Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 11, 1894, Page 4

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Hascall and Stubt and Broatch have re- solved to finish the Union Pacific depot building. Well, let them finish Nobody 1s' stopping them. Bill Dalton has been killed once more. If this report of his death is really true what will the sheriffs and detectives of the next generation do for a subject upon which to practice with their pistols? The people who reside in the towns and cities will gladly put up with all the rain that comes this way if it serves to improve the farmer's prospect for a good crop. Rain that helps the farmer always helps the merchant. The June rise of the Missourl river Is lia- ble to submerge the river front and exercise the right of eminent domain without reim- bursing the owners of the land. The Mis souri forecloses its mortgage sometimes on ¥ery short notte the for braska, all the eggs set at the State Repub- Fortunately republicans of Ne- Ycan league meeting will not hatch at the state convention. Several of them will run the risk of being broken before the end of ‘August heaves into sight. Boss Croker follows up his retirement from active participation in the management of Tammany hall by fleeing to Europe to evade the importunities of office-seeking friends. Bven the ex-boss has his trials and tribula- tions in this wicked world. A very enterprising newspaper in these parts, which gathers its dispatches by grape- vine telegraph, announced in its Sunday issue the death of Cyrus W. Field and favored its patrons with a blographical sketch of the man who laid the Atlantic cable. Within a week or two It may dawn upon the enter- prising grapevine sheet that Cyrus W. Field has been dead for more thaw a year. But that does not matter. John A. Harbach is ferninst a union depot. He s also ferninst the auditorium and mar- ket housc; ferninst more pavement, more sewers; ferninst more school houses, and, for that matter, ferninst anything and every- thing that does not benefit John A. Harbach directly. John A. reminds one of the Irish- man who, after landing on an island, asked whether they had a government, and when told that they had, responded: “Oi'm agin 1" After raking in the purse hung up for the great Derby, Lord Rosebery is sald to have been overcome with conscientious scruples as to the propriety of a Dritish prime minister dabbling in turf matters. It will be a ques- tlon of considerable di:cussion how the lord's unannounced conversion happened to take place just after, Instead of just before, the Tace was run. It must have been a design- ing fate that arranged the time schedule for this sudden chang Of course the sleeping car companies are objecting strenuously to any legislation by congress that look toward the regulation of the sleeping car trafic. That has been the attitude toward every effort of the state o impose needed restrictions upon the busi- ness. Their success In blocking state legis- Iation makes it apparent that regulation, if it is to be at all effective, must come from congress, These companies are engaged al- most exclusively in Interstate commerce and should be brought under federal control as well as the railways. An item recently appeared in The Bee to the effect that a public committee at Ne- braska City had Iuvited Colonel Breckin- ridge to make an address in that city July 4. The item has given offense, and the Ruthor of the report has been denounced, as any common libeler would be. The Be confesses its blunder, but is gratified to know that the people of Nebraska City have no use for Colonel Breckinridge. There are orators in Nebraska who need only an in- vitation to induce them to cause the eagle to scream and dare any man to pull down the stars and stripes. No city In this state need go abroad for a Fourth of July orator The principle of home lndustry applies in this mautter as in all others. Although the German legation at Washing- ton denfes that it has notified the United States authorities that its government will levy retallatory dutles upon American pork In case this country adopts a tarlff als sriminating against the importation of Ger man sugar, yet that affords that such action will not be taken. Tl particular consideration for the removal of the German embargo oh American pork was the oqual treatment of German sugar ex porters with the sugar exporters of other countries. Remov considoration and Germany will ba fres 1o seize the first occa slon that may offer to reoccupy her former position by sgaln shuttiog out the American no assura Mg The denial of the German legation means simply that Germany has not yet eome o sty eonclusion In the matter and & ohs doss not propose to act untll she knows (hat the ground is fizm under her feet 22530 | VORABBE TO AGRICULTURE The efforts of republican senators to se- cure In the senate tariff bill fess unfavorable consideratfon for the agricnltural products of the country than wis accorded in the house bill has not been without effect. Although the demands of republican senators werc not fully complied with, and doubtless were not expocted to b provided rates on agricultural prolucts in the Wilson bill been generally Increased number of such products that by that bill in the free list, wholly for the benefit of Cana- dian farmers, whether intentionally or not, have been made dutlable, Thus the objec- tion to the house tariff bill that it