Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 22, 1893, Page 12

THE DAILY BEE. S ROSEWATER, ¥ fi_;‘———= OPFICES. aha, The Bee Buflding! arl siree peago Office. 817 Chamber of Commeree. St oo 14, 14 and 15, Trioume bullding Washingion, 513 Fourteenth sireet CORRESPONDENCE. o All communientionn relating (o news and, edi- Yorial mattor showld be addressed: To the Rditor BUSINESS RS S wi business fetters and_remittances shou Aot e i (b1 i Conppany Omahs Drafia. checks stom payable to lor arties | THE BE 5 &t business mer can have ing an order The Bee in Chicazo, Tre DALy and SuspAy Bee is on sale in Obleago at the followlng places: nlmeor ho rand Pacific hotol. can bo seen at the N Administration bu a- a- SWORN ST LATION. State of Neb i Ty b k.y!vrrr tary of Tir Bex Pub- os wolemnly swear that the of Tk DAILY IER for the week 0 ursd 1, Baturday, Oclober | 8 fmuan}on ProPL in this vicinity ought not to complain of Oc¢tober weather. October is doing quite nicely, thank you. THE scnate vules will have to pass through the thickest fire they have ever encountered if they finally come out of the present fight unscathed. VICE PRESIDENT STEVENSON might imitate, with advantage, the back bone shown by President. Palmer as the pre- giding officer of the World’s Fair National commission. OMAHA is willing to provide for any new assay offices which the federal gov- ernment is inclined to dole out. You aro doing well, Mr. Mercer. Ask for everything and you may succeed in get- ting something, FEDERAL offices cut no figure in the distribution of Tammany spoils. The comptrollershipof New York City ylelds its occupant something like $30,000 an- nually, while the district attorneyship 18 worth 812,000 a year. Is it any won- der that members of congress are will- ing to retire from the national legisla- ture torecoup their fortunes out of the New York City and county treasuries? FURTHER complications between the fedoral government and the Union Pa- cific must bo expected as the result of the present receivership. Attorney General Olney is trying to shift the en- “tire responmsibility of untangling the knots upon congress. The first thing for congress to do is to secure a thorough understanding of the situation and of the status of the debt owing to the govern- ment. . THE ruling of the Postoffice depart- ment that exeludes from the benefit of segond-class postal rates the publica- tions of fraternal socities must work an inexcusable hardship upon those socie- tles. The solo purpose of giving cost rates of postage upon second-class mail matter is to promote the dissemination of information among the public. The educational features of fraternal society publications ought certainly to be furthered rather than repressed by the government. VicTivs of the operations of the Mil- waukeo bank wrecker, Koetting, object stronuously to the freedom allowed the indicted man in passing from court to jail without handeuffs. Bank Wrecker Mosher, who was not only indicted, but convicted and sentenced, isallowed all the privileges of & summer boarder of Sheriff Bennett's. One of the Mil- waukee victims is said to have shoutea: “Is there one law for the little thief eand another for the big one?” People here who have been watching Bennett's antics in connection with Mosher, have boon asking themselves the same question, . COURTESY to the foreign exhibitors at the World's fair is very well in its way but the proposed rebate of fifty por cent of their import duties is noth- ing more mor loss than a gift pure and simple. It will be just so much money put.into the pockets of those ex- hibitors and a most rank discrimination against domestic importers. The goods will not be marked down one cent below the price at which they would otherwise soll and the consumer cannot derive any possible benefit from the unwarranted generosity of congress. The World’s fair has received princely aid from the government without objection on the part of the people. But favoritism to & particular class of exhibitors is en- tirely uncalled for. WHEN THE BEE published an ex- clusive nccount of the reasons for the delay in erecting the proposed Omaha club house a small storm of apparent indignation was raised in certain quar- ters,where the publication of the fact that there was a cloud on the title to the prop- orty was pooh-poohed as & malicious libel. These people may now congratulate themselves, not on the fact that there was no cloud on the title, but on the fact that the cloud has been removed by a decision of the supreme court. Now, how- @ver, that the obstacle has been re- moved, there is no further excuse for delay in prcceeding with the construo- tlon of the building. The mewmbers of the Omaha club have votod for a new elub house. 1t behooves the directors #0 8eo that the club house s ready for oogupancy before the preseat members glve way 10 the next geporation. TIWENTY THOUSAND SERFS. Two years ago an urgent appeal was made to every man employed in the service of the railroads in this state to enroll himsell in” the Railway Employes association, Ostensibly, the object of this organization was mutual protection and co-operation. In reality, the sole aim of its promoters was political dom- inatioh. It is the open boast of the rail- road magnates that 20,000 votes are now at their command in Nebraska to be massed for or against any candidate cr ticket. All that is nceded is a mandate from the railrond czar issued through his political eunuchs, who hold com- missions as organizers of the Order of Railway Serfs, Can this be true? Are there 20,000 men in the state of Nebraska so abject and fallen o low that they wonld play tho part of political Pinkertous to shoot down honest men with ballots and help to rivet the chaing of despotism upon Can 1t be possible that the men who hire th this commonwealth? muscle and vrain to a great corporation must also barter their souls away? Has bread be- come so dear 'and human blood so cheap that men would sacrifice the right of self-government, which have laid down their lives in prison and on the battlefield, for the sake of & bare livelihood? And where is the recom- pense for converting the most precious boon of American citizenship, the elec- for willions tive franchise, into an engine of out- lawry and oppression? Surely, the men who toil in the railroad workshop; the men who +isk life and limb in the train ; the men who for a mere pit- tance keep the roads in repair and the men who subject themselves to the closo confinement of office work, each and all earn cvery penny they are credited with on the company’s pay roll. Where are these men tobe benefited by playing the despicable and criminal role of political Hessians? Ave they so blind and stupid as not to know that their wages are gauged by the laws of supply and demand and not affected either one way or another by the inci- dent of politics? They have been told by imposters that the reduction in the operating force and in the amount of wages is due to unfavorable legislation, when as a matter of fact the railroad managers have never obeyed any law that they have not been willing to obey. They are perpetual outlaws and anar- chists. The interstate commerce law has been on the statute books of the nation for more thau six years and it has never been enforced where the railroads did not profit by putting it into effect. The constitution of Nebraska absolutely prohibits the pooling of parallel lines, but Czar Holdrege found 10 obstacle in consolidating the Burling- ton with the Atchison & Nebraska road. Rebates and drawbacks are unlawful and yet the managers are constantly evading the law. The maximum rate bugbear has been played for all it is worth as an excuse for reducing wages, but the law is still hung up in the courts and may remain a dead letter for years. But that fact will not restore the old wages to the serfs who are expected to vote by order. In Iowa the railroad serfs were massed ia favor of Governor Boies twice by order, but we have not heard yet that a single railroad employe has been bene- fited. More than ten years ago Herbert Spencer, the most eminent English philosopher, made the following com- ment upon American free self-govern- ment: You retain the forms of freedomw; but so far as I can gather there has been a consid- erable loss of the substance, It is true that those who rule you do ot do it by means of reainers armed with swords, but they do it through regiments of men armed with voting papers, who obey the word of commard as loyally as did the dependents’ of the old feudal nobles, and who thus enable their leaders to override the general will and make the community submit to their exac- tion as effe:tually as their prototypes of old. Munifestiy those who framed the constitu- tion never dresmed that 20,000 catizens would £0 10 the polis led by a boss, How strikingly applicable this is. Twenty thousand railway men led by a boss marching to the polls with fixed voting papers to override the general will as effectually as did the regiments of armed mercenaries under the com- mand'of the feudal robber knights wno from their castles pounced down upon the wayfaring merchant traveler and held him up by erying, **Your money or your life,” For our part we cannot and will not believe that the railway employes of our city and state have mortgaged@heir souls and abjured their political faith for a mess of railroad pottage. Itwould almost be sacrilege to assume that American breadwinners would be driven to such terible straits. We prefer to believo that the unholy compact, if any has been made, will be repudiated when the hour comes for these men to dis- chargo the obligation that rests upon every conscientious American citizen, MAYOR GILROY of New York, in his response to Mayor Harrisou's address of welcome at the World’s fair yesterday, voiced what almost everybody has felt who has visited the exposition when he said it was a sad reflection that within a few weeks or months all of the magnifi- cent specimens of architectural art, together with all that they contain of buman greatness and ciwilization, will have passed awsy. New York's mayor thought Lhat any outlay, however great, that would preserve the magnificent buildings in monumental warblo would be an expenditure for which the country would be repaid an buadred fuld in the libersl edu- eation which our people would recelve invisiting them, and in the expansion of mind and elevation of thought which they would evolve. Of course no such thing is practicable, and these splendid examples of architéctural art will in the course of a short time disappear, perhaps, however, to be reproduced at some period of the remote future for the instruction and delight of a generation even more capable than this of fully ap- preciating their magnificenco and beauty, for of the nearly 20,000,000 peo- ple who have visited the exposition it is probabie that not to exceed one-tenth of them duly appreciated the value of the buildings from the art point of view. They are objeots of study in the highest degree interesting and instructive. INDIANS AS SOLDIERS. General Brooke's annual report as commander of the Department of the Platte, devotes considerable attention to the experiment which the government has beén making for the past two years with the enlistment of Indians as soldiers in the regular army. General Brooke himself de s but a paragraph to the subject, giving his own opinion, which he submits in conjunction with the reports of the various officers who have had direct personal supervision over the Indian companies under the department. ‘‘The principle dificulty,” says General Brooke, '*seems to be that the Indians do not speak English. Fiom my knowledge of the race T do not think it proceeds from any other than a natural dreud of ridicule on account of mistakes made in their attempts to speak our language, the Indian being peculiarly sensitive to ridicule. The experiment is receiving the attention of all connected with i its ultimate sue- cess now depends lavgoly upon the Indian soldiers themselves.” Of the eight officers whose reports have been rendered, two only have come to the conclusion that the experiment has proven a failure. One or two of the remainder scem to be still in doubt as to the success of the Indian as a soldier, while tbe others have been convinced that he is doing as well, if not better, than could be expected after 80 short a period. All agree that his deficient knowledge of the English language is proving a great obstacle to his discipline and efficiency, but in many other directions he is said to display in a high degree those qualities which are desirable in military circles. The Indian, to be sure, does not easily adapt himself to life in military quar- ters, but the improvement in habits and in a sense of his own responsibility he has been noticeabie and remarked upon by his commanding officers. The Indian gives little trBuble as regards the more serious offenses against milifary disci- pline. He, like the white soldier, is strongly tempted to drink whenever pay day rolls around, but, unlike the white soldier, is incapable of withstanding the effects of more than a small quantity of liquor. It is to this that the complaint of excessive drunkenness among the In- dian soldiers must be attributed. They do not drink.much, but become intoxi- catod after the first draughts. Some of the officers grow quite enthu: iastic over the prospects of the Indian soldiers and see in their discipline and instruction the salvation of the_entire red race. That they have shown marked improvement is the universal opinion. The experience of the officers with the Indian soldiers certainly goes to confirm the views of General Brooke that the whole matter is in the experimental stage and deserves still further experi- ment before any decision as to its success or failure should be rendered. . RECLAMATION OF AR D LANDS. The address to the people of the United States issued by the interna- tional irrigation congress recently held at Los Angeles must be regarded as ex- prossing the matured and deliberate opinions of a majority of vhe advocates of reclaiming the arid lands of the pub- lic domain. The address declares that the problem of conquering these arid deserts is national in essence, and this is the keynote of the policy which the con- gress approved and announced. It looks to the general government for a large part of the work that must be done in order to render this vast rainless region productive. In the first place, the ad- dress declares that nothing must be al- lowed to jeopardize interstate streams, which must be conserved and equitably divided under federal authority. As to the amount of land that may be taken up by settlers under systems of irriga- tion, it 18 proposed to limit it to forty ecres, and the prediction is made that in the future it will bo found desirable to reduce the amount still further, It is also proposed to restrict the taking up of public 1ands to the citizens of 'the United States, this having become necessary, the address says, with increase of popu- lation and, is also desirable as rendering more difficult the acquirement of lands for speculative purposes. The congress urged the importance of an enlightened poiiey for the care and preservation of the forests and indorsed the policy of forest and storage reservation covering the mountain watersheds of the west. The address says it is an act of simple justice to ask the government to devoto @ portion of the money received from the sale of lands in the semi-arid region t0 the practical means for their reclama- tion and urges speedy action by congress in this direction. It declares that the time has come when the work of devel- oping an arid land policy on broad na- tional and state lines can no longer be deluyed, and to ' the end that harmony of action may be secured the national execcu- tive committee of the congress was authorized to appoint & commission for each state and territory in the arid or semi-srid regions, such commissions to investigate the conditions existing in their respective states and territories and formulate plans looking to the adop- tion of a national policy to be supple- mented by appropriate local laws. By this means it is hoped that a satisfactory irrigation policy can be attained. The congress advised all states in the arid region to make provision for depart- ments of irrigation, sapervision and | cugineering, and to vigorously prose- | cute the work of practical investi- ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: | e T " & " T SUNDAY, OCTOBER lic domain,” says the addross, one of the mignty kg of the future. It means not only the conquest of a new agrioultural empive and a tremendous contribution to dws national wealth of the future, but {t involves the develop- ment of new fdiffts of civilization and will give mew dife to popular institu- tions.” This wily not be regarded as in the least dogree oxaggerated by those who have given this question of reclaim- ing the arid land¥’ thoughtful considera- tion. These anll'the semi-arid lands which still belolig to the people of the United States ‘and which are divided among seventeen states and territories contain 542,000,000 acres. A consider- able portion of this can never be cultivated and will be valuable only for range purposes or for for- est reservetions, but the area thatcan be made productive by irrigation is suf- ficient to supply farms, the production of which, it is believed, will one day equal in value the product raised under a natural rainfall. Just how much of the arid domain 1t is possible to reclaim cannot be definitely stated, but it is es- timated that the area which may be suc- cessfully cultivated with irrigation will equal in extent the tillable lands of half adozen states tho size of Now York. At the same time, it is to bo remem- bered, irrigated lands roturn a much larger yield than those dependen’ upon natural rainfall, and it is estimated that under irrigation there is possible a pop- ulation to the square mile from ten to fiftcen times that of the eastern states. Whoever will intelligently consider this subject cannot doubt that it is one of very great importance. THE STUDY OF THE C)NSTITUTION, A most important and suggestive point was made by Charles A. Dana in his recent lecture on journalism before the students of Union college, when h said that an indispensable element in the educational preparation of a news- paper man consists in the serious, calm and persistent study of the constitution of the United States, But there is no veason why tho study of the constitution should be confined to the men who ex- péet to enter journalism or kindred pur- suits. Mr. Dana was speaking on that subject, and for this reason, probably, mentioned it in that connection alone, but he would be the last to maintain that other peovlo had no use for a cor- rect knowledge of the constitution. Upon a correct understanding of that invaluable instrument depends our just appreciation of the principles that un- derly the American- government. No one living in the United States and ob- serving the laws enacted for the guid- ance of his conduct' should fail to study the federal constitution and the consti- tutional law that has arisen upon itas a foundation. The necessity for the general study of the constitution was never more forcibly illustrated thanjat the present time ‘Without referring to the silly assertion of the last democratic platform that the protective tariff is unconstitutional, or to the fruitless contention of certain popu- list members of conrress that silver is the money of tha ¢onstitution and its de- monetizavior” consequently unconstitu- tional, almost all the great public ques- tions of today involve considerations of constitutional law. It will suffice to run over some of those that are now be- fore congress in one form or another. First we have the Chincse exclusion act amendment recently passed by the house of representatives, The orig- inal Geary act was rosisted on the ground of unconstitutionality until it took a decision of the supreme court to lay at rest the claim that it doprived persons resident within the United States of their liberty without due process of law. The federal elec- tions repeal bill turns on the question of enforcing the rights of American cit- izens which have been guaranteed in the fourteenth ard fifteenth amendments to tne constitution. Finally, the present silver debate has been transtormed into a swruggle for the right of the majority to rule, involving incidentally the ques- tion of the constitutional quorum and the powers conferred upon the senate to enact its own parliamentary rules and regulutions. An intelligent understanding of the constitution should be cne of the ambi- tions of every law-abiding American citizen, it should be an understanding deeper than is acquired in the ordinary public school courses. The latter are excellent and desirable for impressing an outline of our form of government upon the mind of the pupil, but to thor- oughly understand the federal constitu- tion and to comprehend the logic of the constitutional law that has been evolved from its interpretation requires a ma- ture mind, Men should never become 100 old to study the constitution. m—— THE COUNTRY'S BANKING SYSTEM. Two very interesting addresses were delivered Thursday at the convention of bankers in Chicago relating to the bank- ing system in the Unlited States, in both of which it was urged that the system should be reorganized. In one of these addresses Mr. Horace White of New York discussed the necessity of having an elastic currency-and as this could not be obtained h-n.llh the government, because the govérnment cannot know when there is an increasing or diminish- ing demand mrlfi ney, it must be pro- vided by banke'funder a system which will rer the bank note as olastic as .Wthe check. Mr. White explaingd that a currency to be elastic mustghove no limits placed upon it except b demand for instru- ments with which tdfexchange consuma- ble products and iaterials, and that it must be issuable aTTice, as the demand for it arises. Such a currency cannot be had under the national bank system or under any system which requires bond security for bank notes. Security is ob- tained by the existing system, but not elasticity, and while Mr. White did not regard the latter as more important than the furmer the thing to be accom- plished is to get both. This is attained, he said, in the BSeotch system by unlimited liability of the share- holders of banks for their bank note issues. Mr. White argued that if wo are to have a flexible currency the national banking act must be changed 80 far as the requirement of bond re- | gution. “To deal with the arid pub- curity is concerned and-either & safely 22, 18938 fund, unlimited liability or bank consol- idation provided for as a substitute for the bond requirement. The other address, by Hon. J. C. Hen- drix of New York, urged that the whole banking system of the country s likely to be reconstructed in the near future and presonted some plausible reasons why this should be done. The existing system is not adequate to the demands of such financial exigencies as the country has just experienced, and Mr. Hendrix suggested that what is needed is & system that will enable the banks to safely ride the storms of panic with- out recourse to devices which disregard the law. Nocountry should be punished, he said, by a system which in times of panic must find in itself, through its own devices, a .way to supply the deficiencies of law and in doing so to defy law. There is consensus of opinion among practical financiers. who have given the subject intelligent attention that the national bank eystom, with all its merits, chief among which is the abso- lute security of the currency issued under it, does not satisfactorily mecet the requirements of the country, and as the time draws nearer when that sys- tom will come to an end, so far, at least, as issuing notes is concerned, by reason of the paying off of the last of the govern- ment bonds, attention is being more ea nestly directed to the question of devising some plan to take the place of that sys- tem. The.demand is for a plan that will give absolute security and abundant elasticity, that will make the notes of the banks cverywhere good and at the same time enable the banks to en- large or contract their issues ac- cording to tho demands of busi- ness. Whether the Scotch system or the Canadian system, both of which have demonstrated their merits, would answer equally well in this coun- try, is of course a debatable question, but it is not to be doubted that some of the features of these systems could be adopted advantageously, and perhaps from the two a plan could be drawn that would meet every requirement. It would seem that with our own experi- ence and that of other countries in this matter of provididg a bank our there ought not to be very great diffi- culty in obtaining a-sound and satisfac- tory system, but the trouble is that prac- tical knowledge in this direction is not found to any great extent in con- gress, while just now the demand of one class of politicians that all the currency shall be issued by the govern- ment, and of another class that we shall roturn to the old system of state bank issues, interferes with a clear and intelli- gent consideration of sound and prac- ticable plans by confusing the public mind on the subject. The question of a reconstructed banking system is less urgent than some other questions, but it is one of very considerrble importance. IT REQUIRES an enlightened congress- man from Kansas to introduce a bill abolishing certain custom collections offices on the ground that the receipts at some particular port do not equal the expenses. Pretty soon he will make some inquiries at the Treasury depart- ment and he will learn that the greater part of the force at most ports of entry have to be maintained to guard against smuggling whether any imports are re- ceived or not, He may possibly find that the additional expense necessitated by permitting the entrance of goods ex- ceeds the collections. But what of that? If the Postoffice department refused o open a new postoffice untii the business 8t & particular point justified the expenditure our postal system would not haye been expanded nearly sorapidly as ithas been nor would the business have increased so fast as it has. The princi- ple upon which our government is con- ducted is tho greatest good tothe great~ est number. The custom house, like the postoffice, should be viewed as a whole and from a broad standpoint. Suver Rocks? Philadelphia Inquirer. The democratic party is fast going on tho rocks. Fame's uud Halo. Washinglon Star, Sonator Allen will go down in history as tho man Wi had thelast word and plenty of it. S S A He Got 1iia Angwer. Globe-Democrat, Tywsed once arrogantly asked the people of New York. “What are you going to do about it? Thesilyer ring is putting the same question to the coantry, and it will got the sort of an answer Tweed did B Friction and Fuot. Chicago Herald, Notwithstanding Senator Dubois’ declara- tion that the people of 1daho are starvimg to death because of the low price of silver, it is to be noted that ton of his constituents, who were playiog faro at Ceeur d'Alene City Mionday night, panned out #1500 in cash when three masked robbers held them uv, o Compromises Broed Trouble. > Cincinnaté Star. From the di the Declaration of Inde- pendence was signed down to the present time there never has been a political com- promise that has not been a brecder of trouble, The federation of states com- promise, every American knows, was pro- lific of trouble; the Missouri compromise only postponed the evil day. To compromise the silver question is 1o suffer & continusnce in the couniry of a finaucial pywmis which is dead sure, sooner or later, 1 break out in financial sores. B Dangoers of Overhead Wires, Washington Star, ‘The strongest arguments against overhead electric wires are the overhead electric wires themselves. Washington is graduaily ridding itself of the dangerous nuisances and will, within a few years, be eatirely free from their entanglements. And the day of complete deliverance cannot come too 500n, Every heavy wiod that blows disables tele- phone and telegraph and electric light sery- 1ce on lines that ure exposed, und occasion- ally the inconveniences are accompanied by disaster of conflagrative variety. Immigration Restrictions, Philadelphia Led jer. {mmigration is now at low tide, work is scarce, snd America has for a time lost its attractions for the poor of Kurope, and now is the time to study the problem and erect barriers against tho which will come as s00n 48 the workshops start up sgain and there is a demaud for Jabor. Surely con- ress, which has wasted 50 mauy weeks in ruitless debate, shovld get ready to deal with the guostion s0 closely affecing the welfare of millions of toilers. No relief that could be devised by the charitable would be 5o great as that which would come from Lbe announcement that the senate had ssed the repeal bill and congress had ad- Journea its extra session, leaving commit- iees at work to [repere for early passage in the regulur session a baunkruptcy act and au act to put wholesome restraint upon such immigration as disturbs our labor wmarket and gither redues the wu’u of workers or limits thewr opportunities for employmeat. 0 IXTEEN PAGES. PROPLE AND TRINGS. Editor McClure of the Philadelphia Times is still prostrated by rhenmatism and his re- covery is doubtful, The unoccupted 1,000,000 acres of land in Kansas are melancholy. evidence of the drift of farmers into political oflice. The tall sycamore is stunted and weary. Nobler timber has gone down before gales of less duration and destructivenecss, This is truly an extraordinary session of congress. Think of Senator David B. Hill condy to outrule Tom Reed in counting n quorum, ‘The greatest travelers in Switzorland are tho English, then come the Germans, the Americans, the French and the Italians in the given. Old English silverware is much {n demand the United States just now, and genuine pleces, especially those of historic interest, bring high prices The romantle and supposedly beautiful Mary “Queen of Scots' was crosseyed and had other physical blemishos that are not accounted attributoes to boauty. The declaration of several senator: they were farmers by profession d accounts for the ‘yreen goods" ci with which the senato 1s being deluged. Butter oil is muade by pressing the oil from American cottonsoed, It is pure, nutritious, vegetable oil, which is used in small quantities to soften the texture of oleomargarine, Four billions nine h ndred and two mil- lions nine hundred and twenty-four thou- and one hundred and twenty-one pounds of grain ave annually put into beer and liquor in the United States, Although Washington is something of a storm center, the town is not wholly given to wind. Permits for forty-four buildings, valued at $1,000,000, have been issued during the past four months. Among Groek rustics the bride and groom walk around betwe two consecutive arrcles composed of the young men and women of their acquai who heartily kick and cuff them us they pass. Mr. George W. Chiids Drexel, the new publisher of the Philadelphia Ledger, is but 2 years of aze. He is a son of the late A. J. Drexel, who was long Mr. Child's associate in the ownership of the paper, The expression, “peanut politician generally understood, applies to & vote-get ter of small caliber. ‘Chis is wrong, genuine peanut produces an oil valuable for lubricating purposes. Hence a **peanut poli- tician” is one capable of dispensing or ab- sorbing lubricants. Philadelphia possesses a collector of horse- Boston a gatherer of bricks, New ( leans a collector of sugar samples, o gatherer of sumple flasks Nebraska beats them all, man who takes locks of hair shaved from the heads of noted eriminals, which he labels 3 cat care, | Pasha, whose bad luck is trac many Egyptians to his act, while khediv letting Cleopatra’s needle come to this coun- try, is not permitted to leave Constantino- ple without the surveillance of a medical wman, who is also a diplomatic spy. His con- dition is not 8o precarious as that of the creditors who advanced him $20,000,000. Joo Blackburn of Kentucky was once speaking on_the stomp with a ~hard-headed opponent, who followed tho man who is now seaator of the United States. Blackburn nad made a flowery speech of the true southern type, when his opponent begah: “Tho swan is one of the most graceful things in nature; ho dips and glides and circles with imposing grace, but, fellow citizens, he only draws an 1ch of water!” Francis Bacon disagrees with Ignatius Donnelly. Francis was summoned from the spirit world at a Boston scauce the other night and 1n answer to & question prompily and emphatically answered: “I did not write Shakespeare. 5o far as I know Wil- liam did it himself.” This should settle the matter,although the communication received Denver medium mot long ago from are himself declaring that the plays that htless ulars ceived proper consideration, A writer in the New York Evening Post, who is acqainted with Mr. Van Alen, de- clares the new $50,000 minister to Italy **had a fair education to start with, but he' is not a man of learning, of culture or of ubility, His intellectual attainments consiat mainly of knowing how to dress according to the English standard, how to give s dinner and how to harness and drive a four-in-hand. Add to this a very superficial knowledge of pictures and Eunglish architecture, an exten- sive reading and know ledge of Freuch novels and you have the sum total of his intellec- tual resources. Bverybody who has met and talked with Van Alen at his clubs, av dinner or iu society knows that a more ignorant man upon subjects connected with his own country could hardly be found in polite society; and everybody who knows him would say 80 except the fow of the “'smart set” whose cyes have been dimmed and their mouths closed by his wines and his viands. A Declaration for Honesty. Chiecago Tribune. There are many citizens of Nebraska who took up land, cultivated and built upon it, and made it valuable. Wishiag to rest from Iabor or to go at something else they havoe sold their farms to other Nebraskans, who have paid down part of the price as measured in 100-cent dollars, and have agreed to pay the rest in’ such 100-cent dol- lars in one, two and vhree years, Cougress- man Bryan thinks those who have bought and are occupying but have not paid for tiose farms are “sluves, and that those from whom they bought their farmsare their harsh taskmasters, who should only bo paia 58 cents on tho dollar of what is due. wero written by a syndicate has not yet re-* BEASTS FRROM RAM'S HORS, False humility is the devil's varnish. Tt is tine wastod to argae with & doubt. Kick it out. The whisper of a slanderer can be heard farther than thund Some ot the dovil's best helpers sit close to the pulpit in church. A mean man can get religion, but he can’t stay mean and keep it. “inding fault with another iz only & rounds about way of brageing on yourself., There is no mansion being prepared in heaven for the man who will not forgive. There ave too many people in the church who can't be religious lu cloudy weather, If some men had killed Gollath they would romind the Lord of it every day in the week. The man whe is afraid to look his fauss squarely in tho face will never get rid of them. It would puzzle angels to know. what some men mean when they put a 2 cent pioce 1n the hat. Don't talk too much about giving the devil his due until you aresureif ho had it he would not have you. - — SECULAR SHOTS AL THE PULPIT, Chicago Dispatch: Rev. Morgan Dix of New York city is preaching n series of sere mons against the great conzress of religions Smasterpiece of the Now York ¢ nize the value of rtising. Minucay Tribune: A South D minister arose at & meoting of brother eymen and announced that his saiary for the past year haa been exactly $17.50. Instead of asking hun to knock off the odd & cents onaccount of the stringency his brothren promptly raised a purse of $60 for him, mak- ing his* rate of wage income for the $6.46 per month. And yot we wonder at's detroit Freo Pry byterian author Smith of Cincinnati is ‘guilty of heresy This is not surprising in view of the disposis tion made of the Briggs case, but it appears to the uniitiated that the church is driving out a good deal of talont, after nftixing its brand of heresey. Dr. Smith is & very learnod man, his standard of morality is the highest, and 1t is s significant fact that his most earnest defendors are those members of the church who have known him longest and best, whilo his most uncompromising opponents dre those rural representatives whose religion is largely & matter of tradi- tion, ek THOUGHTPUL TRIFLES, Buffalo Courler: ~When n man talks into a telephione whit Lio says goes. Gulveston Nows: o toper devotes himselt 10 one absorbing topic and that is himself. Yonkers Statesman: There are two things a womnn feurs—a dog when it's looso and & man when he's “tight Cleveland Pla Jones (reading)— Senator Allen talk jurteen hours. Mrs, Jones (musingly)—Indeed! Must have net an old friend. Judge: “Isay,old man, lond me a fiver, will you? "And I'llbe everlustingly indebted to you." Life: You look blue, (hart's tho matte! Seribble—I'm trying to think of a rhyme for Valkyrio. old man : “ls this buildinz fire- asked the man with blue glass's and zo gripsnck. “Not It you're n book replied the janitor, conclusively. Journal: ‘What & pity we can't have yucht races in Kansas; we have 50 much wind all going to waste. Chicago Record: Sir Edgard itz Wales— You Amowicans aw fo chubmingly thoughtfol, yo know. Mr. Hobbles—In what way? Sir Ed: Rard Fitz Walos—Why—aw—after you've hnd your own summer, ye know, you have an In= dian summer--foh’ the pooah natives, I sup- Doso. THE DACHETOR. American Queen. Returning home at the closo of day, Who gently chides iny long deliy And by my side delights 10 stay Who sets for me my easy chalr, Prepares the room with neatest care And Inys my slippers roady thore? Who regulates the evening firs And piies the blazing fuel higher And pids me diaw my chair still nigher? When sickness comes to rack my fran.e, And gricf d.sturi.s my troubled brain, Who sympninizes with my pain? 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