Ly 0u of the state azency of Nobraska, 'ha d the lterntnre of the com 1'With your letter, containing and i copy of tho bond offered (o the 181 . White, onton M. Firl Auditor 1 wsof Nebraska would confllet with tho ope ——— and of the 17th inst., | extent of about 81,000 fins, oF about thirty days' Imprisomment in the county Jail, for ¢ tlompt of o agent of the gang to do [ s 11 the stato. You vy not linve digested the plans of this outfit. 1t has bown my duty of Inte to Investt | Rato the pluns and oporations of a numbor of ganes of wharpors having hoadguarters in varions states, who fssue stogk of s mtial aasociations, payable | ) lating fund | UIAT OF 81 stallments and who have made applic for cortifinates poemitiing thom to ply thele opurations in this state, but of all the 10Us Selienies yot et with [ Uie portormn of this duty, thing styling itself tho Youns People's instailingnt houd * fnvostment 1y 15 Uhe worst, The fnvestor [ to puy Ation fao of 810,005 of this amount §1.00 yUie trust fund and 8300 goos to the monthily the Investor shall pay 81.25. e wiioint the teast fund of ' the i teular sorits £ which thy bond pald upon be Tones tets 41,00 and tho kang 25 conts. When 1o trust fund of that serlos has o cumninted 81,000 bond No, 1. of the xeries I8 watured, ete. Tho litee® ure subuitted by | ¥ou says nothing with reference to the size ot tho serlos, T prosuie, lowever, It 14 sufo to coniude thit o o5 has but ono bond fs<iod from it No. Lwould sell much mare rendily than bonds of & highor bunily ninit | | and oieh liave o diforent ser | that way the Ialor of the & | would Ve matorlally lessenod approachod could e as & mark of espoct { favor offered bond N of tho serios Ju | If such s of operation contempli 1 S0 oLher Knowit to oach othe enn Priate It for all 1t 1s worth to you Yours truly, W. K. Ganiienr, Examine AFRAID OF BEING SIHOT. John Nelson, tho ‘“trusty’ from the penitentiary Thursday ovening,was capturod - yesterday” morniug by a farmer named Burns, about fiftoen miles west of the ty. Hoappliod to tho farmer for food Nelson intimated that he wanted to coms back. When ho went out into the garden ho .y down 1 tho brush and foll asleop. On awakening ho overheard two guards talking about his escape, and ono sald he would oot the fugitivo if ho saw him. This frightonod Nolson, who is not of sound mind, and ho crept away and fled from thoe danger. HOUSE NOTES, tarial commissions wero issued today to Johu M worth; Novris Brown, Kearnoy : Svorett, Lyous; A. M Moryill, Hartington ; Johu M. Bender, Cham- pion; Netl A, Schmoid, Dakota City’; R. B Livans, Dakota City; L. N. Parsons, Ma: W. . 'Huff, Burchard. Secretary of State Allen spont S MeCook and will roturn tomorrow. Judeo Higgins of Grand Island was a capt- tol callor today. ‘The printed journals of the senato wera re- coived by tho secretary of state today and are now ready for distribution. 10 AMUSE tor. ctting nent ach viet m ho escaped day at 'HE CHINESE, A New York Hall Being Ritted Up for Celestial Leetures, NEW Yo, July 20.—A novel tertainment is being started among the Chinamen. Chineso theatricals have thus far proven a dead failure, and 1t is doubtful 1f they will ever be avle to have a bonafide Chineso play house in this city. There aro euough rich Chineso in New York, however, to support some sort of place of amusement. The sagacious Chew Fong has leased tho big basement at Nos. 5 and 7 Dyer strect for & “gong koo hall. A ‘gong koo hall pluce where any good story teller can go in and tell interesting stories or sing a good song and leave the matter of his pay to tho benevolonce of his hearers. In other words, this is'to bo a lecture hall. Chinese public lecturers aro all tellers of storics, either bor- rowed from books o original, but in order to bo able to depend upon a liberal collection thoy must bo ablo to tell an exceedingly rood story. Tue more fiction, the bettor with Chinese audiences, and thoy tako to tho supernatural more readily than any other race. All place of en- Chinese lecturers aro accompanicd by music. Very often in the most oxciting part of the story the speater stops and plays A piece on the banjo or drinksa cup of ten. This is ostensibly dono as an mtormission to rest his lungs. These spealkers always take things ea They sit while talking, 1ising occasionatly when the story is gotting oxol ing to mako gestures or illustrations. Mr. Iong says that he has several good Chineso lecturers or story tellers who are coming hero from the west as soon s he can get. his hall ready. He proposes to take half the re- ceipts of cach lecture. As the Chinese do not have beor or whisky for sale they will have choice teas on tap at 5 and 10 cents a cup. The sale of this bever- age by the Chineso attendants will probably amount to moze than the lecturer’s receipts and the tea will constitute the staple srticlo of revenuo for tho proprictors. e MRS, POTTER YA RRIES BELLEW, Kong, China. Firaxcisco, Cal., July 20.—Lotters just received from Hong Kong say that Kyrlo Bollew and Mrs. James Brown Pottor woero married in that eity just boforo the steam- ship Baltio sailad for this port. Thestory is that a cablo dispateh eame to Mrs. Pottor say ing her husband had secured a divorco, whereupon sho at onco married tho actor. Mrs. Pottor and Bellew made money in Aus- tralia, but lost it all in China, whero tho ucipals have been reduced to playing with When thoy wero unable to form our companies, they gave recitations arlor ontertainients, Brown Potter is tho Sa daughter of ago. Sho ap- aved ns an amateur detress in her nativo toand was, after her marriago in 1577, one of the best known rocitors and acirésses among the fashionable amatours of New York city and Newport. Mrs. Brown studied in Paris and in Octovor, 1557, mado her American dobut as a professional ‘at tho Fifth avenue theator in**Mile. e By 1or,"" Sinco then ehe has played various this country and in England, hor best known part boing “Cleopat Recently in China Mus, Potter and Mr. Bellow have been pr senting stock plays, taking the star themselves and filling up the amatours or such professionals s the find at liberty at the various places they visited. There have been many reports that M Potter was contemplating a suit for divorco on account of Kyrle Bollew, but Mr. Pottor has always denied that ho intended to apply for a divorce. Says She's Gillette's Widow. Aniexe, Kas., July 20.—A woman calling herself Susan Gillette, claiming to be the widow of the lato Jamos A. Gillette, has just arrived from London, F M came to Kansas City s Ao, marries reared a family,his children being now grown Jp to his death about a year ago, no iu of his having ever had any ling allisnco was given and the arrival of his alleged widow has created o great commo- tion, He located tno town of Woodbme and at the time of his death was wealthy, haviug an annual income from reutals of over 5,000, Ho was highl uently hou- ored with public ofice. Tho woman suys sho is his lawful wifo whon be married before leaving England, and sues for a portion of tho property for herself and daughter and $10,000 reutals, e s, rtugal Short on Coin Lison, July 20.--The scarcity of cofn fn Portugal is severely folt. Commercial 508 both horo and in Operto are accopting 300 reis notos which they take at s hoavy ations of the compuny named o the | discount. The premium’ on sovereigns is now 13 per cont. Highest of all in Leavening Power..—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. fozezez0) Baking Powder .. ABSOLWTELY PURE pes = - A The Actor and Aciress Wed at Hong v