Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 3, 1894, Page 12

THE _OMAHA_ DAILY, BEE: EOMAHA DAILY BEE, ¥. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED 1 = = = - TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. Daily Dee (without § y), One Year Daily and Sunday Bix Months Three Months y e, O NY MORNING, 23383838 Commerce. Chieagn « Tribune Bldg. New York. Washingto Iating to news and_ edl- ] To the BEditor. ANl business addressed tn Th Omahn, be mado T eo Publishing A %cks and postoffice orders to order of the company. JLISHING COMPANY. R 3 ¥ Cme L George 1. T ty of The Bee Pub- Habing company, benlg duly sworn, says that the actunl_number of full and complets copies of The Dally Morning, 1 Sunday Tiee printed during’th b Total Daily ave *Sunday. 687, 22,183 TZSCHUCK. in my pres- GEORGE B. Bworn to before me and subscribed ence this 24 day of June, 15H. 5 (Seal.) N. I FEIL, Notary Publie. When it comes to expounding the laws and the constitution we do not know whom we admire the most—Hascall or Scott. The officers of the Sugar trust seem to have no reason to feel that their confidence In the senators who have been enlisted in their service is being abused. It only cost Brooklyn about $50,000 to send Boss McKane and his assoclates to prison. What it cost Brooklyn previously to keep them out of prison has not yet been ertained. New Jersey people fear that they may get their prospective crop of seventeen-year Tocusts mixed up with the regular annual supply of mosquitos, Mistakes of this kind might” prove uncomfortable in numerous in- stances. When the detectives get through beating the bushes for Mr. Martin they will prob- ably be directed to locate the new tenants in Martin's rookeries. If it were not for Martin the detectives would probably be like Othello—without an occupation. Hon. Charles Goss, the father of the anti- lottery advertising law, who is credited with being a fair lawyer, is respectfully reminded that Judge Scott has found several holes in that skimmer. To a man up a tree it looks very much Lke another instance of justice without”equality. The Chineke seem to have been. living in omparative peace for several weeks now. But wait until some luckless Ohinaman s pounced upon by a federal officer and dis- covers that he cannot produce his registra- tlon certificate on demand. A free ride to - China will be had without even the ask- ing. The Philadelphia Record intimates the dis- missal of nearly 300 employes from the War department denotes that we are get- ting back to a peace footing. We presume that if the whole truth were known it might also denote that the publication of the War of the Rebellion Records is fast nearing completion. The declsion of Judge Scott on the anti- Iottery law only emphasizes the fact once + more that a man with a pull can get off very easily In his court. In this instance the man with the pull was the publisher of * & newspaper, who has cringed the pregnant knee before the honorable judge that thrift may follow fawning. New York business men continue to pro- test against the proposed federal income tax, but their protests only add zest to the ef- forts of the democrats who have determined to folst an income tax upon the country. It wi New York that put the democratic ad- ministration into powgr. Few children play with the fire without getting burnt before they stop. The Springfield Republican says that Henry BE. Krehblel, the mu:ical critic of the New York Tribune, who has been finding 80 much fault with the chorus of the Cincin- natl May festival, has never yet found a chorus that in his opinion was really good, and suggests that perhaps he is waiting to find it in heaven. But how can a musical critic expect to hear music in heaven? Dr. Everett, the Massachusetts scholar in the house of representatives, when criticised for pronouncing the word octopus with the accent on the second syllable, immediately rushed to a dictionary for his authority, and, having found it, took the first occasion that offered on the floor of the house to repeat the® offense. Dr. Everett may pronounce octopus as he pleases in Boston and even in Washington, but if he should come west, Wwe advise him to adopt the western way of speaking if he cares to have himself understood. The brazen female swashbuckler known as the Gougar woman 18 eeking to get new no- torlety by a vicious and malicious assault on the brainlest and most honorable of the woman suffrage advocates, Susan B. An- thony. When it comes to coarse and vulgar invective and impudent lying from the ros- trum ‘the ‘Gougar woman will carry off the prixe. It is scarcely probable, however, that a w.man like Miss Anthony, who Is recognized ‘a8, the foremost champlon of equal suffrage “on’ both sides of the Atlantic, will demean herself by engaging in any controversy with blackguards and mercenary mountebanks of either sex. " The judges of the Unlted States circuit court of appeals have decided to themselyes hear the arguments in the appeal from Judge Jenklhs' famous rike injunction order without certifying It direct to the supreme court, Should they afirm the order, this {4 wilt ‘doubtiéss mean another appeal, 5o that '§€ will_get before the cupreme court eventu- A ally and perhaps just as soon as it would othorwise have done. Should Judge Jeukins be reversed by the circult court of appesls the railroad attorneys are quite likely to _.attempt to> carry it up. The question In- % yolyed Is Bound to come before the supreme * gourt beforé the different parties accept the £ Jaw as settled. OMAHA STANDS HIGH In the midst of commerciai depression which extends over the entire country Omaha still Yetains hor rank as the thir- teenth cleariig house ¢ity in the United States. A comparison In the clearings of Omaba and other eities in the northwest for the past week Is highly gratitylng and reassuring. While Omaha's clearings for the week ag- grogate $4,110,836 the clearings of the two largest Iowa cities, Des Moines and Sioux City, aggregate $1488,982. The cloarings of the two largest cities in Kansas, Topeka and Wichita, aggregate $581,205, and the clear- ings of the three cities In Nebraska out- side of Omaha which are reported In the clearing house exhibit, namely, Lincoln, Hastings and Fremont, aggregate $571,381 for the same period. This makes a lotal for the cities in lowa, Kansas and Nebraska whose clearings are reported of §2,641,568, as against Omaha with $4,146,836. Add the clearings of St. Joseph, which is Omaha's principal jobbing rival, to this total, viz, $1,343,284, and we have an aggregate of $3,984,348, against $4,116,836. . Comparison with other important com- mercial ecenters is equally creditable to Omaha. Minneapolis only leads Omaha by $61,775, Detroit by only $35,435, while Omaha is ahead of Cleveland by over $600,000, Mil- waukee by $1,100,000, Buffalo by $1,200,000, St. Paul by $1,300,000, Denver by $1,700,000 and Duluth by $2,500,000. If these figures are any index of business activity and pros- perity Omaha holds her own as well as any city in the country. INTERSTATE MIGRATION, One result is bound to come from the recent Industrial depression so soon as its most blighting effects are no longer felt, and that is a redistribution of the population that is already jn this eountry. All author- ities agree that it will take considerable time to counteract the blow that has been given to European immigration and many of them entertain serious doubts as to whether the influx of immigrants will ever again attain the proportions that it reached in the middle of the '80s. No few of the immi- grants who had most recently come to the United States have returned to their former homes and this movement is not yet at an end. The first work of industrial revival will be to put a stop to the outflow, which must have ceased some time before the return current can set in unhampered, But before immigration regains its normal condition there must be a readjustment in location of the people who have been dis- placed by the crisis, who find that their services are no longer in demand.at the place where they were formerly employed, or who have wandered about in scarch of work without meeting with the success that assures them of permanent positions. These people will comprise those for the most part who form the most desirable class of fmmi- grants. The greater part of them are in their present predicament through no fault of theirs and with the first favorable op- portunity will soon become valuable and self-supporting citizens. Théy may have some of thelr savings still preserved, in which case a promising fleld for profitable investment will be most attractive. What the western states, and particularly Nebraska, want to do s to reach these people while they are in flux. The advan- tages of this state for intending settlers, its undeveloped resources, its opportunities for investment would, if properly placed before them, prove to be an alluring invitation. The people of the southern states are already on the lookout for .this impending population movement and are taking steps to make the best of it. A southern interstate immigra- tion and industrial congress was called at Augusta this last week, composed of dele- gates from the several southern states, in- cluding governors, representatives of rall- road companies and of manufacturing estab- lishments, the principal purpose being to devise means of inducing immigration into that section. The western states should not permit all of the benefits to be derived from the prospective situation to go to the south. A little active missionary work at the right time will accomplish great results and the right time is near at hand. “I MIGHT HAVE TOLD YOU SO." No matter what happens unexpectedly in this world there is always a crowd of wise- acres near at hand, each of them ready to cry out “I might have told you.so.” If a thunder shower breaks suddenly on what gave promise of a clear day and a man comes home drenched to the skin and lamenting that he neglected to carry an umbrella he is greeted with the pleasing remark that he ought to have known better than to have gone away unarmed with the necessary protection against changes in the weather. If a boy runs away to play base ball and returns to his paternal roof a little the worse for wear, with his eye tinted blue and his fingers out of joint, he always feels much relleved to be told that any one with a grain of common senso might have anticipated as much. When one party with the encouragement of all his friends goes to law over a controversy with his neighbor, and finally, after pro- tracted and expensive litigation, settles down to the conviction that he Is beaten, what a comfort it is to be informed that If he had only taken advice of this one or that one he would have been richer at least to extent of his lawyers' fees and court fees. Then, too, the active husiness man who has never been In politics, but who is finally persuaded to accept a nomination for office just for the honor there is in It and to lend his personal popularity to pull the remainder of the ticket through, experlences no small degree of comfort as the over- whelmingly adverse returns come in in the mild ratort that any one might have warned him to let politics alone. The latest protest against the “might- bave-told-you-s0" friend comes from one of Gotham's favorite comic opera singers, This much-married woman was deluded into the idea that after several unfortunate ex- periences With the shackles of matrimony she had at last discovered the one man who was to make her everlastingly happy. The engagement wag announced with great eclat. In order to avoid serious legal difculties the bridal party crossed over to New Jersey to have the marrlage ceremony performed, returning to New York to partake of the wedding feast. But only a few short weeks were required to prove that this experiment was also a fallure and to bring the public an announcément that the alliance had been dissolved. The pertinency of the Illustra- tion will be gathered from these remarks recently garnered by a roporter from the mouth of the mismated singer: “I am astonished that none of my friends said any- thing in any way warning me against this wedding. They all say to me now: ‘Ah, I koew he was not the man for you.! But none of them thought enough of me to warn me before this miserable wedding took place. Ob, I declare it's wicked!" Yet it will be diicult to say which is more wicked, the concealment of information which would have prevented the deplorable oecurrence or the pretense of wisdom after the mischief . has been wrought. This habit of giving warnings when it is too late Is doubtless now a permanent feature of human nature. The ‘man “'who might have told us is with us to stay, and for every one who disappears there {8 another to take his place. He is either a lying pretender or a misguided friend. That his advice might not be taked even It offered in time - is too weak an excuse for his existence. If he falls in the duty of a friend he should refrain from assuming to take advantage of his superior foresight. GOVERNMENT OF GERMAN ( If, as has been fraquently asserted, the misgovernment of American cities, which has so long been a by-word, is due chiefly to our ignorance of the municipal practice in other countries, we shall not long be permitted to offer that explanation as an excuse for remaining satisfied with such clity government as we have. Not that the forelgn systems of municipal government are capable of being bodily transplanted to American soll, but they certainly offer sug- gestlons upon which Improvements in the ad- ministration of cities on this side of the Atlantic might easily be grounded. The re- awakened intvrest in municipal reform has been accompanied—it would be difficult to say whether as cause or effect—by a care- ful and exhaustive study of the plans of municipal government in foreign cities by students who hope to attain through the process of comparison an insight Into the re- forms which practical experience commends. Pursuing this course, Dr. Albert Shaw has contributéd an article to the current number of the Contury Magazine that portrays the salient features of the municipal government of German cities, and which should be brought to the attention of all who are work- ing In the cause of municipal reform. In the first place Dr. Shaw presents a fow facts to combat the idea that American cities have been alone in their remarkable urban growth during the last few decades. German cities have had to meet the demands of equally rapidly changing conditions of population and industry. For every Ameri- can city of mushroom growth Germany can produce a counterpart, the only distinction ng that the nucleus of the modern Ger- man ecity has a history reaching far back into the middle ages. Berlin, for example, which was considerably behind New York in population in 1870, had in 1880 outstripped the American metropolis, and in 1890 still malntained the lead. Similar comparisons may be drawn between Hamburg and Bos- ton, Leipzig and St. Louis, Hanover and Minneapolis, and a host of lesser cities, each time favorable to the. progress of the Ger- man city. The problems of city government then which have prevented themselves for solution to the peoplo of Germany have been just as novel and just as sudden in their ap- pearance as those which have racked the brains of the people of the United States. Thera has been the same necessity of trans- forming the physical aspect of the town to accommodate its new population, of pro- viding rapid transit, adequate weter supply and all the other conveniences of modern urban life. And in Dr. Shaw’s opinion “‘Ger- man cities have grappled with the new mu- nicipal problems of the last quarter of a century and have solved them far more promptly and completely than ‘American cities have done.” Dr. Shaw does not say that this superi- ority of German cities is owing to their sus perior municipal structure, but he goés 'on to describe that structure doubtless with the conviction that the description alone will convey that impression. City govern- ment in Germany rests upon the universal suffrage of those who pay taxes, but it is a weighted system of suffrage by which the large taxpayer counts for several times as much as the small taxpayer. To take Berlin as typical, the voters in each electoral dis. trict are arranged on a list in the order of the sums they pay as taxes, and are di- vided into three classes, each class paying an equal portion of the aggregate. Thus, the first class contains about 4 per cent of the voters, the second 20 per cent, and of the voters, the second 20 per cent, and the third 76 per cent. Each class chooses an elector to the electoral college, which selects the members of the municipal council, so that a voter of the first class counterbalances 20 of the third class and 5 of the second class. The municipal councll of 126 members thus elected is “the vital fact” of German city government. It is renewed by thirds every two years, although efficlent members are usually re-elected, and to it is to be as- cribed “the consistency and continuity of German municipal policy.” The members of the councll, who are unpaid, and against whom penaities are enforced for refusal to serve, assoclate unofficial citizens with them- selves ‘on important committees; they elect the chief magistrate, who Is practically re- tained during good behavior, and generally promoted from some smaller city; they ap- point the salaried experts at the heads of the various departments and in the exeuutive council. To adopt Dr. Shaw's analogy, they are the board of directors, chosen by the stockholders of the corporation, and in turn choose the executive officers and the execu- tive committee. The whole key to the Ger- man system of municipal government lies in securing a large body of active business men to assume the directorship by exer- clsing the duties of a member of the mu- nicipal council. W However determined municipal reformers in this country may be that ‘their task s to develop and perfect . the framework of municipal government that has already taken so firm a foothold in American cities, they should recognize the fact that they can secure no little help and advice from the experience of the cities of other coun- tries, and more particularly of Germany. BX-DIPLOMATS ON CONSULAR SERVICE. Discussion of the question of taking the consular service out of the spoils system Is of genmeral interest, because that service has particular relation to the foreign com- merclal interests of the country. The first and chief purpose of a consular system is the promotion of trade. The consul is es- sentially a commercial agent, and this Is tho character given him by all European governments. Belng such, the men ap- pointed to consular positions should be, as far as possible, familiar with practical af- fairs and know something both of the in- ternal and external commerce of the coun- try. The misfortune of our consular serv- ice for the last half a century has been the fact that politicians instead of practical men bave been generally appolnted to It. Con- tinued as part of the spoils system it has been the refuge of claimants to reward for political services who could not' get office at home, or for men with a political pull who desired to spend a few years abroad Necessarily the service has lacked eficlency as a whole, not only because most of those appointed to it were wanting iu the sort of ability to make valuable consuls, but also for the reason that most of them, expecting removal with a change of adminlstration, * AY, JUNE 3. 1804~TWENTY PAGES discharged tholr duties in an entirely per- | unpopular. But it allows public sentiment functory way. It {s only just to say that there s a cohajderdble number of men in this service s great ability and usefulness, but they are' gt the majority. The June Gentury presents the opinions of ten ex-minfdfprs of the United States on the propositionito take the consulships out of the spoils'¥fdtem, and with a alvgle ex- ception all of"them approve of such a re- form. Mr. /1w, Palmer, ex-minister to Spain, expresses'a doubt as to whether the proposed refdrm’ would improve the service, “from the fhdt!that men secure in their places would, Jose in animus while they might gain in kiowledge.” The experience of Buropean governments certainly does not Justify the opinjon that permanence of ten- ure would lead to an abatement of zeal and energy in the performance of duty, for there is the fncentive of promotion for efficiency and fidelity. Bx-Minister Lincoln says that ordinary ~consular officers are among those in respects to- whom it is speclally for the public interest, as a matter of mere business, that their tenure of office should depend only upon their efficiency. Our consular officers, says Mr. Lincoln, are merely our practical business agents abroad and should be chosen and refhined upon the same considerations that would affect a private employer of large affairs. Ex-Min- ister Kasson, who has represented the coun- try In Austria and in Germany, remarks that the commercial interests of our coun- try, as well as the protection of the tarift revenue by an honest enforcement of the laws, require a better qualified consular service for the prevention of fraud. Willlam Walter Phelps, ex-minister to Austrla and Germany, says he is sure that the consular service ought to be freed from all influences based on party affiliations or party services of its personnel. Charles Emory Smith, ex- minister to Russia, says the reform of the consular service is one of the urgent public questions of the hour and expresses the opinion that the’ service snoutd have more permanence and stability and should be more surely based upon approved fitness and qualifications. “Under the present sys- tem,” says Mr. Smith, “it often happens that the consul has just begun.to feel at heme in his place, and to be capable of use- ful service, when he is recalled and another green man is sent to go through the same difficult experience and to be dismissed as s00n.as he gains the same degree of qualifi- catlon.” He urges that the first considera- tion In the consular office should be the promotion of the interests of the country rather than the reward of political claims. Oscar S. Straus, ex-minister to Turkey, says the commercial, interests of our country would be largely promoted by having a trained corps of consular officers, which can be attained only by having a fixed tenure of office, 50 that persons entering the service will be encouraged to make a career of it and to qualify themselves for the better discharge of {heir duties. John Russell Young, ex-minister to China, makes a strong argument for ‘@' consular and diplomatic service carefully pducated for the work. Such consensus of opinion among men whose experience: gives authority to their views must rembve any doubt that may exist as to the.pecesitsy of reforming the consular serviee in the direction pointed out in order tol rafse It to the efficiency and usefulness that are to be desired. It is un- questionably in. hetter. condition ‘now than it was twenty years ago, but it is”still far below: the stanatd maintained by the other great dgmmercip) mations, e i L THE TRULH AT LAST, After yéars of unblushing mendacity the newspaper supporters of prohibition in Towa are at last forced to confess the truth that it has never prohibited. A notable fnstance of such confession is that of the Iowa State Reglster, whose publishers had much to do with the adoption and maintenance of the prohibition policy and who have persist- ently claimed until now that it was a suc- coss. Under the new mulet law saloons have opened in all places where a majority of the citizens have petitioned for them. Des Molnes has saloons, as, indeed, it always has had, though not openly. Referring to the fact the Reglster says that the open salcons have not necessarily increased vice or even drinking In Des Moines. “Vice and viclousness,” says that paper, ‘“have simply been plucked ot of the second story | club’ rooms and from behind hypocritical prescription cases and planted in full: sight of the people.” Thus we have the clear and unqualified admission, by one of the most uncompromising : newspaper supporters of prohibition in the past, that drinking has been steadily goitg. on In the capital city of Towa in violation of the law and to as great an extent as now wrn saloons doing an cpen business. The Register says there has been considerable novelty about the business, “but it is safe to say that it will wear away and after that it is doubtful whether there will be any more drinking done In these places open to the public than there was behind prescription cases, in alleys and in second story club rooms, whare the devil did his work amid flowers and music and a wild fellowship.”” = The proba- bility is that after the novelty wears off there will be less drinking than before the advent of the open saloon, and that what there Js will be less detrimental and de- moralizing, because it will not be done against the law. The admission of the Register of the fail- ure of prohibition to prohibit in Des Moines conveys no mews' to those who took the trouble to investigate, as The Bee did, and were conver:ant with the real situation in that and other eilies of Towa where it was pretended - that ['prbhibition was enforced. Before the prohibition campaign of 1890 in Nebraska this paper made a most thorough investigation intol'the liquor trafic in Iowa and Kansas, with the result of establishing indubitably the fagt, that the prohibition law was being most extensively violated, and in few places to a ktbater extent that In the capitals of those'sfltes. Yet our statements of the results of these investigations were denounced by sueh prohibition newspapers as the Reglster &8 belng utterly false and their denlals werg'psed in the interest of the prohibition cause ig this state. Our vindica- tlon, however, has @inally come, and it could not be more coniplete or conclusive. The testimony of one @f the most ardent advo- cates of prohibition; when that policy had the popular support, now is that the policy has all along been a failure; that it had been constantly violated, even at the very seat of authority, and that no worse things are to be apprehiended from the open saloon . than have been experienced’from the ‘sale of liquors from behind “hypocritical prescrip- tlon caces,” in club rooms and in alleys. After this who will venture to assert that prohibition In Towa has not been a fa'lure? The professional prohibitionists are fighting the mulet law, and it is charged that they are being aided with money contributed by the drug stores, whose income from the sale of liquors has fallen off. The mulct law was not altogether wise legislation. It affords opportunity for perpetrating abuses and in- Justice, which is certain in time to render it the use of his veto power. to assert fteelf and the will of the majority to prevall, which is a decided gain over the prohibition policy. The experiment should be glven a fair trial, and if not found satis- factory, as it probably will not be, the peo- ple of fowa may be expected to adopt the only sound and practical system for regu- lating the lquor trafic—high license and local option. That must be tho next and final step, for that system once adopted will not be abandoned. Meanwhile it is gratity- g to those who have exposed the fallacy and the frand of prohibition to find the truth of their statements admitted and the sound- ness of thels position vindicated. The publicity given by The Bee to the fact that a drunken orgle took place at the Coliseum last Monday night after the drill of military companies and flag presenta- tloff has been distorted by an organ in these parts which claims to be the exclusive res pository of true Americanism into an inten- tional assault upon a patriotic American organization. This Is as preposterous as it is malicious. There was no reflection cast upon the young men who participated in the drfll, except in so far as the deplora- ble incident may create an unfavor- able Impression. The Bee s not a prohibition organ, but It draws the line at jamborees into which school boys of 15 to 18 are drawn and in which they recelve their initiation into habits of intemperance. The blame as well as the responsibility is with the policemen who were stationed at the Coliseum. It was thelr duty to repress the debauch and sce to it that the saloon adjacent to the Coli- seum closed at midnight. JInstead of re- pressing they participated and became drunk. The Bee does not know even at this late day who these policemen were and it does not care whether they were Americans, Irish- men or Hottentots; their nativity or creed cuts no figure. Their conduct calls for severe discipline, ~ If this is unamerican wo do not know what Americanism is or what pairiotism requires. The crop of sweet girl graduates in all their loveliness and bewitching smiles is again being harvested throughout the whole land. With them and thefr friends the uppermost questions are which is the most becoming gown and who will get the greater number of floral offerings. Yet there is a certain air of self-importance, of freedom from care, of satisfaction with the entire world to be discerned in the sweet girl graduate that makes her an object of sympathy, if not of envy. Every one knows that that feeling can exist but a short time, then to give way to a sense of the responsibilities of life, but the short happiness that It brings its owner is contagious. We all wish that the annual crop of sweet girl graduates was larger and more frequently harvested. Why can't the city council pass the monthly appropriation ordinance at a regular meeting? Taking it up at a special meeting deprives the mayor of the usual time for examining its items as contemplated by the city charter. The mayor is entitled to a week to look into the dppropriation ordi- nance ‘and to make up his mind whether any of the proposed expenditures call for With a little more foresight the council could easily ar- range to have these ordinances take the regular course. Between Governor Waite, the striking miners and the floods, the people of Colorado are having their fill of woe. The Upper and the Nether Mill Stone. . Boston Herald. Betwixt the Standard Oil trust of the United States and the Russian OIl trust of Russia none of the rest of the earth seems to be left for anybody. KExcuse us for living. e Passed the Experimental Stage. St. Louls Republic. They are now calling the mulct law an experiment in Towa. Everything about the liquor traffic in Towa. is an experiment, ex- cept the raloons. They are accomplished facts. Lo S e A Lucky Man, Rickardo. Minneapolis Tribune. The governor of Montana has decided to call a halt on the Indian sun dance. Happy I8 the governor who has nothing worse than the sun dance of the noble red man to bother him. Just think of the sun dances Governors Walte and Altgeld are called upon to deal with e Cheers for the Bull, Courler-Journal. The story of the matador Who was gored to death M a Madrid bull fight Sunday is sald to have been a “pathetic” one because he was nearly ready to retire from the ring and was engaged to be married. If his fate was pathetic, that of his sweet- heart was fortunate. 'No brute who makes A business of bull fighting deserves any sympathy when o bull succeeds In re- lieving the world of his existence. Hurrah for the bull! el Broad Philanthropy. Kansas City Star. The estate of the late Jesse Sellgman, which ~aggregates nearly $3,000,000, was largely divided by his will bétween forty socleties and benevolent organtzations of all sects and creeds. The festator was u Hebrew and the disposition which he made of his vast property lllustrates not - only the growth of human philanthropy in the world, but the rapid development of a more liberal spirit among the religious organiza- tions which were formerly strangers (o each other, e Consider the Modern Girl. Sarah Grand in North American Review. “What are we to do with our girls? distracted parents ask incessantly. The answer 1s easy enough. Consider them, respect the needs of their nature and do not require them to conform to the exigencies of the day before yesterday. Parents who would do their duty by the modern girl should recognize the fact that the average of intelligence I8 higher in her sex than it used to be, that observation ls involuntary and that silence may conceal thought, but does not stifie it. The reason- ing faculty Is there and will work of its own accord, but probably all awry if not carefully directed. There are very fe girls who will not strive after an Ideal of lie 1€ only it is offered to, them earl Girls are of a plastic nature. Their inclin tions for the most part tend toward re- fining influences, but influences they must be, and If there is an absence of that which is ‘moble in the shape into which they are first moulded, then that which 18 Ignoble is apt to take its place, There s no ‘more difficult or delicate task in education than the forming of a young girl's character. If a well judged touch will on the one hand produce the most beautiful results, so on the other hand that which is il judged will warp and disfigure. Paralyziog Patriotic Concolt. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. Dr, Albert Shaw’s article on “The Muni- cipal Framework of German Cities,” which is (o appear in the June Century, s caloy- lated to remove a good deal of patriotic concelt on the part of those Americans who think that our cities are rapidly out- growing those of all other countries, and that the rapidity of their growth excuses thelr ' crudeness and imperfection. Dr Shaw shows that since 1870 Berlin has out- stripped New York, incrensing from 500,00 To 11578.194 people. while New York increased only from 90,000 to 1,515,301 people. Since 1880 Berlin's rate of growth has been as fast as Chicago's, and twice as fast as Philadelphia. Bince Hamburg has grown three times as fast as Hoston twice a8 fast as Baltimore. In the sam tme Lelpsic has outstripped San Francisco and has grown much more rapidly than St Touts, Munich and Hre hiav i 3 Cologne has outpaced d Pittsburg. Mage faster than Detroit and and promises soon , while many of the smaller German are growing faster than such boom- ¢ towns as Minneapolis, 8t. Paul, Omaha and Rochester. It Is well for us to be modest, even In regard to our biguess. L SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, Chicago Herald: Dr. Henry Preserved Smith is not yet out of pickle, but as he shows a less acid spirit than Dr. Briggs he has a fair chance of being declared orthodox. Chicago Journal: A Brooklyn magistrate has put a preacher under honds to keep him from praying in a tone that disturbs his neighbors. The magistrate evidently believes in the Quaker prayer meeting. Kafisas City Journal: Heresy is a groat evil, If not really an unpardonable sin. Any thing which afflicts an unoffending country as Interminably as the Briggs case and tho Preserved Smith case is certalnly very wicked. Globe-Democrat: The general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church has de- clared against organic union, or, in nllwr1 words, refused to accept the hand of patrio ellowship extended by the northern of the denomination, This may be good politics, but it is poor religion. Dotrolt Free Press: It {8 much to be regretted that the Presbyterfan church north and south cannot get 4ogether and form a perfect unlon without all the noise and bickering attendant upon the undertaking. There is a question as,to the heresy of those accuged of preaching false doctrines, but there can be none as to the duty of brethren to dwell together in peace. St. Paul Globe: A Unitarian minister in Chicago has severed his connection with that denomination because it s not suffi- clently liberal to suit him, and proposes to start a church of his own, where the mem- borship will have the utmost freedom of thought. He will, perhaps, realize the irides- cent dream of Mrs. Partington, who loved to attend a church ‘“‘where the gospel is dis- pensed with.” New York Sun: We tender our respectful sympathy to Rev. Jim Barrett, temporarily of Columbus, Ind. Within the last sixty days he has saved forty-three Hoosler souls and baptized their bodies in Bear creek, and lias chopped 100 cords of wood for a farmer. Having made this record he went to Colum- bus, got rovally drunk, fought like a mad- man at the jail door when the police were putting him In, and wept bitterly when he found himselt in a cell. There is good ma- terlal in Rev. Jim Barrott. All persons who have souls to be saved or wood to he chopped cannot but admire the man, while deploring his weakness for strong drink. Give him another chance, and still another it necessary. Chicago Herald: It s evident that the church militant has its headquarters in Boston. On Sunday a duel with foils was fought there between rival aspirants for the hand of a Back Bay belle, and in the party which accompanied the duelists to the field of honor was a divinity student named Vincent. Perhaps Mr. Vincent went along to administer religious consolation should it become neceseary, but there is reason to fear that his presence was the result of an unregenerate desire to see the fight. He is scarcely to be blamed for his sanguinary inclinations, however, when it is considered that a fuil-flcdged '~ preacher, Rev. Dr. Brady of the People’s church, found it uec- egsary on the same day to discipline an usher by choking him, tearing off his collar and ripping his vest up the back. When dectors of divinity find it desirable to force thelr arguments with carnal weapons the budding theologians can scarcely be blamed fr mixing in the broils of godless men, with a view perhaps to getting material. e — PEOPLE AND THINGS, The king of Servia is only 17 and not wholly accountable for talking through his crown. Brazil will celebrate the Fourth of July as a compliment to the United States. Ben- ham's shot struck a popular chord. General Frye succeeds Coxey in command of the Industrial armles. The general dis- plays masterly strategy corralling free grub in Cincinnati and keeping off the grass. Susan B. Anthony challenged the entire constitutional convention of New York to a dcbate on the suffrage question, and no man said yea. It is probable they will remain a brother to her. The Rev. R. C. Cave, whose blowhole basted the surrounding air at a confederate demonstration, hypnotized a host of ancient warriors to prove the lost cause was not lost. True. It was spanked and captured. Hostilities were renewed last week at Portsmouth, where two veterans, Willlam Pierce and James Frisbie, got into a dispute about the relative merits of Grant and Sherman, and used each other up pretty badly. In these days of coaching trips Michael Sash and wife, an aged couple of Clinton, Ia., are not too far behind. They have started for New York in a road cart drawn by a mule. They are accompanied by a yellow dog. The ameer of Afghanistan, previous to his departure for London, asked the prayers of his people for his safety. The fact that the monarch s accompanied by several of his favorite wives renders the request some- thing more than ameer formality. * Senator Vest writes to a friend to say that the president informed him his advice as to the disposition of ple in Missouri was superfluous. For that reason he would rather retire from public life than sacrifice his self-respect by asking favors of the ad- mintstration. How Missouri’s fecble endorse- ment was secured is a growing mystery. The Juniata Herald relates that a resident of the town, afilicted with a scorching Sahara, hied away to Hastings, and regard- less of medical cthics attached “M. D." to his name on the hotel register. *“Are you a doctor?” sweetly murmured the hotel clerk. “Oh, no,” ansWered the pfigrim with the cracking pores, "I am from a no-license antl ‘M. D’ means "mighty: dry.’" gently escorted to the tank. Hon. Roger Ham, the eminent bugologist of Hogwallow, Is conducting an {nvestigas tlon into the tribal relations of tha sevens toen-year cicada, or locnst. ‘ThY professor Is convinced this abhorred family of hemiptera possess vocal qualitfes of cons siderable capacity, but his experiments have not gone far enough to determine whether the male cleada monopolizes the sfar role while the female pursues the bore. An nlnu.'\m world awalts the professor’s conelus sicns, Prof. Oimar Watt, the distinguished ex- pert of Saddle Creek bottoms, has under taken a serles of experiments to determi the ravages of electrolysis in his balliwick. The professor planted an extensivo system of political pipe lines fn that section yeart ago, but somehow they falled to bloom t¢ the altitude of his expectations, Recently he discovered an accumulation of carbonizec fungl and extraneous warts on their cor roded surface, Imperiling their strengtl and _symmetry. Preliminary exporiment: furnish ground for the belief that the alternating currents of Saddlé creck an¢ Papplo river are getting in their deadly work on the pipes. Prof. Watt's experi ence in the fertile flelds surrounding emi nently qualifies him for the fmportant tash and the country will await his conclusions with tmpatience. e —— BLASTS FROM RAMN'S HORN. A dull mark. Every difficulty overcome is made a step- ping stone. A face that cannot smile is like a lantern without a light Knock down a liar and you hit the devil square in the face. Thoughts are threads Into which the web of char . Character is always writing its name on the face In indellible ink Hope is always saying that there light close by when we get in the dark. Whenever a hypocrite gets mad he will claim to haye been righteously indignant. Many a u who talks nice in church will &0 right home and find fault with his wife, Shadows sometimes come to the good, bul they never have to be alone In the dark. Some fiddlers can play a tune en ong string, but it never makes anybody wani to dance. man often mukes a cutting re- - SALVE IOR LONG SERMON, New York World: your breach of promise the whole $2,0007 Ve my lawy AT hear you won suit. DIdyou get ¥ cent. 1 married - Indianapolis this is a fi Yabsley—That isn't a sun a snow scene. It's the refl nose that makes it look like Mudge- By et at all. It is stion from your L sunset. gee, sunse New Orleans Picayune nosed man beciuse th he will soon take son in it. Buffalo Courfer: If it vaulting ambition the pro could never hope to achieve success. lies follow a red- seem to know that ething with sugur wash't for his fonal acrobat much of a Detroit Free Press: “I don't see why the manager always comes to see me when he is drunk,” growled the Circassian beauty, “He probably thinks you are a_snake charmer,” suggested the ossified mah, who had been, slighted by the beauty. Chicago Record: She (during the spat)— You hate me, you know you do, and why Wwon't you say 80?7 He (calmly)—Because it isn't true, She (sobbing)—There! There you go again—charging m-me with—falsehood. Atchison Globe: A woman ..never gets along with the driver of a. wmill wagon more than three months, Brooklyn Life: Miss Lapham=Not that you are so influential I want you to help me get into sociel 3 Miss Penstock—You wouldn’t like it: You Why, you would be are a home body. bored to death. Miss Lapham—I know’it, my dear, but T want to have the privilége of being bored. Cleveland. Plain Dealer; The oldsinner who sing: t as ['Am"” will gét up and talk for half an hourto make pedple be- lieve he is somebod: 2% e ol g o NO TELEPHONE IN HEAVEN. ward N. Wood In Atlanta Constitution. “Now I can wait on baby,” the smiling merchant said, As he stooped and softly toyed with the golden, curly head. k “I want 0o’ to'tall up mamma,” came the answer full and free, “WIf yo' telephone an’ ast her when she's tummin® back to me. “Tell her T o lonesome 'at T don’t know what to do, An’ papa cries so much I dess he ‘must be lenesome, 100} Tell her to tum to baby, 'tause at night I dit o 'fraid, Wif nobody dere to tiss me, when the light bedins to fade. “All froo de day ¥ wants her, for my dolly's dot so tored, Fum the awful punchin’ buddy give:it wif his ‘ittle sword; An' ain’t nobody to fix it, since mamma went away, An'_ fore 'itfle lonesome dolly's dittin’ thinner ever' day." ‘My child,” the merchant murmured, as he stroked the anxious brow, here's no telephone connection where y r mother lives at now ‘At no telephone in heaven?"' and tears sprang to her eyes, “I fought dat God had ever'fing wit Him up in’ de skies.” $12.60--$18—$20 suit for money back. ception room always open. requested to call and see us. 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