Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1892, Page 4

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V'I‘Lc Bee Publishing Ggmuanv‘ Proprietor EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Hate of Nebraska Ves, Donglas. { socrotary of The Bre i Iy swear ATLY Bek was a8 BUSIN Tublishing company, 1hat the actunl eireuiat for the week ending March It follows: Funday. March 12, Mondny, March 14 Tuesdny, March 15, Weanesdny. March 10 Thursday. March 1 Friday. March 18 Eaturday. March 1 24,050 L 24,047 A HUCK, Sworn to lefore me nnd subscribed in my rresence this 19th day of March. A. D. 1802 EEAL N. P, FEIL, Notary Public. Average....... o T Avernge Cire Pttt e s letontfatnd o ety FAME won a day is often short lived. The New York Recorder refers to our Brilliant Billy as “Mr. Bryan of Texas. DuNcaN waited a long time and en- dured agreat many disappointments, but his ambition to be plumbing inspector has at last been gratified. A crry electrician is a necessity. uch an officer, if he performs his duty faithfully, will probably save the city from disastrous conflagrations, COLONEL DANIEL LAMONT has been sick and this may have somathing to do with the general debility which has affected the Clevelthd boom lately. Wiy did not the council direct Coots to reconstruct the steep ascent of the city hall steps which will forever re- main an impediment to an easy en- trance unless changed. Iris very generally remarked that the Holman presidential boom went out of sight when Uncle Bill Hatch exposed to view his inconsistencies both as an objector and an economist. stato pross has dono a great deal popularizing the movement for homo industries. It should not weary in well-doing but keep up the war cr of “Homo against the world.” COUNCILMAN MUNRO 18 entitled to credit for endeavoring to have the city’s rights protected in East Omaha. The proceedings so far have been altogether too much of a jug-handled affair. Denver News cries out lustily for more silver clubs. The eastern demo- crats think one will be enough with which the republicans can beat out the brains of the democratic party in No- vembor. i Boies ana Russell campaign bureaus are not earning their mon ey. Since the Hill episode oxtending from ‘Washington to Jackson, Miss., occured, tho hooms of the governors have been 1imp and lifeless. OMAHA has been a trifle slow in di covering that she has an important in- torest at stuko in the Hast Omaha case pending in the supremo court, but fortu- nately it is not yet too lme to intervene on behali of the city. Now that the council has abolished the license inspector, steps should be taken by the mayor and police commis- sion to have the work of inspection car- ried out by other officers who are in position to look after violators of the license laws and ordinance: OLDER voters will remomber that in 1872 tho democrats, greenbackers and disgruntled ropublicans united under a common buanuer to prevent the re-elec tion of General Grant, They will also recall the fact that C was lected by an overwhelming ms Now thav Mr, Coots has the contract for completing the rotunda of the city hall he should put on his seven-league boots and proceed with dispatch to finish the building. Tt will be practi- cally impossible to open the building to tho public until the rotunda floor and corridors are tiled. SENATOR HiLL undertook to snub Congressman Harter for asking him to define his position on the Bland bill, Since Harter’s strong anti-silver speech in the house on Tuesday, the New Yor politician has discovered that he at- tempted to snub one of the brainiest democrats in congress. AT LAST an ordinance has been intro- duced to regulate the use of streets and alleys by wagons hauling earth and the kind of wagons to bo used. The experi ence of the past winter should plainly show the necessity of a law to prevent the indiscriminate use of streets for hauling earth in wagons from which the earth continually drops into the strcot. i council hus determined to expend #18,000 in gas and electric light fixtures for the city hall. In other words the council is bent upon spending all the money available for that structure. The proposed expenditure is inexcusable ex travagance. It now looks as if the gas and electric light fixture men were us potential with the council as the agents of the Ketcham furniture company A man up a tree it looks as if there had /een a distribution of more orders for plug hats, 10 o | the reading of Sali ANUTHER ULTIMATUM. The Bering soa question has assumed a gravor nspect, owing o the continued rofusal of Lord Salisbury to consent to a renewal of the arrangament of last year for the vrotection of the seal. respondence relating to this matter was submitted to the senate by the president yesterday, and the dispatches state that bury's note refusing to renew the modus vivendi and making counter propositions was received with evident irritation by the senate. The is charactorized and equivoeating, and the president’s rejoin- to brondly hintso much, insisting upon o renewal of last year’s agreement without reference to insignificant or irrelevant conditions. The sevious phase of the matter is the nee given by the president that if sut Britain declines to nsgist in pro- tecting the seals during the progress of arbitration he will proceed to enforce the laws and exclude poachers from Bering sea if the military forcoe of the United States is required to accomplish it. Assuming this to aetly 1 nt the lan » of the president, it is hardly possible that the British gpovern- mwent will regard it otherwise than ns a mennce which it may deem it necessury 10 resent. There avpears to bo no chance for an honest difference of opinion as to the courso of Lord Salisbury in this matter. He has notacted faicly and in good faith. Tho renewal of last year’s modus vivendi, in its original form, or with nd- ditional scenrity ngainst the threatened extermination of the scals, was reason- ably assumed by this government to be a matter of course. Thore is manifestly just as valid and urgent reasons for pro- teeting the seals during the appronch- ing season as there were a year ago. Indeed it may be more necessavy to sup- ply such protection now, for if the poachors were left to tun unchecked pursuit of their business the indis- criminate sluughter of the seuls wouid bo carried on move recklessly and ex- tensively than ever before, and should arbitration result in favor of the United States, this industry would be so nearly destroyed as to be of little value thereafter. The fact that tho British commissioners sent to Bering sen reported that the seals are not in immediate danger of being extermin- ated is not a sufficient justification of the decision of Lord Sulisbury hostile to a most important industry in which the United Statesis chiefly interested, but the preservation of which is really the concern of the whole world. Comity as well as good faith demanded tha' he should continue lust year’s agreement. The vosition of President Harrison in this matter will bo approved by the country. There is a law of congress prohibiting the killing of seal in the waters of Aluska, and the obligation to exocute that law is imperative on tho president. Agreeably to the mandate of the law he issueda proclamation some time ago warning all poachers to keep out of the waters over which the United States claims jurisdiction. The British government is fully awave of all this, and the refusal to renew the modus vivendi suggests a defiance of the gov- ermuent of the United States to enforce its law according 1o its own interprotn tion. It probably is not intended to have this meaning, bug it is faivly sub jeet to such a construction. The presi- dent will undoubtedly make good his assurance, and congress and the country will sustain him in doing so. Meantime the sonate. it isannounced, will ratify the arbitration treaty, so that the ques- tions to be determined by urbitration will not be embarrassed by the issue re- garding a modus vivendi The cor- note as ovasive der is said while nesur ung even THE FARMER IN POLITICS, We speak of the farmer in politics as though it were something extraordinary that a farmer should go into politics, I'rom the foundation of the republic until now the United States has been an agricultural commonwealth, The framers of the federal constitution were for the most part planters and farmers, George Washington was a planter and 80 were Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe and Andrew Jackson, Ios the pust forty yeirs, however, lawyers have constituted the great majority of the national and state legislatures, Law- yers have filled the executive chair and muke up two-thirds of the presidentinl binets. For many years the farmer has, as a rule, baen content to help his educated ecity neighbors into places of profit and trust while he hus gone on de- voloping his farm and enjoying the so- renity and comfort incident to his voca- tion. The conditions ave changing, however. The farmer is asserting himself, not altogether because the lawyers, bankers and merchants have imposed upon him, but because the general dissemination of intelligence through school and news- paper has roused his ambition to partic- ipate in government. It 1s this confi- dence in his own judgment of public affairs and knowledge of the scienco of legislation which have encouraged him to seck to influence the making and en- forcement of the laws under which he lives, Theve is no causs for apprehension in this fact, On the coutrary, it is sato to assort that our public affairs will be more efliciently administered and our revenue more judiciously apportioned hy increasing the proportion of sturdy men in public offices. Farming has al ways been a noble occupation. With the improved mothods of later years and the increaso of conveniences conse- quent upon the marvelous inventions and commereial notivity of the past few years, moroe men of culture will turn their atteation to agricultural pursuits. A convention of farmers ev now ¢on- tains us fair un average of refinement and intelle*tual ability as a like gather- ing of represontatives from almost uuy other walk of life. The farmor has come iato politics to stay. He will henceforth remain an important fuctor in shaping the destioy of the republic. He may for a time be | on the wrong track, seeking redress for real or imaginary griovances. e muy be carried away by wildeat schemes, by | demagogues und visionaries. But ho | will not long submit to imposition. He has a mind of his own and can hear, read and weigh political discussions with an accuracy which reaches prompt and 30+ | city. THE OMAH definite conclusions. Tho eccentricitios of Simpson, the vagaries of Donnelly and the insincerity of Vandervoort may temporarily mislead farmers, but the) wil! not be long in winnowing tire chafl from the wheat. — e ENFORCE THE IRON-POLE ORDINANCE The strect railwa§ company has ap- plicd for permission to ercet additional motor line poles in the lower part of the This reminds that the ordi- nance relating to the erection of pol for motor lines has never been enforced. Section chapter 69, Revised Ordinances, grants permission to the railway company to erect construct its lines of wire under the supervision of the Board of Public Works and suspend the same frem iron poies of an ornamental shape and pattern 1o be approved by the city council and such iron poles shall be of a height that will suspend the wires not less than twenty feot above surfaco of the stroet. An exception was made in the ordi- favor of the existing motor company, which was permitted to erect wooden poles tomporarily, but quired to substitute iron poles within six months from the date of the pussage of the ordinance. This ordinanee is and has been ade d letter, six months within which the wooden poles were to be replaced by iron poles *‘of an ornamental pattern” expired nearly two years ngo. The company has never submitted to the lany pattern for ornamental or unsightly iron poles. Not only have the old wooden poles not buen replaced by iron poles, but miles upon miles of wood- en pole motorline has been constructed since the passage of the ordinance in violation of law. That is not all. There is not a single motor wire twenty feet above the streot center. The most unsightly nuisance in Omaha is the forest of wooden poles and promiscuous wires, Iverystrangor who comes to this city is unfavorably impressed with tho blockade of our prin- cipal thoroughfares by pole lines of every height and si If we have to submit to the pole nuisance even tem- porarily, we can and should at least im- prove the appearance of our thorough- fares by enforcing the iron vole ordi- nance and compelling the telograph and telephone companies to take down all poles not absolutely noeded and make them string their wir on one set of poles of uniform height, sharing tho use of such poles by whomsoever they may bo erected. Omaha 15 to be the center of attrac- tion for thousands upon thousandsof vis- itors. Our business streets would com pare favorably with those of any other city of equal population if it were not for the wire and pole blockade. If we are to spend thousands of dollars in en- tertaining our visitors, let us also take the nccessary steps to exhibit in the most favorable aspect our broad streets and supesh business blocl — THE DECLINE OF SILVER. The government bought silver Mon- day at alittle over 89 cents por ounce, which according to the ant treas- urer at New York is the lowest price at which silver was ever purchased by the treasur] Iixcept for a short tima after the enactment of the existing law re- quiring the government to purchase $1,500,000 worth of silver monthly the market value of that metal hus steadily declined. Representative Harter of Ohio, one of the democrats oppos:d to free and unlimited coinage of silver, said in Tuesday’s dobate on the Bland bill that gold solls in all parts of the world for 22.85 times its woighy in sil- ver, but the difference is really more than this. At tho price paid by the government on Monday last it takes about twenty-three and one-half ounces of silver to buy one ounce of gold, so that the actual value of the silver dollar relatively to geld is but a small fraction over 69 cents. Such 18 the staading of silver aftor more than eighteen months of the opera- tion of the law under which the national treasury absorbs the produet of Ameri- can mines, It is a situation very diffor- ent from what was generally exnected to result from this legislation, but none the iess it is valuable testimony against the policy of free and unlimited coinage in the absence of an international agree- ment regarding silver. If the United us 03 street and nuneo in was ro- o he count s ssi Stutes cannot maintain its own silver at a pavity with gold it manifestly cannot do this for the silver of the world. ‘T'he production of silver is increasing. Tho countries of Furope votalready onagold busis are seeking that position. In these clr sixteen to one, must inevitably fail, with the consequence of banishing gold from circulation and from tho country, and establishing here the single silver stan- dard, Nothing could b3 more absurd than the counsel of the fres coinago advoeates that the Unitel Stutes ought to disvegard the linancinl policy of other natio This country has commercial relations with all the world, and while in- jury to ourselves ignore the policy of these continue we cannot without countries with which we have the extensive dealings and create au pendent and anvagonistic system, By far.the g most financinl pater tries, und whenever the United abandons that standard it will be at disadvan . We should lose our demoralize our foreign commerce, and introduce instability and uncertainty into all transactions of a financial and comymnercial nature, Within the past year more gold has the United Statos the history of the country during an equal period, and it notwithstanding the from in gone to Kurope than ever before continues to ve 80, ry large balance of trade in our fuvor. The most significant ey is to ba found in the European holdo.s of ties that this country apprehension of American sa will adop fres silver coinage, and they could not then ot gold for their securitivs. S Fostor said on bis return from Englani that the financial interests of that coun- try would b2 delightsd if the Uuitad States should adopt free coir cretary ge, be- cause thut would put the country on a | single sitver basis and iusure to the umstances an offort on the part of this country to lift silver to a pavity with gold, maintaining the legal ratio of inde- part of our com- merce is done with gold standurd coun- States u old, planation of this THURSDAY financial and soommoroinl advantage of ingland, and {¥44s not to be doubted that the othen ntions of Europe entor- | tin a simila#dealing. Certainly no greater or g\;xf\‘nr mistake could be made than to, glisregard such admoni- tions and put this country on a financial lovel with Chihe Tndia and M vy ——— TiE statement made by the finance minister of C'annda in the Dominion House of Comunons, rolative to the ne- gotiaticns for areciprocity treaty with the United Stitgs, fully oxplains the failure of the Canadian commissioners, They simply proposed a free exchange of nutural products, while Mr. 1 insistod that American manufacturers should bo protected against the compotis tion of British manufacturess in the Cananaian markets. As Canadi would not consent Lo this the negotintions ended; and in the opinion of the financs minister for years to come. This 18 very likely unless ono of two things should havpen—either a libaral governmsnt be chosen in the Domirlion willing to mako fair terms with the United States, o a democratic government ba electod in the United States that would bo susesptible tothe suggestionsof the Canadian tories, Moanwhile this country can ve voll afford to lot thoe situation remain as it is, and it is certain that no ot will ba made to change it by the present admin- istration. The Canaliau people are all split up over the question of a commor- cial policy, and sooaer or later they will be compelled to seok closor trade rols tions with the United States rozardiess of the intorests of Great Britain, This country can wait for that time. cico. Trw ordinance requiring insprctors of public works to have the necessary qualifications has been defeated by the council and the contractors’ ring is happy. Their howl about a new Tam- many, like the ery of “stop thief” by the pickpocket, was intended merely to distract public attention from their own schemes of jobbery. Now the Board of Public Works will be in position to r peat the farce of appointing political strikers and parties recommended by the contractors to do the inspecting of pavements, and other public Works. sewers Jemosral. Mills will capture that Texas senatorship. Thus the house will 1ose a govd member and the senats get a poor ono. A Pairmount, Neb., politician was kickod in the mouth by .m horse. Horse senso al- ways revolts at the Nobraska politician. il Dengee sl Gone but Not Forgotten, | Bieton Globe. From only 250: miles of railroad in 1567 Nebraska now has 5,400 miles, or within 900 of the mileage of al] Now Eagland. The ouco “great Americun desert’’ spoms to be moving to the other side of the map. e A Revelation Spolled. Chicago Mail. An alderman says ho was offered 817,000 to vote for a certyin franchiss. If ha had stonped rignt thepghis statement would have been balieved, but.awnen ha added that he haughtily refused it the wholestory is robbed of its value as an important revelatior. ———— The Anti-Millionnire Denver Sun, Peffer thinks to discourazo millionnires by taxing estates of $2,000.000 3) por cent. At this rate, should a man have $7,000,000. it would amount to confiscation. His new bill is a sort of an accordeon-pieated aYair and is dosigned to make him and his goatos popular with the yeoman, —_— Alas, Poor Boles. New York Advertise Towa seems to bo having all the calestial phenomena now-a-days. Tao latast is a beau- tiful mateor that flashed across the northern sky and burstinto fragments when 1t nearod the earth’s surface. Alas, poor Boias; they have soon his star in tho wost aud that was the end of it: the glory of a moment and then—fragments. Plan, Upon tho authority of the chairmav of the Iowa repunlican coavention Mr, James G. Blaine 1s *the most commanding figure of all the earth—the 1dol, not only of his own party, but of ali the carth.” It would be interast- ing to know what percentage of the popula- tion of this great earth 1s not even aware of the existenco of the Maine idol. ——— ¢ of Light, Times, To a correspondent who inquiros “*What is the matter with Flower or Whitney of Now Yoric!? the New York Herald responas: *Ihic country wauts a westorn man, Taat's | what's the matter with I"lower or Whitney of New York." This brigot gleam of intelli- genco in ths editovial page of the Herald