Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 20, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dafly Morniag Edition) including Sunday Brr, Ono Year $10 01 For 8ix Months ) For Three Monih 250 200 The Omaha Swnday Tk, miiled 16 any nddress, One Your. .. M FARNAN STREET T ENTH STHERT OWATIA OFFIOR, NO. M4 A% NEW VORK OFFICE. R0 15 WASHINGTON OFFICE, N0, 311 ¥ CORRESPONURNCE: All communicitions relating to now: torinl matter sioukd be wddressed 10 the 7O OF THE I BUSIVERS LETTRRS: ANl breinees lotiors and remittancos shonld he addressed to THE B PUSLISIING COMIANY, OMAIA. Drafts, ohe ks and po-tofice orders o be made payable 1o the order of the compuny, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRICTORS, E. ROSE\WVATE and ed Eut Entror. THE DAILY BJ Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | Geo, B, Tzsehuck, secretary of The Tee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actunl circulation of the Daily Bee for the weck ending Nov. 12(h, 15%, wa$ as follows Saturday, Nov. 6. Sunday. N Monday, Nov. &, Tuesday. Ineeday Thursday, 1 Friday, 12....0.0 s Average. . . Gro. B, "Tzscnuc Subseribed and sworn to in’ my presence this 15th day of November, A, D.. 15% N Feir Notary Publie. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says thiat he is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the ctual av- erage daily circulation of the Daity Bee for the month of Jan , 1886, was 10,578 copies, :bruary, 1886, 16,505 copies: for March, 11,587 copies: “for April, 185, 12,100 copies: for May, 1586, 12,450 copies: for June, 1R, 19,208 copiee; for Juily, 1556 4 copies: for August, 1856, 12,404 copies ber, 1856, 13,030 coples; for Octobe: copios Gro. B, Subscribed and sworn to befo day of November, A. D., 1556, EALI The Sunday Bee. The Sunday Bee to-morrow will be an interesting paper, and a comparison as invited with any daily of that date in the west. No effort or expense is being spared to make the Sunday Bee the equal of the very best papers in this country. It is @ paper that needs no puffing at our hands. It speaks for We wish simply to present to the the leading features of our Sunday THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, R T NOVEMBER 20. 1886, The State Militias, The annual report of the adjutant gen eral of the army contamns nothing of greater importance than the recommen- dations he makes regarding the militia of the states I'he ports of the in- specting ofMicers show many defects, all of them, however, remediable, The sug gestions of the adjutant general point out at once the faults and the means for | their correction. He recommends that | state encampments ghould be at least of ten days’ duration, and without disre- garding the consideration of economy in the concentration of troops, they be at asufficient distance from the homes {f the members of the command to iso- lute them from business and social influ- ences, which seriously affect efforts at imparting instraction and general disci- pline. There should be no appearance of a holuday character, asis usually the case, about the camps. Their purpose is not for amusement, but for instruction and training in the arduous work, the close attention to duty, and the stern discipline of a soldier's life. The state | encampment should be, in all essent respeets, complete counterpart of camp of regular soldiers in order to eff tually accomplish its objects. This, how- ever, it raraly 15, and therefore it is that the militin of most of the states is found to be extremely deficient in the matter of military acquirements, and with respect to morale and discipline inferior to the lowest European stan- dard for corresponding militar organizations. Another recommends tion is that elementary company drilis excliaed from the military exercises, and the time devoted to instruetion and prac- tice m skirmish and battalion dritls and guard duty. The tighting of the future, in the opmion of the adjutant general, must be aone in open order, and heneo thorough aequaintance with the skirmish drill1s of the highest importance. Exhi- bition drills are interesting as showing to what degree of mechanical precision a body of men can be trained to attain in movements and motion, but they are of littlo service in fitting men for the active duties of a soldicr. The development of extreme smartness in drill, observes the adjutant general, in many instances in- volves the neglect of some of the most important and solid parts of a soldic teaining The mportaree to the states and to the nation of maintaining a well o militia every intelligent citizen stands. It was recognized by the founders of the government, counselel by Washington, and no statesman who a wdor bill of fare for to-morrow : The New York Herald cablegrams, which are scnt divect to the Bec as specials, appearing simullancously in New York and Omaha The special cablegrams, about 10,000 words, cover the mews from the leading European capitals. Special dispalches from all leading news cenlers i the United States. Clara Betle's letter, not taken from a paper aweek old and palmed off as fresh malter, but received dircet from the lively writer’s own hands, who is now a regular correspondent of the Sunday Bee. General Adam Badeaw's New York let- der, writtenin admirable style, and enler- taining throughout. A DBoston letter from Franz Sepel, treating upon various lopics of inlere A New York letter from Omar James about Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of the condemned anarchist. A reminiscence of the late George Elder, the famous dcteclive Various departments of miscellany, all carcfully selected and arranged. In addi- tron to which there will be the usual quan- tity of local and state news, and other madlers which arc found in a first-class mictropolitan paper. Born parties are now busily employed in persuading themselves that the labor vote had only a Jocal significance in the latn elections. Both parties are likely to have their eyes opened before another presidential election rolls around. TaE legislature aided by the Douglas county delegation should take prompt stopsto do away with the absurd *‘two mile limit belt"” by which scores of unlicensed saloons and road houses encircle our oity and brazenly defy the authorities. The city license should obtain in cities and the county license in the county out- srde of the city limits, We have not yet heurd whether Bill Stout has responded generously to Dr. Miller’s appeal for ald to the Lincoln democratic paper which has recently turned a somersault into the railroad camp. Stout has never been very active a8 n democerat, but he has a warm heart and a liberal hand when a judicious in- wostment will yield a good return, Bill is not very particular as to the politics of members of the legislature or organs that grind out praise for the claims committee. Tur meanness and malignity of the London press with respect to everything Amcrican was shown cven in the com- ments on the death of ex-President Arthur. That of the Chionicle was little less than brutal, and the expressions of the other papers showed that the writers had either very narrow views of the char- neter of General Arthur or were « ated by ill will which they were not able to wholly conceal. Such a spirit invit only pity and contempt. WieN Mr. Cleveland notified the pub- that he desired to command s time tween the 10th of November and the assembling of congress, he was moved thereto by no ordinary motive, It is the talk at Washington that he 1s engaged on the “greatest work of his life,” which is 10 make or unmake him as the next can- didate of his party. The announcement ought not (o arouse very groat expect- tions, since the greatest effort of Mr Cleveland would not necessarily be re markable, particularly if, as promised, it will be entively his own Oer “do likee 'contemporary prints an 12 Puso dispateh which he claims was recoved from its special cor- respondent two days before it appeared in the BEE, wired by its Chicago agent. We uppreciate the wonderful enterprise of the Herald in keepiag specinl reporters at & one-horse town on the Mexican bor- der. We see no occasion for such an out- lay on our part. But we point to the fact that the BEE prints two or three columns of important speciuls every day from the groat uews ceaters of America and Europe which readers of the Herald neyer et to see beeause they are copyrighted and beyond their scissors. succeeded them has questioned it Its doesnot grow less, but greater, with the growth of popuiation. If the policy was wise at the beginning of the government it is wiser now. In the absence of a great regular army, which the American people will not and should not create, the security of the government must rest in the future, as it has thus far done, upon its citizen sol- diers. In order that that dependence shall not fail, that there shall be alway atcommanda power strong and cffectiy enough to meet any possible exigency, there must be thoroughly organized and well-trained bodies of militin in all the stutes. For this purpose there is no defi- ciency either in the amount or quality of the material. In the possession of all the qualifications that go to muake good sol- diers the young men of America are not surpassed by those of any othor n The Real Keason, The organs of the monopol; in both pelitical parties are moying heaven and carth to injure General Van Wyck's chances ot re-election. While the re- n railrogue organs are clamoring that Van Wyck is not straight enough a revublican, the democratic mouth- i of the monopolies are claiming that he is too much of a stalwarl in his party to look to democrats for their sup- port in the coming legislature. Both clusses of newspapers cover their real objections to Generat Van Wycek by an assumed devotion to party., The fact that he is objectionable tothe allied monopolies is the real reason of their ovpposition, General Van Wyck has made his can- vass and is willing to abide by the r sults of the election. All the clatter and clamor of the railrogue republicans and democrats do not disturb him, His claims for a re-election were persona'ly presented to the voters of Nebraska prior to the clection, Nearly fifty thousand citizens of the state, in spite of senseless threats of the penitentiary and of the party scourge, expressed their mdivid preference under the law for General Van Wyck as their candidate for”the senatorship. A generous majority of the republican members-elect to the legis- lature stand pledged to vote and to work for Van Wyck's re-election. A major- ity of the democratic members-clect who owe their seats in the legislature to the efforts of Senator Van Wyck's for- mer friends stand committed to his can didacy on open pledges to their constita- encies. Under the circamstances and in spite of the bousts of the corporations banded to defeat hun, Charles H. Van Wyck rests his case with the representatives of the people whom he has honestly served for nearly six yeurs. He has no pledges 1o offer or promiscs to muke. His record in the past isthe best guarantce for the future, A Disgraceful Delay, The Omaba Horse Railway company is one of the most profituble of our lo oenterprises. Its franet costs it nothing 1tis heuvily patronized by our people. But whenever we are treated to o flurry ot suow, traflic is suspended and the pub lie is forced to wait for hours after the snow full has ceased before the cars re sume running. In other eities the serap evs and swoepers on the horse railways began work as soon as a storm sets in and continue operations until the tracks are clear. In Omaha work with an anti quated scraper commences after the storm is over, and horses and cars are laid up sometimes for days until the tracks are seraped clear. Forty-eizht hours huve passed since the storm, but the Omaha street cars are not yet running. The tracks on Sixteenth and Cunung street lines are yet covered with snow, anf citizens in the suburbs are forced to taamp through the drifts to und from their homes. Nothing but gross inefliciency is re- sponsible for this condition of affuirs, Iho street, car company, as a common earrier, is bound to use every reasonuble flort to keep its lines clear. It is bound in return for the free use of our streets Lo give Omaha a reliable service, o overcome obstucles of weather which hould | | make delays such other companies succeed in surmonnting, even if it should take the expenditure of a few moredollars occasionally than sum- merday traffic. Thereis no reason why its tines should be blockaded for days by an eighteen-inch snow-fall. A few more serapers and sweepers put into use dv well as after a storm would as those from which iflering impossible. It is reported that the president has banished Senator Gorman of Maryland from®his confidence. 1t would have been better for him if he had never permitted this adroit and thoroughly selfish politi- 1 {0 get into his contidence. Gorman is responsible for the appointment of Higgins in the treasury dopartment, bringing upon the administration no end of condemnation and a good deal of trouble before this Baltimore henchman of the senator was made to understand that he was not emvloyed to run the dopartment and reduced to a condition of obedience and respect to superior anthority, Gorman is also re sponsiblo for the appointment of Thom another henchman and Baltimore tough, as Indian ngent, despite the fact that he was denounced by the eivil service asso- ciation of Baltimore and by many other reputaple citizens as & man utterly witit to hold any public office. Gormun 1s a member of the printing committee of the senate, and he has snecessfully used his power to keep the government printing ice filled with his creatures. If the sident has really broken with him this uable part of his patronage, which did not encounter any evil service obstrue- tions, will probubly be destroyed. Just why the president should banish Gorman this time, when the tendency of his policy seems to be to strengthen himself with party leaders, is not casy to de- termine, except upon the presumption that he has found the utterly self-secking poliey of the Maryland senator absolutely intolerable and also that he is as likely to be a foe as a friend where his indiyidual interests are inyolved. vivil service commission has finally determined, so it is announced, to in- vestigate the alleged violations of the civil service law by Postmaster Harri of Philadelphia Ch: s against H rity have been publicly andfreely made for several months past, from responsible quarters. The postalservies in Philadel- a has for along time been in- & most demoralized condition, to the great in- jury and annoyance of the public. It has been shown that out of 184 employes ap- pointed by Hurrity all but two ave demo- , and a number of them cannot write legibly. All this information has been given to the postoflice department, together with the statement ot a demo- cratie board, sent from Washington to investigate, that Havrity lacks the busi- ness experience and exeeutive ability to vroperly conduct the business of the oflice. Still he has been permitted to go on, to the great detriment of the publie, until at lust public sentiment has forced the administraion to order a formal in- vestigation. It was not so careful i the case of Hedden, after it beeame known that be was nota Cleveland man, An- other oflic t Philadelphia, Collector Iwalade charged with an even more serious violation of the civil servics law than the postmaster, but the admin- istration appears to have given very little attention to the matter. There are some amazing contrasts in spots between the , i nd the practice of this ad- ministration, Lk long vacant surgeon-gencralship of the army has at last been filled by tho appointment of Surgeon John Moore, Dr. Moore fifth on the list of licutenant colonels and ouly a few removes from that to major. His appointment give: g a8 We are now erats him at once the rank and pay of a briga- dier general, and lifts him over the heads of nearly a dozen members of the medi- cal corps who until yesterday ranked him as colonels and lieutenant colonels, It is difliculcto see where the much vaunted civil service reform obtains in such a promotion. Dr. Baxter, the ranking colonel. was admittedly a brilliant and faithful officer, His only disadvantage in the contost for the place lately made vacant by the retirement of Surgeon General Murray was the fac that ho had yoted the republican tickot. What bearing this possible error of judg- ment could have had upon the efliciency of the medical service of the army no one has yet ventured to explain, but it seems to have lost him a merited promotion, General Moore hails from Indiana. Per- haps his experience with the malaria of the Indiana bottoms joined to his ram- part demoeracy has gained him the cov- oted position. Bulitisa bad precedent 1o establish in the army that partisan de- votion and not attention to military duty 15 to be the ladder to high prefermont, JusT a6 long as the police force is a machine used to pay off’ political debts it can never be made responsible and e cient. It eannot be made responsible to the head of the police, becanse he is not allowed to select or to remove his subor- dinates, and it cannot be made eflicient beeanse the eharacter, ability or eapucity of the police are not tuken into consider- ation in their appointment. So long as third-class ward politicians are allowed to foree political bums and physical and moral wrecks on the police force, just so long will there be the present complaints about our wretehed foree and the lack of police protection to life and property in Omuha. Tur announcement is mude that the Fowler Bros, will shortly open a mam- moth meat market in Omaha, and by a heavy eutin prices furnish our weopie with cheaper and better meat. This is good news. Cheap living means bettor living for the working classes, It is the torerunner of more employment for lubor through the opening of new manu- facturing enterprises which will start into being just as soon as ti can com- pete with eastern rivals in the labor wurker. Cheaper food and cheaper liv- ing mean that workingmen can exist and save on wages upon which they would starve under higher prices. A REWARD is oftered for the findingand relurn of a first-class article of ladian summer swamped in the November snow drifts. —_— ENEBAL THAYER, who is now at the state capitul, probably preparing his mes- sage, has announced that e is not and will not be a candidate for the position of United States senator under auy ¢ircum- stuuces. General Thayer, as we remarkod hefore, is too old a bird to be canght and used as n senatorial stool pigeon to draw away legislative votes from other candi- dates Tie democratic eandidate for governor of California was clected by a plurality of only 632, The fools who attempted to inangarate an Amorican party are largely responsible for republican dofeat. Other Lands Than On Bulgarian affairs are still in a state of tumult. Waldemar'srefusal of the throne ms to have demaralized for a moment the authorities of Bulgaria. The regents resigned, the sobranje adjourned, and a deputation is to travel about to the courts of Europe in search of a ruler. The Dan- ish prince was an admirable choice, and perhaps it was a surprise to the Tirnova assembly that one of King Christian's family should decline a proficred throne. But the Bulgarian throne is not particu- larly comfortable just now. The fa- mous comparison of princes to ‘“heay- enly bodies, which have much vener- ation but no rest,’ would include a prince who should rule just now at Sofia, and if A mere cat’s paw of Russin he would lack even the veneration. Tho sobranjo should not despair at the failure of its first effort. Perhaps it will now come down to “‘practical politics” and sound its candidute on the likelihood of accept- ance before voting for him. England and Austria coald help Bul; in her quandary by suggesting n good candi- date, since to cloose the Prince of Min grelin would be ctically surrendoer 10 the czar. | n *, e Prince Nicholas, ot Mingre said to have been named by Russia and accepted by the other great powers of Europe as the noxt prinee of Bulgaria, is an Asiatic by deseent, the little princi- pality from which he derives his title lying between M(. Caueasus and the Black Sea. Itis only about haif as large us Connectient, and the suzersin rights of the Dadian family, to whieh Prince Nicholas belongs, were extinguished by Russin twenty years ago. e is a hangoer- on of the Russian court, and is well known in court society in the nrincipal eapitals of Europe. The prince has mo fitness for the throne of Bui, 1L exeept hiscomplete subserviency to Russia. Heis about forty years of age, and personally is considered a *‘good fellow.” Prince Nicholas, of Mingrel was born Decem 1846 (= ry 4, 1847). He is colonel and aide-de-camp of the Emporor of Russin. e married in 1874 the Princess Jarie, daughter of Alexander Adlerberg, general and min- ister of the imperial court of Russia, and of the Countess Catherine, nee Paltav- zov, maid of honor of the Empress. Such a choice if aceepted by the powers wou'd be n complete surrender to Russian schemes, «* It seems that the Duc d*Aumale builded better than he knew when he bequeathed his estates at Chantilly to Franee, aiter he had been banished from his country. M. Spuller, of the chamber of deputies, states tiat, as it will be impossible for the government to accept the gift and leave the donor in exile, 1t is probable that on the date when the decree aceenting the gift is issued another will be issued giv ing the donor the liberty of France. M Spuller also believes that the other exiled princes will soon be allowed to return to their country, which wouid be n wise movement on the part of the French gov- crnment. Revolutions do not go bae ward, and ten times as many royahsts as were banished from France could not tura the tide of popular feeling in the opposite direction from that in which 1t sets at present, lia, who ik§ The news comes that Jamaica i ing. The sugar estates in the island of Jamaicu, the fairest and once the most flourishing of Spain’s posscssions, haves, declined from 653 to 189, and the number is being still fnrther reduced. The ne- groes who once cultivated the large and vroductive estates have swarmed to the towns, where they lead an indolent and squalid life. Many of them, for want of employment at nome, have gone to the Isthmus of Panama to work and die in the Lesseps canal. The low price of sugar has well-nigh ruined Cuba also. The once princely estates ot that beauti- ful and fertile isiand are degenerating to the wild ondition, and the baronial planters who, twenty-five and thirty years ago, were accustomed to visit New York and dazzle even thut great ity with displays of their opulen have become seedy bankrupts, What the abolition of sluvery left undono has been accomplished by beet growing in Europe. The beet root sugar has broken down the price to one-half the former figure and thus destroyed the chief source of prosperity in the West Indies. Even in Louisiuna the efloct of this low price of one of the necessaries of life is soverely felt, in spite of the duty of 2} conts a pound which partially protects the home product from foreign competi- tion. To the masses of mankind sugaris both a luxury and a nccessity, and the cheapening of the price of it has enor- mously increased the consumption m tie world; but this incaleulable general ad- yantage has been purch the cost of the cane-growing \x’ nds, and has reduced the Bftish possessions in that quarter to the of worthless ness. decay- verge ' e The predietion of a hard winter in Ger- many by a Dantzig newspaper bodes 11l for the governmenfswhich are compelled to be constantly on the watch against the desigus of the socialists and anarchists, The same conditigys that are felt there may be expected t8 munifest themsclves elsewhere on the eontinent and revolu tionary agitations arve besides, as u rule, sympathetio in thgir progression. It is plam that in the débt-ridden countrics of Europe the forced equilibrium of the vart ous classes eannot bo forever maintained, and that some cause, like the unusual dis tress which is now anticiated, may at any time precipitate desperate outbursts of popular wrath, The cost of keeping u immense standing armies is too tremend- ous a strain to be continnously borne for a long series of years. It taxes too se- verely the vital energies of trade, manu- factures and labor. To a certain extent it paralyzes even capital, and leads to the hoarding of money that atherwise might be actively emvloyed in production and commerce. The prospect of renewed idleness and consequent discontent in Germany may, without strainving a point, be accepted us & waraing evidepoe that the policy of subjecting the nation to warlike expenses in time of peace bLus gone about as far as 1t can with snfety to tho government, «"e The police have been instructed to col- lect evietion statistics in Ireland, paymg attention also to the responsibility of the National League for the refusal of thoso who are able to pay the rates demanded by landlords, + Much alarm exists at Madrid in con- sequence of reports of a threatened out- break against the government. Exton sive military preparations are being made. A rising is foared in Catalonis, and at Cadiz 700 soldiers refused to em- bark for Cuba, CURREN S, Germany hias a population of 46,840,000 awainst 42,234,000 by the census of 1890, The steamer Bossemor was saved in a storm on Lake Superior by pouring oil on the waters, ‘The stpreme court of Massachusetts nas decided that under the statutes no person has aright to keep open shop or do work for pay on Sunday. Colonel John tay and Major Nicolay have bouwht and read over twelve hundred vol- umes in their preparation of the new “Life of Abrahaw Lincoln,” There is a rush of gold conntry on the straits of Mage ond of August 2,071 clatns had tered in the offices established pose, seckers to the h. U to the n regis- the pur- be tor A deposit of pure asphaltam, from fifteon totwenty feet thick, hag been discovered near Thistle Station in Utah., It is worth $40a ton and the expense of mining is only 40 conts, Whitelaw Reid’s new Madison avenue nouse in New York resembles a royal palace more than anything else. 1t isa mass of costly marbles, cedar, mother-of-pearl and rich freseoes, The Boston Advertiser made Oliver Wen- dell Holmes say at the Harvard eclebration that Emerson came trom the “dirtiest” in- stead of “‘the daintiest sectarian circle of the time in the whole country.” A white man was convictea at Catham of “swapping” wives with another man, He asked the court to imposea light sentence, as it was lus first “swap,” and besides, he had only recelved §1.50 to boot, Ocean travelers do not know the terrible ordeal the stokers underzo. Tho steamer Umnbria Iias seventy-to furnaces, which r quire 350 tons of coul per dav, at a cost of §20,000 per vo One hundred and tour man are emploved at the furnaces. One stolier tends to four furnaces, rushing from one to another, spending thiee minutes a rach. Then hié dashes 1o the air pipe, tikes turn at cooling off, and wa ts for his call to o throneh the same operation. Four hours of seorchin nd eight hours of sleep wake up the routine of life, -~ Believe Only Bnstingtom Pree 1 A man should believe only half that he hears. It makesagood deal of difference which half, however. ————— Rooted Whereit Will Not be Crowded. Philadelphia Pross, The Samuel Jackson Randall boom for president bas broken out in Geo There is plenty of room down there for it to grow in, Accounted For, . Louis Globe-Demoeral. A Texas ofticial certifies that “there is a great deal of horse stealing” in that state. This cannot strictly be classed s election ne but if Horace Greeley were alive he would not fail to tra a direct connection between such a fact and the size of the dem- ocratic majority with which Texas is afflicted. Overproduction, Chicago Tribune, A democratic exchan the countey is suffering from overproduction, Whether this is truc or not, it is certain that the demo- cratic party is sufiering acutely from an un- expectedly large production of republican votes. Why H ——— Didn't Stuy Longer. Philadelphia Press. At the Harvard dinner which Mr. leve- land attended the only beverages were two varieties of water—water and soda-water. In view of this fact that the administration re- mained in Massachusctts one day only requires no explanation, p—— 1 Care Not to Sing for the Gay. G W. CROFTS, 1 care not to sine for the vay, Whose spirits are happy and free, Who walk 1 a flowery way And drink from a tountain of glee. Whose life is a pulsating song Swept out of wold harpstrin s in tune, Whose moments giide swiftly afong, Whose day is a day in mid June, 1'd sine for some mortal distressed. Allvurdencd with sorrow and care, Whose hove has deserted his broast, Aud lefthim the prey of despair, 1'd sing until hope had returned And banished his soul-racking pain; Till pleasures for which he had yearned Were bloom:ng around him again, And then, with some song of good eheer, 'd 1ill with new courago his heart, “T'o faithfully labor while here, Andact like a hero his part. - A HORSE ON A HIGH CHURCH. The Exploits of a Steed Which Fol- lowed His Master. In 1609 an Enghishman med Banks had a horse which he wrained to follow wherever he led, over fences, ditches, up stairs, and to the very roofs of Louses One day they went to the very top of St. Paul's ¢l an 1mmensely high edi- iice, They did yarious other things that were almost as astonishing. When all ingland was talking about these feats, Mr. Banks concluded to increase his rep. utation, as well as that of his horse, by triv to Rome. Thither he went, and the obedient horse followea his fond master to such great heights that the story of his performances reached the ears of the :, and what do you think he did? anted to see” the horse perform, Woll, almost anyhody would think so, but this this Pope took quite a different view of it. He didn’t believe that a hors could go to such dizzy heights unless evil spirits helped him. So he just made an end of the whole matter by orde Banks and his horse burned as ers A fishing party orce drove to Lake Minnetonka, One of the gentlemen, the owner of the team, took his horses and tied them apart to feed. He entered a small cabin near by, thinking he would rest and sleep until the return of the fish ing party. " He bad hardly compnsed himself for a nap when one of his horses that he had tied with a stout rope galloped uptothe doorand neighed. Thinking it strange that she should be loose he has- tened after the horse, that had run ex citealy away as svon as her master made preparations to follow. To his surprise he found that the mate bad fallen inwo the luke and, being entangled with the rope, it was with the greatest difticulty that she could keep her h above wu- ter. While he assisted the unfortunate horse out of the troul the sagucious and aftfuetionate mate showed by her joy that she understood that the wuster would know just what 1o do. She mnf appreciated what bis belp was worch when sthie managed 10 break the strong rope, 50 that she could bring that help 1o her companion Horses, Like enchunt. boys, are creatures of habit. A good whils ago, whon the country was new, the New Eogland fam ilies road to church on horsoback, some times two or three vith the help of a pil lion on the same horse. There was ono faithful creature that was for vears ac- customed to this Sunday journey. After n time his services were no longer needed and e was loft in the pasture. Long habit was strong upon old Dobbin, so he quietly pulled down the bars and walked demurely to chureh took his accustomed place under a spreading tree until the services were over, and then wont back to his pastare, ‘This he repoated Sunday after Sunday. One dark night at a late hour a trav- eler aske | forlodging at a country tavern After talking with the guest for a fow moments the landiord suddenly turned pale as he askod ¢ “Pray, Sir which way did_you come The gentleman answered that he had come from a certain direction <the sonth, “TImpossible! exclnimed the iand ord, “for to-day all the planks of the bridge were removed for repairs.” “It muy bo so,” exclaimed the man, “‘but I have come from such a town since noon.” Uhere was no other possible way for the traveler to have come, and in the larkness of the night he 1 trusted to the intell gent animal he rode to keep the y. Whiie the master was wholly un coniscious of the perilous foat the hotse had actunlly walked the string-picce of a long oridge and kept his footi The timber was seareely uoa foot wide, Had 1t been in the daytime nosane mun would have dared to attempt such a ride, An old horse that had for years been ridden by a commander, when he vec disabled for such nse wassold to a farm or. Several years after, whon he had heen redueed from old nd hard work to a meagre Rosinante, he was in the service of buckwoods surveyors’ assist ants. It so happened that not far from the land under inspection a large number of volunteer soldiers were dr ling. When theold war horse heard thoe fife and drum the martial spitit took possession of him. Away he went, over fences and ditehies. Tue jerks and pulls from his vider were of “no ayail, in front of the regiment he took bis place and capered and dunced us well as s old legs) woull let tim. The civilian equestrian upon his back could not induce him to leave the ground so long as the troops remained there. To the great amusement of the volunteers and the no small annoyance of his rider, he insisted upon marching into the town in his chosen place. One of the old writers tells of a horse that was conscious of his triumphs. When he was in the Olympie games he would prondly dircet his steps to the tri- bunal judges for his erown. This same ed of the fast trotters of As soon as the ruce is over they eannot be restrained until they have stobped at the judges, stand and have the bridle decorated with the winne: badge. CABLE CARS, Advantages and Disadvantages Compared Witn Horse Cars Speeial San Franciseo Correspon-enc of the New York Commercial Advertise “There are certain speculative persons who have been trying for some_ years to in troduce cable e in New York as a sub. stitute for horse cars under the plen that m that way the problem of rapid transit —imperfeotly solved by the elevated roads—would be complotely solved. To all doubts and objections those specu- lative persons umiformly reply in - sub, stance that no one is it to judge of the question unless he has an opportunity to observe the marvelous working of “the able system in San Francisco, Now it is always my desire to judge fairly, and with all possible fitness of knowledge, in every case in which an opinion is to be formed, and accordingly I have been at a good deal of pains, dur- ing my sojourn here well as during my bricfer stay in Kansas City, to study thie methods and results of the cable sys- 1 where itis most successful, and to rtain - what its introduction in New would probably accomplish. I purpose now to give the conclusions hed and the reasons for them. is certain that the cost of carrying passcugers by eable ears is less than that of baulinz the sawe number of persons by horse power. But if the Broadwuy, Third nue and other principul Now York lines were changed to cable roads, the saving made in expense would ben: efit nobody except the stockholders of corporations which already pay enor mous dividends. My first and - strongest conviction on the subject, there- fore, is that public opinion, led by the press, sbhould resolutely oppose the granting of cable franchises to any of our main horse-cur lines, except witha stipulation that fares shall be redu say, o3 cents for si rates and 2, cents where bunche: tickets a bought* If the information given me herc concermng the comparative cost of operation is correct, the companies could well afford to make such a reduction in return for permission to substitute cuble for horse power. A second advantage in the eable system is that larger cars, seating more persons, can be hauled. quently the intro: duction of the vable system ought to re- lieve our rouds of theindecent crowding which now prevails; but here again, un- less authority of some kind should inter- compunies would tage all the to themselves by running fewer ears than now, and packing them a8 budly ns ever, Itis & perfectly obvious fact that for Sun Francisco and for Kansas City the caple system 1s much better than the horse ear plan; but the conditions which muke it 80 do not exist at all in N York. In Kunsas City and in San Fras cisco the streets are far less thronged than i New York; there is greatly loss of eross traflic to impede the operation of the cable cars, and 50 they biwe oppor tunity, mn the two cities numed, to the fullest use of whatever spead ad tages they possess, while in New York, excopt in the Bowery, such opportunity would be denied them. More important still is the faet in Kansus City andin San Francisco there aro very long and very steep grados to elimb, up which horses conld searcely draw tully loadel ut ull, while the eable cars surmount them at precisely the sume speed they make on leval” ground. These stoep grades muke cable powera necossity hex w York there are no such grad s even remotely reseibling them 1 steepness Bat” with respeet to this mat of speed, the contident und continuously r iterated assertons of the enble peopli simply filse. Except in going up. steep hills, such as do not exist in New York, 1 here set it down as fact that there not a cable carim San Francisco whicn at- tums the speed of a Third or Fourth uve nue ear running up the Bowery, or a Broadway car in the evening when Broandway is clour. In more erowded cots the speod of horse ears is less only beeause of obstruetive teaflie in the road ways, and sueh teaflie would equally e lay cable ears if we had them. To cou vort our principal tines of horse cars into cable roads would not inerease rapidity of tratiie, but diminish it rather Tuis assertion is not made idly or ex , or without a carerul study of fac Y mun in San Franciseo o0 whom I have put the guestion has answered that the eable curs are mueh taster than the horse car as confidently s every man h would answer that the climate of California is the most delightful m the world—and I believe at is; and yot. us to comparative speed, the statement is not true Tuking San Franeisco hills in o account, it is. trath 1o say that the wvernge speed of eable cars Lere 1s great er-than that of horse cars iwve; but ings wach as we bave not the hilis in New as is e tor our purpose, must be settled upon a level, and I have been at considerablo pans to make the necessary ohserva. | tions. It happens that though a consid- wblo part of Market street run two lines of cars, the one drawn | by horses, the other by cable, and it also happens that this part of market street is level, or nearly so. [ have expended s good manv nickles in traveling back and forth through the street for the speeial purnose of carcfully comparing the speed of the two kinds of cars, running as they do side by side upon parallel lines. “Tho horse ears are slower than our Bowery lines. but they tully hold theie own in competition with the eable ears that tray erse the same strect. Of that observation will satisfy any one wlo chooses to make the comparison, as L have done-—not onee, but scores of times. When a horse car and a cable car ran for a consider. able distanee without stopping to receiv or discharge passengors the horse car usually draws ahead somewhat; but as the eable ear has some small advan of quickness 1 stopping and startin the gain is_about neutralized in a lo ran with traflic by the way, so_that the contest, “ineluding stoppages,” us rail- rond men say, is ns nearly as possible a dead heat. I'should say that a Fourth avenue ear in the Bowsry would beat both by a minute in the mile. To sum up the whole watter, the con- clusion renched by observations made hore with great eare are that to look to the cable system as one likely to aflord New York more rapid tarnsit than that provided by the horse cars is idle, and that the advantages to be gained oy the substitution would all go to the strect car companies, benelitting the public in no imugmable way, unless care wer taken to place upon the eablo franchises such conditions as would compel u re duction of fares and the running of as muny large enrs as there are small cars now in operation. Richepin's Romantic Life. Paris Letter to the London World That a man should be able even tc aliving by writing vorse is a marvel; that he should amass capital thereby and be shouted forth with hyperbolical acclamations is w stil greater maryel. And yet, with little exagieration, this is the case of the poet, Joan Richop whose “*Mocsieur Seapin®™ has just been produced with great suceess at the Comedie Francaiso, Riehepim is pros- perous, famous, and slinost legen dary; and all beenuse he is an artist of the first order and a master of ull the seerets of the French language. Ricl pin's dite is o vomance i itsclf, which [ may as well relate in brief summary while his name is on everybody's lips He was born somo thirty-five years ago at Meheah, - Algerin,where the culls of duty had led his father, who was a mili tary doctor. He received his edneation in a score of different schools in various garrison towns, and being of prodigions talent, he entered the Ecole Normale at the head of the list, but instead of fol lowing in the footsteps of Taine and Abont, Riehepin fell mto the path of re volt,and jeined the band of refractaires,of whom Jules Valles was the apostle. Then followed years of stupendous Bohemianism. For some time he earned a preearious living in Paris by giving les sons in Greek and Lating and in allvnag mable subjects, and then one fine day he yielded to the atavie influences of u re mote gypsy origin, and joined a com pany of mountebanks, Jean Richenin was nfamous wrestler, and his_ exploits as u Hercules remain celebrated in the annals of the arena, His next freak was to tuke service as a salor and stevadore on a coasting bont between Nuntes and Bordeanx. Tired of doing porter's work, the ex-prizeman of the LEcole Normale next joined a company of gypsies in the capacity of comic sSingcr, wnd b winderimg about France with these - arant Tsiganes, Fortunately for Richepin the sister of the chief of the ragged hand fell in love with him, and offered him hand; a refusal meant a fatal sta The only safety lay in flizht, and so Richepin eseaped and returned to Paris. This was the end of the odyssey of mystery; the li erary journals of the Latin Quarter began to publish Richepin's prose and verse, and tho poet procecded to dine regularly, and even 1o sup in joyous compiny. Richepin thus bevame the hoad und chic of atruculentband of literary Bohemians, who mude the Cafe d’Harcourt their headquarters, and terrificd the (rans sequanian bourgois by their fantastic ex travaganco of manners and costume The aristoerstic Paul Bourget belonged to this band, buthe munifiosted symp- toms of refinement and of Anglomania even in those early days. Bourget used to drink t while the others drank absinthe e e The Cowboy in Art, From Amcricun Art: The interest in art maters in Denver, Colorado, s strongly marked and well sustained, Both in necdlework and brush studies, the o ity of compositions and bold handling of color by local artists is very noticeable. “I'ne best subjeets are parely American, or, rather, superlatively Colo- lo. in charaeter, cloar, strong, bright cinating, with a broezy {reshness which charms” and a warith of color born of the pure sunshine of that hilly country. Natureis the model, and tho artisis follow faithfully as they may through the varied scenes, which seem u veritable wonderland when transferred to cany. One of the most unique_col lectious of tho year belongs to Mrs. Kellerman, who has immortalized the much-abused cowboy of the western prairies by srouping his antics for decorative” purposos . upon a dozen placques. The group is full of interest and ‘wild, picturesque beauty, being dividerd into “twelve parts, repres every-day life. There is amght s full of quiet beauty, aud morning shows bustling activity prepuratory th serving breakfast. Active life 15 shown by number of cowboys in pursiit of wild horses m southwestern Kunsas. Cow boys trying to hold u herd of cattle in the ace of an woproaching blizzrd; a deso late group representing the seene of destraction after the blizzard has passed, heads, horns and hoofs of b stand- ing in bold reliof against the huge snow drifts which cover the poor half-dead cereatucrs; cowboys hunting the untelope, cireling 1o cut out beet steers, havin, brush — with the Indians, brandi calves, struggling with bucking hoy chasing buililoes and the linish,compl u set of which have attruc great attontion the pr on, SNIp'C I the Bad! Sud to say, many 1 good thing attains to nothing moro th \ biginning On the other hund it i @ matter con ratulation that th th of some ey | things way be uwlso promptly frustat A lurge proportion of most wide sproad and futal of dis eonsumption huve ticivmeeption in nasil catareh, Dr. Sage’s Caturrh R plensant, sootinng aml cllocial 1t bas cared thousands, All ¢ The water-prooling maost effv SenL Sei cases of paper is now anplished by w mix o rasin, 43 of par it soda, these ing y mingled by b witce of 5) per cont tine and 5 of s licate dients being thoroungl ing them together an by agitation 105100 15 1ound peculirly appli for buiiding or sheatiivg pig. The pradent wite cob Oul about in vas. dents 4 bl oflicer reporiid TR TIORNIN Sowme of 1l the census ot New Zealand rlages betw vnet employed in Maori population that where n e Wiherg rAmArTy, Yors, the gueation of eomparative spoecd,