Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1893, Page 4

PURLISHED EVERY MORNIN OF SURSCRIPTION, Sy (e Year i YeRr S €800 10 00 5 00 IWFICES, X 111 Twenty-fourtn atreets. P Ehmer of Comm nilding va and od e Batior. g 1o NF « ana re Tew PUDLUSE 7 0 pan fer et t BEE PUBLISHINC cen Khould b 10 y«‘ nv\]n» A1o' u. Phievks OMPANY SWORN STATE State of X T OF CIRCULATION tary of T v mwoar tha Week Wik DATLY DEE for the <1 TY8CTICK iEseribed in of Decembor, tary Public NP PRI N ik s bt Bty There will be voids in the Christmas stocking of numeaous demo- cratic office seckers in every corner of the country. aching DESIGNATING the Wilson tarifl bill as a “cowardly makeshift" deserves a place beside the deseription of the pro- tective system as “the foot ball of party politics. THAT suggestion to reduce the im- pending deficit in the federal treasury by cutting the president's salary may bo to the point, but it will scarcely be acted upon—not this time. ) a census made the are New Y at ACCORDING sanitary people out of work in are ordinarily employed of the year. This ropolitan life in which Ne the supremacy to Chicago strugl by the inspectors 40,000 who this period nre of met- For a man who cossor’s rulings in the trary and dictatorial, shows remavkablo disvegard of his repu- tation for consistency when he rupts the colloquy of members with de- cisions equally arbit with any rendered by Speaker Re: ticised his prede as arb Speaker Crisp house inte! Locarn physicians do not think that the danger of a smallpox epidemic is so imminent as to call for compulsory vac- cination. But if any one finds that his fears have not been allayed by the phy- sician’s resolutions he will be welcomo to step into the oflico and pay for an in- noculation of virus. Voluntary vacci- nation continues to be encouraged. ADMIRAL ANTON'S new navai com- mand will not subject him to tempta- vions which beset him in the vieinity of the Brazilian insurgents. Tt is safe to conclude, however, that the admiral’s discipline for his so-called “error of judgment” will have a salutary cffcct in causing naval officers to think twice bofore they violate any rule of interna- tional comity. PAT I'ORD has been inveigled into signing a card written for him by one of Hitcheock's emissaries in which he is made todisclaim that he had been coaxed by anybody into dropping into the Double- Ender slot. Now, Pat Ford may deny and disclaim as much as he pleases, but we have witnesses that will testify on oath that what we published concerning the way he was roped in is true, and the story about soliciting 82 from Mrs. Bankhardt to avoid a trial of the case is also true. SENATOR SHERMAN puts his foot down hard upon the Coxey plan of relieving the distress of hard timos by $500,000,000 in treasury notes to be ex- pended in the construction of railroads. The true remedy, he says, is to insure the people good money of unquestioned and unchangeable valu and silver coin, and to maintain Ame ican industrics by wise taxation on for- pign productions that competo with our own. Hard times can cuse for an unne: policy of inflation. issuing based upon SCrVe 45 Mo ex- ssary and indefensible AN INSURANCE company doi ness in California has sued the Standard Oil company to recover the value of an insurance policy covering property de- stroyed us a vesult of a lump explosion. The owner of the property 1s party to the action against the oil company. This suit suggests a line of action for Nebraska insurance men recommended by Tie BEE some days ago. It is to their interest to have good oil sold and used in this state. It would be far better for insurance men to aid in theagitation for a better oil inspection law than to put exemption clauses in their five poli- ol which only serve to put panies in contempt. TaE withdrawal of the application for a rehearing of the Chinese exclusion cases which were decided by fhe supreme court signifies a tacit admission on the part of those who were opposing the en- forcoment of the Geary law that that law was perfoetly constitutional and valid It also makes it extremely doubtful whether the new extension aet will be attacked vpon the same grounds of un- eonstitutionality as the original law. Even should it be decided to take an- other test case up to the supreme court the interested parties will have to wait until the penalties for non-registra- tion begin to accrue next spring and then take an appeal from the proceed- *™ings instituted for the deportation of the recaleitrant Chinese, But even then, after the great majority of Chinese residents of the United States had taken out their registvation pavers, u decision adverse to the constitationality of the law would be of little avail. The expensive experienco of the last yea must have convinced the Six Companies that the fight is no longer worth the powder. A their [ we MUST ENFORCE POWERS. Tag-shirking and tax-fighting has been reduced to a scienee by the railroad corporations. Every railroad company has an organized tax-shirking bureau with a trained lawyer to tramp up quib- bles and objections to the levy and col- lection of taxas before county, city and state boards of equalization. When these tactics fail and all the pressure and chicanery lias been exhausted the power of the court is invoked to issue restraining orders, and if the state courts have shown any disposition to treat rail- way corporations the same as other tax- payers the railrond lawyers have their cases transferred to the federal courts under pretext that they are foreign porations and therefore above the reach of the state judiciary. This has been done recently by the attorney of the Burlington road, which secks to restrain this city from collect- ing municipal taxes lovied upon that company. This is a high-handed pro- ceeding and in direct conflict with the former action of that company in a case decided by the supreme of Ne- braska. This caso established a prece- dent by which th6 Burlington road is estopped from invoking the federal courts in matters relating to state tax- ation or state regulation. We refor to os cited in the Twenty-tifth Ne- , pages 156 to 164, State of Ne- aska ox rel William Leese vs the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railroad company. It is recited in those that the Burlington road and roads attempted to evade their obligations by setting up the plea that they were foreign corporations nd thes entitled to remove their to fed courts. William ese, then attorney general, moved by have the franchises of the Burlington road, the Missouri Pacific and other roads involved in the controversy revoked on the ground that they had no right to exercise eminent domain powers in Nebraska unless they were domestic corporations, Thereupon the Burlington company and all the other railway companies consented to a deeree them to be domestic This decree deprived citizenship as foreign ions, upon which citizenship alone they conld invoke the powers of urt. aintains that the United s no jurisdiction in this tax contest, and itsattempt to exerciso such power should be resisted by the city at- torney. He should insist on a dismissal of the case, and if his motion is over- ruled he should carry the case up to the United States court of appeais. It is of vital importance to every taxpayer not only of Omaha, but in the whole state, that the game of shuttlecock and battle- dove which Nebraska railroads are play- ing in dodging responsibilities bevween federal and state courts shall be stopped and the of the commonwealth over its corporate citizens shall bo af- firmed by the highest tribunal in the land. OUR TAXING re court cases other ofore (uo warranto to declavin corporation them of corpor their vights JHE MINOKILY TARIFE REPORT. The report of the republican members of the ways and means committee on the tariff bill will be found ex ingly in- teresting and instructive. To be assured of this it is only necessary to inform the *r that the part of the report which discusses the bill in a general way was prepaved by ex-Speaker Reed, whoso work is distinguished by that clear, log- ical and incisive method of statement and argument for which he is noted. The report suggests two facts to be kept in mind in considering the new tariff measure, one being that while 1t 15 & proposition to raise reve- nue its effect will be to lower the revenue of the country $74,000,000 below that of 1803, and the other fact is that the larger part of the burden of taxa- tion is transferred from foreigners and brought to our own citizens. The minor- ity say that their task of commenting on the bill would have been more simple had its framers followed the deciaration of the party which they represent and abolished proteetion, giving us a tariff for revenue only, beeauso then it would have been a straightforward, manly attempt to carry out pledges and would have placed in issue two great led toa clear and comprehensible dis- cussion. The authors of thism however, repudiated the promise their party and presented what minority characterize as only other tariff tinkering bill, like of which has disturbed sonditions of business so many times during the last thirty years,” and which has all the faults charged upon the plan it is intended to supersede and very few of its virtues. It is open, the minovity declarve, to all the derisive and havsh epithets with which the present system used to be overwhelmed. “Tt taxes the people with a tarviff tax; it ather proposes to mai n, what they used to eall privileged classes and i defined by its authors by argn- ments and expressions strangoly like those which they used so frecly to de- " The report ai on this point and says: *'If, as is stated, the 70,000,000 of Americans have for years Feen taxed for the benefit of a fow hundred thousand favored people, why should the taxation be continued even in a limited ratio for a series of years and these favored people begin a new lease of life?” It is de- clured that the doctrine of the democratie platform that protoction is robbery and should be abolished is com- prehensive and sturdy, but the new movement on behalf of mitigated and sporadie robbery is contrary slike to good morals and public faith, In plain terms and with simple illus- trations which people of ordinary intel- ligence can comprehend the minority report points out the weak and fatal features of the democratic tariff policy and submits th propositions: **Lower prices will take care of themselves and s0 will higher wuages if they are not interfered with by competition from regions where the different social status causes laborers to be content with lesser results. The consumer will take care of himself if you look after the producer, for he is cne and the same person.” With regard to ad valorem duties the minority sy that if prices could be ex- actly determined that system would be sure, of the an- “the the noune 1es foreefully fair, but prices are very much malters of opinion, “‘on whichshonest men may differ much and rogues much Inasmuch as the duty depends on the prico a cheat on the price is a cheat on the duty, and under the ad valorem systom both the government and the home manufacturer may be cheated, the former out of revenue and the latter out of the promised protection. This is most amply attested by fexperience. Ad valorem duties are in the interest of foreign manufacturers and importers and therefore necessarily against the interests of the government and home manufacturers. The minority consider the probable effeccts of the tariff bill in the future relations between Canada and the United States and on the reciprocity troaties, and says: “While as party men we might rejoice at its sage, as citizens we think the exi of the presont time arc superior to even the most defined political advantage and advise that the bill do not pass.” The portion of the report which deals with epecinl features of the new tariif measure will be found most instructive, both in showing the departures from the oxisting law and the inconsistencies of this latest expression of aemocratic tarift ideas, more." encies HOW TO PROVIDE FOR THE PLOYED, One of the problems with which every large city at this day is wrestling is de- vising ways and means for sheltering and feeding the destitute unemployed. very community must necessar deavor to solve the problem for itself, taking into account its own resources and the available means for improvicing temporary employment for the men and women who are able to work, but have no visible means of support. Just now many of the bes ple of Omaha are puzzling brains as to how the 2000 idle and destitute people in our midst can be taken care of during the next three months. Private charvity and the various charitable socictios will do a great deal toward meeting the im- mediate wants of a large number of de- serving poor. But this source of relief s entirely inadequate when we come to provide food and raiment during a long and severo winter for several thousand persons. Somothing must be done to vo the able-bodied destitute a chance to earn their board and lodging, The city is not in a position to do this because its public works arve ata andstill during the winter and even the streetcleaning is already contracted for. By rights the care of the destitute has always been in the hands of the county. There are taxes levied for the county infirmary and hospital. Under ordinary conditions this fund would have been ample. This year it would be a mere drop in the ocean. Taking care of 200 or 300 people 1s comparatively easy, but when it comes to feeding several thou- sand the resources are entirely insufti- cient. There is one way by which the county commissioners could solve the problem. Two years ago Douglas county voted #150,000 in bonds to be expended for the paving or macadamizing of county roads. Under the statutes the work contem- plated must bedone by ¢ontract, and the award must be made to the lowest re- sponsible bidder., While it would not be practicable to require the contractor to employ any class of people at any fixed price for doing this work, we be- liove it to be legal and practical for the county to invite bids for macadamiz- ing roadways with the eondition that the crushed rock used for this work shall be supplied by the county at the ruling market price. Now the county clearly has the right to purchase stone for improving roadways, as it has for grading roadways and building bridges.. And even if a point was stretched in purchasing stone with a view to employing destitute laborers on the rock pile nobody would venture to interfere. Assume that the men work only four days in the week in breaking stone, they will earn enough to pay their own way and feel that they are not r cipients of charity. The taxpayers would, moreover, get their moncy’s worth. In order to prevent a rush of tramps from other scetions of the coun- an envollment of all the destitute workingmen now in the eity could be taken and all others excluded. Th is no doubt that many of the women that are obliged to ask for relief could be utilized as cooks and laundresses in the public shelter buildings, thus re- dueing the for velief to the minimum, If our suggestion is found practicable no time should be lost by the commis- sionors in taking action. UNEM- ly en- peo- their expense CONTROL 01 111E SENATE, The anxiety of the democrats for the admission of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico to statehood is undoubtedly due very large if not altog to the beliof that they will thereby gain six United States senators and thus retain control of the senate for some years to e¢ome. So far as Utah is concerned it has all the conditions necessury tostatehood and it is right that these should be recognized, It has sufficient population and its material development is such as will enable its people to properly port a state government, its resources insure steady ress, It ought to have bheen admitted as a state when the last four territories wore given state- hood and no valid reason can be urged for keeping it out longer. Asto Arizona and New Moxico, however, the case is different. The former has not a single valid elaim to statehood, and while the latter is considerably botter off in popu- lation and resources, it is not sufficiently well off to warrant its admission as a state, The total population is less than the basis of representation in congress and the is no reason to expect that there will be & more rapid growth in the future than there has been in the past. But these considerations will not weigh with the majority of the democrats in ¢ong against the political advantage which they belicve their party will gain by the admission of these territories. That they will all come into the union as states may therefore be regarded as assured. Butwill they all choose democratic ther, sup- while rog- United Statos senators? A year ago there would have been no hesitation in giving an aMrmative answer to this question, but the conditions which af- sct political aévion have very greatly | changed within a year. The people of | ull these territories aro interested in the national isswes which divide parties | and it is by no/ means improbable that they have been affected by the same infludndes which wrought such a romarkable change in public opinion in most of the states that voted last November. Still, the chances are in, favor of the demo- cratic belief that the admission of those territories would add six to the majority which that party now has in the United States senate and perpetuate for some years democratic control of that body. There is one other interesting consid- eration suggested in connection with this matter, and that is the increase of power which the admission of these tor- ritories will givo the t country in the upper branch of congress. With these territories admitted would be forty-seven states, twent of which, counting in Louisiana, would of the Mississippi. These, with Mississippi, Tennessoe gnd Kentucky, which border on the Missis- sippi, or with any three other states east of the river, will hold a majority the United States senate of forty-c to forty-six. It will thus be seen that with the admission of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico the center and control of the legislative branch of this govern- ment moves to the Mississippi rive | ansmississippi there me be west TiiE democrats of New York who or- anized the movement against the Hill machine last year and exorted a power erful influence at Chicago in opposition to Hill as a candidate for the presiden- tial nomination are now engaged in an- other crusade, with Tammany as the special object of their hostility. The last election in New York, which admin- istered a tremendous blow to the regn- lar democratic machine and destroyed, at least for the time being, the power of several notorious political bosses, demon- strated what could be accomplished when the people are properly aroused to a sense of their periland theirduty. The overwhelming defeat of the corrupt May- nard, who prostituted his judicial oftice for partisan gain, and the overthrow of Boss McLaughlin, gave to the men in the democratic fparty who demand cleaner polities courage to undertake the further purgation of tho party, and they now proposa to see whether the despotic and unscrupulous power of Tammany cannot be broken and the city of New York resened from the political control of Croker and the crowd of lecches who feed fat upon the people. At the same time they will continue