Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1893, Page 4

OFFICES. s Tee Bufldl Son Gmas it N an Twenty-stxth stroets \ ' hamber of O T4 15, Tribune baitding toenth streot. ing to nawn and edi wed: o the Editor A1 business 1étters and remittances shodld bo & company, Omaha. orders to be made the company. 1ty for the summer ean have addross by leaving an order SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Ne County of Doviglas, George I Tzechuek. secrotary of Tre Bre Pub- shing comp: s molomily awear that the el clrenlat DAILY BER fol ending Octobe Sunday, October % 8 follows Wednesdn Thursd Fridny. Octover Baturday, Octobe T { o | PR il iAo ivrmwn (}Irrulntlon for October, fll.fllfl. —_— Do Nor fail to register today. Wito is Jim Boots Kellay? What kind of & mayor would he makoe for Omaha? SHORT-WEIGHT BEDFORD is his 0. But after election his name will be pants. DIp we hear any one remark that the maximum freight rate law was still tied up in the federal court? AFRICA seoms to be emulating South America just now in presenting to the world a scene of constant civil discord. GEORGE MUNRO has been a faithful, vigilant and honest councilman. He should be kept in his position another term. JUDGE ELLER has had a fair hearing before the court of public opinion and now the other side is given an oppor- $unity to respond. ARE you a free American citizen or a political serf? Ihis is a question which every man who is enrolled in the Rail- way Employes association should ask himself when he casts his vote next Tuesday. IF EACH of the recommendations of the democratic administration should require eighty-five days for its enact- ment into law, four years of democratic rule will not bring the country very far along the road of legislative reform. THE cancellation of all the outstand- Ung loan certificates of the New York tlearing house without doubt indicates the close of one of the most severe mon- etary stringencies which the banks of . this country have ever experienced. ONE of Judge Eller's claims to politi- cal support as set forth in his circular to voters iy the fact that he has a wife and eight children. Unfortunately his wpponent cannot equal this showing. But then he has not been married quite yo long as Judge Eller, TALK upon the canal scheme has been altogether 100 wide of the mark so far . a8 its promoters have been concerned. Let them explain exactly how the ap- proval of the present bond proposition will hasten the time when Omaha will possess the proposed canal. They can't doit. Vote down the bond proposition. Now is the propitious time for Bryan . Yo oxecute his threat of deserting the lemocratic party and joining the popu- Jdsts. He must at all events accept with resignation the fate that decrees all of the federal patronage to his opponents within his own party. Bryan has just one year left him to discover “where he is to be at.” CrT1zENs of Douglas county, regard- less of party, owe it to themselves to take the sherifl’s office out of the hands of aman who has so little regard for lecency or law that he allows the jail to be converted into an assignation house, permits privoners to run at large and allows his deputies to take them to dis- ‘orderly resorts and gambling houses, Will any self-respecting American citi- zen place his vote at the disposal of any railroad, express, telegraph or street rail- way company or any other corporation that carries him on its pay roll? Does a man barter away his soul when he hires out to one of these corporations? Ave they not get- ting all they are entitled to when employes. efi- ciently and faithfully perform the task im- ‘posed upon them in the shops, on the train or at headquarters? ACCORDING to the World-Herald Mayor Bemis is the preferred candidate of the water company, the asphalt paving contractor and the gam- Ylers. If Mayor Bemis is the preferred 2andidate of the water company how did it happen that its cohorts fought Bomis at the primavies? If Bemis is the van- didate of the asphalt company how does it come that Charley Squires signed the petition for Dr. Mercer? If Bemis is the gamblers' choice why are the pro- prietors of the Diamond, the biggest gambling house in town, working night and day for Bodford? —— CITY ATTORNEY CONNELL says, over his own signature: ‘“‘The law does not Ppermit that to be done indirectly which ‘eannot be done directly. The city at the nt time has no authority to vote for the purpose of construct- # canal wherewith 1 create power operating factories, machiery, etc., eveu if voted under the pretext of con- waterworks and an electric light plant.” In other words, under the Lion as now submitied no part of proceeds of the bonds could be used for mwuu 4 canal. Tberefore we ad- ‘vise every citizen to vote n> on the -ulhn #ud @ bulf boud proposision. TRYING 70 FRIGHTEN BUSINESS MEN. Chairman Siaughter has addressed a oircular letter to bankers and lodn agents in which he propounds two lend- ing questions on behalf of the state central