Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 5, 1895, Page 4

A DALY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —_— — - TERMS OF SUIS( (Without Sun. and Sunday Daily 1 Daily Six Months I Mon(hs Year Year OFFICES, Bullding gor Bk, € Saturday Weekly B Omnha Houth Omal Counctl T Chicag t G New York, Roo 14 and 15, Tribune Washington, 1407 ¥ Street W CORRE Al communica torial matier should BUSINE business lotters o to Drafts payable THE DEB The rner N and 2th Sts, g g to news and edi Adressed: To the LETTERS STATEMENT OF Grorge 1. Tzschuck, 8o 1ahing company the actunl numbe the Dally inted during follows 1ee Pub. sworn, says that the month of January 1 i 313 2 19,348 nd Fotirned ¢ Bworn ence this 24 day of I N Wh will the fty-fourth do without its Breckinridge? congr The e me sumption of the district court ns ' 1l of business for the Dr. Parkhurst is now in a position to fntroduce Chicago municipal wethods into New Yo ife t there » difference with ted, The advice to pa life preservers aboard Mexico n something Guatemala yet de i her litt to be arbit as soon as they steamship still holds good. tion i The per diem compens legislative employes goes whether the legislature hours or for a half hour daily. of it for If foot ball is, Harvard s 1 the floor tives? of the house of Ward McAllister in the r there will b for the most lucrative public office which the government supplies. dex nks of the ngers to locate the step the on, ten s President Bliot of ne not fit for college use, what about its fitness for play on represcnta- 100 for which as many applications as IS THE BILL CONSTITUTIONALY It Is a grave question whether the bill passed by both houses of the legls- lature to authorize counties to raise money by the sale of bonds for the purchase of seed grain and sell the same to needy drouth sufferers is coflstitutional. The constitution of Ne- braska expressly provides that the 1it of the state shall never be given loaned in aid of any individual, association or corporation, and it is also a well established maxim of law that no public anthority can do by In- direction what it is forbidden to do directly. The constitutional provision | was unquestionably intended, and would e g0 interpreted, to safeguard not only the eredit of the state as such, but also the eredit of any division of the that derl its authority from the delegated power of the legislature. he county bond relief bill to which referenc made is with some addi- tions largely a copy of a similar bill weted in 1801, but that does not de tract from the fact that it is substan- tially a loan of public credit to private individuals, Tt author any county, with the assent of a jority of the electors voting at a lection, to issue bonds not exceeding $50,000 nor per cent of its valuation, the proceeds to be invested in seed g and feed for farm animals, which shall be sold to properly aceredited farmers 10 per cent interest 3 1, 180G, The present bill is much less specific than the of 1891, It falls to say at what pri the seed grain and feed shall be dis- posed of, thtre being absolutely noth- ing to prevent the county authoritic from giving them away for a mer nominal return and that upon unse- cured notes. Nor is there any dirce- tion as to the application of the money paid in on the notes to the liquidation of the relief bonds; on the contrary, both interest and principal are to be met from taxation, and as only one- twenticth of the principal may be levied in one year, this taxation must tinue for at least twenty 3 The new feature of the bill is the one that deserves most careful attention. It not only empowers, but makes it the duty of the State Board of Dduea- tional Lands and I'unds to buy all county bonds issued for relief purposes as authorized. The board has no dis- cretion so long as the uninvested state school mone hold out. The danger to be guarded against is this, that aft the school fund has been depleted for the benefit of a few counties in the state, the law will be declared unconsti- tutional and the bonds held as a school investment pronounced worthless and illegal. In that event the farmers of the drouth stricken districts would have the money belonging to the public schools of the whole state, the notes which they had given would be as valueless as blank paper, and a tax would have to Dbe levied upon the whose people of Ne- state o8 m payable con- There are lots of leaks in the city and county finances besides the extrav- agant salary lists that ought to be stopped up. But that is no argument against imwmediate retrenchment in the pay roll. If the legislature don't give the Sol- diers’ and Shilors’ home a liberal appro- priation it will not be beeause the mem- bers of the joint investigating commit- tee were not treated right during their trus misfortune, braska to make up the deficit in the funds which the constitution say. shall forever be kept inviolate. The people will willingly support the legislature in anything that will help the vietims of the their temporary are school fund to them without security or suspend the constitution benefit. over but they the for their .of good government. visit to Grand Island. Those Atlanta pickpockets ought to 1 sufficient galluntry not to ply thelr vocation upon the effects of the have ha delegates to the woman suffy vention, might have been women. - Walt Seely, legislative oil room man, ge con occupies the desk of the senate chaplain ccord It most of the time. This with the eterna) fitnes illustrates forcibly the a Is in of things. ge about the man who donued the livery of heaven to serve the devil iu Is it possible that the New York bank ers contemplate forcing congress to ac for their benefit by compelling the go ernment to suspend gold payment The talk emanating from Wall street 1o the effect that such a suspension ity as is to would not be so great a ¢ usnally imagined certainly tends arouse suspicions of the motive. The bar of Douglas county has ex pressed Itself formally in favor of tak ing the original jurisdiction of the su preme court over falled state away from that court and vesting i in the inferior courts. These cases are for the most part mere ad: ministrative routine which consume the time of the court, which could be much more profitably devoted toward expe- diting the appellate business that s con- stantly accumulating before it Divided among the numerous district courts, on the other hand, these cases would en tail but little of the district judges, and there would still be opportunity for appeal to the supreme’ court from decisions involving really important points, Islature act upon the red of the Douglas county bar tlon of ltigation in the supreme cour will be materially relieved nmendation The compa larger nations of the world w Clews mal people of the United St less burdencd than those of other coun tries is extremely misleading and hardly just to seven of the Luropeu Bovernments, and hence do not pre: for comparison. For example, # the debt of the United States at $1,064, 241,000 omits a great deal of state and city debt which are incurred for pur poses elsewhere provided for by the Again debts frequently whole people, vepresent what are or should be remu nerative investwents. Our Pacitic rail road debt was intended to by Prussian outlay for the acquisition o state railroads comes within this cate- as does also the money pald by gor Great Britain for her postal telegiaph system. The rough Juxtaposition of the bare figures of national debts dues in Justice to every oue, and Is valueless for purposes of argument, But then those pickpockets banks bank dditional work upon any Should the leg- the conges- ison of public debts of the ich Henry in order to show that the s are much The reason is that the figures do not represent the same thing nt o proper basis ting such, The REGARDING A SURPLUS. In his special message to congress President Cleveland said “there Is now in the treasury a comfortable surplus of more than $63,000,000, but it is not .|in gold and therefore does not meet our difficulty.” This statement is some- what misleading, from the fact that this so-called surplus is made up of moneys which the president admits are not available for relieving the embarrass- ments of the treasury and therefore are of little present practical value. It was » | ot quite candid to use the fact that the treasury has an amount of useless or unavailable cash on hand as an ar- gument against legislation to increase - | the revenue of the government, and it (| would have been wiser to have omitted _| any reference to the so-called surplus. pDiscussion regarding it has not im- proved the public impression as to the condition of the treasy but has’ per- haps had the opposite effect. Inquiry inspired by the president’s statement has served to show that the financial department of the government is really worse off than had been generally sup- posed. Everybody understands that what the treasury requires is more revenue—an t| income at least sufficient to balance the outgo. There are the best of reasons - | for the belief that if such were the situation all feeling of distrust would disappear and with it the difficulty which embarrasses the treasury. As was d by Senator Allison a short 1| time since, the all-important matter is 1| that of getting more revenue, but in or- -| der to do this it would be necessary for the party in power to make some con- 1| cesslons to republican policy, and that neither the president nor the democrats g | In congress ave disposed to do. They know that thus far their policy has been 1 (o failure, but they profess to believe that it will yet be a success, though t| they can give no good reason for such faith. When the tariff was enacted the estimates of its supporters promised not only an ample revenue, but a surplus. The country was told that under the new revenue policy the treasury would at once rvealize a sufficient income to "~ | meet all obligations and that as soon !l as the Income tax went Into effect the 1| government would have more revenue than it needed. The actual result, how- ever, is a heavy deficiency, amounting for the seven months of the current fiscal year to over §34,000,000, or close to $5,000,000 a month, The enues 1| for this perlod were greater by about - | $12,000,000 than for the corresponding seven months of the preceding fiscal year, which is an encouraging fact, but - |a large gain must be made before th - | receipts equal expenditures. An addi-* tional income of fully $60,000,000 per f |annum is required by the government, and it is a question whether it can get this under the existing law. Of course ) | there is the revenue that will be de- » | rived from the duty ou sugar and from - | the tax on iucomes, but it is doubtful whether these will yleld the required awouut, at any rate during the prescot year. Tt Is possible to make a tolerably accurate estimate of the revenue to be had from sugar, but there can be no degree of cortainty regarding what the income tax will yield and there is rea gon to believe that the higher estimates | will not be realized. It is mianifest take to claim that there is a “comfortable surplus” while at the same time admitting that it is practically worthless for relieving the treasury, and it s no less a mistake to assert that fhe inadequate revenues of the government hate no cffect in pro- ducing apprelension. It has a very great deal to do with keeping up the feeling of distrust. If congress would at once make provision for increasing the receipts of the government so that they would balance expenditures the i be no doubt it would exert a most wholesome influence in restoring con- | fidence. SCOTT AND THE A, P, A'S, OMAHA, Feb. 4, 1805.—To the of The Bee: In The Bee of Sun- day, February 3, appears what purports to be a copy of a preamble and resolutions unantmously adopted by the American Pro- tective assoclation. As a member of that organization, 1 desire to enter a protest against such a sweeping statoment, as I have never scen nor even heard of such action taken as represented in The Bee. nore, it appears no name or names signed to the document. If certain desire to go on record as endorsing the sentiments expressed, well and good, but they should not make the organization re- sponsible. F. P & P. This emphatic disclaimer is credita ble to the members of the American Protectiv ation. It comes to us from a public officer, whose veracity never been impugned, and whose rec- ord as a union veteran and as a citizen is unassailable. The assertion that the members of the A, P. A. ovder of this city unanimously pronounce Cunning- ham R. Scott to be an exemplary citi- en, a true patriot and a peerless judge is an outrageous libel on the rank and file of that organization. The que whom W this defamatory Idressed to the membe and by what authority w ssued? How could any reputable American citizen who has any self-respect point to Cun- ningham R. Scott as a patriot and model American in face of Scott's record as a skulker from mili- tary duty during the war, when every able-bodied, loyal American was in honor and duty bound to rally to the support of the flag? To commend Scott as the peer of any district judge in the state in administering the law with equal and exact justice in all s and to all persons, when everybody knows that he has scandalized and disgraced the bench by his violent outbursts of an ungovernable temper, his disvegard of individual rights and liberties and his flagrant usurpation of power, is an in- sult to common intelligence and would, if it voiced the sentiment of A. P..A.'s convict that order of being an enemy being Furt were men document of the If we understand the professed car- dinal principles of the order, its object is to inculeate patriotism and loyalty and uphold the free institutions under which we live. Membership in the or- der is not presumed to shield a man from the. consequences of his own acts On the contrary, the true test of it loyalty to free American institutions is its ability to purge itself of men whose conduct proves them unworthy of pub- lic confidence and unfit for positions of honor and trust. There are thousands of upright, re- putable and law-abiding men in the ranks of the A. P. A. and there are scores of scoundrels who have worked thelr way into the order to use It for the promotion of selfish and dishonest ends. This latter class, which is but a small fragment of the mass, have taken it upon themselves to vindicate Judge Scott from his own indefensible record. It now behooves the clean and decent members of the association to repudiate the utterances of the reprobates and po- litical schemers who are trying to impose upon the legislature by pretending that they voice the unanimous sentiment of 8,000 A. P. A. voters, when they do not voice the sentiment of one member out of a hundred. PREPARATIONS FOR 4 BOND ISSUE. The most trustworthy information from Washington is to the effeet that another issue of bonds will be made at once. In his special message to con- gress the president said he was reluc- tant to make another loan, but the situ- ation is such that he appears to have concluded that it Is absolutely necessary to borrow more money to restore the reserve. Very likely this would have been done alveady but for the hope of the presMlent that congress would do something for the relief of the treasury. He must see, however, that there is nothing upon which to base such a hope and that delay will only make the situa- tion worse. The administration finan- cial bill may pass the house and doubt- less will do so if the republicans give it thelr support, as It is sald they prob- ably will do, but there is absolutely no chance of its passing the senate. In the latter body the free silver men are in the majority and they are united in the determination’ that there shall be no financial legislation that does not give the fullest recognition to silve They have declared this unqualifiedly and de- fiantly and there can be no doubt that their purpose will not be shaken. They realize that this is their opportunity and they propose to make the most of it. It is simply a waste of time to attempt to enact into law at this time any such bill as the administration 1 ure, and nobody ought to understand this better than the president, It being assured, therefore, that an- other issue of bonds is the only means by which the treasury gold reserve, now at a lower point by several millions than at any other time since resump- tion, can be restored, it would be a mis- take to longer put off negotiating this loan.~ Under the resumption act the secretary of the treasury can issue 4 per cent thivty-year bonds, and it is thought an issue of that class of bonds will be made. As to whether the government THE_OMATMA DAILY BEE: | with can sell another issue of bonds on as favorable terms as the preceding issues there appears to be some doubt. It is stated that the New York baukers have practically declined to take the new bonds and h elgnors be is also said signified th bonds if th factory. Th e advised that the for- a chance at them. It t forcign bankers have eillingness to take the prms were made satis- is gold enough in the banks of N¢ ek to meet a call for 50,000,000 or n a larger sum, but it seems that they are not disposed to part it. Perhaps they are holding off with the illm't"jm'i'lnl: the government to accept their terms. The last issue of bonds has wot proved so profitable an investment as the banks had counted on and it would ‘&eem to be entirely cer tain that anotlctr lssue cannot be dis- posed of at home on as favorable terms for the goviintient. It appears to be the general impression that a loan ean- not be floated on better terms than would compel the government to pay {at least 8y per cent interest and it is d that many bankers think that the premium offered wounld be no greater than one equivalent to making the in- terest 4 per cent, Of course if American bankers will not take the bonds the government must sell them abroad and it would probably find no difficulty in doing this, But it is a rather humiliating situation for the government to be forced to dicker with foreign bankers in order to get the gold necessary to maintain its credit, espe- clally when it is remembered that there is between £500,000,000 and $600,000,000 of gold in this country entiment, however, must have nothing to do with the question. The treasury gold reserve is depleted more than one-half and it must be restored, regardless of where the government obtains the amount nec- essary to do this, SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER. Mr. John Cupp Lowe makes . very ible defense for the relief commis E in general and Secretary Lud- den in particular, From the tenor of the document we take it that Mr. Lowe's relation to the relief commission is that of an employe and therefore his praise of the methods pursued by the commis- sion must be taken with a grain of al- lowance. Had Mr. Ludden made the explanation it would have had greater welght with the publie in gen- eral and the people who are complain- ing about his ways of doing busine in particular. Mr. Ludden reminds us very much of a man who is deaf in one ear—some- times his hearing is good and some- times he is deaf as a post. Mr. Lud- dne's ear is sensitive touching one class of complaints, but he does not scem to hear or want to hear the other perti- nent inquiries that are constantly made and as constantly ignored. What the peopte who are interested in the relief work ywant to know and in- sist upon kifgwhig is how much in. money, checks, drafts or postal orders has been received by him and the other officers of tha. commission up to this time, and from whom these contribu- tions have befu fecelved. When this information is .mpde public they will want to have veports of receipts from day to day, ,and reports of disburse- ments weekly. | The people also Want to know whether the money ha¥ Been. deposited to- the credit of the velief commission regularly or whether all or any part of it has Dbeen deposited to the credit of any par- ticular person or officer or paid out without-being so deposited. They want to know what amount, if any; has been paid out for supplies and the nature, quantity, quality and price of such supolies, and how much has been paid for transportation, with de- tails as to shipments, rates and desti- nation. Phey want to know what quantity of velief supplies has been received from contributors outside of the state, what these supplies consisted of and when and where they were shipped. There is also a brisk demand for in- formation relating to the purchase of supplies, the nature of the supplies, the prices, quality, destination and firm from which they were purchased. These are legitimate and pertinent queries and if Mr. Ludden wants to rm all criticism and allay suspicion hould take the people into his confi- dence and keep them informed from day to day. For this purpose The Bee will very cheerfully accord him space in itg columns. While demanding retrenchment in all branches of the city and county govern- ment The Bee has no friends to re- ward or enemies to punish. Nor does it desire to make any misleading state- ment concerning any officer or branch of public service. 1n computing the salary list of the register of deeds and making comparison with the salary list of 1888 we find there is a discrepancy that places Register Elsasser in an un- favorable light. The salary list of the register of deeds for 1888 was quoted s averaging $643.33 per month, while the salary list of the pre $7 3. It appears, ter of deedy in 1888 employed a force of copyists who were paid by the folio, and are not wcluded in the regu- lar salary list. This extra clerical force made the average salary account in 1888 foot uprabout §1,200 per month. While the numbef of regular clerks is greater now thad it was then, the clerks formerly employed as copyists have been dispensed with, and all the work s now done by the regular force, It is always a good thing to know when you are, beaten, but the labor leaders who engineer unsuccessful strikes are usthlly altogether too slow in discovering ihelr failure. This was able in thelate Chicago strike, and it is again noticeable in the Brook- Iyn street railiay strike. The Brook- ers unquestionably had just grievances against their employers and were well supported by public sentiment TUBSDAY, FEBRUARY b5, 180 In their efforts to better their condition. They proved too weak to cope with the capitalists, but some of their leaders persist in refusing to declare the war at an end. This only alienates popular sympathy. When a_strike no longer gives the slightest prospect of proving effective the only course remaining is to promptly call it off. The Fate of the Consoerated. Globe Democrat Tt Is & cold and solemn fact that a demo- cratic _president cannot do a creditable thing without having a hose turned on him by his own party. B — Advice Uneatled For. Courfer-Journal. re Is no_apparent reason why Mr. J R. Weaver of lowa should hasten to offer his advice to the American peop! His services were formaily tendered in 18 many will re without thank Th The Cutler bill hats that ladies may wear at places of amusement was favorably reported in the assembly yesterday, Its pass should be followed by the enactment of another blue law regulating the length of the ears of sumptuary legislator The Disaster, Buftalo Express. A coroner's jury at Butte finds the com- panies which are responsible for the awful dynamite explosion guilty of criminal negli- & These corporations are composed of the most influential men in Montana, so it will be interesting to see what the ‘courts will do with this presentment, Montana being corporation-ridden, el Awny with the Cincinnatl Enquir What an absurd thing is the house of representatives! It s a large le at the end of a heavy pole about It is the emblem of the erg , and when s ord nflict with it he has all he If it should be necessary for bhysically interfere he would be The iden that the mace awes any- silly. It ought to be abolished ——— AND THINGS, PEOP. They are piling up ice at Fablus, Mo., as a precaution against another drouth. Such fore- thought deserves the cake. Mark Twain has settled down in Paris, but his heart throbs as loyally as ever for the syndicates of his native land It Mr. Breckinridge persists In giving rein to his temper, his reputation as a seminary troubadour will be seriously undermjned. The American pull tackled the Honoulu city council, and after a brief, spirited contest landed an exclusive street railway franchise. dispatch from Toronto reports the best doctors in the city have “pulled a patient’s leg in vain.” The size of the patient's pile is not given. There is one man at least in New York who favors a continuance of the gold outflow. He carts the metal from shop to ship and pockets $1 for each box. Speaking of official economy, Philadelphia councilmen have the floor. They receive no salaries and yet some of them are known to have made money out of the job, Incidents bob up frequently tending to con- firm tho evolution in woman. A coming woman in Brooklyn fired a stone at a street car during the strike and actually hit it. The Boston Globe is needlessly alarmed respecting the alleged desperate condition of Nebraska people. The “desperate condition” exists mainly in the active imagination of space writers, The will of the late James G. Fair mysteri- ously disappeared from its pigeon-hole, and left no tracks behind. There are more ways than one of paralyzing ‘‘the governor's” inten- tions after he is gone. General Resvy, the senior officer in the Russian artillery, has just celebrated his sev- entieth year of active service. He entered the navy in 1825 under Alexander I, and has served under five czars. His long service is surpassed, however, by that of Admiral Count Heyden, who entered the Russian navy in 1820, During a spasm of bengvolent virtue, the Massachusetts senate bounced the lobby from its sacred presence. Ere the last member of the lobby had disappeared through the main door, the head of the procession marched through a side entrance. Then the august senators, haloed with vindicated virtue, settled down to business. San Franclsco fs engaged in another heroic effort to break the chains of the Southern Pacific_railroad monopoly which fetter the commerce of the city. It is proposed to build n independent railroad to Los Angeles by way of Bakersfleld. Among the subscriptions to the enterprise is one of $700,000 by Claus Spreckles and son, ————— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The dates for the Sarpy county fair have been fixed for September 11, 12 and 13. The Nuckolls County Educational assocla- tion will hold a meeting at Nelson Feb- ruary 9. Herman Schroeder of Sidney was for two vears a fireman on the ill-fated steamer Elbe that went down off Lowestoft last week. Mrs. J. M. Stanton was found dead in bed at her home. It is supposed that she died of heart disease. Her husband was absent in Kansas at the time. The Northwest Nebraska tion has been organized with Dr. Meredith as president. The society will have four meetings each year. A Deshler physiclan is engaged in the task of making a new scalp for Fred Mesloh of that place by the skin grafting process. The scalp was torn from tho young man's head during a runaway accident, A. H. Tunberg, who dicd at Oakland last week, was one of the ploneer settlers of the Logan valley, having been a resident of that section for thirty years. He was a native of Sweden and was 69 years of age. Ex-Chaplain Diffenbacher of the legisla- ture, who was reported to have received a call 'to the pastorate of the Lutheran church at Auburn, is now a Congregational minister at Ulysses, and the Diffenbacher who is golng to Auburn is an entirely different man. The body of Olney Stephens, a young man residing near Stanton, was found by the side of the road near his home and it is supposed that he was frozen to death. There is a mystery surrounding the case, for the body was brutsed and the young man's pants were found half a mile from the body. William Homersham, an old resident of Gage county, called at. the Bank of Odell the other day and asked to see a note that the bank held against him for collection. When jt was shown him he seized the note and tore it Into bits, saying that that settled it. The note was for $250 and the bank will make Homersham settle. ————— THE KENTUC KY 8C Metical associa- APPER, St. Louls Republic: In epite of the verdict of the Pollard jury Colonel Breckinridge still insists that he is not a liar. Our jury system is evidently in need of reform, New York World: Breckinridge's share in the congressional row would have disgraced a man whose former conduct had not rendered him immune to that sort of thing. Minneapolis Times: Mr. Breckinridge ap- pears to have mistaken the house of repre- sentatives for a Kentucky court room, with “Colonel” Phil Thompson on the bench. Cincinnati Commerclal: Breckinridge and Heard, both democrats, fighting in the house; the attorney general and solicitor general at outs, and the latter resigning, this interneci- ary conflict Is getting worse and worse. In the words of the great republican chieftain— “Let us have peace.” Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8, Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE THE TRAGEDY OF THE SEA, Chicago Post: The loss cf the Eibs Is one of those things that unfortunately will happen events unpreventable by human ingenuity it present stage of development. Courler-Journal: The death which follows | the collision of two great vessels at sea has all the horror that suddenncss and inevitable doom can give. Such a tragedy brings home | the uncertainty of 1ife to the most heedless. May we all comprehend it better, and live more in accordance with our knowledge. Chicago Record: The reports of those rescued are necessarily confused, but there is enough of fact, and enough of silence to indicate that the fate of the Elbe is to be another of the great storles of the annals of the sea—stories in which only the bare main facts are ever told. The col fon at sea has come to be recognized as the one lent against which neither seamanship nor ater- tight compartments nor any other marine equipment can afford entire protection. New York World: Of the twenty saved fifteen, it s said, were officers w and pilots mingly irreconcilable with a proj of duty by the offi cers, and almost irresistably suggestive of cowardly desertion in the moment of danger by those whose life and death duty it was to | save passengers, and especlally the women and children. Out of all that company these fifteen seamen who saved themselves managed to rescue only one girl. All the other women and children were left to perish. Springfield Republican: The time will never come, probably, when those dangers will bo materially lessened. But, after all is sald, we are in more danger in traveling on the ‘sea than or land?—or even in so much peril on the water, taking Into reckoning the frequent disasters on the railroads. The greater carrying capacity of the steamers gives us an appalling logs of life, however, when the disaster there does come. Noth- ing_can mitigate the dreadful character of such a tragedy as Thursday brought to shock the entire world, Philadelphia Ledge the wreck of the stean imagination and a ns the mpathy for the drowned passengers and crew and for their relatives and friends who read the news that, in the twinkling of an eye, loved ones have found a grave in the sea; but it also leads to the reflection that there is very seldom such news to record. Voyages by have been rendered remarkably safe within recent years. Scores upon scores of steam- ships cross the Atlantic weekly, yet there Is seldom an accident or los lite. It is true that in a period of fifty years nearly 100 steamships have becen lost, but there is a very small proportion, when voyages, not | b ships, are considere Statisticians have | and figured up a loss of loss than 6,000 lives b reck In the Atlantic service in fifty though that number is great, it small, for as many are sometimes | rried safely into New York in a single day. The loss of life is made impressive chiefly because it was concentrated, a single shipwreck carrying down hundreds of men and women though the dangers attend- ing sea voyages ought to be recognized, the relative Immunity of voyages from danger should not be forgotton. — - SHORT AND TO THE POINT. in ve nve for A great disa ship Elbe ter irs like the fe th th Mr. elphia Record: When a man Is in- that he is the father of twins, he is v filled with ap-parent dismay. , you let Mr. Clinker kiss you How did you know?" asked me today if I would forgive an — inve Buffalo Courier: Blinks (medit What a greedy world this is; the Jority of people alway: up (sadly)—Yes; and || L) too. Indianapolis Journg “I'll put your name | in thi biography of eminent men of Boom county,"” said the solicltor, *“for $25, with portrait included.” “Who the dickens would read it?" asked the prominent citizen. OMAHA, Bee golng state relief o kind sack! same each por total of about appropriated for the entire state. county destitute family And because uries they make Rome howl, and it has just begun to dawn on the investigating commit- tee from the legislatu nee between the need And the outcome of all this hubbub Is that ublic is led to belie eln| Mr. the blame, shipped alinost every day demanding \kfulness are rece When a the various donors have countic donation, donation’ was raised especially for them, then Ludden is arraigned in words not to be mistaken not get that car. ilways ono car can the present This Is the reward that is in story for the man who has worked since last August with- out p fast with his family cept on Sunday; who slts down at’ his desk at 5 o'clock In dictating letters and almost continual tigators; who sits at o'clock at night, and often later; who preaches | two sermons on Sunday shoulders feeding, clothing and keeping in fuel 30,000 | destitute people. And yet the people will howl through the press and other ways-that people are being sadly The Sunday Bee from St. South Omaha, containing an undercurrent of STATE RELIEF WORK. Feb, 4. From out To the great regarding the imission the Rditor of The cry that has been ineffic.ency of the the casual observer would conclude that the commission was coms posed of the m on earth, such a crew should have in charge the pilot= ing of 40,000 souls through ity them that no one Is starving or freezing to death clamor arises from what man wants And what he needs, is not &0 far advanced but anything of value fs given away gratis the bigg: can censure no man for it, for the fault lles with | work 1t 1s natural for ¢ \l.v can from his precinct committee | think at flowing freely, net county central committee, and for the county | committee to get all it can from tho commis- sfon, and thus a continual wail goe unto that When the fi counties the commission igate, country “man’ seven anest and it & nd most heartless men 'ms to them awful that this sea of ad- To ease their minds and to assure permit me to say the that all difference of this between Man- that when t man generally gets the boodle. Wo no one but Adam. In this charity man to get all , for they the fountain head the supplies are and it Is natural for the pre- mmittee to get all it can from the ory up like To prove this: came, before the all well organized, some of went out into the state to and while driving across the they found one good exampla of inhumanity to man” in the shape of sacks of donated flour In heard by Dante. great rush were, one house. Again, among the reports of the counties of what county as 1,000 they need I find the following: One s for one sack of flour a week each familios for twenty weeks, 20,000 at wholesale. about $9,000, and the county asks for §$1 worth of meat K for twenty weeks, making a $20,000, over half of what was Another 800 pounds of flour for each with trimmings to suit. ¥ do not get all of these lux- wants > that there Is a dif- demands made and ‘the at nothing is relieve the drouth sufferers, Ludden, the sccretary, gets all® of when' in fact supplies are being nto the countios letters of cheer and d in every mall. bipped from the cast, and friends in say five and the friends are notified of the and the five counties claim the done to aid, and is De of the ise four counties did The wishes of the donors carried out when possible, but not go into six counties under state of circumstances. who foregoes the luxury of a break- in fact, any meal, ex- the morning; who sits all day patiently listening to stream of callers and his desk until 11 and who has upon the grave responsibility of neglected. One of these was one In Martin's rectory, “You will. Ever: Rockland Tribun Well, you're a sight, exclaimed the bystanders as the man into the mortar bed. o the man_s New York Weekly old.In that cuse ¥ the public some valy tainment of long life. is only wan. So much the b ter. What is i ‘G Set born in Oirland.” Boston Tran: Aunt Susan my engagemen don’t know whether I can trust her’ I don't want it to got out just yet. TAust her? Of course you can't. You kno she makes no secret of her age, and but woman who will tell her age will tell any- thing. THE KISS I STOLE. Boston Courler. I never forgot that kiss T stole, When I caught her unaware: How could I help it, she looked so swaet, As she fluttered down the stairs, I never forgot that kiss I itole, How could I forget it when It cost me a thousand in the courts; An left me the saddest of men? — - TWO VIEWS OF IT. Somerville Journal, The snowflakes sifted softly down, The ground grew swiftly white; One sweet girl clasped her hands Delighted at the “Winter has really come at last,” In ecstasy she cried. “Fomorrow Charlle in Will take me out to Her brother also saw the snow, And sighed (too tired to talk “Tomorrow I shall break my A-shoveling off the walk.” id, sorrowfully, as he scraped himself off with a chip; “sub-lime."” Interviewer—I under- stand, Mr. Murphy, ‘that you are 100 years cin no doubt’ give ble rules for the at- Mr. Murphy—Ther Kate—I want to tell not. Edith— sarcasm that was a treat to the individual reading it who had a grievance and had not yet had an opportunity of stepping on the Secretary’s neck and giving his heel a twist. 1t is true that tho gentleman did contribute $17.50 to be invested in flour. It Is also true, T find, In looking over the files in the office of the commission, that the order was placed as soon as his letter was opened, to- gether with spveral similar orders, with C. C. White of Crete, Neb., and that free trans- portation was arranged for the same. The order miscarried, and it was not until Mr, Ludden heard from some parties in the west 1[did he know that the order had not gone forward, and about this time the order | turned up in the pocket of another White in "} | Crete, who had neglected to turn it over to the proper party. As soon as the delay was learned the shipment was telegraphed for, and it went forward last week. Mr. Ludden is business man enough to know that when a man pays for anything he likes to know what ho is getting, and I presume that Is why the gentleman was told what kind of flour was purchased. And as the worthy man from St. Martin's is so good {n his logio and so definite in his conclusions in his query to The Bee, I beg leave to ask if the im- petuosity of the worthy man from St. Mar~ tin'’s rectory is so great that it rings fifty- five lines of cold sarcasm from his over- flowing heart, directed at the commission, how many lines of humble apology should he write to his wortky senior, who, I venture, has done more fo alleviate' the sufferings of unfortunate humanity within the last few months than has the aforesaid gentleman in all the days of his young carecer? JOHN CUPP LOWE. it s Stand and Deliver, Loulsville Courfer-Journal Outside of congress the refusal to permit needed leglslation unless “something b done for silver” would be called the worst kind of blackmail. i . = Going Up Higher- Everybody agrees on that-—we're getting higher and higher every year™ on the qual- ity-—of our clothing—Good dressers don't buy where it is handiest—but they pick out a high quality—low price—house like ours—and stick to it—seven fifty for a suit or an over- coat don’t amount to much—but you geta that—there are $10—§12 mighty nice article of us for $15 overcoats and suits—the qualities no better—but th: trimmings, linings, etc, on ours are better, of course, used to get lots more for them, —$3.00—$3,50 with boys’ We Boys' suits, §2—$2.50 ulsters at g5 and $6—Such than the $7.50 goods, prices as these for our high grade goods are outside the We pale of competition. not only make the best qual- ity—but we also make the best prices. BROWNING, Reliable Clothiers, S, KING & CO., W Cor. 15th and Douglas,