Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1895, Page 4

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George B, Taschuck etary of The Bee Pub- Bishing company, belng duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of the Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 14, was Total o PTIT] Less deductions for unsold and retur CODIOR asevvrore Total sold. Daily average net clreulation., GRORGH 1 7S Bworn to before me and subscribed in my pres- his 3 day of Deembor, 1594 1) P, otary Publie. Southern Europe is having a taste of real winter weather. One of fhe South Omaha tiger dens has closed its doors permanently for the betiefit of all concerned. county has no re plain of the trentment received by her delegation at the hands of Speaker Rich- ards. It 1s not the seat which a councilman oceupies, but the work which he does that counts. Where McGregor sits, there's the head of the table. The committee on viaduets and bridges is loaded. No new viaduets will be built and no old ones repaired unless the railroads want to do it. Ernest Stuht is right for once. It is an outrage that the Bleventh street via- duct has not been placed in passable condition months if not years ago. e We haven't heard as yet whether or not th was an exchange of W Year's greetings between the emperor of China and the mikado of Japan. In the makeup of council committees it looks very much as if President Ed- wards had exerted all his strength and ingenuity to fit squgre pegs into round holes. Now that the Issue is squarely made between the city and the water works company it is to be hoped the conten- tion will speedily be settled in the courts. Governor Lewelling wants Kansas to substitute the South Carollha dispensary law in place of prohibition. That would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fir No, there was no prearrangement that the German emperor should open the Prussian Landtag on the same day that the Nebraska legislature is to elect a TUnited States senator. With all the local legislative bodies «once more organized, there is no longer an excuse for delaying a vigorous policy of retrenchment in every branch of our municipal and county government. Among the bills introduced in the leg- islature is an act to establish a State Board of Embalmers. This ought to be Welcome news to the polltical corpses that are iently awaiting Gabriel's trump. The veto of Mayor Bemis of the water works appropriation has been sustained by the council, which clearly indicates that the company has brought no high pressure upon the members to override the veto. The reopening of the Hawaiian ques- tion might mean the reappearance of Paramount Blount and ex-Minister Stey- ens, President Cleveland ought to think twice before venturing to bring this on the country From the number of senatorial con- tests going on all around us one would fmagine that the whole United States senate were about to be renewed. As a matter of fact, only one-third of the senatorial terms expire this year, It is to be noted that Hon, Franklin MacVeagh could not have been pre- vented by any real demand for his pres- ence at the seat of the Hlinois senatorial contest from attending the Jacksonign banquet in Omaba, It must have been other business that kept him away, Mr, Knodell is coairman of the com- mittee on text books and course of study in the new Board of Education, What Knodell doesn't kuow about text books would fill several volumes, and what he kunows about the course of study could be written on the face of a postage stamp, A farmer who has resided in Chey- enne county for eight years informs The Bee that in the year 1800, when supplics were shipped into that county to allevi- ate the sulfering of people said to ho destitute, there was much complaint ex pressed becanse of unequal distribution. Farmers owning large herds and baving considerable property were among the first to claim assistance, and in too many cases received i, Whatever plan of relief work may be devised by the Jggislature it {8 of the utwost Importance that provision be made against lw- postors. 1t Is quite as essential that undeserving people shall be prevented from benefitivg by the st charity as that the wants of the needy shall be LET CONGRESS SUPPLY SEED. Senator Allen has had an amendment to the agriculture appropriation bill in- troduced into the senate for an appro- priation of $300,000 to enable the secre- of agriculture to purchase and dis- tribute seed grain among the drouth- stricken citizens of the different states, This appropriation, or as much of it as may be necessary, ought to be promptly | made, and Senator Allen should have the cordial support of every member of the deleghtions from the farming states for his proposed amendment. Why should not the United States gov- ernment make provision for seeing that [the destitute drouth suffercrs be sup- plied with seed grain for next year's crop? Congress has extended similar relief to other afilicted people on pre- vious occasions, It has passed special acts suspending for the time the limita- tions upon homestead and other entries on public land to meet the emergency of crop failure or disasters by fire or water. Even now there is a bill pending in con- gress to extend such relief to the holders of timber claims who have been ren- dered destitute by the great forest fires in Minnesota and Wisconsin last year. The greater number of the drouth suf- ferers in Nebraska are original settlors on public lands who took up their farms under the laws of the United States. They were encouraged to open up this new country by the enticing offers of free land which the fede government holds out. Their present unfortunate predicament has fallen upon them through no fault of theirs, The people of Nebraska will assist them to live through the winter, but when spring once more arrives th will find them- selves without seed grain for a new crop. With seed grada supplied them and with feie conditions of temperature and moisture they will in another season be again self-supporting. Congress, through the Agriculture department, has for years been distributing seed to farme largely for political purposes. What is to hinder it from alloting a full supply of seed grain to the farmers of the drouth-stricken districts of Kansas, Ne- braska and South Dakota for purely philanthropie purposes? Congress ought not to hesitate a mo- ment to make an economical appropria- tion for the distribution of seed grain to such of our farmers as, by reason of crop failure, find themselves without seed and unable to pur e it. That much assistance the federal government owes to the pioneers who have hewn the path for advancing civilization in the west. A GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION. The following letter, which has just been recelved, speaks for itself. The check enclosed in the letter has been éndorsed for payment to the order of Governor Holcomb, who will doubtless place it at the disposal of the State Re- lief commission: MOLINE, Ill,, Jan. 8, 1895.—E. Rosewater, Editor of The Omaha Bee: Dear Sir—Feel- ing it our duty and pleasure to add to the general contributions being received by vari- ous committees and other sources of author- ity in your state, and not knowing any of the committees, but having the pleasure of a slight acquaintance with you, we are pleased to hand you herewith our check for $500, asking that you place it in the hands of some state or central committee which will distribute the same for us in such re- mote agricultural portion of Nebraska wherein help would be slowest to reach, and, there- fore, most needed. We trust you will im- mediately take this matter in hand, and we think it quite probable if their attention was called to it th something like direct manner the great majority of the agricultural im- plement manufacturers in the middle and castern states, who enjoy valued trade re- lations with the people of Nebraska, would cheerfully and promptly fall into line. Our Mr. Allen will be in Omaha tomorrow and the day folfowing, and will do himself THE OMAMA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1895, not likely to be any departure, but on the contrary legisiation to fix the re- form more firmly and render It more effective. This subject was referred to by Gov- ernor Holcomb in his inaugural address, and his suggestions in relation to the | law of this state should receive the care- ful attention of the legislature, Tt is unquestionable that the Nebraska ballot law has had good results, but there s no doubt that it can be made stronger in the direction pointed out by Governor | Holcomb and perhaps improved in other respects that will render it more effect- ive for the purpose the law is intended | to accomplish. There are the best of 1sons why Nebraska should keep pace with the progress that is making in bal- lot reform. AN IMPERATIVE DUT The cattle-raising interest of the United States, which is one of our most important interests, has made an ear- nest appeal to congress to take action looking to the recovery of the European markets that have recently been closed against American cattle and dressed meats, he latest advices from Wash- ington indicate that there is very little prospect of this appeal having the de- sired effec 1t is well understood that the » of the embargo estab- lished by and other European countries against our cattle the dis- criminating duty on sugar, nd that the claim that the cattle had been found to be diseased is a mere subterfuge. It is a fact officially vouched for that there las been no pleuro-pneumonia in this country for at least two years, and the talk about Texas fever s equally groundles; Our gr ign cattle 1 et is Gr and the British government has provided a most rigid system of ins tion. The fact that no complaint has come from that source sufliciently shows that there s no ground for complaint, the inspection of cattle for export to continental coun- tries being just as careful and thorough as for cattle going to the British mar- ket. Washington advices say that it is agreed on all hands that the discriminat- ing duty of one-tenth of a cent on sugar should be repealed, but it is said if the tempt should be made se inter- ests will insist upon using that as a vehicle to carry through other amend- ments of the tariff act, none of which have any relevancy to the main ques- tion. The representatives of the domestic sugar growers, it is said, would insist on coupling with the proposition for re- pealing the diseriminating duty one to award bounty for the sugar crop of the last year, and other propositions would be offered amendatory of the tariff law which might lead to a renewal of discus- sion of the whole tariff question. Most members of congress desire to avoid this, and thus the indications are that no relief is likely to come from this con- gress in the direction of raising the em- bgrgo which Germany and other coun- tries of eastern Burope have laid upon our staple exports. None the less it is the imperative duty of the representatives of the people to take such action as may be necessary to reopen the markets that have been closed to our cattle and meats, and no partisan feeling should be permitted to interfere with the performance of this duty. Republicans and democrats should agree to put aside all extrancous and irrelevant matters for the one pur- pose of promoting the welfare of the interest that is directly assailed by these foreign embargoes. Hundreds of thou- sands of American farmers are con- cerned in this matter, and their inter- ests are worthy of the consideration of congress, indeed never more so than no So far as the differential duty is the honor to call upon you if he finds any portion of time at his disposal. In the event of his doing so you can advise him how you will handle the fund, otherwise we hope to have your early advice by letter. Yours truly, MOLINE PLOW COMPANY, Dictated by G. A. Stephens. BALLOT REFORM LAWS, Tt is a good sign that there is a very general demand for more stringent leg- islation to protect voters in the exercise of the suffrage. Most of the states now have ballot reform laws, and quite gen- erally these have operated satisfactorily in remedying many of the abuses and evils that formerly existed. Nowhere is there any popular demand for the aban- donment of such laws and a return to the old system. But some of these laws are defective, and wherever this has been found to be the case the legisla- tures have been urged to make such changes as are necessary to render these statutes more effective in securing secrecy of the ballot and preventing corrupt interference with the individual voter. This is notably the c: the eastern states, New York is open to several objections, to which vernor Morton has directed the attention of the legislature, and a bill has been introduced providing for a new law. As the republican party has led in this most important matter of ballot reform, it is to be expected that the republican legislature of New York will give that state a law that will meet every requirement for the protec- tion of the voter and for securing an honest and untrammeled expression of the popular will, Referring to the bal- lot law of Pennsylvauia, Governor Pat- tison said it was no longer an experl- ment and that it had gone far to se- cure the desired results, but some changes were necessary to perfect 1t, and the Ballot Reform assoclation has pre- pared a bill to be presented to the legis- lature amending the sections that con- tain defects. The legislature of Con- se in several of The ballot law of concerned it is of no consequence, either for revenue or protection, but if it were its value could not possibly make up for the loss resulting from the exclusion of our cattle and meats from the European markets. Nor is it likely that the in- Jjury to our foreign trade will stop at this in the event of the failure of con- gress to provide the remedy which all agree to be necessary. It 1s highly prob- able that embargoes and prohibitory duties will be laid on other American products, for there is great pressure on nearly all the Buropean governments from their own producers to do this, The agrarian element in Germany, ance, Austria and Hungary is strenu- ously urging the governments to give them better protection against ouiside competition, and especially American competition, and there Is a strong dis- position manifested to respect this de- mand. This is an entirely practical question, with which partisan polities should not be involved. A mistake s been made that calls for correction, and it is the plain duty of congress to correct it with- out unnecessar A LITTLE PLAIN TALK. Now that the Board of Education has been duly organized a little plain talk concerning the reforms which the people have a right to expect at its hands, and especially from its newly elected presi- dent, may not be out of order. The founders of the Board of Education de- signed the board to be nonpolitical and nonsectarvian, In the organization of the school system and in its management the board was expected to keep aloof from all political conteution and all re- liglous controversies. The officers, teachers and employes of the board were to work in harmony for one object only, and that is to labor diligently for attain- ing the best results in training and edu- cating the children under their cave and supervision with the funds at their com- necticut will give that state a new bal- lot law, the present one having been so amended and patehed from time to thne that it does not answer the purpose of a | reform law, part of some politiclans was de after the September elections of lust | year in Maine to the ballot law of that | state, but in his message to the legis- | lature the governor vigorously defends | the law, and the politicians will rdly be able to carry out their promise that it should be repeaied. These instances, | though only a few out of wauny, serve to } indicate the drift of public seutiment nd to show that ballot reform s | aw estublished fact, from which there is | striet adbe {‘und business methods. | fects our A strong opposition on the | loped | ZIO8S mand. This could only be achieved by e 10 business principles Whatever de- ystem has suffered from may be attributed in every iustance to one of four causes: First. Lack of integrity ou the part of members of the board and consequent swindles and reckless waste in the pur- | chase of school sites and construction fads that arg kept up from year to year to make places for people who either are not needed or notoriously deficient in scholarship, training or talent, Third, The infusion of partisanship and the abuses that spring from politi- cal scheming of ambitious members of the boardgfvhp want to use the school patronage as a lever to political office. Scheming for appointments and barter- ing of places at the disposal of the board for politi@®*Mfluence has in the past been mos nicious in its effect. It has dividdfl ogr school boards into po- litical cliques and created insubordina- tion in the ¢éntire school system, Instead of controlling and directing subor- dinates our Boards have been dominated by them through the fear of incurring their displeasure at the primaries and elections. Thus the tair been wag- ging the dog and it will continue to do 80 %o long as partisanship is allowed to run riot in the board, Fourth. The infusion of sectarianism through a secret political socicty avow- edly organized to protect the schools againgt the inroads .of Romanism, but in reality made subservient to the am- bitious schemes of politicians who hope to profit by the patriotic love of free schools which permeates the American people regardless of creed or sect and expect to climb into office upon the free school step ladder while waving the American flag. The friends of the public schools have a right to demand that the new Board of Kducation shall endeavor as far as possible under existing conditions to pursue a policy that will eliminate these various causes of discord, inefliciency, dishonesty and intrigue. Now s the time to begin these reforms. The pat- rong of the schools have n right to de- mand and expect them. Omaha is int ed in preventing fur- ther segregation of the Union Pacific property to this extent that the appoint- ment of separate receivers for any branch lines and their operation as separate roads means so much of their administration taken away from the general headquarters in this cit Ir clerks in the Omaha railway offices are no longer needed here they must either remove with the headquarters of the branch line or find themselves alto- gether out of employment. In both events Omaha would be the sufferer. Neither would this city secure any ap- preciable benefit from the separate op- eration of the roads. The interest of Omaha is decidedly on the side of main- taining the unity of the Union Pacific property. A supreme-court of five or seven Judges would b adequate to the present business of’the court, and that is all that the présent legislature is expected to provide fer: -3 hen the time comes to gain relieve the supreme court it may be thought.advisable to insert one or more appeHate ~tribunals between the district court and the supreme court. There is no urgent call for this now, however. Let us have an enlargement of the supreme court and the abolition of the supréme court commission, and the organizafion of the judiciary within the state will-be ample for many years to come, 3 How is it that the report of the soldiers’ rellef commission which was read at the last meeting of the county commissioners accounted for the expenditure of $5,269.31 during the past year, while the estimate for the soldiers’ relief fund for the coming year submit- ted at the same meeting asks for $9,000?7 From $5,269 to $9,000 is a pretty big jump. Surely the number of veterans is constantly melting down and unless there is an excess of dependent veterans over the number that die off annually there is no reason for increasing the levy for their maintenance. Should Senator Crane, as chairman of the senate committee on municipal cor- porations, push a determined fight for charter amendments demanded by the common people of this city, success would certainly crown his efforts. In that event he would wake up some morn- ing to hear the people call him great. Atn Disadvantag Chicago Record, Before Senator Gorman enters upon a hairpulling bout with Senator Hill he should observe that the latter gentleman's coiffure affords discouragingly small opportunities. okl el A The Globe-Democrat. An era of good feeling prevails among the democratic leaders concerning the presiden- tial nomination of 18%, All but one are oound to escape, and he can pose as a matryr when he draws the black bean, Perhnps the Fass In Agitated. Kansas City Star, Some congressmen are objecting to Mr. Sherman’s slecping car bill on the ground that if the rates are to be reduced the serv- fce will not be as satisfactory nor the ac- commodations so complete, = The service could not be much worse than it is at pres- ent, and as for the accommodations the peo- vle’ will compel the railroads to attend to th Competition is too sharp nowadays for carelessness of equipment. Willie Is Not in It Chicag . Willlam €. Whitney the administration candidate for president? An excellent gen- tleman 15 Mr. Whitney—able, brilliant, and a clever politicia But somehow we think that the democratic candidate for president in 189 will not come from Fifth avenue, New York. Not all the oleaginous outpu of the Standard Oil 4'(nllpmlf', with which he is closely conngcted, could smooth Mr, Whitney's path to the white house. e Stralght from the Shoulder, Lindoln News The hoodler's own Is getting shameless in its defense of mll't‘n.hd Il‘i‘ul! uml, hlrrl;"n?. Today it shamefacedly takes up the cudgels RoaR ik uATIRRACY HRER 0 (2 Sudsel ')DIHI( lans know as one of the cheap lobby- sts that infest: the. state. No one can re- member of his having performed any manual labor saye In the capacity of one of Mr. Holdrege's’ bloodhounds, or as an employe of the legislature. =~ As secretary of 'the republican State central committee he was @ private pass dispenser and pre sumably paid repfesentative of the rail- roads; later on, when he could no longer secure legitimdte employment from the State, Tom Majors ‘foisted him on the pa roll ‘as his_ private secretary, in which position he drey state money for presiding over an oll room establis A in the leu- tenan governor's office, The detalls of Secley's oageer are well known to the News, and if he were worth the time and space involved they could easily be given the publie, Beeley s just now endeavoring to et onto the senate I3 oll as_bookkeeper to the secretary Crotary Sedgwick 1 anxious to have him there, but to the At of Lieutenant' Gov- ernor A let it be sald, he declined ' to accede. of school buildings and the leakages in | | the purchase of school furniture, heat- | attacks ing apparatus, fuel, text books and other | school supplics. Second. Incompetency, nepotism and favoritism to which are due n- ney of employes, the foisting of su- pernumeraries and creation of costly | | républican party has he rallroads are there, and this quasi-defense by the morning paper to hat have not yet been made is an attempt to pave the way to his nt. It is for the benefit’ of the | and not because the News anxious to have him erely appolntm HOLT COUNTY'S MYSTERY. Butte Gagette: It will bo an everlasting disgrace to Holt county If the mob which assaulted Barrett Scott and his family are not brought to swift and sure justice. Greeley Citizen: If Barrett Scott, the de- faulting treasurer of Holt county, has been hung, as announced in some of our dalies, he is only reaping his own harvest. When men high in office will violate the law as he has dono they are simply setting a_bad example to our lawless element. These men reason, if they reason at all, 1ike this: Here is a man who holds a position under the laws of our state and who violates those very same laws. If he violates those laws because 1t s to his own personal benefit , then we have a right to violate them also, and they proceed on that theory to rob him or murder him the first chance they got. While murder is to be deplored, 80 also is embezzlement, and our officials ought to have more regard for the law than many of them have heretofore shown. Plattsmouth Journal: The Barrett Scott abduction case, up in Holt county is indeed a nine days' wonder and refuses to down Since he was taken from the carirage with his wife, child and niece, nothing substantial has occurred to fndicate what has become of him. His frionds at O'Neill hold that he was murdered by enemies and his body secreted. On this theory much work has been: done, and three men are under arrest for participation in his abduction. They were known to be his political enemies, Sunday a well was discovered in an abane doned “house, and this was searched for two days in hope of finding his body, but this was finally given up. On the other hand, it is now held by his enemies that all this concentration of effort on the theory of his murder has been made to give him time to escape and get well out of the country before attention was called to the possibility of such a thing, so that all trace of him would be dmpossible. It is a strange case, at least. Sloux City Tribune: There seems little prospect that the fate of Barrett Scott will be determined. It is over a week since his alloged lynching and mot a scrap of hair of him has been found, and if he is dead how ho died and where is still an impenetrable myster; On the one hand it seems almost impossible that he could have been murdered according to the accepted version of his dis- appearance, and on the other, the story told by the women who were with him In the carrlage, which bears out the lynching theory, is confirmed by €0 many corroborative facts that it seems true and worthy of ac- ceptance. But if he is dead, where is the body? An open prairie country is not a good one i which to make concealment and every inch for miles around the scene of the “alleged abduction has been gone o This leaves only the Niobrara river as a pos- sible receptacle. But this river is meither large nor turgid, and we have the unequivocal testimony of the sheriff, who first visited it after the Monday of the disappearance, to the effect that he and his posse had explored up and down for fifteen miles and that there was mo evidence that anybody had come to or gone away from the lonely river. There were coyote and rabbit tracks, but no human ones, Lincoln News: public men and politicians now temporarily resident in Lincoln {s that Barrett Scott is not dead, but that he was a party to the scheme to run him off under the pretense that his enemies had killed him. If Scott had been murdered it would not have been a difficult task to find his remains. Since they are not to be found after a week has passed away since the alleged assault thero is a gradually growing presumption that he s still very much alive, It is difficult to be- lieve ihat if thero had been such a hatred existing in the breasts of Holt county farm- ers against Barrett Scott it would have smouldered so long after his pitiful sentence of five years for stealing $50,000 had been aullified ‘temporarily by the supreme court's action in admitting him to bond in half the amount of his theft. Vengeance of that sort, the vengeance that demands the letting of bibod, 1s is of the quick, violent, flaming sort, not the deliberate and premeditated working of the mind. Again, in searching for the perpetrator of a crime, motive is the first thing considered, and it must be admitted that the men who were Barrett Scott's fellow embezzlers and and the men who had pledged $40,000 worth of their property for his appearance when his case was again called, hAd a greater motive for having him disappear than any of the outraged taxpayers of Holt county for imbruing their hands in his blood. e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The general opinion of Ex-Governor Furnas has planted 1,000 per- simmon trees on his farm near Brownville. John Hauf of Butte has been arrested on the clharge of selling liquor without a goy- ernment permit. Mrs. J. W. Powell died at her home near Welssert, Custer county, after an iliness of twenty minutes. She was 70 years of age. A new race circuit, to embrace the towns of Wakefield, Alblon, Creighton and other northeastern Nebraska points, is in process of being formed. Lura Therard, a 16-year-old Ravenna girl, took laudanum because she was forced to go to school, and only the prompt action of a doctor saved her lfe. Caleb Zellars of Bennett captured an owl the other day that measured over five feet from tip to tip. It had been living on Zellars' chickens for some time. While Farmer Crane of York county was .| attending church at Bradshaw his residence caught fire and was burned to the ground. All the contents were consumed. It s sup- posed than an exploding lamp was respon- sible for the conflagration. ——— REACHING FOR THE FUNNY BONE. Galveston Ne: No resolution is consid- ered good by some people unless it will stretch, Philadelphia, Record: “Many a man with a glib tongue,” says the Manayunk Philoso- pher, “has an impedime ket pher,,, pediment in his pocket. Atlanta Constitution: ““What subjects are treated in your new book?’ “None. It's a plea for prohibiton, and doesn't treat at all, Truth: Spacer—What can I say in this obituary of Lusher, the bartender? Liner— Work in something about his *having a smile for everybod; Washington Star: “Blickens is devoted to hig wife."” Tow do you know?'" {e is smoking the cigars she gave him for Christmas.” y “Unpopular? Bil- Why, he didn't even get dars from Insurance companies Indianapolis Jo dikes, unpopular’ any ‘cal this year Harlem Life: Preacher- man must gome day settle his account with his Maker, Tailor—I wish you could impress Mr. Palmer with that idea. He hasn't settled with me in about two years. Cleveland Plain Dea I fear that our | coming restl er: Great Novellst— or Indian charges are he- s and dissatisfied, What would you suggest? Lone Trall D Blue vitrol an' walnut juice fer a change. Even 'n Injun "Il git tired o' gov'ment Whisky after while, Detroit Free Press: Teacher—What is the difference between victuals and viands? Scholar—We have victuals on wash days and viands when we have company. Washington Sta My dear,” sald the man who had been waiting for' his wife to zet ready for the theater, “I am inclined to felieve that 1f you had been borh a man you would have been a professional pu- Eilist Vhy 7" I ise it takes you 8o long to put on a palr of glove: A GEORGIA OBITUARY. Atlanta Constitution. “I gave him his medicine regular, From morn till the set of sun a0k two powders at 10 o'elock, And another powder at 1. “But doctors cannot help us, When death knocks at th Goodbye, my darling husba You left at 10 minutes to L2 A The Nicaraugus Canal is Republic. nce of good faith that n an enterprise every assurance of large profit k the United States to guarant s to an amount many millions in he sum needed to make the plan he people of this country ha had two lessons in government subvention, should their b excess of operative. & about what becomes of them that it earnestly urges upon the wembers of the legislature that it turn | de the tools and lobb 18 who are ways running about eondeavoring to sell | voles that it hos never yot been made clear | that they cosid delives, ] cares anyt S0 long as the Kovernment continues (o hold the Pacific rallroad bags there will be popular impationce with new. propositions for s -huntigg expeditions. We are Is- sulng too many” bonds of our own to begin gaaranteeing the bonds of private corpora- tions. PROPLE AND THINGS, Pennoyer of Oregon threatens to move to Texas and Walte of Colorado to Illinois. A unique form of political amusement has broken out in Chicago. It is known in alder- manic circles as the “Rohde skate.” New York rushes to the rescue of Phila- delphia, determined to rout the Quaker Tam- many. The supply of gall In Gotham Is equal to all demands Tho orangs growers of Florida insist on weather predictions twenty-four to forty-eight hours in advance of a dangerous storm Tho demand Is reasonable A northern syndicate has been formed to open up Kentucky., The trouble is not located, but probably one of those new fangled stoppers is wedged in the neck Demoorats now propose to tax beer and diminish the deficit. Pretty tough lines when the administration is obliged to rush tho poor man's can for a fraction of a cent Five able-bodled burglars captured the police force of Westport, Conn., and marched ft about town while they cracked safes and bagged the booty. Westport's force consists of one man. General Coxey the noted horse trader and Commonweal leader, is about to shake Mas- sillon and settle in Philadelphia. The general is gorely in need of a rest from his exhausting labors. The Denver Republican asks, ‘Are we an BEnglish colony? Considering the large num- ber of Denver mortgages held by English capitalists, the question must be answered in the affirmative, dontcherknow. The Hon. John M. Thurston of Nebraska does not_escape the evils of senatorfal great- ness. Pictures represent him in all sha and conditlons of physical agony and mutila tion, disheartening to friends and horrifying to foes, A number of ladies of Goldfield, Ia., pe- titioned the city eouncil for a law prohibiting dancing. The town firemen gave a ball re- cently which aroused considerable feminine rath. The firemen made a great mistako in arranging a conservatory and then neglecting the occupants. Wall flowers will turn, There is one policeman in New York whose respect for the law s greater t regard for self or shoe leather. He resides in the vichnity of Kingsbridge, and travels to and from Mulberry street station with court records every day on foot, rather than fracture the law against passes, The distance is twenty-five miles, The history of modern reform movements afford mo parallel for the pecuniary success achieved by the council for the Lexow committee. Mr. Gof's fees are estimated at $60,000, and in addition he secured a four- teen-year office with a salary and perquisites amounting to $15,000 per annum. Two hun- dred and sixty thousand dollars is pretty snug returns on a political accident, The justice shops of Chicago are long on fines and short on collections. During the months of October and November fines amounting to $32428 were stayed. But in order to secure suspension the viclims were obliged to sugar tho colony of fee sharps schooled in these petty justice shops. Sev- cral of the plucked assert they paid thelr fines, while the records show they wero “‘stayed.” GOOD WORDS FOR HOLCOMB. Kearney Hub: If Governor Holcomb keeps up the first good impressions there will be no fault to find. Kearney Sun: It is Governor Holcomb now, if you please, and pop though he is, he is generally regarded as an honest, even- balanced man and will make a good governor. Nebraska City Independent: Taking Governor Holcomb's ‘inangural as the outline of his policy, all apprehension that there 1s any danger of reckless or anarchistic action whilo he remains at the helm has been dispelled. Kearney Hub: Governor Holcomb's in- augural is the expression of a candid, sin- cere man, and is devoid of the demngogery and Kiteflying that has marked the public utterances of so many of the papulist leaders and representatives. And for this much every citizen can be truly thankful. Geneva Republican: Governor Holcomb's message to the legislature Is a conservative and moderate document, many of Its sugges- tions being on lines of opinion held by all men, frrespective of party. It is a very dif- ferent document from the ranting screeds of which other pop governors like Waite and_Lewelling have been delivered. The caretul reader who did not know the gov- ernor's alleged politics would be likely to con- sider it a republican production. e STEVENSON’S LAST POEM. Pall Mall Gazette. In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes; Where essential silence cheers and blesses, And forever in the hill recesses Her more lovely music Broods and dies. O, to mount again where erst T hauntec Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted, And the low green meadows. Bright with sward; And when evening dies, the milllon tinted, And the night has come, and planets glinted, Lamp-bestarred! 0, to dream, O, to awake and wander There, and with Gelight to take and render, Through the trance of silence, Quiet_breath; Lo! for there, grasses, Only the mightier movement sounds and passes; Only winds and rivers, Life and death, among the flowers and FORCING BEEF ON ENGLAND One of the Things that is Worrying Her Gracious Majesty's Subjoots, BITTER WAIL OF BRITISH CATTLE MEN Complaints of Unscrupuions fusiness Methods of American Traders and an Effort to Corner the English Mar- kot—Home lodustry Shut Out, LONDON, Jan, 9.~The meeting last even« ing of the meat and cattle section of the Lons don Chamber of Commerce in Memorial hall has served to bring out a storm of abuse in regard to American meat and American busi- ness methods. The Daily Telegraph states that the American beef kings, after half ruin- ing British husbandry, now coolly propose to take an additional §1,000,000 from British traders and consumers, This statement Is re peated on all sides. In an interview, Chairman Cooper of the cattle seotion of the London Chamber of Com« merco is quoted as saying: “If it was merely a question of no abatement there is no doubt that the retailers could have ac~ cepted the situation. But it is viewed by many as marking the beginning of a series of other encronchments of trade. The Amerl- cans go 80 far as to say not only shall the salesman be deprived of the pound and a quarter allowance in every quarter of meat hitherto allowed in order to compensate for the loss by shrinkage in transit and in cutting up, but he must not make such an allowance to his customers. This is only the first step -toward obtaining control of the market and when it suits their fancy to cor- ner trade, ““The reasons Americans have obtained such a hold on the English market is that they have sent meat to-it perfectly regardless ot the price at which It was sold. This was merely to create a demand. But in 80 doing they have practically forced their meat upon the market and what is more they have forced English meat clean out of the market. “‘There are only two sources of beef supply available for the London market, excluding of course, the frozen stuff. One is America and the other Scotland. England itself Is not in it at all. The American exporters have thelr principal centers at Liverpool and at Deptford, London, where their stock Is landed and slaughtered. “What they are aiming at undoubtedly is ta drive every one out of the trade If they can possibly do 5o in order to create a mono- poly. They regulate not only the wholesale but the retall prices in America. At one time they fairly cornered the trade in New York. To overcome this the legislature was compelled to fntroduce a bill to the effect that all meats sold in New York state must be killed in 1t.” Referring to the cost of meat, Mr. Cooper said: “The American has not to pay nearly s0 much for the carriage of meat as the Englishman. It costs less to bring a ton ot beef from New York to London than it does to bring the same quantity from Aberdeen to London. The native producer is not placed on anything like a falr footing and the Ameri- can capitalists, realizing this, are making every effort to control the English market. We, however, feel that they ought not to be allowed to do so without a great struggle. I maintain that if the trade here sticks to- gether they can bring the American import- ers to the old terms because their meat must be sold.” Knalser Entertalns the Law Makers. BERLIN, Jan. 9.—At the parliamentary re- ception held by Bmperor.Willlam at Potsdam last evening his majesty made a long speech upon nayal matters and pointed out the necessity of increasing the strength of the German fleet. With a map in hand he showed those present the different naval tions and distant scenes, especially those of the war between China and Japan. After supper had been placed before each of the guests the emperor conversed freely with all who had assmbled there at his invitation. Salisbury Talks Protection. LONDON, Jan. 9.—Replying to a corre- spondent, ex-Prime Minister Salisbury writes a letter through his secretary in which he says ho feels deeply the deplorable agricul- tural depression but cannot encourage the hope that Parlisment will ever favorably cone sider a protection polic: Relchstag Kept Busy with Soclullam, BERLIN, Jan. 9.—At today's session of the Reichstag a motion was adopted suspending the prosecution of Herr Stadthagen, a soclal- ist member of that body. The debate on the anti-revolution bill was then taken up. Peruvian Insurgents' Successos. LIMA, Peru, Jan. 9.—The Insurgents have occupied Orchillos and Mollendo. Mollendo s in southern Peru, being at the Atlantic end of the Orequip and Puno railroad. Count Bedervary Can't Do It. LONDON, Jan. 9.—A dispatch to the Daily News from Vienna says that the efforts of Count Hedervary to form a new Hungarian cabinet have failed. Your Money's Worth or Your Moncy Back, Sorted Suits— Now we begin our great clearing up for Spring— we don't propose to have any winter suits left—we never have—we always have new goods—one of our sucoessful secrets. $25.00 Men's Suits, now “ ‘ $20.00 $15.00 $12.50 $10.00 “ “ “ $20.00 $16.00 $12.50 $10.00 $ 850 Men's $5, $6, $6.50 trousers are in one lot at $3.75 —why pay $6.50 when you can get them for $3.75, Clearing Up Sale — of everything for Winter wear in every department in the store—no matter where—the discounts are great —especially is this true of our Boys’ and Childrens' Winter wear—You know what our prices were—You will recognize the eut when you see the clothes. BROWNING, KING & CO. Reliable Clothicrs, S. W. Corner fteenth and Douglas Sts,