Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1895, Page 4

RIDAY, MAY 31 1895 THE OMAHA DAILY Bh‘-,‘; e E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. = = PUBLISHE MORNIN T - — TF B g One Year Sunday) Dally Bee (With Daily Bee and Bix Months. Three M nihs v sheen ay One Year Baturduy 1oe. One Year Weekly Des, One Year . OFFICES, On ailding th on T Corner N and 21th St uneil arl Street New York, Rooms 13, and 15, Tribune Bidg, Washington, 1407 F. Strest w CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating t W torfal matter xhould be addr ) BUSINESS LETTS All business lettars and rem| s should b addresee | The Dee Pul X 1any Omaha, Drafts, checks and p X ler be made payable to the order of th npan THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY n MENT OF CIRCULATION Taschuck, secrotar 1 the actual nimbor W' and complet the Daily Morning, Evening and printed during the month of Februa an follows 2 1 Total 557,638 esn deductions for wnsoid and’ retr coples 3 51,63 Iy wveras ' 1700 *Sunday 3y GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK Sworn (o hefore me and subscribed in my pr ence this 24 dny of March. 150 al) ¥EIL, Notary Public. Has the south & monopoly on moneta conventions? er that comes down from the s if it does not incbriate, The v skies che dvery inch of rain that falls in Ne braska will readily coin into cercals that will market for $10,000,000. Twenty thousand dollars a year for running the city treasurer's office within itself a standing advertisement of reckless municipal extravag is nee, neral Colby and Colonel Lindentree were lost in the shuffle among the notables on the governor's staff, That's what we naturally mig with a populist governor Compare The morial day sporting ever other newspapers in this vicinity. For full and reliable news of all kinds the people must look to The Bee. How do you vote on the t have expected of Me- s with those of Bee's reports Iver que tion? asks an inquisitive man. We dow't. And what is more, we see no prospect of any one voting on the silver question for two 1o come. If the president wanted some one to relieve him of the duty of naming Secre- tary Gresham's successor we know of several prbminent democ who would be glad to offer their assistance, Should the rumors of su tions between France and Ja to be correct and the serfous as apprehended there may still be work for the war correspondent in the Orient. ined rel 1 prove difficulties s If there is any populist in the state of rbraska who does not think himsell enough of a fisherman to fill the position of fish commissioner he ought to lose no time in speaking out and loudly, too. eaking Those new-made colonels received their appointments to the governor's staff not one day too soon to enable them to make proper display of th titles on the day set aside for celebr tion of the soldiers’ prowess. —_— There is yet ample time to enter the guessing mateh as to the next secretary of state. President Cleveland's well known independence in the selection of his chief advisers leaves > field for all the political prognostic ir - Ex-Superint York police deg glven credit life without That is the aver: Byrnes of the New rtment must at least he for retiving from official waiting to be forced out. where he differs radically from ze run of oflice holders, — It is the word “free” in the free silver controversy that confuses the ordinary person. It makes many beliove that they are golng 10 get something for nothing and the desire to get something for nothing is a most widespread human ling. It's safe to assert that every A. P, A. Is not a school census enumerator. But it would not be safe to ert that every 8chool census enumerator from the Hon, Jilm Allan down to the man who was fmported from Chieago for this expre purpose is not an A. P. A, Colonel William F. Cody retains his official position on the military staff of the commander of the Nebraska Na- tlonal Guard. Colonel Cody will have opportunities to make use of bis costly uniform. That is something that his assoclates are not so sure of, PR A Chicago paper devotes nearly a column to an enumeration of the many #ood things that have originated in that | city and for which the world is fndebted 10 Chicago. Strange as it ma seem, we fall to find In the list cither the dis- covery of guupowder or the voyage of Columbus. Why should the city of Omaha pay out §200 apiece for water troughs when there is an overlap of $25000 in sight within the pext six months? We have been getting along very comfortably without these water troughs for all these years aund could tainl, get along without them for another year or two, The DBrotherhood of Railw men computes that it lost o mewmbers by reason of the Pully strike and boycott, uor to mention the money dues which they would have pald in. The differcnt parties con cerned in that great controversy, the Pullman company, the rallroad the Iabor orzanizations and the public, will be counting the cost for sowe time yet 19 comey | | tory « 7 0l LOOK SSOIS ar “rom almost every section of Ne- Are we to braska come reports of abundant rains | go on forever at our present extrava- during the past two days. Never were it gait despite altered financial con | rains mory e, The hot winds | ditlons? | and high temperature of the first part | The taxpayers demand of the week were commencing to eav | no little anxiety as to the ability of the the burden now piled upon them. The relief frnm} | couneil should set to work Immediately | | new growing crops to withstand the i,,rq*lrlnu ordinances that will place the drouth. Some slight damage was suf ¥ offices, for next year at least, upon | fered In a few counties to the small | an economieal standard, [ rain and froits, but nowhere was the | bttt e ‘ | corn materially injured. The present | WwiEN Do, THE EMSRUENCY ARISE? | [rains will not only advanca the corn | The entire strength of the nation may be [ well on its way to maturity, but will | used to enferce in eny part of the land the | | save much of the other erops that were | full and free exercise of all national powers in by far worse condition and the security of all rights entrusted by | It must be remembered that corn fs | the constitution to its care. The strong arm Y of the national government may be put forth | [the staple of Nebraska and that re | to brush away all obstructions to the free- ored prosperity depends upon the har | vesting of at least an average yield of |eorn. The Nebiasl farmer plants nearly all his land with corn and views the other grains principally as contribu- | 8. The rains of the past uw.i * the corn erop beyond danger | for some thne to come. With moderate | unfall followed by the usual warm | | weather of mid-summer Nebraska will this year harvest a corn crop that will days pla 15m of interstate commerce or the transporta tion of the mails. If the emcrgency arises, army of the nation and all its militia are at the service of the nation to compel obedi- ence to fts laws, This is the only part of the decision of the supreme court in the Debs case that construed to contain a reference to the summoning of the fed- eral troops to protect the property the railvonds from the threatened inter. can be make up for all losses of the year of | feronce of the strikers. The real point drouth and leave a margin suflicient to [ —that which at the time oceasioned so cover any possible deficiency of the [much bitter controversy—whether the near future. The rains that have just | government is not in duty bound 14.: | fallen, therefore, wmean more than they | exhaust all its peace resources before | | would under ordinary conditions. They | appealing to the regular army to exe- | mean most promising crop prospects, { cute the laws, was not really at issue | neouragement for the farmer and busi like, l | THE DOUBLE INDARD IN EN LAND, monometallism have hitherto, during the years in which the evrrency discussion has been in progress, maintained an at since some of the most influential public chancellor of the exchequer they give unmistakable expression to their fear of what may result from the vigorous work being done for obtaining better condi- tions for silver in the world's currenc, £ could be desired of the The reply of Harcourt to the address is consistent with his previous utter- ances on this subject. The Rosebery ke no concessions to 1 juternational government will ma silver, Should there be s ing that nothing would be done o her [ part to change existing conditions, The knowledge of this may have a tendency to discourage the calling of such a con- ference, and It is not untlkely that the action of the English merchants and bankers had this in view, but there is no reason why those who are seeking an international arrangement in the in- terest of silver should relax their of- forts. They have been steadily gaining ground and will continue to do so, not- withstanding the attitude of the Brit vernment. So far as the Roseber ministry 18 concerned it is believed to e on the verge of dissolution and It is by no means improbable that it will be suceeeded by a government less un- favorable to silver and possibly by one | Will oceupy no insignificant place as an issue and in the event of a conservative victory that should elevate Mr. Balfour to the premiership the cause of bi- metallism would be very greatly helped. As evidence of the progress it is making the address of the gold monometalli the British chancellor of the e chequer is indeed reassuring. to XPAYERS MUST HAVE RELIEF. The mayor's veto of an appropriation of §200 for a watering trough, although overridden by the ¢ council, ought to serve as a foreible reminder that the city must do something in the way of retrenchment if it is to continue to pay its current obligations. What have the great promises of retrenchment made by the new city council resulted in up to this time? Two little ordinances making salavy reductions to the extent of $600. These will certainly bring at reliet to a grateful body of taxpayers! While the salaries of the employes in the city treasurer's office alone amount to §: 000 annually and ‘the salavies paid in other departments are on a correspond ing scale, the council pretends that it can find no place for economiz- ranted by the business and have simi larly veadjusted salaries. There hardly a bank clerk or countant in Omaha who receives more than from $1,000 to $1,200, but the clerks In the city employ receiving sal- rles larger than those are numerous in every oftice, v council claims that it is prohibited by charter from re- dueing salar| of charter offices and | that although, for example, the work of | the city clerk could be given to a com- jpetent man for little more than half | what I8 now paid, no change can made under the tharter, But the er {part of the city salary list comprises salavies which the councit can fix if it will. If it does not waut to touch the present incumbents what is to hinder is ac be The address of English merehants | oe tho strike injunction. The court in | and bankers to Siv William Vernon | yuother place takes pains to state that Harcourt, chancellor of the exchequer, right to use judictal process for inopposition to any change in | pavention exists side by side with [the monetary system of Great| o pight to use foree, It declares in 8o Britain In the Interest of silver, 18| uny words that the bill preseited to | a distinet con fon that the cause of the circuit court disclosed facts that | bimetallism is making progress in that | worranted Judiclnl Intervention, © “It country. These supporters of gold | wvar there was a special exigency pre- courts can do, it is apparent on the titude of apparent indifference to the | gioa of this bill" demand for a larger recognition and use | wo have, then, an authoritative de- of silver, as If feeling absolute con- | ¢jgjon of the supreme court that the | fidence that it was impossible to accom- | ,uant railroad strike of 1894 presented | plish anything in that divection. But [ ¢ emergency calling for Intorference {men in England have espoused ‘the | pu¢ we have nothing to tell us just cause of bimetallism and some of the | whan the emergency arises that con- larger manufacturers have been won | tamplates the use of the army of the over to the cause, while it has made af pation and all its militia to compel | decided advance awong the people, the | ghodience to the laws. Is the emer adherents of gold monometallism have | yoncy for the one the emergency for become alarmed and in addressing the | fho other? That can hardly be, be- No better pre the framers of the constitution. Is an progress that is making in the cause 1 through judicial injunction a of bimetallism in the United Kingdom. ary preliminary to the use of monetary conference while that govern- | \Phe emergency when military “foree ment Is in power it would undoubtedly | iy he neessary to execute the federal send delegates, but it s perfectly clear | jaws, we are told, may avise. But what what the nature of their instructions | constitutes such an emergency and would be. England would enter such a | when it may arise will stll have to e conference with the distinet understand- | qetermined in each case by the authori- sh | even friendly to the white metal. It 18 | oo tod in evory state of the union. more than likely that whenever the That there Is still a demand for the next general clection shall take place | yuartion o s principle everyhody in Great Britain the currency question ; of the republic a free ballot and an he. 4 honest count, and this will be attained 1t our banks and business houses |14 e eduention of publie sentiment. by Jero condueted .on*.tho samo: plan of | annoa) o “tue poplar patelotion and extravagance as our city government | oo 6" gl T8 that' thankine el wo should indeed all bo I a deplorable | yona Jegislation fo bo onforesd wnder | Situntion, But.every hank and mercan- | sonaitiona ropugnant to any portion of tlle lonse 10 tho ity han redueed It | ino nooule: A kreat deal bos baas force of employes to the basls war- What the liad to decide was simply it the courts were authorized to inter- in behalf of the railroads by means | before the supreme court. court | Towe sented,” says the court, “one which de- manded that the court should do what of the courts with injunetional orders. cause we should then summoned every time i ve the military 1 injunction is granted to avert the comm on of acts in violation of federal laws, Noth- ing of that kind was contemplated by the army? The court does not say although it might possibly be Inferred from its language. Must the powers of the civil authorities be first exhausted? The inference is that they need not be, 80, ties without any aid from the supreme court. AIR ELECTIONS. Among the declarations of the Ohio republican platform is one in favor of faiv elections, based upon a free ballot and an honest count, “the safeguard of American institutions, the true source of public authority.” No republican con- vention to be held this year should fail to make a similar enunciation. There is not a republican principle which it is more necessary for the party to adhere to than the one demanding a f) Dballot and an honest count. The party has always advocated and stood for this prineiple, so essential to the security of free institutions, and it must continue to do so until it is fully recognized and knows who is at all familiar with the lection methods in some of the states. The organization of a allot rights league in the south, which is now ae- tively engaged in educating publie senti- ment there in behalf ~of ballot reform, bears unimpeachable testimony to the practice in that section of wrongs upon the ballot which call for remedy. The membership of this league is composed of southern men who have been long familiar with these practices and who understand that they are crimes which an enlightened and free people ought not to tolerate. These men know that such practices injure the south and that reform Is required as well for the ms terial interests of that section as for the cause of good government. But it is not the south alone that is injured. A wrong is done to the nation when by frauds in connection with the ballot, or by denial to any portion of our citizens the free right to cast their vote ac cording to their convictions, the pop ular will anywhere is not fully and fairly expressed. The republican party has no hig duty than that of working and earnestly to secure in ey her constantly v portion complished for ballot reform through the persistent appeals of the republican part Most of the states have steong laws safeguarding the ballot, under the operation of which every citizen of such tes can freely cast his vote and have irly counted, and the few states th ve not such a lnw will assuredly fi into line in time with proper and per- | sistent effort. For all that has been ac complished in this respect the credit is | due to the republican party, which from | its beginuing has taught that a free bal | 1ot and ap honest count are the safe | Buards of American institution There | 18 still necessity for the party adhering | to this principle and urging its recogni- tion at every opportunity. 1 When Channcey Depew tinds himself them from fixing new salaries to talgel,\\;lthuut lnyitations to speak at otber ) ‘~h.'||lfiv. nee 6F e dinner he has § [ privilege of ldxping the fees peoplo’s dinn din in pr 3 he just gives a little Bls ow to keep himself This is probably the chief tendered ex-Py@jdent Harrison few of his poliyiggl friends, and a If the sheriff 1S to be deprived of the collected by him recelver of attached prop- orty the court way be depended upon in the future to furn over fat receiver. ships to some, fyvorite outside of the sheriff's office,,whose right to keep the will be unquestioned. principals of the the coming yoar the as While public re-electii schools for Board of Bducation will have an excel lent opportunity to revise the salary list. But will it take advantage of the opportunity ? —_— Knows Whoreot 1 Chi Patronage, Speaks, nes-Heral nator Brice, is a curse. wo T ays The world delights to listen to a man who Is familiar with his subject. Pkt S \ el Philadelphia Inquirer. Congressman Bryan's attack upon John Sherman reminds us that the smallest Skye- terrier will sometimes bay the noblest mastifr. It is Different in Amerien, Exchange The Berlin, Germany, Street Car company pald $250,000 into the treasury of the eity for the privileges of crossing the principal | avenue, Unter den Linden, at one point, — Tho Kent quidation oky Specifie, utier-Journal continues in whisky,” says the New York Herald. Well, a small amount of water is a good thing to go with the sugar, but it should be used with care and economy sl Beginning of the Fnd. Kansas City Star The Colorado Republican league convention decided, after a bitter fight, not to instruct the delegates to the National league con- vention to bolt if free silver should not be en- dorsed. Does this mean that the crisls in the movement has passed Better Than Bullets, W York Commercial The Cuban insurgents believe that by avold- Ing any large battles and merely worrying the Spaniards they can soon render the Spanish troops useless. They are not able to stand the climate and rapidly than if they ing. are dying off more were engaged in fight- ot A Legislativo Obituary, Detrolt Free Pross, Despite general pledges of economy and specific promises not to vote the people's money away in allowing extra pay to its employes, the extras were voted and a policy of extravagance was maintained to the last The people of thé state rejoice, not because of what the legislature did, but because it has surrendered ito powers for evil, They hail the oy of 'frecdom in being emancipated from the thrall'om of such a body. MThe; have a new feeling of safety and a pleas ing sense of sevurity in the fact that further invasion of their rights in the interest of mercenary corporations anl unscrupulous political bosses 'Is rendered impossible. They have learned a costly and impressive lesson which time will not éfface and which memory will cherish as a means to future safety. g s Utah's' Juky Innovation, Plitladelphia Record. The new stite of Utah contemplating the trial of an experiment the result of which would be most noteworthy. This young- est of the American commonwealths pro- poses to intreduce an fnnovation into one of the oldest of English constitutional the trial by a'jury of twelve good men and true—which hAs ‘dated from .even before King Alfred’s refgn. Utah proposes an cight-men jury system in civil cases, three- fourths of the panel to render a verdict Under such a « 1 it would not be possi- ble for one juror to force a disagreement, and economically the trial process would be much cheaper ‘than it is no Such a change in criminal cases would be a perilous experiment, but the essay in civil suits might not be without a great deal of profit for all the rest of the union. it B PEESONAL AND OTHERWISE, The parched fields looked up and gaspe and then the heavens wept A woman in trousers led a mob at Rome, Mo. She distanced the mob and escaped to cover, The new woman cannot be regarded as fairly in it until she succeeds in creas knickerbockers, Don M. Dickinson's whiskers are waving in the direction of the vacant cabinet chair, but that tail-twisting speech rises up to cloud the horizon of his hope, Secretary Morton, who is sitting for a bust, has instructed the’sculptor to put in every wrinkle, declaring: “I have not been sixty years acquiring these wrinkles to have any-. body rub them out.” With the active aid of police clubs in east- ern cities the heads of bicycle scorchers are gradually comprehending the fact that pedes trians are entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” So great was the rush of business at the close of the Michigan legislature that estab. lished prices were cut under and everything went. The lobby took everything in- sight and delivered the goods, Mrs. Harlan is said to be almost as large physically as her husband, the supreme court Justica, who is six feet two inches tall, ana when together in public they naturally at- tract a great deal of attention, Bx-President Harrlson has a_double in one of his perscnal friends, General A, H. Boech, of Wheeling, W. Va. His figure and features, even to his eyes and the color of his hair, make him almost the counterpart of Mr, Harrison, Congressman Coggswell of Massachusett who died rccently in Washington, had a re markable career in the army during the civil war. Before his 22nd year he had risen through the grades of captain, lieutenant colonel and colonel to that of brigadier gen- eral. Count Castellane is giving his America millions a lively rattle. He s constructing a $600,000 house, is accumulating a large stable of fast horses, and showing in other prodigal ways a determination to keep the cobwebs oft his matrimonial haul. And yet the old mar- ing her forms, | GRESHAM LAID AT REST Ceremonles at Chieago Even More Simple Than at Washington. CHICAGO, May 30.—Without ostentation, as befitted his life among this but with the military and civic accompaniment which ran even foot with his achlevements as soldier, jurist and statesman, the of Walter Q. Gresham, general the unfon armies, Judge of the foderal courts, ry of state of the United States, temporarily laid to rest in Oakwood ry this afternoon amid the flower- graves of comrades in arms graves decorated by the hands of men who SECRETARY people ro- mains in and secry were cem strown his | had fought them on many a bloody battle- field and in the shadow of the monument Just dedicated in honor of the valor of those who had given their lives for the cc nfederate It was o most remarkable juxtaposition In the earlier lours of the day felerals and confederates had jolned in the unvelling of a monument to the 6000 lerates who died in the prison Catiip Douglas, the confederate association had strewn upon the graves of the unfon soldiers conf had military at buried there a mass of flowers brought from the ground over which these two had fought less than a generation ago, and the union | veterans had placed upon’ the graves of their fallen comrades in the other ceme t about this city the flowers which grow in our own latitude Almost while the echoee of the voll | fired over the confederate burying ground | by the First regiment of state troops and of the bugle blare and “taps’ were still sound- ing and the smoke from their rifles was | #till floating over the field of peace the cortege of the dead secretary of state filed through the gates into the cemet. It | was a remarkably fitting climax to the re. markable ceremonies which had just closed that the remains of the man should be de posited there, the keystone to the arch of recemented friendship w Just been unveiled there. For as a s-liler he had won the respect of those who fought him; as a jurist he had gained the love of the common people, and as secretary of state in a democratic administration he had commanded the support of the people of the south as well as of the north. LITTLE TIME FOR PREPARATION. The brief time at command after the de- cislon as to the time and place of burial left se visible sign had le time for elahorate preparations for | funeral Lonors to the dead secretary. In fact, beyond the general outlines, the ar- rangements were not completed until within an hour of the time of carrying them into execution In anticipation of the military feature of the escort, two troops of cavalry and a battery of light artillery were started from Fort Sheridan, twenty miles north of this city, yesterday afternoon. Tiiey camped last night just north of the city limits and this forenoon marched to Sixty-third street and the Illinois Central tracks. | This morning the Fifteenth infantry, United States regulars, went by train from Fort Sheridan to the same point, reaching there at 1 o'clock this afternoon In the mean- while Major General Wesley Merritt, Colonel H. C. Corbin, Colonel Crofton, United Marshal Arnold and a committee of citizens met in consultation and completed the ar- rangements, | At Fordham, on the Baltimore & Ohlo road, the specfal funeral train was switched to the tracks of the Illinois Central, arriving at Sixty-third street at 2 o'clock this after- noon. “Thero the procession was formed, | headed by the escort of honor, consisting of | the troops of all arms from Fort Sherid These were followed by the honorary pall bearers and next came the funeral car, with the active pallbearers walking off either side, Next rode the members of the late secretary's | family and the presidential party, and the | rear of the cortege was brought up by the | | members of the Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Republic veterans, judges of courts, state and municipal office s, clvie | societies and citizens, | The procession moved west on Sixty-third |'street to Oglesby av nue, south to Sixty- | sixth street, west to Evergreen avenue and south to the cemetery. The entire line of march was crowded with people, who res spectfully bowed their heads passed, Arrived at the cemetery chapel the casket was removed from the funeral car and borne Within by eight sergeants of marine he services, conducted by Rev. Pherson of the Second Presbyterian church, were impressive but simple, consi ely of scriptural readings, a hymn by choir and pr At their conclusion the re- mains were temporarily deposited in the re- ceiving vault of the cemetery. No salute was fired, the ceremonies con- cluding with “taps, he train had been street, and the pres to it and at once star to Washington, — THE DEBS DECISION, as the cortege J. Me- held at Sixty-third dential party returned ted on the return trip Minneapolis Times: The decision of the supreme “court vindicates for all time the 1aw in regard to the processes of the United States courts, Within the circle of thelr | power these courts have jurisdiction as bind. ing as that of any state court within the dis. trict for which it is established. Minneapolis Journal: The decision s a very important one, as it establizhes the power of the government to protect inter- state commerce from interruption by violence and secures the right of the United States courts to enjoin men from combining to- | gether to interfere with interstate commerce | and the United States mails | Chicago Record: What is of far more practical importance, however, is the decision hat the federal government, whencver its | mails are threatencd because of a strike, re- | scrves the right to take direct action. It | Wil cause its courts to issue an injunction, the failure to observe which will constitute immediate grounds for the application of force. % Chicago Times-Her The labor unions of the country can find sound counsel between the lines of the decision in the Debs case The constitution of the United States is on their side. Irresponsible aggregations of men calling themselves by labor names can- not convulse the entire world of indusiry and trade hereafter without facing serious consequences. Chicago Tribune: The result of this will be that whatever else may be interfered with | there will be no more attempts except on the | part of train robbers to stop the transporta- tion of the mails or to tie up futerstate com- merce. There will be no more Insur tions like that of last July. No so-called “labor leaders” will endeavor to block the quis wrote about the American greed for | Wheels of commerce in order to bring pres- wealth. What ¢harming conceit sure to bear on some private corporation. There died in Milan, Italy, the other day | FOr they will know that if they attempt it a woman with”a remarkable history. She | the national courts will them from was Signora Catetifa Passudotti, who took | Violating the law; that If, they defy the courts part in the olutions of 1831, 1848, 1853 | they will either be arrested by its officers and 1864. Her“house in Friaul in 1864 was | OF the armed forces of the national govern- the trysting place of all revolutionists, She [Ment will be called out to suppress them had great influsnee’ over Muzzinl, and was| Detroit Free Press: The right of lahor to called “The Spartai” by Garibaldi, organize and combine for the promotion of its A Kansas City ‘man who accumulated a [ interests is not questioned. In every way wad hied to Chicago and proved an easy | consistent with the rights of the individual mark for the crooks, He was plucked three [and of the state it may work for the pro times on different days, and after complaining | motion of its cause Through the ballot to the police of thé attentions paid him, dis- [ box and legislation its way to the advance played a roll of 3231. The fact that he had 80 much money ‘dizcredited the assertion tha he hailed from “Kansas City and the polic concluded to pineh Him The Tarheel staté f again convulsed the explosive young governor fired a blank cartridge at Judge ‘@oft and fatled to receive an adequate reepofisé he has strutted about nd metaphorically fvited somebody to “step on the tail of me eoat.” An implement sim- ilar to the fluent weapon of China was hurled at M. C. Butler, ex-United States senator, and the latter retorts that the beardless gov ernor is a blackguard and that his r t truth to fiction is about 100 to 1. Whereat there are visions of hairtrigger pistols and prospective duels Highest of all in Leave: ning Power.-— Latest U. S, Gov't Report Roval ment of its own welfare is unimpeded. That it may not resort to rioting, the destruction of life or of property, or to the maltreating of those who to work, is conceded by the entire element of respectability the ranks of labor. Neither can it conspire and combine to work the will of the con spirators by interfering with interstate tran portation or the carrying of the mails. Wh it seeks to obstruct these it comes in conflic with the authority of the government and will be checked by the intervention of federal authority. Labor is simply told that it must chos obey the laws and the true friends of its cause have long recognized that its battles can only be fought successfully with legal weapons, Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE THE BABY REPURLIC. New York Tribune: That the Formosans have declared their independence of China is not a bit surprising, sceing that they have never acknowledged China's sovereignty over them. Fully two-thirds of the island has al- | ways been independent of forelgn rule. But Japan is likely to bring the whole of it to | terms in short order. Globe-Democrat The report coming from Formosa that the Island is to be a republic fs amusing in consideration of the fact that the natives in the central ranges of moun tains are unconquered savages and are ac cused of ca balism, while the other inhabi tants are chiefly Chinese immigrants, It extremely probable that Japan will take pos session of the island in force in due time and glve it the best government it has ever | known Philadelphia Press: Formosa s a_half-sav- | age island, never yet wholly subdued, peopled by a semi-Malayan race. It is possible that the Chinese capacity for organization, which | exists in spite of its apparent failure fn ¢ present war, may bring the savag: fighting | tribes of Formosa to common action in oppo- sition to a Japanese army of occupation. It is not unlikely Japan will be put to som: | expense and trouble by the provisional govern ment which has just been established in For mosa_and desultory fighting may go on for months; but the ports and the settled parts of Formosa will be promptly occupled T10W.A PRESS COMMENT. Cedar Rapids Gazette: General Drake is | reputed to be a man of ability in business | affairs. He is a man of great wealth and seemingly of much liberality. He has a | splendid “war record and many things to | commend him to the people, but these are | mot the only qualifications. We want a gov ernor who is thoroughly identified with Towa | business and Towa affairs, and do not think | it advisable to nominate a_railroad president | for that place, especially of a largely forelgn road Des Moines Le The republican news- | papers who insist that Towa politics shall | this year be conducted upon national issues should punch up the republican candidates for governor to make some sort of expres sfon upon the most conspicuous national question of the year. Oysters are garrulous compared with the silence which has been maintained by Drake, McFarland and others upon the financial question. They have been asked to define their views, but the requests have provoked only more sodden dumbness. Davenport Democrat: It fs officially an- nounced that Governor Jackson and the executive council have appointed Colonel Charles J. Murphy honorary commissioner for the state of Towa to aid in developing a market In REurope for American cereals, The appointment does not carry with it y expense, It is not, therefore, of no im- portance or a matter of mere form. Colonel Murphy is soon going to Europe as the repre- sentative of me large houses interested in extending American trade. He will have op- portunities for doing good work for corn, and that he will improve them is certaln, Rty NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, found drowned in his windmill tank. It is believed that he committed suicide. A Niobrara lady celebrated her 35th birth- day this we The notable feature of the celebration is that the lady was born in Niobrara and has never lived anywhere else, Nebraska City has organized an artillery company, with William Mapes as captain. | The company will be loaded with a gatling and will belong to the Nebraska National Cuard. Joo Opelt, the Lincoln hotel not ashamed of the Indian blood in his | veins since Uncle Sam has given him and | his family ten quarter sections of land in Oklahoma. So many beets are going be ratsed | und Emerson that the enthusiastic cit- | zens claim that an extra train will have to | be run between that town and Norfolk dur- ing the marketing season Peter Myers, a school boy aged 15, living at Dixon, was accidentally shot in the head by a playmate and has since died. It is now claimed that the shooting was not accidental and the boy who fired the shot is under ar- rest. Elmer McKibben, a young farmer living | near Battle Creek, undertook to drive a | Tha thiet opened and_a bullet struck McKibben in his | ch. The timeplece was smashed, but the | under lost a job. ’ Representatives of the | southern Nebraska circuit have agreed upon the following dates for this fall: Wilber, ‘ August 21 to 23; Edgar, 27 to :zmi | | | manager, is to thief out of his corn crib. fire ker various fairs in the August 27 Geneva, Septem 2 to Hebron, Septem- ber 9 to 12; Nelson, September 17 to 20; Superlor, September 24 to 2 s Harmony and Uncertainty. Globe- nocrat. The democratic editors of_‘he state of New | York banque together to find out where they are at and learned from Mr. Cleveland by letter that the party is for sound money and against all schemes born of discontent and from Mr. Hill that democracy repre- | sents state sovereignty. The editors dis- persed without of these points. | them anyhow. Won't cost y to make a trade. You find on the price. Special Sale They will want a cool hat to we have all kinds of them, 50¢, 75¢ up. We will use *Your money's worth or we | li'ble not ter fecling very. certain on any | (Creoy out with good stylish hats cheap. MIRTHFUL MIND READING. Philadelphia Record: The orator whose ‘heart bleeds for the down-trodden work- fngman'* s in no danger of death from loss of blood, suppose gini? Chica heard of th “Certainly “How do of #0 much ‘Possibly Ry electric have you you account for lectricity in her he was shocked at some time.'* the presence Freo is as fatig Tramp. Pross 1ng as That's why Hardworke: ppose Is sweet. 1 ain't never idle, Tdle gton Uncle Eben, “d; thermometer Star “Ero oman” sald at keeps his min' on _de barometer am pow'ful o much else in dis worl Boston Transcript claimed 1orso which paper is noi plied Hass. I was told at the thea the other night, and 1 was told it was all paper. And it was a fine, substantial looks Ing* structure, too," “Only of the think," ex- many uses to put!" “T know,'" Chicago Record Hastings paper—An impoverished heen captured - and New Hubbs helre ding has in (re nobleman placed in - custody by George, 1 never thought would g0 €0 far as tha th Indi thing, ‘A least, Journal “Insignificant ed the morning glory said the dandelion, with great dlgnity, fof one so lowly, “1 am no porchs climber.” Columbus Journal: Speaking of the damage to the growing wheat crop, it took the old continentals to make the Hessian fly ston Globe: Ticycling Beauty—I am sorry, sir, that you have been the vietim ot an aceidént: but what else can you expect when, at this date of the nineteenth ce tury, vou ride a horse that scares at a feycle? tim of Accldent (dr Madam, ) was not the bicyele the h cared at, Boston Had a fortune IFrum his « Craze fur writin’, Had it bad Thought he 1 too atoor ished poems, ostly grou Now he's In th' soup! THE FATE OF THE BLOOMERS. wuz a much Chicago Post. She gayly put her bloomers on— They seemed a full vard wide— urveyed herself and cried, ow, Johng Just sce how well 1 ride.” She started out, a_merry lass, And of her bloomers v ut, sad to say, it came pass, That she was drenched by rain. And then when her bloomers were thore wet As oughly wet as one's bloomers can She not alas—prithee, what do you — think Wisner citizens will prospect for wealth | The blogmers she wore were beginning o sht-acre chicory pate Shrink; L sk ol And smaller and smaller they grew at a An enterprising laundryman at Hastings | ™50 does, $200 worth of work cvery week for | That was simply appaliing; and, sad to Omaha part | " elate, side of five inutes the seemed but to Henry Crowell is digging for coal near | 15jle of il ¥ | Lyons and clalms to have taken out of the | A pair of men's breeches that end at the shaft gold-bearing quartz rock [ Khee! Brod! Tarecn. Iviis hast. Sh1cKIoy) \m“ But still they kept shrinking as homeward I8 1 sor 8 of evil it scemed to forbode, ck at her door, the most startiing of sights, She landéd attired in little but tights, Of course, you think thut af 'r this She thréw away the clothes, And yet in that you are amiss, As ev'ry neighbor knows. As bloomers they won't do, Indeed, For all the boys would hoot, But_they'll appear when she may need A seashore bathing Decoration Day again— Peace to our hevoes dend; g life to the veterans all. Decorated with all the high- est honors that he world's ex- perts can give, the old veteran the Kimball Piano— still con- tinues to be the best piano on earth. Basy terms. A. HOSPE, Jr Music and Art, 1513 Douglas TEETEEAS S N Wears a Stetsou Special This Man But how much cooler and pleasanter he would look had he only thought to ride down and get one of our nobby straw hats? We have about 50 styles. In fact all the styles made, and 1t would as- tonish you to know how cheap we are selling them. Beaut's for only soc each, Several styles of these. Then 75¢ $1.00, §1.50, $2;00, $2.50 up to $7.50. ou a cent, and we may be able Come in and see a hat to suit and we will svit Friday and Saturday. Send Down Your Boy or Girl. And Prices ranging from 235c, 35¢ wear through vacation. good judgment and fit them You know our mottos will trade back.” See our big ad. on Page 5. Reliable Clothicrs and Hatters, > B % I ~ ot S = e P P Ry |