Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1893, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY] BEE: SUNDAY OVEMBER 19, 1893~ TWENTY PAGES! THE DAILY BEE. WATER, Bditor. E. ROS PUBLIE D E TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. afly Pee (without Sunday) Ome Year. ally and Sunday, One Year. VERY MORNING. fne. Al Twenty-sixth streets 1 street. mber of Commeree 13, 14 and 15, Tribune buflding 13 Fourteentl) &t CORRESPONDE atin ddressed : ork. T Washington, Al 1o naws and torial malt 1 o1 To the Edito remitta Teaving the elty it 10 ther address by leaving o f \uck, secretary of Tre DER Pub- AAshing company, ar that the i ciyeuition of Tk endi 1% ovemiber 12...... Yer 13 i 0 bofore mo co this 181h N. Average Clrenlatio em——— e 1 THE demoerats could only impose a graduated tax on majorities Governor McKinley would be a hopeless bank- rupt. T1 DOES not require the mercantile agencics to inform business mon that “improvement is slow.” They know it without being told. itk German editor of our hyphenated contemporary might peruse his gram- mer to advantage before writing about “Der Wacht am Rhein.” —_— BISMARCK anticipates complete recov- ery of his former health by winter. The iron ehancellor promises to keep up his hopeful expectations until the very end. to be cutting quite a figure in the discussion over the proposed tariff bill. Free trade no longer has its strongest opponent in the solid south PRESIDE & penchant for cabinet officials with a Q in their names. During his first term it was L. Q. C. Lamar. Now 1t is Walter RUSSELL SAGE wins as defendant in a suit for breach of promise, but must submit to trial the case brought for damages by the man who claims that he was used as a shield to protect the mil- lionaire from the explosive force of a bomb. This evens up the fortunes of Sage as a hitigant. MEMBERSHIP in the receivership of the Union Pacific is said on good au- thority to be worth about $20,000 per year to each of the fortunate quintette who * participates in it. Forcing the court to {)ncrmwu the number of receivers savors very much of creating places to reward the favorite followers of the democratic administration IT 18 encouraging toobserve the hope- ful view of business affairs which is taken by those Colorado newspapers which were loudest in their predictions of untold distress in case the repeal bill passed. Not only have their fears becn disappointed, but they claim to see a bright outlook ahead. This is good evi- dence of the persistence of the true western spivit, SUPERINTENDENT BYRNES of the New York police is of the opinion that pocketbook snatchers continue to ply their vocation only because of the in- es women to s in their hands. This is an open invitation to men with weak morals. By having pockets put in their dresses and keoping their purses in theiv pockets when on the strects women could do much to assist the police to pre- vent thievery of this kind. Purses lost in this way ave for the most part volun- tary offerings to the idol of fashion, THe dificulties encountered by the United States ofticials who have been engaged in securing the extradition of embozzlers who have fled to the Central American states ought to impress upon the State department the importance of concluding treaties of extradition with those powers as s0on as possible. Itisa matter for congratulation that inter- pational comity has prevented the re- fusal of any request for the surrender of fugitives that has been made to the governments south of us, but a treaty would enable us to demand what we now can only request. A MAGAZINE writer, who elaims to spenk from porsonal oxperience, assorts that the attractions offered by Nebraska 1o the members of the tramp army are inuo way comparable with the hospf- tality of other states cast and west. Wo can scarcely expect tramps to purchase and read the magazine in question, but wo hope the good wosa will be passed along the line. Nebraska has enough todo to take care of the tramps who are unavoidably thrust upon her. She willingly leaves to other states the honor of most generously providing for the tramp element.’ THE Municipal league of Philadel- Pphia is already commencing activity in relation to the municipal election which 18 to occur in that city in February next. The league, which is organized in the interest of good city governwment, lays down the [ollowing as one plank in its platform: ‘*A close - adherence to the principle that neither the use of our streets or street railways nor any other municipal privilege should ever be parted with excopt to the highest and best bidders, and for a limited period, upon such terms and restrictions as ~ will promote the comfort and conveni- ~ ence of the people and enrich the public treasury.” The pertinency of this to ~ local affairs in Omgha is wost apparent st the preseut mowent MUNICIPAL SANITATION. Tn a contribution to the current num- ber of the Forum, Dr. John S. Billings endeavors to explain the relations trace- able between the mortality statistics for New York city and Brooklyn and the sanitary arrangements of those cities. Variations in death rates are, of course, not necessarily due to differences in the sanitary conditions of the locality. They arise from were differcnces of race, which account for