Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1895, Page 12

seeking incumbent — e B. ROSEWATER, Editor. — LISHED EVERY MORNINOG. | I il TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Diee (Without Sunday), One Year. Daily Theo and Sunday, One Year Bix weaenaee 2538833 Bunday Do, aturday Tce, eckly Der, One Year OFFICES. Omaha, The fee Building. Bouth Omaha, Singer Bik., Cor. Gounctl Blums, 15 Pearl Sireet.© Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York, Itooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune DBidg. Washington, 1607 F et, N. W CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- toral matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS ] All business Ietters and remittances should be | ed to “The Hee Publishing company, checks and pos + to the order of the company. 3 PUBLISHING COMPANY. N and 2ith St STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 13. Tzachuck, secrotary of The Bee Pub- fishing company, belng duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples | ©Of the Dally Morning, Kvening and Sunday Dee | Inted during the month of November, 189, was follow i 21,560 2175 20,484 | 202 | 2015 | 2% Less ded coples Total Dally aver *old ZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my pres- “eeal) Wit Notary Pubtie —_— e e Baltimore plan is not even lucky as the Baltimore base ball team. a8 Another address from the Pan-Amer- fean Bimetailic league ought to be about due. If Dr. Parkhurst had announced his fortheoming book previous to the late election the results might have been very different. The good ros gitators are just | now busily eng in preparing :\! smooth rond for the road legislation | that ve urging upon the legisla- tur In point of length Governor Altgeld's message only follows the example sot by the message which President Cleve- land sent to congress on its reasseim- bling. While nd reconciliation ave the order of the day, why not trans- form the divorce courts into boards for the peaceful settlement of family dif- fleulties? We presume the openfng of branches in New York by the prineipal Chicago retail merchants will only be a fore- rugner of the annexation of this prom- ising Chicago suburb. Now it is Denver which is making war on the living pictures. The living pleture industry might have to pay for its advertising were It not that these repeated spasmodic attempts sustain its noforiety. George Gould is to have salar §500,000 per annum for his service his father during the last siy the latter's life. Unfortun tions yielding this income are no longer | his | ernment | ment of a s GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION. No matter how everything that emanates from Governor Altgeld of Ilinols may be ridiculed in some quar- ters, it must be admitted by all who take the trouble to reflect on the mat- ter that the burden of his complaint in annual Just delivered against what he chooses to call “gov by injunction” rests upon a widespread discontent with the interfer- | ence of state and federal courts in qu | tions commonly supposed to be beyond their Jurisdiction. Governor Altgeld | does not mince words. He says that for the last two or three years the usurpation of power on the part of the federal judiciary has Dbeen steadily going on until now it thre stre the v foundation of republic government. During this period the people have witnessed the operation of an entively new form of government never before heard of, 8 government by injunction, whereby a federal judge, not content with his judicial functions, proceeds to legislate and then admin- Istrate. He issues an order forbidding | things not forbidden by law and fm- | poses summary and arbiteary punish- | ment wpon all who disregard his order. The governor also iny hs ngainst the | operation of bankrupt railroads by courts of chancery hecanse it is in con- nection with them that wost of the out rageons injunetions have heen issucd. We know that we have frequently boasted that we have a government of Iaw, but it was always supposed that the law was to be made exclusively by the legislative hody and was to be binding upon courts as well upon individual citizens, he tendency « of the courts, however, seems to be to re- rd their equity jurisdiction as pr tically limitless or with limits to be fixed by themselves, and as for exer- cise for any purpose that they may be persuaded the public good demands. Injunctions against labor organizations and labor leaders present only peet of the case. We in Nel seen a federal court enjoin the enforcoe- © law, not because it was illegally enacted or enacted withont tutional authority, but hecause in ment of what are reasonable railrond rates the legislature happened to differ from the railvond niang and the federal judges. Nor has the in- Junction fever stopped with matters of public moment. During the last polit- ical campaizn we had the spectacle here of o court issuing an order re- straining o newspaper from refusing to print eampaign matter in its colunms, If all {hese subjects furnish a legiti- mate field for-equity procedure then the injunction must soon supplant all other remedies, legislative, administra- tive and legal. When he strikes against this. abuse of the injunction Governon Altgeld certainly hits a popular chord. The Deople are not yet willing to exchang their form of government for a govern- ment by injunction. — THE CONGO FREE STATE. The brief carveer of the Congo Free dte as an independent territor seems to be nearing its end. The prop- osition to annex the land over which it hus held nominal jurisdiction to the kingdom of Belgium as a colonial " session has been advanced from time to time and now gives fair promise of being successfully carried through. The Congo Free State was the direct outgrowth of the expeditions and ex- message a8 one ask The only visible reason why the two houses of the legislature are to go . through the ceremony of taking a vote upon United States senator from Ne- braska next Tuesday is that the federal statutes require it as a matter of form. About the only persons who hail the talk of an extra sesslon of congress with delight are those who are em- ployed in some capacity in Washington and whose remuneration depends upon the continuance of one or both houses n session. e — If the ¢ is any one among the news- “paper veading public who is not yet convinced that the belligerents on both sldes of the Chinese-Japanese ave been guilty of the most barbarous atro- cities he ought to be deported under the Chinese exclusion act in order to let him satisfy himself with his own eyes. The experience of South Dakota with the official bond of her defaulting state treasurer emphasizes the necessity of frequent scrutiny of the names, of the sureties upon bonds of this kind. A bond that is good when originally given s subject to fluctuations in its value with the Dbusiness ventures of the bondsmen. Constant vigilance alone will guard the interests of the people, In case any one having knowledge of the persons implicated In the Ba Scott tragedy up in Holt count been holding off his information for a Iarger reward he can now have little reason for longer remaining silent. T'he total of rewards offered aggregate a tempting sum. The plot, however, Beems to have been carvied out with such secrecy that rewards are no in- ducement to disclosure, tie congressional commitice has decided to assist ever democratic member of the next congress whose seat may be contested, without regard to the merits of the case, is no reason why the republican congressional committee should lend aid to every defeated republican candi- date who wants to institute con- test proceeding: Every republican who has veally been unjustly de- prived of lis certificate of election or counted out by fraud of any kind de- Berves to have the support of the com- mittee in his efforts to right his wrongs. But the committee should remember that the republican phrty stands for honest elections, a falr ballot and an honest count, The cowmittee is not Justified in encournging contests which have no substantial basls of fae Be- fore endorsing the olaims of any con- testant the committee should hear and declde upon the evidence judicially. Buch a course will strengthen the posi ton of the vepublicans in the Wifty- plorations of Henry M. Stanley in the valley of the Congo. After the coun- try had Dbeen opened up and its re- sources ascertained the question natu- rally arose as to the political status which the territory should assume. The agents of the International Asso- clation of the Congo, under whose au- thority and the patronage of the king of Belgium the work of exploration had been conducted, had secured tren- ties with over 450 independent Afri- can chiefs transferring with a few re- served conditions all their rights of sovereignty and ownership to the as- intion. Plans for the union of > different territories into one con- crete whole were already under con- sideration when early In 1884 the) were suddenly upset by the publica- tion of a new Anglo-Portuguese treaty. This treaty professed to contain a rec ognition by the govermment of Great Britain of a large strip of Afri- can coast land as Portuguese territory, including the lower Congo, and threat- ening to exclude the land upon the upper Congo from an outlet to the sea. Protests at once showered in, particn- larly from France and Germany, who also had eyes upon prospective Afvican colonies. The United States even went s0°far as to join in the movement by recognition of the International Afri- can association as a governing power, and finally to straighten out the com- plications the great powers of {he world accepted invitations issued by the German government to participate in o conference at Berlin. The con- ference met in November, 1884, with an attendance of representatives from nearly every Buropean government, The United § , 100, 50 far departed from its policy of standing aloof from forelgn entanglements s to have rep- resentation. The sittings lasted into February, 1885, and terminated in the promulgation of a general act, that went into force not long after upon the ratifieation of the preseribed number of signatory powers, The general act made way for the Congo Free State under the special protection of the Belgian kingdow. It made the Congo and the Niger froe to navigation and guaranteed its nentral ity upon the faith of the combined powers, It pledged all to the suppre sion of the slave trade and prescribed the form by which uew tervitory might thereafter be ncauired in Afri Fi nally it established an international commission to execute its provisions with respeet to navigation. his was ten yeurs ago. But the expectations of the founders of the Congo Free Stte bave uot been realized. Its trade il development b not progressed ¢ rapidly as was anielpated. Its free dom has beeu in name rather than in substan ind Belgium, which has born the mnin burdens, seews to have come o the conclusion that it wight as well drop the form and administer it as a fourth cougress, [ ——>: | to organize ty other powers will thirk the matter of sufficient importance to call forth ob Jection. 1f the Congo Free State lapses the Blow will be felt chiefly by those theorists who«thought they could build an independent nation in a day out of o wilderness inhabited by savage tribes STILL MAKING COMBINATIONS, Within the past few days announce- ment has been made of arrangements great industrial combi- nations, which, if effected, will create monopolies in their respective lines, One of these is a proposed plate glass trust. Less than a month ago the price of s was reduced, owing to a dis e among manufacturers, but within a few days it has been restored, and the opinion of those in the trade is | that this means that the plate glass companies have come to an agreement, | presaging the purchase by the Pitts Durg company of all the other plants in the United States and the formation of a plate glass monopoly. There are nine of these plants, six of which are located in Pennsylvania, two in In- and one in Missouri, and their geregate value is about $9,000,000, The other projected ymbination is to control the larger part of the Besse- mer fron ore produced in this count According to report the arrange ments e about completed for uniting the three iron companies which — control — about three-fourths of the Bessemer iron that is mined in the United s, and it is needless to say that the purpose of the combination is to advance the pric It is understood to be the in- tention 1o market the ove this y about §1 advance over the price of vear, and, of course, this will be fol- lowed by a corresponding nee in the price of Bessemer steel. Competi- tion will not be entively shut out by this combination, but it will be so in- significant not to have any influ- ence on the market. These monopolies it consummated, will not affect the interests of the whole people as some of the other combina- tions do, hut none the less they are de- structive of free competition and there- fore hostile to the public interest. Per- haps they are not amenable to exist- ing law, even if there were a disposi- tion to enforce the law, but it cannot be admitted that such combinations are beyond the reach of legislation, if the numerous judic decisions that have been made r rding them are of any value. - If they cannot be reached by federal statutes then it is the duty of the state legislatures to take notice of them and try what can be done by tate laws to repress them. It is most Xtraordinary that notwithstanding the trong popular sentiment that exists zainst trusts and other monopolistic combinations so little practical effort is made to do away with them. So far s the federal anti-trust laws are con- cerned it seems to be settled thatnoth- ing will be done by the present ad- ministration to enforce them. As to the law of 1890, it was condemned by the attorney general as defective and inadequate, and after that it was not to be expected that any effort would be made to accomplish anything under it, but ther son to at least hope that an effort would be made to ren- der effective the provision of the new tariff law relating to trusts and com- binations of the character described in that provision. But nothing has been done, so far as the public knows, and the belief is justified that nothing will Dbe done. At any rate, the Department of Justice appears to have thus far turned a deaf ear to all appeals for some evidence of a purpose to enforce the popular will as cmbodied in the act of congress. The indifference of those entrusted with authority to the growth of monopoly is a discourag- ing fact to those who earnestly fecl that the people should have relief from exaction and be given the advantage of free competition in every line of in. dustry and business, — KANSAS CITY'S GAS PIGHT. The Kansas City gas fight, which has been waging at a white heat for several wonths, is apparently near an end, promising cheap gas to consumers in that city. The contest dates back three years and the outcome has been the passage of an ordinance granting a thirty-year franchise, under strict lim- itations, to an altogether new company and the refusal of an extension of franchise to the company whose fran- chise 15 about to expire. The gas fight in Kansas City this year and the gas fight in Omaha of a year ago have many points both of resem- blance and of difference. In Omaha there was no opposition company, but the existing corporation wanted a fifty- year extension of its franchise, with practical immunity from reduction of rates. The effort to railroad this ordi- nance through the city council and to foist it upon the people by frregular methods aroused a great popular pro- test. The controversy terminated in n compromise franchise for twenty-five years, a reduction in price to $1.60 per 1,000 cubie feet and a sliding scale thereafter according to the amount con- sumed, an option for purchase by the city and an annual payment of 5 cents to the city for every 1,000 cubic feet of gas sold, In Kansas City the original proposi- tion of the existing company was for permission to continue selling at $1.60 per 1,000 feet, the present raté 1l were objections and it finally came down to a thirty-year franchise and a $1.40 per thousand rate, In the mean time a new company was formed, which offered to supply dollar gas if it were given a franchise on reasonable terms. Its offer was vigorously antag onized Dby the old company, but in vain. The irony of fate will soon find the new company in possession of a franchise and the old company without one. The franchise ordinance just enacted in Kansas City coutains the same inno vations which were introduced into Omala a ye ago. It confers the right to manufacture and distribute gas in Kansas City for a period of thirty years unless the city advantage of vight to purehase at an appraised valu dinna ore 18 takes its colony, It is doubtful whether the atlon, exclusive of frauchise and earn | ehised corporations which are given the | Ing capacity, at any time after the ex piration of 1My years, The gas must | be sold at asprice not greater than $1 | per thousand efibic feet and must be of | specified candlp power. The compan must either deposit £50,000 in cash or give bond in’ thi¢ sum of 000 that it will expend i, preseribed amount of money on itaplant within three years. Finally, the ¢ifyis to recelve 2 per cent of the gross reeeipts from the sale of gAs to private parties, 3 What is 10" bl noted in the Kansas City gas fight, @8 in other reeent fights for franchisé® of 4t similar nature, is the acceptance of the principle that the city must have sonte return from the fran- | use of its streets, Cities seem to be getting over their recklessness in grant ing away valuable privileges for the sole benefit of private corporations. Another significant feature is the reserved right of purchase by the city. Many cit are not in position to embark in munici- pal undertakings, but there is a tend- eney to keep the way open for munici- pal ownership and operation of those monopolics which require the exclusive use of the public streets for their sery. fce. Cities of today are holding munici- pal ownership up as the probable regime of the near future, and they arve taking care that they shall not be altogether unprepared for it, BUSINESS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts pro- poses offering an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill providing that on and after Jul nexe the consular junder the jurisdiction of the Civil ice commission, and that the pres! shall appoint o board, consisting the secretary of state, two members of the senate, two members of the house of representatives, and a consul or consul general, Who shall have been at least ten years in the sery to reorganize it and place it upon a permanent basis, All appointments to consulates ther fter must he made after a comy tive examination in history, gec arvithmetie, constitutional and interns tional law, nd foreign languages. When vacancies occur promotions are 1o be made from the next lowe upon merit, and removals or dis can be made only upon charges and proof of misconduct and inefliciency. The importance of putting the con- sular service on a different basis is be- ing widely recognized, and it is en- couraging to tind the bhus niza- tions of the country taking an earnest interest in the subject. The Chambe of Commerce of New York, Philadel- phia, Boston and Denver have given expression to the opinion that the prin- ciples of a reformed eivil service should De applied to the consular service, and the National Livé Stock exchange, at its last meeting, addressed a letter to the president of the United States urg- ing reforms in the consular ser that would render it more efficient. in pro- moting the c¢ommercial interests of the country, among these being a less un- n tenure of office and better com- peénsation. Pheseexprossiots of com- mercial bodies unquestionably voice the sentiment of a very large majority of the business men of the count and it would be well if they generally took a more energetic part than they have hitherto taken in impressing congress with the fact that they desire the con- sular service administered strictly on busing principles. It is the Dbusiness men of the country who are most di- reetly concerned in the matter of having a thoroughly efficient and useful con- sular service, every member of which will exercise the same zeal and vigi- lance for the promotion of our commer- cial interests abroad that are exer- cised by the consular representati of other nations, though of course the whole people would be benefited by