Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 1, 1895, Page 4

4 s THE OMAHA DAl v | 1Y BEE | HED EVERY M NG | MS OF SUDSCR TR One ¥ . e | OFFIC Aturdny Weckly Omalin Bouth Council 11 Chicago OM: New York, 1 Washing ™ T man, SR 121th 8w 111k Biild ng A1l com torial matt 1 in my 1 Notary Publ not yet out of taken The Whi the woods, although papers for reorganization unde out | new it has corporation et Charley Mosher lifts up his voice in prison to give those honest penitentiary appraisers 2 hearty recommendation That ought to settle it Y The death of ex-President Peixoto of Brazil hardly attracts even passing at tention. Here is room for more moraliz ing upon the ingratitude of republics. Denver councilmen have to be guarded by the police to protect them from the taxpayers. Omaha taxpayers have to be gnarded by the police to protect them from the councilinen. It the moral standards of Omaha public officials are degenerate as they appear to be, is it any wonder that city business in the neighboring city of South Omaha is also run on a rather lax basis? as Tt remalns to be seen whether the dis missal of the s suit against the Stanford estate means to the Leland Stanford, jr.. university all it has been asserting since these legal proceedings were instituted, When a member ueation in South O from a janitor he is subject of censure, 1lad he only di some other city officials he m received vote of thanks. { the Board of Td money 1 to a vot ided with It have akes | of the [ perpotrated It is now manifest tl the why no reduction could be made in the number y of clerks in the clty treasu winter was beeause all but one of them had drawn ahead aries. reason or the deputics and r's oflice last sal on prospective It Wi vened rliament will be Monday. But it in August, so that the time tween now and the firsst week in D cember, when the American congress meets, will not altogether be devoid of legis'ative excitement Mr. Cadet Taylor can't play cuttlefish in parts. e must the | $6,000 of city moncy which the default ing city treasurer put into his bank illegally. Ilis gabble about the citizens' movement and preserving priuciples will not wash. There is a German adage, “the con cealer is worse than the stealer.,” The officers who have covered up the defal cations in the city treasury, when it was their duty to sound the alarm, are more culpable than the embezzlers and defaulters who made away with the money. dissolved will be next recon e these disgorge republican The Board of Fire and Tolice Com missioners dismissed one recalcitrant fireman from the fire department at its last regular meeting. He doubtless deserved to pay the penaity meted out to him. But there men the detective foree whos records far worse, Why should they be retained on the pay roll a single are on are It s said that the complexion of the next House of Commons is still a ter of grave doubt. It is quite possi ble, if not probable, that the new min istry may fail to secure a working ma jority to back it up. In of sur prises in the parliamentary tions another kaleidoscopic ehange in British ministries may not be so very far dis tant. mat- case ele The Douglas addition lots which have been thrown back the county are | worth something. The time is coming | when they will be of great value, The part payments made to the county for these lots for which title could not be given must be refunded with inter The levy just made is to swell the judgment fund in order to pay these elaims. This is not paying for a dead horse, but simply remitting money here tofore received for property could not deliver, on the county In sustaining the demurrer entered by the attorneys Mrs, Stanford in the suit brought by the United States gov ermment to recover from the Stanford estate money fraudulently diverted from the Central Pacific to the privat necounts of the divectors, the court says that the only remedy which the people have to seeure the Pacitic railway debt now due is by foreclosure. If foreclos ure is the only remedy and the remedy which we must come to in the end, why Yot begin the proceedings at ouce? or | even | targely due the difficulti | cultur: | exerting a most healthy THE OMAITA DAILY N 3 BT NO ESCAPE FROM COLD FACTS. Acting City Attorney Cornish has officially notified Mayor Bemis that there s practieally no shortage in the city treasury and that the bondsmen of Mr, Bolln are not likely to lose a dol lar. He declares that the only committed by the defanlting the advance of city funds and city hall offielal Couneilman Taylor, who fills the posi tion of chairman of the city council finance comimittee, likewise sceks to di tention from the real condition treasury and his own delin a in ‘tion with the illegal deposit of city by spouting pol also offense treasurer is to employes th conne i money ['4 what the s of bondsmen - facts shown the took by th when drawer of on the the oflice? cash possession According to the that drawer S206,426.08 most nte showed of Of this amount Mr, Bolln had personally drawn S12.86L00 rangin wias 1 Ative esti L shortage ¢ out in sums There 60 to $10,000, slip for 1,000 t Ihere May without or check 1o rep) it. In to these sums appro priated to lis own use, there were $600 wn it by any s e him on addition Wvaneed to Van Court, his partner in pavit ntracts, and a debit of $5 of Captain O'Donalue, evident] bill Besides there 00 and $500 advanced to two doubtless to their 1 censes for them. Th 150 over $2,000 of city money advanced without warrant and more than £2,000 to varions individuals who have not been on the eity pay roll. In other the overdraft of city officials employes was about $4,000, ainst over $22,000 abstracted by the treasurer for himself and There are the cold facts. been within reach \cting city attorney and the chairman council finance committee. Tak- for granted that the bondsmen ke good this deficit, the culpabil the officers- who have sought to condone and cover up the high crime upon the taxpayers and tempt to fmpose upon the mayor and citizens at large is reprehensible and utterly inexeusable, liguor this f Keepers, were secure were to contractors words, i N others, They have of both the easy ing it witl m ity of their WIHEAT AND COTTON. While the it advance In the prices of wheat and cotton has not been of very great immediate benefit to pro- dne most of whom had parted with last yed it means a great deal for the wheat growers and cotton planters in the near future, and more than this, the improving prosperity of the country is to no small extent based s crop, upon the promise of better prices for the new ecrops. Remarking upon the situation the Baltimore Sun estimate that the advance in the price of wheat for delivery after harvest means that $70,000,000 more than last year will go to the wheat farmers, and that this will be dear profit to them on this one product. As to cotton producers, the litlons e hardly favorable. Last Novenmber, says the Sun, when the loss new cotton erop of that year was com- ing in freely the price ranged hont The present price November is 6,99, or about The estimate by some expe of the growing crop is about 5,000,000,- 000 pounds. Should the present Novem- ber price be madintained after ginning will mean an increased reve- 000,000 to the planters of south for their cotton D And it the cotton should fall the high estimate of 10,000,000 bales the gain will be tremendous. Nor this gain of $140,000,000 on cotton and wheat all. The other crops, such corn and and poultry than wheat all these va along with from or cotton begins it nue of $7 the cr erop below as produets, are far greater \d cotton combined, and s products will likely, wheat and cotton, br better prices, because there will be an enlarged demand for them. 1t is not only the manufacturers who | fifty-cent | have wheat sun. suffered keenly from ind five-cent cotton, remarks the To this agricultural depression is and los in every department of activity. Few people realize to what an extent agri- cultural conditions affect every try, or how great a part the of the country play in economie affairs, It is hardly an ation to say that v industry rests ultimately upon the favmer, and that when he is not prosperons all industries will be untfavorably affected. It is the general apprehension of this that causes the prospect of generous crops to operate stimulus to the general revival of iness and the restoration of confi- dence, that encourages manufacturers to. resume operations and draws money from its hiding places to be invested in the securities of transportation com- panic At indus. farmers evel as bu sent the outlook for the agr 1 producers of the United States highly favorable, and this fact Is and invigorat abroad as at every feature pr is ing home, of the influence, It is which future. well a situation THE NEW FISCAL Y The new fiscal year of the government [ begins today. Sacurday’s treasury state- meat showed that the available cash balance is, in round figures, $193,000,000 nd the gold reserve $107,000,000, I the first time the present tari went into operation the receipts for June were in of the expendi tures, this excess being shown durin the latter part of the month, It is saic to have been obtained by the process, that is, by withholdi ¢ due would have been a deficit for June, but however this may be the situation at the end of the fiseal year was somewhat better than had been expected. The de ficit for the year will not be so great threatened a few months though it will be very much larger had been estimated by the secretary of the treasury, while it utterly discredits the prediction of the supporters of the new tarlff that it wonld supply the gov- sinee XCOSS 1 forcing payment otherwise obligations wis lernment with awmple revenue to meet from | noout in 1804, evidently for | $500 | hay, together with dairy | is full of encourugement for | there | ago, | than | Il expenditures from the day it went into With the present tariff act fail- | labor commissiofiey in co-operation with | ing to provide adequate revenue what, | the commissioners of other s effect | | it 1s pertinent to ask, would have been | the result had the measure that first passed the house become law? Can it be seriously doubted that with the Wil bill, which Mr. Cleveland wanted, there would be a deficit for the last fiscal year nearly double what it is? With regard to the outlook for the new fiscal year it appears more encour aging, but deficits for several months to come are not improbable. Treasury offi it Is said, admit that there will be deficit this month, when the dis its are than ordinarily and it to sce what is Dhurseme heavy more is not easy to bring receipts up to expenditures dur. ing the nest six Improving prosperity may reasonabiy be expected itself in government but it very questionable the gain will sufficlent to « these up to the demands upon the It highly probable that the Fifty-fourth congress meets in December it will be confronted by a steadily inereasing defieit and therefore an urgent demand for legislation to pro vide more revenue. And this will have to be derived from an inerease of inter nal taxes, because no changes in the wiff made by a republican house of yresentatives would be likely to re ve the approval of President Cleve nd, even should they pass the s which might be possible through a union of republicans and It has been administration may tea and it wonld 000,000 without months. to show Inereased revenues, is whether | brix tres | when bhe 1sury. s 1 demo. intimated that the favor duties sources from which ticable to raise § £30,000,000 revenue hardship to but it altogether probable that a republican house representatives could be induced to con- sider such a proposition while wool re mains on the free list and many duties fare believed by republicans to be too low for the welfare of American indus tries, Obviously the question of providing for more revenue will be the most im- portant and with which the next congress will have to deal. In the meanwhile the treasury appe to be fairly well fortified against possible emergencies. The indications are that the wold reserve will not be seriously menaced and the cash balance is suffi- cient to prevent for some time any em- barrassment. conservative ts. on coffee, be p or - serious con sumers, is im- pressing one s o AS TO THE TREASURER'S BOND. Acting City Attorney Cornish, who is not an entirely disinterested party in the late treasury deal, has persuaded the city council to reduce the bond of Mr. Bolln's successor from $800,000 to $525,000. This reduction mended on the ground that exacted from Mr. Bolln was excessive. This Is not a matter of mere con- jecture, but one susceptible of exact | computation. The law requires the treasurer to give bond in twice the amount of the largest sum that may some into his custody at any one time. It so happens that we have in our pos a statement showing the bank balwces in the approved depositorie on July 13, 1803, That statement | follows: S recom- the bond session is as BANK City Funis | American bank. . Commer ial National bank. First National bank.... Nebraska National bank.. Merchants National bank. Omaha National bank.. United States National bank. | National Bark of Commerce. | Union National bank BALANCES, July 13, 1893 ..$ 50,357 70 . 52,044 59 0,065 at'onal 21 on legally not include noneys banks that are not entitled to receive city funds. Mani- | festly the bond of Mr. Bolln in the sum of §S00,000 was by no means ex cossive. On the contrary, a strict com- pliance with the law would have made his bond for 18945 not less than $1, 100,000, If the is any valid ground for the proposed reduction it must be on the presumption that not more than 262,500 will be in the treasu time between now and Januar The balance of city funds tl supposed to have been in the treasury | when the bondsmen of Mr. Bolln be- gan their inghiry was about $150,000. But by the middle of July, when the | bulk of the taxes ave paid in, it will be more than double that amount. A moderate reduction of the new tre urer’s bond may be justifiable, but the law is mandatory that the bond be no less than double the amount that the treasurer may have at his disposal at any time. While it true that the city s partially protected against loss by the failure of a depository bank, it is nevertheless within the power of the treasurer to draw out every dollar on | deposit to the city’s credit in every bank at his pleasure, The proposition to reduce the treas- urer's bond to the school district of Omaha to a mere nominal sum because there are at present no available school funds in his hands, should not be seriously entertained. The school fund las been treated heretofore as a specu- lation fund. It is not protected by bonds from city depositories, but has been lawléssly farmed out to banks of questionable pousibility. Before the end of the year at least be paid into the school treasury for liquor licenses. That fact must form | the basis of computing the amount of | the treasurer's school bond. This may be a hardship on the new treasurer un- der present circumstances, but it Is the law and the officers entrusted with the | approval of the bonds have no right to ignore the law as a matter of friend- ship or accommodation. The p tion of the public is paramount, [ Total This deposit in does tee- | | The Minnesota asking the labor | suppressin These labor commissioner is ation of the Nebraska commissioner In exposing and bogus employment cerns aceept fees from working men securing them posi- tions in some faraway locality and keep on sending men to distant points long after there is any possibility of | their finding employment there. They | veally obtain money under false pre- | tenses. The unfortunate laborer who | patronizes them is left not only poorer | than before, but also with a poorer out- 0-0pe cles, $200,000 will | | | | | of | | MONDAY, JULY 1, 1895. look for securingawork. If the Nebraska i tes can in | any way mitignterthis evil it will be time and moneys well spent. | eNReT—— } OMAHA, June Pee Chief Whitd police force last remarks 20.—To the Bditor made a little talk dvenjng at roll call. His confined almost wholly to the subject of relfgion and politics. What | has that to do with the hun of criminals | and observance of police discipline? A. P A'lsm is the bang'of the police department but it cannot be eradigated by giving it first | importance above all other concerns of mem- bers of the force H. B.J As reported fo The Bee the little talk of Chief White was both pertinent and | timely, He simply served notice on the members of the force that political agitation and religious contention will not be tolerated under his administra tion. In other words, Chief White in sists that police officers shall not dabble in politics or foment creed This essential to the restoration discipline, which las been by these causes. There is no t Chief White will neglect to to the hunting down of erimin as soon as he has taken his bearin The boodla the city council e trying to their disgraceful performances in connection with the de- faulting city treasurer on the high moral ground of pure republicantsm and party principle. They df course would mnot | stultify themselves to vote to confirm such republicans as Abraham Lincoln Reed or Thomas Swobe, They were not vouched for by A. P. A, council 12 They were bound to turn down even J H. Dumont until they had been seen, ar gued with and converted by Electric Lighting Wiley, Water Works Re- ceiver Hunt and the representatives of the paving combine. With such simon- pure republican god-fathers, no wonder they saw the error of their ways! of The | to the | were dissensions, of od ger ttend just destro gang in excuse The session laws of 1895 have come from the and we are told that they have made their appearance this year earlier than in any previous yoar. This may be true, but it does not alter the 't that th are late in publica- tion. The constitution is very explicit in requiring the laws enacted by each legislature to be printed and distributed in book form within sixty da after the adjournment of the two houses. Those sixty days had expired nearly a month ago. If the covstitution Is worth more than mere blank paper an effort, at least, ought to be exerted to comply with its prov press The Board of Publi Works has wrestled with the Barber asphalt claim of the vintage of 1800 and has reached the conclusion that the dispute should be settled by paying $13,201.51, about all that the company asks. What induced the hoard to reach this conclusion? And why should the city council now vote to pay a claim that has been rejected time and vin and has become mouldy’ with age. I the Barber company had a valid elaim against the eity it would have resorted to the courts long a and have had a judgment by this time. Isn't this a repetition of the old $45,000 gas claim? or be sure that not more than three, if any, of the fifty-two ks who have been promoted in the asury department are republi Necretary Carlisle may be relied to see to that, We ma two or upon Drawing the Long Bow, Washington Post. A Nebraska cyclone blew the clothes off of a man and then blew the life out of him The natural supposition Is that the deceased didn’t much mind the clothes incident. An Important Compact Philadelphia North American. The time of year has arrived when amicable understanding between the garl collector and the kitchen domestic is almost as important as the country's foreign rela- tions. an e Knocked Out by Beiter Times, Toston Herald. The silver brethren are frank, anyway. They own up that the returning wave of pr perity is engulfing their cause in the under- tow. The high tariff brethren ought to sym- pathizo with them. Greatest Show on Earth, Chicago Post The Kentucky democrat is in a position now to swear by the platform and at the candi date, or just the reverse, but he cin't swear by or at both unless he can ride a trick mule and a dray horse going in opposite directi at the same time. e e Her Lirief Hour of Glory. Chicago News. Many a sweet girl graduate who this week drops her weighty thoughts into the stream of time, while her pa and ma listen with | strange pleasure to the sullen plunk of 'em, will fall into disrepute next week through having forgotten how much lard ought to go into the shortcak ——————— No, He is Not Sore. Chicago Tribune. Senator Blackburn of Kentucky *“does not feel sore,” but “he realizes that it is imposs ble to win a fight against a combination of money and federal patronage, especially where both are furnished in unlimited quan- tities.” 1f the senator felt any soreness he would say eomething quite severe. bl iy Giving Cameron a Stomacher. New World The Uuion League club of Philadelphla has adopted a stiff resolution again free coinage of silver. This was intended as a blow at Senator Don Cameron. But Cameron and Quay can elect ten delegates to the state con- vention to the league's one. And unless a new and unexpected spasm of independence shall seize the Unlon League republicans | they will support the bosses' candidates with | nothing worse than aowry face and a few smothered *‘cuss wordss" York Globg-Dgmocrat. The silver states do mot seem to have any prejudice against gold. In carrying on thelr own financial affairs, ;The Utah banks hold twenty-one times as much gold as silver, the Arizona banks nine times as much, and the Nevada banks eight times as much. The Colorado banks possess over $3,000,000 in gold and only one-tenth of the amount in silver. While this is eminently judicious it no conciusive reason for piling up a mountain of silver in the United States treas ury vaults, 1s Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roval ABSOLUTELY PURE | frees | to | hi | the | beware { longer dependent for their places on favor- | has LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. Boston Globe: the tory, Mr. Charles A. Dana of New York Sun has won a notable vie- both for himselt and his profession. | Loutsville Courier-Journal: The of | this attempt to take a newspaper to Washington city to answer for an article | written and printed in New York will be welcomed by the press of the country and by all fair-minded men everywhere d this entirely irrespective of the merits of the con- troversy itself. Brooklyn Bagle: Judge Brown's decision journalism from no just responsibill ties and no fair labilities, 1t does protect Journalism from possibilities of injustice and oppression, which Mr. Noyes, a perfectly honorable man, who was most untruly char- acterized by the New York Sun, In the Bagle's opinion, will himselt, upon reflection, clearly realize. Philadelphia brought before Judge idea that a newspay summoned from any failure man Time The Brown publisher of the « appli lved could untry tion b I | be tried at Washington for a publication of an idea that is fensive to a person residing there o evidently fraught with mischief prompt and complete condemnati portant and valuabl Philadelphia Press: the liability of an editor or publigher to prosecution” for libel In another state or in the District of Columbia, it he comes volun- tarily within the jurisdiction, it is much to know that he cannot be taken from his home, where he is known and respected, and forel bly removed for trial befo. stra rs and an unfamiliar, and, perhaps, hostile court Chicago 1 r The d New York court righteous. doubt that the issue of fact as to the inno cent or libelous quality of Mr. Dana's utter. ance concerning Mr. Noyes will be fairly de- termined in New York. But had the court ruled that Mr. Dana could be taken to Wash ington for trial it would have followed that certainly in every territory, and probably in every state, a serlss of maliclous prosecutions for libel would have sprung Washington Star (plaintift's paper) fect of the decision Is to to libelers in New York that they cannot be tried for their offenses here, unless they come volun- tarily within the limits of the District, and say to the District of Columbia that must have its common law offenses specif ically re-enacted by congress if it wishes to bring common law offenders here for trial The indictment for the libel committed here will continue to operate as a decree of exile to Mr. Dana and Mr. Laffan from the borders of the natfonal capital New York Tribune: In resisting utmost the Noyes contention Mr came the benefactor of every member of his profession and the defender of every other class of people whose rights it may be in the future somebady's interest to assafl. No rep. utable newspaper asks or desires liberty to libel or seeks to avoid responsibility for what it publishes. AIl it asks is the same fair treatment that other business entarprises have, a measure of protection against the striker and blackmailer, and a chance to present its side of to courts unham pered by legal assumptions and emba ments Philadelphia Ledger: Judge Brown's opin fon is voluminous and exhaustive of the law and authorities upon the question involved One of them was a question of practice in removal proceedings, where the removal can be legally demanded, but the most important part is that which relates to the offenses for which extradition may be had through federal courts, He broadly suggests a doubt whether even for “federal offenses” removals may be had from another part of the country to the Dictrict of Columbia, but is clear In his state- ment that there can be no removal there for ny other offenses. Chicago Chronicle: Judge Brown holds that in such a case the doctrine of the co structive offense of libel, by the ecircula of the printed matter in distant districts would not authorize the removal of a person indicted for libel away from the district of residence or where his office of publica tion is located. He must be tried where the main offense was committed. He cannot be removed from the locality of the principal offense to be tried in a locality where the offense, if any, was merely constructive, This g0es to the rcot of the matter. It is an intel- ligent interpretation of law. Placed beside the new atute of libel in Illinois and other progressive states it is a long step of progres. in the science of civilized jurisprudence. im- While it leaves open Ocean of is sion th is There is no The ef to the Dana_be- ass- 10WA PRESS COMMENT. Sioux City Times: Beware strength of the various governor. Returns from are often deceptive Davenport Democrat: papers are publishing who rent property noticel that the of estimates on candidates for county coaventions The Des the names of to ealoon keepers. It Is list contains some of the richest and most prominent business men in that city. In hardly an instance does the saloon keeper own the property he occupies. Des Molnes Leader: Rev. J. W. Mahood of Sioux City, who has been one of the lead- ing lecturers in Towa of the A. P. A and who has many times warned us to of our Catholic neighbors, as they a0t be good citizens of the United has just taken out his naturalization renouncing alleglance to Queen Vic Molnes those 2ould States, papers, toria. Des Moines Capital service reform moves on. The council of the city of Dubuque has before it an ordinance making the term of the chief of the fire de partment dependent on good behavicr, and the committes of the whole favors it. The mayor of the city is in favor of both the police and fire departments being placed under the civil service rules, and made no The cause of civil itism or influence. Cedar Rapids Republican: one quality that must admiration of friend and foe. dark the night of hope can always see was utterly repudiated at the recent Des Moines convention, but he comes up smiling and predicts all sorts of victorles for his pet theory. He s just as sanguine after twenty years of defeat as he was in the first flush of enthusiasm over the birth of that miserable infant, the rag baby, in the early 70s. Cedar Raplds Gazette: The Gazette pre- sents herewith a facsimlle of the time card, map and general advertisement of the In- dana, Illinols & Iowa Railroad company as it appears in tha “Travelers’ Officlal Guide of the Railroads of the United States,” which is the adoptel organ of all the railways of the country and is used almost exclusively by the general passenger and ticket agents and also by the passenger agents in the more impor- tant rallroad stations. That it is a correct lirectory of the officials of that road there can be no question. It will be noticed that the first name given 1s “F. M. Drak>, presi dent, 919, The Rookery, Chicago, II." " This is General Diake, now a cendidate for the republican nomination for goverror of Towa. | Des Moines Leader: Governor Boles Is strongly of the opinfon that the single gold standard has resulted in the deprectation of prices and the consequent enhancement of debt, and he wants to provide a method by which the process shall not continue in the future, But on the other hand, he recog nizes that present contracts made on the basis of this standard are inviolate, and that | to disturb them Is not desirable. He is | committed against sudden changes in the General Weaver command the No matter how defeat his a sta He | | Philadelphia Ux | ruled over | exposition opens. dollar, although he thinks its appreciation has worked Injury. So he has looked for a plan, which, while it would not disturb existing conditions and would give sufficlent assurance against a financial upheaval, never- theless would prepare the way for future free coinage of the two metals, and inci- | dentally would give ample warning for busi- ness to- adjust itself to the new order. But even as to the deferred free coinage, the goal of the measure, It is not provided that | it shall be ar 16 to 1. It ls to be at the market ratio, whatever that ratio may be when the stipulated five years have elapsed and all contemporary debts discharged. Baking | Powder PERSONAL AND OTHERW The democracy of ( be with money, but It has its Brice Because the platform winks that way it not follow that Kentucky dem to take the gold cure Chic attractiol are multiplylng. Snakes the hydrants under Bx-Congressman Bryan's 1s timed to catch the gold boor charged with hot air, a windy may ut rats are g imer resort of s as a are pressure com out to Oklahoma As both visit Denver did not succeed in refo its unell by merely shaking the rope. The case for suspended animat to a enough cure, | 0 the disgust of a b in Bloomfield, N. J., a policema m | Sunday night, after a t minutes’ chase, | | ning effect el or overhauled and arrested him A two-legged brute n sewed with fine wire to prevent the animal from | fences. A justice of the peace p the back with a $10 fine A woman partook of a ster in establishment and it made her sick. To guard against such perilous surprises, res tauranteurs should nform their patrons that the festive oyster is in the soup. 1t 1s discour the | f America first safety’” by lamps ca fire. But there is no telling ventor might T le sl danger”’ burner ago th fon financial_declaration by ite members then rallf on the moonshiners at a ratio of 16 to 1 The latter have imbibod a wholosome regard for a buzz saw in motion Mrs. I1da Buxton Cole, p t suffrage speakers y pad bible that after the Israelites out with wrangling and dissensions hem a woman—Deborah—to Judge them for forty years, and we that ‘then they had a rest.’ " President Gillman of Johns Hopkins uni- | versity has accepted the office of chi the bureau of awards of the Atlantic exposition and has cabled to Paris for offers of designs for the medals, and, in order to avoid friction with exhibitors arising from delay, announces that awards will bo delivered to the exposition managers one month after the Syracuse bull down him on X wt is g'ng when for ven rlal ses a wha uid of a new £10,000 the in vent a Some weeks silver membors of the League clyb blocked a the club. The gold 1 and last week sa am in all Gol gave | them; she vad | the worn says were The will of the late Secretary Gresham Is rogarded as a model of Its kind. It reads ‘I, Walter Q. Gresham, do hereby make this my last will and testament. 1 give, devise and bequeath to my wife, Matilda Gresham all my estate, property and effects, real and personal, and of every kind and description, and wheresoever situate, to have and hold absolutely. 1 appoint my sald wife sole executrix of this will.” The Illinois leglslature has made a radical change in criminal procedure in the state In trials of misdemecanors and felonies, here tofore, the jury was judge of law and fact and fixed the penalty on conviction. The new law wipes this out, and provides that on convictlon the offender shall be sent to the penitentiary, together with a transcript of the evidence, and the warde and penitentiar, commissioners are empowered, after review- ing the evidence, to fix the term of imprison ment, which shall not be less than the min- mum’ nor greater than the maximum penalty fixed b; tatute for the offense. Judge Miller of the District of Colum nas spoiled his chances for honorary mem- be ip in the Advanced Woman's club. Re cently a man was brought before th's staid his wife. He had returned from work to | find no dinter and no wife, the latter having | gone to a temperance meeting. This circum | stance filled the hungry husband with a jag | ¢ wrath and a row and a blow followed. | | | | The s mn old judge, after hearing th evidence, delivered himself thus: “Take th's man's perscoal bonds, and you, woman, go home, and, temperance meetings or no tem perance meetings, have your husband's ner ready when he wants it Albert Whetstone, said to be the largest man in the United States, if not in the world, died recently at Bureka, Cal. He was born at Atlanta, Ind., and came of a family noted for large size. His mother, who fs still liv- ing, weighs 315 pounds, and she has two brothers weighing pounds 3 also has two sons, h of whom is over six feet in height and each of whom also w over 500 pound At the time of Albert weighed 496 pounds, and wa cnormous proportions that it to cut a hole in the side of order to remove the body. The coffin con sumed 101 feet of lumber, and we ed 100 pounds. It was six feet eight inc s long, thirty-two inches wide and twenty inches decp. din- ighs his deatn of. sic! was necessary the house i L e The Advance in Wages, Globe-Democrat The most gratify couraging fea- ture of the bus ndustrial eituation i3 to be found in the numerous cases of in- creased wages. Theso advances mean for the most part the restoration of the rates of pay that prevailed at the beginning of the de- pression. Many employers Kept their works going In spite of the evil effects of the new tariff law by reducing wages or ing time, and now that the conditions are get ting ‘better they are gradually sharing their increased profits with their employes. This action, it will be observed, is entirely volun- tary; and it conveys a lesson of great im portance to workingmen. In not a singlo nce has an advance in wages been ob- d by a strike or any other form of com- on or intimi Ther MIRTH MAKERS. fhine 1s 14 one of the pen- minence,” hummed the mosquito, stiletto fto the sleeping viotim's run “T'm golng ¢, murmered Stg excellent’ auctioneer you'd heartless but tired Miss Nycege o TPost v cynic a “Papa man W asked littls Willle, is tired of the a, cynie 1s a man of whom ar s tired srd b en Philadelphia i like My Barly Mor you haven't ot to be natura R W 1 Auber—How do ing, “The Breath of oy It strikes me wn in it Northern v ' is the r Visito have notieed largge familte dispens o many of ah here K v wise tion of t ¢ 1h people are kille i ow Kk for o you Goods u had much ex- window display t, and ever pped and You are wiy, what York Woeekly: Appieant- T & A window dresser. D Have y wrranged the lon't think you reanic trouble, tient er the repliod Mrs poin on frantic tar- the one point n er_that vou *sald Miss Cay- engaged glrl, with himself.* Indianapolis Jourr reflection on the vanity of man' sald tha philosophical boarde the fact that his skeleton will fetch no more than $25 in the may ket 1 hai “that it bon “It IS a rather sovers n sal Wi t the Cheerful Tdiot, to a litte over 200 Philadelphia Record: Muggins—A must be a grand sight, Ruggins—It | first one 1 saw I was quite taken with is, about two miles cyclone The that w York World: Maud pose for artists ought themselyes Minnfe—Y¢ T think to be the girly wh ashamed of all lead they maodel llves! Indianapolis Journal your bloomers for a walking ashamed of you Minnie—Why not? “Why not?” Don't y go to making them S0 common_everybody get to wearing them, and then we girls will not be distinguished at all. Minnie—Wearing costume! 1 am 1 know that if you LIKE FALLING OFF A LOG Kan Tournal Where wise men are with doubt He sces an easy way Great problems which for years have vexed He solves in half a day Of science, art, philosophy, He has profoundest knowledge, is no mystery-you see, He's just come out of college, 18 City perplexed PASSING OF THE Chicago Tribune think a score of years, Mebby two score years ago, At times I fetched a load of hogs Or steers from “down below,” An' then staid over night, y' Know, To kinder git a sm Of how they do things here In town— The people that are sw That runnin’ reglar little cars To haul folks up an’ down $ jist about the smartest That I had ever known. 0SS CAR. thing T uster ride out to the barns Jist to ketch onto the way They had of doin’ all the work, To make the bizness pay. They had a coupie dozen cars, And hosses by the s¢ 1 counted up to sixt An’ know they hail some more An’ piles of corn, an’ straw, an Stacked to the very door, An’ a feller allers on the watch To buy a lectle, more, onet, An’ Sat'days Would With "tater To feteh when the country folks load a wagon down or a cord of wood into town, They'd b up on the Of some steady-goin’ A filly, three-year or four Jist to show her who was b An’ git her us't to eity way An' the noises of the ad, The gle of the wagon, the pullin® of the load. it off side hoss An An' w'en they passed the car barn, The feller there on guard, To catch an extra lond of hay, Would holler ont, “Hey, pard, Wat'll ye take for that bay mare An’ then he'd mosey out, An' pat the filly on the back, An' look into her mouth, “T'll glve ve seventy-five,” says he, ‘An’ "low the market's poor, But after dickerin’ half an hour He'd buy for twenty more, s good ol poky hoss cars! Too slow for modern ways, They'll soon rot with the stage coach, The pride of earlier days, An' the hosses of the future Will prance along the strect, Their nostrils snortin’ lightnin® a trolley pole fer feet; £ that I8 rather tedious Yankee enterpri y can quit th » the skies. arth It won't last long tho' this weather; going to be warmer soon, so don’t get out your top coat, Re- member the Fourth’s Thursday and its going to be Hot. And you can't enjoy yourself or feel more com- fortable on that day than to be rigged out in some of our Mid-summer apparel—something cool, easy and free. Nothing to bind and pull or make you nervous. We've a whole lot ¢f nice thin coats for just that purpose—silk, cotton, alpaca, serge and Dorp D'ete. Any quantity of thin trousers, flannel, ete., White Duck ones are the proper thing tho', You ought to have one of our straw hats, also don't cost much. 50¢ buy higher. s a good one, but And don't forget our furnishings. of course you may go No where can you find such a selection and variety. Ties, Shirts, Hosiery, Ete., always the very latest Underwear, Collars, Cuff: styles and effects shown. Your Money's Worth or We'll Trade Back. Browning, King & Co, Reliable Clothiers. Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts. Seeour add on page 3.