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Till ! ; Ornithii guards arc giving1 Kansas
f'ltynlimbto | ) ointef , both in military
Dvolutions nnd lavish hospitality.
TIIKUK nro altojjothw too many con-
ti-uclofs skirmishing around about tlio
uotmeil and the board of education.
Tins mooting of the State Homoeo
pathic association adds another wreath
to Omaha's crown as a convention city.
TIIK retirement of Congressman Dnyno
of Pennsylvania after the present term
will bo a source of profound joy to Hon.
Censured 03-1111111.
C'ON'OHKSS has already entered upon
its annual sweat which will continue
with slight variations till tlio ballots nro
counted in November.
TF interested property owners cannot
agree among themselves as to street
grudoM mid extensions , the council should
leave them severely alone.
TIIK democratic state central commit
tee of ICunsoB is about to cogitate on tlio
problem whether life is worth living in
the face of oiehty thousand majority.
Tun carnival of burglaries in the
confer of Hie city during the storm goes
to show that the average Omaha police
man knows enough to keep out of the
wot.
WHKV Lincoln whisky demonstrates
its o'Tectivoness ' in casting out lizards ,
there is no excuse for people in the
neighborhood suffering from political
worms.
.1 L'STICK to the eity at largo demands
that the mayor refuse to turn the city
government into tlio handsi of the mer
cenary oilico brokers of the Seventh
ward.
KUii is no objection to a marauder's
holding up ordinary citizens , but when
they Hash a gun and frighten policemen ,
it is time that measures bo adopted to
protect the city soldiery.
Tins decision of the house to insist on
the Merrill pension bill is evidently do-
Bigned to prevent pension legislation
this session and thus strengthen polit
ical fences in weak places.
IN view of the recent proceedings at
Harvard , it is safe to predict that Presi
dent Eliot will revise his opinion to the
effect that journalism enjoyed a monopoly
ely of ungentlemanly follows.
TUB price at which the council com
bine was organized by the surviving
members of the linn of We , Us & Co. ,
was forty-one hundred dollars in cash
and a good many incidentals.
"dark and bloody ground" In
Kentucky and Tennessee has been re
freshed bv a brace of duels. It is a Bad
rollectlon on southern chivalry when the
code Is revived to avenge with gore the
theft of a hog or to secure the fickle
favor of a Iloosleress with lead.
TUB procession of democratic deficits
nnd deficiencies grows apace. Crowding
on the heels of Maryland and Missouri ,
and surpassing them in quantity , comes
Indiana with half a million on the
wrong side of the ledger. This must
b6 met by a now loan or nn Immediate
increase in taxation , u prospect which
will not bo joyfully received by the nvot-
ngo Hooslor. Democratic management
comes high.
AN exhaustive canvass of the mercan
tile interests of Minnesota and the la-
lotas , made by the St. Patil Pionccr-
J'ws , shows a practically unanimous
pcntlmont against the McKlnley tariff
bill. Itut one man was found to endorse
every feature of the measure. The in-
torvJowH nro confined mainly to republi
can business men , and their opinions
voice the sentiment of the west in gen
eral that Increased protective duties are
not justified by commercial neces
sities of the country or the pledges of
the republican party in 1888. , The coun
try demands commercial expansion , not
contraction utul inevitable stagnation.
HAXUUtQl H
A dangi-r threatens the republican
party which must bo npptiront to all.
The party is "In the saddle * , " having con
trol of both the executive nnd loglslntlvo
branr'hos of the national government. II
ImH promised a reform of the tariff , nm
the country demands that the promise
be fulfilled in good faith. All the finan
cial embarrassments of the country nro
not caused by the tariff , but the debated
In congress and discussions bv the pros. '
have led many people to bollovo that
they arc , and It will place the ropubll
can party in a very awkward position
should iffnil to keep its promises by enacting -
acting a now tariff law.
Tlio finance committee of the senate ap
pears to have determined upon a post
ponement of the bill by giving a hearing
toall the interests. TJieso interests wore
all ably represented before the house
committee , and It Is not to bo supposed
that they have anything now to offer.
This hearing will probably consume -
sumo nil the bcssion and postpone the
bill. Such procrastination is full ol
danger. .
JO/AT v
The first effort at requiring railroads
to make joint freight i-ates was inaugu
rated by last winter's session of the
Iowa legislature. It had been support
that tlio general laws regulating freight
rates , enacted two years ago , covered
joint rates , but the commission decider
otherwise , and in compliance with a very
general demand , a special law covering
the matter was enacted last winter and
recently went into effect.
It appears to bo the policy of the rail
road companies to fight every effort
made to regulate freights and fares and
they have now gone into the courts to
defeat this now Iowa law. Why do
those companies prolong the struggle
and keep alive the great contest between
the people and the corporations V There
never was a more just law regulating
freights than the joint rales law , and
although the now Iowa statute may bo
temporarily defeated bccuuso of a inero
technical error in the process of enact
ing the law , the defeat , at most ,
can only bo temporary , and will
only servo to incense the pub
lic fooling against thc.so corporations.
