Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1895, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAILY PUBLISHED EVERY MORN — i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ily Beo (Without Bunday), One Year. aily Tee and Sunday, On Bix Months Three Months Bunday Dee, One Year turdny Deo, One Year. eekly Dee, One Year .. OFF maha, The Hlee Bullding. uth Omaha, Singer Bik., Cor. N and 2ith Sts. | Council Bluffs, 13 Pearl Sireet. Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of ew York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15 hington, 1407 F Street, CORRESPONT All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. BUSIS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be @ddresscd to The Bee Publishing company, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postofice orders to o the order of the company. PUBLISHING COMPANY. 833333 mmerce, Tribune Dldg. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Tee Pub. Hlshing company, befng duly sworn, says tiat the actual number of full and complete coples of the bally Morning, Evening and Sunday Dee printed during the month of November, 189, was follows: 24,536 21,408 22450 20,807 21,001 H Total sold. Dally. avernge net cireniaiion GEOR Bworn to before me and subscrihed in my pres- The sympathy of the whole nation ex- tends to Vice President Stevenson in the hour of his herenvement. Idaho and Minnesota seem to be the only states this year that are able to get up a real senatorial contest. The duke of Orleans has be erately spared by the Freneh people from a life of worry and exertion. 18 not the legislature as much entitled to express its views on the Paci road funding bill as on the quest frrigation legislation? 1 consid- The fellows who were saying that Sen- ator Gorman had committed political suicide are busy preparing revised edi- tlons of their political foreca Wlhen members of the court partici- pate In o presentation of living pictures before Queen Vietoria the social stand- ing of the occupation must be consldered as establishied, Royalty is having a rough road to travel. In France its appeal for popular support has fallen flat, and in Hawaii Its efforts to assert itself have proved a dismal faflure. Since President Cleveland set the ex- ample at Chicago in ealling out the regu- lars . the employment of the military to put down strikes appears to haye be- come quite popular. There is no necessity for extending the supreme court commission for an- other three years. If it is to be ex- tended at all one year fs amply suffi- clent. By that time we will be able to have a constitutional supreme court of five or seven judges. Mayor Hopkins of Chicago has an- nounced his intention of retiving from the office to which he has been elected just so soon as his term expires. This 18 another one of those announcements which the people of Chicago will regard as altogether superfluous. —_— The Springfield Republican some of its editorial space to an ar | on “How to Pay Your Income Tax. The Republican seems to miss the spirit of the occasion altogether. What people with taxable incomes want to know is not how to pay their income tax, but how to escape paying their income tax, —_— devotes le Secretary Carlisle is asking for only $100,000 to defray the expenses of en- forcing the Chinese exclusion act. As that is $1 for almost every Chinaman in the country all our Chinese inhabitants might Be Induced to emigrate if the an- nual appropriation were accumulated for a few years and hung up as a purse for their departure. —_— It the Nebraska supreme court accedes to the petition filed before it for the ap- pointment of a receiver for the Fitzger- ald-Mallory Construction company, not- withstanding the fact that the federal court has already appointed a recelver for the same company, we may witness an Interesting clash of state and federal authority. Two receivers appointed by different courts for the administration of the same property would be just one too many, but the difficulty would avise in determining which one would have to At least one eabinet officer In the Unit- ed States has read “I'rilby” and Is not bashful about letting other people know of It. In his addvess Defore .the Ne- braska State Historical society Seere ary Morton took pains to fllustrate his re marks with a quotation from Du Mau- rler's now poputar novel. The publishers will doubtless take notice of this fact and use it to their advantage. It they don't send Mr. Morton a beautifully bound copy of the edition de hixe they will fail to show the proper apprecintion of the compliment which he has paid the work. Arkansas propoeses to do better than her southern sisters by passing a bill through the legislature appropriating $1,000 to purchase corn for the Ne- braska drouth sufferers. We assure the Arkansas legislators that we appreclate thelr good inteution, but we bLardly think the occasion Is such as to warrant compulsory charity on the part of resi- dents of other states. he people of Arkaunsas who want to contribute to any of the relief funds can do so of their | own accord. To force all, rich and poor alike, to contribute through the process of taxation is imposing a burden nei- ther Justified nor demanded by the des- titution that exists in Nebraska, | found in the | | when A BLOT TO THE BA In taking his seat upon the eriminal beneh of New York City, to which he had recently been elected by the greatest majority of any candidate on the reform ticket, Recorder Goff read a lecture '“l parasite lawyers that is a model for ont spoken language. “It Is a matter of re- | " osald the recorder, “that in these later days the profession of criminal law has been retrograding rather than ad | vancing, It is unfortunate that it has | become a trade rather than an honor able ealling or voeation. Indeed, it has been testified before the people of this that law of the bar of New | have entered into collusion with vs and prison keepers to compel the poor prisoners to seck their tainted | A lawyer who would do this, | L is a Dlot to the bar, for he de- grades instead of advances our ancient and honorable ealling.” This arraignment of a particular class of lawyers, unfortunately, is not appli- cable alone to New York City. The same “tainted” fonal services are to be almost every criminal court in the count Men who purport to be lawyers not only resort sort of device to foist a8 attorneys, upon mis, who have services, I s to eve themselves, | ble \\'l'uh-lnu} entangled in w, but also them be hecome meshes of the they have fore their clients, with the asststanee of con niving court and prison officials, they strip them of their ill-gotten gains and nd them forth penniless to resume eriminal practices. The profession of criminal law is the e of human liberty. It ought fo s much ahove other hranches of law as life is above property. The meanest minal is entitled to every protection which the law and the constitution throw arvound him. The lawyer who represents him does not demean him- self %o long as lie exerts only honorable means to shield him from punishment. But because a man is a eriminal lawyer does not mean that he must stoop to dis- lonorable methods. Whenever he be- comes o blot to the b it is the duty of the bar to erase him completely. to THE CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH. In common with the other leading newspapers of the comtry The Bee has been asked to express its views on certain questions propounded by one of the judges of the supreme court of Kansas concerning the concentration of vast wealth in the hands of individu- als. In the fi place we are asked whether that concentration is either un- Just or detrimental to the public wel- fare. The accumulation of property is never unjust so long as It has been ac- quired honestly.” Unfortunately m of the largest fortunes cannot be to be of this character. To avoid a repetition of the frauds and corrup- tion out of which they have sprung we should urge a more stringent enforce- ment of the laws against public plun- derers, robbers and swindlers and a better administration of justice. At the same time it cannot be denied that our laws have fostered and en- couraged these unjust concentrations of wealth, especially those under which corporations have been able to tear down competitors and secure practical monopolies of various fields of indus- tr Wealth is power, and unre- strained power is detrimental to the public welfare, especially when wielded by unscruplous individuals bent upon using the corporate power in their con- trol for their own selfish aggrandize- ment. he managers of railroad cor porations and trusts are the men whose power is dangerous. Nothing but the immense wealth behind them enables them to tamper with legislative bodies and to corrupt the ballot of the individ- ual citizen.. The remedy lies in the election of honest, fearless men to pub- lic office who will enact and execute laws to confine the activity of corpora- tions within their proper spheres. How much is annually paid to citizens of foreign countries on investments in the United States cannot be accurately stated. Its effect upon the publie in- terest mast depend entirely upon the purpose to which the foreign capital is applied. If it were all productively and profitably invested it doubtless would enuble us to produce returns in of what we transmit to the owners abroad. In such case those payments would represent profit to us as well as to the foreign capitalists, We have no doubt that the immense resources of this country still offer op- portunitics for the Investment of more eapital and labor than we have or can produce at home, and that the influx of foreign capital and foreign artisans and laborers will for some time to come be one of the conditions of our continued prosperity Objectionable forms of the investment of foreign c tal can be reached by restrictive legis- lation, MOVING FOR ARBITRATION, Measures haye heen introduced In sev- eral state legislatures providing for the arbitration of controversies bhetween em- ployersand employes. Among these is a very comprehensive bill introduced in the lower house of the Illinois ture to create a state board of arbitra- t This follows pretty closely principal features of the Massachusetts law, which has proved eminently satis- factory after a thorough test in that state. It provides that the governor shall appoint three persons, not move than one of whom shall be of the same political party, who shall be styled a State Board of Avbitration, and who shall hold their offices until the next regular session of the general assen- bly and until their successors are ap- pointed and qualified. Then and every two years thereafter the governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the te, three persons as o State Boar of Arbitration, not more than one mem- ber of which shall be of the same polit- feal party. One member of the hoard shall at all times be an employer of labor or selected from some associa- tion representing employers of labor one shall be selected from sowe labor organization and shall not be an em ployer of labor, and the third shall be se one well versed in the law and whose [a carerul inqui selection shall fi meet the approval of a majority of the membors of the | supreme court of the state before his nomination or appointment by the gov- ernor. In case of a controversy or difference between employer and employes, not involving questions whteh may be the subject of a suit at law, the board is re- quired, on application of the employer or a majority of the entployes hetween whom there is a controve to institute ¢ into the cause of dis- pute, advise the respective parties what, if anything, onght to be done or sub- mitted to by either or hoth to adjust the dispute, and make a written decision thereon, his decision must be pulb- lighed and made matter of record by the board. The decision of the board shall be binding upon the parties who join in the application for six months, or until either party has given the other notice in writing of intention not to be bound by the same at the expiration of sixty days therefrom. When uotified by the wathorities of a city or town that a strike or lockout thr ened or has oceurred it is made the duty of the bonrd of arbitration to at once commu- nieate with the parties to the dispute and endeavor by mediation to effect a ttlement. It ma also investigate the cause of the controversy and publish a report, fixing the responsibility. The board will act only in the case of con- trove involving not less than 100 employes. Ample powers are given to the board to summon witnesses and for other purposes necessary to the perform- wee of its duty. A somewhat similar measure to this has been introduced in the legislature of Wyoming, the Massachusetts law also supplying the principal features of this bill. That statute has been found to work so well that its general adop- tion by other states, with such modifi- cations as local conditions m: render necessary, would seem to be advisable. It carries its own defense, if any be needed, for legislation of this kind. The eneral interest that is belng shown in this subject is noteworthy, promising a it does that within a few years there will be in most of the states arbitration boards, whose work will be ver fective in preventing prolonged strike: and lockouts and in establishing better relations between employers and em- ployes. It is a movement that is heart- ily approved by intelligent public senti- ment everywhere, and this being the case it is ce sies CORPORAL PUNI: DR CRIME. The question of making certain crimes, and especially wife-beating, pun- ishable by flogging is being very earn- estly discussed in New York. The ques- tion was started at a recent meeting of the public health section of the Acad- emy of Medicine, at which Dr. Currier advocated the infliction of corporal pun- ishment on wife-beaters and was warmly supported by Elbridge T. Gerry, president of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children. The former spoke of the numerous cases reported in the newspapers in which men had beaten their wives, and in some ecases their mothers and sisters. Cases of this description also frequently came under the observation of the physician, Scoun- drels of this sort, he said, care nothing for a fine or a short term of imprison- ment; the only thing 18 to give them pain, of which the cowards are afraid. As to the objection to the infliction of corporal punishment that it is degrad- ing and barbarous, Dr. Currier said it Is impossible to degrade a person who has sunk so low as to strike a defense- less woman. Since this meeting a bill has been in- troduced in the legislature to amend the penal code so as to provide that any person who inflicts pain or suffering on another shall in addition to the penal- ties already prescribed be punished by the infliction of a flogging on the back with a whip or other suitable instru- meat, not more than forty lashes to be inflicted, and that the punishment be administered b keeper or warden of the prison to which the criminal is sent, a duly authorized physician to be pres- ent. The penalty would apply to a number of crimes besides wife-beating, though it is aimed chiefly at that, Such 1 proposition certainly seems out of har- mony with the spirit of the time. The whipping post is very generally re- garded as a relic of barbarism, belong- ing to the age of the public stock and the ducking stool, the thumb-screw and the Dboot. It at one time served as a means of punishment in some of the states, but was long since abolished, though in some penal institutions whip- ping is now practiced for certain of- fenses. Yet the proposition has very earnest advocates. One prominent pa- per argues that certain criminals fear no punishment that the law is at present organized to administer. They laugh at the juil and they welcome the state prison. The only thing this class of men fear is°physical pain. “A good sound spanking, says this journal, “will do more to make a man behave himself than anything else. It does not injure the culprit and unfit him for work, as a bread and water diet in a dark cell wmight do; need not nnneces- | surily humiliate him by exposing him as a spectacle, for theve is really no need of that; but it convinces. And there is special need of the lash in the case of men who are very free in con- ferving pain on others. These nre th most contemptible of brutes, for th seldom, if ever, attack any.one of their strength, Th wreak vicious tempers and low instinets on women and children who ave physic strong enough or courageous or mentally enough to help themselyes,” body will that the and brutal beater (¢ the infliction of efrporal punishment if any class of offenders do. It is prob My true that the only thing that can | ch these ruth not morally resourceful oW is and restrain them | isters from the exercise of their brutality is | physical pain. Always cowards, they wonld dread the suffering which they freely inflict upon others weaker than themsel But notwithstanding these considerations it is pretty safe to suy that the whipping post wiil not be set up | in New York. The ipive state will bardly in this respeet place itself on a | be hazards with Ru the leading na ment of punish @ which alone among ns retains this instru- THE PAY OF AMBASSADORS. When congress authorized the appoint ment of ambassadors to those coun- fries which shqplg send to the United States diplomatic representatives of that grade, it made no provision for an Increase of salary, The pay of our min to the prineipal countries of Europe had for'ff 1ong time been $17,500 a year, and it was thought that a mere change of titley involving no additional functions of an 6fficial character, did not require an increase of salary. But an ambassador is of higher state and dignity than a minister, and this nec- sarfly carvies with it more exacting social functions. The ambassador, so it seems, is expected to maintain a more extensive establishment than is nee- essary for a minister to do, entertain more frequently and more elaborately, and gencrally to measure out his ex- penditures on a more libe s Otherwise, he must suffer a deteri tion of dignity nd, perhaps loss of presti il influence. The United wtes has four ambassa- dors ard, Great Britaing Bustis, France; Runyon, Germany, and Mac- Veagh, Italy. It appears that all of these diplomatie representatives of the republic have been spending more than their salaries, and that they are getting tived of it. It is said that Ambassador ustis spent J000 more than his salary Iast year, that it has c Am- assador Runyon twice his salary to live, and- that Ambassador MacVeagh spent $20,000° the first three months fter he reached his post. Of course, Ambassador Bayard has also drawn upon his private fortune, which is not 80 large as that of the others. These officials have recently informed the State department that it will be impos- sible for them to continue to hold their offices at the present rate of remunera- tion, and they are now discharging their diplomatic duties, it is under- stood, at the urgent request of the De- wtment of State, until congress can pass upon the matter. How much of 1 increase of salary is dosired has not been intimated, but probably double the present amount would be satisfactory, and possibly a less increase would in- duce the am lors to serve until thelr suceessors are duly appointed and qualified. It is an inauspicious time for public officials of any” elags to ask for an in- crease of salary. With the pendi- tures of the government running largely in cess of revenue, the public debt growing, and the ‘paramount question Dbeing how to devise ways and means to make ends meet, the demand is for the greatest possible e¢onomy in the publie service consistent {vith its proper and efficient administration. The American people do not desire to be stingy with their public servants. They do not want men to devote their talent and labor to the service of the nation without fair nd reasonable. remuneration. Ispeci- ally is it true that they wish their diplomatic represefitatives af d to be sufficiently well faid to Ghable’ them ‘to maintain the dignity of their positions and to meet the requirements of such social functions 18 are necessary. But they are not willing that the measure of compensation shall be determined by the standard of European governments, nor are they disposed to encourage the iy among our representativ at foreign courts that they must emulate the pomp and display and lavish out- Iny of the representatives of the lead- ing European powers. It is not con- sistent with the true spirit of republic. anism that they should do so, nor is it really necessary to their influenc which will be determined rather by their ability and zeal in the dischar; of their duties than by their success as entertainers, Perhaps it will be well st some time in the future, when the financial condi- tion of the government Is on a better Dbasis, to increase the salary of ambassa- dors, but under' present circumstances the matter is not to be serlously thought of. It may be very desirable to retain the services of the dis- tinguished gentlemen occupying these positions, but if this cannot Dbe done on the existing terms, undoubtedly others equally capable can be found for these diplomatic missions. —_— 1S THE INCOME TAX PERMANENT! The passage by congiess of the appro- priation to defray the expenses of ad- ministering the new income tax law makes certain the imposition of that tax for two years, if not for the whole five years for which it has been authorized, The question, however, immediately sug- gests itself, is the income tax perma- nent? Ask expressions of opinion on this point and the greatest divergence of views will be manifest. The answer is in the realm of the future, but although merely an mdiyidual forecast of proba- Dbility it is none the less of current in- terest. We have in aif fifticle on “The Income Tax,” by Prof. Ba R. A. Scligmunef Columbia collegéin tne current Polit- leal Science Quititerly, the opinion of an expert in finange and financial legisla- tion that takesd“thé decided stand that the tax is perfiiapént. Not that Prof, Seligman Is sadisigd with the present income tax lawlor“that he finds no fault with the plan ypoi which it has been | constructed, Aétersa critical review of the income tax :u‘HJqu]q- he says it is evident that it fally constderably short Of being a pepfedts measure, The ¢ ic hopeg 6f fts admivers will tion. “Blig, fraud which is in- ble from by Ancome tax will have fuller opportunitifs because of the de- fective provisions-of the present meas ure. Yet, notwithstanding all this, 1'rof, sligman ventures the opinion: “Wheth- er the income tax will be deopped at the expiration of the five years or whether some change will be made in the tariff depends 80 mueh upon purely political conditions that it is plainly impossible to forecast the future. Lot if the hould be dropped the prediction 1 that 1t will reappear boefor long. * The ultimate permancnes of the federal income tax, although not perbaps in its actual form, seeis to be assusred.” The reason for this conclusion on the part of P'rof. Seligman appear .. tw be his confidence that the existing system of taxation, local, state and federal, has been outgrown and that the democratic trend toward justice in taxation eannot be prevented hore, as 1t has been im- possible to prevent it in other countries, The movement for the federal income tax is to be regarded, in his opinion, as a groping after a more equitable distri- bution of the burdens of government. The tax is to be viewed not by itself, but as a part of the whole system of taxa- tion, and in this light he thinks its tendency s, despite defects, really com- pensato We might have approached this readjustment of our tax system through the state or local taxes but growing interstate Jealonstes make it easier to alter the national than the local clements, National reform is welt nigh impossible without a permanent in come tax as a sort of adjustable balanee wheel. The present income tax law will no doubt be transitory. But if Prof. Seligman is correct it but precedes an income tax that will come to stay. sossion of the legis the past twenty years bills have been introduced for the establishment of new normal schools. These bills have invaviably been defeated, even when their progenitors entered into appropri ation combines with parties interested in enlarging old state Institutions or es- tablishing new one: In the face of perience several normal school n been introduced in both hous members who expect to make a record of activity and useful- ne The fact that there is no mone; in treasury for erecting the nec buildings and paying for normal teachers does not seem to welgh with these industrious logislators, nor do they seem to grasp the fact that the burdens of taxation are greater already than the re property owner can stand. The time doubtless will come when another normal school may be ablished, but it strikes us that the place for it is at Lincoln as an annex to the university. At every ure for the os The bondsmen of the defaulting state treasurer of South Dakota have begun 1o bend their energies toward securing a rele from their obligations, and threaten in case this is not granted to firht {he j ayment to the bitter (nd. They contend tl the greater part of the loss is due to the negligence and sions of its own officers, who, had they exercised ordinary precaution, would have largely reduced the amount involved in the defaleatton. The bonds- men, however, forget that it was equally their duty to sce that the principal per- formed the official duties which he as- sumed faithfully and honestly, as he bound himself to do. Their neglect was as significant as that of the state offi- cials. The question is, can the taxpay- ers of South Dakota justly be compelled to pay foi this neglect? A local paper see to make odious by comparison the published report of a patriarel’s ball with the attendant aisplay of diamonds as against the re- port of the death of an unfortunate man from starvation. The scene of the two pictures is laid in Brooklyn. Such cheap twaddle has long been shorn of force. Never before in the history of America were the people more disposed to the cheerful dispensing of charity to the relief of distressed people, and to the rescue of perishing humanity. If the truth were known it would doubt- less appear that the participants in the festivities of the patriarch’s ball had been liberal in their contributions to charity funds. The Woman's Weekly has long since Justified its existence. It has demon- strated the fact so long contended for by womankind, that there are issues to be fought out all about us that the lords of creation fear to tackle. The crusade against store made bread and the demand for raising the age of con- sent ave living issues, worthy of con- sideration at the hands of state and municipal law makers. What we want is more women who know how to make bread “like mother used to make.” We have heard nothing further from the spirits that have taken such a deep interest in solving the Barrett Scott mystery. They are probably now pre- paring a surprise for us in some other direction, Luminous Everywhere. Denver News. It is a noticeable fact that while there are scores of bills already introduced to appropriate and spend money there is not one yet presented to reduce’ expenses, cut dows salaries or abolish s offices, T Bat It Heeds Not, Detrolt Free Press, The Bell Telephone company insists that it will fight the Berliner patent case while there is & chance left. The people of the country are strongly of the opinion that it is time for the Bell octopus to “ring off.” S BT enn_House, Plattsmouth Times, The legislature fs grinding away, but about all that has been done o far'is to appoint hangers-on to draw salaries which they will never earn. There should be a general house cleaning at the capitol and the ringsters with a pull should be invited to a dlet of snow balls for a while, Information Wanted, Philadelpata Record. There are 300,000 women in this " who are earning independent incomes, a the number Is steadily Increasing from rto year. It would be a most Inte Ccsting addition to this statistical state- ment if it could be shown how many of 1 thy women contribute to the support of male dependents. i W bat Converted Bob, Kansas City Star. A St Louls newspaper expresses surprise that Colonel Ingersoll should “abandon his | lecture on the bible in the midst of the iy on."" Yet th should be no oceca- sia for surpri 1 not the colonel publicly sald th believe in hell when Missourl n? He s merely living up to his promise e h o Systom. St Louls Republic, The fee system has by | source orruption and evil wh | has existed. It has always earri train more r less discreditable | which honest men learned to win | has done more, perhaps, than any one mistake to debauch the |n'uf‘l-- and eventu- ruin nany who tried 0 serve the 5 influences. Evis of t en one great he Const. co is 80 beset ckers on the stre that he now card to all men who Intercept ) office upon which is the follow- on: “I claim the right of an 20 to walk the streets with- ation. If you ve public busi- at the mayor's oflice From e hat Culifor full of urgent and ardent patriots burning up with | earnest zeal to serve their country, by office s present | him for erip | | SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PU Chicago Herald: A woman preacher in a Boston Christian sclence church copyrights her sermons and warns all newspapers not to use them without her permission. We shall next hear of some Connecticut parson taking out letters patent on salvation and of a Pennsylvania minister applying for a pro- tective tarift on the gospel. Kansas City Star: After a_long argument the New York Presbytery has decided to give the credit of the explosion in New York political ecircles to the Lord, with incldental commendation of Dr. Parkhurst. This s:ems fair enough and Is not likely to excite any Jealousies. In fact it isea dignified and fe- licitous way out of the difficulty. Davenport Demoecrat: Religious circles at Green Bay, Wis., are all torn up over the threats of the pastor of the First Methodist church there to expel some of the young members of his flock for attending a dance. Several of his parishioners have headed oft the preacher In expelling them by handing in their resignations, The excitement is to culminate next Sunday when the pastor is expected to take action. Detroit Free Press: Chauncey M. Depew has called down upon himself the wrath of Methodist ministers in New York for with- drawing their half-rate privilege for travel over the Vanderbilt system, on the claim that the privileges have been abused. If the min- isters of this sect In Gotham are anything like scme of those who fight satan in the far west, the doctor has run foul of a worse horent's nest than he ever encountered in polities. W York Tribune: This is sad. The New York Central Railroad eompany has de- cided to withdraw at once the privileges it has been giving to clergymen of traveling at reduced rates of fare, and the reason is that some of them have abuexl the privil:ge, loaning thelr permits to unauthorized persons and in some cases even selling them. It would seem only fair to the ministers gener- ally if the mames of the black sheep were made public. Buffalo Express: In the course Thomas Dixon's_scrmon on Sunday he said, replying to a criticlsm on his sensaticnalism by a writer who signed himself “Old-fash- foned Clergyman:* “My great-grandfather met the ancestors of the ‘Old-fashioned Clergyman’ on the heights of King's mount and gave them a sound thrashing.”” His great-grandfather surely was a mighty man of war. Have we L wrong _in calling Washington the Father of His Country all these years? of Rev. ARy PEOPLE AND THINGS, The Hon. Bill peace footing Very few senatorships pass without being boarded. So consistent are the straight that they refuse sugar in their'n. The deluge of bills introduced in legislature suggests a determined effort solve the currency problem. May Yohe is lost for a time at least to the American stage, but she has a lordly Hope to cling to in her retirement. Mr. E. V. Debs might hear something to his advantage by addressing a few pardonable remarks to President Cleveland. “I rise to a question of personal privilege, exclaimed an agitated lady member of the Colorado legislature, addressing the speaker; “Is my hat on straight?” 5 Many of the men who “‘fought mit Sigel” assisted the distinguished veteran in cele- brating his seventieth birthday at his home in Mott Haven a few days ago. A sclentific sharp says a lump of coal weighing a pound has energy enough to lift a weight a mile high. This explains why prices frequently go out of sight. J. Scott Ellis of Farmington, Me., plodded along for elghty of his 102 years without the ald of a doctor. But he undertook to shave himself, lost his mental poise and fell with a fractured hip into a doctor’s arms. It is charged by local papers that $362,000 were spent lubricating a telephone franchise through the city council of Philadelphia. Quaker City fathers may be a trifle slow, but they get there with great regularity. The auction sale of the Evening Bulletin of San Francisco last week recalls the stir- ring history of a paper which was a power in the early days of California’s metropolis. The Bulletin was founded by James King, and its exposure of the criminal gangs that ruled San Franclsco in 1856 led to the mur- der of its intrepld editor and the formation of a vigilance committee which routed the gangs with rope and lead. It was an ex- ponent of the better element of San Francisco life, but hard times and sharp competition sent it to the wall. The Louisville Courfer-Journal discarded polities for a day last week and discoursed eloquently, ~harmoniously, hi- lariously on Kentucky. Her fleet- footed ~ horses, her succulent stills, her bounteous blue grass, her soothing tobacco, had their praises sung and spread over forty- eight pages. But while blooded horses, bour- bon, blue grass and 'backy give the common- wealth eminence in the galaxy of states, the chief, distinct, unapproachable glory of Kentucky s her women. “The Kentucky woman,” the rapturous Watterson sings, “has not her like on the face of the globe. Journey through the Bluegrass country and a plain girl is the exception; an ugly one Im- possible. There is something in the blue of the grass that makes blue in the blood; some- thing in the limestone water that vitalizes and beautifies all physical life. Look at the horses, Look at the horsemen. But the women; there isn't a farm house that can't | produce a woman who, if she should step thence upon a throne, wouldn't stand there, Cook has been reduced to a in the night democrats various to They are quite as self-confident as the men, though after a different pattern. They have beauty and health. They have charm, They have style. They have quick perceptions, and they catch the fleeting fashion of the timo— they dress well—walk well—ride well —and-—if you think they are not born to reign as well as to shine—marry one of thom! —_— SURRENDER SURRENDERED, New York World: “Surrender” has finally been wiped off the map of the United States that Appomattox might be restored to its place in the history along with Philippt and Waterloo. Now lot somebody in the Postoffice ~ department go into a secluded place and whisper what he thinks of him- self. Chicago Inter-Ocean: The postal authorl- tles have finally determined to restore the { namo Appomattox to the old postoffice at the scene of Lee's surrender, and to call the newly named postofMce West Appomattox. It is clear now that there was no disposition to ignore or belittle associations in the change of the name, but the department acted in accordance with public demand when it re- scinded its previous action and restored the name to the old postoffice. Chicago Post: Some stupld fellow In the toffice department at Washington con- od the idea of changing the name of a amous town in Virginia from Appomattox to ‘Surrender.” It took a great deal of per- suasion and agitation to induce the authori- ties to wipe out the silly name and restore the station to its old wholesome title. The name of the loon who made the change should be made known. The public would like to feel of his bumps. He reminds one of the reverend gentleman in England who changed the words in the bible “And Jesus wept” to “And the Son of God shed scalding T All Have Confidenco in Him. nor Holcomb N 1 admired by has the position \s honest, of doing business, - VG PERSIF. respec s of part has gained conscientious PLEAS AGE, Atchison Globe: There Is no cheerfulness in the world that equals that of an amateur in responding to an encore, Washington Star: “I never believed that abbed had given up smoking until today.* Did he tell you he had?’"*No, but he ve me a very good clgar."” o a Atlanta Consatitutiof are you going with tha overco T8 spend th Life: winter in Florida.” “Is that Miss Flirter? This is Mr. Sophtly. You danced ten times with \ Mashley last night, so vou may conside our engagement broken.' elephone C (in central office): Ring off, pl e, If_a fellow what would you polis Journal Il you an “That depends. If T him. 1f he owed me, him into a good humor Indiana were to ¢ do_about | “Now, ass, owed him I'd lick I would try to get see,” ohserved Mr. his morning paper, effort to put a Chicago Tribune: Chugwater, looking ove “they’re making another tax on bachelors.” “Is that the single tax I've he about?" inquired M B rd 50 much Chugwate Atlanta Journal: ~Rastus, T see you are here again. ‘T belleve vou have been tried and convicted seven times for steal- ing. Rastus—Yes, fedge, it seems to be nuttin” but temptations and trials wid me in dis life. Inquisitive Tommy—Say, nsit? Intelligent Parent— . an ambulance wagon, of Texas Siftings pa, what s sic 't Si¢ transit? Wh, course. Detroit Free Pres Jack—Miserly has been studying it up and he says the sense of touch is dullest on the back, Dick—Touch him for $10 and see if you don’t strike a duller point than that, EASTERN MELANCHOLY. Washington Star. There is only a snowdrift, deep and cold, There Is only a misty gloom O'er the lifelcss Ieaves on the cheerless mold Where the roses used to bloom. There's only a man with his nose aglow: With pick and shovel and broom He chases the slabs of ice and snow Where the roses used to bloom. —_—————— A DREAM. E. D. Plerson In New York Sun, Methought that in a dream mine eyes Beheld the gates of Paradise. There many knocked and were denled The city of the sanctified, Who In"the world had held high place; While others, scorned of men, found grace And entered through the portals wide, With form and features glorified. And one drew near, with head held high, Of manner stern and flashing eye, Who quick had passed within the gate Had not the guardian bade him walt, “What claim hast thou to share the bliss And peace that in this city is?" Questioned the keeper of the keys, Searching that soul's deep mysteries. Calm and serene the answer came: “On earth I earned the highest name As a reformer, ever sure To make the streams of life run pure. Tireless I tofled to make men good, And live as I believed they should. 8in fell before my shining sword, And now I claim my just reward. The seraph shook his shining head: “I dare not let you in,” he sald. “You'd surely find eré half a year That much reform is needed here: Streets bad! Style bad! Yes, you would say “These angels are decolletes; The ancient stars are dim and dead, or sit there, as though she were born to it. Let's hoist electric lights instead.’ " s,lHlNC.IrI/y Q*?tunu uorm:n‘.s’ Your Money’s Worth or Cleaning Up. Now we've begun to cut—eut so everlasting deep that none can withstand us. % Your Money Back Wa've cut som3 of the men’s suits down to $5, some to $7.50; some $25 and *$30 suits cut down to $18. been cut like that, too—A w' sted pants, the $6 and $7 k Overcoats and ulsters have hole lot of black clay wor- ind, cut to $3.75. Three shades of Fedora hats cut down to $1.50—Boy's shirt waists, Wilson Bro's, a lot of value from $1.00 to $1,75, are only 75c. coats for $5 that were $13 59, $3 that were $4, Boy’s $6 ju and $4. Boy’s knee pants, all wool, 5J¢. broken lots ranging in Boy’s over- Boy's 2-piece suits for nior reefer suits ara $3,50 Then theré's that big underwear sale, to which we have added two of the biggest bargains you ever heard of—two cele- brated qualities in the American hosiery underwear — staple as sugar—nobedy ever cut the price before—but you get the $5 grade for $3.67 a suit now, or $1.75 a single garment —the $4 grade, fine ribbad {form fitting is now 3 or $1.50 a suit, Come early and get the best thing you ever got in your life, oM S, E. Cor.15th o NNC.I\'I/y% RELIABLE CLOTHIER s€o nd Douglas,