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S < | > tctnl > priM SMlW Wrihii'wlav Si'plcnibcrUT 2I.HIG ! Tliiirwlnv SciitiMiilior'JN . ' 1.71(1 ( Prldnv.Si'plPinlH'r''SI 23.HB ! ! Satunlay , S < plctnber : t ( ) 2 ,43lJ ( JHimir It. TrsniirrK. > i Sxvorn In lirfnni me , uul nnbscillx.il In my ! KPAl , Iprpiu'iicp this ! 10ln ilavofSoiitcinbi'r.lH'J.l. 1 , I N V Fhtr. . NoUiry 1'nbllc. AXIT.ICO rirrulnlliin fur Ail ? . . 1803,31,075 THIJ recent stuto conventions at Lin coln btnuekotl considerably of the bargain counlor. ' WHAT iihout Hint lonjf deferral disso lution of tlio tniixlnmm freight rnlo hi\v injunction ? IT STUJj i onminsj to bo Hcon whether n fltnto campaign win bo fought out and won in this oil' year upon imtiotml issues nlono. TIIK I'owoll unino hunt turned out ox- / ctly ns wo predicted. Mr. I'owoll has yrobnbly dibcovorcd by this time that John Li. Webster never hsul the romol- Bl Idea of milking him supreme , judgo. STHAN'UEIA' enough the lopublican platform nogluets to congratulate the members of tlio Stuto Brard of Trans- portalion for its otTorta to dissolve the railroad injunction nsrninst the maxi mum rate law. Now that the hohool hotiso janitors have returned from the state convention it becomes a pertinent question by what authority they deserted the post of duty for which they are drawing pay out of the school fund. Tun south is coming promptly to the aid of the victims of the great gulf storm. If they prove unequal to the task of re lief they will find that the pjoplo of the north know no sectional lines in the geog raphy of distress. IT MUST not bo taken for granted that the republican party of Nebraska Is un favorable to railroad regulation simply becaiiho the republican platform fails to endorse the cause of the poop'o ' against the corporations. EVKN tlio convention controlled by the ngonts of the corporation junta did not have the sublime assurance to commend the "oHIcioney" of the state olllcials whom it "vindicated" whenit turned down Judiro Maxwell. IT is a niiUtor of regret that the pos tal authorities have ruled the Weather Jtccord out of the mails. Mr. Hunt , the forecast otlldul , had made a special hit with his llttlo sheet and should have been permitted to continue its publica tion. WITH fourteen amendments to the re peal bill and ono sub'tituto pending before - fore the uoiiato the prospect of forcing a vote upon the piis igo of the original bill -before the time for the regular as sembling of congress in Deoombor must not bo overrated. Now THAT the impoudhed oflicials have secured the Ilrst point in their program for vindication it la to bo hoped that they will bo nblo to find time to DJtort Uiumsolvos in the performance of their duties. The tran&for switch law Is still unonforccd , THK news bureaus of the oust have it that Huvid liumiott Hill Is to bo "gradually brushed nsido" in Empire state politics and that William C. Whit ney is to run the machine m the future. There are a great many people in this country who would like to bo present to BOO the entertainment while David Bennett - nott is being brushed aside. THK Nebraska delegation in Wash ington oxproHHOH ItboH unanimously in line with the resolution of the mityor and city council urging that ttio work on tlio now federal building bo moro rapidly expedited. A llttlo pros-nro at the right wpot may induce the Treasury dopurtmunt to let the contract in time foe the biitvoHBful bidder to pruparo for work. TilKKK la a marked dlft'oronco between the platform adopted by the republican Btute convention u year ago and the onj adopted at Lincoln Thurbday afternoon. A year ago Nebraska ropubl leans looked > > tate issues Biuaroly | in the fueo. This year they deliberately turned their backs upon the demands of the people and ignored the Ismiea upon which this fall's campaign must bo fought. IN VIEW of the inexcnibublo waste of tlnio on thu part of the senate slnco the opening of the extra session of oongross the pooplu will not bo disposed to accept the threadbare demand f > : < moro time to investigate the quallllcatlotii ol the recent appointee to the benuu of tho\ United States supreme court. Because the senate is crippling itself is no reason that ItBUOuld took tooripplo the supreme court Judge T. O. C. Hnrrl-Mn , who been placed In nomination by the re publican stnUi convention for the place on the supreme bench now hold by Justice Maxwell , is n lawyer of fair abil ity. Trained for judicial duties by an experience covering many years as IKillco , county and district judge , ho may bo regarded as fully iUiilHlcd | for the miptoino bench. His stiui'lliu' at Grand Island , whqrc ho has resided for nearly twenty yeait , Is conceded to bo as good as that of any otho' ' man of his profession. As n republican ho has always been lo aland unswerving. This much at least may to tnid lo bin credit. Itmustnlbo be admitted that Mr. liar- i ison's