Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 11, 1892, Page 4

f 1 ,nnd enthusiastic opening of this * cholera in this country 4 THE DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, Evir n ?’UHL]H]H{!) VERY MORNING. Oi’FICIAL PAPER OF THE CITYL TIRME OF 8URSCRIPTION, re 0 Datly Boe (without Eunday) One Vear [ DALY and Sunday. one 0w Eix Month . 2‘ 5 e Moniis 1 Eunday e, One 200 Baturdny fice, One \oi ¥ ne Year v OFFICES, Omaha. The Pes Bullding Bouth Omaha, cornor N and Counell Bluffs, 12 Penrl Stroet. Chiengo Office, 817 Cham ber of Con Kew York, ltooms 15, 14 and | Washington, 518 Fourtec CORRESPOND! All_communications relating to edijorial matter should be addressed Mtorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS i pusiness lettors and remittances shounld bo adirormed Lot e Eabiining Compuny. Or Tirnfts, checks and postofice orders 0 be payable to the ordor of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY BWORN STAT! Weekly hee, th Streoty, nares. ano Bullding news to the Lu MENT OF CIRCULATION finte of Nebraskn, | (idorye I TAAChIOK, socrotary of TN BEE Pub- setunl orrouthtion of TV TR for tho week ending Septembor 10, A doifoms: T Bunday, Mondny, Se pton tomber Averago. £worn 10 boforo me And sibs ence this 10th day of Septombe P FE Avernge Cireulation for August 30, —_—m—— Ir MAY be taken as an absolute fact that one-haif ot the Chicago combines are anti-Omaha combines in effect. TiE domocratic press is plainly spar- ring for wind when it attempts to draw any consolation from the Vermont elec- tion, ——ami TuE cholera has never yet crossed the Pacific ocezn. But that is no sign that It will not do so, for this is a record- smasing era, and nothing is impossible. Tne League of Republican Clubs will have a monster assembly at Buffilo this weelc. 1t will be the most appropriate back- ward enmpuign. THE election of I Philadelphia to the permanent pasto of Spurgeon’s church 1n London high compliment not merely to Mr. Pierson, but to this country. THr local sports who attended the New Orleans exhivition have not yet returned to Omaha. The late rains which have seriously impeded highway travel, have prosumably caused this aelay. IaNaTIUS DONNELLY has plunged into the Minnesota campnign with the zeal which has its compensation in al- lowing Shakespeare to resume writing his own pipys until a fow weeks after November 8, made st at Hastings THE disclosures Treasurer regarding the alleged robbery of the funds by Treusurer Paul, if they can be proven, will create a strong sentiment aguinst Paul’s pardon. by Depury “COLONEL” SCOTT complains that the tharcoal sketches of his checkered career aro copies of portraits drawn by unfriendly artists. The trouble with the great **colonel” is c¢hat his friends are as scare as hens’ teeth wherever he has lived. —_—e THE is a good deal of nonsense about the library and the city hall ele- vator. Tne fact is that the patrons of the library for three years have been squeezed into a 2x4 elevator not half as large as the city hall elevator and twice as dangeroas. —_—— COMMODORE PERR victory on Lake Erie soventy-nine years ago yesterday was quite a contest, yet the gallant com- modore must owe nis immortality more to his sentence, “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” than to his signal victory over the British, THE contractor for the Douglas street grado is creeping along at u snail’s pace with his work. Unless he is spurred on by the Board of Puablic Works to finish the job by the 1st of October it will” be impossible to do any paying on Douglas and.the cross streets between Sixteenth und Twentieth this year, THE opening of the school year again brings out the complaint of pressure in the High school, with an urgent de- mund for relief. The superintendent of schools suggests the removal of the Sixth grade from the Central school to some other building, and if *this would give the needed relief it would seem that there should be no delay in adopting the suggestion. This mutter of giving relief to the High school has received so much diseussion that something practi- cal ought to bo done. . THE total number of business iailures in the United States during the t week was 146, aguinst 185 during the vorrosponding week last year. About the same falling off 1n the number of failures has been recorded each week this year, showing that the condition of business has greatly improved through- out the country. It hus always been held that o nattonal campaign has a ten- dency to disturb and injurs business, and if allowance is made for thav it will the reduction in the num- res I8 vory significant. WiiLe the Board of Health has mudoe commendablo efforts to improve the san- Wary condition of this eity. the work of streetand house cleaning is by no means as thorough und general as it should be, It sooms us If the fivst alurm oves huas subsided, ad therefore furthor effo:ts to head off the scourge have been relaxed, is is procisely the reason why our city authorities, and especially the police, in conjunction with the Board of Heatth, gliould adopt more stringont unl of- fective measures to enforce a thorough cleaning up of garbage aud u cellar-to- gurrot search after diseuse-breeding rubbish and filth, L I et e WHAT OMAHA URGENTLY NEEDS. A little more than a year sgo THE began n campaign in behalfof home patronage which at once commanded the approval of the citizens of Omaha and the surrounding eountry, and produced results that are yet plainly apparent in the business life of this community. It acknowledged on all hands that the home patronage idea has greatly stimu- Inted trade in this city. Its influence hus been reciprocal, and both buyer and seler have directly or indirectly gained by it. Within its necessary limitations tho movement has produced excellent results, and it is a modest statement to say that there are today several hundred men and women employed in Omnha who could not have found work here if it had not been for the coraial and earnest support of the home patronage plan by the people at large. But experience has shown that the mere keeping of Omaha money in Omaha does not by any menns mest the requirements of the time, though it does a great deal of good in 1ts way. In this city, as in ail others, the pulse of busi- ness is quickened or slackened according 10 the degree of uctivity shown in en- terprises which afford employment for the working classos, It happe vory unfortunately, that the number of munu- facturing enterprises in this city is much smallar than in other cities hav- ing equally good opportunitics, With an immense tributary field in which the demand for commodities of all kinds is rapidly growing and must be met from some source, this city is making too li tle advance as a manufacturing center. The indifference and inactivity of the capitalists of Omaba in this respoct is not merely a negative disadvantage to the city; it is a positive disadvantage from every point of view. It can hardly be necessary to call the attention of aay thoughtful man to the self-evident fact that every workman to whom employ ment is given must of necessity be a con- stant contributor to the volume of trade of every kind. The mechanic who earns less than $1,000 a year may be a more profitable von of local merchants than the eapitalist whose income js twenty times us great. It uppears from interviews with many. local business men published in this paper, that the need of enterprises affording employment to workingmen is generally recognized. The jobbing trade of Omahu is floupishing finely. It ex- tends far into the nonthwest and does does not stop this side of the Pacific. It penetrates the Dominion of Canada and n reaches to distant Alaska. But a ont jobbing trade does not solve the problem. We want industrinl enter- prises that will employ thousands of people. Those which we now have ave prosperous and growing, but they are too few in number. The great need of the time in this city is the active em- ployment in productive industries of the idle money of our capitalists. Omaha is the metropolis of a great and growing region that must be supplied from some source with many articles of common use that be produced in this city as well as elsewhere. All that is needed is a little cournge and ener, The homo putronage iden will be applied in the future as in the recent past, and local pride will stimulate the people to give a warm support to any enterprise in which business mon of this city may embark. The subject is one that should engage the astention of those who are seeking for profitable fields of ivvestment, The daily record of crimes in the United States goes far to justify what was recently said by Hon. Andrew D. White, mimster to Russin, that this country is today, among all the Chris- tian countries of the world, that in which the highest crimes are most fre- quent and least punished. The start- ling statement was made by Mr., White that the number of deaths by murders is more than doubls the average of the most criminal country in Europe and is increasing rapidly. Even Italy and Cor- sica fall before us. In 1850 there were 4,000 murders in this country. In 1591 the number was 6,000, and the indica- tions are that this year will show a more terrible record of homicide than last. These are most unwelcome truths for the law-abiding American citizen. There is consensus of opinion among those who have given this mattor any attention, that lax administration of the Iaw and the delays which outworn lega! methods allow are largely responsible for this condition of affairs. The grenter number of the persons who committed the 6,000 murders in 1891 were nut ap prehended, and statistics show that only bne murderer in fifty cver receives cap- ital punishment. As was said by Mr, White, the elementary principles of common sense seem quite forgotten in modern trinls. Jurorsrefuse to act upon the evidence, sothiat what was instituted in the fourteenth century as a protection for honest men becomes in this a protec- tion for the criminal. It has boon said, with too much truth, thatour peopio are wount to glo ify a lawyer who turns loose upon the world a murderer in the face of all evidence. But the whole fault must not bo laid upon the juries. Many of them are honest ana disppsed to do their duty feaviessly and fuithfully, as they ace givon light to see their duty. A part of the responsibility rosts with courts and prosecuting officers, who are often either incompetent or indierent, or both. Cases against criminuals are wenkly made up, Instructions to juries do not always instruct. Theu thore are unnecessary deluys, for which judicial ofllcors are chiefly responsible, the ten- dency of waich is almost uniformly fa. vorable to the criminal. Thae culpuble nbuse of the pardoning power is also to be reckoned in with the influences which tend to encournge crime. The only real deterrent of crime, especially murder, is un early trial un- delnyed by appenls ana logal jugglery, and a just punishment speedily meted out. But there will have to be some radical modifications of the law and some reforms in judicial methods be- fore this can be attained. Perhaps, ulso, there will buve to be a higher standurd observed in the selection of judicial oflicers. At any rate tho sub- Jjectis one well worthy the attention of the thoughtful and law-respecting eiti- zon, The United States ought to have fewer high crimes than any other coun- &« | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: tey in proportion to population. In no other nation are tho forces which op | that genorally thaf erate vgainst vice and crime in stronger array than here. The school, the press and the church are allpesvading. The chief trouble is manifestly in vhe lax administration and the delays of the law, and how to remedy this presents a very serious problem. THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE. A careful canvassof the delegatoes se- locted in Friday night’s caucuses for the congressional district convention shows the following preferences: Mercer, 40; Scott, 87; Bartlett, 9; Cornish, 9. This includes the delegations from Omaha and South Omaha. There will doubt- less be contests in several of tho wards at the primary election next Friday, and the complexion of the delegations may be materially changed. The country precincts, which are en- titled to sixty-five dolegates, have leld po caucuses. It is safo to predict, how- ever, that the country will be most de- cidedly ngainst Scott. His chances of carrying Douglas county have gone glimmering. The ‘“‘colonel’s” strength has been purposely inflated by the fake- Jactory because the democrats are very anxious to have him nominated.. It is now manifest that the nominee will be a dark horse. DIVERSIFIED FARMING IN NEBRASKA. A subject of docp interest to the farmors of Nebraska, and one to which they are now giving considerable at- tention, is the practicability of diversi- fying the products of their lands in such a manner asto avoid the risks always attendant upon single crop farm- ing. Within the past three or four years, but more especially this year, it has been domonstrated that Ne- braska soil is not only capable of producing other crovs than corn, but that it is especially adanted, 1n some lo- calities at least, to wheat, oats, barley, ryeand all the staple coreals. One farmer in Gage county has raised this yoar fify-one and one-third bushels of red winter wheat to the acro on a fisid of 100 acres. So large an average as this on a field of such extent proves con- clusively that Nebraska is by no moeans dependent upon her corn crop, and that diversified farming is as prac- ticable here as elsawhere. Corn is king in this state by reason of peculiarly favor- able conditions of soil and climate, but any crop is liable to failure in any part of the world. When the corn crop is short the demand for wheat is strength- ened by the operation of an invariable natural law, and herein lies the reason why the farmer should not venture all his treasure in a single ship. This view of the case is now commanding more at- tention among the farmers of Nebraska than ever before, and it will be surpris- ‘ing if the wheat product of this state is not greatly increased with two years. It is doubtful whether any single erop can ever be relied upon as a permanent source of profit, even in localities espe- cially adapted to it. The whole of the cotton-gr owing region of the south is suffering from a too implicit trust in cot- ton. The growers of that great staple have for many years deponded upoj it to tho exclusion of other products to which their lands are well suited. Last year they made very little money, and this year’s crop is bringing them stiil less. The south will learn sooner or later that diversified agriculture alone can avert the evils of overprocduction of cotton. The growers of fruits who suffer alternately, from overproduction and short crops will have to léarn the same lesson, and we believe that the farmers of the great corn belt nre beginning to learn it already. It will be a matter for general congratulation when Nebraska shall become as famous for her wheat as for her corn. RELIGIOUS PROGRESS OF THE NEGRO. Mr. H. K. Carroll, the special agent of the census in churches, bears testi- mony to the religious tendencies of the negro race.’ Ho says that worship seems to be a necessity of their nature. That the negro has made rapid re- ligious progress in the United States, the census figures attest. The negro population numbered at the last census about 7,470,000, including not simply pure-blooded Africans, but all those as well who havea strain of Caucasian mixed with the darker current of their slave ancestry. Of this colored popula- tion 6,880,000 are in the old slave terri- tory, leaving not more than 581,000 for all the rest of the union. The relative strength of the race in the south and inall other parts of the country isa matter of iwportance in considering the present condition of religious de- velopment, and how 1t has been reached. Before emancipation the colored peo- plo of the south naturally adopted the religious faith of their masters. Asa large majority of the whites were Methodists and Baptists, these de- nominations embrace by far tho largat number of the colored population. *T'he total number of colored Christians in the United States, according to the last census, was 2,610,625, and of these 1,230,000 were Baptists, and 1,186,000 Mothodists, leaving less than 195,000 for other denominations. The proportion of communicants of all denominations 1o the population of the country is be- lieved to be about one out of every three; that is, in our population of 500,000, we have about 20,866,000 communicants. This proportion is mora than maintained among the negroos. On the basis of their popula- of 7,470,000, they should have 2,490,000 members. They go beyond this by 120,525, or with dus allowance for the colored congregations and members scattored through the northern states, 160,000, Church organizations of negroes have established, since the close of the re- bellion, universities, colleges, ncad- emies, called thousands of men into the ministry and provided maay houses of worship, The value of ghe propsriy in church buildings and lots which colorad Christians haye acquired for public worship is estimatod ut nasrly or quite $20,000,000. Mr. Carroll regards this as very substantial proof that religion is not 4 m re camp meeting affuir in the thought anda purpose of the negro. While it is dou tless true that with many of the race there may bo the most intense veligious feeling without exer- cising any great moral 1nfluenca upon S —_— . SUNDAY, their conduct, vot Mr. Carroll insists progress has been moral as well alf®lucational and that thero isa growing sonse among them of the incongruit¥of réligion and im- morality, reforoffte in this particular veing had to those whom at the time of emancipation wefy i' the densest ignor- ance. The huminitarian, as woll ns the student of roligiqus rml social devolop- ment, will find arcintorest in these facts regarding a race which will bo forover an element of our population, which has been endowed with the full rights of citizenship and Whoso interosts and wel- fare the white peoplo of this country could not ignore if they would, A SOUTHERN VIEW 01 THE WAST. In the course of anarticle designed to aitract attention to the south as a field for agricaltural investments, the At- lanta Constitution says: "ho west has | been over-bnomed. Too much has been attempted in a short time, and the whole section is mortgage-blighted.” We are not aware that the west entor- tains any feeling of jealousy toward the south or is disposad to disparage it in any way. The westis doing very well indeod and is content to accept the measurs of prosperity that has bnen vouchsafed to it, strong in the belief that the future will witness the fulfill- ment of the bright auguries of the pres- ent as the past has fulfilled all the hopos that the most sanguine had wver entertained. When southern journals say that the whole west is mortgage- blighted they utter what they ought to know is false and foolish. Poverty of of the distressful kind so familiar to the south is unknown in the west. Tourists who visit the southern states always have much to say of the squalor and wretchedness which are to be witnessed there, but nothing of the sort is ever said of the west. This is due to many causes which need not be explained here, the chiel of which is the fact that the wostern people have something to work for, and accordingly are always applying themselves to the development of the country ani the -building up of their own fortunes. The incentive to labor sesms to be lacking in the south. It appears to be taken for granted that it is impossible to get on any way in that country, and so the task is not seriously attempted by the masses. Some of the southern people, notably in Georgia, are industrious, enterprising and progros- sive, and they aro said to be doing well. Perhaps they could do much better in Nebraska or some other western state that is [ree from the social drawbacks which prévail in the old south. The west is glad to take note of any sign of improvem@nt in the south and is too prosperous’ antl happy to be jealous of any stats ordivision of states in this glorious union; Let the south keep on trying to] make headway against tho old and played-out tra- ditions which have so long stood in the path of progress and glointed backward. Immigration will contjuue to be toward the west, as it hag/bdén in the past. Only an insignificant pevcentage of it goes to the south, and there is no pros- pect of a change in that respect. But there are promising fields inviting de- velopment in some of the southern states, and the present inhabitants of those states can accomplish a great deal if they will take off their coats and go to work. e PREPARE FOR COLUMBUS DAY. The proc'amation of the governor of Nebraska, formally setting apart Fri- day, October 21, to be observed as Co- lumbus day in this state, in conformity with the proclamation of the president of the United States, suggests that as the public schools are to play the chief part in the celebration it istime for them to begin active preparations. Be- fore the close of the last term this paper pointed out vhat an early beginning and a gradual perfecting of the arrange- ments would obviate the confusion and disturbance of the regular course of school work which must Inevitably re- sult from procrastination. If the prepa- rations are put off until the holiday is close at hand they will then have to be made the special order to the exclusion of much important work, from which the attention of pupils cannot be diverted without harm. Thus far no plans have been made in our public schools for the observance of Columbus day. More than two months ago the Grand Army men of Omaha be- gan to discuss the subject, it having been determined that this organization throughout the United States should co-operate with the public schools in the celebration of the day. Six weeks yet remain for preparation, and if the work is taken up soon it can bs carried forward to a successful conclusion with- out any perceptible confusion of the or- dinary duties of the pupile. It is to be hoped that the importance of this celebration as an instrumgntality of patriotic education will notbe under- estimated. [tshould be made to teach useful lessons thut will pring forth good fruits in the future lives of the school children, 1 whom it is especially dodi- cated. Inno city of -America should Columbus day be more impressively ob- served than in Omaha; in no state should it receive moro attention at the hands of parents, educators and pupils than in Nebraska, ” 7 INCREASE IN Fsflw LIBRARIES. Next to the school the most valuable help to popular edjeation is the public library, so that the increase in these institutions is a most interesting fact in the record of the wprogress ef educa- tional facilities, The ‘formation of the American Libraryiissociation, composed of the leading libragiuns of the country, evidences the growing interest in libraries in this cdilntdy. It is intended that the new assoeciation shall oceupy with reference to 'American libraries a nearly similur position to that of the French academy among the scholars of France. Its work has not yet been fully defined, but there can be no doubt that it will exert a wholesome Inlluence upon public sentiment 10 the directicn of its work, which will be in part, doubtless, the encouragement of the creation of public libraries. New England, with Massachusetls at the head of the states of that section, leads in the avtention that has been paid to libraries. Mussachusetts has been especially progressive ln this respuet, SEPTEMBER 11, the endowments of librar by private citizens amounting to millions of col- lars, while Connecticut also makes an excellent showing. The eastern states outside of New England have not, it ap- pears, shown very much zonl in this re spect, though, of course, there are e tensive public libraries in all the prin pal cities, Most commendable activity and interest in this matter is reported in the west, where, indeed, all the means of popular education are being dovelopad as rapidly as in any other sec- tionof tho country. Nearly every large city of the wost now possesses a public library that will compare favorably with those of the older eastern cities of eaual povulation, and these libraries generally have a larger numbor of readers than those of the cities of the eust. Chicago has, in this particular, made greater progress than any other city in the country. When the building now in course of erection for the public library is completed Chicago will be in the lead of all American cities, and on an equal- ity with some of tho larger Buropean citios in respect of library facilities. he*Newberry and Cragor libraries, for which large bequests were made by tho wealthy men whose memories will be thus perpetuated, will soon occupy splendid edifices. It is said that Chicago now has 1,500,000 books in libraries accessible to the public. There is no way in which men of wealth, desiring to promote the educa- tional interests of the people, can do this moro effectively than in providing for public libraries. These institutions afford a school for everybody, and those who care to avail themsalves of their advantages are free to select their own line of study, Omaha has one of the best public libraries among cities of its rank in the country, and it is steadily growing. —— THE overcrowded condition of the High school, which is now the occasion of considerable trouble, will be relieved when the new Central school building completed; but it shows the importance of keeping pace with the growing de- mand .for school accommodations in Omaha by providing for the increase in due season. It is understood that there are other school buildings in the city which are more than comfortably filled. Thera can be no doubt that the number of children of school age is increusing very rapidly in Omaha, and it is impor- tant that suitable provision for their accommodation be made without wait- ing for the pressure of immediate nned. Crowded schoolrooms and abnormally lurge classes should be guarded against for obvious reasons. The Salt of the Earth. Boston Globe. America produced 10,000,000 barrels of salt last year, and veot the misguided Chilians said they thought America was too fresi. phial s e Cause and Effect, Washington Star. A minister in delivering a discourse on the relations of capital and laborlays somo stress on the fact that savages never strike. In view of the fact that thoy very rarely work, this is not remarkable. et A Millionaire as an Inventor. Philadelphta Record. John Jacob Astor has invented an au- tomatic road sweeper to blow the dust from roadways into convenient winrows for re- moval. As may be imagined, it works on the pneumatic principle; and for smooth pavements, sach as the asphalt, it should be especially useful—though by a reversal of its operations the dust could perhaps be as easily accumulated in the machine for re- moval as blown aside, The invention is creditable to the skill of its author, who could scarcoly have found a more promising field for the éxercise of his talents than that of road betterment. - Barriers Against Pestilence, New York Sun. Canada’s ports are now closed against im- migrauts from Europe, excepting those from Great Britain and Scandinavia. It 1s not to be forgotten thata very large proportion of the immigrants to this country from the in- fected regions of Russia take ship at the British ports of Liverpool and Glasgow. Thousands of these Russians have recently gone to British ports on tneir way to America, sud some of them have died by cholera in_Liverpool and Glasgow. Passen- wers from British ports are about as danger- ons as those from auy other port. — The Quaker Poot, Buston. Globe. It is not strauge that the name and fame of our great New England poet snould be cherished wherever the English language is spoken. A life, simply, sincere, frank and absolutely unarfectec—a life marked by earnest convictious, characterised by gentle- ness of spirit, save when a great wrong was to be assailed and freedom won for a race euslaved—this has been Whittier's priceless gift to the world. He has shown himself loyal to the memory of those of his own gentio faith who weére wronged in bygono times of intolerance, and vet no man has manifested a koener appreciation for all that was strong and noble in the ragged character of the Puritan, —————— A ROMANCE IN WHITTIER'S LIFE, Whittier's poem, *In School Days,” 15 one with which even the school children are familiar. Some waK the sweet verses are very sasy to learn by heart, and whou thay are onco committed to memory they have a way of lingering there long after the school children have become grown men and women. Tt is said that the one romance of Whittier's life was woven about, the tangled- haired girl who long years ago had said she loved him, and Whittier’s bachelor life is traced by those who love romanves to his love for her. Iconoclasts take pleasure in contradicung angd ridiculing this story, out those who believe in it ure much bappier in their belief than are those who dewy it in their historical accuracy. IN SCHOOL DAYS, Still sits the school house by the road A ragged bozgur sunning: Around 1t still tho sumachs grow And blackberry vines ure running; Within the master's desk s seen, Deep soarred by raps officiul, The warping floor, the battered soats, The Juck knife's carved initial, Tho charcozl frescoes on Its wall: Its door's worn siil, betraying ‘The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing. Long years ngo a winter sun Shone over It at sotting; Lit up its wostern window panes And low eaves' ley fratting. 1t touched the tangled golden curls And brown eyes full of grieving OF oue who stiil her steps deluyea When ull the school were leaVing. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled, His cap pulled low upon a fice Where pride and shame were mingled. Pushing with restiess feot the snow To right and left, ho y As rostiossly her tiny han: The biue-checked apron fiugered. Ho suw hor 1fuhor eyos bo fult The soft bands' 11zht caressing, And heard the trembling of her volce, As if u fault confessing. “1'm sorry that I spelt the word; 1 hate Lo k0 above you, Because," the brown oyes Iuwul:”lull— “Hecauso, you see, | love you' Still momory to & gray-haired man That sweet child-fice Iy showing. Doar girl! the grasses on her grave Huvo forty years buen growing. He lives to learn, in 1ife's hard school, How few who p'iss above ki Lament their trluwph and | Like her—because they lo 1892--SIXTEEN PAGES. CTHEY MAY TAKE A VACATION Attorney General Miller's View of Cabinet Officers' Duties, NO OBJECTIONS TO SOME CAMPAIGN WORK He Can See no Roason Why They Should Not Be Permitted to Make an Oceastonal Politieal Speech. 13 Founters i STREET, oy, D, C., Sept. 10 This morning Tur HBre correspondent showed Attornoy Genoral Millor a statement PUrporting to come from u bureau of the ro- publican national committee to the effect that all of Prosidont Harrison’s cabinet of- ticers would make spoechos during the im- pending campaign. I have no knowledge upon tho subject,” said tho attornoy gen- eral, “and really do not know the president’s wishes or position 1a the matter. 1 do not beliove, however, that the statement is true, So far as [am individually concerned 1 be- liove a cabinet officer can best serve his Wasnisaros Brreav or Tne Ber, % party by serviug the governmont at his desk. Just us long s ho has no work cortaily uo pressing official busioess, and desires to tako a vacation which all govern- ment officials aro entitied to, and wants to spond that vacation in speechmaking, it is all right, 1 have no criticisms to muko of such action. I fear that I will be kept at my desk during the timo belwoen this und tho day of election,’” The goneral said ho had no oficial or pri- vate information concerning tho cabled state- ment from Romo that United States Minis- ter Porter had resigned. General Miller did not bolieve that Governor Porter intended 10 rotire to private life at this time, and had not heard that he preferrad lifo at Indian- apolis to that ho was seemingly enjoving in the capital of Italy. Satisfied with the Situntion Ex-United States 'I'reasurer J. N. Huston of Connellsville, Ind., is hore ugain on pri- vate business. He leaves tomorrow morning for Boston and will stop a day or two in New York to respond to a summons trom the re- publican nationul committee, of which he is 8 member. It 1s very probable that Mr. Huston will begin active and constant work with tho national committee. He has been asked to take charge of some important work in the cast. Mr. Huston expressed himself today as ploased with tho result of the do cision of one court in ludiana which had de- clared the recent registration 1uw unconsti- tutional. He believes other courts of the state will so decide, and that the result will bo A more perfect election law. Mr. Huston regards the reapportionment of the state as a most infamous one. Politically speaking, he believes the outlook to be bright for the republican ticket. He thinks will only bo necessa polls. 'y o get them out to the The wonderful prosperity of tko farmers, laborers and others everywhore, especially in Indians, he regards as ex- tremely favorable to republican succ Advice to Veters It will be decidedly the botter part of wis dom for all of those who como to Washington during the Grand Army of the Revublic en- campment, week after next. to follow the ad- vico of the local committeo and not bring tueir trunks. There are no facilities hore for Landling one-tenth as many tru as aro likely to come, and those who are hampered with checked' baggage may bo kept haif their timo running after baggagemen. It will bo wisest for all to live in hand satchels and shaw! strap: Well Up in His Line, It develops that the fellow who robved Mr. Farrish of Omaba 1n this city 1s an old crook. pateh this evening from Columbus, O says: “The police believe the fellow arrested at’Washington for attempting to rob J. C. crish of Omaha of a diamond pin worth and who gave bis name as Joseph Hart olimbus, is Gus S , o young_ thief who has been employed lately by Harry Stevens. the well known score card man whose headquarters are now 1n Washington. Schipley was recently arrested hore for stealing a pair of shoes and at the time he gave the name of Joseph Hart. He was ar- rested during tha races hero two weeks ago for stealing a suit of clothes, and his case is now awaiting action of the grand jury here. *‘Chief of Poiice Murphy this morning for- warded by mail to Washington a photograph of Seniplev. He is about 19 years old, smooth face, brown bair, rather short, stoutly : built and cuitivates a bang. He has oeen a train butcher.” Miscellancou A. C. Haugland was today appointed post- master at Little Turkey, Chickasaw county, Ia, vice F. W. Sanborn, resigned; J. B. Thomason at Galion, Cass county, la., vice J. T. Martin, resigned; Julia A, Kitching at Braonon, Washington couny, Idaho, vice P, A. Cox, resigned. Mrs. Jane Brent is dead in this city at the residence of her daughtor Mary C. Dorsey at the age of 87 years, Thq funeral will take place at the John Wesley cburch here to- morrow afternoon. C. Wright, postmaster at Rockport, S. D., has resigned ana recommended the discol tinuance of the bostoftice. P. S, H. NEWS FOR Tiuls ARMY, Complete List of Ch Servicd D, C. es in the Regular WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—(Special Qur fit, quality and price. duys, whea we close at 10 p. m. the republicans have tho votes and that it | BROWNING, KING== _Largest Manufacturars and Dealors of Clothing in ths World. Sports Return “Please send me one of your $1.05 hats. I've got % got a stave-ing good suit,” was one of many orders we receivi yesterday from dead game sports, who backed old man Sullivan. checks and stripes that can talk and modest checks anl stripes, and plain black goods are so far ahead of anything heretofore brought out that we name the price and away they go. fine Dbusine ¢ ___|elegant cutaway will please the most fastidious taste, not only as to style, but also as to A fall overeoat is about- the nicest thing to own. just now. Our variety is endless . Browning,King&Co Our store closes at 6:30 p. m., except Satur- Tolegram to Tar Ber, |- The following army. orders wore issied yesterday : v T'ho following transfers in the Fourth cay- 'y are mado: Second Lieutenant Thomas . Slavens, from troop A to troop M; Secona Aeutenant Gordon Voorhees, from troop M troop A, The leave of absence granted rat Lieutenant Edward A, Millar, Third ruillery, August 15, 1s extended fiftecn days. The extension of orainary leave of absence granted Captain Thomas J. Llovd, Kigh- toenth infantry, Decomber 2, 1801, is ¢ to leave of absence on account of sickne dato from August 81,1502, First Lisutenant Bdmuna L= Flotcher, Thirteenth infantry, having been found by ‘an examining board unfit for promotion on nccount of physical disability, is granted loavo of absonco until further order, on account of disability. A board of ‘medical officers, to_ consist of Licutenant Colonel Charles H. Aiden, deputy surgeon general; Lieutenant Colonel Georgo M. Sternberg, doputy sutgecn goneral: Lieu- tenant Colonel William H, orwood, deputy surgeon general; Captain William I, Carter, assistant surgeon, 1s_constituted to meet in New York city on October 3 for the exam- ination of canaidates for admission into the medical corps of the urmy and for such other business as tho surgoon general may desira to bring beforo it, The following named officers, now undor golne instructions in torpedo service at Wil- lets point, are relieved from at that station to take offect Octover 1 t Licu- tenant John A. Perry, Bighth infantry ond Lioutenant Charles G. Dwyer, Tionty first infantey: Heury D, - Humphros Twehtioth iafantry: Froderick A. Tripp. First infantey: John O, Gregg, Sixteenth infantry, and wara R, Chrisman, Second infant Captain Joseph M. Hurst, Twelfth infantey, will report in porson to Colonel Chas H. Thompkins, assistant ayar- termaster goneral, presidont of the army retiring board at Governor 1sland, for exam- ation by the bon: BRIEF AND BRIGHT. Binghamton Lender son fn ships, but schoonors Men zo down to the thoy gou over the bay In Harper's Bazar: “Your cousin is wodded to iarity, Is she nof Mh o she b tor to it o sis- only promised to bo Philadelphia Times: 1t w N Wero to get in- to politics generally it would be fun in tho Lidle of u vory livoly canvass tosoe them try onail campulin les. Somerville Journal: When a man_whispers o the box- nt that ho wints n seat away up front at a varlety show, and the agent says under his Lreath, “Go up, thou baldhond," s hands out the ticket, the agent ought certainly to 1ose his job. IKnte Fleld's Washinzton: Quipl poor old beygur took your quuity would eladly hinvo hoard himself rofus Brown—How do you know? Quiply—lle's u doat-mute. Washinzton § The man who conducts a plino wazon has boen pointed out wsone of our conspicuous vie-1sts, beiated busk s uhorse collar, 1 stiok his head through it and call his wife to cowe down and open the door. Binghamton Repablic in: For a man who shows 0 much push In his business, the follow Who trundles 4 whoelbarrow doosn't seem to get nlong very well, Washington Sta sald the jest ven- der to the editor, “1 prythee mark it well and tell me if what I'have given you is not a most exquisite sample of merit and morrimont “Tu truth,” replied the editor. I ecannot speedily speuk my mind. 1 must sonsider it further. Itisa now one'to me.' THE LAST STRAW. Clothier and Furnisher. Ho said his love for hor wis such That It would ne'er grow dim, And 5o, believing what he sul Th alden married h Bat whoen, her new suspender off, She usked of him one day If he would sew tho button on, He gently sneaked awa S ———— A HINT FROM PARLS. York Herald ition New Ewropean Ed A STRIKING AFTERNOON COSTUME. This disunguished locking costume foi afternoon wear may be made of striped silk, with short sleeves puffed at the shouldors. 4 broad lace fichu, with novel ormentation and long tight fiting sleeves, also of lace. Hat of straw, broaaening at the back and adorned with ostrich tips. d double-breasted suits in The or the s sack suit [S.. Cor. 15th & Douglas St