Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 17, 1887, Page 4

'THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERWSE OF SURSORIPTION ¢ ily (Morniax Bdition) | an ni e 20 'he Omaha Sunday Dex, mailed to any FAnNA b A TN R ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTE) g CORRESPONDENCE! : ANl communioations relating to news and edi- . addressed 1o the Ebl 5 torial mater should bo e TOR OF THE Bee. BUSTNESS LETTRAST p All business Jetters and remittances should be : g addressed 10 THR BES PUBLISHING COMPANY, and_postoMice ordors order of the company, OMAHA. Drafts, ohec %0 be made psyableto THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. THE DAILY BER 2 & Sworn Statement of Ulrculation. B B Btate of Nebrask [ o as. Counl{‘u( Doug] Geo, B. ‘Tzachuck, secretary of for th WS Saturday. Sept. 8 .. Bunday, Sept 4.. Mondav, Sept, 5. Ser Average.. I GEo, 15, TZSCHUCK. this 10th day of September, A. D. ISEALL Nojary Pubfl LA L otar} ublie. Btato of Nebraska, | =l Douglas County. { 'zachuck, beln BQ:. Publishing company, themonth of September, 1840, 13,030 48 wflesj 15,297 coples: for anuary 7, 14,147 coples; for July, 093 copies: for August, 1857, 14,151 copies. Gro. B Tzscwuck. Bworn_and subscribed this 5th day ot [SEAL.| om———— e Sept. A, D, 1887, N.P. FeiL. Notaty Public. Publishi oo A ] ng company, j0es lemn| SWOAr Tt the netunt chreuiation of tho Dally Bes @ week ending Sept. 9, 1587, was as Lo 14424 Sworn to and subscribed in my, !g‘l"enauce €0, first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The that the actual average dally cireulation of the Daily Bee for coples; A for October, 1886, 12,949 copies; for Novem- ber, 1 for December, 1886, 887, 16,200 coples; for February, 1857, 14,196 coples: for arch. 1857, 14,400 coples; for April, 1847, 14,116 coplea for May, 1567, 14,227 coples June 1 1887, 1. in my presence pe— ably becoming too unpopular. —_— A number of railroad companies have made arrangements to begin heating [ their passenger cars with steam this fall, . The plan is generally found to be simple, feasible and inexpensive. EE———— TuE council bosses want peace. ¥ the Union Pacific. proof were needed, by the militia, campaign as a useless and costly farce in RPN Ananias,” The rauchmen first heard that there had been *‘Indian Troubies,” from the Colorado papers. nothing very commendable in such news- paper enterprises, collected on woolens, be raised. BoopLER M both governments. § ive and popular hereafter., | E—— § CALIFORNIA has reason to boast of her material prosperity this year. We noted some days ngo an estimate that nearly | 100,000 would be added to her population, | comprising chiefly people from the New i Now England and middle states. This | has given a great stimulus to the real es- ! tate business, and hus of course helped | A San Francisco paper reports that there s been an excen- in other ways. —— Tuk New York socialists bave changed their name to the “Progressive Labor Party.” The nanse *'socialist’’ was prob- There isonly one way of getting peace, and that can be had only when the anarchist policy of starving the police and freczing out the commission has been abandoned. Tue Union Pacific. we are told, has concluded to withdraw its objections to the building of a competing wagon bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs. This is very generons in yiew of the superb wagon-bridge facilities of THAT the BEE was right in the attitude it took in relation to the recent fictitious uprising of the Utes is proved, it further Colorado They frecly denounce the late which there was “more lying than has I been done on earth since the time of There is Tue woolen manufacturers of this country have applied to the secretary of the treasury for a ruling that will impose the same duty on worsted goods timt 18 This is the same scheme that several high tariff members of last congress tried to rush through the logislative body and failed. It1s wholly wrong and the monopolists are not likely to induce the secretary of the treasury to forestall the action ot congress. There is no reason, except thatof monovolistic greed, why the cost of clothing should FARIGLE 18 not in Switzer- land as recently reported. He 1s sull in hiding in Canada and was seen by a u Chicago man the other day. The Do- e minion authoritics want to try him for z having placed the picture of a Canadian subjoct in the rogue's gallery in Chicago. + BSohehasto hide from the minions of If this sort of treat- ment is extended, “*boodling’ and skip- ping over the line will not be so attract- b i The Centenary of Constitation. For the past two days the oity of Phila- delphia, where 100 years ago was assem- bled the convention that framed the fed- eral constitution, has been celebrating with an appropriate and elaborate dis- play of patriotism the convention's adoption of that instrument. The final ceremonies of this commemorative event will take place to-day, which is shown by the constitution itself to be the date of the month on which it received the ap- proval of all the states represented. That document say Done in Convention by the Unanimons Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of Sep- tember in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ecighty-seven and of the Inde- pendence of the United States of Amer- ica the *“I'welfth.” Thus this day is made forever memorable in the fundamental law itself, although it does not mark the time when the constitution took effect, since the instrument was only to be bind- ng after ratifieation by nine states. That was not effeeted until nearly & year after, and it