Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1893, Page 4

E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PURLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. st Snnday) One Yo Ay, One You €800 10 00 ¥ ¥ e, One Yenr The Tice I I, 12 Penrl & 317 Chamt jms 135, 14an irtecnth st Twenty-fc Commerer nilding 1 o adk SINESS L i 10 compan 3 1K PUBLISHING COMPANY SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, ¢ Taschuick, secrotary of Tne Ber \pany. does soleminly swear that W efreniation of THE DATLY DEE for the week e Docenber 23, 1803, was as follows mber 17 Decem Goorge I Nahiing 140 1045 Wednendny, Dr 2030 Thursday, Deceniber ol Friday, Décember 22 .0 800 E Decembor 2 187 Growae 1 TZROeK to betore me and subscribed in hita 230 day of December, N. P, FriL, Notary Public ~i—=, Sworn wrar by pr Average Clreniat 11 18 8 very cold night when Mayor Bemis fails to warm up the council with one or two vetoes. SoME consolation remains in the fact that the issue of Christmas time mar ringe licenses has not fallen off in any corresponding degree with the decline in other lucrative businesses in the com- munity. (i New York Keening Post talks about putting a check at the outset to the use of “‘black smoke-producing coal” in the metropolis. What color does coal ordinari sent to the average New Yorker? . Duren socialists now convened ina so-called congress are oceupying them- selves chiefly with violent quarrels among the mombers. And yet the dlists disclaim any sympathy with the anarchists. Ir UNCLE SAM wants to go into the railroad business, now would be an op- portune time. Nearly all of the trans- continental trunk lines are in the hands of receivers, preparing to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. WrrH forty-four indictments for elec- tion frauds committed by Tammany heelars pending in New York City tho necessity for the rvepeal of the federal election laws becomes more and more apparent to the democratic machine in that stute. NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the new garbage contract was to have gone into effect according to its terms on Sat- urday last, the contractor does not pro- pose to begin work for at least a week. Let the city insist upon the stipulations in its agreement Ir THE oflicers in charge of the hostile Brazilian vessels will only continue to avoid one another as assiduously as they have done for the past fow days that much heralded naval battle between the government’s dynamite cruiser and the insurgent ships may be dispensed with after all. IT TAKES only three veceivers to man- age the Santa e railroad, with its nearly 10,000 miles of lines and known as the largest railroad system in the world. The Union Pacific, with less mileage and less business, is supplied with five receivers. Here is an oppor- #anity for a little equal TuE United States government under- gakes to make coast surveys, geological surveys, geodetic surveys, as well as surveys of several other kinds, The western farmer is not demanding too much when he asks the foderal author- ities 40 make a map and survey showing the region where irvigation is possible and practicable. TF TuE council sitting as a board of equalization finds itself unable to raise the assessments of particular picces of property that have been valued too low by the ward assessor, without a written complaint from somo property owner whose property has been assessed too high in comparison, it should take steps to secure the Wy written plaints, A complaint sorve to give the council jurisdic the matter. No means at hand to in- crease the city's taxable valuation should be neglected. com- would ion in advertised has Governor Lewelling of Kansas bscome as a conse- quence of his tramp mamfesto that he has alveady been eompelled to shut down uponithe ever increasing domands for assistance to tramps, Among tho hosts that have baen attracted to Kan- 804 it is almost impossible to distinguish the professional tramp feom the morely unfortunate laborer, Had the governor loft the matter to be attended to by the local authorities he would have heen soared much of his unpleasant notoriety Kansas would also have avoided bein eompelled to support a horde of people who should be cared for in other states. GOVERNOR WAITE is persistent in his purposo. Ho has con- vened the legislature of Colarado in extra session to counteract the depres- sion in the silvor mining industry. The governor evidently thinks that Colorado is destined to lead in th goneration of silver coinage, and he recommends that the legislature declare logal tender sy silver dollar, foreign as woll domestic, that contains not loss than 8711 grains of pure silver. He unjues- tionably kunows that Colorad) has no eonstitutional authority to mako any- thing but the gold and silver coins of tho United States a legal tonder for debts, but provisions of ¢mstitutional law seem to carry no weight with him whatever, The Colorado legislature may find suficient stalo matters de- manding its attention ta justily an extra session, but it will do well to leave questions of national finance to the de- termination of congrese. nothing if not as JURISDIOTION