Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1895, Page 4

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FF Notary Public. ———— e " OKluhoma Indians are dancing in order to get rain. Nebraska farmers are dancing because they 1 ad rain. We understand the distriet court bailiffs are just about to decide who among the judges shall and . hall not be re-clected for another four years Wanted to the Tuformation wherdibouts of the assessment returns leading of the Omaha Belt Line, which was listed by Mr. Gould at $8,000,000, and s now worth at least half that sum. Nobody of course knows what Judge Dundy will do, but there seems to be some basis for the belief that an agree- ment may soon be reached whereby our water system may be materially strengthened. A medieal expert gives it as his opin- fon that the ingredients of the Keeley cure are injurious to people of certain temperaments. To find out whether you possess this peculiar temperament you must take the Keeley cure. Up to date not a single Omahan has complained of the fallure of cle Jim North to force collection of the income tax. Irom this it may be inferred “that the supreme court decision was highly satisfactory in this neck of the ‘woods, There is 1o excuse for discriminating In the enforcement of our insurance Iaws, even though the favored company be under the guidance of an intendent of publie instruction. Teach ers need the protection of insurance laws as much as insurers in any other legitimate occupation. If good crop prospects give a healthy tone to business, what will bountiful harvests do to encourage business activity? If trade Is picking up ma- terially just because the farmers are getting the rains which they have been wanting, it ought to be literally hum- ming by the time the matured crop is transformed into ready cash in the farmer's pocket. Kiel will this week be the center of the German empire, and the German emperor will be the center of the Kiel celebration. Emperor Willlam loves nothing better than these dress-parade oceasions. He seldom misses an op- portunity which they offer, nor do his subjects ever fail to applaud his efforts to make their festivities and gala days of national importance. ——— A local jobber sald yesterday that trade the past two weeks has been exceptionally good, and the pleasing feature of it is that the country mer- chant has money with which to pay his Dbills. The important fact Is ex- plained on the theory that old stocks have been sold out and dealers have been buying only what was urgently demanded by their trade, Some South Dakota people are sald to be speculating as to the reason why their defaulting ex-treasurer, Taylor, had decided to surrender himself to the authorities. This is needless worry. Taylor decided to give himself up be- cause he found he could make more by that course of action. They may be sure that he first balanced the account and found the balance in his favor. The official organ of the Burlington railroad has it that Chalrman Morrill of the republican state central com- mittee has declined to be a candidate for the position of. secretary to the State Board of Transportation. This 1s another one of those announcements that are fmportant if true. It shows that Johnson, the B. & M. literary bu- reau fakir, still holds his grip on the state board. Sm———— More than sixty days have elapsed slnce the adjournment of the state legis- lature, but the bound volumes of the ses slon laws have not made their appear- ance, i state constitution explicit In making it mandator the legislature to have the laws enacted published in book form within the designated time, The state officials in charge of this work say that the volume will be ready for distribution by July 1 and that that will be as early as it bas ever been ready. We are not pre pared to dispute this, but that does not make the delay any the less a flagrant violation of the constitution. But when the provisions of the constitution are regularly overstepped with impunity by state officlals, what wore can the people expect? is very upon DO NOT WANT TU FACE THE DETAILS. In 1891, when Charlie Mosher was free and prosperons, the editor of The Bee went be- fore a legislative committee and defended the prison contract. Now that Mosher Is “down” The Bee cannot say anything too mean about him, The Dee is now sngaged in a bitter denun- clation of the appralsement of the prison contract. 1t 1s hardly necessary to comment upon this situation. The appralsement has been certified to by Captain Broatch, whose Integrity has never yet been questioned by any decent man, and J. N. Gafin, who is krown to be a man of absolute honesty. In the light of these facts It Is not even necessary to go into detalls. The only person who questions the Integrity of the prison appraisement is the editor of The Bee, and everybody knows that The Bee man delights in misrepresentations and abuse of men whom he cannot use.. The Bee will find that it has a very difficult task In making the people believe that Governor Holcomb, ex- Speaker GaMn and Captaln Broatch would knowingly endorso & corrupt deal.~World- Herald. Y When Mosher was enjoying the free- dom of the city with privilege to visit saloons, gambling houses and resorts of ill-fame while under sentence to the pen- itentiary and presumed to be in close confinement in the county jail, the paper that now stands up for the latest peni- tentlary steal tried to divert attention from the scandal by the very same tacties it is now pur suing. It published what pur- ported be the testimony of the editor of The Bee before a legislative committee, secured from the bank wrecker, and sought to ereate the im pression that Mosher had at some period of his carcer bought the support of The If this had been true, it would have constituted no justification or ex- cuse for the Mosher seandal, any more than i& would for his forgeries and per- juries In connection with the Capital National bank failure. The truth is that €. W. Mosher never contributed one dime to The Bee or its editor, di- rectly or indirectly, except possibly as a subseriber for his copy of the paper. The truth is furthermore that the editor of The Bee never defended the prison contract either before a legislative com- mittee or anywhere else. When the extension of the contract was pending before the legislature in 1887 he ad- vised members of the Douglas delega- tion to vote against it. Tl fact will be attested by Constantine J. Smyth and George W. Lininger, who both cast their votes against the bill. In 1801 a legislative committee which was Inves. tigating the condition of the te's prison cited the editor of The Bee as a witness. .- When asked for his im- pressions of the condition of convicts, gathered from a personal inspection as a visitor, he certified to the general cleanliness of the prison, the discipline maintained and the wholesomeness of the food provided by the contractor. In answer to the questions relating to the advantages and drawbacks of the contract system he laid emphatic stress upon the doubtful validity of the Mosher extension. With all b however, the deal Db, which Dorgan has been awarded $33, 408.90 for alleged chattels and contract ights has not the least connection. The assertion that the integrity of Captain Broatch has never yet been questioned by any “decent” man will go for what it is worth. The integrity of men can be gauged only by their acts, not by their professions. As mayor of Omah: N Broatch made a record which doe not commend him for strict integrity to decent men. His record as appraiser s just a little more rank than his record as mayor. As to Mr. Gaffin, the less said the better. He was an honest $500 dummy, with noth- ing to do where Dorgan’s two men agreed, and they managed not to dis- agree on anything of consequence. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The inventory filed by the ap- praisers, like the tax returns of some of our Omaha assessors, bears the evi- dence of collusion and imposture on the face. The inventory includes hundreds of pots, kettles, scuttles, brushes, pails and articles that usually accumulate only in junk shops. These articles are classified under various heads and bunched for appraisement in lump sums. Nobody can tell what price has been fixed on any particular article, nor is it possible to separate the articles belong- ing to the state from those belonging to the contractor. The appraisers say that a diligent search of the state records fails to find any extended re- port of the property turned over to Stout and through him to Mosher. But they do append an inventory, estimated to represent property worth $1,953.44, Now, the third biennial report of the in- spectors of the Nebraska state's prison to the legislature for the year 1874 con- tains an inventory of furniture, fire arms, utensils, tools, carriages and wagons that aggregated at that time $6,344.40. Between 1874 and 1877, when Stout assumed the contract, the state invested at least several thousand dol- lars more for articles for permanent use In the penitentiary, and during the sixteen years of the Stout-Mosher regime the legislatures every two years voted thousands upon thousands of dollars for building improvements, boilers, drainage, water supply and so forth. Under the original contracts all the state property was to be accounted for and restored to the state at its ex- piration in as good condition as re- ceived. What has become of all this property? Was Dorgan entitled to pay for such property? Let the defenders of this last penitentiary steal answer these questions and then we will give them a few more nuts to crack. — TRYING TO M THE TIDAL WAVE. “Let us democrats fight one more battle together; it may be the last for some time.” This is the pathetic ap- peal of the W Herald’s automaton, On what line, we pray, is this battle to be fought and for what purpose? Is the mass of dewocrats in Douglas county so stupid as to imagine that it can win a victory this year in a purely local campaign by merely flaunting its banner over its candidates while its leaders are preparing to chaw each other up in the scramble for a delega- tion to the national convention next spring? Out with such rot! The fight in Douglas county this fall will not be between political parties ar- rayed agaiust each other In a tussel THE OMAHA DAILY BIE: MONDAY, over the fleshpots. Neither will it be a fusion between two weak political par- tles to overcome a stronger one. It will be a popular uprising against ring domination and proscription, against reckless waste of public funds and for the Infusion of business methods inte local government, against corrupt con- tractors' combines and starchamber plots and for a clean, decent adminls- tration of affairs regardless of party or creed In the interest of the taxpaying cltizens. Against this popular current the double-ender organ and its jumping Jacks and popguns will play the role of King Knute, who, according to Eng- lish historians, planted his throne on the beach within the tidewater line and commanded the waves to stand still in order that he might not get wet, The bombastic chalrman of the demo- cratic county central committee may sound his bugle blast and command the warring fac- tions of his party to declare a truce for a few weeks. He may call a con vention of disgruntled fusionists of the vintage of 1804 to establish a new fusion, not with the populists, but with the Tobe Castor rump. He may con- vene himself together with the other place hunter: have their pains for nothing. be in about the mnk and file but he and his clan will They will to the of relation democ same of fthe Douglas county that the three tailors of the Tooley street were to of England. people A SETBACK FOR SIBLEY. Ix-Congressman Sibley of Pennsyl- s not so much of a presidential possibility now as he seemed to be be- fore the meeting of the Memphis free silver convention. Preceding that event— the way, has failed to make fon its promoters hoped for and probably not made a convert to the free silver cause, if, indeed, it has not rather had the effect to weaken it—there was a more or less urgent and vociferous demand for Mr. Sibley to become the standard bearer of the free silver forces next year, and it was the plan of his friends and admir- ers to make the Memphis convention the instrument for booming him as a candidate for the presiden A num- ber of them attended the convention, as did Sibley himself, who made one of the most radical free silver and more money speeches that were de- livered there. Every effort was made by the Sibley following to impri the delegates with the superior availability of their man, and it was seriously pro- posed to then and there endorse Lim as the free silver candidate for the presidency. But the plan failed. There were in the convention a number of conserva- tive men and well trained politicians who could mot be persuaded that it would be a wise and good thing to advance the one-term congressman from Pennsylvania, who has never shown that he possesses any of the qualities of leadership, over the heads of the tried aud. true leaders in the free silver cause who were doing battle for it years before Mr. Sibley was leard of In a public way. 'Besides, to have done this would have been to countenance a party organization out- side of the democratic party, and the stalwart old democrats who were in the convention could not tolerate any- thing of this kind. Their idea was to capture the democratic national con- vention and make the fight for free silver a distinetly democratic contest. This influence easily prevailed and consequently the intended Sibley boom did not materialize. More than likely the country has heard the last of it, though doubtless Sibley will continue to be a more or less active exponent of the free silver polic It seems that the fin: al views of 1c Mr. Sibley are little honored in the region wh he is best known. Ac- cording to the Philadelphia Times his position on the silver question never did commend itself to the voters of Pennsylvania, The farmers of the northwest counties, says that paper, who comprised his audiences in the past, know the gospel of real and true values by the action of experience. “What they now possess has been won under an honest money standard and they are not ready to part with prop- erties and products at coin rates of the Mexican type, where the dollar passes current as a matter of commerce and simply according to the market value of silver. Mr. Sibleg at Memphis and Mr. Sibley at Erie are totally dis- tinct things, and the difference means all there is to the silver question.” The country will continue to know Sibley as a lender and exponent of the free silver cause, but there will be no further interest in him as a presidential possibility. BALANCE OF TRADE. There is one feature of the commer- clal situation which is not szt!sfactory. That is that while imports continue large exports of merchandise are on a very moderate scale and have recently shown but very little increase over the corresponding period of last year. According to the May report of the Treasury department, just issued, the ex- ports of breadstuffs for that month were in excess of thoseof the corresponding month of last year to the amount of only about §1,000,000, there being also a slight increase In the value of cotton exported, but these gains were fully offset by the loss in exports of beef, hog and dairy products. The figures for the eleven months of the current fiscal year, ending May 31, however, show that there has been a heavy de- cline in merchandise exports, amount- ing for breadstuffs alone, during that period, to $52,000,000 as compared with the corresponding period to May 381, 1t is probable that for the fiscal ar which will end with this month the aggregate reduction in exports as compared with the preceding year will ch §$70,000,000. Large imports seem to have had no effect in improving ex ports. For several months European merchandise has been coming into the country in large volume and importa- tions are quite as active now as at any time in this perlod. Our markets are filling up with foreign goods and the balance of trade is being turned against us. This 1s not a reassuring situation THE and unless there is a change with the coming in of the mew crop the country will be in dangéy of being subjected to another gold dealn before the end of the present year., There is promise that the exports ‘of breadstuffs will fmprove after ‘the wheat crop is har- vested, but thege s no assurance that the Increased demand will be material, Europe will unidotibtedly need to im- port about as, much breadstuffs as usual, and perhaps a little more than in ordinary yeafs, The Argentine Re- public has less wheat to export this year than was expacted, so that Ameri- can wheat growers will not find this competition so formidable as had been apprehended. Yot they may bave to encounter an increased competition from other sources of supply. Then as to our beef, Log and dairy products, which constitute a very large propors tion of the exports, there appears to be no good reason to expect an im- proved demand for these. We have exported of these products during the last cleven months $8,000,000 less than in the preceding cleven months and nearly half of this decline in amount was in May. If prices of these products keep up, there Is every reason to expect they will, a further falling off in the exports Is to be looked for. A turn in the trade balance against this country is certainly not to be de- sired, for it is easy to see that it might prove troublesome and embarrassing, but such a condition is now clear threatened. For this the present tarift law gely responsible, and while that law cncourages imports, to the detriment of the lLome manufacturers, it is a failure as a revenue measure. There s alw room for improve- ment in municipal government. 1t has been the history of local politics the st fifteen years that when one party held control of city and county offices for a few consecutive terms it waxed fat and corrupt. It matters little which party is in the saddle. The time comes when a general housecleaning is de manded, not for the purpose of putting men of opposing political faith into office, but for the sake of good govern: ment, In recent years party lines have been obliterated in municipal clections. There are good men in all political divisions in Omaha. Sueh men " are wanted in positions of trust, while small-bore self-seekers must be rele. gated to the re Look out for a sudden increase in the irculation of the paper that has for years sported at its masthead: “Larg est clrculation in Omaha,” “Largest civeulation in South Omaha,” “Largest circulation in Council Bluffs,” “Largest circulation in Nel " Sixteen thou ind sample copies of that sheet have t been distributed to back and front 1 ity to form Ju yards of Omaha aud vic the basis for a new piece of fiction en- titled “How We Grow. Seeretary Lamont is coming west for a tour of inspection of the frontier army posts. 1f:the secretary will only come to Omaha for a short while we will try to convinee him that Fort Omaha s just the site for a state mili- tary school preparatory to the West Point Military academy. ary Lamont could not do his administration of the War department more credit than by giving this project his ap- proval and support. Strgnge, wasn't it, that Dorgan daid not have a single chattel at the penl- tentiary that was not needed by the state and included in the appraisement of property to be paid for out of the legislative appropriation. The apprais- ers bought ice cream freezers and a theatrical outfit for the convicts, and would doubtless have bought music boxes and curling Irons, too, if they had been in Dorgan’s junk shop assort- ment. The proposed big Chinese loan of £160,000,000 has not had an apprecia- ble effect upon the price of silver on the London market. It is really a pros- pective demand for almost that huge amount of silver, yet it does net raise the value of silver to its old ratio to gold. The question Is, How large a demand for silver must we have to re- store the old 16 to 1 condition of the bullion market? Same Wenrying Hlaze. ‘Washington Post. Every time the Iowa republicans get on a solid footing they generate a strong desire to kindle the fire with the prohibition kero- sene. ———— Not a Second Pluce Man, St. Louis Republic, 1t your Uncle Horace Boes should earry Towa this fall on a free silver platform he would declare Wwith as much emphasis as in 1892 that he would not accept the second place on a presidential ticket. e Welcomed with Apolozies. Chicago News. Ex-State Treasurer W. W. Taylor is going back to South Dakota to take his medicine— having been reliably assured that it would be nicely sugar-coated, entirely harmless and ad- ministered with many apologies. Stopped Fighting at the Fioish. Glofe-Democrat. The country will'regret to hear that Senator Gordon of Georgia has declded to retire trom politics at thie end of his term. He is tho best representative of the confederate clement which quit fighting when the war was over and renewed its loyalty to the union in good faltl and with practical effect. A forre S o A Boblfalled Blafr, Chicagh Mail, Dubols, senator trom Idgho, has been talk- fng again. This time"he said: “‘Unless the repyblitan national convention is prepared to let the western republicans dictate Its financidl 'Policy it may as well prepare for an overwhelming defeat in 1896." Dubols knows better. Neither gold bugs nor silver bugs will dictate to the mext re- publican national -¢onveneion. That conven- tion will declare for‘an international bime- tallic agreement and for the continued coln- ago of both gold and silver as the necessities of the case demand Dubols is blufing on a bob-tail one. JUNE 17, 1895. THAT PENITENTIARY STEAL North Bend Argus: After all the trouble and loss to the state caused by the Mosher. Dorgan-et al. regime, we pour $33,500 more into thelr pockets. We admire the “gall” of the man who will admit it fs “worth all it costs." Stanton Picket: It was an unfortunate Gale which came down from the west and re- lieved Bill Dorgan of his prison property. It 18 not every ill wind that blows thousands of dollars into the pockets, éven of the rem- nants of the Mosher crowd. Howells Journal: Ex-Speaker Gaffin de- serves censure for allowing the high-handed stealing to go on at the state penitentlary without attempting to stop it. If he had openly denounced the shameful proceedings they would never have occurred. Why did he not attempt to save the money? North Bend Argus: The late legislature appropriated $35,000 to be used in relieving Dorgan of his state penitentiary contract. And he has been relieved, and the appraisers have allowed the whole amount appro- priated, less the actual costs of the appraise- ment. And Dorgan and Charley Mosher— how they smile! Plattsmouth News: We never had much confidence in W. J. Broach, but of all the rotten deals at the penitentiary we believe the appraisement deal of which he was the head was the rottenest. Not satisfied with making Dorgan's allowances out of all rea- son, the three appraisers, whose time at home ton't worth $2 per day, coolly charge $50 per day for their services, pocket $500 apiece and depart for home, Blair Courfer: The $35,000 appropriated by the late legislature to take up the Dorgan contract at the state penitentiary has been consumed. When Bank Wrecker Mosher turned the contract over to Dorgan all his chattels in the pen were estimated at less than 000. When Dorgan turns practically the same old plunder over to the state it is computed to be worth over $25,000. Thus are we enabled to see the beauties of soft snaps. Blair Pilot And still the boodlers go right on robbing the state and the people pay the bills, The latest sleight of hand perform- ance by which the people are mulcted of a goodly sum is in the pretended appraisement n's worn out tricks and traps used ng out the Mosher penitentiary con- The legislature appropriated $35,000 to buy him out and the appraisers have appro- priated the whole sum to him and themselves for their valuable services. Thirty-three thou- sand four hundred and eight dollars go to Bill Dorgan and $500 each to tho thres ap- praisers—about $50 a day for figuring the thing out even %o as to use up all the money. Howells Journal: The Dorgan penitentiary contract is ended by the state buying him out It has been a stupendous steal ever since it was entered into eight years ago, and it ended by a clear case of robbery, the state being robbed out of the $35,000 appropriated to buy Dorgan out. The contract was a legalized wrong in the beginning, and it is no wonder that we should be robbed for allowing it to continue. Governor Holcomb certainly failed to see the wrongs that the state would suf- fer when he signed the bill. The men that acted as appraisers are to blame for the pres- ent steal and for Dorgan getting over $32,000 for his interest, when, in fact, he owed the state, instead of the state owing him. Just think of the appraisers thinking that they are worth $50 per day. It seems as if the gentlemen just put their hands down in the state’s moriey and took all they needed and gave Dorgan the rest. Ex-Speaker Gaffin ls to blame as much as any of the judges. There is not the least reason for the payment of 330 a day to these men to walk through the penitentiary and agree to give Dorgan all of the $35,000 appropriated, less $1,500 they took for themselves. Nebraska is unfortu- nate. In every transaction she has had de- signing men take advantage of her and steal everything in sight. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Every summer showe! discontents. The aggressive conscience of South Da- kota is in a compromising mood. The Whisky trust is no exception to the rule that when a combine goes up the pro- duct goes down. Lawyer Choate's newspaper gossip fee of $100,000 in_the income tax case was pared down to $15,000 when paid. The discovery of a snake-bitten New York caused a lively run on local jag- geries. victim survived both. Whitelaw Reid has grown a splendid crop of whiskers, but he is not disposed to con- test the Kansas record in that line. Senator Brice proposes to enjoy himself regardiess of the political situation in Ohio. He occupies the Astor cottage at Newport It is not necessary for a man to ride a bicycle to obtain exercise. He gets an abundance of that article dodging them at tho crossings. A New Jersey man has entered upon Yhe thirty-first_year of almost unbroken slumber. As a sample of that tired feeling this takes the first prize. Dr. Jerome Bonaparte Wheat, the well known dentist who has just died in New Haven, Conn., was the first to use vulcan- ized rubber in dentistry. Vice President Stevenson has been made a doctor of laws by the Northwestern uni- versity. This is a_rather late tribute to his success in presiding while the senators did the doctoring. Under one of New York's reform laws the granting of naturalization papers is limited to the supreme and county courts. Fourteen days must elapse between the ap- plication and final action, and, in addition, many wholesome restrictions are imposed, all caleulated to place a check on promiscu- ous citizenship for revenue only. ————— Downing Kosewator. Minden Gazette. Tho Gazette is in receipt of a letter from Will Maupin denying the charge in last week's issuo that he was attempting any defense of Rosewater and The Omaha Bee. He suggests, and correctly, too, that such idea was conceived from an item which ap- peared in the State Journal, based upon a communication which he sent to them, which they did not print, but commented upon. It would have been the proper thing for the Journal to have printed “‘Maup's” letter, or elso said nothing about it. So far as his de- tense of Rosewater is concerned, he says: “The State Journal refused to print my communication, and 1 think violated every rule of newspaper courtesy by sending the letter to the waste basket and then referring to it editorially in a way that wholly misrep- resented my position. I trust you will do me the favor to publish this article, so that I may be set right. “I attempted no defense of Rosewater. He has amply demonstrated his ability to take care of himself. What I protest against is the everlasting fight that is being made on him. I am unabie to see why the republican press of Nebraska should continually devote its energies ‘o ‘downing Rosewater,’ and leaving the party to take care of itself as best it can. During the last campaign we witnessed the spectacle of the republican newspapers printing column after column of abuse of Rosewater, and once in a while giving the state ticket a short paragraph when it was necessary to ‘justify’ the columns. 1 believe that if the energy that was displayed in trying to ‘down Rosewater’ had been used to elect Majors, Nebraska would not now be tho only state in the na- tion with a popullst governor. But in their anxioty to ‘down Rosewater' the leaders and the press of the republican party lost sight of tho issues at stake, and the result a defeat. Time and again the republican leaders have ‘downed Rosewater' in commit- toe meethngs—the meeting that put Majors on tho ticket with Crounse, and the league meet- ing at Lincoln a short time ago, for examples, “Great God, Jeff, has the republican party of Nebraska fallen so low that it must train its every gun on one man in order to pre- serve the party intact? Does the success of republican principles depend upon the ‘down- ing of Rosewater? " r drowns a colony of man in Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE TATR PRESS. OFTH Platte Center Signal: Dr. Hay should be transferred to the Hospital for the Insane at Hastings and be kept thore until the oxpira- tion of his six years' term. The IHastings institution Ia for chronic and incurable cases, 4 it Dr. Hay 18 not a chronic and Incur- lo patient there are none In the state. Beatrice Demoorat: One thing that Colonel Bryan and other populisis neglect to tell the public i how us fellows who have little to give are going to get our per capita share of the silver dollacs that they propose to have the mints cotn at government expense for the mine owners. The statement that It was to be “free and unlimited” has been contra- dicted. Butte Gazette: From present Indicatio it appears probable that Nebraska will have a chance to play even on the aid sent her last winter. Frost, fnsects and rust ave playlug havoe with the crops in Illinols and other eastern states. Reciprocity of thi kind 1s all right, and gladly wiil the citize of this state render substantial assistance to her unfortunate neighbors. Grand Istand Republican: The Nebraska people wil coln their crops this year, and be happy and they will find pleuty of coln to pay for them, too, and every dollar of it as good as any other dollar in the land, here or anywhere on the face of the giobe. A dollar that will be worth the same for purchasing or debt paying purposes; in other words, an honest dollar. Beatrico Times: Speaking of the prison ers Tho Omaha Bee says the Hon. Bill Dor- gan owns everything about the prison al- most, even to the convicts' clothes, accord- ing to the inventory. Why not sell the whole thing out to Dorgan for the money wasted on it, and be done with it? Take his notes it ‘he hasn’t money enough, the security would be just as good as the aver- age bond, and if he only paid the interest promptly the state could lay up a fund for the next drouth sufferers. Chadron Signal: It is hard to beat the railroad companies on assessments. Last ye the people of Dawes county raized their valuations and the railroads running through the county went before the State Board of Equalization and got theirs reduced. This year the assessors of Dawes county make a big cut in their valuation and the rallroads again go beforo the state board and get thelr last year's valuation cut down. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley assess- ment {8 reduced from $4,600 per mile to $3,500, and the B. & M. from $3,500 to $3,000. The reduction cuts down Dawes county's assessment roll about $50,000. Columbus Journal: W. D. Haller of Blair, president of the State Board of Medical Ex- aminers, and who a member of the legislature, told the druggists’ convention last week that 1t would be hopeless to ex- pect any relief from the State university in the way of establishing a department of pharmacy. He said that 500 students at tended the State university who should be cducated at the Lincoln High school. By rights a chair of pharmacy should be cstab- lished at the State university, and if proper methods were adoptel could be. The state is in debt and the university overcrowded with Lincoln youths. Mr. Haller's speech will call attention to a fact that has been patent to many people of the state for some time past. The Journal 1s pleased to note that the youth of Nebraska, including those of Lincoln, ap- preciate the situation, but the state institu- tion should be conducted as a university and not in any manner as a Lincoln High school aunex. e Something to Bo Proud Of. Fremont Some two or three weeks ago a majority of the republican clubs of Nebraska met at Lincoln (we believe there were ten or eleven persons present) and assumed to appoint dele- gates from Nebraska to attend the national meeting of republican clubs at Cleveland, O. It might be supposed that in the appointment of national delegates to attend a national convention that the various republican clubs in tho state would have been asked to send delegates to a state convention at Lincoln. But this was not a part of the program, as a con- vention in all probability would have shown a decided sentiment in favor of free silver and could not have been controlied by the small men who insist on leading, hence it was resolved by thls subcommittee to themselves appoint. Whenover a particu- larly dirty job has been desired from ar county In the state the central committes or the committee of the county has been re- quested to appoint delegates which would represent the boodle republican gang, so this appointment was simply carrying out the policy of that party. One of the objects of making the appointments was to give Editor Rosewater a black eye because he ref! to wear a brass collar and advocate boodling in tho different departments of the state and will not allow the people to be robbed by corporations. It certainly is a spectacle to see the names of some of the men that com- posed that subcommittee, and then talking about honor and integrity as if they were acquainted with them. Rosewater ought to be proud that a committee of such men de- nounced him. Leader. —— Convention Has Been Called, Howells Journal. It is about time the rump democrats got together and issued a call for astate conven- tion. Of course the Bryan democrats have the numbers, but there is nothing like keep- Ing up the pure democratic organization, for as long as the leaders of the rumps keep under the wing of Clevelandism and have & cinch on the offices there will be poor fol- lowers. Adminfstration democrats have dwindled down to those who have offices and those who want offices at any price. PROPLE WITH WHEKLS. Los Angeles Express: The man who owns bieyele considers the man who does not as eccentrie. Roston Herald: pronouncing ““bicycte,” but the: opinfon of the popularity thereof. Washington Star: South America has not yet been struck by the bicycle craze, but she is having her revolutions regularly just the same. Minneapolis Times: The wheel is a mod ern {mprovement that fs fast becoming essential of civilization. It i no passing craze. Milwaukee Sentinel: We seom to be ap- proaching the time when every child will be taught the use of the bicycle along with the other rudiments of knowledge. 8an Francisco Call: The bieycle is steadily reducing the value of horses and street oap ehares and Increasing the value of hum belngs by making them more healthy. Dultimore Sun: Cycling s, in fact, & science as well as an art, and to be a perfect cyclist one must be a perfect gentleman, as well as a very discreet and wide awake clti- zen, There are throe ways of is only one P —— JUST A LITTLE GAVETY, Judge: Gillback—Is it true that you don'{ nd as much money now as you did bes &) fore you were married? Packett—It s, 1} wish ‘I could say the same thing of my wife, Chicago Tribune: Grinnen—Dying at a hotel is, the saddest thin on_earth Barrett—There 1 only one thing sadder— living at a hotel. Harlem Life: Student to Professor—Has it ever been discovered who was the man in the iron mask? Prof. Oldsport—He was the original umpire, it seems to me, Indinnapolis Journal: “It may be a great and glorious thing to dle for one's country,” said the pessimist, “but what is the good in doing an act that gives you no chance to respond to an encore Washington Star ben de wukman dat tulin's out er po’ job," sald Uncle Iiben, “am a heap mo’ ‘spectable dan de man dat doan' do nuffin’ make re- mahks.” W but look on an’ “Something ought to o two lunatics from exclaimed the hington Star. done to prevent the ROINE out rowing togethe: nervous woman “Don’t mi em, madam,” replied the bystander. ch' 1s in good company. One of 'em fs the man who rocks the boat and the other s the man who wants to see how far from shore he can swim." Lady—T seo Household vertise bread? Bak Haker—No, light. Boston Transcript: — Mrs. Fadder—What s your o on _of the woman, Mr, Fogs PokeFrom the sounds Which come from the kitchen I should say that she s quite as expert at breaking crockery as the old one. Leslie's Weekly: Miss Oldgirl—You must promise not to kiss me while I am uncon- scious. _Dentist—I shall do nothing of the kind. Miss Oldgirl (with a happy sigh)— Turn on the gas. Galveston News: Some me to know a patriotic impulse the stomach. do not seem om a pain in ago Tribun r 1 Uncle Allen to the mosquito that was buzzing about him. “There’s room in this great world for both you and me, # ¢ But you shouldn’t try to crowd me" he added a moment latenas the insect alighted his nose. And ha €rushed it remorse- “The maln probloms of this sily solved,”" he began in & LT, myself—" sald the gray-haired stranger, cour You were graduated T suppose?” How did “Oh, ! “Of course, this_month, “Wh ou guess 1t?" Indlanapolis Journal 'he truly poetle soul s full of longings,” said the young man. " the trouble,” replied the brutal editor he handed him a bunch of manu- ke poot just lets himself seript. he ave n what his work really 10080 on longing needs 18 shortening. PERSPIRATION AND INSPIRATION. Washingt ar. He spoke of “inspiration” in a reverentlal tone; He often talked about the muse, and claimed her for his own; But at his desk (discoveries like. this are painful—very) He worked with a thesaurus and rhyming dictionary. THE INEVITABLE REQUEST, St. Louis Republic. would do you good to know my Clare, She's just the dearest girl in town— Light-hearted, sweet, pefite and falr, With lips of red and locks of brown. She does not dress in silks—ah, no! She has no need for such finé things, But in white lawn or callco— Why, she lacks nothing but the wings! in the garden close may have been by chance, adlant as a rose, laughter in her glancej And I, who walked with gloomy eyes, And’thought the world a cruel place, Saw sudden sunlight in the skles And thrilled with joy to see her faca This morning We met—i She looked as With love ai She threw her arms about my neck ‘And gave me kisses—nigh a score, And_ though my collar was a wreck, I felt 1 needed several more. Then suddenly she hung her head, And blushing in a way I llke— Dear little minx of six—she said, “Oh, papa, may I have a bike? BROWNING, KING & C0., RELIABLE S. W. CORNER 15th and Douglas Sts. 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