some of the variations in figures relating to negroes and to whites. Among the whites they arise from differences of nationality, of occupation, of density of population. While, therefore, the causes of varying mortality tables can not be aseribed t ritation alone, yet anitation much to do with the varviations can and has been readily shown by comparing the statistics for the same race and nationality located in y and country and in different parts of the same city. According to Dr fluences of the anc these two cities, long since modi- fied by artificial me are still plainly discernible. marshes and strcams, the very existence of which has for years been forgotten by those who pass daily over their former sites, still indicate their effects upon the lenlthfulness of the people who dwell in their neighbornood. More thorough drain; and reconstruction of such fitled- streams could not but react favorably upon the death rates of the residents, In other directions the sanita of the municipal government is itive and constantly vepeated, although as you fav from that porfection which it Should by this time have attained. The water supply is one of the most important branche: In this purity is the first requisite and abundance the soeonl. Our large eities are almost all sewered cities, but the complaint is made inregard to New York sewers that they are in many places of faulty cqnstruction, ave too level, or arve leaky and pollute the soil. Hospital ac- ions for contagious dis ad the health department ipped with disinfecting app tus, which they attempt to put to sys tematic use, They also employ a large number of sanitary inspectors who arc chiefly employed in examining the dwellings of the tenement house dis- Yet many, many forms of uncleanliness defy their most strenuous. cfforts at repression. A final field of sanitary activity of the municipality consists in cleaning the streets. How far neglect or defective work in this re- zard has an influence upon the mortality rate is not ascertainable from the statis- at hand. That accumulations of de- ¢ving organic matter to be blown and thither by the winds tend to increase the death rate is most certain even if it has not been proven. When we read that the annual death rate in New York city is about 26 per 1.000 we are wont to accept it as an im- mutable law that about twenty-six per- song in each 1,000 of the inhabitants must die each year. But there is no law that any particular twenty-six shall die nor is that law so immutable that the average may not be reduced by man’s exertions. the duty of each person to see, so * as he is abie, thay he is not one of ty-six, and it becomes the duty of the city government to endeavor to reduce the number below twenty six. As a matter of fact the death rate in New York has. decreased from 1886 to 1890 from twenty-seven to twenty-six, and it is fair to assume that improved sanita- tion has had some influence in bring about that result. May we not exvect the sanitary science of the near future to make residence in the city on the whole no less heaithy than residence in the countr Billings, the in- fent topography of Old y work SOUTHERN WAR CLA While the southern representatives in congross ave very willing to reduce the oxpenses of the government by cutting down pensions they are not averse to adding millions to the obligations of the government in the form of war claims. Tt is authoritatively stated that no con- gress has been so flooded with bills for the veliof of southerners as the present one, These bills represent claims of all characters, but principally losses said to have been sustained during the war. Hundreds of these claims came in under the provisions of. the captured and abandoned property act, but as the act required proof of loy- alty many claimants -did not take advantage of it, That provision of the law can be gotten over more casily now and there is a proposition to revive and extend the provisions of the act for one year, making it apply to all cases of seizure either before or after June 30, 1865, without regard to any statute of limitation and without refer- ence to the loyalty of the claimants. If this should be done it would open the court of claims to a deluge of alleged claims from southerners who make no pretension to having been loyal citizens of the United States during the war, One of the bills in this line that has been introduced proposes to oxtend the benefit of the act to whose claims have detormined by the court on the ground of disloyalty. Many other measures have been introduced or arve ready for introduction at the lar session which IMS, those claimants been adversely regu- propose to divert money from the naticnal treasury to the L pockets of peopte in the sdfith for all sorts of claims, and theve is little reason to doubt thut most of these bills, and perhaps all of thom, will pass. The de- mands of the south in this congress are pretty certain to be honored, if they have any sort of substantial or plausible support. Doubtless some ol the claims are meritorious, but it is not question- ablo that a great many of them have no merit whatever, while of those that have o substantial basis many call for wmuch more than is just. Great numbers of war claims have been passed pon by the court of claims and in a majority of cases they have been scaled down from 50 to 75 per cent. A strictly hons ost claim has been found to be rare, and while in some instances, doubtless, the claimants did not intend to be dishon- est, very generally they have unques- tiousbly been influenced by the idea that they were warranted in making their demand upon the government as large as they dared to. Those who can show that they are entitled to relief for losses sustained during the war, they being logal citizens of the United States, shonld of course receive it, but claim- ants who were disloyal should not be recognized. Tt would be.a manifost in- justice to the loyal people of the coun- try to allow those who gave aid and comfort to the rebellion to recover for the losses they sustained in a war which they helped to make and maintain. It is quite possible that legislation for this purpose may pass congress, but it is at least questionablo whether it would re- coive the approval of Mr. Cleveland, oven though the south should de- mand it. VILLAGE AND RURAL FREE DELIVERY, The villages and small towns of Yhe wost which for two years past have been enjoying the advantage of a free mail delivery are likely to be deprived of this service in the near future. Among the economies to be instituted by the pres- ent administration this will be one. In the annual report of the postmaster general for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1802, the country was informoed that the experiment of village freo delivery had been both popular and profitable. The report said: *“The experiments have mainly vrelated to villages, be sure, buc it has been a service and -it has cleared a It is easy enough, therefore, to at the free delivery can be inex- pensively extended further and further, and it ought to be done, whether it pa a profit to the department or not.” The then postmaster general also said: “‘I hardly see how the service can justly be discontinued. On the contrary it would be wise to increase the number of coun- try freo delivery offices by at Jeast 1,000 each year for the next ten years. With the added privilege would come a new impetus, and ali of the.cities, which are all so mich dependent upon the country neighborhoods, as well as the towns and the farming districts, would be supplied the sooner with a simple, business-like, almost necessary postal facility.” The present administration of the Postoffice department does not concur in thisview. That portion of the annual report of the first assistant postmaster general which refers to the experiment of free delivery in towns and villages says, in eflect, that it has been a failure and advises that it be suspended at the close of the current y It is admitted that at f the service “not only seemed to prove of real benefit to the patrons of the local postoffices, but resulted in an apparent inerease in the postal receipts,” but it is said that as soon as the novelty wore off “the resident of the viliage again found it more convenient to call at the village postoffice to tget his mail The intelligent reader of the report will be very likely to pause at this point and ask himself whether it is probable that a person receiving mail would find it more convenient to vel to the post- office in all kinds of weather, with the chance of not getting anything when he called, than to have his mail delivered at his home by a carrier. Is not such a statement a self-cvident absurdity? It will certainly be so regarded by city people who have been long used to free delivery. The report urges that village free delivery should not be ex- tended ‘‘merely because the free de- livery in cities is maintained at the pense of the general public,” to which the advocates of villuge freo de- livery will reply with reason that the wurbav populations have no better right to the best con- veniences and advantages of the postal service than have the rural populations, the design of that servico being to give all the people, as nearly as practicable, oqual benefits, The complaint has been made for years that in the improvement of postal facilities tho cities sccured pretty much all the advantages, and tie complaint has been'well founded. Tie last administration undertook to remedy not by reducing the facilitics in the citics, but by improving and extend- ing those in the oounfry. The present administration proposes to abandon this reform and veturn to the old condition of things, and it is not to be doubted that this will be done. Of course rural delivery will be out of the question. There ave only forty-six towns an villages, ranging in population from 800 104,000, in which the free delivery ex- periment has been tried, so that depriv- ing them of this servide will not be nu hardship to u great number of people, but the abandonment of this movement for extending better- postal facilities to the country populations will postpine indefinitely the improvement in this di- rection which hundreds of small com- munitios have been looking for, and in this respect would be unfortunave, 1f the government cannot prudently at this time make any further advance in this matter it should at any rate maintain what progress has been made, DEPENDENT OHILDREN The care of dependent children has become of such importance in the larger ties and more thickly settled regions of the east that it has been made the exclu- sivesubject of a charities conference held in New York last week, Particularly in New York City has this problem attained an ever-increasing importance, and it is estimated that in the metropolis alone the dependent children supported by public or private charity number 18,000, or one in every 100.0f the population. This has resulted in bringing out more sharply the evils attendant upon so great a public burden as is here in- volved, as also the imperfections and de- fects ot the system by which the de- pendent children are supported. The great number of these children are committed to the care of institutions administered by private persons, but deriving the principal portion of their revenues from appropriations out of the public treasury. This method, iv is claimed, has many advantages in its favor, but it also offers temptations to abuse that have not always been resisted. The aim of every system for the care of dependent children must be to avoid, on tdhie ono hand, any extravagant cost to society, aud on the other to repress any tondency to pareptal negicet, while at the same time giving the children such care and trainin come good and Ais oarliest possible will fit them to be- ul citizons at the ijod of their lives. That many of thefinstitutions fail to come up to the desifled standard is one the complaints of those who took part in the recent chavities conference. The incentive to extravagance is in- creased in New Yotk by the fact that the public aid is digtribated among the charitable institutfons in the ratio of the number of odependents within their walls. This operates to lax the strictnest” hat should prevail in receiving children applying for ad- mission, because cach child, as it were, brings with him the means of his own support. Tt also gives the management aninterest in keeping those committed to its charge longer than is absolutely ey or advisable, becanse his sup- port does not trench upon the revenue from its private endowment. This will- ingness to receive applicans encourages parents to throw their children upon charity, whenyperhaps a little oxtra effort would enable them to support them themsely They are assured of the good treatment of their children, and the faft that tho institutions are nominally private avoids the stigma of pauperism which would otherwise attach to such proceedings. The remedy for these defects in not to - bo pointed out ina word, but must bs gathered trom careful investigation and experienco. They exist at the samo time in purely private and purely public institutions as well as in those which partake of the characteristics of both. The best system will be that which giv to dependent children care at least as good as that they would receive at the hands of dutiful parents in institutions economically managed at the smallest oxpense to the state., ‘AL POLICY. Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, in a lettor to the editor of the New York D'ribune, presents his view of the ‘“‘truc continental policy of the United State: which he says will be the policy of the progressive republican party. It will contemplate, says the senator, the oventual adhesion to the American union of the whole North American con- tinent, the Sandwich islands and a rea- sonable and sufficient number of the West Indies. It will not bea policy of aggression and may require decades and perhaps a century for its full fruition. It does not propose, says Mr. Chandler, to urge affirmative movements for the acquisition of Canada or Mexico, or the other cental states, or Hawail or any islands on our eastérn coast. It will await the movement of public opinion in the countries which are viewed as possible future additions to the United States, being & policy “merely of atten-~ tion and willingnesd for voluntary an- nexation when other peoples within reasonable distance desire to share our protection, ovr prosperity and our free- dom.” In the meanivhile we shall con- tinue to assert the Monvoedoctrine in reference to the whole of . South Amer- ica, and still seck to'bultivate the elosest and most friendly relations-with all the South American nations. Senator Chandler is not alone in his views regarding the “manifest destiny” of the United States, though he is far more moderate in defining the conti- nental policy of this country than most of those who believe that in time the entire continent will be under one gov- ernment, acknowledging the flag of the union as its emblem and having as its outposts the islands of the Atlantic and the Pacific that may be deemed neces- sary to its interests and welfare. Many, perhaps the majority, of those who hold this faith are not disposed to await the movement of public opinion in the coun- tries which are viewed as possible fu- ture additions to our own, but would make their policy of territorial aggran- dizement aggressive to at least the ex- tent of fostering and encouraging the public ofinion in other countries favor- able to incorporation in the American union. «The advocates of Canadian annexation have been pursuing this course for years and those who believe that the United States should possess Cuba have from time to time for de- cades sought to further that object by fostering among tho Cuban people hos- tility to tho authority of Spain, Be- lievers in the destiny of the United States to absorb the continent are not all disposed to be as patient as Mr. Chandler and allow decades that may run into a centary to pass before the full frnition of their hopes can be attained. An eminent ‘senator said on the floor of the national senate not very long ago that within ten years Canada, or the greater part of it, ought to be under the American flag, and it is hardly likely that he thought this pos- sible as the result of a natural move- ment of public opinion in that eouztry. Asa matter of fact he believed that there should be an aggressive effort on our part to' stimulate or fo Canadian public opjnion in that direc- tion, and pretty nearly all the advocates of further territorial acquisition ave similarly actuated, They want the “true continental policy” pushed with allthe vigor that can properly or de- cently bo applied to it. That there is plausibility in the idea of an American union extending over the whole North "American continent must be admitted,..and it must be con- fessed, also, that théte is much in the idea that is attragtive. It appeals to patriotic pride and“aspiration. Tt in- spives thoughts of boundless wealth and unlimited powgy. The fathers of the republic had no conggption of the nation that was to be erected upon .the narrow founda tion they laid. We of today may be equally unable to coneeive of the pos- sibilities of a continental American re- public, with an enlightened, progressive and united people under one government and one flag. Surelysuch a nation would dominate the world and become the ar- piter whose judgment all other nations would respect. But there is another view. It cos: hundreds of thousands of lives and thousands of millions of treas- ure to preserve the union we have, Itis secure, every loyal and patriotic citizen believes, within its present boundaries, There are no elements of its popula- tion that now threaten its perpes tuity and it is in no danger from exter- nal enemics. What assurance is there that these happy conditions would pre- vail if the continental policy were to bo realized? Who can say that sectional antagonisms would not arise to disturd the peace ard menace the existence of the union, or that foreign foes would not combins to destroy the republic or to weaken its growing power? Does not history teach that the beginning of the downfall of republics has been coeval with the development of the de- sire for territorial aggrandizemont? The domain of the United States is capable of supporting several hundred millions of people. We are at this moment the greatest commercial nation of the world. Our influence upon the politics and the civilization of the world is greater than that of any other nation. These considorations ought to amply satisfy the pride and patriotism of the present generation. We can wisely and safoly leave the question of a conti- nental policy to be passed upon by our posterity. THE termination of the coal miners’ strike in Bngland, the most formidable and damaging ever known in that coun- try, will speedily bring about, it is to be expected, a much necded improvement in general business. Tens of thousands of miners were involved in the strike, which was maintained for many weeks, and as the short supply of coal compelled many manufacturing industries to shut down or curtail operations the labor employed in these industries suffered. In fact all interests were more or loss injuriously affected by this great strike, and it is estimated that neavly 2,000,000 people have been deprived of their usual support in consequence of it. In the communities muinly de- pendent on mining there is much desti- tution and great hardship, and it is casy to understand the great rejoicing in these places which grected the an- nouncoment that the long contost was ended and the men would return to work at tho old wages. The settlement of this destructive straggle was brought about by the intervention of Mr. Glad- stone, who proposed a conference of em- ployers and employes, which was promptly acceded to by both parties. Dignity was given to the conference by the fact that it was presided over by Lord Roscbery, a member of the government, and through his judicious influence iittle difficulty was found in reaching an amicable scttlement, under conditions which promise that there will not be a recurrence of trouble between the miners and the mine owners for years to come. An excellent spirit was shown on both sides and the example of the co ference will undoubtedly be followed in future misunderstandings between em- ployers and employes. The result can- not fail to greatly strengthen Mr. Glad- stone's hold upon the heartsof the work- ing classes of England. THE editor of the #Hurld-Herald re- gales his readers with an account of the Municipal league of Philadeiphia and of its good work. But he fails to men- tion its prime object, which is to prevent the free grant of valuable franchis rights to private corporations. The . views with silent approval every attempt to enrich the franchised cor- porations at the expense of the tax- payers. PHILADELPHIA is the center of a de- termined crusade against expectoration on the floors of the street cars. When the object is accomplished in Phila- delphia the crusaders can find a free field for their operations in any city of the west in which they choose to work. AL tho First Table. Rocky Mountain Verily the trusts and corporations are represented in high places these days, while the people plead in vam for relief from in- sufferable industrial conditions, it S ] Too Much Government, Cincinnati Commercial. If there could be no session of congress in- side of two or three years the business of the country would revive fast enough. This is an evidence that the people are governed 100 much, e Will Cleveland Be Called 1n? Atlanta Constitution, The first thing to be done when congress meets is for democrats toget together in caucus, settle cheir differences and outline their whole legislative policy, so that it may be carried through without a break or jar, 1s Probition a Winner? Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Although the lowa republicans conducted their state campaign on an anti-prohi n platform, a majority of the members of the republican legislature elected appear to be pledged to prohibition. It is now a question with the party leaders which of the two pledges is to count. But the legislative members are not likely to desert their colors, and so it is possible that prohibition has not been beaten in the state aft ————— ©1 Quackery. San Franelsco Chronicle, That old fraud, the Chinese Medicine compuny, has emerged in Chicago. About four years ago it was thoroughly broken up in St Louis, after causivg several deaths by arrant quackery., Now large advertise- ments appear iu the Chicago papers ce brating the remarkable cures of Gee Chon, The curious thing is that sensible people witl give their money to Chineso quacks, when it is notorious that the Mon- goliuns areas deficient in medical knowledgo as the savages of the C: Squelching a Swh American Investments, Good for Postmaster General Bissell. He has taken hold of the infamous Guar anty Investment company of Nevada, Mo., and Chicago, 111, and proposes to shake the stuffing clean out of it. He decides that it is a lottery scheme, pure and simple, and that its deceptive literature shall not pass vhrough the mails, The federal grand jury has also vaid its respects to the swindling cern, When the institution is closed up, what will the bondholders holdiug unma- tured bonds have Lo show for their foolish investment? Nothing wha LA Practical and Ornam al Edacation. New York Evening Sun, The community 1s under no obligation to prepare boys aad girls for college free of ex- pense to themselyes and their parents. The sole justification for compulsory education is that the community wishes o preserve the continuity of the rice in intelligence and de- votion to the principles upon which our vepublic is founded. Included in this is the prineiple of true equality, as far as a fair primary education can make tho children of the poor and the rich, the stroug children and the weak children, equally able to fight the batule of life when circumstances compel their removal from the public schools at the age of, say, 14. * * * The schoolmaster who teaches a boy to read, write and cipher gives him a sct of tools with which he can Pick the lock of every safe containing kuowl- edge. ‘Ihe mau—wo cannot call him a true schoolmaster—who endeavors Lostuff a boy's memory with useless smatterings leaves him worse Off than before, and degrades him in manheod Lo the commonpiace luvel of & per- son wno has vain aspirations without the weans or abilities to realize U PEOPLE AND 1HINGS. The silence of Claus Sprockels is signifi- cant and golden, ‘What's the matter with the Hawalian Lily as the national flower? The restoration of Don M. Dickinson 10 & soi near the throne is painfully pro- longed. Down in Missour! frionds of tho adminis- tration are taking office, Thoothers a taking cold. A fow more cold waves and an advanco of 50 cents per ton are reasonablo certainties before the yoar vauishes, “The professional train robber caznot hone to endear himself to the traveling public while ho ignores the existonce of the porter. traveler asserts that to the German peo- ple Emperor William's three dearest things in the world seem to be his wife, war and waltz 1t is presunied that as soon as the fracas is over, Qugen Lil will give the royal salute and swectly whisper to Grover: “Hawaii | on> with me.” 1 the administration is committed to the restoration of thrown, probably some At- tention will be given to fhe democratic party ere fong, Tho lata kndckout seriously fected the Ly’s extromities, inaugurs rub.” Employment and out of 450 only work melted awa willing army of “‘unemployod" tho free lunch, The oldest living representative of the tic creole regime in uisiana is ‘¢ of New Orleans, He will nuary, but there traces of senectitude, 4 him. He is memory is vor vis wants to murder a llenged him to mortal com- avis recently returned from abroad and itis feared the ocean voyage seriously disturbed his liver. Uf his hung continues he should be taken to an and given a vath in the hot fluid. is 0 new trick in foot ball, 1t is to grab an opposi or, throw him down and fasten you teoth in the back of his neck This trick” was tried on Butterworth of 1o by one of the Pennsylvanias ard is said to have been very offeotive. 1t is called the flying teeth as opposed to the flying wedge Mrs. John G. Carlisle has joined the circle of women who have stopped in the middie of &nd famous lines to set the scal of au- thority on kitchen chemistry. Mrs. Carlisle rian Harland” and ve done before her. 4 Knowles, who was defeated ey generalship of Montana by a small majority and then was appointed as- tant by her successful compotitor, re- centiy secured, in favor of her state, beforo the Interior department in Washington, a decision involy about $200,000 worth of school lands in Montana. An appeal has been issued by the Me- Clellan Memorial association of Philadeiphia for contributions for the equestrian statuc of General George B. McClellan, wh is to be placed on the north plaza of the city hall, The state of Pennsylvania appropriated £5,000 to erect the pedestal, which has been completed and i in place. The bronze equestrian statue is now comvleted and could be placed in position in ten day The amount necessary to make all payments on it is §7,000. ———— BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, Preachingaimed at tho head seldom strikes the heart. A Goliath in brains is sometimes not over knee high in grace. ‘When the devil goes to church he does not always sit on a back seat. If you are praying for growth in grace don't keep your hands in your pociets. Faith without love is ommipotence without a heart. It is the power of Jove with the blindness of a bat. Some men have an idea they will some day walk in the streets of glory because thoy now and then give away an old coat. “utting sand in sugar is no worse than claiming on Sunday to love the Lord and doing nothing through the week to show it. When some folks pray “Thy kingdom come,” thoy do 1t with u mental proviso that somebody else has got to stand all the ex- pense. —_— enrful, Herman Didlo Hanson has been lying very low for the past few days with inflammation of the bowels. We understand the doctors have® pronounced hus condition as being very crit- ical and fears are entertained as to whether or not he will recover, ——— HITCHCOCK'S FISHED-FOR PUFES, How the We-Do-Like-Enterprise kditor Gets Other People to Boom Him, Plattsmouth News. The News, in common with the daily press generally, received a letter from the editor of a metropolitan newspaper a few dy: 0, saying if cortain improvements in the paper wero noted to kindly send a clipping of the same to him. That night the Journal slob- bered all over the editor, and about Sunday next will get its reward by seeing its name in print, SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Tndianapolis Journal: That the world owes & man a living claim, and it is equally porn nounced from a pulpit as when given by & thief as an oxcuse for pocxet picking. Somerville Journal: Thore are & good many hundrod different religious boliefs in this world, but the old question, “What is religion hasn't veen answered to everye body's satisiaction yet. - Minneapolis Tribun ‘apo for Thy Life" was toxt of a( hicago preacher, and before he had finished his discourse a five of different kind from the ono from which ho was advising his c rogation to flee broke [ in the inister was cool and succeede tion that e without . Thomas, i the rago. Now these are discarded, and seldom hoard of through the eslumns of the press, while Mangasarian, Guusafilus ana_Jenkin Lloyd ing on the crest of the papular ve. Those will have a brief notoriety, which they should improve to the utmost, nsses they, 100, will follow ocessors into the realm of oblivion. Pulpit popularity in the Windy City is of & owth, and fades as docs the vm of the poppy. hicago Herald Having bounced Dr, 78 out of fellowship ard communion the sbyterians have another row on their hands, and as a woman is mixed up in this one the fight is likely to bo unusually bitter and prolonged. Sadie Means is a telephone v hello gitl—in the exchange at S.C. She was required to work i for so doing was oxpollod ship in the Sccond Pr She appealed to the Charles ton presbytery, which sustained the (ox- pulsion, but the South Carolina_ synod re- versod the decree and restored Sadie to membership. TNow the matter is to be taken to the general assembly, and all the D.Ds, and theological lawyers ave rolling up_the sloeves in anticipation of the fray. Mean- time Sadie continues to chew gum and in- quire, “Whatnumplease?” conscious of the recititude of her intentions and hee good standing under the ruling of the synod. wave. e BRIGHT A8 THEY MAKE 'EMN. alveston News: It o man will kecp on iding e will mike his point in the end. \oster Domocrat: The 4 »al dealor Is an expert in making a littie go great weighs, Cloyeland Plain Dealor: The ninst vathel o coll At of the yonth whose rei - tance failed to arrive. 4 bt i 1 502 that your owed under in tho is dofeat! Wag- Atchison an has a plain siekness th i y danger of fatal results, but whe » doctors eall *coms plications™ set in, then is the tme o pray. Tndianapolis Tour, the visitor at tho gent looking ni “And to think,” satd il, “that such an intelli- n should find biwself here for inde repliod the guard, “an' housebreakin® L e 5 we Boston Transcript; ) dld Prof. Crotehict say ¢ Pa—Iio was quite vid y aud—And, pa, what my plano playing? 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