Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1894, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. VATER, Editor, TERMS OF SUBSCT fly Nee (without & iy oo and Sun Bix Monihs Three Mon:is Eunday Pe, On Faturdny Weekly Bee, One ¥ OFIFICES, Oraha, The Res Belliing Bouth O, Cormer % and Twenty-fourth St Councld Wufts, 12 Teart Street Chicago O, Chami Kow York. 1t 1, M Washington ¢ Gureet PTION. tay) Year.. fEL2e233 t Commerce 1 15, Tribune DIdg. N. W SONTIENC : to news and edi- e ) the Editor, torial matter AN busin: addrensed | | Omaha. Dra be made py TH CULATION, )t the Dee Pub wworn, says that Sundny Bee S, was as STAT George 13 o ¥ Hishing atanya the. actual nu of The Dally Moralng, Fvening rinted during the month of July, ollow: oms 1 53 18 19 20 2 Lie'650 9,461 Loss deductions for wheold and returned coples GHLTes s BY TR Covbeeraths Total sold Dally average net *Sunday. ot elrcuiation. . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to hefore me and subscribed in my pres- ence this Ist day of August, 1894 el ) Bil, Notary Publfe. S The two-minute trotter is coming closer and closer. Won't depressing the orchestra same effect as clevaling the stage? have the Senator Gorman should have written a letter of sympathy to President Cleveland. Senator Hill of York has just cele- brated his fifty-first birthday. But the letter of eongratulation from President Cleveland never came. Parliament minating its session. America has had to set the fashion even got ahead of congress in ter- As too frequently wait for England to in adjourning. Free wool beat Congressman Kilgore of Texas for renomination. He couldn’t pull the wool over his constitucnts’ eyes, although it was had without paying a tariff duty. to be It was with a rather ill-concealed glee that Editor Bryan announced the prospect of ex- Governor Boyd's refusal to accept a unani- mous nomination as the democratic candi- date for congress. _ They have now gotten “the elevated rail- roads in the constitutional convention' down in ‘New York. They will soon have the tiger, the elephant and the whole menagerie in the convention at this rate. ‘We trust Mr. Pullman didn’t exhaust him- self before the strike investigating com- mission. We expect him to furnish another manifesto in a few days explaining his attitude toward the commission. Failure to accomplish promised results seems to have no influence upon the choice of Chairman Wilson's constituents when they are ealled upon to endorse Mr. Wilson as his own successSr in congres: The Bee's information as to the willing- mess of ex-Governor Boyd to run for eongress came stralght from headquarters. Democrats Who want to keep up with the political move- ments of their own party must read The The International peace congress at Ant- werp has adopted a resolution demanding the peiceful scttlement of the differences between China and Japan. The announce- ment that the war is off may be mementarily expocted. And now we have news of an lce trust in the process of formation in New Jersey. We presume it is to be an interchangeable arrangement—ice in summer and coal in winter. The Season is too far advanced for a trust so likely to dissolve soon. The (one of ecastern press eomment upon the result of the Cedarquist court martial 18 that the War department is not yet done with the case. As far ss Major Worth is concerned the findings of the court are final. Just what the president may feel called upon 10 @0 In the matter is only a matter of con- Jecture, The convention that nominated Judge ~ Btrode as the republican candidate for con- gress from tho First Nebraska district on the 1.237th ballot will cheerfully yield the mecord to the Texas democritic convention Which took 5,600 ballots without a choice, betore finally agreeing to the renomination of Judge Culberson for congri < . We would like to have those woman suf- fragists who have been loudly asserting that the franchise in woman's hands would eliminate from politdes all that is demoraliz- Ing and degrading explain bow the infamous Breckinridge manages (o secure the support of all the women who are applauding him in his impudent plea for a congress, re-election to Every time there is an epidemic of suicide mome knowing person informs us that this 18 the particular season when suicides take place. As a matter of fact, the best sta- tistios show that the maximum of sulcides almost always comes in the late May or early June. We don't believe that the sui- elde season has shifted materially or per- manently. —_— Bugene Field gives the Sugar trust credit for doing some geod after all in killing off & large number of presidential possibilities, foremost among them John G. Carlisle, President Cleveland's secretary of the treas- wry. It must be agreesble to Carlisle to De informed that there was really some one who ‘once looked upon him as a presidential " poasibility. After Secretary Carlisle reverses hlmself & few more times in his numcrous inter- pretations of the new tarif law people who are unable to get a satisfactory ruling will be prepared to appeal to the courts In order to secure an authoritative decision. 3t is really too bad that Mr. Cariisle ean't satisfy everybody, He seems to be trying 10 do o without reference to possible lncon- A VETERAN POET. Ofiver Wendell Holmes, a name. familiar to all intelligent Americans and tevered by wll, was 85 years old last Wednesday., He visited that day at his suminer home, Boverly Farms, by a feprosentative of a Boston paper, with whom - he about his health, his work and his corre- spondence. The veteran poet Is recovering from what was the longest iliness he ever had, attended with much prostration of mind and body, Dr. Holmes has not re- cently done any literary work and he stated that his sight is so impaired that he finds it very hard if not hmpossibie to read many of the letters sent him. with eramps in the fngers, which at times provent writing. He sald that he is expected to read manuscripts which should be sent to the magazines or to the critical bureans which make a business people address him on all While not being wholly free from the infirmities incident to age, Dr Holmes says the burden of years sits lghtly upon him with the weight it seems to many less advanced in age. But he remarked that after three score years and twenty the encroachments of time make themselves felt rapidly inereasing progress. “When one can no longer hear th lark,” observed the genial of ts and one of the gentlest of men, “when longer guize the faces he passes in the street, when he has to waich his steps, when it and diffcult for him to recall name he is minded, at every movement, that he must himself, or nature will not spare him the penaities she exacts for overtaxing his declining ' He said it had always seemed to him the twelfth septennial period is one of the natural boundaries of life and he thought that one who has lived to com- plete his §4th year has had his full share, of an old man's allowance. Whatever is granted over that is a prodigal indulgerce on the part of nature. The life work of Oliver Wendell Holmes is practically finished. He is not likely to make any further contribution to literaturn. In answer to the whether he Is writing his autobiography he stated that he is in the habit of dictating many of his recol- lections and some of his thoughts and op! fons to his secretary, who has in this way accumulated a considerable mass of motes, which will undoubtedly some day be put into form, but not by the poet himself. There have been few lives more fruitful of good re- sults which will have an enduring value than that of Dr. Holmes. He will always hold an honored place in American literature, but his title to fame does not rest wholly upon his literary work. He has been greatly suc- cessful in imparting ecientific knowledge, to the acquirement and teaching of which the greater part of his life has been devoted. It is in this dircction that his labors have been of the greatest and most permanent value to mankind, which can be said without in the least disparaging the worth of what he has accomplished with his pen. But the world knows him best as a poet, whose genial and pleasing verse is the expression of a sunny and lovable mature, always in sympathy with all that is truest and purest in humanity. The influence of all that Dr. Holmes has written has been good. It has afforded pleasure and gratification to millions, and all who have read his works have de- rived from them intellectusl improvement and eclevation. though it e not es- teemed of the highest merit, from the liter- ary point of view, it bas a quality that will porpetuate it, and it is possible that it will be appreciated by the next generation even mors heartily and warmly than it is by the tntelligent and discriminating students of literature of today. was on he said ot attending to such produetions, and manner of subjeets, as compared with one of most poe he can no rec becomes more mor re spare powers even question Bven STATISTICAL BASIS OF LEGISLATIO The statistician rather than the political economist is today th> important factor in shaping legislation. No sooner does a ques- tion come up for settlement by legislation than a demand is at once made for all the facts that are available. The old-time peliti- cal economist started with a theory and argued from it to the existence of facts; the statistician nowadays presents the facts as they exist and gives the public and those responsible for legislation a chance to de- duce therefrom the true solution of the problem. Remarkable instancs of recent effective statistical investigation can be given. For instance, the inquiry wto in- dividual mortgage indebtedness by the con- sus officials has practically disposed of that question. The elaborate investigation into -prices, wages, ete., undertaken under direc- tion of the United States senate finance com- mittee did mueh to elear up the tariff con- troversies. The depth knell of many of the most prevalent freo trade fallacies sounded when the members of both political partio: on that committee agreed that prices of com- modities had declined under the McKinley Dbill and that wages had at the same time slightly risen. The statistician has done far more thaii the political economist to solve the raflway problem, tLough much still remains. He has entered almost every field, and in this country, through the census office and the Innumerable Statistical bureaus of the various governments, is throwing light upon every conceivable subject In view of the growing importance of the statistical work The Bee has made arrange- ments for the publication of a series of arti- cles by one of the most eminent and best known of our statisticians, Mr. Robert P. Porter, superint:ndent of the eleventh cen- sus. Mr. Porter starts out with an ex- perience that will at once make his results authority with every one who has oceasion to refer to them. He has been an active agent in several of the most important sta- tistical investigations of the federal govern- ment, as head of one