Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1894, Page 12

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE e TERMHA OF BUNSCTIPTION Pailly Bee (without Sunday), One Y Dally Bee and Sunday, One Yea Bix Monthe Three Months Faturday Ree, One Year. Weekly Dee, One Year o o A Twenty-tourth Sts. wns 12, )‘I’l”v;nd 15, Tribune Bldg. All business letters and remittances sh be made payable (5 the order of the compony. TEF " OF CINCULATION ek, - tar f The Dee Pub. W printed during s follows o 48 78 10 .08 ar 07 fiii “Unmotd andreturn 87,801 2,577 Dafly average fation GRORGE TZSCHUICK. Sworn to before me n ribed In My presence this th day of September, 1594 (Seal.) . P. FEIL, Notary Pablie. We rejolco In the quickened conscience of the people concerning political affairs, and will hold il public oficers to a rigld re- sponsibility and engnge (that means ‘pledge’) that the prosecution and punishment of all who betray official trusts shull be swift, thorough and unsparing. -Natlonal K. Nean Platform, 1876, b And still Toburlington Castor's resig- nation cometh not. Chairman Martin seems exceedingly Toath to let go so long as permitted to hang on. Chairman Wilsan ing conclu- sive proof of the saying that one has to go away from home to be appreciated. oburlington is is rece Another letter from Mr. Pullman in reply to Governor Altg gniment of his company as a tax shivker may be hourly expected. Chieago is talking 1d's i about annexing the asteroid (hat ently named after her, but hesitates only for fear the ex- pense of lighting the new suburb might be too great. S I The question is not, would Secret of State Allen like to Insist upon foist- ing the rump democratic ticket on to the ballots as the genuine article, but will he dave to attempt it? Mr. MacVe e of (he Iilinols democracy for the United States senate, has not yet had the audacity to challenge Governor McKinley to debate the tarifl question with him, — | As between Senator il and Levi I, | Morton the New York mugwump, ac- cording to the Chicago Herald, is | strongly inclined to take to the woods. | Yes, but how about the cuckoos? On this question the Herald ouglt to be eminent authority. Having been divested of Lis yellow | Jucket, Li Hung Chang las girded on | his armor and proposes to wreik venge- ance by divesting some of his Japancse opponents of their heads, When Li gots his choler up those who stand in his | path should beware, | Attention is called Tilden of New York Cleveland of New Yorl and Hill of New York is a bachelor, all of which indicates that New Yotk bach- elors are lucky in politics, It also Indi- cates that a man need not ne sarily be marvied to participate in the good things of politics. to the fact that was a bachelor, was a bachelor The Sonth American countries, which are relieved by the new the retaliatory duties fmposed upon imports from Venezuela, Colombin and Hayti inte the United States under the McKin- ley law, ought also to show their grati- tude to Chairman V n by inviting him to be the guest at a banquet ar- ranged in his bhonor. The reappearance of D n the avena of municipal reform in New York is the signal for the reappear- ance of the host of imitators in all the elties of the country. Theve is no de- mand for deploring that this is so, be- cause much gwd may possibly be ob- tained by copying hi= e ifiods, but it is not out of place to remind the public that every minister of the gospel is not fitted for the role of Parkhurst. Some of them should curb their craze for notoriety. Parkhurst | If the Princeton students who have unanimously resolved to refrain hence- forth from Indulging in hazing prac- tices ave really in earnest and live up to their promises the result canuot but be of benefit to themselyes, as also to their alma mater. Hazing has of late years come more and more into distepute and all the larger colleges and universities have tak rtion looking toward its complete abolition. Prince tom, In Joining this movement, gives evi dence of a gratifying progressive spirit. Congressman Harte champlon of sound money, writes to the New York Kyening Post that be- cause of the pogition taken Ly the Ohio democeratic state convention on the ques- tlon of free silver he does not intend to lend any active support to the campalg in his state. He therefore announces ~that he will not make a single speech during the canvass. The disgust of My, Hurter is shaved by the Post to such an extent that it declaves that what th democrats In Ohio need is a sound thrashing. The prospect Is very good just at present for satlsfylng thelr the democratic | fend | quiring public notic peeds 1o this respect. CREATING CITIZENS, A Pennsylvania judge has invited at tention to the subject of naturalization and gained some notoriety for himself by formulating some stringent rules governing the admission of aliens to American citizenship which are to be ob- served In his court. Among these