Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 16, 1894, Page 12

B. ROSEWATER, Editor, SUNDAY Bes. UBSCRIPTION RMS OF Dally Tiee (without Sunday) One Year......d 8 00 Dally Dee and & 1 &1 Monthe . -] Three Montha Sbtestesere ig Eunday Bee, One Yenr . » Eaturiday Bee, Ome Yenr 18 Weekly Bee, One Yenr . OFFICES, Omaha, The fles Bullding. th Omaha, Corner N_and Twenty-fourth St 12 Pearl ¢ et Chamber of Commeree. 14 and 15, Tribune BlAg. N. W, CORRESPONDENCE, tions relating to newa and edi- ‘ouncl Mufls hicago Office, ¥ w York, Rooms 13 Washington, 107 1° Street | eommunicn - torta) matter ahould be nddrersed: To the Editor BUSINESS LETTERS. Al husiness letters and remittances should be gdiremed ts The Tee Publishing company, Omahn. Drafts, ehecks and postoffic orders to Be made paystie to the order of ompany. T BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. % BTATIEMENT OF CIRCULATION e 15 Trschuck, secretary of the Tioe Pube company, betng duly sworn, sy that wal number of full and complete copie of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Be Printed during the month of August, 180, was i follows sosiernie L8 bl v 817 I 2 o 1] 83 72 i Tistse 2 eduictions for unsoid Feturned Total sold o Joree Dally average net eirculation GBORGE B TASCIUCK this 4th day of N ¥ Notary Pubiic When L proposs to dis- eharge my daty t of my ability. 1 will do everything that can be done to bring wbout a safe pleal and conservi- tion of affairs of our state government and see to it that the faith and credit of the state are maintainod. —Judge Holcomb at Exposition hall, September 11. I am elected to the b eco tive administ You didn't expect summer to last all win- ter in this latitude, did you? — It is again time for the stock jokes about fong hair and foot ball to make their reap- pearance. The two-minute pacer {s on the stretch and the five-day transatlantic ocean steamer will follow in its wake if only given time, homs The Kansas congressmin who is too poor {0 stand for re-election surely fa‘led to make the most of his opportunities while in Wash- ingto President Cloveland must have left his copy of familiar quotations behind him in Washington. Hence the interruption of his letter-writing hobby since he arrived at Buz- zard's bay. m—e Although Mr. Depew is not a candidate for office in the Empire state, he gets just as much fun out of talking about the matter as if he were a candidate successful with both nomination and election. Unless & radical change in the situation of the New York republicans occurs between now and Tuesday, the prospeets of a republi- can state ticket, headed by Levi P. Morton for governor, remain better than ever before. i — It is significant trat the woman who ven- tures to advise girls who have to provide for themselves to get married as scon as the proper opportunity presents has to hide her self behind the bulwerk of a nom de plume. The Gougar woman testified in the United States creuit court for Massachusetts that she was 51 years old and that she had been married at the ¢go of 15 years. Out of con- sideration for her husband the court lleved her <f the necessity of disclosing any more of her private history. re- Senator Peffer characterizes the whole demooratic tariff legislation as a grab game and admits that he took a hand in it him- selt rather than permit his o-lleagues to grab everything unhindered. At the great game ot grab Senator Peffer has not proved him- selt to be much of a shining success. The three or four women newspaper work- ers in Omaha feel that they are mot duly appreciated by the men In the same occupa- tion, and much less appreciated by the women In other occupations, We regret very much that this is so. But so long as they appreciate one another's work they ought not to have cause for complaint. Chairman Wilson in London is consider- ably different from Chairman Wilson in West Virginia. In West Virginla he announces that the now tarlff is not a finality and that the democrats propose to continue their fight for lower duties in the dircction of what they concelve to be tariff reform. In London he declines to say whether the party intends to make any further move in the field of tarift legislation. Why not confess that the democratic party does not know what it wants to do? Those deputy sheriffts who so willingly volunteered their services in the cause of the preservation of peace during the great rallway strike at Chicago and who have nce been laboring to convince the authori- ties that they are entitled to three days' pay for every twenty-four hours that they were in the public service, will have 1o b2 for the present, at least, with the ordinary remuneration. None of them thuught for moment that they were going to earn three salaries at once when they were recruited §0to the sheriff's forces. They were therefore get exactly what was ised them and exactly what they had reason They may possibly appeal to the courts for a decision on this subject, but they will have the sympathy of neither workingmen taxpayers In their efforts, satistied a pro; nor That many of the people in the east have not yet been reconelled to the grant of state- hood to the inhabitants of the western terri- torles crops out every now and then, as, for example, in a recent Issue of the New York Evening Post, which repeats, with reference 1o Idaho, that it is an outrage “‘that a few thousand voters In that frontier region have the right to two representatives o the upper branch of congress.” It is difficult to say whether this is a manifestation of jealousy . at the luereasing political power cf the west or merely 4 prtest against the class of men who represent th& west in congress. The squal represeutation of the states In the senate I8, however, a fixture in the eonsti- tution, and the western states are fixtures | In the union, The eastern people may as well aocept the situation good naturedly. | | bring together a great many people and re THE LOCATION OF CITIES. What s it that determines the location of citien? What makes one spot the chosen abiding place of thousands while another that to all appearances is equally well favored by nature can attract but a few score in- habitants? What influences men to fix upon a particular point for the establishment of a city rather than upon a different one which later experience might have advised? These questions have doubtless puzaled the mind of man ever since the dawn of his- tory disclosed portions of the human race congrogated or in towns and cities of greater importance throughout the east They are still puzzling questions today not yet satisfactorily answered. We have, how- on ‘“The Theory of by Dr. Charles H «d by the American ome new light on is Interesting, it ever, in a monograph ansportation,” written and just publish onoric assoclation, old problem that conclusis pr. cation a oley his not Cooley makes his theory of urban lo- part of his theory of transporta- tion, although he admits that it is extremely 1 and not to be treated as solely a matter of either transportation or economic relations. The first towns in militant com- munities are really places for refuge in times of invasion or attack. Other cities have originated out of religions superstition or out of the supposed sacredness of the land upon which they are built, Still others must ascribe their importance to political forees, the possession of the instruments of government to which the people must resort for the redress of grievances or the transaction of public business. All of these may be contributing forces in the same in stance, but they can be of but minor value in the loeation of modern cities. cluding them, therefore, Dr. Cooley makes this the thesis of his argument, ‘“That population and wealth tend to collect wherever there is a break In transportation.” By a break in transportation is meant an interruption of the movement at least sufficient to cause a transfer of goods and thelr temporary storage. There are two kinds of brealk If the physical Interruption of the movement is all that takes place it 1s a mere mechanical break. If at the same time such an interruption Is accom- panied by 4 change in the ownership of the transport have a br iously of th 1 goods Breaks of first kind are of much less importanca than breaks second kind, although even they, when change in the mode of as from water routes to rail wagons to pack mules, we commercial ak. the ob- necessitate ortation routes or from may quire the use of numerous strueures commercial break is the backbone large clal cities. It of physical interruption of trans- the center of trading money changing, jobbing, banking and other incident industries. 1f the forms of the materials transported are also altered and they are combined or wrought up into more highly specialized articles we have ex- pansion @ manufacturing city. Dr. Cooley insists that the mechanical interrup- tion must, to creato a city, be one between different kinds of transportation, usually be- tween water and land or between deep water and water and points for illustra- tion to the location of all the largest com- mercial cities at the mouths of navigable streams. The cities then from this point of view are due not to the bounty of na- ture, but to her niggardliness in not making all parts of every country equally acces- sible by both land and water from every other part All this is quite instructive, but as we have intimated, it is far from conclusive. Telling us that population and wealth tend to collect wherever there is a break in trans- portation does not explain why they collect at a particular section of the break. It does tell, for example, why in the United States the greater number of our important cities arc on the west banks of the rivers upon The of all our comme where arises the point portation is made the into allow not which they are situated. It does mot tell why New York is the metropolis and not Hoboken or Jersey City. It does not tell why Omaha has forged ahead while Council Blufts has remained practically stationary. With equal accuracy, 100, we might reverse the thesis so far as the introduction of rail- ways is concerned and say that breaks transportation tend to occur where wealth and population have collected. There are certainly coincidences of the two in all the | larger cities of the world, but can we say in with definiteness that they occupy the re- lationship of cause and effect? FOREST PRESERVATION, The more than ordinarily destrue- tive forest fires of the year have served to intensify intirest in the question of forest preservation, if not generally, at any rate among those who have an Intelligent appreciation of the importancs of the subject. At the last meeting of the American Forestry association it was said in one of the principal addresses that it is likely, timber will soon be dearer in the United States than in Europe, where consumption is less. Next to the United States and Russia, Brazil stands third in forvst area, with Can- ada, Sweden and Norway, Austria, Hungary, Germany, the Argentine republic and Franes following in the order named. Hence the im- portance that Americans consider well the claims of forest preservation, for our forest products are to play quite ns important a part in future national progress as in that of the past. The United States burns more fire- wood, builds more wooden fences and erects more wooden houses than any other nation. It was remarked as a hopeful sign in con- nection with this subject of forestry preserva- tion that the intelligent classes are manifest- ore interest in it, and this is un- questionabily trus of the cast. But there is stitl much work to be done in educating the American people up to the importance of to expect. | forestry matters, and it has been suggested that this should be done in the schools, in the colloges, In legislative halls and in the clubs. The medium that will best awaken and edu- cate public sentiment, however, is the press, and everywhere this s doing good service for the cause. The Indifference that has been shown by congress regarding forest preserva- tion has frequently been remarked upon and it 1s in striking contrast to the great concern which European governments have always shown in this matter, In Geirmany, France, Austria and Sweden the public forests are divided into districts, subdistricts and divis- fons. Over each district s placed a forest inspector, over subdistricts are directors and over the divisions are foresters. To thise offielals are entrusted the management and care of the forests and of everythiug pertain- ing to them. It & fire occurs, the forester has been trained to suppress it, and if it gets beyond his control he is authorized to call in the assistance of the nelghbors. Under- | brush is owed to accumulate, tres- passers of all sorts are excluded and a con- stant watching and patrolllng s maintained of the 1,200 to 2,500 acres entrusted to the care of each forcster. It would not be prac- | ticable (n this country, or at any rate, in the | not western states, to apply tations fn operation obvious difficulties in There are of doing %o n Murope. the way that would be foand practically unsurmount- able. But [t wilt hardly be questioned that what has been done In this country for forest preservation falls far short of what m'ght be done, and. as a consequence, there has been an annual loss of frum $25,000.000 to $30,000.000, the larger part of which could have been saved if prop r and adequate pre- fded. The agitation of vigorously maintained until there is such legislation as will protect the forests, as far is practicable to do against fire and pillage cautions had been pr this subject should be 1 it %0, ARATE MUNICIPAL ELECTION: In summarizing the opinions of the fifteen Qifferent contributors to the Independent's symposium wpon municipal government, the ditor _of that enterprising weekly journal ler will observe that “The careful rea al points contributors agi place, they agree that should be entirely sepa national elections. The reason for this they Eive at and few out agreeing that problems of the the and why the The cltfes' propose ays: hera expert which our the first municipal elections ate from and are seve i o I state length can read them with- of reason they are differ no conclusive. from those sufficient be combi mendment which has been 1 debated New York econ stitutional convention, provides for the sepa- and ated in contem- city state, there is elections in the ration of municipal electtons from state the h changes it the expressions of the members have national elections throughout of the which and controversy over some municipai plat been almost unanimous in favor of this par- government ticular feature. The New York news- papers have been unusually active -in its support, and a few of them have even called for the separate submission of this part of the amendment in order that it may not be involved in any contest that may be made over the other proposed reforms The first step in the fight for municipal reform, then to be a fight for separate municipal elections. All the ultimate ob. jects of the movement for good city gov. ernment will be brought within reaching distance when the elections for eity offices and for state and national offices are fixed for different times. So long as city, state and national issues are mingled in the same election, they will constitute almost insur- mountable obstacles to the mplishment Vot an of the reform program. being Influenced by part they to headed by candidates standing upon national or state party platform On the other hand, if they are concerned with the selection cannot help prejudices when make up ticket are compelled a of city officers only, they will be much rore apt to consider the merits and abilities of the candidates without refefence to their party affillation Where experiments with separate munici- pal elections heretofore been made in American cities, the chief objection has arisen from excessive costliness. In Omaha, for example, separate municipal elections prevailed for some time, but were abandoned on this score. The reason for the excessive costliness was that the municipal election was held in addition to the regular elec- tions for state and national offices, and therefore required a duplication of the elec- tion machinery. It was, moreover, held in December of each year, only a month after the preceding election, and at a time when the people were tired of politics and too exhausted to take that interest in city gov- ernment which they owe The plan pro- posed in New York obviates this possible Qifficulty by making munzctpal elections occur as usual in November, but only in odd years, while the elections in the even years are to be devoted exclusively to state and national =i In order to effect this, the terms of all public officers must be made two years or multiples of two years, those of state officers beginning in even years and those of municipal officers beginning in odd ye The terms of the president and members of congress already fit in with It is argued in addition that no harm and much good may come from the readjustment of the terms of city officers, the change will center the responsibility for the selection of good upon a single coming every two years, and enable the forces seek- ing for better government to be better con- centrated rather than dissipate in weak efforts upon elections numerous Separate municipal elections, however, not the goal of municipal reform. government by and efficient upon purely business principles is the real end in vie As a to attaining that end, separate municipal elections will be a valuable if not =n indispensable aid. have s, 8. this scheme. because men election, themse" tw are City honest men means LESSEN WHEAT PRODUCTION. Wheat production is becoming a rrious problem for the American farmer. The low price ta which that grain has fallen and the vigorous competition between the wheat-ex- porting countries, with some of which there has been an increasing produetion for several years, presents a case full of perplexing Aiffi- culties for the wheat growers of the United States. What shall be done to restore the price of wheat to a profitable figure is a troublesome question. In his address at the New York State fair Governor Flower advised the farmers of that stat: to cease growing wheat. Somewhat similar counsel was addressed to the farmers of the country by the late Secretary Rusk in his last annual report. He pointed out that which a our by inducing the expectation of a rapid advance of th:ir wheat to a high value, which very generally entertained three years ago, from a failure to appreciate ihe changed conditions which now surround tho the error mis producers, was arose production and marketing of the world's wheat crop. The commercial supply do:s not depend entirely upon the crops of a few large countries. The ramifications of ecom- merce are so extended and the facilities for internal communication so improved in th various countries of the world that a demand will draw a supply from sources little recog- nized a few years since In summing up eoun- tries of production. The agricultural report of 1892 sald: "“The time has arrived when the American farmer must ccase his efforts to neutralize the low price of his wheat by producing & larger quantity. He is going from bad to worse, and each effort to extri- cate himsel by that m:ans sinks him deeper in the mire of failure. The only proper cours lies 1n a reduction of acreage and production to meet the demand of domestic consump- tion and a normal requirement for exporta- tion. The conditions which have at last over- whelmed cotton grow:rs now threaten wheat growers, and unless there is a speedy redue- tion by choice there will be a further parallel in a reduction by force of circumstanc:s. So far as our own wheat growers are concerned the remedy is in their own hands.” If this advice was good two years ago It is even sby Secrotar: | the forestry Tegu- ! better nnw.“'?" the econditions pointed out i Wk are in much more vigor- ous operation. [ut how shall this counsel be made effecttve? In order to do that there must ghoysome general understanding among Amerjean wheat growers, and that, of course, Is Imipfadticable. The great combina tions can remulmte production in their lines 80 that supply shall not more than keep pace with demand, but it a combination of the to o this. The mattends one, however, which e rtainly ought to command the intelligent and serious attention of ,eur agricultural producers. We referred recently to estimates of the world's yleld of wheat this year showed that it exceeds that of last year, as well as the average of the last ten years, by about 200, 000,000 bushels, and the probability is that it will be even larger than this. is no profit, or very littl>, for the farmer in wheat, at the present and certainly no ad- vance can bs hoped for if production Is maintained. Since it is not practicable to adopt any general plan, the problem which each individual farmer must himself, is not possible to make farmers of the country which price is one solve for INDIVIDUAL DEBT. The article contributed o this issue of The Bee by ex-Superintendent of the Census Rob ert P, Porter upon the census inquiry into in- dividual debt emphas acts elicited by that investigation, and shows that the relative conditicn of the urban and rural inhabitants of the United States Is al- most the of what it was popu larly supposed to have been. While the total mortgage this & the most im ver; reverse {ndebtedness in country amounted in 1890 to the enormous total of $6,019,079,985, represented by 4,771,698 mort- gages, two-thirds cf this, or $3,810.531,554, was loaned on city lots, and only one-thied, or $2,209,148,431, on farm acres. The burden resting ugon the owners of the property in the form of the annual interest charge com- pares even more favorably to the farmers, being $234,789.848 cn city lots and $162,6: 944 on acre property. Express the proportion in any way we choose, in the ratio of mort- gage indebtedness to the number of inhabi- tants, in the ratio of the mortgage indebted- ness to the estimated trus valuation of real property, the relative situation remains in favor of the country as against the city and of the west as against the east Another equally interesting feature is that which disproved t leged connection be- tween distress or misfortune and mortgage indebtedness. The purposes for which the money was b rrowed, as aseertained by the special agents of the census, have been class- ificd under general headings that show nearly 90 per cent of the number ¢f mortgages and nearly 95 per cent of their amount to have been devoted to purchase money, improve- ments, business’anl similar undertakings. Of the remainder only a very small potion was required to make up for losses n°t due to the negligence cf the As a natural consequence of this, the morigage indobted- ness annually ineurred has been greatest in years of general prosperity, when people are acquiring property, ing Improvements and extending business, and least in years of dullness and business stagnation. As Mr. Porter puts it, “‘prosperity and debt march hand in hand’ They are colncidences, not necessarily canise and effect, although they certainly react upon one another. borrowers. ma OCEAN OUTLET FOR THE NORTHWEST A conference ‘of .representatives of the United States and the Dominion boards of trade will meet at Torcnto tomorrow to dis- cuss the proposal that the American govern- ment shall join with Canada in despening the St. Lawrence canals to the sea. This Is a matter in which the northwestern states are ospecially interested, and it is to be hoped they will ba properly represented at the con- ference. The invitations to the conference dwell upon the necessity for twenty feet of water from the m:st lak2 ports to the sea as an outlet for the larger class of vessels now employed in the commerce of the lakes. It is urged that with a twenty- foot channel from the great lakes to the sea acean vessels would yet anchor in the harbors of Toronto, Buffalo, Detroit and Duluth, and the magnificent fleet of steamers now landiocked in the upper lakes would be western Cleveland, voyaging to atl the ports of tha world. The eight states that border on the lakes, with their 26,000,000 of people, and the states of orth and South Dak ta, Minnesota, Kansas Nebraska and Colorado, would all be bene- fited by the carrying of cheap coal up the St Lawrence, and the transportation of the m- mense grain cargoes of the northw 1o the secaboard and to Eur:pe. The proposal is that the canals which would be deepened at the equal expense of the United States and Canada shall be for all future time jointly owned by the two coun- tries, the vessels of each enjoying, of course exactly the same privileges in the canals. It is estimated that a twenty-foot channel to the sea would s0 reduce the freight and increase the price of the products of the northwestern soil that the enhanced value of one year's crop would pay the total cost. A member of the Canadian House of Commons some time ago said in a speech in that b-dy that, allowing only 5 cents Increase on a bushel of grain, deep water ways would add $120 to the value of the crop upon every 160- acre farm in the affected region. From this point of view the very great importance of this matter apparent, and its claim to pub- lic attenticn, particularly in the northwest, cannot easily be overestimated. The govern- ment is now at work on the removal of the obstructions to a channel of twenty-feet depth from Duluth to Buffalo, and a New York paper remarks that it is for the Empire state to decide what is£o be the outlet to the seu- board from thellatter point. 1f the Erie canal Is not to B¢ '/mproved, says that jour- nal, the Dominign ¢f Canada will undoubt edly find the means of affording such a chan- nel to the sea as'wh! attract a very consider- able share of thd trafie. Perhaps this move- ment will ar-use) th people of New York to the expediency '0f( increasing the carrying capacity of the Mtid ‘canal, and there can be no doubt it would gay that state to do so, for there will always: be use for this artificial waterway. o » The demand gt\{3 more urgent from year to year for impriwed gutlets for the pr.duets of the northwest:tht will at enable them to be mafkefe more readily and re- duce the cost of transportation. Under pres- ent conditions there is delay in sending prod- uets to thelr final market which times costly, whils growlng makes lower transportation absolut sary our producers to hold their own in the markets of the world. Various projects suggested from time to time, but none more feasible than that which the Toronto conference will discuss, and none that would not be more costly to this try. It is a project that Is certgin to com- mand serfous consideraticn, and the delibera- tions cf the conference will be regardad with great iuterest t down once is some- to enable have been oun; New York City theater managers are con- siderably exercised over notices received by them from the fire department that they will | no longer be permitted to sell general admis- sion tickets without providing the holder thereof with a seat. The notice is not this in 80 many words, but it is substantially the same There is a law the statute books in that state which prohibits the obstruction of the aisles and passageways in any p public entertainment of the fire depn ace of the duty officials in each city and makes ment to see that it is enforced. The New York officials interpret the law to mean all sp not occupled by seats which the spectators ‘e accustomed to use for ingress and egress. This is practically all the tree space fn most of the theaters and just the space which is sold to the holder of a general ticket. The success of a show d upon the number of people who ean be forced o put up with “standing only.” The sale of general admission tickets is also an fmportant factor in the profits of the different It therefore natural the theatrical managers (o protest against the new order as it s for the public to obfect to such a blockading of the aisles as to render admission really som ouses. is as for the exits Inaccessible in the event of fire or panic. Three hundred persons engaged in the same occupation can, if they make the effort e work they and to improve their own conditions. three hundred the public of this city should join together in an asso do much to promote t are doing If the teachers i schools clation for their mutual benefit and should take the interest in the association which is to be expected of them, they would b able 1o make a considerable impression upon the life of the community, where now their individual efforts are almost wyerlooked. We know that the public school teachers hav from time to time co-operated for particular purposes, such as securing a single lecturer, but their action has always been temporary. and permanent assocla the other hand, regular course of lectures and public enter of ter season. A movement backed by vization would b assured of success from the beginning In other cities associations of this kind have n A strong teachers tion, on wonld develop a educational cha tainment an university extension such an oy very a very prominent place in educational circles There is a field in Omala waiting to be occupled. The public school teachers ought to be imbued with a sufeient feeling of common Interest to come forward to fill it dent of the Phil the The Washington correspol adelphia Ledger calls attention (o fact that the administration has been favorable, it anything, to the efforts of Congressman Breckinridge of Kentucky to secure his re. turn to congress. Some seventy-five officials holding offices in the departments at Wash ington had no difficulty absence and starting for Kentucky with the in securing leaves of approval of their superiors to aid in the nm- ination of Breckinridge. It also well known that the machinery upon which Mr. Breckinridge has along hoped for success fs in the hands altogether of the federal office holders in his district, who have been ac- tively engaged in working for his interests without the slightest interference on the part of the administr It will be remembered that Congressman Breckinridge was very ac. tive in his participaticn in the presidential campaign, and even shared the honor of the speaker’s program with Mr. Cleveland at the celebrated Lenox lyceum meeting, where Mrs, Cleveland occupied one of the boxes and ap- plauded the bargain and corruption cry raissd en’ that occasion. The present attitude of the administration is doubtless Mr. Breckin- ridge's reward tion. Rev. Dr. achieved through his remarks occa- sion of the unveiling of a confederate monu- ment on last Memorial day, has again broken loose with another tirade upon the north and another eulogy of the cause for which the southern soldicr fought. Such ranters as Cave are entircly harmless, because their sentiments are disclaimed by all the reputable people of the souti. When he rts that the southern were more loyal and true hearted patriots in their efforts to tear assunder the union than those who shed their blood and risked their lives for its preserva- tion, and asserts it in the name of upholding the truth of history, all we can do Is to pity his Ignorance of the true conception of loy- Cave, who notorlety Mtemperate on ass soldlers alty and patriotism. Fortunately for the country, his ideas on this subject are not shared by any number of its citizens north or south. Opposed to Everything. Philadelphin. Ledgor. The Free Thinkers of Ki demand the resignation of President the president finds himselt com- pany when he falls under their displeasure The same Free Thinkers denounce the church, the bible, *ty and the marriage jaws. Anybody approved by them would have just grounds for grieviance disdel i Too Little Moliduy-Making. New York World We work too hard in America, We push too much. We crowd each other 100 much We are too anxious to do it all today, W are too fearful of trusting anything to to- morrow. _ Self-reliance a assertion are becoming our national vices, and noth- ing will do more to check and regulate them than more halidays, more play time, more time for enjoyment, more days in the year to be sociable and friendly with each other. Where Are the Villard Millions? Chicago Herald Appearances Indicate a disposition on the part. of the Northern Pacific railroad kers to make Henry Villard the scape whole affuir. But it is rot easy to see how the failur Villard to account for some $700,000 which is traced (o his hands satisfactorily answ the guestion ame of all the $20,000,000 cr 30,000,000 which disappeared in one way and another among the men associated in the ifferent corporations that became bankrupt as to what be under their management Sample of American Energy. Hardware. In the year 1883, when the first contract was signed for the of the United States navy, there was not a mill in the y ndry 1 made plates requ there was no fo pecitlcations; [ it the work, no forges for the same, and no plant that -could make the armor plates. Since that tf there have been brought forward shops and yards that can produce in any quan- tty, ‘and of the highest quality, any work in steel, brass or iron that thie new navy demands - Sovereign |ives and Learos, New York T Soverelgn, as well as Debs, has shown that he can live and learn. At Buffalo he declured his determined opposition to strikes, and sald that at best a temporary vietory only could be won by striking. This is significant enough, but he weni further, and asserted that all strikes are illegal all strikers are criminals. Hoth Sov and Debs have a considerable follow it to be hoped that they will strive earnestly 10 impress this doctrine upon all Knights of Labor and all members of the American Rallway union. - Ahe Irrigation Agltation. Chicago Record As yet mo plan has been formulated by which any Keneral system of irrigation could be carrled out, and neither quantity of water required nor its Droper manage ment has been determined. The [dea seems to have become genersl that the more im- portant question before thess conventions Is how to secure an appropriation from the government and the best means of obtain- | ing control of the arid lands. The idea of irrigating the vast arid region of the coun- try is as yet too gigantic and vague to be attractive except to those who would par- ticipute in the job, but it may be possible to get a government appropriation of a tew millions, and interstate conventions may contribute to that end PEUPLE AND THINGS. General Humidity is again In the saddle. The “blows” of the pugilists are wearying, but otherwise harmioss Bmperor William showld Gormanize his speeches before ecxercising his ‘“leave (o print.” Mr. Corbett is not half as anxious to smoke out the African as he pretends. Free adver tising pays better, The king of Corea does not appear to have any divine rights which Japan or China are disposed to respect A stray cyclone yanked a passenger t from the track in Missourl and set it, b tom up, in the di The incident tends t disturb the friendly relations existing be tween Missouri and Kansas The spectacle is presented in aln Minnesota ol a democratic candidate for congress ubsti- tuting a plattorm of his own for that on which he was nominated. His action dove- tails with the party’s national policy. In Clinton, Mass.. there is living, hearty enough for farm work though 90 years old, a lineal descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in New England. He is the fifth generation removed from Peregrine Th H. Hood, known as the ‘‘Hoosier Blue Man,” died the other day in Jefterson, Ind. His skin was as blue as an indigo bag The false complexion was brought on many years ago by taking large doses of nitrate of silver as a cure for epilepsy. He was cured of the malady, but the remedy turned his skin blue, An unknown genius, or an aggregaiio unknowns, have hit pon a pian to shock a Chicago policenian. 1t is an electrical appli ance warranted {0 repulse the finest should they attempt to raid the tiger's den withont permission. In case the visit is a friendly one the mechanism is 5o arranged us yield “a shin of | | | SECULARSHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Minneapolis Times will never again Rev. M. D. Shutter sk any one the stereotyped question, “What do you take me for?" He has been taken for a Canuck sneak thief. This §s not the only time Dr. Shutter has been taken for somebody else. Minneapolis Jour The populist party 8 Aragging the preacher into politics, neck and In lowa it has nominated clergymen for congress in five districts. The popullsts run to preachers because they cannot Ret lawyers, and they nust have some one to do v talking Kansas City § A new sect bhas been started in St. Louis, the faith of which Is an- nounced as “salvation, sanctification and di= vine healin This means a good life ¥nd miracles e world generally has a general respect for real goodness and has no tion to miracles. The new church prosper. Chicago Tribune: Those Towa Chrlstian Sclentists who object to having physiology taught in the public schools on the ground that there fs no such thing as a material body, ought to quit their absurd habit of eating. They are pandering to an exploded superstition that there is such a thing as a mat stomach Boston Globe: A church row in a_neighs boring town is said to be aggravated becauss the pastor publicly reprove the young foks for gikeling, courting and passing notes dur- ing services, Giggling is an inalienable right of ull young women; courting must always remain’ in eternal harmony with the evers lasting fit of things, and passing notes does not the statutes of Massachu- setts or the constitution of the United States. But perhaps a bott:r place for all these acts can be found than in a church during public service. - LONG SERMO) SALVE FO. At a theeting of the sitmni asasciation. of smerville Journal: It fsw't true that all All-Hallows college in Chicago last week | Hoston girls wear spectacles, but some of RU. Rev. Richard Scanncll, bishop of Omaha, | (MM A%e spectacles ‘when they get astride was elected president. All-Hallows is one of | N the noted theological colleges of Ireland, and | Chicago Inter Ocean: “Perkins s al- it is estimated there are botween 500 and §00 | Ways bousting of being an athicte. What of its alumni in the United States at the | SRR ltiyxisa ik bk . L “he has cultivated magnifice present tim nerve by runnig into debte er oot Helen M. Gougar sued Congressman Morse of Magsachusetts for $26,000 damages which [ Good News: Wife—That new girl sleeps she clalms to have sustained by reason of a | e & 1og, and I never can get her up in letter written by Morse charging her with | loea) bt the hopo Bk struck by a bright being on the pay roll of the democracy. The | gt Bt L suit affords the democracy reasonable ground | Post: “The weuther, Marla—"* for nction against Helen. The decision of | he, besmn. s et es” ‘she interrupted, coldly, “I no- ) a a ticed fast night there. wis too rauch hus _From this time forward members of the | midity in youe breath New York con nal convention must work without pay. Tie Unit fixed by the [ Cinclanati el Simmons—How = was egislature, September 15, has not expedited | (1o MW Ministers wermon? - Timmins—~ e ; ; | Most of 1t was new, but 1 ot cats business, and the members propose creating | tain hie tole. (he ‘Gpening sentoheen foom a deficiency and ask the next leglslature 1o | the bible liquidate. Out of 300 amendments proposed | * only ffteen have been ordered fo third cead: | Alchison Globe: — Very otten mun i diss Ing. Probably 200 have been defented in | SoVSTS, that there (s a ood deal of the committep, 80 that a large number remain | hiy duty to sit down on. o e hinks e t0 be disposed of. Measured by the tone of | the press, the work of the convention so far | ‘1 hear th be does”not. meet. papular approval, 1t s likely | ere e Tou e the amendements when presented to the | W1¥ i G s il voters will provoke a battle on party lines— | 510 With the ashes of the grate. republicans for and democrats against. The | Harpers Dazar: ‘What's the matter with lutter claim the apportionment clause s a | Jenpiie, Harlgw =" o Msome ‘mehtal A rouble. He suffers from & complote. loss & L A of memory.” “Sufforst Jove, Re's i great MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC tuck, considering his past ; troit Free Press: attie—Don't you Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper, is ele- | think (harlie Jinkic(s rara avis? ° vating a Bowery stage with a tank and fire Clara—Not at all show. Tattie (surprised) not? Miss Mattle S. Starns has heen appointed | Giars (WIth scorm—liccause [ never did teacher in oratory at the fowa Wesley. versity. The London Guildhall 2,000 female pupils lessons‘on the violin. The beautiful romantic play ‘“Across the Potomac,” will be presented in an en- tire new dress this season. The novelties announced by the theatrical managers of Italy include fifty-seven operas, thirty-two operettas and ninety-six plays. Maurice Barrymore was recently married to Miss Mamie Floyd. The new Mrs. Barry- more is a daughter of the late William F Floyd, stage manager of Wallack's. There is now playing in Paris a Russian horn band, each horn being capable of pr ducing a single note only. The band pro- duces the effect of one equipped with ordinary instrumants, Verd next production will consist of a serfes of eight prayers to the Madonna, for chorus and orchestra, words by Boito, They will be presented at a full mass at next vear's festival of San Antonio, Padua. May Howard is said to have the best bur- sque company on the road this season interested in the new big specialty under the management of Morris , entitled “Morris’ Entertainers. It is said that Paderewski made $250,000 while in the United States, and that Ysaye, the lebrated violinist, has been engaged for an American tour, which will begin in Octo- ber, on even higher terms than those Pade ewski received More than 400 persons were this year en- gaged in the Beyreuth performances of “Tannbauser,” “Lohengrin” and *Parsifal.” There are five conductors, twenty-nine lead- ing singers, a chorus of eighty-eight, a ballet of sixty-five and an orchestra of ninety- eight. One cf the sp=cial effects in “Off the Barth'" is a sky of gold. This is the appearance the sky Is supposed to give to those who live on the moon, and as no one has ever been there n uni- of Music has about 300 of whom are taking it will be hard to call the author down on this or any other seeming idiosyncrasy in his play. She | nk o goose was a rare bird INDICATIONE , that's why? little the Wash Star These are the days when the slender man feels That he wouldn't mind having a more fat When the fall overcoat is treading on heels Of the neglige shirt and the trolley straw hat. - - COURAGE. Colla Thaxter. Because T hold it sinful to despond And will not let the bitterness of life Blind me with burning tears, but look yond Its ‘tumult and its strife. Because T 1ift my Where the sun breezes blow, By every ray and every raindrop kissed hat God's love doth bestows head above the mist, shines and th Think you I find no bitterness at al No burden to be borne like pack? Think you there are Because I keep th n back? be- broad Christian’s o ready tears to fall Why should 1 hug life's ills with cold re- serve To curse m: all who love me? Nay! A thousand times more good than I deserve God gives me every day. And in ea one of these rebellious tears Kept bravely back he makes a rainbow shine; Grateful 1'take his sligh Nor any doubts are min Dark skies must are past, One golden day redeems a weary year patient I listen, sure that sweet at last Will sound hijs voice of che Then vex me not with chidi st gift, no fears lear, and when the clouds ;. Let me be. I must be glad and grateful to the end. 1 grudge not your cold —mi you The powers of light befriend. and darkness a people, little sum because he egonomizo. wiio used to think that $35 to $50 was about the propar caper for a business suit. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH OR YOUR MONEY BACK. A streak of hard luck is often the best thing that can happen to a person or Experience is the greatest teacher, and many a man has learned to save a neat had to There are people Now $15 will | get a smashing good suit at the factory [that's us] | and for $20 or $25 a real fine suit ean be had of the i makers [tha i look at it. | | WHAT FASHION FANCIES WE us again] worth $40 to $50. Prosperity comes from saving money. | Did you see the corn at our corner? Take a URNISH Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, 8. W, Cor, 5th and Douglas.