Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1894, Page 12

THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 20 1894 TWENTY PAGES. THEOMAHA DAILY BEE, m—— = == 1. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED BVE! TERMS OF 8UDSCRIPTIO Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year Daily and Sunday, One Year. ix Months.......... hres Montiis, .. Bunday Bee, Ons Ye aturday Tés, One Ye: ‘eckly Bee, One Year.. OFFIC Omaha, The Tiee Nullding. Bouth Omaha, corner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. Couriell Bluffs, 17 Penr! atreet, Chicago Office, 317 (hamber of Commerce, Qo York, Rgome 13, 14 and, 15, Teibune Dide. Vashington, 1407 I* street, N. . CORRESPONDENC i Al communications relating to news and edi- toral matter should he addressed: To the BAitor, BUSINESS LETTERS Al business letters and remittances should be addrossed The fes Publishing company, Omaha. f1s, checks and postofMice orders to of the comr | 2883333 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George . Trschuck, secretary of The I Hishing company, baing duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complets copies of Tha Ll Morning, Evening and Sunda oo prihted uring the month of April, 194, was as folfoH 24,080 L U vese 22,281 1 22,248 1 1 i A o net eirculation Sunday TZSCHUCK. GEORGE T hod in my pres- Bworn to hefore me and sul ence this 20 day of May, 1%91. (Beal). N. P Notary Public. Chicago papers are painfully silent upon the progress of the Prendergast insanity ex- amination.| One would hardly expect Coxey to want to go to congress after the treatment he bas already had at the hands of that body. Hascall has no confidence in the work- ngmen of Omaha for the very good reason that the workingmen of Omaha have no confidence whatever in Hascall. There s a marked coincidence between the cyclonic disturbances of the season and the promised disturbance in political circles. Wind s the greatest factor in both flelds. According to a late census bulletin there are In Nebraska 90,000 more single males than females, Horace Greeley's advice should be made to read: *'Go west, young woman! Go west!" absolutely no limit to the free words in the tariff debate. It 18 noticed that the advocates of the free colnage of silver are showing the greatest output of words on the tariff bill There is coinage of The severe storm which swept Lake Michigan and the subsequent loss of life at Chicago proves that the life saving serv- ico at that point is inadequate for such ter- rible emergencies. The life saving corps at Chicago should be doubled. A free feed for the members of populist executive committee is no Inducement to them to locate their state convention at Hastings. The populists do not all belong to the Industrial armies, although some of the Industrials may profess to be pop- ulists. The Nebraska State unlversity must feel elated over the sult brought against it by a former student for $25,000 as damages for its failure to confer a baccalaureate de- gree upon him. An institution whose de- grees are valued at that high figure must take a rank with the best colleges in the country. The outflow of gold to Europe still con- tinues in spite of the assurances of the commerclal agencies that the reserve supply in foreign market centers is greater than ever before. Congress may yet have to work more than five hours per day In order to extricate the country from serious finan- clal difficulties. We are not yet able to understand how the railroads which are being operated by recelvers can legally offer free excursions to any body of delegates or attendants upon conventions. They themselves raised this objection to the free transportation of the various Industrial armies. Are they any more justified In extending such favors to people who are able to pay their fares? Thq Springfleld Republican is claiming for Massachusetts the proud distinction of being < pre-eminently the “home of widows.” Not that married men die faster in Massachu- setts than in other states, but that that state offers the greatest inducements as @ residenco for married women after their husbands have died. Attain your widowhood wherever you can and then join the mourn- ing sisterhood in Massachusetts. The great lake storm, according to the reports that have been sent out, gave occa- Blon for the appearance of a number of nine- teenth century heroes. The men who risked their lives to rescue shipwrecked sailors doomed to almost certain death deserve as much recognition for thelr noble deeds as any of the mythic warrfors of the olden time who battled for the weak and the op- pressed. True heroism Is as unselfish in this workaday world as it has ever been In ages past. The solidarity of the industrial world 18 once more shown by the coal miners' strike, which by cutting off the supply of coal s gradually forcing upon workers In other branches only remotely ©0) ted with that of oal mining. In theory at least, carrying the strike over a sulliclently long period would effectually put a stop to operations in nearly every line of human activity, The depewdence of one Industry upon another could not have a better llustration. fdleness Members of the house who have had thefr salaries docked for inexcusable absence from the sessions of that body want to get even with the senators at the other end of the eapitol by Instructing the secretary of the senats to put In forco the same ruling as to absentoca which the sergeant-at-arms of the Mhouse Is enforcing. It Is extremely unlikely Ahat the wenators will take kindly to a prop- osithon of this Kind or