1 p iiMit* umuin * «.• * * 1* • a*• • t*t t • f.f.p miimiuuM 2 5 s State Capital Observations. s M i - . ■— - ■ ■ ■ -■■= tm •J t* t> Expressions Emulative for the Good of 2 t Republican Supremacy. * •> __ '«• • a a •'•aaaa* • a • • •» a »« *•• a* *« •* * • • *» * *« * • * o • * a ai •* • With a brilliance scarcely equalled In the annals of the state’s history, the newly-elected republican governor and state officers were inaugurated Thursday, January 3. The joint session of the legislature met promptly on time—2:30 p. m.— ami proceeded to the work before it. Governor Poynter appeared with the newly-elected state officers and the outgoing officers. He and Governor Dietrich sat upon the speaker's stand, while the others were seated imme diately in front. Governor Poynter read his message, the oath was administered to the state officers by Chief Justice Norval, af ter which Governor Dietrich addressed the joint assembly, receiving a hearty ovation at its conclusion. The inaugural reception was given in the senate chamber, the affair being in charge of Governor Dietrich's offi cial staff. The members of the staff, are Col. C. J. Bills of Falrbury, Col. C. M. Keefer of Lincoln, Col. C. J. Miles of Hastings, Col. G. 13. Jenkins of Falrbury, Col. J. Cameron Anderson of Omaha, Col. W. N. Huse of Norfolk and Col. Frank E. Moores of Omaha. Under the direction of this staff the senate chamber was made into a bow er for the ceremonies. Potted palms and plants were placed on the presi dent’s stand and an orchestra was sta tioned nearby. The decorations con sisted of the national colors. As the hall was in use up to a short time be fore the reception no elaborate decor ations were possible. With the aid of the Lincoln Light infantry under com mand of Captain Bolshaw the crowd was handled ns well as could be ex pected in a place so poorly construct! d for public receptions. It was with great difficulty that the people were kept in line and made to pass through the narrow side doors leading into the senate chamber and to pass out on the opposite side. The wide corridor was packed with callers for two hours and at 10:35 it was necessary to shut the doors and con duct the reception party to the audi torium hall. Hundreds did not get to enter the hall or even secure a place in the gallery to view the scene. Such a crowd was never seen on a similar occasion. The receiving party entered the hall headed by Governor Dietrich’s staff under command of Colonel Bills. Then came ex-officers of the First, Second and Third regiments undpr command of Major Scharmann of North Platte, Lieutenant Colonel Archer of Beatrice carried the standard preceding Gov-, ernor Dietrich and his daughter, Gen eral Lee and his daughters, the state officers and the retiring state officers and their ladies. The receiving lino took up its sta tion on the south side of the chamber. The standard bearer stood one pace to the rear holding aloft the colors of the state. The reception line was headed by Governor Dietrich and daughter. At his left were Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Savage. Assistant Secretary of War G. D. Meiklejohn, General Lee, Miss Lee, Miss Anna Lee, Secretary of State George W. Marsh and wife, Auditor Charles Weston. State Treas urer William Steufer. State Superin tendent W. K. Fowler, Attorney Gen eral F. N. Prout and wife, and Land Commissioner George D. Follmer and wife. For more than two hours the people filed past and shook hands with the new officers and their guests. The first to greet them were the retiring state officers and their wives. Then the pub lic was admitted and conducted to the head of the line by the members of the governor’s staff. Adjutant Gen eral Barry of the Nebraska national guard was present to assist the gov ernor and Ills staff and to escort Gen eral Lee. When the doors were closed the governor and the other members of the receiving line were hurried in car riages to the auditorium where hun dreds of people were awaiting their ar rival. i ne inaugural uuu was uviimuru uy thousands of people, many of whom came from distant parts of the state. The members of the legislature and their friends were present to swell the number. The guests of honor were General Vitzhugh Leo and hio party. General I^ee was accompanied by Ills two daughters, ^ and tv/o members of his staff. Major Mickle and Lieutenant Day, Major and Mrs. Brad Slaughter. Mrs. Gamble and Dick Berlin. At the public reception and the halt General Lee's vivacious daughters made a marked impression. The ball surpassed in beauty and en joyment all similar affairs yet held in the auditorium. The numbers on the floor were sufficient for the spectacular effect but were at no time too great for pleasure. It was after 11 o’clock when the grand march began. It was divided in two columns. At the head of one General Lee walked with Miss Dietrich and Governor Dietrich and Miss Lee led the other. Miss Dietrich wore a thin white dress with low corsage. She had a white a Igrette In her hair and wore diamond ornaments. Miss Loe w’as In white over pale pink. There were many ruffles on the skirt and around the low corsage and she wore pink roses In her hald and on her shoulder. All the staff officers followed with ladies. General Lee’s second daughter wore a lovely costume of pink gauze, with the v/aist made entirely of bands of pink ribbon and lace. The color • — On Taking l.ir« Ei»r. The average woman if she isn't wor ried to death by her wonderful faculty for making domestic molehills into mountains at least shortens her life by many a day through her foolish readi ness to met difficulties half way. Some unhappy Instinct impels her to em brace them, to cling to them. George Anthes, deputy state auditor, has given a $10,000 bond also signed by a surety company. contrasted well with her dark hair. Her vivacity and evident enjoyment made her one of the most noticeable of the dancers. The march moved slowly by twos and fours, then doubled and redou bled, while all the rainbow colors mixed kaleidoscopically. Full dress was the rule, and on few occasions In Lincoln are so many beautiful cos tumes worn. The visiting ladies and the women of Lincoln were almost without exception in party gowns. Visions in rose, yellow, purple, blue and white floated by flower-like when the march suddenly changed to a waltz. Many watched with what skill General Lee guided his partner through the ball and chatted with people, but danced no more. There were fifteen dances In all which suc ceeded each other informally. No printed programs bad been provided. The reception to General I.ee pleased him very much. He was commenting during the ball to a number of his friends about It and what pleased him most was the fact that the reception and also the ball was a popular event, that is no invitations were issued. He thought much of the democratic fea ture of the occasion and so expressed himself on several occasions. K V Governor Dietrich's message to the legislature was what might have been expected of him—brief, terse and vig orous in recommendations—a modern business paper devoid of any politi cal aspect. Governor Dietrich said exactly what ho meant, and in very few words. He touched upon thirteen or fourteen subjects, the necessity for the relief of the supreme court com ing first and taking more space than given to any other topic. A fair sample of his style is found In the following: “Section 26 of article 5 of the consti tution should he so amended that the legislature shall have authority to cre ate a state board of control for the management of our state institutions, and I therefore recommend the sub mission of an amendment of that pur port to the people without unneces sary delay. “The executive mansion should he either sold or an appropriation made for Its proper maintenance. It should be cared for as any other public prop erty.” A professional man elevated to the governorship could not dismiss these subjects short of two columns. A busi ness man. tells what he believes ought to be done In about a dozen lines. Elaobrate arguments in support of his position would not add much to the strength of these recommendations, simply because they would not be read. r r. Owing to the investments made by the state treasurer the amount of cash turned over being about $91,000 was the smallest known in recent years. Treasurer Steufer said after the work was done that he was in favor of in vesting the state funds whenever op portunity offered. The opportunities are limited by the constitution and for the reason the treasurer cannot keep the funds as low as might be de sired. “I would like to have a bill passed reducing the interest of state warrants to f per cent.” said Mr. Steufer, "and then the state would be able to buy the warrants at par. Ti.is would save paying a premium to get tl cm away from the brokers.” « Private Secretary Lindsey of the governor’s office, and Clerk A. E. Shel dou of the secretary of state's office, went to the governor's mansion and took an Inventory of the property. They found everything in good condi tion. It is announced that Governor Dietrich will occupy the mansion. His niece. Miss Lena Meyer, will remain with him and the house will be in charge of a housekeeper. k The concensus of opinion among the rank and file of the republican party expressed in hotel lobby and else where is that the legislature ought to wage the senatorial battle with the good of the party as their chief aim rather than advancement of personal ambitions. Upon the conduct of thi3 legislature depends, in a measure, fu ture success and it is so regarded. R R All the state officers with their de puties took possession of their offices in the afternoon. In most of the of fices there was a clean sweep, none of the employes being retained. This was the case in the governor's office, sec resatry of state’s office, the land com missioner’s office and attorhey gen eral’s office. R R Governor Charles H. Dietrich’s bond is signed by Jacob Bernard and Hen ry Sickmann. both of Hastings, who are wealthy men. They are said to be able to qualify jointly for $250, 000. R R State Treasurer William Steufer gave a guarantee bond in the sum of $1,500,000. Governor Poynter ap proved this bond under date of Jan uary 3. R R Ernest G. Heilman, deputy state treasurer, has given a $50,000 surety company bond. Peculiar Spiral Chimney. A spiral chimney, 150 feet high, has been built near Bradford. England. The chimney Is square in cross-section and each layer of brick is shifted l three-sixteenths of an inch out of place, thus giving a peculiar twist to each side of the stack. Tomsk a University Town. A technological institute has been opened at Tomsk. Thl3 is the second institution for higher education In 31 bera. Toms! Is now a university town. IT IS UNPARALLELED. WAVE OF PROSPERITY STILL ROLLING IN. The Iilnglry Tu,IIT Hill lint Bronght tjowl Timet to Nearly K.erylxtdy— The Trrme-tlou* llaLince of Trade In Oar Fav>»r. The third full year of the Dingley tariff finds the total volume of our foreign commerce far beyond the two billion-dollar mark, with exports of more than $1,500,000,000, or about $200,000,000 more than fur 1893, and an apparent trade balance of about $650, 000,000 In our favor. Here is a tre mendous increase over all previous records of trade and commerce. Im ports have increased, too, though not in the same proportion, and we have been more liberal buyers than ever be fore of foreign commodities. True, these commodities are largely non-du t'able and non-competitive articles re quired for use in American manufac tures; and with the exception of a few luxuries or fads we are buying 1cs3 of foreign goods that ore as well or better made at home. Commenting on these remarkable conditions the Chicago Inter Ocean says; “In the light of these facts and figures and the events of the last eight years, it would be inieresting to learn what the wise men of the Cleveland period really think of their system of political economy. To paraphrase a celebrated free trade epigram, they are confronted with conditions, not the ories. Professor Sumner and his school would have told us, say twplvc years ago, or even six years ago. that the Protective policy of the Republican party would, within a decade, close the markets of the world aganst our products and manufactures, paralyze our Industries and pauperize our work ingmen. They not only would have told us so, but they did tell us so, and, what is even more to the point, they proved to the satisfaction of millions of our people that they were right. “Yet the prosperity which thesp aca demics promised would come under a reversal of the protective policy did not materialize; on the contrary, some of the cruelest years of the republic fol lowed the practical application of their theories by Mr. Cleveland. And now, in spite of the “stone wall” the Re publican party erected around the country; in spite of the “barbarous methods in economic reasoning” em ployed by the Republican party; in spite of "the perversion of the natural laws of trade” by the Republican party; in spite of the refusal of the na tion to be guided by the learned doc trinaires of the great universities, our experts to foreign countries this year bid fair to reach the amazing to tal of $1,500,000,000, or $600,000,000 in excess of our imports.” Add to this enormous bulk of for eign trade, by many hundreds of mil lions greater than any the country ever knew under free trade or low tariff policies, the stupendous increase that has taken place in purely do mestic trade between 76,000,000 of the best paid and most liberal buying peo ple on the face of the earth—an in crease that must be measured by bil lions of dollars—and you have an ag gregate of prosperity so huge that to compute it takes one’s breath away. It makes the academicians look ex tremely silly. It ought to make them keep still. But it doesn’t. There are lots of them left yet who will tell you that a protective tariff is a clog upon domestic trade and foreign commerce. Queer people, these academicians! WORLD’S COMMERCE. A work shortly to be brought out by the treasury department bureau of sta tistics promises to add greatly to the prestige of that valuable institution as at present managed. To the careful and comprehensive work of this bu reau the country has been indebted in the past three years for a vast quan tity of useful and light-giving infor mation bearing upon the important facts of our foreign commerce. Than the reports so frequently sent out to the press of the country nothing has had or could have a more marked in fluence for good in the way of telling the truth as to our tremendous advance in wealth and prosnerlty. Non-par tisan though they were and dealing solely with facts and figures gleaned from official sources, and hence of un doubted accuracy, the bulletin of the bureau of statistics exercised a potent influence in determining the outcome of the great political campaign of 1900. The opening chapter of the forth coming statistical abstract of the world's commerce for a long term of years shows the total imports and ex ports of each country of the world having statistical records, from the earliest date for which the figures are attainable down to the present time. In the case of the United Kingdom the re port begins with the year 1800, and shows the total imports, total exports, and excess of imports or exports iu each year from that date to the pres ent time. In the ease of Austria-Hun gary the record begins with the year 1860; Belgium, 1831; France, 1831; Germany, 1872: Italy, 1861; Nether lands, 1860; Russia, 1861: Spain, I860; Norway, 1S60; Sweden, 1860; Canaria, 1851; Mexico, 1373; Argentina, 1870; Chile, 1860; China, 1868; Japan, 1874; India, 1851; Australia. 1851; Egypt, 1874, and Cape of Good Hope and Na tal, 1351, In each ease the figures cov ering the entire period from the earli est date named to the present time. The subsequent chapters will give the details of the commerce of each of these countries, the principal articles Imported and exported during a term of years down to the latest attainable date, and the principal countries from which its exports are obtained and to which its exports are distributed. THE TREATY TRIUMPH. Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep): The Hay-Pauneefote treaty, as amended and ratified by the senate, needs only ratification by England to have the binding force of law. The modifica tion of the treaty by the senate was not an unusual proceeding. As Sen ator Lodge explains, the modifications were not made In a spirit of hostil ity to England, but in the interest of the United States. Even the sugges tion that if these amendments are not acceptable to England a proposi tion will be submitted to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is not in itself discourteous or menacing. It is in the line of diplomatic usage. In 1854 William L. Marry negoti ated a treaty with Great Britain reg ulating commerce and navigation be tween the United States and Canada. The treaty was ratified, but, its privi leges having been abused by certain Canadians, Congress in 1S53 abrogated it. The action caused considerable dis cussion, but the power of congress to declare the treaty void was not ser iously questioned. Moreover, the action of congress in 1855 was in accordance with the pre cedent established in the act of con gress July 7, 1793, annulling the three treaties of 1778 with France. When the treaty of 1800 witli France came before the senate for ratification, it contained the statement that the plen ipotentiaries could not agree respect ing the treaties abrogated in 1798 and that the parties should negotiate fur ther upon the subject. The senate, be fore ratifying the treaty of 1800, ex punged the article referring to the ab rogated treaties. Eight treaties between the United States and Great Britain, Mexico and Tripoli w'ere abrogated by war. Prob ably thirty treaties between the United StatPs and European and Asiatic pow ers have been in part abrogated or modified by later treaties substituted for them. A number of treaties have expired by their own limitations and a score or more have terminated in consequence of notice given in accord ance with the provisions of the trea ties. The United States has negotiated in all about 300 treaties with foreign governments. It has never violated the provisions of any, but congress has abrogated several and lias modified a good many more. In modifying the Ilay-Pauncefote treaty the senate has exercised its constitutional right, and the president, in submitting the modi fied treaty to the British government, is simply performing his duty. President Washington took the posi tion that only the executive and the senate were concerned in the making of a treaty, and he resisted any act on the part of the house to influence either his o%vn action or that of the senate. This practice has been followed in all the treaties that have been negotiated since Washington’s time. The Hay Pauncefote treaty as ratified by the senate is submitted to Great Britain in strict accordance with the practice of the United States government. There Is absolutely no reason in com mon sense, right, or custom why Eng land should resent the action of the senate, and no reason why Lord Salis bury should not accept the modified treaty. WHY BRYAN GOT So MANY VOTES. John W. Breldenthal. the recent Bry anite candidate for governor of Kan sas, commenting upon the opening of a new bank In a Kansas town and vpon the deposit on the day of opening of more than $100,000 by the farmers and stockmen of Kansas, is reported to have said that the occurence was “re markable in the history of a Kansas bank and showed both the prosperous condition of the farmers and the con fidence that McKinley's re-election has created.” The occurrence is hardly les3 re markable than Is such a statement coming from a candidate of the de feated party. It shows, what was sus pected before election, that Mr. Breid cnthal, who is bank commissioner of Kansas, was not In sympathy with the man who headed the ticket on which he ran for governor or with the prin ciples and policies which were em bodied in his party platform, and it gives rise to the reflection also that there were without doubt many other men who ran on the Bryan ticket and very many others who voted for the Bryanite party who hoped in their inmost hearts that defeat for their party and their candidate awaited them. Paradoxical as it sounds, it was | the surety of Bryan's defeat which gave | him as large a vote as he received. As Lincoln once said, “You can fool all | the people part of the time and part ! of the people ail the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time,” and the American people refused to be fooled again in 1900 as they were in 1892. Mr. Breldenthal and thousands of others who voted his way were not fooled so much as they appeared to be. rnllxh How* t»y Kk$%tlnv, In Europe, where polished floors have so long been popular, it is the custom to polish them carefully, and preferably with a cloth fastened on the shoe. Professional cleaners or polish ers have learned to skate about at a great rate and do polishing quickly eat? well. I . ^ Corncobs ill As0neo,lhc ^ Substitutes for 3 USed, l|| Coffee. Coffee substitutes of domestic manu facture have long been known. An infusion of parched corn, or corn cof fee, Is favored In some households as a drink for invalids. Parched wheat, peas, beans and corncobs, as well as sweet potatoes, cut into small pieces and dried and parched, have also been used. Such drinks usually are resorted to in times of scarcity, or when, for one reason or another, it is not pos sible to obtain true coffee. Chicory is also a well-known substitute for cof fee, and it is used also mixed in larg er or smaller proportion with true cof fee, and by many persons such mix tures are preferred to coffee alone, as the chicory is thought to improve the flavors. On the market are many e :f- j fee substitutes which, it is assert.5 IT CONDUCIVE I JLLrf* mANi TO GENEROSITY H A TSPIf ^Ip AND UNSELFISH- § JC I NESS. 3 3 3 3 0 There can be no doubt about the modern day popularity of flats. The servants don’t care for them, to be sure, because the maids In the high-up apartments only catch meager and un satisfactory glimpses of the tops of the heads of the iceman, the grocer's man, and the butcher's boy, as those indi viduals put their wares on the dumb waiter, whereas they would like to have long chats with them on current events and affairs of national import ance at the back gate. The mistresses do like this system, however. It light ens labor and makes a retinue of ser vants unnecessary, and is altogether delectable—if the neighbors are com fortable sort of people. But there's the rub. One's neighbors in a flat house are almost as near, If not as dear, to one as one's family. If they raise their voices In dispute and a couple of stray windows are open, one hears the cause of the quarrel and the arguments on both sides, so that if one is naturally of a pugnacious tem perament, it is all she can do to keep from leaning from her casement and taking a hand in the fight. One wo man who has had four years of apart ment house life, says Its faults are as varied as its virtues and are conducive to patience and generosity and various other good traits. She got used, she says, to the piano that made doubtful music sixteen hours out of the twenty four and became so that she could sleep tlie sleep of the just with ‘‘I couldn’t bear for to see my baby lose” fortissimo right over her head. She also learned to hear with equanimity that there were no eggs for breakfast, because the downstairs neighbor bad borrowed half a dozen of her cook and forgoten to return them. But the man who beat his wife was, according to this narrator, the affliction that caused her to seek a domicile all her own. This gentleman was of a manner em phatic, and he showed it by appearing In a state of inebriety at Intervals and slapping his better half not wisely but too hard. The flathouse woman de clares that the amount of self-control it took to keep her from leaning out of her window and, when the abused wife said: "You're no gentleman,” adding “That you aren’t,” led to ner vous prostration and checked an other wise happy career. Peoplo who live in flats should have certificates from the members of their own families tes tifying that they are slow to wrath, unselfish and thoughtful of other peo ple’s comfort. If they are not all of these, they had best stay where they won’t have so much opportunity to of fend their fellows. They must also determine to do without pets, especial ly the mercurial fox terrier, and to cul tivate deafness and a calmness that will not be disturbed, though waahtubs and steam threshers are pulled about on the floor about them. SOME GREAT GUNS. Kangeti or from 15 to 15> Milos Are Now Calmly Proposed. There is an effort being made in dif ferent countries to turn the lesson of the Anglo-Boer war to profit by con structing ordnance of increased range. The Boers got their greater range not by having superior guns, but by ele vating the muzzle,aa the English found out when the Boers turned captured English guns upon them. The English cannon ilred as fur as the Boer cannon when the muzzle was given equal ele vation. But the point remains that the Boers taught the world that superior range, no matter how obtained, gives a decided practical advantage. In 1888 an English 9.2-inch gun made a record with a range of 12 miles. A Krupp 9.45-inch gun four years later made a new record of 1214 miles. Recently there has been talk of a German gun that ranges 15 miles. But an American ordnance factory is preparing a 12-inch gun, it is said, which is to carry a ahell 19 miles. Its length is to he equal to 40 calibers and the 1,050-pound shell is to have an initial velocity of 3,000 feet a second. The difficulty in obtain ing extreme ranges lies largely with the gun carriage, says the Baltimore Sun. Most gun carriages permit an elevation of the muzzle of but 17 de grees, whereas the best possible range of any given gun requires an elevation of 44 degrees. A larger arc of eleva tion is the lesson the Boer artillerists have enforced. The drawback of ex treme ranges is inaccuracy of fire. Tli > Boers produced a great moral effect on the British by landing shells at dis tances the British batteries could not cover, but they seldom made hits. They were content, to demoralize their foe by subjecting him to a fire he could not reply to. At Eadysmith, for example, there were few good shots at extreme ranges, so that the loss of life caused by cannon fire from great distances was trifling. As the range increases the chance of missing likewise in creases. a very small error in the aim being multiplied more and more the farther the shot goes. At 19 miles it is hard to believe that one shot in a thousand would hit an object no larger than a house. I-lberty. The Boston Globe comes very near stating a fact when it asserts that “lib erty" is the most loosely employed term in the English language. The Globe quotes approvingly from a speech delivered in the senate by the late Senator Davis of Minnesota, in which the Globe says he rebuked the selfishness masquerading under the name of liberty in the following terms: “People prate about liberty, and de fine that liberty as the liberty of the particular class they are speaking for. The only liberty worth having in thi3 country is the equal liberty of all men alike. Liberty in its philosophical and common-sense definition consists in that right of each individual to exer cise the greatest freedom of action up to, and not beyond, that point where :t impinges upon the like exercise of freedom of action of every other man. Beyond that it is the destruction of the liberty of the weak by the stronger, a subversion of the very theory of the republic.”—Detroit Free Press. ThU Wan Not Rwearlutr. Congressman Gaines of Tennessee urged the committee on rivers and har bors to recommend the damming of the Tennessee river, claiming that much good would be thereby done. Af ter finishing his argument he invited Congressman Berry and Alexander to lunch with him. “Not much," said Berry. “We don't give a dam for a lunch."