Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 15, 1893, Page 4

. o s i THE DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER Editor, PUBLISITED EVERY MORNING. [ TERME 01 I'"”’ Ree without $and aily and Sunday, One Y 1x Months v hree M Kunday oo aturdny 1 Weckly Bec, ¢ SUBSCRIPTION One Year.. 8 8 00 10 00 600 250 200 160 100 OFFICES e Bee Building alig, corner N and 20(h Streets, suncil BluiTs 12 Pearl Streot Chicago Offiee, 817 Chamber of Commerce New York, Roors 1 \d 16, Tribune Ruilding Washinzton, 515 I LESPONDENC tions relath addressed y nows and to the Al comr editorial matt Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, A1l business letters and remittances shonld 1o addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafis, checks and postoffice orders 10 be made puyable to the order of the com- pany. THE B PUBLISHING COMPANY. BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Ftate of Nebraskn. County of Louglas, | Gieorke B Trachuck, secrotary Bee Po Jehing company. doos solemnly swear that th “ ! CTHE DAILY BEE for the week Was as f0110WS ary of TiE BER P 26,000 8 Ahursday, ¥ arch o Friday, March 10 Eaturday, March 11 Sworn to bafore me his i1th day of March, I8y N. I, FEIL T8EA Notary Public. s . - Average Circalation fo NO MORE PARLEVING. To (. M. Hitcheock, President World Pub- lishing Company: Ido not propose to parley with you any further ding the cireulation contest. [ have neither time nor space for such a diver- sion. The propositions made by myself and accepted by you have been given ample pub- licity. The conditions of the contest are all in your favor. If you don't sce fit to avail yourself of them you are at liberty to drop out. If you want to comply with the conditions, proceed. The time for talking is past. In any event, all further communications will be ignored unless you address yourself by mail, messenger or in person to Mr. N. P. eil, business manager of Tur Bee, who is charged with the details of carrying out the conditions of the circulation contest on the part of Tue Brr I, ROSEWATER. DISINFE are cheap. the pen. Soap and water Use Nebraska made goods. By 11 ilure of his bank John J. Ingalls is left indeed “*a statesman out of a job.” THE BEE this morning prints the list of committees of the senate for the Fifty- third congress. It isin itself an carnest of the course that august body means to steer. SHOULD electricity take the place of the gasoline stove for cooking, the death rate among kitchen girls will decrease. The questicn is: Will such aresult prove economical in the long run? THERE is only one thing against the story sent out from “Abiququ,” N. M.,— wherever that is—concerning the fate of a troop of United States cavalry, missing sinea 1879, and that is the lay of the land between Santa ['e and Espa THE organs of the Linc: are still howling about the legislative investigations and denouncing THE BEE because it has supported all efforts made to clean the rats outof state institutions. ds on such denunciation. ‘WESTERN railways have about de- cided to make a 20 per cent reduction on all World's fair passenger traffic. Cana- dian roads have agreed upon a 33 per cent reduction. The fact is, they all ought to make one fare for the round trip. JUDGE BARTLETT TRIPP of Yankton talks guardedly as though he might have the land commissionership if he ‘wanted it. This is a slight indication that the president is looking to the west for a man for that responsible position. Very good. MAJOR EDWARD J. Hoon of Aflanta, Ga., may have little difficulty in estab- lishing the wounds he sustained during the war, but it may puzzle him to con- vince a jury that his injuries are such as warrant him in marrying every sus- ceptible woman he comes in contact with, ‘WITH a great flourish of trumpets the banks of Denver offered the government a million dollars in gold. But thoy have nothing to say of their quiet appeals to Omaha banks to help them make up the pot. Omaha might have loaned the government a million in the same way. +There are far worse means of advertising a town. THE federal supreme court has de- cided that letter carrviers cannot be ex- pected to work more than eight hours a day without extra pay for any time in excess of eight hours. Herein the court has vitalized a principle long contended for by lab)r organizations throughout the country. A universal eight-hour day is only a matter of time. THE Montana legislature has passed a law, which has been approved by the governor, imposing a fine of 8500 upon any scalper who may sell the whole or any part of an unused passenger ticket. Such a law could not be passed in nny legislature not owned by the railroads and no untrammeled court would hold it valid for a minute. But people don't expect much of Montana. THERE is a bill before the Illinois legislature to admit of mortgaged property being sold piecemeal. For instance, say a farmer has mortaged his farm and all