Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 16, 1893, Page 12

| —%- THE L DAILY BEE TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. ally Tien owi ndny) One Year.. § ily and < o Your ix Month . hres Manthe P one Von Onp Yea One ¥ear [ = ho Tien Buiiding. Va, cnrner X and 6t Streets 2 Penrl Btraet, » Ofice, 817 ¢ of Commeorcs. ll,.l-f"v‘.m. Ttgoms 13, 13 and 15, Tribune ng. "'uuhlnumm 518 Fourteonth Street. CORRESPONDENCE All communieations rolating to news and §itorlal matter sbowld be addrossed: To the d o ditor. NUSINESS LETTERS All bustness iottors and romittances should addressed 1o The Rea Publishing Co mpany, Omunha, Drafts, ehecks and _postoffice orders 1o bo mado payable to the order of the com- pany. Parties Jonving the city for the summer can Yiave the REy sent thelr address by leaving an order at this offive, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. * §WORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of N nka, L County of Douglas, v ' Geo, B, Tzachuek, Se g compan Tren]ation of T D uly 13,1804, w Bunday. July 9. onday, Jiily 10 uiesdny. July 1 ednesdny, J hursday 'riday, fi"v 1 aturday, July 15....0 tary of Trm Ber publish. nly wwear that the actnal Tik: for the week ending v 1 i i% B TZSCHUCK. ‘and subscribed n aay of July, 1803. —— | SWORN to bofo my presence Uiy N. P, FEIL ® DALY and Suspay Ber I3 on salo in Chieago at the following places: Palmer honse, Grand Paciile hotel. It tel. Gore hotel, Lelund hotol. Wells B, &izer, 180 8 Files of Tne' Ber ca ‘braska building and tho ing, Exposition erounds. Averago Circulation soen nt tho No- nistration build- or June, 1893, 24,216 IT 18 announced that the postal cards now in use will s0on bo reduged to a uni- form size. Why not extend the good work to include the adhesive postago stamp? THERE is ubudant testimony to lead to the belief that Assistant Postmaster General Muxwoll's buzz saw is running on full time notwithstanding the sum- mer solstico ALL the lawyers in n cortain Penn- pylvania county have agreed to close their offices to their clients until Au- Eustl. The announcement of the next rust is pationtly awaited RuUSSIA is said to have determined to keep a fleet of war vossels in American waters, This is supposed to be a counter move to recent British naval orders. The United States cannot ob- fect 80 long as peaceful purposes are as- Jured. THE editor of the Revus des Deux Mondes has been forced into involuntary exile by the machinations of a set of Parislan blackmailers. Europe should revise her opinion of America. The plots of hold bad men and bad bold women do not all originate on this side of the Atlantic. —_— THE destitute. victims of - the cyolone which devastated Pomeroy, Ia., made an pppeal for stoves last week. American people as a rule are noted for their gen- erous dispositions in responding to all reasonable requests, but stoves at this acason of the year—this is asking alto- gother t00 much. THE bicycle menaco is one becoming generally complained of, and it is con- fined to no city, town or community. fiven in Omaha wheolmen's disregard of tho safety of others ocoupying the streets and sidewalks is so marked that It should attract the attention of the municipal authorities, —_— THE daily list of Nebraskans who reg- Ister at the state building on the World’s fair grounds is steadily length- ening. Nebraska peoplo are quick to appreciate the advantages of an interna- tional exposition and at the same time willing to make any ordinary sacrifico to Bocure an opportunity to visit Chicago this year. IT WILL be some gratification to peo- ple who do not know Tom Patterson, E. Holden, Governor Waite and the others who ran the silver convention in Den- ver, to read the assurance of D, H. Moffatt, president of the First National bank of that city, that they in no sense represent either the business interests or sentiments of Colorado. TODAY is the last Sunday during which the gates of the World’s fair are to be opened to the public. Nothing so well illustrates the essential difference in customs here and abroad as the fail- ure of the working classes to take ad- vantage of Sunday opening, whereas to the European laborers that day is the special feature of every popular exposi- tion. — IN VIEW of the decision of the su- preme court, Commisioner Garneau will have to rovise his opnion of Auditor Moore's knowleage of the law defining the duties of state auditor. While the decisionof the court may disappoint Mr, Garneau, there can be no question that the general rule laid down by the court is one that will protect the state treasury from unlawful raids. No other rule could be adopted with due regard for the best. interests of the stato, IT DETRACTS somewhat from the im- portance of the Denver silver convention to learn that it was rudely charged on the floor that tho chicf anxiety of mem- bers to be sent to the approaching Chi- eago convention arose from the fact that they would thus be afforded an oppor- tunity for seeing the World'’s fair with- out cost to themselves, Another signifi- cant incident also was that while the commitiee claimed that $20,000 would be necessary to pay the expenses of the eonvention and of the delegates to Chi- cago and Washington it was disclosed that 81,000 was every cent they could get the banks of Denver to subscribe for Mo silver cause. | lishment entails. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S VICTURY. Tho Reichstag yesterday passed the army bill by & majority of sixteen votes. The suceoss of tho government was clearly foreshadowed by the vote on the first clanse of the bill last Thursday, which was adopted by & majority of eleven, the latter vote showing that the government had gained a few adherents in the forty-eight hours that followed. The new bill isa modification in one or two important respects of the original measure, but it will enable the govern- ment to materially incrense all arms of the military service, and it will add to the burden upon the German peo- ple which the enormous military estab- The chief ground of the opposition to the bill was the addi- tional taxes it would impose upon the poople, whichi they are less able to bear now than perhaps at any other time sinco the empire was established. Ger- many has not been notably prosperous during the past two or throe yoars, and the outlook for the coming year, with reduced crops that will compel the im- portation of an unusual amount of food products, is far from bright. Under such circumstances to increaso tho mil- itary burden will undoubtedly boe folt as a peculiarly sovero havdship, only to be justified by the most prossing exigency. | an oxigency, the government has insistod, does exist. Its contontion has been that the maintenance of peace, in which all else is involved, rendered im- peratively necossary the legislation for which it asked. This alono has been the plea of the emporor, echood by his chancellor. They have uniformly and persistontly declared that the motive of the government in asking an increase of the military establishment was entirely in the intorest of peace, and they have repeatedly suid that there could be no assurance of a continu- ance of this condition unless Ger- many was placed in a position that would enable her to remain what she has been for twenty years, the arbiter in the political affairs of Burope. This idea has been firmly, consistently and aggressively urged upon the public mind by the government, and the result shows with what effecet. Two months ugo the cause of the government secmed hopeless, and in that time even Bis- marck, though not approving of all the details of the army bill, and certainly not anxious to do anything to promote the ess of Caprivi, has been brought to sedo that an increase of the military ablishment i8 necessary, and that the Gorman peoble can better afford to assume the addi- tional burden than to take the risk that would be involved in allow- ing the army to decline, for that in effect would be the meaning of & refusal to in- crease it. It will not take a great while to dem- onstrate whether the assurance of tho kaiser that his intentions and purposes are 1n the interest of peaco is sincere. Thero is reason to believe that he meant what he has said in this respect and that he fully believes that the only certain way to avert war, between nations situa- ted with reference to each other as the nations of Europe are, Is to be adegately prepared for war. So far as can be judged from the surface indica- tions there is at present less danger of a serious disturbance of the peace of Europe than at any other timo in the last six or cight years, but it would not be wise to accopt what ap- pears on the surface with unquestioning confidence. The question that naturally suggests itself is, what will now be done Dby the nations regarding whose military / Gormany has reason to bo appre- and vigilant? Will France and Russia increase their military establish- ments in the degreo that Germany pro- poses to do? If so, it will not be difficult to interpret their design and another appeal to the German people in the not far future may be expected. ARE LICENSE TAXES ILLEGALY In the test case gotten up by local coal merchants in order to secure a de- cision upon the legality of the ordinance imposing an annual license of $100 upon all dealers in coal in the city of Omaha, the city has just suffered a defeat in the district court® While quite a sum is at issue in this particular case, it is not so much the question whether the city council may impose license taxes upon the coal business that interests the pub- lie, but whether in general it has the right to raise revenue by means ol a licenso system. This is a much broader subject than the mere quibbling over a cry that one particular ordinance was the result of acombine among the larger coal dealers in order to crush out their smaller competitors. Judge Scott, like many of his much more eminent colleagues on the bench, loses no opportunity to display his lack of economic training. To say that a system of raising revenue by means of licenso taxes ‘“is wrong in vrinciple, evil in its tendencies, dangerous to human liberty, at war with tho genius and spirit of our government” is alto- gether uncalled for and nothing but the voriest bosh. Such taxes are imposed very genorally throughout Europe, where the development of individual rights is scarcely less marked than with us. They are found in numerous Amer- ican municipalities, particularly in the south and east, and have not resulted in any apprecisble danger to human liberty. The court in this decision takes refuge behind the dectrine of police reg- ulations, and claims that the coal busi- ness cannot fall under that power, If we are to judge the legality of a tax by its purpose, then the whole revenue sys- tem of the country lies virtually at the feet of our judicial tribunals. If in ap- plying tho test of public policy a judge can say that avery license which brings a revenue greater than the expense of regulating the business from which it is derived is illogal, then the city council may as well abdicate its power of im- posing license taxes to the courts. Fol- lowing out the reasoning of the decis- ion, the fact that all our license money is turned over to the school board and sp- plied to the maintenance of the schools in- stoad of to the expenses of regulating that particular trade would make every one of them null and void. If the coal deal- ers can recover what they have paid under protest, the wilkmen, the huck- sters, the cab drivers—everybody may OMAHA DAILY B JULY 16, henceforth refuss to pay for loensas, or pay under protest, and sue to recover back their money. The princivle upon which this case turns s of vital impor- tance to the eity. The city's legal ropro- sentatives should appeal the case and secure an authoritative decision before yielding the eity's contention. COLLEGE ATHLETICS, Fow of the many oratorical produc- tions of the college ecommencement season this year have drawn upon them- selves as much serious attention as the Phi Beta Kappa oration deliverod be- fore the Harvard chapter of thator- ganization by Genoral Francis A. Walker. The subject which the speaker chose was not a now one. College ath- letics have been the theme of much dis- cussion of late. Yet with college men it will be ever popular and despite the de- cidod stand taken in its favor by Gen- eral Walker, it will sti!l have to encoun- ter many attacks, In the address referred to the speakor, perhaps, went a trifle too far in holding up to unqualified ridieule the roal stu- dent of a few docades back. Just be- cause ho took little physical oxercise, because some ware pale and moody, be- cause others were self-conscious and conceited, does not necessarily stamp with disgrace a system of education which in its zeal for intellectual devel- opment paid toolittle attontion to physi- cal training. The student of ante-bel- lum days must have had some exercise or he could not have survived. Asa matter of fact he was developed into a giant who battled in ideas and in acts for freodom and for his country. To condemn absolutely the educational sys- tem under which all the great leaders of twenty-five years ago were trained is itself to be condemned, although modern methods may be many times more symet- vically constructed. The great cry of today is for a dual discipline, mental and physical. The tondency of tho great educational in- stitutions has for some time been rapidly working in this direction. Against this movement its opponents urge that the almost worshipped college athlete is a poor college student. On this point Gen- eral Walier gave tesiimony as to his ex- verienco at Yale, where he said that but a small proportion of the champions on the ficld and track and water were men who stood at or near the foot of their respective classes. The records of many other colleges show the same or similar results. As to the argument that while college sports bring temporary strength thoy often result in permanent injury, Gen- eral Walker though admitting that ex- cess, over-exertion and reckless fool- hardiness should have no place among intelligont students, assured his auditors of his conviction that the danger of acei- dent and over-training had been greatly exaggerated. The more serious mis- haps take place among men who are not well versed in the sport which they are attempting to cultivate. The very skill of the champion prevents him from suf- fering at the hands of his opponent. Some other explanations might be added to those outlined by General Walker. One reason why many athletos also stand high in their studies is that the modern college game requires & keenness of mind as well as a nimbleness of body. The man who isslow in'his mental work is likely to prove slow on the track. And conversely the man who is quick enough to gain a place on the university team will be one who is well able to keep up _with his class-mates in the examination room without devoting any extraordinary amount of time to his recitations. On the other hand, the movement for ath- letic training may easily bo carried too far until it verge on professionalism. It may monopolize the gymnasium in favor of tho training of colloge teams. It may deprive tho laborious student of all in- centive to excel in his special line of work. This time will be indicated when the collego graduates flock immediately into the folds of professional athletics. The introduction of physical training into the leading colleges is a feature that bas come to remajn. Efforts should be made to widen its application, to in- clude all students instead of the chosen few. The movement is to be directed and guided to a normal development, not to be suppressed. THE CORRECT POLICY, While in certain sections of the south ahowl is raised for immigration; while their local newspapers are casting about. for the explanation why migration rolls in such tide toward the northern west, tho Birmingham Age-Herald very plainly tells the southern people why it it is that they are thus ignored and how impotent is thoir appeal until the pres- ent condition of things in their midst undergoes & radical change. Birming- ham herself is a shining example of what active southern communities may do by simply following the policy that raised that littlo, straggling hamlet in a few yoars to & great, prosperous metro- politan city. When the development of the immense coal and iron deposits in her immediate vicinity began the fur- naces utilized the cheap labor that is today abundant in the south and well suited to the climate. But the aggregation of this class, the after- math of slavery, did not conduce to the building uv of a city. Then she built great rolling mills and puddling fur- naces and this brought at once to that section the skilled labor of the north. Other factories followed, the class that always accompanies an investment of capital increased and her prosperity was assured. That papor now s YA great steel rail mill would bring more outside population into Alabama than has come into our Black Belt since the war. A grest ship-building yard at Mobile would bring more men of for- eign birth than all our efforts at immigration by advertisement. A single coal mine does more to in- crease the population than a dozen years of printer's iuk spread before the common masses.” This is plain truth eo clear that itis strange our southern friends everywhere do not recognize it. It is folly for the southern people to ex- pect immigrant labor ever to supplant the cheap labor they already have in the provinee it is adapted to fill. White labor is not adapted for the plantations and the furnaces, nor will it seek toc m- poto with the présent supply which the pornfelous politiéhE projudion that exists is dofng all in ity power to drive away. The wages of the-ddlored farm hand in the south rangflffrom 810 to 825 a month. In the .noeth he receives from 820 to 375 a montl¥ and in time of scaro- ity, evon $3 of ‘more a day. Itisnot likely, with this state of things, that this class of labors will migrate to the south for the betjerment of their condi- tion. What the south must do to at- tract tho class of’ inimigration it is so anxious to recolvedufirst to cast aside its vicious class ‘prejudice and utilize its present labor class in the develop - mont of their farm lands. Then open up their mines in different soctions with the samo enorgy as has been done in Birmingham, Chattanooga and some other points. Build factories and rolling mills as the Age- Herald suggests. Were there a ship-building yard at Mobile its wharves would never have rotted and sank into the water. These enterprises would attract the attention of immi- grants. They come to this coun- try to better their condition. They will go where the best wages are paid, and are not slow in as- certaining the direction to take. With a change in the social and political policy of the south capital would as willingly invest thero as elsewhere. Tho latent natural resources of the country are abundant. With their development the ueed for skilled labor would be such as to enable the payment of wages to attract. With this addition to the thrifty population would arise demands at better wages for an auxiliary to the farm labor, which wbuld doubtless be accepted by the foreignimmigrant class. It is all very plain. Southern people will act wisely to study the suggestions contained in the Age-Herald and follow the program therein outlined. PUSTAL SAVING DEPOSITORIES, The numerous failures of savings banks throughout the country will be very likely to revive the popular de- mand for the establishment of postal savings banks. [t is true that the very large majority of the savings banks of the country have wifhstood the pressure upon them well and all that survive the - finuncial stress will have improved their claim to public confidence. But the failures have shown that there may be weak spots in these institutions that are not always wisely and prudently managed, that it is possible for their officers to divert thé'funds entrusted to them into channels not strictly legit- imate or always safo. This lesson regarding savings banks, which is just now presented to the coun- try, and which may become more force- ful before the financial disturbance is over, supplies a most. cogent argument in favor of postal savings depositories. For a numbor of yeurs congress has been urged to use the postal arm of the government to asdist’ the peoplo in the care of their small savings, Postmaster General Wanamaker’ having made this a conspicious feature of his annual re- ports. In his last report he said it is the wage' péople who ' want the system most, and it is the popu- lation outside of cities that petition oftenest and loudest for this convenience. The satisfaction toa workingman, said the report, or to a working woman, or to young people at school or at work, in having within walking distance of their homos, as the postoflices are, a place to put by a partof their earnings, can hardly be estimated, nor can the effect upon a community of such an encouragement of thrift and good citizenship be calculated. If this were a new and untried project there would be warrant for some doubt about the expediency of adopting it, but it is not new. The plan has been well tried in other countries and continues 10 be successful. Tt is not costly to gov- ornments to maintain, and it is highly advantageous to the public. The last report of tho postmaster gen- eral contained the latest statistics of the British postoffice, showing the business ot the postal savings depositories for a year. The number of depositors for the year ending December 31, 1891, was 8,041,431, an increase over the previous year of 164,865, and the amount of de- posits to nearly 8107,000,000, earning in- terest for the depositors and what was still better, guaranteeing safe keoping, the most important consideration to peo- ple of small means. The English government acts as investor for depositors to the amount of $25,000,000. On a single day there wero as maoy as 72,809 persons making deposits, who laid by in one day $790,110. The daily aver- age number of deposits in 1801 was 29,412, and the average amount of depos- its each day was 900. During the year there were 902, new accounts opened. The total number of persons in the United Kingdom using the privilege was in 1801, 5,118,305, The British na- tion is not alone in showing progress in this branch of the postal service, all the European countries that have adopted the system—and only two have not done so—having increassd their deposits and the numbers usidg the privi- lege. In Framce the system has been in operation’ for twenty yoars and has beon in the'highest degres suc- cessful, the doposits:st the close of 1891 amounting to 45,080,000 francs. The postai savings banks bave been a source of profit to the govefament and have not interfored with thd, Pfivate savings in- stitutions, which paya higher rate of interest than thedigbvernment and do business for the m@st part with a differ- ent class of patrons: Postal savings banks were establishée in Italy in 1576 and the system has, fieen eatively suc- cessful thero, It hdb boen o sutcess, also, In Belginm,” Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria, and in none of these countries has there been any opposition to it on the ground of interference with the pri- vate savings banks. 1n all the Furopean countries which have established postal savings banks there has been a marked increase in thrift among the masses of working peo- ple. This in itself is a very strong argu- ment in behalf of the system. It hasthe further advantage of affording the best possible facilities to depositors for ob- taining their money when needed, and, more than all, to that large class who would avail themselves of the postal savings bank the system assures abso- ! ~SIXTEEN PAGES lute scourity, having behind it the re- sources and oredit of the natlon. MAYOR Booby of Brookiyn, N. Y., narrowly esoaped Indictment recently for alleged orookedness in municipal affairs. Now he has made application to the court for aa order directing the publication of the minutes of the jury, the ostensible object being the vindica- tion of his character from the asparsions cast upon it by the witnesses. Of courso there is not the slightest authority for | making such a publication and the New York Times, cominenting on tae re- markable application of the mayor, sus- pects that the real object is the intimi- dation of future grand juries and of witnesses that may be called before them to testify regarding the misde- meanors of public officlals. Itis evi- dent that Nebraska's state capital is not the only eity where tho grand jury source of annoyance to public officials. But no one of them desires to have the minutes of the last two or three grand juries of Lancaster county published as o vindication from refloctions cast upon their reputations. Onro's assignment law, which has been 50 severely oriticisod, scoms just now to be “a blessing in disguise,” ac- cording to the Cincinnati Z%mes-Star. The great number of assignments filed Iately under the provisions of these statutes wore mado in the majority of cases by men perfoctly solvent. Unable to raise money on good collateral, un- able to mect obligations, these mer- chants simply assign, an officer of the court takes charge, business goes on as before, and ifinally when creditors meot the position is explained, and where the assets excoed the liabilities only a few days are roquired to lift the nssignment and reconvoy the property to the assignor. This way of doing business looks very nice, and no doubt would do very well were all business men honest. But when assignors take advantage of the opportunity the law affords to plaster their business with preforences, oftentimes to the exclusion of noedy creditors, it takes a different phase. IT Now begins to look as if Receiver Hayden knew what he was talking about when ho said that Mosher was not needed in Lincoln to settle the affairs of the defunct bank. 1f Mosher is neoded there the receiveris in a position to tnow it. Ho has begun suits against the stockholders of the bank to compel them to pay the 100 per cent assessment which the comptroller ordered made on the stock of the bank. Less than $10,000 has been paid in on this assessment. Tt is evident that Mosher's presenco in Lincoln would avail nothing as far as the stockholders aro _ concerned. The depositors can certainly derive no benefit from Mosher's presence there. He has stated in Omaha that the deposi- tors of the broken bank would get little or nothing. All these things o to show that Receiver Hayden has sized the matter np about right, and the atten- tion of Judge Dundy should be officially called to the attitude of the bank re- coiver. THE reports of a renewed outbreak of cholera in many parts of Burope ought to immediately put upon their guard all who are connected with the work of quarantine and sanitary inspection on this side of the Atlantic. The pest seems to be holding its own in Russia and in southern France and to be mak- ing unlooked-for headway in Austria and eastern Germany. The foreign governmeuts are, no doubt, doing all that lies in their power to check the spread of the diseaso, but the people here should not allow themselves to be taken by surprise in case their measures prove ineflectual in keeping the scourge confined to Burope. The success achieved last year by our quarantine must not be allowed to engender the impression that all danger is past. No one can afford to overlook any reason- able precaution in municipal and indi- vidual hygiene which medical science may recommend. THE Towa State Board of Pharmaey presents figures to show that there are now fewer drug stores in that state than there have been for many years Theve were in 1881, 2,241 registored pharmacists, of whom 1,738 were pro- prictors of stores. The maximum num- ber registered was 2,081 in 1891, while in 1893 there are only 2,041. Of these 405 are clerks, so that there are but 1,636 proprietors owning, probably, 1,350 drug stoves. According to these figures the prohibitory law has not had the re- puted offect of so largely increasing the number of drug stores. The Sioux City Journal suggests as an oxplanation the fact.that the public dram shops have been steadily multiplying and that as a matter of fact saloons are constantly being licensed in increasing numbers in defiance of the statute. It is no longer necessary to resort to the subtorfuge of o drug store in order to sell liquor in the state of lowa. Woudors Never Conse. New York Evening Sun. The man who coorced Bavaria and Luxem- burg, spoiled Denmark and humihated Austria raises his voice for states' rights. Bismarei o home ruler! 1s Saul also smoug tke prophets? Inspiration for Other Things, Too, Minneapolls Tribune. ‘The spectacle of the chivalrous and his- ate of South Carolina—the state that has made more history of one kind wnd avother than any other in the union—run- ning a string of gin mills with the governor as boss bartender, ought to furnish the in- spiration for the great American comic opera. —_—— Let U t Kansas City Times, Ice cream, properly constituted and ration- ally consumed, is palatable and wholesome. It contains ull of the properties that are necessary for human subsistence. It is time for the croakers to stund aside on this question and quit hoisting a bugbear be fore every red-checked girl who eats a dish of healthful frozen cream. New York Herald, Prof, Bischoff of the University of St. Potersburg published i 1572 a pamphlet in which he maintained that the uverage womai's brain is far iuferior in every respect 10 4 man's, this opinion being based on the fact that & woman's brain is generally about 100 grams lighter. In order to further prove the truth of his statement ho_ordered that after his death bhis brain should bo weighed. This was doue, and those who be- lieved in his theory were amazed to find that the professor's brain was lighter by five raws than the braln of & woman of the west intelligence. ' SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, | Cincinnau Commercial: When the Greok ohurch is absorbed by the Ito Catholio ohuroh, which avent is as far away as the abdication of the czar or tho disarmament of Europe, it Is not likely that information of 11t will emanate from such an out of the way | place as Tacoma. St. Louis Republic: Some Polanders of Mount Carmel, Pa., who have boen trying to ®et rid of an unpopular pastor of thelr church, have put dynumite under the par- sonage and touched it off. Perhaps no stronger argumont could be offerod that the COnEregation nAes & HOW PANLOR. Now York Tri There 1s "‘food for thought™ for persons interested in religious Yagaries in the fact that, according to_the | Intest census report on the churches, thers { aro over 10,000 mombars of & seet or asnomi- nation calling itself “The Old Tiwo-Seed-in- tho-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists, | Indianapolis Journal: The pope an- nounces that Christophor Columbus will soon be beatified, his means that he will | be pronounced admitted to heaven and worthy of reverence, though not declared saint. The posthumous honors of the church cannot add anything to the measure of Columbus's greatness. Kansas City Journal: Rev. Henry i’re- served Smith of Lane Theological semi- Yincinnati, has tondered his resigna- a professor to the trustoes. 1t Prof. s of Union Theological seminary would do the samo it might relieve both the Pres- byterian church and tho public of an un- pleasant matter which has not redounded to the benofit of Christianity. Kunsas City Star: A vacant chaplaincy in the regular army has caused the presi- dent to be overwhelmed with applications for the position. As compared with the pro- carious salaries paid by struggling cburches the rogular pay which the government issuos to its military parsons is not without i ttractions even to a spiritual-minded ‘eyman. It isa station which does not require an uncomfortable exercise of re- ligious zoal and the emolumonts are in ex- cess of tho labor demanded. The yoke is easy and tho burden is light and a preacher has us good & right to pick up o “snap” of that kind when ho cun get it as the repre- sentative of any other profession. Kansas City Times: John McClintock,the *John the Baptist” of Haversack, N. Y.,and leader of a band of fanatics who are now in Jail there, concludes a tirade against nows- pupers in general by saying: *“Hell will be lit' up Dbrilliantly with “burning reporters. Brilliantly! Glory to God!” John s unuec- essarily excited. " Of course hell will be “lit up” brilliantly by reporters, if they land there, just as tha somber old earth is lighted and cheered by their efforts oday, Persons who have given the best part of their lives o instructing and amusing others will not object to throwing a little light on the cro- mution of this bogus modern wearer of the camel's hair girdle and his craay followers, ——— AL NOTES, EL Thero is an electric lamp for photogra- phers. Edison hopes some day to make Niagara furnish enough electric power to run_every railroad train and light every town in the state of New York. A new kind of wire for telephono use, hay- ing an aluminium-bronze core with a copper- bronze envelope, is being experimented with in Germany. It is said to have a low resist- ance and great tensile strength. The first issue of tho Honduras Progress since the restoration of peace announces thet electric plants for lighting purposes are under construction in San Juancito and Yuscarat The capital, Tegucigalpa, will shortly change its old pétrolour lamps for an incandescent plant. One of the first companies to use the vast power which man has harnessed Niagara falls to supply him is a_concern to produco aluminium on a laree scale. Just at present wo are expecting more from this promising metal than from any of the materials which have been wrought from nature’s inexhaust- ible storehouse, and it is quite appropriate that the plant to produce it in quantity should likewise originate in the primitive forces of America’s greatest natural power house. Some months ago the question of using the search lighton the field of battle for recov- ring the wounded after an engagement was raised. and some experiments were very suc: cessfully carried out to show the feasibility of the plan. The idea has now been further developed in a special invention for finding the wounded on the battle fleld. It consits of a telescopic tubular pole, about twenty- five yards long when fully extended, with a gas or kerosene or electric light at the top. It is made of aluminium and is kept steady by three or four thin wire cords, a large white reflector being placed above the light, It is said to light up a large extent of ground most effectively and in 8 manner which makes it much more serviceable than tho ordinary search Light, e NEVER MIND IT. Atlanta Constitution. Never mind tho weathor An’ the burnin’ sun; Cold and hot together Never yot did run. When tho sun is peltin’ Fire from alof'; An’ you think you're meltin', West wind cools you off | No use in complainin® When the fire drops: P'raps 12 16 was Tal Drown outall the crops! Movin' on together! Tl 7 Stop to rest! Gaod Lord runs the wonther; Givin® us Hls bost! RLASTS FROM RAM'S RORN, There s no religlon in a whine. Falth nover goes home with an empty bas ket. A fool i tons he A shadow us that there is ISvery man lives in a giass house into which somobody is always looking. (od's promises are beaven's bank notes, made for circulation on earth, No mattar kow good the gun Is, it is wast. Ing powder to shoot at the moon, ‘The groat thing about influence is that it scts forces in motion that will nover stop. The sclfishness of man 1s probably the ugllest thing upon which angels ever have o look, Don't put much dependence in the relig. fon that trios to advertise itselt in & siwy dow. Thoro is many a wife hungering for an oo easional word of approval who will be buried in a rosewood casket. If wo had as much charity for the faults 1re to tell who he is by the ques Iways trylog its best to tel Tight, Many hands make lght nploye at the gas house. adelphin Rocord: Boggs—Well, Inwyor P, what do you think of my plan?’_Lawyer an eyo to business)—Woll, {ll of othors as wo have for our own, the des cnvnsvdnaninsnn, Vietor Rosewater on Spect: lowing commendatory lottor, among others, from Mr. Abraham M. Beitler, the efticient in Philadolphia and an authority in matters of American municipal finance: monograph, “Spocial Asressments, and 1 have been improssed with your industry in laws and authorities, and with your ability reat & mass of authorilics.” For sale at Chaso & Fddy's. Washington Star work,” romarked ui the mixed drink ana the mixed drinker are involved. greonble a creatnro s one might suspect from Dpay. Shary' twith rp’ (Wi Toesiblo. any outing in the summer, 1 suppose? Icoman know. popular tad o wheoling, Mr. Bridgor? Brook. n Tdo say it myself, our baby carriago is the handsomest on tho block! 4 ecan you tell how muny pl.ts ro are In a quart? Publican’s ' Hopotul—Why, yes, sir. 1- would s00n becomie a flower garden, Dr. Victor Rosowater has received the fol- director of tho department of publio safoty “I have read with great ploasure your covering 8o thoroughly the various state in making such an excellent synopsis of so @ ST FANCY MIXED WITH FAOT. Ohleago Dispateh: “This Is the sonson whon Troy Pross: A balley dancor fun't %0 disa- g ihe fact thot she Is always kicking for more e Detrolt Tribune: Friend—-You don't take —Well, no; thut's whon 1 have my innlngs, you Puck: Tostoss ou_think of tho [yn Man—1t's my \favorite Fecrention—and, it Plek-Mo-Up: Schoolmastor—Now, Robort, ne and a half, and the froth, Washington Star: e sald “good night,” so faintly, 100, that {t could scirco bo heard; but heartlessly'sho closed the door and took' him at bis word. Dotroit Tribune: Novellst—I'd like to have do scmething absolutely uniquo! Wiy don't you have hor faint when thero's no one lpoking. Now York Teibune: Fast Orange—Yester- day a fat man ran five miles In the hot sun on a wager. pck Orange—Did his name transpire? *No, but ho did; so much so that his collar was wilted” (For point see the dictionary). Somerville Journal: Client—You tell me to suo the raliroad company for ¢ dan- ages. Isn't that exorbitant? Luwyer—Oh, no; Ishall want $20,000 of 1y for my fee. You hear wild, unonrthly yoll, That splits the darksome night; Tis not » lost soul’s dying kuell, Nor Coay's Sloux in fight. 80 do not Toar, 1t bodes no ill, Though it disturbs your dream, 'T1s but the jovous slogan of "Tho collega base ball team, A HINT FROM PARIS, European dition New York Herald. HAT FOR THE TACES. Capeline of white rice straw, with feathers and old guipure. trimmed BROWN! NG,KING Lurgest Manutacturers and Retallers ol Clothing in the World. Chopping Down— We're knocking out All Some We' Those for $1.50. the suits now. Just read on and we'll save you money. $20 Summer Suits $13.50. styles, colors and grades. other suits marked down as low as $5.00. $3.50 Boys’ Wash Suits $2.00. re getting out all boys' summer goods with a rush, $2.50 boys' suits go now Men’s and Boys' Straw Hats Half Price. And summer coats and vests—the prices are so low we're afraid to print them. All the ladies’ waists we have left goat 50¢ and $1.00. You will find they are bargains. BROWNING, Btore open eve g KING & CO., wigg e e* |8, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts,