Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1893, Page 4

THEOMAHA DATLY BEE. s 77"!75“.\\ “T, A r AT I‘I:YIYJ"IIF, M§ OF SURSCRIPTION. i1y Bre (withot* Sumday) One Year afly and Scnday, One ¥ x Memtha roe Montls Himday T §otuy Vorkly 1 €800 10 00 500 i ot Tenty -tourtl: atreets. L stront, ? Commeren Trimme builtng news and ed To the Baito norm shonld bo Publisning company, Omaha. and postofMes orders 10 be made 10 the order of the compans. & leaying the elty for the suim; ¥ sont {0 thelr address by leay of Tawr BEr Pub- pany. docs solemnly swoar that the ton of Tik DAILY TER foF the week bor 2, 1503, Wi as follows ELLING the same ol as “warranted 175 tost” at 16 cents a gallon and ‘‘war- ranted 150 test” at 12 cents a gallon savorsh great deal of obtaining money by false representations A CIGARETTE crusade is the latest. Hote is an opportunity for the third party to gain additions to its member- ship by inserting a plank in its platform calling for a prohibitory cigarette law. WE ARE told that the Wilson tarift bill pleases Canada: that it is fairly satisfactory to Great Britain; that its foatures are not objectionable to Ger- many. But the question just now is, will it suit the United OVER 5,000 has already been laid out for services rendered by people em- ployed to watch the site of the new fed- eral huilding at Omaha. The site is atill at the old stand. This seems to be the chief result of the money so far ex- pendeod. OUR oil inspection laws were enacted by the legislature for the protection of oil consumers throughout the state. As enforced by the present inspectors, that legislation is little better than no le lation at all. There is no excuse for not enforeing to the letter the low stand- ard prescribed by the law. NEW York has put a stop to the danse du ventre at its World's fair prize winners’ exposition just to show that it can draw the lines of morality as atrictly as can Chicago. As a conse- quence of this action the metropolis will soon be overrun with oriental dancers. New York will not permit itself to be cclipsed by Chicago. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sfill has hopes that the Chinese residents of the United States intend to comply with tho requirements of the extended exclusion law. The president’s faith is boundless. Fqually competent observers are not quite s0 sanguine in this matter. Unloss registration begins very soon the peoplo must conclude that their patienco was simply trifled with by the extension act, which delayed the problem but did not solve 1t. il i THE statement of receipts at the various land offices in Nebraska during the last fiscal year brings out more sharply than ever the inconsistency of the Interior department in its recent orders abolishing and consolidating certain of the officés. The receipts at Lineoln were not 81,500, and yetthe Lincoln office was vetained while others doing twice the business were closed. *‘Political interest” evidently outweighs revenuens a factor bearing upon this for revenue only administration. ONE by one the bogus bond invi swindles located in different the west are suspending in fear ecution by federal anthorities, poor dupes who have been holding on in the hope thut there might be some slight chance of coming out ahead of the company are thus being deprived of even the privilege of keeping up their expectations, When the whole story ccmes to be written it will be found that the bond investment er: has proven cne of the most suecessful schomes of fraud that has been prac- ticed upcn a credulous public in many & year. stment THE presideont’s message makes a strong plea for supplemonting our already numerons extradition treaties by other treaties of a similar nature with all powers that have not yet made arrangements with us to hand oyer fugitives from justice upon a reasonable showing of their guilt. Recent events have demonstrated the importance of this recommendation. The treaty power is by the constitution conferred upon the executive with the ratification of the sonato, The president’s power of initia- tion here places upon him the responsi- bility of securing the desired treaties. The senate muy bo rolied upon to co- operate in ecting the agroements, ‘WHEN the warket house bond propo- ition was submittel to the people it was olearly understood that the bulk of the $200,000 should bo expended for the building ana not for the ground, If we are to spend $150,000 dr even half that sum for the ground we could just as well have got along with a $10,000 market shed on Capitol avenue or some other ctreet. Byt our citizens desired to see a monu- mental strueture erccted to which they could puint with pride as one of the features of Omoha. A second rate building is not wanted and no resl estate job should be countennnced because the people in voting the bonds failed to say fow wmuch is to be paid outfor a site and how much for the market house and vublic hall. in roturn OUK NORTHERN NE GHBORS PLEASED. There has been no expression of dis- satisfaction on the part of our Canadian neighbors with the proposed change of