Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1892, Page 4

4 THE E DAILY BEE. SREWATER, Enron. , — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. thout Sunday) One Ye unday, One Yonr 1 Taily and gixMontha ... Three Montha fundny Hee, One Ve Eaturdny Bee, One Weekly Bee, Ono Y 280 10 00 500 a5 150 OFFICES Omaha, The Bee Bullding. FouthOnahin, corner N wnd Counell Blufrs Chicnso Office, § New York,Roonie17, 141 Wushington, reots. hamber of Commerce. d 15 Tribune Bullding nth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All_communications reluting to news and edjtorinl matter should be addressod tc the Editorinl Deparimen BUSINESS LETTERS ATl business letters and remittances shonld 1e addressed to The Bee Publishing Couipany Onaha. Drafs, checks and postoffice orders 10 be mado piyablo to the, order of the cori- biny. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictor THE BEE EUILDING, EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Hatoof Nebrusknn ey County of Douglas. | Geo. I Teachuck, secrotary of The BEr Jublishing compuny, lomnly swear hut the actunl efreulation of Tie 2 for the weok ending Februury i, 1802, follows: unday, 1'eb. 7, Nonday, Feb, 80000 Tuesdny, I adnesday. e Thursday, Feb. 11 Friday, ['ob, 19, Euturday, Ieb. i us L 10 Jsivaey . 24,434 ) B TZSCMUCK, Eworn to lefore me and subscribed in my presence this Lith day of February. A. D. 182 SEAL N. P FRIn, Notary Public. Average .. RENGTHEN tho wooden viaducton Sixteenth street is at best only a tem- porary makeshift. The council should without delay take the necessary steps to replace it with a stone and iron structure, A srurr of reform amounts to noth- ing. Tt mere froth in the bottle of political champagne, It is the steady application of business methods and the snforcement of honest and faithiul sevvice in every department, and above all the uprooting of boodleism and job- bery, that constitutes veal reform. is much inti- contractor is altogethor too macy between plumbing Free and Mr. Johnson, who has been designated chief plumbing inspecto The relutions that are said to subsist be- tween Mr. Johnson and Mr. Free would mako it very difficult for Mr. Johnson 1o enforce the city hall plumbing con- tract. MUNICIPAL reform should not stop with reducing salaries and doing away vith taxeater: Business methods should be enforced in every branch of the service. Every employe, high and low, should be required to disconnect himself from all franchised corporations, either as an agent, contractor. furnisher of materials or beneficiary. The charter is very specific on these points. MAYOR BEMIS and the police commis- <ion shoukd put a stop to gift-taking or soliciting of donations in the police nind fire department. It is a pernicious p tice. No officer, high or low, should he permitted to contribute toward the pur- chase of gifts to any other officer, or he permitted tosolicit gifts or subseriptions from citizens. Business men and respectable peoplo generally do not like to refuse any favor to policomen or five- men and the lawless classes and keepers of questionable resorts dare not refuse. ABouT four years ago the principal performer of Hitchcock’s famous petti- coat troupe of trained acrobuts applied for a position on the editorial staff of THE BEE with a proviso that a place be reserved also for his wife. Theoffer w: respectfully but firmly declined. This offense has never buen forgotten or for- given by either orboth and their petty spite has made itsclf manifest at every turn. That accounts largely for many of the despicable personal thrusts that have periodically appeared in the double-ender. ORDINARILY town elections have livtle general significince, the results being largely dependent upon local influences and conditions. But considerable im- portance is being aseribed to the elections of this class in New York last week, in which the republicans made great gains. This is held to be an unmistakable re- buke of Hillism, and undoubtedly it will bear thut construction, though it is quite possible that this is not the only explanation, There is a good deal in the general conduct of the democratic party at this time calculated to drive intelli- gent voters away from it. Is rr not about time to force a re- duction of tolls on the uncil Bluffs and Omaha bridge? Socction 49 of the chartor provides that the mayor and council shall have power to license and regulate the keoping of toll bridges within or terminating within the city for the passage of persons, towms, and proporty over any river passing wholly or in part within, or running by and ad- jolning the corporate limits of any such city; to fix and determine the rates of toll over any such bridge or over the part theveof within the city, and to authorize the ownor or owners of any such bridge to charge and collect the rates of toll so tixed and determined from all persons passing over or using the same. A LONDON newspuper kindly presents as an available candidate for the presi- dency the American minister to Eng- land. The American people have a gen- erous appreciation of Mr. Robert T, Lancoln, who was & creditable secretar; of war and is representing his couutry ina worthy manner at the court of St. James, but it would not improve his shances for the presidency to have it generally understood that he would be particularly acceptable to Eogland as the chief executive of the United States. That is & matter regarding which I lish sentiment is held at & very beavy discount. Doubtless the suggestion ought to be regarded as complimentary to Mr. Lincoln, but if he has presiden- tial aspirations he will be wise to dis- courage the endorsement of the English pross, MICHIGANIZING NEBRASKA The new converted democratic organ declares that an extra session of the legislature “is needed for the pur- pose of dividing the state into dential districts the presidentinl presi- 50 ! electors of Nehraska may bo elected by | igan, and | districts e they are in Mic each party may have its prope tion of representation in the ego.” orge Francis Train would pronounce this very incoherent, but we wili chari bly be the muddled sentence to a slip of the pen caused by the offects of the rocent Boyd jamboree. [n plain English, it is proposed that the logisla- ture shull substitute for the present mode of choosing electors by the voters of the whole state, the choice of two olectors-at-large by « plurality of the voters of the state and one elector by plurality of the voters of each of the six congressional distr In other words, it is proposed to Michiganize Nebraska From such scheme republi v propor- electoral ascr ts, ans vory little to fear, Rightminded- peoplo | of all parties will justly regard it us a high-handed attempt to capture the clectoral vote of Nebraska for the demo- crucy by a gerrymander. That is much more undemocratic than unrepublican. It violates the Jeifersonian principie of state sovercignty and is in defiance of all democratic precedents that have rele- ited the appointment of electors to the states. I'rom the republican standpoint the Michigan idea of choosing electors would be correct in principie, because it brings the choice of presidents nearer to the people. But if we aroe to have election veform it musu be of universal and uni- form application. If all the states wevo required to choose their electors by con- eeessional districts we would get a fair expression of the popular will. This is not, however, the object of the democrats who introduced the electoral gorrymander in Michigan and want to introduce it in Nebraska. Why don’t they Michiganize Kentucky, Goorgia, is, Virginia, West Virginia or any state which they feel confident of e ing? if they honestly desite to repre- sent the different political parties in the clectoral college, why don't they Michi- ganize New York and give the peeple of the Ewmpire state a chance for minorvity representation? So far as Nebrasua is concerned the republicans will run | risk if the state is Michiganized and their eggs are not all in one bas They would have the same chance to carry the two clector at-large, and u fighting chance to carry five out of the six congressional dis tricts. They would, morcover, be in better position to command the earnest support of every man who has ever been a republican on & popular apveal to re- buke the political chicanery and un- scrupulous trickery by which the state s sought to be turned over toa party that mustered only 89 per cent of the popular vote of Nebras| for Grover Cleveland in 1888, ot. PREVARICATION AND PROHIBITION. The defense of prohibition is lurgely made up of prevarication. There has never been a contest for that cause of which this couid not be truthfully said. Wherever prohibition hins made its fight, from Maine to Nebraska, falsehood and misropresentation have constituted the greater part of its ammunition. This uniform experience is being repeated in the discussion now in progress in the Towa legislature, where the defenders of the policy which has been so calamitous to the material prosperity of that state maintain that it has been a success, in brazen disregard of the known facts that prove the contrary. One of the most notable utterances in thisline was the speech of Senator Maclk, made yesterday in opposition to the license bill before the senate, which ac- quires peculiar significance and impor- tance from the fact that he is the chair- man of the republican state central com- mitteo. One of the statoments of M was that in states where license laws are in force such laws are not effective and not as well enforced as prohibition. Iivery man at all familinr with the facts lcnows this to be untrue, and particularly 50 as regurds prohibition in Towa, where thousands of government licenses to sell liquor were issued last year. What state is it where the license law is not effective or enfovcod? tainly i3 not Massnchusets, prohibition was tried and failed, or Pennsylvannin, or Missouri, or Minne- sota, or Nebraska, The testimony of the authorities of all these states is in contradiction of the assertion of Senator Mack, and the effect of license in these states haus been distinetly in the interest of temperance. Another of the mislend- ing statements of Mr. Mack was that the material progress of Iowa had been greater than that of lllinois when the city of Chicago was excapted. In popu- lation the census of 1800 gives Illinois 8,826,851 aund Towa 1,911,806, Deduct the population of Chicago, 1,100,000, and Illinois still leads Iowa hy veral hundred thousand, and the increase in the population of the two states for the decade from 1880 to 1800 was respao- tively 748,480 and 287,281, Iqually un- warranted i the comparison of the pro- hibition chumpion with Minnesota and Missouri. The fact is that Towa hardly realized a natural growth in the ten yenrs ending with 1890, and if the state hus done better since it is because of a prospect that prohibition would soon be abandoned. But when we talk of ma- terial progress it is not to he meusured by increase of vopulation alone. In in- dustrial advancement Illinois in the lust ten years has far outstripped Iowa, and the same is true of the other states veferved to by Mr. Mack. It muy be granted that prohibition had not everything to do with the elec- tion of a democratic governor of lowa last year, but it was tho caief cause of that result, as it was in 1880. Twelve years ago the republican plurality in Towa was nearly 80,000, It was then the hanner republican state of the country, The republican vote of Towa has been declining ever since the adoption of prohibition, and after eight years of the trial of that policy, during no period of which it has be2en generally enforcod, lowa has u democratic governor tw elected. Will any candid and fair minded man pretend that prohibition has not been chiefly instrumental in It cer- where THE OMAHA ! bringing about this result the fact that the vepublican party ap- poars disposed to maintain this poliey is causing Towa to bo regarded as a doubt- ful state in the national election of this yoar. ANTHRACITE MONOPOLY. w Jorsoy ture to the arrangement by which railrond of that state re into the econtrol of the Reading company of Pennsyly Reference has heretofore been made to the combination of anthracite conl roads, y which the Reading management ured the control of two important svstems, with all thefr franchises and priviloges, and made an arrangement catisfactory to itself with another system identified with the anthracite monopoly. ‘The resolutions in the legislature of Now Jersey providing for an investiga- tion recite that it is bolieved the obiect of this combination is to increase trans- portation rates and advance the prics of conl and the legislature desires to know by what right a railvond, owing its ex- istence to, and subject to the authority of, the state enters into such an arrange- ment. It is manifestly a very proper inquiry, although it isto bo apprehended that the great monopoly will take care that it shall not amount to much. After the big railrond deal was con- summated the Roeading management gave out that it would ba move likely to result favorably to the consumers of conl than otherwise. The idea presonted was that there would be a general in- auguration of ‘economies which would reduce the expenses of the roads in tho combination several million dollars, and that in this saving the public would be permitted to share. it is rdly neces- ary 1o sny that this ides was not re- ceived with wuniversal ereduli great many people weranot ready to be- licve that the Reading management had been scheming for years to effect this important deal to the interests of that company from & magnanimous desiro to benefit the public, or move particularly the coal consumers, the transportation of conl and the manivulation of coul pro- duction heing the prineipnl husiness of the combination. Doubtless economies will put in practice, but it by no means follows that the price of coal will he lowered. or indecd that it will not bo advanced. The destruetion of competi- tion will give a better opportunity for limiting production, and this will fur- nish o suficient reason for advancing the price It is a question whether this combina- tion is not in conflict with the constitu- tion and luws of Pennsylvania, thore being very respectable opinion that it The language of the constitution of that state seems clearly 1o prohibit such a consolidation. The decisions of the courts regurding the hostility of com- binations of this character to public policy would also appear to apply. It may be found to be in conflict with the interstate commerce ack. At any rate the matteris not one of merely Jocul in- terest. It concerns a very lurge body of the people in every part of the country. Those who were on the inside of the a have doubtless already reaped a ‘b harvest. The development of pinns for the future, if the combination is al- lowed to stand, will be regarded with very general interest. NOT OVERWO! ) OR UNDERPAID, The talk about cutting down the sala- ries of the poor overworked clerks in the city offices is the veriest bosh. The salaries us revised by the council are still higrher than those paid for similar work in any bank or business hous The hours are easy and nobody need be overworked if the wen in charge will do their share of the work. If there is really any hasdship in working for the city, why are the mayorand city officiuls bosieged for the places? Itis an open secret that clevical salavies have been advanced from year to for the benefit of velatives of councilmen and their political favorites until the list had become burdensome. Two 2o Councilman Bect mado a report on these ¢ xeassive sularios and presented n revised list framed correspond with the pay of the expross compnny’s elerks under his own charge. But the inte watch dog of the treasary and the old combine tabled the re mendation because it interferea with the perquisites of taxeaters whom thoy has helped to foist upon the eity. Now that the reform council has made a very liberal vevision the organ of the taxeators seoks 1o create the impression that the poor clerks are overworked and underpaid. Members of the council are sneeringly asked in one breath why they don't reduce their own salar and ot the same time the acrobatic fraud ad- mits that he would raise the sularies of councilmen if he had his own way in ordor to make them move honest. Up 10 tho time ho lost the official printing he bad not heard of such o thing as a dishonest councilman. He had not heard of it even when they had voted to let him filch over $2,800 out of tho city treasury to which he was not entitled. THE Tho N to investi the Centrs contly legisly Proposes nl passad be is. vour years i 10 om- THE MAN IN THE GLAS Our half-baked democratic contem- porary still keeps on harping about the rental the city pays for the treasurer’s and comptroller’s offices n T Beg building. He also studiously refrains from calling attention to the rental the city pays Lo the foreign corporation that does nothing for Omaha éxcept to col lect rents. He kuows nothing ibout the other buildings in which ofticials of the government are quartered, and caps the climax of impertinence and down- | vight meanness Ly calling upon tho ss- sessor to raise the valuation of Tuk BEE building to correspond with its rental income. Suppose the rental was five times as much as it is, wherein would that justify a raise of assessment? Tho New York Life building and grounds are carvied on the compauy's books at 1 $1,180,000, but it is assessed only $20,000 | more than THE Beg bulldinl, Why does not the malicious mountebank call the attention of the assessors to this gluring discrepancy? But this would aot serve | his purpose. | By the way, HOUS how will Tne be ssessment compare with Hiteh cock’s uddition, which is assessed at $15,520 and has baen put into the Hitch- cock [nvestmont company’s nssets at a vuluation of $180,000 after more thun buiid- DAITLY WEDN Mareover, | 830,000 worth- of lots had been slicod Is the Hitcheock In v Poter Fank cons and ewappolt oft? vestment ofyfipany o corn? 1 How did it wome that the block in the postoffice squffre for which the govorn ment paid omegds. M. Hitcheock #77,000, cash down, W& assessed at only 000 for the year 1% which it wos sold? Thk BrE has nover attempted to meddie with Mr. Hitcheock’'s private but it may be mecessary to cure him of the grip from which he is chronic sufferer on of the of offices for public use in THe Ber build ing. P ~-When Mr. Hitchcock has mus- tored enterprise enough to build that great hotet toward which ThHe Brg Building company subscribed $5,000 as a bonus, or when he duplicates THE BEE building, he will be in very much botter position to command public respect and attention. [y agcount centals THE SIDE TRACK ORDINANCE. Whether the Union Pacific railway roduces its switching charges or whether sists In exacting these oxtortionate rates, the ordinance repealing the grant of right-of-way for side tracks should be passed by the council. After this privi lege hus been withdrawn from the ra roads the council will be in position to impose such conditions upon parties and railronds who desive switching privi- leges ns may bo deemed fair to all con- cerned and will afford ample protection a extortion, In any event the switching charges should be reguiated by ordinance. That the council hasthe right to with- draw the sidetrack priviloges granted to railrond compunies is heyond a doubt The railronds have no vested rights in our strects. ‘The mayor and have the right to open, widen, extend or ¢ wny street. closed Ninth street 1 other streets for the benefit of the Union Pacific rond and they certainly ought to have the right to repeal the side track right-of- way in any str may in their judg- ment be conducive to the public interest inst council and sev et 4 THe establishment of a postal tel graph system is being seriously consid. ered by the Canadian government, ana tegislation for this purpose will prob- ably be asked of the House of Commons at its coming session. The tendent of government tolegraphs esti mates that ut a greatly reduced cost for service the system can be made to yield a generous revenue. If this can be sured of Cannda—and the official malkes the estimates bisos them on the knowledge acqhived after 40 years’ ex- perience in practical telegraphy—there is still greator cartainty that the postal telegraph would be profitable in the United Stategs, It is not as a source of revenue, howayor, that the system is advocated ia. this country, but as a meaus of bonefiting the public by ex- tending and facilitating communication and improvityg, the servic superin- as- who THE committce appointad to investi- gate tho expendituro of the appropria- tion wide by congress for the World's fair ought to procoed with the work sigued it with the least possible delay. Theve is no time to be lost in connection with any matters velating o the fair. and if there isany disposition in con ess 10 do anything more for the enter- se it should mamfest it atan early day. Butlittle more than a year re- mains in which to gou this immense un- devtaking rendy for the world’s inspec- tion, and it will take extraordinary hustling, even for Chicago, to accom- plish it Wi MusT have a fir s stone and iron viaduet on Sixteenth street, and the sooner the work is begun the better it will suit the vast number of people compelied to travel on that thorough- fare. pri David Saws Wood, Globe-Democrat. Hill’s enemies 1 New York ara doing the talking and he is getting the delegate nkey n by ¥ Advertiser dem,). The snapping and snarling in the demo- cratic bousehold woes on vigorously. The snap convention will be held on the 224 inst. m rl conveution was beld in Cooper union last evening. Heve 13 a Prophet. Springficld (Mass. Republicn Wao believe that over veland will be the candidate of the democratic party for the presidency. All tho signs o to show that the strong men of that party aro not going to surrender the ship at the outset of the new voyage. - ollupsed Booms, St. Paul Globe. Blaine says he will not permit his uame to be used in Minneapolis. Thurston of Ne- braska says he will not then take the second place, So far these ave the only two repub- lican statesmen in the land who have de clined to go on the ticket. L i her Baronia Washington Star The present coal combination proposes to avoid expensiveselling ageucies aud beay commissions $b ‘that while coal may be no “more expensive to consumers the producers and carriers cawgrat betler profits. It seems « great pity thatthe consumer caunot bo let into the deal sumewhere, o — Resentjjg Grover's Tribute, \New Yorl Sun “The stuffed ppepbel’s application of his own pharisaicate platitudes 1o the eulogy of Swmuel J. Tildéh' rominds one of the tailless fox tryiug toigpress bis raco with tho beliof that ho was tha gypeof fashion. linmenso as is the difference botween an intellec that of the greabaemoocratic statesman and the duli and pretentious mind which enablos CGivover Clovelapg: to keep up his monotonous parade of morgd dlevotion, it appears in the sveland letlento the Gireystone Club of Denver. Al Philadelphia Recora, Flectric beaters are to bo put in tho elec tric cars in Omaba. ‘The York Street Rail- way compeny is to acandor horses and try the electric motor. The electric cars in oper atiou in Ottuwa (Canada), aud KRochester (N, Y.). have ruu steadily despite of heavy snows this winter. In nearly every state in the uniou tho people are avaiiing themselves of the wonder.ul advaace in the application of electrical force'in munisteriug to the com- fort ana convenieace of mavkind. *'1 Lave reached that point,” writes an clectrical er gineer, “where I bolievo slmost anything of electricity. luventors ave doing things today that @ fow years ago were hooted ai and con- sidered impossibilities. It takes uearly all wy time 1o keep track of new tuings.” DAY, F | | | | (BRUARY 17 )2 THAT OIL CIRCULAR. Andrews Does Not ifed Ky SECnETANY's OF etary Ive it Unqual- arsement, Srate Boann or Heartn, Dres Moises, Ta, Feb, 15.-To the Kditor of Tur Bee: The enclosed circular | lotter has been sent to me, presumably oy the | person to whom it was originally sent, The inforence 1s that the sender dosires to know whethier or uot 1 endorsait. 1 had no prov ious knowlelge ular. Portions o it 1 endorse 1 do not Hero it fs JLONSOLINATED TANK LINE COMPANY, OMAIA, Feb, & ~To Somie facts n rocard W pe trofenm oils which wo think would be to your nlerest 1o rend carefully A shiori thne ago there’ wera a numbor of | \FICi pet taining Lo petratoun ofls bublished in our dully papers, which wers very nisiond i 10 thoso nat acquninted with the niture of carbon o1, and would natura Iy load them 1o holieve that (ho hizher the firo Test the hettel theoll. This Is cortainly a mistake. When ofls huve u suftisiently hizh fire test to mako them safe to hurn in an ordinary lamp. all that 18 added above that point detracts or diminishes the 1jght-giving propoerties. Tlhie daw of Nehraska requires that all potrolenm ofls shall stand 1002 flash test in the Foster cup, wnd specifies that the Foster cup shall Lo in making all inspections or tosts, The \bout 252 Fihirenheit dif- forcuce hetwoeen the flash and fire test in said Foster cing the hive a fire test vaniethe L o Falirenheit, w of such & ci the remainde toleun olls exported only sylvania tost of 1.0=. 1t tho L in Pennsy vania, and thos | ro tested or fnspectod with the | they wouid flash nt nbout 83= Fahrenhelt, Wo certalnly burn olt for the Heht it givess therefore, we want the fire tost just as low as possible and yot have the ofl absolutely § £ Siuce the publication of the nrticles referred 10, Ay Of Our cusioners are now ordering Hoadlight ofl, Some muy think this more safe. as it las a fire tost of about 1532, Thoorotically this iy true: but the higher the fire test the denser and heavior the otl, Heavy oll congeals more or less in cold wonther, Wil not tise freely, h thicre s nperfect combustion and poor 1 Our Porfoction an i nlso Water White ofis, in fact ny of the hizner grade oils, only have @ fush = to il ving w fite tost of from L makl s perfectiy safo. o have endeavored to wets and nothing more, and 1y doubls about whit wo @ correspond with the state ncoln, Nob., or with Mr L stute Bourd [ 1 giv sho i oll mspectorat 1 1 Androws, assistant secrotary, of Health, Des Molnes, I We e <0 you with this some hints ward to keepin 2 inmps in proper. shape, please curefully read and obl ¥ spectfully CONSOLIDATED TANK LINE CO. ‘The second paragraph, stating that “whon oils havo u sufliciently high firo test to make them safo to burn in unorainary lump, all that is waded above thal point, detracts or diminishes tho light-giving properties,” is true. Bui tho firo test necessary to make thein safeto burn in nu ordinary lamp is an impor- tant question. e danger is not in the point at whict the oil will iguite and burn when a liguted maten is applied to it—the firetest. IUis in the naphtha vapor thrown off, or gen- orated from the oil as it becomes heated, which is highly inflammable, and u dangerous explosive, No_ one need bo toln the explosive uaturo of gasoline, sobreause of the excess of naph- tha it contains. It 1s the presence of nuphtha in kerosene, thierefore, that renders it dan- gerous. To have nsafe fire test it must be 50 hizh thut the oil will not. generate a naph- thu vapor in lamps as ordinarily used-—that is, tamps kept ciean and in good conaition, Repeated experiments have demonsirated that the five tost, so called, is not reliable determining this sufety poiat. ~ An oil by the process of refining may have considerable density and a comn’ tively high burning point or fire test, and yet by neating the more volatilo naptiha bo thrown off at a compavatively low temperature. It is this naphtha vapor which is to be guarded avainst; for if it becowe iznited in a lamp an explosion follows, tho lamp is destroyed and the oil is scattered i a thin surfaco, the more readily to ignite, even though it have a com- paratively high five test, The fire test is bemng discarded in all states and countries and 1s notrecognized as having any certam and definite relation to the safety or actnal quality of the oil. Tho third paragraph soys that tested with the Foster cup “all o1l sold in Nebraska has a fire test of al least 1252, This is not truo, for the reason that the open Foster cap is not rehiablo and can be easily manipulated so as to give un oil 12 1o 10> higher flashing point thun it actanlly possesses. It is easily af- focted by wind or air _carrents, which will carry uway the naphiious vapor as fast as it rises from the surfaco of the oil. 1 deem it well nigh impossible with that cup to get 1ike resulis trom tho same oil in differont lo in re- which rs v | point. canties, and more especinlly with the use of thermotneters that have not been corrected for errors. No two thermometers are alike. Their ervors may be from 12 to 102, What rehance conld bo placed in a test of oil made in such a cup by one inspector with a ther- mometer 1= in error and that made by an other wspector of the same oil with u ther mometer 1w crror 102 and in a railrond freight car on the prairio with a wind blow- ing forty miles an hour. “The circular furthersays: ‘“In Pennsyl- vania a firo test of only 1102 is required, and all oil exported must ouly stand the test of 1102 which if tested in tho Foster cup would flash ats3=." Tla: is true, bu the test is mode with an electric spurk in the Siybolt cup, and_for oxport the oil must have aspecitic gravity not below 45> Beaume, and weigh six and one-alf pounds 1o e gal: lon, which is a_difference with a_distinction that would lorgely incroase the flasning An oil that will flash at 55> in any cup 15 not safe, In summer, without boing lighted, it would filla lamp balt filled with oil with naphtha vapor, whieh, if accident ally ignited in lighting tho lamp, would ex ploce ouicker than gunpowder. | adunt such an ol will give a petter light, and burn more freely than an oil with a flashing point of 1202, but safety aud not illnmination is the objective point, lowa has fixed the flash point at 105= aftor thorough investigaticn by experiaient and observation as the lowes! poiut that is saf + for ordinary use, auna this will securo good {ilumination, like ! i with proper cave of lamps, but no oil is safe with negligent and caveless use. Ol with a flash test of 1262 to 130=, or a fire test of 1502 10 175= will not burn freely in flat wicl buroers, especially in cold weather. Such oil requires special burners, as the Duplex, Argand or tho Student lamp, where the ol reservolr is above the burnor and ls fed to the flame by gravity. A closed cup is used in Jowa for testing, as being the nearest in accordance with the lamp as ordinarily used. It aiso has the ad- vautago that it cannot be manipulated, nnd cau bg used in_uny vlace, regardless of wind or weather, which is not true of the l"ns}k'l' cup. nor the Saybolt cup. 1 would recommend the use of ofl with a flash test of 105> to 1102, a Sun burner or its equivalent, an American or Fietcher wick aud a lead glass chimuey to secure the most satisfactory resul L. F. ANDREWS, Assistant Secretary LU NEW VORK ROAR. Kansas City Star (ind, dem ): Better an other Jfour years of high taxes, protected monopolies, ‘pension frauds, Iganisw and othor ilis that we sow bear than tue tule of | Hillism, ow York Advertiser (dem.): Auyhow, the situation is interesting, and will becoms more 50 as the midwinter convention speaks and June rolls round with her roses. Repub- licans 100k into the future and smile New York World (dem.): Tie reqaest of | this meeting is reasovuble. It represonts the | wish of the great inass ot ralic voters in this stato aud in the 1t 18 the only way 1n which harmony caa be restored 1o the party in this state. New York Times (ind. dem.): The meet- fng was the v ana energetic oxpression of tho uerermination of the right minded domo- crats of New York to save their part: crushing the candidoey of Mr. Hill. questionably that it bas dono. Now York Sun (dem.): The democratic arty is 100 big Lo he haid in leading strives v a few dozeus of mugwumps. It is too seusible to repeat mistakes or invite dis astor. It is #oIng to try to win, and whether 1t wins or loses 1t will suffer no move trom | fatty degeneration of its principles. St Louis Republio (Jew.): The present momt o New York means that the Hill bossism will not be tolorated. If the same gang which knifed the democratic ticket in 188415 to attempt it again, the attempt must be wade openly. ‘They cannot both boss and Detray the democratic party after the record they have wade. SHE IMITATED MISS M'GINN Koever of a Fashionable Ohicago Boarding Honse Tarne up Missing, MOURNED BY MANY OF HER CREDITORS | News About the of the Thug Many Tnteresting Tems of World's Fate (o WhoSandig —Odas \fession ed Attorney Walker Tie Ber, | Feb. 16§ oo recently Cuicaao Bras av or Creaco, I, men who overcontidence, will doubt- culiar interest in n so0 which has just develooed 10 that interesting section of this city where boarding houses most do congregate, and known to fame as tho West Sido. o the last fow yoars Mrs. Cyrus A Cook has conducted a haven of this descrip. tion at 236, 238 and 240 LaSallo avenuo, and as the place was well located, being within | the shadow of Mr. Moody's church und in the same block with the residences of somo very exceptionnl peoplo, including a promn nent judgo ard a titlea ovangelist, she uad no difficulty in filling the large establishment with a good class of boarders. Last Saturday she left home, saying sho was going to the south sido to visita cousin. As she has not not vet returued the boardors have mado public the fact that Mrs, Cook has borrowod money from them in sums ranging from £10 to §200, which is still due avd unpaid. The gentleman who supplied the establishmont with milk is @ mourner to the oxteut of £, the butcher looked as fiorce as & meat ax when ho caliod with a bill for £00 today, and the groceryman is out K00, Mrs. Cook Wroto al Sunday school books before woing into the boardin house business, World's Collector of the PPort C communication to the sec ury requestiug an Omaha young mado victims of loss feel a r Matters, ark has addressed n otary of ihe trens opinion as to how far ho might go 1 considering what are exhibits tor the fare. Tho question camo up over au antiquated chair consiened to Walker Fern, chicf of the foreign department, which was recuived at the custom liouse from Austri It was intonded for the Columbian cxposition, but there was nothing in theinvoico to indi- cato that it was for the fa “Tho joint committee on ceremon:os, aided by & number of Columbian Ward MeAllis ters is endeavoring to formulate a new code of social etiquette to bo introduced at the in auguration nextOctober. ‘e director goncral Las received a cable dispateh from United States Consul Goneral Goldschmidt at Vieuna announcing that the emperor of Austria has just appowted a dis- tinguished commiission to reprosent and pro- mote the interests and exhibit of Austria at the World's iair. The Latin-Aworican department World’s Columbian_exposition_has received a letter from the presidentof Bolivia, written with his own hand, in which he expgosses tho greatest 1nterest in the fair and gives as- sarance that his country will bo well repro- seuted. "The first communication from the oftice of the commission of Costa Lica, located at Sar Jose, has beou received by the Latin-Ameri cac depurtment, stating that the work has been entered upon with enthusiasim of pro pariug a splendid exhibit for that republic, ds and Ends. The Belfast Rope Work company (limited) of Belfast, irelund, the largest cordago manu factory within the three kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland, is seeking to estabiish a branch of 1ts enormous factory in or near Chicago. One hundred thousand pounds are ready for investment in a plant with the necessary machinery, awaiting the report of three experts who are now in America look- ing over the territory. James Briscoe, the negro arrested in Do- troit for sandbagging Atioruey Walker, ha confessed his guilt. He not only admits that he and Butier assaulted Mr. Walker, but says they have comrnitted a series of burg- laries and robberies during the last two or three morth The local Grand Army posts will erect a | statue to Admiral Farragut. It will prob. ably be placed in Lincoln pari. J. A, Galtagoer. treasurer of tho and Lubor assembly, i1s authority for the statoment that ‘“‘unléss relief comes, and comes quickly, for the prasent conditions in the industrial world, there will be i reign of terror in Chicago bofore the winter is over Cemptroller May ostimates that 320,000,000 will be noeded (0 meet municipal expensos durine the coming yoar. ‘I'he Leland hotel was sold today to a syn te for 1,025,000, Tho latest ucquisition of the Chicago aniversity is Prof. Ricoard (. Moulton of ~Cambridge university. He is 1o bo professor of English literatur Mayor Washburno has submitted a message to tho council calling attention to the fact that there were 400 people killed at grade crossings last year. Farmer Wiiliam J. Harsh of Tiskilwa, Burenu county. Ill, whose mysterious dis- appearance in this city (ebruary 14, 1501, was the talk of the wholp western colnt occupied a cell at the Harrison police station for a fow He ~ baa been arvested upon s arvival here from Boston on a warrant sworn out by his wife. Harsh was found at of the Trade di Grace hotel veistored joston, " | Tineton of 13 Docatur strect, Bos | is said she prosides over a ' furnished room w he MO Nrew ith palth as “William ho on by detectives, whore te had Harsh ana ‘wife' is Mrs. Anna J. Dar wife, n, and it I'he guilty couple wore arraignod in sourt this morning. RE 71 CAsTH ha office YeRes ey Disense r, Pa,, Feb, 1¢ ve boen trac Two very of th siok, rs ER e, A / VICTINS, | One of Them Tolls the Story of How the Nineof the pas ed in o but 1 | senwors of the typhus fover infocted stoamer | Massilia | conaty and groat atarm | tions spread Wi to be they corralled by their count almost imuossible to loarn their condition what diseaso they are sufforing. Aawrenc is feit lest the fufeo immigrants s0 closoly are ymen that it is are or The have boou notitied and are scouring the country for the patients, Ono of tho company, Mary Rosaua, sister of Frod Rosana, a Lawrence ocounty, weoll koown v seon Through an interproter she said: | w d un O ho “Ihore wore on 100 Malinus and 200 Swedos, Huns and ( ere only out a fow days when a Russian or Pole male passen down with the disoase. that it was ans. 1 1 the Hwh, ntil ne izod ave b They Still theso after with en i board L [ day cight wo did not t pplo also another the the affection fty casos, Tt wi 0 R my hink it da Italian importer of last night sian Jows, v or was taken The immicrants were ome harmless malady Passengers in our quarter passod him many times 5pots hroke out the Russlan was removed aucthor part of the ship, but th 100 (ute, Aud one anc by About thoe time the to removal was wero taker ™\ augerous weoro taken away. immigrants until wer there mus! s only after the diseaso becamo epidemic that wo were told to stay away from the sick peo know whethor auy of tho patients died, but s0me of thoso wio shippad with us were lost si went to Pittsburg, aud 1 road al ght ong of, the Pittsburg. Health Oficor fied nono of infection, but a close watch is being kept,and i tho disease sventoen Itali between atche the immigra; breaks ans and Now snid he was o have the uts b 1 Yo 1 do not tussinns any got off the train ork and satis out every precaution will be taken to prevent its soroading, Prrrsnrre, One Case in VI' tishurg, Peb, 16, Tho health de. partment was notified this morning of a case of typhus Ttalian b Massiiia immigrants. b BV rin a build rs. The v ding occupied ctim was - one Tho house has been by of thu auarantined and immediate stops will bo taken to stamp out the disease, PARAGRAPHI 8 ftings: 1 ness, tel 1) P CPYR n spito of the h great deal of dispat . Putarich i will non a mu would u beggar. “1wanted to and iy wite, SWihie “I'i stand 1 it Kute Fie p 1 dic m in n on her. 07 HNICS, vroverbinl slow- Ie's bace stry nessengers go ubout with a cerely mourndd wot in?" it the ice would bear me How the deuce could wd above water to yell for help 1's Washington Talf vetter than a railroad sandwich. Philadelphin Era: Fir how are you this nornin: Second Dr First Druj s of that liquid glue, which you elaim will y U 20 Tri regurd m And Geors 1 1 rper's Youn chestnut to the robi T ist st Broke, Then wh hing? bgne: nswered s understood. 1E PRESIDE Philadelphi st hy don’ atie,” lie s. pave adowed myseif t hop softly, a Druggist 1 1 vou loat is Well tmldly, it yoi u friend ¥ ou-you Ite came noarer. AL 1 Pross., v Now doth the presidential bee Buzz round the candida And | The favorite of his alittle bird," s STl \ Elmira Guzette: - iild bington St fohn said he would love me And does b Yo building it wever looks shamton Leader 018 Bard 1o pieas rimonial hitehed up with w man who s steapped. tor. ly ess, but d A w at me stute vory side we soo suld th M you?r ut he murried mo o we i when ever to Tam erybody knows i solikes the mat- oesn't estorn like to Jude says At o wonderful Think whit it has done 1o sin Yonkers ( wry fuce. Boston Cour ot 1 W the | anew ligl te: nan : 2 but the principal role. e It m 2001 Spirits to seo an ol he st hav Bou ood stunding wil the same. w's Horn without knowing it K eyele, [ B The Long and at it Chicago Herald (dem.): The mugwuwmps are both forgetful and short-sighted. The Qoctrine of i tanfl for revenue only was a cardinal privcipie of democracy bzfore Clevo- land was dreamwed of for the presidency. It will rewsin au imperishable articie of the true democratic faith losg aftor Me. Cleve- lapd aud the WURWUmPS have passed Bway. Oven Saturduys il 10 p. Other evenings W63, Short of It--- We've got too many ROWNING, K| & COo. Se W Corner 15t and Douglas Sts, NG v him ou want to mak Blectricity is n gre The zood uct usually tak Alayman may be « person » i hoy safuly uits left yet, and inducement Monday:. The week if prices are an inducement. overcoats are not numerous, but the prices We can save you money. as we've only got about ten days in which to dispose of them, before spring goods arrive, we place them before you prices, style: and sizes are many and the colors are popular. They will go fast next The are such that it yvou can wear one you buy Browning,King & Co 1,S. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas ts.