committee. As a prelude Mr. Slaughter adopts the tactics of the calamity howlers by asserting that we are verging on an era of financial ruin and dire distress by reason of the des- perate effort that is being made to elect & populist to the supreme bench. The questions, as propounded, read as fol- lows: Should a populist be elected to the supreme bench this fall, how, in yon: judgment, would it effect municipal and individual credits and rfites of fntorest, especially with regard to placing of eastern capital in western bonds and farm mortgages, or other real estate loans? In your opinion, will the best business in- terests of Nebraska be subserved by the ele- vation of aman to the position of supremo Judge who represents the populists' ideas? Now the manifest object of this bankers’ circular is to get them to make horrible predictions of calamity ruina- tion and business depression as the con- sequence of the election of a populist supreme judge. If the election of Hol- comb to the supreme bench wanld really besuch a terrible calamity, why did these political salvationists wait until the eve of clection before sounding the alarm? Why did not they ask the busi- ness men and the bankers to telp them nominate a candidate who would have defeated any populist that could have been nominated? Tt they were 8o anxious to forestall the election of u populist judge, why didn't they help to nominate Maxwell, who would have been elected without circulars to bankers, commercial trav- elers and dealers in brittle political crockery? Does any sane man imagine that the credit of any town or individual will suffer in the remotest degree by the defeat of the candidate whom the rail- roads want to foist on the supreme bench? Which would be the greater calamity, the overthrow of free govern- ment and constitutional liberty by furn- ing over the supreme court to a railroad oligarchy, or the election of a judge bound by no tie except his sacred cath of office? Could any greater calamity bafall the people of any commonwealth than the subjection of its supreme judicial tri- bunal to the dictates of corporate mana- gers banded together to dominate over the people through conventions of mer- cenaries wearing the livery of republi- canism and executing the behests of despotism? Talk about damaging the credit of Nebraska when it is a matter oi com- mon notoriety that there is a shortage of over $700,000 in the state troasury, of which $300,000 have been swallowed up by the Mosher bank swindles. Could anything be as damaging to the credit of this state as is the notorious facs that the state has been defraudad and robbed by the counivance of state officers; that our legislature has by an almost unani- mous vote impeached these state officers and that the supreme Gourt has let thom go with a reprimand? Why was not the voice of the state committee raised in defense of the tax- payers and business men when the at- tempt was made to turn down the only judge on tha supreme bench who had the courage and high sense of official integrity to place the stigma of guilt upon the brow of faithless and untrust- worthy custodians of pablic property and state institutions? In our judgment the only way to raise the credit of the state is to rebuke .the conspirators who brought about the nomination of Harri- son; to purge the state house of boodler- ism and the conventions of railroadism. There is no danger of Nebraska’s credit 80 long as the people of Nebraska have the integrity and the manhood to main- tain their rights of self-government. The most damaging thing to Nebraska's credit that we can think of is base and abject surrender of an unbiased ju- diciary to the keeping of railway mag- nates and the mercenaries that rotate in the railroad orbit. THE BEE has as much at stake in the state of Nebraska 8s any banker or business man, but it would rather see the state resume its territorial dependency, governed by fed- eval authority, than have it remain a mere province of Boston and New York stock gamblers, acting through petty usurpers and political buccaneers, who set the laws at defiance and override constitutional right through courts packed in their interest. WABBLING DON'T PAY. Nebraska is represented on the floor of the lower house of congress by three republicans. These men were elected squarely on the issue of honest money as defined in the national! republican platform and in opposition to the free coinage and wildeat money planks of populists and democrats, When & man is elected to any legislutive body to represent.a party he is expected to give vitality by his vote to the principles his party has enunciated. If there was any issue on which the lines were drawn and clearly defined in Nebraska in the last campaign it was on the issue of free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1, On the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase act in the house Mr. Mercor recorded his vote with the great body of his party for the bill, and Messrs. Hainer and Meiklejohn ranged themsclves with the populists and silverite democrats. In otner words, Mr. Mercer is the only republican in the house who is in accord with the pli. form pledges of his party. Hainer and Meiklejohn wabbled and played willow. This is just what Mr. Pad- dock did in the senate for several yeurs and he found to his cost that populists tovk no stock in such play for favor from the opposition, The republican party is either right or wrong on the money question. Those who believe it is right should have the courage of their convictions, and those who believe it is wrong should join the party that makes free and unlimited coinage its chief issue. Men who are on both sides of this issue must fall be- tween two stools. It was all well enough for Messrs. Meiklejohn and Hainer to support amendments t0 raise the ratio and bring silver coins up to their com- mercial standard, but on the main question of repesl thelr vote should have been in accord with the platform on which they were elected. BEMIS, HASC\LL BEDFORD. There are three candidates before the citizens of Omaha who are fairly pitted against each other for mayor—Bomis, Hascall and Bedford. Dr. Mercer will get fewer votes in Omaha than Ada Bit- tenbender will get for supreme judge. As between Bemis, Hascall and Bed- ford, who will best protect and pro- mote the city's interests and in whose hands will the taxpayers be the safest? That is the main question in a aut shell. The leaders of the anti-vice movement say the main question is what candidate will most vigidly enforce the Sunday laws and go farthest toward suppressing gambling and the social evil? This very respectable, but im- practical class, as we understand it, pro- pose. to defeat Bemis bzcause he has failed to comply with their demands and recommendations. Some of these ex- tremists go so far as to say openly that they will vote for Tascall in order to make things just as bad as possible in order to rouse all the respectable and law-abiding eloments of the city into an anti-vice and s Sunday elosing cru- sade. This is very much the same pol- icy as was pursued in Towa by prohibi- tionists who preferred free whisky, holes in the wall and boot-lagging to high license and restrictive legislation. There is no doubt that Haseall would gratify theso extremists by a frec-and- oasy and wide open night and day gov- ernment in which vice would run riot to their heart's content. It goes without saying that the anti- vice eloment will cause no reform b throwing their votes to the democratic candidate, who certainly does not claim to be better than his party and courts the support of the vicious element by a personal canvas in the lower wards. When it comes to choosiag between Bemis, Bedford and Hascall in the intevest of economy and the protection of the taxpayer Mayor Bemis cer- tainly is incomparably the safest man. Hascall's recklessness and wildcat ideas in business matters are well known. Mr. Bedford isa good business man, but he has, if apything, more irons in the fire now than he had when he was a member of the council and did not | attend two meetings out of every five. Mr. Bedford is, moreover, en- tangled with franchised corporations, whom he ocounts among his heaviest patrons. He is constantly subjected to the whim of public carriers and catnot afford to incur their displeasure when it comes to a clash between them and the oity’s interests in the matter of via- ducts, depots or right-of-way privileges. From a business standpoint and from the taxpayers' standpoint Mr. Bemis is, in our judgment, the most reliable and safest candidate. He is in position to devote his whole time to the business of the city. He " has “nothing to sell to any corporation holding a franchise and no materials to furnish to contractors. He does not travel on a streat car pass or on a railroad pass. He does not accept free water, free gas, free electric light or any other gift. He is not a shipper or a dealer tnat can be favored or injured by a railroad. He is vigilant in checking jobs and fraudu- lent claims. At the same time he is progressive and favors public improve- ments and projects that would promote the growth of the city. As between the three candidates Mr. Bemis certainly merits papular prefor- ence. TRE QUESTIUN OF A BOND ISSUE. There will be no further financial legislation until the regular session of congress, but very soon after that meets, on December 4, the question of issuing bonds for increasing the gold re- serve of the treasury and providing against the threatened deficit will come up and may take precedence of the tariff question. According to-the statement recently sent to congress by the secre- tary of the treasury there is very likely to bo a deficiency in the revenues of the government at the end of the current fiseal year amounting to $50,000,000, and it may exceed thatsum. There will be no difference of opinion, it is presumed, upon the proposition that provision must be made to meet this threatened deficiency. Nobody cap desire that the treasury shall be placed in a posi- tion that will compel 1t to indefinitely put off the psymunt of any of its obliga- tions. Of cour'se there is the gold- re- serve, bu if there was no question as to whether this fund could be lawfully used for any purpose other than the re- demption of United States, notes it would obviously be most inadvisable to divert it from that object. In the opin- ion of Senator Sherman and some others there isno authority for using the gold reserve for any other purpose than that of redeeming United States notes, but whatever difference of opinion there may be as to this it is manifestly the wise und safe policy to maintain this fund for the object for which it was created. The threatened deficiency probably cannot be met by additional taxation,nor can it be provided for by coining the silvor seigniorage in the treasury, as has been proposed, because the amount could not be turned out of the mints within the next six months. It could be met by an issue of greenbacks, but a government inflation of the paper cur- rency to the amount of %30,000,000 at this time ¢ould not be justified on sound finaneial principles and would not be approved by the conservative judgment of the eountry. Having abandoned sil- ver inflation it would manifestly be a mistake to resort ti an inflation of paper. The only judicious and safe al- ternative, thercfore, seems to be an issue of bonds, as Senator Sherman has urged and as President Cleveland is said to believe. There heing some doubt regaraing the authority of the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds under ex- isting law, congress will ba asked to pass a bill giving suca authoiity, Sen- ator Sherman has prepared a measure for this purpise and it may be intro- duced immediately aftor the meeting of the regular session. Tt is understood that 1 the meanwhile President €leve: land will prepare & special message 1 eongress urging that authority be im- mediately granted for another issue of United States bouds, It.is said that the administration jg fally committed to this volicy and 4] democrats in both branches of congess have been given to understand thdf Jt would bo urged upon the attention af Congress at the earliest practicable tim There will, 6f | course, be a strong and vigorous opposition to incrensing the interest-boaring public debt by issuing bonds. 1t w||1 » antagonized by the silver men in bs xtu branches of congress and it will encounter democratic opposi- tion on grounds of party expediency. The party will bs earnestly warned that to increase the public debt will be dan- gerous to its welfare. Mr. Cleveland, however, if he is correctly represented, seems to prefer that the public debt shall bo increased rather than that the treasury shall become insolvent and the government bo compelled to default on its obligations during his administra- tion, and if he has decided to make the issue of bonds a part of the financial policy of his administration he will be very likely to carry it to success. ILLEGAL AND UST DISCRIMINA- TION. n sustaining the ruling of the Inter- state Commerce commission against dis- criminating rates in favor of shipments of imported goods, in the case of the Texas Pacific, the circuit court of ap- peals for the district of New York has added the weight of its judicial authority to the interpretation which the commis- sion has aimed to put upon tho interstate commerce act. The third section of that act made it unlawful for any common carrier subject to its provisious to give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular deseription of traffic or to subject any description of traffic to any 1ndue or unreasonable prej- udice or disadvantage. The commission has been accustomed to give hearings upon facts which the railroads claimed justified whatever discriminations in rates were complained of and to con- sider all the circumstances bearing upon the particular class of traffic before handing down its opinion. The recent decision of the cirouit court of appeals holds simply that the diserimination in favor of import traffic was unjustifiable in the particular case tried, but it must, nevertheless, go far to establish the principle that in the absence of unusual orextraordinary modifying conditions no such discrimination will be tolerated under the interstate commerce act. The contention, of the railroads in granting this class of discrimination is that unless they #re permitted to make special rates for import trafic they will lose that traffic entirvely; that if they re- duce the rates on domestic traffic to the same scale as. those necessary on im- ported goods their whole business of transporting frbight will become de- moralized and unprofitable. This is un- doubtedly true;in many instances, but cannot always be viewed as a justifica- tion. It was true in this Texas Pacific case. For example, the rate from Liv- erpool to San:Krancisco was 81.07 per hundred pounds “on- books, carpets, woolen goods, §hdes, etc., the govds be- ing shipped to New.Orleans by boat. Of this sum, only’ 80" cents = went to the railroad.” The ordinary raii rates from New Orleans to San Francisco were $2.88 per hundred pounds on books and carpets and $3.70 on shoes and woolen goods. Such a flagrant case ot discrimination could scarcely be up- held by the courts, although the deci- sion might deprive the railroad alto- gether of its import traflic. The judge who wrote the opinion in this case,while expressly disclaiming any inteation of saying that no modifying circumstances would justify a relaxation of the rule against discrimination in favor of par- ticular descriptions of traffic, by his order compels the railroad to put in force the same tariff for transporting goods in transit as for transporting domestic goods. From one adverse decision alter another the railroads are gradually learning that there is a roughly-drawn line which they will not be permitted to overstep. A SLIGHT advance in the price of wheat is ascribed in part to the im- proved outlovk for the passage of the repeal bill, which has increased confi- dence in the wheat markets. Another influence, however, favorable to im- proving prices is found in the fact that interior receipts .of wheat have con- tinued moderate in comparison with those of last year. In three weeks of October the arrivals at western spring and winter wheat centers have aggre- gated 18,000,000 bushels, as against 29,- 000,000 bushels during the correspond- ing period in 1892. The disinclination of farmers to sell is encouraged by the velatively profitable results of feeding. The tendency to a re- covery of values under the influ- ence of smaller receipts and a growth of business confidenco is retarded by the continued presence of large stocks at the commercial conters and by decreas- ing exports. Although shipments to Burope so far this season have been 7,000,000 bushels’ isrger than they were last year, the outwatrd movement in the last three weeks has fallen over 2,000,000 bushels balow the totals for the corresponding period last year, Not- withstanding the great decgease In shipments from:/the farms and season’s gain ln‘I xports, the visible stock of whoat in this country is stated to be mnearly 8,000,000 bushels larger than it was a year #fzo. This is the fea- ture of the sntu;mon that prevents a more rapid recovery in prices. Reports concerning the fal);gown wheat indicate that the erop is waking satisfactor, progress and will éfiter the winter sea- son in better condition than did the crop of last year. The outlook for much the * higher prices for wheat is not so bright as could be wished in the interest of the producers. JOVERNOR PENNOYER of Oregon is a trifle carly with his Thanksgiving proclamation and a trifle forward in casting reflections upon the congross and president of the United States in a public document. Pennoyer is thg man who insulted President Cleveland once before, and it is a cause for wonder why the demoorats of Oregon should persist in placing in their chief executive office a man so devoid of all senso of decency and propriety. The silver purchasing clauso of the Sherman law certainly made a hard fight and died game when theend was forced. Demind (or - asoiution, Kansas City Jjotrnal, Now that the president's financial policy has been sustained, let us hope that republi- cans in congress will dissolve partnership with the democratic administration. i ticncn Fule Ornumont for (e, Phitadelphia Press., 1t is said that the assassin of Mayor Har- rison of Chicago is cra He's sane enough to suffor for his_crime at the end of four- teen feet of good three-quarter inch manilla hemp. Ploand Prinoiple. Cleveland Leader. President Cleveland is the most effective boss the democratic party has had in a third of a century. The reason is that he is the only man in that period who has been able to give hungry demociats federal ofices as the price of meek obedien oo A Veto for Vistonaries, Globe-Democrat. Probably repegi will start the wildeat cur- rency advocates into activity. They will want to keep up the expansion of the circu- Inting medium, But they will fail. The tax on state bank issues will”not be removed by this congress. Wildeat money is not wanted by the country. Hanils O, Hesslans, Phitadelphia North Amertoan Thero must be no foreign influence in- jected into this Brazliax business. If thers is, the administration will be justified and supported in going to any length necessary to resent and repel it. Itis gratfying to perceive that even the present administra- t10n seems to appreciate that. ——————— Republioaus Seved I Chicago Inter Ocean. The democratic president called congress in session to legislate for a special purpose, to relieve the country in a great emergenc; But his democratic” majority utterly faile him after more than twelve weeks of a struggle. He had todrop back upon the siraightforward work of republicans. 'Lhey alone saved the administration from defeat. Brushing the Clouds Away. Kansas City Star. Leading business men of Denver are now talking in a sensitive manner in regard to the future of that state. Colorado’s indus- tries are too_varied and t00 good to justify the continuance of the calamity cries which have all been too prevalent recently. Even if it did not produce an ounce of silver, the Centennial state would not be ruined. L SR Assertion and Contradiotion. St. Paul Glube, ‘Those Denver baunks that are resuming business on the eve of the repeal of tne sil- ver bill are discrediting the Colorado sena- tors in & most emphatic manner. Teller and Wolcott have both been declaring for months that to discredit silver would be to bring on a financial crisis in the Rocky mountains. The repeal is accomplished, and yet the banks seem to invite the blow which these sage statesmen iusist is impending. Very evidently the bankers place no confidence in the sagacity of the aforesaid statesmen. e The Wave of Moral Reformers. Arkansas Traveler. Nobraska scems to be making a gigantic endeavor to “line up” with Indiana in the white cap business. A dozen members of the WomAn's Christian Temperance union of Polk county have beon arrested for luring several girls, whose conduct they did not like, to the woods, and there flogging them unniercifully. A singular commentary on the stute of civilization existiug in that region of-Nebraska is the fact that these Woman’s Christian Temperance union cranks glory in their conduct. and say that “it was for ‘the public good” uhat such measures were adopted. e e Soutied Farswell to the Fakir, Chicago Record. Midway, the feverish, turbulent, uproar- fous, beery, interesting and instructive Mid- way, is a0 more! Midway was not uniformly beautiful, but it did inspire thought and observation and comparisons. It was & storm center for pleasure hunters. There was no limit to its variety. It was the joke of the exposition. Now that the Da- homeyans, Bedouins, Cairenes, Turks and Javanese,and all the other more or less bedizened tribes and races ure about to fold up_ their concessions and steal away, it is but fitting that we hold out the hand of friendship and bid them o pleasant journey. —_— Huwailan Annexation Improbable, Washington Correspondence New York Herald. The papers Mr. Willis is now carrying to Hawaii will tell how the administration stands on the Hawaiian question. I have trustworthy auathority for the statement that these papers make a definite proposi- tion to the provisional government. They embody the form of a treaty which will be disappointing to the annexationisis, but sat- isfacvory to those in favor of a mild pro- tectorate without interference with internal affairs. The understanding now is that the pavers will be made public simultaneously in the two countries, and that this will be within less than a fortnight. An Irrigation Legacy. Philadelphia ecord, One of the legucies of the international irrigation congress, in session at Los Angeles recently, is & dispute over the question whether there 1s sufficient water to irrigate all of tne arid lands of tho west. That the supply would not be sufficient is the belief of Major Powell, of the geological survey. His objections ure met by the contention of the irrigationists, that while Mujor Powell's figures may be correet, he has fuiled 10 take into account the wasted water of the rivers he having based his estimates of the su) solely upon the annual rainfall, If this dis- cussion shall lead to a fuller examination of this question in all 1ts bearings it will not have been burren of valusole results, The Government u Denver R publican, Whatever may be done with the Union Pa- cific railroad the cl of the government against that corporation should b protected, The road wus buiit through the bounty of the government, which was given with a liberal haud, and the money thus advanced should have remained o first lion upon the property. But, by some kind of juggler: the claim of the government was subord nated to & private claim, and 50 it 18 secured nmv only by second Wortgage. is mort- should be foreclosed, d, if necessar; Lm road should be bougnt in by the gove “There has been altogether 0o muv hown the stockholders in connecs th the debt due the government. 'I Xle_\ should have been made to realize long ago that tais debt has to be paid some time. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report, K))'al Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PEOPLE AND 1HINGS, The Thanksgiving proclamation is due. Myaterious disappearancesare now classed as antumr leaves. One thousand llm‘mvh\y(‘«l are daily fed in the sand lots of San Francisco. 1t is an off year in Now York. tion has fallon away nearly 50,000, What wreck of hopes and_shattering of idois there will be whon Tuesday's re- turns come in, Ten thousand children wore cared for in the World's fair nursery and none of them lost in the squalls. The depth of French rogard for the Rue- sians cannot bo determined until tho size of the foan is made public. Railing against calamity howlers is unfair and fruitless as long as the coal combine holds a mor'gage on the earth, If any one dailies with the notion that confidence is not in the saddle let him inter- view candidates for office. Every one thinks he will be elected. Registra- r and brighter Tribune. Similar reign at night, but more so. The ign is at its height. Sallio Matthows, who died in Louis- ville recently, was for a time in_command of an Ohio steamboat with fully 100 men sub- ject to her orders. She was 83 voars old at the time of her death. Mrs. Ann Sullivan of Wurtsboro, N. Y., is supposed to be the oldest woman in the state. Her age Is 110, shoe is quite vigorous, d has not used glasses for twenty-two rs, though before that timo she needed . Samuel K. Smith, tho author of “Amor- fca,” celebrated his S5th birthday anniver. sary a few days ago at his home in Nowton Center, Mass. Heis busy with religious and liverary work, is alort and active and feels like 60. Rov. F. S. Smith, “My Country Tis of Thee," sixty years ag passed his 85th birthday it week, at I||l home in Newton Center, near Boston, He is bale and active, and often supplies vacant pulpits in Massachusotts towns. Two of the healthiest, ctcerist_women in Connecticut are Mrs. lsunice Pierce of New Haven, and her twin sister, Mrs. Louviay Williams, whom the former has been visiting for a weok or so in Meriden. They are 87 yoars old. _ Lawyer Purdy of New York, while dofen: ing o Bowery tough, sought to show the ju that “knockor-out dope” was harmless by wing a dose. Iu ten seconds the law- yer was knocked out and rendered uncon- scious. Ho recovered a few hours later to find his cliont convicted. Sir Andrew Clark, whose career appoars to have been ended by a stroke of paraiys has long been regarded as one of the fore: most physicians of Great Britain, and has bzen the medical adviser of s He will be the fourth emine attendance upon the Gladstone the grand old man has survived. Sir Henry Loch, who is in a squabble with Premier Cecil Rhodes for the management of the British campaign in Matabeloland, was taken prisoner at the timo of the Chi- nese and, with Mr. Boulby of the Lon- don Times, carried about the country in a cage and exhibited to the natives. Ho is now ner Britannic majesty’s chief commis- sioner at the Cave. And so Dhutep Singh is dead, Well, well, it's a bad year for oriental potentates. With the sultan of Johore fighting a breach of promise England, the maharajah of Kapurth peless victim of the gin fizz havit and the gaekwar of Baroda plung- ing around Londou trying to borrow enough money to get homo with, the dazle and illusion of Indian splendor are hopelessly gone. “Cash up or no verdict” was the pertinent declaration of a jury toa Texascourt. Tho six zood men and true struck for their stipends, and when _the plunks were handed over the jury decided to disagreo. It was then the court's wrath rose to a fighting pitch. A return of the fees was domanded, and on refusal the court imposed a fine of £2.50 on each of the six jurymen. The cleanup for tho duy netted the judge §7. il ey PE LS FOR REPEAL, Cincinnati Commercial: Forty-three to thirty-two are figures that go to provo that a stubborn minority cannot throttle and dowinate a majority that stauds for and is in the right. ‘Washington Post: Our financial conval- esconce may be slow, but unless some stu- pendous blunder is commivted, which thero is just now little reason to um)uhcnd itis practically assured. Boston Globe: , Well may the zood news from Washington be greeted with acclaim. It brings to pass that which multitudes of earnest men of business have long desired. It means the beginning of o new cra; for repeal spells prosperity. Chicago Herald: A too rapid recovery, followed by parial relapse, on the other hand, would be unfortunate, because it would turn the wavering to theside of cheap money—silver or paper—and might lead to the trial of new experiments and more dis- astrous results-than the country has yet experienced. Buffalo iixpress: There is, however,much in the outcome of the contest for which those democrats who hope eventually to see their entire party brought over to the side of the president and the re- publicans can congratulate them- selves. The democrecy came nearer being on the right side this time than it has on any financial question before in a quarter of a century. It hhs shown a healthy and sudden growth toward a right principle. who wrot: ppiest and NEBRASK 14 AND NERRASKANS. Seward has 100 many young boys running the streets who ought to be at home, Masked men held up a barber at Cozad and securod $17.50 in cash and a gold watch. A brother of Secrotary of the ‘freasury Carlisle has been visiting in Broken Bow. He is a ranchman in Idabo. A Beatrico man bonght a (lage county pumpkin for 25 cents the other day and his wife worked the fruit up into soventy-three vies, The Nertolk district conference of the Meothodist Episcopal church has just ad. journed at Wakefleld. The noxt session will be held at Wisner Somehody stole one of the team of trotting dogs belonging 10 John Schick of Beatrice, but by payment ard the owner so- cured the return of 3 ‘The granary and corncrivs of Tom Finlen of Custer county were destroyed by fire and 1,000 bushels of corn and 600 bushels of wheat were consumed. Incondiaries. Joseph W. Rogers, a plourer of Fillmore county, was buriea by the Grand Army post of Iixotor and all tha business houses in town closed out of resvect for his memory. Moses Marks, a clork in a Nebraska City clothing house, fell from a stop ladder in tho front window of the store and plunged headrirst into the big light of glass. ‘I he paao wus cracked ‘dn il directions aud ks’ head was so badly cut that o suw &eon had to sew up the wound. Tho Smith block at Exoter by fire with all its contents. nts were J. A. Nye, con foner, loss '-‘00 in- sured for £350; . W. Costello, barbor shov, loss §150, no insurance; Alta V. Robinson, anco; J. C. insured for If, which has long Ap. was owned by H. o of the first builaings The abseace of wind saved the remainacr of the village, as thers was no ‘The origin of the fire is unknown. surance on the buiiding was $1,000. A bunco game has been worked quite suc- cossfully at South Sioux City by a gang of which d polico ofticial was a leading man. armers upon the ing who had plenty of money and were seeking employment ana steered them to old Covington. Their last game was two youths with plenty of money, who woro employed by a member to husk eighty acres rn, which he 4 was in Nebraska, near this pl were successfully ried for all they lmvl and recrossed the river on a dime borrowed from a bartender. Two of the gang w. arrested and action will be commenced against the oficer. A 14-year-ola boy was met by two men near the river and forced to trade u pairof pants for a pair discarded by one of the fellows. Diligent search failod to find the men, a2 IRIES, loss $1,00 he building it onsiderod a five L mith and was PIPING P New Orleans Plc pened to muke V' eruption in the Something has hape ivius sick, There is sever outh of the crater, Clovelund Plain Thoso Indiann lundies who w & “durkest Chicago™ ooking for their hus- Atchison Globe: When a woman takes par- ticular pains in putting on her clothes It is evident she intends making a call on u woman she doesn't like very well. ndelphin Led; hat the nows dis- patch describes as i richt whale was washed ashore on Long island last weelk. But it ap Dpears to huve boen left Now York Herald: fle—I should think it would be very hard work (o write & modern society no he—Whaut can thero Ue o hard about {t7’ Ho—To restraln che Impulse to kill off all the leading characters, Washington Star: the train robber de Pullman porer. ost. 1n thi It's no use, ctedly, as he watc mightas well turn hon- Thero's altogether too much cum[m!\tlnn business.” Boston Gazette: Whoro ls Mes. Shamre ;Bho hus gone 1o thosymphony rehearsnl.» k her hasband gone with b No, he 15 1n the woodshed at a Chopin’ recital. Truth: Mr. Onller—Miss Antique, I have been wanting to ask you somothiug for some time. Miss ask it “Nr. Caller—My mother wiints to know 1 you are not the Tsnbel Antiquo she used to goto school with? Antlquo (blushing—You-you muy TREND OF THIN Kansas City Journal, The autumn loaves arc falling, Red, yellow, green and browng The mercur: But surgly mov Our spirils low are And sorrow fills o For conl is swiftly Golng up, and up, and up. ¥ R. Washington star. Ho could sit for hours and spealc Things sublime in clussic Greek. He could also let you know How the comets come and go. Heo couid fathom all the vricks Of our modern politics. He'd describe, your mind to feast, Prohistoric man or boast. Yet there wero somo men who said hey would like to punch his head, And they said it o'er and o'er, y meant it more und more, Dad Binged ore Couldn’t learn to shut the door! BROWNING, KING™— | Largest Mlnuhumrari wt Fpatiar of Clothing fn the Worll. To draw the eye To our advertisements objects and to draw you to our store is another. the latter we have for a special sale of Little Boys' Suits. The prices have been so marked is one of our To accomplish arranged that you will save many a dol- lar, the quality and assortment being the best,the prices will be all the more appreciated by those who know us. Little Zuave suits, ages and up. 3 to 8, at $3.50, $4, $4.50 Little double breasted reefer suits, ages 4 to 15, at $3.50, $4, $4.50, $5 and up. Little kilt suits, lots of styles, at $3,50, $4, $4.50, $5 and up, besides an endless variety of cloth and leather leggings, reefer overcoats and winter caps at pop- ular prices. A boys' fine cape evercoat at $3.50 and up. As to boys' ulsters you will find our line the largest and the prices as low as they can be for first class goods. BROWNING, Store "pen every evontng uli6:id Duturduy ol KING & CO,, |S. W, Cor. 16th and Donjlas 3ls