Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1893, Page 4

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SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etate of N - v of Trr Bre Pub- 1ly mwear that the i F tho week Nshing Friday, At Baturday, An Tre Bez is pleased to announce thata special nowspaper train has been charto via the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific way, to run from Omaha to Lincoln daily, which will enable 'z Ber to serve its patrons throughout the South Platte country with the very latest mews. At Lincoln close connections arc made with trains south and westbound, which malkes it practicablo for Tk BEl to cover a vast territory witha complete newspaper. Herctoforc we have been compolled to go to press ut s much earlier hour than is now done under the new arrangement. The superiority of Tirz Brr's telographic news is conceded throughout the west. Its special cablo nows, unrivalod press dis- patches and its special telographic servico from every important point have gained for this paper an enviable reputation not alone confined to this state. With improvea facilities for reaching the people at a scasonable hour by Tuw BrE spo- clal newspaper train, there can be no doubt that our patrons will continue to show thei® appreciation of nowspaper enterprise. BUFFALO BILL hails from Nebraska, and not from Kentucky. Colonel Cody owes no allegiance to the dueling ‘code. THE smiles of the World’s fair direct- ors are cxpanding with the increaso in paid admissions to the exposition grounds. TowA democrats evidently have no ro- gard for the views entertained by ‘*‘the masses of all our people” in opposition to third term officers. THE omission of any reforence to proxies in the deliberations of the re- publican state central committee may or may not be significant WILL the county attorney please tell us how a person must proceed to call his attention to the operations of the bogus bond swindles in this city? APPLICANTS for the position of minis- ter to Hawaii now held by Mr. Blount may now withhold their endorsements until the place becomes vacated. PREPARATIONS for the state encamp- ment at Grand Island are going merrily on. The veterans are bound to have an enjoyable meeting at least once each yoar. ISN'T it peculisr how far from one another newspapers will drift when they are given an opportunity to spell the names of visiting foreign potentates in various different ways. THERE scems to be an opening for sev- eral of the old-time hangers-on at the state house. Several building contracts have been let but as yet no ‘‘superin- tendents” have been appointed. THE sentiment that third terms are extremely undemocratic, while wide- spread and popular, has no more effect upon the lowa democrats than it has had upon their demoeratic friends in Massachusetts, ‘WirTH one exception there have been no bank failures in Nebraska for several weeks. It scems protty certain that the wave of depression has passed entirely over the state. Thé next bank call will doubtless reveal a satisfactory condition of affairs, POSTMASTER GENERAL BISSELL is ex- peoted to visit Kansas City about Sep- tember 19. Perhaps it would bo a good idea to invite him to Omaha to view the beautiful watering place which the gov- ernment is improving as a summer re- sort for federal officials. THE offcers of the Whisky trust are certainly not lacking in nerve. While doing business in direct opposition to the laws on the federal statute books, which presume to legislate against all trusts, they apply to.congress for a remission of the 6 per cent penalty upon their unpaid taxes. THE country will anxiously await a motion from Senator Peffer to make Mexican silver dollars legal tender in the United States. The idea is rapidly becoming a favorite one in Kansas and it's about the only erazy tinancial scheme that scems t0 have cscaped Peffer's at- “ention. THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1893. NECE ITY FOR 4 NONPARTISAN JU- DICIARY. a now proposed that the members of the bar of this distriet who have been called togethor for the purpose of initi- ating a movement for & nonpartisan ju- di mere unauthorized suggestion commite too for all the great political parties. And the advice is gratuitonsly given that what the bar meeting should do is to name six or nine men as compotent to administer justice upon tho distriet bench, and to leave it to tho party con- ventions to aet as thoy may choose upon such recommendations. The object of this proposal, visible upon its very tace, is to defeat the purpose for which the bar moeting has been called. If acted upon it will mean that tho principlo of nonpartisanship on the district bench has been entirely abandoned. Suppose once that the assembled at- torneys recommend six or nine raen to the political conventions and suppose further that theso conventions accept tho men recommendod, what is the re- sult? There are then two or more par- tisan tickets in the field, and whichover is elected is elected sololy and strictly upon party lines. The succossful candi- dates will owe their clection not to a nonpartisan constituo! but to the party whose convention nominated them. They will all be clected as demo- crats or us republicans, and will be no less partisan than if their names were first mentioned on the floor of the party convention. But suppose one or more of the party conventions refuse to act upon the recommendation of the bar meeting. There would then be a straight party contest in which partisanship would be the sole test applied by the voter. No candidates who could in any way be termed nonpavtisan would bo in tho fiold. Tho purpose of the prosent move- ment is to take the judiciary out of politics. 1f the party conventions can be induced to co-operate in the plam such assistance will be most welcome. But to rely upon them to complete the work of the bar meeting endangors the success of the whole proceeding. We are told that the desive of the bar is on the whole solely to sceure good judges. But that desire is not solely to secure good judges in the sense that they shall bo competent lawyers. There is something necessary in addition to mere competeney. The judge must fecl his independence of political party-—he may profess a political faith, but he must not feel that his place pr: the bench has been secured on ‘account of his po- liticai faith. The only way to secure such judges is to havo a nonpartisan nomination, which shall be mad upon grounds of ability and fitn out reference to politics. THE I0WA DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. The declaration of principlos upon which the democracy of lowa will make this year’s campaign does not invite very extended comment. It is essentially perfunctory 1n character, as a matter of course endorsing the administration of Governor Boiesand declaring confidence in that of Mr. Cleveland, and equally as amatter of course charging responsi- bility for all the financial and business ills the country is now suffering to the republican party. Time is wasted in combating the opinions of people who wantonly ignore indisputable facts. This country never attained a higher degroe of prosperity than was reached under the last republican admin- istration. Both its external and its in- ternal commerce were largely increased, its industries were steadily expanded, labor was well employed and well paid, and financial and business confidence was never seriously disturbed down to the day when it became known thata majority of the voters of the country had decreed that the legislative and executive departments of the govern- ment should be turned over to the con- trol of the democratic party. Then it was that distrust and doubt and fear be- gan to be manifested. A party was coming into power which ~ had declaved that protection to American in- dustrics is a violation of the constitu- tion and had pledged itself to strike down that policy and substitute for it what would be practically a system of free trade; a party the majority of which was warfantably bolieved, upon the record of its utterances and its votes in congress, to be favorable to the free and unlimited coinage of silver; a party that demanded in its national platform the repeal of the tax on state bank issue for no other purpose than to restoro a currency system which until driven out by the imposition of the tax had been a reproach to the country and a source of immeasurable injury and loss to millions of our people. As soon as it was fully realized that this party, with its reac- tionary principles and purposes, was to order and administer the financial and economic policies of the nation a gen- eral foeling of apprehension and alurm began to grow, resulting in widespread 10ss of confidence and depression in evel inte X This condition continues because the people still distrust the dem cratic party. They doubt its ability, its integrity and its patriotism. Its dis- tinguished leader in the executive of- fice cannot control the party. He is opvosed on the supremeissue of the hour by a formidable faction of the party in congress, which proposes to omit no effort to defeat his financial policy. There is good rea- son to ‘believe that Mr. Cleveland does not desire the ubsolute abandon- ment of protection to American in- dustries, but nobody can say whether he will be able to bring the party to his view. Thereisa very strong element that believes in the doctrine of the na- tional platform and it will demand con- cessions in the revision of the tariff which the president may be compelled to allow. How far theso may go in destroying protection and how many or what interests they may strike no one is authorized to sav or is wise enough to foresee. Such ave the influences which, appropriating the language of the Tows demccratio platform, “have com- bined to shake credit, to foment dis- trust, to paraiyze business, and to create panic.” Under republican policy and its wise and eflicient administration the eountry was splendidly prosperous. The ary should resolve themsalves intoa | era of prospority ended with the success of the democratic party last November. As to the tariff and silver the demo- erats of lowa plant themselves on the national platform, and therefore, with regard to the former, are not in accord with the president, while it is very ques- | tionable whether they are in harmony with the.views of Mr. Cleveland asto the | latter. There is an impression that if he conld have his way he would discontinue all use of silver except as a subsidiary currency. The liquor plank of the plat- form is in line with the previous de- olarations of the party on this question, and the utterances regarding railroad regulation and opposition to trusts and monopolies will be approved by men of all parties. This1s not a good year for democracy, and the democrats of Towa, with & thivd-term candidate for gov- ornor who stultified his conscienes, if his declaration of only three woeks ago bo regarded as sincere, to accept.the nomination, have small veason for confi- dence in the result of tho contest on which they are ntering. THE PRt HEALTH. The contradictory roports regarding the heakth of President Cloveland are perplexing to those who take a serious interest in the matter from u keen sense of its importance, but there are one or two considerations which go to support the statement that the president’s physi- cal condition is not such as to warrant him in revurning to his official duties at Washington at present. Mr. Cleveland is deservedly credited with being an ex- ceptionally industrious man. He is not afraid of work and his practice during his first administration was to give prompt attention to every de- mand upon him in the line of his official duties. It is to be presumed that no- body realizes move fully than the presi- dent the transcendant importance of the duty that is devolved upon his adminis- tration in connection with the financial question, and this being so he must aiso feel that his presouce in Washington at this time would be highly useful. He cannot exert through others the influ- enco which personal contact with sen- ators and representatives might reason- ably be expected to produce, and as a scientious executive, earnestly de- 1z the accomplishment of what he has asked congress to do, it seoms per- fectly reasonable to assume that Mr. Claveland would not remain away from the seat of government at this juncture if he felt that he could go there without serious risk to his health. It is said that the president went to Buzzard’s Bay simply to obtain necded rest and recuperation, that he was worn out with the arduous labors imposed on him. Buthe worked no harder than during the first four or five modths of his first administration, if so hard, for it is to be remembered that several months ago he shut the doors of the white house to applicants for office, which he did not do when he was first president. and there were no unusual official demands upon him before congress met. Besides, Mr. Cloveland has been away from Washington for several woeks, certainly time enough for a porfectly healthy man to bacome rested, however tired when he entered upon the vacation. Moreover, the president has not been absolutely resting. He has been doing some official work, and even going about fishing requires some exertion. Is it not just possible that what Mr. Cleve- land .really nceded, in the opinion of his physician, was sea air and a dif- ferent temperature from that of Wash- ington, neither absolutely necessary to relieve mere weariness? The country is familiar with contra- dictory reports respecting the health of distinguished public men and it is a fact that the reports of their ill nealth have been verified. A conspicuous case which everybody will remember was that of Mr. Blaine, wnose physical condition was for a year or more before his death a subject of eonflicting statements sent out ulmost daily to the country. In view of the considerations we have suggested there is reason to ap- prehend that Mr. Cleveland is far from being in robust bodily health, though he may be, aud probably is, in no immediate danger of being entively disabled for the performance of his official duties. Nobody will object to the president taking as long a vaca- tion as he may desire, but it is hardly credible that he is staying away from his post of duty, at a time when his per- sonal influence there is much needed, simply because heis *‘tired.” That is not compatible with the character of Mr. Cleveland, nor is it consistent with the idea of his solicitnde for the success of the financial poli of his adminis- tration, REHEARING THE CHINESE EXCLUSION CASES. It is currently veported that an effort will be made in the near future to secure on rchearing another decision of the United States supreme court upon the constitutionality of the Chinese exclu- sion law. The motion for a rehearing was denied when made immediately after the opinion of the court was handed down, but now that the personnel of that tribunal is somewhat altered it is hoped that a persistence in such a motion will vesultin having it granted. The vote upon the question of upholding the Geary law was, it will be remembered, 5 to3, Justice Harlan being absent from the bench, The threc dissenting justices weve all democrats, while the majority included the late Justice Blatchford, whose successor will no doubt be ap- poiated before the court convenes for its next term. The attorneys for the Six Companies argue that his successor will be a democrat and will be most likely to associate himself with the dissenting justices. That would make the court stand evenly divided, with the balance of power in the hands of Justice Harlan, whom they hope to win over to their side, W hatever stand a person may take as to the justice of the decision whioh sus- tained the constitutionalivy of the Geary law, the granting of a-motion for a re- hearing can scarcely be regarded in any light other than that of a dangerous precedent. The purpose of such pro- cedure is clearly to induce the court to rotreat from the position first taken and practically to reverse its own decision. This would Itp most unfortunate in its rosults, even though the immediato ef- tect might bo Kdiled by some as highly commendablel,, In the first place it would tend toammettlo the binding force of legal precedpfit and give somo justifi- cation to the {aferior courts to refuse to follow the law’addaid down by the court of last resort. If a teial judge can ox- pect the highar 4ribunal to reverse its own decision WH!will be tempted to dis- rogard the prgéffient whorever his per- sonal views may come into conflict with it. Vv Another depiorable tendency which the promiscuous granting of rehearings would entail would bo the disposition of litigants to refuso to give up the fight when a final deeision is reached. The defeated party would never cease in his endeavor to secure a rehearing, and liti- gation would virtually be without end. Again, the temptation to manipulate the membership of a court in the inter- ests of some particular logal interpreta- tion would be greatly strengthened and, if successful, would' bring our whole judiciary into disrepute. If the changes in the personnel of a court are to be re- lied on to secure o different judgment upon a caso once decided, the judges will come to be selected mot upon the strength of their legal learning, but because they are known to entertain cortain views upon matters to bo brought before them. 1t was charged that this was the case in the matter of the legal tender decisions, where a rehearing was granted and original de- cision reversed, and it is still doubted by many whether that proceeding did not weaken the popular respect for the federal supreme court. A rebearing may at times be necossary where new. evidence is secured, but where a case has been determined after full argu- ment, a rehearing and a reversal of the judgment involves questions of expe- diency that demand most servious con- sideration. THE republican state central commit- teesustained its reputation for bungling. The ratio of representation given for the state convention will, it is said, call for nearly 1,000 delegates. Just why such a move was deemed necessary in an off year when money is scarce and walk- ing not good is not apparent to the naked eye. If the committee had put up the bars against proxy representa- tion the blunder would not have. been s0 suggestive of prospective trickery. Under conditions that will exist at the convention, Wal¥' Secley can do more skullduggery in dn hour than can bo detected in a year. The work of the committee is simply an invitation for some railroad capper to again stuff the list of delegates and vote country dele- gations without regard to numbers, as was done two years ago. Republicans throughout the:state must not permit the next convention to be dominated by proxy delegates if they expect to suc- ceed in Nebraska. 17 1S not always best to take the state- ment of railway-oflicials = concerning earnings and eXpinses of their lines. The Elkhorn people, for instance, have been giving it outfor a year that the rond was not malgng a cent—that it could not pay its operating expenses and interest on its mortgage debt. This inay be true, but the mortgage debt was not placed there by consent of the people of Nebraska. who are by no means respon- sible for it. With the water squeezed out of the stcck tho net earnings in Ne- braska would provide a 20 per cent an- nual dividend. THE great silver debate closes today and the house will vote on the propo- sition to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman act on Monday. [t is to bo doubted whether thelengthy debate has changed a single vote, but at any rate the published reports of the speeches have been the means of furnishing a great deal of valuable information to the people. The masses are better informed on the question, even if they have not been benefited by the debate WE ARE informed that the republi- cans of the Nebraska delegation in con- ar have decided to refrain from in- flicting any of their wisdom upon the public and their constituents during the present silver debate. All must admit that in this they are commencing their congressional careers with a proper re- gard for their constituents which ought to be duly appreciated by them, SOME people may be surprised that Senator Manderson has been found sup- porting a resolution drawn up and intro- duced by Senator Peffer. Pefler's in- quiry was based on a statement made by Manderson during his reply to Allen the other day and Senator Manderson, of course, had to stand by his own asser- tion. © 1t Thne to Settl New York World. ‘When Mr. Bryan’s oratory becomes a lit- tle older it will know better thau to exer- cise itself 1n the intergst of a debased dollar, The Demund Gremter t the Supply, Kansas City Journal. Giold continues to poge {ato this country from Kngland, Franco and Germany, I can pour o good whil . hownver, before peo- plo ou this side will *aller nuft " e = Retributiéhn Cortain, ago ter Ocean. longress may refuss to do anythmg to restore the lost copfidence of the people. But just wait until thg people begin to talk ough the ballot The nation is too ich and the people’¥db plucky to lie down and squeal. The thifl to do is to make the best of everything “uup the first oppor- tunity that is offere Bu; Funng. Glube-Reocrat, All over the couutry the bauks are be- ginuing 10 show u,.digposition to afford o little more aid to bisiiess men than they have receutly given. The banks are eu- tirely safo in taking this step. They are stronger now than they have becu for two months past, and the danger of ‘‘runs” is over they are consultiug their own-in- terests as well as that of the commuaity tributary to them in lending mouey freely on safe security. e That Mute Appesl, Lou/svills Courter=Journal, Mr. Bryan uttered an impassioned plea for the “workers, worn and dust-begrimed, who make their mute appeals” 1o the democratic party for free silver.coinuge. “Mute ap- peals’ is well put. Certaiuly the working- men are not waking very vociferous appeals for a law which would reduce iheir saviogs by nearly half and pay them their wages in a dollar which would buy but little more than 50 cents' worth of anything in this or any other country, STATESMEN IN A CAVITY, Chicago Record : says ho feels put out. Well, ho was, Now York World: The speaker has orgiwioa the house well, It is organized for ofisctive work in the interest of all the people. Chicago Record: It would be interesting to know with what emotions Mr. Holman gives up the offic of chairman of the appro- priations committee. It would be interost- ing—but it would be cruel to expose them St. Louis Republio: Readers of the Re- public are familiar with Congressman Wil son's mastery of the tariff question. The west is as well pleased with the new chair. man of the ways and means committoe as if ho were from the great valley. Chicago Tribuno: Now that the smoke of battle has cleared away we cloarly dis- tinguish the towering form of Hon. Bill Springer next tho spot_where the carnage was the thickost. He is somewhat dis- figured, but his jaw is still working. Globe-Domocrat: Springer ought not to mourn much at_his removal from the head of the ways and means committee. It will be the Wilson bill nowr and not the Springer bill that the people will “cuss” next year, and that will lay out his party in the eloc- tions, Minneapolis Times: Mr. Springer of Illi- nois took a jump down from the leadership of the house, but he landed on his feet, as an 1llinois man usually doos. Banking and cur- rency, which Mr. Springer now leads, is one of tho most important committees in the house. Kansas City Journal: Springer and Hol- man have been set back in_the distribution of committee chairmanships, but Bland maintains his place of honor 'at the head of coinage, woights and measures. The de- position of Bland at the present time would have been a more unpopular action than ?lmnkcrcrlxp cared to bocome responsiblo for. Philadelphia Ledger: It is inevitable that there shall be bitterness and disappointment among the members of congress over the cholce made by tho speaker, and for a fow days he will be the subject of severe eriti- cism, but in the end his judgment will ba measured by the work of the committees, not by his treatment of individusl claims to preferment. St. Pavl Globe: Mr. Springer might con- sole himself by recalling history. Blaine placed Garfield at the head of the banking aud currency committee when the ways and menns was his due. He made that commit- tee prominent for the first time, and became president instoad of the man who sought to shelve him. Possibly Mr. Springer may be willing to have history repeat itself, with the assassination incident omitted. Globe-Democrat: “Watch-dog” Holman steps down from the chairmanship of the ations committee, and Sayres of steps up in his place. Holman eets airmanship of the Indian affairs com- mittee, but the gaining of a fourth-class post_affords poor consolution for the loss of a first-class one. This is hard on a man who is serving his fifteenth term in the house, as the Indiana statesman is. Mr. William Springor ROUND AB. UL The roller chair company has reduced prices to 50 cents an hour. Allowing three minutes to each exhibit, it would take twenty-three years to see the World’s fair. The total paid attendance at the fair last week, from _August 14 to 19 ivclusive, six days, v as 775,052, an average of 120.175 a day. This week started off Monday with an atiendance of nearly 130.000. The fair is now enjoying a net revenue of about §80.000 a day. \With the present pa- tronage this will yield about $4.000,000 by tho time the exposition closes. But with the coming of the autumn days the attend- ce will greatly increase, and the net daily profits will reach higher figures. The servant girls who went to the World’s fair are reported to be returning to their former homes. They thought they saw ex- cessively large wages in Chicago while the fair was being held, but they have not 1zed this expectation, and many of them have been unable to get employment. A pitiful sight at tho fair1s to see a num- ber of blind people there every day. The | music and laughterand gay talk must cheer them, but it is doubly unfortunate that they can’t see when everything around them is 80 beautiful. Even the nse of learning thing by touching is denied them; there ign of “Hands off” on everything at the isa fair. he battalion of West Point cadets at the fair is one of ils most attractive and in- structive exhibits, The young soldiers aro well drilled and_disciplined and are under the same regulations as at their school. “Their uniforms are always clean and well) fivting, o worn with @ style which pre: vails only among themselves; their arms and cquipments are in the best_ordor and thero is no appearance of shabbiness or neglect among them. The Fifth Ohio regiment also malkes an excellent appearance and its m bers are fine amatour soldi The d and dress parades of the soidiers are rare sights in these peaceful days and throngs of interested spectators are uniformly present. A chart in the Governmentbuilding tells of the amount of land taken by homesteaders for agricultural purposes during the yoar ending June 30, 1802. There were 93.380 claims approved, and 15,620,800 acres were given to the applicants for home: person t t of 160 ac by is a fac-simile of & homestead ce ftisan cngrossed copy of the certificate given to Richard Leyshorn when the gov- crnment gave into his possession 171,01 acres of land in Louisi In & conspicuous plag isa table laden down with governmental literature concerning the Department of the Interior. Small tracts are being offered to World's fair visitors which will tell them how to proceed should they desire to take up any of the agricultural, timber, stone or coal lands which the government has 1o give to loyal subjects who are in need of a home. bl Loty PEOPLE AND THINGS, As the days shorten, the ice blocks lenghten,, The copious liqui in New York naturally verbal froth. The eranberry crop promises to be an enormous one. And yet people wonder why IRussis hungers for a slice of Turkey. The main objection to cutting Kansas into two states is the fear that the whisker crop is iusuficient for purposes of statesmanship. It is worthy of note that when congress- men secured their mileage there was an im- mediate improvement in the ¢ ation of chin mus Bostonian dignity has invaded congress A representative of Beanville, fearing rome crude westerner would “put him in a hole.” pleaded inexperienco agaiust being ‘de- posited in a cavity.” “The land ofice has decided to make the seven new towns in the Cherokee Strip as attractive as possible. They will be laid out with eighty-foot streets and twenty-foot sidewalks, and eighty acres in each will be reserved for parks and county court houses. Emblematic medals were yesterday pinned on the breasts of Marshal Murphy, Licuten- ants Bavker and Miller and Huns Rehfoldt, the four heroes of the cold storage ware- house fire in Chicago. The tokens of es- teem wore weil earned, aud bestowed with graceful compliments An Indianapolis woman has awakened from a sleep of Lwo years, but is not ex- pected to li During her prolonged snooze, [ita Was sustasned by monns of milk fod through a tube. Her ‘present condition is a source of rogret in the Hoosier capital. Dis- cussion of her condition kept the rest of the town partially awake for twenty months. Mrs. U, 8. Grant has declined an extremely courteous 1w vitation to attend the reunion of the confederate veterans to be beld in Bir- minghum, Ala., in September, pleading that sho is nov able to endure the fatigue of such oceasions, the reason she gives for having systematically declined all such invitations that have been received from their brothers of the northern armies. Vice President Steveuson is described b, an easteru paper as “the Coquelin of hand- shaking.” He looks the visitor tair in the eye, ropeats the name in & wanner that in- dicates that he has often heard it before and will remember it as long as he lives, grasps his new acquaintance firmly by the hand, shakes it vigorously twice, beams again and the cercmony is at un end. “The visitor feels thut the vice president is especially im- pressed with him and goes away happy. The nearest lving relative of George Washington is Ebenezer Burgess Ball, who keeps a little cigar stand in the rotunda of the pension oftice. The Sons of the Ameri fons of the unemployed produced much can Revolution have investigated his claims thoroughly, and their veraiot goes to sup- port them. He issaid to resomble Washing- ton's portralt: other person claiming relationship, and pic tures that have boen taken of him dressod In the continental uniform have beon mis- taken by man, ington himself. Mr. 18 hale and hearty. Nebraska Monthly Crop Review is tho copious titlo of a new publication in Omaha, who desire to get the ear of tho weathor or securo accurate information on atmospheric phenomena, the Recora is in- valuable, and will, if storod away ence, enablo thoso who dol the woather to demolish th the oldest juhabitant. ( United States forecast ofivial for Nebraska, is the editor and publisher by a corps of expert clowd enator Gorman is s newspaper attacks are « correspondent of a New York imagined that ho had fairly Tander alive for his views respocting the sil- ver question, called upon him to ask if he had anything to say in reply. said Mr. Gorman, smiling_ sweotly, soldom soe your paper and haye not hoa tho articlo referrod to. is of no importance, I assure you. then the correspondent went out and com- muned with nature for an hour or so, A TIME FOR I Doxienas, Neb., Aug. 24, of Tur Bre: now, while we hear so many cries from the working people, and, in fact, from all classes, tnat they can find nothing to do, is the time our government—state, county and municipal—to make public and employ these people who aro ery work and who must have work or starve or be supported at publ: taken idea some of us are prosperous we will issue bonds and make our improverents and have the bonds come no doubt, at such it is almost impossible to get money to pay these bonds. issue our bonds and make our improvements in panicky times we would greatly improve the condition of things, give employment to the poor and thus receive value for what it will become necessary to supply them to people around the country and perhaps getting into habits that are not kin to them and. theveby filling our jails, would it not be better for our government to employ them at anything? y the army and the marine sorv latter of which couldsno doubt employ more medical men and could no doubt get the barriel oldest that matter how pre other branchies of our government which 1 tape and them a sort of an aristocr follow the history of Fra that sho alwa ys work on public improvements and inc her army and ny this it would help matters consides it D13 20 A Gould Schemo that Falled. Cincinnati Commercial, Some years ago Juy 'y of our government to pay off the al debt. and a_consequent scarcity of bonds as security for gested the idea of re were intere tions were not adop financial ability New York called attention to this item and asked what tho conscquences would be if | enc now experienced would be a trifle as com- pared with th; rrency of the ’50's would b This is a les: ncy should profit by tainly should not forget it. The H Minneapolis Tribune. hat were firing out a short time > firing up again. In Pittsburg alone no fewer than 15,000 men who were idle and despondent last week are at work and con- tented again. winter is almost broke THE LAMB R That “Mary had We'ro willing to allow, But thut was years and 'yoars ago, 1t must bo mutton now. flecco was whito as snow, 31, 100, wo will ullo! But, gontlo roq 1t must be whi must be différent now. It followed her to sc Wo also this allow; ehildren cry—n This 10 he true—those e very old folks now. vo wads of ‘wealth to bet tliving now. long time yet. mornings. $10 up. BROWNING, KING & CO., |8, W, Cor. 18t1 and Douglas Sts. Btore open every evenlng tiil6.9). much moro elosely than any for reprosontations of Wash- nll 18 70 years old, but most entert Weather Rocord and To those 1t has been a vy for refor- ht to k about obasrvations of orgo 1. Hunt, | 1y structive, Bigsby br and is assistod aders, chydormatous so far neerned. The apor, who tlayod the Mary- UPOR those Ly many minutes. Hao prefa tures of ti Arnold re the playground, Really,” Besides, tho Cromwoll's lifo the gates, atmospho told an intorosting roprosonting since plous King Hon kingly personage. e 'ROVEMENTS, To the Editor Did it ever occur to you that here and there an improvements ng for penso? It is a mis- Ave that when we school boy. time as this when Instoad of this, if we wounld acadernic lecturer spoke marking tha ng the winter months that | MOUS: ome. Rather than have idle and roaming man ceaturies ha o the fine collec S0mo respects. ana of the thereon by men Two he which makes 20 get in, mo at, was broken down ars. Such is the case in many toxt of lifu, cnoss make It you will you ‘will find es_cmployment to her icky times by giving them ) memory of or hroughout the I think if we wonid do bly = ould, in noticmg tho | sacred cha uk- circulation, sug- ving railroad bon ying. The sugges. d. A gentleman of and wide experience trom ud -pi that made a the bonds issued by the Northern Pacific | sacrilego. railroad and its branches had been accepted as security for bank circulation. He an- swered it by saying the financial disturbance | aineap who_ trade Now, there is no_ distrust ; In that case the bank panics ve been overshadowed. n that the advoc of state ; they cer. Boston Globy the prices on P e Ho-— provement. order ti Brooklyn Lif loarned at coll you?" I learni play poker." The bickbone of the financial | gearing . hoavy The greut weiht neariy - drowned. VISED, Detroit Free Press. s little Tnnb* 1 sent i Just 50ots 1 Harper's Bazar: of & huppy murr mo the most of courso. don't’ you think now? t Mary went* wllow o i timo; as 50, one clety. geloneidny.ty Willle Wilt-"H1o Mary so?" W hildren must Mury, do 1 Well, sho lived ono time, Pt Tiow; BROWNING, KiKg Lurgest Manufaovurars wn | Ratallors i Clothing in the World. Hopkins Hats. The new fall styles of the Hopkins hats are " _lys.. __ |now in. These are the hats that are knocking out the at one time leading and all the time fancy priced head gears, whose styles have lately become so outra- geous that no one will The Hopkins is neat, nobby and modest in style and at $1 below ———— other hard hats. tourist hats with wide and narrow brim come several good colors now. All the Stetson hats we show, including their original Fedora. sell you a stiff hat as low as $1.50. A new hat and a fall overcoat will make that summer suit last a Our new fall overcoats are beauties and come in very handily these cool nights and All colors, grades, sizes and prices from wear them, Buturduy vl 1t RUGBY AND ARNOLD, D, Bernard Wigahy Delivered Last “Rugby and Arnold,” names profoundly familiar to liverary lovers the world over, and partioularly entrancing to the youth of England and Amorica, was the ning lactire o at tho First Mathodist chu nard Bigsby of Detroi: tertalning Lectars n last evening y % time sinco Omaha peoble were priviloged to hear so ominont a light in the literary world upon & tnemo so intoresting and withat so charmingly Having spent nino history-making yoars at Rugby when Dr. Arnold v ight wn o subjoct that made the two hour famous namo its hoadmastor, thusiasm to his seem like as tsome looking man with & fine intelloctual face, he seem liko a flesh and blood master of [Rugby him. solf, somewlat softened by hi the world of which ho is so br contact with oturo with graphic ple- at Winchester where Dr, d his oducation. Ho spoko of mouided into the his tion. Ho traced vapidl And | school, and in those uncie of tho English na- the rise of tho Roundheads. hutting tho school within its own 0, studded horseshoes ho time of that visit from s ‘U'hien, as only the student of Rugby can, he told of the boys and their Jabors with “'om Noddle brushing the boots belonging to somo sixth form boy and being compelled to sleop in hulf a dozon bods Ly as many of the Dig Loys to take tho chill off the sheets. Incidentally ho talked of the educationnl advantages affordod which ho thought of incalculablo bonetit in assisting to mould the the fag system Passing to Rughy choson words the school and the mastors house, urging enpassant tho adontion of the ap in all schools of high degree. Of tho master of Rughy, Dr. A glowingly, humorously' ro- whilo his” salary £1,000 a yoar, his perquisities wero enor- he painted in also came in for generous of tho great minds of past i contributed their ion, which is uncqualed in “Then ho told of the shiolds about the assomblage room at Winc o 1ous in arts aud letters, llod, one by Roger Aspham When Tinds bo gone and money spent, Then lenrning is most oxeellent, and the other by C: Great men aro pun tuation marks vin the He told of the story of 1ts founding by William of Wykeham for the poor boys ot Vinchester and paid o glowing tribute to g lecture was inter: ing | With bright bits of humor told aelightfutly by a past master in tho 75 Venerating the Ballot, New York When Frenchmen day to cast their vote Chamber of Deputies hatsasa token of their er of citizonship With such a_feeling widespr people ho would be a dar attempt went to the polls Sun. for members of the to defeat the verdict iore and worshipped with a imo against the ballota e FLOATL is Tribun, off #500 himself & buymotallist now. Nebraskn farmor lers put down aches the women put them up, Chlcago Tnter Occan: ordor voul when you never oat it at h t takes 50 long for the walter at 1t Will Do beef when 1t gotd “Wnat have you renlly that s useful (o that I did'nt know how to Philadelphia Record: An old huyseed we Intho surf nt Atlantic City the other dny uoy belt” filled with gola. ded him under, and he called a sinking fund, Chicago Tribune: "“The assignment,” sald in the white duck trousers, who write ub afire in a conl yura, cly ‘truihful m ‘nah, her father is & mover in the very bos! Wilt, Sr.—Tow is th The new