Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1893, Page 12

THEOMAHA DALY BEE. | 1. ROSEWATER. Fditor. S PUBLISHED Y MORNINC P ————— ) TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. hout Sundag) One Year. L8800 withont Sanda Ono Year....... 8,8 00 5 00 0 200 50 05 Dafly Do o M, Sunday Beo, urdny 1 Iy ee OFFICES, Bee Bullding ‘~ 13, 14 and 15, Tribune building CORRESPONDF R e AT ¥S8 LETTERS tHAg fonrth streets, Addressed to T Drafts, che THE sk PUBLISHING COMPANY, SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Bre Pub. ar that the 1o weok of Tne muly s n'of itk DAILY DRE for \bier 2, 1503, wis a8 follows G ro. T T2SCNUCK Sworn to befare me and subseribed in my mber, 1803, Notary Publie, Average Cireulati ———— e A MONTHLY deficit of $7,000,000 is not a very road to wealth for the United States treasur, good MASTER WORKMAN SOVERRIGN has been installed. May he bring the Knights of Labor more prosperity than did his predecessor, ACCORDING to the report ot the com- missioner of Indian affairs the Indian is advancing in civilization and at the same time increasing his prospects of leaving a numerous posteri The wards of the government are evidently 1 no hurry to die. THE suggestion that Senator Cameron start his boom as populist candidate for the presidency by trying for the govern- orship of Pennsylvania noxt year is not meeting very general approval. The populists do not care for the stato goy- ernment of Pennsylvania just yet. Tue New York Sun intimates that whole states in the west, notably among them Nebraska, do not know what a loaf of good bread is. We respectfully refer this matter to the consideration of that multitude of Omaha women who have been spending all their spare time of late in perfecting their cooking accomplishments. 1115 to be hoped that the trial of Prendergast, the murderer ot the late Mayor Harrison, will be expedited as much as the necessities of the case will allow. The man is either insane or re- sponsible for his act. He was a cent of morbid curiosity when up for prelim- inary trial, and the public should not be anxious to keop him prominently before it any longer than necessar THE home industry banquet at Lin- coln was a success, as has been overy un- dertaking of the Manufucturers and Consumers assoeiation. Next to educat- ing the people up to the purchase of Ne- braska-made goods, bringing the mem- bers to a due appreciation of their work is the most important function of the or- ganization. Nebraska manufacturers cannot get together too cften, NEW YORK racing associations are re- quired to pay 5 per cent of their receipts as a tax into the state treasury, and this money is apportioned among the various agricultural associations in tho state. This tax amounts to over $17,000 for the year 1803, which represents receipts of nearly $330,000. The horse race has evidently retained its grip upon the pockets of the American public. A LINCOLN editor is complaining be- cause Omaha did not patronize the Thanksgiving day foot ball game more berally and threatens Omaha with the loss of the vegular Thanksgiving day game. That editor could not have been present during the contest. Were he there his ardent enthusiasm might have overcome the zero temperatureand bave attracted a larger number of curiosity sookers. REPORTS come in to the effect that farmers in various sections of the state have been caught entirely unprepared for the recent cold wave and accom- panying snow storms. Farmers ought to know better thanto be found with corn standing in the field on tho first of December. No ono ought to rely upon the prolongation of summer into the middle of the winter months, The farmer who was caught unprepared at this late day cannot have any very good excuse for his negligence. OVER 200,000 photographs of over 100,- 000 Chinamen will be roquired undor the operation of the Chinese exclusion law, provided the Chinamen resident in the United States decide to comply with -its provisions. Tho photographer’s business along the Pacific coast ought toshow & marked improvement when the stimulus of laundrymen's orders begins to work. If everything turns out as anticipated the government of the United States will soon be in Pos- session of the most extensive collection of Chinamen's photographs extant, SECRETARY SMITH advises congress to_abolish the existing system of froe- for-all land grabbing on the occasion of opening up to settlement every addi- tional strip of government land and the substitution therefor of some device, sugh as auction or lottery, by which the ownership of cach plot may be deter- mined without sending thousands of in- digent settlers out into the field only to disappoint them in their hopes of ae- quiring land and to subject them to un- deserved hardship, This is not the first tume this matter has been called to the attention of the proper authorities. The end of public land is alveady 1n sight. Our barbarous method jof distributing it ought to be amended before another disgraceful rush for free land takes THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ART ON THE FREE LIST. The new tariff bill has at least one merit. It proposes to put art on the free list. Tn this respect the messure is not peculiar, both the Mills and the Me- Kinley bills, as they came from the ways and means committee of the house, ha ng provided for admitting works of art froe. Tn_the case of the Mills bill the provision was stricken out in domocratic caucus, while in the case of the Me- Kinley bill the senate did not concur, though there was a reduction in the duty on works of art from 30 to 15 per cent—a considerablo step in the right direction. The new Dbill pro- vides t works of art, the duction of American artists residing | temporarily abroad, or other works | art imported expressly for presentation to a national institution or to any or municipal corporation, or ineorpor- ated religious society, college other public institution, shall be exempted from duty subject to such regulations as the sccretary of the treasury m seribe. Free admission, under regula- tions to be preseribed by the ctary | of the treasury, is also to be given to | drawings, engravings and photographic pictures bought by professional artists, lectnrers entists arriving from abroad for use by them temporarily for exhibition and in illustration, promotion | and encouragement of art, science and industry in the United States, and not for sale, and the photographic pictures, paintings and s ¢ imported for ex- hibition by any association established in good faith and duly authorized under the laws of the United States or of any state expressly and solely for the pro- motion and encouragement of science, art or industry, shall be admitted free of duty. Exemption from duty is also | given to collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, or munufacuires, photographs, works in tevra cotta, parian marble, pottery or porcelain and artistic eopies of antiqui- s in metal or other mater infported in good faith for permancnt exhibition ata fixed place by any society or ion for the purposo of erecting a public monument and not intended for sale. Assceiations or corporations en- gaged in or connected with business of | private or commercial character are exeluded from these privileges. There has been an earnest effort for years to'induce congress to abolish the duty on art, and by no class more carnestly than by American artists, who have boen practically unanimous in de- claving that instead of a duty being any protection to them it has been a draw- back. Presidents Arthur, Cleveland and Havrison all recommended that works of act be admitted free, and an appeal to congress to do this has been made every two years by a large number of citizens interested in the de- velonment of art as an element of gen- eral culture. When the McKinley bill was under consideration it was thought that a sufficient number of senators were pledged to free art to insure the aboli- tion of the duty, but when brought to the test some of the senators repudiated their promise and the best that could be accomplished was a compromise which reduced the duty one-half. Tt isto be apprehended that the senate will again { be found an obstacle to this reform, which has every valid argiment in its favo! If the duty brought any great revenue to the treasury there | | would be a vreason for retain- ing it, particularly at this time when the representatives of the people are anxiously discussing methods for supplying the wants of the treasury, but the returns from this source are too in- significant to warrant the continuance of a policy which stands in the way of affording our people a better knowledge of art and is therefore a check upon our art development, and which by reason of our exceptional attitude in this mat- ter among the more enlightened nations of the world is a reproach to thu coun- try. The reduction of the duty by the MeKinley bill has had good results. The public art galleries of the country are richer in treasures of art by reason of it. But any duty is at variance with the sound prineiple that the government should place no restriction upon any- thing that contributes to popular en- lightemment and culture. The United States is alone among the leading na- tions in taxing art and this attitude of isolution is anything but creditable. or pre- science FRANCHISED CORFORATION ABUSES. Massachusetts, in so many respects ahead of other states in the matter of progressive legislation, is already at- tempting to solve a problem which, soone or later, must bo grappled with in every state in the union. It is the prevention of stock watering by quasi- public corporations by which their patrons ure defrauded and the control of the govermment evaded. The problem, which has already received some atten- tion at the hands of ecastern legis- latuves, is in brief this: These quasi- public corporations which require frauchises before they are enabled to operate are, in the absence of legisla- tion, free to water their stock to any ex tent they may choose, to issue fictitious bonds or stcek as dividends to the original investors, to sell bonds far below their face values, and n all these ways to capitalize their plants at figures in no way -commensurable with the amount of meney actually invested in them. Upon this aggregate stock and debt they attempt to earn interests and profits out of the charges levied on the public. Should a municipal council untertake to