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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1893)
SUNDAYSIXTEEN" " PAfiES THE DAILY BEE. P. . Moar.WATBU , KJICor. TlvU.MS O . JlMly Ili-c iwltlinnt Sumlny. Una Yn.if IB 00 Ji ) ll MiilSiiiHl'iy , Onn Your . 1000 f < ltMmtli ( . . TlirM. Mniitli . tt f > 0 Ftimlny Hrn.onuYonr . 300 H/itiirilny / lion , Ono Yn.ir . . . 160 \\ochly II.M'Ono Yonr . . . . 1 00 OKKIOI2" " . Oniitlm.Tlin tleBltiilliMng. Snii.li iiiiiihii.rornor N unit -'iHh Strcflts. ( niinrll WHIM , 12 I'onrl Street. Chlr iiii Olllrn. 317 I'linriilturof ftaminnrro , Him York , Itooms 13 , 14 and 15 , Tribune llulldlns ii , & 13 rniutpentli Direct. All cnniniuiilcAtlntifi rnlntlnR to nowi nnd rrlltnrlnlinntur should bo addrassca ! To the ftlllor. IH'SINKSS I.KTTKItS. All buslines Itittnrt find roinlllnncf'i should bemldre-wd in The IIiiu Publishing t'mnpnny , Omnlm. DrnUs , checks and postolllce. orders to lioimutn p-iynblu to tlio orilur of lliu com- piny. I'artlos loin Ing tlin rlty for tlio summer cnn linvn TUB 1IFK sent tii their address l > y lonvlng an order nl this nlTlco. Tim IUB : I'uni.irfinxn _ _ roMi'ANY. _ _ SWOIIH STATKMKNT OP ( 'I Stale of Nebraska. I Comilvof lon < rl i . i _ . . - r Oeontn II Trwlinck. oor < lirv of TllK rtrr Pub- .llBldiiir commn | > . ' ' " ' MolniiiiilVMwi-irlli.il llio nrlml rlrciilnlliin "f THF in II v Il ! . for llio w ( . ( .U pinlliiK July 'M. INS I , wan nit follows : Siimliy. Juh ' 'It . 211 010 Wonilnv.Jiilf IM . 2-J.J 1 Tnmlay , Jim - ' " . VMI ( > WMliu ml IV. JlllV M . SMH'll Tluirwlav. July y" . a. Will Frlil.ir. Jnlv as . a. ,77fl hiilimli > . July I'll . a I , Mil ( ! i mum It. T7Hi nrcif. . * . HWOHN to liofom inn nnil MiitiK-rllwil in J HtAl. ! my IIIVHI-IICU tlibt ' 'tllli ilivnf Jnlv. IH'1,1 ' v N. 1' . Ki.l I. , Nutao 1'ubllr Tlin Urn III Chli'illrn. Tin : ll.Mi.v niut Hr.MiAY HKK Is nn i.ilo In CIllCaRO ! lt till * fllllOWlllgplnCCt : I I'lilmor hoiiio. Griinil I'nrlllclwlol. Aildllorlllin hotel. ( In-lit Nm Him n hotel , More hold. , Iceland hotel. J'lhis. of TIIK HEK p in 1)0 snon nt tlio No- lirniikn building and tlin Administration build ing , Imposition ground * . un Clrriilntloti lnr.lnniIKU.'I , 34 , TllK mulling HUH of peace ha oneo inoio dissipated tlio clouds of war. Tin : attorney general of Nebraska is Just now ( mo of tlio busiest men in the fctato. , \Vn TilfST the railways will notfjo 10 far nn to enjoin tlionioinbcrs of tlio State Board of Transportation from drawing their balurics as they become due. Tin : Now York Sun advises \H "to wait till the clouds toll by.Vo have boon waiting for HOIIIO tiino and are now nnxiniiH to know bow inucb longer wo must unit. TIIK not earnings of tlio Iowa Central railway for the fiscal year ending Juno 30 , 18 ! : "l are Miid to bo 9.r)81)0t , ! ) : , an in- urcaso of i'18,078 , over those of last year. And this railroad operates inTo\\a under maximum rates fixed by the state rail road commissioners. Tun Nawab of Rainpnr and the Maha rajah of Kapurthala have not yet mot on thiH side of tbo Atlantic. Should they dually coino into one anotlior's prcseneo they will probably have a difficult time to keep from laughing over the high bluff they have boon playing upon the American royalty worshipers. 1 KANSAS CITY proposes to enforce a law prohibiting railway.s from bringing paupers into tlio state of Missouri. The cause of those proceedings is attributed to the great inflow of coloied miners who have been accorded cheap rates of faro. So long as people are at liberty to walk ever tlio state line a law of this kind will not afford any permanent re lief. Some other solution to the problem will bo necessary. SKCUKTAHY CAHUSU : , in refusing to uccedo to a petition from certain Ken tucky distillers requesting the postpone ment for ninety days of tlio collection of tbo taxes duo upon spirits held in bond , did the only thing which ho wan author- I/ell to do. The case is exactly in point with the petition recently sent to the Omaha city council asking a stay of the tune when taxes become delinquent. Tbo law t-an make no exceptions for dis tillers , even though they reside in the Bnmo state as the secretary of the treasury. Tun congress of higher education lately in session nt Chicago has given evi dence of its practical us well as thoo- loticai impoitanco by adoptingmeasuros looking toward the protection of the Mghor degrees fiom debasement at the hands of institutions which grant them to persons who have not performed a commensurate amount of origininl work. The only way to establish n true aristoc racy of lotion * is to restrict the higher educational degrees to men who are really superior in talents and discipline. Tin : indictment of the men who wore hold to have boon responsible .for the Ford theater disaster , following as it lines the severe muling of the inquest over the \ietims of the World's ' fair holocaust , ought to prove an Incentive urging building inspectors throughout the country to exorcise their powers with the utmost vigor. Wo always hear of the calamities that are duo to negli gence , but can never know how many are averted by the conscientious work of public olllcluls. If the consequence of those indictments is to inorunse the lat ter number their mission will be veil fulfilled. PHOK. IticiiAHi ) T. Krv , made tlio point in a recent lecture at Chautnuqim that our existing Inheritance laws ox- nggorato tlio Importance of relationship. Ho proposes that the estate of a person who dies without making a will should never pass to distant relatives whom the deceased has scaicely known and for whom ho has cared loss. Where no near and dependent relatives are at hand to take the succession the town or community in which tiie deceased nmassed his \\ealth and in whoso pros perity he shared becomes the most proper rofciduary legatee. Prof. Ely's Ideas are perhaps founded on a spirit of broad-mindedness and may find some support , but their present adoption for enactment into law is extremely Im probable. The professor will have to lament that the remaining members of the community have not yet been edu cated up to his standard of ethic * . t It U/i / O.U ) MfMlTV / / If thu Intoat movoof thn railroads in rmpoet to the now maximum freight rate law Is to bo Inkon as Indicative of their renl altltudn toward that moiuuio they have not loft the people to bo long de ceived regarding their uctual Intentions tooppoio the lawatovery po lblo point. The maximum freight rate law was never a favorite with the railroads. They fought it tooth and nail through the various stages of legislation and it was only in the face of their itrongest opposition that it finally passed and lw came duly enrolled as law. To have expected tlio railroads quietly to submit to the operation of a statute on- nctnd in this manner was perhaps going too far In \ low of tholr well known dis regard for legal restrictionin ! general. No wonder , then , that it was with a lurking suspicion that thoioportwas re ceived announcing the agreement of the mil nay presidents to abldu by the law and to give it a fair trial by obeying its every provision. TUB 13ii : : was inclined to road that announcement in the most favorable light , and acting upon that nsuuinptiun gave them credit for at least coining to their senses. In this wo wore , with others , de ceived. By enjoining their ofllcers from putting the now tariffs into force and restraining the stnto olllcials and every body in general from prosecuting them for its violation , the i ail roads oharaotor- i/o their former actions as insincere from the start. It li impossible now to sup pose that they ever had any intentions of carrying out the policy announced tote to the public. The whole proceedings were nothing more than a ruse to deceive the people and to throw them entirely ( riT the truck. Instead of allowing the law to go into operation and testing its validity in the duo course of time , the railway atttornoyt * have attempted to steal a march by instituting legal proceedings bi'foro the time sot for Its operation and for the very pur pose of preventing that time from ever arriving. They propose to exhaust every means of avoiding the limitation in rates and their pretended intentions of introducing the required schedules arc simply evidences of downright du plicity. The railroads may imagine that their piosont proceedings are demanded for tbo protection of their interest1 ? . If so they will lind that double dealing is not the course most apt to placate the poo- pie. The people have been convinced that existing freight rates are unreason able and unjust. They have adopted measures to secure their reduction. They arc counting upon relief from ex tortionate charges and obstructionist tactics on the part of the railroads are not calculated to reconcile them to their present conditions. TllK rAIlt FIXAXCTALI.Y. Tlio first throe months of the Colum bian exposition wilLbocomplotod tomor row and it is now conceded that the great enterprise will not bo a financial success. Tbo paid admissions in May numbered I,050,0i7 ; and in.Tune2,075,1KI. The number in July will reach probably 2,800,000 , making the tntal for the three months 0,525,000. This largely exceeds the attendance at the Centennial expo sition during tlio first three months , the total number of paid admissions at Phil adelphia during May , .luno and July amounting to only 1,711li ( } . In August there was an improvement , the number of paying visitors reaching ! ) OSG8J , but the ruh did not begin until September , in which month the paid admissions wore 2,1:11,000 : , , while in Oc tober 2ti4,510 : : ! persons paid their way into the fair. It seems highly probable that there will bo a repetition of the Centennial exposition experience at Chicago and that during the next three months the attendance at the World's fair will bo more than twice as great as during the past three. It is expected that the paid admissions during August will not bo loss than : ) ,000,000 , while for each of the months of September and October they will doubtless reach double this num ber. It is considered a conservative CRtimnto that at least 15,000,000 people will pay their way into the fair during the next throe months , which if rcali/.oil will make tlio total paid admissions up wards of 21,000,000. It is possible that this number may bo o.xccedcd , but oven if the paid admissions should bo several millions greater than this estimate they would not lo ) sufficient to mnko the fail' ' a financial success. On the other hand it may Do that the estimate for the next three months is too largo. While the high railroad faros have had a great deal to do with keeping down the at tendance at the exposition during the past throe months the general depres sion will deter many people from going to Chicago who had intended to go , oven though railroad faros are reduced. Thoiifnitds will forego the desire to visit the fair In obedience to tlio stronger ap peal to bo prepared to moot more impor taut demands upon their resources. The great middle class , on which the flnnn cial success of the enterprise most largely depends , cannot , under existing conditions , be as liberal as they would be If biuiness was prosperous , money easy and the outlook for the future bright. While , therefore , the attend ance at the fair during the next three months will unquestionably bo very much greater than during the pas three , it would not bo surprising if oven the most conservative ostlnmtoj are found to bo too largo. Meanwhllo the fair management seems to feel no concern about thero.-mlt , judg Ing from the fact that it has made no effort to reduce expenditures. Accord ing to the statement of a Chicago paper the stan of the exposition was orgunl/.oi upon the estimate of an attendance o 200,000 a day. Although the average Is under 100.000 , the Htalf orgunl/atlon is maintained on the basis of the higher figure. There has undoubtedly been ti great deal of extravagance in this re spool and perhaps in other directions , but it is a question whether a more econom ical policy can now bo judiciously insti tuted in view of the anticipated increase in the attendance. If the staff lias found employment during the past three months it will certainly have enough to do during the next throe , Present appeals to the managers to reduce ex penditures by cutting down the force of employee ( i conioquently not likely to lw hooded. As an exhibition ' the Columbian World'/ / ! fair I * admitted by all compe tent judges to bo pre-eminently thn grainiest the world has known. Us success In this repcct is unquestioned. It is to bo regretted that it could not have been made also a financial suceo , but failure in this direction is duo largely to conditions that could not bo foreseen nor averted. TIIK i\\sixti \ UP 1'inrnvntiV The announcement of Mr. Terence V. Powdorly that ho will retire from the leadership of the Knights of Labor organization lias elicited some comment not altogether commendatory of that individual as a labor loader. Mr. Pow dorly has been before the country for a number of years as a champion of the cause of labor. It was mainly through his efforts that the knights wore organ ized and ho conceived the ambitious scheme of enrolling in that organi/a- lion all the workingmen of the United States of ovjry class , the skilled and the unskilled. For sev eral years the movement made steady progress , and the knights grow to be the most formidable body of organ ized labor this country or any other has ever known. Under the direction of Powderly , who ruled with almost auto cratic power , it for a time commanded what it pleased. Its influence ramified everywhere , and wherever it wont the authority of Powdorly was behind it. No man exorcised a greater power thiin ho during the period when the organiza tion which ho controlled was at its greatest strength. The industrial in terests of the country feared him , the politicians sought his friendship , and Ills great army of followers in the ranks of labor gave him their fullest confidence. It is remarkable that a man like Powdorly could attain such power at the hands of so numerous a body of intelligent workingmen as constituted the foundation of the Knights of Labor. Ho is not a man of exceptional intellec tual endowments or attainments , ho has no great force of character , and the In tegrity and sincerity of his professed opinions have always been open to ques tion. That ho used the order of which ho was the head for his personal advan tage and aggrandisement has been many times charged. It is possible that ho has gained far mote from it than is represented by a very liberal salary. The time came , as was inevitable , when the fallacies of Powdorly's policy wore seen and the dangerous character of his methods was understood. Then came disintegration of the knights , and although Powdorly struggled with all the energy ho pos sesses to save the organ/.ation ! it steadily dwindled a.vay , until now , when ho withdraws from it , there remains but a fraction of its former strength. Hun dreds of thousands of workingmen that were once embraced in it have gone into independent organi/.ations under other leaders. The power of the knights has largely pushed away , while the author ity of Powuerly as a loader of labor is gone altogether. The passing of Powdorly is not a matter - tor which should cause any regret to tlio workingmen of the United States. No wage worker in the country over ob tained any benefit from following his counsel , but a great many have sulTorcd in consequence of doing so. Powdorly had a great opportunity to bo of real service to tbo hundreds of thousands of honest men who had faith in him , but he lacked the ability or the honesty to improve it. Essentially a demagogue , ho could not long conceal his real chai- autor under the disguise of a reformer. His shiowdnois and arrogance for a time protected him , but when men ap peared having the courage to expose his fallacies and denounce his methods ho soon lost his hold. The labor inter ests of the country are to bo congratu lated upon the fact that T. V. Powdorly will no longer champion their cause. It is not to bo apprehended that any suc cessor ho may have could do more than ho has done to mislead them. TIIK hlQlinn TK.WIC. A plan , in many respects' novel , for restricting the number of saloons and drinking places in Now York , has just boon promulgated by the excise board of that city and gives'promise of being put into operation without active opposition from any quarter. The system of liquor traffic regulation that has for some years been in vogue in the metropolis is practically that of a moderate license. The applicants for licenses have been graded and classified according to the characters of the places which they \\cro \ conducting and the nature of the liquor which they wished to dispense. That is to say , permission to sell boor only can bo obtained at the reasonable rate of $100 per year. Bars with unlimited va riety to their drinks pay $250 , with an extra $100 for being allowed to keep open all night. In this wav the greatest sum which any one person pays into the city treasury amounts to $250 , while spe cial Uconios are issued to hotel bars , to restaurants with bars , to restaurants without bars , to dealers who sell in bottles tles or bulk only. The total number of licenses outstanding is about 0,200 ; the number of licensed saloons about 1,200 , less , or 8,000. Tlio excise board has recently come to the conclusion that 8,00. , ) places whore craving man may quench his thirst are an ample sufficiency for a elty no larger than Now York. And in accordance with tula vie wit has unanimously ngrood to Issue no more licenses for saloons ex cept to replace one that has been given up. This rule U not to bo extended to hotels , restaurants or grocery dealers , for the reason that it might hinder the introduction of thoao desirable enter prises , but in connection with places that seek to dispense liquid refresh ments solely it is announced that it will bo rigidly enforced. The results antici pated from this innovation are that it will keep the number of saloons whore it now stands , numoly , below 8,000 , and that it will elevate the tone of the places and the quality of the liquor which passes ever their burs. No one will deny that the aims of the board are laudable and worthy of en couragement , but the scheme seems to involve several drawbacks which do not porUilu to other plans having the same otuli In vlow Tim Oral rcMilt of limit ing thrt number of1s.iloon lleonsoi to bo Issued | q to glvo- monopoly value to every -mob HcSfi1) ) In force. When a man can only open a bar after another ho * loon olosedf'to Induce some one to Kivo up a 1 Iconic "become " * a matter of marketable vnlme',1 ' The liconio will at tain a premium -which will mark the Intensity of thojiUiiiand beyond the 8,000 line and n regular traffic in saloon llcon e option ' , may bo expected to arise. The saloon license is trans formed into a Hihltod monopoly. Out siders , although able to pay the charges demanded , will be unable to secure the permission required by law unless they buy out some more fortunate competitor. A second disadvantage arises from the fact that such a rule placoj absolute limits to the growth of the city's reve nues so far as derived from saloon licenses. So long as the price of the license remains fixed , the income from that source will also remain stationary. The premiums paid to secure the re lease of one license In order to enable anew now one to bo procured will go to the owner of the bar about to be closed and not to the city. This part of the license money which the city might easily obtain is thus practically transferred to the present holders of licenses. The possession of a license is virtually mndo a property right , and at tha * , one that promises to increase in value and to repay - pay holding for a rise. All thcso disadvantages might bo avoided by using the price of the license as the lover to restrict the number of saloons. If the number of outstanding licenses is too high in the estimation of tlio board , making the charge a high license in fact as In name would soon reduce the number of parties applying. Hy raising the price of the license the demand could bo so adjusted to the sup ply as to bring the number into the desired - sired limits. In this way , furthermore , the entire proceeds would inure to the benefit of tlio city treasury , and by care fully watching the conditions of the license markot.incomofrom this quarter could bo made a soureo of constantly in creasing revenue. Such a system > f re strictive high license would at the same time avoid the creation of a quasi- property right in the present possession of a license as well as the unearned in crement which would accrue to its owner from the continual increase in the de mand for releases. P/MACfc TltlUMl'H.lXT. France has played her hand and won in the little ganji } of international land grabbing. The'position of Siam has been forced , and that power has been compelled to accede unconditionally to the French ultimatum. If the atti tude of France in this entire imbroglio has had an arbitrary aspect , yet her energetic orgotic action atul bold array of force cannot but have "been " surprising in view of hoe supposed , reputation for delay. Opinion in the United States has all along been on the s'ulo of Siam , notwith standing the fact that the ultimate ( lespoiling of Siftni was rocogni/.cd as almost inevitable. The part of Great Britain in this affair as yet too little Understood. The in terests of British merchants wore largely at stake while at the same time the continued independence of Siam is a part of the British policy in tlio east. [ t will probablv be learned that British interference has bad more to do with the apparent yielding of Siam than is generally acknowledged. In fact the latest reports state that it is understood that France will cede back to Siam that portion of the disputed territory lying above 18 degrees and will await an inter national arbitration for the final adjust ment of her claims. This means that the surtender of Siam is not one which places it at the moicy of Franco , but that its interests are to be protected by the aid of Great Britain. Viewed as a political move , Franco's success is a triumph. The acquisition of new territory will servo to satiate the Frenchman's lust for conquest. It ex tends the glory of Franco and upholds the French dignity. It will have its effect upon the internal political situa tion and ought to secure for the minis terial party unqualified support ut the polls next month. With the war cloud Danishud nil Europe breathes easier and Franco stands strengthened in the congress - gross of European powors. Tin ? two Hiibsidl'/ed railroad organs of Lincoln have utterly failed in the ollort to array country shippers against Omaha by misrepresenting the real effect of tbo recent action of the railroads infixing upon Omaha as a base for distributing rates. If the merchants of interior towns can trot as favorable rates under the now order of things as they received under the old deal , they will not stop to enquire how the rates are made. For years past Omaha has been discriminated against in favor of Lin coln. Under the operation of the re vised schedules this city will bo put on an equality with Lincoln. Omaha will simply got what shu-is entitled to ami that without injurj'to any other city , The now maximum freight rate law was designed to rodireo' tolls on Nebraska roads and iho raUftfd organs of Lincoln will find it difficult to convince mot1 chants in country tovhis that its enforce ment will cause anjijpvaneo of such tolls ikfl the repeated state ments published oj lie objects and char acter of the Commercial club there arc many men in OmhfiU1 who do not know what it is. The ulut ) is distinctively business man's organisation , formoi' solo'y ' to promote Jh 'trado ' interests o this city. It is n < > t > h social club. The grill room will bu1 nominally under the club's control , but will bo loused and con ducted as any other restaurant bj thn lessoo. Members of the club inn ; lunch therewith their friends , The work already accomplished by the club out that which has been mapped out wll commend the organization to the xoaioui support of every business man and pro fessional man in the city. In unity there is strength , and the light for Omaha cannot bo waged without the combined force of her merchants and citizens gun orally , THK greatest danger of a largo idle population is that it may bo so easily lei Into devious paths. The temptations to ov ofitup llio law often become IrroM tn men driven to dosporallon by foico of olrcuiustnuoos. ThU Is the true justifi cation of action taken at Denver to pre vent the assembling of largo Itxllos of unemployed laborer * . Tun latest suggestion of relief to the silver owners by recalling all paper money of loss denomination than to in order to enlarge the circulation of silver coins will hardly bo received with ap proval In many quarter : ) . While it is true tlm * . the government paper issues in England , Franco and Germany seldom appear in denominations that small , yet many people view our employment of small bills as n great improvement over the European system , i'ho principle of Orosham's law that every ouo will en deavor to part with the poorest money in ill * possession first was never bettor illustrated thnn in the present rolntlvo distribution of small bills and -Uor coin. It is always the weaker party to a trans action who has the less desirable money thrust upon him. So in the cast retail business is conducted almost entirely with small bills and whenever a silver dollar is obtained it is hurriedly passed on to the next person demanding change. By a process of this kind the bulk of the country's silver coin has been shoved along until It is massed in the west , whore all minor payments are necessarily made in silver. Because wo in the west are compelled to employ silver coin exclusively affords no reason for forcing the same situation upon 'thors ' in tlio east. It would bo far bet- or to supply small bills to the whole ountry than to withdraw those that are ow so eagerly sought. Tin : suit begun by Attorney General Miller against the Boll Telephone com- ) any's Bet liner patent should coino on or hearing in the federal court for the iistrict of Massachusetts next wook. It s said that the defendants have a trongor motive for seeking dispatch ban for securing delay , and that if bore is unnecessary delay in this suit it vlll bo chargeable to the. Department of ustico rather than to the Boll com- mny. It is not clearly apparent why ho telephone monopoly should desire to lave this matter pushed , but in any event the public wishes and expects the attorney general to press the suite o a conclusion with as little delay as possible. The popular impression is hat the charge made by Attorney Gon- Tal Miller that the Hell company was fiiHty of deliberate fraud in connection vith the Berliner patent is well founded and that a great injustice is being done , ho public in permitting the monopoly o profit by that fraud. The case inter ests every patron of the Bell company and possesses an importance which it would bo difficult to exaggerate. Any 'allure on the part of Attorney General Oluoy to moot the responsibility do- folved upon him by his predecessor will certainly subject him to popular censure. Tun little scheme by which southern senators and representatives are to show their gratitude for the assistance which ; l.oy secured from their western col leagues in defeating the force bill by ioining in the opposition to the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law is plausible but not probable. It is not the custom for representatives in congress to reciprocate favors in that way unless it was originally so stipulated. The southern men owe as much to the north ern democrats as they do to western sil- voritos. When it comes to breaking with their friends in the north and giving up all advantages in the way of patronage which they may expect from the present administration , merely to thanks for past valuable po litical services , they will not bo apt to go so fast. Those who opposes the repeal of the Sherman act in the forthcoming congress will dose so either because they believe in free coinage themselves or because they fear to offend constituents who believe in free coinage. The potty feature of log roll ing will play but a small part in a con test of the magnitude which the silver question promises to raise. WHIN : two women compelled to do men's work on a farm find it necessary to apply to the governor of New York for permission to wearmalo attire , it ap pears to bo time for the men who arc forced to mnko their own beds during the absence of their families nt the sou- shore to make application for permission to wear petticoats. Now M k liny. CMmjn Inter Ucean. the demand for hay for shipment to Europe is iipnrecoduntad. The liny crop In the United States this year will ho more valu.tblo than over buforo. Fortunately it is excellent. _ _ I'nlntm ) Ailvlou. Olnhe-Deinncnit. It is the prlvllogo of every American oltlron to It.ive a pliin for the solution of the thmnclnl problem , but U Is a mUttika to sup pose that it Is n moral duty to reduce such pinna to wrltiug und inlliot thorn on the newspapers. _ In Itutto'H ( irinil .Stnml. Jlutte .Miner. If the gay and i estiva foreign crltlo thinks ho c.ui nunio anything livelier than an Amerhmn crowd wo iiivlto the Kontlumati to Jin It . It ho wants to sot ) tlui liveliest , brightest , chiittlost und mou M.uiK'Ulno cnnvil on earth lot him look at the pioces- slim ns It moves toward the rnco track And close his eyes wtion it roturnnf Well , yes And wo ta It o it that the rt'turnhiK' crowd is thu sumo thn world over , for the man who can lose his money and his inputiition for K'ooil judgment without clouding uu and doiirhig o bo iitono hus not boon born , He will coma with thu millennium , houauso In tlio millennium all bets will bo won and bookmaker - maker * will walk 1'erll nf tlm OlitiUtiinu MluUtry. OlitJie-rJemiicrat , There is pt-rll for the Gladstone ministry In this Siamese Incident. If It permits France to accomplish her pui poses against Siam the ministry will lese prostlgo in Knglund and bu hampered In the carrying out of its domestic program. There Is u eon of tradition in llnijland that thu torica nru always more vigorous than the liberals In matters of foreign policy , a notion which thu weakness of ouo or two of Gladstone's for mer governments in critical occasions seemed to justify. Tlio manifestation of n little spirit on this occasion by the British min istry would bo a wiao thing even from the standpoint of homo polltlrs In a commer cial souse ntigliiml is vitally interested In tlio preservation of the imlopomluiico of Slum. Wliilu Franco's trade per year with that country amounts to only about WO.OOO , ' Is hi thu of . England's neighborhood glU.OOO.- 000. If French Influence hould bo permitted to prevail in Slain a largo part of this trade would bo lost to England. . - < ; . < , P/.IH .viior.i AT rim iTM'ir , Somnrvlllfl Journal Miny < mlnUtor would < lft bflttor If hn should got his wife to wnto his sermon * for him. IMonoorPrrMThoro M wlilo room iot In mo l of eur rullglotM denominations nnd In iiUordnrof human society for thn cultiva tion of thiU generous nnd gracious spirit which fan sco good In others oven when thov illiTor. niut which does not need toor.forcn n principle which it holds to bo true either by Insult or assault. Knnin : City Times : An Arkansas City preacher pro.iotu.ul last Sunday to buMnc-w men of that town on "Tho Dollcthts of the P.tmiied. " The Evening ONp.Uuh fnili to itato whotlior thn minister cluultnbly thought that ho vrould iirofTnr thorn omo degree nf consolation or in the ci'nor.U dH- eusslon that followed llio mormon ho might luduco some of thorn to follow the ways of rijjhtootune'1 * . JfowYoik Evening Sun : A Now York clergyman makes thn following statement- ' Our duty N to bo Americans oven before wci aio Christians" This N abMird The United States Interfere * with no man's crcod or bollof , ami ( it ttio present tltno no church shows nny sltcts of nuking any de mands uK | > n its member * calculated to put them In a ixnlUoii of antagonism to thu laws or administration of the country There Is no possibility In a ootiitltutlonal way of re ligious conduct iiiul civil conduct being brought Into antagonism , Philadelphia Tilling ; Oivo us n rent from Kov. Ur. Mcltlynn's tw.iddlo. Ho has mndu more noise on los * nieilt than nny other dozen agitators during the last two \oars , and about the only substantial results are first a compromised priest and next a com promised church HUthotlty that restored him. If 1m is to resume holy orders lot him do .so and stop Interviewing himself about how the pope blessed him ; If ho Is not to bo a Priest lot b 1m turn agitator nnd politician without affectation. He has m.uiu the pub lic thud of his eruptions about himself , and If ho would pnnorvo nny mcasuio of future usefulness lie will get down to his proper work and stick to it. Now York Sim : Dr. Noalof the Motho- dlst church nt IGlpatrick , Iiults n muscular Christian. Behind the moral force of his spoken words Istho physical force of a strong man. When , at the end of n temperance sermon , n misguided prohibitionist arose and denounced laymen and ministers who were not members of the thhd paity. Dr. Neal first called upon him to ho still , mid thnn when ho refined , walked down from the pul pit and bodily throw the ( Uiturbor out of doors. The congregation encored this object lesson of ttio ultimate fata of thu populists. Such mon as Dr. Neal would rejoice the heart of St. I'otor , w ho was always a good deal of a man when ho wus most of a saint. The cultivation otgold bugs has ceased to bo a popular industry In Colorado. The trolley vandals have been routed from ( lUttysburg and all is quiet at Hound Top. The reorcanl/cd "cork svndlcato" Is de signed to bottle up dealers who persistently cut prices. If the king of Slam will induce his . * ! 0n wives to boar arms , the French will promptly run for cover. Thu comet mUsed us by : ! 9,000,000.mllcs. The prophecies of Totten , Wiggins & Co. were the onlv things seriously shaken. When contractors dig up streets hi Phila delphia they are obliged to use disinfectants. Who would suspect the Quaker city of being "loud" ? i\ town King Corn appears to have taken the weather clerk into his refill confidence. Up to the hour of going to press that conlldonco has not been abused. .Too .loffcrson protests that the carbuncle story was not invented for advci Using pur poses. Ho regards the author as ono of "dom funny poobles. " The piesonco of 18,000 commercial ilrum- mors in Chicago throws a weird halo of ro- inanco around news emanating fiom that quarter. For ' 'storied urns and animated busts" the convention is a corker. Buffalo , Wyo , is n trillo hot , 120 = in the shade , bat Buffalonians wax fat on tropicAl waves. Hecall how the town spread itself and perspired load when the Texans invaded and ass.uled a blooming local industry u .year ago. Old reliable St. Joseph is slowly recuper ating from the effects of the celebration ot the llftioth anniversary of its oxistunco as a city. St. Joseph is coy , deucedly coy , in putting her ago at fifty , but the old girl can not hide with modern frills the wrinkles of three score and ten. Mary Yollin' Lease Is not in politics solely for her hoalth. Since her advent In the populist aiona she is said to have gathered enough frco silver to clear her farm of u con siderable mortgage , sot her husband up in the drug business , purchased a i-ity homo in Wichita , and sent all her children to ex- pcnsivo schools. The gold and silver problem has already landed one victim in the Insane asylum. This Is Anihow Drcsson. a man 1U years of ago , hailing from Poitlaml , Ore. Ho has a system by which , with the yolks of eggs , ho makes gold out of silver , and insists that there is no need of free coinage. Ho Is so demonstrative at times in his endeavois to convince people of the success of his system that the services of a strait-jackot are needed. Ho also says ho believes the bible is made out of cotton , but as long as the hens hold out the gold and silver question will remain solvod. Dr. Mary Walker turned up In Chicago last week in a guise thus caught by a local scribe : Ilor hair is straight and short , tinged with gray and paitcd on the side. Slio wore an immaculate suit of black , made with Pilneo Albert coat , and of the llnost nmtorlal , tlntullnir rollnr wlih point * , n fonr-ln-tmnd tin black wlthini ow nixiK On rmo shouldnr hunir A nillltnrv rajii ) made of the s.iino niiiteilnl a * th < Pruico Albert On Iho table In front of h wn n silk tlin In Iho laloU Ho.iu Hninni . > Mmpo. Kho were gold ojKlus e nnd a Kc.tl Imdgo on her loft lapol. Chariot It Miller , editor of the Now N K ltno * ) addro sot a tlmclv went to thucriM of nowspipuM In 11 vigorous nrtlclu In August Foiiim. The castkMors of tiu < newspaper pro-sv ho sin * , lin\o sot standards that are olthrr wiong or inn. > nonablo , nnd a newspaper managed to iilr-u. . them would bo n ghastly failure. Takm * the world n * It Is , which Is Iho wnv edit r\ Imvo to take It , ho dnclaios that the pubi . , tlon of a newspaper devoted outlrolj to i \ ailed themes Is commercially imposstii . whereas the newspapers now are us good u tlio ngo mid world In which they are pu'v lishod. . > rnojt it.ni'n Ernmplo Is as contagious as the smnlh" t There Is no grontor rogue than a pi > m rascal IVoublo runn to meet those who 9:0 : out to borrow It. Thu devil keeps ct so to the man who get * mad quick. A Hu Is always n few shades blacker thin the sin It tries to hido. Many peopln who uro downright r.ivons at homo pass for times In society , Every stone tin-own nt n wood man hem adds n juwol to his crown in lu-aven. Faith without works Is not worth any more than n wntoh lu the same condition , Tf you want to know what earnestness menus , watch a boy digging fish bait. The dismal man generally looks as tliouuh ho would like to put nu Iron loof ever the sky if ho could. 'I'ho world Is full of mon who intend to become come benefactors by mid by , who arc \ on slow about going to work. If the facts could only ho fully known , it would no doubt bo found that one good n a turod man does more for the health of a neighborhood than four doctors . . Uncord : The I'orelnnnr Valr Unt Neiity you Call N'ou Yoi-ik ? I hut nufor been Tlin Hrooklynlto ( grulllyi Hotween Hroofclj u and Jersey l.'lty. YimUers Kt'itesnmn Mrs. I'rlnisonbeaUMy bnsband Is n great Inxontor. Mrs. Yeusl Indued ! What does lioln\ent/ "i\Cilsus. : " Hili-mo Tribune : "Why doosn'a ovor\bmlv slug thn pral-es of asiiliallV" e\cliilins in esteemed roitte.mpoiory. I'erhap- Is h in ) t. > get the pitch. Wasliln lon Star : As musicians mosii aiu MtiN.mciM , but they uro ctndld. llirv ncNor say n nurd about i faiewull 'ipiica iin < rhliMp ) Inter O-can : Slm Th.it MNa Jumper Is dreadfully nmscilllnu In her \\.vjs "Wli.it does she ( In/ " Mae Oho \ seen her get olT thocui bcfmo It stopped without falling. Life : Miss 1'lnl.erh-lMi't 11 a pity Hi n ill the good looMng peopli ! can't be bright anil all tint bright people good look Ing/ YoiliisTilllur YDS. Indeu I It Is , MisPlnK erly. Hut tell me. If you had iour choice , which would you be ? Columbus Spectator : Charley So , Mm , jmi werooNliaviigant enough to pay 120 u do/in for your handkoivliloN. Don't you thlnU tint was a good deal of money to blow In ? llnston Pilot : Thorn's Olllclal Illte. . t.nv spells thu imtmuif .John O. Uoinlnls , the pihn o consort of llauall , ulth an aposirnphu , "O'Diiinlnls. " John \\tis mil 'i i'elt anil ho h id no more right thu U' than \mi O'Domln ! has Philadelphia Uncord : A downtown Teuton had just heard the "let her go , ( lallagher ' Juki ; , and thouu'lil lie would try It mi Ills wife "Katrliin. " xnlil be , "did you Hod dot ledilor alronilyf" "Yot loddm ? " shu uskuil. "Vy , " roirud the liorimin , "do ledder > ot Mr. Oal laghor led go. " 7//AT h'HH.V JMft/.S. EdKfuu .Acw Vofllcmhl. . A OOWV KOU r.VUNISd WKAII. Of sliot icd and graycropon , trimmed with narrow red passoincntciio ; Hccamiorsleovcs , Godotskirt without trlinmlngjdiapedibodlco , drawn In at the waist by a diapcd or folded bolt. iATfoal Mannf tolurora ml Hotallors ol Ololliliu lu thu World. It's Funny How people will rise up and slay the umpire , and it is just as funny how people will wait till the last of July to buy a summer suit May bo they don't may be they buy a suit somewhere and it wears out before July. They don't got it horo. At any rate wo have had quite a run on our summer suits in the past , probably on account of the phe- nominally low prices. Wo never carry over any suits , even if we do sacrifice on them. Wo are also making1 some extraordinary prices on straw hats to close out the few wo have left. A $2.50 brown t ilf hat for $1.50. BROWNING , KING & CO , Bior.opei.ovorj . evening till H JX J S < fj flfi
