Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 11, 1893, Page 12

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Tk DALy and Svspay Bee Is on sale in Chiengo at the following placest Palmer | Grand Pactfic hot Auditorium hotel Great Northern hotel. Gore hotol Toland hotel Wells B, Siz Files of Tik braska huilding and the Adminis ing, Exposition erounds. 189 State stroe at the ion bu EWOIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraska, ! Courty of Douglas, { Robert iunter of Tik PEe publishing company @oes solemnly swear that the cetual elrenlation of ThE DAILY BEE for the weck ending June 10, 1863, was s follow Bunday. Jun Monduy, Jun Tuesduy. Jun Wednesday, June 7 Thureaday, Juno 8§ Friday. Juno 0., Baturday, June10.. Bworn (0 bnfore me A In my pros: enco this 10th dny of June, 18 N. P, FEIL Notary Publ Averige Cireulation Vlnrr.\l)l_ s 181 18 Chicago newspapers are still talking enthusiastically about the sue- cess of Nebraska day at the World's fair. Somi of the pictures of Governor Crounse printed by the Chicago papers are execrable enough to warrant loyal Nebraskans in boyeotting the World's fair. THE man who was sent to jail by the federal court for selling a pint of whisky to an Indian is ina position to keenly appreciate the humor of the attempt to secure Mr. Mosher's release. NOTING the fact that a negro had been lynched in Tllinois a reconstructed Geor- gia editor fervently esclaims: “This proves that the seetions are coming to- gother. We are all one people with one flag and one country. God bless our bones!” A DAKOTA man ha ly succeeded in capturing the Nebraska internal rev- enue collectorship and now an Towa man is likely to get an appointment on the Missouri river commission always held by an Omaha man. Nebraska democrats should join the home patrol ment. T. DE WIrT TALMAGE is lecturing in the west and the other ovening he ad- dressed an Towa andience on the subject of “Big Blunders.” The title of the lec- ture is a little significant and suggest the thought that the 1 has been reading the det supreme court de e move- rend leeturer ils of a certain sion. THE lieutenant governor of Kansas is at the head of a movement which con- template an organization of 30,000 mem- bers to boycott the World’s fair on account of high railroad rates. If suc- cessful the boyeott would scarcely injure the fair, but it would keep %1,000,000 of Kansas money in Kansas, MRs. FRANK LEsLIE was a divorced woman when she marrvied her second husband, by whose name she is popu- larly known, and now she is getting a divorce from her third, “Willie Wild.” There is one thing to be said in her favor, she didn't go to South Dakota to have the uncongeaial knot severed. A New Jersey court promises to afford as sho prayed for, relief without much cer- emony. A New JERSEY militia general’s uni- form may be dazzlingly ornate, but it can add nothing to the dignity of an American ambassador, and that is what Major General Runyon, the present minister to Germany. is soon likely to bo. Germany, following the example of England and France, has promptly raised the head of her legation in the United States to an ambassador and it is to bo taken for granted that Presi- dent Cloveland will as prom ptly quid Pro quo, SENATORS PEFFER, Washburn and Roach of the sub-committee on cattle and grain have commenced their inves- tigation into those intorests at Chicago, From there they will proceed to Minne- apolis, Omaha, Kansas City and To- peka, in their effort to glean informa- tion. Subsequently the capitals of most of the western states will be visited. Millers, pork and beef packers, cattle and wheat shippers and farmers arve ex- pected to give information and make suggestions, It remains to be secen whethor this tour of investigation is to be turned into another pleasure junket or whether it will indeed result in bone- fit to tho interests it was appointed to subserve, Tue legislature of Michigan has re- pealed the famous law whoreby presi- dential electors were soleoted by con- gressional distriets. The consvitution of the United States, however, provides that the states shall appoint electors in such mannor as their respective legis- latures may direct. The suggestion has frequently been mado in view of the “Michiganization” process, and pecause in some of the states these olectors were chosen by the legislatures themselves, that tho constitution should sbe so amended as to require presidential electors chosen in a uniform manner throughout the union. Whatever may have been the objectionable features of the Michigan law its fatal defect was that the wethod was not universal, | skilled labor there .and it may very properly THE STATE LABOR CONGRESS. A congress of representatives of ore ganized labor in Nebraska will meet in Lincoln July Forty-one organiza- tions of skilled labor have already =i nified their intention to send delegates, 50 that there is every assurance that the congress will be a largely attended and thoroughly representative body. As this will be the first attempt to effect & state industrial organization the move- ment is one that should interest classes of skilled workmen, to whom it specially appeals. Although Nebraska is not a great manufacturing state our industries give employment to & large foreo of wage earners, and it will perhaps surprise most people to leave the number of organizations of is in the state. The interests and the rights of labor can only be conserved and promoted by co-operation, Organized labor is a force and an influence when wisely directed. If the State Labor congress shall act with moderation and cor atism it will be able to effect a general organiza- tion of the skilled industrial workers of Nebraska which cannot fail to be to the benefit, uch an organization might do much in the way of obtaining trustworthy statistics regarding labor eonditions here—thoe hours of work, the pay, the treatment of working people, and. other information of value. We hope the congress will be largely at- tended and its deliberations and action such as every sincere friend of labor can approve. CONDITION OF NEBRASKA BANKS. ‘While the attention of the country has been drawn to the disastrous bank failures in castern and middle states, it is a notable fact that here in Nebraska a feeling of confidence exists that will do much to allay popular apprehension as to the stability of local benks. Since the financial flurry which has resulted s0 disastrously to eastern banks set in, Nebraska has had no ious bank fai ure. In fact, apart frem the Mosher bank failure. which occurred in Janu- ary, but on e failure has been reported, and that of a small institution in the in- torior of the state with liabilities reely amounting to $15,000. The bank xaminers of the state unite in agrecing that, everything being taken into con- sideration, Nebraska's banks are much more solid than in most states in the union, This gratifying state of affair ists s much on account of the excellent banking laws on our statute books as on anything clse. Of course, dishonest men are as likely to engago in banking in braska as anywhere else, but they are unable to conduet their nefarions opera- tions undetected for any great length of time. Their dishonest methods would be discovered bofore they could exist long enough to gain the confidenco of the people of the community. Under the Nebraska law a combination of dis- hone one estab- lished in [linois and Indiana by the now notorious Zimri Dwiggins would be im- possible. Fach and every bank in the state mpelled to stand on its own merits. The system of frequent ex amination at unexpected intorvals im- posed by the state banking laws is a con- tributory influence in maintaining the solidity of Nebraska banks. The semi- annual reports which must be filed with the banking department also renders material assistance in enabling the ofticers who compose the State Banking Board to enforee the provisions of the law, It would be impossible, of course, to enact a stato banking law which would absolutely prevent failures. It would be equally impossible to guard against embezzlement and dishonesty of bank officials Bu! short of this infallability the Nebraska banking law is ono of the best in the union. Its excellence tested by the fact that a bill copying all of its essential features has been favora- bly reported to the [llinois legislature. All that the Nebraska law needs is a faithful and efficient enforcement. Under the old banking board considers blo laxity was noticeable by which sev- eral banks wore vermitted to continue in business ‘even after they had been reported to be an un- sound condition by the examin- ers, The members of the present board are more exacting and the affairs of the department in move competent hands, [ the law is strictly enforced by the board it will be imposs for a Nebraska nk to continue in an un- sound condition for any longth of time. The people of the state eonfidently peet the banking board to do its duty oreise an un- usual vigilance at the present eritical point in the condition of the financial world. ile 21E NEW TIDE OF IMM.GRATION, The tremendous rush of immigrants to this countr; W weeks ago was ac- apted as indicating that these classes from European countries were anxious to land on our shores before the more restrictive immigration law should go into offect. It is now apparent that this was not the correct explanation. It was but the commencement of an increasing tide of immigration that has already reached a gigantic volume. In the months of January and February the number of steorage passengers landed at the port of New York was only 20,000, & smaller number than in any corvesponding period for nearly half a itury. This was