credentials in the nominee of the republican party cannot bo attacked on the ground of irregularity in the counter or admission of contested delegate- ) who had no title to their scnK Mr. Harrison's candidacy xwill , however - over , bo resented by thousands of repub lican * because it was brought about by methods that are unrepubllcau and thercfoie destructive of the sovereign right of the people to solf-govorninont. Mr. Harrison is not the choice1 ot the re publican party of Nebraska through representatives voicing its sentiment/ Ho holds his title from a convention dominated by railroad magnates and stale house plunderers. His candidacy represents the elements that have de graded republicanism and converted it into an instrument of usurpa tion and political misrule. lie is the product of n criminal conspiracy to make the highest judicial tribunal of the stale subservient to thu satraps of the railroads who sock to fasten the chains of political serfdom upon our people and reduce Nebraska from its proud position as a f-oo state to a yubju- galcd province. Under such circumstanccb Mr-Harri son's candidacy is doubly unfortunate. It is unfortunate for him that ho comes handicapped by political backers who are discredited by the people , and it is unfortunate for the republican party , which enters the campaign loaded down by the incubus of monopoly and oflicial delinquency. Those deplorable circum stances make it impossible for THU Biu : to give Judge -liar risen its unqualified support.Vo are compelled IT protest aguinit the pernicious methods that have brought him into the field and to remonstrate earnestly againsUiho sub stitution of railroadimu for republican ism in the councils of the party. 1IAXKWO I . . The ba. iking and currency committee of the house has agreed to favorably re port the bill , ameuduto"y of the na tional banking act , to further regulate borrowing from national banks , and known as the Cox bill. This measure prohibits the officers and employes of banks , except directors .who are not otherwise officers or employes , to be come borrowers , or to become liable to .ho . bank by reason of overdrawn account , or as endorser , guarantor , scctir- ty or otherwise , ascent upon written application approved by a majority of ; ho directors or executive com- uittoo. Interviews -with eastern xinkors regarding this proposed egislation elicited the very general - oral opinion that eueli a law would do good , and it was suggested by some of them that it could go further with per feet propriety , oven to the ex tent of forbidding Ixink ollicials to boiv row from the institutions with which they wore eonnoetou. Itva. . also ob served that the propa-ied law simply contemplated establishing a principle that ought to bo in force in every bank that is managed conservatively. There is unquestionably a demand for legislation of this kind. An investiga tion of the record of national bank fail ures will show that the in > st disastrous of them have resulted from the liberty allowed to olllcials in burrowing , or per- liaps it would bo moro nearly correct to say , helping themselves t > the funds of the institutions , and what has happened may happen again. At loa-il a do/.on eases can bo called to mind as having oc curred within the last two or thrco years in which banks wore lo > ted by this practice of permitting olllcors to borrow at will without tlio permission and generally without the knowledge of the directors , and it is not to be doubted that there are many instances of this practice throughout the country at this time which will bo brought to knowl edge only when banks that permit it go to the wall. It is true that it may not b o possible to provide an absolute legislative safeguard against the operations of unscrupulous bank officials. Institutions that are practi cally controlled by one mini , whoso request - quest for anything would bo equivalent to a command , would not ba rendered moro secure by the proposed law against the evil which it is intended to correct. As lias been suggested , the president or cashier or uueh a bank would only go through the fonn of asking a permission that would DO granted as a matter of course , and while the law \7ould bo obeyed to the letter the sumo ohl practice would bo kept up , but the number of institutions of this kind , it must bo supposed , is oomp.vatlvoly fatnall , so that it Is not worth while to consider these in a dis cussion of the merits of the proposed legislation. It is but simple truth to say that the national banks of the cjimtry are , as a whole , conducted honestly and conserva tively , and this is duo quite as much to the high character of the men connected with them as to the legal regulations under which they oxist. It is a note worthy fact that wlillo during the eight months from January to Suptombor the number of failures of state and private banks was 500 , of which only about K per cent have resumed , that of nationa banks was only 155 , of which nearly 50 per cent have resumed. . This illustrates a striking difference botwoci the management of national and of state banks , taking the country as a whole and suggests what might bo oxpectei from a return to the old syutem of state bank Issues. But admitting all thatmiiy bo claimed for the judicious and carofu ! management of the national banks oolloo- lively , there can bo no reasonable objec tion to leglolalton which proposes to render those institutions even moro sooure , and certainly uouu will bo hoarc from honest bankers , who appreciate the \aluo of such regulations of the busi ness as will warrant public confidence In it. A. TAIIIVF rilli KhYHXlIK lilt , ! , . It will bo no surprise to the country to learn that there is in the hands of the chairman of the ways and means com mittee a tariff bill , the general outlines of which were drawn by the secretary of the treasury , wilh the assistance ot a few well known advocates of tariff re form outside of congress , and which will bo ready for Introduction whenever the administration shall say that the time has como for congress to enter upon the consideration of tariff revision. Ac- fording lo trustworthy information all that devolves upon the democratic ma jority of the ways and means committee Is to put the framework of a tariff bill together and shape the .schedules to It , which of course can bo rtono In a very short time , the arduous and difficult work having already been accomplished under the supervision ot Secretary Car lisle and in conformity with the views of Mr. Cleveland. It hits been observed Miat the democratic mumborsol the ways and means committee were inclined to make something of a mystery of the new tariff bill. A short time ago It was -ocly intimated that the measure would bo ready for report to the house about November , but recently the chairman of the committee slated that it was impos sible to say when the bill would bo completed. It is well under ; stord that the administration does not desire congress to take up the tariff question until the sllvor ihsuo is disposed of , but there is bald to bo a well defined belief ainonir members of the houMo that the bill can bo reported whenever the administration desires , bo the date two weeks or two months hence. It is cited as evidence that the tframe work of the now bill and the general line ot.tho now tariff had been agreed ujion and that Secretary Carlisle was op posed to the committee granting hear ings. The administration policy being fixed he considered it a waste of time to listen to arguments by persons inter ested in Iho question of tariff revision and there is reason to believe that this does not incorrectly btato the position of the secretary of the treasury in the fact that only a very liort time was devoted to those hoar- ng.s and thatlittluattentioii wasgiven to hi'iu by the democratic members of tlio vays and means committee. Indeed dur- ng mostot the time only three or four of , ho majority wore present at the hear- ngd , and from beginning to end it was ipparent that the business was wholly lorfunctory , being ordered merely to conform witli precedent and otop criti : cism. The democrats of the committee , w at any rate the chairman , Mr. Wilbon , who was appointed to bo the mouthpiece of the adminis tration , know that nothing pre sented at the hea'ingb would have my influence , because the work of tariff revision was already under way , if not practically accomplished , except as to minor details , outside of congress. The industrial interests of the country have less reason to fear an administra tion tariff bill than ono framed entirely by the democratic majority of the ways and means committee. In the latter case a measure would doubtless be made to come as nearly as possible to the doc trines of the national democratic plat form regarding protection , while a bill to meet the approval of the president need not recogni'/.o this doctrine. Indeed Mr. Cleveland has indicated as plainly as need bo that ho is not in sympathy with the view that protection is unconstitu tional and that nothing will bo done by his administration to break down that policy. The promise of an administra tion tarifl bill may , therefore , Do re garded as reassuring to tlio industrial interests of the country affected by the tariff. \xaK.tmi \ ; MIII\GK : \ nonns , Tin ; Bnn has baon criticised by ono of its many friends among Ihe commercial travelers of the we.st because it has inti- nmlcd that it is not in complnto accord with the movement for an interchange able 5,00'J-mile , ' book , g > > od on all roads , with an increased allowance of baggago. The btricturcH of THK Bui : worj directed solely against what our corrosp indent declares is "simply incidental" to the plan , nainuly the provision fir the free transportation of an