of tiia principal divi- sions of the tonth eensus, as a member of the tarift commission, finally as superin- tendent of the eleventh census, just being completed. More than this, Mr. Porter has had a varied n:wspaper career, which cul- minated in his successful editorship of the New York Press, and he is thus able to put and from dry and inert tables of figures into Uye, attractive information of all-absorbing iuterest. The readers of The Dee, there- fore, have a treat in store for thim in the series of popular econiomic articles which Mr. Porter proposes to contribute. These arti- cles will be devoted to questions pending before the American people today. Mr. Porter is already on his way to Europe Immediately upon his arrival there h: will take & Tun through the industrial region and send back facts relating to the effects of the democratic tariff law on British and continental manufactures. Having dirceted himself to this absorbing matter Mr. Porter will take up the other economic problems that are knocking at the doors of congress tor settlement and endeavor to obtain the | views of the most eminent European stat- isticians, economists and statesmen. These interviews will form a 1-ading feature of the future issues of The Sunday Bee. The arti- cle predented to our readers today ss the first of thy series will prepare them for talked | | attracted universal attention. He is also troubled | | | haps, his facts into a shape that transforms them | what s coming and they will look forward to succeeding papers from ihe pen of Mr. Porter with impatient expectancy. DEMOCRATS NOMISATE BOYD. «In making James B. Boyd their candidate tor in this, the Second, district, the democrats haye undoubtedly fixed upon one of the strongest men within their party who could be Induced to make the race. Mr. Doyd is an old and widely known citizen of Nebraska—his eftizenship having been established beyond dispute by the supreme court of the United States in a case that He offered his his country as one of the Ne- braska volunteers in 1564. He has been a member of the territorial legislature. He has been a delegate to two constitutional conventions and helped to frame the state constitution under which Nebraska is now governed. He has been member and presi- dent of the Omaha city council and mayor of Omaha, and finally became the first and only democrat who' ever occupied the place of governor of this state, The candidacy of Mr. Boyd for congress, however, will create no diversion from repub- lean ranks. Congressman Mercer’s course sinee he went to Washington as the repre- sentative of Qistrict has been entirely satisfactory. Mr. Mercer has given no cause for any demand for a change. On the con- trary, he has shown such vigor and dili- gence in his efforts to promote the interests of h! immediate constituency that. ny business of opposite party cannot but feel a moral obliga- tion to send him back for a second term. Mr. Mercer's experience has served to it him to represent Nebraska in the next congress even more efficiently and eftectively than he has in the ggesent congress, while Mr. Boyd has no experience whatever in na- tional legislation to commend him. Mr, Boyd. it will be readily admitted, has a large following among democrats, but he cannot expect republican to turn against their candidate on the score of personal triendship. It will be more than he can do to hold together the ordinary democratic strength in the district, and even should his efforts in this direction prove successful it has more than once becn demonstrated that this cannot overcome the votes of the repubil- cans, united as they now are upon their own candidate. congross services to this men INCIDENCE OF THE INCOME TAX. One of the favorite arguments advanced by the supporters of the income tax is that it is a tax which cannot be shifte must, therefore, be borne by the person against whom it is originally assessed. To use their epigrammatic characterization, it is “the tax that sticks,” and for this reason, and for this reason only, is opposed by all who at present succeed in evading or shirk- ing the just share of taxes which they ought to pay. Some of the advocates go so far as to say that the income tax is the only tax that sticks, and that it Is the only just tax. It is generally conceded, however, that there are numerous other taxes, such as the tax on inheritances, the tax on economic rent, that cannot shifted. It is also strenuously denled by most authorities that the Income tax is a tax that can in no case be shifted. As regularly levied by different govern- ments, the income tax is often shifted in part, or in whole, and so far as we can see must leave opportunities for shifting, no matter in what manner it may be imposed In some countries, as in England, the in- come tax Is simply a combination of taxss on the separate ingredients of income; in others it is simply a system of taxes on gross receipts, derived from different speci- fled sources. In such cases, according to Prof. Seligman, who touches upon this sub- ject in a recent monograph on he evidence of taxation, there can be no question that each part of the income tax simply follows the laws of inecidence of the respective sep- arate taxes, so that in this respect there would be no difference between a so-called tax and the other direct tax:s, of which the income tax is substantially com- posed. If the total income be composed of wages, the incidence camnot be different wh:ther we call the share income or wages. If the total income be composed of profits, the tax will be shifted or not, according to the rules of incidence that govern a tax on profits. If the income be derived from house rents, the chances aré that it will be shifted 1o the temant. The incidence of the whole must be determined by the incidence of tie parts, » The principle upon which the th:ory of in- cidence s built s that every man will shift the tax imposed upon him if he can. He will attempt to shift an income tax just as he will attempt to shift a tariff duty. I he can make his creditors, his tenants, his em- ployes or his customers bear any part of his burden, he will not hesitate to do so. In the case of one or two of these classes he has very good chances of success, and those chances will be further enhanced by any inequalities that may arise in the income tax assessment. An income tax wiil stick as well if not better than most of our pres- ent taxes, but to assume that no part of it can or will be shifted is by no means war- ranted by the study of finance. and income PLANT LIFE IN NEBRASKA. Thers have been many investigations undertaken in Nebraska for the purpose of making the inhabitants more familiar with the precise conditions that surrcund them. From the first exploring expediticn of Lewis and Clarke to the last census enumeration the government has been constantly engaged in gathering information for the people that will enable them to understand what Ne- braska has to offer them. We have hid the dimensions of the land accurately surveyed and mapped out. We have had repeated countings of the peopla within the borders of the state at different times. We have had inquiries into the mortgige indebtedness resting upon the soil and its improvements, and we have had accounts of the progress of the differcnt arts and occupations to ba found in Nebraska. In o vough way, per- we have had the L.l of Nebraska descrived in private books or eompendia of informatien. Real sclent.fic researches into the resources of the state have, hawever, been comparatively cire and always incomplete. The past weok has seen the publication of the first part of an exhaustive work treating of the flora of Nebraska, in which it is ex- pected to identify and classify all the speci- mens of plant life that have been uncovered within the.borders of the stite. The project is beng carried out by the botanical seminar of the University cf Nebraska, under the direction of Prof. Charles E. Bessey. Prof. Bessey, who is one of the representa- tive botanists of this and who, along with the foremest American students £ science, took a very prominent part in the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Science but recently concluded at Brook- Iyn, his, with the co-operation of his stu- dents, made a complete botanfeal survey of the state, which is to serve as the basis cf 4 detalled catalogue of the various orders, genera and species found. In the latro- hand- country, conditions | duction to the ini which, by the w; from purely sole expense of the aui fal nvmber of the work, has been prosecuted ific motives and at the , Prof. Bessey outlines the fleld before hi He says that there are now known and dWertbed about 175,000 speeles of plants on the globe, while recent estimates made by Prof. Saccardo show that this 1 probably than one-half of the total number. For the purpose of classi- fication by which their study may be pro moted and the attending results communi- cated to others, l’u.uqr species have been gathered into genera, similar genera familles, simjlar fangies mto orders, on. Finally from a study of these groups botanists have been able to make generaliza- tions as to their probable relationship and thus to form a system in which all plants aro included in six great branches, further subdivided into fifteen classes. By arranging the flora of Nebraska accord- ing to this system, so universally accepted by sclentists, it is seen that the plant lite of the state is distributed through all six of the great branches of the vegetable kingdom, but that of the fifteen classes only fourteen are representsd. It s further developed that of fifty-four orders forty-three alone ere represented, and of 386 families there are representatives of about one-hall. On the other hand, of the 175,000 species of plants now kncwn, probably little, if than 2 per cent oceur within the area In question, In other words, a conservative estimate of the species of Nebraska flora is less than 3,500, A complete catalogue of these, however, with good illustrations of the mora important, will form a work of great scientific value as well as of peculiar interest to the people of Nebraska, always anxious to know more of the country which they in- habit. into and so any, more NATHANIEL P. BANKS. Few men had a more varie than the late General N. P. Banks, and thirty years ago shared popular atten- tion with the most distinguished men of the time. Though not a great man, measured by the higher standards, he.was fairly success- ful, both as a statesman and a soldler, and the record of his life Is an honorable one, it not notably brilliant. He made a good goy- ernor of Massachusetts, as his election thres terms attested. In congress he recognized as eptionally able parlia- mentarian, but no great mark as a legislator. As speaker of the house, to which he elected after the most memorable struggle in the history of congress, he dis- tinguished himself for rigid fairness impartiality. On the floor he did nothing remarkable, though his utterances always commanded respectful attention. As a sol- dier General Banks was successful when not left entirely to his own but he was not fitted for mmand. He was a good fighter, but an unwise strategist, and when pitted against so able a commander as Stonewall Jackson, who was a born sol- digr, he was greatly overmatched. His military career was pot without creditable features, but it was by no means distin- gulshed, and the disastrous Red River cam- paign, with which it ended, was a most damaging blow to his reputation as a soldier. The later”yéirs of General Banks' lite were not happy. He was In reduced circumstances finarcially and at one time it was said that his mind was impaired. His last election to congréss was largely due to popular sympathy. ;The verdict of history on him will be that he was an honorable, up- right man, a patriotic citizen, and one who brought to the performance of every duty devolved on him his best ability. public career he to was an e made was and resource: separate ¢ THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. The third national irrigation congress will meet in Denver tomorriw and remain in ses- sion a week. This congress is expected to have more important results than were real- ized from the sessions held at Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, which were valuable chiefly in arousing public attention to the im- portance of the irrigation question. The time for action had not arrived, nor were the people of the west ready to formulate an ex- pression of their best judgment. There was also a lack of interest in the subject in other sections of the country. In the period since the last congress, however, public interest in irrigation has been awakened everywhere, and in the east almost as much as in the west Its great importance s recognized. It is thought that the western people are now ready to suggest definite outlines for their future institutions, and that this will be done by the coming congress. It is expected that some plan of compro- mise will be reached between the factions, one of which has insisted that the na- tional government should appropriate all the money required in the work of reclaiming the public land and administering canal sys- tems when built, and the other that the arid lands should be ceded to the states, In order that each commonwealth might deal with its own problems. An effort will be made to find some middle ground between these extreme views, & plan which will give most of the benefits of both policies and few of the evils of cither. The problem pre- sented is by no means a simple one, and it the Denver congress shall reach a solution that will be accepted by the eountry it will do a great work. In a speech made in the house a couple of weeks ago by Representa- tive Ccffeen of Wyoming, he said that the very mature of irrigation works and the bandling of the waters of vast drainage areas for irrigation is such that some form of control and distribution more compre- hensive than that limited rigidly by state boundaries is necessars. “We, therefore, must have federal control” said Mr. Cof- feen, “or must Ofganize an frrigation con- gress or commission, with jurisdiction broad enough and strons’ enough to reach beyond state boundaries “and handle the flowing waters of the drainage areas in the great valleys and river systems as they are found existing (n natare’ He urged that the peo- ple be permitted fo continue to own lands, if they so desire, ;which they can identify and mark out with ‘Wefinite boundaries, but waters must be owned and controlled in gen- eral mais and the distribution must be under governmental supervision, either county, state or national. “This comtrol, if by the general government, which at least during a transition period, @aid [Mr. Osffeen, is better than by states whose boundaries In no way conform to the nattral topography of the country so essential ta practical irrigation, will secure the greatest economy In use of water and In building great systems of canals and reservoirs and keeping the same in repair. “Let the government hold these lands n their entirety subject to home- stead,” said Mr. Coffeen, “until a sclution of the question of arid America in its en- tirety can be cbtained and a comprehensive system of national reclamation be entered upon.” This s one phase of the ques- tion and it s Teferred to as in- dicating the complex character of the sub- ject. But none the less it is a question that has got to be solved, and the pressure for solution will grow with every passing year. It is to bo hoped the Demver congress will 1 4 formulate a policy that will be r.‘nerllly{ acceptable Thomas J. Majors s making frantic ap- peals to the old soldlers ard Grand Army | veterans to support him for governor at the coming election, telling them that they will be expected to blindly follow the standard bearer who has been chosen to lead them. But he neglects to explain to them how he happened to be foisted upon the republican state ticket. He says mot a word about the packed eounty conventions, about the lavish @stribution of railrosd passes to delegates ught up. He tells them mothing about the packing of the Lan- caster delegation with pliant tools of the Burlington bos He fs silent about the railroad promises and the railroad threats that whipped a majority of the delegates to the state convention into line, in of the expressed demend of honest republicans for a clean candidate. A standard who has secured his place by such methods is no standard bearer. He is but the auto- maton of the Burlington czar. No decent republican is under any obligations to follow him, who consented to being b 508, spite bearer The importance of Judge Nott's decision that the president can constitutionally sign bills at any time within ten days from the day of their pa adjourned not, ge, whether congress has has not been made ap- preciable by the recent adjournment of con- gress. The president had no difficulty in affixing his signature to all bills which he cared to approve before congress dispersed. When the decision in question was rendered many authorities asserted that it would revo- lutionize the whole practice of congressional legislation at the close of the session. The Bee expressed doubts as to this conclu- sion, and showed that ;l could not affect the signing of bills materidlly except at the end of the short of congress, which oceurs in the middle of a presidential term, or only once I four s, Events of the past week have borne out the position then taken or session The testimony of the Chicago superin- tendent of police before the strike Investigat- ing commission that for nearly a month the police preserved order during the strike, and that up to the day when the troops were called out the police force had handled the trouble without any great violence and with practically no destruction of property, must be taken to support the claims of the labor leaders that the military brought in before the civil authority had really exhausted. On this the of the superintendent of police is worth more than the opinions of either strikers or rail- road officials. The question is necessarily one where the judgment of different people will differ, according as they view it from one standpoint or another. There will therefore, probably, be no time when it will be settled either way to the satisfaction of all, were been point opinion Andrew Carnegie insists that a working- man can live for less in the United States than he can in Great Britain, “‘provided that he lives as frugally.”” American wages have for many years past been such that the American laborer has not been esmpelled to live as frugally as his British cousin. He has been more comfortably housed and more liberally fed, and after that has had more money to spend for outside conveniences and comforts. No one wants to reduce the standard of living on this side of the At- lantic, but the inevitable tendency of the democratic free trade policy is to do so by lowering wages. The American workingman would greatly prefer to retain the differential in his advantage Senator Voorhees has shrewdly secured from his physician a recommendation that he engage in no political work whatever this fall for fear his health might be in- jured by the exertion. The senator's term oes not expire until March, 1897, so that he is not personally dependent upon the result of the election in his state. He will be able to hold off and view the contest from afar. Should the democrats be defeated he will be able to disclaim all responsibility. Senator Voorhees’ withdrawal is a confession that the democrats have an up-hill pull. A Wall of Despair. New York Sun. The perfidy is accomplished and the dis- honor is complete.~ Grover Cleveland has vetoed the democratic platform. el Trouble Lurks in the Boom. Washington Star. Mr. Pullman may find comfort in the re- flection that he is not the first to acquire trouble through an effort to boom subur- ban real estate, Who wili ever -zain say that President Cleveland s either courageous or consist- ent, or honorable in his public relations in any respect better than phia. Inguirer. The president has written an epitaph for the Fifty-third congress, and written it so that nothing can erase it. Died of perfidy and dishonor. It is not a flattertng line but it fits the situation like the glove fits milady hand. e The Record Reviewed. Philadeiphia Ledger. Fifty-third congress has especially condemned " itself by the passage of the income tax clauses of the tariff bill, but except for that, it has made a fairly good record, especially when one considers its possibilities for mischief under the lead of the populists, with whom both republicans and democrats sought to curry favor. The Traltnrs to the Rear. Loutsville Courier-Journal, The president appeals from congress to the people. The battle, twice won at the s, must be fought over again, and won fore treason can be driven out of jcratic camp and_trustism driven out of the tariff. treason be mad llous and traitors punished. Let trut prevail and the president lead. The rank and file will follow, and woe be to the Gor- mans that get in ik 2 Honesty the Right Policy. New York Herald This, then, is the advice we offer—Let your ambition run high and seek its reali- hard work, but remember that it is soul and not his pocketbook You can get on | but you cannot | Make Pay 'a good than it Is worth. but dishonest without get on without a money, but do not wor price for it, but not noi Honest dollars hurt ne psasdagesso L8 The Wemen Forging Ahead. Philadelphia Ledger. The report of the Massachusetts Burea of Statistics of Labor for 1883, just issued, discloses the fact that women are becoming e and more numerously represented in siness ventures in that commonwealth, Men partners decreased .38, but women pariners increased 435 per cent. There was also & 6 per cent Increise In women stock- holders in corporations. The tendency of partnerships to decrease and of corporations to increase contlnues marked. - nions Are Weak Expross 8 of most labor unlons of all workmen, bad, good on the same plan shirk and the incompetent person the same level with the ambition competent, and the good workmen pecied to strike to keep up the wages of th shirks if they ecome dissatisfied. As a eonsequence it not unfrequently happens that poor workmen make up the maj & labor union, they being the on the most to gain from It This is an in- justice to the good workmen. It puls a premium on laziness instead of on energy. Where Labor Buffalo The great weakne Is the putting and_indifferent, rity of ) have SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Globe-Demoerat: A Baltimore clergyman has been preaching a sermon agninst the fce _monopoly in that city for cxncting a profit of 400 per cont in hot weather. The citizens think he chose & test, and they are taking steps to the com- bine. . Minneapolls Tribune: The clergymen at the Christian summer school at Long Deach, N. 1., broke out last Thursday In_eloquent and able denunciations of race track abuses Every clergyman who attends a horse raco should unhesitatingly denounce any crovked ness he sees golng on. The sporting public will be und:r obligations to all the ministers of the gospel who unite with henest roporters In sincere endeavors to reform the turf. Buftalo Expr The revivalists at Ham- mondsyille, 0., have had a narrow ¢ from the angry husbands of two of the several women in that town who have been 80 absorbed in religion that they have been unable to attend to their household duties The women went to all the revival meetings and left their husbands to attend to the children and do the baking. One of the de- serted husbands waited for ome of the r vivalists with a gun, but the exhorter heard of him and kept out of bis way. The other man started for the prayer meoting armed with a club, and the revivalist fled through a rear door. He says the revivalist told his wife that when a woman was converted sho should separate herself from her husband, unless ke, too, joined the fold. The me sengers of theso good tidings have left the town Minneapolis Times: The agitation in swell church cireles for individual communion cups | is apt taddy. to strike the Those who urg ungodly as finical and the adoption of the custom do it on the ground of cleanliness, and it is true that there is a possibility of contagion on the metal rim of the ordinary cup for genetal use. Lut all this could be easily avoided by a simpler and less expensive plan than that of purchasing individual cups. Every commanicant could carry a straw, or convention might hit on a rated g tube with silver mouthp which owner could have marked with his ere his monogram. Anothér way would he to furnish the communion wine in small original packages, small phials of Etruscan design, for instance, which would hold just enough for a sip. and which could be kept as souve- nirs. Anything would be better than the dis- play and extravagance, to say nothing of the nui of the custom advocated by the champions of the individual cup THE INGERSOLLIAN FAD, dee ces, Kinsas City Journal: Colonel Ingersoll can point to the suicide of Melbourne, the professional rainmaker, as an illustration of his theory that suicide is sometimes justi- fiable Chicago Herald of the New great suce people have Bob Tagersoll and York newspapers have scol with their suicide fad. Th killed themselves in that city in the last menth his devilish propa- ganda maiy be a congeni tion for the leader of the pagans, but it is mighty poor business for a newspape: Minneapolis Tribune: Three suicides were reported Sunday within a radius of a few hundred miles of Minneapolis. One of the unfortunate men is aid to have been a reader of Dob Ingersoll. It is probable that Ingerscll's recent article in favor of icide has caused hundreds who were in jerate straits to resolve 1o end their tioubles by suicide—and thousands may fol- low. There is a heavy responsibility resting upon Mr. Ingersoll for that article. Springfield Republican: The latest phase of sensationalism in the New York World, led by Colonel Ingersoll, is the inculcation of the doctrine that suicide is a legitimate and satisfactory remedy for all the iils that flesh is heir to. This is being discussed at great length, contributions to the discussion being invited and printed. Not only this, but current suicides are being celebrated at length and with abundant illustration, Such a celebration of the morbid side of lirs is_infinitely harmtul, it not directly produc- tive of a death harvest. It is an offense fn the eyes of sane living and all wholesome mental conditions such as fow men of con- sclence would care to be responsible for. S sl ot PEOPL ND THINGS. some A a ty Corea contents itself with polishing off the remains. Some democrats lament because Cleveland has not the courage of his signature. Why should the spirit of mortal be sad? The Balm of Gilead is on the free list AIr. Breckinridge's friends seem datermined to carve a way for his return to congress. The mysterious disappearance of maker Melbourne is the in Cheyenne, At this distance it appears the arrest of Governor Waite only served to rupture his pocumatie tire. The harmonious activity of office holders suggests a “communism of spolls” for ad- ministration purposes. The parallel column cannot be sprung on the record of the democratic congress with- out giving history a wrench. The enterprising spirit of Sioux Falls may be relied on to tender Willie Vanderbilt a site for a palace in that section. Advices from Chinese sources of the high- est responsibility show that the Mongols are Shanghaing the Japs in great s The merchant tailors of the town have sent to l)y(‘_ authorities of the University of G (Siberia) praylng that hereafter no student :tlmll be given his diploma unle he shall first show that he has paid his tailor bills. r Rain- reigning sensation T ———— 1t does not appear that they offered a per- centage on retirns. Somie men are fudged b hire L tor Stewart tained Thompson famy Sid Cooke, democratic candidate for How tenant governor of Kansas, is lald up with a broken leg. The accident merely transtors the pull to the doctors. The widow of Senator Hearst of California is s=ald to be the most heavily insured woman in this country. She has policies amounting to §300,000 on her life The mitres of Russian bishops are tiow made of alminium, reducing the welght from five to about one pownd. The Innovas tion takes considerablo load off their minds. Mr. Monkedick of Covington, Ky, has Just sold a carrlage horse to President Cleve Tand for §400, Mr. Monkedick has the right gort of a name for a place in Mr. Cleveland’s administration. The death I8 annou the e of Shoals the Tawyors they is sald to have res Pl of Breckinridge Ins d of Cella Thaxtor, nt American authoress, on the lsle Mrs. Thawter was the daughter of Thomas B. Laighton of Portsmouth, N. H., in which city she was born, June 28, 1836, In early life she went with him to a new home on Appledore Island, and here the greater part of her life was passcd. Hers, 100, after a short courtship, and when barely 16 years old, she became the wife of her guardian, friend and teacher, Levi M. Thaxter. The story of her carly life she has told in one of her prose works, “Among the Isles of Shoals.” Besides the volumo mentionsd, “Poems,” “Driftwood,” ‘‘Poems for Children,” “The Cruise of the Mystery, and_Other Poems,” have been given to the world. Three sons of Mrs. Thaxter are ce- cupying places of prominence in New Lng- land, ———— SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS, Buffalo Courfer: A only thing a man aking than he record s about takes more pleasire does in making the in s: When a ning can it b debt man_commits sald that of vature? icide by he liquidates iladelphia Record: de matter, Rully? Ttullingstone N Here's a drinking fc Ragson Tatters~ Wat yer shiverin® moss (reading paper) plece 'bout a man w'at died from water. Wat a horrible death. Roston Transcript: She vour pardon, sir; you ha of me. He. the (haughtily)—I beg ve the ndvantage say 1 had. years ago. auntily)~T should T am ow you jilted ten Kate Field's Washington —What induced you to girl when you already liying? "he your e (sternly) this poor four wives marry had Prisoner honor. (meekly)—TForee of habit, Cincinnati Tribune: “So heart while at the Harhe said the Boston maid, “1 swer your question. When you know he's worth a million it's not a question of anat- omy, but rather one of mathematics.” vou lost “UWell, dear,™ can hardly an- our Weekly: “I am surprised, John," sald an cld Jady” when she found the butler helping himself to some old port. “Faith, so am I, ma'am. 1 thought you had gone out,” was the Chleago hurt, Mr: nelghbor, bed [ don’t know how badly the victim of the railwa until I've seen my lawye Tribune Getalong sitting down Are vou very nquired the by badly nxious the side of the m hurt,”” sald cident feebly, Disgusted Suburban Tenant—I thouzht vou said this house would be provided with running water? ndlord—Well, it will be. Just wait until we have a good, healthly rainstorm, and see how the roof leaks. TROUBLE ON HER MIND. Roston Transeript What a far-off look of dreaming Filled her ey With a mystic vagueness, seeming Rapt beyond all earth and sky! ‘When I, random fancies linking, Queried sh Low she said, I was thinking Just what style of hat to buy." e By THE KETTLE. a Wheeler Wilcox fn Youths' Companion. many a house of grandeur, With turret, tower and dome, That knows hot peace or comfort, And does not prove a_home, T do not ask for splendor To crown my daily. lot, But this I ask: a kitchen Where the Kettle's always hot. If things are not all shipshape, 1 do not fume or fre A little clean disorder Does not my nerves upset, But one thing is essential, Or seems 0 to my thought, And that's a tidy kit Where the Kettle's always hot. In my Aunt Hattie's household, Though skies outside are drear, Though all times are dark and troubled, You'll always find good cheer, And in her quaint old kitchen, The very homiest spot, The kettle's always singing, The water's always hot. And if you have a headache, Whate'er the hour may be, There is no tedious waiting To get your cup of tea, 1 don't kinow how she does it, Soi ic she has caught, For the kitchen's cool in summer, Yet the kettle's always hot. Oh, there’s naught else so dreary In any household found As a cold and sullen kettle That does not make a_sound. And I think that love is lacking In the hearts in such a spot, Or the kettle would be singing And the water would be hot. _ Harper's Bazar: 94 Fall >95. The arrival of our new fall goods is now com- plete and you are cordially invited to call and in- spect them. In the children's department and in the men's department—every where, everything is new—correct styles and perfect workmanship. You can see in the windows how they look, like to have you put your hands on 'em. We'd Inspect the fabric, the linings, the sewing, and prove to you that they are all that your eyes tell you they are. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothicr: w. Cor, 15th and Douglas.