proposed to give the agricultural producers of Canada the unrestricted advantage of the great American market not lie against the senate bill, although the latter measure falls considerably below the protec sked for by the farmers of the United with whose products those of Canada come into as have and a were placed does States, competition. The entire agricultural finterest of the | northern border states is directly concerned | in this legislation, and in a degres the farmers not on the border are also inter- | ested, for obviously this is a matter {n which the welfare of a part is the welfare of all. The policy of Wilson bill would ungues- tionably be very damaging to a great number | of our agricultural producers, and it canngt reasonably be assumed that the advantage to consumers, if there should he any, would be at all proportioned to the loss of pro- ducers. The farmers of Canada have an ad- ‘vantage in cheaper land and labor, and the effect of enabling them to freely compete in our markets with American farmers could than to reduce the value of | also the price of | not be otherwis agricultural lands here farm labor. In view of the fact that tho producers of this country are not now get- ting satisfactory returns on most of thelr products, and that the outlook Is not alto- gether favorable, it would manifestly be a most grave mistake to subject them to a competition in the home markets which would _inevitably still further reduce the value of their products. Besides, there is not a single valid reason why this country should make any such concession to Cana- producers as the house proposed without requiring anything in Can- ada maintains a strong tarift wall against our manufactured products, and the govern- ment of that country proposes to adhere to this policy. While asking for a reciprocity arrangement that would allow the natural products of Canada to enter the markets of the United States free, the Dominion govern- ment has persistently declined to concede anything to our manufacturers. Under such circumstances there can be no justification binl dian urn. of a policy which proposes to build up Canadian agricultural interests at the expense of our own. The agricultural schedule of the senate bill will not be satisfactory to the American farmers directly affected, but it is an improvement upon the schedule that came from the house. HOW THEY BOXED THE COMPAS. About two dozen citizens, called together by a confidence circular to devise means for reviving commercial activity in the lower end of town, got together Saturday night. It was suggested that the street railroad company should be made to run two or three more loops and a switchback through, over and across several of the lower streets be- tween Thirteenth and Ninth to stimulate the jobbing trade. This brilliant ‘suggestion was voted right and timely without dissent. Then it was proposed to build a viaduct and market house across the chasm on Twelfth street over the railroad tracks, regardless of expenses. Where the money for this aerial structure was to come from was not broached. Nobody present offered to sub- scribe a dollar or contribute a foot of land, not even that most public spirited of all our spirited citizens, John A. Harbach. Pre- sumably Hascall and Stuht will take that contract and supply all the sinews for its speedy execution, Having disposed of the Twelfth street via- duct and market house on stilts, the conclave wrestled vallantly with the union depot problem. The concurrent opinion, as ex- pressed by an eminent judge, was that Sluht made an eggregious ass of himself when he brought that injunction suit and allowed John D. Howe to become his “‘pard" as an injunctor. On the proposal for the immediate finishing of the 10x12 grand cen- tral union depot thirty feet below the Tenth street viaduct there was an unexpected di- vision of opinion. Fourteen men, including Hascall, Stuht and Broatch, decided to man- damus the United States caurt to mandamus the recelvers to quo warranto the general manager of the Union Pacific to proceed instanter with the sky parlor, and the reso- lution was declared to be the voice of Omaha. All that now remains to be done is to have the mayor, city councll, Board of Public Works, police commission and park commis- slon fall in with Stuht and Hascall's pro- cession and invoke Judge Dundy to place the seal of his court on the parchment directing the Union Pacific Depot company, over which he has no control, to resume where it left off two years ago. And if Judge Dundy does not immediately obey the behest of Acting Mayor Hascall, Judge Scott can clte Dundy to appear before the criminal branch of the district court and answer why he should not be punished by flne and imprisonment for contempt. ARA The advocates in congress of the policy of identifying the federal government financial- THE NI A CANAL, ly with the Nicaragua canal seem to be making progress in gaining converts. The house committee on commerce has agreed to report a bill, in the main similar to the Mor- gan measure, for the acquirement of the canal by the government and for carrying on the work to completion. It is said that rep- resentations that British influences are at work in Nicaragua against the United States have had the effect of stimulating the desire for early legislation. That British influence may be operating to prejudice Nicaragua against this country in connection with the canal is not incredible, but it does not seem probable that it can have much effect, un- less the Nicaraguan government is strangely deficient in an understanding of what its best interests are In the matter. It ought to know that the United States will never tolerate British control of the projected witerway and that any arrangement that might be made between Nicaragua and the British government Involving such control would be vigorously, and doubtless success- fully, opposed by this government. It is hardly concelvable that the Nicaraguan gov- ernment is unaware of this, and, assuming that it has the knowledge, there seems to bo little reason for the reported apprehension regarding British influence there. The terms of the measure which the house committee have mmerce proposed to report not been made public. The Morgan that the government shall be- respousible for bonds of the canal company uat of §100,000,000, the government as part security stock of the company to the amount of $70,000,000 il come to the am to hay THE It It became a law, will bo to put into active business employment $100,000,000 of money from our own people without risk to the government. its certain effects, borrowed Such a movement as this at this time, it was urged, would stir all industries into activity and release other hunireds of mil- are being hoarded. Tt it lions of dollars that would furnish employment, said the report, to 50,000 Americans who are begging for work and often for food. It would yleld to the United States, at the rate of $1 per ton for canal not less than $4,000,000 per annum of dividends on its $70,000,000 of stock fn the canal. It also urged that it action by congress is delayed unr sonably long the company will be corp: abandon the concession and already Invested in the ept the offers made by forelgn cap- charges, was lod Tosa cither to the mo canal or to ac italists. These are plausible arguments, but are hardly of a vature to convince American people that it is desirable or would be wise for the general government to as- sume the obligation of practically providing for the construction and maintenance of the canal which the Morgan bill provides for. There 1s a very general and firmly noted popular sentiment that this {s not ‘a sort of business in which the government can prop- they the erly or judiciously engage. Whatever the goverment can do within its proper functions ainst foreign to guard the canal company a interferenco and to keep the enterprise under American control should be done, but the proposition that it shall become responsible for the money necessary to construct the canal by endorsing the bonds of the com- pany, that it shall provide the money, as provided in the Bryan bill, by subscribing for stock of the canal company and issuing United 8 notes in payment therefor, such notes’to have the same legal tender qualities and redemption rights as the green- backs, will not be approved, it is entirely safé to say, by the intelligent judgment of the American people. or ates EATY. ACHING T] It has not been thought that the consum- mation of a commercial treaty between Ger- A FAR-I many and Russia would be so far-reaching as to affect any interest in the United States, but It appears from a report to the State department by Consul General Mason, at Frankfort, that such is the case. Accord- ing to this authority the petroleum and lubricating oil interests of this country are likely to suffer seriously from the effects of this treaty. Until the tarift war of last year between Germany and Russia all crude and refined petroleum imported into the former country was subject to a uniform specific duty. The tariff war caused the rates on all oils of Russian origin to be advanced 50 per cent and for some time all but suspended Imports from that coun- try, the result being a corresponding im- petus to German imgorts of American lu- Dricating oils and kerosene. Under the gen- eral law, as It has stood since 1874, Ameri- can petroleum has enjoyed a definite advan- tage over imports of Russian oils by reason of its lighter specific gravity. The treaty with Russia amends the general tarift law of Germany in such a way that the practical effect will be to abolish the ad- vantage which the American oils have hith- erto enjoyed by reason of their lighter gray- ity and put both upon an equal footing in respect to duty, where they must compete on their respective merits as illuminating ma- terial. Tho best authorities, Consul General Mason says, unite in declaring that the best grade of Russian kerosene Is fully equal to the best American in illuminating power, but it has the disadvantage of being a heavier oil. It is perfectly obvious, however, that the petroleum trade of the United States with Germany, which is a considerable item of our commerce with that country, must suffer. Nor is this the only American inter- est which will be unfavorably affected by the commercial treaty between Russia and Ger- many. Both countries, says Mr. Mason, are striving by every means to enlarge and ex- tend their forelgn trade; each will make the utmost of every new advantage which has been acquired and the competition in their respective markets will become, in future, correspondingly more difficult for Imports from other countries, including the United States. Germany will hereafter buy more of Russian products than she has hitherto done, thereby reducing her demand for similar products from this country, while Russia will take the manufactures of Germany in preference to those of any other country. It would scem that we must be prepared to witness a large diminution of our commerce with Germany. THE EIGH The act to regulate the hours of labor of mechanics and laborers known as the eight- hour law has been declared unconstitutional HOUR LAW. and void by the supreme court. The grounds upon which the court declared this act invalid are that it is special or class leglsla- tion inasmuch as it discriminates between different classes of labor by exempting from its operation persons engaged in farm or domestic labor. There Is also a fatal kink in the act In the provision that fixes the pay for over time at double the amount per hour paid for.the previous hour. Thus a man who worked for §2 a day of eight hours would be entitled to 50 cents for the ninth hour’s work, $1 for the tenth hour's work, §2 for the eleventh hour's work and $4 for the twelfth hour's work. And if he worked fourteen hours he would get $8. for the thirteenth and $16 for the fourteenth hour, While very few workmen are obliged to put in fourteen hours at a stretch there are occasions when men may be required to put in four or five hours over time. For instance, a washout or a break-down on a rallroad may require the engineers and firemen to remain in active service twelye to sixteen hours or even longer. Such things are liable to happen on any well regulated railroad. The same s true of tion hands, telegraph repairers and op- crators. It also might happen In cities during a flood or other disaster that would require workmen in factories or other es- tablishments to remain on duty a whole night perhaps. In such emergencies a charge that doubled the amount per hour as paid for the previous hour would be excrbitant and even ruinous where any con< siderable number of persons are employed. Obviously the act should have provided for emergencies. It will be borne In mind that The Bee called attention to the fact of the exemption of farm labor as class legislation. The farmers in the legislature were willing to let everybody else work elght hours except the men whom they employ. While there was nothing to pre- vent the farmer from working his men sixteen hours & day he was willing to sub- ject all other employers of labor to the pressure of a compound condensing engine. There I8 really no great loss to Jabor by reason oY the decision of the court. The elght-hour day has become almost universal for all outside of domestio service and Its adoption is wageworkers tarm labor, OMAHA DAILY In the report on this bill It was sald nm‘ not due to the elghes BEE: MONDAY, i but to the natural process of “&Horteniug the average tabor hours by thy igtroduction of lahor raving machinery. ¢, i many he elght-hour law haw boan a detriment groat mass of womdmg people bocause It crcated a favored #h#dTof workers In publi at the, gxpense of the other who yavere compelled to tribute their share fn taxes without enjoying instances to the employment wageworkers con tho henefit of roduged Lours. The loveling process jvhich is going on all the fime, like the law of gravitation, will operate upon all classes of labor whether there I8 uny law the statute hook or not. § Chicago still continues to wage vigorous war upon the smoke nuisance, The usade Aagainst the smoke nuisance is about to take in public sehool butldings. Chicago has a smoke Inspector and thut official has notifled the school board that unless smoke cons ers are provided he will proceed to prosecute the board for permitting more than 100 school buildings to be chronie violators of the smoke ordinance. The smoke spector de- | clares incidentally that every particle of smoke which comes from a chimney is d fuel. The proper combustion of fuel nce whose laws must be observed if | It is unquestionable n- cconomy be desired. that smoke oscaping from a chimney s wasted fuel. Either the furnace is worn out ot or infer or the engineer in charge does not understand his business, It costs money to maintain a smoke nuisance. It is In the interest, therefore, of private economy, as well as of public health and cleanliness, that the smoke nulsance shall be abated. T co; Senator Hoar should not let his zeal to be- friend the heirs of his late colleague, Senator Stanford, get the better of his sense of ju- dicial fairness and equity. The prosecution of the claim of the United States against the Stanford estate for its share of the indeb ed- ness owing the federal government by the Central Pacific has not been suggested as a punishment of the benefictaries of that es- tate, but as an act of justice to the people and taxpayers of the entire country. There is a loss that must be borne and it is a ques- tion whether it should not be recouped from the property fraudulently diverted from the railroad to the stockholders rather than drawn from the innocent shippers along the line of the road. Sentimental admiration for the character of the late Senator Stanford has no place in the matter. Broatel Lincoln News. is only fair play. Up in Omaha _[rnest Stuht has been running Mayor Broatch for governor a long while. Now let Broatch do as much for Stuht. ———— False Protense. Philadelpiia Ledger. Sugar Is to be taxed for the sake of the revenue it will produce, and the revenue is needed now, but the senate has declded that the new tariff, so far as sugar is con- cerned, shall not take effect until next January. ) Turn about ol End the Dreary Gabble. Globe-Democrat. The tariff debate in,the senate is easily the dreariest think of the kind that has ever been known in this country. All of the speeches, with thd single exception of Sherman'’s have been commonplace and rep- etitious, and the counfry will experience a feeling of decidedrelief when the monoton- ous performance comes to an end. Indlan’s Figancial S Denver Republican. There is nothing cheering for gold mono- metallists _in_the ~condition of Indian finances. More and ‘more the government is being driven into a corner in its effort ggle. to maintain the price of council bills. A new gold loan may be made, but that would not _give permanent relief. The worse it becomes for India, the worse eventuaily will it be for England. ] Disaster Follows Forest Destraction. Springfield (Masgs.) Republican, It appears that the towns which have suffered most from recent floods ih various parts of the country were lumber towns located at the base of mountains, whose sides had been swept clean of forests, This is another powerful reason why the tariff on lumber should go. The policy of con- fining lumber consumption to our own pro- duct as long as a tree is left standing is a remarkable one for this country to be en- foreing. e e Arid Land Survoy. Kansas City Star, The proposed survey of the arld lands of the west, if underiaken by the general government 'at all, should be begun n ear- nest and with a view to absolutely settling the question of the possibilities of irriga- tion. It s hardly necessary to say that the "proposed appropriation” of $25,000 for each state, when Montana, Washington, Oregon and the Dakotas are included, i3 but a drop in the bucket. If the work is to be done at all, let Its magnitude be fully realized from the start and the neces- sary provision made. B Pathetle Plea for a Rest, Louisville Courler-Journal, ~ This is a dreadfully disagreeable sort of a vear, anyway. Weather and weather and elections and elections, until it has simply become exasperating, It may be the making of blackberries, but it is rough on democrits. Let up on elections. Boyeott elections. Abolish elections. Blot elections out of the constitution and swipe the word out of the dictionary. Some people never know when to stop. Nothing 15 mo gusting than carrying things too far—carrying elections especially, There are thousands and thousands of folks in this country who are just plumb tired out at the mere thought of an elec- tion. Sa. what's the good of elections, any- how?' They ain't all-fired funny as some ijiots seem to think. ———— Blow Aimed at Labor, Chicago Tribune, The movement in fayor of “free colnage at the ratio of 16 to 1" like the free trade movement, is a blow dimed at labor. It Is expected and intended to reduce the effec- tive compensation of the wage toiler. The program is to pay him with the same num- D doilars that he now receives s work in good money, while ach of those cheap dollars will not buy more than at present 50 cents' worth o food, clothing, 1, or any of the othe things which ars sary to the welfar of the worker and his family, And the; have the effrontery to ask the wageworker to vote for a change which would place him in this predicament, and hope that he {5 asinine enough to 4o t. They have the brazen impudence to agsure the workmen it ‘would be for thele benefit to get halt worth dollars pald .them for their labor, when' the persons giving this assurance Know well they aré counting upon the cons trary, and that this exp ation is the chief reason why they want free silver coinage At o ratio which would cut of 6 per cent of the buylng power.gf the American dol- lar, el gt Was & Hard Fall, At 10:40 yesterday, morning Mrs, Gourtzen, 190 South Second strect, fell from a Twenty-fourth stf®et™ car, 'In charge of Conductor Childs, at Twenty-fourth and Seward streets, SNe” was about to leaye the car 'when a dudden folt caused her (o lose her balance. = She féll on her side and sustained internidnjuries. Dr. Towne wus yalltd ind made an ex- amination of theSwoman's injuries, He siys they are quitd gerious and may prove fatal JUNE 11, 1894, POLITICAL POTPOURRL Aln't it about time for another ratifieation meeting over the demo eratic victory of 18922 Perhaps that is what the sllver democrats are going to do in Omaha Beatrice Ord Journal: Express: It seems a pity to situghter Judge Broady, even as an ox at the siamblos, but that's what will happen him It he allows his friends to persuade him to run for eongress fn the First district Sewird Blade: 1t is safe to say that Con grossman Hainer will have no cpposition for renomination. He has been a faithful worker during his first term. He has remained in Washington at his post of duty, and attended promptly to the wants of his constituents, Kearney Hub: Unless apearances are quite decelving Jack MacColl will receive the republican nomination for governor on the first ballot by a large majority. He is one of the most popular candidates that has evar stepped out before the people of his Tribune: Our demo-pop fricnds who advceate fusion to down the republicans in Nebratka are rospectfully referred to the fate of fusion in Oregon, where the same parties united to defeat the republican le lative ticket. It didn’t work in Oregon neither will it go in Nebraska. Lincoln News: The Majors men are now whispering around the state that when the war broke out Jack MacColl skipped over t and rema ned into Canada to escape the d there until after the war was over. MacColl was only 12 years old when the war was cver and he didn’t have tc go very far to escape a draft. e Plattsmouth News: Nebraska voters will pay more for every pound of sugar they buy from this time on, as a penalty for having voted for Bryan and other democrats to misrepresent their interests in congress Object lessons come high, but we have a good one in the Sugar trust legislation of our democratic congress that the common people can and will heed. Howells Journal: It seems to be the op jon of the leading demccrats of the Second district that Judge Irvine will be made the nominee of his party for congress. With Judge Irvine as their candidate the demo llent show of suc closo and Irvine crats would stand an exc The district is very ces is extremely popular, as was shown by the large vote he recelved in Douglas county when he ran for supreme judge. Lincoln New Tom Majors owns some- thing like 3,750 acres of improved lands in Nemaha county, but they have not been cultivated half so well for the past quarter of & century as have his hopes for the gov- ernorship. Tom has been a candidate for governor a great many times. He moved to Nebraska the year after De Soto discov- erer the Mississippi and has been running for governor ever since. He only stopped once, and that only long enough to make a war record. Gering Courier: A call is issu state conference of the so-called Bryan dem- ocrats—who are in reality populists—to dis cuss ways and means for becoming populists and at the same time retaining the name and dignity of the democratic party. It is the same old schieme, engineered by the same old gang, who are in it for the coin, and of course It is being backed by all the Jim Crow democrats who have held hands with the pops ever siuce the possibility of using the latter for catspaws was conceived. York Times: There will be plenty of work for all republicans this fall in Nebraska. That the victory is ours there can be no question, but with our opportunities, with the weapons the democratic party has put in our hands, with the almost universal dis- tress that has been brought about by this unwise and disloyal administration, a bare 1t should be a land- d for a victory is not enough. slide that will bury the opposition out of sight, that will emphatically —rebuke the foolish vagaries and the criminal deceptions of the opposition, and it can be made that by an aggressive and energetic campaign. RS e S LABOR NOT. Canadian Patrons of Industry have estab- lished a national organ. Chicago printers voted against a five-day law and for eight hours. Bradstreet's reports 175,000 as strike In the coal mining industry. Two of the large flour mills at St. Louis are closed because of the coal famine. There Is reported to be a great scarcity of farm laborers in the Lower Mississippi valley. The stone cutters In who went on a strike recently, sumed work. Chicago painters compromised their strike. The Trades assembly will back the Pullman strike. Dr. Parkhurst has promised to aid the labor unions of New York City in securing labor legislation. The actors in New York City have or- ganized a union which bids fair to become national in scope and character. Representatives of over 1,000,000 coal miners, at the international convention at Brussells, demanded eight hours. J. S. Coxey of Commonweal fame is one of the quarry owners who employ members of the National Quarrymens union. The striking coopers at the Cobb Lime company’s works, at Rockland, Me., have accepted a cutdown of 1 cent per cask. The contractors have acceded to the de- mands of the carpenters at St. Louis and 1,500 union men have returned to work. The striking brickmakers of the Blue Island Qistrict of Chicago have compromised their differences with the manufacturers. The strike at the Washington mills, In Lawrence, Mass., was declared off and sev- eral hundred operatives were given work. The waiters In their national convention resolved to endorse in full the political plat- form of the American Federation of Labor. Forty creel boys employed in the carpet mill at Mount Holly, N. J., struck for an increase of 25 cents. This throws 100 weavers out of work. The Chicago gprinters union paid $8,433 in out-of-work benefits to its unemployed mem- $4,500 now on Rochester, N. Y., have re- bers during the last fifteen weeks; was paid out in sick benefits. GENIUS EXTRAORDINARY. Harper's Bazar, Hicks is a truly wondrous wight, whose like's not often met; that they've A man of gifts so varied brought him but regret; Whose work o full of ‘power was it brought about his fall, So that today he sits and dares not use his mind at all. * He wrote a farce so funny that all those who went to s Did simply die there in thelr seats from sheer hilarit And so, play Lest in the rewards. of course, Hicks had to take his from off the boards, i future he receive a murderer's “The novel is the thing for me," he said, and sat him down Before his desk and penned a tale ‘that captured all the town; But it was such a brilliant tale, so dazzling bright, Indeed, \ its splendor every one who ad, 1t blinded wil tried to r He turned his mind to music; wrote a waltz—folks were entranced; 4 But when 'twas played—oh, scandalous!— the bishop, even, danced. And once an orchestra of ten, while ing at a hop, Got so infatuated with really couldn’t stop. play- his notes they 8o down and maimed Then painting Hicks took up. Alas! potent was his brush That men were trampled by others in the rush whola gone o gape; and hence 1t st o rumor saith— fioks fiures do naught at all death, is—at leas y Hicks now That St and wait for Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Real Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PROPLE AND THINGS Oreson deserves unstinted praise for cffecs | tually plugging a pernicions blowhole Reflections on revolutions in South Amer- fea shonld cease while the militla is In the fleld in five American states. Late royal assurances of poace abroad are coupled with a report that Krupp's gun fac THE SUGAR DEAL Minneapolls Tribune: The people will Judge at the polls which represents tariff re form-—the body of thirty-seven republicans who stood for free sugar, or the aggregation of forty-two tection for th of the pres rocrats who voted a stiff pro= sugar oclopus at the dictates it wry Is overwhelmed with orders St Paul Globe: We say that this gratuity As the Oregon majority rjses into five to the trust has absolutely no excuse, It figures, a large assortment of politizai bas I8 not necded to eompensato It for any beens threaten to forsake thelr grave elothes, L ater labor cost in fining than its foreign If Jt I8 true that the flood alied In de. | COMDetitors have to meet, nor is it a source feating the democracy of Oregon, it iins. ©f revenue. This is shown by the fact that trates the folly of cultivating a repugnance | fOF years there lave been no imports of rey for: waler fined sugar to any extent that would be ape O'Donovan Rossa’s re-entry Into Irelanq , Preclable on prices was signalized with brass bands in Cork. | Chicago Herald: Semator McPherson His misslon, however, will not bo limited (o Servant girl, who sent the famous telegram the pulling of Cork legs | ordering a purchaso of Sugar trust stock Senator Mclherson's over zealous valet | 8 tran n by which the ator cleared manifests no anxfety regarding his joh. Serv. | $10.0 ught to be advanced to the rank, ants - possessed ability to earn £15,000 for | PAY and emoluments of typewriter at the the house In a fow hours are tuo rare to be | YTy least. Such a female is too valuable to AEpenNEd Wit be exposed to the risk of being blown up i ) ) tel \ There I8 nothing now under the sun. The | WhiIe lIkhting the kitchen fire with keroseno, polsonious. root, the eating of which eaused | Springfleld Republican (ind. dem.): Only the denth of five boys In Tarrytown, N, Y,, | O the supposition that the whole democratic in half an hour, is a specles of wator hem- PArty s under obligations to the Sugar lock, similar to that which caused the death | fust fis the action of the major b of Socrates, according to Greek history. plicable. T Is no other way to account | for this extraordinary cour But the peo- A handsome monument, paid for by sub d selpiandsome monument, pald for by sub- | jig will have to be given a very different ex- soriptions gathered among the newspaper | Jianytion betore they lond furthor support (o Garrahan, hos been put over his Hrave, 1y | & PAFLY thus committed. A more shameless goribed ivith the words he was oftenoat violation of the popular confidence was never heard to quote in his hopeful, cheery way, | "o u Better Days.” Two of his helrs from Con Minneapolis Hold Tho people were exs nectiout htve turned up and are going fo | bected to belleve that senat trom sove try their luck in the fight that occupled his | CIEN states were pleading for the welfare of lifo—that of prosecuting the McGarrahan | Al their people, when in fact the senator olkiE for the Sugar trust had arranged with the VAN Rt Wolan Tt o senator for the Salt trust to pool their Issues i p ; T e LAV i th senators who represent metallie that sweat is a liquid photograph of one - cinotions, Cliemical analyala.of porspiration | bedsteads, steel “pent, “cutlory. and hoslery; shows that good and bad emotlons affect | AN insist that their common enemy the the exudations of the Individual, This in | G000 Keneral consumers=shall pay fors particularly noticeable in the sweat of a | [¢It and ransom to them uall. guilty person, which turns to a pink when ew York ‘fribune: The Sugar trust he placed in a glass tube and exposed to contact | the support of every democratic senator, ex- with selenic acid. The discovery 1s timel cept Messrs. Hill and Irby, In getting every- As several senators are now in the sweat- | thing it has demanded. 1f it bought votes box, sufficient material is avallable for a | the votos have been delivercd. If it enabled practical demonstration. Investigators nearer | SUndry senators to make profits in specula- home are at liberty to apply the test Hongwithoutinisk, torthemselyenilibvaiiNg A i y voting to best PO ift of The invention of M. Turpin, about which | Pait it by vou ‘";.‘,',H; Rt L honor of originating the man-killer betongs | WG S0 ""ina" senators have delivered to Wilbur Clinton Knight of Nebraska, a | puidiiiet, (SUCSRGET tadtiver. verdant Yankee, who floated up from Bluo | °¥CF : X T Springs ‘to Lincoln ten years ago. Mr, | Chicago Bvoning Dost: In tus lst of sens Knight possesses a keen sense of humor, and | ators who voted 1o give $50,008500 to tho Whon he gazed upon a legislature in active | Sugar trust fn addition to ,[rmh ing other- eruption he exclaimed, “What funny things | Wise for that hungey conspiracy 1o wey we soe when- we haven't got a gun.’* An | that the atroclous McKinley could Bat Beve irresistible impulse to arm himself led to | fmproved whon wo find the Bame GRS the invention of the terrible engine of de- | WH& Tt S DO IR B iver, the struction which M. Turpin palmed off on the """’,“'I“- atesman, the people’s senator, the German government. Fortunately the legis || \f"_m;‘r ‘j" the dark days of tariff reform, lature adjourned beforo the gun of Mr. the scourge of moncply has not gone Knight was perfected. THE VOICE OF OR o York Advertiser revulsion The against political insanity in Oregon s most emphatic and there s no doubt that it ex- 0w tends all over the Pacific coast. Globe-Democrat: Pennoyer gave Presi- dent Cleveland a sample of gubernato politeness and proposed to follow it up with senatorial courtesy, but Oregon has excused him. Kansas City Star: The state of Oregon has nade it plain that it is easy enough to pulverize a crank like Pennoyer when the people once unite to accomplish a work of that kind. New York Recorder: Oregon has grown weary of socialism. She has set her face against it and against democracy by an overwhelming majority. Her populist gov- ernor will not go to the senate of the United States, and the democrat who planned to | succeed him is left at home to nurse his baffled ambition. Courier-Journal: The redeeming feature | about the Oregon election is that if the democrats are beaten so are the populists of the Pennoyer brand. No such “fusion” as that of democracy and populism is really deserving of success, and the sooner demo- crats everywhere appreciate the fact the better for their party. Philadelphia Times: Next to the well merited defeat of a dangerous demagogue the Oregon result is reassuring in its indi- cation that the wave of populism in one of the worst infected states of the extreme west has reached and passed its flood tide. WEat the Oregon election has demonstrated is likely to be manifested in all the state which have suffered from the populist craze. New York Post: If the democratic sen- ators and representatives in congress had any sense they would take warning from this result in Oregon. They are contem- plating the same blunder; indeed, have all ‘but perpetrated it already. The great ma- jority of the democrats in the house, with- out any warrant from the last democratic national platform and in defiance of the party’s traditions, have accepted from the populists the income tax principle and mado this the condition of their supporting any tarift bill. The democrats In the senate scem on the point of following the example. The consequences on the national field must bo the same as in the state. The people “have mo use for” a party which has no principles and which is ready to take up any wild notion which demagogues bring forward. The drift of democracy towards populism must end in the deserved defeat of an organization which retains no claim to popular respect. Surely back on us. Who is the rank imposter who has borrowed the whiskers of a goat and thus disguised sits in the stead of this di flant democrat? And where is John Me- Auley? Have the minfons of protection made away with him? 1Is he in the Potomac or only in the soup? We are distressed about him, and while he is away the county that lies over against his home county has anged from 535 democratic to 800 republi= n. Philadelphia R “A silk dress is like a scandal,” the Manayunk philosopher, “beécause the chances are ten to one that there is a woman in it.”” “Do you think you can safely ot to Banks?'" . 1 lent him $ nearly a Tid-Bits: trust a business 1 should sa year ago, and he has never breathed a word about it since.” Plain Dealer: “Now m getting the run of the thing!" 'as the policeman said when he took after the dude. Indianapolis Journal: “I don't see why it s that men are always so willing to give their friends tips on the races.” “IU's on the principle,” replied her hu: band sadly, “that misery loves company. New York Herald: Crummer—What has become of Anderson? When we were in college he v a promising youn, m but he seems to have dropped ou sight. Gilleland—Yes; he became the husband ot a celebrated woman. Chicago Tribur Them's my sedl- ments,” said t r, as it went through the out on the other side If clear.” shington St >apa,’” said the young woman, you ought to know than to mall ' in_your when speaking in the first person You should h I won' The small use the capital, sald the plutocratio letter uses up less THE AMERICAN LAUR Chicago Inter Ocean. He could not sing the oll songs, The words were blurred and dim, “or he had eaten biscuits That were too sad for him. TE. And now the mighty pugilist, Who'd his weakest muscles 'thickes May drop the dumbell and all that, And wrestle with spring chicken. ————— They Supposed So. Kansas City Journal. From the description of an interviewer, Mr. Mary I. Lease appears to be about the sort of man the public supposed him to be. TR for good value, then yo These are the kind of pric S. W. Corner 15t T 3 ) ot =) 8 S8 50 A AN TN 2 R Sata it plotri i i > o Prices . are High s HEN a worthless article is sold for nothing —costs you something to get it home. when you get the finest quality and the lateststyle suits for $8.50, $10, $12 and so on and boys' suits for $2, $3 and up, accompanied by our guarantee | Browning, King & Co., XK BB S AT A SO TATEAY But u get a bargain, indeed. es to look for, h and Douglas.