Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRVE OF Dajly Moeniag Edit Brr, One §enr For Bix Months For Threo Months The Omaha Swnday [ address, One Yesr ATPTION ¢ n) ineluding Sunday s10m muiled to Any OMATIA OPFICE, N0, 911 AND, NEw Yok OFF Joot WASHINGION OFFICR, NO. FARYAN . T i 13 FOURTER N TH STIELET CORRE All communications ¢ torinl matter shoukd b TOR OF THE DER. HUSTNERS L ANl Dueiness letiers and remittancos should b Addrossed to THE BEe PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and_postoffice ot to be made payuble to the order of the company, THE BEE PUDLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. and rd bt wting to 1 addrossod 1o the THE DAILY BEE Eworn Statement of Circ Btate of Nebraska, | County of Dov { . 13, Tzsehuck secretary of the Bee Pub- Lishinie_company, does sowemniy swear that the actual eirculation of the Dailv Bee for the weck ending Sept, 10th, 1886, was as follows: a8 Saturday, Sunday. Ot Friday, 10th. Average. ; Gro. B sworn to before me this 11th day of Sept., 1556, N. P. Frin, [SEAL. 1 Notary Public. Geo. B, 'Tzechuck, belng first duly sworn, de- oses and «ays that ho is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual avera daily circulation of ‘the Daily Bee for the month of January, 195, was 10,373 copies; for February, 1835, 10,505 copies; for March, Avril, 1888, 12,101 9 copies: for June, 14 copies; Subseribed and for ZSCIUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me, this 4th day of Sept., A. D, 1588, Frim, v Publie. sndered “‘uncondition- with a few but mportant excep ally, tions. NEenrAskA will send o democrat to the senate about the time when Mississippi concludes to replace her bourbon dele- gation with republican: A VALUABLE volume on “Insect Life in e Cities," has just been published. It is respectfully commended to the atten- tion of Omaha lodging house keeper: NEBRASKA republicans are not yet pre- pared to turn over the party into the hands of democrats who are boasting of an alliance with the railroad “stalwarts.” “Boss" STouT is on the ground to visit his ol pal, Church Howe. The job of capturing Omaha workingmen for the great boodler is a heavier one than the contract for prison labor. in which, Boss Stout received so mu able aid from the Nemaha trickster. Bisior Howe, of the Protestant Epis- copal church, in answer to those people Who claim to sce 1 every physical ca- Iamity a visitation on account of wicked- mess, said in his sermon at Charleston on Sunduy that when a cyclone a few years ago swept over Walterborough it leveled every church to the ground and leftevery bar-room standing, thought has struck the dem- ocratic boodle organ which makes the double-leaded discovery that the BEi not and has never been a democratic paper. Artemus Ward's pirate chief languished sixteen long years ina dun- geon. At the expiration of thattime a sudden thought struck him, He raised the window sush and esc: by the jobbers that the editor of the B 18 8 “‘boss” who is trying to enthrall the citizens of Omaha by assisting to elect honest men to positions of trust. No one has ever aceused the boodle gang of the confederated monopolies of this kind of hossism, in whi all respectable voters and taxpayers will be glad to assist. WiLriax Warre WARNER, of Detroit, has been arvested by United States offi- cors at Jackson on complaint of Post- office Inspoctor Purcell on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Warner claimed to publish a daily and weokly paper and to cireulate from 35,000 to 060,000 copics. He would write to busi- ness men, requesting goods in exchange for advertising, receive the goods, print advertisements in a few papers, and send a copy to the advertiser. Mr. Warner bas cvidently been ohtaining points from some of our Omaha contemporaries, Tue nomimation of ‘Colonel” L. W. Colby, of Beatrice county, for the state senate is a dead give away on the part of Gage eounty republicans Col- olnel Colby has a record no better than Church Howe. Hsis a fraud of the first aater. His legislative record is one of the worst ever made 1n the state, and his standing m his own county is so bud that hewas literally enowed under the last time ho ventured to appeal for support @t tho polls. Colonel Colby is asweet- soented sort of a ‘‘reform” candidate. It would take reform of a hundred horse power to deodorize his own record, Ix his annual message to the Mexican wongress President Diaz congratulates ‘the country that in the emergency grow- ing out of the Cntting affair the dignity of the government was saved without arousing a conflict. Ho had slear grouna for doing this, since without any bluster or bruyvido Mexico carried her point, having set at liberty her troublesome prisoner when the suthorities got ready to do so, aud without making any con- cossion or surrender of any right elaimed. The sucrifice of dignity in the whole pro geeding was made by the government of the United States. With regard to Arre- sures, who was taken out of ‘Lexus by a Mexican posse and shot, Diaz claims that the was a eitizen of Mexico, and that con- sequently there is no oceasiun for con- troversy respecting him between the two governments, It is not unlikely that as #o this afair also the Mexican president dsin the rigat. The dispateh does not mote any intimation in the message of a purpose on the part of the goverament to amodify the obnoxious laws under which “Cutting was arrcsted and punished, agrecably to tha demand of Secretary Bayard. [‘“I | were instrac That Report. the last general assembly of the its of labor held at Cleveland the wutive board of »d to appoint a committee to be known as the legislative committee of the Knights of Labor. The object of the creation of the legislative committee was to urge upon the attention of con such legislation ns At general ex seemed most sle for the interests of labor, and whicl ived th of laburing men through their organiza to suryey on the ground the opera; of to note what ators and representatives were willing to abide by their pledges to the people and to report at the close of the se. th resnlt of their obser ions I'he report of the le tive committee has been made public and furnishes some interesting reading. It is an ex haustive review of the hampered legislation on the for whose enactment Labor petitioned so earncstly. The vote of the house and senate on these meas- ures are earefully recorded by yeas and nays and the absentees fully noted. But the concluding page of the report will have the most interest for Nebrs kans, and they will be particularly in- terested in the following paragraphs: In regard to the senate, your commit- teo s at nloss {o express anopinion, as one of the most liberal members of that body, in conversation with your commit- tee when they first ar 4 the capital, used the following langu he house will vield to pe mor but the sen- ate will not.” The remark, as analyzed by yonr committee, means the enuncia- tion of the doctrine as put forth by William H. Vanderbilt some few yes ago, viz: “The people bo d—d." “But thera isone manin th stands at all times as a firm friend of the people. We refer to Senator Charles H. Van Wyck, of N 1d we foe the interests of the people would be vanced by s return to the senate as well as to strengthen his hands by send ing other members to the senate who will act in concert with him in working for measures thae will benefit the people. ™ wl already rece s support tions tions sen congross; sion is ca ight bills go body that hraska, ¢ Slipped n Cog. And now it turns out that Geronimo was not captured after all; that the wily Apache surrende of ne- gotiations with Ge - that the surrender so far from being “uncon- ditional® contained express_stipulations that he should be sent to s mily in Florida and should not be turned over to the civil authorties. This is very interesting when read be- tween the lines, It leaves General Miles' aggressive campaign,” “reversed meth- 0ds'” and “greaser contingent’ out in the cold field of impractical warfare to be replaced by Crook’s well tried method of punishment tollowed by diplomacy. When General Crook left Arizona after having sent the wives and family of Ger- onimo and Natchez to Fort Marion, Florida, he confidently predicted that the frightened Geronimo and his bucks would soon be ready to sue for peace through a strong desive to be with their people. Af- twenty weeks of bombastic declara- tions of what he was about to do tarough a “reversal” of Crook's methods, Ge eral Miles fell back on the theory of his predecessor, and as soon as he got within negotiating distance of the Apaches made overtures for their surrender. through In- diar scouts, which were promptly ac- cepted. This 15 Geronimo's story, fully corroborated by war department advic A lotter re ed in Washington from an army oflicer on duty at Fort Bowie, says that Geronimo did nrot surrender unlil he had had his life assured him, Ger- onimo admits that Captamn Crawford’s fight broke his power in January last, and he would haye been glad thereafter to have surrendered on the same termsas those on which ho has just given himself up to General Miles. It looks as if General Miles’ literary bureau had siipped a cog somewhere. he Lord Mayor's Proffer. It is to be regrotted that the kindly feel- ing shown by the lord m: in profiering aid to the Charleston quake sufferers, should have imduced e pressions that will perhaps defeat the good intentions of his lordship and de- prive the sufferers of a considerable con tribution to the retief of their necessities. Certain London newspapers condemned the proposition, on the general ground that charity should begin at home, which of itself might have been regarded as a proper reason for objection, but when there papers slurringly referred to the Charleston people as beggars of ‘‘Eng- lish alms” they manifested a reprehensi- ble spirit which the popular sentiment of this country will resent. It is understood that it was because of these expressions that Minister Pheips suggested to Secre- tary Bayard that the proposed contribu- tions should not be accepted, and if so thesuggestion was creditable to him as an American citizen. 1t is vory likely that had the secretary of state known the facts he would not have instructed the minister to accept contributions. We observo that the mayor of Charleston is advised by a number of newspapers not to receive vehef funds sent from London as contributions of the Inglish, and although the necessiti many people in Chacleston are great and the demand for aid urgent, we sre not sure that the advice should not be fol- lowed, If it be assumed that the senti- ment of the newspapers rellects the pop- axw]ing in London, there ean be no (1#stion ns to the propriety of refusing aid from that source. The Charleston sufferers did not ask for English alms. The profler of aid from England was vol- untary, and so far as the lord mayor concorned was most creditable to his sympathies. Moreover, they can get along without such aid. Their country- men are abundantly able and willing to provide for their necessities until the, can care for themselves. But a contrl bution to this cause from the English people, whateyer its extent, would if freely and willingly given bea gratifying evidence of a friendly feeling which perhaps at this time it would be well to cultivate. 1t1s quite likely that under the circumstances the mayor of Charles- ton will deeling English gid, and in the meanwhile home contributions ought to be made so liberally that such aid can be . The Signal Service. Criticism of the signal serv is not always undeserved : B! merely eaptious, although it is doubticss so regarded by the chief of the service, who is cver that body | | telligent peoplo unders which | 10,000 Knights of | THE roady to enter thearenn of controversy whenever its valne and efliciency are questioned. Nobody will be so unfair as to say that the serviceis valueless, It has and all in- nd that it is le and necessary, and must by ined But the is f sround of complamt that as a source of information as to what will happen in the department of seientific observation and prediction been shown to have worth, desir to which 1ts work be Iy trustworthy, and the there is apparently no progre \gs it is not reason worst of it is making. A contemporary notes as an example of the shortecomings of the signal servie that during the hot the w duration detining its cans was ample and accurate information to what had taken place in all parts tho country, but the really useful formation to what to be almost invariably irned out to be inacen and misleading., Those whose interests require them to give daity tention to the weather predictions found them to fuil quite as often as they were fulfilled. The eflect of these r peated and continued failures is of course to diminish confidence in the service, and 1t 18 hardly questionable that it is less generally trusted now than at an arlier period in its existence, before the popalar belicf that the foreeasts of “Old Probs.” were based on scientitic princi- Pl nd 1in established and rehiable rul n severely shaken by find ing the results more than half the time dircetly the opposite of what had been promised. The suggestion that the signal service shiould be taken out of the control of the war department and placed under scien- ific dircetion and development is not a new one, but it is likely to be urged in the future with augmented foree unless the service as now managed is speedily and greatly improved. If we remember rightly ar effort looking toward such a change wns made s f congress, but was not ve gorously pressed. Oneno inconsiderable difli- culty is probably in the fact that the chic of the service, who is more of asoldier than a scientist, has greater solicitude fa nd display than for investigation and Absolute nceuracy in all s of course not to be expeeted, but it does seem reasonable to expect that the predietions of the buresu shall at least be fultilled as often as they fail. was quite the or of Thero ns of in. spell it of fore of the nd conditions, useless in sting probal swell was I is reported from Washington that in the event of Mr. Manning not being able me his dut s secrotary of the sury ne will be sent as minister to Aus trin, which would at once secure him good salary and enable him to get the Mit of the health-promoting waters buen represented that the Austrian mission would probably re- main vacant as long as Mr. Bayard 1s secrctary of state, owing to h ment at the uncomplimentar passed upon his conduct by th premier in connection with : correspondenc But, of course, Mr. Bayard would 1d this in the interest of his colleague in the cabinet. So far as the merely perfunctory dutics-of the mission are concerned they could, per- haps, be as well cared for by a sick man as a healthy one, and we suppose there would be no objection to Me. Manning on social grounds, which appears to be a cardinal consideration with the Austrian court. Tug rumors current in Nova Scoti that the president has announced bis in- tention of again recommending to con- gress the appointment of a fisher mission, are doubtless new inventions born of a desire for such action on the part of this government. 1f Mr. Cleve- land had any such purpose he would not communicate in itin a way that would be hikely to get to the ears of Nova Sco- tians. That isn’t his style. of Londonderry will ar- rive in London to-day to assume the ofli of lord licutenant of Ireland, If the adyice of the Freeman’s Journal is taken, his re- ception is not li to be very cordial. Tre marqui Other Lands Than Our: The situation respecting the all-en- grossing Bulgarian problem has cleared somewhat during the past few days, and the threat of war for the moment has given place to a promise that peace may be maintained. How long this state of things will remain it is impossible to say with any degree of certainty, for there aro still complications to be disposed of and differences to be overcome. The in- dications, however, are that the zeal of Russin hus cooled somewhat, one of the strongest of which is the fact that she has yielded her plan of proceeding in Bulgaria, and imtends to tr whole question on the basis of the treaty of Berlin and submut it to the considera- tion of Europe. Whether there is any- thing behind this concession will be known later, but it is probably not an incorrect inference that she was induced thereto by the attitude of Austrin, that government having notified Germany that it would oppose any attempt by Ru to encroach upon the liberties of the Balkans. The response of the powers to the circularof the porte, giving assurances that there will be no foreign military occupation of Bulgaria and no foreign intervention, Russia guarantee- ing also to the same effect, seems to promise an amicable adjustment of the diffienlty. The address adopted by the Bulgarian sobranjoe is pacific in its char- aoter, and is characterized by a decided tone favorable to the independence of the country. A matter of moment soon to be determined is the choice of a ruler for Bul, a, and in the decision of this the hand of Russia may be expected to play a leading part. There are several candi- dates, all ot whom are understood to have Russian sympathies. The most promi nent is the Duke of Oldenburg, a cav- alry officer at St. Petorsburg. The reign- ing house of Oldenburg 1s pro-Russian in an extreme sense, and could be relied upon to serve the interests of the czar as fully as a grand duke of the S of Romanoff. Prince Bis- having gwen his consent, \gly or otherwise, to the dethrone- ment of Alexander, may sweeten the dose to the people of North Germany by annexing Oldenburg to Prussia. Such a transaction would be in harmony with the principle of compensations, and would also imply some guarantee on the part of Bismarck that the new prince of Bulgaria should not be kicked out like OMAHA DAILY his predecessor. retirement of Alex ander is beyond rohll. His anthority 1s too badly shattercd®ter be reinstated by any vote of the Bulgarian assembly, Two of Russia not to interfy | + with Bulgarian | dethronements in one gonth cannot e | cured by popular .'lmnlfiw' The promise | affairs beyond expelling Aloxander, can be kept without @ostf{if‘an Oldenberg prince becomes hiskuatiessor. A The opposition of & government to Parnell’s land bill is eaid to have in sed in bitternesg since the alterations were made in that *measure, 1 thei have been contradictory reports as to the position which Mr. Gladstone will tuke regarding it. The radicals, it i stood, will support the bill on the ground that if nothing is done to relieve the ten- ants, whose situation is represented to be growing every day ble, so cial disorder in Ireland will go from had to worse. The government will insist the debate on the supply bill be con- cluded vefore a day be granted for a discussion of Mr. Parnell's bill. In the present temper of the parties it is not probable that the honse witl be pro rogued before the end of the month, The closing days ot the session are expected to be exceedingly animated and of un common interest. more deplor uty The appointment by the British govern- ment of a roval commission to investi- gate the monctary is matter of e ment. Its first ¢ pries of silver. mission 18 such mo- et was to advance tho o make-up of the com to indicate at once that the investigation, so far as it goes, will be thorough and free from any mon- ometallic bias, and that the present gov ernment 1s disposed to adopt any meas ures that may seem practicable for the establishment of a stable ratio between the two metals. It stated that while the members of the commission are not known as bimetalhsts they ave almost without exception men who recognize the ovils of the existing situation, and will not per mit previousiy-formed opinions to in the v of the formation of such clusions as may be indicated by the that may be brought before them. It is mentioned as a iificant fact that the chairman, Mr. Balfour, is & man who ree ognizes the evils resulting from the strangement of gold and silver, and yet is not committed openly to any plan for improying the sit It is another significant fact that bour, the secretary of the Indian finance depart- ment, has been seleeted as o member of the commission, ~ o | Denmark's domestie roubies have be- come serious, and mayventuate in civil wa This state-of things has been brought about by= tha poverty of the people, produced by buginess depression, and the squandering {of much of the revenues of the stite by the government in the support of genddrmes. A largo part of the people are opposed to these soldicr-police on principle, believing that the government intends to use them in oppressing the peasant This opyosi- tion is heightened hy theidwlIness of t and the uunoriuufinr’ &I th themselves. Denmark™s ~one of smallest of the European states, contain- ing only 14,124 Lnglish square. miles of area, and 1,080,250 inhab- itants, being a little larger than Maryland, and about as populous Indiana was in 1880, In faet, i ¢ be said to exist only on the and because of the mutual ] of its bigger neighbors. Ger- many has for years cast a longing eye on Denmark, and more than once since she wrested Schleswig-Holstein from the Danish government in 1864 has the e istence of that nation been imperilled be- cause of the ambition and aggressiveness of the Prussian portion of the German empire. A revolution in Denmark just now might be fateful for that count In fact, the acquiescence of Russia in the annexation of Denmark by Germany may yet turn out to be part of the price of Germany's assistance to Russia in the Bulgarian affair. e Religious persecution re The czar proposes to tablish unity of faith by forcing into the pale of the k church Polish holies and Lithu- ants, Jews are driven out of the country. Ihe governors of Podo- lia and Ukraine, rot content with closing every public office to the Jews, are now shutting them out of other oceupations, The lawyers of the provinees are ordered to dismiss all Jewish clerks, that i ority thei employe: two months, The sume order is to be issued in the southwest provinces, where Russian Jews are gathered as in an immense ghetto, In the Baltic provinces the attack is di rected against the Lutherans, who form the great majority of the population. The governor of Esthonia interdicts the sale and circulation of any religious jour- nal not of the orthodox faith, Lutheran astors are forbidden to criticise or dis- any actions or doctrines of the ireck church, In the provinee of Wilna excitement is'grear, and new evils are feaved. Is it any wonder that disturb- ances should arise? W The fact that Germany is most of the time casting new cannon and making more guns does not of itself imply that another war is imminent, An immense milita establishment necessitates the maintenance of armories and arsenals and shops and foun riz to correspond. o s in Russia, of But as the governmgnt Bas just now con- tracted for 1,500,000 rifles, suflicient for a Jarger mobilization of troops than has ever yet been ordekdd, he nutural infer- ence is that the next Buropean war, whenever it does come, is expeeted to beat all previous records in agnitude, He Got the Important Facts, Chicago News: The new reporter who | had experience asn rural correspond- ent rushed in to inform his chicf that he bad the facts of a very important murder —a men shot. ; *Who wus the man? “I didn't get his narae. “Wno shot him?"” “I don’t know.” “What was thi L didn't learn.” i “You got the facts of the ease did you?' “Yes, the important ones. [ learned that the pistol was a seif-acting revolver of the bull-dozer pattern, 82 cahber.” - One little pin-head pillet, taken at night before goiLg to bed is ofien suf- ficient to wove the bowels and remoye biliousness and costiveness, the efloot will astonish you. . J. 1. McLean Liver and Kiduey Pillets, asked the chief, ause of the shooting?"' Keep it Before Republicans. Before the republicans of the First dis- trict commit the party fo the support of Church Howe, they should ask themselves whether a man of his record has any rightful claim upon the support of any cont republican. Leaying ont of aues tion his corrupt methods and notorions venality we appeal to republicans to pause and reflect before they put a prem- m npon party t wnd conspiracy inst its very existence, n years ago, when party was on the nd ory el liaye id Whe retain the | in Howe entered into conspiracy to deliver republican Nebraska into the hands of the enemy. This infamous plot is not a mere conjecture. The proof of it does not rest on surmiso or suspicion. It brushed away by pronouncing Rosewater's mulicious eampaign sland- ders, The records of the legislature of which Church Howe was o member in 70-77, contain the indelible proofs of the treasonable conspiracy, and no denial can stand against ovidence furmshed by his own pen. Briefly told, the history of this plan to hand over the country to ilden and democracy is as follows: In 187 Nebrs cleeted A, Stricklang, masa Cobl . Conunor dential electors vote of 31,010 inst a vote of ; ast for the Tilden and Hendricks electors. After the election 1t was dis- covered that the canvass of this vote conld not take place under the then ex- isting law before the fegislature con vened. ‘The electoral vote had to be can vassed in December at the Iatest, and the rsession of the legislature did not 1 until January. In order to mu wss of the ¢ al returns Governor Garber ealled a spe ssion of the legislature to convene on the 5th of December, *76, at Lincoln, for the pur pose of canvassing the clectoral vote of the state. The democratic effort to e ture republican electoral votesis historie. Tilden's friends, notably Dr. Miller, had been plotting for the capture of one of the electors from W braska, and it also listorie t a large bribe was offered to one of the electors, General Strickland. The caliof the legislature broke mto the plan of the plotters, and they found a willing and reckless tool in Chureh Howe. When the legislature convened at the capital, Church Howe filed a protest which may be found on pages 6, 7 and 8 of the Ne- 1 House Journal for 18 The fol- wkes interesting reading: I, Chureh Howe, a member of the legisl ture of aska, now convened by procla mation of his excellency, Governor Silas Garber, for the purpose of canvassing and declaring the result of the vote cast in braska for electors for president and vie president of the United States, herevy enter my solemn protest against sueh act, denying thiat the governor has power to call this body in special session for any sueh purbose, or that this body hasany anthority to canvass or declare the resuit of such vole upon the following ground First, This legislature now convened hay- ing been elected under what is known as the old constitution, has no power to act in the premises, the new constitution of the s having been in force since November, 1875 “The second and third clauses deal with technical objections and are somewhat lengthy. The concluding sentences of this precious document are as follow: “For the foregoing reasons 1 protest against any can of the electoral vote of the state by thus body, and demand that this, my protest, be entered upon the journal.” (Signed) Church Howe, member of the legislature of Nebraika, The democrats did not respond to th all of the governor and there was barely aquorum in the senate. while there were several to spare in the house of which Howe wasa member. The protest en- tered by Howe was doubtless prepared by the Tilden lawyers in Omaha and Howe nal the glory of being the sole champion of Sam Tilden. The legisla turc ignored Chureh Howe, spread his protest on its record and canvassed the cldctoral vote in spite of it. When the legislature convened m Jan- uary, 1877, the presidential contest wa at its height in Washington. Church Howe had changed places from the house to the senate. Early n the sion, a resolution was mtroduced expressing the conviction on the part of the senate that Hayes and Wheeler having received a majority of the electoral votes were en- titled to their seats ‘This resolution gave rise to a very lively debate which lasted two days. Church Howe asked to be excused from voting when it first came up and was so excused, On the final p; e resolution the record [page 876, Senate Journal 1877,] shows the following result: Yeas—Ambro Baird, Blanchard, Bryant, 1ki Carns, Chapman, Colby, Dawes, ficld, Gilham, Hayes, Kennard, Knapp, Pepoon, Powers, Thummel, Van Wyck, Walton and Wilcox—20, Those voting in the negative were: Aten, Brown, Covell, Ferguson, Hinmun, Holy, Church Howe and North--8. During the same session of the legisla- ture, Church Howe's vote on United States senator for the first threo ballots is rded as having been st for B, W, Thomas, a South Carolina democrat [puzes 108 and 208 Souato Journal.| All this time Church Howe professed to bo u republican independent, republican on national issue: temperanc nger al i i and range record we leay nother chap We simply ask what right a man with such a record has to the support of any republican. The democ y ho still in his debt although t have paid him in full on a ervices rendered. son republican di the verge of toral vote lor ster, cast for was needed to power, Church not to be poo-poohed or it one of Silas nd pr ke Stirs Up Their Bile. Dawson County Herald, Senator Van Wyck’s appi ple of Nebraska, and chalicnge to his competitors, stirs up the bile of the oppo- sition, but none of the champions of the rail rogue poliey dare accept the chal- lenge. They meet it at long range with bare boakins, laugh at the appeal as nonsensi- cal and ridicule the constitutional and statutory provisions upon which it is based as an assault uvon the preroga- tuwves of the states and opposition to the constitution of the United State: G gument, that the privil expressing preference for United § senator is unconstitutional, is o ingenious. We imagine that the -ument was used by wire pullers rail rogue workers of half a century ago, when ‘certan wise men saw that tho safely of the country required that the power of appointing the electoral col- lege be taken from the legislature aud &iven into the bands of the people. Of ute uly same and | with honors and gift to the peo- | { Octagon, wnd 1t is ns complicn | been on a shopping expedition, BEE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1886, course the “ignorant masses' don't know who is best caleulated to run the affurs of stato, and legislatures ate easier to manipulate than the peoplo themselves Tho constitutional amendment r rdl ing tho eleotoral college saved ™ this country from becoming autoeratic and aristocratic half a century ago, and tho method of electing the American hou of lords to-day, is drift ng us back in the the channcls we then escaped. Let the United States constitution be amended if necessary to make Van Wyck's idea legal, but in justi to the people, in nonor of our repablican mstitutions, and in compliance with our state laws let the ballot bo spread, and the legisla | ture eleeted will, if they be honest, patri hoice of the peo Wyck or Jay otie men, confirm the ple whether it bo Van Gould. MAZEPPA A FACT, The Discovery of'a 1 Recalls the Unlucky Philadelphia Times Mazeppa painted from 1 t Kicf, in sonthern Russia, is heir wved by the Russian emician, Demetry Kowkosky, It will surprise nearly one who hears that Mazeppa was a real, living man who conld sit for his portrait--he scems so like a purely mythical being, like Beller- rophon or like one of the Am 70N, He is nssociated in our minds altogether with tl very unreal world of the cirens ring, with bareback riders and trained hovses. Indecd, he may be said to resemble centuar, for he and the fiery steed can hardly be thoueht off apart.” Yet he was areal man and cut quito a figure in_ his partof the worl 0 yoars ago. This portrait probably re; Mts not n swag gerving youth, with eurly hair and ding moustache, but a grizzled warrior in_Russian uniform and decorated with military orders, John Stevhanoviteh Cossack, winoms the savage s Southern Russi the Caspian. to Peter the g Cossack to his tratt From Life Story of the Cossack. © unon desolated back to commended him he invited the id covered him but when Peter sent him against the invading Swedes, under Charles XIT., he betrayed the Russian and went over with his followers. to the enemy. Peter ated them both and drove them into Turkish tervitory, to fall into the hands of ss master. Muzeppa ad before this hid den wll the t s which he had amassed in his wi and the gifts from those he had served i eaverns in the bills around Kicf. The portrait now discovered was probably hidden at this tin who , driving them This 0 r at that court his former killed himself, e incident by which alone we know him actually di cur. He was by bivth a Cossack, but when very young he was sent to serve us a page in the court of the Polish king. There his beauty and bravery won him g favor, especially with the ladie: thone of them, the wife of a certain novle, he was suspeeted of too great an intimac nd the jealous husband in revenge ordered him” to be bound naked to the back of a wild horse that had never been ridden, T} was aTartar horse, from the steppes, when loosed 1 shed mad ck to his native countr; h the unwilling i bound to hi The Co: ed the unhappy youth when noarly d from exhaustion and he grew them, ren ble for strenguh Byron got his story out of Voltaire's *Li! les XIL" and worked it into his dashing and attractive poem. A story so dramatic was at on seized upon for adaptation to the stage and it was presented here as early as hman named Hunter, v handsome man and stir in the town., ] us which is now the W rect theatre. The picture of M bound to the horse's , which ¢ 5 painted by the greatest of the s. Vernet, of course, got wtion from Byron, to whom we all owe whatever knowledge we may have of the brilliant Cossack rider and soldie nd ‘ppa’s real motives for betraying are not certainly known. “The Poies, who look upon him as a hero, al- ways have maintained fhat he had in view the welfare of the Polish nation, and they point to the fact that he stipu- fated with the Swedish King for tne in- dependence of Poland. 1f this be the truth it gives a certain dignity to the ac but the Russian story runs more in ac: cord with what otherwise is known of him. The, y that he was led to over to the cnemy by the blandi ment of a cer Polish i This would botte the rest of his adventur men, however, who turers, get th historian like Voltaire and celebrated by a poet like Byron and painted by i ter like Vernet and get to be known by all school boys who speak the English linguage, and all this not from any act of doing, but one of suffering merely A better man might find it disagreeable to be personated before the public by some of the persons who b pro- sented Mazeppa in this city in vecent time ing with Vew ave simply ndven ded by u e NEW DANCES, What Devoteos of T Have to Learn This Scason. New York Journal: The professors, after having considered a score of round dances that hud been submitted to them, decided_upon adopling only four of them. Two of the vored ones are round and two squ NCes, J round dance said to b y intoxicating and the man who should make up tended for a hite! The first v br srpischore Will mnot danc mind that he w. ng-post, not a walt evolved from t ofessor Jumes . luis eailod th gavot, and is set to polka musis bines the best features of the those of the polka r il that the ore sometimes throw down fiddles rush upon the floor to join the madc ing whirl LThe other round dan christened the prefer it to ic irimmings, brain of Prof 5 ins or, ¢ lively Brooks, 218 patriot Columbin, and the m with sods carved ou 1. Spink of Provi it1s expected to become of the The ' new and s a coi- Linution of trois teinps and the waltz to schottische music. Men with wooden u 1y advised not to attempt i inuovation. One of the square’dunces is called the i us the accotnt book of & young lady who b It is a doubla g s sigures and music entirely new. Prof. i, (. Rivers, of Brooklyn, was the ingenious architeet of the Octagon, and if he were to run for mayor of Brooklyn the girls would cast a solid vote for hin, The court quadrill and met the appr fessors, Prof, Spink awake nights thinki eflect s a5 entraneis opium. it is danced by ¢ also pussed muster bution of the pro of 'rov y over it, and is z a8 a gallon of THE NOUSE OF DRENG, Probable Olose of Bnsiness of a Groat Bank Firm. The Younger Generation Not to Bear the Burden of the Older—Th Coming Wedding of a Prince of the House. PiitapeLrnia, Pa, Sept, 8.—[( pondence Chicago Tribune.] banking house of Drexel is to ceasc “When?" “Upon the death of the surviving he of the Philadclphia house, Drexel.” “Impossible “True, every word of it. I haveit upon the best of authority that this is M Drexel’s will." W “*Beeause Mr. Drexel is of the opinion that none of his sons are equal to carry ing on the great business that he and his brothers built up after the death of his father,and for that reason he desires that with his life the house shallend.” A friend of nine,who seems to be quito close to the Drexels—the greatest bank ors altogether, in the United States—sur prised me with this story this morning. Another friend, to whom I was talking to-day, who is also nearto the bankers, and is an intimate of Mr. James W, Paul jr., Miss Drexel’s husband and amember of all three of the Drexel firms, Philadel- phia, New York and P ad: “Thero probably is a zood deal in that,but 1 doubt whether all the plans have yet been per fected. T don’t know whether Mr. Drexel will insist on forbidding the use of his name, but it is very likely that none of his sons will have any active partin the business after his death. The money that Mr. Drexel’s brother Frank—who dicd last summer, worth $15,000,000—had in the firm is being drawn out gradually. 1 think it altogether likely thut Mr.J. Low- ber Welsh, the vailvoad financier, will finally tako’ the chicf monetary place in the firm. He is_quietly acquainting him- self with the affairs now with that pur- Poso in view All thi apropos of the pre for tho wedding of Mr. Anthoay Drexol, that is to come off at Long Branch next week. The bride is to be Miss Rita Armstrong, of Baltimore, who is nearly related to several society women in_ this city, and spent nearly all of last winter here. The wedding will be one of the most splendid of the season, and prepa- rations are making on a grand scale. The Rev. Dr. Eccleson, an old friend of the bride’s parents, is on his way from Surope especially to officiate on ihe oo- casion. The coremony will take place at the little Episcopal church at Elberon, as tho southern and particularly swell part of the branch is dominated. The church has o historic a8 well as social interest, since it was there the late President Grantand his_ family went when here in the summer-time. A brass tablet to the late president’s memory is to be putin the wall in a week or two over the Grant pew. There isa similar one already in place to the memory of the late Presi- dent Gartield. The church contains only thir ven pews, but 1 fancy that not even at the Episcopal chavel at Newport can one see bigger money kings during the season. Ally Sunday now until Octo- ber, one may dind_representatives of a hundred millions in the aggr at their deyotions at *‘St. Sea.’’ Even the sexton is r. George W. Childs, Only instead of receiving pay for his services he puts fifty or a hundred doll y Sunday morn- ing on the collection that he hands around He, by the way, is as you know a confidentiai friend of the Drexels and his gift to the bride next week will doubt- s be something worth looking at. How the church is to accommodate even a tithe of the guests who have al- roudy beon asked to the wedding 15 morg n [ can understand. A thousand I have been sent out. Spee- ial trains will brmg people from Phi delphia, New York znd Baltimore, rela- tives of the groom in_ Chieago will b on hand and there will be some guests from England and the continent. The honey: moon is to be passed in Europe, wher Tony’s brother John, who was married last autumn, is now with his pride. Tho bride’ to be is bright and pretty. She is rather small of stature, but trimly made. She has big, dark eyes, good fea- tures and a wonder clear complex- ion, She nicely accomplished, too, and plays and sings well. She has been staying all W the Long Branch e of her sister, Mrs. Rhinelander Stewart, of New York, who is strikingly andsome. Pony is av his father's place at Long Branch, and drives out with his fiances on a smart Bnglish cart every fair after- noon. He is not uncomely to look upon, He is tall, broad-shouldercd, fat and kindly. He is rather loud in his attive running strongly (o striped shirts and blaids and red gioves. This pecnliarity 18 the more poticeable by reason of the wet that all the rest of the family are ¢ tremely plain in dress, He is o member of all” the fashionable elubs and of the swell city troop, the uards” of the Quaker town. But they do say thav whenever the troop g out o eamp Tony discovers that ,bluilwflq requires his Surope. is just now u clerk in his fath n this city, but I hear that after his ge he will be given an interest in the Philadelphia firm and the two associate houses. e ey Time for Omaha to Wake Up. Neviai, Neb., Sept. 14.—To the Editor of the Ber: We learn from rehable thority that the Northwestern are bu, the right of way on the recent survey the Union Pacific extension in Ray val- ley north of Albion, and have put on a Jarge force of grade ay last in Iyance of the gind ion Pa- citic road. How long is Omaha going to Rip Van Winkic on this matterr The business men of the metropolitan city of this state should meet at once. You will member when the smont & Elkhorn alloy road was commenced, how. it startled Omaha fourteen years ago Pub- lic mectings held, and in the almost ineredibly” short time of threo days Omaha commenced two roads, right in the middie of winter, ‘paying the enor- ous sum of 45 cents per yard for grad- ing. The ground was frozen twenty-two inches deep, and - yet in less than two months she had twenty miles of read fin- ished, [s Omaha asleep to-day? Hasn't sho us much push as ever? Hus she not many of the same business men she had then and many more us good now?. Then for her sake and for northern Nebraska's suke, boup and doing. We want gom- peting lines, that is the anti-monopolist [ am, 5. F. M - He Was Not in Oil. l-dressed eountryman stopped at the entrance of the petroleum exchiange, on lower Broadway, and gazed inside with considerablo inferest. A broker on the lookout for commis id to him, cordially: “'Are you in | ions Ton, A w " said the countryman, lots of or uilt movenent wusic is partieutarly fine in it is new and the peers are ex pected 10 W/ woswallow-tail room dresses. At pronus: ing as the cholera, and a thousand times Liverything wore popu woving awuy; "1'm no sardine,”’ 004 Atone time elk or “wapiti" was of geueral distribution in North America, but now its ehief strongholds are in the toot-hills of the Rocky mouataing aad the valley of the Yellowstone,