Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1895, Page 4

“THE OMAHA = ror DALY BEE WATER, EDITOR. B BLISHED MS OF SUDSCRIPTION Dally Tee (Without Sunday), One Year Daily Hee and Bundny, Ons Bix Months este 43 Three Monthi Bunday Saturday Weekly one ¥ On One o Itea, Year OFFIC] Building. ., Corner N and 21t Jamber of Commerce. 14 and 15, Tribuse BIAg. oet, N. W Omalin, The Tie Bouth Omaha, Singer Council IMuffs, 12_Pr Chicagn Officc, 317 New York, Rooms 12, Washington, 1407 ¥ & CORRES Al communieations forial matter should b addr BUSINESS LE Al Lusiness lettors and remittances should be mddressed to The Tee Publishing ecompany, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoflice orders 10 e_payabl the company. THEE 1 G COMPANY Sts, — STATEMENT o zachuck, shing company, belng the actunl number of full o the Daily Morning, Evening printed during the month of ¥ as follows vetary of T duly sw 1 co and 9 | timony In the e 8 deductions for unsold coples . v et 551,613 19,701 Net mnlen . Paily average *Sunday. Bworn t ence this 2 fore Notary Publie. —————————————————— Lord Rosebery says he won't resign. hy, then, should Dr. Hay retire The demand for mosquito bar netting and bathing suits has given way to the demand for spring overcoats and woolen blankets, According to Silver Dick Bland the democratic party will throw Cleveland overboard or go to destruction. What 11 1t does both? We are afrald the popularity of the frilby dance will depend very little upon the bare feet and very much upon the ankles and decolette costume. Long before the time the state fair week festivities is at hand the people of Omaha will have their enthusiasm for the event worked up to the boiling point. It is apparent that the German cabi net does not always have its own way In the Reichstag, any more than the American president always has his own way in congress. If all the members of the late legis- lature are not soon on the state pay roll it will be only because they failed to pass enough of the bills creating new tax-eating places. Nothing will satisfy the free silver men but a free silver president. The chief trouble, however, is to decide svhich one of them shall sacrifice him- self to the eause. South America is trying hard to fur- nish a substitute for the excitement of the late Chinese-Japanese war. It should at least be given eredit for good futentions in this dircetion. It is plain now, if not before, what on all the state boards of which the governor is & member Governor Hol- comb is to be a mere figurehead when Jt comes to matters of policy or patron- age. A couple of Omaha inventors have patented an automatic street sweeper that will sweep the streets and load the garbage into the wagon all at the same time. This is a blow at Jim Stephen- son's dago industry. Why should Bland waste his time in converting Colorado to the free silver cause? Didn't Sibley convert Colorado only a few weeks ago? And didn't ‘Warner convert Colorado only shortly before Sibley did it? Premier Roscbery is now sald to be determined neither to die nor to re- sign while occupying the position of British prime minister. Lord Rosebery’ s in this respect very much like the ordinary office holder all the world over. The Board of Public Works now pro- poses to keep its records out of the clutches of the lawyers who are trying 1o turn an honest penny by fighting spe- cial taxes. The board should have put its padlock on the barn door before the horse was coaxed away. There are several things in the way of Don Dickinson becoming President Cleveland's sceretary of atate. In the first place Mr. Gresham would first have to retire and then Mr. Cleveland would have to offer the position to Mr. Dickinson. It is hardly safe to rely an @ contingent contingency. If the lesson of the case against ex- Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen s to be utilized the proper authorities will see that a careful examination is made of the bonds of all state and local ofli- cers now serving and assurance had that none of them are worthless by reason of technical defects. If the Sixteenth street viaduct is dan- gerous to the life of people passing over it, it should be put into a safe condition without unnecessary delay. The courts have only recently declded that the railroads whose tracks necessi- tate the viaduct are responsible for the expenses of maintaining it in good order. A man up in Burt county wants the rallroad that passes in front of his farmbiouse to nearly $80,000 falling to have when approaching his railroad cross- Ing. There are some other people liv- Ing near railroad crossings who we are sure would be willing to pay the rallroads if they wonld take their whis- tles off. for its locomotives whistle 1 THE HILL JURY DISAGREES. The jury In the case against ox- Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen to recover indemnity for the $236,000 of state money lost In the Capital National bank failure has been discliarged, hav- | Ing failed to arrive at an agreement. The disagreement of the jury was not wholly unexpected. It could have been safely foretold before the jury was em- paneled. When it became evident that no verdict could be reached there was nothing left for the court to do but to disband the jury and save the state from plling up costs. The disagreement of the jury |is | nevertheless unfortunate for the state. It leaves It still doubtful whether the taxpayers will be able to enforce the hond of the late treasurer or will have to bear the burden of Mosher's steal- ings themselves. It is questionable whether the case is ohie that really calls for a jury trial. The charge of the court was to the effect that if the bond were properly executed the state was | entitled to Judgment upon it. The tes- e brought out the fact that the instrument was drawn by Hill il signed by the varlous sureties with the expectation and intention | thet it should be delivered as the offi | elal bond of the state tresur It was endorsed as accepted by two dif- ferent governors and Hill assumed office and performed the duties of asurer with the understanding that that instrument satisfied the condition of giving bond required by law before he could have qualified for the place. he questions to be determined were solely questions of law and their appli- cation to a written instrument, ques- tions that are ordinarily determined by the court and not by the jury. The defense rested its case principally upon the subsequent declaration of the failed bank to be a state depository, but while the court admitted the depository bond in evidence provisionally it prac- tically ruled it out by omitting all mention of it in its instructions. Such being the case, the state had a right to insist on the liability of the bondsmen. A new trial may result more favor- ably for the state. The trial is, to be sure, an expensive proceeding, but where there is such a large sum at stake and where there are such vital questions at issue the people look to thelr attorneys to exhaust all reason- able means of recovering it. COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION. From the historical point of view the controversy over the question whether President Lincoln proposed to certain spresentatives of the confederacy to pay $400,000,000 to the south as com- pensation for slav if the war could be ended and the union fully restored on that basis is interesting. In his lee- ture on Lincoln Mr. Henry Watterson stated that at the Hampton Roads con- ference between President Lincoln and Secretary Seward on the union side and Vice President Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter and Judge Campbell on the southern side, early in 1863, such a proposition was submitted to the confederate representatives Mr. Lincoln. Mr, John Graves of the Atlanta Constitu- tion takes issue with the Dbril- liant editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal and denies that any such prop- osition was made by I'resident Lincoln, presenting statements in support of the denial from records left by Stephens, Hunter and Campbell. The controversy thus raised has re- ceived contributions from two other distinguished sources—Colonel Me- Clure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, and Mr. Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun. Colonel McClure states that in point of fact both Mr. Watterson and Mr. Graves are in error and says: “Mr. Lincoln made no such proposi- tion at the Hampton Roads conference, and this statement Is made upon Mr. Lincoln's own authority as given to the writer hereof. He made no such proposition because of Mr. Stephens' frank announcement at the opening of the conference that he could not enter- tain any proposition that did not em- Dbrace the perpetuity of the confederacy. It was this fact, and this alone, that made President Lincoln and Secretary Seward offer no terms or. conditions whatever for the termination of the war, and it was for that reason, and that alone, that he made no proposi- tion for the payment of 100,000,000 to the south to emancipate the slaves.” Colonel McClure further says that as early as August, 1864, Mr. Lincoln ex- hibited to him a written proposition to pay $400,000,000 to the south as com- pensation for slaves If the war could be ended and the union fully restored on that basis, but he did not make it public because it would have defeated his re-election and probably defeated the full fruition of the cause for which s0 much had Dbeen sacrificed. “He would gladly have made the proposi- tion to the southern commissioners at Hampton Roads had opportunity been given him to do so,” says Colonel M- Clure, “but when the commissioners were concluded against entertaining any basis of peace but the acknowledg ment of the confederacy the president of the union had no terms to offer.” This testimony, together with that fur- nished the records of the southern commissioners, appears to conclusively show that Mr. Watterson's statement is erroueous. There was undoubtedly talk at the Hampton Roads conference, as Mr, Dana says, ubout the possibility of payment for the slaves and the sum of $400,000,000 was mentioned by Mr, Lincoln, but simply as an irresponsible expression of his personal views on the subject and in no sense an offer of terms to the confederacy. There is of course no question that President Lin- coln favored compensated emancipa- tion. He proposed it early in the war and adhered to it to the end, but got little support for the proposition from the country. It will be interesting in this connee- tion to note that the idea of paying for the slaves appears not to have heen original with Mr. Lincoln. According to Cooper’s “American Politics” the idea of compensated emancipation orlg- inated with or was first formulated %y James B, McKean of New York, who at the second session of the Thirty-sixth congress, 1861, Introduced a resolution Temple ¥ of life by '\\ Instructing the select committee of the house “to inquire whether, by the con- sent of the people, or of the state gov- ernments, or by compensating the slave- holders, it be practicable for the gen- eral government to procure the emanci- pation of the slaves In some, or all, of the border states, and If so to report a bill for that purpose.” Tn the follow- ing year, March; 1862, President Lin- coln sent a special message to congress proposing compensated emancipation, the message concluding with this fervid appeal: “In view of my great respon- sibility to my God and to my country, 1 rnestly beg the attention of congress and the people to the subject.” JUSTIFIABLE The discharge custody of Gor- don, the man who a week ago killed his wife and her paramour, the son of Governor Brown of Kentucky, raises again the old question of justifiable homicide. The eriminal codes in all the states of the unfon make the premedi tated and wilful taking of human life punishable by the severest penalty known to the law. They also prescribe the punishment for lesser offenses, in cluding unfaithfulness, but the penalty for the latter is never so seve s that ordained for the murderer. one, therefore, can be justified in out a punishment to an offender than t which he would suffer if vieted und legal forms, and on were death the legal penalty it is for the public authorities and not the aggrieved citizen to inflict it. Homicide is not justifiable simply because the vietim has placed himself under the ban of the law. | Under the theory of our law there is but one excuse for murde That ex- cuse is self-defern The law of self preservation dominates all human law. A man in imminent peril of his life is entitled to take such precautions as will remove the danger. But even where a plea of self-defense is entered it must be shown that no more violence was used than seemed reasonably neces sary—that the death of one or the other of the parties appeared to be fnevitable. But while it is true that murder com mitted in self-defense is the only justi- fiable homicide known to the law, it is an indisputable fact, demonstrated time and time again, that no jury will convict in whe the circum- stances appeal most powerfully to the human instinets of the jurymen. It is practically impossible to conviet a man charged with killing the despoiler of his home and happiness. When the Louisville judge discharged Gordon without trial he simply recognized this undeniable condition. The legislature does not and cannot declare the taking under these ecircumstances to be justifiable homicide, but juries do and will continue to do so. AN OBJZCT LESSON. It is not uncommon for a certain class of newspapers to assert that there is | no tin plate made in this country and | that the alleged existence of such an in- dustry Is groundless. Of course all bus ness men who deal in tin plate know that it is made here in very considerable { quantities, and they also know that the | growth of the industry was due to the protection that was accorded it by the last republican tariff law. At any rate this fact is fully recognized by the tin plate manufacturers of Wales. The London Beonomist, in a review of the iron, steel and tin trade of ain for the first quarter of tle current year, stated that the tin trade was never so depressed as now, and said that “the cause of this depression Is the large production of tin plates in Amer- ien, which has been greatly favored by the exceptionally low prices ruling for steel Dbillets. The price has been ac tually less in the United States than in South Wales, and in addition to this is the protective duty of about 5 shillings per ton.” There is supplied in this an edifying object lesson teaching that pro- tection has built up the tin industry in the United States to proportions that have produced an appreciable effect upon the industry in Great Britain, and that this result has been attained without increasing the cost of tin to the con- sumer. Does not this most amply jus- tify the republican policy so far, at least, us the tin plate industry is con- cerned? HOMICIDE No meting ter m- ov enses of A BLOW AT IMPERIALISM. The rejection by the German Reichs- tag of the auti-revolution bill was a distinet victory for the people and em- phatically demonstrated that in the German empire the popular will must be considered and respected by the government. The rejected measure was a pet scheme of the emperor. It was introduced first during the incumbency of Caprivi as chancellor and was urged Dy the government as necessary for the repression of anarchistic conspiracy. At that time there seemed to be sowme justification of it and popular opposi- tion was not very pronounced, but with the subsequent subsidence of alarm over the anarchists there was devel- oped a general and most vigorous popu- lar hostility to the proposed legislation, which steadily grew in force. This was fully recognized by the government and while it continued to urge the adop- tion of the bill manifested a waning faith in its efforts. No measure brought forward since the advent to power of Emperor Wil liam had less to commend it than this anti-revolution bill. It was repugnant to the spirit of the age and its adop- tion would have been a step backward. It proposed what would have been vir- tuslly the abolition of the freedom of the press and it abolished the right of assembly and free speech It provided that the army and the navy and every mewmber of the military serv- ice should be free from criticism and imposed a penalty of three years' i prisonment for making censorious com- ments on ¢ither service or any member ercof. Bditors, publishers and writers to be subjected to fine and im- prisonment for the publication of any thing detrimental to the public peace, under which any criticism of the gov- crnment that wight arouse the people to opposition would condemn the au- thor of it to the prescribed penalty, It Is easy to see that such a law would have effectually destroyed the free- dom of the press. In short, this bill was concelved Ip a spirit of intolerance and in rejecting it the Reichstag has administered mogroper rebuke to that spirit which 14 WF tlhie greatest signifi cance as o demonstration of the weight and influence of, the popular will, It was saido seme time ago that in the event of th& defeat of the anti- svolution bill thé Relehstag would be dissolved and puether election ordered, but it is now suggested that the govern- ment will harily Yenture upon an elee- tion in the pregenp state of the popular mind. It would.be profitless to conjec: ture as to wimt course Emperor Wil liam will decidé upon. He does not bear defeat with equanimity and it is not to be expacted that he will give up the struggle for the legislation which he believes e ¢ to strengthen the imperial powe Harper's Weekly calls the resolution adopted by the New York legislature inviting Canadian annexation 1l timed proposition. It says that the present time is especially inopportune for such action, because while our government engaged in trying to avert British intervention in the affairs | of the American continent it is the | acme of absurdity for any legislative body to attempt to interfere in the affairs of a British colony. Nobody in Caneda seems to have taken the New York invitation seriously. When the | United States wants to make an an- nexation it will not have to rely on a state legislature 1o act for it. Senator Morgan predicts that democr rty does not adopt a plat form in favor of free coinage of silver it will not carry a single state in the union. It is to be noted, however, that Senator Morgan does not venture to pre diet how many states it will earry if it | does adopt such a platform. That is a horse of a very different color. is if the The death of the German anti-revolu- tionary Il will doubtless be the cause of several fmportant political changes in the imper svernment. That s the difference botween legislation in | parliamentary and in presidential countries, The Road to Victory, Philadeiphia Record. republican party, putting resolutely aside all thoughts of a compromise platform and candidate, must take the field with an uncompromising candidate upon a platform | of sound, safe money, as._that road only | will lead them to certain victory The common demand of the democracy for a dishonest, unsafe currency, creates the op- portuni of triumph for the republic party; it Is too great a one to be sacrificed to u straddling platform and a compromise candidate, no matter who he may be. Dl cfor's hetirement. Tohe-Democrat. American_actor, Charles W. Couldock, who i a4n American by adoption having b borw in London, has just cele- b ed his 80th birthday and retired from the stage fonal _career covers a period of during which he played with Macread: arles Kean, Cha lotte Cushman afid other eminent dramatic lights, but his test personal - triumph was Dunstan Kirke” in Hazel Kirke, which he played, 2000 t'mes. He is known | to theater-goers virywhere, and will long be pleasantly remembered A Vetera The oldest Tha 13tikiated Tercor, Chicagy Times-Herald, not preserve the purity L008e Writers speak of “bloomers.”” It they had ever seen bloomer dress, the Kind ‘worn b Bloomer Laok in the fifties, th use some other d-signation, Th | bloomer garb consisted of a sKirt | worn fo the knees, with straight- cut pantelettes worn to the tops of the ! shoes. It really was a hideous garb. Call the bicycle dress knickerbockers, or some other not inappropriate name, and let “bloomers” go duwn to oblivion. a Dyspoptic. neer Pre One of those morhid statls live to invent new miseries for race has been computing the hours spent by the average business in the various functions of life. He discovered that thirty-seven days of elght hours n, at 1 forty-five and or that is, nearly one-third of is spent at the table. And 5 that this time might profitable by the employ- ment of bired readers, so that he who eats may read by proxy and fill his mind with current literature ‘and his inner man with the fuel of 1if2 at one and the same time. Wh guage suits a real Amelin would of the lan- the bicyele Raving of St Paul P cians who the hum number ms the entir he brazen be mac e Battling Against M New York Tribun By the first amendment, to the constitu- tion of the United States, “the right of the people to petition 'for a redress of Erievancs” is nolienably secured. Thi Fight has been often excrcised, but neve we believe, on 50 large a scale aj in the cas of the Woman's Christian Temperance unton, which has prepared a petition ove one mile in length, calling upon all civiliz:d governments to prohibit the sale of alcohol and opium. It has already been presented to President Cleveland, and soon the gigan- tic document is to bd carried abroad and taken