appurtenances thereunto belonging. Under existing laws the whole property must be bid for in a lump. The proposed law would admit of the house being sold separately, or the horses to one purchaser and the cows 15 another, ete. This plan would doubt- Jess give some advantage to the man who mortgaged his property, and also might make it easier for the money lender to get his money. Every western state is groatly interested in land mort- gages and any measure that promises even the slightest degree of relief would be worth an e‘perlment. THE VALUE OF IRRIGATION, Very few people who have not given | careful study to the results of irvigation have any idoa of its value, 1t is a well known ‘act to those who have given tho subject attention that 1 lands are evorywhere the most productive and thorefore the most valuable. The state- ment of Mr. Hunt before the ndown club, that the arid rogion of this eoun- try, if ifrigated, would become more productive than that watered by rain, was not at all exagerated, because it is | justified by all That gentleman said that a farmer could raise ag much upon twenty acres by means of v trom a8 he could upon 100 acres without irrigation, and therve is plenty of testimeny that the case. | There is nothing ineredible in his othe statement that he had seen land that was worth but $6 an acre before buing i producing an annual erop worth $1,000 per ¢ Hunt esti- mated that there ar L, 000 acres of land in the west which can be productive by irrigation, an ares than seven times as large as Nebr and he said that with the thorough velopment of the water supply for s the United State 1 food te supply the experionc such s ), made more gation purpe could produce enoug tive world. Bx-Scerotary Rusk, in a magazine ticle recently published, estimates that if the rate of past growth in population | is maintained this country may contain a century henco 400,000,000 people. As- that the number will be one- third less, it is obvious that withina generation the ability of this country to feed its own people will have reached the limit unless a considerable part of the great avid region is made produc- tive. It has been ostimated that under existing conditions the United States v probably be compelled to import wh before the close of the present century This is hardly likely to be the but it cannot be a great many before we shall have reached the limit of food production on the lands now available, and when that time is reached | where shall look for needed sup- plies? Kuropean countries will not be able to furnish any, and not much ca be expected from the agrieultural countries of South America. This con- dition may be postponed a quarter of a century, but that it will come sooner « later, with no iferease of our productive resources, is as certain as that the | country will continue to grow in popula- | tion. There are some difficulties connected with the irrigation problem, but they are not insurmountable. At any rate it is apparent that a solution must be found in the not very remote future, and there is hardly any matter of practical concern to the American people which makes a stronger demand upon the serious attention of public men. THE TELEPHONE PATENTS. The business interests of the sountry are very much concerned in the vesult of the proceedings that were instituted | by Attorney General Miller just before rotiring from office for the purpose of annulling the Berliner telephone pat- body knows, the patent lexander Graham Bell on March 7, 1876, expired on the Tth of the current month, o that the field is open to competition so far as the Bell telo- phone is concerned. But there were issued in 1891 patents covering what is known as the Berliner telephone, and as this is the property of the American Bell Telephone company that corporation now proposes to hold pos- session of the field for seventeen years from the date of the granting of the Ber- liner patent. The attorney general, ino ski that this last patent be declared void, shows that the system it covers is identical in all respects with that of Bell, and he charges that it 15 therefore a fraud upon the patent office, plainly intended to per- petuate the control of the telephone business of the country in the hands of the company which up to March 7, 1893, had the unquestionable right to control it. The casc made out by the attorney general is an exceedingly clear and strong one, and there ought to be no doubt about its being sustained by the court, but unfor- tunately it has been shown more than once that the influence of the American Bell Telephone company is very strong in the courts of Massachusetts, so that it would not be safe to predict the suc- cess there of the government's case. Neither is it known at this time what the present attorney general, who is a Massachusetts man, will do in the mat- ter, though it is to bo presumed that he will not interpose to prevent the | case being judicially passed upon. The course of the court in delaying the taking of testi- mony several months has been unfavor- ably commented upon as indicating a desire to subserve the interests of the | telephone monopoly, but this may be un- just. Still it would seem that a matter of such material importance to the business interests of the entire country | should have been given attention at tho earliest time possible after the expira- tion ot the Bell patent. The allegation | of the highest judicial officer of the | goverument that a deliberate fraud | has been perpetrated is of such | a serious character that no time | shou be lost in determining whether or not the charge is well | founded. This is domanded by consider- | ations of justice hoth to the govornment | and the people. The Amevican Bell ! Telephone company has enjoyed the full | benefit of the patent granted to Alex- ander Graham Bell. For seventeon s, the period of life which the | roment gives to a patent, it has held an absolute monopoly of the tele- phone business. It has made scores of men wealthy. Everybody concedes the enormous value to the world of this dis- covery and those who have profited so viehly from it ave perhaps entitled to all they have received, but the time has come when this business should cease to be & monopoly and the inveutive talent of the conntry should have an opportunity to extend the usefulness of the telephone. Competition is needed in this as in other departments of busi- ness, so that the entire public shall not be laid under tribute by a single corpor- en- suming cnse, years wo | groator | pape | against all | ineness of the report, but the resolutions | ation, with power to exact whatever it THE_OMAHA_DAILY 015 1803, ploases. I this bo attained there is wson to expect in the near future much rosultd than have yet been Tt is to be hoped that the ney general will push the by his t) the conelusion, in the intor- government and the i WALL OF THE DISCONSOLATE. The average demoeratic editor hus a | + £ the main chance, The news- dispatehes Sunday announced that | sident Cleveland had put up the bars | oditorial applicants for of- | fice, The news struck terror to the | hearts of membors of the Demoeratic | Editorial association, m.-y;v; mother's son of whom has had a light- ning rod up since the November elec- | tion, It was more than they could stand, A speciai meeting was called instanter, the purpose of which was to 1 such action as the ey de- manded. When a democratic editor is | in doubt he always wri resolutions, This meeting of unterrified patriots for | revenue onl, rule. The grievance is sot distinet counts, The first tells of the dreadful proscription: the second ex- | presses some little doubt as to the genu- | achioved, present attc case made of the predoc both ple Pr eme was no exception to the out in four that follow plainly show that deep down | in their hardened heavts there was in- dignation that could not be suppressed. For had they not tread the wine press | for four long, weary Veavs with unex- | ampled self-suc and without hope of Ho their plai he Associated press dispatches of this date give out what purports to be the £ Mr. Bissell, postmaster z the appointment of aditor eral positions, because through suck ments Cleveland's predecessor su account of the cha press; and Wh as, This truthfulness of and : Whereas, The publishers of democratic newspapers have performed a labor of love for years, and without hope of reward have labo for democ c 0 nd Whereas, The goal has been reached and many editors are candidates for postmaster. ships and other federal positions; therefore, be it ; Re ved, That this association does rec- ommend the appointment of such applicants from among the ranks of the faithful editors of the state, believing that they will faith- fally and w3l perform the duties of such positions and in a manner that will not int fere with their duties as editors, or show the justice of the charge of u subsidized press, but further, that the emoluméhts ae- rived from any appointive office wiil tend to | strengthen and improve the and will | y benefit the del arty. | 'hat & copy of this resolution be | forwarded to the president and to Hon. J. Sterling Morton disconsolate wail was never put on paper within twenty-four hours | notice. Its authors had been feeding on hope since election, anxiously expect- | ing that the next mail from Washington would bear the precious commission for office whose emoluments would “tend to strongthen and improve the paper.” But now all glittering hopes were | blasted! The ofticy towel could never | again be washed and the patent medi- cine cuts would have to be called into service every week, tf. Mhe resolutions were made for Mr. Cleveland and a copy was engrossed for his special benefit. Possibly they are now speeding away to the white house. They were also given to the state press. But alack-a-day! the daily paper: taining these \Dpoint 1 on that he subsidized the the o utterance ; ssociation questions such purpor con- undque: resolutions also contained a positive denial from Grover that he had ever said it—that in his opinion a democratic cditor was as good as any other man. It was not until the second day in the morning that the Nebraska democratic editors realized that they had blundered in haste to repent at leisure. LESSONS OF A GREAT FIRE, The recent destructive fire in Boston, which in a very brief time swept away property valued at $4,000,000 and cost the loss of a number of lives, suggests to the New York Tvibune two lessons which are applicable to every consider- able city in the country. One is that | innumerable flimsy structures are going up constantly in all parts of the country which have uo right toexist. They come into being, says our contem- pora without much observation, and are not complained of until they are ravaged by fire aimost in a moment, perhaps with loss of life. Then there is a little excite- ment and much condemnation of tax ofticials follows, but this is about all that | follows. The principal trouble is that | municipal building laws are not gen- as stringent as they should be, such as they are their enforce- not thorough. Buildings in the s portion of all cities should be’ requived to be constructed of fire proof material, and there should be rigid inspection to see that this re- quirement is fully complied with. Per- sons erecting business buildings ought to know that it is to their own in- terest in every respect to use fire proof materials. Such structures are more lasting, they require less out- lay to keep them in repair, the cost of insurance, if they ave insured, is com- | paratively small, the fact that they are safe makes it easier to lease them and they command a higher rent rate than buildings not fireproof, so that while | the first cost is greater it is repaid many | times in the ways indicated. But as | there are persons who will not be infiu- enced by these considerations, and con- | sequently firetraps are being cons tantly | erected in cities throughout the | country, the only certain | to bring about a reform in this stringent laws needed respect is by means of and regulations thor- oughly enforeed. Anothor lesson of the | Boston fire was in the fact that the fire- men had great difficulty in fighting it, owing to the network of overhead wires which surrounded the burning struc- tures, It was impossibie for the fire de- partment to work to the bost advantage | with this obstruction in the way, and it is unqugstionable that but for this the conflagration would have been far less destructive. These overhead wires are everywhere, and the oxperience of Boston may be repeated any day in Omaha and other cities where such networks exist. The over- head wire i3 admittedly a nuisance and danger and should be excluded from the business portion of every city. The sug- gostions derived from the last Boston | while only | that Nebraska democrats ar | as the rest. | the des | to cleun out two years ago. fire are not pew. Almost every large community has Tad a similar experi- ence. Thoy ar¥i¥ne the less valuuble, howevor, and [4hgy cannot be too often or too strongly 4ntpressed upon the pub- lic mind. by I'1 18 & markew wompliment to Secre- | tary Tracy that g successor has doter: mined that the giyil orde sorvieo rules and hich ha eatablished in the navy yards of the cofytfy to be continued, and that the ruleof retention shall Ticiency and attdtion to duty and not | political faith. “Phe action of the ex- secretary in subfecting all employes in the navy yards to civil service reguls tions has approved by men of all parties, and the vrvesults to the service hav fully justified it. | Hitherto the navy yards have afforded local politicians a means of pay- ing off their political obligations and the service suffered, as must always be the case under such circumstances, from having a great many incompetent and | worthless men foisted upon it. For yours there had been a demand for re- form, but until Sceretary Tracy took hold of the matter there had been no one hold enough to make the needed change. This having been done, with results in the highest degr satisfac tory, there can be no doubt that the re- form will be maintained, as no part would the to interfer with it. been have temerity IF THERE is any merit, froma pa point of v, in having originated important a picce of I ation as the car-coupler bill, the republican party is entitled to the credit for that law. The attention of congress was first called to the subject by President Havrison in his annual mes: and legislation earn- estly recommended. The recommenda- tion was repeated with inereasing foree and earnestness in his last three annual me The fivst bill relating to it which was ever proposed in eon- gress was introduced by Representa- tive Henderson of Tow in the Fifty- first congress, that