Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1894, Page 12

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Jannary 16 Wednesdiy, Janinr rsday, Jantiary dununey 19 Ay, January 20 —_— As THE recount of votes proceeds in the Tracy-Sackett contest the contest- ant finds himself gradually losing votes. Yesterday ho was twe Jur shy. MoST encouraging is the news of con- tinued progress in the direction of trade throughout the United States. Let the movement be constantly forward? AND now the Colorado dairymen want the tax on oleomargarine raised from 2 conts to 10 cents per pound. How would a tax on jelly, jam and other substitutes for butter fill the bill? AMERICANS imported 72,102 le3s cases of champagne last year than the year previous and the coming year's importa- tions promise a continued falling off. Champagne and democracy must have had a falling out. IouRr thousand dollars will not go very far in alleviating distress among idle labsring men, but it will do much enable the authorities, by the to vid the county of all un- ts of charity good and labor test worthy ob, ‘WE ARE caationed by adherents of the Wilson bill to look with suspi on petitions from tworkingmen against a reduction of taxes on articles of neces- sity and materials of manufacture. That's all very well. But how about petitions against the reduction of wagoes bound to ensuo from a decreaso in thoso taxes. THE announcement is made that the retrenchment committee of the Board of Fducation has found a meaus of obviat- ing the threatencd deficiency in the budget for 1804, The BEE recently pointed out a cheese-paring process which would enable the board to make both ends meet. It will bo gratifying to know that the problem has been solyed. PropPLE interested in the reform of municipal government should watch the proceedings of the convention to be held next week at the call of the Municipal league of Philadelphia. All the im- portant points of municipal misrule in American cities are to be discussed by men who have made special studies of these questions, and their suggestions should bear no little weight. MERCANTILE agencies report that speculators discounted the eflects of the expected bond issue last week and thus prevented any remarkable fluctuations in the quotations of securities on the Stock exchunge. The speculators make up a shrewd crowd. They got ahead of the silver purchase law repeal and have now anticipated the bond issue. The government is no longer in a position to startle the stock market by deciding upon new policies of administration, EMPLOY of the Union Pacific have appealed to Judge Riner of the United States court of Wyoming to admit as still existin the agreements and schedules entered into between the employes and the voad prior to the ap- pointment of receivers. The prayer of the petitioners mevits a favorable an- swor, but tho languagoe employed indi- cates that they have employed some backwoods lawyer to formulate it. Their claims are sound and should have becn presented in better form. THE appointment of Mv. W. S. Dim- mock to the position of general superin- tendent of the Omaha & Council Bluffs motor railway affords another striking proof that the most successful men of America arp solf-made. Mr. Dimmoce has worked his way up from the ranks s a telegrapheor, For the past seven years ho held the responsible position of manager of the Postal Telegraph com- pany in this city, and his selection by the motor company is a merited nition of his executive ability, recog- ONE hundred unemployed men will at once be put to work on the county roads at wages which will enable them to live and reliove charitable organiza- tions from the burden of their keoping. Any 1dle man offered work on the stroets or roads who shall decline it should be forced to leave the city at once. Efforts must be made to apply the labor test to the greatest possible number of idle men, and of the num- bor that clamor for work preference should be given to men of families, OKLAHOMA is being extensively ad- vertised as the promised haven for peo- pleof all classes who have discovered that marriage is a failure. Special in- ducements in the way of quick returns upon applications for divorco are held out, and the condivions are guarantee to be more lax than in any other section of the country. In these days any kind of a lucrative business is better than cn- forced idleness, and the courts of Oklu- homa do not intond to suffer from the effocts of hard times il they can help it. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: CORRECTING MILITARY RECORDS. The statement was made in our Wash- ington dispatches & few days ago, on the authority of the chairman of the house committee on military affairs, that there are before that committee about 1,000 bills for the “‘correction of military records.” It would seem from this that the cowards and the bounty jumpers who deserted from the union army are counting upon the present con- gress in larger number than ever before to relieve them of the stigma of deser- tion and give to them the right of asking the government to pay them a pension. Every congress since the war has had to deal with appeals of this kind, but we believe no congress has had quite 0 many of them, at so eur ly a date in the session, as the present one, which suggests that these men who refused