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Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

ever, but the proposed change is due to
IN oversight in wording the law. The
legislature which meets next winter will
undoubtedly change the law to conform
to the practice in other states. There
is no reason why Iowa with its 10000
republican majority should run any
chances of one or two democratic
electors slipping in, particularly when
democratic states adhere to the old rus
tom of election at large.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

A new factor has come into the Iowa
senatorial fight to keep alive the politi-
cal contest which threatened TO die out
from being overworked. Congressman
Dolliver, not through any announce.
ment of his own, but through the ac.
ton of conventions in his district, has
been projected into the contest as an
active participant. Dolliver has II
large personal following and should he
enter the fight in earnest Iowa is likely
to witness as lively a senatorial cam
paign as any since the day of the
famous Allison-W ilson-Harlan contest.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

The fair cash value of the street rail,
ways of Chicago, exclusive of the ele-
waited railroad, has been computed by the
assessors at $24,OOO,OOO, and the assess
ment for 1899 will be at one-tifth of that
amount, or a fraction less than $1,000
900. These figures go to show that the
street railroad corporations of Chicago
are on friendly terms with the asses
sors. 1t is safe to assert that the mar
ket value of these properties will fall
very little short of 500, 10000 600 as
gagged by their earning capacity.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Some people claim to be able to prove
that corporations control the selection
of judges in nearly every district of Ne
braska. If the claim be true it is largely
because the citizens generally are so in
different to the matter and cannot be
induced to attend the primaries, Should
every voter 20 TO the primaries and
voice his preference for judges the COR
porations could have very little part in
the selection.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

English papers of the class which
have always been hostile to the United
States seize on the Alaskan boundary
dispute to exhibit their Unsurpassed
jealousy of the growth of the United
States in power and wealth. The trou-
BILE with England is and always has
been that it coyets every foot of ground
in the world. Nothing is too large for
its ambition and nothing too small for
it to contend for and the nation which
disputes its claims is necessarily wrong.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Chicago News: BILLY, nave you ever fol-
lowed a wild mountain tratl?'
No, but I've gone all through a modern
department store
Detroit Journal: Microbes are now under
stood to be necessary to human life. 1t Is
our tendency, we believe, to regard as ne
c~essities today what We're merely conven.
fences yesterday.
Chicago Post: Fortunately we don't have
such a thing as lese majestic in this coun-
try said the bachelor.
'Oh, | don't know" replied the benedict.
My wife seems to regard any omment on
her cooking as somewhat in that line
Philadelphia. Record: Lawyer-what is
your age. madam?
Fair Witness-I am-er-that is-er-
lawyer Observation-Disclosures remember.
madam, that every moment you gain now
will not be to your advantage.
Indianapolis Journal: Lets send some
ice cream over to Mrs. Hopkins
WHY Clara, her husband is in the ice
well, that's it.: she never gets enough
Ice to make ice cream
Chicago Record: I'VE ought to hear from
those arctic explorers"
oh, don't know; If they have found the
them to be giving it away"
fatherly individual, If you continue at this
pace you will shorten your days"
Would that couid." RESPONDED the
of twenty-four. "If ! thought l could
shorten my working days I'd try a miles
a-minute pace"
Detroit Journal: After the high church
wedding the fashionable bride and groom
shook hands.
Shall we meet again." she asked, trying
to seem interested.
Yes, there's ladies' day at the club, you
know" he answered, smiling, for 1t would
be imDOltte TO act bored.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

The gigantic umbrella which was to
have been n of the wonders of the
Transmississippi Exposition, but failed
to materialize because the inventor did
not have money enough to build a hen
coop, is to be erected at the Paris exposi-
ton mex year, providing some American
will come TO the front with a hundred
thousand dollars to foot the bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
RISKY LIFE INSURANCE INVESTMENTS.

RISKY LIFE INSURANCE INVESTMENIS.
The announcement that the managers
Of the New York Life Insurance con-
pany had decided to market an enor-
nous block of stocks held by that com
pany as an investment for the benefit
of It's policy holders very naturally Gre
ated quite a sensation and is said 10
have nearly precipitated a panic on the
New York Stock exchange. The alarm
of the stock spectators over an appre-
hended slump in stocks is, however, of
comparatively small moment to people
who are not directly interested in the
ups and downs of the stock market.
The alarm sounded from the Stock ex-
change has, however, reused popular in
quiry into the character of investments
made by the managers of standard lie
insurance companies and the danger
that confronts many millions Of policy
holders in n possible collapse of COM
panies that have always been consid-
cred as sound and safe as is the ma
tional treasury. The New York Life is
by no means the only company whose
officers have invested the surplus under
their control in stocks. 1t has been
openly acknowledged that many If not
most of the old line companies had de-
parted from the only safe policy of in
vesting all surplus funds either in first
class mortgages or national, state II
municipal bonds with u fixed date of
redemption and fixed interest rate.
1t was not known or even suspected
by p~olicy-holders that the money they
were paying in as premiums and held
in trust for their heirs or creditors was
being invested in securities which are
known to be largely made up of water,
and consequently subject to ~tluctuation
and depreciation through dishonest or
reckless imitation or the manipulations
of stock jobbers.
The improperly as well as impru-
| dence of investing life insurance funds
in stocks must be apparent. Such in
vestments would afford almost irresist-
ible temptation for stock jobbing on the
part of life insurance managers, who
could enrich themselves by privately
buying options in stocks when they were
at low quotations and after bulling the
| stocks on tips of assured purchase Of
large blocks by their own company could
rake in the margin.
The reason advanced by the officers Of
the New York Life for their decision to
part with all their stool investments is
that they could not otherwise reopen
their business in Germany, whose gov
eminent prohibits life insurance COM
panies doing business in that country
from making investments in any securi-
ties except bonds and mortgages. 1t
| strikes us that it will be imperative for
America to follow the example of Ger
many by restricting life insurance man
ayers from dabbling in stocks with
funds held in trust for the holders Of
life insurance policies. Such restric-
lions would be in the interest of the
companies and their creditors, the policy
holders, who could better afford to dis
pense with dividends than to be men.
aced with a possible liquidation of con-
Germs upon whose soundness they have
staked the welfare and happiness of
their families.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Ex-Governor Holcomb says he is
anxious to tell the senate committee all
he knows about the ballot fraud of two
years z Not only the committee but
the people of the state would be pleased
to have the ex-governor state all he
knows about that transaction.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
Our Philippine Fleet.

PHlIaueIDEId ReCOTu.
Twenty-Five small vessels of war, three
tugs and a steam barge constitute the fed
eral fleet now available for service in the
shallow bayous and inlets of the Philip
pines. Thirteen of these craft were acquired
from Spain by purchase; the others are
prizes OF war. 1t is a cheap feet-and a
good one. moreover. Eternal vigilance with
such boats is the price of supremacy in our
new eastern territory.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

There is no doubt that new insurance
law If rigidly enforced would cut down
the perquisites of the state auditors
office, for this result was sought for by
the trainers of the bill. 1t Is a difficult
matter, however, to tear a popocratic
o~ficeholder loose from a fat graft.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

If the federal judges are disposed to
consult public sentiment they will APP
point a clerk OF he circuit court as well
as a clerk of The district court in the
Nebraska jurisdiction, Ifiice-seekers in
these parts object to the proposed merg-
ing of the two offices and forcing the
appointee TO accept a salary of $500 a
year. Few men would Geciine a tender
of an office paying half that salary.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

In spite of repeated protests against
the use of his name as Il presidential
possibility, Admiral Schley is being
groomed by Maryland democrats as the
coming dark horse.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
THE ~EAsY-GOING MAN.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
He never has a single care.
There's naught can give him worry:
No matter what the time may be,
He never has a hurry.
He rises when it pleases him;
Does not retire till late:
The latest styles don't trouble him,
But still he's up-to-date.
He does not bother over wheat,
The price of pork or stocks:
He never fears his business will
Some day land on the rocks.
His face is always beaming bright,
He very rarely kicks;
The reason he's so happy Is
Because he's only six.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
Takes His Beer in Peace.

81. LOUIS IttDuD1C.
From the way John Bull is sending
troops and rapid fire artillery to the Cape
he seems to intend to lick Dom Paul first
and arbitrate with him afterwards. Your
Dom is not allowing his beer appetite to
slacken, for all that. He remembers that
John once before tried the same game on the
Beers and had TO borrow money to get
home on.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Every time the city authorities find a
place they think would be about right
as a location for a pest house they are
met with an injunction or a threat Of
one. The authorities might dispose of
people afflicted with contagious diseases
as Artemus, Ward proposed to do when
landlords objected to families with
children-kill them off.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
Attorney General Remley of Iowa has

Attorney General Remley of Iowa has
rendered an opinion TO the effect h IA
the law regarding presidential electors,
as revised by the last legislature, pro
vides for the selection of two at large
from the state and the remainder by
congressional districts. Such was not
the intention of the legislature, how
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Statistics of live stock receipts in this
market show Il steady increase over IA
corresponding period last year, pushing
Omaha up nearly to the second place
notch as a live stock center. 1t is only
n matter of time when Omaha will take
fhn IaaI
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

The cashier of a New Jersey bank
who took $4,000 of the banks funds
when arrested reported his total assets
as six cents. Gambling in stocks is re-
sponsible for the difference.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

The 10000 tin plate workers who
have been granted an increase in wages
of from II to 20 per cent are receiving
a pretty fair dividend on their votes for
Mckinley in 1896.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
Grooming Under n Load.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

frfufuIfttPOFIo WITT feFr
The Dominion Of Canada has a debt of
$3.50, 600, 900, which is increased every year,
while it's population, less than that of New
York state, scarcely more than holds its
own. Like the woman who put on airs be-
cause her husband had mortgaged his house,
Canada's excessive debt ma be the cause
of it's disagreeable Importance.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Senators Chandler and Gallinger of
New Hampshire should be induced to
keep quiet for a time at least. The
trouble in the Philippines is as much
war as the country cares for at IL
time.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

If liquor is to be kept on tap at the
county poor farm the superintendent OF
that institution should be required to
take out a license.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
Exercising Good Judgment.
Chicago Times-Herald.

The king of Sweden has appointed an
Omaha preacher to be his chaplain. The
king must have been impressed with the
political wisdom of finding some good west
ern man."
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
The Boom Ill Copper.
Globe Democrat.

There is even more of a boom in copper
than in gold. Last years production of
copper in the United States was 526, 375, sol
pounds and the annual increase is 10 per
rapt
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

The republicans of this city have some
very important business on hand his
week-the selection of good men for the
district bench.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
STATEMENT or CIRCULATION,

State OF Nebraska, Douglas County, SIS:
George Il. Tzschuck, secretary OF The bee
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number of full and complete
copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening, ana
Sunday Bee, printed during the month OF
limo 100 Mas aa fnllnMG.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
Nearly n Million in II.

baltimore American.
TIL man who says there's nothing in
a newspaper should remember that one in
Indianapolis, a comparatively small town,
sold the other day for nearly $1,000, 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Unless all signs fail the work of the
International peace congress Will pass
into history as an iridescent tiasco.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Parties Leaving for the Summer.
Parties leaving the city for the
summer may have The Bee sent TO
them regularly by notifying The
Bee business Office, in person or by
mail.
The address win be changed as
often as desired.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
THE BARD OF ARKANsAw.
Tunes His Harp on the wing and
Spills Melody nv the MnNsIde.

-
Tunes His Harp ON the wing and
Spills Melody by the wayside.
The remark attributed to a widow. who
had donned habiliments Of woe in memory
OF her fifth husband, you never know a man
until you live with him a while" applies to
other men and other conditions. You can
not Judge a newspaper mans talents by his
shop work. 1t is necessary to get him out
on a vacation. free from the cares and
anxteties OF toll, and watch his mental
powers expand and bloom under the rare
sunshine OF freedom. Then only is he at
tuned to the harmonies OF the blessed; then
only does his soul respond to the ]promptings
OF the muse.
A happy demonstration Of that fact is
supplied by a. J. Kendrick, a former Bee
man, at present publisher Of the Fort Smith
(Ark.) News-Record. When Kendrick
hustled for the festive item in Omaha some
fifteen years ago none Of his associates har-
bored a suspicion that he had concealed
about him the germs of poesy. They knew
that he lightened the weary hours OF toll
with stanZas of sacred song and oft his
thrilling voice echoed through the dark
yellow pine corridor, spilling glorious melody
as he finished a hot scoop on his rival.
Sentimental song he eschewed as an un-
clean thing and none was ever known to
profane his den in his presence. Even his
confidantes would not endanger his friend
ship by accusing him of wooing the muse in
sprlngtime or any other old time. But times
have changed and Kendrick with them.
Since pitching his tent in me vibrant wilds
of Arkansaw, by the banks OF the Poteau,
he has been a diligent sutton of the muses.
in secret, but with characteristic ~shrewdness
muzzled his poetic gifts at home. Not until
he journeyed westward toward where Rolls
the Oregon" did he unhitch Pegasus and ride
for a record. Thus mounted and breathing
the ozone of the eternal hills he gave the
editorial eycursionists a series OF ~poetical
cocktails, refreshing and enlivening to a de-
gree. a veritable oasis in a desert OF dreary
prose.
1t may be noted, more in sorrow than in
anger" that the bard of hrkansaw has for
saken the heavenly Tyre for more earthly
melodies. This might be doubted were it
not vouched for by the veracious Portland
Oregonian.
The first effort Of the noted bard tells
of the fate of a Mississippi scribe who tried
the tunnel act on an Iowa girl:
The editor sat on the Wagner deck,
Whence all but him had fed.
Beside him Struggled a maiden rare.
With damask cheek so red-
They stood and gaZed at the passing sights.
OF that wonderful oregon trip,
This damsel rare, this maiden fair,
And
the
man
from
'pP'
Che ,,ss ,,i,b ,,o.+ --ondrors eves
e. Iin,ndd ciear ana bl,o ~
sha e,azeS 3D. MN IN ber g,iiIeless "
st S,,s"oso a. bad heen vo19 WY
w ~ 80 an 800 a., +b;s noor
ioui ,iaht, "1e 'e SAINT q" ms pun
'1,i, cartai N - ,,,o l.a M elm.
orr n;tv this lod"he.s not e. had
.h.,
from
MISSISSIPPI
go =
Inc more ne gazeu, tne deeper ne leli
INTO inc depths OF ioVe-
He Swore by the roHlng oregon,
And skies so biue above
He'd taste the nectar OF tfiat sweet mouth
Or that trahscehdent lip;
Shed made a mash, ana settled the nash
Or
the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
Mississippi.

An iowa editor boarded the train will
a bottle of cocktails in his pocket, chucklini
to himself over the good time in prospect
Before the train had gone ten miles, thu
editor sat down with the proverbial dull
sickening thud upon the aforesaid bottle. !
smashed to pieces, and its contents Immersed
a wide section Of the editorial trousers, II
say nothing of a wide area OF a palace ca
plush seat. The poet laureate has en-
balmed this incident in verse, as follows
Iowa is a good old state.
IT'S always in the van,
With fields of corn and fields OF grain
Rejoicing heart OF man.
But its choicest claim to CORY
Is an editor who by chance
Once took his morning cocktail
BY absorption through his pants.
Here is another poeticaI etching revealing
the tribulations of a Nebraska molder OF
public opinion:
Only a harmless editor, only a roguish
dame; 49,
grasped him as he came;
Only a pair of sturdy knees, only a coat or
TAM, - A..
Only a pair of struggling limbs, only across
Only a qgaver in the air. "oh' let me CO.
Only a pair of feminine paws, put to lively
Only a struggling editor, TO paddle and
wallop and bruise.
Only some moments of terror, only a
piteous wall.
Only a lively rub-a-dub-dub that ratified
some shattered dignity, only a lot OF
fun, ,
a battered e~ditor-and the hellish
deed was done!
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
CHEEKY

Chicago News: BILLY, nave you ever fol.
lowed a wild mountain trail?'
No, but I've gone all through a modern
department store"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Detroit Journal: Microbes are now under
stood to be necessary to human life. 1t Is
our tendency, we believe, to regard as ne
c~essities today what were merely conven.
fences Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
from
Mississippi.

The train rolled on. it's laundering beats
Timed we'll his pulsing blood
That wildly throbbed in passions floods
Beneat his rhinestone stud
But suddenly fell an awful gloom,
As though a pail did slip,
On that maiden fair, so sweet, so rare,
And
the
nan
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

Oh! for the touch of a vanished hand!
That kiss on a vanished cheek!
Oh. for the maid who stepped aside,
So roguish, yet so meek!
When the Wagner rolled in daylight broad
He he'd in loving grip,
A chap with whiskers three feet long
Did
that
CuSs
from
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

All. ha! a tunnel full deep and long,
That train was passing through, =.
His chance had come and he grasped 1t well
He knew a thing or two;
And with tiger bound he leaped to her,
And then he clasped her-NIT.
And Elysian bliss! He snatched a kiss
Did
the
man
from
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18
from
Mississippi.

She was a Ass with most wondrous eyes,
So limpid. clear and blue.
She gazed at him in her guileless way
SuNnose 1t had been you?
our fate were the same as this poor
wight's
It's Certain-make no slip:
Oh! pity this lad-he's not so bad,
Is
this
Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-18

The more he gazed. the deeper he fell
Into the DEPTHS of love
He swore by the rolling oregon,
And skies so blue above,
He'd taste the nectar of that sweet mouth
OF that transcendent lip;
Shed made a mash, and settled the hash
OF
the
man
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-01
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The ice at Midtown is covered for
quite a distance with piles of logs
which are being brought there by rail
over the G. T.. Il. and rolled from the
cars onto the ice This is the first time
that logs have ever been brought by
rail to be sawn in Milltown. There are
many thousand feet in the piles ana
more are daily arriving.
Arthur Good, of Basin Mills. had
quite an accident. last Thursday. While
coupling cars at the Great Works sta
ton his hand was caught between the
cars and badly smashed. He went to
Old Town and waited for doctor. He
was accompanied to his home in Basin
Mills by DR.. Rowe. who. with the as
sistance of an other doctor. amputated
two fingers on the mans left hand.
1t was reported at the Grand Trunk
yard masters Office at Portland. Mon
day. that there were 1000 loaded cars,
containing package freight. standing
on tracks in the Portland and East
Deering yards. In addition to these
almost every siding between Portland
and Island Pond is occupied by ears
waiting an opportunity to be discharg
ed at Portland. The elevators are both
full of grain and the freight sheds are
full of package freight.
The Bangor water board held very
important meeting, Monday. to hear
the statement of accounts from Chief
Engineer A. B. Tower of New York,
on the extension of the Bangor water
works system which has been going on
for the past three years. The work is
now almost completed. and a rough es-
innate shows that it has cost about
$500. 900. 1t is claimed that there is not
city in the United States of the size
of Bangor which now has such an ex-
cellent water works system. 1t cost
nearly $500, 600 more than was expected.
the engineers estimate originally be-
ing about $125.0O0.
News were received in Portland.
Monday. from Chelsea. Mass. that a
Mrs. Whiteway had died in that city
and left a fortune of $4,000 to her son
who. it was understood, was employed
at the Grand Trunk stockyards at
East Deering. Investigation failed to
find that any one of that name had
been employed by the Grand Trunk for
two years at least. 1t was later ascer-
tanned that Whiteway was sentenced
in the municipal court January 18th
last, for larceny of money from the
person of Geo. w. Ham, and is now
serving out the sentence of three weeks
imposed by Judge Robinson at that
time in Jail. He has got some six
months more to serve before coming
into his property.
During the past week two letters
have been received from MachiAs boys
who are now connected with the army
at Cuba. One of these letters was
from Sergeant NJ. w. Croker, Battery
q. End United States Artillery, Ha-
vana, in which he states that parents
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-01

need have no anxiety for their loved
ones as to their welfare. He states
that with but few exceptions all the
boys are satisfied with the place and
especially with the way they are treat
ed by the government. and .ha. the
''kickers" are those who would kick no
matter where they were or how they
were treated. That the climate IS hot
and no place for sick man he freely
admits, but with the special care .hey
receive he says there is no reason why
they should be sick any quicker than
if they were at home. The other let
ter was received from Corporal Elme,
+. Preble. LIST Maine Heavy Artillery.
Buena Vista. He also writes tina: he
is feeling well, with the exception of
being a little lame from the long march
from where they were camped to the
cemetery, about - miles down and
back. There were 5000 soldiers in
all, and he says they made great
showing. Their visit was in honor of
the unfortunate soldiers of the Maine
He also writes: We may be old
farmers. but we can put up as good a
march as any of them" He also adds
that he has collected number of
souvenirs which he will bring home
when he comes in May.