Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. L i E Rrw'f\\’ATER, Editor, TERMS OF SUBSCRII Dally Bee (Without Sunday), One Daily Bee and Sunday, One Yew ree Months. ... “L Bee, One Year..... Baturday Dre, One Year. Weekly Biee, One Yenr OFFIC Omaha, The Tee Bullding. Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. Councll Tiufts, 33 1 Chicago Office, $17 Now York, Hooms Washington, 1407 ¥ CORRE All communi lons relating to news and edi- forial matter should be addressed: To the Editor, BUSINESS LETTERS All business lette;s and remitiances shou'd be addressed to ] Hee Publishin company, Omaha. Dratts, checks and_postofl e niade payable 1o the order of the company. 1 PUBLISHING COMPANY. Year. oF Trschuck, sec ompany. being duly “sworn, al number of full and comple aily M , Evening and Sun printed during the month of October, 1504, as follows: was 16 eductions for unsold re copi Total sold Daily avers SORGE Sworn to before me and subsc ence this 3d day of ember, 1) N. P. F! n my pres 1804, Notary Publl China asks for peace she may save the pieces. in order that Don’t imagine that a thanksgiving of- fering absolves you from all further ob- ligation to the unfortunate and needy Poo Does the Sugar trust think a game of Bluff less expensive than another or- ganized scheme of congressional lobby- ing? Isn't it time for the president to begin to reward those of his faithful cuckoos who were left in the cold by the late landslide? We are agreeably disappointed in fail- fng to find the promised sensational features in tire report of the secretary of agriculture, If the end of the electric lighting squabble is in sight our thanks will not be limited to the one day prescribed by the governor's proclamation. If the Transmississippi congress over- looked in its resolutions any project that is asking for a public subsidy it was a fault of the hand and not of the heart. Members of the Board of Education can avoid all further importunity by applicants for the position of attorne; to the board by abolishing the office entirely and saving the salar; The sudden increase in the length of the marriage license list seems to be conciusive evidence that Thanksgiving time is generally avded as peculiarly favorable to matrimonial ventures. It may not be out of place to remind Mr. St. John that while he is no longer the head of the General Managers' as- sociation, Mr. Debs still holds the title of president of the American Railway union. If the United States could only de- mand compensation for the services of her officers as mediators between China and Japan we might accumulate a small reserve to be drawn on the next time another bond issue becomes imperative. The council won't be long perplexed as to the disposition to be made of the coal left in the election Dbooths if the booths are permitted to remain stand- g much longer, The coal has already begun to disappear in various localities. —_— Let the lawyer who questions the rFight of Beech Highy to a certificate of election come out of his shell and go on record on the law points at issue, The people of this city have chosen Higby as clerk of this municipgl cor- poration. Since woman suffrage was defeated along ‘with the populist candidates in congress, Susan B. Anthony, who an- nounced her conversion to populism with such spectacular surroundings, has not been able to exactly locate where she Is at. We observe that the gas company is living up to that provision of its new franchise which binds it to bid for street Lighting at not less than the price now paid. It has not reduced its offer, but it cannot under its agreement inc its figure Congressman Bryan would not be happy if he were to attend a convention and be unable to bring before it his now antique resolution, “without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.” Why such impatience? Most of us wait because we are compelled to wait. Last fall The Bee's inquiry into the eost of conl used by state institutions resulted in contracts by which many thousands of dollars w saved the taxpayers. We recommend that this important item be watched this fall, Under existing conditions it will bear watching. One thing may be set down as reason ably certain, and that 1s that the plun- derers who have fed at the state house erib for years return no thanks in this year of our Lord, 1804, A benign Prov fdence whose wisdom passeth all un derstanding has turned the gang out to grass. Its day of reckoning has come. The charter revision committee has only a limited time in which to fom plete Its work. Every amendment which it intends to suggest should Be ready for presentation through the Douglas county delegation very soon ‘after the legislature soitles down to busi- ness. The committee must not let the good work drag at this late day, | the | is sald that the def: CARELESS BANK OFFICIALS. The robbery of a national bank In New York City by a bookkeeper fur- nishes another Instance of loose man- rment and careless supervision on the part of bank officials. For a num- ber of years the bookkeeper had been embezzling the money of depositors until the total of his thefts amounted to over $£350,000, and he might have gone on with his peculations until the insti- tution was completely cleaned out, so it seems, had It not been decided by the directors to introduce a new system of bookkeeping. It does not appear that it was proposed to do this because there was suspicion of anything wrong, | for of course the bank examiner had | found nothing wrong, and that was sufficient to keep the confidence of the officials, notwithstanding the well known fact that examiners very rarely find anything wrong until somebody else points it out to them. In this case another bookkeeper, in the absence of the defaulter, who asked for a brief leave of absence and has not yet re- turned, discovered discrepancies, and an investigation disclosed the fact that bank had Dbeen systematically robbed for several years, and not by 1y very ingenious method either. It alter had confed- erates, and one person charged with Deing a party to the thefts has suicided, but it doesn’'t matter whether the rob- bery was the work of only one man or there were a dozen involved in it. The question Is none the less pertinent as to what the bank officials were doing to protect depositors. Were they exer- cising due vigilance and care in the performance of their duties? Manifestly they were not. The depositors will lose nothing, the stockholders having made up the amount of the defaleation in ex- cess of the surplus, but there is a les- son in the occurrence which ought to make an impression on other bank offi- clals everywhere. It also adds another to the long list of similar experiences which make up a formidable argument in favor of further legislation looking to the better protection of bank deposi- tors. So far as the existing system of bank examination is concerned, as a means of protection to depositors, it must be admitted to be a failure. Un- less it can Dbe radically reformed it might as well be abandoned. But the important thing is to hold bank officials to a more rigid responsibility. NEW ENGLAND IN CONGRESS. The predominance of New England in national affairs bas been largely if not almost wholly due to the pre-eminence of the men who have represented that section in the national legislature. New England has been able to inspire and inaugurate great reforms beeause her representatives have constituted the color guard of the army of progress and civilization. It has been the policy of the New Ingland states to plant their brainiest men in congress and keep them there during good behavior. This is notably true regarding members of the United Statc been very common for New enators to hold their positions for four consec- utive terms, or nearly a quarter of a ventury, and several have been re- elected six times. While The. Bee has no disposition to dip into down east politics, we venture to express the hope that New Hamp- shire will continue to adhere to the time-honored policy of New England by retaining William E. Chandler in his place for another term. Mr. Chand- ler is not a novice at the senatorial bel- lows. e is one of the best equipped men in America for the manifold duties devolving on a senator, and is withal the peer of any man in public debate. He is quick at repartee, keen as a dam ascene blade and thoroughly versed upon every vital issue affecting the public welfare. Beyond all these quali- ties Mr. Chandler has the courage of Lis convictions and fearlessly expresses his views, whether they are or are not in accord with the dominant majority, even when that majority is his own party. Such men are rare in pub- lie life and especially in the Ameriean House of Lords. While The Bee does not subscribe to every measure which Mr, Chandler has championed it ac. cords to him the credit of sincerity and zeal for what he Dbelieves to be the best interest of the American people, excellent authority, that the repeal of the tax on state bank issues will be among the recommendations in the forthcoming annual papers of the pres- ident and secretary of the treasury. This will be conditioned, however, upon | those banks conforming to certain regu- | lations to be preseribed by the Treasury department, under which note holde will be secured against loss. This tay is one of the obstacles to an agreement on a currency plan among the demo- crats, The national democratic plat form recommended its repeal uncond: tionally, and a large clement of the party, including all the southern vepre- | sentatives, have insisted that this wish of the party expressed in national con- vention shall be respected. These men regard the tax as unconstitutional and a wrongful and unjust interference with the rights of the states. At the last ses slon of congress they refused to support any measure that did not provide for the repeal of the tax without conditions. Another element among the demoerats is willing to vote for the repeal of the tax conditioned upon such regulations for the issue of circulating notes by state banks as will insure their sound- ness and safety in the hands of holders, which would involyve some supervision on the part of the government., A few democrats are in favor of continuing the tax, and of course the republicans are practieally unanimous in opposition to repeal. "his was the situation at the last ses- sion, and there is no reason to believe that it will be found at the coming ses- slon to have materially changed. The southern representatives, it is safe to say, are no more disposed now than they were six months ago, when this question was under consideration by the banking and currency committee, to agree to the conditional repeal of the tax or to ma ny sort of compromise that would not restore to the state banks the unrestricted privilege they | 1st Deing enjoyed before this tax was imposed of P lssulng notes as freely as they pleased. If this is so the recommendation of the president and secretary of the treasury will amount to nothing, for this element is strong enough to defeat it. But if this opposition were less formidable it would still be questionable whether any measure of repeal could pass congress, because it would encounter the solld op- position of the senate republicans. The republican party, which enacted this legislation, Dbelieves the tax on state bank issues to be necessary to prevent a return to the currency system that prevailed before the war, and it does not consider it essential to a reform of the present currency system that the tax shall be repealed. The action of the republicans in congress will, with practical unanimity, be in accord with this view. There need be no disturbance of finan- clal confidence from fear that the tax on state bank issues will be repealed by the present congress. There is hardly a possibility of such legisiation. As in the next congress the house will be republican it Is a very safe predjction that it will not interfere with the tax. Indeed, it is to be expected that this legislation will stand indefinitely, for the American people are not likely to be more’ favorable ten or twenty years hence than they now are to a return to the old state bank currency system, and it is unquestionable that an over- whelming majority are opposed to re- storing that system. THE INTERIOK DEPARTMENT REPORT. As usual the report of the secretary of the interior is a voluminous docu- ment. No department of the govern- ment has a greater range of business than this, and the merest review of it makes a considerable volume, The pres- ent one is distinctly a business report, the secretary indulging in no elaborate discussion. Some of his more important recommendations have already been given to the public. On the subject of alloting lands to the Indians the secre- tary questions the propriety of this course before the Indians have pro- gressed sufficiently to utilize the land when taken. He would have the civili- zation of the red man precede his pos- session of land. Regarding the educa- tion of the Indians he urges that it should be practically directed with a view to his probable future. If he is to remain away from his former home and to enter the struggle of life in our cities and towns as any other citizen then his education should be as broad and as liberal as possible. But if he is to return to the reservation and com- mence his active life in the development of the resources of the reservation then his education should be directed espec- jally with a view to the life he will lead upon the reservation and to the possibilities of the reservation itself. It is further suggested t even though the education of the young Indian is devoted to preparation for work upon the reservation it should have also in view a prepartion for separate respon- sibility and separate management of property, to the end that he should be fitted as soon as possible to manage his own affairs free from the paternal care of the departwment, Over 10,000,000 acres of the public 1Mmds were disposed of during the last fiseal year, and the mmount of such lands remaining vacant is estimated at 606,000,000 acres, exclusive of Alaska, which contains over 360,000,000 acres, of military and other reservations, or railrond and other sclections yet un- adjudicated. It thus appears that there is still a large public domain to be dis- posed of, though a great deal of this being in the arid region will be value- less until reclaimed I long it will be be plished 1t is impc retary makes some sound recommenda- tions respecting the protection of the forest reserves, for which adequate pro- vision has never been made, but it s to be apprehended that congress will treat them as it has all' previous recom- mendations of a similar nature. In regard to per the report simply presents the work accomplis under the present administration, v the claim that the volume is unpre- cedented in the history of the depart- ment for a like period. The methods of the pension office are briefly com- mended, but there is an avoidance of dis- cnssion of the publie criticisms of those methods and an absence of recommen- dations, indicating that the secretary is entirely satisfied with the prevailing practice of the office, The work of the burean of education during the last fiscal year is shown to be of more than usual Interest. It appears that the Co- lmmbian exposition had the effect of ating an extraordinary interest in the American school system by foreign governments, and there were commissions charged with the investi- gation of some features of the system. The statistics show the public schools of the country to be making steady pro- the number of pupils enrolled during the fiscal year ending June 30 13,442,000, and the number of teachers employed 880,618, the total expenditures being, in round numbers, $163,000,000, ms gress, Parents cannot be too guarding their children from exposure to the contagious disenses that have secured a foothold in two or three parts of the city. Those who happen to have sickness in the family have a duty which they cannot neglect to sce that no unnecessary risks are communicated to the children of other people. The city health authorities are doing what they can to prevent the spread of contagious disease, but they arve almost powerless without the aid of the eitizens, Happily there is every disposition to do all that is to be expected. careful n An exrecorder, democrat; an ex- treasurer, democrat, aud an ex-judge of the probate court, republican, haye been found short in thelr accounts and quit their respeetive offices owing money to Douglas eounty. Measures are under way to recovel this money and should be pressed. Each oue of these delinquent officials gave a good and sufficient bond, the pu of which was to protect the taxpayers from loss under circumstances as we find them today. The time has come for the commissioners of Douglas many | g B e L o ot county to test the value of bonds filed by county clals. The sentiment pre- valls in tl ‘community as elsewhere that official bonds are made out merely as & mat@=Sr form, and it Is not ex- pected that bondsmen are to be made llable for the losses caused by the official. It ,is_the duty of the county commissiofibds to revise this prevailing sentiment_and hold bondsmen to a proper sgh of the responsibility assumed Ir;; Q: The conspirators who are contemplat- ing Vurvlnk‘n resolution through the legislature “orglering a recount of the ballots castifor governor at the last eloction forjthe purpose of reversing the returns and ousting Governor Hol- | comb claim to rely on the precedent set when the constitutional amendment incrensing the pay of leglslators was declared carried on a fraudulent re- count. That Is not a precedent upon which much rellance ean be placed. There was no one at that time partic- ularly charged with seeing that the ballots were not manipulated nor the expressed will of the people obstructed. That recount has.left such an unsavory record that there is no demand for an- other under similar conditions of fraud and trickery. The present proposal for a recount will have an entirely differ- ent road to travel. Omaha wants the state fair and she wants it in earnest. The Bee has been saying this for months past and is glad to see some of its advice bear fruit now. Make the business men of Omaba ap- preciate the advantages of various kinds that will acerue from an annual exposi- tlon such as the state fair can be made if located in this city and their co-opera- tion in a tematic effort to secure it is assured. Other Nebraska cities that are competing for the fair location are alive to its importance. Omaha must also wake up to the situation. The Russian thistle comes in for a few words of Secretary Morton's re- port, but any specific recommendation for the appointment of a chief Russian thistle exterminator has been withheld. This will be sad news to the persistent democrats who have been applying for that much sought position. The omis- sion is an offense that few people will care to palliate. The secretary of staté has issued the customary folder giving a list of the state officers and legislative members- elect. Silas A. Holcomb heads the col- umn. This is important only to wooden- headed stakeholders who persist In using money which should long ago have paddel ‘the pogkets of the winners. It cost the United States almost $50,- 000 to register the Chinese resident in this countty. But the photographers must have gotten more than this sum back in payment for the photographs which the law requires the Chinese to attach to ‘theig certificates. y's Great Qutput. be-Democrat. When Kentug goes demecratic by a majority of only a little over 2,000 it ix time to quit criticising her on account of her whisky output - Mudean Early Start. v 1) @icago Reeord. The' arcnAbfbdier Hommen: 1d ot spepd all his life In goileful practices. Until he was almost b vears of age his command of language could not have been sufficient, Get a Move Un, Andrew. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Carnegie can easily avold the disgrace of dying rich, but he should begin promptly. Life Is very uncertain, and $5,000,000 is a large sum to get rid of, even in chunks, for charity. o o Growth of Alanka. Globe-Democrat. The governor of Alaska is not able to re- port much growth in the territory, the pop- ulation remaining at about 5,000 white people and 23,000 natives. If Alaska could be easily reached thousands of adventurous Ameri- cans would go there every year, mainly to explore the territory, which is tivelve times the size of Pennsyivania. But the round trip from San_Francisco occupies a month, and the cost of passage is not small. When these impediments are removed Yankee en- ergy will soon find out what Alaska is good New-Born Modesty. Chicago Times. Tom Majors, the only candidate on the Nebraska republican state ticket who was defeated, hasn't lost any of his nerve, He writes the state central committee that he will not enter an ‘“unseemly scramble for an office the right to which 1s in doubt.” This modesty of Majors is of recent growth. past record leads the public to belleve real reason for not making a con- test s his fear that the bare-faced coloniza- tion schemes worked in many sections of the state will be brought to light by such an investigation as it would necessitate. A Corporation Spo: Squealing. Washington Post. “How shall we beat this amendment?" is the proposition ncw engagin e serious attention cf the New York legislature. Why do they not enact appropriate legislation covering the case, Instead of proceeding to compass the defeat of one of the most wholesome amendments the constitutional convention adopted? Let them arrange for their transportation expenses under an en- Targed mileage system, If deemed expedient, or vote an Increase of salaries to cover th No hon straightforward way to meet’ the emergency will be disapproved, but this hunticg up of loopholes through vhich to evade an express prcvision of the stitution 1s undignified and seriously un- becoming in those who are charged with the law-making power. THE OLD, OLD WISH. James Whitcomb Riley. Last night, in some lost mood of meditation, The while my dreamy vision ranged thé far Unfathomed arches of creation, 1 Talling star. And as my eyes swept round the path it embered ‘With the swift dying glory of its glow, With sudden latulifon I remembered A wish, of long ago— A wish that, Weré it made—so ran the fancy Of credulcus yotng lover and of lass— As ftell a_star: bymome strange necromancy, Would. purely come to pass. And, of itself,’the wish, reiterated A thousand timgs in youth, ashed o'er my brain, And, liké the stak, as soon obliterated, Droppied into night again. For, my old heart niad wished for the unend- ng Al Devotion of a-little And that the;girk h. blending, X of nin . with the woman's réver mine. And so it weighty With ripest elustering of sorrow's dew, cried aloud .ihrough heaven: “O little Katle! When will my wish come true?" was, With eyelids raised, and CORRIGAN AND DUCEY. Minneapolls Journal: Father Ducey and Archbishop Corrigan are at loggerheads be- cause the former Interested himselt in the &ood work of exposing the villainies of Tam- many. The archbishop seems to have pro- coeded a little too far when he undertakes to forbid his clergy to take part in municipal reform movements. Springfleld Republican: There Is this thing further to be said—and in the present complexion of political affairs it may have some consequence—that such dictation to a cltizen—priest or layman, it matters not— in the matter of his actions for the good of soclety is the very thing which creates and sustaing and will aggravate the evil of apalsm. Brooklyn Eagle: Whether Archbishop Cor- will rush like a flood to the conclusion that he has sought to place the Roman Cathol church in antagonism to the Lexow com- mittee and to its work of exposure and re- form, and to suggest that, somehow or other. those exposures and those reforms adversely affect Roman Catholic Interests or objects and should be unfavorably regarded by Roman Catholic citizens. Buffalo Express: Archbishop Corrigan says to Father Ducey: “An honest Catholic layman would blush to go to such an as- semblage as the Lexow investigating com- mittee of his own free will. That you, a priest, should have attended such sittings daily-—and seemed to glory In so doing—was most disedifylng.” But how can a man whose mission it is to reform the world do his work effectively unless he puts himself in the way of knowing the world? Indianapolis News: We do not for a mo- ment Imagine that the archbishop will be sustalned in the stand he has taken. We have no respect for the ordinary recalcitrant priest, or for any man who refuses to be bound by the discipline of the religlous or- ganization with which he has voluntarily as- soclated himself. But there are no such questions as these involved in the present case. Father Ducey has done nothing in violation of the laws of his church. Courler-Journal: It may mean another McGlynn episode.. In that case the rebel lious clergyman made the mistake of antagon- izing the pope as well as the archbishop. Father Ducey probably counts upon the sup- port of Satolll. If the Right Rev. M. A. Corrigan was ever disaffected, as generally belleved, the priest may have the advantage this time. The archbishop does not approve of a priest taking part in politics, but it is doubtful that he will be sustained in for- bidding what has generally been left to in- dividual conscience to determine. Kansas City Star: Father Ducey, who Is tangled up with Archbishop Corrigan, is a man of great independence of character and positiveness of conviction. He has large private means and his church in New York was built by his own exertions and to no small extent out of his own purse. He is very popular with his congregation and uni- versally known and esteemed by the better classes in New York. With Tammany and the Tammany order of Catholics he has al- ways been at war, and his letter to the arch- bishop shows In very few words his opinion of the opportunity of the Roman Catholic church. It has long been predicted that an outbreak between the archibishop and Father Ducey was inevitable. The canonical power is with the archbishop, but personal follow- ing and American sentiment are overwhelm- ingly with the priest. NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Revival meetings are in progress at the German Methodist church at West Point. West Point is now without a city clerk, H. U. Deininger having resigned the posi- tion, The Central City Gun club has been re- organized and an effort will be made toward enforcing the game laws in Merrick county. A lot of stolen corn captured by the police of Beatrice has been ground and distributed to the poor, as nobody had called and claimed the stolen property. Numerous conversions are reported at Tecumseh as the result of revival services conducted in the Christian church by Rev. L. H. Humphries of Fairfield. Trappers in the vieinity of Indianola are having great luck. In the past two weeks one man has captured three beavers, one welghing forty pounds, and two raccoons. There is a boom in the sheep Industry in Scotts Bluff county. Several large droves have been purchased by feeders and a num- ber of farmers are talking of buying sheep. J. F. Hanson, the defeated candidate of the republicans of Dodge county for the legisla- ture, is now suffering from a carbuncle. He is said to glve the cause as blood poisons ing resulting from too close contact with democrats during the campaign. As a result of a Hallowe'en joke, a warrant is out for the arrest of Calvin Oglesbee, a Webster county farmer. Some young fel- lows called on Oglesbee on Hallowe'en and he took them for chicken thieves. So he brought out his trusty shotgun, and when the smoke cleared away it was discovered that Jettle Riley, a nephew of ex-Representative Austin Riley, had his face and shoulders filled with small shot. Young Riley has now filed a complaint charging Oglesbee with assault with intent to do great bodily harm Oglesbee declares that he doesn't know whether he pulled the trigger or whether the old gun went off of its own accord during the excitement. e e INDUSTRIAL NOTES. Paris will have an underground trolley line. A Russian locomotive uses petroleum for fuel. Clothing manufacturers of Baltimore sig- nalized a revival of trade by a gencral ad- vance in wages. Every workman in Japan wears on his cap and on his back an inscription giving his business and his employer's name, An electrical machine for closing shutters of factories in case of fire has been invented by Samuel H. Curwen, a Salem electrician. Cast jron blocks are belng tried in some of the most frequented streets of Parls, instead of the granite blocks usually placed alongside tramway ralls. A Peoria shoemaker has invented a working shoe with a wooden (poplar) sole one inch thick. It Is very durable, comfortablo and comparatively light. According to statistics just completed, there are 5,735 steamers flying the British flag, 810 the German, 6510 the Norweglan, G603 the French and 430 the American. ‘The management of the American Tin Plate company at Muncle, Ind., is preparing to open up two new mills, which will give employ- ment to an additional force of 300 men, Almost every manufacturing establishment in Erle, Pa, is running at full force and hours, and many of them have extended their hours of work. A few are running night and day. Thomas Ellison, the well known statisticlan of Liverpool, is of the opinion that prices have certainly reached bottom the world over, and that their Increase from now on will be sure and gradual. | Paper making has progressed so far that |a good imitation of linen writing paper i manufactured wholly from wood pulp, while a great deal of so-called linen paper is made from cotton rags. A series of experiments was recently made with a view to lesting the relative strength | of metals when heated or cold. The result was surprising even to those who conducted | the tests. Under a very low temporature the tensile strength of many metals was enormously increased. The breaking strain of tin was increased from 200 pounds to 400 | pounds; that of fusible metal from 140 pounds to 460 pounds. The magnetic powers of | metals seem to be in some way closely re- |lated to their tensile strength, and these as well are many times multiplied by exces- | stve cdld. Highest of all in Leavening Power — Latest U, 8, Gov't Report oYal VETHD Baking Powde- ABRSOLUTELY PURE rigan meant 8o or not, the thoughts of men | | | ling of a Philadelphia | perate or murdero THE NAVOLEON OF SWINDLERS. Philadelphia Inquirer: The lamentable part of all such insurance frauds as, it is alleged, was perpetrated by Holmes and Pitzel lies in the fact that they have a tendency to In- terfere with the prompt payment of polieles in cases where death is really but perhaps not obviously due to natural causes. Indianapolls News: The story of the swind- lite insurdnce com- pany reads like the plot of a 7-cent bargain counter novel. Related o the novel In all | its Ingenious and rascally detail it would be | laughed at as improbable, If not impossible. | In actual occurrence the scheme seems to| have been worked with comparative ease, and the wonder is that the fraud was ever discovered after the money was once pald | over. It seems, after all, that the old saying, | truth is stranger than fiction, is as appl! le now as ever, and that no crime, howev is unlikely to occur in this end of the nineteenth Christian century. | Chicago Record: These bold swindles, how- ever, are only a part of the career of the man now under arrest at Philadelphia. He see to have expanded and developed his capacities with every new crime performed until he attained a skill which in other lines of effort would be called genius. His swindling opera- tions were as numerous and as fantastically novel as his means of increasing his list of creditors. His latest crimethe swindling of a life insurance company by means of what | was probably a bogus corpse, has merely had | the effect of raking up an entire career of | criminal adventures ranging all the way from | petty swindling and theft to large forgeries and more heinous crimes. The various inci- dents connected with his latest effort place him under suspicion of murder. Chicago Tribune: Mr. H. H. Holmes, who 1s now in custody upon the charge of life in- surance swindling, even If we may judge by his own confession, 1s cne of the most accom- plished rogues of the time. Though his opera- tions have in no case Involved very large sums, still he has covered a wider fleld than any of the modern smooth swindlers, and yet he is only 34 years of age. Twelve years ag he began his life {nsurance swindles. Since then he has been engaged in fire insurance swindles, in fraudulent building schemes, in horse stealing ventures, in World's Fair hotel frauds, In land steals, in forgeries, in obtain- ing goods under falso pretenses, in dealing with women, getting their property away from them and then causing th'm to disappear from sight, in getting possession of houses and land without title and disposing of them, in wrecking fidelity companies, in building houses with other people’s money, in selling bogus patents, in stealing city water and gas, In starting bogus saloons and restaurants and selling them, in marrying women, and possibly in committing murder. According to his own confession he has recently been supporting no less than twenty-four women. PR SOLACE FOR THE SOLEMN. Syracuse Post: Love's Labor Lost. She— George, all is lost, George—Why She—Papa has oil you sold him yest Yankee Blade: Tom—Did Maud tell y the truth when you asked her her age Jack—Yes. Tom—What did she say? Jack— She said it was none of my busine 1 those sques Ay. y shoes u Harper's Bazar: Mr. Scrimp—My dear, T don't see how you had this counterfeit bill nassed on you. Mrs. Serimp—Well, you don't let me see enough real money to enable me to tell the difference. Fliegende Blaetter: Amiable Professor (to his servant)—For three weeks I have re- minded you every day to buy me a note- book. Henceforth I shall remind you of it only once a week. Cincinnati Tribune: Mr. Watts—It seems queer that elephants should be so afraid of mice. Mrs. Watts—I don't see anything queer in it at all. The elephant is oné of the most intelligent of quadrupeds. Life: “Prof. Von Gookenheimer, they say, i a most marvelous mind reader and hyp- notist.”” “'Yes; he claims he can attract the attention of a restaurant walter by merely Tooking at him steadily for half an hour. Truth: Morton—Are you sure that Penam is really reconciled with is wife? Crandall-Yes, I am sure of it, for she reads what he writes and he eats what she cooks. Atchison obe: There is no work so hard as trying to keep up the impression that you are a good fellow. Plain_Dealer. (badgering wit- ness)—Now, sir, would you like to swear Witness—Yes, I would Indianapolis Journal: “The editor of the Trumpet rather got it on to you when he called you a cheap wit,” said the boss editor of the Bugle to his funny man. That's S0, assented the funny man “Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to raise my salary and remove the stigma.’” Washington Star: “People are talking so much about epigrams in nov, said the young woman. “How would you describe an epigram?" “An epigram,” said the young man, who isn't literary to any great extent, “is a sort of a joke with a clean collar and its Sunday clothies on.” THE WANE OIF NOVEMBER. Indtanapolis Journal. Now does the harassed plutocrat Dig down into his ellskin, And buy his wife a winter hat, And eke, likewise, a sealskin. The campalgn lle hangs on thé wall, All useless, torn and tattered; The foot ball youth and griddle hot Are dally getting battered. e n PEOFLE AND THINGS. New York's defaulting bank “a church goer, with no bad habits. Mr. Tobe his movograph on “Triumphant Démocracy.” It Is writ on the pleturesque banks of Salt creek that publfo office Is m private sa fice. John Y. McKane, the Gravesend boss, has struck his natural gait o bossing a gang at Sing Sing. The Chinese highbinders threaten to take | the hide of the hapless LI Hung Chang in addition to his garments. Pictorlal representations of President Cleve- land’s rheumatic foot show it encased in free wool and a yard wide. Private Secretary Thurber's lonesome oath | has been sonsigned to the white house cellar with other works of nude art. Field Marshal Oyama, who stormed and captured Port Arthur, is welcome to a cholce of the yellow coats and peacock feathers in | stock Alcacus Hooper, president of the upper branch of the Baltimore city councll, is the first republican to occupy the position in twenty-seven years, General James A. Dumont, supervising fn- spector of steam vessels, posseses a marvelous pull. He was appointed by President Lincoln and has held on without a break. A dias gram of his grit would enrich a museum, Dano Hill's volce rises above the swamp fogs of Florida to announce that he is in the “hands of the democratic party.” The * position is more conducive to peace of mind than that which he recently occupled on the point of the party boot. Mr. Holmes, the swindler, boasts of scattered throughout the country. Had he not tripped up on the Pitzel banana peel Mr. Holmes would have given the shah of Persia several points the matrimonial line. The adoption eminent Insurance twenty-seven wives in of the new constitution in New York lent wings to the hopa that It would end the machine in polities. Now comes Niagara county with a new machine warranted to do the voting without bagging the count. You simply press the buttons and the voting is done. It is a decided improves ment on the human machine. Several members of congress who fell be- neath November's boulders have lost all desire to return to Washington, and have written the sergeant-at-arms to forward thelr mileage and save them the expense of going after {t. And the unfeeling official coolly tells them to step up to the wicket in person. This 13 the cruelest cut of all. Mr. J. Rdward Addicks, the senatorial Cholly of Delaware, proposes to spend $100,000 to break into the American House of Lords. But his gas tank has suddenly sprung a leak. His matrimonial carcer bags at the knee. 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