Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1893, Page 12

it Al s v ’ Lbeduvlmz many BEE. ditor. THE DAILY F. ROSEWATE MORNING. e JBLISHED EVERY TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. afly Beo ovithout Sunday) One Year nily and Sunday, One Year . l 8 00 10 00 5 00 hiree Months . 2 60 unday Bee ¥ . vens 200 nturdny B . 160 Vookly 100 Omaha, The B Eouth Omaha, cor| ounell Rlufts, 12 hieago Offico, 317 Ch Now York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Bullding. Washington, ng. and 26th Streets treet, nber of Commoree. Tribune 513 Fourteonth Stroot. CORRE l'n\m L) d All communications relating o _news an dltorinl matter should bo addrossed: To the Sditor. RUSINESS LETTERS. All business jetters and remittancos should beaddressed to The Bes Publishing Co mpany, Omaha, Dra ek an sstoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the com- pany. rtles Jonving the eity for the summer can T1k sent thelr nddress by leaving an PUBLISHING OOMPANY. SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, | Connty of Dougla. { Geo. B Tasclick, Sec fng company elireniaton of T ity s, 1505, was % Brr publish- that the actual DATLY T for the week ending follows tary of The Beo In Chiengo. Tre DALY nnd SUspAy Bzg i on sato in h o ut the following pla Tmor house. ¥ : at the Ne- braska lmlldhu( tion build- ing, Exposition = = Average Ci Tation 24,216 KiNe Grorae of G is said to have a fine appreciation of humor and to Jaugh good-naturedly at the newspapeg canard that he had abdicated his throne. ROYALTY is governcd by a law pecul- far to itself. Thekhedive of Bgypt Las gone to Constantinople to marry the pultan’s daughter, whom he has never boen, Tne national banks their circulation. In this way they are partially replacing the sums which de- positors have withdrawn for the pur- poses of hoardin are increasing WE DENY the allegation that the saloon keepers of Council Bluffs will in- crease their orders for Sunday lager if the H-cent bridge rate is secured. Iowa is a prohibition state. WHOEVER of the public officials in Washington may be taking a summer Yespite, thero is daily testimony that the rospective dopartment headsmen are standing faithfully at their posts. A REVISED edition of the World’s fair 13 to be held in San Francisco next win- tor. The Californians are bound to have their own way. Since they cannot all goto the fair they intend to bring tho fair out to them. THE sinking of two British steamers off the east coast of England by collision, following 50 closely upon the Mediter- ranean horror, divests English sailors of the prestige they have so long claimed of superiority in seamanship, GOVERNOR BOUES has issued an ap- peal to the poople of Towa for aid for tho distressed survivors of the terrible cyclone which has just devastated that ptato. Iowa is no doubt able to provide for her own needy. If not, the appeal phould be cxtended to include the people of other states, THE death of Justice Blatchford re- moves one more of the republican mem- Yers of the United States supreme court- But we cannot expect President Cleve- 3and to emulate the action of his prode- pessor in appointing a man to a place on the bench who subscribes to a political faith different from his own. HARD times in Amlullm are said to dents to emigrate to the United State plo prefor to settle in Amorica Father than to return to Europe? The superi- ority of opportunities in this country is measured by its power of attracting thoso who wish to better their economic condition, PROFESSOR BRANDER MATTHEWS aintains that slang has a useful func- Eon to perform in supplying new words an inelastio language. Ho also says t)mt the most superior slang comes from he west. The logical conclusion must that the effoto east is compelled to ook to the west for the rojuvenating forces of its speech, THE day dreamers of the country will be interosted in the favorable showing made by the surveyors of the proposed railroad to conneet the North and South American continents. But the state- rlent that the deposits of gold and silver hat will be uncovered in grading the road will pay for its construction will be taken with a liberal margin by practical railroad builders. Two students of Indiana university #ho were rofusod their sheepskins be- pause they participated in a meeting which denounced the trustees have de- rmined to sue for their diplomas in he courts. The question to be decided §s whether the punishment is commen- purate with the violation of the rules. ‘When adjudged, the case will probably t a precedeyt for refractory students erywhere. THE duke of Voragua, the nearest liv- descendant of Columbus, upon whom ew York city lavished so much atten- ion and expended so much money, is to made the recipient of a fund raised the United States to reliove him from financial pressure. Columbus once begged mouey from the Spanish sov- ign. We soe now that the number of pecunious noblemen has not largely Qiminished since the discovery of 1492, ~ i time . Why do these peo- | IDEN"TFICATION OF CRIMINALS, If one thing has puzzled the officers of the law mo:e than another in their en- deavors to seenre society from the deproe- dations of habitual criminals it is the difficulty which they undergo in identi- fyi judge is apt to show more mercy who has been found guilty of his first offense than to one has failed to learn the lesson of a former imprison- ment. And the offender who neglects to reform is deservedly made the mark of a more severe administration of jus- tice. But how keep trace of the persons once convieted? To rely upon acriminal to give a truthful account of his past career is the wildest of follies. Many methods have been invoked for this purposo in years past. The per- sonal recognition of the police authori ties was once the standard. In this country at presont convicts are required 1o be photographedl upon entering prison and these photographs have been distributed among the different prison officials. Represcntatiins of this kind have, however, proven at the same timo defective and ineffectiv The subject has little difficulty in altering his per- sonal appearance 8o that his sccond self bears little resemblance to his fiest. In this dilomma a more accurate method is desirable, and as such a method the an- thropometrical measurements have been devised by the Parisian police officials and have met with great success, al- though but a short time in active opera- tion. What this system is is graphi- cally described by M. Betillon in an article in the current Humanitarian. Authropometrical descriptions are simply classified measuremonts of cor- tain bony parts of the human frame which are taken to vary the least from to time in an adult person. Take for example, 100,000 convicts and subject thom to accurate meas- urements of the following portions of their bodies: "First, the height— short, medium or tall. Second, the length of head., Third, the maximum breadth of head. Fourth, the length of the middle finger of the left hand. Fifth, the maximum length of the left foot. Sixth, the maximum length of the arms extended. dd to these cate- gories the color of the eye, the complex- ion, the sex, the division into adults ahd children, the record of particular body marks, such as moles, scars and s0 forth, and we will have a description which for purposes of identification can not well bo surpassed. These descriptions, taken and recorded may be classifi who when uniformly similar ord ording to the dif- ferent appro: 5 of measurements, 50 that with s few of the dimensions given the particular description may casily be found at a moment’s notice. he photographs may be filed along with the anthropometric deseription, yet this is by no means necessary. As evidence of the accuracy of the system, M. Bertillon cites the fact that whereas in Paris twenty recognitions were for- merly made per month from photo- graphs, forty per month are now regu- larly made. After the system of measurements and the classification which sprang from it had been prac- ticed in that city for three years, more than 30,000 photographs had al- ready been classified by this means. If a person-refuses to give his correct name the anthropometrical description en- ables them to place him with a search of a fow seconds only. The adoption of this system of identifi- cation in other countrios is only a mat- tor of time. M. Bertillon makes a plea for its adoption in entirety, or at least without such radical modifications as would destroy its uniformity and en- danger its efficiency in cases of an inter- national character. If a system of this kind were univorsally adopted by ecivil- ized nations and so perfected that no criminal once convicted could ordinarily escape recognition whenever rearrested, the work of our criminal courts would be greatly simplified. It is not the acei- dental erime which iety foars, but the deliberated attack. First offenders could be shown the leniency due them, while irredeemable law breakers could be immediately identified and put where they can no longer indulge their lawless proponsitic in THE FIGHT I‘IIH OMAHA, A multiplicity of adverse forces con- spire to make imperative such an organ- ization as the Commercial club. At no period in the commercial history of this city has there been so great a necessity for concerted action on the part of our merchants and manufacturers with a view to a betterment of relations be- tween the city and the railroads and to placing Omaha merchants on an equal footing with those in large competitive distributing points. For three or four years the stock yards and packing house people have been fighting for railroad rates from south- wost points to enable Omaha to competo with Kansas City and St. Louls, Finally the railroads made certain concessions which were of some advantage, but there is much yet to be done before Omaha can sceure the business to which she is entitled. Within a comparatively short time the cattle ranges of South Dakota will be connected with Omaha by a direct rail line. This stock now all goes east, chiefly to Chicago. The Chicago roads havea monopoly of this business and will not relinquish it without a contest. Omwaha is today a competitor for this business, and by a well directed effort may secure a fair proportion of it. The lowa roads have mever treatod Omaha fairly in the matter of live stock rates and train schedules. They never will doso until the combined strength of this business community is brought to besr upon them. he now wsximum freight rato law will go into effect within thirty days. It will reduce local tariffs throughout the state, and insofar as through schedules are influenced by local tolls changes must be made, bases for pro- rating fixed that will be equitable be- tween Nebraska roads, and flat rates to common points agreed upon. In the ad- justment of through rate schedules Owmaha will have to sue for fair play or suffer commercial isolation. No more important problem than this will en- | tion. THE OMAHA DAILY gago the attention of the Commercial club, Its proper solution means great gains in dollars and cents to the mer- chants and manufacturers of Omaha. The freight commissioner is now,at work on the 5-cent differential, which is a barrier against Omaha's trade with Towa, northern Missouri and South Dakota. Itis an outrageous diserimi- nation against Omaha merchants im- posed by the Towa roads and must be abolished. Omaha is the commercial metropolis of avastarea. Her power has never been fully tested. In the fight for fair play this city must eventually triumph. Her succoss is in a measure dependent upon the ability of the officers of the Commercial club to meet the expecta- tions of the people of this city. SILVER AND THE WAGE EARNER. In current discussions of the present silver crisis much attention has been devoted to the effects upon the owners of silyer mines, upon the banks and bankers, upon the manufacturcrs and employers of labor. The possibility of an international agreement has been mooted. The probable action of con- gress whon it convenes next month has been the theme of numerous writers. One phase of the question appears, hoy ever, to have been almost entiraly over- looked. While the mine owner, the financier, the manufacturer, the con- gressman have each come in for their proper share of discussion, the class which composed the bulk of our popula- tion and on which more than all others rests the real basis of our prosperity— the wage earning class—has been shamefully neglected. No change in our legislative policy, no alteration in our coinage laws, no sudden stoppage of any great industry can be undergone without marked effects upon the condition of our labor- ing classes. These effects most natur- ally show themseclves first in those branches of employment most near to the seat of disturbance. erisis this has been in the trades closely connected with the actual production of silver. The shutting down of the silver mines alone has deprived thousands of workers of their means of gaining a livelihood. The allied industries of smelting and refining are now giving employment to fewer men by many hun- dreds than some few wecks ago. Othor capitalists are decreasing the number of names on their payrolls, and while the movement has not as yet gone very far, it is sufficiently serious to demand care- ful consideration. Every time any large class of laborers are thrown out of work the demand for necessaries of life is to some extent ased. As long as he is earning no tvages the American laborer hesitates to spend more thau is absolutely neces- sary. The small shopkeepers are among the first to feel the indications of financial distres The manufacturer, when he learns that the demand for his goods i 4 is strongly impelled to curtail preduction. These are the usnal symptoms that precede a commer- cial panic. What is needed is to apply the vemedy before the discase has gone too far. The business men must keep up the demand for their own goods. The demand for their goods comes from the working men and tho working men can only buy so long as they are employed and are receiving their usual compensa- If the employers can only be made to view the prosent stringency as temporary—and already signs have a - peared indicating its temporary char- wcter—they will refuse to discharge men except under stress of unavoidable necessity. Such a course 15 the only one which reason dictates. Employers everywhere ougrht to seriously consider the condition of their emploves and show them every mark of consideration consonant with the sound conduct of their busines THE BAL. UE OF TRADE. Before there can be a complete read- justment of financial and commercial conditions something moro than the re- peal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman act will be potent factor in producing the present stato of affaivs is unquestionably the fact that fora year or more past the balance of trade has been against the United States, and for the pust six months this' adverse balance has been stoadily increasing. Wo have teen buying abroad more than we sold and all experience shows what must inovitably be the consequences of this course. It leads with absolute certainty to a drain of gold, and if this process be long continued, as has been tho case soveral times in our history, it results in serious financial disturbance and de- pression. In his comprehensive review of our financial history, addressed to the secre- tary of the treasury, ex-Senator Hender- son ascribes the pasics of 1857 and 1873 largely to enormous adverse foreign trade balances which depleted the country of gold. During the poriod of unbridled state bank issues of paper monoy between 1848 and 1857, both inclusive, in a total foreign commerce of only $4,307,000,000 the ex- cess of our imports of merchandise over exports was almost $347,000,000, making an average loss for the ten years of about 8 por cont per annum. The panic of M57 was the consequence and its effects continued until the depreciated state bank ocurrency was destroyed. Everybody knows that the panie of 1873 was the result of speculation and over- trading. Between 1803 and 1873, inclu- sive, the balance of foreign trade against this country reached the enormous amount of $1,086,440,587—this sum rep- resenting the excess of imports over ex- ports. In the year before the panic the oxcess of imports amounted to $182,000, 000 and it reached $119,000,000 in 1873— only u very little more than the excess for the past twelve months. This long and steady drainage, says Mr. Hender- son, “lasting without a single inter- mission for eleven years, brought its legitimate fruit—a 10ss of a large part of the nation's wealth, and with it the country’s entire stoek of gold. The only currency left us was tho greenback and the national bank note, which latter, being redecmable in lawful money of necessary. the Umited States, could not acquire any, higher value than the greenback itself.” From 1863 to 1873 our exports of gold In the present T the remedies which | BEE: LY 9, and silver coin and bullion excesded our imports 8674,000,000, which readily ex- plains why the panie of 1873 was so pro- longed and disastrous. The situation at fhis time is not ex- actly parallel to thitt ‘of 1873, but the course of our foreign trade is in the same direction that.led to the panic of twenty years ago, and this is a most im- portant matter to b considered in cone nection with proposed fiscal and finan- cial legislation. We shall not stop the efllux of gold by consing to prrchase sils vor if wo go on importing more mer- chandise than we eékport, and under such a revenue policy as the party in power proposes this must in all proba- bility bo the case. It remains to bo seen whether the democratic administration and congress will apprehend and appro- ciate the importance of this matter of the balance of trade in its relation toour financial soundness and sceurity. THE New York Board of Education is wrestling with the problem of reform in the employment of teachers in the pub- lic schools of that city, Much dissatis- faction exists over the methods now in vogue, and & measuro has been intro- duced proposing several vital changes. First, it seoks to make the teachers' salaries proportionate with the period of meritorious service. Second, it aims to introduce a scheme of civil servico reform by which applicante for positions must not only passthe required exami- nations, but also act es substitutes in practice schools for 100 days. The super- inteudents are to report on the progre: made from time to time, and at the ex- piration of that period another special examination must be successfully under- Rone before the applicants will be entitled to have their names placed on the list of permunent teachers. The adoption of some means of ridding the schools of superannuated teachers is the next reform which they propose to grapple with. As these prob- lems are not confined to any one locality may be adopted the metropolis will constitute an im- portant lesson for other cities. The people generally take such universal i terest in the welfarc of the public schools that any improvements in methods or management which give ovidence of an unmistakable advance over those now pursued are sure to he widely copied in all parts of the country. THE National League for Good Roads has issued tho report of the proceedings of its convention, held at Chicago last October, in pamphlet form and proposes to use the same in promoting the cause of good roads. The effectiveness of the address has been enhanced by the ad- dition” of a number of pictures made by photographic process, illustrating some of the best as well as some of the worst, roads in this country and in Kurope. Ohio mud and Towa ruts are well repre- sented. Nebraska cow paths might fur- nish similarly apt subjects for pictorial display, but they have evidently been overlooked in the selection as made. In this connection, an experiment about to be made in New York state is attract- ing considerable attention. It is the operation of anew law which provides for the employment of 300 convicts from the state prison at Dannemora, N. Y., in bettering the country roads in the vicinity of that institution. The pur- poses of the experiment ave to show the farmers of that state what good roads are, to demonstrate their advantagos and to encourage them in extending the 00d work. The movement for good rouds deserves to meet with still further success. THE Nebraska Labor congress which met at Lincoln last Sunday embodied into the preamble of its newly adopted constitution what in reality is its pro- gram for veform. The demands made are on the whole in line with a progre: ive spirit. Of this charactor in partic lar are the sections favoring govern- ment ownership of telographs and tele- phones, municipal control of and opera- tion of the monopolies of water, gas, electrie light and street car servi the abolition of cluss privileges, the clection of senators by a direct vote of the peo- ple, a revision of the tax laws and an enforcement of the laws relating to child labor and an eight hour working day. The clauses calling for nationali- zation of all land and railways are per- haps a little premature. On the other hand the exprossion on the monetary question is simply a repetition of popu- list fallacies and can scarcely reflect the sentiment of the great body of laborers. The Nebraska Labor congress is to be vepresented at the International Labor congress, tobe held August 8in Chicago, by three delegates appointed by the president and the next moeting will take place in Omaha. THE vacation fover bids fair to bocomo opidemic among the public officials, city, county and state. Kvery one is asking for a vacation without rogard to the ab- sonce of other officers, The courts are practically shut down, notwithstanding their overloaded dockats. It is really too bad that the government cannot be suspended for a fow months, just to please the employes. Sbme uniform rules respecing vacations ought to b pre- seribed for the difforentdepartments of the public service, gnd the relative lengths of time for which leaves of ab- senco are given should be adjusted ac- cording to some ratiphal plan. Only in this way can the ¢phstant bickering about favoritism andirequests for un- warranted poriods of recreation be satis- factorily abolished STATE TREASURKE« BARTLEY con- atulates himself on having had but ,000 of the public money in banking institutions that have been forced to suspond. A burnt child usually shuns the fire and the disastrous experiment with the defunct Capital National bani ought to have improssed upon the state officers a lesson not soon to be forgotten. THERE is no reason why Kansas City should have any advantage over Omaha in the southern and western Nebraska trade. Neither is there any reason why Omaha should not have the advautage of Kansas City. The Nebraska trade naturally belongs to Omahs. It would come to this city were it not for the fact that the railroads have discriminated IF‘)’!—QIYTFEN I‘AGE against Omaha in favor of ('hivnuo. Now the railroads announce that they annot meet the rates fixod by the max- imum rate law. This decision is wholly against Omaha's intorests and should at once moet with the protest of every business man in Omaha. THERE seems no end of hother about the new assistant prafessorship of mathe- matics at the military academy at West Point. The office was created by the last congress to go into effect July 1, and Lieutenant W. T. REdgerton, Second artillory, was appointed thereto. Thore- upon the treasury accounting office held that he had forfeited his commi sion in the army, and moreover could not receive pay undor his new office until July 1. The attorney goneral reversed this finding and decided that the lieu- tenant held his commission. Now the question has arisen whether he must bo reappointed to the place at the academy. The law branch of the government is considering the matter, and in the mean- while the lieutenant is holding on to his commission. THE favorite resort of railroad corpo- rations to evade the laws passed by legis- latures which they fail to control has bren adopted by the companies in Kan- sas. They will fight the assessment of their lines in that state on the ground that the law under which the state authorities inereased the valuation of their roads is unconstitutional. Uncon- stitutional laws always have been the bulwark of railway corporations. THE latest reports from unoflicial sources indicate that there will be a loss of 80,000,000 bushels as compared with the wheat crop of last year. The figures are yot to be verified, but if they are correct the statement should have a stimulating effect upon the market. Other conditions being equal, wheat should command a remunerative price within the next twelve months, Sun's Domaln, New York Sun. o of lakes and out Alaska, thi 1 States Of the and bayous, Aroas cres within The mountain, onof well disty uder is arid plain or SR IDRTIN el A Profitable Investments Chica.o Inter Oocan. general good health reported from blessing which The calls for profound thankfu less largely due to tho ge the past yoar under the d public press and health boa states. Mon ] ways a good il ds in all the ry work is al- Trusts, Chicago Inter Uce i, The coal barons sec the wreck and ruin of “the Reading trust,” but having tasted the fruit cannot bopersuaded to relinquish it. They are veginning to turn the scrows upon the public, and before frost their groat gamo of grab will be developed unless the strong arm of the law shall be reachod out and shall shake the life outof the miquitous organized robbery. ————— Gob Tegoet or. Philadelph'a Ledyer. The fact that the advocates of free coin- age of silver aro to meet before the assem- blage of congress o map out a blan of action ought to suggest to the fricnds of honest monoy the necessity of coming to some un- derstanding before the battle b The leaders at least should confer and settle upon what_they intend to do. Otherwiso they may find themselves in the condition of & mob opposed to a disciplined force, i iy Keep Cool nnd Keep Quict, Brookiyn Times. In the summer scason it appears 10 be es- pecially easy to make the mass suffer for the discomforts of the individual. The man with the ugly liver and the rest of them aro as much in ovidence as over, while tho di comtorts of summer heat breed a vast cata- logue of complaints which tne intimac summer time relations make it parti asy to communicate. The gre: poovlo are inclined to look cheerfully at discomtort, but this majority is continually h sed and is made smaller than it other- wise would bo by the fact that it has to watch the sour faces and hear the lamenta- tions of the complaining minority. ——————— Last Rosort in Labor Troablos. Buffalo Express. ettling strikes by calling out then: tional guard is an awkward and unpopular process. The troops have nover been sum- moned in this state where they were ot needed, owing to the inadequacy of the loc peace authorities, but it is not always tain that overy means of composing the ble had been exhausted before tho dis- was allowed to come toa head. An doccupation is expensive to the tax- and the troops alike. Many of the soldiers must allow their private business to suffer and others lose theirsituations duriag their entorced absence in camp. Then, too, the spectacle of citizen soldiery overawing rebellious brethren is not an inspiring one to freemen. s there no bettor wa; PEOPLE AND THLYGS, Tho “blind tiger” has taken a fresh grip on life in South Carolina. Oftice seekers praying for the lightning to strike should hie away to a lonely tree dur- ing a storm. Ady rom Colorado givo the joyful as- surance that Holden and Pavterson will not secede from the union. It is reasonably certain that Desperado Starr will play o star engagement in the Colorado penitentiary. Another blow has boen struck at the rum power. A Virginia freak smoto a whisky exhibit at the World’s fair. Denver protests against the colonics of bogus beggers shipped there from Chicago. There is a limil to the patience of the world's sauitarium No matter how opinions differ Kinley bill, the silvor bill and other mattors of the kind, the country is 4 unit for the #- bill, and larger ones in proportion, va must tey again if it oxpects to rival that section they in civcumforence and a ful help in plowing time. Russell Soge shylocked Wall streot to the tuno of § during the money stringenc, out on call th greater partof §5,000,000at from 3) to 73 per cent, he national convention of Tablo Knife inders was held in Connecticut last week. T'np tact that 1o attention was paid o the atious indicates public indifference to grinding monopolies. Colonel Andrew Jackson of Nashyille, Tenn., grandson of President Androw Juck: son, is preparing Lo it up a house in Cincin- nati after the style of the famous hermitago near Nashwille.” Nino rooms will be filled with his collection of furniture, ote. Tammany hall Is about to plunge tho knife into & Juicy pudding. The assessed valua. tion of New York City, just completed, amounts to $1,95,518,520,'a gain of §105,000,- 000 in & v With such a feast spread out, the tiver cares not whether federal spoils come Lis way. Colonel Bob Ingersoll is said to have more young men friends than any man in the country. He says witly things to the young fellows, pats them on the ulder and makes comrades of them. Occasi Vi dulge in a flight of cony that fairly captivates his hearers Emuma Corbett is a Colorado young woman who intends to ride from Chadron, Neb., to Chicago with a view 1o beating the 1 recently made by Johu Berry aud his broncho “‘Poison.” She weiglis but ninety pounds, has ulmnn of money and wauts to Lfll she will make Berry hide his diminished head iu confusion, l on tho Mc- In A TRANSFORMATION SCHEME, The July numbor of The Forum coutains an ingenious plea by Kdmuna Hudson in favor of turning the atmy of the United Statos into an oducational establishmont. Ho woula have it transformed into & national military training school that would ‘“‘ake up each year S000 young men from the entire country. assemblo them in army posts, give thom a thorough course of ‘sot- ting up' ana of soldierly training, and at the end of each yoar to send the samo number back to ga on with their life-work, with enhanced physieal power and greatly in- creased capacity for living well regulated lives and for the partor o of the dutios of Amorican citize Ho seos no difficulty in accomplishing this transforma- tion scheme. “It is hardly necessary to securo anything more than & determination on the patt of tho president and the secre tary of war to offect {t. _Somo little legisia on by congress might be helpful, but it is indispensable.”! guments he adduces in favor of his proposition are that the United States now needs not a pormanent foreo of hired sol- diers, but an_effective system of training soldiers who will, after receiving their train- ing, be gaod citizens; that with the same amount of money mow expended in main- taining a_comparatively inefielont army of 24,000 men, an active army of 50,000 young men may bo drilled and maintained who would g0 back among their people at the end of their terms of culistment, and form the nuclous of a million men, if the country should need so many to defond it. To accomplish this he would reoreanize the army so as to limit the service vo threo yoars, retaining only a sufficient number of the most eficiont men as noncommissionod ofticors, and for this purpose he would adopt the fourteen-year term of the German army. To those who havo assumed that the groutor the oxperience the greater the eMciency of the soldier it scoms straneo to find Mr. Hud- son able to fortify his proposition by testi- mony as tothe vicious effect of continuing men in service under the present tem from Colonel K. . Hughes, inspector gen- oral of the Dopartment of the kast. “The ro-onlistment of private soldiers during iods of profound peace seems to mo to be very short-sighted policy,” he says. “Koep- vate soldiers on tho rolis until they vo completed the number of years when the law will admit of their being placed on the retirod list s undermining the general oflicioncy of our forces The average army tho writor Aeuros out ¢ “In a serv holly educational in its sc so much money would not be needed.” ho thinks that &2 a woek would be sufticient for an American youth whose threo years of duty are to be “ guaranty of employuient and character at the cud of his term.” The conversion of the army into a local national military training school would also result he submits, in the total abamtonm costly an i Under the systom sional district would be entitled to supply twenty-five recruits annually, who would go direct to their forts and would be taken on all together in October of cach rd ing to the would, he of the enl status, Men men of the army to something like thatof the cadetsat West Point. With the ctation of going to ipations three years of mili- work, und_their futuro pro de- pending on their faithful servico, they would have no inclination to indulgo vicious 8. tes the fact that according to the system that now exists the term of servi omiually five, has been practically reducod to three years, as tho adjutant general of thear ys in his report. He would have that_all tho roc reorganization should be under 3 age, all unmarried and to remain so, all to serve the full torm without taking ndvan- tage of the right to purc discharge, and all to leavo the service at the end of three years. = “The contiden of this subversion of all tho traditions of the s E greater obstacle to providing civil posi for these 8,000 disc! ng gallutes an- nually than he wplishing any other phase of his radical program. *“Then lot the secretary of war call a moeting in Washington of all the manugers of all the great railroad lines of the country snd secure from them ap agrecment Lo give these young men, when houorably discharged from tho service of the United States, a preference over all others in the seryice of their com- panies.” Man v Mr. Hudson possesses no greater familiarity with the methods of these great corporate monopolies than he doos with the purpose and duties of the mili- tary arm of the service. The co-operative system already adopted by the War depart- ment with the various universities and edu- cational institutions throughout the country, and with_the Natonal guard of the states, in furnishing ofticers to teach military in- struction, and_detachments of troops as ob- Joet lessons for the militia in the summer en- campments ostablishes already a thoroughly fent national system of militury training, Whatever merit there may be in the writer's idea, some moro practical plan will have to devised for its development than that he submits, ——— Nelson (B, C,) Tribune; We do not bo- tiove in any of the gospel truths handed down by our forefashers. When a boy, we wore told that the rainbow was the Al- mighty’s sign that the world would never again ve destroyed by a fiood. — On Tuesday evening th appeared in the heavens 3 o jucd rainbow—and it has been ramiug ever since. These old'gospel truths cau no more be depended on than the s ments made by tho Kaslo papers in re to the work that is being done on the & Slocan railway. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. St. Paul Pioneer Pross argument againat heresy trials. In old ti it only cost the price of half & cord of faggots and & man to tend the firo, while now it volves good, hard dollars, to the extent of 50,000 or Moo, Cloveland Ly out announces HOId-Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit 1 Baptists” in the United States religions denomination wors that name saddied upon it! Indianapolis Journal: “Rev openod a sorfes of rovival ser Mo., by daclaring that Selalia was “only & short distance from hell.” As he makes the same assortion of every town whore he spoaks, it would appear that ho finds hell vory near him wherever he goos. New York Evening Sun: Lane sominary, which recently made quito o fuss in the Presbytorian world, is now loft with & sin- gle professor, Rev. Henry Preserved Smith, and he ts a horatic. Well may unfon pauso and refloct. When will parsons loarn that to run agalast a gonoral assembly is like butting a stone wall with no armor plating on your frontal bones? It is unprofitable Now York Sun: We must examine the talmud and_the books of the commentators boforo we can answer the question of a_cor- respondent: “Did Moses take a negro woman to wife?" We learn from the twelfth chapter of the book of Numbera that certain persons “spake against Moscs because of the . Fthioplan woman whom ho had married; for liomarried an Kthioplan woman;" but it must bo remembered that all the people of tho extensive region anciently known as Ethiopia were not nogroes, Tho Cushite race iived thore in the timo of Moses; per- haps the wife whom tho lawgiver of Istacl married was a Cushite or Sabwan, —1f, how- ovor, sho was of the nogro race,’we cannot help it Here's another Just dor: A consus bulletin o 10,000 \at there are Think nl A ring along with m Jones inSedal R~ —— RIB STICKERS. Elmira Gazotte: Tho journey of an iceberg is certainly a cool procovding. Galveston News: A square danco s ono in which no advanta 08 can bo takon. Yonker's Statosma A man's bont when Philadelphin Tincs: Washington may bo the father of his country, but the firecracker 15 tiie popoor of the Fourth of July. Physician to Bank Prost- too sedentary. You xorelso uld n You can't always tell s on the stoop. Buftalo Enquiror: dent—Your hablits should take moro Pationt—How v 1 on the bank do? r—What s the mer- verlasting fuss about, now? Attendan ys tho Ind hber n stolo b L and sho s kicking 1t going home in the rai Washington What's the matter?" suld the roundsman. hev a lond an’ bofs- Terous tooth,” repliod the officor. “As good policeman yoz ought to folnd no troubl Iakin® up yor moind phat o do wid " “Hov 1t pullad. Intor Ocoan: mald making su olphta Rocord ow look pleasant) A the photograpl Tow tho ana ok ple b with th i’ him In the face?" ask 1 pointing to All orders must bo pald surnal: Jimmy do Tuf L Af you don’t gt a moy Wl KiG do prosont of aneckiace, soo? il Young Foller— Aw. wot's qats Jimmy de Tuff -A sort of small belt on de neck. SING MEION, THE PELLOW. New York Recorder, Whisky 1s good for a suicide’s mood, And wine Is tho fool killer's ald; But in wenther like this, hooray for tho kisg OF the drink that for the suminer is madel 1t's good for the follow, And he'll never got mollow On.n gallon of Temonade— Yum! Yum A gallon of lemonado. —_——— A HINT FROM PARIS. <& |European Edition New York Heraldy PRETTY SUMMER TOTLET. Gown of printed linen, yoke of lace threaded with baby ribbons; bertha of lace, forming Marie Antoinetto fichu, belt of straw colored satin, BROWNING, KING Largest Manutscturers and Rotallers ol Olothing 1o the World. It's this Weigh:— We've still on hand a whole slew of summer this one-third. suits. prices way down. some beauties among them. There is also a big wad of those skeleton-lined lined) coats and vests which we must get rid of this week. Straw hats They're marked down about They'll have to be sold season, so we've put the There are coats (or un- must go, too. On second floor the children’s goods are getting a cut also. That lot of boys' vacation suits at $1.50 are worth nearly twice as much money. Reduc- tions all along theline, Economical people will buy now when the styles are to be had. BROWNING, Btore open every evening till 6.50. o0r OPen L uraay vill 16 |8, KING & 0., . W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. A ettt i B e |