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

'I‘HE DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Fditor. RY ‘41‘“\[4 SURSCRIPTION. without Sunday) One Year. nday, One Year . *.800 10 00 5 00 250 200 1560 100 Peity pe nily and Bix Months .. Thr e Montia Ono Year unday Bee, One atordag ¥ cekly e, OFFICES, * Omaha, The Boe Building , South Omaha, cor nd 20th Streots, Council Blufrs, 1 roct, Chicngo Offie Chumber of Co New York, 1tooms 19, 14 and 1, Bullding. Washington, 513 Fourteenth Stroet. CORRESPONDENCE. All anfeations rolating editorial mattor should be nddressod: Editor. merce. Tribune to news and To the SINESS LETTERS. and romittances should beaddrossed to The Boe Publishing Go mpany, ts, W postoffice orders order of the com- Partios loay have the B order at this o THE T f—— ity for the summer can thelr address by leaving un Grand Pac Ruchorium hotel Great Northern hotel. Gore hotel. Leland hotel. Wells B, Sizor, 189 Stato stroet 2 Flles of Tie Ber can bo scen nt the Ne- Braska building and the Adminisiration build- ing, Exposition grounds — = SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btato of Nobraska, Couriy of Dougln Robert Hunter of Tk BER publishing company doos solemnly awear that the notual cirenlaton of THE DAILY BEE for tho week ending June 10, 1603, was ns follows: Bunday. Juno Monday, June Tuorday. June § Wednesday, June 7 Thursday, Juno § Fridny. Jino .. Baturday, June10 . 8worn o heforo mo and subscribed in my pros- enco this 10th day of June, 180, n.m Fubiie Irculation for i\luy. 1803, 24,417 THE gold reserve is again slowly con- valescing, but Dr. Carlisle is still sitting up nights wit it. Tue financial situation has assumed another complication. Jerry Simpson has announced that he will not consent to the repeal of the Sherman act. THERE'S nothing like plenty of good hard cash to discourage a run ona bank. The Omaha peoplo discovered this fact to their satisfaction \'oxh-rnluy. THE fact that just now Europe is mak- ing heavy purchases of wheat in the United States will do more to check the drain of gold from this country than all the schemes that can be dev money tinkers of the nation. OMAHA people will do well to lend the encouragement of their presence at the fair ground during this week’s meeting of the Gontlemen's Roadster club. The club will do much for legitimate sport in Omaha if its Initial meeting proves o success. THE cowboy race was successfully started at Chadron last evening, and under the auspices of the humane so- olety, at that. The spectacle of ecight individuals starting for Chicago at a jog trot was not one to fill the mind of the humanitarian with apprehension. tainly not been hasty inbringing Mosher to trial. He has given the bank- wrecker abundant time to make an ap- peal to Attorney General Olney. It is gotting pretty close to the time when tho trial must bogin in dead ecarnest. Delay is dangerous. THERE is nothing at all impracticable about Commissioner Utt's attempt to locate a paper mill in Omaha, and there {8 no reason why it should not succeed. The entire product for several years would be consumed righthere in Omaha, and several dependent industrics would naturally come with the plant. THE neat, and dispatch with which Collector Peters was decapitated and a successor appointed has inspired the waiting contingent with fresh frenzy. The dolegation of democrats who met Dby chance in this city yesterday are said to hold the opinion that it would take less than a week to put a democratic district attorney into Ben Baker's office, but—. A CHICAGO judge has dealt another severe blow to the trusts. In a suit in which the American Preservers associa- tion is endeavoring to prevent one of its members from withdrawing from the wust, Judge McConnell ruled in favor of the recaleitrant member and in doing s0 said: “*No court of record should lend its legal operations to further the interests and carry out the purposos of a trust.” Tue matter of assessing local railroad property outside of tho right of way -seems to bo sleoping peaceably. It's pity to disturb its slumbers, but a great many people in Omaha feel like asking the council what it proposes to do about it. Will it go ahead and enforce the provisions of the statutes and the new city charter, or will it permit itself to be silenced by the first bluff made by the railroad attorneys? A DISTRICT court jury has decided that Candidate Olmstead received the samo number of votes that Commissioner ‘Williams received in the Third commis- sionerdistrict last fall, It is stated by the lawyers that tho only way to finally decido the contest is by casting lots. Mr. Williams, however, has not ex- pressed himself on this point. Just what would happen if he stubbornly re- fused to lip pennies is not written in the books. THE members of the State Board of Purchase and Supplies have adopted an eluborate system of rules for their guid- ance. The rules are those suggested by ordinary business prudence and should have been observed even without the formality of adoption, If they had been observed from the beginning of the present board’s lease of life the state would not have been defrauded out of thousands of dollars by dishonest con- tractors and the members of the board would have been in position to command popular confidence. GERMANY'S ELEOTION. This will be & momentous day in Ger- many. Throughout the empire there will be fought today at the ballot box | the battle betweon the supporters of militarism and that large portion of tho people who believe that the burden of & vast military estaplishment is already heavy enough and that the drain upon the resources of the nation ought not to te incremased. The voting today may not be decisive; indeed it is not ex- pected to be, but it will doubtless pretty clearly indicate the final result, so that. by the close of the week Germany and the nations that are awaiting the out- come with an interest only less than that of the fatherland will be able to form a pretty accurate judgment as to the prospects of the army bill, which is the great and vital stake in the contest. To the people of this country perhaps the most interesting feature of the contest will be the test of strength of the social democrats, From 1887 to 1800 the vote of that party in- creased from 763,000 to 1,427,000 and it had thirty-five representatives in the last Reichstag. It is expected that the vote of tho social democrats this year will show a considerable gain over that of threo years ago and that they will increase their membership in the Reich- stag. Tho strength of the different parties in the last Reichstag was as follows: Clericals, 117; conservatives, 72i na- tional liberals, 41; social democrats, 35. A number of minor parties made up the remainder of the member- ship of 397. For these seats there are mora than 1,500 candidates, nominated by about a score of parties, which will give some idea of the perplexing char- acter of the political situation in theem- pire. In many districts only ono or two names have been presented to the voters. Some districts are so overwhelmingly in favor of one great party that there is virtually no competition and no interest. On the other hand a large number of districts avo being contostod by not less than halfa dozen candidates, and sev-- eral partios and factions are purely local at that. Tho splitting up of parties into some twenty distinct groups makes of things tho outcome of which nobody can forecast with any cer- tainty. InGermany a majority of all the votes cast is required for an elec- tion, and the first ballot, in probably two districts out of every three, will only determine which two candidates shall be voted for in the final contest. It is the opinion of all intelligent ob- servers that the socialists will make a greater show of strength than ever be- fore, but owing to the splitting in two of the Gorman liborals and the center party it1s probablo that neither will return to Berlin stronger than it was in the last Reichstag, and if the conser- vatives and the national liberals hold their own they will do all that their loaders hope to accomplish. It is the judgment of those who have care- fully studied the situation that probably every prominent party with the excep- tion of tho socialists will find its main body weaker in tho new Reichstag than in the one which was dissolved. The socialists will doubtless gain most of the seats lost by the other great parties. The outlook, therefore, does not promige a parliament any more favorablo to the demand of the emperor than the the one he dissolved for rejecting the army appropriation asked for, and it is quite possible that the opposition to the army bill may be strengthened. In that ovent the emperor has threatened to exercise his imperial prerogative and declare the army measure a law regard- less of the Reichstag, and it is not to be doubted that he will do this if the exigency arises. It would be a desperato alternative, which would subject the patriotism of tho German people to the soverest possible test. THE TREATY SHOULD BE ABROGATED. The extradition treaty with Russia will go into operation June 24. The ne- gotiation of such a treaty was a grave mistake, but it having been done the prosident was perhaps bound as a mat- tor of duty to promulgato it. It has been most cloarly and amply demon- strated that public sontiment is opposed to the arrangement, and that sentiment is not silenced now that the ratification has been completed and the date for the treaty to go into operation is near at hand. Nor will it be silent so long as the arrangement continues, cause those who entertain it sly believe that the States i8 compromised by this treaty. It is provided in this extradition arrangement that it can be terminated by either party on six months’ notice to the other. Itis the duty of overy citizen opposed to it to keop up the agitation against it until there is doveloped such a public feeling as will compel this government to notify the Russian government of its desire to terminate tho treaty. It has been asserted, and the State dopartment quoted as authority, that this Russian extradition treaty is similar in scope to the other extradition treaties nogotiated by the United States in recent years. This is not so, as the Spring- field, Mass., Republican conclusively points out. That paper says that the Russian treaty is unique in at least one particular, and almost so in another. The treaty with Belguim is the only othor one which makes the assassination of a member of the royal family an extraditable offense, and no other treaty includes the ‘“‘counterfeiting of public, sovereign, or governmental acts,” among the extraditable kinds of for- gery. *“Tho concession made toRussia inthat forgery clause,” justly says the Republican, ““is as discreditable to us as anything in the treaty. It enables RRus- sia to demand the return of any political refugee who has escaped from that country on a false passport. This means, in effect, that we have put another ob- staclo in the way of the escape from that country of any person who for any reason the government or the police wish to detain. No Russian can leave the country without a passport, and the alternative is a fraud- ulently obtained leave to go or to re- main within the grasp of the police.” It must be obvious to everybody, except those who are in sympathy with Russian methods, and 1t is to be presumed there are very few or none such in this coun- be- sin- United cel THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THU try, that our government is compro- mised by this agreement. While the treaty expressly provides that no one shall be extradited for of- fenses of a political character, and that no punishment shall be inflicted for other than the offense for which extra- dition {8 granted, manifestly this is not a satisfactory safeguard. The accused must show that he is really wanted for a political offense in order to ecscape extradition, and this will very often be impossible. The re- sult is that the right of asylum to many of the oppressed of Russia will be prac- tieaily denied in this country. It is of course to be expected that our courts will exercise very great care in extradi- ng under this treaty. they will be slow to surrender any person on the demand of the Russian government and will require to have it made very clear that a person whose sur- render is asked for is not liable to be dealt with for a political offense after- wards. Butit will be hardly possible to wholly avoid wrong and injustice from the operation of this treaty. It can be of no value to the United States, and our government should find an early oppor- tunity to give notice of its termination. ROBBING .‘IAA‘ Y FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FEW. At overy session of the council within the past sixty days there has either been a donation voted in the shape of confessed judgments to parties who have trumped up damage claims against the city or a remission of taxes to property owners who have a pull on the council. A fair samplo of this inexcusable favor- itism was furnished at last night’s coun- cil meeting. The Omaha Driving park, which represents a tract of land worth several hundred thousand dollars, was struck off the tax list and the amount assessed against it will have to be shoul- dered by other taxpayers. Now, why should the driving park be exempt from taxation any more than a base ball ground, a tennis lawn, a circus ring, or, for that matter, any tract of land held for speculation? The fact that this land is leased to the Driving Park associa- tion does not entitle it to exemption from city taxes, neither does the fact that it may be used one week out of each year for a pumpkin and cabbage show under the auspices of the Douglas County Agricultural society. If valu- able tracts of land in the middle of the city can go free of taxes whenever they are used for sport or exhibitions of products we will presently have twenty societies organized under cover of all sorts of enterprises, with a view of bilk- ing tho city and county out of taxes. The whole thing is wrong in principle and an outrage upon honest taxpayers. The order of the council to the city at- torney to confess judement for $3,000 claimed by the St. Mary’s avenue church as damages from change of grade, is equally pernicious. A church is entitled to no greater consideration in regard to damage claims than any other property owner. All that it is entitled to is the difference between the estimated in- creaso in value to its property by the change of grade and the cost of placing its improvements to the new grade. If that difference is computed at $3,000 it could readily recover the amount at the hands of an impartial jury. If the dif- forence is less than $3,000, or if for that matter the benefits offset the damages, then the council has robbad other tax- payers for the benefit of thechurch. The city is paying its lawyers by.the year, and these orders to confess judgment can only be viewed from the standpoiut of favoritism, which means injustico to the many for the benefit of the few. This is decidedly at variance with the spirit of local government which aims to do jus- | tice to all by distributing the burdens and favors impartially. In remonstrating against these fla- grant abuses THE BEE is impelled by no feeling of hostility toward individuals or associations. We simply entcr pro- test because we regard the practice of romitting taxes and piling up judg- ments as dangerous and demoralizing. There is already too much tax exemp- tion and the recent decision of the supreme court will make the iniquitous system of tax-emption unbearable. THE rountry will be gratified to know that Chicago has had a surfeiv of snobo- cratic title-worship. It was right and proper to extend to the sprigs of royalty, male and female, including princes, dukes and infantas, the generous hospi- tality of tho Columbian exposition city, but it was a humiliating spectacle to sce the best poople of the proud republic slop over and toady to the scions of effete monarchies. There is nothing more disgusting to the true lovers of liberty and equality than the spectacle of a money aristocracy aping tho man- ners of princelings, dukelings and kinglings and playing lickspittle and valet to seventh-rate nonentities in the regal civeles of Burope. With the pass- ing of Eulalia we hope Chicago has dropped all her pompous and stupid demonstrations in honor of the descend- ants of pampered claimants to tottering thrones and erested bric-a-brac. A MONTH ago, or such a matter, a committee of the Council Bluffs council met with a like committee of the Omaha council to decide upon joint action look- ing to a forced reduction of the bridge motor toll between Omaha and Council Bluffs. Representatives of the motor line were present, They asked for time to consider and to make a state- ment to the committee asto what the motor company would do in the prem- ises, Since that time the proposition has been slecping, in which state it may be expected to vest unless some sincere rvepresentative of the common people summons courage enough to revive the question. TaE rapid development of the group of new states west and north of Ne- braska offers a magnificent opportunity for the expansion of Omaha's commerce. This vast region will be to Omaha what the southwest has been to Kansas City. The inexhaustible resources of Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Texas made a great commercial metropolis of Kansas City. The northwestern group of states, with their immense stores of coal, iron, gold and silver, their trackless forests, their unbounded grazing districts JUNE 15, 1893. and their vast sources will make city of Omaha Byt this great- ness will not ‘come unsolicited or unaided. If Omagha wants it she must go after it. The gréat lines of railroad now reaching into eyery part of the new ompire in the northwest will bring but asmall share of tho'woaith of trade to Omaha. From thé ‘vory nature of their organization these poads will carry the large bulk of the bnainess on through to Chicago and the eagt. Omaha must emulate the example go profitably set by Kansas Cit She must build and own her own system of railroads. e ] THE only obstacloe manufacture of the Krag-Jorgensen magazine gun is the lack of special tools. These are being rapidly provided, and the work will begin at the Spring- field armory about July 1. The car- tridges for the new rifle are to be made at the Frankfort arsenal. It is not gen- erally known that the officers who de- termined the superior excellenco of this fino and effective rifle gave it the preference over a field of somothing like sixty other guns. Among the compoti- tors were the guns officially adopted by Austria, Bolgium, Denmark, England, Germany, Japan, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Switzerland and the French cavalry. Theso approved systoms, as well as other famous arms of private in- ventors, wore esteemed inferior to the Krag, hithorto little used. Considering the rapid improvements that have been made in firearms within recent years, it would not be surprising if again, be- fore long, this new magazine rifle should in its turn be superseded by a better. agricultural v even & groater now %o delay the THE troubles in which the Northern Pacific elevator company is involved promise to lead to endless litigation. The company docs business in the five states, Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, and owns an immense amount of property. Auxiliary receivers have been appointed for cach of the states, and the first fight will be on the priority of right of the receivers or the piaintifl stockholdors in the suits under which attachments issued and by which the plaintiffs are now in posses- sion. The starting of the suits is sa to be an attempt of a number of stock- holders to pool their claims and rights and force a reorganization of the eleva- tor company in their interests. A Sroux City paper, in discussing the radical reduction in freight rates re- cently announced by the Great Northern system, draws the conclusion that the Union and Southern Pacific roads, being unable to meet the peduction, will be forcod into liquidations It then procecds to warn the country to prepare itself for the catastrophe. There is nothing in the situation to warrant such dismal forebodings. Ncither the Union Pacific nor the Southern Facific has com- plained over the redudtion which is now general between the coast and Chicago, and both seem to be ‘meeting the new rates with cheerful equanimity. THERE is a general demand from all parts of the state fof the abrogation of the penitentiary; contract. No one knows whether it belongs to Mosher or to Dorgan and both are notoriously unfit to hold it. There can be no question but that the statute confers upon the Board of Public Lands and Buildings the power to manage the penitentiary until a new contract can be let. The inability of Mosher to fulfill his con- tract with the state gives the attorney general substantial grounds for going into the courts for an annulment of the contracts. ASSound thut is Never Stilled. Chicago Tribune. Amid the din of falling stocks, the bellow- ing of frantic bulls, and the growling of excited bears, the Listening ear can still hear the regular, monotonous, ceascless thud of Mr. Maxwell's axe. . A Possible Fuse. St. Louts Republic. The populists and the prohibitionists are to fuse in Towa. The offect of such a fuseas that in lowa or olsewhere depends largely upon who is to touch it off. e A Prophet and Hlis Propheoy. Chicago Inter Ocean, Senator Dan Voorhees in a speech in the senate in 1864 is on rocord as saying: ‘Lot each oye which now poholds the sun tako its last look at scenes of plenty and prosperity. Our fall from bounding wealth and unlim- ited resources to pinch and shrunken poy- erty and cowering bankruptey is as certain under our present policy as the fall of Luci- fer, the morning star, from heaven.” Dan is still among the democratic prophets. il il Suggestive of Good WIIL New York Tribune. That was o high compliment which north- orn business men and voterans of the union army pmd to General John B, Gordon of Georgin when they Invited him to deliver in this city o lecture on the closing days of tho war and to give his personal estimate of the two great captains, Grant and Lee. General Gordon has accoptod the invitation, and in doing 80 ho pays & tribute to the north and assurcs those to whom he sends his lotter that what ho has to say will be said i the spirit and interest of a sincere and cordial American good fellowship em's Our Nentiments,” Chicago Eecord. Bless the girl graduate! She may have her ideals that are to be rudely shattered, but she can look op the wreek with equa imity. She may never be again so inuocent and fresh and girlish, but she willi grow wise, tender and womanly in the great after- 00l which has ho yacations and no end until the great Toaeher shall proclaim it finished and she is grgduated at eternity’s girl graduate! Laugh at hor, who will, kindly. #orout of the ranks of the girl graduates will rise up the wives and the mothers of thie land—mothers whose children shall live tg ¢all them blessed, B Comlug to Its Senses, St. Paul Poncer Press, Coungress will not bo able tostand the pressure of accumulating misfortune, The man who can go to Washington this fall and, d and what threatens, refus yole o help repeal the silver bill, will negdfito huve a solid con- of mine owners or repudiators to s punishment. 1t will not happen We believo that the roport of sentiment in s i8 accurate and will be supported s. ‘The disastrous exporience of the past will nave purchased for us the repeal of the Sherman law, without any step toward freo coinago or the issuance of “wildeat bank notes, Tho country is about to oxercise its sober sense and to declare that national solvency shall be maintained —— e THE BUSINESS SITUATION. St. Louis Globe-Domocrat: Very few business failures are taking place days, and these are of minor importance Undoubtedly the financial storm has about blown over, Pittsburg Dispatch: It was hasty of the psalmist to exclaim: Al men are liars.” it is more 80 of thoalarmists to proclaim the insecurity of the whole financial fabric be- cause of tho aownfall of a few mismanaged concerns, St. Louls Globe: There is more money in the country now than there ever was before and it will soon be obtainable again on the usual terms. Lot the people have patience till the clouds roll by. That is all that is needed and it is something that doesn’t cost a cent, Cincinnati Gazette: must be a set- back in this countr, ds to puncture bubbles and restore mattors to a solid foun- dation. Passing the period of the war there was a revulsion in 1873, again in 1883, and 1now we have it in 1893, Mark tho regularity and then make note of what followed. Philadelphia Inquirer: Sterling exchango has fallon 21, conts in a weok, grain exports have beon resumed on an extonsive scalo and the feeliug of alarm over the business situa- tion has quite subsided. It may bo concluded that the storm has passed over, and while its effects will be felt for somo tiwe to come, the process in mercantile affairs will be dis- tinetly a constructive one rather than de- ringfiold (Mass,) Ropublican: The six brought in close succession the darkest time and the most decided turn for the better that have yet characterized the existing financial erisis. It is a curious fact that to the panmicky state of the earlicr half of the week should be di- rectly traceable the causes justifying a later improvement in the temper of the business world, The at one time threatening run upon Chicago savings banks brought a money pinch which sent the prices of wheat down to the lowest tigur on record. Foreign buying of grain, hith 0 slack, was at once immensely stimulated. Wheat immedi took the place of gold in satisfying foreign claims against this country, St. Louis Republic: One of the best evi- dences of the continued prosperity of the country is to be found 1n thoe traffic repo of the railroads for the month of M ery trunk line and every large railway E in the United States did a mue l| larger business last month than in the month uh\ln) last year. The fact t the heavy trafiic was not confined to the Chicago roads shows tl the World's fair was not the ouly factor in the increase. The South- western roads gained 9.5 per cent, the South- ern roads over 7 per t, the trunk lines over § per cont and the eastern roads with- out Chicago connections 10 per cent. while the increase of the central western group, mostly in Illinois, ]ndml \nmi Uhln and favoraoly situated for a fair trafiic, “was only 10 per c |t Tho granger roads of the northwest had the lar- gest increase of all, somo 16 per cent—due in part to the heavy movement in grain last month and in part to the World's fair pas- senger traflic. Some of the Pacitic roads have not shared in tho increased business, but that was due in the first place to the cutting of rates, and secondly-1 tho gonera business depression that has prevailed west of the Rocky mountains nearly all the year. Almost every other part of the country, and particularly the west, northwest, south’ and southwest, had a prosperous spring in trado and businoss generally. PEOPLE AN The country is safe. Delaware's peach promises an abundant yield. In the Columbian social gamo it appoars Chicago fluked on discovering that the in- fanta held a royal flush. The now sun spots discovered by astrono- mers have no connection with tho Sun spots W ble on the Cleveland democracy in New ork. he unanimity of the country for an extra session of congress is rudely broken by the information thut New Huampshire Blair is loaded with a specch, Tho coolness between royalty and the sov- ereigns of Chicago comes at an opportune moment, as the mercury is frantically reach- ing for the 100 notch. The phaenixing of Fargo, N. D., develops a strong aversion to continulng prohibition. The disastrous ineficiency of water was demonstrated at the fire, ‘When Mayor Harrison doffed his shiny tile and fondled the princess’ hand, a sus- picion spread over the land ®that the geme would break up in a row. Revolutions spring from lesser deeds, The total production of silver in the world during the last year was placed at 145,000,000 ounces troy, of which the United States pro- duced 60,000,000 ounces, or upward of 41 per cent of tho whole amount, Under the ruling of the postmaster gen- eral, dootors cannot use the mails to trans- port microbes, animated orotherwise. Thoy may scatter seeds of business in other ways, but Uncle Sam does not propose to become nursery of disease, Georgo Davis, a Penobscot Indiun, who has lived in Boston for a number of year: working his way to Oldtown, Me., whe tribe 1s. He left Boston a week or and intends to tramp all the years old, struight as an arrow, black nair, Ono by one our idols are dashed into smithereens. The claim that a Kentuckian won't hold water is a vile slander. A blue grass native was rescued from drowning near the World's fair, and after vigorous rolling something less than a burrel of Lake Michi- gun was squeezed out of him, Ex-Minister Thomas Jefferson Coolidge returnod to this country last week. A New York paper cruelly declares that Mr. Coolidge's sole claim to fane as our minis- ter to Krance is that he gavo a | 0 en- tertainmont at his hotel at which Loie Fuller, tho skirt-dancer, was the principal atraction. ———— THE OLD SCHOOL EXBIBITIONS, Atlanta Constitution, 0, the old s¢ ool exbibitlons! will they over COmo ug; With tho #00d; 0ld-tashloned spoaking from tho boys und girls so plain? Wil wo over he 4 old “Iser,” with Iits rapid roll und 5 Aud “ilot, 'ts a feartul night; thoro's danger on the doep! mel.\"l'“]llr}z ilm-ql't ralse her lambs like Mary did of old Their flecce is not “as white as snow;" they're wandering from the fold, The boy upon “‘the burniug’ deck” Is not ono- born at Blugen, at Bingen on the Withh the old-time & Thoy smile and spuak Vroadcloth and in lace; And youcan't half seo the speaker for the collur 'round the face! anclent Greek; in 0, the old school exhibition! it 1s gone foreyer i The old school house s deserted, and the grass has chokoea the door; And the wind sweeps ‘round the gables, with a low and mournful whine For the old boys “born at Biugen—at Blugen on the Khinel" Jli'gnu: of all in Leavening Power.—Latest \J. . Gov’t Report., Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE | virtue by its exponen‘s theso | r MONY AND DEATA. ow York Tribune: Tha sham cconomy of which the disaster at the capital is a hor: rible consequence has been oxalted as a ? What do they and their constituents think about it now? ew York Commercial: Twonty-two dead and Afuy injured, ¢ onomy of the Holman stripe is rosy it 1t is at this point whera s in public ex venditures for privato gain becomes a crime. Philadelphia Inquirer: The Holman idea of housing tho povernment omployes in any kind of shanties may do for the Hoosior state, but it won't take among men of patri- otism and sense. It istoo dangerous en tirely Chicago Post: A spocial sossion of con gress will, it is believed, bo called in Sep tembor. Heaven send that it will not even then be too late to make provision against another murder quite as horriblo as that which in Ford's theater, a generation ago, stunned tho whole world. w York Herald:' ernment is respon pho makes the noglect all the moro surpr fhg, incxcusable and criminal. - The can now do to atono for the great wrong i« proper compensation to tho li sufforers and the ropresontatives of the dead victims. The fact that the ble for the catastro Buffalo Expres If any private employer had kopt a large force of men in a building known to bo unsafo until it collapsed, cans- g many deaths, he would have been liable to indictment. The government of the United States has done this, and it is in- dictable at the bar of public opinion. Washington Star: Tho widows and the orphans weep for the husbands and fathers sacrificed on the altar of legislative economy and administrative disregard. Over the whole city there is mourning for the dead, lamentation for the dying, sympathy for the injured. Of all tho horrible occurrences which this city has experienced, none ap- proach that awful catastropho which this morning stopped the public pulse and then hastened its movements to fever point Philadelphia Ledger: It is possible that Ford: old opera in Washington was wrecked through the storage in the building of too great a weight of papers, Few people realizo the weight of a mass of documents. Bach package is so light that there is no thought of ovorloading when a room is packed full of them. When men deal with articles of lead, iron or other metal, they calculate the strength of the floors and walls that are to sustain the load, but if papor is to bo stored they too often treat it as though it had no weight. Chicago Tribune: amity lessness, It was known tha ad been condemnea as un: vernment clerks were p m work in it without any nto make it sec Worse even than and still more criminally negligent, th the knowledge of its insecurity tractors allowed workmen to excavate undor it foran electric plant, thus bringing the whole weight of the building upon the un- supported b of the first floor. T SER NEBRASKA . The immediate causo seems to be due to eriminal the build. o, mitted steps having heen There is tallc of extending West Point's electric light plant. Tt is propo park at Ne! The Cuming county teachers institute will convene at. West Point July 1 While George Har! s swimming in the Niobrara near Butte he ventured beyond his depth and was drowaced. A barn and a quantity of baled hay at Crete went up in smoke as the result of & spark from a Burlington cugiue. hoy aro still talking of erecting a col- lege at Beatrice, and the chances aro that something besides talk will come out of it. Fred Sargent, the Battle Crock wiloe mur- derer, is now in_ the penitentiary at Lincoln, the sheriff of Madison county fearing lynchers. Holdrege people gave President Updike of the First National bank a farewell reception on the occasion of his departure for new fields of labor. A telephone line is about to be built be- tween Fremont and Norfolk, connecting tho al towns of the Ellchorn valley with ate exchange. Sparks from u chimnoy caused the destruc- tion of Robert Alsworth’s house near Atkin- All the household goods, two gold s and some money wero lost in the Butte is preparing for a three days cele- bration of July 4. Over 1,200 Indians havo beon engaged to give a representation of tho Mountain = Meadow massacre, also ghost dancing, ete. Fifty beeves will be supplied to feed them, The completion of the bridge across the Niobrara betwee Holt and Boyd countios and making a direct rond from Butte to At- kinson, was celobrated by a picnic, which was participated in by pcople from both towns. Butte is now within thirty miles of a railroad point. ‘The neighbors of James E. North, the now collector of internal revenue for Nebraska, ratified his appointment Tuesday night by shooting off fireworks, building bonfires and having a regular jollification, interspersed with congratulatory speeches, for all of which Mr. North briefly returned his thanks. While Ernest Day, foreman of the printing oftice at the Industrial school at Kearney, was taking a Turkish bath he slipped and foll into a tub of scalding water. He had strength and presence of mind enough to jump out immediately, but the skin and part of the flesh on one side bave come off. He hias sufliciently recovered 1o be taken to his home in Lincoln. Tho doctor says that had he stayed in three sceonds longer the proba- bilities aro that he never would have re- covered., . KS AROUT RIS HAT. Carter Harrison Expiaine the Origin of His Tail Cady. ‘T have a friend on the North Side who is o hatter,” said Mayor Harrison to a Chicago Tribune reporter. “‘Ho got my measure i some way. Tthink Graham gave it to him, and the proof is the hat. That's where I got it. Tt was sent over hore to mo, and it was in the office this morning when 1 got down, and I was mformed that I didn't dare People who know mo know that T a dare, 80 1 put it on, Then © of the boys said my hair was too long silkhat. 1 went over to tha barber shop and told the barber ta t my hair. He asked mo how T wanted it cut know 1 seldom patronize a barber shop, and 1 idn't know there was more than one way of cut- ting hair, and 1 said so. He said there were everal. 1 told him to mow it so I could wear a silk hat. Whilo ho was at_work on me somo of my fool frionas came in, and be- fore the man had finishea his job tho news had traveled around tho block that Carter Harrison was having his hair cut and his whiskers trimmed When T returned to tho office | mot_sew eral of my recent appointees, whom I Iuted, but they looked at me strangely passod on. As 1 was going up tho ole heard a young lady say, ‘Whata ni ing old gentleman.’ ‘Ihat's the story about the hat." 1 ““When before did you ever wear a silk hat " Not sinco 1 was mayor tho first time, You know I have been mayor su\(‘rnl times."” ““When you were in congross b U know 1 live on the West Side." they wear silk hats on the West 't when I ran for congress.” s rocalls tho o silk hat in the month of November i “Tam a Kentuckian, and it may there was some event which called for my wearing a silk hat. If so, I wore one."” What do you think of the silk hat" “lam afraid of it. 1f [ was a botting man L would wager my best horsc that 1 will sit \|m\'{l on this silk hat before Ihaveit a weck.” “‘Youmean on the style or the hat?" “Both. You notice, I suppose, that this is a bellcrow hat. 1 wouldn't wear one of those straight things for $100.” It is hinted that you wore this silk tile u%e Mayor Colvin wore one when he ned old Kalakaua when he came to bo that bec: 1 suppose somo of the newspapers think T ought to have welcomed the infanta in my baro h You newspapor fellows woul have liked that." “It i3 said you propose to wear an English derby tomorrow?" ““That's another newspaper slandor. T had a8 8001 W *Will the pol silk hats while the infanta is h “Now, that's an idea. I'll ¢ Claughry at once and suggest it. T confess I am tired of the things they are wearing, 1f you have no move fool questions to ask about This hat I will have to ask you to excuse me, s [ am going over to have my phiotograph taken with this hat on my head. How's that?” to wear 1l up Me- RUN Troy Press: fro; dodge. Doath, taxes and tho sprays street sprinklor ure all hard things to Oleveland Plain Doaler: Thoscout heads the list in industry. 1is business s scouring plains and scaling mountains, Bulalo Courler: The modern landlord doesn’t get. frightened when ho sees the hand. writing on the wall. Ho just gets mad. Chicago 'Frl\lumr “You can't suffocate a shoomaker,” observed the exchange u(Iltor. “'becauso he an always broathe his lust.’, “If ho dovs,” retorted tho financial editor, *won't 1t bring him to his waxed end?’ Philadelphia Times: When a girl has two ngs to her bow it simply means that if she may nov with one she will knot with tho other, Lowoll Courler: Tho author who sont,to an editor *astory of his own composure’ didg* add much to the editor's stock of tranquiid ————— A HINT FROM PARIS. European Edition New York Herald A TIOUSE DRESS, Dross of gray crepon; accordion plea skirt; bodico aund slooves trimmed with cam embroidered tulle; belt of rod velve! BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manut irers and Rotallers ol Olothing in the World, Brown Stiff Hats. For the next few days we are going to offer | all our $2.50, $3.00 and 15th street entrance. you will be able to get a $3.60 stiffhats in brown shades for $1.50. They are first class goods, but as our hat de- partment has been moved around from pillar to post lately, we thought it would be a good idea to again remind you that it is permanently located in the southeast corner of the first floor at the If you will come and see it good brown stiff hat for $1.50, that usually sell for $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. We have a few boys' suits left from the $3.50 sale -—all the style, BROWNING, Store og every avenlogtll .33 turdey tiii 10 KING & CO., 1 8, W. Cor. 16th and Douglas 8ts.