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Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

any record of these messages tapped
their wires between Omaha and Des
Moincs and succeeded in locating the
western end of the contrabanu commu-
nicntiOn at Omaha. The diStllery
known as the Mccoy distillery, was
seized by the revenue officers and
eventually ConfScatrd. The operator at
Chicago. found to have been in collusion
with the whisky crooks, was arrested
on the charge of larceny from the West.
crn Union aud tried in the Chicago
courts. His attorneys alleged that the
transmission Of messages over Il wire dil
not lie within the scope of the term lar
crnv, which implied the theft of some
thing Of value. 1t was shown by expert
testimony that telegraph line during
transmission of messages consumes less
battery power than does live wire
not in use. In other words, the contcn-
ton was that the only loss of the tcle-
graph company would be the chemicals
consumed in thu battery and that more
chemicals are consumed when the cleo
trio current is closed than when it is
broken. The transmission of II message
over a wire by the closcd-circuit Morse
system breaks the circuit. and hence
is saving of battery chemicals. The
decision of the court in this case was in
favor of the defendant.
There is no doubt that from the purely
scientific standpoint the decision was
correct. While there was really an un-
authorized use of the facilities of the
telegraph company from which it de-
riveS its income, the fact that no actual
loss had been proved and that no evil
dence was produced to show that the
operator had received pay for his serv-
ice, brought his acquittal witnm the
technical phraSeology of the statute. 1t
is a question, however, whether the de-
fcnSc in the Tennessee case could utilize
the Illinois precedent. The incident
simply calls to mind the fact that law
must keep pace with the progress of
science in order to meet the requirements
of modern conditions.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The memory of Major Robert Anderson of
Fort Sumter fame is threatened with mon
ument at Charleston, 5. c.
Progressive marveS follow so rapidly that
people cease to wonder. That is why the
banishment of gambling in Montana scarcely
caused a ripple.
Ex-Presldcnt Harrison has been invited to
attend the centennial celebration Of Frank
linton, o., a town his grandfather often made
his headquarters during the war Of 1872.
Silas Hnkley, a son OF the millionaire
president of the Poughkeepsie Electric
Railroad company, is heaVing coal as
stoker in the employ of the company at
$3.50 day. He is Harvard graduate but
took his present place voluntarily in order
to learn the business thoroughly
John Otis. who used to be known as the
"Milkman Congressman" is in Topeka,
Kan, in poor health and straitened circum-
stances Some time ago he started a CO.
operative colony in Colorado and put all
his money into it. The colony failed, and
Otis lost both his money and his hope.
The Missouri Valley Republican insinuates
that the Iowa man who shed his garments in
Omaha did not strike the right crowd, else
the sweater would go with the rest. The in
snuation is baseess. When a pilgrim gets
into the swim with hot crowd it be-
hooves him to strip to avoid prosraton.
Assistant Secretary of State Day is a base
ball crank. When Judge Day was a student
az lle lUlNtlSlly Vi NllIuISdu lie pldNtU OU
the varsity nine and he has never lest in
terest in the sport. He seldom misses a
game in Washington and is usually accom-
panied by one or more OF his four sons.
one more Of the glories of Kansas paes
before the record of British county. The
hailstOrm of a fortnight ago in England
utterly desolated an area of 100 square miles
in EseeX. The hailstones killed poultry and
game, seriously injured cattle. cut branches
from trees and riddled roofs of corrugated
iron. Cyclone and flood accompanied the
hail, and in an hour or two damages of
more than 81 500 900 were inflicted
Since the Chicago Chronicle insnuated it
self into the popocratic camp it has labored
diligently to acquire the voluminOus output
of words and the pitchfork phra5ing that
That it is taking all the degrees is evident
| from the fact that it dubS political preacher
"a holy hullybolooster. The Chronicle
could improve on that and not go further
! back than Tom WatsOns convention
| A pernciOusly active preacher down in the
| Jersey marshes comes out boldly as an advo-
| cate of a tropical resort indefinitely located.
| The way he does it is to disparage the beauty
| and lOvelness of the opposition resort. He
| says: There are no female angels in
| heaven. They are all men. and they make
| a mighty army" With one smash of his
| Jaw he seeks to Danish the delights OF youth
| the dreams and hopes Of old age. No female
angels No beautiful white wings to nestle
| by! What man would want to go to heaven
| to join stag party? That Jerseyman ought
| to be tarred
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
ARMY PROMOTIONS.



There is much good sense in the new
rules issued by the adjutant generals Office
for the promotion of army officers below the
grade of major in accordance with the act
of 1890.
The examining boards must find out the
actual professional fitness" of an officer to
be advanced and remember that mere
cramming is not a desirable feature In the
examination of mature and generally we'll
educated men The boards must observe
1.-THE officers ability to make practical appli-
cation OF all he has learned rather than the
committal to memory of equations and data
which he could, under ordinary conditions
obtain from books of reference" Again
the use an ofhCer has made OF his oppOr-
tunities In the past must be taken into con
slderation; and, hence, when he is ordered
for examination, his immediate commanding
officer and his regimental commander are to
make known, without specific instructions
so to do, anything tending TO diSquaify him.
based on his record, But in the absence Of
detrimental reports good character VIII be
presumed so that no affirmative testimonials
are required.
Th' lists Of topics prepared for examining
boards seem 10 cover the required ground
very thoroughly and provision Is made for
original questlOlG n be added by boards to
the lists furnished them. The army has
always been very particular in signing
differences IN value to questions, and also
to subjects. In the lisls now prepared for
the use of boards values of g. 10 and
10 are assigned to the various questions
ani then, IN the nine subjects examined
upon, while the total value of 200 rs the
sam" for each the "reative weights are
different, drill regulations and minor tac-
tica counting for 3 each; exterior balliatir7
fire discipline hippoogy field engineering
and military topography for each, ana
administration and military law for l each
The rule in each case is this Find the
percentage OF the various subjects multi
ply each by the relative weight OF that sub
joct. thcr divide the sum OF those products
by the sum of the relative weights of the
subjects included in the examination Of
each Office" \ percentage of 70 in each
of the examinations must be reached in
order 10 pass,
These revised rules will be compulsory on
and after January / next but up to that
time an officer may elect to be examined
under the old rules fhe new ores, how
ever, have already been practically tried and
the result IL TO verify the prediction Of
the reyiserS that they would shorten the
time required for professional examinations.
II is thought that line officer will finish
l. side OF two days at most. instead OF being
a week or perhaps a fortnight, as hitherto.
II should be noted that a graduation di-
plcma Of tho Fort Monroe or Fort Leayen-
worth school II issued not over five years
before viii be accepted as evidence Of pro
fcssional prohclsncy.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
SECULAR SHOTS At rur ruLrIr.

St Louis Republic; The New Jersey
clergyman who asserts that thcro are no
female angels should look sharp t he isn't
good and ready to join the heavenly band
of male wingsters.
Kansas City star: Bishops McCab, and
Fosn sang down a thunder storm last sun
day at Elmer. y. j., and prevented panic.
That is the way the ol1-lashioned Mctho-
dists used % treat the persons Who never
knew when 20 step WhCu they got up to tell
their experiences
Minneapolis Tribune. Dmiue the progress
OF church services iu a New Jersey Village
on sunday lightning struck a tree in the
church yard and although every member
vi the congregation lodged the preachers
dog was the only direct suncrcr Some
how his doesn't seem just right either
Philadelphia Record II u really be Pope
Leo intention to abolish female voices
from the l!turEical services he should. Of
course, consistently Danish also the violin
from the church orChostra, The violin is
the soprano Of instruments. And vet no
true musir-loyer the world 0yer-Catholic
or Protestant will agree with the reported
cCnsurc Of the violin by the pope as bciug
sensual and profauc. Leo has certainly
never heard Wagncrs Tannhauser overture.
with its sublime pilgrims chant
Buffalo Express; Another lighting preacher
has been found in the person Of George VAN
arsdalt chaplain ut Il Brooklyn Grand Army
Of the Republic post. The other night the
chaplain suggested that the dues Of his coun-
ell OF the American Protective association be
reduced from - cents to 10 cents month
\ howl of opposition went up and Mr.. Van
arsdale at once offered to whip every man in
the hall He was promptly taken at his
word, and the next day when he appeared
in police court for warrants for the arrest
of the officers OF the association, his nose was
broken. one eye was closed and his mouth
was cgt.
New York Sun: Last Sunday Rev Dr.
Thomas \. Potts Of Richmond preached at
Hon. Charles T. O'Ferrall, governor OF Nir-
gina. Gle takes my breath away" cried
Dr Potts by going to common vaude-
villo performance. His last act lays him
liable to more serious mputatou thau
that Of moral courage. Shades Of departed
glory when a governor of this grand old
commonwealth prostitutes virtue like thai,
its time to call halt" Or. Potts seems to
be better provided with Indignation than
with English Doubtless Governor O'Ferrll
would be willing to 20 to an uncommon
vaudeville performance If he could find one.
Perhaps If DR.. Potts will be quiet for a
| few ddyS he will get his breath hack
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
LAW, APPLIED To SCIEACE.

How to reconcile science and religion
has been Il source of endless speculation
and contention. The supernatural be
gins where science ends. While creed
must always rest on faith. science insists
on convincing proofs. Applied science
has in recent years evoked almost aS
much contention when subjected 10 the
ordinary tests Of law aS has religion
when subjected to ordinary tests Of
science.
An interesting case of testing applied
science by the rules of law Is ppnding
in the courts Of Tennessee. The issue rs
presented to the court, is whether per
son who appropriates electricity is guilty
of larceny under the statutes 1t ap-
pears that Il Memphis electric lighting
company which supplied electric current
TO one of its patrons discovered tina, ..u
meters by which the current was meas
ured had been 50 plugged that only n
small proportion Of the current passing
through was registered thus dpfrauuing
the company of lis Just dues. The con
tpntion of the dpfanse is that in order
To be convicted for larceny the accused
mrSt bo shown To have purloiurd an
article or substance that can be- hanued.
1t Is urged that electricity. being i'm
pondcrablr, It cannot bn clussrd among
purloinablr articles within the mpuulu:
of the law. This however is by no
means the first instance or ia, only
instance in which the subtle lawyer has
sought to defeat the ends of justice by
the technical conflict between applied
science and law.
About thirty years ago when the
historic whisky ring was at the height
of It's operations, the government detect
ives made the discovery that Surrcuti-
tlouS telegraphic correspondence was
being carried on between talrago and
/ Omaha members of the ring. The officers
Of the Western Union who failed " hnd
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

iHEhi' Nv FktF4st 4 Nv iTiF 'hisA'i -
American wheat growers will be in
tcrcsted in a report just made to the
secretary of agriculture by the chief OF
the section of foueign markets of that
department. in which is pointed out the
possibility of large market Tor Amer
lean flour in China and Japan. The
statistics show That our exports of flour
to those countries have been steadily
growing and the indications are that
they will increase more rapidly in the
future. The total shipments of wheat
flour from the United States to Japan
and China. including Hong Kong during
the ten years ended June 80. lSA6,
amounted to fully 100000 barrels, the
larger part having been exported in the
latter half of the decade. The amount
exported in 1876 was considerably more
than double that of 1887 and the cN-
ports for this year will be larger than
those of 1896. We send more Hour To
Hong Kong and China than to Japan,
but shipments to the latter country show
an increase during the last few years
proportonately even greater having
more than trcblrd in amount in
1S9G, as compared with 1857, while for
the current year the amount of wheat
flour shipped to Japan will be 30 per
cent greater than last year.
There is n notable growth in the de-
mand for breadstuffs in Japan in proper
tiOn to population and while the annual
per capita consumption is considerably
below that of most other countries aud
only about One-fourth that of the United
States. it is steadily increasing. Th"
report says that placing the present
population of Japan at 43,OWoWO.
rate of consumption per inhabltant
equal to that in the United Sultes-eS-
timated to be about four and two-thrd
bushels per annum-wOuld make the
total wheat consumption of the Kingdom
reach above 2OO.OOO.OoO bushels. with
no increase in the present production or
the country, which is about 2O,Ooo,OOO
bushels year, Japan would have to
import annually about 1SO,OOO,oOO bush
els. OF course that country may never
become so great Il wheat consuming ma
ton ms the United States. but the i'll
crease in the use of wheat flour there
during the last few years gives aSSur-
ancc that ,Tapan's importationS will con
tinue to grow and that that country is
likely to become within the next decade
a large market for American flour. talk
ing considerable share of our average
annual surplus. In view of the grow
ing competition in European markets
which cOnfrontS American wheat grow
crs. the enlarging market in Japan and
China is a matter of much interest.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
A travelling man who has no objections

A travelling man who has no objections
to the numerous laws and statutes to
protect hotelkeepers and innkecpcrs
from imposture hy guests suggests in
the interests of fair play IA little legiSla-
ton for the protection of the helpless
wayfarer who is compelled to pay high
that do not accommodate. Commercial
travellers doubtless run across numerous
sad apologies for hotels in their jour-
neys. but We doubt whether they can
legisIntr comfort into II wooden mattress
or make tough herfSteak tender by leg
islative resolution.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
THE FNTHiGRItND
Inmcs Hnsscll LnMell.

James Russell Lowell
Where is the true mans fatherland?
Is it where he by chance is born?
Doth not the free winged spirit SrOrn
In such SCant borders to be sparncd?
on, yes! his iatherland must be
As the blue heaven wide and free.
Is II alone where freedom is.
Where God is God aud man is mani
Doth he not claim broader span
For the souls love of home than this?
OH yes, his fatherland must he
AS the blue heaven wide and free.
Whereer a human heart doth wear
Joys myrtle wreath or sorrows gyVeS
Where er a human spirit strives,
After heart more pure and fair,
There is the true mans birthplace grandI
His is a worldwide fatherland!
Whereer a single slave doth pine,
Whereer one man may help another
Thank God for such birthright, brotherl
That spot ON earth Is thine and mine;
There is the true mans birthplace grand
His is worldwide fathcrlund!
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18


One of the surest indications of the ad-
vance of civilization of today is the inter-
est in and care of children, compared with
that bestowed upon them in the last CEN
tury. Books written especially for children
are decidedly a modern institution. The
first Sunday school was founded only little
over one hundred years ago, but it was not
until many years later that Sunday schools
became accepted institutions and allies of
the church in England and America The
common school system. with its aim to pro-
vide free elementary education for all, Is
in its full development the work of the pres
ent century, while the trade schools are en-
tirely a growth of recent years. The chill
dren are being cared for never before.
Their morals their health their education
and now their amusement are made matters
of public concern. 1t is only within COM
paratively few years that people have begun
to realize that children's Fairgrounds are a
public need which should be provided. 1t
is not yet fully recognized that the providing
of such grounds is a legitimate charge upon
the public treasury, but that will come.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

\ government muh contractor has just
thrown mp his job because the Inspector
discovered that HE animals he was try
ing to palm off HE ;}yrar-odS had come
over with CHRISTOPHER Columbus and
had been doped with arseni, ana their
teeth filed 30 remove the indications of
old age. But mule contractor who
world throw up his job for any such
trifing reason rs this certainly deserves
his fate. \ man Of his tender conscience
might even hr expected to pay fun street
car fare for Il 1oyrar-old infant in arms
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

According to William T.. Curtis, the
reliable Washington correspondent OF
the Chicago Record who is now travel
ing in Europe Great Britain was never
so prosperous as today. Every shop is
running on full time and the manufac-
turers in every line of merchandise are
loaded with orders ahead. Mr.. f. L.
Corthpl. the well known engineer, of
Chicago, has Just reached London from
IL tour among the shipyardS and the big
iron manufacturing districts He says
that everything is 'humming:' that there
need rot be an idle man III Great
Britain: that everybody is earning good
wages and that every engine in the
United Kingdom is in motion The out
put of tho factories was never so great,
wages were never so high and there was
never such a demand for labor. At til"
same time prices were never so low ana
profits were never so small The manu-
facturerS are working in close cOmDcti-
ton and upon very narrow margins.
Therefore, from the standpoint of the
labor agitatorS. it is Il favorable time for
enforcing their demands. The trades
unions were never so well organized aS
at present The leaders are in harmony
and hopeful" And all this under the
single gold standard and despite the re
peatcd assertions of Bryan and his fol
lowers that prosperity under the gold
standard is ar impoSSibility and that
gold is bearing the worlingman down
to perpetual poverty and misery.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

New Hampshire enjoys the distinction of
being the only known state in the union
which has practiCed the economy in state
administration which all the others have
recognized necessary, but have been un-
able to carry out. AS a result, the state
finds a surplus on hand of $l5O,OOO, which
is used to retire a large block of bonds, and
next year it will be able to reduce the state
tax by $75OOO-al because of retrenChment
in expenditure The other states and the
nation are engaged in hunting for new
sources of revenue and in increasing tax
rates to meet the proigacy of incompetent
Legislative bodies. Where does the Granite
state get its material for a legislature?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

The announcement that the 100000
mark of cash subscriptions paid in has
been passed by the exposition ought to
be reassuring 70 those who pretended to
be afraid that the exposition managers
were going to run the whole show with
the money appropriated 10y the lcgisla
turc for the state exhibit
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

Sugar King SpreckelS wants Sl0OOOOO
damages for an alleged libel pubusu,u
In Millionaire Hearst'S san Francisco
newspaper While we are discussing
whether man can really earn Slooo,OoO
In a lifetime, We might as we'll extend
the inquiry as TO whether any man can
be- Injured $l,OOO,Uvo worth in reputa-
ti0n
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

The Michigan Bar association has de-
Clared against lawyers advertising in the
press except in the form of a simple card.
The lawyers get great deal of free adver-
tising from the newspapers in the reports of
cases in which they appear. No one ever
heard of the most conservative attorney, or
physician either, for that matter, objecting
to this sort of publicity. There is great
deal of humbug about the "ethtcs" of these
professions
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

A Florida man has been experimenting
with watcrmclonS in an effort to make
sugar out of them in commercial uuanti-
ties. This country ought to make all the
sugar it uses and it can do it ont of bcptS
and reserve its watcrmelonS for direct
consumption.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

The man who amused himself by tear
Ing down the American flag at Toronto
will have time to reflect on the serious
ness of the oflensc in the solitude Of a
prison cell. No Canadian city is going
to countenance insults to the national
emblem of the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
THE DEE ON TRAINS.

supplied with enough bccs
to accommodates every pms
scngcr who wants to read
newspaper. Insist upon haN-
ing The Bee. " sou cannot
yet ~ Iice on u train from the
news agent, please report
the fact. stating the train aud
rniIroni. 10 the CirculntioE
Department OF the Bee. The
Bee is for sale on all trains.
INSIST on HAVING THE BEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

1t is intimatcd that eX-Queen lii is
about to project herself into the book
writing arena. That accounts for the
dark clouds that We're said to have been
lowering near and threatening to OBJ
scure our brilliant literary lights.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

The prospective shortage in the Eng
lish hop crop is expected to open an out
let for America's surplus product, but it
is not expected to affect the price of malt
beverages on this side of the Atlantic
except perhaps to gauge the pressure of
the pumps Il trihe higher.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

The Immigration restriction fanatics
who are so loud in their protyStatious
against the admission of the so-callrd
ignorant laborers of Europe to our
shores are silent in the face OF the
proposition TO annex Hawaii with all
its half-barbaric natives and semi-civil.
lied Japanese ana Chinese.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

Western railroads are all experiencing
gratifying increase in both passenger
travel and freight traffic. The rcstora-
tlon of few of the regular trains that
were taken or three years ago to make
way for mixed frrightS would be apprc-
ciated 10y the people who make out-or-
the-way towns.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18
The Poverty Stricken In Cuba.


Consul General Lee has relieved every
distressed American he could find in Cuba
outside of the Spanish prisons; has sent
some of them back to the United States. and
yet has expended only Sc 900 of the $50 600
given him for that purpose. Evidently the
story of the sufferings of Americans
uine-on the island was very much eXag
gerated, and this gives reason to hope that
some of the other horrible stories that come
in such numbers from that quarter are
greatly overdrawn also.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

in the production of fruit, but their
orchards and small fruit farms are an
nually becoming more and more valua
BILE as resource, and when fully dcyel-
opcd may be relied on to bring millions
every year into the pockets of the farm
Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-18

The people who tried to chose off me
Omaha would never raise the 100000 in
cash required to make the state appro-
priation available are politely invited to
step up and apologize by acknowledging
their error