Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1895, Page 4

THE OMA L . . B. ROBEWATER, Editor. e TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dafly Bee (Without Bunday), One Year. pang, tioe ‘and Sunday, Orie Year ix Mont res Mo nday Te tiurday T eekly Bee, O One Year | Ong Year. * Year OFFIC Omaha, The Bes Rullding. Bouth Omaha, Singer ik, Cor. N and 2ith Sts. Councll Blufts, 15 Pearl Street Chicago Office, 217 Chamber of Commerce, lew York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Didg. ashington, 1407 F Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, All communications relating to news and_ edi- torial matter should be nddressed: To the Editor. BUSIL LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be Rddressed to Bee Publishing company, Omaha. Dratts, checks and_postoffice orders o made_payablo Vof the company. THE BEE 1ING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George B, Tzschuck, scerctary of The Bee Pub-. | hing company, befng duly sworn, says that | actual aumber of full and complets coples ot the Laily Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee | printed during the month of November, 1804, was | s follows | expense | to a plot for Lis escape. BARRETT SCOT1'S BODY FOUND, Barrett Scott's body hins at last boen found. TIts recovery will quite naturally arouse the people of Holt county to a piteh of excitement equal to that which prevailed immediately after the news of his abduetion was made public. At that time there were many doubts as to whether the captors of Scott had cul- minated their assault with murder or nét. There was a disposition in many quarters to regard the statements made by those who accompanied Scott on his fatal ride as intended to hide something vital to the unraveling of the myst and to view them as acessorie The recovery of the body puts an end to all this theorizing and fixes beyond dispute the substantial truth of the first story of the erime, One of the most interesting featu: of this terrible tragedy attaches to the letter from Mr. Willlam A. Pinkerton, printed In this issue of The Bee. De- terimined to spare neither trouble nor to dispel the mystery that shrounded ¥ tt Scott’s disappearance, The Bee dispatched a man to Chicago to ov jconfer with the head of the Pinkerton 21001 2,562 2,570 eductions for coples Total sold. Dally average 8worn to before me and subscribed In my pres- ence this 3d day of December, 1894 (Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Publie. —_—mm—m Now it Is about time for Mrs. Notson to make her appearance, tt Scott of the A complete history of the Barr ease would make a story worth most lurid yellow cove In Minnesota, Idaho and I senatorial dark horses are emerging from their stalls. nsas the just now Issuing more bonds to stop the out- flow of gold is like pouring water out of a sprinkling can into a rat lole. Whenever Phil Armour decides to lo- cate in South Omaha he will find a large slice of carth reserved for him. The resolution of the State Federation of Labor condemning all mob violence and so-called lynch law is timely and to the point. It s possible that the ice dealers may yet have some real ground for their annual lamentation over a short crop and consequent high prices. Wateh for something startling from Washington in the next few days. Secretary Morton is expected to be back at his desk this week. The finding of Barrett Scott's body only partially solves the Holt county mystery. The perpetrators of the foul crime must yet be brought to justice. Barrett Scott was unquestionably made away with on the very day of his abduction. The question, “Where is he hiding?” has at no time been pertinent. If the first mortgage bondholders really want to foreclose on the Union Pacific the cheapest way out of it for the United States government is to let them foreclose, Mr. Thurston doubtless had inside in- formation when he said he hoped and expected that the present congress would dispose of the question of the Unlon Pacific indebtedness. But he is liable to miss his calculations. The Nebraska Relief commission in- sists that it has been and still is able to meet every legitimate demand made upon it for assistance. Such being the case, the stories about uncared-for destitution must be accepted only after searching inquiry. By applying to the proper authorities no worthy person need go hungry or unclad. After the sacrifices so vainly made by Congressman Springer in behalf of the Carlisle currency bill it would be most rank Ingratitude if the president failed to provide for him at the expira- tion of his term in congress, ns he has | the done for so many of ‘the other demo- cratic leaders whose constituents have relegated them to private life because of thelr constancy to the present ad- ministration. The Board of Health is not at all backward about asking for increased appropriations. The board has been operating on the basis of a city twice the size of Omaha, and for that reason lias been a constant applieant for more money out of the general fund. What- ever appropriation is made for the next year should be final in the absence of some unlooked-for emergency, and the perversion of the general fund stopped for all time. Postal cars on the street rallway sys- tem are a comparatively old thing in a number of the larger cities of the coun- try. They have been made possible by the electric power and increased speed whereby the street rallways offer ad- vantages over mail wagons and over suburban trains that are operated only at longer intervals, There Is every reason to believe that a trolley postal car between Omaha and South Omaha will prove at once economical and effi- clent. If the undertaking proves a BUccess we may soon see the service ex- tended, first to