Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. 5. ROSEWATER. Fditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Bee (without Sundas) One Year. Daily and Sundiy, One Year Six Monthis Three Months Stunday B 8a OFFICES, i ind Twenty-alxth streets ¥l atreot Fourteenth stroet CORRESPONDEN fons relating to nows and ed Should b addrossed: To the Edito whonid he Teo Publishing company, Omal d postofies orders 1o be made company sunmer ean have B4 by leaving an ol ries leaving (he it to thelr ad 2B PUBLISHING COMPANY. MENT OF CIRCULATION. BEE Pub: « wolemuly wear that the Tiw DALLY BEE for the week 03, was as follows T ) At 1 1 THE country can now settle down to another week of suspenso in expectation of further news from Hawai Prp trial trip of our new war vessel has once more established the title of Columbia as the gem of the ocean. —_—— ALLthe great European parliamentary bodies are now sion. When con- gross reconvenes the galaxy will be complete, in se SECRETARY GRESHAM'S letter to the president and his instructions to the minister to Hawaii do not seem to have been entirely consistent. A FEW more mysterious journeys by the president would come in handy to furnish topies of gossip for the multitude of Washington correspondents. JUDGING [rom the tone of some of the dispatches from Washington to Ne- aka newspapers, the administration solely oceupied with the Hawaiian yncident and the Aurora postoftice fight, to the exclusion of all other affaivs of slate. 'RIC trolley canal boat would have been placed among the miracles twenty years ago. Now it is an assured success. People are no longer aston- ished at any of the most remarkable achievements of this wonderful age of electricity. NO AMERICAN republic has ever re- lapsed into monarchy after establishing capability of its citizens to rule them- m~—selves. The people of Brazil are not yet ready to resign thewr powers of self- government into the hands of another emperor. Now if the injuncticn cases against the maximum rate law wiil only de- velop a rate of speed something like the new warship Columbia, the people of Nebraska will have nothing left to mar the enjoyment of their coming Thanks- giving repast. AND now comes the rginia demo- crats with a frantic protest against the proposition to place potatoes on the free list. The utter lack of patriotism of these southern democrats is one of the most “discouraging things to the free trade propaganda. A MOVEMENT is on foot at Lincoln to secure the pardon of Gorham Betts, the only one of the asylum boodlers who faiied to escape conviction. The Lin- edln people would be in better business and be doing the state a better service if they would rather encourage a senti- ment in favor of convicting the boodlers who are yet to be tried. AN AMALGAMATION of all the labor organizations of the country is the latest project of the labor leaders. The choice lies between a loosely connected large organization and a number of well ce- mented smaller bodies. Lack of cohesion has frustrated former attempts of this kind and it remains to be seen whether present cireumstances are more favo) able to another attempt in this dire It 18 worthy of notice that the re- puciation of the alleged woman suffrage appeal for the support of the notorious Maynavd in the t New York cam- paign was not brought out until after the election had passed and the appeal had exerted the little influence which the woman suffage party possessed. The leaders of woman suffrage brigade mightv have spoken as well before as after elec- tion. Their delay in this matter cor- tainly does not call for commendation, CHICAGO newspapoers u e protesting vigorously against two ordinances that wore recently passed by their city coun- eil granting franchises to private elec- teie lighting corporations without stipu- lating for any returns or concessions to the city whatever. Attention is ecalled to the editorial comment of the Chicago Tmes on vhis subject, which wo repro- duce in another column of this page for the venefit of the councilmen who helped 0 pass the fifty-year gas franchise ordi- nance. The remurks are equally perti- nent to Chicago and Omaha. THE democrats of Alabama are up in arms at the proposition of the ways and means committee to place coal and iron on the free list. The opposition of the Alabama people will be better under- #tood when the public realizes that ov: =.$125,000,000 is invested in the coal and iron industry in that state and that one- fifth of the entire population is depend- ent upon the prosperity of these inte ests. The 70,000 operatives of Alabamu are democrats and their unfriendly avti- tude may well create a feeling of appre- hension in the minds of the free trade theorists who have always looked to the democratic party for their greatest strength, A TRAVESTY ON JUSTICF. The acquittal of vhe men indicted by the grand jury of Lancaster county for frauds connected with the sale and de- livery of supplies to the State Hospital for the Insane forms one of the most di graceful chapters in the legal annals of Nevraska. Men doubly indicted escape the penalty for their erimes in the face of overwhelming evidense of their guilt. Here are the facts: a year ago charges of the most serious nature were mado at & public meeting—charges so serious that the members of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings were compelled, much against their inclina- tion, to institute an investigation. Tt is well known that that investigation was a prejudiced one. The members of the board started out with the deliberate purpose of discrediting the testimony of the man who brought the charges. In- stead of making an earncst effort to find out whether or not the alleged frauds had been committed, the board sought by browbeating and attempted intimi- dation to turn the investigation into a farce. And, yet, unfair and one-sided as that investigation was, the Board of I"ublic Lands and Buildings was com- pelled by the eompleteness of the proof to refer the matter to the grand jury. The grand jury was convened and, after soveral weeks of carveful investigation, indictments were returned against six men who had been connected with the frauds. Subsequently, the legislature convened and a committes composed of men of unquestioned personal integrity, and representing the three political par- ties, made another investigation, the re- sult of which only confirmed the discov- eries of the grand jury. The report of the legislative commit- teo was complete and exhaustive, and it left no doubts in the minds of honest men of ail parties that the frauds had been perpotrdted and that the proof against the contractors was almost conclusive. Here were three indictm one by the Board of Public Lands and Build- ings, one by the grand jury and one by a legislative committee. And yot, in the hope and expectation that another grand jury might possibly fail to indict the culprits, a “flaw” was discovered in the first indictment, and a second grand jury called. But even this bavefaced attempt to evade a trial was a failure, for the second grand jury, composed of some of the most promiuent and sue- cessful business men of Lincoln, again indicted the men charged with the perpetration of the frauds. Aftor four successive indictments and nearly a ye: delay the men charged with gross frauds against the state have been brought to trial and acquitted. No one will presume to assert that the fraunds were not committed. No one de- nies that the state paid for large quan- tities of coal, beef and flour which were neverdelivered. No one denies that the dishonest contractors received the money: These facts ave matters of record and have not been disputed. Somebody perpetrated these frauds. They did not perpetrate themselves. Some one is guilty of looting the state treasury. And yet the supreme court of the state has decided that the members of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings were not responsible, and the Lancaster county juries, not to be outdone in magnanimity by the highest legal tribunal of the state, have declared that the contractors were not guilty. Travesty on justice can 2o to no farther extremes. What protection have the people against the rapaciousness of dishonest contractors when state oflicors evade responsibility by asserting that there is no way in which frauds can be detected and prevented—when the supreme court decides that gross carelessness and der- eliction of duty upon the part of state officers shall be condoned—and when lower courts declars that men, notori- ously guilty of frauds, shall go un- punished? The only remedy remaining to the citizens of Nebraska lies in the fearless exercise of their political suf- frages. State officers and men who as- pire to fill state offices should be made to understand that the rights of the people are to be carefully guarded. They should be taught that they wiil not be permitted to sit idly by and per- mit the state treasury to be plundered without raising a voice in protest. They should be made to realize that a public office is a public trust and not a mere privilege to line their vockets and the pockets of their friends at the expense of the taxpayers. . Over GAS COMPANY CONCESSIONS, The promoters of the fifty-year gas franchise ordinance justify the gift of valuable privileges to the gas company on the ground that the new ordinance calls for equivalent concessions to the public. They claim that the gas com- pany proposes to give a full return for the free use of the streets for fifty years which that ordinance contemplates. They do not refer to the obligation to restore streets and pavements that have been cut into nor tothe agreement to change the location of the mains at its own expense in case the grade of the street is altered. All these duties de- volve upon the company as a matter of course. The compuny is bound to do that now even without a franchise and it makes no concessions in promising to perform its duties in the future. When the advocates of the gas fran- chise ordinance speak of the concessions of the gas company they mean the new scale of prices which the company offers to put into force. This is a sliding scale varying with the total consumption of gas from $1.75 per thousand cubic feet when less than 200,000,000 eubice feet are used anuually to $1.25 per thousand when annual sales exceed 800,000,000 cubic feet. The reduction in price for the present when salcs are less than 200,000,000 enbie feet per annum is ap- parent only. Gas bills as now rendered call for $2 per thousand, with a rebate of 25 cents if puid within the first ten days of the month. The proposed scale permits bills to be rendered at $1.85 per thousand, with a vebate of 10 cents if paid within the first ten days of the month. In other words, the net price is to remain the same, 3175 in both instances. The only reduction is that of 15 cents to the comparatively few patrons who neglect to pay their bills before the 10th day of the month. The sliding scale 1s equally . illusory. THE OMAHA DA 1t nroceeds upon the assumption that the prices which would be justified now under present methods of gas manufac- ture and with present prices for fuel and materials will be equally justified fifty years heace. Omaha in 1880, with a consumption of 10,000,000 cubic feet of @as, paid 83.50 per thousand, The price has fallen 50 per cent in less than ton years, But we are told that when Omaha attains the statns of St Touis, which now has a population of 451,770 and consumes about 800,000,000 cubie feet of gas at the rate of $1.25 per thousand, it will also have secured the St. Louis price. Omaha in fifty years is to be where St. Louis is .now, without refer- ence to the lapse of time. Tho whole ordinance proceeds upon the assumption that fifty years will bring no changes whatever in industrial processes and conditions. The city of Omaha will be able to demand no reduction in the price of gas until it practically guarantoes to the gas company increasod profits from increased consumption. The price schedule in the proposed or- dinance s simply a device to prevent the city from interfering with the charge levied by the gas company for a period of fifty years. Section 50 of the city charter gives the mayor and city council power *“to regulate the sale and use of gas" and *‘to fix and cetermine the price of gas.” The new ordinance aims to bargain away without a due considera- tion the right of the city to use this power for fifty years. The council now has authority to establish the proposed sliding scele as a reasonable schedule of prices for gas. Why attempt to bind its own hands and the hands of its suc- cessors for fifty years to come? NO MORE WARSHIP. It is not probable that the United States navy will be increased by the present congress. The house committee on paval affairs expects soon to begin work on the naval bill, and according to a rveported vemavk of the chairman of the committee, Mr. Cummings of New York, the question as to whether con- gress would authorize the construction of new ships would depend mueh upon the recommendations of the president and the secretary of the navy. He ex~ pressed the opinion that congress would not feel in the mood to abpropriate money for more ships until it was demonstrated whether the cruisers al- ready built would float or sink. This sounds very ‘much like a slur upon the preceding administration of the Navy department, and, if so intended, was wholly gratuitous, Every warship con- structed during the last administration, with but a single exception, has met all requirements, One vessel has been found to be top heavy, a fault that can be easily remedied, while as to all the others not a single defect has been dis- covered, As ex-Secretary Tracy said in arccent address, the most importunt enterprise the United States govern- ment ever undertook was the rebuilding of the navy. Ten years agonot one man in one thousand could be induced to be- lieve that the United States could build a modern warship. We have now satis- fied the nations of the world that not one of them can produce better ships— better men-of- var than this country. No nation 1n the world, said the ex-secre- tary, has threesuch ships in its navy as the New York, Columbia or Olympia, in - regard to speed and other qualities. Nothing canapproach them. Moreover, we have taught the world how to make an armor plate that can beat the gun, and we have also taught the world that the triple screw is as much in advance of the double screw as two gcrews are in advance of one. What has been ac- complished warrants confidence in what is to come. Although Secretary of the Navy Her- bert is understood to be friendly to the policy of building up the navy, it is hardly to be expected, in view of the condition of the treasury and the un- certainty regarding the revenues of the near future, that he will recommend any additions to the navy by the present congress. When the warships now in course of construction are completed and in commission the United States will occupy fifth place among the naval powers and there does not appear to be any pressing reason why we should be in a hurry to take a higher rank than this. It is true that recent events have abundantly demonstrated the necessity of our maintaining a good naval force. There has been a demand for our war- ships to protect the interests of the United States in Central and South America, in the West Indies, and in more remote quarters ot the globe, the government finding it expedient tofit out some old vessels for reinforcing the most needy stations. This demand shows what may be expected atany time and it is obviously wise to keep in mind the fact that as our interests in foreign lands are extended and enlarged we should incremse our means of pro- tecting and defenaing them, The policy of building up the navy cannot, therefore be abandoned, but it would seem that a suspension of it for a year or two may safely be done. At any rate it appears that such a course will be im- peratively necessary unless the revenues of the. government greatly improve or expenditures in other directions are re- duced s0 as to permit further appropria- tions for the construction of more war- ships. The outlook at present isnot favorable for an increase in the receipts of the government and it is not easy to see how the genoral expenses can be materially cut down without impair- ment of the public service. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND undertook to pardon a woman convicy a few days ago upon the express condition that she im- mediately leave the United States and remain forever after outside the borders of this couniry. This condition, if ful- filled, practically amounts to commuting the sentence to one of life banishment, and it is needless to say that nosuch sentence is known to the courts of the United States. The federal constitution explicitly forbids the infliction of any cruel or unusual penalties upon offenders convicted in federal conrts. Banishment has never been a com- mon penalty in this country and it is greatly to be doubted whether the condition imposed by the president has any binding effect whatever. If the | woman who has hpen pardonod should violate the agrosisent there wounld bo | no legal power fodfding in the president to enforce the dagsae of banishment, Tt is conceded that:the prosident can re- quire any tordfs ¢ msonant with pub- lic policy to be carvied out before a pars don becomes effective, but to lay down a condition to tak® efMect after the opera- tion of the pardoh 14 clearly beyond tho power vested inhim by the constitution and tha statutes. — e THE HAWAUAN MUDDLE The aniety 6f the American to learn the poligy of the administration regarding Hawali has not been relieved by the advices from Honolulu brought by tho steamship Australia last Saturs day. On the contravy it has been in- tensified. The country is really no wiser as to the highly important question of Minister Willis' instructions than it was before the eagorly awaited steamer av- rived and the mystery of thiswhole busi- ness is as impenctrableas ever, The au- thoritics at Washington will vouchsafe nothing, even so much as a hint, as to what our minister was instructed to do in Hawaii, though the manner of the otary of state has suggested the in- :nce that something different from what the news conveyed was expected. The situation affords boundless oppor- tunity for conjecture, but this is not satisfying—it does not remove the mystery. Reading the romarks of the American minister on presenting his credentials to the prosident of the provisional govern- ment and the reply of the latter, it is difficult to arrive at any other conclusion than that the diplomatic representative of the United States was authorized to give the fullest recognition to the pro- visional government and that President Dole had no reason to suppose that the assurances of goodwill tand friendship were given by the minister with the slightest reservation. The language is 80 unequivocal as to admit of one inter- pretation. The same is to be said of the letter of President Cleveland to Pres- ident Dole apprising him of the choice of Mr. Willis ‘““to reside near the government of your excellency in the quality of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America.” The president of the United States, in the usual form of communicat requests for our minister a favorable reception and full credence, expressing confidence that “he will constantly endeavor to ad- vance the interests and prosperity of both governments and so render himself acceptable to your excellency.” The organs of the provisional government quite naturally = concluded that this meant that the United States govern- ment did not proposp to interfere with the provisional government of Huwaii. Nevertheless the prevalent ovinion is that it is the intention of the Washing- ton administration to do what it can, witkin the limits of ‘its authority, to re- store the former government of the Hawaiian islands and that the instruc- tions given to Minister Willis contem- plated this result, This view is doubt- less correct, for it. will be remembered that Mr. Cleveland stated in an inter- view immediately after’ the publication of Secrotary Gresham's letter that he was in full accord with the position of the sccretary of state. Of course that letter, which was oated Oc- ‘tober 18 and given to the public nearly three weeks later, bhad received the approval of the presi- dent before being sent out, and undoubt- edly both the president and secretary were fully prepared for the adverse criticism it aroused. Perhaps the fair- est criticism of the administration has been in relation to the secrecy and mys- tery with which it has enveloped this matter. The American people, irre- spective of party, are profoundly inter- ested in the settlement of the Hawaiian question, and theve does notseem to be any valid reason why they should be de- nied accurate information as to the in- tention of their government. people NGRESS is to be importuned by the railroad and express companies to enact a law making attempts &t train robbery an indictable offense under the federal laws. There may be little objection to this except from those sticklers for state rights who want the states to retain jurisdiction over such cases. But while congress is engaged upon railway legis- lation, why not pass a law compelling the railroads to equip their cars with automatic couplers and other lifesaving devices. While legislating for the rail- roads, congress should not overlook the demands of the employes, the shippers and the traveling public JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN says that he still thinks that the adoption of free trade by the United States would not be good for British trade. Congress is in no imminent danger of adopting free trade even to spite the British mer- chants, It is supposed to legislate in the interests of the American people. Tariff revision by either political party proceeds upon the principle of improy- ing the industrial situation at home. The United States is not to be cajoled into free trade by any intimation that it might injure British-trade. —— THERE is room for the suspicion that a great many politigians in Nebraska have already sproufed | their noxt year's boomlets, only to have ) them nipped by the rigors of an early Winter, Farcoe Comesdy Wars, Philadelphia. Ledger. There is considerable’ warfare going on ust now. Spain is,Arying to subaue the usurgent Rifians rocco, the British South Africa_company 18, attacking Loben- feula and his Matabeld i Zambezia, Admiral | est of all_forlorn hopes 1LY BER: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1893 Mello and his rebels aro shelling Rio, do Janeiro, a revoltis reported from Cuba an- tupponny insurroction 18 & Moxico and, for aught we know, ti interesting ‘belligerency of all m vailing in Hawaii most be pre Commendabie © Kansas City Star, ging to notice that the Kansas Board of Railroad Commiss! has com pelied a railroad to replace one of oned trains. The people along voted the bonds and the railroad promised them a railroad with certain facill ties: the railroad now curtaiis the promised facilities, but rveceives the inv bonds with great regularit tho duty of railroad commi to stand firm for the rights of th inst all who would atta these rights, The Kansas board 1s to be cougratulated on its courage in the matter urage. 1t is encow This is not i 1 hand PSS —— A Double Conspiracy, Chicago Mail IP'rom Pennsylvania comes the news that the now coal combdine is up to the pranks of the old. Having secured what it considers a sufticient stock of coal to fast it somo time, It is reducing the wages paid the miners, They, as it_expected, aro talking strike, and whon they have struck the combine witl put up the price of the mined coal it owus, under the plea that the strikes have lessencd the production. Ivis an old and a heartless game. It is being played in England just now, where the coal companies, fluding "themselves with a lot of contracts which they could not fill ox- cept ata loss, incited strikes among their miners o as to evade their big contr s and at tho same time sell coal to private con- sumers at higher prices, 1t is an_outrage, both upon the miner, whom it starves, and the public, which it robs, e e msns The Indian as o Soldier. New York Tritune. General Schotield in his ent annual re- port takes a more vorable view of the In- dian as a soldier than has been expressed by some other observers. He says that the en- listment of Indiams ‘“‘appears thus far to have accomplished in a satisfactory manner the principal objects contemplated in that policy,”” He thinks that considerable hus been done in giving occupation to a number of men likely at any time to become hostile, and likewise in educating Indians i the rules and customs of civilized as contrasted with savage warfare: and he adds vhis highly im- portant sentiment: “There has oveen no serious indication of hostile disposition man- ifested by any of the Indian tribes sinee this policy was inaugurated.” This 18 valuable and of course trustworthy testimony. Such a rvesult amply vindicates the policy and justifies ivs continuance as a desirabl nd salutary thing. —— An Optimisuie View of 1t, St. Louis Republic. When, during the present month, three or four times as many veople are Killed in a single explosion of dynamite as _ha beon killed on all the railroads of th Tnited States during the entire year, that may well be spoken of as appalling. But, after all, with deaths from accidents by high explo- sives, by steam, by electricity and by all other dangerous agencies of civilization, we have an always lesseniug risk. Of course this cannot be demonstrated by fizures, but we do not need fizures to convince any one who knows something of history v ry citizen of America has ten ances of living his life out to the one chance en- joyed by.any one of his ancestors in Europe five centuries ago. Civilization has its dis- advantages, but its risks are not appalling at all when compared with the risks of nov becoming as civilized as possible. -—— The Lesson of It, Minneapolis Times. The lesson to young men is that gambling and “sporting”’ do not pay. The sum of the world’s experience proves that the forlorn- is for a man to live , speculative stock ‘promoters” of by his wits. jobbers, confidence men companies that are merecly conspiracies to y of a confiding public, tr robbers, and professional politi- cians all try it a il. If men pos: g so great abilities as John Morrssey, Daniel Drew, Jim Fisk, Boss Tweed, Louis F. Menage and a hundred other men who sought sudden riches or power through the methods of the gamester arc beaten at their owp game, what hope is there for the ordi- nary wortal, who would find it hard enough to earn an honest hiving? Who can recall the name of a single one of the adventurers of this class who has won fame, or power or wealth? Gambling in one form or another broke every oneof them. Iv doesn’t pay. —_—— COUNTRY BREEZES, Wake Up, John and Doe. Stetnaver Press, 5 Eh, John! Catch on—you and “*Doc?" A Caso of Necossity, Butte Gazelte. Wood wanted on subscription at this oftice. 0 Edle Will Soon Be Composed. Grand Island Independent. Miss Edith Schislerof the High school has been disposed for over a week, but will be at her studies again soon, Plug Up Platto Air Holos. Gothenburg Star., s the season of the yoar when the v 13 searching the house from cellar to garret for a skate strap. Didn’t Vote ns They Drank. Naperville Press. TLots of beer and whisky was used on elec- tion day, but from the way the votes line up it didn’ cut much of a figure. Lee, Yon're an Apparition. Ainsworth Star. What we first surmised to be the new moon and aurora borealis Tuesday morniug proved to be Lee Gould going down stroot with two holes in a board, Try the Right End Next Time, Bert. Roseland Gazelte. Bert Statler tried to_harness the wrong end of a mule oue morning last week. The mule proved to be an expert high kicker, and poor Bert's face was nearly spoiled. Wilhie 15 Real Mad. Wahoo New Era ‘Will Bruce,who has bsen elected assessor, says he has not fully made up his mind whether to tax the old waids for their ex- istence or treat them as a public nuisance. Religion is What Kuocks. Boyd County Press, The church is an assured fact for Naper- ville. The fellows at Basin, whi e buck- ing this town, started a foundation for a church, but were told by the priest that he would Dot hold services there, consequently they did not build higher than the founda- tior, Live and learn, gentlemen. Cad's Overalls Embarrassed Him, Juniata Herald, One of the most perfect surprises ever had in this vicinity was perpetrated on our friend, W. E. Cadwalader. last evening, He was enticod up town by Frank Hogg for a short time and on his return home found aout fifty of his best friends in possession. Cad wanted to change his overalls and after catching s breath was ready for the fun. — Full of Broken les, Tho river is full of broken ice which has boen coming down stream for the past two days. There has been no ice on the river at this point, and the “floe" is evidently the result of some cold weather further north. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE | facilit | time. st on the | PEOPLE AND THINGS, The national salutation: Hawaii today. And Willis didn't propose to Lilli. The mean thing! Noew version of an Save the Queen,' A vast quantity of indignation ink appears v beon shed prematurely. ng beds dre now constructed so as to te the suicide of two persons at a old song “Grover to Fol The, thi ba o grown 8o suspicious in Spain that ro arrosting anybody who nas a bom © manuer. T8 an il wind that blows nobody good. " The Hawalian affair has knocked several domocrats speechless. fovernor McKinley's Thanksgiving procla ation is maried with the rare fervor which The humanizirg offect of eivilization is all. pervading. Even Jerry Simpson has yielded and dovned creased pants, . K. McClure of the Philadelphia Times is steadily improving and his com plete recovery is confidentiy looked for. Anarchist Neche says Linge was not suicide, but was killed by a londed cis Smokors who visited Cl son think he may be right Two cigarette smol St. Lowms hotel friends, their pror chavged up to the deadly gas. An apology 18 due the Philadelphia Times Investigation shows that the Quaker City girl who died of laughtor was made the vic tim of a fresh joke, Death was instantane: ous The discovery of four stomachs in a cow does not, interest expotectant offico holders. if they get enough plo to satisfy the cravings of one stomach, they will be con tent. That A solace fo atura taking off w revolution in Mexico was genuine after all. A jug of pulque was passod around the circlo of greasers. Necessarly the sub- sequent proceedings took on a Ferris mo- tion, Benjamin T. Rhodes, o well known Washington dete has been de a body guard for the president ovel teagic death of cter Har Rhodes goes out every cabinet day his charge to the city and follows the ear riage closely when busines . Tho detective wears plain citizen's clothes, and there is nothing in hi ance to indicate the nature of his 1 Allen G. Thurman. the old Roman andidate for vice presi- 188, celebrated his t his home in Colum- relatives, includin fo of ox- wr Dick v Yorg, t ulations yeste 80tn birthday Monday He has several the . in graphed their con Barring a little rheumatism, which makes him weak in the legs, the oid tribune of the people is in excellent health. rrie Lane Chapman says that more than half the women who own prop- erty in Dakota are graduates of eastern col- leyes, T . little south of the C ation u section of women, every one of whom is a bouna fide farmer. She says: “The fields ave plowed and crops gathered by women. One of the most intellectual and most refined women of the settlement isa breeder of fine horses. She has no hired men. All the help are women. Among these women are graduates of universities. Among them are old maids, young maids and widow: .- hined Corporations. g0 Times. vor has made up his mind reference to the two valuable grants at the meeting last week he gave no indication at the regu- lar meeting of Monday evening. Both ordinances sought to cover valuable gifts to private corporations. One was to be operated for electric lighting in the north- western portion of the city, another in the old town of Lake. Neither even affected to make adeqaate return to the municipality for the great benefit conferred upon the pri- vate corporations. Th ordinances a bad in the Ny MOre conspicuois condemned by public opion, ave been pluced upon the ovdinanc v may content him- g the ordinances to become without his signature, but this ched avoidance of the whole is simply to permit in this v any ordinance that gets through the council to become operative notice will be served upon every one in the council who us a scheme to further that no opposition d be expected to come from the mayor's oftice. ) Gitts to If the acting m with self with operative would be — N IMPOSSIBLE GIRL, w Yorl Sun. Once T adored a pretty girl Of niost ungelic mien; Ter hair was never out of curl, Her wit was over keen. Hler oyes “reflected ho Her tulk was never dull, And as [ studied her, she grew Quite “strangely benutiful.” s Llue," Her “bosom heaved,” her heart was stirred lone'er her ear was lent, hen sweet words of Iove she heard, and went.” smile o had such o pi infinity. And yet T could not hope to win Her, though, us L have said, 1 loved he or she dwelt but in A novel that I read. OUT OF THE ORDINARY, Ninety per o of the crew of the United States cruiser ow York are Americans, outh Florida is a great country for bees. There 18 something in bloom for them to feed on tho entire year, Thirty old maids have secured threo ad- joining ‘quarter sections in the Oklahoma ip and have taken an oath that no man evor shall set foot on the tract. The highest price per pound over paid for h:x was at the Mincing lane tea auction, on Fobruary 5, 1801, when a five pound paroel of “Goiden Tip,” from Ceylon, was knocked down at 8123, The famous Lion brewery hall that will hold 4,000 uests, placed around little tables, where thoy can enjoy the colebrated brew of the place while listens ing to the bands, Gladwin county, Micl ing largost frame baru in the world. It is foet long by B0 feet wide. The struets ure is three stovies high and is 73 feet from the base 1o tho apex of the rvof. Orango culture in the United States has outgrown consumption, It is cstimated that the coming crop will exceed the demand by at least 1,000,000 boxes, Of the whole pro dustion Florida is expe 1o furnish 4.500, 000 boxes and California 2,500,000 boxes, The most extensive and colebrated salt mine in the world is at rliozki, nine miles from Cracow, in Galicia, o provinee of Aus- tria-Hunga It has been worked con- tinuously for 6 T'he mass of salt is ealeuluted to be 500 miles long, twenty miles broad and 1,200 feet thick A Paris paper rocently the Dbest svecimens of writing. The winner we copied” out in ful on a post teuts of the first two s of u big news- paper. Another candidate, ingeniously alluding to the famous ent, wrote on an egg an account of the career of Columbus, A third suomidted the 19,00 words of rancois Coppee’s novel of “Henrietta," ten on the back of a cabinet photographs There is for salo m a Chicago shop an ancient suit of court warments once worn by o mewber of the Irish Parliament about the 1 , one iley of County Cavan, It is decp mai loth, embroidered with heavy solid gold bullion, with the figure of a” harp surrounded by a wreath of shamrock, and « vine of the same extending round the skirt. The breoches are of deep yellow plush, and the three-cornered cocked hat is of black beaver, covered with gold lace, suit was brought for sale by & amesake and diroct former owner, who is nc AIRY OBSERVATIO. Binghamton Republic: on a thirty days note. at Munich has o n, boasts of hay- offered a prize for iceroscopic hand- n who had rd the con- “Time will tell alveston New sl round I An observant advertiser tevery woman wants is thing Lowell € with the ll wrier: The administration’s policy ndwich istands is what the st dead give Hawail. Now York News: Sho 16ATn 10 swear so ensily? they always have such 1 wonder why pa Ho -1 guess boc weul bills before the id Plain Dealer: A Texas doctor o rabbit's oye In a boy's head. It all right, but every time he sces u dog “hicago T Gule an: First Poli Don't glve | tion? u—A fan (of one of en-minute talk? adittle fify fitteen-minute Buftalo Courler: Foyer—You bition Is to become a finished actor? - You ought (o start for the far west at once, then, mtolotte Buskin—Why the far west? foyer (with emphasisi—Because after one dose of sueh acting As you guve us tonight an andienee out there would be apt to finish you inno time. ur am- Indiunapolis Journa ness man to the detective, been running around representing himselt v col He hus heen taking in money w0 of the men wo have. and 1 want Tared as quickyas you SAILright. sald the busi- Some fellow has throngh the country us clor of ours. than any him col- Tlihave hin in il in less than tScott, man! T d Lwant to hire hin Police Magls scon the prisoner at the b your honor; but I've see Suspected he'd been at it. t want him put in Juil. Tia Bits: ate—tave you ever Witness—Never, him when I strongly troit Tribunc t does scom to mo, as §f you grow moro foolish every year life.* +Oh, no, Edward, I'm o grent denl wiser now than 1 was when I married you." Record: Bazgs—You must srking good time last night. siery serves mo right, [ 1 uncorking good thme. Now York World: sistent and unjust thi 3 What's the mitte “Why, [t allows these dudes to wear long split-tail overcoats in the streets and then Prohibits the rest of us from committing sui- cide.'" AN IDEA. Washington Star. at shall 1 do!" said the hungry young sh tho chrysanthe “My appetito culls, but 1 can! By which 1 can better my lot. 1 got, find'a plan I have | salt And vin iixed up in o cup T'll borrow. The dressing will be without fault, And I'lleat my chrysanthemum up.” Somo oil, and some pevyer and BROWNING, KING | Largest Manufacturors vl Rysailash of Ulothing ln tny World Pay to get in out. And, as a usual thing, you | to get out. you a cent to get in our store, though it may cost you some- thing, but not very much, to get We won't bleed you—we don't do that kind of business; The best suits made, for $10. Tailors don’t make any better clothes than our $20 to $25 suits or overcoats. won't have to pay We won't charge They certainly (ion't lfi;k; them fit any better, and everybody says they don’t wear any longer. What a whole lot of circuses you could go to $25. Saves from $15 to, or better still, what a lot of underwear you can buy—our $1 kind is 76¢ now, for a few days. Save enough on underwear to get a pretty good hat of us, We're the best hatters in town. BROWNING, KING & CO., open ry evenlug till 6.5 .‘_‘:" ”b'ululfllyl,hl |8, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. M