Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 20, 1892, Page 4

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The Beo Publishing Company, Proprictor CIR 58, EWORN STATEMENT OF ttate of Nobraskn County of Douglas. | 7schuck, secrotary of The company, does solennly sw tunl o dation of Tre DALY Bee the week ending February I 1502, was as follows Eund Mon, Tueada Wodnesday, Feb 10, Thursday, Feb. 11 Tday, Feb. 1 Euturday, Fel ATION, BER Avernge Sworn to vefore e and subscribed presence this 15t day of ebruary. A. SFAL N P FEn Notary Publie. Average Cirentation for y ungracious thing to fight hides behind o petticoat, nuary an who JO REDMAN'S bray reminds the reader of Adsop’s fable about the ass in the lion’s skin. Thr owners of cheap lands for parks ghould not be so backward about coming forward with their proposals. SENATOR PALMER'S maiden senator- ial speech was delivered late in life, but candor forces the observation that the effort is creditable ‘'ius far all efforts of the democrats in the house to entrap the Treasury de- partment have dismally and utterly led. Uncle Sam’s strong box isin safe hunds. Tir Nebeaska senators need not go far to find offico-holders in Washington charged to Nebraska who have never lived in the state. Tu fact they need not leave the eapitol committeo rooms. PARKER DEACON will never be con- victed of murder. Evena French jury will acquit a man for avenging himself upon the being who, pretending friend- ship, dishonors his fireside aud corrupts his wife. GoverNor Hoat of vened the legislature of his state in extra session. It was suspected from his name that he would not know when had enough. Texas has con- he PERIAPS if the Board of Health rises in its strength against the milic peddlors the cream will riso in the milk pans of the houscholds. All that cream needs in winter is a little sincere encournge ment to perform its proper duty. OKLANOMA s sandwiched between Texas and Kansas and s frightfully closo to Missouri and Avkansas, but when she comes into the union she will take her place with Nobraska, Kansus and Colorado in the republican column. 1s FILIBUSTERING against the Bland bili may afford amusement to the repub- licans, especially Mr. RReed, but it is good politics to permit its passage on the principle that if a calf is given enough rope it is almost certain to hang itself. RoOGER Q. MiLLS is erratic in many particulars upon public matters, but he is no coward. Whatever may be his convictions he has the courage to pro- claim them and the moanhood to fight for them. In this particular he is o very conspicuous democrat in the Pifty-second congress, BALFOUR'S bill for Trish loeal govern- mont is a sham and . subterf: He has made another mistake for which the people will hold the Salisbury govern- ment responsible at the polls. If Glad- stoae lives, the Balfour bill will be the means of elevating him and his party into powe PoLKk and Hayes are the two conspic- uous instances where presidents have not been ambitious for a second term. Grover Cleveland accepted the nomina- . uen in a letter which roundiy denounced the iden of a second term, but he re- covered his ambition and it stays with him to this day. Tie tafic manager of the Union Pacific informs the State Board of Transportation that the patrons of that line now enjoy the privileges of a milling- in-transit rate. This being the case it should be all the easier to bring the other lines to the adoption of a stmilur concession. —_— CONGRESSMAN Hanr told Con- gressman Richard Bland a stiff but un- palatable truth when he informed the father of the free coinage bill that its passage by a democratic house would r elect Benjumin Harrison president. As the democratic house is morally certain to pass the silver bill it is safe to make | wagers on Harrison’s re-election. — A PROFESSIONAL liar ought to have a good memory. It may be true that the managing editor of the World- Herald has not written all the slanderous,scurril- ous and scandalous personal flings that have pariodically permeated the editor- ial columns of that theet since he was an unsuccessful applicant for a position on the staff of Tk Bee. It is, how- ever, passing strange that by all odds | tho meancst and most scurrilous per- sonal attack that has emanated from that source appeared in the editorial columns of the W.-1L while the provrie- tor of that paper was in Europe and the potticout management had absolute control of the editorial columus, | Merricks county, com pris THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: $ATURDAY. FEBRUARY 2), 1892, B e E———— ] TIME \LL A HALT. Republicans of Nebrask: eve of a momentous campaign first timo her electoral cnst for Ulysses 8, Grant and Colfax Nebr is classe! debntable states tlon year. years a gave Benjamin Havrison 23, T0 ¢ on the For the was Schuyler the presidential elece ) Nebras piural Nt ka is represented in the lower house by I'he A this vear since vote iskn among ina Four Grover Cleveland sy of congross delegation of Nebrask involves the supremacy of the party in airs, hut its return to power and re- tention of supremacy in the state. While the republicans of othor states endeavoring to harmonize factional i anti-republican outcome national ar differences and keep down personal con- tention, Nebraska republicans, in the © of the most imminent peril to their cuuse, are constantly fanning the em- bers of sectional discora and sowing tho ds of fuctional dissension. Formonths a coterie of political ghost dancers who have designediy worked themselves into a frenzy over the so-called betrayal of Richards in 1890, have sought to incite hostility to Omnha by revamping the exploded stories of conspiracy and trea- son allozed to have heen hatehod by Omaha republicans by and with the suntion and co-operation of Tni Bek The following sample brick of th crusade ngainst Omtha is veproduced from the Wisner Chronicla, a paper ¢ trolled by a member of the state centeul committee and who is said to be a can- didate for a congressional nomination this year: The perfidy of Omaha in defeating Rich ards is neithor forgotten or forgiven, If the next candidate comes from Omaba he may make up his mind that he will et a good rubbing down as lonw as the stock and sand in the great American desert holds out, and there are lots and blocks and whole un- platted townships of it on hand and in the gizzards of tho yeomen of Nebraska who be- liove in prinviple. Such incendiary talk has been indus- triously and widely circulatod in the in- torest of a candidate for who 5 1o arouse intense pro Omuhaas the most eff with which to blust the chances of a 1 whose only offense is that he is a citizen of Omnha. govornor Another equally pernicious crusade is now in progress among republicans of the central and western part of the state against enstern Nebraskn, The cry of these sectional agitators is that eastorn Nebraska has had more than her share of politicai power and patronage, and incidentaily Omaha and Douglas county are made the target for the wvolitical pieadors, who consider it «w patriotic duty of the state to defame its metrono- lis. But the most vicious, as well as the most reckless and unprineiplod warfure against Omaha is being waged by the republican press of the state capital. Por these flesh-pot patriots Omaha the hotbed of all political chicaner nd treachery and the focus of all jobbery and corruption, while Lincoln has al- ways been loyal, honest and entirely un- selfish in the appropriation and dis- bursement of state funds. We propose now and for all put an end to the sniveling of the ghost dancers. proof shirts of the Indian ghost dancers the huo and ery about tne pertidy of Omaha indefeating Richards is a de- lusion conceived in tho beain of impos- ters. They bave afforded amwmunition for editorial juckass battervies, who, if they are not spiked promotly, will leave the party in this state without a vestige of hope. Let us now see who is to blame for the defont of Richards and where the traitors were thickest in that memora- ble fight. Draw a line north and south across the map of Nebraska on the west- ern bound: of Merrick and eastern boundary of Hall counties and we find that the forty-one counties east of that line gave Thayer in 1858 67,040 votes and Richards in 1890 47,180 votes. The forty-nine counties west of Merr! gave Thayer 56,943 votes and Ri 21,608 votes. In other words Richards’ loss, as compared with the vote polled for Thayer, was 20 per cent in castern Ne- braska and 41 per cent in western Ne- brasku. Douglns county gave Thayer )8; Richards, 6,450; Richards’ loss, 25 per cent. In Merrick county Richards’ loss was 44 per cent; in Saunders county 18 voer cent; in Seward county 30 per t; in Nemaha county, the home of the licutenant governor, 27 per cent; in Lancuster county 133 per cent; Madison county 41 per cent, and in Hamilton county 45 per cent, Now why do we not hear anything about the perfidy of Nemaha county, where Richards had a smaller porcent- age of votes, as compared with Thayer, than he had in Douglas county? Why do we not hear anything about the per fidy of Hamilton, Madison and Merrick counties, where the decline of Richard, percentage of votes stood from 40 to 45 per cent, as against 25 per cent in Douglas county? Why did Lancaster county only give Richards 4,738 while she gave Thayer 5,440 votes two years before? And why charge Douglas county with treachery and perfidy when forty-nine counties west of Merrvick, which gave Thayer 36,943 votes, went hu on Richards and only cave him 21,608 votes? The howling ghost dancers will say the decline in Western Nebraska was cavsed by the defection of the Parmers allisuce. With the same propriety we have a right to aseribe the defection in Douglas county to the intense feeling on prohbition. The most striking proof of the loyalty of Douglas county is the fact thut she gave Richards 6,456 votes, or 2,014 more votes than he r ceived in Lancastor county. As to the sectional crusade between the east and the west the less said the better for those who are trying Lo make capital out of it. The region west of g forty-nine counties, covers more than two-thirds of the area of the state, These forty-nine counties gave Marple, republican candi- date for regent in 1801, just 20,221 votes, while the eastern third of the state gave Marple 49,288 votes. In other words the eastern third of the state east two time to nypocrisy Like the bullet- hards votes, | and a half times as many voles at tho last election for the republicen candi- date as the weslern ®uunties, compris- ing two-thirds of the state. Douglas county aloue gave Murplo 2,500 more of the battie | | votes than counties wer wost Boyd, given him by fourteen of Merrick, including Buffalo, Franklin, Gare Hall, Holt, Howard, rman, Valiey, Webste er counties, Adams, field, Kearney. and Whe tut why should this perpetual uproar e mad Why have fanatical ghost dancers said nothing that defeated and Huarlan? 1s it not about time to stov this ery about Omaha being only for Omaha in the of the fact that Byran of Lincoln carried Dot | county over Connell” 1s it not time for | the ghost dancers and howling dervishes te stop their insane ravings and let the about Richards? yut the perfidy Connell, Dowrsc face republican party preparoe for the coming struggle that will require harmonious and united action? THE AR ADMINISTRATION, The administration of Presidont vison has not escaped criticism, Parti- sun opposition has found some opportu- nity for fault-finding. There ave repub- lican few of thom of some prominence in the . who do not feel kind toward the president. But the adminis- tration stands hefore the country as one of the cleanest, most practical and most patriotic in the history of the republic. President Huarvison started in with the determination that during his term of ofice the busitess of the government attention, ISON pary should receive strict department chief, but all parsons in the sorvico of the govern- ment, were imbued with this principlo, of which tho president himseif fur- nished tho example. The vesult is thut the public work has been done with vi- usual expedition and without any feiction in any of the departn In some branches groat progress has heen made in disposing of business that had acenmuinted, and altogether the public v eve Is. servico is unquestionably in better con dition at this time than at any previous period in a quarter of a century, With faithfuloess was associated tho require ment of honesty, - Men appornted in the pubiic service were wiven to understand that influence would shield them from the penalty for wrong-doing. The salutary effect is soen in the exception ally elean record of the administration in vespect of criminal acts by public of- ficinls, Thus as a strictly practieal adminis- tration, performing promptiy and efli- ciently the work of the governmont, it has @ most substantial elaim to the re spect of the country. But its strength and distinetion do not rest upon this alone or chiefly. It is an eminently patriotic and thoroughly American ministeation, which hasadded a chapter to the history of our intornational rela- tions of which ery citizen should be proud. The country stands higher in the esteem of the world for what it has done. In the field of practical states- manship it is not too strong a statoment to make that no other administration accomplished more for the material in- terests of the nation. Reciprovity triumph of true esmanship which will make the administration of Presi- dent Harrison memorable for all time. The important help that has been given by the president to the cause of honest money must not be lost sight of in esti- mating the elaims of the administration to the respect and conlidence of the people. President Havrison has been growing steadily in popuinr regard, hecnuse can- did and fair-minded men admit that he has justilied every promise made in his behalf and the faith reposed in him by the people. Whether the represen- tatives of the vepublican party in na- tional convention shall deem it expedient to again make him the candidate or choose another standard bearver, the ad- ministration of President Harrison must always hold a distinguished place in the history of the country as one of notuble achievement in protecting and promot- ing American interes CUMULATIVE MALICE, 1L took Mayor Bemis a full wesk this month to decide aboat sisning the regular mouthly appropriations, but within a few days after ho entered upon bis dutics as mayor last month, he reaclied a vory sudden conclusion that the $37,000 water works bill of his friend Dumont should be paid. = * + % Eyonts have fully justified Mavor Cushing's course in withhoiding bis signa. ture from the water works uppropriation, and the same ovents have just us forcibly shown that whatever tho water worls com- piny wants of this admiuistration it ean get. —World He, ali. On the principle that a lie well stuck to is a5 good as the trath this may serve the purpose for which it was intended. If Osthofl had been elected mayor there would have been no such a hullabalioo about the waier works bill. What are the fac On the 7th of January, the very day on which he be came mayor, Mr. Bemis found the De- cembor appropriation ordinance un- signed and unvetoed on” the wayor’s desk. The ordinance contained over 500 sepurate items, and nmong these the amount allowed by the couacil to the water company for hydrant vental from July 1, 1891, to January 1, 1892 Cushing had purposely shivked the responsibility which the law imposed upon him. If Mr, Cushing sincerely believed that the hydrant vental item was exeessivo or that the city’s intevests .would be jeopardized by its payment, why did he not veto it? Wiy did he shift the responsibility of paying a bill incurred under his own administeation upon the shoulders of Bemis? Hud Bemis been a political thimble- | riggor or a moral coward he might also | have shirked the responsibility and left the ordinance just where Cushing left it. That would have had the same ef- fect as if iv had been signed by Cushing. But Bemis is not buiiv that way. He disupproved such itews us he found to be irregular o illegal and approved the others. This was done within forty- eight hours after he became mayor be- cause his failure toapprove or disap- prove the ordinance within three days after it had been hunded to Cushing would have been equivalent to an ap- proval. The cumulatiye mulice of the dems gogue who is hounding Mr Bewis be cause of his manly action in not shirking a duty imposed upon him by his skulk ing predecessor, is contemptible to say the least. Such a course tends to bring journalism into disrepute The areant demagogy and knavery that nus permeated the howi about Mayor Bemis and the waterwawks, r no is a the lheelers ceives its ingpiration chielly from hords of boodlers and ward whom Mayot Hemis has refused upon the cifys pay roll. The finds a willing mouthplece in the Hevald which "' has champion Tammanyitos to put Wold- the tax always hoen of and eaters, o What constitutes the basis for this in- famous crusadh? Mayor Bemis has oc- cupied a jointeffice with J for many year§ gnd Dumont was recently made temporary manager for the domi- nuntfaction obthe water company Bemis the friend of Dumont, is a tool of the water works company. Connell & Ives were employed as attorneys by the Venner faction of the water company in one case in which the opposing faction was plaintiff. The city had no interest in this contest one way or tha other The suit was pending months before Bemis wns elected and terminated a week ago by the order of Judge Dundy appointing a receiver. Connell was up- pointed civy attorney by Ber he had been one of the most efficient city attorneys Omaha ever had, ana further more beeause he had for years heen om- ployed Mr. Bomis as his own ator- Irgo, Bomis is a tool of the water works company. Ergo, is becauso by In 1850 the water works company took a ten-year lease for one-half of the main floor of Tk Brr building. This wus made in - competition with the Ne York Life building and Tis Bri build ing was given preforence on account of its facilities in the matter of vaults and its preater accessibility to the city ball But the faet that the water company has an cight years’ un- expired Tue Bee buildia malcontents e loase superior lense in in the oves of the sive proof of w great part of Bemis, If theve mennness toward o is, lu- the cor on consni and public was more unalloyed malignity shown officer who con- scientiously teying to perform the duties of his oftice and endeavoring to redeem the pledges made of retrenchment and honest ent, we have no recol- n of it. Evinr since Tur B Holly water works boodle gang the bonorable ex-councilman from the Fifth rd, who was a very active and expen- member of the Holly combine, ane- cordaing to De. Cushing’s tell-tale letter book, has withdrawn his confidence in the integrity of the editor of THr Brk. [tis a sad, solemn and melancholy fact that this recovd,.coupled with the noto- rvious venality of this high priced kicker has kept Mayor Bemis from looking with favor upon, his application for ap- pointment as dicense inspector. Hence this lamentation over the ingratitude of Bemis and the gnashing of teeth and loud cussing about Rosewater. 1In oth words, hence these (s)tears, PRy S HEALTH COMMISSIONER & RS de- commendation for his proposed warfare upon dishonest millkk men. The daivy business iy profitable to honest men and there i no of excuse for adulteraticns. " A prosecution and con- viction or twh wWould go a long way toward raising creauron - the milk here- aftersold as the pure article. is lec broke up the sort HoN. B, E. B, KeNNEDY of Omaha is the her of the fish commission and it was an ungracious thing on the part of Governor Thayer to remove him from the fish commission. THE Bep pleased to see him restored to the oftice which he has filied so acceptably for more than twely 'S, Testing the Pr Chicago Times, Ior nearly four months now the Connecti cut legislatare has met every dav, listened to r, and adjourned without doing any business because of the deaalock. Connecticut is indoed the “land of steady habits.” inder. Glibe-Demoerat, Hill has about nineteen-twentieths of the delegates elected to the convention to be beld next week in New York to send represonta tive to the national convention at Chicago, but the Cleveland men intend to hold a state convention of their own and tosend a delega- tion to Chicago which will demand recogni- 1t Afier Election, Denver News. protests just at this time. Mr, Holman is q rect, this is no time to get the old and their friends worked up. 1t was Clevo land's tinkering with trifling little private pension bills which lost him Inaiana in and elected forty-two Girand Army men the Fifty-first congress, —— Carter's Apostrophe to Chicago Times. I look out of my window on this, tho 15th day of this leap-year month of purification. Not a cloud flecks tho sky. From zemth to horizon all is clear, cold and but slightly blue; I'seo no Italiun sky: nor is this & valmy day, butit is to me u day fraught with mighty portents—it is the anniversary of my own birth. Tome it was the ndst 1n- portant of all the days of the year. - Kainhow € Mation, Cnicago Herald., Itis refreshingggsurn aside from the con- iplation of thagiisgusting strife of warring factions 1in Now N 8#k and behold the har wony in the westgea democracy. ‘Tho con trast should lnng:%ili\'u to the democrats of the nation, 1FkLduld conviuce them of what is true, that! & democratic victory at the next election will be bost assured by the nomination of a Weétern man for president. o~ Fighting u Rallroad, Nan Frteisco Chroniele, Tuesday eveniby \he eity council of Omaha inwroduced an (m! uce deciaring forfeited all the franchises B o fhn o cific RRailroad cofpauy by the c.ty for switeh- Ing tr cks. The' Addsous wero given in a wessage of the m@@r, which declared that the Union Pacifiotiad violated its contracts with the city and ' ‘was endeavoring in every way possible to injure the city und its busi ness futerests, A great al contest is an ticipated as the resuit of this summary action. Judging from the history of railvoad litiga tiou, Lhe city of Omaha will get the worst of it unloss the case comes bofors soma judun who does mnot believe that a col tion can do o wrong, Heretofore the vule of law, us established by the de cisions of uumerous courts, seems to have been that When a contract was entered into between a city and a railroad company the city was bound by it aad the company was not. Mandamus would lie to compel the city to perfori its obligatious, but the rail road compauy Was 8t perfect liberty to fullill its pledges or uot, as it saw fit. We are uot advised of ail the details of the soldiers art pori H. Dumont | ! | party ! controversy between tho city of Omaba and the lattor has ovi horse, and the the Union Pacific, dently boon riding the high ity has taken measures to assert its owa rights and brin, apany to terms, Livery one must admiro the pluck of the city and wish it success in its undertaking, but it must be admitted that the chances of ulti mate triumph are against it - The Voiee tho e won, 1 ore This is a comfortable wd for the cour a @reat man, but he b singularly clean, pradent ation, winning the confidence, if not the admiration classes, 1t is probable that ho is things considered, the most available man in the party: tnat is to say, he will probably command more votes than any other man in tho natural way of nomination at this time, These conditions promise to make the Min ueapolis convention rather tame. >~ . TO RETRICT, for the Harrison 18 not try judicious, capa administ respect of and all min Fakes Pl Afloat One Day the Next, A TERRIRE WEVELA- A SNEAKING T 0N DOWN, Wonld-Heral 1. Wortd-Heratd, Feh The ninyor: the eity With respect to the comptrolfer and the first report of the it surer are all transaction to nsi Sup) To e be tugked snugly in deve i1t beds at 1 o'elock at night, hut err they were all ip at il that hour on the night wiyor that the conncil passed offi concerned the ordinance Inlwere 1ot up at 1 which the Dill was in= o'eiock at nizhte but clud Not - only the fact remains thit were they up. bit the payment of th ey Binpened o be bill was made i aste noar thelr accustomed and after the hour lints, Othors who when the ety treasy Bapyened to henround ers offie s usually atthe sie tme were closed—insuch liaste SO Dumont and A, that fn just two hours 1 Hunt of the water wod o bl after Mayor WOPKS Com by Tieiis sianed the ordi- As soon as th nance the woney was Bance was i the hands of the Wayor Beiis WILEE WOPKS Company. pened (0 L e The ordinanee wis of Ly 2 by the ceiunell My B is assumed e yoraiy Jdanury . intine, Mavor Cusning declined sien the ordina Sy that Te would Teive the whole miat in the hands of -t oming st On the afternoon nuary 5. Mayor 1nis sizned Th vetolng | Uils action to be Reealled BACK ch s on further vy that it was JCOUS (10 essen purticulars. The i other eity or Dassed hap- 1 hy to Enatire i Jinn o e the warring fiverin: it Dumont —and Hunt Phe aflilavit or City Troasurer Boll. used in the recoiver cast a fow days ago. shows that Messes” Dumont e Hiunteniereed into Lis “oflice 1k back door from the preotlers ofice, a0 presen Lod e war AN FOF pay mont, Bolin happed (o Ge in his oftice 1 nd for- Wi padd - over th Honey Vhen all prrtivs con- corned went home and Slent sonnily i 1o Mossrs, it that sanic nizht At 430 that atier. woon Comptrolier Ol e says he made out the warrant, and de fivered it to Mr. lunt it 5, nfter busi- ness hours, City Treas- urer Bolln pald over the money to Messrs. Dumontand Hunt. - HENRY ESTABROOK 1S AN ORATOR. Chicago luter-Oceun: The Marquotte club of this city has discovered that Judge John M. Thurston does uot_alone represent the silver-tongued oratory of Nebraska. Hon. H. D. Estabrook of Omaha convineed those Chicagoans who attenaed the Marguetto club vanaver Priday night that he does not rank aslow as second to Thurston. Fow tien bave mado 8 greater impression on a Chicago audienco than this young mau who came out of the west unheralded. Chicago Tribune: Half way through the banguet George 5. Willits, Moses P. Handy and Robert D. Wardwell loft tne ball and called upon Coloael tngersoll at the close of his lecture and invited him to accept the hospitality of the club, but tbe greal orator excused nimselfon the ground of -vearinoss, and here is where Colonel Ingersoll made a mistake, forif he had accepted e would have had the pleasure of hearing an orator Who must s0on attain a position nearly. if not 1s enviable as his own, Heary D). Es the voune man from Nebraska, who > 10 address the Marquette club ou the “Mission of America.” Long before the audience arosc at the end of his oration to wuve their napkins and give threo times three cheers for tho young ovator from N braska they were looking from one to auother in admiring astonisumert at_ his fervid elo- quence and simple, impressive style of oratory. Chicago Herald: A new Nebraska orator has vevealed himself in Chicago, Henry stabrook is bis name and he is an Od attorney—onc of those who, nowwithstanding his republicatism, appeared for Boyd in bis contest against Thayer before tho supreme court. Mr. stabrook spoke on “The Mission of Ameriea” for the Marquetto club on Friday night rad at the lunct of the sam¢ club Saturday on Sweotnearts and Wives.” Ifis adequate treatment of theso widely different. themes exhibited # surprising veisatility, Mr. brook’s style is far more literary than of ths average orator and his speeches even better than they sound. He lias a strong clement of earnestness, a uimblo wit ana a delecato fancy. Since the breaking of John T'hurston’s great heart over Blaiy 1 ter of deelination *hicve is a good chance for an aspiring voung man_in Nebraska, and it would not be surprising it Mr, Estabrook should pick up the discarded vice presiden tial boom and march on to Minueapolis, Will it Cur Nowr Bexn, Neb, Feb, T'o the Edi- torof Tie Bee. 1notice through the papers that Secretary Itusk tas requested Dr. Jack sou to inform the Departmont of Agriculturo as to the ingredients of his infalliblo bog cbolera cure, suying thoy will givo it a tost 1 ontbreaks of hog cholera at the experimont station in Waskington should any occur dur- ing the coming scason. Now I think that would be a stow way of benetiting the hog raisers of the western states. This country has been flooded with so-called remedies, and oow that a medicine has been discovered tuat has froven itself worthy of praise | hope that in caso the sec- retary of agriculture does not give the doctor an oarly opvortunity 1o make a test with the medicine our autborities will take the matter in hand and give him an opportunity to make a test at our oxperimental station in Lancoln, Although not a hog raiser myself somo of the cures effectod with this medicine huve bacn veported to me,and I am confident that a modicine which has proven itself meritorious in this country will, if given a chance, do noble work in exterminating this disease. Yours, ete., Cianres S, Pownen - Acquitted the Banker Moosikan, Minu, Feb, 10, -H Burns, president of the Merchants bank of this city haa a preliminary examination on a charge of embezzling #5,000. He was discharged on the grounds that the supreme court of this state has ruled that, in cases of co-partner ship like this, the complaint as stated did not chargo a crime, Burns is now fres from all logal chargos. S WOMAN'S CHANGING Yarmouth Register Wihen Hoops wers wol A nuisunee Lhey we i ihen every where © alwiys round, K1 HIONS, 10 Lioops Wi Anl they retarded, it was clear, Phe riseof womankind. For by the fashion to her sphoere Ench wonian was confined When huops went out, by some eracked brain, The bust ¢ was dosizned And wousn's fashions, 1t was plain, Wore getting quite behind The bustlo also saw its day, it they adherid wd whin 1L pussed away Thes elinglug dress s ppeared Andeas 1 suited old and youns “I'was worn without deinur To fushiion woman fon ¢ had clu Now fushion eiung to ber o tio the train bocame tho style, And overy woiman wore it T favt the tashion tor a while Swept everything before it And thus th hich llo The corset s Lt By Or Cal yoars new fashions bring sl and decay \ly thing sty s given the couvtry a | all | | OTHER LANDS THAN OLRS. romarkable the cause There has been nothing moro in its steady, certain growth than of home rule in the United Kingdom, and | especially in England nd this of | the offending, wrangling, blundering lrish nationalist really shackied the | helping hands of their strong allies 1n Parlia | ment by the offenses of some of their | Lers against public sentiment and their con | tentions among thomselves, A couple of years | axo Trish home rule secomed be virtually I'he gencral feeling was assuredly in favor of it, the only question apparently bei form of ‘The principle was generally admitted, and how to realize its triumgh seemed to bo the remaining difficulty | the great Parnell scandal, the erance of the nationalists into two camps, one of them hostile not only other, but to the British liberals led by Gludstone, who had for years fought sisteatly and aeterminedly for the their osuse. I'na nationalists ave still di vidod: a faction of them still contends against the liverals, and they all still rosort to parliamentary tricks which, even if success ful, would no real advantajgo to Ire- laud. Before the next goneral election the Irish should get together and unite hoartily with the liborals. Mr. Gladstons is as ready to lead them now as ever he was, and with his powerful support a united Treland could be fairly certain of achievin future its plan and hops of gov Treiand by [rishmen, despite , who have [ g with respoct to the manuer or | it soll Then camo sev- hostile the My 50 por 100088 Of secure in the near iment for Local governmeat is costly in Ircland cause it is foreizn. Tho police, excoeding 000—costly as soldiors and entailing tocal costlike a police—aro twi numerous as in Lugland, and tarice as numerous as in Scotland in pronortion to population, or, in 1885, ono policoman to §20.3 persons in Ire land: one to i76.2 in Kngland, and one to ¥4 m Scotland. A moderato estimate puts the Dublin Castle secret servico money at £300,- 000, while ninety-one resident and tomporary magistratos cost 500,000, in addition to tho ordinary courts for crimes and msdemeanors. At army of 25,000 men, costing £20,000,000, is also, it must bo remembered, kept in Ireland and pad for by tho imperial treasury. Theso burdens imposed from without are inereasod by a local expenditure undera most cu; brous and costly aumimstration of local af- fairs, Irish counties wora all 1aid out under teibal conditions long since changad. Iu Limerick the dweller by the troaty stons miust turn for his county capital to insiguifi caut Ennis, twenty wiles away. The Foyle- creates a natural basin joining Donegal and vy, but the man in North Donegal who I the purposes of business sceks Lon donderry must find his county seat at Bal- Iyshannon, fifty 1o seventy miles away. Tipverary, “premicr couuty” though it is, ties in a long, awkward shape of seventy miles aud needs division into more conveni ent units than its rigings. The dweller in the viver valley of the Suir, of which Clon mel is the natural capital, must turn to Watorford, twenty five miles away. Cork, a single county, is as large as ten other smaller ones. These conditious will naturally make new zeographical divisions a feature of Mr. Balfour's bill and they will probably be used to gorvymandor the Irish vote and pro- tect conservativeo districts. be- “The report that the ezar of Russia contem - plates restoring serfdom among his pensant subjects is accompanied with circumstantial details that unfortunately suggest 1ts au- thenticity. ‘I'he events of the last few years, | culminative in the general crov failure of 1501 and the present widespread distress among the famine stricken people, have tended to show that matters in the great em- pire were steadily retrograding. Serfdom was abolished by the Emperor Alexander Il in 1561, Only three decades, thorefore, have been allowed for examination of the work- ings of emancipation, Up to the time of the linerator’s death it was not apparent that, cconomically, tho reform haa profited the state, The demands of humanity and civil- ization were appeased. But the fres peasint aazed aud belpless in his new found livert; lacking the incentive and environment which in this country have done such dors for a simitar class in our own population, was unable to fulfill aacauately the prescribed duties of even a restricted citizenship, and tho common institutions de- vised to aid him have since sigoally tailed. The new plan, which contemplatos the stor- age of one-third of every harvest i com- munal magazines for the peasants’ support, the sale of onc-thnrd to pay local debts to the state, ang the retention of tho remaining third for the discharge of governinent taxes, carries with ita pronibition of removal, and thus practically veduces the voasant to the position hio occupied in the days of Paul, A significant feature of the project is the en- trusting of its exccution to tho state walign influence is al- wor- bureaucracy, whose roady rosponsible for nino-tonths of all the present wrong and misory in the Russinn empire. It is melancholy, indeed, that the czar’s offorts al constructive statesmanship should have led only to the discovery of this bad romedy fora groat evil, The sympathies of the civiiized world will be stirred by this nint of tho dark in storo for his wrotehed subjects. Meantime the mis guided apologists for Russian dospotism, who are more numarous evon in this country than they should be, may rofloct on the true result to the human raco which their attis tude imp days Mo The Gorman emperor’s refusal to oboy the doctor's orders to keep himsoli and his chil dron away from the empress while she i sufforing from mfluenza, on the ground thal sueh conduct would st a bad examplo t German tusbands, is likely ‘to appeal tc sortimentalists the world over, but hardly to persons of common sense. The emperor, whether he (s moved by self-will or extrome dovotion to his wife, 15 roally setting the worst possible examplo to his subjects by disobeying the orders of s physician in the fiest place, and in the second place by volun tarily subjecting his childeon to the dangor of infection simply to gratify a sentiment Eivon in the sick room of an empress the di roctions of the doctor should bo the supreme law, and the temporary 1oss of her children’s society for- their good is a sacrafico that, /1 avery mother should be willing to endure, N\ More self-control, even in the noeded by husbands and wives woll as in Gormany family, is in America and not more casoning aiection, but an ex of sucli solf-control could hardly bo oxpeeted from Kmporor William, If the roports from Cairo are correct, there is civil war in the Bgyotian Soudan on ac count of the pretensions of a rival of Kbalifa Abdullah, T'ne fact has been gencrally over looked that there were three claimants for the succossorship to the knalifato afier the mabdi's death, The successful aspirant was Abdullah, one of the chiefs of the Baggara Arabs, who fought so desperately with Osman Digma near the Red sea, and to whom was cniefly due the success of the mahdist cause. The othor claimants wero Ali Kl Faruih and 11 Chalif 11 Cherif, and the lat- ter is now heading the revolt against Abdul lub. £l Chalif was for years overshadowed by the superior power of Abdullat, but tha growing discontent of the Soudanese under the rule of the khalifa sooms to have given him the opportunity he has long awaited to % head a revolt, POINT Washington Star: that secret soc Ttalians of s e ¥ “Yes; most of the Italians I have contly wege bretty well organ-ized.” »o you think it likely ties stifl exist an g thie seen ro Indianapolis Journal: “Er true that love ‘oes where | “1suppose so—1f it is prope do v, seut? y exprossed.” think it Kate Field's Washington: Smith—That mun Brown is an insolent whelp. Jones—How sof Smith=1 was telling him that Thad been drawn on the ju and he sald that 1 was just the man for the place. sw York Herali: “It s always easier for 1 to destroy than to bulld up,” deelared winister. don’t know about that,” the agnostie re fed. “You. for instunce. could marey mo o gond deal cisier than you could got me uns warried. ™ Boston Hor 1 is gelting Journa leap y Someryille Driver—This pretty serions, Second Boston Herdie Driver—How so? SWhy, the homblest oid mald on Beacon street came uj this morninz and asked me i 1 was engaged.” “Who's the row with the w hotel of the landlord. On" was the good nat irst business ising o nauired a guest at the ed reply, “that's rd; she's a perfect Amazon, isn't “Wetl, mishty nigh it," responded the land- lord refiectively. Her mouth ain’t quite s big. perhaps, bt she talks a heapsight more.” Springfield Kepublican: A “poctess” the northwest has dedicated to Sen Mer und Wy o a poem of which the first reads: “Ara of tors g Go forth naked for the fight."” T lawyer hus whore counsel. Bosto, man who elient. they veaient t be true that the fool for a Uis novexs Boston Courler: ness is the most’ admirabie of acteristics; he delights in hearlng me knowledge the corn. To 1k fran hi ne- olumbus Post: The truth of th "0 be forewarned is to bo forearmea resolves itself 1o @ anestion of specd. Boston Bullotin: Wonder if this azitation against “sweat shops™ will affoct the parties who are running Turkish baths, often New Orled pith of the ferrybont. A man on the foot- s Pleayuno: Loat tho Brookiyn brid )\ 1tis u watkover for hin. blican; It Is 1o girl to be loun. shamton Re for i teleph not lme= Oil ity Biizzard: Men's greatly differ mainiv of the o the ab suspend facas of liberty With some 1t secnis 1o cons st quircment and possession of ity 1o get along without wearing any S W, Corner at it, ! 3 ten day pring g Monday. week if prices are an inducement. ~ BROWNING, KING I5th and Donzlas Sts, The Long and Short of 1t--- > got too many suits left yet, and as we've only got about in which to dispose of them, before »ods arrive, we place them before you inducement The prices, styles and sizes are many and the colors are popular. They will go fast next The overcoats are not numerous, but the prices are such that if you can wear one you buy We can save you money. Browning, King & Co Saturduys 111110 p.w venings Uil Gio. Open Othe o 1S, W, Cor, 15th and Douglas ts.