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Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
CONCERNING NEW LEAVES.
The Turning Thereof and tho Possible
Harvest.

The Turning Thereof and tho Possible
Harvest.
When Father Time turns one, il brings an
odd little thrill even to the most matter-of-
fact person, says Harper's Bazaar. We are
like children with a wonderful picture book,
whose next page may show roses or dragons,
seraphs or Clnderellas, an ogre gaunt and
grim in his cave of bones, or n fairy god
mother with her wand. Half the charm Of
it lies in the uncertainty. 1t was Theocritus
who
"sung
or the sweet years, the dear and wished for
years,
Who each ono in a gracious hand appears
To bear gift for mortals old and young
The years do, indeed, come bearing gifts1
Each year, too, brings its renewed opportu-
mites and obligations, and though homIlies
easily become trite, there is one worth re-
peating, so obvious is its wisdom.
DO the nearest duty, howsoever humble
1t may prove the stepping stone that will
help to better things. If you can conquer
your failings one by one, take heart and
thank God.
No year can be all sunshine. and never a
one but will have its storms. There will be
clouds and rain, with clear shining after
them. If the new year bring shadows, &C
cept the divine appointment. Remember,
"Too much OF joy is sorrowful,
So grief must needs abound;
The vine that bears too many flowers
VIII trail upon the ground"
If, on the other hand, it bring full bright
ness, try to share this with some gray life
that is perishing for warmth and color. So
shall you multiply the glory OF good fortune.
as a diamond refracts and multiplies the
glory of a sun ray. The blessedness of Civ
ing is a sacred privilege, whether you dis
tribute smiles or roses, CHEEKY words or coin
of the commonwealth Whose exercises it
abundantly and with love will have truly a
happy new year, will write golden para
graphs upon the white new leaf.
Metaphor aside, the new leaf of the new
year will bring only the harvest we have
sown. Small grains of deed may spring up
aud bear n hundredfolu. If we plant DIRE m
and promises, our portion will be dust and
disappointment.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

ri. Hon. William L. Gladstone was "a
years old last Friday. q. O. M, n. n. Y.
Tho longest wait on record Is certain to DO
that OF Coiorado's governor for an ice crop
on the tropical plains Of hades.
II is reasonably certain that business do.
preston VIII not rctard the starting OF lcg!s.
.@tiVo mills during the coming week.
The periodic Desoms Of froth tndulScd in
oy Lewelling, Pennoyer and Waite are pro.
voked by monkcying with the gearing at
their capillary roots
a Missouri woman frightened o burglar
out of her house. A Chicago woman Rugged
one VII he yelled for mercy. The porils OF
the profession are increasing at an alarming
rate. =
Since the advent OF the alien thistle in
North Dakota n lively demand for castiror
bootlegs has sprung up. These alone pre-
vent the residents from coming up to the
scratch.
Tho hugging Of a burglar by a Chicago
woman Is to bG commended ON humane
grounds. The old practice Of hurting fem.
mime shoes at intruders was fraught with
grave possibilities.
AS both Corbctt and Mitchell are eager
TO pulvcrizo each other every possible effort
should be made to get them together at tho
earliest moment. a double funeral would
give tho new year much needed eClat.
James Crapsy, the first man to settle in
Edgerton, Wis, was born, according to his
own record, in January, lTpl. Since there
was n railroad station there he has been a
feature of IL, ana is at present acting as
local freight agent.
Jacob Fike, who recently died in Crawford
county, Ohto, was 9j years old. His wife,
who died II week after, was Q6. Last March
they celebrated their diamond, or seventy
fifth wedding anniversary. Mr.. Ffke was
a Bavarian by birth.
Blondin is over 20 years of age and still
walking tight ropes. He gives daily exhibit
tons of his skill and daring nj the Crystal
Palace In London. IL is thirty-four years
since he made his famous trip across tho
Niagara falls on Il tight rope.
Rev. DIR. w. w. Parker of Richmond, Va,
has prepared a bill which will be presented
IN the next Virginia legislature for the sup
preston of drunkenness. tic proposes to
make drunkenness a misdemoanor. the min
imum punishment of which shall be thirty
days in Jail. The bill, it is said, will meet
with considerable support from all classes.
The order restraining Northern Pacific
employees from combining and conspirlng to
quit the service of the road is hcralded not
only as an extraordinary judicial document,
but the first of the kind ever issued In tho
United States. 1t is not the first of tho
kind. y similar order was issued by the
federal district court in Omaha during the
Burlington strike IN 1883. Union Pnciii0
trainmen were restrained from combining to
resist the handling of Burlington cars, but
the men found no difficulty in quitting tho
service of the company when the obnoxious
cars were kicked into the yards.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
AHPLY VII WORK TEST


The prevailing poverty and distress
among industrious classes who have been
thrown out of employment by the pres
ent unprecedented depression in trade,
have already caused the purse strings of
charity to be generously opened and
promise to make continued demands for
assistance to the unfortunate all
through the coming winter months.
Relief organizations in Omaha, as
we'll as in all the larger cities
of the country, have up to this
time aimed chiefly to render
temporary aid, to alleviate suffering for
the moment because it is suffering, with
out considering the magnitude of the
work that is to come. Food and lodg-
ings have been given men and women
who are without local abodes, while the
many resident unemployed who happento
have homes for the moment, but no in
come and insufficient food and clothing,
have been for the most part entirely
overlooked.
The result has been an accumulation
of unfortunateS In our midst who have
uIllltu III III OllO way VI dlUIlCE
from the surrounding states, and find
ing themselves provided with free
food and lodgings, poor as it may be,
they continue Il burden upon the hands
Of II charity organizations because
they cannot secure work here, and they
have no incentive either to seek work
elsewhere or to attempt to return to
their homes. The difficulty, therefore,
threatens that unless the methods en-
ployed thus far are speedily changed
the number of unemployed needing as
sistance will receive constant additions
fro abroad and show no dimunition
at n, Ine.
The men in charge of Rescue hall,
who have steadfastly maintained that
the great mass of the applicants for re-
lief there were entirely worthy objects
of charity, lave, by requesting aid from
the police in sitting the worthless from
the deserving, acknowledged that they
have been extensively imposed upon.
The chief Of police, while Offering To
cooperate to secure the desired end,
has suggested a radical revision in the
methods employed and the adoption Of
the work test as the proper mean for
that purpose. All the other large
cities have already gone through
this process, passing from the stage
of indiscriminate charity 20 one
of systematic aid to those only
who are willing to aid themselves,
The work test applied In Chicago as.
tonished its promoters by causing the
throng of paupers at one institution to
suddenly decrease from 800 to less than
500. These men who would not work be-
cause they could manage to exist by
begging have most probably scattered
to the four winds, and some OF them no
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

doubt will lodge in Omaha II our open
invitation Is held out.
The adoption, then, Of some kind of a
work test for a~ble-bodied applicants
for charitable relief must bo
effected In Omaha sooner or
later as a matter OF self-protection.
Tho details of u plan should be
elaborated by those administering the
funds that have been raised and should
be put into operation as soon as possible.
Converting money contributed to the
assistance of the worthy poor of our own
community to the support Of idlers and
professional tramps who have been
driven out OF other cities is no less than
positive injustice to those who have
been employed here, who have helped to
build up NJ city and who are now the
victims simply of misfortune.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

dition OF affairs i, even worse than In
Europe. BRAZIL lis in She throes OF n
civil conflict, from the consequences OF
which, howcverft shall terminate, the
country c~annoorecover for years. The
Argentine republic struggles against
bankruptcy and insurrection by turns.
Chilli is still suffering from the havoc OF
n Peru and Ecuador, both poor and
weak, are on the verge of an armed col
lision, and Venezuela Is in a state oil
chronic revolution. There is more or
less political unrest in tho countries
of Central America, where the in
centivcs to revolution seem always pres
ent. Mexico is said to be enjoying u
fair measure of prosperity, though there
is no evidence of any great progress
during the year.
There is not q commercial nation in
the world as prosperous at the close of
1893 as it was at the beginning OF the
year., and on the whole the United States
have perhaps suffered no more than
other nations. If as much. The question
that naturally suggests itself, as we
stand upon the threshold Of the new
year, is, what is the outlook? viii 1894
repair, at any rate in part, the damage
of 1893? Such is the general hope, if
not the general expectation. There are
some indications which appear to favor
its realization. 1t would seem that in
dustrial and commercial depression has
touched bottom. and il so a reaction can
not be far off. For the rest of the world
the promise is not so favorable.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