measure being the groundwork of and essentially the pres- ent law. Although the law could not have been enacted without demoeratic support, it may be interesting to note that in the house there were sevent seven democratie votes against the bill, en vepublicans went on record as opposed to it. The demoerats have no ground for claiming any special credit in connection with this legisla- tion, which is nncflo){ the few important acts of the last condress. THE arrest at Bdh Francisco of ard Heath on olugrgo of having mur- dered Louis B, gMeWhirter in Fresno last August is “only another chapter | added to the long,sgries of incidents con- nected with one of the most sensational and mysterious @ilmes in the Pacific coast’s annals. Not long after McWhi ter was killed it was openly charged in a San Francisco paper that he had com- mitted suicide. The paper sot up thut McWhirter, after;fnsuring his life for a large sum of mongg, went into the yard where he was found, threw two or three large clubs on thé “grbund, emptied one revolver by firing fnta.the ait, and then shot himself with another. The clear- ing upof the mystery will be of es- special interest to the public, as it involves a question of moment concerning life insurance. May a man who believes his life in imminent danger through prospective assassination in- crease his life insurance beyond such sum as he would ordinarily carry? is a question which the courts in passing on the case will have to determine. S0 res. Rich- THE decision of the switchmen at Chi- cago not to strike at this time is to be heartily commended. They had it in their power to have started a conflict between the railroad companies and their employes which might have be- come widespread, and it is easy to see that the effects of such a conflict could not be otherwise than disastrous to all interests. Such a disturbance. extend- ing, as probably would have been the case, throughout the northern section of the country, must have produced con- sequences of the most serious nature, at a time when all the resources and fa- cilities of the railroads will be taxed to the utmost to provide for the traffic. It is e y fortunate, thevefore, that wise counsel has prevailed with the men and that thethreatened trouble has been averted. CEDAR RAPIDS will be the next Iowa town to abandon the farcical show of prohibition and exact a revenue from the joints that thrive under the fostev- ing care of the Clark law. Free silver will not cut as much of a figure in the next lowa campaign as free whisky, | and the recent action of the State Temperance alliance in resolving to set up a prohibition party in the Hawkeye state will clear the way to the repeal of a measure which hds defeated itself in every populous center in the state. ABOUT this time every Washington is besieged seckers, but this year it seoms that every democrat who can get transporta- tion has gone to the national capital in quest of a job. And the record shows as hungry The fadt is, how that ng ones won't mix with the pact the fat offices ny ave called, but four y with er, common herd and, to come to them. foew ave chosen. THE legislative investigating commit- tee i3 now at Hastings overhauling the state institution which THE BEE sough Lot us hope that the committee fill find a better state of things there now, for if there over was & more corrupt nest of public officials than that which THE BEE broke up the annals of Nebraska never re- vealed it. Blessed Are Thoy Who Kxp Philadetohia Record. Happy are the democrats who don't want federal odices. They are not likely to be disappointed; but, ob, how few there be of them! t Nothing. - - Compounding u Felony. rand Istand dependent s friends and_relatives propose o XK, to be distributed among tke d positors in order Lo buy Mosher from the atiary. We would like to sec depositors benefited, but can the goddess of justice ap prove of & decision to sell alleged justice for | chusett: | the admir | remote | the ba \ money tion, and can a court allosw such & bargain aul sile! How can a poor man be sent to 1 ponitentiary, when a rich man fs allowed (o buy himself or his friend free from the penitontiary? Such a prece dent might lead to terrible conscquences e Cotd, or Kansas Oty Jorne It doesn't pay to be democrati and Texas have received nothine whatever in the way of patronage, whilo Massa which gave Harrison a good round has three of the sitions at stration's disposal A Popular Saggestion. Chicagy Tribune ident Cleveland can pick out some hip with fat salary attached in o 't of the globs ersuade Ob jector wn ot make his administration n grand achievoment in p ship. Missouri majorit 1 Pre nice cons; Architectaral Competition. St Pawl Pioneer-Press, By passing the bill throwing open to the competition of architects generally the de- signs for public building a8 has taken o long step toward the elimination of arc from some of the princiy mtry. Public buildings will look better and maybe cost loss. Fhose Coll Houso Revelations. Nebraska City News, en make a guess made by the all agree, unless participants in the robbery, that the guilty parties should be compelled to make due restitution and serve a_long term penitentiary, Dorgan, Mosher and other are entitled to and should receive no sym pathy Kansas City St generosity of the American peonle was demonstrated in a_conspicuous manner by the speed with which Governor i ley's debts were canceled by volunts tributions from the public. The sum 5,000 was raised within a few weeks the governor finds himself ent cated from the unfortunate complications which threatened a short time ago to sweep away his entire fortune. This incident also illustrates the great individual popularity of Governor MeKinl nd the feeling of per- sonal confidence " which he has among the people. The e I How The Bee ulates. Nebraska City News, The World-Herald has been forced to nc- cept the challenge of Tie Omana Ber by the latter depositing 2,000 in money in one of ks of that city to prove that it has the largest circulation both in Omalia and in the state. If the World-Herald, the only n the state whose polit not alike for any two i ion, has tue same ratio of subs it has here they will not win s monoy. : more th of the Woul subscribers in Nebraska City, tic city, but the people he where else, have no use for a smpts to cater to all part Tie BeE, even if it is a as far atead of the ahead of night in paper »5 18 does - paper, hyphen as day is brightness. e e MYSTERY OF THE WHITE HOUSE, Kansas City Journal: Perhaps Mr. Cleve- land called Send ¢ Hill in to ask him how he liked the administration as far as it had | got. Washington Post: Call again, senator. In fact, there is no good reason why should not drop in tora_few moments ¢k any time yon may have the leisure. Washington Star: David B. Hill cannot escape the microscope. Of all the men who have shaken hands with the president he is theone who 1s selected for discussion und comment in that connection. New York Commercial: Senator Hill alled on the president yesterday and was closeted with him for twenty minutes, say the dispatches. It may therefore be re marked that Mr. Clevelind had abad quar- ter of an lour, with five minutes thrown in by way of good measure. Pioneer-Press: The familiar conversation thut passed between the governor of North rolina and the governor of South Carolina would be forgotten if the Washington news- paper men could learn what was said at the recent conference between President Cleve- land and Senator David B. Hi ow York Advertiser: It is belioved that the meeting between Cleveland and Hill on Thursday was not quiteas cordial as the snee between the governors of North South Carolina, There was nothing | said in relation to the duration of the drouth. But_neither of the distinguished gentlemen indulge in stimulants ranging higher than refrigerated tea. Chicago News: What happened at the in- terview is known only to_the two men con- cerned and the farniture fn the room, which furniture, by the way, is reported to be still sound and intact in" every particular. Ex- cepting this fact the only indication whish the public has as to the results of the mys- terious conversation is the broad smile worn by Mr. Hill when he left. Mr. Hill, however, may smile and smile and be disgruntled still. So that means nothing. and NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Chadron is enjoying another murder trial this week. Another $10,000 school eracted at Broken Bow. Every bridge on the Keya Paha, Ponca and Dizzy in Boyd county was washed out by the recent floods. Eighty-five residents of Pawnee City have joined a singing school, and a concert will shortly be given. ‘The Republican says that Hastings prom- scs to do lots in the building and improve- ment line this season. “There is a religious awakening at Curtis and the churches are increasing rapidly and constantly in membership. A party of Crete citizens has gone to Chi- cago to renew the search for George Stevens, the missing cashier of the State bauk. A charge has been made that Frank A. © of Hyannis attempted to poison > last Oetober, but that the affair was kept quict until a few days ago. A Broken Bow saloon keeper is the defend- ant in_two suits for $3,500 each for selling liquor to habitual drunkards after being warned not to do so by the wives of the bibu- lous customers. The may: s one boils on his neck in the past two months, and if they don’t stop comming pretty soon he will offictally enter himself against Job for the record. wive 7y veteran and a pension month are the principals in a law suit which has been begun at Hastings. Two women, each claiming to be the wife of John Baird, an inmate of the incurable insune | asylum, have brought suit for a shave in his pension, and a half dozen attorneys will at- tempt to establist the claims of their clients, A large attendance is expected at the sixth district wtion of the Christian s0¢ which will meet at s March 31 and continue in session vdays. Al the state officers will bo it ‘I'he distr nsists of the coun- er. Fill Nuckolls, Cla nd Kearney. building is to be ACTIVE EXERCISE and good food in_plenty, tends to make children healthy. If children suffer, how- ever, from Scrofulous, Skin or Scalp, Discases —if 'their blood is impure and pimples or boils appear, they should bo given tho right medicino, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- covery brings about the best bodily condition. It purifies the blood and renders tho liver nctive ns well as Milding up health and strength, Puny, pale, weak children got a Insting benefit and “‘a good start” from the use of the * Discovery.” It puts on whole- some flesh, and does not nauseate and offend the stomach like the various preparations of Cod Liver Oil. It's guaranteed to benofit | he will give them as good & chance as | he re in_the | | superintendent of inspired | | Prettyman or cure you, or your money is returned. EDITORS T0 BE REWARDED Oleveland Declares that He Will Not Dis- criminate Against the Craft. PLEASING NUMEROUS PLACE HUNTERS List d from the Ag- Secretary Morton Preparing n of Women to Be Dismis: ricultaral Department in Order atisfy Mate Applicants, Wasnisaroy Brneav or Tne Bre, | 18 FOURTRENTIOSTRERT, > Wasnizarox, D, C., March 14, ) T'he many ebraska and Towa editors who have had their cyes upon the postmaster. ships of their towns may tal All is not lost yet. President Cleveland says it is untrue t he does not intend to country editors to postmasters hips. Nope. pooint He says any body elso when it comes to the appointment of fourth-class postmiasters, as it is almost a necessity to appoint them in some communi ties. The country editor will not, however, mplimented by this modifieation when lizes that the salary of a fourth-class postmaster is never over £1,000 a year. Today the clerks at work uron the thou sands of applications filed at the department for ofices in that service added the following to the applications from Iowa J. A McClurg, New Hampton, third auditor of the treasury; John C. Kelley, Sioux City collector of internal revenue Third district; W. H. Stackhouse, Davenport, collector of the Fourth district. feel ¢ 1sury Pleasing Place hunters, Representative Hays of Towa tod the removal of W. 8. Burdette, a_republican the federal building at Davenport, and had 1. G. Claussen appointed to the place. 1t would scem that the pressur is becoming very st Secreta is making up a list of sixtyor seventy women who are to be turned out of the Agricultural departnent. The excuse for the dismissals is that there is no work to be done and the force must be topped off until the spring work begins Tu another quarter it is learned that there wiil be a large number of men employed in that department the 1st of ) 1t thus ap: pears that the object of turning the women out 1s to give places to men, Mr. John W. Cahill of Keokuk, Ta., is a hustling young Irish-American who is Washington with the express determination of capturing an office and he has taken to heart the old biblical saving about the us desirability of hiding one's light unde busher. Mr. Cahill wants to be an agent for the Department of Justice and - furthe ance of his aims hus a printed circular, the first page of which bears a wood cut of him- self. The circular. abounds in press com- ments, all of which allude to the gentleman in a complimentary vein. secured for of Western Pensions. The following pensions grauted are re- ported Nebraska: : Original—Jacob P. Maple, Th pholis Lively, Oliver P. Dennis, Luther Ithy, Albert Hurley, Charles H. Young, ward H. Mork, Gottfried Fischer, Daniel Prince A. Gatchell, Henry Baxter, arles N, Thomas, Samuel L. Russell. Ad* gitional—Charles H. Dorathy, William 1 Ball. Amos Pecl, Milo Robertson, Henr Smythe, James W. Wharton, Samuel Edgas Increasé—James W. Vannostran, John C. Platcher, Charles Ha ton, Cassius M. Pulver. Bennett, Frederick McProc : B. Bartell, Andrew J. Original i a Frazier, Mary J. Guthman —George Trobert, Hor A. Day, James Shannon, D. Young. Addi- tional—Oder Wileox, John C. Alton, Clouse rickson, James P, , Henr, ase—John on, David N. McManimie, Henry Good- ilen, John Spriges, James lism ~ French, Harvey L. V Imma J. Bui minor Booth man, Wil E. Moorman, a , CYC, - H. Worth, Ann P. H. 'Toole, 3 Burke, Chris Smith, Origin M. Carter, Fredrick Parker, Henry Additional —Iyen P. Lee, John W Samuel Brackett, John W. Wil Wyckoff, Samuel . Gleun. Incre Niblock, Alonzo Foye, Samuel I, Wel issue—James A. Stalker, George W. Vincent, King. Original widows, ete.—Kunice Clause, Kebecea - Potter, Sarah D, Briggs. Original—Willam Rages Richard Smith. Original widows, ete. Minors of C. Cook. Original-—-Matthias Mickin. Original widows, ctc.