Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 4, 1894, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. 5. ROSEWATER, Editor. PURLISHED EVERY MORNING BEORIP o Ye One Year TE) 18 OF Dally Tiee L Sunda pd Sy Mont y 1 Baturday lic, ¢ Weekiy Tiee, One One Year Yonr Yenr OFFICES. Omahn, Thie Moo Dotk Bouth Omaha. eorerN and’ Connell Tiifts, 19 Poatl ateoe Chicago ( 317 Chamber of Conim Now Yorlk, rooms 13, 14 and 15, Trbin Washingion. 513 Foorteenth atre CORIRESPONDENCE Al communieations relating to news and et tortal matter slouid bo add T 1o Fatitor RUSINESS LETTERS ATl busdicnn I 1 Fmitances ahouid ddresncd (o Tt eam Ny Omaha Brnrin sk »Grders 10 be made ayable to the order of the company. 5 Lo A TR PUBLISTING COMPANY wenty-fonrn streets, bullding e SWOIl State of Nebraska, | Connty of Douglm. § Qeoriee T, Tzsehuck, secrotary of Tis Bee Pub- 1nhing company. Aok solemiily swear that t Actual eireliation of TIE DALY BER for the wi 1, 1504, was a3 foliows STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Tueday, Jaiiry Thursday. Febriary 1 Priday, Fobruary Saturday, Fehruary 3 3 Gro. 1 Trse Sworn (o Lefore me and subseribud in my pres- ence (s el day of February, 150, 5 [SEAL N. P Frir, Notary Pubiie. with \oa quict and Hawall qui need of n Central Amerk war has come most impressively apparent an How to untangle the railway situation without precipitating a rate “war is becom- fng the absorbing question In the railway world. Has any one heard that expected annouce- ment of a reduction in telephone rentals in consequence of the expiration of the patent elver? on the re The tariff bill will slumber a few weeks in the finance committee of the senate, but the tariff discussion outside of congress w!ll con- tinue as animated as before. It will be a sad day when Mr. Blair fails to get his namo in the published proceedings of the house. It will be only because every- thing happens to go his way. Trying charges against councilmanic in- tegrity In the newspapers can result in no decision. The statutes provide the machinery by which questions are to be de- termined. such For some unaccountable reason the reas- surlng reports sent out every weok by the commercial agencles since the opening of the year are not reflected in the clearing house reports. The clearing houso figures are still in the wrong column. 3 “The government of the United States should be made custodian of the savings of the masses” has been the cry of the New York Herald for several weeks. The only way to make it 0 is by the establishment of a system of postal savings banks. Congressman Boutelle's sensitiveness on the subject of personal references to himself by the democratic leaders of the house docs not make them any more considerate in their plan for suppressing him. Boutello may as well yleld gracefully. Philanthropic people must not be led to believe that there will be no call for as- sistance to the needy after this week. The poor we have always with us. The Bood work of relieving those in distress must go on so long as the extraordinary emergency remains, Forty thousand dollars as the cost of an extra session of a legislature which has not yet passed a single measure upon any one of tho subjects to consider which it was called together, must appeal to Coloradoans as the price of a rather expensive luxury. A big hole in the state treasury is likely to be the only thing that the people of Colorado will have to show for the fun which their representatives have enjoyed. —_— Those delogates who attended the munl- clpal government conference at Philadelpita were unanimous in their opinion that what American citles most need is a greater in- terest in their administration on the part of those who are loudest in their complaints of mismanagement and abuscs. This has been conceded for many years. But how to attain it without changing human nature appears to be as much of a puzzle as always. With the federal courts on one side issu- ing restraining orders to provent the aban- donment of train-service on an unprofitable” line and a federal grand jury on another in- vestigating charges of violating the inter- state commerce law, the railroad managers are learning that courts as well as legisla- tures may be a cause for grief. The pleas- ures of railway management are no longer what they used to be. The policy of the republican senators as outlined by The Bee's spezial dispatehes from Washington seems to be a commendable one. The republicans would naturally be held responsible for any serlous de'ay cecasioned by thelr efforts to retard the prograss of the bill. When they have registorad tueir pro- test against the measure and pointed out the dangers to the industrial inferests they will have performed their whole duty. The confldence of the Nehrasy banks in the supreme court remains unshaken. Four more state depositories havy heen desig. nated and still the banks ask for more, The statements that the bancs homsoives de- layed the enforcement of the depository 11w seems to have been unfornlod. It *he su- preme court does not resicist the ¢ of the law to the deposit of tha ge, alone the state will £0on he drawi on all of its idle cash, *ration 1l fund nierest A twelfth woman lawyer has just been admitted to practice before the United States supreme court. We presume that the num- ber entitled to recognition by that tribunal will remain at this figure for some time to come, or at least until two or more women are to be ready to be admitted at one time, Even then there is likely to be trouble as to which should take precedence. To be the thirteenth woman admitted to the highest bar of the country would be enough to make the best lawyer fear for her success in the future. A Massachusetts legislator has Introduced bill in that state proposing a new plan for eonducting the anti-treat campaign. Instead of imposing & penalty upon the man who treats or the man who is treated, It forbids any one holding a liquor license to accept pay for loquor furnished by one customer to another. It makes the liquor seller the only law violator. The enactment of such a il would but add another to the curiosities @ menforced legislation. The experience ot fhe Nebraska anti-treat law bodes no better gesults with a law such as s proposed In Massachusetts Y | of objects in the Interest of the publ LIFETIME BENEFACTIO The groatest public benofactors of recent years have done most of thelr work of bene- fleence during thelr lives, and this course is anming to be more and more recognized by who desire to e ribute of their 1o public good as the wise and Judi- ous course from every point of view. st humous Lenefactions are rare'y carricd out as- cording to the desire of the benefa r not infrequently fail altogother. The ex amplos of this ere numerous. Millions of dollars bequeathed for the accomplishment rich « woalth t and upon which the testators had their hearts, hoping thoreby to honorably perpetuate their memories, have been squandered and the worthy purpose defeated. In other cases bequests to the public have been set aside by the courts in the interest of heirs and splendid benefactions intended for the ge oral good thus lost. No man can be surn that his “last will and testament’ will with stand the assault of those who may after his death call in question his right to have disposed of his wealth as he pleased. A single example in {llustration of this Is the well-remembered of the late Samuel 4. Tiiden. He was an able and caretul law yer and drew his own will, one provision of which bequeathed a munificent sum for establishing a public lbrary in New York City. The heirs of Mr. Tilden went to the conrts and the object by which he Intended to attest his regard for the people of the city sot case in which he had achieved fortune and fame was defeated Life tmportant out according to make them and have at least advantages. They the wishes of those who yield o measure of gratification to the give The benefactor sees for himself that the w he desires accomplished fs well done and when this is ned he can find satistaction and enjoy in the r ult The men who wi chose this course found their hig st happi- ness in the philanthropic work they accom- plished Prom mong them was the late G , whose death Phila- delphia today profoundly mourns and the whole country fecls as a national bereave- ment. Mr. Childs believed in bestowing his public benefactions while he I and he did so with a most liberal hand. BEqually prominent in this respect was his friend nd bugine: associate for many years, the late Anthony Drexel, whose monument is the magnificent insti- tute for indust training in Philadel phia. The late Leland Stanford was an- other who believed in lifetime benefactions and there are many more, including among the dead and the living George Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, W. W. Corcoran, An- drew Carnegie, with a number of less widely known. All of these men, of the highest practical sagacity, * recognized the advan- tages of giving for the public good while they lived, and whether or not they sought the popular commendation of their philan- thropy, it is not to be doubted that it brought them pleasure and gratification. Men of wealth who contemplate doing something for the public good should emu- late the example of those who have given while they lived, and not postpone until after they are dead the exccution of their philanthropic intentions, me benetactions at are two they SERVING TWO MASTERS. “A substantfal business success means many things. It calls in the first place for concentration. There Is no truth so potent as that which tells us that we can- not serve God and mammon. Nor can any young man successfully serve two business interests, no matter how closely allied.” This is the way Edward W. Bok, the en- terprising young editor 6f the Ladies Home Journal, in his interesting article upon the young man In business in the January Cosmopolitan, puts the trite saying that no man can serve well two masters. He even goes so far in expressing his belief of concentration to business interests during business hours as to argue that a young man's personal letters have no right to come to his office address, nor should he re- ceive his social friends at his desk. While il ts doubtful whether®we venture so far as this in upholding the principle, yet the rule of doing one thing and doing it well cannot be emphasized too much, The injunction against serving two masters is thus applicable to all kinds of business both public and private. Too many men imagine that they are expected only to put their time at the disposal of their employers during a stipulated num- ber of hours daily while they may have their minds on other matters and exhaust thelr powers for energetic work by devot- ing their leisure moments to private ven- tures of thelr own. According to Mr. Bok no business man prefers to have a cheap employe, being only too anxious to pay all the latter might ask, were it only apparent that he added that much and more to the fortunes of his busines But when the employe s constantly concerned with the success of some other enterprise than that of his employer's, his services, it is intimated, are never worth more than he gets. In public officlals, even more than in pri- vate employes, the serving of two masters partakes of the nature of a breach of trust A public officer holds his place as the rep- resontative of the people who contribute to ward the burdens of government, and their collective interests are often at variance with the interests of particular members of the community. It becomes, therefore, more and more dificult for a man In the public employ to attempt to pursue a lucra- tive business of any kind outside of his reg- ular work without entering into obligations to some one or another who has an axe to grind on tho public miil stone. Then when it comes to reciprocating a favor at the expense of the efficincy of the public service the fear of injuring his private in- terests has to be weighed against his loyalty to the straight path of Quty. And although the tendency to sacri- fice the public interests is resisted, he will be unable to devote the same attention to its business that he would expect were it conducted for his own profit, The conclusion must bo that serving two masters does not pay. It certainly does not pay efther master. Whilo the employe may reap temporary advantages, all ob servers agree that in the long run his for tunes are retarded by it rather than ad- vanced. PO AL SAVINGS BANKS VERSUS BONDS. The failure of the $50,000,000 bond issue Just floated by the secretary of the treasury to appeal to the working classes as a popu- lar *loan adds another telling argument in favor of the establishment of a postal say- ings bank system. The chief reason which decided Secrotary Carlisle to in- vite proposals at a minimum price from all who desired to purchase bonds in sums of $50 and upwards was that ho hoped to secure a wide distribution of the loan among people of moderate means in all parts of the country. Yet of the fifty odd millions subscribed, almost the entire amount has como from banking, insurance and trust in stitutions, while the popular subscriptions are of the most trifling insignificance, That the secretary of the treasury thought It worth while to attempt to make the work- Ing peoplo and small capitalists the eroditors of the government in Itselt acknow the advantages that would making the government the | the saviugs ot the people. Kos accrue from custodlan of But the oaly UMAHA DAILLY 1THE l practicable way to bring this about in this | country has been shown by this experience | to consist, not in a popular loan, but in a postal savings bank. The postal savings bank was steadily advocated by Postmaster General Wanamaker during his term of of- but congress neglected to act upon his recommendations. In his last annual ro- port he gave figures bearing upon the business transacted by postal savings banks in forelgh wountries. For the y 1801 the number of depositors in the Brit- ish postoffico was 8,911,431, having deposits of §107,000,000 to their credit, and the British government acted as an investor for depositors to tho amount of $25,438,530. In France the postal authorities had about 45,000,000 francs of postal deposits invested in government securitigs. The deposits In Italy amounted to 310,483,635 lire at the end of 1800, invested from time to time in Interest-bearing evidences of public indebt- edness. In the various other European countriel where the system obtains, the re- gults have been corrospondingly satisfac- tory, and in many cases have assisted to creats a demand for the government se- curities. The postal savings bank thus offers a way by which the .ordinary citizen may lend his savings directly to the government. This, however, is only one among its many advantages. The reason why it will succeed where a popular loan has failed s that it absorba the savings as they are laid aside. It offers absoluto ty to the and this, more than a high rate of interest, Is the inducement necessary to stimulate saving and to encourage thrift among the poorer people. Instead of tying the money up for a long period of time, it either allows {t to be withdrawn on demand or offers an interest-bearing - time certifi- cate which with the credit of the government behind it may at any time be converted Into cash. It would bring the savings bank almost to the door of every wage earner in the country, while its inti- mate connection with the existing postal service would enable It to be conducted on a niost economical basis. Most Important of all, the postal savings banks would Insure the payment of intercst on the money lent to the government directly to the wage- earning class distinguished from the money-hoarding class. Only the money- noarding class is, as a rule, able to Inves in bonds. The wage earners want a safe place of deposit constantly near at hand to which they may it every timo their wages are paid. Where a popular bond issue secures to the government a few paltry thousands from the class appealed to the pi savings bank would soon secure an equal number of millions, as s GEORGE W, CHILDS One of the not of this country and of this era is dead and his loss is a national bereavement, George W. Childs, editor and proprietor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was distinguished as a jour- nalist and of world-wide fame as a philan- thropist. He had never occupied a public station, but few men in such station were better known throughout the country, and he enjoyed in the highest degree the respect and esteem of all classes of peo- ple. Greatly successful as a journal- fst, having built up from a small foundation a highly prosperous and “widely influential newspaper, Mr. Childs had a still higher claim to respect and affection as a philanthropist. He was of that class of men who believe that their wealth should be in part used to benefit their fellow crea- tures, and upon this doctrine he had acted for years with a generosity equalled by few. Thousands have shared in his benefactions. Hundreds of men and women owe thelr fa- vorable position in life and their ability to earn an honorable livelihood to his gener- ous help. He was always accessi- ble to those who were worthy of assistance and few appeals of such failed to receive the hoped-for response. Highly valuable as were his public benefactions, what he did for individuals—for men and women struggling to make headway in the world—was not less valuable in its wide- reaching influence, while for those in his ser- vice he ever manifested an almost paternal interest and care. As an editor Mr. Childs set an example of the highest form of journalism in the mat- ter of character. The newspaper he con- trolled is distinguished for its trust- worthiness, its freedom from sensational- ism, and . its candor and fairness in the discussion of all public questions. Its editor had positive convic- tions on all questions affecting the public interests and welfare and there was never any doubt concerning his position and views, but they were never stated in the spirit of partisanship. The fact that he could not commend a political policy did not lead him to regard those who did as dishonest or corrupt. Himself a man of the most carnest patriotism he had great faith in the patriotic instincts of his countrymen, irrespective of their political afiiliations. Among the many distinguished men in pub- lic life who enjoyed the friendship of Mr. Childs there were repub- licans and democrats and they were equally respected by him as American cfti- zens. It has already been remarked that Mr. Childs never occupled a public station, but he undoubtedly could have done so had he desired to. He seems to have had no taste, however, for the life of a public man, perhaps because of the many burdensome, disagreeable and annoying political obliga- tions it entalls, When some years ago he was freely talked of as a possible candidate for the presidency and a movement was about to be started in his behalf, he firmly refused to give it any countenance. Tho bauble of political power had no temptations for him. L A Christian gentleman in the highest sense, a man of the kindliest heart and the most generous impulses, rich in the spirit of human brotherhood, and finding his greatest happiness In dolng good to others, the death of George W. Childs removed from the world one of the truest and best of mankind and from the ranks of American citizons one who was an honor to his country, A convention of importance to all per- sons interested In the art of building will bo held in Boston on February 13. It is thilt of the National Association of Commis- sloners and Inspectors of Buildings of the United States. One of the objects of this assoclation fs to get building laws and in- spector of bulldings In the principal cities of the country, a purpose from every point of view worthy of commendation and en- couragement. At the forthcoming annual meeting of the assoclation, in which Omaha ought to bo represented, a number of papers will be presentod upon the scionces as applied to. mechanical construc- tion in the art-of building, covering a wide range of subjects, all of which will be in- terosting and Instructive. The benefits of competent building inspection are fully at- tested by experience and the aim of the Natlonal Assoclation of Commissioners and Iuspectors to extend these benets can com- mand only approbation The statement that Nebraska has suffered a decrease of 667,993 acres in her corn area in the past threo years will be taken with woveral grains of allowance, It is perhaps truo that diversified agriculture is winning triends among the farmers. It is also true BEL depositor” SUNDAY., FEBKUAKY that the unfavorable seasons have decreased the area to some oxtent in the western and northwestern pirf ot the state. The stat- Istles In the n:v Wal reports of the State Board of Agriculturo are mot to bo taken as absolutely rellable. They are gathored by assessors anf ag a rulo the people of the state generally rageopt almost any kind ot a man for aseeduor SLASHJNG PENSIONS. A reduction of the pension appropriation to the extent of §15,000,000 fs understood to have been dotermdned upon by the demo- cratic members. ofs the house committee on appropriations, . Ig this can be done with- out working injustice to pensioners or those who are entitled to pensions there will be no complaint, but it is hardly conceivable how 80 large a cut can bo made In the pen- slon account without Injury to the recipi- ents of the nation’s bounty or to those who have Just claims to jt. A republican mem- ber of the appropriations committee points out in with this matter that the secrot of - the reduction s In the fact that the pension office has stopped allowing pensions to a large extent. Notwithstanding that there arc several hundred thousand claims pend- ing it is stated that the pension office will turn into the treasury at the end the fiscal year an unexpended balance of $25,000,000 For the first six months of the year the ex- penditures have been $70,000,000, or at the rate of $140,000,000 for the year. This would be commendable if it were the result of any real economy and did not in- volve a nullification of the laws of congress. It this administration regarded the pension laws as did its predecessor no such reduction as that contemplated could be made, and if made it must be made by dis- regarding the laws. There will be no saving epting what is accomplished by with- holding pensions until after a veteran dies If a pension Is not allowed this year and is allowed next , there will be no saving, because the allowance next year will be the ater from increased arrearages, but if the veteran dies in a poorhouse or xone- where else before he gets his pension there will be a ‘“saving” to the government. It is presumed that no one will contend that the people of the United States want this sort of economy. What the great majority of the people desire is that the laws providing for the pensioning of veterans who cin €how a just claim sha)l be fairly and faithfully administered, and this, it would seem, is not what is being done by the present adminis- tration. Its plan of economy appears to be to withiold pen: until the claimants die. The country will certainly not approve a pol- icy of this kind, and there is some reason to believe that it will not be approved by con- gress when the subject Is placed before it rightly. It will not be out of place in this connec- tion to refer to a bill which is to be favor- ably reported to the house, providing that the service of a soldier, even though voluntarily made and for .years in the confederate army, shall not operate as a bar to a pension claimed by him. The purpose of this bill'is to enable ex-confed- erate soldiers who had served the govern- ment in the Mexican and Indian wars to obtain pensions, and it would not be at all surprising if the méasure passed the house, for there is a sufficipnt number of these sol- diers scattered through the south to exert a considerable influcnce upon the representa- tives from.that section. To talk of re- tronchment in pension expenditure when proposing a measure to give pensions to a large number of the survivors of the con- federate armies Is ridiculous, and the party in control of congress could make no greater mistake, | in ~ viéw of _ what it is doing to deprive . . union veter- ans of their pension’ rights, than to se- riously en‘ertain such a proposition. No- body desires to see a dollar more paid out for pensions than the union veterans can establish an unquestionable claim to under the laws, but the methods of reducing pen- sions adopted by this administration do not commend themselves to the fudgment of fair-minded men connection There seems to be an apparent disposi- tion on the part of the present congress to amend the constitution with respect to the tenure of office of judges, members of con- gress and the presidency. The proposition to submit an amendment to limit the ser- vice of judges on the supreme bench to ten years has been #avorably considered by the house committee on judiciary and will be reported for adoption. There is hardly a possibility, however, that such a proposition will be regarded with favor by the people. There are many reasons why the life tenure for judges of lesser courts might be abol- ished, but Innovations in the supreme tri- bunal of the United States are apt to receive a cool welcome. The amendment to ex- tend the length of the congressional term was very wisely turned down by the judiciary committee. The house of representatives is designed to reflect the sentiments of the people and the best interests of the govern- ment would seem to insist that the terms of the representatives should not extend be- yond a point where a change in sentiment could not have immediate effect. The attention of members of the council who. voted against the confirmation of City Electrician Cowgill 1s respectfully called to the letter on the measurement of electric light which we print elsewhere. The writer, as will be seen, Is the manager of an electric lighting plant, who knows what he is talk- ing about and is In no way Interested in the controversy over claims of the local clectric lighting company for pay for alleged 2,000-candle power lights. In the face of Councilman Wheeler's extraordinary assumptions as an electrical expert, the con- tributor not only asserts that electric lights can be measured by photometer, but also describes and illustrates the process of taking photometric measurements so mi- nutely that any map with ordinary intelli- gence ought to bo able to comprehend it The fact Is that the:only way to measure electric lights is by the ald of a photometer On this point, howver, we do not expect any councliman to,ba, convineed who draws his Inspirations om electric measurements trom Mr. Wiley. The War departmant officials In charge of the compilation ofithe War of the Rebellion Official Records promlse to have that monu- mental work completed by the end of the next fiscal year. Only twenty years have been consumed in getting out this series of vol- umes, a perlod longienough to see the end of two decennial censiisés and the beginning of a third. Now that the end is in sight, everybody that has in any way heen con- nected with this publication ought to com- mence preparations for glying thanks at the proper time, Rather to Wring O Indianapolis Nows. The Bell telephone patent has explred, but the company wants (o increase its cap- ital stock by $10,000,000. This does not in- dicate that It intends to ring off, e Muke a Note of It. Chicago Tribune calumity-howler must admit that the first month of the year 189 has boen marked by fewer great disasters than any January for several years, A e Heo Got Ther Chicagn Times The young man's name {s Ell, and he got there. He writes it Ely, but’ his father, | the ‘scruples, and Lowell said: 4, IS93-SIATEEN who kn Ell Quigi. Why euphony and original with irr better, ealled him Eli—Lemuel 8 the young man mur historical unity of the levant upsilons? - The Safe ¥ Pioneer-Press, There are now, as there been, ly two courses for this na to purs either to bulld this eanal with its own resources, without the Intervention of any private corporation and without the guaranty of any securit vhich it will Just surely have to pa it_has the Pacific raflroad bonds, or to drop the mat- ter altogether, Any middle course Is full of the pitfalls of scandal, waste of publie money, and national disgra - Lessons Nover Lenrned. BRoston - de The present deeade s one of a strong anti-monopoly sentiment that is evident in otts as in Kansas; and th t plan of each monopoly 18 to mak esslons before the time # whe ns, however an allay public indignation. The his- tory of the great American monopoll ¥ it has been written in the past (welv months, and as it Is being written this a very instructive object los- apitalists who control the Bell pmpany. ey, have ays Free Trade and Taxes. Philadelphia Lrdger., . births, burlals and widowers In Bngland in 1694 Sir Vernon Harcourt' tention of subplying the defl budget by a tax on th extraordinary, particuls ain, as a fr wle country, ation. A tax on the people's amusements in England would Iy have the effect Of inereas tition which Amerfean acto el from members of the profession who recelve their training in IEngland and find employment in this coun- try more remunerative. B 5 11 SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, the not in e comp Minneapolis Times: Rev. Golightly Mor- rill's alliterative sermons read like a dime novel chapter on herolsm. Indianapolis Journal: Religious people in the east are predicting a general religious revival like that which followed the financial panic of 1857. It has begun in Brooklyn and is spreading t New York. If this s to be the case, and the work shall bear relation to_the depth of depression, something of a Pentacostal season Is at hand. Cincinnati Enquirer: During services in a Methodist church at Dubuque, Ta., the ganist played “‘Boom-ta-ra-ra,” and a high old hullabatloo followed. An ex-pastor arose and denounced the performance as a profana- tion of the church and of religion, where- upon the present pastor responded from the pulpit that he could run that church with- out any assistance from back numbers Since then the fight has widened almos into a schism, and no one knoweth the end thereof. Kansas City Star: Rock A minister In Little has decided that the south de- feated because the strains of ‘“‘Yankee Doodle” was more inspiring than the music of “Dixie.”” In point of fact “Dixie” had and has had every advantage, musically and sentimentally. “Yankee Doodle” was con- celved many years ago in a spirit of deri- sion, and has never lost its burlesque qual- ity. It is a lively tune, well adapted to marching purposes, but when there is seri- ous business on hand and it is necessary to stir up patriotism “Yankee Doodle” isn't much of a motor. “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah' has won a dozen great battles where “Yan- kee Doodle’ has gained a skirmish. e PEOPLE AND THINGS. Thomas Babington Macouber is a_fluent letter righter at a substation of the Chicago postofiice. According to the state dispensary receipts there is considerable time between drinks in South Carolina. The czar of Russia has influenza, bron- chitis,inflammation of the lungs, and every- thing else in sight. The prospective income tax will find rents in the profits of Chicago landlords ranging from 10 to 30 per cent. The Iowa legislature is considering a law designed to reach numerical bond schemes. This will be useful for burnishing the plate on the coffin. A Buffalo milkman explained the difuted condition of his milk by declaring that it rained on the cans. He chalked it down to refresh his memory. William B. Hornblower, the late rejected, was married to a_charming young widow last Thursday. The New York senators were not consulted about it. A poor man's party has been organized in Ilinois. Men with incomes of $1,500 or over are barred from membership. Those without incomes are ripe for offices. The turning down of a democratic candi- date in a democratic_district of New York is explained by the fact that the winner's monitor is Ell. Of course, he got there, Tarift Bill Wilson had an effusion of blood from the lungs one day last week. According to the opponent of ‘the measure the country s swealing blood from every pore. % President Harper of the Chicago university declares the story of Cain and Abel a myth. Chicago is sufficiently unorthodox since the fair closed to hold that Jonah swallowed the whale. Mrs. Williams, wife of a former United States attorney general, is said to have “fasted” 110 days on bread and wine at her home in Portland, Ore. She is a fath cur- ist, with 150 followers similarly afllicted. Senator Walthall's retirement leaves four yacancies in the senate. Senator Power of Montana, Senator Squire of Wahsington, Senator Carey of Wyoming, and Senator George of Misslssippl are now without col- leagues. Ex-Judge Lambert Tree, formerly United States minister to Belgium, is about start- ing for a tour of the African coast to Asia where he expects to get out of the reach of mails, newspapers and telegraphs, and ‘“live like a vegetable” for a few months. An officious Chicago policeman pounced upon Peter Verohme, an Inoffensive resi- dent, and was in the act of pounding his pate’ when the tiger in Pete unloosed itself and mopped the pavement with the copper's form. Even a Verohme will turn. The earl of Lovelace, who dled recently at the advanced age of 88, was not only the husband of Byron’s only child, but he was a direct descendant of Henry VIL and Lady Catherine Grey. He was an architect, a landscape gardener and an engineer. Bdward Eggleston says that he usd to feel compunctions about neglecting to answer requests for autographs when stamps were inclosed, until he told Lowell of his “I asked Bmer son what he Qid about’ autograph letters and he replied: ‘They are my maln de- pendence for postage stamps.’ After that,” said Lowell, “I was demoralized.” Willlam Harring Von Ammon, the man who Introduced color printing in lithography in the United States, died in San Francisco recently. He was a native of Prussis Timbuctoo, which has been occupled by a ¥ ch column, has been so sedulously guarded against European intrusion that only four Europeans, up to within a ago, had succeeded during this centur kaining access into it—Laing in 1826, Cail- lio in 1828, Barth in 1850 and Lenz in 1880 theatrical company that ington last week sent out notices of the show in the form of subpoenaes directing the recipients, under pain of various fines, and penalties, to appear at the theater at tho hour of the performance. These were addressed freely to members of the diplc matie corps, and when Secretary Gresham arrived at the State department next morn ing It took him some time to get It into the heads of the frate diplomats, who had come to protest, that the whole thing was simply an advertising sch visited Wash- THE PROP @earge k. Bowen The art of the statesman has many a twlst, et hty 1 he who would hope to resist The “Viibos persuasion In vogue on the Rhine, Whore s truce is declared by a bottle of wine. Bismarckian an; Its venom flash crown, Yet, calmly slgn Which diplomacy holds—in a bottle of wing or austerely back from pay frown: an autocrat’s subsides at the the tempest Oh, modern antagonists, witness nd w Behold in the methods of quick compro Arbitraments future—all warf decline Sealed up In & cobwebbed old bottle of wine. PAGES, URING ELECTRIC LIGHT. Value of the Photometer in Testing Candle Power of Are Lights. € SHERIDAN #Wyo., Fob.3.—~To the Elitor of The Bee: In a late issue of your paver | notice an article on the proper cinssification and monsuroment of the arc light, and, having made this subject a matter of aomo study and investization, pormit me, through your paper, to givo somo results of snch investigation In making tho tests which I am about to descfibo I have used an improved typo of Bunsen photometor and an are lamp rated | at 1,200-candle power, consuming 0.8 ampures of current at 49 volts potenttal. The car bons used in the test wero of tho ordinary quaiity sold on the market as first sarbons, 100 CR class | 1000C.8_ 1200 C.R. OBSERVATION POINTS.. PROPER MEASUREMENT. . =ARC.LIGHT. Figure 1 shows the proper mauner of tak- g photometer readings of an are light, i. e., every 10 dogrees below the horizontal line. The person not famuiar with photo meter work will slmost always take tho hor izontal reading only, which asa matter of fact is only 50 per cent of the reading taken at an angle of 45 dogrees below tho horizontal line, c.P. 100 200 300 500 800 1000 1200 _SHOWING CURVES%ew EROPER MEASUREMENT . oF ARC LIGHT: Figure @ shows the curve descrived in the measurements obtained. The mean spherical candle power has been obtained by means of Gerard's law, and while there is a factor of error it is very small, in fact the average error is only 5 per cent in the entive serics of tests. The mat- ter of personal.error has not been taken into consideration, not_having the means of ob- taining same at this time. ESULTS OF TESTS. ~jCandlo l’u\vl'r.[ Volts. Amps. TEST NO.| Angle 1-C........|Horizon.| 2T 102 209 302 102 6.0, 6o 46 pri s 49 46 47 7 8 48 19 In the measurement of alternating cur- rent arc lamps the same method of measure- ment would very_ likely not hold good by reason of the different conditions met with, but in the above tests will be found pract tically correct and reliable. F. J. PEARSON, Electric Light Com- i R 0o 10, Manager Sheridan pany. s Sar ey WILL TAKE THE STUMP, Sovereign Will Electioneer for the Candidates in Pennsylvania. PITTSBURG, Feb. 3.—Grand Master Work- man Sovereign of the Knights of Labor has written a letter to Secretary Burrows of the people's party of Pennsylvania, consent- ing to make one or more speeches in the interest of Victor A. Lotier, people's party candidate for congressman at large. In the letter he says “I think every workingman in the state of Pennsylvania entitled to a vote should rebuke the money power, the bondholding aristocracy and the robbing cor- opullst porations by casting his vote for Victor A. Lotler for representative in congress. Nine- tenths of all the evils which menace tho working people of today and rob them of the fruits of their toil are the results of bad legislation, and the working people must break the bonds of oppression by sup- planting the bond maffers. Py T o T The lary | papers by columns st makers and 83llars of fine clothes on Barth Your monoy's Worth of your moasy bash MEASURE FOR MEASURE. s Alw roven by Figu The Bee has made a compilation of the res sult of the daily comparisons published dur« ng past k showigg the amount of matter printed by the three leading papers of Nebraska--The oo, the World-Herald and tho Lincoln Journal—exclusive of coms mercial news and advertisements. Even were the columns of these papers of the same width and length, and wero the mat tor printed In the same type the patrons of o Bee would have a great advantage. In the table bolow Is given the actual measurement of tho matter in the three and in the last line is presented a statement of how the papers compared when measured by the standard columns of The Bee. It is easy to sce that the best is the cheapest. The figures are us fd That the 1 Chenpest we NUMBER OF COLUMNS PRINTED of utoouyT s L | | Thursdi Frid St aured ndard Philadelphia RRecord to learn what has bocome of sent you, entitled he Brav Editor—It went to the fire, Poet—T have Somerville Journal: He won't you? She (hesitatingly) If you won't give It away n ki well, T will Chicago Tribunc: Chicago Police Justice Your face seems familiar. Don't T know you? Greasy old Bum-—I don’t think you do, your Honor. I'm a little pertick'ler about the comp'ny 1 keep. The huntsman who antlers proves that he has a head of the gar Siftings: The hotel trust will probably not be & go until the proprictor sces that you have considerable baggage with you ings home \ able to ge Philadelphia Record: — “It's a waste of #oney to buy roses at this ‘time ve Chappie, “because a man gives @ colple of dollars for a few scents. Lowell Courfer: France danced the 1 once, but it was never popular with th They were sick after the ball. Life: “Jim, what is steam, anyhow? “It's a sort o' waporous sweat wot the millions of hanimaleula wot's in the water throws off in_ their hangulsh at being ded to death.” “Wot a gilly 1 am! as much 1 might ha' knowed fbune: ““You mustn’t be hard said Aunt Jemima. “Boys will hey will, hey?" snorted Uncle All the boys T know are breaks med necks to be men!” Chicago T on Jimmy be b Gabriel, ing their b I saw that po- Spare Moments: That's the third liceman speak to policeman I've seen speaking to you this morning. 1 can't allow that “No, ma'm. But the policemen always do admire baby s0; they can't 'elp stopping and askin' about 'im. They all say as they never sce such a fine child.” That's What It Is. Atlanta Constitution. There ain’'t no use in talkin' Let the wisest fellers bawl! If_vou're ridin’, if you're walkin’ Tt's after all! All the teachin’ an’ the preachin’, Seems to strike against the wall; For this old world is a-reachin’ For the dollar, after all! A COMPOSITE POEM. The following composite poem, which was printed in the Boston Globe, is interesting as a curlosity if not for its literary merit, A dozen or more authors w sked to write one line each and this was the re- ult: Would it were always summer, with long light.”—Julia Ward Howe, Or_gloriou undimmed by thoughts of night.”"—Thomas Wentworth Higgin- son. ‘Yet one moon, would miss the glamor of the strong light the dusk's soft dler Moulton. t that man may walk en Guiney trips him up by v Roche, without its budding “enolloga. sngth that sorrow P —Ernest T “Or joy without the s brings,"—~Mary L. 'Or flaming y 0 night.”"—Ralph 8. Cram. “Still_ringing changes on light, I'm out of " of moon-shot the dark and thought and words—a dismal plight.”"—Katherine K. Conway. “What odds if red suns flame moons shine To souls wherin love divine?'—Mrs. C. B “Why crave eternal day ter? To take things fitter.”—Charles Strau: “Content But having summer everywhere rd Hovey. or white dwells—a_ guest Whiton-Stone, one ceaseless glits come to me seems Adams (Yawcob s they Follen alike in summer and in snow we go."— All I have to $12.00 time. = HEsE $20. trousers =ha: bargains and well worthy as ever. Will iy the expross If you send (he monoy for $20 Wortli or more S A A | O ‘,X‘»..‘}'_-A.-'\.A.-w-vww.’-u;swwa\. The other man Does all the work-- do is to carry up the brick.” way at B. K. & Co.’s—all you have to dois to bring in the money and we do the rest. in $8.50 and see it you can't get a suit—sure The suits we are selling now for $16.50 were You can buy a $6 pair of $2.25. Those who have patronized us in the past know these to be more than ordinary matter how low the price, the quality is just as good BROWNING, KING & CO., 4 | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, T v, _vf‘wv—v.-vflwv_.n\r.m‘&u‘bs& &,.,. e T =, i S\me For instance, bring thing every formerly for $4.50—or a $3 pair for of your inspection, No of the ~==,