the results, It is time that we learned something regarding this matter from our great ommercial rivals, and profited by the instruction. England and Germany have found in their consular service a powerful aid to the extension of their commerce, and they administer it strictly on business principles. Bvery consular official of those countries has an incentive to zeal and eficiency in the assurance of permanent tenure and promotion for meritorious service, while the comvensation is sufficient to induce good men to remaln in the sery- fee. There is no valid reason why the example of those countries cannot be emulated by the United States. It is to be expected that the propo- sition to extend civil service reform to the consn service will meet with a more or less vigorous opposition. The spoilsmen will combat this, as they have other steps in the progress of r form. But whatever hostility it may encounter at first, it is certain to finally prevail, ti- iy, Almanac making has come to be an industry as well as an art. The be- ginning of each new year sees the mar- ket flooded with political, statistical and historical compilations, which, in order to sail;under the name of al- manae, arve prefixed with a calenday and astronom{¢il guide for the coming twelvemonth, . /Blis part of the al- manic is, however, no longer the prin- cipal feature, A ¢hronology of the pre- vious year, ligts of notable deaths, of important legiséitlon, of public officers o statistic'of commerce, finance, manufacturing, . together with election tables, wake the modern almanae an Andispensallo 'éottipendinm of useful information. ho . best almanacs those issuedoby the principal newspapers of the country, many of which maintain_ a separate staff for this particular purpose and pride ther selves upon the promptness and pleteness with which their publications appear. There i3 specialization even among almanae makers, some of them devoting themselves to achieving par- | tiewlar accuracy and fullness on par ticular subjects. Bach year, too, seems 1o improvement in the product ) which they turn out and the supply of good alwanacs for 1895 has never been ed for both number and excel- | daily com- show lence, People who enjoy g $4,000 wmust not o | forget that they are receiving 2 per cent income: be of the excess only as custodians for the benefit of the United States govern- ment. Should they fail to appreciate this little fact the income tax collector | Will eall it forcibly to mind before the time when the tax becomes delinquent. What the Japs Aro Alming At Denver News, Ordinary logle would demonstrate that unless under forelgn pressure Japan will never consent to terms of peace until Pekin fs captured and China s In a position of Ject supplication ——— The Unfortunate Part of 1t Courler-fournal, Mr. 8 J. Richie's complaint against Judge Ricks seems to be the wail of a man who tried to put up a job on his creditor: and was then beaten. But Judge Ricks is rtunate in having a great many charges preferred against hir bl - . ange, My Countrymen. Globe-Democrat Sixteen years ago John Sherman set the wheels of resumption’in motjon so smoothly that not a jar was felt until the democrats got hold of all departments of the govern- ment fourteen years later. Now there is an uncomfortable in of gold because o fine plece of machinery has fallen into incompe- tent hands, s What M pal Grit Will Do, -Democrat Twenty citizens in the village of Stam- ford, in the Catskill mountains, New York, subscribed $60 each, and with the $1,000 thus obtained have provided themselves' with a telephone ~system, a - storekeeper having charge of the central exchange. The cost 1o each subscriber will be $8 a year. That the village is no ordinary place may be in- ferred from the fact that it had previously a sewerage system, electric lights, ater and an improvement society. Checking Up in lowa, Dea Molnes Capital It Peter A. Dey and General Beeson will accept the suggestion of the executive coun- cll to examine building and loan assocla- tlons, their services will be gladly w comed by every honestly managed assocts tion, and most of them are so managed rybody would have confidence in thelr findings, But that very fact will doubtiess make them the objeets of malignant ns- saults from dishonest managers and the abuse of blackmai Nevertheless, let us hope both the gentlemen named will serve, ——— Cooling O 1n Africa. Loutsville Courler-Journal London has been selsed by o wild dis rust of the reckless financial management of American railroads, and has taken up the_safe, conservatively handled properties of South’ Africa. Shares in diamond mines, zold mines and similar rock-ribl pter: prises have been gobbled up greedily, and brokers and speculators have all been mak- ing money. Iy the time the British capitalist gets cooled off from his African fever he will be glad to come back to America, but the chances are that he will not bring much mone: The Worth of I'ar Philadelph'a Times, A census bulletin shows that the worth of farms in the United States has doubled and the m f wealth increased fou fold over t ation on the acre in I8, There w 1 acres in farm land in 1850, valued average of SIL1 the acre. The' record 1890 shows § G619 acres, valued at $ an age of $2122° The farmer complaining of the low price of wheat may not figure in this list, but the records indicate a better condition in agriculture over the country than those engaged in it care to admit, ————— The Fat of Newfoundland, New York World. The unhappy condition of Newfoundland Is something more than a misfortune. It Is A warning againgt bad governmental financial methods, against legishtion in the interest of classed, against the maintenance of artificial industries and the subsidizing of unprofitable rallroads. In other words, it is an illustration on a small scale of nearly all the forms of mistaken paternalism which have been tried in this country. Unfor- tunately, Newfoundland was not large enough nor rich enough to stand such mis takes and has gone to smash over a loss of money smaller than the individual profits of a single one of our Pacific railroad subsidy grabbers, What a ¢ —_— Undesirable Population. New York Sun. “America for Americans,” not only for natives of the country, but for men who give their whole allegiance to it, who be- ‘leve in it, are faithful to it, stand ready tc defend it and uphold its government and constitution. It is to be regretted that many of the Russians who have come her: to live and enjoy our freedom have recently taken the oath of allegiance to a foreign government and put themselves under the protecton of a Iluropean monarch. Such men should never have immigrated to the United States, They are not the kind of men we want here, They have not in them the stuff of which Americans are made or a spirit which is desirable for our country. {merica for Americans, wherever they were horn. — o The Only School of Journalism. Captain Henry King in the Forum, The country printing office s really our only schaol of journalism, and its graduates are found everywhere, and hold responsible positions on all the 'metropolitan papers. There is no other place where preparatory general training for the duties of the pro- fession can be obtained, where a young man can learn to be an all‘round journalist. In the large city offices the division of labor, and particuliry the assignment system as to reporters, ténds to place men in grooves and keep ' them there, making them proficient ‘in_only one of various essentials, chilling their enthusiasm, and delaying and preventing their promotion. In the country offices, on’ the other hand, a man plays ail the parts in turn, and is' drilled for every kind of work. He s not thereby made n finished journalist, competent to fill any position, but he gets a grasp of the profes sion as a whole, and can more readily adapt himself to its diverse requirements than one who lacks this discipline, g A NEBRASKA EDITRESS ABROAD, It is always a pleasure to note the success of any Nebraskan and it is especially so in the case of a Nebraska woman, Mrs. Allie Willard, whose letters of trayel have ap- peared in The Bee from time to time during the past year. Those of our readers who know the lady personally and have watched her progress in the world of letters will be gratified to learn that Mrs. Wiilard has ac- cepted a responsible post on the staff of the Woman's Signal, of London, edited by Lady Henry Somerset. Although Mrs Willard is not the only Nebraskan who has achieved distinction in literary pur- suits abroad her career is most interesting, in that it evidences the possibilities in storc for a worthy, resolute woman. More than ten years ago Mrs, Willard took her first lessons in newspaper work at Loup City, where she assisted her fate hus- band in the publication of a country weekly In those days Sherman county was beset by a political Ting, which became so corrupt that the people could no longer tolerate it and open warfare upon its leaders was de- clared. ~ Mr. Willard planted his paper squarely upon the people's platform, which pledged purity in county government and the overthrow of an obnoxious ring which had for years oppressed the people. The fight was a bitter one, but final triumph created resent- ments that could not be reconclied, and the courageous Willard fell at the hands of an assassin, Such a terrible blow would have disheartened most women, but Mrs. Willard, upon recovering her composure, took full con trol of the paper, which she conducted ably and successfully for several years., Abandoning her newspaper Mrs. Willard went to Chicago, where she prepared herself for a higher plane of literary work. The past two years have been spent In the leading European cities, Descriptive letters from the old world tell the story of her travels in a style highly entertaining and give promise of certain success in the broader field of journ alism. Mrs. Willard's connection with the Woman's Signal is a compiiment to a talented American lady, the product of the western prairies, in which every citizen of Nebraska may be p:rmitted to share. MY WINTER GIRL, Boston Globe. The summer lass, of every class Has cften been portrayed; The poets all, enrapturéed, fall Before this dainty mald But now I'll try, with earnest ay, And brain all fn a whirl To eing the charms--bewitching Of my sweet winter girl plump and fair, with modest air, heart like ming is true; And summer skies envy her ey Their tender shining hue A single kiss from her is bliss, A siren s each curl That shade the brow Of my sweet winter And 50 1 sing—the echoe My heart I8 singing, too IU's happiness, 1 will To her is mostly du Dull care, begone! H 1 o 'my blushing I'm in love—in e With my sweet wint it charms— the classic &irl brow— girl} SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Cedar Rapids Republican: Cardinal Gib- bons comes to the defense of Christianity with a caustic criticism of Ingersoll and his assaults on the bible. The cardinal has proven himselt a foeman worthy of Tnger- soll's steel Cedar Rapids Gazette: Dean Holo of the | Episcopal church of England is coming to | this country to beg for funds with which to| repair Rochester cathedral. The church in | England has an income of only $40,000,000 per annum, and perhaps America ought to put it on a paylng basis. Chicago Herald: The number of preachers who are abandoning regular pulpits to en- gage in reformatory work of various kinds is remarkably large. If men can not be re formed through religion they will mot be through politics. The present spasm will die out after a while, and there will be a lot of preachers looking for new jobs. | Brooklyn Bagle: Dr. Parkhurst has coined | a new word, He calls it ndromania’ and says that it means “the passionate desire of women to' ape everything that is mannish." Everything is a too sweeping word, ‘Women have not tried to raise beards. They are opposed to them. Many of them, indeed carry opposition so far as to set their faces against them Kansas City Star: A few weeks ago Father Ducey was in a peck of trouble with his canonical superiors Now the rumor comes that ne is to bo invested with the title of monsignor. This is an absurdity on its face, but it is significant that the clouds which seemed to lower around Father Duc have been dispelled. And the interesting part of it is that the public attitude of the priest has not been changed In the least, Dubuque Telegraph: The clergymen, protestant and_Catholics, of Far Rockaway L. I, are sensible. They desired the closing of the saloons during church hours on Sun- days, but instead of threatening the saloon keepers with prosecution unless they gave assent, they met them in conference and | asily " gained thelr point’ by mildness and | argument The result is that from 12 o'clock Saturday nigirt until 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon the saloons are open to nobody, and moral suasion has achieved a victory which police interference could not accom- plish. S PEOPLE AND THIN John G. Carlisle was ones the idol of his party. Where is that party now? A temperance revival in Sioux City has lowered tho pressure on the Covington pipe line. An appraisal shows that Jay Gould left a fortune of $80,000,000. How many he left poor is not stated. Bachelors' Rest, a Arizona, is trying to by inviting women to married. Colonel Watterson denies that he intends | moving from Louisville to New York. The | movement for a western democratic candi- date for 1806 may now safely proceed. A pulque famine prevails in Mexico, but whilo a neighboring republic guarantees the pursuit of happiness with the brand blown in the bottle, the Mexicans need not put away their skates, A glanco at the elaborate Jackson's day at various places pression that the battle of New Orleans was superseded by well sustained attacks on Greenbriar, Kelly Island and California. Mr. J. Bdward Addicks is one of the busy men of Delaware. He is running a gas plant, a divoree case and a senatorial boom at the same time. The two latter are drawing beavily on the dividends of the former. The south need not worry about the reform schemes suggested by Mr. Justin McCarthy, leader of the home rule party. If Mac sticks to his present job he may be able to govern his party before the next century grows whiskers. B Mr. E. St. John, formerly of the Rock Island management, has infused a_business air_into the Seaboard Air line. The Balti- more Sun says his address to subordinates on entering upon his new duties “was a model one.” The Towa Board of Agriculture Insists on Des Moines people guaranteeing the purchase of 20,000 tickets or the state fair will be abandoned this year. As the fair is located in Des Moines by statute, the natives grab their air ducts, agitate thelr fingers and give the board a hoarse laugh. The senatorial campaign in Minnesota has reached that interesting stage where one aspirant politely urges his rival to go to that region where ice is unknown. By watching this and similar contests in other states, the Nebraska legislature may realize what fun was lost forever by that New Year resolution. What appeared to be a ghostly firchug caused a forty-elght hour sensation in Green- point, L. L, last week. Fires in a frame cottage kept tie fire department on the run. As 5000 as one was put out another started in some mysterious way. Chandeliers would tumble to the floor, sofas and chairs fly about tho parlor, and picture frames skate on the carpet. These ghostly doings had a material side. The daughter of the house desired her parents to move to a more fashionablo sec- tion of the town, and sought to expedite the move by torch and knife. e SR Tho Halo Was Lost. Chicago Times. We regret to noté that Judge Ricks of Ohlo s getting deeper and ‘deeper into the mire. Now comes o cltizen of Akron, i that state, charging Ricks with joning in | doing him’ out of $5,00,000. ' Somehow (his allegation, coupled with the later reyel tions of Judge Jenkins' connection with the Milwaukte bank failures, sugiests ( Haps a man doesn't alwiys i Ton. lonesome. break colne retreat in into civilization there and get spreads of St gives the fm- | Atrica RELIGIOUS, St. Louis is to have a “gospel chariot,” & vehiclo from which the gospel will be dis- pensed In summer and supplies to the poor |in winter Of the 12,000 Canadian Indians on the Pa« cific coast 8,000 have been baptised or attend Christlan worship. The gospels have been printed for them in four languages. Mary Fairing, a colored woman of Alae bama, has gone out as a missionary worker to the Dark Continent, and has sold her little home 1o pay the expenses of the trip, Bishop Vincent thinks that the churches Cught to be open 865 days and nights in the year, as an offset to the saloons and theaters, { which attract many young people who would turn into a church if one were open, Bishop Willlam Taylor is now making his fifth tour among the Methodist missions of He 18 accompanied by his niece, Dr, Jennie M. Taylor, the first missionary who is also a dentist to enter the Dark Continent. The Bstablished Church of Scotland has L146,000 members, the Free church has 771 000, the United Prosbyterian church has 445, 000, the smaller Protestant bodies have 238 000 and the Roman Catholic church has 862, 000 members, According to a Fronch newspapor, thero are in the French academy three DProtestants, Victor Cherbuliez, Leon Say and M, De Frey- cinet; one freethinker, Alexandre Dumas; one atheist, M. Challemel Lacour, while nearly every one of the rest is a nominal Catholic, George M. Pullman, with his wife, daughter, private secrelary, and Rev. Henry R. Pulls man, are at Albion, N. Y., to make final rangements for the furnishing and dedication this month of the Pullman Memorial chureh, ated to the great car builder’s birthplace A singular war has sprung up in a Presby- terian church in New Albany, Ind. D, Hutchinson has been in charge of the church for about fifty years, and s there is every chance that he will end his life in its service the congregation wishes to give him and his wife a life lease on the parsonage. To this the deacons have objected, claiming that there is no warrant for the action of the congrega- tion. As the members remain firm in their purpose the deaccns have no alternative save to resign. This they have done, to the genera) satisfaction of everybody concerned STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT. Detroit Freo Press: Language is the bucket which hangs in the well of thought. Heresy is unsuccessful independence. What breaks one heart makes another, Art is the sublimation of the artificial. Don’t trust a man who is too ready to trust you. A woman's heart, An time, Advertisements are the legs that business walks on. Religion fs the heart theology is its brain. A woman never makes up her mind to do a thing; she docs it, and makes up her mind afterwards. brain doesn't empty into her fmpulse should be kept on tee for a of the church and e SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS. A man is known by the ses to keep. Galveston News: company he ref Harper's Bazar: Pertly—There is thing I have to say in favor of the wind when it whistles. Dullhead—What's that? Pertly—It never whistles popular airs. one Richmond Dispatch: We often hear men complaining of their hopes being dissipated, and as a rule that's just what ails the com: plainant, Washington Bickles is a very far- hted m ndeed Yes. He says he I8 looking forward to the time when the new postoflice will be completed. Harlem Life: Preacher—Every man must some day settle his account with his Maker, Tajlor—1 wish you could fmpress Mr, Palmer with that idea. He hasn't settled with me in about two years. Truth: The Judge—I hope I shall not sea you here again. Irisoner (who is weekly)—Not see me? Why, yer ain't goin® to resign yer position, are yer? Syracuse Post: Willie—I am_ambitious to g0 before the footlights. She—Then you had better run along before papa comes down- stairs, New York Weekly: Native—Wall, who be you? Stranger—I am one of a committee ap- pointed " to investigate the question as to Why s0 many lynchings occur in this sec- tion. Native—Wall, T'll tell yeh, honest. It ‘cause so mahy strangers came here pokin their noses into other people's busi- ness, Pittsburg Dispatcl to gain the vote of that old malds' club or all hope is lost, Candidate—That's all right. We'll Just address a private circular’ to’ the different members, asking it they are old enough to vote, and stating that if they will be able to cast a vote this election we'd like to have it count for u: Politiclan—We've got THIZ COMING AND THE GOING, Syracuse Post. 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