Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1889, Page 4

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Tzechuck, being duly sworn, de- oses and says that he 1 secretary of The' I Publishing company, that the actual average daily circilation of ‘Tup DAILY Ber for the mwonth of August, 188% 18185 coples: for Sep: tember, 188, 15151 coples: for October 1884 Y for Novembe 188K, 1K,22) 1880, 18,774, coples; for F 188, copies: for March, [59, 18854 coples: for' Apri I89, IRG coples; for May, 184, 18,89 coplos} for June. 150, 18838, coples: for 'July. (8, 18738 copies. NN 'CK. worn to before me and subscribed in my Dpresenice this id day of August, 185, [SEAL.] N.P. ry Public, ey COUNCILMAN HASCALL'S refusal to be sworn before the police commission does not by any means indicate that he las sworn off. THE workingmen’s parade next Mon- duy promises 1o be, by far, the most ex- tensive labor demonstration that has ever taken place in Omaha. THE necessity for a great hotel in Omaha becomes greater as time passes. The man who will undertake this enter- prise will be regarded as a public bene- factor. I¥ there bo any doubt as to the hu- manity of substituting electricity for the gallows, the bungling work in hang- ing the condemned men, Carolin and Lewis, at the Tombs prison, New York city. will speak for itself. ThE Pennsylvania railrond company is about to adopt a'system of pensioning employes after they have become unfit for actual service. This isawise and humane project which in the near future will doubtless become the polic of all railroads, LEAVENWORTH is said to have lost nearly fourteen thousand population lust year. At this rate it will not take long to depopulate the city. In the dim not very distant past old Leaven- worth was the leading townof the Mi. sour1 valley. » TiE chief of police at Atchison says that it would take fifty or sixty more policemen to enforce prohibition than he has at his command. Buv we are assured by Senator Ingalls, who lives at Atchison, that prohibition in Kansas has been rigidly enforced. SENATOR MANDERSON'S visit to the seal fisheries of Alaska has not been without result. The senator has fished out a commission for Johnny Watson as United States district attorney for the savages of Behring Straits. The ques- tion now is, what will become of proh bition in Nebraska if Johnny goes on a geal skin hunt in Alaska? ONE of the details already decided on in connection with the next census, is that an enumeration will be taken of the svrviving veterans of the late war, as well as their present residences, the rank held by each, and the duration of service. Three volumes will be given to this work, and its especial object is to be of use in the peunsion bureau. — WE would kindly suggest that Chief Seuvey muzzle his fool friend. Captain Wilcox. If that superserviceable ass keeps on braying about THe Ber and repeats his unfounded charge that the Hascall resolutions in the council have had their inspiration from this paper or Buybody connected therewith, we .may be compelled to speak upon some ~matters that we should prefer to leave unsaid, — LARGE holders of property in the suburban distri of the city should consult their own interests as well as benefit their townmen by offering free to the city suitable tracts for park pur poses. Experience in other cities hus shown that such public parks greatly enhance the value of neighboring property by making it ut once desirable for homes and leading to its early im- provement both by publio and private entorpriso, In the course of ten years the city will expend hundreds of thous- ands in beautifying its public parks, every dollar of which inures to the ben- efit of the surrounding property, —_— EvEN in the pineries and densely wooded sections of Michigan and Wis- consin there have been no such forest fires as those recently reperted in Mon- tana, In the fall of 1881 over two thou- sand square miles of Michigan was burned over and fifteen thousand peo- ple rendered homeless, while two hun- dred people lost their lives, The de- struction of life and property in Mon- tuna is not so great as this, but the avea swept by the flames is more extensive, being estimated at from eight thousand to ten thousand square miles. The im- portance of great care alone can pre- vent the visitation of these extensive conflagrations iu thickly settled wooded distriots. = y THE CANDIDACY OF LAWS, Before James Laird had been dead twenty<four hours the political hench- men of the Burlington road in the Sec- ond district proclaimed Giibert M. Laws a8 his only legitimate succossor in congress, While the body of Laird was being lowered into the grave the cohorts of the railroad in attendance wero whispering to each other the plan of campaign. by which they to folst Laws into the dead congressman’s The candid of Laws is at once n insult and o men 1t is an insult to the rank and file of republicans in the district, whose wishes and interests are disregarded. 1t isa menace tothe peo- pla whereby they are again threatened with the domination of the gravel tratn and section boss, Outside of the no: and ced railrond hands Laws conld not muster o corporal’s guard as a oan- didate for the national legislature. Mr. Laws is uttorly unfit to fill a seatin con- gress. He is in a state of dotage verg ing on imbecility. Those who were present at the last rapublican state con= vention will Laws a knowledgog the compliment of a renom- ination. His speech was a painful e fort, which not audible ten feot from the stage. While cvoking syimpa- thy. it afforded concinsive proof “that Mr. Laws is not in condition to make himself heard any where, least of all on of the lower house of con- ven if Mr. Laws were ever he wounld be no better than a dummy at Washington. Mr. Laws’ candidney has a special significance. It defiant repe- tition of the tacfics by which the Sec- ond dist has for savon long years been disfranchised and kopt under the pater care of the rmilrond bosses. The cry of the *‘old soldier” sed by the railroad strikers and heelers in every suceeeding congressional 1= puign bas overawed the people, while the gravel trains, loaded down with section hands, weve moving from sta- tion to station to assist in storming the enucnses, and brass bands entertuined the overpowered multitude while the ses were jubilantly shouting “vie- were cor remember how wis 50 is a Mr. Laws be taken house at Lincoln and seat in the capitol at Washington during his unfinished term as secretary of state? Is it not man- ifest that Laws has been picked out in pursuance of a bargain to pay him for his services as a member of the railrond commission. Are the people of the Second district so de- based and craven that they can be in- duced to reward this man for his betray- al of their confidence, when he ignored the pledges made {n the republican plat- form to reduce railvoad tolls? If the railronds arve indebted to Laws for this E ce why do they not pdy him in dol- lars? Why do they it to pension him on the people of Nebraska and put a stoughton bottle in a position which should be filled by a man who has pos- session of all his faculties? Are we never o be free from this offensive in- terference by railrond politicians and impudent roustabouts who, at their bidding, are undermining the very foundations of popular government? Has the republican party of thoe Second district become a mere hewer of wood and drawer of water for corpor- ate monopolies ? Tie BEE has no disposition to dic- tate, or even suggest, who shall be Laird’s successor in congress, but we deem it our duty to the republican party and state at large, which has vital concern in the men who repre- sent it, to enter an earnest remon- strance against the candidacy of Laws and the methols and machinery al- ready s2t in motios to bring about his nomination, THE LAW 10 BE ENFORCED. The announcement of Judge Cooley, chairman of the inter-state commerce commission, that the northwestern rail- roads whose recent action was in viola~ tion of the law will be promptly re- quired to comply with the inter-state commerce act, will be received with very general satisfaction. There does not appear to be any good reason why this announcement should have caused any consternation in railroad civeles, uuless the managers had con- cluded from the indulgent and con- servative course of the commission that they could boldly disregard the law with impunity. Perbaps they have been given a degree of warrant for a belief of this kind, but they are now given to understand that there is a limit to the indulgence of the commis- sion, and that in the present case 1t has been exceeded. As Judge Cooley said the present state of affairs isa public scandal and disgrace, which if allowed to continue will reflect on the commis- sion, That body has alrendy been sub- jected to a great deal of unfa- vorable criticism because of the fatitude it has allowed rail- road managers, and it is cer- tuinly time for a change of policy when theve is such a deliberate violation of the law as that o the Burlington & Norvhern in making a proportional var- iff and accepting different rates for through and local trafie, The plain, blunt way in which Judge Cooley characterized the conduet of the railvoad officials who are® respon- sible for the situation in the northwest was entirely justifiable. They are acf ing like fools, from both the practical and legal points of view, The serious nature of the Canadian competi- tion, in its effect upon the revenue of their roads, is admitted, but obviously the remedy for this is not to be found in insugurating a destructive war smmong themselves, and in order to Qo this putting themselves in palpable conflict with the law. *'It is incompre- hensible to me,” said Judge Cooley, “‘how the railroads cun act as they do, knowing that their actions are in viola- tion of the law. Besides this, they are lessening their own revenue by unrea- sonable competition, Because one road does & foolish act there 18 no reason why all roads should. They are cither the most stupid people in the world or are actuated by a desire to make the law odious. If the latter, they will find that they have made wrong caleulavions, The law undoubt- edly needs revision, but instead of its provisions being wmoditied they will un- And why should out of the state transferred to a 1 doubtedly bo strengthened.” The ten- dency of the course of the railroads will unquestionably be to strengthen public ‘opinion generally in favor of the law. be the outcomo in Whatever may of the situation the northwest, which Chairman Walker of the Inter-State Cdmmorce Railway nssoci- ation charncterizes as deplorable, it is most important and cssential that the roads shall not be permitted to vio- late the inter-state commerce law. That act was made to be obeyed, and all the power it confers upon the com- mission should be used, if necessary, to compel obedience to it. If congress onn find o way to protect American roads fron damaging Canadian competition, without injury to othor intetests equally ontitled to the consideration of the gov- ernment, 1t will be well, but meanwhile compliance with the law as it is must be insisted upon. There appears to be sat isfactory assurance that this will be done. THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN. The nomination of General Mahone for governor by the republicans of Vir- ginia was expected. From the hour thut the democratic convention made it plain that the campnign was «to boe con- ducted chiefly as a fight against Ma- hone und his followers his nomination became reasonably assured, indead if it was not rendered absolutely necossar The republicans doubtless folt that they could not decline the implied challenge of the opposition to nominate Mu- hone without running the risk of weakening their cause far more than could his candidacy. They have other leaders, certainly equal in ability and character to Ma- hone, but still perhaps lacking, under the circumstances, certain valuable points of availability, At any rate, sinceit was to be a Muhone fight on the part of the denfoerats, it became more or less imperative that he should lead the fight on behalf of the republicans. The vital issue in the coming Vir- ginin campaign will be the race issue. It is made so by the democrats, who de- clared in thgir platform that itis of im- measurably more importance tothe bus- iness, social and political iuterests of tho state than any other question. At no time since the war of the rebellion have the democrats of Virginia ex- hibited & more uncompromising spirit in respect to negro suffrage, and a greater determination to keep the color line drawn, than now. This purpose was the boast of the spoakers at the recent democratic state convention. There is no clearer refutation of the statemont so frequently made by demo- crats, that the negro vote is divided and that there are many colored demo- crats, than the prasent attitude of the Virginia democracy. They have failed to draw over the colored voters to their party to any considerable extent, and they are now working to influence the passionsand prejudices of tho whites by declaring, as the chair man of th nvention did, th the republicans have raised the race is- sue and that the democratic party must meet it. On the contrary, it is the dem- ocrats who have taken refuge under this issue, making their rallying cry, *Ma- honeism or white supremacy.” The republicans of Virginia should be in better condition than for a pumber of years to make a vig- orous campaign. They have settled their factional fights, and while there are still republicans who will not sup- port Mahone, the leaders will do battle shoulder to shoulder, and the dis- affected among the rank and file of the nrty will not be numerous when the y of election arrives. It is too much to expect a republican victory in Vir- ginia thig year, but thorough organiza- tion and an aggressive campaign may result in making the fight very close. For these purposes Mahone is as well, perhaps better qualified than any republican in Virginia. RAISE THE CIRCUS LICENSE The Forepaugh circus took at least fif- teen thousand dollars out of this city,and some estimates are as high as twenty thousand dollars, This money is mostly taken out of the earnings and savings of the working people who otherwise would have d it out among our retail dealers and local amusement resorts. It may not be possible to keep the cireus out of Omaha, but itis eminently proper to impose high license fees for such exhibitions, and thus leave a portion of their receipts in the city treasury. A thousand dollar circus license would not be a cent too high. At the instance of Tug BEE, the circus license was fixed at five hundred dollars a few years ago, but after a short period the advance agent worked the council for a reduction of the license to three hun- dred dollars. It goes without saying that this reduction was not effected without a lubricator. And now THE BEE renews its motion to raise the circus license to one thousand _dollars for each performance, with a severe penalty for selling tickets to persons who cannot find standing room in the tent. ENCOURAGING BOODLERS. Omaba wants cheaper gas and a bot- ter quality of gas. But the clamor that comes from certain quarters for light- ing the whole city with incandescent lamps is nothing more nor less than an effort to engineer a big job through the council under cover of conferring a great benefit upon this community. For months and months parties inter- ested in foisting the electric light scheme have been working the council through their oily-tongued lobby and their attorneys and some of our con- temporaries who have either been roved into the local company or wmade to be- lieve that the moon is made of greeu cheese. Now Tue BEE does not propose to countenance boodling and tampering with councilmen by the electric lighting company, the gas com- pany, the motor company or the eonsol- idated street railway. The gas com- pany has done its share of boodling for years, and this clamor for electric lights will only spur them on to re- newed efforts, If it is true as charged that they are making two hundred and filty thousand dollars more & year in Omaha than this eity could be supplied for at reasonable rates, they will have very little difticulty in buying up coun- cilmen onmlg: to prevent a radical re- duction or damhging competition, Is it in the interest of the city to en- courage rafds of this kind? Will it fot' naturally result in Tweedism and Jake Sharpism? It is notorioss that in New York city novody ,tap get anything through the city counoil, no matter how merit- orioue, ¥ithout' paying & bonus to the boodling atdefinen. Are we to have the same sort of oity government in Omaha? Has thore not been scandal enough connected with gas bills and @as rates hevetoforo? If the parties who talk so much about giving us cheaper light are honest and sincere, let them pursue business mothods instead of trying to rush schemes through the ecouncil under false pretenses. Why don’t they invite Dbids for electric lighting on the prin- cipal streets and award the contract to to the lowest bidder? If the gas com- puny charges more for its lamps than is paid in other cities of about our population and situation, why don’t the council level the rates down to that standard? — A BAREFACED JOB. There never was a time when the cost of grading was as low in Omaha as it has been this season. Responsible con- tractors have been fighting to get grad- ing to do at from ten to twelve cents a vard. This fact is as well known to our county commissioners as it is to any- body connected with public works. What excuse can the commissioners offer to the tax-paying citizens of this county for paying thirty-five cents a yurd for grading? The pretense that the contract has been changed from twenty-five to thirty-five cents a yard without their knowledge is too flimsy, and will not go down with any- body that has a thimbleful of brains. If it were actually true that a forgery has been committed and the contract price for the grading round the county hospital has been raised from twenty-five to thirty-tive cents, the commissioners can still have no valid excuse for this barefaced robbery of the taxpayers. Would any one of these commissioners pay twenty-five cents u yard for grading the roadway around his own promises? If this had been only two or three hun- dred yards of grading it would not be worth while to talk about it; but when over twenty thousand dollars is allowed to contractors for work that should have been done for eight thousand dolla there is no room lett for doubt that this is a high-handed job. And it will not do for any one of the commissioners to plead the babyg act. Any member of the board could have stopped the fraud by simply publishing the facts. Nobody would dare to ‘perpotrate such a job in broad daylight. It is manifest-that there must have been collusion between the contractors and commigsionors. On its face the bid of twenty-five cents was extravagant and should have been rejected. The measurements of the county -surveyor should have been the basis of settlement with the contractor, but the surveyor's estimates were set aside and several thousand dollars given to the contractor in excess. On the top of this piece of jugglery the allowance was thirty-five cents a yard instead of twenty-five cents. Such a fraud never before hus been perpetrated in this county. It canuot be explained away. Somebody ought to be sent to the penitentiary for burglar- ng the county treasury. AN attempt is being made at Guthrie to organize a provisional government for Oklahoma, with the hope that con- gress will ratify the action taken by tho people. At present there is no government except that of the Indian oation. Fhe local or mu- nicipal regulations are not com- prehensive enough to afford proper remedies, particularly in cases outside of corporate limits. The necessity for a territorial organization is imperative and congress doubtless will afford the proper relief. THE superintendent of the national census is gradually formulating plans for the collection of valuable data touching on farming and farm products of this country. As the leading in- dustry of the United States, agriculture should be given an exhaustive treat- ment. The department of agriculture, as well as the state agricultural burenue, will in all probubility con- tribute to the work and assist 1n mak- ing this branch of the census of great importance. THE death of Zanus F. Wilbur at Denver removes the government’s strongest witness in the impending suit against the validity of the Bell tele- phone patent. There is consequently little prospect thut the monopoly will be broken until the patent right ex- pirves by limitation, which will not be for years. Tune new cruiser Charlestown has beea given another trial by her build- ors, which is said to have proved satis- factory. It is to be hoped that the re- port is true, for the work done unde the wuspices of the navy department for the lust four or fiye years has been such that the public.is growing skeptical as to its possessing the great merits s0 highly spoken of before the trials have taken place, —r— OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. ‘There continues W be a great deal of spec- ulation in the Eurgpean journals regarding the relation of England to the triple alli- ance, @ leading German paper claiming that England was in effect pledged to carry out the allian This view, bowever, 1s not generally accepted. When political ques- tions transceud the European continent Eng- land doubtless hus an interest in them, and the interest is adverse to the interests of Germany and 10 those of Russia. It would scarcely be worth the while of Eogland to attack the preponderance which Germany has attained by two successful wars on the continent of Europe if Burope were alone in question, The scheme of colonization, however, upon which Price Bismarck has embarked directly cballenges the prepon- derunce of Great Britam upon the seas, [Even if it went no fur- ther than the establishment of @ belt of nuval stations it would be such a challenge, but it has been made plain that it does go further, aud that the naval sta- tions arejsought for the purpose of proteoct- Ing a commerce and a systen of colonies that are not yet in being. It may be, indeed, that the whole project will come to nothing with- out any interference from the outaide. His- tory indicates that colonies can not be estab- lished and made to flourish by an ediot of wovernmont. Great Britaln herself, the most successful colonial power in the world, acquired her colonies not by any foresight of her statesmen, but by the unaided enerey of her emigrants and her “morchant adven- turers.” But however this may be, the in- torest of Germany is distinctly opposed to that of England, and it must be the aim of enlightened and patriotio English statesmen to thwart the scheme of German coloniza~ tion. oy Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has had good reason for offering wnd sccepting con- gratulations on the second anniversary of his accession to the throne. He assumed a rulership which had become discredited by boing hawked about in all the courts of Burope, with no takers, He himself had been ridiculed as a fop, an absorbed col- lector of spocimens of natural history, and a young man who would be likely to have his mothor as his primo minister. There was no end of jesting over his early spoeches promising to defend and protoct. Bulgaria, and the prophets wora agreed that Russia would make short work of his protensions toreign. Yet he is now scated on the throne more firmly than over, whilo Bulgaria has enjoyed two yoars of com- parative tranquility such as she could hardly have iooked for. Ho has certainly gawed in importance and respect during those years as much as his predocessor has lost. It scoms now more surprising than ever that Prince Alexander, after making himsolf the horo of the Servo-Bulgarian war and being idotized by his people, should have abdicated because the czar choso to express his petulant disap- proval of him, How little that disapproval amounted to, under the practical diffoulti of making it effective, Prince Ferdinand,who fell heir to it, has shown, Finding that this young man vrized his honor too much to be frightened off, the czar himself took the back track, and of late has given up wterfering with Bulgaria. e Revolutions i Hawaii have the great meriv of brevity. That was the case with the rising of two yoars ago, when the Gib- 8on ministry was overthrown and the power of King Kalakaua restricted. As for the counter - revolution recently attempted against the present reform government, it was all disposed of within twenty-four hours. It seems to have been a very sense- less proceeding, originating in the ambition of ayoung native, a half-breed named Wil- cox, and though perhaps it claimed to bo in Kulakaua's interest, no evidence is ad- duced that he countenanced it. The leader was one of the young Sandwich Islunders educated at the military school in Milan, and he seems to have sought an opportunity to turn the knowledge acquired there to some account. His personal grievance against the reform government may have been that the ministers stopped the income he had been drawing trom the treasury while in Europe, serving in the Italian army. In one respact he did have an intelligible cause—that of “Hawaii for the Hawaiians,” since the pres- enc rule is decidedly foreign; yet on ple of hundred natives joined him in sq the palace. The military company called the Honolulu Rifies, which recaptured the palace and subdued Wilcox and his followers, is ev- idently a competent and useful military body, for it was with its aid also that the revolution of 1877 was T‘uumhllshed. From all accounts” the Austro-German treaty hias been strengthoned materially by the confercnces of Prince Bismarcl and Count Kalnoky. An intimate diplomatic al- liance is now added to & military alliance in oase of foreign attack. This new move has been made possible by o withdrawal by Em- peror E'rancis Joseph from his special sup- portof the vatican, determined upon 1n the depression that followed the suicide of his son, heir to the throne. Italy 18 now in a po- sition to notify the popa, which, report says, has already been done—that he will not be allowed to remove the vatican treasures in case he soeks refuge in another country. Pope Leo is not likely 1o take such a step. but the threat to do so may serve his pur- pose of inviting foreign protests against what hie considers the proscriptive policy of Italy. Tho allianco of centrai furope, with the Briush navy lending its support in cer- tain contingencies, is the strongest diplo- matic combination of modern times. Its weak point is that, while it involves immense permanent outgo in the support of formid- able armics, it is not ablo to compel Russia to disarm. i The betrothal of Princess Margaret, fcurth and youngest sister of Emperor William of Germany, aud Prince William Alexander, only son and heir of Duke Adolph of Nas- sau, may be regarded, perhaps, as an addi- tional tie linking the future destinics of tho Grand Duchy of Luxemburg with the Ger- man empire. With the dcath of old King William 111, of Holland, which has so often been expected during the last two yoars, the grand duchy passes to Duke Adolph, and it has been said that he would give up his vights in fuvor of his son. AU all ovents,the latter will duly acquire them by inheritunce. Apart from the betrothal now arranged, the tendency of Luxemburg to become practi- cally a part of the German imperiaksystem has long been evident. It is rather singular that the princess and her betrothed wero both born on April 22, There, however, the coincidence ceases, s he is twenty years the oluer, dating from 1852, while her birth year was 1572, wa It has been remarked of the Eiffel tower that as a specimen of engineering it is simply 4 vaviation from the ordinary method of iron bridge building. The American eugiuneors who visited France, England and Scotland a few woeks ogo, groatly admired” the Eiffel, but regarded the bridge in course of con- struction across the Kirth of [orth as far more remarkable. They do not consider it a marvelous thing to crect an iron tower 300 meters it height. It reposes perpendicularly upon firm foundations, and the weight of the waterial is easily sustained. It isa far more phenomenal performance to build out on the cantilever pian u structuro extending, un- supported by false work, for a thousand feet over an arm of the sea. That was the won- der our engineers witnessed in Scotland, and it is immensely more lmpressive than the simple iron edifice, notable chiefly for its perfection of details and colossal broportions, that is the leading attraction of the K'rench exposition, . s The Argentine Repuvlicis evidently des- tined to play a brilliant part i South Ameri- can progress. In the itom of corn alone, thav country last year shipped 445,000 tons to KEurope; and this year it will send 2,500,000 tons. Its healthiful climate and fertile soil have enabled it to attract emigrants from Europe, and the government has sought to encouruge them by paying their passage from the coast to their destination i the in terior. At the present rate of increase the population will 1 ten yei amount to 8,000,000, The new element is chiefly Italian, and the future of & Latin republic on the western continent will be eagerly watched by sociologists and students of history. R The Sioux Reservation Question. New York Times, The impression that has got abroad that portions of the great Sioux reservation in Dakota may be opened to settloment as soon as the president announces that the Indians have consented to the agreoment provided for by law is altogethor erroneous, and likely to do much harm if not speodily corrected, Some men who ought to know better, includ- ing ex Detegate Gifford of Dakota, have holped to confirm the impression even sinco the error was pointed out. The act of con gress which provided for the commission to Kot the report of the various Sioux teibes to | an agreement Lo relinguish a portion of their land 1o the government on certain terms and oconditions distinctly requires that the agroe- ment shall be submitted to congress for rati- fication befere it takes final effect. It fol- lows, of course, that the land cannot be de- clared opon (o settlement until the agreoment has been ratified by congress, 1f would-be settlers aro oncouraged to emigrate to the vicinity 1o await an opening of the lands this fall, they will bo doomed to disappointment and may incur sorious hardships, — The Biblo Can Seand It Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Edgar Saltus doosw’t beliove in tho bible, This is probabley worse for Mr, Saltus than it is for the bible. Not a Fair Test, Chtcago Tribune, Many of tho Philadeiphians upon whom tho doctors have oxperimented with Dr. Brown-Sequara’s elixir report that they have received no bonofits theroform. This, however, can hardly bo called a fair test of the efficacy of the elix el SUMMER SIFTINGS. Jewolers' Weekly: The counterfoiters are coining money. Jowelers' Weekly: The gas company re- DOrts that its business 1s light. Chicago Times: Sing Ham, a Chinaman, was married to a young Gorman girl in the county clerk's office Monday. She is likely to sing ham a long timo for the future bofore she will got it. Puck: A distarbance in a German saloon recently was owusually mentioned, aftor it was over, as another affair of the beering sen. Texas Siftings: Not every bridge contrac- tor would like to be tried by ajury of his piors. Puck. Mission Teachor—‘Pat, what part of speech is but? Pat—*Bedad, sorr, its a ram part o spache.” ¥ Texas Siftings: Selling milk by weight will probably never bo adopted here. You will have to look above for the milky weigh. Life: Uncle Zeb—“Heah, yo' boys, did you stole dat watahmillian from Squar Wig- ginses?” Boys—“Yas, we did.” Uncie Zeb—'“Well, if er cbber ketch ye' stealing fum Squar Wigginses agin Ill—but_ dis am good un’ ripe. De co'rt's adjourned fer de *casion.” Life: “I can't understand all this fuss about electriclty for executions,” remarked Judge Lynch, of Kansas, reflectively. *Out in our section we have used the telegraph pole ior years.” Judge: Customer—*‘How do you sell sugar this morning, Mr. Seales?” Grocer—'‘By the pound, sir, same as always.” Customer— “Well, as I want two pounds this morhing I guess Il go across the way to Mr. Coun- ter's.” Judge: “Well,my dear,how would Farmer Brown suit you for a husband? He seems uncommon sweet on you lately.” *Perhaps s0, father, but his hair 18 80 red that—" “True, true, my enild; but you should recol- lect that he has very little of it.” Terre Hauto Express: Mudge—"Now, I enjoy a joke just as well when it is at my own expense as when it is on some otner fel- low.” Yabsley—“It's different, though, with a drink, isn't it Mudge?’ Then Mudge got mad, and wouldn’t spealc for over twenty minutes. - OUT AT FIRST. Bobby Caruthers Knocked Senseless by a Base Runner. CIveIsNATI, August 23.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Beg.|—Whon the Cincinnati- Brooklyn game began Caruthers went in to piteh for the Brooklyns, The Reds batted him so vigorously that during the third in- nings Foutz sent him to first base while ho went in to pitch, ‘Tho_change did no good, and the batting continued. On a sharp gounder that Smith, the Brooklyn shortstop, was juggling, Duryea ran liko s race-horso for first. Caruthers was standing two feet from the base on the line, Dueyea ran into him with fall force, knocking him full ength on_the ground.’ He did not get up, and the players crowded about him saw he was insensible. Not being ablo to Tevive him, a call was made for o doctor and one in the audience responded. It was fully a quarter of an hour before he showed any signs of life and then he remained in a dazed, half-conscious conaition for an hour. He was removed from the grounds in an ambu- lance, At Y o'clock he was a very sick man. His left shoulder is probubly fractured, the Tibs on his right sido are wrecked and vory sore, while he suffers intense pain in nis chest and stomach. 1t is feared he will not pitch again this seasou, —— POSTMASTER PAUL'S WOES, He 18 Now Asked to Settlo For Missing Registered Lette MILWAUKEE, August 23.—[Special Tele- gram to T Bee.|—Postmaster Paul is in vickle. Some time ago a packuge of regis- tered letters was lost from the Milwaukee postofiice—that is, Mrs. Sexton, who had charge of the department, could not say whether she had put them in the wrong pouch or whether they had been stolen, As nothing was heard from them it was assumed the package had been stolen, The ackage contained ubout §300, As Postmas- ter Paul was looking o the pa- pers today he was surpriced by the appearance of Special Agent John E. Leach, who made a formal demund on the postmaster to make good the stolen money. After Paul haa recovered from the shock he answered the demand with a refusul to step up to the captain’s office and settle, as he did not consider himself responsible for the loss, ‘Phe inspect<r said he had no interest in the matter and made the demand only in the ling of duty and in accordanee with instructions from Washington. Should Paul continue firm in his refusal to settle, proceedings will be commenced against his bondsmen. . —————— Prepared by a combi tion and process peculiar Hood’s Sarsaparilla accomplishes heretofore unknown wtion, propor- o itself, sures Washington kelics Stole (Copyright 1889 by James Gordon LONDON, August 23.—|New ¥ Cable—Special to Tie rial brasses of the Washington family have been stolen from the parish church of Sul- grave, uear Bandburg. The family of George Washington spranz from Sulerave, and the church is much visited by Americans. No Kormal Kejection, WASHINGTON, August 25.—Acting Secre- tary Walker says there will be no formal re- jection of the bids opened yesterday for the building of five new cruisers, The facts speak for themseives and the wdver- Lisements state plainly the limitof cost of the suIps. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. 7hen Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When sbe was & Child, she eried for Cestorie, Whien sho became Miss, she elung to Castoria, WWhon shehad Children, she gave them Castoris FRENOH TOITICS, Excellent Cnances for the Suovess of the Republicans, [ Copyright 1589 by James Gordon Bannsth.) Panis, (New York Herald “able—Specfal to e Ber. | M is generally | believed that the coun ministors will at its next moeting come ‘o a definite decision as to the date of the logislativo oloctions, It is probable that efther Soptember 22 or 20 1 will be selected. ‘The conditions under which the electoral struggle will bo confucted may bo profitably examined. The results of the elections for conscils genercaux and of the proceedings bofore the high court of justice have caused serious anxiety in the ranks of the coalition against the republic. The first of those oveuts was a proof that Boulangism was still far from having secured as com- pleto a mustery over publio apinfon as was generally supposed. The monarchial allies of tho Buulangists have had their eyes opened to the fact that they have all along been deluding themselves as to_the advant- ages to be dorived from the allionce, Tho longer-headed politicians of that party are now asking oach other whether association with Heari Rochefort, Vergoin, and others of that ilk 18 not doing them serious injury with many_ consorvativo 8 who are unable to understand how can be holping the cause of order and religion by joining hands with socialists aud ex-communists, On the other” court of justice b and the suit before the high produced a profound im- opinion. Lawyers may ints of law it prosonts, and ily on the comporency of tho bulk of tho publie do not look behind tho fact that the accused wore found guilty upon evidence of no | weight, The “summary that the procurour geners made of the public and private hfe of Bou langer was not caiculated to add to the pres- tige of that political agitator, and it hns un- doubtedly done much damage to his already shady reputation as a man and patriot, The situation thus created has not s caped the attention of the political managers of tac conscrvatives. The tono of the royal Bonapartist Journals show that they are by no means confident of the results of the com- ing elections. They might have profited by the warning and broken off from the com- pact exprossed or implied, with Boulunger, separated from the general, from ot and from Honel Rochefort. ‘This, ., they have nol done, una it is doubt ful whether they will take such a decided step. The Autorite published tha other day a list of candid whom the Union des Droites had decided to support, Tho 1ist is still far from compiete, as it only includes3s: electoral districts and composos two o gories—candidutes to whom the U des Droites will give unqualified sunport, and those to whom they will offer no opposition. In the hst are inchided the names of royalists of the purest water, and also Boulangists of the most active sort. The Due de Roche- foucould Dondevilie is founa alongside of that of Luzuerre. Luisant and Reux and Naquet and Boulaneer himseli are honoved with the favor of the Union des Droites, The list omits the name of Henri Rochefort, who has not as yet reccived the endorsement of the monarchial and conservative comuiittoe, This is an omission for which donbtless amends will ere long be made. Thus the monarchists in sy sson received, p struegle unde argue Joar: court, but i of the it In continuing tho sume conditions in which they entered upon- the elections to the couscils genercaux —that is 10 say, in al- liance with the Boulungists, even with those of that fuction identified with the oxtreme left wing of the republican forecs. We shall soon see whether this second pitehed battle will turn out wore fuvorably for them than did the lust one. It is aivoady easy to see thut Boulungism is on the wane, and that everywhero where tiiey have made s com- mon cause with the Boulangists the mon- archists have lost ground, while the republi- cans have baen inspired with renewed confi- dence in their ability to enter upon the ap- proaching clectoral strug with excellent chances of success. ment Won't Toueh It LCopyright 1889 by James Gordon Bennstt.| LONDON, Atgust [New York Herald Cable—Special to Tug Bee]—I need scarcely suy that the seizuro of Idnglish seal- ing vessels by American captuns is the sub- ject of much remark wnd muny speculations, but it is not doubted that the communica- tions with the Unitea States government, to which the under 'y for foreign af- fuirs alluded yesterduy, will result in jus- tice being done, Any attempt to_force ‘the subject upon the attention of parliament weuld be promptly disconraged by the gov- ernment, and, indecd, by the housa itself. A MEMBER 0F PARLIAMENT. 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