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12 THEOMAHA DAILY B Rditor. B, ROSEWATER TLIEHED EVERY MORNING, JHCRIPTION. One Year..... s Or Dally Bee (without Daily and Sunday Bix Months Threa Moniis Runday Tieo, One ¥ Baturday Tie, One Yenr Weekly Do, One Yoar v OFFICES, Omaha, The Ttee Tl ing inor N and Twenty-fourth Sts. 12 Vearl siroot 107 Chamber of Commerce, 13, 14 and 15, Tribu T I street, N. W CORRELPONDENCE. AN commimications relating to news and edl- torfal matter Should be nddie To the Editor. BUSINESS LI + Iotters and romittances shouid be The 1 Pablishing company, Qmaha. Drafts, clicks und postotiice ordeve o made pasable ta the order of The company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY st nday) One Year g, Yashing (o TERS, All by nddressed to IMENT OF Geore ‘2ach Hishing conipany Actual nurmber Daily Morning. Quring the nuont IRCULATION, ¢ The Ttes Pub. says that the jes of T - il April Total Lexs d ‘coplen Total Daily nver * Sunday 18,002 3022 s e e net cireulation 7 N, TZSCHUCK, ribed in my pres- aro and sul 1801, 1. FIIL, Notary Public, Bworn to before me ence this 21 day of M. A diagram showing the location of the numerous Industrial armies would be an interesting study fn military maneuvers. It Breckinridge fs returned to congress it 18 safe to say that he will not go as the representative of the women of his Kentucky district. Judge Wakeley's tribute to the memory of Henry Grobe voices the sentiment of all those \who knew the deceased during his long and honorable carcer in this eity. Has Gladstone set the fashion for public men to retire in {he height of glory rather than to wait until they are driven from the public service by fgnominious defeat? It Lake Manawa could be transferred to a point within a mile of Omaha, or if it could be made easier of access by people on this side of the river, a fortune would await its management. Omaha people are partial to water. The junketing hotel keepers are having a taste of hotel life at hotels other than their own. If they profit by their experience the tourist who travels through the United States a few months hence will be surprised at the reforms and conveniences which he will find introduced into the hotels at which he may stop. There is not very much significance in the figures that show the imports and exports of the United States to have increased from the years 1884 and 1885 to 1890 and 1892 at a much greater ratio than those of Great Britain. Ratios of Increase make a large showing whenever the original basis of com- parison Is relatively small. The annual shoot of the State Sportsmen’s assoelation at Columbus this week will be an important event. The crack shots are looking forward to the occasion with bright anticipations. Nebraskans are tak- ing a lively interest in all outdoor sports this year, which will chronicle many con- quests before the season closes. Two or three deaths of noted college ath- letes occurring within a comparatively brief period and ascribed to overtraining, or, rather, one-sided training, will bring to the attention of the college authorities the ques- tlon of reforming the system of training college athletes that now generally prevails. There must be something radically wrong Wwith a system of athletics that tears down instead of bullding up the men who devote themselves to it. We have not as yet had any estimates of the profits of the photographers who photo- graphed the features of the 100,000 citizens of the Celestial empire to enable them to comply with the provisions of the Chinese registration law. The Chinese business by itself ought to have been sufficient to dispel hard times in the home of the camera. It ought also to place on the market a cholce %t of negatives of Mongolian types to be had at bargain prices. Memorial day is near at hand and yet there seems to have been no concerted movement made for its celebration in Omaha. Of all occasions for the commem- oration of heroic deeds of the naton’s great and fallen warrfors Memorial day is most worthy of popular observance. We hope that all civie and military societies will take the matter In hand and arrange a pro- gram for Decoration day that will be a credit and an honor to the city. The adjournment of the New York con- stitutional convention for two weeks in order to give the president time to make up the committees that must undertake the important work of revising the several por- tions of the constitution extends the cam- palgn for woman suffrage in that state by the same perlod of time. It also extends iho respite of Kansas two weeks against the invasion of the professional woman suffrage brigade that has been camping in the east, New York's loss Is this time Kansas' gain. It seems to be the fate of Omaha to get the worst of any change in rallroad rates, whether it be made by law or by reason of rato wars. In no instance that can be cited of recent years has thero been a change of rates from which Omaha shippers derived an advantage except at the end of a struggle for fair play. Isn't it about time for our luck to change and the city be given rates s favorable to our shippers as are given those of other cities? Why 1s it that rall- road rate makers persist in making a foot- mat of Omaha? ‘With the afixing of the president's sig- nature to the act to protect the birds and animals In Yellowstone park, the poachers who have been encroaching upon the pro- hibited domain will find a legal barrier to prevent them from continuing the slaughter of game in the natlonal park. The act Is & little late, because much of the mischief has already been done, but it will serve a _mseful purpose in the future. Its strict en- forcement is to be demanded. The wild animals that remain in the park ought to be proserved at al! hazards, THE OMA HA_DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. MAY 13. 1891--TWENTY PAGES, NEBRASKA'S FLOATING INDEBTEDNESS, Ven army of several hundred proves too great n of the Board of Educational | Lands and Funds in ordering the state treas- £ 15 Invest the large sums of fdle money belonging to the school fund In outstanding state warrants is the first step toward the extinction of the large floating indabtedness that has Nebraska muzh In the way of Interest. The action cf the Nebraska at once upon a strietly cash bas The floating in- will not accumulate, for the las ordered the payment of all war- Nebraeka has been The act ur permanent nost 80 board aims to place debtedness board rants as fast as jssuod running practically npon a credit basis since 1880, warrant indsbtedness began to plle up a year before. The auditor's state- November 1800 that at that date paying 7 pr cent floating Indebtedness of date until the close of Novemb:r 80, 1803, inereased The ment on 10, showed the state w interest upon a rom that fiscal year on the floating Indebtedness until upon that date it had assumed start- amounting to $799,081 of registered warrants, Wwith enough out- standing and unregistered to run the amount up to $1,026,723.44. During all these years the state treasurer held idle in the vaults of his chosen depositcries immense sums of money from which the state received no benefit. During his official incumbency State Treasurer Hill held moneys belonging to the permanent gchool fund, ranging in amounts trom $385,939 to $7 There was never a time during Hill's last two years of serv- rapidly ling proportions, ice that he not have wiped out the floating Indebtedness of the stats by the observance of the law of 1891, which the Board of Kducational Lands and Funds only Jast week finally decided to put in operation. During the present fiscal. year the state troasurer has done much toward wiping out the floating indebtedness of the state. Ac- cording to-the statement furnished by the auditor on November 30, 1803, the out- wding indebtedness amounted to $1,025,- On April 30 of the present year the aud books showed that this enormons fndebtedness had beon very nearly cut in two, the amount on the last date being $608,- 000. A later statement, dated May 8 and compiled from the books in the ofiice of the state treasurer, shows that the aggregate amount of registered warrants outstanding was $624,720. This amount s drawing in- terest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. The interest yet to be paid upon this amount will hereafter he diverted to the temporary school fund, Even the interest will be cut off within a few months, for the very reason to believe that the entire warrant in- debtedness of the state will be wiped out by the close of the present fiscal year, wiich ends on November 30, The state is recelving the taxes due from the counties at a rie which enables the state treasurer to pay oft floating indebtedness at the rate of about $125,000 per month. From figures furnished The Bee by Auditor Moore there is due the state on the 1893 levy alone the immens2 sum of $916,948. In addition to this large amount there is even a greater sum due the state upon previous levies. There is, then, every probability that Nebraska will be en- tirely free from its floating indebtedness by the close of the present fiscal year, With sufficient cash in the hands of the treasurer to prevent the accumulation of a new in- debtedness. 7 Now that there is so fair a prospect of Nebraska’s riddance from the incubus of its floating debt it is proper to turn back and locate the responsibility for the debt orig- inally and then to turn forward with warn- ing to the future. The extravagance of the past three or four sessions of the legislature has been a matter of general comment. In the period between 1883 and 1887 the legis- lative appropriations were doubled. In 1887 the amount appropriated exceeded the levy by more than $100,000. The following legis- lature exceeded the levy by $22,000. Then came the first populist legislature of 1891 with an appropriation of $2,886,575, more than $400,000 in excess of the amount that could be produced from the revenues of the state. It was this legislative extravagance commencing In 1887 and culminating in the riotous expenditures of the populist legisla- ture in 1891 that plunged Nebraska so deeply into debt. In consequence of the uncalled for indebiedness of the state the people two years ago called a halt. The last legislature cut down the appropriations to something within reason. Some of the state institu- tions have been compelled to economize. Some needed improvements were, perhaps, neglected. But the economy of the last legis- lature, together with the careful administra- tion of the present governor, has again put Nebraska upon her financial feet. There will be no excuse for any future indebtedness. The people will insist above everything clse that the legislative appropriations shall be kept entirely within the tak levy. The state must not be expected to spend more than its income. Nebraska has extricated herselt from her present dificulty, but she must not be allowed to get into another. A MISTAKEN IDEA. The idea seems to be quite prevalent throughout the east, and it is not entirely absent in other parts of the country, that the only object of the members of the differ- ent Industrial armies everywhere springing up and banding together Is to get to Wash- ington or to some other remote locality with- out working or paying their way. This idea fis frequently expressed by the state- ment that the Industrials want only to beat their way along untll they can reach some large city or community where they can live in idleness, and that as soon as that prospect is assured they will desert thelr fellows without hesitation or compunction. could 20 ! It is expressed In a different form by those newspapers which persist in.asserting that these men are seeking by banding together to compel people to assist them with food and transportation, which singly they would be unable to secure. These criticlsms may possibly apply to a limited extent to a small fraction of the membership of the various Industrial arm!es, but they certainly do the greater part of them a great injustice. It may be, and doubtless is, a difficult thing to get at the exact motive which has induced any par- ticular man to join in the movement. 'Many of the recruits probably could not tell the exact motive in their own cases. It can- not, however, have been the conviction that each could work his way east quicker or with less hardship than if he tried to do so alone that induced many of them to become Industrials. No one who has read the stories of Josiah Flint and of other literary tramps, who by the ald of a little wit have roamed over the entire continent, supported by the people among whom thelr routes lay, can for a moment belleve that these men would have had the slightest difficulty in reaching any destination they might choose had they set out by themselves and under their own generalship. The very fact that the men have banded together and have attempted to move about as armies has been the greatest obstacle to thelr progress. Where one or a dozen men at a time could dasily live upon the country a burden, Thus we have seen these armies | compelled to erfture almost every hardship, insufficient foed, Inadequate clothing, forced marches, exposure to wind and storm, open air lodgings, when by simply breaking up, scattering over the country and each pur- suing his journey, all such suffering could have been avolded. The mer: purpose to avold work and beat thelr way east cannot be the real cohesive force that keeps these bands together. Were it so they would have displayed extraordinarily poor judg- ment the best caleulated to crown their purpose with suceess. own as to means WESTERN LOANS fssue of the United States In- an article on western loans which shows a judicious appreciation of the opportunitics now afforded for, the safe und profitable investment of capital in the west. Noting the fact that there has been a great curtallment in the amount of eastern money seeking western Investment that. journal that as a result values have fallen heavily in the west and suggests that at a time when everything is depressed good opportunities for safo and exceedingly profitable investments are to be found. While it 1s that there have been losses from wostern investments, they have been due in large measure to lack of in placing money, and the Investor that the whole west is suffering today of the mothods of loan A recent vestor contalned observes true care because improper ' ! overscrupulous In companies and the credulity of Investors. Its legitimate industries have been brought into more or less disrepute because of the recklessness displayed in past years in booming propertics, many of which had but small intrinsic value. All this, the Investor corrcctly says, has been stopped. “The reckless mortgage com- have all gone to the wall. The rogues who play=d so large a part in folst- ing worthless securities cn eastern investors have found thelr occupation gone. Real est tate values haye experizrced a great shrink- age. It is hard to see how they can go much lower. Even with wheat at the low- est price on record it would seem as if wst- ern farm lands must be worth present figures. Thia being the case,” continucs the Invastor, “loans on real estate at these prices are perhaps tx be viewed with favor. Certainly there oughit to be not a few op- portunities to employ money very profitably in the west in the next few years in loans, properly margined, on real s body who is familiar with the condit the west will concur fn these view. in many years have the inducements to western investment been better than they are at this time and unl-ss the depression continues very much longer than there is reason to believe it will such inducements will not be presented again for many years to come. The Investor is quite right in as- suming that real estate values in the west cannot go much lower. The probability is that they have already touched bottom and that at the first evidence cf business revival they will bound upward, not, of course, to where they were prior to the depression, but to an extent that will give a liberal profit to investors in real estate at present prices. We confidently belleve that in no way can money be made to yield a better return during the next few years than by investing it in western realty, and especially in a city like Omaha, which has an assurcd future of develcpment and prosperity. It is remarkable that the owners of eastern capital lying idle and profitless in the banks do not see this opportunity for its safe and paying investment and hasten to take ad- vantage of It. A POSTAL TELEGRAPH SYSTEM, It is hardly probable that the present congress will do anything looking to the establishment of a postal telegraph system. The party in_power has not thus far mani- fested any disposition to relieve the people of the exactions of monopoly, and it is not likely to inaugurate a movement in this direction by attacking the powerful tele- graph monopoly. The argument submitted to the house committee on postoffices by President Butler of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial union, in advocacy of postal telegraphic legislation, will, therefore, prob- ably produce no practical result, whatever its effect may be upon the minds of mem- bers of the committee. A plausible excuse for mot doing anything can, of course, be found in the condition of the public treas- ury, but it is not necessary that a postal telegraph system be made general at once, nor has any one ever advocated its general application from the outset. It would be sufficient at first to establish it between the larger cities, extending it gradually as it becamo expedient and safe, from a financial point of view, to do so, and this would not involve ahy great expenditure. Indeed it is not to be doubted that the revenue would from the inception of the policy balance the outlay and that after the first year there would be a handsome profit to the govern- ment from rates very much lower than the present telegraph charges. All the European governments that have the postal telegraph find it profitable, and it need hardly be said, also highly popular. There is no reason why it should not be both profitable and popular in the United States, and that it would become greatly popular can be most confidently predicted. But although there is little prospect of any action by the present congress favor- able to a postal telegraph system, the sub- ject is one which should be kept alive in public attention, to the end that the people may be made thoroughly acquainted with the advantages of such a system and turough this knowledge be Impelled to de- mand it of their representatives whenever the conditions shall be propitious for fts inauguration, The people of the United States are charged much more heavily than the people of Great Britian, France and Germany for their telegraph service, the principal reason for which Is the Inflated capitalization of the telegraph monopoly in the United States. Remedy through com- petition is not to be hoped for. It has been repeatedly tried and as often failed and the monopoly Is more strongly in- trenched against an attack of this kind now than ever before. Sure and permanent reliet for the people can come only through the action of the government, because noth- ing less powerful than the government can successfully combat the monopoly. There Is no sound or valld objection to a postal telegraph system, while the argu- ments in support of it are many and conclu- sive. It would insure the public cheaper rates and a better service, while the secur- ity of thelr communications by wire would certainly be as good as at present. It has been urged that the postal telegraph might be tmproperly used in the interest of a po- litical party in control of the government. It there was any substantial ground for ap- prehending such a danger it would be an easy matter to provide against it, but why should the people have less confidence in thelr public officials than in the officials of a monopoly that Is always vigilant and not panies Its interests? Th apprehending the! thany the misuse s no more reason for use of tho telegraph he mall service by a pofitical party, ani ection to the proposed system on this scoro will have no weight with any but the friends of the telegraph monopoly. In the annual report of the post- master general for 1802 ho said: “I am fully convinced that the government will never properly do the postal work committed fo it until it uses electricity in some form, and therefore T advocate the utilization of both the telegragh, and the telephone at the earliest Jffacticable day. The mail and the teiegraph are the lifo currents of business, and to a large de- gree of soclal life, and the private moncpoly of either system must result In creating a preferred class to whom high rates may not be objectionable. The humbler citizens must do without.” The country may have to wait some years for a postal telegraph system, but it will come In time, and the political party that has the credit of instituting it will deserve well of the people. PROGRESS OF THE © S Commissiorler Carroll D. Wright, now in charge of the eleventh census of the United States, has given certain memoranda to the editors of the Quarterly Journal of Econom- fes which enable them to inform the public upon the exact status of the census reports. The tentative secured as the tabu- lation of the returns progressed have from the first been issued as bulletins at the earliest possible moment. Most of the discussion of census figures been based upon the sta- tistics presented in these bulletins, which have proved to be one of the most valuable features of the presont census system. These bulleting are still being issued from time to time and will probably continue to make their appearance at frequent intervals for several months to come. As now arranged the final reports of the census of 1590 will ill twenty-four volumes. Of these, there will be two on population; three on vital statistics; one on the insane, feeble minded, deaf and blind; two on crime, pauperism and benevolence; one on churches; three on manufactures; two on wealth, detw and taxatlon; two on insurance, dealing with fire, marine, inland and life insurance; one on agriculture, irrigation and fisheries; two on transportation by both land and water; one cach on mineral industries, Indians, Alaska, real estate mortgages and the pro- prictorship and indebtedness of farms and homes. In addition to theso there will be several miscellancous publications, including a compendium in three volumes, a digest, a sta- tistical atlas and probably certain separato monographs not appearing in the final re- ports. The censs! therefore, when com- pleted, will constitute in itselt a whole li- brary of information upon almost every phase of the growth and present condition of the United States that will admit of sta- tistical and dcscrm}vdtrunlmenl. 1t will form results the most comprehfnsive census report that has ever been made in this country. Ot these volumes, only the compendium upon population, the first volume on public debt, and tho volumes on Alaska and mineral industrles have already appeared from the press. It took over two years to get the population figures sufficiently compiled to permit of the publication of the com- pendium on populatidp. Three or four other volumes are eitherfwiiolly or in:part in type, and six or elght qbhdrs..either wholly or in part ready ifor theiprinter. Seme of the volumes cannot be prepared until others upon which they must depend for their ma- terial are available—for example the third volume on vital statisiles must wait until the completion of the final population volume, and the digest cannot be made up until the other volumes are all completed. Commis- sloner Wright goes on to explain that when it is said that copy is ready, the statement gives no indication when the public will have access to the werR. ‘‘Seventeen or eighteen volumes involying 15,000 or 16,000 quarto pages of statistical matter will be thrown upon the printer before the 1st of July. To bring out this enormous mass of material will take much time and involve great labor in proof-reading and revision. It will probably be at least two years from the 1st of July before the last printed page re- lating to the eleventh census will be given to the public.” Profiting by the experience which it has had with other similar govern- ment publications, the public will prefer to give the commissiones# estimate a still further allowance. It is safe to say that be- fore the work of the census of 1890 shall have been completed the attention of con- gress will be directed toward making prep- arations for taking the census of 1900. A COLONY FGR EPILEPTICS One of the bills passed during the closing weeks of the New York legislature, and which was promptly signed by the governor of that state, provides for the establishment of a state colony for epileptics, alming to ex- tend to this class of dependent unfortunates the same careful attention that the state bestows upon the insane, the deaf and dumb, the blind and other dependents. Hitherto the state charges who were the victims of epllepsy were confined in the county poor houses and almshouses, without employment to keep them busy and in intimate assocla- tion with paupers and degraded characters, where no special medical treatment was at hand. In New York the insane were re- moved from theso surroundings under the state care act of 1800, which took 1,500 in- sane persons out of the almshouses and placed them in state hospitals, Six hundred cpileptics remain in {he almshouses, and it is these that the new act,is intended to provide for. The new colony Idf eplleptics is to be lo- cated upon a tract farmerly occupied by a community of Shakers, consisting of 1,800 acres of land in one Of the finest parts of the Genessee valley. There ave two groups of buildings that with slight alterations will accommodate 300 patients and room can be made for more as’ the demand warrants. The property and bufldings are divided into two sections by a siyeam, facilitating sepa- rate accommodations for men and women. There are large oréhards, vines and small fruits, which will affird outdoor employment for those who are abjp to.undertake it, In- Qigent epileptics witl be cared for and treated at the expense of the state, but the colony is expected, when fully established, to be prac- tically self-supporting. Private patients re- celved when there 18 room for them will have to have their parents or guardians in- demnify the state for the expense of their support, Only one other American commonwealth, Ohlo, has taken steps to extend state care to eplleptics, although similar projects to this one are being agitated in several other states. Such colonles have been In exist- ence in France for forty years, in Gormany for twenty-five years, while in England the same method Is pursued by a private chari- table soclety. The Ohlo institution was only authorized by a law of 1891, The examples sot by these states must, however, attract attention in the other states of tho union. promoting and protecting [ 1t they reattze all the hopes that are being 3 | expressed for them it will not bs many years before the epileptic will ba able to find hu mane and sclentific treatment for his faile Ing, no matter in what part of the unfon he may happen to bo when overtaken with mis- fortune A dispatch from Berlin announces that the German warships in Brazillan wators have been ordered to Samoa, and also that it I8 thought in some political quarters that the United States will abandon her claims In Samoa and leave to Great Britain and Germany the settlement of the difficultios there. This impression might easily been obtained from the communication cretary Gresham to the president, mitted to the senate last Wednesday the correspondence relating to fairs. The of state expressed his not desirable to continue relations, from which he States had derived no compensating ad- vantage. In entering into the tripartite agreement with Great Britaln and Germany this government its first departure from the well-established policy of avolding entangling alllances with forelgn powers Secretary Gresham sald that instead of this departure having produced any appreciable result it had been one of unmitigated disad- vantage. The condition of the natives was not improved by our interference, and the other hand no interest of our own had been promoted. In this way the secretary of state condemned the existing arrange- ment, doubtless with the concurrence of the president, the natural effect being to produce the conviction abroad that this government is ready to abandon Samoa to Great Britain and Germany. Whether congress will de- cide upon this course or not Is a question There are democrats who believe that it is highly important to our interests to main- tain our relations with the Samoan slands, and as these relations were established under a_republican administration it Is to be pre sumed that the republicans in congress will generally be disposed to continue them. It is not a matter of very commanding im- portance, but it seems likely to become of international Interest. to have of trans- with Samoan af- very plainly letter that it our Samoan the United sercetary the opinfon in was sald made and on The proclamation of the Italian govern- ment, warning its subjects against emigrat- ing to the United States, may be due either to a desire to prevent misfortune overtaking the erfigran! r they shall have absolved their allegiance to the mother country or to a desire to keep them at home as citi of the Italian kingdom. It is most probable that the latter reason has the greater weight with the officials who have issued the proc- lamation. Italy’s interest in born Italians after they have passed beyond her jurisdic- tion is remote, except so far as they pre- serve an intention to return to their native land to spend the savings of their labor in this country., On the other hand, Italy has discouraged emigration in every possible way until comparatively recent years, and even then has done little or nothing to encourage it. A subject in Italy is preferable to a sub- Ject in some other country, who may require protection or intervention, and then, too, it dislikes to lose any one who might, in case of emergency, be called upon for military service. Some emigrants will doubtless be dissuaded from coming to the United States by reason of this proclamation of warning, but the more Intelligent will take into account the motive by which the Itallan government is presumably actuated. What a farce the acjournment of the different houses of congress as a mark of respect for a deceased member of one of them s fast becoming was Illustrated upon the announcement of the death of Congress- man Brattan of Maryland on Thursday. The congressman died in the morning. The fact was announced in the house shortly after its convening and adjournment was taken at 12:30 o'clock. In the senate, on the other hand, the news was withheld while the mornfng hour was devoted to Coxey and the afternoon to a long and tedious talk on the tariff amendments. Suddenly, when the dis- cussion began to wane, the death of Mr. Brattan was announced, appropriate resolu- tions presented and adopted, and ‘“as a further mark of respect” the semate ad- journed at 5:15 p. m. The senate would have adjourned then whether a congressman happened to have dled the same day or not. The “mark of respect” is so faint as to be scarcely visible. ns The Foolishness of Some Men, Boston Transeript. No wife ever made a good housekeeper who was not allowed to have her say about home matters. That man is a fool who persists in being the boss at home. etk Bubbles at a Disconnt, Kansas City Star. An Oho county treasurer, who was rybody's friend” and the most popular in his section has, it has been dis- covered, been stealing steadily from the ount “Honest Johns and Dicks” and veryhody's friends” will soon be at a heavy discount for public oflice, et Gayety of tho Chicago Herald. Lovers of foot ball will be disappointed at the result of the meeting of the com- mittee of experts held in New York to re- vise the rules. The regulations adopted contain nothing authorizing the use of axes, bungstarters, bras or slung shots, and fo all the game will hot be any livelier under the new rules than under the old. peaiSbugatedh ekt Golng a Little Too Washington Times, Our good government grants the North- ern Pacific railroad a big slice of public land, secures its bonds, gives It a fat mail contract, and in times of trouble furnishes the mail trains with an escort—in fact, shares all the road’s burdens, That I3 simply protecting capital. 1t fo go a step farther and ask that the people share in the profits—that is rank puternalism. man L Game, Every man who possesses any local and domestlc patriotism ut this season of tne year will see to it that his grounds and lawns are kept in o neat and artistic man- ner. pthing adds 5o much o the beanty of a city, or a neighborhood, as neat and well-kept' grounds. They “make city life more ble, and add, in a material wiy Value of property in the vicinity. e Istor| allels. New York World, An historic ineldent occurred In the Pennsylvania legislature when a member of that body arose and addressing the speaker sald: “If the Pennsylvania rallroad ha nothing more for us to do I move that we adjourn.” The United States senate can make history in a similar way. 1f t Bugar trust has nothing more to ask of the “conservatives there is no reason why the senate should not proceed to act on what is left of the Wilson bill. - Reviving Canal Projects. Philadelphia Ledger. Surveys are to be made for a ship canal rom the lakes to the Ohlo river, probably by way of and Pittsburg; the agit tion in favor of the Chesapeake and De s growing, and the r t for a Philadelphia and has revived interest in the Cape Cod canal project, which would greatly. shorten the waterway between New York and Boston. There are no physical difficulties in the way that could ot be surmounted by engineering skill; the question as to each canal turns muinly on the cost and possible revenue. It [s conceded that such & chain of 'canals would be of great advantage to the gov- ernment in case of war, and that the canals would repay In vilue, directly or indirectly, all that might be expended upo them, provided they should be carried to completion. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, Philadelphia Ledge A rovivalist who Is working through North Carolina has the w#ort of faith that moves mountains, Among | his recent converts were a 310-pound citizen of Pitt, and a Dare county woman who welghs atmost 400 pounds. New York Herald: 1f the clergy will for- get everything else and remember only this ono thing—that men are hard pushed and need help and comfort and good cheer then creeds will be whistled down the wind, sectarianism will be banished and the world be all the better for it Minneapolis Time A Methodist min- ister before the local association of Meth- odist _preachers tcok the ground that those who have a speaking acquaintance on earth will renew it in heaven. He may h gotten the ldea from the remarks addre by Dives to Abraham on a certain occasion Denver News: Talmage ‘“‘points with pride” to the sum of $1,000,000 spent by his church In charity. When that reverend gentleman compromised with his creditors at 26 cents on the dollar they doubtless wished that charity had =cmmenced at home. Some people would call that kind of thing robbing Peter to pay Paul. Buffalo Ixpress: Father Malone of Den- ver I8 in hard luck. He Is antagonized by bis bishop for being too liberal, and by th A. P. A, for not being liberal enough. In- asmuch as [ather Malone is avowedly a eliever in the public schools, it would seem to be policy on the part of the A. I to espouse his quarrel as against his lesiastical superior. St. Paul Globe: The Methodist men have formally resolved that they not attempt a rigid enforcement of church discipline. They say that it is possible to keep their members from the theaters, circuses, cards, Sunday newspi- pers, Sunday trains, and the like. While sh things are not sanctioned by the church, they will not be prohibited—a con- cession to the liberal tendencies of the age that is somewhat remarkable from such a source. Kansas City Star. An_ irresponsible, ioose- tongued revivalist can stir up more quarrels in a town In a month than the good citizen can put down in a year. Lawrence, Kan., has had a visitation from one of the travel- ing exhorters who played the wrong card and was so nearly callod down that lo left the town as quictly as possible. Lawrence 18 a temperansce town, but In order to create a sensation the revivalist declared that a great deal of illegal liquor business was going on. And the next day he was hauled before the county attorney to tell what he knew, and he didn’t know a thing; he sald that ‘he made the absurd statements to walke up a temperance sentiment. The news- papers laughed at the stupid blunder he made of falsifying to create an oratorical thrill, and he attacked the newspapers. They left his name out of thelr papers and the ‘meetings fell flat. The Lawrence way of handling that sort of nuisance has its #o0od points. There should be no respect for a man whose mouth works like a hair trigger, even If he is a preacher. - PEOPLE AND THINGS. sod ec clergy- will the Keep off the grass means much in Wash- ington. Employment agents circulate in the hire levels of society. The revised football rules do not encroach on the business of the medical profession. Johann Most is irroconcilably opposed to peace. He does not drink anything stronger than beer. ““What s the cause of this state of affairs? asks the Atlanta Constitution, referring to tho Ashland, Ky., campaign. Herr Dows of Berlin, inventor of the bul- let proof coat, is going to exhibit himself in the United States. Dowen't Strife is a tonic for some natures. Here is Governor Tillman, scarcely out of the hablliments of war, accepting an invitation to preside at a spelling bee. New York papers announce the regenera- tion of Coney island by the police. If the Job is complete the police of Brooklyn ac- complished that which filled enthusiastic r- vivalists with the tired feeling. A woman shot herself while listening to a performance in a Paris theater. It must have been a rocky show, but how much bet- ter for the unfortunate woman and the coun- try had she taken the Cripple Creck method and shot the performers. Nine newspaper editors are on trial in Berlin for charging the police with brutality. As the latter possess something of a pull with the court It is likely that thirty days and $500 will about satisfy the authorities for the irritating effect of truth in print. It is nip-and-tuck between Senators Quay and Dolph as to which will get in the last section of their serial speeches. At last ac- counts the Oregon statesman broke away in the middle of a thrilling climax, leaving the reader gazing disappointedly at the familiar sign, “To be continued in our next.” The Chicago Herald was thirteen years old on the 10th, Though its years are compara- tively few it has bounded to the front rank of American newspapers. It commands success by deserving it. The record of the Herald's achlevements demonstrates what western _enterprise and grit, compounded with sound gray matter, will accomplish, With a fow slight alterations which the reader can readily supply the following war- ranty deed, punctuated with sobs, fits the situation in Omaha: “Know all men by these presents—City of Philadelphia—Trac- tion Company—hereby granted, conveyed and by these presents—all rights, title, in- terest—streets, alleys—including inhabitants of said city—to have and to hold—their heirs and assigns forever,” etc., etc. BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Genlus Is a curse unloss It loves truth. Tt takes hard times to make some people thankful A stony heart and an iron combination. The man who can smile and won't cheats others and robs himself. The poor have a thousand joys that money of the rich cannot purchase. It is doubtful If culture will ever be abl to make a man stop snoring in his sleep. The man who looks through prejudice is always ready to swear that there Is somes thing green in sunlight No church is ever mado a bit stronger by having gn unrepentant sinner with a pocket full of money walk up and join it. If as much preaching had been aimed at the heart as thero has boen at the head the millenium would have dawned long ago. It would be a long time before the devil would get discouraged it none were preachers except those who wear long-tailed coats, When angels church pil wi the parsonage with wormy hams and ooked wood the o probably” puzzled to understand why God holds the judgment back. will are a bad do It the see rs on thelr Detrolt t L by saying you were her walks of life? Tramp mountains wid Coxey. do once in I wuz you tho in de Plain Dealer: Moralist-Do you think a man ean go {nto politics and refain his self-respect? Politician—Oh, yes. His tastes change, too. Driggs-Can a masters? Henpeck—Well, He may have a wife and wn daughter, you know. The Waterbury serve two depends gt man that a Chicago Tribune: Klder Sister—I know Mr, Pscadds is not hands but you do him injustice when you s that can” stop a ¢ Well, it can stop it almost. It seems to make it go mighty slow, anyhow Detroft Free Press: Caller—One of your sons is a minister and the other a physis clan, aren’t thiy? Mother (proudly)—Yes; one preaches and the other practi Judge: Servant—Yis, in. What's vour name, Vandersplinkenheimer ye'd better go roight in sorr, Mrs. Jones is sorr? Visitor—Prof. ervant—Och ! Sure, nd take it wid ye. Chicago Post: “You have a title, I bee ve,” sald the stranger affably. Yes, sir—colonel.” A Kentu es. And you I'm’called “gener: “Indeed! An ‘Industrtal,’ of course.' Ledger: The establl of a coffee ring e s od by the Coffee exchange of York. The white of an egg Is sald to be effective. Philadelphia hment ome in from tion, your way?’ ine in me pretty lively debates." nothin’” “was the dissatisfied “them’s experience meetin's.” “Debates pon. LEARNIN! apolis Journal. She went through several classic schools, And gained her tutor's approbation; She's married now, and knows the woe Of hiring girls who quickly go, Whereat she murmurs with a smile, “In this, I'm getting all the while, A course in hire education.” e Madness Without Method. Brooklyn Bagle. A party that is pledged to tariff reform and that drops reform out of the pledge and merely puts stress on tariff change adds to its own infidelity to its word the injury of the country. Change merely for the sake of change Is never defensibie, Change for the better is indispensable in tariff legislation, else there should be none, for the tariff is the one thing in which fixity, constancy, or permanence 18 of itself desirable unless something gravely better an be had. Something no better I8 necs essarily worse. 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