Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1892, Page 4

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Averago....... .. GE 3 Ewaorn to Fofore me and _sul lll;‘l!lll'e this 13th day of Febry EAL OMAHA’'S increase of clearings for the past week is 42.8 per cent, showing that the city is rapidly and steadily re- covering prosperity. A DEPFARTMENT of transportation pro- porly managed and authorized to correct abuses would be an improvement upon the Interstate Commerce commission. — OMAHA people should devote some thought to the coming general confer- ence, as thiscity must bestir itself in the matter of making prepurations for the great meoting in May. ‘WoODEN headed mugwumps and dem- ocratic tramps is-the vigorous generaliz- ation under which the Atlanta Constitu- tion classifies Senator Hill’s enemies and Grover Cleveland’s friends. Tre people will find no fault with the grand jury on thescore of expense, if it does its duty. There should be no ad- journment until the boodle cases have all been carefully examined. AN INTERNAL revenue tax of $10 per 1,000 on cigarettes, whether domestic or imported, would do more to break up the dangerous and senseless habit than a hundred prohibitory measures. Tour hundred sugar factories in America would not be adoquate tosup- ply the home market. If there is any infant industry in this country that ean bo stimulated profitably it is beet sugar manufucture. OVER 200 people in various sections of this country died or grew hopelessly. in- pane during the-past year as a conse- quenco of cigarette smoking. Most of the victims were young men under 16. Congress has been asked to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, I¥ Wk are to have an extra session of the legisiature Governor Boyd should ssue a requisition for the late abducted gennwr Taylor or request his constitu- pnts to replace him with a man that Wwill not be likely to have important business in Council Bluffs about the Yime he is wanted at Lincoin. OMAHA jobbers had nothing to dowith the Adamscontract between the Union Enclflc and the Rock [sland and Mil- aukee. If a bad bargain was made for the Union Pacific that railroad should Yake its medicine gracefully without im- fosing extortionate charges upon its patrons in the hove of getting even. OMAHA'S Young Men’s Christian sociation has been un especially effec- ive institution the present winter. The roading rooms, parlors, correspondence fooms, gymnasiura, employment bureuu pnd other permanent material features of the association have beeu unusually ropuhlr the past fow months. The Cur- ont Topics club, the gymnastic classes, the Travel club, the History club, and the off-night mectings, have attracted Wvide attention. The religious work has, .. pl course, gone vn with usual vigor, — NEW YORK capitalists have offered to pontribute $30,000 for free kindergartens n the great city upon the progressive lan that hus been pursued in San Fran- isco, They are striving also to secure he services of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper to whom the marvelous success of the San Francisco kindergarten systom is largely @ue. 1nthis they are likely to be dis- appointed, but no better proof of the lady's skill or the merit of the San Francisco system could be given than this offer from the New York people. The Chronicle says the good anccomplished by kindergartens in the Golden Gate pity in reducing juvenile erime and making ‘good, honesf, hard working nen and women out of poor and neg. lected children 1s incaleulable. — THE great majority of the American people feel that there ought tobo a monument to Genoral Grant at the na- tional capital. It is possible that some me in the remote future New York will redeem its promise to erect a suita- ble memorial of the great soldierin that pity, but in any event there should be a ational memorial at the seat of govern- ent—one that will fittingly represent he esteem and affection of the whole ple. A bill to appropriate $500,00 or such & monument has beéen fuvorably ported ie the senate, and its passuge )y congress would meet with universal pproval. The nation can afford such a testimonial to its greatest military hevo, | Jndeed it cannot without discredit neg- Ject to thus honor the memory and fame of Ulysses 5. Graut IMPOSING ON THE CREDULOUS In the recent joint debate on free sil- ver Jay Burrows worked himself intoa spasm over the terrible era through which we are passing, and franctically cried out: ‘*Ask the millions of tramps, the millions of men working on short time, half a million of miners working for 60 to 80 cents a day and paid in orders on ‘pluck mo’ stores. the mil- lions of bankrupt merchants and mort- gaged farmers! All who understand the cause of their sorrow will tell you that low prices are not a blessing.” Thousands of thoughtless and igno- vant people will actually believe this to be a true statement of facts, Now let us calmly and dispassionately reason about this matter. A tramp i8 a stroll- ing idler, a vagrant, or a vagabond. The largest number of tramps that this country ever had was during the fivst five years after the war, when more than 1,000,000 men, who had served in the union and confederate armies, were returned to seek places in the marts of traffic and industey. The labor market became glutted und vast numbers of idle workmen wore forced to tramp from town to town in search of employment. Although that period always has heen pictured by men of the Burr a8 the most prosperous Amel ever seen, the country was overrin by an army of iramps that made life and property insecure and compelled the enuctment of special laws to check their inroads. But the largest number of tramps in those memorable good old times never exceeded 500,000, Talk about millions of tramps! If there were really 1,000,000 of vagrants and vaga- bonds tramping through the country we would have one tramp to every sixty- five inhabitants, or, computing the grown male population at 15,000,000, one man out of every fifteen would be a tramp. Nebraska alone, with her 230,000 men of voting age, would have 15,833 tramps. It is safe to assert that there are not over 500 tramps in this state and there never have been. It is also beyond dis- pute that there are not 50,000 real tramps in the whole United States at this time. Tf all men out of employ- ment are to be classed as tramps the talk about millions of tramps is still ex- travagant and preposterous. There are always more people out of employment in the winter than at any other time of the year. In the north mechanics and laborers employed in thebuilding trades are for tho most part out of work every .winter, but their wages in the summer are gauged accordingly. All the idle wage workers, men, women and chil- dren, will not exceed 500,000 at the pres- ent time. This, of course, does not in- clude farmers and their wives, who can- not be classed as idlers, vagrants or tramps. It is equally absurd to talk about mil- lions of men working on short time. A reliable estimate of the number of men working on short time is impossible, but it is safe to say that it will not exceed ten per cent of the factory workers. The most extravagant estimate of the number of factory workers does not exceed 8,000,000 of men, women, boys and girls. Assuming that ten per cent of these toilers are employed on short time, the number would aggrogate 300,000, instead of millions, Instead of hall u million miners work- ing ut 60 to 80 ceats a day we venture to assert that not one-tenth of that num- ber are working at such low wages. The whole number of miners and laborers employed in the coal mines, jron, copper, lend and zinc mines of the United States is computed at less than 150,000 by the census bureau. Of this number iron ore mining gives employ- ment to 88,227, The average wages of iron ‘miners, excluding convicts, are $1.90 » day with an average of 274 work- ing days in the year. The wages of boys under 16 employed in iron mines average 62 cents a day, varying from 49 cents in Missouri to $2 in Colorado. The number of miners and laborers employed in copper mining, according to the census of 1890, 18 8,721; average wages of foremen, $4.43 to $5.28 a day; mechanics, $2.71 to $2.88a day; laborers, $1.74 to $1.91; boys, 88 to 95 conts. The number of workmen employed in lead and zine mines is 5,100 in round numbers; average wages—foremen, $2.62; mechanics, $1.93; luborers, $1.48; boys, 68 cents, Lowest wages in lead and zinc mining are paid in Missouri, ranging from 70 cents to 81 per du) The number of coal miners in this country i+ computed at 97,700; of this number 24,558 are in the stutes of Ken- tucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Vir- ginia, Georgia and North Caroiina, and 36,165 in the states and terrvitories west of the Mississippi. The remainder are apportioned to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illi- nois, Indiana and Michigan and Wiscon- sin. A faiv average of the wages paid in the southern states may be found in ‘West Virginia, where foremen receiv $2.48 per day; mechanics, $1.90; laborers above ground, $1.86; below ground, $1.46; minor's, $1.86; boys, 66 to 76 cents, The 60 to 80 cents a duy minevs ar chiefly convicts, Mongols,and negroes in thesouth and Slavonians in Penn- sylvania, But if there were really millions work- ing ut very low wages and other millions working on short time ornot at all, then low prices for all the necossuries of life would certainly bo an unmixed blessing, since if it were not for low prices these unfortunate toilers and idlors would oo exposed to wretched destitution, if not absolute starvation, The clamor about the millions of bank- rupt merchants and movtgaged farmers has no sounder basis than the gubble about millions of tramps. The uumber of individuals, irms and corporations doing business at this time in the United States and Canada is estimated at 1,023,- 000. That includes, bankers, manufac- turers, merchants and all ciasses en- gaged 1n commoereial and financial t ans- actions. The total number of failures last year was about 1% per cent of the whole number, and all the failures in the last twenty years aggregate less i than 150,000, Tt is safe to assert that there arc not 25,000 baukrupt werchunts in the country all told at this day. Of the 5,000,000 farms 1 this country wore than two-thirds ave cultivated by their owners and it is doubtful whother | 80 per cent of the farm vwners ave bur- doned with a mortgage debt. The greut | body of farms in the middle und Now THE OMAHA DAILY England states are not encumbered and the great majority of mortgages on western farms vepresent part of the purchase money. When men buy farms on credit they are in the position of the merchant who buys his wares on credit. They must depend upon enter- prise, thrift and good management for their chances of getting out of debt. IMPERTINENT DEMAG The peopla of Omaha are not likely to ba deveived by newspapor talk of economy, while at the same timo taxes are increased to maintain city government £40,000 or £50,000, So far as heard from, there hias boeu no at- tempt to reduce the large rents which the city'is paying for quarters in a large, half- vacant, brown stono and brick building at the corner of Seventeenth and Farnam streots, in which a certain editor bas a pro- prietary interest, So far as heard from, none of the patriotic members of the city conneil who desire to reduce the pay of jan- itors and clerks have shown_any disposition to reduce their own salaries lately increased, ~W.-H. A more brazen plece of demagogy has never emanated from the acrobat who gives two exhibitions daily through his troupe of male and female performers on the politicat tight ropo. The people of Omaha are intelligent enough to know a hawk from a hand- saw. They remember well that the mountebank who prates about reducing salaries of councilmen as a momber of the Committee of Fifteon thav framed the charter voted to increase the pay of councilmen from $600 to $1,000 a year, just to reward the combine that voted him $2,800 more than he would have been entitled to under his printing con- tract. He knows vhat the legislature refused to raise the pay of councilmen to $1,000 and finally fixed it at $800. He knows that the pay of officers fixed by the charter can only be reduced hy the logislature. He knows or ought to know that a large part, if not the whole, of the 850,000 which the present council expecls to raise in oxcess of its estimated expenses for tho current year will be needed to pay debts created by the old combine of which he wae the mouth- piece. i The impertinont demagogue wants to know why the mayor and council have made no attempts to reduce the large rents which the city is paying for quar- ters in THE Beg building, which he sneeringly describes as “a large, half- vacant, brown stone and brick build- ing.” This is not only mean, but contempti- ble. The rental paid for city offices amounts to $18,915 a year, of which 2,600 a year, or less than one-fifth, i paid for the quarters occupied in THE BEE building by the city treasurer and comptroller. The reantal paid in Tne Bew building under its leaso is as low as that paid by any other tenant in the bullding, and several applicants are waiting totake the premises just as soon as the city officials move out. The rental collected from tenants in THE BEE building for 1891 amounted to $59,221, and the lenses for 1892 exceed $62,000. Instead of being half emply, only forty of the 187 offices are vacant. And these could be filled within tweaty: four hours if the proprietors were dis- posed to admit sccond-rate tenants. What excuse is there for singling out THE BEE building and omitting the life insurance building, in which the mayor’ oflice, the police commission and park commission have quarters? The reason why is simply because the smali-souled acrobat feels o terrible pung pass through bis bones overy time he hears that another tenant has taken up quac- ters in Tui BEE buil FLEE( IHI; UNIWWARY., The approach of the timefor the open- ing of the World's fair is bringing to the front all manner of schemes for making money out of its patrons. The most plausible one which has come to our attention is that of the various World’s ["air Savings and Transporta- tion companies. In almost every state in the union one or more of these has been organized. There is one at Lin- coln, in this state, which is a type of those which are operated elsewheve. The association or corporation is a catch- penny affair in every instunce, which sensible people should avoid entirely. The compunies generally propose, in consideration of a given mombershin foa varying from $1 to $5 and weokly payments of from $1 to $1.50 for a longer or shorter period, to provide tho *mom- bor? with a round trip ticket to Chicago and return, transfer to and from the hotel at Chicago, and six or more ad- mission tickets. Some of the concerns furnish meals enroute, board at the fair and theater tickets. The Lincoln or- ganization which, so far as we know, is entirely reliable aud is conducted by re- sponsible parties, is perhaps the fivest ot the many so-calle? companies, but it is not a philanthropic eaterprise, as may be seen by an analysis of its plan. To begin with, there is a membership fee of #1 and the membear agrees to pay into the association in installments of $1 oach a total of $20 in addition to the membership fee. For this the World’s I'air and Savings company at the cap- ital entors into an agreement to furnish wrvound trip ticket to Chicago; six ad- mission tickets; a monthly newspapor (edited by J. D, Calhoun and called the World’s Fair Herald) until August, 1803: an illustrated guide to Chicago; transfor from depot to hotel and veturn; and to return “whatever amount may remain of the said $29 after deducting the cost of railway tickets, admission tickets, omnibus fare, 6 per cent of tho wmount paid in, $1.60 for the monthly paper and 30 cents for the illustrated guide.” The sum of #25 will be re- turned to any member who has paid in ull his nssessments and does not visit Chicago duriag the No rebate is provided for those who begin paying and fall by the wayside, though it is probable the company would adjust claims of members equitably, Tho company which has engaged in this enterprise at Lincoln works upon a vory neat murgin, For instauce, if tho rail fare be $14 from Lincoln to Chi- cago ana return, the admission tickets will be %4 and the omnibus $1. These items ana the guido, monthly newspaper ;nnd 5 per cent for expeases will | aggregate $21.50, Deducting this sum from $29, the member will be | ropaid #7.50. Hetween now and the [dute of the fair it is safe to | prezume the enterprising manugers of the company will bo able to offer other | privileges to apsorb the balance, bBut BEE Sl suppose it is retorhed as agreed upoa, what has the momp¥r paid for the privi- loge of allowif® {heso public-spirited gontlemen to pugghase his railroad, admission and 'hus tickets and select his route to and from Chicago? The mem- bership fee of 81,4k guidebook 50 cents, the monthly newspapor $1.50, and the 5 per cont for oxpqnses $1.50; in all $4.50. In addition he logasH per cont por annumn interest upon hismy payments, which would have heon therfully paid to him by a savings bk’ amounting to per- haps 75 cents moge, The railroad gpmpanies will furnish individual tickets just as cheap as this company can seiifbo them. The nows« papers publish aff' t¥he facts of interest regarding the great ovent, and tho World's Fair commission is careful to announce all its plans. The railway companies, if not the World's Fair com- mission, will furnish guidebooks fr The young person who wishes to lay up money for the Worla's fair should goto n bank with his savings and deposit them there against the time when ho wishes to buy his ticket. He should purchage his ticket from a regu- lar railroad agent, pay his own “bus fare and buy his own admission tickots. At Chieago he will find a bureau of infornm- tion conducted by the World’s Fair management itsclf, where he can make his ervangements for board and lodging at the lowest rates. By becoming a member of this or any similar World's Fair Savings company he simply gives up from $4.50 to $5.00 to a party of shirewd gontlemen and receives no ade- quate return for his investment. THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH. Mr. Andrew Uarnegie is delivering a series of Sunday evening lectures to young men in one of the churches of New York city. The subject of his first lecture, given lnst Sunday, was a defini« tion of the gospel of wealth. Me, Carnegio is well qualified to give in- telligent treatment to a theme of this kind. Coming to this country a poor lad, he has become a very wealthy man. He is one of the exceptionally successful business men of this era, and he has de- voted a part of his gains wisely for the benefit of the public. His benefactions for art galleries and libraries amount to several millior dollars and he has given liberal sums for othor purposes. He believes that wealth is given to men to bo used in promoting the welfare of theiv fellow men, and he also believes that a man should put his philanthropic par- poses into effect, as far as practicable, during his lQifetime, an idea that s stoadily gaining gdherents, In the opinion of :Mr. Carnegie, the accumulation obiwealth for the sole prr- pose of transmitfling it to ono’s, posterity is the worst use 1o, Which wealth can be put. Such bequests, hesays, are usually made with less thought of the good of the child thamvofstha vanity of the parent, ot wheimade from affection it is an unthinkidg dffection, *‘for it is clear that wealtp bestowed upon chil- dren is generally;a curse and not a blessing.” Thedsons of rich men bur- dened with wealth/fs a rule, lead lives neither creditable to themselves nor valuable to the state. No man has a right, says Mr.Gavnegie, to handicap his son with sugh ' busden as great wenlth. It is no ‘proper uso of wealth to bequeath it in ‘great amounts to chiidren. In regard to bequeathing wealth to charitable and public institu- tions, there is vo credit to be given those who hoard their millions duving life and only releaso theéir hold at the sumigons which cannot be denied. There is no grace in giving what ore cannot kee: Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its pessessor is bound to ad- minister in his lifetimo for the good of the community from which it was de- rived. ‘It tenches that the man who dies possessed of millions of available wealth, which was free nnd his to ad- minister during his lifetime, dies dis- graced. It recognizes, of course, that men must keep their capital in business aslong as they labor, but beyond the capital necossarily 50 employed the nim of the millionaire should b to die poor. The use of surpius wealth for objects which commend themseives to the ad- ministrator as the best calculated to pro- mote the genuine improvement of his fellows is believed to be the best pos- sible solution of the question of wealth and poverty. Those into whose hands surplus wealth flows thus become trustees and administrators of the publie,” Mr. Carnegio has a practical plan for shing those who ignore this prin- He would have legislation pro- viding thav every fortune left by a hoarder should contribute to the state in proportion to its size, the scale rising by steps ‘‘until with enormous fortunes reaching into many millions it should be decreed that ‘one-hulf goes to the privy woffers of the state.’” Mr. Carnegio estimates that the amount of wealth annually left in this country is at least $1,500,000,000, and assuming that only one-fifth of this were collected by the state it would supply o large sum to take the place of other tuxes. Unquestion- ably it is a sound view that the wealthy should apply their wealth to beneficent purposes during” their lifetime, because by so doing thiy ape sure of obtaining tho results desivad; whilo they may also enjoy the knowlédg of the good they have done. His otlier ideas are open to discussion wnd Wit-hardly be generally accopted by those who possess wealth or expect to inherij(it, EUROPHAN EMIGRATION. The commissidh appointed by the sec- retary of the tresury to investigate the cuuses of emigrajion from Burope to the United States has submitted its report, Everybody is familiar with the general uses which ihduce people to leave Europe for this country. These ave the superior conditions and advantages in the United States, higher wages, fewer hours of labor, better living, superior opportunivies for educating the young and greater chanves for sboth materiai and social advancement. One of the in- teresting facts ascertained by the com- mission is that more than 60 per cent of the immigrants who land here come upon tickets sent by relatives or friends who preceded them. As to the commou impression that the pteamshin compa- DAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1892- is forbidden by laws with severe penal- ties. The commissioners were informed by the officials of steamship companies that it was the determination of the come panies to be governed by our laws. It has been represented that contract luborers were still being brought into the country in large numbers, but the commission says that such is not the case, It is also ascortained that the snip- ment of eriminals, insane, and othor ob- jectionable classes has ceased. Concern- ing pauper immigration the report pointedly says that “‘if the standard of pauperism is to be based upon money possessions when landed it would in times past have excluded many who are now prominent in commercial, finaneinl and legislative bodie:s, and every way worthy as true American citizend, and if this standard is now to be adopted it will exclude those who may become equally desirable.” Hundreds of thou- sands of our most useful citizens cameo to the United States practically destituto of everfthing except honest hearts and a brave determination to improve their condition, and the descendants of such people constitute the larger part of our population. 4 The commission wisely disapproves as impracticable tho plun of consular in- spection, which it says would at once incrense the proportion of wenk and infirm and decrease the proportion of the young a&nd strong who ate liable to military duty in their own count The commission suggests that tho emigration of undesirable persohs can be provented by holding steamehip agents and sub- agents responsible for the cost of persons returned, which can ba done under their own laws, and it recommends that our laws be amended so as to compel the return to their own countries of all paupers as soon us they become pauper- ized, and of all criminals after serving out sentence up to the time of their be- coming full citizens. It will be seen that the investigations of this commission, cavefully prosecuted for six months, furnish no vesults to justify the alarm that has been raised to create a popular sentiment in the United States in favor of imposing further re- atrictions upon immigration. There ave somu things yet to be remeaied, but it will not be a v difiicult task o do this. By a vigiiant and eflicient en forcement of our laws we have brought the steamship companies to understand that they must comply with the regula- tions of this government, and whon they fully and fuithfully do this, as most of them are doing, there will be small danger of gotting undesivable immi- grants. The report of this commission establishes the fuct that the immigra- tion laws need very littlc amendment or modification. The prime necessity is to continue to properly enforce them. I'r HAS transpired that the gentlemen who are in Washington as the repre- sentatives of the Canadian government to taik rdciprocity have no authority to conclude an arrangement. Accordingly Sceretary Blaine informed them that it is a waste of time to talk over the pre- liminavies until they have obtained the power to do something, since the discus- sion would all have to be gone over again. The needed authority, it ap- pears, ean como only from London, and it is understood that the British govern- ment will bo asked to give an ofticial character to the commissioners. It is almost incredible that men prominent in the affairs of a neighboring govern- ment would go to Washington on such important and serious business as that of proposing it treaty of reciprocity with- out having any authorily to negotinte such an arrangement, and they could not fairly complain if our government were to summarily dismiss the whole matter and announce an indefinite post- poncment. What was the object of these commissioners in going to Wash- ington ostensibly to negotiate a treaty of veciprocity when they were powerless to etfect anything and were oven with- out the right to submiv a proposition? Apparently it could be nothing else than to ascertain what the govornment y of the United States might be willing to do and submit it for the considera- tion of the British government, If this was the object it has not been successful, and doubtless Secretary Blaine will have nothing more to do with the so-callod Canadian commissioners until they have secured full and complete authority to conclude a treaty or agreement. In the present aspect of the case it secms a rather puerile proceeding on their part, ONE of the biggest railroad combina- tions eyer effected in this country was made a few days ago when the Reading company secured control of the Lehigh Valloy'and New Jersey Central systems. The whole country is interested in this deal by reuson of the possible effect it may have upon the anthracite coal mononnly and the price of that article to consumers, According to the president of the Reading, who hus at once become famous by his success in promoting the combination, there will be such a saving of expense in the management of the combined corporations that the profits of the coal-carrying business will be in- creased without increasing the price of coal to consumers, but as the anthracite monopoly is manifestly strengthened by the arrangement it will be surprising if it does not take advantage of that fact to0 bo mope exacting than it has hitherto been, It is too much to expect that the public will be permitted to shure in the profits which way accrue to the com- bination of anthracite coal interests. The shrewd promoters of this deal have not been using their wits with any such purpose in view. AMERICANS whose hearts have not yet been touched by the suffering in Russia should note the latest reports by cable that the thermometer registers 58% below zero in one district. The poor peasunts are not only starving but freezing, and quantities of grain re- ceived ut Penza cannot be distributed to | the sufferers because they killed nearly all their draught animals for food, To add to these horrors it is stated that typhus fever, small pox and diphtheria ave ravaging the aficted provinces, | This dispateh read in congress should | bring the blush of shame to those vopre- | sentatives, including the Nebraska dele- nies stimulate emigration, the report | gation, who resisted the uppeal for help states thut in the countries visit.d this | und refused o aid thelr countrym:u in | sending ship loads of breadstuffs to Russia ——— SPEAKING about hard times and a want of circulating medium brings to mind the fact that the weekly bank statement in New York shows the re servo.in excess of legal requirements to be 333,654,000, A Timely Hin New York Advertise Fire escapes are of little consequence when attached to Buddensiek walls, - The Midwinter of His Discontent. New York Advertiser dem.). The midwinter convention promises to mako it midwinter all tho vear round for Mr, Cleveland, - And a Costly . Chicago Post. The Uniov Pacifio in attempting to bluff Omaba _has evidently mado a vory serious mistake. —_—— A Large K of Truth, Chicago Mail, Hll, Gorman and Brice may desorve to be called the “‘big threo,” but the great Ameri- can voter will have a word to say before the rulo of three” becomes a reality. PNV SR Favorahly Mentioned, Erehange. W. 1. Dickenson of Wahoo is favorably mentioned for the state senate. Mr. Dicken- son is a talker with the courage of his con victions, and Saundsrs county wouid not suffer under his care. O, Our Esteemed Contemporary. Denver Sun, Tho Omaha World-Herald very naturally calls the Christian spirit ‘'a hazy entity.” it would certainly be impossible for that paper to got a definite, substantial, intellectual hold on anything Christian, - Two of & Kin Loudseille Convier-Jowrnal, The wbman who gets under a big hat and ROes to the theater with it is a thoughtful and considerato person comparad with the woman who stands in front of the stamp window to lick her stamps and put them on her letters or packages, An Tntoresting Toledo Commeefal, Sioce Senator Stanford and the czar of Russia aro avout to trado horses with each other. 1t may bo on the pins for the senator to swap some of his ideas of choap loans by tho government on lands for a slice of tho czar's viows on serfdom. N 1 Mak Mineapolis Tritune, The comine ‘‘greatest American novelist" ought to go to Sioux Falls to catch upon bis noto hook the romantic detaiis which daily diffuse themselves from the local divorce | court room. Material for many realistic novels 1s thickly strown about Sioux I"alls, Gl ey The World Move Pittstang Dispateh, The pilgrim fathors would no dount be scandalized, if they were at hand, to see a model of the Mayflower, mannod by ‘‘resl Bostonians,” take part in a procession of which another float is to represent “wine, woman and song.”” Times are changed and over changing. — Democratic Hurmon, Detyoit Free Pross (dem. The New York Sun vows that Cleveland and his party are using astuffed club to smite tho national democy: If the Sun vresumes to represent the national democ- racy remove the stufiing from the club at onco—but keop the club'to knook the stuff ing out of the Sun contingent, Vital Issues of th, prign. Minncapolis Jowrnal, Secretary Blaino properly emphasizos the importance of the national campaign this year in his lotter. The republican party has not for a long time had to meet an opposition so impregnated with false economio and fiscal theories. And it will only bo by eftic ient organization and solid unity of spirly and purpose that victory will b won, New Yok The laying of the new submarine cablo be- tweon the Babame islands and the United States was a skilfuily exceuted job. It was done by men who are experts in tho business of cable laying. It was done rapidly and without any trouble. Its layers deserve commendation. The cable wus not expen- sive. Itis 230 miles long, and cost $150,000, or about $350 for each mile of its length. It wiil be of more valuo ecve year to the Bahama islands than its total cost, and it will redound to the honor of its originator, the govornor general, Sir Ambrose Shoa. at THAT COLD SHAKE, Minneapolis Tribune: Many citizens of | Nebraska are anxious to grasp the hand that didn't grasp Boyd's, Chicago Horald: Governor Boyd was on- tirely justifiablo in refusing to tako the ex. | tendod hand of Usurper er. Wastington Post: It “Governor' Thayer was 5o anxious for a shake ho should havs shook that gubernatorial seat long ago. Laramie Boomerang: Bovd administered rightoous robuke to Thayer by rofusing to accent the proffered ha Thayor has mado himself an odious figure in the political of Nebraska, ‘hicawo Tribune: Mr. Boyd 1s undoubt odly the rightful governor of Nebraska, biit he ought to keep his tomper. A man who shake hands with porsons he does not like seldom climbs to permanent political | greatuess, Washington Star: Possibly the refusal ot Governor Boyd to shake hands with ex-Gov- ernor Thayer was simply a well meant stop in the direction of reform, an effort to do away with somo of the dizital wear and tear to which public men are subjected. Kansas City Journal: It pays to be polite. ot even the governor of Nobraska can af ford to be a boor. Bovd onters on the dis chargo of his duties very inauspicionsly, with the weight of his false step in showin) notorious lack of courtesy to his office, his state and his fellows. Chicago Times: If Governor Bovd of Nebraska had been a smooth bypoorite, or had been a colorless, conventional person, he would huve taken Usurper Thayer's hand in a pleasant, noncommictal way. But possess- ing strong individuality, guided by honest aims which scorncd the tergiversation of such a fellow as Thaver, Governor Boyd re. Jjected the proffered hand, waved aside the republican Pecksnift with his little inventory of cuspidors and pin-cushions, and permitting the fellow to sneak out where he had sneakod in entered himself upon the discharge of the gubornatoriul office to which the peopio clected him, sl RAN'S HORNETS, There Is never any heavenly musicina gloomy heart. ‘T'he world is slow to beliove that a sin is black as long as it pays well. Going to a charity ball to belp the Lord is something the dovil is always ready to sny amen to. Peoplo who make tho most noise ata church entertainment aro genoraly very quiet during a revival. ‘The kind of relixion that tells in the long run is the kind that never howls und growls because there 18 no pudding on wash day. i Concedes His Mistake, Laxcors, Neb., Feb, To The Editor of Tur Bei I must acknowladgo that tho sentence you quote from my first article of the silver debate is very badly constructed, and may possibly bo understood as you claim to understand it. But you will observe that if tho $0 15 understood to mean [ntorest the sentence would be absurd. What i intended to say was that the volume of credit monev, on deposits, for which the peoplo comipelled to pay, 18 equal to $0 for every doilar of actual money. 1 will thank you to give this item an insert: J. BURROWS. The roll ‘fous esting, but it pectable if it o Dleld's Washington: newspaper might ve less int would be vastly more wouldn’t steal its joke Somerville Journal: Bligh--Don't you think Chutterbox has a lovoly mouth? Lo might be, if sl pL it st Boston Transeript: 8ho (From Chicago)—Oh, low [ do love these wreat mountains! Chil c020. you know, 18 oniy u fow foot nbove the oL of the Inko, He (from St. Louts—I know, but then remember that Chicago foet are so mitch more portentous than fect elsewhere. Monday. WANTED—A VALKNTINE. Browning's Monthly. cts n valentine from anyone, tat every mall you'll find e P 0, mes no mail New York Horuld your church good? “Gracious —brond seats, high sermon: coplng capacitiesin backs. long Atlanta Constitution: Bill Collector—Three hmes have Twalked six miles o coilect. this i Editor--I know it. You're too mean to hire s horse! Washington “Higley Is quite a swell, isn't net “Ipresume he fs. Evory time he travols in sleeping car ho Insists on being put in upner ten” STRONGER THAN POPE IMAGINED, Atlanta Constitution, Who searches Popo will ind this statemens th d be Ly draws us with a sing’e hair,” And one strand not the color of our wife May draw us Into ravest tumily strifes. Ram's Horn; 1t won't do any good to_loole 8 solemn us an 0wl if you are’in the habit of skinning people in business, Boston Courier: The 1 of plenty” never falls to the lov of tho man who takes plenty of “horns," Eimira Gozette: mun must not hope tion, your Yonkers Statesn not ubt to mnke n m an: Gettinz in a picklo is 1 ook well preserved. B ROWNINGKING & W. Corner 15th an Donglaa Sts, The Long and the Short of It--- We've got too many suits left yet, and as we've only got about ten days in which to dispose of them, before spring goods arrive, we place them before you inducement The prices, styles and sizes are many and the colors are popular. They will go fast next week if prices are an inducement. The overcoats are not numerous, but the prices are such that if you ¢ We can save you money. it an wear one you buy Browning,King & Co Goen Saturduys il 0 p. m Other evenlngs til G630 [.8. W. Cor, 15th and Douglas ts.