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

THE DAILY BEE. "~ E ROSEWATER, Eviror. S— PUBLISHED .\H)I:Nl}'('_ * OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. ]!ni:yln-t- (without Sunday) One Year Iy and Sunday, One Bix M ont . Three Monthe, Eunday Bee, One Yoor, Baturday Bee, One Yoar . Weekly Bee. Ono Ye sy EVERY 8800 10 00 500 200 im 10 OFFIC The Bee Building. . corner N and 2th Stroots Couneil Bl ! Pourl Stroet Chicago Office, 417 Chumber of Commerce, New York,Rooms17, 14and 15, Tribune Bullding Washington, 513 Fourteenth Streot Oma! Fout CORRESPONDENCE, Al communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed tc the Tditorial Department $ LETTE A1l business Jetters and remittances should teaddressed 1o The e Publishing Company. Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made puyable to the order of the com- pany. Ite Bee Putlishing Company. Propristor LATION, BUSIN BWORN §TA OF CIRCU Vate of Nebraskn ¢ County of Douglns. (% Geo. B. Trschuck, socrotary of The BER 1ublishing con solomnly swear hat the a fon of THE DAILY BEE for the weck ending March i2, 150, was as follows: ENT fonduy, Mo Tuesdny, Ma) Wednesday. M Thursdny. arch 10, Iriday. Ma 11 Eaturday. March 12, Average .. Sworn to before ne and subscr Fresence this 1<th day of Marcn. A ExAlL P VA"-..""'. Circulation for February 24,510, 1E council by passing the Fifteenth street vinduct ordinance has vrobably opened the way for an interminablo law suit. It was a long fight, but liquid slating has won in the Kellom school. As has repeatedly been remarked, silicon is pretty well fixed politically. Ty is the best policy in the il land district as well as else- where, as a gang of about sixty claim- jumpers have discovered to their pecuniary cost and chagvin. COLORADO realizes more from her novicultural and grazing lands than from her mines. This ought to convinco her statesmen that Colorado will loso more than she will gain by u tree coin- age law. [¥TE sessors do theiwr duty there is no doubt whatever of a valuation of $30,000,000 without adding a dollar to the taxes of the small property owner: whoare now paying more than their Just proportion, BRYAN'’s efforts in congress as the “‘representative of the United States™ are comparable only to the success achieved by the jack carpenter who in- sists upon using a gimlet for boring .two inch auger holes, GOVERNOR MCKINLEY can afford to be complacent about the taviff discus- sion now in progress in the house so long as the fact is undisputed that in a single yoar under the present law our foreign trade has increvsed $406,000,000, e bids for furnishing the rotunda of the city hall look very much as if there had been no genuine competition, One bidder submits proposuls for mar- ble work, another for marble and grun- ite work und a third for marble, granite und stucco work, ‘WHEN Senator Hill in his Meridian speech announced that no man is indis- pensable to the success of the democratic party, he used the circumflex inflection with skill enough to bring out cheers from his own admirers and groans from those of Mr. Cleveland. UNLESS the Texas legislator is as un- cortain as the wind, Roger Q. Mills will receive a majority of the votes of tho two houses of the legislature next Tues- aay for senator, and Senator Chilton will sink back into the oblivion where Governor Hogg discovered him, By THE time Watterson, MeClure, Dana and the remaining democratic editors are through cutting the throats of eminent and ambitious bourbon leaders there will be nobody left seck- ing the presidential nomination except Roswell P. Flower and William C. ‘Whitney, both of New York. Now that the assessors are instructed to return the Belt Line railroad prop- erty it remains to be seen whether the commissioners will undertake to strike it from the list or enforce the rights of the county to levy a tax upon this rail- rond the same as 1t levies upon the prop- erty of other corporations or individ- uals. — SHOULD John M. Palmer, through the freaks of political electrigity, be galvan- iz>d into a presidential candldate, the fact that his daughter is on the senate pay roll for $6 a day as her father’s clerk will cost the eminent Illinoisan sleoploss nights and thousands of votes. The people do not take kindly to this style of nepotism. ——— ‘I'maT Ketchum furniture contract does not improve with age. After all the scandal with which it is associated, it now appears that the contract con- taius no limit as to the time within which the city hall furniture is to be in place. As a consequence the city will continue to pay rent for offices else- where while waiting for this foreign firm to complete the contract. — THE republicans of Nebraska may s wall dispense with the formality of hold- ing