Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1894, Page 4

iy the middle of a term of court. THE OMAHA DA l_lr,YVIH'v‘,E. . ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Nee (withe ) Omo Yoar § %800 fly and Sunday. One Year 10 00 s BuTlAINE. and Twonty-fonrth streots. smmerce. Tribune building forial matt RS S b ancos whould bo fikon B pany.Omahn payabie to by SWORN STATE! Nebraska, ary o Titr, T Pl i wonpny, dor Aoty Awear that il clouman £ DALY DRE for the week haling Jin ey 20, 1994, wah & follows yryge 2 day, danuar Friday, January 1 Baturday, Januor S worn to bofore me wid su! 'HING ought to drop today in the line of Nebraska federal appointments. ents are flow- The OFFERS for those b per ¢ fng in with gratifying rapidity. gources of investment in this country have not yet been dried up. ‘CONGRESSMAN ToM JOHNSON dis- claims being a philanthrop This de- nial is altogether superfluous. What would a philanthropist want in con- gross? THERE is something a trifle sugees- tive in the number of ex-state oflicials and members of the legislature whose names appear upon the lists of pur- chasers of the state'’s saline land. AGITATION for irrigation innorthwest Nebraska is by no means dying out. Another irvigation convention is to be held at O'Neill next week and that is to Do only a boginning. Irrigation is alive topic in this state SALINE land lessees who succeeded in getting the most favorable appraise- ments are not losing much time in per- fecting their titles as owners. When the rush really commences the saline lands will not hold out long. PRESID! announcement that the triumph of the Brazilian gov- ernment is a question of but ashort time is becoming a trifle shopworn. EEAS short time” seems to bo of different lengths in different parts of the world. NEBRASKA is without a United States district attorney for the nonce, and in And yet the vacancy is not made necessary from a dearth of candidates. The president is perhaps embarrassed by the wealth of raw material, NEBRASKA'S federal brigade is as yet too smali a contingent to cut much of a figure in next season’s democratic cam- paign, but what there is of it may be de- pended upon for a Kilkenny exhibition that will throw all previous campaigns in the shade. r “CURRENT funds,” fas referred to in the state depository law, are waiting for an authoritative interpretation by the supreme court. In the meantime the treasury is gotting interest on the small- est amount of public money which the narrowest construction of the law will allow. ANOTHER injunction against the opera- tion of the new garbage contract has been asked for. The petition sots forth that the contract was conceived in frand and born in iniquity. Meantime the contractor is spitting on his hands and getting a good ready for shoveling in all the garbage he cun lay his hands on. Two VETOES by President Cleveland within a week i doing fawrly well, but it is by no means up to tho vecord set by him during his first term in the white house, when he vetced more bills than all his predecessors combined. But there is a free ficld ahead of him, and President Cleveland may yet launch out to beat his own record. THE winter campa h has for its object the elevation of a professional politician to the clerkship of the supreme court, is making excellent progress. Now that the supremo col has been carried diveetly into politi is eminently fitting that the office emoluments connected with the court shouldybo distributed upon a political patronage basi A PRISKY and flippant kitten sur- named Biilyannin has been purring around the Nebraska dignitavies at Washington all winter and pouring forth a melodious tale of love and affoc- tion just to keen his pa-in-law from be- ing bounced out of a soft berth. | Kittens ave very cunning sometimes, as the boy said when he gave an oxtra twist to the narrative of his pet. THE popular esteem in which George W. Childs, editor of the Philadeiphia Public Ledger, is held by men of all parties in the United States, was em- phasizea by the many expressions of re- gret which followed the announcement of his recent illuess. The expressions of regret have given way to congratu- lations with the news of his prospective recovery at an early dato. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S veto of the New York and New Jorsey bridge bill must be a rude shock to his mast ardent admirers in the motropolis. They have staunchly denied that it was a local measure in any respect, befng designed, as they assert, to facilitato the puassage of 800,000 pevple to and from Now York City. They have becn looking forward to the carly construction of the oridge and cannot but be dismally disappointed at seeing {t receive a setback from a president who hails from that city. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: PROJECTED PINANCIAL PLANS. As 800 as the tariff bill is disposed of in the house next week the attention of that body will probably be diracted to several financial plans which have been under consideration by committees and are ready to be submitted to the house. Porhaps first in importance is the bill agreed on somo ten days ago by the coinage committee, which provides for coining the silver seigniorage in the treasury, This measure calls for the immediate issuance of certificates against the seigniorage, these cer- tificates to be available for the payment of current government ex- ponses. Tt also provides for the coinage of all the silver bullion in the treasury as fast as practicable. This has been characterized as simply a shameltss plan to create a lot of flat money, but not- withstanding this it will undoubtedly have a numerous body of supporters in the house. These will urge that with 50 much silver in the possession of the government it ought not to borrow mon There is not the slightest prob- ability of tho success of this measure, howeve There is no chance of the legislation regarding silver being changed in the interest of that metal during the present administration. The bill of Mr. Springer, chairman of the banking and currency committde, will doubtless be urged by its author at the very first opportunity. 1t provides for the creation of a national currency commission, to be composed of the secre- tary of the treasury, the treasurer of the United States and the comptrolier of the currency, which shall bo charged with the exceution of the provisions of the act. These have been referred to here- tofore, and it may be sufficient to say in this connection that the plan contemplates a more elastic currency than is provided under the national banking eystem by allowing banks to use various kinds of approyed eecurities as a basis of circulation. The plan has not yet been subjected to much public discussion, but such attention as it has received has not been altogether favorable. The measure is not entirely without merit, but it is not a scheme that is likely to commend itself to prac- tical judgment in such matters. The question of repealing the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues will prob- ably come forward in some form. When last considered by the house banking and currency committee the supporters of unconditional repeal got a setback, but this did not defeat the proposition and it is pretty certain to be heard from very soon after the tariff is out of the way. There is no reason to believe that the advocates of wiping out the tax with- out any conditions, leaving the state banks free to issue notes at will, have gained any strength, but it would not be wise to assume that there is no dan- ger of some sort of acompromise by which the tax will be done away with. Doubtless there will be other financial projects presented, but those referred to may be expected to lead in the consider- ation of congress when the time comes for them. THE APPEAL OF LABOR. Never before in the history of this country has congress received so many appeals from labor as have gone to that body within the past thirty days. They have come from the great army of the unemployed in the centers of manu- facturing industry, and many of them tell in simple but pathetic language of the distress and privation and hardship of those whose signatures are attached to them. All of these appeals attest on thelr face that they were drawn by the men who make them, instead of being framed, as the democrats are in the habit of asserting, by the employers of labor. It s common to hear it said that these petitions asking congress to defeat the policy that has thrown hundreds of thou- sands of people out of employment are of little or no value as indicating the sentiment of wage earners, the allega- tion being made that employes aro al- most forced, under threats of dismissal or diseipline of some kind or another, to ¢ sign these documents, It is casy to make assertions of this kind, but an examina- tion of these petitions and appeals com- pletely refutes them. As was stated by our correspondent a fow days ago, they very generally show plain evidence of their origin in their construction and styie of expression, They are the plain, honest, earnest call to congress of a host of American citizens to be given an op- portunity to return to work, whereby they and their families may be relioved of tho hardships and sufferings they have experienced for months and which they reasonably fear they must continue to experience for months to come if the democratie tariff policy shall prevail. It is a call to which congress ought to give heed, but there appears to be little promise that the party in control will do Its determination, so far at least as the house of representatives is con- cerned, to carry out the policy embodied inthe pending tariff bill, it scems likely will prove to be impregnable to any ap- peal or protest that has been made. It is said that there have been filed in the ate and house not far from 2,600 peti- tions against the Wilson bill, and assuin- ing they were signed by only 500 persons cuch they vepresent the appeals and pro- tests of 1,230,000 people, a considerable part