Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1893, Page 12

e == THE DAILY BEE: THE DAILY BEE. | = B. ROSEWATER, Editor, e PUBLISHED —_— - - TERMS OF S Diaily Ben (withont & Daily and Sunday, On ix Montha oo on iy e, O s aturday fice, Oug Vent ‘eekly Dee, Uno Yen oOF Omalia, The ftee Dallding. Routh Omwha, corner N and 20th Strents R 2 Ponrl Stroct, b Chicago Offien, 817 Clhiatabor of Commeree. Now Fork, Kuoms 13, 14 und 15, Tribune Bullding. Wask:ington, 613 Tourteenth Stroet. CORRFSIONDENCE. All communications relating to news and editorial jantter shouid be addrossed: To tho BUSINESS LETTERS. s lettors and remittances shoald d to The | Pablishing Co mpany, Omitha. fhs, cheks and postoffies ordors 10 Do tande payablo to the owder of the com- pany. Parties Jonving theclty for the summer can hav hoir addiess Uy leaving an SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Nebrakn o v of Douglas, { 1. ‘Tzsehuck, Secretary of Tie BER publish. y (oes wolemnly swenr that 1 v TIRE for tho woe ® DALY and SuspAy Ber Is on sale in ago at the following placos: alinor house Grand Paciflc hotel. Auditorium hotel. Great Northorn hotol Gore hotel, Lolund hotol, Wells B, Sizer, 189 Stato stroot. Files of Tre' BEk can be seen nt tho Ne- Braska bullding and the Administration build- ing, Exposition grounds. for June, 1893, 24,216 WE OFFER congratulations to the State Bunking board in the fact that it shows cvidence of returning nerve force. MONEY is not so remarkably scarce in Omaha when the city treasurer takes in over $30,000 in a single day. Omaha has plenty of money. What she wants is more confidency BV ALL means Omaha should have a Homo for the Aged. The market house project, the union depot and the north- west railroad scheme are all eligible candidates for admission THE vesults of the by-elections in Germany prove conclusively that the German people have a more wholesome dread of socialism than of an increased expenditure for the army. THE May statement of the Burlington system of railroads is in strange con- trast with the doleful complaints of its officers. The statement shows a marked increase in both freight and passenger . ®~aarnings. SLOWLY but surely Gladstone Is press- ing the Irish home rule bill toa final and decisive vote. - That it will pass the House of Commons is not doubted, and its triumph will be a fitting climax to the career of England’s great commoner. THE revenue revision commissior of Jowa has completed its report, which may be published in a few days. The conclusions reached will ba of unusual interest to the people of Nebraska, who appreciate the necessity for a revision of the revenue laws of this state. THE sentence imposed upon Gorham Betts serves to emphasize the fact that there are other men more vulnerable than he who richly deserve punishment. Most of these, however, have money and money is all powerful in thwarting the administration of justice in Lancaster, IN THEIR exultation over the results of the cowboy race the agents of the humane societies scem to have over- looked the case of the brute in human form who threw two harmless Moxican burros down the precipice of the clift dwellers exhibit simply because he wanted all the pathway to himself. THE fact that the death of Mr. A.J, Droxel, the great Philadelphia capital- ist who invested in Omaha, will not in- terfere with the plans of the East Omaha Land company is a mattor for congratu- lation. This public spirited company is doing more for the development of Omaha just now than any other agency. Ex-PRESIDENT HARRISON has the happy fuculty, possessed by so few of our public men, of being able to condense a volume into a paragraph. When he said ina recent interview that ‘“the re- peal of the Sherman act would have a good effect upon the imagination of the people,” he expressed the cause and effect of the existing panic in a nutshell, THE domands of the tax collector are inexorable and must be met. But the movement in this city to suspend the delinquent penalty for thirty days, or until August 1, is not without reason and good conscience. The best men in Omaha are urging the banks to be lenient with honest patrons. The same conditions in- spire a like request of the city govern- ment. ONE of the most encouraging signs of the times is the increased activity in the exportation- of American wheat. The iact that 14,000,000 bushels were cleared from Atlantic and Pacific ports during the four weeks ending June 23 ought to have astimulating if not an immediate effect upon prices. The only drawback is the extremely low price which wheat commands at this juncture in the Euro- pean markot. T LaTeEr and fuller details of the disas- for to the British man-of-war Victoria prove that it might have been prevented by better seamanship. Friends of the Amwmerican navy will be glad to know that the movement which the English squadron executed with such fatal re- sults is obsolete in the naval tactics boolks of this country, As usual Ameri- cans have profited by the sad experience of other nations. A OELEBRATING THR FOURTH, More than ordinary attention will bs given this year in parts of the country to the celebration of Independence day, and very generally thore seems likely to be rather more interest than usual mani- fosted by the peoplo in the observance of this holiday. The celebration in Chi- cago will doubtless be the most elabor- ato and memorable ever known, Phila- delphia has made groat preparations for properly observing the day, and in other cities the coming “‘Fourth” will witness a patriotic commemoration of that great event in human history, the declaration of American independence. The time is auspicious for giving the world & splendid object lesson in the patriotism of the people of this republic. In the current numbor of The Forum Julia Ward Howo submits some timely and judicious suggestions as to how the Fourth of July should be celebrated so as to make it a true festival, a national solemnity, without forgetting the claims ot the young to be mmnused as woll as to be instructed. She does not propose that the childish pleasure of the day shall be abridged. “‘We must allow children the explosion of animal spirits, and they will delight, as some grown up peoplo will, in much that is irrational,” but Mrs. Howo thinks the day itself is too important to be made one of mere noise und parade, ‘It should be made highly valuable for impressing upon the minds of the young the history of their national liberty and its cause.” She suggests that in the first place the day neight fitly be made one of reunion by different clubs and associations of culture and philacthropy. “I can imagine civic banquots,” writes Mrs. Howo, ‘“of a serious and stately charac- ter in which men and women might sit together and pledge each other in the exhilaration of friend- ship and good feeling.” She would have processions, but have them less military in character and more pacific in suggestion. The Fourth might be ushered in with martial music and a military display sufficient to recall the services of the brave men who gave our fathers liberty; there could be orations in varions public buildings and ‘‘a spartan feast, wholesome and simple;” there might be exercises for the chil- dren of the public schools, examina- tion of classes in American history, prizes given for essays on historical and pateiotic subjects; following all this a gathering in public gardens and a tea with fruit and flowers served for the children of the . city; and in the evening the singing of national anthems, tableaux vivants and fire- works, concluding with a pastoral bene- diction in some form, Mrs. Howe would make the occasion one for the signing of pledges of good citizenship, and she would also have ‘‘the great political offenses of the century fitly shown, the crimes of Louis Napoleon, the rapacious wars of Germany, France and England, the wicked persecution of the Jews.” “Now that we are nearing the close of our nineteenth century,” she observes, ‘it becomes most im- portant for us that its historic record should ‘be truly rehearsed, its great saints and sinners characterized, its wonderful discoveries and inventions ex- | plained.” Theroe is unquestionably a great deal of merit in this plan for a serious and rational observance of the Fourth of July. If put into effect generally where the conditions are favorable it is not to be doubted that the results would be gratifying. But the program contem- plates more than could be usefully ac- complished in a single day, and besides, there are few communities where a sufficient number of people could be found from year to year willing to take the trouble of preparing s0 varied and comprehensive a celebra- tion, while the question of expense might be an even more serious difficulty. It is certainly desirable to give this holiday a somewhat higher significance and broader scope than it obtains from the usual method of its observance, but as it is it still exercises a great influence in refreshing the popular patriotism. . BUILDING ASSOCIATIONS, The world's congress of building and loan associations which assemblea in Chicago last week was a notable gather- ing. It was the first congress of repre- sentative men actively engaged in an economic movement of great import- ance, and its deliberations, summarized elsewhere, are therefore especially in- terosting. ‘While most of the papers presented and the discussions concerned the sys- tems and management of associations, two features concern the general public. These were tho statistics of home association growth and the uuity of sen- timent for thorough state supervision. Superintendent Wright of the United States department of labor submitted an outline of the investigation of the department into building associations, The figures, although incomplete, show this beneficent form of co-operation to have reached astounding provortions. From the data available he shows that at the beginning of the year there were 5,800 associations in the United States, with 1,656,456 shareholders and net as- sots amounting to nearly $000,000,000, The parent state, Pennsylvania, heads the column, followed by Ohio, Illinois and Indiana in their order. Nebraska makes a creditable showing with seventy-one associations and assets ap- proaching $3,000,000. Although co-op- erative home building was founded in this country sixty years ago. its general growth and widespread popularity isthe work of* the past twenty years. The strength it has attained in public estimation in a brief period justifies the prediction of Mr. Wright that it is dostined tosurpass savings banks, both as to deposits and depositors. 'The urgent demand for regulation that regulates and effective state supervision is an echo of the well known sentiment of managers of legitamate associations. In most of the states laws have heon enacted to protect the people from fraudulent con- cerns masquerading under the name of building and loan associations and profiting by their popularity. But this is not enough. The honest associa tion is liablo to injure its shareholders through incompetence and negligence. Regulation should, therefore, aim to SUNDAY, JULY 2 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES, eliminato the fraudulent and check the incompetent. Supervision to be effective should go down into the bowels of asso- ciations, Every transaction should be examined by a compotent official, and in onse frand or incompetence is mani- fest, proceedings should be instituted to wind up the concorn. The Nebraska law, even with its de- feots, gives the banking board ample supervisory powers over building and loan associations, both at their incep- tion and in their operation. The fact that legitimate associations persistently urge greater vigilance in this respeoct should stimulate the authorities, not only in guarding chartered associations, but in preventing fraudalent concerns from obtaining money under false pre- tensos, PR THRY Yol iy o SILVER AND THE MARGIN OF PRODUC- TION. The past week’s complications in the silver market afford a very foreible illustration tending to bear out some of the recent economic theories upon the question of value and prices. When Ricardo formulated the theory of eco- nomic rent eatrly in the century, ho laid the basis for the proposition that the price of agriciltural produce was not solely dependent upon the amount of labor expended in producing any par- ticular part of the supply. As devel- oped by his followers it was stated in these words, namely, the price of agri- cultural produce is fixed by the margin of cultivation. This rule, or so-called law, was taken to hold good for all com- modities raised or extracted from the soil and the law of rent was accordingly extended to include lands devoted to mines and mining. The economist Jevons was probably the first to question the universality ot this rule as thus laid down. He, in his work on money, gave utterance to the apparent paradox that in the case of the money metals the very opposito was true, that the price fixed the margin of culti- vation although the converse might pos- sibly apply to the annual agricultaral crop. Inother words, wherever we have a comparatively indestructible stock of goods, wherever the annual production bears but an extremely smali ratio to the total available supply, wherever the demand is relatively stable and it is im- possible to materially alter the supply except in long time-periods—wherever all these conditions are present, the price as regulated by the existing rela- tion of supply and demand will detor- mine whether or not it is profitable to operate the mines at the margin of pro- duction. If the cost of producing the last increment of the supply is identical with its price, it isonly because the lattor will not warrant the working of mines just below the margin for the time being. The new Austrian school of econo- mists, in reality the successors of Jevons, have worked along both of these lines. They maintain that price is fixed by the cost of producing the final or marginal increment, but at the same time recognize the interaction of the price upon the margin. It is this inter- action which has been so clearly illus- trated by the present silver flurry. The price of silver has heretofore been at a point which has enabled all the mines to be profitably workea to their full capacity. The cost of raising the ore in some was much less than in others, but the difference merely inured to the owners as extra profitor quasi-rent. As the price of silver has declined the re- turns have failed to cover the cost of production in the more poorly situated mines. Even then it was not necessarily advantageous to shut down. An im- mense amount of fixed capital has been sunk in these mines and if the mines are closed this huge sum lies idle. Under such circumstances any re- turn over and above the actual daily operating expenses is so far a contribution to the interest account. The slightest possible interest is better than no interest at all. So these mines have continued to pour out their silver so long as the price has covered the mere working expenses. Evidently only a few mines have gotteh. toso low a point, but all have been visibly affected. When the Colorado mine owners on Thursday ‘‘resolved to completely close down all silver mines, millsand smelters in Colorado until such time as silver is appreciated at its propor worth” we saw the actual evidence that the margin of production of silver had been changed by the decreased price of silver result- ing from the annihilation of India's de- mand. Some of the mines previously far above the margin could undoubtedly have continued to be profitably worked, but the margin had risen so high that the greater number of mines fell below it, and the owners, recognizing their solidarity of interests, ordered all closed at once. This event then, besides its great practical bearing, has a theoretical significance as well. However defective the recent theories of value may be in other respeots, one important phase— the interaction of price and the margin of production — has been greatly strengthened by the illustration just described. STORY OF A BIG SWINDLE, The New York World givesacomplete history of the National Cordage com- pany which it terms *‘a big swindle,” The reports of the company show that $5.000,000 of preferred and $10,000,000 of common stock of January 15, 1891, was listed. Its present ‘‘reorganization plan” calls for 88,000,000 preferred and $20,000,000 common—an increase of $15,000,000 in the stock which it would dispose of to a credulous publie, That the people may understand the facts on which these schemers base this enormous augmented issue of stock the following figures are quoted from the company's report of its resources Ootober 81, 1801: Assets, merchandise, $3,143,- 703.06; accounts and bills receivable, $2,657,676.04; cash, $540,251.04; real estate, buildings, machinery and lease- holds, #17,077,600, a total of $23,419,- 120.04. Liabilities, stock and bills pay- ble, $19,712,806.69, leaving a surplus of $3,706,313.45. The report also shows an excess of current assots above current liabilities of $1,628,813.45. Dividends paid, 8 per cent on preferred and 9 per cent on common, On May 4, 1893, the value of the plant and realty had declined from $17,077,500 to 815,268,800, while the ourrent assets and liabilities stotd;' Current assets, including merchandjse, bills receivable, cash, ete., but not including plant, realty nor good will, #10403,057.13. Current liabilities, accounts jiafable, not includ- ing bonds of secutity,, corporation nor capital stocks, #11,986,417.71, a deficiency of $1,522,760.58, 1’ The excess of currant assots of 81,628, 813 in 1801 had besomeé a deficiency of 81,522,760 in 1803—a decline of #3,15! in the condition of, this trust concern. The report also shows a shrinkage on the plant of l7,90§(.fl§& Yet not- withstanding his marked decline in the value and . earning power of the compuny, the company last October announced that it had made a profit during the'yoar of $2,817,« 063 and paid $1,450,000 in" dividends: 1t is on such figures of decline in earning power, and shrinkage in the value of the plant, gilded over with the pinchbeck of fraudulent dividends, that this combine proposes an increase of the stock from 815,000,000 o $28,000,000. The company even has the sublime audacity to prom- ise the stockholders a dividend of 8 per cent on this increased stock. If any one is so gullible as to be taken in by any such confidence game he will be eatitled to little sympathy or com- miseration. In reviewing the above figures it is perfectly clear, as the World “says, “that the state- ments on the strength of which the stock was listed and sold were utterly false; that of the dividends so lavishly paid for the purpose of support- ing the stock on the market not one dol- lar was earned; that the scheme was fraudulent as well as unlawful in its in- ception and has been fraudulently car- ried out. The law makes ita crime to organize or maintain such a company. That erime has been committed.” The World insists upon the prosecu- tion of the company under the New York pence code, but this is not the only vicious combine that Has imposed upon the public by exactly the same villain- ous methods herein exposed. Nor is it likely to prove the last untilsome drastic administration of justice may have the effect of sweeping such frandulent stocks from the market and such illegitimate concerns out of existence. MUNICIPAL PROFIT SHARING, The science of municipal government in the United States has unquestionably made rapid strides within the past decade. The extraordinary growth of the urban population of the country has been accompanied by a realization of the necessity for ‘reform in existing methods of municipal administration, and the students of'social problems have turned to the solitiof of new and un- expected questions:, The people con- gregated in the large centers of popu- lation are boginnitg fo realize that the necessities of muni¢ipal government de- mand something #ibre; of them than the mere election of mayors and aldermen, the imposition of* taxes, the regulation of a few recognized'evilsand the punish- ment of petty offenders. They are be- ginning to realize this because they are forced to the unwelcorfje conclusion that muyors and aldermen are not always true to'the trusts “imposed upon them, that all taxes are not imposed 8o that the burden is equally distributed, that recognized evils are not controlled and that offenders are not always punished according to their deserts. Itis because of the failure of existing policies and the inadequacies of present systems that the people are secking new light in methods of municipal government. One of the greatest evils with which existing municipal methods have to con- tend is the almost general evasion by large corporations of thew just propor- tion of taxes. In this respect the his- tory of Omaha is the history of every large city in the country. No sensible man will seriously contend, even for a moment, that the burden of taxation rests as heavily upon the great street railway, gas, electric light, water and telephone companies as upon the indus- trious class of citizens who work with their hands for their bread and who build their own homes from the slow ac- cumulation of savings. By a persistent and disgraceful interference in munici- pal politics, these private corporations in all large centers of population have for years practically controlled the city governments in their own interests, Tax shirking has become the rule rather than the exception. The abuse of the taxing system has become so flagrant that there is today all over the country a rapidly increasing de- mand, not only for a return to honest methods, but for a radical revision of the entire revenuesystem. Tho demand is, as yet, looked upon with indifference by the men against whom it is directed, but unless the needed reforms come within the near future, the people will be roused to take the matter into their own hands. The agitation of the question of muni- cipal reform has drawn public attention to the value of the public franchises given to private corporatiens in all large cities and there s undoubtedly & growing sentiment in favor of some division, of net earnings between the stockholders of certain of these corporations and the taxpayers of the city, This séntiment practically amounts to a demand for municipal profit sharing. Under the present crude and unsatisfactory aystem the municipal corporation econtributes the franchise and the private dogpd{nuon the capital. Both are indispansablo. The franchise in any large city issmere valuable than any other part of g gorporation's assets, the only difference being that the fran- chise is intangible’ while the plant is tangible. ‘The rélftion botween the peo- ple of the city and 4he stockholders of the corporation ~ought to be in the nature of & copartnership and the proposition that the taxpayers who contribute that part of the necessary capital known as the franchise or right of way are entitled to a reasonable share of the earnings, has never yet been con- troverted by & valid objection. Undeér the present methods the taxpayers' share, which comés to them in the shape of taxes, is not an equitable one. The justice of the proposition is imme- diately recognized by all men who are earnestly favoring reform in municipal wethods. It is recognized in Montreal, whoro the street railway companies pi & porcontage of gross earnings into the city treasury. It is recognizod in Brooklyn, N. Y., whers the new rapid transit company roapived its charter only on the condition that the earnings of the company are divided between the stockholders and the tax- payers. The proposition is even recog- nizoed so far west as Kansas City, where the gas company will obtain a renewal of its franchise only by turning int> the oity treasury a percentage of yross earn- ings. It will take some time, perhaps years, to induce the people to take con- certed action to bring about the now re- forms. In a younger city like Omaha oxisting franchises must needs expire by limitation; but when the time comes, the private corporations which are now taking large dividends from the peo- ple should bo required to roturn % the city treasury annuvally = just proportion of their earnings, based upon a careful adjustmént of the intorests of the taxpayers who con- tribute the franchise and of the men who invest the capital. When that day comes the city government can be largely supported by the revenne de- rived from tho municipal gas, electric light, water, telephone and transporta- tion service, operated either directly by the city or by quasi-public corporations. LVEN from Mexico, which remains the only silver country in the world, comes a pretty clear conception. of some of the causes that have led to the present finan- cial condition in the United States. The Mexican Financier does not attribute the money failures that have taken place here within the past foew weekstoa “‘tight money market.” That this is not the cause is madeevident, it says, by the fact that during the pastfew months the eurrency has been increased by the issue of $15,000,000 in treasury notes which have been paid out in the pur- chase of silver bullion by the govern- ment under the Sherman silver act. The gold that has been going to Burope has been taken from the vaults of the national treasury and not from the banks or pockets of the people. The real rea- son for the stringency it finds “in the lessened confidence of the banks and the money lenders in the ability of the bor- rowers to repsy the loansdemanded. And behind this distrustful sentiment of the holders of money lies the fear that the country is coming to a silver basis and will soon be in the samo plight as are India and this country. Credit has been withdrawn because lenders do not care to run the risk ot being paid in a 65-cent dollar. Noman wishes to lend gold dollars today and a month hence to be paid in silver dollars. That is the ‘rub’ in the United States.” ONLY last April the jobbers and manu- facturers of Omaha were congratulat- ing themselves upon increased trade and good collections, Country merchants were paying their bills promptly, which meant that the farmers and consumers generally were prosperous and hopeful, But the contagion of a stringent money market and the widespread doubt as to the future policy of the government has blighted the trade of this section. Sixty days ago it was impossible to forecast the crop situation in Nebraska, but the people generally have confidence in the wealth-producing resources of the state, | and times were good. Now, in the face of a bright promise of an abundant harvest, tradesmen are deep down in the slough of despond. These comparative conditions within so brief a period are paradoxical. They cannot be fully ex- plained on the theory of cause and ef- fect. But weall have to admit that they exist and let it go at that. IT SEEMS strange that railroad ccm- panies should complain of the unprofita- bleness of passenger traffic in view of the fact that they find it impossible to make Fourth of July excursion rates on account of the vast crowds that are going to the exposition. Dolng Good With Their Millions. Cincinnatt Commercial, Tno country can look with equanimity upon the acCumulation of vast personal fortunes by such mon as Stanford and Rockefeller. Their endowments of univer- sities and colleges ure the highest form of practical philanthropy. As their endow- ments were not posthumous the sweets of public appreciation were rolled under tongues that were alive with life, ——— Executive Filppaney. Indianapolis Jowrnal, ] expect to_have o session of congress on my nands at that time.” This is the reason M. Cleveland gavo why he could not spend moro thanono_ day, October 9 to 10, at tho contennial celebration of Williams college. Fancy George Washington, Thomas Jeffer- son or any other president than Grover Clevoland saying, “Iexpect to have o sos- sion of congress on my hands at that time!” e The Mecting of the Widows. Philadelphia Record. The meeting between Mrs. U. S, Grant and Mrs. Jefforson Davis at West Point was accidental, but amicable, even effusive, The two widowed gentlewomen, whose husbands had played such important and antagonistic parts in the terrible drama of war, though strangers to each other, shook hands with expressions of mutual good will, and setthe nation an example of amity altogother Christianlike and admirable, This country has improved in many things, but it has retrograded in its Fourth of July celebrations, There was a time when the patriotic orator and the reading of the decia- ration of the independence were the features of the day, There wero perhaps a few muskets fired, and oocasionally a sham bat- tle would v"“s the nlomurflu scenes which called the holiday into existence. But the barbarous fire cracker and the destructive devil-chaser oscupled an inconspicuous and almost ignominious place in the ceremonies. The sentiment of the occasion was what counted then, and the explosions were en- tirely subsidiary quantities. But at preseat the explosions almost monopolize the field wnd the sentiment is ouly half remembered, ———— National Compliments, Boston Advertiser. The United States nas just been given two handsome compliments by foreign na- tions. England has sent a commission here for the purpose of examining the American system of public education in order to as- Girtaln. what foaturcs can bo sdvante: weously incorporated into a new school bill which is in course of preparation for iutro- duction into Parlisment. The (ierman gov- ernment has appointed a commission of mili- tary engineers to examine the railroad sys- tem of this country and the methods of transportation with especial view to the obtaining of suggestions that may bo useful to Germany in the event of war, The United Slllelrldal itself upon both its educational and rallropd systems, and this action of these foreign governments shows that this pride is not a vaia oune. SEOULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Washington Star: Dr. McGlynn's latest remark is: “I have nothing to say.” This lenves the interviewors a dolightfully unro- stricted imaginativo scope. Rochestar Horald: Probably we shall bout annexation from the Cana- ing the next six montbs, Tho Ontirio Preshytesdans havo caught a herotic. Kansas City Journal: How Chiof Justico Fuller can .m-y under the withering opin. ion which Rev. Joseph Cook must have of him will bea very hard matter to under- stand, Detroit Freo Preas: At last Dr. MeGlynn I8 fully re-ostablished in the church, The general assombly of the Presbyterian church ight gathor dosirable food for moditation by a careful study of his ontire case. Indianapolis Journal: When the popo de- clares that “the parent must be the judge of the school which his child shall attend," he shows that he would have the Catholie church march m the army of the world's progress and not mark time, Philadelphia Times: Tn conneetion with the reported building of a Mohammodan mosque in this country it wili bo romoem- bered that the orthodox Mussulman tukes off his shoes on entering. Thore may not bo 80 much kicking in tho church in conso- quence, Chicago Post: Boston's Congregationalist ministers passed rosolutions cond. World's fair Sunday opening boforo the Journed for their summer vacation, Their churches will be closed until fall and their congregations aro virtually forbidden to worship naturo meantime. St. Paul Globe: The Omaha Methodist ministers who ure inciting a boycott of the World’s fair bocause of the Sunday opening are advertising to the world that they aro Yoo bigoted and narrow to live in this ago. They should have been translated long ago. Their efforts will help the fair immensoly, and harm the cause of religion greatly, Mmnineapolis 'ribune: Rev. Dr. Barrett of Georgia, who successtully conducted three churches and a moonshine distiilery until the revenue officers olosed up the last named enterprise, evidently failed to soe the ais- tinetion botween spiritual and spirituous consolation and was a firm beliover in both. 1t I8 a pity to cut short 8o usetul and vorsa- tile a carcer, . _Cincinnati Commercial: Clergymen in England have discovered another onemy to church-going. It is the bicyolo, EvewEng- lish clergymen are fascinatod with the wheel. If the bicycle is not scotehed, thore Will be not only empty pows, but_empty pul- pits in England’s churches, ' The bicycle as a doterrent to church-goers is somothing now, but that it is powerful is proved by the lets ters to British clerical papers from suffering pastors, Kansas City Times: Kansas City has n preacher who would evidently rather bo rotten-egged than laughed at. At least that is the only conclusion that can be drawn from his action in having an arrest made for tho latter offense, but not for the former, when ho had an apparently clear case on_each count. Tho gentleman is young, however, and he will find in time that much less disagreeable to be ridiculod than to have your clothos all mussed up with juice from ye historic ogg. ——— SIGHTS AT THE FAIR, There are 150,000 rose bushes on Wooded island, and at the present time they are nearly all in bloom. The Japanese building *Hooden,” oxhibited in the exposition, represents architecture of the three different ages. The Columbian Liberty bell will be rung for the first time at noon on the KFourth of July, and a committec is now at work to have every bell in the country, if possible, | ring in conjunction with this champion of freedom. | The religious convictionsof the Laplanders are so strong that they seriously object to being put on show on Sunday. They pass most of the time on that day beneath the trees in their village, singing hymus and reading prayerbooks. Tho lost and found department of the fair is on the third floor and at the south end of the terminal station. An elaburate record is kept there of all articles reported as lost and of all that are found, Already mearly 600 urticles have found their way thore, .. In the Mining building is a statuo in salf of Mrs. Lot as she appeared after she looked back. If the lady in question resembled in the least her suline prototype, Mr. Lot had causo for congratulation on the fact that sho ylelded to the temptation to look behind. An Irish day is to be arranged for, and the sons of the Emerald Isle propose to see to it that the crowds of German day shall be sur- passed, although no effort will be made to outshine the Teutons in the way of display. Speeches will be maao and the green dis- played everywhere. Two Irishmen were eating in a Midway plaisance restaurant the other day and the one was telling his comrade about Columbus making the egg stand. “Stop, Pat," says the other, “Bedad, oithinks ez oive the sistor tor that eg, if me judgment av tho age av an ogg does not desave me.” ‘Tho newspaper columns of 100 years ago were plentifully besprinkled with advertise- ments noting the arrival of cargoes of Ja- maica rum. In the Jamaica exhibit at the fair there is much besides rum, although there is a liboral quantity of that article to be seen. There are beautiful woods of many varieti such as ebony, mahogony and satinwood ; thero are cofféo and sugar,fruits, dyestufls, spices and many manufactures, and what not—Jamaica ginger forming a large portion of the latter classitication, BLASTS FROM RAN'S RORN, A Iney man's olock Always Funs too fast. A mercy counted is A trouble rubbod out. Small fish will nibble at any Xind of baft. No_vico has any wmore ugly face than selt- conceit, Only thosa can sing In the dark who have iight in the heart, Don't g0 ity for tha man who lets his gato swing on ono hinge. A wise mancan see more with one eye than a fool can with two, Tne favorite employment of a conceited mun I8 to brag on himself. Whenever heaven touches the earth there is constornation in the pit. ook your troubles squarely in the face and they will $00n seatter and tun, You will provably miss it 1f you joln & church simply because its stoeplo is the highest, The joy God pats into a human hoart is somothing the devil has never yet beon nble w0 take out. The ouly prayors which got to heaven are those which fall from the lips of people whe are trying to do their part. — - Pottsvillo Chron lo: 812208 tho Sornons s Whilo tho slezard 1 bo sclssorod. “Don’t Lot 1ittle things bother ou,” sounds like foolislinoss during tho red- g soasoi. Now York Recordor: Mr. Jonog-No, the fools are not all doad yot, madam. Mrs. Joney =80 lucky for we, doii't you know, doar. 1 nover did fook well n binek: Buffalo Courfar: In all probability more wise mon would keop tholr own counsel it tho retalners Woro notoutrageously high. Chicago Timos: Oh, for & cool, sequ nook, or bosky doll a-noar a purll Thpid brook--ulso a ot buer, tornd Hitivy Philadolphin Re t money doos talk," obsorved Snohbs, the other night, *1 would 11ke to ask the girl on the silver doline why sho so porsistontly and succosstully shuns me." Washington A clown attomptod to got off a now Joke ont wost th v night and the circus tent wasstrack by lightning, severnl peoplo belug killed. Detrolt Tribune: A horse raco 8 not wicked inatsolf; it1s what o man says whilo ho s toaring up his pool tickets that is shuful, nlzhty Mar talked togothor foran hour, talk about?™ *'1 haven't the We spoku In Froneh.” Chlcago Nows: Tho It which havoe with him pl prove the Norseman If | t idea. on drops his ‘h's, but "twould ould drop his J's. New York Horald: Jackson Ball-I never Kkissed a glrl in my 1ite until I met you. M otehium STve hwed that trom othors, 10 told you? M.l{ Ketehum=—Evor somany; It's an awfully oud tle. SHE GOT THERE, Now York Dress, The maiden her bost thlonts usod And hours In writing spont, But all the editors rofused Tho ploces thut she sent. Ono day tho maiden wont to town Whera shopping women go, And bought horsolf o handsome gown Of figured calico, - Andas bofors the mirror sho Admiring gluncoes cast lf‘)ull herself, sho sald, Mysolt in print at I T Should Be in Every Law Library. Dr. Victor Rosewator has received several complimentary letters upon his recont mono- graph entitled, “Spocial Assessmonts.” Mr. Willlam Oscar Roome, head of the special assessment division of the municipal govern- ment in Washington, D. C., writes: “This is a subjeot upon which I have boen daily em- Ivlnyml for oighteen years and natucally ono n which I take more than ordinary interest. 1 considor your work the best treatise on this question I have ever read and it will, when it becomes known, find its place in the library of every lawyer who is intorested in municipal cases as well as those oficials who take a part in municipal legislation, and roflects much crodit upon its author.” The fonograph is on sale at Chase & Eddy's. P T SRR AT FOR MORNING WEAR, |European Edition New York Heraldy This hat, suitable for wear during a morn- ing walk or drive, is of the well known cano- tier shape, with trimmings of dark green ribbons and upstanding wings. BROWNING, KN Largest Manufacture) ol Ulothing in In the Swim. nd Rotallg the World. bl . We're right in the middle of the stream, and we'll stay there till the thing subsides, even if we have to climb up in the air to keep our heads out of water. Saturday we're in it For $9.00. sold all season for $12.50 and $15. Faclory prices those are, but for Saturday they’ll be in one lot at only $9.00. They are all sizes light and medium weights all eolors. and cassimeres, cutaways. ‘em worth in most stores sizes, Cheviots, worsteds, homespuns, 33 to 46, sacks and Our Own Make and every one of $150or $18. High class goods nigely trimmed--made to wear well and look well. BROWNING, sore oI AN |8, See 'em in the window. KING & CO,, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts, R e S C RS ——