Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1888, Page 4

THiI; OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAY, JULY 20, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dafly (forning Kdition) including Sun lay Wrp, Ome Yoar e ¥or Bix Months For Three Mouths ... 7he Omaba Sunduy ek, matled o any - dress, One Y OMAIA OFFICE NOS ST ANDUT6 FARN A ¥ NEW YORK OFFice, ROOM 1 AND 1 BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFIC FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE. All commuunications relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressed to the Lortoi OF THE Lk 210 00 All business letters anc itiances should be addressed to Tuw BEE PERLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoflic . Ve’ made payabie to the order of the Tig Bee Pub ishing Company, Proprictors ROSEWATER, THE DALLY BE Sworn filnlnnmnl of Circulation. tate of Nebraska, g County of Douglas, fos B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub. Mehing company dbes solumnly swear, that the mnnhxrn.hmm of the Daily Bes for the week euding July 7. 1845, was as £0 1o Saturday, June 3 Sunda: Thursday, Friday, J ST GEO. B. TZSCHU Eworn o bofore me, Tn?\ ;xn;flnn]v’w in my resence this Tth day of Jn L, N. P FEIL Notary Public, Btate of Nebraska, County of Dougins, {88 zschuck, being first duly sworn, cretary of The Hee the actual avel rxlr{ Dally iee for th B for Publishing company, t daily circulation of ' the month of July, 187, was August, 187, 14 e for Octoler, 15 runry, 1855, 10002 1688, 10,040 coples: for April, 188, 18744 coplos for Muy, 188, 15151 coples; for June, 185, 10,245 coples, L GRO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hefore me and subseribed in my Presence this 50th day of June, A. D. I8, N. P. , Notary Publ Y the highest figure of the s —_— GENERAL HARRISON isin luck. Al- ready one hundred and forty-four babies have been named Ben Harrison, and the campaign is not half over. OMAIA should make it a point to maintain at least one at central at- traction in the summer scuson and one in mid-winte There is both wisdom and profit in it. Wiri the steady hand of Chairman Quay, of the republican national commite tee at the throttle, the “limited " ¢ ing Harrison and Morton will Washington on time. TERDAY the price of hogs reached —$5.95. wry- reach T high school grounds are now lighted by electricity. A subscriber sug- gests that the cable company could make a few nickles by giving a series of sundown open air concerts there, Tie decision of Judge Jowa, that ginger ale falls under the ban of the prohibition law, will in all probability increase the consumption of Heold te in the proscribed districts, Couch, of THEnew system of stroc gpection seems to be work better than the old way. The city engineer will please keep his weather-eye open, however. That is the only way to in- sure clean streets. weeping in- ng Tims is an age when people seek for something new and novel. All the Omaha fair projectors will have to do is to meet that demand, and people will rush 1to our gates as they did into the ark. JouN C. New of Indiana, who so ably championed the cause of Mr. Har- rison, has been dubbed Tippe: New. That just suits him and he is striking some vigorous blows in his paper for the republican ticket this fall, Se————— THE farmers of Crawford county, Tlli- nois, have determined not to raise any wheat, barley or rye for the next three years in an effort to exterminate the chinch bug. Thisisa boycott driven, as it were, into the ground. “IN the matter of campaign clothes,” says a leading democratic newspaper of New York, “we can say with equal con- fidence that the democratic suit is gray in color.” Gray—gray—wasn't that the color the democrats marched in during their four ycars’ campmgn, twenty-five years ago ? A7 the close of the last state legisla- ture THE BEE published the names of those illustrious men who comprised a galaxy of trencherous boodlers and dis- ciples of Ananins. The goats were cast out from among the sheep for future refercnce. The time is about vipe for a fow pointed observations. PARNELL indignantly refusesto clear himself before the special commission appointed by the tories of the charges made against him by the Lovdon Zines. Although Parnell himself had asked for the opportunity, he does not propose to appear before a packed and biased jury of his enemios. It wasa clever scheme., but the tories will have to bhait their trap with anothor kind of cheese before they can hope to eateh the Irish leader, THE bill passed by the senate placi General Fromout on the retired list with the rank of major general is a measure which the people of the west can heartily approve. The services which General Fremont vendored to the union as a gallant soldier and da explorer can never be repaid. It is only an aoct of justice to recognize in some way the publicservices of the great “pathfinder.” emTTTE——— Tuk Indiana republican state copmit- tee has very properly taken charge of the matter of fixing the time and place at which Geneval Harvison will receive elubs and delegations. This is neces- sary in order to give the candidate needed relief from the rather inconsid- erate way In which visitors crowd in upon him at all hours, as well as to al- low him time for giving atigntion to some other mattors besides that of ro- eeiving these visitors. The state com- mittee will do, wisely to arrange the schedule so that General Hurrison can obtain a required rest and be enabled to get a full night's slovp at jeast three times a weck, The “Q* Dynamite Onse. The developments on Wednesday in | the investigation of the alleged dynas mite plot against the Burlington road go far to justify all that THE DEE has heretofore said regarding this matter, | and especially its suggestion that the public should pot hastily form a judg- ment unfavorable to the accused on the presentations of the prosecution, but wait unil both sides were fully heard. It was shown on Wednesday that one of the prisoners, Wilson, is not, as had been reported, a member of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Enginecers, but a full-ledged Pinkerton detective This is clear one point gained for the brotherhood, but this is not all. This man Wilson was a hive- ling who had a well*defined work to perform, obviously that of making a cuse of conspiracy against members of the brotherhood. This was to be done, it is fair to assume, at all hazards, and as o well-trained detective, especially sclected for peculiar fitness in well-un- derstood respects, Wilson would not seruple at anything necessary to ap- prove himself worthy of the trust con- fided to him and to earn the probably generous reward of su He ad- hered to his task faithfully, but the dis- closure of his true charac! will of necessity militate ogainst the force of his testimony with all fair-minded people, while it in- jures the causo of the prosecution in showing that it has not been clear,open and straight-forward in its proceeding. Of course it was known to the pr tion that Wilson was simply a detective yet it permitted him to appear in the character of & member of the brother- hood, thus unjustly and unwarrantably casting a stigma upon that organi tion. If it could have had its choice in the matter the prosecution would doubt- less have adhered to this policy to the end. Asto Informer Bowles | is ¢ self-confessed fals) and nothing he has said or shall hereafter say should ‘e any credence. Whatever may be of this investigation, that the attempt to brotherhood of engineers as an organi- ion has already failed. The reason from what has thus far appeared that the order should suffer in the slightest degree in the respect of fair- minded people. Speaking through its highest officials the organization has declared as strongly as the circum- stances render necessary, that it is op- posed to all forms of lawle and that if any of its members proved to be guilty of unlawful conduct it will deal with them to the extent of its au- Cess, secu- the outcome it is evident involve the is no sne: are thori Move than this no sonable man will expect of it. Meantime it will not hesitate to use all “proper means to proteet the innocent, and it will be sustained by intelligent and unprejudiced public judgment in doing thi There is still ground for the opinion that this alleged plot will be shown to be more of a detective than a dynamite couspi Precept and Practice. The fourth report of the civil sorvice commission preserits some facts of inter- est regarding the progress of reform in the service, and also submits several recommendations for 1ts extension which it is to be expected will have the full approval of reformers, While not claiming that all has been accomplished under the law that its more sanguine friends expected, the reportstates that “in the results of its execution is shown the wisdom of the principle of divoreing the subordinate officers of the govern- ment from politics and elections, and making continuance in office dependent not upon party service, but upon merit and good behavior.” In the professed view of the commission the law in thisrespect produced sur- prising results, This aid in face of the fact that subordinate officers of the government have been conspicuously active in every democratic caucus and convention of the present year, and were on hand in formidable force at St. Louis as an out- side influence to assist the administra- tion managers in carrying out the pro- gramme arcanged at Washington. It is suid in face of the further fact that the senate committee to investi- gate the civil service has found a number of i nces of removals from oftice in which the question of party service undoubtedly was consid- cred. In reviewing, not long a; course of civil ser reform during the past year the president of the national league said that the anticipation re- specting the progress of reform under the present administration “has been largely disappointed,” and broadly intimated that the temptation of a sce- ond term had induced the president to abate that interest in the reform of the civil service which he had so strongly professed at the outset of his adminis- tration. Referring to a public denial by & member of th hinet that reform had boen abandoned by the administration, and his assertion that the law has been rigidly enforeed, Mr. Curtis frankly remarked that *'if the constitution had made the president ineligible for re-election there would have been noreason for the assortion that reform had been aban- doned, the apolication of the law would have been much more widely extended, and its spivit would have been so gener- ally observed thas no successor of the prosident would haye dared to return to the old abuse, and the sident him- self would have happily identified his name with one of the most beneficent political reforms in our annals.” But Mvr, Cleveland can enjoy no such dis- tinction, and on the countrary shown by those who would gladly concenl his shortcomings to have lorgely failed in practice to carry out his precepts, under the iufluence chicily of the allurement of a second term. It was hardly possible for the admin- istration to have deno less than it has in observing the civil service law, and it has absolutely no clmm to evedit for what has been done under the law. It is now putting forth a little extra effort to make it appenr to the mugwump re- formers that it has vesumed interest in reform, but it is merely a campaign e pedient. The feeling of the aemocratic party regarding eivil sevvice reform wus evidenced in the omission is i the national platform of approval of the reform, or of any promise or pledge committing the party to its future support. It is a policy hostile to democratic traditions, and it would not be maintained a day if the democracy was in full control of the government. Mr. Cleveland determined some time ago not to be any longer at war with the general sentiment of his party on this question. A Free Bridg Were the new bridge made free of toll, the rich products of Pott tamie county would flow into our gates, ere- ating a better market than is now en- joyed across the river, and lessening prices on domestic fruits and garden truck in Omaha. In many other lines of trade the two communities would greatly protit by a perfect commercial union. With quick transit between the two cities many business men in Omaha would much prefer a residence in Council Bluifs, for no other reason than that which leads them to build palatial homes in our suburbs, away from tho heat and dust and noise of a bustling city. Those who look forward to the day when Omaha and Council Bluffs shall be merged into one great business com- munity, can vealize their hopes in no surer way than by advoeating a free bridge between the two prosperous cities, Money will secure it. ——— Tie democratic candidate for vice president has a very extended public record, and it may take the greater part of the campaign to look up and expose its faulty features, but let no democrat doubt that such ave to be found in suf- icient number to make the work of ex- iation and defense o very serious task. The fact that the “Old Roman” was the author of the vesolution in the national democratic platform of 1864, which declared the war a failure, is not denied, and it is important to remember that Mr. Thurman was not at that vital period in the rebellion a supporter of the union cause, The declaration of the democratic convention of that year gave more aid and comfort to the confederate cause than any other ex- ssion of the democ ng the war, and was really worth more to the than would have been several s in the field, It was the most tack on the union cause from rear that could have been planned, and it is well remembered how checr- tully it was received by the friends of the confederacy everywhere. The pa- triotism of the north rejected it, how ove false and cowardly, and ove whelmingly repudiated the party that adopted it. 1f Mr. Thurman and his party could have controlled the course of affairs then he would not now be the candidate for vice president of an undi- vided country. SOoUTH OMAIIA can faivly lay claim to the name of magic cit The wonder- ful growth of its building operations for 1887, and especially for the first six months of the current year, can not bo equalled by any city of its size in the country. Cottages and dwellings spring up as if at the touch of a me wand and busines: Jouah's gourd, to spr asingle night. The variouslar ing companies ave extending their plants, and before the year is over they will have almost doubled their capac- ity for handling beef and pork. This is clearly indicated by the official reports sent out from Chicago, Kansas City and Omah, South Omaha is credited with gain of 50,006 while the other named cities show a de- crease in the number of hogs packed compaved with the veturns of year ago. The very fact that since Januavy 1, 1888, nearly $600,000 have been spent in the erection of per- manent improvements is a sufficient index of the prosperity and desivability of South Omaha as a city for the invest- ment of capital d themselve as T imposing meeting between Alex- ander and William at St. Petersburg is not likely to have any political sigmfi- cance. Bismarck has not accompanied the young German emperor on his visit, and it would not be diplomacy for Wil- liam to enter into any serious negotia- tions with the ezar without the pres- ence of the old chancellor, It will, however, be a great social event. Rus- sin, 50 to speak, will lay herself out to entertain her royal visitor in magnifi- cent style. The barbarie splendor of Russian court will be displayed be- the Germans with all the spectacu- accessori BELYA LOCKWOOD confesses that s has celebrated fifty-four Novembe and an avthority asserts thata great many more will frost her head before she gets near the presidency. The Know Nothings. Washington Critic. A convention of the American party will ve held in Washington in August. We Know Nothing about it. el Some Other Day, Chicag ibune, We ¢ wtulate Chauncey Depew on his safe arrival on the other side of the raging i, He who resigns and sails away, May live to run some other day. e One Point of Difference. Globe-Demoerat, ral Harrison has been making speeches day since he was nommated, and he hus not yet drawn a single fact or suggestion from the eyclopedin. This is only one of the many ways, however, in which he differs from Mr. Cleveland, Its e Proper Place America, In the Eden Musee's Chamber of Horrors, New York, thereis a sot of tableaux illus trating the story of a crime—murder, arrest, conviction and execution. In the last secn the criminal being led to the scaffold has the now famed bandaua wrapped carefuliy wround his neck Protected Out of Existence, Philodetphia Telegraph. Tt will bo time enough to talk abont sub. sidies, or even about increasing the compen: sation of steamship companies for mail car- viage m the seemingly Imnocent way yiro- posed by Mr. Bingham, when the taws which ed the American = transluntic steamers practically out of existence and have contributed one American flag to blue water where there ought to be 100 are ro poaled or amended, so that American ship- owaers will havo a fair chance. i - T t Hat. Chicago Trine, A correspondent of a Bourbon exchange inquires whether the democratic hat of this soason shounld be hght ono with a dark band or a dark ome with a light band. It ought to be a hat with an elastic baud, capa- ble of expanding aftor a demoeratic mecting and of shrinking to its ordinary dimensions wheu the hiead shrinks. Not Altogether Happy. Portland Oregonian. For its own part the Oregonian s free to say thore are sovoral parts of the protective system it would liko to see given up before the taxcs on liguors and tobacco are repealed. For example, it would ke to see sugar and rice and food products generally put on the free list, but this the demwocracy will never allow, because they want to continue pro- tection to the states that furnish stra dewocratic majorities manufactured to order. God's Owr Lol ry. Beatrice Democrat, While Towa, Dakota, Minnesota and Wy- oming are being devastated by cyclones, Ne- braska, and especially Gnge county, 1s indulzing in balmy skies and glorious weather, As soon as it gots a little too warm for comfort, refreshing showers loom up all around us and happiness reigns su- preme. The question now agitating our farmers is whether to lay in extensive lad- ders to gather the corn crob or tie the tops down to koep the tassels from brushing the dust oft the cloud ple are Dry. Krys. Rock and rye In July Should by topers be passed by, When it's ninety in the shade They will find that lemonade Clears the ey Makes them sy Quenching thirst when th Nebrask Norfolk lovers of sport bave organized a base ball association. York expects to have a Y. ization in the nea The lted Willow y republican conven tion meets at Indianola August 4. nThe Webster county republican conven- tion has been called to meet at Red Cloud August 15, The receipts of the York postofiice this year will entitie it to be raised from third to second elass, The fiftcen Knights Templar living in Nor- folk have petitioned for a dispensation to organize a command Hall county claims thero is loss litic in her borders in proportion to the pop than in any other county in the state Minden will soon be connceted tele- phones with Hartwell, Norman, —Keene, Lowell, Holdrege and’ all the little towns around. Fruit trees in the vieinity Bend arc dying in great numbers apple trees begin blighting at the ends of the limbs and keep on dying down to the root Rev. Pather Simeon, of the Catholic chureh of Hastings, has resigned his pastorate, and ched his farewell sermon last Sunday. He has been pastor of this church seven years, red Lathan, station played the role’ of peacemaker between two tighting dogs and now carries his the results of the bites of the an 1. C. A. organ- tion tion by gent at Plattsmouth, gy A. C. Smith, of Silv: 1 itizen and veteran of the war, 1on Jthe 16th inst., rd fort) yeurs, ‘ral services were conducted by the and Army on"Tucsday afternoon. Thomas H. Douglas and Mattic 1 son, of Graham, Tex., found out they one another while making an_over to Nebraska, and upon_reaching Red Cloud Wednesday 'were made one by Rev. Mr. Sweezy, They then continued their journey in double harness. prom inent John- ved and drive Towa. West Libel reported to have a case of small pox. Andrew G. Riggs, charged with horse stealing, stole out of jail at Glenwood and cannot be found. A lot of stamps and a £10 bill rewarded the burglars who broke into the Lucas postofice last w Anin has been a of forger; ce agent named A. W, ‘mour ested at Alta with forty charges ging over his head. What Tipton wanted to be an artesian well only proves to be a hole i the ground 2,700 feet deep, which cost £,000, Governor abee has issued a proclama- tion offerimg a reward of £500 for the appr hension and _conviction of the murderer or murderers of Alice Kelly, at Ottum Perry Summers, a farmer near and Hugh Copeland, an cwploye at guard lock of the government canal e Iniles south of Keokuk, were killed by 1t i inday. se of the Turney boy, who was $o y sent to the state prison two yeurs azo from Jackson county, is again coming to ront, and the flagrant wrong demand- ing to be righted. For the past ten years the owner of a flour- ing will at Dubuque bas had & sign on his fire proof safe readi : all at the hpuse, was intended s, and the other night one called at the house and secur . Within the past four or five ¢ peculiar disease has appeared aimong the cat tle of Washington township in the vicinity of Duncombe, that has already eansed the d: of over t ive head of cattle. The dis- > apy suddenly in different droves of cattle, dly spread until en tire droves are now affected. The upproach of the di is marked by vomiting and loss of aj and eencrally within twenty- four hours death results. Ouly two or three have recovered after being attacked by the mysterious disease. - Nearly 3,000,000 Souls, The E h, Trow's eity directory for 1858 esti- mates the population of New York city 1,676,140, This is according to the same authority, 100,000 mor than this contained a year When Brooklyn’s threcsquarters of a million are added and a fair allowan made for the populagion of suburban } York in Winchester county and Ne Jo it witl be found that the metro- politan district contains a population but a little short of 3,000,000 sou It is estimated that the day population of New York city éxte: by 400,000 that to which it affords sleeping room, and it is pernaps asgood an illusteation as could be had of the enormous aggre of peonle to whom the city is the centre of busin and the source of liviihood. Wharfa, day for one year ar for foUrteen years. . ... years ago, says the York Herald, the then sec of the navy sent the double turr monitor Terror to Cramps' shipyard for estimate for repairs tlun would make s seaworthy, but the > was more u congress thought it advisable to s0 the vessel was left at Cramps’ at xpense of 810 per day for whar Rather than have the rror entively taken with the cramps, Secretary Whil- ney some nfouths ago had her hauled away to League Island navy yard and began prepaving her for vemoval to New York navy yard. In a fow days she will be ready for hier vo, will be towed around by two g tugs. - When she will be fitted up with new ing apparatus, furnituro, be taken to Boston forother nec and ammunition. It may be recalled that the ' will carry four fifteen-ineh guns. the soul ago. iy nes muln £10 po §3,650 Fourteen W w Y dec error age and FROM A FRENCH STAND POINT. A Parislan Journalist's Resume of the Irish Question. | EVILS OF EXCESSIVE POPULATION The Abolition of Farn Only Partially Remedy the Trouble—Whotesale Emigra- tion Her Salvation. Rent Would The Poverty of Ireland, Translated from an article in the Paris Revue des Deux Mondes: In a population of 35,000,000 there are 200,000 landlords, of whom 170,000 go to En land, 20,000 to Ireland and 10,000 to Scotland. In other terms, one English Iandholder to twenty-six houscholders, while in the United States there counts one to every three, and in France one to every two. In Irvcland the dispro- portion is yet greater: one to every fiftv-two: while the soil is poor and the population denser—160 to the square mile. There is a limit in everything. No country exclusively agricultural—us is the case with Ireland, deprived of manufactories and machine shops—can support a population of over one hun- dred inhabitants to the square mile, Therein lies the whole Trish problem. Spain, Portugal and Hungary arve, in Turope, the three countries which, like [reland, depend chiefly upon their field products; yet their other sources of rev- enue exceed hers, while the proportion to the square mile is but cighty-six in- habitants in Spain, 126 in Portugal, and 128 in Hun If in ce it reaches 1 same time showing an ago perity greater than elsewhore must attribute it to the fact that France possesses far superior resources, large machine shops, numerous manufactories 1d an accumulated eapital 1nvested abroad: and the one-half of her popula- tion derives from these various sources an income independent of that whicn the land produc If in Lngland, the density of the population, which was 250 to the square mile in 1831, had risen 10 100 in 1871, aud is now 450, thus at- taining o figire whose equivalent may be found only in the rich Gangos vall or in cortaln provineszs of China, it is sause England is the most enormous workshop in the world: because she pos- the most formidable aceumulation of machinery and eapital; beeause one- fourth only “of her population look to soil for their subsistence, and be- the other three-fourths live by industry, navigation, or on in comes derived from the savings of pre- coding gencrations. al of the culti el is estimated at € This is only one-twentiet of the total revenue of the nation, and, scording to the latest calcalations, the culture of the soil provides, morco for the needs of 4,900,000 inhabitant If then, England, with a more fertile s0il than Ireland, with double her su- verficies, with considerable capital at ymmand, perf gricultural nplements, ez succeed in obtain- ing therefrom a living for more than about 5,000,000 inhg its, landlords, farmers and eultivate it is ecasy to conceive how miserable is the condition of 5,000,000 Trish, distributed over a surface