Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1893, Page 4

| | | | i =ably the only prisoner, or one of a very THEOMAHA DAILY BEE.| ROSEWATER. Fditor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING SUBSCRIPTION ) o 800 Aty 3 1 00 Bix Moy o0 Vol Raturtay v Weekls Bos OFFIC s e & A Teventy- fonrth atreets Eonel Muita, 1 « New Washing a \go OMee ‘o RRESPONDENCE. dohition® 10 news 1 onig o the Allbnstness 1ettera and remitta Iressed 10 The Bee Publishing afta, clieck_ anad postofic order of the ving the elty f I i SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stare of Nebrask County of Dovglas, | h Frida Eaturday, De i sy s~ Sworn to hafore me and wubscribed {n my § Erat { presence thia 24 Iher, 1804, ~! NV Notary Public, Average Circ WoRLD' common that the market value is threat- ened with a material depreciation. AFTER oxtended investigation Sen- ator Peffer has discovered that there bas been a general depression in the prices of erain and live stock. It takes pome senators a long while to learn what. everybody else knew in the beginning. THE city hall is at last to be formully dedicated. The gyasticutuses, guers: rillas, gargoyles, manikins, monkeys, pumpkin heads and petrified poodles will have a feast on the outside of the building while the city dads and dodos are dedicating the interior, : time is certainly propitious for & reorganization of the Humane society, T and its members will have no difficulty in finding worthy objects for their as- pistance. The prospects for a hard win- ter counsel systematic work by all who are engaged in the alleviation of suf- foring. Tue French president of the Chamber of Deputies and the French premier have merely changed places as a vesult of the recent ministerial crisi Tt does not appear to take long for an ex-premier to vogain the support of the chamber, which, by electing him as its president, shows the shifting character of the ministerial support in France. GEORGIA democrats want to test the constitutionality of the federal 10 per cent tax upon state bank issues. This tax has been involved in numerous cases *Defore the United States supreme court and has always been upheld. There is no reason to believe that the court will veverse its own decisions just to accom- wildeat modate a fow banks south. of the AN OUTBREAK of inte within the German empire would be what the enemies of the empire have been waiting for ever since its formation, over twenty yeavs ago. The forces re- quiring united action on the part of the commonwealths comprising the empire are too strong to permit the trouble with Wurtemburg to invite the interference of outside powers, nal dissensions LAWRENCE NEAL, late candidate for governor in Ohio, has finally pulled himself out from under the avalanche of votes by which he was buried last month and ventures the suggestion that the protective tariffl had nothing to do with it. He lays his defeat to the atti- tude of the democratic administration on various important topics. All ex- planations leave little comfort for the Cleveland democras THAT north and south railroad will undoubtedly come in time; but the pro- jeet to have it built and conducted *hy the people” will have to be hung up until the people have move idle capital to invest in railvoads. If a subseription list had beon passed around among the members of the late railroad convention the number of shares taken would have given a fuir index ot the real strangth of the present movement. THE senate has passed a bill to veim- burse Nobraska for the outlay made in unning a militia skivmish line along our northern border in the winter of 1800-1. This was the campaign, it will be remembered, wherein General Colby, mounted on Linden Tree, cavtured a Sioux papvoose, for which gallant and meritorious sor 2 he recelved a bronze medal at the hands of a gracions and en- thusiastic people. It was worth all it €25t ——— THE subject of irvigution in Nebraska is growing in importance from year to year. Actual results attained in the arid districts on our western border have shown the value of irvigation ditehes. The convention at North Platte Decomber 19 ought to prove of immense advantage to those interosted inthe development of the state. The mayor and the Board of ade can readily name delogzates 1o this conven- tion from among eitizen; of Omaha wh> are vitally interested in the subject. IF¥ WE are to believe the Lincoln boodle organ it is costing the people of Holt county 87 t2$8a day to keop Bae- cett Seott {n custady, and this is held up as evidence of the extreme folly of not lowering Scott’s bail 5o that he may walk off and avoid trial. Suott is prob- few, being held in Holt county, and by attributing to his keeping all the ex- penses of the jail it is passible that the #8a day figure has boen ob'ainad, when in fact the real daily cost cannot hoas much as $1. The county expensos would be almost the same if tho jail were empty. If Seott’s friends have to invent such statements as this they must be getting Lo the eud of their rope. THE SUGAR BOUNTY. Tt is stated on the nutherity of Repres sentative Burrows of Michigan that the republicans in congress will vigorously oppose the proposition 1o oxtinguish the sugar bounty in eight years, as provided in the Wilson tavilt bill. Their reason for doing this is that the law asit stands isa solemn compact between the gov- ernment and the sugar manufacturers and the producers of beets and cano for a poriod of Fs. Me. Burvows said further that republicans would ac- cept the extingnishment plan rather thun hothing, but he expressed the be- lie! that the sugar bounty as promised wiil be ecarried out 1o the full period fixed by law. Under the plan provided for in the Wi son bill the b on sugar would be removed as follows: One and three-fourths cents per pound for fiscal year 180405, 14 cents per pound for fiscal , 1t cents per pound for fiscal 7, 1 cont per pound for fiscal )8, 4 cent per pound for fiscal . 4 cent per pound for fiscal year 1809-1906, + cent per pound for fiscal year 1900-1901, and would cease in the fiscal year 1902, The lower grades would be reduced in like proportion. The present tariff law provides that the sugar bounty shall eontinue from July 1, 1801, uatil July 1, 1905, and the 2 cents appropriation to pay the bounty was made continuing or permanent. In his argument before the ways and means committee in September Mr. Oxnard, president of the American Beet Sugar association, held that ‘*‘the object of fixing a time in the law was to influence and to induce capital toembark in a new and somewhat hazardous agrieultural industry, requiring for success large sums of money and great skill, the na- tional purpose being to attain the pro- duction of a household necessity larger in amount than the tariff policy had heretofore produced, and so cheapen the price and render this country independ- ent of the world for sugar.” Asa mat- ter of fact the effect of the bounty was to induce capital to go into the business of producing and manufacturing beet sugar and aiso to encourage the pro- ducers and munufacturers of cane sugar to materially enlarge their overations. [t has been stated that the capital in- vested in the sugar industry in Loui: ana increased over $2,000,000 since the bounty went into effect, and the further enlargement of the industry was con- templated in the event of there heing no interference with the bounty. Ev- vbody knows that this legislation had decided effect in stimulating the production of beet sugar and that there was an excellent prospect of the steady growth of this industry until the danger became apparent that the success of the democratic party might it in the abandonment of the bounty. Nobody can read the terms of the Me- nley law without admitting that there is substantial ground for the contention which the supporters of the bounty make, that it was intended by congress t0 bo in the nature of w compact between the government and the vroducers and the manufacturers of domestic sugar, and that it should continue, without change or modification, for a definite period, namely, fourtcen years, from July 1, 1801, to July 1, 1905. The republicans in congress may not succeed in defeating the purpose to gradually do away with the bounty, thereby kill- ing the sugar industry in the United States by slow dog but they will be able to make outa strong case against the moral vight of congress to thus set aside a law of a pre ng congress, which is distinetly in the nature of a compact, and was undonbtedly intended by the congress that passed it to be so regarded. THE INTERST OMMERCE LAW, The Interstate Commerce commission is certain to be heavd from once a year, when it makes its annual report. [or the rest of the time it does nov command 50 much of the publicattention as might be expected of & body upon which is de- volved the highly important duty of ve- quiring the railroads of the country en- gaged in interstate commerce to con- form their conduct to the provisions of the law. It mustnot be inferred from this, however, that the commission is cither neglecting its duties or has very littlo to do. There is reason to believe that it is giving faithful attention to its duties and that in doing this it finds enough to keep 1t fully occupied. That the commision has succeeded in stopping all abuses and violations of the law is not to be supposed. U'nquestionably many of the railvoads of the country ave not complying strictly with the require- ments of the law. That prohibited discriminations ave heing practiced, ro- bates to favored shippers allowed, free transportation unlawfully granted, and other violations of the statute committed, is not to ve doubted, and whether these evils can ever he wholly done away with is still a problem, . But as to those pro- visions of the law which cannot be in- sidiously evaged, the railvoads appeat to be complying with them very generally and fully, and it is to be observed that there have been fewer complaints of seriov olaticns of the interstute commerce law during the present year than in any previous year since the act wentinto effect., The annual report of, the commission shows that the law can still be improved and it suggests several amendments, [t appears that the law is defective in the matter of proceedings to enforee the orders of the commission and in the opinion of the commission it should also provide for the indictment of corpora- tions for its violation and fix a penalty for failure on the part of carriers to file their annual reports within a specifiod time. Other suggested amendments ave to give the cowmised n pewer to pre- soribe minimum as well as maximum rates to competilive peints: to provide for the adopticn of a uniform freight lassification, and to provide for estab- lishing through rates and joint through rates. The practicability of one or two of these proposed amendments is de- batable, but the adoption of most of thew would undoubtedly strengthen the law and render it more effective the preventicn ¢f discriminations. The con- struction given to the word “line” in the statute by the courts, which differs wholly from that of the commission and makes overy railroad an independent line regardiess of its cinnections with other reads, the repoftf the eommis: sion suys has had o startfifig éffect. The sts of nearly eveuy place whera cting roads join and of gvery local statish are vitally concérned and tho need for prompt.remedial legislation is urgent. The commission asks congress | to amend the law so as to give legisla- tive constructicn to the word *‘line. The report says that the law is not re- sponsible for any railway insolvency and states that since 1888 the amountof stock paying no dividend has cousiderably de creased and there has been a great r duction in the amount of bonds paying 1o interest. Tn thisconnection the com- mission makes the very sound sugfrestion that if the issue of railway capital wero restricted to the amount aecessary to construct and equip the properties there would, under normal conditions of busi- ness, be much more satisfactory returns, There is little probability that this sound business principle will ever bo observed in the construction of railroads in the United States, REPLENISHING EXHAUSTED FUNDS. The street lighting fund has boen ex- hausted and $2,500 have been taken out of the general fund to replenish it. This brings up the question whether the council has any rvight to replenish the street lighting fund out of any other fund. The charter tixes the amount of levy for street lighting purposes. 1f the cost of streot iighting exceeds the levy it should be curtailed within the legal limit. If the council has the right to draw from any other fund in order to re- plenish there would be no use of having a levy for street lighting. And this calls up some suggestive figures. On the basis of last month's for street lighting the city is now ng $67,000 a year for illumination. This sum is divided as follow: For gas, £17.000; for gasoline, $20,000; for electrie ligh 0,000. . In other words, we are paying nearly twice as much for clectvic are lights as we are for gas lamps, and the gasoline lamplighting exceeds the gas lamp expense by over $230 a month. With two and four-arm gas posts on our principal thoroughfares our streets would be better lighted than they are with arc lights hung at such distances as to make one-half of the area pitch dark and the other lighted by fits and starts. When one of these electric lamps burn out or break in the night several blocks remain in dense dark- ness for the balance of the night, whereas the gas lights seldom go out, and if one gas lamp should be ex- tinguished i does not affect beyond half a block. In any event it is manifestly wrong to replenish the lighting fund out of any other fund. Such juggling with public funds promotes extravagance and job- bery. UR THE FRIENDLESS, The refusal of the board of managers of the Home for the Iriendless at-Lin- coln toabide by the regulations laid down by the stute oflicials and their threat to vacate the buildings assigned to their use are things that were not even dreamed of by the legislature that gave that institution a share of the public funds devoted to charity. Certain parties interested in the care of homeless children organized a society and ap- plied for state aid in 1881, which was ac- corded with the distinet understanding that the money derived from the state treasury should bo expended under the supervision of the managers, but ac- cording to the rules and regulaticns provided by the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings. The buildings and grounds occupied by the home be- long to the state. No opportunity has been missed toapply to each succeeding legislature for the grant of public moneys, with what success may be in- ferred from the fact that since its or- ganization it has sccured appropriations amounting to a total of over $I7; 000 during a period of twelve yea After having had the benefit this large amount of money its muanagers imagine that they are at liberty to withdvaw from the state buildings and operate a purcly private corporation just because of some minor differences with the officials whose duty itis to wateh over the expenditure of public moneys so appropriated. Nothing 8o well argues against the granging of vublic aid to private chari- ties as this threat of the managers of the Home for the I'riendless. The state of can never be sure that it is to have proper rvesults from the insti- tution which it supports unless its conduet and management s subject to government control. It places itself at the mevrcy of a coterie of private per- sons who may withdraw thelr services atany moment and leave a necessary charity in a crippled and helpless con- dition. The managers in this instance talk about taking the 120 childvenin their charge awuy with them, as if they had segured a vested right in their cus- tody, for' whose support they draw about $15.000 annually from the stuto treasury. But when they are rejuired t) conform to the same rules that govern other state institutions in the purchase of sup- plies they object that such action would take from them the managemeat of the home. As & matter of fact the original act of 1881 reserved state control in the clause, *provided that nothing Lerein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the Board of Public Lands and Buildings from establishing rules und regulations for the government of such homa in ar manne As to the merits or necessity of the rules laid down we have no oe- casion to take sides in the dispute. But if the managers do not intend to eon- form to the law the state, which sup- plies the funds for its maintenance, will be compelled 15 take oves the entive can- trol of the instituti n and put an end once and for all t) the inovitable frie- tion between state officials and private manage: Our experience with state subsidies to quasi-private ehavities is not proving very sat fuctory, THE views of the president as to the duty of the govenment of the United States in convectica with the Nicara- gua canal will be very generally ap- proved. Admitting the importance of this enterprise from the point of view of or eontrol. But the president does | not necessarily “mean in his refor- enco to this | project that the government of the United States commercial interost, there can hardly be two opinions ay to the expediency of having its complétion accomplished under distinetly” American auspices. Nobody will contend that any foreign power should be pormitted to haye any connection eithef' With its construction should take any financial 1nterest in the project, as has been, proposed. and yet from the presentccondition of the under- king the prospett ¢f its completion ap- rears very remote unless it shall receive government aid in: some form. The offort to make the United States respon- sible for the interest on a proposed issue of canal bonds to the amount of $100,000,000, although having the unani- mous endorsement of the finance com- mittee of the senate, failed in conse- quence of publie disapproval and there is little probubility that the people can ever be induced to favor any propopsi- tion that would involve the government in the financial affairs of the Nicaragua Canal com ELSEW in this issue THE BER presents the result of tests made of kero- sene oil sold in this state. The showing fully confirms the belief that generally prevails that immense quantities of dan- gerous compounds, called coal oil, are hawked about the state and sold to un- suspecting deulers and citizens. Fxper- ience the past six years has fully demon- strated the fact that the law providing for oil inspection is not only defective, but has only created a system of direc taxation for the support of a fow polit- ical inspectors. It is needless to say that no matter how good alaw might be passed it would "bs of no benefit if tho oficers charged with its enforcement were derelict of duty and persisted in serving time for revenue only. THE BEE has gone about an examination of the operation of this law in a busin ike manner. No attempt was made at sensational an- nouncements of the terrible results that might be expected from the use of im- pure and dangerous oils, We are con- tent with a simple, straightforward showing of fact, that the public may be warned against the sale of oil that has been rejected and condemned in other states and dumped into Nebraska, where itis known that rigid inspection will not be made. We donot anticipate that this work will accomplish a great deal in the way of reform. But it may create a public sentiment throughout the state that will in time formulate a domand for a better law on the subject, and also for a rigid enforcement of that law. Up 10 the hour of sunset yesterday the officers of the Railway Employes as- sociation had not ralsed their voices in a movement for the restoration of the old scale of wages on the Union Pacific system. These officers, it will be re- membered, in the state campaign of 1892, uttered flaming manifestos to the rank and file cailing every, employe to arms against the maximum railway freight bill on the sole ground that the enactment of the law would result in a wholssale reduction of wages on every line in the staté! The specter of low wazes was ever held up bafore railway employes to frighten them and prevent them from voting for candidates who did not bear the railroad brand. But the law has never gone into effect. For rea- sons foreign to tho statute hooks the wages of Union Pacific employes have been scaled down. There was some justification for the reduction, perhaps, but that has nothing to do with the point in hand. Employes will not concede that their wages should huve been cut while the newly appointed receivers are seeking princely salavies with a chance of ultimate success. If the Railway Employes association is what it claims to be, and not a political burean for rail- way managers, its responsible leaders willlose no time in making application to the court for a restoration of the old scale of wages paid by the Union Pacific. FEDERAL resent the eritie papers upon the work of the United States grand jury in two or thren notable case: It would be difficult indeed for a news- paper to pass by without comment the action of Attorney Baker in causing Editor Howard to be put upon the fed- eral rack. When Mr. Baker did this he must have known that it would prove a boomerang and wotld not accomplish the desired end. Howard has the past year published most scathing criticisms directed against the officers of the federal court, including M, Baker, and if the district attorney be- lieved that the editor had laid himself liable to indictment thereby he ought to- have included the offense in his bill of complaint. Any man with a grain of gumption ought to have known that an editor could not have been indicted for the publication of an item which was neither malicious nor libetous. Mr. Baker ought to go gunning for bigger game, officials isms made by Omaha ne court JupGE DUNDY i3 quoted as saying that experience and special qualifica- tions of Union Pacific receivers should have some bearing” igon the amount of salary to be allowed pach receiver. It stands to reason thay the services of Messrs. Clark and Mink are much more valuable than the sepvices of the three other receivers codldepossibly bo. Me. Anderson has for some time boen ve- coiver of a southpnn railway, which oftice, of course, wjll require a share of his time. The twq remaining receivers are not known to bdoxperts in railroad- ing, and, of course, their time and capa- bilities as Union Jppific receivers c not Le ontitled to the sams compensa- tion as that to which Massrs. Clark and Mink are clearly entitlod soems to by disprsed to apply business principles to this case, and in that ward the court is exercising ity anthor- ity in the interest of ths government and the owners of the road. The eourt ALL talk about sending fathor Me- slynn us ambassador to [taly is rather ill-advised at this time. The govern- ment of Italy has something tosay in re- ) the person which it is willing to ive as ambassador, and the appoint- ment of any one directly connected with the Roman chureh would hardly be sc- coptable, however obnoxious he might gar be to tho pope and the esllege of cardi- nals. If the frionds of Fathe un want President Cleveland t» provide him with a diplomatic berth thero are plenty of desirable places to be had. ex- cluding the mission to Rome. THERE was much rushing to and fro among democratic aspirants for fedoral office in this city yesterday. Tne Brg' dispatches stating that Pap Dispensc Castor had reached Washington indi- cated to the stay-at-home patriots that the time for action was at hand. A fat government salary just at this particu- lar time is hignly desirable. Weconcede what some of these democrats assert, that if Cleveland was a better demccrat than he is the federal flesh pots would long ago have been in possession of the faithful. AMONG the interesting incidentals in the appropriation ordinance for Novem- ber is a bill allowed to the poundmaster amounting to 8270 for dispatehing and appropriating 270 dogs. This may be cheap, but it strikes us as a costly luxury, At this time of the year 270 dogs would make a great feast for the whole soup tribe. Joking apart, the question is can we afford in these hard times to tax the people $270 a month for the dog catchel WHILE the question of supplying the city with ico for the coming year is vending before the council it may not be inappropriate to call attention to the fact that the city paid for ice in the city hall offices during the month of November, It must bea very cold day when they do not want ice in the city hall. If the thermometer were down 20> below zero they would still want their water cooled and their butter kept from melting. Improving the Game. Detroit Free Press. To the uninitisted it looks as though foot ball might bo rendered less dangerous by giving each player a sandbag. A good, clean knockout is preferable toa genoral wreck- ing of the human frame. S A Peruicious Idi Minneapolis Tribune. Speaking of deficits, retrenchment. econ- omy and all that sort of thing, what's the matter witha cutin_congressional and de- partment_salaries? A tidy sum could bo savod to the country inthat way and the service rendered would be no worse. Varlety tho Spice of Lite. New York Tribune. The democratic tariff tinkerers say in one breath that the republican policy of protec- tion has stimulatea manufacturers to an unheaithy and feverish extent and then in another breath declare that the Wilson scheme of lopping off duties will enlarge and expand American manufactures, How do they reconcile the two assertions? s z Aheaa, Kansas City Star. According to indications the tariff bill will be pushed in the senato as well as in the house. This is logical. On the one hand the democrats must be loyal to their pledges. On the other, if the republicans are sincere in their protestations thac the bill will kill the democratic party, the sooner it is passed and the democrats hang tvhemselves the better for the republicans. Everything, therefore, poiuts to smooth sailing. ‘Walte' 4 St. Paul Globe. Governor Waite of Colorado, it is said, has arranged for nage of a sort of bybrid coin for circulation in that state. On_one side is to appear a Mexican motto, and on the other the coatof arms of the state of Colorado is to be emblazoned. Tho coins are to be made in Mexico in order to escape the penalties of the United States laws for coining money, and, presumably, will be made of Mexican silver. They will cost more than our standurd silver dollars, and just where their utility to the silver men of Colorado comes in no one can find out. Besides, thoy would possess no legal tender value whatever. The scheme is a wild and impracticable on Wierd Wa [ ——— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Cholera is prevalent among hogs in the neighborhood of Plattsmouth, Kearney has a new paper, the Buffalo County Sun, edited by George J. Shepard. A lodge of Good Templars has been organ- ized at Fairfleld, with sixty charter mem- bers. J. B, Ogden of Elk Creek, a prominent Knight of Pythias apa church worker, is dead, The till of the B. & M. depot at Ong was tapped by unknown partios, who secured 34 in silver. W. A. Dalton of Table Rock is under ar- rest at Humveoldt on the charge of forging creamery checks. The Beatrice Times has enlarged its plant and will soon add four more pages to its daily, making it on» of tho best in the state. we Kearney Journal has improved its looks by enlurging to an eight-page paper, It it wasn't for its “sown-broaduust” drivel the Journal would be a modol puper of its class. The biggest heifer ever received at the South Omauha yards 1s attracting a large share of attention of stockmen, over 500 peo- ple going out to gaze at hersize. Sho wus brought 1n by I, & B. J. Tirney of Broken Bow, who have been feeding her for a year and a half. She is of shorthorn breed, 4 years old and weighs 2400 pounds. The heaviest heifer evor received at the yards previously weighed 2,100 pounds, It is prob- able that the monster will be sold to some local market for Christmas beef, About six weeks ago 'da Gibbon, a Kear- ney girl 12 years of age, was sent on an errand by her wmother while home from school during the noon hour. She did not return, and altuough her parents have searched for ber all the way between Kear- ney and Grand Island, no trace of her can be found. It is reported that she was seen riding in a farmer’s wagon toward Shelton, but notning definite can be ascertained, No cause can be assigned for her leaving home, unless it1s that she did not want to go to school. Highest of all in Lcavening“o\wen-—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, ol Baking Powder ABSOIVUTELY PURE | of M. Van Alon romovos a_load adminystration never shonld have and th 8¢ will go into history Globe-Democrat Mr. Van Alen the Ttalian mission, ana go 1 man who paid a lurge fo feast of um A noanation tion. New York have existe ness imes: Whatover i any mind aro certainly | Cleveland's exvressions and vy tion egarding declining manly New York World the most daence of the pi to the publ Chicago Tribune: Mr. bave delayed his refusal orier to ascertain what the thinks of him. direction has been fully satisfied. Denver Republican: M. the satisfaction of having gained porary notoriety compensation to him fo Van ticket. Cincinnati Commereial: Cleveland's suddenly d Mr. Van covered his self-rospect clines to accept the nomination Alen's self-respect appears to be tesimal quantit tho glass of public ovinion. Washinkton News: The Amer papers have a good many apolog to Mr. J.J. Van Alen, written 1o re Serve a8 ministe an enistle that em or an Auglomanic. A8 courageous as its tone is comun Philadelphia Rocord : Me. . J. Van Alen, United States dor to Italy, will fill the count Prise not unwmingled with regvet. and self-sacrificing as was his drawal, not less consi chosen for it. itself a proof that an The lette to Ital confirming him, Philadelphia gentloman mu represent the country after all th had been heaped upon him. His hot more valuable than the office, received the comnission b n the president in a very dignified which ought to make those who ha mos: But are capable of shame, Philadelphia Le i between Mr. dent, through w zer: The o make every one regret th will be next simmer. The greatest show on the holiday show window. house. Colorado papers are nothing i esting thuse da; Briale blunders. Virginia raises 5,000,000 bushels o annually, but they are not active in politie It is reasonabl no crop of mold in congress. Van Alen evidently agreed w try that in declining to sac: swell to make a poor ministe already cost §3, will be needed to finish it. of 1ts convictions, to punish a combine's price. 1t b ask fondness for free “Register before you s cago paper. Good ~ advice. vived Curfew law Chij account of themselve M a man *‘whose plow is his tongue and tillage 15 10 as the result of his efforts gar; oftice.” Mr. Morton1s a_“p. and speaks from experienc nered a crop. The most amusing figur tucky ussembly will be shaw, a republi has been o Under if ubroad after niah V. candidate biennia B0 B A L w The lar S w Your ans must giv forton describes a political farm ot a crop of votes in the loc hi now dispeiled by his own ac Alen all this time in ountry i large If 80 his curiosity in that 0,000 ambassador to Rome, ha an 8. i 0 THE PASSING OF VAN ALEN Chicago Record: My J. 1. Var Alan dis | appears from viow and the monocle censes to be an 188uo of politics St. Paul Globe: Mr. Van Alon is not an Amerfean ambassador, hut he has proved himsell to be somothing far bol an American gentleman Springficld R san: ‘The retircment which the takon on s fnto history as ¢ the Barme and a confirma doubts may s At Mr, Chicago Post g about James J Van Alen's political cavecr becoues Mr. Van Alen so much as the close ot His fetter Ttalian mission 18 admirably lamentablo outcome of the Van Alen incident is the ovi ident's inclination to en dorse the Vanderbilt sentiment with rogard may Van Alen has some tem nd that may be sufticient paving contributed to promote the selection of the democratic Alen, d d Van nfini- and discovered only under news- os to make he has is 101 s dent Cleveland, declining to . 18 a0t the kind of nates from either a dude 1t 1s a manly document, ndable. Th rosiznatior V with sur- Graceful oL of withe to was the time His letter of resignation is in the president made no mistake in appointing him nor the senate in he felt, as a that ho could not rightly huse And having it to letter, v corresponden Van Alen and the presi- vich the former declines ap- pointmentas ambassador to ltaly, is sufficient tsuch a manl t thi 1 1 v ne in the next | been pursuing him ashamed of themselves, if they straightforward, patriotic citizen as Mr. Van Alen shows himself to be should not © accepted the ofice, defying his calumniators. His letter to the p 1dent is a model of frankness and good sense. ——— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Remember, ye kickers, what comfort ice th at this time is Senator Hill has dislocated his silence for the edification of his old chum in the white inter- in chronicling Bloody- peanuts perniciously y certain that free coinage bills will be allowed to accumulate a large ith the coun- cea first-class “The new congressional library building 2 As much moro The Nashville coal combine has the nerve the courts member for cutting under the It is told by envious partisans in Ohio that Governor McKiuley sent his gift cagle to the Cin 200 bec the bird showed a sep,” shouts a Chi- e re- ve an . m. an " farmer as gar- Cren- an from Bullitt county. ly sime time whereof the oldest nhabitant, has no distinet recollection, buv this is the first time he has He BROWNING, KING money’s worth or you mukers and allers of «omo in a winner. He is & country magif trate, 70 years old, & farmer, Iawyer and politician Tho Danse du Ventre" was outlawed [ k. Thero was a flavor of Chicago- esque morals in its eapers, which proved too strong for the delicate sensibilities of Towery graduates. Chic aldermen 0 rave a novel way of doing business. They rocently allowed a | contractor $1.572.83 for axtra work without | kaving Loen requestod to, do 80 by him of any of his friends. When he went to claim the monay, however, he found that it had been drawn and divided up among the alder men. No oné would suspect by his everyday ks that Adam Badean had ever been & woral in tho army. e is too short and | toi-poly to have a martiat appearance. His face is almost dovord of hirsute ornament, and is round and forid. He wears gold- | rimmed wlasses and o solomn, heavyweight, philosophical expression The convalescnco of Me. Fugens brought from the pen of Fdmund Cla stedmin this beautiful and happy sontiment: Y thought to claim you In this year ot oy ericd, and ralsed her shield bee tween SUIL Tet men weep, and smillo awid thelr tears Take any two heside, but spare Eugene!™ Pk oty CONLCAL CRACKY, Rochester Democrat: No matter it a man ¢ ful atall othor timoes, when he nieets & one he Is sure to strike o blow. Plain Dealer: A Philadelphia doctor tried 10 “raise the dend,” but was imumedintoly fired on by the cemetory watchman Chicago Record: Ed ithe bill collector)—I'm one of thy wost popular nien in town. Wherever 1 go I'm always asked to “eall again, Detroit Free Uress. 1 held four aces in my hand Pat, and they made mo gring And yet worso hand [ uever held, For not & i came “Beloved - Why, what s Its half-past 9. The Lover-Just like me Detroit Tribune: thno to be ealling! Higlits nro out wt 10 I always carly Vog fily (who h acourse of locturas) -On, prol such n funny old fossil in the niu thought of you at once on nttonding ssor, T suw i foday ! € L1 want, madam,” said “is A place to et mont conmission und {he b Ly strike for a gover onolulu Washington Stu D know that m s DILis0ne of my heasiost expensas?” sald e man who complaing, 0t the g off CEXCUSO nie sir” sald 't tone that lefy i for furthoee “itls necessarily a Hght exponse, Elmira Gazette: Noman wis aver so much in love that he found Sunday mornin himself unable o sleep Binghamton Republican: A New Rocholla cngagement has hoen broken off i conses quence of religious differcnces. Her s brother put a t like his croed. inbis chalrand she didn's sce no sense in s on theso ere ountry. replied the con= we' flist started out wo did ounding bells., Well, poople < on the sound of them bells that in the middle of the andwe used to run ght folksa day. S0 we had to SWhen al sw ECONOMY. Truth, 0 thee in- the moonlight," saug the lover his girl, Who was guzing fondly on him from the case- ch eaper than the gasligh her father the old ¢ Who was taking obsery: mont. sang, 10ns from tho base: e TIE BUOK AG \ hiear you shout, are audibie enough, our hook. Get out!™ pook! " 1t cunnot bo, ake, forsooth at "Compendiim Of Universal Trath ! 0, T can plainly understand aull-minded thing k; but you! but youl w, like you, hought, 1l your bonre bought the they all Mr. John e ratund it all,” Sald they, “but Ray knows hsans. When John'C. Ray b 1 thint book o'l tell us whit it s, pere mon for sales no firm reliance, written aud designod unl glants, whose skull caps buige with brains, ow o thing or two; For men of towering intol Aud %0 I've called on you. t— “You'll tako the | I knew you would= Of courso you'll o best, You'll want morocco back. gilt top, Ono that will stand the test n glad I've met you, Mr. iy, Lough Ignorant and untaught, \of brains, though ou Earth AT 1 The great run E On our suits and overcoats at half price has com- |- == [line of all wool over- |- ~|pletely cleaned us out and in order to satisfy a few of the disap- ’pointed ones we have marked down a small = S = = S 7 RS £ S % ocoats and ulsters to iB—ilO-—Sl?.SO—-—M& for the bal- [° 4 % 4 1 ! -‘(.. 1 ¥ P P Py &= i i p | 4 ago. “ Ao AlarAn asaA- A acA-A- A W Eend the mo and we'll pay the express. ance of the week—if they last that long. On account of the rush-in the men's goods our children’s wear was nearly overlooked but we wish to announce a Boys' Sale Saturday that will create as big a sensation as that of a week Full particulars Friday. BROWNING, KING & CO., | 8. W. Cor.13th and Douglas St i » b b B