Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1893, Page 12

12 g THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. e B. ROSEWATER " PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. et TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION withont Sunc i 800 yoar 0 One Yo 10 00 00 Batur Weekly 1 One Year OFFICES, Biiding. A pd Twenty-fourtn streets, Sontl Omaha, eorner Counell BIifTs, 12 Pearl stroet Chieago Offien, 317 Chamber of Comn New York, rooms 138, 14 and 15. Tribune Washington, 513 Fotrteenth str CORRESPONDEN All_communieations relating to news and edi- {orial matter should bo addressed: o the Editor jeon whould be Al e mad Juilding Al bisine Addrensed to T Drafta, cliccio 1B BEE PUBLL SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION State of Nebraska, ! County of Douirlas, { prge . Tzscliick 1ishing company cfrenla Decem Decon Decem widay, Doetn Wednesday, Decern ursdiy. Do iy, D Saturday, Decemnbor 30 tary of THE BEE Pub. solemuly sw tthe DAILY DEE f week 13, wis a8 10110WS ~ie | Sworn to befos presence this N. P. Frn § 8nAL (i -~V 1HO, for Novemb ON NEW Y will be no {saue of THE EVENING BEl + Ber will of Tie EVENING early Monday morning. AR'S day there he delivered BEE THE MORNING to subscribers ADIEU to the Columbian year! PREPARE to subseribe to the usnal number of good resolutions. ONE hundred policemen ave said to be disabled from duty by ravages of the grip in Philadelphia. Who is it that claims that Philadelphia is behind the times? PRESIDENT CLEVELAND scems to be losing his reputation for in fetching ducks. Will this his ability to continue to brir re- fractory members of congress? prowess affect down THAT famous book, “‘Iivery Man His Own Bartender,” is said to be fast losing its popularity sinco ready-made cock- tails were placed on the market at prices within the reach of all. IF OMAHA merchants and jobbers showed the persistence which their Kansas City vivals display in insisting upon favorable freight rates from the railroads the diseriminations existing against Omaha's commerce would soon be modified, if not entirely wiped ont. THE finding of a supposed infernal machine in Colorado addressed to the president of the United States will not create any general apprehensions. After the past year's experience with lorado cranks the public is in a po- sition to expeet almost anytiing from Colorado. Poor luck characterized the duck hunt which the president and his party indulged in as a holiday recreation, The prosident should now have a more sym- pathetic ear for the horde of hungry officesoekers, who have had to console themselves with poor luck ever since the new administration came into power. A CHICAGO paper is making an on- slaught against what it culls the senso- less custom of ringing bells, blowing whistles and tooting horns as a mark of respect to the incoming new year. As the firstday of the year arrives but once annually the people should be willing to put up with a little nonsense so long as the harm done is comparatively imma- terial. AMONG the great benefits of the re- cent crisis will be the thorough sifting out of banks conducted on fraudulent and speculative methods and the in- deiible marking of bank officials who have been untrue to the trust imposed upon them. The good banks that were forced to the wall have almost all re- sumed after a short suspension. The dangorous banks have been complotely demolished. Until another speculative era sets in, banking methods must re- main sound and free from fraud. EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON in an open letter to the Centwry takes a firm posi- tion in support of military instruction in all schools for boys. Such drill, he maintains, is good in every asvect of it —good for the boys, good for the schools and good for the country. It is inter- esting to note that this letter was writ- ten in early November, thus anticipat- ing the recommendation of Secretar Lamont, in his annual report, that mili- tavy instruction be introduced into such High schools in our various cities as should ask for the assignment of an avmy officor as drill master, govern- ment with so small & standing army as ours ought to do all in its power tostim- ulate the military education of its hoys. GOVERNOR AL/ LD of illinois goos entirely out of his way to cast a slur upon the nowpapers when, inreply to a request for his opinion on the conviction of Prendergast, he says: *I know nothing of the case except what 1 have read in tho newspapers and cannot therefore give any opinion in regard to the verdict.” The idea which the gov- ernor apparently attempts to convey is that no one reading the newspaper accounts of that trial is in a position to oexpress himsolf as to the morits of its outgome. This is quite gratuitous on his part. No one has insinnated that tho reports of those proceedings Lave been in any way colored or have do viated the slightest from striet impar- tiality toward the prisone Other men oqually prominent as Governor Alt- geld, and who have had no other source of information than he, have ventured 10 express their oplnions without fear of having been misled by newspaper ac- ocounts, If Governor Altgeld is afraid 10 tako a stand on the question of the rightoousness of the verdiet, well and good. Butno such explunution of his silence will wash uunder the circum- Mances. | discount state w. CONDITION or THE STATE TREASURY. Tieataror, Dec. 20,—To the Kditor of Tun Bee: It s my understanding that a law was passed at next to the last sossion of the leg- islaturo compeliing the stato troasurer to deposit stato funds with such banks as had complied with tho terms of safd law, requir- ing the filing of good and suicient bonas to sover the monoys deposited. It is also my understanding that the law provides for in | terest at the rate of 8 per cent on said de- posits. Can you inform_ e why the state treasurer 18 not carrying out the terms of this law, as | am informed he is not doing in any particulac? Can you inform me why state warrants are going hogeing at 08 cents on the dollar when the treasurer's books show that there 500,000 in the hands of the stite Why should I by compelled to rrants at this time! OF you understand that these warrants and | believe the records now outstanding war- 0,000, and, s T the 8 is also is nearly treasurer course draw 7 per cent show that there 1s rants in the sum of about & understand it, the state is now per cent interest on deposits: a being created in that divection, Ialso learn from reliable authority that zood and sufficient bonds were filed by banks from the interior of the state, but no atten tion has been given the same. Is it fair 0 suppose that Lincoln and Omaha banks have a right to the use of all the sta funds, and docs the state hold from these banks in Lin coln and Omaha bonds equally as good as those offered from the banks 1n the countey? FiNance, losing 1983 formation at our com- the From the hest ir the heavy deposits of state funds in Omaha mand complaint as regards banks is groundless, Quite the contrary The | they have true. ading bankers of Omaha wssert the not been favored. We are, however, convinced that the state finances are in n very deplorable More representative than a month of Tne BEl capital apprised 1 might condition, the the that startling e <Ures to had dis relative the state Moore exvected any d Auditor made a sty computation that the amount of gencral fund 21,000,000, outstanding exceeds to between the After spending more than warrants There of over $220,000 dis- the said be a crepancy auditor's books and those in treas- wrer's office. two weeks in checking up the diserep- ancy botween the hooks of the treasurer and auditor, although the auditor has fied. the books fail to balance by about $225,000. his is not the worst feature of the situation. Although the state is now vaying over $42,000 a year interest on hiud his figuves fully ver outstunding warrants, the state is not getting a penny of interest on nearly a | million of dollars which the state treas- urer has placed on depccit in the banks. ‘Phis means that the stace is paying out $40,000 a year interest when its warrants could hav leomed, and the state 000 t0 %30,000 a year in interest on funds for which vespousible heen r is losing from $2 banks were ready to give the best of bonds under the act of 1801, The tangle'in the state treasury indi- very cates that there is something wrong in The enormous indi- cates the most reckless financiering., Ac- cording to Auditor Moore the state debt now exceeds $1,000,000, when it islimited by the constitution to $300,000, the debt is still inereasing at the rate of $15,000 & month. This state of affairs diate attention. methods of accounting. volume of outstanding wavrants and demands imme- ARPLY THE WORK TE. The prevailing poverty and distross among industrious elasses who have heen thrown out of employment by the pres- ont unprecedented depression in trade, have alveady caused the purse strings of chavity to be generously opened and promise to make continued demands for assistanco to the unfortunate all through the coming winter months. Relief organizations in Omaha, as well in all the larger cities of country, have up to this time aimed chiefly to render temporary aid, to alleviate sufferving for the moment, because it is suffering, with- out considering the magnitude of the work that is to come. IFood and lodg- ings have been given men and women who are without local abodes, while the many resident unemployed who happen to have homes for the moment, but no in- come and insufficient food and clothing, have been for the most part entively overlooked. The result has been an accumulation of unfortunates in our midst who have drifted in in one way or another from the surrounding states, and find- ing themselves provided with free food and lodgings, poor as it may be, they continue a burden upon the hands of our chavity organizations because they cannot secure work here, and they have no incentive cither to seck work elsewhore to attempt to return to their homes, The dificulty, thorefove, threatens that unless the methods em- ployed thus far are speedily changed the number of unemployed needing as- sistance will receive constant additions fror abroad and show no dimunition ab n e, The men in charge of Roscue hall, who have steadfastly maintained that the great mass of the applicants for lief there were entirely worthy objects of charity, Lave, by requesting aid from the poiice in sifting the worthless from the deserving, acknowledged that they have been extensively imposed upon. The chief of police, while offering to co-operate to secure the desived end, has suggestod a radical revision in the mothods employed and the adoption of the work test as the proper means for that purpose. All the other large cities have alveady gone through this process, passing from the of indiseriminate charvity to of systematic aid to those only who are willing to aid themselves The work test applied 1 Chicago as- tonished its promoters by causing the throng of paupers at one institution to suddenly decrease from 1,500 to less than 0. These men who would not work be- cause thoy manuge to exist by begging have most probably scattered o the four winds, aud sowe of them no a8 the or stago one couid THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: doubt will ludge In Omaha if our open invitation is held out. The adoption, then, of some kind of & work test for able-bodied applicants for charitable velief must bo | effected in Omaha sooner or | later matter of self-protection. | The details of a plan should be | ated by those administoring the | funds that have been raised and should | be put into operation as soon as possible. | Converting money coatributed to the assistance of the worthy poor of our own | community to the support of idlers and ; professional tramps who have been | driven out of other cities is no less than injustico to those who been employed here, who have helped to build up our city and who are now the vietims simply of misfortune as a | positive Lave OMANA FA LURES. The reader will doubtless be both sur- prised and pleased to learn that Omaha has pulled through this disastrous year | 1803 with but two more failures than in 802, One of these is the American | Savings bank, which it is believed will | pay ont in full and a good percentage to ! stockhoiders, Excluding this institution, Omaha's failurs list for this year is | practically the same, both as to number | of traders involved and net liabilities, i | i as in 1892, The fact is disclosed in Mr. Roberson's review of trade that the fail- ures in Omaha during the past three months are but eight as against twelve for the corresponding period of 186 This is an unparalleled exhibit of vitality. Not another mevcantile city in the union has a better record and it is doubtful if any other is equal. Con- ceding 1803 to be the blackest in the financial history of the country since | 1857, it was natural to expect that { Omaha business men would be hurt ap- | preciably. Times ave hard and condi- tions extremely unfavorable, but our business houses are affording the city an advertisement throughout the commer- hich means millions in the | | | | cial | future The record of this city has always heen and is today a source of | proper pride. The commercial record outside of the banking community is cqually gratifying. We can afford to boast a little over the fact that but one | large jobbing house suceumbed to the | awful pressure of the summer, and that \[ no lacge retail store has been closed out hank by ereditors. But even more are we en- titled to take credit for the fact which | is the basis of this ar HE CLUSING Y. The year 1803 has been prolific in memorable events throughout the civil- ized world and in all departments of human activity. To the American peo- P&t has been a year of extraordinary experience, and it is not easy to now determine whether it has been more notable for its triumphs or its disasters. Among the former all thought will at once center upon the unparalleled Columbian exposition, the splendid suceess of which, as an exhibit of the world’s achievements commanded uni- versal wonder and admiration. To have outstripped all other nations in an enterprise of this character was a vie- | tory of which the nation is justly proud. The right outcome of the contest in behalf of a sound finan- cial system is to be noted as a most signal “teiumph of the common sense, the conscience and the patriotism of the country, the great importance of which is not yet fully realized. Under this head should properly be placed the escape of the nation from a false posi- tion in regard to the Hawaiian question, for the defeat of the scheme of annexa- tion was a victory for the established poliey and the wise and safe traditions of the republic. In financial and industrial misfortune the year has been one of the mosy disastrous in our history. most from its beginning distrust and depression have prevailed, veaching to every part of the land and affecung every interest. Capital and labor have suffored to an extent almost beyohd cotaputation. Prostrated industries and idle labor are found everywhere, the army of the un- employed being estimated” to exdeed 000. Hundreds of thousands of our people who a year ago were fully employed at good wages ave destitute, Communities almost everywhere are perplexed with the problem of how to provide for their poor who can get | nothing from which to earn subsistence. 1 Charity and how it shall be most wisely dispensed is the uppermost question with the philanthropic and those who interest themselves in the wolfare of theiv fellow beings. Never before, it is safo to say, have so many American citizons been forced to depend upon public and private bounty, so that in this respect the year 1803 will be es- pecially memorable, Looking abroad, it is seen that very gonevally the people of other lands have had a severer exporience than our- selves. Great numbers of peoplo are idle in Great Britain, and widespread destitution and suffering prevail there. In I'rance the situation is not so bad, though therve is a great deal of social intevest there and many French indus- tries find it havder and yet harder to 1 lold profitable foreign markets, many is struggling to overcome the ill effects of a shrinking foreign commerce and German agriculture is greatly de- pressed. Italy is nearly bankrupt and on the verge of a financial crisis which threatens disaster not only to the people but to the government itself. Spain has an empty treasury, and the condi- | tion of the people, long bad, does not improve, affording an invitation to an- archistic demonstrations, Popular dis- content pervades Aubtria-Hungary, due to the increasing poverty of the people. Belgium is far from prosperous. Bo- hemia is torn by political strife, and theve is a conflict botweon~Sweden and Novway which threatens the dismem- berment of the kingdom. not yet vecovered from the horrors of famine and pestilence. Inall the lead- ing countries of Europe tho burden of taxation to main great military and naval establishments grows heavier and harder to bear, provoking the people to protest and compelling the govern- ments to adopt greater precau- tions against the menace of anarch- ism, In South America the con- | the Blackstonian theory and practice of Russia has UNDAY, DECEMBER dition of affairg i3 even worse than in Furope. Bra z?l Is in the throesof a civil confliet, from the consequences of which, howeves# shall terminate, the ; country cannoyyragover for yeavs. The | Argentine republic struggles against bankruptey and’ insurrection by turns, Chili is still sufféing from the havoe of war, . Peru i) Beuador, both poor and | weak, are on the verge of an arned col- | lision, and Venezuela is in a state of chronic revol(tidh. There is more or loss political Unfest in the countries | of Central Amgrica, where the in- contives to revolution seem always pres- ent. Mexico is said to be enjoying a fair measure of prosperity, though the is no cvidenco of uny great progress during the year. | There is not a commercial nation in | the world as prosperous at the close of 1803 as it was at the beginning of the year, and on the whole the United States have perhaps suffered no more than other nations, if as much. The guestion that naturally suggests itself, as we stand upon the threshold of the new year, is, what is the outlook? Will 1804 vepair, at any rate in part, the damage of 180387 Such is the general hope, if not the general expectation. There are <ome indications which appear to favor its realization. It would scom that in- dustrial and commercial depression has touched bottom, and ifso a reaction can- not bo far off. For the rest of the world the promise is not so favorable. AMERICA'S INFLUENCE UPON LAW, Few men outside the legal profession realize what revoiutions have been wronght in Americun jurisprudence in the past hundred years. We have been drifting very rapidly away from idea of veach- shortest route the law. The Amervican ing a conclusion by the has brushed away wost of the hoary and havass ing incidents of common law pleadings and in tho majority of the states of the union codes have sup- planted the ancient forms and simphfied litigation immensely. In American courts amendments to the pleadings, withdrawais of unsatisfactory answers and other means of correcting errors ov saving admitted rights have almost com. pletely destroyed the happiness as well as the professional success of the old time lawyer who spent hours of the time of the court and months of his own in splitting hairs at points in the pleadings which could not touch the merits of the controversy. Oup codification of the laws and our revolution of the old English system of courts and court pro- ceedings have forced the mother coun- try to cut loose from her cumbersome methods in many particulars and lately learned lawyers in England have seri- ously suggested further vevision of the existing and anciont systems in the in- terest of simplicity and moro direct, prompt and complete justice to litigant In an address upon the topic of *Ame ican Progress in> Jurisprudence,” pre- pared for the Columbian exposition and published in the fifth number of the American Law Review for the current year, David Dudley Field treafs of the changes wrought by American jurispru- dence in a most intevesting manner. Passing hastily over the influence of America in international law, whereby we were the first to establish the right of expatriation for every human being and have led the world to look with favor upon international arbitration, he cites the effect of American thought upon the four great departments of organic law: The law of persons, the Jaw of property, the law of obligations and the law of procedur Amervica placed her constitution be- yond the reach of executive or legisla- tive power and put the organic law under the guardianship of the judiciar —a moststartling departure from the es tablished precedents of the ages. The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress was the total and final separation of the state from the church. No man under and by virtue of American law can step between his fellow man and his Maker. American lawmakers have emancipated woman from the domination of her husband; freed the honest debtor from a possible imprisonment for life; rendered it im- possible for logislators to make a crimo of that which was not a crime when it was committed; have forbidden states to impair the obligation of a contract bo- tween/man and man, and we have pro- claimed men everywhere equal before the law, declaring that no person, how- ver humble, shall be deprived of the inalienable rights of the Declaration of Independenco without due process of law. Wo have so long regarded these pria- ciples as axions that it is an effort to think thoy were even controverted in the colonies or in any other land. In the matter of property rights we have cut loose from the substance of the feudal law however we may cling to some of its forms and fictions. As early as 1 a writer upon the subjoct was able to cite twenty-one radical departures, the object and effect of which was to render the principles of law applicable to real property more simple and equitable; tho rules of eonstruction more conformable to common sense; thodes of transforring it more cheap, divegt and expeditious and the title move clear and more eusily inves- tigated. Even in 1827 the revisers of the Now York statutes had elaborated an al- most complete cods of real property. Tn the vast legal domains of personal property and personal contracts Amorica and England hayé kept well abreast with each other i the onward march of progress. But in” the department of procedure the Unitfd States was first of English-speaking nations to reject the cumbersome and contradictory methods of Eoglish common law, which had been gathering through fmmemorial ages No suitor is now turned away for defect of form and no witness is rejected who has sense enough to think or voice enough to speak. Under the old system, as law- vers know, a litigant was obliged to choose between the law and chancery courts and woe be it to him if he chose the wrong division or his lawyer made a mistake in the form of his action. In twenty-eight American states this grotesque and illogical machinery hus been swept in whole or in part out of Codification has reorganized existence. XTEEN PAGE: 31, 1893--SI the forms of procediire in both civil and criminal courts, and there is an | array of fifty-six codss which in a half | century Amorica has been able to pre- sont to the world as an improvement | upon the alleged infallible wisdom of | precoding centurios | The eminent jurist, quoting from an | address of Prof. Baldwin before the American Barassociation, announces his belief in o further reform. He thinks we give too much prominence to judie pre I'he distinet sovereignties of the law rvepresented by the supreme courts of forty-four states and four torri- tories not to mention the United States courts and the supreme courtof the Dis- trict of Columbia are multiplying prec- edents very rapidly and judge-mad law is more varied and extensive in ap- plication thaa legislative law We should drift into fixed interpretations ot acknowledged prineiples and the law should, so far as its substantial principles are coneerned, be reduced to the form of astatute. [t will be a happy day for courts, lawyers and litigants wh American jurists shall have united in their interpretation of accepted princi- ples and neither tradition nor precedent can be drawn upon to leave the lower courts in doubt as to that interpreta- tion. Finally Mr. Field attacks our system of selecting judges. He would have them appointed, and not elected, and their terms to continue for life, or du ing good behavior, with salaries suffi- cient to attract the best legal talent of | the land to the bench, In this we fancy many thoughtful people will agree with him, but the same thoughtful people know that this idea is not yet rip enough to be assimilated into our form of government. It is refreshing, how- ever, to laymen who ave still bewildered | by the complications of interpretation and annoyed by the delays which the court machinery makes possible,if not in- evitable, to learn that theve has been so marked animprovement in the past half century. Tt is a hopeful sign, too, to find the most learned men in the legal pro- fession championing the idea that fur- ther improvements ave possible and probable. The time will come when men who are now disconcerted by tho apparent variance of good law and good sense will not longer believe that the difference between the supreme court and the justice of the peace is that the supreme court has the final guess at the law. now odonts, THE director of the mint estimates the total production of gold in the world for the past year at $130,817,000, an in- crease of $10,000,000 over the production of 1891, For 1893 the total gold produc- tion is estimated at $142,000,000 at the lowest figures. The contribution of the United States to this supply amounts to £33,000,000. The greatest increase in any one region is reported from the new gold field of South Africa, the product of which for the year will amount to $30,000,000. Referving to these figures the Philadelphia Record remarks that they indicate that there is little cause for appre- hension concerning the supply of gold for money. As the supply ac- cumulates there is less need of the metal because of the rapidly increasing use of drafts and bills of exchange in the business of the world. Commerce abhors the transportation of gold, says the RRecord. At the same time, as the world becomes more refined in its tastes there is less use of gold for barbaric ornament, and more of it remains for coining into money. [t was Senator Sherman, if we are not mistaken, who said not very long ago that in time gold would cease to be used as money, and would be employed entirely as the vasis of currency. The theory is plausible. At any rate there is obviously no reason for alarm that the supply of gold for monetary use will run short, at loast during the present generation. S0 LONG as railway receiverships wero scarco exceptions to the ordinary rule, the complications arising from the appointment of receivers by a federal court while serious in their nature were not very extensive in thoir results. [n these days of indiscriminate applications for judicial interference 1n railway management, the havoe wrought by court ovders upon the contracts, obligations and liabilities of the roads has become a matter demanding the careful consider- ation of congress. Creditors of the bankrupt roads ave practically deprived of their remedies and the binding effect of contracts and leases resolves into a mere question of expediency of maintaining the agreementas viewed by the court and its appointees. The law of receiverships as applied to railway corporations is the outgrowth of only a of judicial precedent and has never been made a subject of congres- sional logislation. Abuses must nec sarily arise when such vast interests are at stake, and some legal check to theso abuses will soon be absolutely necessary. The uncertainty of the law adds another factor in advocacy of a statutory enact- ment to clear up the field. Congress is to be called on to legislate oun this subject, and should be made to appreciate its im- portance to every class of people who have relations of any kind with the rail- roads. THE crank cohorts have had their ardor dampened by the verdict of guilty vendered in the Prendergast case. They will miss sadly the impetus which they oxpocted to accrue from an inglorious acquittal. Utal and Nevada. Philadelphla Press. Senator Proctor has introduced a bill to annex Utah to Novada. The senate ought 10 pass that bill, and when the Arizona and Now Mexico admission bills are received from the house the senate should consoli- dute them and make onc large state of theso Lwo aria territorios and call it Arizona. There is 0o other feasiblo way of making a decent state of Novada except annexing Utah to it, and that must be done while Utah is a territory or not at all e Let Loose the Dogs. Washington Post Europe again stands face to face with tho big war which it has been going to fight half o dozen times o r since th early 70's. If the cpposing powers have auy iden of cutting loose in the near future th could not please this country better than unleashing the dogs of war about this time. We can furnish them with food, fodder | the clothing and other essentials at good rates aud speedy delivery. If Europe would ouly have the big windup that seems inevitable, | e—— T ——— international arbitration compact for more easily brought could be o good dea about. eitiiicas Demotishing Vapor, (ilobe-Demoerat., A convention of the business mon of Col- orado gives notice that sail state “has al most ontirely recovered from the p: and it 18 hoped that Governor Waite now give his the subject of alleged impendiug ruin in that part of the country. AR Gront Sohemo This Philadelphia Ledger., The way the Americans of Hawali pro- pose to establish their ropublic is to submit a constitution to the vote of the people and limit the suffrago to those who pay taxes on at least #0500 worth of property. That leaves out all the natives and most the foreigners, except the Americans, e tfiicniticc o Arbitration, Kansas City Star, One of the fitting and valuable works o the Columbian commission was tho adoption of a memorial to establish_international ar bitration for tho settloment of disputes. It appears most appropriate that a_commission which was instrumental in collecting to- gother the most impressive exhibit of tho arts and triumphs of peace which the world ever behald should exert its utmost power for the suppression of war and strife on the of Good Road New York Tr What 18 chiefly needea in the ag: good roads is the education of the peoplo generally to appreciate thair importance “Lhe rural population has so long been satis- fied with what it s in this res. ot that it hardly hopes for anything better. [f the de. mand for better highways caa once be cated they will be supolied beyond doubt That the national government can do any thing in this direction at preseut is more than doubtful. ation for Detriot Free Press, ibune propounds nine inquiries to tho Free Pross, and, though its manner is not at all courteous, an answer is due, In order to make the answer chensive conclusive we divide the queries into the first five and the last four. ) the first group the answor is that the Tribune is a donkey. To the last four the answer is that the Tribune is an ass. ‘T'he distinction is not a vory broad one; but it is broad enough for all practical purposes. Sele gesaus Tho 1 Chicago Mail. Burglars who bu in Chicago in theso days do so not alone at the peril of their bodies, but to the imminent dauger of their immortal souls. One of them who was wo ing ina Thirty-ifth street flat Christmas night was deliberately hugged by a young woman, a process which not alone inter fered with his work, but must have dis tracted his mind. 1f ‘o thief has to take a chaperone along with him every time ho makes a business call on the South Side lar- ceny will soon become as_immortal as waltz- ing, and will be eschewed by every one who has a reputation to sustain. ey CONCERNING NEW LEAVES. tho The Tuarning Thereof and Posaiblo Harvest. When Father Time turns one, it brings an odd little thrill even to the most matter-of- fact person, says Harper's Bazar. We like children with a wonderful picture book, whose next page may show roses or dragons. seravhs or Cinderellas, an ogre gaunt and grim in his cave of bones, or a fairy god- mother with her wand. Half the charm of it lies in the uncertainty. It was Theocritus who ung Of tho sweet years, (he dear and wished years, Who cach ono in & gracious hand appoars To bear a gift for mortals old and young.” Tho years do, indeed, come bearing gifts] Zach year, too, brings its renewed opportu- nities and obligations, and though homilies easily become trite, there is one worth re- peating, so obvious is its wisdom. Do the nearest duty, howsoever humble, It may prove the stopping stone that will help to better things. If you can conquer your failings one by one, take heart and thank God. No year can be all sunshine, one but will have its storms. clouds and rain, with clear shining after them. If the new year bring shadows, ac- pt the divine appointment. Remember, “Too much of joy i3 sorrowful, So grief must needs abound; The vine that bears too many flowers Will trafl upon the ground. If, on the other hand, it bring full bright- ness, try toshare this with some gray life that is perishing for warmth and color. So shall you multiply the glory of good fortune, asa diamond refracts and multiplies the glory of a sun ray. Tho blessedness of g ing is a sacred privilege, whether you dis- tribute smiles or roses, cheery words or coin of the commonwealth. Whoso exercises it abundantly and with love will have truly a happy new year, will writo golden para- aphs upon the white new leaf, Metaphor aside, the new leaf of the new year will briug only the harvest we have Sown. Small grains of deed may spring up and bear a hundredfola. If wo plant dreams and promises, our portion will bo dust and disappointment. for and never a There will be The largest mukers and fine elothes on K Your money’s worth or your money baclk. Locked up i i 1 1 .. A e e A A Ao Ae As A A Ae ne Ao BROWNING, Will pay the express If you send the money for §20 worth or more fR | (YT | v p o elaborate mouth a rest upon | are | All day New Year's day We take stock January 1--Open for business Tuesday morning--Tuesday is the day we devote most of our time to marking down whatever of our stock we find it to our advantage to be yours. great sweeping out sale begins Wednesday morning. | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas PEOPLE AND 1HINGS. Rt Hon. Willlam E. Gladstone was 84 years old last Friday, G.O. M, 1. N. Y. Tho loneest wait on record 18 cortain to bo that of Colorado's governor for an fce crop on the tropical plains of hades. It is reasonably cortain that business de- prossion will not retard the starting of log!s: ve mills during the coming week The periodic besoms of froth (ndulged in by Lewelling, Pennoyer and Waite are pro- voked by monkeying with the gearing at wheir capillary roots. A Missouri woman frightened a burglar out of her house. A Chicago woman hugged onc 4L ho yelled for merey. The porils of m:r profession are incroasing at an alarming rate, Since the adveat of the a rth Dakota o lively demand for castiron otlegs has sorung up. These alono pro- nt the residents from coming up to the scrateh, The Hugeing of a burglar by a Chicago woman is to by commended on humane grounds. The old practice of hurling fom- inine shoes at intruders was fraught with grave possibiliti As both Corbett and Mitehell are caget to pulverize dach othor every possiblo effort should be made to got them togother at the carlipst moment. A doubie funcral would give the new year much needed eclat James Crapsy, the first man to settio in Edgerton, Wis., was born, according to his own record, fn January, 17, Since thoro was a railroad swation thero ho has been a feature of it, and is at present ucting as local freight agent ion thistlo in Jacob Fike,who recently county, Ohio, was 8 years old. His wife, who died o woek aftor, wi Last Mareh they celebrated thefr aiamond, or seventy« fifth wedding anniversary. Mr. Fike was a Bavarian by birth Blondin .is ovor 70 years of age and stitl walking tight ropes. He gives daily oxhibi- s of his skill and daring at the” Crystal 1o in London, It is thivty-four years wade his famous trip across the Niagava falls on a tight rope. tov. Dr. W. W, Parker of Richmond, Vit has prepaved a bill which will be presented in the next Virginia legislavure for the sup- pression of drunkenness. He proposes te make drunkenness a misdemeanor, the mine imum punishment of which shall be thirty days i jail. The biil, it is said, will meet with considerable support from ¢ Tho order restraining employes from “combining and conspiring to quit the service of the road” is heralded not only as an extraordinary judicial aocument, butthe first of the kind ever issued in tho United States, Itis not the first of tho kind. A similar order was issued by the federal disteict court in Omana during the Burlington strike m 188 Union Pac trainmen were restrain from combining to resist the handling of Burlington cars, but the men found no dificulty in quitting the service of the company when the obnoxious cars were kicked into the yards. -— RIFPLES, tied in Crawford MERRY Dallas News: Tt isnot the ways on the run who wins the man W wee of 1l 1ys tit the bellet unded on t heeler. Buffalo Courler: Jillson say that thne 15 money is probably that other belief thit it s such g Elmira Gazetto: The elovator boy in the dry goods store Is an_ineoreigivle shoplifter, nd he always gets taken up or called down or it, too, Ho—Why do you regard re She “So niany make iey belonging to others. New York Hers marriage as uso of 1t to get 1 Inter Ocean: He—Does Holdfast givo his wife pin moncy, do you think? Sho-—I think e niust, for | nov with either tho silver of puper kind. r osoe ler Cloveland Plain Dealer: Lady: “Forshame, that the young man should smoke In the car! Wowt you speak to him, st Holemn Gent: “Te would e useless, ma‘am.” “And why, pray?’ “T'm bis fathor.* “What's 1l 15 ho ma the edit Atlanta Constitution mattor with your funny mn answored out of humor." “He's Just Pield's Washington: Ballet Girl (to admirer)—Only think of 1t; the Soclety for the Provention of” Crucity to ‘Children was hero today to inquire about me. Rival—What u sh are very good to your can tostify that you undchildren OLD CRUSTY New Fork Press upon him sits, Vish look hie wezrs? wives him fits, ones o glutos; He lives austerely and delights In little that he sees, And hates so hard he sits up nights To hate his enemies. e SWEARING OFF, Detroit Tribune. Sing a song of pe g A'fellow fullof rys Four and twenty serpents Danced hefore his eye. When his eye was opened Tle shoutod for his life, Wasn't he u pretty chunip To go before his wife? His hat was In tho parlor Undernoath a chalr, His boots were In the hallway, s cont wits o the stiirs, s trousers in the kitehen, His collar on the shelf, Tt he hadn'tany notion Where he was it himself. king Some one hea His howd was in the fc And that wis best of all. e L s of rth Our KING & CO., (N 0 e = ot i AR SR 2 S SR R S S o o