Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 12, 1895, Page 4

== oo —— e PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUESCRIPTION (With Dally Hew and Sanday, One Year Bix Months i i tiee, ‘One. ¥ OFFICES St rmaha, S et £ X and 20 8ta thune g All I 3 shouid | addressed, 8 i« Compiny PR IUBLISHING COMPANY 7 STATEMENT OF Genrge 15, T e Actnal number of full the "Dally 'Morning, | printed during the 'm follows N, TZRCHTUCK m(h' al.) . FEIL, Notary Public. tate secretaries of th ow for tho: Board of Transportation! The farmer who planted sugar be 13 the farmer who sees his crop alr half matured. Umpiring a peni is more lucrative if le ppraisement asant than between the federal courts and the alkall desert, the Oregon Short Line is baving very hard sledding these troublous days. o A S Sy Senator ‘Thurston and Congresst Mercer have n responsibility in fixing better train and mail schedules for Omaba that they should not hesitate to assume, As It is the very regions that were most affected by dronth in Nebraska last year that are being abundantly supplied With rain this spring. This is the com- pensation of People break out of penitentiarie maost every day, but the difficult feat of breakir penitentiary will be left for the newly appointed ex-warden, Su perintendent Steward Beemer. till rated as assessments The credit of Om A1, but if the farcical and wholesale tax exemptions continue, Omaha will have to follow the lead of Memphis and declare herself insolvent. islature but known how much there was to be in that peniten tiary appraisement job it would no doubt have undertaken to fix a value on tlie property of Mosher and Dorgan itself. Grant that the Pullman property in Omaha was assessed at one-tenth its value, the state board tells us it Is worth $£7,300. A more preposterous ing never disgraced the SSIent books. If the “straights” can't get a new democratic state convention together this year they will still have the re- source to fall back upon of reconven- fng the rump that sailed under that name a year ago. The momentous question the members of the stralght democratic agitating central committee Is, Will they be able to find enough straight democrats in Nebraska to supply all the different counties with county central comumit- tees? The new attorney general arrived too late to take a hand in either the income tax cases or the Debs contempt pro. ceedings, but he still has ample oppor- tunity to distinguish himself by push ing the prosecution of the great trusts and combines. The assessment of railroad property 1n Douglas county shows a material de. , a8 might possibly have been ex- pected. But it utterly fails to mention the existence of Mr. George Gould's $8,000.000 Belt Line, which omission was wholly unexpected. With measured regularity the prop erty of the Pullman company in this county Is assessed for taxation. This year it Is placedy at $720, but judging from the past, that fact is no criterion that the company will ever pay the tax into the county treasury. There is a strange and unfamiliar sound in the reports of freshets and canal overflows in Nebraska. While the damage may work hardship upon a Sew the state at large will profit immeasur ably by the heavy rainfall the past few days. Verily there will be no famine fa Nebraska this year. Mr, Bryan h aceepted an invitation to K at the Oklahoma free silver convention, to be held at Oklahowa City this month. Oklahoma epre sentation In neither congress nor the electoral college, but Mr. Bryan's ap- peals for free coinage of the white wetal will do as wmuch good there as any place There Is no reason why Omaha should remain without proper police protection for a single day, and there is no reason why crooks, blackmailers, malcontents or imbeciles should be tolerated on the force for an hour. The police commis slon should perform its duty fearlessly even if the term of every member of the commission should expire within forty elght hours, THOSE HONEST APPRAISERS. The fact thet W. J. Droatch and Jo Gafin signed the award tractor Dorgan 15 sufficient N. to Prison Con- evidence to Im- [pmm people who know the high character | of these gentio 1 n that that award | made In all hone World-Herald was The fact that J. N. Gaffin and W. J. Broateh certified that Dorgan Is en- titled to $23,40800 from the state of Nebraska for his chattels in the pen- itentiary Is no proof that the award was honestly made. The act passed by the legislature for the relief of Dor dirceted the state board to appoint one who was to represent the in the state. Dorgan was to name a second appralser to act for Lim and the governor was to appoint who could intervene only in case the appraisers disagreed At the instance of Attorney General Churehill the Dboard named W. J. Broateh to represent the state. Dorgan appointed as his man the Hon. A. H. | Gale, who had endeared himself to Mosher and the penitentiary gang dur ing his brief legislative carcer. Gov ernor Holeomb appointed J. N. Gaffin as apprais terests of n umpire, wmpire. The man who was supposed to represent the state proved himself a mere stool pigeon of Dorgan and the umpire was therefore simply an on looker in Venice. The only thing |left for him to do was to pa a matter of form on two or three trifling matters, to sign his name to the report and to draw $500 for his services as umpire. Whatever odium attaches to this shameless treasury raid must lie on the shoulders of the man who pretended to represent the state's interests. Why did Attorney General Churchill select W, J teh for this ¢ Wle piece of fngglery? Because Churchill knew his man as well a8 Dorgan knew his man. Durin term as mayor of Omaha teh had given proofs of his high abilities for politieal financiering. It is still in the memory of impartial people that the Omaha Gas company during hro rlec the term of Broateh as mayor tried to engineer a claim for over £45,000 through the city council. This claim was pronounced oxcessive by Gas Inspector Gilbert. It was asserted by officers of the gas company that the boodle gang in the council demanded 50 per cent of the claim before they would allow it. The exposure of this gas claim hold-up by The Bee effectual blocked the game and the gas company finally brought suit against the city in the courts. Those who were conversant with the nature of the claim and the counter- claims of the city were confident that the company could not possibly get a judgment for over $25,000. On the very last night of the council and an hour before Broateh passed out of the office of mayor a resolution was railronded thro the council and signed by Broateh on the spot, direeting the eity attorney zas claim terest. The impirtial people of Omaha also remember another little incident in the official of Mr. Broatch that illustrates his peculiar fitness to repre sent the state in a position that re- quired the highest degree of integrity. The incident we vefer to happened, as to confess judgment on the for the full amount and in- reer it were, on the eve of the republican city convention in which Brosteh sought to secure a renomination. On the day of the republican primarics the impartial penitentiary appraiser had al hundred Italians enrolled on the strect commissioner’s gang and voted at the polls. Although these men had not done a stroke of work for the city, the ¥ treasurer was ordered to pay them out of the public funds in advance of the appropriation, and the councll com- bine, which subsequently voted the gas steal through, ratified the lawless order of the mayor. No wonder Dorgan was satisfied with the selection of Broatch to represent the state. No wonder also that Mr. Broateh is commended highly by our amiable contemporary. That paper has been consistent in one thing only. It has a sympathetic affinity with jobbery and robbery. When that paper can't display this sympathy openly and above board It does it under cover. Those rctics with regard to the im- state officials and public plunderers, whether located in the capitol, the county court Louse or the city hall. It has been the refuge and solace of all the senmps and rogues that lave been exposed by The Bee in their nefarious work and its apology for the latest penitentiary steal will surprise 10 one who knows its methods. WILL SPLIT THE PARTY. Mr. William €. Whitney, whose au- thority to speak for an element of the demoeratic party will not be questioned, says If the silver men should carry the next democratic national couvention it would split the part The free silver democrats say that if the national con- vention fuils to approve the policy they advocate and to nominafe a ndidate who favors the free, unlimited and in- dependent colnage of silyer at the ratio of 16 to 1 they will desert the party and nominate a free silver man for the pr . This is the dilemma which now confronts the democracy and with which it will have to deal a year hence. Practically the democ arty is now as thoroughly split as it well conld be, with uo promise or prospect that the breach ean be closed before the meeting of the national convention to nominate a presidential candidate. Only denc ie in the Iver-producing states Is it united, 1t is badly split in Ohio, where young Mr. Thurman, the chairman of the state executive committee, is labor- ing vigorously in the free silver inter- est, and Senator Brice as actively en- gaged in antagonizing his effor It is split in Ilinois, in Kentucky, in lowa, in Nebraska—everywhere, in short, the dewocracy is hopelessly split on the sil- ver question, except in the mining states. The free silver element of the party has been making an effort to have a national convention called to take action on the silver question, but the appeal to the chalrman of the dem- oeratie national committee met with an adverse respo He declined to do aything look to the calling of a national convention on the ground that there 1s no necessity for a convention 1se, at this time, and that to call one now “would be harmful to the business in- terests of the country and prejudicial to the welfare of the democratic party. The free silver democrats may hold a national convention, but they cannot have one with the authority of the na- tional committee of the party. There is little reason to doubt that this situation will continue until the meeting of the regular democratic tional convention being the case tion as to wh next year and this it Is an interesting ques- wetion that convention will probably take regarding silver, Tt is now quite generally believed that the froe silver element will be In the ma Jority in the convention, and certainly there will have to be a most effective eduentional campaign among the masses of the democracy in order to prevent the free silver men obtaining control of the national convention. Undoubtedly if delegates were to be selected now free silver would have an overwhelm ing majority of them. ut in any event it appears inevitable that the result of the action of the next demo cratic national convention on silyver will be a split in the party and the placing in nomination of two democratic presi dentinl candidates. Judging from the present situation there will be no chanee of compromise, for the free sil ver men understand that they canuot make any concession or surrender any part of their demand without putting their cause in peril, while for the advo- there tes of a sound currenty is no middle ground. of the United States, was sworn in day and entered 'he Cincinnati Gazotte speaks in very smpli- mentary terms of Judge Harmon. It says of him that he is an able law yor and a man of high character; that he is in favor of a sound currency and of civil service reform; that his demo racy Is of the better sort, and it thinks his appointment a judicious one. Such testimony from a republican paper in the home city of the new attorney gen- eral will be accepted as an ample en- dorsement of his fitness. It would be interesting to know how Attorney General Harmon stands with regard to the trusts and combinations which the fedel statutes declare to be unlawful and the existence of which Mr. Cleveland said in his inaugural ad dress Is against tne public interest and welfare. Thvre is an anti-trust law that was enacted in 1800 and the is an anti-trust section in the present tarift law. The predecessor of the new attor- ney general ne made any adequate effort to enforce these law He had one case against the Sugar trust under the earlier act and the trust won, while as to the later anti-trust legislation it has not, 8o far as known, receive Ny tention from the Department of Jus- tice, although it was incorporated in the tariff law because Mr. Olney had given lis opinion to congress that the law of 1800 was worthless that further legislation was necess: The present administration eame into power pledged to use all the authority ven it to relieve the people from the exactions of trusts and combinations formed to crush out competition and regulate production and prices. It has entively failed to make good this pledge. yestel his {utie upon Commercial Attorney General Harmon has an op- portunity to win eredit for the admin- istration and for himself by making an earncst effort to enforce the laws. iti-trust SHOWING THE HGOF. It is an open secret that the howling dervishes who have been conspiring to convert the police and fire departments into political machines to keep the gang in control of city and county affairs have been given aid and comfort by the Omaha World-Herald. While the Churchill-Russell bill was pending be- fore the legislature that double-dealing concern encouraged the cowbine in its work. When the bill was forced over the governor's veto the same serpentine tactics were pursued. And now when the police commission s about to re- organize the force the cloven hoof is exhibited in its full deformity. A de- liberate attempt is made to frustrate the movement to secure a eonipetent chief of police by warning aspirants to the position that they can at best secure only a six weeks' job. That pape: further seeks to play into the hands of the combine by declaring that no com- petent man would accept an appoint- ment on uncertain tenure, because the whole police force wiil be turned up- side down as soon as the Churchill- Russell appointees come in. How does this strike the citizens of Omaha who are demanding eflicient police protection? Are they content to remain exposed to crooks and burglars until the contest over the validity of the CLOVEN s new law has been settled? Good lawyers declare that the Churchill Russell bill is as full of holes as a skimmer and will not hold water when it comes to be tested in the courts Nobody n foretell how long the con- test in the courts will last. Why should Omaha without an efficient polic force during the pending of the con- test? If the present commission secures a first class chief of police, will any com- mission dare to depose him without eeuse? The citizens of Omuaha would no more tolerate such an infraction of the spirit of the law creating a metro- politan police than they would an at- tempt to arbitrarily depose Fire Chief Redell. It must be apparent to every- body that the duty of the police com- missioners is to give us ample police protection without reference to the pos- sibility of their belng superseded by the Churchill-Russell triumvirate. be The South Omaha assessment for 1805 is a half million dollars short. That means a decrease in valuation of 25 per within twelve months, and that naturally will compel a corresponding raise in rate of taxation to get enough revenue to meet expenses. Now, while there has been some shrinkage in prop- erty values within the past year, there has been more than responding increase in building improvements, Sev- eral of the packing houses have been cent the cor OMAHA DAILY BEF: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1895. rebuilt and materially enlarged, and other structurds lve been erected. The assessment fory 18304 was, furthermore, less than oneentieth of the actual | value of the préferty appraised. The | reduction of ,Ahly year Is, therefore, ndalously @t variance with the spirit and letter of fffe faw. It the assessors | keep on cutting down the valuation at the rate of per cent a yi how many years wiksit take to bring the whole assessment 'below nothing? And how soon will ‘6ur county and city gov ernments have' to ‘apply for receivers? One of Prof, Laughlin's latest news. paper contributions is a learned dis- | sertation on the value of mon "he professor is uinly an authority upon this subject. He showed his apprecia tion of the intricacies of the problem when he unceremoniously quit his posi tion as a member of the faculty of Cornell university to accept a more lu- crative offer from the University of Chi cago, and he has shown Lis continued appreciation of the value of money by hanging on to his job at the University o until the prospect of emple ment at a higher salary shows itself. The Chicago newspapers have a strong special advoeate in General Superin- tendent White of the railway mail serv- ice. 8o powerful and far-reaching is the influence of (‘hicago upon the PPost- office department and upon the railways centering there that it will prove a most difficult matter to effect the reform for which Omaha and Council Bluffs are carnestly contending. Incossant hammering, however, may eventually accomplish something. One W. Morton 1ith, notorions for ving wrecked two newspaper: comes into court and says the othe low did it. now v fel- The other fellow, however, had had no previous experience in newspaper wrecking. It was a profes- sional wrecker who brought the Call into bankruptey and there was but one person connected with it who could lay claim to that distinetion. 15 Uncle Horaca in 112 Chicago Inter Ocea Ex-Governor Horace Boles of Towa is said to be a candidate for governor again as a preliminary to a presidential nomination next year. The Boles boom in 1892 was made up brincipally of the lowa State band. There was plenty of good music at the Iowa head- quarters, but there were no votes for Boies in the convention. Better luck to the old man next year. ESer The Sitnailon In Kentneky, Cincinnati Commercial, If anybody in all the broad land thinks the democrats huve a sure cinch on Ken- tucky this year, fot them just keep up that delusion until thereampaign closes and then see how hard they will fall. The good peo- ple of Kentucky were slow in coming to it, but they have at last. awakened to the fact that democratic rule is misrule; that demo- cratic policy is a policy of retrogression and repression, instead 'of progress and pros- perity. belief at the polls. They will give emphasis to this new Mark it down. Philagelphja Recc No doubt Mr. Harrigon finds it as difficult as ever to divest himself of his political entity. Still, it is altogether credible that his vistt to Philadelphia yesterday and to his former postmaster general, Mr. John Wana- maker, was purely a social call, for Phila- delphia has inimitable social charms at this as at other seasons, and it deserves to be said that the interest excited by his coming was as much an involuntary tribute of re- spect for the man as for the ex-president— the only living ex-president of the United States. e Taking the ‘tax O Noise. Boston Herald The small hoy will acquire a realizing sense of the benefits of tarift reform on the coming Fourth of July. Under the McKin- ley tariff 8 cents a pound had to be paid on all firecrackers brought into this country. Under the new tariff there is an ad valorem duty of 50 per cent. A box of firecrackers which used to be taxed 56 cents will now be taxed only 12 cents. The retail price is not likely to be higher than 2 cents a package, and they could be sold at that with profit to the wholesaler, the jobber and the retailer. The new duty will mean lower prices, too, for cannon cackers, Roman candles, sky- rockets, pinwheels, devil's chasers, and about all the other implements of the Fourth of July racket. ——— Th amaster. New York World. Accusations are now made against the Co- lima’'s officers that they needlessly sacrificed the lives of the passengers by refusing to permit them to equip themseives with life preservers when the danger became Im- minent. Whether this charge is true or not only a searching official inquiry can deter- mine. And such inquiry is necessary upon other grounds. It seems scarcely doubtful that the ship was sent to sea improperly equipped for the possibilities of the voyage and loaded in a dangerous way. If these ap- pearances are facts it is Imperative that the | truth about the matter shall be made known' by offlcial inquiry. To send any ship to sea improperly loaded, or on any other account unfit to encounter the dangers of the voyage, is a crime that calls for punishment e Samples of Corporate Greed. Washington Star. Soulless corporations are generally also de- ficient in matters of memory. When New York troops went to Brooklyn for the pur- pose of protecting the property of the trol- ley companies whose employes had reason- ably decided that their labor was insuffi- ciently remunerated the officers of the trol- ley companies were very enthusiastic in their greeting of the civilian soldiers, whose pres- ence assured peace. No sooner had these things quieted down and the national guar men returned to their ordinary avocations than the trolley companies commenced to send In bills for the rent of power houses and offices occupied by the troops on duty. The assurance displayed in rendering those bills was one of the finest exhibitions of in- gratitude ever witnessed in this country. Now another one hus come to the front, an official of the Erie railroad having dis- charged one of the clerks in his office who is a national guardsman because the clerk at- tended the ordered. rifle practice at Creed- moor one day last week. The clerk had no option. The laws of the state compelled him 10 go to Creedmoor, and there seems to be no reason for imagining that the Erie rail- road could not get along without him for but heé nevertheless was dis- Not such & very long time ago charge the Erie railroad was frantically calling upon the national guard -of the state to come up to Buffalo and savé its enormously-valuable property from a mob that threatened to turn Buffalo inside out. “That seems to have been forgotten by the offielal who deprived an em- ploye of his job bevausé he, In obedience to orders, went to Creedmoor for the purpose of adding to his efitfercy so that when the Erle rallroad again'cries aloud for military assistance he would 'be able to render more effective service than he possibly could if he neglected his military dutles. Highest of all in Leavening Pow oyal f P n] THE RECONSTRUCTED CABINET, sas City Journal: The country wili not get into any international troubles on account of Mr. Olney's Impulsive patriotism There fs more of the fcicle than the jingo abeut Olney. Globe-Democrat: The new attorney general was formerly a republican, and a Cincinnati paper says that he is still a_republican except on the tarift question. It must be painful to inflationists to find another pupll of John Sherman in the cabinet Indianapolis Journal: A man's reputation at home, where he is known, is a good In- dex of his character. Cincinnath papers irrespective of party or politics, speak In very high terms of Judge Harmon, the new attorney general, as a lawyer and a man. Chicago Times-Herald: It is perhaps natural for the president, when his premier suddenly removed by death or resigns, to turn to the attorney general, who, fronr his famillarity with all that has been done in diplomacy by the administration of which he Is a member, can more easily take up the business where it has been interrupted Philadelphia Times: No one would have thought of Richard J. Olney for secretary of state two years ago. In fact, nobody thought of him for attorney general except Mr. Cleve land. But he had not been long in that office before the country recognized not only a lawyer of high attainments but an un commonly strong man, clear headed and courageous, of the stuff of which statesmen are made, Philadelphia Record: President Cleve has a genius for discovery. Mr. Olney's complishments and fitness for the manage ment of our foreign relations are an un known quality. Mr. Judson Harmon of Ohio in the attorney general's office will be a surprise and a revelation. That there may be no defeat nor default In the diplomacy or the jurisprudence of is our lively hope. But Philadelphia Ledger Judson H. Harmon of Cincinnatl to the attorney generalship is a great sur to the politiclans, who thought they had good reason to believe the position would be given to a New Yorker. The fact that thp new cabinet official is comparatively unknown tc the public outside his native state will excite little comment, since Mr. Olney, whose cessor Mr. Harmon s, enjoyed to extent nearly the same distinction. Boston Globe: The cholce of Hon Harmon of Cincinnati to be the of Mr. Olney in the attorney gencralship will come as a surprise to eastern people in general. In fact the Ohloan is as little known in this section as Richard Olney was in the west when he was called to the post he has now relinquished for that of secretary of state. But the American public has come to realize that the president does not make cabinet appointments without fully understanding what he is about. It will be assumed, readily and generally, that the administration who can tell? The appointment of a great Mr. Cleveland has acted with knowledge and judgment in making this latest appoint- ment. 2 new western member of the cabi- net is likely to prove much more t figure-head at the nation’s capital. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. About the only people who hope to be struck by lightning are presidential and other political candidates The citizens of Meadville, Penn., cele- brated last week the seventieth anniversary of Lafayette's visit to that town. 1 a mere The late Baron von Richthofen, who had for many years been the prefect of the Berlin police, was six feet six inches in height and a man of massive build and glant strength A young painter of Cassel recently washed the bronze monument of Spohr with hydro chloric acid. He was horrified to find that it turned the statue green, but the people vote the color a great artistic success The mausoleum of the late George W. Childs, in Laurel Hill cemetery, has just been completed. The site and the design were chosen by Mrs. Childs, who on a recen visit to the cemetery, expressed himself as greatly pleased with the appearance of the tomb. Frederick Swift, a son of Mayor Swift of Ch g0, ha just been initiated into the Delta Kappa Epsilon society of the University of Chicago in a unique way. He was com- pelled to parade the streets of Chicago bes ing an inscription, “I am the son of the mayor." ew York's famous old Mulberry Bend Is being cleaned out under the auctioncer’s ham- mer. Since the city determined to have a park down in that old quarter, $1,500,000 has been spent for lands upon which sta that 1l some have brought of the odd old buildings fame to the section. The French academy D'Audriffet prize for self- ation to Abbe Rambaud. Becoming blind early in life, Abbe Rambaud devoted himself and fortune to relieving the poor of Lyons. He estab- lished schools for the street children and a lodging house for aged people, where they are helped with work. Nazr' Ullah Khan, the Afghan ameer’s son, is rather light of complexion for an Oriental. His face is not darker than the shab’s. He is rather a gorgeous figure in_ his uniform, with its gold-embroidered coat, blue sash and blue and black astrakhan caftan. Gold stripes set oft his trousers, and he wears gold spurs on his patent-leather boots. An enthu tic admirer of Victor Hugo has made a collection of all the black and white or colored portraits of the poet that he could find. Altogether they number nearly 4,000, of which about 2,500 are caricatures and car- toons. The collector, M. Beuve, has also gathered together with infinite pains innumer- able pipes, canes, tobacco-jars, bottles, scarf- pins, handkerchiefs, even cakes of soap, on which the head of the poet appears. Dr. von Bebber, a noted German meteorolo- gist, asserts that when the outside tempera- ture is 50 degrees the temperature of the clothing on & human body ranges from 71 degrees to 90 degrees. If the ratio con- tinues as the mercury ascends, it Is possible to grasp the extent of the roast experienced down east during the past week. The mer- awarded | cury danced around the 100-degree notch, and the natives sweltered at 140 degrees or thereabouts, e THAT PRESDENTIAL CANDIDATE. iChicago Herald: Up to date, Bill Bryan's presidential canvass is hardly large enough to cover even his one-ring performance. Indlanapolis News: Ex-Congressman Bryan says that ““monometallism is a crime against society,” but silver monometallism 1s what the Nebraska statesman is trying hard to bring about. Washington Post: In case Joe Blackburn finds it necessary to turn In a general alarm Bill Bryan will pack up his financial water tower and scurry down Into Kentucky, and right at the present writing it looks very much as If the conflagration is too hot for Joseph to handle. Chicago Post: On the whole, perhaps Hon. Willlam Jennings Bryan should not be too much elated over the proposed endorsement of his presidential boom. * * ¢ He is young—35—and ardent. He can recite the virtuous poetry of Sheridan Knowles with his eyes shut. But if he is elected the white house will have to be rebuilt, with a chilled- steel case and automatic fire-extinguishing machinery. If President Bryan should get to talking in his sieep there would be an explosion that would blow the Washington monument into the Potomac river. Chicago Tribune: Before Bryan again es- says to talk on the silver question he ought to sit down to a little study of it. That might result in his percelving that an inter- national agreement would ralse the buying power of silver from less than one-thirtieth that of gold to one-twenty-fourth that of gold, or whatever ratlo might be determined on as practicable, and that this would result in a great expansion for the people, besides glving to the silver miners a much more sat- {sfactory market for their product than they are likely to get in any other way, as it would raise the price of all the bullion taken from their mines and raise it in a basis of equality with gold, not in depreciated money. Against this advantage the loss to our gov- ernment by depreciation of the silver on its hands would be comparatively very small, Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE | 1 STARTS N AWFUL ROW, Blshop Doane Provokes the Wralh of the New Woman, Rt. Rev. Willlam Crosswell Doans, Bpisco- 11 bishop of Albany, N. Y., Is tn the pesition f the small boy who Incautiously ove | A nest of wild bees, Tho bishop attended a | seminary commencement last weck and ad- | dressed the youag ladics in this sladge-ham- mer fashion a gets sl ¢ talk merely in Kk and tirod of the way in of wouwian's vocation fills the the wild vagaries of its but fn the parade and T rec n of wgat 1 have had occasion t womanhood these woman's rights would ba 1 have no desire to re call a word. 7The agitators ave really in the minority berless namea on th i- ern ‘m petitions' mean the | thoughtless and good 1 1 yielding to per- | nt pureuit, just as legislative majority es stand, in hot a few instances, for a mistaken courtesy or an unmanly cowardice. | “I beliove that God will save this state and | s of an | | which t push of its claly 1 ‘its rights.' are called say what wrong te YOICK OF THE STATE FRESS. Logan Valley Sun: The prospects are now that Colonel Hilton will have to stand trial fa Lancaster county toon for the embezale- ment of the statc’s money, and here's wish- fng that It 1ay go hard with him icueva Journal: If we ean have half an ch of water & woek for the next ten weeks able-bodied man fn Nebraska will have to work for 60 cents a day this fall 1t wou't be on account of the free coinage of #llver elther Lincoln News: At last Charley Mosher has taken some steps to somae creditor of vard getting at his b ings in the penitentiary contract The wonder of It is that some one has not probed into this deal of the wily bank wrecker before. Beatrice Dentocrat What grand old Ne- braska wants tils year is a free crop of corn at at of 50 to 1, that Is, fifty bushels to one acre of ground and other crops in the same ratio her farmers are holding con~ ! lay ventions eve lay, in which t cultivator are | in each week excopt Sun- plow, the harrow and the uential delegates. from the aggravated mis York Timos: During the last days of the arged, unqualified suffra s 0 It | yogielative sossion a senate clerk was offered universality of male voters, our m $500 if he would steal the insur bill that threatening danger todny. But If we are to [ 010 apieriard passed and vetosd by Governor be visited with this infliction, as & well- | yiolcomb, Had the insurance companies rned punishment for many national sins, |10 G (o governor would veto tife bIL then 1 believe that, when we have tasted its | for pothing, which of course he did, they Ditterness shall be brought back, perhaps through anarchy and revoluti racy which shall demand for government by men whom education and actual Americanism of final interest in the nation qualify to govern. Meanwhile, when constitutions shall have been altered to dis turb® the equipoise of the relatfon botwoen man and woman; when motherhood shall be replaced by mismanaged off wiien money shall buy the vofes of women, as it does now N its existenco | to a demoo- | | (hemselves; when the fires of political discord shall be lighted on the hearthstone of do mestic peace; when the assertion of de manded right shall have destroyed the in stinctive chivalry of conceded courtesies; when ‘woman,’ as has been well sail, ‘once the superior, has bec e the equal of man then the reaped whirlwind of some violent political reaction will be gathered in tears by those who are sowing the wind in the mad joy of the Petroleuse of the French rev- olutions. “Never in any age, nowhere in an and nowhere in America so much as now in our own Empire stats was there such abso lute unreason for the clamor which seeks to distract women (rom the duties of the ‘vo. cation to which they are called, In the mad pursuit of the greatest wrong that can be done to thelr sex, their country and man kind. The man who is set in public place today to train some of the women of Amer- fca for their vocation may not in times like these withhold his voice of warning against the dangers and delusion of the hour.” The bishop's remarks have stirred the sulfragists, and much wrath and indignation have been hurled at what one of them dubs an “ecclesiastical mossback.” Mrs. Lillle Devereaux Blake offers the refreshing sug and gestion that the good bishop must have in- dulged himsell in the atmosphere of his study. “He must have failed to read the papers,” says Mrs. Blake, who dismisses the matter by saying his gray hairs.” P OUT OF THE ORDINARY. “I suppose we must pity Men attending the pans in salt works are never known to have cholera, smallpox, scar- let fever or influenza. The wings of the owl are lined with a soft down that enables the bird to fly with- out making the slightest sound. James E. Cutler of Pittsfleld, Mass., was once dead for seven minutes. He received an electric shock of 4,600 volts, but finally recovered. Semipalalinsk, Siberla, is now sald to hola the record for intense cold. The spirit th mometer marked 76 below zero at that pla last winter. Medical students in China study copper models of men which are pierced with 140 holes, which show the location of an equal number of pulses. One of the oddes imaginable may be combination in names found at Pleasantville, Marijon county, la., one of whose citizens rejoices in praenomen and cognomen of Fish Lines. The biggest contract for stone work ever awarded was probably that reported to have been made for the stone for the Hudson | river bridge. The sum named Is abeve $8,000,000. A curious numismatic relic of the epoch ot Peter the Great has been presented to the Petroviski museum at Astr. an. This is a metallic token or ‘“receipt” granting the bearer permission to wear a mustache and beard. Annie Gorman, a 2-year-old Chicago (ot fell thirty feet recently, and in two minutes after was as chipper and bright as before. She had a good cry, as she was badly scared, but the doctors say she is absolutely uninjured. As soon as a hand organ grinder started a tune the other day in Huntington, Pa., a swarm of 5,000 bees mad> a becline for his organ and lit on it. The music appeared to have made them good natured, for they stung no one while they were being put back into their hive. Potter, the magician, was a most eccentric living character, and it was not at all out of keeping with his every day life that he should make a dying request that his res mains should be interred in a standing posi- tion. He died at Potter Place, N. H., and was buried on the following day in a grave 24x30 inches and nine feet deep. The cofin was lowersd small end first, and to this day “‘as upright as Potter's corpse’ Is one of the proverbs of New Hampshire. | to the grea would probably not have risked their $500. Kearney Hub: The lmprovement in all s of busine in Nebraska {s noticeable o the late rains, and as there Is no longer hing to fear from crop fallure every « man, investor, manufacturer and producer should push enterprise within pru- lent limits Such a urse will keep money in circulation and res in the greatest good st number Seward Reporter: Some fear has been ex- pressed that suitable arrangements could not be made at Omaha for the state fair rallway facilities, but it is now annouuced that the matter is settied. Arrangements are being made for the rallroads to run trains direct to the fair grounds, and It Is also stated that the strest car facilities will be ample, and that all who o to Omaha to attend the fair will be provided for in this respect. - IN Detrait ¥ Maldens, withering on the stalk, Ride tn carriages or walk; Maidens, blooming fresh and fair, Go whedling, wheeling everywhere. GAYETY RHYME. Dross, Washington Star. On, tightning thou joyous bird, Who at thine own sweet will May'st hold illuminations gay And never get a bill! werville Journal ¢ had a little lamb, ou_have heard 1 As 1f Mary had b She would have called for more. Tribune. which there seems Detroit The millennium for Just now to be a rase, Comprises trousered girls and men Who lie about their age. New York Recorder. “I dreamed 1 wus in heaven,” Mary sald, A strange, fair place upon a’ shining shore, And now-—and now I can't remember ), such a silly head whit the angels wore. Atlanta Chnstitution. The weather fiend makes life look dim, But_when far b whirled, It_will be hot enough im In quite another world. Cineinnatl Tribune. The peach may be kiocked galle \ other fruits out of sight; n this assurance we may there all right west, But The prunes are land Plain Dealer. unbeams now descend; is the rule, ¢ rule must en ys, “Keep cool.* Clov The torrid Forbearar rily tha ard him who ¢ Bufalo Courier. ish up the recl and rod, alghten out the line. Take a spade and turn the Fishin's gettin' fine. mp along to where they Speckled beauties swish. sit around for half a day— o and buy your fish - WHERE CONSCIENCE LAGS Clicago Post He was an honest man, they said, Tn il Bis business desling 1o often showed the greatesi dread B it it seemed like steallngs His promises he always kept; He' gave much of his bounty; He proved himself most just, except When dealing with the country. He never had been known to He scorned all such advanc He would not e'en his riv 1s Though he had many chance He treated falrly every man Until—ah, what a pity! There came a day when he began Some de ngs with the city. Of course the \rll!:l Illl' }H|“ ll)‘i told— @ would not think of lying; o high, his methods bold, And he was ever trying show himself the best of men, erving wealth and statlon, pt, please note, occ: slons He'd ‘dealings with the natlon. And so it ls throughout the land, Most men In all vocations For honest dealing make a stand Tn all their trade relations; nut, ‘though to truth they are Inclined, The strictest oft relaxes And et Win consclence Iag behind When he s paying ta hen @jnf seltles ib i 0ING T0 DO IT AGAIN. n our mind that our custo- mers appreciate a good thing when they get it WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE That Stupendous CUT SALE nc¢ receive their salaries on the chance to benefit by thi will let the Suits go at t wzek. Many of our patrons 10th and to give them a SWEEPING REDUCTION, prices now marked. BOYS’ and CHILDREN’S SUITS HALF 1 HALF PRICE 2 PRICE $2.50 SUITS $3.00 SUITS $1.25 $1.50 2 Big Table: to 50 SUITS $1.00 SUITS $1.75 $2.00 Choose From, And ars Marked Just One=Half the Original Price. Run From $1.25 up to $9.00. BROWNING, KING & GO, Your Mouey's Worth or we'll Trade Back. S. W. Cor, 15th and Douglas Reliable Clothiers. -~ 58\l