SO LONG as railway receiverships
were scarce exceptions to the ordinary
rule, the complications arising from the
appointment of receivers by a federal
court while serious in their nature were
not very extensive in their results. In
these days of indiscriminate applications
for judicial Interference IN railway
management, the havoc wrought by court
orders upon the contracts, obligations
and liabilities OF the roads has become a
matter demanding the careful consider
alton of congress. Creditors of the
bankrupt roads are practically deprived
of their remedies and the binding effect
of contracts and leases resolves into
a mere question of expediency OF
maintaining the agreement as viewed by
the court and its appointees. h law
of receiverships as applied to railway
corporations is the outgrowth OF only a
few years of judicial precedent and has
never been made u subject of congress
sional legislation. Abuses must neces-
sarily arise when such vast interests are
at stake, and some legal check to these
abuses will soon be absolutely necessary.
The uncertainty of the law adds another
factor in advocacy of a statutory enact
ment to clear up the field. Congress is to
be called on to legislate on this subject,
and should be made to appreciate its i'm
portance to every class of people who
nave relations OF any kind with the rail-
roads.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

AMONG the great benefits of the re-
cent crisis will be the thorough sitting
out of banks conducted on fraudulent
and speculative methods and the in
deiible marking of bank officials who
have been untrue to the trust imposed
upon them. The good banks that we're
forced to the wall have almost all re-
sumed after a short suspension. The
dangerous banks have been completely
demolished. Until another speculative
era sets in, banking methods must re-
main sound and free from fraud.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON in an open
letter to the Century takes q firm posi-
ton in support of military instruction in
all schools for boys. Such drill, he
maintains, is good in every aspec of it
good for the boys, good for the schools
and good for the country. 1t is inter-
csting to note that this letter was writ
ten in early November, thus anticipat-
ing the recommendation of Secretary
Lamont, in his annual report, that mill
tary instruction be introduced into such
High schools in our various cities as
should ask for the assignment of an
army officer as drill master. A govern
ment with so small a standing army as
ours ought to do all in its power to slim
ulate the military education of its boys.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

GOVERNOR ALTGELD of Illinois goes
entirely out of his way to cast II slur
upon the newspapers when, in reply to a
request for his opinion on the conviction
OF ~Prendergast, he says: 81 know
nothing of the case except what | have
read in the newspapers and cannot
therefore give any opinion in regard to
the verdict" The idea which the gov
ernor apparently attempts to convey is
that no one reading the newspaper
accounts of hat trial Is in u position to
express himself rs to the merits of its
outcome. This is quite gratuitous on
his part, No one has ~insinuated
hat the reports of those proceedings
have been in any way colored or nave de-
waited the slightest from strict impair
tiality toward the prisoner. Other men
equally prominent as Governor Alt
geld, and who have had no other source
OF information than he, have ventured
to express their opinions without fear
OF having been misled by newspaper ac-
counts. II Governor Altgeld is afraid
TO take a stand on the question of the
Righteousness Of the verdict, we'll and
good. But no such explanation of his
silence will wash under the circum-
stances.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

the forms OF procedure In both civil and
criminal courts, and there is 10Y an
array OF f~ifty-six codes which in n half
century America has been able to pre-
sent to the world as an Improvement
upon the alleged infallible wisdom OF
preceding centuries.
The eminent %iurist, quoting from an
address Of Prof. Baldwin before the
American characterization, his
belief i'm Il further reform. He thinks
We give too much prominence to judicial
~prccedents. The distinct sovereignties
Of the law represented by the supreme
courts Of forty-four states and four terri
tories not to mention tho United States
courts and the supreme courtof the Dis
trict of Columbia are multiplying prcc-
edents very rapidly and iudge-made
law is more varied and extensive in APP
plication than Legislative law. We
should drift into fixed interpretations OF
acknowledged principles and the law
should, so far as its substantial principles
are concerned, be reduced to the form of
a statute. 1t will be Il happy day for
courts, lawyers and litigants when
American ~jurists shall have united in
their Interpretation OF accepted princi-
pies and neither tradition nor precedent
can be drawn upon to leave the lower
courts in doubt as to that interpreta-
tion.
Finally Mr.. Field attacks our system
of selecting judges. He would have
them appointed, and not elected, ard
their terms to continue for life, or dur
ing good behavior. with salaries suti-
cient to attract the best legal talent of
the land to the bench. In this we fancy
many thoughtful people will agree with
him, but the same thoughtful people
know hat this idea is not yet ripe
enough to be assimilatcd into our form
of government. 1t is refreshing, how
ever, to laymen who are still bewildered
by the complications Of Interpretation
and annoyed by the delays which the
court machinery makes possible, if not in
evitable, to learn hat there has been so
marked an improvement in the past half
century. 1t is u hopeful sign, too, to find
the most learned men in the legal pro-
fession champiOning he idea that fur
Their improvements are possible and
probable. The time will come when
men who are now disconnected by the
apparent variance of good law and good
sense will not longer believe that
the difference between the supreme
court n the justice OF the peace is that
the supreme court has the ina guess at
the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
Arbitration.

INTTTTNW0 VTTW NTWT'
One of the fitting and valuable works o
the Columbian commission was the adoption
OF a memorial TO establish international AZ
bitratiou for the settlement of disputes. 1t
appears most appropriate that a commission
which was Instrumental in collecting TO.
gether the most impressive exhibit of the
arts and triumphs OF peace which the world
ever beheld should exert its utmos. power
for the suppression Of war and strife on the
earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

THE director of the mint estimates
the total production of gold in the world
for the past year at Sl30, Sl7 900, an in
crease of $40, 000, 900 over the production
OF 1891. For 1893 the total gold produc-
tion is estimated at $142, 000, 900 at the
lowest figures. The contribution Of the
United States to this supply amounts to
1873, 900, 900. The greatest increase in
any one region is reported from the
new gold field of South Africa, the
product of which for the year will
these figures the Philadelphia Record
remarks that they Indicate that
there is little cause for appre-
hension concerning the supply of
gold for money. AS the supply ac-
cumulates there is less need of the
metal because Of the rapidly increasing
use of drafts and bills of exchange in
the business of the world. Commerce
abhors the transportation of gold, says
the Record. At the same time, as the
world becomes more refined in its tastes
there is less use of gold for barbaric
ornament, and more of it remains for
coming into money. 1t was Senator
Sherman, if we are not mistaken. who
said not very long ago that in time gold
would cease to be used as money, and
would be employed entirely as the oasis
of currency. The theory is plausible.
AT any rate there is obviously no reason
for alarm that the supply Of gold for
monetary use will run short, at least
during the present generation.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
Perils OF Burglary.

Burglars who burgle in Chicago in these
days do so not alone at the peril of their
bodies, but TO the imminent danger OF their
immortal souls. One of them who was work
ing in a Thirty-ffth street fiat Christmas
night was deliberately Rugged by a young
woman a process which not alone inter
fered with his work, but must have dis
tracted his mind. If q thief has to take a
chaperone along with him every time he
makes a business call on the South Side lar
ceny will soon become as immortal as waltz
ing, and will be eschcwed by every one who
has a reputation to sustain.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
Let Loose the Dogs.
Wnshfnnton Post.

Europe again stands face to face with tho
big war which IL has been going to fight half
IA dozen times q year since the early
70's. If the opposing powers have any
idea of cutting loose in the near future they
unleashing the dogs of war about this time.
We can furnish them with food, fodder,
clothing and other essentials at good rates
and speedy delivery. III Europe would only
have the big windup that seems inevitable,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
Utah and Nevada

Senator Proctor has introduced a bill to
annex Utah to Nevada. The senate ought
TO pass that bill, and when tho Arizona and
Now Mexico admission bills are received
from the house the senate should CONSOLE
date them and make one large state OF
these two arid territories and call it Arizona.
There is no other feasible way Of making u
decent state of Nevada except annexing
Utah to it, and that must be done while
Utah is a territory or not at all.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

MN York Itihinn

VIZ TWTTI TUTTWT1
What Is chiefly needed in the agitation for
good roads is the education of the people
generally TO appreciate their Importance.
] he rural population has so long been salts
fled with what 1t has in this respect that it
hardly hopes for anything better. II the de-
mand for better highways ca1 once be
created they will be supplied beyond doubt.
That the national government can do any
thing in this direction at present is moro
than doubtful.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND seems to be
losing his reputation for proves in
fetching ducks. Will this affect his
ability to continue to bring down re-
fractory members of congress?
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
SU EiRING OFE.

Detroit Tribune.
Sing a song OF penitence,
A fellow full OF rye;'
-Four and twenty serpcnts
Danced before his eye.
When his eye was opened
Tie shouted for his life,
Wasn't he u pretty chump
To go before his wife?
His hat was In the parlor
Underneath n chair,
His boots were In the hallway.
Ills coat was on the stairs.
His trousers In the Kitchen,
His collar on the shelf,
But he hadn't any notion
Where he IA mt himself.
When the morn was breaking
Some one heard him call,
His head was in the Ice box,
And that was best Of all.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
Detlint Ere prcss.

20 ~ TN'V'
The Tribune propounds nine inquiries to
the Free Press, and, though its manner is
not at all courteous, an answer is due. In
order to make the answer comprehensive
and conclusive we divide the queries into
two classes-the first five and the last four.
To the first group the answer is that the
Tribune is a donkey. To the last four the
answer is that the Tribune is an ass. The
distinction is not a very broad one; but it is
broad enough for all practical purposes.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

Poor luck characterized the duck
hunt which the president and his party
INDUCED in as a holiday recreation. The
president should now have a more sym
pathetic ear for the horde of hungry
otficesoekers, who have had to console
themselves with poor luck ever since the
new administration came into power.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

A CHICAGO paper is making an on
slaught against what it calls the sense
less custom of ringing bells, blowing
whistles and footing horns as a mark of
respect to the incoming ncw year. AS
the firstday of the year arrives but once
annually the people should be willing to
put up with a little nonsense so long as
the harm done is comparatively imma-
fnrinl
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

If OMAHA merchants and jobbcrs
showed the persistence which their
Kansas City rivals display in insisting
upon favorable freight rates from the
railroads the determinations existing
against Omaha's commerce would soon be
modified, if not entirely wiped ont.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

THE finding of a supposed Internal
machine in Colorado addressed to the
president of the United States will not
create any general approximations.
After the past years experience with
Colorado cranks the public is in a po-
sition to expect almost anything from
Colorado
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

THE crank cohorts have had their
ardor dampened by the verdict of guilty
rendered in the Prendergast case. They
will miss sadly the impetus which they
expected to accrue from an inglorious
aonuittal
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
DemollshIng vapor.

TFTUUt-U tWVJTWIs
A convention of the business men Of Col
orado gives notice that said state has al
most entirely recovered from the panic"
and u Is hoped that Governor Waite will
now give his elaborate mouth q rest upou
the subject OF alleged impending ruin IN that
part Of the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

ONE hundred policemen are said to be
disabled from duty by ravages of the
grip in Philadelphia, Who is it that
claims that Philadelphia is behind the
timesp
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31

THAT famous book, every Man His
Own Bartender, is said to be fast losing
it's popularity since ready-made cock
tails were placed on the market at
prices within the reach of all.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
Average ciroulatlon for November, sa,s1o.

on NEW YEARS day there will be no
issue of THE EVENING BEE.
THE MORNING BEE will be delivered
to subscribers of TIE EVENING BEE
early Monday morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-31
Grent scheme THIS.

FNIIudfTpHld LtUUtr,
The way the Americans of Hawaii pro-
pose to establish their republic is to submit
u constitution to the vote of the people and
limit the suffrage to those who pay taxes on
at least s. $500 worth of property, That
leaves out all the natives and most of the
foreigners, except the Americans.