Nebraska Newspapers

    In rilTS OMAHA DAILY 1\TDJ5 : SUNDAY , yOVBMlMDR > i 1897 ,
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" \VoylerIaii nit'tliod by trying tlu > amnesty
plnn first.
A paper pulp trust nnd a pine trust
both nmiomiPiMt during tlio sanu week.
What If they should got
The United States bas 1-11 war vessels
of various kinds In its navy. Tlio navy
Is fast outstripping the army In point of
numbers nnd strength.
It is easy enough for the cabinet offi
cers to make recommendations in their
.annual reports , but getting congress to
act on them Is quite n dill'urent thing.
King Oscar of Sweden ought to bo re
minded that the approach oC winter is
calculated to send a chill over a project
to organize a. new expedition for the
north polo.
Every Nebraska clly ought to have a
business men's club , a commercial club
or similar organization , and thus be pre
pared to aet promptly on all matters of
local or state Interest.
Speaker Keed will make a tour of the
west before congress convenes and
monopolizes ills attention. Speaker Heed
is one of our great public men who tries
at all times to keep In touch with popular
sentiment In all parts of the union.
The report of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Ilristow shows that dur
ing the last year forty postmasters died
and 7 , ' 00 resigned. There seems to bo
exceptions In the 1'oslollico department
to the adage about few dying and none
resigning.
The new cornstalk industry is a reality.
A factory lias been put in opi ration in
Kentucky making lining for ships , imi
tation silk and celluloid from the spongy
Interior of cornstalks. If the Industry
will thrive in Kentucky It will do as well
In Nebraska.
It Is taken for granted that the re
turned monetary commissioners will
write out a report of llieii reception mid
sojourn In Kuropo which , when Issued
in book form out of the government
printing olllce , will be a credit to any
library , public or private.
Tlio report Unit the great armor plate
factories of America were for sale by
reason of their failure as money-making
properties Is dunlod. There Is no reason
therefore why the United States should
mot produce fortllled prairie schooners
that will defy the world.
Americans will be mueli relieved to
know that the rumor that the brother
of the klwdlve of Egypt had renounced
the succession to the khedlvate In order
to marry an American woman IK denied.
It speaks well for the American AV(2iU'i. ! :
if not for the brother-of 'flTiTkliedlve.
Tlie hist report of the government di
rectors of the Union I'aciUc announces
- ill grave accents Uia : 1'ie ' roadbed and
equipment show marked Improvement
over their condition at the beginning of
the year. This startling Information has
been made public In every report oC the
government directors since the , road was
operated.
|
Cardinal Gibbons lias been honored
with n request from the queen of Italy
for copies of all the books he has pub
lished or will publish from time to time.
Hut no silver potentate has , or gold po
tentate for that matter , been rash
enough to order all the books .published
or to be published by William Jennings
Uryan. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Down in Maine accidents from mlscucs
in aim by Jovial good fellows on hunt
ing expeditions have become so frequent
that they nro talking of legislation pro-
riding pen'altles for careless sportsmen
who kill or malm wicked human beings
instead of Innocent wild fowl and game.
And Maine Is supposed to bo u good pro *
hlbltlou state , too.
A AKXSO.Y l-'Olt fAlHttli ( > MbN.
If It is ( mo Mint the sudden retirement
of General Master Workman Sovereign
nml his nssodatrs from the controlling
( illlela ) position ! ! In the Knight. * of Labor
was with their consent and approval It
simply Indicates belaled recognition on
their part of that which others have
long seen , namely : titter failure of the
policy they have- pursued in the manage
ment of the order. The active members ,
those nearest to ( lie laboring men of the
country , have grasped the situation ami
acted lit iiccordanco with their judgment.
Denial will be made that unexpected
change of ofllclal I'-aderslilp Is a condem
nation of the course of the retiring offi
cials , but denials will nut change the
fact , mid the Incident will be regarded
everywhere as marking another turning
point in tlio history of tin * organization.
Mr. Sovereign , the retiring general
muster workman , was a stone cutter hi
n small Iowa town : i few years ago.
Helng carried away by the political
promises of the greenback party ho en
gaged In work on several Iowa newspa
pers , llnally landing In Uubuipie , where
he developed Into a political agitator
and prophet of evil. The governor of
Iowa somewhat reluctantly gave him the
IK > stion ! of commlhsloner of labor sta
tistics. In which position lie gained na
tional fame by supplying the governor
with statistics quite useful for political
purposes but otherwise of doubtful
value. When placed at the head of the
Knights of Labor by the radical element
ho boldly announced his Intention of
using the power of the order for politi
cal purposes. Ho undertook to dictate
nominations and to Influence voters In
the most unwise and arbitrary manner.
Imagining himself a sovereign potentate
ho Issued bombastic edicts that had no
more effect than , the historical pope's
bull against the comet. He gave orders
for strikes and boycotts that were sim
ply Ignored by the Knights of Labor as
well as by other laboring men. The
membership of the order decreased rapIdly -
Idly and its influence has boon almost
wholly lost.
If the Knights of Labor Is ever to re
gain prestige Its leaders must recognize
the fact that whatever of good Is gained
for ( lie laboring men of this country
through their organizations and asso
ciations must be of general benefit.
They must believe In the unity of Inter
est of laboring men and all other men
rather than act on the theory of per
petual hostility between labor and capi
tal. They must help the laboring man
by Inducing him "to Join with others In
doing everything possible for the gen
eral prosperity of the country rather
than to urge organized labor to ignore
the rights of others that It may be the
gainer. The possibility for good to the
laboring men through their organiza
tions Is practically unlimited , but their
success depends very largely upon the
judgment and motives of their leaders.
It is stated that one of the matters
which tlio Canadian officials now in
Washington will discuss with officials of
this government Is the bonding privilege
accorded to Canadian railma'ds. They
nro probably led to present this subject
by the fact that there Is likely to lie a
vigorous attack on this privilege at the
coming session of congress and an effort
made to have It withdrawn. There is a
good deal of opposition to it In congress ,
particularly In the senate , and it is un
derstood that Senator Elkins will'lend a
movement for the withdrawal of the
bonding privilege.
How the West Virginia senator feels
In regard to it was shown In a speech
which he delivered In the closing session
of the Fifty-fourth congress. Ho then
referred to the Canadian Pacific railroad
as the natural enemy of the transportation
tion- Interests of the United States , de
claring that It stands today as our great
est commercial antagonist. Mr. Elkins
asserted that tills corporation violates
our Interstate commerce law with com
placent indifference , cuts rates and takes
freights from our 1'acllic railroads , in
which the United Statca has a direct In
terest. "It hauls more cheaply , " said
Senator Elkins , "from St. Louis iiuil
other Interior points In our country , by
way of Canada to Oregon and San Kraii-
clsco , tliiin the Pacific roads can do ,
though the distance is much shorter. It
Is a sharp competitor for business with
all the Pacific roads from and lo Califor
nia. For L',000 miles the Canadian Pa
cific traverses a non-productive country ,
one not able to support u railroad , it
lives off its subventions and the business
It takes from Jhe railroads of the United
States. " Mr. Elkins urged that this cut
ting of rates , this violation of our Inter
state commerce law , this Invasion of our
trade , should be stopped and the remedy
would 1m found in discontinuing the
bonding privilege under which the Cana
dian Pacific carries goods in bond , startIng -
Ing from Vancouver , to Europe and
points In the United States. He sug
gested that we stop every car
and break every consular seal at our
frontiers beyond Chicago and the
Soo. This would throw the trade from
Asia ( o Sj'.u ' Kniuelsco and pass It over
" " Pacific railroad lines. It would
break up , In part , or largely ,
thu violation of tlio Interslato com-
meree Inw and .stop the giving
of rebates and the cutting of rales.
"Tho United States , " said Sonalor Klklr.s ,
"should at once withdraw tills bonding
privilege to the Canadian Pacific. "
Tlio discriminating duty In section ! 22
of the present tariff law. for which Mr.
Elkins Is chiefly responsible , as he has
himself said , was designed as an indirect
blow to the. Canadian Pacific bonding
privilege and had the attorney general
given It a different Interpretation from
what ho did the bonding privilege would
bo of little value to the Canadian road.
AH it is there Is no question as to the
great value of tills concession , but It Is
necessary to consider that the benefits
are not all on one side , for while It may
bu true that the Canadian Pacific would
bo unprofitable without the bonding
privilege and would become , as some
one has said , "two streaks of rust in n
howling wilderness , " a very large num
ber of our own people derive no small
advantage from the service this road
gives them. There Is no doubt as to
this effect of Us competition In keeping
the rates of American railroads within
bounds uua this Is u mutter
of no small Importance to producers In
the northwest and manufacturers In New
England who can avail thi'inselves of
transportation by the Canadian road.
There Is a very strong opposition In these
sections to any Interfcreiic. ' with the ex
isting arrangement and It will exert
great Influence at Washington.
AT rilKx'o3il70iV. / / .
One of the subjects pressing for earli
est disposal by the Iowa legislature
which meets two months lieuec will be
that of the llnal provision for an Iowa
exhibit nt the Transmlsslsslppl Expo
sition. To Iowa belongs the credit of
being the first of the transmlsslssippl
states to take official action looking to
the making of a state exhibit. With
an appropriation sufficient only for the
preliminary steps the Iowa commission
has been laying plans and preparing for
a work whose execution waits only for
the final word of the legislature.
The people of. Iowa have from the
first manifested a great deal of Interest
In the exposition. The two Iowa sen
ators ami the Iowa delegation In Ihe
house took personal Interest In the pro
ject when It came before congress and
their assistance there was almost in
valuable. The preliminary appropria
tion by the Iowa legislature , In 'advance
of action by congress , was timely and
encouraging to the promoters , and the
prompt organization of an Iowa commis
sion demonstrated thai the Iowa people
were in earnest In their friendship to
the exposition.
