Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE B HWFIWA‘I'I‘.R. Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e e TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Yea Dally fee and Sunday, One’ Year. Bix Months. - Bunday Thew, O ¥ un. tee, One Yent Baturday Tiée, One Yea Weekly Dee, One Year. OFFICE! maka, The Bee Bullding. Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. 12 Pearl Street. 317 Chamber of Commerce. me 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bidg. . W97 ¥ Street, N. V. CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and edl- torlal matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remitiances should be addressed to T ng company, Omaha. office orders to the company RT38333 o B Washingto Qeorge B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- lshing company. being duly sworn, says that the_actunl number of full and complete coples ©of The Daily Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 1384, was an follows ) 18.. 11 18 13 20,92 2214 Total v T T Less deductions for and’ returned coples 3 Total sok.. @ Dally average net circulation GHORGE 1. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my pres ence this 34 day of Noven (Beal.) Do not fail to vote carly. 1594, Notary Public. Look nut—.rurrlm;:uu voters and roor- backs. Aternal vigilance elections. is the price of honest Beach Highy will make a competent city clerk. Sol Prince has the Inside track in the Bloody Third. publicans should not de- Mr. Jaynes. Is to be counted. Don't forget to vote for Page in place of Herman Timme. A free ballot and an Loacst count mrst be secured at all hazards. Smash the state house ring of boodlers by voting for honest government. Tom Lowry is not running for the council for glory nor for his health, This is a republican year, but not a year for rogues and corporation tools. George Mercer will be the next eoun- cilman from the Ninth, and dJon't you forget it. The size of the vote will be indisputa- ble evidence of the popular interest in polities this year. Vote for a non-partisan school board and insure a business administration of the public schools. The candidate who expects nothing but defeat is the only one who is sure of not being disappointed. Mr. Thomas has made a fair council- man for the Seventh and will be re- turned for & second term, Tom Crane has made x;;u‘k-! and dig- nified race for the senate. As a vote- getter he takes the bakery, —_— Vote earl; Don't let your vote be erowded out by waiting until the last minute before going to the polls, Holcomb is an honest man and every conscientious voter should cast his vote ub and honest government. ad Business Men's associa- tion may now disband. The raflroads have no further immediate use for it. Richard Smith will have a handle to his name after the 1st of January. His card will bear the inscription, “Senator Smith.” If political campaigns came a little oftener the Postoffice department of the ‘ederal gover. ment wou & soon be & pay- ing institution. The man who has not yet made up his mind how to vote will make no mistake by giving honesty and Judge Holeomb the benefit of the doubt. How many of the men who signed the Railroad Business Men's calamity mani- festo would do the same thing If they bad it to do over again? s MR TR Tom Lowry's tricky work In connec- tion with the Woleshensky petition should be rebuked by all the self-ve- specting people of the First ward. Every American citizen is a sovereign when he reaches the ballot box and no man hos a right (o coerce Lim by threats to vote against his honest convictions. Tom Lowry claims he is being op- posed by the corporations. Walt until Tom is again councilman and the cor- porations will pay dearly for their of sition. Rallroad activity Is not confined to state polities. The fine Italian hands of the Burlington bosses are clearly visible behind several of the candidates for the city council. The next house of representatives may on u contingency be the body that selects the next president of the United States. This emphasizes in a word the Importance of having republican control of the house at least by states. Omaha is vitally concerned In many fmportant measures in which the rail road corporations and their allies are on the opposite side. What will Majors do If he becomes governor? Will he serye Omaha or the corporations to whom he has mortgaged himself, soul and body? |and 16,903 in the preceding year, { has falled or refused to take their ad- | was considerably increased. | | among Iudi PROTECT THE COURTS. The power which the governor of Ne- braska can exercise over the courts of the state Is a point which has been al- most entirely overlooked in the present state eampaign. According to the law under which our courts nre organized every vacancy on the bench of the dis- | trict ccurt is fil'ed by appointment of the governor until the next regular eles suecceding, During the last twe years | this duty has fallen upon Go or ounse no less than three times in this | one district, and it goes without saying | that Goverior Crounse’s appolntees have | been men of the highest legal ability | and of unimpeachable eharacter. The question arises, however, kind of judges are we to ¢ Majors should have the power of ap-| po nting te vaeincie . This ‘s a question in whiclr the people are vi.a ly intereste I, It comes home to them in the daily ad- ministration of justice, upon which their liberty and their | 3 wly depends. What sort of appointments are we to expect from a man who, in everything, is the tool of the railroads | and the corporations? Will he g | Judges who are independent less, who will pres ] which the railronds nre parties with ob- solute impartiality, who will th the individual citizens have the bene f the laws that have been enacted to | protect them from corporate rapacity Is it not natural to expect Majors, should he be given the opportunit consult with the Burlington ezn | whom he will have owed his elec and to make his judicial appointments at the dictation of the B. & M. bosses? Would he not be expected to make the courts as subservient to his corporate masters as he is himself? Judge Holeomb has been, and still is, himself a judge of the district court. Against him in this eapacity no breath of scandal or unfairness has ever been rafsed. He knows the needs of the peo- ple of real protectors on the bench. He could not but endeavor to gauge lis ju dicial appointees by the high standard whicli he himself has With Judge Holcomb in the governor’s chair all danger to the Integrity of our courts from this source will be effectually averted in advan Wi ¢ const see " YORK. Only a week ago it was, as was sup- posed, definitely announced that Secre- tary Carlisle would contribute at leq one speech to the campaign which Sen- ator Il is making in New York. and arrangements were all but completed for & monster meeting which he shonld address. The announcement was made by an official high in the administra tion, and it was made with the knowlk edge of the secretary and without his dissent. Mr. Carlisle even permitted the statement to go out uncontradicted that he was then engaged in preparing his proposed speech. That he really at that time intended and confidently expected to speak in New York is therefore sca ly open to question. But this definite announcement had not been made more than a day when the secretary began to realize that his promise of partici- pation in the New York campaign was at the least a trifle premature. Within a couple of days the announcement was qualified by the intimation that the s retary would like to await President Cleveland’s return to Washington and talk the matter over with him before fixing the precise date. Since then Mr. Carlisle has had ample opportunity for consulting with the president, but when questioned as to his New York specch he has invariably replied that he had not yet come to a decision. It has also been officially suggested that the rnsh of public business at the present mo- ment is such that it might prevent the ecretary from appearing in New York at all Simultaneously with this breach of faith on the part of Mr. Carlisle there have appeared from various sources re- ports to the effect that his refusal to speak in New York would be more ac- ceptable to the democratic managers than his agreement to do so. It is urged that while a year or so ago the secretary of the treasury was one of the most popular of the presidential house- held, his administration of the nation’s finances has alienated from him his fo friends among the leaders of tl v. His treatment of ankers at the time the loan of §50,- 000,000 was floated with their assistance was not exactly appreciated, and on many minor matters of tiscal policy he vice. He is also reputed to be, if not friendly to the obnoxious ineome tax, at least not averse to giving it a fair tria So unpopular is the income tax prov! slon of the new tariff law with people of all classes in New York that it would be difficult for any one who does not Join in the opposition 10 it to remain a favorite in the political field. Add to this his present refusal to deliver the speech promised in Senator Hill's be- half and Secretary Carlisle finds him- self practically cut loose from the fac- tion of the New York democracy with | which he was acenstomed to associnte. | The estrangement between the dem crats of New York and President Cleve land appears to extend almost equal to Mr, Carlisle, the president’s secretary of the treasur THE Na The annual report of sioner of Indian affairs presents some interesting facts as to what Is being done for the nation's wards. It Is stated the current expenses for this service in 1804 amount to §7,306,243 and that they wil be somewhat less next yen This is about $40 per cs for all the Indians who rece eare of the government. The progress | of Indian education s not rapid, but | there was u small aggregate nerease | in the school envollment during the | past year, while the average attendance | This is encouraging fact, sinee it denotes u growing interest on the part of the In dians in the schools. The commis- | wioner says, however, that irregularity | of attendance, the bane of schools | everywhere, Is partieularly deplorable u puplls, whose home life | usually runs counter to school s ¢ and babits. The enrollment for | the year was 21,451 pupils and the aver- | [ON'S IVARDS. the commis- | a age atte 17,006, against 21,117 fon | & | number of | tributed and | fault to THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, NOV order to appreciate what has been ac- complished in the work of Indian edu- cation, however, one must go back some years, In 1887 the average attendance at the Indian schools 3508, or about one-fifth the numb last year, and the attendance has nearly doubled | since 1884 There is certainly no the friends of Indian eduea ald be at all discouraged, but the contrary strong reason why t should continue their efforts with grenter energy and persistency. The commissioner reports that the legisla- tion requiring the voluntary consent of parents or near relatives to the sending of pupils to nonreservation had a salatary effect, as shown in the ensed attendance at such schools, The plan of placing Indian children in the public schools of the states in which their homes are located has not been s successful as hoped for and the commissioner concludes that the need of special schools for Indian youth in which they shall have specially adapted help for Dbecoming assimilated in ht and habits with their inexora ble civilized surroundings will continne many year till it intended to push v usly the plan of putting In- dian children into public ls. Ob- viously it would not be wise to aban don the experiment, which there can be no doubt will in time prove entirely suecessful. In allotment work fair progress been made during the past year, but at the rate of advance made it will be a ¥ before the lands set ¢ allotment to the Indians will 0 up. There appears still to o widespread indisposition ameng e people to aceept the privil this respect accorded by the govern- ment, which e es with it citi and to settle dowif to the .wor tivating land and pursuing the ways of civilized life. There must be no ment, however, of the efforts to them to do this, for only in this v an they be brought to a proper realization of their duties and obligations as mem- bers of the human family. The race is not dying out, as is commonly sup- posed. On the contrary, there appears to be no doubt that as a whole it is increasing, though some tribes may be approaching extinetion. It is therefore still as strongly incumbent upon the white man as it has ever been to lift the Indian out of his semi-savage con- dition into the civilized state and to give him every fair opportunity to im- prove and elevate himself and to ob- tin a knowledge of his respousibilities as & man. The progress made in this direction, if not so great as was hoped for, is sufficient to warrant the belief that with faithful perseverance along the lines marked out the object sought will ultimately be attained. on hools has RAILROAD OVERCAPITALIZATION. One of the most astounding proposi- tions that has ever been made with reference to the reorganization of bank- rupt railroads is advanced by a leading New York attorney in a letter recently printed in the Times of that city. It is nothing less than that the solvent rail- roads should combine with the insolvent ds to raise the cl es on freight transportation to a point that will in- sure interest and dividends to all the watered stock and frandulent bonds out- standing on the worst paying road in the countr The writer, Mr. Alfred De Cordova, Intimates to those in control of bankrupt railroads and to those who are trying to reorganize them that no matter how much they assess them, no matter how much money they may take in from stock and bondholders, if the roads cannot earn enough to pay inter est on the bonds and some compensation to stockholders the ultimate result is bankruptey again and another assess ment. “Let the roads,” he wurges, rge rates that will enable them to pay the bondholders and stockholders something for having put their money in them. It may seem havd to patrons to have to be taxed for overcapitaliza- tion, but the tax would be infinitesima compared with a wiping out of the capi- tal stock and a portion of the honds of these road: The loss would fall heavily nd be ruinous in one instance, where the tax would be hardly felt in the other. It has been figured that by an advance of 1 mill per ton per mile in ght charges many of the railways of the country might pass from insol- veney to prosperity.” Could anything be more preposterous than this? The bonds and stock repr sented in the overcapit tion n argely or wholly water, pure and sim- ple./Their legitimate claim upon the earn- ings of the road is not more than a ves small percentage of their face value. Yet liere we have i proposition to rob the shippers and the people for the bene- fit of the security holders because the sum abstracted would be widely and therefore light for each individual pes cause justice would in many at once ru instances the few security holders we are to perpetrate injustice upon the in- numberable patrons of the road and uin these innocent victims by a slow gradual process of extortio E what code of ethics ean such a course be Justified? On the other re not undul; hand, the roads which overcapitalized ule of rates p g interest and di idends and storing up huge surph are to increase their revenue by add to the present remunerativ g Not only are the railroads alr wrecked by mismanagement to be given returns upon their fictitious eapital, but for this purpose those which have nc find with their present rey nues are to ine @ their es and de- mand more for their ser than is nec- sary to maintain the ving prop- erties. The bankrupt roads, we ave told, cannot with their overcapitalization con pe e with the ro ds which are in a sound financial condition. Why ould they If they want to shave the traffic there Is just one way in which they can do so with justice to all. Th must be brought down to a basis of actual capi talization. The water must be wrung out of the stock and the udulently is. ed bonds must be weeded out. Hon estly managed r are making monoy with the prevailing freight rates. There is no reason why the others it properly Infrexgani ¢d Loudrotdoth: axe T " 100,000, Tiere'is no v gling of the typ:s H and | which are now under the present sched- - | ate effort to et the tattooed ny capitali attoremust be brought down, not the rates browelit up. The Standacd Ol company bs supply- | ng Majors' Tubrieator. It Is vitally in- terested in the election of the oil room candidate because the next gov nor | will appoint a state ofl inspector whose duty it shall be to see that the Standard | Ol company oby the law prohibit- ing the sale of inferior and dangerous | oll. Judge Holcomb when clected will appoint a.man to that responsible position who cannot be bribed | ind who will compel the Standard Oil company fo obey the law. Tut Majors | in the executive chair and a state oil | inspector would be seleeted by the Standard Ol company and all Majors could do would be to sign the commis- sion at the dictation of the oil monopely. Furthermore, the ofl inspection law is defective and must be amended by the next legislature in order that better protection may be afforded patrons of the oil company. Put Majors in the ex- ceutive chair and such a bill, necessary to safeguard life and prope would be vetoed at the dictation of his cor- porate masters. In short, the only means of insuring administration of state government in the in pst of the whole people is to elect Silas A. Hol comb to be the next governor of Ne braska. The Bee's frequent denunciations of | state house impeachables and peniten- | tiary and asylum plunderers are chal- | lenged by the B. & M. Journal and m: trued into a slur upon Governor ounse’s administration, which is ided and heralded as a full defense of the discredited gang which The Bee i8 seeking to overthrow. The Journal's logie is too lame and transparent to de- | voters of this state, The fact | that Governor Crounse | 1 his office a y for the 1 1t he could not push to a consummation his wisg plans for a | better and more economic state govern- ment lon ailroad gang con- trolled a ma ¥ of the state officials. He found himself surrounded by cor- rupt and debased corporation cappers, determined to plunder the state treas- ury, and it been Governor (‘rounse’s constant endeavor to checkmate and thwart their nefarious plans. He owes them nothing and he dare not defend them before the voters of Nebraska. Fhey cannot hide behind his cloak of integrity and assume a virtue which they do not pe Majors nefosity, about which b dmirers have been saying so much, sms to foot up something like this Mujors generoysly had a resolution passed by the legislature allowing the employes to carry off the chairs and other furniture which the taxpayers had paid for. He voted to donate a lot belonging to the state for use as a Catholle chiréhsite in Lincoln. e en- tertained layishly in the lentenant gov- ernor’s room at the capital with the liquors and. s supplied by the cor- poration lobby. He generously —per- mitted his assoclates on the state ticket to put up fhe funds necessary for his clection wher he. refused to pa campaign assessment. He is a liberal | distributor of railroad passes wherever | he thinks they can do his corporate mas- ters any good. For a record of gener- osity with other people’s money Majors’ record eannot be bes ‘the policy of designating sioned officers of the army ct as In- dian agents seems to lave so com- mended itself to the commissioner of In- dians affairs that few if any of the civilians who are applying for appoint- ments are likely to secure places. Re- quests have been made to supplant some of the army officers now at different encies, with other agents, and in some instances the officers themselves have become dissatisfied with the character of the work assigned them, but on the whole the change has been most satis- to all coneerned. The president | o8 to 2o back to the old system idual where it is clearly proven that a material advantage will result. At all events, the Indian agent army offic has come to stay for some considerable time. commis- cases United States Marshal Bede, who re- signed his place as a federal official in order that he might engage actively in the work of promoting the election of | his political friends, must appreciate the promptness with which he has been re- lieved of his duties by the appointment of his successor. He is thus enabled to | put in nearly a week at campaigning without infringing upon the orders that require federal officials to leave politics severely alone. It is to be presumed that his successor is well enough satis- fied to get an office for himself and let his friends exert themselves for the | offices which they are secking. A venerable ex-governor of Nebrask: who claims to still stand high in the councils of the railroad republican man- agers, actually professes to believe and | | makes the prediction publie that M will today polla plurality of mc |in this. The wost charvitable interpreta- tion to be given is that the pretended prophet is not hwjire of the lapse of the last ten years, There is ;m‘r(finmx not 2 per cent of the | voters of this,gily that are not ready to | admit that Majors is bound hand and | foot to the raillwoad and other eorpor: | tions. If electedelie will simply be their paid agent, potkerl | mftuence. Byery, corporation in the state | is now actively ehgaged in the desper But | they are all doomed to defeat. Tom Majors has always b nounced enemy of Omaha. | the state as the anti-Oma andidate ago and his home n, the | Pern Gaz kept at the head of its columns this declaration: *“I gov- o, Thomas J. Majors. Omaha must not be allowed to dominate this state! e ye this day whom ye will serve! n & pro He stumped In all the | party manag rge cities of the country % have offered rewnrds for the arrest and conviction of men it violating the etion law: All along the live the cry is for honest elec- | tions and parity of the ballot, Special | pens to | no oblig r ago | ves | our mative | service | him to ¢ EMBER 6, 1894. efforts are to be made to make the re- sults of this year's election an accurate and precise expression of the voters' wishes. Tt Is the duty of every election official, and of every citizen who hap- e at the polls, to keep his eyes for fraud on the part of those about him, and to cause the arrest of evel me who abuses his position. The security of republican institutions rests upon the strict enforcement of the elec: tion laws open It would bave been difficult at the time Alexander 111 became czar of Rus- fa in 1881 to persuade many people that he would be permitted to die a nataral death. No man has been the subject of &0 many threats nor the ob Ject of o many conspiracies. Who ¢ say that there was not an unseen po that ved his life from the ve numerous atte 1f Holcomb re ity of the votes of Omaha he will feel under obli- gations to Omaha and be in a position to reciprocate. If Omaha gives Majors a plurality of her votes lie will feel under tions to anybod the corporation combine, and even if‘he felt under any obligation he would not be in position to reciprocate unless the Bur- lington czar would kindly consent: except Chieago is flattering herself that she has New Y where she will have to confess to the possession of a smaller population than the World's fair city. All because Chicago points to a larger registration list than New York. Next year New York will see to it that she employs census enmnerators as regis- try We rejoice in the quickened consclence of the people concerning political affairs, and will hold all publie officers to a rigid bility and engage (that means ') that the prosecution and pun- ishment of all who betray official trusts Il be swift, thorough and unsparing. ioual Republican Platform, 1876, Omaha should vote for a man who will not have to go to railroad headquarters for permission to sign bills in which this ay be vitally concerned to compel { to pay their proper share of local taxes and stop damaging diserim- inations in favor of competing business centers. Any man who has not lived in this state six months before the election, forty days in the county and ten day: the precinct in which he is regi has no right to vote. If he attempts vote or casts his vote contr to the statute lhe commits a penitentiary of- fense. All the dark and devious ways of per- petrating election frauds are to be ex- ploited by the Majors gang. Constant watching and prompt action on the part of those in attendance on the polls in each precinet will be needed to block these various games. The railroads have not yet given the word for the maximum rate bill decl- sion. Can it be that the outcome of the election is to have an influence upon the direction of the court’s ruling? Whether Chairman Wilson is beaten or not, the next house will find itself plentifully supplied with democratic statesmen left over from previous con- We do not believe that there is a man in the world who has so great opportu- nities before him as the new Russian Will he embrace those opportuni- contribution to mpaign of Senator Hill Is to be tly confined to the issue of ex-Vice President Morton's conchman. Pres sland and ex-President Harrison are both working for the same object in New York—the defeat of Sena- tor HIUL Opportunities for Good. Phitadelphia Record. Princess Alix of Hesse, the future crarina, be as clever and strong-willed as he is described by common report, she will find plenty of obportunity to exert her influence for the good of her future reaim, as well as in the interest of universai A powerful and influential empress rot be an unprecedented fizure in an politics. Five women ruled over the empire during the eighteenth century, : them the energetic though infamous tharine L The ses Elizabeth and € of Alexander II is said to have in- fluenced the termination of the Crimean © and to have promoted the Russian in- vasior of Turkey in I If the coming arina shall Improve her opportunities she | ay become quite as important a figure in TSuropean politics as her cousin, Kaiser Wil- helm. S Fraternal Spirlt of Soldlers. Globe-Democrat y There is no fraternity closer than that o men who_have stood together on the battle- field, and the time has arrived when the veterans of the civil war have almost as warm a feeling for those who opposed them as for thelr own comrades. They were brave men all, and the herolsm shown by one army implied an equal heroism on the other side. The surviving soldiers of the union and the confederate armies are no longer young, and they have learned to respect & ch other for te ted manhocd and as Am r- fean citizens devoted to the same flag and eady to uphold its honor. These remarks are suggested by the fact that the different Grand Army posts in R unty, Tenn., met lust Wednesday and resolved unani- mously to invite all ex-confederates of the county to join with them hereafter in their ial meetings. Roane county s republi- ) by two to one, which adds to the pleas- t significance of the action just taken - ke's Valuable Rosearches. delphia Ledg Captain John G. Bourke, B Philadelphian, a High school who carried into all his long experience as an army officer on the frontier his early le ws o the value of ethnology—the study s in their own hom on, following a long studies, Is & paper on “Pop- ular Medicine, Customs and Superstitions of the Rio Grande,’ gathered during his in a military post in that reglon, 1t is Interesting in itself and from the op- portunity for a comparison with the curious survivals of similar superstitions in other countries, and it is valuable as showing that even in the hard life of a rough fron: tier post an intelligent officer, well equipped by hanits of study and research 0 our stock of knowledge and enable us from obliyion the fast disappear- @ primitive pople. Captain wisely goes to the people of the for its traditions and customs ntelligence and zeal that llect the wonderful relies lumbus and the early Spanish explo hibited at Chicago in the reprodu th vent of La Rabida at the exposition help him to unearth the strange pract {hat no doubt came with the first inv to this country, and are only slowly dying out on our south borders, He shows thoir likeness to recorded by early Koman as in vogue in the first cen- turios o ara, and he has added a valu- able chapter to our own folk lore by his last contribution. It is to be hoped that in his shifting dutiés from post to post he may find other subjects of interest, and help to inspire others in the army to gather similar cvidences of that eurious combination of faith and superstition that seems to be world wide, holding out aguinst the civilia- ing influences of education, ne ¢ Captatn Bou h is a t contribu other valuable the saim ¥ | amount of whistling just apts made to destroy 117 | & = PEOPLE AND THINGS. Straws show the current from an lced cocktail. Grover Cloveland intimates there {9 noth- Ing to arbitrate with Hill. The Morrill of it Iz, “Don’t contradiet in print what fs given to the gallery.’’ George Godbethere looks after the postal interests of the venal sinmers at Purgatory, Va. Toburlington's low-browed “stralght” democracy turns echo of a Peru-vian bark. Where is the ax that Adlai swung? Son of Heaven hungers for a few heads to appease his wrath. The straights may scornfully resent charge of a bargain and sale, but the u fact remains that they took the goods Marquette. The bread reduction fever has Cincinnati and Is moving irresistibly west- ward, despite the do(ugh)leful cries of crusty mossbacks. Corporation cappers are doing an unusual now, merely to keep their courage up while going through tho graveyard. Herr Most attempted to do the theatrical act in a New Jersey town, but the police got after him and he executed a most un- ceremonious exit. As the burial of the Russian czar will not take place for several days, the Inter- for the demand out to be The the y to in line with the procession. One of the reasons urged in favor of the of . It is an open question whether Miner industry should be encour- aged. An unfeeling humorist sends in what pur- ports to be a copy of a speech delivered by T. J. Majors. A crude picture of a casket adorns the top, on which are inseribed these words: “Here Lies Tattooed Tom, as Usual According to the dictum of the Minnesota supreme court, a bieycle is entitled to equal rights on the public highways with the horse and wagon. The equine aristocracy are thus given to understand that they cannot block the two wheels of progress. Great Hevings, another Richmond in_the fleld! Philadelphia trying to outdo New York and Chicago in bogus resistration. Hitherto the Quaker city was regarded as the paragon of political ity, the Gettys burg of honest ballots and fair counts. Sadly the picture Is turned to the wall. Henry Frederick Schatzel, Brooklyn, is trying to raise the wind in Texas by suing for 270 square miles of the state, worth $25,000,000. Mystery, romance and crime are interwoven in the claim, and should he per- sist in disturbing the claim jumpers It is quite probable the coroner's jury will sit on his inanimate frame and pronounce it heart failure. Walter Wellman's dash {o the pole brought him in contact with a few square miles of icebergs and a coolness thick enough to cut with a cheese knife. A recent dash to Washington to discover the true inwardness of things political convinced him that the breezes of Spitzbergen are tropical in com- parison with the cool indifference of the ad- ministration concerning the fate of the democracy. The Chicago Inter ork s the fact that he is the father Ocean Is needlessly alarmed about the ‘great destitution” pro- duced by drouth and fires in Nebraska. The ravages of both have been grossly ex- aggerated. Whatever distress develops will be taken care of in good time, but the total would not equal one-third of the unfor- tunates in Chicago, Ex-Senator Farwell stated to a visitor recently that four out of every five men in that city ave out of work. The latest hygienic craze in Paris Is the use of porus glass for windows. This is declared to possess all the advantages of the ordinary window framing, and while light is as freely admitted as through the medium of common glass, the “‘porous” further ad- mits air, too, the minute holes with which it is intersecied being too fine to permit of any draught, while they provide a healthy continuous ventilation through the apart- ment, et W i, Reform at € mencements, Detroit Free Press. The new style of graduating at Yale, which does away almost entirely with pub: lic speaking and completely annihilates the amateur orator, is a step in th llth direc- tion, The young man who “boned” through his entire course to attain the honors of the valedictorian, usually finished with an accumulation of 'dead Knowledge acquired at the expense of physical strength and that more practical information which helps the man of action through the world. Yale has broken from the traditions, but she has started the movement which will do away with the brief prominence of the self-conscious young man with broad cuffs, tortuous collar, unmanageable hands and abnormally developed feet. PSSP LT Trouble for the Voter. Philadelphia Ledger. It will give the New York voter as much work to handle his ballots this vear as it requires to turn over the leaves of one of the mammoth Sunday newspapers of (he period. Not less thal twenty-two ballots, each six by ten inches in dimensions, will be placed in his hands, and in some dis- tricts seven more will réquire his attention. Under the New York law he can remain in his booth ten minutes to examine and fold the sheets. This is none too long for the conscientious citizen who wishes to scrutinize the entire output of ballots. The overgrown blanket ballot sheet s formid- 1o ‘enough, but its manipulation is me child’s play compared with the bother in- volved in the New York system. officlal | reached | ment of the Nebraska variety will be right | election to congress of Harry Miner in New | BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN Dead men have no faults. A broken word can never be mended. A plg sty is not & good pearl market. Men care least for honor when most in want of bread. Try not only to be good, but to be good for something. Don't talk about yourself when you want to ba interesting. It s better to fail in trying to do good than it is not to try. Fishing for compliments is not much better | than fishing on Sunday. In most cases the reformer from home to begin work. Find a man whom men love, and you will find one who has first loved men. | Nothing is to be gained by talking of heaven to a man who worships money. It is doubtful it the devil has ever been driven back an Inch by star preaching. The devil does a big day's work on the l,ln_v he makes a preacher afrald of the poor | house. 1€ you have to shout to tell the people that you are religious, there are many who will never find it ont Pk R a—— CURRENT OF THE COMICAL, goes away Plain Dealer: The umpire has at last lald aside the functions of a police judge. Toston Conrier: There s something | crooked about a man who carries a cork~ screw. acuse Courler: “I_did not know that th was anything bad (n him."" *‘1 guess you never tasted the whisky at his house. Mrs. Placid—Where you last ni Mr. P.—At a sta | my dear. thought so when | heard you staggering upstairs.” Cincinnati Tribune: Briggs—I read the other day that some words in the Chinese language are capable of fq different meanings. Braggs—What a beautiful lan- | Buage to make campaign promises in! “Dah am _sumphin® sald Uncle Eben, *i olitics am plentifallest ter be wka'se.” Philadelphia Record Washington Sta; wuf while noticin’, de fack dat whah coh'n bread am 1i'bi “Anything new in rket reporter. The hardware man remarked: Indianapolls Journal: Brooklyn Eagle: Stran me where Mrs, Brown lives? Mrs. Halsey Putnam—Well, I don’t know the number, but it's just a few doors below; it's the only house on the block besides this that has real lace curtains on the windows, Kate Field's Washington: Mrs. Benediot Now, what would you do, Mr. De Batel if_you had a baby that ereid fof the moon De Batch (srimly)—1'd do the next best thing for him, madam; 1'd make him see stars! ~Can you tell Detroft e Press: The husband was complaining and the wife was busying about, hunting for the sunshiny places, Jife Is a burden,” he sighed. Yes, dear,” she answered, “but you know we couldn’t exist very well without it. Then he smiled and took a new hold, E CAMPAIGN, Washington Star. Whiskers wavin' in the breeze, Orators galore, Never was so plentiful In these parts before. T Kinder hard ter git the facts Fur common folks like me, When such mighty knowin' men Seems ter disagree. ———— Can They Do Without It? Philadelphia Record. In regard to the prohibition of American catile, it remains to be seen whether the consumers of Germany will patiently sub- mit to a measure which is designed to ens hance the cost of their meat for the benes fit of the ngrarian element. Had Chancellor Caprivi remained in power there is little reason to believe that he would have coun- tenanced an act so much at variance with his liberal policy of trade. But if this meas- ure shall be persisted in by the new gov- ernment, under pretext of the Texas fever or anything else, it will be sure to excite the murmurs of German consumers and give to the opposition a formidable weapon of attack, —————— rman Embarge. Denver Republican. Notwithstanding Secretary Morton of the Agricultural department professes to think the export of American beef to Ger- not amount to much, our ambas- German court has' seen proper fo protest in very vigorous terms againat the restrictions that have been placed by Hamburg and other German ports upon the importation of Amerlcan cattle and beef products. The vigor of the one Is not cons sistent with the indifference of the other. puidiny = BY THE UNKNOWN WAY, Auberon Herbert. aid good-bye to the friends of my cctings are over and done, And I journey forth to find me a place To take o last leave of the sun. For L never could die where the four walls stand, And hide the sun from me; But the sky must be bare on'either hand, With the great air moving free. dimmer and dimmer will grow the light, As the pulses cease their play; Till the soul speeds forth on its homeward fight And Far off, 'by the unknown way. YOUR _MONEY'S WORTH B ——————— T — 0% YOUR MONEY BACK. THE VOTE. publish a few of the results 8.426; Van Wyck, IRESSMAN, 2D Doane, f Magney, 2. randes, 638 5, 1,132, 1.256; Stockman, 3il. ; inskeep, 144; Thomas, 676. Hungate,” 619." 9TH—Johnson, STH-— 7; You Can Bet Your last red cent on the election, but it wouldn't Then you win something. If you loose you can let ing at our store. prices from that up to Special.” be wise. A man who bets is a gambler, but a man w ho doesn’t bet isno bet- ter )—that's a chest- nut, but we'll let it go this time )—Bet a hat, suit of clothes, pair of gloves or an overcoat. If you bet money you'll have to set 'em upto the boys and the first thing you know it's gone, blown in, flown, evaporated, Then, again—we ecome in on it if you bet wearables. yourself down easy by buy- Hats at $2.50 and $3.00 that ocan’t be told from the $5 affairs you see all over town. A good late style black hat like cut for $1.00; also the new Alpine or Fedora soft hat for same priee, All our celebrated “Stetson Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, 8. W, Cor, 15th and Douglas.