Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 19, 1894, Page 12

THE OMAHA DATLY BEE. E. ROBEWATER, Editor. T PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Bies (without Sunday) Ome Year Dafly Tee and Bunday, One Year 8% Months sefismd Thees Monih Bunday Jice, turiny Tiee eekly Tics, rghn, The e h Omana, O ED 1 Cilhmber of Commerce ow Vork 1340 ana s, Tribune DId. ashington, 1007 ¥ Street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE T All communications relating to news and edl. torial matter should be addressed: T the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS AN business letters 4 remittances should be addressed v Tho e Dubliahing company, Omatn Shecks ‘and pontafice. orders, [Epmedy it ’i“NU COMPANY. 333 ne Ve One, one Y OFFICES. Mot N 4nd Twenty-fourth Sta ) firoet 83 OF CIRCULATION, ity sworn, says that il ind eomplets coples ot 3 1994, wa George B, Tzschuck tishing company, bel the_actual number of of The Daily Morning. during the month of July, o215 1 TS 21,48 18 g X . 229 1. soies SHER ] 22,301 BeTE] Les W for Total 80ld.....viiiiisinnns Duly average net circulation *Sunday. il GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed 1o my pres- ence this 1st day of August, 180 (Beal.) P, FEIL, Notary Publie. —_— The courts will be called upon before long to appoint receivers to gather up the frag- ments of several failed political booms. Breckinridge of Kentucky will, If he suc- ceeds in securing a renomination to congress, be the first man who will have ridden into public office upon a breach of promise suit. China never knew what a high financial standing she held until sbe intimated that she might soon 5 or 6 per cent bonds for sale money mar- kel have some upon European The woman suffragists have been once more sat down upon in New York. But the woman suffragists have been sat down upon 80 often that they have ceased to mind it any more. The rain coming now without the assistance of the rainmakers would be conferring some benefit upon the people if it did nothing else than cast discredit upon the business of bom- President Cleveland took his own time to “ato the Bland seigniorage bill. We may be gare, too, that he will take his own time to reach a determination as to his action on the tarift bill just passed. China and Japan ought to take a few lessons from the more civilized nations upon Yow to carry on a war with a rush. This oactivity at the seat of hostilities is be- coming, decidedly monotonous. It fs perhaps well for the new president of France that he does not smoke. He might stherwise accidentally get hold of a cigar some day that would prove to be a miniature +abstitute for an anarchist's bomb. A Chicago paper announces the reopening of one of the local theaters “with a burlesque company newly painted and decorated.” It is to be Inferred that the paint and the deco- rations are to be the drawing feature. According to the New York Sun there are «ut six real democrats in the house and but one in the senate. The members of a mi- nority party of such small dimensions must feel dreadfully lonesome amid so many of different opiaions. Tt is natural to suppose that the offer of soventy young men residing in Cleveland to go to Japan and enlist against China will bave been exaggerated to 700 by the time it reaches San Francisco, and will look some- thing like 7,000 when received in Toklo. When foot ball becomes a purely profes- slonal game the public will no longer be concerned with modifying the to make it less brutal and less dangerous. The professional foot ball player will not get much sympathy when he is hurt. he order of the secretary of the treasury for the printing of 3,000 copies of the new tarift bill for the use of officials in his de- partment of the goverament must convey the impression that the secretary has no serious doubts that the president will sign the bill rules 80 as Porhaps the walter girls who are striking agaiust the order requiring them to wear uniforms might be mollificd by permitting them to vote on the kind of uniform they must wear. We are sure they would not vote for bloomers, notwithstanding the close proximity of the woman sulfrage atmosphere of Wyoming and Colorado. A The base ball players who assisted in ex- tinguishing a fire that was burning the bulldings on their grounds are belng slowly restored to their accustomed condition of {dleness. The rude shock of being s to actually perform a little work came near belng a serlous matter in more than one in stance. It Is only by carefully avoiding such exertion in the future that they hope to es- cape without any lasting Il effects. mmoned Thore must inevitably be a great deal of experimenting under every new tariff that lowers the previously provailing duties Manufacturers cannot tell just how their business is affected until they try it for a while and apply the test to their profits Some of them will gain, but many must necessarily lose at least during the period of experimentation, For this reason people who expect an immediate Tevival of business the moment the new tariff law goes Into effect are apt to be grievously disappointed. AL the meeting of the Society for the Ad- vancement of Sclence in Drooklyn last week Prot. J. W. Spencer asserted that the North American continent was slowly but gradually sloking. Experiments along the Gult of Mexico have convinced him that the shoro line is several thousand feet lower than jt originally was. There Is no immediate dan- gor, however, of the submersion of the con- tinent. In fact, the occasion does not even warrant the appointment of a congressional committee (o devise measures Lo preveat tho ~aming oatastrophe, WAOES THE FIRST LIEN. Judge Caldwell’s order in response to com- plaints on the part of Atehison <mployes, commanding the recefvers of that road to see to It that wages be promptly pald not later than the 15th of each month, will cer- tainly be halled as an important precedent in the development of recelvership law. There seems to have been some delay in the payment of wages on the Atchison railroad. The receivers not being Inclined to give the matter due attention, It was brought by the employes directly to the notice of the cir- cuit judge by whom the receivership had been (nstituted, and the remedy was im- mediately applied. Under the order of Judge Caldwell the employes must be reg- ularly pald before the designated time. If the earnings of the road are not sufficient to pay the wages of the men as directed, the recelvers are not only authorized but required to borrow from time to time, as occasion may demand, a sufficlent sum of money for that purpose. No pretense what- ever will be accepted as an excuse for fail- ure to carry out the order to the letter, and that the recelvers may be better able to do as directed by the court their obligations for money borrowed to piy wages are-made a lien upon the property of the trust prior and superior to all liens thereon. We have in this order a recognition of the fact that it is only through the assistance of the men who put their daily labor into the conduct of bankrupt railroads that the object of the recelvership, namely, the con- tinued operation of the road pending reor- ganization, can be accomplished. The em- ployes therefore have a first claim upon the earnings of the business, and, more than that, have a first claim the property itself in the earnings of the busi- are for the time being Inadequate. From this will necessarily arise a new kind of railway security, the receiver's labor lien certificate, a certificate that will take precedence of the ordinary recciver's certl- ficate, which is now taken to be the highest claim against a bankrupt railroad. A rafl- road, of course, cannot long continue with an increasing amount of such outstanding certificates, because they denote that the roud is actually running at a loss and that ths deficit of operating expenses is gradu- ally eating up the road itself. Receivers who are compelled to resort to labor llen certificates must be in desperate straits in- deed. Judge Caldwell's order is also evidence of a growing disposition of employes of rail- roads in the hands of receivers to take their differences with' the latter airectly to court for adjustment. It cannot but tend to con- firm the confidence of aggrieved employes in the superiority of this method of secur- ing relief over that of inaugurating strikes und boycotts. They see that in some courts, at any rate, where they have a just com- plaint, their interests will have a fair hear- ing. If we had more judges like Judge Cald- well on the bench the antagonism too often found hetween employer and employes would soon give way to more amicable relations and lead to a better appreciation of the mutual dependency of each upon the other. upon case ness INDEPENDENT RAILWAY AUDITORS. The disclosures made In the case of the Atchison railroad by which the earnings of the road had been systematically overstated by something like $7,000,000—disclosures which have no parallel in any other country of the world—have naturally led many people to examine into the arrangements elsewhere in vogue by which investors are protected against the misrepresentations of directors and officers. Under the system of railway management which prevails in the United States the directors have absolute control over all employes, the auditors among others, and the control of the directors is usually, as it was with the Atchison, com- pletely handed over to the officers. In fact the directors of the Atchison have been scrambling over one another, figuratively speaking, in their hasts to disclaim any knowledge of the transactions of their presi- dent. The auditors who make up the financial statements upon which the public and investors gencrally have to rely are appointed by the officers of the company and hold during their pleasure. Their relations are with the officers exclusively, so that the public information is only what the officers agree to make public. In England, on the other hand, for up- wards of fifty years stockholders have been protected against manipulated bookkeeping and misleading statements by a system of independent auditors that has given almost perfect satisfaction. It consists in the supervision of the accounts by expert auditors representing the shareholders, and is applied not alone to railroads, to bank- ing companies, to all companies incorpor- ated by special act of Parliament, to water works companies and to all companies de- seribed as friendly societies or as indus- trial or provident socleties, where the inde- pendent accountaut is required by law, but also to almost all other companies doing business of a public nature, which, with scarcely an exception, veluntarily submit to auditorfal supervision the same as if it legally demanded. The auditor fis absolutely independent of officers and di- rectors, and makes his reports to the share- holders, by whom he is employed. The Quties of such an auditor are to ascertain that the funds of the company have properly been accounted for and the money has been expended in the way stated in the accounts, and that the aceounts are put forward by the irectors for the shareholders’ approval are accurate fn every respect. The English law roquires no dividend shall be declared by a company until the auditor certifies that the half yearly accounts proposed to be issued contain a full and true statement of the financial condition of the company. No di- roctors woulll go to the shareholders with- ut a certificate from the auditor, and so the latter la the view of the law that when & vacancy occurs it becomes the duty of the directors to forthwith call an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders to elect a ney auditor, while In many cases, should the shareholders fail to elect, the govern- ment, through the Board of Trade, 1s au- thorized to appoint one for the current year upon application of a designated number of shareholders, and to fix the remuncration to be pald him by the company. Another feature intended to preserve the independ- ence of the auditor is the limitation of his term to very short Intervals, usually one year, although the lncumbent s eligible to re-election, and If faithful and competent, may confidently expect re-election. A similar system could easily be Intro- duced into the United States did It seem desirable, in fact, it has been fntroduesd by one rallroad, the New York, Ontarlo & Western, & railroad representing English capital chiefly. But It is fdle to expect the railroads to introduce it of their own free will. They will undertake no reform in their methods until they are forced to do so by legislation. There might, furthermore, be some difficulty in this country in keepin the auditors free from the influence of di- wectors and officers unless they are sur- were important s rounded with the safeguards of a public office. It the work of auditing were confided to a corps of auditors under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce commission, and the cost assemsed against the railroads whose books are audited, the accounts of the rallronds of the country might be kept constantly of public record, and the danger of misrepresentation reduced to a minimum. There Is certainly need for some kind of a system of independent railway auditors, NO MORE TARIFF TINKERING. The resolution offered in the senate yester- day by Senator Murphy of New York, and adopted by a vote of 27 to 16, declaring that no further tarift legislation should be considered at this session, will doubtless put an end for the present to efforts to secure action by the senate on the several sup- plemental bills passed by the house. There is nothing surprising In this expression of the senate, because it has been apparent from the first that even were there an as- sured majority favorable to these free raw material measures it would be impossible to pass them at this session. The minority could so load them with amendments, and was prepared to do this, and could have so prolonged discussion, as to prevent action on them for an indefinite time. This being the case, it would have been more than fool- ish to make a fight for the passage of any of these measures. As a matter of fact, however, while there may be a majority of the senate favorable to free sugar, if that policy could be adopted without danger to the treasury, there Is not a majority In favor of free coal or free iron ore, and these meas- ures are no less certain to fail at the next session than at the present one. It might be otherwise If the house of representatives to be chosen in November should be demo- cratic, but it Is a foregone conclusion that it will be republican. Yesterday's action of the senate is notice to the industrial and business interests of the country that they may dismiss all fear of further tariff tinkering by this congress and proceed to adjust themselves to the new conditions, It was a proper thing to do under the circumstances and will be gen- erally welcomed and commended. THE ACQUITTAL OF MAJOR WORTH. The acquittal of Major Worth, the officer who gave the offensive order in the Cedar- quist case, from charges of violating the order issued by President Lincoln in 1862 enjoining the orderly observance of the Sab- bath, will not in itself create much stir in army circles, because it was to be expected by all who were at all familiar with the facts in the case. The friends of Cedarquist who made the findings in his case a political issue hoped for a measure of vindication in the verdict in the Worth trial. In this they are doubtless disappointed, although it is quite possible that they may carry the ques- tion up to the higher authorities and en- deavor to have the latter set aside the find- ings of not guilty and to order another court martial. In reviewing and approving the findings in the case of Major Worth the commanding general of the Department of the Platte, General Brooke, calls attention to the real ground upon which the verdict is based. It is not that the order of President Lincoln of 1862 is no longer in force because of the later publication of army orders omitting it and purporting to be all the orders that apply at the present day. For an orderly observance of the Sabbath is an established custom of the rgular army dating back from its very time of origin and being merely called to mind by President Lincoln in order that it might not be entirely forgotten in the din of war and civil strife that pre- vailed at that time. It is not that target practice on Sunday is a necessity or was a necessity under the circumstances in ques- tion. Into this the court martial did not deem it necessary to go, and. this point re- mains still undecided. It is that “Where an officer of the army is vested by law or orders with a discretion in the performance of an officig] duty, and he honestly and with reason exercises that discretion, he is not to be held criminally responsible for any errors of judgment he may have committed. In other words, although target practice on Sunday under the particular circumstances might in the judgment of his superior officers be unnecessary, it was for Major Worth to decide at the time, and In so deciding with honest intent }e is not violating any order to which he owes obedience, This is a fixed principle of civil law. Wherever a civil of- ficer performs a duty in nature judicial and performs it upon a correct theory of law and without malice or fraudulent intention, no court will review it because of alleged mistakes of judgment. For the first time, however, this principle is plainly enunciated as equally applicable to military officers who have a discretionary power entrusted to them. The importance of this ruling is not to be undervalued. If it should be approved by the president at Washington army offi- cers everywhere will have a better under- standing of their authority In cases where they must exercise their Jjudgment, and Kknowing that its honest exercise will not entail upon them a liability to trial and pun- ishment, will exercise it more independently and more fearlessly. SILK CULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. A Dbill before congress provides for an as- sistant chief of the division of entomology, who is to devote himself to the study of silk worms, and for the establishment of five experiment stations, at an annual ex- penditure of $25,000, where tests are to be made. It silk culture can be made a success in the United States there will be no objec- tion to expending a great deal more money than 1s proposed to be appropriated by this measure, but there appears to be strong reason to doubt whether it could be made successtul, The New York Commercial Bul- letin says in regard to it that for two and a half centuries oft and on governmental efforts have been made to establish silk rals- ing in this country. Bountles have been paid, duties imposed and innumerable essays and speeches have been published and delivercd in ald of the cause, and yet our people do not raise silk enough to be worth mention- ing. In every way efforts have been made to stimulate and promote the Industry, and while something has been accomplished, the results have fallen far short of expectation. American silk is produced, but it does not appear that the industry is profitable, for If it were it Is reasonable to assume that it would have grown more rapidly. In view of the great encouragement that silk raising has received and the comparatively small results that have been achleved, it Is hardly possible to feel enthuslastic regarding the future. The cost of labor In this country is a prin- cipal reason why silk culture has mot suc- ceeded better. The raising of the silk worm has not ylelded the returns that other agri- cultural activities have. Efforts to establish the silk worm industry in Australia falled be- cause of the high price of labor, and its suc- cess \n China, Japan and Italy has been in uo small part due to the fact that the labor necessary in it can pehad in thoso countries at a very low prick.[iThe peasants of rope and,Asla who raise silk worms do It as a business and not a§ an amusement. They are content Wwith .eanpings on which the Amerfcan farmer's) family would starve. It 1s said that they move out doors in the spring and give up their hoiisés to the worms. They have time, for wanf (f momething else to do, to plek and feed them to the worms, and study the temperature and re- move the sick. Tiby flave time to reel the silk by hand and ¥ satisfied with the pit- tance they get for Auch' work. This s the soft ‘of competition which Americans must meet in order to make silk culture in this country a success, and it s obvious that it will be a long time betore the conditions here are such as to enable us to meet this competition so as to make silk culture profitable. Still, it Is perhaps well to have the proposed experiments, since only by such means can there be obtained a prac- tical demonstration that will settle contro- versy as to the practicabllity of making this industry a success, THE WORLD'S GOLD PRODUCT. It appears that the estimates of Increased gold production throughout the world, made by the director of the mint, are being more than verified by the returns. It s stated that the first six months of 1894 have €hown an increase In the production of the United States, as compared with the same period of 1893, of nearly $3,000,000. Usually the first six months are less productive in this coun- try than the second six months, for ob- vious reasons, and this being the case, it is reasonably assumed that if the second six months of 1894 should show only the same increase as the first six months the product for the year would advance to more than $41,000,000, an increase of nearly $5,000,000 over 1893, According to a dispatch from Washington, the reasonable presumption is that the increase will be proportional to the gross product and that the yield of American mines for 1894 will reach $43,000,000, which would be the largest production of gold in the United States since 187, when the prod- uct was $51,200,000. The world's gold product in in round figures, $155,000,000. The director of the mint estimated the production of 1894 at $168,000,000. An increase of $7,000,- 000 in the product of this country would more than half bridge the gap between the actual production of last year and the es- timated production for this year. It is stated that the returns already reaching the mint bureau fully bear out the estimated increase in South Africa and in Australia, and it is thought to be by no means impossible that the world's product for 1894 will approximate closely to $175,000,000, or about $20,000,000 in excess of that of 1893. This is more than the average annual value of the output of both gold and silver from 1861 to 1865, and only $16,000,000 less than the average an- nual value in the years of great silver pro- duction from 1866 to 1873. The following statement regarding gold production is very interesting: “The esiimated gold production of $13,000,000 for the United States during the present year wus several times surpassed during the bonanza years following the open- ing of the Californja mines, but the produc- tion of the mines of the entire world never reached, even in that period, the figures of $165,000,000 attained in 1893, or $175,000,000 likely to be attainbd i 1894. The average gold production for thé five years, 1856 to 1860, the highest aberage up to the present five-year period, was $134,000,000.” The es- timate for the present year is from $35,000,- 000 to $40,000,000 i excess of this average. The recent reports of new gold discoveries in Colorado, Western Australia, French Guiana and Mashonaland seem to Justify the estimates of this year's yield of the yel- low metal. The indications are that the new African gold flelds will prove to be enor- mously rich and the production in that quarter is quite as likely to exceed the estimates as anything else, for the rush to these fields insures a vigorous development. The gold finds in French Guiana, near the Brazilian frontier, and on the Venezuelan frontier promise great results, and the reports from Western Australla are of a nature to war- rant the highest expectations. At any rate the estimates of a very considerable increase in the gold product for the current year will probably be verified by results, As the New York Sun says, mankind needs all the gold that can be got hold of. It is not likely that we shall have more of it than can be put to good use. It may also be remarked that with an increasing supply of gold there will be less necessity for silver as currency, and one of the arguments chiefly relied upon by the advocates of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, that the supply of gold was diminishing, will be effectually disposed of. The prospect of an increase in the world’s supply of gold is one that eyerybody can view without apprehension. u- the leaves 1893 was, It will be Interesting to watch for the ef- fect of the mew law subjecting greenbacks to taxation on the tax returns of rich men and corporations who are known to have re- sorted to the greenback exemption law in order to evade the payment of thelr just share of taxes. The corporations which have benefited most from this exemption have naturally been the banks, which have re- ported that the greater part of their re- serves and other cash on hand consists of the original United States legal tender notes. In this and many other states it will be nearly a full year before another tax return is made, and the danger is that the provisions of the new law will by that time be over- looked, it not forgotten, while the assessment of the tax shirkers is fixed no higher than ordinarily. The tax officials everywhere should make an indelible memorandum of the change wrought by (he new law, and Insist upon finding all the greenbacks that have hitherto been exempted’ from taxatlon, That Is a rather negative endorsement which President Cleveland received at the hands of the Lancaster county democrats. They kindly and condescendingly recognize Grover Cleveland as ap able statesman, en- dorse his administration, except where it Qisagrees with the. majority of the demo- cratic members of eongress, and there they believe that the latter are right and he is wrong. Great is Orgver Cleveland! But Bryan ls greater. (Gréat is the democratic administration where it agrees with Bryan! But condemned be the democratic administra- tlon where It disagrees with Bryan. And alas! The polnts upon which Hryan and Cleveland agree can ouly be seen with the ald of a microscope. The efforts of Judge Bellinger of the fed- eral district court out in Oregon to put a stop to the bringing of petty criminal actions under the federal laws for no other reason than to make up & big cost bill for the pro- fesslonal jurors and witnesses, to say nothing of the clerks and the marshals, deserve commendation. These practices have become a dlsgrace to the federal courts throughout the country. They are mot confined to petty cases of selling liquor to Indians, but various other federal regulations that are technlcally violated are scized upon as a pretext for prosecutions, involving heavy abuses, perhaps, owe their origin to the lax- ness of federal judges, but that still exiat i neglect of congress to ennct legislation that will put an end to them Abolishing the fee great step In this come without much conts they due to the eystem would be one direction, which further delay should A private In the state militia writes The Bee to protest against the {il treatment ac- corded the boys at the encampment He alleges that they are served with rations, spoiled meats, water unfit to drink and not enough water with which to do the cooking. He asserts that yesterday fifty-four men were on the sick list as a direct result of the sorry condition of things. Under s 1cos It may be difficult to popularize the annual encampments, The complaints calt for an officlal investigation. state clrcumst. If the tattooed candidate has any friends in Douglas county they failed to make their presence known yesterday. More's the Galveston News. many kind words ity. A great spoken, are never The Pletaresque in ¥ Philadelphia Record Students of the art of systematic and ple- turesq lyving will ha an_opportunity to master all the intricac leceptive de- tail by of war bulletinsg from Cc Ixcept for outline, we shall know ‘nothing at all about actu- alities of the W until the w shall be ver. All the parties to the quarrel can lfe like diplomats tion. S Reserve Wealth of the Golden Belt. Kansas City Star The people of Nebraska are to be com- mended for promptly repudiating the st gestion of officious eastern papers that con- tributions be called for for the heat suf- fercrs. ‘Ihe day has passad for the sollciting outside charity for any portion of the great Golden Belt of the United States. \ state in that section 18 amply able are for its own unfortunate, Fate of the Peacemaker. The Legal Adviser. 1t one Interferes with two dogs that are fighting and is bitten, he cannot recover damages unless he show that he was in the exercige of due care. The full bench of the chusctts supreme court so held in of Artemus Hodgson against Hodgson and William T. Pap- parties live in Dedham. “The rushed up to the fizhters, and seized one by the tail and pulled it ‘away from the other. As the dogs became Sep- arated one DIt the plaintifi’s hand, which held to its tail. The full court says: “The plaintift voluniarily submitted himself to danger; and we have no doubt that the rul- ing of the court below was right e Selt Interest in Congress. Denver News. Senator Allen of Nebraska has introduced a bill prohibiting any senator or repre- sentative, during his term of office, from owning or being concerned directly ‘or in- directly in owning or in any inanner deal- ing in speculative stocks, the value of which may depend upon a vote of congress. * * * Senator Allen's bill Is in the line of pra tical reform and tends toward a_higher standard of morals in public life. There is no lack of materfal in the history of con- gress to justify the enactment of the pro- posed law. Since it is the mission of the people’s party to undo viclous and corrupt legislation, it is appropriate that a measure which seeks to remove the motive for many bad laws should emanate from one of its most gifted exponents. For State Treasurer. Nebraska City Pre In looking over the state papers the Press has noticed that among the probabilities and possibilities for nomination for state offices no one is mentioned for the office of state treasurer, now filled by Joseph S. Bartley. In this connection the Press rises to a privilege and asks permission to submit for this trustworthy position the name of one, who, coming to the state in the early and undergoing all the hardships of strict attention to busi- rity and fair and im- atment to all, won a place in the all with whom he has come in The Press speaks of Mr. Anton Zimmerer. Zimmerer has been identified with <t interests of Nebraska, I8 a straight- , successful man of business, al- loyal republican and entirely and clally qualified for the high oflice of surer of the state of Nebraska. The nomination of Mr. Zimmerer on the state ticket would be a step in the right direction. Of German descent, but strictly an American, he has for years past been identified as’ a leader in the republican ranks of the German-American element, and his counsels are sought not only by a wrge class of German-Americans, but by ive born citizens as well. he placing of his name upon the repub- lican ticket would give it a tone and weight that is bound to Ty it through to suc- cess. Honest, scrupulous and self-denying, he possesses those traits so essential to a a good official, and it is therefore with a just pride and great pleasure that the Press presents to the people the name of Anton Zimmerer for the office of state treasurer for the consideration and acecptance of the republican state convention, which meets at Omaha on Wednesday, August 22, PEOPLE AND THINGS, The voice of Gorman follows Cleveland to Gray Gables—“Unconditional Surrender.” In view of the general spread of the blues in the ranks, the national league of colored democrats evidently comprehends the entire party. The Chadron find of prehistoric skeletons would not be such a severe strain on public credence it the discovery was deferred until the election was over. The success of one of the popgun bills Is a matter of little consequence to democrats in congress. Ex-Speaker Reed furnishes an abundance of free iron-y. Sarah Bernhardt no longer sleeps In a coffin, but she manages to work up a perspir- ation by enveloping herself in a sealskin sacque on a summer’s day. After a prolonged fight with the gas com- pany in Minneapolis, the aldermanic back- bone won by a neck. The company imitated Day Crockett's coon and came down to $1.30. The projectors of the Wellman expedition to the North Pole might engage the stniking New York ballet girls to lend a picturesque- ness to their pedal movement when the ice bill comes in. The New York constitutional convention, by a vote of 95 to 59, rejected the proposed woman suftrage amendment. Be not down- cast, ladies. Come west and grow up with Colorado and Wyoming. Democrats display commendable self-re- straint in checking enthusiasm over the pas: age of the tariff bill until the November r turns are in. It s safo to bank on a snow- storm about that time. Judge Holt was not the last surviving mem- ber of the military commission that tried President Lincoln’s assassins. John A. Bing- ham, who was for years in congress, and af- terwards served as minister to Japan, Is still liviug at his home in Ohio. Kate Field's Washington gallantly apolo- gizes for giving currency to a story reflecting on the courage of Marshal Brigham of Utah, During the late strike a report was circu- lated that the strikers led the marshal around Ogden by the ear. Despite her knowledge of western fibre, Miss Field took the gro- tesque yarn serlously and penned a fow burn- ing reflections thereon. Hence the retrac- tion Maine has produced men of astonishing vigor and longevity, but none more notuble in this way than Dr, Westbrook Farrer of Biddeford, it the stories told of him are tiue He is said to be a physiclan in active prac- tice, though 98 ycars old, and, still more re- markable, to be in the habit of visiting his patients regularly on a bleycle. He attrib- utes his exceptional vig: t this advanced age to the use of winte of which he is said to bs an ardent advoc George Inness, the landscape painter, whose death was recently announced, was of Celtic descent, though born in this country, nd d more like & Frenchman than an American, Dark and swarthy in coloring, litte and slender in figure, restless and vivaclous In manner, he revealed his neryous and excitable temperament to the least ob- servant Mr. Inness's insatiable love of movement and intensity of mood led hi to have many pictures u er way at the same time, flying from one to the other for few or many minutes of work, as the impulse selzed hlm, y. The plaintifr contact s a These | | n F halt | SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. New York World: Rev. Mr. Wallace of Portiand, Ore., who attacked Kyrle Bellew and Mrs. Potter from the pulpit, should devote his time to elevating his sermons. Rov. Dr. Cave, the elo- the Church of the Holy returned to the eity, and to lecture on of th Almighty-Vicks and Appomattox York Tribune The secession of members of a Cathol congregation ftimore and their determination to establish an independent church, appointing their own tor and reposing the direction of its affairs in the hands of a committee, may turn out to be a religlous movement of it fmportance and the precurs:r of others of like sort New York Sun: Those d. spatches that passed between the chancellor of the sum mer schools at Chautaugua and the president of the Cathollc summer school at Plattsburg, were truly pleasant. In the name of the Chautanqua institution the Methodist bishop John H. Vincent, sent greeting and good wishes to the Catholic institution; and the president of the latter body, Rev. Dr. Conaty, imediately replied, expressing deep gratitude, and sending best wishes to Chautauqua. We say that this was a easant exchange., We do not recall another incident of the Kind Bishop Vincent and Father Conaty spoke not for themselves alone. They spoke for their respective organizations, one of which is Protestant, while the other is uredly Catholic. There is bigotry in the land, we are sorry to sa far too much of it, we must confess. Yet it seems that eminent leaders of the two great divisions of Christendom can take cach otber's hand in good faith and exchange greetings in mutual good will. Hasten the day when bigotry and all malice shall disappear from our country, and from all Cliristendom, and from the whole world! Qlobe-Demoerat quent pastor of Retreaters, has burg, New 2,000 Gettysbur, oS A EDUCATIONAL. Johns Hopkins university thermometer. The scheme to married women as school teachers in Mil- waukee has failed. The school board has decided that married women ought to know Just as much about the management of chil- dren as if they were old maids. A curious return has been ing some instanc: of suicide by school children jn the German empire during six years. The interest of the return centel in the motives assigned for these extraordi- nary acts. The largest proportion appear to bave been attributable to fear of punish- ment. This might have been expected; nor is it altogether surprising that such ex- treme terror should be chiefly exhibited among pupils of the elementary schools, The fact that 20 per cent of the cases fall into this particular class should, however, afford food for reflection. The school savings bank system has been demonstrated to be a success by the experl- ence of Norristown, Pottstown, Chester and other cities of Pennsylvania. In Chester the money at intercst from school savings fs nearly $32,000, the bulk of which was de- posited in pennies, nickels and dimes. One pupil alone is reported to have accumuiated $100. Flourishing school banks have been es- tablished, after the Pennsylvania precedent, in Colorado, Kansas and North Dakota, and there are now 400 such banks in the country. But Pennsylvania still has the honor of be- ing in_the lead of all the states in the num- ber of these institutions. America will soon be able to boast another great national seat of learning in the mag- nificent Methodist university, the first ground for which will be broken at Wash- ington during the coming fall. With nincty acres of campus_overlooking the beautiful Potomac, with $700,000 endowment alrcady secured ‘and $1,000,000 promised by the women of the church through Mrs. John A. Logan, and with munificently endowed Lin- coln, EEpworth and Asbury halls in view, the original hope of a $5,000,000 university seems not far from being realized. The 4,500,000 Methodists of the United States support even now 20,000 schools and academies and seven universities. has a $10,000 stop the employment of made concern- [ OUT OF THE ORDINARY. France taxes bicycles. Chicago has twenty-five negro lawyers. Uncle Sam consumes half the world's quinine. No one north pole. Electric shocks are used to overcome the effects of alcoholic drinks. Mrs. Annie Kenney, while asleep, leaped from the ffth-story window of her home in New York to the ground below, and when picked up was found to be badly shaken up, but otherwise uninjured. Sir Walter Raleigh was the first white man to use mahogany lumber. In the year 1595, while at Trinadad, he repaircd one of his ships with a mahogany plank. That in- cident caused its introduction into England and into the commerce of the world. A Damascus sword is made of alternate layers of iron and steel, tempered so nicely that the point can be bent back to the hilt, the edge so keen that it will penetrate a coat of mail, and so fine a polish that the Moslem can use it as a looking glass to arrange his turban. The world's tunnels are estimated to num- ber about 1,142,with a total length of 514 milgs. There are about 1,000 railroad tunnels, 90 canal tunnels, 40 conduit tunnels and 12 subaqueous tunnels, having an aggregate length of about 350 miles, 70 miles, 85 miles and 9 miles respectively, as been within 460 miles of the BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, |\1 high opinfon of self implies Ignorance of ac “Money talks,” but it often fails to tell the truth, The must man who would be feed on facts, It Is hard to please knows what he wants, How quick eir income strong n mind the man who never somo people 18 doubled No tears are shed whon the man dies whe has lived only for himself, A thousand peopls want to where one wants to live well Truth always travels in the middle of the 1, no matter whom It meet One reason why more being moved by faith is are willing to begin with mole hills, No matter what a man may say in church, you know what kind of religion ho has when you know what. kind of company he keeps. backslide when live long te mountains are not that 50 few people SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS. 4 When a woman has .10 diamonds of her own she sayvs it {8 vulgar for other women to wear them in the day me. old him it he Indtanapolls Journal: “Anyway, Gotrox can't carty his mor with when he leaves this earth.” Bull, It would be no uphill job could ““There Mrs. Chicago Journal husband,” " exclaimed “that was worth his salt “And only * meekly replied the husband my dear, 1 think, was Mrs. never was ® Strongmind, name, Lot Washington Star have passed away: a gone; men once sald day,” but now they say The good pleasant “howdy “mov: old times custom’s “'good Chicago theater m The Playwright won't take my play. ways it is Eloomy. The Cr That's” all right, i Get a Your fortune's made. start it out on th 1d as a farce comedy. The He Kate Field’s Washington: Gilders is a good deal of & wag A tramp accosted him as he was on his way down town the other morning, and Gilders said, reprovingly: “‘Here, don't you interfere. T'm working this side of ‘the street."” Millionaire Cleveland Plain Deale the good man his arms and s Deluge Come,” w When we saw anding, with the twins in nging t Cares Like a knew the great lis Journal: “I see you have not 1 that tailor's bill,” remarked or partner. rked the junior partner, “but Washington Star: “It fsn't the coat that makes the man,” sald the Chinese philoso- * replied Li Hung Chang, sadly; “its the yellow jacket.” Waghington Star: He had hurt his knee on a bleyele and had been ||ll||)“l): around week on a cane. “Hello,” exclaimed nd, meeting him one « are ou limping nf he replied weakly, and passéd on unsymp 2" “About the friend ston Courler: “It's all up with he sank on the elghth ng to reach his flaf after a hard day's labor. AUTUMN SONG. Indianapolis Journal, man will stand the greatest chanct For saving of his soul Who lets his wife bring up the kids, While he brings up the coal. B THE BOY AND HIS PROBLEMS, Chicago Tribure. For questions dark and cerfe, . ommend my boy, Who, though he is'his father's pet, doth none the less annoy, By putting problems every man_ living here Upon this earth can answer | Bcience that is clear. It's “Papa, tell me why it Is that granite tx 50, hard?" And “What's the slipp'riest thing alive, & cake of fce or lard? And ““Why don’t lions learn to roar in Eng- lish, 50 that we And ust Can understand ‘em how wet is the sea?" “If it should snow in summer time, how long before ‘twould melt?” And “If felt §s the past for feel, why lsn't squealed spelt squelt?” “If horses had five le and let me rec. day that no with a con- again how fast could onies run a mile? “Why do snikes often gnaw a file? “If you were ma, and she were me, who do you think I'd be? “Who “was it first discovered minus one is three?" “When all those Philistines were by Sam- son overthrown, What was that good jackass' let him have the bone?” in fairy tales so that four name who From morn till night he keeps it up, until I sometimes think If 1 am not quite crazy, I'm at least upon the brink; And when 1'ask him why he does not for one moment pause, Ho answers me convineclngly: “Why don't 1?7 O-—because!” And were it not that when he sleeps he seems so Innocent, I think I'd sell him’ to some man across the continent, Although I'm véry certain if I sold him once that Would move the earth to get him back and have him ask me “Why?" =X X xR Mk Wk " The Fall of kS ES * cassimeres—worsteds $2.50—all wool cheviot—6 —and $3.50—nice quiet 2-piece suits—straw hats lowest prices— ones $7.50—sacks—cutaways—light or dark—cheviots elegant goods—Boy’s suits— another-—$3—neat checks—latest cut—double breasted another—$4—little better—But—best of all—eombin- ation suit—$4.50—extra pants-—cap to match-—neat little Seoteh cheviot checks- ] Is not more com- plete than the Fall of Prices — pronounced half-pri-ces—in our men'’s suits—$25 suits ~$12.50—$20 ones $10-— $17 ones $8.50—$15 to 14 years—all colors— patterns—same quality - guaranteed all wool—all at cost—nicest waists— Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, 8. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas.