Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1894, Page 12

OMAHA DAILY BEE. . THE ==& nosmwaren, e Editor. = TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. [ty Bee orithout Sunday) One Yea iy Pee and Hon i ¥ Bix Montha. Tiren ot : Bundoy Tce, One Yenr Eaturdny tiee, O Weekly Bee, One ¥ o 8 nd Twenty-fourth Sts v Ammber o Commerce. A4 36, Tribune h1ds. treet, N. W. SPONDENCE. Omaha, The Bee Ny Bouth Omaha, Corn Counefl Tnfls, ) Chicago Offier. w York, Fo ashington, 1407 Al esmmun forial matter sho sm'\lm Drafs vl-ruflhn v‘v]‘[ u('.;::\ e or emittances sh Publishing o CIRCULATION. ot the STATEMENT O George 1. Taschuck, secretary Mishing pany, being duly the. nctual number of full ar of The I ing - printed ollows: 1 2 £y 4 Losn deductions for unsold and returned coples b T T Total mold. Dally average net GRORORE D. TZ! Sworn to before me o ribed in my pres- 164 Tl . FEIL, Notary Public. 70 NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS, ANl republicans who are opposed to the domination of railroads and desire to resent the attempt to make the party subservient to corporate monopolies and public thieves are hereby Invited to express their views by letter directed to me personally, suggesting the best method for defeating the election of Thomas Majors. All cominunications will be treated as confidential when so requested. We must make an organized effort to save the state from the blighting misrule which has repudiated the pledges repeatedly made to the people In our platforms; has made the execution of our laws a farce and looted the state treasury. Notice will be given in due time through The Bee what action will be deemed most advisable to accomplish the ends in view. B. ROSEWATER. ‘We are all expectant for th I message. promised tar- The democratic state convention next and closes the convention season. comes Now for another president's message. It ought to be “hot stuft,” in the parlance of the day. Why discuss errors in the new tarlft bill when the whole tarift legislation of the pres- ent congress is a huge error? Why all this hubbub about aleohol in the arts? It is the aleohol in the beverages that modern soclety Is most Interested in. Tuesday will end the congressional agony. But for how long? For only three months at +he greatest, and perhaps a still shorter per- fod, at the pleasure of President Cleveland. Bx-President Harrison has the good sense 0 keep silent when ho has nothing to say. But he has good sense to put into a speech Whenever the occasion calls for his advice 1o the public. George Gould, we are told, had lots of money but no soctal recognition when he salled away from America. When he re- turny to America he will have social recogni- *on but less money. He will still, however, gave enough money to retain his soclal recog- attion. Mr. Morton, at the head of the Department ot Agriculture, with all the department hot houses at his command, must, to maintain bis reputation, go Mr. Bryan one better in decorating the towb of Jefferson at Monti- cello with palms and tropical plants sup- plled at the govérnment expense. The New York constitutional convention wisely refuses to waste the time and money of the people on the prolonged discussion of the various isms and fads put forward as panaceas for all the abuses of popular gov- ernment. The cure-all state constitution is not to be enjoyed by this generation. Political pienies are a fad which ety people are borrowing from the country peo- ple. The city picnic, however, has frills and feathers that would make the country- man stand aghast, while the cost to tho individual pienicker and to the candidato who 1s seeking his support rises to a figure that would defray the expense of the whole country blow-ont. Prof. Ely could not ask for a better ad- vertisement for his books than he is getting out of the alleged Inquisition on his teaching of soclalistic doctrines. All the curious mul- titude will hasten to examine the books for themselves fn order to form their own opinicn as to whether or not the professor is really and truly the soclalist he is charged with belng and which he denie The Bryan fusion organ calls upon the popullst nominee for congress in the Third district to withdraw and leave the field to the democratic candidate and his republican opponent. Why nuot just as sensible to call upon the demccratic nominee for congress to withdraw and leave the populist and re- publican to fight it out alone? Is it be- _ cause that Is not the kind of fusion wanted? We are glad to know that the illness of Mayor Welr of Lincoln came upon him as was preparing to go to the populist state nonvention at Grand Island, and was in no way due to the sizo of the vote cast for him for governor in that convention. Hav- Ing learned of the state ticket put in nomls nation by his fellow populists, we feel cer- taln that the mayor is again on the rapld 40ad to recovery, ‘This 18 the time to exterminate the Russian thisue. A little attention to this pestiferous weed before it goes to seed will save a great deal of work after the thing has overrun the ioX farm. If the farmers will only ou-m!file with one another in a combined effort to eradicate this evil their succoss will be assured. A continuance of the spread of this pest will be in part at least chargeable to the megligence of the furmers themselves. MAJORS' SELF-DEVENSE, The most remarkable spectacls ever pre- sented at uny political convention in this state was witnessed at Bxposition hall when Themas J. Majors within an hour after hia nomination was eompelied to make a publte defense of oharges which affect his personal and politieal honor and fntegrity. Although the charges affecting the fitness of Mr. Majors as the party’s standard bearer did not orizinate with me he has ventured to pose as a martyr to vindictive persecution at my hands, and sought to parry the irrefatable record made by himself by a most absurd countercharge. Assuming the role of cuttle- fish, that sheds its inky fluid when closely pursued, Mr. Majors threw a handful of dust into the eyes of the delegates present by talking promiscuously of his repeated lection for the empty honor of contingent congressman, and dwelt with unction on his pretended rejection of an offer of $3,000 for But he failed ut- terly to disprove the record of a congressional Investigation, wherein he was declared guilty of having procured a forged certificate of an alleged census of Nebraska, and being guilty under his oath of office of false statements concerning the same. He did not dare deny that u congressional committee recommended that the courts of the District of Columbia take action looking to his own indictment and that of his associates in the manufacture of the forged document. The details of Majors’ disgrace were never published in The Bee, although It occurred during the period in which Majors falsely accuses me of perse- cuting him. The truth of the matter Is that the story of the scandal was suppressed and the mantle of charitable silence thrown over him when he deserved to have been ex- posed and denounced. With the audacity of a desperado Majors declared to an audlence of more than 3,000 people that he was branded with Infamy hy the tongue of a slanderer. Who was the slanderer? What insolence to apply such an epithet to Thomas B. Reed. Passing from the forged census cortificate to the fraudulent Taylor voucher which he signed, as president of the senate, Majors had the temerity to assert that Taylor was entitled to the extra $76 because the legisla- ture had been in session sixty-three days at the time Taylor was abducted. What an in- sult to the intelligence of American citizens! The constitution limits the legislative pay to $300 for each session, no matter Liow long it lasts. Taylor had drawn every dollar due him, including his return mileage, on a cer- tificate which Majors signed before Taylor was bribed to skip. Majors takes God to wit- ness that he hadn’t the slightest intimation of the plot to abduct Taylor, but & man who will violate his official oath to a congressional committee with impunity will not hesitate to tell a lie and take God to The word of honor of Thomas J. Majors was onee given to me, and he broke it within less than two hours after it had been given. The most disgraceful part of Majors' at- tempted defense of the Taylor voucher traud was his shameless declaration that he was not only pleased to have Taylor spirited away, but that he would like to have seen halt a dozen populist senators abducted. What do law-abiding citizens think of a man who gives tacit approval to one of the great- est crimes that could be committed against the state—a crime that stands next to treason and murder in its enormity! Rob the people of their chosen representatives by bribery! Abduct them bodily into an- other state in the midst of a session! What could be more atrocious and destructive to the very foundation of popular government and republican institutions? Passing from his own tattooed record, Majors took It upon himself to falsify my public record, as i that would in any way disprove the charge with which he is con- fronted. According to Majors the rccords at Lincoln show that E. Rosewater was elected to the legislature in 1871, and drew pay for forty days at 33 a day when he was present only twenty-eight days. Now, everybody familiar with the history of Ne- braska knows that the legislature of 1871, in which T served, was known as the long parliament. It commenced its session on the Gth of January, 1871, and after thirty days of searching investigetion into state house frauds impeached the governor and auditor on the 4th of March, and wound up the trial of tue governor with his convie- tion by the senate sitting as a court of im- peachment on the 6th day of June. Then it took a Tecess until the next January, and was finally prorogued after a two weeks' session. In February of 1872 it was recon- vened by the acting governor and re- mained on duty until it was dispersed by a supreme eourt decision. [Instead of putting in twenty-e/ght days 1 served more than four full months on forty days pay. Another slight discrepaicy between Majors' story and the truth will be found in a closer examination of the record. It is true that I did not respond to roll call on several days of the longest sion on record, but on all two of those days the Journal shows my participation In the day's proceedings. For instance, my nime does not appear on roll call of January 9, but the journal shows that on that day notice was given by me of the introduction of a bill to regflate the practice of medicine and surgery; also that I introduced a memorial and joint resolution praying for the general government to assume con- trol of electric telegraphs in the United States. Again, on January 28, my name does mot appear on roll call, but my presence 1s recorded in a vote against the motion to lay the impeachment resolutions on the table and for a resolution to make the same the speclal order for the following Wednesday. Suffice it to say that I am ready at any time to compare legislative records with Thowss J. Majors, and I have no fear that [ shall be called upon to apslogize for any Vot given or any measure supported or op- posed by me, E. ROSEWATER. services never rendered ses- but THE PRESIDENTIAL TERM. Mr. Murat Halstead, in bis syndicate lotter of a week ago, advocated an amendment to the constitution reducing the presidential term to two years and leaving the matter of eligibility to re-election untouched. Mr. Halstead stated that James G. Blaine was of the opinion that if any change were made it should be to two years rather than to a longer term than at present. The argu- ments offered by Mr. Halstead in support of his position possess a measure of plausibility, but it is hardly worth while to seriously dis- cuss his proposition, and we have not ob- served that it has been done, for the obvious reason that it is not likely ever to eommend itself to any considerable number of the American people. Mr. Halstead, In attempting to answer the chief objection to a shorter presidential term that the country would have the costly dis- turbance of a presidential election twice as often as under the existing regulation, does not make & convincing argument. The idea that agitation in presidential contests with & two-year term would be less “‘profiigate" than with & four-year term lr altogether fanciful. There Is no sound or substantial reason behind (t. Hqually lacking in foroe is the notion that the shorter term would be more republican than the present term. Perhaps the intensity of office seeking would scmewhat subside under a shorter term, but this is problematical, and at any rate office socking in a few years will cease to be very troublesome, as nearly all the offices will be under cfvil service regulations. The demand for the elongation of the presidential term fs due mainiy to a popular belief that a longer perfod between presidential eontests would be to the general Interest, and there is strong ground for this view. Eveiybody knows that a presidential election does make a costly disturbance, the nearly uniform ex- perience having been that the general busi- ness of the country sufters during such a contest. There ks no reason to sup- pose that this would not be the experience wers the term two instead of four years, but with the shorter term there would be the danger of almost continual political ecmmo- tion. The country would hardiy get fairly settled down after one presidential election before preparations would be begun for an- other. In the opinion of m great many sensible people It 18 not more frequent elections that the country wents, but fewer. However, as already remarked, Mr. Halstead's proposition 1s not Itkely to find many supporters. THE POPULIST PLATFORM. The platform of principles adopted by the populist state convention at Grand Island on Friday will strike all fair-minded men as on the whole more conservative both in language and in spirit than the general pub- lic was ready to anticipate from that quarter. The reaffirmation of the Omaha platform of 1892 and the demand for the immediste free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold ut the present ratio of 16 to 1, together with the branding as treason to labor and to the best interests of the whole country the un- conditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, were but to have been expected. They form the stock in trade of the populist party everywhere and the convention at Grand Island would not have Justified the name of populist had it omitted to embody these planks in its declaration. A comparison of the populist platform and the platform proclaimed by the recent re- publican state convention reveals certain similarities, particularly in the portions which deal exclusively with state Issues. Both call for state regulation and control of railways and railway rates and demand the enforcement of the maximum freight rate law now on our statute books. The populists go one step further and demand that congress shall speedily pass a law by which the federal courts will be prevented from suspending the operation of a state law at the dictation of corporations, a bill with this object in view laving already been introduced into the national legislature by the populist senator from Nebraska. Both platforms favor arbitration as a substitute for strikes and lockouts in settlement of con- troversies between employers and employes. Both platforms demand a thorough-going reform in the existing system of Investing the moneys in the permanent school fund of the state. Both platforms favor relief to the needy farmers of the state, the republi- can by legislation in encouragement of sugar beet culture, the populist by legislation favorable to irrigation projects and public works affording employment to the Inhabit- ants of the drouth-stricken area. Both pro- tess lasting friendship for the old soldier and contain expressions favorable to a liberal pension policy on the part of the federal government, The remainder of the populist platform in- cludes planks good, bad and indifferent. The plea for the Gulf & Interstate railroad is a plea for an enterprise of very doubtful value and still more doubtful success. The initiative and referendum asked for is a device whose merits and demerlts are the subjoct of heated controversy. The demand that all officers, both state and county, be remunerated by reasonable salaries and that all fees collected be turned Into the general fund for state or county purposes Is timely, sensible and to the point. The *‘compli- menting” of Congressman Bryan In the same plank that contains a ‘‘hearty approval” of the populist representatives in congress leaves it doubtful how far the populists are willing to go In furthering the ambitions of that professed democrat. With the one exception noted the populist platform s singularly free from ‘‘denunciations, ‘‘ar- raignments” and ‘deploring” of what the other parties have done. AN EVIL T¢ BE ABOLISHED. Notwithstanding the fact ihat three years ago the legislature of Pennsylvania enacted a law forbidding the maintenance of com- pany stores, elther under the direct or in- direct proprietorship or sanction of mining or manufacturing corporations, these stores still exist in that state. They are very aptly described as “pluck me stores,” for they are managed upon the plan of getting all the earnings of those who are compelled, in order to secure employment from the companies owning the stores, to buy their supplies in them. The maintenance of these places Is not only contrary to law, but they are a fruitful source of labor troubles. The testimony is that the “pluck me store” is the prolific breeder of dissatisfaction, strikes and such irritation as is constantly engendered by reason of a continuing in- justice. Under this system the employes of the companles running the stores are mercilessly robbed, and any complaint made by the unfortunate victims means dismissal. Retention in the service of these companies is conditioned upon making all purchases at the stores of the companies, Which, it s sald, uniformly cherge more for everything than other stores, and as a result & ma- Jority of the people who deal at the “pluck me stores” have no wages coming to them at the mouthly settlement. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Rec- ord, writing from the reglon of the Penn- sylvania slate Industry, says that with al- most no exception every slate company has a store connected with its quarry, and it s the understanding that all employes of the | companies must buy their household goods at these stores. If a man has a large family he soon finds himself In debt to the company, consequently he never receives any money from the company, and in this way he is eftectually shut off from buying any- thing except from his own company. This correspondent says: “As to pay days, with most companies they are few and far be- tween. Of course the store books are bal- anced monthly, but oftentimes no money changes hands for a much longer period." Under such clrcumstances It is not sur- prising that the employes, knowing that they are being robbed and that from month to month they are being more completely en- slaved by their obligations to their em- ployers, who are the owners of the “pluck me stores,” become exasperated and inau- gurate strikes in the hope of freeing them- solves trom a burden that grows steadily mote intolerable, storles have been M’ of the slavery to mining and manufacturing companies which men k2vn beon subjgcted to through being compelled to do all tHeir trading at company stores, for having 'thkel gone into debt to one of these places the unfortunats victim has Indeed a very hagd road to travel. Such a state of things ought not to exist anywhere In this country. It is & reproach to any community or state that tolerates It A movement has fwen started in Penn- sylvania, originating,with the Philadelphia Record, the purpose. of which is to bring about such a general enforcement of the law as will result in abolishing the com- pany store evil, and'ft should meet with hearty encouragement. The great state of Pennsylvania ought to promptly and thor- oughly remove this blotch on her reputa- tion as a commonwealth that accords jus- tice to all classes of her people. EXPARSION OF THE INJUNCTION. Even the lawyers, who, as a class, first looked upon the expansion of the injancliof to cover labor troubles and wage disputes as a harmless appiication to new conditions of equity powers long recognized to rest with the courts, are commencing to view the re- cent innovations of the judges in this direc- tion as a subject demanding most serious con- sideration, At the annual meeting of the Amerlcan Bar association, held last week at Saratoga, a paper on “‘Injunction and Organ- ized Labor” was given a principal place on the program, and in it Its author, Mr. Charles Claflin Allen of Missouri, confesses that the present situation is altogether one- sided and in favor of the corporations. “After all,” he asks, “what does it mean, this sudden development of equity jurisdic- tion? The criminal laws are ample and severe and the power of the government to enforce them it limited only by the allegl- ance of its citizens. Why, then, invoke the extraordinary jurisdiction of a ecivil court, never designed and in no way adapted to such cases?” The incident itself, he thinks, is a sad commentary on existing conditions and points to the conclusion that the people are becoming afraid of their own institu- tions, afraid of trial by jury and of the guarantees of ctvil liberty contained in their constitutions, state and national. In other words, the employing corporations who resort to injunctions fear that men who violate the laws In the prosecution of a strike will not be punished unless that violation is made a contempt of court and the penalty left at the discretion of the presiding judge, with- out reference to a jury after a formal trial. If this is the object of the expansion of the injunction it is certainly a grave abuse of judicial power. It means that the judges by an unprecedented application of thelr equity jurisdiction assume to provide a new system of trial for old offenses, a system which deprives the accused of many of the sacred rights handed down to him with jeal- ous care from the’time of Magna Charta. It means the usurpation by the judiciary of the legislative power to define crimes and misdemeanors and to prescribe the penalties to be imposed for the same. It means that the courts claim the ppwer as incident to their judicial functions to deal with the parties involved in labor controversies prac- tically as they may sée fit. Thero was a time in our jurisprudence when the doctrine was laid down and strietly adhered to that in no case where @ remedy at law existed could a remedy In equity be invoked. The entering wedge to the. development of the equity jurisdiction came when a remedy in equity was granted ‘at the discrotion of the Judge where, although a remedy at law was at hand, a resort to it would, In the interval, result in irreparable or at least unusual in- jury. Originally kept within the lines of the strictest construction, the discretion was gradually more laxly exercised, until, with the latest innovations In strike {njunctions and injunctions to prevent the enforcement of laws, equity bids fair to occupy the whole fleld. To restore the former equilibrium of our judiclal system something must be done to effectually check the expansion of the in- junction as a substitute for proceedings un- der the statutory criminal code. A MOST IMPORTANT INQUIRY. Congress has instructed the chlef of the Burcau of Labor to institute an inquiry into the Industrial changes incident to the supersedure of manual labor by machinery worked by steam and electrical power. It 18 a most important work that congress has thus authorized and for its thorough execution the meager sum of $10,000 ap- propriated will hardly be found sufficient. It is a work that could be entrusted to mo more capable and honest statistician than Mr. Carroll D. Wright, and it is safe to predict that he will produce a report of world- wide interest. Everybody knows that within the last halt a century production has been revo- lutlonized, both as to methods and as to the volume of product, beyond all precedent in history. In manufactures the new agencles have increased several times the productive abllity of a pair of hands, while the aug- mentation of motive power has been in a much higher degree, with an almost com- mensurate gain in its economy. The change has been fundamental and far-reaching in its eftects, revolutionizing the world's mar- kets, opening vast mew arcas and popula- tions to commerce, annihilating the factors of time and distance and risk In Zomuer- clal Intercourse, and increasing che world's wealth in proportion as it has made its natural Tesources more avallable, It has beien a stupendous leap in civilization, a wonderful evolution that has swept methods, customs, theories end institutions before it. The task of measuring the extent of this change the statistician has not yet ven- tured upon, while economists have not under- taken to determine hdw far the stability or the application ' of, orthodox economic theories are affected; by it. Statesmen find that past maxims dnd' policies are imper- tectly fitted to thé conditions which this evolution has prodyced, and legislation ls confronted with new problems for which there are no precedents.! As to the economic aspects of the indugtridl revolution there is a great lack of knowledge, the want of which very greatly' interferes with a wise solution of the probfems that are constantly pressing for solution. The tendency has been to walt for the mew forces to work out their economié Tesults in their own way, but it is manifestly desirable to know more of these forces,than we now do. There should be an intelligent public comprehen- sion of the nawre of past and current changes and of the new organizations and relations of industry Which events are form- ing. In a very broad sense, remarks the New York Commercial Bulletin in referring to this matter, & more lmportant inquiry was never undertaken by & government. It Is perhaps doubtful, says that journal, whether congress really concelved the magnitude of the lnvestigation and the effect that its revelations are likely to have in the forma- tion of publio opinion upon a wide range of vital questions. To say nothing of Its broader services, the luquiry will throw much needed light upon the present unsottled condition of our own Industries and shonld oontribute towards a better comprehonsion of the question as to equitable relations be- tween capital and labor. Says the Bul- lotin: “The prevalling ignorance upon the questions to be investigated has unques- tionably led to many radicai mistakes in enterprise, it not to excesses of industrial plant and to a range of prices and wages which cannot be maintained under the now enormously augmented powers of produe- tlon.” The wonderful evolution that has been going on for the past forty or fifty years is still in progress. [Every year brings into operation some new force for increas- ing the powers of production. The In- genuity of man for adding to the appliances which lessen the demand for human labor Is as active as it ever was, and the fleld for its operation seems absolutely boundless. In the light of what has been accomplished almost anything seems possible. The prob abllity that the new Industrial conditions will tend toward the creation of new social conditiond all iatelligent observers recog- nize, dhd therefore 1t 18 most desifable and eéxpedient that there should be thorough and accurate information as to the changes already effected industrially and socially through the operation of the productive forces developed during the past half a century. The New York Sun advises American gold miners not to rush to the new gold fields in South Africa, because they would have a very poor chance in mines that are worked mainly by native blacks, which are under peculiar laws not favorable to outsiders. It calls at- tention to the fact that outside of America the chief gold fields of the world are in British territory, where mining claims can- not be freely taken up as they have been and still are in our far western states. It adds further that it would not be profitable even for unemployed people in the east to 80 to the new gold fields of Colorado, much less to those of Australia and South Africa. We may be sure that this advice will go_for naught, however, because the glitter of gold has always been alluring to wealth-seeking mortals and probably will always be so. The gold fever is one malady for which physi- clans have found no remedy. It breaks out every mow and then, becomes suddenly epi- demic, and slowly dies out by degrees. It is bound to reappear whenever rumors of a new Eldorado become rife. Gold mining fs un- questionably the occupation that on the average gives the poorest return for the total effort expended upon it. A committee of the Pennsylvania legisla- ture s soon to commence an investigation into the moral effects of the high license law that has been in force in that state for several years past. The inquiry 1s to be di- rected toward discovering what changes have taken place, it any, with reference to the increase or decrease of pauperism, crime and insanity arlsing from the use of liquor. We cannot expect much from an investiga- tion of this kind, because the statistics and data with which it must deal are necessarily imperfect. People have gotten so accus- tomed by reason of the repeated cries of pro- hibition agitators to aseribing moral lapses to intemperance that changes due to a high license law will not show In the statistics of vice and crime to their actual and full ex- tent. The subject, however, is one of con- siderable interest, and any developments of value made public by the Pennsylvania leg- Islative committee will be welcomed by all concerned with devising the best methods of liquor legislation. L We think it would have been much more creditable to the railroads for whose protec- tion the militia of Indiana were called out during the recent strike had they offered to put up the necessary security for the ad- vance of $41,000 required for the payment of the troops, instead of leaving it to Governor Matthews to raise the money alone and un- alded upon his own personal notes. The railroads could have relied on being reim- bursed by the state legislature as well as the governor. Buzzard's Bay might as well close up for the season if it canmot offer assurances of another visit from President Cleveland this summer. Hang on to the Land, Minneapolis Times. ‘The United States Investor advises hold- ers of western farm lands to hold on. I: cellent advice, no doubt, and easily fol- lowed. A great many of the holders are in the dilemma of the gentleman who had such a tight grip on the bear. A Mossback Convenlence. Boston Globe. Among the latest inventions on the mar- ket is “‘a burglar and fireproof coffin,” which locks on the inside and has other patented arrangements for guarding against disturbance after death. — Cremation has at least one advantage, that of making the occupation of the grave robber a hopeless one. ———— A Season of Business Calm. Philadelphia Ledger, The passage of Senator Murphy's reso- lution by a majority of eleven may he re- ceived with general satisfaction, for as the next session will contain the same membars as the present one, it Is a strong indica- tion, that, despite any efforts which may be made, there will be no further tariff legis- lation for some time to come. Macauiay and His Predietions. Globe-Demoerat, Macaulay did not live to see 5,000,000 new voters created in England, and so was spared the application (o his native country of his theory that a great body of electors must_eventually destroy thelr government. It must be confessed that there is a cloud in the sky in England. Since the ballot was conferred on nearly everybody the fox hunters are no longer allowed to sweep over the flelds without paying a round sum in damages to the farmers. This new peril to the bulwarks of Britaln should re- ceive attention. English Commercial Travelors. York Recorder. traveler in England s little different from his American brother, pursuing the same line of policy in “'getting there,” "so far as securing trade is con- cerned. His invariable rule, however, is that his first price given to a _local mer- chant is his last and only one. There Is no #oing In the morning with an offer and then in the afternoon with an extra inducement to make the trade. This being the invari- able rule, it saves much labor and appre- hension in the mind of the buyer that he has not done so well as he could have done with more diplomacy ————— Seetlonal Characteristics In Hair. Providence Journal. A glance from the galleries at the heads of ‘congressmen reveals certain geogeapni- cal laws in relation to halr. The chin beard, the cheeks being shaven, s charac- teristically southern, ~ From 'the ~great northwest comes the beard without and- mustache. Most of the members from the north and east wear the mustache and no other beard, though an occasional Vandyke cut ls seen. Long hair used to be the fashion among ~southerners in congress, many of them having locks that fell upon thelr shoulders, That style has almost,en- tirely gone out. s A Bit of Serfdom. Courler-Journal, The model industrial town of Pullman does not show up so well under the search light of Investigation as it does or did in the pamphlets formerly printed in its praise by the Pullman company. The testl- mony that has been given before the na- tional commission concerning the company's methods of running the town is, of course, only one side of the story, an jood onl. until the other side is told. But {t is darl enough, and If it turns out to be as true as it 18 repulsive, the town of Pullman will be condemned by Americans as a bit of serfdom thrust lute the midst of & land of libertye e ———————— BECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Kansas City Star: The cholr of a Balti- more church struck In the midst of a service because the pastor had tried to dietate to them as to who should sing. The sympathy of the Amerioan publie will go out to th Pastor who has bad the herolsm to resiat choir. Kansas City Journal: Ing, which has been in weeks near Steubenville, O, has caused soven women to leave their husbands be- cause they would not unite with the chureh The world can get along without a good deal of that kind of religion. Kansas City Times: Rev. Abinadab Shad- rach Eliphalet Hunter is the populist nomi- nee for congress in the Fayette county, nnsylvania, distriet. If Rev. Mr. Hunter ever gets to comgress he will have to hang that name on the hat rack to keep the pages from getting it tangled with their teet, . New York Tribune: The pope is old, and in no long time we must hand the k:ys over to his successor. So that the decree mak- ing independent and somewhat pontifical in character the authority of Satolli in this country may only last out the term of the pres:nt {ncumbent of the papal chair. It is not lkely to survive it, as he is a protege of the present pope, who has heaped upon him powers and authorities thought here by some to be exorbitant and superfluous. A new pope will be likely to revoke his com- mission at once, and perhaps annul his lega- tion altogether. Philadelphia Press: A clergyman of a Polish Roman Catholic church in Passaic, N. J., has rented a store room in that town and gone Into the meat, provision and gro- cery 35 with the sign of the cross and the name of the church over the door. This pricst announces that his object in opening this grocery and buteher shop under religlous Auspices is to protect his congregation from the wiles of Ameiican grocers and butchers, and, secondly, to increase the revenue of his church. ‘As his store sells goods at a smaller profit than others, and as his c tomers are all of one nationality, the success of the butcher shop and green grocery of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, of Passaic, s pretty well assured, especially when the members of the church, who are all of the poorer and more ignorant class, will no doubt discover a providential har- mony in being able to get their meat, flour and religion all from the same institution, As a new phase of religious effort the result of the plan is worth watching, New York Tribune: The invasion of a Newark church by a Texas steer arriving in the middle of the sermon and introducing an artificial rhetorical division thereln, points two or three morals, if not more. Among them that the Sunday driving of cattle in that municipality should cease, or that the A “holiness” meet- progresa for some rellglous services there should be held be- | hind closed doors; or else that there should | be an infusion of cowboys in the sub-diacon- | ate. The Incursive animal behaved quite well on the whole, showing no disposition to contest doctrinal = points, and going out quictly after a vestryman had given its tail two or three quiet but determined kinks and turned its head in the direction of the door and Broad street and liberty—even to the Texas steer, most preclous and ineflable of possessions.’ It left behind a trail of tears and eccleslastical confuston, but no traces of deeper injury and no permanent modification of the interior architecture of the church, or the ground plan and super- structure of any of its deacons. The occa- sion might have been accompanied with in- cidents of tragedy, and is sufficiently fim- pressive to enforce a stricter guardianship of Newark stock yards and a more rigorous observance of the Newark Sabbath. Srra PEOPLE AND THINGS. Congress will adjourn on Tuesday. Now glve thanks. A Mr. Sapp and a for office in Kansas. A_star gazer announces there is no wind on Mars. Evidently the campaign is over. The plant of a fireproof construction com- pany in New Jersey was destroyed by fire recently, Mrs. Stryker s a populist orator in Kansas and Mr. Stryker manipulates a poor house in Nebraska. Congressman Tracey of New York shaws decided pugilistic tendency. He talks loud and slugs his desk. It was purely an oversight on Mr. Thurs- ton’s part to omit hickory shirting from his platform trimmings. Governor Waite of Colorado Is now wrest- ling with a treasury deficit, but his vocal apparatus continues full and overflowing. The officers of Fort Omaha are to be peti- tioned to suspend beating the tattoo for a fow months, and give the voters a chance, Societies for the suppression of handshak- ing are being formed in Russia. Campaigns are few and far between in Russia, and poli- ticians are equally rare. Senator Blackburn denies having Senator Hill “a blackleg and a brute.” This restores plantation manners and senatorial courtesy to a peace footing. Among other ornamental features of the new $5 silver certificate {s an angel with wings. The innovation is superfluous. The people can make them fly if they get hold of a sufiiciency. Anarchist Mowbray missed his calling. The hinges of his jaw work so smoothly and persistently that he would prove a great ornament to the pugilistio profession without further training. It is Teported that “a wave of Inebriety” is rolling over Washington. In view of tho Mr. Gabby are running called amount of water taken the Yower houss Of congresd recently, u sfimulating teaction Wwas & necessary seo el General Harrison has had his hair and whiskers so closely eropped that his intimate friends scarcely recognize him. It Is under- stood that If this stands in the way of his recognition in '96 he'll let 'em grow again, Tho 400th anniversary of Hans Sachs, the “shoemaker and poet,” will be celebrated th great pomp on the 5th of November at Nuremberg, his native city. All the shoe- maker guilds in the large German cities, with Berlin at their head, will fostively come memorate the day. The officers of the Jersey company which sought to work off some plugged blow-holes on the government are to be prosecuted. Mr. Carnegie’s letter advocating the demo- erav'e tarift policy becomes luminous with the pacsing months as a timely and admirable stroke of business diplom Congressman John Allen has given Don Cameron a distinct shock. He walked up te the senator suddenly In the republican cloak room, grasped him effusively by the hand, and exclaimed with enthusiasm: *‘Cameron, you're the ideal candidate for prosident! You ought to make a great run. It is like getting a charge of electricity to shake hands with you, You are so magnetic, re- sponsive, and spontancous!" The yearly salary of 1da Lewls the famous keeper of the Lime Rock lighth use, at the | south end of Newpert harbor, is $750 and twe tons of coal. She is past 50 now, her hair slightly streaked with gray and her face somewhat rugged and weather-beaten, but she is still al She began hor v ot aving with the rescue of four small boys, whose boat cap- sized In the harbor before her. il dbeitad SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS, Galveston News: Man takes after woman naturally. Chicago Tribune: “We have met the encmy,” said the lion. licking his chops, “‘and he 15 in our midst." Puck: Client (angrily)-Say, this bill of ra is a downright robbery Criminal * Law (who has v.un case)—80 wa ur crime. Chicago Tribune: To remove the odor of whisky from the breath and to impart & spiey flavor to an occasional pickle require the " annual _consumption, according to statistics, of 5,000 tons of cloves. “De trouble wit d ladders 58 In_use now-er-day sald Uncle Eben, “am dat they ain' strong enough in de y'ints. When yoh gits pooty clus ter de top dey's I'ble ter break an’ drap yer," Washington Star Buffalo Courler: Jilson says that since the I(ntroduction of shoemaking machinery old-time disciples of St. Crispin have ad to come down @ peg Or iwo. India Journal: * would ne art of usually do. “Me? Make a dollar go farther? I make the; far now them ever Philade A soldler In summer camp making love to a pretty girl shows the pleasanter side of a court-martial. told you you get along till you learned the & a dollar go farther than you Why, that none of This is the season wh acandidate up to you and ‘fixes you with a G-cent cigar. New O ayune: Dog days, an exchang 80 called bec fall about the time of the “hell of the dog star,” Sirius or Can latter word ning little dog. 3 the heliacal hot weather they bring thab makes the dog day ncomfortable, says PROMISE. Washington Star. Autumn joys are smiling Not 8o far away: Boarding schools will bloom again At mo distant day Al thelr seasons; the fates. things have So decree We must plant another crop Of swect girl graduates. i 10 — Philadelphia Inquirer, 'Twas at a ball. In vain I tried To feel less like a social martyr ‘When, g on the floor, I spied A thing of yellow silk—a—1! 1 put a dash there, for ‘tis sald To write it plainly out amiss s; Yet England’s motto may be read Upon just such a thing as this Is I stooped, and hid it in my hand, And wonder'd who might the loser; She could not ask me for the band! How such a qustion would confuse her! Returning with it to my place, 1 wonder'd If my cheeks were flushing, In turn I scanned each lovely face, Until I saw how you were blushing! My own perception 1 had wronged, To think that I would not have kno: To whom this dainty band belon; No one but you could be the ow So thus I send it back to you, Around this bunch of blushing r One found it whom you never knew; Whose name no hint of mine disclosés. I would not have you guess ‘twas I, For that might put constraint upon you, Perhaps you'll know me by and by, Perhaps you'll love me when I've won you. T'll whisper that 'twas I who found This clinging silken band of yellow. We're strangers, still I will be bound, You, and no other, have its fellow! And now may my respect for you Plead pardon for these rhyming fancies, For never motto was more true Than “Honl solt qul mal y pense’ Is thing else. Tue renowned makers of hats have all gone to sleep this year except John B. Stetson, and he's the manthat put them to sleep for he made his “Stetson Special,” and they can’t touch it for style, or any- It's a modest, sole agents. The few summer suits we have are going at half price this week. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W, Cor, 15th and Douglas. elegant hat, and we're