Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1895, Page 12

1 )xr\uvrr T PUBLISHED IVERY MO TEIMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. Dally Tee (Without Sunday), One Year.. llll!s Jlea and Bunday, One V'-u ontha ... ; » Three Months - Bumday Doe, O . . H Baturday 1o Wers Weekly Tiev, One e 100 500 CHFICES Omaha, The itce Tuildin or N and 2ith Sts, ‘ommerce Al eomn torial mat ittances should be nd postoitc the arder of the company. PUBLISHING COMPANY All bu. Addros Omatin be wade paval THI BEE STATEMENT OF George 11 Trzachuck, sccretary of The Bee Pub- shing any, being duly swor the actual number of f pd complete the Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday D printed during the month of February, 189, was a8 follows 1 2 “ CIRCULATION 6.0 actions for unsold and returne 6,020 GEORGE 1t » and subscribed In my pre arch, 18 ¥ Notary Publie. le eriminal code expounded by Cun ningham R. Scott will make an inter- esting compilation for students of juris prudence. What has become of the industrial leglon of which Paul Vandervoort is generalissimo? Has the legion gone to pieces or is it resting on its laurcls? The Brooklyn gas ¢ been consolidated and the of the new trust will he $15,000,000. How much water theee is represented in that enormous zation is ot stated. A congress is to be held in London next month in° which representatives of Amerienn railronds will participate. In this countr; railrond congress holds sessions in- the national capitol every winter. Superintendent Edward Brooks has Imaugurated a new departure in the public schools of Philadelphia by the adoption of a plan of making promo- tlons on the class standing of pupils in place of the periodic examinations. Yellowstone park will be opened this year on June 1, two weeks carlier than usual. It remains to be seen whether people who have yellow metal to spare will avail themselves of the opportunity of spending it earlier this season than heretofore. Secretary Tawmont, who is reputed to be a very shrewd business man, pre diets- greater aetivity in the New York Stock exehange and in the wholesale trade of the metropolis this year than has been done in any other year in The republicans of Oregon will open the campaign of 1805 next Wednesday by nominating a state ticket. Whether the convention in its platform will take the position which the last legislature did in turning down Senator Dolph becanse he opposed the free silver fal lacy remains to he s The electric tr traflic is to be th for suburban chief factor of trade and travek for every city of any im- portance. An electrie tramway com- pany has just been incorporated in Illi- nois that will connect Chicago with all towns within a radius of forty wile The promoters promise cheaper far and fully as fast time as is now made by the railroads. The New York police commission has declded that hereafter promotions in the New York force to all ranks above that of roundsmen will be made on probation for a period of six months. At the end of that time such as prove “themselves worthy of higher rank will be confirmed; such as do not will be remanded. The experiment will doubt- less be followed by other cities. Advices from Washington through contraband sources that have proved themselyes reliable announce that the United States supreme conrt. will within & few dnys render a declsion which up- sets the ncome tax law entirely and wipes it off the statute books. It goes without saying that such a decision will knock a hole into the United States treasury vaults and compel another bond lIssue in the very near future That veteran Ameriean actor Jefferson, struck the nail on the head the other day, when, In answer to a question propounded after an address to the Harvard students, whether an endowed theater in Boston would be advisable, he said: “In this country the best endowment would be for the actor to be the best of actors and the play produced the best of play: An en- dowed pewspaper is sometimes discoy- ered by well meaning theorists. But the best endowed newspaper Is the one that has the best news and hires the best talent. . Joseph According to the teachings of Coin wheat is the red-leaded girl and silver the white horse that always follows her like the lamb did Mary. Unfortunately for the teacher of free silver flnance facts are stubborn things and very sel dom conform to theory. The price of wheat has within the past two weeks been mounting up, but the silver steed has failed to keep up the ce set by the red-headed girl. On April 30 wheat closed at Chicago at 6336@64%¢c and bar sllver was quoted at San Franclsco at 68'4e. On May 17 wheat closed at T0%e in Chicago and silver bars were quoted at San Frauncisco at 63%@67e. Evi dently the Coln lightning comparonom- eter Is slightly out of whack. tem | | ronds by The report of the impending consoli- dation of the Northern and Northern Pacifie erally aceopted a8 correct by raflrond nates at 8t Panl and Minm consolidation Is of course not to offected by the merging of the stocks of the two systems, hut by the acquisi tion of a controlling Interest in the Hill syndicate. The ef feet of the joint management of these roads cannot fail to be far-renching, not only upon the commerce and develop- ment of the section directly tributar; to these roads, but upon the entir transcontinental traffic. Both of these systems have been in a chronie state of insolvency for want of sufficient traflic and by reason of cutthroat com- petition with each other, The Northern Pacitic was a reorganized wreck and the various syndicates which have con- trolled it since the Jay Cooke collapse { 1873 have passed from bad to worse, from Henry Villard into the hands of reeeivers appointed at the insian of the men who had exploited it. The Great Northern, bullt without subsidies and with o comparatively small volume of water, was constructed as a specula- tive enterprise in anticipation of the xtraordinary development of the Puget Sound country. There was reafly no need of a second railroad from St. Paul to the North Pacific region. One rail- road was more than sufficient to afford traffic: facilities for the country tribu- tary to it for fifty years to come. The fact s six transcontinental railronds are bout four too many. Burdened as they are with $600,000,000 of bonded debt, their competition is simply ruinous the only hope of making them self-sus taining is in foreclosures and consolid; tions. Even then it will take years of time before the volume of over traffic and the local business will the cost of operating and fair inter on the capital invested. The only hope of making the transcontinental rail- roads profitable is immigration and the rapid development of the natural re- sources of the Rocky mountain and Pa- citic coast region, and the current of immigration will not set in until in- dustrial prosperity is restored and peo- ple who are inclined to migrate have assurance of bettering their condition. The consolidated Northern Pacific will doubtless be a more formidable com- petitor to the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line than the two roads operated under rival managements, but the com- petition of two bankrupt roads is more to be dreaded than the competition of a well organi em operated with a view to s v income. There will be less danger of cutthroat rates and se- cret rebates than there is at the present time when the contest is waged regard- less of actual cost of service or risk of carriage. AN A} RUS AGUE The formation of n fonal Teague having for its object the protection of the public against the power of the commercial and industrial trusts may accomplish some good if its efforts be ely and honestly directed and it does not become the instrument of a party for the promotion of a special economic pol ald the plan of the league which has been formed Is to secure the total vepeal of all the protective duties by which it is assumed the trusts and combinations are enabled to exist, from which it may be inferred that the pro- moters of the league are not so much concerned about the suppression of the monopolies as they are to advance the cause of free trade. If commercial and industrial combinations existed only in this conntry there would be substantial ground for the assumption that protec- tion is responsible for them, but when it is known that th exist in free trade England the charge that they are due to protection will not stand. More- over, if it were true that some trusts exist hecause of protection it is not the [ with all of them. The Whisky trust and the Leather trust, for ex- ample, owe mnothing to protection. These and some other combinations exist wholly Independent of tariff du- ties, It Is understood that the Anti-Trust league proposes to make the Sugar trust the particular object of attack by the repeal of protectiveduties. There will be a very general popular sympathy with such a purpose, for the feeling of hostility to that rapacious monopoly s universal. But what of the revenues of the government if the sugar duties should be repealed? Even with this sour of revenue the receipts of the treasury fall below the expenditures, and if that be cut off the amount that would be lost must be made up by in- creasing duties on other articles or making internal taxes considerably high Obviously the former alterna- tive would not be acceptable to the Antl- Trust league, while the latter would meet with very strenuous opposition from the interests that would be af- fected. . The loss of revenue from tak- ing the duties off of sugar could per- Laps be made up by increasing the tax on beer, but when this was proposed in the last congress it found little sup- port. It is hardly likely that the next congress will be more willing to in- ise the tax on beer. best service that an anti-trust league can do is not in attacking tariff duties, but in organizing public senti- ment to demand of the authorities en- forcement of the laws against trusts and of the representatives of the people whatever additional legislation may be necessary for the repression of monop- oly. The seventy-third section of the tariff law applies to all trusts and com- binations employing in their business imported articles, and