Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 6, 1893, Page 12

12 TTIIE ])1\] LY BEE. Z rUSH TR m.m,rn"’— PrROCERDINGS | 2 come o . ROSEWA PUBLISHED EVERY MOR TERME OF SURSCRIPTION day: One Year.. 8 8 00 10 00 8 00 2 50 2 00 160 100 Onw Yorr Ong Year. AF OFFICES, Omaha, The ftes Rullding. South O ha, corner N and 26th Stroots. Council T anrl Streat, Chien 2 O3 hor of Commerce. New York, 14 and 15, Tribune Building Wishin zton, 518 Fonrtaenth Stroet. CORRESPONDENUR. All communications relating to nows and editorial mutter shiould be addrossou: To the Editor. NURINESS TETTERS, Al businoss Inttors andremittances should be addressed 10 Tho Bee Pabilshing Company, Omalia. Drafts, checks and postoMice orders 10 be iadu peyabie to the oruer of the com- s B17 Cham Hooms 18, artles lonving the ity for the summer can have T e sont to their addross by leaving An order at (his office. THE NEE PUBLISHI G COMPANY. DAILY Tikk for the week Thursday, Aucist 3 riday. At 4. Baturday, Angust Average clreult ~i— | SWORN t0 beforo {8%aL finy presenice tits st == NP, = Tae DALY and SUNDAY ke I3 on sale In Chicago at the following places: Palnor honse, L Norther Gore hotol. land hotel. Filos of THE Bek can ho seen at the No- Draska building and the Ad:minis tratfon bufld ing, Exposition grounds. E—— — Average Cire ne, 1803, 24,210 PUSH the injunction pr seodings. HOARDING money never made any one rich. PEOPLE with world-regencrating pan- aceas should not delay announcing them before congress gets to work. GOVERNOR CROUN should lose no time in sccuring assistance for the at- torney general in defending the injunc- tion procecdings. E. ELLERY ANDERSON gots a sinecure on the P Railway commission. Ellery didn’t crow for Grover without reasonable prospocts of a reward. THE clevation of Colonel Charles H. Jones, formorly of ‘the St. Louis Re- public, to the head of tho New York World, is but another instance of the progress of the wost. FREE coinage of silver at the existing ratioof 16to 1 is a practical impossi- bility. A now ratio, if adopted, must re to the altered conditions of producing the two money metals. THE man who paid $5 for a safety de- posit box into which he placed $12.50 is & fair type of the class of people whose unroasoning lack of confidence has pre- cipitated so many bank failures in this country. THEODORE T'HOMAS, musical director of the Columbian exposition, has de- cided to step down and out. The direc- tory found him an expensive luxury, and he is probably now wondering why he THE populists now and ciaim the Chicago Bimetallic league convention as their own. Asa matter of fact, the difference between the two was ono in name only. They are wel- come to “‘the great victory for the popu- list principles.” THE vprohibition candidate for gov- ernor in lowa has withdrawn trom the race in preference to giving up his posi- tion as president of Drake university. In this he has shown the better part of wisdom. The prohibitionism has cre- ated a great many poor politicians out o pretty good college men. . FINING saloon keepers is such a lucra- tive business in Iowa that two county oourts have been almost involved in bloodshed over their competition for the privilege. The judges who preside oyer these courts and the officers who obtain the court fees ought to be ardent sup- porters of the present system of statn- tory prohibition. TaE World's fair is doubtless a great sufferer by reason of the financial strin- gency which prevails all over the coun- try, but this is not the fault of the great- est exposition that has ever beon created. Thousands of people are kept away from the fair every day by the fear of the ap- preach of hard times. If the country was in its normal condition there is every reason for the belief that the daily attendance would be nearly doubled. OHIO'S new law imposing a license tax of 8300 and $100 respectively upon wholesale and retail dealors in cigarettes has gone into force. The purpose of the law is to restrict the evil of cigarette smoking, and it does not pretend to limit the amount of the tax by the expenditure necessary to regulato the business in question. Ifthis had happened in Omaha we presume that the act would be promptly declared unconstitutional by our local court as ““wrong in principle, evil in its tendencies, and at war with the genius and spirit of our govern- ment.” GRADUALLY, but surely, Omaha is ad- vancing upon Kansas City in competition for bost plave as & hog-packing centor. In 1892 Kansas City packers killed 56,- 418 more hogs than did Omaha packer; This year, so far, Kansas City isbut 13,- 318 ahead. It is fair to assume that next yoar Omaha will go under the wire first, which will make this city the sccond pork packing center of the country. Thiscondition of things is entitled to some consideration by those who have contemplated the future of Omaha. It is by no means the loast factor which will figure in determining the commercial