Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 7, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA NOSEWAT DAY BEE. GR, Editor. LISHED EVERY MORNING. TEIMS OF PTION. afly Tteo (without Sunday) One Y Iy, Tes tnd Sunday, One Year Hix Months, Dire Three Mon e Bunday Tiee 01 Baturilac e, One Weekly Lee, One Yenr HFFIC Omuba T ine. fouth O N Councli Dl Chicags OM: New York, Itooms 13 Washington, 1407 I Strcet, CORIE All csmmunteations relating ¢ toral matter xhould be addressed RUSINESS LET All business fetters and remittances should be addressed to The fice Publishing company. Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoflice orders mado pavabie (o the arder of th anv. "THE DER PUBLISHI —renSa f23L333 humber 14 and 15, T N. W STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George 11 ) K, secretary of the fee Tub- 1ishing com /i " % that ha_ac > coples of The 1) unday fae printed during th 1594, i wa follows: 21080 21929 2817 a2 unsoid and retur Total sold Dally averag: e Sunday. et cireulation. GEORGE T. TZSCIN me nnd subserih )t Soptember. Swom o hefore ith day All the (rail) roads lead to Tattooed Tom's Omaha wigwam With 20,000 votes to spare what object is there in ralsing a $20,000 boodle fund for the election of Major The Ely Inquisiti-n has dropped out of public notic: more suddenly even than the great railrond strik The workingmen are still waiting for the promis:d time when one d:llar will buy as much as two dellars did under the republican tariff law Church Howe is working very hard for Tom. In this Church the meek Christian left cheek after slapped. gives an example of spirit in offering his his right cheek had been The whole war between China and Japan has not killed off as many people as were ! eaught in the fatal forest fires in this coun- try. The declaration of war scems to have been largely in the nature of a false alarm, Explirer Wellman may be consoled in his failuro to reach the north pole that every one who made the attempt before him like- wise failed, while already at least ons that made the attempt after him bas been equally unsuccessful. We haven't heard very recently from the councilmen who were so enxious to save money for the city by continuing to purchas: electric lights from the local electric light- ing monopoly at the exorbitant prices of five years ago. The people of Nebratka have not had any appreciable experience with the great smoke haze which is said to be befogging the at- mosphere of all the eastern states, but they ean readily attest the fact that the political horizon s decidedly hazy. What about a continuation of the county road paving next year? If the county wants to do any paving in the spring it will have to have money voted for that purpose. No money will be available for paving at that time unless voted at the coming election. The council will visit the state fair in a Pullman car, supplied with illuminated paste- boards that will admit them to the pearly gates and give them free entrance to the tent that surrounds the fat woman and three- legged call. What a luxury it is to he an Omaha councilman, The new municipal leagu: will first eampaign experience this fall. Its atti- tude with reference to candidates for city ofices will practically inform the public of what stuft the leagu: is made. Its future usefulness depend upon the honesty of its actions during the next two months have its It was nothing unusual for President Cleve- land to go fishing on Labor day. Plenty of other laborers went upon fishing excursions or up:n other excursions offering pleasures of different kinds. A president who will go fishing on Memorial day can very consistently do the same thing on every other holiday. How condescending on the part of G:vernor Waite of Colorado to admit that he has made many grievous mistakes during his term of office, even though coupled with the conten- tion that he has acted honestly, If not al- ‘ways wisely. The trcuble is that the re-elec- tion of Governor Waite will give no assur- ance that he will act any more wisely In the future, Men are Judged by their acts. The governor's confession does mot give him a valid claim to an opportunity to make mora mistakes at the expense of C:lorado. The ¢gmmittees having in charge the preparatizns for the reunion of the Army of the Tenno:sce, which is to be held in Coun- el Blufts next month, have their work well under way, and are already assured of the success of the meeting. The railroads have agreed to make a special rate to those at- tending the reunion, a conc'ssion that will do much to swell the attendance. This re- union, which is one of national extent, be- Tongs properly as much to Omahd’ as to Council Blufts, and the people of both cities should co-opirate to make it a memorable one for its members. An incldent which happened at Joliet the other day indicates a field in which conviet labor can be employed without arousing the antagonism of lab:r organizations. A banker who was unable to open his safe applied to the warden of the state prison at that place for assistanc> in accomplishing the object, and had a noted safe breaker, who has been serving time, deputized to do It Four hours’ work left the Jcb still unfinished, but the op- erator felt certain that he could get th» door open it allowed a little more time the follow- ing day. It Is quite apparent that in this case the convict did not take the work out _of"any honest laborer's hands. The trouble 18 that jcbs of this kind are not likely to turn up more than once during the whole | learned the | eruse, | he preferred to verify a few cf the predic- | | with term of & cracksman's lmprisonment. HOROSCOPIC NUMBUGGERY. Just at the moment that President Cleve- d took the oath of office for the second n sage who professes to have delved of astrology and to have art of reading the future frem cast a horoscope of the incoming administration in order that contd eharge that the predictions were after had occurred. A copy of this wonderiul paper was filed for copyright pur- | at Washingtcn and another sent, so told for publicaticn to the editor of the Arena. It has only ngw been published, ther because the author feared perhaps that president might forewarned avold of the impending or the editor would the mysteries the stars no on ma the events wa ar the be to some evils or be- as have us believe, | tions by the actual hapy This “astrological fore of President € parent piece of Like the Delphic nings of history. ast of the adminis- land" is a horoscopic humbnggery. of ancient Greece it takes care ake its statements in the most general language and sufficently biguous to fit the case possibly happen. Tn the first place it arbi- trarily identifies with the public, mocratic party and with Grover all at and the ~time The sign Leo stands for the wealth of the Uranus represents all sorts f calami- le Mars encouraging portents ¢ an fmprovement f-war. In- preting the relative positions of all these th astrologér secures a number of available predictions. He starts vil testimeny for the stability and endurance cf the party.” The of events will be singularly marked with serious and conflicting elements of un- gulari—and decisions will arrived at with remarkable exhibtions of speed and at others with an equally exasperating degree of slowness.” Iow they could be reached in any other way is difficult of comprehensicn. To quote still further, president’s judgment in many s will be decidedly at with th which the publie will expect,” and h have “a far disappointing time of it than an Lincoln.” Notwiths the president measure be ¢ tration trans- oracle to am- whatever might the moon the Cleveland one same wh give of our men omens, ingenious out with * democratic course certainty—how sometimes *the ca varimice policy will mo u president has nding all this personally “will in a mparatively successful in his general minagement of public affairs.” With an eaual show cf we are Informed that will be an increase of the tion's wealth, “but not so much as it be." M Cleveland's administration be marked with until It when “the clouds will The one definite prediction in the whal ‘“the demccratic y will fail te its candidate in 1896 places one in the field" e for the presidency we are left to infer. This wonderful paper, in which the editor of the Arena thinks he has discovered an invaluable treasure, would doubtless never lave been given to the puble did it not point to & few things that have really taken plice. These have carefully itali- cized. It 1s hard to imagine cour: the administration might possibly have pur- sued that would not to a certain extent con- form to so vague an outline. No knowledge of astrology Is to hazard such a forecast ¢nd the editor of the Arena himself confesses that he had arrived at substan- tially the same conclusions on altogether different and independent assumptions. The astrological humbug must go the way of Jevons' famous theory that traced the origin of commercial erises to veriations In the spots on the sun. troublesome, annoy- vexatious had since anxious how- wisdom there na- hould is to nears its begin to success close, lower. horoscope is that elect candida we been ny necessary ANNEXATION BOUND T0 COME, South Omaha s troubled with back- ism just the same as Omaha has been for ye! These rarrow-minded and short- sighted people do nct see farther ahead than their noses. They do not realize that the trend of all population centers is in the di- rection ¢f municpal expansion and con- ation of encrgy. Every important commercial center in the world is endeavor- ing to make its p:wer and influence felt by mos rs. cent power to favor tax shirkers and tax evaders | and to place the burden of taxation on thé | poor, rather than on the rich and poor alike. | The assessors should be men who cannot be tampered with by the big corporations. Omaha has never had a set of assessors who did thelr whole duty fearlessly and im- partially. There fs considerable room for improvement, and some of it ought to be occupied at once THE PENNSYLVANLL CAMPAIGN, The repnblicin campaign in Pennsylvania vias opened on Wednesday and from now on to the day of election will be prosecuted with vigor. A convention of republican clubs was held on that day at Harrisburg and addressed by General Hastings, candidate for governor, in a strong speech the efticts of democratic pel and urging the necessity of putting a check to the extension of that policy by electing a republican of representatives In No- vember. Referring to th: announcement of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Wilson that the fight against protection is not at an end and that tariff agitation will be renewed in December, General the optnion that the immediate dangers incident to this agitation may be avoided if the ver- dict of the people at the November elections throughout the country will sustain the de- sire of the senate to stop the controversy with the Gorman bill, and it is that senti- ment, he id, more than all other issucs in the gn which the republican party is now called upon to direct. “If the Nov ber elections,” said the leador of Ponnsylvania republicans, *“‘shall a republican house of representatives at the initial step will have been accomplished, and if the popular ver- dict shall be not only in Penn- sylvania, but in cvery other section, it will surely pave the way to a ascend- ancy in '06, when, let us hope, the election of a republican president will crown the ef- forts made necessary by the vicissitudes of 93 and '94." This 15 the sentiment universally held by republicans, that the great of the party vear should be directed to se- curing control of the house of the Fifty- fourth congress. The election of a repub- liean of representatives Is necessary to give peace to the financial and industrial interests of the without which there cannot be a return of prosperity. It will probably be tmpossible to prevent fur- ther tariff legislation, with all that it im- plies, it the people again choose a demo- cratic house. Such a popular verdict would be ace:pted by the party in power as conclusive evidenca that the people are sat- isfled with its policy and want more of than has already been put the form of legislation. It would be an endorsement of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Wilson and a re- buke of the course of these conservative democratic senators who refused to counte- nance the radical assault upon protection e in the Wilson bill. It would say to the so-called tarift reformers, Keep up vour American industries and Ameri- can labor and carry it to whalever extreme you please, tlie with ¥ On the other hand, the election of a republican congress, while it might not stop agitation, would undoubtedly prevent any further leg- islation in the direction of free trads by stimulating to more determined opposition those in congress who are opposed extension of the policy embodied existing law. So far as Pen be was reviewing house Is Hastings expressod camp the tore Washington declsive, renewed work this ho country, now into an ack on people are to an in the sylvania §s concerned there no doubt she will whole duty. The opportunity given neople last February to express themselves on the democratic policy demonstrated in the enormous majority for representatice-at large how they felt, and there is no riason to suppose there has been any cha timent since. Pennsylvania will elect the re publican stat» ticket by an overwhelming majority and increase the strength of her republican delegation in congres can do her her of sen- SEAVEY'S BELLED CATS. Chief Seavey asserts that he cannot sup- press gambling in Omaha unless the police annexation of cdjacent territory. It has been so with London and all the provineial cities of Great Britain. It is o with New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo and all the other cties of any consequence. All suburban towns find it to their advantage to merge their corporate Interests with the large cities, of which they are sppendages. The small towns cannot borrow money as cheaply municipal bonds or val estate as the larger tswns. The small towns are to maintain & metropolitan police force. They are obliged to ccntent them- selves with inferior fire protection, wretched | engineering and filthy thoroughfires. They have no means for maintaining hospitals, workhouses and charitable institutions. Above all things, they have no recognition abroad as members of a great municipality. The man from Harlem, Hoboken or Podunk is never known to hall from his home town, but when he inscribes his name on the hotel register or seeks to introduce himselt anywhers he always quotes New York as bis home, The same thing is true of the suburbs of all the other big cities. It is true as regards South Omaha. When any resident of South Omaha goes away from home he hails frem Omaha, The South Omaha mossbacks Insist that they would rather be a bjg factor in a small town than a small factor in a big city. That shows how little they appreciate comprehend the advantages of the large cities. The old Roman tcok great pride in his Roman citizenship, beczuse Rome ruled all the world. The same is relatively true of every great capital or metropolis. The South Omaha mossbacks have paid dearly for their penny whistles, and they will pay more before they get much older if we are to judge the future by the past. f these people zctually imagine that an- nexation with Omaha would cut them out cf a federal postoffice building. There is no more chance of Wncle Sam expending $200,- 000, or even $50,000, for a federal bulld'ng within miles of the $1,000,000 build- ing in Omaha than there is for the removal of the Douglas county court house to South Omaha. There is only one federal build- ing in New York City, including all its suburbs. There is only ono federal build- ing in Chicago, Including every suburban town, and the same is true of Philadelphia, Cincinnatl, Buffalo, Loulsville, Milwaukee, Detroit and cit'es of greater magnitude than Omaha. Annexation but on or ome three may be it deferred for a is bound 1o come year or two, to South | Omaha as a matter of dire necessity when her credit is exhausted and the town is forced to seek relief from excessive bur- dens and a lack of ueeded public improve- The call for the republican county conven- tion reminds us thet there are several im- portant offices to be filled this year, among thim there are none more important | than those of the ward and precizet asses and | democratic commission places several more detectives at his disposal. Chief Seavey is noted for being cynical. The chief knows well enough that his detective force is as well known to the gamblers as he is himself. When gamb ling was running wide open his so-callad detectives were hanging around the gaming e e — will desire—io -be In evidence and to make the protest against the policy which has been to damagitg (% thém by severely erippling | the mmn‘- pess of the country as em- phatic as possible, and plish this toy swell the republican vate, A large demodratic loss in lown this year can be confilenifly predicted, and most of the gain from this will go to the republicans. Whether the populists will do more than hold thelr own is uncertain, but it is possible that party \WWIE make & small Increase in its vote. Besitles carrylng its state ticket by a handsou teajority, it is highly proba- ble that the republican party will also send a solid delegation to congriss, though some hard fighting in {wo or three of the districts will be necessary to accomplish this. This being the situation as now pre- sented, and as it is likely to continus, a very active and exciting general campaign is not o be expected. The hard fighting will be confined to a few of the congress districts. Still the republicans will be wise to make the campaign interesting. They cannot have <00 large a pluralit the way to accom- The republicans having nominated a candi date for congress {n the district of West Vi ginia now represented by Hon. W. L. Wilson, chalrman of the ways and means esmmittee, a great deal cf public attention will be di- rected to the contest there, As was sald by ex-President Harrison in his talk to the re- publican ccngressional convention, the test possesses more than a local interest, and the district will be before all eyes this autumn. In 1892 Mr. Wilson's plurality was 1,061, 80 that it will not raquire a very great change of votes to the republicans to defeat him. The principal interest of the district is coal mining, and there is some manufactur- ing, so that in a total vote of ab-ut 43,000 a change of between 500 and 600 against the advocats of free coal Is by no means un- likely. But it must be conceded that Mr. Wilson is a very bright man, who has shown that he has a strong hold upon his constit- uents, and he is by no means an easy man to defeat. We know nothing of his repub- lican opponent, who is probably a new man in politics, but it is to be presumed his so- lection was due to superior qualifications. If he wins the fight he is assured national no- torlety. con- Editor Bryan wants the state dered to the scene of the forest every caught robbing dead bodies or with the property of the dead in his pos- session shot dead upon the spot. A person does not have to harbor any sympathy for cririinals who respect mot even the rights of the dead to condemn such utterances as incitive to law-breaking and lawlessness. The meanest offender down to the black rav- isher of white women in the south is entitled 10 a trial according to law, together with all the privileges guarantezd by our constitu- tions intended to assure him a fair hearing. The violation of these rights has been the constant burden of all complaint against mob violeuce everywhefe. A military execution of the kind Editor Bryan demands stands on no better footing than the ordinary lynching party. No man who has sworn to obey the law and uphold tha. constitution can give such counsel and respect his cath. militia or- fires and man ne The defection cf Senator Jones of Nevada from the republican party leaves the repub- lican members of ‘the senate in a smaller minority than during the last session of con- gress. They will, however, continue to have the support of Senator Jones on all questions except that of silver legislation, upen whicl they are themselves divided, and so in real- ity will not be materially affected. Senator Jones insists that has changed his polities, but that he has merely decided to ally himself with the party that makes mon- y reform the principal feature of its pro- gram. On this, as on all other questions, he stands exactly where he has stood since the beginning of his public career. He cannot consistently, then, act with the democrats upon any matter where the latter squarely opposed to the republicans. The re- publicans will regret to lose, even in name, a man of Senator Jones' ability. he not Branded by the Boss. New Yerk Tribune. Sending congress home with the brand of freason on its face is a performance for which the republican campaign managers owe Mr. Cleveland a large and handsomely engrossed vote of thanks, tables like mastifs around a butcher shop They were as intimate with the Keepers and dealers as the cappers and ropers-in. The only thing they wanted to detect was the tin-horn fellow who was in the way of the “lagitimate” gamblers. It goes without say- ing that Chief Scavey's detectives can be detected by the gambling house door keeper as easily es any greenliorn in tow of one of their decoys Instead of asking for more detectives, Chief Seavey should ask the board to retire the bell:d cats whose approach is known a half mile off, and replace them with men who are not known and have not been *‘scen.” It don't take a man as decp as a well to understand how ‘easy it s for gamblers to signal the approach of any one of Mr. Seavey's special sleuths. They could do it with their eyes shut. POLITICS IN 10W4 Although the parties have nominated their state tickets and nominations have been made in most of the eongressional istricts, politics in Towa shows very little animation. Judg- ing from indications the campaign is not likely to b2 exceptionally active, The condition of the times is not favorable to vigorou politics. Most people, and par. deularly the farmers, are having something elso to think They have suffered from the long period of depression, from idle- ness, reduced wages, and the low prices of staple commodities, while the failure of a conslderable part of the corn crop assures a further of rescurces. Thus, with a great many people, the urgent question is that of ways and means for the future, and polities fs secondary. There may be an awakening during the closing days of th: campalgn, but until then political affairs promise to be rather quiet. There (s another 1t talnty of republican succoss in So far as we hav observed, no newspaper of any no politician whose opinfon is worthy of consideration has yet ventured to ssy that there Is any chance of defeating the republicans in lowa this year. On the contrary, that party ought to, and in all probability will, increase very consid- | erably ita plurality of last year. There un- questionably has been a good deal of demo- cratic defection since the last el:ction, due to obvious canses, and no small part of this will go to the advantage of the republicans. The populists will get some accessions from this source, chiefly of workingmen who have hitherto voted with the democracy, but farmers who are dissatisfied with the course of the party will very gen- erally either stay away from the polls or present about. depletion reason. It is the cer- November. standing and sors. Under our loosely drawn tax laws the tax rate is practically in the hands of the assessors. The latter also have it In their cast their votes for the republican candi- dates, and it s pretty safe to say that a majority of such will do the latter. They Wealth Reduced 1o Ashes. Globe Democrat, ans are not as quick at saving in making one. For three vear: the fire loss in the United States has ranged veen $156,000,000 and $188,000,000 a year. There Is @ Lonanza here for economic re- form. Ameri aollar a T e Closing the ¢ Markel Chicago Tribune overnment will re-enact the dutics imposed for the pur- poge of foroel the Cobans to consume the flour and other products of Spain. The United States will continue to take large quantities of sugar from Cuba, but a smaller part of it will be paid for with the natural products of this country, and a larger part will have to be paid for with gold. Either a new market will have to be found somewhere for American products, 80 as to get that gold, or the stock in the country, none too large now, will have to be drawn on. It may be hard to find nev markets. The Blaine reciprocity polic made new ones, but the democratie polic closes them. The Spanish old prohibitor ord Without n Parallel. Indianapolis Journal The history of American politics furnishes no parallel 1o the re which the demo- atic party las made during the last two It ord of broken promis lated pledges, deferred hopes, and reforms; a record of duplicity jon, and cowardice, of legislative inca- pacity, " administrative ' incompetence, and utter ‘untrustworthiness. During a period of the greatest devression of business and the hardest times ever known, while th people were anxiously walting for some remedial legislation, a democratic congress spent a whole, year wrangling over th tariff, and finally passed a bill which a democratic presidéit has permitted to be- come a law that from beginning to end i3 a betraval of the people and a surrender to the trusts, \ e The Evil of Deadheadism. New York Sun. Has the scand) bf all this deadhead busi- ness become soiamiliar a fact to the pub- ile_mind that people are losing the old- fashioned indignation that such perforr to excite? The corrupting e the white house goes far and he presldent's salary is $95,000 a . with perquisftes and liberal allow- ances for houseNold ‘expenses, 1t would be far better in the future to pay him even $10000 @ year, with rigid stipofations against deadheadism in any form, If the pressat rate of eompensation does not allow him to pay his own way. like other citi- zems of the republic. “We do not suggest this for Mr, Clevelufid's benefit; there 18 a stitutional prewision which forbids the increase of a president’s salary during his term of office. Bul the precedent which Mr. Cleveland i% Aording to his successor is %0 pernicious that it may be advi now to guard against the possible dead of the next term, A K om { their consideration | be wholly aver are } | But F THE CYCLONE OF FLAME. Philadelphia Ledger: Persons who have never seen a forest fire can scare'ly realize its mighty foree cr the celerity with which it spreads. The marvel fs not that lives should be lost, but that so many people e cape after oxliausting themaelves in ts to save their property. , Philadelphia Record: Mill'ons worth of personal pr:perty has oway in the recent fires, but still is the fact that hundreds of lives have bren lost. There should bo a universal re sponse of relief from all parts of the union as well as from the lake states Milwaukee Sentinel: Surely here ct for our ligislators (o grapyic with. There carcely any more important toplc for A season of drouth iike the present one makes clear the necessity of the most strict regulations t) avert th dan ger of setting fire to the inflammable mate- vial collected 1n and about the forests, as well as the inauguration of a systematized meihod of fighting fires. Chicago Inter Ocean: west has taken forest fires as a matter cf course, as though they were a part of the natural phen:m:na of the country, and this carelessness in the presence of danger has not taken alarm even at (he excessive drouth of this summer. It would be well for the legislatures of Minnesota and Wisconsin to take some means of guarding against forest fires as they do in protecting grain fields g0 Meil: It has been a year of ea Disaster has f Howed disaster with appalling frequency. The scourging of th northwest by fire surpasses them all. Yet the frequency of these calamities has not deafensd the people 1o the echoes of su ing and distr In the midst of the forest fires relief measures were al once organized The heroism which shown out so brightly in the scenes «f desolation gives way to pluck and energy the minute actual danger is past. Ametican character is at its best in adver- sity. Chi Record: It scems only prudent tha people in these f:rest towns should be provided with proper means of escape or else required to provide themselves with such a safeguard. Were certain areas of the for- est tract divided into districts, each district provided with a safe clearing or other easily accessible place of refuge and a systematic plan adopted for the transportation cf peopls thither in time of danger, such catastrophes as those just witnessed in the north might b considerably mitigated, if they cannot 2. Kansas City Star: of been dollars wiped The whole north Rvery section of the inhabited world as has been said of every human soul, its own troubles. The dweller in the high, dry plains sighs for the shelter of the forest and the murmur of the waters; yet where there is forest there is fire, and where there is water there flood. In each of the elements, without which man cinnot live, there may lurk de- siruction, Cenflagration, flocd, ‘pestilence, rthquake—these come from fire, water, air and earth, all necessary in the framing of the world Man is powerless against he can only in these; perpetuslly damaged. a way repair damages and save from the wreck. And this has made the work of charity perpetual, needed and blessed, until tire earth itself departs end the heavens shall be rolled as a scroll. Chicago Tribune: Given the conditions of a long coutinued drouth, a strong wind, the grass and underbrush’ as dry as tinder, and the soil parched, it only needs the spark of a careless hunter, a brush fire negligently left, or a cinder from a locomotive to start a conflagration of the most terrible charac- ter and one which cannot be fought as if it werc traversing a prairie with long stretches of treeless area. It Is a question which also should be considered, inasmuch as the timber supply is rapidly disappearing, thus not only removing an {mportant arti- clo of industry and commerce, but the natural protection cf water supply for pur- poses of crop cultivation. It is not credita- ble 10 our forestry laws and system that every year timber should disappear to the value cf from §20,000,000 to $25,000,000. LT TOUCHY TRIFLE ffalo Courier: Bolker (meditatively)— My experience has taught me one curious [in Blobbs—Has, eh? What is it? Bolke —That the closer a' man is the harder it is to touch him Statesman: Judge—Colonel, T vou are dequainted with war- 1 its forms -No, judze, I'm a bachefor Yonkers understand fare in lone no; forms. not in all its y—Are you still Brother Jack—Y girl. May--She must be; 1 hear you don't need alight in the parior when she and you are there, ery ‘bright Harper's Bazar: “Suppose the word male Is taken out of our constitution sooner or later, Do vou suppose we'll ever have a woman president?’ No married woman could gpare the time, and no single, woman would confes 10 the requisite age. Washington said Cluzzie, Star: a good thing,” who Tad been us! I phor he commercial variety of lyé Instead of the Anunias brand that goes over the telephone wires.” iy o ome of these politiclans *d burn the in- strument out In ten minutes.” Indianapolis Journal: “Doctor, what is it about cerebro-spinal meningitis that makes it so fats ‘he number of syllables, You know that a man always insists that he must know what is the matter with him before he will take any medicine, and before the doctor can tell him all that he is a goner.” merville Journal: It is astonishing how unning a baby seems when he act your atlention by cooing and crowing at 8 o'clock in the morning than when he does the same {hing in an- other way at 3 o'clock at night. OISM. on Capital A smile was on his visuge thin ike that o Tighted w Who met (he foe in battle's din And laid him cold, Pierced in several places. His steely eves had His lips that cur His brow the passion traces, As his who went forth (o the figat, And he had the nerve; He Dluffed against four aces, ——— IS THE PRIVATE? me light, WHERE Cleveland Plain Deater, The “General” tells, with swelling pride, How the fires of battle gleamed— Of ihe slaughter of men “on the other side,"” As the shell and shrapnell screamed; How ‘'we charged the foe like the mighty wave Of o wild and stormy sea,' But, in that rush of the ti d brave, The private—where was he The “colonel” hoasts how his h On Georgla's blood-stained hill: How Illh‘ stemmed the wave of that hell, Avenging his country's ills; How the ghastly heaps of the gallant slain rewed (he slippery ground But we study the tragic tale in vain, There were no privates 'round e tell battle ONn, the “major's” sword, gore! And great was the foes’ alarm, As they charged and halted and fled before The swing of his mighty arm; reedom_burnish’d her epaulettes, As she swatted the hosts of sin And the lonely pensioner still forgets That the privates were not in. How call, To the outposts, far in front! “Generals,” “colonels” and “majors” all To strive In that battle's bruni; And_ the ‘“caplains” stand, ten strong, To tell how the thing was done But where was the “private” throng? Alas, there was not one! it was red with brave they flew, at their country's thousand in that v Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8, Gov't Report oYal Y2 Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE more pitiable | POLITICAL POTPOURRE Chureh Howe I8 golng to take the stump— for Judge Strode. Nebraska republicans now havs a cam paign song book of thelr own tank A Stow of David City Is the compiler and pu lisher, and the music and words are so com- bin:d that they will “cateh” a crowd. SiAlexander has vy begun to “our around the state, prosumably fn the interest of his friend, Tom Mijors, This lsn't the first deal theso two worth'es have been ‘nter- ested in, as the records at Washington will show. Plates will take the plae the Now York Times campaign. tor S Nfs in Omala, and will_be foreed to €00 of the party The dew Schuyler for “Uncle Billy” Paxton for goverucr, and venty assertion that “‘he's all right.” “Uncle Billy's” fres silver wonld Bit a lot of the boys very favorably during these stringent times. In one-half of the senatorial the state the republicans and po nominated candidates, but so democrat has been put up to by The republicans have also nominatad quarters of their candidates for the lower heuse, and the populists have named half of theirs. There are only five democrats In the field at this date Fremont Herald: The report that gained some currency to the effect Majors intends to appoint Church Howe in- spector of the oil room and grand custodian of the famous “Arm and Hammer' brand of old rye, usually kept on draught during, be- tween and after legislative hours, is abso- lutely without fact. Much of Church's time will b2 spent in concealing the identity of the two raflrord schemers whom he accused of inhibiting his triumphal mareh to con- gress. Silver Creek Times: When e out in regard to the falsification of the Nebraska census roturns In connection with the efforts of Contingent Congressman Thomas J. Majors to get his seat in the house, Si Alexander, the th state, was the 1:ading eandidate for the publican nomination for governor. But the suspicion that he had a hand in that odor- ous_affair knocked his gubernatorial boowm If Majors, who was to ' the chief bose- ficlary of that fraud, shoull now be elected governor it would be a curious parody of justice. Samuel C. Sample of Butte, Boyd county, is the republican candidat> from the Thir- ternth t for the siate sepate. Pu one ballot was necessary to a « Nr Sample being one of the most popular re- publicans in the district. He took up his residence in Butte shortly after Boyd county of edite antil the gavi ok the e &rin and als in ond of the I8 enjoying s of his paper bear it for the Horald declares districta of three sandal was created, and became so firmly con vinced of the resources and fertility of the connty that he made heavy inyestm and has contributed largely to its development. Prior to locating in Boyd county Mr. Buy was en nking in Omaha, whe: ha is well known as a worthy and eater- prising gentleman. i g NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The Washington county fair will be held at Blair September 25 1o 28. There will be a fall race meeting at Table Rock October 3 and 4, with purses aggre- gating $825. K. F. McDonald of Pierce, while attempt- ing to secure some ducks he had shot, was drowned in the North Forlk. The Greina Banncr h Valley, where it organ, with W. been moved will become a democr: R. Olmstead as the grinder Mrs. William Bade, a well known resi- dent of Pierce, died of heart trouble while she was being moved from one bed to an- other. Frank Purcell of Mason City, who was accidentally shot in the arm last week, died of his injuries after several days of suffering. 3 P. J. Hurley of Greeley Center has sec- cured the contract for building the bridges on the B, & M. cxtension in Wyoming, and will take a number of men from his home to help him in the work The Nebraska synod of the English Lu- theran church will convene at West Point September 19 and continue in session for six days. It is expected tlere will be sev- enty ministers in attendance. A thoroughbred Woodland colt to J. J. Clements of Norfolk atte jump over a water tank and land of a sharp bolt. When found the was dead. It was valued at $200. to Dbelonging 1 animal Universally Keprobated. St. Paul Pioneer-P Now this double scandal, ownership by the trust of ocinlic senutors and in th, the others to the individu is one that has sho center to tmplicd in the T of dem- nder of all 15 s0_corrupted, ked the country from circumference. It s a scandal which we cannot afford to pass by with indiffercnce. It must be kept fresh in mind, it must be punishi roment will sink 10 the level of that of Turkey or Russia, There is reprobation from every portion of the country the men who were active in this deal. e IR Varlations of Chicago Tribune. A convention of southern has been In session at W. days, devising ways and means for calling public attention 1o the g natural re- sources of the south and the opportunities it offers to men of capital and encrgy who are looking for hom investments, -~ As an offset to this, Sic s making frantic efforts prize fight. of business men shington for some e e rPROPLE AD TRINGS. Condolences to Tom Patterson. Governcr Waite has taken one nomination toa much The democracy teristic common well trib The take t Senator Vo has be Chinese dust in sight Republican mid-west and Insist to as that has at lewat one charaes the Chinese. It runs enemy hees announces that his health n completely lon_of ple was made in Indiana latelys army sprinting qualities their stoeed. A liberal di displays The Jips well as e extraordinary re obliged ta erything else demeeratic Merton pupers of the and Whitoey (ust come west If they would grow up 10 & president:al Th party sentim:nt Arkansas will nowmination republicans democrats swept_ Vermont and the The real trend of not be known until Pennsylvania and Texas speak Senator Hill Is rather toue hair restoratives. sses his parched dome, £ warning ag: William for Jeet of Alden o st Bress on the sub- ery time ho he emits a 8'gh early plety. Smith, republican candi- in the Fifth Michigan district, began his business life us & newsboy and the bered The gratulating Mrs. Anthony doth Before farther th wi Mr woo popeorn Major 1t Major liberally pops ead th the heal! community is ainst the campalgn cigar agent Hashimoto, achieved a glorious shin, surely 1 he Hashimoto of Kansas had then Leass when the would stump the state. upon at Dowaglae. the her) of Gazon, vietory and a bullet in Japs ‘honor the brave, will be remem- ot cess having news od eon- turned that One elves on another's heel. proceeds much should to it dequately protected It is responsi- npaign beard see blo for much of the bad odor of present day politics, The discrepancy sand dollars in th of New as the reports would have cne Ises were As several member: city frane indictment for e does whencenes require Orle gran seting a price of the of several hundred thou- franchise account of the us is not &) mysterious believe. The 1 by the city coune of that body are us for votes, an arch to discover wherewith, Official life does not wholly divest men of the from human Subject a8 they those who cani arning for commendation. to severe criticism ot or will not analyse are their motives, it is consolation and comfort to turn away from envious carping and re- celve the hearty plaudits and cordial groet- ings of one of the fortu constituents friends with his worth the following we appra the elevated his feet deliberations in fifteen men by of the at ate fow to receive from his mmendation o nd work democrats held at Orlando res resolution attitude of our senior United States senator on a recent o above his he the world years of home. Senator Call is mmensurate A convention of ty adopted “‘Resolved, That sion when ho d during the most august body of Having demonstrated service that his head carries no welght in sbaping the affairs of the nation, he extreme. did well to try the other Now Hu elphin apshire. W meml broadent od thelr session is Senator shire. and in wide understood. varied His politic kno Thi career he in the ¢ deepencd reput handler of New H 1 skill, keen D were alreads pugh an extended had been a lar and factor the political movements of the Whether binet or in the or at the head of political councils, cis ve impressed He hos not, 1 Tike senator| brig me; were views and the new al sky, as he dian, “The atfributes whic signally display fore had so fine of i and brunt given hon came knowledg powers most useful we of war nt thorn in’ the versary. The re apparently tireless and relentless in his pursuit. ical twe est reliar was o e &a never palled, found new velopment and acut the s and the his own & of has for ne inc have res country ha his state of Ne ure. to be honor gratif, other are re Senator by ren r logical absurdity. as was said o He w thou tive nst It of the ady and But as be of § to const, 1 never lo but and it was ce conc efore, flam nd brilliant but hrough the demo one of the main pillars of the opposition. may Aldrich fight flicient help and share the the recogized S0 His logical facul It mig! Burke: At on refining, and thought of convincing, ht of dining making no pi Senator Chandler 1 field service convictions had upon his colleagues. 1 out suddenly luminary in the has simply grown advanced to his Mr. positive ¥ has Chandler has so 1 during the present sesion known to be his, but they never be- h opportunity for full and the long contest ratie tariff he has been epublican be sald that he have supported the Other senators have fairly strugele proceeded it that the expert or Aldrich and the erit- tor Chandler were the pons and the two sur- Senator Chandler e of the ad- surces of his wit and satire inoxhaustibl He was His ils trenchant edge and was ever ke sion in every new v I8 singularly delicious to see him seize sive picpositions of the majority, rselessly rrying them to demonstrate their st be said of him asion, Im, while others stensions to ights of is unrivailed in His ability has been in the fight which aged in the arena of the senate 1y powe gratified e part ing in sonably im whe x months. nized and apprec come to understand and meas- Hampshire hav with he turn tades to learn that certain to re All of his associntes ated it, and the The his own at reason ispicuous and played, and it Is the republicans of his_constituents sct him and shown such ca- th has [ he has ¢ successful leadership. and style, than ever before. 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