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_Places enough for those who want to bo | : Ry | selves encouraged to step over that line + yJine from adopting the rate made on the 12 B f N I'HE [S5 S = B ROSEVATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN —— TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, DPutly Bee (withont Sunday) One Yoar,, 8 8 00 Daily and Suhday, One Y ear e 10 00 Six Months v'y 00 Three Months :n B0 Flm"nlv Bee, Oni \" nr ’) 00 nturday Ree, One Year. ol Weelly Boe, One ¥ear 100 OFFICK Omaha, The Bee Bulld! Routh Omnha N 4 26th Stroots Cou il Blafrs, 12 1 7 ‘ommere 0 OfM 15, Trit m, 513 Fourteenth Street | CORRESPONDENCE | All communieations re to news and | editorial matter should be > To the Editor. Omuha, 10 be made pny. Parties leaving the ity fo have the BEx soirt their add order ut this offie THE BEE PUBLISHING o the order of t COMPANY | 1w 0f Tiy TRR o W1V swear it the iy, DATLY DK (OF tho W eck way 08 follows: Y L SWORN to boforn's RRAT b my prosence s 1t =) NP KR on sale B can be soen atthe Nee and the Adminlstration baild- wrounds. e ——ee e TopAy will tell whether Sunday clos- Ing closcs. THE managoers of the Nebraska State fair promise to make Columbian year memorable in the anaals of their oxhi- | bitions, WEMAY expeet the findings of the court martial upon the sinking of the Vietoria to be given to the public about | the same time that the decision of the | Bering sew arbitrators wears. IF ANY bashful citizen of these United States has failed to disclose his panacea for the prevailing monctary tronbles, let him waste no time in unfolding its merits to a patient and enduring people. | THE next two weeks will witness an | unprecedented influx of immigrants into Washington. The whole oflicial house- hold of the president will be recalled to | welcome the advent ot the all-powerful congressman. L cannot THE governor of lo: find | appointed delevates to the free silver convention to be held at Chicago this | week. The silverites arc not partial to free silver; they will accept anything that is free, particularly an opportunity to take in the World’s fair incidentally. A nrrTLE lowa town claims the dis- tinction of having three duly appointed postmasters ready to take charge of Uncle Sam’s postal business at that point. Placing the ratio of democratic office- seckers to availablo postoflices at three to one, this may supply an outlet that will greatly relieve the pressure upon the patronage bureau of the Postoffice dopartmen KANSAS populists members for their organization by loan- ing seed to such of them as desire it awithout security and without intorest. A little experience with this scheme and the loss of a few dollars worth of wheat and corn will probably cure a fow of their mania to have the government make large loans to individual farmers cally similar terms, RUSSIAN oxhibitors at the World's fair contend that their exhibits ave still n the theory of the law upon Russian soil. That may possibly bo the theory upon which they have proceeded, but the difforonce botween theory and prac- tico was nover moro aptly illustrated than when the United States customs officials insisted on secing that the laws of this country were respeotod. THE resort to violence among the striking Kansas miners is to be depre- cated by all law-abiding citizens, The employment of force to right the wrongs of labor Las nover had more than a tem- porary success. Laborers who entor upon & conflict with their employers need more than anything else the moral support of the community. Lawless vio- lence sorves only to alienato this indis- pensable assistance, THE commissioner of patents has dis- missed the disbarment proceedings in- stituted some months ago against William E. Simonds, commissioner of patonts under the Harrison administra- tion. From tho vory beginning these proceedings had the aspect of spite work, Democratic papers tried to make politi- oal capital out of the charges filed, but the prosent decision vindicates the ex- commissioner and disclosos tho potty intriguo of his accusors. THE anticipated difficulty mentioned by railway mon in connection with the operation of tho new maximum froeight rate law as likely to arise in relation to rates botween points joined by two or more competing roads is largely a crea- tion of the imagination. The law does not fix the rate per mile, It merely fixes tho maximum rate per milo, So where there are two roads of different mileage seeking for the same traftic there is nothing to prevent the longer is of the shorter mileage. What the law forbids is that the shorter road should try to keep its rates up to the standurd of the longer one. Competing roads may unite upon a single rate pro- vided it is not higher thau the maximum fixed for the shortest mileage. If the longer line prefers to sacrifice its busi- | dent K | undue | wholo system of public and DAILY BEK. ' PAUPERISM AND PHILANTHROPY, "“"How Not o Help the Poor™ is the | sia should it subject of & lecture delivered at year'sgreat Chautanqua that has a pecus | Tiarly practical interest. The lecture | President Finley of Knox college, has | had, as secretary of thy Charities Aid oclety of New York, plenty of actual experience in the field of experimental philanthropy, and his remarks therefore, with an authoritative recom- mendation Pauperism, he says, is possible only in an individualistic state. Ithas no placo in the social- istic program, for communism and socialism make the individual the servant or pensioner of the state. They sacrifice individual freedom and subject the carnings of the eflicient to the claims of support from the inefficient. It is in effect compulsory philanthropy and com- philanthropy cannot, in Presi- nl 00 greatly depre- pulsor, cated. The prime fault to be found with any system of cothpulsory support by the public is that it fails utterly to accom- plish the object for which it is intended. Instead of reducing pauperism it tends to increase it. It invites reliance upon that sup- port. Tt deprives relief of that moral benefit which true charity confers on both receiver and givor. It tends to create a pormanent class of paupers and to bring others into that class. [Irom these considerations President Finley ves the following rules as consistent and justified by experience: vo any motive in giving before the good of the poor; not to give to a beggar simply because ho is a boggar; not to thrust any other member of the family upon the Poor race; not to kill the soul of man by feed- ing his stowach ; not to rob the poor to feed the panper. If we will consider the practical bear- ings of these maxims we shall find that they arve constantly violated by modern society We must confess that the number of gifts made for the purpose of parading the name of the giver, or in order to derive some advantage politieal or social, is ppallingly large beside the number given in unostentations charity. Look who demand cal defects, . which they t tho crowd of imposter peenniary sympathy for ph loss of limbs, blindness, ot 1stock in trade. Ask how many times we have given money to hoggars simply “to be rid of them.” Count the hypoerites who profess relig- ionmercly to feed from the charitable funds of the church. Finally think of the poor who are forced to contribute in taxes to the support of the government while many less poor, less worthy, industrious continue to draw as: ublie relicf funds or live idleness at the cha the state and county inmate of the loc: nee from the in apparent ile institutions of Only recently an 1 county poor farm ked for a vacation with permission to return because he was tired and wanted to take a look at the country. Is it any wonder that well intentioned laborers 01 the verge of the poor line find them- and o taste of tho unearned focd? Our private ficeds thorough study and vigor- that chari ous overhauling at all spots wh shall show to be weak. study StaM, can at this distance from the amese trouble the whole affair appears vory much liko a tompest ina teapot, He cannot appro- cinte the significance of a colonial policy becauso the United States has had no colonies to proteet, nor has it evor at- tempted to gain a foothold in the east. The diftienlty which is creating such a stir in the capitals of Europe originated in the murder of a French officer of the native mi in Siam, and certainother alleged aggressions committed against French vessels stationed in the Siamose waters. These were resented, and led to an opoen conflict, which has been approved in the French chambers. Under ordinary circum- stances the penalties for treaty violations of this kind would be the payment of indemnities by the offending govern- ment and a disavowal of the acts coupled with assurances of future respect for such treaty obligation This much the Siamese government is perfectly willing to do. But France will not be satisfied 80 easily, he demands in addition the cession of a most valuable distriet of Siamese torritory—territorial acquisition is the chief part of her ultimatum, It is a matter of history that the To an Ame the sedt of French people can almost always bo diverted from any existing discontent at home by the pur- suit of any policy which bids fair to extond the eclat of France abroad. If to that can be addéd the hope of terri- torial acquisition the government can be nearly certain to stifle with it all movements that threaten political dis- turbances at or near the seat of govern- ment. Nonation ever felt more keenly the loss of territory than did Franco the loss of Alsace and Lorraine. Nor did any nation ever rejoice more over petty acquisitions than did France over her gains in Italy and Africa. The whole poliey of the third Napoleon has been explained by some to have been an offort to quiet the people in France by making demonstrations of his power in different parts of the world. Viewed from this standpoint, the