to make war on the machine in the state at larg. with the determined purpose of destroy- ing it. The democcats who have organ- ized for this work are men of high char- acter, and they will gxert, there is good reason to believe, a great influence upon the better elements of the party. Their efforts ought to be productive of good results. A8 MUCH as 360,000 and 870,000 a year has been expended by the federal treasury for express charges on ship- ments of silver dollars from one part of the country to another in the hope of getting people to take the big cart wheels ofi the hands of the government, and often without material results. Tho reason assigned for this expenditure is that the silver dollars will not circulate without special inducoments being of- fered. And yet the silver men continue to propose plans for withdrawing all our paper 1ssues of small denominations in order to compel the people 1o use more silver. There cannot be much real de- mand for an increased circulation of sil- ver dollars when the government has to 2o to expense to get its creditors to take them. TuE mayor of Jacksonville, Fla., very properly pronounces against the pro- posed prize fight at that place upon busi- ness grounds solely. While a few peo- ple would no doubt manage to sccure large profits from the on-hangers who might be attracted by the bratal exhibi- tion, the mass of the people of the com- munity would suffer nothing but loss and inconvenience. The stranded sports and disappointed speculators promise to be left a burden on the town, and the offects of the fight would not disappear for weeks after the occurvence. In othe words, the mayor of Jacksonville does not believe that prize fighting pays. A Plea for wee. Atlanta Constitution, Let Hawaii alone Wo have bigger game nearer liome! - The Koad 1o F 1y, andizpolls Journal, To surike out the enacting clause of the Wilsen bill as soon us presented would start factorios aud ¢loso free soup rooms, . Shadowy Hope Minneapolis Journal, The American Bell Teiephono company’s carnings in 1503 have been 83,900,000, which is uearly 20 per cent on its capital of §20,- 000,000, ~The Bell pateuts expire soon and there is some hope that telephones will come cheaper AR, iy Hinting #tm Veto, Globo-DgWocrat Tho admission of tab, Arizona and New Mexico 1o statehood wold put six more sil- ver men in the scuate and perhaps give them 4 majority in that bodsy As Clayeland is 4 vobust sound-money wmath he may block this aduission scheme by a veto. i, 15T & Throwit Away, New ForkSun, Lot the democratit congress throw away the dishonorable patahwork of the Wilson committee and demaid from that committeo the tariff for revenua, guly to which it is ledgod ! By 8o doing & will both save its renutation for politiéal principle and hasten tho complotion of the Mow tariff in accord ance with the necessities of trade, now crusned by doubt and dalay. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U, al Re feZcZCZ0)] 1893, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The discussion in Parliament of the condl tion of the British navy developed twointer esting facts, ono being that there is a groat deal of apprehension that a possible exigency may find the naval establishment unequa’ the demands upon it and the other that the liberal party is firmly united and has perfect confidence in Mr. Gladstone. 1t was a most decisive victory which the voteran states: man won in the defeat of the motion of Lor George Hamilton, which, had 1t prevailed, would have amounted to a vote of It was fortunate that M ( able to be present and to lead the against this motion, which he did with a vigor and earnestness remarkable for a man who,in a fow days, will celebrate his S4th birthday. The prime minister dec to make any statement as to what the gov: ernment proposed to do regarding tho navy beyond the assurance that its standard would be maintained. THe vote of confl dence showed that there was no defection among the liberals. It has beon understood that in the event of the bye-election in the Accrington division of Lancashire turning out well for the liberals thers would proba bly a dissolution of Parliament next month and a gencral eloction in Fobruary The bye-election was held Thursday aund ve: sulted in the re-clection of the liberal candi date, a vart of whoso platform antagonized the Hfdnse of Loras. ned be It looks more and more as if § soon have another war on her hands. will be unwelcome to her at a time when Siam and Moroeco demand such close atter tion, notto speak of African houndary putes with ¢ at Britain, rmany, and the Congo Free State, unfigished conquests it Datomey and the Soudan, an unsettled fecl ing in Kurope and various complications i her home politics. For letters from Madagascar have dwelt on the increasing friction between the government at Antan: anarivo and the Irench resident. By tho treaty of 1885 Franco has charge of the forcign relations of Madagascar, while sho has nothing to do with the internal admis- tation of the island. This scemed a now and convenient form of protectorate, a way of keeping off all rival while quietly waiting till it was convenicot to pluck the pear, or it was rive enough to fall of itseif mto her lap. From the ning, however, the arrangement has workoed badly, as has a similar between Italy and Abyssinia, It is havd to say what relates to external affairs and what does not. Such questions as the right of granting exequa turs to ana of giving large Jand or mining concessions to foreigners, have led to endless bickerings. The French have tried to make theiv protectorate as broad as possible; the Hovas, promptly regretiing that they ever agreed to such a thing, have wished to minimize 1t; the English Protest- aut missionaries, who are a power in the land, and are oaturally jealous of French and Catholic influence, have helped to en- venom a quarrel that has now reached the point where hostilities may break out any day. Tho Hovas can perhaps bring into the field 50,000 men more or 1ess well armed and disciplined. They will be no match for European soldiers, but the country, with its dense vegetation and total lack of roads or navigable rivers, is admirably suited to pro- longed guerilla warfare, entailing on the in vaded serious loss Desides grea weariness and expense. England witl look on jealously and disapprovingly, though, as she recog- nized the French protectorate in 1890, it is difticuly to see on what grounds she could interfere. nee would This dis yoears begin- cons enna correspondents cling doggadly to thewr belief that tho earliest disturbance of Furopean peace is to come from Servia, and that it must come very soon. The Vienna bourse experienced the heaviest of recent depressions on the official news that Austria had served a notice on Servia once for all that she must stop the frontier foolishness or take the immediate consequences. All sorts of promises were made by the Servian agonts now in Vienna, but 1t it doubted if these are of any value, simply because the little kingdom is in a state of prac- tical anarchy, the treasury ecmpty, the officials who emptied it absconded and the troops 1 mutiny because long un- paid, and the entiro governmental machinery at a standstill. At such a junc- ture the arrival at Belgrado of Colonel Taube, the Russian mililary attache at Bucharest, and his long secret conferences with the new Servian premier, Gruiteh, are well caleulated to attract apprehensive at- tention. The young king has turned out, as expected, to be a bigger fool than even his father, and is suspected of planning to fly across Roumanian territory to claim Russian protection in the probable event of riots in Belgrade. It is extremely difficult to judge how much all this is fact and how much frightencd Vicnnese imagination; but it scoms evident that Servia is ina very bad way, and it is obvious that this is the acutest danger point in the stramned Austro-Russian relations The conviction of two I'rench army oflicers as spies in Germany affords a st ing indi- cation of the military conditions in conti- nental Europe. As nearly the whole conui- nent is a vast military camp, the employ- ment of spies is n necessary part of the sys- tem. While punishing the two French spies, the German government docs not neglect the use of the sameagencies. Before the break ing out of the Franco-Prussian war Bis marck and Von Moltke had obtained, through their spics, a great deal more kfiowi of the military strength of France than was possessed by Emperor Napoleon himself. In the military archives of Germany are careful prepared sketches of all Russian and French fortifications on the German fronciers, Most of this in formation has been obtained by military spies in the pay of the German government whotake the k of a trip to Siberia or of imprisonment in a Frenchdungeon. It is re- ported that Emperor William will miti gato the severity of the sentence of the court of Leipsic upon the two French ofi- cers. ‘I'his is doubtless in recognition of the fact that the spy system is inevitable. While spies must be punished when caught, there is no government in Europe that hesi- tates to employ them. By magnanimously mitigating the penalty of these officers Emperor Willism may securc & correspond- ing leniency toward his own spies, if de- tected in France. So far as Berlin and Vienna are concerned, the return of Sig. Crispi to power will naturally give much satisfaction. Next to King Humbert I there is nomau in Italy who is so thoroughly committed to the Triple Alliance. A cabinet, of which he is the Baking Powder 'ABSOIUTELY PURE head, would for bankers bo the favor of foreign | will 1 | which Sig without a are growing vory posed upon the caroful favor edie public opinion behind them | advanced ft in degreo of s com relatives and yet no calls his employer heis reducing salarios. materialy is the wit will be wr world? 1y sometl 1y Proper spivit ob orter by make LIS preparations foh next Chris editor tuke? the that all disenses “Twonder what | duces the disy don't know Kind of a wit that lady | only tryin structed his was Darrot. two pug dogs and a husband. " half s the other large, well strontously seat that what.” have exc ootaining from German the loans which indisponsable. Yet, of course, powers, but Cham and of the ltalian coup dotat tired 1 by the Trivle Alli shservers predict establishment a largo majority ) the proposal. It s tho or tho firm belief, that which the prosent confidence and in of all proportion to its numbers. - s bve Sprinafield Repuitico Another on ¢ ir Kone It Ia agains in Anst law has ission But where the the cour ad ¢ COMICAL COLIT ITTONS. Yonkers Gazetto: A man may he relatively rich Philadelphin Record: A A Tevenue cutter Kansas City Tournal which conie in regardlos brand of Manitoba Roston Transeript: Sho <1 wonder yuiing o talk about M, yos. You know t 1 the other side 0 Star dat wants ot “Er man keep Chrls Wil ter lils th b every 1) full gin the Atlanta Constitution: 1o took the leading part.” “You don't say : “Yos e was Uio out of widienes rovolted or v theory o cansed by germs.” of u grornt nown as Buffalo Con At hor 't bug, Philadelphia Record ving a fits” Look, man SND, 1y Tndianapolis Tournal: - Dolly Footlite: Yes What wis the tro bieeted to the order tences, Ho wrotd rccompanicd on hor tour by a Wa ton Capitol: A Wer, sat in any. s dressod Vi that the Lrishe n theearat all “I'm drunk,” said Pat You're'n hog rallan “hut 'l FORET IT. Detroit Tritnon, Her hat was straight, her gloves were on, And et she linzerdd Tie while, inpatient o Her waiting husband the door. lelny. cntly swore Her hat was steaight, ler Yet whilo outside Wis hod She stood within tho open doc To usk him 11 it had been Toc e et A BACH 01 CARDL, Detroit Tribune. “Sing, hoy! the green holly™ And try to be joll; By looking at berries and greens. You bet T havo tried it And now T deride it As fit for w girl in her teens. 1t joy you would gathor, Bounce holly and vather Accept a cold bottle with me. In its sparkles and hubbles AIL trials and troubl Grow light as the foam of the sea. The true Christnas spiric Is this. 1 revere it y . devotee can, bunpers we drink thoms our glassos, wo elink then; Drink health to e No mistletoc's needod; Wi l,\lvl ])Xll(l‘;( is heeded, hle wing flows sironnd us tonig A'Kiss for ench fadr onet <" A toast for each rare on Audov'ryone's mad with dolight, Throw care to the suges! It fit for old ago is erriment ring throu Good cheer is our motto, And whcther we ouzht to, Or not is no matter at all, Let Now music and laughter! Whatever comes after The moment we have is our own, This life is uncortain, And buck of the curtiin Are thi =] And though we would borrow No irief from the morrow, It's certain that something of woe 1 wwill strengthen 1 bronden and lengt 00d resolutions, you know, =P “Yourw oy A Friendly If you are prional opportunities Austrian shortly it is not tho good or of Deputies, Crispl will need if he is to govern T'he Italian poople of tho burdens im that if a gencral election should turn on a proposed reduction of the military Hy Lwo army would pronoance in ives the Chamber a enco out arefully prepared case against a railroad for viola t At BOM Wabash r carnings to deprive the o of compeiition Stat se was triod a hole in the law by which tho r Manayunk becauso One ot thoe fren of tarifs Losphere 11 thore 0 the ols ulways | n 1t What part did the the door when now itis that pro dipsomantn.” 1 S one thing sure,it uln't any | ild, 10 et her lastyoar’s coat on over her'this year's sleeves.” Did you hear swhiding that reportor in which o thut si wdd, Trishman, stroot an should have o geL over and yow'll never got over zloves wero on, he knocked ) maiden und man. h the ball! 5 that are better unknown, The larg going THE WILSON RILL will Chicago Record (1nd. dem.) pass ha Mr Chicago or Ocean (ren.) relates the sophisms of froe tr supposed that they w opea-mouthed gulliviiity furing tho eampaign "acts make no impression 18 against theories, and that is the way with pe Indianapolis News that the committee's in favor of a much lower Kinloy tariff is perfectly so tariff, which seems to he minds of many reformers well, fact \s the e, and nd. T the enl that it and the mere eloven years longest poriod rood rstato Chicago Herald (1 g0 ny that. But still it i tho 1 10! g Vo tari Tha United finds scapes. toward commercial fr be 4 surer s nore 1 1l But i s protection th f the rich In | is not strengtencd trade mt Y ad ByStom by u report wi the Wilson report sh of, and that is the reit 1ion of the Chicago. platfor that a duty laid on i purpose L Lthat it is : ¥ to gradu s the next Uy revenu s Wilson Jdournal (ren.): O Al 1 of thie any Itney Lo o system which bl that has tried it exeept Great - INSPLCTION, Un: wid Wi, iher tor 18" ot Des Moises, Ia, Doc. 2 of Tne Bee: In the the 12th inst.1s given a kerosene by the which is placed a in an outer can cont 10 be heated until the oil lghted torch, the degroe be indicated by a the oil. Such u test 1o the issue of Tue usa of two can quantity of oil Vining water ignites Yos of tempor: of The bill 1 a fairly good wxpression of the tanf plank in the democratic platform, and should be (At an early day A8 &' measure which n approved in ananticipatory way by the voters of the country n the eloction of Clevaland and a democratic congress. Mr. Wilson do as if o ild be listened to with now a8 1803, upon his mind ho seems to think plo gencrally Wo think argument tarift than the ) » Walker in the worked lived says, 1o for “ihe one ovidence woll satisfiod is vastly law. No taviff ree bill [ i- of tho thongh if it wer hould b not wnd i 14 free for s point in sight othe i o democratio ntry 1, 0 the ho has ruined every in, Lititor e of mothod for testing ono, 0 be set which is from ure 1o thermomoter inserted in would be barren of any in rolinblo results snd would wive no indication of the actual qua 1t may nov b tific use the ther | markets are valueless. reet. The standard expert work in the oftice of the State of Health is in point on v there be in th | with the errors unknown cars | if the seat,n | A} | ing of the of the cil s nemetors sold i \hout thermometer on- Y error 157 What 189 of such o iubility and rror was such as scalo to In this state all thermometor: | inspection s¢ are mado | then calibrated. This 14 correctness through lard Oil company fining companics ar same apparatus as is used by this state, hence thoy ave enabled the keep their ol sent into low ard required. Itis but justico to during the past five years very little ard company oil has been ate. They unders U hey are not refining oil for nor squandering _moncy on transportation. inspection is the most rigid of any the union, they accept it. ouly that other companies shall form to v, It is with with whom we have the most troubl Probaviy no contest was « more determination than that Standard Oil company and th oil inspection matter. S 0w rvicy to ures ut the their pany 1 am convinced that in ice very defective, ble cup and ihermometers, and so | standard, there can be ve or sufety secured, L. T, ANDRE -~ aragun Canal, cw Yok Worl The proposal to d mission to Nicaragua con: to study ter may hereafter mgton with better than heretofore. in the senate the Frel rejected through though it would have give a strip of territory twelv the Atlantic to the ever have sertlod wrol of | sooner now thre visit Nicaragua and bring back infor upon whi as regard the canal built. . When built our control it. It is kuow all the informed huysen tr or later be buiit The ¢ facts in advance, & Co. sost mukers and s-llers of bthes on Earth S Warth or your m 10y bick e [ip-- to buy him something nice to wear, don't buy i be- 10¢ or a dol- somewhere else cause it lar cheaper than the best. You'd better buy it of wus, for you get the best of us -—you can't get the best for the price of poor material, but you can come pretty close to it—no matter if you buy him a suit, or an overcoat or a lot of under- wear, handkerchiefs, neckties, or the thousand and one nick-nacks he carries around with him all the time—ineluding a hat. He'll like his present if you get it of us, because that's where he trades himself, or will trade if you initiate him. BROWNING, KING & CO., Wil vay 1hoexpress If you send e money for $20 worth or more o oy - | 8. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, (V| D s ) A e e e us. to make the re order uniformivy state, e other leading ro- 150 furnished with the inspectors s, 3 unnee While they aver the lowa stato in demanding likewise their competitors Nebraska standard is too low and_the inspection sery With a wholly unrelias low a little protection ae e NING, KjNg 7 generally known that for in the \ro nover ¢ 1 for 1 nearly over would thermometer, partic ALy e 1 in the nd 2by to 1 to the stand- that in this requirements, lealth, ry cone r waged with between the state on the cy of law prevailed, since when there has been cordial and honest acquiesence thereto by the coms the S s = ssistant Secretary State Board of Health. sional coms the canal question promises atany rate that the mate be considered at Washe inteliigenca For laclk of a single vote aty was ignorance and prejudice, 1 1o this country 2 miles wide Pacific and would for- the question of our con- that interoccanic canal which must The provosition before congress is tiat a commission of senators and six representatives shall wtion 1 congress can base future action nal is to be government must well that congress shall from an s R e e - =