tariff policy in the United States. On the contrary, they appear to be very gonerally well pleased with the Wilson bill, and this is especially true of the government, which is said to regard the measure as a means to its salvation. The tory government of the Dominion is in bad odor. Its administration of affairs has been unwise and more or less corrupt. It is controlled by capital and monopolies, and the people are 'op- pressed by enormous taxation. The country has made no progress under it, whils poverty and popular dis- content have steadily increased, particu- larly among the agricultural class. The party of opposition to tie govern- ment was rapidly growing and there was reason to believe that at the next general election the tories would be swept from power. It is said that they have taken fresh liope from the proposed new tariff policy for this country, which makes about all the concessions o the farmers of Canada which they sought to obtain through reciprocity and in return for which the Canadian government will not be called upon to make any concessions. The Wilson bill contemplates opening the American market to Canadian products, the effect of which would be to infuse new life and activity into every branch ot Canadian trade. The prolonged period of depression would come to an end and all classes of the population would share in a re- newod prosperity. The people would forget their grievances and the demand for a changa of government becoming less urgent the tories would have a better chance to retain their hold on power. Henco it is not surprising that tho tory politiciuns of the Dominion should exult at the prospect of obtaining all they have ever asked from this gov- ernment in the interest of Canadian trade without having to give anything As the organ of the Cana- dian ministry puts it: *“There is no obli- gation on the part of the Canadian gov- ernment to adjust our own tarifl to the scale of duties proposed in the Wilson bill and we are at full liberty to impose all along the line whatever rates are deemed desirable for either revenue or protective purposes without incurring the risk of any retaliation on the part of our neighbors.” It would not be at all surprising if the Canadian govern- ment should take advantage of this liberty in the event of the Wilson bill becoming a law and increase the duty on American manufactures. It is not to be doubted that the Canadian manu- facturers, who have been having a hard struggle for existence, would demand greator protection sgainst American competition as soon as they dared to do s0 without risk of retaliation upon any other Canadian interest, and as they have a potential influence in the government they would be protty sure to have their demand complied with. There is every probability, there- fore, that the adoption of the democratic tariff policy, while opening our markets to the natural products of Canada, would result in‘entirely closing the Canadian market to all of our manufactured pro- ducts which come 1nto competition with those of Canada. Several attempts have been made by the Canadian government during tho past few y to effect a reciprocity agreement with the *United States, but as it could offer no better inducement than . the exchange upon eaual terms of natural vroducts their proposal was rejected by our government, If the Wilson bill becomes law there will be no necessity for Canada to seek reciprocity. That measure accords her people all they could secure under reci- procity and leaves them free to dis- criminate at pleasure against American products. THE NEW GAS I URDINANOE. The revised gas franchise as embodied in the ordinace which was introduced at the council meeting last night is shorn of nearly every feature that made the franchise that was enjoined by the courts 80 offensive and objectionable to our citizens, B As comparcd with the fifty-year gas franchise ordinance, whose railroading through the council was attempted a few weeks #go, the new ordinance in- volves great concessions in every dire- tion. Tt is a vietory of the first magni- tude for the citizens who have been opposing the cavlier ordinance and for THE BEE, which has made the fight for the people almost alone and unaided. The concessions of the new ordinance to the city are noteworthy and mark the beginning of an era when privileges to use the streets of Omaha ave to be paid for by the favored corporations. The gas company agrees to give the city cents upon every 1,000 cubic feet of gus consumed and paid for by private patrons, a sum which, aceording to com- putations made upon a basis of prosent sales, will amount to between $6,000 and #7,000 for the next year, and this royalty on its franchise will increase from year to year. In addition to this the gas consumed in publie buildings of the ecity will be furnished at #1 per thousand cubic feet, a reduction of over 40 per cent [row the price now charged The ¢oncessions to the people are of no less importance. The franchise in- vtead of running - fifty years is to con- tinue only twenty-five yoars This brings the terma down to the limits of the present gencration and leaves the next generation the right to logislate for itself. The city retains the right to purchase the gas works at an appraised valuation at any time before the oxpira- tion of the tweuty-five years, When- everit is in a condition to undertake the management of its own gis plant and the people think such a course advisable, it can acquire the property and supply gas ata price governed by the cost of producticn at that time. The people by the new ordinance aoguire the right to secure an extension of the mains when- ever there are six consumers in a block desiring to burn gas. All of the most objectionable features of the fifty-year franchise ordinance have been modified in the new ordi- nance, With perhaps a few changes in verbiage 80 as to make the rights of the city and consumers under the contract more specifio, the new ordinance will probably pass the city council and be- come a law. It must be regarded as & most substantial gain for the cause of good government and the protection of the city's rights, of which no small part of the credit is to be given the vigorous offorts of THE BEE in behalf of the citi 7ons and taxpayers. The company is also entitled to credit for the liberal manner in which it has met the demands of the opponents of the fifty-year fran- chise and the spirit of fairness it dis- played in conceding the most of their demands. A CAUTION TO DRUGGISTS AND LIQUOR DEALERS. The laws of this state require each applicant for license to sell liquor, whether as a beverage or for medicinal purposes, to publish a notice of applica- tion for two wecks before the license is granted in the newspaper that has the largest circulation in the county. Under the decision of the supreme court these notices, to be legal, must be published six days oach week, excluding Sunday, for two weeks. The law fixes the rate of publication at $1 per square of ten lines for the first insertion and 50 cents per square for each subsequent insertion. The space occupied by thess notices as formulated under the direction of the police commis- sion is two squares, which makos the legal rate for the first 1ssue $2 and $1 per day for the eleven subse- quent issues, making a total of $13 for twelve publications. Each notico mnst be certified to by a notary, and for this acharge of 25 cents is added. That makes a total of $13.25 for publication and cer- tificate. This rate for legal advertising was fixed by statute in 1869 and has re- mained the same ever since. It applies to all legal advertising alike, and there- fore is not, as has been charged, an ex- tortionate rate established for THE B! Under the decision rendered by the district court of Douglas county, and which the police commission unani- mously recognize as in full force and ap- plicable to the publication of license notices, every cdition of a newspaper issued to regular subscribers is & dis- tinct newspaper. Inother words, THE OMAHA MORNING BEE is one paper and THE OMAHA EVENING BEE is another paper, because each hus a soparate list of subscribers as much as has THE WeBKLY BEE. The same is true as re- gavds the World-Herald. The morn- ing World-Ierald is one paper and the evening World-Herald is another paper. To pool these editions means simply to pool two different papers, and such combined circulation is not held legal for the purpose of establishing a vald claim as publishing in & paper having the largest circulation. It was established before the po- lice commission last year and again before the license board at Sonth Omaha this year that THE OMAHA EVENING BEE has a larger cir- culation in Douglas county than any other newspaper. Inasmuch as the po- lice commission, by reason of certain in- fluences brought upon it, has refused to ask the papers to submit sworn state- ments of circulation, we now caution all whom it may concern against a repeti- tion of the imposture by which many applicants for license last year were drawn iato a damaging con- test that involved a loss of time and money. The publishers of THE BEE have no disposition to interfere in any man’s business, but they will enforce their rights as proprietors of the paper of largest circulation in the county and will not permit a fraudulent claim to be maintained by any competitor. The fact that the World-Herald re- fuses to submit a sworn statement of circulation to the police commission, as it did in South Omaha last spring,where it abandoned the field entirely, affords abundant proof that its pretended claim of largest circulation is a piece of the rankest imposture. If the World- Herald had the largest civoulation for any of its editions it would certainly not offer to do this advertising for $3.25 when by law it would be entitled to $13.25, Its propositions to cut under are a give away on their face. We certainly shall protest every ab- plicant who does not comply with the law. MALIGNING OMAHA. A Mr. Watts, who signs himself as grand secretary of tho Independent Order of Good Templars and who claims to be employed in the auditor’s department of the Union Pacific railroad, is quoted in the Toronto (Ont.) Globe as having writ- ten a letter in which he asserts that quite & number of rum shops are now and have been running in this, city with- out paying a license. He also repeats the oft-exploded falsehood that the social evil is running riot in this city and vhe public morals of the community ave so depraved as to tolerate crime and vice in their most flagrant form because the school fund is enriched thereby. This same man Watts was guilty of circulating the most outrageous libels concerning this city during the memor- able campaign of 1890 and he has re- iterated these falsehoods so often that he probably actually believes them. This would be his only excuse for dis- seminating such falsehoods among the Canadians. If Mr. Watts knows where any saloon or rum shop is runnjng in this city with- out paying license it is his duty, if he is a good citizen, to inform the police and the places will be closed ub mighty quick, And he cannot namo a city of equal population east or west, north or south, where the soclal evil is under more rigid surveillance and kept in narrower bounds than it is in Oxnahas As far as the social evil is concerned, everybody that wants to inform himself on the subject knows that the systom of imposing periodic fines on keepers and inmates was in vogue in Omaha more than ten years bofore high license was talked of. No rational person will pre- tend to say that this vice would ba sup- pressed, or in the least ropressed, i1 the fines were abolished or arrests made at irregular periods. One thing is patent, {f Omaha is & second Sodom in the eyes of Mr. Watts he should flee from it like Lot, and get himself and his family, if he has one, out of its sulphurous atmosphere. That would show at 12ast that he belleves in getting salvation before he becomes contaminated and his precious soul is dragged down to'petdition with the un- regenerate. Theve s an old German adage: ‘It is an 'Qv-lsvored bird that befouls its own b i Sm—— IT WAS in accordance with the eter- nal fitness of thfhigs that the United States grand jurysheuld before adjourns ing present the hited States attorney and United States marshal each with a handsome turtle searf pin, the logs of which are cf gold' and the eyes of diamouds. And it \was equally appro- priate for the recipients of these favors to present a gold-héaded ‘cane to the foreman. It would, however, have beon much more in keeping with the order of things to have presented him with a gilded brush and bucket on which the legend, “U. S. Whitewash,"” should have been engraved artistically. Oh, if that diamond-eyed golden turtle could articulate and give the true inwardness of the roaring farce of which it has been the fitting end, the Department of Justice might have to stuff its capacious ears with cotton and eall for smelling salts. THE demand for the World's Fair Art Portfolio has been enormously in excess of expectations and orders cannot be filled as rapidly as received. Within the last twenty-four hours more than 1,000 orders have been filed in the count- ing room of THE BEE and the supply on hand is exhausted. The publishing fiouse at Chicago wires that orders are being filled as rapidly as possible, but s they run into the hundreds of thou- sands they are not able to keep in ad- vance of orders, but are shipping the portfolios as rapidly as they can be tuned out and boxed. Our patrons can be assured, however, that all orders will be filled as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and we simply com- mend forbearan NOTHING is said in the president’s message Indicating what might bo the position of the executive with refsrence to the repeal of the 10 per cent tax upon state bank issues. Chairman Springer interprets this to mean that President Cleveland is opposed to state banks of issue. Others infer that silence gives consent. The whole tenor of the mes- suge, counseling delay in all matters ro- lating to the currency, goes to confirm the belief that the president does not know where he stands upon that plank of the platform upon which he was clected. It is to be hoped that he will treat that plank as ruthlessly as he has some other sections of that document. Agreeabie to Monros. Philadelphia Tunes. The Sovereign just enthroned at the head of the Knights of Libor does not come under the prohibitions of the Monroe doctrine. —opguen Bonds Must Come. Globe-Dehocrat. One reason why those rumors of bond sales by our government v Europe gain credonce is that nearly everybody thinks bonds will have to be sold. Receipts fall below expenditures, and the tariff bill which has just been framed will reduce the receipts still further if it passes il n Retorm in Little Rholy. Springfield Republican, Thero will be na more minority state gov- ornments in Rhode Island, for the plurality amendment to the constitution has been carried by a large majority. Connecticut will soon follow suit, 8o the Courant says, and then New Englind politics as a whole will be much sightlier than for several years past. A ¥remium on Fraud, Chcagn Tribune. On one point the heads of the large dry goods and importing houses of this city are agrecd. That js in their opposition to the pol- icy of the framers of the Wilson bill in replac- ing specific by ad valorem duties in so many instances. They have onough trouble with the latter under the present law, and they want no more. While some of the Chicago merchants approve of the lower duties levied by the bill on the articles they import, yet Mr. Wilson’s claim that there is less fraud under ad valorem than under specific duties does not meetv with their approval. They, like all merchants, have learned better by long experience. Tarif Lights und S Washington Post, Mr, Wilson's new tariff will bring glad- ness to many hearts. The news that cab- bages, acorns, catgut and bladders have been put upon the free listcomes to the humble homes of millions of American free- men as a message of purest joy serene. Then thereis Balm of Gilead. “That is an article which humanity must have at any price, and which heretofore the masses have een taxed for. Mr. Wilson makes it free. He briogs it within the reach of the poorest oitizen, Arrowroot also, that favorite fod- der of the beardless but gilded youth—that nourishment on which our chappies thrive; arrowroot Low takes its stand with the ex- empt. Aud teazles! How often and how fervently have we longed for free tezles. How we have dreamed of a millennium in which free teazles would occupy the fore- ground and where man could at last find perfect happiness! And here it is at last, Surely Mr. Wilson is a clairvoyant and an angel all inone. 13ut, of course, there is another side, and while in one picture we have n great and grateful people, hailing free teazles, free Balm of Gilead, and untaxed bladders as the summum bonum long sought and just now found, there is a second one where tears and disappointment dwell. Mr, Richard Mans- flold, in pacticular, is dissatisfied and grieved, He wantea protection in the form of & high tariff on ncto and Mr. Wilson has disregarded his petition. Actors can still come in free just as Mr. Manstield him- self did once. The cheap, pauper-made article from Europe cun still flood our mar- kets and malke lifo hard for those already on the ground. Wo feel for Mr. Mansfield.~ He needs protection and should recei it. The committee has clearly blundered. There is dissatisfaction also in respect of manna,dried lizards, bones and horse hair, upon which thousands of good citizens demanded heavy impost. And there ig & feeling little short of despair concerning live bugs, especially the Italinn fiea, for The hbsolute’ prohibition of which an anxious najion had been praying, It has been hopefully #8serted that u speci duty on fleas and s¥“bugs of similar cha aoter and hubits—a really stiff one, of course —would have the effect of keeping them out altogether, and that"Wwi¥ a vonsummation to which citizens of albelasses had looked for- ward with the very, ropipst anticipation. ‘Wecannot have @ thing, howaver, and it were idlo to lose sMIBOS happiness in hand while we abundon pgrselves in vain lamen- tation over what we nave not. Letus for- get the shattered AreAms of prohibited Tioas, actors, horse hadrand dried lizards, and flout our souls 1n :g: E issful contemplation ! L dows. of free bladders, zies, soap and cat- gut. PROPLE AND THINGS, The king of Matabeleland 1s the Simpson of South Africa. He is truly sockles Democratic defense of Billy Wilson's bill is an interesting exhibition of raw material. A stranga feature of recent contulsions is ysterious oclipse of the planet For. Mr. Cleveland's opposition to the income n the nature of a strike against a re- duced salary. When the searchlight of criticism is turned on the tariif, buncomb will be found on the free list. As an expeditious means of shuflling off, electricity can loarn a profitable lesson from the greased euiliotine. To quote Morton against Morton, tho new tacifl bill “offers opulent opportunities for the most pronounced” British paternalism. Unless tho rivals for Brazilian supremacy can show a record surpassing a foot bail match, it is absurd to claim a state of war oxists, Thero are substantial reasons for the be- lief that Queen Lil has Caucasian blood in her veins. Didn't her great great grand- father feast on Captain Cook? A resident of San Francisco, claiming to be aroyal blue blood, carved the main artery to prove the claim. Tho spilled fluid dia not differ from the plebeian article, nor did the funeral. If the Philadelphia Ledger persists in opposing the administration tariff policy its commission as a personal organ wiil have to be rovoked. Treason cannot be tolerated in the houschold. Sir Benjamin Richardson, an eminent London physician, gives it s his opinion that bicycling, long persisted in, will inev- itably injure the spino, tho lungs and the irculation of the rider. William Walter Phelps, having discerned “a distiney declino in American jouralism,” broceeds to_reform it by purchasing the New York Mail and_Express. Willie puts the ax at the root of the ovil. Thaodore D. Weld, ono of the most prom- inent of the early abolitionists, a chum of wrrison, Philips, Mrs. Childs and the Grimkes, is still liviag at his home in_Hyde Park, near Boston, where he recently cele- brated his 90th birthday. g John Lee Carroll, ex-governor of Mary- land, is & most_aristocratio looking old gen- tleman, and belongs to one of the finest of tho Maryland famili Ho is the grand- nephew of the first governor of Maryland and the groat grandnephew of the' first Catholic archbishop of Baltimore. Paul Bennevuo is a physical wrock in a Now Hampshire poorhouse. He has been a diplomat, editor, publisher, politician, ora- tor and banker. 'He began bis public life 1n France as socretary of Alexander Dumas, the older. edited the c novelist's books. Fortune was averse to him finally, and now, past 70 years of age, he calmly waits his end, a pauper in a strange land. Should munieipal reform slip and slide along in the present grooves in Chicago 1t is not unlikely that the aileged sovereigns of the fair city will soon bo oblized, in satuting the alleged guardinus of the peace, to atch their. olfactories on the curb. A youngster of 17, who, 1n a moment of mental Strabismus, shocked police cult with o pro- fane expletive, was promptly juzged and sentenced to fifteen days in the Bridewell. NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Revival services are in progress at Tobias and many people attend. The Sons of Vermont will hold a mid- winter meoting at Lincoln January 23. Jumes McVicker of North Beud has started for the gold mining region of British Guiana. Sitting Bear and three other Pino Ridge Indiuns have started for the Shoshone agency on a hunt und visit. While his wife was at church B. F. Brown of Fremont left for parts unknown, taking with him his pension papers. The first annual show of the Southeastern Nebraska Poultry association will be held at Beat1ica December 26 to 29. Farmers in the vicinity of Bennett have leased the'elevator owned by G. W. Eggles- ton and will buy and sell grain. While William Walsh of Violet was riding a pony through the snow the horse fell and Walsii's leg was broken in two places. J. W. Richards of Juniata tried to get out of the road of a loose colt and slipped and feil. He is laid up with a broken hip bone. The Table Rock Vitrified Brick company is making great preparations to handle an immense amount of business the coming season. Ahorse thief toolk advantago of the fact that I N. Berry of Filimore county was at- tending church and escaped with his Sun- day-go-to-meeting rig, leaving no trace. 1t is reported at Gering that the capture has been effected of a large gang of cattle rustlers who were depredating upon the herds ranging on_the border line betwoen Nobraska and Wyoming some twenty-five miles northwest of here. Seven men who reside nenr Hemingford, Box Butte county, were discovered in_the ‘act of slaughtering a large number of beeves, and a posso was organized and followea them, capturing all but one. He escaped after a lively fire being exchanged. Tho rest then surrendered and wont voluntarily back into Wyoming, and they will be taken to Cheyenne for trial. Their names are not known. They had in their wagons about fifteen’ beeves. As this sort of thing had been gong on for some time the men who apprehended them feel rather jubilant, DR SHIMMERING BUBBLES. Gnlveston News: When a man falls his tricnds say he has gone up, Washington Star: *“This life,” sala the man who stood on the cellar stair with a coal bucket in his hand, “would be one succession of sweet surprises if coalonly came up as easily as tho price does." Philadelphia Record: Joax—The proprietor of that bone yard ought to be arrested for bassing counterfelt money. Honx—\Why, how is that? Jonx—HIs place {s continually giving out a bad scent. Chicago Record: “Paw, 13 thero uny differ- ence betwoen a cold and an {nfluenzy?” I the doctor calls it a cold the bill is about . If ho calls It Influenza 1V's about 318, The difference is $14, my son."" Tommy why do_ they say “a note matures” when it falls due? Pa (worry- ing over his debis)—Becuuse it's gonerally so blume big, I suppose, Chicago Tribune; always wait for n snow storm If I wunt to discover the churactérs of my nolghbors."” “Ifow’s that? “Inotice how closely each one obscrves tho lino dividing his sidewalk from Lis nelghbor's when ho Is shoveling snow." Indianapolls Journal: Salesman — Stove polish? Certaluly, What kind do you want, Ittle girl? Juvenilo Customer (nonplussed for a mo- monty=T've heard mammu sy elbow grosse was the only thing that would put a good shine on a siove. Got Washinj ny? ton Star: “Now, [ happen to know that old General Bloar was never in a battle in his life. So. you soe, there Is no excuse for calling him » dashing warrior.” “Ihaven't, eh? Why, If his conversation wore put in print there would be ulmost noth- lug u":a but dashes. LILY AND ROSE. Kansas City Journak To the ly sald the rose: SWhy 18 IT, do you suppos That you hover blust &t T your modesty 80 smail To the rose the lily said: “Itmy face is nover red, It's bécause my life is pure; 1've no cause 1o blush, I'm sure.” Redder still the rose now And her eyes filled up witl H fiow hor bl ughty head 1s bent. The Itly didu't give a scent. nl!! Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE WILL MAKE THE STATE SUE Oapital National Receiver Wants Nebraska's Olaim Estab ished in Gourt. PROOF OF THE ACCOUNT VERY VAGUE Must Fix Definitoly the Amount In Mosher's Ands at the Time of the Col- Inpso Before the Fands Are Paid. FOURTRENTI STREET, WasniNarox, Dec. Receiver Hayden of the broken Capital National bank at Lincoln was found in the office of the comptroller of currency by Tue Bee correspondent today and asked with respoct to the payment of the state apportionment of the funds of the bank which have been collected. Mr. Haydensaid: *The proof of tho state account against the bank lias beou 80 irr vant as to make the amount indefinite and the technical proof of the claim unreliabie, althouh it is concoded that the bank owes the state. We have concluded to ask the state to submit proof of its claim and fix definitely the amount by a proceeding in court. I presume the attorney general of the state will institute proceedings in the state court at Lincoln to set up beyond dispute the exact claim of the state against the bank, and when the amount_is thus de- termined and the proof 1s positive 1 will pay to the state its proportion of the assets of the bank which have been collected. Until that time wo have decmed it best to withhold the state’s money. The state of Nebraska cannot losa anvthing in thoe end, us its funds are secure, and it will not be much longer without its money Plans of the Recelver. Receiver Hayden will leave for Lincoln tomorrow, having completed his business in the oftice of the comptroller of currency. He declined to talk for publication about the procedures which are to be taken to secure for the assets of the b certain lia- bifities upon _the ofticial bonds of the bank officers. He stated that it would be altogether improper for him to disclose any methods proposed on the part of the government to inc se the assets of the bani or to ferret out collections which might be forced upon the bonds of tho ofti- cers of the bank or those of city ofticials at Lincoln ov in any other direction. He sud also that he did not know how long it would be until the affairs of the bank would be entirely closed ; that it would depend upon the resistance offered by the bank's debtors against whom it was proposed to proc Creditors’ Interest Prejudiced Beyond doubt the scandalous actions of President Mosher and the laxity of the ofti- having him in cf nave prejudiced the interests of the creditors of the Capital National bank and greatly delayed — the payment of dividends. = No estimato of what per cent of the claims of depositors. and creditors generally of the bank will be pmd could be extracted from Receiver Hayden or Comp- troller Eckels. Both declined to place even an upproximate estimate upon the per cent of the claims which would ultimately be paid, probably because any such estimato would discloso or suggest in a remote w some of the vrocecdings which are to be in- stituted with & view to making collections for the bank. Tie Big WasHINGTON Brneav or Tie Ber, } orrespondent ventures to sug- own mation will in time Ve per cent of their ¢ The dep: is well satisficd with the manner in Receiver Hayden has conducted the of the bank, and it is safe to predict that some sort of proceedings will be instituted upon the return to Lincoln of the receiver, which will not_only force some collections, but the liquidation of the bank's assets, Another Delay m Omahu's Postotiice, Senator Manderson called at the " epartment today to see Supervising Archi- :t O'Rourke in regard to the schedule which were to be signed by the contractors nite work upon the new federal at Omaha. It seems that the super- rehitect had affixed schedules upon the basis of the Minnesota gramite, wheres Colorado granite is used. While, of course, the schedules for Minnesota granite would not have interfered in the use of the Colo- rado material, thoy would bave made a dif- ference in the payments which the govern- ment will make from time to time to the contractors, Under the sched- ules offered to Drexel the payments would have been less than if they ha been dMwn upon the basis of Colora granite, as it costs less to work the ! sota than the Colorado material. ing Architect O'Rourke was absent from h oftice, but Senator Manderson was assured that an extension of time for filing the bond would be given in accordance with the re- quest of the contractors, so thau the schedules relating to payment may be cor- rected. The Sixteenth street stone work is now being gotten out, vthe contractors report, and the work at the Colorado quarrics is to be pushed. Secretary Carlisle recommended an aporopriation of $100,000 instead of §75.000, as stated by a BEE special last night, 10 continue the work upon the federal building which fTairs asury at Omaba during the fiscal year beginning July 1 noxt. Nobraska and lows Patents. Tatents wero granted today to the follow- iog Nebraska inventors: Orren W. ana J A, Boston, David _ City, tea kettle; John H. Dundas, Auburn, swinging eate; Hans H. Jensen, Omahe, dry closet; Carl . Kaul, Madison, brick mould Kelzer, Brewster, spado or digge son, Lexington, sulky barrow. lowans: David W, Coles, Sarah 1. Dysinger, Eldora, David S, Hutton, Martins. burg, coupling; Constantine Raible, Oskaloosa, vegetable cuttee; Thomas B. Swan, Atlantie, drenching bit; Joseph A. cash register and indicator; L. Young, Imogene, portable grain uthrie Cen« dump. New Westorn Postmnsters, sters appointed today Story county, W. H. Thompson, B. Hanson, removed; Lawn Hill G. B. Strayer, vice Leonidas : Wolford, Benton county, vington, vice Frank Novak, removed. South Dikota—Bradley, Clark county, H. H. Minthorn, vice Daviel Trenom, removed ; o Turner county, A, M. Rasmussen Newton, removed: Raymond, Willard Davis, vice J. M Tyedall, Bouhomme count, v Colburn, removed. n, ovier county. Mry vice B. B, Keyes, removed. Sugar Bouaty Opp higan, who is one of the leading repablican members of the ways and means committee: toid Tuk Bre corre- spondent today that the republicans in con- gress would bitterly oppose the proposition 10 extinguish the sugar bounty in eight years, as provided in the Wison bill, bo- cause the law as it stands is a solemn come pact between the government and the sugar manufucturers and the producers of beets and cano for a period of years “But,” said Mr. Burrows, “wo would aceapt the extinguishment plan rather than nothing. [ bedeve the sugar bounty as promised will be carried out to the full period fixed by law." Cleveland Was Not Accurate, President Cloveland has incensed most of the d mombers of the ways and means committoe by announcing in his mes- me tax upon corporation had beew agreed upon, meuns that he does not believo that te incomes will be taxed, The majority of tho committee, including Chairman” Wil s0ngeay the income tax has not been agreed upon, ind when it is it will provide o upon private incomes, as well as corporation shaves, Just six of the nine demo of the committeo are det ¢ incomes shall pay 4 ta o justice in taxini Postm lowa — Bertha Gardne Aboltion of 1 Mr Burrows of M ed. atic members ined that pri- i} iv cones are the only true index to afuonce and wealth; that needy persous, the most common classes, often hold a mujority of the sha in corporations. and, in fact, conscitute the bone and sinew of the organs ization of a large majority of the mills and factories of the country; that the existence y or mll is pot true evi- e of weaith or power, as many of our greatest institutions are owned by the per- sons who operate them, the bulk of shares being held by the laborers and mechanics, and often the greatest: show covers the greatest financial distress. On the oiher hand an income on private property, they coutend, is direct evidence of wealth. Personil Mention, Will R. n of Omaha, John C. Loper and G. L. Myson of Des Moimes, la., and Will B. Dale of Columbus, Neb,, are at the ht of Towa has been ap- the Civil Service commission artmont. Peniy S, F e = The Wounds Are Kaw. Indianapolis Journal, The Wilson committer has put balm of gilead upon the freelist, but it will not avail. "Thera is no soothing lotion for the erievous wounds with which that committee has scarified the democracy. SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE, Atlan'a Constilution. bilice every other day: i ieking of the scissors, still his smiling face we seo, And hie overtakes the measles on the way. Heo is here, Ia is thero: You willfind him everywhere; He can tell you more ahout 1t Than you'd find out In a year! The man who wants to tell you how to run the nize his footsteps on the stair; es the elevator, at the tuppiug of the bell, You know that he Is coming, or Is here! Tor he lands With both hands, And the oflice understands, ile is coming, coming, coming, And Vs under his commands| The man who wants to tell you how to run the paper; yot, Tlowever hio may como up to the scratch, Will find another climute whero the flames are never wet, And strike a ton of coal and strike a match) And he'll yearn, And he'il turn, Where theday they don't discern; And ho'll fire up the boilers, Aud he'll broil, und he will burn! 111 BROWNING, KING The largest makors and sallers of fine clothes on The great run On our suits and overcoats at half price has com- pletely cleaned us out and in order to satisfy a few of the disap- pointed ones we have marked down a small line of all wool over- ago. eoats and ulsters to $8—$10—$12.60—$15 for the bal- ance of the week—if they last that long. On account of the rush in the men’s goods our children’s wear was nearly overlooked but we wish to announce a Boys' Sale Saturday that will create as big a sensation as that of a week Full particulars Friday. For the accommoda-~ tion of customers, commencing next Monday we will keep open till 9 o'clock every evening and Sat- urdays till 10, only till Christmas. BROWNING, KING & CO., Bend te movey and wo'l oy | S, W, Cor.15th and Douglas Sts. TasE A Te s I