Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 23, 1891, Page 4

DATLY E. ROSEWATER Ei [S— . PUBLISHED THE i BEE HTOR. E EVERY MORNING. TFRMEOF SUBSCRIIMTION. without Eanday) One Year.. Dally and 8 , One Yenr Elx months Three months Bunday I Saturday | Weekly Be OFVICES: Omaha, The Nee Bullding. Fouth Onin Corner N nnd 2th Streeta RBlafrs, 12 P 1 Street. D! go Oftiee, 17 Chamber of Commeres. New York. Rooms 1,14 and 15 Tribune Buildiog Washington, 51 Fourteenth street. CORRFSPUNDENCE All commnnle ons relating to news and editorin]l matter should e addressed tc the Editorial Depurtment. BUSINESS LETTERS Allbusiness ietters and remittancesshould be dressed to The Bee Publishing Com Drafts, checks and postof 10 he made payable to the order of the com vany. The Bee Publishing Company. Prourjetors THE BEE BUILDIN BWORN STATEME Etate of Nebryaka, f Dougl '7sehuck, soc Publishing company, does that the aetual circalation nf Ti for the week ending July 18, 1801, Jows Eunday. July 12, fonday. July Li esduy, July 14 CIRCULATION. ary of The Beo colemnly &wour DALY BER was 18 foi- Friday, Ju {'y Baturday, July 1%, vesenns v 27,052 GEORGE B, TZSCUHUCK. Eworn to before me u,n\ subscel mllm my rsence this 15th day of July, A, D.. 1N presence th y v ADy Notary Publie. Average.... Ftate of Nebraska, County of Doug! George T, Trschuck. being Josgand s that bt i seeret sublishing company. that the actual a daily efrculation of Tug DALY Bik for the month of July, 1500, 20,662 copies; for August, 1800, 20,750 copios: for mber, 1500, 20 coples; for October, 18X copies: for N Vembir, 1600, 12,150 cople 8, nber, 140, 21471 coples: for J coples; for Fehruary, 1801 March, 1801, 20,065 copies: for April, 1801, 24028 coplea for’ May, 1801, (6,800 coples: for June, 1801, 26,017 coples, GEORGE B, "1 Z8CHUCK. Sworn to before me and subseribed in presence this 6th duy of June, A Dy 1801 uly sworn, de- Yot B for ALL the issues of the day are business {ssucs—John Sherman, M noth- KLEJOIN wants congress or Heo is no off year candidate. I1 18 neither good sense, good law nor good politics to vote for governor this fall. ELECTIONS provided for in ‘“‘even years” cannot consistently be held in odd years. To the average mind it looks as if Chairman Watson had been startled by somothing. Rerorts from Manchester, England, show business to be about as dull in that mart as anywhere in America BERLIN will ship $7,500,000 in gold to Russia but there will be no panic on the Bourse. Shipments of gold no longer produce panics. BETWEEN the Grenadier guards and the Cold Stream guards of Gireat Britain military discipline in the British army is suffering a good deal in its reputa- tion. NICKNAMES and pet names among school teachers must go. New York and Chicago are heading the crusade against the Mattics, Pollics, Maggies and Mamies, THE fint shriokers will please note that gold closed yesterday in Buenos Ayres at 287. South American inflation ought to be a warning to sensible people in this countr, SAN FRANCISCO and Boston stand al- most alone as cities in which brutal prize fights can be conducted under forms of law. It is no credit to either city that such is the fac It TAKES $28.50 of the inflated cur- roney of the Argentine Republic to pay for a barrel of flour. This is the country where money Is made of paper and printer’s ink on a power pross. TaE headquarters of the republican national contral committee is in Wash- ington, but the executive committes will meet in Philadelphian on the 20th in- stant and Omaha will bo there to look after her intorests, T governor of Minnesota is right in preventing the Hall-Fitzsimmons prize- fight. Ttishigh timo the executive power of every state wus thrown against these brutal exhibitions, The prizefight is a relie of barbarism. It has no place in the civilizition of this age. CONSERVATIVE estimates place the wheat crop of the state at 20,000,000 bushels. It is harvested and safe. It is worth not less than $16,000,000 to the farmers of Nobraska. This year’s crops will help our western land owners out of debt and put them fairly on their feet for the tuture, A 8PASM of virtue has seized upon the city officials of Ocean Grove, N. J., and ladies aro compelled either to woar long trousers und high-necked waists or take their occan baths in bath tubs. Itis neodless to add that the season will be a good deal shortor than the bath suits at Ocean Grove this year, CArTER ITARRISON is the great spook of democratic politics in [ilinois. Hoe is now throwing his threatoning shade across the path of Grover Cloveland and actually aspires to the presidency. Cleveland helped to kill him at the last municipal election, and that is why the ghost walks so closo to the ‘*'stuffed prophet of Williams street.” HE South Omaha Live Stock Ex- change choerfully joins with the Omaha board of trade in furthering the plan for a grand banquet to the grain and stock producers and shippers August 20, This is evidence of the cordial spirit of co-operation which prevails botween these two business organizations. It is also an assurance that the banquet will be a great success, and the guests of the exchange and board of trade from all the territory tributary to Omaha will be most royally entertained. IT CANAOT BE DONE. Tho assumption of Hon. John C. Wat- on, chairman of the republican state central committee, that an election for governor may be held this year, is des tined to have brief life a politieal sonsation, and if Mr. Watson had any other motive in announcing it than to maka a sensation in these “'piping times of pence,” it is not apparont. THE BER prints elsowhere a number of intelligent opinions on the question raised by Mr. Watson, and the consensus is very de- cidedly against the view of that gontleman, It is impossible to see how any one capable of understanding the plain langunge of the constitution and thestatites could reach a different conclusion. The constitution clenvly provides, in ction 1 of article 5, that the executive officors of the state shall be elected in each oven year, and there is nothing in that instrument or in any law to wi want a departure from this mindatory provision. Tt is true that the election this year will be vegular or general in its character, but this does not affect the question in the loast, for the reason that tho of off to be in this uneven yoar is specified, governor §s not ono of thom, ‘tho tion of Mr. Watson that tho law says u- chosen and sug- class ors lection does not justify the conclu- Wttt officer may bo elected at any regular election. Only at a general cloction in an even year can a governor of the state of Nebraska be constitution- ally clected. Another formidable difficulty in way of the proposition to governor this year i3 the provision of the constitution rvegarding the of the votes for executive cers. This duty must be por- formed by the legislature, and the vower to perform it exists nowhere olse. The noxt logislature will not be chosen until 1802, and will meet in January, 1893, and the old legislature can be con- vened only by proclamation of the governor. It neod hardly bo said that 1o such proclamation would be likely to issue for a legislative session to canvass votes cast for gubernatorial candidates next November. Strangoe as it may appear, Mr. Watson, who is a lawyor, says that in case Governor Thayer should refuse to con- vene the legislature for the purpose of counting the votes and declaring an election, the supreme court could de- clare an election from the returns fu nished the secretary of state. Neithe by the constitution nor by any statuto is that tribunal given power to do any such thing. The supreme court has no authority whatover over olection re- turns, and the secretary of state would have no right to hand over returns to that tribunal, if it were disposed to re- ceive them, for tho purpose of counting tho votes and declaring the result of an election. The supremo court is empowered to ‘“hear and de- termino contests of the election of judges of the supreme court, judges of the district courts, district attorneys, and regents of the university,” but there is no law authorizing that tribunal to assume a function which the constitu- tion has devolved exclusively upon the legislature, and that body cannot be convened except by proclamation of the governor, whose discretion is absolute in the matter. There isanother require- ment that appears to have been lostsight of by those who have discussed this question, and that is that the governor must in his proclamation of an election designate the officers to be voted for. If Governor Thayer should in his procla- mation of the next election omit to state thata governor was to be voted for, would not such omission have the effect to ren- der worthless all votes cast for candi- dates for the office of governor? We think there can be no question that it would. But suppose the election should be held as suggested, and the legislature bo convened by proclamation of the gov- ernor to canvas the vote, and all the proceedings of the canvas were regular, the main question might still have to 2o to the courts and there would simply have been added a complication to tho situation. The acting governor might refse to turn over the oflico to the candidate declared to be elected by the legislative canvassing board, and in such case the only way the title to the seat could be determined would be by proceedings in the supreme court of the stato. Tue Bee does not care to consider this matter from the view point of poli- ties. It is not a question whother one party or another would gain or lose. The ouly thing to be considered is whut the organic law und the statutes enacted in conformity with it require, and we do not doubt that the intelligent judgment of the people will overwhelmingly de- cido that there is no authority or war rant in these for the olection of a gov- ernor this year. FUTURE OF WHEAT PRICES, One of the largest millers in the country recently expressed the opinion that the price of wheat would settle down at about 80 conts, and probably would not vary much from that for a considerable time, The general opinion undoubtedly is that the price is likely to range considerably above that figure, and certainly wheat growers will bo disappointed if it shall not, The wheat situation of the world seems to assure a groatly enlarged oxport movement from the United States during the coming cereal year,and itis reason- ably ussumed that this will haye a stimulating effect upon prices. These are lower now than at the corresponding time last year, and the large early move- ment of the crop may force values a lit- tle further downward, but if the later demand for exvort is what it is expected to be, in view of the foreign deliciency, it appours reasonuble to look for a recov- ery of prices. There was exported lust year 100,000,- 000 bushels of wheat and flour, and it has been suggested that if that amount could be sparod ut moderate prices when there was a heavy shortage in the pro- duction of corn