increased baggage allowance. The agitation for an intor- chaiigoablo mileage biok , on the other hand , is ono that deserves the support , not only of commercial travelers , but also of the entire traveling public without regard to business or profession , The present practice of 'compelling traveling men to provide themselves with mileage beaks upon every road which they may bp forced to patroni/.o is inconvenient and unbusinesslike. Wore our railways still In the chaotic and disconnected condition which they occupied two or throe dccados ago the present sy/itum would have rendered ll absolutely impossi ble to transact the jobbing and wholesale business of the country through the existing agency of the com mercial traveler. Imagine tlio great trunk lines of today split up each into a do/.on smaller independent line * which would require separata miloiige books for each road , and the obstacles to t ratio drumming would be practically insur mountable. With every consolidation or acquisition of one railroad by another the field of the single mileage bonk ib widened. The movement for an inter changeable mileage book , then , Is only anticipating what would como of itself wore all the railroads of a particular region to bo united under a single man agement. The oxpccted fioiivontoncu and saving of both lime and money are things that the public have a right to demand. As to the increased baggage allow ance wo may reiterate our opinion as previously expressed. The traveling men have done much for the railroads and deserve some attention In return , but they cannot ask to bu favored be yond the ordinary passenger. Outaldo of their own ranks it Is only the excep tion that the passenger finds himxolf charged with excess baggngo. More oftou he-travels without baggage of any kind except what ho takes with him Int3 HKI iMiiUhi Whj compel him to pay for a privilege which ho decs not care lo usoMVhy charge up to him In the price 6fi hi } ticket the cost of transporting IjfiJ baggage of his rlcb. neighbor , who Is amply able to pay for hlnlsolf ? The fiueatlon of excess bag gage does nbt' ; atTeat the commercial ( ( traveler so ij uch its it docs his employer - ployor , who payg for the service , and the employer wJio 'has to send out largo trunks full of vnmplca must regard tlio misfortune as , ' ( ji necessary incident of his business. When everybody pays for the transportation of the exact , amount of baggage that he carries the inter changeable mllcairc bonk may bo Issued at a much reduced rate per mile. KiiKi1'OMTO / / < nt or tin ; KCIID > ijS. Partisanship in the Board of Educa tion should bu frowned down and dis countenanced from now on. Members of the school board should be made In eligible by law for any4 olher oflk'0 during the term for which they are elected , nml stringent regulations should bo adopted by the board to take the janitors , the building superintendent ami other employes on the pay roll of the school board out of active polities. Nobody asks that these men bo disfran chised , either at a primary or at an elec tion , but they should not bo permitted to act as ward heelers and convention packers. There Is nothing sodcmorallzing as the pernicious meddling by school board employes in local politics. Under the prevailing system tlio janitors run the school board. They make and unmake members by combines and even presume to dictate who slrUl or who shall not bo employed as teachers. Whotovor heard of the janitors of a hotel or an otllco building running the establish ment and dictating who shall IKS em ployed to manage the affairs of their employers ? This Is precisely the con dition of things in our public schools. The time has como when the school management must bo divorced from active partisan politics. LANDI.OKOS in 'iheso days are , as a rule , so eager to secure desirable ten ants that they arc willing to make any reasonable alterations in their buildings in order to close a lease. So when the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners propose to rent new quarters for Iho lire department at $100 per month for a poiiod of five years are they not going a trilio too for in asking the council for $000 from thoigonoral fund "lo fix Iho place up ? " Buildings builabto for Ihe fire department * are not so scarce that ( the city need , . , beg to bo taken in as a tenant. Rent a fire engine house , not a store. , THAT much vaunted "independence of co-ordinate departments" did not cut much of a figure "before the senate while it was trying to hold up some of the presidential appointments in order to force the execiftivo lo select Indian agents from among residents of the state whore tlio agency is situated. The I'rco Hunger Krn. CViffqbj ) lifter G'CMII Oiraui7cJ chanties Trcq soup houses , etc. , arc likely to have a boomitiR patronage U tir ing the democratic tree trade or.i. It is well to have some of the great industries lun- nhig on full time. HtiinpH on III < 3plno. C/iicdimif t Ciimmei cfnf. Mr. Cleveland's backbone is us riicltl now as ir was wlicn ho con vetted congress in extr.v session. Tlioio will bo no compro mise. Them can be none that will suit the president , or , a fact which is much moro to the point , the people of tlio United Status. A Oinmit rolliTtlon. M. 1'itlil Glulic. The bimetallic cnnifress 'it St. I.ouis is not an imqimlilli-il success. 