To U lustra to : The Iowa commissioners'
schedule of maximum rates permits the
railroads to charge eight dollars and
fifty cents for shipping a car load ol
cattle fifty miles. ] 3ut suppose thojihip-
mont is to bo two hundred miles and to
reach its destination must pass over four
roads , using about fifty miles of track on
each. The same stock car is used
throughout the shipment and the cattle
are not reloaded. Before the joint rates
law was adopted such a shipment would
co.st four times the amount of the fifty-
mile rate , while under the now joint
rates law the cost would bo reduced to
the rates of a two hundred-mile ship
ment , which is twenty-six dollars and
eighty-eight cents , making a reduction
of seven dollars and twelve cents. The
joint rates law provides for the expense
of switching in such cases and after that
is paid is there any justice in making a
farmer pay live dollars or six dollars a
car more for shipping two hundred miles
over four roads than another farmer pays
for shipping the same distance over one
road ? -
Tlio new Iowa joint rates law is based
on justice , and the refusal of the roads
to comply with it will only bring the
subject moro prominently baforo the pub
lic and cause ether states to join in. the
demand for joint freight rates.
I'KXSlOff DIS.IQHKKMKXT.
The disagreement between the senate
and house regarding pension legislation
has asHiimed a form by reason , of the ac
tion of the caucus of house republicans ,
which threatens to defeat all efforts for
further pension legislation. There was
favorable promise of the settlement of
this question , as the result of the labors of
the conference committee , in a way which
if not wholly satisfactory would have
avoided the most serious objections to
the pension measure passed by the house ,
but the action of the caucus , insisting
upon adherence to tlio house bill , leaves
small chance of anything being done at
the present session. It'commits the ma
jority of the house against making any
concession or accepting any compromise ,
and it is likely to operate with almost
equal force in determining the senate
not to recede from its position. Any
general pension legislation at this ses
sion of congress is consequently ex
tremely improbable.
The stand taken by the senate on this
question is undoubtedly wise , sound
and just. The disability bill passed
by that body , making provision
Tor all disabled old soldiers who
cannot earn their own living ,
was approved by the country. It pro
posed to do what every citizen who
honors the nation's defenders bollovo it
to bo the duty of the government to do.
It contemplated no discriminations and
no unfair preferences. It recognized
-ho just claim of the dependent old sol
dier to the care of the government , and
It proposed to pro'vido this generously.
This mensuuo would increase the
pension obligations of the gov
ernment between thirty-fivo and forty
million dollars annually , and this is as
far as it is expedient to go at this time
in adding to this branch of the public
expenditures.
The bill passed by the house providing
'or n service pension in addition to that
for disabled and dependent soldiers ,
would swell the pension account of the
government enormously , the- estimates
) f its cost ranging from fifty million dol-
ars upward. Hut whatever the sum
that would bo required , a considerable
) art of It would go to men who do not
iced the bounty of the government , and
o whom the payment of any sum out of
the public treasury in the form of a pen
sion would bo an injustice to the whole
icoplo. Moreover , the house measure
s essentially unfair in placing the man
vho served ninety days upon an equal
ooting with the soldier who served four
years. Many of the former never saw
my service before the enemy , .never suf-
oral any of the hardships or oncoun-
ored any of the perils of war ,
uul soiffo never wont beyond the Iwun-
lariea of their states. It ought to bo ob-
ioua to every fair-minded man that
hcao men huvo.not nn equal claim to
jonsidoratlon as bonoticiurics of the gov
ernment with the soldlora who scrvci
throughout tlio war , Giving all jus
credit to the patriotism of these who responded
spondod to the first call for mon to defend
fend tlio government , nnd without tin
dervalulng their example , It is atll
to bo said that the men whosi
devotion and valor null loved tin
victory have the suporioi' claim , and anj
benefit conferred by the govcrnmon
upon the soldiers ofthe union which
tloo.- ) not recognize this cannot hi ) jus1
nnd equitable.
The disagreement on this subject li
unfortunate for tlio old Boldlord whos (
condition nnd circumstances give their
a claim to the euro of the government
which should bo honored with the leasi
possible delay , but It is necessary to con
sider what Is duo totho whole people
and no man who does this candidly ant'
conscientiously can approve the house
pension bill. The senate is right in Us
position and should adhere to It.
TJIK OLD AA'D TIIK AV.'IC.
Among republicans In congress a- di
vision Is springing up as to what shall
bo the basic idea of protection , and one
element , headed by McKlnley , Sherman
Hiscock , Merrill and others , are pvir-
Hulng the policy of a prohibitory tariff ,
while Allison , Plumu , Davis , of Minnesota
seta , and others , demand n reduction of
tariff levies along protective lines. The
advocates of eastern manufacturing in
terests want foreign products shut out
entirely , while western Ihtorcsts demand
such n tariff as will enable homo pro
ducers to compote with foreign products
without creating monopolies.
It is a well known fact that production
costs moro in a protective than in a free
trade country , and that to let in foreign
products free will break down the manu
factories of any protective country , and
therefore , so long as a protec
tive policy is pursued in this
country , the protection must bo
sufficient to make up the difference in
the cost of production in European
countries and the United States. The
difference in interest on money and in
(
rents must also bo taken into the calcula
tions , and to determine what the tariff
should bo , according to the policy out
lined by western tariff reform repub
licans , the difference in wage's , rents ,
raw materials and interest on invest
ments must be covered by a tariff , and
when the tariff exceeds that difference
the effect is to enable our homo pro
ducers to combine into trusts and obtain
abnormal prices for their products. To
cover the difference in cost of produc
tion , leaving the way open for a fair
competition between homo and foreign
producers , with transportation advan
tages in our favor , was the policy of old
republicanism , and that policy is still
advocated by the west. It is a revenue
tariff based on protective principles ,
and has for its corner-stone the necessity
of raising a revenue on imports.
The new republican policy , headed by
McKinley , contemplates a time , not far in
the future , when the public debt will have
disappeared and with it the necessity of
raising a large revenue , and therefore it
demands a prohibitory tariff by a largo
incresuso in the duties imposed. Its first
object is to shut out all competition with
our homo productions , leaving our man
ufactures free to combine and make
prices of their products to suit their own
conveniences. In the old policy a revenue
was the prime object , while in the new
the prohibitory protective idea takes the
lead.
lead.Heroin
Heroin lies the fundamental reasons
why the people of Nebraska , Iowa and
other northwestern states condemn the
MeKinley bill. It is not because they
arc opposed to reasonable protection , but
because the time lias not yet come when
it is to the interest of this country to
adopt a prohibitory tariff.
. ,1 S/OiY UV I'llOSl'lUlITl' .
The commissioner of internal revenue
reports tlio collections for the month of
May last as being greater than for any
month since J870 , and ho thought this
indicated the general prosperity of the
country. It certainly shows that the
people are using more than usual of
these articles which contribute to the
internal revenue , chief among which
are whisky , beer and tobacco , but
whether this is to bo accepted as an
evidence of general prosperity is per
haps a debatable question. Tlioro is ,
however , the authority of the dis
tinguished chancellor of the British ex
chequer for so regarding it. In present
ing liis budget to parliament , which
showed a remarkable increase in the
revenue from liquors , Mr. Goschon re
ferred to the fact as a sulwtantial sign of
the prosperity of the people , and this
view appeared to bo acquiesced in by the
statesmen of the house of commons. It
would bo clearly possible , however , to
leduco a different conclusion in
the absence of other facts bearing
upon the general prosperity.
Happily there are other facts which
support thoviow _ of the commissioner of
internal revenue. The best authorities
regarding the movements of trade say
that the volume in May must have been
nearly , if not quite , the largest over re
corded in any month , The increase over
nst year outstdo of Now York was about
twenty-two per cent , whllo at Now York
the exports show a gain of fifteen per
cent and the imports nine per cent.
This state of affairs would Boom to
sufficiently answer the complaints of
these who insist that there is a general
lopression of business and that relief is
only to bo found in a largo increase of
, ho currency. The fact Is that this
business improvement during May was
concurrent with a diminished volume of
noney In use outside the treasury , the
nuroussd holdings of the treasury diir-
ng the month having Increased nearly
eight million dollars. From every aspect
> f the situation , therefore , It appears
.hut . the legitimate business interests of
ho country are In a very healthy and
satisfactory condition , that the average
irosporlty of the people Is higher than
usual , and that the supply of money has
iroved to bo fully aqual to the enlarged
lomand. This is certainly a very en
couraging state of facts , amply justlfy-
ng hopeful anticipations of the iui-
nodlato future. It is unquestionably
.ruo . that there Is depression in locall-
Ics , though as to this there has boon
nero or Io3s exaggeration , but taking
ho country ui a whole the indisputable
avidenco Is that general business Is pro
ceeding oti Bound and prosperous line ;
and that the average condition of tin
people In tholr material affairs Is hlghoi
than for n number of years.
IN TUB decade since the system o
llccnso liquor regulation was adoptoii
by Nebraska It has spread from state ti
state nnd become the foundation of ovorj
enactment calculated to plnco the trafllt
under proper police restriction nnd regu
lation. Its b'ost endorsement Is the fact
that It has been adopted by the most Intel-
llgontand progressive common wealths It
the union , where nil other means huvi
been tested and repudiated. Maryland
Is the latest adherent to high license ,
and though in its Infancy the law has
worked n revolution. Previous to its
adoption Baltimore had over thirty'
eight hundred saloons. Under the oper
ation of the new law the number has
been reduced to nineteen hundred.
Formerly there was no restriction to
license , and as a result the city was over
run with saloons of every grade and the
revenue exacted was a trifle. While the
now law is only a stop in the direction ol
high license , the fact that it has wiped
out one-half of the saloons of the city
nnd placed nearly half a million dollars
in the treasury , is strong proof of what
can bo accomplished when the Nebraska
system is adopted in its entirety.
BANKUUS report quite an active de
mand for money , better than usual at
this season. Kates are steady at 8 per
cent for prime mercantile paper. Gen
eral trade is very good and collections
in the country are ' readily in ado , but
there is some complaint that the city is
slow In this respect , duo probably to the
quietness prevailing in the building
trades and the backwardness of the sea
son generally. The eastern stock mar
ket is active and prices are firm and ad
vancing. Chicago produce markets are
moderately active , with cereals stronger
and provisions weaker. The local pro
duce market was well supplied and busi
ness was quite active , but so much home
grown garden truck is now coming in
that there is little demand for stuff
grown at a distance , especially small
vegetables. Berries wore in liberal
supply nnd in fairly good shape and
wore all closed out at about the same
prices as yesterday.
Tun baneful effects of the fee system
is aptly illustrated in the mercenary
raids of the poundmnster's gang. Not
withstanding the frequent warnings nnd
lines imposed by the police court , this
gang of ruffians continues violating the
law in their anxiety to capture a fee.
Not only do they open gates and doors
and trespass on private property , but
they have coerced peaceable citizens
with revolvers and clubs. It is time that
this species of downright robbery bo
stopped and the ruffians compelled to
earn an honest living.
AKTEK a month's experience with
prohibition in tlio abstract , u painful
wail against the law comes from Yank-
ton and other towns of South Dakota.
Outwardly there is no saloon , but the
piles of kegs and jugs which cumber the
express offices qlcarly indicat j tho' usual
internal circulation. In Dakota , as in
Kansas and olowu ; , the law is a blow at
business. There in no decrease in the
demand , but instead of patronizing the
homo market and building up local
trade , the money goes to swell the trade
and prosperity of neighboring states.
IN force and rainfall the late storm
has not been equalled in this section for
years. Tlio area covered was'uxtensivo ,
but only in two isolated places did the
storm assume the fury of a tornado.
The destruction of the village of Brad-
shaw and the consequent loss of life and
injuries call for the active sympathy of
the people of the stato. Temporary as
sistance is necessary to relieve the unfor
tunates aind it should bo given promptly.
A helping hand in the hour of distress
will Mess alike the needy and the giver.
REFOUM is always commendable. Tlio
old council spent over seven thousand
dollars in fitting up the exposition build
ing for the police and lire department.
The present council has trumped their
card by tearing up all the improve
ments and spending over two thousand
live hundred dollars in refitting the
now quarters in the Gees building , from
which they will probably inovo again
within the next eighteen months.
As A debt paying nation the United
States stands foremost in the world.
Tlio enormous burdens piled up by the
war will within a year , if the present
rate of reduction is maintained , bring
the debt within the scope of nine figures.
Tlio reduction for the past cloven months
of the fiscal year aggregated sixty-seven
and.thrco quarter millions , leaving the
total debt , loss cash in the treasury , at
one billion and forty-five million dollars.
THE postofilco department has at last
conceded the necessity of providing ad
equate facilities for prompt delivery of
mail in South Omaha. The department
is slow to apprv > cnto { the expansion of
typical western cities. Tlio investiga
tion ordered will convince the chiefs
that the number of carrloru allowed in
1889 Is insufficient for the business of
'
1SOO. " '
IT LOOKS very .much as if there was
11 job on in the proposed tearing up of
all the wooden1 fjifjowalks that have been
laid within two years. While it is very
desirable to do ( uwny with the plank
sidewalk nuisance , it is next to highway
robbery to taxiiUnun for a sidewalk and
then order iU replaced with u costly
* tone or concm.to pavonient before it is
half worn out. . .
BEFOHK Chicago decides to explore
the land of the guul for nntlquo speci
mens to adorn the world's fair , Tim BEK
Invites inspection of modern gall dis
played by the Omaha council combine.
Persistent use and ago have given It an
ulamantlno strength that cannot bo
equaled by any ancient article.
Num'ouNiu.uVNn's throat proved n
l)0omdrnng. A. ( loot of British war ves-
juls are moving towards the banks prepared -
pared to cool the disloyal enthusiasm of
the natives.
CONTIIACTOU COOTS bus run out of
Dodlin granite and the city hull founda
tion will take another rest. At the rate
the building has boon progressing wo
muv confidently expect that It will bo
under roof within five years after the
new union depot Is completed ,
Hlnlr nnd tlio AVImllmgs.
iVcip Yaik M'orM.
Senator Morgan of Alabama on Wedncsdny
addressed his eollenKiios In what ho called
"A brief speech. " Ilo spoke for ono hour
nnd throo-iiunrtors. O IJlnlr , what n fntat
Inlltienco you have exorcised over tlio senate !
"Why llymiin Is Angry.
ClitMdo Tribune ,
There Is every reason to bellovo that Mr ,
liynumof Indiana will not submit tntncly to
the tyranny of Speaker Uocd In forbidding
the sale of llquora In the houao restaurant.
If ho can't not Ins whisky tliero ho'll go
somewhere clso for it , begad , sir.
It Can Hut AVIll il ?
Mrs , Genor.il Grant has reiterated her de
termination not to change the resting * place
of her husband's body from this city. Now
can't tlio corner stone of n great monument in
his memory bo laid next Decoration day.
Cnn Don Do Tlils ?
Ddnilt Trihune.
Now tlmt Don Dickinson has promised to
see that the vote o censure iiRalnst Congress
man IJymmi is expunged In the sweet by ami
by , lot us rise to inquire how muelr bigger
Cleveland's ' majority will be In IS'.U ' than It
was la ISS'J in the state of Michigan i Of
course wo all know that It impends on Don's
"promise. "
The Model City of the World.
Clitenao .A'cirs.
Berlin Is salil to bo the best governed city
in the world. Municipal reforms which other
great centers of population and industry have
sometimes contemplated as desirable , and
perhaps possible , the German capital has
adopted. It has practically solved the most
vexing of the problems that still puzzle
American cities. Within Its limits all things
operate with cloek-HUo precision , in marked
contrast with the friction and confusion so
universal elsewhere in Kuropo and in the
United States , ami the manifold annoyances
of existence , the extravagance anil corrup
tion , the meannesses of partyism , the de
bauchery of the public service , the self-asser
tion of the worst elements of society , with us
so.much a matter of conrao In our municipal
afTaii-s , are in Berlin reduced to a
minimum , if not wholly avoided.
The streets are of asphaltum Immac
ulately kept. Telephone , telegraph , nnd
electric light wlro < , as well as gas pipes , nro
all underground. Supposed postal urraugo-
mants , which include telegraph , telephone ,
nntl express service , as well as local special
lullvory by pneumatic tubas , are notable fea
tures of an udmir.iMe system. A massively
juilt four-track elevated railway traverses
: ho city , bringing express as well as local
trains into the very heart of the capital. The
street railway system , a model of excellence
n all particulars , will become public property
n 1011 , meanwhile paying a liberal proportion
of its receipts into the municipal treasury ,
jesiJcs paving nlHho streets traversed by its
incs. The city gas works pay 18 per cent of
tlio municipal expenses and supply consum
ers with light anil heat at iigurcs reasonably
iropoi'tioned to the cost of service.
Over ten thousand citizens of Berlin take
voluntary part in the administration of her
affairs. No suspicion of corruption is over
raised. Business-liko economy everywhere
prevails. The best men of the city states
men , scholars , men of affairs servo as alder
men , and aity citizen chosen to oilico must
serve , under penalty of a large increase of
taxes for refusing. *
A property qualification , which excludes
about 1 ! ) per cent of Berlin's voting popula
tion from participation in her munluiiml elec
tions , la nn objectionable feature tlmt is
founded on the economic misconception widely
prevalent , even in America , that tlio poor payne
no taxes. The "three-class" system , exempli
fied in the constitution of the uldormanic board
has the samei Iwsis , and it operates to give a
small minority of the population an over
whelming majority in the city government.
Under this system the voters are classified
under three heads. Tlio Hist class nro as
sessed for a third of nil municipal taxes , the
.second tlio next third , and the third class em
braces nil the rest of the tax-payers. At a
recent election Outvoters of the ilrst class
numbered a little above three thousand , the
second class numbered oversixtcen thousand ,
while the the third dins numbered over ono
hundred and sixty thousand. However , so
admirable is tlio civil service , so excellent nro
the methods governing the administration of
the finances , and so clean and nublic- "
spirited are these upon whom the
burden of government rests , that
the masses liavo little reason for
I'omplaint nnd the stranger from abroad sees
nothing which is not a testimony to the en
lightened and progressive spirit that domin
ates the imperial capital.
Amoneiui cities liavo much yet to learn ro-
gardintf municipal administration. In the
main , their atTairs are conducted without in-
tclligcuco , without honesty and without refer
ence to history or modern example. It is
enough for thorn if a particular party or some
favorite individual bo dominant ; tlio people's
affairs may take care of themselves. It is
high time that the example of Berlin bo
studied ami that its good features of munici
pal administration bo adopted anil adapted to
the conditions of the great centers of popula
tion on this side of the ocean.
Newspapers.
Prom a "Topics of the Timo" in the
.Tune Century on "Journalists and News
papers , " is taken the following : "No
doubt the present tendency towards triv-
iultjos and personalties will continue
until private rights and public morals
are butter protected by the laws , and
until the acme of size nnd profit in news
papers has been reached. In the race
for expansion and power , the leader who
has adopted the readiest means has of
ten imposed his methods upon mon who
would cheese the best means. The fault
of u lower tone , hero and there , Is not
properly chargeable to the great
body of workers , for in the pro
fession will bo found today a , high aver1
ago of ability , and conscientious perform
unco of duty ; and never buforo our time
have newspapers been able to command
the trained Intollivenco and taste to
enable them to do all they are now doing
for the development of art and litera
ture ; all that the newspapers of today
are doing for every gootl cause , and
notably at this moment for that of good
government. Capital and financial suc
cess are of course essential for the pro
duction of a great modern newspaper ;
but the public has a right to demand
that these who boar the highest respon
sibilities of the profession should issue
newspapers which they , as private indi
viduals , would bo willing to Indorse , in
every part , as men of character , refine
ment and bolfrespcct.o .
Died Alone In Her Cosily Homo.
Mrs. Ilottio 11. Schuylor. fifty-three
years old , who lived alone in her mag
nificently furnished house , 7.S North
Eighth street , this olty , was found lying
across the bed in the second story front
room thereof , partly dressed and cold In
death , says a I'hiladolphia dispatch to
the Chicago Times , She had evidently
been dead about three days. In the
room with the body wore found about
3-1,000 worth of diamond jewelry , bank
deposit books showing a balance of
31iOO : , n check on Uroxel < t Co , for
$2,000 , and deeds for several houses.
Mrs. Si'huylor was thought to bo very
wealthy. All of her valuables were
easily accessible. No suspicion of foul
play is entertained. The coroner will
make an investigation , when It will
probably bo determined whether she
died from suicldu or natural causes.
UTIIjIi
Tito Inrk-T.miitcru Gentry Have Ap
parently Donio to Slay.
Two or three burglaries nro now of nightly
occunvnco , and the polleo force Is growing
desperate. Three burglaries Imvoloct'tirretl
alnt'o Sunday morning on the beat of Officer
Cullcn , who Is considered n careful and vigi
lant ofllcer , nnd cnrlv last night expressed
himself as bolng willing to forfeit a month's
salary to capture ono of the dark lantern
crowd. Ho was particularly vlglhuit last
night , and yet n moat during burglary was
committed under his nose , The store of the
Collins Gun company , near the corner of
Thirteenth ami Douglas was the scene of the
crime. Tlio rear of the store opens Into the
alloy between Douglas and Dodge , anil almost
touches the rear ot the Hamilton moat mar
ket which was visited on Monday night , Two
gas Jets are left burning In the roar of the
salesroom all night ami the rear windows
open Into an oilico and a workshop.
The thloves gained an entrance through ono
of tlieso windows , prying it open and break
ing the fasteners. A heavy Insldo wooden
shutter was next broken open and the way
was clear.
A small show case Immediately adjoining
the window fronting on Douglas street con
tained about . ' 01) ) worth of revolvers. These
were all taken. Nothing else was missing.
The residence of Charles Allen , ono of the
drivers for the Merchant's express company ,
who lives at11.1 South Tenth , wa.s also
visited. The burglar * broke through n
kitchen window and took from the bedroom
where Allen was sleeping , his pants , contain
ing f ! ( ) in cash.
At Murphy , t Lovctt's Insurance oflleo over
Thirteenth and Karnam , the mldnlicht , Inves
tigators climbed Into an outside ofllco through
a transom , broke ojnm an inside door anil
ransacked almost every desk and drawer in
the place except thcono wlun-o the bookkeeper ,
Mr. Gkvnllold , had a ? JO bill and a lot of
valuable coin.
Two men are held at the Central station on
suspicion.
All the lodging houses nnd chop houses , In
the vicinity of Thirteenth and Douglas were
searched tills morning , but nothing of a sus
picious character was found.
Chief Seavy speaking of the Collins burg
lary said :
"In writing up tlieso matters hereafter you
will ho safe in substituting for 'burglars , '
'Imshors and hackmen. ' The ullcv in the
rear of Collins' gnu store last night was
patrollei' every fifteen minutes and I know it.
"Thero was a siring of hackmon in front all
night and two lights burning in the store. "
SOVTJI o.Jt < i n.i xjtirs.
Tlio Mnyor'n Appointments . Muglc
Clly Notes.
" * At the council meeting Tuesday night the
petition for lights on the Ij street viaduct , and
the license petitions of tlio Exchange hotel
company , Thomas Haley William Ktnsclla
ami Prank I'etulka , were referred. Tlio com
munication of the Kichmond llro alarm com
pany was referred.
ICugineor icing's estimates of $ T O.Oli for
grading CJ street from Twenty-fourth to
Twenty-sixth street , and 'tyt.r > ; > 'for grading
the nlley between Twenty-third nnd Twenty-
fourth and M and II streets , were referred.
A storm-water DOX will bo put in at the
west end of the Q street viaduct.
The mayor appointed .lohn .1. Ryau city
clerk , nnd Joseph W. Edgerton city attorney ,
and both were confirmed.
The city treasurer's ' report was presented
and placed on record.
NoteH About tlio City.
Mrs. Amanda .T. Manson , with daughter ,
Mrs. .T. 1 < \ Plckett of Mattoon , 111 have ar
rived home.
Prank A. Kline has removed to St. Louis ,
Mo.
Mo.Jailer
Jailer DoWitt O. Anderson Is dangerously
ill at his room , 1C and Twenty-third streets.
The Sobotker base ball club will play the
Acme club of Omaha Sunday afternoon at y
o'clock on the Third ward grounds.
Miss Mary Connors of Balcarra , county
'
Mayo , Ireland , has arrived hero on a visi't
with her uncle , Councilman John H. Burke.
Mrs. George P. Kiser is among the In
valids.
Beehive Ledge No. ISt , Ancient , Prco and
Acccptcid Masons , will elect ofllcers Wednes
day evening.
Mrs. O. D. Bratton , who has been visiting
relatives in Brownvllle , has returned homo.
Prof. A. 13. Clarendon of Fremont is the
guest of A. J. Coughoy of the Stockman.
Judge Shields Tuesday decided the elec
tion contest of Ilobort Punston against John
U. Carroll in favor of Mr. Panston , the con
testant. The vote cast was : Carroll , 570 ;
ITunston , Ci'J.
Mrs. T. Cuslilng of Denver is the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Geary.
Ho In In tlio Hospital Now.
The cheap circus that is doing u turn in the
: ity had Steve Oilman on its pay rolls , and
lightly Steve lias been doing an acrobat act ,
aut just now ho is in St. Joseph's hospital ,
ivhero ho is trying to heal a broken nose and
i badly cut face.
Yesterday afternoon Steve was showing
)1T tlio trick horse when tlio animal suddenly
Mit a hind foot into the young man's face
ivitli sufficient force to foreverspoil his beauty
FKOM A FOKKIGN SHOUK.
It Looks Kasy to Get a letter , lint See
How Hard it is.
"Is there a letter for mo ? "
Simple enough is the question , but to
make the answer "yes" how intricate
the work of the postollico department.
Day and night there are men in the
postofilco and mail boats at the different
Hteamship piers waiting to receive and
distribute the foreign mails , says the
Now York Morning Journal.
As soon as an incoming steamship with
mail matter aboard is sighted oil Fire
island or Sandy Hook the postofileo is
notified and the mail boat dispatched
down the bay to got the mail.
Custom house , quarantine , storms ,
fogs and all else are ignored. Tlio little
boat must got down to the steamer and
back to the dock with the mail as rap
idly as possible , and nothing short
of the end of the world must stop its
course.
As a general rule the mail boat finds
the steamship somewhere in the lower
bay between the Quarantine island and
Sandy Hook. Then begins the hard ,
quick and accurate work of transshipping
ping the mails.
Kaeh mail bag as it loaves the ship in
counted , and the count of the receiving
clerk must agree with the slip received
from the other side. If not , then the
steamship company is hold responsible
and must make good , so far as money
can do so , the value of the lost sack.
Sometimes , but not often , a sack is
lost , and then every man employed on
the steamship has no rest until it in
found or accounted for.
Some time ago n single small mall-
sack from Paris to Philadelphia was lost.
Nobody could account for its disappear
ance nnd the mail clerks and steamship
employes each blamed the other. About
two months later fishermen found the
missing mall-sack floating In the water
oil Sandy Hook. It WIIH sent to the
postofilco , whore the contents were
taken out and dried and the long de
layed mall eventually delivered in Phil
adelphia.
Tlioro were loss than fifty letters In
this sack , and it was the smallest among
760 others , but the loss through the euro-
lossnoss of a ship's purser cost him his
position , and the officer who had charge
of the trans-shipment of the malls was
reduced In rank.
"When once the mail bags have boon
taken from the steamship and put
aboard the mail boat they are taken to
the dock of the company owning the
steamship and then taken to the postof
ilco In trucks.
Hero they are aguinhandled , the sacks
being placed in dllforont vans and takun
to the different railroad linen running
all over the country.
In cases where there is any great deal
of danger from contagion all foreign let
ters uro perforated and fumlngatod be
fore they uro borted and sent fron the
cuntrnl oilico , but oven then there la
more 6r less danger , 03 Undo Sam U al-
ways In a dpsperato hurry to got other
pooplo'H loltoi-H out of tliolr ImndH , nnd
they nro put through the postollico nnd
delivered as rapidly IIH possible.
WiinWI WHAlTA. AVIIOIUMJH. /
Tlio McCnl UnllnplMiuil IH Snltl to Crow
In AlVlcn.
Prof. Schohvlach , the well known
imturallHt of llnvnrla. while traveling
with the Stanley expedition in the heart
Vif Africa noticed n plant with n peculiar j * *
Htool foliages and on oxnnilnntlon it was
found that the shrub , although growing
like other plants from the soil , was prac-
tli-ally composed of iron , says the Phila
delphia Times. The leaves' ' , although
very thin , were bent with great dillli-ulty
and the twigs and branches resisted
pressure with a force equal to the HIIIIKI
amount of Iron , and to HOCWO a h-af It
was Mowssnrv to separate * it from thu
bush with n lllc.
While Prof. Sc-holwloch was digging
at the base of this plant for ( ho purpose
of making an examination of 1 lie roots ,
the natives crowded around him in great
numbers , gesticulating in a menacing
manner. The professor desisted from
his work and the Interpreter was sent ,
for. IIo explained that this was a holy
tree nnd worshipped by the natives in
their fotich religion as a God plant , and
that to dig ono up would bring ruin and
desolation upon the whole village and
surrounding country.
Professor Seliolwiseh offered to buy
the plant , and , taking out a handful of
copper coins , gave thorn to the savages ,
who gladly accepted the ntoney and dis
tributed it among themselves. The pro
fessor then returned to the work of dig
ging up the unique plant , but had not
mndo any great progress when the na
tives again sot upon him. Through the
interpreter the professor informed them
that ho had legally bought the plant and
intended to remove it. As soon as this
message was made known to the savages
every ono who had received a coin ciuno
nnd dropped it in the hole at the base of
the shrub. Professor Schelwiseh al
lowed the coins to remain in the hole
and walked away toward the mountain
to hunt another specimen. *
Next day , as the parly were preparing
to continue the march , the professor \vtrdf
curiiJlis to know if the coins had vf
mained undisturbed during the night by
the superstitious natives , and on np-
proaohing the metal plant was aston
ished to find it had changed its color
completely. Instead of being a beautiful
steel color , the stems , leaves and what
was exposed of the roots presented the
appearance of newly coined copper coins
and glittered in the morning sunlight
like polished gold. Upon examination
it was ascertained that during tlio night
the strange plant had absorbed nearly
all the copper coins , with the result of
completely changing its color.
What was left of the coins in the hole
showed that they were moro than half
oaten away or absorbed by the roots of
the motnl'plnnt. Not only-was the color
changed , but the texture of the plant
had undergone a similar transformation.
It was found that the tiny ivy shaped '
leaves were now easily bent around the ' J
lingers , would retain any shape given / |
them and could bo readily cut with an
ordinary pair of scissors.
Professor Schelwiseh succeeded in sur
reptitiously securing Hovoral branches
of this wonderful metal eating plant ,
and was also successful in obtaining a
good photograph of it. No further trace
of the existence of the metal plant was
found until the expedition reached the
Uninmcsi country , when at the base of
the Nkomabakosi mountains a perfect
forest of of this curious plant was found.
This being an uninhabited region , no
tliflicult ways encountered in securing
specimens to take back to England.
A great fire was built about the trocy
but it would not burn the least little bit.\ .
American Kmorpt'lso In AlVica. x. , . ,
The example of the United States in i
recognizing the Hat of the international
iissocialion , now the indipcndont state of
Congo , was followed by all the powers in
Europe , and under this nnmo with the
: issont of the Belgian government , it entered -
terod into the family of nations , and its
illustrious founder is carrying on olTect-
ivoly a model government in the inter
ests of civilization and freedom , writes
Jolonol Henry S. Snnford in the Forum.
Sevorul Belgian companies have bton
irganized and are developing its resources -
sources , the principal ono of which is ; i
railroad company with $5,000,000 capi
tal , now engaged in building n railroad
iround the cataracts , u distance of about
wo hundred and sixty miles , from
Miitadl to Stanley Pool.
As the American flacr. borne bv Stan-
Icy , was the first ono displayed to the
natives in his voyage of exploration
down that river , so the American Ihtg
was the first displayed on the wnteivi of
the upper Congo , leading the vanguard
of commerce. The Stanford exploring ex
pedition , organized the 28th of Juno
1880 , launched the ' -Florida , " the first
comineacial steamer on the Congo , after
a year of laborious effort in transporting
it , mostly in sixty pound parcels , on the
heads of some 2,000 porters. This WUH
followed by the little steamer Now
York , and at the expiration of its term
of two and a half years , waa taken over
by the Belgian company of commerce on
the Upper Congo. On the Oth of .Inly ,
1887 , was formed the Belgian company
of Commerce and Industry , which is the
parent , so to say , of the five or six Belgian -
gian Congo companies , all successfully
working there. To show the growing
popularity of Congo enterprises , hold in "
such disfavor when the Sanford explorIng - .
Ing oxpedltion was formed , that only
one-third of its llttlo capital of ! ! 00,000
francs could bo obtained from Belgians ,
it may bo stated that at a recent inci-cano
of capital of the Haul Congo company
to ! ! ,000,000 francs , the public subscrip
tion was covered ninefold.
Cuiirs I'nojiiTLY AND PinjUNia-rtv ;
I.umlmco , nrucluchn.Tootlmclie ,
'
.a ,
Sere Throat , Swelling Froat-bltes ,
Bpralna , nrulnos , llnrnn , BcalilM.
THE CHAntES A. VOOELEII CO. . Baltimore. Ml
OMAHA
LOAN AND TRUST
COMPANY.
fiuliicrlbud nnd Guaranteed Capital..J.VfUM
Puld In Capital : ; v > ,000
Iluyu und nulls stocks and bonds ; iieaotluH-H
comiMurulal pnpor ; roi-olvon uiul exn-outoii
tnmthj notH us transfer utfont und trmtea or
noriioratloiiu ; tuUuscharKoof proiiurly ; col-
locla taxed. _ _ _ _ _
Omaha Loan& Trust Co
SAVINGS BANK.
S. E. Cor. 10th and Douglas
Paid In Capital . . . . f-iujJJ
Hiilworlbodand Quarniitacd Capital IW.UJ )
Liability ot Stockholders Sotf.W * .
& I'or Gout Intitruat I'uld on li > pu.slts.
KUANK J. I , AN OK. Uunliler.
Orjcori : A. U. Wjruioa.pruittlcut ; J. J. Urotto , llco-
prusiilunt : w. 1' . Wjumn. tru urar.
Iroctur ! : A. U. Wruiin , J. u. Mlllaril , J. J. Brown ,
0117 0. U.irtim , K. W. Nnjh , TUam.-u J. Ututull ,
( ieurve II. Luka.
Ixjans In ; ui Y amount mndii on Olty and I'arm
I'ropeity. nd on Collateral Bcourlly , ul Low-
ust rutuauunx-ub