Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1893, Page 12

DATLY 1. ROSEWATER Edttor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING 5 SURSCRIPTION, ¢ Sundiy) Oue Year., . One Year 3 TERMS ¢ nlly Roe Wit Aty pnd shind 8ix Mopths Thren Mont undny I gatardn Weekly 8800 10 00 6 00 2 50 2 00 150 100 nd 26th Streets rl Street, IMee, 8317 amber of Commerce. ow York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Building. Washit artecnth Stroot PONDENCE. tions relating to news and 1 con i tori 1"be ' ‘addressed 1o the ftorlal matter sl Editorial Department. BUSTNESS 1P ATl husiness letters remittances should et e Ben Publhing CompANY: Omaha, Drafis, checks and postoffic orders 10 be made puyable to the order of the com- pany. THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY. BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Etate of Nobraska, [ County of Dougias, | {eotas b Teschuck. oo of Tie BEe Pub notu onding March 18, 1893, Sunday, March 12.. i Wednesday, March | Thursday. March 16, Fridny, March 17 Eaturday, March 1§ hin 18th day of March, | [SEAL.] Notary I ary, WHY do the patients in the Institute for the Feeble Minded require so much . soap? 11 18 unfortunate that Licutenant Tot- ten has made arrangements to have the world come to an end next September. The World s fair will just be getting in- teresting at that time. WHILE the hungry democrate of this state arc engaging ina mad stampede for office, Mr. Walton's declination of the tendered judgeship will cause as much of a sensation as a paid ticket ona leg- THE blunt, pointed and merited “poast” which the Kyner investigating committee administered to that worthy patriot ought to be spread upon the house journal and kept there. It fits the man and the occasion exactly. I 18 announced that President Cleve- land not disturb Minister Robert Lincoln at London and Minister Fr Grant at Vienna. It is to be hoped that the report is true. These worthy scions of America’s illustrious men have hon- ored the nation in the posts they have held in the past four years. The people do not want the legislature to adjourn before the state house has been purged of dishonest and faithless officials. The people will cheerfully bear any tazation the legislature may impose on them if the Tegislature will only do its duty fearlessly and vegardless of all pressure from corpo- rate influence or the corrupt lobby. OuRr special dispatches from Wash- ington intimate that Judge Doane, Hon. Charles Brown and Euclid Martin may become the dispensers of federal pap in this state.: If*ihe report from Washing- ton be true it is all the evidence needed that Secretary Morton is quietly gotting in his work in opposition to his old-time enemies. REV FRANK CRANE, who has just re- turned from Mexico, seems to have been impressed with the filth and wretched- ness that everywhere prevails among the Greasers. He says that had it not been for the grace of God and carbolic acid he could not have escaped. This suggests a good means of disinfecting the Nebraska state house. THERE are a few provisions in the proposed charter amendments that are vital to this city, but if in order to get them the people ave compelled to sub- mit to outrageous mutilation and pro- visions positively obnoxious, it may be best to prevent any change in the pres- ent charter being made. The corpora- tions and a few rich men seem to have this town by the throat. IF YOU are a good citizen, if you abhor public thieves, if you believe that a dishonest official ought to be deposed, you will personally and by letter urge your revresentative in the legislature tostand firm and continue to support the movement to turn the rascals out. Members of the house have done well so far, and they deserve your hearty en- couragement and co-operation. SINCE last December the Institute for the Feeble Minded at Beatrice purchased more than eight tons of soap, as the supply vouchers in the auditor's office will show. This should be an eye opener to the house investigating committee. If all supplies for the Beatrice institution have been purchased on this extravagant scale the people ought to know it. The house is now in the proper mood for cleaning out public thieves and it cannot afford to ignore the Beatrice institute. In fact, the house can with great profit serutinize the supply vouchers of every institution in the state THE South Omaha list of paying sub- seribers which THE BEE prints today can be readily verifiel. The names are printed with initials and the place of delivery given by house numbers, and where the subseriber receives his paper in an upper story the location is desig- nated so he can be readily found. In striking contrast with this is the list of the World- Herald, which prints 104 names of alleged subscribers without initials, and fully one-third of its list is with in- deflnne directions, so that nobody can verify its correctness. South Omaha is the stronghold of that sheet and its boast has been that its South Omaha list was from two to thres times as large as that of THE BEE, when in fact with all its padding the list only numbers 815, and Mr. Hiteheock has on his own propo- sition forfeited $158.25 before the water has beerrwrung out of his list. When it comes to a show down in Omaha the W.-H. will not come within 50 per cent of the paid subscription list of THE BEE. And the relative circu lation in the state at large will show even a greater pro- jorflon in favor of THE BEE. BEE | 24,300 | | willful, premedits | change is TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY. O Tho bill to abolisMapital punishment in Nebraska has passed the house and gone to the senate. It provides that in all convietions under the statutes of this for the crime of murder in the first ! nalty shall be imprison- ment in the state prison during the life of the person so convicted, and tho pun- ishment of death for such offense is abolished. It is to be hoped the senate will reject the measure. Such legisla- tion has nothing to sapport it except a mistaken sentiment and a falla- cious theory regarding the right of society to rid itself of the murderer, and there is not a reasonable doubt that the result of the proposed law would be to inerease cap- ital crime in Nebraska. If such should be the ease there would be offored an in- | vitation to mob law in every instance, at least, of a peculiarly atrocious murder. A law providing that the death pen- alty should not be inflicted in cases where convietion is secured on circum stantial evidence only would ba defensi- ble. There is something to be said, also, in favor of allowing juries to determine i ble | character | ness | cial houses. the degree of punishment in cases of homicide, as the t of such a law would probably be to se- cur a greater number of con- | victions. But to abolish capital punish- ment and allow the murderer to cscape the just and vighteous penalty of his ed erime would be to one deterrent nfluence holds in restraint those in whom the homicidal instinet is more or less developed and operates as a check upon the passions and the brutal nature of alarge class in the community. That itis not more effective in these respects is duo to no fault in the prineiple, but to the laxity of courts and juries in en- forcing the law. A stricter administra- tion of justice is . among those predisposed to lawlessness | and crime a fear of the law, but because justice sometimes fails is no valid reason for saying to people of murderous pro- clivities that if they kill a fellow being in eold blood and with premedita- tion the state will merely confine them in prison, where they may find a measure of comfort in the hope of some b taining a pavdon. Imprisonment for life may have terrors for some greate than the inlliction of death, but not 8o for most of those who are capable of committing murder. It outrages every conception of even-handed just that the murde to death a remove the which now nee o to say s who deliberately puts | fellow creatuve, of which there have been numerous cases in the criminal history of Nebraska, shall not forfeit his own life, but must thereafter become the care of the state, to be provided for at the public expense. Why should society take upon itself such an obligation in behalf of the crim- inal who has committed tho greatest | twelve | not here be offense known to human law? The experience of mankind justifies capital punishment, and the number of those who do not approve of it is an ex- ceedingly small minority in every civil- i countr A few of the states of the union have at different times abolished the death penalty, but most of them restored it after finding that its abandonment resulted in an in- crease of capital erimes. There is no reason to believe there would he a dif- | ferent experience in Nebraska. The in- telligent popular sentiment of this state is not in favor of the abolition of the death penalty. It woild doubtless ap- prove of a less barbarous method of ad- ministering the penalty than hanging, and this is attainable by the use of eles tricity, which, when properly applied, produces instant and painless death. But the public opinion that is unin- fluenced by any more sentimental con- siderations or fanciful theories of right and wrong demands that he who tak the life of a fellow being, under condi- tions which make the act muvder in the first degree, shall forfeit his own life, and it is a just and righteous demand. It is at once the right and the duty of so- ciety to rid itself of the murderer, REFORM IN CONVICT SYSTEMS. The inhuman treatment of conyic under the lease system of the southern states has long been a reproach to that section. A few years ago the country was shocked by the reports of brutality suffered by the convicts of Georgia at the hands of those who leased their labor, and the report of the committee of the Tennessee logislature which in- vestigated the treatment of convicts em- ployed in the coal mines of that state shows that they weve subjected to the most eruel inhumanity. The records as | 0 most of the other states of the south is | not much better, but there has been developing there during tho last few years a sentiment in favor of reform which has already had a good effect and promises at no very remote time to do away altogether with the scandalous abuses connected with the convict lease systems. Mississippi inaugurated the veform movement when the last constitutional convention incorporated a clanse in the constitution forever abolishing the lease of the state's prisoners. Alabama has emulated this exampl the legisla- ture having passed a law abol- ishing tho lease system and plac- ing the convicts under the control of a board of managers, of which the governor of the state is the official head. It is provided that the convicts shall be employed mainly on public works where they will competo as little as possible with free labor. A radical contemplated in Arkansas, where public sentiment is urgently de- manding an abandonment of the lease system. With these examples before them the people of the other southern states which still retain the lease system with all its revolting features are not likely to permit the continuance much longer of a state of things which sub- jects them to merited reproach and is a shame to the oivilization of the age. Everybody who is capable of taking a fair and unprejudiced view of the matter concedes that convicts must be provided with work, To keep them in idleness is a severe punishment, as the experience in New York a few years ago demon- strated, many of the convicts in that state going insane because they had no employment to ocoupy their minds, and { them asked to be kept at work. | & wide te | Omaha. | ments, | now working in special lines for T'&oro s besides the economic cousider- ation the expediency, in the interest of the whole pesple, of making the pvenitentiary as nearly as possi- solf-supporting. It is admit- tedly something of a problem, but whate the solution the conviet should have eprotection from brutal and inhu- man treatment. The southern states have been the most culpable in this mat- ter, but there is opportunity for reform elsewhere, Al The statements of the banks of this city, which have been published in pur- suant to the call of the controller of the currency, demonstrate anew what has long been well known, namely, that Omaha is one of the most importunt banking centers in the west, and that her business in this line is rapidly grow- ing. In noother way is the commercial life of a it clearly and unmistakably vindicated as by the and volume of the bu carvied on by its finan- Under modern methods of conducting the affairs of trade the pulse of business is felt through the banks, which are sensitive to every fluctuation of commerce in all its branches. Hence it follows that the enormous business in- ted by the figures referred to may be accepted with perfect confidence as showing what this city and its tributary territory are doing in the way of trade expansion. The record of clearings presented in connection with the ofticial statements of the banks presents a comparison bo- tween tho clearings of the past twelve months and those of the twelve months preceding. The footing for the past months, $310,790,383, is an in- crease of $83,018, over that of the period with which the comparison is made. There has been nothing abnor- mal in the conditions under which this wonderful growth has taken place. It is simply a natural expansion, gov- erned solely by the fixed laws of trade. The figures stand for nothing but inereased business that has not been effceted by means of any special foreing process, but has come about in a perfectly regular and legitimate wa, For the practical man of business the presented in these official re significance that ne pointed out. They empha- E the fact that the banking houses of Omaha are solid institutions and show that they are transacting a financial business vastly greater than that of most cities of the size of ours. man who looks upon the comme 50 possess a | Omaha from a superficial point of yiew, ¢ of the commer- cial activ nts itself to the casual observer day by day, the mwm- tude of the banking business in this ci may seem surprising; but when it is re membered that many large establish- ments, incuding the great packing in- | terests, are constant contributors to this volume of business without seeming to cut any great figure in the life of the city, it not so hard to understand why the financial trans- actions of Omaha is also to be borne in mind I.lul,l this is an important distributing center, from which the arteries of trade branch out to a great distanco in every direc- tion. It is the banking headquarters of ritory and by virtue of the prostige alv won it must continue to beeome more so year by yea THE COMMERCIAL OLUB, Elsewhere in this issue will be found the artieles of incorporation and by-laws of the Commercial ¢lub of Omaha, a new business men's organization, which is commended to the favor of the citizens of As appears from these instru- this organ on is not to take the place of any of the associations the advancement of the interests of this city, but is intended to supplement the good work they may do, and interest a larger body of the citizens than has hitherto been drawn into the older organizations, Every line of trade and all the professions, except possibly the clergy, arve represented in the board of directors, and are invited and expected to participate in the work which the club has in mind. It has been known to many of our wide- awake business men that other cities had managed in some way to unify all interests to the common good, in a man- ner which has not hitherto been accom- plished in Omaha. With a view of ortaining how other cities have done some of our citizens made personal investigations into the organizations and work of clubs at St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City, Chicago and other places. They discovered that while we were united in sentiment and willing enough to do whatever presents itself for the upbuilding of our city, we were sadly lacking in that element of organization rombination which has enabled St. in spite of the sharp competition of Chicago, to hold to herself the mag- nificent jobbing and manufacturing trade of the far west and northwest. It was discovered that in St. Louis and in Minneapolis particularly the business interests wore solid and had organized themselves into a compact force with which to compel transportation com- panies to deal justly by them and to in- vite capitalists to invest money in their midst, Filled with the citizens have been at weeks formulating a plan adapted to the wants of the situation in Omaha. The result of their deliberations and frequent conferences has been the organization of this Commeorcial club. It is expected that the membership will include about every business man in Omaha whose influence is worth any- thing in the advancement of our com- mon interests. It isorganized ona basis which makes it servicesble in many ways. With its purpose every man who has the interest of the city at heart is in earnest sympathy. It bohooves our citizens to show their faith by their works. Before another month rolls around this organization should have a membership of not less than 1,000, and the executive committee and board of directors should be instructed by the club to enter upon & vigorous campaign for Omaha. There is no use in mincing matters; the inspiration which e discoveries made, a few of our best work for several fl.hh city has reached a point in its his- tory when its citizens must take hold and protect and proserve its commercial supromacy. Active, vigilantand wealthy competitors aroMa our territory bid- ding for the trade that naturally be- longs to this center. If we are to hold it and increase it, we must be on the alert to protect our intorests against unjust discrimination and to meet competition with intelligence and financial force. In this age organiza- tion is everything. With Omaha or- ganized as it ‘mi 'fl be under the leader- ship of the gentlemen already enlisted in the Commercial club, we cannot only hold that which naturally belongs to us, but can compel neutral territory, at least, to pay tribute here. I7 15 natural that there should be some interest among western farmers as to the comparative prosperity of the farmers who are tilling the old soil of the east. A recent bulletin is devoted to the results of an investigation into farm and home proprictorship in Massachusetts. It appears from the figures given that 15.06 per cent of the farm families hire and 8194 per cent own thefarms cultivated by them: that 30.46 per cent of the farm-owning fam- ilics own subject to incumbrance and 54 per cent own free of incumbrance. On the owned farms of the state there are liens emounting to $11,831,941, which is 41.88 per cent of their value, and this debt bears interest atthe average rate of 8 per cont, making the annual inter- est-charge $74 to each family. Each owned and incumbered farm, on the av- erage, is worth $3,158, and is subject to a debt of $ The corresponding facte for homes are that 67.28 per cent of the home families hire and that 3 per cent own their homes: that of the home- owning familics 60.67 per cent own free of incumbrance and 39.33 per cent with incumbrance. The debt on owned homes aggrogates $102,948,196, or 45.03 per cent of their value, and bears interest at the average rate of 548 per cent, so that the annual amount of interest to each home averages $98. An average debt of 31, incumbers each home, which has the averege value of $3,990. It will be seen by these figur that the Massa- chusetts farmer has some drawbacks to contend with and that he is by no means out of debt. A vote of censwre by the legislature will have nomore effect upon the Bowrd of Public Lands and Buildings than pouring water ona duck’s bucksyTurn the rvascals out and place the managgment of owr state in- stitutions into the ds of men who will not stand by and et the state treasury be pillaged by thicve§and swindlers. ANOTHER effort is to be made to se- cure Cuban independence. For some time past an expgdjtion has been fitting out which it was pgpposed should move upon the island®ffom Key West, Fla., and the movemen§ was to have been made before this, But in consequence of the vigilance of.the :United States au- thorities this has been postponed. It is now said that the movement may be made during ghe coming: summer, when the naval vessels ‘of the north Atlantic squadron come north, but it is hardly probable that the government, know- ing of the design, will relax the precautions necessary to prevent it being carried out. regarded as conniving at the movement. It is well known that there is a great deal of discontent in Cuba and that the revolutionary spirit has recently been making headway there. This is due to an increase by the Spanish government of the burden of taxation. In order to make up for the loss of revenue result- ing from the reduction of customs duties the government has largely increased the personal tax, which is now declared t0 be excessive. There is a strong party in Cuba favorable to annexation with the United States, and it will not be sur- prising if, within the next two or three years, this country will be cailed upon to seriously consider the question of Cuban annexation. At any rate a large number of the people of Cuba are hoping that this will be TaE decision of the British and French governments not to send over to the naval review next month:any of their best war ships is a disappointment. It was expected that those countries would vie with each other to make an attractive display and send over sev- eral of their crack vessels, and it was therefore an unpleasant surprise to the officials of the Navy department when they received information a few days ago from the French government that it would send only three vessels, two of which are wooden cruisers, antiquated in design and armament. Great Britain will do somewhat better than this, but our people will not be able to get a look at any of her best ships. Doubtless both governments have reasons satisfactory to themselves for not making a better showing than they promise to do, but none the less their failure to meet pub- lic expectation will detract somewhat from the review, though it is certain at any rate to be one of the most memora- ble naval exhibitions the world has ever seen, It will be worth a long journey to see the American fleet alone, THE whole world would be glad.to see Ferdinand de Lesseps let down easily in the trouble that has overtaken him in his old age, but the idea that he has been the innocent vietim of circum- stances is not borne out by recent de- velopments in the. Panama canal trial. It has been admitfed that the payments to the leading hobdlers in the scheme were made with the consent of President de Lesseps. Tho’ plea tbat the dis- tinguished old engineer was not men- tally and morally responsible must r main a matter of opinion, but there can be no doubt that he fully consented to the crookedness that has now placed a stain upon his name. It is a most un- fortunate ending of a brilliant career, and the lesson which it teaches ought to be a useful on Tug deliberations of the Western Pa senger association upon the subject of World's falr rates ave observed by west- orn people with a great deal of interesf A final decision is not now expected be- fore the 27th of this month, at which time the matter will undoubtedly be dis- posed of in some way. | no profit in that kind of ndtoriety. already. To do so would be | A vate not 1 ox- | their platform. ceed one fare both ways ought to be eon- ceded, but itis hardly to be expected that this will b secured. The railroad com- panies are eager to make money out of the World's fair traffic and will fix the rate at the highest figure that can bo agreed on. There can be no question but that they would make more moncy with a mod- erate rate than with a high one, but it is not easy to make them see that point. Thousands of people who would visit the exposition if they could have half fare on the railroads will ‘emain at home if anything like the regular rate is charged. The legistature ghould not adjourn before it has stamped out corruption and placed the state institutions under the care and supervision of officers who do not wink at corrupt practices and have the integrity and thebackbone to stop thieves and plunderers from vobbing the state and looting the treasury. I 18 the cit rvather refreshing to note that of New Orleans, after having advertised itself to the world for some years asa great prize-fighting center, has come to the conclusion that there is The the and newspapers roc of the city condemn nt exhibitions in strong terms predict that laws will soon be enacted | and enforced by which the bruisers will be compelled to seek some other place in which to punish cach other. The ve- form proposed has been too long delayed THE statements made by Judge Torrey at tho banquet of the Massachusetts Board of Trade in relation to the bank- ruptey bill of which he is the author show that he has strong hopes that it will become law some time during the life of the present.congress. It is a worthy measure, and if the wishes of the business men of the country ave given due weight it will be passed when it next comes up for consideration. There is little doubt that it will receive the ap- proval of the president. OWING to an Omaha's bank cleal for the week end- | ing on Thursday was stated to be 4.3 per | cent when it should have been 51.6 per cent. The difference is a very impor- tant one. Such figures as these show conclusively that Omaha's trade vastly greater in volume than it was at this time last year. The evidence of this, however, is to be found in other ways than by consulting the clearing: It in the air and business activi shows it on all sides. THE interests of art are being sucee fully promoted in this state by several organizations. Among these the Nebraska Ceramic club, which now has on exhibition in this ity u collection of china paintings that has been prepared for the woman's department at the World's fair. Something more than material progress will be shown by the eahibits from this state atthe Colum- bian exposition, THERE is a bill before the legislature providing that the World's fair exhibit of that state shall be open Sunday. Should the bill pass it is ex- pected that the practical effect of the law will'be to open the entive fair on Sunday. *‘Eminent lawyers” are quoted as entertaining this view. Chicagoans are ingenious. They never know when they are licked. is Tllinois Make n Note of Loutsville Courier-Journal. There are a good many people in the United States who, if they would turn their attention to philology, would discover that the word ‘‘appointment” is a family relation of *'point,” one of whese definitions is, *‘that which has neither length, breadth or thick- ness.” e Executive Dignity Rufled. San Francisco Kraminer. Some thief stole the pantaloons of the gov- ernor of Wyoming. The indignation of the executive would be less but for the fact that thepantaloons were the only ones he had with 200 1 the pockets. He does not want the dignity of the state trifled with at his personal expense, —_——— Inauguration Deaths, Indianapolis Jowrnal. A Washington phy n, who has I»r-NI keeping o record of the deaths caused by posure during the recent inauguration ex o has a list that foots up over forty. He not think this embraces all that have curred, and more may follow. Tt is hardly fair to attribute ail these deaths to the weather. From all accounts there was a | great deal of drinking in Washington on in- auguration day, and it 18 probable that had much to do with making the exposure fatal. e, Lincoln's Creed. Philadelphia Times. The truth about Lincoln that he was a man of naturally devout mind, who accepted the general spirit of Christianity without ever having concerned himself much about a definite conception of doctrine. The narrow theological notions he was likely to hear from the rural preachers in the west in his youth could not impress him favorably, and ‘toward them he was doubtless a free-thinker: but few men nowadays, beside Colonel In gersoll and some small preachers themselves, measure Christianity by these standards - Ll t of Much Vi I'Inluzl»lnhl/l Record, 'Il\nluum] States supreme court has de- | d i city in the litigation St. Louis and the Western lnl-m company as to the validity of a nee levying o tax on telegraph iph poles may be lawfully | is o hint worth pages of dis- n in dealing with telephone and tele- | graph companies vhich obstinately refuse to conform to city r tions in regard to poles and overhe The righi to puta Sure upon a ¢ on's pocket is an able aid for fair dealing. Telegrap city poles. taxed rd. neisco Chrondele, nd’s positive declaration tic party between is to be considered a positive | ation for office holding between | 1 1897, has not only stricken terror to rats, but it has causod srmers to wonder “wher they are at.” Oneof the leading teuets of the civil seryice reformers is that to him who has, or has had, shall be given, but Mr. Cleveland upsets that in the twinkling of an eye by declaring his preference for new men. President Clev that service to the democ FRi R Best Kind of Folities. Crete Vidette. The Vidette insists that it is good politics, it nothing else, for the republicaus in the state senate to assist the indepe \‘l-n_l.* in taking up that freight bill and passing it. If | the coming years then prove it be a poor | law it will repeal itself and the on will | kill the independent party. If it isa good | law it will be a benefit to the state, will be oditable to those who assistea in its pas > and will then deprive the populists of | only club they have Iyul with which to | Give them the | law they manding and by 8o ha doing remove the ouly sound plank from SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. l‘hllmh\luhm Tadgor: A now church choir in Boston has for its soprano Mrs. Mu Barnard Smith at a salary of 00 W I and Myron Whitney as its bass on o 83,000 salary. This wili lead a pastor here and thera to regret that ho didn't cultivate his voice, Ploncor-Press: Rov. Charles A, Briges has boen appointed to & chuir in the Union ‘Theologieal seminary, ma ant by the death of Prof. Worceste ].IH does not particularly concern the world in general, o Briggs poople are not but are inclined to “‘rub raurios with a vim that might almost be socular, Chicago Herald: A Now York clorgyman has begun & dam: suit against certain nfl\ ors of his churgh, claiming £00,000 be on from the communion s of immoralit, He made o grave If he could h for heresy he would be the ai the loser, Dissentors seam to bo in active demand, but immorality never pays Detroit Free Press: Mohammed Webb, who is back from India trying to convert his fellow countrym in ring the oth society of Now Yo that in all his travels through the east he had only found two men with more than o wife. Mohammed must have dodged Turkey and done most of his traveling by wator. Chicago Tuter Ocean: Joseph Cook is on bis way to Chicago, and, as we stated yestor: he comes with ,p;.-m tie stomach and a raging mind. Mr, Cook is a gentleman sup posed to be pretty well in touch in Chris. tianity, and with the extra raretied vision of spiriti ace he detects monsters where balance of the world may only n pygmics. He is of the opimion” that the train is hurrying him toward a of Sodom and Gomorrah rolled mto one, his is to be the saving presence. Harper's W ly* Itis not known that resy trials serve any very useful purpose, except to provide matter to put into news papers, and even in that particular their use fulness to the secular press ranks b fighting, and even base be wisdom, therefo larity, in the rec on cha mistak Sor an ronewad concantration. of i forces upon th k practicing plain Chr - PEOPLE OF NOTE. The full name of the Brazilian minist Washington is General Dionizio 1 de Castro Corqueira. sident Cleveland doesn't for any newspapers. of marked copies is said to house every day W. Cable's hospitable instincts are he has bestowed new home at christened it Sir John Abbott, ex-pr minion and one of the best known public men in Canada, now traveling in Europe for s healtl been given up by 5 urning to die. need to sub- A wagon lond reach the Mass. \\..x onth s Ady returic to his law business with the. fiem of T Poar Iman & Platt, in the Milis building y , whose discoveries in ol wve lately attracted much simple trical science h~r|\|m lectus am_Ordway sculptor, is but has tion that trian statue of Garfie reasouable one. l‘ullhlun the Boston Iyll\ln-l such 000 for the eques s considered a vory Charles Dudle taken n in hand to James and g.vul.wm of that lie buried at Haze! Sir John Thompson, the mier, who has started for tion vrith his dutie sanadian pro- Paris in connec- 1 @ Bering sea case ar bitrator, 18 not yot 50 years old, and it is but sixteen years ago since he was elected to the Scotia_legislature, whose proceedings had pr ously followed as a repe v, Captain William Kot of the m s White Star s than 40 d -‘\-ul in stature, aptain of the Adriatic, ho of his refusal into Queenstown 0 miles from that and was trans to tow the when she was port. . POMP'S D. SE. Frank Leslie's Weekly. 1 stole dem by es, 1'know But "twan't no crime, ez sur Ef do motiv' is right,’den I'stole dem breecher ter | de corn, buptize Far my onliest pa'r wuz clean wored out, Dey givo up de ghos’ when I 'gun ter shoit, But, rlfgion § mbghty, ot mus’ porvail, Do it lands er darky In de county jail. De chain g got i But what could er* s colored man do, When de jedge en jury 'lowed it was sin, To steal denPbreechor tor be baptize 1n? en de conl mines, 100, 'n good-Dy, oo, 1 my wicl kin is bl T(‘H(lo folls all Lowd cet 'em In hebb When de Lawd 15 Pomp's straight ¢ He'tl shout ter d; steal dem | white { hington tar: trenie loquaglous 2008 With an ale of prosp N i talks through his hat Tho shAbbIOF Arkansaw Traveler: “Don't psked the customer ot the yOUr uwrices ar 0 roply you think," Hostonoso saleds protty stoep?” tho deelivity Is Siftings: 1 prople th 1eft to hang cloth neelt was taken out of uldn’t bo enough of ‘em Watts—Why do you of DId you ever hear n horse otts nicker? Sure. DId you over hoar a horse Wi Ahington Post: Franco had 4,000 duols = last year the coroner did o o (I(l‘ll'lll‘lll ln S bt 8 foo bos Philadelphis Dam, Wis, [ wood sawing mateh, The saw offort o say Rochester Post: A Kuansas Clty his dog Christopher Columbus. Mng the niatte barks whiie the one, man calls This Is rather Uhristophor had threo Kinsas City canine has but Washington St St the puo |Iu . “You don't seem to be © who think the office should politiclian, lieve it's i distanc 1ttlo doubt= uian's busts ness to koep in hail Puck: Visitor %0 you are house T tha subiehs shall you put up? Host—-Wull, | Quecn Anne I clded on the Colonial plan ost's Son-Why, papal you told mamma you were golng to hulld 1t on the installment plan zolng to build o What sort of a dwelling 1 examined THE MODEIN STYLE. y or town, o peopl 1th heads, bowed down, From the worl mptations froe. 1t avold t 1 you wouldn't b injuared, whe For the door of the church they make o rush As the minister suy \ men They are plous i1, BLANTS LROS RAM'S HORN, Thought in spring pootry well Oak trees ¢ The nickel platit to the engine, mallpox is not any more contag a good example man who is nds it does not wear sed In o hothouso. docs not give auy powee us than always looking for mud st dollurs we sce are those just I'ho shortcst cut to wealth is through the lane of contentment The man who chases bubbles will bark his | shins sooner or The man who « written laws himself makes un- other people his physi- | | most. We wrant because we Co not learn, we forget too much, It often happens that the man who pays the preacher the least, wants to boss him the ut heciuse Religion, leave all its chureh People who boast that they nover did any harm are generally those who haven't done much good pure mouey and undefiled, does nov at home when it goes to Kansus City Star, y every man who held a the former Cleveland admini will want to go back to his old p would be manifestly unfair to other s if the president would listen dings of those who served the More than that cognized offic i exiet opposition Lo the of rotution. onsulate to the nation 70, it would Dress of v Bengal ros. mauve poppy guipure; knot shouider. cteen in the shade known ns trimmed with a_ruche of pale petals; bertha of creum of mauve satin on- tho Bnowums.xms Largest \!nnulmmnsu and Rotallers of Clothing ta thy World. Hihger Than Ever Our hats are-—yes, higher than they will ever They're up on the be again. third floor. strange as it may seem, al- raised. to allow the workmen room in which to tear out the di- viding floor. received many new novel- ties in children's wear, ex- The prices, though they were raisad with the hats to the third, were not This has been done the first this week wall We on have hibited on second floor, while men’s suits for spring are now shown in greater variety than ever You will will be able to secure many desirable bargains if you come before we make the hole in the sideof the house—We'll have the greatest storeon earth when we get through the hole. BROWNING, Store open every evening till 6 3 Baturday uiliv KING & CO. I §. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas 3t