admit that the mem bers of (he any control over the secretary of the senate. They will ganed with Je their privilege of drawing pay wheiher they work or not. To sonwent (o a syatem of salary docking mighy obifterate all distingtions between member My fn the senate wnd mowmborship o the house. lower house have aus care PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. In looking for the causes of the prevalling business depresion it fa important to take into consideration production and consump- tion. It is a quite general view that for several years preceding the crisis through which the country is now passing the pro- gress of industrial production was too rapid, that the advance in this direction, in order to have been entirely healthy, should have been kept nearer to the rate of increase in population, and that because this was not done there was such an excess of production over the eapacity of the country to consume that a readjustment became imperative, so that in any event—that is, whether the long- established economic policy of the country had heen assailed or not—a curtailment of operations in all industrial lines would have been absolutely necessary. It is a fact that the country made ex- traordingly strides in industrial development during the decade from 1880 to 1890, while the advance fn 1891 and 1892 was probably greater than in any other two years of our history. The total value of manufactured products in 1890 was in round numbers § 000,000,000, against $5,000,000,000 in 1880, an increase for the ten years of 74 per cent The Increase of population during the same period less than 25 per cent. Capital employed in the iIndustries increased in a much higher ratlo, having risen from about $3,000,000,000 in 1850 to over $6,000,000,000 in 1890, or at the rate of 134 per cent. The fall of prices in the interval is given as one of the explanations of the disparity between the ratio of increase in capital employed and in the annual value of product, the in- ference being that the in the quantity of products much exceeds that of their value. Ry way of illustrating the dis- tribution of the increase in industrial capital as among the different industries the New York Commercial Bulletin compiled from the census returns the capital employed in eigh- teen of the larger branches in 1890 and 1880 respectively, showing an average increase of 122 per cent. Commenting upon these facts that paper says: “How far this rate of ex- pansion may be regarded as properly normal may be inferred from the fact that the growth of manufactures, during the previous decade, was from $4,232,000,000 in 1870 to $5,369,000,000 in 1880, or at the rate of 27 per cent, as against an increase of 74 per cent between 1880 and 1890. And yet the increase of population during the former decade was 30 per cent as agaiust only 25 per cent during the latter.”” A different showing is made by the cen- sus returns regarding the agricultural in- dustries. The yield of tha cereal crops in 1890 was 5 per cent less than In 1880, though the crops of 1891 were much larger, but it still remains true that for the past thirteen or fourteen years the agricultural industries have not been developing at any- thing like the rate of the manufacturing, and still agricultural production has more than kept pace with the requirements for home consumption. It is noteworthy that while there was a decrease in the yield of cereals in 1890, as compared with 1880, be- tween the years 1870 and 1880 there was an increase in these cereal crops of nearly 100 per cent. The extraordinary agricultural development of that period shows that by far the larger proportion of the increase in population during the decade was added to the forces of agriculture, whereas during the decade from 1880 to 1890 the larger pro- portion went to swell the forces in the man- ufacturing, mining and transportation indus- tries. Taken altogether these facts present an Interesting problem. Have our manufactur- ing industries been too greatly stimulated, as some claim, and if so what is now the wise and practicable policy with regard to them? Shall all stimulus be withdrawn from these industries, or shall they be put in'a position to absolutely control and enjoy the home market? Or shall the policy be such as will reduce the stimulus to develop- ment, and in that case how great a re- duction will it be expedient to make? What can be done to promote consumption, now at perhaps the lowest pomnt it has reached in twenty years? The obvious answer to the last question is to give full and remuner- ative employment to all the labor of the country, and this involves the maintenance of all the industries of the country. In order to do this a policy of judicious' pro- tection is essential. Under such a policy production need not outrun consumption and the progress made would be substantial and permanent, with the danger of panics and depression’ always remote. was increase our THE DOCTORS AND THEIR CODE. The Bee's criticlsm of the arbitrary and altogether unreasonable rules adopted by the secretaries of the State Board of Health has called from the chairman of the board of secretaries a_defense which only proves the inconsistency of the doctors and establishes the position of The Bee more firmly. The learned secretary asserts that the physician who claims unusual facilities, skill or ex- perience In curing disease is guilty of un- professional conduct and is therefore to be denled the privilege of practicing his pro- fession in the state of Nebraska. He bases this assertion upon the unwarranted as- sumption that the medical Socleties which have evolved tho code of medical ethics have rights of discrimination which the pub- lc does not possess. By the public he evi- dently means the people who made the laws. This position of the board is untenable. New discoveries are being made in medical sclence overy year and the medical profes- sion is every year giving up long cherished beliefs. Under the arbitrary rules of the Nebraska Board of Health the physiclan who discovered and advertised the anti- septic tréatment for dressing wounds would be deprived of the right to practice medi- clne In this state, unless he would sign an agreement to keep his discovery to himself, The surgeon who first the world the discovery of process of skin grafting would be denounced a8 a charltan. The man who first used cocoalne In surgery would be driven out of the profession unless he re- trained from advertising to the world that he had made and was using a wonderful discovery for the alleviation of suffering. The utter inconsistency of the position assumed by the board has been demonstrated by the action of its secretaries. At least one Omaha physician was denied a certificate because he advertised. At the hearing of the case the secretaries produced witnessos to prove that the physiclan in question was utterly unfit to practice medicine. Some weeks later the same physiclan, who had previously been denied the right to practice medicine, came before the board with his attornoy—the latter now belng on the bench in this district—and after signing a written agreement to coase advertising In the news- papers was granted a certificate enabliug him to practice medicine, and he 15 so practicing in Omaha today. Now, it this phbysiclan was unfit to practice medicine the secretaries of the State Board of Health were gullty of uot only unprofessional conduct themselyes, but they were gullty of the greater crime of announced to the permitting an ignorant man to practice upon the credulity of the people. If he was quall- fled to practice medicine, all the advertising he could crowd upon the dead walls in the city could not make him less a better phy- slclan, The secretarfes, following the arbi- trary rules of the medical code, sat'sfied their own professional scruples by exacting an agreement that the objectionable advertising should cease. They apparently lost sight of the fact that they were selected solely for the purpose of protecting the public from the ignorant and unqualified. They con- tented themselves with a ‘“vindication” of the code of medical ethies at a risk of an injury to the public. The law was not passed for the defense of the code of medical othies. It was passed for the protection of the people. The recretarles have lost sight of the people in their zeal for their code. The law now on the statute books should bo abolished and its place filled by an enact- designed for the protection of the health of the state. The medical socleties may take care of their own code of ethics. There is no call to substitute that code for a law upon the statute books. PECULIAR NOTIONS ABOUT EDITORS. People who are presumed to he intelligent and fairly well informed exhibit the most lamentable Ignorance concerning the make- up of a metropolitan newspaper. They do not seem to realize that a paper like The Sunday Bee, or, for that matter, any of the daily editions of The Bee, is the product of scores of writers—editorial, reportorial and specialists—whose complex work is re- and classified by several department heads. They actually imagine or believe that the responsible editor writes every line that appears in the editorial columns and reads every item that may be written by the staff or furnished by contributors and correspondents before it is inserted. This absurd motion is emphasized more par- ticularly when the editor of any leading paper has achieved more than ordinary prominence, or acquired a national reputa- tion. Thus it was that everything that ap- peared in the New York Tribune during the lifetime of its founder was credited or charged to Horace Greeley. The same thing is true today about Charles A. Dana. Every editorial that appears in the New York Sun is assumed to be from the vitri- olic pen of Dana, although the gifted New York editor has been on the other side of the Atlantic for most of two years. Incidentally this idiotic notion about the omnipresent editor affords an opportunity for parties who hanker after newspaper notoriety to seek controversies with prom- inent editors through personal letters, either under pretext of airing a grievance or contradicting some statement made by the paper. A striking instance 1s furnished in an open letter to E. Rosewater that appeared a few days ago In an obscure sheet on the line of the Elkhorn road. A scrub politi- cian, who holds a position as railroad train dispatcher, ventures to take E. Rosewater to task for an editorial on postal telegraphs which had been published in The Bee. As a matter of fact E. Rosewater Was several hundred miles away from Omaha when the editorlal was written. For the benefit of the man in quest of notoriety let us state that the editorial on postal telegraphs fs sound In its logic and unassailable from any standpoint. Furthermore it is a piece of presumption on the part of an automaton brass pounder, who has never seena postal telegraph and merely rattles off exploded false figures like a parrot, to address open letters on postal telegraphy to anybody who has made a thorough investigation of the subject. ment vised ADMISSION TO THE BAR. Tho authorities of the University of Ne- braska have issued a circular inviting the opinions and suggestions of prominent people throughout the state to a plan outlined by them for raising the standard of require- ments for admission to its law department, and through that of the requirements for admission to the bar. The present rules upon this subject in that department simply require each applicant to satisfy the faculty that his educational advantages have been such as to warrant his taking up the study of law with reazonable assurance of success. This statement the university authorities feel to be too indefinite. They think that there should be some clear outline of de- sirable preparatory work which should serve both as a suggestion and a guide to those wishing to enter the bar and as a standard by which to secure greater uniformity of ability within the class room. They inti- mate further that those who enter the bar from the law department of the university should be recognized as having enjoyed pe- culiar privileges and opportunities. The proposition thus advanced, although by *no means clearly presented, appears to have a two-fold aspect—an increase in the require- ments for admission to the College of Law and a discrimination in favor of its grad- uates in the matter of admission to the bar. No one who wishes the character of the bar of Nebraska to be constantly improved with the course of time will refuse to give hearty approval to the first part of the action proposed. If the state s to lend its support to a law school it should insist upon having a law school of the first rank. Such a sohool can only be maintained by placing the requirements for entrance upon a high plane. With a good foundation the school can then build a good superstructure. It should not exclude any one who is really entitled to Its benefits, but it can exercise a Judicious discrimination in saying what qualifications the applicant must have in order to prove that he can profit from them. This, however, now rests entirely with the university authorities. There is nothing to ut them from setting a higher standard 4 reasonable assurance of success,” nor is there anything in such a change that will require more than moral support of the people throughout the state, The second part of the proposition, merely hinted at jn the circular, to the effect that those who enter the bar from the College of Law should be recognized as having Joyed peculiar privileges and opportunities 18 quite a different thing. What the uni. versity authorities doubtless mean is that a diploma fssued by them shall be declared by law to entitle the holder to practice at the bar of this state without further e dence of his abilities. The student who has been able to attend the law department of the university Is to have an advantage over the who has with equal faithful- ness acquired the same legal learning from other sources. Such discriminations have been made in some states, but the tendency is plainly in the opposite direction. New York state, which has advanced as far as the furthest in the matter of stringent requirements for admission to the bar, the college graduate take the same examination as (he law office student, and credits him only with the equivalent of a portion of the necessary period of service. If the graduate has su perior advantages he will have no troubls at all In passing & bar examination; if he the en- student now makes clerical college has not a bar examination offers the bes way to find it out. The peculiar privileges and opportunitios which he has enjoyed will avall him whole career. Let him rest satisfled with this. The motto of Nebraska fs “Equality Defore the law.” The sentiment applies with speclal force to the requirements for admis- sion to the bar. Let the standard be elo- vated by raising it to all alike, not by low- ering it to a chosen few OUTLOOK FOR A OPTION. The ngrl(‘ullllnl! H\h’rl\st of the country, which is understood to be practically unani- mous in favor of the proposed anti-option legislation by congress, will learn with satis- faction that the prospect is highly favorable for the passage of the Hatch bill by the house during the current month. Washing- ton correspondents of newspapers that have persistently denounced this measure concede that there is no chance of defeating it in the house, One of these says that there is hardly any one sanguine enough to hope that when the motion 1s made to take up the bill it can be voted down. The opponents of the measure will ask ample opportunity for debate, hoping thereby to gain strength, but this will be a waste of time If there is good ground for the estimated majority for the bill of 40 or 50. It may be that the opposition has some new arguments to offer of a convineing nature than have already been presented from that side, but it such should prove to be the case, it }s hardly to be expected that they will be so forceful as to win over the ample majority now promised for the measure. The fact that the members of the agrieultural com- mittee unfavorable to the proposed legis- lation decided not to submit a minority report may fairly be taken as indicating the hopelessness of the opposition so far as the house of representatives s concerned. 1t appears that the opponents of the anti- option bill are building hope upon the chance that the senate will not be able to act on the measure at this session. They reason that it is too late for that body to do any- thing with it, beyond sending it to a com- mittee, and that its actual consideration will have to be postponed until next winter. It is at least possible that they may be disappointed, although the impression is that the present strength of the measure in the senate is less than in the last con- Bress. It this is correct the opposition might find no great difficulty, under the eir- cumstances, in throwing it over to the next session. If this be done it is already inti- mated that the plan would be to send the anti-option bill to the rear of other meas- ures, the consideration of which could be made to consume the entire time until the expiration of con Jut oh March 4. Calcu- lations of this khT , however, assume a pos- sible apathy or indifference on the part of the friends of the proposed legislation not likely to be realized. If the measure passes the house without a serious contest, as seems probable, its supporters in the senate will not neglect it, and though they may not be able to get action on It at the present session they may be expected to spare no ‘effort to give it a foremost place at the nex: sesslon. Meanwhile it would seem to be important that the friends of the anti-option bill out- side of congress should do something fur- ther in its behalf. The farmers of the _country, it Is true, have heretofore very generally expressed themselves, and there has been no indication of any change of sentiment among them, but.no harm would be done if they were to again say to con- gress that they want this legislation. Cer- tainly the reasons for asking it are just as strong and valid now as at any time in the past, and perhaps even more 50, in view of the condition of the market for agricultural products. It need hardly be sald that the speculators whose business the proposed legislation would seriously interfere with are not idle or indifferent. A SINGLE MORAL STANDARD. Considerable discussion has recently taken place—for the most part an altogether one- sided discussion—upon the question of ap- plying a single. moral standard to all per- sons alike, without distinction between the sexes. The texts for these discussions have generally been found in current events to which the attention of the public has been attracted, in the supposed moral to be drawn from the filthy Pollard-Breckin- ridge breach of promise scandal, in the woman suffrage campaign in New York, in the meeting of the League of Women's Clubs at Philadelphia. - Complaint has been made of the rank injustice that discrim- inates between the different punishments meted out to men and women who are ad- judged gullty of the same crime or fault, ‘And all who have expressed themselves upon the subject appear to be in substantial agreement that the employment of different moral standards for the same offense by persons of different sex is wrong and calls for immediate remedy. ‘Why is it, then, that in the face of so great a unanimity of opinion In this matter a single moral standard has not been adopted? That it has not been adopted by any considerable portion of the human race is the fact upon which these complaints are grounded. Behind this fact there must be some deep seated reason, because the actual practice of mankind through all the ages past is the best proof that some such reason does exist. The varying standards which are applied to human conduct are not always more severe for the man than for the woman. In those offenses against per- son and property, for example, which are most commonly coffimitted by men and which are ranked A3’ grimes or misdeamean- ors under the law; the woman oftender almost universally escapes with the mini- mum penalty, whether by compassion of the jury or mercy,of the judge. In nearly every case where the woman Is arraigned before the courts oh criminal charges she Is glven the benefit.'of a leniency that a man would have no reason whatever to ex- pect, because she is mot regarded as resting under precisely thg same responsibility as the man. (0 On the other hand, dn those offenses whose chief punishment eoisists in ostracism from polite society and/if, a loss of reputation rather than in the legal pains and penalties, it must be acknowledged that woman is regularly judged by A séverer standard than man. This has Deen observed among savage tribes, it is noticeable among semi- civilized barbarians, it Is true today among practically all races in every part of the world. A departure from the path of virtue by woman fs not viewed as the same fault as a similar lapse in man. The punish- ment s different because the fault Is Qifferent. The fault is different be- cause it has different effects the future welfare of the race. The man's of- fense is usually attended with no injurious effects except himself, while punish- ment for the woman's offense is apt to be vis ited upon generations yet unborn, if not to threaten the very continuance of the race. The preservation of the clam, or tribe, or more upon upon in his practice throughout his | nation, {8 the first law with savages, as with civilized man, and anything that operates to endanger that Is frowned upon by the most repressive measures. Untll it fs demonstrated that soclety suffors the same whether the offender fs a man or a woman, the single moral standard must be an ideal, not a reality. The promoters of the projected Intorstate and international exposition at Atlanta have asked for the enterprise the recognition and approval of the government. They do not ask a contribution In money, but want the government to erect a building and make an exhibit. So far as giving approval to the project is concerned, which is necessary in order to induce the South American coun- tries to participate, there is no apparent ob- Jection to it, but