Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1893, Page 12

. " cupancy next fall, 12 THE OMAHA DAILY THE DAILY BEE.| B. ROSEWATER, Fditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. _— — TERH;i OF SURSCRIPTION. ily Bee (without Sunday) One Year.. 8 8 00 E-I and Sunday, One Yoar ceeen 10 00 ix Months . ‘ 5 00 Three Months. .. 2 50 unday Hee, One Year 2 00 aturday Beo, Ong Year 100 oekly Bee, One Year 100 OFFIC Omaha, The Bee Bullding. South Omaha, corner N and 26th Streets. Council Bluffs, 12 Pearl Stroet, Chicago Office, 317 Chimmber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribuno Blldin ‘ashington, 513 Fourteenth CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and wmrlnl matter should be addressed: To the itor. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business lettors and remittances should be addressed to The Dee Publishing Co mpany, Omnha. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 1o be made payable to the order of the com- pany. 2 cot. Parties lonving the city for the summer can bave the Bk sont their address by leaving an order at this office {ING COMPANY. SWOIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, t Cour:ty of Douglas, wo B Tatchuck, secrotary of Tam Bee pub company, does solomnly swear thai the Aotual circulation of THE DAILY BEE f0i the week ending May 27, 1803, was as follow: Bunday, May 21 Monday, Wi 26,000 23,818 (2,76 5 Bworn 1o before mo and subscribed In my proes: ©nco this 27th day of May, 185, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public The Bee In Chicago. THE DALy and Su: v BeE is Ohlcago at the following places: Palmer house. Grand Pacific hotol. Audltorium hotel. Great Northern hotel. Gore hotel, Leland hotel. Wol zer, 180 Stato stroet. . an be seen at the Ne- Administration build- on sale in E Reg braska bullding and thy ing, Exposition grounds Average Circulation for April, 1893, IN tHE Central American republ they do not hold elections. They sim- ply inaugurate a revolution and settle the choice of a new president by the gauge of battle. OMmaHA will be called upon to enter- tain a great many visitors during the coming month and she will put her best foot forward. The State Business Men's association comes first with 300 repre- sentatives, then the National Railway Surgeons association with 1,300 mem- bers, and after that the state convention of the Epworth league with at least 1,000 delegates. THE encouraging advices that come to THE BEE dally from General Van Wyck's sick chamber afford the gratifying hope that the veteran soldier and eminent citizen may ultimately recover his wonted health and vigor. The general holds a warm place in popular regard and the animosities engendered by par- tisan contention have given place to sympathy in the presence of his grievous affliction. AS ILLU elasticity the characteristic by enterprising exhibited communities in this country in recover- ing from any great calamity the present flourishing condition of Johnstown, Pa.. may be cited. In May, 1890, that town was almost wiped out of existence by the bursting of a reservoir. At the date of this apalling destruction it had a popu- lation of 9,592. Upon the site now stands a city of 21,544 inhabitants. THERE is a whole volume in ex-Se tary Foster’s explanation of his failure. “My failure simply illustrates the great folly of permitting one's self to be in Qebt beyond the reach of reasonably quick assots when the hour of diffienlt borrowing comes. My business was largely done with borrowed money."” And yet the greatest enterprises that have been undertaken by prudent and brainy business men have been carried through on borrowed mone, ACCORDING to government accounts the recent battle between the Nicara- an troops and revolutionists, which it ad been proclaimed by the latter would prove decisive, is of negative value. So the riotous demonstrations promise to continue indefinitely, But so long as the canal property and other American interests are respected by both sides, as it seems they thus far have been, it matters little were the wrangle pro- longed to. the definite conclusion of the traditional Kilkenny cat fight. IT WILL be diflicult for the citizens of Omaha to excuse the dilatory tactics of the Board of Education in the matter of the erection of the new school buildings, Nearly two years ago the tax-payers voted honds to the amount of $400,000 for the erection of the muci needed buildings. Although eighteen months have elapsed none of the buildings are well enough advanced to warrant the balief tnat they will be ready for oc- In the meantime the interest on the bonds goes right along. WHILE there have been no unusual notes of preparation for the observance of Memorial day, which will recur next Tuesday, it is presumed that the usual activity prevails in Grand Army circles everywhere looking to its celobration, This holiday, elevating in its character and beautiful in all its suggestions and assoclations, must never be allowed to fall into disregard, and there is hardly & possibility that it will be while there remains among the living & number of union vetorans sufficient to hold an ob- servance of the da, CAPITAL is evidently beginning to understand the significance of the popu- lar hostility to trusts. The unfruit- ful aesults of the offorts of sey- eral of these cpmbines to bor- row mouney last week s0 indicate. Stocks of these corporations that a few woeks agowere “gilt-edged” receive now little or no consideration. No one can long violate a natural law with impun- ity, and these trusts exist in violation of the natural law of trade as surely as of the cthical code and legal statutes. Their imminent condition merely again illustrates the truth of the trite adage that the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. Icha- bod is written on their charters—their day has departed, THE VISITING BUSINESS MEN. iring the present week Omaha will be called upon to entortain nearly three hundred representative business men from all parts of Nebraska. These gentlemen come here as the guests of the several business and commercial organizations of the city, and they 11, with characteristic Omaha hospitality, be royally entertained. One hundred and twenty-five local branches in Ne- braska will be represented by live, energetic business men. The delegates will be here three days, and will hold daily business sessions, at which an elaborate program will be discussed. While the business sessions of the visitors may have but little interest to the general public, the people of Omaha will take a lively interest fn the visit of the retail merchants, The extension of Omaha's hospitality at these annual gatherings will undoubtedly have the tendency to strengthen the bonds of friendly relationship which already unite the retail merchants of Nebraska with the wholesalers and manufacturers of the metropolis. It is perfectly proper for the business men of Omaha to ex- press the wish that the retail merchants of tho state shall come to this city for their supplies. It s equally proper for Omaha wholesalers and manufacturers to try and demon- strate to the business men of Nebraska that this city cansupply their trade upon torms equally advantageous with those offered by any other commercial center in the west. Consequently the annual gatherings of the State Business men's association in Omaha are to be encour- aged, The same courtesy that Omaha ex- tends to the rotail business men of Ne- braska might with oqual propriety be extended to the business men of western Towa, northern Kansas, eastern Colorado and Wyoming. Omaha is bound to be metropolis of the northwesterr® group of states, and the day when she can prac- tically control the trade of this great scope of ter! can be materially hastened by cultivating friendly rela- tions witn the business men who are de- veloping it. AN 1ML That pauperismand cvime ave upon the incroase in the civilized world gen- Iy, and in the United States espe- ally, is the almost unanimous assertion of those who have investigated the facts. Henry M. Boies of Pennsylvania, a mem- ber of the National Prison association and other bodies of like nature, has made a special study of this matter, and the statistics he cites are start- ling in their import, especially as applicable to his own state. There are in Pennsylvania alone 446 chavi- table, reformatory and penal institutions. The number of criminals in that state increased 54.6 per cent faster than the population within the last decade. The cost of the county jails increased 94 per cent in the last ten years, or four times as fast as the population, and like insti- tutions in relative proportion. Pennsyl- vania has appropriated within the last sixty years for the support of its own asylums and reformatories the sum of nearly $35,000.000. Mr. Boies thinks this significant fact repeated in Ne York, at least, and approximately in some other states. Dr. Westel W. Willoughby, in a paper in the current number of The American Jowrnal of Politics, quotes the declara- tion of Superintendent Brockway of the Elmira, N. Y., reformatory: “It is con- ceded that within the past two decades crime has more thandoubled.” e then directs attention to the still more start- ling exhibit that, among all the civ. ized nations, in the United States is the greatest increase of crime found. In 1850 the proportion of prisoncrs in this country was 200 to each million of the population. In 1870 the proportion had risen to 833: to 1,169 in 1880, and the census figures for 1890 show a still further increase. In the last decade the number of - mates of penitentiuvies, jails and re- formatories increased 45.2 percent. The whole population increased only 2. per cent. This shows an increase of crime almost double that of the total population, and supports the claim of Superintendent Brockway, as applied to tho last ten yoears. To cite further from the appalling record, relative census statistics and other offi- cial reports show