Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1894, Page 4

JE OMAHA DAILY BE®% ROSEWATER, Editor. £ PUBLISHED EVERY MOT TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Dee (Without Sunday), One Year.. Daily Tee and Sunday, One Y Bix Months otk Three Monthi Bunday Dee Saturday Weekly e L8480 1 00 500 250 one Year 200 One Year. 5 One Year OFFICE Bee Puilding Cornier N o 12 Pearl 317 Chamber thoms 13, 14 and 1407 F Street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE, ANl communications relating to nows and edf- torfal matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS, business lettors and remittan The Hee Publishing checks and postoflice ler of the Omaha, The Bouth Omaha, ancil Blufrs, htengo O New York, Washington, 3 Twenty-fourth St £ Commerce, Tribune Bidg. All s shontd nddres, Omah. to STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George 1. Tzschuek, secretary of The Bee Pub- Ushing company, belng duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complote copies of the Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Dee printed during the month of November, 189, was s follows 0’26 X058 19,968 P 0 30 50,654 a ictions for Less o Total Daily o Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres- ence this 34 day of December, 1591 al.) P. FEIL, Notary Public. “Temember those suggestive figures— $446,4146. 60, Secrotary Morton has evidently aban- doned his presidential aspirations or he would not be indulging in the pastime of prodding the farmer six days more for Cunningham R. Scott to hand in his resignation so that the republican governor can fill the inevitable vacancy on the distriet bench. Just A most extraordinary verdict rendered at Peoria the other d A coroner’s jury found a railroad com- pany responsible. for the killing of two men who were run over by one of its passenger trai was| The annexation of Cuba issaid to be the next scheme on the diplomatic ear- pet. Unless we can annex Cuba with- out taking in the Cubans we had better lot the Spaniards keep it for another generation or two. The State Board of Printing has as yet not favored the public with an ex- planation why the price of legislative printing has been advanced from 50 to 100 per cent over last year's prices under the new contract with the Bur- lington Journal. Among the “standing advertisements in one of the Kansas City papers is a eard in big type, “Liquor for Kansas, by the leading druggist, opposite the Union depot.” The query is what is the object of advertising the liquor for a prohibition state. Senator Wilson has expressed himself as decidedly opposed to the Carlisle plan of currency reform, and more espe- clally to the issue of state bank cur- rency. That means that all the cur- rency bills now pending will be pigeon- holed or talked to death in the Fifty- third congress. . The price of the average Chicago councilman is below $1,000 in job lots of twenty-fiv Single members can be had on contingent retainers all the way froin $250 to §500. This is all owing to hard times. Before the World's fair from $1,000 to $5,000 was readily ob. tained and no questions asked. Bellamy, who started the wheels in motion which were rattling around in the heads of thousands of people who were not well balanced, is writing an- other book, with a story about Christ mas in the year 2000. The people of this generation would much rather know how they will make ends meet 80 as to celebrate Christmas in the year 1895 outside of the asylum for the indigent. The great department stores of Omaha have enjoyed liberal patronage the past two weeks. Proprietors express sstis- faction at the total sales. Merchants of smaller stores are inclined to complain, attributing dull trade to hard times and to the unfair competition of the large establishments, They forget that the merchant who advertises his wares in a dull season is the merchant who wins. When times are flush and prosperity relgns it is not so ne v to adyer- tise. The great department stores ad- vertise their goods for sale, The true Inwardness of the passage of the railroad pooling bill in the house I8 given by the Chicago Times when it says that when congre convened the rallroad lobby entered the lower house and found disgeuntled and unhappy members of congress defeated at the st election willing now, since they have no further chance of employment by the publie, to pocket railroad bribes. But the disgruntled defeated were not the only members that obeyed the be hests of the railroad lobby. ‘This class of representatives will at uno distant day discover that they made a very serious blunder, The work of lief for destitute settlers should be confined to the local suthorities in cach county wherever it I8 possible to do s0. Kve caution should be tak ture, not merely on the part of alleged sufferers, but more 80 even against charity fakivs who make a living out of professional benevolence. his was the experienc during the grasshopper devastation of 1874-5, and again in 1501, when certain western counties were depopulated by drouth. Most of the professional relief agitators are working the relief busi- ness in their own interest and diverting ¢harity contributious luto thelr own pockets. eature DRAWING TO AN END. The investigntion of the New York sympathy will not be so general if it shall be shown that the motive of Japan I police department by the Lexow com- | has been changed to one for territorial | mittee will be concluded this week. Tt has been a most remarkable investiga- tion and its promoters merit not only the gratitude of the people of the city and state of New York, but of the en- tire country. The disclosures of ruption in the police department of the | nation’s commercial metropolis have | been startling, showing a systematic | and persistent prostitution of the police | power which could not have been [ carvied on anywhere except in a city ruled by Tammany. The most sensa tional of these exposures have taken | place within the past ten days, in the evidence furnished by sains and tx- ptaing of the polic One of these | related how for years he had system- | atically levied blackmail — upe | gamblers and keepers of polic [ pool rooms and houses of ill repute in | his precinets, collocting a stated sum per month from each. A certain per- | contage of this money le kept for his lown use, the remainder being paid to the collector and inspector, the latter his superior officer, e also testified that he had paid a portion of the money | | collected in that way to the police com- | missioners, and not only that, but he | E that he had received orders from Superintendent Byrnes not to arrest violators of the excise law: These statements aturally threw ome of the high police officials into something very near a panic, and prob- ably none of them were more frightened than Superintendent Byrnes, who has an international reputation for succes ful police work. It appears that the committee has shown a disposition not to put the superintendent on the witness stand, and this has subjected it to some unfavorable criticism, but it is now understood that Byrnes will be ealled upon to testify this week and it is quite possible that more sensational disclos- ures will be made. Senator Lexow has promised that the examination of the superintendent will he such as to sat- isfy everybody as to its thoroughness, and if that shall be done there ought to be elicited a considerable addition to the interesting history already dis- closed. It is the opinion of Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, by whose efforts chiefly the investigation was brought about, that the earcer off Byrnes has not been above reproach. The committee has unquestionably ae- complished a great work, the results of which, there is every reason to expect, will be of the greatest benefit to the city of New York. It has given Tam- many blow from which it will not vecover for years, if it ever doe TO TREAT FOR PEACE. The Chinese govérnment has ap pointed imperial commissioners - te trent with Japan for peace, and of course there will be no delay so far as China is concerned in instituting nego- tiations. That country, or rather the government, has been slow to realize the hopelessness of its cause, which has been apparent to the rest of the world almost sinee the first battle was fought on Chinese soil and the cowardice and worthlessness of the soldiers of Chins were demonstrated. It is true that China some time ago sought to obtain mediation, but she did not go about that in the right way, and consequently her victorious foe, filled with justifiable confidence in his power to crush China, would not listen to any proposal of mediation. Had the Chinese govern- ment then taken the course it is now pursuing and gone directly to Japan to treat for peace it is more than probable that the conflict would have been stopped and a _satisfactory settlement veached. By prolonging the -contest China has not only made a settlement more difficult, but she has given Japan a warrantable ‘elaim for a very much heavier indemnity than that country could have fairly demanded hefore the invasion of Chinese territo The blind fatuity of the Peking government, in the face of uninterrupted defeats, seems almost inexplicable, It is reported from Tokio that the Jap- anese government-is still skeptical in re- gard to China’s peace overtures. Ther appears to be no reason to doubt, how- ever, that the Manchu dynasty has rveached the conclusion that in order to save itself from complete overthrow it is necessary to sue for peace. The oc- cupation of Peking by the Japanese would mean the end of the ruling dynasty in China, and it is to save itself rather than any patriotic motive that it desires the one-sided conflict to be brought to a conclusion. It is, indeed, somewhat questionable whether the Manchu dynasty will be able to main- tain itself in any event. It has many enemies in the empire, some of them of great influence and power, who are all the time plotting aund intriguing for its overthrow. There is tion whose sole ol downfall of the dynasty. Of course the defeat of the government and the humil- fation it las brought upon the country will have a tendency to strengthen its enemies at home and vender them more grossive. 1t is therefore quite pos- sible that even after the war with Japan is ended the reiguing Chinese dynasty will have serious trouble to retain its bold on power, It appears that the question of in- demnity i already being discussed by the Japenese and the disposition seems to be not to consider the matter from a magnanimous point of view. Unques- tionably Japan is entitled, aceording to all precedent, to 4 most substantial and splendid recompense, and there is no reason to doubt that she will exact it, Probably the v indemnity that will be demanded will not be less than $250,000,000, and of course China will have to give up some of her territor {in order to secure a settlement, It is | in this matter of territorial aggrandize- [ ment that a danger to Japan may lurk. | 1t is possible for her to so overreach in this matter as to encounter the protest of Kuropean countries, for some of these lare not disposed 1o countenance too | great an extension of Jupanese power lin the east. The sympathy of pretty much the entive civilized world has been with the conquering empire, so long, at any rate, as the war was de- [elared to be in the interest of elviliza- |tion and not one of couguest. That shops, | ¢ secret or, he musle will be (he [ bles. Trial slze, 25 cents ANl druggiits. {and expansion, CANADIAN ANNEXATION. A resolution has been introduced into congress by Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire in favor of inviting Canada to enter into political union with the United States. The advantages, litieal, industrial and MINIETC which both countries would gain by the | union, are set forth in the preamble, it both countr conld be e snaded that the benefits described by the New Hampshive senator could be realized there would be little nti- ment in either opposed to annexation. Perhaps this is as propitious a time as any to introdu resolution of this Lkind in congress, but the probability of fav ble action on it is very small, while even should it be adopted and the invitation extended it is not at all likely that the Canadian government would give it any consideration. So far as appears there is no longer any an- nexation ntiment to speak of among our northern neighbors, Since our pre ent tariff law went into pffect the pari in Canada which before that time w clamoring for annexation seems to have faded aws ir left of it, it is of so little consequence as to command no attention. It is true that now and then a voice is heard from the Dominion in behalf of annexa- tion, but it does not create even an echo. As to hing like an organ- ization for the purpose of promoting union between the United States and Canada, if one s anywhere, it is inactive. The people of Canada who under other conditions desired annexa- tlon to this country, and they were always a small minovity, are less nu- merous now than ever because the changed commercial velations between the two countries are so satisfactory to them that they sce no reason for seeking anything more. These are the agricultural producers, whose products have been let into our markets in al- most unrestricted competition with our own producers. They are not anxious to live under the American flag, so long s they ean have the American mar- ket. It was the market and not the flag which inspired them to seek an- nexation or commercial union in the past, and only when they are again de- prived of the market will the demand for commercial or political union with the United States be renewed. That may not come for ral years yet. So far as the American people are concerned the annexation idea is not widely regarded with favor. In the states of the northern border there is 2 considerable sentiment in favor of it, but elsewhere the people have either glven it no thought or are opposed to it. Canadian annexation is not a thing to be effected in day, nor could it be brought about without having to overcome very great and grave diffi- culties. Great Britain would not give up her North American possessions, per- haps move important to her now than ever before, so long as there remained even a strong minority of the people of the Dominion loyal to the imperial government, and the time is remote when there will not be a majority faithful to the British government. Whenever there is a majority in favor of renouncing that government C. dian independence will be sought be- fore annexation to the United the Dominion is a brave and pleasing, one, but its realization, if it be ever realized, Is in the far future. ‘We do not want to go into any con- trove or his home organ, but we deem it proper to set him and his man Friday right on another’ one of their periodic fabrications. When they make the as- sertion that Rosewater made a junket- ing tour to Alaska and return by Union Pacific courtesy to pay him for his ad- vocacy of the cancellation of the movernment mortgage on the Union Pacific road, they are guilty, in the lan- guage of Horace Greeley, of lying de- liberately and maliciously. In the first place, Rosewater paid $240 cash for his Jjunket to Alaska Dbefore he started from Omaha. In the next place he only traveled on the Union Pacific one- third of the way out and not a single mile coming back. His position on the foreclosure of the government mort- gage Is the same today as It was in 1884, when he remonstrated against the Pacific railroad funding bill before the United States senate judiciary com- mittee, and again in 1886 before the senate Pacific railway committee, and in 1887 before the Pacific railroad iny tigating commission. The cancellation is not to be a donation, but a fore- closure proceeding, to wring out the water and put the road on an actual value basis in the interest of its patrons. That plan is diametrically op- posed to all funding schemes. This fact is as well known to Mr. Richards and his tin can as it is to most of the readers of The Bee, but that makes no difference to these poor creatures that have been afilicted with Rose- waterophobia for several years. The redoubtable political weathervane who poses as a great statesman and oracle has had himself interviewed again, this time at the Golden Gate by gushing girl reporters for a Christmas edition, According to Sir Oracle Clark- son the name of the next republican candidate for president Is sure to be MeKinleyreedharrisoncullomlineoln- spoonerdavisallison, with a possibility that if this personage slips a cog an- |other man with fewer syllables to bhis first name will be the lucky man. Great is Clarkson and Mohammed his prophet. It costs one dollar a ton to transport Rock Springs coal to Omaba. The cost of mining and handling is less than a {dollar & ton. Yet the people of Ne- braska have for years been compelled | to pay §7 a ton for it. When the Sheri- | dan mines opened by the B. & M. road it was hoped that legitimate com- petition would compel a reduction of price at the hands of the Union P citic, but it has ended in 4 vain hope. Four dollurs a ton would be a faiv price for Wyoming coal lid down in Omaha *| Corby " street, was® destroyed vy mre avout | The dream of this republic alsorbing y with the defunct Mr. Richards THE LIQUOR QUESTION IN IOWA. Cedar Rapids mm., It the next repub- lican convention is not a double track affair there will be a great_many collision®. Towa City Repuplican: The republicans ex- pect to elect thad next legislature, but they {@o not intend toyauery any liquor fssue. This | but 1s the opinion of the editor of publican. Towa Capital: be wonderfully the Re- IDethocratic papers seem to anxlous to get the prohibi- tion question stirred up Into lively polit again, but republleans have not been very accommodating lately. in arranging the lssue to suit :I»n:nrmlu: Sac City Sun republicans have 1t 'seems to the Sun that nb cccasion to borrow | trouble over the liquor question next year. Just let it alone for the present as a po- litical matter. The legislature has marked out the necessary course by taking the first steps for resubmission. Prohibitionists and opponents of prohibition ean units on this. Spirit Lake Beacon: The operation of the mulet liquor law enacted by the Towa legis- lature last winter has been a surprise to rea- sonable opponents and really exceeded the expectations of practical friends of the me ure. It has brought the saloon into no pro- hibition territory. It has reduced to a marked degree the number and much im- proved the character of drinking places in localities whero the ealoon already existe The more lawless cities have one by on come under the operation of the law, and the resiraint of the same has been beneficial to the morals of the community. In prohi- bition localities the mulet tax feature has made prohibition much easier of enforcement by throwing the burden of the proof upon the seller. Sloux City Tribune: Towa republican news- papers which Incline to political expediency are engaging in an effort to supress Editor John Mahin of the Muscatine Journal and Editor Welker Given of the Marshalltown Times-Republican. The oftense of these men is that they Insist, from the standpoint of prohibitionists, that the mulet law in its present form is not satisfactory, and that the provision which provides for the su pension of the penal features of the prohibi- tory law should be repeeled by the next leg- slature. But your real prohibitionist is a hard man to squelch, and it is a safe wager to lay your money on this brace. Editor Given, so far as Iowa is concerned, was the original proposer of the mulect, but the mulet he wanted was merely an additional penalty for the violation of the prohibitory, without any suspension clause In it. When the so- called mulct law was passed he discovered that some one had dropped a strange egg in his nest, and he has never been happy since. e T T Precedents Do Not Seare Him. Globe-Democrat. Speakers and ex-speakers have hitherto been in hard luck in their attempts to reach the presidency, but Tom Reed is going to accept the office again nevertheless and challenge fate to do its worst it by Glve Us the Academy. Blalr Courler. The suggestion of The Omaha Bee that a new military academy be established and located west of the Missouri rather than enlarge the West Paint academy is a good one and should receive careful consideration at the hands of congress. There is a wealth of good argument in favor of two academies. e Observations of John Burns. Philadelphia Ledger. John Burns, the English labor advocate, has seen very little of America, the bulk of his observatjons. being confined to the sy _and acrimonipus convention of the deration of Labar, but he has already formed opinions“about the country. Our schools, librariescand: jails are good, streets and dreinage bad, mewspapers oo sensa- tional, railway trayeljng excellent, and cor- porations, of “caurse,’ “exacting, tyrannical and extravagant, He has magnanimously determined not to write a book about us. g Sl New Declsion on Newspaper Libel NewYork Recorder. New decisions on the law of newspaper libel are of interest to the press of the entire country. The Recorder, therefore, calls the attention of its esteemed contemporaries, far and near, t0 a decisioh just given by the New York rcourt of appeals, and -in Which a new” priuciple of law has been Jaid down. 1t has been hefil heretofore that any apol- ogy or retractioh published after the be- ginning of the swit' could not be offered in evidence, and was without any effect to mitigate’ the damages. The court of ap- peals has held, however, in the case of Turton against’the Recorder, that any re- traction published within a reasonable time after suit is brought Is a proper matter to lessen damages. They say in substance that upon suit being brought, if no_retraction has besn before demanded, the paper shall have a reasonable time in which to make an investigation, and that if such investi- gation shows that an Injustice has been done, a full retraction should be published, and ‘that this fact may be used before the jury, and that the courts shall instruct the ury’ that it will lessen damages. The court also expressly decides that a mere offer to apologize will not do; that the plaintiff or person aggrieved must be given no option whether {0 have an apology or not, but it is the duty of the newspaper spontaneously to apologize regardless of the tastes of the plaintife. ——— Farmers and Sugar Hountles. Inter Ocean. A few of our friends of the country press ore displaying less than thelr usual per- picacity in their articles concerning a pos- sible restoration of the sugar bounties, “If bounties are to be pald on any agri- cultural product,” say the gentlemen whose articles are under consideration, ‘“we de- mand wheat shall be the reciplent of a bounty, for wheat now is grown at a. loss, or, at least, at a very trifling profit.” Lt us remind our friends that the prime object of protection, whether by tariff or by bounty, is not to pit a profit into the pock- ets of the producer, though that is a neces- sary incident of its effect, but to simulate the production of something that this coun- try can produce, but which it does not pro- duce at all, or not in quantity adequate to the home demand. Sugar bounties answer to both of these testg. They stimulate the production of a crop that Is more profitable to the farmers than wheat, They stimulate the production of a crop that demands very costly ma- chinery, a reasonable modicum of highly skilled ‘labor, and a large quantity of un. skilled labor'for its conversion into market able sugar. All the makers of machinery, all the men emploved in sugar works, all the men employed In the transportation of sugar are purchasers of wheat that they do ot produce. So that the effects of sugar bounties upon the farming interest are, first, stimulus to production of a crop more profitable than wheat; secondly, reduction of the wheat area by reason of the produc- tion of the beet or cane sugar erop, and con- sequently increase of the price of wheat by limitation of "its production; thirdly, in- crease of the demand for wheat by in- crease of the number of persons who con- sume it, but who do not produce it, and consequently to a further tendency fo in- ase of its price, P already, emand. ow wheat I8 a cre excess of the home ( its production certainly would be a_ folly, possibly a_financlal crime. The price of American wheat can be raiSed, in so far as rotective policy can rafse it, by bounties 0 such farm products as are ot now ralsed on American soil, but which can be raised upon it, and whigh, if raised, will be more profitable to the fafmer than'wheat 1s, and which, therefore, will, tend to diminution of the whenat a. 'A further advantage will be gained |f the Hounty be paid on the pro- duction of some crop” that will require a larger expenditure of capital and a larger employment of labor upon its conversion to @ finished material than are necessary for the transmutation of wheat into flour. These arguments_beéar exclusively on the farming Interest. The argument as to the interest of the comntny at large Is plain; if we produce all our GWn sugar, as after a very iew years of the operation of bountles we shall, we shall keép the price of 1,669,911 tons of sugar in eirculation in the United States, this being the amount imported during the last fiscal year. There is no ground for reasongble oubt of this outcome, or the outnut of Aerican sugar, which was but 257,490,271 fons in 1889-80, the y prior to_the' passage of the McKinley “bill rose to 750,000,000 in 1893-94, and would have reached 1,000,000,00 tans in the year 1594-95 had the bountiés of the McKinley act not been repealed. And it is to be kept in mind that the price of sugar fell under the bounty system to a degree exceeding that of the bounty paid, so that the bounty did not have the effect of Increasing the taxation of the people. roduced in 0 stimulate statement Is not” fide in a dogmatic spirit, | TOWA'S NEXT GOVE Cedar _Raplds Gazette: Major Samuel Mahon of Ottumwa is also propared to stand one shock of gubernatorial lightning. Sfoux City Times: New entries in the race | for the governorship—Rugene Secor of Forest City and P. W. Burr of Charles City. Books will remain open for some time. Des Moines Leader: I. 8. Strubls of Le Mars announces that he does not want the | republican nomination for governor. Brer Strubel proposes to lay very low and make another grab for Congressman Perkins' scalp in 189¢ Ames Times: Story county should trot out a candidate for governor. Most every county in the state has one. What's the matter with “Tama Jim Wilson."” 1If Story county could go to the convention with him for a candidate some of the boys would get the | dust knocked out of their coat tails before the thing was over, and they would all know there had been a fight. Sic City Sun: Ex-Congressman J. Struble of Le Mars has been suggested by hosts of friends, especially in western Towa, as a candidate for governor next fall, and the fact that he was becoming besleged with in- uiries and requests impelled him to define | his position in the Sentinel, his home paper. His friends regret to learn that he positively declines to be a candidate, Davenport Democrat: The West Liberty Index is not a paper of world wide circula- tion, but that is no reason why, when it makes an excellent suggestion, the point should not be heeded. The Index names Colo- nel Henry Egbert of Da port as the re- publican “candidate for the office of gov ernor of lowa in 1895. There Is fightnig timber im Colonel Egbert. What republican paper seconds the motion ? Cedar Rapids Republican number of gentlemen are now engaged in declining to become candidates for governor. For a while it looked as though there would not be rooms enough in the Des Moines hotels to provide headquarters for the various aspirants. By the time the convention meets there may not bo more than enough to make it inter- esting. The people of lowa neven id take much stock In the favorite son folly. Oskaloosa Herald: The man for governor whom the democrats should name is Hayes of Clinton. He is well known in the Second district, and was recently walloped by a gentleman named Curtls. This would glve a chance for all lTowa democrats to express thelr endearing love for him! Joe Eiboeck could take ‘the stump then for Hayes, and there would be just lashings of real fun for all the boys—all colors and conditions of political servitude! Here's for Hayes! el g THE SUGAR DIFFERENTIAL, NOR. s A New York Times: We think it will b ad- mitted that the effect of this discriminating duty was not forseen by those who imposed it. The makers of the senate tariff bill re- enacted the discriminating provision of the McKinley act. In that act, however, it was applicable only to refined sugar, and we pre- sume the democratic senators did not realize that the application of the same provision to raw sugar would have a very different and a far reaching effect. Whether they did or not, however, everybody knows that now, since the German protest has been made formally and the dangerous commercial hos- tility of Germany has been exhibited, nearly all of the democratic senators are willing and ready to repeal the duty. Chicago Herald: Congress ought to repeal it at once. All that Is necessary is to re- peal the discriminating duty of one-tenth of a cent. Germany protests only against that. The 40 per cent uniform on sugar of all grades and the one-eighth of a cent differ- ential for the protection of the trust can stand, for they apply like to all sugars, no matter from what countries imported or whether they are bountied or not. All just ground of complaint can be removed easily, and it ought to be removed so that. Germany can have no excuse for discriminating against American products. If such discrimination should be continued after the removal of the cause of complaint the question of retaliation could properly be considered. Chicago Tribune: The west has been hit hard by the action of Germany, and there seems to be no way to get over the difficulty except by retracting the inciting cause. Every western senator ought to stand up for the interest of his constituents in this matter, regardless of previous notions as to expediency, and there can be no ques- tion of right to interfere with his voting to remove the cause of the trouble. If he does not do that he will fail in his duty, and sub- Ject himself to sharp rebuke from those for whom he will have failed to act in the hour of need. In the presence of such a menace to western interests the wishes of the Sugar trust are not worth @ moment’s consideration, but it hardly is probable the trust would oppose the change, since the discriminating duty now is levied on both raw and refined sugar, and to abolish it would not lessen the protection received by the trust. —_— SHARPENED TO A POIN Philadelphia Record ored gentleman Asa Spades. A Locust street col- rejoices in the name of New York Tribun There are than dollars in the oE Neptaors el nks of Newfoundland, Chicago Tribune: our daughter, Mr. unker,” said the young woman's teache will ‘make her mark, " 2 Gectied talent s an elocutignigt, ¢ hes decided And Mr. Hunker went out to the wood- shed, sat down on the saw-horse and wept, New Yorlg Press town, Mr. “Henpect away for a week or t wife going with you?'" ing away for a rest.” re you going out of “Yes, 1 am golng 0's Tést." " “Is your ‘I said I was go- Buffalo Courier: Mrs. Youngwed—The fel. low you sent uphere to work said it was in the agreement that he was to be treated like a man. Youngwed—Humph! What did You do? “Mrs. Youngwed—Sent out and { bought him the beer twice. New York Herald: broker bowed to you her? ~ Brace—I presume he feels that he does; he has seen her picture so often inside the case of my watch. The first week in Janu- is usually observed as a week of prayer. The women attend and pray for a change in their husband’s dispositions, The bills for the Christmas presents have come in, and the men need praying for. Bagley—That pawn- wife; “does he know Atchison Globe: Chicago Inter Ocean: Hostess—If would favor us with a song, Mr. Scale Buests would be— Mr, Scales—Sing! old song. “That doesn't matter. No one will the least attention after you are seatec the plano.” you the Why T only know one pay at ND AFTER. New York Recorder, Oh, T would be the ribbon bold That nestles 'neath her chin, That T might kiss her, just below The dimpling curves therein. BERORE married now. and if he were e ribbon ‘neath fer chin, try to hold it tight enolgh o keep the talk therein. —_——— THE WEDDING MARC New York Truth, wedding march from Lohengrin the or- gan loudly plays, groom and hiy supporters greet the gathered public's gaze, swelling music tremblés as are touched the polished ke the tremble isn't in it with the shake in Freddy's knees, The The The But Down the alsle the blushing maids proceed with stately tread, 13 the day is pot the day for ed, But there's a silyer that hovers o'er— They know they never looked so sweet in all their lives before. lining to the cloud And now the organ thunders forth a come loud and clear, A hundred heads are turned blushing bride appea Her father, who supports long and dizzy alsie, Will support her and her husband, just a little while, wel- to see the her down the too, in Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report Rel Baking Powder : ABSOLUTELY PURE cew Tunn e U W w e mor EBRASKA AND NEBRASKAN The Deuel County Teachers' association will meet at Big Springs January 12 The Deuel county Jail at Chappell now has A steel cage awalting the reception of pris- oners, An 0dd Fellows' at Dodge early membership. ditor Fodrea has Commercial to Myron and will remov Todge to b in the new year organized sold the Cedar Rapils Dings of Grand Island to New Mexico, While Thomas Hitcheock of Blair was working in a well a pump fell down on him from a helght of fiftee on the head. He was severely is now on the road to rece Pleasant Ridge neighborhood county, has quite a litile soc tap, which is furnishing much talk for the gossips. Thomas Ople was engaged to marry Miss Dicie Ellsworth, and the date of the ceremony was fixed for last Sunday. It announced that they would go to New Jersey for a wedding tour, and Mr. Ople went tc Fairbury several days before the event s injured, but in_Thayer folks, who live near that place. As the hour for the ceremony approached preparation were completed and the friends began to ar rive, but no groom made his appearance. After walling some time a messenger was dis patched to the postoffice, where a lotter was Kansas City, and | received from and ing that buggy at Fi address would license fee, and for performing the ceremony. Mr. quite prominent in Young People Christian Endeavor circles, and was a very active worker In the Christian church, [rinn -t o PEOPLE AND THINGS. Several eminent politicians prayerfully beg to be let alone The adage that a green Christmas means a fat turkey seems to be well founded. From Sioux City comes the cheering intel- ligence that the walls of the Woodbury county poor house were left standing. There sn't much sald about innovation in quite certain that zebra stripes will follow the check patterns, Prince Ponlatowsky, who recently married a fortune attached to a California girl, pro- poses to start an international magazine. A magazite is peculiarly equipped for blowing fortune. Another effort is to be made to rescue the Lincoln monument_at Springfield, 11, from its disgraceful condition. It is now misman- aged by a soclety, and it is proposed to trans- fer it to state control. London is said to be shocked by the alleg: atrocities committed by the Chinese at Port Arthur. Bver since King Loganbula and his tribo were Maximassacreed, London's tender heart has throbbed unceasingly for humanity elsewhere. An advanced woman in Boston declares that unpleasant. feelings create narmful chemical products in the body, while benevolent and cheerful thoughts have a beneficial effect. A practical illustration of the new science may be had by striking an acquaintance for ten (§) th merry times, The prospecting tour of the Boston Herald in the drouth sections of Maine resulted in the discovery of from 400 to 500 liquor sellars in Lewliston, a city of 25,000 people. The supply is apparently equal to all demands of a prohibition town. It is absolutely im- possible, according to the New York Sun, to obtain a drink in any Maioe town unless you 80 into a place and ask for it. The Christmas number of Leslie's Weekly 1s superior in wealth of illustrations and lit- erary features. The illustrations are merito- rious works of art, particularly a two-page drawing of “The Annunciation,” printed in a delicate shade of blue. Of the literary features the most notable is the opening chap- ters of Dr. A. Conan Foyie's latest novel. Under the management of W. J. Arkell the Weekly has become the foremost of its class. Edward Dudley Duncan of Washington county, Tennessee, has been elected a mem- ber cf the Tennessce legislature, and the railroads have supplied him with passes to and from the state capital. Bul Mr. Duncan resolved to ba under obligations to no rallroad, and has decided to walk from his home to Nashville, a distance of 300 miles. He has already started, and expects to arrive in time for the first roll call, on January 7. John G. Whitter was greatly loved by strangers, who not only called on him, but thriftily ‘insisted on putting up with him all night. “Thee has no idea,” said his sis- ter, “how much time Greenleaf spends try- ing to lose these people in the streets. Sometimes he comes home and says: ‘Weil, sister, T have had hard work to lose him, but T have lost him. But I can never lose a her. The women are more pertinacious than the men; don’t thee find them so, Marla? Ople, dated at he had left his horse bury, but falling to state what find him. He had paid the Ople W in New York the comiog pi ST Opposed to the Funding Bill, Denver Republican. Government Director Anderson of the Union Pacific is evidently in favor of glv- ing the road back to the company and pay. ing the government only 2 per cent on its debts. There doesn’t seem to be any $ood reason why the government should do any more lending to the Union Pacific. There is nothing in the history of the road to make the old owners worthy of its charity. Short Salary Has No Terrors. Cedar Rapids Gazette, Candidates for the lowa governorship multiply in spite of the “hard times” salary. with a large feet and struck him | al sensation on was was to occur, presumably to say goodbye to his had al:o paid_the preacher s s Soclety of hon in New York, but it is AMYESTY FOR REBELS. Nearil's New Presldont Rapidly Effaclag thes Sears of the Revol, on. NTINE, Dec DI Tonner, o surgeon of the Rrazflian ecruiser Nioe | theroy, arrived he this morning per mer Delcomyn from Rio Janeto, The tor states that he was present at the | Inauguration of Prosident Moraes and was A guest at a reception given the president the same evening. He describes him as | being a tall, spare man of dignified and tious exy slol and of broad and liberal views. He has every reason to believe his administration will be peaceful and pros- perous. There appears to be no indication Of @ revolt in the army and navy. THe navy is in a great mensure hostie to the | army, “aml no insurrection can succeed | without the coneorted action of both the zilian army and navy. The president is Quite popular with ths whole people. 4| He has already granted amnesty to nearly 1l particinants (h the late rebetlion 6% epting Admirals Mello and Da Gam Mello is still reported at Montevides. The o | editors of the principal Rio newspapers have. cen pardoned and have returned to the capital he & cellent being nitary condition of the eity I ex- very” few cases of vellow fever reported. The reported” outbreak of cholera. or cholerine took place at a small town_about two hours' ride by rail from Rio Janciro. The sanitary authorities took Prompt measures to stop the spread of the disea The town was quarantined and communication eut off with Sao Paulo and other adiac me twently cases of the dise of which three o | Were fatal includ- e o Chine was sus- pected of havin e infection from the south. PATAL WRECK IN OREGON. immigrant, wh first brought Passenger and Freight Tralns Collide as the Result of a Brakeman's Error, THIZ DALLAS, Ore, Dec. %5.—~A wreck occurred on the Oregon Raflway & Naviga- tlon company’s road cight miles west of this place this morning in which Engineer Joo Reedy lost his life. Two freight trains were to meet the westbound passenger No. 1 at Summitt station. The side track being too hort to accommodate these trains a brakeman was sent east to flag the pas- | senger train, but he forgot to turn the switch to the ain_track. No. 1 dashed around the curve and o cd into the en- gine on the side track. gineer Reedy vas sitting on his box in the freight engine nd was thrown under a heap of coal and the tender overtu 1 on that, The other trainmen escaped with slight wounds and no pas: s We hurt A track was built the wreck and the train was delay about six hours. —_—— HARRY MENIER'S P ound ed only IRILOUS FEAT. With & Parachato He Jumps from th Toughkeepsio Bridge. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Dee. %.—Harry Menier, the IZnglish bridge jumper, leaped from the top rafl of the Poughkeepsie with his parachute at 1:13 this after- The parachute worked successfully, Menier struck the water in just elght seconds after he started. He was pleked his friends, J. W. Hite of New York . J. Hanlon of Brooklyn, who were in a rowboat under the bridge. They rowed to the west shore, where they got into a wagon that was 'waiting for them, and were driven to Milton, four miles south of the bridge. There they took a train for | New York. Menier showed no_apparent in- jury fror perilous leap. Poughkeepsie bridge is ¢t from the base of the rafl to the ‘water, which 15 about sixty feot deep. noon. and —_— SYMPATHY FOR DEBS. Judge Woods Conden Colorado Knignts of Labor. N, Colo, Dec. 2.—The local as- No. 4401, Knights of Labor, has adopted resolutions condemning the *‘recent usurpation of power and the tyrannical despotism” shown by William Woods while sitting as United States district judge in the city of Chicago in his refusal to grant to President 5. V. Debs of the A. K. U. and other defendants a trial by jury im the recent trial held before him. Judge Moses Hallet is also condemned for the “same usurpation of power and his tyran- nical and unwarranted imprisonment and his imposition of fines upon_our fellow citi- zens without a semblance of a fair and ime partial trial.” d s a Tyrant by ———— COLORADO'S ARSON LAW. No Statute ln the State Prohibiting a Man Burning His Own Ho DVILLE, Colo,, Dec. 2%.—Justice P. M. Wall, in the case of the people against Ryan for arson, has rendered a decision dis- missing Ryan and holding that there is no law in Colorado prohibiting & man burning his own house. e -Slaves Weep for Thelr Old Master. MEMPHIS, Dec. 25.—The funeral of ex= Senator Alcorn at Bagle Nest, Miss., pre- sented one of the most wierd scenes ever witnessed in this country. The funeral was attended by thirty negrocs, the majority of whom were the former siaves of the de- ceased. The negroes werc inconsolable in thelr grief and gave vent to thelr feclings in shrieks, religious songs and prayers. At the grave' the old gray-haired colored men threw themselves upon the coffin and finally had to be removed by force in order to al- low the body to be buried. ———e Equal Suffragists Active in New Mexlco. ALBUQUERQU Dec. 25.—During the sesslon of the legislature which meets next Monday a meeting is to be held at the capitol, to which a large number of repre- sentative women have been invited, for the purpose of organizing the “New Mexico Iqual Suffrage league,” and arranging for the organization of branch leagues iy cvery county in the territor: Your Money’s Worth or Your Moncy Back. A Turk Without Turkey— Some people don't have any Christmas; don’t know wla’ it is to feel the mellowing influence that ho vers around the Great Day; are our oid friend Santa Claus. Look at those feet —no sox—Santa stands Look at the rig he has on. Can you contemplate any- thing more harrowing than the thought that Browning King & Co. must ever be a stranger strangers to no show there. to that fellow with his horseiblanket of a suit. You ean tell a progressive people by their clothes. Where styles change there is progress. Full soon the year of ‘9 wide open door, for '95 may bring us rain. ought to get, from dried up BROWNING, Reliable Clothicrs, 8. W. Cor 4 will pass through time's 'Twill be no lass, but rather gain, And that's a change we crops to flelds all wet. KING & CO., ner Lifteentli and Douglas Sts.