Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1895, Page 4

R ot o i P 37 e ] THE OMAHA DAny BEE TER, EDI EVERY MOKNING, TERMS OF EUBSCRIPTION, Dally Bes (Without Sunday), Ono Year Dally and Sunday, One Year Bix Mon o Three M. Bunday s Baturday Weekly ¥ me Year. One Year One Year OFFICES, | Omaha, The Tiee Duilding e | Bonth Omahn, singer Blk., Corner N and 2ith & Council THuffs, 12 Fearl Btreet Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of € New York Rooms, 13, 14 and ) Washington, 1107 F Stre W | ORRESPONDENCE. | A1l comminie torial matter 6 e ANl Dusiness fotter addressed 1o T Omaha, Drafts, che be made payabl THE LEE IURLI BTATEMENT OF CIRCU { Ty etar | bune Dullding, HIN Goorg lshing comy actual numier s Morning, Evening and the mon M Totql Loss coples anor Tunie Seal) . KL, i i i bt Of course the farmer will have a large crop of oats, with nothing to feed them to hut bicycles tovernor McKinley has an appoint ment to make a speech at 0., this week. The appointment, it will be noted. however, has nothing to do with tree silver or free trade. If Sceretary Carlisle is waifing to be still further coaxed, perhaps we can seare up a few more invitations for him to visit Nebraska and instruct the rank and file of demoeracy in the principles of honest money. o A Boston man has actually had the audacity to call in public the produc tions of Chicago art schools daubs and blots, Yes, daubs and blots! But just wait until the Chicago critic is loosed in Boston’ rt galleries. n 1 paper-covered edi tion of “Trilby” has been able to make Du Maurier's novel popular in England. s well as prophets frequently to go away from home 1o receive ted appreciation. “Corn 1s backward but looking well,” 18 the substance of the Nebraska crop report. But we are only entering upon the warm weather that makes corn tas sel and shoot out its ears. The back- wardness of the erop Is 1o good reason for Nebraska farmers or merchants to be discournged. Th ity of the talk of free silver democrats who threaten to bolt their party unless permitted to have every- thing their own way is being attested by the manner in which the free silver democrats of Kentucky are wheeling into line in support of the democratic nomi nee standing on an administeation plat form. The next thing for Towa republi to do is to make legislative nominations that will increase the assurance of vie. tory all along the line. It is the legisla ture that the railroads and other corpo ratlons are most anxious to control. Candidates of known and tried inde pendence of corporate domination will strengthen the other men on the ticket. There is no excuse for weak legislative nominations by the republicans in Iowa this year. \¢ The Bee has been requested to state what it has to say concerning the al- leged quotation from a speech said to have been made in the campaign of 1803 by Mr. T. J. Mahoney, in which he charges it with being hostile to re. ligious iberty. Inasmuch as the quotation is elipped from the Omaha Fake Mill by the Omaha I Mill and appeared in no other paper, we have no means of knowing whether any such assertion was ever made, and suggest that the question be propound ed directly to Mr. Mahone, Only 79,000 rames are on the books of New York City, but ther more than 000 people who pay the taxes of the metropolis. The taxes fm posed are shifted in a dozen different ways rom the shoulders of those who pay them originally to the shoulders of thos who pay them ultimately. Becan man’s name is not on the tax books is by 1o means conclusive evidence that he does not bear a share of the burden of government, nor because a man's name Is on the tax books is that con- clusive evidence that he bears his due sharve of the burdens ————— Comptroller Olsen insists that the city did not lose a dollar by his neg- leet to check up the police court records, This might be true, but it isn't true. How could the comptroller know that the accounts were square checked them up. He did not check them up in seven months, therefore he had no means of knowing whether they were correct. The accounts as finally checked up are doubtless correct but they show irregulariti that in dicate clearly an omission or a knock down on the part of police officers charged with looking after the fines, — In common with many others who were led to believe that the newly ap. polnted deputy attorney general, A. Dy 1 the assistant county attorney this, Douglas ty, the same name, The Bee has made ref: erence to the appointment as opening the way for another attorney to fill a ya cancy. This mistake was quite natural in view of the fact that there are two Mr. Days, both attorneys in this city and both members of the same firm. Deputy Attorney General D tax are unless he e o of long been well and favorably known in | while othiers were fi Omaha, and is believed to possess in a high degree the requisite qualifications |loves so much. for his uew oftice, | prise tc | erals, | fested a great d | down ¢ | ation | of 670 member PROBABLY A LIBERAL ROUT. The resnlt of the British elections on Saturday was doubtless a greater sur- . the unionists than to the lib for while the former have mani- nl of confidence it not at all probable they expected large a gain as they achieved and alto- ether cert they did not count upon the def the foremost man in the liberal ¥, in point of ability, Sir Willilam Harcourt. The turning S ader by perhaps the strongest liberal constituency in Great Britain, showing a change of over 15 000 votes from the figures of three years treniendous blow to the 1ib the influence of which will evory of the United Its effect must be to inspirit and enthuse the unionists everywhere il very Ny, there | to think, to strengthen them, for the issue chiefly for the defeat of Ha temperance question, s being worked everywhere against the liberals, who have made it a conspicu ous part of their policy. Harcourt the principal champion of veto or local option p and his decisive repudi by a hitherto strong lib 1 constituency shows how potent the mor inter Great Britain, any rate land. The liberal svernment introduced measures for ition of the liquor traffic in branches of Parliament. These of a decidedly drastic character ind were so unpopular that it was pre cted the Rosebery government would certainly be defeated on them if they were brought to a vote, But notwith- standing the manifest unpopularity of this issue the liberals clung to it as a part of their policy. Perhaps this is commendable from a moral point of view, for it is probably unquestionable that the liquor traffic in England needs better regulation, but the evidence thus far is that it is not good politic A great many clections are yet to be held. The House of Commons consists only six thus far been therefore, as our dis a bare chance that may not be conclusive issue, but the probabilities strongly favor the conclusion that the liberal party will experience a rout and that the unionist majority in the next House of Commons 1w exceed the estimate yet offered, 100, In that event the party would un@oubtedly be secure in the sion of the government for the next years, for there ap pears to be no doubt that the coalition of conservatives and unionists is, Mr. George W. Smalley says, complete and will be permane is a party felt i Kingdom, eral he section genery renson responsible ourt, the I8 has the on loeal sition st is in or in regu both one of which There i, clies suggested, Saturday’s results as to the final have chosen, largest LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD In the irrepressible conflict that Dbeen forced upon taxpayers and citizens who feel the necessity of grappling with boodlerism masquerading under the name of patriotism no quarter will be asked of the enemies of reform. The battle is on and the lines will be sharply drawn. The attempt of the covert alli of the cohorts of corruption and dark- lantern conspiracy to divert attention from the issues of the hour by dis: torted quotations from the files of The during previous campaigns will il nothing against the tidal wave of public sentiment that demands the divorce of politics and religion from local government. Looking backward, The ing to retr: and no apologi Its support of republican candidates who were reputed members of the 4 P. A. order was not because they were A. P, Als, but in spite of their A. P. A’s. The Bee is a republic new )er and when party lines ar drawn it supports republican dates, unless they are known to be dis reputable or dishonest.” In 1801 it sup- ported the entire city and county re publican tickets. In 1803 it opposed the re-election of two of the candidates whom it had helped to elect two years before. One of these has since been indicted by a grand jury and the rove tions in the police court trial of the horrible condition of the jail and the king of prisoners to gambling resorts, road houses and saloons funy vindicate the course which The Bee had pursued and which the people had endorsed at the ballot box. The files of our con- temporary, which professes to be demo. eratic and pretends to be hostile to sec- arian polities, will be searched in vain for any denunciation of their methods or even any vigorous support of the candidates of the party it has regularly scuttled and tematically sold out. The Be taunted with endorsing Henry Bolln on the day before election in 1803 as “a safe custodian of public funds.” To this indictment it pleads gnilty. Mr. Bolln had made an excep- tionally good record during two terms as county treasurer and his integrity had not even heen called in question Dby his political opponents. The sm of the situation is that on the day fol- lowing the disclosure of his defaleation the spurious organ of democracy actually proclaimed him to be an honest n and denied that there was anything wrong in the city treasury. All this beeause Mr. Bolln had allowed the proprietor draw $730 out of the treasury without an appropriation. The most unkindest cut of all is the reminder Cunningham R. Scott of his ingratitude by parading the following endorsement of his candidacy for judge in The Bee of October 8, 1801: R. Scott is entitled to the sup- port of all good citizens for judge of the listrict court. He is an able, experienced and incorruptible attorney, a genial gentle man and & thoroughly representative citizen Looking backward at this campaign complimentary The Bee not !l any qualms of conscience. When this puff was written it was not aware of the fact that Colonel ott had never Leen a colonel, nor a major, nor a cap. tain, nor a corporal, nor even a private |in the ranks of the 1t did not | know that he had erased his name from the enrollment of volunte to which {he had subseribed at Anamosa at the ontbreak of the war and had rewmained e at home all through the rebel Bee has noth- to offes to base Colonel €. does army. m, hting the battles of the union and protecting the flag he At that time The Bee did not kuow is | that the doughty colonel had departed from Anamosa for Councll Bluffs with many bills unpaid. It did not know {that the “genial gentleman” had been | Indicted In Pottawattamie county, lowa, for a murderous assault on his law | partner. It did not know that the “in- corruptible attorney” had been accuse® {of cheating clients and was cordially detested by the bench as well as the | bar wherever he had practiced. [ | The Bee certainly could not have | | known at that time that Colonel Scott | | would disgrace the city of Omaba*with an intemperate speech bBefore the na tional republican commit and it | could not have dreamed t he would £o0 to sleep in the cabinet room of the | white house and in the very chair nl‘: | the president, while President Harrison | was compelled to stand and await his |awaking. It could not have known that | { Cunningham 1. Secott would scandalize I the bench of this distriet and disgrace im.- whole state by his erazy anties and | usurpations of power. It could not have known that this “genial gentleman” would insult respectable women, as well as his fellow judges. that he would set | at liberty forgers and thieves who had | his favor while imposing the most out- | rageous sentences upon poor men who lappened to offend him by their ap- pearance or gestures. It could not know | that this ranting demagogue would howl | himself hoarse about gamblers and then it them with a feather duster when they pleaded guilty in his court. It could not bly have imagined that this judicial imposter, who prates about the social evil, would make tlie sheriff act as receiver for houses of ill-fame and collect the rents during a period of three months for the benefit of chattel mortgage sharks. Looking backward, we look In for a single line of condemnation this despot from the pseudo-democ organ, and, looking forward, we assured that in the future, as in the past, Judge Scott can safely reckon upon its silent, if not its open, support. poss vain of tic feel | 11 L' FAVOR A CONFERENCE. The only German states that were un- favorable to an international monetary conference have finally been induced to aequiesce with the majority, so that all the constituent parts of the German em- pire are united in the request to the imperial government to take the initia- tive in inviting the nations to send dele- to a congress to again consider the question as to what can be done to secure fer silver a larger recognition in the world's curreney. If this unanim- ity Is what the German government h been waiting for it is to be presumed that it will acquaint the world with w it intends to do and when. It is well understood that the emperor and his are not favorable to any policy regarding silver which would produce any radical change in the exist- ing monetary system. They want the gold standard maintained. But there is no evidence t Emperor William is unwilling to have anything done looking to the rehabilitation of silver, but rather that he would be found ready to accept a practicable plan for accomplishing this result. Germany has almost much at ke in this matter as any other country, and there is no doubt the wernment h, been much im- pressed by the arguments of the bi metallists showing that the country would be benefited both in its domestic and foreign trade by an international agreement that would restore silver to its former position and maintain it ther It is reasonably to be expected ths the German government will now promptly decide the question of calling a conference and it ought to he entirely safe to that the decision will be favorable. In the event of a unionist victory in the British general election it certain not only that England will be vepresented in an international con ference, but that the bimetallist senti- ment of that country will be given rep resentation. While the question of bi- metallism is not entering into the cam- paign, as it was expected to, still there are constituencies in which it Is not wholly lost sight of, and there is reason to believe that the next House of Com mons will contain a large number of members who favor this policy. In any event, however, there are ong aavo- cates of bimetallism in the ministry who may safely be counted upon to insist that in the appointment of delegates to an international monetary conference the very considerable element of the people, representing all interests, who want bimetallism shall not be ignored It is quite possible for the Salishury government to give this element an op portunity for a fair hearing in a con- ference of the nations without making the cause of bimetallism a government question, or in any degree committing the government regarding that poliey. All the countries of Europe that have any interest in silver are ready to confer respecting it and an invitation conference would undoubtedly promptly meet with a favorable response from every country to which it w extended, cates soon advisers st assume is to a The exhibit of economy at the count, poor farm made in County Clerk Sack- ett’s report is misleading. In former times the relief work w all done through the superintendent of the poor farm and the purch of supplies and all other incidental expenses were charged up against the poor farm. Now the county maintains a separate supply depot, its distributing agents and charges all the expenses for poor relief to a new account. There is also a separate account for maintenance of the insane in the county hospital, which formerly came out of the poor farm fund. The result s a sham economy on the farm where in reality there has been waste. According to the statement of warden of the state penitentiary, s proportion of the conviets who ar corded the privilege of the parole pris oner law shake the dust of N from their feet at the first favorable op- portunity, and once outside the jurisdie- tion of the state officials repudiate the conditions upon which they seeured tem porary liberty. This is a bad state of affairs, It indicates one of two things, either that the governor and are imposed upon and give pa hires the rge ae | sued bec wany undeserving prisoner; there Is no proper effort made to enforce the terms of i par ent caution should be exerclspd in setting conviets free on promise of good behavior, and the slightest vislation of the conditions | should involve swift and sure punish- ment. Unless care is used in the future administration/ of the law the- boasted parole prisonet’ lay is liable to be me, | if not a menace tg the state, a meaning- less farce. SPIFi ke Fashions, Brboklyn Kagle. I Spfrit Lake, Ta, has been ause he vefused to allow two bleycle riders to enter hls dining room. His objec- tion to them was that they wore the breeches usual to bicyclern. +He wanted them to go back to Minneapolis and put on long “pants.” That landlord may live to regret his act It would not be in the least surprising if he was going around the house ten years from now with the same sort of chest pro- tectors on his legs that he complains of when they worn by handsomer men. Le don't scare anybody more, especially when the exercise of cycling has given shape to them. A landlord — - The Grow Cincinnati Commercal The deficit in the treasury continues to Jump up at a rate calculated to distress even Mr. Cleveland. ~What it would have been had the Wilson bill been passed as it came from the hands of the committee is no longer a matter of conjecture. Mr, Cleveland ought to get down on his knees and thank Senators Brice and Gorman that they forced the senate to materially amend it. But he won't do any- thing of the kind. Mr. Cleveland never thanks anybody. He is built on the pattern that would rather have ruin with his own opinions than prosperity and give up his own notions, The country has had enough of Mr Cleveland, and its only regret is that he has yet 50 many months to serve. - A Remarknble Cheok, New York Tribune Cleveland's treasury check for 1 cent, fs- sued to make his salary account balance ought to be preserved by him, not only as a curfosity, but as a token of the precision and accuracy of treasury management under his administration. ‘In its way it will be as interesting as the Bank of England note for £1,000,000, which Rogers, the banker poet, kept framed in his library. So small a money order was certainly never before ls- sued by so great a treasury to so spaclous a maglstrate. It shows a minute and refined accuracy in business matters his gy credit- able to the Cleveland regime, and he ought to be more proud of it than of any of his big loans, without which the 1-cent check in his favor would not have been good. - e Expensive Chadron Signal is one thing more useloss than another which is paid for by the people of ka it is the State Board of Transpor- tation, whose secretaries draw $2,000 each per year for looking wise and keeping still. The intention of the law was that this board should protect the people from discrimination and injustice, but in practice the board has merely acted as a republican campaign bu- reau. The election of new secretaries the past week emphisizes this statement. The new secretaries chosen by the republican state board are Jerry Farrell, Morton democrat ind B. & M. right-of-way man at Orleans; J R. Sutherland, editor of a republican paper | at Tekamah, and General Dilworth, one of the board. The selection of Farrell shows clearly the combination existing in this state between the republican party and the Cleve- land democracy MEBL i fes Sixtean to Qne Explained, Philadelphia Record The panacea of “sixteen to one’ has been understood in many | places very differently by the people who haye listened to the sirens luring them to the rocks of free silver coin- age, but nowhere has it received so original and refreshing interpretation as in the heart of Alabama, the bailiwick of Hon. Reuben Kolb. “We want free coinage at 16 to 1,” cried a gentleman with chin whiskers and one suspender to,a sound money advocate in the recent campajgn,, “and we want it now!" ‘Well, my friend,” Teplied the man of some sanity, “‘what @' you mean by free coinage at to 1?7 How would that help you?” “How will that help me?' repeated the disciple of Hon. Reuben; “why it will help me a heap sakes. I've got a wife and seven children, and if we can get free silver at 16 to 1 that'll bring me $16 for every member of the family en and one is eight and one is nine. Nine times sixteen is 144. I'll be in $144 every year. That's how iUl help me. See? And still Hon. Reuben is in New York trying to raise funds to help along the cause nd the campaign of education goes steadily on xury. It there Morton ns n Letter Writer. New York Sun. The letter addressed by Secretary Mor- ton to ex-Congressman Abner Taylor Is creditable neither as an exhibition of wit nor as a manifestation of common sense. Mr. Taylor had criticised some features of the management of the Department of Agri- culture. Mr. Morton publishes a reply, whereof the opening and concluding para- graphs are these “I am_delighted with your letter of June 26, which you have kindly forwarded to me fter having published the same in several ewspapers. I am, however, surprised tl « successful statesman, so distinguished for modesty, so bashful as to any appearance before the public and of a nature so tinc tured with the timidity of adolescence, should muster up effrontery sufficient to lepict his superior knowledge in the public press over his own signatur “Thanking you for having overcome your innate indifference sufficiently to have placed your strictures upon the administration of the Department of Agriculture in the pub- lic press and hoping that you will continue to evolve further luminous phenomena for the enlightenment of the public, I remain, e This is not crushing sarcasm, as it was cbviously Intended to be. It is squashy silliness. Hon. J. Sterling Morton ought to put a higher value on his official dignity. A United People. Toston Globe Men of differing races and creeds worked zealously sid> by side to secure for these United States a name and place among the nations of the earth. Patriots born on American soil and patriots born abroad fought side by side in the glorl- s war “which kept the union whole. They held varying views regarding religion as they did regarding party politics. Buf they were bound together, one and all, by a spirit of devoted loyalty to country without which the efforts of Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would have proved of no avail. “In union is strengt is an old proverb, but it is as true today 38 when It was first uttered. Our nation's history bears evidence on its every page of the truth that loyalty to the country’s flag.and the country’s in- stitutions has n-yer been hedged in by any bounds of creed or yace. And so long as Americans stand shoulder “to shoulder in support of American jdeas the safety of the world's greatest rgpublic is assured beyond all_peradventure. What can be &aid, of those who would range the citizens of the republic In two hostile camps, except that, to the extent of thelr ability, théy afe fomenting the evil work of discord and disunfon? That man Is assuredly no friend of America, whatever his pretensions may be, who deliberately sows the seeds of such tates as distrust, praju- a and old-world vancor in American soll. 'or a more perfect union,” was the watch word of the fathers: That a spirit of mutual consideration, wise toleration and broad- minded recognitiofi of the f-elings, as well as the rights, offall] may strongly prevail in this country, to the utter discomfiture of bigotry in all its forms, may well be the heartfelt ‘wish of every true American today. | view in the JULY 15, 1895 AN INDISCREET MINISTER, Tribune: | Ambassador enters a denial. He didn't say it wasn't for publication, anyhow, Indianapolis Journal: If the alleged inte french papers s trie, and Min- Ister Eustis has been saying that the United States was against Rpssia, Germany and France in the pan affair, Is for Canada as agalnst Great Britain, and for Cuba as against in the Madags bo recalled. He has shown #pirit of t American variety sl he ha represented the United States in Fmnce, but such declarations are hostile to the long-time policy of the United States In reference to the affairs of Europe and eastern countries. Chicago Times-Herald: While ample allow ance must be made for the exaggerations and misinterpretations of what Ambassador Eustis may have safd, the fact that, without secur- ing absolute and reliable pledge of confidence, ho consented to talk privately on interna tional affairs at all, indicates that, accom- plished and able as’ Mr. Eustis undoubtedly is, he lacks the diplomatic poise which is indispensable, according to modern interna- tional conventionality. What we would not tolerate and never have tolerated in foreign representatives at Washington we cannot ex- pect forelgn governments to condone in American representatives Cincinnati Comm ustis has a bee. It Bustls and it Chicago al: Ambassador is a goodly sized bee and is humming a pretty tune around th ears of the ambassador. This bee was born, or at least it began humming, shortly after the Washington Post suggested that the democratic candidate ought to come from the south. The ambassador made a speech about that time, in which he declared di; tinctly in favor of America having a vigor- ous American policy. or that he was praised throughout the country, and the bee began buzzing with increased vigor, and much more musically. Mr. Bustis is a pretty good sort of a man, and is decidedly a credit to his administration, but he had better catch that bee and strangle it. —~ COMMENT ON 10WA AFFAIRS, Des Moines Leader. or one reason people genezally will heartily be glad that General Drake was nominated. It has set the seal of frrevocable condemnation upon the slanderous kind of politics which was invoked against him Cedar lenghty Rapids Republican letters ex-Governor written for the allegel purpose of making plain his financial theories, a number of democratic papers are still ‘uncertain as to whether he is for free and unlimited coinage or not. Be patient. Uncle Horace will soon write another letter “‘explaining” his former epistles. Then you'll know at least as much about it as you now do. Kansas Cily Star: The census of Towa, es- timated upon returns received from Afty of the ninety-nine counties will show a popula- tion of 2,039,285, an increase of 127,392 since 1890, or a gain within five of a frac- tion over 6 per cent. It appears from these figures that prohibition has not driven away the people who were located in Towa' at the beginning of the present decade and that populism has not kept others from coming in A state with the kind of soil and climate which Towa possesses is going to grow in spite of its politics Sioux City Journal: On the whole the nsus of lowa will be disappointing. The per cent growth is not equal to the nat- increase of the population. It proves conclusively that there are still a good many Towa people finling homes in other states Some of them go on west to the newer state where land is cheaper, others go south, where the climate is the main attraction, others re turn east to live in the cities and others are victims of the spirit of restlessness so com- mon in the west. But Iowa goes on prosper- ing and growing and it will continue to flourish no matter w becomes of other states or its children in other parts of the world. After all Boies has the ural cpe The Nebrasis Hallrond Case. Chicago Tribune. At last the Nebraska maximum freight rate case has been appealed to the United States supreme court, and will be argued this fall When it is decided some light may be thrown on some points concerning the regulation of railioad rates which are exceedingly obscure now In 1893 the Nebraska legislature passed a bill which reduced decidedly the freight charges of the roads in that state. The rail- ways applied at once for an injunction, alleg- ing tha they would be rul A it the law were enforced. After listening to long argu- ments, Justice Brewer and Judge Dundy granted a p nanent injunction. They were strongly of the opinion that at that time June of last year—the ra specified in the law were unjust. The railways were doing little business and were in a crippled con- dition. It was said by the court that the time might come when the volume of busi- ness would be so great that those rates might be equitable, but that such was not the case at that moment. The court said further that it was in doubt as to what should be the rule by which the reasonableness of railroad charges should be determined. It was claimed on behalf of the state that a rate which would pay a fair profit on what it would cost now to parallel an existing road would be a just one for that road, although it had cost so much more to build it. The owners of houses have to submit to that standard when they lease their property. The house which was erected when labor and building ma- terials cost twice what they do now does not bring the landlord a cent more for that reason. But the court did not think it was altogether equitable to apply that rule to a railroad constructed wien rails and other materials cost three or four times at they do now. 2 It was contended on behalf of the roads that they should be allowed to charge enough to enable them to get a fair return on what the building had cost, and that the bonded debt and stock should be the meas- ure of that cost. But the court did not take kindly to that, stating that there was often a great deal of extravagance and dis- honesty in the construction of railways, ihat stock generally represented nothing, and that as bonds were sold usually below par their face value did not represent the amount actually invested in a road. These were points, said the court, which had not been settled by the supreme court and which an inferior tribunal could not determine. It is apparent, therefore, that this case is an Important one, for it may result in the supreme court saying what shall be the law. It has been declded again and again that railroads can be forced to refrain from charging other than ‘reason- able rates.” It is about time to let the community know the basis on which the reasonableness of the rates is to rest. B Abolish th Cincinnati Secretary Morton has obtained a legal npin fon which relieves him of the business of dis- tributing garden seels free. 1If he perseveres as a reformer he may be able to secure the bolition of the Department of Agriculture. e has never been much of that estab lishment except the distribution of seeds, and that was done as well by a commissioner as a cabinet officer can do it. Congress hesitated a long time before it created the position of secretary of agriculture, and then did it as a politician’s means of making the farmer be: lieve that his interests were first in the heart of his representative. e The Curse of un Assassin, Detrolt Free Dress. The hangman that relieved the world of Charles J. Guiteau died at Washington last Saturday. He was more than 80 years old, but we shall undoubtedly hear in the papers once more a recitation of Guiteau’s curso against all those connected with his trial and taking oft. Natural causes have removed the judge, several of the attorneys, most of the jury and now the hangman fol lows at the end of a life that was curiously long in view of the fact that he has been hanging people thirty years. But this does not disturb the seekers of the supernatural, who will figure out that he died just thir- teen years after the hanging of the assassin of the president, and will deem this some- thing remarkable. Denartment. Znquirer, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE pain, and is disposed to take a hand | . ar troubles he will doubtless | that the auditor fs fully in sympathy with | considerable | t | | THE WEATHER COOK OF The Lincoln Journal “a 'RAH FOR 'GENE When the time comes Eugen be found in the republican stat backed by a block of for him for governor until home. At least that {s the now, and thero is every roas e indications. 'RAH FOR DROATCE W. J. Br candidate for ready declar of Public La state appraiser tentlary plan 'RAH FOR CAPTAIN Politici atch of Omaha is governor, but the of Contractor Do ans are already vears' contract to boom governor. Department Adams of the Grand of the fresh and vig; heard from later in the only thing that their Comm; Army yrous men that conne can be sald Is that he has a brother who is a democrat, but depl niable. has mourned it, and Is unable t reason. To make matters worse cratic brother is a candidate for the board of transportation. RAH FOR CHARLEY notice the able as that may be, Wo in comrade, of as a Nebraska, advanc should C. H. Morrill of I probable candidate This is speaking but the Vidette has its present editor be for we could more heartily suppor Morrill, and we trust that his thus early mentioned will not a: drance to his being the York Vidette, 'RAH FOR EVE It's pretty early to RY BOT elect the ¢ K Cady nator John C. Watson has tioned in some quarters as good gubernatorial [ you ride horse timber. It is a little bit early, but we will nominate Douglas He wiil make as good Hon. Isasc Noyes county, for governor. a governor as Nebraska of Waterld ever better fitted for the position than any man we know of. BRSO PERSONAL AND OTHER sailed for activity Senator pe the gold bugs. General Vest has es, pernicious A. W. Greely takes 1 the social life of Washington, spending most of his leisure time on a new book about his | ¢ he is writing for the Pub- His wife s explorations thut lic Knowledge series. do no more exploring. Abraham Dehuff, who died Jul Pa., a watchmaker by trade, recoived in 1856 | the Pennsylvania state fair size He afterward made two similar | o) a gold medal at for making a cent piece. watches, President was purchased by his tour in this country The “reform chance of being reformed from home. A grand jury to inquire into certain gold watch the one of which was | has somely with a sandbag or with much eclat. Wives with a weakn be inter in the New York courts. is a letter from contends that he his is not herelf. Prior to his birth, she d was unable to obtain sufficient her husband for while he slept controllable she asserts is due developed in her a novel phase of pr There is a portion of brick paved, which is very p cyclers. Bloomer costumes are mon sights, and would attrac The practice be habit, and to Her tention were it not for a purp that persists h. Re- cular bloomerite hove in sight. She was evidently a novice who f diamond frame Her costumo was match, The what-you-call-ems ended sud- it in feeling cently a m the fabric with his down grade and pushed he wheel along the sidewalk. dark blue, with cap to leggings. denly at the knee and bagged in numerous The sleeves were equally voluminous folds. and was knees t The afc the figure from almost square viewed the spectacle of a corpulent woman op- posite side of the street, lowered his narra- peculiar actions in bloomers and big sleeves fr tive and fled. dog aroused the porchers and impulse they moved to the side a dollar to see her mount L Her wish was not gra wheelwoman, still afoot, turned and vanished from view. hanged,” said a man who moving spectacle, “‘what funny see when we are unarm The columns of Journal that the name of our old friend and oln, Is spoken | successful its evil W watched NERK dorses Just a Few Idutes for Gavernor. MOORE! Moore convention delegates who will vote COWS e way it looks just n to bel 1 said pilot to by has d against him beeause the Board 1s and Buildings appointed him | rgan’s pe ADAMS! entering on a ites . fay ander 1s =aid to be one wh may Al against it is u Even the aged mother of the boys explain », the demo- secrotary MORRILL. State the governor a good while in to say this living at t time, there is no other man in the state t t than name b ot as a b mar ) ¢ candidate rnor next year, but his initials are A been m had, and WISE. Burope of Missc ittle part ys he y 3 at E: of presented Buchanan and the othér of which the prince of Wales during | council of Chicago stands a some dista been cal peculiar transactions | by which dealers in ice were held up hand- inance. charged that when the necessary price was these solemn reformers jumped on the | ordinance and Kicked it out of the chamber for picking money from papa's pants while he sleeps will | °d in a remarkable cas pend Among other rea- % sons advanced for the pardon of a criminal mother, in responsible criminal acts, and assumes the responibility o3, she for leclar: money fr necessary expenses rather than go without she rifled his pockets an un- influence the passion for pilfering claims natal phenomena Seventeenth ame pres opular ot uncom- t little [ ared and o should: oresaid fi om the by ewalk., tified ell, Tl things 5 alloged will which she street, black of the common sald one The the corner the THE BLOOMER FINDICATED, Indianapolis News: General Harrison need not back out, He need not be afraid of ade | hering to his statement that the combination of a girl riding a bloycle and chewing gum at the same time is something for men to fles from. 1If he did not make the statement, be ought to. Springfield Republican: 1t ex-President rison has really come out against women the bicycle It may be concluded at | once that ke never intends to run for the | presidency aga No man_known to have expressed the wish that he had a gun wh ever he saw a woman on a wheel and chow= fng gum can hope at the present day to be clected to any high office. Philadelphla Press: General sald to be opposed to women | He does not believe there will b | matches on wheels, Tho general | misrepresented, although the view sequence of se bloomered ders tray Times-Heral zed to come out interview. Ther cannot stand, and the oppositfon of the new woman and of the bieycler. They have opened the mouth of the Hoosler sphinx. A vote of thanks is due them, for when the ex-presi- dent does talk he says something. And now that he has recovered his voice may we | ot expect to hear from him on some other live Issues? will me H ove al- | Harrison s . Draben Is a logt- of the most be-sleeved young might well hesitate their sex Mr. Harrison has and repudiate the Are me things one of them, it ni- o two | cal ¢ for | outre t x| women 1 B over such Chicago be | been obi he the of vaGHrs - SOOTHING DR D summ. Chicago Record you prescribe for “Spending the tor, hom what would of “Makin' Well, say! teach me how Tudge oft mer boa Am 1 oarder any mor yer sum- hat | hat Mr. | ing hin- ) I'm lettin' every ter play poker new inswered | 4 8 respor | in a resigned t 1 am the husband and father.” e view side, John, question the same That's just like a any question im- just as she s on and haven't you way or | Toston Transcript | woman. She can't | partially. Al on one | horseback Ye U back? en- been on every He- a fault a fault. Detroit Free Pross husband is liberal to She—1 wish I were Madam, your 1 have some her husband fact that it i over the tele Atchison Globe: A woman o {dea of what a pleasant voic has if she can disguise the | she who is talkiug to him | phone. 1s is Washington Star: *“Hit doan’ pay ter min® de_tongue ob envy,” remarked Uncle Bben. “Yoh kin make a lot oh folks jealous by * keepin' quiet an’ bein' decent to | ouri in{ Chicago Post: Young Attorney—This, T think, is a clear case. Take, for instance, a where a man died before the policy was delivered; I think he could recover un der that Judge—1f covery lead, he would be beyond ro- rie | First Grocery ol Riggins give Indianapolis Journal | Loafer—How much did old rd patchin’ the church? 3- 1 Loafer—Nothin', of course. That cuss is too d ¥ to even spit on to [ his bait. Boston Post: Fva (to Ella, fust engaged) 1 suppose, of course, that Jack got on his kriee to_propose? Ella—No: he couldn’t “And why couldn’t he, pray “Because I was on it." Buffalo Express: Everybody is laughing | over the latest remark of a Washington soclety woman whese habit of getting wor | wrong is proverbial Cussing Mr. Mackay-Smith bofo ago, and somebody sald: “Is his name Smf with Mackay for a middle name, or is it all one name?” “It's all one na she sald “He writes it with a siphon. pin DEBEACON AND H umbus Dispateh good deacon fat, ing There was once Whose poverty genius begat; He had a queer way ring, Lord’s day, aper up in his Hat was not singular that £ood deacon, solemn and fat, 11 a dollar ‘or more, Wian collection was o'er, Sticking up in the crown of his hat. THE COUNTRY BOY, Hartford Tim, »y who whistles down the glen, 1s his cows to hie them hom the cool, swift-flowi his om and ent Happy the And shrilly or ith loitering by at- | brook, A1 hips in his feet to plash the whirling fo Dear boy, thy volce is ever sw Lo Thy cries bring back the spring again Of my ung life—1 hear the cuckoo cry, And reedy call of whistles down the winding lane. the The cry of darting jay, the hum of bee Bring to my mind ihe sense of boy ys; Once more I roam the fields where bluebells hide G lie ‘neath shading trees from the sun's fierce rays. I see the dew The banks wher And_watch the flags, As flowing on they mu d ers | OF ste s’ grow, the bending wr soft and low. | 1 hear again the wind's soft minstrelsy, As th »vr h the pines they chant in solemn tones, Just s in boyhood when they softly lulled Me to the slumber which is now unknown. Sing, then, my lad, and let thy jovial cry, Thy whistle, earol, all sound on the air; Here 1 can sit and fancying be again Happy like thee, and like thee, free from care. rd be we WINDOW Displays ARE MEANT THERE JUS ENOUGH TO REGARD TO SATISKFY YOU MENSE QUANTITY ( TION KIND,” BUT T TO STEP OUR ABIL CATCE " WHAT YOU WANT. BUT IF YOU ARE INTI INSIDE Do mne O 'Y TO PLEAS IN WHAT YOU DO WANT. FINE YOU MAY NOT SFF RESTED NO MISGIVINGS IN AND THOROUGHLY WE HAVE AN 1M- CLOTHING—NOT THE “AUC- IN AMERICA. I YOUR EYE. WE HAVE )ICK NEXT MONTH SOME TIME IN COMES OUR FALL STOCK. WE CAN'T PUT STOCK EITHER. MEDIATELY. 1 A\S SUPPOSE YOU DON'T WANT YOU WILL NE LATELY YOU TAKING PLACE $8.00 SUIT NOTHING EST. 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