that while in 1850 the proportion of criminals in the United States to the total population was 1 to 3,500, in 1890 it was 1to 786.5, an in- crease of eriminals of 445 per cent, as compared with the increase in popula- tion of 170 per cent. Without taking into consideration the eleemosynary in- stitutions for the honest indigent, some estimate of the enormous cost of sup- porting the reformatories that this im- mense criminal population renders nec- essary may be made from the fact that in the United States there are fifty large penitentiaries and over 17,000 county jails und numerous other like places of imprisonment. It is caleu- lated that $300,000,000 would be a low estimate of the cost of the erection alone of these institutions. Comparatively heavy also is the bar- den imposed upon the country for the support of the pauper classes, a burden alrveady intolerable and constantly in- creasing. Its gravity is so sufticiently recognized asto vender an array of fa und figures unnecessary to carry con tion. Inall the large cities the indi- gent class is constantly increasing. Almost daily come calls from some quarter for benevolent consideration. An instance in point is a circular just re- ceived from the secretary of the San runcisco unemployed. The declara- tion of destitution and appeal for aid upon wh it is founded is signed, it is claimed, under notarial seal, by 3,000 persons. The intemperate language in which it is couched is illustrative of the growing tendencies of this class to which recognition was so earnestly com- mended at the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in this city in May of last year. The address signed by all the bishops of that re- ligions denomination declared: “The rapid accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few successful speculators, the tendency to concentrate in a limited class of not always the most worthy, the grinding and soulless arrogance of wonopolies, working impoverishment to the masses and oxtremo inoequalitics among the people without: respect of merit, are not only producing dangerous and widespread discontent, but are ex- iting hate and arousing tendencies which will be more and more difficult to repress, and which, if not arrested, will breed riot and revolution. There is danger to the social and civil fabric. It is not the province of this article to determine the causes that have led to this grave situation nor to suggest the remedy therefor. All the schools of political economists and social ecien- tists are wrestling with the tremendous problems that confront them and striv- ing to reach the conclusion. The dog- matic assurance of the San Francisco circular that the worst evil of all to produce the destitution in that metropo- lis is the “‘villainous systom of finances’ is mevely a reflex of the discontent and hate for the existing social and economic fabric and not that of intelligent investi; gation. The practical solution of the important questions in which are in- volved the temporal condition of the masses so as to ameliorate the lot of the greatest number will be the absorbing task of the thought, intelligence and philosophy of the approaching century. THE PROPOSED RACE TO CHICAGO. We do not know who is to be credited with originating the idea of a race from Chadron in this state to Chicago be- tween cowboys mounted on bronchos, but if the purpose was to advertise Ne- braska it is being well accomplished. Interast in the projected race is wide- spread, though not all of it is of an ap- proving character. Some persons are interesting themselves in the matter with a view to stopping the race, on the ground that it will be barbarous, cruel, a disgrace to American civiliza- tion, and so on. THE BEE is in receipt of a letter published elsewhere in this issue, from the secre- tary of the Aurora, Ill., Humane so- ciety, who asks if the citizens of Ne- braska are going “‘to tolerate this foul blot upon the fair fame of their admired and progressive state.” The writer of tho letter pictures terrible suffering for the bronchos ridden in the race, and promises that every effort will be mado to prevent the racers entering the state of 1llinois. We have also received an appeal of George P. Angell, president of the American Humane Education ciety and other similar organ zations, calling upon the news- papers of the country to de- nounce the race and upon humane secieties to toke steps to prevent it. The subject was referred to last Sunday by Prof. Swing of Chicago in the course of his sermon, who characterized the plan of having the race as brutal. THE BEE doea not, propose to quarrel” with the persons who disapprove of the race or to cast the least doubt upon the sincerity of their convictions. This paper is ready to go as far as anybody in condemnation of cruelty to dumb beasts. But we desire to suggest to the persons who are agitating themselves over this matter that they are permitting their imagination to run away with their judgment. In the first place it is to be remembered that' the broneho is the toughest member of the cquine family, possessing greater powers of en- durance than the mule and capable of making a journey of 700 miles without suffering half as much as other horses would. The bronchos that will be used in the proposed race will undoubtedly be selected with reference to their being in first-rate condition, will be trained as far as practicable, and will not be so worked on the journey as to wear them out before the goal is reached. Tt is obviously absurd to suppose that they will be ridden from start to finish at full speed, since to do that would be to insure the failure of the race. The cowboy riders will know just what the beasts they ride are capable of doing without exhausting themselves and they will not urge them beyond their ability. Besides, the bronchos will undoubtedly receive much better care on the journey than they or- dinarily do in the matter of feeding and other requirements for maintaining their strength and powers of endurance, A few of the contestants may not adopt the prudential methods necessary toen- able them to get through the race, but most of them will do so. The objection that the race is to be made in the hot weather of the latter part of June amounts to nothing when it is under- stood that the broncho can do its best work in such weather. It belongs to a hot climate. The contest, if it take place, will be a unique one, and we frankly confess our inability to see any valid reason for in- terforing with it. . While we are in full sympathy with the sentiment which de- mands the protection of dumb beasts from cruelty, we can sec no sufficient ground for applying that sentiment in this case. Consequently we cannot join with those who are protesting against the proposed race. 2 RIGATION., There are millions of seemingly barren and worthless lands yet remaining in the western country that may be transformed into fertile fields by the antithetic sys- tems of drainage and irrvigation. It is out of these vast areas thus reclaimed that thenceforth farms are to ba eut and made to order. It is to irrigation that popular attention is at this time more especially directed, Irrigation in this country is in its ir fancy. In a recent article Tug B discussed the comprohensive sche for the redemption of arid territory in southern California. The system is to include the whole Salton territory. The topic possesses wonderful fascination for every thoughtful ohseryer. It is not necessary to point to the im- mense populations that the fertile un- dulating praivies and rich caleareous plains in the temperate agricultural latitudes of the central and western states are capable of sustaining. and clearly understood, Yet it is not 80 generally known that not only can a much more dense mass of humanity be supported in luxury in regions where ir- rigation is an absolute necessity, but that history teaches that present barren western deserts once sustained millions of thriving peovle nossessed of practical knowlodge and skill in the artificial use of water for agricultural purposes. In portions of Colorado, Utah New This is seen | BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 28 1893~TWENTY PAGES, Mexico and Arizoga thero may today be seen numerous P*‘n of the oxtensive stems of irrighg constructed by a people in the past'@ remote that little can be learned Pf thom even by tra- dion. That thoseiPeople possessed su- | perior vm(lnuerflklllnnd knowledge is evidenced by¥ti charactor of the canals, agueducts and artificial reser- voirs they built. Jfhe courses of these ancient water chdnnels over the now arid plains mayghe distinctly traced. They afford ||nn|§knhlu evidence that the system of ifgation by which the immense human' hifsses, which archi- ological discoveries testify once existed here, was as complete as that of the most inganious skill of modern engincer- i But it is known that the vaising of crops by some form or other of artificial moisture was co-existent with prohis- toric times in other countries. In Asia, ancient Egypt and various sections of the old world, and 1n South America ruins remain that to: tify to the efficient knowledge the ancients possessed in this respect. The methods of irrigation extant at the present time inthe old world dwarf any achievement we may have attained in this direction. In Egypt over $20,- 000,000 have been expended within the present century on the dams and adja- cent ditch systems alone at the apex of the delta of the Nile. In India the British government has expended over $100,000,000 during the last thirty years in various irrigation enterprisos. It may be remarked, too, that these enter- prises have paid a good interest on the investment. In Italy over 2,000,000 acres are under irrigation. The Cavour canal, just completed, cost $10,000,- 000, but it has made the valley of the Po a veritable garden. The en- tire irrigation system of that country is estimated to have cost no less a sum than $200,000,000, but