congressional and state conventions, in view of the fact that the Nebraska contingent of office holders, department clorks, messengers at the capital and omployes of the congressional folding room have made our nominations, All that the republicans of this state are expected to do is to ratify the choice maude for them in the District of Colum- biu. THE SUGAR BOUNTY. It is to be expected that the house of representatives will repeal the sugar bounty. A bill for this purpose was in- troduced some time ago, and itis an- nounzed that it will be reported at onee. It is suggested that it may not bs as a separate measure, but be attached ns a rider to oneof the appropriation bills, the passage of which will be made devendent on the bounty-repeaiing clause remaining in the bill, This wou'd not be an unprecedented ex- pedient, but it is by no means certain that it would be successful, The proposi- tion to repeal the sugar bounty has very general democratic approval, so that its adoption by the house may be regarded us almost assured, but it is hardly probu- ble that it could puss the senate as a sopurate measure. In case it did, how- ever, it would undoubtedly be vetoed by tho president. The repeal of the sugar bounty would be a very serious blow to the beot sugar industry in this country, which promise of steady and rapid develop- ment if the encouragement afforded by the bounty is not withdrawn, Several oxtensive factories for making beet sugar wero projected in different locali- ties when the bill to repoal the bounty was introduced in the house of represen- tatives, and it need hardly be said that these proposed entorprises have been abandoned, or are held in abeyance until congress acts. It is only about nine months since the sugar bounty provi ions of the tariff law became operative, yet what has been accomplished in that time warrants the belief that if the bounty should be continued until July 1, i when it would cease by statute limitation, the United States will be producing enough sugar to very nearly if not quite to supply the home demand. Of course the amount of the bounty that would bo paid during the thirteen years would in the aggeogate be a very large sum, but it would all go to our own peo- ple, instead of sending a nearly equal amount to foreign sugar producers, und we should have established n great and permanent industry, employing millions of capital and the labor of tens of thou- sands of people and p-ofitable to a gr number of farmers. To kill this indus- would be directly in the interest of ars, who, relieved of the an competition, would be enavled to charge more to American consumers. It is to bo apprehended, however, that considerations of this kind will il little with a democratic house of repre sentatives which is looking after polit cal capital, with very little regard for the interests of the country gives THE I0WA REPUBLIC NVENTION. The Iowa republican state convention, to select delegates-at-large to the na- tional vepublican convention, will meet at Des Moines today. The indications are favorable to harmony, although it is quite possible that some strife may be created by politicians, who are more concorned for their personal interests than for the welfare of the party. Re- publicans very generally havo accepted the declination of Mr. Blaine to bo con- sidered a candidate as final, and Iowa republicans will pay no compliment to that distinguished leader if they insist upon regarding him as a candidate after his explicit and unoquivosal an- nouncement that he is not and will not. be. Respect for the candor and politi - Lintegrity of Mr. Blaine demandas that he bo taken at s word, and no man should be sent as a delegate to Minneapolis who is not disposed to do this. Ltis to bo hoped the republicans of fowa will take no doubtful position re- garding tho currency. Thoy should de- clare without equivocation or reserva- tion for honest money and against the froe coinage of silvor. This is to be a leading if not the leading issuo in the coming national campaign, and it is most important that the republicans of this section of the country shall be right onit. - The voice of Towa republicans regarding tho currency will have great influence with the national conventvion, and therefore it should have no uncer- tain or doubtful tone. The republicans of Rhode Island have just spoken plainly on this issuo, and their example may wisely bo followed by the republicans of lowa. If this is done there can be no doubt that tho immediate offect will be boneficial to the purty at large, since it will go far to correct the impression that western ropublicans are not sound on the currency question, whereas a weak and evasive expression may do harm in tending to confirm this im- pression and in giving confidence to the advocates of a policy that would debase the curren: The convention will probably have nothing to say about other than national questions, and it would manitestly be a mistake to lug in prohibition or any other local issue. —— BAYARD ON SILVER. Another influentinl democratic voice, or one which for many years possessed potency with the party, has pronounced against the policy of free and unlimited silver coinage. Hon, Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, long & United States sena- tor and secretary of state in the ad- ministration of President Cleveland, in a public letter to the democracy of the country admonishes the party not togive its support to free silver. 