and a deficiency in the yield of other crops necessarily tending to advance the cost of all cereals, there is no good reason why the larger foreigu demand of the present season should not be met without a very marked or rapid advance in values, siuce all crops this sion t the elect a canvass offi- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE year promiso more abundant harvests than those of last year. But while this country might do the large export trade in wheat now indicated without a specu- lative advance in prices the most intelli- gent opinion Is that such a contingency would be improbablo. It of course, fidle to conjecture as to what flights prices may take or wh they may settle. If any of the projocts for holding back supplies and for cornering the wheat market should be seriously attempted the immediato effect doubtless would be to elevate prices materinlly, but very high prices would diminish consumption abroad and reduce the demand for export, with the inevitable result of breaking down prices until they reached figures which Buropean buyers were willing to pay. The promise, however, is thatin any event American wheat growers will be able to dispose of the year’s product at a fair profit, is, ro ADVERTISING THAT PA Sunday, July 12, THe BEE published xhaustive review of the resources of braska. On the same morning an epitome of that showing appeared in evory daily newspaper in the union which published o Associated press dispatenes. In many of the leading papers of the country the magnificent showing made was the occasion of favor- able comment. Each mail brings to TiHe BEE news- papers in which the financial resources of Nebra a topic of discussion. In every single instance surprise and gratification are expressed. The financial and trade journals are devoting especial attention to the subject and Nebraska’s condition is the text of hundreds of able editorials, The local new pers of the state with a single exception found in THE SUN- DAY BEE of the date named an occa- sion for speaking well of their s Thut exception was the puper owned and controlled by Jay Burrows at Lin- coln. Hundreds of copies of the special edition have been majled to eastern friends of residents of Nebraska. This is advertising that pays becauso it is truthful, effective, convincing and contains exactly the information people looking to this state for homes or in- vestments desire. It reassures capital- ists who have led to doubt the resoures of Nebraska by the calamitous tales which have been so freely reulated within a year. It is a practical proof also that the local news- papers are the best medium of advertis- ing cither a city or a state. o. been THE EYES OF THE WORLD. Chicago will ba greatly benefited by the world’s fair immediately because immense sums of money will bo e pended there by millions of people. Hor greater benefits, however, will bo indi- rect. Herotofore New York has been the one city in America which the world has regarded as a commercial metropolis. The Chinamen in America know but two cities—San Francisco and New York. Tho interior centers of population count for nothing with them. It is so with the world at large. 20 by reason of the advertising which the world’s fair will give her steps to the front in the eyes of the world and after that event will be asso- ciated with America as mvch as New York. In other words, the fair gives Chicago a cosmopolitan reputation co-extensive with that of New York. On a smaller scale, of course, but pro- portionately of as great importance to Omaha is the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal chuvch, which is to be held in Omaha next year. KForty million people in this world adhere directly and indirectly to the great Wesleyan communion. Every Wesloyan communicant on the globe will turn his eyes toward Omaha during tho general conforence as the Mahommedan turns his eyes toward Mecca. This great religious meeting also interests the people of all the other Christian churches, and it introduces Omaha to the world. Ina loss extensive way the interstate . drill keeps the eyes of the nation di- rected foward this motropolis, and as representatives of the military organ- izations of the country participate in that meeting, there will go out from the interstate drill information about our city which will interest people in our growth and send to us capital and encrgy from every state in the union, Should Omaha secure the national convention s she may if proper effort boe made, we shall turn the oyes of the world again toward our eity and the tecritory tributary hereto, The republican nominating convention will bo the greatost thems of discussion in the world during its continuance. Every great newspaper will be in demand by the reading public of all nations and the Omaha date line will be searched for in its columns with an interest which can be appreciated by every Amorican reader who recalls the recent national conventions, The world of politics and the world of commerce will be anxi y inquiring for infor- mation regarding its proceedings. The value of the convention to Omaha cannot be overestimated, Money cannot be assumed as a measure of its v: It would simply be invaluable. Bunkers, merchants, vrofessional men, mechanics, lnboring men, everybody should be working for the convention. Omaha can do nothing which will turn and keep the eyes of the great world upon her so long, so intensely or so pro- fitably as to secure and entertain the great convention, With the Methodist