of but one-half the extent, and dependent almost exelusively upon the tillage of the wth and what it brin 1. Treland possesses 1,000,000 inhabitants whom > knows not. what to do with, and whom she cannot foed, The excessive poverty of the people is an insurmountable obstacle to ndustrial developments: there is necdod in the first place.a certain degree of individual prosperity before o poo- ple can create for itself new resourc and extract from the land it occupies all that the latter is capable of pro- ducing. A division of the soil other than such as now exists would nowise modify the terms of the problem, because it could not add anything to the tilluble sur- face. duction or even the aboli- tion, irm rent would not increase the agricultural productiveness of the country: 1t would transfor to these what it took from those, but the total to be divided among all would vemain the same, Divers utopists do not hesitate to behold in su spoliation a meuns of public salvation. = As they put it, Treland would thus be benefitted by the sums which now go to iner thie in- comes of her absent landlords, who ‘nd them out of the country They do not take into ac count the fact that the greater part of the ventals of farms is appropriated, in the country itsell, to the payment of overseers and workmen, that a meagre portion only gets abroad, £1,000,000 at the most; that this million pounds would not give 500 franes a year to 50,000 peopl vy enough tostave off starvation: and that the question is not one of feeding 50,000 or 100,000 individ- uals, but of supporting 100,000 human the surplus of u too dense popu- very day increasing, yet unable e for lack of vesources. not the : territorial fortunes that ruins lecland, but the want of equilibrium between the superficies of the le soil and the number of those who look to it for their daily bread. Consequently we have seen the same sanses produc effects in Tre- and as in Indi 2 too dense and oo miser: decimated in 1555 by fam i sickness, losing inafew years one-fourth of its effec- tive, the survivors being alleviated by up of terror and davkness, whieh 1a period of relative comfort to abruptly upon one of unspeaka- misery. at the pros- one ed land in nd 000,000, the same and China wulation, ble il il THE FETE DAY OF FREEDOM. pety-Nine Years Ago the French Bast Was Sacked. New York World: In blood and fi the first new republic of the Old World wis born ninety-nine years ago. The throes in which a distraught nation brought forth that glorious cloud, con- stitutional fre ulnn were the tiercestof modern times, The column on the Hth of July |~|lu,lrlH|) stone set up to mark the advent of the Erench ropublic among the nationsof the world. And it also marks an cvent that takes prece dence in every Frenchman’s heart, of all other joys to be celebrated. That event was the destruction of the bastile July 14, 1789, SThivd s the people of clergy and no lovfous doed hand rechris- third s enlled, did thi dy th themselve had become the n national sneinbly nutional gl I 1 for The ional as had se we in mont of movar dom wag bova! 13 wis o greut deal .m eible 1o the French people of a ¢x oy Ao Liwn ibis possiblu. po w Oppression, ernelty and brutality o 80 hearty and instantaneous a flow of indignation, so eager a thirst for justice and retribution in the aver- Amarican crowd or community that y cannot imagine what it to lave in their midst, yawning ever for a prey no human machinery could compel it to disgorge, a vast black dun- geon and inquisifor tomh. A hundred years ago no French father rose in the morning without the sullen, remorseless recollection that he might sleep thenceforth no more in his own bed and under his own roof- but on a_ stone floor of noisome mpness inside wallstwelve feet thick where he knew not, save by the horror and mystery of his surroundings, and removed forever from the knowledge and love of his family and the rescue of tho law. Tho great gloomy mass of masonry which nchmen called La Bastille, “the building,” as if it were a building apart from and above all others, reared its eight gigantic castellatod towers near the gate of St. Antoine in Paris, It covered a good deal more ground than the N York postofice does. and the battlements rose high in the air be- yond the reach of ordinary attack. A great ditch twenty-five foot decp guarded the bases of these towers, in which (though the world know 1t not) were the cells of the prisone Drain- ing out of this moat and through some of the undorground dungeons wore the ditches that carrvied off the prison drainage and filth. TInto the most hor- ibleof all the cells the specially un- fortunate, the most bitterly hated were thrust, t) suffc in darkness alone, shut_forever the hoearing of mankiud. The Bastile, which the people almos regarded ns a living thing, a monster more frightful than any sin the Min- otaur, had three opochs in its career of It was built by Chatles V., S0 it stood for 420 years, 4 rst it was a royal fortress, not es- sentially diff from many othor fortresses in France, except in the fero- cious strength of its walls and sullen depths of its foundations, in which the dungeons were afterward dug. Being the royal fortress of Pavis, it got to be recognized as the citadel of Athens. v different was the stately fortress, impregnable safo deposit of the 1 and municipal majesty from what to be. the . made the Bastile the great stato prison, and it at once took strong resemblunco to the Towoer of London, But cruelty and outrage were not yot associated with its walls, Tn 1418 the peopla of Paris broke into » Bastile and reached the cells of the Princes Armagnac, who were confined there as state prisoner The prine Were miss This was the Bastile's 1 of ne and blood. These twin furies ne 101t it afterwards. The third and last change in history took place when the Bastile became common jail. This was after the death of Lounis X1V, rom that time on until the end the minister’s vival, the prine pet aversion, the queen’s encmy, the King's dis ed favorite, the trollop. the mur the thief red and suffered and starved and died in a com- mon agony, under a common roof, and with & common hopelessness of redress or release, For 400 the the supreme logic of the tyrant, whether on the throne or beneath it The suspected, the ha the dan, ous, as well as the eriminal, were forced to yield to its arguments. Nobody knew what went on within the Bastile. But fearful rumors of morseless wrong, strange, faint erics of despair and death, piereed its monster 1ls sometime 1 stole outinto the city. Such voices in the night kindled a mighty five of rag i revenge which smouldered for years. The ver walls of the big den of all that was de testable stank 1 the people’s nostrils and recked in the morning sunlight, At last this torvent of hate burst its barrviers, and as if amazed that they hadu’t done it long since, on the morn- ing of that eventful day. just nine! ) s ago, the people made a rush for its hoary wallf. Outside of the moat, and completely surrounding it and the hmhl:- :1f, was an outer barr with and a “garrison of thirty-two oldic Within, the main struc- ture was garvisoned by a few able- bodiea men and nearly a hundred super- annuated or invalided troops of the king’s guard. Governor Delaunay com- manded them and the prison. But they didn’t stop the mob lon Such popular fury had not daved to come to the surface since the crusade of i the Hermit, the first Salvation Army preach The entrance to the prison was adorned by three gibbets Under these the people,in wild disorder, yeustrong giants in their common purpose, rushed with the rage of a long pent mountain torsent and swept the guards under and smashed the gates and fived the woodwork, and poured on- rd and forward into the mouldy hell within, Then for the first time woere the secrets of the Bustile shown the open day. On roure overflow, Weal couldn’t have laic its walls sceme Bastile had been in nd foamed the popular men and women who 1 course of stone on Wdenly gifted with superhuman steength, and tore whole s down. Ropes, bludgeons, bayonets, daggers and crow- ve the wenpons With which they » dreadful work. after tower of the grim wched and ransacked, the sh hardships of the prisoncrs be- No prisoncr than two fect. thickness of the Some of the cells werein of i mass of masonary twenty foet thick in all directions, communicating with the outside air barred in- dow™ four inches squi in which the licht was spent long before it could penetrate the dripping trough. Here nad lain, and in votted, such distinguished pri the sicur de Biron, the marsh France; Richelieu, the satesman nal; Voltain ompicrre, Latude, the man with the fron lastly, aizot, the libhrarian Louis, who: jockingly erucl treatment and causeless confinement had been the w that broke the camel-back of pop- ular patience. Here had lain, unknown, unheeded, erying out to and implacable, inaceessi 8, reds and even thousands of the st and best of France, shut in they v not why, and their friends and familics knew not whe dying without the cold isolation of ar on their tombs—without oven tombs themselves! Only seven living prisoners could he found by its captors in the Bastile. Among them was a hollow-cyod, ragged man o whose pale forohead youth had withered before his beard” sprouted. He was the Count de Solage, o prisoner since he was eleven years old! Another od Tav as clothed in chai and his wtted whit e had been in the wstile thirty years. He was d d t of one of the dungeons belo vich opened open only in th e looked instat his savior i this torribl by some Ba mask, and of King st Ho only locls, wer. duced, ¢ 0x- spectacle of this vielim fallen or fled. Door after door was burst, stairway after staivway fired, At Jast the walls began to fall with a thunderous crash and a roar and un avalanche of dust that aroused all Paris, The battlements tumbled into and filled up the moeat, the subterrancan cells were dug open only to be closed foreve and the place was razed to the gencr level and left free to the winds heaven and the sunshine. On its site rose the column of July 14, a tall, graceful shaft, that rises straight to heaven and points like a warni fingor a moral for all succoeding gener- ations of tyrants, Lot the fall of the bastile be cele- brated by Frenchmen and freemoen in Now York and elsewhere by all lov of that liberty of which the price eternal vigilance. ———— General Grant's Humor. New York Herald: It is afact not gonerally known thmt General Grant was a humorist. He had a propensity that ho could not even resist, whilo penning or dictating his memoirs, to draw his conclusions of people and evonts in a fow sharp, dry sontences that have been described by “*Mark Twain® us indicative of a power beyond Burdotto and himself, The statement has been recently made that a great many ot the humo ous passages and comments oceurred in General Grant's manusceript and that they were ruthlessly clipped by the publishing firm of which Mark Twain is tho head and front, for the roason that they were out of place in a work of that deseription. That they were cut out of the gen- s nuseript is true, according to Colonel I'red Grant, and for the reason given, but Colonel Grant declares that tho oxcisions wero made by General Grant himself, M u. Grant, with the colonel and his family, are spending the mer at Cranston’s, Colonel G chatted freely on the subject with a Herald reporter, who led upon him at the hotel last evening. “Yes,” he sai tis true that father wrote a good many humorous storics while engaged on his hook. He cut them out himself, however, and Lam not are that Mr. Clemens or his publishing firm had anything to do with it. T don’t think shat they had, although it m have been at M Clomen’s advise’ that sewe funny pus- sagges were loft out. Some of them wera very deed. 1 © them at home, but are not for publication. Most of are too sevore. You know father used to read what he had written to many ef the friends that called upon him. No doubt M. Clemens heard L of it. Before com- pleting the work father came to the conclusion that some of the stories were too severe, and all were too humorous to be printed in a historical work such as his book was. Then as - suid, he de- cided to omit them. That's all there is to vh. story . Hall. & member of the Charles L. it publishing company, said yes- y positively t no humorous pas- were stricken out of General ut's autobiography. I teok down several chapters of the hook in shot hand,” he explained, “at the general’s quest. and 1 know that no changes made except such slight ones ns suggested by the general, Colonel d Grant and the proof reade: It bsurd for any one tosuppose that the publishers had mangled tho general’s manuseript, and [ am confident that there is no foundation for any contr statement.” 1 of good in- they them . He Divided With the Company. New York Sun: *Not long promivent Eighth ward politician ommended a max for the place of eon- 1 ttuel to the fury-of ayds had loug sinee ductor to the president of our line said the starter of a horse ear line yos- terday, “and the man was promptiy made a conductor. e had been a faro denler, T believe and he was very quick at learning. When he had learned tho business he was put on the 6 o’clock run —the car on this trip generally being well filled. He got back to the depot and turned in twelve fares. The re- ceiver thought it was strange butsaid nothing The 8 o'clock trip is the heaviest in the morning. He returned to the depot and handed the roceiver seven far A few minutes afterward he was invited up stairs to meet the president of the road. The following conversation cusued You are Mr. Blank,” said the presi- dent, “who was recommended by Me. . politician?” our first experience as a “Don't you think you ought to got in some position where your Talonts \mnlwl have greater scoop—I mean scope, Siy cashic ked the president. “Itry todo the best I ean whervever [ am, sir,” meck replied the con- ductor. {1aF 1 gatherved that. Letme se You went out on the six o'clock trip and turned in twe wes and the re- sult of your management. at the cight o'clock’ journoy was seven.” HCorrect,” was the “Well, Mr, Blank, \\Ll!n § a very unpleasant duty to inform you that our business relations must cease somew abruptly, I desire in behalf of trustees and stockholders to thank you for bringing back the horses and the can,” The man walked proudly offic o8 out of the - Knights of Labor in New York Sun: Some year Kuights of Labor were plimted i land, but they have been a small feeble body uautil yer 1 Within the” present ye: heen growing and \ markable way. has both ability rganizer, sting the find some news on the sul nold’s Newpaper (L that the organization is pecially in the northern v manuficturing r lenown Biack .country, that its surpasses the most sangun ions of the promote and that it 15 atteacting all grades of labor, from the scavenger to the writer. The an- tugonism of the trades unions to the Knights of Labor that has beon seen in tho United tes is unknown 1= land, and many of the strong trades unions in the cities ave in favor of the objects of the rew organization. We Jearn from Roynolds’ Newspaper that the methods of the K. of L. in England differ from those of theiv breth in the United States. As Englishmen do not favor secrel, mysterions and dictas torial procedure, several « s in the methods of the order have been made in accordunce with that fact, and there is but littl hout the English assemblic: England, yo the and ntly. have in o re- itt, who nee n growth, Wa Ray Hm(. o8- ing and as th s th us isa cess X0 Vigor and Vitality, Are quickly given to every part of the body by Hood's Sursapicilla, ured foolin irely overcome. blood is pus and ¢ wl of disease "l stomach is toned and tho ppetite restored, nd liverare roused and invigorated. The braln g refreshoo, made clear” and veady for ies b 01N,