—Mary H. Mitton, Mary J. Bond. South Dakota: Additional—fohn P, Adams. Reissue—Wilbur F. Little. Addi- tional—John W. Jencks, Benjamin Provost. P. S, H. A, e g Not an Unreasonable Bill. Beatrice Times, If the rates charged in 1880 were adequate] and the fact that they were fixed by the roads themselves is tolerably conclusive ev- idence that they were, a reduction of 20 per cent at the present time will not be unreas- onable. - ness in this state justifies such a reduction. Besides, if in any instance the rates fixed in the bill should prove to be unreasonably low, there is a provision for an appeal to the preme court, whe roads can their “The constitution of our state empowers the legisl to estab- lish “‘reasonable maximum rates of charg: for freight, as well as passenger traflic, and it 18 time wo were usi reach to adv within our o the means within oup nce and develop the industries n state o — The Craze for Spolle. St. Louis Repulie As far as this mad oraze for spoils is con- nod Missour! s standing on' hor lignity, If Missourians are wanted for the foaeral service, they must be asked to aceept office in o way that will show due appreciation of their merits and the sacrifices they would make in leaving such a_stato as Missourd to live in such a place as Washington or to go abrond. It is expecting too much of Missours ians to expect that the, > going to beg and plead and supplicate for contemptible little places that are scarcely worthy of North eastern spoilsmen, much less of Missouri re - t SMILE. Tho man who hae carriages for hire belleves in & Cy S g patriotic observed Just now," Miss Van “replled Mr. Manchester. “Low is white girl, with red hair, and I feel Chicago News proudly, “when a yorng man kisses mo [ Serent Mubel,” <itid Reginald, with den coldness,“why 1s It you are so often honrse when Leallon you?” “Yos, sl suld Mabel Yonkers Gazette gret, but 1 K the stations is an uy It niny bea e Vs announ punishuble cry Philadelphia Record soat fifty Ingoer house last k A Germantown wkes to the loeal 1 A very nice dough-nation. Detroit Shall [ send 1. Mintj 1 prefer me. Fibune: wdoctor wlop- No. to div Mrs. MintJewlop Give me som, at the hands prussic acld, one who loves Smith, Gray & Co's Monthly YOu coming” o see our next ima takes the part of Otlando Tom-—Not worth while— wo were at the same bathing place last summer. Vietta--Are performance? Washington Star That's a curlous milk pail of yours,” said the mitkman Tain'e neie as eurlovs as that pale milk ot yours,” replicd the servant girl Binghamton Leader: When Wimself down on the sittin presumption is that he casy on the home streteh a man flings room couch the oposes o take 1t Somerville Journal: Bly the —Well, did protey Miss Nannie smile on'your suit last night? Luckless—Noj she didn't. smilo on it, old man; she lnaghied at it NO SENTIMENT IN 0ER. Kansas City Journal s 20 with me, Swoeot Annabel, il care unto the canines flingg roam adown the mossy dell And find the first wild flowers of spring.”* Sho silent sits; with motion slow Her slipper on the carpot pats At lengzth she spoaks: =L rather go fown the strect where windows show The flowers on stylish European Edition New York Herald. oy N A MORNING TOIL This neat little dress has a skirt of green, barrea with lines of blue and gold. Green shot velvet round bodice, with which is worn @ metal belt, Smith, 6 They cracked the same old ch They sang the same old alrs, They sat In anclent costunmes On very modern chairs. While paper snow was falling They cooked green ears of corn, And’twasn't fifieen minutes Hetwoen the night and morn, The same old villain plotted, The sume old lover sighed, The sume relentless parent, His earnest sult denied. They wrote In fifteen seconds Aletter or a willy They waved in air their glasses, Yét drank them brimmiing stiil, The thunder lacked an ecl The moon was pale and weak, And when the ghost was rising The crank gave forth a squeik, 10 01d people, Ah, yos, the With hothing new totellt bthing And yet, I must confess it Too soon the curtain fell. BROWNING, KING Largest Manutacturars an | Ratatlors of Clothing la thy World, Song of the Saw The carpenters saw the wood—the people saw the bargains — because lwe saw that it was bet. ter for us to saw off some of the price rather than lallow the saw-dust to ‘get in its work—not that |saw-dust would hurt | _the suits any, but that they were inthe way of the saw—You saw how they were saw-ing out the side of the store this week-—didn't you—Well, if you did, you saw those new spring suits and overcoats —you saw the price —you saw the quality—you saw the exclusive styles—you saw nothing like them anywhere else —This one point we want to impress upon you— while the sawing is going on we are prepared and are doing business just as nicely as ever, and as an inducement to brave the noise of the saw we are offering the greatest bargains you ever saw. BROWNING, Store open every evening till 8.3k Baturday it 10 See? KING & CO., I 8 W. Cor. 16th and Douglas 5t