Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1894, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDN SDAY, JAN ARY 24, 1894 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. it = PUBLISIED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Tee (without Sunday) Ono Ye v and Stnday, One Year €300 10 00 500 2 60 200 1560 05 Omahn. The T Bouth Omahn Councll Iiuffy. 12 oot Chieago Ofee, 317 C wer of Comm Fow Fork, roonia 13, 14 and 15, Teibine buflding Washington. 513 Fourteentls strect N and Twenty-fourtn streets. 1 Atroot. 10 nowa and edl- ? ! To the Editor ferfalm AT bustness letters and remittances shonid be Publshing com pany. Omaha ordors to b made npany 7 HING COMPAN OF CIRCULATION. 15 REE Pub. lshing e i that the 1l efren anuary Janary Jannar Janvary 10 January o Giio, . e e wnid subsers Hth day of pressible, is M. BOUTELLE, the irr ne suggestive as well as character- variation is mor don fog in the middle of Januavy. er's con- So is im- eral hundred T¥ supply for next sur gumption is now assured. mediate employment fol men hitherto idlc CHAIRMAN WILSON should not have been permitted to work himself sick over the tariff bill. But he is not the only one who is sick of the taviff tinkering. botween the free rats and the tariff for rev- enue only democrats in tiie house tho former may be said to have decidedly the better of it up to this moment. IN THE struggle trade dem ToMORROW should end the talk about the proposed contest betw the pro- fessional bruisers who afllicting Florida for some weeks p: There is some comfort in contemplating this fact by itsell, GOVERNOR FISHBAC of Arkansas does not propose to let his senatorial am- pition suffer from delay in assorting itself. Now that the governor has served notice that Senator Berry’s place would be satisfactory to him it must be a presumptuous citizen of Arkansas who will venture to cross him in his plans, NO RE: TION from his Brooklyn church will be able to prevent Dr. Tal- mage from continuing his weekly ser- mons through the press. Dr. Talmage has come to look to the press for both reputation and remuneration and has found through it his most appreciative audience. These sermons will be sold regularly by cheap syndicates, whether delivered before a congregation or not. MEessrS. HOWELL and Elsasser are put upon the rack and asked to deny that they have ever consulted THE BE on public matters in which they may have had a personal interest. We hope that this new menace does not fore- shadow another plot looking to the im- peachment of these gentlemen. Inci- dentally we might add that bigger men than they have consulted THE BEE to their personal and political advantage. THE voters of this city will suspend judgment upon the merits of the Metro- politan Union depot project until the proposition shall have been formulated in the shape of an ordinance. They do not know at this time what the depot company has to promise or ask. What little is known of the enterprise has met with public favor. The people want the bars thrown down and a general invita- tion extended to ali railways to enter our gates. NEXT to the mossback who is opposed to all improvements that involve taxa- tion, the man who is opposed to every important enterprise because somebody's property will be enhanced in value more than somebody else’s, or that one part of town would be benefited more than an- other part, is the greatest drawback to the growth of a eity. Suppose the men who have built our business blocks, hotels and factories had held back be- canse their investment would improve somebody else’s property in the neigh- borhood, what would Omaha amount to today? Suppose that south siders kad objectod to the oxpenditure of several hundred thousand dollars for steal ening out North Omaha ereek and con- verting it into a sewer? And suppose that the west side bad objected to the building of viaducts and sewers on the south side? What would have become of the town? GOVERNOR ALTGELD has seen fit to refuse to grant another request for the extradition of an offender apprehended in Illinois, this time on requisition papers issued by the governor of Georgia, for the alloged roason that the prosecution has been institutoed solely to insure the colloction of a debt. Goy- ernor Altgeld, it will be remembered, did the same thing with reference to ex- trhdition papers issued by the governor of Nebraska not very many weoks ago, and his successful refusal in that in- stance has, no doubt, encouraged him in the present instance. The duty to surrandor up fugitive crim- inals 18 one unequivocally im- posed by the federal constitution upon the executive of each state, It gives the governor no discretion to inquire into the motives whien may lie behind the party preferring the charges or to refuse to honor the request in caso he is dissatisfied with the supposed object of the extradition procedure. Unfortu- nately neither c¢onstitution nor laws a tach any penalty to such violation of ex- pross constitutional provisions. Tho fact that Governor Altgeld can shirk his duty with impunity does not make his refusal any less illegal. THE SILVER QUESTION IN EUROPE, Late advices indicate that the silver question is recolving more attention in Furope than in this country. A report of a fow days ago emanating from Ber- lin said that a new monetary conference is-no longer rogarded as an utopian pro- ject and gave some of the details of the plan which the movers for a conference propose to submit to the countries con- cerned. This movement, however, is not under governmental auspices. 1t is being organized by the bimetallists of jermany. 8o far as the German gov- ernment is concerned it is affirmed that it is not pledged to anything boyond the investigation of the money ques- tion under the light of the latest legislation in this country and I[ndin. It is said'that while the German government has not receded from the position it announced last year regard- ing silver, it has become convinced that 1t cannot absolutely defy the agrarian atives and thevefore adopts a apparent concession. It may currency commission, but it does not contemplate initiating, as the bimetallists des] another inter- national monetary conference. What will give encouragement to the silyer champions here and elsewhere is the opinion of the London Times 4 the Indian government's silver policy apy to be doomed. The I[ndian government will probably maintain its present attitude for a short while longer, says that paper, but the best judges are of the opinion that it will fail. Who these best judges are those familiar with the political ele- ment from which the Zimes obtains its opinions wiil understand. It is only a short time ago that ex-Promier Salis- bury put himself in accord with the bi- metallists, among whom Mr. Balfour had previously become a shining conser of concede w line o, light, and how many more of the political ad- hevents of these conservative leaders may have recently been converted to te cause of bimetallism it is impossible to say, thought it is by no means improb- able that there has been a consider- able drift in this divection. The present governmont is distinctly opposed to silver and unequivocally com- mitted to the maintenance of the existing financial pol So long as Mr. Glad- stone is in power there will be no change in the interest of silver. Consequently thero is a strong political reason why the conservatives should espouse the cause of bimetallism and preparo to use it in appealing to the agricultural and laboring classes whenever the next general clection shall take place. If in the meanwhile the silver policy of the Indian government should fail and the mints be reopened to free coinage it is easy to seo that this would supply the British bimetallists with a telling argu- ment. As to an international monetary con- ference it is not probable that one will be called in the near future. The gov- ernment of the United States has offi- ciaily informed the governments of Great Britain and Belgium that it will not at this time take the initiative in reas- sembling the monetary conference, and it is by no means certain that it would accept an invitation to such a confer- ence at this time, although the presi- dent said in his message to congress that he thought it would be wise to give general authority to the chief executive to invite other nations to such a confer- ence at any time when there should be a fair prospect of accomplishing an international agrcement on the sub- ject of coinage. Manifestly there is at present no such prospect. The move- ment in Kurove in behalf of bimetallism is interesting as showing that the sub- jeet has appavently more vitality there than here, but it does not necessarily contain the promise of practical results in the immediate future. The German government will certainly not take the initiative in calling an international monetary conference without some en- couragement from Great Britain, and this is not now to be hoped for. With- out concurrence between these nations it would be uscless for any other European government to call a con- ference. THE NiCARAGUA CANAL BILL. Senator Morgan of Alabama, who is a very earnest champion of the Nicaragua canal, has introduced a bill which pro- vides for giving government assistance to that enterprise. It proposes that the capital stock of the canal company shall be $100,000,000 and authorizes the com- pany to issue new bonds to the amouut of #70,000,000, The payment of these bonds, principal and interest, is to be guarantoed by the United States, all the property of the company to be held as security for the payment of the bonds. The measure has beon framed with an evi- dent purpose to protect the government inst loss, but none the less it contem- plates involying the government in a heavy financial obligation from which it might possibly suffer loss. The security of the government is the property of the canal company and $7,000,000 of its stock, and it is provided that in case the company should default in the payment of the interest before the canal is put in operation the president of the United States can foreclose, Ob- viously in such a cose the so- ourity would be of little value, but the government would be bound to make good its obligation to pay the principal and interest of the bonds, It might be able to dispose of the property, but if so it would have to accopt a great doal less than it cost. Of course there is another alternative. The govern- ment might take the property and com- plete the enterprise, theceby protecting itself, but once having got into this business the chances ave that it would nover get out without a pecuniary sacri- fice. There is & stroug popular feeling against the government identifying it- sell financially with projects of this charactor, and although it be admitted that the consummation of this enter- prise would probably be of great benofit to the eountry, commereially and other- wise, the majority of the people will not be easily convinced that any advantagos reasonably to bo expected from it wonld be of such value as to justify involving the government as proposed in tho biil of Senator Morgan, Yet it seems oar- tain that without such aid frcm the gov- ernwent the undertaki will have to | be abandoned, so far as the present com- pany {s concerned, with the danger that it will be taken up by European capitalists and thus pass under foreign control. At present both the canal company and the construc- tion company are in the hands of re- celvers and nothing whatever is being s0 far as the public knows, to advance tho enterprise. A reorganiza- tion plan was proposed some time ago, but thus far nothing practical has come of it. It was rovently reported that the government of Nicaragua had informed our government that unless work was resumed within six months after the stoppage the concession of the former would Japse. More than four months of this time have passed and thero is no prospect of work being ro- sumed, It will bo seen, therefore, that the question whether the construction of the Nicaragua canal is to be continued under American auspices is bocoming urgent. It was said in a recent Washington dispatch that no BEuropean power will ever be permitted to complote or control this project. Kverybody who believes that the canal would have important ad- vantages for the United States foels that it should be owned and controlled by Americans. But if our people wiil not build it can we reasonably interpose an objection, having asserted its importance to the commerce of the world, to its be- ing constructed by Inglish, or German, or French capital? THE FUTURE OF OMAHA Tt is the consensus of opinion among our most intelligent and enterprising citizens that Omaha can become a city of half a million people within the next twenty years by developing her commer- cial vesources and utilizing the natural products of the country tributary to the city. The railroads already concentrated here and the railroads pointing in this direction afford positive assurance that Omaha will be a great distributing mer- cantile center. It is only a matter of a very short time when Omaha will reach out into the wheat belt of South and North Dakota, as she will into the cattle breeding panhandle of Texas and the iron ore and timber belt of Duluth and Lake Superior. Whether the canal project materializes or not, or whether it is abandoned as impracticable, it is absolutely certain that Omaha will get cheaper fuel by way of Duluth and cheap motor power material from the Wyoming oil fields. That Omaha will eventually be the headquarters of the sugar beet industry of Nebraska goes without saying. The Missouri, Platte and Elkhorn valleys are capable of sustaining 250 factories for the production of raw sugar from beets and Omaha has superior advantages for refining and distributing this valuable product. For the present, however, Omaha can- not hope to make great headway with- out stimulating enterprises that promise to concentrate railroad traffic in this city and build up our manufacturing in- dustries. To make this a great in- dustrial center we must be in position to competo with eastern manufacturing towns in the labor market. That means that Omaha must either be able to hire men at the same wages or make the cost of living cheaper than it can be had in the manufacturing towns of the ecast. We certainly have an advantago in the matter of food products. With the great packing houses at South Omaha and the dairy farms and wheat and corn fields at our very door we should have cheaper meat, flour, corn meai, butter, cheese and vegetables than any of the manu- facturing cities in Pennsylvania or New England. The only thing we have to do is to bring consumer and producer to- gether in a great market house. The next burdensome things for the laborer are rent and fuel. Rents have been crowded down already, and the fuel problem will be solved when we get competing outlets to Lake Superior and the Kansas and Missouri coal mines. The all-important problem is to in- duce capital to come here and to invest in mills and factories. The opportuni- ties for such investors are nowhere as promising. The raw products which are turned out at South Omaha in them- selves afford an inviting field. The hides, hoofs, horns and bones of the thousands of animals slaughtered in the packing houses, if converted into leather and finished products, would afford em- pioyment to thousands of mechanics and workmen. On this score we shall at an early day point out the feasibility of new processes of tanning that would not only make Omaha a great shoe and leather manufacturing center, but would open a very profitable industry for farmers in the arid districts of western and northwestern Nebraska. The future of Omaha is more promis- ing than it ever was, but we cannot hope to make much progress within the next few years unless we put our shoulders to the wheel and help to organize pros- RECEIVERSHIPS AND LEGISLATION, On the one point that the large num- ber of railway recoiverships instituted during the past year ace in a great de- groo due to hostile legislation by both congress and the various state legisla- tures the various high railroad officiuls who have contributea to the Chicago Tribune's symposium on the causes of the present railway depression show an agreement of opinion that Is re- rkable, although in no way sur- ng. Taking into consideration the that no law imposing the ulation upon the conduct of railway managers has ever been enacted except in the face of their most deter- mined and persistent opposition, it is only to be expected that upon those laws should be placed the blame for the reverses thut have been the results of numerous conspiving forces. Some of the expressions employed by the rail- way potentates have a more bitter ring than others, but all of them indicate a desire for the vepeal of much, 1f not all, legislation of this character. In regard to the interstate ocom- merce law it is the consensus of their opinions that it has worked nothing but injury to the railroads without corvesponding advantages to the public. According to Mr, H. H. Porter of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad the in‘erstate o muerce law, as it now is, is ! “‘one of the most djsastrous in its effects on all railroad property without general benefit anywherd.”” 'George M. Pullman gives it as his opinion that that law has been a great detelment to the railroads, while President Cable of the Rock Island characterizes it-as, “altogother havm- ful.” President Blackstoue of the Alton is more conservative in favoring the re- peal of the antispooling clause, but at the same timo favéring such statutes as may be nocéssary to enforce all common law obligations and restric- tions. On the other hand Vice Pres- ident Ripley of the - Milwaukeo €008 10 an opposite extreme in aseribing the bankruptey ‘of ‘the roads to an in- ereasing cost of Tabor and decreasing rates for traffic hetped on by “ill-framed legislation,” and when he demands that raflroads be permitted to conduct their business as other dnterprises ar: under the direction of those who own them, he seems to boe no furthee ad- vanced in his ideas of the responsibili- ties of railroads to the public than were their managers before the enactment of the granger legislation. But while havping upon alled evil effects of hostile railway legislation and demanding laws legal- izing pooling and waffic agrecments, as if these would restore the prosperity of former years, these railroad men have forgotten that pooling contracts never were enforceable at law and that the statutory provisions prohibiting dis: crimination are supposed to be merely declavatory of old common law prin- ciples as applied to new condi- tions. Another important point to bo remembered s that the anti-pooling clause of the interstato law never was rigorously obeyed and that it has for months been openly defied. Chairman Midgley quite incidentally gives the whole thing away when he says: “The interstate commerce law is a purden to the railroad interests of the country. It interferes with the man- agement of large interests. Men who know comparatively little about the operation of large railroads sit in judg- wment over the actions of those who are familiar therewith and who must pro- tect the interests they represent. Its provisions are evaded in the interests of sound business methods. It is bound to be so.” How can men who confess to have paid no attention to the laws as- cribe to the operation of those laws the baneful effects of their own mismanage- ment? It would be eaqually absurd to charge the receivership of the Union Pacific upon the Nebraska maximum freight rate law,which has not been per- mitted to go into even nominal effect. Aside from the figures presented by the T'ribune, which go to prove that the railway profits for the year ending June 30,1893, were considerably largor than during the year just preceding, and that the railroads as a whole are really doing much better than their managers would bave us believe, it is'easy to find causes for the extensive railway bankruptcies without looking far beyond the railroad managers themselves. Some of them admit the influence ‘of overcapitaliza- tion and extravagant construction out- lays, but they fight very shy of giving the slightest intimation of downright fraud and wholesale .robbery of the stockholders and.bondholders at the hands of inside rings and Wall street speculators. ‘“Hostile legislation”1s a handy scapegoat for the sins of railway manipulator the so- TO ABOLISH TICKET SCALPING. The large trunk lines centering in New York are again considering meas- ures aimed to do away with ticket scalpers and ticket scalping. The rail- road men claim that the business of sell- ing unused railroad tickets at reduced rates is no necessary adjunct to the rail- road system. The scalper and a small portion of the traveling public are the only ones who really gain by the tran- saction, the former in his commission on both buying and selling, the latter on the discount sccured by purchasing railway tickets at second hand. The scalping business, moreover, has given riso to various abuses that have reacted to the detriment of the rail- roads, while conferring but little or no benefit upon the public. Unscrupulous railroad managers who have been desir- ous of cutting rates, but who have shrunk from doing so openly in defiance of tariff agreements, have found in the scalpers convenient means for attaining their ends. They had merely to make them the agents of the railroad and to issue the outerate tickets exclusively through them. Thus the appearance of adherence 1 the printed schedule could be feigned, while the traflic of compet- ing lines was being stealthily under- mined. This system has also resulted in an abnormal stimulation of the cheap excursion tickets, which are bought by people who have no intention of partici- pating in the excursion, but who use them one way, sell the return coupon and find that they have managed to save money, comparing their expenditure with that called for by the regular tariff. The only basis for the existence of the tickat scalper is the fact that the policy of the railroads has been such as to compel passengers holding unused tickets either to sadrifice the whole amount invested or tg.sell at a discount. “The profits of the sealper and the saving of his patron all comes out of the rail- road or the unfortunate possessor of un- used transportation. This fact suggests the remedy. The pagsenger who finds himself with an unused ticket remaining on his hands secks only to get back what he has expended forit. He deals with the scalper only because no one clse offers to relleve him. It is proposed ' that the railrouds themselves buy back the unused tickets at vates so high as to drive the scalper out of business. The rates for repurchase by the railvoad are to be fixed at full fave for unused regular tickets and proportionately for unused parts of regular tickets, excursion tickots and special rate tickets. The sealper will then be unable to get tickets unless ho pays equaily high rates and at these rates will be unable to make any profit whatever, The continued oxistence of the sealper lies entirely with the railway managors. They can abolish scalping if they will, and if they do not it must be solely for the reason that they wish to use the scalper to promote theie own schemes. NEBRASKA was pretty well repre- sented in the debate on tho sugar sched- ule of the Wilson tariff bill on Monday. Out of her six represontatives in tho lower house of congress, four succeedod in becoming implicated in the discus- sion and contributed materially to the enlivenment of the Only the two populists refrained from varticipat- ing in the melee. ne of the four who spoke got what he wanted, but the act- fon of the house committec of the whole may possibly have suited the two silent populists from Nebraska. seene, Worthy of I Philadelphia Inquirer. In an attempt to s lives on board a wrecked American st six sailors of the Dutch steamship Amsterdam imperiled their own lives in an open boat on a tempestuous ea and were drowned. The American rnment should take prowpt recognition of this act of heroism, —_————— Turn of the Tide. Philadelphia Record. hants and manufacturers concur in to the ovidences of returning prosperity. The mills are resuming work, coliections are good, failures are few and the outlook hopeful. The advent of better times can no longer be put off by singing dolorous songs in the market places. —————— Patrlotism Doesn’t Run that Way. . Pawl Globe. ired that owing to a mis- shigan state officers have dollars from the treas- ury to which they were not legally entitled. 1t is a little singular that officials in Michi- gan or elsewhere never fail into the mistake of drawing less than the law allows them. e g el Democratic Panies, (Globe-Democrat. The democratic panic of 1803-04 is nof bad as was_the same party’s panic in 1857, but this is due to the fact that the opposing organization is stronger and more resolute vas then. The proportion of cussedness per capita in the democracy is just as high in Cleveland's days as it was in Van Buren's. e fndependent Democracy. Cleveland Plain Dealer (de.n.), Justice, equity, fair dealing, equal taxa- tion and the condemnation of all special privileges should be endorsed and embodied in every general law that is enacted by a democratic _congress. The Wilson bill is destitute of these principles and it should be condemned, and it must bo condemned or the party which is entrusted with power will be condemned by the people. Correct the bill by taxing all imports and treating all labor and money employed in American industries alike under the law; then, and not till then, will it be a democratic meas- ure. —_———— Signs of Botter Times. Globe-Democrat. It is a rather encouraging circumstance that the weekly financial journals unite in saying that “‘the tide has turned.” There certainly does seem to be some justification at least for this declaration. Business fail- ures, it is true, still continue at high figures, and the drift of money toward New York from all parts of the country is inas great volume as ever. * % # There are certain favorable indications, however, which must be taken into the account. Reports of re- sumption of work come from all parts of the country. Factoriesand mines which have been idle for several months are again start- ing into actavity, although noc in all cases with their full complement of operatives or at the old wages. Nearly every week which passes sees an increase in the output of the iron and steel mills. There was an increase in loans, too, of $1,500,000 last week by the Now York banks, as compared with a falling off in that item 1n the preceding week. The commercial agencies report that collections are better than they were a few weeks ago, and that a feeliug of greater confidence in the conditions is being manifested every- where. Mer testifying Tt ias just trans n the law M wn thousands of e A Big Schom Atlanta Constitution. Dr. John T. Nagle of New York has evolved the idea of a continental boulevard, wide, well made and fine, reaching clear across the country, taking in, of course, many towns and cities, giving each of these one handsome thoroughfare and furnishing the country people one of the ‘“good roads’ we hear so much talkabout. It is suggested that the construction of this road would be 2 boon just now as furmshing work to un- employed people. Tt will be remembered that there is a precedent for such a work in the famous National road, a wacadamized wagon road built by the government, which crossed the Alieghanies, convected the east with the west aud was of great advantage to immigration.—Springficld Llepublican, Congross hus the power under the con- struction to authorize and pay for such a road, but with our numecros railways tho proposed high s not necessary. ‘This 1s a sufticient ob, To coustruct a fine road from the Atlantic to the I fic muinly for the purpose of giving employment to idlo Tabor 18 1o part of the business of the gov- ernment. 1f we start such a policy where will it end? When public work is absolutely needeu the government should have it done. But the majority of the people are not willing to be tuxed for an unnecessary enerprise for the benefit of a few, ————— LINES 10 A DRU! Pue Oh, man of mystery und mixtures, Why hide thyself behind the fixtures While stirring up those horrld mosses That cure our bodily distresses? look deflos description I now prescription; © soumo conception optic -1ik Ty ow % ting 0'o Wiien re: But, kinow you, we ha Of all thy munifold de Bring out tho hottles, tubes and glusses, And mortars filled with sticky masse And et us view the slow couipounding Of drugs with Latin names Ligh sounding, kos an hour to make them; , welgh and stir and shake them; And know, by sight grown comprohensive, Why aguu para's so expensive. Learn why It Thou need'st not scowl and glare terrific When mixing up a soporific: Nor muke your art seen half historic In adding Squills to paregoric. Then hide no more hehind the erating Whilo wo grow old with anxlous waiting, But let us see what means this Sanscriv Of which thou mukest careful trunseript, Mix not our physic in seclusion— We'ro mot mlslead by Kuch delision— But ruther lot us wateh tho making And wnow whitt's in (he stutf we're taking, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ol Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE THE SOUVEREIUN REVEDY, Indianapolis Journal: If the theory of in- Junctions shall continue to develop a8 indi- vated by General Master Workman Sover- olgn of the Knights of Labor, tho courts will be enjoined from trying eriminals. Denvor Nowa: Master Workman Sover- eign may not be able to stop theissue of gold bonds, but he will impress the enormity of the crime upon the minds of millions of workingmon, “who will render their verdict poils. sbe-Democrat: Sovereign has reflocted discredit on the Koights of Labor in his two or threo months servico at the hoad of that order than Powderly did in the saven colght years in which he held that post, Ho 18 more versatile and multifarious in his follies than any other man who is ot present in the public eye, IKansas City Times the constitution and by of Labor that makes Sovercign's duties to exerciso a guardi ship over tho chiof executive of the nation, though such extraordinary assumption on his part will without doubt give him notoriety, which s the only reward ho can expect for his paternal solfeituc ago Post: This Mr. Soverelgn wi succeeded Tervonce V. Powderly as workman of the Knights ‘of Labor is tonishing chap. No one ever heard of him before he took the place, but he had no sooncr entered upon his duties than he pu his conich to his lips and blew a blast that threatened to Kk the b universe. Since then he has continu without rest for food or drinl, to play his firmament-shattering solo, therein drowning the bombilations of all the little sovereigus und distinguishing himsell us tho boss blower and one of the windiest men any- where, There is nothing in aws of the Knights it any part of M 10 Herald: What Mr. Sovercign and ates in this injunction enterprisc 1L is to force an issue of some kind aper if possivle, but silver if not paper have gone about it the Wrong way y_shoula apply to tho mighty court of the District of Columbia_for {amus compelling congress to author- ize and the secretary of the treasury to 1ssue £100.000,000 or more of paper without any gold reserveat all to support it. At would bo asking honestly and squarely for just what they want, unless they would prefer to have their own due bills made legal tender for the payment of theirdebts. R NEBRASKA AND N 1ly of fint mou BIASK NS, A new Presbyterian church will be erected at Monroe. Norfolk has an opportunity to secure an oatnieal mill. A Sons of Veterans camp is to be organ- ized at Benkelman, : J. Brown has resumed the publication of the Western Wavo. The Norfolk sugar factory has coutracted for 00 ucres of beets for the coming sea- son. A sneak thief succeeded in gotting away with a_$150 diamond from the store of August Meyer of Grand Istand. Miss Lucy Cline of Nelson hus succumbed to consumption after a lingering illness. She was a leader in society and church circles, While Sunday servi n progress at the Methodist of Springvicw the building caught firo and was entirely de- stroyed. A defective flue did it. Beeause thoe proprietor of a Blair hotel re- fused to give an alleged newsvaper man free meals and lodging the bilk sent a paragraph to the sheet employing him libeling the hostelry and the host, and bis screed was printed. The Merchants is the only hotel in_Blair, and Josenh Gutschow, the proprie- tor, needs no defense from the ateack. Niles Coleman is a i n who figured on having a bride Wy, but he was most beautifully lel ferance of the “old man,” says the Pender Republic. The intended bride” was a young lady named Gilford, who resides with her parents about ninc miles southwest, and in this, as in many another case, it seoms the course of truc love did not run smooth. However, it was arranged that the young lady should attend serv the German chiirch last Sunday when the would-bo groom should appear and togother thoy would fly and be made ono forever and inscparable, and settle down on a farm near Blair, which Coleman owned in his mina’s eye. But love's dream wasrudely awakened by the irate parent, whoappearcd on the scene just as the flying operation was about to commence, ana bundled the lady into a wagon, where she was retained by strong hands and avoirdupois, while the old man drove triumphantly home and the wed- ding was_indefinitely postponed. The Re- public extends congratulations to the *old man” and tho young lady should congratu- late herself. — Union Pacific Reorganization, Springfield (Mass.) Repulican. Later plans for the reorganization of the Union Pacific road, as well as some of the earlier ones, suggest the resting of the con- trol of the road in the government. If this means anything more than the old plan of eiving the government a few of the directors, it is of some significan: What the stock- holders have now to fear is a foreclosure on the part of the government. To save the road from that fate they would doubtless be glad to hand over control to the nation on the theory that it could not do much worse for them ‘than some past mismanagements, But while government control might be of doubtful expediency in any case, it would be particularly foolish to accept the manage- ment of the prope ith its present load of water in capitalization added to by one of “reorganizations” so populur in recent The s “I'ho “‘oagor and nipping alr" gives the foe- man a mortgage on the cake. With $20,000,000 in sight, the Stanford Noirs m y b Cclassed with the urmy of une emplo, Tt is evidont from the froquen plosions that Boutelle believe o Fou of July. 1f Senator Hill consecratos himself to the work of rejecting anti-snappers, he will vresently realize that the snap is not a soft one, The distance from the capitol to the white house is a mile straignt away, but the rela. tions of the occupants are about 3,000 leaguos apart While the average mortal on tho nortner, the ice deale in the glow of trusty summer chuckles me: An analysis of the political opinions of the Now Ik Tribune shows that tho editor consistentiy adhores to tho beliof that the ; ters made a grave mistake in tho fall of Dr. Rafin, a spe nounces that ho has founa 6,000 mic on & square Inch of o singlo playing eard. should givo the doctor no trouble to count a full hand, Mrs. Caroline [1. Dallas says that whon she tirst went to Washington, over for! years ago, Daniei Webster said to her: * mem ber, you may have what political opin- 1ons you please, but the woman who ex- presses them is damned." A magnet which the gre: ton wore as a set in_his fin have been capable of raising 740 grains, or ubout 250 times its own weight of threo grains, and to_have been much admived in consequence of its phenomenal powor, A dispateh from Afrvica vells of the killing of Licutenant Gwynn and others by the Sofas. A telegram from San Francisco re- ports the killing of Mrs, Murray aud her sister by o folding bed. Why not sot the folding "beds on the Sofus and let them fight it out. Mr. Crisp often smolkes a good ¢ fered to him by a member who wants to keep within range of the speaker whilo pre- senting some matter requiring discussion, Otherwise he has the renutation of sm the worst cigars known in the house lar “twofers perhaps, “threefe Georgia has recently tost a historic build- ing in the old sty ouse at Milledgoville, erected in part [ me of tha ssion convention, where Robert Toombs d th2 famous sentence, **We can make better terms out of the union than in it,” and where Alexander H. Stephens said: he point of resistance should be the point ggression.” co the removal of the a lanta the old building has been used for a college. The mpelling force and the greatest joy of the newspaper reporter is a *scoop.” To accomplish an exclusive, tho true newsgatherer will undertake perils and undergo privatious the most trying. If obstacles are unsurmount- able he skips around them, Locks and bars and combinations whet his ambition and s 5 o are scoops s What has heretofore been dignified with that title and pointed out as beacons in the rocky shores of the profession aro sputtering dips beside the luminous flamo of a Chicago exclu Envious rivals have mocked tie city's claim of invincibility in any undertaking, Tue publication of the try of arrivals in the inferno, auto- phs and all, justifies the claim an indestructiblo freshness of the f———— SEIC y of his ex- every day is urns his back wraps himselt rates and list of Nantos, ng is proves the porter. I¢PLES. rs. Peachblow—Why doos your hus- y such a tremendous u when he's in such porfect health? O ) Justto tantalize me. Men arc naturally cracl New York Weekly: Binkers—I don't see how you can lnugh at Suphead’s insune jokes. Winkers—You would if you knew his pretty sistor. Somerville Journal: No one renlly likes tha man who is always finding fault, but still his kicking may doa lot of goud. thouzht you were this woek?" said % o Pl P 5 e o { intend 0, the dramdtic reporter. answored {the theat wager, “but ‘In Mizzoura' Is in town, didn't want o tako our chances on belng held up. Im]\rmn‘:fll« Journal Boston Herald: Tho bunks continue to gatn currency us fast as an unfounded rumor. Buffalo Courier: The talk of a salesman ot knives, forks and spoons naturally abounds in sot phrases. fhe buzzsaw is genorally rexas Siftings: ; Toxns Stitin ia whils it takes “two temperate, but ance or three fingers. Somerville Journal: Onco in a very groat whilo you meeta man who owns a dog, and Who “doesn't think that he s really tho most remarkable dog, by Jove, that ever lived. yashington Star: Nid you say that some of o s Waro. Ahudy V" 8ald the lesman to the floor walker. was the reply. I referred to the salos you were making over the parasol counter." THE MAGAZINE WAY. Indianapolis Jc urnal. the dank and gloomy sky, Lhiack clouds do stoot ind scuds Without, within his soggy sty, The swart swine revels In the mud, A settled sense of sore despair Tias soaked my dim, benighted soul; 1 feel a welght of rainracked air Upon my grimy musings roll. Alertiesbmo ghost 1is shadow throws y brain—sad henrt, bo still— I think, 1o 0us0 my miny woes, “"BROWNING, KING e st maskors and 3allers of fine elothus on Barti Your monoy’s worth or your monsy b I'll go and take u quinind pil. still giving 2576 on all our Men's Trousers Neither has this, calls your attention to BROWNING, | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, “fl Will pay the express If you send the money for 820 worth or more This picture has nothing to do with the fact that we are off but it KING & CO., | (i | 1 TTT e e e e