1v does not detract from the counsel of the veteran statesman that he thinks a mistake was wade in remonetizing silver by the act of 1878, The value of his opinion re- garding that legislation must be judged by results, and there are not many who will maintain that these warrant or jus- tify his eriticism of what was then done for the restoration of silver. But ho sees clearly .and wisely when-he points | out the danger of making the coinage of |nl\m free and unlimited, as it is evi- dently the desire of a majority of the democratic party shall be done. Mr. Bayard says he does not pretend to read between the lines of the late votes and action of the house of repre- sontatives. If they mean the cunning of finesse and the strategy of concealed mouves, then the party is playing with fire and treuting a question of the great- st public import in an unworthy way If thoy represent what they say, then it | 1s time the democratic masses aroused | themselves 1o a sense of duty to the l country. There ought to be little doubt THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1892 rogarding the meaning of the vote to consider the free silver bill on March 22 The democratic vote in favor of that proposition was 139 and against iv 67, 1t was understood to be a test of the strongth ot the free silver and the anti- free silver factions, and it demonstrated that the former are overwhelmingly in the majority. That the division as established by this vote will remain practically unchanged must ba regarded as roasonably certain. It is not ap- parent what new influences can be brought to bear against free silver, greater than those which ware exerted before that vote was taken, which might effect such a change ns to reverse the situation. Tho democrats opposed to free silver used without avail every pos- sible argument that could bo brought to bear. Those who believe it to be inex- pedient, from the point of view of party interest, to consider the question at this time, found their appeals futile. The democratic supporters of freesilver wore united and determined, and there is every reason to expect will continue to be. The earnest admonition and warning of Mr, Bayard, it is therefore safe to assume, will have little if any influence. What such loaders as Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlislo could not accomplish the retired and almost forgotten Delaware statesman may not hope to do. Tho Crisps and Blands who are now the pilots of the democratic ship propose to steer it according to their own notions. THE WE The domand on the part of towns, viilages and agricultural communities for the daily woather forecasts is stead- ily increasing. There is havdly a day that the local weather office does not re- coive a raquest for information touching the propor way to get the telegraphic wenther forccasts for public display. Many of these applications for the fore- casts have to bo refused on account of the lack of sufficient funds for this part of the weathor service. The increasing dissemination of the daily weather map, the value of which people nre beginning to appreciate, and the transfer of the service to the Department of Agricul- ture, implying that agricultural com- munities are to share equally with the commercial interests in the benefits to be derived from the service, 4 paople to demand at least the most practical benefit from the service—the daily for casts. The chiof of the bureau is anx ious to meet this demana, but unfortun- ately the appropriation made by the last congress did not ke into account the increasing popularity and possiblo use- fulness of the service as now organized, and the amount appropriated for the service in general was much too small to permit additional expenditures in this direction now. The usefulness of tho weather service cannot be denied. Tho fact is that many people regulate their business and affairs from day to day by the published forcasts. The local official is daily giv- ing out, in response to teiephone re- quests and personal inquivies, the in- formation at his commund in the inter- est of shippers and others, to whom an idea of tho probable weather conditions is an important factor. The public de- mands more telographic service. Ttis manifestly unjust that compratively fow and widely scattered communitios should have the benefit of this govern- ment work while the greater number aro deprived by reason of a lack of funds. The hopeis entertained that the present congress in appropriating funds for carrying out the work of the weather bureuu in the interest of all citizens will see the justice of tho public demand and add to the appropriation for the coming fiscal year a sum sufficient to liberally increase the telographic service. The wentiier bureau has unquestion- ably found its proper place in the De- partment of Agriculture. Ever since the transfer, improvements and oxten- sions have been made which give every class of citizens the opportunity to benefit by it. The creation of the office of local forecast official and the appoint- ment of such an official from the ranks of old and experienced observers to com- mercial and agriculture centers was in the nature of a decided improvement. The action now in contemplation, look- ing to establishing observatories unier conditions as nearly as possible to those to which growing crops are subjectod and such as obtain in the open count will be regarded, especially by those in- terested in a study of the climatic and agricultural features of the various sec- tions of the country as the bast step yet taken. But in order to carry out the aims of the service and to meet the demands of the taxpayers of the country for telegraphic announcements of the forecasts made, it is necessary to have an increased appropriation for the bureau, It goes without saying that n liberal support to the weather bureau on the part of congress will not hurt that, august body in the estimation of their constituents. THE CENTRAL SCHOOL SITH. One thing the school board will not be justified in doing and that is in locating the Central school on a site that is not on a level with the High School square, orabove it. The new building should bo an ornament to the city. It should stand on ground that will present it to view from every direction. A site lo- cated in a hollow or behind the hills and high banks of earth, no matter how cheap, should be rejected ns unavail- able. The High School building, stand- ing on the creet of Capitol hill, has been a striking feature in every bird's-eye view of the city, and a central school building properly located would add to the prominence which Omaha public school buildings occupy among our in- stitutions. WourLDN'T it be well for the hoard of divectors of the Omaha club to glance over the list of property offered to the school board for the Central school site? Mr. George C. Towle offers 160x160 feet corner of Twenty-fourth and Douglas for $31,200. That plece of ground has nearly throe times the ares of the lot on Twentieth and Douglas and costs only $4,800 more. Tweuty-fourth and Doug- lus is just as available us Twentioth and Douglas. Then the Byron Reed com- pany offers 184x148 feot corner Twenty- second and Dodge for $32,000. That ground has more thau three times the aren of the Twentioth stroet site. Then Mrs. Schlesififfay offers threo lots corner Twenty-fifth~and Douglas for $25,000. This is $1,400 lgss than the corner of Twentioth and Douglasand three times as largo a piece'® ground. If proximity to the business portion of the eity is of no moment, then cectainly the club house should endeayor Yo get the largest piece of ground for the least money A Hlap at Jingolsm, Botton Glob A momortal of 7,250,000 Britlsh working- men asks Lord Sallsbury to quit this non- sense about modus 'vivendi i far-oft Ar.tic climes and pay,mory attontion to how tho people aro existing at home. porre L Ay What's the Matter With New York World, The first answer of this question, referring t0 Senator Johin M. Palmor as a prosidontial candidate, is that “heis too old.”” But tnis has boen clearly met by another question: “What's the matter with Gladstone or Bis- marck 1" Almer? P E— A Pointed Question, Chicago Herald. Does Mr. Clovelaud sympathize with the bolters, or doos ho Intend to abide by tho action of tho rogalar democracy! AS a can- didato for president who recognizes his “duty to his party" he must answer this question. Sulel Polley. Cincinnati Commere al. Thero is no reason in the world why the ropublicans of lowa should wage a probibt tlon campalen this yoar. ‘The issueis in no way involved in the officers to be eicoted The party can therofore vory well afford to give tho question a rest. — Finish Arguments, Chicago News. Four Kentucky geutlemen have boen hold- ing a sharp debato on a question involving a point of honor. When the smoke clearea away it was found thut two men of each party wore laid out. This seems to leave tho argumeut quite as unsottled ns it was be- Fremont Flail, If the demacrats will put up Grover Cleve- land for president and Dr. George L. Miller for vice president and run the campaign on the worthlessness of tho present congress they would be well nigh mvincible. And, by the way, there are not two stauncher or truer democrats in the country taan Grover Cleveland and George L. Miller. e 3 March of Reciprocity, Phitadetphia Press. Nicaragua 15 now added to the states which have entered into reciprocity relations with the Unitea States under the provisions of the McKinley tariff. Smalil as Nicaragua is, its rolations to tho coming inter-oceanic canal render it important that the trade of the United States with tho smail republic should be intimate and vnrestricted. Telling Truths Out of Meeting. Denvér News. Dr. Miller, thoe founder of the Omaha Her- ald, in his friendsuip for Cioveland has placed his friend in a rather embarrassing position. Itseems that Mr. Cleveland wrote Dr. Miller aletter in which he’ several criticises congress for its frao silver policy. A B reportep overheard Millar repeat Cleveland’s uucsmplimentary romarks about free silver congréssmon and published them. Now Dr., Miller wishés he had said nothing. The g s They Will Keep, Boston Advertiser. The hiouso of representatives and the demo- cratic party will: do-well to act with great deliveration:;on ! the proposition to aamit Utah and New Mexico “into the priviliges of statehood. Any party which can delibor- ately ignore the coudition of the Mormon and Mexican population of those territories merely for the sake of securing six olectoral votes in favor of freo silver cannot escape direct responsioility to the people for its ac- tion. ditor Mar w Beatrice Democrat. Dr. George L. Miller made a little sposch before tho domocratic state committoo that is quoted extensively by republican papers, in which is swd that he had it direct from Grover Cleveland only threo days old that the biunders of this democratic congress have nover beon exceeded. Grover 1s, of course, & stateswian, or he would not have “caught on.” He evidently stolo thu sub- stance of his remark from the Damocrat, which pointed out tho blunders of the demo- cratic house scme months ago. ' TO BRAGG. Glove Democrat: Barkis Cleveland is willin’, but the country is likely to hold out ugaiast his blandishments better than Clara Peggotty did against those of the originai Barkis. Chicago Herald: The ex-president’s wili- to become for the third time the ard beaver of the national democrac, ally in view of the conditions wnhi oxist w New York, will bo a surprise to many of his friends. If he really hoped and oxpected to be selected at Chicago his letter to General Bragg is unquestionably a mis- take. Denver Sun: Mr. Cleveland is not retir- ing, thank you, He'is just now very much of a candidate, and it roally looks as if he would cut u wuch bigger figure in the Chi- cago convention than Mr. Hill. His self- avowed candidacy will whet anew his ardent samivers’ enthusiasm, and it will also assist in hopelessly dividing bis party in the great stute of Noew York. St. Paul Globe: Grover Cloveland will tako the presidential nominatian if iv 1s offerea to him, but be will not seek it after the fashion of the little men who strive to mako up by eraft what thoy lack in charactor and ability. Grover Cleveland will-not only take the presidential nomination if it is offercd to bim, but, unloss all indications speak falsely, a great'waye of popular en- thusiasm will stampede the Chicago conven- tion 10 his favor. St. Louis Republic: In his leter to Mr, Edward S, Bragg of Wisconsin Mr, Clove- 1d does not declare himself a candidute, nor doos he deciaro that ho will uot bo a can’ didate If asked to be by those who alone have tho right ana duty of asking. o says in effoct that it is theibusiness of the peopls to select presidentiab pandiaates, and ho has not you bsen selooiod, Kbs is tbe anly sensible Way to look at it. "He cannot afford either to seek or refuse the nomination. If the party needs him it has the right to call him, aud if it neods someone else more it has the samo right to select :o_[oos olse. IN THE MATTER OF AGE. The pope is 83, Senator Dawes is nearing 76, Elizaboth Cady Stanson is in harness at 70, Bernhardv's birg) fpftificate is dated 1544, Dr. Gauiing of gun fame is 72 aad lives at Hartford, Frau Gredebick of Vienna is dead at the age of 117, » &% Crouch, author of “Iathleon Mavour- neen,” is living at#ltimore, aged 53, Colonel Wilham Henry Mclutosh of Deor Foot, Minn., a veteran of the war of I5l2, chops his own firewood aud bathes at dawn seven days a week 1n water from a spring near bis solitary habitation. Iven in sum- mer this spring gives out au ice cold stream. Mrs. Anna Catharine Sharp of Puiladel- hia celebrated last woels her 114th birthday. rs. Sharp came down stairs and greeted with & smile aud pleasaut words those who came. The old lady, whose faculties, oye sight and vofce give 6o indication of her ad- vanced age, would scarcely bo taken for more thao %0 years. Her hair is not enurely white, though her visage is cousiderably wrinkled: likewise ber bauds, Miss Martha Seymour, aged %0 years, dicd at MoLemoresville, Tenn., last month = She bas lived with-ber sister Mollie, aged ¥, for over forty years and they were known hs “the seciided sisters.” ~ Miss Molifo stated that her sister was engaged to be martied and two weeks beforo the wedding day her lover was killed by a joalous rival. The shock broke hor heart and sho could not marry again. Thoy were happy in each other's love and did not desire other com panv. They never roda on a railrond and have not attended church in over for If B Gray s right in_his arithmetic ho is probably the oldost man in Penasylvania, Ho says ho was born February 17. 1783, and points with pride to a list of the residents of Dolaware county published in 1810, where his ago is sot down at Today Eri is in the county houss, Uatil last spring ho had lived an easy, shiftless life at Roxtury, but the to'wn authiritios, growing tired of *look- ing after bim, decided to send him to the county house. Ho didu't like tha change, but age hnd made him helpless and he had to submit. - MINDS OF GREAT M Scissors Editor of the Fake lactory Played n Pra.k on Met, Democrat Speelal, | Alleged Washington Sp Mareh 15, elalin World-Herald RUSS JARRISON AND THE March 16, PRENS DALLARY HUSS 1N THE GALLERY wasmivGroy, Do ¢, Me Mareh 14 (<pecial Dis’|son B to the Globe-Domo. | for Mr. LB, ealle Harrison hind decided to| and house s the Apply for wdmission to|Aceradited corre the press galleriss of the of bis newapapor senate and house as the Journal, nccredited e lona, Mont | 1 shy the apyp! t Ere. The Glob Harrl D1y the Ho ot first abont making cntion himselif, hi is friend, the corre. | Colonel Sterrett of spondent of tho Mall and the eecrotary of Expross, to make It for standing committee of him, but ¢ erroti correspondents, who has of Toxns, otary of full ¢ mmitt 18 0 gre gallorion, 18 o 1 brought it to - th ler fo i ound beaten and dix obju He Inssoed th it plan and broughtittothe * + ¢« & e e Rule 1 provides that clorks 0 th + departmoent, cnunged In ot gronnd beaten and dls comfited Rule 1 provide clorks In the E: persons| ol Gecupn-| paper f atten- are not to be admit 18 restriotion of rule 1, paper f | Which, by the way, I8 most not to bo rIgldly enforced, ' will be Aifticulty in Mr. fof diffieulty in Mr. Harrison's way. Mr. 1in rison has boen meting M orrespondent of | b Brought his Journal for/patelies from the white Mossengur/house to” the telegraph Boys have brought his dis. |ofico ench nieht, and \f ptchies. from the whito| e will only conform to 1o the telegraph | the an boeome ch night ull Whi only conto espond is name | congre i Sonal directory in- the the 1bers who are follows dmission to| *Nam s gnllories,” as s s who 4 ission 1o lorles,” us Harrison, Paper repre rnal. Of Rus duel In Detroit Froe Pross: tost 2 Both ariscortainly teansgressed tho code. men drew blood. o0 Times: The prico of beor has gono up, but a little more muscle avpiiea to the pump will bring the thrifty retailer out aliright. Now Yorl Horald: The roporter denrest 0 the eaitor’s heart is alwuys short in his ac- counts. Philadelphiz Times: When it 2omes to sign- ing tho Bering arbitration troaty—if it is signed—tho letters L, S. on the document will more than over have reference to “the place of the soul.' PREMATURE SIGNS OF St. Louis Republic The Robin comes this time of year And then we feel that spring is here, But Robin is no sooner fixed Than sleet und huil get matters mixed. A blizzara 1T 0f snow, Then where's the spring wo'd 11ke to know? ell, T PRING, Indfanavol’s Journal: will know me noxt _time you man at whom Cholile’ had stared for ten minutes, may Know you, my good man, but I'm suali I shan't weeomizo you. doncherinow.” was Chollie's shing answer, Washington Star sald u senator o that joke about suintly repoated? guess you I aid the unconseiously “Didn’t it annoy you,” western colleague, “to haye your whiskers beélng con- ded to get even was a little 1 walted ull the joke zot whiskers on it, too." Somerville Journal: The man who lives bo- yond his incomo In 4 wild_effort to keep up with the style 1s likely to foilow the fashion sometimes think anity is catching. —And yet you dure to come here und put me in dunger of un Infection. Elinira Gazotte: Reporter—Here is an ftem nbout a boy who went wuding in Florida and was awallowed by an allig tor. What houd shall Tuse? Editor—Try “Wade and Found Wanting.” Chica ist 15 sl would de o Journal: The humorous paragraph- nt s to the pleasure which husbands rom the extinetion of the seal, It is casier fora ship car- than it is for him to Boston Courler: penter to spur a vessel hox the compuss. Columbus Post: Theold sentleman who dyes his whiskers gives 1t to you in plain black iud white, PADDOCK Washington Star: The new tood and drink bill which passed tho senate yestorday is also a drug bill, Its purpose 15 o provide pure food, drink, medicines, ete. The act is apparently constitutional, being confined to commerce between the states or territorios or any of thom in_u foreign couutry. There has loug existed a necessity for well-guarded legisiation of the kina. Now York Commercial: The Paddock bill, of course, applies only to interstate sale of adulteratod goods, aud needs the passage of state laws to make it completely effective. But as the local food aud heajth exbibitions prove, we aro beginning to take an intelli- went interest in our eating, drinking and dos- ing, and by the time all the municival fran- chises in the state are given away.such laws will be passed. Springfield (Mass,) Republican: The bill covi the ground the Coonger pure lard bill, and belps the farmers in their warfare agaist the oleomargarine Lo the extent that it forbids the salo of any article under a false dosignation. Mixtures which have passod Frank Leslie's ? POPULIR MONTHLY FOR APRIL, OUT TO-DAY, Embraces, in ita llrffl and varfod table of contents, the followlng lllustrated articles of special interest : The Brooklyn Navy Yard, By Tuos Naval Warfare. of the Naval ut olution. ive American presen By Awruui Honn Dramutist: BLOW. A Day with the Lound-up. Dy 1 open and its Hidden Treasure, By Capt. H. D, 8w, U, 8. N, Cities of the Dead. By Maxo F., Vai- 4 g, LETTE. Some North Pusne Navg ©01d_English Vorcelain, By THonas L WINTHROP. Chelsea and its t German Towns, By Aterary Assocla- MacooNaLD. Short S Oveve Haness, Davio Kex, C near Hanaen, Bei Hose, &2 Poems, Sketches, Literary ho) ical and Sclentific Notes. {7 A fullpage colored frontisplece, aud {$ over 100 engravit 4 year, postago paid ; single cop o For sule by all newsdealers, s Mo others. ograpl under the guise of lard and oleomargarine which has pretended to be butter, if subjects of interstate commerce, must hereafter be labied and sold for what they are, 1f appliod thoroughly this provision will yyork a revo lution in the “‘pure coffce” and ‘‘pure spice’ trada, for the mixtures that aro sold under theso names are {nnumoravle Cincinnati Commercial: The Paddock pure food bill, which passed tho senato last week, is severely criticisod in some quarters. 'The law, which does not dotermine what articles d what are not untit for food, but says that impuro articles shall not be shippod from ono state to another, s ntended to sup- plement the pure food laws of tho several states. State laws ara limitod {n their ap piisation. Thoy cannot prevent the shipment of fravdulont articles to other states or to foreien markets, This is what the senate bill pronoses to do. 1t will, tor example, dishonest mon from injuring our meat or cheeso trade oy inflicting bogus articies on tho market. It is, in fact, a food inspection rogulation, which has long been demanded in this country. Of course the bill will meet with opposition, though we cannot se0 why honest manufacturers shou'd opnose it. Somoe of the manufacturing druggists are up in arms because they think tho bill is aimed at vatont medicines, That does not speak very well for their medicines, No ox pense is imposed oo them, All thoy have to do 18 to furnish samples of their goods to agents of the secrotary of agriculture. —— L IWOMAN AT THE BOTIOM OF IT. Cause of the Killing of His Son. Kxoxvitre, Tenn., March 16— Washing- ton Boyer, the voung man who was arrestod lato last night, charged with assassinating his father, has been county superintendent of education for some ume. His father, David Boyer, who was murdered, lived on a fine farm, about four miles from Newport. C. I*, Boyer, a brother of the murdored man, has boen successively sheriff, and cireuit court clork of the county. Heisa man of woalth and standing. Lately he bas occupiod the rosponsiblo position as cashier of the Newport bank. Its fully ovident that others will be a rested. A woman of ill ropute will probably bo takon. She, it is charged, bas boen the mistress of Boyer for some time, 1t has boen developed thut somo days ago Bover pre- sented a deed to the county register purpor! ing to be from bis father to him, conveying to him in fee all his property. The signatures of o man by the name of Holt and of a son of his, appearod as witnesses on tho instrument to David Boyer's signature. The resister retused to record the deed, believing it a tol gory. These men aro suspected as accom- plices, Holt has a brother i jail in this city, churged with murdor. The coroner’s veraict is that David Boyer came to his death at the hand of Washington Boyer. his son, Josio Moore is the woman who is mixed up in the affair. She lived in @ houso on the farm of the dece Some timo ago her Louse was blown up with dyna- mite on a night when Boyer, Sr., was in it. It is charged that Washington Boyer was in- fluenced by his mothor to do this, sho being jealous of the woman. Another thoory is that Boyer, and Boyer, Jr., were each paying court s womyn. -~ Boyer was brought here to escae a vossiblo lynching. MRS, HETHERINGTON David Boyer by sSTORY, The Mother of the Licutenant's Wite De- fends Her Daughter, FraNkiy, Pa, Maren 16.—A received by a porsonal friend in from the mother of Mrs. Hotherington, wifo of the naval officer who shot and killed George Gower Robinson 1 Yokohama lately. The lottor states that soou after Mrs. Hoth- crington’s arrival in Yokohama she mot Rob- inson and his attentions becamo o distaste- ful that she asked Robinson to cease, but he continued to worry himself into her pros- once. When her husband _arrived she told him what bad oceurred. Tho husband at lotter was this city onoe sought out Robinson and asked him to explain, Robinson apologized and said he would loave the country and did so, but kept writing (etters to the lady. Receiving no answer, he roturaed to Yokohama and tried to see Mrs. Hotherington, but failed. The same day Hotherington, who had boen in- formed of Robinson's return, met the latter driving through tho streets and called to him 10 stop. Robinson made & vulgar and sneor- ing romark when the licutonant drew re- volver and shot him, The motner said that stories of Mrs. Hothoringtou's flirting ond boartlessness aro omphatically denfed by inglish and American ladies 1 Yokohama, She says there is no doubt that hor husbaud will be acquitted. - - WEST REPORTED IN wirn TROURLE, I's Show Sald to In Kurope, New Yonk, Marsh 16.--A London dispateh declares that “Buffalo Bill's” Wild West show has collapsed. Neitnor Colonel W, F, Cody (Buffalo Bill) nor Mr. Nate Salisbury has, it is said, vouchsafed any explanation of affairs to the publie. Tammale ve Collapsed 0 1 Cody Denles, onti Prarre, Neb,, March 16, clegram to Tie Bre. | —William Cody, 3uffalo Bill" has been at his home in North Platte for about threo weoks looking after bis raach intorosts, The colonel has started out to havoa largo amount of farming done this scason and had just started the plows when tho recout blizzard struck here. When interviewed as to the rumor thav. the “Wild Wost" nad collapsed, he laughed and said that the show had given 441 per- formances during the past soason and closed for a short season on Kebruary 27. Col- onel Cody s the show will oven in London May at the queen’s jubilee gronnds. Tho show will exhibit daily in London for six months. Colonel Cody is wmnking ar- rangements to insure the present season as the most successful one tho show has over had. Ho will take n car load of horses from here and is closing con- tracts with several ominent cowboys of tho plains for the coming season, P R, DISSATISFIED WITH THE TREATY, [Spocial Cuba Talks of ¥ rocity With the Havana, Cuba, March 16, —The roceipts ntha- the customs house show a large falling off as compared with last year aud tho government is constantly oceupiod devising ways to in- crease the revenues. Many anticipato the udoption of a new tarilf in tho noar future and probably the suppression of the present reciprocity treaty with the United States. The popular feoling inst the treaty is very strong on account of disas trous results to Spauish millers ana on ac. count of the duty levied by tho United States on eariy vegetables, while the United States has the priviloge of shipping garden products to Cuba troo of duty. ———— TLEMAN, A GE St. Louis Globe-Dem “Aro my biscults light, John; < younsg wife crat. asks the charms 15 tho foain of the s 15 the stea inqui And ho suys, “It might huy stial fires, And Is tender enougl for the gods."” k cooked to sult you?" sho gently “And the coffeo; that pleases you. too, doos it,, dear?” sked, overjoyed at his pra ather than stralns of swoet Sho Which musio she'd Lour; 1 nover drank better," he says. 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To turn goods into cash is what we are here for. Look elsewhere, but don’t bite till you've seen our styles and prices. Browning, King & Co O pen Saturdays till Other oven ings Uil 6 W. Corner 15th and Douglas St