prosent position of France may bo taken to bo largely a political move and as such her demands will be unreasoning and arbitrary, Nothing short of an apparent victory over her supposed foes will suflice to maintain the government in the confidence of its con- stituents. The possiblo consequences to Siam will receive no consideration what- ever, Regarding the problem from the side of internarional diplomacy, we ses that the interests of all the European powers are 8o interwoven that no onoe of them can act without the intervention of the others, France may look upon the in- terference of England as unwarranted, but there is an undercurrent to the eastern question whose influence cannot be ignored. England and Russia have for decades disputed the claim to the clientage of the eastern aess by refusing facilities equal to those of 1ts competitors, it will be harming no ane but itsell, mon- archies. Russia and France have been co-operating in their foreign policies of late and the swongthening 10‘ Fracee in the cast would in Eng- this | | 1and's agas fnure to the benefit of Row | agos or letters ”‘Mrh \ come, | THE OMAHA DAILY some to another conflict over the eastorn question. This throws somo light on the report that Itnssia is moving to the assistance of France, while the British cabinet is being daily interrogated in Parliamont as to the status of tho Siamese affair. Tnall this intriguo the rights of the king of Siam are totally neglected and garded as amply justified in forcing o cession of territory. China alone, al- ways jealous of the increasing foreign power in Asia, is said to have offered to suppos ous hostilities, however, are unlikely when we remember the weakness of the iamese king. The Buropean powors will take it upon themselves to decide whether or not Siam is to be despoiled. MERIT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE, The last administration went further than any of its predecossors in observ- ing the prineiple of promotions for merit in the public service. It was sup- posed that the good example would be emulated by the present administration, but thus far thore has not been mani- fested by the heads of the departments generdlly a disposition todo this, On the contrary, the course pursied up to this time in most of the departments as 10 this matter of promotions for merit has been very unsatisfactory to civil service reformers, the more candid and outspoken of whom do not hesitate to make their displeasure and disappoint- ment known. The organ of the National Civil Servico Reform association in its last issue refers to the changes that have been made in regard to the promotions in the Treasury, Interior and Postoffice departments, and says of the last two that while the rules regu- lating promotions made by the last ad- ministration had not been formally revoked, ‘they have been con- temptuously ignored when the head of either department has had any pro- moting to do.” This does not neces- sarily imply that there have been absolutoly no prowotions for merit, be- cause that is not the case, but it means that the matter has not been subject to any rules, as was the case undor the precoding administration, being left entirely to the discretion of the heads of departments, who have not always observed the principle of promoting for merit, The first attack upon the methods adopted by the last administration for promoting civil service reform was made in the Treasury department when Sceretary Carlisle transformed and perverted the competitive examination system into an active spoils agency. That system had worked admirably and there was no reasonable objection to it. It had resulted in establishing a higher standard of efficiency in the dopartment than ever before, because every man in the service who had an ambition to rise understood the value of good and faith- ful work. The virtual abandonment of the systom has naturally had a demoralizing effect and it is said that the department has been more or less undor a reign of terror ever since the new administration came in. The next attack upon the reform adjuncts which came into oxistence under Presi- dent Harrison was in abolishing the board of promotions in the Interior de- partment. This board was created for the express purpose of regulating all promotions’ in accordance with the merit of those secking advancement, Tt consisted of representative members of the department who were charged with the duty of examining all candidates for promotion. Open competition was re- quired, and the rank taken regulated the order in which promotion was made, the only modifications being slight in- creases in percentage for more than five years service in the de- partment and for a good army record. The system was framed to mect the needs of the department and to en- able employes to sccure advancement through meritorious and thorough work, without regard to political pull. It was designed to promote cfticiency and it had this effect, while it was absolutely nonpartisan. The Postoffice depart- ment has not gone so far as the Treasury and the Interior in “‘contemptuously ig- noring” reform methods, but the policy there has not commanded the unquali- fied approval of the more earnest re- formers, and indeed in none of the de- pariments havo the spirit and purposo of civil servico reform been as carefully regavded as its friends had hoped. The betrayal of the merit system can hardly fail to operate unfavorably to the public service. It takes away one of the strongest incentives to efficiency and fidelity. It iseasy to understand that a now administration may be irresistibly tempted to undo the methods of its pre- decessor, so far as it may be practicable to do so, especially when it represents different politics, but unless it has some- thing equally good or better to substi- tute it must not expect intelligent popu- lar approval. IMPONING ON THE POSTOFFICE. The importance of the postoffice de- partment under all tho great govern- ments dates from the introduction of popuiar rates for the transmission of letters, Reduction of the postal fees was only possible when joined toa rad- ical change in the methods of conduct- ing the business. Before the reforms begun by Sir Rowland Hill in 1840 pack- agos and letters were everywhere sent at the expense of the receiver and the charges were collected upon delivery. Under the new system the charges had to be prepaid by means of aflixing ad- hesive stamps to the envelopes, and the arrangements were further simplified by eliminating in general the elewment of distance. Graduation according to weight was retained and it is here that aloophole has been discovered for the most recent abuses of the system. The rule of our postollice has been to forward without question every lotter or package which exceods the weight limit for single rates of postage and to collect the deficiency at the point of delivery. The over weight is expected to be noted at the office of malling and *‘rated up" by marking the ‘postage due upon the wrapper 80 that the shortage may be promptly discovered at the receiving office and there collected. The first abuse of this regulation occurs where people habitually puss overweight pack- France is re- | Siam in case war is begun. Seri- | BE SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1803-SIXNTEEN _PAGES, the mails and nit of postage in Hon by purposely provay o the hope that it mg the postal clerks ol ronch 1ts dostinas | tion without furth@ charge. Even if | the shortago is discovered no great in- convience is suffored as the sum is in most cases collected frbm the receiver | and not from the sander. The penalty moreover is insignificant, although the postage due should be demanded of the | sender. On each individual package | the loss is almost imperceptible but on seave do | the whole postal busfriess of the coun- try it mounts up tol a lrge figure. An experimental tally undortaken at Wheeling recently showed in 6he week 150 pieces of first olass mail matter singly, doubly, trebly or four-fold over- weighted which the postmasters had neglected to rate up. Another abuse of a similar character lias found a scope of action inside the postal sorvice itself. Postmasters who keep country stores make it a practice to order goods sent to them by mail with only one unit of postage prepaid. If the sending office has overlooked the matter of rating up, he is careful not to charge himself with postage due. 1f it has been 8o rated up, he affixes and cancels the necessary duo stamps,adds the amount to his quarterly account and draws his regular commission for cancellation as provided by law. Some postmastors have carried on a regular business with the aid of this scheme. Conscientious people who appreciato the benefits of the postal service would not of course resort to these practices. ‘When, as with us, the postoffico is run 80 as to bring in no more revenue than it costs the deficiency must be made up by congressional appropriation—that is by taxation. The gainof the unscrup- ulous becomes the loss of the honest. But to refuse to forward any mail matter unless fully prepaid would inflict an un- necessary hardship upon those who un- intentionally put overweightod packets into the post. Uncertainty as to the fact of transmission would demoralize our whole business community. The abuses must be wiped out by the employ- ment of more efficient postal officials, by a more stringent enforcement of the regulations now in operation and above all by developing among the people a more healthy regard for rules which are made for their own advantage. CIVIC DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP. It is nota new charge that Prof. James Bryce brings against us in common with citizens of free governments generally in his article in the July Forum. He criticises our indifference to “eivie duty,” the neglect to fit ourselves for render- ing to the state such'services as our capacitios permit at-all times, “even to our hurt and loss.” There is ground for this stricture, but it is to be doubted that this carelessness or neglect either exists now or ever will to such an ex- tent as to endanger our ‘‘fabric of national greatness:® - Nevertheless it must be admitted to be the source of many of the imperfections and evils of popular government. ““This home side of patriotism, this sober and quiet sense of what a man owes to the community into which he is born, and which he helps to govern, has been found specially hard to maintain in; modern times and in large countries,” he says. In a vast population like ours individual action seems too small a unit in the sum of na- tional action to be worth regarding. Then there is nothing romantic or at- tractive in the methods in which we are now called upon to show our aevotion to the state. ‘‘What can be less romantic and, to tho outward eye and ordinary apprehension, less inspiring than the methods of our eloctions —meetings of committees and selections of candidates, platform harrangues, and hunters up of careless voters, and marking crosses on bits of paper in hideous polling booths, with sawdust sprinkled floors.” Further party spirit ““tends to overlay, if not to supersede, national spirit in those solf- governing countries whose politics are worked by parties.” These are some of the obstacles to the cultivation of civie duty that he recognizes as existing, save in times of public danger from external sources, or of an aroused public indig- nation against some marauder on the public rights. Then vatriotic en- thusiasmand devotion assert themselves. The lesson the professor would teach, however, is that ‘“civic virtue is not tho less virtue bocause she appears today in sober gray and no longer in the gorgeous trappings of military heroism.” One should be willing to place one's country's interest “above party feeling, or class feeling, or any other sectional passion or motive. To be willing to takeo trouble, personal and even tedious trouble, for the well-governing of every public community one belongs to, be it a township or parish, a ward or a city, or the nation as a whole.” To excite a proper interestin public affairs Prof. Bryce thinks is the duty of the school- master. If this love for the nation is to be inspired at all it must be in youth, for later absorbing cares leave but scanty opportunity. Sohe would have the coming citizen taught what his country is and the nature of its govern- ment, the history of*its growth age de- velopment, the sacrifices of its patriots and heroes, and a segre of other things to arouse youthfulmpride in the great- ness of his country. ' It is strange thatg man of such recog- nmized -intelligence 'and knowledge of mothods of publig’‘téiiching as Prof. Bryceshould deem i worth while to thus admonish the peoplé’of a country where the very methods hif §iggests have pre- vailed ever sinco the. establishment of our public school sygtén, There is not a country district schigal . where it is not the aim of the teacherto lift the pupils “boyond the petty pfrels of their per- sonal interests 1o mpprociate the true width and splendor of national life.” The professor has disclosed a lamontahle lack of familiarity with the public school system of this country. It may be wise for the teachers of public schools in England or some of the other nations of Europe to listen to his advice, but it is very like pointing out the necessity of teaching the alphabet as the bogin- ning of the primary system to thus ad- dress himself to American school teach- ers. However, what he says to impress the public respecting the evils of indo- lence and indifference of the citizen to public a%uirs is sufdeiently justified. They are a greator menace to the oxist- ence of democracies than ignorance. hore are mon thus eulpable and it is the respectable, well-moantng, eitigor who roprohensible would but assert the ovils of misge statos, as woll of the disappear. The man nog civic duty 18 not a good citizen — COMPARED with our inet officers and the higher grades of inglish government servants have nothing to complain of in the way of salaries. Gladstone and the other sec- retaries associated with him in the min- istry receive $25,000 each. Our cabinet officors have only #8,000 respectively. The speaker of the English Commons is a poor parliamentarian and great blun- derer, yet hie gots $30,000 a year against $8,000 and mileage paid the speakor of the house of representatives. When Sir Charles Russell, as attorney general, drgws $30,000 annually, with fees amounting to several thousands more, it does not seem strange that one qualified to fill that position should piece out the meager salary paid in this country wish rotainers from wealthy corporations or emoluments of place in a railway diroc- torate. Even many of the undorscero- taries in the various departmonts of the Euglish cabinet ave pad salaries greater than those paid justices of the supreme court in the United States. And yot there are those who complain of large salaries paid public officials in this country. sy -goin this men themselves many of srned cities and nation, would soon ects his chiofly olass, i constitutes who wn, British cab- THE changes about t&'be inaugurated in the courses of study in the Omaha High school are changes in the right direction. While it is desirable to give the pupil boginning his advanced work some latitude in order that his personal character may huve play in his educa- tional development, yet tho majority of such students have not the mature minds that will enable them to make a proper selection of studies and many of them ave unable to secure any assistance in this matter at home. Under such circum- stances the guidance of the instructors and the rules laid down in the cur- riculum must be relied upon to prevent a detrimental choice of studies to be pursued. Many pupils would if permitted drop entively the study of the English branches, and from this standpoint the inclusion of English in every combination that may be made is a most wise move. We must not make tho mistake of thinking that High school pupilsare suficiently devel- oped to derive benefit from the unmodi- fied introduction of recent university methods. FRIDAY'S purchases of silver bullion were at 70 cents per ounce, the lowest price that has ever been paid under the Sherman act. The government has vaid as high as $1.20 per ounce. If an at- tempt should be made to realize at the market rate on all the silver held by the treasury it would be found that the loss by shrinkage to the government mounted high into the millions. If stocks held on speculation should drop from 120 to 70 the commotion in the owner's finances would be quite disastrous. To the gov- ernment and to the people the fall insil- vor values has been scarcely less disas- trous. Might Globe-Democrat., Fecblo natfons like Siam have no rights that powerful countries like Frauce are bound to respect. mensdbinls ukes Right. A Dem ratie Protest, St. Louis Kepublic. Bourke Cockran as chairman of tho cofn- age'committee is out of the question.Richard 1. Bland of Missouri will head that commit- toe as usual, unless the democratic party has lost its wits [ Perhaps the Colonel is Deat. New York Advertiser, Our ear is close to the ground to catch the drumming Thus snickor. report that President Cleveland up a voto to repeal the McKin| far we have heard nothing but — The Trusw' Favorite. Kansas City Jowrnal. It is said that President Cleveland is favorably considering Mr. Oluey as a_candi- date for Justice Blatehford's seat. Olnoy’s nomination would naturally be warmly cn- aorsed by all tho trusts and is therefore quite likely to be made. ———— When AL signs Fail, Louisville Courier-Journal, All signs fail in dry weather. The United States has exported more wheat in tho last four weeks thau it ever before exported in a e lenwth of time. Yot wheat, like sil- the lowest price ever known, and our gold still fails to como back to us. Such 4 wixing up of things is cnough to puzzle even a nail keg statesman e Panio and Poverty, Kansas City Times, Dozens of instances of the loss of money withdrawn from banks through alarm are now being reported. Many of these fright- ened depositors have lost their savings from thoir pockets and many have had them stolen. A Wichita man placed his monoy in 4 straw stack.which burned with overy cont of the roll. One of these days tho people will learn that they aro doing good for them- selves and the public at large by leaving their cash in the bauks when Limes are bar and money close. e L BLASTS FROM LAM'S HHORN, Tt never hurts the value of gold to call it brass. The cornerstono of a lawyer's housoe is a fool’s head. No man can be a real king who doos not rule himself. U your scales and measures your heart is not right. “The more a mother loves the more sho can see in her child to love, What the worka noods mos is not more preaching, but more practice. The man who gi ppiness to another cannot be altogother miserable himself, Poople who can talk about themselves to the satisfaction of others aro vory scarce. Some preachers try so hard to foed a fow worldly giraffes that thoy almost starve tho Lord’s sheep. The man who says the world owes him a liviug alwayvs has an up-hill time fn colloct- ng his debts. Thero isn't very much light in the ‘life of a man who keops his church letter in the bottom of his trunk. The devil nover gots anybody to follow bim until he has managed somehow or Biher to cover up his cloven hoot s WASTED AMMUNITION, are wrong Clothier and Furnisher, 1 paid two dollars for a tle; Oh, 1t was just (mmense, And then I startod for th shore With galety Intense, Sald I: “I'll paralyzo tho girly With this most gorgoou With them 'twill bo love at first slght As I walk smillug by." But when I stood upon tho beach At last, I had a fit— By Jove! the tirst girl that I saw Thad U ono Just Tike 1t ? i OUEEN CITY OF THE PLAINS Danver's Attractionsan1 Advantazes Runged Alongsido of Thosa of Omaha, MATCHLESS AUDACITY OF COLORADOANS Much of Interest In W Capital and Maots ner Nebr. Pleasant Rides in the Mountalus, Kkans DENVER, Colo., July 21.—[Editovial Cor- udence. |-~ 1t scems almost incredible,” “ Woodward, with whom d boen assoclated during tho war in the United States Military Teleeraph corps “You have lived in Omaha nearly thirty vears and have never before been to Don ver." “It Is & fact, for all that," T rotor *“This 18 my first visit to the capital of Col orado and the Rockies? “And what do you think of Deaver! Didw't I tell vou years and years ago that she would outstrip Omaha?" Denver is a very handsomo and thor- oughly metropolitan—I might truthfully say cosmopolitan—city, but [ do mot concede that she has outstripped Omaha either in commerce or population-— and I doubt whether sho ever wiil. Denver is more compact than Omaha, and being al- most entirely built up in stono ana brick presents a more imposing appearance. Den- ver has distanced Omaha and, for that mat- ter, every other city in America excepting Washington as a city of palatial residences, Sho might be called the “Villa City." No other American or Kuropeau city of equal Population can boast so many magnificant and imposing residences. The pride and glory of Denver are hor public-spirited citizens. Men who have amassed colossal fortunes in mining or raked in huadreds of thousands in Douver dirt have vied with each other in building monumental dwellings of gray granite, rod sand stone and brick in every conceivable style of architecture, These clegant homes are nearly all surrounded by spacious, well kept lawns, shaded by evergreen mountain pine. The business center of Denvor also speaks volumes for the matchless public spirit and enterprise of her men ‘of means. On this score Omaha's millionaire mossbacks could do well to emulate the example of Denver's men of wealth. Nearly overy man who has made a fortune in Colorado has planted hundreds of thousands on the streets of Denver, in stone, brick and mortar, in structures that will endure long after tho builders have passed away. While noting the points of vantage of Denver I must not omit a cursory survey of her manufactuving facilities, which, con- sidering the cheap coal and abundant min- eral resources of Colorado, 7 not as extensive as those ver manufactures vitrifled sewer pipe and fire brick on a large scale. Her iron foun- dries have supplied structural iron for buildings both in this city and other Colorado towns. Her machine shops have turned out mining machinery. Her paper will, established only two yeurs ago, is kopt busy with Colorado orders for news print howaever, of Omaha. Den- and her smelting works have given employment to several hundred men. wo of her manufacturing vontures a cotton mill and woolen mill which had been in active operation 1 years have re- cently closed down. will probably re- sume when the 1 stringency has passed away. But all the industrial oon- of Denver when in full blast do mot employ as many men as the South Omaha stock yards and packing houses. ‘All the Denver smelters and foundries And mills don’t carry as many men on their pay rolls as the Union Pacific shops. The most strik- ing difference between Omaha and Deuver is in the relative number of workingmen. There are many suggestive features in and about Denver that commend themsclves to a visitor from Omaha. There is not a wooden sidewalk in all Denver. The side- walks on residence streets are uniformly of stone, and those on the business strects either stone or granolithic. Stone is doubt- s cheaper hero, but the difference in cost is comparatively trifling. Denver is not dis- figured and obstructed by a forest of un- sightly telegraph, tlephone, motor and electric lighting poles. The electric lamps are suspended from iron towers. The tele- graph, telophone and motor poles are uni- form in size and neatly painted. The street railway cars of Den- ver are handsome and commodious. They are moreover built right here and built of a unique pattern. The cab and ze servico of Denver is decidedly more e ——— e —— extonsive than that of Omaha. largely due to the This may ba oxtensive tourist pateon. Ao, but cheapnoss is Ao an important fae tor, Thecharge for a two-horse carriage from the dopot to the Brown P'alace hotel fully one mile, for threo porsons was only CONtS O 25 conts por passenger Denvor has outatripped Omaha fn the number aund sizo of great rotail stores, hotols and club houses, but hor parks do not stand comparison with those of Omaha, There 18 no shady grove in or around Don vor like Hanscom park Denver ¢ the cols in numbor of costly residences, but she is most decidedly behind Omaha in the namb homes owned by workingmen. Waile ¢ has from 3000 to 5,000 small but cosy wageworkers' dwellings, Denvor soarcely has as many hundrods. Nearly all her toilers live in rented houses But Denver possesses qualities that must always command rospoct and She tas matchless pluck and admiration. boundless aue dacity. Tn the very midstof the most do- pressiog panio, with most of her banks suspendod, hor commerco almost paralyzed and her business men dis tracted and crazed by tho silver col lapse. Denver still keeps up a bold front and sena glowing pen resources and out to the world the most pictures of her marvolous briiliant prospoots. Only yosterday the secretary of the Denvor Man. ufacturers oxchango addressed an open lot ter to an English capitalist in which Denvor sots up thoe claim of boing the geographical center and pro-cminontly the commercial, flnancial, railrond, manufacturing, social and educational conter and general “hub' ot the entire transmissouri country, without A rival for 600 miles in any direction, with a constantly growing population of 160,000, ‘This is very characteristic, if it is not modest Denver has just been taken by surprise in the appointment, through the populist nolico commissioner, of a bran new chiof of police. This fact would scarcely interest anybody i Nebraska if it were not for the other ot that the new chicf's name is Aaron W. Kollogg, who will bo re- membered by Nebraska politicians ns the private socretary of Governor David Butler. Mr. Kellogg's career in public life in Ne- braska closed rather abruptly with the mem- orable impeachment of the governor, and he s00n thereafter shook the dust of Nebraska from his shoes and migrated to Colorado, where he has been engagod 1 minwg and real estate spoculations. While Twas still reading the paper that announced Kellogg's avpointment, the bell boy handed mo the card of W. 1. Kennedy, who was a membor of the senate that tried David Butler and had responded “guilty" on the impeachment charges when his namo was called by Presi- dentof the Senato Isaac 8. Huscall, Mr. ISenuedy, subsequent to that historic trial, \d proprictor of the | becamoe editol 1hon Times. For tho past twelve years he has been a resident of Colorado. He is still hale and hearty, and looks as much like the pic- ture of Diogenes as he did in the 70's, Three days of tourist rambles among the clif gorges and canons of th Roclkies opa for graphic sconic ut of time compels me to dors of Tur Bre of that pleasure —suflico it to say we have made tho fascinating tour over the Loop, passing through Golden, Idaho Springs, G and up to Silver Plume over as m picce of engineering as may be secn any- whera on the globo. We have taken in Col- orado Springs, Manitou, Pike's peak, the Garden of the Gods and Cheyenne canon and passed a most delightful ovening in the Cusino at Broadmore, and while listening to the enchanting music in the auditorium of the Casino, recognized in the leader of this famous orchesira an old acquaintance, Mr. Nalan Franko, who somo years aga sojourned in Omaha, und more 1cently has been leading violinist with Anton dl and Theodore Thomas, and musical director of Amberg's theater in New York. His orches. tra are artists of the first magnitude and rgetown terly a include George Sguer, violinist; Wils liam hade of the Mendelssohn quintet and now leading flute of Damrosch; Paul Miersch, violincellist New York Philharmonic, and Fred Berger, a rising pianist. It may not be out of place BROWNING, KING to add that Mr. Franko's orchiestra intends to favor Omaha with several concerts nexd fall on its way back to Now York. 3. ROSEWATER. S — FUNNY WRINKLES, Philadelphia Times: Whatever the stato of the country since the coming of tho new comet, the istronomers’ business, ut loast, has 1 1Goking up. Galyeston N The fat 1 show Is lying in welght for bis v 1 in the side. tims, THE CHAMPION LHOLR. Boston Courier, A young woman who sang in the Féll aslecp, then awoke s ‘The committee it mot, Thelr opinions were sot, And now a new singer they'li hoir. holr aming tholre, Lurgost Manufacturors and Rotallors ol Clothing 1n the World. Got Left. Some boys didn't get any of those waists we Shirt waists. had a special sale of Saturday. Monday we continue the sale at same prices. It's one day's sale of the celebrated boys’ ‘ Star Shirt Waists and " Wilson Bros." boys’ The $1.00 Boys' waists 75e. These waists are sold the world 'round and the year ‘round for $1.00. For one day you get 'em for 75¢. Also a lot of $1.00 outing flannel boy’s waists for only 500 for this one day; all sizes. See them in Douglas street window. A lot of knee pants for 50c. worth less than $1.00. None of these are Boys’ and men's straw hats at just half price. They are melting away fast. 75¢ hats 40c. N. B.—Waich for our next great sale. are now only 25¢. Nice 50c¢ straw hats $1.00 hats 500. It will be men’s suits for Wednesday. July 26. BROWNING, tore open every evenin, Btore open o O rd ay till I i1l 6.50. | s' KING & CO W, Cor. 16th and Donglas Sts,

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