Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 10, 1895, Page 12

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P. ¥ Notary Public. 3 “third congres: Judged, not by what it did, but what - At refrained from doing. Is it possible that congress was in full blast less than a week ago? How quickly are the departed forgotten! A at many statesmen out of a job are looking for an advertisement swhich read Wanted, male help. Ex-Con- gressmen preferred. Now let the Gould to recuperate from the shock of dis- memberment and give some other avorthy millionaire’s daughter a chance to attract public attention. amily have time The next Towa desperado who wants to commit a daylight bank robbery onght to have at lenst sense enongh to tickle a bank that is supposed to con- tain money. A Dbank robbery that can not possibly yield anything but glory is a poor undertaking. Perhaps If the government printing office were turned over to the Methodist Book Concern it might be made to yield a revenue that would support afl the American missions in foreign lands and leave a small surplus to be applied to the conversion of the heathen at home. ‘When Buffalo Bill completes his ar- rangements for the accommodation of sportsmen in search of good hunting in the neighborhood of the Big Horn mountains he ought to invite President Cleveland to tackle something bigger than ducks the next time he wants to take exerclse with his gun. Tt Is predicted that if the bill to pay bounties on wolf scalps becomes a law the next legislature will be importuned to pay $100,000 in bounty claims. It may not be known, but it is a fact, that one coyote will furnish half a dozen scalps, and the wolves in Wyoming and the Dakotas are not rounded up and * branded. The committee of bondholders for the reorganization of the Union Pacific, which devoted most of its time to the unsuccessful attempt at lobbying the Rellly funding Dbill through congress, has disbanded for the season. If the bill 1s brought up again before congress the committee will suddenly experience a revival, Douglas county is represented in the claims for wild animal bounties by a Dbill for the munificent sum of $3, while Custer county expects to get $1,664. Some of our enterprising citizens ought to organize a wild animal exterminating company, and by invading the other parts of the state cover all the boun- ties into their own pockets, Lady Henry Somerset, her crusade against living pictures, - says: “If woman does not regulate the amusements of her children then she does not do her duty to her coun- try.” Yes, but how comes it that just those women who try to do the most regulating are the women who have no children to regulate? speaking of ‘We presume Senator Hoar of Massa- chusetts feels much better now that the credentials of Senator Carter of Mon- tana, with which he found so much fault a few weeks ago, have been with- drawn and new credentials substituted. Benator Hoar is a great stickler for form, and his feelings were particularly injured by the undignified way in which the governor of Montana notified the senate of the election of a new mewber from that state, Utah s now the scene of a novel political combination that compares well with the offer of the South Dakota woman suffragists last week to unite thelr cause with that of the advocates of more lax divorce legislation. This time the woman suffragists are again in evidence, but it is the anti-prohibl- tionists with whom they arve proposing to join forces, Of course, the woman suffragists everywhere have been al- most without exception ardent prohibi- ‘tlonlsts, and one of the beneficial results promised by them is the enactment of prohibitory laws so soon as the women get in the saddle. But in Utah they séem willing to put aside their hatred of the rumsgller and to welcome his Ald in framing a constitution that con- fers the franchise with discrimination as to sex. This combination ought to open the eyes of those who have been led to look upon the woman suffrage movement as one conducted upon the basis of vrinciple ouly, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. The question of abolishing capital punishment in Nebraska has again been brought to public attention, this time by means of an irrelevant amendment pro- posed to a bill providing that executions ghall take place in the penitentiary. The amendment should have been ruled out of order for the reason that it con- templates legislation diametrically op- posed to the principle recognized in the measure to which it was proposed. There are a great many well m people in the world who belleve, con- sclentiously, it is not to be doubted, that society has no moral right to preseribe the death penalty for those wlio commit capital crime. The argnments of these people take a somewhit narrow range, their chilef contention being that the principle underlying capital punishment, “a life for a life,” Is essentinlly wrong, whether practiced by the individual or the aggregation of individiials which we 1 society, and that the only thing which the commun an rightfully do in dealing with the murderer is to shut him up in a penitentiary for life. This view s sought to be sustained by various moral and sentimental consider- ations, all of them sincerely entertained, lit will not be questioned, by the op- ponents of capital punishment, but at varlance with all human experience and with the best judgment of mankind in all ages. It ought to be a sufficient answer to those who object to capital punishment t the entire civilized world is in ac- cord as to the righteousness and the necessity of the death penalty for murder. The greatest statesmen and jurists and teachers of religion in the enlightened nations of the earth are agreed, and always have been, that the man who murderously takes the life of a fellow being forfeits his own life and that it is the right and the duty of socicty to visit upon him the penalty of death. It Is the only adequate expiation of the greatest crime against society, and, moreover, it is the experience of mankind that it is the only course by which socfety can pro- teet itself iinst those of murderous instinet. Some of the states that have substituted life imprisonment for capital punishment have returned to the latter after having found that capital erime incr d under the former. It is some- times urged that life Imprisonment is really the severer punishment and this may be admitted, but it does not have the deterrent influence of the death penalty. Tor the most part people of murderous instinet fear death, but they have comparatively little dread of the prison, from which there 1s always the possibility of escape or of pardon. The criminal annals of Nebraska show that there have been few executions in proportion to the number of murders committed. The law is generous to the murderer. It gives him every oppor- tunity of defense, the benefit of every doubt and the advantage of every cir- cumstance that can be shown in his favor. The rule is that juries are dis- posed to be merciful. The convicted murderer can appeal to executive clemency. If, with all these favoring conditions, a man charged with murder cannot make a defense that will save his neck who will say that he does not deserve to die at the hands of the lawful nuthorities? Nebraska cannot afford to abolish capital punishment at present. The time may come when she can experiment with life imptisonment, but it is remote. We shall make no mistake by adhering to the principle which has the approval of all enlightened nations and of the wisest men in all ages. FROM THE LAKES TO THE SEA. The legislature of New York has under consideration a measure which contemplates no less a project than that of connecting the great lakes of the northwest with the Atlantic ocean by water. A bill for this purpose, in- troduced a few days ago, is said to be the same measure for the construction of a mammoth ship canal that ap- peared In congress with Senator Alli- son of Towa and Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania as its sponsors in the respective houses. The project is to be carried out by private capital and the company which the bill is intended to bring into existence allows the issue of capital stock to the amount of $150,- 000,000, The project is a very com- prehensive one, embracing the construe- tion of several canals through which the waters of Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence river and Lake Cham- plain would be connected with the Hud- son river, constituting a ship canal that would greatly facilitate water transportation between the lakes and the seaboard. The bill provides that 10 per cent of the capital stock is to be paid In within five years after the pas- sage of the act and the canal must be completed within ten years, clse the charter shall lapse, Engineers who have studied the pro- posed route say there is no question as to the practicability of the project, while those who have carefully considered the financial possibilities say there is no doubt as to the success of the canal it constructed. The incorporators of the company are men of capital and enter- prise in the east and northwest and there can be no reasonable doubt of thelr earnest intention to carry the undertaking to completion. The colos- sal project appeals to the interest of the producers of the entire western sec- tion of the country, who would be greatly benefited by its consummation. Such a waterway between the lakes and the sea as Is proposed would not ounly have most important results in facilitating the movement of western produets, but what is of equal lmpor- tance, it would insure transportation rates that would be of incaleulable ad- vantage to the producers of the west. Even if the development of this see- tion of the country had reached the limit the projected eanal would be of immense value, but when it is con- sidered that the productive capabilities of the vast region west of the Mississ- ippl are still very far from being fully utilized and that it is possible its pro- ductiveness will be nearly or quite doubled within the next quarter of a century, the importance of the facili- ties which a ship canal conuecting the ning | lakes with the sea would give ean easily be understood. There is anolher consideration in favor of this project which I8 by no means an unimportant one, and that Is that it would render us independent of the Canadinn watesrways, In the past Canada has shown an unfriendly and unneighborly spirit in the matter of allowing the vessels of this country the use of her cnnals and recourse to a rétalintory policy was necessary to bring her to terms. Tt is possible for a repetition of this to take place at any time under existing conditions, to the sorfous annoyance and loss of our ves sel interest that must use the canals of Canada. The military importance of a ship eanal from the Iakes to the sea through our own territory is another point for consideration. In the event of war between the United States and irent Britain the latter would be al to send gunboats through the € canals, from which we would e ex- elnded, and might in this way play havoe with our lake ports and shipping before we could prepare for a success. ful defense. The building of such a waterway as is contemplated by the bill before the New York legislature is an enterprise of great magnitude. The ing of the money necessary to the carrying out of the project would be no easy task. But there ean be no question as to its im- portance. POWER FRQM NIAG If the RA. surance given by the famous electrician, Nicola Tesla, that the prob- lem of carrying electricity long dis- tances without material loss has been solved, results of the greatest value and importance are to be expected from the utilization of the power of the waters of Niagara. Tesla has not disclosed the nature of his device or method further than to s that it involyves the v of “electrical wav and the disuse of or- dinary alternating currents, which will be understood by practical electricians. "he economical transmission of power to a distance of twenty miles has been abundantly demonstrated in this coun- try and in Europe, but the Niagara Power company, utilizing Mr. s inventions, proposes to outdo all prev ‘hievements in {his field by delivering power currents at fairly com- petitive prices as far as New York City in the east and as far as Cleveland and other large Ohio towns in the west. Blectricity generated at Niagara Falls will be used, Tesla affirms, on the Erie canal and to propel vessets from Albany to New York. The officials of the com- pany are said to have absolute faith in the practicability of the device of the great electrician and believe it will ac- complish all that the inventor claims for it. The success of Tesla's other inven- tions for the distribution of electricity certainly gives warrant for this confl- dence. If expectations are realized it would not be easy to overestimate the value of the results. It has been estimated that the entire power used in the state of New York to run machinery is about 50,000-horse power and a power eqhial to this will be generated by the turbine water wheels of the Niagara Falls Power company when its plant is com- pleted. The Hydraulic company and a Canadian company will utilize the Niagara Falls, it is believed, to an equal extent. This power, trans- mitted hundreds of miles in every direc- tion, would affect the industries and modes of life of many millions of peo- ple. It is not easy to conceive, indeed, the proportions of the revolutionary ef- fect of the successful operation of the method of power distribution which Tesla claims to have invented. A few have been suggested. Electricity would largely displace gas, for which New York City alone pays $20,000,000 a year, and coal, for which that city pays out annually $30,000,000. Not only would steam Dbe displaced in the cities of New York state, but the railronds that now employ steam locomotives would turn, it Is asserted, to the cheaper electric mo- tor, Thousands of square miles about Niagara Falls as a center would, in the new era of cheap transmission of elec tricity, be lighted, warmed and suppliea with motive power from that point. A vast amount of capital and labor now employed in the creation of pawer would, if the Tesla device shall prove successful, have to seek other channels of employment. In short, the results wonld be simply revolutionary, and not alone in the territory accessible to the power generated by the waters of Ni- agara, but over a very much larger re- glon. Indeed, the effect of the change would be felt in every portion of the country. The results of a practical test on an extensive scale of Tesla's device will be of world-wide Interest. 18 THERE NOTHING IN IT? “I should not advise any young man to enter public life. There is nothing in it.”” These are the words with which the veteran congressman, the father of the house, Judge Holman of Indiana, 1s said to have addressed a group of fel- low members on the morning of the day that marked the close of his long congressional career. Judge Holman in- sisted that his experience, extending over thirty-five years, led to this un- promising conclusion, at least from the financial standpoint. Having lived fr gally from the time he came to the Thirty-sixth congress, he had yet been unable to save a penny out of his saly ary, and he left congress poorer than when he entered. Judge Holman's com- plaint of unrequited public service s not unique. It s an old, old story, re- peated every time a faithful publie sery- ant finds himself thrown back upon his own resources. In many cases such as this there is something of the pathetic fn the narrative, but the new quickly supplants the old, and there is never any lack of fresh material. But is it true that there is nothing In public life to attract men of character and ability? 1Is It sound advice that secks to dissuade young men from de- voting themselves to public affairs? ¥From the financlad standpoint of dollars and cents, perhaps yes. Honest and in- corruptible public officials cannot expect to get rich from the salaries attaching to their offices. Many men in public life have become wealthy by outside specy- Iattons or Investments, but those who have done so oMestly would probably have amassed the same or a greater fortune had they stuck to the fleld of private enterprise. On the point of the money I it, we are constrained to ac- copt the testimony of men like Judge Holman, who can speak from porsor experience. At the same time it would b ¢ash to assert that the proportion of public men whose carcers end In financigl failure is any greater than that of ‘private individuals who do not make n'success of their voca- tions, { This brings us abruptty to the ques- tion whether the pecuniary reward is to he regarded as the trie object of public sorvice, at many public offices to which no salaries attach what- ever and where the honor of the posi- tion and the responsibility it cavries are all that is accorded the incumbent who performs its duties. In some countries, Great Britain, for example, members of the national legislature themselves included in this category, and it 1s not noticeable that the character of the leg islators are on that account inferior. The objections to the English system of unprid members of Parliament ave that it entails a hardship upon the members of moderate means and makes a seat in Parlinment a luxury to be indulged in only by the wealth In practice this s not been a very serlous drawback. In this country the salaries of members of congress have been fixed at a figure to reimburse the necessary expenses of living at the capital, without making them large enough to be sought after as mere money prizes. OF course, there are differences between congressmen. Yet if we take as a type one who has a fair measure of ability, combined with a reputation for strict integrity, we find that he occupies a social position and exerts an influence among his constitu- ents t re in themsetves worth hav- the experience gained in public office 18 by no means the least uable of the advantages it offers. The young man entering public life should be taught to look more at these immaterial gains than at the pecuniary emoluments that are to acerue. While we hear frequent complaints of the in- gratitude of republics, it is seldom that a public man who has made any repu- tation really wishes that he had kept shy of the political path. We are in- clined even to doubt whether Judge Holman himself would, If he had his career to makeover.again, arrive at any different choicg than he did. His ex- ample should peove stronger with young men hesitating about entering public life than his ad THE BRITISH POSTAL TELEGRAPH. Great Britain has just been celebra- ting tlie twenty-fifth anniversary of the acquisition of herwostal telegraph sys- tem. The occnsiv has been ®elzed for numerous reviews of the progress of the postal telegraph in that conntr)_v during the past quarter-century, many of the facts bronght out being of par- ticular interest to the American public, before which the.question of govern- ment telegraphs s bound to come to o head sooner or later, The various telegraph systems of Great Britain passed formally from the hands of the private corporations that had built them into the government control on January 28, 1870. For this property the government pald what was then and what has always been re- garded as a very exorbitant price, £11,- 000,000 or $55,000,000. The lines have been maintained and extended and the plant and forces increased steadily from the day the government took possession. In 1870 there were in Great Britain 2,032 offices from which messages could be sent, whereas there are now 9,637 such offices, and there is hardly a spot in the kingdom in, which one is without means of speedy communication with any part of the world, even the smallest village postoffice being connected by wire with the numerous trade centers. In London alone the number of tele- graph offices has risen from 130 in 1870 to over 600 in 18! At the same time the mileage of land lines has grown from 14,776 to 32,881, and the miles of wire which circle the kingdom from 50,430 to 206,304, with 136 miles of sub- marine cable as compared with 20, hav- ing a mileage of 2,405, against 177. The change in business and prices in the twenty-five years of the postal tele- graph is no less striking. In the year 1869 the total number of telegrams dis- patched within the territorial limits of the United Kingdom was 6,830,812, But in the year just brought to an end the total had risen to the enormous figure of nearly 71,500,000. Previous to 1870, under the regime of private tele- graph companies, the prices charged for an inland message ranged from 25 cents to $1.25, the average being 54 cents for each, Now the average Is 15 cents, As a natural result of this constant reduc- tion in charges the number of messages transmitted has steadily mounted up- ward. In 1870 fu the London offices barely 800 messages passed through in a single day of twenty-four hours., One day last year the official record showed that 30,000 messages had been received and dispatched @uring the same period, the general averigh belng 20,000. As regards press dispatches the gove ment management' is not belind- hand in libepal | treatment. Tk ecan be sentoi as speclal mes sages between ¢'al'm, and 6 p. m. at a rate of 25 cents fqr seventy-five words, and 1 tween G p:m. and 6 a. m. at a rate of 25 cents'fOr 100 words, with very great n-dw:hws when duplicated to two or more MeWspapers, Owing to the poliéy of the government in extending the system, improving and augmenting the service and reducing the charges to the lowest possible point, the surplus revenue from the postal telegraph has not compared with that derived from the other branch of the postal service. The revenues have been absorbed in the expenses of mainte- nance and of new equipment, so that the interest charge on the £11,000,000 of original investment has been met al- most exclusively from other sources. It 18, how the contention of the Brit- ish postmaster general that the letter and telegraph service must be looked upon us & whole, and It being impos- slble to determine the exact cost of elther separately, the surplas of $2. . 000 credited to the postoffice ought to be amply satisfactory for both. Al though the original purchase was a rather hard bargain for the govern- ment, no public man would now, after twenty-five years of experience with the | postal telegraph In Great Britain, dare to propose a return to the old system of private corporations. In fact, English men, enjoying the benefits of the best service at the minimum price, ean not understand how other countries tolerate a telegraph in the hands of a private monopoly. Great Britain fecls that the soclal dividend of the first twenty-five years of the postal telegraph has more than repaid the sums which have been invested in it. The superior capac of Fire Chief Redell as a fire fighter and diseipli- narian has been fully demonstrated since his advent to the position as head of the fire department. The nolse, confu- sfon and profanity which were regarded a8 necessary accompaniments of every fire have been supplanted by noiseless but efficient work directed toward checking the spread of conflagrations by centering the force upon the most exposed and vulnerable points without needlessly exposing men fo imminent danger and without recklessly destroy ing property where it can be saved. With improved apparatus and a dis- ciplined fire brigade Omaha will soon boast as efficient a fire department as any city of equal population In the country. Auditor Moore is reported to have refused to register the seed grain bonds presented by Boyd county, the only county that has sought to take advan- tage of the provisgions of the new law, on the ground of doubtful constitutton- ality. This means that the schoel fund will be saved from investment in auestionable securities until the courts shall have ed upon their validis The nuditor’s action may deprive the people of the county in question of one resource unon which they were count- ing, but he will be performing a duty which Le owes to the whole state, for which the school funds are held in trust. Of tho American Brand. Brooklyn Eagle. Tiet us hear less of noblemen and more of noble men, —_— Thunks as a Prize, St Louis Republic. The American who will go to Europe and bring home a_bride with $2,000,000 in good hard cash will have the thanks of the na- tion. The balance of trade is sadly against us in this line, ——— The Shackles of Extravagance. Pittshurg Dispatch, Extravagance is the curse of this country. The greatest, grandest, richest country on garth is made to hold. squalor and misery by this besetting sin. Soclety is ruled by it. Business is prostrated by it.” Government is burdened with it, It is found on every side, in every walk of life, in city, town, village and country. It takes the form of vulgar display. It indulges luxuries for those who cannot afford them. e 1he Divorce Paradise. ‘Times-Herald. Oklahoma makes the most liberal bid yet for the divorce population of the country. Residence of only ninety days is required, and it need be little more than constructive. Sult. may be begun by advertisement in any newspaper . in the territory. Pro- ceedings are in the probate courts of the various counties, Secrecy guaranteed If de- sired. Any alleged cause is sufficient. The Judgment of divorce takes effect in ten day: and there is no appeal. The climate of Ok- lahoma Is good, but the hotels are bad, which appears to be about the only flaw in a diyorce paradise. — - Busines ot Politles. Buftalo Express, 1 government s business, not poll- ls & maxim in which Very many Americans have come to believe. Only the fetichism of party names prevents a more general acceptation of the truth that the affairs of a municipality have no necessary connection with the aifairs of the nation and state, and that it is misieading and mis- chievous to divide the citizen-body in local elections on the lines of the two great par- ties. A republican candidate for mayor is apt’ to be supported by most believers in protection and centralization, while a demo- cratic nominee for county clerk will receive the suffrages of nearly all the followers of Andrew Jackson In the district. This is be- cause men mistake the shadow for the sub- stamce; the name for the principle; the empty ' kernel for the living truth. Tt is making party organization the end,’ rather than the means. It Is politics for the sake of politics, tics, e Bupervision of Building Assoclations, Chicago Times. The attorney general of Tllingls does well in his biennial réport to suggest that bufld- ing and loan associatlons are seeking a line of business for which they were not de- signed originally. He insists, and properly, that their operation should be limited to loaning money for the construction of home- steads, .and suggests that b{ lurnlshlng the money for the purchase of lands and the erection of hotels and other large buildings many of them have become bankrupt, de- stroying the confidence of the people in other bullding associations and depriving them thereby of thelr fleld of usefulness as savings institutions for the poor. 3 This note of warning is timely. Within the scope of their legitimate operation and it “carefully managed bullding. associations are of great utility. They are useful to the shareholder who wishes also to borrow and they are reasonably profitable to the in- vestor, Eyen when confined within thelr proper limits they cannot be useful unless the greatest care is exercised in the making of loans. There has been great shrinkage in the so-called value of real estate. Men of good judgment who three years ago readily placed a value upon a lot and an improvement are now amazed in looking at the situation to find that they ever con- sented to the figure given, ‘As building associations have been incor- porated in very large numbers in Tllinols and as millions of the savings of people Who have put their all into them are In- volved there cannot be 0o earnest insist- ence that the supervision of these institu- tions shall be drastic in its thoroughness. e st QUT OF THE ORDINARY, New York has 27,000 women who support thelr husbands. A Standish (Me) man has nearly finished a robe made wholly of cats’ skins. Rev. Father John J. Carroll of Chicago is sald to possess the only typewriter in the world with Gaelic characters. During the eighteen years ending with June 30, 1890, 1,526 persons were killed by cyclones in the United States, The prohibition town of Portland, Me., uses 76,000 worth of liquor every year for “edi- cinal and mechanical purposes. The Inventory of the estate of a miser, who died recently near Centre, Mo., shows $35,000 in cash, deeds for 720 acres of land and $8 in household effects, Carrie Liebeg has been appointed as a di- vision surgeon of the Northern Pacific Hope, Idaho. This is the first woman physi- cian to be appointed in the railway service. A Crescent City (Cal) man has a hen that recently produced an egg weighing four ounces. It measured in circumference one way cight and three-quarters inches, while the other it was seven and one-half inches. A Ohicago dentist says the teeth of persons who work in candy factories become ruined in a short time, Many have no natural teeth at all. It is not the candy eaten that does the mischief, but the fumes, which are far more destructive than the candy itself. Probably the largest fire insurance policy in existence, or ever written, is that covering the property of the Santa i'e Railway com- pany. It was issued by the Phoenix Fire of London, England, is in amount $17,000,000 and takes a premium of $170,000 to carry. In the Chinese language the meaning de- pends more on the tone in which the word is spoken than in the word itself. The same word may have a dozen entirely different meanings, according to the tone in which it is spoken. This fact makes it dificult for foreigners to learn Chinese, SROULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT, Louleville Courler-Journal: One of the queercst of the many recent outbreaks of pulplt sensationalism was made in Boston last Sunday evening. A certain Dr. Perin, pastor of “The Everyday Church,” closed his sermon by inviting the congregation to the vestry, where the “service’ was con- cluded with tea. Kansas City Star: Wesleyanism in Amer- fea is beginning to take on a venerable as- pect. The Baltimore conference of the Methe odist Episcopal ohurch is holding fts 111th session. This Is a long period of time in & new country like the United States. It de- notes that the Methodists “got in on the ground floor"—to employ a secular phrase. Minneapolls Tribune: A Cincinnati preacher recently startled that plous town by an- nouncing in_flaming headlines as the title of his next Sunday's sermon, “Who Will Be in Hell? BEverybody Welcome!” The min- Ister, of courso, meant that everybody was welcome to come and hear his sermon. But the people made merry over the announce- ment, regardless of the fact that, taken in any sense, it would still have bsen eminently appropriate. Brooklyn Eagle: All the clerical activities of a decads, all the militant preaching, have not advanced Christianity 60 much as It was advanced recently In Boston through the agency of a fire. Fire applied to the feet of unbelievers and dissenters in the past made a great many enemles for Christlanity, but this fire occurred in a Catholle church. It was the church of St. Anne, and it was al most entircly destroyed. Almost fmmedi ately after this accident the trustees of the neighboring Baptist and Unitarian churches offered to Father Murphy the use of their edifices for daily service during the Lenten season. This is true Christian brotherhood In the face of disaster it always asserts itselt] There are no scctarlan lines in adversity, —_——— PEOPLE AND THINGS. American heiresses and their money are soon parted. Bland, Bryan and Bailey constitute the trinity of silver graces. The geese having fled, Mr. Cleveland natu- rally took after the duck: The divorce record of New York's, 400 is crowding the pace of matrimony. Senator J. Don Cameror sidential boomlet is running loose on the Mahone lot. A poet had police courts In mind when he wrote about mills that *‘grind exceeding fine."” It is reasonably freeze-out in peach crop. Tho late unlamented congress fell short of the billion mark by twelve millions. It was short in everything. The growls of Russian bear indicate a de- termination to help Japan dispose of the trophies of the chase. Willie Waldorf Astor's newspaper expe- rlence abroad cost $2,000,000 to date, and yet an ungrateful empire failed to give him a title. The Indiana legislature is debating the question of reducing the judicial rate of §500 placed on stolen kisses to $250. The latter figure is more in accord with the general shaving of values. A spasm of civil service reform smote 220 Chicago policemen. But the exigencies of the spring campaign demand their services and the appointing power is diligently geek- ing an excuse to place them on thelr beats. The bill reviving the whipping post in New York is before Governor Morton for ac- tion. The passago of the measure provokes censuro in many quarters, the critics over- looking the fact that the substitution of the lash for the paddle is in accord with humane reform. Pursuant to the recommendations of the government engineers, plans for a suspen- sion bridge over North river, New York, have been prepared. The central span will be 3,100 feet long, will carry six tracks, and give a clear headway of 150 feet above high tide. The government engineers estimated the cost of a suspension bridge at $23,000,000. The estimated cost of the planned structure is $40,000,000. Preparations are making to celebrate the 107th birthday of Mrs. Hannah Chard of Vineland, N. J., the oldest woman in that state, which occurs on April 20. Five genera- ations are to be represented at the celebra- tion. Mrs. Chard, during seventy-seven years of married life, had twelve children, but only three of them are now living, at the ages of 85, 73 and 61 years respectively. She is still an active housekeeper and s an in- veterate pipe smoker. —_——— 1t's & Legitimate Business, ‘Weeping Water Republican, Governor Holcomb has signed the oleomar- garine bill, but he recommends some amend- ments which should be adopted. The bill, the way it now stands, will desroy the in" dustry in this state whére millions of pounds are manufactured for eastern markets. The bill would better never have passed than to remain as it is, The manufacture of oleo is a legitimate business and it is an in- dustry which adds to the price of beef cattle as well as giving employment to a great many men and bringing thousands of dol- lars into the stat e Generous Treatment of Rebels, New York World. In refusing to carry out the sentence of death on the convicted Hawalian revolution- ists President Dole has done something more than merely respond to the humane sentiment of this country, He has strength- ened the position of the Hawailan republic and jual“ewl itg claim to recognition and to protéction from all the civilized powers. He as made Hawail strong enough to stand alone without being attached by cable to the United States. rtain that the senatorial Delaware will not affect the BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. ' An opportunity missed may be an eternity ost. Angels would weep if men had to be judged by each other, Hate would overcome by killing; love cons quers by dying. Putting & crown on the head puts nothing kingly in the heart. The devll fs always there to llsten when prido and flattery meet. You can’t measure a man's religion by the length of his face on Sunday. Whenever a faultfinder opens his mouth he tells overybody what he lives on., A fool Is always burning his fingers because ho cannot remember that fire is hot. Tho man who becomes n successful hypo- crito has to work at it every day In the week. It sometimes happens that when the devil goes to church ho walks there with the preaches. It we make it the hablt of our lives to took on the bright side, we will always have a bright side to look on. CONDENSED S10RIE Ry the wa polis Jourr count had a- fortune in' Amer- y the bonie, About two milllons in matrimonial bonds, 80 you w Detroit Tribune: I'm under 1 don't know. any event.” n-her hand?" her thumb, in Press: Old Milllon—What, Why, he can’t buy the clothes 158 Million—Well, papa, every= be a millionaire, Detrojt Free marry him you w body can Boston Courler: Lou—Ie sald he woul Kl himself if you would not marry him Laura—He did, "But 1 refused, all the same, Lou—DId he Kill himselt? Laiira—No; I saw him last night at the theater with another Rirl, Fliegende Blaetter: Bridegroom (about to marry the youngest of three sisters)—My dear friend, T want you to stand right be= hind me dufing the ceremony and keep your eyes open. I am very nearsighted and I am afraid they might substitute the oldest sister at the critical moment. do like George, papa,' cks of good humor,” I know, my dear,” said the old gent, with' a knowing look, “but don’t you think If you frere ot 80 good humored he would smack Adams she said, Chicago Record: Author—-Can you think of some sensational motive for my next Sure. Have a wealthy American heiress for a heroine, Author—That’s nothing. Critie t heard me out, Have her marry a plain American eitizen! Detroit Free Pr Hunker—Do you think salary of $3,000 should be a sufficient in- ement for A youns man to marry? m-—I do, most assured Show me the woman who 15 williug to pay that salary. to her husband. Somerville Journal: When a_young man K girl to marry him and she says “Yes without the slightest hesitation, nine times out of ten the young man can't help asking himself mentally if perhaps he hasn't been foolishly precipitate, Kate Field's Washington: ~Jimson—Now, you wouldn't marry me, would ? Miss Sears—Most cerfainly not; but why do you ask such a question? Jimson—Just to decide a bet. —_——— SALVE FOR LONG SERMONS. Philadelphia Inquirer: Sneaker—The peo- ple in that house that we's goin’ to rob to- night keeps four dogs, Beaker—We ain’t goin’ to rob it. People wot keeps four dogs ain’t got nothin’ to rob. Buffalo Courler: Jilson says he does not see why there should be any objection to woman entering the legal profession. Nine out of every ten married men know well enough that her word is law. Rockland Tribune: It is because so many of us will pay $3 for the privilege of sitting two hours in a 50-cent seat and listening to an opera sung in a language that we can't understand that the wise man was led to remark that an American and his money are soon parted. Indianapolis Journal: “Did you read about (At mim, In Baltimore who’ swallowed his glass eye?” asked the youngest boarder, “T'did,” replied the Cheerful Idiot. *“‘And It does seem to me that he was carrying the modern weakness for introspection & trifie too far.” THE FICKLE FURNACE. Indianapolls .Ioum:;l, Oh, furnace, In the hours of freeze, Y ‘er got over three degrees :\%‘x’nv:‘ellfzvgllmo comes, and signs of spring You warm right up like everything. ——————— 8A4Y, WHO IS THIS? Robert Bridges. who I8 _this with silyered halr, pale and worn and thin, Who passeth here and passeth there, ‘And looketh out and in? That useth not our garb nor tongue,, And_knoweth things untold; Who teacheth pleasure to the young ‘And wisdom to the old? No_toll he maketh his by day, No home his own by night But wheresoe'er he takes his’ way He killeth, our delight. Since he has come there's nothing wise Nor fair in man or child, Unless his deep, divining eyes Have looked on it and smiled, ‘Whence vnmn,h:-kh:lhl-r all alone ng our folk to spy? Thenen B ot that we. can cail our owm il he shall hap to die. And T would dig his grave full deep Heneath the churchyard yew, Lest thence his wizard eyés might peep To mark the things we do. department 2oywhere now. trimming, ever is cheapest. for four or five dollars,but we'll give you the best in the world for $10,00 and up. started out to talk about little thing: we've just got iin scme of the nicest little WNINC.f7, Q ?rum: mmzfs"’q Your Money’s Worth or Your Monzy Bazk, It’s the Little Things— The picking out of the cloth, the preparation of it, the cutting, the even the buttons and the pocket lininge—it's the little things—that go to make the perfect goods. Every care im- aginablo is taken in making vp our goods, everything is thoroughly inspected. and then—when you get 1t of us it's good, and we are no higher priced than dealers who pay no attention to quality and buy of who- We can't sell you a suit But we Well, things in the way of boys' furnishings and hats and caps that we've ever seen. and low priced. Protty Our children’s department is replete with noveltics selected for spring. and we invite an early in- spection. The many styles we are showing in gentlemen’s shirts and neckwear seem to be just the thing, judging by the many praiseful ex- pressions we hear on all sides— and hats, well we just have the best hat All the new spring blocks are in and our assortment is so varied in both style and price, that you will bave no trouble in finding just what you want. BROWNING, KING & CO,, Reliable Clothiers, S. W, Cor.15th and Douglas Sts.