There Is the best reason for tills man
ifestation of interest on the part of the
Iowa people. The exposition Is to beheld
held In a city on the immediate border
line of Iowa. There are more people in
Iowa who will be able to go to the ex
position In a half day's ride or less than
in any other state. Iowa Is In fact the
greatest agricultural state of the trans-
mlsslssippi region , a producer of vast
quantities of grain and meat and rich
in mineral resources and in manufac
tures. Iowa Is the nearest neighbor of
Nebraska and the interests of the two
states are closely united by the fact of
such a large number of Iowa people
who have helped build up Nebraska.
That Iowa people should take a lively
interest in the coming exposition there
fore Is natural , but not less gratifying.
Hut in addition to sentimental reasons
there are the best business reasons why
Iowa should contribute to make the ex
position a grand success. All of the
travel to the exposition from the east ,
and that will be much the larger portion
of the whole , will traverse the length
of Iowa and will therefore be of direct
benefit to the state. A majority of
those wlto come to the exposition will
have the opportunity of seeing the
state of Iowa with its magnificent farms
and thriving cities , and to many of them
the revelation of Iowa's grandeur , even
that which may be gained from a car
window , will be as Instructive as the
revelation of the general greatness of
the transmlsslssippl region at the ex
position. The people of Iowa do not
need to be told how they can utilize all
tills to the advantage of their state.
Another fact the Iowa people must
not lose sight of is that this Trans-
misslssippl Exposition has for its pri
mary purpose the bringing together of
all the varied Industries of the states
west of the Mississippi river so that
the visitor can get at a glance a fair
idea of the resources and prospects of
the region. Iowa has a vital interest in
the showing that will be made. The
chief exhibits hero will be of trans-
mississlppl industries. At tlio Colum
bian exposition In Chicago the foreign
exhibits overshadowed everything else
ami visitors came and went on the
great trunk lines without having gained
much knowledge of the states west of
the Mississippi. So also the exposition
at Now Orleans a. few years ago and
the later ones at Atlanta and Nashville
were of comparatively little benefit ilo
the west. In fact , they were for the
purpose of attracting attention to the
south and diverting Immigration and
investments from the west to the south.
At the Transmlsslssippl Exposition the
great west will bo on exhibition first ,
last and all the time.
Neither can Iowa afford to bo behind
Illinois in preparing for a state exhibit.
Illinois is going forward with plans for
a flue state building anil elaborate state
exhibit , aside from the speeial exhibits
oC Chicago people. Other states all
around Iowa are preparing to partici
pate in the exposition.
OF IIKUT SUdAH ,
That some one .should come forward
to question tlio wisdom of promoting the
beet sugar Industry In the United States
is not surprising. Every Important .step
that has been taken for industrial de
velopment has encountered opposition.
There appears in the current number of
the Forum an article in which the writer
seeks to show that a mistake Is being
made In promoting the cultivation of
the sugar beet In this country , from an
economic point of view , lie asserts that
the foreign countries which foster the
cultivation of the sugar beet do not find
the Industry profitable. This Is due ,
ho says , to overproduction , the mips of
Germany , Austria , France , Uus'sla , Bel
gium and the Netherlands being now In
excess of their aggregate consumption
by inoro than 'J.OOO.OM tons. Consequently
quently the world's markets are over
stocked and In all the large producing
countries sugars are sold at less than
their average cost of production , only
the best equipped and best located fac
lories earning any profit upon the luvast-
ment. 'Statistics are given showing thn
largo Increase in sugar production within
a few years , the Increase In the world's
stock of sugar In the past crop year hav
ing been over 25J,000 tons , In spite of
the fact that the war in Cuba greatly
reduced production there.
It is further urged that If this coun
try should produce all the sugar It con
mimes our farmers would not bo able to
sell so much of their other products to
the countries from which wo now buy
sugars. It Is pointed out that wo sell
about ? i20,0 ! < )0,000 ) worth of our prod-
nets , mostly food , to the countries of
which wo buy $8ii , < MX.000 wonu of su
gar and the suggestion Is made Unit If
European countries shall be deprived of
our sugar fraile ( hey would turn their
attention largely to the production of
such agricultural staples as they are
now taking from us , while the cane
sugar countries , having lost the Ameri
can market , would not be able to buy
our products. Still another consider.--
lion presented the writer in the
Forum and nps the most important
refers to line of the government
from hnportQ ) , is of sugar. This rev
enue , bascirTtpon last year's consump
tion and the present customs duty , Is
estimated at ! } tX,000 ( ) ( ) a year and the
question Is asked how the government
could do without this revenue.
U must IIP admitted that all these are
pertinent considerations , but they are
not conclusive against the policy of
bJilldlng up the beet sugar Industry. Wo
tlo not believe that the growth of that
industry to a point where It will supply
the home demand would lessen to any
appreciable extent the foreign demand
for our agricultural products , nor do
we apprehend that the loss of govern
ment revenue could not be made up
from some other proper source of rev
enue. It Is possible , we concede , that
all the benefits now expected from the
development of the beet sugar industry
in the United States may not be fully
realized , but there can be no doubt that
they will be very material and Im
portant
AUADKMV Uf JSG7B.\CKS.
A special effort is being jnit forth to
make the approaching meeting of the
Nebraska Academy of Sciences which Is
to bo held at Lincoln on the Friday and
Saturday following Thanksgiving day
of special interest to the men and
women in the state who are specially
Interested in the advancement of our
scientific knowledge. As explained by
one of the officers , the purpose of this
organization Is to take up the study of
the scientific problems peculiar to this
region and to encourage the pursuit of
scientific Investigations. In every com
munity the working scientists sooner or
later organize an academy and a large
part of the results of scientific Investi
gations have appeared In the annual
"proceedings. " With proper support ,
there is no reason that the proceedings
of the Nebraska academy should not
form a positive contribution to the liter
ature of science.
In many countries the public men
deem it an honor to hold membership in
the learned societies. Henjamin Frank
lin was an active member of the Amer
ican Academy ol ! Sciences and Arts in
lioston and lie was one of the original
members of a similar organization in
Philadelphia. NApoleon thought it of
such Importance to France that lie or
ganized the National Institute out of the
four French academies of which the
Itoyal Frencli , Acqilemy of Sciences was
one of the oldest and most successful.
So , too , in Germany and Great Britain
the great academies of science have
been encouraged Tmd patronized by the
foremost rulers nnd loaders of men.
Even in Kussia , often reproached as
half barbaric , Catherine , I.ntook an in
terest in the founding of the Imperial
Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
Willie America lias as yet devoted
comparatively little attention to scien
tific culture , science is receiving more
and more consideration in this country
from year to year. In this movement
Nebraska has rightly joined and it
should be Satisfied with nothing less
than a place in the front rank of the
states that are contributing to the ad
vancement of science.
A CUUNTItY ( > ! LKL'iinS.
Hawaii is a country of lepers. Ac
cording to Dr. Prince A. Morrow , an
eminent : medical authority , more than
10 per cent of the Hawaiian race is
affected with leprosy and this terrible
disease has made notable advances
within , the past half n century , the
Islands which It Is proposed to annex to
the United States forming one of the
great leprous centers. Dr. Morrow
says it is a contagious or rather a com
municable disease and while formerly
supposed to be of hereditary origin , it
hi now known that heredity has but
little or nothing to do with it. The
lepers in the Hawaiian islands are Iso
lated , it is true , but this has not pre
vented the spread of the disease. Ac
cording to Dr. Morrow there seems no
prospect of extinguishing the disease in
the Islands. The death rate among the
lepers has been lowered , but the num
ber of persons stricken bus Increased
since the foundation of the leper settle
ments. Wlilte forclgiiers are not ex
empt from the contagion and It Is stated
that they furnish an increasing per
centage of the total number of lepers in
recent years.
An to whether annexation would be
likely to bring leprosy Into the United
States Dr. Morrow believes It would. He
says that If annexation comes it will
bo "idle to think of confining leprosy to
the Islands , or rather excluding It from
lids country by quarantine measures , "
because no practicable means of Inspec
tion could detect ) the symptoms of the
disease In Its' ' , tmrjler stages. Leprosy
would not develop in our northern cli
mate , but it would do so in the south.
Doubtless tiU ) , .Jannexatlonlsts will
pooh-pooh the Idea that there Is any
such danger as1 Dr ! Morrow points out ,
but most otlieipe'ople ; will bo likely to
regard the mailer-.somewhat seriously.
Leprosy Is not unknown to this coun
try , but it Is hai djy desirable to Increase
tlio chances of dts"spreadlng here.
It Is gratifying tji'note Unit questiona
ble fraternal iiinur.uico associations are
receiving attention from a number of
state Insurance Superintendents or In.
speetois. AVhlle the good and reliable
fraternals doubtless exceed In number
the weak and fraudulent concerns , many
times the ordinary person la not In posi
tion to Judge of their soundness and It
is plainly the duty of the state , If it un
dertakes to supervise Insurance at all , to
protect thu public from imposture and
fraud.
The Italian government retains for
Itself a monopoly of the tobacco trade
and the United States consul at Koine
makes a mournful report on the fact that
when the government wanted to buy
food tobacco It was necessary to send u
representative to Nort' York to purchase
It In the open tnnrkot , Instead of Irarltifi
offers made by American tobacco deal
*
ers. It Is too bad that Aniprleaii busi
ness men are not able to encompass tlio
whole world with llit'lr trade arms , bill
It Is flattering to American tobacco grow
ers to have n tobacco buyer SWMH all the
way from Home to New York to got good
leaf for the government.
