Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ¥, ROSEWATER, Bditor. e ING. OF SUBSCRIPTION. day), One yoar. One’ Year PUBLISHED EVERY 1OR TERMS Dally Bee (Withor Pally Tes and Su Bix Mont Three 31 turday iy The OFFIC The Bes Building. inger Blk,, C 12 Pearl Stre Omaha South Omaha Councll 1y Chicago Office, 317 Chamb: Now York. Rooms 13, 14 and 15, 7 Washington, 1407 I &trect, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE. mmi nfeations relating to news and edl- 14 be addresged: To the Bditor, SINESS LETTER \nd remiitances should be Tiee Publishing checks and_postoflice 10 the order of the company 3 PUBLISHING COMPANY mmerce, ibune 11dg. All © torial matter she All b addre Omiha, Drafts, pavabl THE 1 NT OF CIRCT retary of The Tice Pub. belng duly sworn, says that mbicr of full to coples of the Dally Morning, Bv Sanday Dee printed during the m was a8 follows i Less stal Datly *Sunday GEORGE . TZSCHUCH Bworn to hefore me and subscribed in my pr ence this 21 day of I' 15 (Seal.) One more day and Major Clar will bear the proud prefix of ex. Mr. George Gould will give the bride away. together with various other valu- able little perqui The price at which the new bonds are selling does not indicate a vel near approach of national hankruptey. The number of bills introduced is hardly an accurate index of the busi- ness eapa of a legislative body. A great many now making arduous duty life. congressmen are just preparations for the of returning to private The claim for payment of the hounty earned on last year's sugar crop is ad- mittedly a just one. The president will have 1o ground to withhold his ap- .proval of it. It is to be presumed that the long promised retrenchment vesolution will make its appearance in the city council at least in time for next year's munici- pal expenditures. Will the American members of the bond syndicate remember to include their profits on the bond deal when they come to hand in their income tax re- turns for next year? When senatorial courtesy goes so far a8 purchasing a front yard for one of the senators at the government ex- pense courtesy ought to be rechristened with the name of charity. The continuance of the colored fire company will depend on the efficienc of the service rendered by the first ap- pointees. The new colored fire fighters will, therefore, be on their mettle for some time to come. The official opinion of the so-called federal timber inspectors as expressed by several senators on the floor of the United States senate seems to copre- spond pretty well with the prevailing conception of a number of local officers hereabouts. The reasons which actuated the United States senate in its decisive vote to restore the sugar bounty obtain in proportionate degree to the question now before the Nebraska legislature. The object is to encourage and protect home industry, Wouldn't the state have a nice collec- tion of unenforceable judgments if it tried successfully to recover from the state treasurers of the past all the in- terest money which they have enjoyed from the loan of state moneys and con- verted to the use of themselves and thelr friends? The legislature is trying to tempt the governor with the bait of house rent at the state expense, but it is-extremely doubtful whether the fish will bite. It would hardly be safe, however, to re- verse conditions and let the governor tempt the legislature with anything that would come free. Both houses of the legislature seem to have gotten over the idea that a sort of sanctity envelops the reports of the standing committees. The way In which committee advice is rejected and bills reported adversely placed on the general file must have a telling effect in dispelling notions that what a committee says always go The dispersing railvoad lobbyists at Washington are said to be disheartened and disgusted at the waste of so much of thelr time, energy and money in fruitless efforts to pass the pooling bill, Some of them are even reported to ex- press themselves as of the convietion that lobbying does not pay. But they will keep right at it and be found at their posts the next time they think a favorable opportunity has appeared. Omaba must have a warket Louse and assembly hall. Left to the voters of this city, the obstacle now in the way of its attainment would soon be brushed away. But the legislature cannot un- derstand our local conditions and hence does not appreciate the importance of a market house and auditorium to the People of this city. We call attention to “the fact that the voters of Omaba have authorized the Issuance of bonds for _the construction of u market house. It 48 the sense of our people that a market house Is necded. All they ask of the legislature s that the lmit of indebted- Dess may be somewhat extended in or- der that the bonds way be sold advan- TilE UPRISING IN CUBA. Bvery insurrcctionary wuprising In Cuba, and there have been nany, has at the outset threatencd to be formid- able, but only one or two of them have proved to be go. The present revolu- tionary movement has an aepect of serfousness, it the report of the prepar- ations that have been made for it is correct. According to the dispatches the insurrectionary organization is more general and complete than ever before, and better provision has been made for carrying on the revolt than in pre- vious cfforts to free the island from Spanish domination. It has long heen known that the revolutionary spirits were not idle. Tor several years there have from time to time been reports that a sclieme to give Cuba inde pendence was about matured, and once or twice within the last three or four years the federal authorities have felt lled upon to closely watch the or- ganizers and leaders of the movement domiciled in the United 8 or course the Spanigsh government has been aware of all this and has not been inactive. Tt has had its spies in this country and in Cuba and it has made ample preparations for the apprehended uprising. A considerable army of well trained Spanish soldiers is in the istand distributed at steategic points, while gunboats are at hand to do such serviee as may be required of them in pre venting the landing of men and muni- tions of war by the insurgents. The practice of the Spanish authorities in Cuba in fhe past has been to deal vig- orously with insurgents, and they will doubtless pursue this policy now. Indeed; the news is that everything is ready for the repression of revolt; still if the revolutionists are well pre- vared as represented this will not be the work and there may be considerable hed before the up- rising is put down. The failure of this revolutionary move ment can safely be predicted. Tt may be absolutely abortive. But if it should prove to be really serfons and formidable it might have the effeet to convinee the Spanish government that it must radically modify its policy to- ward Cuba or sooner or later lose that possession. The f{reatment of the Cuban people by Spain has been neither just nor generons. They have always been heavily taxed for the support of the hom overnment and they have been subjected to a despotic military rule out of harmony with the spivit of the age and intolerable to a people in close proximity to free institutions. In conseauence of these conditions Cuba is far behind in the attributes of civ- ilization and is making slower progress than perhaps any other civilized com- munity on earth, certainly slower than any in this hemisphere. A large pro- portion of her people, possibly a ma- Jority of them, keenly feel this state of affairs and desire to be relieved from it. They believe that if they could throw off the repressive power of Spain and institute self-government Cuba would advance rapidly in civiliza- tion and prosperity and become one of the choicest spots in the world for the habitation of man. A great many of the people of the United States most heartily sympathize with this feeling, and so far as senti- ment goes the revoluffonists will not lack encouragement from this coun- try. But beyond this they can ex- pect nothing. It is said that the out- break in Cuba was hatched in New York, and this is very probable, but in any event it will be the duty of our government, regardless of the popular sentiment, to use its authority to pre- vent any active assistance being given the Cuban insurgents from the people of this country. That they will re- ceive material aid from the United States, if the movement shall amount to anything more than a threat, ther can be no doubt, but it will be given in violation of law and at the risk of in- curring heavy penalties, The ind pendence of Cuba is doubtless still re mote, but the spirit is there and it will in time prevail. —_— ANOTHER LIFT FOR BIMETALLISM, The nction of the British House of Commons in adopting without division the resolution urging upon the govern- ment the desirability of co-operating with other mations in an international congress to consider what measures can be taken to mitigate the eyils resulting from the fluctuations and growing di- vergence in the relative value of gold and silver was unexpected. The well known hostility of the present govern- ment to bimetallism warranted the be- lief that the resolution, notwithstand- ing the fact that it does not commit the government to a change of financial policy, wounld be rejected, for it is an acknowledgement that serious evils re- sult from the present conditions regard- ing gold and silver, which it was r sonable to assume the government would not be willing to make 'he re- marks of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, chancellor of the exchequer, in the reso- Iution, while asserting a determination to firmly adhere to the existing finan- cial policy of England, plainly indicate that the growing public sentiment in Great Britain favorable to bimetallism las not failed to make some impres- sion upon the winist It has had the effect, at least, of drawing out the con- fession that there arve evils due to the divergence in the relative value of gold and silver, which is more than has be- fore been acknowledged by the present government or by its predeces: This is certainly a point gained and one which good use can be made of in pro- moting the septiment favorable to bi- metallism not only in Great Britain, but throughout Burope. The fact that England will participate at all in a monetary conference will will be regarded as encouraging by the advocates of an international agree- ment regarding silver, because it rven- ders more probable the holding of such a conference. It is questionable whether the German government would take the initiative in asking the nations o ent upon another discussion of silver without the assurance that Eng land would be represented, but having the assurance It is to be expeeted that WGerwany will now take prowpt action oS, for convening an International mone- tary congress. France is ready to re. spond to an invitation, as are other pean countries interested in the question, and of course the United States would be represented in the con- gress. Thug there is most favorable promise of having this subject, the commanding tmportance of which was never more fully realized than now, again pre- sented to serious and earnest interna- tional consideration, with perhaps a more general and sincere desive to find a solution of the perplexing problem than ever before. The declaration as to what the attitude of the British rep- resentatives will be, in ease a confer- ence is held, need not discourage the hope of something being ac for the use of silve worlils curren 1t is not to be ex peeted that any radieal change can be Drought about at this time or in the near future in the monetary system of any country which would participate in the proposed congress, but action for the increased use of silver is possible without this and the chances of attain- ing it cortainly seem brighter now than at the time of the last international conference. AS 10 THE LABOR COMMISSIONERSHID The louse ways and means commit- tee has omitted to make in the appro- priations which it has recommended any provision for maintaining the office of deputy labor commissioner. This action, if ratified and unaccom- panied with any other legislation on the stibject, must tend to create the im- pression that the republican members of the legislature want merely to wreak partisan spite upon the newly appointed deputy labor commissioner. The repub- liean majority will appear to be cutting off the salary of a particular officer on the ground that his servie are not needed by the st but at the same time retaining the office for the reward of some political worker of thelr own faith so soon as their party shall have regained the governorship, It the legislature wants to economize the expenses of the labor commissioner- ship it should abolish the office by re- pealing the law that established it. fovernor Crounse was not afraid to ommend such a step. In his message to the legislature he states plainly that the bureau of labor ' and industrial statisties has proved a failure, never having attained the object for which it was established. He gives two reasons for this: First, the appropriations have never been sufficient to enable the com- missioner to carry out the intent of the law; and second, workingmen have re- fused or failed to co-operate with the efforts of the bureau. The work of the bureau can be rendered effective only by increasing the appropriation and by amending the law so as to extend its Jjurisdietion to all such statisties of the state as might be useful in answering questions of people seeking homes or investments in Nebraska. Governor Crounse is emphatically of the opinion that unless the legislature makes the office something more than “a mere political salary paying place” it should abolish it forthwith. Withholding an appropriation while preserving the office intact will look al- together too much like petty political spite work. The people who elected a populist governor were well aware that most of his appointees would be popu- lists. Partisan manipulation of the ap- propriation bills must react upon the r publican party. CALL A HALT AT ONCE, In spite of the adverse criticism called forth by a similar occurrence about year ago, the principal and teachers of one of the public schools in this city are arranging for giving another mus cal entertninment in a public school building, to which an admission fee is to be charged. This is a perversion of the purposes of the public schools which ought not to be tolerated by the Board of Education. Aside from the questionable right of the school author- ities to bar the gencral public from being present at exercises in the schools the whole thing has a demoralizing ten- dency. The objects to which the proceeds are to be devoted may be commend- able, hut they will not justify the pro- motion of wholesale beggary by the school children. The entertainment to which we refer as now in preparation Is a particu- larly flagrant abuse, because its par- ticipants are almost all professionals who have been solicited to give their services fi Proceeding upon the principle that while begging it is just as well to ask for a little more as a little less, tickets are being sold at the price of 50 cents, whereas at all pre- vious entertainments of this kind but a fraction of that price nas been asked. That, however, is the smallest part of the complaint. These tickets have been placed in the hands of the school chil- dren for sale among their friends, and they have been promised 50 cents for every six tickets sold. Is this what the people are sending their cbildren to the public schools for? Are the teachers engaged to instruct pupils in the art of begging? Are the principals pald to devise money-making schemes in the way of musical entertainments? Is it not about time for the Board of Educa- tion to call a halt on all future projects of this kind? If pianos and pictures and other furniture are really neces- to the schools let the sehool board devise the ways and means of procur- ing them, The teachers have enough to do to perform their own work sat- isfactorily e, That much talked of manifesto of the free silver democratic members of con- gress is already taking shape and may Dbe expected to be launched upon a long suffering public shortly after the ad- Journment of congress, if not before. All the democratic congressmen and senators who are known to favor free coinage of silver are to be asked sign it. The republican free silverites are, of course, not good enough to slgn it, and the populists, although all arve comumitted to free coinage, are to be ad- mitted only on condition of subseribing to the democratic faith. No self-respect- ing populist will sign any wanifesto on such conditions. The populists, who are to told that fiey Are ignored because they are upw-lq-?' enter the democratic fold as sodn 'fls the party makes a declaration_in_favor of free silver coin- age, have Just as much right to insist on the free sior democrats coming over to populism, becamse the populists are al- ready committed to their pet policy. The course purgued in this matter is not likely to crédafe many converts to de- mocracy. he enstern, states, already pretty well planted with depots for the recep- tion of coptrihutions to the Nebraska drouth suffere are threatened with an ever inereasing number of peripatetic solicitors of money donations. The danger of course, that a worthy cause m become the seed of im- postors and frauds secking personal vrofit out of the relief business. 1t is impossible for the people of Nebraska to control all these self-appointed so- licitors. Al they can do is to warn the people of the east against deception and admonish them to exercise every rensonable preeaution as to the parties to whom they entrust their offerings for the drouth sufferers, If the char- itable contributors will follow the di totes of common sense and make sure that they are not being imposed upon by pretenders they will use the most offectual clieck upon masqueraders under the cloak of charity. is, There seems to be a disposition upon the part of state senators to deny the people of this city the privilege of mak- ing their charter by ratification at the polls,. We are not informed as to the source of the opposition to the pro- posed constitutional amendment on this subject. The matter, however, is en- titled to serious consideration. The ex perience of San Francisco, for instance, has fully demonstrated the wisdom of such a provision. That eity is just now considering the adoption of Amendments to its charter or municipal constitution which was ratified by its people some ) Under that charter the debt of the city was reduced to less than half million dollars and the tax rate is to- less than 2 per cent, Local self- government may for a time be deferred, but it must inevitably become the set- tled policy of western cities. U8 ago. The house ways and means commit- tee has done one thing that entitles its name to immortality. It has cut off the pay of two of the three secretaries of the State Bogrd of Transportation, Pigs may yet grow from thistles! A Clesr Conscience. 8. Louis Republie. Governor Boiesof Iowa can lay his hand on his heart and say, before God, his con- sclence s clear. financial plah has not been adooted, A Combination, Sioux City Tribune. Jorty Simpson prophesies that the next populist ticket will be headed by Senator Allen of Nebraska, and talled by Tom Watson of Georgia. Qv e SR A The Millenpium Approaching. Brooklyn Eagle. When the legislature of Texas unseats a white demdcrat and gives the place to a colored republican, as occurred the other day, it may be tryly said that the Goddess of “Liberty” isrentitled to_ wear blopmers. e The Monegtury Conference. Globe-Democrat. The country needs to be creditably repre- sented In the coming international mon tary conference if one is to take plac This consideration makes Senator Wolcott's proposition for a_commission to look after our interests in the projected assemblage very timely. g Strange Things Nortn Carolina. Kansas City Star, Senator Ransom's desire to g0 to Mexico was greatly stimulated by the intelligence that the legislature of his state, North Carolina, had adjourned out of respect to the memory of Frederick Douglass, an honor it had withheld both from Washing- ton and Lee. The particular claim Mr Douglass had on North Carolina was neither of birth nor of residence, but the resolution was offered by a negro, and the fusion majority was afraid to vote it down. It was an unusual motion adopted under unusual circumstances, but nobody pretends to claim that it was carried in sincerity, A s —— rice for Protection. Chicago Herald. If the syndicate which bought the last lot of gold bonds has entered into a stipu- lation to protect the treasury from gold raids in the future, until the revenues shall keep up the reserve, it wds a most impor- tant condition of thie contract, and worth far more than the difference’in interes The syndicate can furnish this protection by simply holding under control the market for forelgn exchange. If the transaction is of this nature, not only was the govern- ment furnished with the gold that it needed, but it will not be compelled to make any more loans. This is worth much more than a premium of $1,000,000 or $, 000,000 on the bonds. R £ Bpectacle. Chicago Record, The action of the receivers of the Whisky trust in entering into an agreement with other distillers to regulate the price of Droducts and assume a virtual monopoly of the market, requires explanation. Under the law these receivers, appointed by federal court, are officers of the court. They are authorized to take charge of the business in the interests of honesty and to conduct It on business principles, with a view to the payment of just debts, and, if possible, the successful re-establishment of ‘the business on a #ound footing. But the public has a right to know upon what construction of law these recelvers are empowered 1o go outside this duty to or- ganize o combination which, however pro itable it may be, 15 in_open deflance of the law ur‘:\in.sl trusts. The receivers are act- ing with the authority of the United States courts, and the public is confronted by amazing spectacle of these receivers in active participation in a performance de- clared by the statutes to be lawless, e — Extending Irrigation, Daver Nows. Trrigation 1s to become a part of the agricultural systshs of Kansas and Ne- braska. The legisitures of both states have recognized the fact that in their west- ern portions—west.of the 100th meridian at least—farming without irrigation is practi- cally impossible. Jiven the residents of these sections ' have been a long tin coming to this tonclusion, but repeated crop failures ond U impending starvation have driven them to it. Alrcady in the western portions of both states many sugeessful atiempts at irriga- tion have b made, and many miles of irr! ting ditel 15t. But the necessity of irri y and’ lts regulation has never been recbgniz until the present time. The Nebraska, stpte senate has just passed and sent Lo, the house an irrigation bill modeled after’ the California system, and which will' dndoubtedly be enacted into a law. The Kahsas senite has passed a Dill with $10,60 appropriation, providing for & commission and a preliminary sur- vev. In the Kynsay houss fs pendink 'a bill apropriating” 0000, Under whoso torms the governor is empowered to appoint a commission _of three competent men al sularies of §1,0.0 per annum to Investigate the overflow and irrigable capacity of the western plains; Lo cstablish some twenty experiment statlons for the purpose, and to use the upsold public school lands of the state on which to conduct the experiments. This latter bill appears to meet with more favor, as being more liberal in provisions and calculated to more speedily arrive at practical result The plains country, that portion between the line of actual rainfall on the east along the bai on the west, 5 e by law d in cither state Iying and sufficlent and the irrigated area of the Rocky mountaing an never be sucoessfully claimed and calt'vated without irrigatic The people thereof and two states especially interested hav n a Iul\fi time n arriving at this conclusion, but having one o, and having secured state aid ard the 1e ogn.t'on of the law, a new ra of development may at once bs ex- pected to assert iself, and prosperous coin- munities take the place of a dependent and half starved peo) | aro OREGON'S NEW SENATOR. Globe-Democrat :Oregon may not have elected a great statesman to the senate, but she has at least put an end to a protracted and tiresome contest, and her example should be followed by Delawars. Denver Republican: Senator Dolph of Oregon has shared the fate of every other western member of congross who voted with the cuckoos for repeal in 1893, and we are very glad ot it. The goldites must go! Denver News: Scnator MeBride of Ore- gon declines to express himself on the financial question. No one knows whether he lacks the courage of his convictions or the convictions themselves, but he is not a siiver man, or he would not be afraid to speak out. St. Louls Republic: Senator Dolph of Ore- gon has discovered that if a man is a gold monemetallist he ought to run for the senate in a gold monometallist country. There is climate in politics as in everything else. The Atlantic and not the Pacific slope is Dolph's proper habitat, Minneapolis Journal: ~ The new senator from Oregon, Mr. McBride, declines to state his position on silver. He, doubtless, is of the opinion that the reecnt indications of public sentiment on the financial question by no means favorable to the silver standard. Senator Dolph was defeated be- cause he inclined too strongly to sound money. J—— - NEW YORK AND THE FLAG. Indlanapolis Journal: Now that New York bas declared that no forelgn flag shall here- after be displayed from a public building, Indiana cities should not permit them to be displayed in school rooms. Philadelphia Record: The anti-foreign flag bill Just signed by Governor Morton will put an end to jangling on this subject in New York, and the enactment is £o sound in principle that it would be just as right for Hawaii as for New York, Philadelphia Ledger: The anti-foreign flag bill passed by the New York legislature has become a_law by the signature of Governor Morton. That he signed it on Washingtor birthday affords additional gratification to, those who have hitherto protested in vaih against the flying of anything else than the stars and stripes over the public buildings in the Empire state. Chicago Inter Ocean: Governor Morton on Washington's birthday signed the bill pro- hibiting the hoisting of any flag but the American flag over public buildings in New York. It was a good day for such an act, and since such noted ns of Ireland as Hon. Patrick Egan and Senator O'Connor commend it, there ought to be no more trouble about what flag shall wave over New York every day in the year. Chicago Herald: There is no need placing upon our statute books a law like that found necesssary to stop petty conten- tions in New York. ~Those contentions were made wholly by vicious politicians and never represented the intclligence of the people in whose name they were unworthily perpe- trated. Chicago, with ler great commixture of mearly all races known to history, wants 1o flag but one on her public buildings. That flag is the stars and stripes. Philadclphia Press: It is no discourtesy to the people of any nationality to refuse to fly the flag of their native country from the public buildings in this country. They can carry that flag wherever else they please, but ‘they cannct be unreasonable enongh as American citizens themselves to want to see the American flag excluded from iis proper place to give precedence to the flag of some other country. Every one fit to be an American citizen, whether by birth or adoption, will agree that the only flag for official use in this country is the stars and stripes, and it is gratifying that this long time disturbance in New York City has been ended in this decisive and patriotic manner, and that no matter what sort of mayor thero may be in-the {uture the city hall will display but one flag—the flag of the great country in which we live. o PEOP!'E AND THINGS. of 1t is presumed that General Bragg continues to love Cleveland for the ministers he has made. It should mot be forgotten that France has not erected a barrier against American heireszes. Regarding the timely drenching of the parched plains, it is safe to predict the New York Sun will not charge it up to the ad- ministration. Positions have been applied for since the strike on the Brooklyn Heights street railway by 1,005 motormen and 937 conductors. Only about 200 of the old men have thus far been taken back. 5 One of Brigham Young's daughters ad- vises all girls to remain single. Had Miss Young suggested that plan a few years ago the paternal slipper would have echoed through the corridors of the endowment house. Henrl Rochefort is said to have made a fortune during his exile as a dealer In works of art. He used to get $6,000 a year as editor of Figaro, and has probably come to the con- clusion that riches are better than revolu- tion. The appointment of John W. Showalter to the federal district bench in Chicago con- vinees the Times that a republican pull s all- powerful with the administration. Under the circumstances, it 15 not surprising that the appointment ranks A 1. William C. Murphy, who died in Philadel- phia last Wednesduy, in his 85th year, was a hero of the war of Texan independence, He was one of the eighty-five Texans who cap- tured the Alamo, and one of the only eight who escaped from the fort alive, The meek and lowly and much-derided banana peel, oft regarded as a vehicle of heated terms, shows a sentimental side that deserves encouragement. A Chicago girl tumbled on a peel the other day. A gallant assisted her home and helped to soothe the aches of a bruised arm. Now, cards for the wedding are out. Miss Beatrice Richardson, bridesmaids selectzd by Miss Anna Gould, is a Davenport, Ia., young lady, daughter of A Frank Richardson, business agent of The Bee in New York City. Miss Gould and Miss Richerdson are deseribed as having been “chummy” at school, and made a pledge to each other several yeirs ago one part cf which is now being fulfilled, Statistics from the office of the comptrolier of the currency show that for the year ending October 31, 1894, twenty-one natioual banks were placed in the hauds of reccivers, Re- ports from cther reliable sources plice the number of state, savings and private banks and trugt mortgage companies which went into liguidation at sixty-five, -making a total of elghty-six financial wrecks credited to last year's depression. A medal of honor has been awarded to Sergeant Motes A, Luce of the Fourth Michigan infantry for conspicuous gallantry in action on the 10th of May, 1864, al Laurel Hill, Va., in the rescue of a comrade, Ser- geant A.' B. La Fleur, who had been shot in a discharge of grape by the enemy and fell on tha line of the confederate troops, when Sergoant Luce went out from his own line and brought Sergeant La Fleur on his back to a safe distance, stanched the bleeding and saved the life of a comrade, Mr. Luce is now Judge Luce of San Dicgo, Cal, New York courts are very strict matter of jury duty, and very few excuses ere accepted by the judge. But one was prasented to Judge Lawrence of the supreme court last week which not only staggered the dignity of the bench, but threw a few shades of color into the carved cheeks of the ban- daged godd: The cxcuse was deliverad orally. *“Your honor,” said the summoned citizen, “I sat on a box of matches the other day, and the matches took fire. It is abso- lutely impossible for me to sit on a jury or on anything else, no matter how tir‘d I am.” The court granted the demurrer without argument and the aficted softly ambled out into the fog. one of the feur in the e e — Be Not Alarmed, Democrats. Cincinnatl Enquirer (dem.) do not see why a democratic senator or representative should fret over the po bility of an_extra session of the Fifty congress. The quiet threat occasionally de. d that the new crop of legislators will ed together about the 15th of March, 10 have L obody but republic The demo. crats have had a president long enough, and ought to be glad to turn him over Lo their political enemies. For the new congress to ve compelled to deal with —questions of finance would put the republican purty pre- maturely on the rack. It would precipitate decistons that are now intended to be made only after careful deliberation. It would deprive the republican leaders of the benefit of the “drift.” It would make them respon- later, ou; sible, Let (he extra session come, Who's afrald? e ————— AN EPISCOPAL INNOVATION Bishop Fallows Sets up a Rival to the Saloon in Ohicago, BENEDICTION AND A FREE LUNCH Grand Opening & Record Breaker for Mild Mooze and Great Crowds— A Pen Picture of “the Howme Salon.” The question of diminishing the power of the saloon and increasing the attractions of the church has agitated ministers of the ad vanced order for many years. Dr. Ra forth of New York turned the problem over in his mind and evolved a plan which startled the staid deacons and shocked the occupants of the front pows. “The saloons,” exclaimed the practical minister, “are open soven days in the week; the churches one day. The saloons are attractive, checrful wide open; the churches, coldly formal, un- sympathetie and unbending. Why not bor- row the plumes of the saloon and set up rival establishments without the evils” He proposed to put billiard tables in the bose- ments of churches, construct bars, drinks set up the festive free and by other means compete with the dispense temperance lunch, saloon. Tho revolutionary church scheme was rid fculed at first, then serlously weighed, and finally put in operation in moderation, as an annex to the doctor's church, But it re- mained for Chicago to develop the doctor's ideas in every detail, and the result is “The Home Saloon,” thrown open for business and pleasure on last Thursday. Tho “saloon,” as it is called, 1s the out- growth cf Bishop Fallows' purse and brains, and is located at 155 Washington street, The grand opening was a great day for the bishop and his establishment. The Tribune esti mates that 2,000 rushed in for lunch and drinks. A temperance drink was concocted by the bishop, but the supply did not mect the demand. What was to be done? The cry of the thirsty went up unceasingly. There was even a_line of men waiting to “rush the growler.” The barkeepers began to serve champagne cider, The good bishop found it out and stopped it, as being entirely too ly for the “Home Saloon™ on its opening Then some daring employe bethought himself of two cases of welss beer. They vanished like dew before the July sun. A rush order was sent out for fifteen cases They arrived. They were likewise in the process of vanishing, when the bishop “caught on,”" so to speak. Now weiss beer is a so-called temperance drink all right enough, but there i alcohol in it, novertheless, and there are men who Qo say that it can produce a condition that the Dbishop cowld not be expected to coun- tenance. So the bishop ordered the sale of weiss heer stopped forthwith, and stopped it was, greatly to the disappointment of the thirsty crowd. REVENUE OFFICIALS ON A HUNT. At the internal revenue office the new “salon” was a thing of mild interest to Uncle Sam'’s vigilant officers. They said sternly If the bishop was selling weiss beer he must take out a license or stand a prose- cution. They said weiss beer contained § per cent alcohol, and therefore was ‘“on the list.” So worked up did the officials become that two deputies started out to see what kind of beer the bishop was sclling. They returncd with samples. Later it was dis- covered that they had been to. the opposition “Home Saloon” at 96 Adams strect. This fact was decided to somewhat lessen the value of their report. Tt was a part of Bishop Fallows' plan, says the Tribune, to mak. the salon a saloon in cverything except its evils, and the effort was n_complete success. There were the stuffy basement, the little round bare tables, the lunch counters, the sawdust two inches deep on the floor, the bar and the barkeepers. The bar especiaily was a_stunning feature, The former occupant of the premises would have noticed no change. The wall was coy- cred with mirrors, In front of which were rows upon rows of tumblers, mixers and bottles of what looked like O1d Tom gin and 01d Crow whisky. There stood the same tall bar with the foot-rest in front of it and with the white-aproned “beer slingers” be- hind it flopping the drinks down. But, by way of saylng grace, pasted on the mirror were life-size likeneszes of Neal Dow and Frances E. Willard. LADLING OUT THE “FREE LUNCH.” On the opposite side of the room within an inclosure a couple of cooks were kept busy ladling out to customers the “free lunch,” consisting of bread and butter, a plece of meat, and peas or polatoes. When a cus- tomer had been served and had paid 10 cents he took his lunch to the barkeeper as a voucher and then received a drink of beer; 50 that it was a “free beer” instead of a “free lunch. The saying “Satan came also” was duly verified on the first day of the salon. No better proof of the need of such an institu- tion and of the stringency of the money market could be afforded than the fact that scores of people visited the ealon for the purpose of beating it out of a lunch. Each person was given a coupon ticket as he went in, and paid with the coupon, at the rate of 5 cents each, for all he got. When he came out the ticket showed how many cou- pons he used, and paid the cashier sccord ingly. But many of them Insizted on going without paying the cashier, repressnting thal they had paid the waiters, which, of course, was not true. Some of them sald they had not recelved any tickets as they went In, bul thelr pockets were searched, and the tickets were found, with the coupons torn off, The customors were an average Chloage erowd. The Rev. J. P. Brushingham and & fow other ministers dropped in to wet thelf whistles; a few nico looking elderly women sat in the back part of the place with thelr beer, and the rest of the throng who olimbed over oach other's heads, as if the blshop were serving eternal salvation instead of beerette, were hungry men of all ages. LEGENDS ON THE WALL. Thero were of course legends on tho wall. One of them read: Bishop's beverage, home brewed i from the best hops, malt, etc.; no i aleohol; all nutritive properties re- tained;’ unequaled as a tonic; the grent temperance drink. Another read Lunch and drink, meat and_ veg- otables, beans, potatoes, ete., bread find buiter, with hot or cold drinks, 0 cents. nother was: Not responsible for hats and coats. One must not Infer from these placards that lunch and beer were all that was in sight There was a full line of restaurant dishes, including coffee; and a box of clgars on the cashier's table showed the bichop had no prejudices against dispensing to- bacco in the salon The central feature of the salon, of course, was the beer, or beerette, which was wars ranted to 1ok like beer, foam like beer, smoll like beer, and taste liky beer, without intoxi- cating like beer. There was a great rush for it, and it looked as if the customers could not get enough of it, though it had a flavor which is not found in the sinful beer t the galoon. But its popularity proved a misfortune, for before 10 o'clock to the dismay of Newman and the bishop, the supply gave out. What to do was not clear, for the people stood in front of the bar ten deep calling out: *“‘One becr,” two beers,” “three beers.” Then for a time bottled welss beer was served, and the customers drank better than they knew. As they put their glasses down they smacked their lips and made smiling remarks, BISHOP WIELDS A MOP. Bishop Fallows was present all day long and scemed to be entirely in his eloment. A3 matters were behindhand at the time of open- ing, the first arrivals found him with a mop in his hand giving a finishing touch to some parts of the floor. During the day he strug= gled through the crowd and was here and thers and everwhers like a good general exchanging grestings and issulng orders, call= ing out cheerily at one time “three beers! and at another “beens on the plate,” and looking like Napoleon at Austerlitz. Philadelphia Times m, her head good’ deal this yen ache?” “Not exactly. ing a new hat ever: “How Is your wife?" been troubling her @ ' “Nervous head- She Keeps on wante four weelk: Harper's Bazar: Old Drywater—My boy, in all creation you won't find any animal except man who makes a habit of smok- ing. Young Puffs—Yes, sir; but neither do 1 know any other animal that cooks his meals. Chicago Inter Ocea ling place home: “Great Seott! no; good and on time always. Texas Siftings: It is curious how a wo- man who screams at a mouse is not start- led at a millinery bill that makes a_ man tremble, Judge: I8 your new meals are very Proud Father—That 18 the sunset my daughter painted. She studied painting abroad, you know. Friend—Ah! that ex- plains it 1 never saw a sunset like that in this country. New York Weckly: Mr. Softie—Is- there anything 1 can do to prove my, devotion? Miss Beattie—Y-e-s, there is. ‘‘Name It. “When you call, bring some handsome and entertalning gentleman with you.” om_a_professional standpoint: Seems to be an epidemic of embezziement and that sort of thing, Secs ond Lawyer—Yes; and there is one feature which is_particualrly unfortunate. Iirst Lawyer—What is that? Second Lawyer— Nearly all of them are pleading gullty. THE NEW VIIRSION. Indianapolis Jouwrnal. g Oh, father, dear father, come home with he Clockk In the stecple strikes one; he clock in the stee . 3 he clothes in the tub are in soak in the shed, And the cooking has got to be done. For when mother comes home from her work at the polls ghe'll be hungry and cross as a bear, So take off your coal, paw, and roil up your sleeves, And dish up the home bill of fare, e YE MALD OF OLDEN TIMP New York Truth. ‘We see her plcture over there, In quaint old-fashioned dress; With modest mein and meekish air, A world of tenderness Within the eyes that seem to glow With innocence sublime; The girl John Alden used to know In the old Colonial time. What though she lacked the savoir falre That modern maids pos: Not one thought would hel Her lips dared not confess. And still we sing in deepest praise, 1 everential rhyme, of (hematd who cheered the troublous days In the old Colonial time. bosom bear He Had a Hat, He Wanted a NEW “Stetson Special”’ Spring Block $4.50. This marking down of St son's §5 hat to $4.50 1s done to call your atten- tion to the best hat department in the city. It's $4.50 for a while anyway, INC. /gy QWIING. My Q' RELIABLE cmm:fi"’o Your Money’s Worth or Your Monzy Bazk, But he didn’t care for that. Ho Wanted 8 NE! “Browning-King Special” Spring Block $3.50. There's 1o quicker way to muke a good department known than to sell a wl-clags article at a vidiculous price, That's why we sell this guaran- teed hat for §3.50, We have just opened a as most people want, but more money. BROWNING, new line of spring style Mackintoshes. The lowest priced one—$5.00—is as good we have them finer for KING & CO. Reliable Clothicrs, 8, W. Cor, 15thand Douglas,