Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1893, Page 12

DAILY BEE, . ROSEWATER, Edit VERY MORNING, M8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. guny Tieo yut Sundny) One Year. 800 | ally and Sunday, One Year ix Month O inda One Yenr.. turday Bée, Ong Year reckly Bee, Oue Year... o {OFFICE:! o Beo Thillding. and -tourth streets. t Commerce, Tribune bullding t CORRESPONDY All_comnfunications rolatin: 10 news and ed torinl matter shonld be addresed : To the Edito na | 4 and_remittances shonld be | Publishing company, Omaha s 1o bemade ddresued (o Ti Brara, ehicks and patome payable to 1 Partics THE Ty e UL nmer ean have = Stato of Nebras County of Do Geo, 11, Tzsch Aishing ‘comp actual cireu ecrotary of Titr BER Pub- . 'does molemnly swear that the ‘of Tie DA1LY BER for the week 1803, was a8 follows ot st el it Tt i splinters seem to bo flying quite freely on the other side of the At- lantic. THE blue still hangs above the crim- son. Will it maintain its supremacy over the orange and black? is now the burning question in the college world. A DEFICIT is predicted in the coming British budget. A deficit 1s assured in the budget of the United States. The difference it merely one between proba- bility and certaint TLNGLAND as well as the United States is having trouble with the unem- ployed in 1ts great citics. The problem of the unemployed is international in its bearings. Local remedies can give only local relief. THE New York Sun calls the income tax a populist tax because it was called for during the last campaign by no party platform but that of the populists. The democrats seem determined to shove Bryan into the third party ranks. THANKSGIVING day this week will be made memorable in Omaha by the gen- eral distribution of charity. Leading churches are actively at work to this end, und all charitaBle organizations are bending their energios toward relieving distress and suffering throughout the city. GREAT preparations are making for the celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the Nubraska State vniver- sity next February, and it is proposed to emphasize by this celebration the fact that it is a state as in contradistinc- tion to a local institution of learning. No one who is really interested in the advance of higher education in the west can consistently withhold his support and encouragement from this memorial event. Ir WE are to judge from the report of the French state savings banks, showing an excess of 34,000,000 francs in deposits over withdrawals during the year 1892, state savings banks are a success in France. The postal savings bank has been repeatedly recommended by post- masters goneral in this country, always to remain unacted upon in the commit- tees of congress. The postal savings bank is one of the crying needs of the Postoftice department. TeE Fremont & Elkhorn organ is distressing itself over the utter de- pravity of the Omaha press. The 2x4 ‘brain of the organ-grinder cannot con- ceive of anything more disreputable than the campaign canards put out by the Omaha papers in the recent county campuign. He clinches his remarks by quoting the report of the federal grand jury. In our opinion the less said about this vaanted report the better for all immediately concerned. EVERYONE must regret the inability of the Lehigh managers and employers tocome 1o a speedy understanding and adjustment of their difficulties. The . public suffers from inadequate service Wwhile the laborers ave deprived of their _ wages and the owners of the capital in- « vested in the road lose the returns which they have a right to expect. With all these forces moving for a settlement of " the strike some scheme of compromise or arbitration ought to be agreed upon without much further delay. A POLICE census of the unemployed in Philadelphia shows that nearly 47,000 persons who are usually engaged at re- munerative labor are at present without work, These figures, while they do not show how many idle persons there are in addition to the average number out of work at this season of the year, are to be taken as a basis for the relief move- ment which is in active preparation in that city. Statistics, so far as they are at hand, show increased numbers of the unemployed in all the great cities—a tact which should stimulate all charita- ble organizations to redoubled uetivity to the extent of the funds at their com- mand. THE constitutionality of the supreme court commission is to be called once more into question by the Missouri Pacific railroad, this time before tho United States supreme court, Just how tho Uunited States court is to obtain urisdiction over the matter has not yet n disciosed. The validity of the commission must be tested by the state ponstitution. This question has been raised before our state supreme court ~ sud decided in favor of the right of the legislature to create the commission, Tnusmuch as the federal courts are ac- eustomed to follow the decisions of the state courts In suits resting upon the ~ anterpretation of state laws, the United Blates supreme court can scarcely be ex- aloonnub the law @s it now THE SUGAR ROt 1 0 1t is to be hoped that the decision of the democratic membors of the ways and means committee, sugars on the free list, roduce the duty on refined, and not to abolish the bounty at onee, will be sustained by the house. Thore ought to be no doubt that this deeision will be coneurred in by the re publican members of the committoe and of both branches of congress, for it is at. once a concoesion to republican policy and an act of justice to an important in- terest which promises to become ina few years the source of genercus pros- perity to avery large number of our people. The reduetion of the duty. on refined sugar from one-half of acent to one- fourth of a cent per pound would not make any material difference in the revenue from this source. The proba- bility is that the imports of refined sugar under the lower rate would be consider- ably inercased, and this could hardly fail to ho the case unless the price of sugar should be redueed to a figure with which the foreign producer could not compete, In that event the whole body of sugar consumers would be benefited. Reducing the duty on refined sugar and retaining raw sugars on the free list would undoubtedly force the Sugar trust to lower the price, and it is to be pre- sumed that everybody not interested in the trust would be satisfied with such a result. The poli of the present taviff law regarding sugar has not operated to the benefit of consumers to the extent that was expected. The trust has been able to continue its exactions and to make an inordinate profit. Any legislation which will de- prive this monopoly of the power to plunder the public will be universally approved. If that proposed should fail to accomplish thisanother congress may find it expedient to put all sugar cn the free list. As to the bounty it would manifestly e a gross injustice to those who have investéd their capital in the business of developing the sugar industry to at once strike down this support to their enter- prise. They were induced to embark theiv capital in the business by the as- surance that the bounty would be continued for a sufficient period to demonstrate whether the production of sugar, particularly beet sugar, could be developed to such an extent as to become a valuable national resource. A brief experience with the indusery under the stimulating influence of the bounty warrants the belief that this can be done and that before the expiration of ten years the United States will produce, if this industry be proporly fostered, a very considerable proportion of the sugar consumed by its people. In the meanwhile the development of the in- dustry must necessarily tend to prevent any extreme rise in the price of sugar, either as the consequence of monopoly or a diminished supply elsewhere. Of course the true policy would be 1o leave the bounty as it is. It is not a burden upon the people, amount- ing annually to not more than one- fourth of what is saved to the people by having raw sugars on the free list. It is the best method of encouraging the development of this industry, if not, indeed, the only sure method of doing 50. But the proposal to abolish the tax gradually, reducing it at the rate of 2 mills a year, need not disturb those who are engaged in the sugar Industry and very likely will not. The decision of the present congress in the matter will not necessarily stand for a longer perfod than two years. As itis, there is rea- son for satisfaction with the plan re- ported to have been agreed on by the democratic members of the ways and means committee. It is better than was to have been expected. DOOMED SWINDLERS. The conviction of three leading bond investment promoters by a federal jury in Chicago marks the beginning of the end of a giganticswindle. The outcome of the trial was a matter of supreme in- terest to the people of the west, and it is cause for congratulation that both judge and jury united.in condemning the plun- d g scheme. The ipdietments were proeured at the instance of the postoffice authorities and were very properly aimed at the officers of the parent bond investment company in the west. The concern, pos- sessing ample means, gathered from 50,000 victims, had frequently challenged judicial investigation,. When it came in the form of criminal prosecution tire managers sought to break the force of the blow by offering to coaform with the law as might bo determined by the legal department. They were ready to reform if forgiven for past offenses. The absurd proposition was spurned. The charge of Judge Grosscup to the jury is a forcible arraignment. of the promoters. He did not mince his words. He dissected the scheme and exposed its swindling possibilities. ‘“There is no doubt, gentlemen,” said the court, “‘upon the face of it that it constitutes a cheat.” The testimony disclosed the fact that in two years the company eol- lected over $500,000. Forty thousand dollars was pocketed by agents; $206,- 000 was returned to stockholders. The balance went to the managers. In the opinion of the court, ““that is public plan- der.” To the mind of the court “‘the wheel of the lottery and the hat of the rafile are to the fortune hunter incomparably fairer contrivances for the determina- tion of his chances. He is not depend- ent in them upon the honesty or accu racy of a secretary, with whom it is as easy to put one application through the registry as apother. The whole scheme disclosed by the proof is a cunning trick to utu]-wl. the cupidity and ignorance of men,” The court alse took into consideration the promised abandonment of the multi- ple scheme. But the scheme, stripped of the element of chance, did not fare auy better. The court denounced it as & plan the success of which “depends entirely on the gross insolvency of the company—so insolvent that in the very method of its organization no hope of its carrying out its promises can be enter- tained.” _ The instructions of the court to the Jury cover not only the iliegal lottery feature—the multiple scheme—but are 80 far-reaching as to leave bogus bond companies without g chance of escaping to retain raw | destruction. Promoters were confident that a system of bond payment in numer- ical order wonld give the business the mantle of honesty and satisfy the authorities. Judge Grossoup's charge clenrly shows that the reformed scheme will not be tolerated by the courts if the promoters use the mails to further it. This view is supplemented by the as- sistant attorney general in an opinion which applies to all reorganized com- pant In effect be declares the con- secntive humber plan a scheme to obtain money by false pretense, and that the mails cannot bo employed to promote frand. Bond promoters have reached the end of their rope much sponer thun they ex- pected. Condemned by courts and public opinion, their passing is a triumph of honesty ovor fraud. INAUSPICIOUS TIME FOR STRIKES. Strikes and rumors of strikes prevail to an extent which indicates that Ameri- can workingmen do not give that careful attention to conditions which is to be ex- pected of them in view of their general intelligence and their ample opportun- ities for obtaining information, For ten months this country has been suffering from a severe business depression which has affected every intervest. Mills and factories have been closed, thirowing tens of thousands of people outof employment. Transportation companies have found it necessary to greatly reduce their force of employ In every department of in- dustry and trade enforced rotrenchment has been felt heavily by lavor, so that to- day there is a great army of idle people in the Unitea States, all of them willing and anxious to work, but unable to 1ilzl" anything to d@o. Various estimates hate been made of the number of pevsons out of employment, but, of course, even approximately accurate figures cannot be obtained. Tt Ts doubtless entirely safe to sav, however, that there are more unemployed people in the country at this time than ever before. The country is gradually recovering from the depression, Mills and factories that have been closed are resuming operations and generally the outlook is brightening. But the recovery is slow and in all probability will continue to be slow. The large accumulation of money at the financial centers is evidence of the caution and timidity of capital as well as of the depression of business. Money is not being freely embarked in enter- prises of any kind, and especially those which can be affected by changes in the tariff. The industrial interests of the country understand that they will have to readjust their affairs and they are shaping their business for the immedi- ate future accordingly. Were they as- sured that the American market was still to be theirs the resumption of ac- tivity would be rapid, but in the ab- sence of this assurance it will be slow, The tendency, however, is manifestly in the right directidn, and if nothing un- foreseen occurs to interfere with it there is reason to believe that within the next six months there will be a marked revival of business. 1t ought to be plain to every intelligent working- man that under existing circumstances nothing eould more certainly retard the attainment of this eagerly desired result than labor conflicts, and at the same time nothing else could so surely lead to the demoralization of labor, If capital is threatened with warfare it will take the precautions to defend itself, and em- ployed labor that invites the competition for work of the unemployed will, in most cases, battle at a disadvantage. There are probably at least 1,000,000 idle men in the country, among them thousauds who are skilled in their bandicrafts. Many of these have already suffered privations and hardships and a long winter is before them. Very few will reject any opportunity that offers to earn the means of subsistence for thgm- selves and their families. Hunger and cold are conditions which sweep. aside all theories and force men to make every sacrifice for their alleviation. Industrial peace is an indispensable prerequisite to an early and full resto- ration of industrial and busines activity. The question of maintaining the currency on a sound and stable basis has been settled, and there is no longer any anxi- ety or uncasiness on that score, Tariff revision, largely responsible for the de- pression, continues to be a check upon the revival of business, but the country i8 promised an early knowledge of how far the party in power proposes to go in this direction, and when this information is obtained the industrial interests may begin preparing for the new conditions, which will possibly not be found so difli- culvatask as has been apprehended. The chief trouble, it is to be feared, in the work of readjustment will be-with labor, and it is therefore most necessary that workingmen shall study the conditions carefully, intelligently and dispassion- ately. Anybody who at this time ad- vises or encourages labor conflicts, ex- cept for the redress of intolerable griev- ances, is not a friend of labor and is a foe to the general prosperity 70 STUP TRAIN KOBBING. The frequency of daring train rob- beries during the past two or three months has aroused a strong sentiment in favor of congressional legislation for the punishment of this crime, particu- larly among those engaged in the busi- ness of transportation. A bill for this purpose was introduced in the house of representatives at the extra session of congress, the full text of which is printed in another part of this paper, to- gether with the views of local express and railroad managers. These heartily approve the proposed legislation, and so far as known all railroad and express officials are favorable to it. It has had the endorsemeunt also of most of the prominent newspapers of the country. The advocates ot federal legis- lation for the punishment of train rob- bing make a strong point of the fact that the states do not provide the ma- chinery necessary to prevent this erime, and there is small probability that they can generally be induced to doso, It is further urged that the power which has the sole right to regulate interstate commerce is the proper power to protect that commerce. There unquestionably is force in these arguments. If thestates donot and will not provide such means as they may for the suppression of train rovbing it is manitestly neces eral ry to look to the fed- governmedt. | According to the testimony of express offi- cials whose companies have suf- fi od at the )mmlmn(’ robbors, they haye received little assistance from local authorities in lum!‘fng down the erim- inals, and there is but one instance re- membored in whigh the robbers cn- countered any resistance trom the local authorities. The task and the expense of bringing the criffiihals 1o justice has in almost overy casg, dovolved on the ex- press compal which have uniformly shown o proper spirit in this matter even when the cost was sure to be greater than the loss sustained. Such having been the experience, it is only natural that express and railroad of- ficinls should feel that the general gow ernmeént ought to put out its heavy hand, and bring to justice the lawless assailants of instruments of intorstate commerce, 1t is not to be doubted, however, that the proposed legislation will meet with vigorous opposition from those who hold that this isa matter which should be dealt with by the states alone and with which the federal government can prop- erly have nothing to do. The same political element that fought the propo- sition to establish national quarantine when there seemed to be great danger of an invasion of cholera, for the reason that it would deprive the states of a right which had always been conceded to them, may be exvected to oppose federal legislation for the punishment of train robbing on the ground that it is pe- culiarly the right of the state to do thfs, regardless of the fact that the states have been conspicuously derelict in ex- sing the right. But at any rate the agitation of the subject may be expected to have some goced results, Many of the state logislatures will be in" session in little more than u month, and those most interested in the question of more drastic measures for the suppression and punishment of train robbing should. see that the matter is properly presented to the attention of the legislaturves. This has never yet been done, and until it is it cannot be assamed that legislation of the character needed will - not be enacted. Meanwhile the transportation companies will undoubtedly continue to exercise extraordinary precautions. FARM MOKTGAGE STATISTIC! If the results of the census investiga- tion into the question of farm mortgages are to be accépted as truly representing the situation of the ‘American farmer, one of the most potent political instru- ments which the populist party has been brandishing has finaMy been demolished beyond recovery. The stock in trade of the populist agitators has been the cry of the debt-ridden farmer, the lamen- tation over the ‘indvitable burial of the farmer beneitl a mountain of farm mortgages, and the spectre of foreclosure hovering over thousands upon thousands of farms mortgaged for much more than their values. These time-worn but never proven assertions have served;in numerous campaigns, and it is idle to contend that they have been entirely without influence. The forth- coming census, however, is furnishing the figures that show the utter baseless- ness of statements of this kind. Returns have thus far been made from thirty-three states only, but these have been tabulated by Mr. George K. Holmes, the special agent of farm mort- gage statistics, and are now pub- lished in the American Agriculturalist. According to this compilation, three- fourths of all the farms in the United States are owned free of incumbrance. The average mortgage represents, not the full value of the farm, but only one- third of its value, and the total amount of farm mortages in the whole country is less than one-tenth of the total farm values. In 1880 one fifth of the total real estate, debt rested upon farms, while in 1890 the proportion had fallen to one-seventh of the total. Of every 100 families upon American farms in 1890 forty-seven owned their farms [ree of mortgage, twenty owned their farms burdened with a mortgage incumbrance, while thirty-two hired the farms which they lived on and worked. Four-fifths of the debt resting upon farm property was incurred for the pur- pose of defraying a part of the purchase price or for making im- provements. The mortgazes on farms increased in amount $350,000,000 in ten years, from $525,000,000 in 1880 to $875,000,000 in 1890, but during the same period the new farms created in the west and south numbered 600,000, and the increase of debt upon city real estate aggregated $2,700,000,000. ‘What the census figures show is simply the fact that the farm mortgage evil has been grossly exaggerated. Add to this the certainty that the census re- turns have been exaggerated and have failed to take into consideration partial payments on mortgages which remain recorded at their full amount, and it 1s plain that the usually acnepted state- ments have been very far from the truth, The burden of farm mortgages is undoubtedly great, particularly in the south and west, but it is by no means so heavy as the populist speakers have liked to assert, Irisnot at all i§hkprising that the Italian government should exert its in- i fluence to keep itd!ldbjects from wmi- grating to the United States, and if the economic conditions prevailing Here at present affords it a plausible argument for its policy it must be expected to make the most of | the opportunity. European governments have, as a rule, discouraged the d\!lrnrture of any but undesirable emigrants from their terri- tory for the reason that each working- man who leaves takes just so much wealth away from his native landand adds it to the store of the land of his adoption, But so long as the United States holds out a promise of better economic conditions to the ambitious toiler, so long wili the tide of immigra- tion continue this way, the woral in- fluence of foreign governments notwith- standing. ——— A CIRCULAR of information, issued by the Federal Bureau of Education, gives some interesting statistics upon the growth of public libraries in this coun- try. The inorease in the number of such libraries having over 1,000 vol- umes at their disposal during the years 1885 to 1891 was 817, the total number in the latter year being 3,804, The aver- age number of volumes has incroased during the same period from 6,381 to 8,104, The ecastern states, of course, head the - list in the number of free libravies, but the showing of tho western states is by no means bad, The public library has come to be with us one of the most important and influ- ential educational institutions supported by the people. It draws no age limit, but on the other hand continues its work for the reader after he has left school and entered the actual pursuits of busi- ness life, The public circulating library is largely peculiar to the United States and is daily demonstrating its efficiency as a public educator. Public libraries have long ago established their claim to popular support. THE American grower: will find gratification in the committee of the British House of Lords which has been investigating American and English beef. This ex- ses the belief that the Jarger quan- ity of English meat is inferior to the American, which is a good deal of an ad- mission for s a committee to make. Thero are things which the Eng- lishman is more boastful of than the su- periority of English grown beefand it is very rarely that you will find one of them who will admit that it is possible to gét a ent of beef in this country that approaches the English product inany of the characteristics of good beef, The repors of the committeo of the House of Lords, however, settles all controversy, because it is presumed that no English- man would for a moment dispute that opinion, and so we have the pleasing assurance that better beef is grown here than in England, thus exploding another claim of Engiish superiority. of beef cattlo the veport of FROM our Washington dispatches it is to be inferred that Congre ssman Bryan will have little to say in the selection of a democratic postmaster at Lincoln. 1In these degenerate days it seems fitting that Tobe Castor, the political right-of- way man of the Burlington road, should have more influence with the appointing power at Washington than has the bril- liant congressman from the Lincoln dis- trict. It is needless to add that repub- licans can afford to view this condition of things with complacency. A MEMBER of the supreme court com- mission has evolved the opinion that where a railroad embankment operates as a dam and consequent damage to ad- joining property by anoverflow of water the railroad is not answerable for such damage. We trust this opinion was not written in the office of the railway at- torney, and it is wrong to ever intimate that it was. “Thom's Our Sentiment: Atanta Constatwdion. Give us more factories and fewer courts! tsetiab ot Tender Tributo to au Editor. Philadelphia Record. All classes and conditions of people throughout the country will rejoice to learn that Colonel A. K. McClure's recovery is now absolutely assured, and if their con- gratulations could blossom into flowers the esteemed invalid's bedside would be cop- verted into a veritable garden of roses. e Getung Down to Business. Cincinnaty Commercial. Colorado is turning its attention to the production of gold. Abandoned gold mines ave being reopened and put in order, The silver smelters are discovering, too, that gold can be profitably extracted from the quartz lodes of the state. Meanwhile they are mining silver steadily and taking their market chances on it, Just as any other pro- ducer does and must do. —_————— The Folly ot It. Globe-Lemocrat, In its untimeliness and insanity tho Le- high Valley railroad strike breaks the rec- ord among the labor disturbances of recent years. The only griecvance which the strikers have is the failure of theroad to recognize one of their committees, which is a oriminally silly thing to order a strike upon right on the beginning of what promises to be the dullest winter known since the panic period in the 70's. Two or three men stand ready to take every place vacaved by a striker. e ey PEOPLE AND 1HINGS. David Sinton, the richest man 1n Cincin- nati, is a twelve millionaive. One woe treads upon another's heel Congress meets within eight days. With Fish at the head New York republi- cans expect to scule the heights of Tam- many. The punishment often fits the crime. An castern actor caught tho smallpox while playing Uncle Tom. Why not settle the Hawaiian difficulty and the participants at the same time, by organ- izing a foot ball gume? Bourke Cockran is mnot in favor of ampu- tating the neck of bis party, and thereforo opposes the income tax scheme, The great lukes have been ofiicially pro- nounced high se The court doubtless viewed them in a state of indignation, There is consolation for the short-necked man in the thought that the un-to-date bro- cade necktie is stuck on his second chin, Minister Thurston f"e convincing reasons why he should not talk, and then flatly con- tradicted himself by uttering 4,000 words. Nay, nay, Pauline. A change s unneces- sary, Although custom assigns Thanks- glving to Thursday, it is really Chewsday. A pair of live and healthy twins has been found in a valise in & railroad depotat St. Louis. There seems little doubt that the purents lost their grip designedly. Servant girls in Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune, are a *‘drug on the mar- ket.” The market is overstocked and the price has fallen from # a week to 82 and $3. Through the efforts of the American min- ister a Constantinople, diplomas have been secured from the Turkish government for a number of American women physicians in Turkey. " The record of college foot ball shows that one more man is needed to complete the equipment of n team. 1t needs a chaplain. All men in danger of death are entitled to the benefit of clergy. Jules Verne, the famous author, is sald to have earned more mouey by his pen than any other living author, He has taken up his abode in plain apartments in the old cathedral wown of Amiens, Clarence M. Overman, president of a Cin- cinnatd bank, plugged the institution for $50,- 000and was sentenced 10 ten years impris- onment. Had he trebled the amount of his thefts he would ;nave cut the sentence in two. The Nictheroy, the Brazilian war vessel purchased and outfitted in New York, has steamed for its destination. [f iis arma- ment came up to expectations in a fight, iv will have & Mel effect on the revelu- tion. Willlam C, Fox, lately charge d'affaives in Teheran, arrived in Washington a few days ugo. When the oholera broke out in Pers he was at bis post of duty, and was une of the first to be taken down with the discase. When he recovered he worked to uuite the missionaries to relieve the sick and became manager of the American hospital, where 2.000 cholera patients were treated. At the close of the lemic the shah wrote Mr. Fox 1 nguutwflu ter, conveylug,the thanks of whe gcvernment, BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, Where hard work kills one man, worry uses up a dozon. ‘The mistake ot a moment may be the sor row of a lifetime, The truth a bad man hates is the truth that hits him in the face, Man- science is often found standing with its back to the light, More people fail from discouragement than from real misforiune, If happiness 18 your main objoct fn life, don’t try too hard to get rich. Finding fault with others is only a round- about way of bragging on yourseif. It must astonish the angels to see how few people there are who get in earnest. Generally when a man feels the need of economy he thinks it ought to begin with his wife. Why some people become so sleepy in church is becauso the preacher is not wide vako. It churches were built without back seats it would be uext to impossible to get a back- slider into one. Tho man who lives with his head in the clouds wiil generally be found standing with his foot on somebody's neck. ——— The Way State Example. Phitadelphia Ledger. Massachusetts is solving the rond problem in o practical way. TheState Road commis- sion has decided to build 1n every town or townstip in that state one good road ulong the most used route. The design is to build from soven to ten miles of rond ly in each county, and to spend about £00,000 a in this work, It is estimated that in twenty yoars this will supply the state with as fine roads as thoy have in Ilurope. —— SABBATH SOLACE, New York Herald: “This 1s whero 1 draw the line," suid the fisherman, whon an ool had Shekod tho balt off the hiook for the elghteenth me. Washington Post: make u great hit u brand of hoor thi award at the Worl mie shrewd brower will ading the market with dn't receive the highest fair. Buffalo Courier: “Tlow s Biglo gotting along with ¢ At tunnel he contracted to build? Successtully the last I heard he was running thé thing into thoground as fast s he could. Now Orloans Tinies wh Major Smile—Wonder thiit man over there 1s bracing up that tfor? s the post loose? General Lufter— an is tight. Puck: Hobson—What did your flanci when you told her you were dead broke? Dobson (sadly)-Sho 1 she was fond of consistency in”all things; so she broke the engagement, Now York Herald: Insurance Agent—You need an all life policy hadly. Barfoot—I expeet to if you talk to me much more, © say Chicago Record: Roing to give Sister B Tommy—1um do It herself. nie—Unelo Goorge is s Washington Star: wonderful," marked tho editor, “how proud a man acts when he is golng to have his picture published and how humble he is after it has happened.” Tid Bits Now, sir. typhoid fover. getudent—Well, sir, I should first—I should Examining Medical Professor (impatiently)— Yes, yes; goon. Student (seized with a_brilliant idea)—I should first call you in for consultution. Indianapolis Journa Hungry Higgins— Geo, but you've got. & beautiful Jag. W here did you git de price? Weary WatkIns—Little scheme 1got up. I £oes up to de dudes an’ bones ‘em for a dime to git some cigurettos—see? Tt strikes dom right n defr sympathy spot, every time. Examining Meafeal Professor— 1 me how you woudd treat u case of POWER OF WEALTH, Washtngton Star. oft get sick,” he murmured, ut the doctor says ‘a cold," A ‘s touch of indigestion,” nd the simple story's toid. “But somo day, when I've struggled To the ranks of wealth or fame, T will revel I an Hlness With o stunning Latin name.” — 80 WE GROW OLD. A broken toy; a t A yearning child- A Thiristimas ¢ A tangled Jess A homesick boy: senior gowned and wise; 50 of 1itc, when lo! the curtains rise ‘old over fold, And hangs the picture iike a boundless sea— The world, all action and reality— 80 We grow old. ask that held away eart from un hour of play; at no Christmas idols brought; full of tungled thought; A wedding, and a tender wife's caress; A Imlulhlu bube the parent’s life to bless; A home of joys and cares in equal p: A droary watehing with a heavy heart, And Death's dread angel knocking at the gate, And Hope and Courage bidding Sorrow walt Or loose her hold; A new-born grave, and then n brave return To whero the fires of life trlumphunt burn— 8o we grow old. A fortune and a gen'rous meed of fame, Or direful ruin and a tarnished name; A slipping off of week and month and yoar Faster and faster as the close draws near; A grief today, and with tomorrow's light, A pleasure that transforms the sullen night From lead to gold; A chilling winter of unchanging storm! A spring replete with dawns and sunsets Warm— Bo we grow old, 01d to ourselves, bu children yet to be In the strange citie: of ewernity. WORLD'S FAIR PHOTOGRAPHS How the Piotorial Record of Exposition Will Bo Preserved, GOVERNMENT WORK OF ARTIST An Tofinite Varlety of Views Which Have Been Secured—-Originale of These to Be Kept In the Archives At Washington, For the exact reproduction of architoo- ails there is no meags or mothod at arable to photography. The clover- architect and draughtsman ost presont the exterior appea structure with half the p ion and truth. fulness of the cheapest snap-shot prowler. S0, too, in the delineation of the human face and form. The most gifted artist cannot approach the work of the camera in the hands of a ekiliful photographer, With the possible exception of electricity there isno brauch of endeavor in which, duringthe last docade, groater progress has been made than i photography. It is claimed, indeed, that the French have solved the delicate problem of catching colors with the camera, If true, the process has not yes become p tical, However, the mstantancous effocts which are possible by means of the dry piate have enabled the artist to catch and incorporate in his picture an appearance of life and movement truly remarkable, What a field hus been presented for rich and varied results to the World's fair sea- son! And how thoroughly this ficld has been covered for the future delight and in- struction of man, The views which the government artist has obtained are arly comprehensive and striking, 1 v & nook or corner in or out of the big buildings toward which ho has not turncd his camera, and the result has been an cwbarassment of photographic hes, he best of these and those most repre- sentative of the exposition as a wholo have been selected by the government for preser- vation at Washington, and it is from this ample pictorinl store that Tie as been allowed to draw for the iews which form the magniticent selection to be dis- tributed among its readers during the next four mouths. The entire serie: consist of sixteen porte folios, each containingsixteen pictures, 11x inches in sizo. Thoy cover a groat varie of subjects, grave und gay, architecturo, ¢ terior und interior, booths, pavilions and o hivits, scenes in the park and on the Midway Plaisance. One of these portfolios will be given in ex- change for six BEx coupons of different dats ana 10 cents in coin. Coupons and mone can be sent by mail, or_brought to the Art Portfolio department, BEe office, w! portfolio will be sent or delivered. one is now readv and can be had as soon as six coupons bearing successive numbers aro sent or brought into this office, Tbe first series witl be run for two successive weeks, after which one series will be run and books will be ready by Saturday delivered until Saturany of the week follow- ing. This will be continued until the entire sixteen books are delivered, Tne Bee has the exclusive right in Ne- braska (with the excention of Lincoln) to make this distribution for a lhmited time only, consequently the portifolios can be had in this manner on' uring the week follow- ing their issue. o weeks time will bo given for the first portifolio, after which only one week’s time will be allowed. Of all the offerings of Tur Beg, the art portfolio series is the most tempting, and it is safe to say that the large edition secured will be en- tively exhausted by coupon drafts upon it during the first week. It should be remon bered that each picture is accompanied by an interesting and graphic description which can be relied upon as being historical and authentic. 'hese descriptions have all been duly verified. Prof. Halsey C. Ives, chief of the department of fine arts, writes the introduction to part first. The mitial portfolio will contain the following: 1. The Administration building. 2. The Woman's Luilding. 3. The Peristyle. 4. The Trans- portation building. 5. The Golden Doorway of the Transportation building. 6. The Horticultural building. 7. The Columbian i The Convent of La Rabida. 9. ilian _building. 10. Medallions of Morning and Night. 11. Psyche, by Thu- marn. 12. The Four Races, by Ma 13. Ceres, by Martiny. 14, Midway = nce from the e Wheel. 15, The Persiun Stord Dance. 16. The Statue of the Republic, by Frencn. The cost of theso sixteen pictures, it obtained singly at re- tail, would be about £5, from which the high value of the offering may be easily esti- mated. A Party W n Polloy. St. Pawl Pioneer Press The incompetence of the democratic party, its inability to stand by any policy and carry it through, js the most striking feature of that organization, and pever was it moro strikingly manifested than at present. A party th; really believes something, and that is ready to stand up and accept victory or defeat for its convictions as the case may be, is respectable even when it is wrong. But this weak, wobbly thing thav they call do- mocracy inspires impatient contempt even in those who would like most to ndmire it. £ BROWNING, KNG~} The largest makers and sellers of tine elotyes o Earth, HO'S AFRAID OO Nobody— Our Thanksgiving offer is a fine all wool melton Overcoat for $10 and another for $15, in melton, ker- sey and Irish frieze. well made. BROWNING, Both dandies. Cost you $5 more elsewhere, Well lined and KING & CO., Bend the wouey sud we'll pay | S, W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts,