Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1893, Page 12

THE DAILY BEE. Pt e e Editor. HED EVERY MORNTA TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. R-nynm- without Sunday) One Year.. adly and Sunday, One Year.. 8ix Months . . reo Month. o unday Bee, One ardny 1 ‘eekly Bec " OFFICE Omahn, Tho Bee Build onth Omahn, co {4 R Stroet, amber of Commerce. 14 and 15, Tribune York, Rooms 1 Bullding Washington, 518 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and editorial mattor should be addressed: To the Editor. WISINESS LETTERS, Al bustness fotters dnd remittances should wed to The Bee Publishing Co mpany, fts, checics wnd _postoffice ordo s able to the order of the com- Parties Jeaving the city for tho summer can bave the Bee sont their address by leaving an order at this office. THE BEE PUBLI HING COMPANY. — -— The Bee In Chieago. Tre DALy and SuspAy Baw is on sale in Chieago at the following plucos: 150, Grand Pacific hotel. Auditorium hotel. Groat Northern hotel. elnd hotel, 115 . Rizor, 180 State stroet. Files of Tie Ber can bo scan at the Ne- braska bullding and the Adirnistration bulld- ing, Exposition grounds. SWOIIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebrasks, Courty of Dougine, Robert Iluntor of THE BER publithing company does solemnly awear that the actual clrculation of THE DAILY REF. for the weok ending June 10, was oy follow: aturday, June 10 24,350 Bworn to_before me and subscribel In my pres: ence this 10th day of June, 156, N. P. ;z‘»‘fic Not only Adlai, but . D. Stovenson. Avr roads lead to Courtland Beach theso hot, sultry day THE train-robbing fad is becoming altogether too prevalent in these parts. The fireman on the Towa train Friday night who turned a stream of hot water upon the highwaymen certainly knew his busines: AT THE present time it is estimated that over 1,000 cars of Texas cattle are being fat‘cned on the grass ranges of western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming. These immense herds should very ma- terially swell the receipts at the South Omaha yards this fall. THE oxplosion of a fire cracker does not make a Fourth of July. If it did the ocelebration of Independence day would bo simply a matter of history. It looks now, however, that in this glorious Col- umbian year, the celebrating business is to be left entiroly to Chicago. A “PROFESSOR” who guarantees to “keep the mind from wandering and dbrush up the intellect” is a recent Den- wverarrival, according to the newspapers of that city. The magnitude of the pro- fessor's bump of casuality is manifest in the selection of a field for the exercise of ‘his peculiar talent. COMMANDER TAYLOR of the United States navy figures out that $20,000,000 will insure the completion of the Nica- raguan canal and a revenue of $16,000,000 & year from the trafic. If the comman- der’s estimate will hold water the com- pany need not wait upon the government %o furnish aid for the finishing up of this bonanza. THOUSANDS of Swedish Lutherans from all parts of the United States are just now returning from the jubilee sorvy- ‘ices of their church held at Rock Island. “The event commemorated was the adop- tion of the Augsburg confession by the council of - Upsolathen 300 ycars ago. June 9 was the anniversary of the final decision reached by the Swedish legisla- ture, which made the historic land of Thor and Woden a protestant country. THE cattle markets supplied from the South Dakota ranges may look for in- oreased shipments from that section soon. The annaal round up has just started out from Fort Pierre. Nearly a thousand cattle owners and cowboys comprise the outfit, and the round up will take inall the cattle country west of the river outside of the Black Hills range. It is said that stock of all kinds in that rogion is in especially good condition this year. THE vecently fire-scorched town of Fargo 15 not only to be rebuilt, but the municipal government is to be remod- eled. Prohibition, which has proved itself a blight, is to be discarded and high license is to be substituted. Ata monster public meeting, held last Sat- urdoy, which was attended by nearly every citizen in Fargo, resolutions were sdopted directing the mayor and coun- eil to issue permits for the sale of liquor on the payment of $1,000 annually. JupGr KNOWLES, in the United States circuit court at Helena, has de- cided the injunction case of the North- ern Pacific Railroad company against the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company. The construction of this line, which wasto run from Livingston to Missoula, was stopped a short time ago at Bozeman. The court holds that the company cannot construct its line over the right-of-way of the Northern Pacific without first condemning the ground it wants and paying for the same. By ALL accounts, the clogging up of the Fads jottics at the Mississippi delta s a serious matter, and even threatens the existence of New Orleans. The pressure of the backwater upon the levees of the river is so great that the poople are alarmed for their safety. The waters continue to rise, and the dis- patches state that thereis no present re- lief from the threatened danger; that the river, by its own pressure, must cut a chaonel for itself through the jetties iuto the gulf. It is to be hoped that the apprehonsions of the possible appalling ecalamity are foundless, yet there is soough in the situation to excite the ‘Nlml solicitude. SUNDAY OPENING QUESTION SETTLED. Tho question of opening the Colum bian oxposition on Sunday has been set- tled and the advoeates of an open fair on the first day of the week have tri- umphed. - The federal circuit court of appenls yestorday roversed the decision of the cireuit court, under which tho exposition management was enjoined from opening on Sunday, Chief Justico Fuller delivering the opinion, which was concurred in by Judges Bunn and Allen. Of course an appeal can ho taken to the United States supreme court, but a3 that tribunal does not meet again until October, the last month of the fair, that course would be useless, so that the de- cision rendered yesterday may be re- garded as final, There will be a general feeling of relief that the matter has been disposed of, and a very large majority- of the people of the country will be grat- ified that it has been settled in tho right way—that is, in the interest of the great number of people to whom the privilege of attending the fair on the first day of the week will be peculiarly beneficial and also in the interest of the financial success of the entorprise. It has been urged that there will be no pecuniarv advantage in a Sunday opening, but this idea s discredited by the experierfce of the Paris exposi- tion and is manifestly unsound. Tt is true that some people may refuse to attond the fair at all because it is opened on Sunday and others may visit 1t less frequently than they had pro- posed doing, but the number of such will be small in comparison with those who avail themselves of the Sunday opportu- nity to visit the exposition, many of whom might otherwise not be able to go at all. The Sunday attendance at the Paris ex« position was considerably more than double the average of other days and it is not to ba doubted that there will be a similar experience at Chicago. But at any rate it is wise and proper that the tens of thousands of working people in and around Chicago who cannot well afford o lose time in order to visit the fair be given an opportunity to do so without such loss. The fair is intended as much for the instruction and entertain ment of tho plain people as for those who are able to spend whatover time and money they please there, and indeed its real worth will bo properly measurcd by the offect it has in enlightening the com- mon people and in strengthening their putristism. The more fully this ¢ of tho peoplo can bo brought t5 study the achiovements of their own country and of other nations the botter citizens they ave likely to bocomo. At the same time the Sunday opening will exert, as has already been demonstrated, a groat moral influence in attracting peo- ple away from the haunts of vice, debauchery and immorality. Men will pass the day there with their wives and children who would otherwise spend their time where their morals would not bo improved and whore they would squander money to their physical detri- ment, People whose conscience will not allow them to go to the fair on Sunday will not be interferred with by those who differ with thom. Thoy may pass the day in whatever way shall serve est to them, but they have no right to demand that others who are not of their o_inion shall b constrained to conform t) their noti ns. The Sunday question baing sottled the only remaining obstaclo t) thoe financial success of the exposition is the esst of getting there, which if not veduced will compel hundreds of thousands of poople to stay away from Chica; An effort to have railroad rates reduced is still being made, but the promise of succoss does not appear t bs very bright. It is possible, however, that ultimately a re- duction will be brought about. Per- haps another thing in the way of finan- cial success is the extravagance of the management. According to some of the Chicago papers tho expenses of the fair are much greater than they ought to ha. The statement is that there are more employes than are needed, hun- dreds of people being on the pay rolls who have practically nothing to do. One paper says that hardly an official fails to improve opportunity to exalt his situation and give himsolf consequenco by employing a numerous and ornamental staff of sten- ographers, typewritors, messengers, guards, and all the cumberson pensive human machinery which con- tributes to delay in the execution of busi- ness. The expenses during May were almost $30,000 a day, and probably they are not much if any less now. This is not a wholly bad fault, because the money thus expended is returned to cir- culation for the general benefit, but of course every really unnecessary expendi- ture should be stopped. The fair and the country owe much to the sound com- mon sense of Chief Justice Fuller, who undoubtedly has as much respect for Sunday as any of the people who have advocated closing the exposition on that day. INSECURE PUBLIC BUILDINGS. President Cleveland is to be com- mended for promptly taking steps, after being informed of the insecure condi- tion of some of the public buildings in ‘Washington, looking to a thorough in- spection of these buildings, with a view to doing whatevor can be done by the president to prevent further disaster. The matter was discussed by the cabinet soveral days ago and the secrotary of the treasury and the secretary of war were instructed to make inquiry into the con- dition of the buildings occupied by their respective departmonts, A board of officors was appointed by Sacretary La- mont which will make a thorough inspec- tion of all the susvested buildings oceu- pied by the War department and a like service will be performed by the super- vising architect of the treasury as to all buildings in charge of the Treasury de- partment. As to one of these structures it has boen declared by an inspecting official that if the weight now carried is continued the building is likely to fall down within a year. With this knowl- edge the government will be to blame if there should be a disaster. It is said that congress will probably at the coming session devise a system caleulated to give grester security to all the publicbuildings. The absence of any means of storage makes it necessary to pack tons of material in all the public buildings, and every year adds to the weight of this matter and inereases the lability to serious disaster. The obvious remedy would be found in the ercction of a hall of records or large storchouse, in which the constantly accumulating papers and records of overy discription may be stored, thus relieving the now overcrowded public buildings. A bill for the erection of such a structure was passed by the senate several years ago, but the house failed to act upon it. The recent de- plorable disaster will, it is thought, in- duce early action by the coming cone gress for the prevention of a like calamity hereafter. Tt is a reproach to the country that we have gone along from year to year knowing that the lives of hundreds of the employes of the gov- ernment wore in constant peril, and done nothing to properly protect them. We shall deserve the reprobation of man- kind if after tho deplorable disaster of week before last congress still noglects to do its duty in this matter in obedience to an unpardonable spirit of parsimony. The whole country is interested in this matter, not only on the general score of humanity, but for the reason that the people whose lives are imperiled have relations and friends in every state in the union. The lnkcrcst shown in the matter by the president and heads of departments warrants the expectation that congress will be induced to take the needed action at the coming session. e ) A RACE TO THE POLE. The scientific world, as well as the general public, is evineing an unusual interest in the fact that within a few weeks four separate expeditions will be on their way to the Arctic regions. One of these vxpeditions has already sailed under the auspices of Dr. Fridtzof Nan- sen, the intrepid Norwegian scientist who has already startled the world by his Arctic wanderings. An- ‘other expedition is nearly ready and will be conducted into the region of perpetual winter by Frederick D. Jackson, an Englishman Licutenant Peary and nine companions, all hardened to the rigors of an Arctic climate, will start from Philadelphia in a fow days, while Licutenant Melville and another party will go later in the season. All four expeditions will pur- sue different routes. All of them are the result of private and scientific en- terprise, and the public will naturally look for no little spirited rvivalry be- tween the four leaders. It is a veritable race for the north pole between four men who are willing to risk life and fortunes in an endeavor to discover the frozen secret of the north which for nearly a century has baffled the search of the scientific world. It is interesting to note that each o! the four explorers will work according to entirely new theories of Arctic re- search. Dr. Nansen has made an espe- cial study of the currents of the polar seas and has Qisoovered that north of Siberia the immense ice floe has an un- deviating, unceasing drift in the direc- tion of the pole at the rate of from one to two miles a day. Having con- structed a ship especially designed to withstand the pressure of the ico pack he has sailed directly into the ice floe north of Siberia with the deliberate pur- pose of becoming a prisoner for three or four years, depending upon the polar currents to carry him to the open sea which he believes surrounds the pole. Lieutenant Peary will push toward the pole over the ice fields of Greenland, traveling with dogs and sledges. Hav- ing alveady made three extensive ox- plorations of Greenland, he belicves from all that he has learned that the land and ice will be unbroken as far northward as the pole. He will endeavor to carry his party to within 300 miles of the pole and then with three or four of his most detarmined companions make a forced march to the goal. Lieutenant Mellville argues that the most feasible route is by way of Franz Josef land, whose northern limit has never yet been reached by man. After reaching Franz Josef land he proposes to advance with dogs and sledges in a similar manner as that adopted by Peary. Jackson, the English explorer, will slso make Franz Josef land the ini- tial point for his expedition. He pro- poses to form a basis of supplies in that land and then devote a year to the estab- lishment of a line of supply depots to the northward. Inthe summer of 1894 he will start on his final journey for the pole, traveling overland and carrying boats with which to cross the open water wherever it may be found. Acrctic exploration has possessed a pe- culiar, and, in almost every instance, a fatal fascination for the people of the United States and northern Europe for a century. The record of ill-fated expe- ditions which have started under such favorable auspices, but which have ended so disastrously, is a long one, but Science, with a perverse enthusiasm which sacrifices life without compune- tion, is inexorable, and her votaries will doubtless continue to sacrifice them- selves as long asshe holds out the pros- pect of a reward. The practical bene- fits of Arctic exploration comparatively amount to but little. Some day, per- haps, the north pole may be reached, and a brief page in history will be the only veward of the intrepid adventurer who is fortunate enough to proclaim the fact to the world. There is a general desire to find some practical and just plan for insuring as far as possible, the maintenance of indus- trial pe There are numerous theo- ries as to how this may be accomplished, but an entirely satisfactory solution of the problem has not yet been found. The subject has been considered from time to time by the legislature of most of the states, some of which have adopted plans intended to secure in an equitable way the conflicts between employers and employed. A little good has resulted, but nowhere has the remedy been found sufficient to insure indus- trial peace. Perhaps sowething may be learned from a European experiment that will help toward the solution of this very important problem, in which there is involved so much re- lating to the material and social well being of the people. Belgium is essentially a commercial and industrial country. Its vast mining industries employ large bodies of wmen, and the question of grood relations be- tween the um]!lfl_\‘vw’:nd employed has for many years bodh a difficult and troublesome one, o little kingdom has been the scone :‘)mnn}'-vrlnu- labor disturbances and nowhoere has the ques. tion of finding & remedy for industrial conflicts been more fully and carefully discussed than there. Itis not yet solved, Bt out of it there has bean evolved one practical experiment, which is in the nature of a mutual organization of work- mon and employers, with & view to har- mony and commda benefit. This plan has been substantially succossful for a period of four years in mines employing some 6,000 persons, involving an indus- trial population of from 20,000 to 25,000, The essential purpose of this plan or system, which is entirely independent of the state, is to secure the most complete possible understanding by the employers and employed of the real interests,views and sentiments of each by the other. It aims, therefore, not so much at the sot- tlement of disputes as at the prevention of them, The basis of the system is what is known as the boards of explanation. One of these is organized in each branch of the business, and each embraces a group of workmen having substantially the same occupations, working under the same conditions, and likely to have the same obligations, compensations and causes of complaint or satisfaction, This board is made up of equal numbers of freely chosen delegates of the work- ingmen and of representatives of the employers chosen from their salaried and relatively permanent staff, such as engineers, superintendents, foremen, inspectors, ete. The board is intended solely for discussion. It makes no de- cisions and takes no votes, but each set of representatives brings up any matter connected “with the working of the business and it is freely explained and talked over. The purpose is to se- cure, so far as possible, a clear compre- hension of facts on both sides, with a view to any action that may afterward bo required. Next is the board of con- ciliation and arbitration, which em- braces the affairs of cach mine in all its branches. It also consists of an equal number of representatives of the men and the employers, the latter of the higher and more responsible grades. This board has cognizance of certain matters defined in advance and which came up in their regular order, butin addition it may also take note of any- thing brought forward by a representa- tive of either side. There is no rigid rule of procedure, - the cus- tom being to proceed slowly and thoroughly, explanatipn and discussion preceding any definite proposition, the essential purpose still-being to get at a general and common understanding of the facts. Then thé'proposition is made and after such deliberation as may be agreed upon a vote is taken. The decision thus reachedsis ordinarily, but not necessarily, final, each side reserving its liberty of action. So far there has been no decision thal has not been ac- cepted by all parties, While this system does not offer a complete panacea, the' fact that it has worked extremely well for soveral years certainly recommends it to attention and there is no reason why it may not be applied in this country as well as in Belgium wheroever large forces of work- men are employed AMERICAN NAVY BUILDING. The maivellous success that has re- warded the efforts of American naval designers and ship builders is creating universal admiration. The reconstruc- tion of our new navy has been one grand succession of wondrous achievements, each successive one surpassing the pre- ceding. Not only in the building of war ships, but in the construction of ocean steamers have the naval artisans of this country demonstrated their ability to outstrip Kuropean competitors. Here- after even the British navy is to he protected with armor constructed by an American process. Every war ship recently built has de- veloped new features which have re- flected credit on designers and con- structors. Those most recently launchea have attracted the greatest distinction. The other day the cruiser New York, fresh from Cramp’s yard, established claim to be the fastest ship in the United States navy. She made 20.07 knots in a continuous run of 100 miles, thus excelling the speed of tho San Francisco, which had been oredited with 20.17 knots, which in turn had sur- passed the Baltimore and Philadelphia with a record of 19.50 knots. And now the gunboat Machias glides off her stocks at the Bath yard and beats her guaranteed speed by nearly two and one- half knots, a performance all the more surprising in a vessel of her small dis- placement. It is thought the Castine at the same yard, now nearly ready for her trial trip, will prove an equal success. The Cramps have the honor of having launched the four largest warships ever floated in American waters, the Colum- bia, New York, Indians and Massachu- getts. The two latter, not yet complete, ave by far larger than the Columbia and New York. They will be by all odds the most formidable of the vessels of the navy, with a single exeeption, the Ore- gon, now building at the Unlon Iron works at San Francisco. When this ship of 10,200 tons is aflgat she will rank with the greatest senf out by the Phila- delphians, This vessel, indeed, be one of the finest' ‘modern battle. ships in the world.'Hor length i feot, breadth 67.3 foes, depth keel plate to superstrugture 42 feet. was contracted for under the naval con- struction act of June 23, 1890, and is to cost, exclusive of armament, $4,000,000, The Monterey, the fivst of the heavily armored battleships of the navy just con- structed at the Union Iron works, suc- cessfully stood her trial test. A new Pacific mail steamship, the Potrero, will also svon be launched from this yard. The Cramps will shortly add to their fleot three more warships of the largest size, the Towa, Brookiyn and Minneapo- lis. Also five steamers for the Amer- ican line, of 10,000 to 13,000 tons displace- ment each. This will make twelve vessels from this one yard, each larger than any launched up to this time in Amer ican waters. The largest ship thus far launched ouwide of Cramp's yard is the Maine, of 6,048 tons burden. This is from 1893—~TWENTY PAGES. smaller than the Columbia, of 7,350 tons, the smallest of Cramp's product. Another ship of smallor proportions fis the Texas, 6,300 tons, at the Norfolk yard, As illustrating the suporior swiftness of these new crulsers to those of other nations an authority states that tho Now York can steam at her trial rate for about forty-eight hours. This would enable her to overtake and sail around the swiftest cruisers in the British, French, Gorman, Italian, Spanish and Russian navies, C. W. MOosHER has pleaded guilty and awaits sentence to the pen. His attor ney and the attorneys in Lincoln inter- ested in clearing up the debris of the Capital National bank, want ALnshvr ntenced to the state penitentiary. They contend that in order to unravel the tangle, Mosher must be consulted often. This is probably true, but there has been ample time since tho failure of the bank for consultation and yet noth- ing has been done. It is natural to assume that Mosher will object to going to the Lancoln pen, of which he is still recognized as tho lessee. It would seri- ously interfere with convict labor dis- cipline for Contractor Mosher to let Convict Mosher have the freedom of the penitentiary and board at the warden’s table. ¥ THERE are a number of prosperous Chautauqua societies in Nebraska, chief among which are those of Beatrice, Crete, Fremont and Long Pine. The programs so far announced give promise of a brilliant season. It may be that the World’s tair will this year lessen the average attendance at the Chau- taugua grounds, but thousands will take a week's outing in the pleasant resorts who cannot go tothe fair. THE BER has in the past encouraged the Chau- tauqua idea because in all respects its objects are commendable. Its patrons cannot fail of benefits in a moral and in- tellectual sense, and any enterprise that secks tho betterment of the people of this state will find a champion in this paper. THE most interesting rumor of the week comes from Russia. It isto tho effect that the czar is about to abolish deportation to Siberia as a punishment for political offens Such a determin- ation would strike a blow at the very root of the nihilistic propaganda. THE Shriners have once more located their next annual at Denver in prefer- ence to all competing points. Denver runs wide open and the thirsty camel drivers naturally prefer to give the dry towns tho go-by. Nebraska's Drawiug Powers. Philadelphia Record. A Nebraskan has started a_mustard plan- tation. With so many Nobraskans in cramped circumstances, lie ought to strike a large home market. pie I Does Investigntion Investignte? San Franeisco Examiner, Tho Interstate commission is engaged investizating railway methods, wresting tho information from railway men. Tho infor- mation obtained may bo valuabie, but, com- pared with that not_obtained, in bulk and quality must be pitifully insignificant. S e Ly Togging Up tor Strife, New York Commercial. The populist women of Kansas are buck- ling on_their armor and other things in proparation for the fall campaign. This will work great good. Kansas husbands will re- main at home and the attention necessary to bestow on the babies will turn their dis- tracted thoughts from tho rapidly ripening farm mortgage. / - Tiokled n Royal Throat. Detroit Free Press. A The infanta has oxperimented upon our Amorican corn bread and regards it as *Just too sweet for anything. Now if she will graciously take a little time upon her return home to disseminate this esthetic taste and make Johnny-cake a fashionablo dish on tho other side it will be worth millions to this struggling young country and be an inesti- mable blessing to the less favored people across the water. in ——— Thne to Call a Halt, New York Tribune. There is no doubt that Holmanism—tho word bids fair to be a permanent addition to our vocabulary—is responsible for the policy which has compelled the using for storago and other purnoses of buildings in Washing- ton totally unfit for such use. This policy has produced a result that arrests the attention of the entire country. The watch-dog policy is well enough in its way, but it is high time to call a decided halt. ———— Educstion Progress, New York Tribune, This is the season when a great deal of perfunctory advice is given to college gradu- ates; and probably they stand less in need of it'than any other class in the community. Every old boy who revisits academic scones is impressed with tho fact that thero is marked improvement in the graduatos, phy- sically and intellectually. over collego men of his own time. The colleges are not stand- ing still. Educational processes are finer and more thorough every year. There is no such thing as academic degeneracy. Milwaukee 3 In several American cities anti-treating leagues have been formed within the past few months. In 8o far as these leagues curb a man’s propensity to be generous. they aro ovil; but in so far as they curb his propen- sity'to take more drinks than he war they are good. Under a regimo of treating every man in & crowd often pays for drinks for the whole crowd. The number of drinks is regulated, therefore, not by a man's do- sires, but by the number of his companions. Under the regime of anti-treating every man pays for his own drinks, and feels no obligation to drink more than he wants. — Luxury and Modest Incomes, Dallas News. A man with a_moderate but certain in- come in this year of our Lord can have lux- ries, conveniences and advantages that were noy within react of the greatest poten- tates on earth in former days. By using a ho ean get as many convenionces from a railvoad. for Instance, as if he owned the entire road, and for a few dimes us many from the straec railways as if he owned all the roads in the city, and then leave them for others to look after. Kor a few more dol- lars he can visit the theater as often as he likes, rido upon ocean steamers, live in hotels that cost tens of thousands of dollars, walk or ride in paved strects and, as the hotels say. ““have all the luxuries the market affords.” There is no reason why men of moderate but certain means should not enjoy themselves as much 85 millionaires do. — SUMMER'S DAWN, Washington Star, . The poets are gotting ntune; Tho world wiil be fretting Quite soon Tho swillows are swooplng Our collars are drooping, ts aro LFoOPINE—~ June. The young man upbralding The n b6 1100 Will be serenading Quite soon With ginats having plu{llmn. Atnpight—what & gay thoe— And fites tn the daytime, “Lis June, SECULAR SIHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Philadalphin Times: But then suppose the fair gates are open Sundays this sum- mer? Tsn't this offsct by mauy of the fash fonable churches being elosod ! Now York Commorcial: Dr. Briggs’ lotter in the K ng st does not read like the ut. terances of a man who is whipped and has cognizance of the fact, The lotter is prac. tically at invitation to Macduff to lay on, with the usual undesirable consequen: attend the man who first cries for a tion of hostilities. Cincinnati Commercial Talmage is a thoroughly preacher. He “raised" Brooklyn tabernacle ample cnough to enablo him to purchase a thoroughbred dog. v. Mr. Talmage is the sort of a financior that the administration is looking for these days san Francisco Examiner: The Merced preacher who eloped with o girl whose mis- fortune it was to bo of his own flock can have a donation party it he will only return to the shepherdless fold. The tar pot will bo boiling merrily and not & housewife but would sacrifice the pillows in the sparo room to mako the oveasion all it should be, Springficld Republican: Rev. Dr. Hoob, the mugwumping Presbyterian of Albany, turned over his barrel tofind a sermon four- teen years old for last Sunday’s service. He preached it to show that fourteen years ago he thought just as he does now, and to re- fute tho charge that his action in leaving the church was “hasty.” Somo folks might think that Dr. Kcob was not too “hasty,’ but fourteen yoars late. Philadelphia Rocord: What is known as “‘Briggsism” in Prosbyterian church eircles is still rawpant in the presbytery of New York, a majority of which body " listened with approval the other day to a Sot of reso- lutions the adoption of which would have involved n donial of the validity of the recent judgment of the general assembly in Dr. Briggs' case. The consideration of the resolutions was finally postponed until next fall; but the sympathizers with Dr. Briggs were clearly in the majority, and could have forced tho adoption of the resolutions haa they been 8o disposed. Tho warfare of crit- ical exegesis against ecclesinstical tradition is evidently 1o bo waged amoug the Presby- terian brethren as sharply as though no sweeping denunclation of *“Briggsism” had over emanated from the general assembly. Rev. T fin ae the debt of the and had a surplus DeWitt sioclo s PEOPLE AND THINGS. Congressman Bryan 1s_dispensing domo- pop medicine for current ills in Georgia. Three prominent eastorn roads propose running cheap excursion trains to the fair. A Sabbatarian is dofined as one who takes out a license to mind other people's business. “The ax that Adlal swung,” judging by the lamentations, is a striking and impres- 81ve weapon. After tho 1st of July a constitutional jag may be had in €oath Carolina between the hours of 7 a. m. and 6 p. m. Tho suppression of an “Unclo Tom's hin® troupo in Russia ought to strengthen 16 cordiality of our relations with the house of the Romanofts. Chicago gleefully points to the opinions of foreign dxperts on the purity of its water supply. A few more afidavits will probably induce the natives to give the fluid a trial. No need of further investigation. An lowa hea the faiv grounds in vain for a band liquor. And what an Towa man ca rret out in that lme is boyond the range of common mortals. To show his contempt for trusts, a Kansas man was buried, at his own request, plain pinebox, linod with straw, and conveyed to the cemetery in a dray; carvy ing conviction to the grave, as it wore, A St. Paul woman wrestled with typhoid feverana the faith curo for a few brief rounds, Typhoid triumphed. While tho faith cure continues in busincss there is no accaston for the fool killor to cut short his vacation. If the report is true that Montana's silver statuo is bow-logged it serves to show that as the twig loans so will the tree. Much of the precious metal in the statue was mined in Silver Bow, acounty somewhat resplendent with geographical and other crooks. For variety and volubility Nebraska pro- ducts hold first place. A 100-acre patch of stard now waving signals of joy to old . is drawing large gobs of merriment from the paragraphers If their cacl ntions should culminate in a tired or painful feol- ing, Nobraska will cheerfully supply the poultice. : or William will command in person teenth army corps at the autumn mancuve; A mnovelty in the maneuvers will be the apvearance bohind the cavalry of o corps of sharp shooters, armed with the new small caliber rifles; provided with smokeless powder and riding in steel-clad, bullet-proof vehicles. A writer of war reminiscences In the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche suys that Tom Ochiltree, whom he characterises as “tho ican blatherskite,” gained his i roputation very cheaply. ‘“His capital,” says the writer roferred to, “was d « cock eye. Ho was a hanger-on at Kirby Smith's headquarters and smellod the battle from afar.” General Longstreet lives in what is de- scribed as a “white pine baudbox of a house" near the ruins of his fine old man- sion in central Georgia, which was destroyed by fire a few years ago. The house he now oceupies faces the Blue mountains and com- mands a view of unsurpasse auty. The confederate veteran is now old and a man of patriarchal aspect. Colonel David M. Stone, in retiring from the editorship of the New York Journal of Commerco, makes this interesting state- ment have been in the harness since 1840, and have given forty-four yoars of my life to the service without a single vaons | ars [ have had no written with articlo sot in brovier type which has appeared in any edition of the paper, making over 300 leading editorials in each of the twelve months, besides at tending to much other work in the conduot of, the business. 1 have passod my 7th birthe day, and it is time for me to lay down my pen’ and sock a needed rest.” - 3 ASSESSMENTS, i A Study In Finunce, ) vorsity follow in w0, Colimbin y, New Yorl 3. Prico (In paper) 4 In this work uf 150 pages and of about th sizo and general appearance of a monthly ¢ magazine, we are given a clear though con- cise history of the origin and development s of the system of taxation kuown as special assessments, which is today in operation in forty of the forty-four states in the union, besides two territor Kvory pago bears ovidenco of doop and the work as a whole fully supports the claim 1dly presentod at its closo, that it is “the on this subjoct, however super- ¢ ficial it may be found _to bo, Y that can ever make a protense of compre- hensive treatment.” The books pertaining to the subject heretofore have each been confinod to some particular branch of it, or have only touched it fucidentally and briofly | in o diseussion of thxation la gonersl, while in tho monograph bofore us wo aro a! forded a view of it from root to branch, in- cluding the methods of this form of publio charges and tho extent of their application, their legal aspect beforo the cous and their « position in the science of finauce. The value of the work to the student is still further | enhanced by the copious references to nu- thorities to bo found at the bottom of al- most overy page, consisting mostly of logal docisions and " logislative. ennctments, bo- sides a list of books from which materials {3 were drawn, and an alphabetical table of the cases cited, both of which are printed in « the latter part of the book. The work con- stitutes the third and concluding number Volume I1. of Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, edited by the university 2 {:\vully of political science of Columbia col- oge. s This work will be a most valuable adjuncy to tho library of every municipal attorney .| and of every lawyer who practices in the equity courts. 5 Houn. W. Connoll, city attorney of Omaha, who ranks among the ablest law- yers in the country in li involving municipal taxing powers, has made a oriti- | 1 examination of this work and volunteers the following opinion concerning 1ts merits: “Having a number of cases in the supreme court relating to specinl assess- ments for public improvoments in the city ot Omaha, I have had asion in the prepara- tion of br for the city to carfully examine the recent publication of Victor Rosewater entitled “Special ssments.” 1 have foun« this publica able adai- tion to the special works on this subject. The reviow by Mr. Rosewater of the origin of spe 3 nents and his traciag of history of sucl ossments down to the present time, is most comploto and instru and for this reuson alone rendors his | tise a most valuable acquisition to the || ary of any practicing lawyer. The work is also exccodingly practical in its charac- tor, which makes it of special value to any lawyer having occasion to either attack oy sustain the proceedings of muni bodioe n making or enforcing special assessmenty for public improvements.” O SABBATH SMIL .. Toxas Siftings leav stone. The average farmer's bo: no stono unturned, except the grind= Ohleago Herald: “That fs what I call & great snup,” mused tho fox, oying the stoel ap critically and passing on, Washington Star: It Is ofton saddening to note how hard it Is for some young mon to keep thelr seats on horsoback and how casy 18 i in a crowded stroot cur. Life: Pattent—Do you glve gns? Dentlst. No: you huve to pay forit. This lsn'ta bas Dbor' shop. Journ; “Soc sald Mudgo to n friend of his, “Why, that fellow wouldn’t be in . deaf and dumb asylum twenty minutes without getting on speaking terms with all the inmat Indlanapolls 1ablo," Puck: Oallor—Hojubors, yoz got full protty oarly in the day, Finnegan—Yis; wanted a bottid {0 git some modicine In, an® imp whisly bottle, 1 much better I don't want i’ modicine Tho visit of a cyclono 1s Bufalo Courler: wre blow Lo any community. usualy u so Boston Courler: When a man discovers him- solf to o the fataer of triplets he can hardly believe his own consus. thune: Acquaintanco—How did Lu World's fair job? Have you got n “pull hoological Student—My friend, 1t T had you call a pull think you I would be pushing ons of theso chairs at 36 u week? Go to! Chicago you mani “Now, ho's what T call sald Urlmsonbenk when he discoversd young Sprinter with his arms about hls duughter COMPLAINING KARLY. 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