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IT is un olT day whou wo do not
hear of ti now revolution in South
America.
EVKK slnco Huby Esther put in un up-
ponrnnuo thu rumor thut President
Clovolnnd is ulllieted with a tumor bus
entirely died out.
THK courts of this district will resume -
sumo grinding tomorrow. With more
than 2,000 cases on the docket the
lawyers will reap a bountiful harvest.
WK WOULD not mind the Brazilian
revolution or the brmibui-dmont of Rio
Janeiro by the Bra/.ilian rebels , but wo
shall have to romonstrutoiLthis rumpus
rinses the price of colTco.
politicians who arc stating' to
their friends what the attitude of THK
BKK will be respecting certain candi
dates and public measure ; ) will confer a
favor by talcing this paper into their
confidence.
BY THK time Chicago gets through
with her religious parliament most of
her people will bo lit for the lunatic
asylum. But most of the Chicago people
ple are not so much concerned about the !
hereafter as the heretofore.
THK Sallno land grab bobs up once
more in the shape of a ridicuously COw
assessment. If the act authorizing the
sale is valid the state ought not to have
its land appraised at a time when heat
bottom has fallen out of the market at
give-away prices.
THK latest bank statement from Now
York is very encouraging. With ten
millions and a half in their vaults in excess -
cess of their legal requirements the
banks are in position to resume loans to
mercantile houses .and discard ng
house "certificates.
IOWA democrats are beginning to feel
very nlwky about electing the next )
legislature. A prominent Iowa democrat
crat who was interviewed at Chicago
the other day concedes that the senatorial
torial contest in Iowa will draw out b a
very heavy republican vote , and insure
u majority of the legislature to the re
publicans.
OMAHA has reached seventh place
among the interior customs districts ,
having become in the past three years
an important port of entry. Surveyor
Alexander claims that the cost of col !
lecting liu.sTjecii ' less than at any port 0lin
the union.'excepting alone Chicago and
Now York. Tnis is a straw which indi
cates the steady strides Omaha is mak
ing commercially.
SKVKNTY-FIVK thousand men and
women in a mad race for land at $1.25
an aero in the Cherokee
Strip ! What a
discouraging incident forllenry go !
If these people will light for the pos
session of wild prairie , how much more
of a bloody struggle it would bo to dis
possess people who have spent a life
time in Improving their homos and make
tenants out of them with Uncle Sam us
landlord.
TRAIN robberies are beginning to bo
about as common in the cast as horse
stealing has been in the far west. In
fact they are becoming more common be
cause it is loss risky. A horse thief ,
when caught out on the frontier Bottle'
ment , often llnds himself hoisted to the
top of a telegraph polo , but train rob
bers , if ever they are caught , manage obto
got oft with a light uontonco an-1 got out
of the penitentiary very readily.
THK people of the United States are
very patient and long nattering , but
when they get mud they got real mad.
For live weeks or more congress has
kept the wires hot with frothy rhetoric
and the prospect now is that there will
bo no lot up on eenatorjul courtesy ;
gabble. But there is u day of reckoning
in the dim , but not very distant future ,
when a good many men with senatorial
dignity may find themselves burled
under a landslide.
AND now it Is proposed to extend the
World's fair up to New Year's by reso
lution of congress. If congress could by
resolution turn back the dial and extend
the period of warm weather on the
frigid shores of Lake
Michigan there
would bo u fair prospect of keeping the
big show iroing. But the chances are
thut the ice will bo two foot thick in
the Chicago river by the middle of No-
vemlwr , and the admissions to the fair
would not pay the expense of heating
the buildings , if they could bo heated
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M/.ir/0/Mrro.v.
The medical c.mgro. recently In scsr
Moil at Washington recommended the
temporary suspension of Immigration ,
which the president is authorized to do
under the law providing for national
quarantine In order to shut out a pos-
slblo invasion of cholora. A great ,
many newspapers , particularly in the
east , are urging that this ho dona.
They point to the fact that Uussla is
full of cholera and that reports from
Europe- toll of the spread of the disease ,
Immigrants continue to come to this
country from nil quarters , and It is said
that a great many of them are of the
class that may couVey the seeds of
diseabo. It is true that those immigrants -
migrants are subjected to a much more
rigid system of Inspection than formerly ,
and that under the quarantine rogulu-
tion.s as they are now being applied there
is comparatively little danger of anybody -
body bringing cholera into our ports ,
Yet such a thing is possible , and the
argument is that wo should avoid all
danger , however slight it may bo. Wo
have numerous ports and a very extended
Bcaeoust. Wo have also very extended
northern and southern frontiers. So
long as thorp is Immigration there will
bo danger that at some of Iho 'ports o
points of entrance Into the country
inspection will bo defective and
people will get into the country ,
bringing disease with them , cither do-
velopc'd in their persons or harbored in
their baggage. Our northern border Is
not now adequately protected , and it is
noted that since the immigration law of
18- ! ) was enacted the number of
immigrants coming into the United
States through Canada has largely
increased. It is said that persons -
sons who have been refused entrance -
trance at our Atlantic ports have HUC-
ccc-dcd lu gutting into the country by
way of Canada. According to a report
of Dr. Bunks , who is stationed at
Quebec , in the three months ending
on .Inly 31 the number of im
migrants who passed the St. Law
rence quarantine was-0,550 , and of these
17-loU were on their way to the United
States. The quarantine service at the
Canadian station is said lo'bo very satis
factory , but ought wo rely altogether
upon this ? Is it not expedient that our
own government shall adopt such a
policy as will render the country abso
lutely secure against a possible invasion
of cholera ?
Self-preservation is nature's first law.
It is well known that this paper has no
sympathy with those people who want
a restriction or suspension of immi
gration on the grounds thut wo do
not want any addition to our popu
lation from abroad , that wo should keep
what land wo have for the natural in
crease of our own people , and that by
allowing an unchecked immigration , ex
cept as to certain classes already inter
dicted , wo are in danger of suffering
economically , socially and politically.
Wo have never been ublo to see any
force in arguments of this sort , believ
ing that there is still and will be for
'muny years to come abundant oppor
tunity hero for the industrious and
thrifty of the old world , while as to
their inlluenco politically or socially it
is a poor compliment to the American
people to .assume that there is even
a possibility of their not being
able to protect their political institu
tions und maintain their social charac
ter against any assaults likely to bo
made upon them by emigrants from
Europe. But the question of keeping
out the cholera is a very dilieront mut
ter , and if the authorities should believe
the danger of an invasion of 'thatscourge
to be really serious they would bo justi
fied in temporarily suspending immi
gration ; indeed , it would become their
imperative duty to do so. The season is
so far advanced , however , that it n s
highly probable the president will ot
find it necessary to exorcise the author
ity which the law gives him in this di
rection.
It is interesting to note in this connec !
tion , for the relief especially of so
people who arc in a chronic state of ar
that we shall bo overrun by ts
from Europe , that for several weeks l
more people have been going out of this
country than have been coining into it.
This is the report of the immigration
commissioner at New York. There is
usually a considerable ofllux of foreign
workmen in the autumn , but this your
the number returning to Europe is 'un
precedented. The explanation is in the
business depression hero. The ex
istence of this is known throughout
Europe and this knowledge chocks the
usual movement of
the
emigrating popu
lation. At the same time it operates into
send unusual numbers out of the country
in addition to the inns
try customary exodus
at this Benson. Except the possibility
of a cholera invasion , which grows less
every day , there is nothing in the pres
ent condition of
immigration to cause
anj * alarm.
HOUSRiriVKS AAI ) SRHVANTS.
Philanthropic women in some of hove
New England towns whore mills have ,
recently shut down have endeavored tote
assist the dispbu-'ed women workers to
Kocure positions as domestic servants. )
The experiment , however , has not been
an unqualified success. Notwithstand
ing the fact thut places wore at hand
waiting to be lilted , places which de
manded Joss work than is required aeof
factory operatives and which ottered
much higher compensation , it was found i
impossible to induce many of the idle
women to accept , oven temporarily , em
ployment which was denied them in the
closed mills. In this wo have but an
other Illustration added to the hundreds
that have previously boon noted , that
domestic service has acquired in mere
way or another some quality which re
pels the woman whelms been accustomed
to u precarious existence as a factory
operative.
Opinions in recent discussion of the
servant question have differed widely on
the point whether the dlUlculties encountered -
countered are to bo attributed to the em
ployed or to the employer whether 3inUs
the servant or the housewife who is
being abused. The extended investiga
tions undertaken by Miss Lucy B. Sal
mon of Vossar college have led her 3alto
point out in certain magazine articles
the various advantages and disadvan
tages under which the occupation of > a
domestic servant labors. The results of
her study Boom to bo that the main hln-
drunco to nn ample supply of servants
In the obstacles which are put lit the
way of n rise In social station. And she
baon brought tj think that the Hm-
Hationa us to going out , receiving company -
pany and devoting her lolsuro to her
own purposes are the real causes of. the
unuttruclivcncas of domestic gorvlco in
the eyes of American women.
On the other hand , there are numer
ous writers who declaim about the
slavery of the housowlfo. Instead of
seeing anything like oppression of the
servant they can find nothing in her
situation that justifies complaint. If
any one Is entitled to complain , It is the
mistress of the mansion. So one woman
who subscribes herself U3 "nn oft dis
tressed housewife" insists that things
will go from bad to worse until legisla
tion is appealed to. She thinks the so
lution lies in the strict enforcement of
the law which imposes penalties for ob
taining money under false pretenses.
Professional' men and skilled laborers
are liable for damages in cuso they rep
resent that they liavo the requisite
skill when in fact they fall to employ it.
Why not , then , she asks , compel cooks
or housemaids to choose their profession
because of aptitude or lasto for thorn ?
Why not line people who undertake to
cook or sweep without knowing how ?
There Is certainly something amiss
when the discussion of this subject
draws out expressions so opposed to one
another as these. It is evident that \ve
are not yet able to judge whether It is
the housewife or the servant who is
abused , and the view which is taken is
apt to vary with the position of the
critic. No solution to the problem can
bo expected until some effort is made to
reconcile the many divergent opinions.
A'O CHKKl ) IN TltV I'lllll.lU SCHOOLS.
Every patriotic American citizen looks
upon our public school system as the
strongest guaranty for the perpetuation
of civil and religious liberty that form
the corner stone of the republic. The
trainers of our state constitution sought
to forestall any possible Interference hy
religious zealots with our public school
system when they embodied iu the Dill
of Rights the following provision :
All persons have ti natural and Indefensi
ble right to worship God according to the
dictates of their own conscience. No person
shall bo compelled to attend , erect or sup
port any place of worship against his con
sent , and no preference shall bo given by
law to any religious society , nor shall any
Intorforcnco with the rights of consclonci1
bo permitted. No religious teat shall bo re
quired us a qualification for onico. * * *
Hellgion , morality and knowledge , however ,
being essential to good Government , it shall
bo the duty of the
legislature to pass suita ;
ble laws to protect every religious denornl ?
nation lu the peaccaulo enjoyment , of its
own mode of public worsliip and to cncour-
ngo schools and the tncans of instruction. ri
Section 11 of article viii of the consti-
tution. entitled "Education , " states that , :
No sectarian instruction shall bo qllowcd
in any school or institution supported in | j
whole or in part by the public 'funds set
apart for educational purposes , nor shall the
state accept any grant , conveyance or be
quest of money , lands or other property 0to
bo used for sectarian purposes.
To supplement these constitutional
safeguards against the intrusion of sectar
ianism into the public schools of Omtiha ,
the law creating the Board of Education
for Omaha , as framed by the editor of
TUB BKR , then a representative for Doug
las county in the legislature , contained
the following provision :
No sectarian or religious doctrine shall
ever bo taught or Inculcated in the public ;
schools of Omaha.
This clause has been retained in the
statutes through all the revisions which :
the school laws have undergone since its
11
In the face of the constitutional
guarantees of religious freedom and un
qualified Inhibition of the use of school
funds for sectarian purposes , no rational
person will contend that there is any
danger that either preacher or priest ,
Protestant or Catholic , will subvert our
public schools to
sectarian purposes or
teachings.
The attempt in certain quarters too
force the issue of creed in the c lining
school election is therefore tn ba de
plored und'eliscounteimnced. No possible -
blo good can spring from dragging sec-
turian contention into the school board
or making any particular religious belief ) -
liof a qualification or disqualification.
This paper has always advocated a nonpartisan -
partisan school board , because wo do not
believe any man fit to servo on the Board
of Education should bo dependent upon ,
the political mauhino und because wo
believe it to bo
detrimental to our
school system that memberships in the
board should go us the reward of par
tisan activity. For the same reason , veer
believe it to bo contrary to the letter
and spirit of our constitution that belief
in any particular religion or hostility to
any particular religion shall bo consid
ered a qualification or a bar to member
ship in the school board.
Our Board bf Education dates back
twenty-two yours. Wo have had Protest
ants , Catholics , Jews and agnostics iSton
the board , but no man has over sought
to foist his belief
or disbelief upon our
school system. The friends of the pub-
lie schools want clean , intelligent und
honest men on the school board.
This is the only qualification thut
should bo exacted from candidates.
What party they belong to and what
church they attend is of no consequence
so long us wo know them to bo upright ,
law-abiding citizen ) who take
, an in
terest in the public schools und uro
willing to devote tholr time and talents
to maintaining Iho high standard of ed
ucation which wo have established.
BKOAUSK THK BKB has expressed the
opinion that there urb many projects
where $100,000 could bo expended to
greater advantage thut in building a
city hospital , a local contemporary de
clares that Tuu BRU is opposed to the
proposition "to vote bonds for a hospi
tal for the helpless in order to help out
several corporations that want to ask
subsidies for enterprises that promise to
benefit Omaha. " Nothing is farther
from the truth. The only reason THK
BKK does not approve the proposition to
vote $100,000 , for an emergency hospital
is bocuuBO the city can manage to get
al ng without it and because voting
9100,000fora , hospital will prevent us
fi-oi building , ii. market house and public
hlnHo , hall , whi'jljlfrn more needed , Wo
, believe that the accommodations In the
foil hospltabj-nlt-ca-ly established are
nmplo for ullpi-jUuary wants and if an
emergency ho.Vpjtal Is absolutely needed
wo can readily niid a suitable building
that can bouliinTed for the purpose.
MUSICAL
It is a fact wlIFch everybody Interested
in the cause oT'fnuslcul development in
the United States ought to rccogni/.o
and appreciate1 , flmt wo have in this
country a musical institution which in
not surpassed in the comprehensiveness
of Its curriculum and the thoroughness
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of"its tuition by the best schools of tno
old world. This is the National Con-
sorvutoi-y of Music of America , located
In Now York and established olght
years ago. The progress of this splen
did institution 1ms been steady and
rapid and it has accomplished immcas-
urablo good. It has supplied tuition
to 2f > 00 pupils , many of whom arc
pursuing a successful musical career , a
number of those having boon taught
free of charge. The conservatory was
not established as u money-making en
terprise , but with the single purpose of
encouraging and promoting the devel
opment of American musical talent. Its
founder , Mrs. .Toannotto M. Thurbor ,
had boundless faith in the educational
possibilities of such an institution , and
in order to give those the highest test
It was nccoiwury to olTor the advantages
of the conservatory free of charge to till
persons of remarkable talent without
the means to pay for tuition. To these
who can pay the charges are most rea
sonable lower than in any other musi
cal institution of equal merit anywhere.
Nobody is excluded from the conserva
tory on account of race , creed or color ,
who has the talent necessary to meet
the requirements.
The director of this institution is Dr.
Antonin Dvorak , eminent as a composer
and ! admittedly the greatest muster of
instrumentation in the world today.
Under his direction are fifty-six in
structors , the professional repute of
most of whom is intornutionul. These
constitute a corps of touchers of the
highest cllicioncy. The scholastic year
of the conservatory extends from Octo
ber 1 to Juno 1 , and the annual entrance
examinations begin September 21 and
close October 2 , though paying pupils
may enter at any period of the year.
The patrons of the National Conserva
tory of Music iji'b iulo'many distinguished
citizens , among , whom are Grover
Cleveland : , Chainicey M. Depcw , William
BM . Allison , KoW ll P. Flower'William
BC . Evarts , Audr.ow Carnegie , William
C.Whitney , nnduMajor General Schofiold.
iOf the 150 coii | uting patrons of the
conservatory , 'naj one has given less
than S100 and 'irih'ny ' have gone into the
thousands. SjicU an.institution us this
ought , to have' inn much larger list of
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patrons from''among these who are
easily able to epij'tributo $100 or more.
THK BKK wouhUbespeak for -this excol-
lent school of .music the earnest interest
and substantitilrnHUpport of. ' everybody
who uT > preciuto rr - "thoimportance of
raifsicai ititvcfojfecn't" in'n tlj'5' United
States. '
THK QOKS I'lUff Ul' ' LAXD SUl'PbY.
The expression of a fear that the
American people will at a not very re-
mote date find themselves landless is
not uncommon , and certain statisticians
make a plausible prosontutio'n of figures
to justify the apprehension. The open
ing of the Cherokee Strip to settlement ,
with the certainty that within a few
years the remaining reservations in the
Indian Territory will bo similarly dis-
pobod of , has renewed the talk ulrjut a
prospective land famine not far off. It is
undeniable that of the public domain
little thut is desirable remains and it is
only a question of time when the farm
seeker who wants land at government
terms will have to accept thut which must
bo irrigated or go without , but this does
not warrant the fear that the American
people are soon to become land hungry
in this generation or the next.
When there is no longer any desirable
government land to bo had there will
begin a change of conditions under
which the danger that some now appre
hend will bo put off for a very long
timo.
It has been remarked that the great
vice of the American farmer is to
spread out. Ho prefers to superficially
cultivate many acres rather than to
carefully cultivate a fow. Durintr the
last . twenty-five years the pop
ulation of the United States about
doubled while the cultivated area
increased more than 154 pot
t-out. Immense tracts are owned
by individuals which cannot always re
main the property of one person. Thus
when the time comes that no more arable
land is to bo hud from the general gov
ernment these tracts owned by in
dividuals will come into the market and
will bo cut up into small farms , and the
state school lands yory generally will
ho treated in thq samq way. From
these resources the demands of an in
creasing agricultural population will bo
supplied for jwrhaps another genera
tiun , Before jTjJJt ) supply is exhausted
the work of rwlvomlng the soml-at-ld
lands by irrigation will have been In
augurated ' $ , ' scale. Few
people .havo .ni ah intelligent idea
of the oxtoHWf of this fesonrco.
The - $ . ' , , ; is estimated
to contain 200,000,01)1) ) ) acres , capable of
yielding undorW proper system of irri
gation abundtifttaprop8 and Bupporting
millions of pac/ple. There is etill an
other resource . jd a very important
one , namely , a ; | > # Uor cultivation of the
lands now ini&fl \ It is said that the
waste and laqlTHif1 thrift that charuo-
terizo American ( farmers amaze the
European agriculturist. Franco , with
un area ubout that of 'Texas , sustains u
population of abaut 38,000,000. Belgium ,
dowith an a oa of a little over 11,000
square miles , less } than ono-faurth the
splarea cf Neb atka , sustains u population
of over 0,000,030. Not one American
farmer In 100.0 , obiorvos u contompo-
raiy , kn ws anything ubout the prop
orlies of different soils or how
to vary crops and got the full virtue oui
of his holding. Ho goes on in the olt
slip-shod way his fathers trod am
wonders why ho duos not got ahead In
the world. There lius been B > me reat > on
for this iu the past , remarku the same
writer. The cheap lands of the west
with their abundant crops soiling lower
than eastern farmers uoutil produce
thorn bus discouraged extensive funning.
Hut with the filling up of the west the
L'rcnt quantities of land in the east nnd
south now lying idle or only half culti
vated will bo brought Into use. As the
population becomes denser land will
of oottrso tncreaso In value , and It Is
probable that good farm lands In the
United SUxtes will never bo cheaper
than they tire now. Indeed there Is
pot-hups no investment more certain to
yield a profit. It is just as obvious that
there is no danger of the American people -
plo becoming land hungry for several
generations.
A coMMUNDAUhi ! work has boon
undertaken by the Grand Army of the
Uapublic in planning the erection of a
monument in Washington , national in
character , to the rank and file of the
union army and navy. There are
memorials , some of them Imposing anil
costly , in many cities of the country in
honor of the heroes who fought on land
andbcafor the preservation of the union ,
but these are almost without exception
Intended to commemorate ) the patriotism
and loyalty of the men who wont forth
from these localities. Moreover , they
make no distinction between the rank
and file and the olllcer.s. While monuments
ments to commanding officers are com
mon , a fitting memorial of the private
Boliiicrs and common sailors the men
without whoso courage and fidelity the
genius of the commanders would have
been ftltilo has yet to bo provided.
This the Grand Army proposes to pro
vide and it is to be hoped that it will
push thu project vigorously. There can
be no doubt that whatever support may
ho asked or desired from the genortil
public will bo cordially given , for the
musses of our people duly honor the
heroism of those who fought in the
ranks and fully appreciate their eliilm
to the popular homage. Snob a monument
ment would servo bolter than any other
to remind the coming generations that
the American republic was saved from
disruption by thu unbought and willing
sacrifices and the lofty heroism of the
rank and file , representing the common
people , the masses of the country's pop
ulation. .
CHICAGO is trying very hard to im
press Secretary Carlisle and the conpe
gresbiotial committee on ways and means
that her federal building is liable to
tumble down any day. The building
was never a very handbomo structure
and doubtless does not moot the wants
of a city of a million and a half in-
habitants. It is doubtful , however ,
whether the building is really in as
dangerous condition us it has been rep
resented. To use the prize ring parlance ,
the structure is sadly disfigured , but
still on its legs.
t.at Thrill Itoll.
MiltatlcliMafines. .
Tlio clouds are rolling by , and what's
more , tlioy'ro rolling by on tno whizzing
wheels of
Trim liurariiiii'nx < > r Uio Talk.
I'hllntltliihlit Time * .
The horrible idea suggests itself that the
senate intends to talk lifty years niul then
try to celebrate its silver Jubiieo.
Inlying Op itittriliiiiiun.
Kansas Cltn Star.
The autocrat of Austria Is laying up retri
bution for himself in the orent of a conflict
with Hussta. The treatment , of tlio Uolic-
mians will certainly boar bitter fruit before
many years.
I'ubllu
Kccent occurrences is connection with the
free distribution of provisions on tlio west
sidu lead to tlio bcliof that tlio distress in
tills town is not so widespread us lias been
believed. One man who asked for relief
was discovered to bo the owner of u two-
story Hat building which was bringing him
n good rental monthly. A woman who was
lu line awaiting the distribution of bread
had her poclcet picked of j-OOU. How many
other people iu comfortable circumstances
are taking advantage of public charity f
UunilHinmiil l > y tlio Pops.
1'hilMltliilita Itccurd.
Dishonorable dismissal from service is the
punishment meted out b.v a court martial to
Colonel Hughes , of the Kansas malitia , for
refusing to obey Governor LluwollitiR's
orders ( luring the legislative deadlock last
lall. Colones Hughes may ac-cept his dis
missal us a decoration of honoi1. The Kansas
supreme court has decided that , tlio republi
can house which ho refused to disperse Is
thu rightful one , and in disobeying orders lie
quenched an incipient llamo of faction that
ini''lit li'ivo hurst out into u wide sweeping
bliuo uf revolution.
Tlm l.OMHHi Siiunrzrit.
( .Mass. ) itejiitlillcan.
Those Columbian souvenir half dollars ,
which pcopln were paying $ L for , are coming
u on the government treasury at their fuco
value to such an extent Unit legislation is
iskea relieving tlio secretary from thu
necessity of redeeming them in full legal
x-iider money up to sums of J.20. Senator
Sherman said at the time these coins were
lutliorlzcd that so many were nrovidnd they
could never become rare enough to command
i lanciful prlcu , and this Is provini ; to ba thu
case. But pending thu practical demonstra-
Lion of the fact , Chicago seems to have
realized handsomely on original expecta
tions.
llullruuil Prujit.Tly ll'i etkurs.
KantaH Cttll 'ftiiieM.
It la stated that 10 imr cent of the railway
uillcago of the United States has within the
lust t'uw months passed into the hands of ro
ceivers. titrangu as it might seem to ouu un
acquainted with thu facts , a receivership
1ms come to bo regarded as ono of the most
fortunate things that can happen to a strug
gling road. While confidence is not usually
considered a necessary quality In increasing
the earnings of a road , the trust Inspired by
the appointment of an experienced man to
Its head often has much olTect in setting thu
corporation upon Its feet. Thu business
qualities of thu receiver usually do the rest.
To say that 10 pur cent of the roads are
uudur rocnlvors is not necessarily , there-
tore , to Intimate that rum stares them in
the face. On the contrary , it is u bravo
ackmuvledrnient of their actual ixindltlon ,
and un assurance that all that seasoned ox-
norionco , ability and uprightness can do to
resuscitate- them will lie done.
Development of t.iuVuft. .
ISruoMyn K.iylc.
Thirty .vears UKO pllprims were still lum
bering ncross tlio plains und through the
mountain passes lu "prairlo sohoonera , " buf
falo still ranged along tlio prulrio in herds
no eve could measure. Denver was a village
and other cities of the middle bolt unbuilt ,
the Indian menaced the frontier and savauo
wars meant something , Life beyond the
Missouri was rough and wild , 11.id any man
of that day foretold BO speedy n chantro he
would bayo beeu laughed down. Hut the
change has cotuo. There Is no longora west ,
as distinguished In aims , character or condi
tion from the east , nnd thu country Is a unit
as It hus never been until this timo. That
Its various sections will la the future bo still
less sectional lhero is no manner of doubt.
The prominence attained by the United
Sjutea 1" mining and manufactures will bo
still maintained , but these industries will m
time become subservient to agriculture ,
which is * tbo basis of life itolf , now that
man has idostroyea thu jfaiuo that lie once
subsisted oa.
M vvi.\n \ .iitin. , ir run I'tn.nr.
\Vixshltifjton Stnr : Tlio popa Is to publish
Ills I .at I n pooiii s soon. This step toward
having r-ootry written In u comparatively
unused language will doubtless rrcolvo gen-
em ! cneoiirairciiicnt.
Philadelphia UncoM : lov. ! Or. Tulniago
Announces that no will Imvo ihu tie t winter
of commercial prosperity wo Imvo sce-tt in
generations. As tlio revcromt gentle-nun Is
In n sense a dealer In futures tils wonln may
bo ncccptcd as tlm Judgment of nn uxpcrt.
Washington Star : Hov. Uoliort Mclntyro
of Colorado , after declaring that riot and
desolation will sweep the country , fouiplains
that when ho was locturlni ; In the exist people -
plo st.ircMi at him as If Jio wore u curiosity.
It looks a * if Mr. Mclntyro were uncon
sciously doing Ills he-si tu live Up to this offhand -
hand estimate * of hlmsolf.
St. Paul Oloboi
Uhlcnco has had a con
gress of Catholics nntt .lows , and now she Is
entertaining the representatives of nil
Itnown rellcluns. She ought to bo on her
best bohnvlor , one would think , vet the po
lice srctn to bo kept us busy ns ever. It Is to
bo feared that the religion that Is to rede-cm
Chicago has not .vet been Invented.
Minneapolis .Iniirtinl : Mr. Gladstone at
tended ervieo on Sunday at the Episcopal
church In thn town whcro ho Is visiting and
thu odlllpo was rrowdcd. The pruni'hor. in
stead of being grateful to the premier for
lirliming him n congregation , publicly roasted
tlio people for worshiping a creature Instead
of a creator. That man Is nut a practical
Christian. Hi ! should Imvo taken up n col-
lecliun.
Chicago Journal : Iloni-y Prosprved Smith
is again In evidence. The Ohio synod 1 % to
do n little moro wrangling over him next
mouth , Prof , Smith's e-asu , like his mldulo
name , reminds 0110 of a certain old German
farmer's udvico. A hotiscwltu had Just
bought some butter of him and asked how to
keep It fresh. "Oh , pool her in a yar she'll
keep , " w.is the answer. This little Prusby-
torlan Jar is showing every indication of
"keeping' ' for nn luilullnlto period.
Kansas City Star : "In the tumo of Leo
XIII. I salute the great American publlcaml
I call upon thu Catholics of America to go
forward , In ono hand bearing the book of
Christian truth and in the other the consti
tution of the United Status. " This was the
greeting of Algr. Satolll to the Catholic
congress which oioicd | ( at Chicago yester
day. It was n noble and patriotic suutl-
ment , nnd fraught with unusual import ns
proceeding from thu specially cominissluncd
delegate of thu Roman pontiff. It gives w
the venerable ) and potential ecclesiastical
organization to which It is addressed a high
mission. The book of truth in mm hand and
tin- great thai-tor of American liberty in the
other constitutes nn equipment equal to the
achievement of tniirlity results. It nnpos.-s
no alliance imlwccn the church and state
which infringes upon the spirit of our
American institutions. U makes loyalty to
the national government as vital as the ob
servance and discharge of moral and rejig-
ious
obligations.
1'IML'I.IS ,
. IXU
Itaco trnci : winnings take high rani : as
I stable : money.
As a star maker a properly volcod banana
peel is irresistible and impressive.
The cultivation of snails In San Francisco
Is a melancholy rolloction on the golden
gait.
Senator Hill's congratulations to Grovur
on the birtli of No. " were probably shipued
U'v slow freight.
, Senator Teller laments the dearth of
great editors. The country laments the su
perabundance of smallborcs In the scuato.
Albert S. Willis , a blue grass diplomat ,
goes to Hawaii as a representative of Undo
Sam : , and Incidentally to watch Mr. Glaus
Sprceklcs raising cane.
The Jersey cholera scare turns out to have
been u toadstool plcntu , nutting night fu
nerals. The toadstool is entitled to a place
in the undertakers' trust.
I Emma Goldman , the feminine firebrand of
Now , York , Is unable to appease her gory ap
petite with four generous meals a day , fur 1
nished by the authorities of the Tombs.
Mr. Bryan's argument with the Bermuda
onion will doubtless bo added to the franked
literature of the First at nn curly day. "Yo
that , have tears to shed , wcfurc to shed
i ,
them" when the pealing begins.
In proposing an aluminium university ,
Senator PelTor makes a serious mistake in
thinking the country is suffering from a
shortage of lightweight statesmen. Look
around you , senator.
Huv. .John J. Tigho , the Jersey orator who
delivered the Columbian address in Omaha
last October , has published u collection of
his writings in prose and verso which
abounds with beautiful nud truthful word
pictures of iho west. Associations and sur
roundings servo to accentuate his enthusi
asm for the nest and Its people , as is shown
in these lines referring to the east :
Whcro wild ambition , taste und art ,
And wealth and power and fold
Around the fancies of oiirymilli
TholrallUorltiK trappings fold.
Tlioy bid un ni-nip our dreams of llfo
With all we Imped fur hlttm.-d. !
And yet. tlm hoiiii'stuad of the heart
Is in thu boundless west.
The husband of Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ii.is
been telling a breathless world how that
gifted lady writes. According to his ac
count she grabs a pencil and
tnot\ gazes long
and earnestly at her upturned thumbs
Presently the thumbs begin to wiggle , the
poetess of passion commences to hreatho
hard nnd cot red in the face , her back hair
pots agitated , her brain begins to seuiho.and
then burning thoughts uomo tumbling out
head over heels bo fust that shu can hardly
write them down. This is not precisely the
way Mr. Klla Wlioolur Wilcox tolls it , ' but
his facts are all embodied in the foregoing
statement.
rmifwi/i.v f.v THiMiH.1.
! li si Wouldn't It l > o Jolly lo hnvo n
like n Inure wlicii you took nglnso (
bout null hut ilayr
ItulTnlo ( ourli-r : Sii lflnR of low-Rouif (
pro i ilc , thfl man In chnrcnnf the wntch PIMIU
icrlna Jowolrystoto Is Rt-iu-Mlly bohltul thu
UlllO.- " .
Italllmnro Antorlrnii ! A woman In Ohio Im *
Just received licnli-i'it-n as nu electrical onul
peer. She emslil , liy nioro force of Instinct , to
know limr to mnnaKo the sparks.
Indl.iuapntli .lourmil ! Mr . WlckvrtroI'd
Juil llkn to knovr what kept you out so Into
last nielit , Indeed I would.
\VU-kwlro-My dear , this It nn era of returning -
turning coiilldt-nce , and you oiivlit nut to delay -
lay It by Koltlnn such Ideas In your mlml.
llainlol's ftiuilllar ro-
murk to tlm oiTuet Unit hn wa reading "wonN ,
worm , woriiB. " islvtw rl n to tlio suspicion that.
nuiiiimtk hud
a stlvnrilubatosnniowlioro
In Hi
Iloston 1'iMt : "MU-t WitlmmrU much
sontlmimtiil th.in I thought. She keoui nverv mow
letter tluildld lovoiul her * rites to Imr.1
" '
"That Nii't. sentiment , my dour ; It Is Rood ,
h.ird , breach-of-proml-iB seii ( \ "
Dotnill I'ron I'ross : Uashfulliovur-Mury , I
bi'llovii I wiufltl llko to go on the vuiiiiiiln and
Imvo n pipe.
Aliirv vos' , do ! You have not plnod very
much. so far ,
Itimtou rourUir : The liulle.1 huvo iitrnln
tnkuii In wearing combs In tliHrhalr , and with
a ktiowliMlgn of this fiu-t we. venturn to .smjcoit
that. Ihu sweetest , tiling In ooiuhs Is honey.
'IVutti : Mri.diytjir cifior ki < iliu'iir ' h'li- '
iui.1 Oh , U-i-irlln , h.ivn you linn drlnklini ?
Mr. tinyboy Nothing stroiiKor thtui ; i llttlo
brandy , my denr ,
Mr * , ( iiiyboy ( much relieved ) Oh , It's all
right , then.
llurpiVs Ilaznr : "Tommy , who was Joan of
AirV'nsked the toucher. ' 'Noah's wife , " snld
Tommy , who Is great ntKiitfsslfiK
Now Orlonns I'lctiyBno : Clmpeniii' ) lll.o t
bo stored away In nod corners.
Washington Slur : "A run" I you ashamed of
yonrsi'lf , " Hald tlio ovoixreun to a nelcliborlni , '
Ireo , "to biMlroppliit ! your foliage In this lazy
"
milliner ?
"Niivcrtiilnil , " was ( bo reply , "I'll turn over
a now le-af next sprluir. "
AITKUTIII : r.u.u
A man with a iiuturo unduly vnln
Will M > iniM lines follow a mil Inn
Tn swing himself on u passim : train
\Vbtm the sumo Is nicely In motion !
And whe.li ho arises , hopping mad ,
From when ) ho was tumbled and shaken ,
Ilissinllo Is us falsiMis tlio out ! ho hud
At the time his picture was taken.
TllK OI.V.S HOT.
.vnm ll'nffcr / ' , .
In Sleepy Hollow graveyard , wlifon thu long
< i ly was doiio ,
I sadly tmiMid above Iho dust that once was
Kmer-.otij
And whitro earesslus zephyrs the clustered
greeniiry WHVU
I stood lu chastened revorlo at Hawthorne's
qulol grave.
On this green hill , 'ncnth .sun and stars , will
sh-up from ago In ago
The Druumur In his dreamless .sloop , tlio Mys
tic and tliuHaio ;
Thu bust , the crown of nil her years , our wust-
ern world can show ,
Thu fullest lloworugo of our time , Is burled
he-re below.
They sleep , nor bond I bo wlutor storm , nor
fuel the Ktiwmor hreo/.o ;
They sleep , but tlm strong words thoy.spako
are blown o'or all Iho seas.
I turned away where bonding grim o'or hum
bler burial waves ,
And then beheld u gray old man who walked
among the graves.
"Grout men are burled here , " I snld. Mo wiped
a falling tear ,
"Great men , " ho slshcd , "I know , but then ,
my boy Is burled hern.
God ciivo "them .sli-enuth nud length of day.s
till all their work was done
Mv boy , my boy wo burled hero lioforo his
work begun ! "
The Dreamer and the Mystic I loft thorn to
their fume ,
And silent loft the poor boy's grave , tlio grave
without a name.
Their homo Is lu the thought of men in nations
wliloiipart ,
Thu hey Hulls love as warm as theirs In his oil )
father's heart.
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This pretty toilottu do promonadd Is In
bright red surah , with a tvldo bertlm of vary
light green tulle. The * volant is of the lat
ter material.
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Largest Miinufiiuturnrs nnd Hotullorj
of OlothiiiKln the World.
Listen to my tale of
Woe.
( tly purmliwloii , )
A little green peach in an orchard grew ,
Listen to my tale of woe.
Ono day this little peach dawned on the view ,
Of little Johnny Jones and his sister Sue , them 2 , them 2 ,
Listen to my tale of woe.
Now up at the peach a club they throw ,
Listen to my tale of woe.
Down from the stem on which it grow ,
Fell the little poach of Emerald hue.wise John , good Sue ,
Listen to my tale of woo.
Great heads had them 2 , Johnny Jones and his sister Sue ,
He always wears our suits so naw , he do , he do ,
Listen to my tale of woo.
"Don't take a bite" said John to Sue ,
Listen to my tale of woo.
For then the trouble'd begin to brew ,
A trouble thr.t the doctor couldn't subdue , too truo,2 true ,
Listen to my tale of woe.
Now John grew wiser as older he grow ,
Listen to my tale of woe.
And came to know a thing or two ,
Our suits he wears which proves it true , boo hoe , boo hoe ,
Listen to my tale of woe.
Great heads had them 2 , Johnnie Jones and his sister Sue ,
He always weard our suits so- new , he do , he do ,
Listen to our tale of joy.
DROWNINQ , KINO & CO. ,
Corner 15th nnd Doughm Htrcots.