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The Forrest City times., 1897-01-08

The thing for democrats who have faith in the future of the party to do is to be patient, watch developments and leave it to time to bring about an ad- juStment of the difficulties and differ ences that have disturbed the party. Not for nearly two years will the dem ocracy be required to make another general demonstration of its party strength. Meanwhile many things may happen. IL is by no means a reckless prediction that the radical course of the republican party will do more to sol id.fy the democratic ranks than would 100000 peaeemakers.-Rochester Her aid.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
POINTS ON ROAD-MAKING
ubbish-Encumbered Streets In Cities
Gnd villages.
New York Tribune


How to do a thing may not always be easy
to learn. How not to do some things may
most easily be learned by any one who has
ordinary gifts Of observation The making
Of public roads, for example. The arts of
Telford and Macadam may remain sealed
volumes to the multitude. But on almost
every mile OF country and suburban road
aro written In characters all men may read
the most impressive instructions how not to
make a thoroughfare. II one should. go about
and see all tha iy done, and then go away
and carefully avoid repeating it, and do any
thing else his Ingenuity may devise, his eff
forts woula inevitably be in the direction of
improvement.
Here. for exafhbfe1 Is an important subur-
ban village, enjoying every advantage Of soil
and climate and gsperal situation, and suf-
fering from probably the worst roads in the
county. It's roads are too narrow, scarcely
more than mers- }aaes. Yet they are en-
croaohed upon by every manner OF device
until in some plstess they are no wider than
q single wagon track. They are composed,
OF course OF nothing better than native
earth, but alsoTTf Much that is worse. For
they are made9tRd catchall OF every sort of
rubbish. On th0niai,i,street of the village. In
front of handsome residences you may find
the roadway covered with the refuse rakings
OF gardens, the pruning OF orchards and
vineyards, castoff boots and shoes broken
bottles and empty tin cans and decaying
offal that fills the air with stenches un-
sreakable In some places for very shame,
a sprinkling OF fresh earth has been scat
tered over these abominations. Such is the
roadway which hundreds must traverse
daily.
And the villagers speak now and then with
beted breath Of the dirty streets and evil
smells and bad air of the city, when, by
their own deliberate making, their own chief
thoroughfare is es foul as an uniushed
s5Weri A road of simnla earth unworkad
and uncared for, is bad enough But when
1t is by the maladroit ingenuity OF slovenIy
and selfish men, made also a rubbish heap
and repository for flth, it affords an object
lesson of what should not be which the
world can scarcely elsewhere equal.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
FONTS ABOUT THE WAN.

Chicago Times Herald: Maid OF Athens,
ere we part. hit the Turk below the heart.
Boston Herald: The moral OF the latest
war Is that you should look before you
fight
Washington Star: Greece has awakened
to the fact that while Il may be safe to trust
to inspiration for poetry, the same method Us
not likely to succeed in warfare.
New York Tribune; Greece has placed
herself in the hands OF the powers Whether
or not she has placed herself In the hands
OF her friends remains to be seen.
st. Louis Republic: The report that Greece
has put herself in the hands Of the powers
shows that the fable OF the lambs appealing
to the wolf for protection has a foundation
In fact.
Courier-Journal: A company OF 1900
Greeks is led in the field by Miss Helen
Constantinides Miss Helen must be pretty
fast girl to keep in front of 1900 Greek
warriors nowadays.
Oh ,cago Post: 1t is just possible that the
powers have let Turkey get her head swelled
until they can't get out OF 1t without hav-
ing all kinds OF trouble. In that case there
is a likelihood that the Cretan and Ar
menian problems may be really settled.
Indianapolis Journals Miss Helene Elio-
poulov is a 16-year-old Greek girl who lives
with her sister in New York md Is pre-
pairing to Join the soldiers fghhnr in de-
fense OF her country. She wanted 10 go
with her brothers, who sailed two weeks
ago. but WIS not ready. She had to get
her fighting clothes finished, for no true
woman will go to war without suitable
costume They are completed now and she
is ready to depart, but alas! she will have
no opportunity either to wear the garments
or to battle for her country, since the war
is ended. 1t may perhaps be worth while
to mention that the uniform she has pre-
pared consists Of a white ruffled blouse, a
short white skirt and crimson, gold
braided Jacket. also big red leather belt
with a sheath for a knife and pistol. Miss
Helene would certainly make a picturesque
soldier, but 1t is just as well that she must
remain domestic ornament
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
WILL UNCLE PAUL SCORES.

Springfield (Mass) Republicans: with the
United States Lord Salisbury was ready to
arbitrate differences arising under treaties;
why not with the Transvaal? If Mr. Kruger
Is half as shrewd as he has the reputation
of being he will urge this point To be sure
our British friends may say that the Trans
vaal is not a nation fully sovereign ana can
not be treated as an equal, but that would
scarcely be good reasoning on the subject of
arbitration
Philadelphia Record: President Kruger's
latest demand for arbitration of all the differ
cnces now pending between Great Britain
and the Transvaal, far from being a surren-
der, is really move toward the assertion of
the complete independence of the Transvaal
republic. The British government cannot de-
cline the demand and make war on the
Beers while to acquieSce in the proposal
would be to acknowledge the equality of the
republic. There can be no international ar
bitration between a suZerain and de-
pendency "Oom' Paul has thus scored an
other point in his serio-comic diplomatic war
with Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain.
New York Tribune: OF course, the British
government cannot even consider that pro-
posal for 4 moment since to do so would be
to give up its whole case. II the dispute
is to be arbitrated at all, 1t must of necessity
be decided in favor of the Transvaal; for If
tho TTansvaal Ia entitled TO be treated as an
independent power, it Is entitled to enact
don convention is waste paper The whole
British case rests upon the contention that
the Transvaal is not an independent power,
but is bound by the London convention to
Great Britain as its suzerain, and therefore is
no. entitled to demand arbitration-any more
than South Carolina was entitled to demand
it in 1861 But in this latest blufing demand
of tho Transvaal there is promise Of a lively
passage-at-arms between Mr. Chamberlain
and President Kruger.
Philadelphia Ledger: Emperor William of
Germany will, no doubt, sustain President
Krugers demand for arbitration, but if Great
Britain should consent the Independence of
the Transvaal in what Chamberlain has de-
cIared to be a foreign affair will be acknowl-
edged. The British government has been
steadily increasing its force of troops in
South Africa for some months, the number
of regiments stationed there having been
moro than doubled in eighteen months. This
was evidently done in anticipation of Cham
berlain's success in finding a pretext for war.
1t so happens however, that none Of the acts
OF which complaint is made is of much i'm
portance, and President Kruger can better
afford to repeal them than to submit them
for approval 20 Chamberlain, or have them
stand as justification for British military
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
IN THE INTEREST OF TRUTH.

OMAHA, May 14.-To the Editor of The
Bee: You know there is the saying that
Honesty is the best policy also that to
tell the truth will shame the devil" You
may not believe in this, but many of your
readers do, for which reason l therefore ask
you to please correct the following editorial
paragraph in The Bee of May II, towit:
The senator from Union stockyards who
connived in the stealing OF the seat in the
state senate to which John II. Evans was
elected is Just the man to help William j.
Broatch usurp the mayors office, to which
Frank Il. MoOres has been elected.
Now. the truth is, "the senator from Union
Stockyards" did not "connive in the stealing
of the seat in the senate of John II. Evans" ;"
On the contrary, "the senator from Union
Stockyards" did all he could to retain John
H. Evans in his seat in the senate for the
reason that "the senator from Union Stock
yards and John H. Evans voted alike on the
so called stockyards question and against the
populist and great majority in the state sen
ate, who were in favor of a reasonable re-
duction in the charges of said yards. Be
sides. challenge the editor of The Bee, the
author of the above paragraph, to state
publicly that he would have voted on the
stockyards bill differently from 1.-The senator
from Union Stockyards;" that he would have
voted with the populsts for the bill.
JOHN JEFFCOAT
While the unseating of Senator Evans
is not a public issue at the present mo-
ment, it is only right that the mistaken
notions cherished by Senator Jeffcoat
be corrected in the interest of truth
There are men who distort facts for
the purpose of deceving others, and
there are men who distort facts because
they themselves have been deceived
We prefer to believe that Senator Jeff
coat belongs to the latter class.
John II. Evans, elected to the state
senate from Douglas county by plu-
rality undisputed and indisputable, was
elected by vote of the senate on Feb
ruary 10 last. The committee on privi
leges and elections had made unani-
nous report supporting Evans title tC
office. The records of the senate show
than on motion to non-concur in the re-
port, Ransom of Douglas voted yes
with the pOpulist majority, the motion
carrying by Il vote of IS to IA. Wher
| it came to Il straight vote on the motion
; to unseat Evans, Ransom of Douglas
although present lodged and refused tc
| be recorded either way, thus giving the
| equivalent of half Il vote against Evans
! by reducing the number required tC
| make the majority to unseat him.
4
| may only be guessed ut, but the fact OF
his conniving in the plot to unseat Sena
! tor Evans is proved conclusively by the
| record
of tbp truth Drpyoil
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
CONGRATULATIONS ron OMAHA,


Norfolk Journal Omaha has finally Sc
cured the location Of an Indian supply depot
in that city, in spite OF the strenuous op-
position OF the friends Of Chicago and other
cities Good for Omaha.
stanton Picket; Omaha has Won and is to
have that Indian supply depot. II took hard
work TO secure II aud the city on the Muddy
is to be congratulated while all loyal Ne
! braskans will Join I'm the cheering.
Kearney Hub: Omaha is to be congratu-
lated on securing the Indian supply depot
after a hard fight in congress- with both
| Chicago and New York leading n determined
opposition. Congressman Mercer and Sena-
tor Allen did the standing up for Nebraska
and are deserving of great credit for their
! winning fight against so formidable an op-
position.
Columbus Times: Chicago has found out
| that mere wind will not retain the Indian
! supply warehouse. They have now donned
| their war paint aud are presenting the
same array Of figures that New York used
against them a few years ago, when they
| sobbled the prize from Gotham. Senator
! Allen is putting up a strong fight. and has
an equal chance, at least, OF securing the
| removal to Omaha.
Blair Pilot: Through the untirlng efforts
| of Congressman Dave Mercer, Omaha Will
| undoubtedly secure that Indian supply depot.
| When 1t comes to looking after the interests
| OF his constituents the Second district OF
| Nebraska has one of the best represe natives
in congress. Dave Mercer is not only in
| touch with the people but Is able to control
| such an influence in congress as to enable
| him to get about anything he goes after.
Exeter Democrat: Omaha gets the Indian
| supply depot, so says Thursdays Washington
| dispatches. Chicago may be able to carry
away anything she wants east of the Mis-
sissippi river, but she's evidently found out
| that when she runs UP against a western
! buzz-saw like Nebraska she isn't in it at all.
Chicago will have to come out west IL she
| wants to get as much as a hearing in mat
| ters of this kind and especially II Nebraska
| is after the same plum. Stand up for Me-
| braska.
| Fremont Tribune: There have been so
many ups and downs in the fate of the
| Omaha Indian warehouse matter that it has
made the public dizzy to keep up with 1t,
but 1t has now been settled for certainty
and Omaha gets the government supply
depot. Dave Mercer fought 1t to finish.
| He saw an opening Thursday and got in
lick that knocked out the opposition. The
| reports say Uncle Samuel Maxwell counseled
delay but Mercer, who is intrepid as
Sheridan or Napoleon or Grant, moved I'M
mediately upon the enemy and settled the
conflict. He is too swift to wait for delays.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
SCOPE or THg TELEPHONE DECISION

SCOPE or tine TELEPHONE DECISION.
According to the Western Electrician
there is serious misapprehension of the
scope and Importance of the decision of
the United States supreme court upon
the Berliner patent. That paper insists
that there is nothing in the opinion to
warrant the statement that Il "new lease
for monopoly" In granted the Bell Tele-
phone company by the ruling in the
Berliner case. What the supreme court
does say, on the other hand, Is that the
charges made by the government re-
garding corruption and other Illegal
practices on the part of the owners of
the patent while the application was
pending have not been sustained, but
other grounds upon which the govern
ment asked to have the patent revoked
have not been passed upon.
If as is asserted the decision means
simply that the Bell company is
exonerated from all charges of cor
rupton in this proceeding and that
the rights of the respective parties re-
main unaltered pending final hearing
there is rs yet no reason for lamentation
over any new reinforcement of the tele-
phone monopoly.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
A USEFUL AND TIMELY 1youJBy

T..
The United States senate has directed
the committee on poStofices and post
roads to examine and report to the sen
ate as full information as practicable
concerning the nature and operation of
postal savings banks systems now in
operation in other nations; also to re-
port whether postal savings bank sys-
TEN can be successfully and advanta-
geously put in operation by this govern
ment. This will be Il timely and useful
inquiry and the result will be of gen
eral interest, for ut no time since this
public felt so greatly interested in it as
at present.
The committee should find no diff
Guilty i'll obtaining the desired inforraa-
ton. because it is readily accessible.
Perhaps all that Is necessary can be OBJ
tained from our own State department.
1t can be safely predicted that the com
mittee will find nothing that is not ia
vorable to the system. The experience
of England. France, Belgium, Sweden,
Holland, Austria and other countries
with postal savings banks is that the
masses of the people derive great ad-
yantages from having among them
everywhere safe repositories for their
small savings managed in connection
with the postotfice department. A French
writer says that it is the postal savings
bank which has taught the workman of
France how he can become capitalist
| in modernting his consumption to bring
it within his production and what is
true in France applies also to other coun-
tries In Great Britain, where deposits
are received at II 900 postotlices, the ag-
gregate deposits IN postal savings banks
mt the end of 1893 was S402, 100000 and
the last available report shows, in the
United Kingdom, 5,TiS.239 open post
office savings accounts. This means that
5000, 900 or 6,O00,OOO people have direct
financial dealings with the government
Can there be any doubt that the effect
of such IN army of thrifty people deal
ing with their own government must be
beneficial? A writer on this subject
says that postal savings banks would
furnish safe place for the earnings
of the lnboring classes and stimulate
them to habits of saving. At present
such sums as they hoard are kept out
of USE to the aggregate amount of many
millions, whereas If their savings were
put in bank they would be restored 10
active use. Not only would the moral
tone of citizens be improved by becom-
ing depositors," says this writer. 'but
the stability OF the government would
be increased by the practical interest
deposit0rs would have In its welfare" f"
So great has been the success of this
| system in England that one out of every
seven persons is now deposltor in pos.
tai banks. There are 6,OO0 schools in
which the children are encouraged TO
save through the machinery of the post
office.
AS to whether postal savings bank
system can be successfully and adyan-
tageously put in operation by this gov
ernment We can conceive of no reason
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

General Miles may yet get in at the finish
of the Athenian home run
1t would be interesting to know II GEN
eral Weyle- and General Lee speak as they
pass by.
The revival of the whipping post in the
Missouri penitentiary gives fresh boost to
the tanning industry.
The Greco-Turkish argument only tenn
porarily overShadowed affairs in Cuba
Cuba is the champion of continuous perform
ances.
The disposition of the Turks to give no
quarter to the Greeks will not elevate the
Mosemg in the estimation of sleeping car
porters
The New York Sun is now shining brightly
for republican principles and policies. As
scorcher 1t is peerless, but its scorching is
confined to mugwumpian paths.
Steve Crane says the roar of musketry at
the battle Of Velestino sounded like "the
tearing of cloth" Perhaps the strain on Gre
clan skirts was such that something had to
give.
In nominating Ex-Governor Northen of
Georgia for vice president of the southern
Bapists convention, now in session in Bal
timore, DR.. William Jones said he nominated
a man who, while diligently attending to his
duties as governor, always found time to at
tend prayer meeting.
A huge snake, with an appetite for veal,
has been discovered in Kansas bass
hooked in Connecticut waters had gold coin
in its interior, and in New York diamond
ring was found in a ducks stomach. Now
if the man who rocks the boat comes to the
front the season may be considered wide
open.
The street railway magnate whose plans
were kicked out of the Illinois legislature.
denounces his opponents as anarchists, so
cialsts and enemies of the public veal" A
man whose coat-tails have been famed i'm
moderately Is predisposed to peSsmistic
views. In fact the tanning process jars the
optic and other nerves.
job Hedges, private secretary of the mayor
of New York, was recently promoted to an
$1,000 office. Having two minor jobs at his
disposal, he concluded to try a civil service
examination of applicants. But he is wiser
now. So great was the rush that Job con-
fessed his stock of patience did not equal that
of his biblical namesake.
There is published in an Iowa town paper
called the FiEebrand. Though it has not set
the surroundings afre, it has aroused some
interest as to the source of the wherewith
1t has no advertisements or other visible
means Of support. A strange feature of its
life is a daily prayer meeting held in the
office, probably for the conversion Of the
printers devil.
Commander Botkin of the Kansas Grand
Army of the Republic has issued an order
making July 19 .Mother Bickerdyke Day."
and directing that every post in the state
hold a special meeting on the night of the
nurse, that being the SOth anniversary of
her birth Mother Bickerdyke" is now liv-
ing at the home of her son in Bunker Hill,
Kan
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17

Mortified at our logslns methods; said they
could get rich with the timber left living on
the sround. The timber thieves In the
Great Falls region were bold and successful
and now that their game Is gone they gather
in their il-gotten shekeis and abscond to
greener fields. leaving their state neither
timber nor money few federal timber
agents bring suits each year for about $500.
600 OF depredations on United States lands,
and as rule get about enough out OF 1t for
expenses. II took but twenty-five years to
accomplish ruin in Michigan. Wisconsin and
Minnesota feel too conservative when give
Montana fifty years"
What Lieutenant Ahern says OF the wicked
waste of natural resources In Montana ~
terribly true in Minnesota
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
/
Sale,
Commences Monday morning.

Commences Monday morning.
Did you attend our big sale
and get one Of those unlaun-
dered shirts, that we sold last
month for 55c? If not you
missed something. If you
did you want more.
We havehad so many calls
for them since then that we
had another 100 dozen made
up for us-and Monday you
have another chance to buy a
a fine shirt-white shirts with
colored madras bosoms and
cuffs to match-and all percale
shirts W it h cufs-Regular
$I.oo and sI.25 qualities-our
price will be just the same as
before-55c each-Be sure
and get one-no limit-as
many as you want-as long as
they last
We sold all we had last time in two
days and bad weather-Should Monday
be pleasant they won't last the day out.
So come early-Shirts are
on display in the 18th street
windows-all sizes, IA to II.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
Let the truth prevail.

The statistics of the immigration bu-
reau Indicate 4 marked falling off in
the number Of foreigners arriving in
this country for the first quarter of the
year as compared with the same period
OF last year. But we suppose that the
falling off of immigration will only
stimulate increased zeal in the
people who are eXerting themselves to
have our immigration laws made more
restrictive and prohibitive.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17
HORSEMANSHIP IN FAVOR
All the World is Not Clear Gone on
Wheels.
Jo1t

baltimore sun.
Horseback riding as a source of health
and pleasure is scarcely appreciated nova
days as it deserves to be. Even in many
country districts the bicycle has been rap
idly superseding the horse in popularity for
riding purposes, while in the cities and cub
urban territory little gcody two-wheeIs has
a hundred riders to one which our four
footed friend can claim. Enthusiastic cy
clers have even predicted the absolute dis
appearance of the horse as a motive power
in the not distant future, when with perfect
roads and streets everything and everybody
will go on wheels. That time may possibly
come, but not until there is a radical change
in human nature. The love of a good
horse is deeply implanted in the human
heart, and though the bicycle has its place
and its uses a machine cannot meet exactly
the same wants or serve precisely the same
purposes as a living agent, full of power and
spirit and capable of understanding and sym
pathizing with the mind and moods of his
rider. The benefit of horseback riding can
scarcely be overeatimated. Muldoon, the
great athlete, who has made study of the
comparative value of various forms of eX-
ercise, places horseback riding as among
the very best to restore to health tagged
and wornout constitutions. For pure and
simple eXhilaratiOn-as a means of driving
away mental clouds as well as physical
illS-it has no superior. With the breeding
of better class of horses in this country
and the natural admiration and interest
stimulated by yearly exhibitions of fine
aGirnals the riding horse is likely in time to
regain large part of his popularity and
prestige
Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-17

There has been noticeable improve
ment this spring III the appearance of
Omaha, especially of the residence dis
tricts, but there is yet room for much
more to be done in the same direction.
When the multitude of visitors come to
attend the exposition Omaha should be
in the pink of condition. To bring this
about every householder and property
owner should give active and individual
eNertiOn.