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G THE OMAHA DAILY J3EE : TUESDAY , JULY 25 , 185)5) ) ) . Tim OMAHA DAILY BEE. li. Ro8t\VATKR , Editor , * ? - - -z " ' ' "UL- . - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SCIHCRIPT10N. pally Bee ( without Sunday ) . One Year..t6.K ( Dal y Bee and Sunday. One- Year S.X ( Dally , Sunday and Illustrated , One Year 8.2 Sunday nnd Illustrated , One Year 2.2f Illustrated Bee , ono Year 2.CX Sunday Iie , Ono Year 2.CX BaturdAy Bee , One Year l.U. Weekly Bee , OHo Year M OFFICES. Omaha : The Bee Building. South Ohiaha : City Hall Building , Twenty , ntth and N Streets. Council Bluffs : 10 Pearl Stro-t. Ohlcaeo ) 307 Oxford Building. New York : Tcmplo Court. Washington : E01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news nnd Ldtiorial Department , The Omaha Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should bo nddressed to The Bee Publishing Com pany , Omnlia. REMITTANCES. Itcmlt hy draft , express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks , except on Omaha or Eastern exchange , not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATHM13.VJ' OF CIHUfIiATlU.V. Elate of Nebraska , Douglas County. R . ! George B. Tzschuck , secretary of The Bee Publishing company , being duiy sworn , nays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally , Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee , printed during tne month of June , 1893 , was as follows ! 1 2iioo : IG 2nino 2 21,700 17 2.ir.e0 ! 3 25,170 18 27,140 4 21,070 10 25,020 6 25,2iO : 20 2.1,001) 6 2-I.7OO 21 21,010 7 2.1,8:10 22 2.1,150 8 25.HOO 23 2I.OIIO 9 2-t,1)-IO ) J | 25,2IIO 10 20,2it : la 27,080 11 2 1,110.1 26 25,170 12 25tOO , : 27. . 25,220 U 21,850 23 25.10O 14 2,1 , IQet 29 25,210 15 21,1)110 , ) 20. . . . . 25,070 Total 758,52(1 Less unsold nnd returned copies. . . . 1OMH ! Not total sales 7-IS.I7H Net dally average 24tCIO GEO. B. TX.SCHUCK. Subscribed and wworn to before mo this 30th day of June , 1899. L. E. BOYLE. ( Seal ) Notary Public. I'nrUcH Ijf'iivliin for llic Summer. Parties leaving the city for the summer may have The Bee sent to them regularly by notifying The Bee business ofnce , In person or by mall. The address win bo changed as often as desired. The Iowa senatorial contest threatens to play smash with severnl judicial slutes. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The machine musician * and musical cranks are already beginning to ( 'rind out Dewey marches and Dewcy hymns. And Dewey still live thousand miles away. There Is no boom In the Omaha realty iri't. ! lint thorn Is a persistent im- proM'iiH.'i't on u substantial basis of steady growth and demand of realty for actual use instead of mere specula tion. lU-ooklyu has safely passed the ordeal ot a street car strike , but Just for a vari ation Now York Is threatened with a district telegraph messenger boy strike Hint promises to distract and distress street. Comndtteenmn Thompson hastens to assure the country that all was harmon ious at the recent meeting of the demo cratic national committee. Thompson must have turned to the wrong place In the dictionary for his definition of har mony. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Now that Coin Harvey has endorsed the work of the national democratic com mittee the touching committee in Ne braska will be In position to pass the hat around once more for contributions that will go Into the pockets of the financiers of IJarvpy's peculiar school. Insurance Commissioner Bryant does not propose to have any more Palm- Simpson deals. Hereafter all examina tion Tecs must bo paid at the olilce In stead o to the examiner. Had Cornell followed that plan he might have se cured that $100 "remembrance. " Instead of heaping abuse upon Simon , Hodlund and others who have exposed the crookedness of fusion ollielals It would be much more effective and in better tacto for fusion politicians and otliccholdors to at least make some at tempt to disprove the damaging state ments. 1'resldcnt McKlnley 'has ' promised In casa he makes a western trip to attend the reception to be tendered the First Nebraska. The First Nebraska has richly earned such recognition from the president , Avho nt all times and In all places has been free to express his ap preciation of the services of the volun- toerfl , among whom Nebraska's regiment occupies the premier position. English papers remind the Canadians that If there Is any lighting to do the bulk of the burden will fall on the mother country and for this reason the men across the northern border of the United States should not bo quite PO fresh. Aside from the question of the Issue of such a war Kngland has every reason to desli-e the friendship of the United States , The law olHccra of Surpy county are very magnanimous to law breakers. The rule adopted by them seems to be based upon the outcome of attempted murder and not the intent of the man behind the gun. If the victim recovers , although maimed and crippled for life , there Is , according to the code peculiar to Sarpy county , apparently no just CUUBO of ac tion. It Is enough for him to know that ho Is alive. The Board of Kdticatlou should not al low Itself to bo Intimidated or bluffed by court proceedings Instituted , not with nn honest Intent to test the right of the board to proceed with the erec tion of the High school addition , but for the purpose of forcing It to employ an architect that will bo satisfactory to the plaintiff , who has iniiilo no bones in admitting that his move was not ex pected to stop the new grade , but to force a change of architects. XU TIME FOll KVASIOff. It Is stated that ( lie republicans of the I'nlted States senate committee on the currency cannot ngn-e UIXJM the proposl tlon that congress shall make a formal declaration of the gold standard. It Is understood that a majority of them arc In favor of such a declaration , but ono 01 two dissent. There Is , therefore , reason tn apprehend that In respect to this vt'lj Important matter there will be division among republicans In congress whlcli may result In no action being hail. Till. ' would be distinctly disappointing to the sound money sentiment of the countrj' and we think would prove cmlmrrnsslnp to the republican party , since It would bo used by the opponents of the gold standard as evidence that the party IH not honestly and sincerely in favor ot that standard. There nro nonio who fallaciously urge that as wo now have the gold standard there Is no necessity for a declaration by congress giving It statutory recognition. A writer In the New York Sun who taken this view says : "It has been asserted that a sllverlte secretary of the treasury could , nt present , without any fresh legislation , put tlu > country on n stiver basis by simply paying In silver dollars the government obligations , but this is nonsense. The treasury holds only a few millions of such dollars against many hundreds of millions already In circulation In the shape either of actual coin or of cortlllcates representing coin and he can add to them only the small amount ho Is required by law to coin monthly for the redumption of treasury notes. Ills refusal to pay gold might , Indeed , send gold to n premium over paper , Just as the refusal of the banks to pay their depositors In lawful paper money has at times sent that money tea a premium over checks , but It would done no more. " AVould not that be quite enough to produce llnanclal disorder and an Impairment of confidence that could not fall to have the most damaging re sults ? Kvory practical financier and business man understands that the mo ment the treasury refused to pay the obligations of the government In gold when demanded financial affairs would become seriously unsettled , to the in jury of all Interests. As the Phila delphia Ledger says : "If the action of the secretary of the treasury in forcing silver or paper upon a creditor should send gold to a premium , the government would have abandoned its attempt to keep gold , silver and paper nt a parity. Nor -would It bo necessary for the sec retary , In order to provoke a panic , to have large sums of silver on hand. From the day that ho Inaugurated his policy he would get no gold in his re ceipts and Hie country would be vir tually on a silver basis. " This is obvi ous. AVlth gold at a premium It would of course go out of circulation and nec essarily none would go Into the treasury ury- uryThere There is no doubt that under the law as it stands a , sllvnrlte secretary of the treasury could put the country on n silver basis , with the Inevitable effect of producing financial disorder and perhaps panic. What Is needed to avert such a. danger , albeit remote , is a formal de claration of the gold standard by con gress and In our Judgment it is the im perative duty of a republican congress to take such action. The country is ready for it , the conditions are favor able and there can be no question that the effect would bo most beneficial. On this matter the republican .party should hold no equivocal or apologetic position. TllK .SBZ The selection of Mr. Ellhn Hoot to be secretary of war Is cordially com mended by the press Irrespective of poll- tics and the expectation Is generally ex pressed that he will prove a valuable ac quisition to the administration , iiotwlth- standing the fact that ho knows nothing of military affairs. That the best mili tary opinion Is that at the present legal ability is especially demanded for the successful administration of the War department is shown in the following from the Army and Navy .Tournal , writ ten before the announcement of the se lection of Mr. Koot : "We arc disposed to believe that it will bo wise to select for the war ollico a civilian who has no military record and no ambition to dls- lilay his knowledge of military affairs. The chief difficulties In the War depart ment during the last generation have arisen under the administration of ex- soldiers. " It Is pointed out that on the head of the War department rests the task of practically organizing the colonial nial administration of the United States , determining , in the first Instance , the le gal and constitutional position of col onies in our system , securing the ap proval of congress for his plans nnd passing on many perplexing Issues raised by personal nud corporate , In dividual'nnd property rights in the new possessions. For all such requirements Mr. Hoot Is as well equipped as perhaps any man in the country. The Philadel phia Press says he brings to the su premely arduous post the dexterity , de cision , ability , experience and legal knowledge and force likely to yield suc cess. COXCESSWXS 1A' CUIIA. Under what Is known ( in the Forakor resolution , adopted as an amendment to the army appropriation bill , the govern ment can grant no concessions In Cuba for railroad construction or other public improvements. It Is said that this la proving a great drawback to the res toration of the Island and It Is probable that a strong pressure will bo brought to bear upon the next congress for the repeal of the law , General Greenwood of New York , who Is the head of the proposed railroad from Santiago to Santa Cruz , the conces sion for which was obtained before the passage of the Forakor resolution , says the development of the Island is re tarded by the action of congress. If there Is anything that will keep the In habitants out of brigandage , ho says , It Is Internal Improvements to give them work. A Cuban merchant Is quoted as saying that remove the Forakcr amendment - mont and Cuba will blossom Into a wealthy country , capital will fiood the Island , everything will boom and forte- andage will necessarily cease. This view scorns to bo very general among men in business lu Cuba and there- I fore Is entitled to thoughtful consider 1 atlon. The motive for the Forakor amendment mont was to prevent the exploitation o Cuba by syndicates niid speculator who might have despoiled the people o the Island and possibly brought rcproacl upon this government. ' Its adoption wai very generally commended. 11 Is unfor tunate If It Is operating to the dclrl i mont of the Island , but It would seen ' to bo the only just and proper course tc leave the granting of concessions h Cuba to the government that will be es tabllshi'd there , since wo are simply it .military occupation nnd have dlsclalmei any sovereign authority. Cuba belong ; to the Cubans and the United Slntoi should assume no rights that will lu theirs when they shall have established mi Independent government. AXUTHRlt sr.Ml'ATHKTIC CAMPAMfi. The arrant demagogy of the popocratu organs and leaders is strikingly shown In their efforts to make political capital out of the privations and hardships en dtired by the volunteers returning fron the Philippines. In this respect we an prepared for a repetition of the tactic. * displayed on the return of the Nebraska troops from Chtckamaugun and the Third regiment from Jacksonville and Havana. Kvery complaint or grievance , real or Imaginary , which any soldlet brought from the camp was magnified and painted In lurid colors nnd laid at the door of the War department and President McKlnley. Although there wad really no serious ground for discontent on the part of the troops that had neon no active service and were subjected merely to the ordinary usages of army life , the Impression was given out that these men had been willfully compelled to endure worho treatment In the matter of food , clothing , drink and hospital care than men In arms had over boon sub jected to In any previous war. AH n matter of fact the veterans of the civil war who know what soldiering Is were disgusted , If not exasperated , by these exhibitions of demagogy. It Is exceedingly doubtful , moreover , whether the rank and file of the Second and Third Nebraska volunteers feel grateful for the crocodile tears that have been shed for them by political soft-soap men who arc playing for the support of the new -generation of soldiers because the old generation of Grand Army of the Hepubltc men has been a potential factor in politics. The advance guard of the First Ne braska had scarcely set foot on Cali fornia soil when the mountebanks , who have been coached for the sympathetic play , arc rehearsing the old song with new variations. Hoturnlng from a trop ical country , with Its debilitating cli mate , after a protracted campaign , the decimated regiment will very naturally present a marked contrast with regi ments recruited In the states from among vigorous , sound and bouyant young men who have seen no exposure or service. Many of the returning volun teers will doubtless have stories to tell of terrible suffering in x'he Held and hospital , and these stories , told in the most sensational way and illustrated to suit the occasion , will be retailed aiid circulated for campaign effect under pretense of sympathetic indignation over cruel and despotic militarism. And the official ovations to the returning volun teers are liable to be perverted into indignation meetings that are expected to push into the background the scan dals of the state house machine and the ugly disclosures of sham reform made by the legislative Investigating committees. According to some Washington cor respondents the selection made by the president of a successor to General Al- ger was inspired with a view to the fu ture colonial policy. This may be true , but before the republic enters upon any colonial policy It must establish colonies and find a place for thorn In our system. All countries that have heretofore estab lished colonies have hud but one object In view , nnd that was to find an outlet for their surplus population nnd give the mother country the benefit of trade with its colonial offspring. Inasmuch as the United States is not yet overcrowded with population and the bulk of Its pop ulation could not bo acclimated In trop ical countries , It becomes a grave ques tion whether the newly acquired terri tory is to be converted Into colonies on the plan adopted by Kuropcan countries for the settlements made In Australasia , China , India nnd Central Africa , or given home rule with a protectorate and ultimate independence. Governor Roosevelt "proposes " to take a hand in the street car troubles and as certain whether there Is any truth in the report the companies are compelling their men to work more than ten hours , contrary to law. This law , like the ones fixing a time limit on the continuous labor of railway employes , was passed fully as much for the safety of the pub lic as for the protection of the working- men. The lives of thousands of people - plo are every day placed In the keeping of these men and it is essential that they should not bo overworked , but at all times in full possession of all their faculties. If the facts are as the men have asserted Gov ernor Hoosovelt is Just the kind of a man to convince the street car magnates that they have something to arbitrate. Governor Hoowovelt of New York made a reputation as a nimrod before ho be came a rough rider , but Governor Tan ner has eclipsed all the feats of New York's governor In the field of sport. Ac cording to last accounts Governor Tan ner has not only broken the Colorado game law by killing mountain deer out of season , but ho has actually shot a m6untaln Hon. It Is suggested that Gov ernor Tanner will even ecllpso Tar- tarin of Tarascon , made famous as a hunter of wild beasts In the Algerian desert. The Cleveland street car strike has de veloped more mob violence than any up rising of laboring men since the Chicago Pullman riots. The destruction by bombs of street cars In which passengers - | gers entirely Innocent of any connection j with the conflict are passing can scarcely j fall to react against tr > o worklugmc-n nnd Injure tholr cause more thuij anything ' they could have done. Such outbursts of mob violence nlwnys destroy public ' sympathy and Justify resort to military i Ihtorferoileo for the restoration of order. It Is announced that gambling lu Ha vana Is to be suppressed. Should thN bo seriously undertaken doubtless trou ble will result. Gambling Is a mania with the Spanish and people of Spanish descent. So common and universal Is It that It may almost bo called a national pastime. There Is not a country In the world which Is peopled by thorn In which people of all classes and both sexes do not participate In Ramos of chance. The double-headed Insurance depart ment still continue to pu//.lc and harass Insurance companies and no relief can bo looked for until the supreme court shall pass upon the validity of the Insurance act unless Auditor Cornell sees fit to abandon his foolish obstruc tion of Insurance reform. Heports from the Interior of the state give promise of an immense yield of sugar beets , notwithstanding the exces sive rainfall. Kneh successive year shows definite progress made In this great Industry. The time will come when Nebraska's supply of sugar will equal the local demand. , ( lu > Star of I'mplro. Indianapolis Journal. When Iho cnglnco of the Manhattan com pany In Now York nro made In Milwaukee the star of cmplro Is moving westward , lriiMit > rlly n ( ho 'l'lir tlt > > Now York Mull and Kxprei-s. Ono I'hllailolphla firm hau sent 210 loco motives to foreign countries since the be ginning of the present year. That's the way to engineer things. Nome Cotixnlntlon. Was'hlnprton Star. SpanlanJs fear that tholr queen will bo hlseoct when she appears In public. This ought to make the American opera singer who was unkindly received over there feel a llttlo better. Dendly Trn < l ' . Philadelphia North American. Coroner Dugan has very properly 'lc' ' ' ( ' th ° dealer who Sold a 12-yeartOld boy tlrearms , the use of which resulted1n his death , to await the action of the District attorney. This man know he was isolating the law. The mayor's Fourth of qrly proclamation gave him due warning , rfd If the police made no attempt to carry 3Kt the proclama tion the ) C3ponsl'blllty ' whim dealers are al ways under became none- tie less. The boy bought the revolver and Partridges In the defendant's store , and to this extent the lat ter Is accountable for whatTensued. Whenever It Is possible'examples should bo made of dealers who 'violate the law. The coroner and the cout.s are hero able to do what the pollco refused to do. Source or St. I-.ouis GIobe-Democat * ( rep.-lmp. ) There Is ono fact which the country ought to keep constantly In view In weighing these criticisms ot General Otis and the general management of the campaign In the Philip pines. The Inciting cause of many of these attacks Is partisan. They were started by democratic papers or by democratic politi cians for effect In the canvasses this year and In 1DOO. Not all the newspapers and the correspondents that are criticising the conduct of affairs In the Islands are Influ enced by partisanreasi S Some of the critics are republicans , Wifffare lust as anx ious as the administration Is to end the war , with the least possible delay and sacrifice. The greater part of the accusations , how ever , have been made by democratic papers , led off by the yellow press , and are intended for political purposes. The Manila CCIINOI-HII | | | , Indianapolis News ( Ind.-lmp. ) Except as to specifications there is little more hero than a large part of the American prass has been saying for a long time. Everywhere newspapers in this country have protested that things were not done. While the papers could not know what the cor respondents know , they could not see , after all these long months , that anything had been accomplished. In the face of this the particulars amount to little , except In the case of an Indictment by the correspondents. When things are done little censorship is needed. It cannot be denied that 'there Is a feeling In this country that the people have boon kept In ignorance of the real conditions in the Islands and that the reason for with holding information from them Is that the situation was much worse than they hod been led to believe. If this Is the case we think It will be admitted that the policy adopted hy General Otis is a mistake. PAST AMI InntriirUvf * Fnutu SIiiMVlup : the Ilrnc- fltH of n Pro < 'i > tlv < - Tnrlir. Buffalo Express. While the Tin Plato trust has raised prices to $4.37 a box of 100 poundw , standard grade , this American trust is still much more merci ful toward consumers than the old Welsh trust , -which formerly controlled the Ameri can market , used to be. That Is to say , the prlco of $4.37 a toox is less than Ameri cana ever paid for tin plato before lt man ufacture In this country was begun through the encouragement of a protective tariff. This Is Bhown by the following table ot prices between the years 1877 and 1891 , which was compiled lu the latter year by an Bug- llsh trade paper , the Iron Trade Circular : Foreign Foreign prieo prlco Year. per box. plus duty , 1S77 $3.3i ) J6.ll 3S78 4.R7 r.T ! U7U fi.fift 7.77 l&SO S.23 II.IW mi 6.2.1 li.Ill US2 fi.2i : n.ii : 1SS1 5.11 ll.l'.l 1SSI 5.11 K I ! ) SJ 4fO 5.3S ISSli 3,83 4.ill 1W7 4i01 B.09 1RSS 4.01 ' n.OS 1889 4.38 6.4U U90 4.20 D.2S U91 3.04 B.42 The manufacture of American tin plato began In 1890 under the MoKlnley tariff law of that year. U will be Been that there wore but three years previous to that date when the Welsh price went below the pres ent advanced prlco of the American com bine and no year when the prlco plus the duty was so low as now. Apart from the fact , therefore , that American manufactur ers had so hammered down the price of tin plate that last January It wan sold for J2.C5 a box , it can ho aoen that Americans have profited greatly by protecting tin plate. Jt may be true that the protection has fostered a domestic trust , 'hut ' before the protection was granted Americans were paying tribute to a much more grasping foreign trust , Bo oven as a feature of the trust problem , pro tection has been amply vindicated. It has so cheapened manufacture that the highest prlco of the domestic producers Is lower than was the lowest prlco of the foreign producers. it has given employment to 50,000 Americans , who , It should be remem bered , are sharing in the advanced price. Moreover , the natural effect of the advance In price must be to encourage the starting of Independent factories. If tin plate could bo sold last January at $2.65 u box , the pres ent price cf $4.37 a box must appeal to capi talists a : an Invitation to enter the business and secure for themselvei some ot the profits | which the trust U moQopolltmg , So It is not to 'be ' expected that the advanced prlc ( will be maintained very loos. AVITIHX Tllli HKI'IIIUC.VX FOII > . Dakota City Ragle : Hon. Oeorgo I ) Mrlklcjohn. assistant secretary of war , wll bo a candidate before the next Ncbraskn legislature for 1'nltcd ' Stairs Senator Johi M. Thurslon's toga. The republicans of Ne < braska could look further and faro worse. Wohoo W * p : The n\mcs of Judge Ilecs < and Judge Scdgwlck arc mentioned for tut republican nomination for supreme Judge Of course If Judge Ilecso Is n rAndldalo th < people of Saundora county would bo for him but In the event that Judge Heeae does noi want thu nomination there would be no di vision of sentiment In the republican parts of Saunders county In behalf of Judge 6edg < wick. The services rendered by Judge Sedg- wick ns Judge In this district for the last three years has been entirely satlafacton nnd there In not much doubt , union- nominated for the supreme bench , but thai he will bo ro-olcaled Hi this district. Ar able and Impartlnl Judge , and from nil sldrs , regarding of politics , there Is nothing bill the highest praise for him by all who have had business before him. Gothenburg Independent : Now that Judge Harrison has positively declined to be r candidate for re-election for supreme Judge we believe that If a western man Is nomi nated ho will bo elected. It Is claimed bj politicians of good Judgment that the Juc- cet of the populist party has f.irgely beer due to the nomination of men from the cen tral nnd western part of the state. The re publican party has sound , competent ami popular men In the big Sixth , who , If nomi nated , will bent Holcomb by a safe majority Attorney Calkins of Kearney , probably the best attorney lu the state on civil law , would make a strong candidate , also Judge GrlmcB of North 1'latlc , who Is not only n competent lawyer , but a popular Judge , which was shown by his re-election last fall as Judge ot the Thirteenth Judicial district , With Cnlktns or Grimes nominated for supreme premo Judge from the Twelfth or Thirteenth Judicial district and M. P. KlnUnld for rep resentative to congress from the Fifteenth district , the western part of the state will bo well represented and the entire republi can state and congressional ticket elected. Chndron Journal : The Indication all point to the selection of Judge Kluknld by the republican party to make the race for congress in the Sixth congressional district. Whllo this nomination will not necessarily mean an election , it will mean that the chances of defeat t > y the republcans nro less than by the selection of any other man now available for the race. Judge Kln- kald Is ns well and favorably known as any man In this section ot the state. Ho has been intimately Identified with the people In nil their hardships and sacrifices Incident to the settlement of this portion of Nebraska. His personality Is Impressed upon the people of this section. Ho is prepared both by nature and education to do business nnd discuss governmental problems with the strongest men of the nation. He is a pro found Jurist , a student of men and affairs , nn honorable man and a friend of the people. In his selection the republican party will make no mistake as to a candidate. In his election , which wo believe will follow his nomination , all the people of this big Sixth Nebraska district will be represented by a man largo enough to represent all its in- teresta. PASSIXO OF I\R13IMM , . Cincinnati Commercial Tribune : Robert O. Ingersoll was on orator of the sort that is born , not made. His earnestness added to his strength In this endowment. Whether right or wrong , he truly believed what he advocated , and his genuine belief was the secret of the power ho exercised upon his audiences. Chicago Post : Eloquence , imagination , a cheerful and benevolent -disposition , a genuine love and profound sympathy for humanity , a kindly humor , a well-stored mind , a keen appreciation of the beautiful and noble nnd an ardent detestation of the petty , sordid , hard and moan In life all these qualities his opponents recognized in him and respected. New York Times : It Is characteristic of the brilliant nnd erratic man wo have Just lost that It would be as strange as It would bo conventional to describe him , even now that he is dead , otherwise then as "Dob" In gersoll. "Colonel" Ingersoll or oven Rob ert G. Ingersoll wo should hardly Identify. Whatever else ho was or was not he was an American , a product of our soil and | racy of It , particularly a product of the middle west , which Is developing Its own sub-variety ot American. Detroit Free Press : In the tragically sud den termination of the life of the gifted Ingersoll the Christian religion looks upon the dissolution of Us most 'brilliant ' and bit ter foe. Whllo ho was chief among ten thousand In politics and In his profession , it was as an assalfant of Moses and ministers and church members that the eloquent ag nostic achieved the greatest celebrity. He was wonderfully forceful with tongue or pen easily the foremost orator of his tlmo and the contributor of some of thu kiK > iH'bi epigrams and most graceful thoughts to the literature of the century. These gifts ho de lighted to USD with unsparing fierceness in his onslaughts upon the Old Testament and the cherished beliefs of the men nnd women who have found help and comfort In the spiritual life. Indianapolis Journal : Robert G , Ingeraoll possctsoil a combination of qualities that made him a very Interesting personality. Scarcely any other American of bin tlmo was better known by reputation than ho and ns a public speaker his face nd figure had be come familiar to hundreds of thousands. Endowed by nature with brilliant parts , fine Imagination , generous emotions , broad sympathies , copious command of language and a most pleasing personal presence , ho had every element of a great orator. In this regard ho had few equals. Educated for the law nnd trained In the art of speaking , he attained a degree of popularity llrs't as a political speaker nnd afterward ns a plat form lecturer that few Americans have reached. Thousands went to hear his lec tures who did not endorse his sentiments , but merely to be entertained by his oratory nnd stylo. New York Sun : Robert G. Ingersoll , who lied yesterday , won his chief popular dls- Inctlon as an enemy of religious faith , yet ils nature was essentially of the poetic and ellgloua cast. He was a man of humane mpuUca and his bitterness of humor was n his words only. Moreover , ho was by jeaven's gift n orator , an artUt In elo- inenco nnd consequently was tible to hold iway over the feelings of audiences whoso lonvictlona bo did not change. He belonged o the old school of infidel assailants of Christian faith and theology ; ho went out 0 battle -with the church as a fierce com- > atant. The Infidel of the new school a nero dangerous character makes no such var. Ho does not assail religious faith , jut treats It with Indifference or contempt is beneath Intellectual consideration or a a luperstltlon which has no proper place In 1 reasonable mind. He does not aasall It , > ut gives up the whole subject as Bomethlng if which It .Is Impossible for man to know inythlug and about which discussion U alto- ; cther profitless. I3XPOSIJ OK HHKOHMKllS * MKT1IOU. " Ivolgh World : And now ex'Oovcmor Hoi comb Is sftld to h vo buncoed the over burdened taxpayer out of some $2,000 on tb < prcletino of house rent. This Hem of "MV Ing" wns overlooks ! by our reform friend In their campaign circular last fall. Tekamah Herald : The Holcomb rent scan dnf smefls to heaven. U Is simply amnzlni that a man occupying the high pewit Ion o govcVnor of the great state of Nebraska elected on ft reform ticket , would stoop ti stuff a voucher to $31 a month for house rcn when ho was only paying $30. Ord Quiz : Governor Itolcoinh took fron the * state , according to the evidence bcfori the Investigating committee , about $21 $ ' month more than ho paid for rent. He hai no right to take any rout from tlie state , bu Inking nearly twice us much as he paid win In nccord with pop reform nil right , Emerson Enterprise : According to the re ports published this week ex-Governor Hoi- comb Is not averse to Inking a little rake off. Tlie difference between $50 per monlli the amount the Etnte allowed him for lioiiH rent , and $30 , the BUIII actually paid , mnkei quite a neat llttlo sum In ttireo or four years Auburn Post : My dear fusion friends uliat do you think of the noble nud eranc ! Silas , whom In your ndmlratlon you have been pleased to refer to ns "the bet gov ernor Nebraska ever had. " taking $50 pet month of the drnr people's money to pay hft : e rent nnd only pnylng $30 $ to tbo pool landlady ? Heaver City Tribune ( pop. ) : The senate Investigating committed Is getting tome stnli'ineiils from ono Simon In regard to tin recount ot the ballots In 1S99. If the com mittee can substantiate the evidence of Mr. Simon the proper nuthorltles should not hffll- tnto to begin criminal nctlon against the guilty parlies. Grand Island Independent : At the senate Investigating committee's session yesterday evldenco was taken showing Mint Reformer Holcomb drew $4 ! ) per month from the state fcr rent and paid Hie owner of the property Touted $ SO per month. Nineteen dollars worth of reform per month on this one item. No wonder the ex-governor has bloomed Into a blg-man-afrald-of-nn-lnvestIgatIon. Norfolk Journal : Even Governor Hol comb. the man to whom the fuslonlsts were wont to point with prideas the noblest Roman of them all , was touched , It seems , with the fever that prevails around the state house. He drew his house rent allowance In advance , paid a leas price nnd pocketed the balance to provide against need when he got away from the public crib. Friend Telegraph : When Silas A. Hol comb drew $50 per month from the state treasury for house rent and paid the owner of the house ho occupied $30 and put the remaining $20 in his pocket he gave himself n body blow which will echo up and down through the state and convince many a voter that the pretended reform of which Silas was at that time the head center was a mere sham. Fremont Tribune : Secretary of State Porter refuses to obey the subpoena of the Pi out Investigating committee to appear and testify. Mr. Porter is apparently willing to lettho * evidence of E. L. Simon , who detailed thomanner of fraudulently marking the su preme court ballotn , go unlmpeachcd. That testimony was pretty severe on the fuslonlsts , but they evidently think the less said about the matter the better for them. Seward Reporter : Among other things brought out < by the Prout Investigating com mittee is an interesting fact concerning the bouso rent of ex-Govornor Holcomb while ho was chief executive of the state. Gov ernor Holcomb drew $50 $ a month for house rent with great regularity , but the owner of the house testified that ho never paid more than $30 a month ior the house. Holcomb and Porter affect to ignore tha committee , but the damaging facts brought out by the Investigation cannot bo disposed of in such a way. Genoa Leader : The woman from whom ox- Governor Holcomb rented his house Jurlng his term of office testified before the In vestigating committee at Lincoln the other day that Holcomb only paid her $30 per month rent , while the vouchers at the audi tor's office show that he drew $51.18 per month from the etato , giving him n rako-off of $21.18 a month , and yet this man was at the head of n reform administration , pledged to honesty and economy , and Is llablo to be nominated and possibly elected to the su preme bench. North Platte Tribune : The Investigating committee at Lincoln has found that ex- Governor Holcomb , that great , good man and eminent reformer , drew $50 per month from the Btato for house rent , while the liouse in which ho lived rented for $30 , thus allowing the good and noble man to "salt" ibout $20 per month. Of course a republican governor would < be expected to do this they ire rascals but for a reformer to take advantage - vantage of such things Is somewhat sur prising , nut this Is , we presume , the only Instance In which the good man yielded to the subtle voice of satau. Ponder Republic : Ex-Governor Holcomb , is will be seen by the testimony and account given in another column of this Issue , is ibout as hard pressed these days to get away From certain facts and figures In his official : onduct , while governor , as the bondsmen sf ex-Treasurer Hartley are to get away from their liability to the state for that lerellct's defalcations. The ex-governor and ) X-"reformer" will find out 'ere he's through vlth this business that , whether the commlt- : eo Is legal or illegal , properly or improperly instituted , that it Is the truth of the facts it Is getting nt that condemns htm as a : nkcr of rako-offs. It Is the truth Itself and not the manner or source of the procuro- nent thereof that concerns the public. Blair Pilot : What will the explanation be ? Pho Prout Investigating committeelias 'ound that Holcomb shoved into his pocket 120 a month that tbo rtato waa suppobcd .o pay for his house rent. In the first place , .ho legislature had no right to appropriate nonoy for the house rent for the governor , ind Holcomb should have vetoed the bill is ha would have nny other hill that was inconstltutlonol. Ex-Govornor Crounoe had ho honesty about him to veto Just mich a ) lll. Holcomb signed the bill , but rented i house for $20 a month Icoa than the op- > roprlatlon , but drew the warrants for the nil amount , thus stealing from the state ; 20 per month , 'beside Illegally getting his cut paid , Holcomb at the present tlmn ind In the face of his erratic course whllo ; av rnor Is asking that bo be the fusion lomlneo for supreme judge. One thing U ortuln. 'Ho ' will never bo supreme Judge- n Nebraska. With the light that has been brown on his course as chief executive he vlll never get further than the nomination. , Vo have that much faith in the voters of Nebraska. They do not knowingly elect loodlera ( o offlce , and In Holcotnb's case he mask la entirely off. Fremont Tribune : Former Governor Hoi- oinb finds himself suddenly placed In tin monvlable position 'by ' the senate Invcetl- ; atlng committee , and there Is certainly due rom Mm In his own behalf , and for the ake of his party , some satisfactory expla- atlon , which he does not furnish by ignor- ng the committee's subpoenas to appear and estify und by denying Us authority. There Makes the food more delicious and wholesome Rt l AXI a tOWttH CO. . I YOR < . may ba some excuse , from hi * own point of view , for his Ignoring the committee In the matter of ballot recount fraud , with which the public Is familiar nnd with which the governor may have had little or nothing to do. nut he can scarcely Justify hlmselt In his refusal to testify In the matter of V I house rent , for this touches him directly , nnd him nlone. Mr. Holcomh'a absorption ot th * appropriation for house rent for thi governor hns occasioned n good deal of com ment before now. He succeeded Governol i Crouse , who followed Governor Iloyd , Gov ernor Crounse Tetocd an appropriation foi this purpose on the very good ground that the constitution prohibited the governoi from accepting such n "perquisite. " Gov ernor Iloyd refused to draw on the appro priation beeausd ho thought he had no Iep0 ; right to the money. Governor Holeonib. whj came into office on the wnvc of "reform , " accepted the perquisite with nn unctuoui- ties * nnd avidity born of n long thirst foi spoils. This Investigating committed hai hnd on the witness ftaml a Mrs. Gould , owner of the house which Sir. Holcomb occupied when he > wns governor , and which ho Mill occupies nnd rents ot her. She hm testified the governor paid her $30 . month rent during the entire period. The com mittee hns gone n little farther nnd brought to light the vouchers drawn for the payment of house rent , 'vhlch were nt the rate ol $160 n quarter , or $60 a month. IIMS TO A SMII.K. Journal : Sometime ? , you know , the howling swell Is < i sud dog. Philadelphia Ilrconl : "Poetry. " says th Mnnnynnk Philosopher , "is neither a , pro fession nor a trade. It's a elUeits * . " Chlouro Hooord : "This novel , j > lr , U Just the thins for your Idle hours. " "Idlo Jioiirs ? What are you tfllklnj about7 I'm 110 employe ; I'm In business for myself. " Indianapolis Journal : Tommy- Paw , what IH th * difference between .1 gentle man and a gent ? Mr. FlgK The ffont Is usually tile. on who Is making the money. 'PlttHburR- ' Chronicle : "Hello , Splmnn , nro you doing much tlicso tlayn ? "A little , Snaggs. I liuvo Just noUl thre oil wells. " "Ah , In tha hole siilo business , 1 see. " Chicago Post : Why Old you go to thi country no early thin year ? " "To get away from the city. "Anil why did you come back so soon ? " "To set uway from the country. " WiiHhlng-ton Star : "What's that ? " naked the- rich inun , who vrns buying a few paint- "Tlml'B , Pegasus , " replied the dealer. euaHUB , you know , was a winged , horse. " "Send It back to the nrtl.st and tell him to put the wlngH on an nutomoblle and I'll buy It , " said the rich man. Chicago Record : He Great Scott ! for making a. racket this child Is a regular fort In action. \ I She ( aweetly ) Would you mind holding the fort for Ji little while , George ? Indianapolis' Journal : T.lio Populist I nc * you mortgaged your farm last week. The Uncertain Quantity That' * what I did. " \ Vcllwhen you golu' to Jln u 7" "Not now , anyhow. 1 ain't spent 1h money ylt. " ii i < : ii SAii KATE : . Adrian Hoes In Literature. Iho wifeof a Poet , biographies show It , haa happiness rich aim rare ; In rapturous revel die- deigns to dishevel her carefully ihmo buck hair. Ho calls -her to listen , -with glances that glisten , to songs of liln BoimlUva 'soul , Whllo ehe Is discerning by odora of burn- Ing1 that cook , with ilier fancies o ( penny romances , Is llndlns m heaven with X 37 , and dinner da done to a coall Oh , there's nothing that's weary or hard In the lifo o the wlf of a bard ; No mald < n would ohooso to rejecter or refuse The offer to marry a son. of the. Muso. ' - , , . Her duties should bring1 her to cherish her lnger with readiness prompt and say. When nature beaeeelws for pines or for peaches , clear turtle or Crown Tokay ; For him In a iholdcr of Jewels must smolder cigars of a. flavor unique , A.nd na for the payment for food and for raiment , If creditors claim 4t eha nver must name It , for If he houM know It the senslttvo poet -would , wafbl * no more for a week ! For a alng r's a flower In * h eun. And 'ho ' fihuts at the sight of a dun ; The creditor storms nnd the. . cred itor sues There's not any money In eon * of tno aiuse. A. poet In pasfiion must follow tha fashion by choosing a love for llfo , 3omo Beutrle * , or a Petrarclilan Laura , or nomebody'mot ' his wife , It's strictly de reirlo for iher to Invelglo tha Bard Into tropical rhyme ; fho wlfo , If neg-leoted , must not be de jected or deeply affected , but try to 'bo ' happy on prose that Is scrappy and frequently anappy , and Ienv to ft r betters , the "onllo b Kttors , " ths sonnets and letters wtvcwe raptures and rages < th mibiequent ages will read In ihls pauoB , and weeplnely won der why destiny's blunder toad torn him iiBunder from aojnebody fitted with him to knitted If law had ptr- mltted nd he could have flitted and quietly quitted the woman half-witted and not to bo pitied who fettered his fancy BUbllmo ! Kor the wife who would check or control Such beautiful union of ecnil Deserves to bo slated in all th ncvle'ws For marring1 the life of a son of tha : MUSC.I 3 for $ LOQ Any 50-cent Tie - > in our store will bo. sold Tuesdau and Wednesday for 3 for $7.OO All styles tecl\ puff , aacot , ' -in-hand flowing end , , string , Lows , eto. None Reserved ,