Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 6, 1894, Page 4

TERMS OF 8UDSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday) One Year. Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year.... Bix Months i Three Month: B fs3s233 Weckly Bee, One Year OFFIC Omaha, The Tiee Tullding Routh Omahn, Corner N and Twenty-fourth St Council THufts, 12 Pearl Street, Chicago Offic Chamber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 ¥ Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, i Al communications relating to news and edt. toral matter should be addressed: To the Editor. RUSINESS LETTERS i ANl business letters and remittances shou addressed 1o The Tes Publishing company, Omaha, “Drafts, “checks and postafice orders to be made payabl t srder of the company. RIS 1R PURLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George tary of the Toe Pub- lishing ing duly sworn, says that actual num full and complete coples Ivening and Sunday Bee ot 184, was Trschuc npany, | r of ning, he month 1 TR B ) -} A 21976 it g 24 640 5 - 21,60 2l ] 536 2475 21,568 5,601 Feturned 1,867 oy 20,67 Total sold...... Dally average net cireutation * Sunday. GEORGE B, T Bworn o lefora me and subscribid ence this ith day of Septem Peals g N P FERIL, Notary Public —————————— THUCK. fibed in my ‘We have not yet seen or heard any re- sponse from ex-Governor Boyd in reply to the fervent appeal of Editor Bryan for him to make way for a free silver democrat. A Colorado man who could get no one to nominate him as a candidate for congress has finally concluded to nominate himself. He s sure to get at least one vote for the position. 1t is to feared that President Cleve- land will require the services of an expert cabinst maker to again put together his cabinet, which has scattered to all directions of the compass. be Neither Colorado ncr Wyoming has as yet attempted to send a woman represcntative to either house of congress, notwithstanding the fact that woman suffrage is in full blast in both of those states. Mr. MacVeagh is going to Peorla in quest of the senatorship from [llinois. Peoria is the home of the Whisky trust. Mr. Mac- ‘Veagh s therefore quite farsighted in mak- ing Peoria lis objective point With Governor Tillman in the United States senate, the dispensary system of the senate restaurant, cver which an annual war s waged, will unquestionably be reorganized m a profitable business basis. From present prospects the mext house of Tepresentatives will have about as many new faces in it as did the last, which was remark- able for the number of members who had never had national legislative experience be- fore, i First Round—Lancaster of the Bryanites. Second Round—Gage county—in favor of the administration democrats. Fight to be brought to a finish in the democratic state convention at Omaha on the 26th of this month, The ardor of the city council 1o save money 10 the taxpayers by getting the lowest possi- ble bids on clectric lighting seems to have visibly cooled. Its ardor now seems to be di- rected to saving money for the electric light- ing monopoly at the expense of the taxpayers. There is no excuse for paying the present exorbitant rates when responsible parties are ready and anxious to undertake a contract at reasonable prices. county—in favor Business men of Omaha who have been led to fear that the election of an honest populist to the governorship of Nebraska will hurt the state more than that of a corrupt and dishonest raflroad republican will be able to listen to Judge Holcomb here next week and determine for themselves whether he fs the kind of a man who would do anything to injure the credit of the state or to cripple Its trade and industries. Does the police department require an extra appropriation of money every time it wants to secure evidence against a particu- lar offender or a particular class of offenders? Are not the police expected to be able to enforce the laws upon the regular appropria- tion at their command? We do not think it & good precedent to make speclal appropria- tions just because some special work requires & little additional exertion on the part of the men already employed. Of course, as might have been expected, some of the cuckoo organs are rushing to the defense of President Cleveland from charges of plaglarism in the: passages taken from Tom Moore's poems and inserted by the president in his letter to Mr, Catchings. The Chicago Herald, for example, thinks such uncredit:d excerpts from standard au- thors are to be commended rather than criticised, and would apparently have been grievously disappointed had the president omitted to includ passages of this kind in his letter. We are glad that this plece of doubtful appropriation of others’ produc- tions really pleases some people, and it is possible that Tom Moore, w:re he alive, might even feel highly honored by this evi- denco that the president, of the United States Is familiar with his poetry, or, at any rate, has it of easy access. Figuring that about 40,000,000 gallons of spirits and whisky were withdrawn during the month of August to escape the payment of the Increased internal revenue tax, that number belng the estimate of the officials fn the internal revenue department at Wash- ington, the proflt of 20 cents a gallon means no less than $3,000,000 clear gain to the #Whisky trust. The trust officers have been trylng to make It appear that they were wery much disappointed over their failure to secure a loan of $5,000,000 at the last mo- ment, with which to take out other large quantities of goods that remain in bonded