goneral conierence, the intorstate drill, the convention of the stationary engi- neors and smaller conventions coming one after the other, und the national convention as the climax of good for- tune, this eity would experience a re- awakening which would give us 250,000 peoplo and quadruple our commercial rosources in ten years. It would give Omaha a place in the eyes of the world, —e Ow that Henry M. James has heen retired by the board from the position of superintendent of the schools of the city and will shortly leave Omaha, it is due that gentleman to suy that his work here for nine years hus been croditable alike to himself and the schools. He may not be the most brilliant educator and probably some of complaint againse him ue. the grounds of are correct, but ‘ - under his sums®ision the schools have increased in nymber and officioncy. He has frequontly besn handicapped by fac- tional oppositiptin the bonrd and among tho teachers,. hut in spite of it all the schools have eomtinually prospered. Mr. James carries iy with him the re- spect of a large majority of our cit zons, of the o tenchers who have served with “him and the pupils who have attanded the schools during his administedtifn. Ho can justly point with pride o the work accomplished here and the pogple will be very much vleased with his successor if hoe shall de- velop equal administrative ability and at the end of a term of years have the re- spect of a majority of his associates, n majority of the ex-members of the boad of education and a majority of the pupils who shall have boen under his instruc- tion. FURNITURE for the city hall involves a rgo expenditure. The council should determine what is needed and in- vite bids for furnishing it. Competition in plans is vory different from competi- tion in prices. The city is entitled to the benefit of both, The action of the Lin rejecting the bids upon differ- ent plans and inviting proposals upon both plans and prices is therefore prop- It delays the but the city stands at lcast an show with the bidderg work even OMAHA must be represented at the Philadelphi meeting of the republican national committee July 29. Senators Manderson and Paddock will probably attend, and should be requested to push the claims of this city. It would be well also to send a delegate or delegation there to keep watch of our interests. ADVERTISING for bids, opening them, announcing them and then rejocting them is a rank violation of business con- fidence, if the bids are rojected in the in- terest of the higher bidder. The trouble is that very often the rejection of all bids has that very purpose in view. NOBODY is surprised to learn that Mr. Fitzpatrick promptly accepted the posi- tion of superintendent of the schools of this city—that is, nobody who knows how the pins were set up for hiselection. It is no violation of confidonce to re- mark that theve are no fire flies on the Ohio gasoline lighting corporation. ON general principles, all things being equal, the lowest bidder should not be juggled out of a city contract. A METROPOLITAN city like Omaha could not afford to be without a baseball club. WANTED—Somebody who can draft ordinances and contracts without holes. 1aiocy Free of Duty. Washington Post. The McKinley law is chargzed with the in- sanity of an Illinois man. Mr. McKinley made a great mistake in not placing a pro- hibitory tariff on idiots, — - What it. Moans. Oleveland, Leader, The democratic party in Ohio recommends a Ticent dollar and a method of securing governmental reveuue which, as the dewo- cratic New York Sun declares, is *'a tariff on integrity and a bounty on perjury.” e s How to Run a Newspaper. St. Louis Republic. When editors have a conventipn with essays on *‘How to Run a Newspaper” they make itall seem mce and casy. Perhaps this is because it is somebody else’s paper they are teling how to run. Evervbody knows perfectly well how to run somebody clse's newspaper. —_— A St. Paul Hint, St. Paul Globe. Omaha and Chicago are coming to believe that Minneapolis is in solid earnest in reuch- ing for the republican national convention. It has no formidable competitor but Chicago, and if the chief object of Omaha is to have the convention west of the Mississippi it shouid be ready to throw all its votes for the other twin, g TR T A Good Thing Roun Springfield (Mass.) Union The decision of the Krench chamber of deputies yesterday toappove the government bill, admitting American salt pork, hams ana bacon on a moderate tariff is a matter for general congratulation in this country, and a triumph for United States Minister Reid, who has been very urgent in securing this heir Tgnors Boston Ado 1tise The Kansas judge who refuses to oboy the rulings ef the supreme court must an exalted idea as to the importance of his own conclusions and ruiings. The only way to deal with such specimens of the judiciary is to remove them from the bench with a sud- deuness and vigor which may possibly jolt a little common sense into their intellcets, THEY LIK¥k IT. Most Favorable. American Banker, Te Omana Bek prints reports from every ccunty 1n the state on the crop outlook. The showing is the most fayorable ever made in Nebraska. A Great Work. Koruey Hub. Tue Ovana Ber of Sunduy, July 12, was a wreat paper. It fuénishes a saccinet but bright page of Nebraska's prosperity during the past ten years! ‘It is doiug u groat work in putting the resources of the state before the world. Prospenpns Nebraska, Callaway Courier. We clip the follpwing paragraphs from a late issue of Tur Omans Bk which was de- voted largely to awrlte up of Nebraska and her prosperity. They speak for themselves in tones louder thin'the wail of the calamity howlers who are dping all they can to injure the fair name of our state. A Grelit State. Shetom Clipper. Last Sunday’s ©Maus BEk contained an exhaustive and comprohensive roview of Nebraska's growth and prosperity. Itis a wonaerful array of facts and figures that ought Lo s6t AL rest auy doubts s Lo the gon- eral thriftof the state. Tho compilation of tho statistics given was a splendid piece of work for which Tur Bee is entitled to a great deal of credit, ra Plonser The Owaua Bee of Sunday was a paper of which Nebraska may well feel proud. It gave a complete write-up of each county in the stute show: the in- dustries and advantages of these counties, with @ table showing population, bauk de posits and amount of deposits per capita. Kuox county vzas “iu it" with the rest, and while brief it showed up a good deal, and on much lower assessed valuation thau our | | neighbors. I'HURSDAY, All of the counties in north Ne- braska are nssossod one-third more than Knox, 80 wo may foel glad that we aro not a tax-ridden peoplo. Kach county in Nebraska could afford to distribute one thousand copies of the Ber throughout the east. It should be rstematioally circulated, giving as it does a trae coloring of tho state by carefully gath. ered facts, How Nebraska Has Prosperad. Bradstreet's, In Tie Oyana Bee we find an oxcer tional- ly careful and comprehensive sories of ar- ticles with reference to tho state of Ne- braska, a state, by tho way, which, thirty- six years ago, contained only 4,404 fnhabit- ants, as compared with 50,793 in 1800, Some other featuros of Nebraska's impor- tance are ot general interest also. Forin- stance, its assessod valuation of roal and por- sonal property twenty-three years ago was 300,000, whilo last yoar it was §1,585,1 300, or moro than tho value of all ex- ports from and imports of merchandise and produce into the United States in the census year 183090, The per capita average of de- Posits in both state and national banks in this distinctly agricultural stato is 847, or twice the average amount of monoy in circulation per capita in the United States, Not Hard Up. Joseph Herald, For a state that is advertised as a bank- rupt, Nebraska has a poculiar way of show- g it. There is on deposit in the banks of the state 7,000, Nebraska 1s o farming state ulmost exclusively and much of this money represents the accumulations of the farmers. The facts are that the pooplo of the west are not nearly so hard up as calam ity people would lead the outside peoplo to suppose. : Nebraska's tisement. Sehuyler Sun. The greatest advertisoment which has ever appeared for Nebraska was in Tite OvAla Suspay Bee. It was a report sentin by a reliable correspondent from every county in the state as to the valuation of land, assessed luation of same this yoar and of 1530, total bank deposits per capita, population in the ten years, area in square milos n each county and price of land in each county, cte. Some iy PASSING JESTS, iond—Was Miss o last nizht? ms with Miss sho persuad Denver Sun: Chappie’s I Gay, the soprano, in zood vol Chapple—(Who is on good te me to pay 215 Burdetto: “Ilow do you suppose T bro on this illness, doctor?” groaned the patie s cont ou becoming ov af man, returned th et it expands.’ suld the docta faw'a new ne cht patient, it is a Indinnapolis Journa rgument s ided. Tt reminds e of u jug hundle.” You wrasp it with ease, eh?" THE BARD AT THE BOARD, Boston Cowrier. The bard sat ut the dining hoard, _Whenee all but him had fled, Except lease, the d Wiio And as th In speech 1€ he the p Be kind enou askod of hini— 00th us glass— butter would 1 10 pass, He struck an attitude, and then The oleum did reach And as he pussed the same to hor claimed in brand of spoceh Thit quite revealed the poet-soul That did within kim sleam, “Life's butter-p dreamn SLAfe's hutter-passing dreun * he said, Pittsbure Chronfele acirens at Rock Istand marked Mrs. Snaggs, who the papers. That's not the usual wa band. SIsn't 2" “No; the lyin’ generaliy broaks loose on the posters.”’ “A lion broke looso in the other day.’ had been reading y," replied her hus- ANCHORED, Detroit Free vress. “Thave a wetzht upon my mind," Toverheard him s ), said she Tom blowing it aws s'twill keep the wind Denver Sun: “The tide of public sentiment I8 turning against you,” the politician was warned by his friend. “Well, then.” replied the drew his bank book and filled alarge sum, “take that and nave to ‘check’ the tide.' politician, as he out an order for use it. Wo will New York Mercury: Wooden—Oh, sco t girl with the bright red rare color, Bullfineh—Ye Now York Herald: Mummn--He I3 rich, distinguished, cultivated. [t 15 absurd, Mabel, to say that you cannot love hin. Mabol—But, manima. his te ro fulse! M-mma—S0 are your fathe for that muttor. You love your father, don't you? at hair; what a very positively raw.” A PROPHECY FULFILLED, Ddianapolis Journal. The day he geaduated I hoara his father say, “Ltell you what, that hoy of mine will beat the world some day. And yesterday | saw him, pavior's rammer, With which upon the face of stoutly did he hammer, as he swung a earth most Phurmaceutieal Era: Captain Cruiser-So your son is a little dissipated, en? Anxious Mother—Oh, very, captain, very. What eun T do with I Captain Cruise Leave him with me. We il from New York for San Prancisco next ek and won't touch