will shine as far as o good desd in this naugnvy world. T — Distranchising Ropubl] San Franciseo Chronicle, ‘Tho state of Missouri is to bo redistricted 50 that tne democrats will have foarteen out of the Bftesn districts, As the republican candidate for president yn 1888 receivod 230 257 votes 1o 261,974 oast for Cleveland it would seem that the democratic legislature of Mis- souri is not very auxious to show fair play to its opponeats, The ouly hopa decont people | hivo of seoing tho gorrymanduring abuso sbated is teat held out by the politicians themselves, wholin their anxiety to mako things go thelr own Wiy hesitate st no out- rage. Some uay! this hozgishness will operateon pablic ssntument in such a fashion that the demand for reform cavuot bo re- sisted, ns. - QUAINT AND CURIOUS, A Mississippi cpan who has counted the number of sceds i @ bushel of vavious grains | found that corn went 72,1305 wheat, 530,000; | poas, 100,000; colion sood, 14, 105, "Tho Maunhicher riflo is u prosty oficacions weapou, Au Austrian soldier suicided with one the ottier day. The buller, after passing avother soldier, killing him of course, aud made o serious woupd in tha arm of & third Charles Parlattd and Autonio Parlatto ars orothers, aud before they left Italy they war riea sisiers. Both setilea in Biruiugham, Conn. Ou Mareh 19 the remarkablo coinei dence oceurred of the wives of cach giving birth 1o twins withio a few hours of each otner. One set of twins was girls, the other boy's. 1o Surrey county, North Carolina, there is a mountain whose outling displays @ striking likeness to the Spbiux of Igypr.” 1t is i the nortlwestern part of the state, just east of | Pledmont plains. AL s distance of ten miles | tho igure is th exuct counterpart of that of a gigantie lion, its body at riglt angles Lo b precipitous ridge, and with head reared aluit | as if 10 the act of rising. They bave some lofLy cil South Amer ica, Lut they bave not & monopoly of them, as oné would be led to understand by o reesnt item in the San Franciseo Cail, as follows ““I'e four cities in the world with the higk- est elevation above the sea level are ot \u Bolivia, 18,880 feet; Cuzeo, in Peru, 11, | La Paz, 'in Bolivia, 10583, and Quito, in | Ecandor, 4,548 As Leadville, Colo., is 0¥ ¢ through his body, went through the head of | the Blue Iidge range, and Lies prone upon the | MARCH 24, 18 10,000 feet high, of course it is one of the four highest, instond of Quito, as the Call should know, to bo trathful and patriotic. A Dotroit man has a novel walking cane that represents the work of 0dd hours every day for six woeks, It is made of old postage stamps of various denominations and six na tionalities—Unitod States, Uanading, Eog lish, Fronch, Gorman and Ttatfan, It took 5011 stamps to mako the cane. The face valuo of tho stamps was $100. The surface of tho came, when the stamps woro all on, was filod smooth and finished until it elazed A heavy gold kuob comvletes one of the handsomest and most unique canes evor seen in Detrot, T - ARID LAND BILL, FiewiNG, Colo, March 20,--To the Editor of Tne Ber: 1 notico you speak 1n favor ot the passage of the arid land bill, « You are, no doubt, unfamiliar with the underlylng motive of this bill. It is provided in this bill that ‘‘oach homesteader or settlor of irrigable lands may have appropriated to him or ioased, all contiguous grazing lands. This can bo with or without price, as the states decide.” Now, is rot this plain enough! Is thero a settler or farmer wost of thoe 90th meridian so obtuso that ho canvot seo that this is a schemo of tho cattle barons to rogain possession of all public ldnds lying betwoen the Rocky mountains and the ®ith meridian ! LSvery sottlor on tho tablo land in eastern Colorado and westorn Nebraska and Kansas knows that it is practically impossible to ir- rigate said nortious of land uniess 1t could bo dono by means of artesian wells, which at Lost are visionary. Every scttler knows that shouid this bill pass nearly all, or at least the greater partof the public lands now open for settlement by homesteaders would be grabbed by cattle mon. Wo clain that the homestead law bas been o great benetit to poor farmers who would have been ovliged to work and save nearly all their lives to gain abcme bad not tie homestead law beon passed. Wo beiieve that the great majority of farmers in the territory mentioned aro obposed to thoe passago of the bill. We also believe that President Harrisou wili do woll 10 veto the bill if it does pass. The heclers for this bill may succeod in pulling the wool over tho eyes of our senators and representa- tives in regard to this matter, but thoy can- not blind the intelligent settier on public lands. The lands described in the bill are not “arid lands.” We raised as zood crops last scason as were raised 1 aoy other state as un_average, and wo intend to continue raising good crons here, Let tho advocates of the arid land bill visit this country inJune or July and bo convinced thatthe great American aesert 0ss0m us the rose.” M. Wisey. PR 12 Grand Arimy Men in Texus. a1 Paso, Tex., March 23.—The city is crowded with Grand Army men, their wives and daughters from Texas and New Mexico. A erand parade was held yestorday in which confederate vetorans participated. There wero (00 men in line, The address of wol- como was deliversti by Mayor Cuples, who turned over to the veterans an immense koy upon which was painted: “Paint this town blue and green. Ho said the city was theirs. Last night speeches were mado by General Mann of Texas, General Fountine of New Mexico, Dr. Robnson of El Paso, and Mr. Downs of New Mexico. e RUMORS OF THE DAY, An Indinn named “L Law,” was killed rovs the Roscbud Agency—and It rizht 1ys-0n- otly at served him well That was & nen triok. Atchison Globe: In most novels girls are taught how to be heroines, not how fo bo wives. Chicazo Times: id the good young man. 1 do not believe in fizhting, If a man should smite me oo ony cheek I would turn unto him the other one.” “Best thing possible for sponded the reprobate of the club. “No man who had Tun up against your cheok once would risk nis knuciles agalnst another just as ard.” ou to Somerville Journul: Weeping Do you dread ¢ b Old Citizen Relative— raid to die. But Idonot itke to the newspaners iou | wm buried will say in the headline: “Another Old Landmark tGone.” Asunens New York Hera'd, o purchased a suit that was Enzlish, A cane that was quito up to date, A hat that was natly o To cover his v Then this dude 1 A thing that witl surely appall, He ook 1 thick parse front his pockot Aud honestly pid for thez uil, < quite surprising, Washington Star: “Loarn to labor and to walt.” I8 good advico. The wreat difliculty about it Is the disposition manifested to dis- reizurd the first portion of the proverband pu all the emphasis on the last, ate Pield's' Washington: Miss Passo (to x Mrs. Benedict).--Mrs, Benedict, just iet ve you a wrinkle, Mrs. Benediet tmentally)--1 don't kuow nny- body who couid spare one hetter. Todianapo'is Journal: “AL" mused Hungry ilizgins. asthe “charitablo of} steercd him towara the eity wood yard, *1 have onee more struck the popular cord.” Mr. Harpor's Bazar end_a story out for pubiieation,” said Dulipath, the realist, Swithout first having slept over it sl don’t betieve I've ever read one of them ser, without dofog the same thing.'” re- New O At store in o go-as. A running account 1 ofa man's pocked OU-pleaso rice. Kansas City Thnes: Don't try to do too much, 1t is s dd that o man in Kuns s is now Dadd-headedd beeause o was dete 1 that his wifo shouid leari 1o eat pio with a fork. cans Picayuno: Tale Record: “There,” said the ¢ Jonan was tossed overnoard, “that’ tase of prophict and 10s5."" ptain Columbus Post wer one's lawye fijes his bili" th sccount gets, Rochestor Post: © 10 be const the eseape of 1 Attendint—Yes crazy to get out. suppose you prOV Asylum 1ol thum ure just WITH THE PINS, Me, in Ladies' Hom: sht's 1 is the stain of lust woek's tour? Whore is tho tooth that d last yeo ne where the 105U pins <0 Lo; For fast night's riddle 15 all made vluln, The sunshine liughs at the jong-past riin, Aud the tooth thitt achod hath 103t 1ts pain— Phat's Whitt our troubies grow 1o, Where are the elothes that wo u Waere ire thy birdens we used to bhoar? Where s the bald=hend's curling h Gone where the plns Aisuppea For the style has chunged and the new. The skies e wonring o briz The halr doesn't sniri as iCused t And the pirting his L rown mo od Lo wenr? Bills that our that the bu Where aro i1 Where is tic Whero ire the de Wihiero have tie On the oid bills pa d are The birby's at s Aud the sguabs own You cun't bring 1 gono LW o 008 With her pins out 0 FUnBING & nest of thrown. oW, their ‘ew back if you want to. Wo can stand the snart of yesterduy, Toduy's worse His wo ean drive wway Whist's wirs wnd I8 brinzs no dimiy 1108 st iid DIGSLAL SOEEDN | But the burdens tuat make us SWoit, Phe troubles that muke us fume and frot, Are the things that huven't hippenod ye Phe pins thiat we'll tind tomorow. groan and IMMIEDIATE, 7 8. Carey “T had flicted iy 2 with Neural- gia and t, BarTiMore, MD. vised t = St. Jacobs O, wh.ch 1 did and was entircly relicved.” Ina M. FFLEMING, T IS TEE BEST. TARIFF AND THE NEW SOUTH the Need of Oarolina Lumbermen Foel Some Governmental Protection, SOME FACTS CONCERNING THE TRADE Whi Forth the Sabjeot—Evid Progress Observed on Many Sides “Down Soath, " Wisnivaroy, D. C., March 10,-—[Special Correspondence of Tue Ber.]—Just thoro is a good deal of agitation in the Caro linas over the proposition to put lumber or tho freo list and the possibility that the effort will succeed. When the Morrison and Mills bills proposed to chop a large por tion of the duty off of rice, tho two Caro linus came to the front with some of ablest domocratic lawyors ana and bogged that their same timo old represented th industry " be tto saved. Thog that it would within a short time bo com: pletely dropped, and wo would have to de: pond upon Japan and othor rice producing countries for our supply. servad kot Tho duty was pre. It 1s reprosented today by the mar columns ot ox-confoderato south, that tho domestic out: put of rice 1s not selling at all: at pricos whic tion unprofitable and undesirablo, A recent run through thy contral and coast convinces portions of the two Carolnas your correspondent that the trade in tumbor, logs and tho product of tre the leading business of tnoso two statos. Two-thieds of the men at work about work—aro engaged in oithor business or tho turpentine and The groatost mills the rosin trado. something from treos with Carolinas abound. woods which cover more than surface of the Carolinas ure going dows rapidly bofore tho axemen today, and the complaint from low as to be uuprofitable, Prices and Prospects Then and Now, I find a statement in tho recent editorial columns of the newspaper above roferred to rate 1nformation us to the present value of Carolina lumbor and timoer Iands compared to what they were bofora our lumoer were de- loas- much as the fizures appearin s freo trade which gives acc: importations of Canadian veloped as they have recoutly boo. organ of credit and come from a bourbon nen, they must bo accepted as true figures. “Southern lumber, tho tast twenty. lumbe feet. 75 cents Lo $2.50 por acre, conveniently located noar ra:lronds. ive yoars. Ten was worth from 812 to $18” per 1,000 bo induced to buy timber at sul from railroads. Today lumber is worth from &S to $12 per 1,000 feet, and standing timber is worth trom %2 to 8 por acre, and must be bought all the way from eight totifteen miles from tne railroad or not at all.” The fact that alarms southera lumber states, 1s that “about nine- ty per cent of tue piue lumber manufactured in the south,” to quote from this ex authority further, “auring the last ten vears and up Lo the present time had already "been vled for turpentine, theroby killing n_great ! many treos at onco and endangering the lifo of tho eutiro forest by fires and worms. Anvone at all acquainted with timbar knoiws very well that when once the trees bave been turpentined for three or four years that very soon the whole forest is dead “or blown down and becomes of very littlo or no value to tne lumberman.” It is. therefore, just 50 much more for the parson who has trees turpen- tined to ke able to turn them ovor to the lum- berman. "The prowmise of free lumber and free com- pstition with the Canadian forests is elarm- ing @ number of southern states, and should the promiso bo fultilled it is sure to cause a ravolution in one of the loading, if fovemost, interests of the south. was maintaned on sugar for a long period ot vers for the south. Tho duty on rice other section of the country. Aund yeu tho south 1s opposed to the party thut gives this protection. Some Southern Improyvements. Despite the fact that the greatest opposi- tion to tho McKinloy taviff bill came from the south, Lam told by southern gentlemen interested in that section and now at work devoioping its intorests that bas accrued to tho value of property and other section, Not ulone have the iron and coal and_ lumber interests manifolded since the Rifty-first congress was elected and population than anew tariff was assurad, but fruit raising almost and general commorce has been the Charleston News and Courlor Sots now tholr politicians infant” and at the ovon tuke off a fourth of tho duty woula so impair the rice industey the Charleston Nows and Courier, the leading bourbon organ of the that the Japan product s occupying the market, and mako tho domostic produe- s is by all odds tho towns and in the country at this moment— ana this is the season ,when farmers are at lumber recently put up 1n thoso states ara for the production of lumbor or which the two Piue, cedar and other balf of the you the lumbermen and the owners of the lands 13 that the prices aro so it savs, “is today being sold for loss money thau ever before during years ago ndiug timber was then sold av from provided it was Thon timber lands from eight to fiftecu miles from ! the railroads were considered of very little vatue and no lumbermun, or very few, could a distance the two Carolinas most just now, and indesd some of tho othor llont uot the = The duty is mamtained solely for a small areain the south. The duty on lumber is of far more intorest to the south as a protection than any more venefit | south in_proportion to the any double in importance. Thore have bosn mora faotories, shops, mills ynd private residences and winter rasorts ostablished since the eloc tion of 1558 in Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia and the Virginias thau during tho ten years beforo that date. As soon s President Har. rison and a republican congress were chosen and a protective and stablo government as surod thoso sections of the south which, could bo most affected by tho acts of & pa tornal government began to take ngw 1ifo. 1 am told that the groat Cosst Lino rail- road, which runs from New York to Fampa, ks Bad its businoss incroased full 90 per cont or moro sineo tho period named. Its fruit trade has grown so enormously that fast through freights for oranges and early vogotables alone mnke pilgrimages betwoon the extremo north and south now as quickl as formerly did the ordinary passengor 1 ! trains, Thon the road has lumber trains and trains loaded with manufactures from the southern states for the north—a fact which never before oxistod. 'I'io north has n | heretofore furnished the south quite all of o | tts manufactures. There aro at present in 1 | Georgia somo of the largest cotton mills on oarth, making all kinds of cotton goods and thread—a line herotofore confined to Fall River mills Oue of the most remarkable growths of the » south since the election of the present ad ministration has been in tho winter rosorts. m an absurdity to claim that n taviff or any other fedoral law could affect the winter or summer rasorts, where peoplo go for hoalth or pleasure, and . { have no rezard for commereinl intorests. But attention was attracted to Florida, for in stance, ns s00n as tho ora of u “new south’! was announced by tho selection of a presi dent and a congress with dovelopment of al sections in view. A single New York cap 8,500 residents, and invested probably threo or four millions of dollars. He built tho - | three finest hotels in the United States, Castile Revived in Florida, 1t i3 said the Ponco de Leon is the finest hotel in the world. It is probavly worth £,000,000 as it stands, It is bullt in tno quaintest and yet most approved Spanish architecture, copiod aftor some of the richost of tho palacos of Spain, and Is finished and furnistiod far better thin the finost palace on Spanish ground. 1ts architecture and artistio displays ave alone worth traveling a thousana miles 10 oo, Mr. O. D. Soavey, tho managor, tells mo that ho has turned away from 100 to 00 visitors almost. every day during the pres ent sonson. The whole iittle city, which looks lke o panorama of u Section of” Madria, has been metamorphosed. Ono fools ke be s in a forcign land. The old sandy streets haveall boen asphaited. Tho smoky old buildings constructed centuries ago by the Spanish, have been brushed up und look cloan, and thera is life, even for that quaint _centenarian, which has been tho 0 | curio of the Now World for a hundred yoars. There is the samo old Spanish cordiality, amid tho glamour and whirl of tho most fashionable visitors of the outiro north, and, despite tho announcement that tho siew tariff law would 1 | rob every one with bigh prices, this splendor comes lower in dollars than that which tho northorn visitor endured five yoars ago. St. Augustine 1s the cleanest, most attract i ive city of 10,000 persons in the entire coun tey now, It has, hesides tho finest hotel in the world, which is_tho wonder of urchitects | and artists from every ciime, a hum of new { lifo—us if by magic a new boing had touched it. What tins brought 10 life the great IPonce de Leon and attracts thero every wintor to enjoy the warmth of summer sunshino has brought, toalmost every othor point in Flor- % | id now prosperity. Thers are hundreds of bonutiful hotels just opened, and hundreds of thousands of poersons go south now that did not go five gaars ago. That magic which has brought thentirs country into prospority has callod attention to what was once Llor- ida's sandhills and dovoloped at least ono ¢~ phase of it bayona the fondest hope. P.S. H To Abolish Imprisonment for Debt, New Your, March 23.—There has boen in- troduced in the legislature a bill to ropeal all | the provisions of tho coae relatinz to im- prisonment in civil actions, Tho bill abol- ! ishes the last remaining vestige of imprison ment for debt,aud with it tho dobtor's prison, Ludiow street jail, whick is directed to ba turned over to the city authorities for public usos. The peual code is to bo amended so s to provide for the punishment, s a misdo- meauor, of all cases of actual fr wercial transaction p—-_ Twenty-Six Million Surplus, New Yong, March 23, —Reports ara busy {in Wall street with Standard Oil affairs. “Thero have boon rumors of u big undividat surplas, rovorted to be as large as §26,000,0)) over and above the capital _of 15,000,000 in outstauaing cortificates. Part of this su plus, it is saic, will go as addivional capital 10 the minor companies 10to which the trust has been broken, and the remuivder will 5o as a cash roturn to the certificate holders. o Dan Lamont Seriously Tl ¢ Yok, March 23.—A morning papor . states that Colonol Daniel S. Lamont has bsen seriously ill Tor the past two weeks, Ho 15 uot yet. out of danger, and sinoe last Satur- day physicians have beon in constaut attou ance. On bis return from tho south M Lamont was so feetle that he had to ba car ried on a stretehor from tho carriage to i bed. The utraost pains have beon taken t. | keep tho daugerous iliness of Mr. Lamont socrot. Things Are Comin Cuicaco, 111, March 2. —Wardon Edward J. Murphy of tho Chester penitentiary anc Governor Fifor's chief lieutenantiu southerr. Itlinots, Is in tha city today, and claims thau of 204 delagates to the state convention se- lected up to yestorday 154 are favorablo to tho renomintion of Lifer. ~ BROWNING, KING 8o W, Cornor 15th and Douzlis 3t The man Has evidently made ()(ka ton, From [t If you ¢ Lil have cony sprit {and what you want. the styles are new, or 5, equal to tai Browning, Open Saturdays till | Othier evenings il vk Up a Tree--- denced by the following But Nobby, neat and nice; or made, and the prices within the reach of all. himself heard as is ev- from Mr. R. Drit- of Underwood, Tlowa. linury vices; e you Know, nricos. our perch you see e 1 me—in conflde W soe another eut o that of Browning, K then you don't climb a tree to ince yourself that our, 1g novelties in suits over are just i) coats col- all the leading All sis King & Co Corner 15th and Douglas St .CS, N talist went to St. Augustine, Fia,, a town -vl\