was nearly two years and a half before all the states had ratified. The student of American history will find no more interesting reading than the record of the proceedings of the con- vention which framed the constitution. ‘That great instrument, the ndmiration of statesmen the world over, passed through many perils to completion and adoption. The great men who composed the convention differed radi- cally respecting most of the provisions proposed, and several times there was imminent danger that the effort to make a constitution would be abundoned. But a ‘“‘spirit of amity and of mutual defer- ence and concession,” as Washington expressed it in his letter to the congress submitting the constitution, prevailed, and as the result of numerous com- promises the consummation was reached. But a further conflict awaited the con- stitution before 1ts ratification by the states, and this was carried on with great zeal and vigor by the opponents of the instrument, among whom were some of the most learned, brilliant and influ- ential men of that period. They had to do battle, however, against equally strong and patriotic men, and these won. The wisdom of the men who framed and sustained the constitution asadopted the men of to-day can fully appreciate. A great nation has grown up under it with a progress unparalleled in history, and the American people have full faith in its authority, as the supreme law of the land, to hold the union together for all time, as 1t was intended to do. The County Campaign. The republicans of Douglas county will in the coming campaign start out with from 500 to 1,000 majority in their fayor. They can elect their county ticket beyond a doubt, providing it is not londed down with dead-weights. In an off year andina local campaign the party can only hope to win by nominat- ing men who are known to be competent and clean-handed. Republicans, as a class, are very independent when it comes to choosing county and city officials. All things being equal, they will give the preference to the republican candidates, but the party lash is powerless in dra- gooning respectable men, for the sake of the party, into the support of disreput- able characters and men of bad habits. In a national campaign the party attach- ment often pulls through local candidates, who, in an oft year would be slaughtered in the house of their political friends. Wo say this much because we desire a county ticket put 1n the field this fall that will command the undivided support of republicans of all factions and shades. We must merit success 1 order to achieve it. The rank and file of indepen- dent jand thinking voters is altogether too numerons to be ignored or defied. ‘When a choice of local candidates is pre- sented men will not allow party feeling to deaden the impulse of conscience. Given the choice between a reputable democrat and a disreputable republican, hundreds of republicans will break ranks and support the candidate of the oppos- ing party. This tendency to repudiate the bad work of conventions is in the in- terest of good government. It is the only safeguard taxpayers and good citi- zens have against combinations of job- bers and dishonest oftice-seekers who de- sire to foist themselves into positions of reeponsibility and trust. It therefore behooves republicans who sincerely desire party success tms fall to exercise great care in selecting delegates to the county convention and impressing upon them the necessity of nominating men only whose record can stand the test of popular criticism in the impend- ing campaign, Qur Tax Eaters. ‘The reckless waste of the city’s funds in keeping supernumeraries on the pay- roll continues in spite of all remon- strance. The city clerk keeps three depu- ties on the pay-roll, when a §60 clerk to assist at council meeting would be ample. The city treasurer has three deputies on the pay-roll at $160 each, when the char- ter allows him only one deputy, and at the very outside one deputy tional activity in all departments of | and a $50 clerk could do i trade and all intorosts have prospered. | the work of the office just as well asit is ' The fruit growers never took in 8o much | done by the same force in the county L‘ money as they will get this season, the | treasurer's office. Then we have on the & | canners complain that they cannot fill | pay-roll the alleged keeper of the pest ‘ their orders, and the prospect for the | house, which has had no inmates during wine men is in the highest degree favora- ble. California ought to be happy. Tie inter-state cominission met at Minnenpolis this week to listen to pro- tests against the abolition of car load the past two years, and whose keeper 18 running at large, attending to private business. We have two janitors for the council chamber and city jailin the same building when one can do the work with- out straning his nerves. Then we have rates. Authorized representatives from | a paid sergeant-at-arms to wait ¥ the principal citiesof the west and north- | on the ecouncil, a service that | west united in a protest which denies | is a mere sinecure begotten by spite- !‘ that the retention of car load rates is 1l- | work toward the police commission. The logal as claimed by eastern merchants | superintendent of buildings, who last E and manufacturers. The commission is | year would have been content with one freight cargo. But the car load has al oarriers is that the same should be charged to all over a like distance. y with rebates by reason of doing heav, holding the matter under advisement. It ought not take them long to decide. The law does not establish the unit of & ways been so recognized. The only con- dition which the law imposes upon public rate patrons for carrying freight in the same direction In other words, no railroad is allowed to exact a higher amount for carrying a car load of a given class of freight shipped over a given dis- tance by one patron than it charges for b transporting the samne class of freight over S the same road to the same destination to another, whether the latter is a heavy shipper whe- had formerly been favored clerk, now has two inspectorsat $4 a day each, rain or shine, to wait on him, be- sides the office clerk to attend to calls. The street commissioner has four or five foremen on his pay roll, rain or shine, some of whom never would be missed. And so the pay roll of pensioners on the city is growing from month to month, and the council keeps on increasing taxes regardless of the heavy burdens caused by public improvements and in- creased fire hydrant tax, illuminating expense and other constantly increasing municipal déemands. — ACCORDING to a learned local con- temporary next Sunday is “Yum Kip- per,"” the Jewish new year, which we are told, “will, of cou be becomingly celebrated - by Omaha’s large Jewish population.” To the Jewish popu this announcement will be a revel “Yom Kippar,’’ the day of atonement, is the most solemn fast day of the Jewish cteed, and occurs on the tenth day of the next lanar month. The Jewish new year, like all well-regulated new years, bogins at the bezinning. Instead of occurring on the first day of a calendar month as does the secular new year, it begins on the first day of the lunar month, which sets in Sunday next. This is known as ‘‘memorial day" among the Jews, and unlike atonement day, is not celebrated by fasting. — WHEN the letter from the chief of vo- lice and the starving policemen, asking for pay had been read atthe council meeting Tuesday evening, there was a scramble among the bosses as to who could fling the first shovel of dirt at it. The ‘‘gentleman” trom the Third, not- withstanding that his mouth seems al- ways to be full of hot mush, got there first with a motion to table the commu- nication. After some mumbling around the circle, which no one could under- stand, another motion was made to have it ‘‘referred,” and referred it was to one of the committees of whisperers, Thus the farce among the law-breakers goes on. 8ince Colonel Grant was nominated for secretary of state in New York the democratic press has commenced to ran him down. Isit then a crime to be the son of a great man? ““T'ur shrewdest rogue comes to grief at last.”’ This might be worked into a worsted motto and hung up in our ostrich corral in the exposition building. Other Lands Than Ours, It seews evident that a crisis of very serious character is at hand in Ireiand. The sanguinary affair of Mitchellstown and the killing of Constable Whelehan are regarded as the forerunners ot more serious troubles that cannot be long in developing. The most trustworthy testi- mony cloarly fixed the responsibility for the former upon the authorities, whose unnecessary severity exasperated the poo- vle beyond forbearance, while the latter was the work of moonlighters, for which the Irish people cannot justly be held amenable. But the government will not admit these facts. Anxiousto justify its course and policy, it insists upon regarding the unfortunate occur- rences as evidence of a revolu- tionary and criminal spirit among the Irish people which rendered the crimes bill & necessity and its enforcement a duty. The relentless attitude of the gov- ernment and its harsh measures are ap- parently accomplishing their evident par- pose in provoking the people to a violent resistance. The abuse and injury inflicted haye reached the extremestlimit of toler- ation, and it is said that neither leaders nor priests will much longer be abla to prevent the pent-up passions from break- ing forth in acts the consequences of which cannot be foreseen. Driven al- most to madness by tyrannical oppres- sion, deprived of all liberties of speech and action, without protection in their homes or their porsons against the espionage and the outrages of malignant enemies, the Irish people may reason that hfe under such conditions is of no value and that they may as weil at once challenge the worst that can come to them. If the torch of civil conflict is once lighted the disastrous consequences to Ireland will be appalling. Un- doubtedly English bayonets will triumph, but 1t will be at a fearful cost and to the everlasting dishonor of the British na- tion, During the recess of parliament it is expected that the government’s policy will be most vigorously pushed, Balfour having already gone to Ireland doubt- less for the purpose of putting the wma- chinery in the most effective working order for fully carrying out the pro- gramme settled upon. * ' Another change in the French ministry is said to be imminent, the report being that Rouvier desires to withdraw. The surface indications have been that the ministry was getting on much beiter than was expected, but there have evi- dently been inside dissensions of which the public have obtained no knowledge. France’s greatest nusfortune aud danger are in the frequency of these ministerial crises. The manifesto of the Comte de Paris is the present subject of chief inter- est to the French people, and its possible effect is still matter of canjecture. Under different conditions it would probably have received only a passing regard, but the count seems to have wisely selected his opportunity and may win a much lar- ger favor than the friends of the republic would wish, The French people seem to be entirely satisfied with the success of their mobilization experiment, which has been great, and very patriotic pleasures by arresting as spies all the innocent travelers who wear spectacles or show any other signs of German origin. They do not get any of the real spies, although they have been plentiful around the scere of the military experiments. The spies volunteer from the ranks of most intelligent young German officers. When they become spies they lose their rank in the German army. The government de- clines all responsibility for them. If suc- cessful they are awarded with rank much higher than that which they hela. They are ohraged with some special sort of es- vionage, and do not go about taking notes publicly and at random, after the manner of the innocents captured bv the country g endarmes, The German gov- ernment has had good and thorough re- vorts of the mobilization from unsus- pected spies. In one case a young Ger- maun officer speaking French fluently actually got employment as correspond- ent on a French newspaper, which gave him access everywhere. He sent short reports to his paper and very long ones to the German embassy in London, from which be received his instructions, !.J The extraordinary development of the English common school system since the passage of the education act of 1870 Is strikingly set forth in the figures pre- sented in the house of commons by Sir William Hart Dyke in submitting the ed- ucation estimatea for the current year. In 1870 there were school places provided for no more than 1,878,584 scholars, or for 8.75 per cent of the then poputation of the country. There is provision now for 18.46 per cent, and of the additional amount 1,574,208 places have been sup- plied by voluntary effort and .1,692,505 by board schools. Thére are mow in all 5,200,085 school places for children. Oa the sahool registers there are .l.“l.i_ll names, with an average attendance of 8,470,600. Tho,estimates for the current yoar provide {of an estimated inorease of 52,000 in the average attendance. The education departfnent calculates that school places shoula be provided for one- sixth of the total ‘population, and the ac- tual supply of plachs is 1n excess even of this liberal estimate, but the average ate tendance falls short of the register list about 1,200,000, O " The abnormal rise of the river Nile is cousing great "Alarm in Egypt. Many estates on the right bank of the river are ruined. Boulak is in serious danger, the villages around Luxor are flooded and Luxor itself is seriously damaged. Telegraphic communication with Upper Egypt 1s interrupted, the Nile is still rising and the situation 18 very serious, ‘The river begins to rise as early as April in 1ts upper branches, but not until the Intter part of June in Egypt, where it reaches its greatest height about Septem- ber 25. At that time it is usually twenty-four foet above the low-water level at Cairo and thirty-six feet at Thebes. Whenever the rise reaches thirty feet at Cairo the overflow does great damage; on the other hand, when it falls short of eighteen foet the crops fail and there is a famine in the land of Egypt, as there was in the days of Joseph and Pharaoh. Of sixty-six inun- dations between 1735 and 1801, eleven .were very high, thirty good, sixteen feeble and nine nsuflicient. The water of the Nile is charged with mud, which it deposits on the cuitivated land of Egypt to an average depth of one-twentieth of an inch each year, thus in a measurc keeping the soil continually fertile by ro- newal, and at the same time thoroughly irrigating it. 1f the present inundation is 80 destructive as represented it must be that the river has risen far beyond its usual height, for the country 18 prepared and expectant of the usual and average undation. Probably the rainy season in Central Africa has been more than or- dinarily severe, as the annual rise of the Nile is due to the rise in its confluents and tributaries, and these are swollen by the heavy rains of the interior. " If the defouse which the friends of President Barillas of Guatemala make of his conduct in decreeing himself dictator is not grossly untruthful in its statements of fact, it must go far towards justifying 80 extreme & measure. It shows, at any rate, that it had become for the country a question of either dictatorship or usurpa- uon. The clerical majority in the assem- bly pushed through laws of a revolution- ary andunconstitutional character which were designed to subject the entire gov- erument to their policy, and which cer- tainly would haye done so had not Barillas cut the’ whole thing short by assuming the power of a dictator. The most obnoxious and radical of the laws threatening him was a scheme to transfer all the power of the exccutive to the supreme court. Having first, in de- fiance of the constitation, displaced the judges who by law were entitled to two years more of service, the assembly pro- ceeded to enact that the court could summon the military to enforce its sentences, that it could suspend at its will interior judges, oll ofticers of the army, custom house and treasury offi- cials, and toat the president himself must obey the orders of the court with- out any appeal against their legality. It is easy to see that Barillas would have bad no authority left under such laws, and, as his veto power was powerless to prevent their enactment, he took the only other course possible—unless he were to go into exile, " The return of General Buller from Ire- land at his own instance and in spite of the protest of the British government, af- fords another reminder of the fact that the way to keep the anti-Irish flame a-burning is to keep Englhshmen out of Ireland. The moment that honest Brit- ish officials land in that country aund open their eyes, they show signs of con- version. When it was proposed to send a distinguished officer to the most con- gested part of Ireland to execute the new policy of energy, Lord Wolseley is said to have offered his services in the belief that he could make Ireland a garden or a grave in no time. Fin- ally, however, General Redyers Buller, a through-and-through conservative, was assigned to the task; and the first evi- dence of his change of views was a re- fusal to order troops Lo assist ofticers with eviction warrants in their hands, until an examination was first had to determine whether the tenants were poor or simply ugly. The second straw was his remark under oath before the high commission on the land question that all the law or protection the Irsh tenants had came from the national league. The tory at- torneys almost choked with rage, and a warning came directly from the tory benches that Buller must have a care, If Buller turns out & home-ruler he will be only following the footsteps of ceorcion- ists like Spencer, Trevelyan and others. - *"e The kingdom of Saxony is richer in railroads than any other German state, containing 165 meters of track on every square kilometre of grouna, as against 64 in Prussia, 67 in Bavaria, 74 in Wurtem- berg, 88 in Baden, 109 in Hesse, 105 in Saxe-Altenberg,(1061n Anhalt, 88 in Saxe- Weimar, etc. Saxony enjoys also the distinction of being the most saving of all German countries, 40 out of every 100 inhabitants bemg depositors in savings banks. [n Prussia the proportion is 14 in 100, in Bavaria 8 1n 100, Smmepj— PROMINENT PERSONS, Senator Jones, br' Nevada, is sald to be richer to-day than ever. Governor Hill wa# never In such robust health as he Is at pyebent. Bill Nye gets $1504 week for writing ex- clusively for the New York World. Attorney General WGarland i3 at Hominy Hill, Ark., making preparations for an.ex- tended excursion on the Ouachita. Edward V. Valentine, the Richmond sculptor, has completed the statue of John C. Breckinridge in clay for the capitol square at Frankfort, Ky. George Fortescue, playing Catherine in “‘Evangeline,” weighs betweon 400 and 500 pounds, and is the heaviest man in the the- atr ical business. Henry W. Grady, of the Atlanta Constitu- tion, 18 said to have been offered by a lecture manager $10,000 to tell the north this winter the story of the new south. Colonel John A. Cockerlll vigorously de- nles. that he has been offered the managing editorship of the New ‘York ‘Herald, or that there has beew any rupture of- his friendly re- Iations with the proprietor of the World.' . For.foes In the Suarp ttial .in New York John E. Parsons got $20,000; Albert Stick- ney, $20,000; ex-Judge Willlam A, Fullerton, $10,000, and Peter Mitchell and ex-Judee Homer A. Nelson, $5,000 each—$00,000 in all Mayor Hewitt has promised to review the New York ltalian parade to be given Sep- tember 20 in celebration of the entry of the Itallans into Rome, but when he was asked to fly the Italian flag from the City hall on that occasion he warmly repliedy 0, sir; while I am mayor no flag but the American tiag shall be put on the City hall.” Zebehr Pasha, who has just been released from a three years’ imprisonment at Gibral- tar, has played an important part in African polities for twenty-five years past. He has been an English prisoner ever since his cap- ture by General Gordon over ten years ago. He was on parole . in Cairo for eight years dntil his intrigues In behalf of the Mahd- obliged the English to shut him up at Gibral tar, ——— Ready For a Political Campaign, | Tid-Bits, An escaped menagerie tiger has taken to aswamp near Biloxi, Miss. All Biloxi now ‘wants Is three well-developed hurrahs. ‘fhe tiger will follow. i Too Cheap to Live, Phitadelphia Enquirer, A New York genlus professes to show peo- ple how to live ontencents & day. But people who cannot command more than ten cents a day have no business to live, Went Up in a Blaze of Glory. Columbia Sentinel, On Friday last, just after the sun had kissed this world good night, and passed into its bed of erimson and gold, the spirit of A. (. Sturgis vacated its habitation of clay, and wended Its way to the Father who gave it, and to-day fs walking the glory-lit hills of Immortality in the New Jerusalem, where there is no night. R S A Democratic Triumvirate. New York Times. ‘The feature of the situation asitis now un - derstood by those who ought to understand it pretty thoughly, 1s the “combine” between Governor Hill, the Hon. Mr. Shechan, and the Hon. Roswell P. Flower, all working together to secure the control of the next democratic state convention. 1In this busi- ness enterprise the governor is represented as thechief manager, Mr. Sheehan as his im- mediate lieutenant, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Flow- er's substitute on the subways commission, as paymaster, and Mr. Flower as the cap- italist. —— To-Day. Charles S, O'Nefl. Say not to-morrow! To-day is but your own To parcel as you will; For who can tell that when the day has flown He shall be living stili? Oh, blest is he whose daily balance sheet Brings verfect work to view; ‘Whose closing day leaves no task incomplete For other hands to do. To-morrow’s but a jack-o0" ntern sprite That flees the lnggard’s clasps To-day’s the Power whose hand of graclous might Holds fortune in its grasp. ——— RED-HEADED GIRLS. Why a White Horse Appears When They Are Seen. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: The discus- sion over the alleged simultaneous ap- pearance upon the streets of white horses and red-headed girls has reached a point in the west that reminds one of the days of the thirteen, fourteen, fifteen puzz the chestnut bell and the “‘punch coi ductor” song. The superstition is neatly hit off by a Kansas paper as _follows: “Whosoever says so is a liar,” roared a choleric old gentleman trom Dexter one morning, standing 1 front of the city bail. ‘*"These stories are got up to play upon the cruhnliw of the country people. I'm getting tired.”” “Look there now,"” he shouted, ‘‘there’s a red-heuded girl; red-headed till you can't rest. Where's any white horse? Just as easy as rollin’ oft’n a log to prove the original of a fad a liar. 1don't be- lieve there's a white horse within a mile.” But chancing to gaze in the direction of the high school a hearse was seen, to which, not one, but two milk-white steeds were hitched. The Dexter man fainted, To this may be added that columns have been written explainatory of the white- horse coincidence without satisfy- ing the public. f’nssibly the reason why when a red- headed girl appears on the street a white horse soon makes his appearance will have to be sought for in history. This suggestion is thrown out for what it is worth. Away back 1nthe early Greek and Egyptian days red-headed girls were very justly prized above all the members of the sex. Men fought, bled and died for their smiles, and they were quite the rage. Cleopatra, herself, we are told, was the possessor of an auburn heaa, and Helen of Troy, some coumml, was equally for- tunate. Asis well known, the belief in the transmigration of souls was then prevalent, based upon reasons now lost to philosophy, and conspicuously brave men killed in battle took the forms,under the smiles of Jupiter, of white horses. We can imagine, then, that when gallant knights went forth to battle after passion- ‘ate adieus to their auburn-headed Helens and Cleopatras, and found themselves after a fierce confliot with the barbarians, prancing steeds with snowy flanks, that memory of their lost loves dwelt in_ their equine heads. [t may be that these fel- lows 1n the shape of white horses are still tollowing red-headed girls around. Of course, in_this prosaic age, no. live journal has time to argue such a propo- sition, but the folks who beheve tfat there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our phil- osophy, Horatio, can amuse themselves with the suggestion. Nobody will deny that the white Lorse is an animal of taste. — - The Area and Population of Europe, London Times: General Strelbitski, who was selected b¥ the International Statistical congress, held at the Hague,to prepare a report upon the area and num- ber of inhabitants in the different coun- tries of Europe,has completed bis labors, the gist of them being that the total area of Furope is 6,233,060 square miles, of which 3,426,185 square miles belong to Russia, 891,000 to tria-Hungary, 338,000 to Germany, 83 to France, 312,810 to Spain, 281.6] to Sweden, 75 to Norway, 196,615 to Great Britain Ireland, 180,310 to Italy, 163,850 to Turkey in Europe and Bosnia, 88,810 (o Denroark, 82,125 to Roumania, 55,600 to Portugal, 40,425 to Greece,80,375to Servia, 25,875 to Switzerland, 20,205 to Holland, and 18,430 to Belgium. The Russian empire in Europe alone covers more than half of the whole continent,embrac: ing the Kingdom of Polann, the Grand Duchy of Finland, and part of the Cau- casus, Russia tands far in advance of all the other nations in respect to her population, which is given by Gen. Strel- bitski at 93,000,000, the countries which come next being the German Empire 7,200,000), Austria, Hungary (59,900,000, ce (87,300,000), Great Britain and Ire- 1 (87,200,000), ]lllr (30,000,000), Spain (16,9000,000), Switzerland (7,900,000), Bel- gium (5,850,000), Roumania (5,400,000), Turkey m Europe (4,700,000), Sweden (4,-. 700,000), Hollan and Portugal (4,400,000 em\l), enmark (2,180,000), Seryia (2,000- 000), and Norway (1.960,000). The den- sity of the population is very different,for while Belf;mm has 201 inhabitants to the uare kilometer (five-eightha of a mile), olland, 188; Great Britian and Ireland, 119; Italy, 105; the Gérman Empire, 86; Switzerland, 71; and Aus- tria-Hungary, 69, Spain has only 3 Turkey 27, Russia 17, Denmark 15, an Norway 6. Bul the population of Russia 18 increasing at tho rate of 1,250,000 n year, and in half a century it wfll, at this rate, exceed 150,000,000, e e ——— The New Literary Giant. T. W. Higginson in Harper's Bazar: ‘Theodore Parker used to exasperate his friends, thirty or forty years ago, by de- voting his summer vacations, not to rest, but to the study of the Russian language. This he {uumud on the ground that we had no right to remain in utter ignorance of the vocabulary of a nation of 60,000,000 Esople. At that time there was, among inglish speaking people, a complete ignorance of Russian literature, except a8 _this darkness was broken by a little volume translated by Sir John owrm[i from the Russian poets. Nobody could ibly_have foreseen a period when rance, England and America should all turn to this neglected region for a new inspiration; when the most fastidious literary men of the most fastidious liter- ary centre in the Old World should recog- nize Tourfnenicfl’ not only as their peer, but as their chief; aud the foremost nov- elist of the New World should place Tolstoi at the head of all writers of fiction, living or dead. Never, perhaps, wns 80 great a fame won in so short a time through the medium of translations only. The number of those who actuully read Russian, though greater than in Theodore Parker's day, is still almost absurdly small, and not ramdly increas- ing. During the short-lived enthusinsm for Frederika Bremer's novels, forty ears ago, & good many persons learned Swedish in order to read them in the original; hut even those most eager to read the Russian writers rarely attack them in their own tonguo, being content to receive them often through a double dilution, first in French and then in English, What is to be the end of the new enthusiasm? s it to pass wholly away, like the zeal for Miss Bremer's books, or are these writers to constitute a permanent force in literature? So long a8 Tourguenieff’s was the only voice that reached us, there was an impresgion of something unique and individual; he seemed to triumph in splte of Russia, not as her representative; and his long self- banmishment to Paris left it in_doubt whether he might not be as much French a8 Russian. Then came the extraordi- nary phenomenon of Tolstoi, and even the most reluctant were convinced that there must be something in the blood and in the brain of the dimly seen and mysterious northern race that could pro- duce such men. Then came other figures, reaching such a varied range of social conditions—not only Tourguenieff, the charming man of the world, and ‘Tolstoi, the nobleman, the soldier, the recluse, but also Gogol, the wonk, and Dostoey- sky, the convict—combining all ante- cedents, all varieties of training, in their extraordinary result of powerful and penetrating work. There are two ways in which an author can be pernicious—by a bad moral or by licentionsness of detail. Provided neither of these errors is commi(ted to the mere choice of illicit love as a theme does not ke a book inadmissible, else must the Searlet Letter be condemned. Ot all stories of this description Tolstoi has written the most powerful, the most mer- ciless; there is not a moment when the reader does not foresee » tragedy at the end of the path on which the guilty lovers enter; nor is there any voluptuous- ness of description to beguile the senses. The very fact that these two persons have noble traits only strengthens the moral; their downfall and its retribution are such as would be encountered only by persons eapable of higher things, and after they have once gone wrong, the deceived husband, far inferior to them by nature, becomes their superior by his action. Nor is the retribution an external accident, but 1s worked out by the very essentials of the sin, It is a book whicl 1 1ts wholeness is a tremendous warning against wrong-doing, not an incitement toit. And throughout the Russian nov- elists, so fur as I have secn, although there is sometimes a greater freedom of allusion than is customary among our- selves, it 1s in the direction not merely of truth and nature, but of stern ethies, with habitual absence of the current French taste for indecent descriptions. But what seems most surprising in cur- rent criticism is the disposition to claim the Russian writers as exponents of wlat is now called realism. Surely they are realists only in the sense in which George Eliot was one— with the most eareful ac- curacy of description and the profound- est portraiture of character, but alwa; preserving a percentive, always subord nating the little to the great. There is no trace in_them of that maxim laia down by Mr. Howells in his “Wedding Jour- ney,” perhaps in an unguarded moment that “the sincere obscrver of man will not desire to look upon his heroic or onal phases.” All the power of *‘War and Peace'’ turns upon the heroic phases, which are the backbone of itk strength, while no one else has so well delineated the confusion, the incoher- ence, the delay and tedium, which com- bine with the heroism to make up war, But if Tolstoi had given these ‘‘habitual moods of vacancy and tiresomeness' alone—to quote again from Howell—the would not have achieved success. As 1s stands, he has written not merely the groatest of military novels, but we might almost say the only one. And with what- ever modifications of praise or censure, it must be admitted that these strong Russian writers—they always speak, be it observed, of ‘‘European’’ as meaning something distinct from ‘‘Russian”— have come into literature like the giant that rose suddenly from the fisherman’s urn—something vast, powerful, unex- pected. Their men and women seem more alive, more vascular, more endowed with veins and with muscles, than any other current creations; and the very fact that they have behind them the “vast, gloomy, hopeless, helpless Russin—this ut enhances the power of their pictures. A New Mammoth Cave. Jackson (Ga.) Argus: On Thursday of ast week Mr. W. Malone and Andrew McClendon were squirrel hunting in the hilly country on Sandy creek, about four miles south of Jackson, on the lands be- longing to Levi Ball. That section is exceudingly vougly tho largo lilly stund by side like potato hills, with deep ravines running between them. In many places the hills are so steep and rugged that nothing but a squirrel or Rocky mountain goat can climb them, with huge boulders as large as a small house hanging out from the side of the almost perpendicular walls, It was in one of the dark and dee| gorges that Andrew’s favorite dog struc! a trail, and his proud owner, knowing that his dog never told a he, followed him for several hundred yards up the dark ruvine. Andrew says it was a frightfnl place, the overhan nui rocks and lofty forest trees so comvletely shut- ting out the rays of the sun that it was almost as dark as midnight, However, be pushed forward, thinking a fine fat possum was soon to be his, until his dog finally disnppeared in the bowels of the earth. He could hear the fuiot howl of his faithful Rover, but could not induce him to come out. Andrew bveing of a venturesome disposition, concluded to return to his buggy and get his lantern and explore the “hole in the ground.” After a half hour spent in climbmng out of the dark chasm he succeeded in re- turning to the spot again to find the dog still ba ying uL something far away in the ground. With luntern in one hand and his gun cocked and primed in the other, he disappeared into the cave. After going some distance under the ground he found that he was n a spacious cav ern and the faint_voice of his dog could just be heard. He pressed forward, half feeling his way, expecting every moment to meet a terrible encounter with some ravenous beast, as the indications at the mouth of the cave showed that some wild animal was making his home in thi( dark abode. After he had gone soveral hundred feet he discovered numerous bones seattered around, and while he was stopped with his hair standing straight on his head wondering what to do, ears wore grooted with & mighty roar like the falling of many waters in the dis- tance, With a hurried step he made his ' way to daylight again, leaving his dog to the merey of the mad inhabitants of this unexplored cavern of mid-Butts. He at [} once sought his follow-hunter, Mr. Ma- lone, and in winding out between tho “mountains’ he discovered a beautiful spring gushing out from the side of the hill, whose waters, ho says, are equal if not superior to Indian Springs, as to its mineral properties. He at last found ' Mr. Malone, to whom he told of his won« derful discovery and terrible experience, but as the sun was just pueplnfl‘over the hills in his western course, they con- cluded to leavo their adventures till an- other day. On returning to town tbhey told “'what they had scen,' and & com- pany is being organized to go out there at an early day and make further ex- l lorations, after which we will give urther details. —— . A Phenomenal Baby. Pittsburg Dispatch: Probably the smallest bit of brenthln% Lumanity in the city of Allegheny is lttle Miss Barr, daughter of Joseph Barr, of the | Brighton road, ‘Three wueks ago to- morrow she opened her eyes for the first time and looked around on an interestin, group of friends, At this time she tipped a very tiny pair of scales at lessthan two pounds. Her exact weight then as given by proud relatives varies from one pound up, but all draw the line below the two pound notch. Of course there were very ¥ few hopes that one so small could inhale enough air to keep it alive, and there was a shade of sadness thrown over those who would otherwise have been supremely happy on this occasion. Most of tho relatives of the fragile infant expected an early demise, but the little one disap- Romlcd them most happily. In spite of er size the babe was possessed of a good deal of life and energy. Having got safely idto this vale of sorrows and tribulations . with the usual accompaniaments of pap, parcgoric, kisses and baby talk, Miss Barr decided to make the best of it. She accordingly took a tighter grip on life, and then, after looking at_her size, con- cluded to go to sleep and grow. This she has succoeded in doing, so far, and every day her chances of Iiving to become a grandmother become brighter. Miss Barr is a_featherweight, but for all that ! she is woll formed and appears to enjoy heaith., In height she is less than a oot, but as a smiling friend said yester- § day, ‘‘she’s started out to make up for \ that.’’ At her birth the baby could be b nKnunod about the body easily with the thumb and finger. She was, however, formed in good proportion and with well: developed features. She passes most of her time asleep, rolled tightly in warm clothing, and it is thus she receives her many visitors, who ‘ call tosee her at her home on the Brighton + road, opposite Brighton place. Among the medical profession of the city she has created quite a stir and has been pretty freely discussed. All the physicians de- clare her a phenomenon, and her growth . will watched with considerable nterest. R She Swallowed the Diamond. Jewelers’ Weekly: ‘“‘Let me tell you of an1ncident that occurred to me once. 1 was a young man then and a_clerk at Tiffany's. One morning a richly attired lady got out of her handsome carriage and entered the store. She walked to the dinmond department aud asked to be shown some loose gems. She seleoted two valuable solitaires and paid for them. Thinking my attention was called in another direction she slyly but rapidly took a stone and placed it )n her mouth. 1 saw the theft, but hardly knew what to do. Calling for a messenger, I sent for our business manager and told him what had hapvened. Without an instant’s de- In{ he said: ‘Madam, you have made n mistake. You have one of our diamonds in your mouth. Will you return 1t with- out an exposure?’ The next moment she gave a gulp, and I knew the gem had gone. She had swallowed it. Of course we were in & dilemma. The lady became indignant, and threatened suit'and vio- lence at the hands of her husband.” “What did you do?” “Sent the bill with I a written explanation to the husband, I The next day he paid us a visit. e said that he belioved there was a mistake, but that he could not afford an exposure.’’ —_———— By January 1 next no fewer than twelve theaters in Paris will be lit by electricity, in accordance with the recent municipal ordinance. 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