Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 7, 1893, Page 4

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Averago Cir A 24,075 wintion for THE recent conventions at Lin- colnsmacked considerably of the bargain counter. state deferred disso- maximum freight rate WHAT about that long lution of the law injunction IT STILL remains a state campaign ¢ won in this off yi alone. n whother n be fought out and 1 upon national issues 10 be se THE Powell snive hunt turned out ex- retly as we predicted. Mr. Powell has robably discovercd by this timo that John L. Webster never 1the remot- st idea of making him supreme judge. TRANGELY enough the republican platform neglects to congratulate the members of the State Brard of Trans- |« portation for its offorts to dissolve the railroad injunction against the maxi- mum rate law, Now that the school house janitors have returned from the state convention it becomes a pertinent question by what authority they deserted the post of duty for which they are drawing pay out of the school fund. THE south is coming promptly to the aid of the victims of the groat gulf storm. If they prove unequal to the task of re- lief thoy will find that tho poople of the north know no sectional lines in the geog- raphy of distress, TT MUST not be taken for granted that the republican party of Nebraska is un- favorable to railroad regulation simpiy because the republican platform fails to endorse the causo of tho people against the corporations. LVEN the convention controlled by the agents of the corporation junta did not have the sublime assurance to commend the ‘efficiency” of the state officials whom it *‘vindicated” when ‘it turned down Judge Maxwell. I 18 2 matter of regret that the pos- tal authorities have ruled the Weather Record out of the mails. Mr. Hunt, the forecast official, had made a special hit with his little sheet and should have been permitted to continue its publica- tion, WiTH fourteen amendments to the re- peal bill and ono substitute ponding be- fore the senate the prospect of forcing a vote upon the passage of the original bill ‘before the time for the regular as- sembling of congress in Decombor must not be overrated. Now 1HAT the impeached officials have securcd the fivst point in their program for vindieation it is to be hoped that they will be able to find time to exert themsclves in the performance of their duties. The transfer switch law Is still unenforced THE ncws bureaus of the east have it that David Bennett Hill is to be “gradually brushed aside” in Empire state politics and that William C. Whit- ney is to run the machine in the future, There are a great mdny people in this country who would like to be present to 8ee the entertainment while David Ben- nett is being brushed asid THe Nebraska delegation in Wash- ington exprosses itself unanimously in line with the resolution of the mayor and city council urging that the work on the new federal building be more rapidly expedited. A littlo pres-ure at the right spot may induce the 'I'reasury depurtment to let the contract in time for the siuceessful bidder to prepare for next season’s work, THERE is a marked difference between the platform adopted by the republican state convention a year ago and the ono adopted at Lincoln Thursday afternoon. A year ago Nebraska vepublicans looked state issues squarely in the face. This year they delibera turned their backs upon the demands of the people sud ignored the issues upon which this fall's campaign must be fou IN view of the inexcusable waste of time on the part of the senate since the opening of the extra session of congress the people will not be disposed to accept the threadbare demand frr wore time to investigate the qualifications of the recent appointee to the bench of the. United States supreme court. Becuuse the senate is crippling itself is no reason that it should seck tocripple the supreme | dJustice | ity. A HANDICAPPED CANDIDATE, T. 0. C. Harri laced in nomination by publican on the Judge who has the m for the place supreme now held hy Ma of fair abil- Treained for judicial duties by an expericnce covering many years as police, county and district judge, ho may bo regarded as fully qualified for the supreme bench. His standing Grand Island, where he has resided f nearly twenty yeaw, is conceded to be yod a8 that of any othe: man of his As a he has always been loyal and unsworving. ’ much at least may Le said to his ¢ Tt must also that Mr. | rison’s credentials as the nominee of the republican party canfot be attacked the ground of gularity in the count or admission of contestod delegates who had no title to their Mr. Harrison's e ever, be licans he son, been | re- state conven well, is a lawfer as g profession. lican be admitted n ats wdidacy “will, ho esonted by thonsands of repub- ause it was brought about by methods that are unrepublican and therefore destructive of the an right of the peopie to sclf-government Mr. Harvison 1s not the choice of the re- publican party of Nebraska through representatives voicing its sentiment.” He holds his title from a domipated by railvond maguates state house plunderers. His candidacy represents the elements that have de- graded vepublicanism and converted it into an instrument usurpy tion and political misrule. He is the product of a ecriminal eonspirac make the highest judicial tribunal of the state subservient to the satraps of the railroads who seck to fasten the chains of political serfdom upon onr people and reduce Nebraska from its proud position as a froe state to a subju- gated provinee Under such cireumstances Mr. Harri- son's candidacy is doubly unfortunate. It is unfortunate for him that he comes handicapped by political bac who avo diseredited by the people, and it is unfortunate for the vepublican party, which enters the campaign loaded down by the inenbus of monopoly and official delinquency. “um- stances make it impossible for The Bue to give Judge-diarrison its unqualified support. We are compellad th protest ainst the pernicions methods that have brought him into the field and to remonstrate earnestly against-the sub- stitution of railroadism for republican- ism in the eouncils of the party. PROPOSED BANKING LEGISLATION. The bauking and currency committee of the house has agreed to favorably re port the bill, amendatory of the na- tional banking aet, to further reguly borrowing from national banks, known as the Cox bill. This prohibits the officers and employes of banks, except dircetors who ave mot otherwise officers or employes, to be- come borrowers, or to become Hable to the bank by reason of overdrawn account, or as endorser, guarantor, secur- ity or otherwise, excent upon written application approved by a majority of the directors or executive com- mittee. Interviews with eastern bankers regarding this proposed legislation clicited the vory gen- eral opinion that such a law would do good, -and it was suggested by some of them that it could further with perfect propriety, cven to the ex- teut of forbidding bank oflicials to bor from the institutions with whi they were connected. [t was also ob- served that the proposed law simply contemplated establishing a principle that ought to be in fores in every bank that is managed conservatively. Thero is unquestionably a demand for legislation of this kind. An investiga- tion of the record of national bank fail- ures will show that the inost disastrous of them have resulted from the libarty allowed to officials in borrowing, or per- haps it would be more nearly correct to say, helping themselves t the funds of tho institutions, and what has happer may happen again. At le a dozen cases can be called tomind as having oc- curred within the years in which banks wore lojted by this practice of permitting officors to borrow at will without the permission and gencrally without the knowladge of the divectors, and it is not to be doubted that there are many instances of this sover convention nd of s These deplorable ¢ measure row practice throughout the couatry at this | decl time which will ba brought to knowl- edge only when to the wall. It is true that it may not be possible to provide an absolute legislative safeguard against the operations of unserupulous bank officials. Insvidutions that are practi- cally controlled by one man, whose re- quest for anything would bo equivalent toa command, would not be rendered more secure by the proposed law against the evil which it is intended to correct. As has been suggested, the president or cashior or such a bank would only go throngh the form of asking a permission that would be granted as a matter of eourse, and while the law would be obeyed to the letter the same old practice wouid be kept up, but the number of institutions of this kind, it must supposed is comparatively small, 50 that it is not worth while to consider these in a dis- cusaion of the merits of the proposed legislation It is but simple truth to say that the national banks of the country are, as a whole, eonducted honestly and conserva- tively, and this is due quite as much to tho high character of the men connected with them as to the legal rogulations under which they exist. It is a note- worthy [ that while during the eight months from January to September the number of failures of state and private banks was 560, of which only about 13 por cont have resumed, that of national banks was only 153, of which nearly 50 per cent have resumed. This illustrates a striking difference between the management of national and of state banks, taking the conntry as a whole, and suggests what might be expected from a return to the old system of state bank issues, But admitting all that may be claimed for the judicious and careful management of the national banks collc tively, there can be no reasonable objoc- tion to legislation which proposes to render these institutions even more secure, and certainly none will be heard to | iks that permit it go | I ab | and | conform with precedent and stop criti: i | i | | | i | Tast two or three | tr | bo ready for report | mercial THE OMAHA DAILY ' from honest bankers, who appreciate | the value of such regalations of the busi- ness as will warrant public confidence | | L TARIFE FOR KEVESUE BILL, It will be no surprise to the conntry to learn that is in the hands of the | chairman of the ways and means com- mittee a taviff bill, the al ontlines of which were drawn by the secretary of the treasury, with the assistanse of a fow well known advocates of tariff re- form outside of ¢ongress, and which will be ready for introduction whenever the admini that the time enter npon the tariff revision. Aec- wding to trostworthy information all devolves upon the demoeratic ma- Jority of the ways and means committee to put the framowork of a tariff bill together and shape the schedules to it, which of course can be done in & very short time, the arduous and ll‘rlliwvH; work having alrendy been accomplished under the supervision of Secrotary Car- lisle and in conformity with the views of Mr. Cleveland. It been observed t shat the democratic membersof the ways and means committee were inclined to make something of a mystery of the new tariff bill. A short time ago it was ceely intimated that the measure would to the house about wwember, but recently the chairman of the committee stated that it was impos- sible to say when the bill would be completed. * It well under- stood that the administration does not desire congress . to take up the tarift question until the silver issue is disposad of, but there is said to be a well defined belief among members of the house that the bill can be reporte whenever the administration desires, be the date two weeks or two months hence. 1t is cited as evidence that the work of the bill and the general tine of the new tariff had agreed upon and that Scerctary Carlisle was op- nosed to the committee granting hear- ings. The administeation policy being fixed he considered it a waste of time to listen to arguments by persons inter- ested in the question of tarifl revision and there reason to believe ! that this does not incorrectly state the position of the sceretary of the treasury in the fact that only a very short time was devoted to these hear- ings and thavlittle attention was given to them by the democratic members of the ways and means committee, Indeed dur- ing most of the time only three or four of the majority were present at the hear- ings, and from beginning to end it was apparent that the business was wholly perfunctory, being ordered merely there ration shall say has come for eong! consideration of 188 1 has is frame- new been is to cism. The democrats of the committec, ar at any rate the chairman, Mr. Wilson, who was appointed to be the mouthpiece of the adminis- tration, kuew that nothing pres sented at the heaings would have any influence, because the work of tarift revision was alrcady under way, if not practically accomplished, except as to minor details, outside of congress The industrial interests of the country have less reason to fear an administra- tion tariff bill than one framed entirely by the democratic mzjority of the ways and means committee. In the latter case a measure wonld doubtlass he made to come as nearly as possible to the doe- tre form regarding protection, while a bill to meet the approval of the president need not recognize this doetrine. Indeed Mr. Cloveland has indicated as plainly as need be that he is not in sympathy with the view that protection is unconstitu- tional and that nothing will be done hy his administration to break down that policy. The promise of an administra- tion tarift bill may, therefore, be re- garded as reassuring to the industrial interests of the country affected by the tariff, MCHANGEABLE MILEAGE BOOKS, THE BEE has haen eriticised by one of its many friends among the commereial elers of the west becanse it has inti- mated that it is not in complete aceord with the movement for an interchang able 5,000-mile book, good on all roads, with an increased allowance