port for soven nionths, Aunxlous Mother—HBut, captain, don't you think brandy or any other spirit is just as bud 18 port for iy son? W Atchison Globe: Kagn pieking up; how's yours? Undertaker—Dying ofr. 1—My business is RUSHING PENSIONS, Kansas City Jour Raum's machinery must be in good order to cope with his #50,000 original cases. ~ Yet he hopes by the aid of his big forco of clerks to dis- pose of tho cases “'at once.” Kansas City St Commissioner Raum makes the unnouncement that he'is going to hurry through and dump 850,000 original cases upou the various pension cios of the country before the year isout. Away with the surplus ! Philadelphia Pross: more than a thousand cases u day, the hst of pensioners is to bo increased, and Secre- tary Foster must wrestle with tho treasury balance as ke may: It isn't aum's business tofind the money; ho is only to do the lumpig.” It really looks as though it may be necessary to “dump” Raum to save money enough to pay the sal ofticials at Washington. As a distributor of the surplus Tanner wusn't 1n it with Raum atall, Providence Telegram : sionor Raum 18 reported to ha o rush 530,000 claims for pensions through his office Defore the yearis out. Having done that, o thiuks he may bo able to reduce his force of clerks and vconomizo. Raum is a nice wau to talk of economy; aiso of pxpediting the business of his office. Prob- ably if he rushes these 850,000 upplications for originul pensions throngh as ho proposes be will not_know whether they i r lawfully entitled w be favorably considsied or uot, i PICTURE, pension n: So, at the rate of Pension Commis. » dotermined ATRUE Elia Wheeler Wilco, Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Woep, and you weep alonc For the 'sad old carth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hilis will answer; Sigh, it is lost to the air. "The ectioes bound 1o a joy ful sound, But shriuk from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Griove, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all Thore are noue to decling your nectal But alone you wust drink life's wine, Feast, and your halis are crowded ; Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give and it helps you live, But no man can heip you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a 1firge sud lordly train But one by one we must ail file oa Through the narrow aisles of pain, ASYLUM OFFICIALS' DEFENSE. Messrs. Tost and Liveringhouse Subr ments in Their Interest. DUPLICATION OF VOUCHERS ADMITTED. Strong Effort Made KRefute the & Charges of Mismanagement of the Institution. to Successfully Lixcory, Neb,, July 22.—[Special to Tue Bk, |—The stato board of public londs and buildings met this afternoon to resume the investigation of Superintendent Test and Steward Liveringhouse of the Hustings hos- pital for insane The board had employed T. H. Leavitt, a Lincoln expert, to go through tho accounts of the fostitution, and it was expectod ho would be ablo to make a partial or preliminary ro port today, but the board was disappointed. Attornoy Durnell objected to putting Dr. Test on the witness stand until after bearing the report of the export accountant. 1he board insisted on having his testimony at this sitting, it at ail, and Mr. Darnoli finally decided not to let the doctor testify. ‘Tho attorney for the accused officials then vead a typewritten ploa, which reviewed the chirges, or at least somo of thew, and argued that they bad been rofuted or satisfactorily explained, He admitted the duplication of vouchers to the amount of 858462 Livoringhouso readily aceepted the eriticism, he coutinued, but if there was any impropriety it should bo at- tributed to his zeal to save the monay to the institution by converting it from an unavail- able fund to the cash fund. His dofonse was that tho state had not lost a dollar and bo had received no benefit A comparison had been made between the expenses of the Hustings and the Novfolk institutions. Mr. Darneil assertea that the Hastings hospital had been managed the more economically if the exhaustion of tho appropristion were taken into consideration, He compared the expenso of broad, buf touched upon no other item of suppl tonting himself with the general ass On the creamory ebarge ho stated that I ermghouse had disposed of his stock. Tho contract for supplying butter had been let by the board, aud, he' said Liveringhouse had nothing to do with it. The charge that #30 had been paid Livor- inghouse’s ~ mother-in-law, Mrs. M. K. Avbott, for tho uscof a horse and buggy was met_with the statement that the outfit was needed aud the state got more than its money’s worth. M. Darnell ridiculed the idea eriticising the mauagement for payimg Rov. Britt &0 for sorvices as chaplain, and b erted that the sum was the reverend gentleman’s recompense for two vears duty. “Laking up the mattor of Zicgler's death, be maintained that the testimony of witnesses who charged malpractico had been im- peached. Heo thought the charyge should b dismissed as not sustained. But Mr. Dar- nell’s ghittering generalitios” did uot reach their brightest_ effulgonce until ho took up the charge of immoral conduct. He de- livered o eulogism on Messrs. Test and Liveringhouse, congratulated them on hav- ing passed tho ordeal with honor untar- nished, aud, assuming -that the board had dropped that branch of the investigation, complimented tho members on their eminent good sense, At the conelusion of his dofense Mr. Darnell launched into another culogy of the accused, alleging that Dr. Test bad greatly improved the morale and efliciency of the hospital and that Mr. Liveringhouse had saved a largo sum to the stato by acting as steward, book- keeper and head farmer for one salary ‘Tho attorney dealt in gencralities through- out. Ho did not mention the exorbitant prices of groceries and drugs, and ho forgot to explain how the deficiency’ reached £25,000 under Dr. Test_as against” the 13,000 osti- mated by Dr. Stone, Mr. Leavitt, the ac- countant, is expected to make his prelimi- nary report by Friday. The board intends to closo tho case aftel iving that report, when it will make up its findings and trans: mit them to the governor with a roc- ommendation. The board, however, in- tends to have the expert continue his work and make a_thorough examination of the books of the hospital from 11 opening to the present time. This full report may be de- layed two months. SOLDIEKS' HOME AFFAIRS, Mrs. Laura A. Bates, socretary of the visiting and examining board of the soldiers’ home, bas made u report to the governor, from which the following facts are gleaned : The farm has sixty-five acros in oats in corn, fifteen in millet, and twenty toes and garden truck. But two f are employed, all other worlk bei ne by tho inmates of the home. The institution has cight horses, thirty-four head of caitle, eighty-five ~ of nogs and an ' abundanco . of poultry. A number of improvements in the grounds and buildings is reported. Theso include a house of brick, stone and iron for the storage of oils. ‘The commandant is plauning a miniaturo fort with carthen walls and a regulation army cannon for the entertain- mont of the old v A new building to bo comploted before December wiil provide cots for forty-eight persons, which, with the twenty now available, will be' ample for some time to come. Tho committeo sa; much more satisfuctor smee tho passage of excluding fomales unacr fifty Siuce the homo was opened 285 been admitted, and the present is 100, Nincteen aro bedfast in The board heartily commeuds conduct of the home and says it is u, suggest any change Tho report criticism or recommendation, MAKING IROOM FOIt INSANE, The board of public lands audj buildings rdered the dischargo of the following sons from the Norfolle hospital for insano: Dennis Harringion, Antelopo county: Rachael E. Sellick, Boono; Mary Burger and Eliza Cummings, Burt; Alexander Fraz 1d Tlugh MeDovitt, Cedar; J. M. Davidson, Cherry; Alfred Snyder, Keya Paha; Ernes: tina Koouer, Platte; Mary flenrs, Cheyenne; Ansil . Curtis, IKvith; " James' Mutherim, Lincolu, These peoplo are ‘exaggerated cranks,” as the superintendent expresses it, who do not need medical treatment. ‘They are discharged because tho institution is full, and theve are violent insane now confined in county jails who should be taken into the bospitai. The board will visit Norfolk tomorrow to examine several improvements now under way. affairs at the are home ¢ porsons bave membership the bospital, wencral able to hus no ANOTIEI STATE CONTRACH The board of public and buildings today awarded . M. Trich of Hastings tho contract for erecting the wings to tho hospi- tal for tnsano at that place. The prico 15 430, which focludes the fixtures, The contractor will be required to give two bonds, one for #70,000 and oune for §25,000, the latter to guarantee the payment of tho Wages of b employes. Leopold Hahn, ex-representat from Adams county, was appointod superin- tendent of construction. SECREY SOCIETY OF Omaha has a council of the National Cos- mopolitan Culinary, Pastry and Confection- ers’ association of the United States, because its chartor has been fllea with the secrotary of state. The charter was granted to Leon Mathieu, ¢ Aschenbach, James Blanc, Jacques Lobert Manniug, Albert Duel, Schweitzer, (harles Lagrange, Georgo IKouzouris Albert Anderson, Barth' sl Prank Canton, Frank Belal and A’ COOKS, Phillips of Northoms, Minn., the grand | epicuroun professor. CITY NOTES, Hanham has_bogan action ng itzgerald for 10,812 on account of a ling contract In the construction of the & M. from DoWitt to Edgar {n 158, Mrs, L, L. Yeagor, whose daughter left nome without notice, found herats rolative's in Omaha, and the girl readily accompanied | hor back to Lincoln. e Lincoln_hotel an answor to Contractor J Harte, who sues for a balance of #10,000, The company claims a forfeit of £,500 at tho rate of $100 per day, because the building was not com- ploted on time, and offers to confoss judg ment for § B0, norr John company has flled an H - H ARMY MUTINY, ENGL ardsmen Sulky and Lefuse to Parade. Loxnos, July 22,—Truth today prints an- other startling story of mutiny in the British army which 1t claims occurred in the Second battalion of the Cold Stream guard quartered at Wellington barracks, near Buckingham | palace, where incidentally it furnished the guard of honor during tho recent visit of Emperor William, It scems the extra duty thus necessitated was far from plousant to the guardsmen, who have long boen the pots of the British army. After the departure of the emporor tho guards oxpectod a day of freedom from ard mounting for recuperation. The men, however, were ordered to parade as usual in full marching order. As a result they be- camo sullen and unmanageable, the first and third companies at fiest bluntly rofused to parade. Tho officers of theso companies beld a hurried cousultation, not liking tuo prospect of a torm of exile, similar to that the second batallion of the 'Grenadier guards | was subjected to, at Bermuda, As a result they argued the mattor with the privates, bolding up to them tho prospects of exilo from England. The privates finaily sullenly | consented to parade, but their behavior | becamo so " glariugl, insubordinate that tho ofcers marched them back to tho barracks and ordercd the commands continod to tho barracks threo days as pun- ishment. o senior privates wero also placed under arrest with a view of trying thom by conrt-martial for insubordination. inety ‘of the guardsmen barracaded them- selves in a room of the barracks, refusing 1o cmeree until their ten comiades should be guaranted the same treatment as the others, General Harding was finally callod in, and by & judicious speech succeoded in quioting them. Tho significance of the mutinous sentimony can bo judged when it 15 understood that the guards uro tho oldest corps in the army with a single exception, cold Sr CAN'T BL President Gomp uation in sw Youk, July nessee. Prosidont Samuel Gompers of the American foderation of labor, in speaking yostorday of the action of the Tennessce mwmers in i ing tho troops from Bricoville, said ““Whether the action of the miners was justi- fiablo or not, no one can blame them. ‘Thoy are simply fighting for bread for themsolves and their families. The affair at Now Or- leans hias creatod a procedent that whon pro- tection failed to bo provided for citizons, tho citizens took tho law in their ows hands. I am well acquainted with these miners, and T know that large numbors of them aro thrown out of work on account of the employmont of convicts. This present case is worso than aliothers, for the men were strugeling for an increase of wagas and_convicts took thoir places. The state of Tonnessse really con- yerted atsolf fnto a burcan to. supply scab ubor. “Some time ago the miners had a bill fn- troauced in the Tennessce legislature to pro- hibit the employment of convicts as miners, Governor Buchianan fought against the bill | and had it defeatod. What justice can tho miners expect from this man, now that ho has to administer the law 07 President Gompers was next asked if ho had anything to say about the report that. tho Chicago trade and “labor_assembly haa do- cided to ask all unious adiliated with the fod- eration not to vote for his re-clection as its chicf oficer. ““Tho veport may be true,” he replied, “but 1 do not care to say much in regard to it. 1 cannot please every one, and. thoso who are not satisfiod with me have a proper place to state their griovances at the mecting of the federation.’? AR A REMARKABLE SURGICAL CASE. Big Piece of Wood Extracted From a Patient's Head. Pron, Iil., Jul ~Lewis . Riotter- maz of this city, who has just roturned from Chicago, has in his possession tho proof of one of the most Interesting cases known in surgical history. Ho was ono of the passeu® gers on the ill-Tated Niagara Falls cxcursion train which went down to such terriblo dostruction at Chatsworth. Ho was in tho last_coach, leaning on his hands in an open window when the crash came. Noarly overybody n the car was injured and soveral men were killod outright. Ricttorman’s faco was badly cut and bruised and he was uncon- ous for scveral hours. His faco ved up and healed rapidly. Smce then ho hus suffered constant pains in his head, but local physicians attributed 1t to the shock of the wreck and treated him accord Last Novembor, while blowing 115 noso vigorously, he blew out a wive nail 1y inches long, badly rusted. He and his friends werd confident that his troublo was atan ond when the nail was dislodizod, but he still suffered a autl pain in his head, In June he went to Chieago and was anined by tho stafl surgeon at Rush modieal collogo, “Who phiysician found a forozn body term s head at tho inside corner o oye, and in the presence of a voom full ¢ surgeons cut the patient’s faco. Imbeddod in the head, back of tho nose, was found an irvogular pieco of cak 11 inehes loug, b inch thick and ' inch wido. This fragient of the window sill had bodn carvied in his hoad for four years. ‘The paint had boen avsorbod by his blood. Tho caso was reported to all the leading doctors in Chicago and is p nounced one of the most remarkablo i his- tory. - MUST COVER UF 8¢ THEIR LEG A New Order of Things Makes Ocean Grove Pathers Angry. Oceax Guove, N. L, July 22.—Tho hun- dreds of women and children in bathing sui 8 who walked down to Lilligore's pavilicn, for their dully baths yestorday met with a remariaclo rebuff. At this pavilion was a policeman who rofused to allow th to go into the surf until they had gone home and secured wraps to hido their logs. Even little boys and irls wore included i tho order. 1f they nad a covering around thoir shoulders the were allowed to pass by the sentry, but otherwiso they could enjoy no swim, During the day signs woro posted up on tho pavilion to the effect that all porsons found walking through tho strects without proper covering or wearing batiing appurel would be arrested and fined & or imprisoned five days in tho county juil “Tho dresses of the bathers at Ocoan Grove are and always have been more than modest, and the order that they must walk through the streets clad in a heavy cloak or a gossa- mor is being most bittoriy received. Tho order is signod by Prosident Stokes, and ho asks all policomen and watehmon to'onforce peur. Tne chrter wus issued by W. H. the rules, Highest of all in Leavening Power..— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Yol f&zezezxo) Baking Powder N was ~~— ™ ] ABSOLUTELY PURE |