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Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
WAITING FOR SOME ONE TO DIE.

The man who has squandered not
only his patrimony of over half Il mil
lion. but also all he has been able to
beg or borrow, in the vain effort to
build up a daily newspaper is waiting
for some one to die. All his hopes and
aspirations are centered now in the
demise Of the man whose enterprise he
has dcluded himself into believing has
blocked his path to fame and fortune
in the journalistic field
1t was doubtless Il desire to pacify
his impatient creditors that impelled
him to announce in the editorial col
INNS of his w paper n to tele-
graph broadcast ovcr The country that
the cditor-in-chief of The Bee was in
the last stages of heart disease and
that his family, alarmed ovcr his con-
dition, had persuaded him to agree to
retire from further activity in connec
ton with his paper within Il few weeks.
While such thoughtful solicitude for
his creditors state of mind is com
%mendable. we fear very much that the
man who is waiting for some II to
die is doomed to the same sad disap-
pointment that he has several times
experienced since he has been dissi-
pating inheritances. 1t may be unbe-
coming, but it is nevertheless Il sad,
solemn and melancholy duty for the
editor of this paper to continue to live
on for a while longer, even though he
would like to accommodate the man
who has been so patiently delaying his
life's work while waiting for some one
to die.
Were it not indicate on our
part to offer advice to a man who has
never been known to act upon any
mans advice. we would gently intimate
that in all probability he is not likely
to inherit the kingdom which he COW
cts. If the long-awaited vacancy in the
editorial chair of The Bee should oc-
eur, as it will sooner or later, and no
man is found competent to fill that
place, it is still unlikely that the pat
ronage of The Bee would drop like
baked pigeons into the open mouth of
any man who can do nothing and build
up nothing until some IL dies. If
there shall be a void created inJthe
Omaha field it will have to
be filed by n man of brains. ability
and integrity of purpose. Such Il man
will doubtless turn up at the proper
time. but it will not be Il man who is
waiting for some one to die.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

when the ps9NSht bankruptcy laws are
applied. Chder them n few officials
get fat fees, while the crcditors-the
rightful owners. of the w~reck-get ex-
perience only And this is but one of
many counts against the present sys-
TEN.
1t Is to he presumed that the coming
congress will he urgently appealed to
by the business interests Of the country
to pass a uniform bankruptcy law and
the republican house will be expected
to deal with this question wisely and
cquitably. In the last two congresses
the consideration of the subject was
hampered by prejudice and sectional
interests. In the Fifty-second congress
the Torrey bill, a most carefully pre-
pared measure, which had undergone
thorough examination and discussion
and been approved by every important
chamber of m and board of
trade in the country, was defeated by
reason of the prejudice of Il large num-
Der of democratic representatives
against the national banks. 1t was at
'1N NV WI Ni' SiONh' ''''' -
Involuntary bankruptcy debtors would
be placed largely at the mercy of the
banks and this was sufficient to ar
ray against it most of the democrats.
especially from the south, who sup
ported the makeShift and utterly in
adequate measure of Representative
Bailey of Texas, which provided for
,,- l., n,l Inft t1,A .tn IN
laws in operation. The same spirit in
the last congress prevented the enact
ment of Il thoroughly national and
equitable law. A republican house is
naturally expected to take IL broader
and more liberal view of this question
and to give greater consideration to
the wishes of the business community
in every section of the country. 1t will
have ample time to devote to this sub
ject. and with the information and in
struction to be derived from its DIS
cussion in previous congresses should
be able to perfect Il measure that would
be Just in it's operation and generally
SatiSfactory-a measure that VIII in
sure absolute fairness both to debtor
II creditor.
Past experience with national bank
ruptcy laws has not, it must be con-
fessed, been altogether satisfactory.
The last statute of this kind was par
ticularly Objectionable and created Il
widespread prejudice against such
legislation. But subsequent experience
with II variety of state laws has CON
WINGED the great majority of intelligent
business men that n uniform system of
bankruptcy is absolutely necessary in
the interest, alike of the honest debtor
and of the creditor. and these have for
several years urged congress to pass
such IL law. 1T is desirable, perhaps,
that they renew, their request now that
one branch of congress is in control
Of the republicans, and, even if not alb
solutely necessary, no harm could be
lone if the chambers of and
boards of trade of the country should
again give expression to their views
and wishes on this question.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
blasts rnom nAMs nous.

The real amen always has the ring OF
money In u.
The man who rides a hobby cats and
sleeps IN the saddle.
People who bow their own horns make
poor music fer other folks.
Doing good will he found more profitable
In the end than digging gold.
The devil never feels ashamed Of himself
in the company Of q stingy man.
Backslidlng has already begun when the
heart stops praying, Thy kingdom come"
The man who can learn from his own mis-
takes can always be learning something.
Put a pig In a parlor and its first ques-
ton will be, "Wcll, where's your mud?'
a revival is badly needed wherc the
people who try the hardest to run the
church never go to prayer meeting.
No matter what a man says in church
you know what kind of religion he has
when you know what kind Of company he
keeps.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

A receiver has just been appointed
for a st. Louis building and loan asso-
citation. 1t Is possible for these orguni-
cations to lapse into bankruptcy as
well as other moneyed concerns. Be
cause some of the better associations
have continued to make money and
pay large dividends through the period
of depression the idea has gotten
abroad in some quarters that all of
them are absolutely safe. There are
good building and loan associations
and there are bad building and loan
associations. People who invest money in
them must make the same inquiries
and take the same measures of pre-
caution as they would in investing in
other fields.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
TO AN INTRUSIVE BUTTERFLY.

Austin Dobson.
/ watch you through the garden walks.
/ watch you float between
The avenues of dahlia stalks,
And flicker on the green;
You hover round the garden seat,
You mount, you waYer. Why
why storm us in our still retreat.
Oh, saffron butterfly!
Across the room in loops of flight
| watch you Maynard go;
Dance down a shaft of dancing light,
Review my books arrow;
Before the bust YOU flaunt and fit
Of blind Maeonides"-
An, triiler, on his lips there lit
Not butterflies. but bees!
You pause, you poise. you circle up
Among my old Japan:
You find a comrade on a cup,
A friend upo a fan;
You wind anon, a breathing while.
Around Amanda'S brow
Dost dream her then, oh, Volatile!
Fen such an one as thou?
Away! Her thoughts are not as thine,
A sterner purpose fills
Her Steadfast soul with deep design
OF baby bows and frills
What care hath she for worlds without
What heed for yellow sun,
Whose endless hopes revolve about
A planet, aetat one!
Away! Tempt not the best of wives!
Let not thy garish wing
Come luttering our autumn lives
With truant dreams of spring.
Away! Reseek thy "Flowery Land;'
BE Buddha's law obeyed;
Lest Betty's und.SceTning hand
Should slay-a future Praed!
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

the district which they represent Is
that they are better known by their
constituents and are supposed to be
better Informed Of their constituents
wants than any outsider. Local pride
compcls each district to send n resident
to congress. and 1t would he humilia-
ton for any community large enough
to constitute Il congressional district to
It's limits fit to become a congressman.
1t is idle to expect American voters
to look outside of their own districts
for representatives in congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

If Eli Perkins doesn't stop circulating
fiction under the guise of truth he will
certainly get into trouble. His latest
is IL yarn about an after-dinner speech
delivered in Omaha by Secretary of
with President Hayes and the other
members of his cabinet. AS Mr.. Hayes
never vas in Omaha during his incum-
bency of the presidential Office and
after-dinner speeches were rare articles
out here in those days, the tale is n
trife far-fetched. Try again, Eli!
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
New York Tribune.

As to the argument that long campaigns
are needed for educational purposes, it is
proper to say that the political instruction
Of voters in this country does not devolve
upon national committees or state committees
or county committees, but upon the press,
whose work goes on constantly. The can
vasser may organize and get out the vote
the stump-speaker may stimulate his hearers
and the orator may rouse the party en-
thusiasm, but the task of calculating party
principles, publishing the important speeches
of the day and building up the voters in the
party faith must be performed by the news
papers, and by the newspapers that need no
assistance. financial or intellectual, from any
party committees.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
sTIrpJD MISUNDERSTANDING

The advertising manager for the pur-
chaser of the :. T.. Morse dry goods
stock has made Il ~commodiouS' ass of
himself. He came to Omaha during
fair week and on his return to Mime
apolis gave vcnt to his Splenetic feel
ingS in Il newspaper interview in which
he decries Omaha as the hottest place
on earth and represents the city as Il
dessicated and decimated community
without enterprise or public spirit. The
temperature, which never exceeded %
in the shade at the very worst, is
represented as constantly at 40 and
alleged to be Il fair sample of Ne
braska September weather from one
wear to another.
Such glaring misrepresentation may
be marketable up in Minneapolis. but
it reflects very little credit on the man
who INDUCED in it. The hot wave that
swept oyer Nebraska ten days ago
passed across the whole central belt
from the Missouri to Lake Michigan
and from Lake Michigan TO Lake Erie
and beyond. As Il matter of fact, it
also passed across minnesota ana loon
in st. Paul and Minneapolis, where the
thermometer ranged from 50 to 30 dur-
ing the same week. 1t was so eXcep-
tional in this part of the country that
no pioneer can recall anything like it
within the last thirty years. Had IN
Omaha man struck Minneapolis when
| the mercury was down from 20 to 40
| below zero he might with equal truth
| fulness say that the Arctic climate of
Minneapolis las frozen up everything
| and everybody and rendered life in that
region unbearable to any human being
unless he is Il blubber-eating Esqui-
mnu.
AS to Omaha's alleged lack of enter
prise and public spirit the success of
the fair and Ak-Sar-Ben festivities in
the face of exceptional weather and
| other drawbacks is the most effective
contradiction. Omaha makes no pre-
tensions to matching Minneapolis in
population and in wealth. but its pros
poets are no less promising and its
future equally assured.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

Police Commissioner Broatch made
such n good thing out of that honest
penitentiary Iahpraisement that he is
loath to take his hands off the state
treasury plumber mine. Now he is said
to be selling his friend Russell old dyna-
mos for the Grand Island soldiers
home at fancy prices in anticipation
of the opening of competitive bids,
This whole electric lighting scheme is
one grand steal and unwarranted by
law. Auditor Moore will have a great
deal to explain if he permits the $500
appropriation made for Il connection
with the existing electric lighting
works to be diverted to any such lille
gal purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
The Banner Yenr for Apples.

This is the banner year for apples, a crop
Of from 1000, 900 to 10, 900, 600 barrels being
looked for, exceeding any previous annual
product by from 200, 900 to 5000, 900. Prices
are down, rs to so cents a barrel less than
last year, with a lowering tendency as the
returns come in, showing the superabun-
dance of the yield everywhere. The bulk of
the crop comes from the west, Missouri
sending the largest contribution, exceeding
that Of New York, in which it was formerly
thought that Pomona had spread her bright
est and most spacious bowers. No Ameri-
can Eve or Oenone need be without her
apple this year, aud the tides of applejack
and cider which will flow round the land
will probably mark the highest level known.
OF the gifts Of the year now failing in the
yellow leaf the ever welcome apple is one of
the most Astounding. and ought to be re-
membered in all rituals Of Thanksgiving and
judlclously applied in all its feasts.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The st. Louis Globe democrat takes
exception to the statement Of Charles
Francis Adams that the compelling of
elected from the district in which they
live is n bar to the procurement of the
best talent by showing hat a congress
man is not required to live in the dis
trict he represents, but only to be a
resident of the state from which he is
elected. Reference to the federal con
stitution will disclose the truth of the
Globe Democrats statement. The only
reason congressman are selected from
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The Lincoln Journal in reprinting the
substance of the terrible exposures
made by The Bee of gross neglect of
duty on the part of the officials of this
city, who sat by with %unconcern while
hundreds of thousands of dollars were
diverted from the public treasury to
private use. says that "the experts at
work on the books now report that in
addition to the defalcation the city
treasurer failed to turn over to the
Board of Education interest OH school
balances exceeding $1,000 This is de-
cidedly rich. "rhe experts at work on
the books now report" indeed! The
only thing that has beer heard from
these alleged experts in the weeks Shey
have been willing away their time in
the treasurer's office ut 500 Il day has
been the reports that they have drawn
their salaries with regularity. The
startling disclosures of incompetency
and rascality in connection with the
checking of the t~reasurer's accounts
made by The Bee did not come from
these alleged experts. The first knowl-
edge they had of the manipulation of
city funds referred to was no doubt
gained from reading The Bee.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

1t is announced from Washington
that the proposed civil service examina-
ton for determining the qualifications
OF persons soliciting appointments to
consulates will be made particularly Sc
we're. We suppose the purpose of his
warning is 90 frighten away as many
OF the prospective applicants as pos
sible and give those who have inside
Information as to what Is to be re-
quired n better chance to come out
nea the top. But 1t will take more
than "A mere announcement that the
examinations are TO be severe 10 scare
away the people who are hirsting for
consulateA
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The New York democrats. too. can-
not rcpress expression of sympathy for
the downtrodden Cuban in his heroic
effort to throw off the shackles of
Spain. The Cuban no doubt deserves
the sympathy of all liberty-loving peo-
pie. but the New York democrats would
just as soon have passed resolutions
of sympathy for the domineering Span
iards if there We're more voting Span
iards than voting Cubans in that state.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The A.. p A. populists VINO are seek
ing a preteXt to %repudiate the judicial
ticket nominated by the populist judi
cial convention are having great diff
Guilty in covering their tracks. Now
they insist that no populist shOuld vote
for any candidate who does not stand
sguarely on the Omaha platform.
They offered n resolution, it will be re-
membered. calling upon the nominees
to subscribe to the Omaha platform in
the hope that they could thus force
them to refuse the populist nomination.
but the resolution was showed under
almost before put to II vote. The y. l..
A. popul-ts, however, We're not so
anxious for candidates who stood on
the Omaha platform. The Yeiser reso-
luton offered at the beginning of the
convention contemplated the naming of
only one or two populists and leaving
the other places open for the republi-
can and democratic conventions. The
nominees of the republican convention
would hardly have stood on the Omaha
| PLATFORM, but that would not matter.
They would be A. =. AS and all a.
p. AS, populists included, would sup
port them.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The dignity of the judiciary has come
to n pretty pass when n judge of the
district court adjourns session in order
that he may work at the polls cheek
by jowl with corner loafers and ward
heelers in the interest of Il delegation
to the judicial convention in the interest
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

EX-President Harrison says that "the
Importance of an honest, economical
business administration of city offices
and the firm enforcement of all the
laws cannot be overstated. A city so
managed attracts business and reputa-
ton" If he lived in Omaha eX-preSi-
dent Harrison would without question
be enrolled in the citizens reform move
mpnt.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The general convention of the Episco-
palian church will meet in Minneapolis
in IL few days. The event has greater
interest to that denomination than any
convention since the war, when the
question of merging the north and
south divisions was uppermost in the
councils of the church. A revision of
the constitution and the canons is the
most important work to be done. A
proposition to change the name of the
denomination will also be discussed.
Prominent men contend there should be
n designation for America such us that
in Great Britain. The Church of Eng
land is in America the Protestant
Episcopal church. 1t has been sug-
gested that the name be changed to the
| Holy Catholic church, but this meets
with opposition. Bishop Worthington
| of the diocese of Nebraska does not re-
gard Il proposition to change the name
Of the church with much favor ut this
time.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
DEMAND FOR BANKRUPTCY REFORM

DEMAND FOR BANKRUPTCY REFORM
There appears to be a revival of the
demand for an equitable and uniform
bankruptcy lava national measur
which will meet the varied and intlf-
cate requirements of the country's
great and ever-growing commerce. One
of the leading trade papers of the
country, in referring to this subject,
says that the conditions Of business life
have been revolutionized in the last few
decades, thanks to improved tele-
graphic systems and rapid locomotion.
Competition has become so keen that
all possible fields have to be worked up,
until it has become a rare thing to find
n firm of any magnitude combining itself
to any one city or any n state.
Imagine. then, says that paper, the con
fusion and ruinous expenditure that
must necessarily follow the winding
up of a house or corporation having
property in say three different states,
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The pension roll is larger now
h 1t was last year or at
any previous time, and it is
quite possible that the maximum
Of names has not yet been reached.
The maximum of amount, however,
seems to be attained. The statistics of
the pension roll since the war of the
rebellion form an instructive history in
themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
Senator Martin of Virginia Orc

Senator Martin of Virginia proposes
to ignore the silver question entirely in
the campaign i'm his state this fall. There
are numerous other democrats in other
states who would like to do the same
thing, but have not the courage of the
Virginia senator to say so.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The close of the base ball season is
ut hand merely as Il reminder to those
who put their money in that sport that
base ball is not the drawing ard il
used to be. In fact there was con
siderably more money sunk than made
in base ball teams this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

bank examiner made by the State
Banking board at the dictation Of the
hickory-shirted statesman from Ne
maha must be particularly rank if it
forces another examiner to resign
rather than to serve with the new APP
pointee. The provocation TO resigna-
ton must be very strong in these days
to have such results.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

Australia now thinks it would like to
carry off the Americas cup and threat
ems to organize a syndicate to build
a yacht that will leave the American
cup defender bringing up the rear. Let
Australia come. The Australian chal-
gone home empty handed.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

SO the name of Governor Stone of
Mississippi is to be presented to the dem
ocratic national convention for the vice
presidential place on the ticket. If the
democratic nomination promised any
thing, we might wish Governor Stone
luck In his candidacy.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

1t may be perfectly proper as is pro-
posed to have a 'water day" estab-
lished by law, but if so there will
soon be Il call for Il legal "beer day
The beer boomers will not let the
water MASTERS get far ahead of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

The campaign in Iowa Is now sup
posed to be wide open. 1t may be wide
open, but by the time the votes are
added up it will be found that it was
wide enough open only TO admit about
two republicans to every one democrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
Make Way for Morton.
Philadelphia Record.

Secretary Morton has opened war on the
beef trust, and Morton is a hard hitter. More
power to his withers. and may his forward
movement against the intrenchments of the
beef barons not end in a Bull Run!
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29

indianapolis Journal: Mrs. Hammer
hard doesn't pound the piano as much us
mo; since she's been taking boarders
she spends her time pounding the steak"
Chicago Record: Say. Gull. desc yere
S'g n% 9 is hqI;erin, Gimme liberty or
Den let 'em 'lone-dey's shore ter git
New York Sun: The missionary stood be-
fore the cannibal king as the cook built the
fire I'm the kitchen stove.
al am greatly disappointed in YOU" re-
marked the missionary to the. king.
playfully, you are not in me yet" and the
yearningly over the placid bosom of the
Pacific.
Washington Post: Lord Dunravcn seems
the least bit disposed TO turn it into a sulky
race.
girl is Miss Beekon? Wicks-Well, / can
hardly say; you see, she didn't have her
glasses on the day l saw her.
Truth: Mrs. Fashion-Tve picked out a
husband for you, daughter. Miss Fashion
Very well; but l want to say right here,
mother, when 1t comes to buying the wed,
ding dress I'm going to select the material
myself.
Albany Argus; II never eat pork re-
marked Mr.. !Ssauills. without thinking of
the parasites"
Dear Paris - replied Miss Lakeside; but
are. they really large consumers of our
park, though?'
Yonkers Statesman: Don't you think
you would better make him wait a year,"
Dear me. no! Why, at the end of the
year l might not want to marry him.
Life: Mrs. Sweet-Do. you find it econom-
ical to do your own cooking? Mrs. Burnem
oh, yes; my husband doesn't eat half as
much as when we had a cook.
Washington Star: II don't think that
Senator Sorghum is very much of a political
economist" remarked the everyday citi-
zen.
"Economist!' echoed the inside worker.
81 should say not. When he gifts after a
convention he's liber'l to the point of ex-
travagance!'
Chicago Tribune: Admirer-Had every
thing yer own way at the convention last
night, didn't We, Bimm?
Practical Politician-Yas. One o. de fell
lers played it low down mean on me.
dough-. / got i'm down an gouged is eye
out all right, an wen e got up. e guy me
de grand laugh. 1t was muffin but a glass
eve!
Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
Where Wealth is IA Handicap.

NdSHTNEIOH IUST.
Wealth, honestly obtained, ought not to be
a reproach to its possessor. 1t should not
dcbar him from any position Of honor. But
it is a fact that poverty is an element Of
popularity in a presidential candidate. The
cottage is stronger than the palace in such a
race