Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1894, Page 4

BEE. THE OMAHA DALY B, ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED BEVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. Daily Bee and Sunday, One Yea Bix Mont 4 hree Monthy, . unday Bee, O Baturday Boéo Weekly Bee, | 2838388 enr One Year. ne Year. Omaha, The Bouth Omah: Counell Blu Chicago Offic “hamber of Commerce, New York, R 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. ‘Washington, 1107 F street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edl- torfal matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business lotters and remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and _postoflice orders 10 be made payabie to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. rner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Pearl street. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George R, Tzschuck, secretary of The Iee Pub- lshing cor ing duly sworn, says that the actual r of full and complete copies of the Dail srning, Evening and Sunday Dee printed du the month of October, 18, was follows 16, © 20800 20,861 ‘ L0888 IR 21,02 21586 810 131 Lo X WO 6oduoaronerings .. 614,407 Less deductions for unso coples Total 11 i Daily average net cir « Sworn to before ence this 34 day of November, (Seal.) N. P. FRIL, and subscribed in my pres- 194, Notary Public. hose Sugar trust witnesses put their trust in the wrong place. This is hardly a propitious time for organi: ng a 1 ew naticnal political party on any lines at all. Thanksgiving ¢ Show your loy ing Nebrasku- ay comes next week. Ity to Nebraska by eat- If Pugilist Pitzsimmons could guaran- tee the public that he would kill a man at every performance, what a success he would make as a theatrical star! The horses will not be half so per- turbed over the closing of the New York horse show as will the 400 and their satellites, who find themselves without an occupation. The dense volumes of smoke pouring forth from the chimmeys of various large buildings in the center of the city show that the smoke nuisance ordinance has not yet been rigidly complied with. The canal promoters are to be com- mended for their decision to let their project rest until they know what legis- lation the legislature shall have enacted on the subject. It is the sensible de- cision. It may not be out of order to suggest that the county commissioners may, with propriety, insist on settling the ac- counts of ex-county officers within a reasonable time before the statute of limitations begins to run. Members-eiect of the Boavd of Educa- tion might put in their spare time until January 1 studying the financial state- ment of the city treasurer and compar- Ing it with the prospective revenue of the schools for the ensuing year. Keep you eye on Alabama. There are two men who think they are going to be governor of Alabama after December 1, and if they rub up against one an- other it Is just likely that the fur will fly. The election will not be over in Alabam until the new governor is placed in charge of the state administra- tion. One of our consuls thinks it so re- markable that Turkish rugs should be manufactured in Belgium that he makes the industry the subject of one of his reports to the State department, as if the Belgians did not have as much right to manufacture Turkish rugs as Amer- fcans have to grow Irish potatoes or to make Swiss cheese! Tom Majors began his speech before the republican state convention just after the resignation of Mr. Rosewater from the national committee had been accepted with these words: “I knew that if I was nominated good would follow. It came sooner than 1 ex- pected.” Good certainly has followed, but it is hardly the kind of good which Majors and his masters relish. The county clerks who wait until the last possible moment before transmit- ting the official returns of their counties on the state ticket to the secretary of state deserve something In the shape of a severe reprimand from some compe- tent authority for the unnecessary delay they have caused in giving the people the information which they have a right | to have as early as circumstances will allow. Denmark may prefer to toady to Ger- man favor by shutting American meats out of its ports, but she runs the risk of Incurring the displeasure of the United States government, and thus losing more possibly gain. We are that if the proper repre- sentations are made by the State depart- ment Denmark will not refuse to recon- slder the hasty action which she is re- ported to have taken, — The apnouncement from Governor Jackson of Towa that he will not be a eandidate for re-election must be quite & surprise to the great majority of Towa republicans. In lowa, as elsewhere, it I8 an unwritten law that satisfactory public officers shall be renominated by thelr party at least once. Now that Iowa is again doubly assured to repub- Hlean control, a republican nomination is under ordinary cireumstances equiva- lent to an election. The declination of Governor Jackson in advance will throw the fleid open to the whole host of ambitious republicans, and we may be sure that there will be a merry seramble from now*until the time the pominating couvention is held next sum- STATE OIL INSPECTION. That there Is urgent necessity for a revision of the statute providing for the inspection of petrolenm ofls in this state is conceded by all who know the history of past legislation on the subject and the systematic evasions of the law as it now stands, By reference to the com- piled statutes it will be seen that the law covering oil Inspection provides that the state inspector shall inspect all petrolenm oils offered for sale and shall sct for illuminating purposes such of them as will emit a combustible vapor at the temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Severe penalties are pro- vided for evasions of the law, applicable alike to unfaithful inspectors and to dis- honorable dealers. The law s defective in val impertant particulars. The legal test is not adequate and the instru ments named for the test are not the best to be had. Under the law tests may be made of large quantities of ofl, which may later undergo adultera- tion, rendering them dangerous to con sumers and dealers liable to heavy fine for handling them. It will be the duty of the next legis- lature fo amend the oil inspection law in order to insure hetter protection to life and propeity of houscholders who must use conl ofl for illuminating pur The more stringent laws of Towa, Olio and other states operate to the detriment of this state. Under existing conditions rejected oils from those states may be shipped into Ne braska and sold under the lax enforce ment of a defective law. Oil that is adjudged dangerous by the official in- spectors of any s must not be per mitted to enter our borders. Coal oil is a staple commodity and enters into the domestic economy of four-fifths of the people. The state owes them pro tection against the rapacity of con seienceless oil monepolies. Tne only means of securing such proteetion is by the passage of a more stringent oil in- spection law and its rigid enforcement. £l Poses. BASIS OF REASONABLE IATES. Without discussing for the present whether the federa) courts are the proper tribunals to pass upon the rea sonableness of maximum freight rates preseribed by a state legislature, there is yet considerable room for dissent from the basis upon which® Justice Brewer undertaken in his recent dee sion to Ceter whether such rates are reasonable or not. Justice Brewer himself admits that this fs @ new ques tion and one which is not yet fully set- tled, and the public will scarcely be wiil- ing to take Justice Brewer's illogical, findings as settling it finally. We may perhaps concur in the doubt he ex presses whether any single rule can be laid down applicable to all cases and at the same time insist that the basis of reasonable rates must be the same wherever railronds are engaged in the transportation of freight. Reasonable rates in any business are such rates as will insure a reasonable return npon the investment in that bu: iness. The question is, What is the in- vestment? Surely not the total of all the money that was ever put into it. Surely not the face value of mortgage indebt in one way or another the 5 succeeded in raising on it during a long period of years. Surely not the par value of ' stock which has been issued to vepresent it, noraiy cuneno allof theu, “If the pub ie was seeking to take titie to the railre by condemnation,” says Justice Brewer, “the present value of the property and not the cost is that which it would have to pay.” But when it comes to deter mining the’ investment upon which re. turns should be made from the ordinary course of business he adopts an alto gether different basis. Although in the first Instance he would consider onl what it would cost to acquire an equally good railrond covering the same terr tory, for the latter purpose he is luctant to ignore “the wmount of money that has gone into the railroad prop- erty—-the actual investment as ex- pressed, theoretically at least, by the amount of stock and bonds." He thinks {1t an element of equity which puts the | veduction of rates in a different attitude from the absolute taking of property by eminent domain. The questions propounded on this point in the body of the decision ma perhons appeal to the unthinking few, | but ey will appeal to no others. Tak |ing the Union Pacific as an example, to- | ward the construction of which the f eral government advanced $16,000 | mile, and which, according to the best | testimony, could be built today for 1 $20,000 2 mile, “Would it be full justic {to the government,” we are asked, “would it satisfy the common sense of right and wrong, would it be reasona- ble for the state of Nebraska to so re- duce the rates that the earnings of the raad would only pay on $20,000 a mile, and so, the holders of the first lien being | paid their interest, the government be | forced to be content with only interest on one-foutrh of its investment? Or, to put the case in a trifle stronger light, suppose the promoter of this enterpris had Leen some private citizen who had advanced his $16,000 a mile as a second lien, and that the railroad could be con- structed today for only $16,000 a mile, |of the first lien reasopable interest and leave him without recompense for his investment? All very plausibly put questions we will admit. But just re- If the Union Pacific can be duplicated for §20,000 a mile, would it be full jus- tice to the people, would it satisfy the common sense of right and wrong, would it be reasonable for the state of Nebraska to permit esnd authonze the road to exact rates that wi7 pay interest {on the §70408 a mile for which it has be bonded? Or, to put the case a trifie stronger, if the state can by exer- clse of its right of eminent domain ap- propriate the road for $20,000 a mile and dispose of it for operation to an- other corporation that will be satisfied with returns on its actual value, would it be reasonable and just to continue the existing extortionate rates merely in order that the holders of fictitious secur- ities may enjoy an unearned Income on three times that amount? Suppose a private corporation sbould parallel the Unlon Pacific at an expense of $20,000 a4 mile and adjust its freight rates on this basis, would not the Uulon Pacific would it be reasonable and just to so | reduce rates as to shmply pay the holder | verse these propositions for a moment. | have to bring its rates down to the same level? Would there in that ease be any eall for a court of equity to in- terfere to compel the new road to raise rates so that the income of the security holders of the old might remain unim- paired? Justice Brewer would, to be consistent, have to answer these ques- tions in the affirmative. He seems to have held in mind only the interests of the stockholders and the bondholders. He seems also to have overlooked the rights of the shippers and consumers almost entirely. It is an axiom of po- iiti:al eco-omy that ‘he same commodity cannot under a regime of free competi- tion have two different prices on the same market, ery consideration of justice requires similarly that the law employ the same basis of value wheth in appropriating property to public pur- poses or regulating the charges that may be made for its use. The opposite conclusion is at once illogical and un- fair. JAPAN DOESN'T WANT MEDIATION. There ave shrewd and able men at the head of affairs in Japan. This has been fully demonstrated since the inception of the present conflict with China. In all the movements that preceded the declavation of war the Japanese govern ment proceeded in a way to command the respect of the world, It did not in- vite hostilities, but it determined to pro- tect its rights in Corea, assailed by China, at any cost. If the Chinese gov- ernment had desired to avert war it could have done so by making the fair and reasonable concessions which Japan demanded. But the former counted upon the vastness of its resources to speedily overwhelm the smaller nation and it made no effert to avold host lities, On the contrary, it did everything to ag- gravate the sit fon and bring on a conflict, Thus forced to fight or aceept the alternative of a surrender of valua- ble rights, the loss of which would have erippled and weakened the empire, Japan went into the war with an’ ag- gressive energy and vigor which the world had not suspected she was capi- ble of, The record is familiar to all. The Chinese were quickly driven from Coren, and that country is now practically vnder the protection of Japan., China was invaded by the victorious armies of the island empire, which have been pushing steadily forward toward the Chinese capital. Late advices are to the effect that they are now meeting with move fundamental opposition than at any previous time since the invasion, but there is little reason to doubt that they will rench the objective point. Ac- cording to all testimony the Chinese sovernment has already had its best soldiers in the field, and if such is the ease it can have little hope of success- fully defending the capital whenever the Japanese armies besiege it. It is at this point in the victorious eareer of Japan against the barbarian ‘giant of the east that Iuropean nations, prompted by motives entirely selfish, in- voke the victor to halt in his march of trinmph and discuss terms of peacé and the United States government proffers its good offices as a ms asked for no mediation or interven- tion, She is confident of her ability to carry to a successful issue the course she is pursuing and she has not sought counsel or help from any other power. No intimation has been received by her from the enemy that the stoppage hostilities is desired, though she is not mnaware of the fact that the Chines government would eagerly welcome peace, Under these cireumstances Japan is naturally not disposed to accept media- tion. She very properly insists that be- fore this can come China must indicate her desire for peace in the way reco ized among nations and that ther Il be some definite conditions posed. She does not intend to halt her armies with a foe in front committed to nothing that would prevent it from tnking advantage of her action to her possible discomfiture, nor does she pro- pose to consider terms of p without any definite basis to start with, Japan is wise and right in this position. If Furopean powers would have the war ended let them induce China to pledge herself to lay down her arms and pro- pose conditions of peace which Japan an consider. If they will do this there is no doubt that Japan will be found willing to stop hostilites. As to the re- Intion of the United States to the mat- ter it was unquestionably prowipted by {he best intentions. The sympathy of the American people is with Japan, but s 0 peace-loving people they would like to . ce (he y ar ended, if it can be bronght about with justice to both parties. The government has been eriticised for its proposal or suggestion of mediation, on the ground that there is no authorlty for making such a proposal and also that it is contrary to the established policy of the® country. There may be something in this, and yet it would seem that the United States might properly mediate between these couutries, with both of which we are on friendly terms, if they desired it and the mediation was ef- fected independent of all Buropean pow It remains to be seen how the | luropean governments which want the war to end will be affected by the dis- inelination of Japan to aceept interven- tion. It is possible they will take steps | to force a termination of the conflict. 0- Dou't forget the drouth sufferers in western Neb . The Nebraska Re- | lier commission has headquarters in this | eity, and will undertake to see that all contributions of food and clothing reach the parties for whose assistance they are intended. If members-elect of the legislature want to do a valuable service to the state they will agree on a bill to pro- vide for oil Inspection that inspects. The present law Is defective and is just what the great oil monopoly wants, 'Gene Fleld is ¢ wrious. Chicego Record. Now that Editor Kdward Rosewater has captured Nebraska we are curlous to see what he will do with it. e gperios Echo Answers “Nela," Chivago Times. The democratic statesman enough, popular enough and diplomatic enough’ to bring back the democracy to that policy of firm and intelligent friend- ship for the great common from Which Cits' course- has been divepted | mad without return to which the swelling revolt 15 libemt of popullsm cannot be quelled, mediator. Japawi. ANFECONTEST ADYIUR, ‘Wisner Chroniel A contest case Is a two-handled dingus, and when the end is found it is almost certain that Majors will be buried under a majority as big as a mountain. Tecumseh Chieftain: From all the Chief- taln has heard of the matter it has little doubt of the honest election of Holcomb, and it does not believe any contest will be made on the part of the republicans. West Point Progress: Tom Majors and his gang have discovered that Holcomb was elected by fraud, and will make a contest. They have the power to swindle Holcomb, but it will cost the republicans the state two years hence if they countenance the steal. Niobrara Ploneer: The threats of contest- ing Judge Holcomb's election are coming to a head. Now, see here, if you have no honor In politics, at least be decent. The republi- can party has surely had enough disasters by rea:on of overriding majorities. Be men and not treacherous cowards. University Place Times: It now appears that The Omaha Bee did know what it was talking about when it said while printing the election returns that efforts would be made to count out Governor-elect Holcomb This, despite the assurance of certain papers that Rosewater was frothing again over noth- ing. Davenport (fa.) Democrat: republicans are trying to get natorial contest. They dislike the populist who has been elected through the weakness of their own candidate. The man nom.nated this year for governor of Nebraska had a record that invited a worse defeat than h recelved. Bxeter Enterprise: All this talk testing Governor Holcomb's election from appointees in state institutions, who are desperate over the thought of being thrown out of a job at the beginning of a cold winter. It has no support among honest republ cans anywhere and will be laughed out of countenance in two weeks, Valentine Republican: The Republcan is a firm believer in fair elections and an honest count, and if fraud has been practiced or is now contemplated by either side tha offenders should be brought to speedy punish- ment. The candidate who recefved a ma- Jority of the nonest votes cast should and must be declared elected, no matter who it defeats, and in this he must be protected by all honest cit zens, Broken Bow Republican: The agitation of contesting the election of Judge Holcomb as governor still occup.es the attention of the state papers. In our opinfon a contest would be detrimental to future interests of the re- publican party, and it should not be resorted to unless there is strong evidence of unmis- takable fraud to sufficient extent to change the results, To contest technical irregulari- ties would not be advisable nor for the party interest. Aurora Sun: The B. & M. Journal is still harping about Holcomb's election, and_wants him counted out, but the idea is not backed up by any decent republican paper. The railroads and their organ better take their medicine without protest. An investigation, carefully exercised the state over, would in- crease Holcomb's plurality to 15,000. We be- lieve a trial would lose Majors at least thirty votes in Hamilton county, where in one pre- cinct alone a tteel gang, resident at Lincoln, voted about fifteen votes, and importations from other states, riding at the expense of the railroads, would make as many more. Bennett News: In the face of a plurality of over 3,000 votes for Holcomb, to us it seems folly to attempt to count Majors in It Majors received a majority of the votes the WNews, along with ~every fair- minded man, wants him seated as governor, but the figures do not indicate that such is the case. It is fair to presume that a con- test would develop as much fraud on one side as the other, and it is certain that no good would be done to the republican party of Nebraska by such a contest. The News belleves Holcontb elected “governor of Ne- braska, and it would be sorry to see the re- publican pafty Injured by the propossd action of men who'are actuated only by selfish mo- tives. The defeat of Majors does not argue that Nebraska s not ~ republican. With every republican state officer elected but him, Majors' defeat, can be traced to republicans Wwho repudiated” his record and voted for Holeomb, 3 tTHE BOND ISSUL. The Nebraska of con- comes Chicago Mail: Bonds may be a blessing to the public credit, though they are the kind of a blessing that the country would have been able to get along without if it hadn't experimented with democracy. New York Commercial: A nation of 65,- 000,000 of intelligent freemen with $70,000,- 000,000 of surplus assets compelled to bor- Tow to meet ordinary expenditure! What a spectacle! When will our humiliation come to an end? Kansas City Star: Every one regrets that. conditions should be such as to make a national bond issue a necessity. ~But the necessity Is plain, and therefore the bond issuo will be criticised only by those people whose judgments have become entangled in the financial absurdities of the day. Denver Nows: Having Jost congress and decimated his party, President Cleveland does not forget his friends in Wall street. This new bond issue of $50,000,000 will have no more per- manent effect in maintaining the stability of Mr. Cleveland's joss, the gold reserve, than did the former issue, nor would the issue of $500,000,000 of bonds have any permanent effect. New York Recorder: This will not be the last gold loan which this administration wil) be forced to negotiate. But relief is fn sight, though not close at hand. The republican party is on the way back to control of the national finances, and one of its first and greatest tasks will be to rafse the siege of the treasury by the International Gold trust and stop these periodical additions to the national interest-bearing debt. The credit, the cur- rency, the commerce and the industries of the country must all be restored and protected to- gether. Denver Republican: During President Har- rison's administration more than $300,000,- 000 of bomds were bought and canceled be- fore they were due from the surplus revenues derived under wise republican rule. Now the government is plunging into debt at the rate of more than $150,000,000 a year. It is a terrible penalty to pay for the folly of electing a democratic president and congress, but the lesson will not be without beneficial effects If it teaches the people of this coun- try the Importance of restoring the republi- can party to complete control of the federal government In 1896, Minneapolis Tribune: remember that has arisen for It will be well the necessity which the government to borrow money to pay its current expenses has been brought about by the democratic comgress—Arst, by the long de- lay in passing the tariff bill, and next by the reduction of the tariff schedules. The delay paralyzed ‘business and thus reduced the revenues, and the lowering of the duties shrani them'§tif) turther. The bonds which aro issued now, the republicans, when they came into power, will have to pay, but we expect that the country will bo so prosperous under repubjican, rule that it can be done easlly. to e Too Much of n Task. Latifd¥ile Courier-Tournal, It is reported’ that President Cleveland will make the.currency the leading topic of discussiog;, iy his message to congress next month, and wil attempt to formu- late some plan to take that question out of politics. "#Mr. ~ Cleveland 18 a much greater maws tHan his most extravagant admirers evgrsimagined him to be if he can get thrbugh the present congress any adequate andi Wise settlement of the cur- rency problgmy, . Abeniocratie Hoodoo. 28t Lous Republic. Why should Cal Brice try to slaughter Adlal’ Stevenson by coming out for him? The vice president may be a good western man for 15%, and we wish to keep all our good men In_first-class running condition, Take Brice off or he will spoil the chances of a half dozen strong western men by talking for them. up a guber- | AFTER-BELECTION THOUGHTS. Fremont Tribune: We wonder it Jack Mac- Coll s shedding any tears over the gubern: torlal outcome? Schuyler Herald: Holcomb carried Colfax county with the largest plurality of any state or county candidate. Blair Pilot: And now the mouthpieces of the false and fraudulent "Credit of Ne- braska” sentiment are admitting that “‘the oredit of Nebraska cannot materially suffer’ by tho result, Douglas Enterprise: This defection of re- publicans s undoubtedly due In a large de- gree to the fight made against Majors by The Omaha Bee and a considerable number of other antl-monopoly republican papers. Wayne Republican: The tabulated votes of the counties all show the same thing, and that is that Tom Majors ran behind the ticket, The stories told In regard to him have been taken by many republican voters as containing much truth. The result of the election demonstrates the necessity for plac- ing in nomination men with whom an of- fensive campaign can be made. Denver Republican: The folly of rominat- ing old corporation tools like Majors in Ne- braska and Esteo in California for important offices should not soon bo forgotten by the republicans of other states. If clean men fairly representing the interests and senti- ments of the republican party had been nominated in both states they would have been elected by large majorities. Schuyler Herald: We feel like shaking | hands with the manhood of Nebraska which interposed its veto to the attempt to per- petuate ring ruls and boodlerism by defeating Majors. Even the great tidal wave of re- publicanism could not overcome tho indigna- tion of outraged decency in Majors' nc ination. Hurrah for Holcomb! not because he is an independent, or a democrat, but because he stood for honest government. Logan County Ploneer: The Omaha Bee will generally receive. credit for the defeat of Majors for governor, but did The Bee defeat him. There is little doubt but that the | vote of Douglas county was a surprise m; party managers, as well as the pole that| knocked the persimmon, but did The Bee | handle it? Many are inclined to think not, | and belleve that the republican state central | committee in its efforts to reach the coveted prize made use of a crooked stick, which | proved to be a boomerang, and dropped the | governorship in the grasping hands of Hol- | comb. During the eampaign the committee made its fight through the medium of the Nebraska State Journal, thousands of copies of which were distribufed among the labor- fng men of Omaha and South Omaha, the lome of organized labor in Nebraska. The presence of that paper in the home of a workingman has much the same Influence upon him that the flaunting of a red flag| in the face of a bull has upon that animal. The Journal has never been known to es- pouse the cause of the laboring man where he was opposed by a corporation, and less than two years ago placed “rats” or ‘“scab laborers in charge of its composing rooms, shera they still remain. It did this delib- erately, after having been offercd arbitration | as a means of settlement of the differences | existing between it and the union men dis- placed. It refused arbitration as a means of | settlement, but at the same time Bllppcrle(‘l‘ a platform, and its manager helped adopt | the plattorm that provided for arbitration asa | means of settling all disputes between labor and capital. This Is history that is well known to all laboring men, and makes them | suspicious of men and measures advocated by | it. Its enthusiastic support of Majors cost | him thousands of labor votes, and these votes | defeated him. No, Rosewater and The Bee did not defeat Majors, but the short-sighted policy of the republican state central com- mittee in selecting the Journal as its offi- cial organ and distributing it broadcast in these labor centers did. Majors was the can- didate for which it worked, untiring, leaving the rest of the ticket to take care of itself, and, except Majors, the ticket reccived a handsome majority in Douglas county, yet ot so large as that of the local ticket. A b SAYINGS WITH A SNAP. Chicago Inter Ogean: guilty or not gullty? Prisoner—That's “ what out, yeronner. Judge—Are you I'm here to find Tndianapolis ~ Journal: have you for thinking was a broker?" “Oh, none, only the fact that by nished so many stock quotation: Atlanta Consitution: *Is Jinks a poet?” “No;. just hard times; couldn’t raise money enough to have his hair cut.! Milwaukee Journal: What a pity it is that there is no fun about anything that is strictly proper. “What warrant that Shakespeare has fur- Buffalo Courier: Upson—They say it is impossible to get money out of young Close- fist even with a club. Downer—Er—yes; he's posted for dues at the only one to which he belongs. Syracuse Post: Mrs, Parvenoo—And what does your husband do Mrs. Heavyplate—He chaises silver. Mrs. Parvenoo—So does mine, but never seems to be able to catch it. Buffalo Courier: Mrs. Ahmen Corner (in a whisper, as the collection is being taken)— Who is the man in the next alsle with the basket? Isn't it wonderful how he seems to be able to make everybody contribute? Ahmen Corner—Not so very wonderful, He used to be a ward man on the New York police force. he Philadelphia Record: Lizzie—I'm awful mad at Laura, She told Charley thai I painted. Bmma—I wouldn't, be mad. She'd do it, too, if she had your face. “Keep that physician in attendance on our family!" exclaimed Mrs. Parvie New. “Never.! “Has he Killed anybody?" “No. But he had the impertinence to say at Mr. New's blood was impoverished.” Chicago Tribune: Rivers took out his pocketbook reluctantly, extracted from it @ $10 greenback, and handed it over to the young man who had called upon him tor the nineteenth time with a bill from tne tobacconist round the corner. “The only way to suppress a smoke nuis- ance,” he grumbled, ‘is to pay him off.’ Munsey's Magazine: The Daughter—Can't you let ‘me have that $i00 father? I once heard you say that you would give your last cent to your children. 3 The Father—Yes, but T haven't got to my last cent yet. 1 DIVERSION. New York Press, As soon as closed the final scene Of each act he withdrew— In brief, went out the acts between To see & man he knew. No tears adown her fair eheeks ran; She donned her sweetest smile, And flirted with another man Who sat across the aisle. e A LOST TYPE. Washington Star Detroit Free Press, 0, for the glimpse of a natural boy, ‘A boy with freckled face, With forehead white, 'neath hair, And limbs devold of grac the tangled Whose feet toe in, while his elbows flare, Whose knees are patched all ways, Who turns as red as a lobster when You give him a word of praise. A boy who was born with an appetite, Who seeks the pantry shelf, To eat his “piece’ with resounding smack Who isn't gone on himself. A_Robinson Crusoe reading boy, Whose pockets bulge with trash; Who knows the use of rod and gun, And where the brook trout splash. It's true he'll sit in the easiest chalr, With hat on his touseled head; That his hands and feet are everywhere— For youth must have room to spread. But he doesn't dub his father “old man,” Nor deny his mother's call, Nor ridicule what his elders say, Or think that he knows It all. A rough and wholesome, natural boy, Of a good old-fashioned clay; God bless him, if he's still on” éarth, For he'll make a man some day. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S. Gov't Report Roal Baking Powde ABSOLUTELY PURE |1f n | hone on the graveyards, where some few - 1 was bound to hear Ruby out or die. JUD BROWNIN ON RUBENSTEIN, The death of Rubenstein, just announced, recalls the great success of that master musi. elan in his American tours. The wonderful effect of Rubinstein's play- Ing, even on peo ple who were not musiclans, is well described in the following, written by a newspaper man when Rubenstein first visited this country. The narrator is sup- posed to be “Jud Brownin," who had gone down to New York and had dropped in to hear Rubenstein play. This is how ‘Jud” described it: Well, sir, he had the blamedest, biggest, catty-cornédest planner you ever latd cyes on; somethin® like a distracted billiard table on' three legs. The 1id was hoisted, and | mighty well it was. If it hadn't bes e'd a tore the entire Inside out and scattered them to thy ur winds of heaven, Played well? You bet he did, but don't | !Ill\‘fl'lllfl me, When he first sit down he peared to keer mightly little 'bout pl in', and wisht he hadn't come. He tweedle. leede’d a little on the treble, and twoodle- | oodled some on the base—just foolin' and boxin' the thing's jaws for bein' in his way And I says to man_settin’ next to m says I, “What sort of fool playin' is tha And he says, “Helsh!” BDut presently his hands commenced sin' one another up up and down the s, llke a passel of rats geamperin® thr A garet very swift, Parts of 1t was sweet, though, and re- minded me of a sugar squirrel turnin' the wheel of a_candy ¢ “Now, says to my neighbor, showin" He thinks he's a-doin’ but he al t no idee, no pl d p me a tune of other I'd But my neighbor says “Heish!" very im- patient 1 was just about to get up and go home, bein' tired of that foolishness, when I heard a little bird waking up way off in the woods, and call sleepylike to his mate, and I looked up and see that Rubin was L inning to take some Interest in his business, and I sit down again. It was the peep of day The light came faint from the cast, the breezes blowed gentle and fresh nd some more birds waked up in the d, then some more In the trees ne house, | and all begun singin' together iple he. ®an to stir and the gal opened the shutters Just then the first beam of the sun fell upon the blossoms a leedle more, and it techt the roses on the bushes, and the next thing It was broad day; the sun fairly b d, the birds sung like they'd split t r little throats; all the leaves was mo ' and flashin’ diamonds of dew, and the whole wide world was bright and happy as a king, Seemed to me like there was a good breakfast in every house in the land and not a sick child or woman anywhere, It was a fine mornin’, And 1 says to music, that is.” “he's | of 1t n of nothin’ some kind or my nelghbor: “That's glared at me like he'd like to cut | & Thi en me | 1l quiver the thicken up and over things; I wind turned; kind of gray mist c got low spirited directly. Then a silvér rain begun to fall. 1 could ce the drops touch the ground; some flashed up like long pearl earrings, and the rest rolled away like round rubies It was pretty, but melancholy, Then the pearls gathered themselves into long strands and necklices, and then they melted into thin silver streams, running between gold gravels, and then the streams joined en other at the bottom of the hil brook that flowed silent, except that you could kinder see the music, 'specially when the bushes on the banks moved as the muslc went along down the valley. 1 could smell the flowers in the meadow. But the sun didn’t shine, nor the birds sing; it was a foggy day, but not ccld. The most curious thing was the little white angel boy, like you see in pictures, that run ahead of the music b pk and led it on and on, away out of the world, where no m ever was, certain, I could see that boy just as plain as I see you. Then the moonlight came, withcut any sunset, and it begun to h and made a ghosts lifted their hands and went over the wall, and between the black, sharp-top trees splendid marble houses rose up, with fine ladies in the lit-up windows, and men that loved 'em, but never get a-nigh 'em who played on ‘guitars under the trees, and made me that miserable I could have cried, because T wanted to love somebody, I don'{ know who, better than the men with the guitars did. Then the sun went down, it got dark, the wind moaned and wept like a lost child for its dead mother, and T could a got up there and preached a better sermon than any I ever listened to. There wasn't a thing In the world left to live for, not a blame thing, and yet I didn't want the music to stop one bit. Tt was happier to be miserable than to be happy without being miserable. I couldn't understand it T hung my head and pulled out my hand- kerchief, and blowed my nose loud to keep me from cryin’. My eyes fs weak, any- way; I dido’t want anybody to be agazin® at me a-snivlin’, and it's nobody’s business what I do with' my nose. It's mine. But some several glared at me mad as blazes, Then, all of a sudden, old Rubin changed his tine. He ripped out and he rared, he tipped and he tared, he pranced and he charged like the grand entry at a circus. 'Peared to me that all the gas in the house was turned on at cnce, things got 8o bright, and T hilt up my head, ready to look any man in the face, and not afraid of nothin’, It was a circus, and a brass band, and n big ball all goin' on at the same time. He it into them keys like a thousand of brick; he give 'em no rest day or night: he set every livin' Joint in me a-goin’, and not bein’ able to stand it no longer I fumped spang onto my seat and jest hollered: “Go it, my Rube!™ Every' blamed man, woman and child in the house riz on me and shouted, “Put him out! put him out!" “Put your great grandmother's grizzly gray greenish cat into the middle of next month!” I says. ‘ech me if you dare? id my money and you jest come a-nigh With that some several policemen run up, and T had to simmer down. But I woud a fit any fool that laid hands on me, for He had changed his tune again. He hop- light ladies and tip-toed fine from end to end of the keybcard. = He played soft and low and solemn. 1 heard the church bells over the hills. The candles of heaven was lit, one by one; I saw the stars rise. her 3 seratched 1 He knockt her down and shameful | & quart By wouldn't let th up wing, his reserye platoon, brigade Euns pounders yonder dle sized gun: grape, | at | the Tignts dar come up, i creation, glerry, ten-y Ton cart, uddle-uddle iddle-iddle-iddle T p-r-r-r-rlank! Drorrrert | into knees, h elbo 1 twent treatin' before, was breakin' by Nicholas ho I did not know me the number “Hot music o The great orggn of eternity began to pla from (he worldt all the angels went to Then the music feeling that could, to sweet, like tears of jc of glory. was with white sugar mixt ver and seed dia I tell you the kinder bowed, “Much obleeged, but 1'd rather you wonldn't interrup’ me." He slopt & moment or two to ketch breath. Then through his hair, he opened s end an; prayoers. to water, full ot A and began clear and nto a lake 1t art ‘sweetened with_powdered sil- nds, It was too sweet, nee cheered. Rubin he he wanted to say, % end to the woj changed t e thought Op—drip, dro fallin drop-drip, ¢ It wis sweet as sweet as n 8w .x like he He run his fingers he shoved up Wis sieeve, his coat tails a leedle furthe ug up his stool, he leaned over, an: he just went for that old planner. ¥ Dt her face, ho hoxed her jaws, he pulle nose, he' pinched her ears and he r checks until she fairly yelled, he stampt on her like a bull, she d like a hound, shricked like & her up. He run o 1ow grounds of got mad She | eated like a calf squealed 1 nd then he we Towed she how! u pig, she in't | h down the base till he wot clean up in the bowels of the enrth ingg cnves of perdition [ his right hand with © out of the treble notes was fincr needles the shaddors let he crost oy and yon heard thunder gallops thuner t 1Eh the hollows and. and then he fox-chased 1eft till he got way Into the clouds, whar the (ian her pints of cambrio 't hear nothin®. but And then he wouldn't the old pianner go. He farard two'd, tirst gentleman, he chassade hack to your places, he all ount, ladies ta the Fight,’ promes . in aud out, here and there, back forth, up and d wn, perpetual motion, ible twisted and turned and tacked and into fort ven thousand double ter and of ‘em, finks! It was o mixtery. And then he 10 planner’ go, He fecht wing, he fecht up his left up his ¢ he focht up Ho tired by he fired by Yy company, by regiments, and b thar, Napoleons here, twelve ik ks, lttle guns, mids round shot, shells, shrapnels, mortar, mines and maga wttery and bom The house i walls shuk, the floor down, the sky leavens and earth, W ocs, Moses, ninepences, nny nails, Sampson in a 'sims Thompson in @ tumbler oodie-oodle—ruddle-uddles tidle--ud e~ addle-riddle dle-cedle-cedle-cedle - U1 lang! perlang! his right he feeht down canist y livit the same fir [l it, the ki tree, T roodle-oodi raddl k! 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You may shriek across the prairie till your bellows you do But you cannot chill the mar- men whom we have dressed; for an ulster he has folded on his back and o'er his breast—— and it didn't cost him much to do the folding either. ulster for $10 and another for $12.50, and some higher priced ones with more style and finer texture but no Every sort of overcoat as Nice warm garment of Melton or Kersey for $7.50. Tne most ele- gant affair you ever tried on for $30. We sell a splendid Merchant tailors get $50 and $6) for some that are not so good. Good warm boys' ulster for $4 that used to sell tor $6.50. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothicrs, S. W, Cor. 15th and Douglas,