Still further Improvements have boon
arranged In the fast mall facilities out of
Kansas City by which the merchants of
that city are to lie placed In more direct
communication with Kansas points. The
fast mall facilities out of Omaha con
tinue to be noticeable either by their ab
sence or by their Inconvenient time card ,
which practically destroys the greater
part of their usefulness In commercial
circles. No one objects to the improve
ment of the fast mall service anywhere ,
but a better distribution of postofllco at
tentions would be appreciated by Omaha
and Nebraska business men.
The destruction by lire of n huge
wooden building used by the stale of
Georgia as an asylum for insane negroes
calls attention again to the almost crim
inal recklessness with which so many
states expcwe the lives of helpless wards
by confining them In ramshackle lire-
traps. It Is next to a miracle that we
do not have much greater loss of life
from tills wanton negligence. Whenever
a. legislature wants to provide for the
erection of a state institution It should
either provide a structure which can be
used with safety or It should defer ac
tion until It can provide oue.
The new American minister to China
proved himself a firm friend of the
Transmlsslssippl Exposition' when a
member of the Illinois legislature before
which the 1)111 providing an appropriation
for an Illinois state exhibit was ponding.
As representative of the United States
at the court of the Chinese emperor Min
ister Uryan may be confidently expected
to do what lie can to urge his celestial
majesty to arrange for the official par
ticipation of China in the great show of
1SOS.
mof 'LViiiiiu * .
rhllaJelphla Tlmm.
More and inoro Indications of good times
really go to show that the so-culled march ol
prosperity Is probably a quickstep.
, % H(1 KlIHy > ! ' Vt'CCHM.
Uctrolt Tree 1'icJs.
Ono advantage of. the western gold "dis
coveries" Is that they can bo worked at all
seasons and In all kinds ot weatiier.
iU'imrc of 11 U In in or.
Washington 1031.
The clamor for cheaper sleeping car rates ,
so the ofllclals idecliiro , comes mostly from
people who never patronize them. There Is
nothing strungo In that. Tliuy are doubtless
striving to got thu rates in reach so that
they may patronize them.
( lie lnlcrcNt nt Hume.
It is estimated that Europe has sent us
back ? D7,000OOOi of our securities In the last
sis months lu the endeavor to prevent the
sh'puient of gold to our shoics. Kuropo is
welcome to continue the process so long as
she desires. Wo shall bo able to wku euro of
them.
\ < -l > riku n.llciii-irknltlr Stiitu.
Slirlncllelil ( Maps. ) Republican.
An Omaha dispatch to a Chicago paper says
that business is exceptionally good in Ne
braska. Not a few of tlio old-timers liken
the present to the old boom days when
everyone wanted goods , wanted them In a
hurry , and had money to pay for them. "
Yet Nebraska has just voted the populist-
democratic ticket. It's a remarkable state.
A Slim ill' I'roHporit- ,
riilln < lelitila ] Tress.
One pleasing Blgm ot the times Is the re
ports from all over the country of the large
attendance at schools and colleges. In In
diana the reports are to the effect that about
100.000 more children are attending school
than was the case last year. In some of the
colleges tlie atendance Is so great as to re
quire additional accommodations. This
speaks well from prosperity.
Sluitli'i'liiK n Popular Idol.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Captalni Jack Crawford , the poet scout ,
should cut his bilr now and come In from
thu reservation. Ilo has betrayed one of the
principal secrets of his long-haired fraternity.
In a recent interview ho explains that break ,
ing glass balls with a rlllo from the back of
a horse Is accomplished by using cartridge
filled with small shot instead of a bullet
amd adds : "A man ought to be able to ride
a streak of excited lightning and break glass
halUi with such an outfit as that. " Alas ! Do
all popular Idols have- feet of clay ?
AliKTlc.-lli .Skill I"mix.
Chicago Tribune.
If orders for locomotives keep pouring in
upon the factories of the United States as
they have been doing lately It will not belong
long before American railway engines will
ho puffing In every corner of the globe. The
latest large- order , which amounts lo fifty-
six locomotives altogether , includes twenty-
one for the government railway in Finland ,
twenty-four hoivy broadgaugelocomotives
for the government of llruxll ami ten for thu
Grand Trunk railway of Canada. This , in
connection with the recent largo orders from
foreign countries foi ; American steel ralta ,
Indicates the superiority of American meth
ods In the Iron and steel manufacturing busi
ness , a superiority which eventually will
drive foreign competitors out of business.
' Ji\VlMt A.VI ) THIS H.M'OSITIO.V.
Tlio Cnlormlo Caiillal I" 1'ut UN
SliniillllT l Hie U'hecl.
Denver Times.
Denver must help the Omaha Transmlsals-
slppl Exposition. It has already ictonu Den
ver a VJst amount of good. It haa awakened
our slumbering real catato owners. They
rub their eyes and discover that they are
drifting In the direction of old fogj'Ism. They
lieehly realize their humiliating position
when they Btop to Hilnlc that Denver was
lu uvcry way belter able to have secured this
great exposition than 'was her rival In the
sweltering cllmato along tlio muddy river.
Denver is the only representative city
of the Transmlsslssippl region. Her climate ,
her mountains and her mineral ! ! are the
characterizations of all tha iiideveloped and
Intcrustlns portions of that coming empire.
If u Mississippi valley exposition wore he Id
Denver , though geographically In that val
ley , would tiot bu the placu to hold It. Like
wise Omuha , though technically across tlio
MlBolffilppt from iho rising sun , Is proverb
ially east of the region ot mines , mountains
and sunshine Implied by thu term "trar.3-
inlsBlsslppl. "
Ilut we were smarting about water rates
and looking for visionary help from politics
when llio exposition was located , and now
wo are honor bound to turn in and help It
out with generous support. After all , It may
be made to bring 110 Into the country tribu
tary to Denver where one Is brought to the
Omaha region. Let Colorado's exhibit over
shadow that of Nebraska in GVerythli > ex
cept corn and 4iogs ,
'tiio good effect * of < no World's fair wore
postponed five years by thu panic that came
ut the frame time. Now the country has re
covered aivl Is ready to boom. Tills Trans-
mlsriUslupl Exposition next summer will take
at Us rising llool the tldo tint bears on to
prosperity. From this tide , Denver , of all
cities , should receive thu moat benetlt. It
Is the only raetroi > olla of the undeveloped
region ,
Hut It Is necessary for this city to promptly
inaugurate gome move tiiaL will also uttruct
national attention and show that our people
have confidence In their future , We luvo
missed tbo TranainlsiUslppl Imposition.
What can we do to make up for that ulotbful
and colossal blunder ? . in. '
m\STS ruon UAM > HORN.
People who. re all tongue liavo no pars.
A good Ruldo will not bo rejected bccnuao
he Is bow-legged.
Mony n loud amen Is nothing more thnn a
by the man who makes it.
Ona of the best offices of education ! to
tsncli tin how to teach outselves.
No nooil comen of Morning others for tlio
misfortunes bring on ourselves.
Kvory hey thinks his mother Is the beat
woman on earth and they are nit of them
right , too.
The ox sUimllns tdlo In the anode has more
trouble with tlio nirs than tlio one wearing
the yoke.
What evidence of the patience of Qed cntv
bo more conclusive thnn the bald head of
the Infidel lecturer ?
The man who Jumps at conclusions may
be recognized by Ills having his overcoat
half on btforo the end of the benediction.
There are two clnssra of men. who never
pront by their mistakes those who blnmo
It on their wives , nnd these who lay it all to
I'rovldcnce.
1'KUS.OX.VI , AM ) OTHHllAVISHS.
The horse show In Chicago left several
social scars In addition to a deficit ot $18,000.
1'resIdoiU McKlnlcy'g retention of ( Jencrul
John A. niack of Chicago ns district attorney
Is n compliment to Hie latter's war record.
General lllack Is the hero of tlio dot fight At
I'mirlo Orovo during the civil war , and It
was hla coolness and courage which saved
Lbo day for thu union.
A woman arrested for keeping a dos with
out a license In London pleaded extreme pov
erty nnd the magistrate allowed her fourteen
dnys to raise the money. The newspapers
fipoko of the case and within a week the
clerk of the court received $154 ftom UHtlsh
dog fanciers for her relief.
Charley Towno Is pawing the atmosphcro
of Minnesota , with his iisunl post mortem
energy , varying the performance by giving
soullcM plutocrats nu occasional swipe. It
It comforting to learn from Charley's agi
tated lips that ho will "redeem the coun
try from corruption and tyranny" or perish
In the attempt.
There are Htored In magazines eight miles
from llutta nearly half a million pounds of
dynamite nnd the monthly consumption In
the city Is about ninety tons. That's one
of the things that goes to make the biggest
copper camp on earth. lUnttu would make
the biggest flight Into the unknown on record
It that dynamite should let go.
A righteous Illinois Judge , doubtless with
the experience of the I.uetgert trial fresh In
his m'nid , has decided that "expert" testi
mony Is no more valuable than 'any other
kind , nnd that a physician' who Is subpoenaed
as a witness must ann-.ver without the assur
ance of a special fee for what he claims Is
his superior technical knowledge.
The monument to the late General William
Tecumseh Sherman , which was to have been
erected in Now York by May 1. 1894 , will
probably not bo ready for unveiling before
the latter part of next year. St. G-nidens ,
the sculptor who has thu work In itand , Is
a very slow worker and Is paying particular
care to the Mulshing of this monument.
The state of Virginia will probably receive
$100,01)0 from the estate of the late Major
Lewis Ginter , under a law passed by Us gen
eral assembly at Us last session Imposing a
tax of 5 per cent on collateral Inheritances.
Under this law all his bequests save that of
$40,000 to his brother , are subject to the tax.
The bequests aggregate about $2,000,000.
Senator Gallinger of Now Hampshire , when
In Duluth recently , said concerning the atti
tude of the east toward the west : "Tho east
has just as much confidence- the west ns
It ever had , but In future eastern people will
not bo as quick to scatter money In every
mushroom town that springs into existence
for thu purpose of unloading at big prices. "
AVI I AT WK A.V.NKX.
A Jiili Lot ( if I.rroNjAiiinii r llmrnilaii
Dlsnil vnntnucx.
Chicago HccorJ.
A peculiar reason Is advanced by Dr.
Prince A. Morrow against the annexation1 of
the Hawaiian Islands. Im the current issue
of tlio North , American' Hovlew he points to
the clangers of leprosy likely to follow an
nexation.
Ever 8'mcc 1818 leprosy has had lodgment
on the Islands. In 1SG3 part of the Island of
Molokal was set aside aa a leper colony , and
since Its establishment 5,300 lepers have been
sent to the colony , of whonv 4,000 died. In
tbo iirst twenty years 3,070 lepers were Bent
to thla colony , while from 1SSC to 1S9G 2,013
were transported. With this apparent In
crease of victims of the disease the annuil
percentage of deaths has been reduced from
25 per cent to 15 per cent tlUs for the rea
son that patients arc received in earlier
stages of the disease and so live longer In the
colony. But none ever gets well.
Dr. Morrow's reasoning Is that the dls-
ease is no respecter of persons or of nation
alities ; that the Hawaiian Islands today are
hotbeds of the malady ; that In its early
stages leprosy defies detection , end that an
nexation of these islands naturally would
lesson quarantine restrictions on tlie IMcillc
coast , thereby Increasing the chances of the
Introduction of this most loathsome of all
human Ills.
Ordinarily the physician is radical In his
pathology ; with him the possllilo must be
regarded as the probable. At the same time
Dr. Morrow has put a serious light on this
subject of annexation , in which It nvsy be
well to view oven possibilities with uomc
measure or concern.
IIAI.l'-II.\Kii ) I.AWVISKS.
HoNlrlulliiiL on AiliiilHNlini ( o ( hr liar
In Illinois.
OlilcnKO Chronicle.
It Is entirely proper for tlie supreme court
of Illinois to take mich steps as will render
tlio granting of a cortlflcato to practice at
the bar more dllllcult than the rule has been
hitherto. The half-baked lawyer , If not al
ways aggressive and quarrelsome , With Just
snlllclent elemental knowledge to ho a bar
rater , , Is , even when he means well , so 111
advised of the true persictlvo [ ot the law
that ho consumes the tln.o of courts and
juries needlessly to the Inllr.lte cost of a
non-litigious public doomed to bear the bur
den of ill-conducted courts and Illiterate
bars.
"Men who assume to practice on human
lives ought to bo skilled i logicians. Men
who assume to serve at the bar ought cer
tainly servo sutllclently long apprenticeship
to bhow their capacity o < a in as tor hard.
Admission has not been hitherto wholly per
functory. Some showing oi1 competency has
'been ' necessary for tlio license , hut It had
not been sutllclcnt. A lawyer ought to pos
sess , If not a university education , at loaal
en education milllcieiitly Pbcra1 to make him
an Intelligent Interpreter ol laws. The
period ot requisite study lias hitherto been
two years and trn supreme court lies di
rected that in admissions to Ihe l r here
after It shall bo shown tint there has been
upon the part of the applicant three years
of study. It must also bo ahnwn that thu
applicant has had at leasv a high school ed
ucation.
Any citizen who Is conversant with the
delays and expenses that a/o brought about
through the grotesque cot duct of an Ill-
constructed lawyer llounileil ig about in nome
cause In the courts will lull this change an
even In some slight degree to j.romlKu
reformation.
5
Glasses ]
that fit
your face
as well
as your
eyes
Dr. J. H. Daily
just onouijli moro about fitting
glasses : iHto miiko It lo j
und Iiuerest to go to him ,
X Optician In diareo S
t 'Dr. W. I. Seymour's Optical Tarlora , <
) SIS-3U Korliuch Itlk. , IGIli und IMutlas. S
SKOUL.Ut SHOTS AT TIIK 1'UMMT.
St. 7onU neimbllc : The St. Louis minister
who preached on the subject. "How to Tainn
the Human Shrew. " has cutabllshed tlio fact
th < U In at lca t ono nmcullno mind ( ho
belief IB lodged that women < ire httmnn ,
Chicago Chronicle : Hov. Pom Small In hU
sermon last Sunday Announced that civiliza
tion Is a failure , a statement which Indi
cate * tli.it Mr. Small either reads the N'ew
York Nation or that Iio lias been playing
cuchro with A Chinaman.
Minneapolis Journal : Tlio Kenturliy
preacher who expressed R disbelief In hndej
nnd WOB shot at liy his congregation , tin *
brought stilt for ilamii od. Same men haven't
nny mom senao of tlio iilctnreaqui' tlian an
nl I tar of < i colored Sunday supplement.
Cincinnati Commercial : Tlio Hoard of Mis
sions declines to let Dr. Houston return to
China as a missionary pending an Investiga
tion now In progress touching his orthodoxy.
It would not do to have the heallu-n Chlncsit
exposed to a hanco of heterodox contagion in
denominational creed.
Chicago Inter Ocein : : An evangelist < U n
ruvlvAl In North Carolina , seeing two young
wnmen smiling during Ills exhortation , knelt
by their ldo and prayed that they might
then niul tlicro die and KO to perdition. For
tunately for the slrls. the revivalist's fervid
nnathcir.n failed of realization.
Minneapolis Tribune : A lloslon preacher
Is threatened with discipline beeauso he ( ior-
tortncil a marrlapo ceremony for n darliiR
cnuplo In a lion's C..IRU with the lion nn onu
&f the witnesses. Just where Ills offcnfo
comes In It hard to see. In bravo old Danlel'ii
time , the lion's den was good enough to
servo the purposeof the Lord to teaeh a
Gfe.1t moril lesson.
I'hlludelphla Hecord : Some of the ehureh
men scorn disposed to maUo an assault on
Snnta Clans with tlio Idea ot driving thot
Hersnnnpc out or his Christmas stronghold.
They might as well try lo abolish Mrmrs.
Why don't the spiritual RradRrlmls taeklo
sonio loss tough nnd lusty , lesa iood nnd
gracious , ICMI dullghtful nnd lovable offender
: iKlnst their eold. hard , matter-nf-fact
philosophy ? Santa Clans Is out of their
reach. He Is snfe cntrenelind In the unques
tioning faith of childhood. He won't budge.
The Iconoclasts had better select some Has
( lllllcult undertaking. As long ns babies nro
born into the world Santa Chtus will con
tinue to make his Christmas pilgrimages.
inri.iis.
Puck : Ethel Just look nt her ! Wlmt a.
mincing step !
Jaok And Is that why you nre so cut up ?
Detroit Free Press : lie Don't let yutir
fnt'iteivitit ' In rlcctrlc lights.
She Why not ?
Ho WVll. or , you can't turn it low , don't
you sccV
Judfje : " ] lo ° s the iiolilenmn sei-in to
think u good iloal of Mls Clnru ? "
"Oil , j-L'H , Indeed ! He cnlla her 'his llttla
Klondike.1 "
Chtenjio Ilecord : "I wondnrliy it Is
Hint Mrs. Crosby doesn't net along with lu-r
neighbors ? "
"Can't Imagine , unions It Is lernu w most
of tliL'in are relatives of Itcr husband. "
Detroit News : "Her marriage must have
la-en a terrible blow to the family. "
"Hlow ? Why , they didn't spend u cent.
She ran : iway , I tell yon. "
Chicago Post : "Marriage Is n lottery , "
ho wild.
"Do yon ever gamble ? " she asked coyly.
Thereupon he cli-clded to try the g.inio
Just oncu and see if be could gut a prize.
Imllannpolls Journal : . "At no time , " said
thn Cornl'ed Philosopher , "Is n man no will
ing to take .bo burden from the weak
shoulders of frail woman ns when f > lnIs
harassed vtith tlie care of a largo and pay-
Ing1 property. "
Boston Traveler : Kittle I heard tmlny
you married your husband to reform him.
Sarah-I did.
Kittle Why , I didn't know he huil any
bail hiibllH.
Sarah Ho had one he was a bachelor
Chioaeo News : "My wife's health Is ex
cellent now. "
"What has cured her ? "
'T told her I would allow her FO murh a
month lo pay her doctor's bill ami buy her
gowns ; she Is now dodgingtlie doctor right
alonar. "
Detroit Free Press : "Von have ? basely
deceived mo ; you told me when you mar
ried my daughter that you hud money
coming to you. "
"Well I meant the money I would p > 't
by marrying 'her. ' "
Btpn Rtnr.
Tlie lawyer was nettled the smile on his
face
To ii look of Intense Indignation n ivo
place ;
l'"or tlie experts excusable quite was liia
f u ry
Were usurping1 his right of confusing the
Jury.
THU ill 1STIIII\ .
Lo ! nfter ninny years of silence you have
come ,
The morn was gray as nny morn J-ns been ;
How could I Itnci.v 'Iho c-venlnj ; would
bring in
A. friend wlio.se generous greetings Ionwcro / ;
dumb ?
rhe time had sped that marks HIP blossomy -
somy spring ,
But when the blithe old wmlon Finilel In
June
And Jio-.ssed In Its exuberance of Munm ,
[ JiilsseU the hopes it all was wont to bring.
And winter sends you back ! Words III ex-
prcss
The 'welcome your divining heart mubt
know ,
My good Samaritan of long ago.
How you had sinned eru I could Jove you
less.
5o yon are come to counsel Just ns tbfi ,
To'loss iny books , or whet an argument
With spicy Incivilities well me ;
What Joy It Is to have you here again
ome sit beside me In the oaknoml lil.ize ,
HI re where tlit- light may MIIIH- upon
your face ;
Tbo 'while In every lineament I trir > e
kVlmt I - " > o loved In days agono to pialxn.
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