it was speclally aimed at the Sugar trust. No effort whatever, so far as known, has been made to give effect to this section, and it is to be apprehended that none will be made by the present administration. The supreme court of the United States has pointed out that the most effective of dealing with trusts Is by state 1f the Anti-Trust league will direct its efforts to Inducing the authorities to enforce existing laws and to creating a public sentiment in favor of stringent state statutes against this form of monopoly it can do a highly useful work, Two years ago an aunti-monopoly con- he mag- | The | be | both | an assoelation was formed for the pur {pose of securing legislation for the | snpervision and control of corporations engaged in interstate commerce editor of The Bee was a member of that | convention and prepared the following | memorial to President Cleveland, | was presented to him by Gresham: To the President: On behalf of the Anti- Trust Assoclation of the United States, and in pursuance of resolutions adopted by it at a meeting held at Chicago on the 16th day of October, 1893, we herewlth respecttully memorialize your excellency to embody in your forthcoming annual message to congress a recommendation for the establishment of a bureau of supervision and control of cor- porations engaged In interstate commerce, sald bureau to be vested with authority simi- lar to that now exercised by the comptroller of the United States treasury over nations banks, Believing that the commercial de- pression and financial distress recently ex- perienced in this country Is due largely to flctitious capitalization by corporations whose bonded securities and stocks have been enor- mously inflated and represent but a moity of actual assets, we deem it to be the impera- tive duty of the national and state govern- ments to check and restrain excessive bond issues and prohibit stock watering. In the judgment of the assoclation whom we have the lonor to represent supervision and regu- latfon and publicity of corporation bond and stock issues will prove a most effective means for restoring confidence and commerclal pros- perity. This contemplates a practicable plan for the effective supervision and trol of corporations and combinations, under the operation of which the people would be protected against the exactions and abuses of monopoly. Tt is manifestly idle to talk of abolishing duties under existing circumstance: and if the new Anti-Trust league de votes itself only to that purpose it will accomplish nothing. Secretary con SRCIAL ARENA. The attention of the commercial world is now centered upon the far east, where, as a result of the war between China and Japan, those countries are to assume more intimate commercial re- Intions with the western ions and open up a new or enlarged arena for the world’s commerce. 1t is assurved that vigorous struggle is at once to b inaugurated for ady e in this at field, where live about one-third of the earth’s population. In this con- test the United es will take part and ought to win its share of the east- ern trade. The American consul g eral at Shanghai, in a report to the State department, urges closer and more favorable trade relations between China and the United States, and surely no argument 1 be needed to enforce the wisdom of this suggestion. Not only should American merchants and manufacturers press forward in compe- tition with those of Burope in the east- ' ets, but our government ought to take whatever steps may be ex- pedient to establish more intimate busi- ness relations between this country and China and Japan, The western section of this country, particularly the Pacific const Rates, is especlally interested in the develop ment of our trade with the far east. Thirty-elght, years ago that far-seeing tesman, Willinm T Seward, pre dicted that the Pacific ocean would be- come “the chief theater of events in the world’'s great hereafter,” and while this may have somewhat exaggerated the possibilities, it is now appavent that the Pacific is to be the scene, in the not remote future, of a wonderful maritime activity, the limit of which no man can [ . To say nothing of the islands of the Pacific, there are energetic com- munities in Aus in and New Zealand whose development has been astonish- ingly rapid. Australin has a foreign trade of large proportions which is an- nually increasing. Whoever will take a map and study the Pacific ocean can- not fail to be convinced that in that direction lie great possibilitics and the United States is in a most favorable position to profit from them. As this country will continue to be an increas- ingly advantageous market for the natural products of the far east, so it should be able to sell more to that por- tion of the world. There is a universal interest in the question as fo the part which Japan will play in the Pacific. That remark- able people have made such astonish- ing progress and shown such an extra- ordinary capacity for affairs that al- most anything may be expected of them. At any rate, Japan is certain to be a most important factor in the future affairs of the Pacific and her course will be watched with profound interest by all the nations. THE ARMENIAN TROUBLE. The Christian world will most heart- ily welcome the fact that the Buropean powers have at last notified the Turkish government that it must Institute some radical reforms in the administration of affairs in Armenia. It is not ereditable to those powers that they put off doing this until Turkish atrocities called out a protest from the civilized world and compelled their attention to the condi- tion of affairs in Armenia. They knew long before the cruel and relentless massacre of the Armenian subjects of Turkey that these unfortunate people were being subjected to the most brutal treatinent at the hands of thelr Moslem oppressors. The appeal for help of the persecuted victims of Turkish hatred and malevolence had been made for years to the Christian nations whose duty it was to afford them protection, but it was unheeded until the ruthless murder of women and childven shocked all civilized mankind. Even then the powers manifested no great disposition to act and it was not till the mighty voice of Gladstone was heard in protest against the almost indescribable atroci- tles of the Turk in Armenia that a se- rious move was made in behalf of the cruelly oppressed and brutally outraged people of that conutry. Until then the disposition of the powers seemed to be to accept the explanation and the ex- cuses of the Turkish government and it is altogether probable that but for the attitude and utterances of the great British statesman, who although out of power still exerts a greater influence than any of his countrymen, Turkey would not have been called to account as has been doue and a demand wade which | | Jeeted to persecution and cruelty | Mussulman is an for reforms in_ tl menda. Perhnps- the mo; reforms is the tirement that gov- ernors or vice govepnors shall be Chrls tians and thatSfie approval of the vowers shall be necessary o the selec tion of these At"-uln. Hitherto only Musstlmen hav d these offices and thus the Christiapg of Armenia have been raled by implgeable religious ene- mies, always lobking for an excuse to persecute them. This and the other reforms proposed wEhich the sultan has manifested a willingness to adopt, will undoubtedly impiove the conditions in Armenia, but what ought to be done s to free that lpAd absolutely from Turkish control, for until that is done there cannot be complete assurance that the Armenians will not be sub. The anachronism in con tact with Christian civilization and should not be permitted to continue in that relation. government of Are BICYCLING ABROAD. One of the noteworthy differences e tween legislation in the United States and abroad is that, whereas here we never have governmental regulation of ny pursuit or industry until after abuses I opped out and demanded remedy, ropean countries undertake to prescribe rules and rvegulations as K00n A% ANy new enterprise gives prom- ise of interfering with the public con- venience, Only that the bicycle has assumed the magnitude of a craze are we beginning to talk about restrict- ing the license of wheelmen, Germany, on the other hand, has for several ¥ t least had in force specitic and stringent regulations which bicyelists have been compelled to obser A wheelman who lived for some time in Munich long ago divulged his experience with the authorities of that city through the columns of the New York Tribune, and while in the whole interview the tone of the speaker is flippant and inclined to treat the mat- tor an illustration of officious p: ternalism the facts are deserving of more serfous consideration. When after taking a course of indoor lessons on the wh the pupil” broached to his insteuctor the subjeet of going out to ride the latter informed him that he would attend to sending the preliminary papers to the police. The papers were an application to the Board of Police Commissioners for the privilege of examination and an en- dorsement of the pupil's candidacy that of a quiet, law abiding, moral per son who had ntfaiped a sufficicnt pre ficiency the wheel. Within a day the retupn mail brought an of- ficlal notice from the police department that the applicant, had been accepted a candidate for”exammation in bi- cyele riding and 1 summons to app at a deslgnated street corner at a desig nated hour prepared to’undergo the re- quired test. mination was con- ducted with i After identitication wis auested to uu?V Dbloc veturn and dismo test, are assured, was by no means difficult. The sneee ates paid a small feo and received in return several of- ficial documents from the police depart ment. Chief among them was a long list of rules and regulations, telling explicitly where bieyelists are not per- mitted to ride, a card bearing name Al number to be presented on demand v inspection by the police officers, and an enameled numbered steel plate to be afixed to the machine. And we are further assured that all the rules regulations were strictly enforc Bieyelists in America would, of course, feel as if they were wantonly perse- cuted if they were asked to go through a procedure of this kind before being permitted to pursue their pleasure on the busy city streets. Yet some regu- lation by the ety authorities is abso- lutely necessary to protect both wheel- men and pedestr When bicyclists are ed to observe reasonable rules in our cities they should think how much less molested they are than some of their European fellows, © now not as door on or so ant fow 5 The we PROPERTY RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN At a recent meeting of one of the de- partments of the Omaha Woman's club a resolution was debated and adopted which, after veciting various “where- ases,” among,_them that the property ights of women, though differing in many states, in none of them are equal in privilege to those accorded men, and that in many states a woman is not entitled to the disposition of her own earnings after marriage, nor to but a troetion of her deceased hugband’s prop- erty, though it may have been the re- sult of her labors equally with his, en- ters a protest “‘against such injustice, which often works finaneial nin - to women, which is liable to take from them the fruits of their own labors and which at all times shows an unfeir dis- erimination against the sex. The dis- cussion and adoption of such a resolu tion by a body of Nebraska women in- evitably conveys the inference that are protesting against some in- justice under Which they are suffering. Its tendency ¥ to] lead people to be- leve, and it wis. probably intended for that purpose, that: there is an unfair discrimination “dgainst women in the matter of thelr property rights in Ne- braska. In thig'the complaint is mis- leading and uniruf. There is no dis- erimination ungder, the laws of Ne- braska agalnst, women with respect to their property rights. The common law, to be sure, placedcthe married woman under disabilitfes 'that virtually gave her property add ‘her earnings to her husband. Bll!“‘# this state the com- won law has Been entirely supplanted by statute, which expressly defines and safeguards the property. rights of mar- ried women. What are the privileges of married women In Nebraska? The property, real and personal, which any woman in this state may own at the time of her marriage, and the rents, issues, profits or proceeds thereof, and any property which may come to her by descent, devise or gift of any person except her husband, or which she may acquire by purchase or otherwise, re- mains her sole and separate property notwithstanding her marriage. A mar- importamt of these | rled wonmn may bargnin, soll and con- vey her property, ‘and enter- into any contrnot with reference-to the same in the same wanner” to-the same extent and with like effect as o married man may in relation to his preperty. A married woman may - sne ‘and be sued in the same manner as if unmarried. A married woman may carry on trade or business and perform any labor or servicos on her sole and separate ac- count; and her earnings and profits are ler sole and separate property, and may be used and invested by her in her own name. Under these laws Ne- braska courts have held that a wife may become a ereditor of her husband; that she may sue him on his note; that she may contract with him and enforce the obligation. A wife's separate prop- erty is not llable for her husband’s debts, except for necessaries furnished the family after execution is returned unsatisfied. A husband is bound to sup- port his wife, but a wife Is under no obligation to support her husband. Her written consent is necessary to the alienaton of all real propel in which she may have a dower interest, just as lier husband’s is necessary to the alien- ation of her real property. All in all, the statutes of Nebraska aim to the married woman precisely the same rights and the same privileges respect ing her property and her earnings that they accord the married man. Before any set of women complain of injustice they ought to make sure that they have a grievance. There is no doubt that use of the bicyele has very m reduced the income of st in all American ei 1t stands to rea- son that men and women of the middle elass are constantly compelled to prac tice economies and the bieyele affords them the opportunity for husbanding their resources and saving part of their carnings, that the Dbicycle saves for each individual two car fares a day in coming and golng to their workshops, stores and offices, that means a saving of G0 cents a week, or a loss to the street railway companies of $60 a week for every 100 bieyclists. In a city where 1,000 of the two-wheelers in use that means deerense of $600 a week, or $31,200 a year in the carnings of the street Twa In some Eer es the number of bi- from, 3,000 to 5,000, with losses to the street railway interests of from £100,000 to $200,000 a year. the extensive terially Suppose are Merely u Claim. Philadelphia Times. Admirers of the new woman claim for her such perfection of judgment that in life's problems she'll hit the nail on the head every time. New FPerils for Men. New York Sun If Niypnotism Is to be used by women as a political force in the way it has bien used by a Konsas woman statesman, to the discom- fiture of a rival man politiclan, some means will b to be found of guarding man poli- ticlans against the wiles of the woman hyp- notists. We guess it will have to come to this, that a man shall never be let out ex- cept in the company of his wife, He can bet his money on her, every time, when any other female hypnotist gets in his way. A Cry Kansis City Star. The national horror of the word ‘‘retired" still asserts Iitself. Yet in the nature of things it should not be so. The old should make way for the young. For the continued cry of “more” the blessed word ‘‘enough’ should be substituted. Sixty years of toil ought to satisfy the man hungriest for work, it he has made sufficfent provision for the future. If he can retire from active com- petition at 45 so much the better. The world is full of pleasures and delights for those who ate too blind and too busy to see them. There is no danger that the observance of Mr. Harrison’s example will breed a spirit of sluggishness and idleness. On the con trary it will enlarge the national scope, open the eyes of men (g the beautles of life that come as the reward of industry and show its effect on future generations in a happler, healthier, more contented and more appreci- ative race. And Americans will live longer and live better. The Woman’s Bible, Chicago Post, The attack of the new woman on the King James bible will be observed with interest Where it does not alarm. It was a rare in- spiration that caused Mrs. Stanton to suspect that the subjection of the sex was due to certain misconceptions of passages In the bible relating to women. It was a rarer im- pulse that forced her to believe that the final emancipation of her sisters could only be gecured by revising the scripturés. Any one can see what & wall to equal suffrage such a passage as this could be: “But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in &ilence.” There are many such. It would be a shock to the world if Mrs. Stanton should prove that those old bishops, priests and doc- tors of Oxford wickedly distorted the transla- tion in order to bring womankind into subjec- tion. We had thought better of them. But let the truth prevail. It may be that Lot himselt was turned into a pillar of salt, —— e A Victim of Hard Luck. Omaha Mercury. Once in a while a lawyer has hard luck, Hon. John W. Johnston, recently of Omaha, and a member of our last legislat has had awfully bad luck the past few yea He came to Omaha from Kirksville, Mo., and Just before leaving that town his house burned Qown. Bad luck. He got the insurance. He came to Omaha. More bad luck. He opened a law office and didn't do much business. More bad Juck. The 150,000 people in Omaha clected him to the late legislature. More bad luck. Of all the boodle money dispensed at Lincoln the past winter Johnston didn’t get a cent (7). Wasn't that awful luck. He came back to Omaha and his house here burned down with $3,000 fnsurance on it He got $2,700 Insurance croney. More hard luck. He has now gone to Okla- homa to live, and ocur people will not get a chance to re-eleet him to the legislature. Still more hard luck. Johnston ought to carry a rabbit's foot In his pocket, et e Landlords and Bleycles. Times-Herald. There is little question that landlords in certain of the residenco districts in each di- vision of the city have suffered somewhat in the matter of renting for the present year. Some surprise has been manifested why this should be 80, and why houses that have her tofore been gladly taken at $600 or $800 a year should now go begglng for tenants. In truth, this year has been called the tenant's year on that account, but this reason is not alto- gether sufficient. Why fs it that so many pleasant dwellings have been neglected and that a general flit- ting has taken place? It is because of the bicyeles. Young hous holders and married people with smail fam lies have discovered that the bicycle has solved the transportation problem. Not only these, but clerks and employes of both sexes have made the same discovery. To a person who can ride a wheel it matters little wheth he lives three miles or ten miles from his place of business, nor does he care whether he is near the “eclevated” or the “cable” or the “steam cars.” With little exertion he can ride at the rate of ten miles an hour, and that will allow him to live in a very far suburb indeed. The result is that this year people have been buylng bicycles and renting houses or securing boarding places in the far boundaries of the eity. This is the reason why landlords are still looking for tenants In some of the most de- sirable residence districts of the city, SECULAR SHOTS AT TRE PULPIT. St. Paul Ploneer-Press: sociation of English wemen has lately pib- lished its eloventh annval report report it 1s joyfully announced that the first three converts ha widow and her two sons, resuit of eleven: yoars' work, the.expmulitures | o during that period having been over $20,000. Comment is superfluous. Indianapolls Journal on the program of the Preshyterian g assembly, which has just convened at Pitis- burg. are no “hereties" . perhaps, authority Smith varlety neither lessen the number of independent church to an intelligent and liberal public. Minneapolis man learers read the modern novel, of culture, and, it need be, half, J What this clergyman sald was full of common sense, marked, drift of Tatest men now living such a suggestion from the pulpit would hardly have been tolerated. It Is fair, the novel has ex half of the century, as well as the views of the chu . Kansas City the marria Charlie Ying, and Presbyterian been discontinued. said, lacked reproach consequent upon that action. ever heretofore Chinese commended. become familiar with Christian religion he can do so through the ordinary channels. th Philadelphia Press: meeting of th society has become a matter of history it Is interesting to note how the claims the presi- dent of the society, Mahatmas are recelved As a rule, waste on the fantastic humbugs that from time to time gain notoriety and then slink away; other delusions, lowing, rapidly in proportion to the preposterousness of its claims. sailing, anizatlon scientist, spoke of compliments 1o America, or as many as can be found, and I want -to’ give them some sound, wholesome advice. fools; secondly, can; and, These three heads sum up all I can say to gullible, easily duped people who have been influenced by stecrer, who keeps a_bucketshop of wisdom in New York City. question of theosophy, both in its psychologi- cal and ethical aspects, and the have reached is it s a vile, bug.” give | Judge Goft fourteenth amendment though the Evans fall. There fs no immediate prospect of Judge Carolina’s historic hospitality. John P. St. the silver concert ment are a professional secret. The graphic manner in which Havana cor- respondents paralyze the revolutionists sug- gests that deadly work. About the lonesomest of the scenic wonders of the Rocky mountains are the golden sunsets, and unlimited coinage. The avenworth, . and ove browsing. Before reports of frost destruction down e well to remember that when the peach crop He Cdid iIs utterly ruined in spring the are unusually abundant. Bill figures on the politic are the famous cowboy shirt. Bx-President Harrison's farewell address to By a jury in Indlanapolis was & most successful v effort. ing $650,000, and as Harrison succeeded in having the will set aside he earned a feo of $15,000. Senator Teller and ex-Congressman Bland amnounce that they will leave their respective parties unless they endorse the silver hobby. . s Strange to say this old planet continues its diurnal rounds without any outward mani- festation of friction In Its axis. The most versatile and numerous citizen of Chicago_is 0'Malley. municipal pay rolls and he drew his stipends with amazing regularity. citizen average of thirteen days a week and energy enough left to appe wicket on schedule time. Chicagoans was not oxhausled with the World's fair. A resient of slospy. Brooklyn manages to keep both oyes peeled for number one. He fs n surgeon of fractured bicycles and man- ages fo work up oconsiderable business by scattering tacks where they promote that preumatic tire feeling. A misslonary as- In this Just been baptized-ra This I8 the spirityal Bvery day brings evidence of rosistance to reform in New York. A local court i3 mow ronsting the sherlff for permitting a prisoner 1o take & bath. Probably a semi-centennial ablution was not included In the reform platform, or else the operation removed some evidence of crime. Several generationg ego Dr. Willlam Harvey discovered the elrculation of the blood. A Kinsman in our day discovered how to im- prove the circulation of money and raked in a moderate fortune. The first discovery was a medical triumph, the latter a clever in- dlvidual scoop on a silver basis. Some of the fashionable ladles in New York, when asked to take part In “‘tableaux vivant” for the benefit of a charity, agreed, but now that the representations have been called “living pictures” they have ralsed an outery and withdrawn their consent to pose. Whi difference the tipping of a little Frenct otimes, even though it {s & synonym of an English expression! — Conrta Martial Supreme. Qlobe-Democrat court has decided that all in the army and navy, as well as those in the militia, while in the service of the United States, are at all times subject to military law, and that court-martial sentences cannot be set aside or reviewed ki Ll ¢ civil tribunals on writs of habeas corpus. oA ion¥ 1% | That 13 to say, when a man enters the army Nad* buan h”:" ;““"“‘L‘L“““nl’“ -th" \\l or navy he ceases to be a citizen in the sense ad been toaching in the school | of having the right of appeal to the elvil ce the ridicule courts, and Is bound to submit to the military What- | code under all cireunms cot N nnistances. s nuance of the style of teaching lars i3 to be friend desires truths of the No heresy trials are cral 1t ‘does not follow, however, that there in Presbyterian pulpits. It wning upon the brethren in that trials of the NBriggs and | thinkers nor commend their Times recommends from An orthodox clergy- his pulpit that his as & means plead in its Is an evidence that the world do m and it s probably true, as he that the best way ‘to catch the modern_thought™ is to read the novels. But within the memory of re- howe to note that the range of nded greatly In this latter The suprome officers and men Star: As a direct result of e of Miss Kdna May Sharp and the Chinese laundryman, the sse Sun school of the First Cumber- who the the cause, the prevailing Sunday school If our Oriental the Minnebaha Weeps. Minneapolis Times. Among_the sensational statements of the press dispatches one notices with alarm that A. P. A. is going Into politics. This great organization has resisted the corroding effects of politics for a long time, and it s sad to see it now succumb. —— to & monepoly DOMESTIC IDYLS, in this country. Ch ¥ ‘;‘ m ple have Httle time to |, Chicago Post: “Well, young b IR, ken Miss' Jasper for I understand.” Not much he hasn't. like | her $100,000 dowry. large fol- the more ‘amma Times: Sad-Faced Madam, I'am a homeless man. —Patjent Housewife—Well, If you are home less than my husband is, 1 pity your poor wife. Now that the recent American Theosophical Mr. Judge, busy Bennington better or worse, but He's taken her for the Theosophical society, has an unusually and it seems to grow Tramp— And yet it is not all smooth the first blast against the or- comes from the well known | Judge: He—I don't Prot. Elliott Coues, who recently | gugements, do you, ML the new cult as follows: “My [Mr. Bunthorn; I prefe the theosophists of North | of them. and belleve in long ene Alithea? She—No, short ones and many Leslie's Weekly: Old De Whiskers—I have Tife insured for $0,000 in your favor, those who wish it can remain anything else 1 '‘can do to pleass let them get unfooled if they | you? Mrs. De Whiskers (his young wife)— third, turn fakers if they must. carth, sir Jack is First, hateful felloy Judge, n psychological bunco 11d some other girl if 1 refused him.” I have investigated the Detroit Free Press: Snooper—I think that Cubbage must be a well informed man.'” Swayback—Indeed? Snooper—Yes, His wife tells him all she hears. nclusion I wicked hum- oo Lot Sy PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Indianapolis Journal story of a man who says he never made love to a girl in his life. o you belleve it? He—It may be true. Some fellows make & specialty of widows, you know. Judge: Mrs. terrible’ quarrel Jones—Well, 1 don't sec what there Is in that to mike you look #o happy. Mrs. Brown--There is'a $20 hat in it when he con- cludes to apologize! Here is the is determined to uphold the Brown—I hav Just with my hu band. had a being e invited to partake of South John has added his volce to The terms of the engage- Journal: Whyte developed biceps you ha dumb bells or Indian clubs? Browne—Nelther; but [ nearly three hours’ev Somerville What a well Do you use the latter are getting in their walk night the floor and most neglected Boston Gilobe: Papa (soberly)—That was quite a_monstrosity you had in the parlor one g G (nettled) pend upon one: term “monst Paba (hougnt ol one palr of should nothwithstanding free -Indeed! That must understanding of de- widow of thia Kan., sting of which Judge Lucien Scott of bosses a small farm in 0,000 acres, all fenced 6,000 to 7,000 cattle are cons , two heads upon TWO OF A KIND. Life. Without her leave he stole a kiss. Oh, biiss! A sharp command was promptly his: i ‘J\Ifl |)ll|l that back, lkh'll you thi: nere It belongs,” spoke haughty mis He did! Oh, biiss Bt P e WHERE LOVE 15, absorbing as undiluted truth the st it Is fall returns Mahone, the erstwhile boss of the Dominion, is now one of the unique shelves of Washing- left of his former glory hat and the frilled All that is Cleveland Plain Dealer, not the ditty sung shallow pated’ loon, lisping tongue, to the midnight moon; N plighted’ vow 3 stand, w !nlw bridal trappin, the brow And jewels grace the hand. Love i The case was a will contest, involy- Love 1s not the promise bold, manhood glven; blinding fash of gold That shuts the soul from heaven; It_lieth not n costly gifts Nor splendor of display, Nor yel, through boatted 'valor, sifte il e ) The beauty of its ray. His name appeared on thirty-one Love is a passion, burning still Like pure and quenchless flame, Sorrow or joy, or good or fll, May find It ever the same: A silent message from the heart, Richer than human speech— A volceless gong no human art May hope to teach. Another eminent to work the city on an had r at the cashier's ‘The enterprise of managed It’s Only a Dude Who goes to the merchant tailor now-a-days to get his clothes—gets a stand-off most likely. You can stand off and look at him without exciting any envy on your part, because you know that we make up just as good suits for $10, $12.50 and $15 as you can get at the tailor shop at any price. Nobody can tell the difference. Wear as long, look as well, We're ready to trade back any time you think you don’t get your money's worth. Rownmcl(m(:ac Reliable Clothiers, S.W, Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts.