Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA S B. ROSEWATER, Bditor, e - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bes (Without Sunday), One Yen Dally Bee and Sunday, One ¥ Bix Months . . Three Montiis ee, Omaha, The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth §ta. Council Blu Chicago Office, New York, Washingtol Chamber of Commerce. nd 15, Tribune Bldg. CORRESPO! All communicat) torlal matter s owws and edi 'o the Editor, All Lusiness lettors addressed to OF CIRC George 1. Taschuck, secretary of The Mishing company. being duly ® the acty r of full and comp of the Daily Morning, Evening anl Sunday Be printed during the month of November, 18%, was 83 follows: says that H Total ... Lens deduct s for unsold and returned coples TR Totat eold...... 4 Dally average fiet o/reuiation. . Bworn to before ‘subscribed In presence this (Ben No cloture rule for the senate. The senators do not consider the contest for the long distance speaking record yet closed. The Omaha postoffice will still be found at the old stand. No new eandi dates have presented themselves during the last twenty-four hours If anybody has a new plan for elastic currency that will eirculate when every body is hard up he will probably find a ready purchaser in the Treasury de- partment. The people generally will be glad to have the assurance of President Cleve- land's physician to_the effect that the alleged scrious confition of the presi- dent’s health is “all bosh.” _— The principal work of the numerous critics of the president’s message seems to consist in reading into that docu- ment ideas which President Cleveland never thought of expressing. Whenever a job or steal is exposed at the state house there are always at least two organs ready to defend and apolo- glze for them. One of these is in Lin. coln and the other at Omaha, Members of the legislature are begin- ning to digest the charter by sections. It is very much like a tapeworm. When you chop off a link or two at one end * two or three links grow on at the other. ‘When the school board learns to live within its Income, when the council kéeps clear of an overdraft, when the county commissioners do not have a Jangle, then the millennium will be close at hand. When the next legislature wants Ar- kansas toothpicks, threshing machines, harrows or Winchester rifles it will have a good deal of trouble to get them. Secretary Allen has not laid in a stock of these handy articles. 'Snoutrage! The Fifty-fourth congress has already “lost one of its members by death before it has had an opportunity to convene. This is a bad beginning, but it is to be hoped that the next congress will not be so unfortunate in this respect as the present one. Champion Pugilist Corbett appears to have suffered at least one partial defeat of late. The New York police succeeded in beating him out of a portion of the receipts of the exhibition which he gave in that city not long after he had ac- quired his new fistic honors. Washington correspondents were busy for several weeks fostering for the pub- lic an expectation of something sensa- tional in the president’s message. And when the sensation failed to materialize they are unanimous in characterizing the president’s work as disappolnting. If Tom Murray wants to immortalize himself let him build a fireproof theater or a first class business block on his block south of the court house, and it he cannot do that he can have the free- dom of the city if he will remove the old tinder boxes that now disfigure that ground. Since the departure of Weather Clerk Hunt everything has been going upside down In the region of high pressure and low temperature in these parts. _When you expect it to freeze it begins to thaw and when we are looking for snow storms we get thunder showers. Hunt should be recalled. Seeretary Carlisle wants only a quar- ter of a million to collect the federal tax on one year's income. The new in- come tax seems to be no small offender against the canon of taxation that s to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible aboye what goes into the common treasury. Secretary of State Allen tries to ex- plain his prodigali in the purchase of legislative supplies by saying that he has several quarts of inky fluid as well as npumerous unused waste baskets left over from the sesslon. This, he thinks, is sufi clent proof of the constant care and cconomy which he exercises In the ex- penditure of public mone This fact, however, If true, proves nothing. We presume the predecessor of Mr. Allen Wwill be able to siy that he also had a few jack-knives and a couple of pen holders over from one session to another which he bequeathed to Mr. Allen when | he delivered up to him his office, Be sides, if there was no necessity for the supplies still on hand, why were they purchased in the first placed last | SHALL POOLING BE LEGALIZED! The debate over the bill whereby pool- Ing of railroad enrnings by competing rallronds is to be legalized Is now In progress In the lower house of congress. For years there has been constant pres- sure from railrond managers upon the | national legislature to repeal the anti- pooling clause in the interstate com- merce law, which has been found a stumbling block to the proposed equali- zation of earnings on the part of rail- roads, regardless of the volume of busi- ness voluntarily contributed by shippers. Manifestly the object of the pressure to legalize pooling is to empower rail- roads to do the work which for years had been attempted by the eveners, who made @ profitable business out of diverting live stock and merchandise from roads that were liberally pat- ronized to roads that were carrying empty cars and light trains. It will be remembered that this unauthorized in- srence with railway traffic by the eveners was chiefly responsible for the demand on the part of shippers for the very provision it is now attempting to repeal. It is also a matter of history that the provisions prohibiting pooling and consolidation of parallel lines of railrond, which was embodied in the constitution of Nebraska as well as in the constitutions of otner western and southern states, was primarily due to the current belief that pooling practi- cally docs away with all competition between railroads that cover the same territory. Practical experience las, however, demonstrated that competition between so-called competing lines does not com- pete whether there is pooling or not, excepting during short periods of reck- less and ruinous rate wars, which sel- dom beaefit the public. On the con- trary, rate wars bhave proved them- selves detrimental as well to shippers as to the railroads. In the very nature of things all railroads are monopolies. Iivery raflroad has an absolute monop- oly of all traffic at points that are not renched by other railroads, which generally includes about nine-tenths of their local traffic. At every point touched by a rival railroad there is an agreed rate, or what is known as the common rate to all other points touched by the rival lines. These common rates are adopted as n matter of self-protec- tion against undercutting at rates less than cost of carringe. Competition at common polnts is therefore a mere farce, The rates being uniform to the same points over all rival lines, the competi- tion is merely in the matter of accom- modations and time of delivery. To illustrate, there is no difference in rates between Omaha and Lincoln, although the B. & M., Union Pacific, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific and Northwestern lines each pretend to compgte. Now if pooling was conducted under rigid governmental supervision it would not be detrfmental to the publie, al- though it might bolster up the stock of the weak lines at the expense of the strong, popular lines. But congress pro- poses to throw the door wide open to the jug-handled chicanery that p vailed before pooling was prohibited without tangible guaranties that would protect commerce against the black- mailing practices of the eveners. Every shipper ought to have the privilege to have his goods transported over such ronds as he designates, and no company or railroad regulator shall have the right to divert the shipment from these roads to others that are not favored by the ship- per. - Every shipper should have the benefit of the shortest and quickest route to destination and any combina- tion to deprive him of this privilege should be punished by severe penalties. The proposition to relegate all the pa- trons of the American railways for re dress of grievances to the tender mes cles of the interstate commission is worse than a delusion and a sna It is a piece of bunco steering that few gam- blers would be guilty of. The commis- sion Is notoriously the creature of the railrond magnates. Most if not all its members owe their apporntments to the influence exerted by railway corpora- If the power to regulate and ise pooling is conferred upon the commission the railroads will be in- terested more than ever in dictating who shall or who shall not serve on the commission. If they cannot absolutely dictate each appointment they will be in position to exert influence enough to defeat confirmation of appointees who would not do their bidding. For this reason we regard it inexpedient for con- gress to pass the pending measure un- less it is revised so as to afford railway patrons redress against abuses of the pooling system in the courts without the intervention of any commission, THE APPEAL OF THE The memorial of the convention of stockmen to congress, asking for some action on the part of that body for re- lieving the cattle interest of the country from the injury that must result to it from the maintenance by European gov- ernments of the embargo against Ameri- can cattle, ought to receive the serious and prompt attention of the national legislature, Contrary to the view ex- pressed by the secretary of agriculture, that the exclusion of our cattle from Germany, Denmark and other con- tinental countries was not a very seri- ous matter, these stockmen, whose busi- ness Is the raising and marketing of cattle, regard the course of the foreign governments as vital to their interests and welfare. They say that unless the markets recently closed to American cattle and dressed beef are again opened the loss of this outlet for these products will mean at and irre- ‘parable injury to the cattle raising and farming interests of the United States. The stockmen do not propose retalia- tion as a means of getting back the lost markets. They do not suggest that Ge | man and French wines shall be ex- cluded from this country on the ground that they are adulterated in order to compel those countries to aceept our cattle. They do not demand that be cause European nations ask that our meats sent abroad shall be Inspected under the authority of the government we shall require all imports from forelgn countries for human consumpt on —either edibles or beverages—to quote STOCKMEN, from the report of the secretary of agri- culture, must likewise be certificated by the authorities of those foreign governments as wholesome and un- adulterated before they are permitted to be sold in the United States. In a word, these stockmen do not want a commercial warfare Inaugurated, but simply ask that congress shall remove what they believe to be the real cause of the discriminating regulation by amend- ing the sugar schedule. There can be no question that they are right in as- suming that the action of the German government in excluding our cattle was prompted by the imposition of a duty on sugar by this country, and especially by the diseriminating duty of one-tenth of a cent on sugar from countries pa, ing an export bounty. Probably many or any other country would not ¢ complained at our simply placing a duty on raw sugar, putting all sugar producing countries on an equality in this respect, but the diseriminating duty the German govern- ment protests against as unjust and also contrary to treaty stipulations. No fact is Detter established than that the re- moval of the embargo against American hog products by Germany three years ago was a concession to the reciprocity clause of the McKinley law. Germany wanted the American market for its sugar, from which it was possible to ex- clude it under that I; Therefore it conceded what we had been vainly seek- ing for years, the admission of our hog products to its markets. These still go there, but they will not long continue to do so if we adhere to the discriminat- ing duty on sugar from that country. The memorial of the stockmen asks that raw sugar be again made free. This will probably not be done, but there is reason to expect that the one- tenth of a cent duty on sugar from countries paying an export bounty will be abandoned. This is recommended by the president and secretary of state. “In the interests of the commerce of both countries,” said the president in his message, “and to avoid even the de- cusation of treaty violation, I recom- mend the repeal of so much of the statute as imposes that duty.” Secre- tary Gresham says this discriminating duty “is an attempt to offset a domestic favor or encouragement to a certain industry by the very means forbidden by the treaty.” This ought to be suffi- cient, for certainly congress will ot be disposed to conunue a duty which at once violates a treaty obligation and is certain to be very damaging to our commercial interests abroad. Having made this mistake, which is confessed by the president and the chief execu- tive, it should make haste to correct it. Duty to a friendly nation with which it is desirable to cultivate trade rela- tions and consideration for a most im- portant home interest demand that this be done without delay. SECRETARY ALLEN'S DEFENSE. Secretary of State Allen has ventured to make a lame and impotent defense in regard to the purchase of legislative supplies. In this instance, as in all other cases where exposures have been made by The Bee of malfeasance or Jjobbery, the retort of the accused is that the charges are inspired by per- sonal malice or an imaginary grievance. As might have been expected also, the defense of the abuses is made through the Burlington Journal and its Omaha tender, the Double-Ender, whose col- umns have been at the disposal of the state house plunderers on every occa- sion. Now, The Bee would have given Sec- retary Allen a fair hearing for any ex planation he had to make, as it has always been ready and willing to do under similar conditions for other offi- cers. It will now give him the benefit of the defense which is made for him by his champions. The explanation of the Burlington Journal reads as fol- lows, verbatim: Secretary of State Allen denies that he has entered into contracts and refus:d to submit them for inspection. The secretary is authorized by law to furnish supplies to the legislature, and it has been the practice of that official to renovate and clean the legis- lative halls and committee rooms. This must be done prior to the mesting of the legisla- ture, and it is now being done with the help of only five extra men, together with a painter and paperhanger, who will be com- pelled to take whatever the legislature may allow. A Secretary Allen says he has ordered such supplies as he believes the legislature will need, and If more are mecessary the legls- lature must make its wants known. He has no authority to make contracts and does not attempt to do so. Therefors there are no contracts to submit to inspection. On the contrary, he orders what is necessary, and the person furnishing the supplies must de- pend on the legislature for compensation. He fs aware that bills submitted are some- times exorbitant, but the legislature through the regularly appolnted committe> has ample opportunity to arrive at a just compensation. He is aware also that sometimes the bills are unjustly cut down o that the dealer s de- prived of his just dues. Secretary Allen has already ordered some supplies with the usual understanding that the dealer must take his chances with mittess that are responsible for the allow- ance’of such claims. He is emphatic in the statement that there are no $20 gavels nor $18 inkstands in the bill of goods which he has ordered from two or threa dealers, This explanation is decidedly contra- dictory. Mr. Allen first denies that he has entered into any contract for legis- lative supplies and emphatically dis- claims that he has refused to submit them for inspection. In the very same breath he admits that he has ordered such supplies as he believes the legisla- ture will need, although he has no authority to make contracts for the 1s he has ordered delivered at the state house for the use of the legisla- ture. He admits that he is aware that sometimes the bills are exorbitant, and in the same breath he deplores that the bills are sometimes unjustly cut down s0 the dealer is deprived of his just dues, which, of course, means falr profits. In the face of all these contradictory denials M Allen admits that he has already ordered some supplies for the next legislature, with the understand- ing that the dealer must take his chances of lobbying his claims and bills through the legislature. Now, what would any business man think of this loose way of purchasing supplies? Why should any supplies be ordered before there Is a requisition made for them In due form, and why should they not be the legislative com-| bought on competitive bids Instead of daler to charge three prices leaving th and make lobby for his pay and divvy wit) lobby or the officer who gives the order? Assume that Allen tells a straight story abouf this deal, why does he refuse to mike public the orders he has given for supplying the tncoming legis- lature? The interview between Mr. Allen and the reporter of The Bee con- cerning thi mruor is as follows: Reporter—Mr. “Allen, have you made any contracts for supplies? Mr. Allen-gbo you mean for supplies for state (nstitut@ns? Reporter- sir, T mean suppl next legislatife. Mr. Allen—¥ have ordered the chambers of the house and senate to be repaired and a fow other things. Reporter—Have you made any contracts for other supplies, such as stationery, ete? Mr. Allen—Yes, I have made a few con- tracts, and they will be lald before the legls- lature when it convenes. Reporter—Can I see those contracts? Mr. Allen—No, sir. According to the Burlington Journal Mr. Allen is emphatic in the statement that “there are no $20 gavels nor $18 inkstands in the bill of goods which he has ordered from two or three dealers.” This will be gratifying news to the tax- payers of Nebraska, but the denial does not touch the point made by The Bee. There has been no charge that Mr. Allen had ordered $20 gavels and $18 inkstands for the incoming legislature but the fact was recalled that such ey traordinary purchases had been made by him for the legislature two years ago. and no amount of palaver will exculpate him on that score. Mr. Allen's defense Omaha Double-Ender is even more flimsy. Mr. Allen attempts to evade the issue by pleading an alibi. He calls attention to the fact that he was not installed secre of ate until the 6th of January, 1891, several days after the legislature had convened, and as. serts that the enormous quantity of steel pens, pocket-knives and miscellaneous merchandise for that year's session was bought by his predecessor, Mr. Cowdry. The Bee cheerfully makes the correc- tion, but does that exonerate Mr. Allen for the extravagant purchases for 1893, when the $20 gavels, $18 Inkstands, safes, carpets, furniture, boilers and hardware were bought as legislative necessities, and all furnished by a drug house? These purchases and the favoritism shown have been the town talk of Lincoln for years, and it is time that these perniclous practices should be not only reprimanded, but effectually sup- pressed. ol of s for the through the There is no use for the school board to pretend fg retrench by cutting the salaries of one or two principals and at the same timesraising those of one or two other: It is notorious that the principals’ .salaries in all the larger schools in this city are extravagantly high—much-higher than is paid for the same work elfewhere: The highest paid principals, ffoo, Lave been entirely re- lieved of the worksof teaching, which formerly dttaghed _to their positions. What is.avanted is general retrenchment all along the line. The condition of the school finaneesis not such as to per- mit this to be much longer postponed. The old school Doard has apparently been too weak-hearted to face its duty and has left the unpleasant work for its successor. Will the new school board meet the exigency? A policy of delay will not suffice. The public school sys- tem of Omaha must be pbrought down to the same basis of hard times to which every business house in the city has long ago adjusted itself. The sooner it is done the better. One step at a time ought to appease the clamorous insurance agents. Let us have a thorough reorganization of the force employed in the fire department first. That can be secured without much delay if the members of the Board of Fire anfl Police Commissioners will go about the work promptly and in the right spivit. Procebdings can also be instituted to have the water service pipes in the central portion of the city enlarged. A new set of water mains cannot be constructed short of several months, but until we have larger mains additional fire engines will be of little use. It may be, too, that the reorganiza- tion of the force will demonstrate the fact that additional apparatus is un- necessary. Omaha is already spending on its fire department all the money that can be legally raised for the pur- pose, and ore, too. The city council will do well to go slow about authoriz- ing expenditures for which there is no authority of law The Chicago Record intimates that Congressman Wilson seems to be travel- ing over the same path once pursued by his predecessor, Hon. Roger Q. Mills. Not quite the same path. Mr. | Mills, it must be remembered, cele- | brated the defeat of the Mills bill with | a promotion to the United States senate, Mr. Wilson, on the other hand, has private life staring him in the face un- less the president takes pains to pro- vide for him with some lucrative ap- pointive offic The reappointment of Mr. David A. Campbell as clerk of the state supreme court is not only a merited compliment to an efficient officer, but a practical declaration that the machinery of the court i8 not te be used for the promotion of political ends. During his incum- bency Mr. Ci#mpbell has devoted his en- tive time and attention to the duties de- volying upon-him and there 1s no doubt | that he will continue to do so in the future, i How Ho Loves the Workingman. Hoston Herald. The sympathy of the president of the Sugar trust for the employes of that con- cern is rather touching, considering that his lary is $76,000 a year as president and w0 additional as trustee, while the work- ingmen in the trust refineries are paid 10 cents an hour for working in an atmos- phere heated to from 1% to 150 degrees. ————— The Loser Pays the Frelght. Kansas City Star, The terms which Japan s sald to be dis- posed to exact from China are such as might be expected. They are quite as rea- sonable and merciful as Germany demanded of France. The occupation of Peking by Japanese troops 15 quite In line with the march through Parig and the occupation of Versailles. The indemnity has also a prece dent. The rule of our time is that he who loses pays. China can pay in money and land, as France did. China would better think faste GIHER LANDS THAN OURS. The possibility of an alllance between Russia and England suggests that at not a single polnt s there any real antagonism of Interest between the two great empires. Nelther has anything that the other wants, and there 1s nothing of which both are covet- ous. On the contrary, concert of action would be of advantage to them both. They are now the dominant powers in Asia. And the near future will probably see some great political changes in that continent. In no way could England and Russia so much pro- mote thelr own interests there, strengthen their power, and when the time comes, en- large their borders, as by acting together. They two would be undisputed masters of the situation, while acting separately neither could gain allies sufficient to glve it un- challenged supremacy over the other. There are, of course, other strong reasons for an amicable understanding. The new czar has personal predilections for England, and his wife is a grandchild of the queen. There Is talk, too, of his making his goy ernment more liberal, even to the establish- ment of a Parliament, which is by no means impossible, and scarcely Improbable. But, as we have sald, selfish interests are after all the controlling forces. And if the states- men of the two empires will only get the cobwebs of old traditions and wornout ha- treds out of their eyes, they will see that such interests point straight to an amicable and permanent understanding between them. e There Is only one important service which at this juncture the czar could render Eng- land, and that fe to relieve her from the tegal and moral responsibility for the pro- tection of the Armenian Christians which was placed upon her by the treaty of Ber- lin. His ossent fs not meeded to confirm her occupation of Egypt, for nothing can shake her hold upon that country while her flects command the sea. No more binding assurances can be offered by the St. Peters- burg government that Afghanistan shall be left undisturbed than have been already given. Nor s there any longer occasion for the co-operation of Russia with England to stop the war in the far east, seeing that peace In that quarter seems near at hand tifrough arrangements gmade directly be- tween the combatants. But in the Ar- menian business Eogland has urgent noed of the czar's assistance, and it is not only possible, but in the interests of humanity dosirable, that a combination should bo formed for that temporary purpose. All the powers represented at the Congress of Ber- lin are collectively bound to shield the Ar- menian Christiens from outrage and butch- ery; but England was made in a special way their guardian. The horrible massacre At Sassoun has rendered it imperative that England shail discharge the protective funcs tions which she assumed by the Berlin treaty; and the quick, easy and rational mode of doing this would be to authorize tho czar to enter Armenia as her manda- tory and rescue the Christians of that doun- try from the awful barbarities to which they are subjected at the hands of the Turk. o No country in the world has a national debt approaghing In amount the indebtedness of the Frefich republic, which am:unts to the tremendous total of 40,000,000,000 francs. The annual interest charge upon this bonded debt is over 1,000,000,000 francs, and by no recent ministry has any effort been made to lighten the burdens of the people. Of late years the annual expenditures have per- sistently exceeded the revenues on an aver- age of 24,000,000 francs, leaving an annual deficit which had to be provided £ by new taxes or new loans. In the face of a situa- tion requiring careful financtering and a re- duction of expenditures, the French ministry has entered upon a preposterous and expen- sive campaign in Madagascar. The resources of the French people are great, but there is a limit even to their endurance of progress- fvely Increasing taxes. Unless the financlal pilicy of the government shall be practically reversed In the near future the time will Do sure to come when the “‘sharp criticism” to which the budget was subjected in the Cham- ber of Deputies by the conservative repub- lican, M. Cavaignac, will seem to have been a mild protest, Indeed. e The proposed extension of the franchise is the engrossing topic just now in parlia- mentary circles in Austria. The plan which is thought to have the best chance <f being adopted is that of organizing the Industrial classes into electoral groups, to be repre- sented in Parliament by twenty-two mem- bers. The Poles demand, however, that these groups shall not be limited to industrial workers, but shall include also other cate- gories of workers outside of those engaged in agriculture. This amendment would neces- sitate an increase in the number of seats. 1t is doubtful whether this demand will be taken into consideration, but if the project of industrial groups with twenty-two repre- sentatives be ad-pted it may be submitted to the Reichsrath before Christmas. Speak- ing of this scheme, the London Times cor- respondent at Vienna says that it “‘is a mere sop to Cerberus, and ia not in any way cal- culated to quell the clamor for working class representation in Parllament. Its only effect will be to secure for the labor party a hearing in the Reichsrath and to call public attention to a cause which, whatever its merits may be, s daily enlisting fresh ad- herents. Count Taaffe, though he may have made mistakes, was unquestionably a states- man, and he saw the necessity of meeting half-way the growing popular outcry for uni- versal suffrage. But the conservatives and Poles, no less than the doctritaire Ilberals, have everything to fear for their pafty or- ganization from any considerable extension of the franchise.” e Solving the Armenian problem by effecting Armenfan independence would be desirable, but seems at present scarcely possible. A general rising of the pecple against their oppressors could hardly succeed, unless backed by some foreign power. Brave and intelligent as are the Armenians, they have not the material resources mor the military organization to cope with the equally brave and far better equipped myriads of Turks and Kurds. An insurrection with forelgn aid would perhaps be successful; but then it would mean annexation by that foreign power. Such annexation by Russla, though perhaps ultimately inevitable, is not to be desiréd; while -if effected by any other it would surely incur international troubles of the gravest kind, the fear of which will probably make all cthers stand aloof. Alto- gether, therefire, the plight of these deserv- ing and admirable people is as perplexing as it is pititul. e If the ncw president of Brazil succeeds in his efforts to reduce the size and curtail the power of the army he will have done much toward giving the people that full measure of freedom which a republic ought to insure. Ever since the empire was over- thrown the overshadowing power of the sol- Qiery has been an obstacle in the way of progress. It has led to covil wars and the people have depended “so much upon the authorities and the soldiers that at important elections only a small fraction of the quali- fled voters have gone to the polls, The ma- Jority of the people have failed either to realize their duties or to make use of their privileges, and a handful of military officials have reaily had more piwer to form and ocontrol the government than all the work- ingmen in the country. If the people will bagin to rely upon themselves they will gain real strength and freedom. e Dems, Hear Yo the Slogan. Chicago Her: This fresh outbreak of New York disloy- alty to the national democratic party was not necessary to confirm democrats in all other parts of the country in the conviction that New York leadership can no longer be tolerated by democrats. The west must control the next national convention of the barty. The west must write its platfoffn. he west shall name its leaders. The lead- éra and platform will be at ont. ' The demo- cratic party shall not win at the poils to be betrayed in congress; and by treachery in congress lose the confidence of the peope d suffer defeat again before it was per- mitt to demonstrate the truth of its lflr§- ciples and present the fruits of its victo e The Syndicate Rake Off. Globe-] oorat. bo‘l:‘!‘l'l :;llmll ‘(hl ‘Dh b;):&dicll.r W o s B 0 120000000 A e transholiadl whigh democrat e of 1t Wi n TS rothotls, ustansl prosrority, NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Rey. T. H. Dry has resigned as pastor of the Methodist church at Gering, and will remove to Oxford, A new and extensive creamery plant fs to be erected at Superfor, and work will begin on the bullding in a fow weeks. Miss Helen M. Bennett has been forced to discontinue the publication of the Tecum- seh Dally News on account of the hard times, Rev. James Burke, pastor of the Papillion Roman Catholle church, has been transferred to Chadron, and Rev. Father Delfossa of Omaha will take charge of parish The vote for assessor in Trunk Butte pre- cinct of ‘Dawes ceunty was a tie, and in drawing cuts to see who should serve the populist won. This makes the county board of assessors stand nine popullsts to eight re- publicans, George Fair, a farmer near Elwood, broke open the bin of a coal dealer and carted off | v a load of coal in the night. The coal was traced to his house and he was arrested. Ho pleaded guilty to burglary, and the district Judge will sentence him. Rev. J. A. Scamahorn of Gordon, defeated candidate for the senate from Nebraska, would like to be chaplain of the senate the coming session. As he couldn’t help make the laws he would like to pray for the passage of a few. Calvin Oglesbee, the Webster county farmer who put a load of shot into the person of Jetty Riley, as the result of a hallowe'en outbreak, has been held In bonds of $1,000 for trial on the charge of assault with in- tent to do great bodily harm. The annual meeting of the Nebraska Acad- emy of Sciences will be held at Lincoln De- cember 27 and 28. An extensive and inter- esting program has been prepared for the occasion, and a_profitable meeting is assured Prof. Charles E. Bessey of the State univer- sity is president, and H. P. Duncanson of Peru Is the secretary-treasurer. pabded iy SENTIMENT AND SENSE. Lowell Courler: Tn Algiers when the pes- ple desire a new ruler they begin by tak ng a dey off. . New York Weekly What news? Chinese General and they are hou Life: She—Well, 1 would like to have you tell mo what thére is about that simple little bonnet that makes you say it is like a poem. He—That's easy; no one pays the least attention to it Puck: Mrs. 0d—If vo wood I'll give . our dinner. Dusty Rhodes—Hev you got a license to run a wood yard? Dallas News: These days a belle can look up at the milky way without leading the young men to suspect that she wants ice cream. New York Tribune: A poor woman was telling a kind-hearted visitor how the doct came and sald she had a sluggls “What beats me,” she added, “is slugs gets inside’ the liver.” Life: Mr. Leo—It was like this. Six white men and twelve blacks charged on me with thelr thunder sticks. I killed eight whites with one blow and— Mr. Troglodytes—Come off! Chinese Emperor— We have met the enemy —Dehind us, "Il saw that You're a llon! Buffalo Courler: To Angeline—Your query as to whether the hero in a border drama should be characterized as a shooting star has been referred to the astronomical editor. Philadelphia Record; Maud—You are a living example of “Love's Labor Los rge —Why s0? Maud—Papa refuses to wear those creaky shoes you sent him. PLAINED. Philadelphia Record, Why does the busy bee alway Improve each shining hour, And gather honey every day To save for wintry hour? The cynic gave his eye a leer, And gave his mouth a pucker, And said: “That's isn’t very queer; For he's a little sucker.” bt Uncle Joo Talks Saucy. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Reed, preferring victory to defeat, tells the republicans to follow™ that middlé road which the people favor and which they have 50 often rebuked the politicians for not pursuing. This is sound ady; It the party adheres to It during the next two years, instead of trotting arbund with a McKinley chip on its shoulder, daring the democrats to knock it off, it wiil win. If it falls into the hands of the prohibitory pro- tectlon zealots and of those politicians whose brains are even smaller than the small offices they long for, only democratic blunders can save the republicans —_—— PRESCLENCE, Boston Globe. The new moon hung in the sky, The sun was low In the west, And my betrothed and 1 In the churchyard paused to rest; Happy mald and lover, Dreaming the old dreain over. The light winds wandered by, And robins chirped from thé nest. And lo! in the meadow sweet Was the grave of a little child, With a crumbling stone at the feet, And the ivy runnig wild, Tangled {vy and clov Folding it over and over; Close to my sweetheart's fect Was the little mound up-piled. Stricken with nameless fears, the Papillion | northwest | ESINDAY Notable Features: “A New Jungle Story,” by author Rudyard Kiplin Beard, will' begin in run {or three successive issues. As & lit- | erary “specialty the story possesses rare erit. It tells how Mowgli (the boy who @ Brought up in the jungle with the anis mals and knows their langwage and lore) returned {o his old home in the forest after trying to live men; how, with the | help "o and’ the gray | wolves, D! ath by stoning ill\l' man and woman who had been kind to | him, and how, under his direction, the el phant av 1 the Injury done his friend, e her husband, by thelr fellow that celebrated iilustrated by Dan e Sunday Bee and 't P. Porter's letter for The Sun- 18 with a question of vital i this country, namely: ““The Transportation.”” Mr. Porter stion {8 ‘most vital and Uritain and that public sentiment is rapldly crystalizing into & des | mand for state owsiership as the only means | of rellef from excessive charges. The feel ing against the corporation has been inten: fled by advanced rates, which almost confis- cato focal traffic. The sentiments of men conspicuous in the movement are presented, together with comparative statistics, the whole presenting, mirror-like, the strained relations between corporate monopoly and the people of Great Britain, portanc oblem in of arte's great war story, " will appear in The Sunday Bee, | “Cla has so far proved itself to be ‘nur' of the most popular stories ever pub. llh*l X b y Bee and will gain in favor | to the Frank Carpenter's letter describes t government penitentiary of Japan and tells how prisoners are fed, housed and employed. Modes of punishment are detailed and the system in v ue for the conduct of the prison is shown to be copled after that of the French, end. The distinstive feature of the woman's P is a Pavis fashion letter, illustrating the latest street tollets and deéscribing the materials out of which they are made. Ane other {llustrated article on wraps and bod fces will prove of Interest to feminine read- ers, as will other valuable and original features of the woman's page. A continuation of Joel Chandler Harris' charming Thimblefinger stories will form a leading feature of the page devoted to boys and girls, which will also contain current chapters of “The Lost Opal of Mysore” and other matter of peculiar interest to young: der The incldents attending a trip by rail and river from the City of Mexico to the Isthe mus of Tehuantepee are described in detail, Under the tropical sun of this reglon it will e seen that while it is now a perfect para- dise for the hur entually it must b come one of the garden spots of the earth, as here all kinds of fruits, graing and veg: etables can be grown in abundance, Ellas Farah, an intelligent young Syrlan who has left his native land and has come to America for the purpose of studying dentistry, in passing through Omaha stops for a day, and while resting from the fa- tigue of the long journey tells of some of the strange sights that have passed under vation in Soudan. Being an unus- t young fellow, Mr. Farah di nes and (ncidents in a most inter- The German residents of the city have found much to attract their attention during the past week, and many of them have been kept busy in'the social world. A detalled account of their doings will be given. With the coming of winter things in the social world brighten up, and the days of weddings, receptions and 'balls are at hand. During the past week society has been busy, and with it The Bee has kept pace. A heretofore, the soclety page of The Bunday Bee will contain much that is of interest to the fashionable world. As the cold months draw on outdoor sports become a thing of the past,’ but, not- withstanding this fact, there will be many things in the sporting page which will inter- est those whose minds travel in this di rection. This department will be crowded with features which will furnish food for re- flection for all true lovers of legitimate sport. “The Jews and Jesus,” or “Why Judaism Does Not Acknowledge Jesus as the Mes siah,” was'the subject of a discourse deliv- ered by Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, minister of the Temple of Israel, last Friday night, This discourse, which was one of a series which Mr. Franklin intends to deliver dur- ing the winter, was listened to by a large audience. In The Sunday Bee there will be found a full report of the lecture, The secret soclety department will be un- usually interesting, owing to the fact that during the past week many of the lod of the Independent Order of Odd Fellow ve devoted particular attention to cele- brating the b'r.thday of Gustavus Adolphus. The other features of the secret soclety de- partment will teem with facts for lodge men and those connected with these insti- tutions. Compressed air as a motive power s something that to the public might seem to be one of the impossibilities. Such, how- ever, is not a fact, as compressed atf is being used at this time in the shops off the Union Pacific Rallway cofapany In this city. The manner in which this power is applied and how it is brought under con. trol furnishes the subject for an interest. ing article. She shrank and clung to me, And her eyes were filled with'tears For a sorrow I did not see; Lightly the winds were blowing, Softly her tears were flowing, Tears for the unknown year: And a sorrow that was to be TH1E SUNDAY BE. “Money’s Worth or Money Back,” IT'S TURRIBLE. In this deep and darks despair; this: the air—If Mon's Scotch storm caps that used to bo $1.00 for b0c Saturday. A real good boy's s have 'em. oma dampness that's been filling all the air there’s a grim and gloomy goblin which doth fill us with for we've heavy winter clothing made a' purpose to be sold, and we wish the fog would leave us to the merey of the cold—But it's like We have learned better than to sob our young lives out in kicking at it dosen’t suit us our suits may suit somebody who doesn’t need an overcoat but does need a suit. Saturday we give a splendid all wool suit for $10—no the other fellows don’t sell 'em for $15. got 'em. We are the only people who They just havn't We made "em. uit for $2.50—a regular Browning King & Co. boy’s $2.50 suit. Later—Since the above was written they tell us a cold wave is coming—If it gets here remember our overcoats, Browning, King & Co., Rellable Clothiers, S. W, Cor, 15th and Douglas.