Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA AILY 7 ILY BEE. 2ditor. THEOMAHA DA o B. ROSEWATER, UBLISHED EVERY MORNING, * BUBSCRIPTT (without Bunday), One oo and Bunday, Oue Year Months . e | Thrae Months e Bunday Tles, One Yonr surdny Ilde, Ono Yenr.... Weekly Tee, One Yenr . OFFICRA, Omalis, The Nes Mulllinge. Bonuth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Counell Blufs, 12 Penrt atrect Chieago Oflice, 317 Chamber of C Now York, | 13, 14 and 15, 7 ‘Washington, - W N Your TERMS 2800 nmeres. lune Bldg. to news and edi. o0t To the Editor. ERS. tors and remittnnes Publishing s and postoflica ordors 6 rder of the compan JSHING COMPANY AL commini. torial mattor ah. nt ATl Buninos: addrensed Omaha, T ba made pavanl THE BE hould be company, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George 1. Taschuck, secretary of The Hao Pub. Hniing duly aworn, says that the Actual n of full and complete coples of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee printed during the month of May, 1504, was as Fotlows: 17 I B 2 i Total sold Dally average Sunday ar Sworn to before me and ence this 24 day of Jun (Seal.) N ubscribed In my pres- 150, AL, tary Publle, What would the railroads do without their contracts for carrying United States mall? Tt's a poor county officlal who can't go out of office with a claim upon the county for money still him for his valuable Bervice: due While wo are in a sympathetic mood to- ward France why not adjust the unpald claims of the French exhibitors at the World's fair? When the garbage cas all finally settled the courts may have to call on the eity council to supply them with some other bone of ceaseless litigation. are Tom Bowman is again in Washington. This ought to be as significant to Iowa dem- ocrats as are the frequent visits of Tobe Castor to the natfonal capltol to their fel- low office seckers in Nebraska. The prohibitionists are to be the first in the field with their state convention. They will also have the extreme pleasure of being the first out of the fleld when the election returns begin to make their appearance. The Sugar trust does not appear to be alarmed over any prospective alteration in the sugar schedule as accepted in the senate eommittee of the whole. It kept its end of the bargain with the democratic managers we-ind it confidently expects them to abide by their obligations. Prospects are good for a scrimmage be- tween Maryland and Virginia over the in- roads of Maryland poachers upon the Vir- ginta soft-shell crab banks. Governor O'Fer- rall has applied to the United States authori- ties for some modern guns and proposes to glve the Marylanders the benefit of some shells of another kind. In the meantime the crabs are the only parties that are be- ing slaughtered. An organization of cranks for the better protection of the president is a welcome offset to the numerous cranks who have been alloted the mission of making away with the highest officers of our government. The new organization ought to be set to work to convert the others to their ideas. ‘When they shall have effectively accom- plished that work their mission will be ful- filled and they can then disband with a sense of supreme self-satisfaction. The cost of getting up the tax list in Omaiia may be less than it has been in pre- vious years, but it Is still altogether too high—particularly for the Kkind of work that Is done. The system by which the assessors appoint their wives, their sons, thelr sisters, cousins and aunts as deputies and figure out salaries for them at so much a day is not conducive to economical serv- Ice. The average assessor seems to Imag- ine that he Is entitled to saddle his wholo family upon the public pay roll. Because this has been done in the past is no reason Why It should be tolerated now. One city assessor in supervision of a corps of com- petent assistants could make the tax list on a business basis at an immen:e saving to the people. Our whole system of tax valuation by ward assessors is sadly out of date. R. G. Dun & Co.’s annual crop and trade report, published this morning, contains in- formation regarding crop and trade condi- tlons for elghty-six countles and is the most complete and exhaustive review of the situ- ation printed this year. A perusal of the reports will show that corn is in good condi- tion throughout the state and the acreage is very largely increased. Small grain has generally been a total or partial failure. Only a few districts promise anything like & tull erop. The recent rains have materially improved the outlook for the corn crop, and . unlcss some catastrophe overtakes it Ne- braska will harvest the largest area and the heaviest yleld of corn in her history next fall. It prices for corn are In any way re- munerative Nebraska farmers will have a profitable year and trade throughout the state will be vastly improved as soon as corn can be put on the market. Bvery request of the rallroads for United States deputy marshals to protect their prop- erty 13 granted without even the most casual nquiry whether special protection Is desir- able or necessary. While the country has to foot the bills for these federal Janissaries, and thelr Dills are always extravagantly high, no serious objection could be raised to this costly method of protecting railway property were it not for the constant de flance of the federal statutes regulating in terstate commerce by the rallway managers. Those who want to invoke the law and the power of the government for thelr own pre tection should be willing at all times to set an example of obedience to law and sub mission to the regulations established by law for their government. The trouble with the rallroads is that they are always out- laws, but want everybody else, including patrons, employes and the public at large, to be submissive to such laws as happen to THE RBOYCOTT AND THE PUBLIC The boyeott Inaugurated by the Amerloan Puilman not ng public sleopers has reached proportions anticipated and s most seriously affect- Intorests or more of roads is already nearly pa t the strike threatens to put a summary stoppage to the transpor- tation business of the country. The conflict exc! any previous trouble between t thelr and forese the end little nsider or dis origin of the diMculty. Whether the Pull- man company were right or wrong In Jecting the request of their employes for a restoration of part of the reduction made In last fall and ubmit the matter to arbitration fs of small consequence in its bearing the existing situation The vital relates the duty of the rallroad compan'es toward the publie. The railrond agers have agreed tand together and carry the fight death.” They urge the supreme of strength between corparations and thelr omployes who members of labor organizations has and that the result will determine which shall hereafter rule. They spurn the suggestion of arbitra tion with the usual declaration of men who do not want to settle difficulties in this way that they have nothing to arbitrate. The obvious fact s that these general man- agers, most of whom are themselves simply mployes of the companies they represent, are actuated solely by a desire to destroy the organization of railroad employes which ordered the boycott of Pullman cars, and in pursuance of this desire are willing that tho public interests, which it Is thelr first duty to consider, shall suffer to any extent. Why should they not arbitrate? Why, in- stead of going at once to tho support of the Pullman company, did they not make some effort, thoy unquestionably might have done, to bring about an adjustment of the difference between the company and its em- It is more than probable that it made the attempt to do this it would have been successful and the strike averted, but if It had failed the railroad managers would have avoided the responsi- bility in connection with the conflict which now rests upon them and would have had public sentiment entirely with them. The desire to destroy the American Rallway unfon is a mistaken one it it Is based on the idea that such a result would put an end to controversies between the railway corpor- ations and their employes. He is very short sighted who does not see that the remedy for these outbreaks must be something more than the breaking up of any organization of railroad workers. It must bo something that will control and regulate managers as well as employes, something that will re- quire everybody connected with the service of a rallroad to give first consideration under all circumstances to the public Interests which it s the primary and paramount duty of public carriers to subserve. We believe that this conflict could have been averted if the railroad managers had adopted a conservative and conciliatory course, instead of manifesting their sym- pathy with the Pullman company by eagerly accepting the chatlenge to a contest. What- ever may be thought of the action of the American Railway unfon in this matter it is under no such obligation to regard the public interests as the railroad managers are. No one can tell what the end will be. There appears to be a spirlt of intense hos- tility on both sides and this is likely to grow as the contest progresses. The innocent and helpless public has already suffered a great deal of injury, and, from appearances, will have to suffer much more. Will the out- come of the struggle, whatever it shall be, suggest to our lawmakers the necessity for legislation that will reduce to the minimum the danger of such outbreaks, if it cannot render them impossible? Iyzed and tho rapld spread ds in extent rallroads can now e employes It uss and to the no one is purpose to o of re- wages refusing to upon question to to “to m on that the are come as ployes? they had THOSE “CORPORATION CORMORANTS." The adage that when thieves fall out honest men get their dues is recalled by the decision just rendered in favor of John Fitzgerald and his coparceners of a railroad ccnstruction ring as against the Missourl Pacific Railroad company. Judging from the text of the decision and comment made thereon by the recognized official organ of the railroads, the Lincoln Journal, it would be extremely difficult to find “the honest men” in the transaction. Our amfable Lincoln con- temr porary, which certainly could not be truth- fully charged with malicious prevarication about a dispute between friends of the rail- roads, sums up the case as follows: The history of the matter leading up to the suit tells an interesting tale of Wall street manipulators and how millionaires swallowed up railroads, watered stock and were In- terested in both the construction company and the Missonri Pacific. The interests clashed and there was a fight for spoils. Evidence shows that Millionaire Fitzgerald sat in a meeting where Sage, Gould, Dillon and others deliberately voted a dividend of 100 per cent when it was known that the company was insolvent. Here Is a revelation from inside sources that would, if it came from any other quarter, bo denounced as a most infamous fabrication. It actually tends to confirm what the Journal has often denounced as the most foul aspersion upon the class des'gnated in euphoneous terms as corpora- tion cormorants and venal vampires. De- claring a dividend of 100 per cent to the stcckholders of an insolvent company! Could such things really happen at a well- rogvlated family reunion of railroad saints? There must some lapses of memory, surely, among the witnesses. Was John Fitzgerald clear in his mind when he sat in that charmed circle or s he laboring under a hallucination? With such dis- closures we begin to understand why some roads have gone into the hands of re- ceivers whilo others have passed thelr usual dividend. In any event the friends of Mr. Fitzgerald have reason to congratulate him upon the supreme court that he held the joker in the three-card monte game with Sage, Gould, Dillon & Co, be convineing THE FEMALE SUFFRAGE FAD. The latest reports from the New York con- | stitutional convention announce the rapid decline of the female suffrage fad. When the female suffrage fad was at its helght in New York,when fashionable men and women were overreaching one another In their of- forts to sign petitions to strike the word male from the suffrage clause of the consti- tution, when soclety leaders holding nightly etings In thelr mansions, when the profession of agitators were cry- ing oud the overwhelming slon of all classes to their teachings, it was freely prodicted that this exhibition purely spectacular and could endure but a very time, That prediction seems to have been verified almost sooner than was antlel- pated. | to Burope, to the seaside or to their coun- try residences. Having signed the wonder- ful petitions In a moment of emotion, the more falr-minded people have taken time to think the matter over, and while they per- were parlor m conve! was hort The social swells have all gone off favor or protect their interest. baps are not recalling thelr signatures they Rallway unfon against all rallroads running The business of a score | r think that they have gone quite far enough. The professionals went up to Albany to ap- pear befors the suffrage committeo: they se¥ cured public hearings and recited their stock arguments, but made 1(ftle impression, majority of the members absenting themselves and gallantly teaving their seats In the chamber for the women. New York chronfele the progress of the woman suffrage movement only semi occasfonally instead of devoting columns of each issue to the doings of the agitators. In short, female suffrage In New York Is nothing but a fad, and like all other fads is fading after a brief tence. After convention hall have closed its labors and the amended constitution which it will pro pose shall have been ecither adopted or re- Jected the participants in the fad will wonder how they ever allowed themselves to glve way to a movement unsubstantial and so fleeting. newspapers now ex the PROBLEM, of THE PRESIDENT'S The fnauguration of a new the French republic has already given rise to rumors of an impending constitutional conflict between the executive and the legis- lative branches of the French government. That conflict commenced soon after the pres- sent constitution proclaimed, it was waged in a desultory manner during the pres- idency of MacMahon and was supposed by marn to have been terminated with Mac- Mahon's resignation. It is the contest for political supremacy, for the political respon- sibility of the ministry to the Chamber of Deputies, elected directly by the people, in- stead of to the president, chosen indirectly through the electoral college. To understand the problem which besets the French president we must understand the principle upon which the French govern- ment has been constructed. The French government is as nearly related in form to that of Great Britain as it_Is to that of the United States. While it has a president it also has a ministry responsible to the legls- lature and really the governing power. The president must exercise all his functions through the members of the ministry. He appoints the ministers and can dismiss them, but by custom he can appoint those only who are satisfactory to the majority of the deputies. The president nominally holds his office for a fixed term, while his ministry serve merely at the pleasure of the deputies. In other words, during the incumbency of one president there is no limit to the number of ministries of different political parties that may pass into and out of power. The French president occupies the position of an elective monarch. He Is oxpected to sink his personality while at the head of the government, notwithstanding the fact that he has been elected as a partisan and as the candidate of one of the political parties. Finally, although chosen for a term of seven years, It is within the power of the deputies to force him out of office at any time by declaring that they will co-operate with no mini:try that he may name, no matter what its political allegiance. President MacMahon's troubles arose partly from the obscurities of the new con- stitution.” That document declares that tho ministry shall govern in harmony with the two houses of the legislature. When the political complexion of the deputies changed from that of the Senate in 1876 the presi- dent tried to maintain a premier in agree- ment with the Senate, but not with the house. He failed the first time, tried again and failed, tried to establish a ministry the members of which were connected with neither the Senate nor the deputies, but once more failed, and finally, when the republicans secured control of both houses, MacMahon resigned. Since then both presidents, Grevy and Carnot, scrupulously adhered to the principle that their ministry must be in political harmony with the majority of the Chamber and must change as that majority changes. If President Casimer-Perier should attempt to uphold a ministry of his own political faith in spite- of the demands of the deputies the old contest will be re- newed. He can secure freedom from turmoil and strife only by balancing one party against another and gracefully making him- self an automaton to do the bidding of the dominant party in the Chamber. FRENCH president was A decision has just been rendered by a Chicago judge that a city has no authority or right to permit privileged persons to use the public streets for private purposes. In the case adjudicated an ordinance was passed to allow a property owner to bridge an alley, but his neighbors objected on the ground that it encroached upon their rights of light and air in the streets. The court held that they had good cause for their suits, Of course, if a city council has no right to permit the use of the alr over a street for private purposes it has no better right to prevent the use of the surface for such purposes. Yet there is probably not a city in the country where the public streets have not been monopolized by prop- erty owners to the exclusion and injury of tho general public. This is often done with the special consent of the city authorities, although more often without it. With or without that consent the use of the streets for private purposes is illegal and in viola- tion of the rights of the public and ad- Joining property owners who have particular easements in the street have good grounds for instituting civil suits for damages. An enforcement of the latter may open a way to insure to the people the use of the streets that have been dedicated to the public. M. Dupuy has consented to remain at the head of the French ministry without refer- ence to the change in the presidency occa- sioned by the assassination of President Car- not. As a matter of fact, there was really no necessity for the premier to offer his resignation on the advent of a new presis dent. It has bocome a matter of common courtesy and perhaps an established prece- dent for the ministry to resign in order to leave tho new executive free to surround himself with a harmonious set of assistants, but where he-is restricted in his cholce to a ministry that can count upon the support of the Chamber of Deputies this privilege can at best be but nominal. It is possible that the French president might be elected by a party in the minority among the deputles, in which case he would be unable to install and retaln a minlstry of his own political faith, The French ministry need change only as the political majority of the deputies changes. The resignation of the ministry on a change in the presidency I8 nothing but a formality. Does the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds intend to encourage the promoters of the “new industry' by assisting them in the scheme of refunding the Logan county bonds? The board should let it be dis- tinetly understood that it will have no deal- ings with middle and bond brokers. The Logan county refunding bonds offer a g00d opportunity to put a new rule into ef- foct, men BEYAN AND HIS OUTBREAK, Fyan is brilllant omy of this p are among th but litieal first Atkinson Graphje In the fluctuatin world, brilllant to fade, Central City N met went o the mountain would Mr. Bryan wishé he may do but will not go to him Wallace Star: BDilly Bryan s a great actor worthy, perlaps, to wear tho bined mantles of Edwin Booth, John MeCullough, Lawrence Barr + Allee Oat and 1 other “late lamented foptlight favorite The sta yearns for l"ll!* and the dear people should assist in phatihig him whe o be- longs. Wayne Herald When the democratic state convention convenes the delegates and spectators will be treated to one of those two ring circuses that will bring tears to the eyes of the prairie grass, followed fm- mediately by a downpou Prayor will probably not be entertained and the green grass will be set on fire York Times: If Mr. Bryan can keep up the pace he has sct he will earn his salary from the silver league unless it Is too awfully large. Mr. Bryan was worth about $2,000 a year as a dress parade lawyer, but as a dress parade agitator he is worth ten times that, and if the silver barons pay him less than $20,000 a year they are gotting him too cheap, i Columbus Telegram: gineered the silver conference at Omaha had influence enough with the pop powers to have them postpone their convention a num- ber of days after it had already been called. Now they want to make the democrats hasten their convention. Will they have the same power with the democrats as with the pops? We opine not Crete Democrat: i tafn mte to > to the The reason Maho because the | Mahomet. 1t | the populists mountain they | 18 like The men who en- And now the cuckoos are declaring that they will support the re- publican ticket before they will vote for democratic candidates running- on a free conage platform. Just like 'em. It won't be the first republican ticket they have voted. We know this outfit well and have sized them up at their true worth. They have been a curse to democracy for years Kearney Journal: The battle in Nebraska this fall is to be centered on the legislature. Bryan is determined to warm a senatorial seat and he will use a demo-pop combina- tlon to further his ambition, wherever fusion can be accomplished. Buffalo county has al- ways been fertiie ground for fusion and doubtless will be this fall, but with good nominations the republican legislative ticket can be elected. Wahoo Wasp: As yet the flames that were to sweep over the prairies of Nebraska on the occasion of W. J. Bryan's visit to the Omaha free silver convention have not attracted a great deal of attention. The principal burning seems to be that of re- morse in the hearts of those democrats who have made such fools of themselves in going oft after strange gods, The prairies of Ne- braska are not in burning condition at the present time, especially If the flames are to be kindled by Billy Bryan's ofl. Pawnee City Republican: Two years ago Billy Bryan went up and down the country roaring about free trade and tariff reform. According to him no other question so con- cerned the fate of the people and his “butcher knife” campaign was applauded and “‘aped” by a lot of dupes in this neck of the woods. The tariff question is still un- settled, but where is Billy Bryan? Raging up and down the country on a new issue, allowing the tariff to take care of itself. It isn’t the fate of the dear people, but the votes that Bryan is after, and he isn't a bit particular where or how he gets them. York Democrat: The men who were for silver a year ago and who, with Mr. Bryan, were hooted out of a democratic convention at Lincoln, will not have to wait long for their revenge. As soon as a convention is held these men will have the satistaction of playing even. Bryan and his followers will not be run out of the next convention, and a committee mighe be appointed now to carry the news tof Megsrs. Cleveland, Mor- ton, Castor and otlgrs Who had their fun last year. The remainfug femnant of the once strong democraticd party in Nebraska are falling over one another to climb onto the Bryan band wagon. Let the People Elect the St.Bauls Post. The so-called debate in the senate, which has not thrown a single ray of light on the subject of the tariff, ought to produce an effective sentiment in’ favor of changing the character of the members of that body. As at present constituted the senate Is a drag, a hindrance to public business, in- stead of a help. Too many of its mem- Dbers are representatives, not of the people, but of special interests, and vote as those interests dictate. They' are neither states- men nor politicians in the best sense of the word. The elections should rest with the people. Only in that way can the char- acter of the “highest legisiative assembly in the world” be purlfied and made truly representative of popular sentiment. Senators. The Degeneracy of Art. Chicago _Times. Poor St. Gaudens! His first design for the Columbian awards medal was rejected by the senate on the grounds that if was im- modest, since it contained the undraped fig- ure of & male youth, and now & secon in which he had submitted a chaste bird and a sexless wreath, has been adversely passed upon by Secretary Carlisle. —The eminent sculptor deserves the sympathy of the art-loving. world, albeit he might make one more effort toearn the §1,000 appro- priated to pay for the design. Let him but insert a Sugar barrel rampant, with dollar marks dexter and sinister as sup- porters, and his medal will be accepted with the thanks and compliments of these captious officlal critics. e Monoring a Young Neroine. Cincinnati Enquirer, President Carnot lived long enéugh to send to little Jennie Cook of Mill Grove, Ind., a decoration of the Legion of Honor. It will be recalled that amid the tremend- ous rallway traffic of the World" fair period the child, only 10 vears old, found @ trestle burning and saved the oncoming train from destruction by flagging it with her red flannel petticoat.” It happened that amid the throng of rescued passengers was a group of distinguished Frenchmen. Hence the decoration. The child should be as proud as Clgarette in Oulda’s story of Inder Two Flags.” It was not only an honor unparalleled in this country, but she deserved it. e The Financlal Outlook. St. Paul Ploncer ¥ s, The banks did a wise as well as a patri- otic thing In advancing to the government from their plethoric vaults the gold netes- sary to maintain the gold reserve which had been withdrawn from the treasury for shipment abroad, President — Cleveland's brief summary of the financial uation is encouraging, both from the treasury and the commercial point of view. It is a preg- nant fact that last June the balance against uS in the account of imports and exports, exclusive of gold and silver, was $41.552,040. This ycar for the same period the balance 1a our favor is $62,000, ~belng a change In our favor of $12 Mutila History. Chicago Herald, Commenting upoh the atroclous crime which has deprived Frgnce of an admirable president, the London Ghroniele says: “Lin- coln died in a theater at the hand of a lunatic enraged at.the confederacy which the president decided to let down so gently.” If the Chronicle knows no more about French than' it does about Ameri- can affairs nobody will care to know what else it says. But why should a London ed tor selze upon such an occasion to display his ignorance of American history? It is enough to affront one country ut a time, N —— Butler, Memories of Bei New York Ally The louder Mr. Dana roars for a_tarift for revenue only, aeccording to the Chicago ans and specifications, the less likely are ociferous demands to be acceded to Dana's yarty, allowing that . remembers when he cut loose Platform and undertook to run Ben Butler for president on a platform_of his own. Since that unhappy event Mr. Dana has had about as much influence in politics as a last year's bird's nest has on the price of ha = Artin's with the & Courler-Journal. Senator Allen's attempt to keep a on oil paintings failed. This is well 15 no demand anywhere for a tax on paint- ings. Certainly Senator Allen and Senator Chandler need no protection in their efforts 1o paint the senate chamber re AL The Ketort Courteous, Chicago Record, ation which Colonel Breck- red againat this city he has reatest tribute that it is in his power to bestow. To be disliked by this aps M he has on from the ush. tarif There In the vitup: inridge has ut B it the creature s to be commended in the eyes | of decent people. Louls Republie: RBditor & a triumphant election arried the doctrine of the workingmen of the tronghold has earned Indianapolis Journal: Editor Singerly of the Philadelphfa Record has been chosen by lils party as the sacrifice ft will offer up this year in Pennsylvania. Mr. Singerly, it is undarstood, has consented to serve as eandi- | o for governor, and democratic politicians | are refolcad over the unexpected ease with | which they secured a victim. Rditor Sing- | erly s an amiable gentleman and Pei sylvania republicans are already extending to him their regrets for the overwhelming manner in which they will be compelled to do him up in November Chicago Post: It s delightful from Pennsylvania to the Colonel Singerly is to be the democratic date for governor. Colonel Singerly s what might be called an all-ronnd man. He | broeds more and better short horn bulls than | any man in America, he knows the points of ‘a trotting horse as well as the author of tho stud book, he fs varied and resourco- ful as a politician and accomplished and courageous as a journalist. Colonel Singerly should make a glorious and successtul c palgn. As the republican majority in P ylvania {s only umpthy hundred thousand, we can predict for this amlable citizen an unbroken carcer in the dignified position of editor of the Philadelphia Record. Washington Post: We are not that all of Editor Singer plans will materialize just as ho oxpects. There Is no guarantee that the Pennsylvania voters will turn their ballots against a man who has the nerve to take the stump at this particular time and preach pure and undeflled demo- cracy. The novelty of the spectacle, It oc- curs to us, might tend to arouse an en- thusiasm that would sooner or later develop into a tidal wave, and then Mr. Singerly would be powerless and there would be the most imminent danger of his being swept Into the gubernatorial chalr despite his protests. According to our notion Mr. Singerly s playing with most dangerous fire Unless he Is willlng to chance four years' residence at Harrisburg he should rofrain from poking sticks into the gubernatorial cage. among news that comes effect that quite suro R, i PEOPLE AND THI Recent promiscuous lightning strikes fn Nebraska left no reliable clue as to the can- didate it was after. The wonder is how it d one. One evil crowds upon another's heel. Just as the prospect brightens for a cessation of tho tarift agony comes the announcement of a Buddhist lecture siege of four months. Richard Croker bewails the unsatisfactory libel laws of this country. The newspapers will cheerfully waive technicalities if Rich- ard will come into court and tell how he got 0 s The most unique spectacle of these swelter- Ing days is a beneficiary of the Cleveland administration yelling for the white metal. There is a fortune in the freak for some enterprising museum manager. W. H. Wallace is an Ohio postmister of sixty years' standing. The dimensions of his pull_are anxiously sought for by modern members of the p. m. fraternity, Wallace is a Jacksonian by appointment and inclina- tion. An electric expert attempts to explain in two pages of a trade publication the which- ness and_wherefores of electric current curves. The writer gropes in theoretical darkness. If he would grasp the subject by the topknot, let him hie hither and get on to the electric’ curves exhibited in Omalia. The official investigation into the causes of the wreck of the tug Nicol off New York harbor developed the fact that while the tug was overlonded with fisherman, there was no real danger until the excursionists got outside of a liberal stock of bottled bait. The changed position of the cargo capsized the boat. The nomination of Franklin MacVeagh for.| United States senator by the democrats of Illinois is an elegant and effective way of killing him off at the polls. But the country will watch with trembling anxlety the effect of the endorsement on the eminent demo- crat of democrats, Hon. Charles A Dana. Mr. MacVeagh is one of the high priests of western mugwumpery, and should the news of his reconsecration percolate eastward, the result may -he-likened to the influence of a red garment on a pugnacious bull. Archibald Forbes relates that once after Henry M. Stanley had delivered an un- successful lecture when his manager called on him about it he heard an unearthly noise going on below. “What's that?” asked the manager. ‘““That's my black boy; he always makes that noise when he is cleaning my boots.” “All right,” said the manager. “You divide tonight’s lecture in half, and at the end of the first part have your black boy on to make that noise.”” The experiment was a triumphant success—such a success that the audience would not hear of his leaving off for Mr. Stanley to resume. i s o caes ILLUMINATING NGS. S, Washington Star: “‘Are these colors fast she asked of the new clerk. “Yes, indeed. You ought to see them when they once start to run.” Philadelphia Times: For that matter, all first boy babies are princes, and princes of walls as a general thing, too. Plain Dealer: No logiclan has ever yet convinced a boy that it was time to come out of the water, “And your sei d olis Journal Indfanapolis Jo A ol ee what does it do?” asked Hindoo. 'he senate,” sald the showing him ‘around, ‘is It doesn’t do. your Nirvana, Pittsburg Chronicle: Miss Bellefleld (re- lating an_ incident)—Then "I droppe voice, and Mr. Halkett (interrupting)= That wouldn’t hurt it. Yours is such a soft voice, you know. man who was something like It merely 18, Washington Star: “Yoh kain't allus de- pen’ on whut yoh hyeah,” said Uncle kben, *Opain't necessarily dé young man dat shoots off de mos' flah ‘crackahs on de Fourf of July dat 'ud be de fus' ter enlis ef wah broke out.” nkers Statesman: She—Mr. Bacon tried to put his arm around my waist four or five times last night. He—Is Mr. Bacon a freak or is your waist so very small? Somerville Journal: A G-year-old boy with flaxen curls ‘looks a great deal pretifer to his mother than he does to the short-haired little boys who play with him. Indianapolis Journal: Mrs. Hashcroft— Mr. Billings, would you say a deliclou of coffee, or a cup of deliclous c Billings—1 fail to see any oc saying clther. SEASIDE AND SHOP, Washington St With a sigh that Is soft as the zephyr at morn She greets the young man in his wooing; AU home he's a salesman; she's rich and high born; But his pathway with smiles she i3 strew- ng. But there's difference vast between seaside and tow perience has many sad scholars, fall at the counter she'll stand’ with a frown, - When he murmurs “that silk is $1." R THE BALANCE OF POWER, 0 xt Washington Star, Out in a merry western state There dwelt an intellectual madam when new fads were started ‘round, eat acuteness often had 'em, Her chief concern And with a patl Bhe cheered her little Until, at last, she really voted. Her step was proud when at the polly She gave her principles expression; Sho went there with opinions fi Resolved to hear of no concession, But good intentions often stray, Mistakes will win, while wis¢ men won- der, She found—-and shed a little tear Her little vote was quite snowed under. Across the line, not far away, r woman lived obscurely, the papers as they came, d her views, though not demurely, scene of public toll she shunned, But gave the love wh tones and mel- lows sons which sprang up, lad by lad, Till they were seven manly fellows, And In the twilight of he She pondered well, while she was To make her mind Up on some points The villagers were then contesting, Bhe couldn’t vote, but still they had The benefit of Her reflection; For seven men went mother's way, 4nd seven carried the election, lite sting, | drowned ovenin Colby, George Oscar N. Yea, 8. 8.3 Cle DROWNED Member of a Pionic Party Gots in Foyond His Depth, BODY RECOVERED AFTER FOUR HOURS Not Fi o Out with Grap- Hooks, His Companions Conld art d the ody . from Beatrloo pling BEATRICE, Neb, July 1 Tele- gram to The Bee.)—John Kroeehe, of a pienicking party, was drowned {n creek, four miles west of the city. He at 10 ck this morning selnlng for miunows. Search was made the body by the party, but thelr proved unavalling and a messenger was dis- patched to the city and a party went out with grappling hooks, recovering the body after it bad been in the water about four lours. Mr. Kroeche was an in Friteh's talloring establishment, was 28 years old, and leaves a wife and four chil- dren in almost destitute circumstance AUBURN, Neb., to The Bee)—Joe 20 years of age. of Brownville, Little Nemaha (Spectal a member Cut was while for o'el rn employe a July 1.—(Special Telegram the son of Charles Shantz Neb., was drowned in the river near Glen Rock this afternoon, about 4 o'clock. He and some otlier | young men were in the river bathing, when without any warning whatever young Shantz began to sink and before the other bathers were a of it he had gone down for the third time. The deceased was very popular among his acquaintances nd was working for August Reimers at the time of his death, LIVELY TIMES AT WEST POINT. Two Fights In One Thin » 1 WEST POINT, Neb., July 1—(Special to The Bee.)—Bditor Langer of the West Point Republican and Frederick Singplel, an ex-city marshal, had a lively set-to this afternoon. The trouble arose from an arti- cle published by Langer reflecting upon the moral character of Mr. Singpiel. Singplel was knocked down and bystanders inter- fered. Late this evening another encounter took place In a saloon between John Welding, a prominent liveryman and local politician, and P. R. Morganthaler, an insurance agent, Both were under the influence of liquor and fought savagely. Welding od Morga thaler's hand and bit one finger so that amputation will be necessar All four combatants are cited to appear before Justice Briggs on Monday. Mayor Kloke left trip fo Lake Okoboji. A committee of the Nebraska Chautauqu headed by Secrctary Ober of Omaha, wer here looking for a location for their annual encampment. Architect Ellis of Omaha has secured the contract for the ercction of a double brick store building for J. I, Losch. The West Point brick yard is now running at its full capacity. The new firm of Boyd & Harmon arc doing a rushing business. Duy Serve terosting. to Make vesterday on a fishing IMPROV. NEBRASKA CI1TY ENTS, ndod rilos. Large Amount to Be Kxp Public and Private I NEBRASKA CITY, July 1.—(Special to The Bee)—Nebraska City will spend con- siderable money this year in public improve- ments. Both parks, the Tenth strect and Morton, have already been greatly improved. The work on the former has been largely made by popular subscription. If the im- provements contemplated are carrfed out the city park will be one of the handsomest blocks in the state. A great deal of grad- ing Is being done, two new grading dis- tricts having been recently laid out, and the city strects are being put in really first- class condition. There will be a boom In the bullding trade this season. The congregations of the Bap- tist and Presbyterian churches are to erect new houses of worship, bonds are to be voted for a new High school and either a new opera house will be built or the old one remodeled. The Argo Starch company, which was recently organized from the Nebraska City Starch company, will erect new build- ings, larger than at present occupied by the company, more than doubling the capacity. Besides these large contracts many hand- some private residences and snug little cottages are being erected. by the CELEBRATION AT FREMONT. Patriotic Peoplo Will Go to tho Assembly unds on that Day. FREMONT, July 1.—(Special to The Bee.) —The Fourth of July will be observed in this place at the Chautauqua assembly grounds. The exercises will con:ist of an oration by Rev. Frank C. Bruner of Illinois 30 p. m. and day fireworks, sports and music before and after. Speaking, music and fireworks n the evening. A picnic will be given in the City park by the Philharmonic guild, where an oration will be delivered by Hon.' Lee S. Estello at 10 a. m., supplemented by a short one from Mr. John Rush. Other appropriate services will follow. A large dancing floor will be cheered with music by Kendricks' orchestra during the afternoon and evening The J. C. Cleland Hose company will go to David Citv to enter the races. The recently completed school census shows the existence of 1,205 boys and 1,366 girls, a total of 2,571, and an increase of 271 over last year. Base Ball Tournament ut Burwell. BURWELL, Neb., July 1.—(Special to The Bee.)—We have had two fine showers, wet- ting the ground to a depth of from four to six inches. The farmers are nearly all plowing up their small grain and planting either corn or millet. There will be a base ball tournament in Burwell July 10, 11 and 12. Eight teams will contest” for four prizes, ranging from $200 down to $40. There is cousiderable talk here about irri- gation, The general opinion seems to he that this vicinity must be irrigated, but the people think they can do nothing until the legislaturc provides for bonding precincts and counties for the expense of building the ain ditches. Clvil englneers have made al surveys and say that all the land in vicinity can be watered very cheaply from the North Loup and Calamus rivers At the late school meeting it was decided to have nine months’ school the coming year and a tax was voted accordingly. The B. & M. train from Ord ORD, Neb., July 1.—(Special to The installation of officers of Ord lodge No. 103, A. F. and A. M., took place Saturday The following were the brethren J. C. Heddle, W. M.; J W Edwin N. Mitchell, J, Hather, troasurer; Charl Burrows, secretary; Charles . King, 8, or, J. D.; Winfield S, Water: ett I, Hughes, J. 8.; Rev. Charles 3. Wilson, chaplain; Wiiliam Weare, tiler. “Hon. A. M. Robbins and wite left Satur- installe WHILE ~ SEINING | efforts | | from hantz, a young man about | day, June 23, for Denver. They will make an_extended trip before returning. Migs A, M. Jones of our oity for Lincoln Saturday morn will spend somes time In att normal _school Miss Lon Brannan of Central City, been visiting with her sister Ayres, left for her home Friday chools whei dance at left she the who hag Mrs, 8 Dy morning. TECUMSEH NEWS NOTS Jolnson County Tenchers Convene July 1 TECUMSEH, July 1.-(Special to The Bee)—The Johnson county teachers Instis tute will convene in this city July 9 for & two weeks Mrs. Mattie Cowan has gone to the bed- side of an alling brother in West Virginia. Mr. and M O. McLanahan of Green- castle, Pa., visiting relatives in this city. Attorney C. in_Philadelphia C. R. Wick Wil are K. Chamberlain s visiting of Lincoln has ck of nevelty goods of W. R Miss Flora Grimes of Kingfl visiting frlends here The city council at its last meeting lovied a tax of 1 mill on the dollar valuation in our city to establish and maintain a publie library. Mr. and Mrs City were guests Cooper, this city, the past woek Sherift Woolsey has brought man, a former resident of OKlahoma on mortgaged property quest his prelimin for July 11 Prof. bought the teynolds her,” Okl., 18 L. B. Cake of Mr. of New and M York H & James Alder- this city, back he charge of selling At the prisoner’s re- ry examination w set H. Bradbury of Wahoo, who has been engaged to superintend our city schools the coming year, has moved his family to this city. Ma. A. I Weir of Lincoln has accepted the invitation to address the independents at their 4th of July celebration at Riverside grove, near he A great many of our people attended the Beatrice Chautauqua last week. EBANON SWE BY FIRE, Greater Part of the Business I Town Des| Neb., July 1 Bee,)—A nsos of the LEBANON, gram to The (Spectal Tele- conflagration oc- curred at this place this afternoon which completely consumed the greater part of the business houses, with most of their con- tents, all of which were uninsured, except- Ing the stock of drugs, which was Insured for $600. The fire was discovered at about 4 o'clock in the rear of a general merchan- diso store owred by B. F. Bradbury, In the center of a block of frame buildings. From there it quickly spread to the building oceus pled by F. overn with a drug stock. These were the two largest buildings in the block, the rest soon caught from the 3 postoflice was destroyed, but ything of importance was saved. Stren- ts were put forth by the citizens stocks and they were in a meas- ful. The greater part, however, was burned, entailing a loss of about $10,000 on the buildings and stock. The origin of the fire Is unknown. The names of the losers and_amounts are: B, Bradbury, postofiice, $300; dwelling, same, $100; store building, same, $500; store building, Ault- man & Taylor, $500; store building, H. Burgess ); dwelling, I. S, Sovern, $100. Stocks: ~ H. B. Waugh, $150 F. Brad- bury, $5,000; Fred Sovern, Bifert & Garrett, $2,000; S. Bullings, §: S TEACHERS HAVE A PICNIC, Dodge County's Insi ctors Have n Pleasant mo on the Chautauqua Grounds. FREMONT, July 1.—(Special to The Bee.) —Dr. Doherty of Omaha held service in St. James Episcopal church today. Rev. G. M. Brown addressed the Young Men's Christian association at the Women! Christian Temperance union temple this afternoon. During the late thunder storm lightning ran on a wire into the residence of Fred Do La Matyr and J. T. May, doing slight dam- ago only. The members of the teachers' institutte went to the Chautaugua yesterday afternoon for an outing, and, with the various games, races and music of the Normal band, en- joyed a_pleasant afternoon. The Republican and Populist clubs each held enthusiastic meetings last evening, George A Mangy of Lincoln addressed the atter, T Al WILL CELEBRAT! Grent Preparations Boing Mado to Obsorve the Natlon's Birthday. TEKAMAH, July L.—(Special to The Bee.) >reparations are now about complete for the greatest Fourth of July celebration in Tekamah that Burt county has ever had, Some $500 has been ralsed for the occasion and prospects now are, weather permitting, that the expectations of the citizens will be fully realized. The principal events of the day will be the merchants' trades display, participated in by all the business men, and a public marriage on the the falr grounds, whero the celebration Is to take place, Hon, James Powers of Omaha is to be the orator of the day. The Burt county teachers' institute con- venes in this city the 9th of the month and continues for two weeks Reddy Woods Rourrested. WAVERLY, Neb., July 1.—(Speclal to The Bee.)—The Lutheran church was crowded this evening to listen to an address by A. G. Wolfenbarger of Lincoln, under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance union, in a union meeting of all the churches, Another telegram was received this even- ing from Sherift J. C. Eikenbary of Platts- mouth ordering the rearrest of ‘“Reddy"” Woods, charged with horse stealing. City Highest of all in Leavening Power.——Latest U, Roval Marshal €. M. Kroeson found the man lying at the hotel in a crippled condition, having just crushed his foot in a scrape with & horse down at the livery barn, The sentiment of the place is strongly in favor of Woods, who declares himself inno- cent, Frod Hedde a Veteran Tarner. GRAND ISLAND, July 1.—(Special to The Bee) Fred Hedde, proprictor of the In- dependent, the veteran editor of central Ne- braska, enjoys the distinction of belng por- haps the only living charter member of the old Turner Verein of Klel, Schleswig Hol- stein, . This organization is now celebrating its fiftleth anniversary. Mr, Hedde has been requested by repeated let= ters to attend, being one of the organizers of the strongest and oldest Turner organiz tion in that country. Not boing able to leave business at presant for a sojourn in his native land, his photograph, with an appro- priate letter of regret, has been sent. Dwelling Burned at Beatrl BEATRICE, Neb., July 1.—(Special Telo- gram to The Bee)—The two-story house of Charles Hayer, just outside the fire limit, was burned to the ground about noon today, the result of a defective flue, The hook and ladder boys and a large number of citizens went out and succeeded in saving the contents of the lower part of the house, everything in the upper rooms being des stroyed. i Personnl Kights Leagus Meoting. NEBRASKA CITY, July 1—(Special to ho Bee.)—A meeting of the Personal Rights league has been called for next Sunday after- noon at the Turn hall. This meeting 1 the outgrowth of the anticipated organization of & law and order I cro are 1,600 Slembers of the Personal Rights league in Otoe county, and the meeting will doubtless be largely attended. Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE