Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1894, Page 4

PR S —— I'TE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 1. ROSBWATER, Bdior PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING PERME HUBSCRIPTION Daly Tt it vl iz Datly_and One ¥ Bix Mont Fhieso M Fundny Fiee, One Ve Raturdiy [, One Year Weakly lies, One Year OFFICES, Wi Omahn, The Tiee Houth Onutha, poil T, Chicagn Offie New v Washington, Wl Twenty-fouth Al gtrest 1 15, “Tribune building. s, Wl el o bl Onihin K% and he g (o the arder of . I BRE PUBLISHING 0 ATION. ary of The duly Kworn, STATEMENT OF CIRCU George B, Pzschuck, se Publishing company, bein that the actual o coples of The Dully Bundny printe Junuary, 1891, wis as f 1oy the ing Morning, mth of during Wi, for the manth Less reductions for turned coples. Total =old Daily averige net cirenlation *Sunday dold” wndl re GRORGE 1. TZSCHUCK Sworn to before me and subseribed In my presence thig sth day of February SEAL) | N. P, FEIL, Notary ——— the Omaha asses- £ underestimat 1t will soon be time for sor to commence his work ing the valne of Omaha property. Fairliope Is the namo of the latest co-oper- ative colony. It of hope whether they get anything else or members can be assured not. Even the Germans have to knuckle under to the I far as to employ the French the text of the new treaty of commerce with Russi nch 5o language in ck to its old habit Mond, The senate has gone ba of adjourning Thursday to Four d slon each week Is burden as upper leg themselves able to bear. — The Commercial club should engage in too many prospective enterprises at onee, The new Omaha cannot be built in a year, but one enterprise at a time successfully carried out will soon double the population. from our house slators fecl not The statement that coal is already cheap enough in Omaha for all practical purposes may be taken with a fow grains of allow- ance. The manufacturing interests of the city can stand a slight reduction without disastrous consequences. 5 Goveinor Walte of Colorado is advising the populist editors of his state to keep the silver plank of the Omaha platform con- stantly in the foreground of discussion. Very good advice, we should say, provided it serves to keep Governor Waite constantly in the background. The will of the late George W. Childs leaves his entire estate to his wife. Mr. Childs made such gifts for charitable and educational Institutions as he wished to en- courage during lifetime. A man who con- sistently pursues this policy has-no call to make further donations of this character by bequest. Something must be done to redeem the pledges made by the republican party to modify the existing prohibitory law that has proved such a signal failure In Towa. This should be the starting point for the repub- licans in the Iowa legislature. The more promptly they act the better for the future of the party. Ex-Senator Ingalls denles that he has been converted by Evangelist Sam Jones. It has frequently been asserted that Mr. Ingalls was far beyond the powers of con- version, but Mrs. Ingalls insists that her husband doesn’t need to be converted. Mrs. Ingalls certainly ought to be an authority on this point Towa legislators want every boarding house that uses oleomargarine to display a con- spicuous sign, “Oleomargarine used here." They know what they have been getting for use as butter, *but prefer to have the fact impressed as well on their eyes as on their palates. - Towa boarding houses, must be well up with the average. limit ordinance is It embodies fire measure. The an im- portant the true safoguards against destructive fires by es- tablishing an area of fireproof construction and defining the limits within which tinder must not It such an ordinance was rigidly enforced there would be less talk about advanced Insurance rates and inefficient fire fighters. new hoxes be erected. The people of South Omaha who are or- ganizing a private circulating library commencing to feel one of the disadvantages accruing from having a municipal govern- ment separate from that of Omaba. Had they consented to annexation at the time It was proposed, they would have had the use of the free circulating library ma'ntained and supported by the ecity of Omaha. As it Is, they will have to put up with a voluntary library association for the present. After all the hubbub made last autumn about the Indissoluble alliance between Rus- sla and - France, the announcement that both Russia and Germany have entered int a new commercial treaty embodying mw tual concessions and most favored nation treatment will arouse suspiclons as sincerity of the various alllances of Euro- pean powers. Ruropean diplomacy 15 a game of every one for himselt and let the best man win. Russia cares no more for France than it does for Germany. to the You always have to go away from homo to get information about men and incidents in your on neighborhood. According to the almanac of the Chicago Daily News for 1594 which bas just reached us, *“J. Sterling Morton most of his life prac- ticed law and attained great eminence In his profession, acquiring a fortune.” Nobody in this neck of the woods has ever heard the sage of Arbor Lodge plead at the bar and nobody has suspected that he acquired his fortune In legal tourneys with Ma Poppleton, Woolworth other eminent practititioners, although it is known that he studfed Taw at college before he came to Nebraska ‘way back in the 508 has during quette, and | communicate to \ber of full and complete | and | our are | PLATTE CANAL ONCE MORE A special committee appointed by the Commercial olub to investigate the feasibil fty of the Platte river canal has submitted & glowing report pointing out the great bene fits to be derived from the project by exist factories and mills as well as the city at large. The committee mmended that a liberal subsidy shail ¢ voted by the county and this recommen dation has been endorsed by the club. Nelther the committee nor the club intimated who fg to build canal, and who 18 to own and operate (twhen it Is bullt or-how much the county fs expected to All that they have seen fit“to the public Is (that the ors estimate the cost of (he canal not to exceed $8,000,000 en this_estimate does not spocily the $3,000,000 1n clude the cost of bullding the canal and th cost of the electrical power plant, or whether will cost several after con voters of ik and prospective has the donate engin whethe the plant, which certainly thougand dollars, 1s an On these points the this county would have to be enlightened a od deal more than they ar before ¢ would Justify the county commiissioners hundred sideration now in entertaining the propowition to subsidize the canal. Coneeding for this ¢ that day s desirable that nai car all be its construction the promoters claim complished and grant At the earlies possible the question that confronts tizens Is, shall the canal bs public prop erty owned the eity and county Jointly or separately, solely for the benefit of the community, or shall it be own operated by a private cor: In? The experience of Omaha fence of all cities that dopended upon franchised corporations for light and adjuncts torn city has not been favorable to Quite to the contrary, nd that the city acquire the works as soon as that the city shall own its electric ut and if possible get rid of the and demoralizing of corporate interference with the city govern- ment. Now if the eanal is to be public propert liow are we to go about it? There is no * in the charter for the city to embark in such an and until such authority we fail to see how we can legally expend any money for it and operated by controlled and o and ation for g the expe have water, other necessary of a m private 1s a ownership thore universal den shill it can water lighting pl corrupting tnfluency pow enterprise, there s even if the to the cor- poration known as the city of Omaha. What cannot legally be done directly can scarcely be done legally indirectly through a struction compan; h, by the way, is liable to degenerate into a Credit Mobilier before the canal is half finished. The only rational way to this business is to let the engineer department of the city make the preliminary estimates and when the charter has been amended so as to enable the clty to proceed with the work we can ask the county to join the city in raising the funds. But before we vote bonds we shall want all the detail estimates, not only what it will cost to bulld the canal and how much we are to expend for the power plant, but also how much it will cost to maintain and operate it winter and sum- mer. county should vote the subsid con- g0 about DEFENSELESS CANADA The Canadian people will not derive any comfort from a statement recently made in an address before a London club by Sir George Chesney, the military expert of the British empire. He was discussing the de- fensive condition of the British colonies, and sald that as a rule they were safe against successful attack, with the excep- tion of Canada, in the case of a war with the United States, He said it was a serious question how a defense could be main- tained along the long line of the Canadian frontier in the event of Great Britain being engaged in hostilities with the United States. It was impossible, sald this eminent military authority, to doubt that if some great question or quarrel arose involving the interests of the people of the United States, and if the feeling of that people were so roused that they should determine to carry out that quarrel to the. bitter end, that the position could be anything but an extremely serlour one. He pointed out that the people of the United States were ‘capable, in times of great 'emergency, of great things, and if there were 30,000,000 of armed people against 5,000,000 of Canadians—even supposing the Canadians were united as one it was a question whether the defense of Canada would be possible. Indeed, Sir George Chesney believed it would be an impossibility, and there can be no doubt that in this view he will have the concurrence of all military men whose judgment is of any value. Should hostilities break out betwoen this country and England, the United States would find no trouble whatever In occupying Canada with an army strong enough to hold that British province against any force that Can- ada could put into the fleld, and whatever defense was made would be by the Canadlan people themselves, for England would hardly undertake to send over any considerable force. She has not a large standing army, and any considerable diversion of troops to this continent would be very apt to be taken advantage of by her European enemles to make trouble for her abroad. Of course there is only the most remote possibility of the fnited States and England ever again engaging In war. The disposi- tion of both nations fs to reach a settlement of their differencos through arbitration and this sentiment is likely to grow mfore pro- nounced in the future. position of Canada, therefore, so far as the United States 1s concerned, need cause the people of our northern neighbor no concern It may induce them, however, to cultivate a more neighborly temper and disposition after being told by the leading military ex- pert In the Bri o of anything happening to warrant this country in taking possession of the Deminion they would be helpless man— The defenseless ish empire that In COMPARATIVE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT The city of Chicago just now is wrestling with the same problems that are being discussed In this city. The Board of Edu cation of Chicago has asked the city council to ralse the tax levy for the coming year leading dailles charge that the mana, of the Chicago extravagant. " Th offices have Education which tendents, ks, messengers, engineers, assistant engineers, elc. A care- ful revision of the pay roll pertaining to these offices would result in a large saving Many of the offices were created to make places for pets of the school board mem- bers. Some of those jobbing school In spectors are no longer in office, but somo them are. « But whether in or out of offic there 1s no reason why tho public should be taxed for whims. Nearly every committeo of the school board and mearly every prin schools 1s recklessly bune declares that been created by the Board of the slightest prov counts for the long list of superin special teachers, assistant elorks, on tion, stenographers, cle paes, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MO oipal officer has a clerk, messenger and sten- ographer. It the aldermen indulged in such extravagance there would be a loud public protest. The school board Indiilges in the wury of an attorney at $300 per month who does not spend 300 minutes per month in the office of the board. It Indulges in the luxury of numerous bookkeepers and an auditor, several sccrotaries and a clerk and w0 on. partment of the city government The Chicago Herald says that of Educqtion no more reason up its rate o expenditare than the fire de- partment or the police department to keep up that time been necessary In their respective flelds. They can reduce expenses, they have reduced them. But the Board of Education, through sheer Incompetency as a body, grows timid at the very thought of reduction, and if a t is to be made wants Instruction from others, not members of that body, how to This contrast between the and the department It Is an extravagantly conducted de the Board to keep the rate has for some duca- tion department t po- lice and fire 1s not to the credit of the first. This Is a good deal worse than the situa- tion fn Omaha, but Chicago is more than ten 18 and the Chicago Board of disburses make it nes as popul Education more money and does more months than the Omaha council and county commissioners two On sealo of expenditure Omaha board has during the past year we have nothing to brag of In comparison with Chicago. The complaints in both cities are the same—the employs more men, business in six ard, clty do_in any school b years the which the school made creation of offices for pets of members and relatives by the school board, the mainten- wnce of supernumeraries on the pay roll at and general wasteful- retrenchment extravagant salaries ness and are where the shoe pinches, taxpayers will side with the council against the. school board in re- {sting the increase of the levy. BUILDING-LOAN ASSOUIATIONS. The examiners of the State Banking de- partment have completed the examination of the organization papers of building and loan when economy his s and this 1s why t imperative, associations authorized to do business in braska, and their findings have been ap- proved by the department. The prime object of the investigation was to reduce the operations of associations to a system embodying the principles of mutuality and honesty. A confusion of oxisted for some time, provoking much com- plaint and accusations of partiality. To bring order out of the existing chaos was a deli- cate and difficult task. Assoclations organ- ized previous to the act of 1891 contended they were not subject to the new law to the extent of altering any provision of by-laws previously adopted. The rights acquired by prior organization, were annulled when the associations applied for a certifi- cate to the board. They were not required to comply with all the provisions of the new law, but if they chose to give them effect by applying for a certificate, they voluntarily relinquished these rights. An equally futile objection was that the board, having granted a certificate and approved a con- stitution and by-laws, was estopped from subsequently requiring alterations. The ac- ceptance of the amendment law carried with it the right vested in the board to disap- prove of features deemed illegal, and any assoclation conducting an fillegal business subjected itself to severe penalties. Under these conditions the board’s power to en- force its decrees is ample. But the board, as we understand it, is not disposed to be severely critical. Radical changes are not countenanced, nor is it pro- posed to draw the lines taut. The ob- Ject is to eliminate policles of questionable honesty, catch-penny experiments and spec- ulative tendencies, and gradually ground all associations on the broad foundation of equality and safety. Separate expense funds and the issue of one-payment stock must be discontinued. These latter features have been a source of controversy on the ground of thelr illegality. Certainly no other features of existing associations are as open to abuse and dishonesty, and none have been o fruit- fud of scandal. The board Is to be congratulated on hav- ing inaugurated a policy which will have a beneficial effect on the growth and pérma- nency of co-operative home bullding. The value of this form of co-operation need not be recounted. Its monuments are the count- less homes bullt from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its worth is shown in the fact that building-loan deposits exceed the combined deposits of the country’s savings banks. Regulation and restriction are a manifest necessity, and if vigilantly applied will soon remove the discredit which speculative asso- ciations have brought .upon legitimate co- operation in the west. Equal rights to all, special privileges to none, coupled with careful examination, insures a bright future for Nebraska associations. methods has however, Men who would like to have their names immortalized now have the opportunity of a lifetime presented to them and all that Is needed 13 a little ready cash, The trials, hardships and sufferings of the great under- taking that is to confer upon them an ever- lasting fame will be endured by others who are willing and anxious to share the glory with those who will advance the funds, An Arctic expedition 15 about to be fitted out to rescue the Swedish explorers, Bjorling and Kallstenius and their party, who were lost last year, and to establish a permanent ref- uge station in northern Baffin bay, from which further exploration maybe carrled on lelsurely and without great risk. This ex- pedition is sure to unearth a few undis- covered capes, bays, islands, 'straits and mountains which exist in such abundant quantities in those regions. These discover- jes will be utilized to fittingly commemorate the names of all who contribute liberally to- ward the expenses of the enterprise. Mount Jones and Smith straits are to be had at bargain prices. Send in your orders early and wecure first choice An action has been brought in the su- preme court of New York to restrain the Order of Locomotive Engineers from carry- ing on its mutual Insurance business in that state without complying with the laws governing Insurance companies operating there. This reminds us that the so-called relief department of the Burlington rail- road is still conducting an insurance busi- Nebraska in direct violation of the late that business. follow to advan- New York ness in statutes enacted to Our state tage the authorities. reg might set by the officers examplo The State Board of Agriculture Is making arrangements for the next annual state fair. While t the members of the board should keep one fact prominently in mind, For years past the Nebraska fale has been a nise between an exaggerated pumpkin show and an amateur racing meeting. While the exhibi been large In thelr way they have simply ¢ yod to the world the idea thut Nebraska promising agr cultural state. talrs s th y are discussing ways and meéans tions have was & very The state DAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1891 have been conducted“in this state for years ast have not beer 'true exponents of the ot Nbfiraska. The board pt new jideds and new features. growing manufacturing interests promi advancement should ad The rapidly of the state should;be given more nence. The thousdwdk of people who visit falr every year from other states should be given in /dpportunity to know that Nebraska has,thg resources to evable her to become a greak, manufacturing state. pe of the anmal expositions should ned and {Ne rbsults will more than may he be broad repay any Increased gxpenditure that be necessar; A Burt county paper calls attention to the practice of deputy United States marshals In arrests of person'alleged to have unlaw- fully sold liquor to Tndians on the reserva- tion a few miles above. The charge is made that the deputies take a route In reaching the suspects and chirge ex- age futher alleged that the prisoners are as a rule let off with nominal fines and It they penni- s after paying the fines are given money by the deputies with which to pay railroad These are serlons truth falsity should be shown by the marshal without ¢ y. The time fs past the United States marshal's office can afford to bear the reputation of running a cost mill for the Dbenefit of attacl clreuitous cessive mi accordingly, Tt it fare back to thelr homes. accusations, and thelr or when Rallroad receivers are causing the govern- end ot Till- South olina has memorialized s appealin for aid in his efforts to compel railroads in his state now under the dominion of the federal court to pay their taxes. The has also been petitioned to take decisive action crees of Judges Jenkins and Dundy, ordering a reduction of wages on the North- and Union Pacific The question is, however, can meddle with the affairs of the United to the extent of interfering with cases now pendir Is it not the province of congress to make laws rather than to arrogate to it- self the functions of the supreme court? If Great Britain wants to abolish its Houge of Lords it can do so only by revo- lution. It fs preposterous to the lords to consent to their own decapitation, but thefr consent would offer the only method to accomplish this object within the bounds of law. Many as are the incon- veniences alleged to exist in a written con- stitution such as the United States enjoys, it offers a safety valve in possible amend- ment at the hands of the people, which s incomparably better than courting a revolu- tion as in England. The lords are sure to lang on as long as popular opinion stops short of the revolution point. ment min of congr no trouble. verne committee congressiona on the ern systems. congress States court expect Whatever may come’ out of the agitation for extensions of the Court house one thing may as well be understood first as last. The citizens of Douglas county will not vote bonds for a wing te the present court house. If any bonds are to-be voted the voters will first insist that the commissioners will go about the business|in a business-like way by inviting plans for' a'new court house that will cover the entife fquare when completed and of which the proposed wing shall be a part. Any scheme to patch up the present court house or bnild éxtenslans for it will meet with no favor. The Philadélphiu Ledger notes that the one thing that the démocrats in congress have thus far accomplished in fulfiliment of its platform pledges, namely, the passage of the federal elections Tepeal bill, is just the thing that might have been left undone with the least injury to the interests of the coun- try. The anxiety of the democratic congress to enact measures designed to promote the welfare of the people in general is becoming quite notorious. It may be as cheap to remove the re- maining World's fair buildings by fire as by any other means, but the services of in- cendiaries will not'be required for this pur- Ppose. If the park commissioners of Chicago declde to set the torch to the structures they are quite competent to themselves see that the work is properly done. A Reminiseense. Chicagn Times. Paris has borrowed $0,000,000 for the pre- liminary expenditures of the World's fair of 1900.~ As the French people will not have such @ costly luxury as the late national commission to support this sum will prob- ably suffice. e Begin Now. Cincinnati Gaze'te, Republican managers should, even at this early day, begin to select strong men for congress. 'This suggestion applies not only to Ohlo, but to all the states. The people are in o mood to sweep out of existence the majority that at present controls the house of Tepresentatives. S i Lifo of the Wilson Hill, Globe-Denocrat. The Wilson bill's lease of life after enact- ment will last no more than four years at the longest, and it may end In thrée years, That i to say, the republican president who takes his seat on March 4, 187, may call_the republican congress which begins at the same time in special session and re- peal the law in that year. e Our Fighting Strength. Philadelphia Fecord. Secretary Lamont's report, sent to the house yesterday, that there are 8,223,967 men avallable for military duty in" the United States, was not, of course, made for effect abroad! but it will be seen to com- mand the respeciful attention of all the first class powers of the earth—an attention which a comparatively insignificant stand- ing army could scarcely hope to att The Chicago Record. Through some one's mistake the Kear- » Is now out of ser It was her in- »us fate to bump into an Insignificant reef and henceforth lie on the sea- » where the fishes; will gape at her sto bulwarks and the sea-urching will use ¢ guns for doriestlc purposes. But her deeds are historle/ knd the w nory of her will be one of the most enduring things in the annals of thes A rican navy. e The Deseription Sticks. indianapotiy Journal. The term ‘“euckoo’’. in Americtn politics has come to stay,, Like pughface'’ and a Tew other happily deseriptive words in the political vocabulaty, it will bo used long ufte its origin ‘Ans tten, The fact that it makeéd a d ONETress- man fighting mad to whisper “‘cuckos when he Is lauding the administration shows that it is one of the few lmmortal words that were not born to die. - A Victory for.Labor. FLiocky Mountain ) fact was veryclearly United States judie agd Wyoming are neither owne trblled by ecorporations. A signal for the rights of organized labor has b won on one of the judicial forums of the . and it can not but excrcise a salu- Well as A _lasting, influence on the e relations between employers and em- ploye < The that the ——— Grotesque Consistency Springfi-ld (Mass.) Republican. That the federal elections law should be discussed in the senate at the same time the Hawallan question was before —the hous a8 & colncidence not without fts grotesque featur In the senate the re publicans were standing un for the black man, while in the house they w Jump ing all over him. The democrats, 0o, were also open to the same charge of inconsix tency. Sometimes polities become almost farcical, reor AND THINGS. The Congressional Record Is decidedly use ful as a lung tester, Only one person In fifteen has porfect oyes, the larger percentage of defectiveness prevailing among the blondes. The mere fact that a congressman “leave to print” his speech (s not ¢ proof that he breathos intelligently “Hold the fort, don't get discouraged,’ Wiley whispers still. ““Hold the fort?" Has call “You bet your life I will.” George Meredith pays the Americans a arked compliment by crediting them with a more rofined literaty taste than their Eng: lish cousins, The discovery of biains clnsive the festive microbe in bank notes does mot affect their circulation. People are willing to take the notes, mi crobes and all. Three generations of the Denham family foliowed the sea. The admiral's father was a commodore in the United States navy, and his son Harry is a lieutenant in the service. Authorities agree that the telephono 18 a modern institution. Yet something like it existed in Caesar's time, for did not Anthony plead for a connection with the Roman ear. For the benefit of the Tribune and World of New York it is proper to state that Judge Dundy has not approved the request of the Unfon Pacific receivers for a salary of $18,- 000 cach Zimrl Dwigging, a Chieago Napoleon o looting mien, js diligently endeavoring to shave some eighteen indictment notes drawn in Indiana, where Zimri reared several banks and plucked them. Captain R. D, the Indians of that territory cleancd ont by disease and bad uch a rate that in ten years Indian will be almost a curfosity Ouda s 50 years old and dresses in the most outlandish style. No color Is 00 pro nounced for her, and whether or not the colors suit ler complexion matters little to hor. She still refuses the friendship of Americans Of the many for displays of subs a father who replenishes the coal bin and forgets to present the bill towers like a Shasta above all else. As evidence of filial regard it can hardly be surpassed in winter A bolt of lightning, near Luling, struck the corner of a house, passed throug a shelf, hit a snuff bottle and leaped to the floor, where it seemed to exhaust itself on a liftle 2-year-old child. Th® child wa only slightly stunned, but in a short time its back turned perfectly black One Takahashi Ryozabaro published a card in a Jupanese paper at Sindal recently set- ting forth that he had become convinced that wine drinking was a ruinous habit, and giving due notice that he would drink only when invited by others to do 8o at their ex- pe The Japan sage has a numerous fol- Towing. John Y. McKane, a somewhat noted demo- crat boss in Long Island, could expound seripture and pump into youthful ears the festive pranks of Jonah and the bare-knuckle scrap of Cain and Abel, but when asked to explain in_court the other day how 6,200 votes could be had out of a total population of 8,400, he lost his power of speech There are calendars and calendars—black and white, red, white and blue, pink, seal brown and rose tinted; some with flags and straight-line railroads, with faces sweet enough to osculate and flower girls with colicky expressions. Among the “confusion of hues, shapes and conditions, that of the Chicago Herald is unequaled in design, beauty and convenience. It is as tasty, complete and attractive as the Herald. Fur- ther enconium is superfluous. Some disappointed applicant for office de- scribes the party ship thusly: “‘She heaved and sot And sot and heaved And high her rudder flung, And every time she heaved and sot A walsser leak sprung.” There is a silver lining to every cloud. Even a disconsolate poet, in the winter of his dis- content, may extraet encouragement from the thought: “We may be happy vet, t You bet!” These are rocky times for the nude in art. Boston followed the lead of the ponder- ous senate and ordered down a pantsless figure from the library building. Now comes a saintly St John with a bill introduced in the Massachu- setts legislature providing that “no woman shall appear at a public performance in a dress the skirts of which does not come within four Inches of the floor and the waist of which is so constructed that no part of her person is exposed below the neck. * * ¢ No woman shall appear in tights or appear at public performances in high kicking, ser- pentine, hip, or skirt dancing.” A ballet in gunny sacks is now in orde —————— Federal Courts and Organized Labor, St. Louis Republic. The Republic has contended that Judge Jenkins exceeded his just legal powers. This view is strongly sustained by the recent expression of Judge Dundy at Omaha. Judge Pundy issued an order at the request of the receivers of the Union Pacific rail- road which, in its application to the em- ploves of tiat rond, was feared by them to e us sweeping as that of Judge Jenkins against the Northern Pacific employes is understood to be. It was even feared to be an injunction upon them from striking against a proposed reduction of wages. The Union Pacific employes took the sen- sible course of addressiliis a series of ques- tions to Judge Dundy as to the full intent and meaning of the order and how far they are authorized, under it, to resist the re- ceivers' program of a general wage reduc- tion. The answers of the judge to the in- quiries, in detall, set out clearly the fon that the ordér does not enjoin the ployes from doing anything acts as are already and by all courts r ognized as illegal, viz., injury to the com- pany's property or the intimidation of men willing to take the places of the strikers at the wages offered. "This is good sense and good law. Tt is to be regretted that the Jenkins order is not open to the same liberal and sensible inter- pretation. It is diflicult to el that Judge Jenkins did not intend to assert the power of a federal court to control all the relations between the of bankrupt roads. By 3 intendment of the i s understood by the Northern Pacific r ceivers, and threatens to work great cppre: on and injustice to the employes of that roud unless congress intervenes for their protection. that are being whisky at an Alaskan Bell of Alaska ways offering opportunities antial affection, P Electricity and Transportation. New Yerk®ierala. The bold plan to run an electric trolley line from New York to Philadelphia is fruitful of much interesting speculation. The iden is enticing. It spurs the imar It lends us to ask ourselves | are not on the eve of a revolution in t tation methods. Electricity has very marvelous things in things almost unbelievable should not electricity work transportation? The 1 short very recent date. to passenger trafiic wonders trolley is° nothi Its invention 15 of Tts practical application is stll_ more vecent, At first It was taken as a joke. Then it was combated as & murderous thing. Bul it kept on Its course. It invaded the streets of towns and citles. After that Its progress was more rapld than ever. It began to connect nearby towns. n it began to parallel steam railronds for short distanc Now we have it boldly essaying to join the capital citics of three states by a line of tracks ninety miles long. What next? '8, exnress smashed tricity. the vigions fast tr rates. Great parlor and We have train passenger - Civil Service Kofo Phitadelphia Ledger About 1,00 mail clerks, who were put r the protection of the clvil service regulitions toward the close of Mr. Cleve land’s administration, were subsequently yemoved from office under President Har rison, who had postponed the time for the new regulation to take effect. The judi- clary commitiee has now declded that they unfuirly dismissed, ‘and has ordered rt on a bill authorizing the \l to restore these clerks vacancles may oceu to the civil service com: understood that the dismissed clerks were democrats, so the ju diclary committee, as a matter of course, approves the bill for their restoration by a party vote, and e and house a likely to follow th example. without reference mission. It Iy well Buffalo Bil's Latest Scheme. San Franeisco Ch. onfe Bill establishing o wned by 2uffalo Quaker ¢ b n Korth Nebraski Whether the redou 1n A turn Quaker and sp of his life turning the other wmitten In not definitely stated, but if he does it will be the first case on record of a man starting life as & riog-tall rourer and ending it like a coolng-Uove, | he ts mise that of | CHUNKS OF EXPERIENCE, Clara J. Denton in New Yore Independent Old bachelors are the dr rot of humanity 010 maids of hands. An ounce of justice is better than a ton of sympathy are womanhood's extra pair A pessimiat (s one who fs ble. Things done simply are seldom done well He who w happy only when from a sense of duty ars a solitaire diamond ring | often partially left-handed A man or woman s never than his or her reputation much better ho who marries a man to save him, will later divorce him to save herself Dlessed are they among mortals never weary of thefr own company. ot for the joint [n the it was made without one In choosing a' husband change No. the ability to earn an honest living Common simply the sense that does not put square pegs into round holes Thore arc to whom their chil- dren nover nsibil ity. . Cast not us who Search armor of ignorance, 3 to wense 18 ome paren. rrive at an age of ad upon the waters, but do too stale for your own your br wait until it s Every within tion burden of responsi itself somewhere a & tiolds No man has so many fauits decl: nor 50 many vir claim who cannot grow 1 ing the happiness of another unsound Like a bro a gloomy . dungeon s human mind 1 gleam of sun fmag The man who I8 blessed with a meet eparable 1 of her He who never ask of betraying his Ig lessen that fgnorance stions through fear not likely to que rance is needed by every our human prosperity, his is the prayer being “In all times of od Lord, deliver us A secretly bad wc in cannot cheal other woman, but an decefve a minded man completely Occaslon solitude is as necessary symmetrical develc of the soul sunshine to th The world 1 into two cl those who master the troubles and who are mastered by them. There is nothing so universal as love, for 'y mature human being either has loved, does love or expects to love. He who is once enshrined in the heart of a child may be sure of a friend as long as that heart continues to beat. Life is so complex that he who does you an injury today may find tomorrow that he has conferred a blessing upon you. They who have the power to best of life's misadventures and are likely to reach a green old age. With the chisel a trained hand brings forth a “thing of beauty;” with the same tool a child may destroy the noblest work of art. . Since procrastination is the thief of time, what a pity it is that some hurried mortai does not find the key to the storchouse of the stolen plunder! In_choosing a wife see that she possesses the following qualifications: 1, A sunny dis- position that makes the best of everything: 2, Honor; 3, The ability to cook a good meai; 1, Love of cleanliness and order. g THE FARMER AND THE TARIFF. to the as is make the accidents SILVER CREEK, Neb., Feb. 10.—To the Editor of The Bee: As a member of the people’s party I ask to make. answer to ex- Senator Van Wyck's complaint of February 8, in regard to farmers not being heard in the ways and means committee. The farm- ers need no protection with all kinds of farm produce lower in~America than any other market. Ninety per cent of the farmers of the country would vote for the Wilson tarift bill, and the people’s party would all vote for an income tax. We don't care what party fathers the bill, if it adopts our prin- ciples. We are surprised at Mr. Van Wyck taking a stand to delay legislation on things we have proclaimed in our platform. He is cither trying to mislead or does not under- stand what the third party wants, or he is afraid it will make him pay his share of tax through the income tax. The fight is not so much on tariff as on the income tax. We will seo that we be represented this fall by electing at least fifty third party con- gressmen. What the third party, or peo- ple's party, is fighting for is the govern- ment to give us bimetallism, with a ratio of sixteen parts of silver to one of gold. Then we can pay our debts in the same money values they were contracted in. Let Mr. Van Wyck stick to that and the people will think him more sincere, C. CROW. Bl Politleal Tidal Waves. Globe-Democrat. In one respect 1804 will resemble 1874, There will be a political tidal wave in the congressional elections this year as there was then, but the republicans will be at the top of the wave this time. The strength of the wave is likely to be as great, too, as it was then. That is, G, which the democrats nty rs ago, will probably be equaled by th 1d which the republicans will gain’ next November. | By PROMIBITION IN I0WA. Dotrolt Free Press: The republicans of lowa are devoutly praying for rellef from the annoyatices of the prohibition question. comparison a white elephant would be a plaything on thefr hands, Whatever direc- tion they take in an effort to escape they flounder, and take another tack only to flounder again. New York Post: The Tewa prohibitionists have long boasted that Des Molnes, the capital of the state, had no open saloons. But it has something elso which Is quite as bad as the saloon, if not worse—the so-called social club” organized for drinking pur- poses. The Register says that there three of these organizations within a few hundred foet of its office, and that “boys get all they want to drink In these places, bo who would be denfed admission to a saloon.’” Philadelphia Press: The mulet-tax bill which has been introduced into the fowa legislature as a substitute for the high and local option proposition 18 a curious method of trying to tax the liquor traffic and still leave the law prohibiting It untouched. The lowa proposition provides for a tax of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 on every person who ongages in the of Intoxicating liquor, but at the same me it leaves him liable to all-the penalties prescribed by the prohibitory law now on the statute books. A dealer might pay his tax and then If any one chose to prosecute Nim he would be liable to a fine, imprl ment and confiecation of all his stock o law would be the sour litigation, and the only Ible be the tossing of a 8op to the tionist ant nd of a the clences. lowa had bett of its convictions and p ai Nigh leense and local option and ve trouble In the future, it scems, po who v some | have the woll law, r e TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Truth: The X " more popu would be 1vidend phia Tim s natural disposition to Philad from the to it 1d cash fre on wlaneum have this sver modern cities—all thelr streets are subway bune: Friend ms more shy and shrinking th fs In society. Fond Mamma hink myself she {5 improving. Your daughter longer Yes, I Detroit marks o0k, Just for 1t?" bon- “Your thermon than Smith un you ac it i<ked me It her ne and T told her 1 Tnter-Oce ten degre, across the my net was be treet wife smin Chips: Magistrate—I I've seen your face hefore Prisoner—Never mind what nless you are prepared to state ‘tain’t legul evidence, fancy you faney; it on oath Iveston News: Th better world {f mor their own advice would be a much people would take (at the will etep my logs while . Yow've no ob- The Wife-Not the least dear, and—come to think will' stretch mine, too. New York Press: The 1 of the fourth act)—I into the lobby and sireteh the curtain s d jection, have you in the ‘world, my of it—I guess We'll go togethe Life: “Well, Jim, how's the ague?” “Didn’t T toll vou about that? Why, went into old man Sharv's field one night about a we nd_the old man E in the dork, '’ o he didg't blow me, full of two-grain quinine pills! I hain't’ had an ache nor shake since.” hushand uess 1 T Wrm afrald” sighed that my life has been Free Pres: elor of 60, Detroit the bacl wasted. I'm sure!” sighed the same age, “that mine has been M THE ROYAL ROAD TO WHEALTH. O, they are wise Who advertise In winter, spring And fali, But wiser yet Are they, you bet, Who nevér let up maiden of the 3 spent.” New Orleans The dllemma of the democrats briefly stated, therefore, is this: They will either not be able to make up the necessary rev- enue at all, or they will make it up by the means of the most unpopular tax that has ver.been levied in a free country. And, taking elther horn of the dilemma, the party can not fail to be hopelessly damned before the country; that is to say, unless the senate takes the bill between its teeth, runs away with the house proposition, an reimposes a tax on sugar for revenue only, In the senate’s action lies the sole hope of salvation for the democrats. Cimes (1em ). e GRANDPA’S VALENTINE. Browning, King and Co.'s Monthly. “Who's there? Say, will nobody answer This calling and knocking of mine? 1 have come all the way, my dear grandpay To be your own dear valentine! “Please open the door, and I'll give you A_hundred sweet kisses to pay; And I am to make you a visit And have a grand frolic today.” “What! open the door to my darling? T will, and my fond arms as well; My duli ears have caught the sweet musit Of her volce like a far away bell. “Through my dreams It rings as an echo From over the river of Time, And mem’ries of days that are vanished Awake with its mystical chime. Tig the child of my youth that I hear— But no—it is plainly another. You see T was dreaming, my darling; I thought that you were your mother! ROWNING,KING Mhe largest makers and sellors of fine ¢lothos ou earth, nonoy’s worth or your monoy b It's so easy if BROWNING, Will iy tho expross If you send the monoy for $20 worthi or more -8 Like everything else it took us some time to learn it, but we know now that if you want to it must be done with goods that are do business in style; that's the rea- son why when the sea- son's well over wa out the life out of prices and let $20 suits go at $16.50 and $12 suits at $8.50 and so on. We don't carry over a thing, but let them out at any price to have always a new this year's stock. Try it and see, KING & CO., W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, . [ g DN