Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 8, 1895, Page 4

ria e fremmag- e S, B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. THE OMAHA /gy Bev 8800 10 09 250 0 ] o (Without Sunday), One Y+ Fes and Sunday, One Year onti Weekly Dee, Otie Year............... L6 OFFICES, Omaha, The Tes Duilding. Bouth Omaha, Kinger Blk Council Bluff Chicago OMce, 317 Chamber of Commerco. ew York Rooms, 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bullding, ‘ashington, 1407 ¥ Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENC All ommunieations relating to news and edl. forial mattor should be nddressed: To the Editor, Corner N and 21th St 1 ublis % and p he ordor of the addrossed 1o Omaha. Drafts, be made payabie says that o coples of unday Beo . was as 19,074 10,078 2010 19.016 19,001 2020 10,106 19 i 19,101 1,001 2 1 10,018 19,024 2015 19,007 30014 39,124 19,174 {iohs for unsoid Daily ave *Sunday. Chief of Police White has already given proof that lie knows his business and does not farm out his detective work. The railrond people report muny in- quiries for Nebraska land. By the time the grain is all in the bin there will be another rush for farms in Ne- braska. Republican polities in Towa came to a head in the state convention. Towa re- publicans will have to commit unpar- donable sins before they can lose in the contes year. After he has filled all the executive offi with good administration demo- erats President Cleveland will prob- ably be in favor of protecting every government employe with the benefit of the civil service rules. If the Pullman company has really advanced wages to the point from avhich they were reduced over a year ago there can be no room longer to deny that business is improving in all Dbranches of industry. Forging Chinese registration rtifi- eates is almost as lucrative an occu- pation as forging national bank notes and the detection of the forgers is giv- ing the federal authorities as much trouble in the one case as in the other. If the free silver agitators were con- vinced, as they claim to be, that the friends of the white metal are to con- trol all the great par($Hominating con- wventions next year, they would not have to busy themselves with schemes for bolting the party nominations. The inmates of the county attorney's office have done absolutely nothing toward solving the Seljan murder mys. tery. Now that the mystery has been eleared up, what do they propose to do to bring the offenders to speedy jus tice? A preacher has just been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for perjury out in California. If the ex- ample only had a deterrent effeet upon similar offenders, who are all too com- auon in the United States, that preacher might still accomplish some good in the world. It is a good thing that the meeting of the National Teachers' ociation 18 being held in Denver this year. Many of the attending teacher re learning for the first time how large their coun- Ary is and that there is something west of the Mississippi river worth secing. [This is a valuable lesson in itself. American tourists are overrunning Furopean cities in numbers never be- fore surpassed. But as they are spend- ing good American money there is no serious objection to their " incursion. [he objection, if any, must come from “ this side of the Atlantic because our Buropean friends do not yet reciprocate the favor by visiting the United States. The railroads have not yet taken the public into their confidence as to just _ how they are going to provide for IW. Johnson when his term as secretary of the State Board of Transportation shall have expired. They would sub- Ject themselves to the charge of ingrati- tude if they did not provide for him and railroads are never ungratefu Jong as they hope to use their still furthe One of the new United States reve- nue cutters is to be named after the late Secretary of State Gresham, for- merly secfetary of the treasury, under whose jurisdiction the revenue marine service falls. The tribute will be one entirely appropriate, although the sub- Ject fully deserves greater recognition of his memory at the hands of the goy- ernment which he served so long and so faithfully, Now we are told that the e silver- ftes in both the republican and demo- cratic parties have everything a'l ady to demand a free silver presidential candidate from their respective nomi- mating conventions, and In case their demand is not complied with, to bolt thelr parties and rally to an independ- ent free silver man. The plan reads very smoothly and has doubtless been carefully evolved by some free coinage enthusiast. Carrying it out, however, I8 something very different. The tail 18 not lable to wag the dog. The ma- Jority is hardly likely to permit the minority to dictate either platform or caudidate. o R U L Y MUST COME DOWN FROM THAT PERCH. ! Attorney General Churehill has volun. ]h-v‘rml to onlighten the public as to how | Sam Macleod came to be perched on {the roof of the Deaf and Dumb Insti- !tute in the eapacity of boss earpenter. According to the attorney general, there | Is a cornice loose on top of the building {and the roof is sadly out of repair, Al- though the cont [been let, the attorney general consid- ered 1t his duty as a member of the | State Board of Public Lands and Build- | ings to take charge of the job, and in | pursuance of this resolve Sam Macleod ;wn directed to notify parties claiming | contracts that the board had made no contracts and had authorized no one else to make contracts. Why Macleod was selected as bearer of this message and why the building, whieh is now | partly unroofed, was to be left In that | exposed condition under Macleod's su- { porvision, is not explained. The attorney general's evident pur- | pose is to «hift the responsibility for this action from his own shoulders to those of Commissioner Russell, who cer- tainly did not know Macleod from Mac- | beth or Macduff. As the chief law offi- leer of the state, Attorney General Churehill ought to have known that | neither he, Commissioner Russell nor | the Board of Public Lands and Build- | ings have any jurisdiction over the state institution for the deaf and dumb. Sec- tion O of article v of the constitution reads as follows: The commissioner of public lands and butld- ings, the secretary of state, the treasurer and attorney general shall form a board which shall have general supervision and control of all the buildings, grounds and lands of the state, the state prison, asylums and all other institut.ons thereof, except those for educa- tional purposes; and shall perform such du- ties and be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law. The state institution for the deaf and dumb is an educational institution, and therefore placed beyond the control of the state board by the constitution. On this point there can be no dispute. The supreme court, in the case of Curtis against Allen, involving the question of the control of the state institution for the blind, decided, January 2, 1895, ren- dered an elaborate opinion on this very question. The court cites a previous de- cision of its own body, the opinion writ- ten by Judge Gantt, in a contest over the principalship of the state institution for the blind, and in commenting upon 4 “In our view the sole ques- tion is whether or not the institution for the blind at Nebraska City is an ed- ucational institution within the purview of-section 9, article v, of ‘the constitu- tion. * * * These provisions as to the institution for the blind and for that of the deaf and dumb are much the same, whereby is evidenced a recognition of the fact that one is as much educational as the other.” The head note to this case reads: “The institution for the blind at Nebraska City is one for edu- eational purposes.” With this decision before him Attor- ney General Churchill must realize that the control of the Deaf and Dumb insti- tute is vested exclusively in the gov- ernor. Unless the governor sees fit to give Macleod the job which Mr. Church- ill has kindly voluntered to offer him, he will have to come down from his perch. AN INTELLICG The coroner’s jury impaneled to in- quire into the s of the death of Seljan, whose body was fished out of the Missouri in a terribly mutilated condition, bas returned a verdict that the man is stone dead. It declares, fur- thermore, that the dead man may have mutilated himself and thrown his own body into the river after he was dead, or he may have been slashed to pieces and carvied away by parties unknown. This sage conclusion on the part of the coroner's panel entitles every mem- ber to a leather medal. It takes in- telligence of an uncommon order for men who have listened to a circumstan- tial report of the conditions under which Chief of Police White traced the remains of Seljan from his blood-be- spattered lodging to the river bottoms to leave the question of his murder a matter of doubt and to intimate that the man may ha been a victim of self-destruction. Evidently the strain upon the gray matter in the capaclous skulls of these intelligent jurymen was too great to permit them to do any ra- tional thinking. But what can we ex pect from a poorly paid and ove worked coroner’s jury, anyhow? AMERICAN MANUPACTURES ABROAD, The fact that many articles of Ame ican manufacture arve steadily gain- ing ground in forelgn markets is one that all classes of our people will be glad to learn. The great progress made in developing our manufacturing in- dustries, under the policy of protec- tion, has given this country a capacity for production which renders necessary new outlets for the absorption of the surplus beyond the demand for home consumption. If the domestic mar) were absolutely secured to American manufactur possibly production would not be materially if at all in excess of the requirements of our peo- ple. But we shall never have a policy that will provide tkis condition. Our manufacturers will always have forelgn competition and the extent of this com- petition will about measure the surplus production of our own industries when worked to their full capacity. Hence, the necessity of finding an outlet for our goods in foreign markets. It appears that American manufac. turers have recently been manifesting commendable enterprise In seeking trade abroad and with good results. | Agents of Amervican firms have been sent to Great B n and to the conti- nental countries and have sold goods there. Boots aud shoes made in the United States have been so!d in consid- erable quantities in England. Carpets of American make have found a de- | mand in Burope. It is said that our hardware, cutlery and tools are suc cessfully competing with the British product in the British colonial markets. There 18 a growing demand for our cotton goods abroad. American agri- cultural implements are steadily gain. | ing in competition with foreign manu factures all over the world. It Is stated that the Argentine Republic was our CORONE, act for this work had | . e . best eum.mar up to about a year ago, when It was supplanted by the coun- tries of Europe other than Great Brit- ain, France and Germany. There has been a materlal increase this year in the exports of manufactured products over the corresponding period of last year. These are gratifying facts and bear testimony to the superior ingenuity, in. dustry and skill of the American peo- ple. We are enabled to sell goods abroad, while paying the highest wages of any country producing similar goods, because of the greater efficiency of American labor, The skilled American workman will produce more in a given time, with American machinery, than the workman of any other country. Thus under the policy of protection there has been developed a great Indus- trial system, stimulating the inve genfus of our people, which has reached a position that enables it to success- tully compete for trade In the markets of its rivals, and which there is every reason to believe will continue to pand in this direction if the policy un- der which it has grown up shall be maintained. THE BRITISH POLITICAL SITUATION The British Parliament will be dis- solved today and the campaign for the general election will be at once inaugu- rated. While it will not be a prolonged campaign it promises to be a very ne- tive and interesting one for the British people. As to the probable result both parties are now professing confidence, the liberal chances having apparently somewhat improved. Immediately after the resignation of the Rosebery ministry nobody seemed to doubt that in a general election the unionists, in which title the conservatives o now included, would win a decisive victor So sagacious a politi observer as Sir Charles Dilke declared that the 1ib- erals hadn’t a ghost of a chance and that the unionists were certain to se- cure a solid vote, which will keep them in power for a long time to come. The more candid of the liberal organs also declared their belief that the unionists would gain a sufficient number of seats in the house of commons to give them a safe majority. It was pointed out that since the general election of 1802 there have been thirty-nine contested bye. elections, and although the liberals gained votes in several, yet on the total number the opposition averaged a net gain of 260 at each election. If this average should be maintained at the general election the unionist majority will be upwards of fifty. But subsequent events appear to have somewhat changed the situation, and it is now said that the liberal outlook is highly favorable. Lord Salisbury has made some political mistakes. Ile has gone too far, it is thought, in com- mitting the con: party to a reactionary policy. expected, of course, that the new government would antagonize pretty much eve thing in the liberal program in the most uncompromising fashion, but it would seem that Lord Salisbury has been too blunt and aggressive, and s displeased some of the less radical members of his party. It is also said that Mr. Chamberlain, who represents the unionist element in the new government, is manifesting a dis- position to assume the prerogatives of leadership in the House of Commons, by ereating a feeling which tens the stability of the coalition. As to the liberals they have aban- doned none of the policies for which the party stands and ave manifesting a determination to make a vigorous and aggressive conte The party stiil de- mands home rule for Ireland, which is and must continue to be its cardinal principle, and it courageously main- tains its attitude of antagonism to the power of the House of Lords in mat- ters of legislation. One of the leading issues of the campaign will relate to the liquor question, the liberals favor- ing reform of the laws governing the liquor traffic and the conservatives op- posing it. This has grown to be a ques- tion of commanding interest to the British people and no otlher issue in the impending campaign is likely to attract more attention. The liberals will have oif their side most of the moral sentiment of the country, but it is to be expected that this will be over- balanced by the elements adverse to any radical change. A liberal victory in the coming gen- eral election in Great Britain would be in the interest of political progress in that nation, but it is hardly to be ex- pected with the present leadership of that party, which has not displayed the qualities necessary to inspire popular confidence and support. COMPTROLLER OLSEN'S CASE. Comptroller Olsen has registered a protest against what he is pleased to term the scoring and vilification to which he has been subjected by the newspapers and the implied censure of his official conduct by the resolution in- troduced at the last meeting of the city council. Mr. Olsen sings the same old song that is heard in every instance when- ever the searchlight of publicity is di- rected upon a vulnerable spot. He makes a tearful plea for public sym- pathy on account of health impaired by overwork and alleged distress of his family caused by statements reflecting upon his reputation. In this as in all similar cases the tenderness of derelict officials to their families shines out in bright contrast to therr regard for the interest of the public. Mr. Olsen doubtless thinks himself a much abused man. But the taxpayers of Omaha, who arepaying more than $10,000 a year in support of the comptrol- ler, his deputies and clerks, have a right to think that they are fhe ones who have been abused and victimized by the lamentable failure of the comptroller's office to protect them against the di- version and embezzlement of moneys in the city treasury. Mr. Olsen must know that the comptroller's office was created solely as & safeguard against the unlawful disbursement of public funds and as a check upon the men who handle these funds In all departments. The recent disclosures of gross negli- gence on the part of the comptroller in relation to the city treasurer's accounts are not the only evidences of inexcus- able misdementors TPully as reprehen- sible was the fffilire of the comptroller to check up thedwoks of the police court for seven long ths, when the charter and ordinances fitget the comptroller to make verificatian.of all such accounts at Jeast once n‘[“mgmlll. While we take no account of |yt may be said by other newspapers;The Bee, as an or- gan of public ppidion, has dealt with Mr. Olsen as it.ds jn duty bound to deal with every othar officer under like cir- cumstances. Wi khould feel recreant to that high trust Which every honest and fearless newspaper owes the people had we failed to call attention to the de- linquencies in ‘the” comptroller's office. Mr. Olsen may be overworked and he may be underpaid, but he has no right to ask or expect immunity from just criti- cism of his conduct as an office penitentiary appraisers avill fall in with the idea that a appraisement of Dorgan's prop- erty Is rendered necessary by the delay in accomplishing the transfer of the institution to the state—provided they are retained to do the appraising. An- other §500 apiece, with perquisit would not be unwelcome to any them in these times, P A— When members of the city council admit that they all receive and aceept free passes on street car lines, free railroad passes, free passes to base ball games, free passes to other entertain- ments; free water, free gas and free electric lights, we can easily compre- hend why the grip of the franchised corporations is so tight on the city gov- ernment, The doubtles new of ¥ar Reaching tmport of Reform. New York Sun, We are Informed that all the ham in town will be seized by the police next Sunday on account of its propensity to be served with champagne sauce. Ay, The Baliy k of Glabe-Democrat. 1f Secrotary Carlisle goes to Nebraska in the interest of the sound money cause It is to be hoped that he w'll stop awhile in Mis- sourl, where his party is much more in need of his services. Bring Forth 1he St Loufs T Secretary Morton has faith in the goose- bone. He Is also enthusiastic over the prop- osition to take Secretary Carlisle to the Ne. braska democratic convention. If his goos bone does not predict some weather as Car- lizle and Bryan approach each other on that oceasion the Morton doctrine of prognostica- tion will tumble. i Don't Takn the Earth, Detroit. Free Press. Wheelmen are on the high wave of popu- lar favor just now, but they should not de- mand the ‘earth. “Thdy should permit those who do not ride ‘the ‘bicycle to live, or at least share the ofoné’in a restricted way. The humble worm Will turn, and if they do not grant the pedtitrian some rights he may arise in his might and demand them. —-— Whom Dbes eter To? Wihoo Wasb, The State Beard of Transportation on Monday elected a board of sec- retaries, consistijig of W. A. Dilworth, J. R. Sutherland and Jerry W. Farrell. The first named has been on the board for four years. The new appointees will not enter upon the discharge of their duties until October 1. A nuniberclof people throughout the state had been. given to understand that they would réceive an appointment on this board, and the settlement of the ques- tion will at least:be some satisfaction. Tho editor of this paper was one of those who had been induced, to make application. All we have to say is that the Nebraska state house contains more than one first-class liar, and they belong to the republican party. J. R. Sutherland, the new appointee, is an excellent man, and we believe will make an eficient officer. ——— Tho 01d Town Story, Philadelphia Record. The fanatical liquor laws of Towa have bred swarms of spies, detectives, informers and blackmallers eager to earn their wages. While the saloons are closed in many towns, the drug stores, which are increasing in numbers all over the state, sell all kinds of liquors without license. The drug stores are for the most part masked liquor saloons, and are open day and night. They adverlise in the newspapers that they have constantly on hand supplies of the finest liquors and wines for medicinal purposes and family use. On Sundays these lowa drug stores do their most profitable business, being so crowded in towns where the liquor laws are strictly enforced that they cannot accommodate their customers. How Is the cause of temperance and morality promoted in Iowa by converting drug stores into unlicensed liquor saloons? ————— Tho Journal va. World Lincoln Wealth Makers. The State Journal is certainly one of the most mean and willfully malicious news- papers that was ever printed. To the man who is seeking for truth and turns to the columns of the Journal there comes a feel- Ing of disgust that Is indeed sickening. There is only one redeeming feature about the sheet, and that is, you always know where it will stand on ‘all questions of in- terest to the people; it is an open enemy, though an unscrupulous one, and in this respect an improvement dver the World- Herald, which never has any settled policy, but blows hot and cold at the same time, ‘whistles Yankee Doodle through one nos- tril and Dixie through the other,” supports a populist nominee for governor and sells space to the republican state committee to slander and villify him in the same issue. The object of these two papers is the same, but their manner of fighting is different. The Journal is openly the friend of all that 18 detrimental to the best interests of the majority of the people; the World-Herald pretends to be friendly to the people, but is secretly its enemy, and traitorous to the last degree. Terald. B ia, China and Japan. Review of Reviews, Unquestionably Russia has stolen a march upon the other great powers by coming into close and confidential relations with the Chi- nese government. Russia has made China a large preliminary loan; and the French gov- ernment, with the aid of the Paris bankers, has found the money for Russia. The trans- Siberian railway will find a route across China's territory to’an advantageous harbor, and it is freely prefffcted that Port Arthur— which Europe has watned Japan that she must relinquish in due season—wiil fall even- tually and permanefifly into Russia’s hand, But this denouemerft'ig highly disturbing to England and Germagy. @ As for Japan, she is busily engaged in, sefuring possession of Formosa, and in fhie end will surely find herself the stronger, and safer for abandon- ing the idea of holding territory upon the mainland. She wilkincrease her navy as rap- idly as possible, and will aim at nothing ahort of becoming the. dominant naval power of the Pacific. With the extra $50,000,000 of indemnity money which it s expected that she will obtain fof. ¢opsenting to evacuate Port Arthur, Japan can build or purchase a fleet which would gnable her to capture Port Arthur or any other, fortress on the coast with considerable eise whenever she might find it desirable to do so. Tus STATE PRENS. Alma Record: The people should net get it into their heads that there is anything wrong. with our curremcy. It was the at tempt to turn a protection country over to free trade that caused the depression we have had in financial mattery Falrfield News: The next stato fair wilt be a hummer, and it will be held in Omaha. Present indications In Nebraska are for a good crop, and this means a crowd at the fair. The citizens of Omaha are taking hold with a’ determination to win it possible. Lincoln News: 1In the case of ex-Treasurer Bolln of Omaha the loss Appears to be not so much in the actual amount of his shortage as In the amount that must be spent in the em- ployment of expert accountants to go over hi books. As a rule, it is cheaper to have se: eral defalcations than one expert examina- tion. Stanton Pickett: The World-Herald may crow loud and long for free silver on the 16 to 1 basis, and pass as the friend to reform, but the people wiil not soon forget the posi- tion of that paper last fall in its support of Goldbug Boyd for congress and the selling of two columns of space to the enemies of Gov- ernor Holcomb, Schuyler Quill: The Quill will never sup- port any populist officlal who in any manner betrays the people. This rule will apply to all, high and low alike. Let all newspapers do lfkewise and the people would not be mis- represented 8o much. The most dangercus thing for the public is a hidebound, partisan newspaper that defends its party men regard- less of truth and justice, Papillion Times: A peor boy In Omaha stole an overcoat. The police caught him, and upon conviction he was sent to the peni- tentiary. City Treasurer Bolln has stolen $26,000 of the public funds, yet he breathes free air. There is something wrong in a system of government which has one set of laws for the poor, and another for the rich, as tllustrated In these two cases. Wayne Democrat: Instead of finding the way of the transgressor hard, his pathway is to be strewn with roses, and the air he breathes perfumed by the incense burned by his admiring friends. In Omaha Treasurer Bolln is sympathized with and made much of as though he had not wasted the city’s money on fast horses, fast women and fast living; and it s doubtful if any attempt will ever be made to punish him. Lincoln Neéws: Up in Omaha a desperate effort is being made to release the city from the grip of the political leeches that are suck- ing its lifeblood, and a strong independent movement is being organized on the lines of municipal reform as achieved in the larger cities of the country. Lincoln tried the ex- periment a few weeks ago, but found that the old partisan spirit was too strong in municipal elections for the spirit of reform to attain any headway. The effort In Omaha will be watched with absorbing interest. s i A SILVER FIASCO, Chicago Times-Herald: Every additional meeting throughout the country in behalf of an_impossible theory, and in part of a dis- honest manipulation of American currency, must be, like that of Denver, another free silver fizzle. Philadelphia Ledger: Since the outbreik of populism the democratic party in several of the western sta‘es has almost disintegratel, the mass going over to the new party, and many democrats allying themselves, at least temporarily, with the republicans as the best means of checking the progress of populism. It is of small amount what the Colorado sil- verites do, as their fealty to the silver gulches is well understood. Globe-Democrat: Colorado’s silver demo- crats have also shown that the people have dropped the silver issue. “Just thirty per- sons” were in the convention hall in Den- ver, so the telegraph informs us, at the time set’ for the opening of the meeting. The chairman of the state central committee, who called the convention, was not present, but he sent an address “discouraging radical ac- tion” by the delegates. But there was no ne- cessity for any such injunction. Denver News: Quite an amusing feature of the democratic resolutions is the reflec- tion they cast upon the republican conven- tion for not coming out in a more stalwart fashion for silver. The silver resolutions of the two bodics are as alike as two peas. They read as if picked from the same pod, and grown from the same seed. Neither body had the stalwart courage to notify the goldbug tyrants of their parties that the party stand for silver would determine their future following of the political standarg, and if they failed in duty upon that sub- ject, their's would would be vacant chairs forever in the family councils after the conventions. Chicago Tribune: Just what the strength of the democratic party in Colorado is, is uncertain. It polled 35,000 votes in 1890, but fused with the populists in 1892. Last a straight democratic candidate for srnor got 6,600 votes, and would have received more if the democrats had not been so discouraged and disgusted last No- vember in Colorado, as well as i other states. Therefore, the thirty men calling themselves democrats who met at Denver Tuesday morning in what they pompously called a ‘“‘mass convention,” or the sixty men calling themselves democrats who at- tended the afternoon session, cannot be looked on as speaking in the name of and with the voice of the democracy of Colo- rado. They are no more the exponents of its principles than the handful of men who cast votes for free silver delegates at the Cook county primaries last month represent the democratic voters.of that county. B LINGERING ON LIFE'S STAGE. Jules Verne is as spry as a cricket, al- though 80 years of age. He has five stories ready for the printer and is at work upon a sixth. Mrs, Bernette Woodward of Batavia, Mich., will be 100 years of age in August. She has been blind for ten years, but her other senses are in their normal condition. Editor D. B. Cooke of the Niles (Mich.) Mirror has been a printer sixty-six years. He is now 80 years old, but can stick type as rapldly as ‘any compositor in his office. Abraham H. Cavender of St. Paul, now nearly 80 years of age, is living on the exact spot where he settled forty-seven years ago, when there were only flve American families in the place. One of the oldest actresses in the world is Mme. Phister, who is 80, and the other day celebrated her sixtieth anniversary as an ac- tress. Her husband, whom she married in 1846, was aléo eminent as an actor. Robert Strong, familiarly known as “Col- onel Bob Strong,” who executed Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfleld, died in Wash- ington, D. C., last Saturday of infirmities in- cident to old age. He was 80 years old and had been an cficer in the District jall thirty years. Galen Clark, who in 1857 discovered the big trees near the Yosemite valley, s still guardian of that valley. When he left New Hampshire in 1853 he did not expect to live a year. But in California he spent his time hunting and fishing, bareheaded and bare- footed, and today he is as hale and vigor- ous a man of 80 as one can encounter any- where. T. D. Pinkham of Harpswell, Me., who en- lsted in the union army when past three- score and ten years old, having previously made a notable military record in the Mexi- can war, will be 100 years old if he lives until next November. He is still hale and active and travels around alone, visiting his many friends all over Maine. He has had twenty children, but only one s now living. Plymouth can boast of the smartest old lady in the state. Mrs. A. J. Hayward is 78 years of age. She lives alone and does all her work, Including sawing and splitting her wood and planting her garden. She showed your correspondent a plle of wood which she had got in and plled up in proper shape. The tiers contain four cords, besides a half cord of kindling wood which she manufactured. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE e S TN SRR TP THE DARRETT SCOTT FARCE. Grand Island Independent: The acquittal of the men.who were accused of having mur- dered the defaulting treasurer of Holt county, B. Scott, has been no surprise to thoss who watched the blundering prosecution of our state general attorney. Minden Courler: If Churchill had kept out of the case and allawed the local author- Itics to have managed it the animus of par- tisanship would have been less e pleuons and all honor would not have been lost in defeat. As it Is, Churchill has lost In pres- tige and the party suffers disrepute, Antelope Tribune: The murderers of Bar- | rett Scott should be punished if they can be positively identifled, but we do not believe in farcical tials, or maKing a great bluster about what can be positively proven and put- ting a county to the expense of a costly Trial when the prosecution knows it has no evi- dence that could convict cven with a jury of Scott's friends. Churchill will not be envied the honors he has won In the®hanagement of this case. Geneva Journal: Another chapter has been | ended in the Barrett Scott murder case and | the threo men whom the state elected to try | for the murder of Scott have been acquitted. The jury did not oven have the decency to he ate about a verdict, but brought in one of not guilty within an hour. Probably very few unprejudiced people believe that the men were innocent, and the evidence submitted by the state would at least have been suffi- it in any-of the counties in the eastern part of the state to have given the men long terms of imprisonment. It was probably a mistake for the attorney general to inter- fere in the case. Fullerton Post: It beats all lightwelght lawyer as Churchill would be ble to fix up & deal whereby he could re- celve the nomination of attorney general of this great state. Those who know him state that he hasn't the necessary legal ability to get into a justice court, and get in right. From the manner in which he conducted the Barrott Scott case we are led to believe the report Is correct. Instead of staying in his office and taking care of the legitimate busi- ness that belongs to ft, he forced himself on Boyd county and actually took the case out of the county attorney’s hand up there, and when he got his foot in it he called lustily for help. The state authorities knew Church- il could not conduct the prosecution and post haste sent Will Gurley of Omaha to the rescue. But it was too late. Churchill had mixed the thing up so that Gurley couldn't extract it. that such a s PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, In the political derby about to be run in England, Lord Rosebery is barely given a place. With a republican at the head of thp weather bureau it Is safe to forecast a rain of prosperity. Whooping enthusiasm is useful in its place, but it is a noticeable fact that they who in- dulge in it are outwinded ere the goal is reached. The level-headed Coloradoans have come to the conclusion that shouts and resolves are not as effective as the pick and shovel in advancing the silver movement. A nephew of the great Japanese com- mander, Field Marshal Yamagata, is living in New York. Though he is a man of middle age he is of very youthful appearance. Never mind Mrs. O'Lears. What Chicago should do, if true to herself, is to rear a cloud-piercing monument to ‘the cow that kicked vim, vigor and virility into the town. George W. McMillion of St. Louis is an animated Sunday school leader. He has the entire bible impressed under his scalp and can reel it off with the regularity and per- sistency of a Salvation Army drum. The Silver Knights of America, recently organized in Nevada, promises to generate a few cold days for the cuckoos. But the temperature will not serfously inconvenience the cuckoos as long as they hold the pantry combination. Recorder Goff gives praetical demonstra- tions of reform dafly. With a docket crowded with criminal cases, he foregoes a vacation, holds court six days out of seven, and often holds sessions far into the night in order to finish an important case. A cousin of Hoke Smith claims a fee of $24,000 for engincering an Indian deal through the Interior department. The secre- tary is not opposed to the fee, believing that the talent of a descendant of Pocaliontas cannot be too highly rewarded. The extent to which a chimney can poison the atmosphere has been scientifically de- termined by a test made in Berlin. The soot which comes out of the chimney of a single sugar refinery was gathered for six days and found to weigh 6,800 pounds. The royal family of England is somewhat perturbed over the filling of an Important office. The duke of Cambridge has been shelved as commander-in-chief of the army. Wolseley and Roberts stand next in line of promotion, the first distinguished as a maga- zino soldier and the latter eminent as a fighter and victor. But the queen has a son, the duke of Connaught, who is no great shakes as an ornamental soldier, but he has an elegant pull. In a contest between family and merit it is safe to bank on the family pull. Jose Maria de Heredia, the new member of the French Academy, is a native of Havana, being French on the maternal side. At the ago of § he was taken to Parls and educated there for several years, afterward returning to Havana to enter the university. He is a disciple of Leconte de Lisle and a writer of “finely spun’ sonnets. He has also written a few prose works, such as an admirable translation of the ““Conquest of New Spain,” from the old chronicle by Bernal Diaz del Castillo; the “Nonne Alferez,” and a series | of articies on “The Land of the Cid." SNAP SHOTS Somerville Journal: The miner is different from most people. He strikos success at the bottom of the ladder. Galveston New It Is getting so that one meets a full-grown woman and takes her for & young boy in knee pants. Philadelphia Inquirer: In the new category of fashions the prettiest thing still continues to be the mald Inside the fashions. New York Herald: Religlon is really a interesting subject, in spite of the clergy’s efforts to make It dull and stupid. Chicago-Tites Heiald: Judging from some | of the game he bags we should say that Cupld must do most of bis hunting blindfolded. Chiengo Record: Those down-curve bley- cle handles seem to ba a great assistance to the rider in tying himself into a bow-knot. Boston Transcript: Until a woman fore- goes the practice of wearing her necktle hindside before she can never pass in soclety as a well dressed gentleman Atchison Globe: Set a table or two under trees on the lawn, put an embroidered doille here and there, a little smattering of raspe berries and cream, and you are ready for & wn fete. Unless you have the dollies the affair is a lawn party. They constitute the difference betw party and a fete. BEADS OF MIRTH. “1 hate these Miss Jemmison. talk behind Harper's azar: built for two,” sald encourages people to back. bloycles It your Boston Transcript: He-I've a good mmd to_Kiss you She—You'd better mind what you'ro about, Ah," remarked t the play of {0, of course Woman's intels Cleveland, Plain Dealer: Mr. Quilp. “but women hav Inte that men enjoy."” not, apped Mrs. Quilp. lect works.” Indlanapolis Journal: Tommy—Paw, what is_the Board of Education? Mr. Figg—In the days when school It was a pine shingle. 1 went to First Alderman—T'e new wry? I rman—Says 'is prayers wit' ‘ls cyes open. on to you. Docked' horses are considered extremely stylish. Cleveland F What | horse good for? Dealer—Well, t' be honest with ye, he's a little too bony fur mountain trout and not quite tough <h- fur corned beef, but he'd can up a dalsy fur spring chicken, shington Star hat're you up to?* 1 crook, as his pal lifted a hundful oin out of the money drawer. “S-h-h. Don't say a word, IU's a free silver movement of me own. Puck: He—Dinah, I spec’ I mus' be verry low. Go long! nufin’_ger'ous. He—Well, when I ax him if T can't hab jus' a leefle mite o' watermelon, he say no; on no ‘count. De doctah say it am Watts—I ran over Indianapolis Journal: n with my wheel last a deaf and dumb n night Potts—What did he do? Watts—Oh, he didn’t touch me, but stood there and called me all the hard names he could lay his fingers to. Sy se Post: She coliege education complete, have been graduated 5 He—I should say yes! Why, I've won six medals for sprinting, ten diamond rings for bicycle racing, $1,000 for winning an amateur prize fight, and got my picture in the Police Gazette for surviving twenty foot ball games. My education completel I should say ye PORCINE. ¥ Y There was a man in our town (His name my memory slips) Who kissed ten thousand microbes Off his sweetheart's ruby lips. And when he found what he had done With all his might and main He rushed up there another night And kissed them on again. So you belleve your now that you New York Commeretal. The clouds are too dark, or the sunlight Is gleaming too hot for the meadows; The plan of creation Is awry— And the ‘earth is revolving In shadows That keep steady ith our journey, Anon getting darker and thic AS the mind sees new cause for complair ing— For man Is at best but a kicker, A friend 1s too dull the brightness Of intellect fosters 'disgust; And we grieve, and we sigh, and we Cow sure, But rarely have time to be just; We light the great lamp of ambition, soon see it splutter and flicker, se we neglect careful trimming— man s at best but a kicker. Barth is too dry, or the gardens ‘Are drowned with excess of the showers; The growth of W 1s is too rapld, The insects are blighting the flowers; Ah, the day must be chill and foreboding When man cannot make easy dicker With the turbulent forces of Sorrow— For man Is at best but a kicker. There's the racket of wi'd, childi<h laushter, There's a silence, oppressively sad; There's the passion of man running riot— And the universe seems to be bad; Though the angels might sing in the sun- ight i 14 still glower, thicker; takes a vacation— tDut a kicker. We have a word to say ‘We don't care to vie with the extravagant and more or less irre- sponsible proclamations that some people regard as necessary to attract attontion, assure you that in our present value for your money. 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