Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 6, 1894, Page 12

TH? OMAHA DAILY WENTY PAGES. o e T O T O SR B DTN A7 SRR S M8 OF SUDSCRIPTION, it Sunday), One Year.. ne Year o onths Three M Bunday Her Haturiny Weekiy T OFVICES Omana, The Tiee Tuilding Houth Omahn, corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Council My, 12 Ponrl street Chicago Office, 217 Chixmber of New York, Hooms 13, 14 and 1 Washington, W07 F strect, N CORRESPONDE i ations relating to nows and edi- \i1a b addreveed: To the Bitor, NUSINESS LETT « letters and remittances shoul Tinn Tubitahing com ohecka and postofiice orders to he order of the e apany. PUBLISHING COMPANY Tribune Pldg. All o torfal he ny, ULATION, ary of The Dec Pub: wwarn, ways that the mplets coples of The wnd_ Sunday e printed 1804, was as follows i v STATEM OF C1F George 1. Taschick, ser any, being du Daily M during t ning, 15 month of April, JROMRT..L ueeiieovmesvmssassbnissney Less' deductions for unsold and returned COPIER i o ) ; Total sold Datly average + * Bunday net elreutation GEORGE 11 T and_ subscribed in my press Bworn to before me ence this 20 day of May, 1501, (Seal). v B tary Public. i ———— ) T REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE. LINCOLN, May 5.—The republican state central committee is called to meet at the Millard hotel, Omaha, Tuesday, May 22, at 8 o'clock p. m. A full attendance is desired, as the time and place for holding the next state conven- tlon will be at that time decided upon. BRAD J. SLAUGHTER, Chairman. What doos Judge Scott think of what the people think of him? The dynamite bomb explodes at frequent intervads with a shocking persistency. Whether Buropean disarmament Is useless or not, Crispi is certainly correct in saying that is quite improbable for the immediate future. One of the men who morched on Washing- ton with Coxey is sald to have fallen heir to a considerable fortune. Don’t all join Coxey at onc It we are to believe the astronomer at the Lick observatory the newly discovered comet resembles the prysent congress in a remark- abla degree. They are both composed al- most entirely of gnseous substances. e Congressmen who vharge one another with knowing nothing of the tariff questipn must not think that they are breaking news to the public. The public has long been con- vinced of the truth of such assertions. All things come to the city that waits lodg enough—and Omaha has probably waited long enough for the coming of the Illinois Central. In the meantime, it might be ad- visable for Omaba to drop the waiting policy and ge utter a few things on her own ac- count. The gold reserve shows signs of suffering a relapse. Sccretary Carlisle will yet have need of all the resources at his command to steer the financial craft through the troubled financial seas. With a full view of the situ- ation further attempts to tamper with the currency system should be discouraged. The longor the transfer switch law Is al- lowed to remain inoperative the stronger will become the sentiment among the people that the railroads should pay the salaries of their own men on the State Board of Trans- portation. Tho people are becoming tired of paying large salaries to cheap secretaries of the board Our minister to Austria, Hon. Bartlett Tripp, says that he prefers to serve out his term at his post in Vienna to taking his chances on securing & place in the United States senate as representative of South Dakota. A bird in the hand is usually worth two In the bush, more especially when the compensation of the minister to Austria is somewhat greater than the salary of a mem- ber of the United States senate, The star chamber sessions of public bodies, whether county commissioncrs, park com- missioners, boards of education, boards of publie works or police commission, should be abolished. The people have a right to know how every member of these bodies stands on any project that involves expenditure of public funds or the adoption of any partic- ular line of policy in dealing with questions and matters in which the taxpayers and citizens at large have an interest. The law requiring the investment of tho permanent school fund in state warrants was passed early In the year 1891, From August, 1891, until November 30, 1893, the state paid to warrant holders the enormous sum of $136,072.22 in Interest. During all this time the law above referred to was ig- nored. The dereliction of the state treas- urer in respect to this law has cost the tax- payers of the state nearly $200,000. It fs time that the law should be observed, in spirit, if not In letter, There s the railroad officials bluft when they advertised that they would disintegrate the Nebraske Indus- trial army by employing the soldiers at $1.40 a day, the price of “good hoard” to be deducted At the rate of §$4 per week. The railroad is In no position to hire the men, and its efforts to seatter the unemployed and penniless men in a rough and sparsely sot- tled country is not at all to the credit of the men who devised it. no longer any were doubt that playing a No one need worry as yet about the sup- posed Influcace of the low rates on steerage passage across the ocean which have been precipitated by the steamship rate war upon immigration to this country. Immigration bas not been affected one way or the other Dbecause up to this time the cut rates have applied only to outgoing trafic from Amer- lcan poris to European ports. It is enabling d'.«flsfied Immigrants to return cheaply to " tholr tormer homes, thus'tending to decreaso the net immigration to the United States through a stimulation of emigration. It is Darely possible that the war may extend to steerage rates coming this way, but until it does 80 the immigration will continue to de- Ppond upon natural couditions now as hereto- fores THE GOLDEN SPIKE. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the com- pletion of the Union Pacific rallroad occurs thls week. The driving of the golden spike on Promontory Point was an event of mo- mentous importance In the history of that gigantic enterprise. It was an event of nomentous Importance in the industrial hisioty of the United States. But most of all, it was an event of momentous lmpor- tance In the history of Omaha. The driving of the golden five years ago signalled to the unfon by bands of steel of the Atla Pacific It made possible marvelous expansion of the western haif of the Amerlcan continent that has been wit- nessed during the years since elapsed. The Union Pacific, as the forerunner of a whole network of transcontinental railway lines was the pioneer hewing the way for othel§ to follow, demonstrating to a doubting pub- lie that the project often ridiculed vistonary and impossible not only pos- sible, but a reality. It has done more than any other single agency to Knit together the ur vast country, to as- similate east and west, to prevent section alism and discord, to promote that grand project begun by the framers of he federal constitution ““to form a more perfect unfon™ for the people of the United States. Omaha's progr ss during these twenty-five years, while not alone dependent upon the fact that this city is the connecting link be- tween the Pacific and the eastern rallroads has been greatly advanced by its railrond connection with the far western states. From a town with a population of less than 15,000 it has been transformed into a city with a population of 140,000, The Omaha of today s practically an entirely new crea- tion, fts large business blocks, handsome office buildings, beautiful residences being principally the products of recent years. The business interests of the city have expanded in a similar ratio, whi'e public improvements of every kind have kept pace with the de velopment in other branches. The Union Pacific raflroad of today, too, s mot the Union Pacific raflroad of twenty-five years ago. 1t has become a great railroad sys- tem, with over 8,000 miles of road under its control. The tmprovements in railroad fac'l- ities and in railroad administration have been scarcely less marked than the progress of the country tributary to it. Were the golden spike again in place it would with difficulty recognize the trains that now pass over Promontory Point. Few of the men who participated in the celebration of May 10, 1869, can hope to cele- brate the fiftieth anniversary of that event. The railroad which was then completed, however, is a monument that cannot so quickly pass away. Omaha will continue to grow and will doubtless commemorate the occasion. The benefits to the people of the United States resulting from the success of this great enterprise are forever enduring and must continue to éxert a powerful in- fluence upon the whole future development of this country. spike twenty- world the tie and oceans. that 80 as remote sections of CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION. The coming constitutional ccnvention in the state of New York, meeting under the some- what peculiar provision of the constitution requiring such a convention to be called every twenty years, has called attention to the different methods by which the constitu- tions of our state and national governments may be revised. The federal constitution deals with this question specifically, although perhaps in a fashion a trifle obscure and clumsy. It provides that while the initiation of particular constitutional amendments may be had in congress, the initiation of a consti- tutional convention must come from the leg- islatures of the several states. In the words of the constitution, *“Congress on the appli- cation of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states shall call a convention for proposing amendments which shall be valid to all Intents and purposes as part of this constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states or by conventions in three-fourths thereof as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the congress.” But a convention to revise the constitution in accordance with this provision has never been demanded by the requisite number of stats legislatures, and judging from the teachings of American history since the institution of the federal government, it will require a powerful in- centive to set the machinery in motion. The amendments thus far proposed and adopted have uniformly had their origin in congress and not in a constitutional convention, The provision of the New York constitu- tion to which we have alluded requires the periodical election of delegates to a conven- tion and submission of the work of that con- vention to the people for ratification. The people can, therefore, negative proposed re- vision in one of two ways, either by electing delegates who will refuse to submit amend- ments or by defeating the amendments when they are sumbitted. The requirement of a convention every twenty years, however, de- pends practically upon the legislature that must provide for convening it, and the very fact that the New York convention which meets this vear is several years delayed proves the inadequacy of the method as out- lined in the constitution. Other states haye had constitutional provisions requiring the submission to the people of the question whether a convention for its revision should be called. In some instances this has been done by fixing a designated date when the will of the people upon this matter should be con- sulted, the first belng that of Massachusetts of 1780, which commanded that such an election be held in 1795. New Hampshire, Georglu and Kentucky have had constitu- tions at ono time or another with similar provisions. The periodical election on the question of revision first appeared in the constitution of Indiana of 1816, setting the interval at every twelve years. Altogether twelve states have had constitutions re- quiring the periodical submission of the question of calling a convention for consti- tutional revision, but of these ouly seven still rotain such provisions in their present constitutions. In but few of these has the device worked with any great degree of sat- isfaction, Tho more usual method of constitutional revision among our states consists in leaving It to each state legislature to decide upon the necessity and advisability of calling a convention to revise the constitution. In most instances the logislature must first submit to the people the question whether the conven- tion should be called, and only when they an- swor In the afirmative must it provide for the election of delegates. To this latter class Nebraska belongs, both of her constitutions, that of 1866 and that of 1875, describing a system of this kind, Under its present con- stitution it requires a three-fifths vote of the legislature to submit to the electors the question of calling a comstitutional conven- tlon, and it requires a majority of all voting at that election to order its assembling. It the majority vote In favor of a constitu- tional convention, then it becomes manda- tory on the next legislature to provide by law for calling it together, and then the amondments proposed must again be ratified ! by a majority of the voters, This s the usual system to which the greater number of our states resort The tendency, then, seems to be to leave the initiation of proceedings leading to con- stitutional revision to the legislature Instead of providing for it in the constitution it- sell. The periodical submission of the ques- ton of calling a constitutional convention has not made the progress which its early advocates expected, nor has its efficacy como up to thelr expectations where It has bgen adopted. At the same time the excessive majorities required to secure the calling of such conventions at the instance of the legislatures has alwo failed to meet the re- quirements of the times, Every method of constitutional revision ought to enable the people to secure the calling of a convention without delay whenéver it becomes clear to them that such a convention is necesgary. CIVIL SERVICE LAW NO SAFEGUARD Attention was called a short time ago to the case of a treasury clerk In the classi- fied service who had been removed by direc- tion of the secretary of the treasury and who applied for a writ of mandamus to compel the secrotary to reinstate him, alleging that his removal was purely for political reasons. The decision of the court was against the application, though the judge said it was perfeetly clear that the relator was removed because of political opinions and for the rea son that he was not in sympathy with the polities of the present administration, and algo because he would not say that he was or would become a democrat. “Of all this I have not the slightest doubt,” said Judg? Bradley, “and yet the difficulty Wwith his ap- plication appears to be that I do not see any position of the law under which the right of the executive to exercise his will and pleasure in the removal of incumbents of the executive offices has been curtalled by the eivil gervice law 50 as to make it appiy to the farticular reasons which were the ground of the removal of the relator.”” It was held that the right of the relator to the office he held was absolutely dependent upon the tenur: and if the tenure was at the will and pleasure or at the will and discre- tion of the executive officer under whom he had ofiice, then at any time that executive officer had the right to remove with or with- out reason. The opinion of the court contains some very pointed gxpressions with regard to the construction of the civil service law, say- Ing that when congress, in express terms, limits the power of the exccutive depart- ment as to removals solely to the extent of indicating that no man must be removed because he refuses to contribute to a po- litical fund, or because he refuses to render any political service, it must be deemed that congress intended that that limitation should be exclusive of any other and that the general rule that the expression of cne thing is the exclusion of the other must be applied. If congress had intended that no man should be removed from office because of his political opinions or because he re- fused to be coerced in his political opinfons it would have said so in express language, but having limited the power solely in the two instances of refusal to contribute to a political fund and of refusal to render polit- fcal service the expression of these two limitations is the exclusion of any other. The opinion contains this significant ex- preseion: “Although apparently it has be- come a difficult thing to get into the civil service, vet it is just as casy to get out as before the enactment of laws. To the extent that the spoils system has been abolished by the civil service law it is a great benefit to the civil service. To the extent, however, that congress failed to provide for the tenure of office of appointees under the civil serv- ico law the purposes of the act are clearly abortive." If these views are upheld by the higher court to which an appeal has been taken the friends of the civil service law will need to direct their efforts to securing the amendment of the law so as to broaden its power of protection to those appointed under it, or it will become practically worthless. The general impression has been that the law furnished an ample safe- guard to employes of the government in the classified service, making their tenure secure so long as they properly performed the dutles required of them. But if the construction given to the law by Judge Bradley is sound and is sustained by the higher court the law will be valueless so far as the matter of protection goes, which is certainly of prime importance, for ac- cording to this construction executive of- ficers may make removals from the classi- fled service at their pleasure and upon any pretext except pohtical reasons, though these may be the real motive. There is nothing in the way of a clean sweep in this service with every change in the political cheracter of the administration, The opinion of Judge Bradley will not fail to command the earnest attention of ecivil service reformers, THE EXODUS TO EUROPE. Notwithstanding the hard times the exo- dus of American visitors to Europe has begun as early as usual and on about as liberal a scale. The New York papers re- port that the staterooms on outgolng steam- ers have been engaged for many weeks ahead and tho hotels in fashionable Euro- pean watering places are already filled with Americans. “In consequence of this it is said that those who have decided to remain at home for the summer are bemoaning the fact that the amount of entertalning In even the most popular summer resorts in this country will be comparatively small. These people are to be commiserated. It is truly a serious matter for them that hav- ing decided to forego the luxury of hob- nobbing with the snobocracy of Europe they may not be able to find enough entertain- ment in their own country to make the summer days pass pleasantly. One can fancy these unfortunates lolling around under an overwhelming weight of ennul and sighing their souls toward the foreign resorts, where impecunious princes and pen- niless counts betake themselves at this sea- son to angle for the shallow-minded Amer- fean girls who are ambitious for a forelgn titlo and are willing to buy it no matter what the character of its possessor may be. Yet if these people had a little more of the sentiment of patriotism and more of a de- sire to know their own land they could find & way of passing the summer most en- joyably and have the satisfaction uf know- ing when it was over that the monsy spent had benefited thelr own countrymen. This is a wonderful country. Nowhere are there more beautiful lakes, grander mountains or more romantic and inspiring scenery. There are portions of the Rocky mountains that present a spectacle of grandeur and beauty unsurpassed oven in the Alps. The wild and varied scenery of Yellowstone park sn't cqualled anywhere else in the world. <A delighttul journey Is a trip to Alaska. There is health, recuperation and Instruction In visiting the many attractive places in this great country of ours, the expense s less than to go abroad, Wnd the effect from the moral and the gtffotic point of view Is eminently wholesome. Dut there Is no no- bility to be found at these places, savo that which s compreliérided In a true and loyal American manhodi and womanhood, and it would be far better, for the people of the cast It they knew more of this and thought less of cultivating the acquaintance of the blase nobility of foreign lands. The annual exolfia’or thousands of Ameri- to Wift undoubtedly continus, and In Increasing vilume as the number of those who can afford the time and expense grows. It is the fashionable thing to do, though it no longer gives the social prostige that it did some years ago. Nobody will question that a visit to Europe may be very beneficial. To many there is rencwal of health in an ocean voyag: erywhere in the old world there is something to Instruct and enlighten the careful obsérver. But bf the thousands who go there every year how many really profit intellectually from the visit? Is it with the majority merely a matter of recreation and superficial sight- seelng, making no impression of permanent value? Looking at it from a purely practi- cal point of view, the annual outpouring of Americans to Burop: makes a heavy drain upon the national purse which can only be regarded as a nearly complete loss. THE FEMALL SUFFRA “Soclety having nothing else spring has gone into the advisabllity of our adopting woman suft in this state” is the way Ward MeAllster expains the unusual activity of the fashion- able leaders of New York society in the agitation for an amendment to the constitu- tion that will give women the suffrage Female suffrage has been made a fad. In- stead of being carefully considered and the different reasons for and against its adop- tion being dispassionately welghed, It has been taken up because a few wealthy women have undertaken to make it the fashion. In order to class one’s self with this set or with that set in polite New York, it has be- necessary to subscribe to the enroll- ment that its leader Is getting up either praying that the constitational convention accede to the cry for woman suffrage or to protest to it against action of this Kind. But the female suffrage fad gives no prom- ise of being any more persistent or more enduring than the innumerable other fads that have gone before it. Its rise in New York has been apparently as sudden and emotional as any of its predecessors. In this it was peculiarly favored by unusual cir- cumstances. Lent cut short a social season scarcely begun and left post-lenten time hanging heavy upoh the hands of fashion's devotees. The latter, having literally noth- ing else to do, turned readily to meet the advance of the pjofdssional female suffrage brigade and were soon infected with the fad that permitted them to gather in parlor meetings to discuss the suffrage question and incidentally to exhibit their new clothes and circulate the latest social gossip. How far the fad has takbn hold on fashionable soclety is a question of dispute. Ward Mc- Allister insists that because one or two very estimable women; siffering from ismology, have issued invitattons to society persons to be present at meetings for the purpose of agitating this matter, it must not be sup- posed that the mpvement is therefore gen- eral among the four hundred. The news- papers, on the other hand, print long lists of names of women whose husbands or fathers have been prominent in some busi- ness or profession, to indicate the class among whom the fad has become most prey- alent. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the conven- tion which has the decision whether the question of female suffrage shall be sub- mitted to the voters is just about to begin its sessions and will probably sit well into the summer. Just when the movement most needs support the women of soclety are be- ginning their annual pilgrimages to Burope or to the seashore resorts. They will soon have “something clse to do” and will devote themselyes to it, leaving the real work of agitation to the professional female suffrage brigade. The fad will have had its day. It will have no more interest to the members of the four hundred than last summer's styles in parasols. |The female. suffrage fad can have but a temporary sojourn in fash- ion’s circles. cans Burope not PAD. do this the to Qiscussion of come Reallsm is the fdol of the day. Now, a woman who wants to write a novel founded upon the divorce machinery that is operated in South Dakota, and who has gone to Sioux Falls in order to become personally ac- quainted with the scene of her story, has decided that an experiment in securing a divorce would assist in assuring success to her project. Therefore that she may write intelligently about the sensations of one who is subject to the mania for divorce she pro- poses to apply for a divorce for herself. This woman has a true appreciation of the requi- sites of a novel writer. She has learned the folly of writing about something of which she knows nothing. She has selzed the only means of learning all about the sub- ject she has chosen. Even if unsuccessful In securing her divorce she ought to be suc- cesstul in writing her book. Fhe Review of Reviews enumerates the different summer schools that are to be opened the coming season in the varlous universities of the country and describes the work which they propose to do, but omits all mention of the University of Ne- braska summer school, whose announcements are already out. The summer school is fast becoming a fixturd at the leading univer- sities for the benefit of those who can not attend the regular college sessions, particu- larly teachers who are engaged at their profession durlng'(fle winter. The western universities are not behind the eastern uni- versities In this respect It transpires that the only electric wires in use in-the Exposition annex that burned Thursday were those by which power was transmitted by the Omaha and Council Bluffs Bridge company. ‘Hlu this gives rise to the question when and by whom that company secured the righf {0 use the streets of Omaha for the purpose of distributing elec- trical power to private individuals. Does a street rallway franghise Include a right to use the streets for ‘any and all purposes to which the plant can be adapted? There must have been some powerful in- Qucement offered to Senator Gallinger to persuade him to act as reading clerk for Senator Quay during the delivery of the last installment of his serial speech upon the tariff. Listening to a speech delivered in sections ought to be a suflicient burden to impose upon our overworked senators. The irrigation convention just closed at McCook has glven £00d evidence of the hold which the irrigation idea has taken upon the people of the arid land region. The delegates to these conventions manifest an enthuslasm and sincerity of purpose that carry thelr irrigation projects through unless promises to | blocked by some tnsurmountabln obstacte. | Congress cannot but be aware by this time of the fmportance of the frrigation ment and of the necessity for proper legis- lation to in the attainment of its pralseworthy object. move- assist State of Paradoxes. Kansas City Star. Storles of beer wars In cities of prohihl tlon Kansas would seem paradoxical were it 1ot for the fact that those cities are, so far as prohibition s co , small sized r publics within the state, and as such en- tirely independent of the anti-beer and anti-whisky laws. There in this most stal) For the ¢ uriously sugeestlv vigorous shaking-up and unprogressiv f countr! idental world G is o country It is interesting as a ruin, even its ruins are ruthlessly attacked by the quaking of this old world as its internal fires go out and it contracts spasmodically under Its crust, - Widowa and Widowers, Loulsville Courter-Journal at a curious Inferen drawn In a recent census bulletin from the statistics of widows and widowers, These show that there are nearly three times as many widows as there are widowers, and from this it is concluded that a greater number of widowers than widows remurry. But no such conclugion I warranted from the premiges. There are so many more widows than widower ny more hus hands die before ice versa This s due to more activ exposed and dissipate that men lead, to say nothing of th that husbands are usually considerably older than their wives and naturally die first Lot S Hnts Off to the Fiag. New York Recorder, The story has just appeared in print of a poor little Ttalian waif, rescued from the streets and ed on the road of useful- ness and ind whose heart is so fillad with gratitude that whenever and wherever he s the American flag he rafves his hat in its honor. Chere fs a lesson In this little for every American, native and adopted. Bach and all of us, when we see it first in the morning and last in the evening, when the echoes of the sunset gun are re- from the hillsides and the should give to the emblem of eat nationality this mark of respe votion. Hats off to the Flag! g ‘What the British Drink. London Pall Mall Gazette. 1t appears from Sir W. Harcour ment in his budget speech that while le: coffee_and cocoa, strong wines and spirits were drunk last year than usual, there was more than a corresponding increase in the consumption of te: light and sparkling wines, and beer. Tea Shows an increas. of 6,000,000 pounds, and is clearly oustir coffee even as a breakfast beverage. B tween 1876 and 1593 the consumption of strong wines, like port and sherry, has gone down from 11,000,000 gallons to 4,700,000—u very remarkable decline, which has 'to be set against an increase of 1,900,000 gallons of light and sparkling wine, as well as against the increase in tea and ', The latter shows a record consumption last year. We are told that this is due to the hot weather. acthing Bt incident ™ EDUCATIO. The World's fair collection illustrating the educational system of Japan has been se- cured by the Philadelphia School of Design. Dr. William Pepper, provost of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania for (hirteen years, has tendered his resignation, to go into effect after the June commencement. The legislature of New York has passed a bill to pension school teachers in New York city. After thirty yvears of service in case of females and thirty-five in case of males they are to be placed on the retired list at half pay. Hezekiah Dickinson, who recently cele- brated his 924 birthday anniversary, is said to be the oldest surviving graduate of Am- herst college. Both Mr. Dickinson and his father were born in the house where the former now lives and which was built by his grandfather. A party of Cornell university students, composed chiefly of marine engineers, spent the Easter recess in inspecting the great ship yards of Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York. The party, which was conducted by Prof. Durand of the marine engineering department, first visited the great establish- ment of William Cramp & Son on the Dela- ware near Philadelphia. Prof. Herbert B. Adams of Jolins Hopkins university is a prominent candidate for alumni trustee of Amherst college. He was graduated in 1872 and was the valedictorian of his class, At Johns Hopkins he has made a wide reputation in his specialty, which is history. Other men who will be voted for by some of the alumni are Winston H. Hagen, '79, of Brooklyn, and Arthur H. Dakin, "84, a lawyer, of Boston. Sibloy college, the mechanical and elec- trical engineering department of Cornell university, has the reputation of being one of the most practical technical® schools in the world. One feature of its course is the visitation of leading manufacturing con- cerns each year by large parties of students. These visits are made during the Easter recess, when some half dozen tours, east and west, are planned and conductéd by professors of the college. The report of the Illinois superintendent of schools shows the total enrollment in the 12,458 public sehools of the state to be S826,- 025, while the total rumber of children of school age is 1,226,705, There are iT private schools with an attendance of 121,- 050 pupils. The total cost of the publ schools for the year amounted to $14,442 of which $8,420,330 went to teachers and the rest to new school houses, sites, repairs, fuel, ete. Illinois’ corps of teachers con- of 1,228 men and 2,100 women. The extremes of monthly salaries paid to male teachers cre $290 and $15; to female teachers, $250 and $10. - A NOISY LEADER. Chicago Journal: So it happens that brag, bluster and threats are no longer a part of Grand Master Soverelgn's present policy. Of course he will revert to them again when he can do so with safety, because they are his principal business, but just now he is “laying low.” He has learned the salutary lesson that a demagogue may go too far when the followers upon whom he depends are possessed of some degree of intelligence and common sense. Chicago Herald: The Knights of Labor should call this irresponsible crank to prompt account and advise him he was elected to his office to look after the inter- ests of that organization and not to attempt 1o usurp powers revolutionary in their natur and preposterous in their pretenses. The people of Towa ought to teach Sovereign a lesson through their laws which will be whelesome for him should he continue to entertain the idea that he is “a bigger man' than the United States or its common- wealths, Globe-Democrat: This attempt of dema- gogues and featherheads like Sovereign to induce the labor societies to make common cause with the Coxeyites Is fraught with serious danger to the socleties themselves, and to the country. In the present disturbed condition of trade, when tens of thousands of men aro on strike, and when thousands who honestly desire work are unable to find it, persons who try to increase the in- dustrial discontent, o array one class against another, and to influence every one who Is In distress or who pretends he is in distress to make a raid on the govern- ment for relief, should be denounced by all order-loving people and dealt with rigor- ously by the law. Chicago Tribune: But Soverelgn appears to be on another tack. If he does not in- tend to force one or more of the railroad corporations to carry the Kelly contingent across the state of lowa without compensa- tion his talk means nothing at all, except that he fs not fit to be at the head of an organization of workingmen, Is that his position? Does he assume a ‘right” to compel a_raliroad company to work for nothing while at the same time it must pay in full the wages of the workers who help to move the trains, to say nothing of the rights of the stockholders to renumeration for the use of their property? Does this “grand master workman' take the ground that he and those who have been taken under the wing of his patronage can ap- propriate for a shorter or longer time the track, rolling stock and personal services of the employes of a corporation which owes them no duty except in so far as they are a part of the generazl public and enti- d to transportation service om paying for i? PEOPLE AND THINGS. Coxey was ropulsed. still lives Coxey’s motlon seconded by a club, aturalists say froxs their skins. Pore things Captain Anson of the Chicagos the fleld. Also several large goose eREs Locomotive engineers are not necessarily in contempt because they cxercise “a pull Governor Waite of Colorado has trimmed his beard and increased the oxposure of his mouth Things are not going all one way. democrats elocted an alderman Wing, Minn., last week Three United States senators wore born in foreign lands—-McMillan in Canada, Pasco in England and Walsh in Ireland The prospective political w York has provoked pernicious in the grave yard of J. Sloat Fassett The approaching completion of a union depot In St. Louls revives recollections of a similar enterprise once projected in Omaha. Official advices are to the effect that 400 sons were killed and 2,000 made hom by the recent earthquake in Greece. Trying times, surely. Willlam Waldorf Astor's glowing opinion of John Jacob Astor's poetry has been with held for revision, owing to the discovery that J. J. was an American. Dr.+De Bossy, a physiclan of Havre, who sntly celebrated his 101st birthday, has the largest practice fn the French seaport. Time and patients have brought him re- markable success Secretary of the Navy Herbert might judi clously employ a cordon of stout Washin, ton policemen at Homestead, Pa. Their success in plugging a blow hole on the cap- itol steps suggests their promotion. The investigation fn the interior arrange- ments of the Northern Pacific develops the fact that a treacherous memory is the most important qualification In the railroad serv- ice. The faculty of forgetfulness insur promotion. The semi-official announcement of candidacy of Benjamin Harrison will crease the tribulation of the demc The revival of pictorial and comic reflec- tions on ‘“grandfather's hat” can hardly fail to accentuate despair in the riven ranks of the party. McLaurin, the new senator from Mis sippl, is a genuine type of the southern gentloman, He dresses in broadcloth, as senators used to do before the war, with the waistcoat cut 5o low as to reveal a large expanse of shirt front, and he always carries a_ gold-headed cane. The senator is a man of great personal dignity and distinguished bearing. The intimacy existing betwwen Senators Frye and Gorman is productive of senatorial reciprocit Mr. Frye, for example is a prohibitionist, so that when any admirer sends him a bottle of whisky or a case of wine he _turns it over to the Maryland sen- atgr. Mr. Gorman, on the other hand does not smoke, o that when he receives a gift of cigars he sends them to Mr. Frye General Grant’s “Memoirs,” which Mark Twain's firm published, are said to have re- turned a larger reward than any other book ever written in this country. Up to the present time the Grant family have received §440,000 in royalties from the publishers of the “work, while the sale still continues good, and as a cheaper edition is soon to appear it is within the range of probability :)1631 the “Memoirs" may finally yield $750,- Senatorial courtesy for leave to print was breathe through has taken The at activity the in- racy e g TAPPING THE TRIFLERS, Galveston News: No mortal is rich long as he has the toothache, as Arkansaw Trave his cat ‘“Thereb; a tail. er: My neighbor calls —because from it hangs Yonkers Statesman: golden purse Siftings: “These are trying times for me,” was what the cook sald as she stood over the lard keg. It 1s when coining sentiments that a lady ought to her lips. Buffalo Courfer: The world may seem all wrong with some people, but as a rule it is all write with the industrious editor. Brooklyn Life: Landlady—Have you tried the coffee this morning, Mr. Linton? Mr. Linton—Yes, I have, and it has proved an alibi. in case this fever, what Demand Inter Ocean: Doctor—Now, treatment failed to control tf would you then do? ~ Dr. New the payment of my bill at once. Boston Gazette: “‘Have you seen ‘Ships that Pass in the Night? ™ “No, but I have seen schooners that pass in the beer saloons. Yonkers Statesman: He—I'd just as lief be hung for a sheep as a lamb. "She—Well, you'll be hung for neither; you'll be hung for a calf or nothing. ‘Washington Star At least,” sald young Orris Stuffyknees, who has st got back from playing a limited tour, “‘there is one comfort to be found for members of the rofession in these hard times.” ‘“What s that?'' “Vegetables are far too valua- ble to be thrown away Puck: Mrs. Cobwigger—I bought a neck- tie here yesterday, and the one you sent home wasn't anything like it. {aberdasher—The one we sent, madam, s picked out by your husband a month ago, in case you ever bought one for him. The Waterbury: The Congregation (on the bank)—What's the mattah, pahson? Parson Dippem (excitedly)—De Tord hab merey! T ‘'lowed Bre'r Simpson ter slip under de ice TSNS (! W i LT it W department. BOYS’ e T e E Y “&‘«!‘-3'-'1.; -I.l”ay\-; - = ‘.r_‘m-’v.-‘i"" - ;— j— J'fl .L v Red | redemption of | | SOME STILTS STILL. L~ give away slilts—that is, every boy can have a the boy, can get a PAIR OF STILTS by buying $2 worth of goods or more in our boys' SUITS. Single breasted light colored cassimeres —2 pieces; ages b to 14 years......... Double breasted, all colors, cheviots and cassimeres, ages 4 to 14 years........ Double breasted cheviots, blue, brown and gray mixtures, ages 4 to 14 years..... Single breasted long cuts, gray mixtures 14 60 18 YOAIS ., 0 s 0nreesssssssnsonnns BROWNING, KING & CO., S. W. Cor. Filteenth and Douglas Strests, MINLATURES FROM BALZAC. Not to succeed Is soclal high treason A man should find all women In his wife. Wherever form relgns sentiment disap- pears Al durable meditations Tilusion 1s to thought a sort of night, which decorate with droams Flatter the of the you become a oryiwhere longer made opinfons right, but love commences by dreamy we passions moment and hero ev wspapers lighten, but to flatter Equality may be Power can convert it into fact The disease of our time {s superiority. There are more saints than niches. noare apt to see chiefly the defects n of talent and the merits of a fool. 0 be obeyed in her secret wishos! Whera fe the woman Insensiblo to such happine Intellect fs the lever which moves the world; but the fulerum of intellect Is money. A girl who is stupid, ugly, poor and good the four cardinal points of mis- are no to on- no human Possosses ery. Is not a fool to justify the £ himself? Noble onti produce results greatest viee We severely reproach virtue for fits de- focts, but we are full of indulgence for the ®ood qualities of vices, Love and passion are two states soul which poets, men of the world osophers and fools continually confound As soon as trouble comes to us there is always a friend dy to tell us about It to probe our heart with a dagger and ask us to admire the hilt. Do you want to know way In the world? You must plow through humanity like a_cannon ball or you must glide through it like a pestilence. Celibacy entafls the capital vica of con- centrating the qualities of man upon a sin- gle passion, egotism A passion which causes them to be mischiovous. or useloss, The man who sees two centuries ahead of him dies an Ignominious death, loaded with the imprecations of the people, or, what secms worse to me, Is lashed with the whips of ridicule, Flattery never emanates from great souls, It is an attribute of small minds, who thus still further belittle themselves to enter into the vital being of the persons about whom the good one who does nothing opinfon he has formed nts similar pushed to to an those extreme of the of tho phil- how to make your nd sufferings of the higher spheres of human existence are appreciated only by the noble minds which inhabit them. In all things we can be properly judged only by our peers. o worship the fool who succeeds and not to mourn the failure of an able man is the result of our sad education, of our manners and customs, which drive’ men of Intellls gence to disgust and genius to despair, e ey BLASTS FROM BAM'. Words are the overcoats of ideas. A man is not hated until successtul. Tomorrow is the day that never comes, The cheerful giver is the happlest man on earth. A godly life is a living prayer that will never end. The first lesson in deceit is often taken by going into debt. Some fellows get very low down ln get ting up in the world. Lesons learned in the school of experience are remembered the longest. The world pays more attention to what a man does than to what he says. It is not the bird with the brightest plumage that sings the sweetest. The man who votes to sustain a wrong Is helping the devil, whether he Knows it or not. There is more power in the influence of a boy than there is in all the steam in a lo- comotive boiler. No church is ever made a bit stronger by having an unrepentant siuner with a pocket full of money walk up and join it. ——— Preaching Corn in Eoropo. Bpringfield Republican. Colonel Murphy work abroad in the way of familiarizing Buropeans with the uses of Tndian corn as a food product is costing the government $10,000 a year. But it wil probably be worth vastly more than that Yo the country, and the economists in co gress ought to be able to find a better place o apply the knife. ——————— UNCLE PETER'S SERMON, HORN. Plain Dealer. d, trembiin’ sinnah? Wha's de tithes yo' bringin' in? Do yo' ‘spect ' be a winnah 7o' yo' Christyun wuk begin? Hussel up! Secuah yo' lodgin’ Wha' de golden lante'ns glow— Foh dey wun' be any dodgin’ Wen de ho'n begins t* blow. Cleveland “Wha's yo' rec end ter wuk an’ be a savin Yo' no Lifah—heah my song?— Des a waitin’ ‘twell a raven Cums a totin' grub along! (o' may hab a peaceful lodgin Wha' de str ms o' marcy flow— sut dey won't be any dodgin’ Wren de ho'n beging t' blow. “put away de fdle dreamin'— Lif* Emanyul's bannah high! Don't yo' set de lamps a leamin' On de buzzum o' de s ? Ah, ye can't deadbeat yo' lodgin’ Wha de Hebenly roses blow— An’ dey won' be any dodgin' W'en ole Gabe begins t' blow bt ing so many stilts, we couldn’t give them all away in a day, so, as long as they last, we'll FREE $2.00 $3.50 $5.00 $9.00 1 4 Tt Lo B