Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 4, 1888, Page 4

. Jower wards, with sporting men attach- Kool R s THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4. 1838 —SIXTEEN PAGES. HE DAILY BEE: PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN TRRME OF SUBSCRIPTION, ally (Morning Fdition) lncluding SUNDAY, s One Year . or 81x Months Months BUNAY Tk, Tiailod o' any 20 00 CORRESPONDENCE Allcommunications relating tonews and edi. orial matter should be addressed to the Epiton AH bvhlnflw Jotte ssed to Tk EE PURL Drafts, checks and postoffi e made payable to tio Order of the compan) Tns Beg Publishing Company, Pmrintm E. ROSEWATER. TH 5 DAILY BE) §worn Statement of Circulation. tate of Nebraska, | ‘l,oumyof Douglas, | %8 George B Tzschuck, secretar, Yishing Company, does solemnly swear that the sctual circulation of Tie DALY BEE for the week ending November 3, 1835, was us hrllr) unday, Oct, 2. .. onday, Oc O ednesday, turday, Nov. Average.. 7 of The Bee Pub- R 18050 18041 18,04 GEORSGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to betore me and subscribed in, my Peedance this id day of November A, I Notary Pablic, " tes. Buu of Nebraska, County of Douglas, George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- 965 and says that he 1s secretary of The oo Dilafiing company. that tho aciual averago Ly circulation of ‘Tik DALY BEer for the guontn_of October, 187, 1 gember, 18, 1522 coples ; for Januar ", IRS8, 15,002 ‘for April, 1 \I81 copies; K744 copies; f for Jiine, 1588, 10,243 Sopron: for July: 14 14000 coplon;” for Aufish S0, 16,165 copios: Tor Suptember, 15t was 18,154 oop o8, GEORGE 1 K. Swori to before and subscribed in my pros- #nce, this 9th day of October, A, D, 188, KB TIL Rotary Pubite, —— e Mg. ANDRE is making a lively wace against the third-term candidate #or commissioner. REPUBLI must keep a sharp Jookout for repeaters and the boodle gang on election day. — ¢ Wn the sun goes down Tuesday might republicans will demonstrate that they have not all gone over, bag and baggage, to McShane. Don'r forget to scratch Russell, the fraitor, who made himself so notorious 4n the last legislature as chairman of the boodle judiciary committee. It 18 rather significant that a very large percentage of the retail liquor dealers, and especially those in the gments, are solid for Hascall ! AMONG the candidates for the legis- Tature who are making a very quiet and successful canvass is Mr. George M. O'Brien, who has many warm friends not only in the republican party, but in the ranks of the opposi- tion. ——— " e schools of Californiaare supplied ‘with text books published by the state. The books are written by the best talent smong the local educators and give sat- dsfaction. As there are no middlemen #o divide the profits there is a saving of grom thirty to fifty per cent in the cost of the books. This is a great advantage 4n the matter of economy, and the ex- wperiment made by California will un- doubtedly be followed by many other states. —— THERE are rumors and roorbacks afloat about all sorts of plots and coun- ter-plots, but THE BEE has very relia- ble information thata concerted still- hhunt is being made all along the line By the railroad forcesto eleet W. A. MMunger as attorney general and defeat se. Mr. Munger wasone of the rail- woad commissioners two years ago and Relpedto make that body a roaring #arce. The plot to beat Lecse is being worked in the sparsely settied section ®f the state by trades and swaps for county offices and legislature, with a dittle boodle thrown in, —— i ‘Wirn all due deference to certain re- publican stump orators in this state who profess to be alarmed over the danger of electing a democrat to the United Btates senate, TIE BEE is willing to #take its reputation as a political prophet that a democrat has no more ®hance of being elected senator from Nebraska next winter than Grover Cleveland hasof carrying Vermont. The @democrats have never come within thirty wotes of a majority in our legislature, en with one-half of the delegation m this county democratic. There is @0 risk whatever of endanger- fng the United States senato by wvotlng against a few yellow dog candi- dates who hiave managed to get them- selves nominated in half a dozen coun- ties by thoneglectof decent republicans to keep them out in the primary clec- sions. —— THE munificent legacies left by the Iate Sarah A. Creighton, respected wife of John A. Creighton, add addi- tional luster to the family so long asso- elated with gifts of public charity. The bequest of one hundred thousand dol- fars for the founding of Creighton col- fege some ten years ago by Mary Lu- woretia Creighton is still fresh in the minds of our citizens. This noble woman carried out the long cher- ished desire of her husband, Ed- ward Creighton, to establish a great public school. By her liberality the college was erected and to- dny stands a lasting monument %o the beneficence ot Edward Creighton &and his wifs, The work of contribut- 4ng to the support of this institution did not end with Mary Lucretia Creighton. Her sister, Sarah A. Creighton, has seen fit at her death to supplement the original gift with a bequest to the college of proporty in ©Omaha to the value of seventy-five thousand dollars. But more than this, Sarah A, Creighton has given the sum of fifty thousand dollars to the Fren- ciscan Order of Nuns for the building of & new St. Joseph’s hospital in Omaha. By these charitable endowments Sarah A. Creighton hasperpetuated her name and has sot a noble example of philan- ” ,Shrophy. HANDS OFF. The laboring men of Omaha should resent and resist the attempt of con« tractors and bosses to bargain away and deliver their votes rext Tuesd 1t there is anything the American work- ingman should cherish above all things it is his right to cast his vote untram- melled for any party or candidate ac- cording to his best judgment. There is nothing more degrading than the slavish obedience of wage-workers to the dicta- tion of contractors and bosses. The only thing in which the man who works for a living in this republic is the peer of the millionaire is his right to have a part in the choosing of public servants, from the president down to precinct assessor. The ballot of the man who earns a dollar a day counts as much as the ballot of the fifty thousand dollar a year president of a great railvond. Yow it is an open sccret that con- etors on public works in Omaha and bosses of certain large corporations are pledged to deliver the votes of their | fication to all workingmen to Hascall in exchange for his influence in their behalf in the city council. Tner Ber calls upon the work- ingmen to repudiate these infamous compacts. They owe it to themselves to show their independence from ali dictation by their bosses and the own- ersof hosses. They owe it to the rep- utation of the labor element to show by their conduct as voters that the men who buy their time and labor have not bought their manhood. If they are re- publicans, let them vote for republican candidates whom they know to be hon- orable and trustworthy. If they are democrats, it is their privilege to vote according to their sentiments, always exercising their inalienable right to scrateh any man notoviously disreputa- ble or dishonest. Let the contractors and bosses keep hands off. HASCALL AND THE COLORED MEN. colored men of Douglas county been appealed to for support by v staunch friend of ce true-blue republican. But if they examine the record of this man they wiil not touch him with a twenty-foot pole. It is & matter of history that Hasecall before the war was a rank slave-driving democrat, and as such was elected as a member of the infamous Lecompton couvention which framed a constitution for the people of Kansas that con- tained a provision making slavery legal institution in that state. the entive wav Hascall was a rampant copperhead and sought to extend aid and comfort tothe rebels whenever he could. When Andrew Johnsou vetoed the civil rights bill, which was the first recognition by con- gress of the demand for equal political rights for the colored men, a democratic mass meeting was held in Omaha in support of Andrew Johnson’s veto. Hascall was one of the orators on that occasion, as will be seen from the fol- lowing extract from the Omaha Herald of March 9, 1866: Judge Hascall was loudly called for: “The judge was of the opinion that ‘The Tennessec democrat was in the presidential chair,’ and that when he called Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summer traitors he meant it, and when he put his signature vetoing that infamous Nigger bill, he meant that, too. Andy Johnson was not of the back-down stock, ete. 1f the colored men of Omaha are so recreant to every instinct of manhood as to vote for a man who denounced those immortal champions of freedom and enemies of slavery, Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, as traitors, they will deserve to be disfranchised for- ever. —— SUFFRAGE IN NEBRASKA. ‘We have beon asked several times within the past few days whether a man of foreign birth who has not yet taken out his final papers of citizenship has a right to vote for president in Nebraska next Tuesday. We answer most emphati- cally, yes. The constitution of Ne- braska confers the right to vote at all elections upon any mac of foreign birth who has declared his intention to be- come a citizen of the United States at least thirty days before the election. In other words, any foreigner who has procured his first papers on or before Octover 7, of the present year, hasa right to vote next Tuesday, provided that he will by that day have lived in Nebraska six months, resided in the county where he votes forty days, and in the precinct ten days. The reason why people are at sea about the voting of foreigners at presidential elections is because they do not under- stand the basis of our elective system. The president is not elected directly by the people, but by electors chosen or appointed by the various states in the union, The name of the presidential candidates might be left off the ticket, but the vote would count all the same for the candidate represented by the electoral ticket. The electors are state officers, and any man who has a right to vote for a state officer can vote for an elector. In some states there are separate tickets for presidential elec- tors, but in Nebraska their names are on the same ticket with state officers, congressmen and candidates for the legislature. No distinction can be made between ballots deposited with judges of election by foreign born or native citizens. e— A TIMELY HINT, The Omaha waterworks have recente ly changed management. The new manager, Mr. (Inderwood, may not be well informed as to how the land lays, but we will mildly suggest that any at- tempt on his part to vote his four hun- dred and fifty laboring men at Florenc for Hascall will get him into a hornet's nest. Per- haps Mr. Underwood does not know that Mr. Hascall was the leader of the gang of Holly water works boodlers whom THE BEE routed after an eight month’s fight in the courts and at the polls, The Holly tactios will not likely bé tolerated now by the managers of the company which owes its existence to the earnest effort made by THE BEr and leading tax-payers to defeat the Holly jobbers. IT 18 pleasing to find southern men who give more attention to practical than political affairs, talking in the most ‘hopeful strain of Hm business outlook of “ that ‘section: The great material progress made by the south in the last fow yoars is a source of pride and gr American citizens, for however great shall be the future pros- ity of those states, it must be shared by the whole country. The south 1s rich in the resources that make wealth, and the advance already made in their development will be continued, With its progress ‘must inevitably = come changes in the views and sentiments of the people of that section that will be not less valuabie than the material re- sults, HASCALL oR Hascall has been pitted against Pax- ton, and the citizens of Douglas county will have to choose between the two for PAXTON. the state senate. Both of them are well known. Paxton is known as a public-spirvited, enterprising citizen, who has contributed as much toward building up Omaha and Douglas county as any three men that could be named. He was the chief founder of the union stockyards by which Omaha has be- come a great cattle market. The es- tablishment of stockyards and pack- ing houses has more than doubled the value of every acre of land within thirty miles of this city. This is not all Paxton has invested hundreds of thousands of dol- lars in factories and business blocks, which have given, and continue to give, profitable employment to lahoring men. He is not & man of great education, but has good horse sense, and means to do right as he sees it. Socially, his con- duct has been without reproach, and he mingles with the best class of our citi- zens. Hascall is also v man of enterprise and push, and is entitled to a fair share of credit for many improvements in Omaha, But his carveer, ever since he located here, has been that of a mounte- bank, demagogue und trickste n public life he has alwa been the center of intrigue and jobbery. In the council of Omaha he has always been the head of rings and factions that have played into the hands of monopo- lies, contractors and tax-eaters gener- He has encouraged lawlessness and made himself the champion of the luw dives. Hascall’'sconductasa man has been a stench in the nostrils of decent is relutions with bad women, before and since he was divorced, have been a public scandal, and his associa- tions are notoriously disreputable. No man who respects his mother, wife or sister can with self-respect vote to make such a man a representative of Douglas county in the state senate. STANLEY’S FATE. The report that Stanley and his en- tire force had been massacred comes from the president of the geographical society of Lille, and for many reasons must be considered as authoritative. The telegram from London discrediting it is a simple contradiction based upon nothing. That the White Pasha is Emin Bey cannot be doubted when the circumstances of the case are consid- ered, and to that conclusion the Ger- man geographical and colonizing asso- ciation have finally come. Lalle, though in France, is ethnologically Belgian, und from the outset has par- ticipated largely in the move- ments towards African explora- tion promoted by the Kking of Belgium, in whose service Stanley was enrolled. He obtained leave of ab- sence to come to this country and lec- ture, but he had hardly set foot on American soil when he raceived the ‘most pressing invitation from the Eng- lish government to take charge of an expedition for the relief of Emin Bey. The English having made the cause of Lgypt their own by the summary pro- cess of appropriating all the possessions of the Khedive, Ismail Pasha felt that something must be done to retrieve their good name from the stigma of having deserted Hicks Pasha, and of having remembered Gordon Pasha after Khartoum had fallen. There was a flurry of self-reproach in the papers; there were indignation meetings in all the large cities; there were resolu- tions passed by various learned societies breathing contempt for the cabinet pol- icy of letting things slide in the Sou- dan. In short England was aroused and the outcome was the "expedition to save the only man who had saved himself and who was not in need of any assist- ance. Stanley was most reluctant to accept the commission. Perhaps he had some inward premonitions. Per- haps he doubted the possibility of con- cihating the Arab masters of Central Africa. But he allowed himself to be persuaded, and he has met the fate which he feared. From the moment that authentic news was received of the murder of Major Barthelot it was plain to all men who know anything of African matters that Tippu Tib had turned against the white men, and this carried with it a certainty that Stan- ley’s fate was sealed. The English have a way of allowing bad news to be dribbled gradually intothe minds of the public, and they have done with regard toStanley what they did about Suakim. Stanley was well known here, In 1866 and 1867 he was the Omaha corre- spondent of the St. Louis Democrat, at that time published by McKee, Fish- back & Houser. He even then dis- tinguished himself by his faculty of traveling from place to place on very limited means, for he managed to visit much of the surrounding country with- out assistance from the paper he revre- sented, He had the same genius for traveling under difficultics that great musicians have for music and great artists for painting. Before he came to Omaha he had wandered in Asiatic Turkey and Persia, and had sojourned in more than one historic city in South- ern Europe. But he gleaned from these early travels little information vhat was interesting to those in Omaha.who knew him, and there were few who were aware that he had made a tour on foot from Smyrna to Bushire. Allearly resudents of this city will, however, re- member the small, wiry, energetic man, and his powers of getting from place to place. Throughout his subsequent ca- reer he simply showed on a world wide scale the faculties which had been noted in him here. ' M.!I\E NO YHSTJI\I' All law-abiding citizens ana more cs- pecially taxpayers are vitally interested in the selection of ane hanest dnd com- petent county attorney, Thisofticer is now clothed with ‘extraordinary powers and should be dhove all temptation. nee grad juries have been abolished the county attorney acts in their stead. It is his duty to file dnformation in the district court against all violators of law. In exercising this power the county attorney is. in position to play into the hands of the lawless elements and be- friend - criminald, In choosing be- tween candidates the question is which one is more likely to withstand the pressure which the lawless often bring 10 bear upon the prosecuting officer., The county attorney is not only charged with prosecuting criminals, but he is the legal adviserof the county comimissioners. He should be a lawyer not only qualified to give sound advice but also familiar with all the intricate machinery of county government, so as to apply the brake on unlawful appro- priations, improper tax levies and im- positions upon the taxpayers by reck- less or dishonest county office In this respect this county has been fortunate for the past ten years in having as its county attorneys General Cowin and Mr., Simeral, in whose integ- rity the commissioners and the public have implicit confidence. And now the question presents itsclf to Douglas county voters, who is the safest man us between the democratic nd republican candidates? The repub- licans present W. F. Gurley, and the democrats T. J. Mahoney. Tue I deems it its duty to oppose Me. Gurley. This opposition is not personal, but is convietion that he is not based upon the asafe man to place in the responsible position towhich he has been nomin- ated. Tn fact, we honestly believe that Mr. Gurley will be better off in the end if he is defeated. Gurley is worst enemy. He is a bright his young man with bad habits and bad as- He relies for his main sup- sociations. port upon the ward bummers and outlaw classes. His connection with the oil- room railroad lobby during the last legislature shows that he has no moral stamina and for money is willing to as- sist in promoting legislative bribery and leading the representatives of the people astray from their path of duty. The testimony given by witnesses and Gurley himself before the Pacific railroad commission affords proof that he is an improver person for prosecut- ing attorney. Conceding to him the ability to prosecute criminals, we doubt his ability to fill satisfactorily the posi- tion of legal adviser of the county com- missioners. Mr. Mahoney,‘ who is nominated against Gurley gn gh democratic ticket, is reputed to ba an able lawyer whose conduct as a man and citizen is above reproach.’' Mr. Mahoney is vouched for by members of the bar as thoroughly campetent.jn évery respect. The office of counsy attorney is a judic- ial positiow and by right shouid have been filled in an off year on a non-par- tisan judicial tickét. 1t is manifestly the duty of all citi- zens who desire good government to cast their vote for Mahoney for county attorney. ROU: '‘ABOUT MORRISSEY. No decent democrat can afford to vote for Frank R. Morrissey, who is one of the candidates on the democratic legi lative ticket of Douglas county. Mor- rissey is one of the roustabouts who made such dirty and nasty warfare upon Van Wyck and his supporters two years ago. He was one of the gang of bull- dozing vagabonds that beset the last legislature and worked with the con- tractors and railroad lobby to defeat legislation in the interest of this city and county. He is night and day con- sorting with political bummers of the lowest grade. He 18 a carpet-bagger who hasn’t a dollar’s worth of interest in this county, and only wants to go to the legislature to make a stake. The people of this county, and espec- ially the farmers, cannot afford to trust their interests with irresponsible adven- turers and professional dead-beats. — IT WILL be remembered by everybody that when, more than two years ago, the supplementary extradition treaty ne- gotiated by Minister Phelps and Lord Roseberry was made public, it was uni- versally condemned by Irish-American citizens thropghout the country because of what was Xescl‘lbcd as its dynamite clause. It will also be remembered thatin his explanatory note accompanying the treaty Minister Phelps stated that no new arrangement could be effected with ingland without this clause. The min- ister was vehemently denounced as having madea clear surrender to the British government, which about that time was particulary in dread of dynamiters. In phblic meetings and through the press Ivish-Amer- ican citizens called loudly upon the administration: to repudiate the treaty. Nevertheloss it was sent to the senate with the oh)echonnble clause, and there it remaips unratified. But strangely enough .geveral prominent Irish-Americans, among them Con- gressman Patrick Colling and John Boyle O'Reilly, who were among the most active and m‘den! opponents of the treaty, now come forward and say that in its originakform it contained nothing objectionable/ but that an amendment to 1t_was proposed that would have rendered the treaty obnox- ious, and that this-came from repub- lican seénators. It‘is heedless to say that the Irishmen wawed are heartily working for the re-election of Mr. Cleve- land, and it may be pertinent to remagk were largely influential in inducing the president to dismiss Minister West, but even with this in mind it is re- markable that they should so ' com- pletely stultify themselves as they have done in this matter. They opposed the treaty in the form in which it still stands and before any amendment was suggested, and it was in deference to their opposition and that of other Irish- Ameérican citizens that -the republiean senate postponed action on the treaty. H they were honest then they cannot be s0 now, and it would seem that their present attitude must lose them the confidence of all Irishmen. Toaid dem- ocratic success these men are now really playing into the hands of Great Britain, aud they are estopped from any future offort to defeat a treaty containing a clause which every Irishman believes 10 be aimed against his countrymen. Wiy should the public schools be closed next Tuesday? There are no polling places at the school houses and women do not voteat the presidential elections. Manifestly the object is to press the janitors and the male teach- ers and the official plasterer into the service for political purposes, and es- pecially for Mr, Morris Morrison, —— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Beaver Valley Tribune makes note of the fact that “‘Cleveland’s Burchard was also a minister. British minister." The North Bend Flail tells its readers that it is “awfully in earnest in its advocacy of a reduction of the tariff—on elevator tolls and railroad rates.” The Hastings Gazette-Journal says that the “philosopher who defined music as the most expensive of noises,’ had probably been paying for a campaign brass band.’ " According to the Madison Reporter's esti- mate, ‘“‘McShane, with all his boodle, will lack the ten thousand of being elected gov- ernor of Nebraska.” The Schuyler Quill gives this advice: “If you believe in a reduction of freight rates vote against Laws for secretary of state and for Leese for attorney general.’ The Nebraska City Press believes it “vio- lates no confidence in stating that the entire republican state ticket will be elected in Ne- braska this year by about the usual major- ities.” “Whatever you do take time to scratch Laws,” says the Ulysses Dispatch. “Scratch your ticket every time, rather than to knowingly vote for a dishonest or notor- iously unfit man.” “It scems,” says the Liberty Journal, ‘‘that if Mr. McShane has no record in the house of congress, he has one in the house of the legislature, and his friends are not very proud of either.” The Kearney Hub makes the assertion that “if all of these democratic lies on Gov- ernor Thayer come home to roost, the demo- cratic party of Nebraska will have to en- large its buzzard-roost after election.” The Columbus Journal says: ‘“The people of Nebraska, irrespective of party, owe it to their own interests to support Attorney General Leese and give him such a rousing majority as will convince everybody that the policies advocated by him are in the right di- rection and must be followed up. See that your ticket has on it his name for attorney general. It is said that there 13 a concerted effort to defeat him by having at each vot- ing place in the state two men to plaster re- publican tickets with his opponent's ‘stick- ers.! " The Fremont Tribune observes that “Mo Shane, as one of the leading men in the South Omaha Stock Yards company assesses every hog the farmers of Nebraska send to that market eight cents each and charges thet one dollar per bushel for corn that he buys at twenty-six cents. If he is so sad and tearful over the tax burdens of the farmers as he pretends to be, why don't he manitest his sympathy in a manner they can a ppreci- ate! It is probable that who ever else might own the yards would charge as much to the farmers as McShane does, but is doubtful if another man could be found in Nebraska who would skin a hog to purchase votes.” Referring tothe abuse being heaped upon Governor Thayer the Wymore Union re- marks that it “knows something about the source of this opposition. During the session #f the last legislature a stringent gambling law was passed, a law calculated to close up thegambling houses throughout the state. This was a hard blow ata class of people who make their living in this way. They brought every influence they could command upon Governor Thayer to induce him to veto the measure, but without avail. At the first op- portunity the governor put his signature to the bill and it became a law. Failing in this the very same crowd undertook to dictate the appointment of the members of the Omaha police commissioners, but the governor again gave them to understand that he was the chief executive of this state. He appointed a commission from among the best men of Omaha, men who were in favor of an lmprovement in the morals of the city, and the enforcement of the laws. It was a hard blow to the gamblers, pimps and saloons and that crowd has lost no op- portumty since to malign the goveraor, It is this crowd of people who arc working in cahoots with the democracy for the defeat of Gen, John M. Thayer, one of the noblest and purest men that ever sat in the execu- tive chair of any state. They cannot use him and they know they can McShane. I oald not take a voter, no matter what his politics are, long to decide which of the two candi- dates is most worthy of his support.” e Sir Lionel. For the Bee. On! Sir Lionel West ! In this land of the blest For your folly you cannot atone. Don’t you think it is best ‘That you go home and rest, And forever leave “letters * alono 1 Oh! Sir Lionel West! Low droops your proud crest; Back to England you'll go. Perhaps then You'll have learned ’tis no jest, Iu this land of the west, To be caught fooling round with a pen. Oh! Sir Lionel West! ‘With what infinite zest We enjoy all your trouble and woe; On your mind 'tis impressed ‘That Murchison’s quest Was for .uckm," you bit—*‘don'cher know ¢ Georre CHUCKEE, Ly IAAB(IR NOTES. The manufacture of paper bottles is to be begun on & very extensive scale. ‘The Harrison Rolling Mill company of Kansas City will soon bogin the erection of buildings. The strike of house carpenters in Dundee, Sontland, for an advance of & half-penny an hour, has been successful. “Those who biild palaces should not dwell m hovels,” is the motto of the brotherhood of carpenters and joiners. The first shoe factory in New England to run exclusively by electricity is that of Pack- ard & Grover, at Brockton, Mass. A new labor organization has been formed and is known as the *Brotherhood of Rail way Porters.” It has 8 membership of 6,000, Carpenters’ union, No. 898, of Greenville Pa., has established the nine-hour work day and the contractors are well pleased with the system. Eucalyptus leaves and extract have long been used for the removal and_provention of scales in steam boilers. Sclentific authorities recommend it and engincers in publio service bave been advised to use it by the enginoer- ing authorities at Washington. Wood oil is now made on a somewhat ox- tensive scale in Sweden, where the refuse in timber-cutting and forest cleariogs is turned to account for the oil it contains. It is used for illuminating purposes and gives, when put in & lamp especially made for iy, a very satisfactory light. e The grand duke Alexis, of Russia, has just gone to Jerusalem to be present at the ‘consecration of a church erec! in wemory of his mother, and his imperial brother, the ezar, WHI very shortly follow him to this, the holy place of the orthodox Greek church, of Wblbh the Russiau ruler is ex-officio the tem- poral head. CURRENT TOPICS, The question is being asked whethor the age of an exogenous tres can bo told by the rings, and it is admitted that whilo the rone test can be applied to some, it cannot to all. The linden tree evades it absolutely, Pines, firs and oaks are obedient to tho law, and it Has been founded that the two former aro much longer lived than the oak. Pines and firs have been cut down whose rings denoted an age of from five to seven hundred years, whercas ordinary oaks seldom attain 300 years, and the oldest known specimen of the holm oak was .only 400 years by its rings. When these trees coase to add an_external ring the innermost heart begins to decay, and the tree slowly rots until tho trunk is completely hollow. Science has discovered n0 way of telling how long it is beforo s de caying treeis blown down. Hut the zono test ought to be applicable to the sequoia,the giant redwood of California, some of which have a circumference of ninety foet, with rings indicating more then six thousand years of growth, to say nothing of the period when growth censcs. This last fact is not easy to discover, for after a term which “can- not possibly be ascertained but certainly be- tween fiveand aix thousand years, the tree grows with incredible slowness, vand it is possible that very many yearsare ropre- sented by each of the latest rings. s Two more lives have been lost in seeking for the Adams e which is if it is any- thing but a myth, in the Navajo reservation. Opinions are divided about this mine, some claiming that it is only a revival of the old Spanish legend about the mountain of gold, others asserting that it is afact. One thing is very certain and that is that the Navajoes killall the prospectors who come into their mountains and their valleys. The last expe- dition was headed by a man named Patter- son, who claimed to have received his infor- mation from a man who heard it from Adams himself. They started from Socorro, N. M., and were accompanied by a deputy sherift from that place who had a permit from the in- dian agent to hunt for stolen horses. The party wandered around finding nothing, nor trace of anything,nor did they catch the slight est glimpse of the two buttes of black basalt which stand like guardians at the entrance of the gold bearing guleh according to Adams’ veritable account. Finally all deter- mined on returning home save Patterson and one other man, who persisted in continuing the search. The deputy sheriff, going about his own business, came across the dead body of Patterson with a bullet in his breast, but the cause of death was evidently a fall from some height, for nis skull was fairly smashed into a pulp. Inquiry after the other man elicited no direct answer from the Indians, only nods®and winks and gestures, from which the Socorro official gathered that he 100 had been dispatched. The question arises —What is it that the Navajoes guara so jeal* ously? The mine may be a myth, but the re- peated killing of adventurous miners is a cer- tain fact, and was a fact long before Adams made his alleged discovery. * The ladies near Virginia City in Nevada have a way of going to the theater which is absolutely unique. They utilize the Sutro adit tunnel of the Comstock lode, which is 1,650 feat below the level of Virginia City, but is naturally on the level of the little towns near its two entrances. There is a tram-line from one end to the other for the cars of ore, from the different mines on the lode, and this is furnished with cars for sup- erintendents and other big folk. In these, parties who wish to visit the theater in Vir- ginia City can make a wonderfully quiet and comfortable trip, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, if they possess the good graces of some one in charge of a mine near the center. Such mines are the Consolidated Virginia and California, callel for short the C. & C., or the Old Ophir or Savage. They leave the cars at the 1,650 level of any one of these mines, and take the lift which shoots them up to the top of the mine in about a minute and a quarter, landing the ladies with unruffied plumage, but somewhat out of breath from nervousness. As the mines are actually in the center of Virginia City they have only to walk a couple of blocks, and they find themselves within the vestibule of the opera house. w American archoeologists have fought rather shy of that symbolical carving upon tho Dbluff at Alton, known scientifically as the piasa bird, but popularly as the man cater of the Mississippi. It was destroyed during the war by discharges of artillery from a gun- boat, but whether that vessel flaunted the stars and stripes or the bars of the confed- eratos is not known. Its destruction was nothing less than a national misfortune, for it furnished a clue to tio aboriginal history of this country, which was of inestimablo value. The student now hasto choose be- tween the descri ption given by Father Mar- quette in 1673, and the account furnished re- cently from memory by I. R. Miles, of Miles Station, Il Father Marquette saw it but once,and ata time when his imagination was all on fire with the glory of discovery. Mr. Miles saw it thousands of times and studied it minutely, for he lived in the neigh- borhood. Father Marquette desoribed it as a compound of man and dragon, with the wings of & bat, and the horns of a deer sprouting from & human head. Mr. Miles declares that the polyform monster was of a gentle and benignant character, recalling in a marked way the polyform monsters of As- syrian art. It had the body of a lion, the wings of an cagle, and the hoad and antlers of adeer. Inhis opinion it was symbolic, the Lion represcnting strength, the deer gen- tleness and beauty, and the wings swiftness, the whole ropresenting uot a devouring but monster, some personage pos sossing the moral qualities des ignated. Mr. Miles is undoubtedly on the trail, but the history of symbolism shows clearly that such forms represented not moral qualities, but sounds. Occasionally the wings are used to designate that the rep- vesentation refers toa spiritual being. As for example, in the winged globe of Igypt and Assyria, where the globe or circle rep- resents infinitude, becauso a circle has neither boginning nor end, and the wings reprosent a spirit--the whole typifying the Infinite Spirit. The piasa bird would seem to reprosent the spirit guardian of all the tribes that were typified by the deer and the lion. The Lenni Lennapior Algonquins and Hurons are typified by the first, and some of the Chichimec tribes by the second. The whole would then reprosent a confederation similar to that of the Kono-Shioni or Iroquois, and the piass bird would bo the special divinity of that confederation. ) o Scientific gents are being eagerly asked for by the swelters of the Martin White ore at Ward, Nevada. This ore is very base and it Is necessary to roast it, during which pro- cess no deleterious fumes are emitted, nor is thera that delicious smell of two or three million heads of garlic which to the expert Letokens the presence of arsenic. Hut-the bair, and the beards, and even the eyobrows of the smelters become in & duy or twoa bright arsenical green color. It is notorious that in smelting works where the fumes are overpoweringly allisceous, as at Argo and Golden, In Colorado, no such phenomenon has ever been witnessod, and men who are accustomed to mineral working are com- pletely non-plussed. Old mmcltors say that the change is not wrought by arsenic, but by some mysterious aud unknown metal which for the first time has been soparsted from silver ore. It is, however, more likely that 1t 18 caused by arsenio, but that the arsenioal compound is 0f such a character that it doey uot emit the well known gaclicky fumes. 5 ¥ Dr. Samuel Johnson said that it raquired 4 surgical operation ‘to make. a Scotchman comprehend a joke, but American experience is that the English are far more obtuse than the Scotoh, A joke travels through the brain of an average Englishman withi extrema slowness, and poor Artemus Ward averred solemnly that somo of his very bost wore only appreciated aftor a fortnight's sim- mering in the skulls of his English audiences, Mr, Furnoss, the English artist who re- ceived the commission to paint the portrait of the Marquis Tseng, at the timo that he was Chinese minister at the court of London, tells some stories about his excellency which show. how fatally he failed to comprehend his sitters's remarks, Ho objected to tha shadows which he did not understand, says Mr. Furness, protosting that his faco was clean, It iathe law In art that tho shadow shall be of such transparont quality as to show that what is in shadow is of the sama color and texturc ag the part inlight. Mr, Furness failed to catch on to the sarcasti¢ criticism of the Chinese envoy, whose ro« mark that his face was clean was as noat a hint as Ruskin could have given that tho artist's shadows wore not transparent, Ho protested against the varnish that was smeared upon the canvass, declaring that it gave tho skin a slimy look whioch was unde. niably true. Titian and a host of the grande est portrait painters never used varnish which is tho substitute of a medlocre artist for tone and harmony of color. Tseng seems to have been fult of that sly humor Wl\lcl.l the Scotch call mwkm Aun inventor nnmed Peter Campbell has perfocted and patented an air ship which he Proposes to put to a practical test next sum- mer by flying from Brooklyn, where he lives, to the city of ‘Philadelphia, Prof. Le Conte, who has made & scientifio study of aerial flight, has declared authoritatively that a true locomotive balloon can be made by combining the balloon principle with the ing principle as exemplified in birds, Pure flying machines he ridicules as impossible, demonstrating that in birds not one can fly that weighs wmore than fifty-two or fiftye three pounds, which is the limit of flight. His idea is that ostriches and cmus, aud in | older times the epiornis and dinornis, were smaller and lighter and able to fly. llul cire cumstances arose which enabled them to procure their food independent of flight, and they grew and grew until they haa developed asize that made flight impossible, Then their wings became abortive. This 18 nof, the current notion, but it is a beautiful and most effective illustration of Darwin's taw of ovolution. The professor's statements will doubtless encourage the inventor, who, ¢ it is to bo hoped, has profited by the orrors | of his countless predecessors in the same path. - ot The story of Danicl Hand's generous gift of a million dollars for the education of tha colored people” in the old slave states is not complete without some account of the mane ner in which the bulk of the money was gatned. Mr. Hand was a wholesale grooer in Charleston, S, C., when that wayward' sister seceded, and as he was loyal to the backbone he had to flee for his life, leaving his property behind him in tho hands of hi confidential clerk, George W. Williams, It' was, in Mr. Han timation, worth about $130,000. Mr. Williams went on with the business, survived the sioge and profited by the roturn of peace to the nnhappy south. | All the profits were Invested by him fn tuns ber lands, which Increased greatly in valuo.' In 182 Mr. Hand demanded a settlement, to which his former clerk promptly acceded, and paid him in various instalments a total amount of $546,000, The million donated was made up of this sum and $354,000 drawn from ius own fortune, Mr. Hand's resolution to give this in trust to the American Missionary association for the purpose specified is an act of the truest philanthiropy and must have the most important results, - **n Prof. Masso, an Italian physologist, do- ¢ lares that thought hitherto claimed to be ine tangible acd imponderable is not so, and that by moans of a large balance in which the hu- man body may be poised horizontally one's thoughts may be litterally weighed. Dreams, or the effects of sound during slumber turn the blood to the head sufficiently to sink the balance of the braw. Without criti- cizing Prof. Masso, whose theory only comes to the writer at second hand, It is ocertain that we all knew that blood shifted from ona part of the body to another. Also, we all were aware that blood could be welghed. Also, it was well known that in the act of thinking the blood rushed to the head, and filled the brain cells. But this does not give us any power to weigh thougts, nor can we believe that the greatest thought requires more blood or a longer elaboration, or the secretion of a greater amount of phosphorus than any trifle light as air born of the idlest fancy. If Prof. Masso has been correctly red vorted he has drawn a conclusion which is not contained in his premises, a common error among scientific logicians, e The race of public benefactors will never die out in America. The last of the noble army is a man who is making excellent papeg from the stems and waste of tobacco manue facturing. Hitherto these odious substances have been nefariously converted into cigae rettes. The large profit derived therefrom stimulated rival makers into adding induce- ments of photographs which were frowned upon severely by Authony Comestock bes cause they were just within the law defining decency und could not be seized though their influence was bad. Now that these sube stances can be turned to good account, they will acquire @ value of their own, and tho cigurette makers will be compelled, however reluctautly to use tobacco. Thls will reduca the profits materially, though it will improva the quality of the article in a corresponding ratio, aud there will be no more chromos and photographic temptations to boys. So tha business will at least be on a sound smoking basis, which bitherto has not been the case, e The dispatches from California announce that the exclusion bill has been judicially de- clared to be applicable to the Chineso wha came by the latest steamers as well as thosa who were residents of this country and left iritending to return, to whom certificates of residence were issued. But the exclusion bill does not prevent Chinamen from stoals ing into our territory from Manitoba, noy from crossing the frontier between Moxico and the states. It is dificult to see how this country can, so long as the administration is democratic, make any appeal to neighboring nations for common action. Mexico has been brow-beaten and: bulldozed, and the treaty from-which so much good was exe pected was thrown under the table, Csnada is bursting with rage over Cleveland's retals iatory policy, and is still mere enraged oeve the comwments of the democratic presq thereon, ——— Under the Walnut Tree, Mail and Express, : Under & walnut tree muy sab; i He held her hand, cld his hat. 1 beld my broath ‘un md auite flat— They kissod; I saw them do ik He held that mnmg was no crime; She held her head up every time; 1 held my peace and wrote this rhyme, ‘They never know I koew it. vre——Gwe——en . Prince Bismarck has gone back to beer and tobacco.