the maintenance of this artificial water supply means the prosperity of that kingdom. In France, Spain, Austria and Belgium large sums have also been expended to make lands, otherwise worthless, productive and fruitful. Crude and primitive as the irrigation methods of China and Japan are conceded to be, it is estimated that over 250,000,000 persons are sustained by them. In contrast with mature and magnifi- cent systems the limited development the irvigating systems of this country have received is more cleariy under- stood. In fact Russia scems to be the only country, whertothere are vast arcas of territory depéiifent, for productive- ness on other mpisfure than rainfall, has given as little attention to the subject as has thewthited States. But *the czar is now planing extensive works for utilizing the rivers of his empire, which when compjete will go far to re- move the possibfMity of famine from the failure of erops offatcount of drouth, The amount of maney involved in the Sulton lake schefié? is said to be over $2,000,000, and if;i5 not hazardous to predict that it wille prove a profitable investment. But there are opportu- nities for enterpriseiin this direction nearer honn{ v.hnd)‘_»;\x‘tzunn and Cali- forma. It is'a matter that interests tho farmers of Nebraska and adjacent states. As previously stated in these columns, the topographical features of the coun- try point out the opportunity. The farmers owe it to themselves, and cap- italists to the state, to address them- selves at once to a matter in which the interests and prosperity of the people are so closely involved. RMANY AT THE FAIR. The natives of Germany in the United States have a just right to fecl proud of the interest which the German govern- ment and people have taken in the great Columbian exposition. Among the for- eign exhibits that of Germany, it is the universal testimony, is the finest. The fact that this is the case is due, it seems, largely to the interest of the emperor in the exposition. As the history of the mat- ter is now written, the manufacturers and merchants of Germany were not at the outset disposed to look with favor upon the fair. Commercial reasons induced them to regard the enterprise with dis- favor and their first impulse was to ig- nore it altogether. Their argument was that there was little use making an exhibit here of goods against wh and while there were a fow who wer not influenced by this fecling the major- ity were, and for a time the pros of Germany having any sueh exhibit as she was capable of making scemed very slim. But the emperor began to interest himself in the matter and from that mo- ment there was a change. Germany had not appeared in the French exposi- tion, and William determined that she should have no rivals in the American, and the German empire should show its evidences of wealth, prosperity and grandeur, which she had declined to do in Paris. Soit was that in May, 1891, Germany declared strongly for the fair, and immediately other nations, thus in- fluenced, entored fito the mattor. At the Philadelphigi gxposition Germany had 680 exhibitork-and occupied 70,000 square feot. At,CHicago she has 6,200 exhibitors, 2,400, in the liberal arts and manufactures cbuilding alone, and occupies 500,000 &4ffare feet of space. She sent 400 mechanics, artistsand arti- sans aad laborerssxplan, build, decor- ate and install, ad 220 duly appointed and authorized offigials to direct in all departments, Theentive appropriations of money for the purpose of the fair amount to nearly#,000,000, almost #1,- 000,000 being appippriated by the Ger- man government,'aid Prussia and other states contributid the restin special appropriations. A million dollars will hardly cover the value ot the German exhibits, and the aggregate money value of the Germun demonstration, transpor- tation, salaries and all- expenditures in- cluded, is put by the German comumis sioner at nearly or quite $16,000,000, The American people know how to appreciate such friendly consideration as that manifested by Emperor William toward the exposition, the good effects ! of which were not confined to Germany but extended to other ¢huntries in stim- ulating them to greater effort than they probably would otherwise have made. Thus we are s a people indebted to the German emperor, not only for the splendid display made by Germany, but for much of the entire foreign exhibit. In this matter Willlam manifested a broad, liberal, practical intelligence altogether honorable to him. —_— THE proposition to secure to the M issippi valley a cheaper and more direct freight route to the West Indies and South America is attracting the atten- tion of commercial interests. The plan enibraces tho establishment of a line of steamers from Pensacola to Porto Rico and Rio Janeiro and the other principal West Indian and east South American ports. Advocates of the enterprise claim that the new route would effect a saving of 30 per ceni in freight rates and four or five days in time of transportation. 1t is also urged in favor of the scheme that such a line would establish a good trade between the Mississippi and the cities named. The Lonisville Board of Trade has already endorsed the scheme. The transportation committee of the Chicago Board of Trade is said to be favorable to it, and Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Memphis, Nashvillo St. Louis and Omaha are to be asked to endorse and perhaps aid financially in the move- ment. The St. Louis Republic in allu- sion to the project says that “‘the moral support of that city will probably be granted, but the financial aid is not so certain and will not bo until more is known of the company’s plans.” This is precisely the sentiment of the business men of Omaha respecting the proposed new Pensacola line. THE Wyoming newspapers think there is very little foundation for the report that polygamy is openly ecarried on in western Wyoming. Nevertheless the hope is expressed for the reputation of the state that the charges will be in- vestigated by the proper authorities, and if found true that something be done to ut a summary stop to the outrageous practices. It is known that the United States officials in the state have on several occasions secured indictments against violators of the law. The fact, too, that it is very difficult to secure evidence in such cases, is suggoestive that there is ground for suspicion that the law is not strietly observed. it would seom as though vigilant and honest offi- cials could seeure its enforcement, and their failure to do so would prove that the Salt Lake journalist had just reason for his drastic censure. CAPTAIN KELLAR'S very common sense and practical views respecting the utility of the army canteen, should con- vince the preachers in the Presbyterian general assembly at Washington that they have denounced something they knew nothing about. The March of provement, Chicago Tribune, Since it has been found possible to make pure maple sirup from corncobs some cheaper material than corncobs must be used here- after for the manufacture of pure cider vin- ogar. e e A Ministerial Bull, Indianapolis Journal, The presiding officer of the Presbyterian General assembly, who used the phrase “at this stage of the game,” undoubtedly had reference to a properly conducted base ball contest, — Missionaries and Domagogues. Galveston News. While American missionaries are carrying to the Chinese lessons of justice and morcy American demagogues arve giving to thom refined but foreible lessons of American in- Justice and inhumanity. ix-Senator Van Wyck, w York Commercial. I2x-United States Scnator Van Wyck, who hes ill at Nebraska City, was prominent in this state until twentys years ago. He wa: born in Poughlkeepsie, was district attorney of Sullivan county, repeatedly went to con- gress from this state, and through valiant services in the war rose to be a brigadier general. At the age of 50 he “went west," only to new honors, including an election to the United States senate. Flnancial Nuy Australla, Indianapolis Jowrnal. The five colonies of Australia have only 3,000,000 population, yet they have contrived 0 get credit in Great Britain in one way and another for necarl ),000,000, while Aus- tralian banks got from B certificates of deposit by 000,000 more. The anuu British money could not ve been les: £50,000,000, which is a lavger sum thun ay. But Australia ) ish investor has nothing but finely printed certificates of indcbtedness, ST AR Trusts n Chica_o If the Whisky trust has collapsed thero ought to be some way of reaching the fellows who have conducted the affair to this termination. ‘They should not be permitted to escape by the simple process of disband- ment. As well might a gang of robbers be allowed to go unpunished because they broke up after finding it impossible to hold together any longer. To some of the mem- bers of the combine the result will be a punishment, but not punishment enough. ‘They should be taken in hand by the strong arm of the law, not from o vindictive spirit but from u sense of duty to society, which ought to be protected from future raids of the kind by proving that tho way of the transgressor is ultimately hard however prosperous he may seem during a portion of is carcer. PEOPLE ND THINGS. Georgia's prospective crop of 30,000 wator- melons will endear that state to our interior affections. A Chicago policeman essayed to shoot a dog. His foot obstructed his aim and re- cewved the bullet, During the past four months permits for buildings to cost £2317,185 were issued in Washington, D. C. Colonel Charley Jones and Colonel Phoebe Couzens have joined the ranks of the Mis- sourl colonels out of & job. One result of the cruiser New York's lively pace will be to put $200,000 premium in the pockets of the Cramps. Ex-Vice President Morton, who is talked of as republican candidate of New York, is 64, but as active as many men of 50, The discovery of a mammotn cave in New Mexico loses much of its timelin because it cannot successfully compete with the governor of Oregon. In her Chicago address Clara Morris said it was not necessary for an emotions] actress to convert herself into a4 human reservoir. Clara is considerate. Chicago abhors brine on the side. Hellen Keller, the blind little prodigy from Boston, asked one of the justices of the supreme court in Washingeon if he knew a cortain Boston lawyer, and upon his replying in the negative retorted brightly: “Why, are you noi brothers-in-law " A Kansas City editor has discovered the efiicacy of soap aud water aud cordially - vites the residents to try it on. Should the advice be put in practice generally, towns to the southward oun the Missouri will be obliged to fumigate the water, Doctors have a way of sizing up a man's pile and billing him accordingly. For io- stauce the two doctors who atiended John W. Maokay after Lo was shot sent in bills for §7.600 and $5,000 resvectively, or some thing like §150 a visit. And yet some people roar because §5 goes on the doctor's call, QUILTY A8 CHARGED, (Gonon Leader: Whatever the result, the ovidence shows n&mn nogligence on the part of accused officials which one would hardly expect to find in business transactions of strictly honest men. Blair Pilot: Regardless of the verdict of the supreme court in the impeachment cases, enough has been proven to effectually impeach the accused officlals in the estima- tion of the general public. Their political doom s sealed in this state whother the court convicts or acquits. Grand [sland Independent: The old rail- road paper, the iincoln Journal, has also gone into the prophecy business, predictin the acquittal of its friends, the impeached state officers, by pubiic opinfon. In a long article full of assertions .without any evi- dence, and without logical' force, that paver praises the innocence of these men who al- lTowed all the robberiea without interfering with the frauds. Auburn Granger: Already the have learned that not only something is rotten in Denmark, but that the wholo shooting match is badly decomposed. In borrowed language the Granger will remark that if the state oMeials are to bo acquitted and allowed to go on unchecked as hereto- fore, then we are without any rea fo- guard, and a government by, for and of the people is a failure, Fairfield Tribune: The course pursued by Tirk OMaAnA BEE in its offorts to unearth the frauds connectod with the managoment of the state institutions and to bring the guilty parties to justice is commendable. In fa 'k Bee has always been found waging ro. leatlsss warfare on fraud and corruption in high places. The fact that it may have de- fended these same ofticials before the whole truth was known does not militato agafnst its present conamendablo position. Seward Rights: Each day brings one step nearer the time when the people w 0w whether or not those men who have been using the places of high trust, to which they have been elected by the votes of the state, to enrich themselves or their friends shall be punished. That they are guilty of the grossest kind of negligence, 1f not actual theft, no one for an instant doubts, but they have very doubts as to the probability of receiying any punishment. It is generally thought that some loophole will be found through which they will make good their escape and avoid the punishment to which their acts moro than entitle them and for which in small fraction even a private citi- zen would be summarily dealt with, Until we have read the ultiniatum of the court wo will continue to hope that full and complete Justice may be done, Grand Island Independent: When Mr, Humphrey appeared in the impeachment case as witness in his own behalf, he did not accomplish much good for himself, as he show pretty clearly that the overwork ex- cuse is a flimsy pretext. He gave a number of large ngures representing the arduous work he had to do; that during his two years' term he had to keep 75,000 ledger accounts, had to give 36,000 forfeiture notices, to make out 10,000 leases and so on, besid attonding to all the other work of super- intending the administration of the public institutions in which the frauds occurred that caused the impeachment. But in the cross- examination he haa to admit that not much of this apparently extensivo work was done by him, that he had three clerks and one as- sistant clerk who did the main part of this k and that he only signed most of these Most all of these papers are blanks which are filled out by clerks, and the sign- ing of from fifteen to twenty leases and fifty forfeiture notices per day can be easily ac- complished in from twenty to thirty minutes, even if allowing plenty of time for this work, This shows that the big tigures do not amount to much and are arrayed only to blind the hearers of such testimony. ——— SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. poople r Globe-Democrat: Presbyterian clergy- men who denounce Dr. Briggs from their pulpits are taking a course that is particu- larly calculated to prejudice the public mind in his favor. New York Recorder: The awful charge is wade against Archbishop Satolli by some aristocratic Jersey priests that he is not by birth a “nobleman.” The twelve apostles, it will bo remombered, were in the sime plight. Press: There is nothing in par- s in the suggestion that if our are devorted from China they can find plenty to do in the home field, where the field is not only white for the narvest, but rea and black and several intermediate Indianapolis Journal: That eloquent ‘her who made a plea for Chinese immi- ion Sunday, based upon the text, “God de of one blood all nations of men to dwell upon the face of the carth,” seemed not to have noticed the rest of the sentence, namely, “and hath_determined the bounds of their habitation.” New York Advertiser: The churches are apparently almost unanimous in their pur- pose to drive visitors and workingmen in Chicago into the gin mills and devil's dives of that thriving efty on Sundays during tho World's fair. It is strange they cannot see that this is the legitimate result of their opposition to Sunday opening. Chicago Herald: Dr. Talmage's awful threat that if the debt of his church was not immediately paid ho would resign and move to Chicago, caused an opening of pock- etbooks in Brooklyn and New York which resulted m the payment of every obligation he Some other New York and hers whose flocks are behind dues might use the Chicago bogie man to advantage in the su way. The drifv Chicagoward is now so pronounced thut an erner will give up his boots to stop eyen one man. and the announcement by the doctor tha would remain. ——— e e COMICAL FIREWORKS, Yonkers Stateaman: his back board keepeor, A toamstor otten love S0 does a bonrding house Inter Ocoan: Miss Tonchey wonld makd Just the wifo tor -t»ml‘!lnllfllln{ doctor, Why' Bhe 18 nlways gIving some ono fits. Rochostor Domocrat: When a lover throw hissweothonrt A kiss he 1s gonerally in th Tast throes of parting, Atlanta Constitution: Now comos the maj Yho, when 1ite ends, will izz_and boll an| stow; of whom they'Il ask as ho descends: "1y hot enough for you? While different from 1en goos As sho Buffalo Courlor are entirel, a rulo the a groat many thing what thoy seem, tyy Inys. At uptown youth 1’ ms. The other nigh td ation, and the nex him, o Philadelphin Record now a firm bellever In d. he droam day his e K 1o1d's Washington: you 1ko this world 1f the ello re IS just o make It endurablo-wo would with chaperons. May—How wouli Of were no men In ltgig i that woult 't be botheree. Somerville Journa small girls, according to a fashion note, reefor Jucket of tan or navy biuo wool. favorite wrap for lnrger girls 1s a coat sloe: adequately filled. fvorite weap fo Browning, King & Co’s Monthly: Harry- g went to see Minnio's fathor yesterday. Charley—What passed between you Harry ~11is foot. m Puck: Missionary 1 havo come, my ba :n.rn”'.-.l Dbrother, to iead your peoplo'to & bet or life, Nativo—Got no time now. King taking amn) | lv'urpholukrnphs.n ueen trying on l‘l'rn iy and people all lea) iing to ride bicycles, Het ter try the noxt village "o i A MEMORY, Detroit Free Press Down by the quaint old wooden barn She stood that swoet Juno duy; She caught my eye, in passing by, As sho trilled hor merry Iy, ty n sl 1ing Tealled to her In gontle tones— Sho trilled hor morry luy; And whon I drew somv nearer to Her, quick she ran away. Down by the quaint old wooden barn 800 1t now s then, And clesr today I hear the lay Of another speckled hon, —— A HINT FROM PARIS, European Edition New York Herald DRESS FOR A LITTLE GIRL. Tea rose bengaline with white lace collap and cuffs and black silk stockings. Low cut patent leather shoes, — aa———————————— & THE WORLD-FAMI_SE PROF. A, LOISETTE NEW YORK. LONDON. Will deliver his Introductory lecture on MENORY, OR HIS NEW ART OF NEVER FORCETTING g EXPOSITION HALL, MONDAY, MAY 29. § Evening at 8. : ¢ Afternoon at 3. REE TICKETS and Tiokots for tho course at Fore. Tton Muslo Co., 1508 Dodgo strect 5. Instruction class courso at Y. Juno Istand 24, Afternoon at = Evenin Astonishment Was depicted on the countenances of all our Ms ~ | Visitors the past week—not only on aceount of our mag- nificent new quarters, but also the great variety of new goods never weavers of the cloth con- tained in our suits have not 7 | allowed any poor material to be used in their make, and we have made them up as well as tailors can do the work. We specially call your attention to the line of $10 suits that our tailors have made up to make an extra good im- pression during our opening week-—There are many other choice suits in both the boys’ and men’s department that it will pay you to see. you with the latest style hat at half of hatters' prices. BROWNING, KING & CO., | 8. W. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. Etore open every eveningtlll 6.1k turday siliiv BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturers and Retallors of Clothing In the West, shown before. The We can fit