Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 10, 1894, Page 4

4 THE OMAHIA DAILY BEEASATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1891, —— » THE OMAITA DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor. NING. MOl WLISIED BVERY —— TERMS OF SUMSCRIPTION. 3 oo (withont Sunday), One Year., 4400 Daily B Ity ), One Year.. Ay Dally and Sunday ix Monthis hres Montiin One Year ay Bee, G Yoir Baturday Dée, One Yenr Weeklyaion, One Year OFFICES. The T Tullding ' Towonty-tourth St eart wirens 5 15, Tribune bullding Hmaha ounell 1 1 and 15, JRRESPONDENCE, 4 relating to news and edi T’ Rdrensed: To the Faitor 48 LETTERS. and remittances ablish Hould be company ma i fta, ch o made pryabls ta BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATIC George 11 juck, secretary of The Bes Publishing ‘company, belng duly #wo wnys that the nctugl number of full and complote coples of The Daily Morning, Bvening and Sun Any Bec el during the month of February 18, was s follows 1 8 2. 19 3 I 1 5 8 10 1) 12 13 a7 i 2 for the month Lews reductions for unsold coples Total sold Daily average not cliculation * Rund SCHUCK GEORGE T worn to before me and subseribed in my, prsence Uils 30 day of M 1804, : P. FEIL, Notary Publ And still the wonder grew that one com- mittee could knock the tariff so askew. 1 to be faring pretty well The wool The trusts woe in the United growers should form a tr senate, t The trusts appear to have gotten In with the senate subcommittce on the tarlft and to have staid with it to the end. Coughlin trial off their ay have two weeks the With the minds the people of Chicago n respite to devote to preparations for Prendergast cxecution. Bditor Stead speaks highly of tho earl of waiting to hear whether caks highly of Stead, Kk of him at all. Rosebory. Wo the earl of Roscbery ) or even deigns to spe The supreme court of Nebraska has just handed opinfon in the case of Violet versus Rose. This is a sure sign that the flowers of gentle spring are not far away. down an One good effect of our recent fire losses will bo the confstruction of a better grade of bulldings in the place of those destroyed and a general tendency toward fireproot construction. The members of the Iowa legislature are really settling down to business. As soon a8 they pass that local option measure their constituents will feel more encouraged to settlo down to business. What shall we call 1t? The Wilson bill or the Voorhees bill? Perhaps it will be better to let Mr. Wilson and Mr. Voorhees fight it out among themselves which should have this much-sought-for honor. Peanuts have been removed from the free list during the tariff transformation in the senate finance sub-committee. Peanut poli- tics, however, cannot be molested so long as the democratic statesmen retain a monop- oly of that article. It the Commercial club will only keep its grappling hooks on two or three of the blg factorics and jobbing houses which it clalms to have In tow we shall witness a marked improvement in business beforoe another year rolls ‘round. The woman suffragists announce that they havo arranged to hold successive two-day meotings in cach of the 105 counties of Kan- sas. Poor Kansas! Nobraska offers a cordial nvitation to all its worthy citizens to migrate to its more peaceful soil. The income tax feature remains in the Internal revenue schedule of the tariff bill despite the almost universal protests of the democratic press. The democratic news- papers are not in it with an edict from the president’s office in the white house. Before It starts upon its junket to Cali- fornia it is to be hoped that the council will pass the Pardee ordinance, under which the city is to have cheaper electric lights, and also the revised electrician ordinance to fnsure the better inspection of electric wires, The Bee has Jhad something to say about the Inflated coal bills of state institutions. It is to be hoped that during the mild weather of the past week such bills have shown a corresponding reduction. The blue- pencil sccountant in the state house should stick a pin there. Penitent local democrats are now bowing down before Congressman Bryan and be- seeching him to reconsider his refusal to address a public gathering here. They are now willing to give him all the rope he wants, and {f he chooses to hang himself they expect to be In at the death. Mr. Bryan and the Jacksonlans are now sald to have adjusted their recent misunder- standing, and the Jacksonlans are exerting themselves to Induce Mr. Bryan to address them before he returns to Washington. Is this another case of the lion and the lamb? It 8o, which Is lion, and which Is lamb? It looks as if Governor Walte were trying his best to emulate the example of Governor Lewelling in ousting from office public of- ficlals who are not in harmony with his fdeas and policies. The outlook at last re- port did not promise any better success to Colorado than the attempt in Kansas. was met in Some of the present republican officials of Nebraska are beginning to realize that unless they do something toward upholding the laws which they have sworn to execute the party will be floundering in cold water in the fall campalgn, Some of the zeal now on exhibition would have been more credita- blé had it been more evenly distributed, The transfer switch law is still inoperative, Lut the people of the state may be depended upon to adapt the law to thelr own purposes this fall if they conclude to transfer the re- sponsibllity for enforcing the laws upon the statute books from the members of the old gang which has s0 long assumed control to men who will represent the masses of the 200ple of the state, amended to apply only to these and not in- TWO TRANSFER SWITCH DECISIONS. The members of the State Board of Tr portation have happlly changed thelr minds with regard to the enforcement of the trans law, and instead of withholding thelr judgment upon the first case br before them under that law until they should | have Investigatbd the facts involved in the | whole elghty odd cases where the railroads | have asked to be relieved from i tion of its penalties they have made public | their declsions ordering switches to be con- | i | fer switch the opera- struote O'Nelll. It ather late in the day to got t law more th nominally into the penalties begun to acerue. at Schuyler and at may first dec seven months after it effect and five months after were supposed to hav Had the board concluded at once to pursue seem n under the new went of transporting a bushel of wheat from Chi- eago to New York Is than 8 cents that the producer 18 b thereby? Is it not absolutely cortain sell his wheat at the the point of export? b she more rofited that prevailing at he must price house committee on hgriculture Is g & proper purpose to give the com merelal bodies a full and fair opportunity to be heard on this subject, and it Is to be romarked that not all of them are opposed to the proposed legislation, Of course the agricultural intorest will glven a like opportunity. It {s apparent that the op position to anti-option legislation intends to make a vigorous fight to defeat it. be SHOULD EXPEDITE THE CASE. More than a year has now elapsed since the policy which it has only now finally | the failure of the Capital National bank adopted these decisions might have been | through the lawless operations of Bank promulgated months ago, and any appeal | Wrecker Mosher, Over a quarter of a mil- which rallways might have been tempted to | llon of state money, presumably in the make would doubtless have been by this | hands of the treasurer, but in reality repre- time adjudicated In the courts. The Bee | sented by a worthless certificate of deposit urged early and repeatedly that the board | fn the Capital National, will be absolutely give the ple the benefit of a decision in | lost unless the state can recover that one case at a time as speedy as possible. | amount from the bondsmen of the outgoing The board has let nearly half a year run | or incoming state treasurer. The effort of by before acting upon the suggestion the attorney general and counsel for the S0 far as the declsions themselves are | State to get the Hill case directly Into the concerned they are certainly in accord with | sup rt ought to succeed. That tri- the Intent of the law. The legislature en- | bunal ted with jurisdiction in such acted the transfer swicch la in order to | cases by the plain-language of the constitu- compel the railways 1o construct tho | ton. It the legislature has falled to pro- switches contemplated thersin and to give | vide the means for the exercise of this au- shippers the benefit of rates based npon the | thority, and it the court can supply the shortest ronte to the point of destination. | omission, as counsel claim, then the court Authority was Board of Transportation to exampt the rallways from the penalties in parceulir instances gnerely to avdl subj 1l and extraordinary hardships. There was not the remotest idea that the railways would apply for relief at every point of junction in the state thus endeasor to rendor entirely fnoperative. The board has de very that un of const vested In tho § ate ng e Jaiter to uui and the law ded properly the of opi es3 the r ing aflway the switch rating it after uction to 1 burdensome, unjust or unreason- parison with the advantages pro and col unusually able in hout | to accrue to shippers along Its lines it will have falled to make out its caso and is en- titled to no further exemption from the {cn- alties prescribed by the law. be inferred from the fact t theso two decisions are to be made as “test cases” that the railroads interested in them to rosist the order of the board in the courts. It is intimated that they will contest tho constitutionality of the transfer switeh law, as they have of every other law that has been passed by the state legisla- ture to protect the rights of the people as against the encroachments of the railroads, Just what thelr line of argument will be fs vet to be disclosed, but we may rest assured that no stone will be left unturned to in- vent ingenious pleas for the courts to inter- pose. In the meanwhile the law will remain In a stato of suspended animation. With the assistance of injunctions and other legal de- vices the railroads will continue to disregard the law. The only hope of the plople lies in having public officials who will fearlessly perform their dutles. It is to expect GAMBLING IN FOOD PRODUCTS. The commerclal exchanges of the country are sending out their protests against the proposed anti-option legislation, and it is hardly necessary to say that they all agree it would be a very serlous thing for the trade of the country if the speculation which It 1s proposed to suppress, if that be practi- cable, should be Interfered with. Yet such speculation as dealing in “futures” and ‘“‘op- tions” has not been found necessary to the trade of other countries. This form of gambling is peculiarly American, and why it should be of vital Importance here, as claimed by the commercial exchanges, and not elsewhere is by no means obvious. As a matter of fact it is not so and no argument. yet presented by these exchanges show it to be. As to the ill effects of this specula- tion they may be exaggerated. Perhaps it is true, for instance, that prices are as often lowered as advanced by it. But the pre- tense that any real benefit to the trade of the country or to the agricultural Interest comes from this speculation is manifestly talse. A representative of the Chicago Board of Trade who appeared before the committee on agriculture of the house of representatives a few days ago sald that the two evils or parasites which unfortunately exist in the trade are bucket shops and put-and-call trading, and that these should be suppressed. He stated that the Board of Trade he repre- sented would be very glad to work in har- mony with the house committee for the elimination of bucket shops and put-and- call traders as they now exist and for their entire suppression, provided the bill was terfere with the present system of future trading. In other words, If the proposed legislation shall be so framed as to suppress small gambling in grain and leave the busi- ness to the big gamblers—the fellows who are ablo to risk tens of thousands of dollars instead of a few hundrod—they will not ob- jeot, to it. This is Indeed a concession which ought to have made a profound fm- prossion on the committee. There Is nothing to be sald in defense of bucket shops. Their influence is In every way bad. Thelr operations are demoralizing to trade and they offer a temptation to specu- lation that has brought ruin and disgrace to thousands. But are not the commear- clal exchanges and boards of trade largely or wholly responsible for the existence of the bucket shops? If there had been no gambling on the exchanges is it not highly probable that these establishments would not have come into being? The' bucket shop is the illegitimate offspring of the great boards of trade where speculation s car- ried on upon a large scale and come to sup- ply an opportunity for men of small means to imitate the example of the wealthy spec- ulators of the boards of trade and com- merclal exchanges The representative of the Chicago board further said that in his opinion legitimat: speculs grain help the more than anything else, by enabling him at all times to find a ready market, with out which ho Is at the mercy of the manu- ions (In producer facturer and exporter. He did not define legitimate speculation, and it s conceded that there is such a thing, but it is not in “futures" and “options” that do not re- quire cither party to hold a bushel of grain, and It is not possible to sce how that sort of speculation makes a ready market for tho producer or helps him in any way. By way of Hustrating the value of “legitimate speculation to the producer it was stated that Chicago Is the highest relative market in the world for wheat by at least § per cent due to the fact that Chlcago Is the favorad speculative point in grain. But Is not this diftercnce altogether fetitious—a speculative « difference, in benefit merely fact—and of no to the producer? Will any rational man that wheat In Chicago Is carried by speculation to a price 4 cents of the New York price and the cost belleve whon within should by all means give the state an oppor- tunity to have the matter speedily adjudi- cated, Let the case be heard, tried and disposed of thus at the earliest practfcable time. The supreme court has already held that this case cannot be tried in Douglas county. It ought not to be tried in the midst of the pernicious local surroundings, subject to the manipulation of parties interested, who have prevented the state thus far from realizing dollar by its suits in Lancaster county to recover money corruptly wrenched from the state treasury in the asylum and penitentiary swindles. o court has already decided that_the deposit of the moneys In the Capital Na- tional bank was a breach of trust and viola- tion of the treasurer’s bond. Let it take the responsibility of trying the cause and meting out justice as speedily as possible, The ex-treasurer has certainly been fa- vored by a year's delay to the detriment of the state, and further procrastination is lia- ble to imperil if not absolutely defeat the state in its effort to reeover the enormous sum diverted from the treasury. The ex- tent to which this loss has crippled the state treasury can scarcely be estimated. We | have been paying intecest on $700,000 of state warrants and are still paying interest on more than half a million, when we could have redeemed at least $250,000 of these war- rants had the state been placed in position to collect the amount diverted. In view of the fact that the credit of the state has been impaired and will continue Impaired until we have recovered the amount diverted from the treasury illegally, the duty of the court to exercise the power vested in it would seem imperative. Among. the distinctive features of The Sunday Bee (tomorrow) will be a copyrighted interview with Henry George. The growth of political discontent: and the cause of hard times will be discussed at length by the great expounder of the single tax doctrine. Mr. George also gives reasons for his opposition to an income tax and treats of other econ- omic questions in a manner at once enter- taining and instructive, The Sunday Bee will also present a paper by Hon. Theodore Roosevelt on “Civil Service Reform.” The author gives a clear and comprehensive re- view of the situation and what has been accomplished under the civil service law. His experienco with the administration of that law amply qualifies him to speak of its merits and practical effects. This paper is one of the series of articles on political econ- omy to which extended reference has here- tofore been made. Another special feature will be a letter by an Omaha youth about “Love-Making in Mexico.” The author of this letter claims to speak from recent ex- perience. His letter is breezy and entertain- ing. In all departments The Sunday Bee will be fully up to the standard. The State Board of Tramsportatton has come out of its contest with the Elkhorn railroad on the hay rate question with flying colors. Three months ago it solemnly as- serted that the rates were too high and fixed a rate which it declared to be in every way Just and reasonable. The railroad refused to put the board rate into effect and practically asked the members of the State Board of Transportation what they proposed to do in the premises. The board sought the best way out of the ditficulty by accepting a com- promise by which the road was permitted to make an increased rate. The magnanimity of the rallroad company in this case cannot be overestimated. It gencrously helped the members of the board out of a difficulty into which they had thoughtlessly involved them- selves. In the meantime the hay shippers stand the expense. Supreme Court Commissioner Irvine in his decision in the case of Singer Manufacturing company against Fleming upholds the con- stitutionality of the law that was passed in 1889 to protect the earnings of employes of corporations and firms doing interstate business from the raids of the so-called garnishee sharks. This law has since its enactment been subjected to constant charges that it unconstitutional, It forbids the transfer of claims against such employes to persons without the state with the intention of evading the provisions of the Nebreska law regarding exemptions and was glves the aggrieve: "rn, an action for tho recovery of the monby, {ogether with costs and a reasonable attgrney's fee. This do- | cision will doubtles ‘Tv an end to the lucra tive business that has been plied in this | vicinity whereby cifims against railroad om- ployes have been sofd to persons In Towa as g basis for garnishment proceedings. In coming to a compromise with the Rik- horn upon the question of the rate on hay | the State Board of Transportation makes a confossfon either that it fs afraid or unable to enforce Its order commanding Bik- rate in force previous to thoe raise, or that its judgment as to which | of the rates constitutes a rate WAS Wrong. The board has permitted the | Blkhorn dety its order and taken no steps to secure for it the respect and obedience of the railroad. Moreover, It the original hay rate was a reasonable one, | as the board has o than th extortionate. the horn to restore the roasonable to openly has sured us, then anything t rate fs unreasonable and | compromise only this advantage over the rate contended | for by the Elkhorn, that it Is a triflo le unreasonable. A compromise may bring speedior reliof shippers Wwho are im- mediately it, but it is ex- tremely whether It tends to strengthen rather than weaken the author- ity of the state board, more The rate has to th affected doubtful by The interstate commerce law never bled the railronds that operate in this neck o' woods. In some respects it has been of advantage to them. When a shipper asked | for a pass reading over a line traversing two or more states aid not want to and the general freight agent | it the request he would sit down and pen a letter something like this: “Dear Sir—Your request at hand. We would very much like to grant it, but under of onr traffic strict provisions of the interstate commerce law are cly forbidden to such transportation over our line,” common points, however, where the shi the rule assoclation and the we pos| issue At ote. or had the cholce of consigning his goods ov one of two or three lines, the provisions 6f the interstate commerce law were never known to cut much of a figure. Under such perplexing circumstances it was a horse of another color. The appropriation made by the last logis lature for the payment of the expenses of sheriffs who are compelled to take prisoners to the state penitentiary is already exhausted, although the first half of the biennial fiscal period has not yet elapsed. The law requir- ing the payment of these fees should be amended in some very important particulars. There is no good reason why a sherift shall collect 10 cents per mile for railroad fare when hé has to pay but 3 cents. The state is also required to pay several thousand dol- lars annually for hack fares. It would better pay the state to maintain at the state peni- tentiary a sultable hack of its own. Carry- ing conviets in city hacks at commercial travelers' rates Is somewhat expensive and altogether unnecessary. Secretary Carlisle has declined to approve the architects’ memorial recently presented to him praying that the desigds for public buildings be thrown open to competition. The secretary thinks that the office of the supervising architect is able to furnish all the plans needed for public work of this kind for the present. He promises, how- ever, to favor any method that commends itself as practical by which the treasury can avail itself of outside architectural talents. l The state pays less than 50 cents per capita per day for the maintenance of all the inmates in its state ifistitutions, this includ- ing every expense. It pays 40 cents per capita per day for the maintenance of its convicts, furnishes bulldings free of cost and permits the prison contractors to sell the labor ot the several hundred able-bodied inmates. And yet some people have the nerve to assert that the prison contract is losing heavily. The Cass county, Iowa, bank wreckers have a wholesome dread of being tried in the counties in whieh their victims happen to reside. The astomphere of Cass county no longer agrees with these Iowa financiers, although they had operated there for many years. If all that has been charged against them Is proven at the trial the atmosphere of the penitentiary will have to satisfy them for several years to come. It is perhaps too much to expect of this administration thata man shall be appointed as interstate commerce commissioner who is and has been in favor of the letter and spirit of the interstate commerce law. The railroads of the west have recently named many appointees under Mr. Cleveland where their intercsts were concerned, and it is not at all unlikely that they will name the next commissioner. If we caunot plant any trees this spring we can and we ought to continue planting more Iron poles along the street railway lines on our principal thoroughfares. Wooden poles are unsightly, and inasmuch as the ordinance requiring iron poles was passed more than two years ago, it I8 not unreason- able to insist that its provisions be carried out. Ropublican Esth Kansas City Journal, Senator Hill is apparently determined to rise above the character of “peanut states- His fight on the Wilson bill is a good stride, Growls ntiua, - A Cruel G St. Louls ¥ The newspaper men who we! called David B. Hill to n T Cleveland on his urn to Washington should have been more considerat The president does not want to meet David either on the earth or the waters thereof. OTHER LANDS TILAN OURS. Lord Rosebery has before him a difcult but by no means impossible task. He suc ceeds the most experienced parliamentary tacticlan and the most authoritative party leader knows for a generation In England He appeals for support to a coalition of par tles and factions which have been held to- gether only by Mr. Gladstone’s Invinelble will. He (s a membor of the hereditary house marked out in the retiring loader's valedictory address in the Commons as the stronghold of privilege to be attacked by radical agitation, All the circumstances of his succession Increase the difficulties of leadership, but do not render them insuper- able. Mr, Gladstone has armed the coali- tion with a new lssue, which may make it at once more coherent and more manage- able. The nationalists, the radicals and the workingmen'’s representatives have alike suf- fored from the obstruction of leglslation’ in the House of Lords. A ministerial policy, grounded upon the reform of the House - of Lords will have the sanction of Mr adstone’s (nspir ing example, and it may have sufficient attractive force to keep the coalition to- | mether at least v general election can be conveniently d in the autumn Lord Rosebery peer who has never concealed his t for the hereditary chamber, 18 not hout qualifications for isis, although he is his inability to di Commons, th rec Teadership in this c fously embarrassed by his party in person in the maxim that commercial political several Prince Bismarck’ hostility s not inconsistent with friendship disproved in instances of late years, as witness the feel ing which has arisen hetween Franco the one side and Spain and Switzerland on the other, In consequence of ti traffic imposed by the former ason o belie at the commercial strife botween Germ has been on prohibitory hore is good utinuance of y and Russin would ha to eventual wa Every settlement of commercial differences is a new pledge of pe It s true that when popular passions are aroused a com- mercial treaty 1s no guarantee against an outburst. France declared war against Ger- notwithstanding the existence which was very favor. The present case, how- from that, for Russia many in 1870, of a treaty of traffic able to both sides differs widely aever, | has really. given up a fundamental principle in her desire to promote pacific intere When the Russo-German treaty shall have been ratified, we may consider that, barring unexpected and extraordinary incidents, the poace of Burope is sccure until the 31st of December, 1903, and in those ten years, as in the last twenty, the nations will have grown go much older that there will not e a single man in all the continental armics fleld who has ever handled a musket on the of battle. The people will have become so accustomed to peace that the ruler who ghould venture to disturb it would run the risk of revolution and deposition. Discussing the report that the czar, upon medical advice, determined to make his permanent home in Kieff, a writer in the London Spectator says: ‘““The population of Russia for nearly a generation has been slipplng southward in search ‘of culturable soil, and the living forces of the empire are now far nearer to Kieff and the Dnieper than to the Neva and St. Petersburg. If to these reasons the argument of health is added, we can well believe that the czar has decided on a permanent change of residenc and if ho has, he must also have decided on a permanent change of capital. He cannot live twenty years away from the adminis trative center. The forelgn ambassador: the great departments, the men who govern Russin, must attend the sovereign; and if they attend him, they must, for convenience sake, as well as for the sake of their own dignity, begin to build. There is ample room on the Dnieper for a great city, plenty of stone procurable, as the ancient monu- ments attest, and a supply of labor at le as abundant’ as that which maintains St. Potersburg. There is no historic prejudice to be offended, for Kieff is far more nearly connected with Russian history than St Petersburg; and no religious opposition to be feared, for Russian religious feeling, so far as it has a center, turfiis toward Constant- inople rather than ‘toward St. Petersburg, which is indeed far too modern for any sentiment of the kind. It is quite possible, therefore, i€ the czar lives and finds that Kieff suits his constitution and his children’s that the old city on the Dnicper may develop into a stately capital, the seat of govern- ment and the focus of the railway system of the empire.” P The notion of regarding Roumania as a possible naval power will be new to most persins, but the Russian newspaper Novoye Vremya is greatly agitated at the increase of the Roumanian navy In the Black sea. It says that the Roumanians have not contented themselves with erecting extensive fortifi- cations around Bucharest and along the valleys of the Pruth and Sereth, but have gradually got together a considerable num- ber of war vessels, built in English and French dockyards. Tn 1887 the armored cruiser Elizabeth and a torpedo boat were constructed, and In the following year more torpedo boats and other small craft. The Elizabeth was taken through the Black sea to the mouth of the Danubo flying a mer- chant flag. She received her armament and equipment at Galatz, and then, accom- panied by three torpedo boats and carrying the ensign of a man-of-war, steamed back to the Mediterranean, visiting several of the harbors of that sen, t year this vessel, while at Sebastopol, exchanged salutes with the battery on shore. 'he fighting strength of Roumania now consists of twenty-one vessels. Three more torpedo boats have been ordered In England, and negotiations have been entered into by the Roumanian government for the construction of two new armored ships e Novoye Vremya ob- serves that Russia in 1870 broke through the restrictions in the Black sea imposed upon her by the treaty of Paris, and the question now is whether Roumania s justified in doing tho same thing on her own account. Russian persistenc and Inscrutable Rus- slan diplomacy has once more gained an ad- vantage in lhe game with England for the dominion over Asia. A story, coming from Peking by way of San Francisco, 15 to the effect that China and Russia have arrived at an amicable understanding in regard to sey- eral vexed questions which, during the last ten years, have frequently threatened to precipitate war between the powers. Rus- sia_has agreed to abandon her effort to ob- tain a foothold and a harbor in the Chineso vassal kingdom of Korea, and in considera- tion for Russian abstention In this direction China has made important concessions to the Russian ambassador regarding the es- tablishment of telegraphic lines within the Chinese embpire. But, what fs_still more portant, China has ceded to Russia her claims of soverelgnty over the Pamir Plateau amir is anything but a delectable untry for residence. During the three months of the year when the ground Is All other powders are cheaper made and inferior, leav= ing acid or al= kali in the food. - ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK, £3 free from snow the platean Is resorted to TRIFLES HAMMERED TO A POINT, by a fow nomads as a grazing ground for | thoir cattle. A party of Cossacks who wore | Youkers Gauctte: It's funny that one left there by Colonel Yaroff, the Russfan | "Arely pores over a dry hook explorer, porfshed from cold during the | oo - ‘ frightful winter prevailing in that roglon. |y "pEI® Aames: \\,vavlv 8 sleeves m--lfl As a strategio point, however, for n Russian | aiways rufied up,. ' No¥ Are nearly descent into British India, vin Cashmer the inhospitable table land of Pamir would | Hallo: . Father (to won who s leaning be Invaluable. The Chinese claim to the | over waflery railing) Tak ire, Johnny, Pamir has been disputed by the ameer of | And don't fall. Tt will cost you §1 more Tt Afghanistan, whose pretensions are supported | by England; but, however shadowy ‘the 000 over births, the former amounting to hich an increased number of births may be | t me of $125,- Gladstone has an annual inc 000, most of which s derived from inherit- | T ances. Congressional milking of Whisky trust stock remains to be done bofore the tariff bill ean be reported to the senate Dissensions_in the United club of New York have brought to light the pleturesque fact that its secrotary is named Lode Hoornbeek m Revivalist Moody is moderately successful | in In Washington. Ocecaslonally a congress it man turns from the evil of his ways and |} weeps among the mournc A New York reporter discoverad that Mary Slizabeth Lease speaks with “a slight west ern accent.” This is Interesting. 1In t west she usually speaks with her mouth, Doss Croker waxes indignant and de- nounces at long range the pstion of a reflection on the lofty purity of Tammany election methods. ~ Begad, Dick, you protest too much. It Is proposed to ercet a monument or bust of Mr. Gladstone in Central park, New York. Just like Gotham. In the matter of monus ments, it is prolific with suggestions and barren of performand The city of Indianapolis, to meet the er: ing demand for “work for the unemployed,” offered jobs at stonebreaking to all who would take them, but nobody was hurt in the rush. Only nine persons applied. Mr. Bailey of Texas has introduced a bill prohibiting members of congress from acting as office brokers. There is no provision against executive office*brokerage. And Mr. Bailey is not a cuckoo in good standing. Tho projected visit of the ameer of Afghanfstan to Buropean courts has been indefinitely postponed, owing to the fact that his eighty wives insisted on Roing along. They objected to ameer stag party. Under the new dispensation in Colorado, evidence is abundant that women are not at all backward in coming forward as ap- plicants for petty offices. In the crowd seck- ing appointments as election officers in Den- ver there was a goodly number of women, and it was noticeable that they elbowed to the front with as much encrgy as veteran heelers. e Objections to the Income Tax. David A. Wells in the March Forum. Now an Income tax is the very essence of personal taxation. Notwith the de- fon of the supreme cou; States that it is not a dir to the taxpayer 3 the first reason why human nature does not like it. A second and more Important reason why a general income tax power- fully antagonizes popular sentiment is that its efficient administration, or revenue pro- ductiveness, requires that every person ble to taxation shall make to a government official an exhibit of the financial condition of his estate, business or profession. Hence the successful administration of an income tax involves and requires the use of arbi- trary and inquisitorial methods and agen- cles” which, perfectly consistent and h monious with a despotism, are entirely tagonistic to and incompatible with the mation and maintenance of a free gov ment, an- for- ern- e Ts it / or Blunder. New York World. Senator White did not take the seat on the supreme bench yesterday. He remains in the senate in order to protect sugar. He has been appointed a judge of the high tribunal in the country and he has accepte the office and been confirmed by the senate, Still he lingers in the legislative chamber. This 1s scandalous. It Is all the more scandalous If, as Is stated, the sugar interest 18 not only a state but ‘a personal matter with Mr. White. A man who will legislate for his personal interests is not fit to be a senator, much less is he fit to be a judge. While Mr. White should be sitting on the bench he {5 dodging his new office to lobby, deal and intrigue for sugar. is it possible that in his ‘last judicial a pointment Mr. Cleveland has blundered again? And whose pockets he orchestra Tribune sovereignty ceded by China may be, It would | oftan nbout Stag: partics What fs o stad be sufficlent to serve the purposes of Russia, | party? The government of the czar may bo trusted | Laura—Don't you know? Tt s a party to make the most of tho concossion, and the | Where they are all male dears, occupation of the plateau by a’ Russian | o Wi ; : o orce may not be a remote contingoncy. ndlanapolis Journal: “Do you thin forco may not be a remote contingoncy G L PRl UL EER “Surely, he must be; he is never ‘round The French population returns for 1 guh-n wanted," which have Just been fssued, show for the [ & e i third yoar In successlon an oxcess of denths | (CHICAES Inter Ocennt SThat barber of and the latter to'855,000. With the excop- | = “Well, it's qu I dldw't think of that tion of 1890 the number of births is lower, | when I'sent you while the mortality is, with two slight ex- | s ceptions, higher than in any year since 1880, | Philadelphia Record Tommy —~What s The marriages, however, are more plentiful | the meaning of the word “street cleaner,” than in the previous seventoen years. The o ba . TR report prodiots that the effects of the War of | noy apd thore apmenrs (o po ot & Y 1870-71 will now cease to operate. During | occaslon for its use,' g those two years there were 600,000 abnormal A deaths and 120,000 fewer birtha than might [ Washington Star Hit's er great mis- otherwise have been expected, but in 1872 | fortu ts ob feller ereatures,” sufd thero was an increase of 20,000 births, and [ Ungle Bben, “dat dey is deaf and’ dum the persons born since the war are now be. | AN Ih & wusser misfortune ter a lot mo' coming marriageable. Hence the increased TS ber of anarriages in 1891 and 1892, from | Puck: Starboarder—How s Mr. \Woeks his mc Mrs. Skinner? i expected to follow. | Mrs. Skinner—1 took him up a cup of tea g | and a piece of bread, and he was just able iRE AND THERE. to_raise the bread to his N it bl Starboarder (pleased at report)--Oh, he'll pull through all right If he had strength . n\\'l r'l;ylhl :m'l-rl thoughts spring blithely | Dl GHOlEn B 1 oward tho baske s The moderation of March woather coin WISE MAIDEN, ides with existing democratic conditions, Tndianapolis Journ e her h art to the handsome youth, The vouth with a swect moustache She gave her heart—but her hand she aved For the gray-beartled man whose lip was shay were lined with cash. - Durction of Uneorfainty. Globe-Democrat As it has taken the senute’s finance coms nittee about a month to get the tarif® bill nto shape for consideration, how long will tuke the senate itsolf to debate it sched- le by schedule and pass it? Undoubtedly Tuy will have arrived by the time the resident gets his hands on it. 0 CURED HIM. Atlanta Constitution, Bill Jones was deaf and dumb, an’ not A man had ever he From them uncomi his olitary word when he made the usuaf lo say he “thought he'd r er congress,” oy ly laughed, An' there was lots o' fun! s—lie wis electe went in like a charm ein' deaf an’ dumb,” they said He'll never do no harni But great was the surprise of all; the silent Bill— 88, he_out-talked 'em all, Kin' still! When Jone Struck con An' he's a t @2y KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement anc tends to personal enjoyment when rightly SRsaio many, who live b ter than othcrs and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by moro promptly nispting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid lexative principles embraced in - tho remedy, Syrup of Tigs. Tts axcellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas- ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly heneficial proporties of a perfect lax- ative; efectuaily cieunsing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation, It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels without weak- ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug- gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man- ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will nof accept any substitute if offered. The largest makors fine clothe Your money’s worth or ROWRING, KING nd sellers of on earth, your monoy bac's. suits for few left now. Willpay theexpressif you send the morey for 420 worthior me plain white shirt, $1.25 to $1.50 goods. going to buy any more—therefore the ocul Very Interesting Indeed are the many new things in children’s - spring, that have so far % arrived—We have them nearly v large invoice of Men's Spring ¥ have all the newest cereations in / every known cloth, made up in e . the most elegant styles we are showing and at hard time prices So low, in fact, that they are nearly 20 per cent lower than last year. To see them is to buy one. A dollar for a Wilson Brog.' N ) 1 all in now, as well as quite a Suits—As to spring Overcoats, we We're not only a Maybe you can find your size. BROWNING, KING & CO., | 8. W. Corl h and Douglas Sts, o |