warehouses. They may pessibly have ex- pected that loan, although the sincerity of thelr efforts to effect 1t have been questioned But they have not been disappointed in the profita upon which they were counting Nelther the Whisky trust ncr the Sugar trust 48 saying a word against the new tarift, REPUBLICAN MISSIONARIES. A democratie representative from Ohlo declared in the house just before the p: sage of the senate tariff bill that every woman who sees the bag of sugar she buys decreased one-third will become a missicnary against the He said that the great mass of the pecple who must count every penny of not sufficient to enable democracy. incomes them to I{ve in half way decent comfort will | feel the tax on sugar and feel it bitterly “There is not a housewife in the land,” said Representative Johnson, “who will not feel that she Is robbed by our democratfe tariff ref'rm when she finds that where she got three pounds of sugar under the Me- Kinley bill she now, under the Gorman bill, for the same money, gets but two.” It will be some little time yet before the housewives of the land begin to realige the effect of demo- cratic legislation upon this prime necessary, but that they will be given an cbject lesson thers cin be no doubt. The duty does not g0 into effect until the first of next year, and there is no present excuse for the trust ad- vancing the price of sugar, which Is now higher than the average of last year. More- over, that monopoly may be dispsed to hold oft an until after the November congression:l elections, so as not to hurt the party which conceded the 40 per cent ad valorem on raw sugar which ‘the trust dic- tated, but nothing can be more certain than that th will em No demo- cratie defender of making raw sugsr dutia- ble questions this. Not only will the con- sumers of sugar have to the 40 per cent duty, but so much in addition as the trust shall find it expedient to demand. It has the absolute control of the situation and may, regulite production and prica at its pleasure, and It is unnecessary to say that it will take the largest possible advantage of its opportunity. It may go slow, for pru- dential reasons, but whatever goal it has set for itself it will reach in time, As a consequence of this legislation, when the great sugar refining monopoly Is ready 10 begin the extortion which the law allows it, instead of twenty pounds the American people will get but twelve or thirteen pounds of sugar for a dollsr, as before the passags cf the McKinley law, which an- nually saved to the consumers of sugar in the United States not less than $40,000,000. In 1889, before the p ge of that law, the average wholesilo price of granulated sugar was 7.799 cents. The year after its p sage, 1891, the average price was 4.698, and there was a still further decline in 1892, the average whilesale price in the latter yesr for granulated being 4.346 cents. There was 1o material change from this in 1803. There is every reason to expect that under the pre w the price of sugar will ad- vanco to the. averige price of 1889, or fully 3 cents per pound the average price of last and may go even higher. It will only stop short of the figure at which importaticns of foreign-made be invited Tho American people have had an experi- ence of nearly four yesrs with cheap sugar, effecting an aggregate saving to them an- nually of more than $50,000,000. They will not take kindly to a policy that makes this prime necessary appreciably higher to them, particularly when their incomes largely reduced by the legislation which in- cludes this policy. The well-to-do may not pay much attention to it, but the great mass of the people, whose reduced earnings com- pel them to count every penny and to pra tice greater prudence and econcmy than ever before will give attention to it. of thousends of such ‘Will rebuke at the polls the party responsible for increasing the cost to them, while benefiting the most grasping of all monopokies, a prime neces- sary they cannot dispense with. advance advance pay above vear, refined would And hundreds THE “COMMUNISM OF PELE." This is the expressive term applied by Mr. Cleveland to the trusts in his letter to Mr. Catchings. On other occasions the presi- dent has used vigorous language in referring to the trade combinations. In his inaugural address he declared that they frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, “and in all their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our American’ sense of fairness.” In the same connection he said that to the extent that they can be reached and restrained by federal power the general government should relieve our citizens from their interference and exac- tions. In the Catchings letter he said: “The trusts and combinations—the communism of pelf—whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the sucess we deserve, should not be forgotten or forgiven.” These ut- terances of Mr. Cleveland seem to be sin- cere, and the people have been disposed to 80 regard them, But what has the administration done dur- ing the eightcen months it has been in power to prove the sincerity of the president in denouncing the trusts and combinations and urging that the power of the general government should he used to relieve the people from thelr interference and exac- tions. There was an anti-trust law on the statute book, enacted by a republican con- gress, when the Cleveland administration came in. What effort has been made to 1t? Tt does not matter whether it was “mild and gingerly," as Representative McMillin described it, the unquestionable duty of the administration was to make a proper and adequate effort to execufe the law. As we have more than once pointed out, the only proceedings instituted under this law, o far as the public has any knowledge, was against the Sugar trust in connection with the purchase of the Phila- delphia refineries. The gevernment beaten in the lower court and took an ap peal to the supreme court, where the case is not likely to be reached during' the term of this administration. The attornty general has shown no interest in the case. It purely perfunctory proceeding. He is an avowed enemy of the law. and was doubtless able to convince Mr. Cleveland that it of no value. The fact that it was repub- lican legislation was probably suffictent to diseredit it with Mr. Olney, but aside from this is the fact that the attorney general is not In sympathy with the popular hostility to combinations. was is a was In his statement of the work of the pres- ent gongress, given as a sort of manifesto on behalf of the democratic majority, Mr. MeMillin said it had passed the most strin- gent law against trusts ever enacted in this ountry “The democrfatic party was pledged (o the enactment of more stringent legislation against trusts,”” said the Tennes- sce representative. ‘It has kept this pledge and offers this as its fullllment” Has anybody heard of any trust propesing to €0 out of business because of this legisla- tion? Is not the “communism of pelf” pur- suing the even tenor of its way at this mo. ment with as much complacency and as un- ruffied a sense of security as at any time in the past? Which of the trusts is the least bit disturbed by ‘“‘the most stringent law" against them ever enacted in this country? Certainly not the Sugar trust, which is able to count its gains by the tens of millions as the result of democratic legls- lation, framed, so far as the trust is con- cerned. by a democratic secretary of the treasury, and virtually approved by a demo- eratic president. Nor yet the Whisky trust, which has also enormously profited by this leglslation, It there is any other trust or combination, large or small, that is preparing to dissolve because of the democratic law against trusts referred to by Mr. McMillin it has not made its purpose public. The people of the United States, irrespec- tive of party, most earnestly desire the sup- pression of every form of monopoly. Exist- ing conditions pecullarly invite vigorous and determined efforts to relieve the people from the interference and exactions of trusts and combinations, the policy of which is favorable to a steady recovery of business More, perbaps, than in a time of general prosperity, there is need now of unrestricted competition in trade. It is a great oppor- tunity for exerting the power of the general government In a vigorous assault upon the “communism of pelt.” There is a grand chance for proving the sincerity of the presi- dent’s utterances against the trusts. Wil the administration take advantage of the op- portunity and try to for its' failure thus far to relieve the people from the exac- tions of monopoly? It Is something to be hoped for, but hardly to be expected. un- atone A COLOSSAL RAILWAY September 1 marked the inauguration of the reorganization scheme of th: Richmond Terminal system, by which a huge network of rallroads covering a large portion of the southern states has been again united under one management, to be known this time as the Southern Railway company. The reor- ganization means another gigantic and pow- erful railroad corporation and one that is to operate in states that have heretofore been served chiefly by small connecting lines The Southern Railway company is to con- trol 4,500 miles of railroad and about 150 miles of water line, and with the exception of 491 miles that leased the whole is owned directly by the company in contra- distinction to the leasehold methods of quis that were always pursued by its predecessors. CONSOLIDATION, are ac- tion The preliminaries required for this reorgan- fzation are particularly interesting at this time, because they indicate the steps which will have to be taken by a great many other American railroads now in the hands of re- celvers in order that they may again placed on a paying basis. The original plan cted May 1, 1893, and issued to the public on May 23, 189 Prompt re- sponses security holders enabled the committe: to be sure by July of the same year that the former were willing to operate with them. The process was inter- rupted by the financial depression and con- sequent d:crease of railway earnings during the fall winter. New conditions and new complications are said to have been pre- sented, and the problem one of dealing mot only with bankrupt corpora- tions but also with bankrupt receivers as well. A few changes in the plan were therefore necessary, but they wers approved without delay by all whose consent was re- quired. The new company is built upon over thirty corporations whose affairs and se- curities were interlocked in every conceiv- able way and in almost hopeless confusion. One board of directors supplants thirty boards of directors, and one system of ac- cornting takes the place of thirty separate acccunts. To accomplish this object there were had two trustees' sales, one ceivers' sale and ten foreclosure under mortgages, while several sales and conveyances of kinds are still in progress to com- plete the details of the scheme, All the lines thus acquired are consolidated into one sys- tem, which is to be still further enlarged by the addition of several tributary roads which up to this time have refus.d o enter- tain negotiations for their acquisition. When the reorganization plan is entirely consum- mated the Southern Railway company will operate lines of about 5,000 miles in length and connecting all the most important points In the southern seaboard states. Besides the importance of this consolida- tion as an example of what other bankrupt roads will have to go through, it signalizes the introduction of a strong railread cor- poration into a number of states in which the railroad strength has hitherto been di- vided. These states will soon learn the ne- cessity of stronger govirnmental regulation o hold the railroads within their legitimate sphere. Unless the managers of the new company have coutrary to all precedent lcarned something from the experience of other lines in other states these southern commonwealths Wil soon appreciate the burden of railroad domination which the western states are now trying to lift. be was perf by co- and became re- sales minor various THE WORLD'S WHEAT The annual crop cstimates issued by the Hungarian minister of agriculture are gen- erally regarded as being as nearly trust- worthy zs estimates from any other source, They have just been made public, having been issued scmewhat later than usual be- cause of the care bestowed upon their revi- s'on. According to these estimates the wheat crop of the world will be 2,476,000,000 bushels for 1894, which is about 200,000,000 bushels mcre than last year and the same amount in excess of the official average for the last decade. It will thus be seen, making every allowance for a pessible overestimate, that this year's wheat crop will furnish an abundant supply. The deficit requiring to be covered by importing countries is estimated at 364,000,000 against 379,000,000 bushels in the surplus from ex- portng countries is given s 444,000,000 bushels, against 378,000,000 bushels in 1893. It is thus estimated that the defleit will be less by 15,000,000 bushels in impcrting coun- tries than lost year,~while the exporting countries will have a surplus in last year of 66,000,000 bushels, making to- gether §1,000,000 bushels. In these esti- mates the Unit:d States is given 408,000,000 bushels and a surplus of 70,000,000 The figures cf the probable yield in this country are somewhat higher, though not very much 50, than the most trustworthy home esti- mates, but as to what we shall have to spare for export the estimate of surplus is not large enough. The probability is that there will be not far from 150,000,000 bushels of wheat In the United States available for ex- port when this year's crop is added to the stock on hand, and some have made figures even higher. 1t is obvious that there will not be a de- mand from abroad for more than half this amount of wheat, if the estimates of the Hungarian minister be accepted as to the surplus of the exporting countries, and it must be admitted that they are quite as likely to be too low as 100 high. We are confronted by a formidable competition, The Argentine Republic alone has already made largely increised shipments over previous years to the European markets and that country still has a surplus to export, her sur- plus being estimated at 73,000,000 bushels, or more than that of the United States. The surplus of Russia i estimated at 141,000,000 CROP. bushels, 1893, and excess of the bushels. ~tr-yiew of these facts it Is evi- dent that Americin wheat producers cannot hope for WHMBr prices during the ensuing year, and they will- be fortunate if the price of wheat dces not go still lower. It is not an encouraging cutlook for the producers A great deal of wheat is being used in feed- Ing cattle and hogs and this may help to sustain the price, but thers is reason to ap- prehend that the bottom price for wheat has not yet been reached. At the present price there (s scarcely anything in it for the producer, and he must sufter loss it it shall go any lower, NO TIME FOR CONCE The union depot ordinance prepared by the city attorney and introduced at the last session of the council is both inopportune and objectionable. The Bee's position on the subject is well known, The plans of the unfinished Tentl street structura are Inadequate and impracticable. They do not call for a depot such as was promised by the railroads, nor do bullding which would meet the demands of traffic in this city today, to say nothing of the future growth of Omaha as a railroad and eommerclal High railroad officials have admitted these facts and ex- pressed themselves favorabls to a mew plan in keeping with the importance of Omaha and to fully insure the convenience of the traveling publi A more unfavorable time for raising the depot matter could not have been selected— ONS. center. a time when railway owners are practicing | extreme economy in all branches of the service and admit that they have no money to expend upon costly improvements. Under such circumstances the people of this city are not warranted in extending any induce- ments to them to complete a building which will not meet present demands and will stond in the way of a grand union passenger depot such as Omaha wants and sooner ur later must have. There is nothing in the depot situation which would prevent the railroads from providing aniple traffic facilities at Omaha irrespective of any action of the city council or of the people. With the valuable franchises they own, the protection afforded their property by our police and fire de- partments and the enormous trafic they receive from Omaha, there is every reason why the should provide adequate shelter and decent accommodations for pas- scugers and ample facilitios for the handling of freight Under all circumstances surrounding the depot question the council would be justitied in foreing the provide temporary means for handling the passenger traffic of this city. The effort of the council to cajole them by concessions thus to induce them to do a simple act'of justice to Omaha will not meet with pubilic, approval. roads roads to Cycling has become altogether too general a sport to be discouraged or obstructed at this late day, but there are several bad labits in which Omaha bicyelists are in- dulging that are apt to bring them into dis- repute. One is the use of the sidewalks, which are intended exclusively for pedes- trians. We know that some of the pavements are in almost-impassable condition, but yet the bicyclists ‘are better able to use them than the pedestrians who are being forced from the sidewalks. Another abuse is the racing at high speed through the busy streets of the city. Local wheelmen have been or- ganizing runs between points that necessitate a course throngh our buslést and they try to make as good time in the center of the city as they do out on lonely country roads. This is dangerous alike to the riders and to the other people who happen to be on the streets in question. It ought not to be necessary to walt for a series of serious accidents before putting an end to these practices. The wheel clubs can do much, if they will only make the effort, to remove these causes for complaint. Unless they are speedily stopped they will in the long run redound to the injury of cycling in general. The mere fact that there is an approaching which certain members of the city council expect to stand for re-election is 1o good reason why money should be ap- propriated for this or that improvement un- less it Is absolutely necessary. If it is neces- sary its location ought to cut no figure. On the other hand, the city has too many things alling for urgent attention and demanding I its resources to permit of ornamental work just to please a few influential property owners whose support is desired during the campaign. It is high time for the council to co-operate with the mayor in putting a stop to this kind of legislation. election at portant One, hington Star. The question propounded to gubernator ssibilities in New York appears to be hing like this: “Would you like to be wor of this state? If 50, how much?” —_— ¥ Down Tight, New York Sun Democerat or republican, populist or what- ever he calls himself, every candidate for congress must be compelled to make his position known. Is he an_income-taxer, or is he not an income-taxer? No dodging. et iR, What Does Bryan Say to That? Chicago Times, Ex-Governor Boyd of Nebraska nominated for congress in the Second dis- trict of that state. This will afford the populists an excellent chance to elect a man of their own in that district. Boyd is an avowed ‘“goldbug” and administration democrat and should be beaten, et A Fatal Mistake, Toston Journal. We believe that President Cleveland mis- calculates the forbearance of the American ople if he assumeés that they will be w 0 have the imqustries and the busin interests of the ébuntry indefinitely sh and disturbed, eithe may wreak his theories upon the country or that he may tify his personal ambition by hav- ing this question kept 1 for his ad- vantage But thera Is no doubt that this is his prc am, and it mains for the voters 10 smash it intosmithereens at the Noven ber elections. \as been e ERG G L '8 Romurkable Philadelphia Inquirer. The torpedo haat: Eri has made its experimental trip from Dubuque, la.. to New YCrk, a d Sinos of 3,613 mi.es, of wh ch 8 miles are fully.protected. Occasionally there was a stretch of outside passage, in which sailing wis éasy, but on the inland route much watchfulnéss had to be ob- served, “For miles the trip Tad to be made through shallow ttebks, winding rivers and very narrow channes, the depth of water sometimes rangliji from two o six- feet. For some portions of the inland route, hows ever, the depth iheMased to twelve feet of water. Portions of the route have been sailed over before by government vessels, but this (s the first time on which a cons tinuous trip over the entire route had been made. The strategie value of such a pus- sage can be readily recognized, they contemplate a’ thoroughfares | HOW ALLEN WAS ELECTED. The Washington correspondont of _ the Chicago Record, writing from New York, furnishes this gossip regarding the present and past senatorial campalgns in Nebraska From information received her: it_is Judged that the political campaign in Nee braska this fall will be one of the most in- teresting of the country, There is a guod deal of interest felt here about Mr. Mac- Veagh's canvass in Illinois, but very little confidence that he will be elected, but in Nebraska it is expected that the populists will carry the state and send Reprisentative Bryan or some other such man to take Mr. Manderson’s seat, although many of the democratic leaders would prefer a straight republican, Mr. Brice is largely responsible for Mr. Allen's presence in the United States senate. It required sixty-seven votes to elect a senator in the Nebraska legisia- ture during the last comtest, and the re- publicans had only sixty-two. The demo- crats had fifteen and the rest were populists The latter were voting for a clirgyman named Green, who had flopped back and forth among the religious denominations as he had among the political parties. He had been a Campbellite, a Methodist, a Baptist and a Congregationalist, as he had been a republican, a greenbacker, then a democrat, a prohibitionist, and finally a populist. Ths democrats refused to vote for him. Sccre- tary Morton and some of the other leadors of that party advised them to go for John M. Thurston, the republican candidate, but Senator Brice, who was chairman of th democratic national committee, kept tele- graphing them not to do so. Finally each one of the demnocratic members of the legislature received a dispateh from Wash- ington, signed by Calvin S, Brice, A. P. Gorman and John G. Carlisle, advising them to elect anybody but a republican. They then had a caucus and decided to cast their bal- lots for Allen, who failed to receive the populist nomination, but was regarded as a better man than the clerical candidate. That settled the question. The populists came over to Allen one by one at first, then in pairs, and finally by dozens, and he was elected. Both Mr Gorman and Mr. Carlisle have since denied signing the telegram and say that Mr. Brico added their names to it without authority. Sucu il PEOPLE AND THINGS. New Orleans, Memphis and New York are undergoing political purification by way of the penitentiary. B. Van Whisker is-running for congress in Miss-uri. Kansas d:d not have enough nomi- nations to go around. Senator Brice has walled up the front dosr of his house, to more effectually guard against the “blight of treason.” A revolution is raging in central and south- ern Morocco. The natives are bound to re- sent the administration of Muley Azis. The marked increase in the number of ‘big guns’’ trotted out for campalgn purposes evidences the pepularity of pneumatics in | party warfare. The Ohlo Southern railroad has for its superintendent Homer T. Dick, aged 23 years, probably the youngest rallway superintend- ent in the raliway line. If it turns out that Nettie Neustetter is going to try her luck at the foollights, the Vanderbilts may rightly claim credit for aid- ing in the elevation of the stage. It may turn out that the bombardment of Samoa was an international pr against Stevenson's ghost stories. Revolutions have | been started on 1 provocation. The white wings and yellow back factions of the Colorado democracy have come to- gether. And what a quaint picture they pre- sent—rampant free silverites mounted cn an administration platform. The veracious paragrapher has started the following about the country: Indianapolis has had a wedding which should certainly have been performed on the flror of the Board of Trade. August Rye married Miss May Wheat the other day. General James 8. Wilson, who spent a year in China and critically examined the army and fortifications, says: It is hardly to be dcubted that an army of 50,000 Europeans with artillery and infantry and o prenc: * r- ance of cavalry, well organized, suppliea and commanded, can go anywhere in China, and it 50 disposed it can overrun and dismember the empire.” The name of Congressman Meiklejohn is coupled with many others as being instru- mental in securing the pardon of Colonel William Beasley Hayes from the New York penitentiary. Hayes was convicted of the crime of forgery and sentenced last March to eight years’ fmprisonment. At various { times prior to his conviction he was accused of bigamy and perjury and had acquired con- siderable notoriety of an unenviable kind. That a congressman should aid in securing his release provcked some criticism in New York papers, and in reply a ‘‘Classmate’ writes to the Sun an explanation of Mr. Meiklejohn's interest in the case. He says: “In the winter of 1879-80 Congressman Mei- Klejohn and Colonel Hayes were fellow stu- dents in the law department of the University of Michigan. Mr. Meiklejohn was a hard stu- ! dent, and close application to his studies brought on a fever which developed into ty- { phoid. He was far from home and depend- ent upon the cars of his fellow students and the tender mercies of a student boarding house keeper. His condition was very seri- ous, when Colonel Hayes, who, with his de- voted wife, was occupying commodious dwelling in’ Ann_ Arbor, learnod of his plight. Colonel Hayes immediately had Mr. Meikle- john removed to his own hcme, gave him every advantage of good nursing and the best medical attention, and undoubtedly saved his life. 1 mention this incident to show that Mr. Meiklejohn would have proved him- self an ingrate had he not interest:d himself for Colonel Hayes, and also to show that vile and criminal as the latter undoubtedly is, he is at least not without some redeeming qualities.’” e BEASKA EBRASKANS. The Bradshaw Express is no more. Hard times caused the paper’s premature death. The Fairbury Journal has been fold to a steek company and will be transformed into a populist paper. A Custer county paper says hundreds of citizens have been forced to emigrate be- cause they did not irrigate. An cxtended premium list of the Cedar county fair has been issued. The fair opens at Hartington September 25, and continues three days. Three horses, two cows and a quantity of hay and feed were consumed in a fire that destroyed the barn of Mr. McCourt at Plattsmouth, Another shortage has the accounts of ex-Postmaster Lyons, and his bondsmen have been called on to make it good. Tho total shortage now amounts to about §1,200 A huge rattlesnake sunk its fangs into the hand of the G-year-old son of C. K. Prieta of Gothenburg while the boy was in the bage patch picking a leaf for his pet rabbit. Prompt ‘measures were taken and the lad's lite wes saved. As the result of a drunien spree, Andrew Hamling, a_farmer, ran amuck at Creston, and during his flight he stabbed Bert Wilsey, an 18-year-old boy, the knife entering under the shoulder blade. Hamling then cs- caped, but officrs have started in pursuit. A Custer county drouth sufferer went to Callaway the other day and applied for re- lief, receiving a sack of flour, The man was 0 elated over nls success that he went out and filled up on beer, and the Callaway urier says there ought to be a smelling committee appointed to sample the breath of applicants for aid. People who irrigate do not need any assistance. Grant Cody, a resident of ' Sherman ccunty, has been brought home from the sand hills country a corpse. He went out 1o cut hay and was shot while sitting on his reaper. It is supposed he had by mistake trespassed on land owned by other parties and that he was shot by them. Several other shootings are reported from the same locality, but no arrests have been made. been discovered in Smith of Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S. Gov't Report RoYal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE CLEVELAND'S PRIVATE CAR. Mr. Carroll D. Wright, government atat- Istician, is not the only member of the ad- ministration accepting and using corporation The New York ocorrespondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, speaking of Mr. Cleveland's last trip to New York, on his way to Gray Gables, says The president traveled from the capital, according to his habit, in the private palace car of President Roberts of the Pennsylvania road. Mr. Roberts |8 now in Europe, but his car is always telegraphed for when Mr. Cleveland wishes to go anywhere. The president travels at the expense of the rail- road corporation, the servants, meals, incl ing the cooks and viands, being furnishe free for him and his party, which today included Secretary Lamont, Dr. Bryant, the president’s physiclan; a secrefary and two personal attendants, who now usually guard the person of the president whenever he is in public. They are paid out of the government fund, which supplies private de- tectives when needed The Rogers, which the president uses as a private yacht between New York and Buz- zard's Bay, Is coaled, provisioned and manned at the government’s expense. Mr. Cleveland’s idess in respect to the private use of government property have under- gene a marked change since his first elec- tlon to the presidency. After his first in auguration he punctiliously paid his f wherever he went, and refused to be dead- headed He remarked that public cff lic trust. n 1885 he refus oftered for his use by the railroad for his annual fishing trip. 1 Lamont, then his private secretary, bought the tickets and traveled with his chief, pay ing for both as they went along. This Jef- fersonian simplicity was_not prclonged. In his later journeys Mr. Cleveland, with his family and often with a party of friends, traveled, ate and slept as the guest of railroad companies. After his retirement from the presidency the habit continued Whe he wished to go to ex-President Hayes' funeral his private secretary called upon Vice President Webb of the New York Central and asked for a private car. It was, of course, placed at his disposal, with a French cook and a well stocked larder, all at the expense of the Wagner Palace Car company. The private car of the Pennsylvania road's president, which is now Mr. Cleveland favorite vehicle, is not ornate or resplendent outside, but its ‘interior is a dream of beauty and lurury. iesides the cook’s store room, which contains the rarest delicacics of the table and the finest of wines, there s a wide, roomy bed chamber, bath room, liter- pbservation room. rois alw stocked with provisions leaves Philadelphfa for Washin ton, and the cooks and nimble-finge tendants are the most skillful greatest of rallway corporations can emplo; and trained by long service. Before his last inauguration still a private citizen, Mr. Cleveland ordered the car sent to New York to take him for a week's fishing trip to Hog Island. Dr. Bry- ant and L. Clarke Davis were among his cumnpanions. They lived on the car most of the time for a fortnight President Cleveland not only accepts all of these things frce, but makes requisitions upon corporations for them whenever he wishes to travel. President Harrison fol- lowed the contrary rule—invariably paying his fare. was a pub- d a private car New York Central before it and while N A, MIRTHFUL ETCIINGS. Chicago Inter Ocean: “Did your sister enjoy the serenade last night?" “Little Jim- my: “Yes, she and Mr. Blinks laughed at everything' you sang.” Truth: He—Ah, I knew I had had the pleasure of meeting you befor your name is Smith, I believe? She (sweetly)—Well, it used to be Smith, two or three husbands ago. Buffalo Courier: Jillson siys he s begin- ning to think that modern p ilism is con- ducted solely upon a penny-wise, pound- foolish plan. Town Topics He (gallantly Washington St “Don't les has a very breezy “If you refer to t airing’ ou serpent! ke charmer! you think Bink- manner?”’ e delight he takes in his opinions, 1 do. Detroit T'ree DPress looks pretty but and she “Yes, my shirt front my wife Is young, experience in the laundry when at hom Does your wife iron your shirts?’ “Well, she says she irons them, but I think she mangles them," Somerville Journal: Many a man who Is patriotic enough to find fault when the Vigilant gets beaten isn’t patriotic enough to act cheerfully when he goes up to the city hall to pay his annual tax. Columbia (Ga.) Sun: This is the story told of a colored girl who happened to mect a gentleman going down the street and who got on the same side of the n th started for the othe collision was immine a4 back and dodged o colored girl stopped and mistah, what am dis gwi tische or a waltz e to be, a s Indianapolis Journal m threw that egg with a chicken in it," ex- claimed Mr. Barnes Tormer, the cminent tragedian, stepping to the footlights, “will show his ‘cowardly self I will have him ar- rested cruclty to animals so quick it will m his head swim.' ORNITHOLOGICAL, shington Star truly a beautiful bird, And about him strange stories they tell. Throwing salt on his tail will not catch we've hear But sugar does w “If the Winged riches is well. | an: | arms of ] of which | make 1t 1t YOUR MONEY'S WORTH OR YOUR MONEY BACK. 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As the train sped on the sunlight becamo darkened, and darkiess Krow 50 that the lamps were lighted In the cars and the great eye of the engine was set aflame ‘There's a storm coming, Jack," said the engineer to McGswan, his firem But the clouds were not the beneflcent o riers of rain, They were a death pail gathering about the train from fires of the forest that were even then feeding on vil< lages and drinking up the blood of humam ctime After & tims these clouds wrapped the train g0 densely In fheir folds that the character of them becume known to the half-stified passengers, and terroe entered in with them. The light of the engine could penctrate them only to reveal less than a hundred feet of track, and the speed of the train was a rush through chaos. Scon the town of Hinckley reached—no longer a town, but & heap of ashes and charred bones and yet burning flesh. As the train came to a standstill’ a hundred or two frightened wretches, fugitives from the con- suming fames, clambered aboard in & frenzied way, piteously pleading to be hurried from the pursuing’ flames that even now leaped With a roar toward the engine. Root, with his hand upon the throttle, began a race for life back over the way he had come. But the flames pursued faster than the train could fly, and the heat <f them shattered the glass of the windows, caught the wood- work of the cars, and blistered it into fire, Arms of flames reached in through the windows of the cab and caught the clothing of the engineer, so that the fireman had to filng buckets of water over him as he stood. The throttle became hot and scorched the palm that grasped it, but the tense muscles not for a moment relaxed their hold. The engineer stood to his post with a fdelity that the raging hell could not dismay. On 1 were the rank sedges and slimy waters of a swamp, the only haven of promised relief in all that fury of fire and smoke. To reach that before the train should become itself a running tongue of flame, the cars already burning flercely! Any failure there at the throttle meant death 1o those men and women and children, whom despair had selzed, Three times overcome by the in- tolerable Neat, the engineer fell to the floor of his cab, and three times he dragged him- self up to grasp the throttle again, the heart of him unfaltering, the brain of him calinly resolute. At last the swamp, and the head- long hurrying from the burning train; tho engineer exhausted, at last borne In the those he had saved to a place of safety. And with a roar the flames burst upon the train and consumed it. Not mueh to tell, but something to do, that ride through fire. And James Root, lying now in the hospital—well, his soul is the stuff of which heroes are made in this world —archangels in the world beyond. nese Treaty. Globe, ty which has been nate is somewhat unique in The new Chine ratificd by th its provis It provides that fe a period of ten 'S the ¢ ring the country by Chinese bor- ers shall be absclutely prohibited, except under stated provisions. Among the provisions is one exempting any registe 1 Chinese luborer who has a lawful wife, child or arent in the United tes, or property here v 0, or debts ‘o the same amount him - and pend settlement It looks as it this due provision left a hig assageway for the return of those visiting China, as well as those abroad who are de- sired for services by those already here, The treaty is, on the whole, ingeniously devised. 1t encourages the Mongols to get ma nd cultivate allegiance (o the nation, as well as to acquire a permane property Interest in the country, which is the strongest incentive to loyal citizenship. Seeing that the treaty gives the Chinese government the same conditions upon American s {n China that this country imposes upon Chinamen, it is fair and reasonably mild in its pros visions, [ Party Pledges Disregarded, Courier-Tournal. A party platform is a_ solemn party pledge. It should be as free from am- Diguity as honmesty and plain English can should be the accepted chart for every party contest. The assumption of a right to strain jts meaning is the begin- ning of “party perfidy and party dishonor.” When a platform becomes a mere string of empty platitudes we would best run up the flag and fairly confess ourselves oug spolls and spoils only, B il AWAKENIN Commerclnl Traveler, tting better, % wear a_smile, Rather faint at present, will Dblossom aft while mney tops grow black And the glad refrain From the mills keeps singing— ‘O the road again. Throw away the novel, Leave the sylvan nook, betier story book. There's a In the order Time is past for los No one will compl the life that opens ‘On the road again, Waves are sparkling On the sandy shore: Distant_forests softly Iicho back the roar Tdie pastimes bec But they call in n the times invite the road ugal brightly you The very nicest suits