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———— — PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING, —_— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without One Yo Daily_Bee and Sur Bix Months Three Sunday Baturdny Bée, One Year Weekly Bee, One Year OF Months Omaha, Houth Council e The Omah i 1 Twenty-fourth t of Commerce. 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 F street, N. W CORRESPONDENCE, All communications relating to news and_edi- torial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSI LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be Mddressed to The Bee Publishing pany, Omah Drafts, checks and postoffica orders (o 1¢ to the order of the compan HING COMPANY STATEM George B, Taschuck lishing company, being the actunl number of Dally Morning, printed during the as follows NT OF CIRCULATION. wecretary of The Bes Pub- duly sworn, says that full and complets copies Evening and Sunday Fee 3 of October, 1891, was 2010 61 596 | of Less Teturned cop! ceeres 10,097 634,970 toaaes 21,148 ZECHUCK in my pres. Total mold........... Dally average net eircula GEORGE Swomn 10 hefore me nnd ence this 3d Nov (Seal.) y Public. More light on that lighting contract 18 what the people want. Begin retrenchment in the school board by abolishing the office of special attorney for the board. One w will be azain re galed daily with soporific reports of the routine business of cong the sultan of Turkey investi- the Armenian massacre, then Is investigation all that the oc nd After gates what? easion den If the report of the seeretary of agri- enlture does not astonish the natives its author will be as sorely disappointed as the average late democratic candidate. The report of the postmaster general says that lottery devices of all Kinds must go. In this the administration will e backed up by the approval of all reputable citizens. The Sherman avenne paving has got- ten into the cour The trouble ig, how- ever, that the paving is not likely to be Iaid so0 long as the courts retain their control over the question. Postmaster General Bissell is trying to see on how many points he can differ from his predecessor in his recommenda- tions for further legislation with re- spect to the Postoffice department. dent Cleveland's bad ankle won't interfere with the use of his voice and pen in formulating his coming message, although it may perhaps be possible to perceive the twinges of pain by read- ing between the lines. The Papillion Times suggests that the legislature provide for the publieation of session laws in two newspapers of each county, Under proper conditions and limitations such publication would be of great public benefit. The charter revision committee done commendable work so far. Every member of the Douglas delegation should attend meetings of the commit- tee and thus get an intelligent idea of the demands of their constituents, Fact of the matter is there are thou- sands of republicans who voted for Ma- Jors who are better satisfied over his defeat than they would have been oy his election. Since they know the legis- lature to be strongly republican they want nothing more to do with the tat tooed man. has America is a rather remote place in which to begin a movement for consti- tutional government in Russin. But other good enterprises for the reform of foreign government have Dheen insti- tuted in this country, and so why not also one with the Russian government as its object? No sooner did New York vote to sup- ply her own rapid transit than the managers of the elevated railway sys- tem immediate set to we to im prove their service. Had the election gone the other way it Is to be assumed that the way of the elevated would have remained unchanged. Chalrman Morrill, in his grand stand eplstle to Tom, sa) “There are many republicans in Nebraska whose opinions are worthy of consideration who have expressed a doubt as to the adyisa- bility of a contest.” This is putting it very mildly. There has not been one republican in a thousand favorable to a contest. Every owner of property, and espe- clally the great body of modest home owners, are vitally interested in the proposed charter amendment which con- templates a radical change in the mat- ter of assessments. The Douglas dele- gatlon should unite in support of this movement and stay by it till it is made a part of the charter. The party of defeat in many of the states is trying to acconnt for the re sult of the recent election on the theory that the stay-at-homes did it. This theory wmay be all right for some states, but it will never do in the world for Nebraska. There doesn't seem to have been any stay-at-homes here. On the contrary, the vote on governor is sev eral thousand higher than it was two years ago, Just after the exclting presi- dential campaign. Not only did every voter In the state get out, but thousands of colonists imported from abroad as- bisted to ver up the hole created by the exodus of drouth sufferers. The stay-at-homes didn't do it in Nebraska It was the people who got out and voted. THE CONSPIRATORS STILL AT WORK. Unable to discover sufficlent evidence of popullst fraud at the recent election to warrant the institution of contest | proceedings against | comb, the gang of corporation conspira | tors have reluctantly given up the idea {of filing notice of contest by law. as required They have not, however, given rly ot s up all hope of counting the regul out - elected governor of Nebraska office, and already the m been put in motion looking toward ac- complishing indirectly what they have | founda balked | direetly. It is expected and hoped by chine; themselves in attaining d hirelings that the public of the contest proceed- ings will be aceepted by the people in good faith as a final termination of the andonment wouid be the one off their the field might be opened o bal- matter. Ordinarily such o guard lot box stealing and ballot manipula- tion, which the general vigilance by the warnings of The Bee ! has thus far fortunately blocked. After | these erimes shall have been committed By throwing eve aroused | and the ballots plugged to Majors' size, a demand for a recount by resolution the legislature is to be made, and when the fraud is consimmated Gover- | nor Holcomb is to be ousted from office and his place given to the man who was so emphatically refected at the polls. The B. & M. Journal, which gets its direet from raflroad hes has already begun to broach this in- In an editorial only it claims that the feeling state cue dquarters, [ famous scheme. <t Sunday 1 | adually spreading over the is g that a recount by the legislature where [no “mistakes,” as it calls them, would or except | be overlooked, is the proper thing. course no such feeling exists where propagated by rallrond emis- It that the | sealed ballots from every precinet could the state in the presence of competent men of both par- ties and with the returns. The only reason adduced for such an saries, is further urged be opened at house compared xpenditure of valuable time and money the is the “suspicion” that there were frauds perpetrated in the the chinbry was in the hands of populists. One or two legislators-elect known to legislature count wherever election ma- have very marked railrond proclivities have in conversation of a pretended conviction that, even thou of fraud that will serve as a basis of proceedings, the legislature ought to order a recount of the votes “for is in- dubitable proof that these men have already been approached in the interest of the conspirators' latest scheme, also unburdened themselves h there Is no evidence contest appearance sake.” There A’recount under the conditions con- templated cannot be anything but a bai d device to count Governor HolcomD out. Even supposing that the ballots are all right when delivered up by the respective county clerks to the legislative messengers, who can tell that they will remain so In transit to Lincoln? After they have arrived in the possession of the legislature, who will be able to say whether the ballots genuine How can a legis- from every precinet are or forged substitutes? lative committee ascertain whether the signatures of the thousands of judges of clection correct unless each of these judges is brought to the capitol verify their then what is to are to signatures, and ent the conni s in open fraud for money, which the railroads stand ready to sup- ply? Such a palpable attempt to dis- franchise the 97,000 and more voters their ballots for Judge Hol- comb by a plot emanating from even pre ince who cast cor- poration pirates and state house bood- lers must be frustrated at once if the right of self-government is to be pre- No insure 1 to the people of Nebraska. ance should be the continued safety of the ballots in every county in the state. In addition this, member-clect of the legislature must have it indelibly im- pressed upon him that his constituents of all parties will not countenace the proposed of n who rel to every robhery governorship. participates such a crime will have himself ma for the remainder of Lis life. Bvery legislator in ked The peo- elected Judge Holeomb governor and the people will see to it that he 1s duly installed and serves out his full A cont TO ECONOMIZE. between the Board of ation and its attorney expires ne week and already for some time a live canvass has been In progress among wdidates who are anxious to serve the board in the capacity of legal adviser. The claims of the various applicants will probably be presented at the next meeting of the board, but in reaching a decision upon them the first question to be determined is whether the board needs a special salaried attorney at all. The position of The Bee on this ques- tion is well known. It has expressed its opinion on more than one occasion that a specia! salaried attorney for the school board Is but little more needed than a fitt,, wheel to a wagon. Not that the present oceupant and his predeces: A ser or e The s have not rendered rned the sums that have been paid over to them in compen- sation or that any one of the present candidates would be unahle to give fair return for the salary atiached to the place. But the city is already main- taining a legal department with the clty attorney at its head which is amply competent to leok out for all the int ests of the taxpayers. The school dis- trict of the city of Omaiba and the city of Omaha are co-terminous and identical in their constituent elements. The same vernor-elect Hol- | | and finanelal outlook of the school board is | of that position | voters elect the men who are to admin- fster the one and the other; the same taxpayers contribute the money upon which each Is supported; the interests of both ought to be one and harmonious. There Is no reason whatever why all the legal business of the Board of Edu- cation cannot be transacted through the ety attorney and his assistants and the monay now paid for the work saved devoted to other purposes. The not such as to encourage extravagance in any direction. Quite the contr it admonishes the strictest economy. salary of th good place to economize. THE POSTAL SERVICE. The cost of the postal service of the country for the last fiseal year was a little over $£0,000,000 in excess of the revenue from that fce. This is not | an exceptionally large deficit, and when it is considered that the year was one of great depression in business a con- siderably greater difference between ex- penditures and receipts would not have been surprising. As the postmaster general says in his veport, the depart- ment cannot protect itself against the loss of revenue incident to dull times, as an ordinary business establishment n, by economies of management and retrenchment. Its expenditur must be kept up and may even have to be enlarged at such times. It was found practicable to practice some economy during last yes but the saving ac- complished appears not to have been very material. The postmaster general thinks the postal service ean be made self-sustain- ing by a revision of the law ns to second-class matter, embracing news papers, perfodicals and other publicn- tions. He does not propose that any change be regarding legitimate newspapers and periodieal magazin but that the privileges accorded to pre tended periodicals and to other publica- tions which he designates as illegiti- mate as second-class matter be with- drawn. In view of the fact that the weight of second-class matter carried bas more than doubled within the past six years and is steadily increasing, and of the further fact that the cost to the department of earrying this matter was nearly $17,0600.000 in excess of the re- ceipts from it, or almost double the amount of the deficit for the year, the recommendation of the postmaster gen- eral is certainly worthy of the serious consideration of congress. It is of course useless to talk of increasing pos- tal rates so long as there is any other way to bring the revenue and the ex- penditures of the department nearer together. There undoubtedly would be a very vigorous popular protest against advancing letter postage until every other expedient for making the depart- ment self-sustaining, or more nearly so0 than it now is, had been adopted. But there would probably be no very serlous objection on the part of the public to the putting into effect of the recommendation of the postmaster gen- eral regarding second-class matter. It was to be expected that the pres- ent postmaster general would oppose a postal telegraph system, but unless he can offer some better arguments against that system than he is credited with in the telegraphic abstract of his report he will not convert to his view any of the supporters of such a system. His statement that the conditions In this country are such- as would enor- mously increase the large deficit if pos- tal telegraphy were established is of course pure assumption, and it is not helped by the questionable assertion that the postal telegraph in Great Britain entalls a total annual loss of $2,000,000. Careful and conservative estimates warrant the belief that a pos- tal telegraph system in the United States would pay expen from the start, and as to the experience of Great Britain it is to be said that the people of that country do not use this means of communication as freely as would the people of the United States, who it can be shown by comparative statis- tics are far ahead of the British peo- ple in the extent of their correspond- ence. But at any rate the postal tele- graph system in Great Britain is per- tectly isfactory to the government and the people. It is a great public convenience and benefit, which has come to be regarded as an indispensable part of the postal service. It would be equally advantageous to our people, and the fact that this country is larger makes the necessity for such a system more urgent. Howey discussion of the matter can avail nothing at pres- ent, since there is no possibility that the present congress will give it any consideration, What the postmaster general says as to applying civil service reform to the lower grades of postmasters and taking the public mail service out of the political field will be very generally approved, and as it doubtless is in ac cord with the views of the president there is reason to expect that thing will be done in this direetion dur- ing the term of the present administra- tion. Unquestionably the republicans in congr 1 be relied upon to sup- port any effort which the administra- tion may make to advance civil service reform, 8 THE NEW GOVERNMENT LOAN. The award of the §50,000,000 of bonds to replenish the treasury gold reserve insures the fulfillment of that purpose. The syndieate represented by President Stewart of the United Trust company of New York has at its command the gold to pay for the bonds, so that there will be no demand on the treasury for a single dollar, of the gold required in this transaction. There had been some apprehension that the bidders for these bonds who should obtain them, instead of going to the banks for the gold would draw a large part of it out of the treasury and thus defeat the ob- jeet of the loan. The loss of several willions of the reserve last we scemed to warrant this fear, which found fur- ther reason in the care which the banks Lave taken for a long time to hold on to their gold. It Is very gratifying to find that thers was no substantial ground for this apprehension and that the bidders for the new loan desired to strengthen the treasury and relleve It of the embarrassment incid depleted reserve in constant ( being still further reduced. anger of Moreover, The | “board's attorney offers a | some- | it Is understpod to be the intention of the syndicgls to whom the bonds have been nwnml to put the trensury In possession ®F e proceeds s soon ns it can practicably be done, without taking adv@fage of the terms of the call allowing the payments to be ex- tended over #' stated period. This Is also evidetite ‘of the willingness of these bankers and capitalists to giv the governggyt the fullest possible benefit of e transaction. The gold'feserve is now about §38.- 000,000, nntl’ tat amount will be real- ized from the fiew bonds. At the pric pald for them, the interest will be a little less thansd per cent. The aggre gate amount of the bids showed that the government could as readily have disposed of double the amount of bonds on equally as favorable terms. Such evidence of confidence is high! re- assuring and ought to have an excellent effect. It was different when the loan of last February was offered. Then a strong effort had to be made to get-the banks to subseribe, and for a time it seemed doubtful whether the bonds could be disposed of on terms satis- factory to the government. The fact that there was no such difficulty in con- nection with the pew bonds demon- strates that there has been a great change in the feeling in financial cfr-| cles If all distrust has not disap peared it is certain that there has been a marked growth of confidence, and it is to be expected that the knowledge of this will have a good effect, both at home and abroad. It may be regretted that there was necessity for increasing the public debt, but the exigency was urgent, and now that it has been pro- vided for ‘he wisdom of doing so will be generally conceded. The only disturbing question that sug- gests itself is as to how long the gold reserve, after being replenished, can be kept unimpaired. If the same con- ditions that have operated to cause its depletion continue, another issue of bonds is likely to become necessary within the next eight or ten months. It is not to be expected that the pres- ent congress will do anything regard- ing the currency to better the situation, but it is possible that it may pass a law requiring a percentage of the customs duties to be paid in gold. If that were done there would be no difficulty in maintaining the reserve and no necessity for future bond issues for that purpose, A prominent insurance agent tells the editor of a weekly paper in this city that the Morse-Coe fire will doubtless result in an increase of insurance rates. We should likejto know the object of fire insurangg. ;JVhy do fire companies accept prewjupd . money from policy holders yearZafter year and then when a fire makes xfi policy worth money set up a claim for higher es? Insur- ance companies thrive on fires, perfect safeguards against fire could not exist. They owe their enor- mous profits;to the constant menace of the fire flend. What sense Is there in talking of ‘advhnced rates in conse- quence of every disastrous loss sus- tained in thig cify? It is becoming tire- some. If fire,companies do not expect to pay losses in Omabha, why do they accept premium money from our prop- erty owners? Tt is reported that one of the witnesses subpoenaed for the murder trial in prog- ress In the criminal court of this dis- trict has lost his employment by reason of his prolonged attendance upon the trial. If this is true the party who has discharged him for this cause deserves very severe condemnation. Such Inci- dents ave reported frequently from time to time, but that fact in no way miti- gates the offense. A man summoned to appear in court as wifhess has no al- ternative to obey. Every contract of employment has an_implied condition | providing for this contingency. It is an injustice of the grossest kind to deprive a man of his position because of a pub- lic duty which he is compelled to per- form. By tabulating the vote of all the states 1 the recent election and com- paring the totals with those of 1802, the New York World thinks it has disclosed a gain of 600,000 by the populists in two years' time. It is undeniable that the populists have gained strength in a number of the states, and equally un- deniable that they have lost in others, as witness in congress. The gains seem to have been in the larger cities, where they were previously almost wholly unrep- resented, and even here they are so scattered that they have made but small impression. It is a little rash to say that the last election finally estab- lishes the stability of the populist party. Senator John T. Morgan is assured another six years' lease on official life by the unanimous renomination of the democreatic members of the Alabama leglslature. Mr. Morgan has tried to occupy a neutral position in the tional strife between the president and the democrats in the United States sen- ate, and that is perhaps one of the reasons that he has been practically unopposed in his candidacy for a fourth term. ¢ ass Evil Chicago Tribune, It the railroads were wise they would tear up the pass system by the roots. They would make every’ man who traveled pay for what he got, and they would be able to lower their, rates. This would add enormously to thelr popularity with the peo- ple, who never can’get over their hatred of deadhs Yery likely the senatorial sandbaggers would threaten the roads if denied the usuil phsses. Those passes are given generally: in erder to avert unfriendly legislation. But If a general assembly went for the roads because they would not chalk the hats of senators and representatives the pecple would be on the side of the roads. One of the hmendments of the New York constitutlen Mmakes it an offense for roads to give passés to public officers and for the latter to receive them, Have not the Tllinois lines courage cnough to stop this pass bribery or refuse to submit to this pass blackmail without waiting for & constitu- tional amendment? | not been profected. their loss of representation ‘ THE VICTORIOUS JAPS. Chicago Post: The vietory is A tremend- ous blow at China, for it practically leaves that country without a decent naval station | near the present seat of war. The situation i {llustrative of the Chinese characteristics, | for while Port Arthur was so fortified as to | be practicably impregnable by sea the land door——s0 to speak—was left wide open. | Denver Republican: The fall of Arthur wiil make the Chinese government all the more anxious to bring the negotiations for peace to a successful close. Japan, on tho other hand, having obtained this great | advantage, may Insist all the more earnestly | upon terms hard for China to accept. A | | treaty of peace may save Peking, but | | seems that that is all that can save it | Chlcago Inter Ocean: There was a Jap- enese Invasion of China just 400 | years ago, and then, as now, all | things went favorably to the ' Jap- | anese for a long time. ity after city was | captured, victory after victory was won by | the Japanese troops, but in the long run the | | obstructive forces of China won. Hardly | | ever repulsing the invaders, never gaining a | | decisive victory over them, ever retreating | farther into their vast territory, the ev defeated Chinese literally tired their invade | out. It will be strange if history now re- | peats itself. Kansas City Times: The belief is current that this new force in eastern affairs will | be salutary rather than otherwise, and that | the influence of the little kingdom will be thrown on the side of justice and peace in international complications that may arise, | and not used in the aid of covetous schemes | of any power. The Japanese have come to | their power as a modern development, and because tho spirit of modern progress has been the one end and aim of its government The people have no traditions of oppression and conquest, and it fs not to be presupposed that their triumphs at arms will turn their heads and change their policies. - A WARM ENDORSEMENT. Port | OMAHA, Nov. 23.—To the Editor of The Bee: District assembly No. 126, Knights of Labor, congratulates you for your noble ai sistance in the late election. As representa- tives of the Knights of Labor in Omaha, we desire to extend our heartfelt thanks for the splendid fight made by you and The Bee in the interest of good government, and the elec- tion of Judge Silas A. Holcomb during the recent campaign. Rarely, it ever, does this order go out- side of its own ranks to commend any one for doing his duty as a free American ecitizen. But there is no class that feels the encroach- ment of corporate power and knows the re- sults any better than the Knights of Labor. Therefore, when we see a man of your stand- ing rise above party: prejudice and party affiliations, and almost single handed (a least in the ranks of your own party) take up the fight of the common people against the tyranny and oppression of the great rali- road corporations of this state, we feel it our duty to at least acknowledge our appre- ciation of the noble work you have done in our behalf. Hoping we may always find you on the side of the oppressed, and against the oppressor, we remain, yours in the cause, H. COHEN, D. M. W. M. NELSON, R. Sec. D. A, 126. o ening the Rents, Globe-Democrat. Cleveland’s idea of a sound money policy is one that will beautifully tend fo prolong and intensify the dissensions in his party. = e Advice to Mr. Wilson, New York Sun. We are sorry for Mr. Wilson. A man may be neither courageous nor straightfor- ward, and yet have gentle manners and use gentle speech. Mr. Wilson does not fm- srove with adversity. Evidently he s Padly shattered, He reeds rest. ie should g0 to a retreat and stay there until his nerves and his good temper are restored. i i aiid A Squeals of the Pass Flends. Chicago Times. The new constitution which the citizens of New York state adopted by a triv- ial vote of something like 600,060 is in dan- ger of belng overthrown because it prohibits the gift of rallrond passes to members of the legislature. As it did not, however, prohibit the state leglslature from making valuable gifts to railroad corporations, it is probable that power enough will be rallied to its defense to save it. Munieipal Reform Philadelphia_Time In New York, Philadelphia and every other city the remedy for misgovernment must be the same—the overthrow of par- tisan_machine rule. Until the majority of the voters of our large cities emancipate themselves from machine rule and eschew all blind alleglance to the party bosses In_municipal affairs the government of our cities will be dishonest, inefficient and a perpetual disgrace to the American people. ‘Al machine rule in cities will be bad rule, and until the voters have learned this they will not have mastered the first lesson in successful municipal government. e Shoeking Depravity. Minneapolls Journal is a very dirty divorce case at Fargo, and one of its most Infamous epi- sodes 'was the admission of the witne Anderson, that he was pald and expenses to glve testimony to blacken the character of Mrs. Hirschfield. Human nature gets down pretty low, but hardly much lower in ignomy than in this case. This witness has evidently, through his bad, satanic associations, evaporated what littlé decency he ever had. The crowd, disgusted with this shameful admission, would have dealt severely with the scoundrel had he Such a man should be w That shunned as a leper. ———— A SMILE OR TWO. “Is your husband fona At least I have of brandy Detroit Free Press of horses?’ “I think so. heard him speak approvingly ponies. Indianapolis Journal: He—T saw a China- man today who carried small change in his ear. Jusi fancy! She—-Oh, that is nothing. T fam ac- quainted with a young man whose fortune is all in his eye. Boston Budget hear so much about your beautiful pictures, Mr. Cadmium; do you think you could_paint my portrait?" “I don't think so. You see, 1 only paint from nature.” it feel to n minutes? as she ap rner of the Chicago Record: “How doe have a man all to yourself fifte asked Miss Rosamund, bitterly proached her deadly rival in a bull room “Why,” sald the rival, smiling sweetly, “why don't you try it and find out?” Chicago Tribune: Fweddy—Does tobacco smoke annoy you, sir? Testy Old Gentleman—No, sir, thing you're smoking does annoy infernally, sir but that me most Puck: The Deacon (at revival meeting)— My poor brother, are you prepared to die *arty Who Has Wandered In (indig- nantly)—Say, why don't you drop business in a ‘place like this? I'm a life insurance agent myself, but 1 have never yet talked shop in a church. Harper's Bazar: Mrs. Strongmind—If wo- men would only stand shoulder to shoulder, they would soon win the suffrage. Dr. Guffy—But, Madam, that Is something they can't do, with the present styles in sleeves! Indlanapolis Journal: ‘“‘Politics run pretuy high down your way, I hear.” "They do that. Why, the defeated candi- date for coroner mot only committed sui- cide, but he did the deed in the next county, that his late opponent would not get to hold the Inquest over him.” Philadelphla Record: Jagwell-My wife was 80 mad when I went home last nignt that she wouldn't speak to me. Wigwag—I always thought you lucky, Mine spoke to me all night. were Detroit Free Press: new dining room motto, k and be merry, for tomarrow you die asked the boarding house landlady of the old boarder. “I think it very appropriate,’ he said, with a suggestive glance at the famine be: fore him. ou like my ‘Eat Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8. Gov't Report al VEZTHD ABSOLUTELY PURE Re Baking Powder: | sensible people know | bold | itselt should not cause uneasiness. PELF AROVE PATRIOTIS. New York World: A single New York bank sury drew out Friday, clally as $000,000 In This. w it wished gold from perfectly to be in the trea proper, espe. a position for the new bonds which replenish the treasury gold Atlanta Constitution: ressrve, the banks are in bus ness for the purpose of making money. I they are enabled to add to their profits ane assume absolute control of the most vita interests of the country through the per niclous practices of men whom the peopl have placed in charge of affairs, then tha Is a matter for the people settle. Philadelphia Inquirer: Tt is a to note that no Philadelphia banks are re. corded among the crowd of financial skulke who now beslege the Treasury departmen withdrawing gold in order to subscribe the ew bond issue. The banks that are en gaged in this disreputable practice seem ba located chiefly in New York and Bosto where a different code of commerclal morality obtains | scems to prevail from In this eity, St. Louls that which Republic: Secretary the gold s to co than the United States treasury. He Is nc put to any diwe nec ty of borrowing gold The country has faith in the currency’s sound ness, If It laughs at the hodge podg composition. A small temporary deficit meeting current federal expenses would better than a futile issue of bonds. Show front to the sharps, speculators, schemers and gold shippers. Chicago Tribune: in JMe PApers are expross. ing a little anxiety about the withdrawal of several million doilars in tional treasury gold from the na by persons who are purc roment bonds of the Issue. of the ase of govi persons referred to, but the fact will be sold for gold to meet a deficit the national revenues, and but for such del there would have been the bonds Wall Street Journal: the full amount of the bond issue. is cerlain, however, and that is that it the houses did last part ¢ issue in gold this time than There is a decided feeling on New York banks and foreign recourse to the treasury for gold possible, given of banks In cept orders from their correspondents to draw gold on legals from the treasury. Courler Journal: The fact that $3, York subtreasury since the that a bond issue would be made clearly the game that Wall street financie are attempting to play. Fortunately, Secre tary Carlisle I8 ‘keeping tab’ upon gold sharps, and if he rejects they offer his action will the country at large. selfish and unpatriotic. first to howl that the be kept up, yet they refuse to thelr own stores, gold reserve part the other. ————— 10N ENDS ALL. ELECTROC Springfield Republican: The attorney gen- eral of New York has given an opinion which will upset the plans of the doctors to make an attempt to revive the next mur- derer who is electrocuted. Science will not lose anything by this result. There are enough victims of electrical energy being supplied by trolley and lighting wires to satisfy all experimental demands without resorting to those whose restoration to life is not desired. New York Tribune: Attorney General H cock’s opinion in regard to the proposed resuscitation of an electrically executed mur- derer accords completely alike with common sense and common decency. If the pro- visions of the law were less plain the gov- ernor would be justificd in refusing such an application as the one made to him. Its purpose is to gratify a certain curlosity, which might, of course, be wisely employed in the case of a person supposed to be killed by an accidental electric shock. There is some rea- son for belleving that powerful electric cur- rents are less deadly than Is generally thought, provided proper remedies are promptly employed, but the attempted resusci- tation of a murderer after excoution Is re- volting to all well ordered minds. New York Times: The attorney general gives it as his opinion that mo officer has authority to turn the body of any convict put to death by electricity over to any doctor for experiment in resuscitation. Of course there is no such authority, and ought to be none. The law providing for the execution of the death sentence by the electric current | requircs that the current be applied until death results, and it makes ample provision for ascertaining that death does result. It is for those charged with that duty to make sure that the current has been fatal, and if there is any doubt it is their business to put an end to it. Persons should be designated for that purpose who are at least as competent as the Syracuse doctor who has been seeking notoriety by asking the privilege of making the resuscitation experiment. to show its patriotlsm by promptly subscribing are being sold to| The fact is that all themselves to | satisfaction Carlisle should stop the fssue of bonds at once unless ne from some other source of its be a bond under- stood to want the meney in that form for the new | It does look rather mean on the part of The bonds in clt no necessity to issue No one expects for | one moment—least of all the secretary of the treasury—that the treasury will gain gold to One thing the treasury will gain a larger proportion of the that should be | avolded as long as possible, and altogether, if Several Instances could be this city refusing to ac- 50,000 in gold has been withdrawn from the New announcement shows these every bid be approved by Their course is most They have been the must with and are taking coin out of the treasury with one hand in order to exchange It for the bonds they desire with PEOPLE AND THINGS. The Russians take kindly to Young Niok. The mikado Is the star performer of the onst Perhaps Mount Tacoma just heard of the political landslide and vented its joy, | China displays much wisdom in avolding | contests which would serlously imperil the count as it stands, ¢ It Mr. Majors desires a specific for dark 1| blues let him read the handwriting on the 1| banks of Salt creek. | General Coxey Is sald to have spent $10,000 e | In his congressional campalgn, Sad to tell, t|he was kicked oft the grass. The returns in Ohlo were too nearly unani- mous for the peace of the republican house- hold. A large row fs in active eruption. -| There Is a great demand In eastern eities for taking the police out of politics. Taking t| politics out of policemen is quite another story Mrs Lease declares she does not intend to start a newspaps Whatever may be sald of Mary Elizabeth's speeches, she is entitled to credit for clinging to what she has earned. | Congressman Jerry Simpson is a-weary and heartso and will scek a more soothing climate than Kansas fn the near future. Indiana is his favorite. Ho hopes for t | larger political returns from the hoop-poles. .| He turns up periodically. This time he {8 | James L. Ord, a telegraph lineman of Port- land, Ore., who has papers proving that he 0| is a great-grandson of George IV of Eng- land. 1t Is a line of ascent that takes most of his practical attention, however. The rotund and romantle form Lawler has been rescued from the political - | debrls in Chicago. His sunset bloom Is slightly disfigured, but the nurses hope for a complete restoration of his winsome beauty in time to meet St. Jackson day engages ments. of Frank Susan B. Anthony says the reason why the average woman who tries to address an audience cannot make herself heard is that she doesn't know how to hold herself, “Throw your shoulders back, she says, “keep your head erect and talk just as though you had something particular to say ; to the persons on the last row of seats. PhlladeYphia’s mammoth city hall is ap- proaching completion. Very little is heard | of this gigantic job in the dispatches, yet | it is pronounced by the Public Ledger “a | monument of jebbery and extravagance of ’M:('h enormous proportions as to have no . | existing example.” It has been under way f|a quarter of a century, and has already | cost $18,000,000. The Quaker city affords rich material for a Lexow committee. The appointment of one makes a difference fin the morning. When Hon. Tim Sedgwick heard Tom Majors' declaration that he ‘never was and | is not now" in favor of a contest, the sweet '(u»nluulmlr of Pawnee creek emitted a low, | melancholy whistle. Then a change came over the trend of his thoughts and his deep | falsetto voice rose and fell in solemn ca- | dences as he trilled the words of the song: “In the days of old Rameses, are you on? In the days of old Rameses, are you on? In the days of old Rameses, That story had paresis, Are you on? Are you on? Are Mr. Walter Wellman displays dashing energy in exploring the dark and nolsome reglons of democratic economy in Washing- ton. One of these Calcutta holes is the sub-basement of a bullding where hundreds of young women are at work gumming postage stamps, Not only is_the atmosphere fetid and the work harf, Wit they are required to work twelve to fourteen hours a day, and no extra pay for extra hours. The slave drivers' whip cracks in this vile den. Their foremen shout and curse at them, so eager are the managers to “make a record” in the printing of stamps. The air of ihe nolsome sub-basement, always foul, has of late been rendered stifling by an injection of steam, the purpose being to charge the air with humidity and thus keep the stamps molst during the process of manufacture. “Possibly the people of the United States,” writes Mr. Wellman to the Chicago Herald, “would prefer to have the government pay the extra cost of good stamps and save them from the consclousness, every time they put a stamp on a letter, that the little ar- ticle represents an experiment in economy which has resulted chiefly in a ot of spoiled paper and a great number of steam-cooked young women." you on? -~ Clothes Does Not Make the Goneral. Washington Star, China cannot have failed to discover by this time that it is not the wardrobe that makes the general. e A GEORGIA DINNER. Atlanta Constitution. Thanksgivin' comes but once a year, (Carve that 'possum, Sue!) You can bet IR get my shre, | " (Carve that 'possum, Sue!) urkeys—they Is nice 'to eat, rown an’ basted, fat an' sweet; But they can't beat 'possum meat— (Carve that ‘possum, Sue!) | Thankful as I'm goin’ to be, | (Carve that 'possum, Sue! I love you and you love me, (Carve that 'possum, Sue Carve him straight an’ carve him true, While the gravy drips like dew, Sweeter than the lips o’ you, (Carve that 'possum, Sue!) Cotton—hit's gone out o' sight, (Carve that ‘possum, Sue!) But hit's left my appetite, (Carve that 'possum, Sue!) | Don’t care what's the country's fate, | 'Possum’s bound to save the state; | Uncle Billy, pass plate! (Carve that 'possum, Sue!) S — “Money’s Worth or Money Back,” Not Smart. We confess to feeling timid among the brilliant galexy of dealers who are always able to snap up the snaps from the jaws of ex- piring wholesale dealers, or, by brilliant maneuver- ng, corral all the best cloth- ing ‘from the Antarctic circle to St. Petersburg, and thence in a southwest- erly direction to Cudahy's — | form ours and surrou ing line worth having, ding and simple souls we'v | packing house.” ——— We never have been abie to elves into a hollow square nd everything in the cloth- But in the pride of our plod- e been producing garments for 27 years that we've always guaranteed to be great e big values at the prices asked. For instance a suit or overcoat like those shown for all sorts of prices from every stitch in 'em to be goon reliable value, If you get your money's worth these worth the price. days you're in luck We know They're $7.50 up to $20, and you ought to be satisfied. You can't beat 'em anywhere for the money. Have you guessed on the turkey? See window, Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, & W. Cor. 15th and Douglas. F 4 K v

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