rules the most important require public no- tice of application for citizenship, with opportunity for the filing of remon stran, against the petition of uny ap- plicant; ability to speak and read under- standingly the Tnglish language, and proof that the applicant has read un derstandingly the constitution of the United St and of the state. In lort, this judge proposes that appli cants it uaturalization before his court shall furnish positive proof that they know enough to be intelligent eiti zens of the United States before he con. that they shall citizens. In taking the oath to support and d the constitution of 1tk United States he expects them to understand the obligation they assume. verybody will e that in ting aliens to Awmerican citi every proper and res be tak to ain their fitness to assume the obligations of citizens, It is unquestionably true that the want of this care very generally throughout the country, but in the larger citles, has had a tendency to cheapen citizenship in the estimation of those cquiring it, and when this is the effect there Is wanting that feeling of patriotic inte which should be inspired by admission to the rights and duties of an Amer When a man can have the franchise conferred upon him simply for the asking, which I long been the common practice, it 1s not to be expected that he will think very hly of it. Obtained cheaply, with ttendant conditions to give it special uce or sacredness, it may be disposed of cheaply, as in tens of thou- sands of eases it is at every election. The -man who is made an American citizen without having the least knowl- edge of the constitution he swears to support and defend will be very likely to conclude, if the matter should ever be presented to his attention, that that instrument cannot be held in very high regard when citizens ean be created in pursuance of its hority without being required to possess an it, and so concluding he will perforee become wheolly indifferent to the consti- tution. It is not to be doubted that this the ease now with perhaps a majority of naty ized citizens, Hav- ing taken the I to support and de- fend the constitution, without the least iden ns to what that instrument s, they have never troubled themselves since to learn its character. It is some thing that bas no meaning or signifi- canee to them. Such men are certainly not citizens in the best sense, and this applics as well to native born citizens as to aliens who become citizens through unturalizaifon. There are far too many native Amervicans who know little or nothing about the organic law of the republic. While it is, therefore, confessedly most important that admission to a politi- cal membership in the republic should be attended by such econditions and re- will impress the person its value, the require ments must be just and reasonable. The danger judges may go to ex- treme: re inclined to think the Pennsylvania judge has done in re- of application for citizenship with opportunity for the fil- ing of remonstrances against the peti- tion of any applicant. Thei» is no war- rant in our naturalization laws for this. It is thevefore necessary for congress to clearly what shall be re- quired of persons applying for citizen- ship and not leave this matter to be de- termined by jud, By all means let the great boon of American citizenship be surrounded by every just and reason- able safeguard and given a character that will lead those who aequire it to properly appreciate its significance and value, but there must be no harsh or vbitrary demands upon those who de- ¢ 10 become American citizen tes sents become admit enship st is define PRACYICABILITY OF THE BRIOYCLE. The rapidity with which bieycle rid- ing has of late sprung into more general favor as a means of healthy exercise and convenient transit to and from business has stimulated both the bi- yele manufacturers and the bicyelists themselves to attempt to devise new ways fn which their favorite machine may be turned to practical account. Not that mere pleasure riding is not a prac- se for the bieycle, for healthful ation is a most practical diversion, but the idea is to apply it to the differ- ent occupations to supersede other metliods of locomotion There have been recently some very versistent efforts made to demonstrate the utility of the bicycle as an aunxiliary in the army. xperiments made both in this country and abroad have shown what can be done in the way of carry- ing messages safely and speedily. The t relay rvace, less than two months back, by which a dispatch was taken from the white house in Washington to the governor of Colorado in Denver, beat the schedule that had been promul- grted for it, much to the surprise of wheelmen everywhere, A club of cy- clists proposed a similar race in Eng- land, but were refused the co-operation of the war office. Nothing daunted, however, the men arranged to carry a letter' from the office of the Pall Mall Gazette in London to its office in Edin- burgh, the riding to be done In relays by bicyelists riding in pairs to avold loss of time by accident. Although the weather was very bad, the rain falling in torrents and a head wind being en- countered all the way, the distance of 800 miles was covered In fifty-two hours and twenty-seven minutes, an average of fifteen and one-fourth miles per hour. This compares well with the time of forty-two and one-half hours made under most favorable circumstances fn the Dbest days of coaching between the two cities. The late extraordinary vide of Lieutenant Donovan from Fort Russell to Omaha, 530 miles, in five and one-half days, on a wheel carrying the entire equipment of a soldier on the march, was intended to illustrate the avallability of the bi- sonable eare should | knowledge of | OMAHA cycle for the common soldler. A little different still have been the expert ments with bicycles fitted with type writing machines for the convenie of war correspondents and fickl seer tarles of commanding officers. Other branches of the public ice for which bicyeles are being ted the city police forces and the letter department of the postoffice In some of the suburbs of Bosto eral of the officers on long routes have begun to 1 their rounds on their s, and if the results meet expecta the samesplan is to be tried in places, In a number of cities in ividual letters carriers have sought to make use of bicycles to lighten their ors, more especially when they have long to traverse between theie districts and the central office There is really no reason why lm-;.-l‘-nil should not be used in both these sery iees, in so far as they will enable the men to economize time by getting over the cround much faster. For collecting wail In the suburbs of cities where the lett boxes are widel, ttered the bicyele ought to be an fmprovement on the carts now in use. On the same principle it doubtless has a wide field open to it in the delivery of daily newspapers and | the delivery service of smaller shopy | Instead of being a mere curiosity toy, s the first bieycles were regarded, | bicyeles have become the object of a permanent demand, which has from the beginning been steadily expanding. Their introduction into new nnel in which their pr Dbility is now be- ing tested promises before long a still wider and mo 1 use. ndvoc sov ke distances or STRIK. “When we S A NECESSARY EViL. come to review industrial history,” writes Prof. Richard T. Bly of the University of Wisconsin in explana- tion of the fundamental beliefs of his al philosophy in the current Forur t is scarcely possible to avold the e clusion t strikes have been a neces- sary evil” Strikes are regarded by this thoughtful economist as a species of > to be viewed somewhat in the same light in which we look at war in general. War has frequently been pref crable to otlier evils, and likewise strikes with all their train of hardship, misery and want, may often be preferable to the industrial situation against which they constitute a rebellion. The nualogy is capable of considerable expansion. The unsuccessful belligerent way, in particular instances,in the long run de- rive just as much benefit from the con- test as the victorious opponent, who reaps the more immediate advantages that fall to the victor's lot. Then, too, the parties directly concerned in a strike, as in o war, are not the only ones who have to bear the brunt of the conflic nor are they the only ones who secure permanent results from it. One point of resemblance between strikes and wars is too commonly over- looked. It is that the strength of both lies rather in their potentiality than in the sctual force exerted by them. Every one remembers secing at various times computations purporting to fur- nish data for a comparison of gains and losses resulting from a strike. On the one side we have the amount of money which has been dissipated in idleness, the wages which would have been earned, the profits which might have been made, the interest on the dead capital invested in the industry that has been clogged. Against this is set off the additional wages which the strikers would obtain if they succeeded in gaining their point at the end of the contest. The balance, it need hardly be stated, s generally overwhelmingly on the loss side. The accuracy of such comparisons, however; may, with reason, be questioned. Not all strikes are failures, nor arve all concessions won by labor organizations won by ort to strikes, One successful stiike may be the means of frustrating a dozen redue- tions of wages. The apprehension of a strike may prevent an employer from taking advantage of his control of the situation or even secure concessions that a strike could not possibly bring. The very knowledge that laborers have It in their power to inaugurate strikes is a restraining influence the strength of which is not to be underestimated. Suflicient weight is not given to this consideration. IProf. Ely himself, in the article to which we have alluded, thinks that conditions have so changed in the past few years that the very foundation on which the old-fashioned striking trades unions rested has given way and that henceforth labor organizations must make more of other features than here- tofore and less of strikes. This may be their true pollcy, but we are by no means warranted in expecting the ex- tinetion of the strike on such short no- tice. The success of the recent tailors' strikes in New York and Boston is evi- dence that this necessary evil is still in a limited sphere necessary. War, we ave all convineed, will remain with us until some less costly machinery for at- taining the same object is introduced. The same is true of strikes. Strik will continue until a more economical method of adjusting labor difficulties is devised and tested by experience. ome INCOME TAX UNIFORMIT A Philadelphia lawyer, writing to the Press of that eity, calls attention to nt he thinks is a new way of suc- ssfully attacking the constitutionality of the income tax law. Hitherto it has n urged that the tax is unconstitu- 1 because being a direct tax it is not apportioned as required among the several states. It has, however, been repeatedly held by the United States supreme court that an income tax as imposed by congress is not a direct tax, but partakes of the nature of an ex- cise or duty. It does not, therefore, come within the provision that all direct taxes must be levied in proportion to the number of inhabitants of each state respeetively, In popular nomencliture the income tax Is anguestionably a di- rect tax, and the fact that it cannot generally be easily shifted is one of the principal arguments that have been advanced In its support. But the pop- ular conception and the legal concep- tion do not colncide, and to declare the tax unconstitutional because not ap- portioned the court would have to re- verse completely all of its previous rul- fugs on this subject. The point which It is now sought to DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, [ place whe | strued make Is that the income tax Is uncon- stitutional Détanse It is not “uniform throughout (fe "United States, Tl ent income-tax law proposes to ex- mpt all income# under $4.000 and taxes those over it.) At the same time whoere the Income bf-dess than $4,000 Is de rived ontice Prom corporate invest s there s o exeiy whatever, as the corporation is bound to pay the tax on its cntife net earnings, thus de sing by the tax the dividend of the Invest All building and loan clations, mufhitf Insurance companies and varlous other corpor and assoclations 4 entirely exempt from its provisions. Can a law with 11 these discriminations, it s asked, Dbesaid to rcord with the constituticual requirement that “all imposts und excises shall be uni- form throughout the Unfted States?” The depend upon the definition which the supreme court m ot for the term uniformity of taxa- In the Head Money the court has already declared that the uni formity referred to in this clause con- sists in the operation of the tax with the for and effect in every the subject of it is found All that is demanded is that the same rate of taxation shall apply to the same rticle in Maine as in Californi harvdly think that this would to mean that the rate wmust be uniform upon all articles of the same el 1se we have always had dis criminating tariff duties which applicd different rates to different grades of the same class of good For example, clothil wools and rpet wools have been taxed at different rates, but long as all wools of ch Kind are sub Jeet to the same duty, whether imported through Boston, New York or New Or. leans, the rule of uniformity is ated. So with the income tax formity within the constitutional slon will be maintained it inconies de- vived from the same source pay the same rate of taxation wherever found The constitution does not seem to pro Libit such a discriminating rate of tax- ation aecording to the source of the in- come, nor does it seem to prohibit dif: rent rates according to the size of the ineome. If it did a graduated income tax would be altogether proscribed uu- der our form of government, would be impossible to apportion it among the states and unconstitutional ir levied d tly by the federal govern- ment. The point that the new income tax is unconstitutional because it lacks | uniformity is not very well taken. me ion ns ANSWOr st cases same be con not uni pro- INDUSTRIAL CO-UPERATION. The great progress which industrial co-operation has made in England ought to be a matter of very able im- terest to Ametican wor At the co-onerative fe Lon- don Hon. T. A. highly interesting’ istics, comparing the condition’ of things in 1871 and in 1801, In the former year there 746 co-operative Societies in Gred afn, with 262,188 members and having a | capital of $12,007,000, making sales of $47,318,000 and 8howing a protit of $3,531,000. Twenty years later, or in | 1801, the movement had advanced so | far that there were 1,656 societies in | existence, with a capital of §56,111,170, making sales of §244,608,485 and show ing a profit of §23,571,490. These fi show that co-operation has been a great in England and the benefits | which the working people have derived n it have been very grear. florts to establish the English sys- tem in the United States have not met with much success. There are co-opera- tive societies in the eastern si of which are fairly prosperous and are of benefit to their members, but there has been here nothing approaching the development of this system in England. The reason why it is less successtul here is doubtless the difference in social con- ditions, The American people like greater freedom in their buying and are not so much attached to p as the English. But it is suggested that, as this country becoines more settled and the population more homogeneous, co-operation will have a faiver ficld and then it will achie v degree of success here than in England, because it will be conducted on a more intelli- gent basis. There is unquestionably force In this view, yet it does seew that in the older states, and especially in New England, the conditions ought to be as favorable now as they probably ever will be for the success of industrial co-operation. So far as becoming mor settled is concerned, it is not easy to see what furtl dvance in this direc- tion con be made In such states as Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticnt, for example, that would create more favorable conditions than now prevail for the successful applica- tion of the principle of co-operation. The older communities in those states are firmly settled and their populations e as homogencous as they are ever likely to be. Worcester and Concord and New Haven are, it would seem, as zood fields now for a fair trial of in- dustrial co-operation as they will ever Dbe, and indeed the same is true of many other cities oftside of New England. The fact which perhaps supplies the best reason why co-operation on the English plan has' not been more suc- cessful in this country Is that the Amer- ican working elasses have not hitherto felt the necessity for economy and pru- dence as urgeutly as the working classes of England bave. Under the new condi- tlons of reducéd Barnings and less ce tain employment this necessity will be more generally realized and then co- operation will yeceive greater attention, consic ingwen, in were Brit- success es, some The south is the fortunate section of the country this “year so far as crops are concerned,- She has one of the largest cotton crops ever grown there, while the corn crop is estimated at about 200,000,000 bushels more this year than the yleld of the same grain in the same states in 1803, The lar cotton crop may have to be disposed of at somewhat reduced figures, but whatever this reduction may be, it will be more than oft set by the Inereased price for corn. which 1s pretty certaln to com- mand considerably higher figures than at present before the next crop Is grown. The south has felt the effects of the business depression compara. v | We | | States sinee it | tively little, The mills and factories of ohs e s e that section have very generally been kept in operntion, and. on the whole, business affairs there have moved along auite smoothly and prosperously, con slderty ndition of otlier parts of the country. With abundant of cotton aud corn, the alinte pros for the south is bright, and such a ition way do n great in at tracting eapltal and immigration to that rops pect deal section, for which her progressive and | enterprising people seem anxions. It is v faet that southern prosperity s attracting attention in the finanelal cen t of the north and that southern in vestinents were neve ided with more favor at any time since the eivil If the people of the south improve their opportunities, and they are mani ng a disposition to do this they ean do much within the next e to put their interests on o better founda tion than they have ever liad. Judge Ross the federal court California keeps up his record in i posing the most severe sentences upon the railrond strikers who have been ar raigned for violating the injunetior which he had issued. One of his lates performances in this divoetion is to sen tence two members of the America rilway unfon to imprisonment for tht months and to pay fines of $5,000. He this under un nited power to punish_ offen fou contempt. That such Severity neves itemplated by those who quity jurisdiction upon the fedl conrts goes without saying, and it is open to question whether these pun fshments are not cruel and unusual within the prohibition of the United constitution California Iabos leaders have for some time heen call ing for the impeachment of Judge Ross for excecding his powers, and they have been industrionsly eireulating potitions asking congre take action in th matter. The conduet of Judge Ros: in these Injunction procoedings is very apt to be the subject of a congressional investigation, Bxplorer Poary ex) secking the north pole, except perh: he might stumble it in pur of his real object. What he pro poses is merely to define more exactly the north line of the t of Green Iand and to follow it as far northward hle to do. Of conrse, he nowledge to how ¢ this would briug him to the pole, but he must expeet it to take him fur- ther north than any other explorer attained. The distinetion, then, is p tically without n diffe the aretic explorers ave the look out for new lands and the discovery of other scientific data among which they hope to have the highest latitude ever trodden by man. despite his protest, really belon, the horde of north pole searclhel wae does lis supposed s 1o ns that he is not as acros 1 one ence, All to A letter of inquir War department to sent out by the the s de- that out of the whose terms will expire within t next six months 784, or more than S0 per cent of them, have made up their minds to re-enlist and to remnin in the army. Since the ranks are now quite full this means that less than 200 new recruits can be accommodated during the coming half year, It also means that to the average soldier life at Amer- jcan army posts 18 particularly agree- able and that there is no widespread Aisnosition to escape the demands that their pe 1 them, There will be no diffi :ulty in keeping the army up to the legal limit of numbers by vol- untary enlistments for some time to come, tion The latest discovery of the sclentists who have been laboring in conjunction with the students of bibical lore that Moses was the first of our long series of great electricians. This is decidedly Interesting if true. It may be the meuns of lluminating that great ques tion that has long puzzled so many mas ter minds, Where was Moses when the | ’ o | light went out? We suggest that Eugene IPleld trans- fer his controversy over the correct use and spelling of the English lang; the columus of the New Yor n. The Sun manages to employ more out- landish expressions and to Jjustify its use of them v'hen taken to task than any other great paper that we know of. Model Vissourl Justice. Kansas City Journal. The postmaster of Lebanon, Mo., was s0 unfortunate as to lose an ear last Tuesday, having got it entangled in the teeth of an acquaintance, The offender, however, did not_escape justice, He was ‘caught = and fined $1. Justice (n Missouri |s prompt and inexorable. e Heresy on #oth hiladelphia Record. Ohlo has always been the prolific breed- fng_mother of financial heresies and un- soundness. The free silver plank in the democratic platform is not a_surprise. The state has not outkrown the taint of green- backism. And the republicans of Ohio are as deep in the mire as the democrats are in the mud, The Trying Watch for News. Loulsville Courler Journal. The outside public finds the scarcity of reliable Information about the Chines Jupanese war very trying. Let the outside public want for details until the bellige or their funds are exhausted. Meanwhile, keep your eye on Peggotty Li Hung Chang's buttons; the popping of them off is always & sure sign of Japanese success, ———— Queen Lil's Damage Bill. Chicago Inter-Ocean An_ex-queen suing a republic for alleged collusion In an act deposing her from sov- erelgnty will constitute another of the in- structional farces that from time to time promote the gayety of nations. Of course the plaintiff in_ this problematic case Is Liliuckalani, and Cleveland virtually stands as @ sort of witness for the prosecution. Deliberation and Castigation. Globe-Democrat. Tt 1s related in the volume containing the diplomatic recollections of Lord Au- BuStus Loftus that when a Chinese army was ordered to re-establish authority in one of the outlying provinces the march was delayed for three years, as crops had 1o be cultivated on theé route to serve as rations, * The world must make allowance for the deliberate side of the Chinese char- acter. i A Long Drawn Out Job, Cincinnati Commercial The completion of the census (s once more announced.” This time Ootober 18 la set as the perfod. It is time the cendus was completed. More than five years have passed since, in 18%9, the work was com- menced. The statistical part of the work will have nearly lost its value by the lapse of time, and Its Integrity may be {m- peached, when it 1s known that careful editing has been In vogue In the ocens bureau since directly after the adveat this administration, pro DGR will | has | T ‘ PEOPLE AND THINGS. | — By a new German law, which will go into | effect on Oclober 1, trade marks must be entered in the Tmperial register at Berlin ‘ The foreign trade marke now recorded at | Lelpsic will be disregarded unless thoy are re-registered. The Gaekwar of nd, and Nar boing a la 1s on a vislt to § twenty-one-gun' feudatory prince, the Jargest revenus, | $7,600,000, of any of (he independent rulers | in India, is made much of by the “sillor™ lov- | ing Highlanders. | Maurus Jokal, the great novelist of Hun- | gary, has attempted fn a fit of melancholy | o kill himself. Ho used a charconl fire, His servants burst open the door of h room | when the fum had almost suffocated him, and his condition Is grave. Judge Heath of Hackensack, N. J., has | discharged a man arre A for making an | tmphatie remark that seemed to have some reference to a mill or m coffer, and has ruled that the term in question does not come within the laws relating to profanity A live count has b 1 at Brad dock, Pa., the count Camille Merc adere, Whoso father owns extensive estates near Vienn Austria, and from whom until quite recently the son has been estranged The young man is head draughtsman at Carne Blo's Bdgar Thompson Steel works. | Judge Charles A the venerable Nistorian of [ has been s usly ill during I8 now restored o his usual health. Judge Gayarre will be :AI years old on the 1st of January His me on Prieur streol, Now Orleans, is one [ the most attractive spots in the lower | parts of the city. After many repaintiy Alma Tadema has finist lagnum opus, a pietere of ancient Ror ) , which lias already been bought by a dealer in Ber lin for 100,000 marks. It is called Spring and contains more (han 100 figures of cele- | brants and tators, a procession (n honor | of the goods of flowers and fertility, moving along toward the temp 1 discover arre, who ror, and alterations E. Winner, who years ago ar as a diversion wrote the words Little Bréwn Jug,” t copyright the production, the hundred thousan um for its author, Mr. Winner's brother. the composer of “The Mocking which made for him a small fortun Curiously, the author of * i f the most popular of drinking scngs, always | has hoen astur th New ind side the vehicle 1 merely and music of the precaution to | which sold up in 1s and realiz tidy | um_ Solpie, York the eccentric citizen of who gees about with Lugey, but ne ts either riding on or leading it, has secured from a dealer in curios a huge C vase of light biue porcelain. This now occupies the‘front seat of the buggy. and out of it comes o pole, on | top_of which is chained a large pink and white cockatoo, nder the elr- cumstonces, now t o notice than ever on his daily Th capt chased in- the horse pin sword won of Quebee in London Dunn, who used it lava, by J. C. Patt of Militia, and it where it rightly by i At In 1769 has been from its owner In the charge of Bal son. Canadian Minis i1l be brought to Canada belongs. French-Canadian papers, such as La Minerve of Montreal, are sking that the sword may be placed with | honor in the Dominion Parliament at Ottawn, While the English journals are reciprocating \ith the wish that the sword of the gallant rench commanger, Montcalm, should b for .in placed in the as the sword of General Wole the unicn of two races ur nearly a century the sword lay a underground on the heights of where Wolfe fell mortally wounded - < LITERARY the | pur Major For fow feet Abraham, | Nor Mr. Francis Lynde, formerly of this city, well known in railway circies, has a notable story in October Lippineott's, under the c tion, “A Question of Courage.” complete mnovel, possessing high merit, and will enhance the reputation the brilliant young author. The Pathfinder th ok story by Frank Howard ‘Chesapeake.” n the first stor of a promising young author who resided in Omaha a few months last year, dur/ng whic! time he assisted in 2 topographical survey of Douglas county ere were many petitors for the priz and th ward made by a benc of judges, among were Congressman W. J. Bryan, Kate Henry Cabot Lodge. Mr. Seely evidence of an originality of style that will lead hi o of the cenventional rut in which many story writers find themselves, | While there Is nothing partcularly brilliant in his maiden effort, he has succeeded In telling. a good story well. In the sam issue of the Pathfinder Mr. W. Reed Dunroy of Omaha has a poem, ‘“Nebraska in | Autumnn,” of | conta Seely s apriz entitled com: was | whom | Field gives | A lady at Spearfish, S to send her the names one or more playwrights » graduating class of the State normal school intends to present a play next year, and the lady wants some one to produce a d specially for that occasion D., and asks The Bee addresses of Miss Mary alter, a lady of talent, who was unfortunate enough to be stricken blind from sunstroke when at the age of 23, and who has since spent some time at the school for the blind, has written two small volumes which she is now aged in canvassing One is a novel and the other a collection very readable short stories. TOUE MONE Is all that's needed to stitched—all linings it fits you perfectly. very stylish. WORTH OR the best materials—pants in the latest cut. merchant tailor ever made better suits, and we will not let you take a suit out of the store unless DEPARTMENT OF THE PLATTS, OMAMA, Sept. 29.—-To the Baditor of % Bee: T regret to learn that the late ordes Of the secretary of war in respeet to cortalll | Earrisons and troops of this department RASGEE A renewal of apprehensions n militasyR and other circlos that the Departinont SR the Platte is still In danger of being extilaRi Eulshed. I beg to say that there is HBN ground whatover for these apprehensionbiil The committee that visited Waskington resiusi ported the exact truth about the matter N0 the gentlemen who sent them there andl nothing has been changed. Upon this subst ject, since the committee returned H Washingion, and before the late order @ > Seoretary Lamont was Issued, I recelved (neiiil formation which gives me absolute warrant for assuring everybody that the only danger to this de ment is that within vel long time it will be both enlarged .3 strengthened GEORGE L. MILLER, — - BLASTS FROM RAM'S HHORN, Spiritual dyspeps the other kind ‘The devil soon finds out when the preaches has nothing but powder in his gun. ¥ ‘There are plenty of people who are very Dleasant while they can have their own ways Unless a Christian has poor health he sla: s (God when he goes to chureh with o long face. How w folks are ch noise a is harder to sure tham uld we ever find liglous it 1 church Fhe devil probably feels like shaking hands overy time he meets a man who splits hales . with God in money matters When & man begins to think he is too good for the country in which God has placed him he will soon be traveling toward the Juniper tree out that some - SMALL BITS OF BANTER, e Post: Chapple—Call Come off the perch! Tow did Oldenrich start He was born,” me birdiel 1 in life, klyn Life anyway Yonkers magnate started goods business it him nounce ctte: When a r in the g reat run tired raflroad 18" furnishing nd nature to n tie: Detroit F such an a should say check than any 1 e Pro Katherd actiy isn't hy can draw a L In town e 1 anet—I larger Indianapolis Journal: “Did you hit with that red tennis blazer of yours down on the farm Did 12 It struck the bull’s eye the first time 1 wore it."" make a Boston ¢ villain _in Where did Dramatist: I {ms £ all the varieties » ascribes to me Friend—That your new play is a masterpiece. you et the character? ugined nman po of wickedne when she s which my W ts mad Tirooklyn Life (in the dia- mond busines$)—1 had a man in my placa this morning w 10d o wonderful eye. He could tell how much o diamond welghed by fust Jooking at it. Wibberly—He must have been my fceman, hackleton Truth the piano da Kind Mre. Lyon-Hunter—Do count? Count Humbu wida da han, u play gi—Onla Somerville Jour People seldom eritl- clse a man’s bad handwriting when it comes to them at the bottem of a good sized check New York noise over hotel porch “That's their un: there “What 1 th t snapplog at the othe 1d of the bevy of summer girls bréaking engagements,” Press: Visitor (discovering Hello, what are you' hers nths, acqualntance) for? Prisoner (briefly)—For six n Cincinnat! Tribune: “Aren't you afraid statue will shrink if it be left out in th n?" asked the cheerful idiot, “Shrink?” sald his host. “What an ideat “1 didn't know, you know. I thought it might hecome a Statue wet.” Chicago Tribune: *“You with business nffairs th said Mrs. McSwat, laying he hand on his throbh brow, “that I'm afraid even your home affords vou precious little coms fort.” “It does. Tobelia; it does!”” fervently res sponded Mr. MceSwat, gathering his preclous little comfort in bis arms. are 80 worrled se days, Billlger," THIE COMMER( Chica A rose, a rosc. a rich red rose, Upon' my lady’s bre Its peials s deep, Its stem with green leaves drest. AL VIEW OF IT, *Tis rich with beauty: in color, rare— Oh! what a combination; ame has she whose smile on me, in adoration the ro the rich red ros, Which glows on her gown of gray, Is very scarce this Ume of year— . ° It cost my last week's pay. - THE HAPPIEST HEART. Harper's Magasine, Who drives ot the sun Shall lord it but a day; Better the lowly deed were done, And kept the humble way. John Vance The rust will find the sword of fame; The dust will hide the crown; Ay, none shall nail o high his name Time will not tear it dowa. The happlest heart that ever beat Was is some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet nd left to heaven the rest. YOUR MONEY BACK. A Cold Wave stir up the people to a wild scramble for our Low Tariff Suits, 'specially our $10, $12.50 and $15.00 suits, Notice made—coats cut long col- lar all one piece-—the fac- ing one piece all the way down—edges double seams sewed with silk thread— snug up to the cloth—trimmings of the way they're No Overcoats from §10 up that are wearers and Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W, Cor. 15th and Douglas. they didn't make so S