it fs questionable whether the government should go to any expense in connection with the profect. It seems to be the idea of the promoters that the ex position can exert an inftuence for securing closer commercial relations with the South Amerfean countries, but its effect in this direction would be very trifiing. The trade this country and the countries to the south of us cannot be very materially benefited by shows of this Kind, In the absence of better transportation facilities and more care on the part of our manufa turers in studying the needs of the southern markets. There fs something to be learned on both sides from an intornational expo- sition, but this fs not of great account un- less there are means to turn it to practical advantage. The projected Atlanta sition should be encouraged, but not at any great cost to the public treasury. between expo- The upon New fact York Evening Post remarks that no state has followed New York in supplanting the hangman's rope with the electric chalr, notwithstand- ing the fact that the innovation has proved so great a success there. It says that electrocution has been found to work so well that opposition to it has completely disappeared, and nobody would for a ment even think of a return to the use of the gallows. The Post thinks this is to be explained solely by the conservatism which stands in the way of a change of any kind, and perhaps in a less degree to the fact that in many states the prisons are located in places which lack the facilities for the application of electricity to this purpose. giectrocution is bound to be introduced generally throughout the United States so soon as another crusade Is begun against the barbarity of the present method of dealing with capital criminals. The state legislatures that are to meet next year will do well to imitate the example set by ow York. the mo- New York is renewing the contest to re- taln possession of the Indian supply ware- house that was ordered removed to Chicago a few months ago. It is basing its fight purely upon the patriotic grounds of saving money to the government in the purchase of supplies, but at the same time is omit- ting no effort to bring influence to bear upon the authoritles who have control over the matter. It is, of course, at present merely a question between New York and Chicago, but if these two cities cannot be brought to let the officials of the Interior department rest in peace it may be advis- able to take the supply warehouse away from both of them and give it to some other city—Omaha for example. e e The Insurance companies have adopted some new methods in dealing with their pa- trons. Cases have been reported to The Bee where policy holders have suffered small losses. In settling upon the damages the adfuster gives the policy holder the option of taking what is offered or having his policy canceiled. In other cases where trouble is had with policy holders all com- panies holding concurrent policies cancel their holdings. Such methods are both un- just and unreasonable. Such high-handed methods will do more to encourage small mutual insurance companies than anything else that can be devised. The future of the business in this country depends upon absolute fairness between the companies and their patrons. Unjust Discrimination. Atehison Globe. Fashion s always tender with women of age. It now decrees that they wear a bow of silk and lace where a baid spot might be on their heads. A man is not only not allowed to put rosettes over his bald spots, but is compelled to take off his hat in pub- lic. e fortunately True. Boston Herald. Let a man accept a public office with the sole determination of making money, no matter by what prostitution of his authority or disregard of law or morals, and the chances 't he will_succeed are rather better than that he Sill land in prison. Let his motives be of the highest and his conduct of the purest, and there is a tol- erable certainty that 'he will leave public life poorer than when he entered it. ————— Wike Women of Our Day. Philadelphia Record. The 300 miners’ wives at Cumberland, Md,, who notified the strike leaders that their husbands, while sympathizing with their brethren in Ohio and Tlinois, intended to continue at work in justice' to their own families—which notice” proved entirely effective—have not only voiced the wi and mothers' side of the sympathy strike question, but have given one more demon- stration of feminine intelligence that may have timely value in the suffrage discus- slon, ————— Neodless Burdens on Falr Shoulders. Boston Globe. Woman suffrage may be well enough as a_theoretic principle, and we should very much like to have the assitance of women in the trinls and cares of politics, but, bless their dear hearts, we will maghanimously spare them. We are weary of trudging alone to the polls, going to the legislatu and to congress, and steering unaided the much buffeted ship of state; but any man who seeks to transfer even a feather's welght of this great bu round shoulders of wretch whom a coward vy is twere g flattery to name moc oking around for its fomale of finance, who, beginning life as schoolmarm, discounted the pay rolls of tewchers and finally launched out as a heay; Lorrower from private parties, pay- ing § per cent interest. Her method was slaply the ol one of borrowing from No, ) pay No. . Many of her creditors, who are out about $500,000, say she is a' hyp notizer, but it is probable that the 9 pe cent had some welght with the lenders At all events they forget that high interest means bad security, especially when Its urce 18 niysterious. —_— New Departuro in Road New York Tribun A novel and extremely Interesting experi- ment I8 soon to be tried | It is & new departure In road improv, . which 18 claimed by its author to have points of marked superiority over the bullding of macadamized ronds. The plan s to extend the eleotric rallway tracks from cities and towns into the surrounding country, and to construct the roads in such a way that they will be a great saving in horse r such roads are used, si ads can be drawn on ame force. In two countles of fal ‘will be made of this system the year. It need hardly be sald that esuit will be awaited with much inter ot only In Ohio but in other states provement. heay vith Ohio prese SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Washington Post: A Texas ovangolist declares that the froedom of the press is the battle cry of infidelity. It Is not stated Just what unprofessional nct this particular brother has been detscted in. Somerville Journal: 1f a minister wants an increase of salary, it is generally unwise for him to show his power of keen sarcasm by writing his name with his finger in the dust on the family bible when he is out making a pastoral call. New York World: It s a that twice (n the history of Dr. Talmage and his tabernacles his louse of wor- ship has been burned on a Sunday, the fire appearing in both cases about the time of morning service. Both fires occurred on the 13th of the month. History does sometimes repeat (tself. This 18 not excluding the minister from his privileges as a citizon. It iy not cutting the churches from the opportunity of organ- izing in support of the moral side when an issue of morality {s before public opinton It is only saying that when they mix in current politics and jump to hasty conclu slons about political administration the let g0 thelr higher powers and become as other politicfans. They lose much and gain noth- ing. St. Paul Globe: A Chicago clergyman is endeavoring to tablish a church where members of the cloth may resort for debato upon the differences that divide the various sects. The man does not understand his fellows hey have no disposition to dis ss their differences with each other. Each regards himself as Infallible, and w d refuse to be convinced of error by the most unanswerable of arguments. The enter- prise will die a-bornin’. Kansas City Star battle cry of Infidelity,” shouted Judge Per- Kins of Texas at the Southern Methodis conference in Memphis yesterday. Don't get excited, judge, smarter men fhan you have let the heat under their collars constme them as a flame. A free pross, judge, is not quite the battle cry of infidelity, but it is the bete noir of every hide-bound, narrow- sighted, hard-hearted, blood-spilling fanatic, every inquisitor, ev y applier of a torch to the martyr, every man who hus turned the rack, every bigot and very man-hunter s the printing press began its glorious work A free press has made it possible for men like Judge Perkins to sit in Methodist coun- cil without being persecuted as a heretic and burned as an unbeliever. —_——— PEOPLE AND THING curiougy fact free press is tho The Kelsey contingent berry mark. Western towns are not particular about the grass it the Commonwenl crowd moves on. Mme. Duse’s visit to this country next season threatens the peace of several theat- rical tray spots. Thrics within two weeks have floods dev- astated Stillwater, Minn. Achange of name is in order. A Parls paper pronounces Mr. Corbett “unique and marvelous.” That's about the way he struck Sullivan and Mitchell. A Coxey contingent composed chiefly of Poles is moving from Indiana to Washington to protest against further foreign immigra- tion. The temporal and the spirituous are com- bined in the appointment of Rev. C. M. Green, a Peoria preacher, as a whisky gauger. Keen foresight and a generous supply of sand enables the Union Pacific management to point with pardonable pride to a grease spot. left. When a Commonweal army strikes a feast of stewed chicken and ice cream it is not surprising that the parting wrenches several tender cords. Miss Pollard threatens to write a book. The friendly Interest heretofore manifested in her welfare is hereby recalled pending good behavlor. Bishop Newman of Omaha was one of the officiating clergymen at the laying of the corner stone of the mew Methodist church and college In Rome on the 9th inst. Emperor William has twenty-seven, regi- mental uniforms, no two made by the same firm. The kaiser understands that it re- quires several tailors to make a man. Geronimo is now a justice of the psace at Fort Marion, Ala. As he has made his mark in other professions there is a reason- able certainty of his producing novel prece- dents in legal Lo-re. Bourke Cockran shook his index finger un- der an archbishop’s nose and relieved him- self of a rhetorical bluff. It 1s nearly two years since Cockran play:d a similar game in Chicago and was subsequently called and laid down his hand. The once beautiful and bewitching Coun- tess of Beaconstein, transferred from Austria to Chicago, has taken pity on a local poet, Francis Zuri Stone, and will wed him. Poet Stone achieved distinction and poverty singing the praises of catarrh medicine. As the old phlegm did not respond to his im- made its straw- ation ef road improvement i lling place in the public mind nowadays, ything | I sure of e Somethin kested by years wgo, nothing, we believe, ever came of it tlon but passioned rhymes it is hoped the new flame will cough up readily. Governor Flower has approved an amend- ment to the New York libel law making it a misdemeanor for ‘“any person who will- fully states, delivers or transmits by any means whatever to any manager, editor, publisher, reporter or other employe of a publisher of any newspaper, magazine, pub- lication, periodical or serial any statement concerning any person or corporation which, if published therein, would be a libel.”” The law will have a discouraging effect on mali- clous liars. The largest 14377 BROWNING, KING nakors and sollers ot tine clothes on earth, Your money’s worth or your money bag BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, Truth 1s never afraid to wait. Watch the man who flatters you, A lean dog generally growls the most. The troubles we most fear never happen. A long face fs not a passport to heaven. Many a doctor probably enjoys good health because he never takes any of his own medis cine. The devil is not wasting much powder on the preacher whose religion all in hts head Some preachers fail bocause they do not think it worth while to cultivate common sonse Many a man puts a fine monument over the grave of his wife who made her up and light the fire every morning of her life. i cmcainii? NALVE FOR LONG SERMONS 1-Hits: Woman leads the world. She smokeless powder for mges before men ¢ thought of adopting it alveston Nows first foint discussion doubtless held over a bone. Texas Siftings: 1t is o well known {f rather paradoxical fact that cut diamond rates are higher than the original price. Buffalo Courler: “That takes a big wait off my mind,” ejaculated the traveling man when he found ‘he was in time to catch a train he thought he had missed, Harper's Bazar: “What place Is this?" asked the society woman as the coachman stopped | before her own house. This, madam,” safd the footman, ‘“Is your home!™ “Ah, indec sald the lady. “I'm here so little’ that I had quite forgotten it.” Goodman-— drinking at Kate Fleld's Washington: There's a terrible amount of the seaside. Van Soke-No much water {8 want a little of 8o anyone wonder. The sight enough’ to make whisky. Puck: Senlor Partner—Keep a close watch on De Ledger's accounts this sum- mer Junior P races? Senfor Partner—Worse! He has moved to the suburbs and is going to raise his own vegetables, tner—1h? Is he playing the “hicago Record: The Advanced Y Woman (in the year 2000 A. D,) I love you; will you be mine? He—Ah—excuse me—this s Much as I pect your many traits I cannot marry you The Advanced Young Woman—Oh, I bes you to He (firmly)—~But I will be a you. ung Heetor, &b sudden. admirable brother to Buffalo Courier: She speak of A man as a He doesn’t have to lift anything, does he? He—I3r —not ctly; but his friends all expect him to carry the day. Why i it they atrong” candidate? Atlanta Constitution: A man tried for how stealing in a southwest il justice court. He had an accom- plice in the theft, to whom the judge said: “You Kknew this fellow stole that hog?"’ “I did, your honor. And vet, you helped him eat 1t? “Idid; your honor; but he was a sickly man, it he'd ha' eat that whole hog he'd ha' died certain!” RESIGNATION Washington Star “Good by,” said the politician, ing o resign; to' forbear in the worry and care Of a hurrying life like mine. was being o here Is my resignation, Ot fortune my cup is ful But they found it had—it sad— A string to a fact most insure a pull, —_——— The Gospel of Discontent. Kansas City Star. What a kettle of fish is stewing these days' ~ Here are the troops marching up anl down' the west keeping train. thieves out of the Union Pacific cars in Washing- ton and Oregon, here are nearly 500 car stealers on the government reservation at Leavenworth and a lot of hired men in Kansas running over the state trying to get others to quit work and live on” the inter est of their debts. Everywhere the doc trine that the user has more rights than the owner of property is preached, and law is coming to mean a prejudice against the successful man and a protection for the failures, —— RAINY DAY IN A GARRET. Nixon Waterman in Chicago Mail. We could not play at tennis, le cercle or croquet, We could not venture rainy summer day ut yet by me unheeded was the shadows in the skie: I saw but sunny weather in the smile of Veda's eyes. Within the roomy attle such: jolly games we played, Why should I at the patter of the rain drops be dismayed? And in our joy I often thought if she would only share it, I'd have my life one rainy day with Veda in a garret, out of doors that The years a score have hurried by since that glad afternoon Which she and I so gayly passed with heart and heart in tune; The sunny locks that lay across her brow are streaked with gray, But love is just as youns and glad within our hearts today. Sometimes the clouds have crossed paths and hidden all the blue, 1l the while affection’s sun was shining warm % A yoke is light and easy with two steadfast hearts to share it, And love can make life's rainy days lightful in a garret. our de- ing in taste. Ass=a: i = people people 'Taint so. what you used to pay. AoAS A A A~ A~ A~ s~ s~ s~ s an, Novelties in Suits. Something different from what you get else- That's the kind of goods we are show- where—exclusive styles. They are cut in the latest style— right up-to-date with a varied assortment of colors and designs large enough to satisly every It seems as though awe have told this often enough to have everybody know it. class clothing We only ask $2.50 for a Boy's handsome suit, and for $8.50 you get an up-to-date Man's suit Higher priced ones are low priced, compared with BROWNING, KING & CO., S, W. Cor. 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