THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FKZDAY , APRIL 10. 1830.
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Btftte ot Nebraska , ( . . .
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George H. Tzschuck. secretary ot the Hee Pub-
llshlnK comoany , does solemnly swear that iho
actual circulation ot Tim DAILV llr.B for the
week endlnir April 13.1KW , was as follows :
Funday. April 7. I" . *
Monday. Aprils. 19.100
TUCF.UV. Awll n HV-71
Wednesday , April 10 .2I.TOI
Thursday. April ] 1 ! WrM
Kridny. April 11 ! 1B.NIO
Saturday. April 13 .18.827
Average II151
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Bworn to before mo and subscribed to in my
uresenco this lath day of April. A. D. } t > 89.
8enl. N. 1' . FK1L , Notary I'ublle ,
State ot Nebraska , I
County of Douglns. f ss <
Ouorgu I ) . Tziciiuck. boliiR duly sworn , do-
poxes and says that ho is secretary of the lice
Publishing company , that the actual average
dally circulation or THIS JAirv linn for the
month of April. 18-w. 18.741 copies ; for May. 1BSX.
18.18 ; ! copies ; for Juno. ISiW , 19'il : copies ; for
July. 188S. 18rtHccplei ; for August , 1HS8. 1MF3
copies ; for Sopteinbor , 1H88 , 1M.154 copies ; for
October. 1883.18U3t coplos ; for November , 1883 ,
in.flbflcopies ; for December , 1888.18'iSl copies ;
for January. 1SKO , 18,671 copies ; for February ,
1889 , 18H fl copies ; for Mnrcli. IRb'J. nRi4 copies.
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Sworn to before mo nnd subscrlbod'ln my
presence this 10th day of April. A. IX , 1R80.
N. V. FKIL , Notary 1'ubllc ,
OMAHA'S place ns third among the
pork packing centers for the sixth
woelc of the summer packing 1ms not
been disputed.
Miss BtKCHLKit claims to have spout
twelve hundred dollars for getting out
of the toils of the sheriff in Omaha.
Who got that money ?
PAHKS and boulevards are next on
tlio Hat of public improvements. With
the platting of the parking system a
great impetus will bo given to the real
estate market.
NEW Youic has just floated a forty
year loan of some nine millions at the
unheard of low rate of two and one-half
per cent. This would look as if money
Is actually begging for safe and perma
nent investment.
Tun collapse of the police investiga
tion is not a surprise. No other result
could ho expected. The disposition to
obstruct the investigation was manifest
from the outset. Now lot the charges
against the offending policemen bo
brought directly before the police
connnissfon.
Ex-Govuitxou PiLTjSiiiriiY. ono of
the regents of the Minnesota state uni
versity , has just presented that institu
tion with a gift of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Nebraska's regents
would perhaps emulate the example if
somebody would place them in posses
sion of a million or two.
THE spectacle of some thousands of
emigrants encamped on the borders of
Kansas ready to swoop down upon Okla
homa with its two million acres , on the
22d of this month , has never been
equaled in the history of our country.
The great question is how will it bo
possible to satisfy this army of land
I hunters when there is hardly enough
land for one-half the claimants.
TllK number of consulships to bo im
mediately disposed of by the present
administration is only about two hund
red , and for those there tire thirty-five
hundred applicants. This very well
Illustrates the wldoly-porvading appe
tite among Americans for olllco , lor
most of these consulships have nothing
to commend them except the title.
AMONG the Boors of South Africa it
Is not considered proper to wash the
hands nnd face oftener than once n
week. Some of the girls nro very
pretty , and all tire very fat. They love
to flirt , but courting them is a very Pla
tonic affair. You will Ilnd a letter toll
ing all about them and many other in
teresting things with regard to these
curious people in Tun SUNDAY BEE.
TITK Cleveland papers , where Edwin
Booth has been playing the last four
alchts , state that ho has never acted
with moro vigor and spirit. His physical
health seems fully restored , -Jiia voice is
in excellent condition , nnd in a word
the great actor "is himself again. " This
Intelligence will bo especially gratify
ing to our citizens , who are to have an
opportunity , next week , to apaln see Mr.
Booth.
Tins board of "trade excursion to the
Black mils should bo representative in
material and numbers. Every promi
nent business man in iho oily should
join In making it worthy of the com
mercial metropolis of the Missouri val
loy. The benefits to bo derived from
perwoiml acquaintance with Iho people
of the Black Hills cannot ho estimated
In dollars and cents. Wo now largely
control the commerce of that region ,
ttnrt it behooves our business men to
form u closer alliance boforoothor rail
roads nnd other cities divide the trade ,
Make the excursion representative of
every loading business , nnd show by
numbers that Omaha desires the good
will and trade of Dakota's great min
eral camp.
COMPTHOLLEn Of TIIE
The Important oflico of comptroller
of the currency , which hns been vn cant
for some time , was AUod yesterday by
Lho appointment of ox-Congressman
Lncoy , of Michigan. Singular ns it
may sooin , there was until two or three
weeks ago but ono applicant for this po
sition , R. O. Parsons , of Ohio , who wag
strongly supporto-1 by Senator Sher
man. An investigation of the record
of Mr. Parsons evidently led the
prcsldont to conclude that ho would
not , even in deference to the wishes of
the Ohio senator , appoint him , nnd the
Michigan man was selected.
The national banking interest , with
which the comptroller of the currency
has most to do , will receive with inter
est the facts regarding the now ofllcinl.
Mr. Lacey has himself been n banker ,
nnd thus brings to the position n prac
tical knowledge nnd experience in >
financial affairs , which dught to bo ot
value. Before the present ndmlnistra-
tion expires it will undoubtedly bo
called upon to recommend to congress
legislation rcgardnp the national
banking system , the maintenance or
abandonment of which will have to bo
determined within the next few years.
A variety of expedients have boon
suggested and discussed with rof-
orcnco to continuing the system , but
there is a great diversity of opinion as
to what should bo douo. A practical
banker oucrht to bo able to do much to
ward enlightening and uniting opinion
upon u practical plan , fair nnd just , nt
once to the publio and the banks , by
which a banking system unsurpassed by
that of nny other country can bo njnin-
tamed. In another respect n practical
banker ought to bo ofgroat value in
the office of comptroller of the cur
rency , nnd that is in remedying and
preventing the abuses that have devel
oped in tlio national banking system
within n few years. The chief of these
is the opportunity that hns been per
mitted bank nlllclnls to enter largely
into speculations with the funds of their
banks , for which the lax vigilance
and interest o ! the comptroller's olllco
has boon in no small measure responsi
ble. It is proverbial that the examina
tions of national banks required by the
law , and which are loft entirely in the
discretion of the comptroller of the cur
rency fis to when they shall bo made ,
have grown to bo of the most perfunctory
character. Almost every bank failure
in the last half dozen years , if not for n
longer period , has followed soon after
the favorable report of an ' examiner.
Incompetent and careless , if not corrupt ,
men are appointed to this impor
tant duty , and the result la that
these examinations have come to bo re
garded as practically worthless. A re
form In this respect is urgently needed
and a practical banker should know how
to institute it.
The congressional record of Mr. Lacey -
coy shows him to hnvo been an anti-
silver man , so far as continued coinage
under the Bland act is concerned , but
in favor of bimetallism. In congress
nnd subsequently ho expressed himself
ns being favorable to nn international
agreement looking to the free coinage
of gold and silver upon a common ratio ,
though not regarding hopefully the out
look for Such an agreement. Ilis past
attitude in this respect , while it will
commend him to a largo class of finan
ciers , may render him unpopular with
others , but whatever his present opin
ions may bo regarding this matter and
it is quite possible his views have un
dergone some" modifications they can
not exert a controlling inlluonce. At
any rate , it is safe to expect a concur
rence of views between tlio secretary of
the treasury on this ns upon nil other
questions relating to the currency , so
that congress and the country will not
have to choose between conflicting rec
ommendations. What is most to bo
hoped for from Comptroller Lacey are
such practical reforms in the adminis
tration of his oflico as will render it
moro useful than it has been for a num
ber of years.
PRESIDENT.
President Harrison has boon in office
forty-five days , anil already the wear
upon him is greater than ho would have
experienced in so many months from
the work of his profession. This is not
duo to the labor incident to the legiti
mate duties of the executive office , butte
to the ooa-jolesd , persistent , and moro
or less exasperating pressure of the
olllco-seokors. Very likely no prgsi-
dent has over encountered a greater or
moro aggressive host of place hunters
than hns overrun the national capital
during the past six weeks , and if Presi
dent Harrison had entered upon his
official duties without having exper
ienced any of the debilitating olTocts of
along and arduous campaign ho must'
still have HUtforcd from the strain ho
has since boon subjocto'd to. But for
months before the election , General
Harribon was in an almost uninterrupted
whirl of activity of the most exhausting
kind , and even afterwards , until the day
of his Inauguration , ho found little
respite , so that when ho assumed the
duties of ollloo ho was muoh in need of
rest. All the axaotinjr ordeal that ho
had passed , however , was hardly moro
than play to that which ho subse
quently encountered and has since boon
bravely , though with steadily declining
vitality , battling against. It is , there
fore , not difficult to credit the reports
that come from Washington of the men
tal and physical woarlnuds of the presi
dent , and to appreciate the urgent ne
cessity for his taking a porlol of rest
and quiet if ho would oscupe complete
prostration.
Everybody will agree that it is desi
rable to protect the president against
the hungry horde of ollieu sookord. All
intelligent men have some apprecia
tion of the severity of the. hardships to
which every chief executive of the na
tion is subjected by the ravenous army
of plauo hunters. They understand ,
uUo , that the time of the president
thus taken up must bo nt the expense of
other governmental nffnlra. But how
shall ho bo protected ? Oflico seeking
can not bo prevented by legislation , It
is the right of every American
citizen to npply for n place in
the public service nud to obtain II
if ho can do so , nnd President
Harrison lias said himself that the do
st ro to hold office under the govern
ment is legitimate and honorable.
Neither can the president , with duo ro-
gnrd for the rolntton of his office to
thb people , nnd with nn honest desire -
sire to ilonl fairly with nil in mak-
ing-nppolntmonts , refuse to hour these
who can present n just claim to his at
tention. Doubtless the frnmors ot the
constitution , could they hnvo foreseen
to whnt vnst proportions the nppointm'g
power would attain , would have dis
tributed it so ns to glvo the executive
less responsibility in this particular ,
but since they lacked this provision the
executive must boar his burden. Pos
sibly the time will come when changes
in the administration ot the government
by the succession of parties will , bo fol
lowed by fewer changes In the public
olTiccs , but the trend at present does not
promise an early realization ot this.
Meanwhile there seems nothing for the
president to do but to find rest and ro §
cuporntion by running nwny from his
persecutors as often as ho practically
can , to some secluded place where they
can not conveniently reach him.
SENATORIAL DISCOURTESY.
Senator Mandorson has n peculiar
way of his own for waylaying political
adversaries and people who do not
cringe and bow before him. While ho
has always boon n great stickler for
senatorial courtesy , ho never thought of
senatorial courtesy when donllng with
his colleague , ox-Sonator Van Wyck.
During the four ycnrs In which Mnu-
doreen nnd Van Wyok represented Ne
braska on the floor of the senate , Air.
Mundorson's private secretary , Ham ,
kept firing volleys of slander and abuse
from the ninbush ot thu sonntor's com
mittee room nt Vnn Wyck , through
Omaha nud Lincoln dallies in their
Washington correspondence. The sen
ator professed not to know anything
nbout this discourtesy , nnd nssurod Vau
Wyck that ho had no knowledge
ot this cowardly method of assassina
tion of character , but it was kept up to
the end , nud the senntor did not exhibit
courtesy enough to order his hired
bushwhacker to desist.
And now wo have another sample of
senatorial courtesy and political chiv
alry from the bamo quarter. Out of
the senatorial committee-room at Wash
ington n perfect shower of Parthian
arrows nro fired through the Omaha
Herald at ex-Senator Saunders , and , in
directly , even nt President Harrison.
A senator who never ceases in vaunting
his stalwart republicanism , using n
democratic paper to strike down a life
long republican like Alvln Saunders ,
who , at the head of the Iowa
delegation voted for Abraham Lin
coln in the convention of 1800 ;
was the wnr governor of Nebraska
throughout the rebellion , nnd served in
the national senate six years , is a spec
tacle that can hardly inspire public re
spect for senatorial courtesy.
A fair specimen of the utter disregard
of common courtesy duo from ono gon-
tloinan to another , to say nothing of
senatorial courtesy , is the following dis
patch to the Omaha Heraldt which
bears all the oar-marks of Senator
Mnndorson's personal dictation , and
which everybody who has mot the sen
ator recently , will readily recognize as
his utterances :
WASHINGTON , April 17. [ Spoclal to the
Herald. ] All the Nebraska delegation Imvo
left for homo except Sonntor Manderson ,
Senator Paddock and Congressman Laird.
The assistant Nebraska delegation consist
ing of ex-Sonator Saunders and ox-Sonator
Van Wyck remain on hand. Senator Saunders
dors , who arrived In Washington with tno
presidential party and has stuck lioro since ,
continues to make himself very active in the
matter of Nebraska appointments and the
postolllco flght. If there has been a day in
which ho has not buttonholed the president
or called at seine department about Nebraska
affairs with which ho bad primarily no con
cern , no ono lias been able to discover the
fact. Ho seems to Imagine that his connec
tion by marriage with the president's family
gives htm an important right of consulta
tion on affairs for which the senators and
congressmen are hold responsible by their
constituents , nnd he boasts of the largo mall
which ho receives from oulco seekers
and refers to the departments. These
moro intimate than Senator Saunders with
the Nebraska delegation do not hesitate to
say that his performances have been very
embarrassing , und that his assumption of
importance is , to say the least , extremely
distasteful to the delegation. The flrst stroke
of the ox-senator which sounded a discord
ant note was a virtual demand upon the
delegation that ho should receive the ap
pointment of collector of Internal revenue
for Nebraska. As the delegation hud al
ready decided upon another man , the recom
mendation of S.iundors was out of the ques
tion. Thoy. however , called upon President
Harrison und presented the name of the ox-
senator us a candidate for the Utah commis
sion , which pays double the salary of a col-
Icctorship with bit ) half the work. It is
said that Saunders was at flrst satisfied , but
later , thinking a bird in the hand worth two
in the bush , once moro pushed his demands
for the Nebraska cnllcctorship. This time ,
rumor has it , ho was flatly told that the
dclogation could not and would not recom
mend him for the position named , and that if
the appointment was made it would be made
ever the heads of the delegation and on the
president's own responsibility.
Tlio ex-senator then is said to have sub
sided for a day orvo , wben ho bobbed up
with Editor Uosowator in tow and for a fort
night besieged Secretary Windoin's oflico
daily with arguments against the Planters'
house postoRlco site nnd in favor at Eigh
teenth and Farnani streets , near which ho is
said to own property. ,
Ex-Senator Vnn Wyck was called in as a
contingent helper , but was early dropped as
of no account by reason of his great personal
unpopularity in Washington. Up to date ,
Saunders' Influence has not made itself felt
at the white house. A number of the presi
dent's friends repel the Idea of a kitchen
cabinet and insist that President Harrison
cannot bo Influenced la Nebraska-matters ex
cept through the regular representative
channels and that the plodga given the dele
gation to the national convention at Chicago
to tha effect that Saunders should not , bo
permitted to ovor-rldo the Nebraska senators
and representatives , still holds good.
For all this the ex-senator continues to
outsit the Nebraska delegation at Washing
ton , to receive and refer mull from ofllpo-
scokcrs , to introduce Nebraskans at the de
partments and to ( line and tiup with the pres
ident. Ho is losing no weight and dropping
none of his Importance and Is evidently con
tent to await developments which will show
who 1s on top after alt Among Nebraskans
who know him most and respect him least ,
ho Is given the sobriquet of "Old Vow-
Vow. "
NYas ever senatorial discourtesy
carried to greater extremes ! nave ox-
senators lost the right to revisit Wash
ington ? Are they all barred from the
privilege which American citizens
enjoy In common to corao nml go
where nnd ° when they ploasoV Have
ox-soimlors forfeited tholr right to visit
the president or nny members ol the
cabinet on nhy orrnnd they may Imvo ?
la Senator Snundors to bo excluded
from the whlW houao while Harrison la
president , Just bocnuso his daughter
mnrrled liussol Harrison ? Are rollcc-
ttons to bo cnst upon the president's
conduct it hb $ oos fit to on tortaln Governor -
ornor Siiuntlors ns his guest ?
Isn't this talk about Siumdors at the
whlto house very small business for a
big senator to engage in ?
Nothing definite Is known to outsiders
about the Bo-called compact with the
Nebraska delegation at Chicago to bottle -
tlo up ox-Senator Saunders politically ,
but in view of the fact that the latter
Svos worker at
an out-and-out iiarrlson
Chicago , while the delegation was
unanimously adverse , those references
to violated compacts will hardly justify
senatorial bushwhacking through dem
ocratic shotguns.
RESPECTFULLY DECLINED.
Another bombastic challenge has boon
issued to Tins BKK to compare circula
tions with a shoot that has scattered
papers broadcast among people who do
not want them and refuse to pay for
them.
THIS DUB'S circulation has boon publio
for years. All the world knows exactly
how many copies of each edition hnvo
boon issued , whether the circulation
fluctuates up or down. What possible
purpose could bo subserved in any com
parison between a firmly established
daily that ranks with the great news
papers of the country , and n concern
that has never earned enough by
ton thousand dollars a year to moot ex
penses nnd has utterly fall oil in its last
experiment to reduce the heavy drain
upon th'o purse of its proprietor through
a Sunday edition that has proved Itself
a Hat failure.
THE motor people announce tholr de
termination to lobby for the repeal of
the ordinance requiring payment in advance -
vance for pavements torn up. They
claim that the ordinance is oppressive
and unjust , because it takes from the
street car companies largo sums of
money which are needed for exten
sions , while property owners are given
ton Y ° ars to pay their assessments.
There is sorno justice In the claim.
Street car companies should be given
equal privileges with owners of abut
ting property in paying taxes. Distend
of exacting the full amount in advance ,
a bond should bo required , binding
the companies' ' to pay annually their
share of the cost. It is unfair
to exact the full cost of pavement laid
ono or more years before the street is
occupied by railways. A fair and
equitable adjustment could bo made by
dividing the 'cost ' into tenths , and deducting -
ducting one-tenth for every year or
fraction of a year in which the pavement -
mont is used before the tracks arc laid ,
and annually pay the proportion of the
cost thus determined. The money re
ceived from this' source can bo sot aside
as a special fund for repaying or re
pairing the respective districts ; In
this way it will prove beneficial to the
property-owners and street car com
panies alike.
PAUL VANDKHVOOUT lias at last been
pensioned olT with an appointment ns
superintendent of mails at Omaha , with
a salary of sixteen hundred dollars n
year. The oflico itself has boon created
for his special benefit through the per
sistent efforts of Senator Mandcrson.
Its duties , as we understand them , will
consist of keeping truck of the mail
socks between the depots and postotlico.
From general superintendent of the
railway mail service of the United
States down to overseer ot the
mail-pouch handlers and postal
wugon drivers is very much liico
a descent from general superintendent
of the Union Pacilio railway to head
janitor and superintendent of head
quarters cuspidors. Vandervoort is
notoriously unfit for any position In the
public service , but the creation of the
olllco may bo of some benefit in expedi
ting the mails. General Vandcrbum
will be on probation , and if no redcoms
himself by strictly attending to the
transfer of local mails , nobody will com
plain. If ho resumes his old ways ho
will have to make way for abettor man.
TilEitK is no reason in the world why
our principal suburban streets , soon to
bo covered with electric street railways ,
should bo disfigured by unsightly polos.
An ordinance , recently passed , regu
lating the erection of poles and wires ,
providos'that iron poles of an ornamen
tal shape and pattern shall bo erected
except in districts outside of the busi
ness portion of the city. Just what the
council intended by this ordinance is
hard to toll. If it moans that within
the business cantor only iron poles are
to bo erected a palpable mistake has
bean inado. If ornamental poles arc to
bo erected on any streets , surely they
should bo on , our main resident
thoroughfares-for the reason that the
poles arc to bo permanent. Whereas
on the businosqjstroots , the poles uro
likely to bo temporary , and will bo cut
down at no dista'jU day , together with
the forest of telegraph and telephone
masts , The council should amend the
ordinance in question , or inako it more
specific , in order to eovor-tho residence
streets before the work of erecting
poles begins.
THE American consul at Marseilles ,
in a report to the state department just
made publio , gives n very satisfactory
account of the results of replanting with
American vines , the destroyed vineyards -
yards of France. This has boon most
extensively done in southern Franco ,
where the ravages of the phylloxera
were most destructive , and it has boon
found that the American vine success
fully resists the attacks of the insect.
The result is that the vineyards of
Franco have boon restored to nourly
tholr normal productive capacity. It is
also slated that American wines uro
steadily and rapidly growing in favor
abroad.
THK telegraph and eloctrio light
companies ol Now York City have ap
parently folded tholr hands while the
work of cutting down the poles is being
vigorously prosecuted by Mayor Grant.
It Is the manifest purpose ot the vari
ous companies to ( nconvonlonco the
public as muoh as possible. The .result
is that many quarters ot the city are
plunged in darkness , while newspaper
and brokers' offices are deprived ot
direct telegraphic communication.
Within the proscribed district ot Now
York , the city Is sufficiently supplied
with subways , so that the vnrldus com
panies have no excuse but tholr own
stubbornness for not using thorn in
plnco of polos. There can bo no al
ternative for them but to submit to the
inevitable and place tholr lines in the
underground conduits.
MONDAY last , the closing day of the
Ohio legislature , was signalized by the
passage of a bill providing for a tax of
ono dollar n mile on all railroads In the
stato. The bill requires that ouoh rail
road company , at the time of making
its annual report to the commissioner ,
shall par into the state treasury ono
dollar for each mile of road operated in
the stato. A strong effort , was mndo In
the late Ohio legislature , to secure
legislation regarding the railroads for
the benefit of the state treasury and the
people , but the above was about all that
was accomplished. The railroads are
hardly loss of a power In Ohio than In
Pennsylvania.
THE rivalry of the street car coin-
panics for possession of the viaducts is
a warning to the council against giving
a monopoly to any ono company. Every
company should bo given equal rights
nnd privilegesand care should be taken
to reserve control of the approaches.
Viaduct franchises nro valuable , as is
shown by tlio tender oT ono thousand
dollars by the Omaha street railway
company. They should not bo voted
away for a nominal rental. By Impos
ing a reasonable annual rental , and
making them free to all companies
accepting the terms , the city will secure
a revenue sufficient for the maintenance
of the structures.
TIIR friendliness of
Postmaslor-Gon-
\Vunamakor toward the newspa
pers is already in notable contrast to the
spirit shown by Uis predecessors regard
ing the press. Even so slight a matter
as restoring the privilege to trainmen
on other than mail trains of carrying
newspaper correspondence , which was
forbidden by the last administration ,
will bo appreciated by the press generally -
ally , and without doing the slightest in
jury to the postal service will bo a posi
tive benefit to the public.
The Place For Gould ,
Chlcaaa Herald.
Jay Gould saya that Now York is Rood
enough for him. Some people think that
tliero are much worse places than Now York
that are good enough for him. '
Homo Slndo News.
Sfottc CdJournal. ( .
The Omaha Herald's
Washington corre
spondent , who has recently boon 'discussing
the surveyor-generalship for the district of
Iowa and Nebraska , has evidently forgotten
that the olllco was abolished a year or two
ago.
JBcntliii ; Its Record.
Globe-Democrat.
Last year nearly a do m democrats in the
lower branch of the Now York legislature
voted for the ballot reform bill , but this year
the party was solid against it. Even hi in
iquities the democracy this year is cutting
down all its former records.
Hiuuls Tlmt Are Famous In History.
Smi Francisco Alia.
Paunccfoto , the now British minister , is
descended from the lady who ransomed her
husband from the Saracens by cutting of !
her right hand and sending it to thorn. If
tlio new diplomat meets General Schonckand
Dick Wintcrsimth he will see some hands
fully as remarkable as that of his ancestress.
Heaven Is Thou1 Homo.
Providence Journal.
, The political rewards for Hon. Joseph
Manle.v , of Augusta , Mo. , have thus far been
of the same nature asthosoof Colonel Elliott
F. Shepard , of New York tiatnoly , the ap
proval of a good conscience ana the satisfac
tion of successful patriotism. To the truly
peed these are bettor than mercenary post-
ofllcos or gaudy ambassadorships.
Tlio AVixv They tfo In Mexico.
Kansas Cttu Journal ,
Pour men were arrested u few weeks ago
In Mexico , charged with an attempt to derail
the train bearing President LJaz. That was
tlio lust heard of them until it was an
nounced n day or two ago that they had
been shot noon after thulr arrest. The duo
uroccss of law in Mexico is expeditious
when train wreckers are concerned.
Olcvnlnnd'ri "Jmw Firm. "
lllclimmitl Jt i > icli. (
W. S. King , a millionaire miller of Minne
apolis , Mlim. , who is now in the city , and
who employs the law firm In Now York
which Citizen Cleveland is said to bo a mem
ber of , declares that ho knows It to bo a fact
that Cleveland Is not n member of the firm ,
but simply has dusk-room in iho office. This
was indeed news to the people hero , but Mr.
King claims to know what he is talking
ubout.
HITS AND M1SSI2S.
Sugar is getting so hleh in Omaha that
people who "waste their sweetness on the
desert all" can turn an noneat penny by
tying it up In small packages.
Tliero is considerable difference of opinion
among the Omaha ) dramatic critics us to
the antiquity of "La Tosca. " The Hopubll-
can insists that the Bcono is laid in Homo in
13SO , while the Herald claims it U "tho his
tory of a woman of another time. " Buch
variance of great minds shows the growth of
cult in the metroplis.
Hascall has expressed his opinion of Mayor
Broutcli und Uroatch has reciprocated In
kind. Their language is not choice , but
vigorous.
Iho county board la unable to determine
whether it is safe to take Architect Myers
by the wool and yank htm out of ofllcc.
Meanwhile the ferocious five atrut around
lllto the Uonnobrook gentleman , inviting
somebody to step on the tails of their coats.
NOTES.
The policemen of Ithaca , N. V. , are on a
strike for an increase of wages from $3 to
$13 per wook.
Hanover , Muss. , citizens In man mooting
have fixed the wages of city workers ut 30
cents per hour fur a nine-hour day ,
In Germany labor troubles are spreading ,
Three thousand bricklayers are out on a
strike lu the northern districts , 1U3 ! ! tullnra
in Hamburg nnd 800 house tnmtors In Co
logne.
Carpenters are warned to stay away from
Brunswick , Ga. , as the place Is crowded
with idle men unable to find employment.
Over two hundred men have been thrown
out of work by the burning ot the LouNvillo
Urldgtj nnd iron company's worKs nt Louis-
Yillo , ICy.
The British consul nt Panama recently
distributed broad among the colored laborers
on the Panama canal , who have suffered
great distress since the sutpanslon ot the
work.
Carpenters and machine hands nro re
quested to stuy away from Windsor , Ontario ,
ns there Is no work to bo had , nnd there Is n
largo number ot Idle men In the vicinity nt
V rose nt.
A (5,000 fund has boon raised in London to
pay the way of several English workmen to
the I'nrls exposition.
Indianapolis papor-hnngera have organized
and demanded twelve nnd n-half cent * for
each bolt of plain work and twenty to
twenty-five cents for gilt.
Carpenters nro requested to stay nway
from Pullman , 111 , , ns the men there are out
on strlko against n reduction in wages.
Urlckmnkors nro warned to stay nway
from Philadelphia , Pa. Philadelphia is over
crowded Nwtth brlckuiakors who are unable
to find employment at nny prlco.
Secretary Wlndotn has notified the silk-
ribbon weavers' union that ho has instructed
the American consuls In Germany , Franco
nnd Switzerland to keep n close watch on the
immigration of Bilk-ribbon weavers under
contract , Tlio French and Swiss consuls In
this city have promised to aid hi preventing
the importation of ribbon weavers under
contract from tholr countries.
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STATI3 AND TEIUUTOUY.
Nebraska Jottings.
The corner stone of thn Clmsc county court
house was Inld nt Imperial with fitting cero-
inonics.
Lon DIckey , n Palmyra man , has n mon
strosity in the shape of a pig with the head
of an elephant.
The Odcll Optic was sold at sheriff sale
nnd purchased by Dr. ITannln , who will move
the plant to Colorado.
The prnlrlo schooners nro becoming very
numerous in Keyn Pnlm county and now set
tlers are arriving rapidly.
Eight prominent young men of Bennett
pleaded guilty to aiding una assisting In n
Sunday horse race nnd wore each fined $5 nnd
costs.
A reward of ? < 500 has been offered for the
capture of the murderer ot Edward C.
Mnhcr , who Is suoposcd to bo ono Miles II.
Henry.
The Broken Bow water works company
lias eight wells completed nnd the work of
erecting an cuglno house will be begun
shortly.
Thrco of the teachers in the college nt
Fairfield have resigned because they do not
npprovo of the withdrawn ! of the institution
from the state board.
On n petition of residents , Sprlngviow was
incorporated , but a counter petition has been
circulated asking the county commissioners
to rescind their action.
For twelve days S. C. Cutler , living near
Crawford , thought be had been robbed of u
full-blooded Herford bull , but while walking
through his pasture the other day ho heard
n strange noise in an nld well , and upon in
vestigating found the missing animal. With
the aid of n rope nnd tucltlo the bull was
brought to terra firma nlivo , although a little
emaciated by its twelve days' imprisonment.
lown.
Mt. Pleasant will have free mail delivery
July 1.
An old Indian grave was discovered in the
streets of Burlington.
Wnvorly shipped 1,930 , hogs in the throe
months ended April I.
The Episcopalians of Fort Dodge propose
to erect n $10,000 church.
Mrs. Van Cott , the revivalist , Is conduct
ing a series of meetings nt Algona.
The ICossuth county old settlers are ar-
rancring for their annual meeting in Juno.
An effort ! s being mndo to organize a militia
company at Fort Dodge to fill the vacancy in
the Sixth regiment.
Cedar Rnplds has more pretty ladles than
any other city of its size in the world , ac
cording to the Gazette.
A woman at Tracy , Marion county , was
fined S10 and costs for slapping a young man
In the face during church service.
The Ottumwn opera house company has
filed articles of Incorporation with the sec
retary of state with a capital stock of 550,000.
The guards at the Sioux City jail the other
night discovered a man passing whisky
through the grated windows to some female
inmates and tired on him , but ho escaped
unhurt.
The trustees of Jefferson township , Ring-
gold county , and Grant township , Union
county , have ordered tlmt all dops m the
township sball bo killed or securely tied or
muzlcd. A considerable scare exists iu these
localities.
George Beyer , an Kaglo Point fisherman ,
bruised his thumb a few days ago while pull
ing his boat ashore. A surgeon who was
called wanted to amputate his nnn , but
Uoyor would not consent and now the arm
has become blackened und terribly swollen
and there is little hope that his life will bo
saved.
"VVyomlnc and Colorado.
The Edison electric light station now has
800 lamps connected at Evnnston.
A mass of rook weighing over a thousand
tons fell into the Platte nearSaratogaWyo. ,
recently.
The Sundance ( Wyo/ ) board of trade s
poslllvothnt a flouring mill will bo built t hero
this spring.
W. II. II. Icld ! Is to begin the publication
of nn Independent workitigmmi's weekly
pnpcr nt Ohoyonno.
Tlio Plntto Valley Lvro reports tlmt n
flock of pctrlflod duck * has boon discovered
nt the head ot Pass creek.
Tlio supreme court of Wyoming will hold
n special session Juno 0 to hear the appeal In
the Trumbull murder case.
Astroakof tellurium running $3,000 to the
ton Is reported nn Just found in the Florence
mine nt Douglas Orook , Wyo. .
The Bessemer Oil Plncor Mining company
soon.begins the work of putting down an
oil well ono mlle west ot Bessemer , Wyo.
Thcro nro 3,030 men nt work nt Newport ,
Wyo. , the presumed terminus of the North
western rend , nnd they nro working oust ,
H Is reported that 00,000 head of Texas
cnttlo will bo unloaded nt Wondoros , Wyo. ,
and driven northward through the territory
to Montana.
A Lcadvlllo rann named Corboy tried to
Mibiluo a bnlky horse by breaking Us Jaw
with n cobble stone and gouging out ono of
Its eyes. Ho has boon hold to the grand
jury.Thcro
Thcro wore 2-13,800 ncrcs of publio land
In Wyoming disposed of Inst year , the lonsl
quantity for nny year ulnco 1SS3. The totul
sales of publio land in the territory for ten
years reach 3,041,037 , acres.
Converse county will take ndvnntujjo of the
not passed by the last Wyoming legislature ,
authorizing the funding of the county In
debtedness , nnd will Issue (05,000 worth ol
bonds , at 0 per cent interest , for that pur
pose.
pose.Tho
The appropriations by the last Colorado
legislature amount to $3,073,377.13. Of this
J'JOO.OOO Is set npnrt U > complete the stata
capital , and the total for publio buildings is
(1,293,744.03. To build reservoirs , canals ,
roads nnd bridges , $303,500 was appropriated.
IV1NNI3 ON TWIN 13.
An Interested t'nriy Docs Not Pear
the Fnriuor Jloyontr.
Mr. D. P. Wlnno , a member of the hi ?
twine trust , Is in Omaha looking around , but
ho claims ho 1ms not come here to gobble up
the country or do anybody harm.
A UitR reporter mot Mr. Wlnno In the
P.ixton hotel Inst night. Mr. Wlnno smiled ,
was very affable , exceedingly pleasant , nnd
talked freely , but could not bo Induced to
admit that his business came under the head
of trusts , or Is Intended to work hardships
upon thcpeople , or crlnnlo other industries.
Said ho ' 'tho the
; newspapers nnd farmers
have been trying to wage a war on usthough
that cuu bo accounted for on the grounds
that they know nothing of the combination
under which the manufacture nnd sale of
twmo Is to bo carried on. However , " ha
continued , "thoy nro coming around all right
now. and mark uiy word , you will hoar the
farmers howllug for twmo before tholr har
vest Is half over. Our capacity for making
blndlng-twino is so limited tlmt wo will not
bo able to meet the demands. Now that the
largest factory in this country has boon de
stroyed by flro , wo nro worse oft than over. "
"Havo not the farmers In Nebraska and
other western states decided to usa wire in
stead of twiuol"
"No , I don't think so. How can they ,
UBO wire without the wire machine ! "
"Won't the binders in use now do the
work I"
"Not at nil. The wlro machines wore dis
carded llvo or six years ago. There are none
on the market , and the time Is so short now ,
you sco that the farmers cuu not get thorn ,
oven If tho.V should want them. I don't sea
nny alternative for them but to keep right on
using twino. "
"What increase over last year's prices do
you propose to domaudl"
"I think the raise will not bo ever two and
a half or three cents u pound. "
"That will require considerable of an extra
outlay by the many who harvest a largo acreage -
ago , will it not ! "
"Well , yes , It will , but right hero I wish testate
state that before this trust , as you call it , was
formed the competition was so great that
prices wore reduced to figures below what
the manufacturers could stand. With the
raise wo will not bo able to realize anything
like n half way decent profit. "
Mr. WInuo haa gene for tho. purpose ol
closing several largo contracts for twma
Hindu by Mills , KuiiKlu ft Co. , the trustj
agents In this city.
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No buITct should bo without a bottle
of Angostura Uittors , the South Ameri
can appetizer. Munufutured by Dr. J.
G. B. Siogcrt & Sons. Ask your drug
gist.
Hospital Arches TumUlinir.
Report reached the county commissioner !
yesterday that one of the largo doubla
window arches , in the south wing of the now
hospital , had fallen clown. All members ot
the board , except O'ICooffo , at once assumed
n look of astonishment. "I antici
pated , " said ho , "that the arch
was not strong enough to holu the weight on
it , therefore am not surprised tit the result.
The contractors said that -before coining to
notify us that they had ordered iron keys
made to put In when they repaired tlio
break , but I countermanded that order and
told thorn not to mnko nny changes without
consulting Meyers or some architect
the board might employ. We have
not heard from Moyors yet nnd I
don't know when wo will. Ho seems in
have thivbonnl where thu hair Is short. Tlia
falling arch didn't cause much dnmngt ) , but
it shows that there are weak spots in thu
building. "
O'KeofTo ' Is n witness in the Mlllcr-
Hitchcock c.ieo , nnd for that reason could
not got nwav to visit the hospital.
AGNES "He praised your tresses in liis rhyme ,
-Your shining hair , your golden hair ;
He sang that sunshine lingered there ,
The sunshine of the summer-time ;
He told you love had hid a lair ,
In tangles of your shining hair. "
LOUISE "Yes , Agnes , I have caught a beau
With these blond tresses fair ;
Because I cleanse them oft , you know ,
With IVORY SOAP , as pure as snow ,
The soap without compare. "
A WORD OF WARNING.
Thcro are many white soaps , each represented to bo "just as good as the 'Ivory' ' ' ; "
they ARE NOT , but like all counterfeits , lack the peculiar and remarkable quilltlei
of the genuine. Ask for "Ivory" Soap and Insist upon getting It.
Copyright 1838 , bjr Procter & UuubU.
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