supremacy of this metropolis, | | ; 1 | United States cireuit court,” coming Tt ought not to have required a resolu- tion of the State Board of Transportation | to remind the attornay genoral that his duty is to protect the interests of the atate to his best ability in the ponding injunction proceedings which have re- sulted in the temporary suspension of the maximum freight rate law. The offico of attorney generai was created for the express purpose of securing ar able lawyer to attend to the litigation in which the state shou!d be affectod either as plaintiff or dofondant or through ita officors, and to expedite the legal business of the state becomes at times an all important mat- tor. The resolution of tho State Board of Transportation then, caliing upon | Attorney Goneral Hastings ‘‘to take such steps and to do and perform all things necessary to muke a vigorous, emphatic and successful defense to the ! action against the board and the indi- viduals thereof now pending in the as it does from a body of which he him- solf s atmember, will serve to emphasize the line of duty of the attorney general and perhaps to indicate a dotermination on the part of the board to do all in its power to vindicate the constitu- tionality of the law. In these proceedings the railroads and their stockholders are represented by an array of legal talent that is startling to behold. It has always been the policy of the railroads Yo employ the most able lawyers that monoy wrung from the people can command. They are not deviating from their custom on this occasion. No one attorney can aspire to weigh himself un- aided against un opposing force consist- ing of Woolworth, Thurston, Marquette, Greene, Hawley, Waggoner and proba- bly others and it is no disparagemant to Attorney General Hastings to say that | he ought to have able assistance in a case involving interests so large as those now at stake. Section 4,317 of the Consolidated Statutes of Ne. braska provides that “in any case of im- portance or difficulty the governor or chicef ofticer of the department or insti- tution to which it relates may rotain and employ a competent attorney to ap- pear on hehalf of the state.” Can any more important case be conceived than a proceeding in which the right of every citizen of Ne- braska to secure just and reasonable rates of transportation over the rail- ways of this state is to be tested? Can any case involve greater difficulties than noo in waich the moneyed interests of a half dozen huge corporations are to be exerted to the utmost to secure the per- manent abolition of a piece of legislation which they imagine will result to their irretrievable detriment? The governor has ample power. There are still a few competent attorneys in this state who have not yet been retained by the rail- way corporations. Now is the time for the governor to act, and let him act firmly and quickly. The legislature enacted the maximum freight rate law to go into effect August 1, but its enforcement was suspenaed by a temporary_ restraining order before that date arrived. As soon as the governor selects counsel to assist the at- torney general in defending the suit the state’s legal representatives should get together and outline a vigorous plan of action. 1t has been announced that the court hias already adjourned in order to enable its judge to enjoy his annual bear huntand as a consequence it will prob- ably be impossible to have the injunction dissolved before the end of September. But no time should be lost and if the decision of the lower court shoull be adverss to the state, all means should be exhausted to have it quickly certified on appeul to the court of last resort. The ruilways are per- fectly satisfied with things as they now areand may be relied upon to int erpose every possible obstructive motion. No unnecessary delay should be tolerated. The people of Nebraska want to know whether the maximum rate law is con- stitutional and if it is they want it en- forced ut the oarliest possible moment. THE LATIN UNION, In the current silver discussion fre- quent reference is made to the Latin union, and a recent European dispatch states that this alliance of countries in the interest of silver is likely to be dis- solved at any time. Of those who read of this union it is probable thut not more than ten in a thousand know what is meant by it. : The Latin union was formed in 1865 by Italy, France, Belgium and Switzer- land for the purpose of fixing the ratio between gold and silver and maintain- ing their international ratio between the treaty powers. Subsequently Greece was admitted to the union. At the time ef the conclusion of this arrangement the mints of the countries in the union were open to the free coinage of silver and an interna- tional coin circulated in the several countries, which was accepted by the different governments like their owa coins and possessed legal tender powers. The original treaty provided that the union should continue for fifteen years, but when Greece was admitted it was extended until 1801, with the agreement that it should be tacitly continued from year to year unless notice of withdrawal was given by any of the powe arrangement is now in force. the design in forming this union to pave the way for a larger monetary alliance, which should em- brace England, Germany, the United States and Austria, but England refused to become a party toitor in any way change her gold standard. Germany adopted the gold basis alter the war with France, and Austria has had the double standard until within the last year, when she went ona gold basis. There was never any probability of the United States entering the union. A member of the foreign diplomatic corps is quoted as saying that the disso- lution of the Latin union within a short time will surprise no one who is ac- quainted with the political and com- mercial condition of the coun- tries comprising the union. Why Franoce has not withdrawn long ago, this officer suid, has been & mystory to most European diplomats and financiers, and it can only be accounted for by the desire ©n Ler part to got the other great na- THE _OMAHA DAILY BE tions tangled up In the silver question. | one ot whioh the individual may As a result of the union France has bean made the dumping ground of mostof the | silver of Europe, and with all the ad- vantages which her splendid rescurces | give her French financiers ses that sha eannot go on forever carrying the silver of continental Europe and standing the depreciation which goes on from day to day. This diplomatio offi- cer remarked that the condition of the silver countries is perilous in the extrome. So long as the mints of India were open 1o private account there was always one channel in which silver could be diverted, but now there is no escape in that direction. He also ex- pressed the opinion that it is a part of the plan of the British government to force the dissolution of the Latin union. | Wi Itaty and Greece practicslly | bankrupt and unable to obtain any as- sistance from other countries, and with France desiring, as it is believed she does desire, 10 get on a gold basis, it would scem inevitable that the Latin union, which has been in existence twenty-eight years, cannot be main- tained much longer. It has been the strongest bulwark of silver sinco its formation, but its dissolution under existent conditions would probably have no very marked effect upon that metal. THE INCREASING LUSS BY FIRE. What to do to check the annually in- creasing firo loss, which threatens to be disastrous to the insurance interest of thetountry if not checked, is a problem which, for several years, has engaged the serious attention of insurance men. Acvording to trustworthy statistics the values destroyed by fire in the United States in 1800 amounted to $109,000,000, in 1801 to $144,000,000, and in 1892 to $152,000,000. It thus appears that in two years there was an increase in the loss by fire of $43,000,000. It is apprehended that the losses for 1893 will exceed those of last year. A leading insurance journal hus stated the losses for January lastto be over $19,000,000, and for Juno over $16,- 000,000, more than double what they were in the corresponding months of 1ast year. This outlook, and the severe strain which the insurance interest has experienced thus far during tho year, has induced the general managers to consider more seriously, perhaps, than over bofore what steps shall be tuken for the better protectionof the companies, many of which are having a hard fight for very existence. A large portion of the increasing num- ber of fires is attributed to incendiarism by many underwriters, and a variety of motives arc assigned to the incendiaries. An officer of an eastern insurance com- pany is reported as saying that it is a deep-rooted idea among underwriters that such politico-econor conditions as the impending reduction jmthe tarift and the money stringency account for much of the loss by having stimulated incendiarism, the incendiavies of course being the men in business who fear dis- aster to their interests from these con- ditions. But, as this officer remarked, while the political and financial status has probably made incendiaries of some dishonest men, incendiarism is always with us. It was the opinion «(f this gentleman that a large propor- tion of the constantly increasing fives is due to electricity—to trolley, telephcne and especially clectric light and power wires. He believed that many of the fires whose causes cannot be definitely ascertained are due to electric currents and that they are dangerous as fire pro- dueers to an oxtent and in ways which as yet wedonot begin to understand. Statistics show a steady rise in the fire losses attributable to this cause. In 1885 the value of property destroyed by olec- tric fires was only $250 000; in 1890 it had become $1,200,000; in 1891, §1,300,- 000, and in 1892, $3,000,000. One of the expedients now proposed for checking the increasing fire loss is to take advantage of the sixty-day clause which forms a part of almost every existing policy. Many of the general managers of insurance companies are said 1o be in favor of ageneral refusal to pay any losses within sixty days from the time a fire occurs. It is thought that such action would improve risks from the moral hazard standpoint. There are cases, it is argued, where a concern is insolvent and has absolutely no cash ussets aside from its insurance volic If the day of settlement were put ofi two months the temptation to ‘‘carclessness” would be reduced. Sixty days would give ample time for the most rigid examination into the cuuses of the fire. There are afew man- agers who donot believe the proposed action would have tha desived effect, but the majority are said to bp in fayor of binding companies not to settle within the sixty-day limit, INDIVIDUALITY IN COLLEGE EDUCA- TION, ‘What should be the curriculum in the university of the future isa quostion that is already puzzling a considcrable number of our greatest educators, The original colloge in this country was an institution wheve a great crowd of boys and young men wers herded together and ‘subjected each vo the same rigid system of discipline. This system of discipline extended not only to their study and recitations, but also to their conduct and behavior in and about the college grounds. When the student was a boarder at the college, and this was formerly the prevailing usage, this meunt thav his whole life in every minute purticular was placed during the school year under whatever restrio- tions the collegiate authorities might choose to provide. During the lust one or two decades there have been marked changes in the methods pursued in our leading educa- tional institutions. Whercas formerly each member of a class was taken to be as woll able to go through the prescribed routine as every other, now the faot that all men are not built upon a single model mentaliy and physically is bogin’ ning to be appreciated. As evideuce of this we have the slow breaking dowu of the old one course classical curriculum and the substitution therefor of a wider latitude for the student. The recent development has been largely in two directions. First there has boen a ten- dency to split up the educational menu into ® number of parallel groups, any be at liberty to seloct. allowed s oot of choosing the | special field whTel ho desires to work in, while & liberal! {ngortion of genoral ex- orcises insurestho student against too narrow a A[nerl?h.a'hm. group the indiwidual is just as restrioted s before. Tho ehancos of being placed in & class which'i§ adapted to his partic- ular bent are greater, but the develop- ment of individdality ie hampered in many ways, The second venfloncy in modern col- lege education s to lay down certain re- | quired courses of work and beyond those | to give the student free range of a yaried and attractive program of lec- tures and recitations. The amount of the work demanded is prescribed. its character is left to the inclination of the individual acting under the guidance and advice of membors of the faculty. This movement hias made rapid strides in some of our larger universities, while in others its introduction has boon slow and retarded. It bids faiv in time to find a general acceptance. Whether the cducational system in vogue in this country really develops individuality is a matter that has been questionod in soveral quarters. Most recently President Harper of Chicago university has asserted that the reason why s0 many men who have college and university training ave revkonod as fail- ures is because ‘the idea has prevailed 80 extensively that men may be educated in o mass. Hoe insists that the founda- tion of any plan of eduoational work ust be the principle of individualism as applied alike to students, instructors and institutions,. Prasident Harper evidently believes that the regulations governing elective studies should be still further extended until no two stu- dents will be under compulsion to take up any single lino of work. We see a ten- dency to this in the differentiation of the requirements for admission to diffor- ent departments of the university and an extension of the full liberty of elec- tion to men in the sccond and even first year of their colloge careers. Again, the same course is sometimes conducted in several sections by different profess- ors, and the individuality of the in- structor may be allowed to have a boar- ing on the decision of the student to at- tach himself to the one section or the other. This drift towara individualism in college education is a feature of the newer educational methods. A reaction may possibly set in before many years, but we shall nover again fall buck to the old system of grinding all sorts of mon through one unchangeable and unyield- ing curriculum. DESERTED LEADVILLE. The story which e print today, nar- rating the trialsiand tribulations which have befallen Feadville, is peculiarly pathetic. A mere anining camp, sepa- rated on all sides by‘almost insurmounta- ble barriers between it and civilization, it was transformed by the enterpriso of its citizens froma mere oasis in the wil- derness to a city of modern pretensions. Thousands of inhabitants, smolters, furnaces, businesds ‘houses, banks, hand- some dwellings—all combined -to ymake itone of the most progressive and at- tractive places in Colsrado. The change has been rapid and com- plete. With the stoppage of the silver mines the resource upon which Lead- ville was built has been cut off. The multitude of its working men labored in the silver mines or in industries imme- diately dependent on the mines. De- stroying their earning capacity at the same time destroyed their purchasing power. Taking away the patronage of the miners brought desolation and de- struction to all remaining residents. One by one the business houses closed. The inhabitants migratod by the thou- sands, leaving behind only those who were t00 poor to join in the general ex- odus. Depleting the population of its bone and sinew and wringing the value out of all business enterprises leaves the municipal government at the mercy of its creditors. It is impossible for it to continue its operations with a bankrupt treasury staring it in the face and it, t00, will probably soon have to suceumb. The whole affair is most deplorable and the loss can never be repaived. Leadville stands practically - deser and destruction threatens all. Until its fate is mado the poet’s theme, the words of Goldsmith may apply: Swoet, smiling village, loveliest of the lawn! Thy sports arc fled and all they charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green. THE cost of fuel during the coming winter will concern neariy every house- holder in Omaha. The signs of the times indicato that the prices of hard and soft coal will be even higher than those of last year. The coal barons of the east have advanced the rate to dealers on all grades of anthracite, while the con- sumer ‘‘pays the freight.” Soft coal sells in Omaha at prices 25 to 50 per cent higher than at points within 200 miles of the city, and there is no im- mediate prospect of reduced prices to consumers. The filgl problem is a seri- ous one with the people of this com- munity. Relief from whatever source would be hailed with-high appreciation, 1t is possiblo that s vast sum of monoy could be saved 'y the universal introduction of gas stoves for heat- ing and cooking. +Many householders of the better class'use gas for cooking at a saving of at least 50 per cent in the cost of fuel. Thyi.great majority: of houses, however, are-not even connected with the gas mains}-But if it can be dem- onstrated 0 the peoule of this city that the use of gas fof gpoking and heating will enable houscholders to reduce the annual cost of fudl to & reusonable figure, there is no doubt that a vital problem in domestic economy will have been solved. A LOCAL labor reformer vehemently denounces the patent laws of tho coun- try, sana in a cyclone of incoherent sentonces attributes to those laws the alleged deplorable condition of the laboring man. We feel confident that no intelligent artisan or laborer will endorse the unsupported proposition of this new-found reformer. The records of the United States patent office, if con- sulted, will refute the assumption and afford evidence in great abundauce to | SUNDAY, AUGUST_6, 1893--8IXTEEN PAGES, Within the | | sontrovert it. Innumerabls have been The [resdom ! the patents granted Amerioan inventors | for devicos, implements and machinery which have greatly tedium of labor and dignified it im- mensurably. Take, for instance, the patent granted upon the electric motor now running on the .streets of Omaha. No one will contend this invention has deprived a single artisan of a day’s labor, but on the other alleviatod the hand it has increased -the opportunities | of mechanies to gain employment at re- munerative wages. Many examplos such as this might be cited, if nocessary. Inventive genius oreates industries and enlarges the field of labor. A moment's reflection upon the revolution wrought by so-called labor-saving farm machin- ery will illustrate the point. Ro- formers may concede this and still con- tend that the same results would follow the abolition of patent rights by which many inventors have amassed fortunes and monopolies have been fostored. To somo extent this might be true, but no fair-minded man will deny the right of any to the enjoyment of the fruits of genius, Abolish the patent laws and the incentive that has prompted somo of the greatest achievements of inventive skill would be lost. NEBRASKA has a world-wide reputa- tion and wherever Nebraska is known THi Bek stands for Nebraska. When Mr. Wilson De Meza wanted an appro- priate subjoct for his illustration of “that man from Nebraska” who plays o part in “The Reversible Love Affair” in the August Cosmopolitan, he could think of no more characteristic repre- sentation than a man engaged in read- ing THE OMAIA BEE. Both conception and exccution are well worthy of that entorprising magazine. That THE I ropresents all that is bestand charactor- istic in the west could not escape the in- telligent and progrossive editors of the Cosmopolitan, and the unsolicited com- pliment of this foremost popular month- ly is a tribute which will not fail to be appreciated by THi BEE and its readers all over Nebraska. Finance the Sole Globe-Democrat. Cleveland’s extra session message, we are told, will deal solely with the finance ques- tion! 'This is right. It is tho finauce ques- tion which has necessitated the session. No other question is at all pressing. Sl visagin s oF Wazer tor Our Mill, Phitadelphia Led er, From tho tariff war between CGiormany and Russia this country will be the The articles upon which each of thes tions has put practicaliy prohibitory taxes are staple articles of produce with us, this country Germany and Russia must alike turn for them. B Time for Retirement, New York Tribune, One thing which the coming congress should resolutely avoid is the policy which is inseparably associated with the name of a prominent western congressman. The only right method of dealiug with Holman- ism is to relegate it to the remote and indis- tinet backgroun: g A Goneral Slu Philadelphia Record. Are the miners amazed and downcast be- causo of the slump in metals? lLet them considor the slump in wool. which thoy wear, in whoat, which they éat. A pol that breaks down conddence and overturn credit broaks down the prices of all staples and upsets all calculation. In order to bring on better times the old policies must be abandonea. They have been carried to ruinous results. 1t is timo for a change. B e Patriotism Above Partisanship, Philadelphia Times. The people well understand that the pres- ent money disturbance comes from causes for which no one party is respousible; and the breath of the wantonly foolish partisan comes upon u distressed people like the poi- son of pestilence; bnt with a great people, boundless resources, general solyency and abundant money, though hidden by fright, the patriotic of all parties will fight and win the battle for honest money andpublic eredit and speedily rostore the nation to prosperity} e A e Unconditional Repeal the, First Order. New York Sun, The repeal of the purchasing clauses of the Sherman act, in order to have the re ing effcct on the country which b men demand, should be passod quickly and unconditicnally by the senate and the house of representatives. Any semator or con- gressman who attempts, on any pretext, to interfere with this program should go down on the black books of his party not to get a i There will be plenty. of time redial and pailiative m after the president has signed the abs repeal of the purchasing clauses of the Sher- man act. Not u Bunk ¥ Boston Herald. The present financial disturbance has been called a banlk panic, but the name is not well chosen, 1t does not it the case. A panic, her in war or in_business, mav be de- ned as o deadly fright, gencrally without couse, where men loso their heads and becomo the helpless prey of their fears. Now, the banks, taking thom as a body, are not open to any such reproach. On the' con- trary, from the very first of the disturbanc they havo shown high courage, cool judg’ ment, o perfect command of their resources and great skill in using their money and thoir credit offectively to meot tho grievous strain, —— Reviewing the Geary Law, Philadelphic Ledger. The counsel for the Chinese Six Companios will apply to the United States suprome court for i recousideration of the decision in which it is held that the Geary Chincse rog- istravion law is constitutional aud must stand, It is the practico of the court to ro- cousider cases involviug important constitu- tional questions when the doc given by tho full bench. Justico Harlan was abroad when the first heaving took place. Tt will be recalled that five of tho jus! concurred in the finding. Ono of these, Justice Blathford, has since died. The final status of the law which has cn much agitation amoug the Chincse is in some doubt. — PARENTAL ADVICE. Sam Walter Foxs in Yaniee Blade, Foolin' stronkid, ain't ye, Johnny? Wall, this {8 the wav'T View it, That the gals would like to love yo, But you' vo got to make ‘em do’it! Don't go browsin' at a distance Tn souie pastur’ way off yonder, bellove what idiots toll yo “Absence makes the heart grow fonder." Step up to 'ew, Johnny, smar rry Kate gavo you the mit She'd sald “Yes" a8 sure us gospol 1t you hadn't been such a kitten, You will learn to view this mutter Himeby jost tho way I view it “That tho gals would Iike to love yo But you've got to wake ‘em dolt, Everybody's bound to have ‘em Alll at any rate, but ; An' won [ was young ai 1T was takon jost as you are. ad popped 1t to her conrid cotipluthly out ot ntur', Tremblin’ like s frightened rabbit, Blushin' like a ved wrmater, Ageer .);.- hiad tol’ mo “No, slr," 5 Jest about ay you be, ound Timp an' kinder dumplsh, Foelin' like & blasted booby. But I fin'ly spunked up courage Like a nian to go an' win her— An' she's beon a blessin' to me, Tcan't say » word agln' bher, “DId I got hor?" Now you'fe crazy. Do you s'poso 1'd get another Weon T loved tho gal like L did— Go an' wsk hor—she's yOur mother. Since that thine I tell the youngsiers Jost the way I ullus view i\, Thut the gals would like to Iove ‘e, But they've got 1o wake ‘em do it that | l PEOPLE AND THIVGS, | harvest will | ovcupation. | For a statosman out of a job Senator | Ingalls suoconds admivably in koeping his | name in print. jenoral 1. Bunl Grubb of New Jersoy thinks he {s the right man for commander in-chief of the Grand Army. Thore is a slight diference botweon actual and threatened revolution. The former is sanguinary in fact; the latter is & spocles of lung irritation and circulation Senator Gorman is not saying much these troublous times, but ho is collecting and dis bursiog a powerful lot of ofiicial pie, which is far more lasting than wind pudding. Steps should be takon immediately to change the name of Golden, Colo. It amacks of treason and evory true patriot should rise and smito the porfidious thing. The great democratic dificulty in Ohto is not to find a man anxious to run for gov. ernor, but to discover one with o commodious bar'l and a disposition to tap it at all hours of the campaign. Just as the big show entered the home home stretch u landscape architect an- nounces serious defects in the location of buildings. What a dreary world this would be without tho kicker! According to & Lonisvillo judge women may smoke clgarettes on the steoet. As long as necessary evils aro_tolerated, the street is more rmnrh'umls than the parlor for progressive suicide. Between the assertions of the board and the att v tho lurid dances of the plaisance will secure sufticient increase of patronage to stave off the appointment of a receiver. The efforts hehul made at Indianapolis to resurrect the Iron Hall are likely to succeed. As proof of good intentions it is settled that the new organization will strugglo along without Somerby's motto: **You don't have to die to beat this gamo." There is a woman at Peebles, O., who has named her new triplets Grover Cleve- land Bowers, John R. McLean Bowers, and Adlai Stevenson Bowers. Mother's love thus imposes burdens that later on may cause strong men to weep. A pathetic fonturc of the action taken by the Worla's fair national commission, in reference to the death of ex-Senator Donald McNaughton of New York, was the inability of the sscrotary to find any living relative to Mr. McNaughton to whom to forward the resolutions adopted by the comuission. He appears to have been the last of his raco. Colonel Charles H. Jones, whose dun whiskers graced thocolumns of the St. Louis Republic in the stirring days of '02, is now elucidating the platform he helped to mud- dle, through the columns of the New York World. The colonel’s voico may not be equal to the wix wam, but the orifice is surrounded with a wealth of curling locks. Their in- tellectual cut transferred to print will bo a novel innovation in the columns of the World. Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind child, was recoutly a conter of attraction at alawn party. She sat on an embankment with her teacher, Miss Sullivan, wiio with almost incredible spoed interpreted uvon the hand of her charge whatever was said to her. Helen is now 13 years old. She has curling brown hair, a clear, ruddy complex- ion and regular features. Her hands, which serve for ears, eyos and vocal organs, are very white and well formed. S NOVEL CHURCH FAD, Philadelphia Times: When young lady ushers help to point out the advantages of Roing to church it will be odd 1f the young fellows don’t try and cmbrace them. Boston Transcript: Tho news that a dozen young women have been appointed ushegs in & Brooklyn church secms to open up n8w aisles in the vista of progress. St. Paul Globe: A Brooklyn church has sclected as ushers the handsomest young women of the congregation. It is working well; the boys are crowding out the old people in that church. Cincinnati Commereial : A Brook chureh vastor has installed young womel his church as ushers. He has at last solved the vexed problem summed up in the oft-re- peated question from the pulpit: “What shall we do to bring the young men to church?” Kate Field's Washington: For instance, there is that Brooklyn pastor who, in his zeal to get people to come to his church. has persunded a dozen or more pretty girls in his ilock to act as ushers. The church, no doubr, is a great moral force; so also is the protty girl, but why should thoy be associated in any but the good old-fashioned way? Philadelphia Record: Why not oxtend the scheme so as togot all givls into the churches on Sundays? The girls would not be loth to try any missionary arrangement so promis- ing in both moral and social inducement. Every young man not given over to worldli- ness should have his own usher, without waiting for the doubtful chance of finding her at the church door. Cleveland Plain Dealor: In these days. when institutional methods are coming into vogue in influencing boys and young men to como to the church for recreation ana enjoy- meat, with the hope that thoy may bo better employed thun in lounging about the streets and in_associations that are demoralizing and vicious, advantage will bo taken of the influence pure-minded young women can exert. Fow boys or young man howevor unbecoming their habits and associations elsewhere, will do anything to puin or mor- tify o young Jady when sho is aiming to do them good. The innovation made by the Duryea Presbyterian church is likely to find imitator: icave the calams without an n - | In the Missouri vallay states an abundant e — | HLASTS PROM RANM'S HORY, The (ovil naver wastes ady powdor on & cor Nogood man _ever dies without living peoble rich You cannot toll how sharp & dog's teeth are by the way he barks. Somo peoplo work themselves almost to denth in trying to find rest There is no sinner moro dangerous than the highly rospectable ono. A woman sometimes says more in & look than & man can do in & book There are sermons in stones only for the man who knows how to break them up. No mun really loves right who is not wilfe ing to espouse its cause and go into battle When a woman throws a stone or drives & nail she doos it as though her life dependod on it Thore is hope for the man who has found out that there are many things he doosn't know. Men who howl at the passing of the baskot in church will pay a big hotel bill without murmur. Many a man would find_that a window in heaven would s0on opon if he would but stop grumbling and begin to praise his wifo, If some Christinns were as anxious to got out to prayer mooting on a wot night as thoy are to show off in a procession bow soon tha devil would begin to run. making PITHY PARAGRAPAS. Boston Courler: Lovers are fond of st Fazing becauso of ta sigh-doar-cal sugges- ons. Troy Press: Yachting costumes for women are far more stylish than nautical. Thoy yacht not to be. Buffalo Courler: The man who makes muslo box cylinders has’ some excuse for putting ou airs, Indinnapolls ‘They call love the tonder passio @ young man who had Just ac tor, "but It atrikes me What it Is about as tough as possible.” rooklyn Lito: Miss Molly-T suppose, col 1 you woro gl of any sort of job whon you first we Colonel Yo, Indeed, Molly, Why, the fitst 100 1 » there T got by hips. t wost? ralghtilush seriously, pleking v Chieago Recard: “Do_you meet. your bilia I meot a bill overy timo Yonkers States The man who smacks his lips while eatingcan hardly bo called & man of quict tastes, nan: a shame to cut ywed. “I think I'll safd hor cruol o one you've got a Philadelphia Record: “Tt's that cake,” said Mrs. Newl keep it for Sunday.” hubby, “keep it for so grudige against.’ Baltimore Amerlean: Tt 1s vory nard 1o ox= plain tho attractions of country life to a city nan who has Just investigated the voitage of a black-faced bumblebee, I want to gotn profes- . suld the mun whose wife rathor s buing il at for?” usked his triend, the doctor. or a professior 10, said the man, with a wan, far-away s 1est (In Arizona restaur- enty-five s for that ents on the bill of fare. sir. That's for tomuytoes. You asked for tomahtoes. “When you want_ stylo luxury at this eatin’ house you pay for it. Soe? T saw her at tho village pump, Beside the broken wall; T hewrd the hundlo creak and thump; Tsaw the water fall. YOR TIE RACES, This costume, designed for Deauvil'e, 18 composed of green bengaline. The slecves and blouselike corsige, together wiih tho deep volant, are of embroidered mouss eline BROWNING, KING Largest Manutacturors and Retallers 0l Clothing In the World. Why we smile. Can’t help it; the men and boys of this city N case in hard times and ‘round abouts will insist on wearing clothes and when they buy them they nearly all get them of us—and that makes us good natured. Otherstalk about hard times--that maks us smile. We don’t know whathard times are ourselves unless it is the that a man wants to make his dollar go as far as possible and for that reason buys his suit of us because it will wear longer and keep its shape better than any other and he won't have to be spending some more silvers before the times get better. Long headed people buy the best cloth- ing to be had. Our priges many broken sizes are about_half what they used to be. BROWNING, KING & CO., 1 Btore opon overy overin AL 630, Saturday o |8, W, Cor. 15t2 and Dongla Sts.