to the several capitals of urope. Later other countries are o be visited. The ivencss of such a. campaign may per- haps be questioned. ~ Not o the zeal, eatnestness and devotedness of the organi- Zzation responsible for it. e The Menncing ¢yolone. New York Commercial. How are ple to protect them- selves a Rdoes of the end of spring? llars and the like a useful in theory, but a tempest that glv no time for preparation defies all preca Uons. At present the only defense & suggests itsell is to bufld strongly in the tornado haunted_ areas, discarding wood for honest brick and mortar. But then, where are the boundaries of the tornado districts? They sesm to cover almost the whole of the country. According to so gcod an au- thority as James KFenimore Cooper, the windows in the virgin forests of New York #nd New England testified to both the fre- Quency and the severity of tornadoes in Prehistoric times. It is°true that we are Not often visited by them now, but why not?” A tornadg is an eddy on the edge of a cyclone, We get eyclones enough, and are of enough on the edges to be vie- timized. Our proteciion Is due, probabl to the rolling country that breaks up th rotary motion of the tornado. nty Evils, Lamentations of Democracy’s Jeremiah, Loutsville, Chutier-Journal. Mr. Watterson'ls Wholly out of this pres- ent contention. Five-and-twenty years of hard and thankwss! toil, leading forlorn hopes and flling apossible breaches, have, he thinks, carned im the right to a much needed respite, 1f, Dot to an honorable dis- charge. He 1s guite worn with ploneer work; #olng ahead and blazing away, under fire from front asd rear. He is nowlise r sponsible for the! present situation. It has come about over, his efforts to avert it; and 48 no man can be jlchlml to accept the rosponsibilities Of lefldership when he has no specific plan &hd Fan offer no reasonable assurance, let thosd who have and who can, lead’ ahead, and, except where c victions of right and,duty may interpose, he will follow. As an humle follower, he will still hope and pray. iat the worst 'may not betide, but that, inder God, all things shall work 'to good ends,/ even ' though at this moment he may-aet be able to see a great deal of sunshing.in that quarter of the heavens which used to be reserved for an unterrified and triumphant democracy | of thieve THE STATE TREASURER'S Crete Vidette: The Hill trial continues to occupy the attention of the supreme court, but nothing will come of if. save eourt costs and lawyers' fees, all of which the state will have to pay. Captain Hill is not lable, for he made a legitimate settlement with his successor in office; and Mr. Bartley cannot be held, for, under the depository law, he had no alternative but deposit the money In the Capital National bank. This is the situ- ation in a nutshell, and this will be the substance of the jury's verdict. It is an un- fortunate thing for the state, but so Is a populist legislature, Blalr Pilot: The noted case of the state against Hill, now on at Lincoln before the supreme_court, is likely to prove a complete flasco. The roar of the state fn this matter for the past two years and more amounts to a “tempest In a teapot,” and nothing more It was apparent at_once on the failure of the Capital National bank that the state money therein was as hopelessly lost as it coulft be, unless a dozen or more of the chief wire pullers were promptly dealt with. Hill uld not possibly be more responsible than his predecessor, from whom he received only peper representations of money supposed to be on deposit, or than was his successor, who recelved and receipted to him for the same sort of accounting, or was Lorenzo Crounse, who approved a straw bond whereby the interests of a tottcring state deposito were braced up for the time being. No one man was or could be responsible for the loss, and the effort to make it appear that way is simply an old way of applying the white- wash to'a whole gang of fellows who should have been brought up with a round turn more than two years ago. Papillion Times: The great state of Ne- braska is a chump. It has never yet recov- ered a single dollar stolen from it by crooked public servants, and today the scores who have looted the state treasury in varfous ways walk the streets unmolested and breathe free air as regularly as thelr more honest fellow men. Men can even steal the funds set aside for the unfortunate insane, and the voters of the state applaud the deed and re-elect members of the same gang to office. A state oil inspector dips his hand down into the public erib, ex- tracts a half dozen thousands of money pald by the taxpayers and laughs at the boyish efforts of the state to make him put it “back again. A Lincoln banker plays horse with the state treasurer, holds him up for a quarter million of the public funds, and the treasurer's bondsmen wink at the childish efforts of the state to recover the stealings. Perhaps the state can go on in- definitely putting a premium upon rascality by failing to ferret out and punish public thiovery, but a business man wouldn't last long It his principles were no better. The time is ripe for the appearance of a pub servant who will employ the last resourc of the state to hunt down and bring to jus- tice the man who betrays a public trust and steals the people’s mone: -— PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, BOND Secretary Morton thinks the Colorado crop of Cherries should be pitted. Don M. Dickinson's whiskers are waving a triendly salute to the Cuban rebels. A great deal of powder was burned, meta- phorically, at the close of the Delaware sena- torial contest, but nary a spark ignited the gas tank. Addicks had considerable fun for his money. Brooklyn authorities, having failed to reach the oot of the trolley slaughter by punishing motormen, are going higher up. The presi- dent of ono of the companies has been in- dicted for manslaughter Jersey Justice has several large blowholes in its armor. A dispenser of the article, po:sessed of a modest regard for his health, earned a reputation as a terror to evil doers and $60 a head for suspending the sentence. Charles Lederer, tie leader of western car- toonists, is likely to become a member of the staff of the new Chicago daily which Seymour and Russell will publish. Mr. Lederer's work | on the old Herald stamped him as a cartoon- ist of rare ability and an artist of high order. His return to the western press will be a source of plcasure to a legion of admirers. A Chicago peliceman whose chin was adorned with an elongated aurora was shorn of his glory at the behest of a superior officer. The shock to his pride and system, as well as (o his fr ds, was almost unbearable, but the igno did not end there. Dismissal followed. the outcast proposes to wrench exemplary damages for lost whiskers from an ungrateful city It is a mistake to suppose the editorial minds of the country are wholly absorbed in solving the money question and settling for eign wars. Occasionally the cares of state and nation are cast aside and matters of prime human concern elucidated, For in- Stance, here is a Kansas City authority dis- coursing cheerily on ‘““The Popular Shirt Waist."” Cool, refreshing, attractive, both sub- ject and wearer, and the artistic manner of trcatment implies a master band in reach and experience. If there is anything to admire in the cruel, brutal work of a hail storm, the fact is a profound secret. Not so with lightning. The versatility and quaint capers of tnat element passeth mortal comprehension. Up in Duluth last week a flash cavorted around a school toom fillcd with children, made Kindling of the blackboards, wrenched the screws holding the seats to the floor, fused the steels in the school ma'am's corset and melted the gold filling in her teeth. Beyond the effect of the shoek no sericus harm was done, The Iilinois leglslature sent a smelling committee around among Chicago business men to discover the whys and wherefores of department stores. These blooming rusties from the borderland of Egypt were treated to successive doses of the marble heart, and sought to soothe their wounded dignity by punishing an obstreperous business man for contempt. The state senate tabled the move- ment by a decisive majority. A few sane members realized that the rest of the state could not be safely punizhed for harboring chunks of legislative contempt. The woman's edition of the San Francisco Examiner, the pioneer in the movement, netted $12,120.28. The sales reached the astonishing total of 130,000. The object of the edition was to ald the fund for the erec- tion of a hospital wing for incurable chil- dren. Contributions from other sources ralsed the fund to $23,000. Plans for the children's ward have been completed and ground has been broken for the building. It will be 100 feet long and fifty feet wide, three stories high, with a huge £un room in the center. The building will be completed this year. et SR Early Train Service Demanded. Stuart Ledger. If we could get the ear of the head push of the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missourl Val- ley railroad we would like to ask why we can't get a pasesnger train in here from Omaha before 10 o'clock at night? If a train would leave Omaha at about 7 a. m. we could get our letters and papers about 3 p. m., which would be a great benefit to the business men of Atkinson. In fact, it would benefit every town on the road. With out being too inquisitive, we would like to ask why the change couldn’t be made? We would like to read our Omaha papers the same day they are published, instead of the ¢xt. Atkinson Graphic. The Ledger has been preaching this same doctrine for the past three years. What is needed s a mail train—also earrying pas- ser gers—leaving Omaha at 3 o'clock a. m. and making rapid time to Deadwood. North- ern Nebraska is entitled to better mail facili- ties than it is now getting over the Elkhorn line. We think that if the proper pressure was brought to bear upon the postal author- {ties and management of the Fremont, Elk- horn & Missouri Valley line a better mail sorvice could be secured. Will not Messrs. Rosewater, Hitchcock and others make a hard effort to bring this about? B Missing Muny Snaps. York Times. James E. Boyd is missing a great many snaps: The latest is the editorial chair of the Omaha World-Herald. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE | to UTAIU'S NEW CONSTITUTION. Chicago Tlerald: A glance at the new con- stitution which Is to be submitted to the peo- ple of Utah In November will suffice to show what a tremendous advance is in store for womanhood in that territory when it shall become a state. Not only s the feloral stat ute prohiblting polygamy confirmed, but woman suftrage is established at one swe This is & far cry, surely, from the reg of Brigham Young, and 1t is not surprisin to find the authors of such reforms preposis also to abollsh the grand jury system and reduce petit juries to elght. Utah, al- ways interesting as a territory, promises to be even more <o as a state. Chicago Inter-Ocean: The Utah constitu- tional convention has so far provided for no lleutenant governor in the list of state off cers. The little state of Dolaware has no such office as leutenant governor, and the verdict of the people last fall has been com- pletely changed by the death of Governor Marvil. The republicans carried the state in November, but the hold-over senators kept the state senate democratic. When Marvil died, fn March, the democratic president of the senate becamo governor. Utah should provide for such an emergency, £ that when | the people elect officials representing one parly or policy there will b> gome one (o slip in when a governor dies and carry on the work as It was bogun Chlcago Record: The constitution which is to be submitted to the people of Utah in November for their approval or rejcction has been signed and completed. It prohibits polygamy, as do all the states; it provides for woman suffrage, as does Wyoming; it away with the grand jury system, igan, and it doxs mot provide for enant governor, in which it is like Delaware, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgla, Maine and some other states. It incorporates © new foatures in trials by jury, provid- ing for petit juries of eight persons, six of whom can render a verdict, except in erin fnal cases, when a unanimous verdict is re- quired to convict. The constitution provides for a school system that is comprehensiv and if well carrled out will give the ne stato a high rank in educational matters The success of the commonwealth will depend largely on the dominant spirit that will con- trol it. Woman- suffrage will mean in Utah what it means In no other state, and that is | the supremacy of the church in political af- fairs. The population of the territory in 1890 consisted of males and 97,442 females, or a total of The member- ship of the Mormon church is 144,000, of which nearly the entire number are in Utah. This would glve the Mormon church the ab- solute control of the state, especially with the franchise of suffrage extended to the women of that church. R NN CHERRY TREE MORTON'S HATCHET Louis Republic: Tt strikes us that Sec- y Morton might have male two bites out of that Colorado Cherry, but he didn't. Milwaukee Sentinel: Secretary Morton one of the best letter writers whom Cleveland has appointed to office. He never talks unless he has something to say, and he usually puts his facts and opinions in plain languag:, which is forcible without belng vio- lent. W he says about free coinage is more specific and more effective than any- thing Mr. Cleveland has sald upon the same subject. is Mr. —_——— TOOTHSOME TRIFLES. Milwaukee Journal: those who think they require clubbing. Judge: “Why A large majority of need coaxing really the bee selected as a model of industry ked Tillinghast. *Be- cause business with him is always hum- ming,” remarked Gildersleeve New York Weekly: Invalid—Doctor, I should not fear death, but I am so afraid of being burled allve.' Physician—You need have no fear of that with me attending you, Philadelphia Record: Blobbs—The —most utterly friendless feeling in the world is to strike a strange city and not to know a soul. Slobbs—Humph! 1 guess you never umplired a ball game, did you? s: He—You can t even by the arrange- on the chairs in her Detrojt Free Pre woman's character ment of the tidles parlor. She—But suppose there are no tidies? He—Then she is considerate Star: “Oh, m; the lady she gave the street o dime; “why don ash your hands and fac The police won't have it, plied; “they’d run me in for bein' street in disguise.” | exclaimed tramp on the you, at least, Washington mum,”’ he re- on the Chicago Tribune: ‘“To be sure, James," said the boy's father, “I shall be glad to vou join the church and become a better v, but if you do you will probably lose your job with that strawberry packing firm.” “What are your Indianapolis Journ T G doctor?” views on the higher _criticism, asked the inquisitive passenger. “I am not a doctor,” replied the minis- terlal looking passenger. “I am an & But as regards the higher criticism, I fully believe in it. The gang in the gallery knows more about a play than all the newspaper agonizers on earth.” WE'D LIKE TO SEE HER. Boston Courfer. In circles where the fashions all ‘Are known and talked of, there are ru- mors That lovely woman by next fall Will promenade the streets in bloomers. When woman wills she'll have her wa: Though she may shortly after rue it] And all that we have got to say Is this: "We'd like to see her do it YOICK OF THE STATE PRESS. The ralnmaker will work In Nebraska this summer, but he will work for nothing and board himselt. Nobody be- lleves In machine made raln any more; even the rain fakirs refuse (o believe in it, Holdrege Citizen: The fellow who can lift up his eyes and behold Nebraska in all her glory these days and not rejoice that he ok Times: | Tives n Nebraska is devoid of patriotism, and life is nothing but a dream as far as ho fs | concerned Minden Gazette: The people of Nebraska are more Interested in ralsing good crop Just now, for which they can get such money as already exists, than they are in whooping it up for the fellows who want to boom silver mines at their expense orth Bend Argus: Omalia s making preparations for a successful state fair, She has completed many arrangements this early and will continue in that line. The state fair of 1895 under the management of Omaha will be a decided success Western Wave: The crop question in Ne- braska overshadows all other questlons. A goold, full crop of farm products will make timo improve in Nebraska far more than any other one thing. And the prospects are now that we shall get it, Virginia Times: The state falr at Omaha this year promises to be a stunner. Lets all go. You can depend on it that you will be treated right, as Omaha is always to the front in such things. Distance cuts no figure when one is out to see the sights and that's where you can see them. Stanton Plcket: A, H. € of Rock county, the man selected as the appralser of the property by Contractor Dorgan, is sufl- clently pliable for all the purposes of Mr. Dorgan. A man who will sell out the party that elects him and then turn his back upon them, as Gale did when representative from Brown ard Rock counties, is just the man for the Mosher capital ring. Grand Island Republican: The people of Nebraska have great cause for encourage- ment in the present outlook for crops, which gives promise of an abundant harvest and an end to the distressing times through which this in common with many states has passed. mo of the days have looked dark, indeed, but the sunshine of our prosperity dawns again and the outlook for general revival throughout the country, consequent upon the overthrow of democracy, helghtens hope in that direction, and the people have cause to rejolce. Cedar Bluffs Standard: There is some talk to the effect that the street railway of Omaha will not be extended to the falr grounds for fear that it would be a losing investment. The people of Omaha, having secured this great show, we believe they have the man- hood to 11y to every condition, and if the y company will not extend the system the business men will do so. It will bo big dollars in the pockets of the Omaha business men to sce that the people who at- tend the fair this fall are well cared for at moderate rates. Beatrice Times: The railroad people have “‘come off the perch’ on rates to the state fair and said to the board, practically, make your own terms, gentlemen; we want the Deople and tho things there, if it takes every wheel we have got and we lose the engine. The Times is paying more attention to these state fair details just now, because it feels that the success or non-success of a big falr this fall is of vital Importance to the state in counteracting false statements of our condi- tion last year and to show that, bad as it may have been, It was only a temrorary, one- yoar matter. LR S Yo Vroteot the me Pros New York Times. Mr. McCarthy of the assembly of Ilinols ’s to put that body on the right side > can of what to him seems a burnin question. He thinks It 1s a giant evil and monstrous wrong that citizenesses of the United States should expatriate themselves by marrying foreigners. Particularly it saddens him that they should marry titled foreigners, and he has introduced a joint resolution ' for the purpose of warning them that If they pursue that course they can- not look for the approval of the legislature of Illinots. According to the resolution the legislature invites the daughters of Liinois not to give their hands in ‘marringe to any person who Is not a native or a naturalized citizen of the United States, and expresses its convietion that the daugh- ters of 1llinois ought to show themseives patriotic in thelr sentiment and disdainful of the titles of nobfiity of any forelgner Whatsoever. This amusing proposition was amusingly referred to the committee on al relations, since W have not ot h we THE MODERN LEARNED MAIDEN er-Journal. my pretty maild? ' she said. Loutsville Cou “Where are you goin “To Vassar “To Vassar co she sald. “May 1 go with you, my pretty maid? “is a Female colieme, sir, she said, “How may one ent: my pretty maid? “Solely by intellect, she sald. my pretty maid?” she said, me, my “What will you do then, | “Take an A. B, if I can, ““Th won't you marry maid?”’ “Nay, we are bachelors, si pretty * she sald. then, my pretty mald?” sald. pretty “What will you do, “:A‘Irllnll be )Mufl!fl‘ of Arts,'” she “Then won't you marry me, my maid?" 5 “You would be master of me,” she sald. “what will you do, then, my pretty mald? oy tor & 'Ph, D., sir’ she aid, “Then 1 'won't marry you, my pretty Tody asked you, sir “Nobody asked ou, sir,’ o L "fi!r'y she said, “Sir," she sald, “Nobody asked you, sir,’ she she sald. said. BROWNING, KING & CO. Boys’ Suit Bargains. Monday and Tuesday we make a spacial sale of 2-piece suits at three prices. $2.00—$2.50—$3.00. They are beauties—every one of them —None better in the world. The $2.00 suij is a Vermont gray, Ox- ford mixture; also a brown mixed cheviot; nicely made up—Ilong cut coats. The $2.50 suit is a gray or tan, cassimere or cheviot, perfect gems of value. The $3.00 suit is a tan mixed cheviot that ordinarily sells at §5.00 in any other house. These are all our own first-class make—not imported for the occasion— but goods much more. intended te have sold for As these prices are special for this sale we cannot guarantee the assortment to last longer than uesday. ROWNINGKING & (0 Reliable Clothiers, 8. W, Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts.