Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1893, Page 12

. ROSEWATER, Editor SHED ABRMS OF SUBSCRIPTIC Daily Boe (vithort Sunday) One Yoar Datly and Sunday . Six Months nitding wa and ol Al communfentior 170 the Editor o showld he addressod emittancos shonid be M ANy, Omalia be mude can have ¢ an order ot Tie DALY TRy <03, was as f0llows fng_comy actial elre ending N 24,416 RokIT HUNTER —i— | Sworn to before m EEAL { prosonc Averago Circulation for Octobe et e b iy TilE BEST ALWAYS THE CHEAPEST. The I is the only paper in Omaha and Nebraska that prints the telegraphie reports of the Associated press and shares all the facilities of the Associated press with the great dailies of the coun- try. Compare the telegraph columns of THE BEE with those of other papers published in this section and you wiil sce at a glance the marked supeviority of dispatehes published by this paper, both as to quality and quantity. The difference is especially. striking when you compare the commercial news and cable dispatehes of the Associated press with the market report and cable news of other press associations. The Asssociated pross has recontly ac- quired the exclusive useof the European dispatohes of the Reuter Telegram com- pany of London, the Agence Havas of France and Belgium and the Corre- spondenz Bureau of Wolf in Germany and Austro-Hungary. The so-called cable letters that have from time to time appeared 1n papers publishing the Tnited press reports are for the most part what may bo called butterine cable- grams, manufactured in New York from clippings of foreign papers and latest foreign news letters. THE I now as ever excels all com- petitors in its facilities for collecting the news of its own te v, which embraces I{ansas, Missouri, Iowa, Ne- braska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and Idaho. In its local field, covering cverything that pertains to Omaha and her suburbs, Tur Bek has for rs heen recognized wa-as peerless, Thesame is true rogarding the original contributions aud col spondence from all parts of the globe. The editorial page of THp Ber will stand favorable comparison with that of any of the metropolitan dailie: A newspaper is a commodity whose value is gauged by the cost of produc- tion. Tur B pays more for tele- graphic news than do all the other dailies of lowa and Ncbraska combined. Uni- versal experience teaches that the best is invariably the cheapest. WHEN a street railway company goes into the hands of a receiver, as hus one in Denver, it must be a sign that street railway passes have come to exceed the number of fares collected from the pas- sengers. MERCANTILE agencies report a notice- able improvement in business through- out the country immediately after elec- tion. 1t is safe toadd thata different political result would have given the op- posite effec MRs. LEASE has ventured an explana- tion of the populist defeat in Kansas. Sho blames almost every one in the populist ranks, but inadvertently omits to mention herself. A correction of her statement is in order NOTHING 50 exemplifies the disorgani ing forco of anarchy as the recent d orders traced to it in Spain. The anarchists make no discrimination in favor of the innocent. They are them- selves inviting the severe treatment that is bound to be meted out to them before long.® ONE of the important results of the vepublican avalanche in New York state is to put the republicans in control of the convention that has beer sum- moned to revise the state constitution this winter, This is particularly grati- fying wo the people in New York inas- much as the republicans put up a ticket incomparably superior in the characters of the men named to that of their demo- cratic opponents. The constitutional convention, ns a consequence, will be camprised of representative men. Tuae latest dispatches intimate that the British government is soon to con- sider the question of interfering in the miners' strike, for setthng which so many attempts at negotiation have failed. This is not very consistent in the champions of free trado, If govern- mental interference is indefensible in the case of trade and industry, where is its justification in the case of labor con- troversies? The fact is that govern- mental interference is called for when- ever the best intcrests of the people de- mand it, OFFICIALS ave already clamoring for an investigation of the leak in the State department by which the proposed pol- X dey of the administration in relation to ' Wihe Hawailan provisional government was given to the public before intended for public information, Tho leak must have been through some one of the subordinates in the department. The senate only last year lndignaatly dis- missed one of 1ts excoutive clovks for a similar cffense. If the party guilty in this late.t instance of divulging oilicial ~ inforwation is dise :vered ne will prob- ably suffer the same penalty thal was inflicted by the scunate, THE DAILY BEE.| | federated | campaign is only the forerunner of a | road headquarters? THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEM BER 12, 1893-SIXTEEN PAGES. AN IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT. No contest is ever settled until it is settlod right. The triumph of the con- corporations in the recent greater struggle by the paople of this state for the recovery of their right to govern themselves. Europe must either become all Russian- ized all civilized, said the great Napoleon, This country cannot long continue balf fres and half slave states, said the prophetic Helper in his historic book on the In the anti-slavery struggle there were but right finally van- ht and wrong. or mpending Crisis.” many reverses, m the verdict of last Tuesday there will be another appeal, and another and However fierce the torrent of abuse and defamation may rage we shall not be deterred from opposing with every legitimate tho attempted subjugation people of Nebraska and* the overthrow of constitutional Howevor deep the people may have fallen into dangerous error and flatter themselves that ours is a re- publican state we still maintain that it is a state governed by a despotism more absolute and autocratic than any constitutional monarehy. The issue of the late campaign in- volved principles dearest to American freemen. The issue involved something more vital than the financial well being of our people. It was broader and deoper thun the material interest of any individual. The contest in- volved the rightof the commonwealth to preserve its own existence and to per- petuate the beneficent institutions in so far as their existence depends upou the free exercise of the sacred right to choose their own lawmakers, their own still another, means at our command of the govern- ment. execntive and their own judiciary. Com- pared with this issue all others are in- significant. Judge Harrison’s character and ca- pacity were not called in ques- tion, but the method by which Maxwell was defeated, coupled with the fact that Harrison owes his election to the railroad power, exercised in the most shameless way, forever bars him from that confidence and respect which every American citizen should entertain for the men who sit in the highest judicial tri- bunal created by the constitution. Can any »n have implieit confidence in the impartiality of courts whose members get their credentials from rail- ‘Will such a court ever do justice when the rights of a citi- the Will the creature dave rebel against its cre- ator? It cannot be possible that the people of Nebraska are so craven as zen, or the state itself, clash with intorests of giant corporations to submit to such a subversion of their rights for any considerable length of time. THE NAIUNAL LIBRARY. Tt was noted in a Washington dispatch a short time ago that the process of gilding the new dome of tho congres- sional library building had progressed far enough to indicate that when com- pleted, this goldendome will be one of the most conspicuous and beautiful ob- jects at the seat of government. There are not many gilded domes in the world, and this one will be the largest of them all, and will surmount the most exten- swve library building in the world. A cording to the calculations of Librarian Spofford the structure will have a capac- ity to accommodate all the books of the world for 100 years to come and still leave seven-eighths of its available space for other purposes. Ttis full time that this great nation had a building where could be properly stored the great mass of literature that goes into a national library. The congressional library is stored in very cramped quarters in the capitol build- ing, occupying a space altogether in- adequate to its importance and size. The existence of this library begun with the opening of the present centur some $3,000 being appropriated for the purchase of books of veference for con- The collection was destroyed in by the British, and soon afterwards congress purchased the library of Thomas Jefferson, compris- ing some 7,000 books. Additions were made from year to year and in 1851 the number of volumes had reached 55,000, 45,000 of which were de:troyed by fire in that year. In the emergency con- gress made an appropriation for the purchase of books and another for the construetion of fireproof rooms. The li- brary was moved to the capitol before 1870, and in that year the copyright law was amended s0 ag to require that two opies of all copyrighted publications were to be presented to the government. By that provision alone over 530,000 publications have been placed in the li- brary of congress, and 1 nler the inter- national copyright law this number will undoubtedly be largely increased with every year. The library now holds about 650,000 volumes, besides 250,000 English, Amervican and continental pamphlets. The new libravy building will allow space ‘for some 5,000,000 volumes, and as even the largest public library of the world at present, that of Paris, holds less than 2,500,000 volumes, it may be taken for granted that the new building will not be pushed to its utmost capacity for many years to come. The national libravy is indispensable tothe work of congress wnd is con- stantly being drawn upon during the sossions of that body for information. When debates of much importance are in progress the pauges of the senate or house aro kept running between the library and the logislative halls, loaded with formidable tomes and important looking files of rpamphlets. The library’s colleetions on law, international jurisprudence, history and political economy are admirvable when its con- tracted resources ure considered, and in addition to those elasses of works there’ is to be found & most extensive collec- tion of all kinds of literature. The library is now allowed only $8,000 a year for its purchases qutside of contimued serial publications, an amount insignif- jcant in comparison with the allow- ances of the great European libraries. It is to be expected that when the new building is completed congress will make more liberal provision for the purchase of books, for then there will be no excuse, as now, that there is not room for them. SHE PENITENTIARY CONTRACT. Who is the legal contractor of the penitentiary at this time? Isit Mosher? Is it Dorgan? The contract for tho lease of the penitentiary buildings and the convict labor was made with W. H. B. Stout as ghe lowest competing bidder. The legislature of 1887, without resub- mitting the contract to competition, ex- tended the time and transferred the lease to Charles W. Mosher. That lease is regarded as illegal by the ablest con- stitutional lawyers. Inany event it has never been cancelled. Mosher made a pretended transfer o Dorgan last year after the national bank examiner di- rected his bank to cut loose from outside investments. Mosher's transfer of the penitentiary lease to Dorgan had not been recognized as valid by the State Board of Public Lands and Build- ings, up to within a few weeks. Dorgan has simply been recognized as Mosher's agent and all payments under the con- tract have been made in the name of Mosher, notwithstanding the fact that Mosher had been convicted of a felony and sentenced to the penitentiary. If the Mosher contract is not valid the transfer to Dorgan certainly is notlegal. If the transfer is legal why has Dorgan been drawing the money out of the state treasury in the name of Mosher? ‘We realize that the election of Judge Harrison will be interpreted by the Lincoln ‘boodlers and the state board as a vindication for all they have done in connection with Dorgan and absolution for all they may do, whether it be lawful or criminal. THE COMING MUSICAL SEASON. An increasing patronage of the liberal arts is one of the surest signs of progress toward cosmopolitan culture. To culti- vate in the community a taste for the drama, for painting and for music is always worthy of the best endeavors of those who are interested in raising the people of our city to the desired standard of refinement in these different fields. Most particularly in the field of musie, to bring its patrons up to a point where they can have a due appreciation of the skill of the best artists, requires that there be no interruption in the constant efforts at musical education. Much has already been done to ac- quaint the people of Omaha with the best music that is afforded in this coun- try, but much also still remains to be accomplished. The work of the Apollo club during the last fow years in secur- ing artists of the first rank to give con- certs in this city has been of no little service to our musical circles and has obtained merited recognition. The Apollo club has no thought of relaxing its efforts in this direc- tion. It has been organized solely with a view to the promotion of musical interests in our midst and has mapped out a continuation of its excel- lent work for, the coming winter. In this it deserves the hearty support, both moral and financial, of every citizen of Omaha. The concerts given under its auspices have attained a reputation for artistic excellence that is to be main- tained in the future. It has neither subsidy nor endowment to assist the financial aspects of the enterprise, but is dependent entirely upon popular sub- scription to its entertainments. Every one who has the slightest regard for music or who hopes to see Omaha become a musical center in the west should not fail to respond to the invitation to sub- scribe to the proposed concerts. DEATH OF TRANCIN PARKMAN. The death of Francis Parkman takes from us an historian and an author whose works have shed luster upon the scholarship of American students. Parkman was essentially an American historian, confining his investigations to the early records of his own country and writing primarily for the instruc- tion of his own countrymen, He has held the attention of students of -history in every part of tho world and has been ranked by competent authorities at least along siae of Bancroft, if not above him. A graduate of Harvard university of 1844, when a college education meant much more than it does now, he began his carecr as an historian almost before he had emerged from the college walls, His “Oregon Trail,” which was the first production from his pen, deseribed the territory which he intended to work over luter and was based upon a journey of observation through what was then the untroiden prairviesand the wilds of the Rocky mountains, From this sketch of western life, through his studies of early French colonization and down to his final work,entitled**Montcaim and Wolfe” and published in 1884, he showed the same attractiveness of stylo and the same penetration into import- ant details which combined make his books so readable. . Mr. Parkman’s achievements are all the more remarkable from the fact that he was during the greater part of his life physically weak and compelled by his impaived eyesight to make use of others in the preparation of his ma- terials, These materials were tho re- ports in French that had been sent to the home government by the early French colonial officers,and in them was found a mine of historic wealth, What Mr. Parkman has worked over has been so thoroughly gleaned that there is little necessity for others todevote themselves to the same field, but there is still much to be done to supplement what he has thus far given us. Parkman has been deservedly pop- ular in the west, because he has bhusied himself largely with themes bearing on the history of the west. But bis reputation is by uo means lecal, nor oven national, He is recognized ad as an historian of highest au- thority upon the guhjects with which he has dealt. Lik ancroft he has not been cut off untii fullness of his ca- reer was past. HiBjworks must remain among the note: y contributions of America to her istory, to be read by all with both lertainment and in- struction. FEDERAL TAXATION uF LEGACIES. In his discussiop, of the coming tariff legislation in the North American Re- view, Congressman McMillin ac- knowledges that a democratic tariff will most likely prove inadequate to the pur- pose of raising all the revenue required for the maintenance of the government. To prevent the possiblo deficit he inti- mates that the proper remedy is to be secured in the reimposition of a federal legacy tax, and it is now practically assured that the ways and means com- mittee of the present congress will de- vote some of its attention to a measure of this kind. Its prospects for enact- ment into law, however. are not very flattering at tho present moment. The United States tried to impose a legacy tax once before in its history, but the attempt was scarcely regarded as a brilliant success. It was introduced into the bill of 1802, by which the war system of internal revenue taxation was established and carried through as a supplement to the ordinary revenues of the nation. As originally passed it pro- vided for a scale graduated according to the degree of relationship between the testator and the legatee, varylng from three-fourths of 1 per cent ‘for those of lineal issue to5 per cent for strangers in blood and bodies corporate. The rates were increased by an amendatory act of 1864, by which they varied from 1 per cent 10 6 per cent. The law was for years practically a dead letter. For the fiscal year of 1865 it yielded but a paltry $500,000, while so late as 1868, after five years trial, the commissioner of in- ternal revenue complained that the gov- ernment did not yet collect in legacy taxes more than half the amountto which it was legally entitled. And finally the legacy tax wasone of the first. taxes abolished, when in 1870 it was de- termined to gradually reduce the in- ternal revenue taxation. In the whole eight years that it was supposed to have been imposed it brought 1into the treasury less than 88,000,000 and only twice excecded $1,500,000, results that have been equaled by the procceds of the inheritance tax in the one state of New York during the past eight ycars. If we are guided then by the experi- ence of the federal government with its former legacy tax, it will be difficult to conjure up much enthusiasm for a repeti- tion of that experience. There is, how- ever, another reason, historical and practical, why the federal government should leave the legacy tax alone. So long as the state governments are looked to for the performance of many and costly services they | must be allowed certain lucrative fsources for deriving their revenue. Tl§c taxation of inherit- ances is peeuliarlyadapted to state taxa- tion and the field has already been oceu- pied in twelve of aur principal common- wealths. The Upited States law is necessarily paramount to state law and federal tax on legacies would have to be first satisfied before a state tax could be levied. Asa matter of fact a federal tax would exclude the state tax because the exaction of two similar taxes from the same property would amount to practical confiscation and would never be tolerated by the people of the various states. The federal legacy tax must drive out the state inheritance taxes and by so much impoverish the state treasuries that are already pressed for sources of revenue. The tendency everywhere seems to be to relegate the taxation of inheritances to the field of local finance. Itisso in Switzerland, which approaches our form of federal government. It is 8o in the German empire, where the legacy tax is ignored by the commonwealths, It is so in Canada and it is soin Australia. It is also the present status in the United States and there is no reason to depart from the existing conditions. The fed- eral government has established its ability to maintain itself from the pro- ceods of customs duties, supplemented by one or two instances of internal rev- enue, a field of taxation torbidden the states by the constitution. It is particu- larly surprising that such a proposal skould come from the democratic party, which has always been so careful in ab- staining from encroaching within the line of the financial operations of the states, A federal legacy tax is as un- necessary at the present time as it is un- desirable. THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION. It has been the general belief for some time that the Cleveland admiifistration was opposed to annexing the Hawaiian. islands and that it would probably not favor extendinga protectorate over that remote territory. The lotter of Secre- tary Gresham to the ‘president, which may be regarded as represouting the views of the executive, disposes of all doubt and eonjecture as to the present attitude of the adminiswation. It be- lieves that it is the ,duty of this govern- ment to give no further consideration to the proposal for annexation and to restore the deposed government to power. It is not to be doubted that this will be the view taken of the question in the forth- coming message of Mr. Cleveland. The letter of the secretary of state is strongly condemnatory of the Ameri- can minister, John L. Stevens, whose official intervention enabled the revolu- tionary purl.yfcumprl‘s(ng a small minority of the people—to set up and maintain the provisional government. From the evidence Obtained by Commis- sioner Blount the secretary finds that there was no general’ demand on the part of the Hawaiiali people for a change of government; that the movement for the overthrow of the legitimate gov- ernment was largely supported by aliens; that the annexationists were inspired and encouraged in their plans by the assurance of the American minis- ter that if successful in obtaining posses- sion of the public buildings they would be recognized as the de facto govern- ment and supported by the armed forces of the United States at his command, which was done; that the provisional government was established by the ac- tion of the Awmerican minister, the Ha- waiian government surrendering its authority under a threat of war. The secretary also finds from the evidence supplied by the commissioner that a majority of the Hawaiian peo- plo earnestly desire that the gov- ernment of their choice shall be rostored and its independence respected. In view of these facts Secretary Gresham asks if the wrong done Hawaii should not be undone by restoring the legitimate government, and submits the opinion that notning short of this will satisty the demands of justice. In an interview ex-Minister Stevens sharply criticizes the position and the statements of Secretary Gresham, but it hardly need be said that a very large majority of the American people will accept as trustworthy the evidence upon which the lotter of the sccrotary of state Is based. The intelligent public opinion of this country, regavdless of any question as to the desira- bility or the undesirability of annexing the Hawaiian islands, long ago decided that the course of Stevens as the repro- sentative of this government could not bo justified. Indeed the last adminis- tration did not attempt to justify it. Nothing that Mr. Stevens may now say will chango this judgment. As to the proposition that this government should restore the monarchy it is quite proba- ble that it will not commend itself to our people generally, and yet it is ob- vious that we have a duty to discharge in the interest of justice. The Ameri- can mind cannot be expected to receive with approbation a pro- posal to wuse the power of the republic to establish monarchical gov- ernment anywhere, and yet, can we justly do less when that power has been improperly and unwarrantably used in overthrowing such government? The question is a delicato one and must be sottled on principles of strict justice. It it said that it will be impossible to re- store the monarchy without bloodshed, but this is not a matter for the United States government to consider in decid- ing what justice requires of it. That can be left wholly to the determination of the Hawaiian peoplo themselves. CALIFORNIA democrats are protesting against any tax on native wines, while New York brewersobject to an increased internal revenue duty on malt and beer. This leaves the committee on ways and means between two fires. How can they enact their proposed tariff for revenue only without devising other sources of revenue besides the customs duties? Tue tax on wines and liquors is the most promising field in view, but it also prom- ises to alienate a great many democrats both east and west. Their renewed con- trol of the feaeral government is not bringing much joy to the members of the democratic party. THE Manchester ship canal, which is 500 to bo opened, is not only a feat of modern enginecring but also a wonder- ful example of what public pluck and enterprise wiil accomplish.for a city. It practically brings the sea up to an in- land city, enabling the largest ships to make Manchester their port of destina- tion. 1t will be interesting to watch the results of this enterprise upon the city's growth and prosperity, as also to await a host of imitations in case it proves as great a success as its pro- moters have hoped for: THE selection of General John C. Cowin for the position of special counsel for the United States in connection with its claims against the Union Pacific rail- way is highly creditable to the Depart- ment of Justice. Gereral Cowin combines with the highest capacity for the work 1 hand the most unbending intogrity. If there is any possibility of recovering any part of the debt due the government by process of law General Cowin may be depended on to protect the rights of the United States to the best of his ability. KENTUCKY citizens are appealing to the congressional committee on rivers and harbors for increased appropriations for their waterways on the ground that they contribute the most to the internal revenue on spirits. This plea must be accepted at a discount. So long as Ken- tuckians drink nothing but whisky there is no need for an improvement of their waterways. of Great Dreams, ‘ashington Post. Step softly, brother, as you pass depart- ment buildings for the next few weeks. Tiptoo as piously as though you trod the precinets of some mysterious and dim fane within whose walls the prophets kneel and saints commune with destiny. Theso are cradles of great dreams. B Grover Grautied. Kansas City Star, It is doubtful whother there is & repub- lican or u democrat in the country who feels more sincerely gratified than® President Cleveland over the rebuko which anarchy and ofticial corruption have received in the clection of Judge Gary in Chicago and_the overthrow of Judge Maynard in New York. sir S sades sl Thoe Tarill Battle. Cwneinnati Commercial, Senator Sherman smd in one of his sposcies that the fght on the tariff would bo tha livelicst and 1 istent thut the ic majority in congress had expori- would be likely to experience, dur- ing their official existence. There is no doubt about that. The republican minority has tho preponderance of brains, acd back of it is tne sentiment, and the intorest also, of the great industrial population of this country. Itis likely that the tariff will be modified by our democratic opponents, but this work will not be done in a hurry. ——— State and Municipal Debts, * American Investments. Ilinois, Towa, Michigan, Vermont and Wisconsin have no interest-bearing debts The southern states have 4 bondod indeblod- ness of over §114,000,000. The indebtedness of vhe states is about $225,000,000, on which the annual interest is abou $10,000,000. The municipal indebredness of tho United States is §846,000,000. The county indebtedness is about $144,000,000. New York leads in the municipal indentedness, amounting to §244,- 000,000, Massachusetts comes next, being $09.000/000, Pennsylvania with $91,000,000 and Ohio $59,000, Californin, Kentucky, Nebrasks and New Jersey have but small 1f the republicans of Omaha succeed in starting vhe new paper that they have been talking about for the past vear, it is it mated that they will invite John J. Ingalls of Kansas to bscome its editor. Any news- paper man of experience will advise them uot to throw awaya barvel of money in starting & new paper when there are publi- cations already in existence that can be had for much less thana pew oae would ul- mately cost. A decent republican paper | terian ought to prosper in Omaha, and perhans to put on frills in tho form of an ox-senator from Kansas in the editorial chair, but the cost of an entirely now enterprise would be enormous. The Journal advises the boys to hold a private conferenco with Kditor Hitch- cock before they commit themselves to the task of founding a thied metropolitan daily in such a dull tow ) Altogether it is plain that calamity croak ing found its occupation gone with the pas- sago of the repeal bill. Recuperation may not come about like magic; but this much is certain, that 8o faras the business outlook can now be discerned, there is no longer the shadow of menace upon the horizon, but ouly rays of brightnoss, giving promise of a Californis argo- San Francisco s an- founder of the Prosb, seminary at San An- and endowed it with a liberal 3,000,000, aton students who were ro. pelled from coliege for participat whose death in was the "heological selmo, Cal., naut, nounce Edward B. Clapp, assistant profossor of Greel at Yale, hus resiznod his position and accepted the entire_chargo of the Grook de- partment in the University of California, Berkoley, Cal. S al oth Yale men aro on the facult J of Califor. nia, the others M Kellogg, '51; Prof. ['homa tructor in Kuropean history; Louis Dupont e, '79, instructor in Linglish, and W. \W. Heffelfinger, '89, instructor in physical cul- ture, The ifornia State University is looking professor to fill the Agassi ir of Oriental languages and literature, The pro- fessorship was founded twonty years ago by Edward Tompkins, a wealthy lawyer, who thought that trade with the Orient opened a good career for young Caiifornians to know the languages of the far east, The property which he zave has just been sold for £50,000, which will yield a’ yearly rdvenfic of £4,000. FFor this sum it 18 Hoped to secure a young man who is master of the Oricntal tongues. Recognizing the fact that intelligent ad- vertising is one of the most importaut essen- tials to comm al success, the Wisconsin Business University at LaCrosse has decided to establish a course of instruction t| will familiarizo'its students with the principles of advertising, and the methods and me- diums in current use. Tho object of this course is not to graduato professional adver- tisement writers, but to enable our gradu- ates to use this powerful factor judiciously and advantageously : to solicit patvonage in an attractive and intellizent manner, and to avoid the catch-penny schemes and worth- less methods of the *‘fake” advertisement solicitor. — - PEOPLE AND THINGS. They have stoppad counting in Ohio lest the affair would prove unauimous. The verdict of the jury was as prompt and emphatic as tl e task was loog aund dreary. Politics is full of surpris Here are candidates beefing because their crosses are not numerous enough. Mayor Pro Tem Swift of Chi manufacturer of axle-grease. future is thus assured. The constitutional amendment, grantin, women theright of suffrage, was approve by the voters of Colorado. Senator Vest denies that he is about to retire from public life. The senator is a son of Missouri. The hope of Missourians is to die in oftice. One of the gra jority in Pennsyl eron shows mal dential itch. The fellow who wrote “I'll cling to Theo Forever” 18 suing for a divorce in Dakota. Retribution is suail-paced, but iv oce ally gets there. The news that Clarence King has become insune will be read with genuine reg the west. To him much credit charming descriptions of the th a Nevada and Rocky mountains, As a descriptive writer ho.had =« super iors. Colonel J. Hampton ol Roanoke, Va. —he of the revoked consular exequatur to Amoy—hus gone neither to China nor bacic to his home in the Old Dowinion. His bag- gageisata San Francisco hotel, but the colonel has avartments at the home for the care of theinebriates, wiere the sizzle of the accumulated transcontinental jag is slowly simmering down. Unfortunately there are others democrats to whom sorrow and disanpy ment come in copious doses. prayerful maidens assembled in a suburb of Chicago last Sunday. They expected to be translated from earth to heaven in a body, but the ascent aid not take place. hat joy was reserved for the elect, and the maidens were obliged to linger amid blooming wick- eduess in the Columbian burg. The late Horace A. Moses of Philadelphia was a nephew of Rebecca Gratz, the beauti- ful Jewess who was the admiration of the Quaker City youth more thun half a century ago, and who has popularly been reputed to be the originalof the Rebecca 1n Scott's “Ivanhoe.” According to the legend, her beauty made a great impression on Wash- wgton Irving, who by his description of her personal charms made an equally strong im- Dpression on Scott, Rebecca lived o bo 9 and W greatly beloved, apart from her beauty, for her charitie: ago is a His political ults of the huge ma- that Senator Cam- ptoms of the presi- How some shepherds do 1076 to weigh thete sheep. Good actions, like sheep, are apt to follow one another. The cow has boon man than the lion, Mahomet admitted boes to paradise, bus ba 1 out the hornet, Tt 18 hard to convince a dyspoptic that the world is growing better. i love that is dumb until it speaks on & tombstone doesn't say much, No man will ever be celobrated for his piety whose religion is all in his head. Some men who start out to sot the world on fire give it the first thunder clap, I men who go to the gymnasium for exercise whilo their wives are sawing the Woou You can't tell what a man will do {na I|(\)'l'\~ lr.’;du by the amount of noise ho makes in church, moro of a blessing to There PRS- Signs of Netter T New York Journ Gold is coming hither from Kurape. ng boxes The kod without risk. do and Novada rings and know t busis it ean bo carriod on at profit. of solid prosperity has bogun - - ) Philadelphia - Rocord: Tho “bill-hoard" My i actor glad; s bonrd bill wukes him Lowell Courier: Tt {s tho restaurant who conducts business on a hund-to Dasis Yonkers Statesman: Around election tiy thu “floaters™ consider themselves in the po- litieal swim Atchison Globe: When a woman Is too busy toglanco over an old love story In i papsr when she 1s clea houso sho is terribly busy. Boston Gazotte: “You call that man doc- tor? os."t o dowsn't 1ook much 1ike & physiciun, * What's Lis specialty?” “Ho's & wiird heeler.” Buffalo Courlor: Cordolia, the orlginal ntion' of a dross- or. 118 advent was colneldent with the advent of the first porous plaster.” Columbla Spectator: Biblical—Bess, T hoar golni to tarry n lawyor; yoi lucky Ww you'll have everything ‘money can buy. ~Maud—Why so? Hass—Bocauso, vou know. one is always hearing of the inw and ihe profits. Somerviile Journal: The man that, in his belief, the United States s couldin't repeal a banana, hasu't modifiod oviniou even yel nate his Life: Roctor's Wifo-You onght to avold even the upj of ovil. Dy you, your- self, think the girls who danco are Fight? Béllo of the Parish-They must be. 1 know the girls who don't dance are always left : He W g0 awiy we meet In the city i anybody until I soe you Sne--Oh, George, for | out of practice! ast day together. shan't soo you il 100t kiss aven's sake don't gep IN THE SUBURBS, Chicago Post. Ihave a little quiet homo Afar from city strife, And thero T hops, in peace, to pass Tho balance of my life. I spend my evenings chasing cows That roam my small domain: And when tho summer mornings come Ispend them missing trains, Joys! My littlo home ichanting spot; Is'pose you do not want to buy rural house and lot? L PURE PHILANTHROPY: Harper's Bazar. A pure philanthropist— ) of my rhy )lase soul e would assist 0 hive a ploasant time, And to the weeping pessinist Make this world scom sublime, He took no thought of starving wights, Becuuse right well ho knew, s S are hours in their flights, rights But when he mot a man of woe Who thought of suicide, Unto the drugzist's ho would go And there enough bromide To lny the unhappy mortal low He'd gratisly provide And if he saw a person fall Upon the f “You've slippers o Which so the faile And if again a person struck ag in sonio small sps with worttiloss stock was stuclky His purse & broken wre:k He'd comfort him with **You're In luck; You did not breuk your neck." In other people’s sorrows he Would always find somo fun, And try to lig sery As soon as 'twas begun. He'd oven chat most wittily With Lis own tailor's dun And yet when this \hlnllnnll\mnll! With his foredaddios slapt, did assist Pl ing did porsist, And not onp mortal wept. BROWNING, KING Largest Manutaoturers anl Ratallon of Qiothing tu the Worll. Twoviews of it Some said this knocks business today—others said this will make business next week —that's what they said when it snowed Saturday. It will | make you come down and buy that winter suit or that winter overcoat that you have been put- ting offso long. You know where to get it. You know that you'll get the best article in the world if you get it of us. We never had a nicer assortment of suits and over- coats, just exactly as good as tailor made, wear just as long and look just as well—while the cost —$10, $15, $20, $26—'way below tailors’ prices, We will guarantee to fit you perfectly. BROWNING, 3 npen every evening till sl Base npa Baturduy tl KING & CO., |8, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts.