Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1893, Page 4

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SWOR Btato of Nobraska, ) Coutty of Douilas, ¢ B, T chuck, secretary ot THE BEE pub- Mshing company, does solemnly swoar that the notual cirenlntion of DAILY BES for the week ending May 2, 1803, was as follow Ahursday, Friday, Moy Baturday, May 20 . Sworn 1o hoforo mo and subscribed In ence thiy 20th day of May, 183, N. P FEIL, Notary Publie e Average Circulation for April, 1893, 24,281 REPORTS from various points in the state indicate that while the shower of Sunday night was a trifle enthusiastic it was effective in dispelling fears of a damaging dry spell. THERE scems to be a growing senti- ment in the south in favor of the repeal of the tax on state bank currency. west is more conservative and the pro- posal is viewed here with distrust. NO STATE in the union has a better banking law than Nebraska. If the State Banking board does its full duty the people of this state will have but little to fear from broken banks. THE promised activity of Nebraska railroads in the line of improvements involving the expenditure of millions of dollars does not harmonize with the theory that the maximum freight rate bill will retard the railroad development of the state THE shrinkage in the values of trust stocks is computed at $105,830,000 since the beginning of the present year. These figures represent an actual loss to investors and explain the prevailing dis- trust with which all industrial securities are looked upon. NOTHING will do more to preserve public confidence in state and national banks than a genecal well-founded as- surance that the work of the bank ex- aminers is carefully and conscientiously done. A lax system of inspection in- variably results in disaster. HON. A. L. NEW, chairman of the state democratic committee of Wyoming, is encouraging the patience of the dem- ocrats of that state by assuring them that their day is not far distant in the matter of federal appointments. He confidently predicts that the marshal, United States attorney and all the im- portant postmasters in the states will be replaced by July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year. This democratic chieftain further explains that the seeming tardi- ness in making removals in Wyoming is owing simply to the physical impossi- bility of the headsmen of the different departments to swing their axes with greater rapidity, and the Wyoming officials can only be brought in turn to the block. When the decapitations do begin, however, heads will fall into the baskets in quick succession, and there- with it may be expected the democracy will be delighted. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND seems to have made a fortunate selection in the ap- pointment of William C. Renfrow for governor of Oklahoma, It is stated that he is no politician, but his assurance that the immense patronage that it falls to his lot to dispense in the territory will be distributed among bona fide resi- dents solely, indicates that he under- stands very clearly what the citizens who live under a territorial form of gov- ernment want and what they are en- titled to. People who have lived under carpet bag rule in the western country can the more freely appreciate this. Aside from the torritorial offices the governor of Oklahoma will have the appointment of all county and township officers in the counties in the Cherokee Outlet. There will be about ten counties and there are about thirty county and township officers in each county. THE chances of the United States escaping an invasion of cholera improve with every day that the scourge fails to show increasing develovment in Europe. The outlook for the summer is more hopeful now than it has been at any time since spring began. The eminent German scientist, Professor Virchow, who is one of the foremost of living aythorities on cholera, says that he considers another outbreak of the pestilence in Germany improbable, In Russia the disease makes little progress and in Asia, where cholera has ulways had its breeding ground, the situation is reported to be very different from what it was this time last year. The worst form of cholera was ravaging Per- sia by the middle of May, 1892, whence it had rapidly spread from India, and its progress westward was so swift and re- sistless as to foreshadow a terrible inva- sion of the pestilence in eastern Europe, If not throughout the continent. But while the outlook appears thus reassur- ing there must be no relaxation of the vigilance of quarantine officials or any neglect of sanitary precautions of any kind. Everything nccessary to keep cholera out of this country should be proviged with as much care as if the danger of the disease becoming epi- demic in Europe were as great as has been apprehended. This is necessaty to absolute security, The q THE KEY NOTE OF IMPEACHMENT. The key noto ol the question as to whather tho state officers now on trial for misdemeanors in office have laid themselves liable to the penalties of im- peachment was sounded by Justice Nor- val during the progress of the trial on a point raised as to justification of neg- lect of duty by reason of alleged over- work. Judge Norval declared pointedly that the point at issue was, what would an ordinarily prudent man do under similar circumstances? This is really the whole case in a nut- shell. The pivot upon which the whole ease turns is conduet. Did the impeached oflicers exercise such care and diligence in the management of the affairs of the state as an ordinarily prudent man would do under similar eircumstances? ‘Would an ordinarily prudent man, en- trusted with the control and custody of tho property of a private corporation have been justified in pursuing the courso which the impeached pfficials did pursue in the building of the peniten- tiary cell house? Would any prudent business man pick out the notorious boodle lobbyist of a contractor for convict labor and place him in charge of a building to be erected by convict labor when by so doing he left itoptional with this boodleman to fix the prices charged for men not employed and service not rendered? Would an ordinarily prudent man ad- vance large sums, say from $5,000 to $8,000 at a time, to this boodle lobbyist and never as much as ask for an itemized statement of the money he claimed to have paid out? Would an .ordinarily prudent man who is charged with erecting a building limited to cost $40,000, spend the whole appropriation without knowing how much of an overlap he was creating and could he keep his place for twenty-four hours in the employ of any business house if he recklessly allowed a fellow of Bill Dorgan’s stamp to run on with- out a settlement for over eighteen months? Could an ordinarily prudent man be 1mposed on for years so as to certify to a million and a half pounds of coal when less than half a million was actually de- livered? ‘Would an ordinarily prudent man ap- prove vouchers for over two hundred tons of coal at the Lineoln asylum in July and August when it was manifestly impossible to consume one-tenth of 200 tons during the hottest months of the year? Suppose the manager of any business firm should have shown such lack of ordinary prudence,—would he not be dismissed from its service, either as an imbecile or as a knave, or both? Suppose the Lincoln asylum had been using a ton of ice per day during July and August and a hill for sixty tons of ice had been presented for the months of Janu- ary and February, would not the state board have been guilty of criminal neg- ligence if they had issued a voucher for a claim so manifestly fraundulent? Now to sum up. The question, and the only question at issue before the supreme court, is: Does the evidence presented during the trial show that the affairs of state have been conducted by the State board with such care and dili- gence as an ordinarily prudent man would pursue under similar ci stances? Have these men by their con- duct as exhibited in the testimony shown themselves to be safe custodians of the property of the state, and have they discharged the responsible duties devolving upon them in such a manner as would inspire confidence in them as men of sound judgment and strict in- togrity? ‘Would any corporation, firm or in- dividual that has millions of acres of land under lease and more than a million a year to disburse for material and wages retain these men in its employ in the capacity of managers or custodians? If they have proved themselves reck- less, negligent and unfit to manage the business of an extensive private concern are they fit to be retained in the posi- tions they now occupy? AN OVERWORKED OFFICIAL Their were a few things in connection with the multifarious duties of his office that Attorney General Hastings failed to relate to the court when he took the witness stand in his own defense Mon- day. For instance, he might have told an interesting story in connection with the failure of the state bank at Crete. Bank Examiner Wells made a thorough investigation of the bank early in July, 1892, in which he reported to the State Banking board that the bank was in an unsafe condition, that its officers were not obeying the law and that the inter- ests of the depositors were in jeopardy. And yet, in spite of this somewhat startling report, the bank was permitted to run on unmolested by any action of the banking board until its vaults were drained of nearly every dollar they had over contained and its cashier disap- peared. Finally, late in September, when the cashier's long continued ab- sence became the general topic of con- versation from one end of the state to the other, and after the collapse of the bank had been reported inevery country paper in the state, the attorney genoral who had so much to do, commenced action in the supreme court for the ap- pointment of a receiver, The above statement is based upon an examination of the records of the case now on file inthe offica of the clork of the supreme court. It is simply anther evidence of the carelessness with which the state officials performed the duties of their office. In this case the careless- ness or neglect involved hundreds ot private citizens in a loss that might have been provented had tho attorney general and his fellow membars of the banking board executed the law. THE appointment of Colonel William P, Carlin of the Fourth United States infantry to be brigadier general to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Brigadicr General E. A, Carr settles the controversy that has long hung over this appointment. It will be remem- bered that President Harrison retived General Carr on account of his age against the latter’s protest and ap: pointed Colonel Otis to the vacancy. The senate refused to take up this nomi- Rallon, whethor becsuse it was Loo e THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: “M‘E&DAY grossed with other affairs or because the friends of General Carr woere pre- pared to meke a fight over his enforced retirement, or for some other reason, is not known to the public. Colonel Carlin was at the time General Schofield’s can- didate for the appointment and thus wins at the finish. Genecral Carlin re- tires from active service, however, on account of age on November 24 next, so that while he gets the star and carries the increased rank and pay with him, his elevation only temporarily interferves with the promotion of his juniors. So the president will have the patronage all over again. This recalls that a similar instance occured during Mr. Cleveland’s first term. Colonel Potter was ap- pointed by him a brigadier general, al- though he had only afew months to serve on the active list. Inanswer to adverse criticism the president justided his action on the ground that it wasonly a just tribute to an old and worthy of- ficer whose distinguished war service entitled him to this consideration. The same reason, doubtless, influenced his appointment of General Carlin, and the public generally will view with approval this recognition of long and faithful service rendered his country. PROSPECT OF THK MONEY MARKET. “‘There is no subject of greater interest toall classes of business men at this time than the financial situation and the possibilities of the near future. Every- body who has relations with monied in- stitutions knows that there is a general fecling among them of unusual caution and conservatism—a disposition to con- tract credits and to scan with extrordin- ary care the paper that is offered them. If not absolutely apprehensive of the future, all prudent bankers feel that it is a good time to suggest to their pat- rons the expediency of keeping their operations within discreet limits and to enforce this policy by placing re- strictions upon those who may be dis- posed to extend their operations beyond what may be deemed by the tenders of money to be safe lines. The fact that money is close is not due to a decrease in the volume of the cur- rency. On the contrary, the supply of money in the country is larger now than ever before, the latest-estimate placing the amount per capita, outside of the treasury, at $24, and including the money in the treasury at $36. There is a steady incrcase, also, which more than keeps pace with the growth of population and of legitimate business. The stringency is the result of a contraction of credits. The actual circulation plays only a small part in the transaction of the business of the country, perhaps not more than one-tenth of all payments being made in currency. Nine-tenths of the payments of manufacturers and merchants are made with checks and drafts, which largely represent credit, and it is when the banks curtail in this direction that stringency isexperienced. This is what now being done, and it denotes a feel- ing cof distrust and uncertainty re- garding the future. Financiers do not all agree that there is imminent danger. On the contrary some whose authority is entitled to the highest con- sideration profess to.believe that there is no good ground for apprehending any- thing in the nature of a crisis. But none tho less the general policy among them is one of uncommon caution and con- servatism and the indications do not point to an early change from this con- dition. The New York Times of last Sunday reviewed the circumstances connected with the financial disturbances of 1873, 1884 and 1890, and those of the last two years were very similar to those now prevailing. The conclusion drawn from this is somewhat reassur- ing. Says the Times: ‘“As the contraction in the spring of 1884 ‘was followed by ease for the rest of the year, s0 the contraction the latter half of 1890 was followed by ease nearly uni- form, and at no time seriously inter- rupted, during the next year. So far, the process which we have traced after the contraction of 1884 and 1890 has, at least, begun to repeat itself.” There is to be considered, however, one force which may interfere with this process and that is the demand for money in London. Our foreign trade continues unfavorable, but a change from this is to be expected when the exports of grain increase in the autumn. “With such reserve as this indeterminate element in the problem requires,” says the Zimes. ‘*We think that it is reasonable to infer that the process of relaxation, the dis- tribution again of the accumulstion brought about by the recent stringency, will continue, and that relative ease will prevail for the rest of the year.” This encouraging view of the situation certainly scems to be warranted by a comparison of the condition¥ now with those attending past financial disturb- ances that did not develop into panics, but it 1s to be apprehended that the re- turn of confidence will be slower now than in 1884 and 189¢ MUCH TO BE ACCOMPLISHED, The new Commercial club enters upon its career of usefulness under the most fuvorable circumstances, Never in her history has Omaha enjoyed a more flat- tering prospect for growth and develop- ment. A large and constantly expand- ing territory has furnished an incentive to the wholesaler. The home patronage movement, which now extends over the entire state, has given a fresh impetus to manufacturing. Activity and pros- perity at home is constantly adding to the business of the retailer. The banks of the city arve safely conducted and are abundantly able to meet all demands of legitimate commerce. While real estate valuesare constantly increas- ing there is an utter absence of the speculative tendency. Such is the happy combination of circumstances that en- courages the Commercial club at the outset of its career. Yet in spite of the flattering prospect the club has no casy task before it. It will aim to develop the material inter- osts of the city along three lines—the wholesaling, the manufacturing and the retailing. All three are of equal im- portance to the growth and prosperity of the ecity. New wholesale houses are necessary to meet the require- meuts of trade which naturally gravitates toward, flfin city. Omaha cannot hope to ,centrol the trade of the great nortlywest unless she has ample facilities. | Nof manufactories are not only needed, but the ones already in operatioh ‘e to be encours aged. The increasd)ifithe manufacture ing interests and the growth of the re- tail trade of the city are necessarily in- terdependent. Thg growth of the former is the sureocindex of the pros- perity of the latter,)!" In no way can the (Commercial club be better assisted in its offorts to. fur- ther the interests»®f the city than by the individual co-operation of ull of the business men of thip ¢ity. There is in- fluence even in the weight of numbers, and much more can be accomplished by a club haying 2,000 members than by one with a membership of one-third of that number, THE completion and successful tesi of the new cruiser New York again direcis attention to the rapid progress making in the work of building ournavy. Itis prob- able that after all the dynamite battery of the Vesuvius will be made effective and efforts are now being devoted to remody- ing the errors found in the gearing ap- | paratus that controls the handling of the great guns. It is Secretary Herbert's intention to afford further opportunity for experimental tests before adopt- ing the reports of the government experts as final and thereby throwing aside as worthless a war vessel from which so much has been oxpected and on which such a large amount of money has been expended. The secretary is also now considering the project, recom- mended by the board of naval bureau chiefs, of conbtructing two composite ships out of the three 1,200-ton gunboats for which plans have been prepared. Preparations have already been made to build one of these formidable warships of steel, but the secretary's technical advisers think it would be advantageous to construct the other two with steel framing and wooded hulls, It is held that this method of con- struction is not only an economical one but that it would render the vessels par- ticularly well adapted for service in the Pacific and Asiatic waters where foul- ing of bottoms is so troublesome, and where these vessels will probably be nzeded. The question of authority of the secretary to adopt this method of construction, arvising from the evident intent of the law making the appropria- tion to have future vessels of the navy built solely of stecl, could and doubtless would be speedily -settled by congress should the new scheme proposed be shown to be an improved and advan- tageous one. What, the country wants is the best ships that modern engineer- ing skill can devise‘and construct for the money invested. It{wayld be sheer non- sense for a congress to ‘bind the depart- ment to construction on- old-time models in view of the cynstant improvement making in war ship building. —_— THE Baltimore Sun,.cne of the most influential and prosperous great daily newspapers of the céuntry, has just cele- brated its fifty-sixth anniversary. Al- though democraticin. politics, it has always. been bold, fearless and inde- pendent in expressing its differences of opinion with the party, in criticising its follies and errors, and in exposing and denouncing the shortcomings of its leaders. A proper estimate of the in- valuable service rendered to its party by the Sun through its fearless criti- cism is given by the Minneapolis Z'imes as follows: ‘The whole career of the Sun is a demonstration of the truth that the more 1eeply an independent journal sympathizes with the principles and purposes of a party, the morve strenu- ously it will censure its follies and errors, and moce bravely it will criticise its candidates and leaders, for the pur- pose of keeping the principle pure and of making the success of the party a real blessing.” Washington News, The Governor of Arkansas offers a reward for the identification of people engaged in lynching soirees. The excellent example should be followed by the Governors of Kansas, Minnesota and Indiana. —_—— Increasing the World's Kespoct, Globe-Demorrat. The enemies of Gladstone are missing no opportunity to vent their spite upon him in ways which tend to increase the world's great respect for the man and sympathy with the cause which he represents. ——— We Stand Corrected, Nebraska City News, In a moment of recklessness Tiue OMAHA Bee says the World-Herald is democratic newspaper- Tug Bee should apologize im- mediately or stand charged with being more unreliable than the hyphenated fake fac- tory. —_——— No Hypocrisy lu Hoke, Milwaukze Sentinel, In the interior department Secretary Hoke Smith has removed nearly every Republican chiof of division to make room for his politi- cal friends. 1t is creditable to Mr. Smith that he indulges in no hypocritical profess- ions or cant on the subject, but frankly admits that these changes are not made to improve the service, but to reward partisans, e Short-Lived Bugaboos, Kansas City Star., There are two bugaboos which stay with us—land monopoly and wx growth of trusts —and the permanent e8taBlishment of either is impossible in this country with its exist- ing population and iastitutions. The legis- lative power is being ntly invoked to break up land monopolyiand to crush the trusts, and both abuses tfrey in themsolves the elements of their own Uestruction, Printed with a Per! Clay Oet Gigzette. The railroad company’ that delivered the coal at the asylum was:called upon to pro- duce the books lhow%&hu number of cars delivered, but in somie ' mysterious way the books were lost and m ot be found. " The books were in possi of the legislative Inyestigating commitgees and the company acknowledges the sal ol{elum of them by the committee, but 3fdde that time they have disappeared. 1';-[;-}‘&\1“ this is one of —ee the ways the impeached ofcials nrmofl to vindicate themselves. They would remove the ovidence agninst themselves by stealing the books. This may be a good way to vin- dicate, but it is not quite as mh sounding ’ult:u- Joint letter they addressed to thedeg slature, I A Cruel Contest, Philadelphia Press, The proposed race of 800 cowboys from Chadron, Neb,, to the Nebraska building on the Chicago fair grounds is a method of illustrating American enterprise that ought not to meet with public approval. The dis- tanco is 700 milos, and _each mder is to b allowed only two horses for the whole dis- tance. As the start is to be made June 25, it will be seen that it is proposed to ride a horse 850 miles during the hottest part of the year, and at a gait that will most likely kill the poor beasts. ‘There is nothing humane or attractive or suggestive of onter- prise in such a feat. It would be cruel to the Iast degree to encourage the undertak- ing in the least, and every socioty for the prevention of cruelty to ‘animals ought to protest against it. 1t will be no celebration of the Columbian year to achieve success in such a barbarous trial of endurance and speed. ——— The Gang Still at Work, Lincoln Unionist, The longth, breadth and depth of the gang of political pirates who have for so many years been fattening off the hard earned money of the toilers of Nebraska has nov as yet been fully discovered. That it contains o good many ‘-mmlnanm politicians of the state is an undoubted fact, and it is still more 8o that they are at present using every effort within their power to make the pres- ent impeachment proceedings cover as little ground as possible, and then trust to some Huke to release the impeached and indicted officials now undergoing their respective trials, from punishment. Their latest attempt has been in buying off one of the leading dailies of the state, to which the people looked to press their cause most_vizorously, and to dictate to it the real digest of the reports of the proceedings of the trinl. That digest will be colored to suit their own fancy, and will lead the people to believe that the prosent trials are all persecution and private spite. All the evidence needed to back this assertion 1s to observe the advertising columus of the organs that are defending these officials. There are huge ads in them, which, we have heard, will never be paid for by their adver- tisers. They are merely the price of certain well posted people keeping siient. To the daily press the people have to look to hear the details of these proceedings, Only one daily paper in the state has so far dared to publish openly and continually the true and unbiased reports of these trials. That paper is TuE OwmAua Brg. The gang has cntered into a conspiracy to ruin its influence by saying that 1ts course is taken out of pure spite. If their combined efforts are successful the whole proceedings of both trials will be but a howling farce. The people will be ignorant of the true stato of affairs. They will hear only what the im- peached officials desire them to hear. They ““l“ have no means of knowing the other side. From what we have lsarned from these impeachment proceedings, these offic have already confessed that the frauds pe petrated were caused by careless dereliction of duty, and according to the constitution of Nebraska and the requirements of their oath, they should be punished, and their punishment ought to be made a severe les- $00 to their suc ors in ot e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Circus day at Beatrice left seventeen pris- oners in the city jail. There are over thirty new residences be- ing built in Pender this spring. Nels Morris, a Chicago packer, is pastur- ing 1,000 steers on the Omaha reservation. The commencement exercises of Doane college at Crete will be held June 11 to 15. An Omaha contractorshas secured the job of erecting a Catholic church and parsonage at Howells, Curtis is already making arrangements to care for the soldiers reunion to be held there in September. Rev. John W. Barron has resigned the pastorate of the Congregational church at Creighton, to take effect August 10. The First National bank of Pender has changed hands, and a controlling interest in the institution is now owned by two Cali- fornia capitalists. While playing with a revolver, Fred Hum- bert, a 10-year-old Oakland boy, shot his little brother in the face, inflioting a prob- ably fatal wound. 2 The stocks of liquors of two saloons at the new town of Crofton have been seized by the sheriff of Knox county because the keepers had no license. A hired man started a fire on A. M. Lunt's farm near Superior, and before he knew what had happened the flames had devoured a millet stack and barn. The latest addition to the home industry plants is the Hartington churn factory, Make your butter in a Nebraska churn and encourage the work of a western enterprise. No trace of the missing Daniel Standish of Louisyille, who disappearea March 23, has been found. His handkerchief was found in the Platte, and his relatives believe he has been drowned. George Reese, o young man in the em ploy of a farmer named Rummel, living south of Falls City, committed suicide by blowing oft the top of his head with a gun. ~No cause for the rash act is assigned. The two town boards of Sterling have compromised and reached an amicable understanding of how the villago govern- ment shall be conducted. The injunction secured by the old board preventing the new l)olurdd from taking its seat has been dis- solved. —_—— THE SOCIAL CRISIS PAST. Washington Post: Princess Eulalie ought to know that one glance at Ward McAllis- ter will be worth the price of admission. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Eulalie may have been shocked at the welcome of the vessels —but just wait till the reception committee- man begins to shoot off his mouth. Chicago News: In receiving the infanta Mr., Cloveland acted very simply and easily in the manner of & gentleman. The iden cherished by some prophets that this kind of treatment would ruffle the infanta's feelings dreadfully has not been sustained., New York Commercial: There is such a thing as overdoing the ceremonial in the matter of entertaining the infanta. Kxtend to her a hearty democratic welcome and let it go at that. We understand that sort of thing best. There is danger if we attempt too much iu getting tangled up in the trap- pings. Philadelphia Record: The simplicity of the ceremonies attending the reception o the infauta of Spain at the white house was in refreshing contrast with the pomp and formal display that attend such evenls in Europe. Good taste and generous hospital- ity have rarely been more huppily joined to- gother than on this occasion, Minneapolis Tribune: Kuropean pomp is taking a modest back seat on its visit to the United States, and the strangest thing about it is that the foreign notables testify to & cordial liking of the plain and hewri- felt American social Prin- oess Eulalie and of Veragua acknowledge themselves charmed oy American ways, The Columbian exposition will perform a graund mission 1l it knocks somo of the nonsense and hypo- critical toldarol out of European court man- ners. Cincinnati Comercial: The reception of the Infanta Eulalie of Spain in Washington yesterday was very gratifying. In the' matter ~ of the proprieties the prin- cess and her sulte display rare good sense. Her m ovements in public are as un Hignest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest \). S, Gov't Report. Re LY | ...,w.fil”" ABSOLVTELY cetomonious as thay possibly can bo. The visit to the whitc house was r|ulol.l§1Ar» ranged. There the president and rs. Cleveland received the distinguished guests of the country. Tho president conrteously pressed the extended hand of the princess: and then an informal chat in the little party ensued. Subsequently Mrs. Cleveland and wives of the cabinot offfcers returned the call at the hotel where the royal party arve stopping. Altogether the reception was most pleasing, and idlo talk about the ner of the president to: bo hushed. IEOPLE AND TRINGS, Water valued av 000,000 was bailod out of tho Gould stocks since the first of the year. The genuine blarney stono is said to have arrived in Chicago, but the affidavits are un- avoidably delayed. Sam Jones has convertod a congressman's son and a Kentuckian at that. The ovan. gelist's life is not a barren ono. Russia's grand old man, M. Do Giers, is mentally vigorous, but his legs are wobbly. He has to be wheeled about in a chair. Lady Colin Campbell asserts in print that kissinz ruins the complexion. Yot a sound smack discounts a barrel of rouge as a facial renovator, . Young boys and old boys may rest assured that the Geary law decision will not over- turn the Fourth of July, We make our own firecrackors. Congressman Thomas Jefferson Geary, author of the Chinese exciusion law, em- ploys Chinese servants, but he has taken the precaution ot rogistering thom. On Saturday next the czar of Russia will celebrate the tenth annivorsary of his ascen- sion to the throne. "The enthusiasm which will disturb tho atmosphere of Poland and Siberia cannot bo gauged at this distance. September 18 will be the 100th anniver- nnr{ of the laying of the corner stone of the national capitol, and the occasion is to be celebrated avpropriately, The inception of that grand, imposing pile deserves to be commemorated. The calf of the accursed cow that tossed Gladstone in the Hawarden timber will not be exhibited in Chicago. It was feared in- ternational complications might arise should the frisky heifer come in contact with Mrs. O'Leary's firebrand. The presidential boe still buzzeth in David Hill's bonnet. This summer he intends making a tour through the west to the Pacificcoast. His friends will be notafied of his coming in due season and overy offort will be made to work up a boom for the New York senator. Miss May Yates, representative of the London Vegetarian society. who has arrived in this country to arrange & vegetarian con- gress in Chicago, is & warm advocate of whole meal bread, and has spent much time in instructing the poor of London as to its nourishment and economic value. General Alfred Amedee Dodds, the French commander who has just subdued IKing Behanzen of Dahomey, is of English ex- traction and has considerable negro blood in his veins, He had his military education in France, was made a captain in 1868 and a colonel in 1887, Since 1571 he has been in service n Senegal, with the exception of a campaign in ‘I'on In November last he was made a general, in recognition of his services in the Duhomey w: RSN CLEVER AND COMI1CAL, Boston Transcript: Tho tongue of man Is an unruly member, and, like the tongue of an ox, it is not cured until after death. Baltimore American: A Tennesseo child talks incossantly. Itis thought that he will have u greater career as a champlon pugllist, Philadelphia Times: Somebody says most of the handorgans are owned by ‘one company und hired out. Another grinding monopoly. Washington News: Ohlcago 1s valnly en- deavoring to run a World's falr and a baso ball club simultaneously. Chlcago Tribune: “I cannot understand zo American papors,” sald the educated for- oignor, “Here is ono zat says ze bauk Is gono up, and here Is one zat says ze bank Is gone under.” Washington Star: “Draw, villain!" shoutod the stage hero; “draw, If you have any courage remalning."” o ", “Don't say It so earnest,” roplied the discon- tonted nctor. “Henry Irving hissolf couldn’t draw with such management us this.” Texas Siftings: First Clubman—Jimson's wife is out of town and I have invited him to dinner, but the confounded fellow does not show up. Sm-unld Clubman—Humph! He don't desorve to have his wife leave town at all. Troy Press: Cholly Thrownover (reproach- fully)-Why, Angelina—Miss Coldsnub -1 nover had—er—the siigl Miss Coldsnuby say what everybody Indianapolls Journal: “There didn't useter be no chance fer a man to rise in our busin sald Mr. Hulcede: *‘but since they interduced this hero ides of gittin’ out stumps hr dyna- mite some of the horny-handed agricultooral- ists & risin’ most every day somewheres or other.” FAREWELL, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Now, John, goodby, Pigtall and wooden shos— ‘With smile and sizh We separate from you; Full many a day we've heard your rattling son Your mild Srecracker and your roaring gong, And, with n lingering doubt lest we be wrong— Wo say “So lon, ———— e e ——————— - G C at Whitney, Dawes county, today, department today completed nrruugumom?‘ revenue districts show sufMicioncy of the c scale would bo sudden death to the dustry. GRAVITE MAY NOT BF, USER Bupervising Arohitect O'Rourke Talks l’ Ohanging Omaha's Bailding Dlans. READVERTISE HE WiLL FOR BID: Tt 1s the Result of the Redueod tpproprin tion and Great Cost of Granite Cone struction—May Detny Mattors for Some Time. | © has prac tically decided to readvertiso for bids for th Omaha public building. Ho intimated a much cto Senator Voorhees and Turple Indiana who callod on him today to prnl;? Bedford building stone for use in the cov struction of public buildings. Tho supervising architect said that he hagy decided that it would bo impracticablo te construct the whole building of granite i view of the small balance of the approprk tion availablo and tho cost of granito con’ struction as ropresented i the bid of Goddes, Seerio & Co. This morning a letter was receivod fros ': Senator Manderson on the subject and th supervising architect wrote a long replyay but would not make public tho contents, 1 is probable that the plans which were pry, red by Architect Edbrooke will be mod g (-d‘ h): his successor. . G, nfiold was appointed postmastey P. S H. Wl:llllnl!oll Notes. 3 Wasnixaron, D. C.. May 23.—The Navy for carrying the Columbus caravels, thel Santa Marie, Pinta and Nina from New York to Chicago. The presicent today appointed Samuo?R Blackwood of Alabama third auditor of thed ury, vice W. H. Hart of Indiana, redd d, and Bdward P. Kearny collector ok nternal revenue for the Twenty-third dise trict of Pennsylvani Reports from forty-four of the sixty-thi that 6,541 Chine have registered. ‘The largest registration from a single district 1s- from Colorado Sy where 1,500 regist ————— 4 ‘Where Civil Sorvice Reigns, Minneap:lis Tribune, If it requires a court decree to remove Washington letter carrier, as held by m§ 5 circuit court of the District of Columbia, th headsman business in the capital city must boa trifle dull. The decision of the courtii} was that the government employe appointed €} under civil service rules cannot be dismisseds’ without just and sufficient ca o, and thaid. the courts have the richt to pass upon thig!" 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