Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1893, Page 12

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Ty DALY and SuspAY Ber is on salo In Ohjeago at the following places: Palmer honse, Grand Pacific ho i ot hern hotel. Gore hotol. Leland lotel. Wells I3, Sizor, 189 Sta Files of Tue BEE o draska building and tho ing, Exposition erounds. BWOIRN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 8tato of Nebrask, i Courty of Dougl v George B, Tezehy sccrotary of THg BEE pub- Hahing compnn doos solomnly awear that tho aotusl oireulation of Tiik DALY BEE for tho week ending Juno 3, 1503, was as follow Bunday, May 23.. Monday, May 10 Tuosday, May Wedneaday, Mi Thursday, June Fri ay. June Baturday, June Bworn 10 before mo and subscribod 1n my pres- ence this id day of June, 1803, N. P, FEIL, Notary Publio Average Cire or May, 1893, 24,174 THE railway surgeons paid Omaha a neat compliment and conferred a well deserved honor upon a worthy member of the profession by making Dr. Gal- braith of this city their president for tho ensuing year. THE comparative cheapness of water transportation is illustrated by the fact that freight can now be transported from New York to San Francisco by sea and over the Panama railway cheaper than from New York to Kansas City by rail. N s struck a hor- net's nest when he urged that the negro population of the United States be de- ported into Africa. Tho colored people donot take kindly to the suggestion. Mr. Ingalls may run short on the negro vote if he should ever again venture into the political arena. But— 11 18 something to wear the honors of baving designed the fastest cruiser in the world. Lioutenant Louis Noxon, the designer of the New York, gradu- dted at the head of his class at Annapo- lis & dozen years ago, was sent by tho United States to the naval school at Woolwich, England, and then entered the service of the Cramps. His late achievement will render his name his- torical. CABLE advices from Hamburg an- mounce that an unmistakable case of Asiatic cholera has occurred in. that oity do not warrant apprehension. Yet it adds emphasis to the admonition already civen that individuals as well as municipal bodies everywhere should take the necessary precautions to estab- lish the conditions of immunity. I8 THE public never to have done with the trouble about the Cherokee Strip? Ite annual invasion by the cattlo men has begun and again the War depart- ment has ordered them removed by Wnited Statos troops. Until people are sllowed to take land in the outlet under #he law these trespasses may be expected # continue. This opening is expected to take placo at some date between the 1st and 15th of next September. EXPERIMENTS are about to commence at once to determine the feasibility of running boats on the Erie canal by elec- tricity. The trolley system will prob- ebly be employed. The objections sgainst this device in the crowded strects of a city cannot enter against its adoption as an agent of canal transpor- tation, and it is not unlikely that it may prove cheaper and more practicable than either animal or steam power. 1f successful on the Erie canal, the method will doubtless extend to other waterways further west, thus further advancing the interests of the producer, as well as the shippor. — It 18 now almost certain that the Vanderbilt systom which now reaches along the North Platte, through central Wyoming to Casper, will soon be ex- tended on to Ogden. This promises to ha- come the great trans-continental line for freights on account of its low grades. The Union Pacific, although traveling that portion of Wyoming least adapted to agriculture, has yet been of vast benefit to the state, if in nothing else than the opening up of its prosperous coal mines. With the Burlington also pushing through northern Wyoming and to the Yellowstone Park her future seems full of roseate promise. status of an army officer has just been passed on by the attorney general. Some weeks ago the president nominated and the senate confirmed Licutenant Wright P, Edgerton of the Second artillery to be associate instructor at West Point with the rank of captain. But as the act creating the position does not go into efoet until July 1, the second comp- troller of the treasury decided that the lioutenant's acceptance of the position ~.was equivalent to a resignation, * The attorney general holds, however, that a8 Lieutenant Edgerton had been nomi- nated to and confirmed for an office which did not exist he could not accept & wythical place, and as he had not re- signed he was still a line - officer. This view will probably be accepted by the War department and the lleutenant will remain a line officer until he is re- nominated for the place &t the acad- emy. RAILWAY SURGEONS AND RAILWAY EMPLOYES. Among the proceedings of the national convention of railway surgeons, which has just closed its sossion in Omaha, many topies interesting cto the profes- sion were ably discussed and suggos- tions for mutual improvement of the pe- culiar service wore debated and recom- mended for adoption. There was, how- ever, a suggestive omission of all refer- ence to railway employes and their relations to the railway surgeons. Itis an open secrot that the railway surgeons employed on the principal systems of railway draw their pay from the hos- pital fund, and that fund represents a forced contribution from every employo of the road. Willing or unwilling these employes are made to contribute toward the support of the railway sur- geons out of each month's wages before the paymaster hands over the amount due them on the pay roll. And yet tho railway surgeons nevor acknowledge any obligation to the men and women whose hard-carned wage fund is drawn upon for the hospital fund, which, in reality, is the surgeon's salary fund. The only party that the railway surgeon foels obligated to is tho general manager of the road. We know of no other service, public or private, where an officer or employe considers himself under no obligation to the men from whom -he draws his pay. More singnlar still is the fact that the railway employos who pay for the surgeons have no voice or influence in their selection or their retention in the service which is said to be organized exclusively for their benefit. And this recalls another suggestive fact. The othor day a manifesto was ued by soveral men styling themselves organizers and directors of the Railway Imployes association. This manifesto was very sovere on members of the slature who voted for the maximum rato bill and declaimed against all parties and organizations that have for their object the regulation of common icrs, on the assumption that any regulation or reduction of tolls would decrease the chances of employment of railroad men and force down the wages of men now employed, while in truth and in fact wages on railroads aro regulated by tho same law of supply and demand that regulates wages and prices everywhere, The manifesto closed withasomoewhat bombastic threat that the entive railway employes vote would be massed for or against candi- dates regavdless of party on tho sole issue of their subserviency to tho rail- way magnates and coupon cutters of Wall street and Boston. Not the slightost reference was made by the organizers and political funeral directors on the relations of the railway surgeons to the other railway employes and the right of the employes to have somothing to say either in person or through a board of employes chosen for that purpose, as to who shall or shall not treat thom medically in caso of sick- ness or accidental injury. "It seems to us that this subject would have boen more timely than a bull against the Newberry comet, which in the end will prove to be a move cerow and of no moment to men employed in the rail- road workshops, on tho roadway or in the running of trains, A YEAR OF POLAR EXPLORATION. The present year will be memorable for Avetic exploration, three expeditions to the Polar sca having been arranged, t-wo of which will take their departure during the current month. Licutenant Peary expects to sail on his s pedition June 15, the port of departure being St. John's, Newfoundland, whence he will goto McCormick bay and estab- lish winter quarters. He proposes to spend two years in pushing toward the pole from this base of supplies, using sledging teams for this purpose, as in his first expedition, which, if not greatly successful, made some contribution to the information regarding the Arctic region. Peary, however, was not satisfied with the results, and being unable to obtain from any of the bodies interested in Arctic exploration the means for a sccond attempt to locate the pole, he bravely went to work to raise the money by lecturing. He will be ac- companied by five other adventurous spirits willing to risk their lives in the frozen region of the north, and the ex- pedition will be well equipped for the toilsome and dangerous oxploration. Another expedition will leave Liver- pool this month for Franz Josel Land, under the command of Frederick Jack- son, the dosign being to follow that lit- tle known territory to the north in the hopo that the pole may be reached from its shores. It is the theory of Jackson that the northern limits of this unex- plored island extond to 85 degrees or be- yond, and he accordingly hopes to get within 300 miles of the pole by land and then push on in open boats. He has a party of ten persons and provision for threo years. The theory of Jackson re- ceives little consideration from s tists, but it is by no means _to bo con- cluded from tnis that he will not suc- coed, for pretty much every idea vo- speoting that remote region rests largely upon pure supposition, and if ever the pole is discovered it is quite as likely as otherwise to be by somo one who utterly disregards accepted the- ories, The most perilous of the projectod ex- peditions and the one which will proba- bly command the groatest interest is that of Dr. Nansen of Norway, who has had experience in Arctic exploration. He believes that there is an open polar sea and he intends to put himselfl at the mercy of its currents in the hope that they will carry him over the pole amd back to some habitable shore. He pro- poses to follow the Siberian coast to the mouth of the Lena river and then push as far north as possible, When he can no longer pursue the voyage in his vessel he will commit himself to the ice floes, This expedition carries pro- visions for six years and is fully sup- plied with dogs, sleds and other neces- sary equipment. Dr. Nansen's plan is one of extremest peril and the weight of the probabilities is that no member of the expedition will ever return to tell the story of their hardships and suffering. The history of Arctic exploration is largely a most dismal story of terrible privation, disaster and death, and these oxpoditions may but add another like chapter. But notwithstanding this there will doubtless always be found adventurous spirvits willing to risk their lives in what to a groat majority of man- kind seems the hopeloss task of finding the north pole—a discovery which, if made, could be of little if any benefit to the world, —e DEFICIENT CANDLE POJVER. The preliminary tests made by the city eloctrician scom to justify all that THE BEE has said heretofore in regard to the deficlency in the candle power of the arc lights furnished the city by the Thomson-Houston company. That com- pany charges tho city a high price for streot lights and under its contract binds itself to furnish a 2,000-candle- power light. Tue BEE has always maintained that a proper test would develop the fact that the lights wero doficient by at least 50 per cent. Mayor Bomis has held to a simiiar view. In order to test the matter and satisfy the citizens the city electrician has boeen oquipped with the latest and bost appliances for test- ing the candi®power of the lights. The people of Omaha aro already familiar with the rosults of the tests so far made. They fully justify the charges that the city has not boen fairly dealt with by the electrio lighting company. The most favorable test developed a candle power of batween 1,000 and 1,100, while the lowest development were botween 600 and 700, Further tests are to be made and the city council will prob- ably await their results before taking any decided action in the premises; but unless a more favorable showing can be made there is but one course open. The electric lighting company has no right to expect the city of Omaha to pay it for 2,000-candle power lights when it fur- nishes a light of but one-half that power. The prices must come down and the city council must not hesitate to do its duty in lowering them RNIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION, Of the sixty-five members of the graduating class of the Omaha High school forty-four are girls and twenty- one are boys—the former outnumbering the latter more than two to one. There is a suggestionin these figures which ought to receive the careful attention of everybody who is interested in our sys- tem of public education. Why is it that there aresomany more girl than boy graduates from our High school? The obvious explanation is that most boys who go into the High school are unable to remain throughout the four years which the curriculum of the school re- quires inorder tograduate. A majority of them are compelled to find the means of self-support bofore they can complote the long school term, while others be- conie weary of it, finding nothing to in- spire their interest in those studies which aro far more ornamental than useful, and in which they can see no practical Dbenefits. pavents who have not the means to give their sons a collogiate education can afford to keep them in the High school four years, while on the other hand most people even of moderato means will make ex- traordinary efforts to onablo their daughters to graduate. With many girls, also, the desire to become teachers is an incentive to romain which the boys do not have. The High school seeks to do too much. It provides a curriculum academical in its scope, which is boyond the design of our system of public education. The greatest zood of the greatest number demands radical reform in this matter. The work of the high school should be strictly limited to instruction that is es- sential to the practical affairs of life, which is all that a public school educa- tion is intended to supply, and if this were dono the term could be shortened to three years, which is long enough. With a three-year term and all studies eliminated ex- cept those of a purely practical character, more of our youth could avail themselves of a High school course, and those who did would get greater benefit from it than now, be- cause there would be no waste of atten- tion upon studies of no value to them in after life, The prevailing system is unwise and is not in accord with the principles of a rational method of .pub- lic education, which does not contem- plate makingz academies of our High schqols. Reform in this matter is urgently demanded, and whoever shall bring it about will doa very great public service. RECENT JUDICIAL LAGOR RULINGS., Hon. Aldace F. Walker, at one time a member of the United States Intor- state Commerce commission, in the cur- rent number of the Forwm discusses four recent important labor rulings by federal courts. These are tho opinions concern- ing the rights and obligations of work- ing men rendered by Judges Taft, Ricks, Speer and Billings, sitting in various divisions of the ecircuit court of the United States. Full reports of these decisions were published at the time in the news columns of THE BEE and com- mented on editorially. In view of their paramount importance the visws of so eminent & lawyor as the writer will prove specially valuable and interesting. Their scope and extent are briefly sum- marized as follows: “Judge Ricks holds that a mandatory injunction may issue requiring employes fully to perform thelr duties connected with interstate commerce, so long as they remaln sorvice. Judge Taft rules that acts tending to induce a boycott which would inte'rupt the movement of interstate commerce may be pre- vented and corrected by like proocess. Judge Billings affirms the propriety of an injunction against a8 combination of laborers acting in restraint of trade or commerce. Judge Speer approves a re- oceiver’s contract for labor, but makes it subject to conditions which eliminate the boycott. Each of these decisions rests upon the federal control of inter- state commerce, as expressed in the interstate commerce law and the anti- trust law."” The novelty in each of these decis ions is the injunction remedy employed, and ‘“‘while practitioners of the old sohool are somewhat aghast at the en~ largement of equity jurisdietion,” Colo- nel Walker soos m{#}ifo say in support of its proprioty. Bisoussing the decis ions with refercnce¥o ‘labor's right to strike, ho says: “Xlis right, properly defined, is not deniad dn either of the decisions. No case Kriqwn to tho writer has yet held that, the rights of om- ployers and employed are other than contract rights, or th4t; in tho absenco of agreement, law o eustom, oontrolling the contract, thore i nat an equal right in both parties to tetifiinato the employ- ment at will.” The right of men to strike in order to sacure for themselves better torms, he hoffis, was not involved in the cases at Toledp, and tho entire litigation is in respeet to the conduct of the engineors of the Lake Shore cd>m- pany who did not go on strike but un- dertook to initiate a boycott against the Ann Arbor road. Labor has the same right as capital and the court doos not question the right of either tocombine so long as such combinations are legitimate, the public not oppressed. and the rights of others not involved by the methods used or the results attained, nor can there be dis- crimination in the treatment of the ques- tion of competition. The troublo in this case, he points out, ‘‘is not in the strike, but in the methods of the strikers,” af- focting injuriously alike the interests of the state and the citizen. “The use of the remedy by injunoc- tion,” the writer says, ‘‘comos as a sur- prise to the public,” and yet there is nothing new in the questions of legal right covered by these decisions. ‘‘It has always been the legal obligation of em- ployes to perform fully their contract of service, whether by the year, month or day, and of employers to pay componsa- tiongfor the term agreed upon; employes are legally responsible to employers for the results of their negligont acts and wilful omissions, and employers are in turnresponsible to them for the furnish- ing of safe and sufficient machinery and working room; both are subject to the rule that one's property or rights must be so used that others be not un- necessarily injured; and both are within the law which condemns conspiracies and combinations to oppress. The only extension or enlargement perceptible in the recent cases is in tho uso of the mandatory injunction for the enforce- ment of well known rights and obliga- tions; this is supported by precedents in other directions and can be employed without objection, being wholly in the direction of the preservation of personal rights and the protection of public in- terests.” It remains to bo seen whether the pro- cess of injunction will do away with the ovils that arise constantly over the dif- ferences between labor and capital. AN AMERICAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, There has been developing in this country for somo yoars a sentiment that thero ought to be an American school of music—one aistinctively national in its character that shall express, as music can, the feelings, the emotions, the as- pirations of the people. The difficulty has been to find for the foundation of such a school something indigenous, something possessing spirit and sonti- ment essentially native and original, with no suggestion of having been bor- rowed or imported. We have a small contingent of composers whohave shown Considerable talent, but it has been along old lines, so that their work is not distinguished for the exproes- sion of new forms or original ideas. While it gives evidence of scholarly attainment it still shows that its authors have been humbly sitting at the footstool of the composers of other lands and have not seriously sought for inspiration at heome. The question is, have we anything to inspire effort in the direction of creating a distinctively national school of music— one having the character and originality not only to commend itself to the favor of our own people, but also to the atten- tion and regard of the cultivated people of other lands? There are some who be- lieve we have, and among them is the distinguished Dr. Antonin Dvorak of the National Conservatory Music of America. This great composer, who, since he came to this country, has been studying with great interest and care the musical conditions here, has recently oxpressed the opinion that we have the sourco of an A.merican school of music, which may be made worthy of the country. Dr. Dvorak said in a recent interview that he had become satisfied thatvhe future music of this country must ba founded upon what are called the negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any seri- ous and original school of composition to be developed in the United States. “These beautiful and varied themes,” said the eminent composer, ‘‘are the the product of the soil. They are Amer- ican. These are the folk songs of Amer- ica, and your composers must turn to them, All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people. Only in this way can a musi- cian express the true sentiment of his people. He gets into touch with the common humanity of his country. In the negro melodies. of America I dis- cover all that is needed for u groat and noble school of njusic. They are pa- thetic, tender, passionate, melancholy, solemn, religious, bold, merry, gay, or what you will, It!is music that suits itself to any mdod ‘or any purpose. There is nothing ip the whole range of composition that:cadnot be supplied with themos from this source.” It may be thought somewhat remarkable that the bright musical, minds of America have not thought.. of this foun- dation for & natignal school of music, but the eminent authority who points it out gives it a elaim to consideration which will be recogrized by all intelli- gent musicians, and it will not be sur- prising to find the suggestion of Dr, Dvorak acted upon at no very distant time. At any rate the great Bohemian composer, who says that he has himself gone to the simple, half-forgotten times of the Bohemian peasants for hints in his most serious work, has uttered what cannot fail to prove an encouragement to all who believe in the pos sibility of an American school of music. An enthusiastic writer on this subject says: ‘‘Just as surely as musical composition is waning ia Germany, just so surely shall this absorbing country in the near fu- ture rival Russia, France, Italy and Bohemia. Tt isour turn in this, asin other things, There fs justas much hope for musical composition in this country as there Is for any other art, invention or accomplishment, and the proof of it lics in what has been accom- plished in other directions in the past.” ‘When this spirit and this confidence be- come more widely diffused, we shall bo near the realization of the hope of & distinctively national school of music. IT APPEARS to be the intention of the treasury officials to give the alien con- tract labor law the broadest construc- tion and application, and to strictly en- force it. Thisis indicated by the re- cent order of the commissioner of immigration against the employment of Canadian seamen imported under con- tract. Ho proposes to prosecute the owner or master of any American vessel who is found to have brought Canadians into the United States under contract to work as seamen, and has instructed in- spectors to look out for such cases. As the law stands, says the com- missioner, the employment on shipboard cannot be distinguished from. any other omployment on land under the alien contract labor law. Thers can bend doubt of tho correctness of this view. The law makes certain exomptions and seamen are not included among them, 80 that unless it can bo shown that this is a kind of labor which congress did not have in view when framing the act it must be included among the inhibi- tions of the law. The ruling will not exclude Canadian seamen from serving on American vessels, but it will prevent the making of contracts which tend to keep down tho wages of American sea- men. COMMANDER DAVIS of the navy, de- tailed to represent the government in its attentions to Princess lulalia, has excited the animosity of New York's swell society circles on account of his failure to recognize the potency of their social mandates. Some of their supple time sorvers have had the audacity to carry their grievances to Washington and demand that another escort bo sub- stituted. We have no assurance that this will insure the commandor's prome- tion, but it will pretty surcly establish _him in the popular regard. FrOM all parts of Nebraska come assurances that the prospects for a great crop this fall wero never better. The lack of rain early in tho spring which for a time endangered the small grain crop seems to have beon fully compen- sated by the frequent showers in every part of thestate. While the small grain may not come up to the enormous yields of the past two years, there is cvery reason to believe that the corn crop will be fully up to tho standard. Sugar Must Bo Froe. St. Louis Republic, One thing is sure—tl e tax must not bo put back on sugar. Having gained this measure of greatly‘bencficial frce trade, wo must not surrecder it, Onceon tho free list, always on the free list. . The Pulpit and the Pross. Colomel A. K. McClure. Journalism has no more sensationalism in it today than bas the pulpit, ana no man would declare to an intelligent audienco that shapes the desti- nios of religion oc that religion is affected by him. On the contrary, he is a hiadrance to antial religious advancement, as much as the sensational newspaper is a hiudrance to the legitimate advancement of the- pross. e for onver News. Governor Flower has sct an example which Attorney General Olney might vrofit- ably follow by instituting proceedings {Jgainst illegal trusts. The governor has signed a bill punishing with $,000 fine and ono year's Imprisonment overy man who in the state of New York enters into a trust or combine to exclude or repress competition and thus to advance the price of any article necessary to life or hoaith. The war upon trusts will now open in the Empire state. Anothor Menace. Chicago Record, Aftter wo have bundled the Chinese out of the country we shall pernaps feel like turn- g our valuable attention to a solution of the problem involved by the threatened im- portation of a horde of Mohammodans. It is the intention of the originator of this colonization scheme to proselyte this country to Islamism and his first move is to locate a rich and hggressive mussulman population in the south, Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. The goblins'll git us of we don't watch out. e s ‘The Successtul Newspaper. Chwago News, Tho successful newspaper is that which follows the advice offered by Abraham Lin- coln to a public man: “Keep close to the people.” It must tell them what they wish 10 know—all of the news of all the world. Itmust bo an intelligent and honest com- rade. It must recognize the good in all men, the guile in some men and tho mistake many men. It must be fair. It must nizo 1o friends or encmies savo the fric and enemies of the peoplo. It must bo right whenever that 18 possible. A good news- paper can be in_ the wrong occasionally, but it can never be in the wrong knowingly. gt e L Ll Onllege Tralning Worldly Success. President Charles F, Thwing in June Forum, I will assume that at least 100,000,000 of people, who havo lived and whose dust min- gles with the common dust of this new soil, have not had a college training. Yet out of theso 100,000,000 only 10,000 have so wrought as to deserve such a recognition as is foundan & oyclopwdia, Only 10,000 out of 10,000 times 10,0001 Therefore only one out of evc 10,000. But of tho coliege men one in overy forty has attained such a recognition, Into one group gathor v,ui(uthcl‘ 10,000 infants and send no one to college; one person ouv of that great gatherng will attain through some work @ certain fame. Into anothor group gather forty college men on the day of their graduation aud out of those forty one will attain recognition, e — BLASTS FROM BAM'S HORN, Worry kilis moro people than the small- Ppox, The devil works hard to make bitter fruit ook sweet. A lie in the heart is no whiter than it is in a horse trade. 1f ymen had to be judged by one another nobody could ever get to heaven. The surest way to make a bad man mad is to tell him the truth about himself. There are men who havea creed a rod long who do business with a short yardstick. When you shake hands with a young con- wert don't do it with the tips of your fingers. It is doubtful if one man irra hundred goes to church praying for preaching that will hit him. ‘Ihere is something wrong with the religion of the man who is never seen at church on lodge night, Give some people the power to move moun- tains, and how soon they would ruin the farms of their neighbors. There will be a commotion in the pit when church members uerin to give more for the apread of the gospel than they do for cigars and tobacco. Tuo man who looks at his wife as though the moon were about to turn to blood when- ever she asks him for a couple of dollars is wot likely to become very eloquent in prayer at his family altar, PURLIC OPINJON ALL ONE WAY, Blair Pilot: The supreme court has not yot spoken regarding the onteome of the im peachmont cases, but opinions have been handed down by a good many other people, and with singularly unanimity they all say guilty . Custer County Boacon: Tt the suprome court will do what the peoplo expect it to do, confidence in that tribunal will be largely rostored. Schuyler Quill: The impeachment case of the three state officials has boon heard, and now only the decision of the suprome court is to tell the tale. The caso was a strong one and showed a wholesale system of rob bery and plurder oxisting undor tho appar ent sanction of the oficials whoso duty it was to look after tho state's interests, Plattsmouth Herald: “Tre Omana with its usual display of double lo: fies” the impoachment businoss fr stern, and why shouldn't it: it isvight what is the use of beating the devil around the bramble, when you can just as well drive him through it. If these men are guilty they ought to be punished and if thoy aro innocent thoy have lost no opportunity of calling the attention of the court to it. In our estimw on, and that of every other pub- lic spirited person, there must be some fire where thero i much smoke-—thero must have been some cause or thero would have beon no action brought. They, themselves, caused all this rottenness, and by their own covetedness broke open the scab 3o that the public could probe it, so now let them sit on their own sore. Valloy nterpriso: The impeachment trial has proved to any unprejudiced mind that in the conduct of state duties there have been many abuses and apparently incxcusable negleet. 1t does not oceur to us that the question of degreo of neglect can cut much of a figure: the slightest tampering of care- lessness with public functions can scarcely bo condoned. Since the evidence of neglect is of record and so overwhelming that denial would be folly, the impeached ofticials scek to palliate their offcnse by the plea of over- work, thereby admitting their neglect. This Elc.l may be a good one, but why hasnot this con known before? 'Why did they not raise a cry that their dutios were onerous and that some public function was suffering in conse- quence, and demand of the governor or legis- lature some relief? If the duties of the state are numerous and pressing then tho stato is justified in adding to its working force. Now the question that confronts the court is, are these officials justified in keeping forever slient as to their “mulefarious’ duties at the expense of efticicut public sorvice! Can the plea of overwork in the light of the labors performed by other officials and the careless- ness of these in particular be admitied as a valid oxcuse by any process of reasoning? B! SECULAR SHO THE PULPIT, Detroit IFree Pre: ver are havi time ¢ Washington, Chicago Inter Baptists at Don ctand ordorly littlo ProSbyterians at an: Tt does look a little off to have a leading clergyman on trial for heresy during Columbian year, when the nations of the carth are mingling peacefully together at the great World's f: Minnoapolis Tribunc: A New York min- ister has bogun o ficre iinst tho candy habit. He has d—in breaking into the n ; great boom in the confectionery business. Kansas City Journal: Thoso Sabbatarians who wanted the president to place United States troops at_ the World's fair to shoot down any who attempted to open the gates on Sunday, have queer ideas of Christian Kansas City Star: The Rev. Dr. Sprecher of Cleveland, O., might well havo closed his ermon’ by paraphrasing Patrick immortal words and hurling doflanco at the Prosbytorian general assembly with: “If this bo heresy, make the most of it." Louisville Courior Journal: A rich castern church has setiled with its creditors on a basis of 23 cents on_the dollar. It won't do, howevor, to take this as a typical c Churches do not usually pay their debts with 2 cents on the dollar in - money and 77 cents in roligion. Tndianapolis Journal: John n died 320 years ago last Sunda perhaps his soul is at peace, but when he looks back to carth and sces how the brethren are still quarreling over his doctrines he must find-it hard to forgive himself for haying promul- gated thom. 2 ——— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Next week Chicago will walk Spanish, Cornelius Vanderbilt resents the imputa- tion that he is a stock speculator. by al attendance at the World's fair ,567,328, of which 1,077,233 The deadhead list is a rotund beauty. The tide of immigration flowing hither- ward is increasing. During May 75,000 im- migrants landed in this country, against 67,500 for May, 1802, One hundred waiters are on a strike in Kan: City. The hash dispensed in conse- quenco is sufficiently mysterious to send an appetite on a sick leave. Mr. E. 8. Drone, lon% an_editorial writer for the New York Herald, has been ap- pointed oditor of the paper, and his name is now nailed to the Herald's masthoad. The water tapped in an artesian well near Pierr D., is found to be highly magnetic and gaseous. What an el nt combination to slake the parched ts and gild the stale ideas of ourth of July orators! Bottle it, Pierre, and generatfons will riso up and bless thee. Independenco Square, Philadelphia, has been definitely selected as the sito for tho Washington monument, which the Society of the Cincinuati will erect. It is peculiarly fitting that the projected monument to the Father of his country should stand beside the mistoric structure, from which the Deolaration of Indopendence was first road and liberty proclaimed Pugitist James Corbett 18 to ba: immortal. fzed in marblo by Sculptor Victor Gugliolmo, of Munich, who is now at work in San Fran. 1500 on the scu.ptures orde by the will of the late James Lick for the embellishment of San Francisco, Tho figure will be nude to the waist and in a posturo of dofenso Ninoteen dopartment commandors of the union army are now living al M. Schofield, 0. O. crans, C. C. Augur, | \ N Banks, D. C. Buell, Franz Sigel, lew Wal« , D. N. Couch, J.G. Parker, N, J. T 1, J. 3. Roynolds, G. M. Dodeo, (eorge Stoneman, J. M. Palmer, H. H. Lockwood, J. P’. Hatch and John D, Stevenson. Of the thirty-cight govornors who were in (\t tho boginning of the term of Prosi- dent Harrison four years ago only one is in oftico today, Sylvester Vonnoyer of Oregon, David B. Hill of New York and John B. Gordon of Georgia have boen sent to the United States senate. Fifer of Illinois, For- aker of Ohio, and Hoard of Wisconsin were defeated for election. Others aroe dead, still are forgotten San Francisco Call of Sunday 1ast colo- brated the installation of modern printing v typo with n 1i of contents and ions the number, sly domonst asto, ability and ing judgment of the management. The Call is in the meridian of activi L and rocord as brilliant as its pros perity is boundiess on the coast. If age furrowed the face and wobbled tha joints of & newspapor as it docs mankind, the Now York Commercial Advertiser now be a ripe subject for the cemetery. 18 90 years of age, but no one would know il if tho publishers hadun’t given the fact away Just to demonsti activity, vim and virilit, gant special number was, sue a The ecvents col memc on that day were happily ana’ ibod and illustrated, and a fas similo of a pago of its first numbor was aps iately given first placo, Dospito oocas | paroxysms of confederato hysteria Commercial Advertiser is a twilight, hummer., ————— RELISHED BY T BEST OF MEN, Troy Pross: A call toarms: “Oowe, John, and take the baby. Inter Ocean /hen Frank you lot him know that you loved Yes; [ gave mysell wtonce.” ournal: The printor mbus" holds the rocord [ronesgd did hin?" Ethoel: Loulsvillo Court who set it up “Col. U thus far. Boston Globo: “Six Months In Hades—Out June 1" s advertised. The vietim is to be congratulatod on the prospect of his gotting 0ut’so s0on. Milwaukoo Journal: Education acts on some minds like guano would onn swamp, 16 merely increases tho capacity of offenso. Chleago Nows: The doctors, in_considoring tho value of the different kinds of anas- thotles, forgot to say any thing about the para- Tyzing effect of loni specehes. Judge: Dentist—No, I've no_objection ta cour Sitting in my office during my oxtracting! \ours, but, why do you want to dosuch a pe culiar thine? Young Man—I've boen delogated by our class t get points for & now collogo yoll. Lito: Julius—ITow did the firs in your office originate? Fditor—Supposed to have beon started by § Dpocu of passien sont in. LUCK TO HER. Truthe Where are you going, my protty maid?" ' sho suld. siyhatars you hunting my pr malar “Tho fool who wrote this riyme, she sald. —————— A HINT FROM PARIS. Ewropean Edition New Yorl Ilerald. FOR THE RACES, Souple skirtof changesble silk, fivting veryl closeovor the hips; decolleteo chemisetteo o water-green silk gauze; the capelets aro o] light changoablo sillc to match tho dress, BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manufacturers and Rotallers ol Ciothing In the World. Easy Riding Now When a stranger steps into our palace these days he is first impressed with the magnitude of our stock. After going around through the building he finds not only a great assortment, but some / of the finest tailor productions ever brought out. Every _ single garment from a boy's 3/ $2 suit or a man's $10 suit to the most expensive in the house is carefully made of the best material money can buy. largest manufacturers of Being the clothing in the world, it is easier for us to put in good cloth than most peo- ple to buy shoddy. Shoddy we will not sell at any price, but we sell the very best at the lowest liv- ing prices. BROWNING, £tore open every eveninztill 6.3k &nurdny wit ¥ KING & CO., | 8 W. 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