Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 4, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DATLY BI LE. ROSEWAT ; ”I“(‘Ill.l’\lll)) BV MORNING, = = 10N, Year TEIRM Dally Peo Daily Tee o 10 0 Bix Months s : 6 00 Three Montl d 2 Bunday It v Lim Saturday 1 150 Weekly Bee 3 8800 Hunday One Ve OFFICES, Omahn, The Tee Bullding Bouth Omntin, Cornor N Counefl DBiufs, 12 Poarl Chicagn Office. 217 Chnmber ew Yok, Kooms 13, 14 Washington, 1407 I strvet PONDI ind Twenty-fourth Bts. of Commerce a 16, Tribune BIdg. v news and edl- To the Editor. Al com « to torial matter #) 1 ANl business addressed to Omaba, D be made p TH 110 be Apany, yabie to the o ( BEE PUBLISHIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION otary of The duly “sworn ull and comi Evening and Sun th of July, 1804, Coorg 1ishing Totn] Daily ave *Sunday. wold Vit ulition. .. ORGE B, T sciibed in my pres- 150, . Notary Public, Sworn to before m ence this Ist day (Senl.) Ining some of her immer resort. Omaha is rapidly reg Tost prestige as an ideal ball teams shines, making hay Others are making Some base are while the sun BOOSe-eEES. Judge Kinkaid convention fo staying qualities. friends in the Big Sixth it vallantly, but they lacked The republican party of Nebraska cannot hope to win if it places at the head of its ticket a professional gambler, Private Cedarquist ought to be transferred from the infantry into the artillery service and plac:d in charge of a Quaker gun, The republican campalgn in Chicago is to be opened by Governor McKinley and ex- Speaker Reed and is to be closed by victory. Gladstone is the latest of the great men to decline a flattering Invitation. But we have yet to hear from Congressman Bryan. They are all honorable men in the sen- ate. So say the sugar scandal investigating committee. So says Senator Hill. But what says the public? Governor Tillman of South Carolina must have an eagle eye. He is rcopening the state dispensaries in good time to catch all the campaign trade in booze. Had the Cedarquist episode arisen upon the heels of the general elections rather than in front of them Congressman Grosvenor probably would not have made an issue of it.” Mr. Pullman seems finally to have come to the wise conclusion that silence is golden. Hence the dearth of interviews and mani- festoes from him during the past two weeks or mor Congressman Grosvenor might have waited for the verdict of the proposed court martial of the officer who ordered Cedarquist to target practice on Sunday before convicting +him unheard on the floor of the house. In the impending campaign the republicans of Nebraska can afford to lose no time de- fending candidates against their bad records. ‘This is the wrong year for tattooed men to seek vindication at the expense of the party. It s said thai a very urgent demand for & lump of free and unlimited coinage, at a ratio of 160 to 1, suggested the change soon to be made in the editorial management of our benighted but ever-enterprising con- temporary. The Chlcago alderman who voted to grant A franchlse without reading the ordinance should take a lesson from the Omaha coun- cllman who refused to vote for the con- Airmation of a man because he was not ac- quainted with him, Majors Is not the only fattoosd canlidate who seeks nomination the republican state ticket. There are several other ex- members of tho legislature whose unclean rocord would make them vulnerable targets for the common enemy. “Omaha could better afford to lose six of her councllmen than her one city clerk,” 18 what one of our city officials is credited with saying. Not “six but “twice six,” provided, of course, that they were recruited _from the Wiley contingent. on There are no politics whatever in the en- campments of the Grand Army of the Repub- e, It Is merely accident that the politicians happen to converge upon the camp of the veterans. 1f you don't believe it just at- tend one of the encampments yourself. I the assurances of the senate sugar scandal fnvestigating committee ure to be accepted, of course there is no need of en- acting Senator Allen's bill to preserve the purity of the national legislature. Anything 80 pure could not possibly be contaminated. | — = | Congressman Bryan denies, semi-officially, | through Mr. Morton's republican organ, that he has an engagement to assume the chiet editorship of the World-Herald, but as the denlal comes with a string tied to it, wo shall not be'in the least surprised if the re- port turns out to be true. Auny war between great nations naturally excites popular Interest, however distant it may'be. A flercely contested naval engage- ment between Chinese and Japanese warships s imminent. The Bee can be relied upon to cover the great event as no other paper " west of Chicago can cover it. Goversor Hogg of Texas s still rooting against President Cleveland and denouncing his agtion tn calling out the federal troops to suppress tho great railroad strike. If the affalr bad only occurred in Texas we might bave bad more serious fulminations than those which emansted from Govermor Alt- sold. RAILROAD RA The old fight of the ROV ernmental regulation of rates Is about to be renewed in Notice to that effect has already been served upon the people by th the through Mnes asking th of Raliroad Commissioners “to revise £S IN 101A railroads against Towa petition of Board the schedules and be charged and classifications now in force which ma ject the maximum rate In fowa.” Tho professed ob petitioning railroads is a falr and just comper for the service to be rendered In each particular and the allegation that the compensation now allowed reasonable, falr and just. This, will storm of opposition from Jobbsrs, merchan's farmers and geners but ralronds, elated by their r the American Railway unfon, make another test of strength with the peo to secure reasonal ation case,” is made 1s not rale of course, a shippers Iy, the over to ple When the Towa schedulo of maximum rates nt info effect in 1388 the railroads flooded thie prophesies of disaster and prevented Its enforcement to the greatest extent in thelr power. Nolwithstanding this, carnings Increased by over $5, 000,000, and they have continued to increase ever since. In 1863 their eary; a were $45,000,000, a considerable ad- vance over the $37,000,000 of the previous year. The outlook for present year sald not to be very encouraging to the Towa railro but to what business is it very en couraging? The traffic and rec of the railroads in that state have not been affected fously than those of roads in other states, while, according to their own ments, their economies, through retrenchment and reduced service, have been equal to the best. The through lines tried to precipitate this last fall, when they changed the basis of dividing earnings with lo lines which originate the business. Prior to that time local lines reccived 30, 40 and the entire state dire with however, the steadil for To de. ipts more s state- issue al oven as high as 52% per cent of earnings for originating the business and the haul. As the through traffic consti- tutes 66 per cent of the traffic of Towa lines, tais gave them satisfactory regard- less of local rates. An order of the through lines ated in November, 1893, pro- posed to cut the basis of division to 10 per cent, and wa transfer about $10,000,000 annually from local lines to the through It was also expected fo drive the local lines to demand an increase of the maximum local and there was considerable talk of such action at the time The to local returns prom expected to the lines. rates, The plan, however, dld not materialize. through lines have thercfore been left institute the fight themselves, a task to which they have but now nerved themselves. The issue is bound to be brought into the political arena, particularly should the present Board of Rajlroad Commissioners vonlure to accede to the: request of the petitioners. Such a proceeding will be viewed as the first step In a systematic plan to undo all the raiiroad regulation which the people of Towa have secured after years of earnest effort. It will not be submitted to without a struggle. RNOI'S ASSASSIN SENTENCED. French justice deals summarily with an- archist assassins. On Sunday, June 24, Sadi Carnot, president of France, was assassin- ated in the streets of Lyons by a young man who had espoused anarchism. Last Thursday the assassin was put on trial and yesterday he was sentenced to death. There was no time wasted in the preliminaries and no delay in the proceedings before the court. No tricky lawyers interposed technicalitios to obstruct the course of justice. Taken ved-handed the murderer could have but one defense, that of irresponsibility by reason of mental weakness, and this defense he would not make, Investigation into the family his- tory of Cesario had disclosed the fact that four of his relatives died in insane asylums and it was thought that this might be made the ground for a plea of insanity on his be- half. But when the judge asked the assas- sin whether he was responsible for his ac- tions he replied in the affirmative and fur- ther declared that none of his family had ever been weak minded. The answers given by Cesarlo to the ques- tions of the court illustrate the powerful in- fluence which - anarchistic teachings exert upon the minds of those who espouse them. This young man said that he loves his mother, who had tried hard, as did other members of his family, to dissuade him from becoming an anarchist, but he could regard her pleadings as prompted by prejudice and was able to bring himself to believe that he was acting in the cause of humanity. What sort of mental condition is it that allows a man to accept the doctrine that destruction of life and property is a proper means of remedying the ills of society, that in such a cause deliberate and cold-blooded murder is glorious, and who will renounce family and friends in order to put in practice this most barbarous doctrine? Certainly the mind cannot be entirely sound and ratioual that will do this. The assassin of Carnot does not appear to be n mere bravo. That he belleves he was justified in committing the heinous crime is not to be doubted, but he did not, In the course of the trial, make any inordinato manifestations, as some othera have done, of a sense of pride glory in his deed, the only approach to such an exhibition being his claim that he planned the assassination without assistance, and this may have been done for the purpose of shielding others from suspiclon. The pris- oner was allowed three days in which to take an appeal, but he may not avail him- self of it, knowing that it woull be of no use to do The higher court will cer- tainly sustain the verdict and as soon as French law permits Ces: will pay the penalty of his crime on the guiilotine. The swiftness with which justice been meted out in this ease will naturally he contrasted with the the law In t cases of the assassins of public men in particularly that of Prendergast pay the penalty ot than eight months after its commission, The of the French method ot administering justice in such cases is worthy of serious considera- tion. or 0. as o has slow corse of country, who did for more this not his crime example OF PAVED COUNTY ROADS. as lald on the new this county proves a success or there is no doubt that the stone block pavement will endure several™ generations. The new roadway on the old Military road should by all means be extended to Elkhorn and elear to the westera boundary of the county. It is a magnificent stretch of public road so far as It has been laid, and is not excelled by any country road in America, While stone blocks are very costly for country road pavements, they will, in our judgment, prove the in the There are now about 150 miles of public roads in Douglas county. Every mile of paved roadway Is sure to double the value of adjacent land The piving of every mile of road in the county would be the most profitable invest- ment the county could make. The area ADVANTAGE Whether roads in fatlure macadam the cheapest end R THE OMAHA DAILY of Douglas county 18 960 square miles, De- ducting therefrom the area of townsites and have about 185,000 acres of cultivable land. At $60 an acre this land bas an aggregate value of $9,260,000 | Not an acre of this land would sell for less than $100 after the roads were all paved. Computing the of paving at mile, and we would have a total of $1,500,000, while the Increase of values weuld exceed §9,000,000. 1f we bulld ten of paved roadway year we would have all the country paved within fifteen years. The ad- to the farmers would be incal- culable. It would place them within a few hours reach of the best market ually would place every farm house and dairy communication with the city by otcr railway, trains running every hour in To Omaha that would mean the virtual annexation of the population within of thirty miles. This population would be trebled and quadrupled as rapidly country roads made rapid transit to the city possible and profitable to the farmer. More than one-third of the lands in Do lns coanty still remain unimproved and the remaining two-thirds are only half cultivated, The fact is that every ten tract can comfortably support a family. In other words, the lands in Douglas county, when led as should be, would support fuliy 18,000 families, which, added to the village populaticn, would give Omaha merchants and manufacturers the benefit of traffic with more than 100,000 people ontside of those residing within the limits ‘of this town and South Omaha. At the present time the population of Douglas county outside of Omaha and South Omaha is not over 20,000, This estimate of the possibilities of this county is not in the least exaggerated. It anything it is underrated. Just as soon estublish large sugar mills and fineries, starch factories, cereal mills and canning factories the suburban population of this city will assume proportions that we do not dream of today. With paved roads and motor lines leading in every direction thou- nds of working people will locate in subur- ban homes of their own that will enable them their vegetables and small fruit at atively little cost. Whether we build the proposed canal or not the territory naturally tributary to Omaha should be annexcd by paved roadways and motor railways. We have made a good beginning this year and the work should be Lept up. | roadways, and we county cost $10,000 per utlay land would each miles ronds vantages and event- in close the day. a radius a8 the 18 ev acre they as we re- to raige com THE SIXTH DISTRICT. The republicans of the Sixth dis‘rict have fired the first gun of the campaign in this state by nominating as their candidate for congress that untiring worker, Mr. Daugh- erty. A resident of Nebraska for nearly twenty years, Mr. Daugherty has for the greater part of that period labored to build up and advertise the state as publisher and proprietor of an influential county paper. Since his re- tirement from the newspaper business he has been identified with the cattle raising industry, which constitutes the chief factor of the material wealth of the Sixth district. An ardent and unflinching republican, Mr. Daugherty has devoted a great deal of his time and energy in season and out of season to the interests of the party. His nomina- tion is a merited recognition of invaluable service. The cowboy district has been mis- represented In the national legislature the past four years by a man whose sole claim to a seat in congress was a mortgaged farm and whose work on behalf of this state up to this date is not perceptible to the naked eye. With Matt Daugherty in congress, the people of the Sixth district will have no difficulty in ge'ting a hearing for whatever interest they desire promoted at the national eapital. Daugherty is intelligent, active and perse- vering. He is a hustler that will leave no stone unturned when he has an object to accomplish. He understands the wants of western Nebraska as well as anybody and will take pride in attending to these wants to the best of his ability. That is the kind of a man the Sixth district has been looking for ever since the district was created. TRADE CONDITIONS ABROAD. Authentic reports regarding trade condi- tions in the principal commercial nations of Europe represent that they are improving and that gradually and surely depression Is passing away. In England cheap money is stimulating sound business and it is ex- pected that should no fresh untoward event occur the present exceptional low value of money will further facilitate trade improve- ment. In Germany the return to better con- ditions is more especially noted in the larger demand for” securities, though the in- dustries are also fecling the impulse of a change. The advices from France and Aus- tria are morc favorable, and altogether the indications are that the depression which has prevailed throughout Kurope even longer than in this country is disappearing. This country is intimately concerned in European trade couditions. The general ex- perience has been that when business de- pression existed at the same time here and abroad recovery first begun in this country, but the situation at present Is exceptional by reason of the uncertainty regarding tarift legislation. The commercial nations of Eu- rope are not troubled by any such disturbing and unsettling influence. Their economic policies are not undergolng revision and are not threatened with any radical changes. At the same time their financlal systems aro on a basis which promises to be perma- nent, or at any rate they are free from the menace of change that is constantly present here aud which tends o keep alive a feeling of distrust. There can be no doubt that but for the tariff agitation, admitting that there might still have been some depression as a ult of overproduction, this country would lave months ago fully from it and all branches of industry would be now in active operation. It was, perhaps, inevi- table that we should participate to some ex- tent in the world-wide depression due to a variety even had there been no attack made the tariff, but in the ab- sence of that assault we should have re- peated the usual experience of being the first among tho great Industrial and commerecial nations to recover. As it is, the indications are that we shall be the last, with the pos- sibility that our recovery may be much less rapid than theirs, But at any rate the improving business conditions abroad contain the promise of benefit to this country. 1t lldxr 1s more tully employed and better paid in Europe than for some years it will mean an increased con- sumption, which will enable us to send more of our food products abroad and get better prices for them. The people of Europe have for several years been practiciug close econ- omy, and a very moderate increase in the demand for the breadstuffs and provisions which are chiefly imported from the United States would make a material difference in the aggregate value of our forelgn trade. There s need of an increased demand from this source to msure our agricultural inier- est agalust loss, for the prospect of an en- recovered of causes, on B SATURDAY larged demand for home consumption Is not bright. At the®ime time we are meeting with an increasf& competition from Argen tina and otheWs developing grain-growing countries, which In the absence of an im proved Buropean demand must lessen our e ports and st riner depress prices. The of Improving business conditions have, herefore, interest fo be hoped the condi whil nomic reports abroad American farger well f is to that botter and are inded tions will cobiinf, our own legislatora ars proposin, policy which could not fail to be most dam aging to the great agricultural interest of the country there is some little comfort in being able o look forward to a probable fn crease In the foreign demand for our farm products. they to grow an ec to The fact that Secretary Carlisle has made a report in opposition to the bill providing for consular investigation of the records of persons proposing to emigrate to this coun try will probably kill it. The secretary that the existing law is working well and it should not be hampered by a dual admenistration of the State and Treasury de which is a very good reason for The bill was passed e of strategy, having when of absent these says partments, opposing the measure. in the house by a pic vote its to a some gest opy were but were able to make their opposition feit in the and it is probable the measure would have fafled in that body, without the disapproval of Secretary Carlisle, The pur pos are 18 to better insure the exclusion of criminals and paupers, and haps consular inspection would but manifestly the secretary of the tre is right in saying that it is not well to h the immigration business looked after by departments of the Such arrangement would not tend to improve the efficiency of the work. There is a good deal of exaggeration as to the number of eriminals and paupers who get into the country, and it existing laws continue well forced there will serious danger this score. nents senate even of the mea per- do this, sury a ve two, government. an to be en- be no on A most Interesting feature of The Sunday Bee will be Frank Carpenter's Corean letter, giving the true inwardness of the present difficulties in that benighted kingdom. ““Carp’ is now in Corea, right in the thick of the fight. Consequently his letters will not only be highly interesting, but he will write from personal observation. Mr. George Ken- nan, whose books upon Russian life and Si- berian exiles are world-famed, contributes an article on the food supply of Russia wherein he shows that the great mass of the czar's people are half-starved and wretchedly cared for. In view of the ‘“rain-making fad prevailing in this section, an article en- titled *“Rain-Making Down to Date,” by Hon. J. R. Sage, taken from the Midland Monthly, will prove beyond ‘doubt the fact that al- leged rain-makers are simply impostors. Their claim to rain-making powers is spurious. An- other attractive feature is a review of the proceedings off the United States League of Building and Loan® Associations, embodying instructive statistics and important rulings. All standard departments of The Sunday Bee will be full and complete, and first of all, the news. em———— Independent of any existing vacancies in city offices there certainly ought to be a way at hand by which such vacancics can bo filled cither for ‘the unexpired term or until the next regular. electioh, The most natural way and the way most in harmony with the whole spirit of the charter is by vesting the appointment in the mayor, sub- Ject, of course, to confirmation by the city council. This ks what we should expect had the matter been provided for in the charter ftself. 1f we had a charter pro- vision on the subject political considerations would enter only at the point of nomination and confirmation, and we would know where to place the responsibility for the continu- ance of the vacancy. An ordinance pre- scribing the manner in which vacancies in munlcipal offices shall be filled should be onacted without further delay. The reopening of the Pullman shops at Pullman, IIl, was characterized with as lit- tle commotion as the closing some two months ago. The excitement of the Pullman strike never raged highest about the Pull- man works, but spent Itself for the most part upon the property of the railroad com- panies, far removed. Nominally the strike was still on when the 250 men returned to work, but it has been practically hopeles: ever since the railroads succeeded in mak- ing their cause the cause of law and order. The workmen at Pullman can but further impoverish themselves by remaining out longer. Their return to work is the only thing now left them. Perhaps, ere the moon changes, we shall see the Nebraska soldiers bivouacked in the shadows of the Dig slaughtering houses. It may transpire that the militia will be called out stmply to display its gold cord uniforms and burnished epaulets to the admiring mul- titude. Omaha has never seen a whole regi- ment of national guards, and people here have not a very exalted opinion of the prow- ess of the state's defenders. Close Inspec- tion might be mutually beneficial. So long as the strikers at South Omaha conduct themselves in a peaceable manner there is no reason why the ordinary officers of the law should not be able to serve whatever processes of the courts may entrusted to them., They have no other Quty in the premises until there is actual \mminence of Tawlessness. Happily there seems at present to be no necessity of call- ing for the Interference of the authorities. be The marine ing advantage the Corean *‘unpleasant- ness” by requirlng ‘all vessels engaged in castern trafic tq,take out war risks against the dangers of the hostilities between China and Japan. Thesinsurance companies would not seriously obféet ff the war Jasted all the year, on cumml'M (Aliat they be spared the painful necessity ok paying auny of the poli- cles that may bl issued T By censuring {he, Bpwspaper correspondent who dared to make kpecific charges against members of the senste without having per- sonal knowledge of the facts, the purpose of the ate sugar scandal Investigating committes has doubtless been fully plished. Al the stigma has been removed from the senate, but the whitewash pail had to be emptied to do it. accom Piracy of White Wings. St. Paul Glabe (dem.) The Free Colnage leagu Nebraska ap- peals to the democratic party to adopt its platform, promulgated by the recent con ntion_at Omaha, promising that if they > they will e Success d by a sacrifice such us emanded by the not be worth havi A honorabl, t in de fense of true democratic prineiples would be much preferable to the most sweeping vic- tory under & piratical flag. of ingurance companies are tak- | chief of the const defense: ernor is a military office: OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The fact cannot be ignored ot her despotism Russia is doing m vance the clvilization of the e has already been made t project of building a railway to the Pacific Asia that In spite b ilway an. Desides n has built Samareand not AT has th the roy by extend it te rid. Samar as a new and modern ings and broad stre round about has been Ated and : good crops of corn and ¢ vated by emigrants from lurope gation however, drawn so b the Zerafshan river that sufficient is not lef to water the eountry around Bokhara, and so Russia has resolved to lead the famous Oxus river to the gates of that city by digging a river channel for 200 miles across the desort Th as been nothing like this work of Russia’s in Asia since the days of the Iha raohs In Egypt. There is a wide difference also between the ontcome of sehemes of a quisition and colonization by Russia and oth European powers, England, it has been said builds up colontes and adds to her empire by sending first the missionary, aex: the trader and then the soldier. France, Germany and Italy, when they go In for conquest and ex pansions, have also to fight to retain foothold which they have secured. Noth of this happens with Russia, She sends topographical engineers into central A where the peopls are alien to her race, in creed, in sentiment and tradition, governed by a tribal system as old as that of ancient Israel, Ishmaels and nomads. Then follow tlie sappers and miners, the builders of canals and railroads, and soon the tribes are cast ing off their old and adap!ing them selves to new conditions and requirements of the v and city While the made to n, culth Chis jrri dress The Berlin Neue Blaetter perhaps gives voice to a secret desire of imperial Germany in suggesting that eventually the smaller states of Europe will be absorbed by their more powerful heighbors, warning the Fatherland to be beforehand in the com ing struggle for the Netherlands lest the French should capture not only Belgium, but Holland. The Dutch and the Flemings, it is true, are kindred in race and language their German eighbors, but, ter sever: centurles of independent and almost repub can national life, the proud burghe of th low countries might be averse to the rul of the military empire of central Europ Nelther is it apparent by what secret al- chemy the Dutch colonies, which are stated by the Neue Blaetter to be at present ex sive luxuries for the kingdom of the Nether- lands, are to be suddenly transformed into sources of wealth through annexation to mighty Germany. As if to compensate for the cynicism of his suggestion, the writer of the article referred (o proposes that the Ger- manization of Holland shall be accomplished by a resort to the wiles of Venus rather than by an appeal to the methods of Mars, the war god. Let their heir to the German | throne become the husband of the young queen of the Netherlands! To be sure, Queen Wilkelmina is a well-favored little lass, and young Prince Frederick William of Germany might look further and fare worse And if the Netherlands are to be had for a kiss, by all means let the Deutsch take Hal- land. and in . The Norwegian radicals, according to a re- cent letter in a London newspaper, are deter- mined that in the event of the general elec- tion fulfilling thelr expectations, their hands shall not be tied by any fresh contracts with Sweden. The budget committee of the Stor- thing has decided to recommend only the p: sage of provisional estimates for the joint consular service of the two kingdoms up to January 1, 1895. From that date, unless the parliamentary majority is in the meantime Qisplaced, estimates are to be framed for a separate consular service for Norway alone The Storthing has, in fact, taken upon itself the functions of a committee of public safety, and in the presence of a hostile ministry it is bent upon prolonging the session almost until the eve of the elections. Of the spirit which animates the majority, the following incident is quoted as a sample: A conserva- tive member, having been called to order for charging one of his radical opponents with deliberate untruthfulness, objected that the same charge had been brought against conservatives without any rebuke from the chair. Whereupon the president deliberately | stated that the unparliamentary character | of such expressions depended entirely upon the quarter of the house from which they proceeded or to whom they applied. The Turkish papers are publishing statis- | tics to illustrate the great progress of public instruction in the empire under the present sultan. Since his acecssion the increase in the number of schools is estimated at 25,000, and they are said to be attended by 1,250, 000 scholars of both sexes. It is diflicult o ascertain what the number formerly was, but there is no dought the increase is great. This is largely due to the measures taken by former sultans, Abdul Mejid and Abdul Aziz, in laying the foundation of a minis- try of instruction. The progress Is also greatly due to the reform in the administra- tion of pious or ecclesiastical foundations. Thus, not only have many mosques and schools been founded, particularly in con- nection with the large immigration of refu- gees, but religious fervor been aroused and the revenues of the local religious estab- lishments have been augmented considera- bly. Formerly education in the country dis- tricts was very backward, particularly for girls, as parents did not value it; but since education has become compulsory the at- tendance has much improved. It is only of late that statistics have been collected on a satisfactory plan, and there are no figures with which to make comparisons with the past. According to the latest official statement the Russian volunteer fleet in the Black sca consists of nine large ironclads of from 5,000 to 9,600 tons, and from 1,650 to, 10,000 horse power. The Kolnische hears that the Rus- slan government is actively furthering the scheme for a large new naval dockyard at | captain Sebastopol, and for making that port a naval station, the growth of the Black sea fleet having been 0 rapid during the last few years that the docks of Nikolaieft are no longer adequate. The new dockyards at Sebastopol are so far advanced that the naval department proposes to lay down tw new ironclads and three cruisers there dur- ing the next few months. These vessels are intended for the Black sca fleet, and after | f its reorganization the governor of Sebustopol is to be entrusted with the command The present go of Tiigh rank, but the post will in future be given to a naval officer with the title of commander-in-chief | of the Black sea fl Quill Russell _are bosom com- are like characters and \wenial spirits. They look alke, act alike, nd talk alike. Their personal resemblance is marked and each wears a chin beard and supports a decp red voice. Both say “air for areund “wair'’ for were, and have al- ways tled in their score for waving the “bloody shirt.” The pension policy of the administration is at present their choice theme. Each 15 a “colonel,” having wou the title in times of peace. Rosew hates both and both join in hating I water. They are like pess, and would gladly be in the same pod Two years ago Russell name of Majors for governor in lican state conventlon, an ably again. If all succeeds th nor'’ will present Russell's name for some soft snap 0 the state positions, and then honors will be even. Then, and not til then, will the receivership of the Broken bank be iven up But should there be nomination or the election? too terrible to contemplate. §o on P. 8.~The Quill 18 mistaken ftary titles. “Colon: Russell was commissioned either as a colonel, or corporal, except by his Majors was i real major mustered out as a Il Bee, - Deteat with Honor, ew York Sun eveland bill, Wilson bi hees bill, Gorman bill, or whate hoose to call It, 18 beaten, the dem an hold up its head and laok ever of the United Btates in the may have failed for the mou committed no socialistic country, Majors and panions. Th presented the he repul Bow fallure to get the The picture is We cannot about those m never major, captain, political cronies. in they war, and tenant colonel.—kd If the nt, but ud upon it has the | tr everything, after glancing over the bill of fare at the stralghtway brought a ought con sehem will | 5 well sell-sustaining kP 1T BEFOL Shall the Party Comn Standard Tl an The candidacy of mas J. Majors con » republi of Nebraska to its suceess in the impending To elevate him to the posttion of place the party ho | that party 18 A menace <3 campalg lard bearer will defensive and subject it to sta a galling THE Seq TELL-TALE CERTI ———— U PUBLICANS, 1it Itself to a Tattooed Be: N 1)) irer v followr Majors in the hands bill, ecrtiffied to by ™ % lent of the senate, was placed ot anditor and a warrant for $76 was lssued to W. M. Taylor as bale due for alleged services In tho senatq last fifteen days of the month as pres e for th ICATE, 1 ) For Services as €. dayof..... Y. /4 to J 1501, [ 3 days dl' pere 7.7 mites at 10 cents pe 7 Miteag Deduct amont d Batance due, lday of tay, - mite, otal, rawn, Tt/ that the above account is correct andjust, and has not been patd, 2 it itgpypte | 5 LR * 0 ) (‘(I Ly, A Doy Eramined g L Approved, § /J r / Recetved of LI, warrant No.L%7 4/ amoun (8 o) o dyestdent, v (7 hn Deputy, \ . ) ty. %A\'l’(’)f.l:rrV“r,, of Py .“)&-uunu, nty $ /3,0 Eve v candidate and stump would be it could not withstand. y party leader on the compelled to champion the candidacy of a man who is tattooed with a record of in- dellible infamy. They would be confronted at every crossroad with the story of the forged census returns that scandalized the state at the national capital and placed a stigma upon the man whom the peoy of | this commonwealth had honored with a place in the halls of congress as their represen tive. They would be confronted with the more recent misbehavior of that same ex- congressman while acting in ecapacity of president of the stale senate. During two sessions of the leglslature in which he occupled the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtue of his election as lieutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notoriously a tool and capper for the corporation lobby, and exerted all his power and Influence during each session of the legislature to promote Jobbery and assist boodle schemes and ob- struct, sidetrack and defeat all railway, reg- ulation bills and measures to curb the rapac- ity of corporate monopoly. SCANDALIZED THE STATE. During the session of 1801 the state was scandalized by the abduction of Semator Taylor, a populist, who had been elected on the anti-monopoly platform, which pledged him to support a maximum rate law. It is notorfous that Taylor was on confidential with Lieutenant Governor Majors, and especially with his private - retary, Walt M. Scely. There s no doubt whatever that Majors and Seely must have known of the plot to abduct Taylor in order to keep him from casting his for the Newberry maximum rate bill. abduction created such a sensa tion that even If Majors had not been ad- vised about the plot he could not have been ignorant of the fact that Taylor had disap- peared. The fact that Majors directed the sergeant-at-arms to have Taylor arrested shows absolute knowledge on the part of Majors of the disappearance of Taylor. The records’ of the auditor's office show that Taylor had drawn $262.40 as his pay and mileage for the session up to the time of his abrupt departure in the middle of March. On March 31, terms vote Taylor's when the session closed, eas) & The above fs a fac simile of the certific signed by Lieutenant Governor Majors an approved by the auditor, as now on file in the office of the auditor of state. The warrant for $75 was cashed by Walt Seely, private scerotary of the lieutenant and pocketed by him. Taylor never received a penny of this money fraddu- lently procured by the counivance of the lieutenant governor. This act alone stamps Thomas J. Majors as a dangerous man in any public ofice. Whgh he certified that Taylor had served through the entire term he knowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that latd him liable not only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the criminal courts, Had Majors certified to a fraudulent voucher in the army, or duplicated his own pay in the army pay roll, he would have been court martialed and cashiered In dis- grace. Where the offense was as flagrant as the Taylor voucher fraud, he would bave been made to serve a sentence in a mikitary prison. Is this the kind of a man the rg- publicans of Nebraska are asked to maje chief executive of state and commander-in- chief of the military forcés of the common- wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the lieutenant governor was the conversion of his private office adjoining the sénate chari- ber fnto a legislative ofl room, in which liquor was dispensed frecly to members of the senate who were addicted to drink, and to lobbyists, male and female, who resorted to the room for debauching the law makers. Gvery fellow who belonged to the gang carried a Yale lock key in his pocket so as to have access at all times, night or day, when the senate was in session or at recegs to the demijohns and decanters filled with choice brands of liquor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was generously sup- plied regardiess of expense by the corporate concerns whose bills were to be logrolied through and whose finterests were (o be protected by the bland, affable and accoms modating lieutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and jeopardize their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? M governo TOUCHING TRIFLES. “Oh, Mr. Longt Greene eloping Now I'm ev Life: Charle FGood me @ h d, I just saw with your wife! with him. He sold Mrs, Yeast—Do you h make brains? Mrs. Crim- sonbeak—Of course 1 do! Why, when my husband goes fishing the next morning his head is that big his hat won't fit him. Yonkers Statesm believe that f Dobs—Sir Tsaac cne of the fou ‘h, was he not? Fobbs—Good Lord t do you mean? Dobbs—Why, he the disco ¢ of the law of gravity. Life: he—was Harlem “How does the Indianapolis Jouri ked the summer thermometer stand il “It doesn't stand hereabouts,” replied the summer young man. “The proprietor has fixed it so as to lie to the extent of about ten degrees Detroit Tribune: “What," demanded the of the beleagured, “is all this pounding on the gate?" “It transpires,” answered the subaltern, trembling, “that among our foes I8 a repre- sentative of the gas company, who insists upon 1o At our meter.” “Lost! roaned the le: buried der, and his face in his hands. STl take a little of | Taddles to the waiter, Detroit Pre Iree said estaurant “Yes, sir," d the waiter, who reg plate of hash “I think Dawkins' books diagrams to explain his Dawkins has fixed his char- ‘AL this 1pany wis at Harper's Bazar to have snid Cruticus Every time he s perpetrate n Jjoke ri's ~the s Rupert sed with luughter o for humorists,” ¢ [ ‘ynicus replied. 1GN days SUR Buffalo ¢ hap these to the 1t should see ner O'er his face the smiles a chy down, your, you tng up and Bet pile with either native or a wer ome in town. jumper from a parachute's e America's Unshuken Equilibrium. Review of Reviews. absurd for Eurcpea can system an “experi nigh_treasonable for to refer to it; for In experimental ' and most stem that the to call our nt," and it an American truth it I8 the completely world has | thus best Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. & Real w | edition of the n with It one considers the actual, working constitutions of countries, ours f8 the oldest and the most thoroughiy tested of uny that exists today, ignoring Asiatio It i blekt because It hay xpressed the equation of ever seen. \ nment who can rise hing himeelf to picces? Anarch- and helpless. Lawlessness and manifest absurditl Itered to secure a truer lity of liberty to all, then n and the open ballot box When Senator Davis of height of the made his ringing without da ism is pun violence law ne measure or penceful discuss point out the way: Minnesota, at the strike riofs in Chicago defense of law and its enforcement, he knew that he xpressed the sentiment of at least 65,000,000 of our 70,000,000 people, and tha the excitement 'of the moment had p would al f Georgia Knew th ews of the souther lowed Senator Davi burst of patriotism. ignificant e on the If the Iroad 000,000 peoples Senator Gordon represented the people when he fol- in sloquent out- In ago itself, th iiling badge that'me was a_small buttonhola tional colors. The strike, all Its criminal and bloody con: comitants, forms a horrid chapter in our industrial history, but when it comes to the stability of instititions, our Bnglish friends should - understand that the riots at the Chicago stock yards had small significance 1 when compared with such British sidents as Mitchellstown Trafalger square. or - THE PICKIPOC, Trooklyn Life Belinda was a cautious little maid, Whose motto was (he single word, ware She never lost a chance to be afraid, And spent a deal of time in “taking care;" Yet, all the while, her natural timidity She' hid beneath o musk of intrepidity, “Be- y traln, young man, 5 brain; Obliged, one day, upcn a railw To sit beside a grave, sedi sudden terror filled Helind, He'il surely plek my pocket If he ¢an! Pig true he Jooks respectable, but then The worst of sharpers pose as gentlemen.' They reached a tunnel in another minute. Belinda, with her customary care To guard her pocket, slipped her hand within it, Bul found’ another To show her fortitude S asped the villain's [ A hand already there! nd hide her fright i tist and held 1t tigh Until they reached the open track again, (0 as the train into the daylight rushed it fuin would break its record, then he modest maiden blushed, o wonder' that the villain smiled a smile, hand was in his pocket all the while, Gov't Report, Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE