Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1894, Page 4

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OF CIRCULATION, ’ George I, Tzachuck, secretary of The Nee Pube fishing company. being duly sworn, says that the | actinl number of full and complete cqples of The Windny Doe printed wis ns follow Dafly Morning, vening and during the month of June, 150 Total ... et Less deductions for and returned coples s i Vibveribar a0 | Total sold ..... B ttiies 4,787 Dally average net clren 5 21,826 *Sunda 3 B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed In o my Ppresence this 24 day of July, 159} (Seal.) P. FEIL,Notary Public. The white ribbon is not necessarily related to the yeliow label, as many people may suppose. Tho mayor of Detroit® and fifty other mayors marched up the hill and then marched down again. Turkey s being thoroughly shaken up, too. But it Is the earthquakes that are do- ing the work and thg national troops have not been speclally called out., The present strike is 1 new legal precedents Within the various labor organizations as well as within the adminis- fstration of the federal government. ble to evolve some The testimony taken by the semate sugar scandal investigating committee may be of great bulk, yet it can have but little weight 80 far as Influencing the action of the senate 1s concerned. As the pendulum swings back and forth the taxpayers of Omaha feel a sense of relief from the assurance that Bell- wether Hascall's term of office expires in less than six months. All the apologies which Attorney General Olney and Judge Grosscup may offer for the unwarranted and illegal seizure of the pri- vate papers of President Debs cannot excuse the officers who executed the seizure for themselves violating the law. A great many railroad officials have been interviewed upon the strike situation, but not one of them has yet ascribed his troubles to ‘“hostile legislation.” It is not too late. ““Hostile “legislation” must come in for the bulk of the blame. The renomination of Governor Nelson by the republicans of Minnesota was expected as a matter of course, and the convention could have done nothing else without sub- Jecting itself to severe censure. Governor Nelson has made a most excellent governor and his re-election is an assured fact. Mayor Bemis will be promptly on hand at the appointed hour to refute the impeach- ment charges that have been filed against him.- It any one asks for a continuance or attempts to pursue dilatory tacties it will be the two soiled saints who are posing as his accusers. The bold bIuff of the Wiley gang won't work. —_— The unusual conditions that have existed at the leading hog and cattle markets for the past two weeks ought to make South Omaha show a marked advance in the weekly table of animals slaughtered. The South Omaha dealers ought also to make every effort to retain the advantage that has been thus thrust upon them. Chicago thought she had discovered the effectual remedy for the smoke nuisance In an enforced closing of the furnaces owing to the threatened general strike. But it seems to have been all a mistake. A smoke con- sumer that consumes is the only device for permanently abating the smoke nuisance that has yet made its appearance. An American bullet-proof coat is now of- fered for public inspection to demonstrate that America still retains her lead in the fleld of invention. The new coat is sald to welgh less than Herr Dowe's and to be equally resistant. We may expect America to soon produce a bullet against which Herr Dowe's garment wlll afford no protection, It Major Balcombe has been designated sewer Inspector for the ensulng year, what position does ex-Sewer Inspector Furay clalm to hold the present moment? It is an axiom of natural philosophy that two bodles cannot occupy the same space at the same time. As applied to political sclence position is only another name for space. According to the view of the Wiley con- tingent In the city council, the electrical instruments in the office of the city eleetri- clan are entirely useless for the work of electrical inspection. This Is doubtless true 80 long as Hascall's acting city electrician 1 pormitted to hold the fort. Every instry- ment must be useless in the hands of men who do not know how to use it Mr. Howell admitted at the council meet- ing Tuesday that he bad made a mistake in the composition of the special committee to Investigate the office of the city electri- clan, He slipped a cog, 0 to speak. The ult was that two of the members of the committes brought in a report radically at warlance with the Cowgill blackwash which Mr. Howell and tho rest of the Wiley com- bine wanted. The inquisitive correspondent who wrote to the state superintendent of public instru tion to learn whether a member of a district #ehool board could legally employ their sis ters, cousins or aunts as teachers must feel | relieved at recelving an affirmative answer. Had he requested information as to the le gality of the state superintendent employing his wite as his assistant be would have been GRIEVANCE AND REMEDY. The trouble with workingmen Is that they seldom reach out for the proper remedies for thelr griovances. told that President Gompers of the Federa- tion of Labor will recommend a boycott of Pullman cars by all trades unfon workmen. Now, what effeet would such a boycott have on Pullman and his company? For instance, The bulk of Few of them have the luxury of sleeping cars, and those who are obliged or able to use the sleeper for thelr famill | workingmen. on account of sick- the boyeott months or even a shorter period. congress and the rallroads to nish patrons with sleeping car accommoda- and prohibit ping car companies. the companies were obliged to run sleepers legislatures contracts with of business. stronglold has been the patent, but most of e already expired, and such as are still in force would not prevent the s that would accommodate fastidious tourist. representative labor leaders are making is in thelr demand compulsory 4 courts and hoards of appointive commlssion- Compulsory arbitration doubtless offers al solution for the settlement bullding of sleer is one-sided. now authorizing the dent to take the initiative in arbitration by appointment would Grover Cleveland appoint? select an impartial board that would decide the controversy fairly between the railroads lway union, or would he appoint men recommended by Olney and picked for purpose by How would it be with arbitration by federal Judges nine these judges owe their places to political in- fluence, which nearly alw Their soclal intercourse is nearly always with men of great wealth and corpo- lawyers and naturally and perhaps unconsciously molde by the same influence. The only way for the railway employes to assure redress of grievances and fair treat- government supervision of in interstate traflic commission, ys means corporate public carriers engaged mpulsory arbi juries composed of an equal number of men on each side of the controversy, chosen for each case and locked up like a jury engaged to prevent outside tam- trials would properly be under' supervision of a court, but free from all judicial interference as to the determination of the merits of the respective claims or rendered by such juries would be respected and cheerfully submitted to by the working- men as well as their employers. to reason that professional arbitrators would never be so respected because of their rela- tions to the appointing power and their sus- to influences from that have most to give for their good will. murder trial the parties SOURCE OF LAWLESSNESS. The masses of American workingmen are loyal to the government. or more steadfast patriotism than is to be found among those who labor for a living. No portion of our people can be more cer- to sustain the authority of the federal government and to maintain the national and the laws than the great body of Amerl- These men love the re- value of free the constitution and There s no truer tainly relied constitution wage earnel they respect laws made pursuant thereto, orate the memories of the great men who they honor the emblem of In the great conflict for the pre reliance of the was upon the men who labored for a liveli- It was the loyalty and the patriot- ism of the toilers of every kind that went to the rescue of the government hour of greatest peril. government From the mills and from the factories and farms, were recruited the great armies of and self-sacrificing the calls of the government to protect the assault of period of supreme danger to the union and of supreme trial the reliance of who responded to to republican institutions the government was upon the yeomanry of the nation, upon the strong arms and willing hearts of the men of toll, who surrendered to their love That there is the same loyalty, the same devotion, the same spirit of patriotism among the workingmen of today that actuated those of thirty-three years ago there can be no Put to the same test men of that trying pericd between 1861 and 1865, the men’ of today would respond with no less alacrity to the support of the govern- as were the domestic or forelgn announcement go forth were needed to repel a foreign foe or put insurrection bo responded to os rapidly as men could be tree institutions. necessary to ap- ply this to existing conditions, with a view understanding how far ingmen of the country are to be held r sponsible for the lawles the contlict iess that has marked appears to be draw violations of workingmen to be a jus the interest of labor. of this allegation, ers deny the Justic combatting for believe to be their rights or the which has no legitimate connection with them, and which uniformly avails itselt opportunities licious spirit and its disregard of law. mitted acts of for the most part criminal elements of workingmen controversy with road companies. There is no reason to doubt that this claim Ungquestionably a Investigation, unfortunately investigation apprehended railroad strike are gullty of the acts of violence and lawless- bave characterized workingmen the contest, edified by recelving the same reply. men who were not employed by the raflroads and who have nothing in common with the strikers. In mearly every large city, and especially in Chicago, there are hundreds of idle and reckless men who seize such opportunities as are now offered to gratify thelr destructive instincts and wreak thelr vengeance upon soclety, and this element has been more than ordinarily aggressive in the present conflict. Justice to work- ingmen who honestly think that they are engaged In a rightful cause, but who have no intention to violate the law, demands that public opinion should discriminate be- tween them and the element which is in- stinctively at war with law and order, and avails itselt of every opportunity to manifest its lawless and destructive purpose —ee HERE'S A HOW D'YE DO, Under the order of Judge Scott the sher- iff of Douglas county Is now acting as re- celver for the creditors of M. F. Martin & Co. By virtue of this order the sherift's office has become a rent collecting agency for houses rented in violation of law. It there is another place In this country where a sheriff has been empowered by or- der of a court to act as rent collector for the owners of di:orderly houses we have yet to hear from it. The idea of a court directing a law officer to become the go-be- tween for violators of the criminal code s something entirely novel in American juris- prudence. What would be thought of a judge who would direct the sheriff to act as a receiver for a gambling houso or a lottery shop, well knowing that the pro- coeds ‘must come from the law breakers and that the receiver:hip constituted a per- mit to let the concerns run in full blast. For once we believe that Martin Is right when he declares the sheriff has no author- ity to act as reeciver for the castles and dives which he and his assoclates have erected in the Third ward. The anti-vice crusaders and municipal re- form league seem to have entirely over- looked this mew departure in managing the social evil. It Is certainly unique. The question they will have to debate now is whether the sheriff shall refuse to obey the mandate of the court at the risk of being incarcerated for contempt In the jail of which he Is custodian, or whether he shall obey the order of the court and lay him- self liable to impeachment for alding and abetting violators of the statutes. INTERSTATE COMMERCE. The only reference to Interstate commerce in the federal constitution is contained In that clause which empowers congress to regulate commerce ‘“‘among the several states.”” This power congress has, of course, always had, although it has exercised it but sparingly, and scarcely at all before the en- actment of the interstate commerce law in 1887. To what extent the authority of congress goes under this clause has there- fore been at Issue before the courts com- paratively little and the law upon this sub- Ject is consequently illy defined. The whole theory upon which the federal authorities have been acting during the pres- ent strike is that the power to regulate in- cludes the power to protect, and that in order to enforce the law regulating interstate com- merce it becomes the duty of the president to protect the agencles engaged in interstate trafic. In a carefully written article in the New York Times attention Is called to the fact that the law contains no specific provisions for the protection of the corpora- tions against the interference of any other power to prevent them from fulfilling their legal obligations, or for penalties for such Interference, and that it is a question how far the power to regulate which has been put into exercise by the interstate commerce law carries with it the powers to protect the railroads in performing the duties re- quired of them. “If the federal power,” it .continues, “‘can compel railroads engaged in Interstate commerce to afford reasonable facilities at all times for receiving, Inter- changing, forwarding and delivering passen- gers and freight, does that mot of necessity involve the power and the duty to protect them from obstruction and hindrance to the performance of that obligation? How can the government compel them without suppressing any force that assumes to pre- vent them, thereby setting itself up against the power of the United States?” This Is evidently the logic by which the courts will be besought to affirm that the power to regulate necessarily implies the power to protect. * This vista of the possible application of the power of regulation and protection here- after we may do more than merely contem- plate. We may look ahead and ask where it will stop. The United States supreme court has decided that mo state can impose a discriminating tax upon commercial trav- elers because it would be trenching on the power of congress to regulate commerce. Can every drummer who finds himself at- tacked or In danger appeal to the federal authorities for protection? The same court has declded that interstate commerce In- cludes all kinds of Interstate communication. Is not, then, the telegraph me:senger, the ferry man, or the telephone girl entitled to the protection of the national government as well as the locomotive engineer and the brakeman? The court has also decided that the interstate commerce clause of the con- stitution forbids a state from levying a tax upon unbroken original packages imported from without, since such a tax might in- terfere with interstate commerce. Are original packages of goods destined for ship- ment to some point in another state or just recelved from a consignee in another state subject to the protection of the federal gov- ernment equally with those that are actually In transit? If so, when I8 the federal gov ernment at liberty to withdraw its protec tion? Does the federal protection extend only to the goods when addres:ed and ready for shipment, or does it attach to them during the process of manufacture, or, further back yet, during the production of the raw materials. An inquiry of this kind has apparently no limits, Start the authorities at Wash- Ington on the way toward the protection of interstate commerce and they will find no resting place until they shall have covered almost the entire sphere of industrial activ- ity. Yet this is the logical outcome of the theory upon which the federal government has conducted itself during the pending strike. No gréater step toward the central- fzation of power in this country has been taken since the close of the war of the re- bellion. Congressman Durborow of Illinols was very much surprised on Tuesday to learn that not only had he not been renominated for con- gress by his party convention, but that his name had not even been presented for the consideration of the delegates. Mr. Durborow 1 been home a week before and had re- rned to Washington satisfied that his es were in good repair and confident of his renomination with practically no opposi- tion. His disappointment is naturally quite keen, but not quite so keen as It weould have been had he been nominated and !Wl that nearly all of It has been due In'fl'l-hd at the lls. As It 18, he will be able to sa¥ll election expenses, & saving of some mom&Pt in these times, and may console himsglt that he will not be the only democratie congressman who will pre- fer private life after their present terms ex- pire. § When Ohlef Seavey sent ‘that bombastic offer of 1,000 policemn to quell the labor trotbies &t Chiokgo 18 very naturally pro- voked the censure which jhas been expressed by the Centraf Lakgr_unlon. Chief Seavey had no right to make such an offer and was In no position to fulfll ft. It was a Falstaffian freak for him to tender 1,000 men in buckram Wien he had no authority to dispatch a single policoman from his own force, let glone 999 others from the different cities. The fact that he holds the empty title of president of the National Policemen’s assoclation does not confer wpon him any power or authority over any member of the police forces outside of Omaha, and in Omaha he, as well as every patrolman, is subject to the orders of the police com- mission and mayor for duty only within the county of Douglas, excepting where criminals fleeing from justice are to be ap- prehended, and in such cases they cannot act beyond the boundaries of the state. 0 other western city pays the principals of its schools as much for as little work as Omaha. For years the principals took charge of their respective schools in addi- tion to their work of teaching, and received salarios considerably less than those they now draw. The principal who has nothing but the supervision®of other teachers to at- tend to Is an innovation of the last few years. If we must have retrenchment, a re- turn to the former practice offers a way that will entall the least possible hardship. Senate amendments to the tarift bill re- storing specific duties in the place of ad valorem duties are said not to be considered worth wrangling about by the members of the conference committee. I so, why all this recent noise about the advantages of ad valorem over specific duties? What becomes of the great democratic principle of taxing commodities on their value and not on their quantity or quality? A Difference m Methods. Globe-Democrat. Pennoyer of Oregon his head for doing :veland has done. Pennoyer's head went off recently with a whirl at the ballot box, and he couldn’t trade it at an idiot asylim without giving a heavy bonus. ——— The Modern Juggernaut. Chicago Tribune. Grade crossing fatalities in Chicago have averaged about one a day. Soldiers sup pressed the stock v average than that. The grade cros dangerous to human life than Figures are figures, It Would Help Mightily. Detroit Free Press. The speedy passige of the tarift bill would help mightily to put the country on a firm footing after the present storm blows over. It is/hoped that the disturb- ance at Chicago and other points is not keeping members of 'congress from bust- ness. Charles T lost S A Defleits the Kulo of Nations. Chicagd Times. Misery loves company, and the people of the United States will not feel so badly over the $70,000,000 treasury deficit of the 1ist fisc 1 year whin they krow that France has run behind $30.40.000 in the same length of time, while little? Italy has incurred $i5,- 000,000 additional indebfedness during the last_welvemonth. Considering comparative resources, the Uni “States are much bet- ter off than either of the other countrie: Utah on the Threshold. Denver,_Reppblican. The bill for the wimission of Utah having passed both the honse the senate, It will now go to thd president, and in all probubility it will rec his " signature, That will add another state to the union and strengthen the west in both branches of congress. It is hoped that the passage of the Arizona and New Mexico bills will follow soon. All the territories except Alaska should be admitted, but there is little hope of the admission of Oklahoma during the present congress, for the demo- crats do not want to let in a republican state. They may find, though, that in ad- mitting Utah they reckoned without their host. It is by means sure that Utah will be democ The Secret of the Defeat. Indianapolis News. The American pride, the Vigllant, has driven before her the Dritish yacht Britan- nia three times. Of course, we may still take the same kind of pride in her that the Irishman took in his favorite race horse. He bet all he had on him. When the field swung into the home stretch with the Irish- man's horse last, after a rueful face for a moment, he burst out with enthusiasm, “Look at him. See how he dhrives thim all before him!" With the yacht race it one thing and then another. The vas new; the crew did not know the ship; then the Britannia had the best start and the best breeze, and o on and so forth. ‘The fact seems to be that. the Britannia is the best boat. After all, the Englishmen are entieled to this consolation, for it has been lo! these many yvears that they have had to suffer defeat after defeat in this game. Arbitration Must Co Boston Glot The American people cannot afford to permit the manifold interests of this great country to be sacrificed again and again to the Moloch spirit which sets employer against employe and class against class, and tolerates no other method of settling questions at issue between capital and labor than the lockout, the strike and embitter- ing and protracted industrial war. So long as brute force alone is invoked in seeking to settle such controversies it is impossible that the mob spirit should ever POt Tt may be repressed by the stron Gem0f milltary bower, but it cannot be shot out of existence. The one and only Wiy which has been discovered to eliminate iy mob Bpirit from the body politic is ar- ration. ki better illustrates the spirit of true Chilstianity than the golden rule. 1t P maxim, Do unto others as you would have othe 1o unto you,"” had been heeded at the outset of these costly troubles, what enormous loss, what stly destruction might have been avold and that, too, without the Klluhh‘;‘ injury to any honor- o Interest at stake. A N0 such potent force in America tommy™a” he Torce of public opinion. Let it once be made clear that the judgment of the people Strongly supports arbitration, and few men, howevel |I||.’lll.)" they may Fite- private udgment and “freedom of action” will ventu to set that judgment at defiance, ———— Moral Effect of Arbitration. New York Recorder. the putting down is done, however, e e o Kiving arbitration a chance i fiture disputes of this Kind will come up. The general public’ sentiment will ae- mand it. “Mhere fs at present nd national law pro- viding. for the creation of a permanent Arbitration court towhich appeals can be fade by either party. as a matter of ory right. O en & Taw e fdmulated with any hope of making it éffective? Wnswering that question, is is sald that no decree made by @rbitrators could pos- ibly be put into execution forcibly against the will 'of either party. That is to say, you could not drive 110,00 men back 0 Work at the bayonet's point on terms that they would not aceept.! And that is so. Neither could the Pullman nor any other company be made tospermanently’ carry on its_works at a loss. What possible goody, then, could & na- onal board of arbitration do? o e Sould. certainly be clothed with Al powers to hear grievances and Investi- -"them; to summon witnesses and pa- to Ko right into both sides of (he Hispute tmpartially, and to make a public finding, just as & jury finds its verdict Neither side, it is true, could be forced to abide the judgment of the arbitrators; but" the judgment would stand, and its moral infiluence would welgh heavily in tne Heales of public opinlon for the party it favored, and heavily against the party res fusing fo abide by It Arbitration cannot be enforced by police or armies. But If it were once set up by the mational authority, qualified fully as a court of concillation, ‘and its bench filled With men in whose Integrity and fairness the whole nation would have confidenc its decisions would constantly tend to e torce themselyes by the welght and pres- sure of thelr own moral prestige. K per POUNCING ON PULLMAN. New York Roecorder: Mr. Pullman poses as a philanthropist. In the present crisis he has missed & magnificent opportunity for the exercise of his bemevolence on A very large scale. He should not have run away from it Chicago Times: Mr. Pullman has not re- peated Mr. Vanderbilt's historical remark about the public, but it practitally amounts to the same thing. And the publie doesn't hesitate to express the same tender sentl ment with regard to Pullman, St. Paul Globe: The refusal of George M. Pullman to discuss the pending labor dis- turbances, or to assist in any way in quelling them, {8 characteristic of the man. His en- tire career has been marked by supreme selfishness and disregard of the feelings or interests of others. Milwaukoe Sentinel: Perhaps it would have been expedient for Mr. Pullman to con- sent to arbitration, but he had a right not to consent, and this right cannot be taken from him or. from any other man in a free ountry. He is not morally bound to grant now to force what he would not grant to persuasion. Chicago Herald: The responsibility 1s on Mr. Pullman of refusnlg to end the strike But the smallest mere formal concession was required of him. No sacrifice was asked of principle nor of personal or business in- dependence. He would have served his own sense of self-importance better b a con- cillatory attitude than by mere intractible and splenetic obstinacy. St. Paul Globe: Why do the mayors of citles, the governors of states and people generally “appeal” to Pullman to consent to n settlement of the existing troubles? .Is he a superior being, before whom every knee should bend and every head bow in sup- plication? The potentate is amenable to the, law, Just as are ordinary mortals,and if he has ommitted any crimes let htm be indicted, tried, convicted and punished. But no manly man should bend the knee in suppliance at his throne. Minneapolis Times: There is universal con- tempt for the cowardly autocrat, whose ob- stinate refusal to arbitrate the differences between his company and his employes was the primary cause of the trouble, and who, from his safe retreat at the seashore, con- tinues to defy public sentiment and mock at the distr of the countr At the first symptom of danger he sncaked out of the city like a thief in the night, leaving it a prey to violence, which he might have pre- vented without pecuniary loss or sacrifice of personal dignity. Chicago Dispateh: With millions of cap- ital behind it, and the allied power of the trusts supporting it, the company now says to Chicago, “‘the public be d—d.” It remains to be seen whether the city of Chicago will ibmit to have her trade paralyzed, her busi- ness ruined, her property destroyed, the lives of her citizens sacrificed and her treasury im- poverished when the unreasoning obstinacy of one man alone stands between her and the establishment of peace and prosperity. The council committee has failed. The city of Chicago should now act. Chicago Post: But though the end of this crisis has been deferred farther than ever by the stroke of this one man's pen, an end must come. And when it comes the people of Ilinois will address their attentions to George M. Pullman. On that occasion it will be the duty of the governor and legis- lature of linois, the mayor and city council of Chicago and the attorney general of the state to strike the blow that has been staid too long. The so-called town of Pullman, as it stands today, is a crime against this com- monwealth and an insult to humanity. Milwaukee Wisconsin: Pullman’s extor- tionate management of his sleeping car sys tem has produced such a revulsion of feeling against him that even Senator Sherman, the most conservative of statesmen, is about to introduce a measure in the senate to bring the Pullman cars all over the United States within the provisions of the iInterstate com- merce law, with a proviso declaring that the charges shall be reduced 50 per cent. Sherman has - declared that after the Sugar trust the Pullman Palace Car company is the most extortionate trust in the United States. Chicago Tribune: Possibly it may not have occurred to Mr. Pullman that in spite of his high mightiness a rod may be in pickle for him, the application of which to his shoulders would be enough to make him smart. For instance, there is an abundance of constitu- tional authority for the passaze of an act of congress fixing the maximum rate for sleeping car accommodations at say not more than two-thirds the present charges on travelers. What is to hinder the rapid p sage of such an amendment to the interstate commerce law? And what then would hinder Mr. Pullman from suffering a far greater fall in his own estimation than any that could have occurred through a little sinking of false pride by listening to the city’s mid proposal for an investigation of the difficulty? In that case his reserve fund of $18,000,000 would not be apt to swell as fast in the future as in the past, to the general satis- faction of the traveling public, which has so long been paying his exorbitant charg And such an amendment would not be unfair. There are plenty of men standing ready with ample capital to build a suflicient number of rs to be operated at the reduced rate in case the haughty pride of Mr. Pullman should forbid him to accept the new schedule. el SMILING PROCLAMATIONS. Philadelphia Record: The strike struck below the belt when it hit the watermelon. Judge: Pedestrlan—Would you take the last cent a man had? Highwayman—Course T would. I used to be a lawyer, mister. Arkansaw Traveler: “My eves are fail- ing terribly,” said Miss Smith. “I must consult an optimis ngfiled Union: Now Is the time for to market her little lamb. She will Bet a better price. Philadelphia R Now, all you need is confidence, don't you see?’ The Student of the Wheel—Oh, yes; T tumble. Spi Mar. neve ord: Bicycle Tea New York World: *“Are you going to the seashore this season?" “Noj; | all we can do to keep our heads above water in the city.” Life: “Doctor, why Is it that some peo- ple who are perfect wrecks live longer than others who are strong and wel “Er—well—you see the others die first." Boston Gazette: “When 1s a fellow iying low?’ When he s whispering soft noth- ings into the ear of the summer girl." Yale Record: “There is one sign that should be placed over every letter box in the city.” “What I8 that?" “Post no bills.” Austin Statesman: The spouse is unrea- sonable who accuses her husband of having ken m lark when he has only had twenty or thirty s PESSIMIST'S SONGS, Chicago Inter Ocean. For Greenland's ley mountains We oft a longing feel, For there we know we ne'er would step Upon banana peel. I dreamt T dwelt In marble halls, But the dream was far from nice, For it was produced by having to buy An extra ten pounds of ice. THEY ARE ALL DEAD, St Louls R There was a man who never told a lie— But he's dead; it was wet when the weather Never sal was dr Never said He'd caught fish when he hadn't caught on Never sald he'd done something he hadn't done, Never scolded his wife and never got mad, And wouldn't believe that the world was 5o bad. A respécter of men, a defender of woman, Who belleved the divine, and that which wis human, Meek us Moses—he never was understood, And the poor man died of being too good, And he's dead There was & woman who never had gos- siped a bit— She's dead, too; Who hated all scandal, nor listened’ to it; She believed in mankind, took care of her Always turned a deaf ear to this story or that; Never scolded her husband—she never had one; No sluggard was she, but rose with the sun; Never whispered in meeting, didn't care for a bonnet, Or all of the feathers that one could put on it Never sat with the choir, nor sang the wrong note: eused no desire to lecture or vote; oF the poor soul was as deaf as & post— also dumb; You might have cal wouldn't have come And she's dead, 1 forever, and she ing of Grand Army men at the union to be held at Weeping W 21 to 24 Cla Jones, and drowned in Wahoo creek. They were last seen alive about 11 o'colck and their bodies were found at 3 p. m. No one knows how the alone, and they were not missed until the accidenta on one of ers the other day, says the Stanton D-iic crat, and after showing all his sampl groceries and telling in laudable terms how m man, all of which our man took in with- out chuckled to himself at' having nafled his victim and with an air of confidence asked our man how much of each he would want. The Stanton county farmer told hir out hesitation ‘“‘not a penny's worth. seemed to take the breath out of Mr. Grocery- man and in faltering terms he Inquired what the reason was, which was promptly given thus: Stanton county for a living and it is my duty to patronize our home trade first. If I should be out of money at any time our merchants carry my i without a_murmur. What do we have to do with Chica care for us, money? Suppos of Chi we should have no citie: schools, no railroads, no nothing; and if we wanted a pound of coffee we could go to Chicago after it. No; you can go back to Chicago and I shall stand by those who o by me.” The grocer took his and is probably still rolling the thought in his mind that that man gave him some good common s let themselves be duped by these traveling grocers, but It is a fact nevertheless, and thousands of dollars are sent to Chicago every year In that way. Recelve the travel- ing grocer Kindly and bid him a friendly farewell, but let him keep his goods ‘What to do with Milk Pails! Clean them with Pearline. You can't get them so thoroughly sweet and pure in any Besides, i 3 quicker, more economical. “The box and barrel churn are not hard n. A little hot water and a little Pearline will clean any churn or do away with any bad odor.”— Z%e Dairy World, Chicago. Perhaps you think that some of the imita: tions of Pearline, that you'd be afraid to COWGILL RRPLIES TO ORITICISM. OMAHA, July 12.—To the Editor of The Bee: 1 see in your last evening lssue that at the cowncil meeting some of the council- men saw fit to give me what they call & “roasting. To iclear myselt of these charges 1 wish to explain some things that appeared in the minority report, and which was adopted by that honarable body First, they say that I showed gross incom petenicy. A« té this modesty demands that 1 only say that I believe that I did as well as any one else could do under the ordinance they saw fit (by Mr. Wiley's consent) for mo to work under. My hands were tied by this means, and all the work the electri companies had done was In strict accordanc with the ordinance. \Why should it not be? The ordinance was so changed before it pased and becams a law that all wiring complied with it, but last 1 got their consent to draft an ordinance, which I be- lleve looked after the fnterest of the tax payer hetter than any they had adopted, but they rejected the same with scorn when Councilman Wheeler saw an _opportunity to send his name down through the ages to come not only as a councilman, but as an olectrician, %o he submitted a copy of the Chleago rules, and the city council adopted the same, greatly to Mr. Wheeler's renown and glory. They al o state that [ did not make enough reports to their honorable body. I can call to mind some four or five during the year I was in office, but when this honorable body passed the ordinance 1 was working under they saw fit to state that I xhould make an annual report. If they wanted more why did not they change the ordi- nance, or introduce a resolution to the effect that they wanted a monthly report. They imply that the permits and other blank forms of the office were in poor form. This may be true, but I thought I was em ployed by the city as an electrician, not as ‘an expert bookkeeper. I wih to say that I did the best I could, after going to the comptroller's help, but they claimed to be too busy. The council also found fault with me that I did not collect inspection charges. They gave me tnore work than any one person could do, and I left undone what I considered of the least importance. I felt if I could save one fire by Keeping on with my inspection it would be of more value to the city that ail collec- tions I could make, and in proof of this statement that there was too much - work for one person s the fact that Mr. Rheem has asked for help, as I did, but which they would not grant They criticise my choice of instruments, namely the Thompson composit balance, D'Arsonval galvanometer with its necessary equipments, ‘three cells of storage battery and the photometer. If T could have looked a year in the future and could have scen who the city council would appoint to suc. ceed me I probably would have made a different choice, because the instruments aro difficult to handle and hard to under- stand. but in behalf of my choice I would say the Thompson composit balance would be accepted the world over by eclectricians as the most accurate ammeter, voltmeter and wattmeter made, and if the are light question had ever gone into court it would have been necessary to have the best. At the time the D'Arsonval galvanometer was purchased it was supposed that the fire and police wires of the city would be placed in the telephone conduits underground, and if such had been done this instrument, and all its attachments, such as the teloscope and scales, microfarad condenser, ete., would be of great value to the city. Why they left the storage batteries out is more than T can tell, for T should think even they could see the value of them in testing capacity of fuses and calebration of instru- ments. st but not least, the photometer, This is the instrument that has caused the trouble, for it told what the candle power of Mr. Wiley's lights were, and did it well. If the representatives of the people had staid by it as they did by Mr. Wiley they would have been able to save thousands of dollars, and 1 would probably have been ity electriclan today. And, further, it seems strange tome that even my enemies in that august body could not have shown manhood enough to give | me a hearing, but no, as one of the members informed me, they did not want to hear my side of the cose. I wish to I speak of councilmen I do not mean them all, as there are four or five who have always demanded fair play for me and for whom I have the highest regard, namely Elsasser, Burkley, Cahn and Lemly. M. J. COWGILL, —_——— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Cass county old settlers will hold thelr annual reunion at Union August § and 9. The annual camp meeting of the Norfolk district will be held at Norfolk from August 9 to 1 Indications are good for a go gather- dis re- ter August Mr: C. M. Noble had two ribs and her shoulder blade fractured, Mrs. Patton was severely bruised and a baby was badly cut as the result of a runaway ac Cook. dent at M- The Nebraska editors are now fitly repre- sented by the Nebraska Bditor, the initial number of which made its app week. Messrs. Mason and Merwin have started well, for the little ma of matter interes arranged and beautifully printed. arance this zine is full g to the craft, neatly A s 1 double drowning took place at Wahoo. ence, second son of ex-Treasurer S. H. orge, son of Joshua Jones, were ad accldent occurred, as the boys were 1 discovery of their bodies. A traveling grocer of a Chicago fi nton county's n called prosperous farin of could be saved by buying of the Chic g0 word of di sension, the grocery vendor with- This depend on Stanton and ant for a ye and what does Chicago xcoept that they want our ng we should buy our goods ago men, the consequence would be , N0 towns, no aud grip and left nse. It 15 too bad that people other way. use in washing clothes 1 \ well in work like this. Th ' ., certainly. But they wouldn’t all | say that when | son. and would also endeavor to | of the attendants of for the way they had treated her. Conden W has jurisdiction to sentence therefore applied to the feder release him from custody. Miller's lawyer will now apply to the United S court of appeals. e Wil of the so here and Is making arrangements with Frye to Just across the river from this city. Kelly asserts that he has 600 men betw to keep clea hurt tinwar MORNONS MAKING BIG PLANS Will Give tho New S8tate a Big Boom at Its Birth, WILL BUILD A NEW ROAD TO THE COAST Plans All Completed for the Greatest Kalls rond Enterprise of the Year— Ove iection Al oy tures for u Santa Ko ( NEW YORK, July 12.—-A dispatch to @ morning paper from Washington says “The day the president's Rignature Is affixed to the Utah bill will see the launch- ing of the greadest railroad enterprise of the year. A transcontinental scheme has been matured and is only held back until Utah can be dealt with as a ate Behind the plan of development s the wealth and influence of the Mormon church With the ou | ness eharacterizing the Mormon leaders, the surveys have been made, the estimates come piled, the resources of the country carefully investigated, The work s fn such an ad vanced stage that the blue prints of the ene inecrs’ are now here and ready for use for construction purposes The road surveyed and to be bullt ex- tends from Salt Lake City southerly and then westerly to a Pacific connection in the Los Angeles country. If the connection cannot be made with the Santa Fe in southern Call- fornfa, then this Utah road will bo buiit through to the coast. Dut the probabilitios are that a trafie arrangement will bo made with the Santa Fe from the Neadies through to the coast By reference to the map a branch of the Union Pacific will be seen reaching south- westwardly from Salt Lake City toward the coast country, but stopping short in the midst of the Sierras, The Mormons have done better than that. They have | aid out a route which is a marvel to the engineers who have ‘seen the profiles. They parallel the ridges instead of crossing them. They Nave tangents sixty and seventy miles lon demonstrating that what appears to be the longest way around is really the shortest way to the coast “In southern Utah are anthracite coal Dbeds which exceed Pensylvania's by on half, but which have until now escaped the entile railroad builder. These coal flelds would be pierced by the new road. Bishop Clawson of the Mormon church the active representative of Zion in this oject. He is here in charge of the lobby which has put the stathood bill through to the present hands so smoothly. Associated with the bishop is Mr. Trumbull, one of the executors of the Stanford - ND THE CAB DRIVER. Confined for 1 to One. ST. LOUIS, July 12.— dollars re- ward for the carriage driver who drove Anna Stell from 1213 Chambers street to St. Vin- cent's asylum April 21, 1884." The woman who inserted the foregoing ad- vertisement in a St. Louls paper says she has been trying for the past nine years to solve the m y of her incarceration in St. Vineent's insane asylum. She is broken down in health and ‘spirits, but says before he dies she wants to bring to jusfice those who she believes have cruelly wronged her. She now believes that her son, Frank Stell, Who is the proprictor of a shoe store on Franklin avenue, caused her to be confined in St. Vincent's asylum in order that he might get her property. Irank Stell denjes his mother’s assertions, and says that she s jealous of his wife, and that is the reason she has been trying to make trouble for him. He admits that she was not insane, but says she was taken to St. Vincent's to be cared for until she was better. o villain in a chamber of horrors ever saw worse sights than those Mrs. Stell says she saw at St. Vincent’s. She says she was not crazy when taken there, but by means of contrivances and apparitions they tried to make her doubt her own senses. Sho de- clares that she would have had to stay” thera until she died had she not established com- munication with a friend, Mrs. Henry Cor- ders, who has since removed from the city. S her liberation Mrs. Stell has called pon Mayor Walbridge and also upon Prose- cuting Attorney Estep. She applied to him for a warrant, but was told that it would be necessary to get the testimony of the cab driver who took her there, and that is the purpose of her advertisement. Mrs. Stell, acording to the asertions of her neighbors, Is mot insane. Her story, told perfectly coherently, seemed to confirm her statements that she has never been in that condition. Mrs. Stell sald that just as soon as she could get the names of the necessary wit- nesses sho would begin sult against her ave some Vincent's punished [ TRYING TO F Wor Unjustl ON A STRANGE PLEA. ned Murderer Claims that No Court Has Jurisdiction to Sentence Him. DALLAS, July 12.—Judge Rector of the federal district court has refused to grant writ applied for in the case of F. P. Miller 0 is under death sentence for the murder of Police Officer Riddle, Miller was tried in the Forty-fourth district court, and, while the case was going through the higher courts, all criminal jurisdiction was taken from the Forty-fourth district court and transferr Dallas county d to the eriminal district court of so that Miller was sentenced the judge of the latter court. The con- nned man's lawyer asserts that no court Miller and he 1 court to ates circult e KELLY NEARING VASHINGTON. psolidate His Industejal Army with General Frye's Soldiors, WASHINGTON, July 12.—Kelly, the leader alled Industrial armies, is near onsolidate thelr bands at Roslyn, Vi n here 1 Portsmouth, O., and that the first de- hment will reach Washington this week via the Chesapeake & Ohio canal. He says his men separated into bands in order to se: cure more food than each could obtain if the men were in one lar e body. Oficer Killed b ST. PAUL, July 12.—Officer Jacobson was shot and Kkilled at Hastings, Minn., last night by two toughs whom he was trying to arrest. Theywere finally. captured and proved to be two Canadians with burglar kits on their persons. in jail, and an unsuccessful attempt to lynch them was made by a mob of 300 people. They were lodged NomlInated for Congress. CLEVELAND, July 12.—Clifton B. Beach was today nominated by the Twentieth Ohlo district republican convention to succ Congressman W. J. White , it's casier for you—w would do just as sy wouldn't clean it, either, half as well as Pearline- besides, ‘“don’t play with the fire. be honest—send it back. If your grocer sends you an imitation, “w JAMES PYLE, New York