Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1893, Page 12

THE DAILY BEE. ROSEW e s g PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Raily Boe ritho One Year. hally and Su 3 Fix S Thre Eunday T nturtiny he " Weekly {h-\\ Orio Y MORY 2800 10 00 5 00 2 50 200 100 Ownaha, The ite gouth Gmahn, corn St Streots. Council Blufrs, 12 Pearl Strect, Chlengo ONice, 317 Climmbor of Commerce. New York, Kooms 13, 14 ana 15, Tribuno Eaflding. b Washihigton, 518 Pourteenth Stroet CORRESPONDENCE. All communications ting tagnews and editbrinl mattor should be nddrossed: To the tor. BUSINESS All bosinoss Te vl remittances should be addressed to Publishing Co mpany, Omalin, Drofts, checks and postoffice orders 10 ho mado payabie to the order of the com- pany. Partjos Jeaving tho clty for the summer can bave the BEr sent their address by leaving an ordor at this oftice, . THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 'WORN STATEMENT OF 011 Btate of Nebraska, Connty of Douglas, Geo. B. Tzschiek, 8¢ Ing_eompany doe frenlation of The | une 24, 1803, was as anday. June 18 onday, Jnne 19 aenday, June 20 ednenday, Jui rsday. fune day, June turday, June 2 ULATION. of Tk BER publish: sar that th actial the week ending GRonGR T ~s— | SWORN 16 befors mo and 8y { {#raL | iny presence this 24th day of Jupe. 1803. —— N. P. Fr, Notary Publl e The Beo In Chicago. Tar DALy and SUNDAY BEE Is on salc in Chjeago at the following placos: Palmer houso, Grand Pacific hotol. Auditorium hotel. Great Northern hotol Goro hotel, Teland hotol. Wells B, Sizer, 189 State stroot. Filos of Tie BEr can bo scen at the Ne- Braska building and the Administration build- g, Exposition grounds. * -_— — Averago Clroulation for May, 1803, 24,417 ——————————n “81zzARD" is the euphonious word coined by the New York World to de- geribe a hot wave coming from the Da- kotas. OMAHA stands next to Chicago when it comes to exporting pork products to foreign markets. Kansas City takes third place, CommIssIONER UTT may yet have to take a hand in the readjustment of Ne- braska rates made necessary by the new maximum rate law GOVERNOR SHELDON of South Dakota did not name delegates to the north ana south railway convention which meets in Lincoln on the 28th inst. All the same, there is likely to be a large rep- resentation of the anti-monopolist citi- zenship of the state in attendance. Gov- ernor Sheldon is not ardently inclined to favor any scheme that might possibly interfere with the plans of the great railway combines in the state of South Dakota. { ™~ THE semi-annual reports of the execu- tive departments of the state govern- ment are required on July 1. In view of the fact it is pertinent to direct the attention of these officials to the follow- ing provision of section 24, article v, of the constitution: ‘‘They shall not re- ceive to their own use any fees, costs, intorest upon public moneys in their hands or under their control, perqui- sites of office or other compensation, and all fees that may herealtor be payable by law for services performed by an offi- cer, provided for in this article of the constitution, shall be paid in advance into the state treasury.” CARTER HARRISON and other Chicago mandarins are now familiarizing them- solves with the modern Aryan lan- guages. His dusky nibs, the gaikwan of Baroda, the richest maharaja of India i8 now enroute to the World's fair, at- tended by a suite of natives of high rank. The mayor’s well known familiarity with the Sanskrit will stand him in good need in familiarizing him- self with the seven Aryan vernaculars, but it may puzzle him to determine which of these prakrits is popular in oriental etiquette. As the prince comes from the ‘Mahratta country,” perhaps Mr. Harrison might gain a pointer by consulting with the late aspirant for Jim North's position before the genial captain takes his departure with his bride for his residence on the Yarra- Yarra. THE case of the state of New York against the executors of the Jay Gould sstate to compel them to pay 8750,000 to the state in PYrsuance of the provisions of the inheritance tax law promises to ‘become a noted case in the law reports on the subject of taxing inheritances. It will not, however, come into the wourts before autumn. There will be a hearing belore the appraiser appointed lor the estate before it is brought before the surrogate on tho points of law in- volved. Mr. Gould's executors claim that the 85,000,000 bequeathed to George Gould as “payment for servicos” is ox- empt as a debt chargeable against the pstato. This will be oneof the points to be decided by the court. The Gould ex- peutors have already paid in 8500,000, their estimate of what the tax should be. This was done to avoid the penalty of 10 per cent imposed under the law if the tax is not paid within the preseribed time. THE figures presented by Secretary Morton of the Agricultural department will be disappointing to those who have believed that the system of meat in- spection established by congress some- thing over two years ago would have the tendency to increase exports of those produets to Germany and France. Mr, Morton has no hesitanty in asserting that the experiment has been a failure inso far as practical results ave con- serned. The United States is sending “less pork to Germany now than she did before the inspection law went into sffeot. In tho ten months ending April 1, 1892, the exports of pork to Germany amounted to 4,881,160 pounds, while for corresponding ten months euding Apri) 1, 1893, the exports to the sama gountry amounted to but 644,000 pounds. Possibly this decline in the export of &’flfl\wh may be due tothe kigh of porl, 100 | CO-OPERATION AND PROFIT SWARING. One of the latest of the consular re- ports issued by the government contains o comprohensive report on the labor problem in France and what has been accomplished toward its solation by co- operation and profit-sharing, The con- sul who makes this report quotes & senator of France as saying tha* ‘‘profit- sharing and co-operation in industrial enterprises are the two stars of hope in the industrial horizon.” It cannot but be interesting to American working- men, and porhaps also to American em- ployors to know what has been accom- {'plished by those agencies toward the solution of, the labor problem in France, where the subject has received the most serious and intelligent study. According to his report cooperative societics have had a prodigious success in the short time that has passed since their definito adoption by workmen, and have had a marked effect in transform- ing the economical conditions of labor. A great deal of valuable testimony is presented from leading statesmen, not only of France but of other Huropean countries, as to the value of this system, of which it may be observed that it has proved far more successful in European countries than in the United States. For reasons that it might not be difficult te discover, co-operative undertakings have not fared well in this coun- try, but it s by no means to be concluded that the conditions which have operated against their suc- cess here are permanent or that they may not in time be overcome. The principle of profit-sharing has been even more successful abroad than co-opera- tion, toward which it is regarded by the French as the first step. It was first put into practice in France half a cen- tury ago by an employing painter named Leclaire, who established the principle on a firm basis, with great advantage to himself and his employes. He did not adopt it from philanthropic matives, but as a business matter. He said he pre- ferred making 100,000 francs and shar- ing half of it with his men than to make 25,000 francs and keep it all for himself. Ho found that he not only got larger profits under the operation of this system, but he kept on good terms with his employes and got better obedience from them. Said this shrewd man of business: “When an architect asks me to paint the buildings of some universal exposition or of some city hall, where hours and minutes are of importance, I feel happy when giving the order, know- ing that it will be promptly executed. The architect knows tkat too, and cen- soquently my business prospers.” The example of Leclaire was followed by many other employers, and, al- though in some cases there -was failure, not due to any inherent weakness in the principle, profit- sharing has continued to be recognized and widely practiced in France as a sound and safe system, promotive of the interests of both the employer and the employed. Tho repart furnishes some highly in- teresting statistics regarding the growth of co-operative societies in Europe. In France there are 1,100 such societies, with 600,000 members. In England the ‘corresponding associations number 1,516, with a membership of over 900,000. The number of co-operative societies in the German empire in 1890, variously desig- nated as loan, industrial, supply and building societies, was 5,950 Such societies in one form or an- other are.making progress in TItaly, they have taken a firm hold on the population of Switzerland, and they are fairly numerous in Belgium. Thus, this iden, originating in France, has become widely extended in Europe, and having been found of great service to the indus- trial intorests there isevery reason to expect that it will continue to expand. As already observed, co-operative un- dertakings have not generally boen suc- cessful in this country. It has not been found practicable to apply to them the regulations which have worked well abroad. But profit-sharing, on the other hand, has succceded well here, wherever the principle has been judiciously and fairly applied, and it could doubtless bo shown that a majority of those who have adopted the principle still adhere to it. At any rate there is reason to believe that a system which for half a century has worked so advantageously in France can be made equally serviceable here, and certainly as one means toward the solution of the labor problem it is worthy of the serious attention of all employers of labor on a large scale. Although the time may never come when the principle will be generally adopted there are in- dications that it is growing in favor. SALMON AND SUNDAY CLOSING. People everywhere who appreciate canned salmon as a dietary edible are interested in the protection of this fish industry on the Columbia. It may sur- prise them, however, to learn that the officiency of the law established in Ore- gon for this protection depends, to some extent, on the abilities of the authoritics to enforce the observance of a Sunday ordinance. And they will not be sur- prised to learn that the efforts to enforce the Sunday closing seison on the Col- umbia promise to prove quite as inef- fectual as might be expected of any at- tempt to prevent fishing on Sunday any- where in this western country. Note withstanding the law, it appears that packers have been permitted to operato their traps on Sunday without molosta- tion, and that they also purchase ille- gally cavght fish from gill-net men, thus offering & premium for the viola- tion of thelaw. Prosccutions have been made at the instigation of those who were more intent on the enforcement of the observance of Sunday than in the protection of the salmon industry. But these prosecutions in the past have been wholly of luckless and impecunious fish- ermen violating the law under the en- couragement of the cannery men them- selves. The fish laws of Oregon and Washing- tom are practically the same. A few Sundays ago an Oregon sheriff arrested several fishermen caught in the act of vialating the section of the law prohibit- ing all fishing in the Columbia from 6 P m. Saturday t0 6 p. m. Sunday. They were citizens of Oregon, though their Sehing wes done on the Washington THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, side of the river. before a justico of the peace in Astoria. Objection was mado by defendants to ti assumed jurisdiction. But the justice held that he had jurisdiction of offenses committed on the Columbia, even on the Washington side, under the grant of concurrent jurisdiction to the twostates. Thercupon the defendants' attorneys appealed to the jury and, arrogating to themselves the functions of a supreme court to determine matters of law, they decided that the justice had no jurisdic- tion. The incident is noteworthy as illustrating the peculiar ideas that an Oregon jury may entertain as to their dutics and authority, as well as indicat- ing the popular indisposition every- where to countenance legal restrictions respecting the observante of the Sab- bath. - It is apparent that the fishing industry should be protected on the waters of the Columbia, but to enforce the pro- visions of the laws of the states, that seem ample to insure the chief purpose for which they were intended, the fish protectors must seck a less summary process than through the pettifogging methods of a justice court. The slower, but more certain method of procedure would be ina resort to the district or circuit courts of the respective states. WESTERN FARM MORTGAGES. Probably in no other respect has the west been more grossly misrepresented than in the prevailing discussion of its farm mortgage indebtedness. The con- stant assaults upon the credit and integrity of the west comes from various sources. The most flagrant cases of misrepresentation come, of course, from eastern men who affect to be alarmed over the large sums of money annually sent to the west for investment. But the eastern critics are not alone in their hostility to the prevailing system of de- veloping western interests with eastern capital. Here in the west the farm mortgage indebtedness is subject to the same misrepresentation. The only dif- ferenco between the two is that the east- ern. man misrepresents because he de- sires to keep eastern money at home, while the western man misrepre- sents because he wishes to fur- ther the interests of a political party which would hardly dare to carry out its extreme views in rogard to finance, even if successful in overturn- ing the older parties. Fortunately, the figures are at hand to prove the falsity of the claims of both the castern and western alarmists. The statistics collected by Edward Atkin- son, under the auspices of the United States government, have been published and they completely refute the asser- tions that the western investments are based upon undesirable securities and that the mortgage indebtedness of the west is an evidence of the hopeless poverty of its people. Mr. Atkinson shows that ‘in the representa- tive states of Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Montana more than one-half of the farms are unencum- bered by mortgage of any kind, while the mortgages already in existence amount to less than one-half of the value of the land designated assthe sccurity. Further, he shows that of the mort- gaged indebtedness of the states named from 88 to over 90 per cont of the entire amount was incurred for real estate purchases and im- provements, business and the pur- chase of personal property. Tn Ne- braska the nercentage of farm indebted- ness incurred by reason of purchase ranges from 93 to0 98 per cent in the dif- ferent counties. These figures prove more conclusively than arguments that western mortgages are not only based upon ample security, but that they cover scarcely 50 per cent of the farming lands. They also prove that the west is far from being so pov- erty stricken that her people have been compelled to plunge into debt in order to relieve themselves from actual want. IN FAVOR OF RECIPRUCITY. The convention of the liberal party of Canada, held this week at the capital of the Dominion, adopted as part of its platform a resolution strongly favoring reciprocity with the United State: It was declared that as the countries ad- join, with many mutual interests, it is desirable that there should be most friendly relations and broad and liberal trade intercourse betyeen them, and that the interests alike of the Dominion and the empire would be materi- ally advanced by establishing such relations. The resolution sets forth that the pretext under- which the Dominion government appealed to the country in 1801 respecting negotiations for a treaty with the United States was misleading and dishonest, and that no sincere offort has been made to obtain a treaty. It is assertod that on the contrary the government, under the control of monopolies and combines, has no desire to secure veeiprocity, and that the first step toward attaining the end in view is to place a party in power which is sincerely desirous of promoting a treaty on terms honorable to both coun- tries. It isdeclared that a fair and lib- oral reciprocity treaty would develop the great natural resources of Canada and enormously increase trade and commerce between the two coun- tries, besides encouraging friendly relations between the two peo- ple iand removing many causes which in the past have provoked irritation and trouble to the govern- ments of both countries. The liberal party, it is declared, is prepared to enter into negotiations with a view to obtaining such a treaty, including a well considered list of manufactured articles. This clearly defines the position of the party in Canada, which is honestly secking to promote the material pros- perity of that country by establishing more intimate commercial relations with the United States, and it is vather remarkable that it has not made greater popular progress. The assertion that the Canadian government has never made a sincere effort to obtain a reel- prooity treaty with this country is true. The people for yeurs have been tricked and deluded by prom- ises of reciprocity which the members of the government knew could not be fulfilled. When a few years ago they proposed the revival of the old treaty, terminated at the instance of the He brought thnml United Strtes, they dld so with the fullest assurance ghat the proposal would be rejocted.] The last time the Dominion governmdnt sent delegates to Washington to open negotiations for a treaty they failed to accomplish any- thing because they had nothing new to offer worthy of our government's con- sideration, and also! the reason that they could not act with authority. It was evident that the Canadian govern- ment sent the commission simply for the purpose of ascortaining what this government might be willing to do, and while ‘they obtained some light in this respect the State department yary properly de- clined to open negotiations with men who had no authority to act. It would have been a wholly useless waste of time, The obvious fact is that the dominant party in Canada treats the reciprocity question as 8 mere political whip. It has not been sincere and straightforward in the past and is not likely to be so in the future. [t is under the influence, as the liberal pacty chargos, of the monopolies and combines. The liberal movement, which aims to promote the interests of the farmersof the Dominion, is appar- ently making some progress, but it is still largely the minority party. There seems little veason to doubt the success of the party in power at the general election for which preparation is now making. LEARNING OF AMERICA. The European countries are showing a disposition to study more closely than they have ever done before the institu- tions of this country in which we exhibit conditions of progress inadvance of or differing from those of the old world. The World's fair offers a peculiarly favorable opportunity for thorough in- quiry regarding educational, industrial and other conditions in the United States, and before the gates finally close on that great enterprise all of Europe will have made a better acquaintance with the United States than it ever had before. The fact has been noted of a commission havin, been sent from England to examine the American system of public education, with a view to ascertaining if any of its features can be adopted with advantage in England. It is proposed to introduce a new school bill in the British Parliament and those who are interested in the measure de- sire to learn whether there is anything in connection with our system of public education, not alreaay of general knowl- odge, which it would be desirable to in- corporate in the measure. It is a par- ticularly interesting fact that the five members of the commission are women teachers in the London schools, and each of them has been as- signed & prescribefl ~distriot in this country. The New: York Sun states that one of them.in -service in and near that city has performed her duty thoroughly “‘and hgs@bthered a large amount of useful information, knowl- edge of a kind that cannot be obtained from school reports{dr from books about our system of popular education.” These women have not only had experience, but are said to have singular capacity for the duties intrusted to them. That they will find here some things which can be incorporated into the sthool sys- tem of Great Britain to its advantage is not to be doubted, but they will also probably discover that our sys- tem is yet very far from per- fect. If they communicate, as they will do, with the best informed edu- cators of the United States, they will doubtless be surprised to find a great di- versity of opinion regarding the merits of our public school system, and it is quite possible that from some of these they may gain the impression that after all the boasted popular education of the United States is as a whole not superior to that of England, and especially to that of Germany. But they will acquire in- formation, if they prosecute a thorough inquiry, that cannot fail to be of benefit to them, and it is at any rate a compli- ment to the country that such a commis- sion is sent here. Another example of European interest in American methods is supplied in the fact of the German govennment having appointed a commission of military en- gineers to examine and report upon the railroad system of the United States. It is a very comprehonsive investigation that this commission is authorized to make and if the commissioners carry out their instructions they will spend a considerable time in this country. Un- questionably the railroad system of the United States is the most complicated of any in the world, and while in the main it is doubtless equal to if not su- perior to any other, thorough infor- mation cegarding it is not to be acquired in a week or a month. These commissions and any others that may come from abroad to look into the educational and practical systoms of the American poople, will be cordially welcomed and afforded every facility to thoroughly prosecute their investiga- tions, The United States ask the en- lightened word to come here this year and learn all it may wish to know re- garding our moral, sheial and material conditions, confident«that the results of such inquiries cannot fail to be benefi- cial to all mankind, i ‘WITH the death of Lplund Stanford, president of the Céntral Pacific rail- road, comes the ofiicial announcement that some $2,000,000 ‘due the govern- ment from that company on January 1, 1895, will not be paitlowing to the un- satisfactory conditdh Of its finances. Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and lifornia plutoerats were able to accumulate colossal forttines by exploite ing the Central Pavidic and diverting its traffic .to the Southern Pacifie, built chiefly with the procbedsof high handed pillage of the Central. No wonder that road is in no condition to meet its accruing interest. PRINCE BISMARCK doesn't have & high opinion of the value of international exhibitions. He does not think they benefit a country in general or do much good to industry or commerce. In an interview with the correspondent of the New York Tribune the great statesman remarked that the people who profit by exhibitions are. the people concerned in the keeping of inns and in getting JUNE 95, 1893-SIXTERN PAGES. money out of travelers, hardly anybody elee. The enthusiasm about exhibitions seomed to him factitious, except so far a8 it was sentimental. Ho said he had no ouriosity whatever to see the Chioago exposition. The views of Bismarck on any stbject that he will consent to speak about are intoresting and worthy of most respect- ful consideration, but it is doubtful it a great many will agree with his opinion 80 far as it applies to the Columbian ex- position. Yet is it not probable that he is more that half right in implying that the great exhibition will be ‘chiefly beneficial to the peoplo who have no con- nection with the commerce and industry of the United States? A wonderful ob- ject lesson in human progress and achievement it unquestionably is, but it may well be doubted whether it will repay to the industry and commerce of the country what it has cost. THERE are several intoresting points connected with a decision just rendered by the commissioner of the general land office, with the approval of Secrotary Smith, confirming the right of the state of Idaho to preference in making selec- tions of land for sixty days after the fil- ing of the township plats. Idaho was not granted any lands under the act of February 22, 1880, admitting Washing- ton, Montana and the Dakotas. Idaho's land grant was made in its own ad- mission act July 3, 1800. In an act passed March 3, 1893, a clause was in- sorted making Idaho one of the states similarly entitled to preference with the above mentioned states in making selec- tions. It gives each of those states ‘‘preference right over any person or corporation to select land subject to entry by sald states granted to said states by the act of congress approved February 22, 1889, for a period of sixty days after lands have been surveyed and duly declared to be subject to selection and entry under the general laws of the United States. And provided further, that such preference right shall not accrue against bona fido homestead or pre-emption settlers on any of said lands at the date of filing of the plat of survey of any. township in any local land office of said states.” The matter came before the Interior depart- ment and the secretary was inclined to rule that, as Idaho had no lands granted under the act of February 22, 1890, it could not be admitted to share the rule of preference provided in the act of March of this year. However, after a long controversy the secrotary’s final de- cision is given, which gives Idaho this important advantage in the selection of lands. This decision says that while the act mentioned makes no grant of lands to Idaho, “it was evidently the intention of congress to give the same preference right to Idaho to make sclections under the act providing for its admission as a state into the union, approved July 3, 1890, as is given to the other states mentioned, and the law is, therefore, so construed.” The commissioner further says, in a circular addressed to the local land offices, that during the sixty days no one shall be permitted to file on lands subject to se- lections by the states except those whose claims rest upon actual settle- ment and corporations holding grants from congress. Those claiming to have made bona fide settloment shall be al- lowed to file upon making a satisfactory showing, and tho state will be required to contest such entries if it claims that they are not in accordance with Jaw. DURING the next three years or more the public will soliciously follow the three expeditions that within a fow months will engage in the race for the north pole. The one under Dr. Nansen, a famous Norwegian, has already started. Ho is sailing with new ideas on the most practicable methods of reaching the goal. He believes the ves- sel in which he is fitted out 18 one that cannot be crushed ina moving field of ice. He will allow it to become thus imbedded, and his theory is that he will by this motive power be carriod slowly but surely to his objective point. Lieu- tenant Peary, the most successful of modern Arctic explorers, who is almost ready to sail, will, after leaving his ves- sel at the most northern part of Greon- land yot reached, travel overland to the same point of destination. Mr. Freder- ick G. Jackson, a plucky wealthy Eng- lishman, who heads the third expedi- tion, will try to make the northern point of Franz-Josef land and undortake to complete the run to tho pole with sledges and boats which will be carried overland; Tho progress of cach of these oxpeditions will be awaited with hope- ful inter Even if neither of them should attain its object of ambition the discoveries of each will doubtless yield important knowledge in the domain of geographical science. THE decision of the United States dis- trict court at Seattle, Wash., in the Puyallup reservation case, must, if sus- tained, definitely settle the authority of the government over lands allotted to Indians. It will be remembered that these Indians were building a railroad over their own farms on this reserva- tion. At the instigation of the North- ern Pacific, it is charged, the military interfered to provent the construction of the road. Thereupon the contractor, at the exprossed desire of the Indians, secured an injunction to prevent this interference. Application was made to dissolve the injunction, but the United States distriet court sustains it, and declares that the government has lost entirely the power to control the use of the lanus allotted to the Puyallup In- dians at Tacoma. CONGRESSMAN WALKER of Massachu- sotts in his address at the World's fair of bankers and financiers earnestly ad- vocated the repeal of the silver pur- chase act and the passage of his banking bill, reported at the last congress. This bill provides that national banks shall keep their reserves in speocie, of which at least one-half shall be gold, and that they may then issue notes equal to the average reserve held for any consecu- tive six months in the previous year. He would also provide for current re- demption of governwuent legal tenders. This, Mr. Walker claims, would fully meet the demaud for an elastic, abund- ant and safo currenocy, AENATOR STANFORD, Kansas City Journal: Thete have few men livod in any age of the world to whom riohes oame o abundantly, and still fewer who have used their fortune to such noble ends. His fame w' | be one of the most envi- abie in human hisory, Minneapolis Tribune: But he has richly ondowed a university on tha Paciflo coast which, if properly managed, should some day be the Yale of that rogion. 1f it fail to achieve this great distinction it will not be for lack of revenue, for Leland Stanford univeraity is endowed by the benefloence of its founder with a fund “of more than §20,- 000,000, Chicago Inter Ocean: But his place In history, a place as securoas that held by Napoleon, is as tha founder of the great university of the Pacific_slope. Centuries, it may be eons hence, soholars, statesmen, soldiers and poets will owo their education 1o the liberal foundation which the dead senator has laid in the state of his adovtion. Chicago Tribune: As senator he did noth- ing and sald nothing that justified his elec- tion to a seat in the counciis of the nation, and his quasi-endorsement of the crazy sub. treasury scheme last year, when he fax he listened to the buzzifg of a presidontial ‘‘bee in his bonne:,” shows how little of the real statesman there was in his composition. But his name will live iu connection with the great school he has founded. St. Paul Globe: Ho was not a groat statesman, but distinctivoly s practical worker, and as such he did” much good for his state and some for the nation at large. He will not bo remembored for his political career; his charity work was so vory great everything else sinks Into insignificance. He was dovoted to the development and welfaro of California and its people and the stato cannot do too much to honor his name. Minneapolis Journal: He notonly gave thousands employment in the railroad and other pmfior\‘.luu he built up with his money, buit ho1s known to have given much of his large income away in charity, while he left A monument to himsolf in” Stanford uni- versity which reflects thoe highest credit upon his liberality. In founding such an in- stitution at a vast expenafture during his lifetime Mr. Stanford was wise, for the mil- lions of millionaires are often aissipated after desth in contentions which nullify laudable bequests. St. Louis Republic: Leland Stanford was a United States senator ecight years and owed all his reputation to acts dono outside the sonate. The organizer of the Contral Pacifie, the founder o a university, the ad- vocate of a land and monoy scheme, the owner of Electioneer and the breeder of more record-breaking colts than any hving man, he acquired fame besido that of boing an_enormously wealthy capitalist. In the senate ho added nothing to the name he won olsewhere. He was a strong business man with no talent for oratory or statesmanship. —_— BLASTS FIROM tAM'S HORN, A fool hates good advice. The right kind of a man never loses by de- feat. There is no poorer man than the rich man who never gives. No honor can bo_conferred upon the mem- ory of a good man by a raonument. If there is any selfishness in a man it will be sure to crop out when he is hungry. Cutting off a rooster’s spurs will generally take a good deal of wind out of his crow. There is no religion in saying that other people are not as good as they ought to be. The best lighted streets are traveled the most. Wear a smile it you want to be useful. Give some highly respectable men their way in this world, and the devil would never be casy out. There is no use in looking for a revival in the church where the members prefer to sit ten feot apart, {f women of fashion cared less for their pugs and more for the poor, the millennium would not svem so distant. Nearly every church has two or three members who think they have put the Lord under obligations to them. — High Troason in Georgia. Philadelyhi v Press. If the speeches made at a banquat given to Congressman Bryan in Atlanta last week are a criterion of democratic sentiment in Georgia, then Mr. Cleveland and | his ad- ministration had better look out for squally days in that neighborhood. The Atlanta Journal, Hoke Smith’s newspaper, says in its sccount of the affair: ‘It hadn’t gone on long before the fact made itself felt that the line of demarcation between those who had originally opposed and those who had originally favored the nomination of Grover Clevelund was as clearly drawn as it had ever been.” Some of the speakers ““jumped on” the administration with ‘“‘both feet,” and the tone of the addresses became so strongly anti-Cloveland that some of the banqueters thought it their duty to disclaim any “‘personal” hostility to the president. The tossing of a cabinet office to the Georgia democracy. has not ovidenty appeased. its hunger or gratified its vanity. il e International Arbitration. Philadelphia Ledger., The House of C mmons, by unanimous vote, approves of the prinéfple of referring all matters of dispute between the United Kingdom and the United States to arbitra- tion, and this without waiting to see the re- ts of the Bering sea arbitration. It has n 4 long time for nations to reach this sensible conclusion, but Great Britain and this country are sincere in its ndvocacy, and before long” will impress their views upon other more warlike nations, SARRATARIAN SOLACE, Buffalo Courier: The pump dealer is one man who seldom wenries in well doing. Siftings: Those fellows who doto on nm‘ Klris, sometimes find matrimony & powerfu antidote. Philgdelphia Times: When a person be- comes Tost n thought it is due to his wander- Ing in hls mind, Jacksonville Times: The greon poach looks down on the © bor, but thoy both g there just the same. Indlanapohis Journal: Hungry Higglns=It y0u had to work—jist had to—wot sort o' Job Would you liko best? Weoary Watkins ~Well, T think drivin’ a load o' hayovera now asphalt street would sulb me middiin' woll. Puck: Locturer—Tho glasseator Is dead, sir. Musoum ManagerWhat did he die of? Locturar—A lcoholisi, Musoum Manager -Nonsense! drank a_drop, secturer—\Well, somebody sald glass too much, He never he took & Elmira Gazette: Hot weathor 18 sald to be best for trottors—thore's nothing like a livtle hot weathor to make a good heat. Philadelphia Record: 0 his wito, 1 yours, “Mary," sald the poot wish you'd chokv'that canary of I'm doing my best to write a poom on tho summer birds." ‘I never borrow trouble,” pecunious man, who likes to dis- course of his own uifales, “Woll," repliod the busy man, “I'm sorry, but Lhuven't anything olse to lond today.” Washington Star sald tho THANSFORMATION. Washington News. Mary had a little dog So0'thin it couldn't bark; One dismal night afar trom home It wandered in the dark. Poor Mary mourned her 1ittle pet, And into tears she burst; For when it camo to hor agaln, It camo as wienorwurst, A Quaint Wad of Truth. London Spectator, We English aro sometimes a little absurd. Wo go overywhere, exploit overything, come out of every quarrel with our hands full, and then if anybody else does anything, even a beneflcial thing, we stand and swear as largo. — THE OX TEAM. Exchange. T st upon my ox toam, calm, Benocath tho lazy sky, And erawl contented through the land And lot tho world go by. The thoughttul ox has linrned to walt nd nervous impulso smother And ponder long before he puts One foot before the other. And men with spanking teams pass by And dash upon their wa. As it it were thelr h The world's end In And mon dush by in On me dark frowns they cast, As the lightuing-driven Proseut frowns Upon the slow old Past. \aso, those men of steam, 1ko flags Whito unfurled, tho roaring fire fiend s the recling world? w sook, yo mon of stoam, So wildand md you press? 1s this, is this the railroad line That leads to happiness? And when you've swept across the day And dashied across the night, Is thero sowe station through the hills Where men can find delight? Ab, toward the Depot of Content, Wihiere no red signais stroan, 1o by oX toam Just us quick As you can go by stoam. T A HINT FROM PARIS, [European Edition New York Heraldy COSTUME FOR THE RACES, Our skotch shows a_costume for the races made of pink silk bengaline, with trimmings of mousseline do soie of the same hue. The corsage, which is made of mousseline do 80i0, is enhanced with a bertha of white lace and bows of black velvet. Lurgest Manutacturors and Rotallors ol Clothing in the World. Sueh a Fuss As some men make over their toilet when the weather would make you weary. They claw at their collars clutch at their cuffs, and rip out rough remarks in front of the looking glass, and get so steamed up generally that is a little warm cool and comfortable, your summer wear. it's a wonder the mercury stays on the glass. It doesn’ cost one individual, solitary, lonesome cent more to dress if you know where to get Cool coats, cool shirts, cool vests, cool collars, cool underwear, cool hosiery, cool neckwear, cool hats; all at the lowest prices for high class stylish goods. BROWNING, KING & CO., fog till 0.80. fiity:d |8, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts.