Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1893, Page 12

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Gore hotel, Leland hotel. of THE BEE can bo Reen at the Ne- building and the Adaministration build Ixposition grounds. s t ty of Douglas. { Fie 1, ThBehICK, Aeoretary of Tire BER Pub- g company. rthat the al efrenlation of T K —— Tra “independent pape the movement for a judiciary. nonpartisan THE commereiai agencies take a more hopoful view of the financial situation and are beginning to admit that times are on the mend THE noxt stop in the railway kaleido- peope should be a dissolution of the in- junction and the enforcement of the maximum freight rato la REPRESENTATIVE FELLOWS of New York is going to reply to Congressman Bryan's silver effort on Tuesday next. Follows will no doubt tell Bryan what he ought to have said. Tag New York Sun says that Governor Boies owes his election to republican dissatisfaction with prohibition. The republicans are about to remove the cause of dissatisfaction. Tar Nebraska delegation in congress may not be harmonious on financial issues, but whenever the passage of a Nebraska appropriation is at stake they «wvill bo found pulling at the same rope. THE people of Kunsas have revived an ola project to split the state in two parts aud have two states instead of one. By continuing tho subdividing process indefinitely Kansas may yot secure a wajority in the United States sonate. A GREAT many banks may fail and a great many factories may close while the worthy membars of congress are ex- hausting themselves in an interminable debate over the financial problems. The erying need of the day is action, not words. AN INCREASE in the size of th» house sommittees may not conduce to the efi- sient dispatch of business, but 1t will supply a few more places by which the »eaker will be enabled to satisfy the demands of the numerous ambitious songressmen. A BOND swindle schemo can withstand the pressure which urges it on to insol- vency only 50 long as the new suckers comtinue to be caught in numbers corre- sponding to an increasing geometrical ratio. The disastrous end cannot be mauny years postponed. WE ARE told by a local paper that the agitation for a nonpartisan judiciary is dying out. It seems to bo oxerting itsell quito well considering its dying eondition. A glorious revival will sihow that the nonpartisan judiciury has not yot given up tho ghost. SPEAKING of practical Christiani dhe man who would best serve his fel man might sct o worthy oxample by restoring his hoarded funds to general * pirculation, thus doing somothing toward relioving the financial depression which i8 bearing hard on the men who have no savings to hoard, but who aro dependent upon their daily wages for their support. THERE is a sinistor sign nee in the statement that the disaster which has overtaken the Norvthern Pacific was materially hastened by the radical cut in ratos made by Jim Hill's Great Northorn system. Tho fact that Mr. 11111 has already proposed to purchase tho Northern Pacific and consolidate iv with his own line warrants the suspicion that the assuults upon the crodit and reve- nues of the Northern Pacific were not eniively the result of chance. COMPRIENT and unprejudiced judges like Governor Furnas give it us their spinion that the Nebraska exhibit st the Worlds fair is accom- olishing the very purpose for which it s been made. It is advertising the nagnificent agricultural vosourcos of :ho state and atwracting the attention of thousands of well-to-do farmers of the sastorn states who are looking to the west for homes either for themselves or their children. 1t is an exhibit which convinees even the most casual visitor Merat Nobrasks as o grain-preducing and stcek-growing state has superior aud but few eguals on the globe, It also proves oconclusively to the daivy farmer, the boe keoper and the fruit grower that he will find in this #tate every advantage for the pursuit of thoso specialties. This is the kind of an advertisement the people of thestate are paying for and it is what they ave get- ting. no THE 1SSUES JOINED. The attorneys acting in behalf of the members of the State Board of Trans- portation have filed their answer to the petition of the raflways asking for an injunetion of the United States circuit eourt to prevent those public officials from doing their duties under the pro sions of the maximum freight rate law. In this answer the issues that are at atal e distinctly joined. The various allegations made by the railroad attor- neys are flatly denied, and the court is requested either to make them prove their pleadings or to dissolve the tem- porary injunction. The legal battle before the courts will be fought by the state along several lines. The state's attorneys claim that the railroa affected by the bill are purely domestic corporations and that ich their rates of charges upon reight transported between points within the state are subject to legisla- tive regulation without the interference of federal authorities ofany kind. They emphatically assort the power of the legislature to constitutionally enact statutes fixing reasonable maximum rates. Furthermore thut house roll 33 creates a speciftt procedure by which any injustico either to railways or ship- pers may be remedied by appeal either to tho Stato Board of Transportation or to the ifpgularly established judiciary of the state. In view of this provision, all jurisdictions of the federal court to in- quire into the reasonableness of the statutory maximum rates is denied. But should the federal court persist in assuming jurisdiction, the state’s attorneys will be ready to cham- pion the reasonableness of tho rates established, not only by questioning the statements of the railways as to the cost, capitalization, bonded in- debtedness and profits of their lines, but also by comparing the rates with those previously in force, and with those in forco in the similarly situated state of lowa. Thoy show that Burlington stock is three-fifths water, that dividends have, in reality, been 20 to 25 per cent, and that the expense account is ox- cessive and unwarrantably large, while receipts are diminished by personal favors and free transportation The- defense then will vest chiefly on a three-fold pleading. First, state's attornoys deny jurisdiction of the fedoral court. Second, they uphold the constitutionality of the Megislative action. Third, thoy assert that no prop- erty is taken without due process of law, because the maximum rates are, in them- selves, roasonable. With the issues thus joined, and with able lawyers to defend the validity of the statute, let the battle proceed in order that the law may be vindicated at the earliest possi- ble day. CHAUTAUQUA EAST AND WEST. The 1893 season of the western Chau- tauqua assemblies has been closed, although the originalChautauqua session at the home of the movement in New York state is but now ending its active operations for the summer. In this fact alone we have one mark of the essen- tial differences that distinguish Chau- tauqua in the east from Chautauqua in the west. With us the assembly seldom {asts longor than two or three'weeks and the limits of time form one of the most potent obstacles to extended and thorough work. The necessity of crowd- ing everything into a too brief period of study offers some excuse for a departure from the principles upon which the movement was founded. At thebottom of the Chautauqua or- ganization lies the idea that regular and scientific study can be brought home to the ambitious student by & course of systematic reading under the direction of trained instructors. The outdoor assombly is but a means of supplement- ing the pupils’ work by a sories of leo- tures and recitations modeled very much upon those which are prescribed for the students in our better colleges and uni- versitios. Tothis idea the original Chau- tauqua has consistently adhered; it is practically a summer session of a college —acollege which gatherstogether its fac- ulty from among the most available and best fitted members of the educational sorps of all our leading educational-insti- tutions, Tts continued success in attract- ing both students and professors is ample evidence that the program is one of merit and of real rcientific value. Compare with this original Chau- tauqua the Chautauqua of the west and we shall find that the latter notonly started on a plane far below that of its model, but also that it has on the whole failed to make any noticeable progross toward bringing it nearer to the ideal to which it ought to aspire. Besides the unfortunate time limit which embar- rasses the Chautauqua in the west to which we have alluded, these institu- tions have soslender and precarious a connection with the Chautauqua organi- zation that their work scarcely comes within the purviow of a person pursuing a systematic course of study under guidance of the reading circlo, The attendants at the assembly then are not those who could profit by the work which might be expected, and even did the real student attend, disappointment in the facilities offered would no doubt force him to consider his timoe worse than wasted. An examination into the mothods, purposesand programs of some of these institutions will soon show the reason for their failure as viewoed from an educational standpoint. The great defect in the Chautauqua assembly of the west is that it loses sight almost complotely of the Chautauqua idea. Educational features ave overy- where sacrificod to drawing attractions. We read in one report, “This was the of the Chautauqua. It was n the hands of the Grand A of tho Republic and was pre over by its commander, * * brilliant display of firework: the day'’s jollification.” Feom an- other we learn that ‘*‘this has beon Odd Fellows’ duy at the assombly and consequently wus attendod by a largo number of the order.” And we hear of “*Lincolun day,” **Traveling Men's day,” and various other ‘“days” when the ontire exercises are given over to outside organizations. 1f this is devel- oping the Chautauqua idea, our concep- tion of that idea is greatly in error. Fducation cannot be popularized in any such manner, If the prowoters of the ended THE, _OMAHA DAILY BEE wostern Chautauqua want to run a sum« mer camp meoting, or if they wish to in- augurate outings for various classes of the community, let thom act with that distinct understanding. But if they have the better eduveation of the poor but worthy student in mind, let them abandon these spectacular methods and emulate, 5o far as is possible, the work of the original Chautauqua. WHAI'IS A LOTTERY? The promoters of hond schemes indig- nantly deny there is any olement of chance in their business, They insist that the system of bond payment based on the multiple of three, and those having no multiple basis, are within the comprehension of the average man. Admitting the latter proposition, it confirms the charge that the element of chance is a factor in securing business. It is the possibility of getting ahead of the game—of securing an early matur- ing bond—that constitutes the iottery feature of bond schemes. What is a lottery? Webster defines it as ‘A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes and the rest of the tickets are Wlanks.” Under this and like definitions bond promoters imagine there is a loophole for escape, in that all bonds are to be paid; that there are no blanks, and that all persistent investors will receive the amount ‘nominated in the bond.” The courts and writers on criminal juris- prudence construe lotteries to mean much more than defined by Webster. ‘‘To constitute a lottery,” says Bishop (Stawutory Crimes, sec. 955), ‘‘there need be no bianks, but there must be some property disposed of by lot.” Again in sec. 952, he says: ‘‘A lottery may be de- fined to be any scheme whereby one, on paying money or other valuable thing to another, becomes entitled to receive from him such return in value, or noth- ing, as some formula of chance mav de- termine.” Precedents established by courts are equally clear in defining as lotteries devices similar to bond schemes. A caso reported in 23 N. J. law in- volves the two points of chance and the absenco of blanks. A piece of property was subdivided and.each lot sold’for an equal sum. The lots were of unequal value. The scheme was prepared and exhibited previous to the sale, and the purchasers paid their money not for an equal undivided share of the land, but in the hope and expectation of obtaining a valuable allotment and thus enriching themselves at tho expense of the others. In deciding the case Chief Justice Green said: “The fact that the scheme con- tained no blanks, but that every adven- turer was to receive something for his money only rendered the device more successful and the results consequently more injurious withou* altering its es- sential character asa lottery.” A case involving similar points was decided in 1818 by the supreme court of Pennsyl- vania (4 Serg. & R. 151), Chief Justice Telghman pronouncing the scheme a lottery. In the early 60's, when lottery agents were required bylaw to pay a license of 8100, a land speculator in As- toria, Ore., sold a number of lots of equal value at an even price per lot. But to give eclat to the sale he offered a few extra lots as prizes to purchasers, When charged with operating a lottery without a license his defense was that as there were no blanks and as every man received an equivalent for his money, he was not lisble. Judge Deady, lato justico of the federal court of Oregon, held that the device was a lottery. In Bell vs State (5 Sneed, 507, 509), Judge Caruthers of Tennesseesays: ‘A lottery is & game of hazard, in which small sums are ventured for the chance of obtaining greater.” There is a practical unanimivy in all published decisions that whe rever the element of chance becomes a considera- tion the device is a lottery. Chance is the main feature of bond investment schemes. State and federal laws pro- hibit lotteries. It remains for the proper authorities to enforce the law and suppress lotteries, in whatover guise they may appear. INTERNATIONAL ARBIIRATION, 1n answer to a question regarding the moral effect of the Bering sea arbitra- tion upon the nations, Mr. Phelps, one of the American counsel, expressed the opinion that it would be good. A like opinion has been expressed by the peace congress, which adopted resolutions approving of arbitration for the settlo- ment of international controversies. The New York Z'ribune, in an article on the decision of the Paris court of arbitration, said: “The moral effect of international arbitration must not be .overlooked. It is a distinet gain for civilization to have mattors at issue between great nations submitted to a court of this high character. It is an object lesson for Europe with its circle of military camps and its impoverished populations stag- gering under the burdens of war taxation inatime of profound peace. England and the United States can well afford to pay the costs of an arbitration which oxerts a benoficial educational effect in promoting tho onds of peace and goofl will among nations. If the results of the arbitration are equally satisfactory to Kingland and the United States the object lesson is the more valuable for the humane ends of eivilization. The world now knows that it is practicable for two nations to submit their claims and grievances to an international court and to obtain a decision which will be mutu- ally satisfactory. It is a practical lesson in the higher arts of civilized progress.” This is the spirit in which the latest and one of the most important of inter- national arbitrations is generally re- garded. It is distinctly to the honor of the United States, among the great nations of the world, that arbiwration for the settloment of international disputes has 50 grown in favor with enlightened governments. For a century this country has been the advocate and exemplar of the principle of arbi- tration. The first trial of the method was made in 1794, to settle a dispute as to what river was intended under the uame of the river St, Croix, forming part of our northeastagn boundary. The second appenl to arbiteation was made in 1797 and was to determine the com- pensation due to Meitlsh subjects in consequence of impédithents which cer- tain of the United Sgates had, In viola- tion of the provisions, of the treaty of peace of 1783, interpbded to the collection of bona fide debts Yy British creditors. The most important acbitration under the treaty of 1783 hid relation to questions of contraband, the rights of neutrals and the finadity.of the decisions of prize courts. Sé¥eral disputes that were submitted ta abitration arose under the treaty of Ghent, negotiated in 1814, the most importaif of these having reference to determining the northern boundary of the United States along the middle of the great lakes and of their communications by water, finally set- tled by treaty in 1842, A very impor- tant arbitration related to a general settlement of olaims between the United States and Great DBritain and was provided for by a convention ocon- cluded between the two governments in 1853, The treaty of Washington, con- cluded in 1871, provided for four distinct arbitrations, the largest number ever established under a single convention. The first in order and importance was that at Gonova, which has been referred to as “the noblest spectacle of modern times, in which two great and powerful nations, gaining in wisdom and self-con- trol and losing nothing in patriotism or self-respect, taught the world that the magnitude of a controversy need not be a bar to its peaceful solution.” It was this memorable arbitra- tion that settled the Alabama claims. The last of the arbitrations between the United States and Great Britain before that relating to the Bering sea dispute was held in 1877 and related to compen- sation due to Great Britain for privi- loges accorded by the treaty of Wash- ington to the United States in the north- eastern fisheries. This country has ar- bitrated differences with France, Spain, Mexico, Hayti, Venezuela, Colombia, Paraguay, Chili, Brazl, Peru, Portugal, Denmark, China and the two Sicilies. Altogether the United States has entered into forty-eight agree- ments for international arbitra- tion, referring to which Prof. John Bassett Moore of Columbia college, from whose published investigations the above facts are derived, says: ‘‘The arbitrations of the United States have embraced many types of international controversy and many highly important questions of law, both public and vrivate. Notinfrequently the questions in whose solution they have resulted were hotly discussed-ad just and almost necessary causes of way, involving na- tional rights and national honor. It the contending parsies;had resorted to force they would psrl;dps never have realized how easify ‘gnd honorably their differences might have been ad- justed by reasonable methods. If the United States and”Great Britain, in- stead of making the treaty of Washing- ton, had gone to warabdut the Alabama claims, which. involved, the rights and honor of both countries, and even the public legislation and’the conduct of the public authoritigs of one ot them, it is probable that many patrtotic writers in both countries wohld now beengaged in showing how impossible it was to submit such -questions to avbitration.” The sentiment in favor of international arbitration has made marked, growth in the last half a century, very largely due to the example of the United States, and the latest evidence of the value of this method of adjusting con- troversies betwoen nations is very sure to further strengthen that sentiment. Still there are many who will continue to believe that there are some causes of international difference which cannot be decisively settled except by resort to force. Prof. Moore, it may be remarked, appears not to be one of these. THE HOUSING UF THE POOR, ‘When the consus reports that nearly five dwellings out of every 100 in the United States are ocoupied by more than ten persons each, while in Chicago the ratio reaches one out of four, and in New York one out of every two, the impor- tance of the problem of housing the poor becomes apparent at a glance. The crowding of people into buildings built for the accommodation of moro than one family is an incident of urban life and is a phenomenon that has been constantly increasing with the increased density of our population. The topic is one of great sociological interest snd no more clever handling of it could be expected at this time than is found in the recent monograph of Marcus T. Reynoids, who by his work won the prize offered by the American Economic association last year. The tenement house evil and the ex- tremes to which crowding the poor may be carried have been manifested more sharply in New York city, and as a con- sequence Mr. Reynolds confines his study chiefly to those phases of the question which have there become prom- inent. The unsanitary tenement is, alas, t0o froquently met at the present time, but existing buildings are never- theless & vgst improvement over what was formerly the custom, With no build- ing regulations, with Mo sanitary in- spection, the shells ¢teatsd to bring the largest financial resuen in the suortest possiblo thna were“/transformed into breeding places of jdiseaso, vice and crime, & menace to the health and con- tinued welfare of thi'entire community. Efforts to improvedhe -vondition into which the poorer wetking classes have either fallen or beep fbfced, take on, as a rule, various differents forms. [t was at one time thought ‘that legislation would prove the simiplgst and severest vemedy. This has sasswmed tho char- acter of expropriafion’ laws by which plague spots are uttérly rooted out of laws, compelling the reconstruction or prohibiting the erection of unsanitary structures, of laws establishing boards of health with plenarvy powers. of laws granting subsidies to owners of model tenements, of laws regulating rent. While recognizing the efficacy of legis- lation for certain pnrposes Mr. Roynolds refuses to see in it she sole means of re- forming the dwellings of the poor. On the other hand ecortain philan- thropic persons huve on various occa- sions themselves attempted the reforma- tion of existing bulldings by buying INDAY, AUGUST 20, 189 N PAGES them in, restoring them and then rente ing them to desirable tenants. Those offorts have proven successful, but must of necessity be limited in their scope. The single tenement oracted on one city 10t bids fuir to remain the norm ot the dwellings for the poor. It has passed through a multiform development, so that the latest approved plans are sub- ject to but few objections. The same true of the model tenement crectod as investments by people inclined to turn an honest penny while helping in im- proving the condition of their fellow- man. The spread of the suburban cot- tage is to be commended, but depends so much upon the character of the popula- tion and the physical geography of the city that it can not be relied upon as a permanéut remedy. The very poor who need reformation most can not atiain it Finally Mr. Reynolds suggests and hes & plan for what he terms the rding tenement. This is simply a model tenement in which the culinary department is conducted on a commu- nistic basis—a feature which, it is ‘thought, would prove of immonse saving to peopld who buy their food and other supplies in minute quantities and pay four and five-fold prices for them. The greatost improvement in the houses of the poor must come from the education of hoth landlords and tenants, and for this tho first requisito is an aroused public intorest Tne Nebraska Manufucturers and Consumers association will make an ex- hibit at the state fair at Lincoln next month. An opportunity is thus of- fored to all manufacturers to display the products of Nebraska mills at a time when the people of the state will be able to inspect them. The rail- road companies have given rates to exhibitors within the state that will be an inducement to them. The managers of the state fair are in perfect accord with the enterprise. It may therefore be safely predicted that for the first timo in the state's history our state fair will have as a principal exhibit sample products of the manufac- tories of the state. It will be a vevelation to many citizens who have never gained a fair idea of the extent of the state's manufactures. The action of the state association will meet with the endorsement of every manufacturer and all others who have an interest in the development of the state’s resources. THE fact that hundreds of peoplo dre halting on the border of the Cherokee Surip, only waiting for the signal which will precipitate & mad rush for free lands, is one of the most significant ob- ject lessons in the history of the coun- try. It shows that the desirable lands at the disposal of the government are sory nearly exhausted, and that home scekers who desive to avail themselves of the homestead laws are more numer- ous than the opportunities for securing good lands. But it must not be forgot- ten that hundreds of the Cherokee boomers are speculators who simply de- sire to secure landsfor the purpose of reselling” them to less fortunate com- petitors. SEVERAL European educational insti- tutions, ‘particularly tha polytechnic schools, have undertaken to assist their students to visit the World’s fairat Chi- cago. The United States made provision for sending the cadets at West Point to the great exposition and they are now beginning their sojourn at the White City. Competent authorities say that the fair is an indispensable part of a lib- eral education and for the study of special technical pursuits offers unsur- passed advantages. The educational aspect of the great show must not be neglected in favor of its merely enter- taining features. Unwarranted Kioking. Washin_ton News. No man who has threo square moals & day and a bed with a mattress on i%at night should dovote more than two hours out of twenty-four to growling. b L Mo A Trust Never Betrayed. New York Tribune. When the republicans are in power tho democratic minority can never be depended upon to do the right thing. When tho dem- ocrats are in power the ropublican minority is the hope of the nation. Things € Chicago The corn crop and cotton crop are good. “The cattle on a thousand hills ave fat. Tho wool crop and the fruit crop nover better. It is only the political crop that isa failuro, Grin and bear it and muke & change when the time comes. Misery Loves Company. Cincinnati Commercial, Tho hard times in England are much worso than_ here. This summer very faw men of affairs wero able to leave the metropolis for oven & fortnight's vacation, whilo the politicians have been compellod 10 carn their scanty mead of bubble reputation by constant attendance 1n Commons during the vigorous and bitter home rute fight. Lonaon1s far from happy just now, but'it hias conpany in its misory. PEOPLE AND THINGS, Although Miss Silver has broken with Cleveland she will doubtless remain u sister to him. Even if the country did not gain all it con- tended for before the arbitration court, there is cause for congratulation in that mare clausum and coutra bonoes mores were knocked out of the seal ring. If tne unemployed will take themselves to the harvest fislds they can wade in work up to the bridl The dispatehes favor Mgr. Satolli with a profusion of titles. He is called “ablegate," “delogate” and “legate.” The former desig- nation, as applied to the papal representa tive,is wholly wroug. An ablegato is a bearer of messages—a messenger, Delogate or logate siguify what he is—an ecclesiastic representing the pope and possessing tho authority of the holy see. aving falled to fouce in Bering sea, we are ready toadmit that the whole business is a skin gameo. M Hoory G. Newton of New Hav is the first woman in Connectiout W register for voting at the coming schoo ton. The legislavure passed o law giving Lo women the right of the ballot in school elections. Mrs. finwwn is Lo wife of a law, in Now Haven. and i8 herself a practiciug physician. Captain *Jack" Adans, who is indorsed by tho Department of Massachusents for com- mauder-in-chief of the Grand Army, went into tho war as & private. He was ‘at the battle of Fredericksburg, was frightfully wounded at Gettysburg, was captured at Cold Harbor and sent to Andersonville, and was flually exchanged at Columbla. That collection of antiquo corkscrews un- earted in north Nebraska and South Da- kota leavo no doubi that s colony of Iowa prohibitionists camped iu that section in prebistoric days. ‘here were no “-fl Miuister Paramount ©isco, raised to welcome lount at San Frau- CROVER'S 6 Buftalo Bxpress: Having sent the popo & copy of the constitution of the United States Presidont Oloveland now desires o furnish the pontiff a copy of his officinl papers as they were prepared and published for cam PAlgn use. sen documents, then, next to the constitation 1n {mportance, are theyt Washington Post: his holine: 10 1RO, We do not doudt that will bo moved by this thought. 0 an offer of similar and equal ¥, 0 edict that wo shall thus be el X the speotacle of the two greatest rulers the earth ex nging pledges of confidence and affection and sot- Ung an example of simnle human kindness which all may follow to their profit, Cincinnati Commercinl: We have little doubt that tho popo will_troasure the cable- gram he recoived from Prosident Cloveland, and that when tho vatiean libraty recoives tho slender volumo containing Mr. Clove land's public papers and_speechios it wall bo carofully locked up in a firoproof safe, It is not ofien that the vatican bibliophiles have an opportunity to_securo such raro litorary material without price. Minneapolis Times: The United States is doing what it canto braco up the vope's library. Ho has boen presented and has graciou coepted a copy of tho constitu- tion of tho United States, and now Prosi- dent Cloveland makos him a tender of a ook containing his public Papers during his former term as president. With these two volumes at hand his holiness may got a good doal of valuable information about Amorica, Now York Addvertiser: 'To read of the sublime spirit of consecration in which Grover dedicatod himself to the duties of the presidency cannot but strengthen and sustain the pontiff amid tho trials of his daily administration. To revel in the rare humor of Mr. Cleveland’s jocular references to tho ““dead beats and bummers” in his pension vetoes and o enjoy to the full the nobly contemptuous way in which he refors to tho almshouso the veteran who dared to aid in the overthrow of the slavoholder's rebellion, must inevitably become the habit of the popo when he secks ralaxation from the carking cares with which he struggles. Good for Grover! The popo owes hima benediction! New Yors Commercial:® The popo has something to live for. Felicitated by Mr. Cleveland to the extont of having placed “in his hands a book containing the oficial papers and documents written by me during my previous torm of office,” the holy father ¢ daro hope that later his souiand all 15 within him may bo cheered by tho ptof abound volume containing Brother cland’s momontous utterances during his second term. Thrico happ Ono can imagine the old saiut u o nights committing to memor, Cleve. land’s epoch-making deliverances on “Shall the Cherckee Injins be hanged? and “What iaherent right have red herring off the Coast of Passamaquoddy?” i An Incentive to Enterprise. Philadelphia Leccrd, The train robber has resumed continue business indefinitely, or 100 submissive passenzor: shall continue to hold up their three or four masked men and m mit tho rufiuns to de the pockets of their aged train robbers’ hides might holp mat- ters wonderfully, and will FLYING SPARKS, Philadelphta Timos: ate explanation of rher's habit of filling his victin's mouth with lather is that he wants to do all the talk- ing himself. Tlerald: mumoered silver promises ch in vogue If the hammering keops v0 woeks more. Baltimoro Aug The most popular bird of passage arriving at the port of New York this month is the gold eagle. on for ricn Why do you look so DD “0n, M ut, Dest, frien whole worl “Were you shaving yourself, M vo Just been cut by my pérson T love most in the ppy?" Boston Transcript: Tho king of Slam_woars a gold hat weighing twenty-seven pounds, Vi talls throush thut hat whateve Tiave wolght. Chicago Record: Husband=The stiatlest knowledge .of Human naturo ought 1o have nted ‘you from making suclra 200l mis- tato as you made last night, Wife--What opportunity ave I had to study human naturo Hving witll you? ndinnapolts Journal: Iungry Tiggins— Tl‘ wo here gravel roads 1s mighty tough on shoe: ry Wutkins—Yes, that's so: but where thore i3 good ronds the peopl ‘monvy, and where pooplo. has money they ain't so many dogs. New York Press: flushand—T am goin achting cruise fora fow days, but L'm 11 be seasick. Wite—Ol, no four of that, dear; you should be something of a sallor. Husband—How do you mako that out? Wifo—1've soen you half seas OVOr many a time. on & fraid UNREST. Washington Star. Oh, Bering sen, Gur bosoms still With approhensive Thoughts you thrill. With *n er souls,"” And te gl The words i On top of words. Oh, must you bo, o spoil life's cup, ro Clausum hat won't shut up? rk Su e and traducer. § canting, glib-tongued man, with ftehing palm. Ho nas become a publie bore, Ho deserves to bo turned out, and kopt out Philadelphia Rocord: We respectfully rocommend, to the Soctety of Christian deavor & Sunday corealling of all tho girls Tt would not hurt the girls, and it would il the churche® and give the pastors such op portunity of admonition “and wholesome wonching as thay so ardently desire. Boston Globo: A Connecticut pastor. whose tcongregation has paid him so poorly that he doclares ho had to pick huckle berries to keep alivo, is reported to ! shouted Iast Sunday from tho pulpit: “I'm starving, and my family has uothing to eat but berries and bread! Holp, or T perish " Yet some of the deacons kept on dozing, and the only result of the appoal was the calling ng to reprimaad thoe pastor for un truthfulness. Times: A Lafayotte, Ind, © has stirred up a hornet’s nost in his congregation. Last Sunday he s YGod made the carth in six days and then ho rostod; then he mado man and rested again; then hio made woman ; and since that timo nefther God nor man has had a rest.” Dozens of women loft the church and, it s said, actual distuptmont is imminent. And ‘tivould servo the impertinent pastor right, o all womon aren’t lady mavagers of the World's fair and shouldu's bo s0 adjudged. Minneapolis Tribuno: Church unfon is une dergoing a practical oxperimont tn Kansas. In Clark county crons have beon a failure, and tho pooplo have found it necessary to economize n overy way inorder to make both ends moet. Soven denominations sup- ported churches and pastors in Ashland, the couuty They rosolved to combine for the reduction of oxponses, and so they dis: missod soctavian bias for a time and decided upon & union chureh. Tho most popular pas- tor was selectod by a vote of all the ohurch members of all denominations and installed, the chief stivulation Loing that he was to pass lightly over doctrinal points. Six cler gymen have lost their situations, but they acquiesco in the flat, knowing that the coms muuity could not support them all. Lfiiat MeCiynr Ho s & THAT'S FISHING. Philadelvhia Times, A glrl bosido the wator sits, Fllo noondiy sun Is wirnily beaming: Hor nose and nock are turkoy red, Hor oye with radiant hopo Is gleaming. s ¢loso the bobbing cork need upon tho tiny biflows; aswish and high above kor I the willows. s tishing. A failr maid teips the tennls court, dozen eyes admirehor going; Her bluek and yellow blazor burns the sunset's glowing The politician on his rounds Tackles both workingman and grangor; 1o tries nthink thaf he A ally youthtul, o fty-tive, s truthful. My littlo wife besido mo stands And stoals a dimpled urm around me; A kiss upon my 1Ips—that's buit — N proiation 1o astound me. quite out of stylo, nor wrap quito past the usingy Brown's hoosing. So whethor the & hait bo Kiss *Tis the old gas With Mother E nd Adan’s sons and daughtoers all Will lo rt till time's last hours ut's fishing. —————— A HINT FROM PAKIS. European Edition New York Herald FOR A MATRON. Dross of lottuco groon silk shot, with rosy pink and brocaded with a small design of roses, lace bertha arranged so as to form a Marié Louise fichu, collar and belt of lettuos groen mirir volvet. BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturors an ! Rotallors ol Clothing In the World. Touching it off That is to say, letting it go, and if you had been in our store Saturday you would have thought Uncle Sam had brought back the good old times we read about. did sell lots of suits, taken off from $2.50 to $7.50 on each suit, making such an extra low price that even if you do not need it now, it will pay you bet- ter than savings bank interest to pick out a suit now and put it away till spring, Oh, but we We have This is not a fi;ok-enisrize or br;)ken lot sale, but a nice clean stock of the finest suits ever brought to this western coun- try. rapidly taken up. BROWNING, re open every evenlog till 6.3, Bare opes o E o aay Uil 1% If you hesitate you are lost for they will be KING & CO,, |8, W, Cor. 46t1 and Douglas Sts. > P IS