to fight for the preservation of the govern- ment when it was in peril and who now want to share in its beneficence have more confidence of success with this con- gress than with its predecessors, It is gratifying to know, however, that if they have such faith it is likely to be disappointed. The military committee is not wasting any time over these bills, and doubtless will not if the wviews of the members generally accord with those of the chairman, Representative Outhwaite of Ohio. He recognizes the real motive behind nine-tenths of these applications for a correction of military record. A few, he admits, are meritorious cases, but the great majority ave not, and some of them present provoking cases of de- sertion and bounty jumping. *I recall one case here,” said Mr. Outhwaite, “where we found that a man had three times jumped bounty, and yet he thought to be given a good military record so that he conld get a pension.” The gov- ernment has been very considerate in this matter of correcting military vee- ords. It has given ample opportunity to every man whose military record was stained to have it purged if he could show good reasons therefor. It is hardly to be doubted that under this consider- ate policy more undescrving than de- ving men have secured the correction of their record, and many of these are undoubtedly now receiving pensions. It is time that this business were put astop to, if it be possible to doso. If there are still men in the country with unclean military records who de- serve to bave them corrected, and who can produce the evidence necessary to their correction, they have only themselves to blame for having mneglected the opportunity, which for years they might have had, to correct their records and could not rveasonably complain if further oppor- tunity were denied them, in order to put a stop to an imposition that has been tolerated too long. Lt is not un- reasonable to regard with suspicion any man who, at this time, nearly twenty. nine years after the close of the war, presents an application to have his mili- tavy record corrected, and it is easy to believe the statement of the chairman of the house military committee that fully 90 per cent or more of these appli- cations have no merit. 4 LOOKING TUWARD NEBRASKA, Tt is a reassuring fact that there has recently developed a notable increase in the inquiries for information regarding Nebraska farming lands and the agri- cultural conditions in this state. One railread company reports that it re- celves fifty requests a day for pamphlets contaimng the desired information, these requosts coming from Illinois, Mis- souri, Towa angd other states, This sug- gests what might b expected if times were good and the veturns of the agri- cultural industry more satisfactory, and warrants the belief that whenever a return of prosperity comes Ne- braska will not be behind any of the other agricultural states in material progress. It is very gencr- ally understood among those who are interested in such knowledge that the agricultural capabilities of this state are very high. It has a good soil and a most favorable climate, and in all the cultivable area the yield per acre will compare advantageously with that of the most favored agricultural sections. With these conditions there is the al- mostequally important one of compara- tively cheap lands. A great deal of farm land in Nebraska can be bought for about what it costs per acre to lease land in Iowa and some other states. Of coursa this is not the best land nor the most favorably located, but it is better than much of the land held at a higher price elsewhere, The secretary of the state board of agriculture, in his annual report sub- mitted to the board a few days ago, said that while ills, and many serious ones, have attended agriculture in Ne- braska, as elsewhere throughout the civilized world, the year past, this state has much for self-congratulation in comparsion with other states. He said that while embarrassment and de- pression are at the present time tho common lot ofall, the agricultural inter- ost of the state had perhaps suffered less from them than almost any other vceation, It is at any rate true, undoubtedly, that the farmers of Nobraska have experienced no greater hardship from the general depression than those of other states, Immigration here for the past year or two has been slow for cbvions reasons, and it can hardly be expected to improve much while the present conditions continue. However much people elsowhere may bo dissatisfied with their condition they aro not disposed to change habitation until there is a return of business activity and a resumption of prosperity that promises to continue for a time. But it is a vemssuring sign that those people in other states who are secking to better themselves are begiuning to make inquiries regarding the agricultural capabilities and advantages of Nebraska, for it may confidently be expected that in due time good results will come from these in- quiries. There i3 every reason for sunguine faith in the future of Nebraska. The extraordinary record of progress made during the ending with 1800 may not be equalled in the decade that | will clese with the beginning of the twentieth century, but there caun be no decade doubt that this state will by that time have very considerably increased its population and resources and taken & long step toward the attain ment of the position it s cer- tain to ultimately occupy a8 the foremost agricultural state of the union. A little more enterprise and liberality in making known the oppor- tunities and advantages that ave offered here would help to this result, while another thiag in which there are great possibilities is the reclamation of the arid and semi-arid portions of the state, comprising more than one-third of its area. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture states that irrigated lands show better yields of all crops for 1893 than those not irrigated, even in the otherwise most favorable districts in the state. A thorough system of irriga- tion where needed will be of incal- culable benefit to Nebraska. HIGH SCHOOL REFORM, The report of the committee on sec- ondary education to the National Educa- tion association, which has occasioned no little comment in the public press, is made the subject of a very interesting article by Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler in Hurper's Weekly of a week ago, in which he calls attention to its most salient featuves and approves its prin- cipal recommendations. He insists that the secondary schools occupy the point of erucial importance in the American system of education viewed as a whole and that any lasting improvement in the system must begin at this stage and work its way down to tho clementary schools. The committee's report deals with the reform of the instruction in these institutions and recommends in brief the simplification of the course of study, the introduction of laborator, methods in natural science, the abolition of different courses in the same subject, and finally the beginning of but one new language in any one year. The model courses of study which itsubmits are framed with these objects in view and at the same time leave ample room for a latitude of choice and combination. While reform in methods and scope of instruction is one of the needs of our high schools wherever they exist the demand that must first be met in the far west is that for high schools of even an unpretentious kind in those localities that are yet without them. In Ne- braska, for example, while there is a well organized system of elementary schools in the rural districts the high schools are to be found only in the larger towns, which are to such a degree scattered that many of thoso who pass through the clementary schools have no opportunity to carry their education further if they would. The list of accredited institu- tions whose instruction is recognized as satisfactory for applicants for admis sion to the Nebraska State university supplies incomplete data for comparison. The list includes but fifty-five institu- tions. Those at the foot of the list secure less than half the credit accorded those at the head. All of them teach Latin, butonly eight Greek. This would probably not be taken as so indicative of the standard as the fact that but twelve give instruction in any modern language besides English. In nearly half the counties of the state there are no schools at all higher than the ele- mentary and grammar grades. To the recommendations of the com- mittee on the reform of secondary cdu- cation, as applicable in the nower west, should be added this as a preliminary requisite that means should be provided to cap the public school system with an adequate system of high schools. The difliculties of maintaining such institu- tions in sparsely settled regions are chiefly those of providing the financial support and making them easy of access. The larger towns are fairly well sup- plied. What is wanted is a higher de- velopment of the country school school system. YHE MARKETS OF THE WORLD. The democratic contention that the tarifl policy proposed by that party will result in giving the products of Ameri- can industries a larger access to the marketsof the world than they now en- joy is oue of the fallacies underlying American free trade. As was asked by Representative Dingley in his speech on the tarilf bill a few days ago, what chance do we stand to capture these markets more rapidly than we have al- ready been doing in the face of the fierce competition of Great Britain, France, Gurmany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and other machine-using nations with cheaper labor? Does any rational man suppose that our manufacturers would ase their business in the markots eat Britain under the proposed pol- The British manufacturers pro- to keep their home market, and they will do so regardless of any policy we may adopt. There ave sold in the markets of Great Britain some articles of American manufacture, and this will continue to be done, but the time is very remote when the maunufacturers of the United Kingdom will permit us to in- vade their home territory to such an ex- tent as to seriously reduce thkeir do- mestic business. No British manufac- turer fears the effect of the democratic tariff policy in this direction. On the contrary all of them are most hope- ful that that poiicy will be adopted, be- cause they know it would bring a great increase in their American trade with- out endangering in the least their grasp upon their home market. Nor are they Qisturbed about the possible competition of American manufacturers in other markets, If it should como with more vigor than in the past they will be pre- pared to meet it, and even if they should suffer some loss from such competition they would be able tofar more than muke up for it in the gain they would make in the American wmarket. It is even more unreasonable to assume that onr manufacturers would materially inerease their trade with any of the countries of continental Europe. France, Germany, Italy and the rest of thew are hedged about by protective tariffs and commercial policies designed to preserve the home market for their own people. American goods are now sold in all these countries, by reason of some spe cial merit or superior quality, but it is a trade in the aggrogate of small propor- pose UNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1894—SIXTEEN PAGES. tions and it is the morest assumption, without a single substantial fact to rest upon, to say that we shall realize any important increase in our exports of manufactured articles to those countries as a result of the economic policy of theslemocratic party. Where else shall we look for an in- creased demand for the products of our industries that will'begin to compensate for the loss of the homé market? Cer- tainly not in South and Central Amer- ica, or Mexico, or Australia, or China, or the islands of the “ocean. In all these regions wo should still encounter a competition as fierco and eager as it is at present, and whatever reduction might be made in the price of American labor, it is not to be doubted that the manufacturers of Burope would still maintain their advantage. When it comes to a competition for the markets of the world in which the pi of labor is the important factor the American manufacturer will long continue to be ut a disadvantage The democratic policy involves the surrender of the home market, in large part, at least, and offers in return the extremely uncertain promise of increas- ing our trade with other countries in the products of our manufacturing in- dustries. It proposes to subject our great industrial interests to a damaging and, perhaps, destructive foreign com- petition, and to reduce the price of labor to the BEuropean standard—for without this the survival of our manufacturing industries would be impossible—and for this sacrifice it offers not a single sub- stantial or assured return. ABOLISHING COLL . GE EXAMINATIONS, Cornell university has held its last examinations for the promotion of students from one class to another and has inaugvrated a system of determin- ing individual progress by personal re- ports of the instructors. Several other large educational institutions have abolished examinations for this purpose within the last few years and if these new depatures meet no unexpected obstacles it will be reasonable to expect their adoption in the course of time— and no very long time at that—by all the principal universities apd collegos the country. The abuses of the examination system have long been the topic of discussion in educational cles and the remedies that have been suggested and tricd aro many and varied in character. Every little while the announcement would come from one college or another that another ingenious device for penctrat- ing the veil of scerecy thrown about ex- amination questions had been discovered and increased vigilange on the part of those in charge of the work scems only to have increased the avidity with which the student’s inventive' genius has been applied to the discovery of improved plans of beating the examiner. Not that this disposition to cheat is particularly widespread among the students of any college, but it is seldom or never en- tively absent from the student body. More objectionable than this, however, is the inevitable tendency of the exami- nation system to stimulate what is tech- nically known as. ‘‘cramming,” or in other words the neglect of work during the greater part of the year and an ex- cessive application to the hooks for a short period just preceding the time set for the examination. Tt often enables the idler and laggard to make a better showing on the records than the faithful and zealous student. It encourages list- lossness and sporadic work, alike harm- ful to the institution and its students. The information gained by * lasts only until the examination has been passed and men are cnabled to graduate without having obtained a real college education. The abolition of the examination sys- tem, of courge, does away with most of these abuses. A trained instructor can generally tell whether or not a student is doing the work required of him, and whether or not he has earned promo- tion. Exacting compliance with a high standard of admission, the student must apply himsolf with a reasonable fidelity after entering or be notified of an im- pending degradation into the olas below. He loses the crutch upon which he was wont to fall back, that by study- ing up before examination he can make up for all deficiencies during tho year. The abolition of college examinations promises to be an important step in the line of educational advancement. Tne Chicago Tribune is vigorously combating the pretension made not long ago that that city could have boasted of 2,000,000 inhabitants on the Ist day of May last. It insists that all caleuiations of this kind are the grossest exaggeration,based upon inaccurate data and arrvived at by unwarranted methods. The falsity of these assertions must, it suys, be proven indisputably in the course of time, and when the true num- ber of inhabitants is ascertained can only react to the detriment of Chicago and its people. The Zribune estimates the present population of Chicago at between 1,400,000 and 1,500,000, and maintains that these con- servative figures aro in themselves suffi- ciently creditable without resorting to padding or influtjon. What is truo of Chicago n this respect is equally true of every growing westorncity, The last census effectually punctured the exag- gerated claims of & number of western communities, the lgssen of which is most obvious. The growth of western cities in the decade between 1880 and 1890 was unprecedented in the annuls of the world. There is no nocessity whatever for population wflation. Tae proposition Advanced by the national secretary, of the United Mine Workers union for a general and con- certed strike of the coal miners in every state in the union is hardly worthy of the serious consideration of the work- ingmen. A general strike in a period of business depression would only result disastrously to the laboring men. But it is true, however, that the manipula- f10n of the great coaling ndustry of the United States is rapidly assuming pro- portions that will sooner or later de- wand the consideration of the law wakers of the nation. The combinations and intimate velations between the min- ing and railroad interests have placed the fuel of the country in the hands of a fow men, and they control output, wages and prices with almost despotic power and arrogance. The mining industry must be completely divorced from railroad manipulation, and transportation charges must be so regulated that the | price of fuel will beat such a figure that it can bo used by the people in every section of the country IT 18 undoubtedly a fact that the Ne- braska supreme court is compelled to review a great many cases which should never come before it. Within a few days a case has boon filed involving a disputed claim for $13. Cases are now on filo involving less amounts. A caso is also on file involving the disputed ownership of a second-hand sewing ma- chine. These cases belong in tho jus- tice courts, but under a constitutional provision, which places no limitations upon the number or importance of cases which may be filed, the supreme court is compelled to devote the same amount of lahorious and painstaking investiga- tion to these cases as it would to cases involving thousands of dollars or con- stitutional questions of importance. Steps should be taken to relieve the supreme court of such business of minor importance, even if the constitution has to be “tinkered” in order to do it. THE annual report of the Stato Board of Transportation is soon due. It will be full of alleged statistics pretending to give facts and figures concerning the ilroads doing business in Nebraska. These figures are in nearly every in- stance misleading. They are prepared in the general oftices of the several rail- road companies and are juggled in such a manner that they give the people but little information that is of any real service. Tho report should containa few chapters detailing the methods by which the raiiroads are compelling the people of Nebraska to pay dividends upon miliions of dollars of watered stock and interest upon other millions of fic- titious bonded indebtedness. Tne hotheads of the State Labor con- gress condemned the proposed beot sugar factory on the ground that it would bring “pauperized labor” to Omaha. The men who are working for the loca- tion of the enterprise here deny that more than a dozen foreigners will be asked to come. The labor congress also denounced the government for not giving the work of construction at Fort Crook to Nebraska mechanics and laborers. Investigation proves that the major por- tion of the material and work has been furnished by Nebraskans. We would advise these self-appointed conservators of the affairs of everybody to exert some littie energy in the way of informing themselves as to facts. CONGRESSMAN BRYAN wants it an- nounced to his many correspondents that the press of duties in connection with his position on the ways and means committee compels him to defer answering all letters until after the Wilson bill shall have been dealt with by the house. Congressman Bryan's constituents are only beginning to learn with what a self-sacrificing and dutiful representative in congress they have been blessed. Not even the chance of securing legislative endorsement of his senatorial ambition could induce him to look to the wild and woolly west at the present moment. IF CONGRESS would devote one-half of the time that is wasted upon fruitless discussions of the tariff bills to an honest endeavor to soive the railvoad problem in such & mauner that industry in the United States could overcome the enormous costs of transportation service the question of manufacturing in the United States would be solved. The im- mense cost of the transportation of raw material and manufactured products does more to discourage manufacturing industry in the United States than all the laws of trade included in even the most comprehensive planof taviff duties. No Room for Sentiment, Washington News, When the French courts sentence an an- archist to death ho is_beyond the reach of technical points, emotional women and big bouquets. el fo sl Whither Are We Drifting? Washington Pcst. It will undoubtedly pain the author of our Years More of Grover” to learn that United States judges aro appoiuting re- publicans to offices that the president can't find time to i1l L The Aucient and Modern. Detroit Free Press. The Nebraska woman who has made a handsome fortune out ot apples has done much better than did the first woman who figured in the apple market. ¥ve made a great deal of trouble because of her, apple orchard, but she never made enough to clothe the fam: Ph ladelphia Press. Senator Morzan's proposed amendment to the anti-trust law, practically excluding monopolies from the ownership of patents, would not reach the most pernicious of all trusts—those which seclk to corner the necessaries of life; but, us far as 1t goes, 1t embodies asound doctrine. ‘The govornment should not be expected to protect the fran- chises of combinations which seck to evade oroverride both its own laws and the laws of political economy. ———— A Brightening Business Outlook, Chicago Post. sent out by the great commer- blo change 1n T he volume of The reports olal agencies reflect a favor trade and industrial affairs strictly commereial transactions has not materially increased, but evidence is pour- ing in from every quarter that merchants have sold down to bare shelves, while the resumption of mauufaciuriug activities shows plainly chat producers are making preparations to meet the demund for fresh supplics which must inevitably follow. Workshops and factorics are starting up everywhere I way perhaps, but in a way significant of the fact that the cur- rent has turned and that the climax of de- pression has been passed. S, Degeneracy of Boston. Chicago Herald. Boston Is suffering with an epidemic of profunity. Emerson’s soulful proverbs are displaced by strange oaths and Thoreau’s moral morsels by awful wnprecations. So serious and widesproading has the epidemic become that an appeal for & moral quaran- tine has been made. Pastors of churches of all denominations have been requested to tako the third commandment as a text for lectures and homilies; tho school board has been importuned to nstruct teachers Lo give talks to bupils on the purity of spoech, and editors of daily papers have been asked to admonish thelr readers not to supplant Eog- lish with profane language. Wnile no cause ia assignod for this general use of profanity it is probable that the sophomoric inaugural address of tho new republican goveraor has had much to do with it | itali PEOPLE AND THINGS. Congress has been likened to & z00. Henco fts hankering for raw material 'wore better somo lettors wore writ to bloom unseen in the waste baskot It 1s feared tho ex-queen's apvetite for chops will not be satistiod in this lifo. Ears are strained _in vain for an open pro- fession of love for Clevelund for the enemies he has made. jovernor Mitchell can actual hostilities, but there is no earth to curb the pugilistic mouth Managers of jag clubs at the Kansas capi- tal are obliged, under severe penalties, to provide safety skates for membors A woman in Russia washed ner h petroloum and then lighted a cigarette widower will hesitate before striking other match Colonel Alexander Horton, a Toxas patriot, died near San Augustino Sunday. He was first aide to General Houston at the battle of San Jacinto, April 21, 1836, which won the independence of Texas from Mexico. John Chatterton, the tenor, who under the namo of Sig. Perugini is engaged to mairy Lillian Russoll, the operetta star, is havo taken the prize at the original ba show organized by Barnum in New York Jerry Simpsou is said to have forsaken the plain ‘speech of his constitucney. In ad aressing tho house recently he frequently used the broad *a" insuch wordsas France, dance and chance. He also gave the i sound 1o either and neither. General Sickles, when ago if he intended to make a_speech on the tariff question, answered: 1 don't beliove 1 wili participate in the debate. I am still studying the question. 1 have boen study- ing it for forty years.™ Donald G. Mitehell, admired by hundreds of thousands s the author of ““Roveries of a Bachelor,” 1 bo seen daily taking his walks in’ the fields and along tho country roads noar his home in Connecticut, Ho is 72 years old and well preserved. The jubilee of Maurus Jokai, who is in a way the founder of Hungarian literature, ok u practical turn. An edition o luxe of his works was published at €100 a copy, yielding him 0,000 personally. The sub- seribers got the cditions and he takes the luxe, Winnie Jefferson, who claims to be 107 years old, and who was a slave 1 the family of Thomas Jefferson when he was president of the United States, is still living in New York. At the time of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to General Washington the man she afterwards married was a drammer boy in the continental army. Several years be- fore the civil war Grauny Jefferson bought her freedom for $100. Her husband paid $450 for his freedom. Colonei Frank Burr, the well known news- paper correspondent, who died Monday at Camden, N. J., when 8 years old was siolen by the Chippewa Indians. fo remamed with the Indians until he was 9 years old, when they left him behind them on a trip to Detroit, then a trading post. He became newsboy, und at the age of 17 he enlisted as a pri te in the union army to fight against the confederacy. He rose rapidly in the service, and at 20 he commanded a battalion, Cougressman ‘Tom Jobnson is the son of a Kontuckian who was a colonel in the con- federate army. The son rapidly grew rich through street railway patents and fran- chises, and he is now financiaily interested in_several mportant mauufacturing enter- prises. He becamo an unwilling couvert to Honry George's land theory souie years ago. Having read *Progress and Poverty,” and being unable to meet 1ts arguments to his own satisfaction, he turncd over the book to his lawyer, and asked him as counsel to read it and render an opinion traversing its argu- ment. But the lawyer, after reading the book, assented to the argument, and Mr. Johuson, having made further personal ex- ‘amination of the question, enrolled himself among the disciples of Mr, George. Mr. Johnson and Mr. George have been ciose friends for some years. el i, BLASIS FROM KAM’'S HORN, A mistake is apt to attract more attention 10 us than a virtue. “The devil has one arm around the man who is trustiug in himself. A soft answor has often been the moans of breaking n hard heart. Tho recording angel never sceks informa- tion from a gravestone. Cut off a rooster's spurs all out of his crow. Good fortune sometimes comes to soe us in a very shabby looking carriage. It would be hiard to convince a spider that there is any honey in a rosebud. The less a preacher knows the Lord the more he depends on his head in the pulpit. It would puzzie an onion to understand what there is about a rose that poople like. The moment a man can see that all is vanity he loses his desire to own the earth. “Phe man who howls at the passirg of the hat in church will pay a big hotel bill witha smile on his face. “The pastor who tries to carry his wholo church on his shoulders will soon be very lame iu the back. “Tne only reason why some peovle are con- sidered religious is because they make a good deal of noise in church. One of the times when a woman has no mercy on a man is when he comes to her store to buy a bonnet for his wife, The man who can not prove by his wife that heis a Christian has no business to stand up when there is a voto taken in doubtless stop vower on ir with Hor asked a few days and you take the SECULAR SHOTS Washington News: Tho advontists are going to South America. They ean never ot 1o be candidates for paradiso by mixing in the Brazilian firecracker fighting Dotroit Freo P’ress: The Presbytorians north and south have united. If tho rest of the peoplo in_these respective localities can do the samo thing America would be a good many leagues nearer tho millennium than sho is at tho present writing. 3t. Paul Globo: Kvangolist Moody s about to bogin a series of revival meetings ut Washington, No city in the United States ueeds a revival more, If, in addi- tion to stirving up the religious activity there, Brother Moody ecan imbue some of the congressmen with an appreciation of the duty they owe to the people, he will deservo the hoarifelt gratitudo of the entire people. New York Sun: Thera is a Jorsey clergy- man who woars the whitest rose, He lives inWestfield, which will be 100 years old this month. Controvorsy arose uas to whother thero should be wine at tho cele bration dinner. [inally this clovgyman pro nosed that, only avplejack should be served, & proposal received with acclaim by the wets and horror by the drys, Astonished av the tempest, the gooa mut expiained that he had supposed applejack to bo a slang synonym of sweet cider. o bo such heaverly innocence in Now obody shall prevent us from believing so. Detroit Free Press: Rev. Dr. Greer of New York has a schemo to establish and run a pawnshop on Christian principles. “This, of course, means that it will not be run on business princiles as understood by the men who follow their calling under the familiar sign of the three balls, Only those who are inactual need can do businoss at Dr. Greer's pawnshop and they will be favored upon the best terms consistent with the payment of running expenses. Tho plan is promped by commendablo motives whate ever the result may be. g - A Concesston to Commor New York Tines. The determination of the ways and means committee to submit the incono tax propo- sition ina separate bill isa concession to common sense, Only one thing_could be better—not to submit it at all. The house is pretty suro to reject the bill, but why should the time necessary for this be wasted when delay is so costly and so demoralizing? - SABBATI SOLACE. Sonse. Galveston Nows: The crank fs great when it comes to winding people up. Siftings: The roason women don't appre- ciate the telegram at half its valuo, is that postscripts cannot bo_ added withotit oxtra charge. New Orleans Pleayune: The span of life Is a lively palr of trotters that can go in 2:80. Lowell Courler: shion, but the sn Bangs have gono out of 1oy hasu't heard of {t. Yonkers Statesman: A Kansas prohibition- 18t is so radieal that he refusod to attend an entertuinment in which a tight rope fizured. Philadelphia Record: The girl who “laughs in hor sleeve” can now do the laughing for the whole family. 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