attributable to the vestrictions then existing, Double this number arvived in March, and official returns show that in April and May there were 150,000 such arrivals at that port alone. Basing its conclusion on this exhibit the New York Suu esti- mates that “‘if as many immigrants come here in this month of June as have come here in each of the past two mouths, the count for the half year will be very near to 800,000, For thle whole of last year the number of immigrants entered hero was but 374,741, while this year, if our doors be kept open all through it, we may look for botween 500,000 and 600,000, Moreover the European advices re- ceived by that journal lead it to beliove that unless the restrictions imposed last autumn shall be renewed the *‘rush to this country will bo kept up at leastat its present rate all through ths year," aud that the sumber of mewcomers in all | _THE_OMAHA DAILY BEE: l the second half of the year will largely | surpass that of the first six months. The great steamships daily entering the metropolitan port are laden with immi- grants, and great masses await kation at all principal foreign ports, while other massesare enroute from the interior country to take their place in turn, In view of this late rapid addition to | our population, it tifying to learn that it is of a better character generally than heretofor While the Italians constitute about one-fifth of the total im- migration as registered, the improved immigration law has purged it of its former most objectionable element. Germany comes next, and those who have preceded them have already estab- lished their claim to recognition as a desirable addition to the citizenship of this country. The Irish, Scandinavians, Swedes, Norwegians, Netherland Dutch and Englishmen, who ccnstitute the great bulk of the remainder, are equally entitled to consideration. What is characteristic of increase and condition of this influx at New York is applicable also at other Atlantic ports, and ports on the Canadian border. Most of this great flood flows onward from the east and spreads over the wide expanse of the western states almost im- mediately upon arrivak. This country is broad and fertile and there is yet sufficient room to afford a weleome to the worthy laboring classes of other countries who seek homes and prosperity. Those states will displav the most wisdom who strive to retain within their demesnes a proportion of this new increase to the population of the country as it comes in. Sooner or later its flow must bo in- terrupted. Under the power with which the president has already been vl by congress he may at any time for s tary or other pertinent reasons impose restrictions that will reduce it to a min- imum. TFurther, there is no doubt that the time is close at hand when from an economic standpoint of view alone it will be esteemed necessary to stem this tide. Tndeed, it is not unlikely that the next congress will address itself to the consideration of the subjec embar- JUDGE MAXWELL'S OPINION. We give space on the fourth page of this i opinion ren- dered by Chief Justi xwell in the late impeachment trial. It isa cloar, logical and exhaustive review of the points involved and evidence taken, with the judge's unan- swerable reasons for the conclusion he had reached. As one of the framers of the constitution Justice Maxwell may certainly be credited with a fair comprechension of the functions of the court of impeachment created under it. His opinion, quite apart from his occupancy of the supreme bench during one uninterrupted period of cighteen years, should therefore have great weight with the masses of tho people who have viewed this issue from the broad standpaint of good citizen- ship. Justico Maxwell's conclusions are moreover in consonance with the popu- lar demand of the hour for the purifica- tion of politics, the enforcement of official integrity and the uprooting of boodlerism in every shape and form. In this instance, as at all ofher times, Justice Maxwell has had the courage of his convictions whether they were or were not in accord with those of his col- leagues, and the people of Nebraska re- spect and revere him for that very rea- son. EXPATRI THE NEGRO. The article of ex-Senator Ingalls, pub- lished soveral weeks ago, in which he advocated sending the colored race out of the United States as the only solution of the negro question, has met with a vigorous and somewhat indignant re- sponse from leading representative men of that race. Onc of these, John M. Langston, who has been a representative in congress and a foreign minister, takes issue with Mr. Ingalls in every salient point of his argument. In reply to the assertion of the ex-senator that no real, substantial results have been achieved from a quarter of a century’s attention to the nogro question by the people of the mnorth, Mr. Langston points to these fact That in the north all the black laws have been repealed and publie schools have been established for the colored people wherever they are not admitted regularly to the common schools ¢f the community; that in Yale and Harvard colleges, and in ever leading university and school in New ngland and the west, the negro student is found carnest and diligent in the cultivation of science and learning, and accopted and kindly treated, and he charges that Ingalls can have known little of the negro's condition in the north in 1850 and the succeeding ten years if he finds no improvement in that condition in the pleasant, prosperous and promising position of the negro race in the northern states today. As to the assertion of Mr, Ingalls that negro suffvago was an experiment of re- construction, Langston replies by calling attention to the historical facts that when the constitution of the United States was ratified, American negro citi zens voted in quite half of the original thirteen states, and that in North Caro- lina and perhaps in other states of the sonth, free negroes voted upon a prop- erty qualification down to 1835, M, Langston treats the oxodus plan as ab- surdly impracticable and rests upon what he regards as two unanswerable con- ditions, that the negro is here, brought here not by his own act, and is here to stay, and he sces in the progress made in the past and in the signs of the future indications that the negro, by “losing himself politically in the gen- eral body of American citizens.” not voting simply *as directed by selfish, adventuring politicians,” but in the lines of his own interest and the gooa of the country, may *‘relieve himself of those considerations and difficulties hitherto tending to oppress and degrade him because of his too united and gen- eral devotion to a single party organiza- tion.” The plan proposed by Mr. Ingalls for solving the negro question is not new. It was suggested years ago. Even in the days of slavery Henry Clay, and pernaps other statesmen, expressed the wish that the negroes could be returned to the land of their ancestors. | n tator yoars the'tdtia of thei SUNDAY, JUNE 11, tion has been distipggive has e ved little support that section. Nor is it likely ever to do 0, oven with o briliiant an advos ex-Senator Ingall§ “The negro has beol mado a citizen of the United States by the delihorate action of a majority of the people. His equality of citizenship is recognized in the constitution and laws of the country. He will not be dis- turbed in that rolation, for independ- ent of the utter impracticability of nding 8,000,000 people out the country the American people will never be guilty the outside of of gross injustico to the race which such | an undortaking would involve. The solution of the negro question must be found in the intellectual and vation of the race, and steady progress is making in this direction, with per- haps as much rapidity asis reasonably 10 be expeeted under the circumstances. There is reason to hope that before the end of another generation there will be nothing of the negro problem to disturb tho popular mind or frot the public con- science, and that throughout the union the ¢olored race will enjoy the rights which the laws vouchsafe and roceive the fall measure of justice that should be accorded to every elass of citizens. A HIGH COURT OF NATIO. One of the suggostions naturally grow- ing out of the arbitration of the Bering sea controversy is that the time has come for ecreating a permanent high court of nations to deal with all differ- ences arising between the civilized countries of the world, and it is urged that the United States might properly take the initiative in an effort to estab- lish such a tribunal. All civilized na- tions, it is argued, have courts of law for the enforcement of justice toward each citizen, but as yet the nations themselves have not accepted a higher court of law which shall take the place of war as an arbi- ter of international disputes. The United States, say the advocates of such a court, ought to embrace the p ent opportunity and should call an in- ternational convention for the estab- iishment of such a court, whose de- cistons could be enforced by the nations themselves, if necessary. It is thought if the United States were to inaugurate amovement of this kind with the con- currence of Great Britain no Europoan nation would bo lkely to oppose a con- vention held with - the intent of estab- lishing an international court whose only avowed purpose would be the main- tenance of justiceinall dealings between civilized peoples. 1 It is a fact that international ar- bitration has been steadily grow- ing in favor for ~more than half a century, with;. the United States leading in the recognition of the princi- ple, which may be said to have become fairly well establiShedl as the national policy of this country. Our history affords a number of examples of the efficacy of this pranciple, conspicuous among them being the settlement of the bitterly contested Alabama claims at Geneva by a court composed of repre- sentatives of Italy, Switzerland, Bra and the contending countries. Nor has appeal to this means for the peaceablo settlement of international differences been confined to this country. France and and, Svain and Germany, and other countries both in Burope and America have submitted their controversies to arbitration, and the principle is broadly recognized in the provision of the Pan- American agreement which commits nearly all the countries in this hemis- phore to a submission of their contro- versies to a tribunal of arbitration. The value of this policy has therefore been most amply demonstrated and there can be no doubt that among en- lightened nations the sentiment in favor of it has been steadily growing. So far as this country is concerned it is pretty surc always to seck the settlement of disputes with other nations by arbitra- tion before resolving on war. But notwithstanding these facts, which seem to strongly support the idea of a high court of nations, to which all international controversies should be reforred, it must be regarded as one of those visionary schemes, the realization of which must await the millennium. Edward Everctt Hale, who is a very carnest advocate of a tribunal of this character, thinks that the prejudices that stand in its way are not very much greater than those which first threat- ened the United States supreme court in 1789, Then what were virtually thir 1 nations united to create a su- preme judicatory, and the result has been successful beyond the most san- guine hopes of the founders, But obviously this is a very inadequate support for an argument in advocacy of a high court of nations, for there are no such differences in conditions and in- torests among the states of the union needing to be considered by our su- preme tribunal as exist between differ- ent nations, in the attempt to reconcile which only a court of Solomons, not pe iblo in these days, might bo successful . There is reason to believe that wisely- governed nations will seek avbitration more and more as to controversies which it is'practicable to settle in this way, but thera will, gontinue to be, so long as human ambitions and interests remain as they are,’ disputes between notiens which can be, satisfactorily set- tlod only by an appeal to force. HE news comes all the way from England that the reciprocity treaty be- tween tho United States and DBraal is unpopular with the importers of the latter country. The flavor of the milk in this particular cocoanut will be better appreciated when it is learned that the same correspondent incidentally re- marks that under the provisions of the reciprocity treaty the Brazilian import- ers are buying large invoices of cotton fabries from Americun manufacturers. This trade formerly went to England. RAILROAD profit sharing is a new application of a principle that has been instituted with more or less suce in manufacturing and mercantile ente prises. The proposes to experiment with a plan, the results of which will be awaited with very general interest among railroad employes especially. The proposition is of | moral ele- | Hlinois Central company | 1893--SIXTEEN PAGE oxpateia- | to sot asido stock of the company for ite 1y southers | employes, who shall be at liberty to for it in installments of 5 or more. money will be received by the treasurer of the company and eredited to the em- ploye, together with at 4 per cent per annum, when the credit of any pur- chaser amounts to the price at which the stock was bought he shail receive a certificate for his share of stock and can then, if he wishes, begin the purchase of another share. Money and accrued in- terest may be returned on the applica- tion of the purchaser, reasonable pro- visions are made for the default of pay- ments, and it is required that an em- ploye leaving the sorvice of the com- pany shall take his account from the company's books, though he may, of course, retain all the stock for which he shall have paid. The plan, it will be seen, is a combination of savings bank and profitsharing, and so far as we know is an entirely novel schome. It is remarked of the proposition that the company does not make it under a pre- tenso of specially desiving to favor ifs employes. Its object is mutual benofit, the board of dircctors believing that one of the advantages to bo expected would be a considerable saving in every department of the servico as the result of a community of inte Doubtless another would be in securing greater ofticiency and a heartier loyalty. It should not take a great while to demon strate whether the scheme is likely to be successful, and if it should succeed it may in time be widely adopted. interest o8 AN IMPORTANT opinion respecting the right of alien heirs under the laws of Illinois has just been rendered in the cuit court of that state sitting at Bloom- ington. A business man of that city, un Irishman, named Mark Tully diod, leav- ing a large estate, a widow and two chil- dren. Although a naturalized citizen Tully had brothers and sisters in Tre- land, subjects of Great Britain, who have children in Illinois. Under the old statutes of Illinois these heirs would have inherited one-half decedent’s estate and the widow and her children the other half. Judge Tipton decided that the new alien law, which recently be- came effective in that state, prohibits aliens buying and owing land in Illi- nois. Its adoption repealed all former statutes on the subject, loft the common law in force, and therefore neither aliens nor descondents of aliens born in fore countries ance. o can take property by inherit- Consequently the widow and her children take the entire estate and the alien brothers and sisters and their de- scendants get no portion of it. In case where property 1s left by decedents, there being alien heirs only, it must escheat to the stato. THE damage suit of William B. Laid- law of New York against Russell Sage for $30,000, based on the claim that when the assassin Norcross threw the bomb at the defendant in his oftice more than a year ago the millionaire used the clerk as a shicld, has been thrown out of the New York supreme court. But plaintifl’s counsel will at once carry it to the court of appeals, the tribunal of last resort in that state, and it is likely to become another celebrated case. Laidlaw submitted to a eritical examin- ation, and it was cvident to the court and spectators that he was a physical wreck, and the damage to his person ¢ to be reckoned by money. But in spite of the evidence and the man's actual condition Judge Andrews decided that there had been a completo failure on the part of the prosecution to show that Sage, by pulling Laidlaw between himself and the bomb thrower, removed the clerk from a position of safety to one of danger. The Washington Post. The work of breaking the oc: ship record goes merrily on. those who participa merrily down, —————— Absurdity of Setting New York Tribunc Treating is essentially absurd, but if that were all it would not” much matter. But treating to drinks is 50 objectionable from v point of view thata vigorous crusade would be laudable and ought to bo Incidentally, it may be said that S0 8 al burden on persons of generous disposition and gives a spec vantage to the stingy. ————e Flavoring Their Eloquer Lowisville Times, There must have been a naleyon and vo crous time at thededication of the Kentucky building yesterday. We are told that when the orators had fired and fallen back and the band opened up with “Dixie,” “there was 1o holding the crowd—it madly tore up the blue grass sod in front of the building.” Drunk with eloquence and music, the visit- ing barbarians or the unsophisticated e: curting Kentucky editors must have mis- taken the blue grass for mint. e A Reform Needed in Nebraskn, Phil wdelphia Inquirer., They do not triflo long with incompetent or negligent department officials over in England. As soon as it was discovered that there had been a blunaer in the estimates on which Gladstone based his calculations for Irish revenues under home rule the man who made the estimates went out of oftice minus his ofticial head before he could even express regret. He could not have gono with more dispateh ifhe hud been a republican post- master under form” administration, ———— Spreads Like a Piague, Buffalo Express A lynching in Michigan! in Indial A lynching in Io ing in Minnesota! A lynching s is the record of the last few months 1t would seem that the spirit of lawldssn had crossed Mason and Dixon's line and had reached almost as strong a development north of it as south of it. Unless the law- abiding peovle make an end of this deplora- able condition, one shudders > think to what it will lead. Republican institutions may be endange Liberty may be suc ceeded by anarchy. It is high time to call a halt, People who cannot govern them- selves will eventually be governed by some stronger power than themselves ——, A PAIR GEADUATE, n steam- g Some day o iu'the sport will go 0 Up, wo lynchings Alvoeh- in Illinois! Atlanta Conastitution In a mist of white, like a flash of light, She dawns on my dazzled eyos; And iy soul bends low where her footsteps go- Timidly, violot-wl tor this Iy the malden who soon shall speak— Her red lips mincing their way through Groek What rose hath burned in her soul and turned Those 1ips to a living red B0l from tho west skios rolled, however those red lips speak, 1 shall read thelr way through a world of Greek But 50 U un, 4nd the red lips speak | Aud kiss thelr way 1o my soul in Greck! and | | dolphin SECULAR SHOTS AT TH® PULPIT, IKansas Clty Journal: 1t will not bo neces. sary for Dr. Briggs to start a newchurch, The vote on his case shows that ho has started a large portion of the old one. Cincinnati Commercial: The mention of the name of Dr. Briggs in the Presbyterian General Assembly is sufficiont to cause com missionors to look around aghast, as though somethin, about to break loose. Kansas City Star: The heresy hunt of the Presbyterian gencral assembly has cost, up to date, about 0,000, and the advocates of the Westminater confession of faith and the Brigegs contingent are a good deal farther apart now than when they started in with the intention of converting oach other. Indianapolis Nows: A church at Fostoria, O, has made up its mind to purchase four hundred little wine glasses, that each communicant may receive the wine out of a glass no other person has used. in order to avoia microbes. This seoms to he a caso where cold, practical materialism has cn- tered tho very precinets of the spiritual. Louisvillo Courer Journal: The Koy, Dr Withrow of Chicago proclaims from the pul pit that, on account of the Sunday opening of the World's fair, “the Lord wiil vont His wrath on the city, even as He did in the days of Samuel Jeromiah." Perhaps the Rev. Dr. is right; there have already been ominous intimations that the Kentucky log islature is to bo visited ina body upon the city. Pioneer Press: Woi We agree with the Phila- Inquirer that Mohammed Webl should pause in his mad career long enough to upprise the American people which, brand of Islamism he proposes to convert them to. Like the Christian religion, Islam has sundr) Jarring sects, each of which calls the other misbeliever, and denounces its rivals as worse than the Christians, History tends to show that in the last clause of this indict- ment they all tell the truth. Until Webb can assure us that ho has the only simon pure article we are excusable for deriding all his efforts. New York Evening Sun: Rev. of Albany denounced the Presbyterian church from the pulpit yestorday. Afte viowing the Briggs case he said: ©1 leave the Presbyterian denomination becau it h enon a garmont that has lain buried in the grave for more than two centuri It smelis of the earth and death. ™ an two centuries since tho worthy tor put his nose close to this thing of arth and death, when he signed the confes- on upon tho accasion of his ordination Now he is anxi0us to havé his friends come out and found what he would call the “I'rec Church of Amer What he means by his free is not evident, unless ho has the free kirk of Scotland in hiseye. All churches in this country are free. Trere is nothing to keep any clergyman in any of thew against his will, LAST OF THE TRAGLDIANS. Boston Globe: Edwin Booth was of industry. a student of the de den mysteries of the whom no misfortune suffering dismay Detroit Free Press: last of the truly gre wore employed in th prodicy and hid- drama, a man could daunt and no Mr. Booth w t men whose tfield; andin all the wide horizon there is visible no sign of the actor who is coming to take his e, New York Herald: Tn his carcor he had many successes and many failures. But all through his life he was the siave of his art and the carnest supporter of overy thing that conduces to the elevation and puvity of the stage. With him falls one of the pillars of the logitimate dram: Springfield Republic forty vears ar of s the iabors n: For more than he played, by far the most popu- actors, whether native or forcign, i lthe range of the higher drama, ana csy cially in the plays of Shakespeare; his int pretations becama the standard for certain characters; he was the ideal Hamlet, the great Richelieu, the perfect Iago. Edwin Booth needs no eulogy us No tribute of praise would add to his laurcls. Tt nough that the world may say of him as character of Hamlet, so often said of the ghostly king: - “Ile was o man, tako him for 1 shall not look upon his 1i Globe-Democrat: Booth is gone, and with him are gone Iago, Lear, Richard, Ma th, amlet and Richelies Sowe of the other i hich he appeared find worthy in- terpretation from actors who are stil with us, but doubtless many ire destined to before the cha here named are ain presented as Booth presented them. Boston Advertise: With honest pride and gratitude America will recall the geniu of this, her ereat son. But y le: she to triumph in his life and charac Pure, generous, modest, high-minded, lived' a noble, gentle life, despising over form of meanness and coarseness, disdain- ing ignoble acts either of defence or of dis play. Cleveland Leader: The story of Edwin Booth's trinumphs can never be told as to bo more than a mockery to those who have felt, the charm of his presence. All who hay seen the light of his eye and felt the thrill of his voice realize that their loss is final and complete. They know that a noble fountain of pleasure and wsthetic inspira- tion is gone forever. Chicago Times: He had that combination and that form, indeed, as, acting Hamlet, he told his mother in describing her lost hus- band, whereon each goa did seem to set his L to give the world assurance of o man. Grace was seated on his brow: Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; an eye like Mars to threaten and command; station like the herald Mercury new lighted on a heaven-kissing hill. Chicago Tribune: that his Hamlet had prominent chara choly Dane.” It has often boen said numerous personations of tinged s life with the teristics of “Tho Melan- This is hardly corrcct. It he,in the | BROWNING, KIN SR Wi A, was rather his own charnctoristics that so well qualified him for that role. Ho was by naturo exceedingly reserved, undemonst tive, sensitive and melancholy much 8o indeed that few persons over boeamo it mately acquainted with ¥ TRUTHS AMID TRIFLES, Troy Pr No matter how much of n brick y be, ho can't Ut on many bats without betng broken. Philadolphia Times: Most of golng abroad will probably make prolonged tripsin the huy=ways ¢ then roturn the gold now moto or lesy Europe and Talk about women being Philadelphin R of fishing: and 11k successfully angle rd: Enter June, tho m nth wiso of brides’ who o Boston Transeript: When Fogg has ran wpe stairs and arrives at the top out of broath, he vory properly rofers to his pnoumatic tire. Lowell Courler: Openwork hos may be popular with fashionable damsols, but a'good fire department will have nono of it Buffy They amputate ndo the doe 1o Courjer his leg What walt 8o Igin' from their bills, 1t must huve beon o pull it hefore thoy took al ter “You say he left no § 1th getting alth trying to . he lost his b 1thy, and then ho lost his w got houlthy." Now York Horald: W) that new Bowery waiter “Rocnuse when 1 ord howlod out*Chie Tgnatius Donnelly t makes you think ame from Boston?" ( Tiver and bacon he o de fole gras and can't saw that 70 to deatls hot wenthoer?™ 1boacold day Lippincott's Monthiy: “I wood, Tndy. T'niafeaid P fre “Wha 20 to death t ST know it's hot, lady, but it when saw wood. Nows: Conductor . sird aw York (shaking him vigorously) Suburbanite (pars tially rousing himsel: For heavon's suko, Lizzio, zot up und build’ it yourselt!@This 18 Sunday. Philadelphin — Record: Blohbs—Colonel Bloodyfield’s old war traits still eling to him. Slobbs - 1ow s0? Hlobbs—1 dined with him and o gave the waller no quartors hston Gilobe: a frivolous youn i with yous alore, but one with y nod 1o o the favorite. “Youw'll nve to work hard before you win that || I sald . “And i good deal Aftor you win' her,'" answered his r, who know what ho was talking about. | Vashington Star: ment of the m “Treak, broak, broak On your cold gray stones, O se Though your best yqu miy do you will nover econo At Droka ns you'll soon for = g BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. A fool earrics his name in his mouth, The W has a sweeter song than the peacock. All churches have some members who talk too much. There is no casy place anywhere on earth f lazy man, God is_rvobbed whenever one man gives auother light weight. Tovery man is al way and lives anotl ¥ There are two w of telling a goose; by its gabble and its walk, Find a man who has no find one who is not happy. Nothing will do more to improve the looks than sunshine in the heart. Scrubbing a pig with soap will not take the love of mud out of its heart. Wh a church member goes to a This light for good goes clear out. The nation has no_hetter friend than tho mother who teaches her child to pray. Thero are people who claim to bo praying for the ation of the whole world, who* never go to prayer meeting in rainy weather, The annual summer las arge family: me. ren poerite who prays ono hobby, and you ircus, 2 o A HINT PROM PARIS. Ewropean Edition New Tork Herald FOT THE STRE Dress of shot foulard with in white, visite with material. Wing sle bint, 'round the yoke; round the throat. a tiny doslg) ut sleeves, of the saul, es of vl ruch! lace; cach g ot tho iy J Lurgest Manuftacturers and Retailers ol Clothing inthe World. In Wagon Loads— That's the way the boys’ suits went out of our — second story yesterday. | There never has been quite it's cou equal in this western ntry before and probably no one will attempt it in the future. last Boys who bought, weeks suits for $7.50 and $8.50 got them for $3.50 yes- terday. There are enough suits to last a very few days longer and an early call is advisable. Boys who have become men will find with us the most light hearted suits in town. We show vast quan- tities in many new styles never before attempted by us and not even thought of by our most san- guine competitors. BROWNING, Etore open every eveningtlll 8.1k Baturday uli 1) KING & (O, | 8 W.Cor. 16th and Douglas $ts