Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BE® B. ROSEWATER, Editor. St PUBLISHED EVE Y MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (Without Sunday), One Year Dally_Bee and Sunday, One Year 8800 10 0 Bix Montha...... caek vieivors RO Three Months i Bunday Tee, One Yenr. Baturday Tee, ¢ Weekly Bee, One Yenr OFFIC The Bee Bullding. “orner N and_ Twenty-fourth 12 Pearl strect, 817 Chamber of Commer . Rooma 13, 14 and 16, Tribune Washington, 1407 F street, N. W. CORRESPONDENC All communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: To th BUST LETTERS All bustnoss 1o d remittances should be addressed ' to T ing company Omaha. Draft ce_orders (o be made, smpany Omaha, Bou sta. checks and o to the order postol of t BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George B, Taschuck, secretary of The e Hishing company, being duly sworn the number of full and comple of the Dally Morning, 1 printed during the month of Nover as follows: Pub- ‘cop! 16 17 18 1 oivic 22, aoamuen BEEEEY e Total.... firvss STy Leen deduciions for unsald and [OOTBLCSi3y:% o oveveivossvssenosisons tal 8ld...oveiiisns Daily averags net circ GE Sworn to before me presence this 31 day of (Beal.) N. P. FEIL Ation ... RGE T, and_subscribed omber, 1 Notary in my Public The Omaha fire department can do efficlent work when its pride is touched fn the right spot. If Judge Scott knows what fs best for him he will come off his perch and fet Governor Crounse fill the vaeancy. The state has a permanent investment of $535,500 in the penitentiary buildings. They could readily be duplicated for $150,000, without employing a single convict in their reconstruction. Ben Tillman, South Carolina’s mud- gill governor, has been duly elected TUnited States senator in place of But- Jer. This is a blow at blue-blooded Car- olina aristocracy that must make John % Calhoun turn in his grave. The school board might as well pre- pare to meet the issue, The free kin- dergartens, the high school frills and the free supply of stationery and school books will either have to be cut off or all the teachers’ wages will have to be scaled. Considering his advanced age, Sena- tor Morrill exhibits remarkable vitality and mental stamina. His speech on financial vagaries certainly has as much pith and point as that of any man who has handled the subject on the floor of the senate during the past decade. There are still a few tracts of peni- tentiary lands left in Lancaster and Seward counties on which land grab- bing speculators in those parts have their eyes, and the coming legislature will be fmportuned to pass a Dbill that will place these lands within their reach. The state has expended $30,000 on the building for the Home for the Friend- less. The most sensible thing the state ean do is to make the promoters of the home a present of it if they will bind themselvek to run it in their own inter- est and let the friendless find refuge in eounty infirmaries, where they properly belong. The new German chancellor has i augurated a policy that is sure to revive soclalistic agitation in Germany and ma- tevially Increase the discontent among the industrial classes. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church and the persecution of socialists for opinion’s sake is sure to make more socialists. Banking is altogether too easy in Ne- braska, and that accounts for many of the bank failures within the past few years. Anybody that can command a capital of $500 and has credit to buy a bank safe can incorporate or go into the banking business on his own hook. One of the state banks in a Nebraska village has just notified the banking board that it has gone into voluntary liquidation, The capital stock was $3,000 and deposits amounted to between §800 and $1,000, and yet this is charged up to Nebraska as a bank failure the same as if it had a paid up capital of 000 and de- posits amounting to a million, Proposals for bids for legislative print- fug have been advertised for in the public prints for t few weeks. This is o matter which awaits the care- ful attention of the legislative commit- tee on printing. A combination of print- ers to insure a high price for this work 1s almost certain to be formed, and there is no reason why the state should not reject bids that are obviously high. In the contract awarded for this work, as well as all other printing for the state, there should be a clause provid- fng for accuracy in typography. Here- tofore wretched proof reading has de faced most of the bills printed for Ne- braska law makers, The present state commissioner public lands and buildings r ts to the governor that during the past two years he has deeded 320,000 acres, made contracts for (81,000 acres, and leased a fraction over 1,500,000 acres, in round numbers. While the value of these Jands is not indicated it is safe to sume that the deeds, contr nd Jpases represent in the aggregate more than $5,000,000, at a very low estimate, The question naturally suggests itself why this great state of Nebraska would entrust such vast interests Into the hands of sevemth-rate village lawyers who probably never had handled prop- erty worth $10,000 in all their lives. And this vast estate which our land com- missioners administer is the heritage of our school children and should forever be conserved for the maintenance of our educational system. of cts PACIFIU RAILWAY DERT FUNDING. No measure now before congress Is of more vital eoncern to the people of every state west of the Mississippl, and, for that matter, to the people of the whole country than the Pacific railway funding bill. The schen to fund the bonded debt of the Union and Cen- tral Pacific rallroads originated with the men who or Credit Mo- biller and Ca nin construction rings, by whom the first transcontinen- tal raflrond was exploited and bur- dened with a colossal debt. IFor more than twelve yoars every congress has been Importuned to legalize the fraudu- lent and fietitious eapitalization of th roads by an act that would authorize the extension of their bonded debt for from sixty to one hundred years and make valid the stock is- sues on the main lines and branches that represent fully $100,000,- 000 of water. That such a propd should be entertained by congre favored by the attorney general the president passes comprehension, The pretext under which the measure las been recommended by Attorne; General Olney s that it will enable the government to r r part if not the whole of its claims against the Pa- cifle railro; which in the case of the Union Pacific railroad will aggregate 00,000, Now if the owners of the Pa- cific railroads were required to pay this debt or the bulk of it there might be some merit in the proposition, but every funding bill formulated by the gov- ernment directors or the successive United States rallrond commissioners contemplates the repayment of the whole debt, interest and principal, out of the earnings of the roads. In other words, it is proposed that for the next hundred years the Pacific railroads shall be authorized and required to levy upon their patrons such es of trans- portation as will enable them to pay fixed charges and dividends upon a capitalization of $100,000 per mile when their roads could easily be re- built and splendidly equipped for one- fourth of that sum. To fund the Pacific raflroad debt un- der such conditions wonld be a dis- astrous blow to all the region tributa fo these roads from the Missouri river to San Iraneisco. A direct head tax upon every man, woman and child in the states tributary to these roads to pay off their mortgages would be pre- ferable to a continued levy of indirect taxes upon the products of every farm, mine and factory for three or four gen- erations The Pacific funding scheme, if carried into effect, would not mer authorize the high freight tolls on the Union gnd Central Pacific, but would warrant and perpetuate exorbitant rates on every road west of the Mis- sourl. It is idle to assert that com- petition would be the regulator of rail- road rates. The raflroads west of the Mississippi have all been built, bonded and stocked on the Credit Mobilier plan and all of them are sure to throttle competition by combination in order to tax the products of their patrons as much as the traffic will bear. Such a policy cannot fail to retard the development of the greater and bet- ter half of the continent. On the Pacific coast the alarm has already been sounded. More than four months ago Adolph Sutro, mayor-elect of San Franecisco, who is one of the pioneers of the coast, issued an ap- peal to the people of California to rise en masse and protest against the fund- ing bill scheme. With this appeal he handed to the San Francisco Examiner 2,006 signatures to a petition and re- monstrance which at that time already contained 33,000 names, and doubtles: has been swelled to 100,000 by th time. In his appeal Mr. Sutro say: 1t people fully understood what this fund- ing bill means, not a man, who Is & man, on this whole Pacific coast will refuse to sign; in fact, those who refuse do so from actual fear of the revenge of the Southern Pacific. Ninety-nine per cent of our population, if left free to act, are opposed to any kind of a funding bill being passed by congress. Supposing a forelgn fleet should appear in front of the Golden Gate ready to bombard and burn up our fair city, would there be a man coward enough not to come to the res- cue? Would there not be an unparalleled ex- citement, a running to and fro, a ringing of the bells, and efforts to protect the women and the children? Would mot every son of the golden west be ready to sacrifice his lite in the defense of his country? A burned up city would be a great loss, but it can be rebuilt. A far greater calamity is about to befall us. A greater enemy is right in our midst—an enemy ready to make slaves of us for fifty years to come, an enemy who has stolen our liberties, our rights as American citizens, our very chances of exist- ence. What 1s going on in Washington? Why, it Is attempted to bribe congress Into the passage of the so-called Pacific rallroad fund- ing bill—$100 to $20,000 for a vote. Members at heart honorably inclined may weaken under the pressure of poverty and will lull their consclences to sleep under subtle argu- ments that the measure Is righteous and beneficial to the government; and some fine morning you may wake up and find in the telegraphic dispatches from Washington that the funding bill has passed the house of representatives. Let it be known in Washingtcn, to be telegraphed from day to day, that we are ringing the alarm bell to impart to congress the feeling of terror which has seized our people at their impending fate. The feeling expressed by Sutro is shared by the people of Nevada, Idaho, Montana and Utah, and eannot fail to strike a responsive chord on this side of the Rockies. There should be no funding bill passed by the present con- gress or any other congr that con- templates the perpetuation of the eco- lossal debt of the Pacific roads and the legalization of any scheme that would enable the stock jobbers to raise the wind in Wall street. The Paeific rail- roads should be allowed to go to fore- ¢losure and reorganized on the basis of actual value so that tne rates can be adjusted to that standard., When that is done the transmissouri country will experience a revival of lasting pros- perity. Senator Peffer may be addicted to going to extremes, but when he intro- duces a bill intended to put an end to the disgraceful funeral junkets that oc- cur every time a member of congress dies away from home he deserves the encouragement and support of ev one, both In and out of congress. has been the custom whenever the death of a congressman or senator s an- nounced to have taken piace In Wash- ington to appoint a joint committee of members of both houses to accompany the remains to the home and represent the collengues of the deceased at the funeral services. Those committees usually oceupy a special car and some- times a special train, furnished with an overabundant supply of good things to eat and drink, and the stories of de- auchery during these junkets are among the blackest scandals that befoul Washington society. Everything is ear- ried on upon a seale of extravagan induced by the fact that the national treasury foots the bills, and the money spent to see that each dead congressman is properly buried would suffice to sup- port several live congressmen and their families for a year. It will be a pity if Senator Peffer’s bill or one similar in scope is not enacted by the present congress, CONFRONTED WITH A PRODLE. Another heavy deficit stares the Board of Education in the face. Under the state apportionment of school funds available for redistribution to the vari- ous counties Douglas county received 2 in 1893. During the present r this amount was reduced to $i4,- It now transpires that the pro- ds of the state lev have shrunk from $315,000 for 1894 to $213,000 for 1895. This will give Douglas county only about $30,000, which indicates a loss to the school board of this district of about $15,000. There is already a deficit of something like $20,000, and the most liberal estimate of the incom- ing license revenue places it $40,000 below what it was for 1894. The board is therefore confronted with a shrink- age in revenues that must aggregate fully $75,000. This deficit ean not be replaced by direct taxation for the firs months of the year 18! The in- creased school tax could not legally be levied before June 15, because the as- sessment s not presumed to be finished before the end of May. Inasmuch as the school year closes about the middle of June no part of this revenue would be available for the winter and spring terms, The duty of the Board of Education is therefore plain. It must cut down expenses within the limit of its reve- nues. To this end it must lop off all superfluous branches of instruction and curtail its outgo in every possible way without erippling the elementary schools. The patrons of the Kkinder- gartens and pupils who desire to con- tinue the studies in special branches that form no part of a public school education should be made to pay their due proportion of teachers' salaries. The purchase of school books and sta- tionery for free distribution should be discontinued. The school board could, if any advantage can be gained by it, continue these purchases at wholesale and furnish to pupils at cost. The books already on hand could be sold at cost to the pupils, making a reasonable reduction for wear and te: Pupils whose parents are indigent could be permitted to continue the use of such books as are on hand. If all these economies do not make ends meet the board must devise a way of reducing expenses in other di- rections. WANTS MORE POWER. The Interstate Commerce commission wants an extension of power. It asks congress to empower the commission to preseribe minimum as well as maxi- mum rates, to establish through routes and through rates, to preseribe a uni- form classification for freights and change the same from time to time as may appear necessary, with other pro- posed amendments to the law which would greatly enlarge the authority of the commission. But the question is if these recommendations should be ac- ceded to by congress would the useful- ness of the commission be improved? Undoubtedly some of them are good, but before the power of the commission is enl d would it not be well for it to demonstrate the destre and the abil- ity to effectively exercise the authority it already possesses? There is a widespread belief that the commission is not so efficient a body as it ought to be. Everybody at all con- versant with railroad affairs knows the law is being constantly violated as to its most essential requirements. Rail- way managers themselves admit this to be the e. What has the commission done to prevent or punish these viola- tions of the law? In reply to the criti- cisms of its failure to do anything that has been effective it throws the respon- sibility upon the Department of Justice. 1t says that it is simply the duty of the commission to report to the department facts concerning alleged violations of the peral clauses of the act, and here the commission’s connection with the criminal side of the law necessarily ends. But does the commission perform this duty as fully and faithfully as it might do? Is it not more than probable that a great many violations of the penal clauses of the act escape the no- tice of the commission because of a lack of vigilanece? There will be no dis- sent from the statement of the commis- sion that it s the duty of shippers, rail- rond men and shippers generally to as- #ist the government in running down these violations of a statute designed to protect their intereests, but this does not relieve the commission of any of the responsibility devolved upon it in con- neetion with the discovery of viola- tions of the law. It formerly recognized this responsibility, but for some time it has appeared to be utterly indifferent to it. The interstate commerce law being enforced. All railroad a large majority of shipper: to be so. [t is practically admitted by the commission itself. here is dis- crimination on every hand, rebates to large shippers, false billing, and all the other devices for defeating the law. Is the commission doing its duty by en- deavoring to find out these things and faithfully exercising the authority it possesses to bring the guilty to punish- ment? Nobody believes it is. The truth is that the Interstate Commerce com- mission is no longer either respected or feared by the corporations, and the public has ceased to expect anything is not men and know that from it. Its power has been extended from time to time without baving pro- duced the results promised. of this it Is should be a ¢ to further enl In view urprising that there ition in cougress not its authority. THE GOLD_RESERVE PROBLEM. The last issue of bonds ralsed the treasury gold referve to $111,000,000, but on Monday it had declined to $107,- 000,000. Tt affiigfiys that since the be ginning of the ctirrent month there has been taken out of the subtreasuries in exchange for United States and treas ury notes over $4100,000 in gold, and it is apprehended that withdrawals of gold from the tre in this way will con- tinue until th in depleted. The obvious Paé#l is that the banks which reduced their stock of gold by subscriptions to the bonds or by sup- plying the demands of other subscrib- ers are now replenishing their supply of the metal, and how Tar they may be disposed to go in doing this it is im- possible to s They may be satisfied with getting a small proportion of the gold they parted with, and then they may want to recov the greater part of it. In the latter case the treasury may within ninety days be as badly off, as the reserve is concerned, as it was before the last issue of bonds. In the next place the forelgn e changes are against us. BExports are light and our securities are coming back upon us. According to a leading finan- cial journal, London sold some 50,000 shares of various stocks at New York last week, calling for at least $2.000,- 000, and the same authority states that there is disappointment in London finan- cial civeles that the opening of congress has revealed no near prospect of a set- tlement of our monetary difficulties, There unquestionably is a feeling of dis- trust abroad regarding the financial con- ditions here, and it is by no means cer- tain that this will be allayed by the policy of currency reform which the administration has proposed to congress, for while it admittedly has some good features it falls short of solving the problem, and at any rate there is hardly a possibility that anything will be done by the present congress. Then the time is near for exports of gold to pay in- terest due abroad and for the annual settlement of international accounts, so that a considerable outflow of gold dur- ing the next three months is assured. Whatever the amount may be it is prob- able that the treasury will supply the greater part of it, so that unless a larger proportion of the customs reve- nue of the government is paid in gold than has been the case for the past year it is finevitable that within a short time the gold reserve will be again re- duced below the §100,000,000 mark. The means proposed by the president and secretary of fhe treasury for re- lieving the treasury from this embar- rassing conditibhods to retire the legal tender notes, uging the surplus revenue for that purpose, but while this would be an effectual remedy it would hardly be a popular ofe!* The greenback is a favorite money with the people, and they would ngt, easily be persuaded to do away with it. Another sugges- tion is that the banks return to their former usage of ‘supplying their patrons with gold to pay customs duties, It is urgedthat they” Bave dond mWat wheh the customs -eolleetions were much higher than now and when their stock of gold was no larger than at present; besides such a course could eause them but a momentary inconvenience, since the gold would flow back to them through the regular disbursements of the treasury. If the banks would do this there would be no difficulty in maintaining the treasury gold reserve, but the not likely to do it. They seem as anxious now as at any time since they practically suspended specie payments, so far as providing gold for customs duties is concerned, to maintain a hoard of that metal. If the banks will not come to the help of the treas- ary in this matter it would seem that congress might try the remedy that has been proposed of requiring a percent- age—say 70 or 75 per cent—of the cus- toms duties to be paid in gold or gold certificates, It is Dbelieved that this would insure a steady inflow of gold to the treasury, as was the case formerly when duties had to be paid in that metal. It will hardly be questioned that congress could more profitably occupy its time in considering this matter than in talking over a plan for a new bank currency which will never be adopted. His Sof pendence. Globe-Demoerat. Cleveland is a president without a party, but he can depend upon the republicans to stand by him in all his efforts to prevent the democrats from ruining the country, A Nude Mystery, St. Paul Globe. The galleries applauded Mr. Bryan of Ne- braska. Mr. Bryan's senaforial boom fis packed away in moth balls, but he s keep- ing his presidential boom out pretty far into the winter. — Too Much of @ Snap. Washington Post The Union Pacific recelvers are right along at the meager salary ay They wanted $13,000. Why don't sign, If for no other reason than to vindicate themselves and rebuke the stingi- ness of the court? working of $12 Jobbers Plucking the Treasury, Dufalo Exprens Gold withdrawals from the treasury have amounted to $4,500,000 since the bond sale. Now that the speculafors have learned how easily the government can be mulcted under the present laws ‘they seem determined to work the mine for alk it is worth. el lila Ll Shallow. Lamentations. Indinpapolls Journal. Now that the Sugar trust has declared a 8 per cent quarterly dividend upon its com- mon stock, which 13 three-fourths water, the country need have no further solicitude over the lamentdtions of President Have- meyer regarding the fuin of the sugar refin- ing industry. ¥ ———————— The goverpment of the through its cour 8 now Unlon' Pacific and all its ches, the Atchison, the Northérn Pacific, the Erie, the Reading and ‘more than 100’ other rail- way corporations;~and yet there are pur- blind fools who think, or at least say they do, that the government cannot run the rallroads. ting the PROPLE AND TIINGS. Niearagua eanal bawls are coming tavor in congressional eircl New York dispensarfes propose to give away crutches with Manhattan cocktails. The sultan of Morocco has another disturb- ance on his hands. It is not a congress, how- ever. Sealsking have declined 30 per cent in London. The decline has not touched this country to any marked degree. It Is probable the United States senate will adopt cloture before long. Mr. Tonque is a candidate for the senate in Oregon. As long as Senator Quay refrains from springing a serial speech criticsm of con | sress will be frescoed with charity. The supreme court of Indiana decides that a woman cannot hold a saloon license in that state. This will raise Helen ger. If Ananias should come to New York and drop in on the Lexow committee he would find ample provocation for suicide. He would not be in the game a little bit. H. 0. Havemeyer, pre:ident of the Sugar trust, recelves a salary and perquisites amounting to $100,000. His annual message to the senate did not equal the $50,000 stand- ard Political economists have given up in de- spair the problem whether railroad passes or whisky exercises the greatest Influence in Kansas conventions, The latter is a side door issue. Minzie Chew is doing time in the Ohlo penitentiary for highway robbery. She oper- ates two-horse power lungs incessantly and her vocalization requires the restralning in- fluence of a halter. The crusade of dress reform in the east has halted for the purpose of determining whether the evening dress or tights are most menacing to masculine morals. For the mo- ments tights have the call. The d'Arsenval system of reviving electro- cuted persons consists simply in pulling the tongue rapldly and vigorously. Friends of the victims of the November shocks might try ‘the experiment and report results. Governor Atkinson of Georgia has ap- pointed six new generals, any number of colonels, and thirty-seven lieutenant colonels, and now the state militia, 4,300 strong, is prepared to go marching thro' Georgia In style. Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohlo is to take the presidency of a stock company which will handle the product of a celebrated mineral spring at Urbana. There may not be as much glory In this as there is in politics, but there is more money. Mr. C. P. Huntington has built a granite mausoleum in Woodlawn cemetery, of which the architecture is copled from a Doric tem- ple and which contains places for sixteen coffins. The cost of this post-mortem lux- ury was about $250,000. The conspicuous talent of Mrs. Blackwood of Indlana is her versatility in the matri- monial line. She has been divorced from six husbands and shed tears over the graves of five others. She is about to make the rec- ord an even dozen. Indiana timber is un- usually knotty. A lonely New York woman of 22 proyided herself with a quick heating stove and cele- brated the setting up of the same with copi- ous draughts of light wine. The stimulant navigated to her feet, for space, doubtless, and in a moment of excessive weariness she sat on the stove. She is now sobering up .1|\ the hospital, frescoed with soothing poul- tices. Patrick Cunningham of New Bedtord, Mass., the inventor of the new rocket naval torpedo, sometimes called the “flylng devil,” is a native of Ireland. He was brought to this country by his parents when he was 9 years of age, and got most of his schgol- ing in Newark, N. J. He tried to get, Into both the army and navy when the war broke out, but was rejected because of his youth, being then only 17 years of age. Then he went whaling, and in 1864 succceded In get- tng in the navy, where he soon developed a taste for explosives and projectiles. phosritFplogil ks A Gigantie Fallure, Chicago Tribune. The Manchester ship canal, the Breatest experiment in municipal enterprise ever at- tempted in England, is a disastrous fatlure. The earnings of the last eleven months were only $420,000, which was 17 _per cent less than the working expenses. The trade of the canal is dwindling st 1ily and there is no reasonable prospect of obtaining an ade- Quate returr. for the $70,000,000 expended on the _construction.. . The stockholders and the ‘Manchester ratepayers are in despair. What to do with the canal is with them an important question. There is talk of turning it over to the state, but this transfer is averred to be impossible, and If so the only recourse will be to sell it to the railroads, which will repay themselves by advancing their freight rates after having bought up the competition. Pretense nnd Performance. Globe-Democrat. Mr. Cleveland’s assertion in last year's message that “thousands of neighborhoods had their well known fraudulent pension- ers,” and in the present message that bare- faced and extensive frauds exposed” have been part of the work of the administration, is an instance of language very careles 1y handled. Commissioner Lochren reports 194 (‘UHVIL‘H?"H for pensicn frauds during the year. There were thousands of pension T{!{P;E;}Cunl{'fiz?:‘ :l!llfl many of them pald to ste 0 le-tattle, with the eager sult just mentioned, ey Pk e Carlislo and the Currency. New York Evening Post. His report Is very clear, very well writ- ten, and is without varableness or shadow of turning. It advocates the gold standard to the fullest extent. There is no shilly- shally in it from beginning to end. What- ever may be the outcome, Mr. Carlisle will have left upon the records of the depart- ment an unanswerable argument in favor of the withdrawal of the government from the banking business absolutely and forever. i iitondl THE LIMIT OF PATIENCE. New York Sun. He brought up the coal and chopped the wood with wonderful suavity, And laid. down the carpets all day long with Christian fortitude; He listened to his wife's rebukes with un- resentful gravity, And left his bed at midnight to prepare the baby's food. At clevating heated air he showed great versatility, And worked upon the furnace fire with gratifying zeal; In mollifying servants he displayed immense ability, And when they left he stirred around and cooked and served each meal. He gave his wife his wages with mendable consistency, And when she sent him shopping he was never known to fall; He kept on matching ribbons with Park- hurstian persistency, And with great regularity her letters he would mail. com- He stald home from the club each night In dignified sobriety, And said good-bye to poker with a resig- nation sweet; And every Sunday in thelr pew he sat in wakeful piety, And at her bidding every text correctly could repeat. He wore the garments that she made with Spartan-like agility; The neckties she selected he displayed with courage rare; He sewed the buttons on his clothes with wonderful doellity, And never touched’the tidy when he sat down in the chair, But when he caught a cold one day, and with sweet femininity She put some goose oil on his chest and fed him with quinine, And piled up heated flannels ‘round his jug- ufar vieinity, He sald he thought 'twas time indeed that he should draw the line. And when she tried parbolling each pedal- ian extremity, Apd with somé porous plasters frescoed him on either side, He packed his grip_one frosty skipped for the Yosemite; And when he reached that milder clime he laid him down and died. night and Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. 8. Gov't Report Baking Powder THE GREAT CANALER. Chicago Herald: Ferdinand de Lesseps, probably the greatest clvil engineer of the century, buflt the Suez canal, which had been the dream of successive eivilizations during forty centuries. He planned the Panama canal, a still more magnificent enterprise but it was swamped by the colossal rascality of his assoclates, Including his own son, who was fncriminated in the frauds. Notwith- standing this unfortunate close of his career, owing, probably, to his failing powers In ex- trome age, he leavos one of the most dis- tingulshed names In the annals of science. Paul Ploneer Press: He had the con mon thirst of the Frenchman for glory, He was not to be sated with it, and he deter mined to add to the luster of a name already famous by the completion of the Panama canal. Partly self-deceived, no doubt partly led astray by others, partly victim of his enthusiasms, but still, we must confess, a tco willing dupe of those who were conducting the scandalous financlering of this enterprise, he went on not only to fallure but to disgrace. The world has ex- onerated him from the worst that was laid to his charge. debtor, And it chocses now to remember the man of genius and indomitable determination rather than the man, still great in his mls- fortune, who suffered such eclipse that only death could restore him to his place among those upon whoso names the world loves to linger while it counts the bead roll of its Ereat ones. Louisyille Courfer-Journal: The death Ferdinand de Lesseps, after an old age of gloom and dishonor, s another striking ilus- tration of the truth of the proverb that whom the gods love die young. The man whose youth has been glorious with achleve- ment often ends his days in misery and want, but it has been given to Lesseps to drink to the last drop the cup of degradation. The man who made himself the most famous citizen of Europe, who had won the greatest en- gineering triumph of the century, who had been decorated by kings and republics, who had made two ships sail where not one had venturad before, and had revolutionized the commerce of the earth, fell in his old age from this splendid estate of lose and admira- tion to the lowest depths of disgrace. The man whom nations had delighted to honor was only saved from a felon's prison by the infirmities of age and the pitying complals- ance of the authorities CUT 10 PLEASE. Siftings: The only way it to be his own lawyer I8 to counsel, ays a person ep his own Galveston News: After all, life fs little more than a short time given a man in which to taper off. Journal: “My friends," shouted the orator, “the mad rush for the spolls of office s the bitterest eyesore tha 18 eating into the vitals of the body politic Tndianapolis Smith's Monthly: She—But he has such a dolightrul way of saying things—quite a po- etic temperament! He (a rival)—Yes: the infinite and divings after the omable, but never pays cash. he has soarings after unfath- Baccn—What are you doing with a pictu f a foot ball playe pinned to your coat? Egbert—Oh, yes! My wife pinned it there so as to remind me to have my hair cut. Yonkers Statesma Atlanta Journa Plumpkin, “all ‘Well, now,"” sald this talk about wha farmer ought to ralse and ought not to rajse Is jest nonsense. What he wants to do i to ralse the hoe often enough and any kind of a crop will do well enough.” ‘Haven't you got i lis Journal Indianapolis alad - binding?" this book in a chicken asked the Cheerful Idiot What do you mean? asked the aston- ished booksel “Half calf.” Detroit Free Press: Watts—I wonder how many people read the presidential message clear through? Potts—Dunrio. I knew how many tele- graph editors there were in the country I might make an estimate. Truth: “I was surprised to hear Brown's book sold so well; it was a miserably poor story.” “Yes, but It was beautifully bound, you know." ‘Washington Star: ther,” said the boy, “what i8 “insol “‘Insolvent,’ " was ‘the reply, “is merely a long word used to describe a ‘short condi- tion."” New York Weekly: Friend—You have moved your office from the tenth story to the first, 1 see. Divorce Lawyer—Had to; lost too' many customers. “Women often object to elevator: “Tt wasn't that; but the journey upward took too long, It gave them time to change their minds. Chicago Tribune: “‘See here,” exclaimed (he redihended woman, s erath, “if you ain't out of this vard in ten minutes T de- clare I'll run this umbrella down your throat and open | “There ain't a bit o' use of that mum,” responded Dismal Dawson: “anybody that's as dry inside as I am ain’t needin’ no umbrella in him.” Buffalo Courler: Watts—Was there any foundation for the rumor that the poor fel- low was hurried into his grave? Botts— None; except that he arrived there in a breathless condition. DEMOCRATIC SORROW. Washington Star. The big brass band was playing BSrall Cotumbia, Happy Landt And “Rally "Round the Pealed forth In accents The good old anthems move Ay, they made the tear drops start, But “Four More Years of Gi was The tune that broke his he | Bnoch | county, Anne E. Markee, vice F. E. Payne, | Mrs the | In a sense It will remain his | of | commissioners of the MORE PLUMS FOR NEDRASKANS. Maxwell Shakes Off a Few Fouith Class Postmasterships. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE RER, 1407 F Street, N. Wi, WASHINGTON, Dee. 11. Postmasters have been appointed as fol« lows: Nebraska—Edholm, Butler county, L. C. Spangler, vice J. R. Detweller, resigned; tes, Custer county, Emma T. Beckwith, vice Stillman Gates, resigned; Holbrook, Fur- nas county, Charles Jchnson, vice J. B. Mor- resigned; Loweli. Kearney county, W, rs, vice George Gray, resigned; Mag- Jar county, Lew Andrews, vice Adkins, resigned; Otto, Webster resigned. lowa—Dundee, Delaware county, 0. Hazelrigg, vice Maggle Wood, re- signed; Grove Hill, Bremer county, J. H. Bezing, vice N. C. Peck, resigned. ntracts for wagon service in citles Im Towa for transferring mail | trom raliroad stations and steamboat landings for four years, from July 1, awarded as follows Des Moines, 1. P, 8 Turlington, Woaldy ar’ Rapids, Westey Counell Blufts, . A. Chilton, 1 Dubuque, 1. A, Chilton Keokuk, Stownrt Hoges Oltumwa, Teaae Hyttenborg, Otiumwa. . LAND OFFICE DECISIONS. The secretary of the interlor has rendered decisions on appeals from decisions of the cral land office {n the following cases: Nebraska—Bllen Fried against Willlam J. Dills, O'Neill district, aso remanded to local office for rehearin Vietor L. Demott against Willlam H. John- son, Alliance district, decision afirmed and land awarded to Johnson; ex parte James H. Spicknall, Sidney district, decision rejecting application for an extension of time in which to pay for land affirmed; Allen Greer against Moses M. Chase, McCook district, decision af- firmed and land awarded to Greer; ex parte Silas W. Clark, North Platte distriot, de- cision rejecting application to enter land affirmed.s South Dakota—Erick Hanson against James Virden, Mitchell district, de- ciston dismissing contest afirmed; Henry Hagan against August Anderson, Watertown district, decision afirmed and land awarded to Anderson; Grant Dixon against Melissa Moyers, decision affirmed and land awarded to Meyer. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The bill Introduced during the last session of congress by Congressman Kem, providing that the land embraced in the abandoned military reservation known as Fort Hart- suff, Neb., shall be subject to disposal to actual settlers, was today unfavorably re ported to the house from the committee on public lands. D. W. Wilson of Eigin, IIl, acting presi- dent of the National Dairymen's assoctation, is here conferring with Congressman Halner and others In reference to the early consider- ation of the bill now pending betore both houses of congress which provides that oleo- margarine shall be placed under the police regulations of the several states, whether in- troduced in original package or not. Con- gressman Halner will appear before the house committee on agriculture tomorrow and en- deavor to secure a special rule for tho early consideration of this bill by the house. R. 0. Phillips of Lincoln is in Washington for a few days. The wife of Congressman Mercer assisted the wife of Commissioner of the General Land Office Lamoreaux today in receiving callers at the tea given by the latter at the Buckingham flats. C. B. Roth, formerly a resident of Omal now agent of a Texas railroad, with head- quarters at San Antonlo, is in Washington combining business and pleasure in a short vikit, 1895, have been wart, Clinton, Mo.....$1,100 950 . New York... PENSION MATTERS. Ring Leaders in a Large Swindlo Sentenced to Imprisonment and Fine. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The pension burean has recelved a report from Speclal Examiner Stockslager at Fort Smith, Ark., announcing the recent sentence of Tom Bear to six years in the penitentiary, and the sentence cf J. Thornton to six months {m Jail and a fine of $200. This disposes of the ring leaders in a big scheme to defraud the g-vernment. They are connected with fully 500 claims, said to be fraudulent, and a commission of five special examiners under the supervision of Examiner Stockslager is still at work on the conspiracy. There are only two other regular commissioners or special examiners ncw at work on supposed fravdulent pension cases, Flve examiners, under the supervision of Examiner Waite, have been investigating the Van Leuven cases and are collecting evidence for the use of the United States district attorney in his prosecu- tions. Several of those involved in this scheme have been indicted and more indict- ments are expected soon. Chillan jomaity Avout All Paild. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1L—The secretary of the navy has made the last payment but ne on account of the Chillan indemnity claims, being that of Joseph Quigley, & fire- man on the Baltimore, who was yn-nlux‘dnf' ased from confinement at Mare Island for being absent without leave, and discharged with a check for $1,000. A pay- ment of §300 is still due to W.' H. Nichois, who deserted from the Baltimore. Labor Canference Did Not Tak Place. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1L—The proposed meeting of the house labor committea nnal Messrs. Wright and Kernan of the national strike commission did not take place today as was expected, Two members of the com- mission have not yet formulated the amend- ments they have suggested to the bill now pending in the house, but expect to do so in a few days. ¢Money’s Worth or Money Back,” MacNulty bought a mackintosh, h = back—but that is what it ought to do to be a joy to Mac—It should shed the snows of winter, and the rain slid off his and the rains of early spring—and that is what it's bound to do if bought of Browning- King—But a mackintosh isn't poetical, it's practical—It takes the place of an Overcoat just at the time an Overcoat would get the worst usage if you wore it—We have a very nice line of both the cape and the box styles They're in tricots, serges, meltons, covert cloth, ete., with seams sewed and cemented. All weights in box and cape styles, biue, black and light colors. All sorts of prices from $5.00 up. we warrant ‘'em all. Umbrellas from a few cents to a few dollars. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, 8, W, Cor. I5th and Douglas. OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 8:30 . M.