Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 18, 1893, Page 13

S \ POLITICAL PARTIES Ex-fenator Ingalls Delivers an }Ipig'lm~1 matio Definition of Them as Institutions. NDISPENSABLE TO NATIONAL LIFE Only Mecans to the Preservation and Con- tinnation of Free Government. DEMOCRATIC OR NEGATIVE POLITICS fome Peculiar Mothods Adopted in the In- terests of Oonservatism, REPUBLICANISM IS SYMBOLIC OF GROWTH Progress of the Natlon Under the Raule of the Advance Idea—Opinions that Have Combined Agninst Tt—Mis- takes of Late Times. Political parties, like poets, are born and mot made. They are neither partnerships nor incorporated societies, nor joint stock companies, nor artificial beings created by law. They grow by an inte:ior vitality and are not planned nor constructed. They have no architects nor builders, and when their forces are spent and functions performed they disappear. A party is a social solid- prity, a natural group in the state, composed ©f men of common memories, kindred con- wictions, similar sympathles, interests and aspirations upon questions affecting the clvil and political rights of its members and the continuance of the national life. Its ‘existenco does not depend upon success or fofeat, but upon necessity. It cannot be im- ‘provised nor can it be extirpated by hostile imajoritics. When it expires it is from its in- Berent limitations. Parties are indispensiibio to peoples that are free, and it is only by their activity and collision that the latent forces of the state bre evoked and its highest glory attained. Khe citizen who affects to be better than any party is a public enemy, and the statesman pvho asscrts that he is greater than any Party is either a charlatan or a novice. As parties cannot be made to order,neither can issues be formulated on the spur of the woment. #latforms are the creeds of par- ‘tles, their articlesof faith, the expressions of their consciousness and of the phenomena of their inner life. There are no impromptu platforms. Koynotes utter themselves and war cries have no grammar, Names and de- scriptions are immaterial. The democratic and republican partics have changed their mames, as dominos are changed at a masquerade, but their substance and princi- ples are immutable. Radicallsm and Conservatism. The political orbit of the United States has been determined from the beginning by the confiict between two theories which may be likened in'a general way to the centrip- etal and centrifugal forces of tho solar sys- tem, the tendenoy toward and away from centralization of power, as the planets are Arawn to and repelled from the sun and thus retained in their eternal circuit. . The Ger- mans use the word “particularism” to sig- nify devotion to the interests of a province or a kingdom rather than to the empire, and 4n our politics the contest has been petween particularism and nationalism, between lib- eralism and strict construction of the consti- gution. On the one side are conservatives, on the other radicals. The motto of one party 1s “En avant,” Go ahead; of the other, #Laissez faire,” Let alone. One is: tho eugine, tho other is the brake. Here is nertia. That is democrac There is progress. That is republicanism. Both are indispensable to national perma- pence aud dovelopment. The pendulum has alternately swung from one to the other, but the hands have recorded con- ptant advance 'round the dial of the cen- tury. Great as have occasionally been ‘the majorities in the electoral college, the pular vote for many administrations has g:en divided with practical equality between these two theories of government. There bave been casual and temporary associa- $lons, quasi-political, calling themselves _ parties, based upon moral, educational, ec- , olesiustical and social questions, but history doos not concern itself with them. They aro eddies In the current, co llecting debris, rub- ! bish and offal, which drifts in an aimless circle for awhile, and then sinks and is swept away. . f A Republican View of Democracy. Macaulay describes a class of Englishmen wrho preforred to perish by precedent rather than to be saved by innovation. In the +United States these would be democrats, and iu casting the political horoscope the'con- stinued existence of the democratic party, its uccessrs and assigns, must bo taken for ranted as inevitable. It is imperishable, 1Bocause it rests upon the basis of negation. 4t is opposed to any change in the status uo. Were there no democratic party in g it would be instantaneously evolved apon the presentation of any program pro- ing afirmative action by the government any direction upon any subject, At every step of our historic advance yward nationality the democratic party has n steadfust and immovable in opposition, {411 that has been done has been in violation lof the constitution. Since it has been ac- .complished, they acquiesce, but insist that thing more shall be done. Thoy opposed he coercion of tho soceding states, the |@raft, national banks, the issue of bonds, \the logal-tender act, the abolition of |8he prosecution of the war, negro suffrage, resumption of specie payments, the home- stead laws, railroad land grants, and a pro- Iteotive tariff as unconstitutional, but there 118 no more danger of discrimination against {{mportant American industries by Cleve- Jand’s administration than there is of repu- diation of the national debt or the abroga- #ion of the constitutional amendments. Democrats have politically neither con- science, courage nor convictions. They are nsistent in- nothing but inconsistency. oy havo made no professions they have pot abandoned, advocated no policy from which they have not retreated. They have alternately denounced and supported every measure advanced by their adversaries and metimes simultaneously, as when thoy ave demanded for the sugar of Louisiana the protection they have denied to the iron of Pennsylvania. Pretending to be in favor of the free eoinage of silver, they supported & adential candidate whom they Enew to be unalterably opposed to it nd who would vrowptly veto a bill should it pass. His proposition for an in- me tax, which sent them into epileptic uvulsions during the war asan odious, inquisitorial invasion of human liberty, tke accopt withouta murmur of protest, an under the pitiless scoungings of his contempt for their greed ol office they whimperingly eringe with snarling servility. Had Havrison issued an order for the ex- ulsion of place hunters from the white ouse and their banishment from Washing- Yn the welkin woula have cracked with juch *sweet thunder” as has not been heard ce Hippolyte bayed the bear witk ercules and Cadmus in a wood of Crete. Democracy in Power, But Cleveland knows his accomplices. He troats the party as an Esquimau sledge driver treats his team of dows. Ouce in har- mess, ho gives them the thong, and at the end of the tzurnsy he tosses the hungry a chunk of frozen fish or decayed seal eat in the -hm:hs nomination of a repul u democratic secre- tary of state, or a ration of spoiled pemmi- wade of the ludetinite retention of re- vory, publioan postmasters, and lsts them steep | appointed da in the snow. For tho first time since the pusillantmous Buchanan escorted Lincoln do- and vascillating to the executive mansion, in 1801, the ‘acy 18 restored fully to the poss fonal The pendulum has swung back fre alism to particularism again. Th uneasy apprehension that national and cen- tralized authority had expanded beyond safe limits; that the progressive policy had pro- ceoded too far, and that the people should learn to rely more upon individual enterprise and less upon the government. 1t scemed to many, and to some who were not democrats, that the train was going too fast. So they applied the brake. Kor four years we are to have strict construction and conservatism. For progress, inertia is to be substituted, We are to take account of stock, cut down expenses, pare off excrescences here and there, prune the pension list, balance the lodger and have the government conducted undor & soleman sense o responsibility for the discharge of patriotic duty, as Mr. Cleve- land so often and so solemnly saysin such & solemn manner, with so much solemnity. A Beautiful Repubiican Record. The republican party is the legitimate in- heritor of the ideas of Washington and Ham- ilton, as the democracy is of the theories of Jefterson and Madison. It has exerted & more powerful influence upon our institutions during its supremacy than any other politi- cal organization in the Umted States. The three constitutional amendments. with their inseparable incidents, are the summary of its achievements. “ihe soverignty of ~the nation, a national legal tender paper cur- rency, the resumption of specie payments, the development of the empire of the west by its land and railroad policy, the suppres- sion of polygamy, the construction of a navy, a vast systemvof internal improvements, the nurture and maintenance of American com- merce, agriculture, miming and manufac tures by a protective tariff, are its contribu- tions to our political and economic history. Republicanism culminated with the ciose of General Grant's first term, and has since groped, floundered and declined. Tts central idea, whose force had unified so many discordant elements, having been irre- vocably fixed in the organic law of the na- tion, disintregation began. The liberals, under the lead of Sumner and Greeley, sloughed off. A series of scandalous epi- sodes, arrising largely from Grant's want of civil experience and His generous adhesion to unworthy favorites, ro apprehen- sion and distrust. The jealousies of rival leaders, internecine feuds and quarrels intestine, divided the party into hostile camps, and the discontent of the people was made manifest by the ‘‘tidal wave" of 1874-5, & catastrophe whose proportions seemed so disastrous and irre- trisvablo that immediate dissolution was confidently predicted. But Hayes limped in, and after the Garfield tragedy came another hiatus. Four years of Cleveland satisfied the country with particularism. Harrison was chosen, Then followed the debacle of 1802, which survrised the victors fully as much as the vanquished. And now, as in 1874, the prophets predict that the republi- can party is to disappear; that the lines are broken down and a new organization is to be built upon the ruins of the old. Nota Popular Party, The republican party has nover been what is commonly called popular. Its purposes have been too serious and its aims too high. For this reason it could never attract the detached and indifferent elements. The sen- timent of dependence upon the people and of consideration for the feelings, prejudices and weaknesses of the people have been wanting. Its leaders have occupied the po- sition of pedagogues towards refractory pupils needing reproof and instruction. Be- cause it abolished slavery they have felt it their duty to abolish everything else that 18 pernicious—ignorance, drunkenness, bad food, gambling, speculation—and to regulate trapsportation, commerce and business by national authority. Great communities have been alienated because they would not hold it to be the unpardonable sin to drink a glass of beer. Errors in political economy have ‘been classed with offenses against public morality. Tho demands for a larger volume of moncy and freer trade re- lations with the rest of mankind have been stigmatized as the inarticulate shrioks of maniace or the devices of counterfeiters and smugglers, deserving the bastinado, Whothor rightfully or wrongfully, an im- pression has been gaining ground that the tariff was an ally of private capitalists, and that the party of protection was too inti- mately identified with plutocrats and mil- lionzires, and too indifferent to the neces- sities of the wageworkers and the poor. Of course there are as many wealthy democrats as republicans, but they aro not so much in evidence. They fly lower. In politics it 1s necessary to be 0s wise as serpents and as harmless as doves. Campnlgn Mistakos, Had Mr. Cleveland made the president of a colossal railroad system his political spokes- man and manager at Chicago last summer he would not have strengthened his cause be- fora the people. Had the democratic party nominated for vice president an uxorious millionaire who had antagonized the labor element of the country by supercilious af- fronts, its intrepidity would have exceeded its discretion. Declarations of policy de- livered by gentlemen who step in evening dress from patrician banquets to the porti- cos of palaces may be profound and patriotic, but they do not thrill the bosoms of the ple* beians, the common herd, who eat their din- ner from a tin pail at noon and live in tene- ment houses in the citiesand dug-outs on the prairies. As General Bosquet said of the charge of the Six Hundred at Balakiava: “This is brilliant--but it is not war!" ‘The constructive period of the nation has passed. The epoch is closed. The constitu- tion is the qurumu 1 state sovereignity and the oth ssues of our formative and prehminary tinet. We have no foreign complication policies that will provoke or engender hos- tility at home er abroad. The questions of the future will concern administration like those arising in the conduct of o great busi- ness enterprise—tho finances, wages, profit oartners, markots and internal pol Poreign wars are possible, but in the - high- est degree improbable. Weought to destroy English commerce and burn London in re- tuliation for the sack of Washington and the piracies of the Alabama anda Shenandoah, but Great Britain fights only the feeble. With her equals she arbitrates. The Anglo- Saxon is courageous, but he is prudent. Dis- cretion is the better part of our valor. We bully Chili, Ttaly, Mexico and China, but with Great Britain, Russia and Germany we are punctilious. Toward those we practice © ex- , 10 the ethics of the slugger, to these we extend the golden rule und the code of international law. Advice to Repubiloans, New times demand new measures and new men, it is said. “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break and the wine runneth out and the bottles perish, but they put new wine into new bottles and both are preserved.” The ro- publican party must readjust itself to pres- ont conditions and rectify its frontiers. It has a few Jonahs who should bz thrown overboard. It must desist from the attempt to fight battles with cartridge shells that have been emptied and to grind its grist with water that has run by the mill. The vet- eran commanders should go on the retired list and more attention be paid to recruiting stations aad less to drumhead courts martial, If anybody wants to votq the republican ticket it would be well to permit him to do so without inquiring too minutely about his pedigree, his tailor, his religious preferences or his habits at the table. At the polls the result is determined by numbers, and not by wealth, education or respectability alone. The recent convention of republican leagues at Louisville was neither a consulta- tion of physiciaus over a moribund patient nor & post wortem upon his remains. Its deliberations were wisely confined to serious and thoughtful conference upcn present conditions, Every party has impul- ve membears whose function is to prepare issues. Inthe spring their fancy lightly turns to thoughts of campaign literature. They care not who makes the laws of a country so long as they can write its plat- forms. Then there are the political rain- makers, who bombard the sky with detonat- ing explosives which are expected to produce fertilizing showers and to arouse attention on neighboring spheres. The Woman Suffrage Question, It 18 related by some forgoiten historian that once upon & time the savants and philosophers decided that if all the inhab- itants of the earth would shout together at the top of their voices at the same instant, as is done at political conventions generally, it would make such a tremendous noise that it would attract the dwellers in the moon. So arrangements were wmade, cireulars sent out, the time fxed, clocks carefully com- pured and proclawations ssued. Upon the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: {buulnmlwl suspended. The people assembled in the felds and parks and open places with expanded chests, enger for the experiment. When the clock struck every one was 8o anxious to hear the noise himself that instead of the unprecedented din and uproar that was anticipated there was dead silence on every island and conti- nent in the world. The only person who shouted was an aged deaf woman at Pekin 1t was very still at Louisvilie. The at- tempt to commit the party indirectly to women's saffrage was impolitic for the rea- son that this question should be decided by women and not bymen,and by the states and not by the nation. The tendency from sub- ordination to equality has been rapid and may bo complete. The chief obstacle to equal suffrage is not the hostility of men, but the indifference of women. The reason why women do not vote is because they do not wish to vote. Whenever a majority of the intelligent and patriotic women of the United States desire vhe ballot, they will et it, as they have obtained everything else they wanted from the beginning. As to the Fuatare. The future of republicanism must be largely tentative. 1ts policy will be devels oped with the emergencies that must in: evitably occur. Tts principles are fixed and unalterable. Their future application will depend upon the success of Mr. Cleveland's administration In meeting the crisis that now scems imminent. The continued pur- chase of depreciating silver, the exportation of goid and the gradual exhaustion of the reserve for redomption in the treasury, the enormous shrinkage in speculative values the unfavorable balance of foreign trade, the failures of banks and the multiplying, less disasters, the strikes, lockouts and i portend the approach of commercial panic and convulsion, How the heterogencous and undisciplined majority in congress;av war with them- selves and with the president, car cope with these perils will ba disclosod at the Soptem- ber session. The differonces soem irrecon cilable and the difficulties insuperable. History is a series of ropetitions. The in- cidents vary, but the forces continue. The alignment of parties in the United States caunot change except with the destruction of our systems and institutions. All ques. tions now existing and hereafter to arise, to agitato and disturb the public mind—temper- ance, suffrago, wealth and poverty—will *be determined by the activity of the same ener- gies that have thus far mado and presorved us a nation, ' Party affiliation will be largely a matter of temperament and moods 1n men. The young, active, alert, aspiring and am- bitious array themselves on the one side; thoold, dull, apathetic, lethargic, plodding and contented on the other. So long as the people want to beat anchor and roll and pitch in the trough of the sea the democracy will remain in power. When thoy want to get up steam and push on to some destina- tion the republicans will be reinstated. Jonx. J. INGALLS. SR ey ECHOES FROM THE ANTE ROOM. Doings of the Week n Secret Socleties and Fraternal Orders. Chancellor Dale’s request that last Sunday be observed as Pythian memorial day in Ne- braska was heartily responded to through- out this prosperous commonwealth, and thero were many gatherings of the knights. The tributes paid to the memory of the de- parted members of the order were touching and loyal, and their graves wero strewn with fragrant flowers. Pythians honor their dead and are always ready to pay tribute. The services of the lodges were interesting and impressive, and were very similar in character in each one. The new ritualistic service of the supreme lodge was given its first test, and it proved one of the most beautiful and impressive of lodge work. The services were of a public nature, and the audiences for the most part was made of knights, their families and the relatives and friends of the dead. The Omaha lodges united in the memorial services, which were held Monday evening in Myrtle hall in the Continental block. Sundity committees from the different lodges visited the cemeteries and decorated the graves of the departed knights. The Monday cv(:nlnlf services were well attended, the larece hall bein filled. D ladies were present an took a lreen interest in the proceedings. The hall had been aporopriately decorated, and presented a very handsome appearauce in its dress of national colors and white, with many flowers and plants. The memovial address was delivered by Rev. J. P. D. Llwyd. He paid tribute to the memory of the departed knights in an clo- quent and feeling manner, Pyt 8 teachings and practices were told of, and the knights w loyal to their trusts in the future as in the past. The address was interesting, and dur- ing his address the reverend gentleman was attentively listened to. He was followed in a short address by J. S.Shropshire, for- merly an Omaha attorney, now located in Montana. Mr. Shropshire is 2 prominent knight, and was paying a short visit to this city at the time. The South Omaha knights observed the services on the Sabbath day. At 9 o'clock in the morning the kunights visited Laurel Hill cemetery, where the graves of their de- parted brothers were strewn with flowers, In the evening at St. Martin's Kpiscopal church the knights listened to a memorial sermon delivered by Rev. H. G. Sharpley. At Lincoln memorial day was celebrated on Sunday, and the ceremonies were elabor- ate. During the afternoon Castle hall was filled with knights and ladies. Addresses were listened to from Judge C. L. Hall on “Our Honored Dead;” Hon. W. S. Hamilton on the “Uniform Rank,” and Past Grand Chancellor O'Neill delivered a touching eulogy on tho deccased grand chancellor, John Morrison. At the close of tho service about seventy-five knights in uniform and many more members of subordinate lodges visited Wyuka cemetery, where the graves were decorated. Nebraska City knights observed Sunday as memorial day. At the opera house Rev, G. Hall, pasior of the Coagregational church, delivered an eloquent sermon. At the conclusion of the services the knights visited the cemetery, where the graves of the deceased members of the order were decorated. Beatrice knights observed the day Sunday, asdid those of Plattsmouth, Kearney, Col- umbus, Grand Island, Fremont and other cities and towns throughout the state. Among the Masonic Branches, The grand lodge of Dakota met last week at Yankton. The session was well attended, and a vast amount of business was attended to. ‘I'he oficers elected are as lollows: R. C. McAllister of Madison, grand master; W, C. Allen of Groton, deputy grand master; F.H. Files of Sioux Falls, grand senior warden; S. P. Watkins of Ashton, grand treasurer; C. 8, McCoy of Aberdeen, grand secrotar Hot Springs was chosen as the next place of meeting. Adah chapter No, 52, Order of the Eastern Star, of South Omaha has elected the fol- lowing officers for the ensuing year: Adah Miller, worthy matron, Mrs, Andrew Farer, worthy patron; Mrs, Carpen- ter, assistant matron; Mrs. Georgo French, treasurer; Mrs, Letta A. Beckett, secretar Miss Nunu, head conductress; M Emma Smith, assoclate conductress, The Osceola Musons elected oficers for the ensuing yoar as follows: M. R. Snod- grass was elected worshipful maste i Conklin, senior warden; Dr. L. M. Shaw, unior warden;J. H. Anderson, secretary; 1. A. Scott, treasurer; und C. M. Pulver, tyler. The session of the Nebraska Grand lodge, Aucient Froe and Accepted Masons, was brought to aclose at noon Friday in = Owmaha. The session has been both profitable and interesting to the rep- resentation of the order. The fol- lowing officers elected Thursday night were iustalled * previous to adjournment: Grand master, James P. Black Bloomington; deputy grand mas John A, ' Erhardt, Stanton; graud sentor warden, H. H. Wilson, Lincoln ; graud junior warden, C. J. Phelps, Schuyler} grand treasurer, Chris Hartman, Omaha; grand Willlam R. Bowon, Omaba. The ofticers are as follows: Grand George W. Martin, Kearney ; grand , George D. Meillejohn, Fullerton; grand custodian, Leo P. Gillette, Beatrice; grand marshal, M. C. Steele, Beatrice. The next session of the grand lodge will be held in this city in June, 1504. Woodmen Plonme ae Lincoln. The members of the Woodmen of the World swooped down o Lincoln Wednesday of lust week, and for ten hours were in un- disputed possession of the town. Tue occa- SUNDAY, THE MORSE DRY GO VUNE 18, 1893—-TWENTY PAGES. 0DS CO. GRAND RED LETTER SALE. We continue this week our great Red Letter Sale, which has aroused more en- thusiasm for spirited buying than any sale we have ever had, The extreme low prices we have been making on all kinds of seasonable merchan- dise left no other course open to the public. They felt com- pelled to buy, as such values as we have been giving are fleeting and may not return in many a day. not only hover around our counters for our bargains, but they crowd and tf\rong them to secure the choicest offerings. People While the banks are trying to increase their surplus we are decreasing ours, and while the public have started a Heavy Run upon us, there are no visible signs of our surplus becoming exhausted, so we continue the cutting process a while longer to get rid of the surplus, CLORK DEPARTEN. Buy your World’s fair suit, jacket or cn{n atour closing out sale. Ladies’ Eton blazer suits, of all wool serge, $7.50: they are worth $10. Ladles’ Eton and Bolero suits, of all wool materials, extra fino, at 810, recent value 815 to 818. Ladies’ gingham suits, $7.50 quality, now 5. Ladies’ gingham suits, 810 quality, now 6. Ladies’ gingham suits, 812 quality, now $7.50, Ladies’ gingham suits, 814 quality, now $9.50. Prices cut in two on sll spring jackots to close them out. CARPETS AND DRAPERIES, For Monday and all the week we offer: Our 830 portieres for $17. Our 825 portieres for $13. Our 320 portieres for 811. Our 818 portieres for $9. Our 815 portieres for 38. 12 pairs of odd portlers ranging in price from 85 to 812 will be closed out at $3 per pair. 3 Lace curtalns, single and hal! pairs, will be closed out at half manufacturers’ cost. 4520 pieces China matting, 65¢c goods, at 520 pieces China matting, 60c goods, at 2_21') pleces China matting, 50c goods, at ¢, ‘We place the above on sale Monday morning. They represent the balance of our stock, and we make theose low prices to close them out with a rush. HOUSE FURNISHING BASEMENT This department is overflowing with stock, is teeming with beauty, is full of groat values. Don’t miss this oppor- tunity to supply your home with arti- cles you need at exceptional prices, Wo are cloging out many lines of goods much below market prices before the fall stock arrives. We have too much stock on hand. It must be sold. Hundreds of customers bought beautiful decorated chinu sets, dinner sets, glass- waro, tablewaro and many useful house- hold articles last week, and we shall continuw to make apecial pricos for the balance of the month, Make it a point when vla!flnfi the store 1o inspect our bl‘;“me“ and see the beauty dlsplayed there. THIS WEEK WE OFFER LINENS, WHITE GOODS, EIC. One lot of 82-inch stripe and figured black organdies, 12{c, reduced from 150, 200 and 250, One lot of extra fine black organdies, 82 inches wide, 25c, reduced from 8740 and 500, 60 pieces fine apron checke, 19¢, re- duced from 85¢. 25 ploces white organdy plaids, 12 regular valve 20c. 1 case 12-4 crochet bed spreads, 75¢, a regular 81 quality. Onelot 72-inch bleached damask, 81, a usual 8125 quallty, 8-4 napkins to match, $2.75. 10 piecces fine apron lawns, hems stitchod, 1240, reduced from 25¢ and 85¢. 10 pieces extra sheer apron lawns, 250, reduced from 50c and 65c. 6 bales 80-inch brown muslin, regular 8o goods, this week 5¢ yard. 25 dozen 8-4 napkins at $4,50, re- duced from $6. 25 doxen 8-4 napkins, $3.50, duced from 85 25 dozen 8-4 napkins at $2.50, reduced from $8.50. 100 dozen 5-8 napkins, extra quality, 81, reduced from 81.25. SILKS: All silk grenadines by the yard and in pattern dresses will be closed out much under value. Gronadines are in demand, but our stock is broken. We prefer to let them go now, cost not con- sidered. 5 gronadine suits $12 have been $47.50. re- 3 g;'cnudlnu suits, 813.50, have been 10 pieces silk grenadines, 75c yard, re- duced from $1.50. 6 pieces silk grenadines, 81 yurd, re- duced from $2 and 3. 5 vpieces silk grenadines, $1.50 yard, reduced from 34 and 85.9 At the above prices a silk grenadine is within the reach of all. 25 pieces fine plaid surahs for wuists in choice colorings at 98c, reduced 295 PER GENT OF¥ ASTARTLING OFFER —IN— HOSIERY. For three days we will hold a grand midsoason sale of fast black cotton and silk hosiery. This will enable our customers to re- plenish their wants for the balance of the season and enable us to reduce our large stock A 8-dhys sale—Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Ladies’ Hosiery. Fine cotton, fast black. Fine Egyptian cotton, fast black. Fine lisle thread, fast black. Fine imperial lisle, fast black. Fine all silk hosicry, black and colors. Children’s Hosiery. Fine cotton, fast black. Fine Egyptian cotton, fast black. Fine liste thread, fast black. Fine imperial lisle, fast black. Men’s Hosiery. TFine cotton, fast black. Fine Egyptian cotton, fast black. Fine lisle thread, fast black. Fine imporial, fast black. 20 Der Gent 01 on the above goods for three days. All mail ordors will be filled on letters bear= ing postmark of Wednesday, June 2let, [ sion was a grand reunfon and basket picnio held at Lincoln park. There were present fully 8,000 people, tho Woodmen and ladles making up the larger percentage of the crowd. Excursions were run into the capital city from all directions and tho 'oodmen were picked up all along the line. Big train loads wero brought from Beat- rico, Nebraska Clty, Hastines and contiguous points, and the different lodzes secmed to try and outdo each other as to which could secure the greatest delegation. Alpha camp of this city had charge of the'Omaha excur- sion, The Seventh Ward band was taken along to enliven things. The Omaha crowd numbered fully 300 people and they went in a special train over the Buriington. They all report a royal time. Tho picnic at the park was very enjoyable. There was n.usic and speechmaking and a general good time. It 1s in this manner that the Woodmen extend their acquaintance among themselves and solidify the fraternal relations cf the order. Sldney Lodge Notes. At the last regular communication of Frank Welch lodge No. 75, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Sidney, Neb, the following officers were elected for the en- suing Masonic year: Julius Neubater, worshipful mastor; Jo- seph Taylor, senior warden; Georgo Taylor, Junior warden; Frank H. DeCastro, secre: tary; Mike Cohen, treasurer. Grand Master J. G. Tate of Ancient Order of United Workmen of Nebraska has ap- poluted the following committes on law and supervision of the order: S. R. Patton, J. W. Carr, Omaha; Joseph Oberfelder, Sid- noy; A. M. Walling, Leigh; C. A, Schneider, Lyons. Minor Mention of the Lodges. The Omaha Elks have set a worthy ex- amplo by contributing $25 to the firemen'’s fund. The South Omaha Degree of Honor lodge, the women'’s auxiliary to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, elected ofticers for the ensuing year last evening. The members of state lodge No. 10, Tnde- pendent Oraer of Odd Fellows, of this city attended the funeral of Louis C. Nasser ‘Tuesday. The deceased was a member of the lodge. Past Chlef Harry vLawrie of the Order Scottish Clans will attend the Royal Clan meeting at Duluth, commencing Tuesday of this weelc. At the last meeting of Hawkoye lodge No. 184, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the lodgze was presented with two gavels, one made of mahogany from the mountains of Oregon, and the other from hickory gathered on the Atlantic coast in the state of Maine. Freo Show Fakirs. In New York city the free variety shows given by traveling dentists and quack medicine dealersare never seen, although within six or eight years they have approached as near as Brooklyn. The middle western’ states are their favorite ground. A portable stage is erected in a vacant lot and minstrels and song and dance teams give their performances in the light of flaring naptha lamps. After s half hour of vaudeville a long-hairgd, hoarse-voiced imposter takes the stage and sounds the praises of a cure-all, or offers to ex- tract teeth or corn by some new and eusy process. When. he has ac- complished some sales or operations the variety show is resumed, and this sort of thing keeps on for three hours. It often happens that the beststiow of the season in small places is given: by one of these concerns, and there: .are medicine makers that have as many as three com- panies on the road R New Klud of Lusurance. For twenty-cents you can insure yourself and family against any bad results from an of bowel complaint during the sum- One or two Aunua of Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy will ny ordinary case. It never fails and is pleasant and safe to take. No family can afford to be without it For sale at 20 and i ceuts per bottle by all druggists. e A man and his wife in Girard, Mich., have not spoken to each other for twenty years, although living togetner. Bach is waiting for vhe other 1o speak firs! e Tu the poor house of Cass county, Michi- gan, & man was received tho other day. He was given a bath and said it had been bis first iu thirty yea A skirt dance a8 one of the features of o church social a1 Evapston, Iud., the other day. from $1.50. K [ ] K. The Frank Wilcox Co. will start Monday morning a Kool Komfort Klearing Sale We want to reduce all our lines of summer shoes. make low prices. at the time when you need the shoes. To do it we It’s an advantage to buy shoes at low prices right So we give the benefit now, and benefit shoe buyers and ourselves at the same time. LADIES’ and CHILDREN'S. MEN’S. $0.00 SHOES 08 §2.00. We take 60 pairs of ladies’ plain extension sole welt button shoes, that wero always Norris & Wilcox’s 85.00 shoes, and will close them out at $2.00 a pair. These shoes are sizes 2, 24, 8and 34 in AA, A, B, C and D widths. They are rare bar- gaius if you can wear the size, This lot at $2.00 will be placed on the center table and sold out in one day. NOVELTIES IN MISSES and CHILOREN'S SHOES. We received yesterday a beauty in misses’ and children’s brown canvas Oxfords; also tan color Adonis slippers. The newest misses’ Oxford is In Oxide kid in tan and wine color and beautiful shapes. BABY NOVELTIES. Imported white satin bootees for infants, All the newest shades of ribbon and satin trimmed moccasins and bootees for babies. AN BLUCHER OXFORDS, $1.50. Tan Blucher Oxfords, in all the different shapes, in tan go at from 81.50 to $2.50; in ton Russia, from $2.50 to 83.50, The new Philadelphia toe, in tan Russia Oxfords, erange in price at $2,50, 83’and 83,50, according to their elezan ce. $4.00 KD OXFORDS, $2.00. 'Wo have selected another lot of fine kid Oxfords, in different styles, that have been $3.50 and #4, and made them all 82, Ladies’ will remember our $2 Ox - ford sale of one week ago, and these are even greater value. Come Monday morning. Our cloth top button shoes, marked 83 from $4.50, with patent tips, in all sll styes, are going rapidly. MAIL ORDERS will be filled this week at these rices a8 long as the lines last. Express prepaid on all orders accompanied by the cash. FRANK WILCOX CO., 1515-1517 Douglas Street. 83 Low Stoes 81.60 Men’s calf and kangarod regular 83 low shoes for 81.50, Thore are only a few of these, If we have your size you can get a great bar- gain. They are good, durable, comfortable shoes, Men's Tan Bluchess: Splendld, nicely finished shoes, made on the most comfortable foot form lasts, for the sale at €4, 85 and $6.00, Men's Tan- BlucherOnfords: The best hot weuther shoe ever made, all sizes and widths, Prices from $3 to $8. NOTICE—In addition to the tavs we have a very.full line of the reg- ular cordovan and kangaroo in lace and oxfords, ¥’