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2ctM \ dealers vuty inoeuns their onlcui
h for 1 he Sunday Jiec by ( rk/jutph / not later
H I than 12 o'clock ' Saturday night Dealers
H sened by The Iku Flyer will lonsult their
H lent inteicsts by making libend eiders for
H She Sunday Jkc
H Tin : Iowa logislatlvo tie i.oos not ox-
H tend to the sttito • treasury The drnin
H on the tnxpayors goes right on
H Tin : battle in defense ot the right ol
H the mvjority ; to rule demonstrated that
H Rued cannot bo shaken by violent dom
H ocratio wind
H North Niiiuasica : is preparing for a
H boom when the Sioux rcsorvation shall
H bo opened to sottlora So are the rn.il-
H j roads loading to that promised land
| Tin : fact that the recognition of Bru-
sril was deterred sixty days did not di
I minish the warm cordiality of Undo
B / Sam's greeting to the youug republic of
H ti10 south
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H rTmc man who can solve the problem
H of moving the enormous corn crop of
m Nebraska at a profit to the producer will
| bo a benefactor to his race nnd a god
| send to the railroads
M - Hkniiy Uilonau is dispensing auti-
M poverty prescriptions in the west at an
M ngreed sum for each prescription His
H single tux theory works like a charm ,
H because the tax is collected at the door
M , Anothku commlttoo and another
H j confuronce is proposed on the Dakota
H railroad It is evident that tlvo years
M of dihcusalon , oxamlnation and cogita-
M tion nro insufliciont for practical work
M1 _ Tin : cold wave which struck the hol-
| lpw warmth of the now hospital and torn *
H porarily ended the labors of the homco-
M pathio stokers and allopathic engineers ,
B will not chill their grip on the county
H troaatlry
B Tin : furmors of Dodge county have
M generously loaded and shin pod a
M car of corn to the sufTorers of South Da-
H kota The cry of distress is always
H heeded by the thrifty settlers of No-
H * bruskasoil
M Tin : diffuronco between Lawyer
H. Storey's ' nrgumont In favor of the Union
M . Pacific nnd Attorney General Loeso's
M ' latter is that the formers talents wore
H blrod by the corporation , while the lat
1 tor voiced the sonttmont of a common
H Wealth which has boon plucked for
H1 twenty i ears by Mr Storoy's client
H Nobrnsitaobjoots against the govern
H mout sanctioning the plucking and ox-
H tending it for several generations
H DlOiOt'lt.M'iC papers ilippantly refer
H to the republican theft of Montana
HI and declare that the head ot the state
H ! canvassing board , now chief justice of
H | the stuto , was n member of the court
H > vhich declared the county dork cortifl-
H oatos illegal , The facts are that Clilof
H Justice lllako rofusodto hoar the case
H nnd had nothing to do with the do-
H ciaion ot the court The boat evidence
H of the justice of the decision Is that the
H domocrnts have not nttomptod to qucs-
H tlon the position taken by the court ,
H , ( or the very good reason that it is im-
H pregnable
H A binii,15 vindletivenoss for every
H body nnd everything ropubheau is one
H ot the most striking and painful oharao
H torlstlcs of the mugwump prosi An
H instance in point is afforded by the re-
H cent capture in the mails in Now York
H ot dutiable silks in which had been
H worked the inline John WauatnaUor " '
H The nttompt to connect the postmaster
H general with the fraud was so absurd
H that nil the prinoipal ilemocratio papers i
-B-B-i n Now York wore careful to state in
i thuir head , lines that Mr , Wunninakor
_ _ _ . was in no way oon'neotod with the atM -
M air The hybrid Times of that city , i
B howqvor , so fur forgot its dignity as to >
j Jioad its account " 1'lirifty John , Was Ho 1
H Trying to Got u Now Attraction For His i
j Durgaiti Couuterj" '
iiiv ro..r..ro.v snxsn view ,
When anybody says that a reduction
of freight rat03 on corn will bo followed
by ! a tlcctlno of the mnrkot nrtco equnl
to the , reduction ot the frolght rnto , wo
nro inclined to doubt his sinity or sin
cerity The niarkot price of corn in
America is largely , if not wholly , gov
erned by the price paid in Liverpool
Conceding that the price at Liverpool
is | governed by the law ot supply aud
demand , what possible ofToct can a reduction -
duction of freight rates west of the
MississlpiA have on the demand or sup
ply in Liverpool ? All the rolling
stock 1 on roads in the corn bolt
is I now engaged in moving the
surplus product In other words , cvory
car , the loads own and every car they
can borrow is employed in hurrjing
the , crop to mnrkot This grain is being
moved , from Omaha to the lakes for
twenty cents a. hundred and to the At
lantic i seaboard for thirty-eight ccnl9 a
hundred What effect will a reduction
of ' the rate have on the quantity ot corn
moved ? Suppose the capacity of the
Nebraska roadi is ono million bdshols
par any , and they are now being
oporatcd i to their full capacity , why
should a reduction of freight
rates cause a drop in tno
market prlco ? Will the change in
freight rates in any wnyalTcct the quan
tity brought to market ? If the low
prices now prevailing nro caused by a
glutted market , it is proof positive that
high freight rates have not prevontcd a
glut Every rational person must con
cede , therefore , than an advance in the
price of grain In this market would Inevitable -
evitable follow a reduction of freight
rates , unless there was a combi
nation among * grain buyers to take
ndvantage of the producer and rob him
of the difference between the present
and reduced rates It 'is manifest that
the railroads resist the nomand for a
reduction bocnuso they feel sure that
our farmers are compollid to sell their
corn at any price
Railto.id managers toll us they can
not afford to cut down their corn rates
If this bo true why do the roads carry
corn from Chicago to Now York , a dis
tance of niuo hundred mlloH , for eigh
teen cents a hundred , and charge
twenty cents from Omaha to Chicago , a
distance of live hundred miles ?
• inn viatiT ion suusidies
The house oommittoo on merchant
marine nnd fisheries , the chairman of
which is a loading advocate of ship
subsidies , is intent upon making a thor
ough job ot the collection of evidence
in favor ot tt general tonnage subsidy to
American vessels The representa
tives of a number of steamship lines
and some of the largo shipbuilders have
already been hoard , and it is intended
to summon before the cotnmittoo the
commissioner of navigation , thocomtnis-
sionor of customs , the chief of the bu
reau of statistics , the chief of the bu
reau of naval intelligence , and some of
the statistical officers ot the state do-
partmont Ml the testimony is being
carefully reported , and it is to bo pre
sumed will in duo time bo given to the
public - )
Thus far the opinions olicitcd have
boon all on one side of the subject
Only the renres-ontatlvos of private in
terests have appeared before the com
mittee , and it need hardly bo said that
their voice has boon in unisou for sub
sidies It is not known it it bo the in
tention to invite to a hearing persons
opposed to the granting of subsidies ,
but it is a fact that none such
has so far appcarod The committee -
too may reserve a brief time before de
ciding to conclude the hearings in
which to get an expression of views
from those who believe it to be neither
wis > 6 nor necessary to inaugurate a pol
icy ot ship subsidies
There is every indication of u very
stubborn light over this question when
It shall bo seriously taken up in con
gress , and if the opponents of subsidies
tire not well prgatiuod they will find
themselves at a disadvantage The
house committee on marluo and fisher
ies was evidently made up with refer
ence to promoting the subsidy cause
Its chairman , Mr Parquhar of Now
York , is strongly committed in favor of
sutsidies , and is the author of a bill
providing for tonnage , bounties Mo3t
of the ether republican members of the
coinmittco , and at least onn democrat ,
nro in hympathy with him , so that there
can bo no doubt ns to what this commit
tee will recommend Thc'o is reason
to believe that there is a much larger
element in the house than over before
favorable to some formof subsidy , while
u measure for this purpose would bo
very likely to go through the senate
Tlio advocates of subsidy are favored
also by the fact that the ad
ministration is committed to llbo ral
compensation for mail uorvico in American
ican vessels , so that if they cannot get
all-thoy desire they may bo able to of-
foctu compromise very satisfactory to
tliomselvos as a first stop toward the at
tainment of the policy they are working
for It is therefore npparont that the
subsidy men occupy a stronger position
than they have hold for years , or , per
haps , over before , aud constant vigi
lance and active work will be nucossary
to defeat thorn
JlfJ..dJv OIUEOTJOKS ,
Senator Teller ot Colorado represents
the advocates of free silver coinage , and
in his recent argument against the
V/iudom bill ho presented ull the ob
jections which these people have to
that measure , The chiet of these are ,
that the plan would reduce stlvor to the
position of a more commodity , and that
the proposed authority to bo given
to the bocrotary of the treasury might
be dangerous With regard to the
former Mr , Teller contended that the
government had nn hotter right to is
sue a paper currency against deposits
ot silver bullion at the current market
prlco ut the tlmo of deposit 'in it had
to ibsuo suoh a ourroncy ncrainst iron or
corn , As to the authority committed to
the secretary of the treasury under the
proposed law , which is to suspend the
issue of silver notes updr certain spocl-
lied plroumstanccs , Mr Teller regarded
it as an enormous arbitrary power the
exercise of which might render the
secretary llablo to suspicion and
to imputations ot being dishonest ,
which , though they might not
bo true , would uinUouu unfortunate con
I dition of affairs " Ho remarked that
public ofllcors might be always honest
In using this option , but not discreet ,
which woutd bo just as bad so far as the
general olTect wns concerned
The llrst of these objections wns an
ticipated by the secrotnry of the treasury
ury when ho submitted his plan In his
annual raport , and ho mot it with the
simple and sufficient reply that sllvor
bullion Is now a more commodity Sen
ator Teller did not say It wnsotherwiso ,
nnd being already In fact a commodity
the proposed policy regarding it would
not chnnge its character in this respect ,
but would make a freer market for It
In effect the proposed policy would
opcrato as to the sllvor product of the
country just ns free coinage would , ex
cept that the owners of the silver would
lese the profit of soignlorngo which
free colnago would give thorn , and it is
not unreasonably suspected that this Is
the true explanation ol their objec
tion to the Wlndom plan The
silver mon represented by Sena
tor Teller desire that the government
shall not only ttiKo all their product ,
but lot them have all the pro lit from
coining it into dollars
The objection to giving thp socrotnry
ot the treasury the authority proposed
in tlio Wlndom bill has a fairer ap
pearance , but it is to bo berne in mind
that ho could not oxorclso this author
ity without the approval of the prosl-
dunt , so that unless it bo assumed that
the prosldont might allow himsolt to bo
the mora cronturo of the secrotnry ot
the treasury in this matter there is little -
tlo ground for apprehending serious
danger from tiiis authority It is gen
erally admitted that the power to suspend -
pond the issue of silver notes under
certain circumstances is an essential
feature of the proposed policy , aud it is
not to bo doubted that the general pub
lic judgment would bo ontlroly sntisliod
with devolving it upon the prosldont
and secretary of the treasury
It is obvious , thorcforo , that the chief
objections to the Windom bill ot the
people represented by Senator Teller
'
are far from being conclusive against
that measure , it indeed they do not
serve to demonstrate the weakness as
well as the selfishness of the opposi
tion They may bo sufficient , however ,
to unite the freo-coinago mon and the
ttnti-froo-coinngo mon , who are per
haps strong enough in congress to defeat -
feat the bill
timv von action ;
Four months hence the enumerators
will begin their work of taking the
United States census for 1S90. Every
important city in this country is extend
ing its boundaries and annexing subur
ban towns in order to bo able to boast
the largest possible population Chi
enco has annexed every villngo and
town within u radius of sixteen miles of
its former boundaries She now has an
area about ton times as largo ns Omaha ,
and expects a census certificate for over
a million population
Chicago realizes fully the advantage
of an established standing which for the
coming decade will keep bor at the
front as the second or third city in
America
It is tirao for Omaha to omulnto Chi
cages example by taking active stops
to annex South Omaha , which , in fact
if not in nnmo , is a part of this city ,
and must forever bo identified with her
commercial and industrial growth Un
less South Omaha is nnncxed within
four nlonths the census returns will
quote Omaha as acity of agiven popula
tion apd South Omaha as a separate
city of a given population And this
distinction will bo maintained in every
book of reference , every calendar and
every commercial , bank and news
paper directory for the next ten years
This will be of Incalculable damage to
both Omaha and South Omaha Sup
pose that South Omaha four months
hence musters a population of twelve
thousand and Omaha ono hundred and
ten thousand The directories for ton
\enrs will quota Omaha , the chief city
of Nobrasku , population ono hundred
and ton thousand , when in point of fact
it should bo ono hundred and twenty
two thousand South Omaha , on the
other hand , quoted alphabetically
among cities whoso names begin with
the letter S\vill , cut a very insignifi .
cant figure among very unimportant
towns
But suppose thnt the enumerators only
return ninety odd thousand population
for Omaha proper , how would our city
appear us against Kansas City , St Paul
and Minneapolis ? For ton years to como ,
everybody hailing from Omaha would
bo constantly explaining that South
Omnhti is part of Omaha and should bo ,
added to her aggrogatc population
Tim Buidooms it of vital importance
to the future of Omaha that steps be ,
taken at once to amalgamate the two (
towns Under the law the initiative
must bo taken by the councils of the 1
two cities The ohartor proscribes that '
the preliminary stops shall bo taken by
the enactment of an ordlunnco in each i
of the two cities embodying the terms i
of consolidation and the corporuto assets -
sots and liabilities of each , These or ,
dinances are to be eubmittod for
ratification to the voters ot each '
.
of the two cities , nnd if '
ratified in ouch town by a majority of '
citizens voting thereon , the consolida
tion ot the two citlas is logalizou , to )
take etTect on the da to iixod for the I
same
In order to the ' .
arrange terms , conferences -
forencos will necessarily have to beheld
held between the municipal authorities
ot Omaha and South Omaha at the J
ourliost Dosslblo day It is immaterial
whluh of the two city councils takes the )
first stop There should bo no standing
upon ceremony in view of the interests
involved , No tlmo should bo lost in l
moving for a conference
Tin collapse ; ot another bunk in Now
York city , under elrcumstuncos that
.
point to a huge steal , iudicato that t
finaiiciul Napoleons are flourishing in
the metropolis The fate of Ferdinand I
Ward , now shattered in houlth and l
spirit iu Sing Sing , has no terrors for
the shnrpora who prey upon a credulous ,
public under the clouks ot respectabil
ity and responsibility During the
nnst llvo years the Hmpiro Btato has
uroduced a large crop of rascally bank '
ers , and with the oxcuntion ot Ward all I
have escupoa just punishment for their
mm
infamous crimqsf The hungry man or
woman who ill desperation takes brond
to prevent US-vatlon or steals n
cent or Bha o cover a shivering
body is pr.oiuptly nnd vigorously
hustled to tile hworkhouse or ponltonf
tlnry For th jff , the law has no mercy
But the rich .iHcal who robs the poor ,
and conllicatos'nho plttanco of the
widow and orjfifjjm dollcs the law and
lnugh nt the penalties The fruits of
his robborlosj.j-e'omplojcd ' in purchus-
lug immunity ' from / punishment , by
taking advantage of the laws ' delay
nnd prolonging1 the contest till public
interest wanes nnd witnesses disappear
Tin : contract between tlio olty and
the oloctrlo light company calls for
ono hundred are lights of two thousand
candle power each , for which the city
agrees to pay ono hundred and seventy
five dollars onch iioryear These lights
have boon located in the buslnoss sect
ion of the city , from Seventh toTwonty-
ninth streets nnd from Cuming to
Leavonworth streets As a result the
territory covered by oloctrlo light wlros
is onlnrgod and the over present danger
to lifo and property correspond
ingly lncrousod City laws provide
no adequate safeguard for this
necessary evil , but it Is not too late to
enact nnd enforce a rigid system of in-
spection Before the wlro is put up the
chlof ot the fire department should
make a thorough examination of its capacity -
pacity aud insulating quality Experienced -
rioncod electricians declare that the
wire should possess a surplus capacity
to counteract the tendency of the cur
rent tocscapo to the ground Poles
should bo high enough to carry the
wire above the tolcphouoand toloffrnpli
lines , and the greatest care nhould bo
taken to avoid trees , in mnktncr splices ,
and in tying the wire to the glass Insu-
lntors If the work is done properly at
the start , much of the dangers of the
overhead system will bo obviated , and
frequent inspection afterward will
render the system practically safe
=
Tin : wise and moneyed mon of Bos1
ton known good thing when they see
it Their ennfidonco in Omaha's pro
gress is shown by the investment of
hundreds ot thousands of dollars In lots
and buildings Dozens of fine busiuoss
blocks and warehouses in the cityhnvo
boon erected by the enterprising cap
italists of the Hub.and others are under
way , nnd in nearly every instance tenants -
ants have bconsbcurcdbeforo , the build
ings wore completed Omaha realty is
todaytho host lWvostmont in the west ,
and the steady'allow ' { of outside capital
is conclusive proof of its conservative
value and suDqripr prospects
Tin : housn commlttoo on commerce
has very promptly indicated its disposi
tion regarding thb interstate commerce
law by ordering all bills providing for
the repeal of , that act to bo reported
back to the house with the recommendation -
dation that th 'ljo ' on the table This
action will doubtless put an end to the
efforts of these in and out of congress
opposed to the ' jllfw tg.brlng about its ro-
pcalinsit givosc thorn notiooi that they
cannot hopb for aiiyiconsidoratlon from
the committee on commerce , which is u
condition precedent to getting any at
tention from the hbuso , '
A itATUitiAii reduction in water
hydrant rental has become a nocnsslty
Sixty dollars a month for hydrants will
do for interior towns , but a city like
Omaha cannot afford to pay such rates
Wo want and must have ample fire pro
tection , but this city should not be
asked to pay double the price paid by
other cities of equal population
The CWcngo roads grudgingly grant
the demands of the Omaha stock market
kot to equal rates with rival cities , but
the concession will not go into effect for
ton daysalthough the twelve and ahalf
cent rate has prevailed In Kansas City
for a week or more As a specimen of
potty injustice the delay is worthy of
the corporations
The policy of the city in oxnctlng a
foe in proportion to the cost of building
improvement is an unjust tax on enter
prise and should bo radically changed
or ontlroly abolished Pormarront in
vestment should bo encouraged rather
than hold up for building , plumbing
and ether foes at the ouUot
Pr/UMWNQ INSI'EC'IOU Dennis pro
poses to rigidly enforce the law roqulr-
ing plumbing plans to bo submitted , ac
companied by the regulation fee
Major Dennis experience as a plumber
is a guarantee that the fco will be in
telligently inspected
* " - -
OTHEll LANDS THAN OUItS
The dosuotlo tendencies of Emperor Wil
liam and Bismarck encountered a chock in
the dofcat in parliament of the anti-socialist
bill , fathered by the chancellor The bill
was intended to render pormaneut the ex
traordinary and exceptional legislation
which the relchatag has from time to tlmo
authorized the government temporarily to
adopt for doallng'Vith t.o socialist move
ment The measUres in question were of a
utrlnj-ent nature rid Include , ! among their
provisions authortyto ! ( the police to break up
and disperse puCllo meetings , to suppress
newspapers , po odlcaU or any ether
kind of publlc.Hlqq , to detain suspicious
characters la jail for an indefinite period
without putting Hi cm on trial , and finally , to
expel and oxllo total Imperial territory any
native-born oltisoinor foreigner whoso presence -
enco In Germany tttey may cbooso to regard
as Injurious to tlio Btato tThcso provisions
were first voted foij'a term of two yoaw by
the roichstap duridi tbo few weeks of popu-
lor excitement afipvlndlunation ; which pre
vailed just after Jyobulnga dastardly attempt -
tempt to assassinate the old emperor ; and
slnco then tboyhavo been renewed from
tlmo to tlmo on each occasion with increased
reluctance by the imperial parliament With
the object ot puttlnir an end to the necessity
of adopting all sorts .of political strutcgems ,
every tlmo that Prince Ulsinarct is forced to
ask for a , renewal of those extraordinary
powers , he doolded together with his young
master to request the relcbstag , which is
now approachtnit lis terra of final dissolution ,
to pass a bill rendering those powers pcrpet-
ual To this , . however , the Imperial
parliament has refused to content Tor the
wonarchypf Emperor William , both as kaiser
ana as kiug , is limited by national couatltu-
tion , and the mombeM of the house felt that
they possosscd neither the right nor the i
power thus to make permanent surrender
to the tbronoof tlio liberties oca privileges
of the people They realized that by yield
inn to the demands pf tbo government they
would pl co In the hands of the crown a
power as despotic and a * untrammelled as
thnt of the czar Llko the latter , Emperor
William would become enabled thereby to
oxllo or detain in prison for nn Indefinite
number of years any ono who had been un *
fortunate onongh to incur his personal dl *
ploastiro It meant the establishment ot an
organized system ot police tyranny on the
lines 1 ot the Infamous Third section at St
Petersburg I , overriding the administration of
the common law of the land The nttttutto
of the relchstag In defeating the government
bill J will bo approved by the nation nt largo ,
For the Germans are too highly ed ucatod
and onllghtencd to submit to a form ot rule
against which oven the semi clvilltod Musco
vite rebels
It would appear that the Spanish mln-
Istorlnl ' crisis wm partly manipulated nnd
partly natural Sagasta is a shrewd poll
tlclan , innd was nothing loth to secure n
reorganisation of his cabinet , The easiest
way to briug this nbout was to have all the
ministers resign and glvo hliui n clean alato
There can be no doubt , either , that ho was
sincerely desirous of placating the poworiul
dissident factions ot his own party bv giving
them t representation In the cabmot , nnd
that their obstlnato inautoaco on tholr own
terms J was a retl disnppolntmont to him
Then : carao the pretense ot withdrawing
his own personality , nnd the attempt of
Senor Mortinci , president of tbo chamber of
depntlos J , a very respectable and inoiTcnsivo
liberal ] , to form a ministry This was pro *
destined ( to failure , and was probably meant
onlv ( ns a sort ot object-lesson to the reoali
cltrant < liberals , to show thom that If
Sagasta i could not lead , no ono could
All this , with the subsouuont prompt
success ' in forming a cabinet as soon as this
formality was out of the way , and the queen
had , asked Sagasta again to try hU hand at
It , betrays the deftness of the political mana
.
ger But there are also fixed elements in the
situation , which play tholr part In these
chauges < , and which forntokoa the speedy
fatluro I ot the now cabmot The hboral
majority ' cannot bo counted u'uon for the
most ' important mansuros to como before the
cortcs ' the budget and the bill forunlversal
suffrage ' These government projects will
probably j not bo killed outright so much 09
indefinitely postponed Yet Cacovas and
the , conservatives can do nothing with the
present ji j chamber , aud , at Sagasta cannot
inanugo i It , everything points to a vote ot
tompornry 1 credit , the dissolution of the cor-
tes ' , and a new election , which will bo con
tested 1 on the main issues now botqro the
country ' , and which will yield a posltlvo and
working majority on ono side or the ether ,
A great revolution is impending in Persia ,
duo , to the bollof that the shah Is demented
His efforts to Introduce western reforms is
the 1 source of this bailer Whatever foreign
opinion < on the subject may be , it Is certain
that ' In attempting to introduce reforms Into
] the legislation of a people who , slnco the
times of Cyrus , 2,000 yeais ago , have prided
themselves on the traditional immutability
of ( their laws , the shah has undertaken an
almost hopeless tnsk , one , indeed , which
can , only bo regarded in the light of a for
lorn hope Iu Persia the Koran remains to
this day the supreme source , not only of
spiritual , but also of alt temporal law The
ocracy ' constitutes the basis of nil authority
lu the kingdom , and the mollahs or priests ,
who form a most fanatical , reactionary
and well-organized body , practically rule the
roost Their leader and hiorarchial su
perior Is the • Ohiof Mushtohcd ,
an ecclesiastical dignitary , posses
sing rank and power even greater than that
of the Shcik-ul-Islam at Constantinople
From his decision in religious as well as In
secular matters there is no appeal Even
the shah Is forced to pay him respect as to a
superior , and a word from him would suffice
to hurl Nasr-ed-Deen from the throne As
described by Mr Bonjamln , formerly Unltod
minister at Teheran In an article on Heraia
published recently , the Chief Mushtahcd
holds the power to muko and unmake kings ,
and tn prevent or declare war Both ho and
his vast army of priests are bound by in
stincts of self-preiorvation to present a most
determined opposition to all innovation ana
progress , and , under the circumstances , it
appears useless to expect that the well
meant effort of the shah to improve the con
dition of his people wilt result in anything but
his own overthrow Koforms are impossible
in Persian so long as the p'-esout state re
ligion remains in existence there
The famous Danish minister , M. Estrup ,
has dissolved the folkothlntr , or parliament ,
a month before tbo legal limit m order to do
able to discuss the budget with a now legis
lature betore tbo beginning of the financial
j ear April 1. M , Estrup occupies a posi
tion such as uo minister m a parliamentary
country has ever occupied before He bus
for fifteen years hold his place against a ma
jority in llvo Biiccesslvo cbambora , every ono
of which has refused to vote his budget , but
ho has gouo on and collected the taxes and
spent them nil the same , having the king
and the army ut bis back This extraor
dinary stuto ot things Is duo to
the fact that tbo voters always
send up largo radical majorities ,
while the court Is rigidly conservative , and
insists on kooplng a conservative ministry In
power , aud relies on the popular attachment
to the royal family to prevent any open re
sistance to the unconstitutional regime The
majority would , it Is well known , make short
work of the army and navy and many of the
moro exponsu/o ofllcos of state , and probably
cut down the civil list of the crown Thnt
M. Estrup expects the now chamber to bo
much moro tractable than tbo present one is
hardly probable , but Ilka most mon in
trouble , he thinks any change may bo in
some degrco for the better
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The amlcablo settlement of the Missionos ,
boundary lluo with Argentine is a promising
Item for tbo now republic of Brazil to start
with in bor administration of foreign af *
Xa'rs , The main credit , , however , is due
rather to Dom I'edro's government , under
which the negotiations for the purpose , on
Brazils side , were initiated , Indeed , oven
the later stipulation of tbo two countries
that If the Argontino-Brazilian joint com
mission should not como to terms , resort
should be bad to arbitration , was made
six days before the ropublio was pro
claimed at Hlo Janeiro However , the
new government , in pursuing tbo policy
It inherited , will show that the republic ,
like the empire , "is pence " Some time ago
there was a report of Brazils forming a
conn of observation to watch a controversy
between Bolivia and Paraguay ever rights of
navigation on their river frontier , but it ap
pears to have bocn exaggerated Since tlfo
close of the war of Chill and Peru the South
American states have lived in general har
mony , and pcaco appears still to bo the
policy of all of them Two colonies on the
northern coast of the continoat , Dutch
Guiana.and French Guiana , are alto to have
their boundary settled peacefully , Holland
and Franca havlug agreed oa the czar as
referee British Guiana's tarn should coma
next
Some British exports In African matters
are now urging all intending missionaries tn
acqulro some knowledge of medicine before
they start , as they can add much to their In-
llucnce by prescribing for tbo physical ail
ments of the uativos Explorers are not
quite of one mind as to the vuluo of their
medical practice in helping them through tbo
country Captain Blnger , tor Instance , says
i
that I on his recent Journey from the Upper
Niger 1 to the Gult of Guinea ho found Itox-
trcmoly I dangerous to try to euro tbo natives
ot t their complaints It the medicine had a
beneficial 1 ofToct they thought ho was n ser *
corornml t regarded him with nwo nnd dls >
llko 1 , and once or twice when his drugs failed
ho I considered himself in danger ot botug
killed 1 and eaten Fortunatolv , In most re
gions | the natives rognril the successful while
doctor ( as a great anil good man whodosorvos
to I bo well troatcd , and many explorers llko
Thomson , Arnot , Holub and others have
scon i the tlmo when tholr great reputation ns
pill | dlspensors was nlmosl their only ro *
source
It is interesting to ooservo that success Is
attending the efforts ot the ltoynl NUer
company < to put an ei.d to the flood of liquor
thnt 1 foryoais has boon pouring Into the vast
region i now under iti control It has totally
prohlbltod | the trndio on the great Bonuo
branch I of the Niger , where the hand rods of
thousands 1 of natives have not yet boon de
based 1 by the trndo in rum By menns ot its
high I duties ou spirits tt is also greatly re
stricting i the trndo on the lower Nlgor The
result i Is that regions not jet visited by the
rumsollcra i of Gornlnny nnd Holland nro
being 1 protected from tlio curse , nnd in
regions i where thev have had tliolr own way
the l imports ot spirits have fallen to n com
paratively i insignificant amount The spec
taelo 1 of this largo company rofusiug to make
money in tbo easiest w.iv possible Is particu
larly ] edifying Inasmuch us most African
trading I companies nro clamoring loudly
against i any Interference with their rum
trndo '
m
Gotham Ih a Ilnucar
IVoria Trnii cr/it /
Now York is a grout beggar Every mon
umental scheme she has over started she has
begged the country to bolp her In the
worlds fair matter she Is now begging for
time
Ills Mouth AKninst lllm ,
Clticaao T > ( bune
In presenting his claims to the governor
ship of West Virgiuln before the legislature
of ' that state at Charleston the other day
Mr Goft made a speech llvo hours long
Bets ot (100 * to J3 against him have sluco
gone begging
Speaker Reed and the Bourbons
St Louts atobe-Demnrat.
The nbuso which thabourbons nro heaping
on Speaker Itood wont ' hurt him Every
American statesman living within the past
third of a century whom the country delights
to honor , from Sumner , Sownrd , Lincoln
nnd Grant ouward , was ahusod and traduced
by iho domocratio party
'llio New nxtratlitlou Trenty
.liititon Join mil
It Is a step , and a long one , toward a close
and perfectly cordial aud honorable under
standing j between the two great nations to
whoso future are committed the host hopes
nnd aspirations of the human race It Is
not alone in its narrower lines , but also in
this much larger and broader uspoct , that
the treaty , wo trust , will bo considered
Tlio Kicht of 1'rpi- Speech
PhiladetpUta Iiecnnl
In Kansas the advocates of a resubmission
of tbo prohibitory amendment to a vote of
tbo people arc beginning to nssumo a bolder
attitude They say that this is a question
not merely of prohibition , but whether citi
zens In Kansas have a right to freely ex
press their thoughts and opinions on any
political subject , unawed by fanatical des
potism ,
STATU AND TKIUUTOKY
Nrbrnskn ilottlnirs
Moro cattle than over before are being fed
near Madison
The opera house at Broken Bow is being
rapidly pushed tocomulctlon
Hunteisroport plenty of dcor in MePhor-
son county , but they are very shy
It is said that a now prohibition paper will
bo started at Hastings with Dr Pitcu ut its
head
The Lincoln county commissioners esti
mate the expanses of the county for all pur
poses nt $31,1-50. *
After a long struggle with competing com
panies the York county board nf supervisors
has closed the contract for a burglarproof
safe
safo.Tno
Tno drug store of Dr Holmes nnd Hurrahs
rah's barber shop at Burchard were de
stroyed by fire Thursday ovenlng , entailing
a loss of 11,500.
According to a provision iu his will , the
remains of tlio late Dr James P. Klngslev
of Brumng were Bent to St Louis and cre
mated last wcok
Mrs Thomas Waplos has brought suit
against the city of Kouruoy for td,000 , dam
aeos for the los3 of her husband , who foil
on the Icy sidewalks a few days ago und re
ceived Injuries from which he died
' • Scotty Miller has boon sent to the Nor
folk insane asylum from Keith county His
malady is supposed to have boon caused by
worrying ever his wife , who bocatne insane
and was sent to tbo asylum a year ago
The Springfield baud gave a dance last
week , but only two members showed up ac
companied by ladles , the others going it
olono At the next ball It is proposed to
offer cbromos to all the boys who uring
girls
According to the Borealis there is a well
less than five miles trom Norden the water
from which is unlit for drinking purposes ,
for the reason that after water is drawn and
lot stand a soum of oil collects thereon A
man from the oil region pronounces it the
real stuff
Park O'Meara , a Sioux City blood , has
been very victorious for three weeks over
the green cloth tables on this side of the
water , says the Dakota City Eagle , but ono
evening the latter part of the week his luck
turned und a fulr share of the wad ho hud
won wont back into the faro bank , and with
it wont a diamond ring belonging to his solid
girl Uo returned to where she was , told of
bis mlsfortuno and asked for more Btuff ,
which was donlod Trouble was at hand
Tbo fair girl , who is the runaway wife of u
Sioux Falls , S. D. , ban It cashier , remonstrated -
stratod , whereupon Park endeavored to
force her The force was mot over the gam
bler's eye with u wuter pltchor und other
utousils ,
Stone , a former clothing inorchant of
Hastings , has brought suit against Mark
Lovl ot ul in tbo district court for damugos
in the sum ot .5 003. Stone allcgos in his
potitlon that tbo defendunts lu bis absence
Inveigled his son , Nate Stone , into making
an assignment of their clothing business iu
Dccumbor In the senior Stones absence
from the city the young man , a member of
the firm of Stone & Son , is said to huvo
given u bill of sale for flO.JOO to Levy ot al ,
which appears to bo the foundation of the
trouble In the meantime tbo outsldo cred
itors liocitod in nnd were paid their cluuns in
full Interesting developments are prom
ised
Iowa Horn * .
Burglars and footpads bold high carnival
at Iowa City
There wore seven deaths from la grippe la
Wintersut last week
A training school for uursea has boon es
tablished at Cedar ltaplas
A fourtoon-year-old Wapello boy bus been
arrested on the charge of forgery
The now 15,000 Disciples church at Win
torsot has been dedicatee" , free from debt
The mysterious deaths at Cleat Lake have
been found to have beoa caused by bud air
und Impure water
Twenty Indictments for violations of the
internal revenue laws were returned by the
federal grand jury at Keokuk
The public schools at Mapleton have
started a savings bank deportment aud the
deposits already amount to (30.
Tbo Illinois Central will build a now
double span Iron bridge across the Des
Moines river ut Fort Dodge the coming
aoason ,
William Jones , deputy county treasurer ut
Ida Grove , took out an accident lnsurunco
policy aud tbo next duy slipped ou tbo side *
walk nnd broke his leg Uo will draw ( HI - H
per week this H
John Klatkle ago J forty-five years , H
formerly employed as engineer In the Dubuque - _ _ _ _
buquo mattress factory , which was dostrovod _ _ B
by tire ever n year ago , has oecomo violently TV ] _ _ _
Insane Ho lost nil ho possosscd In the fueL3aaasBsBal
tory Ore and continual brooding over the loss . KflaaBsBsaBfll
has finally drlvon him insane VS H
The Carroll Sentinel flguro * up the state - " sPi H
legislature thusly ; Eight editors , sixty > ' B
farmers , twontv-uino Inwyors , olght physic /
inns , other occupations having tbo balance / H
Only twenty ot the 150 nro slnglo men , The / , H
youngest man Is ltcprotontatlvn Harry 1 *
Dyer of Lucas county , who is twenty-debt - _ _ _
oars old nnd U n nntlvo ot this state Tlia ' _
oldest man is sixtv-snven yours of ago and is H
Warren S. DungAti ot ( Jhnriton He is there
foroiho N'ostorof the nssombly Fitty-llvn 9BVBVBH
of the tf > 9 men served In the army , and ' ' Bb'b'bB
fifteen arc natives of Iowa H
The machinery for the tiuw Union Pad flu H
shops nt Chnyouno is being plaeod In posl'fBVBVBffl
tlon ns rapidly ns possible 1
Tim attorney general of Wyoming says the . H
game laws of the territory nro of no effeot < H
nnd recommends thnt they bo repealed and a |
new sot of laws passed 1
It Is understood thnt the syndicate which . . |
has just tukeu an option on oxtonslvo tract * " " mf m
of land at Lnrnmio propose to put in a big H
cannl to sccuro water power tormauufacturW bVAVAVAV
ing purposes < _ _ _
It is oxpoctcd thnt the Union Puclfio will H
build additional car repair shops at Evans H
ton , snys the News The present buildings § §
nnd equipments are entirely inadequate to VaVaVaH
do the extensive repairing roqulred at Evutis H
Up to the present time ut the tcrrltorhl H
fish hntchcry , says the Laramla Boomerang , H
nearly 800.003 eggs have been taUon this H
season With the 'JOO.OOO eggs received from * * *
tbo government , this makes 1,030,000 on BffAfAf ]
band About oue-third ot this vast number H
nro now hatching , nnd others will begin < H
dally from this on Tbo first eggs were H
taken November It ! , nnd a row nro still being Bafafafl
tnkon dally , but the season is now very . siikaBVaVaVal
lis . gift
A bill has been introduced In the logtslaBaPB BBaaffli
turo to crento Big Horn rounty The pro T j M
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Montana lluo , on tbo west to Ycllowstono H
PnrK , on the east to tbo mountain range H
Which passes through Johnson und Shoridnti 1 " VaWaWaV
counties , and on the south is bounded by the ( * *
Shoshone reservation nnd Shoshone mount { H
ulns The area ot the now county is over H
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