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Fl THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : MONDAY , DECEMBER 2G , 1898. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E , IlOSUWATEtt , Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION , pally Bee ( without Sunday ) , One Year.$8.00 IJally Bea nnd Sunday , Ono Year 800 Blx Months 4.00 Three Months 200 Sunday Bee , One Year , 2.00 Hiiturday Bee. Onn Year 1.60 Weekly Bee , One Year 65 OFFICES. Omaha : The Bee Building. South Omnlm : Singer Block , Corner N nil Twenty-fourth Streets. Council Bluffs10 Pearl Street. Chicago : Slock Exchange Bldg , New York : Temple Court. Washington : Ml Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and dtorlal ! matter should bo addressed : To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters nnd remittances should bt addressed to The Hoe Publishing Com pany , Omaha. Drafts , checks , express and poslomco money orders to be made payable to tbo order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska , Douglas County , ss. : George B. Tzschuck , secretary of The Bee Publishing company , being duly sworn , says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally , Morning , Evening nnd Sunday Bee. printed during the month of November 18DS , was as fol lows : l 25,01.1 16 21,4:12 : 2 2I.H77 17 154,115 " " 13 24.07U 4 ! . , : : 19 2IUI2 : 5 2SH r 20 24to ; : 6 a.-asn , 21 25,7:13 : 22 2I.2M1 23 25.0U2 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! : i2 25 24 24.O1O 24,027 11 24,427 12 21,2011 ,27 ! " " ! ! ! ! ! ! . ! sr.B 13 i..21,825 23 2IHM1 ! 14 2iiB2 : ' 29 JS4,7 1 is 24too : 30 24.42U Total 747ii4 : Less unsold and returned copies. . . . ini2M : Net total .sales rai.HOd Net dally average 21aim GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence this 30th day of November , 189S. N. P. FEIL , Notary Public. The peace treaty has reached Wash ington on schedule time. The next question Is : What will the senate do with It ? The peace treaty traveled across the ocean. . In a yellow leather case. This ought to settle the style for 'traveling ' bags for the coming year. Wcro It not for that § 20,000,000 In ex pectancy ChrlHttnas must have been on th blue Monday order for the man In charge of the Spanish royal exchequer. With Uncle Sam's rations still to be had for the asking , the Cubans arc ex hibiting no anxiety for the withdrawal of the American forces In favor of an Independent government Ho be supported by themselves. The advance legislative estimates of the number of prisoners In the Nebraska state penitentiary almost Invariably overshoot the actual llgures , but the appropriation for prison maintenance rarely leaves a surplus. Russia Is willing to take American steel rails as well us American money. Perhaps It Is borrowing the money to pay for the rails , lu any case It ought to be speedily accommodated by putting up the requisite security. Uncle Sam's subjects from Alaska to Porto lUco can enjoy all sorts of tem perature , from the century mark on the thermometer to below zero schedule , not only on Christmas day , but on almost every other day of the year. It Is now expected the Nebraska troops at Manila will reach home about April 1. If so , It will be an April fool Joke that will be generally enjoyed , not only by the soldiers , but by their Bisters , cousins , aunts , relatives and friends. The Postofllce department has shown vigor In extending the postal service to Cubn , Porto Rico and other new pos sessions. But it remains to be seen to what extent the natives of those coun tries will avail themselves of the im proved facilities. Saint Jackson may be expected shortly to make another revelation that will enable democrats celebrating his anni versary day to tell how he would stand on 'tho ' now Issues of the day were he only , resurrected Into life long enough to respond to one of the after-dinner toasts. According to the newspapers pub lished for the benefit of the English reading public of Manila , the most ac tive work done to convince the natives of the blessings of American civilization consists In the Introduction of American brewed beer. If this does not strike the responsive chord of the Filipino quickly ho must be beyond redemption. The complaint that no agricultural statistics arc collected in Nebraska until they are old and stale should bo re vised. The popocratlc deputy labor commissioner once upon a time col lected sonic elaborate statistics to prove that farming In Nebraska did not pay , but they were printed just In time to collide with the prosperity locomotive. The Nebraska constitution requires all reports from state executive officers and heads of stnto Institutions to bo In the hands of the governor not less than 10 days before the time set for convening the legislature. This provision hns usu- nlly been honored more in > the brcacn than In the observance nnd the present year of reform seems to mark no vial- blo Improvement John Sherman says ho had hoped to live to see the national debt completely extinguished , but that slnoo the Increase of these obligations by $200,000,000 through the war with Spain , ho tuts been compelled to glvo up all such hopes. The policy of the United States has always been against a permanent bonded debt and popular sentiment un questionably favors the extinguishment of the war loans with every reasonable expedition. How congress can expect to embark in the annexation business and reduce the national debt at the tluie presents a pretty conundrum. A POINTER TO HRPVDLICAXS. In politics , n in war , the sagacious commander always endeavors to profit by the blunders of the enemy. The recent disaster to Nebraska fuslonlHts has called forth from the ranks of the defeated much and varied speculation concerning the cause. From some of tliesc blrdscyc views of the battle ground republicans may readily discern the pitfalls which they In turn nlust avoid If they desire to regain complete supremacy In the ntatc government. The pointers which are being offered to Governor-elect Poynter nnd his as sociates in the statehouse arc applicable with greater force to the Incoming re publican legislature and republican ofllceholders generally. The downfall of the fusion reformers is ascribed truth fully to the disgust of 'thousands ' of honest populists with the failure of the last reform legislature to enact the laws to which they were pledged. There is certainly much more truth than poetry In 'the ' following arraignment of the late legislative reformers which appears In the olllclnl populist organ over the name of a prominent populist from Nemalia county : The great triumph of the fusion election In Nebraska In 1896 made aome of our officers that were elected drunk with suc cess. Instead of carrying out the reforms they advocated before election , they looked upon their certificates of election , Instead of being an office of public trust , as a license for their own aggrandizement , and economy did not commence until It got beyond the shadow of their own dooryard. Men that had denounced publicly and privately the means used by corporations to carry elec tions and control previous legislatures be came as docile as a hypnotized subject In the hands of a manipulator. In this stupid condition they remained until the middle of the session. They would meet on Saturday and call the roll and adjourn until the next Monday In the afternoon. They would again call the roll and adjourn until the next day. Thus one-third of the time and one-half of the session were passed and nothing done except to Introduce bill * and fill the state house with useless help , pensioned on the state , and ride home Saturdays and back Mondays on the free passes until the public press and an Indignant public opinion called a halt. They then found the calendar filled with bills until It was like a stream dammed with floating ice. Then a sifting committee waa appointed , which assorted out a few meritorious bills that It was supposed a re form legislature would pass without delay , but there were enough frauds elected under the name of reform who joined with the republican - publican party to defeat nearly all the bills that touched corporation Interests or would reduce state expenses. Among these were the anti-puns bills that were expected to be among the first bills passed , but the free pass fixers had filled the pockets of the most of these reformers with the same wither ing curse that paralyzed every previous legislature and made them llko a ball of putty to be moulded to suit their will. And notwithstanding a warning was sounded through the reform ffess of the state that these free pass subjects must not be re- iiomlnateu , there were more of them rc- nomlnatcd than there were men that had tried to fulfill their promises to their con stituents. The populists are confidently predict ing tha't ' the republicans will do no bet ter than their predecessors nnd look forward to a reaction among the stay- at-home farmers that will retrieve their reverse of 1808 two years hence. The. writer who has 'Just been quoted , In bumming up his conclusions , declares : There are come v , ho say that the repub lican legislature will pass some of these reformed laws which the fusion legislature refused to pass , and thereby deprive them of some of the glory that they might have had. We would say to all such , don't worry , the republican party Is not built that way. If we do not mistake the make-up of the republican majority of the coming legislature , the popocratlc prophets are likely to be sadly disappointed. The republlains have made few platform pledges , but 'those ' pledges they are bound to redeem. At any rate , they will give the minority who style them selves reformers an opportunity to help redeem their broken pledges made In 1890 by voting with the republicans for such legislation as Is demanded In the Interest of the producers. TIIK ISSUE WITH The proposed retaliation by the United States in the event of further legislation by Germany hostile to Amer ican products has urouscd very serious discussion In that country as to the pndbablc results of such a commercial war upon the Gorman export trade , un the one hand are those who realize that German trade would Inevitably suffer more or less severely and who seem earnestly desirous of cultivating closer commercial relations with the United States. On the other hand arc the agra rians a very Influential element who , as ono German paper says , seem-to re gard a commercial war as a trilling matter and nre disposed to invite It. The tone of the press opposed to the ngrn- rian policy Is all that Americans could desire , but the fact remains that there is a very strong sentiment throughout the German empire that is extremely antagonistic to America , 'though ' It may not bo powerful enough to bring about what It alms to accomplish. At all events the opposition to It Is evidently becoming more aggressive and deter mined. The United States does not desire n commercial war with Germany. If this country had ever wanted such a conflict It could have found abundant Justify ing reasons for It. German discrimina tion against American mctit products is not a new thing. It has boon practiced for years , with a brief Interval during which the embargo was removed In re turn for concessions by this country. Our government hns been most sedulous in Its efforts for a revocation or modi fication of the discriminating regula tions. It adopted a system of strict In spection with this In view. It has sought without nvall to obtain from the Ger man government an official statement of alleged discoveries of disease in American meats. All that could bo done through diplomacy has been done by tills government to Induce the Gvrrmvn government to abandon Its hostile policy toward our , products. The answer to these efforts Is the threat of additional discrimination nnd it Is this that the resolution Introduced In the United States ecuate proposes re taliation for. That resolution retlects , we believe , the feeling of a majority of the American people. It is felt that tlie time has come when our government should tnko some decisive action In this matter , so Important to the Interests of a largo portion of our people. Wo hnvc nothing to do with any tariff laws which Germany may adopt that are equal In their operation. We cannot reasonably object to the proposed meat liiHjHM-'tlon bill if , as stated , It docs not contemplate dlscrlmlniitiou against the American product. All the United States desires Is that fair treatment shall bo given Its products nnd that Its commercial Interests shall not bo un justly assailed. A commercial war between the United States and Germany would bs nt leust as damaging to the latter as to our selves and probably more so. A German paper observes that ns the financially weaker of the two Germany would un doubtedly be the loser. She would lose her sugar and wine trade with this country , which amounts annually to a considerable sum. Indeed there are no German products which wo could not dispense with , while there are some American products that Germany must have. Still neither country can afford a commercial war and we believe Unit such a conflict will be averted. Mean while the proposed action by congress , while It appears to have created some Indignation In Germany , has had the effect of arousing discussion that prom ises good results. OUR UOM.VEROIAL PlWdHRSS. The commanding position which the United States hns reached commercially Is perhaps not so fully appreciated here ns It Is In Europe , where American com petition for the world's markets is being felt by foreign commercial Interests as never before. There appears to be a feel ing of alarm In England at the progress this country has made In developing the Iron nnd steel Industry , so that now American manufacturers are able to undersell those of England almost everywhere. We have heretofore re ferred to the remarkable expansion of our commerce In this direction during the last two or three years nnd there sweuis every reason to believe that American manufacturers can hold the position they have gained. We have an Inexhaustible supply of Iron and Its manufacture 1ms been so cheapened that we nre able to sell It In British markets at a lower price than English manufacturers. This is shown by tne reports of recent large contracts made abroad and also by the significant ad mission of Mr. James Bryce , that the United States could produce rails cheaper than Great Britain and he saw no possibility of opening new markets except In China. That undoubtedly Is the most promising field for English en terprise , but It will find American com petition there also. The statement In a London dispatch , that for the first 'time ' in the history of finance New York Is in a position to dic tate money rates to London , Berlin and Paris , confirms the reports that have come from New York tliat bankers there have been making rates for European financial centers. This exceptional con dition Is easily explained by the great Increase In American capital , which has enabled our bankers within' the past year to loan many millions abroad , ob taining therefor better rates than they could get at home. It Is Impossible to say how long this condition will last , but It is the opinion of some sagacious financiers that it is very likely to bo permanent and that the financial Inde pendence of the United States Is already practically assured. At all events It Is certain that this country can never again bo In Its former dependent posi tion financially nnd It Is not an unrea sonable view that within a decade New York will displace London ns the world's financial center. But this Is only possi ble by our adhering to the world's mon etary standard. The new collection of musical Instru ments recently presented to the Uni versity of .Michigan is said to bo the finest and most complete of Its kind ex- itnnt , containing nearly 1,000 pieces rep resentative of every people In the world. While the promised illustrated cata logue is not yet published It Is greatly to bo feared that when the Inventory Is examined the collection will bo found to bo defective In many Important par ticulars too apt to be overlooked by In experienced trophy-gatherers. We all know the man who always blows his own horn. The question la , Has this favorite wind Instrument been given representation ? The church or gan , pipe organ and steam organ are doubtless exhibited , properly classified and labeled to show their origin and growth , but what about their most per fect development , the political organ which now exists in so many varieties and delicate variations ? A collodion of 1,000 musical Instruments complete ! Impossible. The organ species alone should excel that number. South Dakota legislators nnd officials are desperately engaged just now In nu endeavor to determine where they are located with respect < o the liquor busi ness. In the first place the dispensary amendment to the constitution , adopted nt the recent election , Is ambiguous on the point as to whether all liquors sold In 'the ' state must be actually manufac tured by the state. If such is the In tention of the amendment the state has no money with which to render It op erative and no prospect.of being able to secure It. In view of the many com plications arising 'there ' Is a strong prob ability that < he legislature will not en act any laws to make the amendment operative. In this we have another striking Illustration of ono of the greatest - est banes of American lawmaklng Illy digested legislation railroaded upon stat ute books and into state constitutions without a thorough appreciation of the consequences or whether It Is BO framed as to accomplish the objects sought. The new secretary of the interior , al though his appointment has been con firmed , will not bo able to assume the duties of his office for weeks. In the interval he holds the dual positions of ambassador to Russia and member of the cabinet The American diplomatic I I representatives eeem to have the call for cabinet offices of late , the present secretary of state having bepn called from the court of St. James nnd the new postmaster general having been formerly minister at St. Petersburg. It must have taken uncqualed heroIsm - Ism for the donothlng members of the State Railway commission to recommend the enactment of a law making pass taking punishable the same as bribery. But they could not screw up the courugo necessary to recommend the abolition of tlie farcical railway commission , which hns never been anything but a costly drag upon the taxpayers without af fording the people the slightest relief from unjust railway exactions. I * it a Bnak Number Motto f Philadelphia Ledger. Senator Platt of Connecticut should re member that the motto of the Liberty Bell Is to "proclaim liberty throughout the land , " not throughout the world , and not to proclaim sovereignty. Forest Itencrrntluni. Globe-Democrat. In the report of the secretary of the Inte rior the gratifying fact Is shown that the government has created thirty forest reser vations , embracing an area of 40,719 , 74 acres. In the science of national economy an Intelligent system of forestry Is one of the subjects of leading Importance. Hot Huti on the ComtnUinry , Chicago Chronicle. The Cuban patriotic committees of Ha vana are planning for a five days' feast after January 1 , when the Spaniards sur render control of the Island. This Indicate * a further draft upon the United States commissary department If the Havana pa- trloU aw anything llko those of Santiago. American Influence Abroad. Philadelphia Record. American Influence In foreign fields Is ex tending. The sumac dealers of Sicily have formed a trust , and tanners and other con sumers of this product of the Mediterranean Island will bo asked to pay tribute to the new combination. The maximum Imports Into this country In 1897 were 18,605,315 pounds , valued at a fraction over 1.3 cents per pound. The new trust , it will be seen , Is not one In which large capital Is engaged ; but It will doubtless try to moko up In capacity for Us modesty In other respects. Poniblltle * of the Scheme. Springfield Republican. These propositions from southerners , since the president's southern speeches , to pension urvlvlng confederate veterans , raise Inter esting questions In pension expenditures. The pension bill passed by the house the other day In twenty minutes appropriated 1145,000,000. Now , the number of union pen sioners Is very nearly a million ; the ex-con- federatcd could easily supply half a million more and , with a little effort , three-quarters of a million. We could run up an annual pension bill of $250,000,000 without much of a strain. Another Itnlil on the lion * . Chicago Record. According to press dispatches from New York the bus line In Fifth avenue In that city Is soon to bo transformed Into a horse less carriage service. 'Vehicles drawn by horses are to give way to the automobile buses that have been In successful operation In Paris for more than a year. Provided the streets are once put In first-class con dition and kept In good repair the horseless carriage Is better suited to city ueo than vehicles drawn by animals. The horseless carriage Is leas noisy , cleaner and easier to manage than horso-po\yer means of travel. The automobile will not become frightened and run away In" crowded streets , which Is one of the present sources of danger to riders and pedestrians alike from the use of horses. The city of the future undoubtedly will be one In which Vehicles drawn by ani mal power will bo replaced by horseless car riages. When that time conies the problem of keeping streets clean and In good con dition will be rendered less difficult. CONGRESSMEN IN THE ARMY. Question of Importance About to Be Settled. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Whatever may bo thought of tbo party policy or personal good taste of Representa tive Bailey , the democratic leader In the house , In introducing his resolution for an Investigation of the right of a member of the houae to retain his seat while holding a commission In the United States army , it must be admitted that It Is a question of some Importance and ought to be settled. That was the opinion of the committee on rules , for It yesterday favorably re ported the resolution and recommended that the committee , on judiciary Investigate and report whether members by accepting positions In the army vacated their seats In the house. The report of the committee was unanimously approved and the matter sent to the committee on judiciary. There can be no party animus In this raising of the question , for two democrats and two republicans are Involved In the Inquiry Wheeler of Alabama and Campbell of Illinois being the two democrats who volunteered for the war and Colson of Ken tucky and Rabbins of 'Pennsylvania ' the two republican ! . So far as known the question has never been raised before , and If the precedent haste to be established It could not have been under better conditions than now , when neither political porty'can profit by the de cision , be It given one way or the other. HEROES OP TIIR SECRET SERVICE. Instructive Fart * Revealed by Iub- lUhrd Olllclnl Report * . Kansas City Star. We have not yet filled our list of heroes developed In the war with Spain. The more conspicuous figures have been called out and have bowed tbelr thanks , but "there are others. " As the official reports gradually reach the public eye It becomes Known that there was an Immense amount of bravo work done which , from Its very nature , could not be mentioned or publicly noticed or rewarded when It was performed. There was an Ensign Ward of the navigation bu reau , who volunteered for secret service , went directly to Cadiz and secured Informa tion at that principal Spanish naval station and then went to the West Indies and posted our Naval department respecting the Span ish strength and to Porto Rico , where he was arrested as a spy and escaped by his great nerve and adroitness and found all ho wanted to know about the defenses of San Juan end the then , expected fleet of Cervera. While Ensign Ward was at work , all unknown save to a few of the highest officers of our own Navy department , Ensign Buck was In the Mediterranean keeping watch on the fleet of Admiral Camara. The army sent Lieutenant Rowan to penetrate the Interior of Cuba and Lieutenant Whitney to Porto Rico to collect Indispensable In formation. These officers may b said to have served In the shadow ; they went to their posts of danger alone and they en countered , each for himself , a peril from which the boldest and bravest shrink , that of being done to death without knowledge of their ( ate ever reaching their friends and country , or being shot under the laws of war as spies. They displayed the very highest form of courage and yet of a sort that rarely meets appropriate recognition. Amid tbo loud trumpets which pro claim tbo deeds of those whose orders sent. them to face danger , hardship and the chances of a fearful fate , It Is but a chance If any mention of their own names Is heard. NAMING Sn\ATORlAL FAVORITES. Beaver City Tribune : The Tribune's first choice for United States senator li Judge M. L , Hayward ot Nebraska City. Ho is clean , ble and popular. Moreover , he Is clearly entitled to the office , his excellent canvass for governor justly giving htm the preference over a score ot good men. Wood River Tribune : There seems to be a growing sentiment In favor ot naming Hon. a. M , Lambcrtson as Nebraska's junior senator. The better you become ac- qualutcd with the man and the more you Inquire Into his record , the higher esti mation you will have of him , He Is not so much a politician as ho Is a statesman , Wahoo Wasp : There are a number of able aspirants for Senator Allen's place , and wo are perfectly willing to leave the selec tion ot his successor to the republican members of the legislature. It Is said by some who profess to know that the repub lican mcmbers-elc-cl are the finest and most Intelligent body of men ever elected to the legislature In this state and there need be no fear but that they will do what Is best for the party. North Plattc Tribune : John L. Web ster's literary bureau , which was organized for the purpose of supplying the republican papers of the state with nice complimentary notices of Mr. Webster with the hope that the papers would publish the notices does not eccm to be meeting with much success. Only two papers out of about fifty which roach this office have a good word to Bay for the Omaha attorney. Hartlngton Herald : As near as we can judge the sentiment among the local repub licans Is In favor of Judge Hayward or Judge Reese for senator. There Is no ques tion but that either will , It elected , repre sent the state with distinction. The Herald regrets that John L. Webster nnd D. E. Thompson , who have no other qualification than the dollars , have as much of a follow ing as they have among the republican newspapers of the state. We would not have believed It. Oreeley Leader : The people of the state of Nebraska really scorn to think that M. L. Hayward Is the man whom the legisla ture should elect to the United States senate. There are hart a dozen or more men In the state with ambitions In that direction , but Mr. Hayward seems to be the legitimate candidate. He Is able , clean and has no "entangling alliances" that might be urged against most of the other candidates. He would carry with him to Washington the confidence of the people of all parties of the state as few other men would. Norfolk News : While other candidates appear to be making a more vigorous cam paign and stirring up more excitement It Is undoubted that M. L. Hayward Is still the choice of the largest majority of republicans for United States senator. There Is a vigor ous opposition In some quarters against other mem who are trying for Senator Allen's shoes , but so far as noticed no one Is ob jecting to the election of Mr. Hayward. The legislators will have to keep a sharp look out or the opposition , with the help of a few republican votes , may elect a candidate not popular with the majority of the repub licans. Falrfleld News Herald : While It Is gen erally conceded that Haywnrd Is the leading candidate In the senatorial field , and the people of this part of the state have him more In mind than anyone else at present It 13 not Improbable that the situation will so change as to bring O. M. Lambertson prominently In the race before the contest la ended. Lambertson stands very high in the public regard and the people will not be displeased or seriously disappointed If he should finally be chosen. At the famous proxy convention where Reese was turned down , It was Lambertson who led the Reeje forces and the people remember It yet. Hastings Record : Wo are now confronted with another senatorial problem and nearly a month before the election of W. Vi Allen's successor we ore told that the elec tion of anybody but M. L. Hayward means death , to the republican party. To this proposition we certainly takeexception. . There never was a time in the history of the nation when so much was expected from the national congress. All eyes are turned toward Washington for light on the prob lems confronting the country because of its recent territorial acquisitions. We are hope ful for the solution of great business prob lems and should therefore be particular In selecting a man who his made a success of business in his everyday life. We believe that D. E. Thompson of Lincoln Is a suc cessful business man and his life work dur ing the past twenty-six years bos been confined to this state. While the great ma jority of people do not know the man as a politician , a number of very prominent politicians in this state know him as a gen eral of past camimlgna that have been es pecially brilliant in successful achievement. No one can say that his political methods are stigmatized by corruption. In politic * B in business the man Is a leader and , llko his most formidable antagonist , he has never sought political reward. There U today more reason for electing Mr. Thompson to the senate than there Is rea son for electing any other caudldate and that reason Is summed up In the single word business. MORALITY IN THE TROPICS. Moderation on the Part of American Official * Dcmniided. Springfield Republican. In governing the old Spanish colonies In the tropics our success at first will depend considerably upon the moderation of the American officials toward certain special vices of tropical countries. Vice Is vice everywhere , and everywhere It deserves to be exterminated , but If we should Imme diately set out to regulate the morals of San Juan , Havana and Manila aa we would those of Northampton or Amherst , the results might not be altogether happy. Wo must take Into account the "bringing up" of these people and not try to make them over In a day after the more rigid pattern of northern races. Bull-fighting , cock-fighting and lottery- gambling are universal In the old colonies of Spain. Everybody buys a lottery ticket , everybody gambled. A Cuban barber said In Havana recently : "When our people can't play , they'll work ; they all want to play. " And ho meant by play , gamble. A beginning toward a higher morality must be made at once , yet It Is probable that severe or sweeping prohibitions would create deep discontent and counteract much of the good our government has set out to accomplish. Here again we may learn from England , whose administration of tropical dependen cies Is bated to a wise degree * upon local conditions. Morality of a high type , ac cording to the world's experience , Is a plant that grows with difficulty under hot , lazy skies. Mr , Ingersoll may not be an unprejudiced authority , yet he once said that If a colony of New England preachers and Yankee schoolmarma were settled In the West Indies the third generation would be seen riding bareback on Sunday to the cock-fights. President David Starr Jordan quotes Mr. Ingersoll with some approval on this point , and adds that , from what he has seen himself , "the Puritan Sabbath and the self-control It typifies would be worse , " to the West Indians , "than the flames of purgatory. " The natural difficulties Imposed by cli mate upon the development of the highest typo of manhood must at least be recog nized. Then the past training of our wards , roust bo taken Into account. And , finally , ; we must conclude that a little moderation at the start In our missionary zeal would conduce to the ultimate solution ot the I great problem ot civilization in the troplci. STATE TRUSS O.STATU POLITICS Auburn Post ( rap. ) : The period of econ omy aeema to ha\o suddenly passed since election for every last one of the state superintendents In their biennial reports are asking for larger appropriations and I complaining of the Insufficient appropria tions of two yean ago. Papllllon Times ( Jem. ) : The appointment of Will Summers as United States attorney for Nebrnska la the best move yet made by the administration > ln Nebraska affairs. Wo congratulate the state because of the appointment of Summers. Ho Is out ot the ordinary In such cases. He Is able and honest. York Tlmea ( rep. ) : Hon. W. S. Sum mcrs has been appointed United States district attorney and his appointment has been confirmed by the senate. Mr. Summers Is a brilliant lawyer and his abll tty and Integrity recommended him to the administration and his election will be very gratifying to his many friends In Nebraska North Platte Trlbtmo ( rep. ) : The warden of the state penitentiary recommends an appropriation of $33,000 for that lustltu tlon for the next two years , all of which _ Is for maintenance. During the last cam- j palgn we wcro told time and again that the penitentiary , under populist administration , was self-supporting. Did the campaign orators He ? Well , It looks that way , sure. Kearney Hub ( rep. ) : Wo have heard a great deal during the Fast two years about the state penitentiary being self-supporting under a populist administration and now comes Warden Lcldlgh asking for an appro priation of $33,000 to maintain the Institu tion or rather to make good the deficiency during the coming two years. Thus , one by ono and two bytwo the popocratlc pre tenders are coming to grief and the mask is sliding off the face ot sham economy and mock reform. Grand Island Independent : Wo understand it now. Judge Neville has explained It. He shows how the populists lost the battle. And In some respects the North Plattc silver chaser speaks truly. He finally admits that the silver forces showed by their campaign that they were principally after the offices. He agrees that It looks fraudulent upon the face ot It to have the same sot of names on each ticket three times. Ho also complains that the western part of the state has not been treated right In the matter of spoils. Hastings Tribune : The future success of the republican party In Nebraska hangs by a very slender thread. If the party shall be turned over again to the corporations its day la doomed. Wo promised during the campaign that the party was through with all of that element which had brought dis credit upon it. We promised that there wouM bo no more Bartleys , Moores or Moshers allowed to manage state affairs. We promised to cut entirely loose from cor poration Influences , and these pledges must be kept In order to Insure future success. Ord Times ( rep. ) : And now the story Is started that Poynter will fire all the ap pointees of Governor Holcomb and will fill the fat places In the state Institutions by men after his own heart. This will bo baden on the poor underlings who submitted to being fleeced by the populist bosses out of a certain per cent of their salaries for the bene fit of the fusion campaign fund. Poynter and the whole fusion state ticket owe their elec tion to the corruption fund raised by en forced contributions from these appointees , and now to turn the appointees out la cruel Indeed. But such is politics. Hastings Record ( rep. ) : After a long drawn out anxiety awaiting the place , halt a dozen applicants were disappointed to learn of the appointment ot William B. Summers of Lincoln to bo United States dis trict attorney for Nebraska. The nomina tion was sent to the senate by the president and was Immediately confirmed by that body. This removes A. J. Sawyer , who has held the position until his term had expired , and then some. Everybody supposed this appointment would go to Omaha , but we feel sure that Billy Summers' selection will please most of the people. It Is hard to understand how two of the big federal po sitions Tero given , to j inco i nnd no doubt this proposition will require explanation later on. Albion News ( rep. ) : The open letter just Issued by Judge Neville of North Platte Is causing much comment , from the fact that It comes from ono of the leaders of the pop-fusion movement. He declares that hereafter the only way to success Is for the fuslonlsts to unite under a single name and a single platform. Too many platforms and managers , he says , tended to discourage and disgust the voters. The North Platte states man says the criticism of the conduct of the war was a mistake , the dodging of the silver Issue was a mistake and the begging of votes for Individuals Instead of for princi ples was a mistake. He does not suggest the name under which the fusion forces must hereafter do battle- , but there Is no doubt that his letter Is Issued to pave the way for a movement already on foot to join all the fusion forces under the name "democratic. " PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. "I am a short , broad man , " said Senator Vest the other day , "but my enemies say my speeches are both long and narrow. " The war tax of half a cent a pound on coffee would stir up popular Indignation , but when the trusts put It on , that la a different proposition. When Paul Newman , ex-attorney general of Hawaii , was the other day admitted to practice before the United States supreme court he registered from "tho Territory of Hawaii. " Governor Plngree , asked If he wanted the place of United States senator from Michi gan , has repfled : "I'm told terrapin aie up to $8 a dozen , and no shoemaker can afford to pay that. " The original blocks ot the woodcuts with which Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrated a set of scrap books ho put together while at a Swiss health resort In 1S81 have been pre sented to the Boston public library by the novelist's widow. Stevenson had never vis ited Boston , although ho bad many warm friends there. Among things voted for by the convention of representatives of the towns of Porto Rico called by General Henry were commer cial and religious liberty and the limitation of the suffrage to mares over 21 years of ago who pay taxes and are able to read and write. This would make the vote of Porto Rico , as peopled at present , a very small one , The convention was politically har monious. Lord and Lady Aberdeen signalized their departure from Canada by circulating a fare- wen literary souvenir. It consisted ot a beautiful reprint of the Introduction that Lady Aberdeen contributed to the Canadian summer annual , entitled "Our Lady of the Sunshine , " the retort to Rudyard Kipling's "Our Lady ot the Snows. " Then on a loose sheet were the words "Good-by , " the auto graph signature of Lord and Lady Aber deen and the date , November 12 , 1898. A correspondent writes thus to the Phila delphia Press : "Several Sundays ago , In an article In the Press , the statement was made that Llndley Murray , the grammarian , was born In Brooklyn. In last Sunday's Press , In an article on 'The First City Directory' of New York City , the claim Is made that his mother kept a boarding house In New York In 178C , Both statements are wrong. Llnd ley Murray was born In East Hanover town ship , Lancaster ( now Dauphin ) county , Pennsylvania , and the house where he was born was standing until about 1850. Murray Station , on the Lebanon & Tremont rail road , Is named for him. This information I have from old and reliable neighbors. " I THIS WISH OK MKB. I Chicago Ilecorct : "Miss Simpson U quite a belle , Isn't she ? " "Ilcllf ? Scats In her tmrlor nro engaged three woeka In advance. " Detroit Journal : Short-sighted caution U the cnutlon which leads n mnn to avoid a free lunch sign for fear that It says fresh jmlnt. Boston Transcript : Hfnry-Stllton tries dreadful hard to get on fiunlllar terms with you , Mlns Pecch Yes : pa calls him "Civiliza tion because. h'B nlwnyu making advances. Cleveland Plain Dealer : "She's pretty enough to bite. " "Yes , but thero'K lead poisoning In all those face preparations. " Chicago Post ! "I fear , " sold the > fond mother , "that we will have to give our con sent to Mabel's innrrlaRO to Mr. Jones. " "What's the matter ? naked the closefisted - fisted father. "Won't she clope7" i Imlltuinpolln Journal : She I wonder why you ever nmrrlcd me. He Because 1 tboucht I loved you , of course. Did you get the notion that It waste to pay a. bet ? Brooklyn Life : "I want to get a type writer for my husband. " "A.iy particular make , ma'am ? " "Well , I heard n bu'lness friend tell my husband that his typewrltor wns a "Little Peach. " Have vou Unit make ? Detroit Journal : "Tho wheelmen all voted for him. " "Certainly. He. Is the author of the. law forbidding anybody to walk on the street faster than two miles nn IIOIKor aftef dark without a bell nnd lantern. " Washington Stnr : "All Is lost. " said th Spanish official , In discussing the result ! of the war. "Well , answered the taxpayer , "I can't help having my suspicions that gem of It waa Htrayed or stolen before the light started. " * SONG OF THE BLUE RIVER. Flow down from thy prairies , Oh , waves of the Blue. Through pathways the fnlrles Have trodden for you ; Flow down from thy daughter * From upland and dell ; The laugh ot thy waters Thy sp'rit shall tell. Flow down from the , fallows That sleep at thy head ; Flow down where the swallows Build nests o'er thy bed ; Flow on In thy glory Through cities of men And tell them thy story Again and again : "I como from the plains wher * The people arc frco ; The softrallltiLrains w ro A father to me. ; The pralrlo my mother The fairest of earth The weft wind my brother , Who sane at my birth. "I como from the corn-land , Where th bread-tr * * Is crow | I come from the morn-land , Whore roses are blown ; I como for I cherish The children of men ; I como where they perish In poverty's den. "I como In the spirit That conquers the night ; All men shall Inherit God's landscape and light. I come with the warning Again nnd ngaJn Give the land and the morning1 To children of men. " 'TIs the secret my brother Still tells to the plain , The , legend my mother Long learned from the rain ! The sontr that my daughter * Bear down to the sea Widespread ns thy waters Its music shall be. "On the plains east the mountain * , Thn land of the west , By the Blue river fountain * God's children shall rest ; Forever their benttty And ulory shall be Tliero love knows Its duty- There men shall be free. " Flowidown from thy prairie- . . , TR Oh , waves of the Blu ; Tell mortals and fairies Thv message so true. Sing on with thy daughter * From upland and dell ; The laugh of thy water * God's purpose Lincoln , Neb. A Convincing Argument The most convincing argument that we know in favor of our kind of cloth ing is the garments them selves. If you will ex amine them you will buy. If we can interest you sufficiently to get you to pay us a visit , we have no misgivings about getting you to pay our prices. The fact is , if we do say it , that there is no better- made clothing than ours and very little that is as good. Wherever you find anything that is as good in quality and this means cloth fit workmanship , trimmings , , manship and all you'll find that it costs more than we charge for the same thing. \