Council Bluffs and later I other directions. The death of Major J. W. Paddock re- moves another of the pioneer residents of Omaha and Nebraska. Major Paddock was from the first prominent in public life, having Leen clerk of the first ter- ritorial house of representatives and several times a mewmber of the terri- torlal legislature. At the time of his death he occupled the position of gov- ernment divector of the Union Pacific rallvoad. Major Paddock belonged to that company of energetic citizens to whose efforts the early prosperity of Omaha was largely due, and his loss will be keenly felt, especially by those who have been associated with hiw in #nterprises of a public nature, deteetive agency as to the advisability of detailing one of their skilled detee- tives to make a thorough investigation of tragedy. Mr. Pinkerton took the materials under reful consideration, and, after reading critically the ac- counts that had been published in The Bee, came to the conclusion that the time was not ripe for such a search. But in the letter giving his own con- clusions he takes up the important evi- dence, and after indicating its signifi- cance expresses his deliberately formed opinfon that Barrett Scott had been murdered by his enemies, and that his body was beneath the lce in the Nio- brara river. This was on the 7th da of January. A more accurate forecast could not ve heen made by any man who had personally inspected the ground and was intimately acquainted with the highways and byways of Holt county. ery law-respecting citizen must join in the hope that the parties guilty of this outrage shall be duly ferreted out and brought to justice. The temptation under which the friends of Barrett Scott are laboring to take the law into their own hands may be great, but any such contemplated action s to be sincerely deprecated and severely condemned. The murder of rrett Scott is not to be avenged by more murder. The law is plain and the machinery of the law is at hand. There can be no excuse nor justification for a resort to mob violence under existing circums A CABINE J. Sterling Morton sneers at his depart- ment and Intimates that it might as well be abolished. If Mr. Morton believes this he ought to resign at once. No man can do good work unless he approaches his task with enthusiasm. Jerry Rusk took hold of the department with all the vigor of his strong character and with all the strength of his rugged common sense. His adminis- tration was a series of successes, and he made both his department and himself useful and honorable. Miss Nancy Morton ought to retire from public life and join some mug- wump club in Boston. He is about as much at home in the department of which he is the head as a land lubber is in the rigging of a ship.—Cedar Rapids Republican. For once The Bee is in accord with Mr. Morton. There never was any good and sufficient reason for the creation of the Department of Agriculture. Its function has been chiefly to supply con- gressmen with garden sass, pump- kin seeds and flower bulbs for political distribution, to raise tropical plants in the national conseryatory, and to supply the senators and congressmen with nose- gays, buttonhole bouquets and folinge plants for gorgeous receptions.. Its sec- ondary function has been to guess at the weather, experimeat with hog chol- era germs, and to introduce hoe cake and corn starch pudding into Buropean kitchens. All these paternal and maternal func- tions might just as well have been per- formed by the Bureau of Agriculture, with a $3,000 a year commissioner at its Lead, as by an $8,000 a year cabinet officer, with an expensive retinue of as- sistant secretaries and chiefs of divi- sions. Of course It Is not likely that Mr. Morton will throw up his job, but he deserves credit for having the cour- age to tell the truth about it. OMAHA AND THE STATE. President Weller of the Cammercial club struck the nail squarely on the head when he declared in his address of welcome to the state fair board: “We have no quarrel with any city in the state of Nebraska, and we want the peopie of Lincoln as well as those of all other cities and towns of the state to feel that we are thelr friends and they with us are a part of one great commonwealth and should with us do all they possibly can for the advanc ment and development of Nebraska vast resources. Omaha has long since outgrown the stage of petty rivalries and sectional contentions that divided Nebraska for years into the North and South Platte, She has for years been the acknowl- edged state metropolis and therefore is in position to cultivate amicable rela- tions with every town and city in the state without awakening local jeal- ousles. The era of good fecling be- tween Omaha and the balance of the state should be an incentive to further efforts for enlarged social and commer- clal relations between Omaha and the state at large. There are portions of the state from which Omaha is com- merclally ostracized and absolutely cut off, in spite of the fact that her location should have given her merchants and manufacturers superior facilities for trading with those places. 7This is es- peclally true with regard to northeast- ern and southeastern Nebraska, where Sloux City, Kansas City and St. Joseph have outstripped Omaha fn the race by reason of the rainbow railroad system and the wretched connections between existing north and south lines. A gap of twenty-five miles In the Northwestern road bars Omaha jobbers out of portions of the state that carvied on a heavy trafic with Omaha during the Missouri rviver steamboat Why can't the Commercial club exert itself to close that gap so that Omaha will at least be on an equal footing with Sioux Clty in northern Nebraska and have some chance of competition for THE_OMANA the South Dakota trade? With fm- proved railway facilities southward and a line through central Kansas to the Texas Panhandle Omaha could readily secure the lion's share of traffic of southeastern Nebraska and compete on advantageous terms for the central Kansas and Texas cattle and grain trade with Kansas City. A YEAR'S FOREIGN COMMERCE. A summary of the foreign commerce of the United States for the calendar year 1804 has been made by the Bureau | of Statistics, and it does not make a | bad showing in comparison with the trade of the preceding year. The eor ports of domestic and foreign mer- andise last year amounted to $872,- 000,000, while the value of the Imports was $600,280,000, the excess of expe being §181,720,000, a very generous bal- ance in favor of this country. For 1808 the exports were larger than for last N . having amounted to $022,100,000, and the imports for 1803 were also greater than for 1804, the amount being §704,000,000, giving an excess of ex- ports amounting to $128,100,000. It is thus shown that for the last two ealen- dar years we have exported $309,910,000 worth more of merchandise than we have imported. This rge balance to our credit In the two years would, under normal conditions, have caused a flow of gold to this country, but instead of this being the case the net gold export for 1804 reached the large proportions of £81,200,000, We therefore parted with §181,720,000 of merchandise and $81,200,000 gold, an aggregate of $2 920,000, for which there was no offset in imports, In other words we have during the last twelve months con- tributed that amount to the liquida- tion of our obligations, in one form or another, held abroad. A leading commercial journal it is estimated that in normal times we pay to Burope about $§100,000,000 per annum on ac- count of interest and dividends accru- ing upon our securities and other investments lield the Bverything above the sum in the $262,- 000,000 above deduced is therefore to be attributed ‘to the return of our se- curities or the withdraw of various less permanent forms of loan; so that it may be concluded that in 1894 some $160,000,000 was devoted to these ab- liquidations. We were exposed e liquidations of foreign credits and returning of securities in 1891 and 1892, following the passage of the Sher- man silver law, but it appears from the statistics that the foreign liquida- tlons of those two years averaged $100,- 000,000 per annum less than those of last year. The principal reason for the increas- ing liquidations is obvious. It is due mainly to the distrust of British and German lolders of our obligations. We noted some time ago the report of the American consul general at Frank- fort as to the general feeling at that and other financial centers on the continent un- friendly to our railroad securities, es- pecially, and there is the same feeling among British financiers. The charac- ter of railroad management in the United States is regarded with great disfavor by foreigners and the large number of roads that have gone into the hands of receivers during the last two years has naturally operated to strengthen this feeling. Another in- fluence that forces liquidations is the unsettled character of our monetary system. With one of the great political parties committed to radical changes in that system and a large element of the voters in favor of restoring silver, it is not surprising that there is distrust abroad regarding the future of our finances and that there are withdrawals of capital and the holders of our securities are anxious to get rid of them. There ought to be a change of feeling in this particular, however, in view of the assurance given in the result of the last general elec- tions that the currency will be kept on a sound and stable basis. —_— A few members of the legislature are gradually comprehending the finan- cial condition of the state. The others must soon awaken to the situation, There Is a state debt of nearly $1,100,- 000 in excess of the constitutional limitation. The receipts of the treas- ury have fallen short of the expendi- tures regularly for the last four years. There is over $241,000 tied up in the failed banks which will not be available for some time, if recovered at all. With tax collections falling behind and the assessed valuation promising a large shrinkage, the legislature must go slow about making new appropriations. If economy was ever needed in Nebraska it 1s needed now. —_— It transpires that the constitution of South Dakota absolutely prohibits the state from releasing any lability to it. This will put an end to the efforts of the defaulting treasurer’s bondsmen to secure o compromise settlement, by which they might escape a part of their obligations on that instrument. But it will only make way for a long fight in the courts, and if the state finally re- covers it will be after the urgent need for the money shall have been passed. s Dlsa World The explosion which killed nearly the whole fire department of Butte, Mont., was the result of violating a city ordinance for the sake of business convenience, While the terrible results are sull fresh in mind it may not be impertinent or useless to in- quire how many business men in other oities are violating similar ordinances, - - ter, Congress Universally Condemnod, Springfleld (Mase.) Republican If senators and representatives in congress get little comfort from reading the newspas pers nowadays they would get even less if they could hear the comments of the peo- ple—business men, professional men ‘and working men—upon the exhibition they are muking of themselves before the country, If they could they would bless the newspapers for” the mildnes of their comments and ple are becoming thoroughly and " disgusted, impatient and angry at the evident incor petency and unwiliin of the men they have selected to represent and legislate for in their time of need. Govirament by Injunctio Springfeld (Mas them to help th rt will, of course, bring th body of active labor lcaders In Haverhill within the four walls of the court room, s cak, and & lation of the restral ished as eonte violating the case they musi the court or be pun- ished under a suspension of all thos guards and rights kuaranteed to the peo y the state constitution In criminal and DAILY BEE: MONDAY. elvil prosecutions. They will be denled th FiEht to & (ML by fury-which method o rocedure “shal e held sacred,”—~and pun. shed within Ahé discretion of the judge on I;I:l 'r;‘wn motienand to any degree short of den i That this i§\d) assumption by the court of extraordinat: K i’ powers would seem to be manifest. It Is &n extension of the judicial authority unusuak and its necessity femains to be eatablighed. Its consequences at the best would e¢m certain to be harmful elther to the publfe peace, If persisted in, or 10,ihat prestia of the Judiclal power in ‘the popular mind so important to the maintenance ©f. s proper weight and au- ority. Distress in Nebraska, St Thuls Republie, A member 6f the German-Austrian Be- nevolent soclety df St. Louls asks the Re- public to tell what is the acutal extent of destitution in Nebraska. There is destitution in Nebraska, The first cold wave found many familles without the supplies of f0od and fuel needed in such a climate. The drouths of last summer had ruined the crops of some localities and had left a proportion of the inhabitants iil prepared to endure a rigorous winter. ) ond cold wave increased and intensi- fled the distres On the other hand, it 1s to be remembered that this suffering is confined to a compar- atively small area, Nebraska and Kansas are much alike. The eastern counties of these states are among the most productive in the union. The western counties—say one-third of each state—have good goil, but uncertain rainfall. The cultivation of cereals should neyer have been undertaken by poor farmers in_those counties. That It was undertaken by persons who were dependent on each year's crop accounts for the desti- tution whic s out for aid Neither state, The afflict populated and the p a small relation to the state of Nebraska, Another thing to be remembered 18 that there are two classes of adv exaggerate conditions of this kind, sists of persons on the ground who pl get personal benefit out of contributions, The other s composed of those plausible talkers who make a trade of acting as “‘mis- slonar No doubt some of the stories are started by the first class, and it Is as certain that some of the “agents” who bob up in cities and towns all over the country are imposters of a bad type. Allowing for these two qualifications, the truth seems o be that there s distress to an extent which calls for assistance from other states. Tt will be particularly appro- priate if a large part of the aid goes from the south. But before giving elther money or supplies, the contributors owe to them- selves the pains of making sure that they are giving to sufferers and not to adven- turers. And they owe to Nebraskans the trouble of understanding that the state is not a wide waste of povert e g An Indepondent Board Wanted. emont Leader. Did the members of the Nebraska State Roard of Transportation ever do anything {hat the railroads didn’t want them to do?— ce. No! The people of this state demand that the legislature submit to the people the question of amending the constitution to elect the rallroad commissioners. It is well known that the present railroad commission of Nebraska is a contemptable body of rail- road lickspittles. If thev have ever done anything to protect the rights of the people of the state it has been kept a profound secret, while, so far as we are advised, they have 'done everything to further railroad domination in the state, even to playing the part of henchmen and ecappers for them. The railroad commission of Towa, a body elected by the electors of the stite, have just_refused to ralse rates, although tre- mendous raiiroad pressure was brought upon them to do so. Had the same pressure been used on our board there_ is no doubt what the result would have been. Rates would have been raised, although they are now nearly three times that of Iowa. By all means let us have an independent board of raMroad commissioners. —— The “Innocent Purchaser,” Mitnoapalis Tribune. The supreme court of Towa has rather knocked out the “innocent purchaser’ theory by holding that proof of want of consideration or fraud in a promissory note changes the Burden of proof to the holder of the mote ito prove purchase and payment before maturity. 1n a previous decision the same court denied the right of recovery by the innocent purchaser of a raised note, even when blank spaces had been left on the mote. This decision puts an end to the practice of sharpers sccur- ing signatures: to contracts or notes for small sums with blank spaces, and these turning up in the hands of “innocent pur- chasers” for larger amounts. We don't hear much of such attempts to swindle farmers now. V ——— Ignorance and Citizenship Incompatible. Globe Democrat. In the United States circuit court at Phil- adelphia the other day fifty-three foreigners applied for naturalization, and twenty-eight of them were rejected on’ account of ignor- ance and other forms of unfitness for citi- zenship. If all the courts would exercise their power in this important matter with similar discretion the effect upon our pol- itics would be generally salutary, e Colorado Snubs Kryan. Denver Republican. Congressman Bryan of Nebraska has in- troduced a very silly bill in the house for the: free cof of silver with a proviso that the government shall retain all the seigniorage due to a difference between the bullion and coin values of the white metal, Probably Mr. Bryan means well, but he has a very poor way of showing it in so far as bimetallism {s concerned. e N The Muscular Colleglan, Globe-Democrat. In a recent address the president of the Chicago university remarked, eoncerning athletlc sports, that “A limb or life is nothing in comparison with the general splendid development of the best manhood.” It would have been well to add a word to the effect that muscular excess and slugging are not essential to the highest type of manhood. ——————— Few Mourners in Sight, Philadelphia Ledger, It 15 reported from Washington that lead- ing democrats admit that the Carlisle bill has been killed, and that there will be no financial legislation during this session. There will be few mourners over this intelli- gence, The country needs financial relief, but it can doubtless wait until the force of events compels the calling of the Fifty- fourth session. ————— Currency Quackery. New York Tribune. What with Statesman Springer howling for currency reform in the house, and Statesman Voorhees doing the same thing in the senate, the prospect of any useful legislation in ‘that line during the present session is Indeed dreary and dismal. The quacks are in charge of the case, and there will be no show for the patient' until they stop quacking. S ——— THE ¥ VG OF PERIER. a_poor ons in distréss bear he total population of Chicago Record: M. Casimir-Perier appar- ently went into his office as a falr weather president, Chicago Tribune: They make a great deal of fuss over the clection of a president in France, but they do the work a trifle quicker than we do in this country. Cincinnati Commercial: | Who Frenchman is not a patriot? TFancy an American resigning in a fit of pique an office carrying with It an annual salary of $240,000 for a term of seven years! Bravo, Casimir-Perie Dubuque Telegraph: Casimir-Perler's resignation of the office of president of France is perhaps fully accounted for by the statement that hé Is a very rich man. 1f he-were poor he would not surrender so fat a job for trivial reasons, Chicago Herald: Never did a man set out more auspiciously 'than the late president, his way to office bedewed with tears for the brave and practiesl patriot who had been slain n the gentle performance of his duties. Never did popular favorite more specdily show that the congresshad erred in its choice, and had elected a poseur president instead of a statesman. e BLASTS FIOM RAM'S HORN, says a Golden opportunities ™o not fly in circles, A selt-made man” [ikes to brag on his job. Covelousness Is & fore deadly disease than cholera. A head conversion never puts any love in the heart, A mote in the eye makes the whole world lock wrong. Open the door for the penny, and the dollar will come in. God's most effective preachers are not al- ways sent to the pulpit, The world is not 0 much iu need of better preachiug as it is of better practice. When meanness has been baptieed and called religion. it is as deadly as the smallpox. The devil gets a good deal of substantial 1p from the chureh member who grumbles When the preacher can't get all the salary that has been. promised him, there is s:me- body that ought to make shorter prayers in church. v 0 ARVA 21, 1895. TOWA PRESS COMMENT. Chutity Can Be Cautior Towa Capital The Omaha Bes, insisting that Nebraska Is able and willing to care for the destitute within her borders, suggests that itinerant #olicitors should be required to show ore- dentials signed by the governor of Nebraska, In default of which they should be shown the door. This suggestion might be adopted even by those who may not accept The Beo's hopeful view of Nebraska's capa- bilities in the matter of relief for her suf- fering people, Nebraska's Wonderful Board, Towa Capital, The Nebraska State Board of Transpor- tation is constituted of several of the state officers. It has three secretaries, each of whom has a salary of $2,000 a year, and who are supposed to do the actual work of the board in the regulation of raliroads, but The Omaha Bee says that they ‘‘don't late anything except thelr own diet they regulate that well, they will do more than most people do, and ought to be in a good frame of mind as woll as a favorable physical condition to attend to any other regulations required of them, The Innocent chaser, Dubuque Telegraph, The supreme court of Iowa has just de- cided that when a draft {s so drawn as to include exchange, it is non-negotiable, and the innocent purchaser cannot recover. The tribunal lays down the rule that negotiable paper must be certain as to time, place and amount, and that when it provides for pay- ment of exchange without definitely stating the amount it 1s defective, But a short time ago the same court decided that an innocent purchaser cannot recover on a note obtained without consideration and by fraud. If the judges keep on as thoy have begun they will effectively protect the farmers of ‘the state from sharpers who are con- stantly plotting to rob them. Matt Parrott for Governor. Guthrie Times. Among the many names that are receiving favorable mention by the press of t(he state in connection with the office of governor, is that of Hon, Matt Parrott of Waterloo. Mr. Parrott strikes the Times as the right man for the place. He is a newspaper man, and doubtless in the years past has done valiant work for his party, and as no editor has ever been governor of Iowa, we believe Mr. Parrott’s claims ehould be good. He ls well known throughout the state, having come to Towa in the early fifties. He served in the state senate for eight years, and was public printer for a time. A man of strict business integrity, with a long life of use- fulness behind him, but still in the very prime and vigor of manhood, Mr. Parroft would be a safe executive and would give the people a strictly business man's admin- istration. Financial Vagaries of Boles. Sioux City Tribune. Sound money men object to Governor Boes' idea, as said before, for the reason that it seeks to commit the government to a policy which involves a financial im- possibility. That impossibility is that the United ates cannot by statute, without the consent of the rest of the world, make a certain weight of silver worth a certain weight of gold. It is open to debate whether all the governments of the world acting together could thus successfully violate the law of supply and demand, but it is certain that one country, acting independently, could not do it. It is conceivable that a ratio ‘might be established which would be a true one on the day it was established, but there would be and could be no assurance that it would be a true rati6 the day after or on any other day. That would depend alto- gether on circumstances and that fluctuating thing called public opinion, which fixes all values. Whichever way it is viewed the proposition of the ex-governor, although doubtless made sincerely, has made no friends. lowa Candidates for 1896, Ottumwa Democrat. Some of the Democrat’s esteemed con- temporaries are bothering themselves about the presidential candidates for 1896. The republican papers have come to an agree- ment_that Senator Allison can furnish good enough material for them, and they have left little for the nominating convention of their party to do. If the republican papers want that kind of diversion, there is no reason why they should not have it; but it avails little more at this time than speculation about next fall's corn crop. The Oskaloosa Times and some other demo- cratic papers are out for Horace Boles. They reason, and with apparent force, that the next democratic candidate for president must come from the west, and this belng admitted, they maintain that Iowa can fur- nish the strongest candidate. All of which is good politics and good logic. When it comes to admiration for the “‘grand old man” of Iowa the Democrat is with the most sin- cere of them. But the fact remains that the time is not yet ripe for selecting a presidential candi- date to be voted for two years hence. It is all a waste of words and space. No one could have foretold with anything like as- surance elghteen months before the conven- tion of 1894 was held that Grover Cleve- land would have been nominatéd. The same was true of Benjamin Harrison In 1888, The interval between this time and June 1896 Is likely to bring about many changes which cannot mow be anticipated. There will be an election in nearly every state of the union in 1895, and upon the results of that election very much will de- pend. There are other conditions which may lead to a landslide in the opposite di- rection to that which took place in Novem- ber, 1894, All present calculations are valueless. —_— TICKLISH TRIFLES, alveston News: Let us rid ourselves of mpression that one's belt is the meas- ure of his greatness. Daughter—Whatever pa? Pa— there, I Boston Courler: made them call it Wall street, So many pushed to tac I suppose. *hiladelphiaRecord: Mrs. Max—T see b)!hm‘(‘f Soclety motes that Mrs, Gadabout was ‘“at home" yesterday. Mrd. Mix— Where else should she be on such a dis- agreeable day? e ork_Sun: He—I saw several per- e ke it ‘Uhéir hta 1o the theater this She—Of the gentler sex? He— hey were men, Harlem Life: Faith early poets? Morton a magazine)—Yes, 1 do Don't you love the (ma g editor of they're all dead, eland Plain Dealer: Tommie—Aunt Sarah, why do they always picture Cupld, the god of love, ‘naked? Aunt Sarah— Bekase he most allus needs a spankin,’ ‘ome back! come grief, “‘my daughter, But she sat hid behind clessly he sought her. Indianapolis Journal back!" he cried | in oh, my d Judge: Fallupski (sighing)—Ah, vish me dot 1 coot be a city edito Failupski—Vot for, in Moses' nam you dot vish, Isanc? allupsk! toldt me dot veller make dwenty-fife as- slgnments efery night! me! 1 M Washington Star: “What did Senator Sorghum say when you asked him for an interview?" “asked the mamaging editor, “Nothing," replied the reporter. “Well make a column of it, " It's just about what the public expects from him.' Tribune: The boarder was in the parlor doing’ her bes to sing “Au Revoir, but Not Goodby. “Somehow,”" sald the Cheerful Idiot, “that minds me of a canyon I saw out'west.'” “Don't see it,” remarked the good natured boa . “It'is such a rocky holler,” sald the Cheerful Idiot. A WALL FLOWER. Truth, He could not dance or talk small talk; He could not through the lancers walk. He could not sing or play a part In amateur dramatic art. He was not gay, nor debonalir, Nor e'en an idle millionaire. But none received, in all the rout, S0 many invitations out. His prestige had a basls, slight— He'd play with night, —— - South ¢ hieago Gets & Ship Plate Plant. CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—The first ship plate and boile; plate plant In the west has just been completed at South Chicago by the Illi- nois Steel company. Two big buildings are equipped with the necessary machivery, Em- ployment will be given to G600 wen. The works are expected Lo start up next month. Cinelnnati typewriter firm, though chaperons at whist all -his wife, Telix Canerone and Guisseppe Con- e ———— - FORECLOSURE THE REMEDY. Denver Republican: Under no clrcum- stances should the United States government consent to an extension of the Pacific tul- road debts for fifty years. Both the Central and the Union Pacific roads nwade mone enough during their prospsrous years to pay their entire indebtedness to the United States It they had been so Inclincd, Instead of ¢cing 80 they divided up their profits among the stockholders, and now they whine for an extension, in order to repeat the same pro- | cess in the future. \We have no doubt that it would be better to ot il the money ad- vanced to these roads by the government be come A total loss than to grant the terms asked for by tle conpanies and their johby representatives. Dayenport Democrat: The stockhollers of the Union Pacific have a new eme for bringing that company out of the diMiculty | into which it has become entangled. 1t Is| a proposition for extending the government | ilen for a perfod of Mty years, at 2 per cent interest, the s'ck 8§ agreeing n such an arranga:nent can be effected to pay all liens prior to that cf the governmen Tho officials of tha read €1y that If such arrangement Is not speadily. o 1 the 1 will have to be dismembered, whick we certainly be disastroas, both for stockholdors and the government lien. It is to be hoped | that some plan may be devised to recompenso | the government for /ts immonse cutlays on behalf of that roal and to place it on & paying basis. New York Herald: Representative Maigaira a foreclosure by the go FPucific and Central Pacific roads, and thelr malntenance as a puhiic highway asross the cont'nent, Just as the Brie canal is now main- tained by’ the state of New York, '3 facilitie to be free to all why comply with common regulations. In this way the government iine would serve to kesp all other transcontinental routes In check in the matior of rates, and the question as to whather ra.road lines can be successfully managed under cur form of government would be put to a practical test It would seem impossible that pullic cficers could be guilty of any such rascalities as have been perpetrated on these and other lines under ordinary corporate control. The stock waterings and “de of all warts, end- ing in the accumulating of vast fortunes by the manipulators, and the hopeloss bank- ruptey of the roads, have imposed enormous losses upon innocent investors, and have brought all of our railway securities into discredit at home and abroad. In case of the roads now under discussion congress hould refuse the Insulting offers of settlement made by scheming coporate officials and their rep- resentatives in the senate and house, Let the government foreclose on its liens and take over the properties and operate them for the benefit alike of the security holders and the people. It would be impossible to have more incompetent managements than those that have wrecked the properties. Let us have a test of governmert control of railway lines! case The bill prepared by of California looks to er imen: en the Union | Rald on Counterfoliers in Now Yorik. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—An important raid of alleged counterfeiters was made by secret se! agents, and Frank Soldano, Mary, forto, were arrcsted. The men were found on East Seventy-fourth street, where the agents discovered a number of moulds form- ing a spurious dollar, half dollar, quarter and 10 and 5-cent pieces, and about $100 In courterfeit coin. The woman is supposed to be the real circulator of the coins. She was charged with passing counterfeit money. When arraigned before United States Com- missioner Shields, Conforto broke down and confessed his guilt. He was held to awalt the action of the grand jury. The other prisoners were held in $5,000 ball each for examination on January 25. e e, Robbed an Old Lady and Was Caught. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 20.—Albert Lincoln, a bell boy at the Grand Avenue hotel, went Into the room of Mrs. Matthew Hoppole, an aged lady, last night ostensibly to light the gas. At the point of a revolver he compelled the old lady to hand over all the money she had in_the room, about $100, and considerable valuable jewelry. He then knocked her down, bound and gagged her while ho further searched the room. She managed ‘to free herself, however, and gave the alarm. Lin- coln escaped down the fire escape but was soon captured at the Union station. All the money and jewelry were recovered. W e b Ohlo Infirmary Director Missing. TOLEDO, Jan. 20—A special to the Blade from Lima, O., says: Infigmary Director J. C. Jettinghoff of that county Is missing. He started Monday for Columbus to attend a meeting of the State Assoclation of In- firmary Directors and was to return on Tuesday. Nothing has been heard of him, and it is believed he has fled, abandoning his family. He has a saloon at Delphos, and has lost large sums belonging to his wife. His creditors have taken out attach- ments on all his property which will satisfy but a small portion of the claims. s A R Mayor Hopkins Not Spocific Enough. CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—Julge ,Adams has decided that the declaration in Mayor Hop- Kkins' libel sult against John R. Tanner, chairman of the republican state committee, was not sufficlently specific. Recovery was sought for damages alleged to have been done the mayor's reputation by the publi- cation of a campaign argument, in which Mr. Hopkins was said to have levied Dlack- mail on the vices of Chicago. The defense demurred to tho declaration. Judge Adams allowed the plaintift to file a new declaration. | is still struggling t PEOPLE AND TRINGS. M. Brisson has the sympathy of the left fn this country, Bmperor Willlam Is now engaged In rogus lating his Prussian Diet, Senator Cullom has demolished what prome fsed to be an annoying senatorial tie-uj Joteph Shorett of Fond du Lae, Wi, died last week, aged 110, His eldest son 1s 81 and his baby boy G4, The quality of the paper on which legls- lative bills are printed does not effect it ulness In plugging blow holes. he Inventor of Saratoga chips dled at Saratoga the other day, after arriving at a good old age. The Inference is that he didn’t use hi® chips as a stéady diet, Contrary to early reports, Gasman_Addicks capture the Delaware senatorship, but a majority of the legislature resists political asphyxiation, neral W. J. Sewell, the new New Jersey senator, was In that body from 1881 to 1887, He was originally n Ireland, have Ing been born at Castlebar, December 6, 18 Mr. Willlam Waldort Astor has ordered & florist to place a basket cf fresh lilies of the val nd violets every day for a year om the grave of his wife. This ostentatious dis- play will cost $40,000 The $40,000,000 capitol of New York state, which represents an outlay of $20,000,000, stands a chance of being completed by the close of the twentieth century, if a tax- payer's revolution does not take place means while. The Baltimore Sun doubts the wisdom of enacting_the Australlan ballot law in Vir- ginia. Stll, the Sun regards it as a “mat- ter for the white people of Virginia to de- termine for themselves.” The colored vote does not count he governor of South Carolina to selzo an Italian vessel on suspicion of bee ing a floating bar-room. South Carolina manages its own liguor business, and will not tolerate forelgn competition. American booze for American boozer Senator Hill favors the election of senators by the people. 10 political temper of New York, as shown last fall, may be respon- sible for the senator's sentiments, but It does not afford him much hope of a pro- longed career In the upper ho The habits of no two senators at Washing- ton offer a greater contrast than those of Hill and Murphy. ‘Ite former is a baclelor, re- served, cold, naturally unsoclable. The latter i3 a family ‘man, genial, frank, fond of good dinners and jovial compiny, and a bellever fn the theory that public office Is not a private sacrifice, There dicd recently in Jacksonville, Fla., at the ripe age of 95, Louls Fatio, a full- blooded negro, and the only survivor of the Fort Dade massacre, in the Seminole war. Fatio was Major Dade's guide, and some say ho delivered the whites up to the In- dians, and was spared by them in conso- quence of this. Horace Chilton, the new was born in Smith county, Texas, December 20, 1853, His father was Kkilled in battle during the civil war. After the war young Iton entered a printer’s ofiice as “devil,” worked up to the case, and finally started a small newspaper, from the proceeds of which he supported his mother and edu- cated his sister. He is tho first native- born Texan to sit as a senator in the United States. Ex-Governor Robert . Pattison has re- ceived the democratic nomination for mayor of Philadelphia. He is one of the few demo- crats in Pennsylvania who successtully over- came republican orities, being elected comptroller of Philadelphia in 1877, governor of the state in 1882 and again in 1890. In each instance republicans resented machine domination, Similar conditions now prevail in Philadelphia, but there is a republican majority of 85,000 to overcome. ———— Ballots Rights League for the South. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 20.—The Southera Ballot Rights league has been organized here with representatives from this state, Ala- bama, Arkansas, Mississippl and Virginia. J. M. Channing, the Alabama populist who called the convention, made an address set- ting forth the need of a better ballot system in the south and Congressman Howard of Alabama and others spoke in the same strain. All joined in saying that the movement wi not of a political character, but was for the benefit of all parties and a better standard of citizenship. e — 1 TOLD YOU 50. threatens Texas _senator, Washington -Star. Of all the melancholy that besets the path of man There's o einglo darkest, deepest, dreari- st grief; A subtlety of torture that's constructed on a plan Whith is lingering and quite beyond re- lief. K In tho midnight of your fortunes; in the thickest of the gloom, ‘When you feel that this extensive waste of woe Must, b Partially behind you, comes the culminating doom, In the BlHlDQg of that remark, “I told you so," Oh, what countless venomed arrows in the soft, sardonlo sneei What a wrétched wreck of shattered self- esteem Tumbles 'round the hapless victim of de- lusions once so dear! 5 A breath dnsirn)’s e'en hope's faint ickering gleam. 4 You eancull Soursel together if you're only fet alone; You can go and find another row to hoe; But your convalescent prospects are in- variably thrown % Into sad relapses by “I told you so. ANINC 17y, Q‘?:um: u.oml:fi"’q Your Money's Cleaning Up. Now we've begun to cut—out so everlasting deep that none ecan withstand us. ur Money Back, We've cut some of the men’s suits down to $5, some to §$7.50; some $25 and $30 suits cut down to $18. been cut like that, too—A w sted pants, the $6 and $7 kind, cut to $3.75. shades of Fedora hats cut do waists, Wilson Bro's, a lol of value from $1.00 to $1,75, are only 75c. coats for $6 that were $13.50. $3 that wera $4, Boy's $6 ju and $4. Boy’s knee pants, all wool, 5Ja. Overcoats and ulsters have hole lot of black clay wor- Three wn to $1.50—Boy’s shirt broken lots ranging in Boy's over- Boy's 2-piece suits for nior reefer suits ara $3,50 Then there's that big underwear sale, to which we have added two of the biggest bargains you ever heard of—two cele= brated qualities in the Ameri can hosiery underwear— staple as sugar—nobody ever cut the price before—but you get the $6 grade for $3.57 0 a suit now, or $1.76 a single garment—the $4 grade, fine ribbed form fitting is now 3 or $1.50 a suit, Come early and get the best thing you ever got in your life, 'RELIABLE CLOTHIERS Py © S, E, Cor.15th and Douglas,