Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1892, Page 4

A ' 4 THE E. ROSEWATER, BEE ATON DATLY 3 —— - SUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Eunday Year Yily and Sunday, One Year x M onths hree Months. inday Bee, One Yoor. wturday Bee. One Yoar Weekly Bee, Onc Year. One OF FICES, o Bee Bullding. ¥ th Streats, eil Blufrs, 12 Pen Chiengo Office, 317 ¢ hamber of Commerce New York, Rooms 17, 14and 15, Building Washington, 513 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENC communications re tter shonld U partment to news and ressed Lo the | Al sditorial ma Editoriul 1 BUSINESS LETTERS. A1l husiness letters and remittances should Yo nddressed to The Bee Publishing Compiny Omaha. Drafis. checks and postoffice orders 1o be mado payable to the order of the DALY The-Bee Publishing Company, Propristors THE BEE EUILDING, - SWORN STATEMENT Fatoof Nebrus Connty o co. I, Trschuck, socretary of Tho BER Publishing compnny, docs soleninly swear that the actual elreniation of THE DALY BEE for the weck endingJunuary %, 1802, was as follows: Sunday, Jan. 17, Monduy, Tun. 18 Tuesdny. Jan. 19 Wodnesday, Jin . Thursday, J 21, duy, Jin. 22 Baturday, Jan. % OF CIRCULATION, iglas. | 5% Averag 801 . Eworn to before me and subscribed in wy presence this % day of Junuary. A, D. 186 SEAL. NPIE Notary The growth of the averace dally ¢irenlat on of Tk BEF for six years s shown in the fol- Jowinz table: 116,206 18, 15,0018, 18 I8 I8 18 I 1) 20,501 20,00 45, 16,205 18,400 1.3 22371 16,041 1182241 20,048 Arrangements have been perfected for the foint discussion of the silver question be tween 1. Rosewuter and Jay Burrows, The debate is to bs condueted through the columns of Tie Bre and 1% Allinne published at Lincolu; each papes publishiug in full the presentation of both sides, and each side limited to two columns of space in any singlo issuo of the respective papers. The opening arguments will appar 1n both editions of Tue Darny Ber of Wednes day, as well as in 1ts ely edition of the same date, and in I"armers Allinnce of the preseut week. The iscussion will bo publisted onco a week, and it 1s estimated that the points at issue can be fairly covered in threo issues. Parties desiring to secure copies of the en tire debato should send in their orders promptiy. & rmers the AMERICAN missionaries been given the rvight to acquire real estate in Persin. It is not expected, however, that this will stimulate a real estate boom in Persepolis or Teheran, have finally A REPORT come that MecKeighan's 3 entitles him to the leadership of the independent nine. This is not very complimentary, to the associates of the Red Cloud statesman, JOHN L. SULLIVAN made a tomper- anco speceh in Tacoma at a Murphy meeting, having proviously taken the plodge at Butte. However, a fow days later ne was himself again and offering to fight Slavin or Mitchell or anybody olse. from Washington intellectual abili SENATOR MORGAN’S suggestion that ex-Senator Bdmunds or some statesy of like standing be sent to Chili as ambassador to investigate the difficulty which has arisen between the two gov- ernments possesses the merit of excel- lent sensc. ENGLAND finds that she has captured something of a Tartar in Bgypt under the new khedive. She would gladly withdraw from that country if it wero practicable and yet to remain in control is certain to breed trouble with France and Turke Fngland’s possession of Egypt reminds one of Ameriea's pos- session of the [tafn when the Chilian war ended. THE vation Army way into parliament. ~ Not by sccuring memberships, however, but through the persecutions of the authorities of Iust- bourne, Sir Charles Russell will make a flight for a bill which is to protect them and the chances are that the harmonious connection between the big bass drum and the angelsof grace and morcy will be duly defined by parliament, and the Salvationists will be permitted to enjo; their noisy religion without let hindranc has forced its o ne New York World’s Washington correspondent is taking a mean advant- age of the standing democratic candi date for the presidency to ancounce his withdrawal, when Cleveland is hidden from sight in the bayous of Louisiuna shooting ducks. Cleveland may not deny the rumor of his withdrawal from the race, but he will not confirm it, and he will not give up his ambition until the fact is made vory clear to him that & nomination is impossibio, — NorroLK and Hastings will be de- lighted indeed to vead in the official Omaha organ of Messrs, Kem and Me- Koelghan that theso two brilliant con- gressmen will do just as little as possible to secure the passuge of the appropria- tions for public buildings at tho cities named. The Broken Bow statesman Bpeaks in particularly indifferent tones. He vays unequivocally that he will not introduce the Nocfolk bill in the house and does not even promise to help Sena- tor Manderson’s bill through when it reaches the house, 3 —————— THE report made by the assistant sec- retary of the treasury to the ways and means committee, regarding the condi- tion of the national treasury, was of a nature to dispel apprehension as to the ability of the weasury to meet 1ts obli- gations, out it also suggests the neces- sity of judicious economy in government expenditures. It is plain that there will be no margin for exwravagance, and whenever it is practicable to retrench without injury to the public service it is the duty of congress to do so. This is rocognized by men of both parties GIVE THEM AN OBIECT LESSON Two or three rural republican leaders profess to be deeply concerned over the alleged inactivity of the state central committee. They warn that committee of impending disaster next fall an educational campaign is begun T Ber seconds the motion the educational campaign begin h an object lesson 1o the embattled farmors, A reduction of freight r by the State Board of Transportation would be a more effective argument for restoring the party to power and popular confi- dence than any amount of cheap talk by political educators, But why don’t the men who clamor for an educational campaign begin on their own hook, and give the discontented republican farmers something to think about? Thoera is nothing to hinder any man who wields a pen or wags a tongue from enlisting on behalf of the party, providing always that he is sincere and brainy enough to instruct those who are on the off side how to reach sound con- clusions on the living and vital issues, JUST AND REASONABLE, The railway postal clerksof the United States, acting in conjunction with the Postoltice department, have appealed to ‘congress for a vevision of the laws regu- lating the railway mail servico which will restore the classifiention and pay that obtained in that sorvice ten years agro. This demand is both just and reason- able, No class of men in the federal sorvico are oxposed to such continuous danger and noue arc subjected to such an intense physical and mental stram when on duty. On many of the trunk lines the railway postal clorks nre often on duty from twelve to twenty hours and every minute of their time is occu- pied in assorting and distributing mails, Comparatively few men acquire vroci- eney in this work and those who have devoted years of time to the service are cortainly entitled to as good pay as that received by expert hookkeepers and ex- pressmen in the service of large busi- ness houses und expross companies The bill which is now heing prepared by the department for a re-classification of the railway postal clerks has been carefully drawn with a view to improve the efficiency of the railway mail service by grading the force according to the length of service and qualification of each employe. The bill does not fix the salaries but confers that vower upon the postmaster general, who is in position by and with the advice of the general superintendent of the railway mail ser- vice to classify the force under the civil sorvice rules and establish an equitable standard of pay that will compensate the mon for the risks they run and the service they rende LOCAL OPTION FOR 10WA, The license bill introduced by Mr. Grosvenor of Pottawattamie county in the Towa senate appears to mect the situation admivably. Instead of wor ing w positive repeal of the present pro- hibitory law it proposes amendments whereby it may be possible to plaes the traflic under the control of the authori- ties in counties where the law is not en- ind to all appenrances cannot be enforced. Under the proposed law the hoard of supervisors will be required to submit the question of license or prohi- bition to the voters in any county upon potition of two-fifths of the qualitied electors. A majority vote will deter- mine whether license or prohibition shall prevail, In case license is votod, the petit for license to vend liquors must file abond in the sum of $2,000 with two competent sureties as a guarantes that he will comply with all the conditions imposed by the law in casen pormit shall be granted. The conditions are somewhat move severe than they ave in Nebraska, and the foes for license are about the'same. A pecpetual injunction may b3 obtained in the courts against any person selling without license, To all intents and purposes the Grone weg bill will enact local option with h license for Towa. The bl leaves prohibition undistarbed wherever pro- hibition is backed by public sentiment, and it gives the privilege of licenso in counties and cities where the present law is a dead letter. The effort is made to abolish the bootlegger and place the liquor traflic where it is carried on into the hands of résponsible dealers, This is the most effective method for check- ing intempe ‘I'ne bill will doubtless meet with the active opposition of ultra-prohibi- tionists. They cannot be made to see that restricted and regulated traftic in liquors is botter than free whisky. For the good of the people of lows, who have tor yeurs been aistracted by pro- hibition without achieving any benefi- cial results, it is to be hoped a majority of the lowa logislature will pass tho Groneweg bill or some other high licenso bill, unless at tes oner e, ANXIOUS 10 ATE, There are indications of a growing anxiety in Canada to secure more satis- factory trade relations with the United States. Trustworthy advices say that the effect of our tariff in excluding the cultural products of the Dominion the successful trade negotiations of this country with the British West Indies after Canadd had failed to secure an ex- tension of trade with those colonies and the commercial depression under which Canada is suffering through the absence of natural markets for her products have led Canadians to speculate with considerable interest, if not serious con- corn, in the result of the long-promised trade negotiations with the United States regarding reciprocity. Within the next fow weeks a number of by-elections are to be held in the Dominion, and it is thought these m have an important bearing on the future commereial policy of Canada. In the elections to take place the present week in the province of Ontario the straight issue is to be reciprocity with the United States. The liberals expect to car these elections and a sufficient number of those to follow to greatly reduce the majority of the government in the next House of Commons. It is unquestionable that the liberal party, with veciprocity as its loading issue, has been steadily gaining adherents of late, and it is not doubted that its strength in the next THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: Y House of commons witite very matertally | increased. | The success of the making commercial arrangements the British West Indies is taken seriously by the Canadians, their efforts to extend thuir trade with those coun- tries having entirely failed It is felt to be a significant step in that fiscal disintegration of the British empiro which commenced when an Australian colony asserted its right to lay protect- ive duties on British goods. So good an authority as Mr, Goldwin Smith deciares that nothing now remains of the fiscal unity of the empire except the under- standing that no colony or dependenc is to diseriminate against the mother country, and aven this applies only to specific articles, not to aggregate trade, in respoct of which Canada alvendy dis- criminates against Great Britain. The Toronto (lobe predicts that Canadian trade will suffer in consequence of the ngement of the United Siuatss with the British West Indies, and says “The Dominton is isolated in a commer- cial sense from the continent to which she belongs even more completely than I'ranco from the rest of Furope. Wo are ina ring fence, cut off from all par- ticipation in the commerocial and indus- trial life of Ameriea, yot ministers pre tend to be surprised at the unrest and discontent which are abroad.” There has boen no intimation of a sentiment at Washington favorable to opening negotiations with Canada, and it is probable t the administration is not giving itself any conearn whutever on the subject. Nor does it appoar that there is any gencral popular sentiment favorable to reciprocity. Still negotia tions are to be expocted sooner or | but the proposal for them will not ovig- inate with the United States. PREPARE FOR THE COMING MULTITUDE Do the citizens of Omaha realize that the winter is rapidly slipping away and that almost before we are aware of the fact tho three important months of April, May and June will be here? On the 10th of April the committes on plan and scope of the proposed pan- republic congress to be held in some ominent city of the United States in 1803 will meet in Omaha. The commit- tee itsell is a distinguished body of men, and is entitled to distinguished atten- tion at the hands of our peovle. The uestion of the location of the pan-re- public congress for 1803 will he consid- at its it therefore lu hooves Omaha to make the im- pression possible upon the committee, if she has any ambition to entertain the 2,000 or more leading men of the world who favor free selfgovernment as the best system for all civilized nations of the earth, who will make up the great congross. In May the Methodist Episcopal gen- eral conference will convene in Omaha. During that month Omaha will be the center of attraction to the adherents of the faith of John Wesley. The Wes- leyan commission represonts 25,000,000 people in this world, and the great Methodist Episcopal ehurch is so strong and vigorous thut the religions people of the world, regardiess of creed, will closely sean the proceedings of this great quadrenn conference. Omahn has been highly complimented by this chureh in being selected as tho piace of holdi tho international and must spare no ef the occasion memoral In June the National Drill association will hold a woek’s meoting in this city. The actual value of the drill meeting to Omaha is far greater thun a meeting of a national political nvention, It will continue longer than any national con- vention and will attract almost as many people. We owe it to ourselves and to the association to make every possible preparation for the entertuinment of all who participate. ‘We must spare no time, means or of- fort to ereate a favorable and lasting impression on the multitude of people who sojourn in Omaha in these three coming months, United States in with very ter, ered session. bost conference, we et to make THE HOUSE RULES. The democrats of the house of repro- sentatives would have done wisely if they had adopted the rules of the Fifty- first congress, instead of wasting moro than a month in framing new rule which are certainly not an improve- ment upon those of the last congress. Tt was not neoessary for the majority in the present house to protect itself by the “present but nov yoting” rule which so exasporated the democratic minovity in the Fifty-first congress, because legisla- tion does not depend upon the will of the minority. Wero the two parties, how- ever, as nearly equal in nuibers in the present house as in the last it is not to be doubted that the majority would have to be provided for counting n quorum. Itis now very generully ad- mitted that such a rule is entively fair and just, and it is only a question of time when it will be generally adopted by deliberative bodies. But the democratic majority does not intend to permit the vepublican minority to have unvestricted priviloges. The new rules make provision against fili- bustering, and this is done by u depart- ure nlmost as radical as any made by the preceding congress, One of tho rules provides that only one motion to adjourn shall be allowed pending the considera- tion of the question of adopting reports presented by the rules committee, In former democratic houses » motion to adjourn was always in ovder. Another rule, also designed to prevent filibuster- ing, provides that on duys set apart for the passage of billsunder a suspension of the rules only one hour shall be al- lowed for the introduction of bills, The practice down to the Fifty-first congress was that a member, on introducing a bill, could have it read, the entire day being sometimes used in this. It wasa very effective way of filibustering and it is well that it is done away with, Having framed the new rules, want of which has held legislation in check, it is to be presumed that the house will now setile down to business and accomplish something. There is no lack of subjects for its consideration. A great number of bills, relating o nearly everything that congress has authority | to legislate on and some things which it has uot, or at any rate should not med- | dle with, has been introduced, and all | i the MONDAY, the committors are 'well supplisd with material for vepofth! “The time wasted could deubtless Be, spaved, but there should be no further delay if congress does not intand tofhthin in session until next fall. With a presidential paign ahead it wonld seem that the poli- ticians would desife 18 close their gressional labors s sdon as possib cam- con- armers alliance of Ne braska never tiresof holding up lown as a model for railrénd regulation for low freight and passerigat tolls the farmers and merchants of fowa are anxious for something ntore substantial than fluctu- ating freight schedules raised and low ered at the pleasure of a railroad com- mission which has been playing hic and-seek at the beck of the railroad mar - agers. Half o dozen maximum freighy and passenger rate bills have already been introduced in the legislature. But if the representative of Tk Brk at Dos Moines is cor informed the sonate committees have been packed in tho in- terest of tho corporations, and all rail- rond rate bitls are destined to be pigoon- holed or amended to death. This only goes to show that Towaas weil ns Ne- braska is afilicted with the same difficul- ties in dealing with the railroad prob lem and keeping the lnwmakers out of the meshes of hoodling corporations, T1e committoe on privileges and elec- tions of the United States senate has hed the conclusion that the elaim of Colonel Clagget 1o the seat n cupied by Hon. I'red T, Dubois is base- loss, and the senate will cur. Senator Dubois is fairly to represent the state of [daho in the upper house of the nutional legisluture, He has served Idaho with conspicuous ability during two consecative torms in the lowor house and the admission of Idaho into the wnion is largely, if not chiefly, due to his vigorous and effective advocne, ms to stutehood. Although one of the youngest members oi the senate, Mr. Dubois has alveady taken front rank among his colleagues from the transmi oos doubtless ntitled con- sissippi states, [T HAS been discovered that the alien contract labor law is no odstacle to tho importation of labo: for the coal mines of Pennsylvania., Investigation has disclosed the fact that large num- foreigners have been brought into the country 1n violation of the law, and the unlawful business is still carr on. The anthr e monopoly, than which there is no monopoly more un- serupulous and exacting, is the chiof offender. The unfortunate fore who get into its ‘power could not be worse off if they were slaves., It is to be hoped that 1f a case can be made out against this mondpoly the government will bo unsparing in seeking an enforce- ment of the penalfics for violating the law, s hers of aners THE three tailors of, Tooley street re- solved that they were the people. Messick, Morrow, Golden and other heavy taxpaying wapd strikers of the Sixth ward have issued a protest agninst tax reduction. Their resolutions are ridiculous and carry on their face the evidence that they were gotten up by professional office seekers, OMATIA hus one comfortable reflection not enjoyed by Kansas City in this mat- ter of national conventions. Omuaha helped the winning city to securve the republican convention and Omaha’s can- didacy helped to locate the convention west of the Mississippi river. COUNCILMAN MCLEARIE being elected by the city at large will hardly feel that the half dozen ward politicians calling thewmselves the Sixth ward club have any right to instruct him in his official duties, RETRENCHMENT is one of the issues upon which the present city government was clected. It must not ignore the will of the people as it was expressed at the ballot box last November. TaE Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City railway will come to Omaha. The Chi- cago, St Paul & Kansas City railway is hibiting good judgment und will find a warm welcome, S — ROASTING nsphalt is the harmless pustime in which the Board of Public Works indulges at its weekly moetings, Right You Are. New York Recorder. The western rallroad brakeman who re- muined at his post until frozen into insensi- bility 1s worth a scorc of faney presidents and boards of directors Cheyenne Tribune, Trk OMAIA BEE publishes a column editor- inl on "how to use weaith.” How to get 1t Is the little conandram thit is bothering people in this neck of the woods, p dulil e Moral Phenomeno St. Paul Ploneer Press, rof u Parls theater hns been finea for “outraging public deconcy.” Imug- inatlonstands appalled at what he must have presentod on the stage to have such an effect on the Parisians. — — e Law's Delay. Philadelphia Ledger, The law's deluy In Nebraska has resulted in nconvict being grantetl anew trial after he had served the terfi of his sontence. As the result of a new trfal is uncertaln, the re- leused prisoner desirls only to ho let alone - Carnes and His Ol Inspection, Platte County Sentiniel. Ed Carnes s still dfawlfig the salary of state oll fnspector, but evillcneg aceumulates going to show that the Illumiapting fluids shipped to Nebraska aro not undergolug the rigid svoction which the law demands, This Is not as it should be. Cheyenne Is resting gver a seething home- mude voleano. Let Uitll, therofore, beware, for though naturally a peaceful and law abldiug community there Is that in many of our fellow citizens which, when once aroused, makes draughts of kot blood indispensuble to their comfort and happiness. - Speaking Their Little Peace, Chicago Inter Ocean, Those dear “million women' who propose to “sign uud circulute petitions agalnst & war with Chill" had Just a5 weli continue thelr £ood work in the home administration will not declare war unless compelied to. Ohili must make the amends demanded or take the consequences. Tue natlon sub- it 1o nothing iess. - Anglomantac tntell t, Pl P Wien Ward MeAlllster was apprised by a breathless and almost braiuless reporter of the Now York World that the duke of Clarence Was 0o more, the faitifol soribo says ho ex- enn JANUARY 25, 92, fmed. “My Gawd P'rince Goorge will be King " how much that might have be nhim at th Anior: shon Is e really doad? Then Tt 1s astonishing MeAllistor knows, Tt oo mieh to hnve acquainted sume tin nraler, to wit. the chlef of the Sho S, But had he been so apprised the great would have Alas! Then No Pants will be chef min man gnsped - Growing Snobbishe Tndianaplis News For plain, republiean peonle we 10 be very sp We sorts of aristocratic <o tivate exclusiveness, and Inslgnia with all the zest of denizens of the effete monarchies. The latest of brood Is the Colontal Dames of Maryland, compoised of ladies who are descended from sonie ancestor who eamio to this countey prior to 1574, and who rendered efficient service to the country during thecolontal period. This would take tn all the convicts who were sold into Virinia and t olinas during colonit days and who, doubtiess, rendered efiicient service, — The Admission of Utah, Chicago Tritune There i< but one safe conrse for congress to pursie in this natter, The gentile popula tion of Utah is opposed to admission. Until that population dominates the torritory beyond any possibility of doubt there should be no consideration of the question of admis- sfon. Tn all other respeets Utali has long had the essentlals of statehood, but until it boe shown that Mormonism has been over- come, that polvgany Is dead. and that the Mormon church has been stripped of all polit- feal power the admission of Utah would be tuntamonnt to a erine A It Was o New Year's Resolve, Cliivago Hepald, mers allinnce in its rocent state convontion resolved that, as heat was o necessity. the government should own and control the coal mines and sell the product at costto the people. The Nebrasku aliianee 15 rather timtd, fsn'tit? It takes more than eoul tomake heat available, Self respeetful coal, sold at cost by the government to the pronle. would refuse’ to hurn i purehased from a grasping merehint ut a profit - wee Exhnusted, Philadelphic Pross. There 18 no reason why a public man should submit in silence to attacks upon him wnien are outside the ifne of eriticism of him as a public man. Mr. Quay hus submitted to this o an exteaordinary de but the celerity With which the Beaver case has been broughit 1o a conclusion fndicates thut he will not silent when unjustifiahiy attacked e Modesty, Thy Name is ¢ New York World, The newspapers of the entire country, re- pubtican and de following the lead of the World. spoke for the people and spoke for p The effest of this influ apparent instantly. President Harrison could £0 L0 war WIthoatan adequate ary or navy, but not without the . and 5o the war ended. are gottin break out oties, desizned to parade titles can The Nebraska L stove hocratic, - TICKLINIE TID-BITS. New Ol will cut un No weil bred barber 18 Picuyune cqualntanee Rinzhamton Republican: Persons on pleas- ure bent often get budly doubled ap. New York Sun: “Thisis an unusunily rull meeting of the Writers' e ub, fsn't it? “Yes, The sceretury suiid in his notice that overy one present would be asked to read one ot s own poenis.’ Re o few: Wingley—I thought your wife w: 12 south. Bingo—she was. it 1 found it was cheaper to buy her a sealsicin el Cloak CALLING THE ROLL. slis Lribane nele Sam— Here, Jim, you get the powderhorn, Aud, Steven. brinz the 1 zuess we'll hi With these ‘ere Chiliun UV course ye never ouzit to fight Ef ye eun do without it But when yer goin’ to fizht, why fight And not be foolin’ ‘bout it. And so you ke the rifle, i And 1 will take ny “navy:” And Jam 1t to eni rouh big Until they yell peceavi. Boston Transeript: Fozg inclined think that a cocktail is notan umnixed evil. Bereaved Wife (to nurss)—Do husband will live tiil tonorro Nurse—l nm afraid not, mzdam, would advise you to order . mourning atonee. Wife (wringinz ler hands How wouid you have it trim to you think my and 1 dress 3 15 yoerrible. TOO TRUE Washington Ntar, He went 1o th In i critic: And at teehnical And It wasn'ta joke Thut he meant wien he spoke Of the mob s & howling suceess, w York Ilerald: certainly wn artist, White=You Uet he is! Why, I've soen him druw wstraight liush to one carid twice in suc- cession. arruthers—Daube is Yarmonth Remster: The too mueh of a Christinn sp stepped on, mun who shows it 15 b to get Danvil'e Breeze: broken five-dotlay bill s teriul, judging shrink Woolen sh must e from ts and a ade of the the wiy they Binghamton Leader: When you want o cultiv wman itisn'ta gool thing to har- row his feelings and plant the seeds of hatred in his breast, Amerfean: The vory clean utt it s now Baltinore s horder e unusiil i recoiving from roops of Une Philadelphin Reco nin (e w jnek a1 ation b A will hius heen wedosboro, No b An ap- n put i oo owell Citizen: Tt is the man who has plenty of “sand” who displays the most grit Kate Plield's weton: Brown—1 say, Jones, did you hear about Smith huving u fit) Jone A ity He must bave chan 1 his tallc - Herald: Je r. Chapiey, hat makes you think that, M'ss New York fe—You hurd worker. Chapley -\ Jessie? Tossie--(i miake him must be a we yesterday that you Star; ¢ of dis town other m putty bad, but crap W da am Washington thit the policy one eojored man of “Yes, sah: de policy am a heap wus,” you think bad s wsked SIUST A MOMENT, DEAR Cloak Revicw, 8ho stopped to fix hor it on steaight, Aud place those hair-pins rigit And thut is why, her husband says, Thoy saw no piuy that night Brooklyn Life: Ier Mother--1 saw hin kiss you. 1 am terribly shocked. I did not suppose 1o would dare to do such u thing, Horso f--Nor L 1n fact, 1 bet him he didn't duro. A WEATHER WATI Waehington Stur O, the days Heavy with haze, Sloppery and slippory, Grievous una grippery ! opte are paddiing wlong through the st 1 from their ads to the soles of th etting more cola han thelr systews can hold, oling more paln than can ever be told rry, How cien we be werry When with deyness aud warmth you're so woe- fully chary? The populiace nsks—und itlsn't in fun-- “Pray. what have you done With' the sun?" Yankee Blade getting caught i # rain storm. Will--Yos, poor fellow, ho rends and follows the weather forecasts in' the daily papers. Tuck is continually Chieago Post: A rice horse starter has just Deen engnzod at i siliury of 825,000 per annuin Dut it Is the mun who can arrange & §ood tin {sh who makes the fortuno Pittsburs Chironicle: “Ife stole a wateh sald the policenun, referring to the prisoner “Then bo shall do tine,” replied the judge The auctioneer {5 1he aceon and goos ut o Dallas News duting wan wio conies ding. - MOTHER. Arkansaw Travel a8 the H3ht from hoaven's vaulted do seems—and cver wil- Ruling with love and symput The faithful subjects in her huppy home. Pur with thio death of wn | fedi | will hav SHEDDING RED INK. Now ¥ that itk Triby The meanost WIS i the siime of politics makes use of either war or pea partisan is he who as aparty Philadelphia wash Chill out 20,000 that, Chill Chieago Post: War with Chitl with ourown women against us wonld mean cortain and fenominious defeat. But, t thelr souls they would not be aninst s Atehison 1 Brennan and Judge Botkin to g ChilL, to heip pateh up a peace, 1l with that conntry wiii not have b Boston Globe: Chill cannot bo pert add nsult on insult to injury. 1 h lent loaders shali foree upon us the iss Wi national dishonor the administration the hoarty support of democrats repiblicans and putriots of every party fn its matntenonee of the dignity, good name and inalienable rights of these United States Minnenpolis Jonrnal: Senators Kyie and Peflorare apposed toa war with Chill and so are the mujority of Amerieans, But, uniike Iyle aud Poffer, the majority ure not in favo tinz alittle aegrozution of conceit and over us. punching and slup i pricking us just for dovilm With Amoricans helieve in with not otherwise w York Advertisor 1t misguided Chill Inquirer: Fdison wants t) wn with a hose that will pour volts of electricity, Do you hear induce own 1o trouble i vadn tod to trucn . of Glob Kansas oan Deace honor N tion of Letus have arbitra- This 1s not the era atentting 1t our differences with sted by a board of intetlt s of Both countries, then of war. Our land will then ¢ mouening, and, it we nre fortu collect the cost of wir from n rained and conquered peop I'his §s not a nation of bullica, We have an example 10 sct beforo the human v We say 1o Prosident Harelson, emphatically Stop this nonsense! Settlo this misunder standing with Chill i an intelligent, honor- uble, manly way gent, turn o be filied with glo SHORT BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Backstiding seldom happens in time o trinl Iversity. The best med well introduced t No watter how mneh religlon a man pro- fosses, all that eounts s what he lives The devilhas afard ight to hold his own in the home where there s a praying mother The roal worker for God never hits any narder because there has been a raise in his sulury There are people who pray, “Thy kingdom come,” who Ao iton the condition that its o come thelr way The testimony of o man who the voiee of God for tweniy yoars ble StEain on any prayer meeting Piety that never pits on its hat to o ot and 18y to help somebody, doos not attract el attention in heaven. Th vzrent dond of seifishness gof wnd down in the world that goes by the of roligion. When wpreacher has trouble to get his sal- ary, you can Lly sot it down as tru thiat he hasn't been doing the kind of preach- ing the Lord seat hini to do. - - = FACTS WITHOUT FRILLS. sine for self-coneelt is to be yourself. hasn't hoard s aterris Tup e A rosident of Manchester, Eng., has a bible 200 years old, which is two feet long and about tho same in width, I'here avo about two and one-half gallons of whisky now on hand for every man, woman and child in the United States, When Columbus discovered America he found that the Indians possessed does. They were direct descendants of the wila coyotes of tho plains. I'he gold meaal given to Virchow on his 70th bivthduy is tho largest ever made. It woighs neariy six pounds and the metal alono is worth 81,750, Tho groatest elutton of antiquity was Albinus, the Roman, who at one breakfast ate 500 figs, 100 peaches, teu melons, 100 small birds and 400 oysters. Thousands of men, women and children in the mountains of Spain and Portugal are busied in cutting cork. It is a domestic trade and it occupies whole villages. ‘I'ne speaker of the British House of Com- mons receives a salavy of £5,000 a year, and when he retires he is raised to the peerage, with an annual pension of £4,000. Amone the most extraordinary pieces of symbolism known to have been used by the enrly Asialics was a figure of a donkey's head used as a reprasentative of the Deity. Waves exert a force of oue ton per square inch when they ouly twenty feet high. At Cassis, Pranc o blocks of fiftcen cubic meters hav 1 moved by wave force, A reecent eruption on the sun’s face was photographed, and iasted for fully fiftecen minutes. 1ts angulur height showed it to be a disturbanco catsing tho vapors to ascend Tully 80,000 miles. The size and growth of the city of London is shown by the mileage of the streets. Should the aced togother they would )0 miles, or nearly the dis- cross the Atlzntle ocean. In Texas tnere is a stone about twenty feet in diameter that has wonderful magnetic vower. It is said that it will draw a hammer or an ax 10 its surface even when placed ten or fifteen feet away on the ground. An engine and tender weighing sixty tous were begun to be put togethe o'clock in the morning at the great works at Stratford, and by 7:15 the following morning they wero run out of the shop complete. The Mormon temple at Salt Lake City is built in the form of a truo ellipse, and, although 1t is of enormous dimensious, it is so woll constructed as regards acoustics that a person standing in the focus at one end can carry onn conversation in a whisper with auyone in the focus av the other end. ‘I'hree miles an hour is about the average of the Gult Stream, though at certain places it attains & speed of by miles. Iu the Yucatan channel, for instan: whore it is ninety miles wide ana 1,000 fathoms deep the current is not over a quarter of a mile an hour. In the straits of Bemini the current 15 80 rapid as to othesurface of the water ppearance of being a sheet of five. rench cxperimenter has tesied the sth of fifty robust mon ana fifty healthy women, all of the middle class of society and between 25 and 45 years of age. The strong est man was able 0 give with the right hand a pressure equivalent to 187 pourds and the weakest one 5% pounds. The short men were nearly as strong as the tall, tho average dif jerence being less than seven pounds. The force cxerted by the strongest woman was only ninety-seven pounds and that of the wenkest was but thirty-iive pounds, while the average was seventy-two pounds, - IN THE QUAK tance HIGH LLF o CITY, Philadelphin Record. Saurkraut is still a delicatossen. Pepper hash is getting out of senson. White is much sworn abroad for stroet wear, Olive oil baths are veneficial to dolicate children Tho old time carpét slippers ave ‘cailed for now Tho kitn drying process has suporsoded sweet potatoas rely e MANSHIP, NTATE Cinetnnati Commereidal, ke we a district safe and stron 10 lexislator erled “One with u sure majority of Two thousund on my side."” ' Or an angle worr hook Impaled, Displaying dire distress The legislator hied hi Rejolelng in hizh zleo Repeuting mervily the refrain: “A congressmun 'L be But the peoplo rose up 1 their might, And on eleetion duy They straightened oot the crooked schomo T their own righteous Wiy, The would-he statesman. shelved at home, As any one might gues Lay doubled up, 1ike %o angle worn, T the shape of lotter — Roal ! Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. DAWNING OF BETTER TIMES Views of Commissioner Carroll D, Wright on the Labor Outlook, PROSPECTS WERE NEVER BRIGHTER od Lab T Wages ased A Great Pro 1ts Own Solution of Strikes, Hours of King Out Influence Carroll D. Wright, national commissioner of labor, reviews tho labor situation as fol- lows, in tho New York World Tn my judgmont the condition of the wage ors of the United States, viewed in ail aspocts, is better now than at any previous period i our hist Thero 1s 0 continual obb and flow of the tide of weneral prosperity which for the time affects more or loss the mew and women who toll. For this reason it is not easy to make a comparison of a siu glo year with unother preceding or following it. But taking a poriod of, say, twouty-five years, and striking a general average, so to speak, wo may reach a faiv conclusion. Doing this we see n marked and gratifyiog improvemoent. Wages are higher, and while in so ro spects the cost of living is also increased, cousidering what a man gots for his money, the advantages he has of education, the gen- eral diffusion of intelligenc na social en- joyment, the relative value of wages over tho cost of living has materially aavanced. A very important consideration is tho fact that while wages have increased, there has beon a gonoral docrense in the hours of abor. Where this is taken into account the largoe componsation the artisan and the laborer receive for their time becomes even moro appare The roduction 1n tho hours of Iabor gives more time and ovportunity for recreation and inteliectunl culture, and these are potent fufluonces in bettoring the condi tion of the wagre-carners ANone will deny that in the United States the workingman—popularly o called—is at this time more of a social and political factor than ever bofore. Lavor is more respoctablo use the expression without being misunderstood. I3ducation develops in tho workingman all that coes to make good eiti zonskip, and this commands confidence nnd respect. In our own country the conditions are radically different from thoso of any other. Here the great body of workers aro not composed of a continuous line or race. In Germany, for instance, they are sub- ntially all Germans and hiave boen so for centuries. In Kngland, I"ranco and other countries it is much the same, Comparativo conclusions aro thereforo much more easily roached than heve, where we have a hetoro geneous mass made up from ull the civilized nations of the globe. The great wonder of students and publicists should be that this great body of peovle, 50 constituted, should be so intellient, so woll paid and gonorally s0 orderly Comparing our own with foreign countrios, it is an mdisputavle fact that the condition of the workiug prople is immeasurably bot ter. Wnat is most demanded now, in my opinion, is a wise and_just regulation—ner haps the word restriction would be un-Amer ican—of forcign 1mmicration. Well consia ered measures to tiis ond would promoto the interest of our wageworkers. \What thoso measures should bo 1 wiil not attempt to say. There nas always been some legislation tend ing in that direction. his is In somo degreo exporimental and may lead to sometting moro tangible and dofinite, 1 believe the social and moral condition of atl pooplo in all countries isgrowing botter. I am not a pessimist. 1 do not think tho world 15 going backward, 1am what might be called o conservative optimist, lookg al- ways to the better side of things and secing improvement aud progress wheraver they can be found, Speaking in a goneral wav, the workingman has always had a nard vme of it. He has never received s lepitimate sharo of tho product of nis labor. This has been the re- suit of existing conaitions and not of any fixed purpose on the part of his emplo, defraud him, or of presumed hostility e tween capital and iabor. So many factors onter into the price of Iabor that1t is hard to say why a man is paid so much or so littie, The ¢hief question 1n tho labor problem of today is: How shall the worker recnive his just and equitable shave of production? That we are nearing a point of a fairer distribu- tion I firmly believe. Just what the changes will be by which this most desirable condi tion may'be brought about it is quite impos- sible now to define. The problem must solvo itself in its own way. Legislution cannot do it. ‘There ure unwritten economic princi ples and laws which must determine. Thero has long veen a graaual narrowing of profits pital, resulting from the increase of wagoes, competitive rivalry and other causes. Iuterost is lower than formerly, and this is in the line of equalization, being to tho ad vantage of the borrower at the expenso of tho lender. There is at the same time a gen eral cheapening of many manufactured arti- cles, which helps the consumer. All these clomonts entor into the question and fostor the hope of & solution at no distant day. "Phis is the plain logic of events. It is a favorable signof the times that never beforo has been such a general, sincero and doep-seated sympathy with the laboring class, and a desire to better their condition in every practicable way. There will always be misfortune and vice, poverty aud want, but we may regard hopofully the work of logisiators, the press and the vulpit for tho improvement, of mankind. Employers aro mor considerate of the men and women who toil for them. Kverything is in tho lino of clevating labor instead of degrading it. With this_in view, the department of labor is, as I said at tho begiuning, an educational fc . It does not put dollars directly into tho pockets of the workingmen, but it” docs givo bim material aid in ways that are auite s effectual. I believe the era of strikes in for the present practically over. They have beon expensive educators, egacting largo tuition bills, but they have taught labor and capital each Lo respect the 1ights of the othor Much as they aro to bo deprecated, they have not been an unmixed evil. Thoy havo had their part in working out tho perploxing industrial problem. this country - HOBNOBBING WITH RID, Washlngton FPost: Mr, Cleveland has also gone on & southern hunting wip. Thero is evidently big gamo in tho south, Globe-Democrat: Cleveland’s trip to tho south for fishing purposes is worth notine, principally becsuso he has beratofore douo most of his fishing on Decoration da oledo Beo: Iix 1rosident Cloveland has gone to spend a_week hunting and fishing with Joseph Jefferson ou his Louisiana plan tation, No possible politics in this, but lots of fun St Louis Chroniclo: Grover Cloveland has run away to louisiana for a fish with Charles Jofferson, & young gentleman who has the famous wisfortune of being Joseph Jofferson’s son. In the meantimo Dave Hill will manipujate the machine for tne aemo cvatic nomination and Harvison wili imbroil the country in war to save tne republican party. Philadelphia Bullotin: Grover Cloveland has mysteriously and suddenly departed to Louisiana with the great actor, Joseph Jef forson. Is ho going to prepare for the stage, learn the part of Rip Van Winklo ana go to sloep till the angel of tariff reform wakes him upt It will be a long nap, and on awakening le will bo able to say with real pathos: “And are we so saon forgot!’ Philadelphia Times: Many a 1o eall u spade a spado 15 backward in calling for the thes. an not afraid uni tubiy sa0w shovel uy e — Baking Powder ABSOLUYELY PURE