Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1894, Page 12

. ROSEWATER, BAltor. P - = RYELY MORS Dafly Beo twith, Daily Teo and Bix Monihs Thres Montiia Bunday Raturdny T Weekly Dee, One Year 5 OFFICH ymahy, The Bee Buildin Bouh omiia, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Gounell Biuits, 12 Pearl Streot Chichgo Ofite, 317 Chamber of Commerce New York, itgoms 13, 14 and 16, Tribune Didg. Whshington, 107 F Street, N, W. CoRiy D i All communications relating to newa and edi- torial matter ahoold be addresed: To the Baitor, RUSINESS LETTERS AN business Ietters and remitinnces should be addres " o Piblishine company. i 3 and poaloie mede I IING COMPANY. NT OF CIRCULATION. uck, secretary of The I Hishing company. heing Auly sworn. sass the uctun] number of full and complete of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday printed during the month of Auj R follows 1 21,980 . me29 2817 21,842 24,045 @ Pub. that Toinl ... Fi¥iri bt Less deductions for unsold and coples MWecadase Total wold fly average Tet cire * Sunday. GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 4th day of September. 159 (Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. We rejolco In the quickened consclence of the prople concerning political affairs, and will hold all public officers to a rigld re- sponsibility and cngage (that means pledge that the prosecution and p who betray officlal trusts thorough nn: lican Platfo shment of all shull be swift, unsparing.—National Kepub- Wonder if China she is whipped. will ever know when president has found the place befitting his station at last. It is the governorship of a great state. When it comes to a fight between two glgantic combinations as to which shall Dbe the only whisky trust, the public will look on with comparative uncon- cern. The American climate does not seem to affect the visiting British cric] detrimentally. Climatie conditions bear only upon American athletes who are visiting Britain. It is evidently not one of the charac- teristics of Supervising Architect O'Rourke to give up a luerative govern- ment position gracefully. But he is not alone in this characteristic. According to the latest treasury de- cision mnder the new tariff the presi- dent can import free of daty all the salt necessary for curing the great catches of fish that he may bring in. The work of the eleventh census is expected to be entirely completed with- in five months, but the series known as the War of the Rebellion Records has still an indefinite number of yolumes in sight. Secretary Morton will be able to ex- patiate on the benuties of free trade to & very sympathetic audience when e gets up to speak at the banquet to be given to- Chairman Wilson in London this wee Brazil wants to make a loan of only £8,000,000. Should it be uuable to se- eure the money, sve presume the presi- dent will be accused of being a populist and of having thus, by the name alone, ruined the credit of the republic. Winspear, Kasper and Balcombe of the Board of Public Works went down to Buffalo leaded with facts and figures about Omala. They told the Buffa- lonians that Omaba is the only town now on the map west of Chicago. Census Certifiente Schwenck i8 more than usually active in Seveath ward politics, It is scarcely probable that my reputable candidate will want to risk his chances Dby permitting Schwenck to smuggle himself into the county convention. Senntor Brice may once more resume his residence in New York. All that his allegiance to Ohio demands is that he shall devote cnough attention to the state which he is supposed to repre- sent in the cenate to prevent himsclf being censured by his party convention. After witnessing the doubtful success with which the Atelison receivers have Dbeen managing that road, no wonder the train robbers came to the conclu- sion that they could seize it and con- duet it with greater profits to them- selves, if not to the stockholders and bondholders. We are now told that Tom makes no pretensions of being better than lis party. We should hope not. If he did he would be pretending that his party was worse than he is. Alas for the party that, by misfortune, falls 80 low. The redemption of the party lles In repudiating Majors, Majors The roilroads ought to objeet to the new army ovder coucentrating the troops near the larger cities. It may ~ prevent them from carrying the soldiers Afrom one end of the United States to the other every time there is n threat of trouble in some corner of the coun- try. This would be a calamity indeed! Judge Holeomb repeats his emphatic dexnial of the charge that he 1s or Las been a Burliigton attorney and has at last forced the newspaper which origi- nated the falsehood to print his denial, ~ This will not deter the railrond organs throughout the state from continuing to put forth the statement as true. Mis- yepresentation is the foundation of the pumd candidate’s campalgn. SunDAY Bm‘ [ A8 UTHERS SEE US. 0, wad some power the giftie gle us To see ourselves as others see us. This widely-quoted couplet of Burns' is applicable alike to lndividuals and to communities. The Impressions which our city makes upon a visitor, especially when formed with the ald of a friendly eye, are generally better ealeulated to show both our weak and our strong points than o mount of observation by people who are residing permanently in our midst. Omaha ought not, there- fore, to let pass unnoticed the oppor- tunity to see hersclf as others see her given by two visitors from the east who have very recently spent a short while in onr midst. The first of these visitors is Prof. A. P. Marble, soon to install himself in the superintendency of our public sehools, who has contributed to the Wo r an account of his western The second is M William E. Curtis, the Washington cor- respondent of the Chieago Itecord, for- merly chief of the Burean of Ameriean Republies under the State department, a man of travel and of wide experience, who has included a sketeh of Omaha in his lotters to his paper. T'rof. Marble confines himself chiefly to the descriptive, but in describing what he has seen he cannot help em- phasizing the features which have Nim most foreibly. He is pa v imyp o with the regularity of our streets, the substantial character of the pavements in the business por- tion of the city, with the public build- ings, and, above all, as might naturally Dbe expected, with the appearance of our public €chool honses. The High school in particular, on the old capitol grounds, , he says, one of the fin in Ameriea, 1d no other within his knowledge has so spacious and elegant a campus. The pride which the people take in the schools is also one of the first things which comes to his notice. Prof. Marble s to the facility with which great banks of earth arve cut down and the artificial surface thirty and forty feet below the natural su oon made by the sun as fertile as before fact to which Mr. Curtis also ady: The one point of criticigm which the pro fossor I to offer is that Omaha has been spread over such a vast territory and the clusters of residences in the various iditions" ve Dbeen sep ted into ahivost isolated communities. There is something more of a critical spivit manifested by Mr, Curtls in his letters. He also the wonderful growth of Omaha and ber varied indus- tries. He sees much to admire in our public buildings, particularly the school houses, which for architectural beauty and picturesquencss of location he thinks cannot be equaled in any other eity. What M. Curtis objects to is the ircegularity of our business blocks, which display the incongruities and un- evenness so ¢haracteristic of all new cities, The old two-story frame strue- ture in an apprehensive state of decay still destroys the effect of the magnifi- cent business block that stands beside it. The fine residenc of which he has discovered not a fesw, are hidden in so many different quarters of the city that a person has to inquire to find them. They are scattered all over the town and there is not a single street of even or regular excellence. Omaha is the city of “magnificent distances,” not Washington. And he once more repeats what has been repeated so often, that Omala's depot facilities would be a disgrace to a town of 5,000 inhabitants. We may not find anything very new in the observations made by these vis- itors of which we were not previously aware, but they may enable us to re- arrange our parspective according to disinterested advice. It will never be too late for Omaha to learnsfrom the experience of visitors who kindly volun- teer their opinfon of our cit notes JAPAN AMONG TIE POWERS. The world has long taken a lively interest in Japan, and this has been arcatly inercused Dby recent events, which have most conspicuously demon- strated the superiority of the Japanese among the people of the Orient. The country has n most interesting and re- markable history, but it is only with that portion of it which relates the progress of the last forty years—the growth of the new Japan which the general reader will have any interest. With this advance of “the Land of the Rising Sun,” the United States has had wuch to do, this country having exerted o greater influence there, per- haps, than any other. In 1853 Com- modore Perry was sent on an expedi- tion to Japan, which resulted in a treaty being wade between that coun- try and the United States—the first treaty entered into by the Jupanese and lly the beginning of the re- markable change in the political and coming conditions of the empire that has since taken place. Within the next half a dozen years treaties were concluded with England, Russia, Prussia, France and other nations, and the evidences of the great awakening in Japan, so far as political and mate- vial a were concerned, began to be manifested. the imperial government was from the old to the new form, and the work of reform was resumed it vigor. The establishment of tic relations with western powers aund the education of Japanese students in eign - countries were of the reform move- ment, and hey w fully carried out. From this time Japan assumed a place as an important member of the family of fons, which she has steadily im- proved. Her political institutions are modeled largely upon. those of the United States. The peopls enjoy more freedom than those of any other Asiatic nation,there is an excellent educational system which is generously d for by the government, and the press is allowed a large degree of liberty. The extension of commerce and the foster- ing of industries are the constant con- cern of the government. In short, the Japan of today is doing everything practieable to advance eivilization in the Orlent. At the same time the militozy necessities of the empive, as events show, have not been noglected, and what has been accomplished in building up a military and naval es- tablishment is not less extraordinary than the attainment in other direc- tions. The ablility, the skill and the courage that have characterized the op- erations of the Japanese in the Corean war have surprised the world, which it Is now apparent had greatly unde estimated the military spirit, the pa- triotism and the bravery of these peo- ple. The signal victories won by the Jap- anese on lend and water have opened the eyes of the world to the et that Japan has attained the position of a power that must hereafter be veckoned with. he world's balauee of power is changed by this Asiatic revolution, and lienceforth in the Pacific this island empive will speak with anthority. Eyven Russia will have to respect this uew great power in the affairs of the t, and England is no longer able to it with indifference. Japan will henceforth command the attention and respect of the nations, and this means much in the future polides of the world. KNOIW A HAWK PROM A HANDSAW. The Travcling Men's League of Ne braska has resolved to “stand up and be counted for Nebraska,” and to do that vote the straight republican ticket because the democrats have surrendered to the popu- lists. Nebraska business Interest have suffered more from populist legislatures than from grasshoppers, droughts, or any other calamity that ever befell the state.~~Inter Ocean. It is an old adage that a lie will travel seven league while truth is put- ting on its Doots. “The Nebraska Traveling Men's lengue is not a politi- cal association. It has passed no 1y lutions to support any ticket or any candidate. Eleven members of the league, without authority or cousent of iy of their associates, met at Lincoln the other day and promulgated a string pases to which they tacked resolution to support Tom Majors for governor. This is the Dbasis and the mly basis of the report which the Inter Ocean has seen fit to print as an ex- vression of the entire membership of the traveling men's association. Ne- braska commercial travelers kunow a hawk from a handsaw. POLITICAL MOGRAPHER, The Nebraska statutes provide that overy judge of the district court may appoint an official stenographer or re- vorter who shall be competent to take down and transcribe oral testimony of witnesses in court. The theory upon which stenographers were introduced into the court room was that the in- creased rapidity with which business is tiansacted by them saves time and woney, both to state and litigants. The tem is both economical and Lighly advantageous. The position of official court stenographer is one which requires the highest degree of skill in the short- hand profession. The responsibility at- taching to it is such that incompetency ot be excused. The reporter's ree- ord must be accurate, or it becomes worse than no record at all. It some- times happens that the turning point in a suit involving many thousands of dollars hinges upon one answer of an lmportant witness in a case, and an innceurate report of the testimony would prove disastrous to one or the other party to the suit. ; Within the past few years candidates for the bench have in some instances traded appointments for votes. No leed was paid to the reporter’s fitness for the duties of the office. A young man In York county was recently ap- pointed officlal court reporter. He had no knowledge of shorthand, and se- cuved a substitute to do the work, di- viding the salary with him during the time required for the appointee to pick up a smatt of the art. The place was secured through the Iutervention of influential men who had accom- vlished the election of a judge. In the Omaha district at least three reporters have been appointed during the past five years whose only qualification v their penchant for ward politics. Their ability to perform_the exacting dutles of the office was not considered. Taw- yers are continually protesting against this growing abuse, whicli fmperils the interests of their clients, but they dare not openly make such protests lest they offend the court. Shorthand is an exact sclence. A re- porter can either report verbatim the proceedings of a trial, or he cannot. If De cannot he has no business in court. Any competent stenographer knows that an average speed of 200 words a minute is required to accurately report court proceedings. Such qualification cannot be acquired in a month, or a r, and many so-called stenograph- ers can never attain it. It is fighly es- sential therefore that all applicants for the position of court reporter should be reauired by the judges to stand a Isfactory examination as to competene The beneh owes this much to litigants, These appolntments must not be par- celed out as the reward of partisan service. To do so is to degrade the court and put a premiumn upon incom- petency. LOCATION OF COUNTRY ROADS, Harper's Weekly of a week ago cites a county in New Jersey where when funds were provided to undertake a sys- tic improvement of its country ds it was discovered that in nearly ory instance the ronds in the county were precisely where they shonld not be. In this particular case the engineer who had been retained reported that of the $526,000 available half would be most advantageously used in relocating the roads and in reducing the grades where relocations might be impossible. The point which it Is songht to make {s that the proper location of country ronds is equally important, if not more important, than the improvement of them after they have once been laid out. Mistakes in construction can usually be easily remedied; mistakes in lc lon can be vemedied only by expensive reloca- tion and they are bound to make the work of lmprovement both ditficult and of comparatively little value. It Is to be noted that when a railroad is to be pro- jected the best attainable engineering talent is secured. But with a country road any two or three practical farmers are generally thought to have skill enongh to deterfifine where it should go. As a matter of fact, we are told, it is more difficultyand requires more skill to properly hrnrn a country road than to fix the line for a rallrond. The road builder has many more things to con sider than IIWJI'\ lway engineer I'he latter,” to qubtd the language of the writer in Harper's Weekly, “makes his rond as nearly an air lfne as he can with the means at his command. e can es. tablish his grac with deep cuttings and high embankments. He can have long trestles and ean tunnel nuder the hills, reaching i natural sur only at places for stufions. But the rondway engineer has a nuch wore difficult prob: lem. Cuttings and embankments, except for very short distauces, are out of .the uuestion, and tunnels and trestles en tively inadmissible, for his road must he accessible through pretty nearly its e tire length from both side or other- wise it could not be approachied by those who wish to use it. He must therefore always keep very nearly the natural surface of the ground. And yet he shionld net have much greater lati- tude in his alignment than the railway builder, and in grades he is also re- stricted, for the maximum should never be greater than 5 and preferably 4 per cent. Heavier grades are an impediment to teaflic which smooth stone pavements cannot overcome, for only half-loads can be nled over them.” The states in this section of the coun- try are not as a rule much troubled with rvoad location problems. Where the land comprises for the most part open roun try, with only slightly undulat- ing prairies, the air line road along the section line fulfills the conditions as well as any. Along the rivers and wherever the hills become ah appreciable feature, howeyer, the same difficulties that are complained of in the east are met. Here the sec- tion line road is invariably over hill and through dale, when a route can . planned that gives regular and te grades. The question of ex- se for old ronds is one of easy math- ematical caleulation. Relocation is ad- visable wherever there is a plain pre- ponderance of saving to be made. With new roads there is no such complica- tion. The properly located road is al- ways the best road. Proper location is the first essential of good roads. The New York constitutional conven- tion has agreed to submit to the people, among other proposed amendments to the constitution, one which will permit the legislatuge to provide by law for “the ction of voting ma- chines in $iPlaee of the paper ballots now in° use. The clause provides that “all elections by the sens, except for such town offi- cers as may by law be directed to be otherwise chosen,.shall be by ballot or by such other method as may be pre- seribed by lajy, frovided that secrecy in voting be preserved.” Voting ma- chines have already been used in some of the minor elections in New York state which fre not covered by the constitutional Feqnirement of the ballot and have given quite general satisfac- tion. The oppesition o the amendment in the constitutional convention was fairly strong, some of the votes cast against it being explained on the ground that the machines are liable to get out of order and thus frustrate an entire election, Unless the constitution shall be amended as proposed voting ma- chines eannot be employed for general elections in New York for years to come, or until the next constitutional revision. The Omaha reporter of the Lincoln Journal charges that at least S0 per cent of the federal office hold in Omaha and South Omaha were working for the Bryan and Holcomb ticket in the county primaries Thursday. When this distorted fake percolates down to Washington there will be a council of war among departmental axmen, and the Omaha administration men will not only have to prove the report to be false, but must also suffer the heartburnings of the vanquished. Thus will Chairman Martin and his little bunch of faithful followers be bowed down under a double load of grief. They fought nobly—but what were the stakes? Slmply to de- termine what local faction should have the honor of delivering a few thousand democratic votes to one or the other of opposing parties. Under such circum- stances no wonder simon-pure demo- cratic principles have taken to the neighboring woods. One of the members of the Harvard university faculty who was overhasty in taking sides with the prosecution in the recent investigation of Prof. Ely by the regents of the University of Wisconsin has come out with a most abject apol- ogy, which places its author in an al- together unenviable light. The incident merely goes to show that there is al- together too much latent jealousy, if not actual hostility, between the facul- ties of the different American universi- ties, and that the one is ready to believe on the slightest provecation almost any unsubstantiated charges brought against the other. A professor who confesses to having formed and ex- pressed an opinioh on this case before he was In possession of any of the facts makes a strong bid for an investigation of himself by the {rustees of the college in which le is employed. e Hungry for the Last O Waghiggton Post. A great many apthors are engaged in telling the public how they came to write their first book.” What the public Is most interested in is' a8 to the time some of them will agrees to; write their last one. o e St A Material Difference, Somesville Journal. ne of the important differences between statesman and & politician is that the tesman can tell you what course of ion should be taken in any great emer- geney for the public good, and the poli- ticlan can tell you how to manipulate the caueuses. The Victorious Japs. St. Louls Republic. Bither Japanese generalship Is extraor- dmurlley good or the standard of Chinese bravery Is disgustingly low, It is not often in the history of the world's warfare that we encounter such a complete victory as panese loss conside: e e merted that the Rumber of Chinese killed, wounded and captured will reach 16,000, If this thing is repeated often the Chinese emperor will pot Le long In sulng for peace or golng out of the em- pire business, HIANKA POLITIOS. I was born a democrat and expect to die one, That the fundamental principles of the democratle party. are true has always been as clear Lo me as my religion. Still, I nave become persuaded that it meeds to be licked in this state and licked often. It 18 only eowardice that prompts its best spirits 10 keep theit mouths shut. The reason why the democratic party should be licked is be- cause it has not the courage of its convie- tions, The party stands by the people--that the law of Its belng requires that. If I did not believe this I would not be a democrat fitteen minutes. 1t some of its professed Jeaders in this state who wear its livery are democrats, then I am not one and I have been an ass all my life, I refer to those men-—thelr names are famiisr to you—who for twenty-five years in politics have worked on this program, to wit: First, themselves; second, the railroads; third, the democratic party. The reason why we have no democratic party in this state—why so many of its mem bers have Joined the popullsts—is because the party has been betrayed by its self appointed leaders, has been torn away from the people and coupled like a caboose to the end of the railroad train. The machine ha ruined the party. The people are not in il with the machine as it has existed much of the time the past twenty-five years. Solitlis “*4t the party which should have commanded Nebraska has been kept a miserable fragment Dby those who did not want to see the people rulo—who were not for the ple—but first, for themselves; sec ondly, for the railroads; thirdly, for the party. The membership would nol stand this, They have been driven off into the popullst party. The party has been assassinated by fts professed leaders. 1 need not do more here than call attention {0 the fact that the raflroad and capitalistic party of the country has seized our flag and ignored our laws, fnsomuch that the peo- ple are not in it. The populist party is a protest against this. ‘The republican party is worso off than the democrat'c party. The masses of that party are patriotic men; this s true of the democratic party; but the party machines have utterly betrayed them What are we going to do about it? Are we going on voting tho republican and demo- cratle tickets set up by the machines? Are we sfraid of being called bolters? Detter that than cowards! Both democrats and republicans have a r'ght to say “the people shall govern.” They have a right—yea, it is their duty—to go and get that flig and put it on the ramparts, to retire from control of public affairs soulless corporations! Thelr government is a more humillating tyranny than that against which our sires offered their blood snd which their sons should throttle with their ballots. Two great forces are now moving in this country tending to restore our government to the people; to vitalize laws; to make <all parties obey them! These forces should be welcomed by all patriotic people to the ex- tent that this Is their tendency. These two forces are the populist party and the labor- ingmen’s party, now rising up all over the lad. Both of these fcre s are against trusts, corporate aggressions and monopolies. What more do you want? That they may stand also for other special issues that we do not accept should not prevent us from weleoming them to the accomplishment of the great de- mend of the hour—to that which our own parties are unequal—the restoration of power to the people; the vitalizing of our laws; the establishment of obedience to law! Let the small fry partisans who are office seekers bleat and howl. Let us stand for the fundamental principles of our govern- ment, and ask them what they are going to do about it! Are not principles more than names? Why should we stickle for names, only to be used by the machines to throttle prineiples? The labor classes are now aroused They were never so determined. They are arraying themselyes In a solid body against the corporations to make them obey the laws. They have been used by corporations for the last time against the welfare of the people. Wise leaders are rising up to give them direction and make them powerful, They will no longer throw their great in- flvence with corporations to pull their chest- nuts out of the fire. The corporations have “g0ld” them too often! Says Thomas Carlyle: “Two men I honor, and no third. First, the toil worn craftsman. that with earth-made fmplements laboriously conquers the earth and makes her man’s, Venerable to me is the hard hand, crooked, course; wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cun- ning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the scepter of this planet. Venerable, too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besolled, with its rude intelligence, for it is the face of a man living manlike. O, but the more venerable for thy rudeness, and even be- cause we must pity as well as love thee! Hardly entreated brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed. Thou wert our conseript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. For in thee, too, lay a God-created form, but it was not to bs unfolded. Incrusted it must stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of Iabor, and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on; thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may; thou tollest for the altogether indispensable, for daily bread.” To our best disposed citizens: Have we not too much forgotten the laboring man? Have you not put away too lightly what he asks? Is it not time you patiently and con- scientiously and sympathetically heard him, weighed his words, and helped to give right dircction to his aspirations and help toward thelr attainment? Have we not a populist senator from Ne- braska who is an honor to us all? Who is askamed of him? He has made a greater record than any other semator in congress this past session, although he Is new there. Where Is the senator in the United States senate who while Senator Allen has been there has done so well? At the outset I sald that the democratic party needs to be licked, and needs It often, because it has not the courage of its con- victions, because it does not stand true to its principles. In this state it is a humili- ating evil—a crying disgrace! Both old parties are wanderers from the fold. Both need to be soundly licked by the people. Let's join hands and do it. The only parties that have the couragé of their convictions are the populist and labor par- ties. They are fresh risen from the people. The capitalist crowd has shown that It is unfit to rule; that it is devoid of patriot- tsm; that it would pledge the American flag with the three-ball man as so much old rags. Up with the flag! Up with law! Up with patriotism and honesty! Let us show that man is more than money! The people must rulet Now, then, democrats, republicans, let us be more than partisans; let us be. citizen let us get together on common ground and rejoice to see these parties arise to ald in bringing back the country to safe anchorage. Let us sink party Issues In our state and establish, by all getting together on the great high ground, the very first principle of “gelt-defense,” to-wit, the people shall rul After we shall have made that a fact it will be time cnough to quarrel about minor fs- sues. Let all of us vote with the populists and laboring classes Ul we o whipped our own parties into obedience to the first peo- wteat law of patriotism, fnto honesty, into & return to thelr principles. Let wus this year cloan up Nebraska! It seems to that, with the populist movement and the labor movement, united with the people distributed in both the other volitical parties who aro sound In heart and fecling, patriots, forces are fn motion that will surely bring our government from one by monopolles to one by the people. What is most needed, the groatest factor, is a vitalizing of public sentiment, gotting it Into aetivity, 8o that the laws shall mean something, be real laws, and all persons be made to feel that they must be oboyed. The railroads must be made to obey the Intcr state commeree law, which forbids special rates and rebates, free passes and unjust dlscrimination JOHN D. HOWE. - PEOPLE AND THINGS, me Governor Flower lacks the courage of his bar*l Mr. J. Sloat Fossett was a trifle short on votes, but long on applause. The ple-biters did not know the white wings carried sawed-off Winchesters, It cannot bs doubted that China s putting numerous tacls of woe in circulation. The democratic primaries were the greatest surprise of the week—for both factions. The impression is growing In Interested quarters that political hickory won't wash. Patriotic Third warders have renewed their allegiance to the corkserew as a cam- palgn opener. Haycock s th list leader in the field to stay. In the light of Hebh, the Japane: nothing to arbitrate. The divine righter on the Pekin throne is gradually realizing that it does not pay to Mikado about Core Rufus Craumwell, a progressive school teacher in Ohio, condenses his educational platform into his name. The Bell Telephone company of Cincinnati have mounted thirty inspectors on bicycles, thereby displacing thirty horses and as many buggies. From the mass of wierd accounts of Arctic failures, one may glean the unanimous be- lief of explorers, nam:ly: The north pole is out of, sight. It railroad detectives successfully work up a train robbery among the Reubens of Mis- souri once a year, it will serve to convince the manag:rs that they are earning their salaries, Governor_Stone 1s 1o engage in & joint d ate with M Lease of Kansa: In preparation for the encounter the govern has had his mustache removed and his hair clipped close. There is appropriate name of a popu- ada. He appears to be in Hal Hoe there s Ping Yang and are convinced talk down in Delaware about or Lo Senator Higgins, whose term expir:s next year. It is claimed that Minister Bayard is ready to come home and go back to the senate, and that he could depend upon some republican votes to h:lp send him there The late Dr. Freeman Snow, who became one of th: greatest authorities on con- stitutional history and layw, carried his right arm In a sling all through his college car:er. At Malvern Hill a minie bullet shattered the bone, and, with his wound undressed, he experienced the horrors of Libby prison. Perhaps no teacher at Harvard was ever more dearly loved by its students than was Dr. Snow. e BLASTS FROM KAM'S HORN. Faith never locking up. The more unconsecrated wealth a Christian has the worse he is off. Some of us have to live a long while to find out that we don't know much. . The man who is ashamed of his religion ught to be, for he has the wrong kind Nearly every sinner exp: to repent when he gets 0o old to longer enjoy a life of sin. Many people wear long faces because they are afraid they wouldn't be considered re- ligious if they didn’t. One trouble with the world is that every man wants to measure his neighbor's cloth with his own yardstick. The man who is trying the hardest to pick the bible to pieces is the one who is least willing to live up to it. - SOME OF NAPOLEON'S MAXINY, takes a step without first Men are led by trifies. A true man hates no one. Power is founded upon opinion. Men, in gencral, are but great children. A glutton will defend his food like a hero. Tublic estcem is the reward of honest men He who fears being conquered Is sure of defeat. True civil liberty consists in the sccurity of property. Public instruction should be tha first object of government. True wisdom, In gencral, consists in ener- getic determination. We must use water, theological volcanoes. Men are not so ungrateful as they are said to be. It they are often complained of it generally happens that the benefactor exacts more than he has given. not oil, to quench SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Kansas City Star: An advent proacher committed suicide at Harrlsonvilla, by jum| Ing into m pond. This is bolleved to be first convert that Bob Ingersoll has ever made among the represcntatives of the ministerial profession. Kansas City Times: A Minneapolls evane gelist held a prayer service in the offios of Mayor Eustls of that city, whom he was trying to convert to making war om amblers. If the prayers avall, the evangelist should be called to Kansas, Minneapolls Times: A New York clorgy~ man calls for a board of public morals, hold~ Ing that the church alone cannot influence the musses morally, and that the cause of res 1ld be advanced if the state should e charge of tho public morals. Perhaps Ight be better If the state government should begin, for practic: sake, by regulas ting its own morals, then {t might be in & position to branch out and make the people virtuous with the saving salt of paternalism. Clncinnati Bnquirer: A new religion has been started in Missouri. The leading regulae tion is that preachers shall not be paid—in the goods of this world, at least—for thelf services, This will compel the preachers to liavo some other business out of which to earn a living. Either the secular calling or the preaching will have to suft:r. Minis- ters of the Gospel should be paid, and well paid. The further they are removed trom the strugglo to g:t along in the world the bett the sermona they will deliver and the better all thelr work. A note in bank, due Saturs day, and no money to meet it with, would bother even a Beccher or a Spurgeon om Sunday. ey FOR LONG SERMONS. Atchison Globe: A woman looking for & rich husband is wonderfully like a confis dence man looking for a farmer. SAL Judg out glo: the mitten. The girls generally handle with- the feilows to whom they give Milwaukee Journal: A glimpse of home lie is like an oasis in a desert to a bachelor who does not have to buy the coal or pay gas bills. ord: Hoax—I hear you've moved. Joax—Yes, I've moved over on the other side of the cemetery. Hoax—What's your fdea in that? Joax-—-Well, I've grown ous, and I thought I'd like to have a home beyond the grave. Philadelphia 1ic Philadelphia T.edg x Lebaudy, the I ich politician, has presented each postman in his district with a bicyele. This { Wil encourage them to wheel into line for him. New Orleans Picayun. Chinese and man; It Is sald some Africans use the ear as a pocket to carry coins gnd other small articles. If an attempt were made to rob them they would hear of it. Washington “Are you a well-dig- asked the man who wanted some v that Ol a replied Mr, , leaning on his pick. '*“At prisint Ol touch av the ri natism,’ Journal: Watts—A fellow ts the lessons he learns at polls I often laugh when I think of how short a time it took me to learn to stuff my hat in my knickerbockers when 1 had been swimming without permis- ston. New York Press: She had met him for the first time that evening at a_function, and half an hour or so later, when some of the party rath told, he appea I'd tell a ile, do what te cautiously, "I are you in?" he asked in a somes . “Well,” she replied, know. What business Judge. Some freachers have the queerest way Consistent to the text to keep; They tell us we should *‘watch and pray," And then they talk us all to sleep. Harrlet Prescott Spofford in Harper's Weekly. Only a turfy hoilow, a moss-grown stone, and a brier, A wandering wantoning brier where the door-stone used to be; A wide and a lonely field where the hawk- weed runs like fire, The skimming wing of the swallow, and & wind that blows from the sea. Once round a slender steeple fluttered that airy wing; Here stood the preacher, his lifted eye jlaze with the heaven’s blue; There were the singing-seats where my darling rose to sing— Your ears, O happy people that heard her, heard angels too! Hither I came through the clover while the bell tolled over the wood, The wood where we two had lingered in purple shadow and hush, Hearing a bird's song tolling the sorrow of solitud And she sang the sweet song over—sweeter she sang than the thrush. When we all turned us duly, hymn left her lips, And proud and pallid with passion she saw me in my place, . Worshiping her, and her only—that petal the wild bee nips— Is it the rose leaf truly or the flush that fled over her face? as the old Strange and sweet are your flashes, O sums mers lost and gone! In what far land do you treasure the thrills you stole from me? See, the old beam is lightwood; the snake &lips under the stone; There is nothing but dust and ashes, and |~ the wind that blows from the seal YOUR MONE We arise to make a TARIFF sui was cooler. h undred. All these are strong very cheap. S WORTH OR YOUR MONEY BACK. We move motion, It is our flem, —| fixed, frigid and deep-rooted con~- viction that the sun has been working overtime for the past six months, and his continued cussedness in keeping at it late in September is additional cause for comment. ing scandalous and getling himself talked about. We move that he give us a rest. sale is not suffering much however, though there is no doubt 'twould be better if it Friday and Saturday we sold several We keep it up tili all are gone: Every one our own make, well and handsomely made in latest style, long cut, single and double breasted sacks and cut-a-ways; blue, black, plain and fancy cheviots, plain faney and cassimeres and latest patterns of tweeds. LOW TARIFF SCHOOL SUITS. Knee pant saits, $2.50, $3,00 $3.50, $4.00, $5.00 |ong pant suits $6.50, $7.50, $8.500. Fact is, he's act- Our big LOW reliable and stylish and Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S, W, Cor. 15th and Douglas.