Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1895, Page 4

OMAHA DAlLy BE:. . EDITOR. o (Without Sunday e and Sunday, One “orner N and th Sts or of Commerco. Tribune BIAg. W PONDENCE. na relating to addr swed RUSINESS LETTERS, siness letters and remittances should be The Lee Publishing Company, ehecks and postoftice orders €6 t the order of the company PUBLISHING COMPANY. CORRE Al communicat torinl matter should and edie Editor, To the Al 1 addressol Omaha, Dr Lo made pa THE abin BER STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Georgo 1, T woretary of The Iee Mshing comps ni duly sworn, the actunl number of Tull and comy the Daily Morning, Evening and printed during the month of February as follows Sunday 1595, was 13 10,7 15 Bl 1€ 1 T 19671 19,653 2400 10'61 19541 3 Total : Lews deductions Feturne copien o ot sales averng GEORGE B, and subscribed in my pres March FEI Notary Publie Old Vesuvius is reported aga state of explosive eruption, and o is the governor of South Carolina. The Wizard telephone is all right, but the wizard who hypnotized people in these parts to in t their capital is a smooth cal. A long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together by our merchants and manufacturers will make the coming state fair a deawing card, Kate Field is no declares Indignantly that there such thing the new woman. Kate never sees anybody in the looking glass but herself. The rush of the boomers fnto the Kickapoo reservation is in striking con- teast with the squatters’ vefusal to budge from the Winnebago reservation. The pot rustlers and howling dervishes will not be allowed to name the men who are to manage the affairs of this city and county during the next two years. Now that Henry Irving has been knighted the price of admission will be raised to a guinea. A real knight play- ing on the stage is an extraordinary attraction. he American people have no r to feel proud over the snobocratic per- formances of American petroleum and patent medicine avistoeracy on the other side of the Atlanti iy vear onr amiable ver-tongned contemporary will insist upon a straight ‘democratic midee-of-the-road ticket, Next it will insist upon a fusion between the democrats and populists. International bimetallism ground in Europe. Germany is getting ready to take the initiative, but the friends of silver in Europe have no ldea of attemipting to restore the old ratio of 16 to 1. is gaining Kansas City papers are in dead ear- nest about booming that town up to half a million population and they in- vite proposals and suggestions. It seems to us there ought to be no trouble about that. It Is only a matter of time- about A. D. 3000, Four thousand American passenger tourists sailed on the Atlantic ocean steamers from the port of New York for Lurope Saturday. At the estimate of $1,000 for each tourist this American contingent will distribute $4,000,000 among foreign nationalities. A moder- ate estimate of the season’s total output of coin by American tourists is $50,- 000,000, and the chances are that the estimate is less than half of the actual amount that Americans will expend for travel abroad. Compared with this the amount expended by foreign sightscers in this country will be a mere baga- telle. The voting machine will soon crowd out the machine politicians who serve their country for $6 a day as judges and clerks of election. According to the New York Tribune, the Myers vot Ing machine which was used in Mount Vernon, one of the suburban towns of New York, last week, was a complete success, The voting was done rapidly and aithout any confusion or hitches, and within ten minutes after the closing of the polls the result was announced. Delegations were present from New ork, Boston, Philadelphia and else- svhere, and all agree that voting by machine is the coming fad. It will be Dborne in mind that among the constitu- tional amendments to be voted on in this state at the general election of 1 18 a proposition to substitute the voting machine for the present slow and con- fusing ballot system. Chicago Inaugurated a new departure in postal transmission last Saturday by an experiment with a street railway postal ear attached to one of the cable road trains. Postmaster Hesing of Chi- engo asserts by this system Chicago will enjoy better facilities for the collection and distribution of mails than any large city in the world. When the trial period of ninety days with the exper mental car has expired similar cars are 10 be placed on street ear lnes reaching all outlying postal stations. It Is pro- posed to have the city postal mall cars manned and equipped in the same mavuer for the distribution of mail while these ears are running as the raillway postal car, so that mails will be all sorted when transferred on the street postal car at the respective de pots or at the postoffice. The greatest advantage of this system will, however, be derived from expediting of the city mails [ main points of this decision sustained | (0 FE T | the in | tion THE LAST TELEPHONE DECISION. The decision of the United States cl cuit court of appeals in Boston, favor- able to the validity of the Berliner nt owned by the Bell Telephone ympany, will prolong the life of the monopoly if it shall be sustained by the supreme court. It will also prob ably embarrass the operations of the telephone companies which have been incorporated and begun within the last few months, or since the decision of the supreme court in the Bate case, which was hailed as putting an end to the Bell monopoly. A short time ago Cir- cuit Judge Carpenter rendered a decl- sion declaring the Berliner patent, granted in 1801, to be void, the original suit having been instituted by the gov- ernment against the Bell company. The | the contention of the government that | Berliner patent of 1801 was prac. tically the same device which had been patented by the same inventor in 1880, | and that the Bell company had dishon- estly delayed the issue of the patent order to keep alive their monopoly | after the expiration of another patent. | The company took the case up to the cireuit court of appeals, which reversed the decision of the lowertcourt upon the points noted. What is the practical effect of the sel ting aside of that decision is a ques that Is being discussed and there is a wide difference of opinion on it. It is held by some that the effect of the decision of the circuit court of appeals is to extend the monopoly to the year 1008, the full term of seventeen years from the time the patent was issued. On the other hand it is pointed out that there was a decision by the supreme court not very long ago in what is known as the Bate refrigerator se which may have Kkilled the Berline patent, and that such is the case if it n be shown that a patent for the same device has been obtained in a foreign country and has run its course ther It will be recalled by those who are in- terested in the matter that the supreme court decided that patents in the United States which had been previously taken out in a foreign country expire with the foreign patents. Berliner himself is said to have taken out a patent for his device in 1880 in gland, where it has expired. It is also s the device in the American patent has been cov- ered abroad by other patents, now ex- pired, which were issued to American applicants. 1f these alleged facts can be established the supreme court will not confirm the decision of the circuit court of appeals and the last effort of the Bell Telephone company to per- petuate its monopoly will fail. The opinion is expressed that in any event the Bell company will not be able to control the telephone busin®ss. The Electrical Engineer says that whatever be the result of the appeal in the gov- ernment case the progress of telephony in the United States will not receive any serious check from the recent deci- sion, which has somewhat complicated the situation, but does not appear to narrow the telephonic field in any essen- tial particular. LAST YEAIt AND THIS YEAR. The World-Herald never charged that Jim Allan was a “howling dervish.” He is en- tirely too good natuied a creature to be gullty of such an awful breach of the peace. Nor did we ever accuse him of being a “‘pot rustler.” We did say that Jim Allan and his associates were not the proper men to represent Douglas county in the legislature. The Bee combated this idea, and with the exception of Herman Timme The Bee swal- lowed the whole republican ticket—'‘howling dervish,” “pot rustler” and all.—World- Herald, There are none so blind as those who will not see. The is almost as much difference between the issues that were fought out last fall and the issues that ‘e to come up for decision this fall as there Is between a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut. L year the all- absorbing issue in Douglas county was the United States senatorship. On that issue The Bee was willing to sacrifice its choice between reputable and re- spectable democrats and republican pot rustlers and howling dervishes to its convictions on national ues. In that game of chess it was good play to sac- rifice a few legislative pawns for the senatorial queen. The me this fall will be played on entirely different lines. It will not be necessary to sur- render the government of the city and county to pot rustlers and corner loafers in order to maintain par v at Washington or anywhere re will be neither democrats, nor republicans, nor populists when it comes to saving the city from t eaters and agitators who want to de- poil the taxpayers and prey upon the community by stirring up sectarian contention while waving the stars and stripes and glorifying the little red sehool house. In that irrepressible amiable contemporary is, of course, going to p into the hands of the rapseallions. This is the nature of the beast and always will be so long as it is managed on the dog-in-the-manger principle. Its policy Is to oppose every- thing The Bee advocates, and as The Bee 18 right about ninety-nine times out of a hundred the W.-H. seldom fails to do the wrong thing at the right time. This was conspienously true during the prohibition campaign of 1890, The Bee took positive ground against the prohi- bition amendment, and its editor as- sumed the task of organizing the cam- paign at the urgent request of promi- nent citizens. That was enough to turn the digestive apparatus of our amiable contemporary and caused it to predict defeat unless the Jonah, Rose- water, was thrown overboard. ‘“The fight went on in spite of the fire in the rear and the prohibition amendment was buried under a mountain of over 50,000 majority to the surprise and dis- gust of the double-barreled. History will repeat itself this fall. The threatened five in the re will only arouse the men who have enlisted to redeem the city from pot rustlers, howl- ing dervishes and dark-lantern schemers to greater activit, The Rosewater bogie has lost its terrors in this com- wunity long ago. Last fall's campaign conflict our in | that afforded striking proof of that fact. There was enough ammunition ex- ploded over the head of Rosewater to make a breach in the fortress of Gib- raltar, but it was a waste of powder THE OMAHA and metal. That lesson ought to have created a Insgting fmpression, but the bourbons and fools are not all dead yet. MAKING PROGRESS ABROAD. Yestorday's dispatches from London amd Berlin conveyed reassuring infor- mation regarding the progress In Great Britain and Germany of the cause of bimetallism. It appears that the Brit- ish Bimetallic league is earrying on a vigorous -~ campaign with good effect. Connected with this organization are men prominent and influential in pol itics and in financial and business af- fairs and it seems they are steadily Kking additions to thelr ranks of men wlho can be of great service in promot- ing the cause. A genel election in Great Britain is believed to be an event All the indications point to an early dissolution of Parlia ment and an appeal to the people. Whenever that time comes it is thought the question of bimetallism will figure more or less prominently in the campaign. In the event of con wive sueeess, which would probably elevate Balfour to the premiership, it is certain that the cause of bimetallism would be greatly advanced. It has no stronger or me rnest advocate in Great Brit- ain than Mr. Balfour, whose recent utterances show a profound conviction of the necessity of the nations enferir into an arrangement for the Dbetter recognition and larger use of silver, and can be no doubt that should he come prime minister of England he would give countenance to an effort to bring about such an arran The statement that bimetallism is making progress in Germany it is casy to believe in view of recent events which gave unmistakable evidence of a wide- spread sentiment favorable to an inter- national agreement regarding silver, The votes in the Reichstag and the Prussian Diet had a significance which it would not be easy to underrate. An effort has been made to show that they were really of no great importance, either a reflection of public a demand upon the govsenment to Jdn something, but it is plain fhat this is not the view of the government, which has no desire to eall a con, sider the question of improving the position of silver. Tt has been stated that Emperor William is manifesting a very great interest in the subject of bi- metallism and is studying it, which itself indicates that he regards the bi- metallic movement as one which the government is bound to take notice of. Tt is belleved that the Bundesrath will empower the government to invite an International monetary conference s it is quite possible that this may done within the next few months, Tt is presumed that everybody under- 1ds that the policy of himetallism as advoeated in Gr Britain and Ger. many has nothing in common with the free silver agitation in the United States. European bimetallists have no sympathy with American silverites, but on the contrary properly regard the ad- vocates in this country of free, un- limited and independent silver coinage as the worst enemies of the white metal. TOWA'S GIRAND OLD MAN. his year an opportunity is offered to the republicans of Towa which should not be permitted to pass unimproved. The times are auspic of old-time repnblic o e ament. s sentiment or as ross to con- be ous for a revival n enthusiasm and there is something about the names of former which seems to aceord with the true spirit and which makes them names to conjure with, The elec. tion to congre by a phenome m. Jority of ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow is an illustration of this fact. In lowa ex Senator James Harlan is in the field for the gubernatorial nomination, and his selection as the standard beaver of the in the coming state campaizn would undoubtedly arouse marked en- thusiasm among the rank and file result in his election by a tremendous majority. Mr. Harlan unites in him- self many elements of popularity. His distinguished public eareer has been contemporaneous with the life of the vepublican party. Ie entered the sen- ate of the United States in 1855 and immediately took his stand with Sum- ner and Seward and Wilson in opposing the arrogant demands of the slavoet . Von Holst notes his advent in the sen- ate in these words: “lowa, hitherto veritable hot-bed of dough faces, now reinforced the little band of ‘abolition- in the senate by Harlan.” He was a splendid specimen of physical manhood and was intellectually the peer of his contemporaries. The war brovght him into greater prominence. Blaine spes of him as one of Abra- ham Lincolu most ued and most confidential friends, “not hasty in judg- ment, but thoughtful and retlective and aiming always to be just in his conclu- sions.” Lincoln gave unmistakable ex- pression to his personal liking when he called Mr. Harlan into his cabinet. Throughout the storm and stress of war and reconstruction Harlan bore a most distinguished part. And later, again in the senate, he stood the un- swerving friend of Grant and repelled with powerful effect the invidious at- acks made upon the soldier president by the disgruntled and hostile leaders in his own party. Mr. Harlun has been always proud of the state which has so highly honored him and which, by high endeavor, he has so signally honored in return. His wish to crown his carcer with a term as chief executive of that great com- monwealth Is a natural and laadable one. His nomination and consequent election would attract the eyes of re publicans everywhere to Iowa. No s campaign of the present year would afford a tithe of the interest which the reappearance in publie life of this grand old apostle of early republicanism would lend to the campaign in Towa. It will do eredit to the mind and heart of Iowa republicanism to make James Harlan the next governor of that imperial state. leaders, and President Draper of the University of Illinols, in discussing the needs of the public schools before the High School Teachers' association at Chicago Satur- day, made the following declaration: “No city ean have good schools if they are to be dominated by politiclans and honeycombed with politics. The schools must aiw to be free from religious sec- of | DAILY BEE: tarlanism and political partisanship. The Amerfean people are not ignorant of the worldig, ljistory.” This is the keynote of edwentional reform. It ap- plies with eqnift! force to the public schools of Omali as it does to those of | Chicago or any ofher city. | The Memphid platform is pronounced | by the Londoh ™tiines as a veiled threat | to wavering dgmacrats. The Thunderer | 1s not well iformed about American | affairs, as usyal. | The wavering demo- ats are fn the majority in the demo- ratic camp amd they are not likely to | be driven in by ¥eiled threats or open threats. Smushing 1 Buftalo ¥ The A. P. A. was beaten at the polls in Au- burn on Tucsday. It is a slgn of the times — Biblical Varioty. Globe-Democrat As there is already a Breeches bible the version Mrs. Cady Stanton Is preparing will have to be called the Bloomers bible. p - h Bl Beyan's, for Instanee. Courler-Journal An answer of ( o's Covington speech by any of our free silver leaders would be | like the effort of some wild sea-bird to over- turn the rc wind-winged, feather-headed momentum. Indianapolis News at Issue in the 1 likely, there os. The business indifferent, will be at f silver becomes the g campalgn, as now s bo a great many surpr world, which is usually the polls. —— Passing of Financlal Fietion. Portland_ Oregonfan. Since real people have begun to ask and answer “Coln’s" questions the fame of the in- fant prodigy in the science of finance dwin- dles daily. It makes a vast difference whether questions are arswered by their own pro- pounder or by some one else. v and the Fact. Times-Herald The silver men promise the farmer a dollar a_bushel for his wheat if free coinage is adopted. This is a promise, The late frosts and the Hessian fiy are aily driving the price of wheat up toward the dollar mark. This io a fact. AR W Kates M st The From: Chicag Louls Re 'he managers of the American Bell Tele- phone company and the local companies rep- resenting it here elsewhere may as_well make up their minds about one thing. Tele- phone rates must ccme down. Public ment Is one on this question. Bryan and fron ol Chicago Times-Herald. Young Mr. Bryan of Nebraska can do him- self no good by attacking Secretary Carlis for having changed his opinion on silver coin- age. Lycurgus put into operation the free and unlimited coinage of iron, but even young Mr. Bryan doesn't believe that iron would make good money now—at least, it is to be hoped he doesn't. s et Bayard's soglomania. New “York Tribune. Ambassador Bayard will witness the great noval gathering At Kiel from Sir John Pe der's private yaeht, on which he is to be a guest. It is really too bad that Mr. Bayard could not detach himself fronw his English associations for the time being and consent to attend the ceremonies on board some one of the fine American cruisers which are to be there. senti- 5. R A bk Trath, Chicago Mall. Two-thirds of the men who scoff at members of the Woman's club for opposing the ad mission of colored women would promptly blackball a colored man proposed for member. ship In their own club. This proves nothing against the colored person, but merely demon strates the overpowering inclination of the Caucasian to preach more than he is willing to practice. - Bowuty and Urains, New York Sun. The old foolishness that women of learn- ing, or eloquence, or brain, are never pretty or even good locking, is extinct, and has been put on the upper shelf among the dead scarabs of old Egypt. In this generation we have woman professors, lectur scholars, authors, politicians, and philosophers, who are Leantiful, indeed—far more beautiful than those brainless women of old who left noth- ing better than their pictures for our in- struction. —_—————— A Quaint Compound, Kansas City Star. The peace proclamation of the emperor of China it a remarkable mixture of wisiom and superstition. It declares that continuance of the war was rendered impossible by the gross incompetence of the leaders and the terrible condition of the country, and clinches the argument with the words Heaven had not withheld its augury. The sea overflowed the coast and the camps were submerged An enlightened reform administration would seem to be imperative in the Celestial realm. S Modifying the Jury System. Chicago Tnter Ocean. The Utah constitutional convention has broken away from the old jury law common to all the older states. The Utah constitu- tion. provides for juries of eight instead of twelve, and that the agreement of three- fourths of the eight will be sufficient to con- stitute a verdict in civil cases. Such a re- form of the jury law has been agitated in thoe older states for years, as It has been ap- parent that one or two men could be placed on every jury for the express purpose of pre- venting a verdict. But the carping critics will not give the people of Utah credit for any real reform. They will see in this new law only an effort to allow the Mormons to control without having every member of the Jury. It will be just as well to wait and see before indulging in such criticism. Whether Mormons or non-Mormons are responsible for this innovation, it is in line with the best recommendations from the ablest men in the older states, and should have a fair trial in Utah with a view to noting whether it will be an improvement on the ol jury system. e General Schofleld Not a Candidate. Colonel J. M. Carson, Washington corre- spondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, an authority on military matters, makes the following comment on the alleged candidacy of General Schofield: he suggestion that General Schofield Is utilizing his official trip in the inspection of the army to bring himself forward as a can- didate for the presidency does that distin- guished officer great injustice. Few men in the country are o {ree from partisan feeling as General Schofleld, So far as he has any partisan fecling he' leans to the democratic side, but he has ha( sd little to do with poli- ties' that nelther pafty can claim him, and no act or utterance of Yis for many years can be cited that would indicate what his feel- ings are as betwegn the two political par- ties. It can be confidehtly said that General Schofleld had no thbught of political conven- tions nor partisan nominations when he left Washington, and th#t his tr'p was undertaken and will be devoted strictly to making an inspection of the principal army posts, that he may put his observations in a final re- port to the presidént; before retiring from active service. 'Genéral Schofield is not likely to have his honorable retirement dis- turbed by dreams of political ambition, and has been too keen in ‘observer of public af- fairs to commit the folly of permitting him- self to be made the 'puppet of scheming poll- ticlans. It is safe to say that General Scho- fleld is not and will not be made a candidate for a political nomination. k of Gibraltar by force of its own | MRS, COIN AT SCHOOL, Chicago Times-Herald. “Husband," sald Mrs. Coin, as she untied her bonnet and proceeded to put away her things Saturday evening, “I had such an ex- perience this afternoon. After we came out from the matinee we went into a candy store where they sell light drinks as well as ice cream soda. As soon as we sat down at a little table the waiter came up and says he: ‘Bullion, lady? So I thought your predic tions were coming out all right. ‘Which kind?' I says. ‘Hot or cold,’ he says. Really, it did not seem to me that they ought to be glving out bullion hot, but I suppose he meant right from the mint. ‘Gold or silver? I says. He looked puzzled. Just then the proprietor, who had h me, smiled, and says he Silver, lad Fifteen,’ says he. ‘Fifteen to one,’ says I. ‘Yos,' says he, ‘or twenty-five two." Then he brought us two cups of just common beef tea. 1 wonder why they keep such lunatics in such places, husband Coln seemed pensive, but sgid nothing. Mrs. Coin was rocking pleasantly Saturday evening as she darned Coin's stockings. 1 was talking to that man I bought the silver spoons from, Coin dear. 1 asked him how much silver was in each of those spoons when I bought them of him just before the Sherman law was repealed, when silver had got so cheap. ‘About 50 cents' worth,' says he. I says: ‘Well, one of these days you'll have to take those same spoons back for §1.' Says he Who'll make me? I says oin_ will; haven't you read my husband’s book?' ‘I'd like ta see him make me take back 50 cents’ worth of silver for $1, says he. ‘I am not a fool," says he. v husband will attend to your case,’ I says. Won't you, Coin dear? Mrs. Coin went right on darning, and didn’t sse her husband's anxious countenance, It was Sunday morning that Mrs. Coln showed how well she had been at school. She descended, bonnet on, prayer book in hand and 4 d in her largest sleeves. Her short curls, the product of a mechanical process of the night and morning, were primped to per- fection. She laid down the prayer book, fin- ished drawing on her gloves and then showed Coin_her empty purse, Not going to church with me?" sald she. “No,” replied Coin, “I think I shall stay at e this morning." y well,” replled Mrs, Coin. “Very well, Just give me a little redemption dear. money." What?'* sald Coin, opening his “A little redemption money, my have not a cent.” ““Redemption money?” gasped Coln. “Yes,” sald Mrs. Coin, shaking her little curls with laughter. “You eee how well I have read your book. You said that Prof. Laughlin id he did not know what redemp- tion money meant in your took. 1 do, though. I am not a financler's wife for nothing. Am I, Coin, dear?" “Redemption mone; face grew pale. “One would think you do not want | #aved,” said Mrs. Coin “Redemption mon he repeated sadly. Why, of course,’” ald Mrs. Coin, triumph- tly. “How dull you are this morning. Re- demption money is what you put on the plate at_church.” Coin put_some currency into the extendel purse and Mrs. Coin went forth, feeling her- self one of the elect She did not hear him groan, as he buried his face in- his hands: “‘Oh, why were women cver permitted to learn to read? IND OTHERWISE. yes wide. dear; I repeated Coin as his to be PERSONAL Temperature to the contrary, the summer season is fairly on. A sea serpent has been captured near Boston. The sultan of Turkey he has income of per annum. inery Dbills an 330,000,000 His mil knock off four ciphers a year. Potato bugs will not be admitted to Pingree farms around Boston unless know beans and wear spectacles. The Hon. Bill Bryan clings te the rule of stare decisis. That to say, wise men change thelr opintons, Bill never. The old Roman of Ohlo, Thurman, was nepicuous as a_masticator of the rag in enback days. Now his son allows no op- portunity to pass to show the silver ball bear- ings of his jaw. “Winnie and wept,” Miss Davis emotional the they lously to 1s Davis flung herself on his neck vs a dispatch from Houston, is dabbling In literature of the kind, and being somewhat Inex- perienced her imaginative ardor evidently got the better of her discretion Mexico threatens to impose an extraction tax on the product of her gold and silver mines. As American capital Is largely inter- ested in Mexican mines, it might be well to send the bald eagle of Asn:burnskit across the burder to maintain international comity. Before age began (o bleach his locks Jus- tice John M. Harlan was a very tall, red- headed man of the Thomas Jefferson type. He was the son of a great lawyer, and when he took his seat on the bench he gave up a practice worth much more than his judicial salary. After considersble hammering and artistic mortising, the newspapers of New York have succeeded fn convineing the judicial bourbons of that section that a man is not disqualified from jury service because he reads the news- pape! Judgs Barrett acknowledged the power of the press as judicial educators, as well as reliable guardians of the blind god- dess, and gave proof of the sincerity of his conversion by overruling objections to news- paper readers. In following the legal requirements to sat- isfy a judgment for $50,000 against the Megum of the Rockford ‘“‘heaten,’ an apprajse. ment of the personal possessions of Rev George Jacob Schweinfurth was made the other day, resulting in finding three suits of clothes, three antique spinsters, an ulster overcoat, nine fatherless babies, a 2-year-old colt, a dilapidated nursery organ, and one gold watch, As these articles are prime requisites of a modern heaven and exempt from execution it {s clear the plaint!ff needs considerable flat to realiz: on his judgment, A number of prominent business houses in New York are involved in legal proceedings instituted against them for selling bogus sil- verware stamped as sterling or coin silver. A number of articles so stamped have been assayed ab the government mint. None of them came up to the legal standard, and some of them proved to be brass. The practice of stamping “'sterling” and ‘“‘coin” silver on plated ware appears to be a common one. Retailers and manufacturers think nothing of the deception, because heretofore no attempt has been mada to give effect to the law re- quiring articles so stamped to contain .0925 parts of silver and .0075 of copper. Now that prosscution for fraud is on the retallers are endeavoring to throw the responsibility on the makers., Th Advance in Wages. Chicago Tribune. The process of increasing wages without demand on the part of employes is going on steadily in all the manufacturing sections of the country. Monday one of the Pennsyl- vania woolen mills, which has 400 hands, raised wags 10 per cent, following the example previously set by the great iron and steel mills of the state. In New England and in the Middle states one employer after another 18 notifying his workingmen that they are to get better pay—not the high wages they got in 1892, but an intermediate figure. Em- ployers are able to glve more, unsolicited, be- cause there is a greater demand for their products, and they are able to get better prices for them. Of that Increase profit the men get thelr share promptly. This is a phenomenon they ought to observe and medi- tate on. ————— Proot of Better Times. St. Paul Ploneer-Pre The statement made on good authority that within six weeks the wages of 200,000 em- ployes of manufacturing establishments in the United States have been raised, In most cases by voluntary act of the employer, is another substantial assurance of better times. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE MUGH WOULLOCH. OMAHA, May 25.—To the Editor of The Bee: active Interest in the war period will pass the announcement of Mr. McCulloch's death without any special interest, but those who have reached middle age, and who were familiar with the stirring events incident to the rebellion and to our struggle for exist- ence a nation, will remember Mr. Mc- Culloch as one of the war veterans, whose namo will always be honorably associate with such men as Abraham Lincoln, Wil- liam H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Chiet Justice Chase, Governor Morton of Indiana, John A. Andrews of Massachusetts, and many others who at that time did noble service for our salvation and purification as a nation. I purposely avoid the names of military men, as history Is always some- what partial to them and will do them ample justice. Mr. McCulloch was called to the position of comptroller of the currency by Secretary Chase, and his services in that capacity were «oon appreciated by Mr. Lincoln after the war was over Mr. McCulloch con- ducted the affairs of the treasury in such a manner as to commend our fi ncial policy to the ablest financial men both in and America, 1 remember with what interest and en- thusiasm 1 used to read his annual reports, and it is fn humble acknowleigement of their influence upon myself that [ write this slight tribute of my regard. Mr. McCulloch had lald out for the government and for the country a broad path for resumption of specie payment, and gave Mis undivided cnergies to the refunding of our public debt, and if he had been permitted to con- tinue his pol without the foolish and ignorant interference of congress the chances are that we would not now be suffering from the results of an inflated currency and the curious vagaries of the silver craze. To the young men of this generation, who are anxious to get sound information on the money questions of the day, I know of nothing that I could commend to them more strongly than Hugh McCulloch's an- nual message to congress during the period when he was comptroller of the currency, and also afterward, when secretary of the treasury. If this article should meet the eye of any one who, like myself, looks upon McCulloch as his school master, I would commend to such a person McCulloch’s own book, published a few years ago and en- titled “Men and Measures of Fifty Years.' In this book Mr. McCulloch gives his opin- fon in reference to the great men with whom he happened to be associated, and does so with the modesty of a great man. When the history of the great rebellion will be written away from the prejudice and passion of the living generation the name of Hugh McCulloch will stand out honorably in con- nection with that of Mr. Lincoln, and as the name of Hamilton, the founder and or ganizer of our Treasury department, is honorably associated with that of Washing- ton and Jefferson, so I am inclined to think McCulloch will take his place as Hamilton's greatest successor. 1t oceurs to me to add that 1 have just read the clear, comprehensive and able speeches of our present secretary of the treasury, Mr. John G. Carlisle, and in these days of twaddle and nonsense I can- not but be thankful that we have in the treasury in the person of Mr. Carlisle so worthy a successor to Hamilton and Mc- Culloch, Carlisle’s recent speeches in favor of a sound currency should be read by every ono whose patriotism leads him to have a regard for our credit and good name, and our very existence as a nation. 1 have reason to think that some people in Omaha are casting around for a proper declaration of principles in connection with sound money and in opposition to the fallacies of the populists and the silver monometallists and 1 would commend them to the resolu- tions passed lately at the Memphis conven tion. They are clear, candid and compre- hensive. They state correct principles apd give the logical reasons justifying these principles, and if they are sown abroad liberally they will be in themselves a lib eral education to many who are now hon- estly puzzled, and to many others who are apt to be carried away by the plausible sophistry of “Coin’s Financial School." THOMAS KILPATRICK s Vronght Under Civil Serv Rales. WASHINGTON, May 2.—The president has amended the civil service 1y taking all chiefs of divisions in the Department of Agriculture, of whom there are elghteen, out of the excepted class. Vacancies in thelr ranks are to be filled h ft by pro- motion fre the large corps of trained ex- perts, or occasionally, wh necessary, by competitive examination. The classification of the Department of Agriculture has also been amended so as to subject to competi- tive examination under the civil service rules the clerks, microscopists, assistant microscopists, stock _examiners, taggers, agents and all other employes ex: ‘pt temporary laborers in the Du. eaul of Animal Indu outside of Washington, eleve state statistical me SnEers in the weathe ton. 'This extension in that bureau adds to the classified service i e Lo Keject ng Appllcations of “Sooners." OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl, May he penalty for “soonerism' is being inflicted al- ready. Of the 227 applications offered at the land office for filing yesterday only twenty- seven were accepted. The others were re- jected on account of the applicant having entered the country since March 3, 1833, "This is causing intense excitement here and will affect the great majority of men who made the race for land. Nearly in this country has been in or ac country since that date on business pleasure. If the secretary of the interfor Should uphold the action of the land office it will cause hundreds of contests, remaining p re than LW places The young people of this generation | who were not old enough to have taken an | and | Europe | LIGAT AND TRITE. Come, go fishing with me, do it; just signed tha Judge: Jonew old_chap. Brown pledge Can't Chicago Record: 1 enjoyed your lecture on the financial {seue yery much,” said the citizen to the orator, "but I would like ta ask_you one question." “Certainly,” sald the orator, “go ahead.” “What side of the question are you on?"” New York Weekly 8he-The man I marry t be ‘only a little lower than the angels.* | (suddenly | knees a | ot flopping) ~Here 1 am on my little lower than one of them. He her. press: Constituent—Well, what's What good bills did you help Member of the New York Legislas I voted for the adjournment. Tuftalo 1 your,_record pass? ture Somerville Journal: When a man thinks he understands a woman perfectly, it is flain to everybody around him that fe is in ove. Indianag olis Journal uberant bleacher who were making what is t “w'y don't you guys play t'ink you are a baby show ?" yelled the ex- gentiemen rmed a Kicl all? “Say, to the visit Do you Pittsburg Telegraph: Squildig—T would rather look at Miss Plane when she 1s pay- ing for a ride in the street car than at any other time, Meswiiligen Why? Squildig Then she Is passing fare. Yonkers Statesman: Mrs. Crimsonbenak— Why is it, T wonder, that a woman will always turn to the end of a novel and read the last page before ng any other part of it. Mr. Crimsonbeak—Her propensity to get the last word, 1 suppose, leads her fo it. Chicago Tribune nice round steak, fresh fried potatoes Walter (in_stentorian volce)-Carnage the skillet! Fried Pingrees on the side! Guest rare 1 would like a done, and some Washington Star: “When or man talke er tremenjus sight "bout whut a good frien' ob your'n he is,”" said Uncle ter *im, but doan’ trade horses Washington working pretty hard neyer sawl a man look so pale from loss of blood to run for office his he: & for the workingmen eve kes a specch. “Stryker in" his seems to be ampaign. 1 Since he has been y time he TO CONJURE WITH. Lite. name you want that's sure to be lucky, the next cruiser be called K No doubt her guns would do terrible s ter, And, though full of holes she'd never take water. THE NAME ———— MERKY JINGLES, Detroit Tribune She had a lovely ne And everybody said Who, indeed, might doubt ft?— That that's what turned her heaa., Washington Star. Breathes there a man with soul so dead w joys not when the peanuts shed Their husks, and quaffs beneath the shadg The ruby-tinted lemonade? Minneapolis Journal. He took her dimpled hand in his The little maid demure Did not attempt to draw it back; He was a manicure, New York Recorder, If_all things else shall fail, I'll be for fate a match, And raige a crop of spuds for sale On a free potato patch. Detroit Fi Happily married? She was such a lovely bride, And, do you know, through the ceremony, Almost ‘everybody eried. Indianapolis Journal, One day the mercury will show It's ninety-elght degrees; The next we have to take' it in, So it won't freeze. Boston Courier. She yawned, she hinted, went to sleep, And still he did not go; He shrank from entering the night, Because he loved her so. nolse, the back porch creaked, . he ‘gasped, but she ke and ‘said he milkman's step juite well known to me. Judge A soldier of the legion 1y dying at Algiers, n a comrade stopped beside im With a platter full of beers. He reached out quickly for them And swallowed eight or nine, lit right out for Bingen “air Bingen on the Rhine. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE, Somerville Journal. When man knows how to match a ribbon, When woman learns to drive a nail, When man can thread a needle deftly. W mice don’t make a woman pile, When woman gets off right from st eet cars, Instead of facing toward the rea When man stops smoking bad toba And drinking sour-smelling beer, When woman doesn’t block the sidewallk, With spreading skirts and puffed-out When man tops flirting with new charmers And to his lawful darling cleaves, When man can understand the baby, And woman, petting it, talks sense, When man proposes a new bonnet, And woman shles at the expense— 0, Phenomena like these, and others, May strike surprised observers dumb, But they will know, by these same tokens, That the millennium has come, BROWNINC, KINC & CO.