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Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
AMERICAN CATTLE IN ENGLAND.

AMERICAN CATTLE IN ENGLAND.
From the information transmitted tC
| congress by the president it does moi
appear probable that our government
will be able to induce the British gov
ernment to modify the restrictions
against American cattle. The failure OF
the efforts that have been made for a
number of years to secure n modification
of the requirement that cattle from this
| country must be slaughtered at the port
| of entry and the fact that the British
law makes this regulation permanent
from the beginning of the current year,
it would seem settles the matter so far
as the British government is concerned.
1t is not TO be expected that it will re-
cede from the position it has taken, Os-
tensibly on the ground of fears that in
fection may result from free introduc-
ton of American cattle, but really as a
measure of protection to British cattle
raisers against American competition.
1t would seem useless, therefore, to
make further appeal and it is quite pos
sble that the question of retaliatory
action may be considered by the present
or the succeeding congress. There is
reason TO believe that such n course will
be urged, but it is Il matter that will
call for very careful deIiberation. Eng
land.is our great cattle market. We
supplied last year 10 per cent of the
cattle and 40 per cent of the sheep im-
ported into the United Kingdom and
when it is stated that during the fiscal
year 1896 10000 tons of live animals
We're imported by that country 1t be-
comes obvious that our live stock trade
there is important. Any policy, there
fore, that would be likely to seriously
curtal this trade would undoubtedly be
regarded as unwise by our cattle rasers
themselves. 1t is to be borne in mind,
also, that the United States is encoun.
tering growing competition in this
business from Canada and Argentina
and that from the latter country seems
likely in Il few years to become de-
cldedly formidable. AT present Ameri-
can cattle are superior TO any other cat
tie imported into the United Kingdom
ture Is authority for the statement that
cattle from Argentina are inferior to |
those from the United States. They |
are not rs large, well graded, or as well |
fattened. But there is constant i'm |
provement in Argentinan herds, SO that |
1t is highly probable that within few |
years the cattle of that country will be
YI,t 1.
cattle of the United States. With this
competition steadily growing, we can
hardly afford to do anything that might
impair our cattle trade with England, mt
any rate so long as our cattle are ex-
cluded from continental countries OF
Europe.
The next administration will be ex-
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
THE OLD-TIMERS.

DR.. Isaiah R. Sexton of Sparta, Mich, 1
| one of the thirty-three survivors of the wa
| of 1872.
| Although DR.. Charles John Ellcott, thu
| bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, England, Il
| in his eghty-seventh year. he is an enthusi
| astic wheelman.
| HoTatio, Earl Nelson, who is "A years oil
| age, is now the only surviving peer who was
alive and in the enjoyment of his title when
| the queen came to the throne. He Is the
third in descent from the hero of Trafalgar
Possibly the Oldest woman in England is
| Sarah Thomas, who on February will be
| 100 years of age. Mrs. Thomas has smoked
a clay pipe for sixty years, and bids fair to
enjoy life and tobacco for some years to
come.
Commodore Richard Peck of the New York
and New Haven steamboat line. after whom
the Sound flyer Richard Peck was named,
has completed sixty-eight years of service in
steamboating. He is believed to be the old
est steamboat man in the country. Com
modore Peck Is 81 years old. His first ex-
perlence in steamboating was in 1925 when
ne was 13.
Judge Stephen Neal, who wrote the four
teenth amendment Of the constitution, is q
resident of Lebanon, Ind. He is In his
eightieth year. Judge Neal wrote the
amendment in his office in Lebanon. II
was submitted by Congressman Godloye s.
Orth to the congressional committee which
was discussing measures of reconstruction,
and was afterward adopted
When President Faure visited the hospi-
tai at Ivry he became greatly interested in
one of the 800 old women he saw there. She
had been a cantinlere and had taken part in
all the campaigns OF the later empire, as
the ten military medals on her breast
showed. Pointing to two of them with es-
pecial pride, she said: Louis Philippe
pinned that medal there and the emperor
this other"
The most remarkable centenarian In France
s Nine. earlier OF Lille, who in all her liie
In a nation or wine and coffee drinkers, has
never touched those beverages. For ninety
years she has not been Ill. The venerable
widow had an interesting ancestor-a Lille
merchant known as Father Forty-two" be-
cause OF the number OF his children. When
Louis XIV visited Lille he sent for this prize
parent. complimented him on his patriot
ism In presenting the nation with so many
offspring and exempted him from all tolls
and taxes.
There Is In Brooklyn at this time a man
who believes he is l20 years old. He lives
In Now Jersey. and Is on visit to his
daughter. Reuben Keith, for that ls hIs
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
GROWING IN VOR,

| There has been n rapid growth OF
popular sentiment recently in favor of
postal savings banks and there appears
| to be no doubt that If the question could
| be submitted to popular vote the af-
| firmative verdict would be overwhelm-
! ing. AT late meeting of the central
| body of the Chicago Federation of Labor
y resolution was adopted in favor of the
! establishment by the national govern
ment of a system of postal savings banks
and the matter has been discussed by
other labor bodies of that city. 1t was
said by one of the advocates of the sys-
tenn that it was matter of record that
whenever a bank failed it was always
the small depositors who suffered the
most. The small depositors were in
variably working people, who had man
aged to save a few dollars which was
all they possessed in the world to pro-
tect them against the time when they
should fall sick or be thrown out of en-
ployment. With postal savings banks
workingmen would be assured that their
deposits would be safe and hundreds
of men who save nothing at all would be
encouraged to lay something by for
rainy day.
Unquestionably this voices a very gen
eral sentiment among the classes who
make small savings. They want place
to deposit these savings which they
know would be safe beyond any con-
tingency and postal savings banks
would supply this requirement.. The
impulse thatghas been given to this sen
timent is pretty certain to continue in
force until the desired object is secured
The people who want postal savings
banks constitute an exceedingly large
and influential effort and they will ulti- |
mately succeed. 1t is not unlikely that
the republican, party will within the |
next two years add postal savings banks |
to its long record of legislation for the |
good of the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
RlGHTfNG A GREAT WRONG.

The state supreme court is entitled to
the thanks of the Nebraska press for re.
versing Judge Scott in the Raker Grim.
inal libel case. Quite apart from the
cruelty with which Raker was treated
and its consequential effect upon
his dying wife, there were fun
damental principles involved in
the ruling of the lower court
that go to the essence of the freedom
of the press and the constitutional right
OF every man accused of crime to a fair
trial at'the place where the alleged crime
was committed.
While the supreme court has not
passed upon all the vital points involved
it has clearly affirmed the principle that
a person charged with criminal libel is
entitled to the same presumption of in
nocence that is accorded persons charged
with any other crime. In the language
Oh the court, ''in prosecution for Grim
mai libel, 1T is error to so instruct the
jury as to cast upon the defendant the
burden of establishing that the alleged
publication was not libelous." This prin
clple Is as old as the common low itself
ana 1t is strange that any court at the
close of the nineteenth century should
nave attempted to overturn it.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
Product of n Word Mint,

GloDe-Democrat.
The word "gabfest," now met with so
frequently in newspaper columns, was in
vented by the late Joseph B. McCullagh and
hrst used In Globe-Democrat paragraph
early last year. 1t was rapidly adopted
throughout the country. study of the
words coined by Mr.. McCullagb and now a
part of the English language wherever it is
used. would show that he possessed the ex-
ceedingly rare faculty of making a new word
that would last. A thousand literary men
have failed in this feat where one has sue
ceeded,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
Specializing i'm Trades.


Not to speak of the poor apologies for
mechanics in the building trades, and some
others, 1t Is fact open to common observa-
tion that the process of specializing has
been carried so far in a vast number of our
factories that the making of a mechanic in
them is practically out of the question. Each
man. woman and child does one particular
thing and never learns anything else in the
shop. This is not the sort of thing that
gives aptitude and skill, awakens thought,
rouses hope and puts the man in the way
to invent and achieve. It is not the trades
union so much as the extreme division of
labor that is giving us generation of mere
mechanical automatcns.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Although the mayor of Chicago is
paid $1,000 year Il bill has been in
troduced into the Illinois legislature to
raise his annual salary to $4,000. The
point urged is that under present condi-
dons poor man can not hope to be
mayor of Chicago. The question which
the legislature must PROFOUND to itself
Is, Would poor man have any better
show to get at $4,000 salary when
so many rich men get poor trying to get
the smaller salary that now attaches
to the job?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

pected to give Its earnest attention to the
foreign restrictions upon our cattle and
meats and to devise some practicable
way, IL 1t be possible, to have them re-
moved or materially modified. They are
essentially unjust. Perhaps in the franz
ing of the new tariff 1t will be deemed
expedient to provide n way for dealing
with these unfair determinations against
one of our most important interests.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
HEALTH OF THE IN0USTpI,5 mon,

HhALIH OF THE INDUSTRL4L U1OPT. n
Inc January number of the Engineer
ing Magazine has an article Inv III,
laoor commissioner of Minnesota. Mr.
H. G' Powers, entitled evidences ot
ieai'h Throughout the Industrial
] world, which presents a mass of facts
| hiShly encouraging to those who take
hopeful view of the future and cor
fespondingly damaging to the cause al
the calamity howlers and the pessimists
MI. Powers points out that i'm the
twenty years from 1870 to 1890 the in.
crease III the value of property i'm the
United States more than doubled. the
addition to its wealth in these two dee
ades being almost twice as much as
the country was able TO accumulate
from its first settlement at jamestown
10 the year 1870. This statement will
arrest Intelligent attention because of
its significant bearing upon the two
principal questions before the American
people-protection and the currency.
During most of the period between 1870
ana lS1O we had the gold standard and
the value of property increased from
S2i,OOO,000,000 in gold in 1870 to $50.
Oo0,OOO,000 in 1890. There could be no
more conclusive refutation than these
figures furnished of the contention of
the free silver advocates that under
the gold standard money rises in value
and property declines. There has, in
deed, been fall in inflated property
valuation, but this has no relation to
the monetary standard 1t is per-
fectly natural and necessary reaction.
While this great addition to our ma
tional wealth was made mainly under
the existing monetary system and
therefore attests the soundness of that
system, its full achievement would not
have been possible without an economic
policy that encouraged the development
OF our material resources and
fosiered industrial growth. No we'll
Informed man will question that
had the nation adhered to the fiscal
policy in operation before the war, or
had made but slight departure from
It, there would not have been realized
the extraordinary growth of the twenty
years from 1870 TO 1890. 1t being per-
fectly obvious, therefore, that the coun-
try is indebted for this progress, quite
exceptional In the worlds history, to
protection and the gold standard, how
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Steel manufacturers complain that
prices have reached the lowest possible
notch. If this is true it ought to be n
forceful argument in favor of fireproof
construction of new buildings in all our
larger cities. Substantial building ma
terials never were so cheap ms in the
past year or so, nor was there ever less
excuse for the erection of tnderboXes
and tre-traps in growing business cen
terS
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Another spurious count has succeeded
In working the credulous people of the
east with bogus checks that will foot
up over 100000. An ordinary Ameri.
can citizen under the same circum-
stances would doubtless have had dllIi-
Guilty In getting accommodated TO the
extent of 500. 1t is in cases like these
that people are strongly tempted to as
sert that the victims got just about
what they deserved.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

name, 10 negro, and was born In virginia.
where he was slave 10 q man who was cap
tain In the army OF the revolution. His
wife ls living, but she Is thlrty-four yeare
younger. Keith does not use tobacco and
seldom drinks intoxlcants,
Mrs. Lucy Aldrleh OF Butler. Ind, died on
the morning OF the 30th ult., aged almost 10t
years, having been born In Vermont, March
II 17gb
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

New York society is profoundly stirred
by the investigation now in progress of
the recent dinner at Sherry's, the fash
ionable restaurant, at which it is alleged
that women insutiiciently draped danced
for the delectation of the male guests
Bad as the west is, such things do not
happen here.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
DOMESTIC IDYLs.

Charley S,s over there. He's going 10 be mar
synncx-And yet he looks cheerful
GleySland Plain Dealers whats that
That's my latest boy. Just come to
What's he making all that noise forY"
why that's his inaugural bawl."
Chicago Post Mabel-Your husband has
q. great opinion of YOU. He calls You his his
right hand. Mabel-Yes; that's because ho
never let's his right hand know what his
Chicago Records "They say 1t calms
me, the mind to let the eye rest on the distant
That's a fact; when see man to
whom l owe money IL always uuicts me TO
look steadily into the distance"
Chicago Record; Julia, my love for you
ore-it is hidden 80 deep"
IT, Yes, ,c,;, and don't suppose i win last
DIT longer than load of coal"
the button collecting fad?" Inquired the
We'll, replied young Mrs, Torklns
don,6i,fnnliy dSu ,s,ny he usually helps take up the
Puck Graoie-Papa, monologuo is
when ben, people talk to themselves, Is It not?"
talk to their husbands '''''-' "'''' '"'s
Buffalo Times Della waro-Do Won be-
lieve in the biblical admonition of giving
n kiss for a blow, Mr.. Westside?
Observation-Disclosures depends Miss
Ware. How hard are you going to strike
me?
Judge; Mr.. snarle (savagely)-rvo given
up drinking. I've given UP smoking and
I've given up the club. (SarcastiCaliy) Is
give up? W
Mrs. Snarle Cpromptly)-Yes. should
ike you to give up the ghost"
WHY HE FLED.
Cleveland Leader.
He asked the homely maiden to sing.
d., At once she started to do It,
But the song she sang was lust the thing
TO make the gentleman rue 1t.
For she raised her voice to a screcch and
"Oh, tell me the old. old storyr'
Then he grabbed his hat and hence he hied
And left her alone in her glory.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

The district court stenographers do not
intend to submit without a fight to the
recent ruling of the attorney general
against the constitutionality of the law
by which their salaries were increased to
the present rate. They are willing to go
short-handed on everything except their
own salaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

According to Governor Holcomb the
fate of the constitutional amendments
upon which Nebraska electors voted last
November is still in doubt. We have
always maintained that there was
scarcely state in the union where it
takes so long to get the results of an
election as in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

The formality of kissing the bible is tc
be omitted at the Inauguration of the new
state officers in Kansas. The reason as
signed for this departure is the fear of the
transmission Of disease germs. There is only
one contagious malady in Kansas-the fever
for ofice-and that will rage and continue
to spread, whatever may be done or not done
with the bible.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

The canvass9ofrthe male population of
Nebraska for pulchritudinous men to act
as aides in the inaugural procession has
resulted in the selection of two citizens
of such conspicuous fitness that no
jealousy is likely to be engendered
among the unsuccessful aspirants
Colonel Cody ON his black war horse and
Colonel Moores riding his historic white
steed would be'noticed in any procession.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Now that the president has signed the
new musical and dramatic copyright bin
and it has become n law, the next stage
advertising dodge may be expected to
take the form of lawsuits for infringe
ment of copyright.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Both the outgoing attorney general
and the incoming attorney general have
expressed the opinion that the law au.
thorizing the substitution of guaranty
bonds for personal bonds by public
officers is defective and void. Under
such circumstances the legislature
ought not to feel it incumbent on itself
to delay curative legislation until a
court decision is rendered to the same
effect. The security OF the public funds
is too important matter to be neg
lected.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

The coffee war is on to the extent of
successive reductions in the wholesale
price of made-to-order mixture packages.
But the war has not yet reached the
stage where it affects the price of the
5-cent cup of the alleged beverage dis
pensed to the weary wayfarer in the all
night restaurant.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

1t Is noteworthy that the year 1896
produced no single work of fiction that
lowered far above all others in point of
popularity. The second Trlby, no mat
ter how temporary its favor is yet to
be launched upon the literary sea.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

The difference between the courts of
England and those of America in the
matter of expedition and impartiality is
once more shown in the recent prompt
conviction in London Of a titled woman
on charge OF criminal libel. In this
country woman of corresponding social
position could only have been convicted,
If at all, after every legal eXpedient OBJ
tainable by money and skill had been
exhausted .,,.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

The Spanish bureau of publicity In
Havana Is responsible for the report that
the insurgents are ready to lay down
their arms on certain conditions, one of
which is the immediate recall of Weyler
to Spain. This may be taken for what
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

All Governor Holcomb is expected to
do is to make n better governor during
the next two years than he has during
the past two years. That will be set
ting the mark pretty high without re-
flecting on any of his predecessors, re
publican or democratic.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Again the abdication of Queen Vic
toria is rumored. In the United States
1t is said of oiliceholders that few die
and none resign. Paraphrased for the
benefit of European royalty the saw
should be, Few die and none abdicate
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Japan has come to the conclusion that
American made ships are the best and
has therefore placed orders for its new
armored cruisers with American ship
builders. This is another of the benefits
accruing from the construction of a new
navy by the United States government.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Disasters that happen always create
deep impression, while impending
disasters that have been averted are
ignored or soon overlooked A few
banks have failed since the republican
triumph i'm November, but hundreds and
thousands have been saved to solvency
by the reinsurance of the election.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Governor Black of New York has re-
signed his position as member of con-
gress in order to devote his attention to
the duties Of the gubernatorial office.
The example of his predecessor David
b. HILL who served as governor and
senator at one and the same time, seems
to have been lost.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10
Call it "Trotsha.v
Baltimore Sun.

The word trocha is of such frequent oc-
curence in dispatches and news from Ha-
vana that 1t seems likely in time to become
incorporated into the English speech. An
explanation having been asked of the term,
which is pronounced trotsha, with the ac-
cent on the first syllable, it may be stated
that originally 1t denoted a footpath path
way, or, sometimes, short cut. During the
present Cuban unpleasantness it's signihca-
tlon has been applied to "a fortified high
road o.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

1t is TO be regretted that wife murder
ers and suicides, whose crimes have been
frequent of late, do not reverse the order
of their proceedings. If they killed them
selves first their innocent victims might
take chances on what should follow.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

When Iowa gets the feeding-in- transit
rates on live stock from the railroads
its next move should be after feeding
in-transit rates for regular passengers.
Should live stock have better terms from
the railroads than passenger patrons?
Danish the thought.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-10

Omaha recorded fewer marriages in
1896 than for several years previous.
And the year 1896 was leap year, too.
1t looks as if the much-talked-of longing
selection of her matrimonial partner
were nothing less than delusion and IA