Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1892, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE. E ROSEWATER, Eviron. - - PUBLISHED ERY MORNINC TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. D]y Beo (without Sunday) One Yoar Duily and Sunduy, One Your. fix o Thi One Year Ono Yeur One Year. Bitur Weekly y Beoe. ' ©Omaha. The Bee nunmnc Eouth Omahn, N and 26th Streets. Councll Blufs, treot Ehieaso Offce, 317 « hamber of Commerce, ew York, Rooma1”, 14and 15, Tribune Building fimhlnymn. 51 Fourteenth Streot. CORRESPONDENCE, All_communications relnting to nows and editorial matter should be addressed tc the Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and romittances should e addressed to The Boe Publishing Company. Omaha. Drafts. chocks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the com- pany. 'The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietor THE BEE BUILDING. EWORN STATEMENT oF © Etate of Nobruska ) County of Douglas. f Geo. B. Tzschuck, secrotary of The BER FAbahine company. - do6a sylomnly swenr hnt the nctual cirouliation of Tie DAILY Br forthe wook endlnl Febraary 6, 1802, was as ollowa: ROCULATION, Monday, 1 Tucaday, Fob) Woednesda, Sworn to hefore me and _subscribed 28 vrguncum- oth day of Febranry, A. . 180, l’r'sn wise child who knows its own father, but it takes a wiser man 1n Ne- braska to know his own governor. WHEN the curtain is rung up at the state capitol tomorrow the people of Nebragka will be treated to another roaring farce. WE HAVE never had more than two Jovernors in one week since Hascall :alled the legislature, but this week we may have three of them. SouTn OMAHA will take another jump this year, with half a million dollars to be expended in new packing houses and from two to three thousand in the en- largoment of the stock yards plant. WiLLIAM WOODHURST, who was war- den of tho stato penitentiary many years ago, has been selected for appoinv- ment as recciver of the North Platte land office. The appointment is made in the interest of harmony with abig H. APPOMATTOX court house is no more, having been destroyed by fire. The MecLayne house where Grant and Les signed the terms of surrender still stands, however, to mark the historic spot. It should insome way be pro- tected from all danger of destruction. ALFRED T SON, poet laureate, takes all tho pnc!h' liconse with trith the law allows him in his panegyric upon the late duke of Clarence and Avondale. He cannot therefore blame the Atlantic cable for taking telegraphic license to demovalize some of his lauda- tory lines. EFFORTS to besmirch the record of the superintendent of the national con- sus by charging that he subordinated his bureau to political ends will utterly fail. Superintendent Porter's official zeal and efficiency have established for him a reputation which is proof against partisan attacks. —_— THE South Dakota alliance poatess who unblushingly dedicated a poem to Senators Peffer and Kyle urging them to “‘Arm! Go forth naked for the fight” was a little harsh with Kyle. Peffer’s modesty could be secreted behind his whiskers, but the clerical senator from the blizzardy state would be entirely exposed to the weather. KANSAs Crry is working to secure a flouring mill with a capacity of 5,000 barrels per day, for which a bonus of 817,500 is required. Inasmuch as o flouring mill is worth eight or ten na- tional political conventions to an enter- prising city in the midst of a grain- growing region, there should be no dif- ficulty in raising that bonus in Kansas. —— PRESIDENT BERRS of the New York Life Insurance compauny makes two things absolutely clear: Life insurance is a profitable business and premium ' rates are too high. If the troubles which have come upon his company re- sult in cheapening the cost of insurance without reducing the character of the socurity then will the people conclude that Dinkelspiel and the other extrava- gances of the management were bless- ings in disguise. THE house committee on irrigation has unanimously agreed upon the propo- sition that the arid lunds be ceded to the states, and doubtless a bill governing their reclamation and sale will be intro- duced. It will meot with some opposi- tion, but the fact is becoming apparent that ' congressional sentiment leans largely toward the plan proposed by the states most interested. Senators Warren of Wyoming and Stewart of Nevada will probably lead the fight for ceding the lands to the state in the sen- ate. A strong opposition may be ex- vected from eastern senutors and the re- sult in that boay is problematical. While THE BEE believes the national govern- ment should control and develop these \ands for actual settlers, and is convinced that their sale would provide all the funds necessary for their proper irriga- tion, we must admit that the prospect of early national action is not encourag- ing. The ceding of the lands tu the states will not be the best solution ot the problem, but it may be the most ex- peditious way of securing irrigation. It is to be hoped that restrictions will be Imposed by congress which shall pre- vent speculators and monopolies from obtaining control of them. The danger is that the experience with the swamp land swindles will be repeated with the arid lands and millions of acres of aruble laud wilibe clussed with tho arid. OMAHA TAKES ANOTHER STEP WARD. Unless all signs fall Omaha 18 des- tined to distancs Kansas City within the next eighteen months both as a beefand pork-packing center, The decision of the Cudahy Packing company to enlarge its already exten- FOR- sivo beef-packing plant to three times its | present capacity and the almost certain enlargement of the pioneer packing plant of the Hammonds afford ample assurance that Omaha will, in the not distant future, rank next to Chicago as a meat canning and packing center. suth Omaha this means an addi- tion of from two to three thousand in her population before the close of the pref For Omaha it means a very marked increase in hank clearings and a stimulua to manufacturing enter- prises that are correlntive to the cattle and pork-packing industry. Boyond and above all things is the almost certain extension of our railway system into the cattle-raising region in the Texas panhandle and the construc- tion of feeders by the Union Pacific and Burlington lines into northwestern Ne- braska and South Dakota. For nt year. INTELLIGE? VSHIP. A judge in one of the judicial districts of Pennaylvania, when granting natur- alization papers recently, publicly stated that hereafter he should make it an in- flexible rule to require of applicants for citizenship thot thoy shall have read the constitution of the United States and of the state before he will grant natur- alization papers. There may be a quos- tion as to the right of a judge to exact this requirement, since there is nothing in the naturalization laws granting such authority or imposing upon an appli- cant for citizenship vhe condition that he shall read at all. In order to hecome a citizen an alien has only to establish to the satisfaction of the court that he has resided within the United States and the state or territory the time re- quired by law, that he has bshavoed as n man of good moral character, and that he is **attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States and well disposed to the good order and hap- piness of the same,” No other test is required, ana a judge has no more au- thority to require that an applicant for citizenship shall have read the federal or state constitution than he has to malko the granting of naturalization con- ditional upon the applicant having read the new testament. Whether or not the law is defective in this respect and ought to be amended so as to require that an alien in order to be ontitled to citizenship shall have read the constitution of the United States and the organic law of the state in which ho seeks naturalization is another mat- ter. The question has been discussed and agitated more than once in the past, but without inducing congrass to im- pose this conditicn or to requirs any od- ucational qualification. In view of this it must be assumed that there have been cogent reasons for not going beyond the existing requivements of the law. One of these may be that il illiterate aliens are to be excludad from citizenship justice requires that natives who are ignorant of the fundumental principles of the government should also be de- prived of the rigints of citizenship. Un- questionably there isa growing senti- ment that the naturalization laws ought to be more stringent and that it is de- sirable to put a higher value upon citi- zenship. There is a widespread feeling that the time has come to require that those who become citizens shall have an intelligent understanding of the duties and responsibilities involved in that re- lation. Perhaps the weight of argu- ment is in favor of such reform, and at any rate it is likely that sooner or later the sentiment in this direction will take practical form in law. Intelligent citi- zenship is necessary to good governs ment and to tho preservation of repub- lican institutions, and it should be en- couraged in every practicable way. T CITIZE SOME PLAIN TALK, The bank clearings and the genoral tone of tzade in Omiha bespeak a re- vival of business for 1802, Confidence has veturned to the community, and prosperity rules throughout its tributary territory. Theve is no excuse for pes- simism in the face of the present busi- ness conditions. The old apology for inaction and indifference is no longer available, but we should be engaged in something more profitable than mere talk. Unfortupately our business mean’s or- ganizations are not meeting the de- mands of the situation. The Board of Trade, since it becamse espacially inter- ested in the grain business, has wall- nigh abandoned overything else. A well attended, enthusiastic mzeting of the Board of T-ade hus not occurred for many months. The Real Estate exchange went glim- mering months ago and u single spasm about the first of the year announcad its final dissolution. The Roal Eitate Owners assoclation, the youngest of tha business men’s organizitions, has kept itsolf busy guarding the public treas- ury. Itisentitled to groat cradit for work performed in this importint di- rection, tut it is not so well supported as it should be by our citizans, and finds itself hampered for want of funds. This organization ought to be made u power in the community. [t can now afford to reston its oars so far as governmental economy is concerned, and should take a new and aggressive line of effort for the commercial welfare of the city. Between political campaigns dry rot seizes upon the Central Labor union, Tustead of devoting its time unceasingly to the encouragement of inuustries which employ labor and cultivating o sentiment of local patriotism among the labor organizations of Omaha, its mem- bers prefe~ to plan political movements and reach out after the prominence which comes of political agitation. The Manufacturers and Consumers as- sociation is the only veally live business men’s organization in Omaha. Its mew- bership is united, enthusiastic, and its work thus far has been effective. Dut this is & manufacturers' association. It aims to develop local industry and THE UMAIL\ I)\Il\ stimulate a sentiment for pnlmnu!ng home industry. Furthermore, it is a state affair. It cannot consistently de- vote its energies 1o Omaha. These are the uavarnished facts. In- uividual members of the various organi- zations are responsible for the con- ditions of which we complain. Officers cannot do all the work required to make these public concerns influential. We have enough business men’s organiza- tions to meet the situation. What we want is more workers, fewer talkers and definite purposes toward which we can move with the force of public sentiment and tho strong support of enterprising and substantial liberalit; PORTRAITS LUMBUS. Everything relating to Christopher Columbus, historical and personal, pos- sesses a special interest at this timo which will bs heightened a3 tha dato apyroaches for celebrating the discovery of America. One of the interesting features of the Columbian exposition will be a collection of portraits ol the groat navig tor and discoveror, and Me. W. E. Curtis, ehiel oftha buraau of South American republics, has pub- lished in an eastern magazine a most intoresting monograph relating to the various portraits of Columbus, Ho takes notice of all the allegel portraits now in existence. The alleged portraits of Columbus are numerous, and the dissimilarity be- tween them makes it incradiole that many of them could have been painted from the same subject. Mr. Curtis dis- poses of most of them as having no claim to be genuine, atthough some of them have been regarded as gonuine by others. This is the case with the por- trait in possession of Senor Colombo. Another is the portrait which hangs in the council chamber of the captain gen- orul of Cubn. A portrait of Columbus believed to be authentic the one known as the Belvedere, said to have been painted by order of King Fordi- nand of Austria in 1579 as a copy of the portrait then owned by Archbishop Glovo. It is a small miniature in oil executed upon a wooden panel. France once pos- sessed two portraits of Columbus of great antiquity and presumably gen- uine, once of which, recently presented to the nation by countde Montesquieu, is thought to be the portrait printed from life by the command of King Perdinand of Spain, who desired a memorial of Columbus in ¢ he should not return from his expedition. This picture represents Columbus as clean, shaven and of a rather heavy cast of countenance. The portrait in the Versailles gallery represents him as en- tirely bald. After speaking of a number of alleged portraits that are open to sus- picion or have little claim to attention, Mr. Curtis refers to a portrait in the possession of Mr. Ellsworth of Chicago s of unquestionable antiquity and ar- tistic value, and as to which there is circumstantial evidence amounting al- most to a probability that it was painted from life. This collection of portraits of the dis- coverer of the new world will be studied with great interest and will constitute one of the most attractive features of the World’s fai is THE LATE MR. SPURGE The late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was one of the foremost preachers of our tim Although not gifted in the tricks of orators or trainea in the schools ot the- ology, he has easily stood at the head of his profession, ii success in attracting members to his church and ability to interest large concourses of people con- stitute leadership. His career has been o long and interesting one. though it is ended at three years less than three score. He probably inherited his bent for the ministry, being the third of his own name in direct line to select this noble calling. His father und grand- father were Congregational clergymen. He grew up in an atmosphere of some- what stiff Puritanism and was encour- aged to devote much attention to re- ligious reading and thought. When a mere boy he was converted under the emotional preaching of a Methodist, and after some time had elapsed for maiita- tion upon the various doetrines ho unted with the Baptist church., His orthodoxy has ever since boen of the most unbending Calvinistic character. His religious convictions wore so inflox - ible that in 1834 he withdvew from vhe Inglish Baptist union for the reason that he could not remain in fellowship with some of its clerical members who were t0o broad in their viaws upon some doctrinal questions. Yet he broke many yeurs ago with the body of beliefl in his church by abandoning close communion. Mr. Spurgeon never sought the title of Doctor of Divinity. He preferred to be called “Mv.” rather than **Dr.” Spurgeon. From the time when he preached his first sermon as a boy 16 s old until the day of his death his bursee and his personal behavior wore distinguished by simplicity. His sermons and his books are all peculiarly directed to the common people. Abound- ing in illustration and giving evidence of u brilliant ganius, they are noverthe- less couched in language within the un- derstanding of children and the common folk. He stands alone perhaps among great modern Protestant preachers in having yielded nothing of his striet orthodox interpretations of the scrip- tuves and articles of faith to the so-called advanced thought of the age. Beocher became almost a Universalist in his teaching before his death. and Simpson nad ceased to frighten his hearers with awful pictures of a final and fearful judgment day. Spurgeon was pained to see the young men from his own theo- logical school drifting away from eall- ing, election and other doctrines which he believed to be plainly taught in the bible. Mr, Spurgeon performed a vast amount of labor. He was still in bis teons wheu he became pastor of the New Purk streot church in London. He was only 22 yewrs of uge when in the Royal Surrey Gardens music hall he deew audiences of from 5,000 to 6,000 Sunday after Suaday and had achieved & worldwide renown. In the first ten years of his London pastor persons into the woembarship of his church and for thirty years his has been the lurgest church in membership and the largest congregation in Christendom. but he | Ilhlu. \I aid not rest thrc bimself for .t wrote commeon and religions roligious per work and Sunday effort. He ies upon the seripturas hoks, edited o monthly sdieal, superintended the o instruction in a divinity school, diredt® a colnortage socioty and looked after the interestsof the Stockwell Orppanage. He broke down from overwor| I Nowonder #hd-religious world mourns his loss. Thereis no preacher to take his place. A genius cannot be made by education or éxflorience. Other men of oloquence and power in preaching can fill large auditoriums and interost im- mense audiences for occasional sorvices, and even for weeks ata time, but not since the Reformation has a man ap- peared, excepting Mr. Spurgeon, who has sustained an untarnished reputa- tion, an undimmed eloquence and an over increasing: popularity and success through a period of forty years. THE PAN-AMERICAN RAILWAY. Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, whose name is so familiar to readors of Tue BeE, contributes an unusually interesting lot- ter this week regarding the proposed railway which is to connect the two American continents. This great enter- prise is making more progress than peo- ple generally suppose. Ordinarily, rail- way undertakings of magnitude are her- alded by brass band announcements and the country is wearied with anticipa- tions of the rosults which high-sounding advertisements prophecy. We are also accustomed to auction sales of town lots and flaming nandbills informing us of the immense profits to be realized upon investments along proposed new rail- roads. Here, however, is a line which when completed will connect New York and Buenos Ayres by rail, and yet only an oceasional newspaper article appears to remind us that the work is progressing. A glance at a map will enable the reader to appreciate the enormous. dis- tance between these two cities. To travel from one city to the other will be a railroad ride of 10,000 miles and the traveler will pass through seventeen different nations and almost as many distinct climatic zones. The road which the pan-American congress determined upon and which is now being surveyed begins at the Mexican line and runs through the Central American states, across the isthmus of Panama, through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chili to the Argentine Republic system. A good part of the distance the track will be at an eloyation of from 9,000 to 12,000 feet above sea level, and ona plateau betweén the main ranges of the Andes mountains. The practicability of the route is rap- idly being demonstrated by the Ameri- can engineering parties in the field. | The direct mamagement of prelimi- nary details is iy the practical hands of such eminent railway builders and oper- ators as Andrew J. Cassatt and ex-Sena- | ! 2 | if for so small an outlay as a series of ton Henry G, Davis. Once the survey is completed there will culty in obtgiming subsidies enough from the nations through which the line is to be coustructed 4o do the grading, lay the track and equip the road. The scheme is, therefore, no vagary. It promises immense returns to its pro- jectors. huantepee very soon, Argentine has her system extended to Bolivia. Other private companies have links under way or completed which will form part of the great system. are to be located and built by the pan- American company. Branch lines will be built to Venezuela, Brazil and the const regions of other states. In fact, 18,000 miles are now under construction and surveyed, part of which are in the direct route, and the remainder natur- ally tributary to the trunk line. which, when completed, will extend from the city of Mexico to Buenos Ayres. The details of this gigantic entevprise of uniting North and South America in- dissolubly by bands of steel rails ana direct railway communication are well worthy the perusal of every reader of THE BEE. THE NORTH WES The question of lmpl'n\, ed waterway transportation is manifestly of vital in- terest to the producers of the west. It involves both the means of gotting their products promptly to market and a vast saving in the cost of doing so. It ie the duty of the government to cnable the people to take the largest possible ad- vantage of the facilities afforded by the great natural highways of commerce. In the February number of the Forum Senator Davis of Minnesota contributes a paper on the lake commerce and ways to the sea, intended especially to show the commercial demands of the northwest and the necessity for improving al] ex- isting means of water communication between that section and the seaboard. Senator Davis shows thatethe increase of population and production in this region has raised the great northern waterway to the highest importance, imposing upon th *Soo” canal a greater burden than the, Suez canal has to beur, The statistics shew that the tonunage of the latter is ‘vé§ much less than that which passes through the *Soo,” and the annual demand upon the American canal is growing very pauch faster than thas upon the foreign,, Fow people have any conception of thagvast commerce of the great lukes, andoas this must go on in- creasing with ithe advance of western development thetecessity for improving and snlm'gingl,\'l‘flll-lus for handling this commerce becQmes every year more urgent und impesative, It is estimit§d that the saving in freight now carpigd by the lakes, when compared with rail rates, amounts to $30,000,000 per asnnum in the traffic of W\\ I"FBR U A RY 7, 1892 h the week to prepare ! be little diffi- : 8 ; 1 s0n to go by without an organized league Mexico will have a line to Te- | Less than 2,900 miles | | students ]\’II-EY\ I"\(IEF. Th producers of the “Soo” canal alone. greal deal to the #he horthwest, and the amount to be thus saved will be very much larger in the future if proper pro- vision be mada for the fullest utilization of the waterwa Senator Davis says that if a prediction were now made with anything like accuracy as to what the next tweatv years will bring to pass in the waterways between the head of Lake Superior and the Atlantic ocean and in the vast region of the northwest, it would be scouted as a rhapsody. ‘“‘A future that is very near and clearly visible is making demands which will overtax national and individual re- sources, Other considerations, remote but by no moans rashly speculative, domonstrate the nocessity for the im- provement of our international water- ways to their utmost capacity and to ultimate connections with the sea by ship navigation. It is of the highest and most permanent importance to the traffic,” continues Senator Davis, “domestic and foreign, of the territory now tributary to this system of wator- ways, or destined to be so if our natural advantages are made the most of, that it be held to the present tendency to become 80.” The Canadian government re- cognizes the meaning of the situation and is preparing to secure such advan- tinges as ave to bo derived from improved water and land facilities of transporta- tion. Tf the United States government neglects the obvious interests of its own citizens in this particular it will do so to the benefit of our northern neighbor. THE BASE BALL CLUB, Mr. W. F. Bechel has consented to accept the responsibility of the presi- dency of the Omaha Base Bali associa- tion, which encourages the friends of the national game to make further efforts for a home team. With this well known and popular gentleman at the head of the enterprise as a guarantee of intel- ligent attention to details, there should be no difficulty in raising the small sum sufficient to secure an inter- esting and profitable series of games during the approaching season. Buse ball is » recreation which com- mends itself to lovers of athletic sport and an amusement for people of all ages and sexes. It attracts the poor as well as the wealthy. It is harmless to public morals and a proper means of enjoy- ment. This city is sadly wanting in summer plensure resorts. There are no i lakes, n» mountains, no hunting resorts in the vicinity. Our chiefly confined to carriage drives, parks and base ball games. Amusement is essential to the well - being of the multitudes. Healthtul entertainments are always commendable. Metropolitan cities everywhere patron- ze the national game. An Omaha club isu good advertisement for the city. The reports of gnmes keep the name of the city before newspaper readers con- tinually, It will be unfortunate, indeed, recreations are the games involves we shall pormit the sea- club. THE new Chicago university not only intends to have a faculty that will place it at once in the front rank of American educational institutions, but it proposes also to make teaching profitable, which is an innovation that educators all over the country will regard with interest. Tt is said that the highest salary ever paid a professor by Harvard was $4,000 a year, but in the Chicago university no oceupant of its principal chairs will re- ceive less than 37,000 a year, with op- portunities to add to this income. Of course with such exceptional liber- ality the university has no trouble in securing the very best meu available, and those so far engaged are of the highest standard in their special fields. It is not to be doubted that the policy will be found profitable, because it will give a reputation und character to the institution that will attract to it all the it can accommodate. As a rule scholars of the highest attainments are not uately compensated in the universities and colleges, and if the ex- ample of the Chicago university shall have the effect to inaugurate a system in this respect it will exert a wholesome influence. AMERICAN grain exports from New York reached the enormous total -for 1891 of 68,483,005 bushels. The year’s shipments huve not been equaled for ten years. This is gratifying indeed, but the mortifying fact remains that American vessels are credited with but 1,278,724 bushels. Amevica’s grain fleet consists of four vessels and they carried across the Atlantic but twenty- five out of 1,238 ship loads. he Ame can merchant mavine is very lonesome on the Atlantic ocean. MiLLs proposes to fight **the proposed hide-away and stand-still measures that some democratic leaders advocate,” Mills vas never a guerrilla. Ho isa fair fighter as well as free trader und Messrs. Springer and Crisp will be forced to meet him in the open field. fowa's Risiug Son, Chicayn Times, Governor Boies is one ot several democratic presidential possibilities who inhabit the Mississippi valley. now the seat ot empire, B poly's Reach, Chicago News, The proprictors of the proposed electr city trust will remember with regret that their monopoly 1s limited. Thev caonot control the price of sunshine, Beyo Vea, and Decldediy Vigorous. Philadelphia Ledger. A man alleged 10 have been the ‘‘first white settler in California” died on Monday W that state, aged 82 years. He went to California in 1343, and builu the Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Real Baking Powder means a | first house 1n San Francisco In 1838, Tt seoms scarcely creditable that the now great state and city should be s0 young, but, as & mattor of fact, noithor got fairly started until the discovery of gold more thama dozen vears later. ‘T'he great west is still very young—and frosh. —— The Retort € Portland Oregonian. The “underbrad swagger’’ of States gives offense to journals of the “rul- ing clus: in England. Begludshiv's pardon! Probably the strain of man with us nover will o bred out into that ineffable creature who swaggers in London, and who has bad no parallel in history since the down- fall of the sodomite aristocracy of the Roman empire of Caligula and Nero, stie. the United — An Opportunity Neglected, New York Advertiser, Feb. 3. Yesteraay was what was known in the early meteorology of the country as *‘Giround- bog day.” It is observed that Senator Hill did not call a convention on that day, and yot he is reputed in some political quarters to have on his hands what is known as ‘‘a groundhog case.”” Thurston, F'rinstance, Chicagn News. A sharp eye oan now detect a shoal of min- nows rampling wildly about in the political swim. These are the vico presidential booms, young at present and rathor feoblo, but willing to race by the side of any whale i the pond. I BLAST§ FROM RAM'S HORN. A child that doos not laugh healthy. A great many prayor mectings are prayed to death. Angels love 1o look at the man who loves the truth. No good man ever dies without making hv ing people rich. Spivitual dyspopsia is a great deal harder 10 cure than the other kind. The pastor who tries to carry his church to heaven on his shoulders will bo sure to drop the most of it. is seldom iy LIGHT WEIGHT THOUGH Philadelphia Pross: It was on tho “Juckpot™ cluim where the recent I)I.‘ silyer discoveries wero made in Creed, (olo. One must “speak by the cara in chroni 'Hllfl 1t New York Horald: * about being a bun die, chwerily the climnte of Cai "here's one_comfort shier,” s1id 8. Koy Dad- mother-in-luw can't stand Judgo: To compliment, to court or kiss a pretty widow's not a miss. Washingto 0. said one chicken to another. “we dun tspeak to her. She wasn't huu'h\!d from the same lot of eggs that we wore. OB, T see. 8he's trom a different set, ian't THE COMMON KICKING POST. Philadelphia Press. The plumber cumo down Itkoa wolf on the 0ld > After frost with cajoled: And e loufed and-he smoked while his boy eame and went. But the house is his now, and the other pays rent. the pipes overnight had Boston Herald: _She (zazing upward at the old familinr urln—uuw provoking It is’ mvur. never see tho other side of that moon. Indianapolls Journal: along?" O, yes. T think ho will catch up with his voice'fu a yeur or so." “Baby growing right There's many a slip Twixt the cup nad the lip— A truth we cheerfully crant; But there's often a slin, When it's been ut the lip— Sowetimes a regulur plant. n Belle—Here, St Paw, Tenderfoot's 22-ouliber doin® with that toy wanb you to plorc Wostorn Bollo- o's rrings | 2 1y ears wear th owling Hank gave mi Washinzton Star: When a mun is “laid up" hois very apt to be lald down. el Ay FL. TING YEARS. New York Sun. They come, they pass, with snow-soft feet, And deathless youth illumes their eyes; Alike to them are chaff and wheat, Alike the foolish and the wise. They bring the wound, they bring tho balm, ‘I'hey light our smiles, they dry our tears; Careless of death or life, the calm Servants of time, the patient years, The winds that rend and strew tho rose Dissolve the sweetness through the ait; “This wind of time that beats and blows, Leaves all the past still fragrant fair. ‘Though hopes may fail and hearts may brea, And fruitless all the striving be, One golden gift is left to make Man’s bliss, consoling memory. Hail and farewell, farewell and hail! The going and the coming guest. Welcome to daybreak's shining sail, As to the night beyond the west! I'he years may come, the vears may go, Aud bring the sad or merry mood; ferrv or sad, one thing we know 'hat life is good, an, tife is gooa! BROWNING, KING &, W. Corner Shirtwazsts Cut to the Core--- Monday we §c|l All our $1 Percale and for Star bhlrtw‘usts. like the color or style way from $8.50 to $22.50 and make $4 to %8 on the investment. Browning, King & Co S. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts. tarduys il 19 o. m l ven tugs tl 6:30. THURSTON AND AIS BOOMLET. Boatrice Democrat: John M. Thurston is baing boomed as the man above all others that should run for vice president on the Blaine tickot. It will be romembored that a fow yoars ago Mr. Thurston died in the ditch s ono of the immortal Grant erowd Seward Reporter: John M. Thurston is said to bo a canaidate for vico president, Mr. Thurston's well known ability would make him quite a formidable candidate, and Nebraska would bs proud to givo him hearty support. He has rocontly said, however; that he is not seoking such a distinction. Fairmont Signat (vep,): Nebraska has a candidate for tho republican nomination for vico president. Or, rather, the friends ot Hon. John M. Thurston have put him in the field for that honor, althoagh it may woll ve held an open questiou as to his being No- candidate, or that ofthe republican party of tho state, notwithstanding his ac- knowledged brillianoy and political shrowd- ness. Grant County Republican: It is an- nounced that John M. Thurston, the brilliant orator and ablo attorney of this state, may possibly ba a candidate for vico president, in case the Blaine eloment predominates in the Minneapolis republican convention. It would urediy be an honor to the state of Ne- braska as well as to the entire west to namo the next vice President, as above indicated,, from Nebraska, The Ropublican says: *So mote it be.” Philadelphia Times (dem.): Thurston for vice president! What treachery! What s blow to poor Manderson, who through all the years has been grooming himself for vice presidontial honors! But Thurston is a talker and Manderson is a worker, and on the surface the senator has the best of it. While our two Nebraska candidates aro only possibilities, one of them may hecome more. Nebraska is now {n tholist of doubtful statos, and therefors entitled to extra attention. Grand Island Independent (rep.): John M. Thurston, the head railrond attorney of the Union Pacifie, and paymaster of the Lin coln oilrooms, has the extraordinary modosty to put himself in the hands of his friends as republican candidato for vice president ot the United States. Wedon't think that any sensible republican has the least idea of such A nomination, but it is unfortunate for the republican party that such atool of the rail road companies can flatter himself with the hope of recowving this nomination from the varty. Yes! Leland Stanford for presi- dent and John M. Thurston for vico presi dent would mako a nico railroad team. Silver Creek Times (rep ) : John M. Thurs. ton ought to know that with his name on the national ticket, republican defeat would be & foregono conclusion; ho ought to know that the very fact of his candiaacy before the Minneapolis convention with tho Nebraska delegation at his back would be very likely to insuro tho defeat of the republicans in this stave ncxt fall, and he ought to know that his participation in republican conventicns for the past twenty yeurs as the hired attor. noy of a railroad company has had moro to do with bringing the party to its present low ebb than any other one thing. All this he doubtless does know as well as any one else, which fact being granted it follows that hia present candidacy is intended to be solely in his own personal intorest. But how does fie expect to serve his own interest in taking 1 course which he knows will bo detrimental to the interests of his party? It should here be remembered that Mmr. rston onee desired an appointment of President har- rison as secretary of the interior. In declin- ing to make the appointment Mr. Harrison did one of the mostsensible things of his life; nevertkeless John M. has it in for him. Hoe avidently reasons with himself thusly: It { am & candidate for the nomifa tion as vico prosident, party usage would give me the Nebraska deiegation to the Minneapslis convention; I would then use it as a club with which to beat out Presi dent Harrison’s brains, and then, if the suoc cessful candidate skould be elected, 1 could got most anything I wanted. Judge Thurs- ton is an able and brilliant man, but h+e should ve given to understand that he cannnt have the Nebraska delegation for this or any other purpose. The times are not provitiouy for rallroad candidates or railroad manipu~ Iators in politics. Railroads are indespensa- ble Lo the well-being of society and uhey should bave a just remuneration for ser- vices rendered, but they must not be allowed to dominate conventions and legislatures, They will tako good counsel by keeping out of the former) entirely, and by figuring in the latter only in a fair and legitimate manner, as any ri- vate person might properly do. Itis easy to say that in becoming » railroad attorney Judge Thurston did not surrender his r and privileges as a private citizen. true, and yet it is equally trae that as a o didate before the people he would not be Sth and Douglas Sts. those who'd like to be Papas and for those who wouldn't be Papas if they could, we have 187 Suits on the front counter, 1 and 2 suits of a kind, plenty of sizes, and if you looked upon as the man, John M. Thurstou, but as a tool of Jay Gould. Cheviot Star Shirt Waists tor 75c, Got too many, want the room for new spring novel- ties. No further comment neces- sary. Monday 75¢ For Papas and for you buy them all the $1 Shirtwaists 75c.