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“have been several cases of that kind “as might naturally be expected of _should be favorably impressed by the BER F. ROSEWATER Editor. 7|'| BLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIFTION, (without Sunday Ono Year v Sunday, One Yoeur h 8800 10 00 00 Eaturdny Bew, Ond Weekly Bee, One Yo OFFICES © Boe Building ¥ N and 2611 Stroote Omaha uth Oninha, cors Connell BInfms 1 rl St C ro Ofice, 817 ¢ Ler of Commerco. New York, Rooms 18, 14 und 15, Tribune Building. Washington, 513 enth Stroet CORRESPONDENCE. Al communieations relating to news and editorial matter should be addre 10 the Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. | ATl husiness lettors and remittances should | e nddressed to The Beo Pablishing Company, Omnhn, Drafts, checks and postofiice orders | 10 be made puyable to the order of the com- | Yol BEE PUBLISHING COMPA SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION | tur | T TRADE MOVEMENT. Thoro arrived in Now York a few days ago n party of sixty-four manufacturers returning from a six weeks trip through Mextoo, The visit of these American wanufacturers to the sister republic was with a velations, and theiv reports ave highly avorable the intention of these representative business moen, who have formed a permanent association in which the manufacturers of twenty-six cities of the United States are already repre- sented, to make another teip to Mexico later in the year and periodical visits may be made in future. In short it is & thoronghly practical and substantial movement which aims to draw to thig | country a large part of the trade of the to | neighbor republic which now goes uropean countries, and thére can be no doubt that if earnestly and vigorously pushed it will be successfal in doin this s was said by one of these manufu r&, the United States not only | duces what is needed by the people of ¥ e P | Moxico and South America, but it also RDAILY BE Tor the week | (g a lasgo percentuge of the commodis ah 8 Tollown. _ y ; e | tios which they are prepared to Tosutary, Miween 21 offer in oxchange. With quick Wedneadny, Marcii3.. | and regular transportation facilities, iy, Narel 0 as well as low ostablished ratos, aturiay, March 1i ; GiONGE B TASCH | it is only necessary that American manu- Swora to batora mo ant sibsc i ved 1803 § thin i1th day of Mary [8EAL.) Avernge ulution for February, 24,300 THE $5,000 FORFEIT DEPOSITED, OMAnA Received of F, checks upon the Omaha, of $1.000 | ench nnd cach made payable to the order respectively of the fnstitutions named. to be held by me in trust and for disposition as stated, and in rdance with the accept- ance by G. M ock of the challenge made by 1. , both of which are herewith appended, Hexry W YATES, It will be observed that no forfeit has been | exacted from G. M. Hitcheock or the World- Herald. He has not staked a dollar on his claim of lavgest circulation and cvery con cossion demanded by him has boen made | without exacting anything from him except | prompt and honsst compliance with the conditions under which the relative circula- | tions are to be ascertained It now remains for th vimant to proceed without delay, publish his list and earn #5,000 for the benevolent institutions at Tur BrE's expense. THER a smell of burning rubbish | in the air and a sound of carpet beating | and profanity. The spring houseclean- ing has commenced. | 1893, THE behavior of the Missouri river up to date is admifable, but all signs point | to a break up that will make things | livelv when it comes. A PHILOSOPHICAL contemporary says that the only cure for municipal cor- | ruption is to elect no man to office who 8 not free from debt. Such men would Ve hard to find, and it does not follow that a man is honest because he is out of | debt. | THE man who works a horse as long as the wretched creature can stand up un- | der the weight of a harness, and then turns him into the street a tottering skeleton to starve to death, deserves the | attention of the humane society. The in this city this spring. I7 18 proposed to colonize with Eng- lish farmers a tract of 80,000 acres in central Wyoming. Perhaps some of those farmors will prove to be miners, Eng- lishmen, and in that case they may ex- ert an important influence upon the min- eral as well as the agricultural develop- | ment of that state. THE benefits to be derived from reci- procity in trade are shown by the in- crease in our trade with Cuba under the reciprocity treaty negotiated with Spain during the last administration. The in- crease in our export trade with Cuba during one year is from $10,906,780 to $16,782,014. It pays this country to look to its business in WHEN all is said that can be justly said about the legislatures of the wi orn states they still shine brightly by contrast with some of the state legis- lative bodies of the ecast. The New York World says: *“New Jersey's shame is that it has a logislature absolutely controlled by criminals and blacklegs. That is the pre situation, and there is no reason why the scandalous truth should not be told.” OMAHA will have a larger number of visitors this year than ever before in her history. It is important that they appearance of the city, and for that rea- son, if for no other, a special effort vhould be made to keep the streets in the most attractive condition possible. Clean stroets always create a favorable impression and ave regarded as proofs of enterprise and local pride. REPORTS continue to come of gration to the newer states from eastern and middle states. The move- ment has only begun, but it promises tp | be the greatest that has been witnessed | in many years. Nebraska has already received u considerable number of set- tlers this spring from beyond the Mis- souri, and there are many more to fol- low. All comers who are in search of | permanent homes are warmly welcomed. | immi- the I\ul‘nul\ in this country but in Eng- land a great deal of interest has been manifested in the transfer of the steam- ships New York and Paris to th ican line and their formal "uu&r tion” under the stars and stripes, recent formal and impressive adoption of the New York into the American | family of ships has been followed by a | less pretentious but equally significant ceremony on board the Pa and a dis patch from London gives a report of a | lunch party on board the New York at that port at which 230 distinguished | guests were present, including promi- | nent English and American officials. Minister Lincoln presided, numerous spoeches wore made and the ships in the harbor were profusely decorated in honor of the occasion. On all sides this transfer of two of the greatest ships in the world from English to American | reglstry seems to be regarded as highly significant. mer aliza- | The | plan of rc | not a new su | been able | financi | having due warrant of law for their facturers should learn thoroughly the kind and qualit be enabled to place them at a fo on the market necding them. The hope was expressed by the party that some siprocity would before long he arranged between the two countries whereby the present duties, which are almost prohibitive in some cases, will be lowered, if not entirely wiped out. It is estion that the tariff wall f goods cons between Mexico and the United Statesis vesponsible for the ¢ mm 1 advan- tages which European countries have in the former coun- American manufac- it the chance of to ure try, and now that turers sce and adimnit reatly lessening altogether remov- ing the bar will doubtless be mucl etter. It should be said that tho fact that the barrier exists now is largely the fault of the United States. The Mexican government has been well dis- posed toward a reciproeity arrangement ¥ and once or twice the two intries have been at the point of ¢on- nmating one, but some American in- st that wanted the taviff wall main- tained would step in to prevent it. The present president of Mexico, who is a statesman of broad and liberal views, manifested the most earnest to enlarge the commercial rela- tions between the two countries, while the Mexican minister at Washington, a devoted friend of the United States, has or labored zealously to this end. There is every reason to believe that Mexican merchants would prefer to do busi- ness with this country if they an do so on as advantageous terms as with European countries. These things being so it would scem that all American manufacturers have todois to seoure the vemoval of the difficult’es which hinder trade between the two countries and meet the roquire- ments of the Mexican market in order 1o speedily secure control of pretty much the entire foreign commerce of that republic. It is a trade well worth working for and the American Manufacturers’ associa- tion, which may be expected to rapidly grow in strength and has gone about the matter ay that promises success. influence, in a TRUST 3 1S SHRINKING. Since the st of January this year, a period of less than two months and a half, the shrinkage in the values of securities belonging to companies that are classed among the chief combines for the monopoly of products has been 50 great as to attract the attention of | rs and create the gravest appre- hension on the part of those whose inter- osts are in any manner concerned in the success of the combines affected. In the coal, sugar, cordage. lead and whisky rusts the shrinkage in the value of se- curities within the time named has been more than $64,000,000, The greater por- tion of this decline has taken place within the last three weeks. In the case of the Reading the loss on $40,000,000 of stock is $17,200,000; general mortgage, $3,600,000: first, second and third prefer- ence bonds, $18,500,000; total, $40,300,000. Seldom has the wind been knocked out of bloated securities at such a rate as this. But the American Sugar Refin- ing company, or the %ugar trust, has not escaped. On $36,770,000 of stock it has lost 12 per cent, or $4,400,- 000, and on the same amount of pre- ferred stock the shrinkage has been about $1,000,000. The National Cordage company has seen its securitios dwindle in value to the amount of $3,000,000, while the National Lead company has lost $3,600,000. The shrinkage in the securities of the whisky trust is placed at $11,900,000. The total amount of the securities here represented is about $302,412,000 and the loss in values since January 1 foots up $64,200,000, These figures would possess little pub- lic interést if the corporations concerned were legitimate business enterprises ex- istence; but wheu it is considered that they ave combines having no other pur- pose but extortion and plunder it is seen how closely the public is concerned in their financial condition, for upon this and the enforcement or nonenforcement of law their permanency must depend. There is some satisfaction in contemplat- ing the fact that the most powerful and dangerous monopolies that have ever existed in this country are beginning to feel the pressure public of through channels which tap their v 'y These trusts have used to extort money from the os of life. power sour thel | people, and the profits thus foreed have | been used to create a demand for vast quantities of their watered stocks. The | insiders in these deals have made the people pay money into their coffers and then have been able *o water their stocks beyond all reason and sell them upon the strength of the fact that their system of robbery was proving suc ful The men who have bought most freely of the trust securities whicn are now so rapidly shrinking in value are no better than those who inveigled them int) the speculation, As a rule nobody but a pro- | imed to | v profit | sharp would bave anything to do with | such securitios, and the man who would view to cultivating closer trade | | i | and r | was 13,1 tific, | | park so as to make a route for sock to profit by the success of any schome of publie plunder deserves to be canght in tho ruins when the structure falls. The trusts and doomed to go under and their downfall will be attributable tothe popular oute against them. What the law has failed to do is being slowly wrought out by the foree of public opinion. LITERARY ACTIVITY HERE AND ABROAD. It is doubtloss the impression of most intelligent Americans who give somo attention to literary matters that the United States surpasses all other ¢oun- tr »s inits contributions to literature, idea is a mistaken one. The fact is that in literary activity. as shown in the production of broks, which constitute a valuable and permanent addition to lit- ture, this country is behind the principal countries of Earope, England, France, Germany and Russin, The statistics are interesting and instructive, they se to indicate the intel- lectual trend here and abroad, and it must be said that they are not caleulated 10 increase our national pride. The yearly production of new books in the eivili world is estimated to be about 60,000, Of this number the United States supplies purt of these being reissues of imported works, although we have over fifth of the population which supplies writers lors. The number of new books published in the United States last year was 4, while in Great Britain, with a population only a little over half of ours, the number was 6,254, In France, with a population but little more than half that of the the numbe! new editions many the production since less one United States, of new hooks and in G was close to 20,000, and even Russia, with probably not more than one book reader to twenty in the United States, the number of new hooks published e ceeded that her Another interesting fact is that this country produces a large combines aro | than a twelfth, a | motors, who may ba expected to appear in the next congess with their gopeal to have a larg o of this great na- tional park '( off, ostensibly to enable them to make railroad connection with & small mining town just outside of the resorvation, but really for quite another object. Tho oppgsition to this schome was able to “show, with convine- ing clearness, that if the pri- posed railroad/ghould be built it would result disastrow@ly to the game in the park and to the timber in the Yollow stone river, which is the great tributary of the Missoufts ¢t was pointed out that if the timber on the headwaters of the Missouri river be destroyed the immense fall of water, the rainfall which comes but oace in ten or twelve months, would rush down a bare and exposed declivity upon eacki side of these waters and would then sweep in resistless volume through the states contiguous upon the | Missouri and Mississippi rivers until | they reached the gulf. The dam- | age that would result from these inun- | dations would be enormous, and to incur such a peril in order to accommodate a railroad company and the inhabitants of a small mining camp would bo the e treme of folly It was wise statesmanship that made pro for these first reservations, which as already observed have both a local and national value, and they should { be extended as rapidly as possible until all the public domain available for this purpose has been thus set a sion REASONABLE Those who believ ancy between local railvoad rates Towa and in Nebraskais not as glaring ine juitable as has been represented will d) well to carefully study the ¢ompara- tive railway rate tables which we print in part today and the accompany ing list of sample rates between points on the various lines in Nebraska. These figures have been vouched for to us as relisble. They show conclusively | that local rates in this state are exces- sively out of proportion with those of the AND UNREASONABLE., that the discrep- in proportion of novels than any | sfate adjoining Nebraska on the cast. other except Great Britain, over one- | Against such stubborn facts tho plea of fifth of the books published here 1ast | railway managers that Nebraska ratos year being of this class. Germany i | qre roasonably low ave impotent. It may especially distinguished among the na- | bs unreasonable to demand that the tlons for its contributions to the sevious | pates provailing in Towa be duplicated and substantial work of literary endeavor, surpassing overy other coun- try in the published results of scientific and historical research, while tenth of its writing cnergy is employed in the direction of fiction and poetry. France ranks next to Germany in the production of what may be termed serjous books, but at a*good distance be- hind. Where the United States surpass every other nation is in the number of its newspapers and periodicals, and in this class of reading the people of this country are immensely in advance of those of any other country, In this respect this is the greatest read- ing nation in the world, so that the greatsources of popular instruc- tion and enlightenment here, more than anywhere clse, arc the press and the magazines. That these are doing a most important and valuable work in the cause of intgllectual development will not be questioned, and it is to be remem- d that they supp! emination of a vast amount of scien- historical and practical informa- tion which but for such a medium would find its way into books and be less gen- crally distributed. 1t must be admitted, however, that in the higher realm of literary activity the United States has as yet little to boast of, and whether this is due to a lack of ambition on the part of American scholars or to a want of interest, and therefore of ad- equate encouragement, on the part of the public in literary work of a serious and practical nature, is a question. It is not altogether reassuring to know that the production of books in the United States last year was only a very little larger than eight years before, so that relatively there was no progress made during those years, but there is reason to hope that the next ten years will witness an increase of literary activity in this country in the dirvection in which we are now behind. FOREST RESERVATIO, Within the last two years there has been a great extension of forest reser vations in the far west, the future bene- fits of which are expected to be most valuable. Under the operation of the law of 1891, for the repeal of the timber culture act, millions of acres of forest land have been set apart for public pur- poses. The Yellowstone park has been greatly enlarged by extensions to the st and south, aggregating about 1,250,000 acres. On the White river in Colorado a tract of about the same area has been reserved, Two other res- ervations were recently established in the same state, one of them on Pike's Peak. A park of 300,000 acres has been formed on the Pecos river in New Mexico, and a short time ago 1,900,000 acres were taken as a park for the purpose of preserving the natural beauties of the Grand canyon of the lorado river. During the last year a magnificent series of forest reservations has also been established “along the Sierra range in California, the 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 acres set apart stretching from a point behind Los Angeles to a point north of San Francisco. Avound Mount Ranier, in Washington, a park of 1,000,000 acres has been reserved, and smaller tracts have been set apart in Oregon. The benefit of these reservations is | both local and national—in securing the opinion sources of water supply and thus insur- ing irrigation and bountiful crops, and in preserving unimpared the glories and beauties of natural scenery of the west The example of interest in this matter set by the last administration should be followed by the present one, so far as it is practicable to do so, and congress should make rigid regulations for keep- ing these reservations inviolate. It is to be put down to the credit of the last congress that it again rejected the scheme of certain speculator ‘hange the boundaries of the Y stone a pro- posed railroad. This project has been urged upon the attention of congress for several years and repeated defeats do not scem to have discouraged its pro- to ellos only a | a channel for the | in Nebraska, but it i ble to insist that | continue from 2 more unreasona- ates in Nebraska shall to 100 per cent higher than those in Towa. in the Texas to been created the Houston & v the message sent offleial cireles d Central railway | the Texas legislatyre by Governor Hogg | inrelation to the alleged frauds that have been committed in the manage- ment of the road under i hip, which has now been in force over since 1885, Among Wre chief points made against the mmmuuuwm by the governor in the course of a long revi tory of the transactions referred to are allegationsi of crookedne; per cent of the c¢ by That mpress & charges collected the Houston Texas Central railway from the cotton producers have gone corruptly into the private purses of the receiver and man- aging ofljcials and not into the railway treasury: that the officials have not been | operating that property for the public good, with due regard for the interests of those who have capital invested in it, but have used it to oppress the citizens, to extort unreasonable tolls from the public and to build up private fortunes by eriminal methods: that the receiver and managing officials engaged in this corruption held their positions under vd by virtue of the authovity of the ral courts; that due notice of the crimes alleged was long ago given to the federal judge in control of the prop- orty 80 held in trust, and that the crim inals have not been prosecuted: that t! great public thoroughfare has been operated by the federal courts for about eight years to the detriment of public interests. The voluminous and severe message of Governor Hogg is based upon testi- mony taken in a trial before the United States cireuit court in Austin, in which the judge granted an injunction against the Texas railroad commission, by virtue of which the commission v restrained from imposing its regulations upon the company, upon the ground that they re duced itscarnings to a point below oper- ating expenses. That testimony, the governor affivms, shows robbery on the part of the management of the road and collusion on the part of the courts, Not to attempt to go into a complete review of the case, which extends over a long period, it is sufficient to say that the message of Governor Hogg upon this subject demands the most careful atten- tion. That there has been a great swindle perpetrated in connection with the management of the Houston & Texas Central seems clear enough, but has there really been judicial collusion? That is a question that needs to be an- swered. The right to insist upon a thor- ough investigation of any question that involves the honoriof the courts one that the people Will not forego. The whole truth in this interesting case will make good reading when it comes out. Tup great number of people in Wash- ington who acesrding to reports are suffering from a \yariety of throat and lung troubles, the result of exposure to the terrific weitther on inauguration day, lends forceito the proposal to change the date of inauguration and of the close of congttss to April 30. Sena- tor Sherman is the author of a joint reso- lution introduced lin the senate wh provides for the shfymission to the legi Iatures of the states of an amendment to the constitution fixing April 30, 18 instead of March 4 of that year, as the limit of the current presidential | term and of the life of the Fifty-fourth congress, and providing that the terms of the president and the vice president and the members of the two houses of congress shall thereafter begin and end on April 30 instead of March 4. This matter is not being agitated now for the first time, but with every recurring in- auguration of a president the sentiment inerease in favor of appointing seems L0 a day for this ceremony at a less in- clement season of the than the beginning of March. It has rarely | happened that an ina v aration day did ‘l coal for Lhis year, nob bring sout the moat disagrosable | TICKLISH TRIFLES, f westhor of 2 5 o | —— bing ot of the yoar, and the Iast oo | 1ape sunhine 4700 14 (ke namo of & | Dhiladelohis Timen: Men show an Interat has seldom been excooded in the inclem- | Johnstown, Pa., firm, In the revival of hoopskirts because thoy al- ency of the westher. The would Mr. Olnay, Cloveland's attorney gonoral, u ways liko to know what s golng on, probably be very little popular opposi- ;'Iu}n\\jl\u'r‘ul.l farm in Gréonwood county, lothiors' kly: Creditor col ton o tho proposed changre of date, the | y; " Horth of Eitvelcs, ". g prest. ! It ve Wil dont Jons expecs f sied i > 4 wsibly tho com pros on't ye principal objection to be expected being | dont of France, is of Trish doseant, from the | *15tielty in suspenderst to the proposed extension of the time by | Kavanaghs, who wore kings of Tolpsor ] Washington 8tar: 1t fs vory diffcult,” said congross, some holding that an old | | Extovernor( mn'lnll;ui!lu“'lll’\'\l-\l\ll {0 g0L 0 ACrALRAL D on & s b g o | his season on “The 1 Husband, A congross, which may have beon disered- | Witite it is the sther kit of o 1 o ; ited by the people, ought to go out ws | needs lectaring, My o (IR A B 800n as possivle after the choice of its | . Lionel Sartoris, n coustn of K8 late hus ‘ PN on thak That lota yout atliBaugse band of Nell nt, proposes to colonize TS I8 tho other place sor, with English farmers tract. of about 50,000 - j prarap bR Dotrolt Froo Press: Sho (yawning--1 do ko UNDER a law passed by the last ¢om- The last surviving rolative of Aaron Burr | hin Ho g gl b el gress the government will hereafter be | is dead. He was the inventor of the Burr s bt able to avail itself of the ability and skill | hat macl l|l||\ . which made willious of hats in '"'"**7‘\ Co Hins o of the architeots of tho ontire country | ® L fovetionized tho twade. cton | AMVIOUS O Innugurite o i e designing ublice ildings. " . Ny > H X et in the designing of public buildings. Tt | soulptor, gets $10,000 for his statuo of | Tnter Ocoan: Hushand—<t pity the poor is believed that this will secure re-ults speare, and will receive 27,000 for his morning; he looks awtuily'dl in the improvement. architecturally of | $1S"rin S50 of Garlold, s s ouly : theso Tuspoctors were ap o buildings ¢ o govern- | ° e ¢ Wifo-Yes, b o loesn't 100 « the buildings constracted by the govern soram o, Howitt of Now York is said to | bie. it DLl ment that will fully justify the legisla- | have recovered entirely from the insomnin — tion, which was first proposed by the IU' l-l formerly i 1o 111.- ; ‘nur-luu to himand | New Yaork llv~‘\‘<:l‘)l “1 nlnn"v know that you g : A s onjoying oxcollant he pecth svor told o why you resigned from yOur Amerlean Institute of Architocts. The | jormianent rest frem ;m.lnlu‘s‘ b Pw Sk ™ f trouble under the old system has [ It is understood that Hoke Smith is too 4 ROL 80 Do niostly M| Blambers . j00- beon that, the supervising arehi- | Pigand good mred. man 1o boar malica 1 s i <o | BEainst those poople who huve bew “ tect, who was supposed to make | EE G CInE B by attempting to poke “How dld the ‘Merchant of Ventee' all designs, could not possibly | funat him in offorts to conccal their gross | SELEILISE L et tn Utaht bat perform the work, and a great deal | gnorance of his illustrious 1dentity there, when Launcelot Gobbo doclared that 1t 3 I B A R Among the voterans of the postal sorvico | 15 Wiso father that knows his own child® the of it has been left to subordinates, not [ FHORELRe Alilis 16 5 be u'“ Wit oo | people all itus o personal insult and loft all of whom were well qualified for the | postoffive e the house. \ postofico department of th task. Under such circumstancos it w Daniel W. Fowler, superi s 0 AGAIN quite impossible in most cases to DlOyed LA thae SA i iy tvho lins el obu Atianta Constitution sutisfactory vesults, as many pu Deite . Ll s Now, mournful teelines to provoke st 3 Peary will have a vival in Aretic oxplora st hnan nat buildings throughout the country attest. | tion this coming summer in Predorick Juik Wi resurrect th tjoke The new law gives the seorotary of the | 00 Who tukes i British party up to URoR gt treasury authority, in his diseretion, 9 | Jive Tund iy to th S1eh hassileLof. i And oro the mem obtain plans and spec jons and 1¢ supervision for public buildings by the system of competition among private architects. He is au- thovized to employ the archi- tects whose plans are approved to superintend the construction of build- ings, and while this is not mandatory it would doubtless ravely happen that sue- cossful architects would fail of appoint- ment as superintendents of the con- struction of the building they designed. re- the architectural character of The plan ought to work a_desirablo form in the federal buildings. A system of water works is about to bo put in operation in the cholera-infected city of Hamburg and it is believed that a pure water supply will greatly reduce the danger of a renewal of the outhreak of the disease which proved so fatal there last yeav. It is not expected, however, that the tevrible malady“will be prevented from becom- ing move or less formidable in Hamburg, even under the most favorable condi- tions, and the commission for the pre- vention of the spread of the disease in that city is taking ev precaution Ifl"fl[ o against it. There have been few | j ¢t ca reported in any part of | olis, I Lurope recently, and if the warm | become weather of spring does not materially | A S inerease their number the hope will be | jaw gown, entertained that the disease may be kept down. The next two months wil | 138 determine whether this is to be a cholera year or not, but while developments arve heing awaited the work of preparing for the worst must not be neglected in this country. It will be much better to hav ily than to have neglected them and suf- fered in consequen made some has headway in the senate at last and after THE Omaha charter a very spi to the front among bills on third read- ing. Senator Bahcock, who had the bill in charge, made a splendid fight for it and in this he was ably seconded by Sen- ator Lobeck. There is now a fair prc pect that the charter will pass the scnate next week, although materially altered from the form in which it left the hangs of the charter committee, 11 THOSE an republics would give less attention to war and more to the development of their great agricultural and mineral resources they would advance much more rapidly in civilization and prosperi Cerenl Growth East and West. Philadelphia Times. The proposal that electricity be used in the far west to harvest wheat after night is antedated by the common custom further cast of si s of wild oats being sown and cropped by the glare of gas and coal oil. Bl Toxts tor Speitbl Gy e-Demacrat. The Fifty-second congress was a billion- and-a-quarter congr he republicans would make some remarks on that body in the campaign next year were ivnot for the fact that the Kif rress is likoly 1o afford them better ¢ ammunition, The Philadelphia Record. A French war ship has taken posse of the Isle of Desolation, in the Indian ¢ sion ean, which contains a bed of 'soft coal. No island could bo too desolate for picking up now- adays by some maritime power, if it should only be large enough to plant a flagpole and a coal yard on it. Distinguished Shakes. New York Advertiser. The pleasant exchange of compliments be tween the outgoing and - the incoming p dent of the United States, following so closely upon the friendly handshake between Profs. Sullivan and Mitchell on the stage of a St. Lowms thea eems to suggest the gray dawn of an era of good feeling. e SR One Way of Lessoning Crime. i St. Paul Globe. we Americans become more sub in our sentiments upon criminal punishment we will have wade a long stride | in the direction of lessening the amount of | crime. When the pardoning power is asked to extend clemency to life convicts no grouna should be considered except that of mistake, and then only evidence showing question that the wrong man had bes carcerated should have the slightest weight. e A Hint on Destiny. Chicagn Inter Ocean ‘When stantial Uncle Sam has never been grasping for | territory. He long held modestly to the At- | lantic coast, He hesitated about taking Florida and Texas, and came within one of losing Oregon and California. But his vision now is wider. He sces from his geogra- phy that three-quarters of the earth is cov- ered with water, and that & nation that is prosperous must leave the shore and sail ships; and our grandchildren will belong to the greatest maritime nation upon the globe, e, The Price Did Not Tumble, Chicago Herald, The consumers of coal for domestic uses get the worst of it in all ways. When the eading combine was formed the price of coal was advanced half a dollar a ton on 30,- 000,000 tons of coal mined last year, Hl ord to produce profits for the The Reading road went into bankruptey, notwith standing the tax of 15,000,000 extorted from the people, and now the receivers keep up the |m..-..(u...| for the purpose of puaying the ding debts. The money extorted R e recklessly squan 1! made the preparations unnecessar- | ited fight has, been pushed | d i Reul last w merchs in we About in-law a busiu of the terned venien lie Fore: been will pr was tal left, u | wher The white civil sc In al to the wh dent ( Rich 1y Percl bloomi us. | ernor ¢ Washi Grover chang widow: ever b The m th wives An a dered, and now they must make up the sum over again by paying the increased cost of wl possibly furthe Marshal Bazaine escaped from the de Losseps Bazaine did now as they woery | of Count y was entertained by his comrades. rd Whittington and he had a good cat. | i ciate the justice of this move when she re- ulously out of fashion sell ger tin crown to the junk man and be wid She could No reco of South ceeds ten minutes a colored boy appears on the scene with a large brass gong and the devil's tattoo thereon until the orator | takes the hint and collapses. Says a prohibition paper: saloonkeepers who have made hundreds of clusion is Moroceo will make 6,000 widows some d; by dying, road at Hagerman Pas sea level Or at thoir de The editor that ¢ Oh, when will t ! henee hie proposes to pro. 1 dog sledges, ben O, Smith, who died at (! cek at the age of BLASTS FROW There s no gospel in a kick Faith is a light that never g Washing a pig will not ta love of mud v wears o it steps, o matter who he is, the man who never o8 i3 o slave. M'S HORN. ant in Olean, N Y. lmpu!n ten moved with a s to Cleveland and became a party ness house founded by the latter, s out from him the v in vrison Island of St. Marguerite, but Charl 1 M. Cotu, who will be in in the same place,’ will not find a con iron shoes and never cares tdoor left open for their f Things are not conducted here is more power in gentleness than in those days, Tho repub- | there is in dynamite. ry much alive just noi. Two great foes of the church—the golden ign papers say that the youngest son | calf and the leathery oyster. Ferdinand de Lesseps, who has [ We begin to backslide the moment we ving in the iments in Soudan, | think we have religion enough, bably never sce Ifrance again. He | As soon Iisay smelled the soup he l);].-:;\m'u: b march recoutly and \vas [ stopped caring for his birthright avoidably it 18 said, in' a village | Hoaven is only & step fix 5 HaR1ta AR L . lngc ¢ only @ step from the penitont we nly natives, No hope of his re- | gjuner, but millions of miles from the hy po- THE TRE. - D OF THINGS, othing will do more to put wrinkles in your face than worrying about things you an't help. retention of Harrison's cook in the | It is doubtful it the devil isever driven house is a proper observance of the | back an inch by the testimony of a stingy srvice rules Christian | the musty pages of history, according | 1t would demoralize heaven for the angels to go in ¢ conside pany that some church members good, e dovil hates the prayer meeting, but it seldom that he has much fault to find New York Sun, only one man appea ick was Just as wonderful as Prest nd's. That man was the Hon ench syndizate is buying up all the | With the choir. ut ponies on the frontier for export to Some people are so bowed down in seeking the intention being to couvert them | the vanities of this life that they cannov of the nee has d for the peovle Tippophagy in k > a disease, \tesman from Tosw be p Ay metrop. evidently look up and see the goodness of God. No matter whether he has been to college or not, the man who can keep sweet when things go wrong is a man of power. The more a man looks like a preacher the less good he doos the Lord on a street car platform with a cigar in his mouth, It will not count for much to refrain from buggy i rest of the week in throw wedon't il Proposes that tho rmitted to wear woman will appr of liberty very true that the goddess' clothes are ridic- hance when F ng country ov ulani has looked this she will conclude to e “This Is She #o on the stage with the A (Communicated.) 1 aggregation and make more than al revenues will ever amount to. “The members of a legislature are not 1 has been made of what the gov- | elected on a state platform and are not pas »f North Caroling ssid to the governor | ticularly bo ¢ any declaration of prinei Carolina during their visit to | ples not distinetly republican in their nature ngton to witness ‘the incomin of | except it is adopted by the convention that but the laws of hospitality have not | put such members in nomination.” —Lincoln 1 much in the south since that his- | State Journal. toric meeting we have all heard of. Pray. what republican legislative nominat- The New Y s alittle un- | ing convention was there in the state pre- patented dev pittec of von- ; o the kst election that did not endorse gress should at once inv When a | the platform pledges of thestate convention? niz tion's dinner at that org: not the legislative candidates thus irly bound™ by its “declaration of les?”” 'The legislative candidates were thus placed upon the state platform as v as though 1t had been originally red and adopted by the respective con- ons that placed them in nomination, To tment can | Attempt argument to the contrary is “sheer nce man,” | nonsense.” H. is all right, T . but its con- A MAIDEN' MEDITATION. Tho emperor_ of ex- And wer ats | “There aro | No such_terrible ind drawn against a_tomp 1 of this paragraph York Tribune, not accurate. 01 he New San Francisco Argonaut. o's Lont once again on its annual round, aodby now 15 feasting and dunc With whnt great success has this s:ason been tha dnd he being the number of his strict temperance man. rticle printed in the New York Sun d, | on February 25 7 feet us the high- U as simply entrancing. AR d,“,""",“.‘l "..;,"&2:;',5‘,1 3 lf,h.'; But now all tho bannorsot ploasuro are turlod, e T s i | NO 1¢ S COrone! shes; mistake in muitiplication while reducing an | pNolongertts coronot Aasbess, = oo the accurate table of heights expressed in LEL ; meters to feet. The Colorado Midland rail- [ Hafl penance, and sackeloth and ashes. is 11 on of the ceopted Jack's offer last night, “Tywas well | fakyoi he will be ente nin; The elev Doring 1 railroad station at Leadville 1s 10,103 feet. Denver | q ocoive my betrothed will be perfectly and Rio Grande trains go through Marshall | 70 "piepye ™Y Ve A Pass at an 1’[!'\'1!“4\"‘(!{ 10, h'L'?. » " e And by Easter he'll be in good training. highest point of Hayden Pass is 9,108 feet, i e R and of Bath 9,635 foet, both measurements Dear follow, hiu look was of porfect dospals, being from the track of the Colorado Mid- |yl NS Syonho can Sina I oan land railroad. The other statistics i the MDD article were correctly given. From the bonnet for Easter I'm making. " BROWNING, KING & Co. st M anutacturers an | Ratallors of Clothing ia thy Worll Song of the Saw The oarpenters saw the wood—the people saw i the bargains — because we saw that it was bet- ter for us to saw off some of the price rather than allow the saw-dust to get in its work—not that saw-dust would hurt | the suits any, but that they were inthe way of the saw—You saw how they were saw-ing out the side of the store this week-—didn't you—Well, if you did, yousaw those new spring suits and overcoats—you saw the price —you saw the quality-—you saw the exclusive styles—you saw nothing like them anywhere else —This one point we want to impress upon you- while the sawing is going on we are prepared and are doing business just as nicely as ever, and as an inducement to brave the noise of the saw we are offering the greatest bargains you ever saw. Sece? BROWNING, KING & CO., S. W. Cor. 16th and Dauglas 3L Store open every ovening tiil 6.3 | Baturday ull 10 H