of them, undoubtedly, heads of families, with those dependent upon them for support. It is believed, how- ever, that the number of persons repre- sented is much larger and nine-tenths of them yoice the demand of labor. Nothing like it has ever been known before in this country. A week hence these people asking for bread will learn from the democratic house of vep- resentatives whether they are to have that or a stone, At present the indica- tions are not favorable for them. The demcerats of the house are apparently under good diseipline, and while it is to be expected that a fow of them will desert the ranks, having already an- nounced “their determination to do so, the number of such is not likely to be so large as to prevent the passage of the bill. The party whip will be most vigorously applied when the time for voting arrives and it will doubtless keop enough memby of the majority in line to carry the bill through the house. The hove of tho in- dustrial workers of the counlry is in the sonato. Thero is at present in that body strong democratic opposition to the tariff bill and so shrewd an observer as Shenator Sherman regards the fate of the measure in the senate as uncertain. Tt is possible, however, as the Ohio sen- ator suggests, that the opposition may die away under the persuasive influence of the administration and party man- agors. But it may be rogarded as practically assured that the tensf thou- sands of unemployed throughout the country who have sent appeals to con- gress must look to the senate for what- ever consideration thoy may receive. "WAS EVER THU. Looking backward is sometimes very interesting as well as instructive. We have just fished out of the scrap bag the following special from Washington to the Chicago T'ribune under date of No- vember 21, 1802 Judge McVoy of fowa, who has business here before the United States supreme court, believes that Hon. John “larkson will be the successor of Senator Wilson from the Hawkeye state. “We elect our legislature biennially,” said he, “and the one to be electod next year will select the man who will take the seat now occupied by Mr. Wiison, It is quite certain that the republicans will carry the legislature if they keep the matter of prohibition out of the campaign. Granted that the republicans secure the legislature, it is the general opinion that Mr. Clarkson can pluck the senatorial plum if he wishes to. Judge McVey's forecast was correct in several particulars. The republi- cans of Towa sagaciously kept prohibi- tion out of the campaign. The republi- cans carried the Towa legislature and a republican will fill the seat which Sena- tor Wilson is to vacate on the 4th of March. Italso came to pass that Mr. Clarkson kept his eye on the senatorial plum at long range, but he did not pluck the plum. It was too high up on the tree for him, and not a soul tried to put Mr. Clarkson within reach on the po- litical stepladder. In fact, his name was not even ‘mentioned as a senatorial possibility. Moral: The ingratitude of republics is more fatal to ambitious statesmen than Potomac swamp malaria. AN OPPORTUNILY 10 DO SOMETHING, Omaha can have a magnificent market, house and auditorium building by the end of this yoar if the project is given prompt consideration by the council and city authorities. The first step in that direction should be the rejection of all market site propositions for the purchase of ground, followed by an invitation to architects to submit plans for the struc- ture based upon the assumption that it must be not less than sixty feet wide and 0 feet iong and two stories high, with market house accommodations in the first story and an auditorium above. When these plans have been submitted with estimates of the cost of construc- tion the council will be in position tode- cide how much it will be able to ex- pend for a site and carry out the pro- visions of the bond proposition. It would be preposterous for the councl to invest $100,000 or more for a site if a substan- tial and vespectable building, covering the space designated by the bond propo- sition and combining the features of a market house and auditorium, could not be built for the surplus at its disposal above the cost of the ground. Whatever may have been the design of the projectors of this market house and public hall, one thing must be patent to every taxpayer. Omaha wants as little money invested in the ground and as much as possible in the building. The money invested in ground will goto a few land owners. The bulk of the money invested in a building goes to the stone mason, brick maker, the iron foundry, tbe lumber mill and the mechanics and laborers employed in the construction of the building. They in turn will cir- culate the money among the retail deal- ers and tailors, shoemakers, landlords, ete. A magnificent building is always a matter of pride to every city, while a mammoth shed is absolutely a detri- ment. It is within the power of the mayor and council to give Omaha a monumental structure, and at the same time provide employment for a very con- siderable number of workingmen with the beginning of spring. It is to be hoped that they will fall in with the idea and take such steps as will expedite the erection of the proposed market house and auditorium building. BERS of the Board of Fire and Police Commission are required to take oath at the commencement of their terms that in considering removals of men under their control they will con- sider only the interests of tho ecity and the success and effectiveness of their de- partments. The investigation of charges preferred against public officers before them Is conducted with this objuct in view and not for purposes of punishment or veward. The efficiency of the police and fire departments can be maintained only by strict discipline. Men who are dissatisfied with their positions cannot properly perform the work expected of them. The duty of the police commis- sion is plain CHICAGO has managed to secure a favorable rveport on a bill for a new federal building which had been re- ferred to a subcommittee of the house committee on vublic buildings. It is still some little distance to the passage of an appropriation for its construction. If Chicago succeeds in getting the money for a new public building out of the present congress, with deficiencies staring at the treasury from all sides, it will realize on hopes that other large cities have coneluded to be in vain. IT SHOULD not be a matter for sur- prise that so little interest is taken in the tariff debates now progressing in the house. Every one knows that these spoeches can have no effect on the votes of members and that their chief object is to furnish material for dis- teibution among the dear constituents at home. Few tears will be shed over the fact that a time limit has been set to the debate. DEMOCRATIC office seckers will be pleased to know that on the basis of population Nebraska is entitled to 252 appointive offices at the hands of the ad- ministration, which means Grover Cleve- land and his various chlef clerks. The number of Nebraék#ns now said to be on the federal pay folt'is 110, leaving 142 good fat offices oniy, awaiting applica- tions from the true blue democrats who fought and bled for Mr. Cleveland last November. We recammend that appli- cations be forwandeds without delay, and it must be remembered that no appoint- ment is. made frgm |the Nebraska list against the protost or without the con- currence of Scerdtary Morton. A CORRESPONDENY complains of the excessive commissiohs charged at the South Omaba stock yards for handling stock. Ho is of the opinion that if Omaha wants to increase her stock r ceipts the scale of charges must be re- duced, This is the only complaint of like tenor received by THE BEE for a year. We hope that it is not justified by the facts. The Omaha stock market must not be permitted to earn a reputa- tion for highway robbory such as that enjoyed by the Chicago yards, Tue Metropolitan Uniondepot project is gradually assuming shape. It takes time and full discussion of the intorests involved to mature an ordinance that would prove satisfactory to the incor- porators, the railroad companies that are expected to bocome tenants in the depot and the city at large. Whatever delay there has been experienced in for- mulating the ordinance is by no- means time wasted. Tho magnitude of the pro- ject justifies circumspection. & OBSERVE that the New York Sun seriminates in making quotations from democratic newspapors between thoso that it pleases to torm ‘‘straight demo- crat” and “mugwump democrat.” It was only a little while ago that the Sun claimed to be rejoicing at the impending extinction of the genus mugwump, for whose continued existence all grounds for justification had completely disap- peared. How did the mugwump demo- crat become revivified? —_— THERE were just about three steerage passengers to every cabin passenger ar- riving by transatlantic steamships at the port of New York last year. The exact figures are 121,820 cabin passen- gers and 364,700 steerage passengers. The comforts and conveniences of first- class ocean travel are confined to ex tremely few who find themselves able to pay forsuch luxury. AMONG the Iskimos kissing is done by the rubbing of noses. The report that reaches us from Washington by way of Nebraska City would naturally create the impression that Secretary Morton and Senator Manderson have been mak- ing love to each other Eskimo fashion, but— 1o to the Naked Eye. Washngtor: News. _ Eighty-seven ofticers protect the congress- men from the people. . Are there no officers %o protect the people from the congressmen? i e *Tis an LI Wind, Ete, Globe- Deméerat. The feud between Cleveland and the democratic senators is likely to prolong the services of a'good many republicans in fed- eral oflices of one kind and another. e i Enterprise Kndourages kutorprise. Fairbury Fawplay. Omaha is to have a beet sugar factory which is to be capitalized atv $700,000. This will be a great enterprise for Omaha, and it shows the pluck and spirit of her citizens. One more enterprise for Nebraska, way others follow. e Mugwump Opinion of Democracy. New York Times. This is undoubtedly the only civilized country in the world in which vhe Finance department is obliged to beg of the law- making department and plead with it for authority to maintain the credit and honor of the government. ————— Too Many Cook: Chicago Times, The business of restoring confldence in financial circles has been very active of late, beginning with the repeal of the Sherman law and ending with the issuance of bonds. But_it canuoot be said to have been very profitable to people outside those circles. e And Highly Probable. Philadelphia Record. It is possible that President Cleveland may name a citizen of some other state than New York for the vacancy in the United States supreme court. He is not bound to consider localizy in making another choice except by an usuage for which there is no overbearing reason. e The Acme of Patriotism, St. Louts Lepublic. When a congressman obtains an oppor- tunity to speak on the tariff, whether for an hour or five minutes, he wonld best show his patriotism, not by using all his time or by giving part to a colleagua, but by laying it untouched upon the altar of his country's happiness. e Not if the Pool Knows Itself. Philadelphia Record. Whether the passenger pool organized last week by the great rairoad lines can run the gauntlet of the interstate commerce law re- mains to be seen. But there is no doubt of the acrangement for joint passenger agencies by which the trunk line railroads Dropose to save several millions of dollars. By having fixed and unvarying charges for through passengers on all lines, they will be able to abolish numerous agencies. The question is whether the traveling public will be allowed to participate in this reduction by a general reduction of passenger fares. LA Help to Boom O EL horn Exchange. It is to be hoped that the efforts of local capitalists of Omaha <to build a union pas- senger depot at the foot ‘of Farnam street will be a success, for Omaha has had enough such advertising as the ald cattle shed has furnishea it. ~ The = property owners of Omaha would today haveibeen monoy ahead had they built and given %0 the railroads a depot, rather than had the old shed used so long, for the depot in.a city is the first thing that the stranger sees, when he alights from the trawmn, and us a rule. forms his opinion of the towu or city by the kind of a depot he sees. Should he at first see a magnificent structure, he at once makes up hismind that he has found a city fall of pnterprise,but it he views, as has been the jage in Omaha for years, an old shed, he wil certainly steer clear of the city so fay aginvestment is cerned, Every property owner in th should lend their support to the new dep scheme and helv to make'Omaha boom. ha. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U ol MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1894 PEOPLE AND THINGS. If tho Brazilian war somebody will got hurt. A physical erip shatterod the political grip of Senator Walthall, Evon the reformors of Massachusetts have soured on the Cleveland brand of civil ser- vico, A Now York paper describoes a now ballot a8 an “anatomical locturo. Legsure, prob- abl, Governor Waite can distinguish himself by Importing a surplus seuato from New Jers Thore s considesable rivalry among col- lectors to buy tha olub that fondled the head of Sullivan, Senator Hill isn't saying o word for publi- cation, but his woodpilo gives evidence of persistent industry. The deeds of the James boys continue potent inspiration in St, Joe, Emulation flatters their memory. The spasmodic, plunging roll prod o jag indicates that the motacentric lir been dangerously excceded. As proof that peace and friendship rises aboye partisanship in concress itis noted that Bourke Ceckran tovk a Walker round the block: Thero is a family in Boston named in which there are three brother Head, Barnest Head and Willing Lunk Head probably died. Vice President Stevenson complimer speeclies down east are useful as a reminder of -the man ouceswung the mighty ax. Mrs. Leaso has sprung a now lecture with tho suggestive title, “Am 1 My Brother's Keeper?' The question may be answered in the negative. Mary has ceased to be a sister to the governor: Mus, Tbbio Gordon of Clarkson, Tex., who remembers David Crockott, ana who saw him in Tennessce in 1834, says he was neither uncouth nor untutored and wore the man- ners ana clothes of a gentleman. Davy Crockett without a coonskin cap and b skin coat? Another popular idol shattered ! The home of Samuel Woodworth, author of *The O11 Oaken Bucket,” in the village of Greenbush, Mass., is still occupied by his descendants. ' The song was written in 1817 and- inspired by scones about the po home. Last Saturday S AN anniversary of his birth, which occurred January 13, 1785, Fortunately for Mr. Cleveland the white houses censors carefully exclude newspaper comment of the lese majeste order. If a copy of the New York Sun_should by fair or foul means ol nco with the presi- dent the vocabulary of “William street ex- plotives would inadequately express the temper of the man of destiny. A paragraoh Philadelphia Press perpetrates this aha's alleged three- headed girl, forced to marry an old man when she was 1 s old, has been given a purse of §100 by the young' men of the town for the purposo of escaping from him. Hor wherezbouts are not known ana ying vo get the youths into not soon squelched d by e has Head Abel Head. is dispensing They who There is one feature of the Hawaiian busi- ness that appeals strongly to the democratic heart. It wraps itself around the palpitator wich the glow and thrill of an arm en- ling a_sweethe It nspires like o Saharan oasis, lends wings to hope and makes life worth living, provided the suggestion isactea upon at the white house. It is Queen Lil's desire to behead her political opponents, Elphriam Bull, the originator of the Con- cord grape, 1s dying at hs home in Concord, Mass., from injuries received last summer by a fali from a ladder. Though 87 years old, ho was active until this injury overtook him. Ho is poor, having lost all his fortune in try- ing to introduce a new grape that he orig- inated scveral years ago, und his friends are caring for hun, John F. Robbius, who is now a peddler of tobacco and cigars about _the streets of Cin- cinnati, in 1866 paid the highest price ever paid for a hogshead of a certain kind of to- bacco—$5,11525. He worked it into a spe- cial brand of plug tobacco and made a for- tune, He got to be worth 250,000, but the government officials detected him' in ship- ping manufactured tobacco without the stamps. The trial took every penny of his fortune, aud he was never abie to regain his feet tinancially. Yoscritm grotdpz:’ LABOK NOTES. The miners at Mendota, Mo., have beon notified of an immediate reduction from 88 to 64 cents, ‘T'he men are not organized. The Thayer Woolen company, North Ox- ford, Mass., will make a cut down in_wages. Thrée hundred hands will be effected. Tmportation of cigarmakers from Havana has caused excitement at Key West, [l and the government has been appealed to. Governor_ Altgeld says he will not call a special session of the lilinois legislaturo to consider the condition of the unemployed. A strike1s threatened on the whole Balti- more & Ohio system. ‘The men submitted to a li;]h!l)mo time ago, and now are not satis- fied. The committee on grievances of the brick- layers’ and masons’ convention has disposed of ten cases, adopting the findings in each case. The Central Pacific railway has ordered the closing for two weeks of miues 5 and 6 at Almy, Wyo. This leaves every mino in the camp idle. The New York state Federation of Labor has endorsed Governor Altgeld’s action in pardoning Neebe, Fielden and Schwab, the Chicago anarchists. Wages of all outsido men have been xo- duced from $2.50 and $2.25 at the King coal mines at Como, Col., to 2 a day. The re- duction is taken quietly. The wage question 1s causing trouble in the Black hills. ‘Tho Homestake company has announced a reduction of wages to¥3a day, which wiil be resis Sugar refiners s run steadily to give their employes work, and prices of refined sugar will bo reduced to induce the country to buy sugar. The joint convention of railroad ana river coal miners at Pittsburg will order a strike in all pits in both districts paying less than 65 cents for mining. This will affect 14,000 men. The Elgin watch factory, which five months ugo reduced its force from 8,000 to 1,500 and put these on five day's work per week, has sinco further reduced & week's work to three days. South Australin is establishing a co- operative community on 1,000,000 acves of lund at Kangaroo island. A surveyor has been sent to lay out the land. The emi- grauts will consist of the unemployed. A considerable force of man has been laid off at Aspen by the Mollie Gibson manage- ment. The property is at presont doing little but prospecting, consequently o reduc- tion in the working force was necessary. At Black Rock, Ark., a mauufacturing district with many unemployed people. notices havo been posted ordering all negroes to leave town. The mills aro guarded and armed patrols ure on tho streets. “The funds obtained for reliof purposos at San Franciseo are to be expended for im- provements at Golden Gate park. The com- mitteo docided that $1 4 duy stould be the rate of wages for all employed out of the relief fund. e Signifioance of th @lobe-Democrat. There is much force in the declaration of the Trenton pottery operators that “‘the tar- MM question has ceased to be one of politi and become one of bread and butter.” T 15 to say the workiogmen have no interest in theories when their wages are decrensing and their chances of employment disap- pearing, arif S. Gov't Report, Baking Powder ABSOILUTELY PURE INDUSTRIAL REVIV AL The Sterling organ factory at Ansonis, Conn,, started last wook with 200 hands. Reduced wages, ranging from 10 to 20 per cont, Is & marked featuro of Industrial re- sumption. Three departments of the Wheeling Iron & Steol company’s top mill rosumed last week with 500 nen Robort McKinuon's big knitting mill at Little Falls, Y., reopened last week and will run on full time. The Sligo, Penn., lron works started up last week as o nonunion plant. The pud- dlers will receive $4 por ton The Belmont iron works at Wheeling, W. Vi, which have boen idlo for six mouths, are to resume operations at once. | _TheSmith Carpet company of Yonkers, | N. Y., will resume within the noxt few days, giving work to at loast 2,000 hands, The Little Falls Knitting mill at Little Falls resumed operations last week with a ‘full set of hands after a month's idlencss, The West Shore knitting mill started up after a long shutdown, and ) the rug fac- tory of McCleary, Wallin & Crouse at Rock- ton. The bloom mill, rolling mill and steel plant of the Ph ix Iron works at Phanixville, Pa 1 up last week after being idle Mohawk Valley Cotton mill in Utica, rosumed operations last week dfter a two weeks shut down and is now giving a fuil force 0 hands work. The Greenwood Coton conpany at New Hartford, Conn., which shut down indefi- y two weoks ago, started up again last week. 1t empioys 1,700 hands. The No. 2 factory of the Piutsbure Plate Glass company at Taunton, Penn., resumed lust week, cmploying 800 men at reduced \Iv.llm 'he works have been idle since Ju The wire drawing department of the Pitts- burg Wire mill resumed operations lust week: About 100 men went to work. Tho rod mill started up , on doublo turn, whon over 200 men resumed work. The Winstead Edge Tool works, the Strong Manufacturing company, the Winstead Hos- iery company “and the Winstead Silk com- ny, all at Winstead, Conn,, started up on uesday, after var periods ot idlene The factory of the Consolidated Paper company in Mamaroneck, N. Y., | resumed operations, employing about 500 hands. ~ The New York Rubber company's plant at the same place is working night and d Sanford & Sons' carpet mills of Amster- dam, N, Y., started up last week on full time. T'wo thousand persons are now em- ployed, and 8,000 will be at work in a fow I Wages have been reduced about 20 ont, The blast furnace of the Norton Iron works av Asnland, Ky., resumed last week, with the puddling departments and nall mills to follow today, giving employment to 600 men. It has been seven years since tho entire plant was last in operation. ‘I'he Hubbard, O., Co-operati Iron com- pany begun operations last Tuesday. By the arrangement agreed upon each workman employed will be a stockhotder in proportion to tho amount received dailv. The mill will furnish employment for 135 workmen, Warner Bros.’ big corset factories and Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine company at Bridgeport, Conu., started up on the 15th, to run tull time, with a full complement of employes, aggregating 3,000 hands, Sinc last summer these concerns have been run- ping haif time, at half price. The fires in all the furnaces ot the No. 2 works of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company at Tarentum, Pa., were lighted on the morn- ing of the 15th. The works will resume in fuil, but at greatly reduced wages. Thoy have been idle since last July. ight hun- ared men will be employed. —e Amending the Patent Laws. SpringfieldRepublican It,is sa1d that one of the amendments to the patent laws, now under consideration, will mako it compulsory on the patentee to graut the use of his invention to all who waut it, upon payment of un established license fee. This is not a new suggestion, but one which has been long advocated on the ground that such a requirement would make impossible two common abuses of the vresent system. Patents would ccase.to bo monopolies in thesense of bemng so controlled as to confine tho profits of their operation to a few recipients. Nor could patents be sup- pressed, as several important telephone and other patents have been suppressed, in order to prevent their competition with' inferior methods in use. It is undoubtedly desirable that both these results should be accom- phshed, especially the latter, for the public which grants the patent is fully entitled to ————— tive Knlser, phia Record, An army on skates was the novel sight provided for the Berliners by the fecund genius of the German kaiser. At the winter maneuvers, now in progress near the Ger- man capital, the troops, who had been or- dered to make a division againsvan imagin- enomy, were provided with skates, and amid much langhter and their progress punctuated with many falls the men skimmed over the frozen surface of the River Spree to the pont of attack. Similar winter exercises have been ordered in other garri- sons of the empire, and the kaiser himself is said to be pracucing with snowsh The practical value of the innovation is not evi- dent to the ordinary mind, but perhaps the military genius who presides over the nies of Germuny contemplates the pos- e "BROWNING, KING Tho largest makers and 8»1lara of fine clothes on Your monoy’s Worth o your THE BOND ISSUE. Donver Republican: Congress will prove reant to its duty if it permits Secretary lisle to carry out his high-handed schomo to increase the bonded debt of the United States #50,000,000 without duo warrant of law. Globo-Democrat (rep.): One sorious ob joction to Carlisle’s bond schomo is the fact that it provides for only #50,000,000 when tho deficit is likely to be ve much larger than tnat by the end of tho fiscal year, with a prospect of continuous increase during all the rest of Cloveland's term. Denver Nows (pop.): Every silvor man in cougress should obpose with Al his re boud selling schome, and do overything in his power to defeat the bros ent affort of the sceretary. Tho cause of the people, the future of silver mouey and the prosperity of the country alike de wand it, KKansas City Times (dem.): It is this condition of things that has determined tho secretary to rely upon his own resources and protect ‘the credit of the nation be shall reach a point that may bring upon tho business interests of the country and for this patriotic action the secrctary will deserye the thanks and will receive tho plaudits of the entite countr, Chicago Times (dem.): Congress sho interveneto check this unwarrantable sumption of power by an admiuisiration which has more than once showod its con tempt for the logislative branch of the na tional govornment. Bonds issued in ance with the law would bo bad ov rest payment on su lislo proposes to cre; itating rominder of tho ¢ y of the Cleveland administration be t from con to_provide for the immediate of the treasury by the issue of The excess of the nation's expendi tures over its income duving the currens fiscal yoar £433,000,00, and by June 3 000,000 The balance in the treasury. in cluding $74,000,000 in gold held for the re- demption of the greenbacks, is now but $35,- 000,000, so that unless more money is ob- tained from some source the government will soon have practically not a dollar 1o go on with, Chicago Record (ind.): Asa gold loan the new bond issue 1nay or may not be a com- plete success. Probably it will restore the gold reservo to $100,000,0000r so, but it is not likely to do very much more than thal, However, the flow of money into tho treas- ury, no matter what form it takes, will be highly accentable, in view of the extreme attenuation of the public funds. The chief value, after all, of this extraordinary lesson in finance which the secretary of the trous- ury has taught by taking steps to iucreass the nation's bonded indebtedness comes from the reminder that the government in its expenditures has boen travelingat the pace that kills, and will have to that pace very perceptibly in the tuture. bonds, 11 probably PITH AND POI Galveston Nows: Always look after things beforo they get by you. For constant cheerfulness s the cake; he is always Lowell Courler the lumberman t chipper. Philadelphia Record: While the thoutrical ma nikes most money in the long run, the coal man builds up a successtul business in asmall weigh. Binghamton Republican: “Iis honor is at steak,” sald the waiter when the judge was at dinner. —Is marrinzo a fafl- ho—IHow long He—Not at ull. Gir Dotrolt Free I'ress: ure? He—1I have found 1t hivo you been married? refused me on the spot. Now York Pross: “The poot has loft his wife and flown with tho grass widow. hear.” “How do you account for I is 10 accounting for the flights of gentus. thelr grip o peoplo time go Troy Pross: Most peoplo get chockod If they are Soing away. who fail to get their grin- checked in away never to rewurn. Philadelphin Ledger: Thero is muct mysti- fication in London over the expedition agalnst the Sofas, and the Indications are that some- body's beon lying on them. ton Star: “What yo lookin' fur?" ding Pot ropiied Meandoring Miko. What fur! “So's I kin see it fust, an’ dodge." Atlanta Constitution. There ain't no use in growhn' Because the sky Is scowlin', An’ the thunder makes a rattlé an' a squall Because there's lots o' fun in Tho world the Lord 15 runnin'— It's the rain that makes the ralnbows for us all! —_— FATE, st. Paul Globe. Sho paints daily pictures on plites And embroidors for hours snd hours, Writes versos imploring the fatos To sprinkle ambition with showers. She always Is up with the lark, And 15 scen with hor cheeks rosy red Walking rapidly down through the park With her nosé pointed strafghtway ahi Sho lectures on mummios, and things That suryived in the long ago hence; Sho's a corker on solarized riny: As u lingulst sho's counted fu Adroit] Can s| She has g But sho nov nso. she pulls at an oar; e? well, she ean, and souie more, arth ST v tepes I [, L i e N still giving Neither BROWNING, Will pay the express if you send the money for $20 worth or wore thom et ke e | e L | 1 [ This picture has nothing to do with the fact that we are 28 % on all our Men's Trousers has this, calls your attention R e e B B B S o o off but it KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, 0 O O O O U o e e