OF THE STATE BOARD. The order of the State Board of Trai portation directing the Elkhorn road to show cause why the rates on hay, re- cently raised, should not be lowered, scoms to have aroused unnecessary doubts in the minds of some of the mem- bers of that board as to their jurisdie- tion in the matter. The railroads will claim, as they have contc.uded on more than one oceasion, that the powers of the state board do not extend to the rais- ing or lowering of rates, and they may be expected to fight any such order to the bitter end in the courts. The question of jurisdiction, however, is not raised now for the first time. Tt was raised and argued at length before the of Nebraska soon after the present law organizing the board was enacted in 1887, Not only this. but the respondent in that case was the same which is now again at- tempting to discredit the authority of the board and whose plea was over- ruled by a unanimous decision of the supreme court, then consisting of Judges Maxwaell, Cobb and Reese. What the court decided, after an ex- tended and searching rveview of each section of the act in question, was that the board had authority to reduce the schedule of rates in force by a uniform cut of 33% per cent. The law prohibits all unreasonable and unjust rates for the transportation of goods and declares them unlawful. In order to find out what rates are lawful the state board must have authority to investigate the charygoes enacted by any railvoad, and to dec what charges are reasonable and what charges unreasonavle. And the court adds, “And this may be dono inadvance of the rendition of the serv- ice.” Explaining this more at length the court continues: “Such board is to de- termine in the first instance, at least, what ave reasonable and just charges and what unveasonable and unjust and when any person, firm, corporation or locality is unjustly discriminated against. There can be no restriction of the word locality: it may refer to a vil- lage, eity, county or portion of the state, tho meaning in each case to be de- termined by the territory which the board shall find to bs un- justly discriminated against. If thero is discrimination against any person, firm or corporation it is the duty of the board so to find and to require the rail- way company to cease its discrimina- tion. To do so such board has the authority to require such railway com- pany to reduee its rates to a reasonable and just standard. The power to fix a reasonable and just rato is clearly con- ferred on the board, as also the power to dotermine what rates are unjust and unreasonable. It is tho duty of the board to prevent unjust diserimination in all the forms mentioned in the statute, and to do so it may determine what is a proper charge to and from any points within the state, and its order in that vegard based on its finding of facts will be prima facie evidence of the cor- rectness of the order.” If the State Board of Transportation can order a general cut in rates of 33k per cent it can certainly order a rail- road 1o restore a rate which has been raised. The very fact that a lower ratoe has been in force for some time previous creates & presumption, in the absence of altered conditions making the operation of the road more expensive, that the new rate is unreasonably high. The bur- den of proof rests upon the railvoad which is attompting to increase its charges. If the state board was not in a position to prevent the establishment of an un- reasonable and consequently unlawful rate it would be a useless piece of gov- ernmental machinery. It is only to be re- gretted that the board has not had in- dependence enough to have used its authority more frequently to the benefit of the people. supreme court are THE 10WA SENATORSHIP, The senatorial contest in the Iowa logislature, for a successor to United 5 onator James F. Wilson, whose term will expire March 3, 1893, promises to be sharp and very interesting. There are now seven candidates for the honor, two orthree of whom can present first rate ciaims and are men of great popu- larity. Undoubtedly Representative Goar, or Hepburn, or Lacey, or Perkins would take excelient care of Iowa’s in- terests if sent to the national senate aad would maintain the high character of the state in that body given it by its presént senators. All these gen- tlemen who desive promotion to the the upper house have the necessary ability, and having done good service in the lower house there is every reason to believe that either of them would be a useful member of the senate. If the choice were to be de- termined by the experience of cach in publie life it would fall upon Hon. Wil- liam Peters Hepburn, who was a mom- ber of the Fo-ty-seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth eongr Hon. John Henry Gear ranks next, he having made his first appearance on the stage of national affaivs with the Fiftioth con- ress. Hon, John Fletcher Lacey's first conneetion with national legislation was in the Fifty-first congress, and Hon, George D. Porking's was in the Fifty- second ¢on Mr. Hepburn is thus forn tne load so far as publie sorvice 15 concérned, but possibly this will not bo given all the consideration which it ought to receive. If the decision were made to rest on the question of relative ability it might he difficult to say which one of the gentlemen whom we have named is the best endowed intellectu- ally for a seat in the senate. But the republicans of the lowa legis- lature may conclude that it will be the part of wisdom to let Mr. Wilson re- maln in the senate another six years. He has made a creditable record in that body aud stands well there, He has had an experience of ten years as a senator, having previously sorved four terms in the house of ropresentatives, to which he was first elected in IS61. Although not a very old man, being little past 65, Mr, Wilson has had au extended cxperience in publio ilfe and he has borne himself well. He is not a brilifant wan, and perhaps has not contributed as much to the fame of lowa s his distinguished colleague in the senae, but he is recognized by his fel- low senators @s & wan of sterling ability, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: and there can be no question that the interests of Towa would continue to well cared for by him. In view of these considerations the republicans of the Towa legislature may very properly ask themselves whether anything would be gained by sending another man to the senate. PLAYING THE SAME OLD TUNE. When the gambling ordinance was pending before the council TnE BEE opposed it vigorously. The World-Herald supported it, not only editorially but in its local news columns, And now that sheet has the impudence to demand the impeachment of the mayor for doing the very thing that it nad advocated. The question what has brought about the change? A good many people believe that this vicious attack 18 an at- tempt to retaliate on the wmayor for his refusal to countenance Hitcheock's im- posture in conneetion with the license advertising. Some people are not back- ward in expressing the opinion that the anti-gambler crusade is nothing more nor less thana hold attemptat blackmail, in which the courts have been invoked to help a self-convicted violator df the law to recover monoy he had feloniously gambled away. Whether this version is correct or not, the fact that the legal proceedings have been instituted by law- yers who have been largely patronized by the criminal classes gives it a great deal of coloring. An intelligent observer must see that the onslaught on Mayor Bemis is malig- nant spitework on one hard and arrant hypoerisy on the othee. The mayor is not the only officer charged with the enforcement of the criminal laws. The volice court itself has no jurisdiction in cases involving felonious vioiation of the statiutes. In all such cases the county at- torney is the proper officer to file com- plaint whether anybody has sworn out a warrant or not, and it is made the duty of the sheriff to break up gambling, prize fighting, latteries and other institutions and practices that aredefined as felonies by law. Now it is notorious that has not merely toierated gambling houses but his deputies have been fre- quenters of these resorts. They have not made a single arrest, although the law makes it the duty of the sheriff and his deputies to arrest violators of the criminal code even without a warrant if the felonious act is committed in their presence. Why single out the mayor and sereen the county officers? Evidently the mayor is an offensive partisan, while the sherift isa favored patron of the hypoeritical organ. The most outrageous thing in connec- tion with this assault on the mayor are the sensational dispatches sent all over the country by the World-Herald in which Omaha is blackwashed very much in the same fashion in which rank pro- hibitionists have delighted in defaming this city and refresenting it as the Sbdom of America, as if gambling and the social evil were not tolerated in any other city. On the heels of this pieco of villainous defamation a dispatch was sent out of the World-Herald office last nigkt announcing that a terri ble riot was in progress in Omaha and the whole police force was called out to disperse the mob, when as a mat- ter of fact the great riot was only a “scrap” between a couple of colored bruisers in one of the lower wards and the *‘mob” was a handful of sports look- ing on the fight just as they would on a dog fight. Another side light upon the hysteri- cal performance of the World: Herald in connection with this matter may be gotten by recalling its conduct when house roll 233 was pending before the legislature. Immediately after the olect were known the organ played an overture to the entire legislature by a sories of biographical puffs which made evory member a veritable Clay, Conk- ling and B'aine. When the legisiature was convened it was treated to a coating of Metealf molasses and soft soap. Then the champions of the bil—Kyner, Ames, Sheridan, Elder and Goss—were be- slobbered and held up as Ne- braska’s most eminent law compounders. It is manifest that the man at the helm of the World-Herald is playing upon the vanity and personal resentments of one of the judgesin the distriet court in order that he may use him to pervert justice and uphold imposture, It is re- lated in ancient history that two augurs never met in the streets of Rome with- out laughing outright in each other's faces. The imposture they were playing upon the people was not more farcical and hypocritical than is the jugglery and impudent antics to which the people of Omaha are being treated every day by that sheet. is, the sheriff TRAIN ROBBING RESUMED. ‘The resumption of train robbing will probubly renew intevest in the proposal of federal legislation for the repression and punishntent of this erime. A bill with this object, introduced in the house of representatives by Mr. Caldwell of Ohio, is in the hands of one of the house committees, and there is apparently no good reason why it should not be promptly rveported aftor the reassem- bling of congress and passed, so that the federal power could be at once invoked to hunt down and adequately punish train robbers. The measure of Mr, Cald- well applies, of course, only to robbery committed on roads engaged in interstate commerce, but this meludes the large majority of the railroads of the country. It provides heavy penalties for the crime of train robbing and the killing of an innocent person in the commission of the crime is punishable with death, The question whether legislation of this sort would have the effect to repress train robbing need not be considered. The railroad and express companies have asked tor it in the belief that it will have such an effect and it is undeniably the duty of the government to take notice of the existence of this crime and %0 at least make provision for the proper punishment, when apprehendod, of the desperate outlaws who engage in it. With such penalties as are provided in the Caldwell bill it is not to be doubted that train robbing would be- come less frequent. It is necessary that the states shall also take notice of this crime and pro- vide drastic legislation for its punish- be | ment. Of coursq, all the states now havo laws undef which train robbing can be punished il very fow of them have treated this;avlme separately and that is the treatmeht it must The states shoullf aldo make better pro- vision than now exists for hunting down these criminalsginstead of letting the railroads and express companies do all this work, as is now It is a Just cause bf on the part of the com- panies that the'states do not give them proper assistavce | in this matter, thereby compelling them to bear nearly the wholo expense of hunting down train robbers, A federal law distinetly defining and adequately punishing this crime, supplemented by strong state laws, it is reasonable to believe, would make train robbing less frequent if it did not put an end to it. receive. the case. complaint express GIVE THE MEN SOMETHING TO DO, The suggestions made by THE BER that the able bodied, destitute, unem- ployed be given an opportunity to earn their living over winter by breaking stone for country roads 1s objected to on the ground that the stone crushers at the Platte river do the work much cheaper than the cheapest of hand labor and hence very little would be saved in hauling the rock from the quarries and having it broken here. It is doubtless true that the quarrymen can lay down crushed rock in Omaha for less money thar the cost of the broken rock crushied by hand labor at $1.50 a day. But itstrikes us that it would be more eco- nomic to employ idle men for their board and lodging, which need not cost more than 75 cents a day, than to board and lodge them at the county's expense without any rveturn. It is barely possible, too, that quite a number could be employed in quarrying, loading and unloading the rock. This would not in- terfere with other workmen, because there is no rock to be hauled this winte: unless the commissioners venture on this enterprise in the interest of desti- tute laboring men. What is true of stone erushing might also apply to the grading ov improving of roadways. Wo may not have an open winter, but we will always have a few days in the month when work on public roads would be practicable. IN SOME parts of China a tax is im- posed on all women entering the bonds of matrimony. This ought to be sug- gestive to Chairman Wilson'’s committee in its hunt for sources of governmental revenue. LooK ouT for the nows of a Brazilian naval hattle and. pictures of the bloody encounter cabled by the special artist on the spot. ink Into Debt, Globe-Democrat, The democrats don't like the idea of in- creasing the debt by lssuing a new series of bonds, but that 1s thelr only practical way out of the worst fihancial predicament in which any party has been placed since the war. Lo The Southern Iden. Atlanta Constitution. Repeal the McKinley law! Pass the Wilson bill! Pass a graduated income tax law! Malke gold and silver the standard money of the country! Repeal the state bank tax! e y in the semate. ladelphia Ledge ‘While the democrats are preparing to put the Wilson tariff bill through the house the signs multiply that it will be radically amended in the senate and finally emerge as a compromise measure beaving little re- semblance to the original bill. That 1s the usual course of tariff measures. —_——— The Tarlif Reform Yoke, Knit Goods Review. M. Cleveland, in his recent message, was unkind enough to remind the country that “tariff reform is directly before us,” not- withstanding that the fact has been sufi- ciently, and most unpleasantly, impressed upon the veople for some months past, and vhey would gladly forget if they could. Yoa, verily ; tariff reform s directly before us; it is also around and about us and all over us, Worse than all, it is on our necks, like a yoke that galls, but from which there is no es- cape, s yet. e That Tarit Bi1 Philadelpha Ledger. The majority defends the imposition in goneral of advalorem instead of specific duties, and reports in favor of the repeal of the so-called recivrocity clauses of the Me- Kinley act. In general, the committe claims credit for a reduction of duties from an av- erage of 48.71 per cent to 80.31 per cent, and expressed the belief that the reform pro- posed will quicken every industry and lead to a period of great prosperity. The Wilson bill, as reported, will be modified in essen- tial particulars, and modified in the diroc- tion of restoring protective duties or of in- creasing the tariff rates. ——— conomic Absurdits New York Sun, _Did ever a set of men posing as economists got themselyes into a sorrior plight than Prof. Wilson’s committee? Who but the lord treasurer of the king of the Canmbal islands would ever think of diminishing his income for the purnose of paywg his debts? The gentleman who jumped into the barberry bush was a financial allegory prefiguring this bedeviled commiutee. We are going to be $72,000,000 short. We will get square by reducing our income by $62,000,000. Here is finance that seems Lo come from a Christmas pantomime and breathes the rich humor of Pantaloon. Yet if Pantaloon found that the manager was recouping himself for losses and bad business by positively extending the free list, Pantaloon would have that manager hauled before & lunacy commission immedi- ately. —_————— Utal's Clahn to Statehood. St. Lowls Republic. If there is w be opposition to tho admis- slon of Utah as 4 wtate, let it be reasonable. The only reasonable g=ound for such opposi- tion, we take 1t, is the fear that the state government to benstituted will not or can- not suppress polygamy. The question may be raised as to tHe duty or the power of the government to inquire into the conditions of statehood other than those whioh are urely material or political. In the case of Jtah, however, tha evils of polygamy have been su pronounced and of such long stand- iag, and the power af tne Mormon church is still s0 great that public opinion insists upon guarantees of the enactment and enforce- ment of statutes agalnst polygamous prao- taces. Polygamy-becomes, in this way, & part of the genoral question under discus- sion and constitutes the only valid obje tion to the statehaod pf Utah. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1893 TRE MINOVITY REPORT. polis ‘Iribune (rep.): As an ae raignment of the democratic majority in the house for its fnconsistency and breach-of faith in the metterof tha tariff, the report of the mimority of the ways and means com mittee on the Wilson bill, is & masterpiece Kansas City Star (ind.) The wail from the minority is not quite un to reasonable expectations, but it must be remem 1 that Mr. Reed is not a great tariff expert and is further handicapped by the sorrow ful eflection that he is arguing a caso vhat has been already adjudgod Minneanolis Journal (rep.) says the doctrme of the de form that protection is robbe be abolished was clear and h new movement represented by the Wilson bili is neither good morals nor'gooa faith, aud in his inimitable aptness he character: izes 1t as “mitigated and sporadic robbery Indianapolis Journal (rep.): Mr. Reed bases his championship uvon the highes claims of civilization, compared with which the question of prices sinks into insig nificance. The protective tarifl stands be tween the highor civilization of the Anteri can wage curner and the lower grade of the foreign laborer. Take away protection, aud foreign capital can secure the same ma chinery and il then becomes a contest be tween labor. Chicago Record (ind.): This report as a whole, drawn up as it is by able men on the protection side, is not likely to injure th prospects of the new tariff bill. The public expects it to become a law specdily, and is preparing itself for the inevitable change The suspense preceding that chanec is in fiuitely worse than any evils to be feared from Dlunders of the schedules as ssen by unfriendly critics of this houest attempt at working i beneficial reform, St. Paul Pioneer Press (rep.) : ity veport of the ways is a_cutting fiscal inconsist in this re Minne Tom Reed nocratic plats y and should uest, but this 'he minor. il means committee exposure of the political and icies of the Wilson bill, and Dect 18 in lne with the criticisms which the Pioneer Press has already made upon it. Placed i power by the people upon the distinct pledge to be controlled in its fiscal policy by the principle that a prote tive tarifl is unconsiitutional and a system of robbery, and to substitute for it a tariff for revenue only, its first act in dealing with the question is to report a tarift constructed and defended upon avowed principles of pro- tection which at one stroke reduces the revenue about $74,000.000 4 year, and this at a time when the depleted treasury with an existing defici which it will tax a the ingenuity and power of the governm 1o overcome by the mvention of new sour of revenue. PRGNS Wy NERBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Two revivals of religion are in progress av Fairbury. There are county jail. W. K. Allen of Salem accidentally ampu- tuted oue of his toes with a sharp ax A horse fell on the 13-year-old son of Mrs. Waddles of Fairfield and broke the lad's arm. e past year has been a prosperous one Norfolk. The News makes a showing of 5 spent for public improvements in the cit A Sunday School Normal institute held at Vérdon December 20, 30 and 31, con- ducted by Rev. J. D. Stewart, state super- intendent of the Congregationalists There is loud complaint at Atkinson b cause a number of dead varcasses of au wals have been piled upon the river bank ear town and Jeft without any attempt at buri John Morrison of Fullerton skating again with a revolver in his hip pocket. He tried 1t the other day, and when he struck the ice foreibly the gun went off, putting a bullet through the calf of his leg. Charles Cole of Chadron is under arrest for beating his wife. Meeting her and her three children he quarreled and then com- menced choking her. She broke away, but he caught her and choked her again and struck her with his fist on the side of her head. Her cries for help brought the patrol wagon, when he was promptly arrested apd locked up. Says the Fairmont Signal: Thut our readers in other states may know what farmers may accomplish in Nebraska we will mention the case of Patrick Halligan, who has lived on his farm in Grafton town- ship for the last sixteen years, At this time his farm embraces 400 acres of good land. He has a good dwelling house, two barns, one 22x100 feet and the other 28x44 feot, and shed forty-four feet long. He has on his farm 250 bead of cattle, eighteen head of horses, about 100 head of shoats, and a gran- ary containing 15,000 bushels of shelied corn and a crib containing 3,000 bushels of corn in the ear, four boarders in the Wayne will be will never go COMICAL SPARKS, oukers Gazotte: The wood cutter is con- d to bo i “chipper” follow. Iveston News: The messenger boy goes slowly boause he is detormined not to run out of a job. Boston Transcript: Women's sleeves, like the moon and like fushions generally, wax and wane. Binghamton Republican: Tt Is natural for a waiter to grow crooked when he is tipped a good deal. Tid Bits Tirst Passengor—I wonder why wo are making such a long stop at this station? Second Passongor traveler of experience)-—1 presume It s heeauso ne uppens to be 1s o fad trying to cateh the trai Palmistr; wland. a8 10 hasboo hotel” waiters in this Philadelphia Record: among the women of in o sense with some country. New Yo shall 1 mall Bo; f discrotion? pme to the conclusion 1076 than your father. Washington Star: “Wouldn a musician?”’ asked Plodd “1used to think I would,” replicd Meander- ing Mike. “But I oncot héard o man say they wits something about strikin' a chord in‘music an’ 1 lost all heart far it. It reminded me too wmuch of un ux and a woodplle.” < Journal: uch thoe “age Father—When you that you don’t know Papa, when yer liko to be ng Pote. Buffalo Courler: Although the blind man's dog 15 seldon 1 any prominence in counts of the world's hi denying the fuct that ho wany loading events. ppenings thero s no akos part Lo a good AN ACCIDENT. Induanapotis Journal, There was a little girl And sho had a 1ittle curl Right down in tho middic of her forohead; Ro she wore It to the hop, And it hippened off to dfop— And tho fangituzo thatsho tought was simply horrid! — THE LONGESEI STONE ARCH. Owana, Doc, 26.—To the Editor of Tie Bee: InPueSuNpay Bek [noticed that under the caption “Poits on Progress,” you make the statement that *“The longest single arch in @ stone bridge is ninety-cight and a half feet, over the Rialto, at Venice.” Believing that 1t may bo of 1nterst to you and to correct an error which may lead un- informed people to ke the above stutement for granted, permit me to say thutthe bridge above referred to was, in the year 1583, be- gun by Antonio da Ponte, the architect, and 4t that time the span was ouly ninety-one foo, instead of ninety-cight and hall feet, althbugh 1t may be possible that duriug the interval of that honored time aud vho pres- cnt an expansion of seven and a half feet has taken place, while it seems that no veri- fication of such an astounding fact can be obtaived. The longest singlo arch in a stone bridge is thut over Cabin John Creek on the Wash- wgton aqueduct, situated soveral miles northwest of Washington, D. C.. constructed by the late Geoeral M.C.Meigs, an en- Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, | LoD Re Baking Powder ABSOIVUTELY PURE gineer of ronown, and at tho time of his much_lamented demise, quartermaster gen eral, United States army, retired This arch has a span of 220 foct and a rise of filty-soven and one-half fect. ‘the crown of the arch is 101 foet above the water. The arch stones have a depth of four feet two inches at the crown, and of six fect two inches av the springers. Orro 1, Scos - hein IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? Neb., Dec. o the Editor Is it ordained of heaven? Is tance with tho eternal fitness of things? Is it desirable thata great multi tude of men and women shall be without employment and without homes, A government that compels its citizons to leave their work and their homes and stand upon the Hold of battle to be shot at, to the eud of maintaining its existence, and does not provide—when necessity so requires work and homes for 118 citizons, is unworthy of the support of a patriot or Christian “There are millions of able-vodied men in this country who are willing to work but cannot find employiment. What are they to dot Think for a moment. Whole families starving and wheat but 40 cents per bushel 1f the congross of United States lacks the brains or the disposition to find employment for those enforced idlers and the moans of paying them, it had better ro sign and go homie, Of the throe parties prosented in the two houses of congress, a man has ever proposea a public moas: ure that was in any way commensurate with the wants of suffering humanity. Govern- ments and laws are_simply contrivances to meet the wants of humanity. They shoula have no other end in view than the velief of human wants, Such being the case, what are the most pressing wants of all classes? My answer 18 this: All able-bodied people need useful and vrofitable employment And all people, whether able-bodied or not, need wood comfortable homes, Any man who disputes that answer has nou brains cuough to grease 4 gimlot, and is not to bo reasoned with, It is estimated there are at least 2,000,000 of enforeed idlers inthe union today. Allow: {ng their labor worth §I per day we a losing §2,000,000 daily through failure to find them usefyl omployment, 000,000 per month and §6:24.000,000 per “Think of that, you old calamity howlers who are eve: lastingly howling for the free and unlimited comage of silver, as though 1,000,000 men employed in the Rockies in digeing useiess holes in the ground to find a little shining metal to exchange for commodities whilo every one of you admits that a greenback issued by the government to pay some labor. ing man to build & house and improve a armoor buiid a needed railroad would an- wer the purpose just as well. How can tho general welfare of men be promoted by do- ing 4 work th Iy uscless? Better, a thousand times X Ao the de monetization of gold than the remonetization of silver; and let the fools who are now ed- gaged in’ digging for the yellow dust #o to work for Uncle Sam, who should keep an dustrial army in the field mto whict all cn out of employment coula volunteer and all tramps and dead beats could be drafted and compelled 1o do their shareof the world's necded work Butsome one will asic: What will Unele Sam put his industrial workers at to earn wages’ Here is the answer: Let him improve all of his public lands that are fit for farming and pareel them out in homesteads of suitable sizo to the end of leasing them in limited quan- tities at 1 per cent per annum on the cost of the same. That1s one way of_givine them useful work. Another way: We need one or two railvoads from British America to the Gulf of Mexico. Several hundred thou- sand men could bo usefully employed in vuilding such roads. A million men’ might be employed in ivrigating arid lands and in making dikes along the Mississippi and its tributaries. The truth is, there is plenty to do if congress had brains to put the people o work But another asks: \Where is the money to come from to pay the expenses of tiis indus- trial army? Hore 1 wish 10 assume the role of the Yankee and answer that Guestion by asking anothel 1f the governwent issued millions of groen- backs to_pay an army to fight and kill and destroy honies and railroads, can it now issue greenbacks to pay an industrial army to build homes and railroads? Who will daro say it cannot? I challenge the world to say it cannot. Ihold that the government may without taxing anybody—without assailing vested rights or_chavtered privileges—without in- justice to anybody—1 hold it can. furnish employment for all and_homes for all; and the better the homes and the more of them the greater will be its revenues. Yes, “there1s a balm in Gilead and vhore is & physician there.” Jacon BECk. el A Dead Issu o Philadelphia Times. Asan American issue the Hawaiian inci- dent may be regarded as closed. Mr. Dole is still maintaining himself against -the peovle here,” but if the Hawailans choose to sub- it to that they will bave 1o take care of themselves, While this govornment bas been unable to undo its owa wrong, it has made 1ts record clear, and, as the Hawaiians arenot in & position o demand anything more, we can afford to stand by and wait. P An Unassuiluble Proposition, St. Paul Pioneer Press, There is one portion of Mr. Reed’s arraign- ment of the democratic revenue proposition which 18 unassailable on any ground. Ie- publican or democrat, protectionist or freo trader, a man must admit that it 1 un- paralleled m practice as 1t is preposterous in theory Lo vota a great treasury deficit bofore any one knows how it is to be'filled, and bo- fore any plan for that purpose 1s even sub- mitted. FoNTENRLLY of Tue Bre it 1n acc those oar, “BROWNING, KING The largest makers and sellers of. fine clothes ou Barth Your monoy’s worlh or your monoy backs BARBARITY OF THE MOJAVES Terrible Penalty Demandol by Untatorad Suporstition Cruelly Enforo d AND HER TWIN BABIES NOTHER SLAIN er r Her OMipring Mad Boen er Has: ted. Lass of Barned in Shack A Brair Comoly Sighteo A with Clubs Fleas Un Los AxarLes, Doc. 23.—~A horrible story of the wild life and superstition of the Mojav Tudians is told by J. F. Saunders, who ar- Tho Neodles, & towq on the Colorado river, on the Atlantic & Pacitic railway. He had hoeard tho details just before he took the train and they seem 10 be corroborated by an account given in & local paper, the iy sught with him Tho Mojave Indian reservation is nalta mile from The Noedle rigines virtually their having own laws and From Saunders’ acconut, on rived last evening from which he about and the abo. own masters, superstitions. Tucsday last a triple murder was committed under the plea of a tradition by the their Tndians, One of the prottiest squaws of tho tribe, known as Louettn, was married, according 10 the savago rites, about a year ago. She was a comely girl, only 18 years old, and had picked up some edueation. Her husband was one of the bravest of the trive and was ap- narently very fond of hor. Suuday last she gave birth to twins, aud as a result a grand Dow-wow was called, for according to the Mojave tradition the squaw who has twins isa consort of ovil spivits, for which tho penalty has always been death for the babics and mother. Louctta's husband, it scoms, was so fond of his wife that ho made a strong plea for herand hor babes, but 1t was of no avail, “Tho medicine man held thatthe old custom must be observed and the two little oves brought forward and brained with Lonetta was kept for a more trying which she suffered without com- were clubs, ordeal, plaint Evory one of her personal belongings were lered and put into hor “shack,” und she rdered inside. She bid he farewell and went in. The entranc closed by straw and brush wel the “frail structure and fire hours nothiug but a fow embe tell the tragic story Oficers at The Needles learned the f: too late to interfere, and the poor squaw, with this horrible torture, passed to the happy hunting grounds, whither her ill- starred offsprin, 1 preceded her. - - Docd of a Maniae. KaNsas City, Dec. 20 —The Star's Hayes Qity special says: H. D. Parmenter, in the northwestern part of Ellis county, his grandson, then himself, The boy is still living. The man died in- stantly.” Temporary insanity causeda the double crime. in two mained w sl Glass Works Start Up Pirrsnong, Dee. 25, —The Howard Plate (Gilass works at Daquesne resumed in full today, giving employment to over 650 men and boys who have been out of work for nearly four months. Enough ordors have beon received to keen the plant in operation several months. AL S il Destruction ot a Village by Fire, Hiusnoro, O., Dec. 20.—Tailorville, O., & village of about 200 population, was wiped out by fire last night, only a church and ons or two houses being left standing. No lives lost, e SKATING SONG, January Outing. Whisper & song as we glide along, the thes From 5 Whisper” of heart of you boughs, Of a sunimier's wine that was yours wnd mine, when the days were long and the nights weren't cold; Of the whispers hoard, and the w and the old, old vows. yo pines on © the cradle re; in'the wind pt v love told the tune, ol thou | wmy stoel-clad shining feet, As Iskite away to the ond of day where the twllight and moonlight meet, with the plashes of ours that plied on your bosom in nights gone by, Toa tale oft told, that will ne'ce grow old, tho* the nights grow long and the days wax cold, And the ice has formed in an lron mould o'er your old, old tide. Ring with ad lagune, of Ring a line, oh thou stroam of mine, of the song of thy great unrest To this Livart of mine from that heart of thine, while 1 spoed to the red-rimmed west £ fuces thut used Lo grow on your and ring frown all your ripples down; co bud thie blush of o sun- Echo Echo co, Had come to when your 5 Klow the winds that that blow in th blew we winter t Aud en't the winds B e e Before Taking, It's been an year—so off they say—thatl's e& reason we have sold off so many goods and probably the reason |we held our two half off sales so as to sell loff as many broken ‘,lots as possible—Now Inext Monday, we take stockand before taking will place on sale for the balance of the week everything in the R e . Wl 3t b it e day night. - A Will Day the express If you send the money for §20 worth or more store at reduced prices with special inducemsents on broken lots—no matter if they are pants—suits— overcoats—ulsters—hats—furnishings—all duced prices before taking stock—sale ends Satur- BROWNING, | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts. = at re- KING & CO., T A R O O