Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 20, 1893, Page 4

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Drafts 10 bo made payubl BEE PUBLISHING BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nobraska County of D George B, Trschick, BER 2 ar that BER for was as inly sw : DATLY , 1503, 005 Druary 13 shrunry 14, Febranry 16 ay, February 16 Febraary 17 Febru In 1803, Pubite. my o Fehrnary, Not Average Cireulation for THE pitiful appeals to keep the board of transportation alive are Ily heart- rending, but the people of Nebraska are not distressing themselves very much over the prospect of getting rid of the fmposture. THE committee of the Tllinois legisla- ture that recently investigated the sweating system in Chicago found people working for four cents an hour, There is not a city in the United States that needs reform more than Chicago does. SIXTEEN of the prominent piano mak- ers of New York have decided not to send an exhibit to the World'’s fair be- cause they cannot sccuro space, and a similar complaint of insufficient sp comes from Philadelphia. The man; gers of the exposition should have made ample provision for the great eastern sities. IT 18 by no means <abinet slate agr not be smashed by Such things have happened before. Cleveland may find more pegs than he has holes. He has only got two cabinet holes now to fill and there are liable to be a dozen pegs trying to crowd into them before he is two weeks older. certain that the od upon to date will the 5th of March. Now TuAT the Douglas county contest farce is disposed of entirely a now thr ring side show will be opened presently to witness the amendment recount jug- glers performing on the railroad trape The legislature must be given diversion, you know, 50 as to keep it from giving too much attention to railroad legislation and rooting out the rascals implicated with Mosher in speculations with state funds. THE greatest losses of the insuran companjes of late have been sustained in Boston. In less than six weeks that city has suffered losses amounting to more than $2,000,000, of which about $1,500,000 falls upon the insurance com- panies. The protection against fire is notoriously bad in Boston, being little better than that in Brooklyn. We shall wateh with interest what steps the in- surance companies take to raise their rates in Boston. VICE PRESIDENT MORTON has filled his high office with distinguished credit. He has performed his duties with dig- nity and modesty, never presuming to step outside the boundaries of his right- ful prerogatives. As the presiding offi- cer of the senate he has made an un- blemished record for fairness and im- partiality, thereby carning the respect and confidence of men of all parties. It is proposed by the members of the Benate, without regard to party, to give Mr. Morton a farewell dinner, the time fixed for it being February 20. This will be an exceptional courtesy. When Mr. Morton entered the senate as its presiding ofticer a dinner was given in his honor to which only republican sen- ators where invited. Thelhonor that awaits him will be of much greater consequence. — THERE is probably no truth in the statement that a Now York banking house has offered, on behalf of the gov- ernment, to sell $25,000,000 of bonds to London bankers. Itis understood that the president has left it with the secre- tary of the treasury to decide whether it is expedient at this time to issue bonds in order to increase the gold resorve of the government, and the latest informa- tion regarding the position of Secretary Foster in the matter is that hoe will issue bonds only in the event of an emergency threatening to deplete the treasury of its free gold. He will not permit the $100,000,000 reserve, held for the re- demption of legal tender notes, to be attacked. There seems to bo a fair out- look that the treasury will be able, with the help of the banks, to meet all gold demands while the present administra- tion remains in power, and undoubtedly Secretary Foster will spare no effort to do this. But in any event it is bhardly probablo that the secretary of the treas- ury would offer foreign bankers the privilege of taking bonds without giv- ing American bankers an opportunity to compete for them. This would be an extraordinary pre ding which it is safo to say neither President Harrison nor Secretary Foster would adopt under any conceivable ¢ ircumstances. There is no reason for going abroad to sell bonds for gold, unless it be the fact that to sell them at home would have the effect to centract the circulation to that ex- tent. The stock of gold in the country is estimated to be about £600,000,000, so that the government ought to have no great difficulty in disposing of D00, 000 in bonds for gold. The present week will doubtless decide whether there is 10 be an issue of bonds under this admin- ist: ation. e 800 | 500 | THAT PENITENFIARY CONTRACT, Ever since the ponitentinry was ostab- lished each sucoossive legislature has boen compelled to tussle with the peni- tentiary problen:, the job bory und jugglery eonnected with tho appraisement and of penitentiay, lands and the steals of lands that not designed for the penit came the scandais and frauds connectod with the building of the penitentiarvy and the everlasting deficits and claims for pretended work done and | material not furnisl Then camo that monume i known as Bill Stout's conty :n by hoodle and maintained by continued corruption | Finally, but not lastly, cane the Mosh transfer and extension, which was the primary cause of the collapse of the Capital National bank The peniten- mtract the incentive for tionand jobbery in which Mosher | and his associates, high and low, dipped wrecklessly in expectancy that the con- viet laboy was better than a gold mine, All the facts and documents r to the Stout contract, Moshe Wd Do, signment have been placed before the house by one of its comr with the ion or gestion that Dorgan must file a bond to make Moshe mt v Right he wture finds itsolf at th blest law- yers in the stato hold that the tension of the Stout contract by an act of the | legislature was illegal and therefore void. The legislature has no authority to contracts. Its function isto | make laws. The legislature had a right to authorize the governor or the board of public lands and buildir to enter into 4 contract after the expira- tion of the original Stout contract, but that would have had to ke done under competitive hid The extension of the Stout contract was precisely the me as making a new contract without eompetition, by special legis- lation, which the constitution pro- hibits. The original Stout contract was made on bids; oxtension was by special act. The extension being void, | the Mosher transfer is void also. If Stout's transfer to Mosher w illegal, Mosher had no legal contract to assign | to Dorgan or anybody. Suppose the ox- tension given to Stout was valid, would not the state have prior claims to the profit from the contract which has been made one of the assets of the defunct Mosher bank? As the prineipal itor the state would entitled to the larger shave of whatever the contract is worth, unless indeed the bondsmen of the late treasurer or the personal friends of Mosher come forward and plank down the quarter of a million of state funds deposited in that rvat hole? In any event the legislature cannot at this stage accept a tender of bonds from Mr. Dorgan, who has double ¢ ity as alleged con the convict labor and supery tractor of the new ceil house. In dealing with the penitentiary the legislature may as well take the bull by the horns now as to be beating abi ut the bush. The convict labor lease must be dealt with as a business proposition. The penitentiavy has been a source of jobbery and bribery for years, and upon the present legislature and the governor devolves the task of locating the leaks and plugging them up. THE DEMAND FOR CHEAPER FUEL. The final report of the New York senate committee upon the Reading coal combine has an interest that extends bo- yond the borders of the empire st The report goes over the ground alve traversed by the congressional commit- tee which has inquired into the subject, and after a review of the circumstances leading to the combination it sets forth that the amount of coul controlled by the several companies interested in the deal aggregates about 70 per cent of tho entire tonnage annually transported to tidewater, and that ~ the al regions covered by the combination of transporting and producing companies are the only soureo | of supply for the state of New York and the country at large; that bituminous coal is little used for domastic purposes and is not regarded asa formidable com- petitor of anthracite, and that the roads First eame sule we inry. Then bogus | specul asc lating | extension tees recommen: s assign id. make the be been acting in | stor for ng con- outside of tho state of New The eonclusions reached by the committee are that the consolidation of railvoad and eoal producing panios called the Reading com- bination has created a substantial monopoly of anthracite coal in the management of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad company; that the vouds involved are substantially parallel and that the mines controlled by them ave the source of the largest supply, and were competitors in the coal business be- fore this combination was formed; that the most natural and obvious benefit to be derived by them from consolidation is increase in the price of coal; that the price of coal may, in the interest of the combination, nd at its pleasure, be advanced to an unr and oxtortionate rate; that combination was formed material vances in the price of ¢oal that these advancos have origi nated in the wholesale branch of the business and ave not due to any natural fluctuation in the value of eoal, but are ctresult of the policy of the Reading combination to destroy competi- tion in the business of coal production and transportation. It is also set forth by the committee that such combinations ave opposed to the spirit of the law as declared by the highest courts in this country and and, and it is the opin- ion of the committee that the combina- tion is contrary to public policy and dangerous to the interests of the state and the welfare of the whole people, A substantial result of these conclu- sions is presented ina bill which, if it should become a law, would do away with the evil complained of so far as any single state is able to dispose of it. But it is acknowledged by the committee that while the oppression of the Reading combination may be partially restrained under the existing laws of the state and | other laws now proposed, the fact that the chiof parties to it are foreign cor- | porations outside of the jurisdiction of the state courts leaves no thoroughly | adequate remedy except through federal eom- 4501 sinco the ad- have boen le | quenc { member [ during the four years pi | Morton is a t in the combination are mainly | laws duly enforced in the United States courts, conclusions of the Noew York senate committes should have a great deal of weight in determining tho action of the this mand conl ¢ that ti government The people de- general important subjec mbine, and it is not surprising 3 1 be impatient in ¢ > of the long delay of justice. mse- AND THIS IS FAME. land announced this evening inz Morton of Nebraska, who visited him at his request today, had been tenderad the aryship of agriculture, and aceepted it M. Morton is one of the most ats in the state of Nebraska hus been in the state legislature and talked of us o candidate for governor fall Very little is known of him in the east, but e has boen a promineny figure in the wost for a numborof years. Heowned a proprietary interest in a n Omaha newsp a- per at one time o, N. ., dispateh to the St. Lowis Republie, Mr. ( that J. S prominen t He was last This is a striking sample of the dense ignorance about prominent western men that prevails in the east, and also shows tive frailty of material upon which the fame of men rests, J. Sterli Morton ber of the sta of the rial e eding his ap- territorial retary in ly been talked of three times been the democratic candidate for governor, and headed the democratic ticket as | candidate for governor last fall. Mr. sse and vigorous writer, but at no time has owned a proprictary interest in an Omaha newspaper. With the exception of these few dis- crepancies the dispatch to the Republic concerning Mr. Morton is correct. the compar, was never a mem- He was a as se Ho has not mer for governor, but hs pointment 1859, THE VANISHED SURPLUS The effort to cast reproach upon the present administration and to glorify its because the latter left a large surplus in the treasury which has since been returned to the people, will not succeed with those who are informed as to the facts and have the candor to acknowledge the truth. Senator Vest of Missouri declared in the United nate a fow days ago that when the last democratic administration went out of power there was in the treasury over $100,000,000 in gold in addition to the reserve for the redemption of legal tender notes. The democratic organs ave citing similar figures to show how careful a democratic administration was with the public money in contrast to the republican administration which suc- ceeded it. Inorder to appreciate the consistency of the democracy it is only necessary to remember how for years that party railed against the existenco of a surplus as a grave wrong to the peo- ple, a powerful incentive to extrava- gance and & menace to free institutions, 1t is true that there was a large sur- plus in the treasury when the present administration came into power and it was the policy of its predecessor to keep it there. A considerable part of it might have been advantagbously used in reducing the public debt, thereby giving it to the use of the people and saving in- tevest to the government, but the Cleve- land administration paid off little move of the debt during its entire term than was paid during the first half of the present administration. Several times there was a most urgent demand from the country for money, but onno occa- sion was the relief furnished by that ad- ministration what it should have becn. One means taken to obviate impairing the surplus was to make heavy deposits with the banks, a policy that wars abandoned as soon as possible after the Harrison administration came in. The surplus which the present admin- istration found when it came into power has been returned to the people, as the democrati¢ party for years insisted it should be, by paying off the public debt, increasing the navy, improving the pos- tal service, leoking more liberally after the o sulturai intevestsof the country, enlarging the bounty of the government t)its defenders, and in other proper and legitimate expenditures from which the whole people have derived benefit. Not a dollar of it has been dishonestly spent, and while it may be true that a part of it might have heen saved, it is a question whether the saving would not have been to the detri- ment of the nation. No reproach can therefore be justly cast upon the present administration because of the disappear= ance of a surplus which has been used in directions beneficial to the whole people. The financial record of the outgoing ad- ministration will stand every fair and honorable test that may be applied to it, and so much cannot be said of its prede- cessor. \ AN HONE Representative Herbert, the chairman of the house naval committee, is a demo- | erat who has the candor to admit that some good has resulted from the policy of protection. In the report recently submitted by him in the naval appropri- ation bill he unqualifiedly endorses the provision of law, for which crodit is duc to a republican American war American materials, of 1866, which contains this provision, and it has been retained in every act since passed to authorize ships for the navy. As a ult, frankly admitted Mr. Herbe we hy not built a ves- sel since 1866 that does not favorably compare with the bost ships of the same typeafloat. He says that it has resulted in a development of shipbuilding facili- ties so that Americ: unarmored vessels of the highest class as quickly as can be done in the oldest shipyards of Europe. Amorican enter- prise has surmounted all diflicultics, and | not only has this been reached under the most arbitrary protective law, but at the same time the cost of building unarm- ored steel ships has decreased 38 per cent, Tk another interesting point made in the reportof Mr. Herbert. It says that nearly all of our new war ships have been built by contract in private ship- yards, and that this policy has given us cheaper ships, as well as multiplied the means of ship building, and thus enabled us to increase our navy rapidly in an emergency. Inshort, under the wise predecessor, congress, requiving to be built of He cites the act vossels upon | lie from the oppression of the | | tained growth of republican poli slature | | poses, no Irishman whosineerel | other considerations that will re | tecedents, lepr n yards can turnout | poliey of nneou;‘;&\‘-flu Ameri ship- hould be equally 1ald on the lnheritances of builders there Boon built up & most valuable Indllnm.l‘(hh-h gives employ- ment to a large ampunt of capital and labor. " It is to the aredit of Mr. Herbert that seoing thdsd eoxcellent results he frankly admits them and ad vises that the ) poli to which the are dud " shall be main- It only reipains now for some of our great shipbuilders to duplicate the | Cunarders lately adided to our merchant marine in order £ énd the talk about buying ships of .doubtful quality when they can be bought cheap. Perhaps this prdvision of law, the out- is one of the things which a democratic_congress and administration will not Interfore with. Tt is protection of the most arbi- | trary kind, and according to democratic doctrine unconstitutional, but it is doubtless a safe prediction that it will be allowed to stand. It may be remarked in this connection that the indications are there will be other features of the protective system which will not e disturbed. Mr. land, there is excellent reason to intends that his declaration that the democratic party is not a par of destruction shall be given practical significance, and he will hold in check the extremists who would destroy the policy that has placed the United States inthe forefront of national progress. There is no doubt that four years of | private life and experience since he was president has had the effect to render him more conservative regarding tavift reform, and it will not be'at all surpris- ing to find him counseling and pursuing a moderate cour of the Irish national for contributions to enable them to carry on the fight for home rule should meet with & generous response from Irishmen everywhere. Whateve differences of opinion there may be re- garding the merits of the revised plan of home rule which Mr. Gladstone pro- THE appeal leaders desires self-goverament for Ireland will permit his opinion of the measure to lead him to refuse to contribute to the financial support necessary to a vigorous main- tenance of the contest. Mr. Gladstone's bill may not all that could be desired, but the cause must not be allowed to suffer because of some faults or defects in the measures providing for home rule. These it may not be diflicult to correct, but it might be very hard to reinfuse vigor and vi- tality into the cavse if these were per- mitted to seriously decline. If the bat- tle for home rule now on is lost it may be a long time before the fight can be renewed under auspices as favorable as the present. Anothor leader might have to he found, for Mr. Gladstone's tenure of life cannot be much further pro- longed, and there is no one in sight to succeed him, so faras this question is concerned. With Mr. Gladstone's power- ful influence withdrawn there would be great danger that the cause of Irish home rule would suffer. These and adily suggest themselves'should induce every friend of the Irish cause to give it ail possible aid at this time, to the end that it shall not be permitted to weaken and wane. THE Ohio river is kicking up a great deal of mud and seriously disturbing the peace of mind of the people who dwell in Cincinnati. The water used in that city is taken from the er, and it is now so thick that it has to be eaten with a fork. Plety and Patriotism, Boston Herald. The chaplain of the Wyoming house of representatives declines to receive any ary for his services. He doesn't believe in using the public funds for religious purposes. e Went O Hatf Cockod. Fremont Tribune. Inasmuch as the semate could not go to Honolulu it concluded to go to Topeka. The Nebraska senators are very foolish to go to Topeka clad in anything but boiler iron. e A Swap Suggested, Chicago Post. What would be the objection to trading Kansas for Hawaii? The former appears to be as troublesome as the latter and it would be 1 to allow those legislators to fight it out on an island, — Why Missouri Is T lohe-Democrat. The situation in Kansas plated by Missouri with a found thankfulne legislature to subj proach, at any rat ktul, an be contem- feeling of pro- s that she has Wayne Herald, General Al Beemer, of Beemer, has been appointed warden of the state penitentiary y Governor Crounse. We trust that Al 1 keep things in such shape that the re- ans will have no excuses to offer in tho Not Surprising. Talmage Tribune The independents ha ready abolished the democratic party of Nebraska, it is neither surprising to the spectators nor humiliating to the democrats when their little stray squeal tailed up the populist Jubilee. SSRNG What We Will Annex, St. Louts Repuhlie, If the Sandwich islgnds are annexed, civil war amendmeuts, will apply to them, and ¢ nborn' in them " will be an Ame 1, regardless of canuibal an 15 bidad or previous condi- tion of servitude to Clav the sislature is considering o law to compel circuses to show what th advertise. It sucheactaw had been in eff in Kansas before the populistic platfc was issued last faWit would have relieved that state of a depredsing burden now. lh)huklnuulmk vernor, Portland Oregonian, The Oregon lozislittire apparently knows its own mind on some questions. It ha sed the World's' fhir_ appropriation ovi 0 s vewo, Probably this is the ouly important méasure of this session which could commad & two-thirds majority The Id Sintherskite, Nance County Journal. J. 8. Clarkson very freely criticises Presi dent Harrison. It might be well for Mr. Clarkson to turn his eyes homeward, He s the lead anism in Towa and the democrats nearly succeeded in getting control of the state. It is just such men as Ctarkson *vho have brought the republican party into tem ary distress. Minneapolis J The inheritance tax proposition is a right eous measure. 1t works no injustice to the living or the dead. A man iuberiting an estate which he did not build up, loses noth ing by p t tax on what comes to him. There is, BVer, no sense taxing boquests b % That Is the principle to far. The tax tory. ndividuals. The supreme court of the United States has decided (Taney) that the inheritance tax is constitutional. tho tax o doubl on the property logatoo to take for statutory Proposition, ta: + b effeot The Piere Hitcheock of the been lost for these serenely and proc Judge Allen was a Hiteh s, “Rojoice with self which was lost.” Commendnbie I'he legislature ock now afthor s xation, for it is a tax, not it on the privilege of the that which he had not be will do well togive | to the inheritance tax ————— tis Found. ¢ County Call, World-Herald, who has many years, now bobs up ims that the election of great World-Herald vic- h me for I have found my- - ogistation, Hartington Leader The voice, demand of t lation of the charg independents wero weople of this state, almost with one he legislature some regu- es of the railroad The sent to the legislature with instructions so that there s no excuse for them if they do not do all in their power to bring about Agitation St Pa By trifling w backs Grover whirlwind and the Perhaps he has dec more gr last democratic would never vote true, but he can fly nate a little candic when the crazy old or he can stay a nurse his wrati, as sown nd, gloomy Gresham is as the uch legislation - of t Puoneer-Press. the feclings of the moss- the sceds of the ey are already sprouting. ided it would make him and peculiar to be the president. The mossback # republican ticket, it is v Off at a tangent and nomi late of his own, as party nominated Greeley, t home on clection day o ness of death to the old timer. Wasl If you are a pave dear to you, bring that he will never most tiresome today is the one w an opportunity to n of it is th speech is n erally has a wheez) and in nine cases out of ten h and *“‘nyether.” S weakness for speaking, lead him out to the | woodshed in the st hit him with two ¢ Cantloning man t the man who wants to ington News. nt and have a son who is | manner | him up in such be a spoechr in the United ho s always wa nake a specch. The States hing for The worst make a v kood speaker. He gen y voice and low teeth, says “eyether o, I your boy dovelops aker. ill, dreamy gloaming and ords of green olm s Rallrond Managers, Cinetnnati Commerciil Much has been said ilroud strike in t [t is hardly all too early for mea: pective ter should not be Railroad selves. If there a4 more satisfactory little effort in ti avail much more now t outbreak of troubl great year in country and an through a strike, t astrous. idle abor troubles. € managers ar thing should be done toy about a threatened he west the coming spring. rumor. The day is not sures for averting pros- oncern in the mat- left to employes alone. should interest the real grievances, some- ard bringing about condition of affairs. A way of pacitication would 1 it would after the s, 'This promises to boa lroading ' the western interruption of tr: hough brief, would be dis- ol sy Progres s of the Negro. Philadelphia North American. Up to a certain y susceptible and 1f we take point the African is more eachable than the C s up the history of ization we cannot selectany century in which the Caucasian mad the freedmen ha of a century. I got that twenty-five years to teach a negro to therefore south perhaps a_d read. Suchas the that there de as much real progress 1ve mado in the last quar- The public is liable to for- ago it was a crime d in the south, and was not in the entire ozen negroes who could e were were probably free persons from the north and west, To there is more ill than among the fr negro youth attend school. sons remain, in might be expected es in the south, ac among the w ording to population, rdmen. Nearly all of the The older per- part, illiterate, as iteracy ge —_———— Appallin New What in the m After listenin ay we should sun ripes ground growth: we hear the voice ¢ who says we mustiy grain, such as whe , all of and bad for the humbugs all! ar. Give us e, nourishing. such things as m aven a colored pe Dougluss or M. ppy and brave. folks loose in the nivorous, cocoanut, kingdoms. like potatoes and health. and h 11 thin, angers of York Sun ief are we to eat nowa- to the vegetarians at meats, and to the gainst eating un- turnip: reforme ting. n't of another food 1't eat anything made of | eat bread, corn dodger: Go _to grass, with Nebuchadne, hat are good, whole- tasteful and high toned, ke a_white person, or on_like Hon. Frederick T. Thomas Fortune fecl Gi show! Let nimal, vegetable, gram- chestnut, and apple-sass el Concerning Ced » Rapids (Ia.) Gazetle (rey The time has com be known, legislation, because the moneyed camps campaign fund. He loyalty in Towa.. I write a lette Documentary evi his own reckless assaults on anti- 10 a state of Jawbone Clarkson, his man should lence oxists of rpo : such laws would p igns contributing to his > n0w boas*s of republi Did he o did he not ever al declaring that ne when the republican party in the state should go to de ations were ad and and the detadls of t tially revealed. = W Tow. 5 the power of weed, and the one arge of perfidy t uniess laws favorable had rested under a rule as Tammany to the cor- the legislature? ey in_which Gov- s an anarchist, uter in J. 5. Clarkson, he plot have been par Vhat is known proves that nental s of the the in the Is Lo attach moral erime to > who and dent of the United States was the chief power and instigatc Richest Country on ¥ s crricre, o Pi York the other day talking anxiously your national tres chest people on countries are all What with royall wrmics, big navies the governmental anda little thing. At best the European count ingenuity of the « both_ends meet a credit is alway slight failure in in sometimes real da; situation is ent taxes are pi when or where or of your governmen auount of money t pose whatevi over be one, will money or the ¢ any way." deficit with us A A deficit, or of the combine. ————— said visian New , **to hear you Ameri about the condition of asury. Why, you_are the earth. Ou Juropean bankrupt in comparis ty, officialism, standing nd mountains income is u in of debt, vital thing very big people of wpacity of the ay taxe the 10 pa) sburs re always severely strained, even icome causes trouble o nger. In this country the irely different. 1, apparently, without kn crodit 1y pur should te for the amount. Th tis suficient to r: hat it needs for any if the not affect th wenience of your public in oLn JON 5 IN TOWN, Cedar Rapids Gazette, Say what ye will o' Y "ina'for mo; I found that out the time I went a-visitin® My son, who's doin’ the si ny me I thonght I wouldn but I'd vip all n't y hir when I stepped therc to su My own dear son, a ter mi An' when i said I'd Old Purd san't see M, Jc in your card.” for awhile, If Steph out,” said | “This thing o' sendi Uncle Cy." At that othe wha In Just Xaucy pup, Had not'wy son com the maiter up. n Jones Is in this place y city ways, they ain't the tor in about Dbizne a bloc suntains—er Iean't believe t write him I was comin’, an’ walk right wse 1 knowed surprise 'd n when 1 stood right there inside the door, expectin' little office kid stepped up so0 Steve Jones he said ter ynes until you've sent him cross my knee an' tan yo u trot hin ' tn yer card, don't it yer e fellers con d, “My lords, thrashed the s in Just then an' cleared 118 in his friends and | lid | bitter- | e | ve need | NEW BOOKS. The Uitle of a little work by Creedmore Floenor is “Thought Throbs," a eollection of poems, the groater partof which are in blank verso. The author has ovidently drawn on all liconso allowed in pootry, with what ef- fect may be Judged from Such words as g, Cdang’rous,” “glim'ring, " and so Whon in his_rhapsodical des ! SOf man's poo nd stood her blushing red be wo aro fnclined to take his rain of salt, as all recog nized authority on the subject givos the lac credit for A blush at_ a somewhat lnter pori adventinto the Garden of Flecnor has good com- mand of language and at times his verses aspire to somothing beyond the averag notably in the “Life of Despicabloe Tom whero tho adventures of & “wentloman cat | are told in an entortaining and racy manner. J.P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Books explaining how it happened, after | presidential eloction, nre generally rather wearisome, but Mr. Henjamin R. Davenport in his “Crime of Caste" gives the silly imita- | tors, in this country of the idiocy kuown ns English aristocracy, some valuable pointers He amirms that the people voted for Cleve. land simply because Mr. Harrison's party essayed to belong to th wur_ hundred’ that the populists 1 the million votes for their candidate because of the sig nificance of the name, “People's party. The principal reme d for all’ of | the evils resultin L centraliza tion of wealth is a graded incomo tax, which the author t ill solve all dificuitios | and putthe workingmun's wifo und the millionaire’s wife in the same class of so. ciety. Keystone Publishing company, I’ delphia. s, In his “Foot Note to History, Bight Years of Trouble in Samoa,” even Robert Stevenson fails to make an uninteres subject entertaining, excopt porhaps in the hurricane chapter, where the description is very fine. Charles Scribner's Sons, Now York “Better Dead,” by how the Socicty for Doing People was organized work of ridding the ¢ Lady Nicotine” is volume. Both stor full of bright hits Coryell & Co., 47 York. Louis g rie, shows Without Some nd carried arth of bol published in the nality. Lovell, ast Tenth strcet, New “Life and Adventures of with” is mes P i ry of life among the American Indians, written by an Englishman, T, D Bonner. As the book claims to be founded on facts, and facts are mdisputable, nothing remains to be said. But the illustration which muke the Indians appear short and “dumpy,” were ovidently designed from sportive cigar sign and neve [ndian in his native grac 1 gore. Mc & Co, New The Unknown Liby tioth ber, “Gentleman Upc aughter,” is a convenient little volume for the pocket and will help to while away a tedious hour while | traveling. Cassell Publishing company, 104 ‘ourth avenue, New York num- Anna C. Reifsnider, in her book, he Earned It, or 000 in Eleven makes an carnest appeal to all working women to be carnest and conscien- tious in their work and to never be satisfied short of the top round in the ladder. Reif- snider Book company s, Tu the setting of Ouida’ Tow mol new novel, “The of Taddeo,"” one is reminded of but all resemblanc masterpiece e Ouida w at novels, and while this is not one of them, still it will please those who object to her intense * alism,” as the book is pure in tone Hav- endon company,. 17 Wi New | York. liot's ning chap- vly Place, (mbert de Saint Armand, in his “Famous Women of the French Court,” has presented the early portion of her life in his “Duchess of Berry and Court of Louis XVIIL,” ina very im 1 and pleasing style. If the LWO v L are to follow, completing enter into the intricacies of nch life, both political and privat minute s the first one has done, the series be' an invaluable aid to the careful history, with all its side lights. ns, New York. Rev. T. D. called W Roberts. in his little volume ays and Means,” gives some very sugge hints as to practicability in Chr tian reform work. James H. larle, Washington street, New,York. Ash Slivers, sr., Lumberman, of Cleveland (C. Burnet), in his book, “The Land of the O—0,” which he dedicates to his little ughter “because she is too young to h b elf,” writes a very entertaining, instru tive and timely story of his travels in the Sandwich islands. The book is printed on the best quality of paper, with fine illustra- tions, including a portrait of Queen Liliuo- kalani. His description of his sufferings at a stute dinner, while partaking of live shrimps, which were served with other deli- cacies, is particularly diverting, while the chapters devoted to the voleinoes almost reach sublimity. Hager Book company, Cleveland, O. Jules Clarette in his “1'Ameri the same v of d es that prohibs do of temperance laws sivility of obtaining a divorce ¢ away 1ts charm, makes th ne" the anti that the pc sily bonds of 1 vol He'’s a goner No earthly show for him except he hypnotises can. one. If youve BROWNING, Store open overy evenlng till 833 .LI turday il 10 the animal. gettimg tied up. 1 o4® Way with ideas. J up to the idea that no one but " tailors can make your clothes you are going to get the worst of it. ‘The tailors wont rob you; they'll e lonly get big prices because they have to. Costs 'em money to get up your suit. We can do the work for less than half what they We make a hundred suits where they make w idea that we can’t fit you well and as stylishly, investigate; ask your friends who are wearing our peerless clothing. Before we remodel our store we are selling everything at a big discount. - =——3 life bearable and divoroes rare. Whether facts sustain tho theory may be a qestion, and whether the author of this book fi‘nhlo todolineate Amorican charactor also romains 1o bo established, ke vortainly fails inglor lously in this instance. Morrill, Higgins & Co., Chicago. “The Story of Cloud's Mills the Sunday school order by dohn pitt, whero o is anovel on W. Clam« ything turns to gold at the touch of the young hero who n doy wrong, marries a g liv T afterwa Henne- & Co.#407 Dearborn strect, Chicago. ron-ibintunhy SITUATION IN FRANCE. England Dolng All She ¢ Republie Troabl NEW York, Feb, 19.—A special cablo from Parfs says: The internal situation in Franc will certainly be a - soonor or later, What is most disquieting is the situation abroad, which is anything but good, es- pecinlly as to the relations with England. At the same time France's relations with Germany are less strained, because both sides know that the result of & war would be 80 sorious that neither dares to commence gland on the contrary seoking ereate difleulties with K Y pos- ble way. ~After the attempt to take Mo- rocco, which failed, came the Igyptian question, which was certainly caused by the high handed action of Lord Cromer t ward the khedive who only asked to be loft in peace. The khedive is attempting to‘rogain®® possession from the English of the rights unduly d upon by them civime this are oring to create dificultios with aecount of the port of Bizerta heir claims are based upon the foar lest France should convert Bizerta intoa military post, notwithstanding her denial of any such intention. Aly has complained for some time and England backs her up Taxation of Mortgages. Chicrgo 1 vald man who would ridden farmer by taxing mortgages has re- appeared in the Tilivois legislature. If the mortgaged farmer were ealled upon to pay higher interest on bor apital becauso of taxed mort bel, not only against that particular law, but against every other law which enables the privi- leged class to transfer their public obliga- tions to his shoul 1t is safo to say that in such an event little of the personal operty tax would remain, Legislators who ppear anxious to “hit the rich fellows' usually proc n the absurd idea that all taxes stay where they ave placed by tho assessor. The inevitanlo rosult of their idiotic legislation is tho further oppression of consumers, v nothing of the annoy- ing obstacles to trade and business generally whichi it imposes. Farmers should pray for deliverance from foolish friends who have evidently no desire to perceive the ultimate and natural effeet of their patehwork meas- ures, and who persist in multiplying vicious laws instead of demanding their repeal o= S PICKLED PARAGRAPHS, to Cause the to The ove the debt- rists say the eradle ot Siftings: G i with making the the deep has nothing w o bed rock Binghamton Load silonce is gotden wh case of Munim You rea you come to that tle for & Chicago News: The Populist-What's the use of resorting to Gatling guns and Winches. ters when our mouths are so rapid-firing and 80 deadly? The Républican—That's thing you've said this year. the first sensible Now York Press this wi said the law ‘Oh, talk s cheap. d the client. “Well, wait till you got throngh with this and sce whether talk is cheap or not.” “Now we can fix him in Washington Star: Tt will he ne he- fore Hawaii as o part of the United States can be generally regarded as & pronounced suc- coss. somo_ t You can always find h when he dies by dead giv Vi Rochester Democra out how much a man is wox looking at his will. Tt is Salina Press: “Did you write more's name on this note?” said th the prisoner gecused of forgery. 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