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Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
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THE eBosECUTIoN or hartley.

THE PROSECUTION OF hartley.
Criminal proceedings have been be.
| gun by Attorney General Smyth againsI
Joseph s. BARLEY on charges of embez
cling funds in his custody as state
treasurer. This action has been taken
none too soon and will meet the ap.
prevail of all law-abiding citizens with.
out respect to political party.
Mr.. Bartley's management of the state
finances has been reckless and law.
defying. His defalcation has peer al.
most an open secret for many months
IL not for years. He is known to have
deliberately used state funds for private
gain and speculation and placed state
moneys on deposit in shaky banks when
he must have been aware that they
were on the very verge of insolvency. He
has been VIGOROUSLY in collision with
warrant brokers', into whose hands he
has Systematically played Mt the expense
of the taxpayers. His course has not
only jeopardized the funds held in trust
for the benefit of the public schools, but
also deprived the children of the state
of n large part of the patrimony right
fully belonging to them. BY his dis
honest and lawless practices he has dis
credited the state and disgraced the
party that had placed him in a position
of high responsibility.
The plea that BARLEY is the innocent
victim of a vicious system, handed down
by his predecessors in office is no pallia-
ton of his offenses. There is no excuse
for a public officer to gamble with public
funds. There is no eXcuse for farming
out the state revenues to political bank
ers backed by straw bonds. Such
practices cannot be condoned or justi-
fed even though every dollar of the
treasury shortage is eventually made
good by Bartley's bondsmen. Ex-
Treasurer BARLEY cannot claim to be
the victim of any conspiracy or mis-
placed confidence. He has been warned
time and again that he had departed
from the path of duty, but he ignored
every admonition. He knew that the
day of reckoning could not be post
poned beyond the expiration of his
second term, but he lacked integrity of
purpose and persisted in pursuing the
crooked ways which lead to perdition.
The law can be no respecter of per-
o II There is n solemn duty devolving
upon legislatures and law officers to
enforce the penalties of official mis-
conduct by impeachment, by criminal
and civil prosecution, or all Of these. 1t
is high time that Nebraska put an end
to willful betrayal of trust. No state
has suffered more in late years from
malfeasance in office, defalcations and
preservation Nebraska must vindicate
the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
RURAL MAIL DELIVERY.
Immense Benefits to he Derived from
the system.

Chicago Record.
The favorable reports received from the
postmasters in localities in which the rural
free delivery system has been put into effect
and the announcement that Postmaster
General Wilson will probably report In
favor of the continuance Of the system for
another year, will be cheering news for all
who understand the immense benefits in
volved.
Up to the present, 1t appears, 1t has been
found entirely practicable to adopt rural
free delivery, even with the country roads
In their present condition. The local post
masters where the system has been adopted
endorse 1t without reservation, and II need
hardly be said that the residents OF those
localities are heartily in favor OF 1t. When
1t is considered that the experiment has
been conducted only In a tentative way,
and that there has not been time to test
the full benefits OF the s~ystem-benehts
which will come in the increased use OF the
mails after a few years-it would be folly
to abandon the project now. The cost of
rural free delivery is now greatly increased
because OF the poor condition Of the coun-
try roads. And, on the other hand, the
returns have not increased proportionately
because 1t has not been In operation long
enough to produce the desired effect Of in
creasing the use OF the malls. Both these
results would be accomplished In time, and
1t Is to be kept In mind that, just as good
roads will help rural free delivery. rural
delivery will help the cause OF good roads.
But the benefits OF the plan are not con-
fined to the advantages resulting from an
expansion of the postal system. Their real
Importance cannot be estimated save by
those who have experienced the isolation
and loneliness OF country life. and who un-
derstand how much that isolation Is a factor
in breeding national discomfort. The gain
to be derived from putting every Ameri-
can citizen into daily contact with the
world would alone compensate In this way
for whatever increased cost might be put
temporarily upon the taxpayers.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Des Moines Leader: The New York pull
pits are about evenly divided now between
the Bradley-Martin ball and Jonah and the
whale.
Kansas City Star: II these persons who
disbelieve the story Of Jonah and the whale
can get on with those who accept it as a
literal statement of fact, the latter ought to
be able to dwell in peace with the people
whit doubt the authenticity OF that incident.
Buffalo Express: Bishop Turner Of the
African Methodist church has complained TO
the Georgia railroad commissioners that re-
spectacle negroes travelling in the state
cannot get anything to eat at the rcstaur-
ants provided for the accommodation OF
other railroad passengers. Of course, IL Is
an injustice, but 1t Is not wholly n misfor-
tune for any person white or black, 10 be
barred from the ordinary railroad eating
house.
philadelphia Record: The sensation caused
by Rev. Lyman Abbott's refusal to swallow
the story of Jonah ard the whale has
scarcely abated when another New York
divine attempts to throw a doubt upon the
liberalism of the account of Balaam's ass.
IL the higher criticism is to keep on at this
rate there may soon have to be a society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals with
special reference to the field of biblical
zoology.
Chicago Chronicle: Evangelist Moody Is
among those who are entirely opposed to
DR.. Abbott's ideas. He says: ITO deny the
story of Jonah and the whale is to strike at
the very root of the tree. If you throw that
story out Of the bible, it seems to me you
must also throw out the story of the resur-
rection. AS Jonah was three days in the
bslly of the whale, so was the Son OF Man
three days In the bowels of the earth" On
the contrary, Rev. DR.. William LLOYD OF
the Central Congregational church of New
York sides with DR.. Abbott. He says: "a
preacher says the story of Jonah is a fiction
with beautiful lessons, and resolutions of
censure are passed against him for so do
claring. In 100 years from now the man
who looks on that story as a fact is likely
to be regarded as a first cousin to an Egyp-
tian mummy"
New York Times: Rev. DR. Rylance spoke
last Sunday with much good sense in re-
gard to newspapers. II what he said was
not strikingly original, that is due to the
fact that the subject is a simple one which
sensible men, generally understand, and the
only way to be novel about 1t is to talk sheer
nonsense-which some ministers, unfortu-
nately, do. DIR. Rylance pointed out that
Sunday newspapers, If they are decent, do
not violate the teachings Of the head of the
church, because there are none that cover
the case. AS to those that are not decent,
they are as bad on Saturday or Tuesday as
on Sunday, and the way to put a check on
them is to refuse to buy them. He said:
LET us not be parties to creating a demand
for such things, but support a clean news
paper, no matter what its political creed
may be" That is a good doctrine for any
pulpit, If 1t Is lived up to-.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
Ten American Women,

We have received the following request for
knowledge:
ITO the Editor of the Sun: Sir-The names
Of what ten American women will live long
est in history? MAYFLOWER."
The selection of a list of ten American
women whose names have reached fame is
not easy, but Wen experiment:
Martha Washington, Rebecca Rolfe Poca-
%hontas), Molly Pitcher, Elizabeth Blackwell,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Priscilla Alden,
Eliza Goose (Mother Goose), Maria Mitchell,
Harriet Beecher stowe, Lucretia Mott.
The deeds and circumstance which made
these women known above the majority of
their sisters lie in an extremely interesting
field of historical Investigation. We offer
their names with high regard for their title
to the place assigned, but with frank ac-
acknowledgement that there may be others.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
DISASTROUS TO AMERICAN INTERESTS

DISASTROUS TO AMERICAN INTERESTS
The Cuban war has already damaged
American interests to an enormous
amount and it would seem to be a ques
ton of no very long time when our trade
with that island will be practically de
stroyed. The insurrectiOn has now beer
in progress two years and it is said thai
the falling off in our commerce will
Cuba can safely be estimated ut 60 pei
cent of the normal volume. In 1894 the
value of American exports to Cuba, ac
cording to official statistics, was up
wards of $2O,OO0,O 900, while in the same
year the imports into the United States
600. Last year the exports from Ameri-
can ports to Cuba amounted to only
81, 100000, while the imports were $40.
100000, or about 50 per cent of the
former volume of business. Prior to
the insurrection American exporters and
manufacturers kept n considerable
number of agents at Havana; now there
M. only n few there and it Is said that
these, instead of trying to secure new
business, are ~endeavoring to collect
overdue accounts and wind up the af-
fairs of h concerns they represent. Ii
is estimated hat the American capital
invested in Cuba amounts to 500, 900, 900,
about half of which is i'm sugar estates
that are not now yielding much.
Looking at the war from Il commercial
point of view 1t is seen to be exceed
ingly damaging to this country and this
suggests that instead of American mer-
chants and manufacturers being OPP
posed to efforts on the part of our gov
eminent to stop hostilities, as they are
alleged to be, they ought to be the peo-
pie most Jealous in supporting any
proper and practicable plan for bring
ing the Instruction to an end. That
they should be opposed to war with
Spain can be easily understood, since
that would summarily wipe out all
trade, but we venture to think there is
no merchant or manufacturers doing
business with Cuba who would not
heartily approve any step which our
government could properly take with n
view to restoring peace in Cuba.
The devastation to which that island
Is being subjected is certainly deplor-
able and of course American interests
suffer in common. These losses Spain
will be asked to indemnify If she retains
possession of Cuba, but probably not
N dollar in ten of the claims will ever
be paid and at best it will be many
years before any of the losses can be
recovered. The policy of the next ad-
ministration regarding Cuba is yet to
be disclosed. 1t will undoubtedly be a
peaceful policy, but it may embrace an
effort, more earnest than any yet made,
to bring about a settlement OF the con
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

1t may not be generally known, but it
is a matter of fact that much suffering
and distress prevails in certain parishes
of Louisiana by reason of crop failure.
Appeals have been received by The Bee
from parties who desire to invoke the
aid of Nebraska in behalf of the Louisi-
ana settlers whose families are in need
of relief in the shape of food and cloth.
ing. The generous response which
Louisiana made to Nebraska's appeal
for the drouth sufferers of 1894 should
not be forgotten. While contributions
are now being collected in this state for
starving India a humane considera-
ton for people nearer home should in
spire the good Samaritans at least to
make a division of their donations be-
tween Louisiana and HindOOstan.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
In denying an application for pardon

In denying an application for pardon
the other day President Cleveland could
not refrain from expressing surprise at
the number of respectable people who
had joined in urging clemency in n
case belonging to Il class where, in his
Judgment, punishment should be more
frequently imposed. The ease with
which signatures are procured to peti-
tons alleging all sorts of things that
the subscriber would not for a moment
think of affirming under oath has at
tracted attention from time to time and
called forth numerous protests, but all
to no purpose. When men sign such
papers expecting the parties to whom
they are addressed to pay little atten-
ton to them, is it any wonder officials
get into the habit of disregarding them?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
PROGRESS OF THE BICYCLE.

The progress of the bicycle is unques
tionably one of the notable features of
the close of the nineteenth century. BY
the uneXampled creation of a bicycle
industry of huge proportions and the
rapid increase in the use OF To wheel
for business, pleasure and recrea, zen,
society has been almost revolutionized,
Vast capital has been invested in the
making and selling of bicycles, labor has
been displaced and transferred from one
field to another, inroads have been made
into industries, the demand for whose
products the bicycle has curtailed or
destroyed. What is equally significant,
lied as a mere passing fad, has demon
strated its useful qualities and counts
more devotees at this moment than ever
before.
The progress of the bicycle is manifest
in more ways than one. What other in.
dustry of so recent growth could domi-
nate an entire issue of a newspaper like
The Sunday Bee? What other industry
with so short a career could furnish the
material for a successful exposition de-
voted exclusively to it's own and
cognate products? Where could an
army of civilians be found that
could match the army Of wheelmen
that is found scattered all over the civil
lied world? What would be the social
and industrial disturbance if the bicycle
were suddenly plotted off the face of
the earth? De
In whatever light the bicycle is viewed,
whether hailed cas- the Indispensable
vehicle of the age, or loaded with all the
sins that arise from its abuse, the i'm
p%ortance of ITS position in the world to-
day is not to- be deprecated. Its rise and
progress form a'link in an evolutionary
chain that il at least a distinct advance
Over what preceded it.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

Naturalization carries with it as n
necessary implication the right to re-
nounce citizenship, native or acquired.
There Is therefore no special reason for
surprise at the recent remuneration of
American citizenship by a native Ger
man, who, after n short residence in
Philadelphia, has shown his preference
for the land of his birth by returning to
Germany and renewing his allegiance to
that country. III The emigration of the
man who does not appreciate the ad-
vantages of American citizenship can be
no great loss ito this country.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
The Conquest of Africa.

The onward march of the Anglo-Egyptian
expedition in the Soudan will be resumed, 1t
is now reported, in June next. Six new gun
boats have been completed in England, which
carry six machine guns and one twelve
FOUNDER each. Against such a Nile fleet the
efforts Of the dervishes will evidently prove
useless. The advance on Khartoum will
probably meet with little resistance. There
will be no great difficulty in reaching the
j%uncture of the White and the Blue Nile.
From the start it has been evident that
Gordon's old seat has been England's OBJ
fJective point. The site Of Khartoum occu-
pies the central and controlling region of
middle Africa.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
A Trolley to the Pyramids.

A new danger confronts the Pyramids of
Egypt, and it is a matter of doubt whether
they will continue to maintain that compos-
ure for which they have become famous
through Governor Leedy's brilliant epigram
about their Indifference to the barking of
the Egyptian dogs. They will be trolley
victim No. LAT, 1866. In a word, this wicked
capitalistic age is going to run a trolley
through the Nile valley to the Pyramids.
When the first trolley cars warning gong
rings on the Egyptian plains we venture to
say that the forty centuries which have been
engaged for some little time past in looking
down upon us from the Pyramids will gather
up their belongings and, shrieking, flee to
some more secluded spot.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
nILL JOHNSON ON RELIGION.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
] hain't no stickler, f~ellers,
on SIGH eZ SectS an creedS,
But judges folks accordin'
To the natur' ov thur deeds.
The man what's got religion
Dead solid in his heart
VIII allus face the music
An do a hero's part.
Hit makes him give back money
Found layin' in the road;
Hit makes him help a Teller
To lug along his load.
Hit makes him strong an happy
Under emmy sort ov loss;
Hit makes him state pertick'lerS
When tradin' off a boss.
Hit makes him hol' his temper
When wife or chillun frets;
Hit makes him save his money
An pay his honest debts.
Nc matter what arises,
He'll do the best he can:
In every deal you'll find him
A straight. square man.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
BLASTS raoM RAMS HORN.


"'"TT ""'"-'I T"T ~" gW"TN'
II takes a hot IRE TO purify gold.
Don't give a tract where bread is needed
most.
When you know what a man believes, you
know what no Is.
Truth never stays over night in any house
built on the sand.
Never measure any mans picty by the
length OF his face.
Every failure carries a guide book to sue
cess in its inside pocket.
When tho devil comes TO an empty mind,
he at once begins TO I'LL II.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

When a few bondsmen are forced to
liquidate the shortage of embezzling
public officials, men will stop going OIL
bonds as sureties until they have con-
WINGED themselves of the integrity of the
PRINCIPALS.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
SUNSET.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ThOmas Bailey AIdriCh.
Sick of myself and all that keeps the light
OF the blue skies away from me and mine,
1 climb this ledge, and by this wind
swept pine
Lingering watch the coming of the night.
It's ever n new wonder to my. sight .'
Men look to God for some mysterious
sign
shine;
For some unnatural symbol of His might.
Wouldst see n miracle as grand as those
The prophets wrought of old in Palestine?
Come, watch with me the shaft of fire that
CLOVIS
In yonder west; the fair, frail palaces,
The fading Alps-the archipelagoes-
The great cloud continents of sunset seas.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

The Lexow committee is inquiring for
copies Of the Nebraska laws for the re-
preston and restriction of trade com
binations and trusts. Nebraska has a
pretty good set of antitrust laws, but a
person would have to search hard TO
find the instances where anyone has
been punished for violating them.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

One of the Speakers at the Congress
of Mothers at Washington said that no
girl has any right to fall in love until
she has. carefully considered the health,
mental makenpl position in life and
means of support of the man whose
wife h may become. There is no
question whatever that this is excellent
advice, but it is not exactly "A + de-
soription of the usual process of match
making. There are lots of things people
ought to do, but they DO not always do
them. no.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

The senate at Washington, having
spent days of presumably valuable time
in fiery discussion of a question already
settled, it is quite in order for the house
to waste a part of its few remaining
days in chasing the rainbow of interna-
tional bimetallism.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

From recent occurrences 1t would
seem evident that certain distinguished
senators have not got beyond the hys-
terical stage of nerve discipline, in
which children cry u before they are
hurt. They shout for n Bob Evans in
Cuba, when the pressing need is for a
Webster in the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28
Frightening Horizon of Business.

Factories are resuming work in some To-
%calities, money is plentiful at all the finan-
cial c%enters, the treasury reserve is slowly
but steadily going up. and business fail
ures are declining. The danger of raids on
the currency was ended by the great vic
tory on November 3, and when the new
revenue and protection law which the party
that won at that time is preparing is placed
on the statute book a decided and solid
industrial revival Is looked for.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

1t doesn't matter how severe the
penalties for body snatching are made
so long as our present reform police de-
partment is kept unchanged as an as
surance to body snatchers that they
may ply their vocation without fear of
apprehension.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

1t hardly looks as If the foreclosure
of the Union Pacific can be accom-
plished by the present attorney general.
If foreclosure is to come, however, it
cannot come too soon and the new at
torney general cannot press the suit too
foct
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

The railroad that cannot afford to in
vest in new steel rails at present prices
must be in such a bad way financially
that 1t will make little difference
whether its road-bed and track are
allowed to run down or not.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

And now there is a movement toward
cheaper admission to base ball games.
If this is not Immediately ascribed to
the demonstration of silver, the free
coinage men must be taken to have
closed their eyes to a great opportunity.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

There are several things In which a
state has the advantage I'VE a territory.
Statehood, for example, makes 1t possible
to legalize prize fighting. Whereas a
territorial legislature is powerless to
assure protection from the penalties of
United States laws on the subject.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

Nebraska corn fed to cattle and sheen
brings n return of 40 to so cents per
bushel. AS long as this can be done the
farmer who sells his corn for s cents a
bushel or burns it as coming cheaper
than coal is failing to make the best of
the opportunities presented to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

The spring municipal campaigns are
on In several of he larger cities and the
work of cultivatina the favor of the in
dependent voter is being prosecuted with
all the earnestness that marks the con
trast with the indifference displayed
toward him after election.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

The Idea of restricting speeches in the
state senate to five minutes! What
would be he use of working for an
election as senator IL 1t did not carry
the privilege to infict so-called oratory
upon senatorial associates as often and
as long as one pleases?
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

One Of Chicago's Independent can
didates for mayor is demanding for the
poor the right to raise beans on vacant
property in the city, doubtless in the
hope that he may succeed in climbing
into Office by the famous beanstalk
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

The recent completion by an Ameri-
can optician of the largest spectroscope
in the world for n German scientist es-
tablishes the superiority of the United
States in n field in which Germany
has heretofore enjoyed supremacy.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-28

DR.. Nansen may not think much Of
the contributions of the United States
to Arctic exploration, but he thinks
enough of United States money to come
over here to get some of it by deliver
ing his lectures before the American
nublic