1'he attund.incc ib exceedingly slim , nml the delegates , ropro- sriitincr but eight states , are all of the crank description. Mrs. J.ca'jQ , the populist ngi- tater ; ox-CIovcrnor Wai to , the blood-to-thc- bridles warrior ; Governor Tillinnn , tlio boss of the South Carolina state dramshops , and Gciiur.il Weaver , llio perennial crank candi date for the presidency , ate the only people of uny notoriety present. The addresses , of course , have bcnn inflammatory in the high est degiec , hut tlieio is no danger that tlioy will set the Mississippi afiro. The congress will not oven bu n seven days sensation. Jt has practically died a-bornin' . aitv ix , I.VH ins I'.mrr. Beatrice Times Tlio convention repudiated Brian , but tlto domociMi : . ! ' li.is not been lie.ml. The time will como when the rinir- sters will ho deposed and the dictators de throned or thu paitv will bo split asunder. Valparaiso Visitor : Bryan is undoubtedly nc.uor to the scMitim nt of the demo'.T.itic party in Nebraska tod.iv ttian ; uo these ulio lead the opposition to him , but the adminis tration , with its largo amount of * patronage , controlled the convention. Nebraska City Pros * : Congressman Bryan must boa man of exceptional for bearance if he can accept the treatment that lias been given him by thu members of hia own party and do nothing to .show his resentment. Ho has been repeatedly Mapped and rebuffed , and is expected to take it all as a matter of course. Kearney Journal : Bryan has forced a fight In his party that means his political death. His career lias been mnteoric , and it scorned to turn his head He thought Bryan wan largo enough and popular enough to turn clown the wliolo administration forces and the entire democratic party umshlnury Tim result is that Ills political hopes have been ground to ponder. Nebraska City News : Congressman Bryan now renli/cs that ho is not tboiuol that his brain conceived that ho was and that the democrats of Nebraska , while admiring his brlllinrtt oratory mro not , ns yet , ready to got down on their liollies and crawl nllndly Into the independent partj at his dictation. No man is so grcatithat ho cannot fall , oven though bo rllinbb'U to the sky , nor isnnv man greater thanttlio power that created him. { < n I'apllllon Times : The crooning net of In famy in the hlstoryof Nebraska politics was witnessed at Lincoln when the oDlco-scoking element captured Iho democratic state con. volition and by ovorv means possible sought to offer Insult to Conm-bssinan Bryan , the best nnd bnivost < Jimmcr.it of nil ; the man who has honorcti.ftalir.iBka above her sister stales in the lialfa. of congress ami forced the people of No / , ' JCngland to admit that brains- and ole < jm > nro are not unknown quantities boyomU.iiiu AUcghauios. It was all right to endo u the administration , all wrong to snub B an , who | s still the Idol and hope of ovcry.abraska democrat not now holding or momentarily expecting to got ofllco. oriir.i : r , IAIW TII i.v turn * . The legal term of the present lower llouso of the Prussian Parliament expires on November fi , The election , therefore , will take piano miring this month. Thrro seems llttlo probability of any important change In party strength , though tlio conservatives have a bettor chance to gain than any others , nnd may perhaps secure a clear majority. In the present llouso they num ber 125 , nnd there nro sixty-six ' 'froo" con sorvatlvos and icn "Independent" conser- vallvos , making a total of 2U1 , or only six teen less than a majority. They have steadily commanded the llouso , however , either by getting the sixteen or inoro votes , from the moderate wing of tli3 national liberals , or by forming an alliance with tlio wliolo body of clericals , who miinbar ninety- eight. The nntlon.il liberals have only eighty-seven , the radicals twenty-eight , and tlio Poles fifteen , \vhllo thcro nro two Danes nml two liberal freelances. Tlio ontlro absence of social democrats is duo to their deliberate nonparticipation tion In the elections , a practice which thov will continue this year nnd until the election laws nro equitably to vised. Then tlio v will como hi with a rush ami bo , ns they dooliro "like plko Inn carp pond. " The nnll-Sem- ties , however , nro making n lively campaign nttct will doubtless return some members , who will bo much mure extreme ami violent In their cntmtv to property rights than the socialists themselves The