of baggage. The strictures of T Brk wers directed solely aguinst what our correspondent vos is “simply incidental” to the plan, namely the provision fr the free transportation of an incieased baggage allowance. The agitation for an inter- changeable mileago brok, on the other hand, is one that deserves the support, not only of ymmercial travelers, but also of the entire traveling public without regard to business or prof The present practlee of “compelling waveling men to provide themselves with mileage books upon every road which they may be forced to patronize inconvenient and unbusinesslike. Were our railways still the chaotic and - disconnected condition which they occupied two or thres decados ago the present syst would have rendered it absolutely impossi- ble to transact the jobbing and wholesate usiness of the country through the existing agency of the com- traveler, lmagine the groat trunk lines of today split up each into a dozen small independent lines which would rvequive separate mileage baoks for each road, and the obstacles to trade drumming would be practically insur- mountable. With every consolidation or acquisition of one railroad by another the field of the single mileage baok is widened, The movement for an inter- chaageable mileage book, then, is only anticipating what would come of itself were all the railroads of a particular region to be united under a single man- agement The expected convenience and saving of both time and money are things that the public have a right to demand, As to the increased baggage allow- ance we may reiterate our opinion as previously expressed. The teaveling wmen have done much for the rail and deserve some attention in but they eannot ask to be favored be- yond the ordinary passengar. Outsido INTF ssion, ads return, | at a much r - management nes of the national democratic plat: | € of their own ranks it is only the tion that the passenger finds himself charged with oxcess baggage. More often he-travels without baggage of any kind except what he takes with him TRDAY, ‘“ IEE SATL — int) the comhd Why compel him to vay for a peivilege which he does not care to use?. Why chacge up to him in the price of his ticket the of transporting thé baggage of his rich neighbor, who is amply able to pay for himself? Thé question of excoss bag- ve does not the commercial traveler myeh us it does his em ployer, who pays for the service, and the employer who has to out lar trunks full of sanplos must regard the misfortune a8 & necossary incident of his business. When everyhody pays for the transportation of the exact amount of that he carries the inter- changeable mileage book may bo issued diced rate per mile. st affeot 50 baggage KEEP POLITICS OUY OF THE SCHO VLS. Partisanship in the Board of Educa- tion should be frowned down and countenanced from now on. Members of the school board should be made in- eligible by law for any other office during the term for which they ar clected, and stringent rogulations should be adopted by the board to take the Jjanitors, the building superintendent and other employes on the pay roli of the school board out of aetive politic Nobody asks that these men bo disfran- chised, either at a primary 1 elee- tion, but they should not be permitted to act as ward heelers and packers, There is nothing sodemoralizing as the pernic meddling by school board employes in local politie Under the prevailing system the janitors run the school board. They make and unmake members by combines and even presume to dictate who shall or who shall not b employed as teachers, WhoBver heard of the janitors of a hotel or an office building running the establish- ment and dictating who shall be em- ploved to manage the affairs of their employers? This is precisely the con- dition of things in our public schools. The time come when the school must divorced from active partisan politics. dis- convention us has be LANDLORDS in the s abe, as a rule ger tosecure desivable ten- ants that they are willing to make any reasonable alterations in their buildings in order to close a lease. So when the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners propose to rent new quarters for the fire department at $100 per month for a period of five years ave they not going a trifle too far in asking the council for $600 from the general fund *'to fix the place up?”’ Buildings suitable for the fire department “are not so scarce that the city need beg to be taken in as a tenant. Rent a five engine house, not a store. S0 ea THAT much vaunted co-ordinate departments” did not cut much of a figure before the senate whilo s trying to hold up some of the idential appointments in ovder to force the execitive to select Indian agents from among ts of the state where the agency is situated. ‘independence of Era, m oup houses, et vnage dur 1t is well ning on full time. it oHOTe Bumps on Hix Spine. Cineinnati Commercial. Cleveland’s backbone is was when he convened sesst There will be no compro- “Thera can be none that will suit the a fact which is much more to rigid now congress in lic congress at & an unqualified success. The exceedingly slim, and the de! sentine but cight states, are all of the cr description, Murs., Lease, the popul tator; ex-Gover ite, the blood-to-the- bridles warrior; Governor Tillman, the boss of the South Carolina state dramshops, and General Weaver, the perennial erank candi- date for the pre are the only pcople of any notoriety present. The aldresses, of have been inflammatory in the high- but there is no danger that they t the Mississippt afire. The congress will not cven be n seven duys sensation, It has practically dicd a-bornin’ PARTY, t. Louis is not attendance is ERY ) Beatrice Times: The Bryan, but the de; onvention repudiated jocracy has not been heard. The time will come when the ring- sters will be deposed aud the dictators de- throned or the party will bo split asun Vaiparaiso Visitor: Bryan 1s undoubtedly nearer to the seutim ntof the democratic party in Nebraska today than are those who lead the opposition Lo him, but the adminis- tration, with 1t large nmount of* patronage controlled the convention, Nebraska City Press: Congre: Bryan must boa man of exceptional fo bearance if he can accept the treatment that has been given him by the members of his own party and do nothing to show his resentment. . He has been repeatedly slapped and rebuffed, and is expected to take it all as o matter of course, Kearney Journal: Bryan his for fight in his -party that means his pol death. His carcer has been meteoric seemed to turn his head was large enough and turn down the whole and the entire democ The result is that his be und to powd a City News: Congressman n now realizes that he is not the a0l that bis brain conceived that he was and that the domocrats of Nebrasia, while admiring h brilliant ovatorgs @re not, as yet, ready to got down on thelg Bellies and crawl olindly inwo the indenendet party av his dictition. No man is so greatghat he cannot fall, even though he climbid to the sky, nor isany man greater thanethe power that created him * *pillion Times: The crowning act of in- famy in the history of Nebraska politics was witnessed at Lincolu when the office-seeking clemént captured the democratic. state con- vention and by evory means possible sought to offer insult’ to Congrsssmun Bryan, the best and bravest damoerat of all; the man who has honored Nebraska above her sister states in the halls. of congress and forced peoplo of New,. KEngland to admiv thay ins and eloguence aro not uuknown ond #he Alleghanies. 1t was all right 1o endonsy the administration; all wrong to suub Bryan, who is still the idol id hope of every, Nebraska democrat not ow holding or momentarily expecting to get ofilc and it He thought Bryan pobular enough to administration force utic party machin political hopes (O "l‘()l}ER 1893, OTHER LANDS THAN The legal torm of the present lowor House of the Prussian Parliament on November The election. therefore, will take plase auring this month. There seoms little probability of any important change in party strength, though the conservatives have a better to gain than any othors, and perhaps scoure a cloar majority. 1In the present House the ber 125, and there are sixty-six con rvativos and ten “independent’ conser ativos, making a total of 201, or only six teen less than a ma r. They have steadily commanded the House, however, eithor by getting the sixteen or more votos from the moderate wing of tha national liberals, or by forming an allianee with the whole body of cloricals, who number ninoty cight. The national liberals have only eigity-seven, the radicals twenty . and the Polos fifteen, whilo thero ar and two liberal freclances. Thoe absenco of social democrats w0 their deliberate non-participa tion in the slections, a practice which they will continue this year and until the election laws are equits Then they will come in with a rush and be, as thoy doclare The anti-Sem ovUas. oxpires chance ma num entire is due “like pike ina earp pona.” ites, however, aro making a lively campaizn and will doubtless return soms membors who will bo much more extrome and violont in their enmity to proporty rights than the socialists themsolves, The national liborals and the radicals will probably loso ground and the conservatives bo more than ever masters of the field. Buy their inequitable sway canuot be perpotual. Before another clection comes around they will doubtless be forced to yield to the popular demand for re vision, and then tho king of Prussia wiil have before him a political situntion vastly different from any he has yot known. e It is not likely that many Americans are aware that the most costly armament in Europe is not that of Russia, of Germany, orof France, the taxpayers of which coun” tries we are in the habit of commiserating” It is that of Great Britam, which we accustomed to consider as out of the conti- nental competition and exempted from the great burden laid by the continental coun~ tries upon their citizens as the cost of that suate of preparedness for war that has been forced upon all Furope for the past twenty years by the attitude of the French with respect to the German conquests. Not only is the British navy the most expensive in Europe, but the British army is among the costliest, if not quite the costliest, of European armies. That the great navy is a national necessity cannot be disputed, nor that the Indian army is a serious and effect- ive farce. Nevertheless, the English people are right who maintain that the nation does not get full value forits money. A great part of the money spent upon the home army is wasted by reason of the aristocratic prejudices that still survive in the choice of its officers, whose incompetency, especially in the departments of supply, is likely to lead again to such grievous and tragical results as 1t wrought in the Crimean war. The maximum expenditure for natioual de- fense 1s £280,000,000. e The French expenditure for the army and navy is £200,000,000 a year and that of the German empive SI‘.K!,Q(NLDO!). Russia spends not far from $170,000,000 yearly upon her army and navy. For many years she has been regarded ns nearly a bankrupt nation, but she continues to raise or borrow the sums she needs, and there seems to be no reason why she should not continue to do so. A matter of fact, Russian credit is at least good now as it was in 1870, when she v thought to bo impoverished by her miltary expenditures. Austrin is in much the same situation, and she must keep pace with the military preparations of Russia, which she scems to have no in- superable difticulty in doing. Italy is un. doubtedly in a bad finuncial way, and comes much nearer than any other of the powers to giving way under the strain IPortunately, Ttaly 1s by no means under the same necessity with the other_ powers of keeing up the strain, Her crushing arn ment can safely be reduced, being mair tained more as a matter of national vanit, than of nation: If her army were half its actual she would be very nearly as valuable an ally and as form: ble an cnemy as she is now with an army that she caunot afford. It has been established, however, that the reduction of the army would be unpopular, With this ption, it scems that the European powers can keep up the present pace indefinitely. a Accepting the fact of an alliance between France and Russia, it can have buv the one object, The professed object of the T Allinnce is to preserve the peace of Burope, tie object of this friendship between Franct and Russin can only be war. Russ her own desizus in the cast, and Germany, and France wants Als Lorraive. Ciermany, which is the most di rectly menaced by this alliance, is fully alive to the situation. ITtaly, which is open to attack from both these ailics, firming her alliance with Germany by giv- ing the navy of the latter power a har- bor on her coast. Italy 15 well nigh bankrupt, but hov army is fairly well equipped, her uavy reasonably strong and her people in that state of discontent because of hard times which puts the gov- ernment in desperate straits to hold its power. There is a war purty in Ttaly, but it does not count for so much” as the uneasi ness and restlessness of the people. These are the indications which are at present pointing to war. ‘The center of these storm signs is Frauce, not the government but the people, or a noisy and not inconsiderable purt of them. France, however is not dikely to provoke war alone, unditussia will not act with her until Russian plans are fully ripe During the German emporor's visit to Austrin and Hungary his majesty seized every opportunity of wearing the new hunt- ing costume which was designed by himsell, It consists of a bluish gray tun with a short cloak of the same mat both garments baving green facings and broad epaulets, The emperor 4 round waist and u broad belt of green leather from which he hangs a huge hunting knife, the handlo mounted with the imperial crown of gold. He wears very hugh lucquered boots, gold spurs, and a tyroieso hat of gray felt, edged with green and adorued with an enormous plume of feathers which quiver at overy stop. The Emperor William does not care for champis hunting, which is o much trouble for him. He likes casy shooting, such as deer-driving or wild boar huating in an enclosure, and duriug his stay at Schonbrunn he amused Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U, S. Gov't Report, 5 aking Powder ABSQLUTELY PURE | miss Duko F | the two Danes | himselt in Lalsx Thiergatten, whote Em. | paror Francis Joseph never shoots, as he a genuine sportsman and disdaing tho mod- crn fashion of slaughtering game. Kmperor Francis Jos h and the king of Saxony are chiamois hunting on the imperial domain in the Styrian Alps, whore they much irnst of Saxe-Cob ! neluded will stha, who had been always these small parties up there. . The o beginni in Germar to learn the diMenitics which are ant follow & pro gressive colonization policy. One of th probiems confronting them in Bast Africa is what to do with the liberated slaves, whoso nimbers have outgrown the capacity of the ssions to deal with them.. In February, 1842, thirty-nine slave girls, ranging from 8 10 16 years of ag ca o the missions, ten to the ev al and nine to Roman Catholic station m Dar-os-Sa and twenty to the Roman Catholic mission fn Pagamoyo. A few months later, a8 a result of several liberating expeditions in the southern districts of the German sphere of interest, fifty-four slaves were brought from Lindi, Mikindani and Kilwa to Dar-es-Salaam, wtere they were distrib. uted among the missions, twenty-six falling to the evangelical and twenty-cight to the Catbolic mission, Since that time the num- ver of liberated slaves has considerably in- creased, and there can be no doubt the difi culties of providing for them will Proportion to the expansion of Ger rule, The pecuniavy sacrifices which the missions have mado have been heavily folt, and the iwperial chancellor, recognizing the justice of the claims for state aid, put forward by the wmissionarics in 1892, has granted a yearly sum of 25 marks for oach slave child under 8 yoars of age handed over to the care of the stations by the government. The question of dealing with the adult slaves presents still greater difliculties Ny A Wantug Indusrry, Kansas City Star, Montava has corraled her ty Missouri has put all her festive graves or behind tho bar 1llinois have run_down their desperadoes, and Kansas, Indiang and California have done ve that e, If the g o were assig in robbers; bandits into Michigan and s train Colorado v well Jately in United Statesofficials i the Indian Territory will do their duty, the country will bo prepared to expunge train robberies from the list of profitable pursuits - TRIFLING TIDBIES, Chicago Inter Ocean old de rabout your cn Sy Yo need he did, and w ied to kuow 1€ 1 had wny with Bufralo Courier: It is rather too much to expect o man on his uppers to be a wholo souled follow. Indianapolis Journal: This world is but n radox, and pl Iy does this showgin the fact |‘[lv~ st ming man' Is the man with Ch 1 understa er, s i great it lenges, twenty-ci fourtoen disagriements and w your's experienc cago Record: nd Corbell, the prize fight \ ' You ht W vor e never glve money to g the street,” safd the pedestitan, “But, my dearsie” roturned the boggar, “1 ‘Calford an oflice these hard times. You expect o much.” . Buzar: Hullo: Vexed Wifo—Thero is no ca zan hofall a woman that I have Amiable Hushand—Wrong, 1 have never heen a widow. V calumity, sir! mity not suflerod! y dear; now, you xed Wife ald Life: Maiden (who has been roadin g of the French way of conducting matrimonial alli- ancesi—Matnma, you knew v quite woll before you married him, didn't you? Mammn sudly) =1 thought I did." . Chicago Tribune: Grumbling Customer—I don't believe you give more than about half as muchsugar for w dollar as vou did three mont we o Afable Grocer—Oh, yes, o, und Somewhe But we have w econom we use a smaller suck. UP 1O DATE, Boston Courder. Miss Freckle has got a new beau Sho tells mo his front namo is Thitt he lives 1n St Paul And that lute in the faul To the wild, woolly west she will geau. 11 take a_chateau, 00D LWenTY SOrVAIILS OF seuu, <ustas down Where folks who are Ly, Of wealth make a glittering sheau, AN UNBLUS Somerville 1held hor hand, he (it s Tpressed it often t And clusp, Thut lovin And 1 wi u L loved her, oving her be blamed? Journal Httle hand, 1, and white. my lips, Lis fingers tight, sould She let her hand, her little hand, Rest lovingly in mine My tender pressure she' retarned, Like tendvils of vine, Her dittde fingers clusped mine close, And her affcetion told, And why not? She's my daughter, and Today she's four ye: f_—'_f'f’f of Clothing in A Big Saving s always made in buying the best even if it out some elegant styles in suits, goods that are reliab finish, fabric and fashion every style represented an overcoat stock is a fine one and is the envy of mer- chant tailors, prices rang tailors’ prices. is our town customer. hats are in. BROWNING, Btore open every evening uiil G.ik baturday viil 10 | Journakpeople have by BROWNING, Ki{G Largest Manutacturors v | Nearly every well dressed man in |8 W, Cor 4502 anl Dyaf 1y 3L3 CAMPAIGN CLATTER. he “Old Guard” dled with “The 010 Guard never surrenders Adams county populists don't propose to bo fused with the democrate in the county campaign crowd Politicians can the can they deliver the goods!™ Maxwell Bourbon don’t go with the “pop’ Al out voters, but is a pertinent query by the Lyons Mirror, which ought to cause reflection Scotts Bluff county's delogates state convention were pledged 1o Maxwell, but they didn't attend wti-Maxwell men wero there. The publishing by the Lincoin Journal of the alloged fact that “I. D. Hathaway has #oae to Chicago by the Rock Island route” is thought to have been a ruse. All the booked by the Bur- 1y yoars ntondent of the did the dirty nouse imposchables in leading the break in Buffalo county agaist Maxwoll, was rewarded by placed on the state central committee. itor Chapman of Ansiey was another tr to iustructions who received a sim reward The Holdrege Nuggot, the oldest nows- paper in Phelps county, has been forced to suspend, the cause being stated as tho fin cial stringency, Had tho true reason been published, the readers of the last issue ot old shcet would have known that the people of Phelps county refused to sunport a paper with monopoly leanings. The declared sentiment of Cheyenne county was for Judge Maxwell, but a majority of the men sent to the state con vention by tho county contral committes defied the wishes of the republicans of tho county and were switched off to Powell and held until they could be delivered whero they would bo most efective in down- ing Maxwell Senator Orlando Telft was so enthusiastio over the action of the Cass county repube lican convention in mstructing its delogatos for Maxwell that he walked from Elmwood to s home in Avoca to keep his cxuber- ant feelings from overcoming him. Anothor thing that is said to have had a hittle to do with the senator's action was that somebody had stoien his horse. 3 Superintendent Little of the Norfolk Tns asylum found that the best time to tr patients to Hastings was thoe day bef: republican state convention erazy people down with the other people, and ital in time to sce Judge Maxwoll, Of to the support All the to lington for lo, these ms John T. Mallalien State Reform work of the supy sehool, who stat being again {- the decrepit ne usfor ro tha 0 he took tha aid of a fow at the state cap the ringsters squelen course he didn't take any hand in the matter, and neither did tho other neople with him, for the state board who controls him duln't want to ha ve any of its “underlings” mixed up in a “disreputablo business.” lande e Honors to the 014 Women, New York Press. The old woman has advantages that ure denied to th 1:one sense she shaves the privile ildhood, whilo she recoives the honor and deference due to an elder. 1t known to be ciscreet she is the recipient of many confidences, and her advico is froely sought on the most important altaivs of life. If a matron she has the pleasure of watch- g the progress of ber ehildren, and the joys nothernood arerenewed in solicitude ovor grandehildren. [t does not follow that, if a spinster, the existence of the old woman is either wasted or miserable, Who hus not met aged spinsters whose nature seemed to be all the mellower and sweeter on accouut of ripening v nd what man has not a tender recollection of some aged auntor other relative who belped to add to tho happiness and ease the triais of boyhood? Therefore, we repeat, all honor to the old women, whother in palace or cabin, whose old age is the crown of a well spent, womanly life, HARMONY IN GLAY. “This pretty bit of millinery is in gray folt, faced rim of darker velvet. The consists of ostrich tips and satin with a trimmiin; roscttes, trzallars o Worll. does cost a little more, for, in the case of a suit or an over- coat, it will wear three or four times as long and you will discard them not be- cause they are worn out, but becauss you awre tired of them, We are now turning $10, $12.59 $20 and $25 le in every way, the fit, We have d all sizes and colors. Our being perfect. ing from $10 up—half Our fall underweuar and KING & CO. l | | |