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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. “B. ROSEWAT! MORNING, PUBLISHED BVERY —— ; TERMS OF SUBECRIPTION. ily Bes (without Sunday) One Ve Iy Tea and Sunday, One Year. Lom % Month 3 3 nEm e Montihe. . Lim inday Bee, Orie Yo i turday Tiee, One_ ¥ i eckly Bee, One Year...... 1 OFFICES, Omaha, The Tee Bullding Boutn Omaia, Gurmer ' ind Eouncil TluMms, 12 Pearl Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of C jow York, Tioma 13, 10 and 15, Washington, 1107 I Street, N, ¥ RRESPONDENC All_communications relating to news torial matter should be nddressed: To the E BUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and remitianc ddressed ts ‘The Iee Publishin Omann. Draft okt and postotice orir Be 'made payabie to the order of the company Thi B PUBLISHING COMPS 4800 Twenty-fourth Sta. v edl- itor. shonld MENT OF CIRCULATION, George 1. Tzschuck, secratary of The e Pub- Mishing company, being duly sworn, says that the motunl number of full and complets coples of The Dally Morming, Bvening and Sunday | inted during the month of July, 189}, was ollows 3. STA S Less ded coples. Total sold Sworn to before me and ence this st day (Seal.) A corner in tea offers an alluring field for bold, bad speculators just at the present mo- ment. tat, 1801, I, Notary Publi Anarchy may live, but its advocates are being killed oft for their misdeeds with en- eouraging frequency. It 1s to be hoped that we have no more hot weather very soon if the pictorial artists are to be regularly affected as they have been by the last heated spell. Disapproving the results of regularly con- stituted and regularly conducted courts martial seems to be quite the fashion with the War department just at present. Four wecks of conference over the tarift isagreement does not speak very much in favor of the capacity of the democratic party to administer the government of a great and growing nation. We shall soon know whether the continued ‘business depression is due solely to the par- alyzing uncertainty of tariff legislation or wholly or in part to the character of the threatened legislation itself. The New York Tribune calls a spade an agricultural implement. We hardly expected this from any one outside of Boston, least of all the paper founded by Horace Greeley. Horace always called a spade a spade. We are assured that neither the anarch- i8ts nor the strikers are in the least sus- pected of being responsible for ‘the two great res that have just swept over Chicago's &mm district. Chicago must be becoming rational once more, Caesaro Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, must have come to the conelusion that he was desiznated by lot to lose his head upon the guillotine. This, however, is one of the secrets which he did not confide to any of his fellows. Pugilist Corbett is spreading reports that he Is completely taken with Paris. “Paris— that's the city for me!” says he. This is a sentiment in which all respectable Ameri- cans will concur. Paris is welcome to the whole brood of professional pugs. The war over the correct spelling of Corea Is waging almost as hotly as the war over Corea Itself. At the present writing spelling Corea with a “C" appears to have gotten the better of the conflict. Yet there is no telling ‘what the fortunes of the spelling war may bring. The federal government will hereafter ad- vertise and receive bids for the supply of stationery in Omaha. This assures Omaha of her future greatness and prosperity. The event should be recorded, so that later gen- erations may have an opportunity to com- memorate it Mr. Euclid Martin has been smoked out at Iast. He declares he proposes to assemble himselt tomorrow and let the democratic state committee go through the forms of rati- fylng what he and Tobe Castor have agreed upon among themselyes relating to the call of a state convention. A Chicago policeman has lost his star be- cause he arrested a railroad official for ob- structing a crossing. Think of the outrage committed in arresting a railroad official! Had the policeman but claimed that he mis- took his prisoner for a striker his pre- sumptuous conduct might possibly have been excused. It will probably not be safe for Eugene Pleld to spend his vacation in Maryland this year—not if he wants to Rave an en- joyable time. e has proclaimed to the public his belief that the women of Maryland are neither prettier nor brighter than any other American women, and characterizes all the talk of Marylanders about ‘“‘our beautiful women" as “guft” and “fapdoodle” that would not be tolerated by fathers, husbands and brothers in other parts of the country. When Eugeno meets a Maryland woman In the future it will be well for him to conceal his ldentity unless' he wants to be snatched bald-headed, so as to outdo his competitor, Bill Nye, as the before-taking sign of a patent hair restorer. The Indian schools of Nebraska, together with those of North and South Dakota, Wis- consin, Minnesota and Michigan, are to be represented at a convention of thos actively engaged or interested in the education of the Indian to be held at St. Paul from the 13th 10 the 15th of the present month. This ac- embly 1 to correspond to the teachers' in- stifutes which are held all over the country to Impart to teachers a knowledge of the best methods of pedagogy. The same plan 18 to be pursued by the Indian school teach- ors, who will have tho benefit of a carefully prepared program, consisting of lectures and talks by competent cducationallsts as well A8 addresses by Governor Nelson, Bishop Whipple, Archbishop Ireland and several other prominent public men. The cause of Indian education cannot but profit from the work of conventions of this kind. e THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: THAVER'S APPEAL FOR MAJORY. In his speech at the Superior Grand Army of the Republic reunion General John M. Thayer Is credited with the following deela- ration: “I want to say right here that I am for Tom Majors for governor e fought side by side through the war and we will fight together now.” Loyalty to friends and gratitude for gener- substantial ald are the most ad- mirable traits in hnman nators. Among voterans of the war there Is naturally an attachinent that prompts them to stand by each other on the political battlefleld. Bvery old soldfer who was on the ground when General Thayer made this declara- tion was doubtless impressed with the idea that his warm endorsement of Majors was a gratetul effort to pay off a political debt. The natural Inference would be that Majors and Thayer had fought side by side for each other In every political campaign sinee the war. Had such been the record of Majors it would have been very creditable and General Thayer's appeal would have caused no surprise. But whilo it was true that Thayer and Majors were in the same regl- during the war, Majors was always opposed to Thayer on every campaign in which he could have been of any service to him. When Thayer was elected United States senator after the admission of Nebraska into the union, he was under no obligations to Majors, who, as an Andy Johnson revenue official, consorted with the political mongrels of that day. Thayer was only eiccted to a term of four years In the senate. He had made a ereditable record and was by rights entitied to a second term. He was a stanch Grant republican and was supported for re-election by the stalwart republicans. It was naturally to be presumed that Majors would stand by his old comrade as against any stay-at-home republican, and most as- suredly against a renegade republican. Majors had a vote in the legislature through a near relative. Did he stand by Thayer? The journals of the legislature of 1871 show that he opposed Thayer from beginning to end and heiped to defeat him. The defeat ot Thayer was publicly proclaimed In the alls of the legislature as a rebuke to Presi- dent Grant. Thayer and Majors marched sile by side from the capitol— Thayer cast down by the triumph of his enemies; Majors jubilant over the vietory of the political bush- whackers that had done up the old com- mander. Four years later there was another sena- torial election. Thayer was again a candi- date and the choice of the stalwart repub- licans, Presumably Majors would have been with the old general, but in fact he was against him. He was for Judge Dundy, and when Dundy had withdrawn he helped to down Thayer again by throwing to Pad- dock. Thayer was a Grant republican. Dundy and Paddock had never seen military service. Like Hitchcock, who defeated Thayer in 1871 by a combine with demo- crats, Paddock was elected in 1875 by a similar combine. And yet Thayer asks the old soldiers to stand by Majors, In 1877 Majors worked for the re-election ot Hitchcock as against Cowin, Manderson and Crounse, all of them old soldiers. In 1881 Majors worked for Paddock’s re- election as against three old soldiers who were then candidates. In 1883, when Thayer was again a candl- date for United States senator, Majors was most decidedly against him and every other old soldier, including Manderson, Cowin and Laird. And yet General Thayer asks old soldiers to stand by him. The only time that Thomas J. Majors pro- tessed to be for John M. Thayer was In 1887, when Thayer was not a candidate for sen- ator and protested against belng voted for. This was during General Thayer's first term as governor. Majors was a member of the house and cast his vote for Thayer in joint convention. In the republican cau- cus Majors threw off the mask and asked the supporters of Van Wyck, who numbered within four votes of a majority, to drop Van Wyck and cast their votes for him. This is the kind of a friend General Thayer had in Majors. Now, what has come over General Thayer that he should advise old soldiers to reward hypocrisy and treachery? ~Why should old soldiers stand by the man who went back on his old comrade and gave the lie to his professions. Whys should General Thayer stultity himself by seeking to foist upon the state a man who in times past has disre- garded the ties that bind union veterans to each other and betrayed the trust reposed In him by his party and his state? Al things being equal, the union veteran is en- titled to preference at the hands of repub- licans, but the old soldier who seeks the highest position within the gift of the people must possess an unsullied reputation. un- bending integrity and a clean record In public life. and ment IRRIGATION IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. The movement already inaugurated for pro- moting irrigation in western Nebraska, where this method of supplying molsture for agri- cultural purposes is essential to the regular growth of crops and to permanent prosperity, should be encouraged and zealously main- talned. Just now the financial and other conditions are perhaps somewhat unfavorable to the furtherance of this movement, but this situation is not likely to continue very much longer, and when there is a change for the beiter, when capital can be more easily in- duced to invest in this sort of enterprise, which has everywhere proved profitable, and there is a brisker demand for western farm ands, everything should be ready for pushing irrlgation in the western portion of this state. Mr. H. Emerson, writing in the current number of the Irrigation Age regarding the fleld for irrigation in Nebraska, states that the rainfall of the western portion of the state Is only one-half of the average on the eastern border, and that while agriculture Is successful in some countrics where there s less rain than the mean of our western counties, here there are ruined crops with an average rainfall of eighteen inches. This is partly owing, he explains, to the fact of cloud-bursts, during which rain may fall to the amount of an inch or more in twenty- four hours, nearly all of which rapidly runs off, way be preceded or succeeded by long dry spells, or that after a week or two of dry weather a burning hot wind begins to blow, which in a single day will wither wheat or corn. Mr. Emerson presents ex- amples showing that there is a very great difterence In the efficiency of water In dif- forent parts of the Irrigated world, from which he concludes that there is no question but that Irrigation in western Nebraska should produce in time marvelous results and make agriculture a certain success over a very large territory in which the present sottlers are very much discouraged, and new settloment Is very slow. He says if there Is enough water flowing uselessly through western Nebraska to insure crops, if added to the natural rainfall, if this water can be made available when needed, If the water can be raised to the level of the great plains i o it where homestead succeeds homestead for one hundred miles or more, If the cost s not prohibitory, then there is no reason except Iack of enterprise and absence of organi- zation further to delay work on a grand scale, Mr. Emerson states that the Platte and the smaller streams fn Nebraska drainage basins of over 62,000 square milss, and that the relative sizes of these rivers Is greater than the drainage area indi- Enough rain falls annually over the Platte basins to Irrigate 60,000 square miles, it none of it wero lost in seepage and evaporation, and allow- ing for these losses enough water runs to waste down the Platte, especlally flood ime, to Irrigate the whole of western Ne- Mr. Emerson says that storage basing and reservolrs will be needed, but this presents no difficulty, since on all the western table lands there are natural res ervoirs, which with very little expense, can be turned into immense storage basius. After pointing out the plan to be pursued Mr. Emerson concludes his article as foliows: “The river water Is there, the table lands are fertile and occupled, the reservoirs are made by nature. Man must Intervene, di- vert the rivers, fill up the reservoirs and make one vast garden out of what is now only too often a burned and arld waste.” There 1s no question that this can be done, and its accomplishment will mean a gain to the productive wealth of Nebraska enor- mously in excess of the cost. river have even cates, braska UNPATRIOTIC EMPLOYERS. Among the altogether unexpected results of the recent great raflroad strike fn and about Chicago is the complaint that is being raised by numerous members of the Illinols Na- tional Guard who were called Into service, that upon being discharged they learned that their former positions had been given by their employers to other men and them- selves set adrift among the ranks of the un- employed. From one regiment alone it 1s re- ported that over 100 men have found them- selves in this predicament. The men who have been performing an enforced service for the protection of the property of the rail- roads and other large corporations naturally feel indignant at being subjected to such treatment. They think that their loyally to the state and the sacrifices made to respond to the call of the authorities ought at least to call for some consideration of thelr in- terests on the part of their employers in réturn, Those few empolyers who have attempted any defense of thetr conduct base their ac- tion upon the necessities of the case. When the militia were called out to maintain order and suppress rioting they were left short of help, and, after waiting a week or more without improved prospects, the places were offered to others. It became simply a mat- ter of discharging the new employe without definite cause and reinstating the old employe or leaving the latter to shift for himself. Such a situation could, however, have been avoided by making the employment of the substitute subject to the express condi- tion of making way for his predecessor when the latter should again be free to resume his place. By an agreement of this kind all misunderstanding would be obviated and the employe would not be compelled to undergo any extraordinary loss by reason of his en- listment in the militia. There has been some talk of legislation on this subject compelling employers under heavy penaltles to reinstate employes who may have been absent upon. service in the national guard. Such legislation ought not to be necessary under a government like ours. The same patriotism that inspires one man to shoulder a musket ought to Insure him agalnst the loss of his means of support. There is reason to fear that a pemal law would not remove the evil, because an em- ployer intent upon discharging an employe can easily trump up some other plausible excuse. A powerful public opinion that will hold up the oftending employer to scorn ought to bo a more ready and a more potent remedy. The unpatriotic action s deserving of the severest censure. UNIFORM BAR EXAMINATIONS. One of the questions which the next Ne- braska state legislature will doubtless have presented for its consideration is that of reforming the present system of admitting new members to practice in the courts of the state. It Is sald that a strong appeal will be made to have the bar examinations placed under some central control by which they will be made more uniform, if not more stringent. Not that Nebraska Is much worse off in this respect than most of the states in the union, but the movement for reform has already been started, and Ne- braska, it Is urged, should be among the first to follow the lead of the older and ex- perienced commonwealths. The objections to the system of bar ex- aminations that prevails in this as well w3 numerous other states today have been formulated time and time again, and have never been satisfactorily met. Under this system the court of each county makes its own rules respecting attorneys author- ized to practice before it. In practical operation, this means that the several bars assume to themselves the power to prescribe the conditions upon which new members shall be recelved into their body. The standard of admission varies, not only from county to county, but it varles from time to time in the same county. In frequent cases the test Is applied with greater or less strictness according as the candi- date is or is not agreeable to the members of the examining mmittee. What s called the requisite “‘pull’’ often goes a great way for candidates who are in danger of failing to come up to the required standard. It Is claimed in some states, perhaps not In Nebraska, that the bars of particular counties have such a prepudice against colored applicants or against women ap- plicants that colored lawyers and women lawyers are practically excluded. A Pen sylvania attorney has stated publicly that he knows a bar or two in that state whose members advise to each other the policy of discouraging admissions’ except of thelr own sons or relations. The complaint in Nebraska is not so much that worthy applicants are refused admission to practice before the courts as that appli- cants are admitted without the necessary preparation. They thereby recelve what is equivalent to a license to palm off their ig- norance upon an umsuspecting public for a money compensation. In most jurisdictions it Is too seldom that a candidate is rejected, Any one of fair reputation and a mere smat- tering of legal terms belng accepted into the fold without question. A reporter for one of the district dourts of Nebraska, whose only knowledge of law 15 what had been absorbed by him while reporting the dif- ferent hearings that have come up in court, has expressed confidence in his ability to puss a bar examination provided he applied before the committee In a certaln county and preluded the performance by giving his ex aminers an oyster supper. This is simply an Ilustration of the NM with which those Wwho know how ean take thelr places as practicing attorneys before the courts of this state. M sn While few persons.dt all acquainted with the facts In the casé &if deny that these ob Jections to the preseirt system of bar exami nations are both pginted and sericus, It s likely that those who now have the work of conducting these examifiations will not relin- quish their powers without a struggle. The question Is well womh the careful considera- tion of all who desire ithe elevation of the bar. Several of the' more progressive states have taken steps to secure uniform bar aminations. Would it not be well for Ne- braska to do the saie? SLING WITHL LHE SILVER QUESTION the boast of the republican party for years that it stands for honest money. Any altempt to juggle with the money question by catering to free coinage fallacy is bound to react disastrously against it. The silver plank Inserted into the platform adopted by the Sixth district republican congressional convention s a bungling plece of political chicanery that will cause the party any amount of trouble in the coming campalgn. This plank reads as fol- lows: olved, That the demonetization of silver democratic administration In 1893 was a crime against the people; that we voice the demand of the plaiform of 1892 and that we give new expression and emphasis to that demand by calling upon congress to remone- tize silver and provide for the coinage of the product of American mines at a ratio that will restore the equilibrium of gold and silver and maintain their parity. It was said by the immortal Lincoln that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all tho time. What is the meaning of the stupid gabble about “the crime of 13037 Why denounce the democratic party for the repeal of the Sherman act when everybody knows that its repeal was demanded by republicans all over the country and was carried through congress by the votes of more than three- fourths of the republican members? What does this piece of trumpery about the crime of 1893 and demand on congress to remone- tize silver and provide for the coinage of the product of American mines mean, any- how? What answer will republicans make to the populists, whose stock in trade has always been “the crime of '73?” Will not the populists take this talk about the demo- cratic crime of '93 as a voluntary admission that there was a republican crime in '737 And how will republican candidates and speakers get out of this tangle? What right had the Sixth district republicans to distort and pervert the silver plank of the national platform of 1892, which expressly points out the desirability of an interna- tional agreement on silver coinage, without which the parity of'the metals at any ration would be difficult it not impossible to maln- tain? f If there was really a:crime in 1873, which republicans have lways denied, and If free colnage even limi{ed fo American product was practical then, the populists are right on the silver queation/and the republicans should give way and et the populist silver policy govern the colintry. There is no middle ground to occupy, nor can the re- publican party masquerade as the advocate of free coinage in'one part of the state and as its opponent in another part. The republican party is for the double standard so long as’that standard can be rzintained by the'exchange of every silver dollar and every paper dollar in circulation for a dollar in goll. ~ The resumption of free colnage under present conditions would force gold to a premium, Mexicanize our currency and contract the volume of money by the withdrawal and hoarding of gold which is now available as a medium of ex- changes. Any other conclusion is contrary to all rational reasoning and the experience of this as well as other nations. If the issue is to be met by the republican party it must be dealt with frankly, honestly end without flinching. Any attempt at sub- terfuge and sophistry about minting the American product can only result in humilia- tion and defeat. JUG It has been SPREAD OF CHOLERA IN EUROPE. The rapld spread of cholera in Europe may not justify any feellng of alarm in this country, but it certainly ought to suggest to our quarantine authorities the exercise of the utmost care and vigilanco for excluding it from the United States. The report recently made to the National Marine Hospital bureau by United States Surgeon Irwin, who is stationed at Berlin, presents a rather start- ling account of the progress of the terrible disease throughout Burope, and since the date of his report, July 18, there has been no diminution in the ravages of the plague. It has been especially severe at St. Peters- burg and Cronstadt, and it appears that in neither place have adequate precautions been taken to prevent its spread. The disease has appeared in Germany, Austro-Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Spain and even in Finland, where it was never before seen, Supposed to have its home and breeding ground in the hot swamps about the mouth of the Ganges and in a few similar districts of Indla, Asiatic cholera has naturally been considered to be a warm weather dis- ease. This is correct In a general way, but there have been very severe outbreaks of the pestilence in the middle of winter In coun- tries as cold at that season as Canada and Scotland. The condition of St. Petersburg calls atention to one notable exception to the rule that cholera Is a rather of the troples than of the cooler parts of the earth. The Russian capital is now the greatest cholera center In the civilized world. There are districts inithe Interior of Russia which are more terribly aficted, but no other great city and’ center of commerce has so much cholera. The disease appears to be naturalized, 80 to speak, [n St. Peters- burg, and the short, hot summers of that city, combined with; the swamps of the river Neva, are quite sufficient to give the pestil- ence of the deltal of the Ganges the con- ditlons which it rgqufres for permanent vi- tality. The northern, latitude is offset by the extreme unheslthfulness of the site of the Russian capital. ‘It Is demonstrated in St. Petersburg that Swamps can counter- balance the cold of Russian winters in creat- ing a harbor for the Asiatic pestilence, In the management 9f the disease the Russlan authorities seem to be as stupid and care- less as were those of Hamburg during the early period of the plague In the latter city last year. The precautions taken have been very slight, amounting to little more than quarantining the victims. The experience of Hamburg proved that the most essential re- quirements for checking the disease is at- tention to the water supply. While that oty depended on the polluted waters of the Elbe for its supply the plague continued to rage, but so soon as filtration was adopted the cholera abated. It Is remark able that the Russlan authorities have not followed this example, It s be presumed that disease to the serious SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1891, | character ot the Turopean eondition Is re- celving the attention It demands from the quarantine auth:rities of the Un ted Stitos. There may be no tmmediate danger, but in matters of this kind an ounce of prevention fs worth a pound of eure. A visitation of added to our other troubles, weuld bo calamitous, and every effort should be made to avert it 4 NEW INQUISITION. By a decision arrived at by the regents ot the University of Wisconsin last woek a new Inquisition is to Instituted upon the question whether one of the professors in that institution is to be pronounced heretical for teaching doctrines In character. Prof. Richard T Ely, who only three years ago left his place In the chair of political economy at Johns Hopkins university to accept an enthusiastic call to tif% directorship of school of history, economics and public law under the University of Wisconsin, has been made the object of newspaper charges of which the regents have finally conciuded to take cognizancs Prot. Bl be to sit or not soclalistic the y, quite naturally, denies the truth of the allegations and strenuously objects to being called a socialist, but his objections count for little with people who frume their definitions of socialism to suit their own purposes. Prof. Ely believes that the federal government should continue in the future as in the past to serve the people through the department, as do most of his accusers. He further, and believes that the postal system and icorporation of the telegraph and telephone, and in this he grievously offends the scions the telegraph monopoly. He even be- lieves in the nationalization of the railroads, an offense which the railroad magnates will never condone, And to cap the climax he advocates municipal ownership of the muni- cipaP monopolies of service—water works, rapid transit electric lighting plants and Not willing to rely upon their ability to answer his arguments and to refute the statements which he ad- vances in their support the corporation in- terests prefer to attack his position in the faculty of the university on the ground that 1o one who spreads such heinous doctrines should be permitted to employ the ma- chinery of the public educational institu- tions for that purpose. It is not necessary to agree with the views of Prof. Ely on these subjects to per- ceive that this proposed Investigation re- sembles the persecutions of the inquisition more than the jury trial upon reasonable of guilt. The complaint has all along been made that our political econo- mists have confined themselves to the dis- cussion of abstruse speculations; that they have lived in the clouds rather than in this every day world, that they have busied themselves too much with what s theo- retical, and too little with what s practi- cal. But they no sooner begin to discuss aquestions of present interest and importance than they are told that they are exceeding their province. There is, we know, a line at which a halt must be called, but so long as a teacher insists upon the supremacy of law and denounces resort to violence apd fraud, his honest opinions should entitle him to have them received for what they are worth. No government can countenance attacks upon its own stability by its officials, much less furnish the munitions of war for an onslaught against itself. But the authori- tles should go slow about instituting a new inquisition, with the real object in view to suppress freedom of speech. Persecution for opinions has invariably throughout all his- tory reacted to the detriment of the persecu- tors. Popular sympathy is sure to be aroused in favor of the victim, and his doc- trines, although of perhaps little logic or merit, only take seed from his martyrdom. Postoftice es lhoweve would be strengthened by the acquisitio of systems, gas works. evidence The novelist, F. Marion Crawford, commits an inaccuracy in his description of Washing- ton in the current Century when he asserts that the national capital Is the only city that has been specially laid out and estab- lished to subserve the purposes of govern- ment. The capital of Nebraska was created with that object in view, just as much us the capital of the United States. It was named after the martyred president in analogy to the naming of the other after the first pres- ident. The analogy might be carried con- siderably further. The statement of Mr. Crawford 1s probably owing to careless- ness, but none the less requires correction. By what stretch of imagination does Con- gressman Blair bring the Investigation of southern lynchings into the province of the commissioner of labor? Labor has been made to include a great number of discordani elements, but extending It to lynchers s going a bit too far. Everybody Sick and Sore. Courler-Journal. Chairman Wilson is sick, Chairman Voor- hees s sick, but neither of these great tarift doctol is as sick as the country. Give us our medicine and have done with it, e e A Change for the Hetter, Denver Republican. ‘The repeal of a law known in army cir- cles as the Proctor act has opened the way for old soldiers of the regular army to re- enlist, and it is not surprising that this chunge is received among army officers with great favor. The army needs its veteran soldlers. e o Significance of the Stmo New York Sun. patches about scorching winds 8 should be regarded as allegori- cen full sets of populist resolu- let loo: last week, What can ted of corn when these simoons of flubdub are driving through the state? And the less corn there i the happler the populists are, e e Inventor of the Big N. Philadelphia. Pross. John Marshall Is to go on a postage stamp. This is well. He did more than any other man on our bench to decide that the United States Is a nation. His decl- sions struck the first great blows In the struggle for the union and dug the fou dations on which rose our present fabri of constitutional law. i Sl Menacing Personal Liberty. St Paul Globe, The school teachers in a Nebraska city are forbidden by the Board of Kdueation from attending “more than one dance a weel. There 18 much complaint because of the regulation, but the board is ob. durate. As they ‘were abundantly able to pay the "fiddler, the fair ferule’ wielders cannot see why they should not dance as often as they choos ns. These in Kans be expe And They vecline to Pesch, New York Tribune. s many versions ween “the president and Se, at the white house as th riginal sin, and th equally untrustworthy. What passed be tween the two rival statesmen could only be known to themselves, and of course each was 00 chivalrous, high-minded and honor- able o tattle and gossip about the other A Liberal Bridal Dot. Globe-Democrat The new state of Utah will handsome dot from Uncle Sam. Includes 90,000 acres for an agricultural collee, two townships and 110,000 ac for a university, 600,000 acres for irriga- tion, 14 0 acres each for an insane asylum, school of mines, deaf and dumb asylum, reform school, normal school and blind asylum, and 60,00 acres for a min 3 hospital. These generous tracts of well taken care of, will be of Lmmens value In the course of Ume. There are f the famous interview recelve a The gIfL PROPLE AND THINGS, The story that Emperor Willam wants the earth doubtloss arose from the fact that he is studying geology A disposition fs manifested in New York to deter the abolition of capital punishment un- til after the November election A morning smile,” says an unknown sage, “Is the sunshine of a happy heart.” A “great many people consider it an eye- opener The coy populist mal the proposals of the Nebraska white wing Probably she can be prevailed on to be a sisler to them It is eharged the cars burned. Now she pleasure of paying the music amounts to §549,691 already. Clifford Breckinridge of Arkans: President Cleveland has appointed minister to Russia, once declined to fight a duel on the gronnd that he was then studying for the Presbyterian minfst It seems to be protty well settled among the war experts of the press that Japan will t the worst of the deal. That being the se, gentlemen, let us give the Japs the cue while they ean recede with honor. Kansas Clty street car conductors evolved a remedy for the chafing of the odions bell punch neck-yoke, It is called a “brother-in-law,” s worn inside the vest, chimes harmonfously with the corporation bell, and in the hands of a veteran con. will K off $3 to $5 a day from the company's treasury The estate of a man_amounts making of the fortune had with his public life He in serving his constituents balanced by a moderate grocery business which flourished amazi under benign in- fluence of ward caucusses and trimmings. Major W. H. Upham, republican eandidate for governor in Wisconsin, is one of the fow men for whom a funcral has been held. He was wounded at the battle of Bull Run and was left on the field, later being plcked up and taken to a rebel prison. Soon after me a report that Major Upham was dead. When it reached Racine, funeral services were held in his honor in the First Presby- terlan church. Major Upham reminded his friends of this error a time later, when he surprised the mourners by coming home. Germany complains of a surfeit of edu- cated men. The enormous output of her universities outruns the demand, producing a congestion of intellectuality. = A similar condition of affairs threatcns Lincoln, Neb, Her chain of universities grind out' more mental polish than the community can ab- orb, forclng a resort to plebian expedients described in an advertisement in the Lincoln News: “Wanted, a place to work for board while studying law; can do most anything :‘rnm teaching Latin to taking care of horses. The New York constitutional convention threatens to destroy one of the great joys of legislative life, It is proposed to hedge the passage of bills with such restrictions as will effectually annihilate log rolling on_the last night. If the plan is incorporated in the organic law, the wild orgies of last nighters will become a memory in New York. The carousing confusion which veil the operations of the lobby and produce parched throats and aching heads in the morning must be sought for outside the Em- piro state, 0 18 not Jumping at that Chicago danced while will have the bill, which whom decensed to $1,000,000. Brooklyn alder- Of course, the nothing to do rificed much but this loss was e SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Boston Globe: A clergyman in mosquito- ridden Brooklyn, preaching on usurers and other advantage takers of the poor, created a sensation by remarking the other Sunday that ‘‘the parasite has the commendable virtue among the various species of blood- suckers of letting go and rolling over and dying when it is full Chicago Times: Rev. Thomas Dixon of New York is one of those worthy divines who load up on lobster and ice cream Saturday night for the delivery of a sermon on the morrow. A nightmare is none the less an unreal figment of indigestion though it be stabled in a pulpit. Mr. Dixon’s dream of horrors to come, when the whole world shall be paralyzed with strikes, probably sprang from long continued diet of « monopolistic newspapers. Chicago Mail: The church militant seems to be at its best in Evanston, where Rev. Lewis Dixon animated his saving grace with a muscular triceps and illustrated his con- tempt for “po’ white trash” yesterd knocking down three several and succes times a burly iceman, Robert Simpson, whose horses had becn devasting the pastor's cab- bage plants. When Mr. Simpson gets well he will raise the price of ice in revenge, for it is always the innocent moncombatant who suffers. Philadelphia Inquirer: The editor of the Western Christian Advocate takes a clergy- man to task for having said in a letter to a religious paper that he will challenge any workman of the United States “to show down with me in the amount he and I have contributed to relieve the distress of the un- employed.” The objectionable phrase is, of course, *“show down,” although many people may consider it expressive and forceful. The wonder with them is doubtiess also why the editor of the Advocate knew what it meant. and it it would be too much to ask him what it really does mean, any way. To some people it is probably as much of a mystery as were the recent sematorial ref- erences to “bluffs” and “calls.”” It is only fair to them that they should be enlightened. ~— BLASTS FROM R. Working without a plan strength, Big words often make a poor cloak for a small idea, Every good woman i3 a constant reminder that God lives. There are some very good people who love to tell bad news. Bad men always hate the laws that good men try to enforce. Only the wicked are trying to prove that the devil is a myth. There are educated pigs, uone that do not like mud. It is better to run the shoes down at the heel than to be too lazy to walk. The sermons that do the mos world are not preached In pulpits. When you go to church to pray for a re- vival, don't wear shoes that squeak. Church members who never smile will some day find out how much harm they have done. 1f some people knew that the sun Lad spots on it they would almost worry themselves to death. Every man’s life is a failure who does not try to do something to leave the world richer than he found it. R A Flagrant Railrond Abuse. Philadeiphia Pross. The eastern lines in their New York meet- Ing deal with a very small share of the se presented In private cars and their in proposing to reduce their mileage rate from % to % a cent a mile, If both the public and railrond men were not benumbed by the perpetual rec of railroad abuses this tlagrant diversion of railroad profits would have long since bred summary remed ne-fifth of the railroads of the count bankrupt, Of the rest only a part pay ar share capital. On an averag tal returns only about 3 per o are about 100,000 private cars not owned by railrond companies carrying freight, to which these companies pay $30,000,000 a year. Tha rallroads can only make 3§ per cent or a ikrupt, Th rs pay from 30 to 5 per cent. The utmost exertion of rail- road officers can only get from 15 to 20 miles ay of travel out of their own cars. These ate ¢ ks venty or elghty miles X a fifth of the M’S HORN. is a waste of but there are to save the today on every one of the ba which are in the care, custod Hon or Unfted Blates courts without any effort to check this diversion of the rev- enue of the road into private hands. e the I'reo Fass Iniquity * srler Journal. The New York constitutional conventfon has attacked the free pass Iniquity and proposes to devote a section to prohibiting any public officlal from riding on a rail- ond pass. I this case prohibition and prevention are two very different things. With Kentucky's experience with a similar constitutional clause we venture to advise the New York convention to extend the prohibition to the wives, children, parents parents-in-law, sisters, aunts, ' brothers, os nd’colsins ln wny degrée of public als. Heroics o have | OUT OF TIE ORDINARY, One billlon feet of timber per year s being cut in Te at that rate it will take but fifteen years to oxhaust the supply. The largest farm in this country Is situ- ated in Loulsiana, it being 100 miles one way by twenty-five the other. The fencing alone cost $50,000, One of the new rifles used by the Itallan soldiors sends a ball with forcs enough to o through five Inches of solld oak at & distance of 4,000 foe The most costly piece of rallway line in the world s that betweon the Mansion house and Aldgate stations, in London, which re- auired tho expenditure of nearly $10,000,000 & mile. A Mr. Stone of Perry, OklL, has entered Into a contract with a number of Ponea In- dians, with a view of forming a base ball team, which shall tour the country. Stone has the permission of the secrotary of the interior. The Indians will probably play in the museums. Lemon juice, squoezed in California, treated with a preservative process, and sent east by the barrel, is now sold In earthen jugs | containing from half a gallon to ten galion It is used for all sorts of domestic purpose for lemonade and for making mixed drin at_the bar and In clubs, Th> English sparrow threatens to Lesome as groat a pest in Australia as it is here, and several of the colonial legislatures have re- | cently enacted laws whereby local authorities are compelled to spend a_certain amount of the public funds at their disposal in eftecting the destruction of the birds., The number of millionaires in England is not so great as ono might belfe Accord- Ing to the report of the income tax officials there are in England seventy-one persons with an_annual income of $250,000, over 1100 draw $50,000 annually, and only about 10,000 have an income of $10,000 A French statlsticlan says that the number of men and women in France Is more nearly equal than in any other country of the world, there being only 1,007 women to 1,000 men. In Switzerfand there are 1,064 men to 1,000 women, and in Greece only 933, The condi- tions in Hong Kong, according to this author- ily, are “appalling,” there being only 366 woinen to 1,000 men. | According to official statistics just fssued by the French government, the population of | 58,000,000 s sheltered In about 9,000,000 louses. Of these houses 61 per cent are the property of resident owners, a fact that polnts in a particularly satisfactory manner to the diffusion of wealth through the com- munity instead of its concentration in the hands of a few capitalists. More than 37,000,000 acres of land are in- fested by the rabbit st in Vie- torla, Australia. During the last eleven years the colonlal government has expended nearly $2,000,000 In efforts ta abate the pest, besides the expenditures of individuals. The rabbits are trapped for their skins, over 150,000 pelts having been bought monthly in one town. The authori- ties of some districts have decided to employ phosphorized wheat for the destruction of the rabbits, e SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS. Indignapelis Journa today?” asked the match, “On’ the bomb,” replied the fuse. you gimme a light? “Tlow are you ‘Can Detroit Free Press: Nurse—Luke at the awkward little rascal! Tryin' to pit_his tathin’ ring in his eye. Fond Mother—It (s not awkwardness at all, Mary Jane, it {s instinct. He takes It for a monocle. Philadelphia Record: When a man_goes fishing and acknowledges that he dldn’t ch anything, you can lend him money and be sure of getting it back. Galveston News: When the wise man loses his head he never gives it away. Harper's Bazar: Spoones (In love)—I wish 1 knew how to make an impression on Miss Hardy's heart, Guffy—Try a diamond; that will leave its mark ‘on the hardest substance. Puck: Friend—T] play is a masterpiece. the chara Dramat imagined a man possessed of all the varieties of wickedness which my_ wife ssoribes to me when she gets mad. at villain in your new Where did you get Journal: “I don't see the TIndianapolis e being put on my e of this tool ca He—\Why, In case of an accident you'd have something to work with, “Oh, you, absurd man, don't T always have hairpins with m Chicago Record: The Sarcastic Barn- stormers (after the bombardment from the gallery)—1 have eggs enough now, thank you. ‘Wil no one send up an accompanying ham! The Gallery (with emphasis)—It's on the stage now! Buffalo Courler: The Judge—I should think you would be sorry for having so far forgotien yourself as to throw a plate at your wife.” The Prisoner (penitently)—I am, your honor; that plate cost 10 cents. Puck: Fannie T. Phayre—T have just re- celved ‘a letter from ~Mr. Stocksanbonds asking me to be his wife, and I am uncer tain just how to answer it. Mrs. Phayre (astounded)—Uncertaint Why, Ethel, just think of his wealth! Fannie T. Phayre—Yes; I'm uncertain as to whether I should telegraph my accept- ance or mail it with a special” dellvery stamp. HOW'D YOU LIKE Atlanta_Constitution, How'd you like to be today Where the mill stream is— Like the boy, so far away, With that forn hat o' his? Face that’s kinder streaked with dirt— Jerkin' off his eoiton shirt; r? ookin' eager—limbs alive. Goin' for a headlong dive? Wouldn't that be nice to do? Splash the whole hot weather through! e THOUGHTFULNESS. Chicago Post, His wife is back! No more at night, When seems to him the town a somber night. To dull and gray, May he go forth with paint to make it bright, He's had his day; His wife is back! But who Is that, With glossy hat, And step as springy as’ the step of fawn, Who leaves at night, returning with the dawn? It is the other NATURE"S man whose wife's just gonej He'll see the painting donel He'll have the fun! The town shall never stay So dull and gray His wife has gon 8o gentle nature makes A compensation swe Bhe gives for what sh And it is meet! As where the flower s aprings . viding for a myriad things, "The town may not be left to stuy All dull and gray; One wife comes home today, Another goes away. - HIS TERRIBLE P takes, plucked anothey I Chicago Herald. ,fi;fiu'\‘m‘mng AND "ADvTge - > L‘ 1A BE Paip FoR 18 ‘&7 J|lvamo s ToRns Z} | TorwaoaesCraon 25 Piantn CQuAR i PANRIE FiREs W. 3. BEYAN OF NEBKASKA I8 TO BECOME AN OMANA EDITOR.

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