national liberals and the radicals will probably lese ground nnd the conservatives bo moro than over masters of the field , nut their inequitable sway cannot bo perpntual. Before another election comes arotiml they will doubtless bo forced to yield to ttio popular domaiul for re vision , anil then the king of Prussia will have before him a political situation vastly different from any ho has yet known. . * < It Is not likely that many Americans are aware ibnt the most , costly nrmament in Europe is not that of Uussla , of Germany , or of France , the taxpayers of vhoh ! conn" tries wo are in tlio habit of commiserating * It Is Hint of Great Britain , which wo nro accustomed to consider as out of the conti nental competition nml exempted from the great burden laid by the continental coun tries upon their citi/ons ns the costol Mint stateof piopnredness for war that has been forced upon nil Europe for the past twenty * years by the attitude of the French with respect to the German conquests. Not only Is the British navy the most expensive in Europe , but the British nrmv is among ; the costliest , If not quite the costliest , of European arn.ies. Thnt tbo great navy Is n national necessity cannot bo disputed , nor that the Indian army is a serious anil effect ive force Nevertheless , the English people nro right \\\\n \ \ maintain that the nation docs not get full vnluo for its money. A great part of the money spent upon the homo army is wasted by reason of the aristocratic prejudices that still survive In the choice of its officers , whoso incompotoncy , especially In the departments of supply , is likely to lead again to such grievous nnd tragical results ns it wrought in the Crimean war. The maximum expenditure tor national de fense is SiSO.000,000. * * The French expenditure for the army and navy Is $200,000,000 a year nnd that of the Gsrmnn empire $190,000,000. Russia spends not far from $170,00i5,000 yearly upon her army nnd unvy. For many years she bus been regarded as nearly a bankrupt nation , but she continues to raise or borrow the sums she needs , ami there seems to bo no reason why she should not continue to do so. .As n matter of fact , Hussian credit is at least ns good now as it was in 1870 , wlicn she was thought to bo impoverished by her military expenditures. Austria is in much tbo same situation , nnd she must keep pace with the military preparations of Russia , which she seems to have no in superable difficulty in doing. Italy is un doubtedly in a bad financial way , and comes much nearer than any other of the pors to giving wa/ under the strain. Fortunately , Italy is by no means under the same necessity with the other powers of keeutug up the strain. Her crushing arma ment can safely bo reduced , being main tained moro ns a matter of national vanity than of national necessity. If her army were half its actual sLte. she would bo very nearly as valuable an ally ami as formidable an enemy us she is now with an army that she cannot afford. It has been established , however , that Iho reduction of the army would bo unpopular. With this exception , it seems that tlio European powers can keep up the present pace indefinitely. * * * Accepting tbo fact of an nlltanco between Franco nnd Kussla , it can have but the ono object. The professed object of the Triple Alliance is to preserve the pence of Europe , the object of this friendship between Franc'o nnd Russia can only be war. Russia lias her own designs in the east , nnd against Germany , ami Franco wants Alsace nnd Lorraine. Germany , which is the most di rectly menaced by this alliance , is fully alive to the situation , Italy , which is open lo attack tiom both tbeso allies , Is con- llrnilmr her alliance with Germany by giv ing the navy of the latter power n har bor on her coast. Italy is well- nigh buikrupt , but her army is fairly well equipped , her navy reasonably strong and her people in that state of discontent because ot hard tunes which puts thu gov ernment , in Uesporatu straits to bold its power. There is a war party In Italy , but It does not count for so much as the. nneabi- tibss and restlessness of the people. . These nro the indications which are at present pointing to war. The center of these storm signs is Franco , not the government hut the people , or a noisy and not inconsiderable part of them. Franco , however Is not Jikoly to provolso war alone , uml-ltussi i will not net with her until Russian plana uru fully ripu. During the German emperor's visit to Austria nnd Hungary his majesty soiled every opportunity of wearing the new hunt ing costume wlituh was designed by himself. It consists of a bluish gray tunic with a short cloak of the same material , both garments having green facings and broad epaulets. The emperor has a round waist and a broad belt of green leather from which ho hangs u huge nuntiug knife , the haiidlo mounted with the imperial crown of gold. Ho wears very high lacquered boots , gold spurs , and a tyrolesoli.il of ( fray foil , edged with green and adorned with an enormous plume of feathers which quiver at every stop. The Emperor Wllli.im does not care for chamois hunting , which is too much trouble for him. Ho likes easy shooting , such as door-driving or wild boar hunting in nn enclosure , and duriug his stay at Schonbrunn he amused Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. himself in l > ilnThlorg.xrton , whore Em- ixjror Francis Joseph never nhootn , ns ho is n genuine sportsman ami disilnlna llio mod ern fashion of slanghlcrlng game. Emperor Frnni Is Joseph niul the king of Snxony are chamois hunting on tlio Imperial domain in the Stjrlan Alps , wlioro they \\lll much miss Duke Ernslof Saxo-Coburg-Gothn , who hail been always Included In these smalt parties up thcro. * * * The Oermntis nro beginning to lenrn the difficulties which nro nut to follow n | > ro- prtsslvo colonisation policy. Ono of the problems confronting them In East Africa Is what to ilo with the llbornted slaves , whoso numbers Imvo outgrown the capacity of the missions to deal with them. . In February , IMG , thirty-nine sla\o girls , ranging from 9 In 10 years of ago.ero nssigncii to the missions , ten to the evangelical ami nhui to the Roman Catholic station in Oar-cs-Sa- lanm , nnd twenty to the Roman Cntholto mission in Pagamoyo. A few months later , its n result of several liberating expeditions In the southern districts of the Herman sphere of Interest , fifty-four slnvcs were brought from Mndl , Mlhllnlanl mid'Klhva to Dar-cs-Salnam , wtero they \\eto distrib uted among the missions , twenty-six falling to tlto evnngellcnl and twenty-eight to the Catbolle mission. Since tlmt time the num ber of liberated slaves has considerably in creased , and there can be no doubt tbo dim- unities of providing for them will grow In proportion to the expansion of German rule. The pecuniary sacrifices which the missions have made have been heavily fell , and the Imperial chancellor , recognizing the Justice of the claims for stale aid , put forward by the missionaries In IS'.i'J , has granted n yearly sum of 25 mnrks for each slave child under 8 years of ago handed ox'or to the oiroof the stations by the government. The question of dealing with the adult slaves presents still greater dllllcuHlcs. A \Vuiilnc liiiliKiry. Knntaf City Star. Montana has corraled her train robbers ; Missouri has put nil her festive bandits into graves or behind tbo bars ; Michigan and Illinois liavo run down their express train desperadoes , and Kansas , Imllnun , Colorado nnd California h.uo done very well lately in that lino. If Iho United States ofllemls in the Indian Territory will do their duty , the country will bo prepared to expunge train robberies from the list of profitable pursuits. TUIFLlAtl IIDISIIH. f'blC'iRO Inter Ocoati : "Did you po to your old doctor nlidtit your cusn ? " "Yos. " " 1)1(1 ( ho < > ! iy vou needed cfmnuo ? " "I'onh , nol Ilo said lie did , anil wiuifed to Itnow If 1 hud any with mo. " Ituirnlo Courier : It Is ratbur too mneh to u.spect a man on his uppers to boa \\btile sotiU'd follow. Indianapolis Journal : Tills world Is lint a pniadov , and pbilnlv does tillshouln the fact that t ho v.irost "coming man" Is thu man \\itli loth of KO. Chlo.ico Kecnnl : " 1 uiulorstaml Corboll , the great pil/u lighter , lias n gieat lecoid , " "Von bet ; lUty-t'rcochalU'iijiO's twnnly-ulitht with drawals , fourteen dlsaKrctMiiunts over terms and a yeiirS experience on thu stage. " Harper * . Hanir : "t never glvo money to bogg.iison thu MietM , " said tint podestiliin , "Hut , my clear sir , " niturneil the lioRgnr. " 1 can't ulloul unolllco tbusu hard limed. Vou expect too much. " Hullo : Vexed Wife Thorn Is no calumltv can bufull n woinuu that I have not sutTeruil ! Amiable Husband Wiong , n\y \ donr ; now , yon Imvo ntnur been a widow. Vexed Wife 1 said calamity , slrl Tribune : UrumbllnK Customer I don't hcliovo.vnu Klvu moro than about half : is muchsUKiir for a dollar as vou did three. months igo. Affnlilu ( irocor Oh , yes , wo "flo. IJut wo hnvo locconoiuUi ; somewhere , und \\e use n smaller sack. UP TO KATI : . tlnttnn Kn\u \ ier. JIIss Freclilo 1ms got n now bean ; bhu tells mo bis front iiainu Is .lean ; That be lives in St. I'uul Anil that lute In thu ftiul To the wild , woolly west him will gcaii. When married they'll tal < o a chateau , And Keep twenty siirvunts or scan , .list ns down In Ky. , Whore folks who aru Ly , Of wealth make : i glittering shcau. .Imnnnl. I held hoi' band , hur llttlo hand , S > soft , und small , and white. I pressed It often to my lips , And iilaspeil Its lingers tljjbt. That Io\ Ins clasp my love declared , And 1 was notusliuini'd To own 1 lovrd her , for who could Tor loving her bu blnmud ? Him let.Jior bund , her little hand , Itest , lovingly In mine. My tuiuli'i pii'sMiii ! sbu retiunccl , Like tend ills of u vine , Her llttlo lintels clasped mine close , And her allectlim told , Anil why not ? She's my d.iuubter , and Today Mio's four yours , old. f i .IIP IIM.V ri. irr/ : . Tbo "Olii Guard" tiled with MaxwelL ' 'Tbo Old Ounrd never surrenders. " Adams county populists don't proj > ese to bo fined with the democrats In , tbc county * campaign. Hoinbon don't go with the "pop" crowd. Politicians , ran sell out the voters , but can they dollver Iho tfoodsl' ' U n pcrllucnt query by the l.vons Mirror , which ought to cause reflection. Scotts HlulT county's delegates to tha state convention were ploilged to support Maxwell , but they didn't nttottd. All tin anil-Maxwell inoii were Ihero. The publishing by the Lincoln Journal of the allowed fact th.it "II. I ) . H\lhaway : has gone to Chicago by Iho Hook Island rotilo" is thought , to hnvo been n ruse All the Journal'pcoplo htivo been booliod by the Hur- llngton for lo , these many \oars. John T. Mtllalluti , supcrlntoiuiont of the citato lloforin school , who did the dirty wet It of llio slutc hottso impMchnblcs In leading Ihe breaU In Htiit.ilo county against Maxuoll , was rewarded by being ngaln plni-od on thn state ccntr.il couimillec lid- llor rhapninn of Ansley was another traitor to instructions who received n similar reward. The Uolitrego Nttggol , Iho oldest news paper In I'hi'lps county , has boon forced to suspend , the cniiso being stated ns the finan cial stringency. Had the Into reason been published , the readers of the last Issue of llio Uccrcpll old sheet \\oulil have known thnl the people of Phclps county refused lo support a paper with monopoly leanings , The derlarcd sentiment of Cheyenne county was for Judge Maxwell , but n majority of the men sent to the stale con- volition by llio county central coniinlttoo dolled the wishes of the republicans of the county and wore switched on" lo I'owoll and hold until they could bo delivered where Iho'y would bo most effective In downIng - Ing Maxwell. Senator Orlando TaITt was so enthuslasllo over the action of the Cass county repub lican convention In instructing Its delegates for Maxwell that ho walked from lOlnuvood lo his homo In Avooa to keep his exuber ant feelings from overcoming him. Another thine Ihat Is said to have had a llttlo to do with the senator's notion was thai somebody had stolen his hor.se. Superintendent Mttloof thclsorfolltlnsani asylum found that llio besl time to transfer patients to Ha stings wns tbo day before the republican state convention. So ho took tha cra/y people down with the aid of a few other people , nnd landed nt the state cap ital in time to see thu rlngstors squelch Judge Mn\\Mll. ) Of course ho didn't laltu any band In Iho matter , and neither did the other people with him , for tlio state board who controls him didn't want to nave any of Us "underlings" mixed up In a ' 'disreputable business. ' ' Honors to HID Old Womuii. The old woman baa advantages that nro denied to the young. I1 : ono scnsoHlie shares tlioprivllcBcs of childhoodv % lilo | shorccoivcs the honor ami delercnce due to an elder. If known to boi.Iscrcut she la tlio recipient of many confidences , nnd her ndvlco is freely sought on the most , important all.ilrs of llfo. If a matron she h.tn tbo pleasure of watch ing the progress of her children , ami thojois of motherhood are renewed in solicitude over her grandchililrun. It does nut follow that , if a spinster , the existence of tlio eld omun Is either wasted or miserable. Who has not met aged spinsters whoso uaturo seemed to be all Ihe mellower and sweeter on accouut of ripening years , and what man has not a tender recollection of some nged aunt or other relative who helped to add to the happiness and ease the trials of boyhood ? Therefore , wo repeat , all honor to the old women , whether In palace or cabin , whoso old age Is the crown of a wall spent , womanly llfo. A 1 * IX Glt.lY. This pretty bit of millinery Is In gray felt , xvitb a faced rim of darker xolvot. The trimn.ing consists of ostrich tips and satin losottcs. \lintlfautnrari in I of UtoUitmlu lu WorU. A Big Saving la always made in buying" the best oven if it does cost a little more , 1'or , in the case of a suit or an over coat , it will wear three or four times as long1 and you will discard them not be cause they are worn out , but because you are tired of them. We are now turning1 out some elegant stylo3 in $10 , $12.50 $20 and $25 suits , goods that are reliable in every way , the lit , finish , fabric and fashion beingperfect. . Wo have every style represented and all sizes and colors. Our overcoat stock is a line ono and is the envy of mer chant tailors , prices ranging from $10 up half tailors' prices. Nearly every well dressed man in town is our customer. Our fall underwear and hats are in. BROWNING , KING & CO. , Qj DJj ) 1) ) otj.