veduce the price of gas or eletricity, to lower the street railway fares, or to woderats the water rents theprivate corporation points to its suppused capi- tal and its supposed, nominally low rate of profit and claims that any reduction in price is unreasonable and unfair. Another side of this problem is seen where the quasi-public corporation is subject to a charter limitation that the city may acquire its plant—gas, water, electric lighting—after & specified period at an appraised valuation. The corporation seeks by inflating its capitalization to discourage the wunicipality from involving itself in & debt which would bring such apparently small returns, By sell- ing bouds at discount the franchised corporation saddles upon its property a mortgage debt mueh larger than the lu’l\ml sum realized from their sale. In case the municipality desires to take over the works under a charter reserva- tion it finds them loaded down with mortgage bonds of twice the real value, Likewise in the matter of leases and the franchised corporation may turn over its property toanother company to the detriment of its patrons and to the injury of the public. An at- tempt was made to remedy these abuses at the last ion of the Massachusetts state legislature, but the bill failed of enactment. It provided for the sale at public auction and at not less than par of all bonds issued by such quasi-public covporations, It prohibited the tion of stock or bonded indebtedness beyond the fums actuaily invested in the undertaking. 1% required all leases or sules of such property to be valid to be made only with approval of the proj authoritios. This measure is again being brought to the public at- tention, and the Massachusetts State Board of Trade has just made public a report urging such legislas tion. Abuses which these measures aim to abolish cannot be said to be local in their nature. They have been practiced in almost every large city of the coun- try. quasi-public corporations derive great advantages from the pri iloges which they have secured from the public. They owe duties to the pub- which they are too avt to forget. The principal duty is to serve all with- out diserimination at reasonable but veasonable rates cannot be computed upon a showing of frandulent overcapi- talization. Massachusetts proposes to interfere by legislation to prevent the recurrence of stockwatering abuses. Other states must soon follow suit or de- vise equally effective means for attain- ing the samo results. soles crea- These 1lo lic rates, MAKING RAILWAY TRAVAELING SAPE, There was held in w York a short tim 10 a meeting of officials connected with the American Railway association for the purpose of considering methods for the prevention of disasters on the rail that result in the loss of life and limb. Ttis certainly time that this matter was given moro earnest attention than 1t has hitherto received, for the record of this yoar's railrond casualties, making all due allowance for the extraordinary travel, would secm to indicate that rail- road managers and their subordinates have been growing more caveless of the lives of their patrons During the cleven months of 1803 the number of deaths in railroad disasters was not far from 300, while the injured numbered fully three times as many. This is an ap- palling, and, we believe, an unprece- dented record for a like period of time, clearly showing that some important element of safety is lacking to American travel. There is manifestly need of great improvement upon present methods, and whoever shall find a better plan than any now in operation for pre- venting railroad disasters will do an im- mense service to the public.” The fact: must be recognized that in this as in everything else there is alimif to human ingenuity, but it eannat be believed that this has yet been reached The Dblock and signal are a great advance upon method of telegraphic orders be- they systems the tween stations, and when work correctly insure absolute securit, against collisions, but experience has shown that thoy are far from perfect, one of the most scrious accidents of the year being due to their failure to oper- ate properly. It is true that this diffi- culty has rarely been encountered, but the fact that it may happen at any time is sufficient to d edit these’ systems as an absolute safeguard against dis- aster. On the best roads of the country automatic devices to supplement human skill and foresight are being introduced and in time will be in as general use as the air brake, but the adoption of these appliances might be more rapid and if the American Railway association can stimulate greater activity in this dir tion it will justify its existence. It has been suggested as possible that the ex- tension of electrical appliances to rail- roads will in the near future make traveling on the rail very much safer. However fanciful it may appear the claim is made that an electrical ap- paratus can be arranged which will stop a train at points of danger independent of the engineer, that will warn the engi- neer of an accident happening to the de- vice itself and its failure to work cor- rectly, and which will enuble every moving train, switch and drawbridge to operato its own signals. Inven- tions looking to the accomplishment of these things are being tested and a great many practical men have faith that they wiil ultimately be successfully applied. Tt takes less courage to do this than to deny the possibility of such an achievement in view of what elec- tricity has done. It is said of these de- vices that they will warn an engineer in ample time to stop his train whena train is approaching him on the same track, let him kaow when a drawbridge is open ahead of him, whether the track is clear in front of him, whether an acei- dent has happened to any wheel on his train, and whether a trestle bridge has sagged or fallen down or burned up, In a word these devices, according to what is said of them, will limic, as far as human ingenuity can appavently go, every element of uncertainty and re- move all danger from human fallibility or negligence. The traveling pubfic, which includes a very large proportion of the American people, would welcome as the most beneficent of scientific achievements the successful application of these devices. In the meanwhile railroad managers may do much to secure greater safety to the traveling public by not allowing their trainmen to be overworked, by maintaining a thorough discipline, and by encouraging vigilance and fidelity on the part of employes. THE question of continuing the issu- ance of clergymen's railway tickets is to e once more resurrected at the meeting of the general passenger agentsof the Trunk Lines association at New York this week. Many people have been un- able to comprehend just why clergymen should be particularly favored by the railroads in the matter of passenger fares when there are so many other SUNDAY, DECEMBER classes in tho “community that con- tribute equallg as much to the welfare of the railroads and receive no favors in return, Some i the railroad officials think they see in charging clergymen full fares an opjiortunity to recoup some of their decregsed revenues. The chances ave, however, that the majority will decide not _fp depart from the time- honored practiee of subsidizing the pulpit. T BALL SEASON, The foot ball season just coming to & close has been a scason of almost every direction. More paitieu- larly in the vesults of the games played between the representativesof the larger colleges and universities has this been most marked. The Yale team, to be sure, has maintained itslong established supremacy over Havvard, but this is its only consolation for the loss of its vaunted prestige upan the foot ball field. But Yale's defeat., without scoring, at the hands of Princeton, although fer- vently prayed for by the adherentsof the orange and black, was scarcely expected by either friends or opponents. Pennsyl- vania, too, has been a sucprise in the foot ball arena and displayed its staying powers both in the game which it lost to Princeton and in that which dispolled the magic of Yale's unbroken record when it scorcd against tho blue. Pennsylvania's weakness inthe Harvard game is still being explained away. The Cornell eleven, which promised so much last year, was a surprise in a similar di- rection, and after a ser of dismal d feats was forced to disband without ful- filling its remaining engagoments, In the west the interest in foot ball has steadily increased and in o few iustances has been worked up into real enthusiasm. There has been a marked improvement in the play. ing, probably due to move careful train- ing. Of the interstate association teams Missourt has been the surpriso of all, showing unmistakable superiority and carrying off the inferstate champion- ship. Nebraska has succeeded in hold- its own, while lowa and Kansas have barely come up to expectations. Ixpe- vience, howi proving a good teacher and promises better things in the very near future. Another unexpeeted development of the past season has oeen the persistent charges of professionalism among the members of the eastern teams. On this rock was shipwrecked the original intercollegiate foot ball as- sociation, a disaster that has not beeh without both good and evil effects. The game has come to demand the attention of college students to the exclusion of more important matters, and the foot ball player certainly derives advantages, although perhaps not paid in actual money, that are not accovded the ordinary student.’ Tt has been found, also, to open to him a field of profitable employment as professional coach for his own or othet’ ¢oilege teams so soon as he becomes debarred from playing himself. Theseabuses have become so prominent as to demand radical meas- ures of relief. A great ery has been raised about the incrensing brutality of the game, but it must be noticeable that the mc ps occur in games between clubs of minor importance. The better trained players have not. been iuvolved in very many accidents. The rules now used admit perhaps of more brutality than ary and will be modified with a view to prevent its recurrence. The game of foot ball, however, has come to stay for the immediate present and next year will see it more generally prac- ticed throughout the country than ever before. THE CLOSING surprises in ver, Is st serious who complained so loudly at tortionate prices charged by the proprietors of Chicago restaurants during the World’s fair must hear with a sense of inward gratification that the greater humber of those restaurants are now eager to serve patrons at little or nothing above the cost prices of what is ordered. Waiters and cooks are said to be drugs on the market, and bills of fare have contracted to one-half their former length., Time brings retribution in all things. The unfortunate part of it all is that the people who were fleeced arc vot getting the benefit of the reduced rates. Chicago residenis, however, may be celied upon to make the best of the opportunities thus thrust upon them, EveN David A. Wells, whose advice and assistance was asked by he framers of the proposed democratic tariff bill, says that the income tax was worse in practice than the so-called war tariff, That is admitting a great deal from a democratic voint of view. Yet the dem- ocrats are figuring on the imposition of a federal tax that experienco has proved to be the worst tax ever levied by the federal government. Paitionl Logie, Globe-Democrat, ore is a lull in the indust; ogical candidates' for 1805 This is “Logical candidates” seldom reach the presidency. i Swoet Inconsiste New York Tritune, Tn retaining the sugar bounty the demo- crats stultify themselves. Thoy protect a southern industry. and simply 1o get votes in congress for their bill. e e A Demooragio Bimetallist. Attanta Popstitution, Just as soon as he back to Indiana and looked over the ground, Senator Voorhees became a free coinage man. He seews to us to be a genuine North American bimetailist —a free comage wan at home and a goldbug in Washington. e — Periis of the Ohio Man, Minneaj Tribune, An Ohio man died the other day and an autopsy revealed the fact that he hud not a vestige of a lung to his names. He had used them up tailong volitics and shouting for his favorile candidate for governor. The dweller in Ohio is beset by many perils. ——— Temperaace Folly, Indianapolis Journal. The Woman's Christian Temperance unions and the Young Men's Christian asso- ciations petitioning congress to increase the whisky tax is not the first time that zeal- ously good people have more effciently served their enemies. A taxof $l.50on a galion of whisky means at least §30,000,000 for the pockets of the whisky ring, whose bonged warehouses are erowded with whisky paying a taxof 9 cenis a gallon which will be put upon the market asif it paid $1.50. Sixty cents a gallon will be the Pprofit to the ring, and 60 cents a gallon 15 abaut four Limes the cost of a gallon of raw whisky, of putting 3, 1893~TWENTY PAGES. BITS OF LIFE IN SOUTALAND A Panorama of Typical Scenes from the Po- tomao to the Savannah. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CAROLINAS Historie War Marks and Hallowed Mem. orles—Angusta's Remarkablo Expos sitlon—FPurade and Reunion of Confederntes, Avarsta, Ga., Nov. % spondence of [Editorial Corro- Tne B ]=The unexpected nearly always happens. When leaving Omaha last week on & business tour for New York and Washington 1 had no more idea of going down to Georgia and South Carolina than making a trip to the moon. The responsi- bilivy for this diversion rests uvon Melville K. ne, general manager of the Associated vress, at whose urgent request my sojourn in the American metropolis was abruptiy cut short in order that wo might take partina conference with the Southern Associated press, now In scssion in this city, As a matter of fact the invitation to visit this section of the south, made lstoric as the objective point of “Sherman's mareh to tho seq,” was irresistible. Railway travel between New York the southern seaboard cities 15 as comfort- avleand rapid as it is betwoen Now York and the cities of the west. The vestibuled limitod southern express makes an averago of forty miles an hour, including stops, and seldom rails to reach its destination on time. Steaming out of Jersey City at 4:45 p. m. weo passed through Washington by 10:30 p. m. It was a clear night, and as our train passed over the curve around :he Washington monu- ment the shimmering rays of the full moon brought into view the g ¢ granite shaft that stands sentinel neac the banks of the Potomac. And now we have crossed the long bridge and are onco more on the sacred red clay soll of Virginia. Presently the train halts for a few moments in sleepy old Alexandria, in which I had not set foot since General Pope’s march upon Richmond and the inzlorious rotreat after the second battle of Bull Run. What beaten, mos in and out of th fields of carnage. Among the Pin, By davbreak next morning we Virginia 'way behind, and_the train_sped along through the pine forests of North Carolina. Here and thore we caught glimpses of southern farm and viliage lifs The negro cabin, with its chimney leaning against the rough hewn logs or handsawed bourd parti- tion, the more pretentious plantation man- sion with its colonnade porch and trellis covered with croeping plants. We pass by harvested cotton fields with stray plants on which full blown cotton balls' hang sus- pended from dry branches. Here aad thero are the patchesof tobacco, peanuts and sweet potatoes, with an occasional corn fleld for variety. And “nere is your mule.” that patient, plodding, tireless drudge, dragging carts loaded with cord wood, lumber or cotton bales over muddy and swampy roadways, with the whiptash of his black driver con® stantly swinging over bis head and flanks. The mule is as much a “southern institu- tion” as the negro. It was a driziy, dismal day and the monotony of the North Carolina pineries wasonly variedas we passed some town that recalled incidents of the war. About 10a. m.the train made a brief halt at Salisbury, which ranked with Libby and Andersonville in the horrors of prison lifo of union soldiers. An hour’s ride from Salisbury brought us into South and near the tinc of march which Sherman’s a to the sea. and alls to men who gateway to the had Tleft ral rmy made on its famous mareh By 1p.m. the Pullman porter called out: *“The next station is Columbi; twenty minutes for dinner.” As viewed from the passing train and depot the capital of South Caroling isa straggiing village The burnt district, which “Sherman’s bummers" converted into 1 smoking pile of ruins, has long since been rebuilt. Wade Hampton, who, for yeurs after the close of the war, refused to be reconstructed, capitulated gracefully when a cushioned seat inthe United Staces senate camo in sight. The scion of the cavaliers lives on his planta- tion near Columbin in sullen retirement, while Ben Tillman noids sway with his populist roundhcads and g white trash that never owned a nigger. There is blood on the moon. This morning's Charleston Courler, the organ of the swashbuckler ~democracy, seryes notice on Tillman and s mudsills to desist from heaping insults on the retired black horse cavalry chieftain or there will be “wab” until the stainof dishonor is washed out in gore. Augusta_was finally sighted bofore dusk and our party became guests of *the plan- ters.” When dinner wis sorved we were strikingly reminded of the fact that we had veached the land of poctry,sonz and the hoe- cale. The menu card, ornately printed in Indigo blue, was headed: “The Planters, Augusta, Go., U.S. A" h tho world and search the sea, ome you home and sing with me— There's no sueh girl and no such pearl As n bright and beautiful Augnsta wirl, Hor soul Is as sweet as the ocenn alr, Tor prudery knows no haven chere o find mock modesty plonse apply band the downeast eye; in thing contentment bring. y pure cujoymont wealthy al bird s Then foilows the list of eatables, ending with the admonition that “fruits and uny thing taken from the table will be reported by the head waiter and chavged."” The Exposition, Augusta is decked in holid broad avenues, lined with double rows of mujestic live oaks and clms, are gayly deco- rated with bunting. There is an aw of bustle and hustle everywhere, in markea con- trast with ordinary slow-jogring and poky southiern eity life, The Augusta exposition and Georgln state fair, which was formally opened a fow days ago, has attracted thou- sands of visitors from the region com- mercially tri 'y to this city as well as from distant powts in adjacent states. Augusta is very advantageously situated for an interstato exposition. Augusta is located on the very border of Georgla, the Savannah river being the boundary line_between Gieorgia and South Carolina, whilo the most densely settled portion of North Carolina 15 within a radius of 150 miles, . A visit to the exposition grounds and buildings was a revelation. Every foot of spice in the extensive fair grounds attructive feature, including a Fer and several importations from Midway plaisance, The main exposition building ex- ceeds 1,000 feet In length and its area is co ered from floor to dome by a superh colle tion of the products of southern farm, gar- den, orchard and forest, as well as by the output of mines, millsand factories, It is conceded by parties who were at the New Or- leans fair four years ago that the Augusta oxposition 1s in_many respects superior, and, with perhaps the exception of tne Philadel- phia Centennial and Chicago World’s fair, the most extensive and best arranged di play of agricultural products, machinery ¥ attire. Her and werchandise tbat has ever been made | anywheve in this country. The head and front of this great exposition, and us I leara in nearly oyery important enicrorise under- taken in Augusta during the past twenty- five years, is Colonel Patrick Walsh, whose indomitable pluck and unflagging energy. combined with large-hearted liberality, have contributed more toward building up re- juvenated Augusta than all other agencies combined. Besides being the proprietor and mauager 0f the Chronicle, the leading daily in this section, Mr. Walsh has many other irons in the fice, making lim the busiest man of these parts. A Hustilng Town, While Augusta makes no pretense as a rival of Atlanta as an industrial and rail- road center, she is in many thiugs far ahead She has the most extensive cotton mills of | any cily in the south. Her merchants and cotton will men handled 275,000 bales of cot ton during last year. Other industries are also in o flourishing condition. They have recently been stimulated by the comstruc- tion of & canal which supplies choap powor for mills, factorics, stroet railw electric Tighting plants. This can built by the city and has become a source of revenue. I regrot exceedingly that my lim- ited stay did not enable me to make a por- sonal inspection. - Tho day following my arrival had been designated by the exposition managers as *Confederate Day,” and a reanion of confed- srate veterans was to be the chief featuro Tho southern —railroad managors have granted a 1 cent per mile rato over all roads leading to this city during the three weeks the exposition is to continuo. ‘I'his liberal policy is In sharp contrast with the course pursued by tho railroads that center in Omaha toward similar enterprises, The Confederate Reunton. The advance guard of confederate vorerans camo into town last night and wero escorted, uniformed, to hotels and other quarters by uniformed militia companios with bugle, drum and fife. By 10 o'clock this movning ad street, the principal business thor- ifare of Augusta—an asphalt paved wider than tho far-famed Pennsyl avenue at Washington —was lined with thousands of people ansious to see the confederate parade. The votorans were to assemble in Masonic hail and forming in lino in_the neighborhood of the confederate soidiers monument wero to pass in review befoce General Wado Hampton, and after parading the streots to go to the exposition, to which they were tendored froe adwission. To me this roview was intensely interesting 1 had witnessed confeaerate parades and ro viows at the ontbreak of the war, and had seen thousands upon thousands of buttor nuts and graybacks in the miast of tho bloody confiict. — This was the first time since the close of the war that | was able to fook upon the men who had fought for the lost cause, The sight was, in some respects, disap. Pointing. The longline of flevee battle-searred South Carolina and Georg rebels looked forall the world like a Grand Army parade. 1o be suro thero were no blue coats, golden tassels or brass buttons, but thore were no buttor. nuts and no_graybacks—no lean and lank Johnny rebs in nomespun. In dress and gon- cral appearance the rebel host beforo me re. sembled o reunion of old farmers, Most of the mon wove soft felt hats and such cloth- ing as is usually worn by country peoplo onv west when thiey go toa fait ora pienie. Nearly all wore badges and crosses as m mentoes of theirservice. For the most p they were hale and well prese marched with a fivm, springy. step, ry man's head andbeard was stre: with gray and quite a number of heads and beards had turned snowy white. In form and feature rot more than four or five men in 100 showed the typical southerner, The Rebol Flags. It was only when the color guard took position in the center with the confede e batule flags and the men in line cheered the mblems of treason that the spirit s again manifest. But it was not revel yell. 1t was merely a faint echo. The iron-throated veterans were no longer in good voi The color guards were all cripples, who had either lost an arm or leg in the war, and this tact doubtless rvekindled the enthusiasm among the women who occupied the ba covies on the buildings that line the streot. As the baua struck up “Dixic Land” and ti color guards raised the tattered old flags th wormen broke forth in a perfect frenzy. They cheored, screamed, waved handkershiefs and flung upon the veteran confeds a shower of hoquets and flowers. Now the column has passed around the confod monument. Gen- eral Hampton raises his hat and every man follows 1 mournful silence, whilo the band plays a dirge. Then they break ranks and the parade is over. E. RostwATER, the old e BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORY. ‘The man who gives as much as he ought to do nover growls about it. Many people mistake Thanksgiving serv- ice for a funeral occasion. . The church will bounce a man for heresy quicker than it will for wrecking a bank. It will not help your own crop any to throw stones at your neighbor's truck patch. If noise were veligion, a Chinese joss-house would be one of the holiest places on earth. Many a man's veligion, if boiled down, would “be found to be nothing more than notion. fhere are too many people who never got religion enough o make them look pleasant in chuveh One reason why some men do not better wives is because they are such husband It is about as wise to sit on the limb of a tree and saw it off as to worry about things we canuot help, One reason why there are so many long- faced people in some churches is bocuuse they never think it worth while to praise the Lord except when they feel like it. ——— Give Ua o Change. New York Sun A boiler-plate picture of *“Uncle m," which is used by some newspapers on patii- otic occasions, represents him as a swagger- ing crank wearing a four-button waistcot, a bad hat, a coat with tails chat are too long and a pair of trousers that end half way bo- tween the knee and the aukle. Itis an out- rage upon the uncle. It makes him look like cross between a clown and a swashbuckler. No patriotic paper should print 1t. The picture of Uncie Sam ought to vepr sent an American, proud and poweriul, free and spirited and felicitous, and wearing a suitable garb. We wonder that some artist of genius aoes not makea picture of him that would supersede the insulting cari cature so often printed, have poor The largest mak AsmA A "BROWNING, KING' " 7 & co. flue clothes on Barthy EOPLE AND TRING [0t us imitato the thermometer-—gat down to business The Philadelphia Ledger calls him gressman O'Brien. Oh, oh! Mello and Peixoto may not be on friendly speaking torias exactly, but they exchanee salutes frequoatly. 1f congross will impose a prohibitive tarift on the spoeches of its membors the countey would cheerfully hump along amid lesser avils . Colonel MeClura ot the Philadelphia Times 1s slowly gaining strength, aud his friends Nopo to” see him 10 the city before many ks, He is now at his country home. ing Butterworth, who did such good work for Yale in tno football mateh, is the son of Major Ben Butterworth, for many years a representative in congress from Ohio, Cons, The trades untons in the east aro going o boycott the goods turned out of the Danbury hat factories during the lockout. *Whore did you got that hat?" wil bocome the vopular tune. Max Moyer, a noted Berlin student thoush blind from birt of the class in overy schiool he attonded, re. coived the degreo of doctor of philosophy in that city a short time ago. Bilis Brown, the fattest man county, Ohio, marched through the stroets of Georgetown (that county) on Thanks- giving day clad in a mosquito bar suit, in payment of an election bet Seeretary Grosham is said to bo the only man remembered . Washin who, s lead of the State department, leaves ' his oftice door open to all comers. AS a tulo the secretary of state has been harder to get at than any other eabiact officer John J. Wise, whose father hanged John Brown, Robert T Lincoln, whoso fathor sustained the war this brought on, and Fred D. Grant, whose father fought it to conelu- sion, were ob: ved in a group by thomscelves talking to each other on a recont evening, in New York. “Posoy S, Wilson, W There is somothing famili of thatname, attached to o lettor in the New York Sun, but thereis lacking tho charming itatic slope and poetic jingle which distinguished his cconomic discourses in years goue by. Posey bloomed and shed his fragrance on blushing Cheyenno when mototary questions and mavericks were in- separable. Butold attachments have given way to new loves, and Posey now agitates his gray matter near the mo: ng Pacifio and lets his light shineon the turbulent Atlantic. who, has kept the head in Brown cheo, Wash, . about the sound RITE TRIFLES. Rochester Democrat: Bertha—O, doar, I've got to go to the dressmaker und be fitted. Maud 1 sympathizo with you, for L know you will have a trying tin Philadelphin Rec clor friend, Smith? HOh, ho's mendin, didn't know he'd boen siek “Ife hasn't. 1 just loft him struggling with ancedle, 0 suspender button and a pair of trousoers," vd: “How's our old bachs Lifo: Trottor—What's the matter, Cholly? Chiolly--T don't know. L don'v teel like my- self today. Trotter—Why, Cholly, let me congratulato yo Washing! b you want employ= ment in iy st “Y o8, 8" T plied the young man. “Do out keep hoolks: . merchant hired him on the strength of his lhonesty. Dotroit Freo Press: “Now, confess, McBride, do you hold your wife on your lap as much now as when you were first married?” asked Bar- low. “Well, Barlow,” replied MeBride, “to tell tho truth, I' believe' sho sits on me rathor niore 1now than then." Washington: Flora—Do you *0 gots 8 NOW rIng every year? Why, T getong every Kknow t 3 Drunollu—Every year? few weeks. SONNY'S TRICK. The grocer man ono autumn day Satnodding ‘neath his glassos, When came & pitcher and o boy To buy SOMIE NEW MOlAsses. The grocer, smiling, pulled the bung; Nosyrup'could bu richer. . sonny, where's your dime?”’ quoth ho “-h-y, 0if wuz n 46 pitehe e THE SLEIGH RIDE, Just room for two, not too mu=h room; rin all snug and war I'm conscious of I S porfuiio Aud of the neav her arm I shake the lines out free and gy The sieigh bells chime and we're away. he erfsp and ghttering snow, vz behind the city street; rish glare and nois Into the darkness st and sweef, And here and there a household gleam Flits by us ina flylng dream! How speed the horses gally driven! The swect bells clatter silvery mirth, And every star Is white in heaven, Andevery field is white on earth. Iow dark the brizhitness scems. how bright The darkness of the winter night! Wao pass the open road like wind, But In the dim and shadowy | Our wild pa ckens, and 1 find One hand enough to hold the reins; And, somehow, when I try (o speak, My words are kisses on her check. A, Nifo 15 fair in ¢ ways, And full of dear, enchanting hours! And love 1s sweet In sul ner 1!1\*» 11d blogsoming paths and sy Iut let me choose, ull bliss above A sleigh ride with the girl I love wn bowers; e 5 tnd »>llers of S S L LR TR Ss TS v cakes. snow, it stood not a chance AR A A A A A A AC AC AT AT 5= A B A A 55 S AT AT A0 AR A AT A A BROWNING, fend the money and we'll pay the eXpross. BN NN On Page 11, All night and all day there were falling snow- flakes, coming down by the thousands as big as pan- But in all of the falling done by the white the way that the people fell onto those suits, which went like a snow slide when downward it shoots, | 8. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts. A R o o o e e e e e e o nor a ghost of a show, with e KING & CO., =S e WM N W e e e Fe e B e e B W E WA e e e e e e