Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1894, Page 4

b e S e~ postmaster Dayton of New York Is wor- THE OMAHA THEOMAHA DAILY nm«:J Iy Do Iy and Sun. 1% Months “ires Monihs y Funday Bes, One Your Baturday Tioe, One Weekly Tee, One Year. OFFIC] Omntin. The fes utldl outh Omaha, corner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. Council s, 12 Pearl street Chamber of T4 and 15 oot, N, OND relnting t hews and o1l Al commun'entio Atter ahon To the Elitor. torul matter should ba addrowed nUs LETTERS, All Dusiness lettors and remittances should bo addroased {5 The Teo Dublishing company, Omaha. " Drnfts, 'chocks and postoftice orders €5 ING COMPANT. T OF CIRCULATIO! George 1. secretary of The I 1ishing comy rn, says that t actual nunm 1 complets coples of The nday Dee printed was a8 ol Daily Morning, x during tie menth of April, 19 3 7 524,080 Total....., Lews deductions coples Total Dally av * Sunday old age 1. TZSCE ibed in my pres- GEORGE 11 subse 1501, Bworn o befors me ence this 24 day of May ). J ry Publl New York papers are soliloquizing on the last of the elephant Tip. His tail, we sup- pose. Less sooty smoke and more smoke con- sumers would improve the atmosphero in the business portion of Omaha. The building inspector has not yet immor- talized his name by moving upon the dan- gerous tumble-down buildings that disfigure some of our principal streets. The burning of the Talmage tabernacle will not Interfere In the slightest degree with the regular appearance of the syndl- cate sermon without Interruption. The American Railway union must not let slip the prestige which it gain:d from its victory in the Great Northern strike. One defeat usually dispels the glory of a dezen victories. Some time—some time, the library build- ing will be completed. Then a formal dedl- cation may be arranged which should be a fitting reflex of the culture and intellectual heights which the people of Omaha have at- tained. An electric lamp that gives a measure- ment of 9.5 amperes when adjusted to forty- five volts is equivalent to about a nominal 1900-candle power light. This is what Wiley is now trying to pan off upon the city of Omaha. ‘Why should the city councll use short welght measurements in defining the capac- ity of the olectric lights for which it is ask- ing bids? Did Mr. Wiley decide to take his chances on having the deception go through undetected ? Why should the house hurry so with its appropriation bills when it knows that they will not receive attention from the senate until the tariff bill is disposed of? No harm can come of putting the brake on the appro- priation bills, at least for a while. The observance of Decoration day should not be confined alone to the Grand Army posts. They may be depended upon very properly to take the lead, but all patriotic orders, civll and military authorities might, it 5o disposed, help celcbrate the day fit- tingly. There are several things President Clova- land would rather do than go a-fishing, but as he can't do any of therh jJust at present he has done the next best thing by pack'ng himself off with fishing rod and tackle. Jie can’t have worse luck than he has been ex- perlencing. The growing popularity of Hanscom park becomes more and more noticeable. Yester- day this beautiful resort was literally crowded by vehlcles and people of all grades and conditlons, Under the fostering care of the park board the appearance of Hanscom park cofftinues to improve as the seasons come and g If the managers of the Cutoff lake pleas- ure resort wish to favor the people of Omaha and at the same time make the en- terprise pay, let them put on through trains from the center of the city to the lake, thus dolng away with the luckless transfer. Such trains might be put on from 4 p. m. to mid- night with great success. The ‘“best citizens' of the community have again participated in a lynching, this time at Strong City, Kan. A lynching would hardly be a respectable affair nowa- days If it could not scrape up acquaintance Wwith @ few of the ‘“best citizens.” As it these people could remain the “‘best citizens" after assisting in such a disgraceful under- taking! Senator Harris now wants the senate to met a time limit to tarlft speeches in order that the debate may be vigorously expedited. The only way to curtall tariff speeches is to limit the space assigned to each senator in the Congressional Record. No one of them Wwould say more than he was sure would get into print and be avallable for free delivery through the malls. At last the Woman's club has announced its mission. Whisper It softly, It s this: 1. The patrol wagon must be covered. 2. Captive dogs in the poundmaster's kennels must be given water. 3. The city must have an ambulance. These simple requirements are reasonable and ought to be mot, Let the ladles walt upon Mr. Wiley with a re- quest that he Instruct his councllmen to Inaugurate the reforms demanded. T Fled about the question whether he will be pormitted to hold his federal office and at the same timo occupy his place In the con- stitutional convention, to which he has been slected. There Is sald to be an old presi- dentlal order dating back from 1873 that might prevent him from dolng so. 1If it were only & party nominating convention there would be no doubts In his mind. Mr. Dayton hopes to secure a speclal dispensa- tlon for bis case. NATIONAL DANK LEGISLATION, It third congress relating to the national banks, although s tead providing additional heso Mstitutions, One of the of the house banking and currency was Introduced by request, by Ive Mercer. This measure con- Ing some very good features, It provides r a more thorongh system of examinations than at present, requiring that every banking association organized upder the laws of the United States shall be examined during each period of three calendar months by persons having a thorough knowledge of banking, and also that overy such banking assoclation shall bo examined by at least two different xaminers during each poriod of twelve cal- regulations for now in the ha ds committee, endar months. This provides at once for ample examinations and for a safoguard against carclessness or collusion. Examine: 880 st not be connected with a banking ation in any official capacity. National t shall be annually assessed for such examina- tions, those not located in redemption cities according to capital, and those in re- demption cities according to amount of capl- tal, surplus and undivided profits. The low- est assossment of the former is $40 on a capital of less than $100,000, and the highest $100 on a capital of $500,000 and over; of the latter the lowest assessment Is $76 on capital, surplus and undivided profits of less than $300,000, and the highest $1,600 on capital, surplus and undivided profits of $10,- 000,000 and over. It s provided that bank examiners shall bo appointed by the president, subject to confirmation by the senate, and not over three-fifths of the number shall be of the same political party. They are empowered to examine under oath any officer, director or agent of a banking assoclation. Exam- iners shall hold office during good behavior and receive a compensation of $5,000 per annum. A change in the law n this re- spect is desirable for the greater inde- pendence it would give examiners and the tandency it would doubtless have to get from them generally a more faithful and thorough performance of duty. Every national bank- ing association is required by this measure to make not less than three annual reports of its condition to the comptroller of the currency, properly verified and attested by designated officers of the association, and in addition the comptroller may call for a special report from any such association whenever he may deem it necessary to do s0. It Is made unlawful for any officer of a national banking association to become in- debted as principal or endorser to any such assoclation in excess of & per cent of the paid-in capital of the association over and above the liabilities of any such officer, which s In line with the recommendations of comptrollers of the currency for a number of years and ought to be made a part of the national banking law. The bill provides for a special fund, to he derived from moneys paid into the treasury under existing laws relating to natfonal banking assoclations mnot otherwise appro- priated, this fund’to be employed in paying depositors in banks whose affairs may be placed in the hands of a receiver such amounts as may be due on winding up the affairs of such an association. It is pro- vided that banks may Issue circulating notes to the par value of bonds deposited, provided the amount of said bonds shall be equal to 50 per cent of the par value of the sub- seribed capital stock of any assoclation; otherwise the amount of circulating notes shall not exceed 90 per cent of the par value of bonds. Clrculating notes of national banks are made receivable for all debts, public and private, except interest on thie public debt. The annual tax on the circula- tion "ot national banks is made one-half of 1 per cent, and it is provided that no national banking assoclation shall pay a greater rate of interest on deposits than § per cent per annum. All laws In conflict with this meas- ure are repealed by it. 8 The strong points of this bill-are the pro- vision for a more thorough examination of national banks and the grestor security it would give to depositors. It is admitted by everybody at all conversant with the mat- ter that under existing conditions examina- tions are not generally so efficient as is to be desired, and improvement in this direction is very necessary. Some improvement, it scems, has taken place under the present comptroller of the currency, but a change in the law relating to examiners 1s required, and the amendment proposed in this bill seems Judicious and adequate. There will be differ- ence of opinion as to the wisdom of the pro- vision giving national bank notes a prac- tically legal tender character, but in other respects the measure commends itself. AMERICAN CaT The resolution that has been favorably reported from the house committee on ag- riculture, requesting the president to re- open negotiations for the modification bt the British regulations requiring cattle im- ported from the United States to be slaughtered on the wharves within ten days after their arrival, ought to be adopted without opposition or delay. This discrim- ination of the British government against American cattle s essentially unjust, but it has been maintained for years, notwith- standing repeated efforts to have It re- moved. An earnest effort was made during the Harrison administration to secure the modification of the British regulations, but with no success. There was legislation by the Rifty-first congress requiring an fn- spection of cattle vessels and a proper air space for each animal, and Secretary Blaine directed Minister Lincoln to press the mat- ter seriously upon the British government. He did so, and seemed to be making favor- able progress, when the British ofclals claimed to have discovered pleuro-pneumonta among Amerlcan cattle, and the negotiations came to a halt. Since then no serious at- tempt has been made to renew them. As a matter of fact the alleged discovery of discase among American cattle at that time was probably without substantial foun- dation. At any rate veterinary surgeons sent to England by our government to in- vesigate failed to find any evidence to sus- tain the statemgnt, reporting that one of the three cases was not pleuro-pneumonia, and that so far as they could learn in regard to the others the animals were from a district where the disease did not exist. The prob- able fact is that the pretended discovery was an invention of the British and Cana- dlan cattle raisers, who would very gladly seo the American competition entirely shut out, but are not able to bring that about bacause of a powerful popular opposition which no party adopting such a policy could withstand, The common people of Great Britain, who know that the importation of American cattle has lowered the price of meats In that country and enabled them to eat more than they did before, would stoutly resent the entire exclusion of our cattle, and it is the knowledge of this that has doubt- less prevented the Institution regu- of Mations more restrictive and discriminat- Is regarded as questionablo whether | there will be any legislation by the Fifty- | veral measures have been Intro- | ng not subjact to the restrictions upon animals from this country. The result fs that t! anadian animals, though quite as likely to bo infected, are allowed to be taken (nland and suitably fattened for the market and sell at wuch higher figures than are paid for American cattle, | Not only is the great cattle Interest of the United States concerned in the question hoval of this unjust imination, but the right ask that the score of 1 It the policy of the ernment In the matter I3 dictated desire to protect home cattle ralser may be the real motive, let it proc of a modifica and | government has be on or re unwarranted d our this Ale Bov: the ch the to international British by done on Aing. | \ fuct and no attempt will be made to indu it to change the policy. But it Is a very different matter when these restrictive reg ulations are maintained on the pretext that American cattle are not sound and healthy. The tendency of *hat is to damage our meat trade with other countries and thus do a double injury. It is to be apprehonded that the present administration will take the Interest in this matter which fmportance demands, but it should be given an early opportunity to open the propesed negotiation DESTRUCTION OF THE TA RNACLE. It Is a strange kind of fatality that has followed the Brooklyn tabernacle, three times destroying by fire the church edifices which its congregation has erected. Only last week the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. Talmage's assumption of his Brooklyn pastorate was celebrated with commemora- tive exercises and a reception to Dr. Tal- mage, and the difficulties under which he had labored in order to secure the new tab- ernacle were rehearsed in minute detail, Every one was congratulating one another that the affairs of the church had finally been placed upon such a basis as to promise a freer field of progress in the future. In his sermon, too, on the very morning of this last fire, Dr. Talmage referred to the plan of architecture of his church—the am- phitheater—as one of its distingulshing features intended to make it more home- like and cheerful. The cheerful church is now a mass of blackened ruins, but the cheerful trustees have already decided to rebuild. The Brook- Iyn tabernacle, which has been the objective point of so many visitors to the metropolis in years past, will continue to attract their presence, although on a new site and in a new building, which cannot be completed for several years. Whatever we may think of Dr. Talmage's methods and of his ability as a great preacher, we must admire the indomitable energy of himself and his church which enables them to accept a misfortune of this kind with so great equanimity. Their loss Is more than a mere local loss. It ex- tends beyond the bounds of Brooklyn and New York. For this reason the whole coun- try shares in mourning the tabernacle's de- struction. POLITICS IN THE PRINTING OFFICE. A recent dispatch from Washington gives an inkling of a political transformation about to take place in the government print- Ing office at Washington under the new public printer, Mr. Benedict. Mr. Benedict has suddenly discovered that there are at least 400 more employes under his control than he has any present use for and an- nounces that his regard for economy and the officlal administration of his bureau will compel him to drop these cmployes from the rolls. If this were meant sincerely in order to inaugurate a poiicy of retrenchment there would probably be little fault to find with the intentions of the new pub’ic printer. There are, however, several suspicious cir- cumstances that must give rise to the infer- ence that it is simply a move to get rid of a few hundred republican employes merely for the purpose of giving their places to an cqual number of democrats. In the first place these 400 superfluous em- ployes are not hanging heavy on the hands of the public printer, because under the sys- tem long In vogue there it has been the custom to furlough employes and give them leaves of abs:nce whenever they desire them, particularly those who are paid only accord- ing to the work which they actually per- form. If they were all summoned to their places at one time there would not be room for them in the buildings devoted to the pur- poses of the public printing office, but the number daily at work, while overcrowding the accommodations, Is no greater than is need:d in the bureau. This was the custom under Mr. Benedict's former administration of the office and was unobjectionable so long as the greater part of the employes on the rolls happened to b2 democrats. Mr. Benedict now says that the 400 extra employes have got to go and that not until the force shall have been cut down to the bare necessities of the burecau will the ap- plication of any one for employment be con- sidered. It will, however, be pretty safe to predict that the 400 to be dismissed will be republicans to a man. Then when the force has been reduced to “the bare neces- sities of the burcau” it will be wonderful how its needs will expand in order to pro- vide places for democrats of the faith, By the time Mr. Benedict is called upon to re- store the printing office to his republican successor the number of furloughed em- ployes will doubtless approximate what it now Is, but their political complexion will have been neatly reversed. PAVING EXPERIMENTS. A number of rival paving contractors in Chicago have come to an agreement with the South Park commissioners to submit their paving materials and processes to the test of actual use under similar conditions. To establish thelr claims, each Is laying a square of one of the streets In that section of the city with the pavement which he is championing, and nothing but the actual result of this test is to determine the final judgment of the commissioners. This ex- periment will, of course, give the different contractors an opportunity to show thelr wares to the best possible advantage, but it will necessarily be some time before a Judgment of their relative merits can be formed, and then only for the light traffic of a residence street. Yet for this pur- pose it ought to afford some tangible basis for the selection of paving matérial valua- ble not alone to Chicago, but also to other Amerlcan cities. The difficulty under which our American cities have labored has been not so much a lack of practical experiments with different kinds of street paving, but a failure to profit by the experlence at their command, Each city has insisted upon paying for its own experience in this fleld, often at a heavy cost, to say nothing of the Inconvenience and positive burdens Inflicted by poorly paved streets, which Its Inhabitants have been compelled to endure. The practice has been quite uniformly upon the penny wise and pound foolish plan. The entlclng promises of ambitious contractors have dazzled the eyes of property owners. The 1t [ contrastor ‘who. cawd b mia DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. than those now In oporation putate the ity | Is remarked as one of the absurdities of | council or Board opDubilc Works has been | the British position that Canadian cattle are | the one to captu fhe work no matter whether his matezialy,are suitable for the pavemonts demanded or not. Right here | fn Omaha we have ‘Méfore our eyes experi- | ments In paving 'R5ién rpass that | posed in Chicago gid f¥h'ch arc adopted to | pro- the precise conditions that prevall In ov own city. We have igosd pavements, bad | pavements and Ind!ffarent pavements. We have pavements in ewory stags of preserva ticn and decay. Property owners who an- | ticipate signing for, paving have only to use | thelr e f few Inquiries as to price and cost of malntenancs to have the whole object lesson before them. If they profer Inferior paving because It is che it 1s not becauso they have no knowing superior paving when th There is no necessity for further paving ex- periment should leave the behind. The tima Is at hand when we stage of experimentation Governor Jackson and others hava charged that Omaha would not permit Kel my to stop off In this city, preferring o dump the Industrials upon Council Bluffs. The baseloss allegation has boen denled, of course, No computation has been made, however, of the value of provisions and amount of money contributed by the people of Omaha for the sustenance of Kelly's luckless followers, The city contributed $256.63 in cash, while citi- zens donated provender and cash footing up vory to §2.000. It is reported that Pottawattamie county is out just $160 on account of Kelly's visit, while the people of Counell Blufts did not donate edibles and cash to a total value of $500. There was not so much selfishness manifested in Omaha in this instance as many people have been led to believe. close The Philadelphia Press h allegation of fll-health as Major J. W. Powell's retirem:nt head of the geological survey Is only a blind to conceal the real reason. It asserts that he was in fact elbowed out of his place by Secrctary Hoke Smith bosause he re sented the secretary’s interference with the management of his department. Hoke, hav- ing become master of almost every division under the Interior department, yearned for more worlds to conquer and decided that the geological survey was the most available. It is expected that the survey will be con- ducted upon a true partisan plan by Secre- tary Smith, with the kindness of Major Powell’s successor. 5 the cause for it that the m the Governor Jackson of Iowa is being given an fllustration of how difficult it is to con- tinue to please the capitalistic press of the country. He is now being most hotly scourged for endeavoring to Induce Kelly and his army to move peaceably from Iowa into some eastern 'state by the very news- papers that praised him most loudly for his belligerent attitude toward the Kellyites when they made thelr appearance on the western border of the state. The governor finds that he is damped if he does, and damned if he does not. He might as well give the riddle up and top guessing. The ¥ncome Tax. New York Sun. The Cleveland tax s the most beautiful plan ever invented for making a solid re- publican north. : Shsnedid Henry's View of the Senate Tariff Bill. Loulsville' Courler-Tournal. A mongrel piebald of patches and pusil- lanimity, a grotesque’ hodgepodge of pre- tense #nd pettifo#ging, a nondescript abor- tion of Incompetency, elfishness, cowardice and treachery. e Taking Care of Its Owner, Globe-Democrat. Tt will be observed that none of the numerous changes in the tariff bill lessen the advantages coneeded to the trusts in return for the money which paid the demo- cratic expenses in the last campaign. e S History Repeating Itself, Indianapolls Journal. Every attempt of the democratic party to abolish protection has been followed by general industrial depression. The hard times which the country is now experienc- ing-are simply a repetition of history. A Suggestive Parallel, Boston Globe. Congressman Breckinridge says he thinks “the storm is over.” There is an old tradi- tion that the people, at the time of the deluge, as they huddied on the summits of the highest mountains, scoffed at Noah as he salled by in the ark, and told him that it was “nothing but a slight shower, any- e —— Reaping the Whirlwind. St. Paul Globe, Judge Scott has begun to reap the har- vest for sending the editor of The Omaha Bee to prison for alleged contempt. Last Sunday’s Bee had a three-column install- of Scott's lowa man has a long ¥ ment covering @ portion record. The newspaper memory, and has becen known to keep a rod in pickle for a considerable time when there was provocation. —_—— the Agony. Minneapolls Tribune, If the republicans of the senate do not ts in foisting their pres- upon the public they have to help, by thelr silence or otherwise, In the foisting of something equally objectionable. They might as well have the agony over with and give the business of the country a chance to accommedate itself to its new conditions, assist the democr ent tarift atrocl will eventuaily o Imported Impudence, Chicago Herald, The Canadian Pacific railroad is a British line of military transportation. It is as much a part of the war establishment of Great Britain as the forts in Halifax har- bor. That it should be represented in the congressional lobby, with an attempt to influence legislation’ for the protection of United States commercial interests against ‘anadian encroachment, shows a degree of gall, nerve and unadulterated Impudence on the part of its managers and a degree of liberality on the part of the house com- mittee that is without parallel in the ex- ercise of international comity. Il IBRASKA AND NEBRASK.ANS. N The Ravenna flouring mill shipped out last week over 100:000 pounds of flour. Anclent hen fruit greeted a “‘snide show" at’ Elwood, instead of'the flowers that the actors expected. The Stdney Telegtaph Is now the property of James McMullen, Who purchased the plant of Lyon & Carey. The old settlers, of Otoe county will hold thelr annual reunlgn and picnic in Morton's park, Nebraska City, June 9. Tilden, In company (With quite a number of progressive towns, wants a few manufac- turing establishmguts, including a flouring mill, ; Lightning struck T. J. O'Connor, a Buffalo county farmer, but the fluid only stunned the tiller of the s0il.4nd he Is now on the road to recovery. A horse belonging :to Willlam Anderson of Nemaha City kicked up its heels once too often. It gave a high jump and then fell dead. A broken artery did it. Dr, J. B. Hoover of Lynch, coroner of Boyd county, 18 under arrest for practicing medi- cine unlawfully, The arrest was mado be- causo of the death of a child, a patient of the doctor's, who, It is said, was improperly treated. Mike Foster, foreman of John Bratt's home ranch, had a very close call from shufling off this mortal coll on Sunday, according to the North Platte Telegraph. While at work around the ranch he was bitten on the finger by a blue racer snake, He at once tied a cord tightlyzaround the flnger, and, mount- rse, made for town In a hurry. at North Platte, he sought medical assistance, and, although his finger was badly swollen and presented a terrible ap- pearance, by the application of severe rem- edies the effects of the bite were soon re- moved. STATE POLITICAL NOTES. ] o | MoCook Tribune: The republicaa party | MAY 15, 1894 : A NBGLECTED ANNIVERSARY, The Binding of the Kast and West with must become closer In touch and sympathy | s 0f Stoet | with tho masses, i 1th The twen ! A. M. Robbns of Ord fs “menti hich oceurred yesterday, | a candidate for the nomina t ot n of the # all-rail lin e by the publics gene Yy the republicin across th - continent was allowed Bloomington Echo: Ji name will not be presented to any convention as a candidate with his knowledge and con- pears to bo con- liticians for an s of Nebraska Lincoln News: There slderable fecling amon early convention of rep b1 : stacles to the construction of a railroad. this year. The candldates arc 8o numerous | Nowhere else but in America would the and the tenslon so g t that all of them building of such a raflroad at that tim will be glad to have it ended as quickly &8 | hyve boen seriously thought of, and nowhere JORRIULS, clso in America but In tho north- Sloux County Journal: There appea ern states could the encrgy and skill be a pretty strong feeling in the north for so gigantic a project have been that it would be a good plan to make Tom | found. The railroad was begun, to Majors the nomince for governor just for | (ime ‘whon the mation. waa siruggling the fun of letting him beat Rosewater. It | (o southorn rebellion and stralaing. cver is conceded on all sides that he comid do | perve o presorve its national 1o Byt it easily. York Times: Most republ'cans se‘m to bo | destiny of the great republic that they sanc- in favor of our early state convention. There | tioned the most lavish appropriations to are a great many reasons for holding the cure its early completion. convention early and having a long and thor- If the road were to be bufit now It could | ough campalgn. A thorough discussion of | qoubtloss be constructed at much less than facts, issues and conditions will do good now and for the future. Bloom!ngton Echo: The fight for gover- nor In the republican state convention this fall will be between Tom Majors and Jack MacColl. Both are good men and either would make a good governor. Until it is settled. in the convention we are for Tom Majors and don’t you forget it. Red Cloud Chief: We notice by the Lex- ington Ploneer that Jack MacColl of Lex- ington is a thoroughbred candidate for goy- ernor. Jack is all right, but we opine that Governor Crounse, although said to have declined, will be the next nominee of ‘lic republican party for that important office. Kearney Hub: Hon. I. M. Raymond of Lincoln shies his castor into the guberna- torial ring and announces himself a can- didate for the nomination. Mighty good man, too, personally, as wel as politically. The only trouble 15 that he is too late in the field, the tide having already set in toward the Nebraska favorite, Jack McColl. Shelton Clipper: Jack MacColl of Laxing- ton seems to be the unanimous choice of the republicans of western Nebraska for gov- ernor, and they will make a demand for his nomination by the state convention. Mac- Coll is a man in every sense of the word, and is well known all over the state, and if nominated his election is as sure as death and taxes. Seward Reporter: The republican state committee will meet in a few days and set the date for the state convention. The Re- porter hopes that an early convention will be held. An early convention will secure united action of the whole party for a longer time than if the convention were held later, and so increase the republican majority in November. Red Cloud Argus: It seems that after all Governor Crounss would not be averse to receiving the nomination for a sccond term. He is not a candidate in the sense that he will make an active canvass for the nomina- tion, but if the state convention sees fit to again place him at the head of the ticket he will accept and lead the forces of good gov- ernment on to victory. Gothenburg Star: The gubernatorial con- test, so far as the republicans are con- cerned, has apparently narrowed down to MeColl and Majors, with the odds favorable to the former. Two years ago McColl stood aside in favor of Majors. This fact is quite well known throughout the state, and the spirit of falr play is favorable to McColl, especlally when he is the peer of Majors In every respect. McColl is a winner. Holdrege Citizen: It fs developing that Lincoln has its usual amount of candidates for the state offices. In fact, it seems that Lancaster county could fill the entire state ticket and still have scveral politicians who had been left out in the cold. There is a lot of politicians at Lincoln that ought to be set down on hard enough so that they could realize that the republican party is exceed- ing tired of their everlasting manipulations. Plattsmouth Herald: A good many of our brethren throughout the district are loud in their demonstrations of running Hon. S. M. Chapman for congress. That's right, boys, let ‘er go; a better man could not be selected and we are thoroughly in sympathy with you, A man who has been upon the bench so long and has heard multiplied thou- sands of all classes of cases without one re- verse in the supreme court is well able to represent this district at the seat of govern- ment. —_—— PEOPLE AND THINGS. In retiring from Tammany leadership Mr. Croker merzly goes out with the stuff, Mark Twain will strive to write his finan- clal condition amid foreign surroundings. There is a touch of human pathos in the squirms of the worm when the early bird presents its bill. The report that Mrs. from nervous prostration flection on her nerve. Tho new straw hats, with their porous domes, are doubtless caleulated to facilitate articulation in the upper story. Lease Is suffering 1s a measly re- Bank clerka rarely graduato into the newspaper profession, although they are generally experts in making and taking notes. United States senators receive a salary of $5,000 a year each, and about $7,000 a year in’ addition for incidentals, exclusive of tuneral expenses. Having demonstrated the navigable char- acter of the placid Des Moines, Commodore Kelly ought to present a booted petition for an appropriation. Chicago justly boasts of its attractiveness as a resort of suminer. No town outside of Pueblo can_approach its altitude by about 20 degrees, Farenhelt. An American college boasts of a_negro student of royal descont. His grandfather was an African king with a special fondness for missionary porterhouse. General Coxey doesn't want to be con- founded with Legal Tender Coxey. The Washington authorities desire him to elrcu- late, but he declines to do s The town of Frederick, Md., is making another effort to raise money for a monu- ment to Francls Scott Key, the author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” who is burfed In that city. It is announced In advance that the demo- without | to pass any particular notiee | Cloud coull be eleated by a 1t he should be nominated by Is probablo that only a few people remem- for congress. { bered that a quarter of a century Yad ' here will be 199 delegates in the Sixth | elapsod since the golden spike was drive | digtrict ropublican congressional conven- | Promontory Point as a proof that a tion, and no one candidate claims to have | work was finished. No event In the tndus- | corralied a majority of them as yot. trial history of the United States had been | John Mefford of Schuyler, fin tho | looked forward to with more cagerness than | | Wealthmakers, proposes the name of Chan- | this. The only pa 1 to It was open ¢ lor Stats uniy s the | Ing of the Erie canal, and the establishment Doru st senator. ter communication between the great huyle n the two candl- s and the Atlantic ocean. That, how- dates for and Majors, the | €ver, was a local event, in which only one Sun finds nt pretty evenly divided | State was concerned, while the wholo unfon In Colfax Bach has many friends | Was interested in the binding of tho east hete, and wost together with bands of fron and Minden Gazotte: The Gazotte Is authorized | $15¢1 to; GIVIOUNGE 168 0. T- MoPhesly LNKL 06 (8 railroad comparable in length and In | ot n candidate for any offine. and that his | the dificulties to be overcome had beon undertaken up to that time. The length of the line from Omaha to Sacramento, whic! was then the Pacific terminus, is 1,919.68 miles, and it had to traverse two great moun tain ranges, the Rockles and the Slerra Ne- vada, which seemed to offer insuperable ob- profound was the faith of the people in th the government subsidy sum it cost twenty-five years ago. The varied from $16,000 to $18,000 a mile, according to the difficuities to be overcome, and a land grant equaling 12,- 00 acres to cach mile of road built was given in addition. These were liberal terms, and today no company- proposing to build a road could obtain them. But times were different in the “60s,” and it needed more faith and encouragement then than now to undertake such a gigantic project. The inal cost of the road Is given as §1 it needed farsighted men to promptne: The whole work was s, the task having been seriously begun only 1805, and it was finished May 10, 1869, continuous railroad journcy from the lantic to the Pacific was thus made pos- sible, and America could boast the longest track in existence. The subsequent history of the road may not have been a happy one, but admitting all that Is charged in the way of corruption, extortion and mismanagement, and It were better it had happened than that the road had not been built when it was. As a mere business investment the people of this coun- try could afford today to pay every dollar of the extravagant cost of the road over again, and there would still be a clear profit to the nation of several hundred per cent. When the road was built there was only a narrow fringe of population west of the Missouri river, and the Sierra Nevada blocked the progress of settlement eastward from the Pacific coast. But, as a result of the con- struction of the rodd, hundreds of thousands of square miles of land have been brought under cultivation, prosperous towns and cities have sprung up along its line, and the nation is richer by hundreds of millions of dollars. The immense advance that has been made in raiflroad building during the quarter of a century that spans the life of this first continental railroad is an_index to the pro- gress of the nation. In 1869 there were 47,- 254 miles of railroad in existence in this country, while at the close of last year there were 175,223 miles of track, or nearly four times as much. In every way rajlroad- ing has developed. In 1870 a journey to California from the cast occupied eight days. Now it Is regularly accomplished in five days, and it has b done in three days, seven hours and forty minutes. The covering of 1,000 miles a day Is now con- sidered an ordinary occurrence for a rail- road train, and a steady rate of fifty miles an hour is not uncommon. The safety and conveniences of travel have also vastly in- creased, and the number of travelers shows a marvelous growth. Instead of one trans- continental line five are now In existence in this country, and others are projected. But even this great progress is only an in- dex of what will be seen in 1919, when the golden anniversary of the driving of the golden spike on the first continental line will occur. — Stick to Your Trade. Kansas City Star. There are a_good many commercial d asters of late which revive the wisdom ¢ Cealed In the old adage, “The shoemaker Should stick to his last.” It is found, for instance, that after the dry goods man has faflled he has been operating in “goods’ other than dry goods; that he has been “taking o whirl” in lands, in stocks, even in ranches and the cattle thereon. The money was not lost along the regular road the man had traveled from his youth up. It is not given to many men to know more than one thing very well. The mastery of one trade, vocation or calling, even supposing that the individual has a natural aptitude for that, 15 the work of an average lifetime. If that truth were fully comprehended we should have 1 ailure in business life, less of paresis and paralysis as the close of it. BR tically done in a little over four yea y OWNING, K| & co The largest makers and sellors ot fine elothes ou earth, Your money’s worth or your money hac't. JOURNALISTIC LIFE IN MONTANA, Red Lodgs (Mont.) New Idea. J. K. Bramble, the sprightly young editor of the Marysville Gazette, Is still chawing the rag with ropublican statemen Hon, A. K. Yerkes will soon have hig newspaper gang in solemn conclave at Great :;m« Look out for clothes lines and chicken George H. Wright has named us the spink. It s complimentary of us. The spink 18 a game bird and can fly a mile & minute Colonel Samuel Gordon, the erudite editor of the Yelowstone Journal, has devsloped a fad for rare flowers. The red nosegay is his favorite. Gid. R. Proper of the Anaconda Review has a funny way of putt things. In using term of buffalo chip he abbreviates it “Bs Jofin D. Ruff is as quiet and placid as the bosom of a beautiful lake. Stir him up and he is a typical Arvizona Kicker on wheels and Lis pon has a forked sting. Jdorry Collins, the old-time editor, has se- cured ‘a pudding from the fat Jay of the white, fn getting the Helena land office, Bully for you, Jerry, we are glad of it. Benjamin Franklin Yerkes is making the Madison County Monitor known far and wide, Mr. Yerkes Is a good newspaper man and has a heart n his bosom as large as a big bustle. Ramsey and Kearns are workers the Bulletin out n and got on time and it presents a at appearance and fs as bright as the bes nign smile of a gushing young widow. Edi tor Ramsey s a peach in'any man's orchard. It looks as though s some of the newspaper men of Montana had been sub- sidized by the capital committ Hon. Walter A, Lowis of the Red Lodge Picket Is not guilty of this mercenary sin, He has on the same old duds that he wore five years ago. If there is anything that Auges us to shiver with the “delirium tremens—outsida of booze—it is the ignorant attempts of an ignorant man trying to write an Ignorant article on an ignorant newspaper. There should be a rigid law to keep the incompe- tents out of journalism. Indced there are too many of the fgnorant mustang serubs in Journalism. The brush pliing Jays and pumpkin-rollers of the childlike and bland Otto (Wyoming) Courfer are squirting thelr venom at us through their blacksmith poster publication, Hal Dlakesley is the local editor of ths Otto Courler and the tonsorial artist of the town of Otto. Louls Blakesley 1s the editor-in- chief and professor of the Otto colloge and runs a blacksmith shop and edits a plow- point to perfection and does the horseshoeing for the neighbors of the Grey Bull country by moonlight. We have too much milk ot human kindness in our breast to abuse such genius, Boston Globe: The sky is 0 blue at this season of the year that the earth grows green with jealou Texas Sifting: he woman question: Now isn't this vou to get home? pretty time of night for Harper's By Maud—And I am to lead B a happy 1if Fortune Teller—Very. You will never know grief. Maud—Delightful. And am I to marry? Fortune Teller- our time: Buffalo Courier: There's this to say In favor of the cremationists, None of them want the earth. nseript: — The man who is orus for spring medicine is e himself a match for any one. ston T & phos trying to m; Lite: “Docter, they tell me you are attend- ing that young man next door free of charge.” “Yes, and glad to do it. He's been prac- ticing ‘on a snare drum for the last six months, and now I have a chance to put an end to the nuisance.” Puck: Parker—Swell fsn't it? Barker—Swell? except as “renals boarding house, Hash Is never mentioned n > corned beef." Dotroft Tribune: Applicant for Position— Does madam_treat her conchman like one of the family? Husband of Madam—Oh, no. If she aid T would salary. be compelled to’ offer you moy OLD, OLD SORROW. Chicago Tribune. He clapped his hand upon his breast! ‘W is it, John?' his wife Speak!” And John in faltering voice confessed That the letter she had given him with instructions to mail at once, as it was of the utmost importance, and he had promised so faithfully he would drop in the letter-hox as he passed the post- office on his way down town, had been tten until this moment, and he very sorry to say he had been ing it in His inside pocket for a weel, e WHAT BOTHERS HIM, THE cried. Atlanta Constitution. There ain't much e, pleasure In fishin’ here in May, Or any other blessed month— No matter what they say. Beeause you see the banks is green= The grass is soft and d. An’ where the shady willows lean, A feller falls to sleep! An' jes' when he begins to nod, 'Long side an empty cup, A fish comes jerkin® at the rod An' always wakes him up! Ay A S Not an old one in the sto Negligee Shirts. re-—all new and beautiful You size up our Hats We'll size up your head, cratic state convention of Missourl be harmonlous. If the prophecy is verified it < will afirm the wisdom of the adminlstration \Vltl’l in dispensing exceedingly small slices of pio in bourbon strongholds. ust Heury Villard has gone to Europe. Thoss ,] impertinent questions regarding the where- abouts of $13,000,000 of Northern Pacific your spoils s0 preyed upon his nervous system . Uyt a sen voyage was proscribed as a meaus Size of forgetting his forgetfulness. A&y Bourke Cockran Is the greatest newspaper reader of the 356. About the first thing he does after the house convenes s to send for all the 1Bading morning papers of New York City and retire to the lobby back of the speaker's chair to peruse them. He reads for a dollar less than hatters get. T styles—in fancy stripes —checks and solid col- lors—every size—A nice line of Percales and Linens for a dollar a shirt—some have col- lars attached and some havn't -- The Oxford Cloth negligee shirts for $1.25 and $1.50, are Just as flne as they can be— and so are the Madras shirts for $1.50 i very raplaly. i 7] Those Northern Pacific directors whose | JF | memories have suddenly collapsed and | %7 whose Ignorance of their duties appears ‘Ilrf_ profoundly complete, will not be obliged in | fi i the near future to foin the unemployed. | & up our 15th street window Their eminent qualifications will ba n | §f active demand for jury service. President Cleveland and Senator Daniel shook hands across the chasm of mutua | dislike at the Mary Washington monument dedication. Ponderous compliments were ox changed and the wounds inflicted on the | consecrated cuticle by the senator during the midnight hour in the Chicago wigwsmn were forgotten and forgiven. “Bless you, my i Anasoar . BROWNING, S. W. Cor. Filteenth children,*” ——$1.75—$2 and $2.50—Every once in a while we fill —When passing look at them. i3 with new styles in shirts _al_d = KING & CO., and Douglas Streets, a4