Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBEK 14, 1880, THE DAILY BEE. s 5. ROSEWATER, Baitor. __ —————— PUBLISHED HVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally rgormu Baition) mncludin snndly. o Vi o 5 “Ihe Omaha Sund address, One Year “Weekly Hoe, One Year, OFFIC! fi Bee llulhlln‘ N. W. Corner ’"‘1’."""‘2?«3‘" 58 Rookery Wuiidin cn ce. o S §onn Oltics, Hooms 14 and 5 Teibuno W nlglh on Office, No, 513 Fourteonth Street. Counil Blafts Ofoe, No. & fl Pear] Stroot. Lincoln Office, 1020 ¥ CORRESP! UNIIENFI. All communieations relating to news and edi. torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor of the Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS. All Ynsiness lotters and remittances should hn addressed to The Bea Publishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoilice oraers bo made payable to the order of thecompany, T Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors aiex Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Stroots. The bee on the Trains. Thore 18 no excuse for a faflure to zet TAr BER .gn the trains. Al nowsdealers have been noti- ] supply. [ravelers who want un't gt 1€ on trains where other are carriod are requested 1o no- THE vh;\th BEE, €worn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nebraska, 18, County of Douglas. { George 13, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Reo Publishing Company, does solemnly swear thut the actual ciroulation of ‘Tnk DALY Lim for {hi week ending Sevtember 7. 189, was a8 fol Friduy, Baturdi; Average. Bworn to before me ln(l nunlcr(h m] presence this 7th day of Saptembver, 20D (Keal.] FEILL, Notary Publis. State of Nebraska, I County of Donglas, { Georgo. I, T7schack, being duly sworn, de- Euxtl and says that ho 1s secretary of The Beo ublishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of Tne DaiLy Ber for t nionuth of September, 184, 18, lu| coples; for Oc tober 1684, 18,084 copies: for_November, 185, 18 888 copiast for Dacember, 1884 18223 cob January, 1880, 18,674, coples; for bruar; JE,000 |omrl rnr M 188 18,804 copl April, 180, 18,650 copl r May, 1 ‘coples: for' hm! 1540, 18,858, f‘l){l\l‘* ), 18,738 coples; for :\llgu«l 1559 ¥o. o, Ta.m0 or July, 851 coplon. 78CHUCK., Sworn to befors me_and subscribed in my Dretence tals diat day of Auguat, A. D. 18 (SEAL.] P. THERE is nothing about Missouri river water that would indicate there bhad been so many appropriations dis- golved 1a it. SNOW is reported to have fallen in northern Dakota. Forall that the crops of the country are out of danger from any visit of Mr. Jack Frost. A 1IN famine is threatened in New York. Maybe this fact has something to do with the present investigations of the Hon. Amos J. Cummings 1nto the conditions of Dakota’s tin crop? Now that the Nebraska state board of agriculture has passed a resolution indorsing Chicago as the location for the World’s fair, the Garden City may feel assured that the end of the strug- gle is in site, THE annual slaughter of about five hunared brakemen in this country on account , of defective car appliances should be argument enough to induce the railvond companies to introduce some new car coupling. THE decision has been reached that a viaduct must be built on Teuth street. Tt now simply remains todecide whether the city or the railroad companies shall pay for it directly or indirectly, and the work can go merrily on. GBORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND esti- mates that Americans have spent one hundred million dollars in Europe this year. This amountought to furnish pocket money for the kings and queens of the old country for a little while. THE exposition at the Coliseum is still a drawing card. Why not make Sunday, the closing day, of particular interest to the people of Council Bluffs and South Omaha, by making special Tates to visitors from those cities on the motor and dummy? Ir THE Union Pacific should follow the map of new roads built 1 the col- umns of a local paper, bankruptey would confront the company inside of thirty days. It is one thing to trace a line on an engraver’s block, but quite another affair to build it with steel and wood. — THE welcome news comes from the New Mexico constitutional convention now in session that *‘the amendments disenfranchising duellists and prize fighters and enfranchising women were defeated.” With such a platform it is evident that New Mexican statesmen are taking a step forward which will land them iuto the cradles of liberty and fame simultaneous! Tie death of Samuel S. Cox makes the fifth vacancy in the Fitty-first con- gress, those who have proviously died being Congressmen Burns, of Missouri; Gay, of Louisiana; Townshend, of Illi- nois, and Laird, of Nebraska. There is likely to be no change in the political complexion of the coming session due to these deaths, as New York will in all probability return a democrat to suc- ceed Mr. Cox Sm—— Sk JouN McDONALD, the Canadian premier, is said to be seriously consider- ing whetber he will or will not present a claim of one hundred thousand dollars against this gountry for the seizure of English sealers in Behring sea. The nerve exhibited in a demand of this sort would equil the audacity of the sealers themselves, Uncle Sam will receive the demand kindly and allow his office cat to pass upon its merits, E—— Boss MAHONE is evidently not going to lord it over the republican party of Virginia in his gubernatorial canvass. There is already a good sized breach in his support, coming from the restless and ambitious young spirits of his party who do not propose to swallow Mahone, aithough he has been ticketed and la- beled by the republican state conven- tion. The little general will have a bard road to travel to the governor's Shair. FAVORING RECIPROCITY. The sonate committes investigating our trade relations with Canada re- sumed its labors & tew days ago in DBos- ton. It has since obtained the views of a considerable number of representa~ tive men in various devartments of business and industry, and the inter- esting fact has been disclosed that thero1s & very general sentiment in favor of ocommercial reciprocity with Canada. Ex-Governor Claf- lin, of Massachusetts, said the peo- ple of New England were gen- erally favorable to closer relations with Canada, and this is certainly borne out by the expressions of others who were hoard by the committee. The presi- dent of the Boston chamber of com- merce said there should be free trade in coal and iron, and some other pro- ducts, between the two countries, and the president of the fruit and produce oxchange, while regarding both politi- cal and commercial union as im- practicable, favored & reciprocity which shall make more free the interchange of commodi- ties between the United States and Canada, and which shall just so far enlarge our home market as will be for the interest of the country. Some went farther, and a few were found to favora policy looking to annexation. All this1s interesting and important, and nowhere more so than in the west and northwest, which is very much concerned in this question of trade relations with our northern neighbors. ‘What it distinctly shows is, that within a comparatively brief time there has taken place in New England a most decided change in public senti- ment on this subject, and that what was a few years ago the view of a compara- tively small number of the people of that section has now become general. It shows that while at the time the questions of reciprocity and commer- cial union began to be seriously agi- tated a few ycars ago, interest in them was confined to a very fow in any sec- tion of this country. Now the repre- sontatives of great interests in New Eogland and the northwest regard the subject of more inti- mate trade relations with Canada as one of the very greatest and most pressing importance. So far as New England is concerned, the reason for its present attitude isnot far to seek. That section not only wants the in- creased market which would be ex- pected from reciprocity, but it demands for the preservation of its industries cheaper raw materials. The iron in- dustries of that section have reached a stage when the question of cheaper raw materials is, as Governor Ames recently said, ono of life or death. For ten years past these industries have been steadily declining, until now, taking the whole of New England together, they are not more than forty per cont of what they were ton years ago. Many extensive establishments have within the last year or two been closed, others are op- erating to the oxtent of only a small part of their facilities, and very fow are being run at a profit on the in- vestment, Unless relief be ob- tained in cheaper raw materials the ultimate destruction of nearly all these industries is inevit- able. They can not without such velief withstand the competition of Pennsyl- vania and the.south, with the superior advantages as to raw materials there enjoyed. In the northwest the trans- portation question is the 1a0st important influonce in shaping public opinion favorable to closer commercial relations with Canada, and it is not less potent with the people of that section than is the guestion of the preservation of its induswies in New England. It is thus made apparent that the whole subject of our businoss rela- tions with Canada hns assumed a degreo of importance and interest far greater than it has ever before possessed, and that its future consideration will require the most intelligent statesmanship. It will come prominently before the next congress, aud it is not unlikely to play a more or less conspicuous part in national politics, possibly with a de- cisive effact upon the immediate future of parties. At any rate it is-certain to command the earnest attention of the entire count THE BANKERS' CONVENTION. The annual convention of the Ameri- can Bankers’ association will he held in Kansas City September 25 and 26, There has been no time since the association was organized when its annual deliber- ations were of greater concern to the banking and general financial interests of the country than will be those of the forthcoming convention. In view of this it will be interesting to note that there will be prepared for the consideration of the convention a more extensive varety and range of subjects than at any pre- vious meeting of the association, and the only serious question is whether there will be time enough in the two days to give adequate attention to the numerous subjects that will be sented. Such matters as the relations of corporate and private banking to the government and states, the government finances, wigh particular reference to the surplus, the reduction of the war debt, the revenues of the government, especially that from the tax on spirits, and the national bank system itself, should command the most careful and thorough consideration, and as these are but a part of the subjects that will be presented, and the association will be called upon to spend some time in festivities, it is to be apprehended that the bankers, thoroughly practical men though they are, and in the habit of expediting business, will find two days short time in which to give due consid- eration to the comprehensive pro- gramme that has been arranged. According w the report of Comp- troller Lacy, on the national banking system, the total number of na- tional banks in the United Stutes July 12, 1880, was three thou- sand, two hundred and thirty- nine, having a capital of over six hun- dred and five million dollars. The growth of the system during the last few yours has been greatest in the west and southwest, but while the number of banks has increased the amount of cir- culution has materially decreased, The groatest volume df national bank circu- lation was in 1873, when the amount was in round numbers three hundred and forty-two million dollars, Last July the circulation of the national banks was one hundred and twenty-eight millions. The high price of government bonds has made the issue of notes based upon bond deposits un- profitable, and as the national bank notes have been redeemed, their place has been filled by the issue of coin cor- tificates. An important question of the not remote future will be that of pro- viding a security as a basis for national bank notes, if the issuing of notes by national banks #s not to be wholly aban- doned. The coming convention will doubtless have something to say on this subjoct. Tre bureau of animal industry has opportunely published a report of the number and value of cattle in the United States for 1887 and 1888, 1In con- junction with the examination now being made by the senate becf invest- igating committee the report will be of great value in determining disputed questions. It will certainly open the oyes of many people to learn that since 1885 the number of cattle in the country devoted to the beef supply increased from seventeen millions to nearly forty- nine millions. This strengthens the po- sition of those ¥ho claim that the low price of cattle is due to overproduction. The deductions of the government ex- perts, however, are to the effect that the price of corn and the mean price of hogs in comparison with that of steers to a measure affects the price of cattle. This is a suggestion which the senate committee should not fail to make use of for what it is worth in continuing its inquiry into the dressed beef industry. Tue Denver News is considerably wrought up because western railroads continue to use the Missouri river as a basis for western freight rates. As u matter of facy, the roads could not do otherwise, as the Missourt has always been regarded as the dividing line botween eastern and western business. Then, too, its geographical location adds force to the position taken by trans-Missouri roads, and as the different western trunk line sys- tems terminate at points on the river the managers could not, if they wished, make a different arrange- ment than the one now in force. The trouble with Denver seems to be that while it desires to be regarded as a terminal point it is in reality nothing more than a good sized station on the lending systems which diverge from Omaha and Kansas City. Whenever water can be made to run up hill Den- ver may expect to become a terminal point, but not until then. To the honor of the officers of the regular army and to the high civilians from the states of Kansas, Missouri, Ne- braska, Town and Colorado, who took purt in the project, a fitting monument, to the memory of General Grant is tu be unveiled to-day at Fort Leaven- worth. The event will prove of na- tional importance and will put to shamo those cities whose abortive attempts to erect a memorial to the hero of Appo- mattox have ended in failure. Quietly and without display the necessary funds for the statue were raised, principally through the efforts of army olficer Without unneccessary delay the wo! was placed in the hands of the well kunown sculptor, Loredo Taft, and his creation has been most creditable to his genius. The Grant monument at Fort Leavenworth is a noble testi- monial from the army of the United States. FEW contemporaneous public men en- joyed the popularity of Samuel Sullivan Cox. He was endeared to all classes of people due to his sympathetic, nature, his warm heart and his sunny smile. It was to be expected that his obsequies, which took place in New York Friday, would be attended by men prominent in society, in politics and in business, irve- spective of politicsor religion. A nota- ble feature of the funeral services was the display of floral offerings from the letter carriers of mauny cities, in whose behalf ne had exerted himself while in congress. Nor did the people of the northwest, especially the Dakotas, for- got to bonor the memory of the dead statesman who led the way for theirad- mission into the union in ‘spite of the opposition of his own party. Tne London dock strikers complain because they bave received no pecun- iary aid from workingmen in this coun- try. There isnota single instance on record where British workingmen ever helped American strikers in their strug- gles for botter pay in this country. While the press and people of the United States recognize that the Lon- don men have areal grievance,and that outside of a question of poor wages it has been shown that a dock laborer’s work has a tendency to shorten life, there is no reason why the men should expect American workingmen to assist them particularly, while they are re- ceiving contributions amounting to about thirty-five thousand dollars a day. Mr. Burns’ sententious remark: “D— your pity; give us your bob,” ap- plies well enough to English working- men, but notto those who labor for their living in this country. Toe United States did not feel ealled upon to retaliate when Germany and France, a few years ago, made their waron American pork. In both of these cases the injury done the foreign coun- tries was much greater than to our pro- duce shippers, because other markets were ready and anxious to receive all the surplusavailable. Now that Mex- ico feels called upon to place herself in & position with regard to our pork pro- ducts equally as false as that occupied by both France and Germany, it will be an easy matter for the United States, if, after a survey of the situation, the proper authorities think it wise, to re- taliate ip a manner both effective and damaging to the interests of our south- ern neighbor. 1t is to be hoped that no such contingency will arise. — Tue last number of Bradstreet's com- piles the losses caused by the floods in Penusylvania, Marylund and Virginia . 1ast spring. ks loss of life in the Conemaugh valley is placed at six thousand, whicl {s thought to be sub- smntlnlly correct, though the actual number will never be known. The loss of property aggregates over twenty-five million dollars, The damage in Johns- town alone isput at about five millions, and but a small portion of this can ever be recovered or repaired. In view of such appalling ‘éonsequences a solemn prayer is offered that such a calamity will nover aghin visit this country. — “All the South American nations, with the single exception of San Domingo, have signified their intention of accept- ing the invitation issued by this govern- ment to participate in a congress com- posed of American nations called for the purpose of discussing the trade re- lations of the various countries. The reason San Domingo refuses to come in is because the United States senate failed several years ago to ratify a treaty negotiated by representatives from that country. The San Domingo people make o mistake, but they will realize the fact soon enough without our telling them. Tae New York Sun warns the victu- alizers that the holding of the fair in that city will involve an enormous in- crease in the demand for food of ali kinds. *“‘The daily consumption,” it says, “‘of meat in Paris, exclusive of chickens and tripe, has risen from nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds to far above one million pounds.” Consid- ering that the world’s fair has not yet been located, the butchers may wait a short time before they commence en- larging their refrigerators for the extra supply SUSPICIONS are well founded that sig- natures of property owners have been but upon petitions for paving without their knowledge or consent. There can be little doubt that if interested taxpayers would consult the paving pe- titions on file at the city clerk’s office, more revelations of an astounding char- acter would come to light. Forgery is a crime which cannot be palliated, and 1 this instance there are grounds to be- lieve that a great many fingers have been burnt. AN ALASKA correspondent of the New York 7Zimesstates that while there is plenty of gold in Alaska, it is hard to get at. Gold was ever hard to getat, and the fact makes people more anxious toobtain it. It isalleged that at pres- ent but one Alaskan mine pays. With improved machinery, however, enter- prising men will doubtless see that.the mountains give up their treasures and further enrich this greatand glorious country. A UNIQUE plan to prevent private soldiers from deserting from the regu- lar army has been submitted to the war department. It proposes that the offi- cers receive sufficient advances in eal- ary as will tend to malke them more gentlemanly towards their subordinates. 1f such a course were pursued the entire right wing of the treasury building would hardly be sufficient to meet the requirement of even .x.suund lieuten- ant. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The pertinacity with which the scions of royal families cling to ideas which are of an- other tic -~ and which aro wholly out of sort with the general sentiment of the present age, is curiously illustrated by the manifesto which the Comte de Paris has 1ssued to the people of France. In it he not only ignores the most sentient political spirit of the eve o the nineteenth contury, which is that of the inherent right of popular government, but he mores as well all those events of the last ten or twenty years in France which have demonstrated the certain passing of personal government. Ho speaks to the peasantry of France in the tone of a master, or rather of an owner, as if they and ull that 1 theirs be- longed to him. He contends for his ancient right 10 rule over thom—a right to be found only in the accidentof his birth. Because his grandfather was once king of France, and because he is the so-called head of the Bourbon family, he claims the right to rale and tax a great nstion, the samo that declared with mighty emphasis against the last head of the Bourbons, who ruled that they would have no more kings or Bourbous to rule over them, Iuis true that by fraud and force Louis Napoleon set up'a throne in the palace from which Louis Philtippe was driven, but in the fullness of time he too was driven from it, and for eighteen years the French people have had no use for either kings or emperors, With presidents of thewr own choosing, they have steadily advanced in solf-government, and whatover their fail- ures, resulting frem mistakes or faults, have been, they huve made no sign_that they are willing to coase to be sovereign citizens and to again become subjects. The Comte de Paris is oo of the ablost and worthiest of his family, and if it were possible for him to forego his monarchal protentions, to accept the existiug political oraer of things, and assist to build up the republic upoa firmer foundations, he would be doing & wiser thing than that of asserting his right to sot up the old Bourbon rule upon the ruins of the present government, There is reason enough for the French people to suspect that his proclaimed love for them and his solici- tude for their political welfara lie no deeper than his ambition to be their king, und to sy to them, as 0h of their kings did, **I am France,” S0 suspecting, it is not likely that bis lato manifesto will induce them to recog- nize the right heglajms, . Y Tho suggestion that the Salisbury govern- ment shall propoéé the endowment of a Roman Catholio, upwersity in Ireland indi- cates a repetition off the same tactics of out- bidding the libarulg that were successfully employed by Disgacll twonty years ago. It has been made so teAtatively that it commits nobody to anything, and has probably been put forward for ghe purpose of fecling public opinion. If um,w%ue purpose, it has suc- ceeded, and though $he result is what might have heen expected, it is noue the less in- structive. As to the Parnellites, they are perfectly prepared to accept concessions from eithor English party, and they would, of course, support & proposal to endow an Irish university in which the national reli- gion was professed, from whatever quarter the proposal might come. They are under sowe obligation to the Gladswonian liberals for the fight those liberals have made in be. half of home rule, but they do not profes: to be bound by gratitude in their political action, They represent Ireland, and it is their business to obtain aay concessions they can for Ireland, whoever offers them. Doubtloss if Ireland were self-governed, it would set up & Catholic uuiversity, Cer- tainly, it would set up a Catholio ubiversity if it set up aoy at all. If thero is & chanoe of endowing such @ university with “‘impe- rial'’ movey, of course they will acoept it, but without abating any of there othor de- mands or committing thomselves to the sup- port of the party which offers tnis conoes- sion. It is a case in which their is no ocea sion to distrust the Greoks bearing gifts, The trouble would rise with British and not with Irsh opinion, and the liberal party in England and in Scotland would deubtloss 0ppose such a scheme with vehemence. Tho conservatives proper would have no particu- lar objection to allowing a Roman Catholio people to have a Roman Catholic university, but the liberal unionists would probably upon such an issue desert the conservatives to aman, Infact, itis far more & religious sentiment than one properly politi- cal that makes the strength of the opposition in England to home rule. - W September 23 the general election of a new chamber of deputies will take place in France. As to the outcomo of this interest- ing political contost there is scarcely any dif- ference of opinion among foreign onlookers. The opponents of Boulanger are supposed to have succeeded in thoroughly discrediting and disabling him. Nevertheless, certain recent incidents in Paris suggest that it may be still prudent to refrain from prediction. 1t should be remombered in considering the play of forces in the coming election that, al- though the opportunists and the radicals have joined hands in the effort to get rid of Boulanger, they can hardly unite on candi- dates for the chamber of deputies, Their po- litical programmes aro antagonistic. The opportunists are satisfied with the French constitution as it is, and they especially in- siston tho retontion of tho semate. The radicals are as distinctly pledged as Bou- langer himself to a thorough revision of the organic law, and particularly to the sum- mary abolition of the upper house. Again, the radicals desiro to repudiate the concordat, which the opportunists, on tho contrary, pro- fer to uphold, having sated or outgrown their former hostility to clericalism. That parties with views 8o conflicting should agree upon a comnion list of candidates seems impracti- cable; yet, in the absence of such an agree- ment, the conservatives are cortain to carry every arrondissement in which the combined republican mujority i8 small. The recent election of councillors general in a large number of cantons does not help us to fore- cast the result of tho approaching contest for the control of the chamber. Opportun- ists and radicals combined upon candidates for these local ofices. Could they do this on September 22, they would unquestionably carry a large majority of the arrondisse- ments. ‘There is, however, but little chance of such a union, e The German reichstag will soon begin its last session bofore the elections, and much curiosity is felt as to the legislation to be provosed by the government. Emperor Wil liam has shown in various ways that his great concern next to the condition of his army is the labor situation. 1In this hoe is de cidedly in advance of his chancellor, whose distrust of the workingmen of the empire amounts to a mania. But in view of another appeal to the country the government must be prepared to show some quid pro quo for the vast sums expended upon armaments. Sowme importance may therciore b ched to the assertions made in Berlin that Bis- marok is perfectiog a number of social re- forms. Legislation in favor of the working classes will figure prominently in this pro- gramme. Money lenders now oppress the small borrowers by exacting heavy interest, and capital in Germany, as in some other lands, holds the laborer down to the lowest o figure, even if it is below decent Living os. Bismarck proposes to regulate kes, and to prevent usurious est. his will ot relieve the foreign situation, but may serve to hold the reichstag well up to the part it must play in the drama of the balance of power in Europe. *n Tippo Tib's loyalty to King Leopold, of Belgium, and his friendship for Stanley have not led him to an indiscriminate admiration of the white race. He evidently shares to some extent that dislike for buth English and Germans which he imputes to the natives of Africa. But lus theory that the influence of the Arabs tends to put an end to slavery by “instilling into the natives civilized ideas" 1s quite remarkuble. It is the Arabs who in- vade peaceful villages, killing those who re- sist and cerrying off to a horrible fute all who can march or be dragged. The Arab caravan tracked from the ruined African settlement to the slave market on the coast by the bones of its victims is one of the most hideous spectacles of inhumanity prompted by greed of money that the earth still fur- nishes. Tippo Tib had become notorious in the business, and Staniey, in calling him to his aid, as Gordon had called upon Zebehr, did s0 because he felt compelled to make use of the enormous power the Arab chief pos- sessed. Stanley is said te bave procured a stipulation from him to suppress the slave waflic in the Stanley Falls region, but prob- ably his heart is with his countrymen. If Tippo Tib's son shares the parental ideas about Germans and Arabs, the project to make himn mediator between Captain Wiss- mann and Bushiri may not be acceptable tos the former at least. e Humphrey or Humphreys island and Rior- son island, the two latest of the little tracts of land in the Pacific which tne British have annexed to her majesty's domams, will no doubt bo grabbed without opvosition. They 10 not lie Ja the field which Germany has scized, and, indeed, they are rather within that region which some mapmalkers have been in the habit of assigning to the United States, in consequene either of original dis- coveries or visits of American navigators, or of occupation by our countrymen for collect- ing and shivping guano. But us our govern- ment has never set up any possessory titlo 10 this region, Which lies between the Sand- wich and Samoan islands in latitude east of the Gjlbert and Ellice eroups, there is not the slightest danger of objection from that source. Fanning and Penrbyn islands in this locality not long ago had the British flag hoisted over them, and near the latter are the two new acquisitions, which lie in about 102 south lattitude and 160° west longitude. There is some plausibility in the theory that they are annexed with & view to possibly making them stations in the pro- posed ocean cable line between British Columbia and Australia, although they are rot®r far cast of a direct route from Hono- lulu to the Fijis, or even from the former point to Samoa by way of Fanaing island, o ‘The report that the king of the Belgians con- templates a visit to the Congo is not surpris- ing. It seems natural that a capitalist, who withiu the past eleven years has invested over §8,000,000 of his private fortune in the dovelopment of the Congo, should desire to see for himself what has been done with his money. Thearea within which his royal bounty has been expended is enormous, and the king is not likely to visit more than a small part of the region; but even if he should go no further inland than Stanley Pool, he would see many striking evidences of the wonderful chunge that hus been wrought in the aspact of things on the lower Cougo. It has been fortunate for the Congo state that nothing has yet occurred to check the munificent donations that have been es- sential to carrying on the eutorprise. But the king’s great pecuniary sacrifices can not always coutinue, and it is an interesting question what will becowe of the enterprise when the mouey of Leopold I1. rups short. 1ts future, doubtiess, depends upon the de~ ‘velopment of its commerce, and the hope of {ts promoters is that the railroad soon to be built will give an impulss to trade that will put the state on & sound foundation, . ) In the late unpleasantnoss betwoen the Biack Flags of Tonquin and the French, the leader of the Chinese outlaws made a mone- tary estimato'of the valuo of his enomios, He offered his men a sum oquivalent to $125 for the head of every Frenchman, and §25 addi- tional if the viotim had wold braid on his coat, and the more gold braid the larger tho roward. The well known fact that most well-to-1o Oriontals exptess great contempt for native christians was amusingly ilins- trated in this Black Flag proclamation, which offered $30 apiece for the heads of na- tivo soldiers in the French service, but added that $15 for the hoeads of native Catholics was all they wero worth, This Black Flag war- rior would probably endorse the recent dis- tortod statoment that tho only converts the onaries have mado in the Oriont are the sorvants around their .promises, and that these backslide as soon as thoy aro dropped from the pay roll. Congress Adopts New Rules. Washington Capital. The congressman closes his And scorns parliamentar; With the member from Boston they'll all have to bow To the Marquis of Quecnsberry rules. proofvitie e ines Yet the World Moved. Kansas City Times. The wheels of gavernment haven't stoppod, but a cog slipped somewhere yestorday. Thero was not a ball game in either league or association, oL nry The “Coae” in Deep Contempt. Memphis Avalanche. Georgian idiots who vose as duelists should be kept out of the newspapers and put in the ‘workhouse. An Incongrunus Combination. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Corporal Tanner perished as a public ofl- cer in & desperate effort to run a hair-trigger mouth in conjunction with a flint-lock brain. Earned Missouri’s Gratitude. St. Louis Republie. We renew to Hon. David R. Francis, gov- ernor of Missouri, the assurance of our ad- miration. His staff isa thing of beauty and a joy forever. The govornor who makes two Missouri colonels whero only one was before is & benefactor to his race. Zur o THIS AND THAT. Omaha has foreclosed her mortgage on the pennant. The piano trust will probably be estab- lished on a sound basis. The refining influences of Omaha are very appurent on the silver ore which is smelted here, The latest discoveryof Tascott in China did not in any degree lessen the future pros- pects of that industry. Judge Lynch continues to hold court in all parts of the country. Most of his sentences have strings tied to them. And now an Omaha type writer breaks the record in his line of business, As a record breaker Omaha has po equal anywhere in the country. A stone at Woodville, N. H,, marks the boundary of two states, three counties and four towrs, and yet it could hardly be called a bounding stone. $ If the man who was fined in police court along with a lot of other unclean people of both sexes, is “an Omaha society man’ heaven help Omaha society. The national telephone convention is now being held in Minneapolis and the tariff on talk is being strensthened. The telephone monopoly is & great “ring.” Two Boston mediums claim to have made $1,000 in betting on certain race horses which were indicated by the spirits. Spirits at tho race track are not uncommon, but they usu- ally get the tips themselves. The whites and blacks of Missouri have been marrying promiscuously in the face of a state law prohibiting such alliances, But the statute 1s 8o worded in black and white, and cupid has been warned not to mix colors in matrimony. The Santa Fe railroad, which has been so deeply in the soup that it contemplated transforming its rolling stock into sailboats, is now rapidly improving its business, and promises to again become one of the strong systems of the land. Tho new directory of Johnstown shows that the city contains thirty-six groceries and tifty-one saloons. This would indicate that the place is getting on its feet again, but with a likelinood of being unable to stay there if the saloons be largely patronized. There 1s a baby at Galena, Wis., which though perfectly formed and in apparent good health, has been asleep ever since its birth. Infants which can thus pass through the crying period in sweet slumber will fill a long-felt want. Itis to be hoped that they will become povular, THE PUGILIST POLITICIAN, Now let the people vote the name Of John, the pugilist, In politics he'll do the same As fighting with his fist, He first s councilman will try ‘Then be to congress sent, He'll climb fame's ladder toward the sky Untl he's president. We'll need no standing army then, Because no one would dare To brave the Lion in his den— The tiger in his lair, If any nation does a thing That iso’t in the law, Our John will put them in the ring And smash ’em in the jaw. CHANGE, Latitudinal Lines Have a Hard to Orack. The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, which is an adjunct of the Missouri Pacific, has given notice of its intention to make o reduction of 18 per centin grain rates on seaboard and export shipments, This an- nouncement reached Omaha yesterday and as the road has direct communication with tide-water ports, it created consterna- tion in the ranks of the trafiic mauipulators. A prominent_official said: “If this is fol- lowed up a vast change will be made in the railroad situation within the next thirty days. It meaus, stead of freight being moved eastward and westward across the continent that it will be turned in 8 northerly and southerly direction. Bxport [reight will seek the shortest route to tide water, and this can only be done by reversing the lay of the channels of trafiic, as I have said. If the Fort Scott & Memphis rond puts in its proposed rate, all grain reaching Omaba will be routed that way, aud none of the product of the trans- Missouri territory will ever seo the east sido of the river at this point. Just at present the railway problow 18 dilleult one,” A RADIOAL Nut Shops l-‘nr Anaconda, The Union Pacific has awarded the con- tract for the vonstruction of repair shops at — e Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby was siei, we gave her Castoria. ‘Whean she was a Child, she erind for Castorie, ‘When she beeame Miss, she clung bo Castoria, Wh2nshehad Children, st gave thom Castoria Annconda to N. G, Chiapman, of Milwaulk: who was tho lowost biddor. ' The plant wi 700 bo &6 Jarire S0 thet at Ghevente, bat will involve the outlay of about $200,000. Tt i8 probable that the contract for the constrio- tion of additional shops at Cheyenne will be awarded to-dav. The oxtra work fn- volvos a car repair shop and several other minor structures, involving an_additional outlay at that point of about $23,000, The Conductors and Spotters, 1t is currently roportod that soveral pas- songer conductors on the main linos of the Union Pacific will be taken to task for thefr indiscrect methods of handling the coms pany’s cash, Auditor Wing, who keeps a tab on the knights of the punch, when questioned, stated that he had nothing 10 say concerniug the matter, but hinted in & round-about way that somothing of this kindwoul | take place. It is statod that several of this gontry have of late been living in a dewrce bayond what their salary would warrant, and tho spotter was placed on_ their tracks' with the above rosults. The names of tho probable victims could not be ascertained. Rapeijko Has Resigned. The fact that Jolin Rapeljke, superintend« ent of the Idaho division of the Union Pa- cific, had tendored his resignation, as pub- lished exclusively in Tue Brr of Tuesday, wus officially announced at the hoadquarters yesterday. His successor has not as yet boen appointed, and there is much conjocture as o who tho lattor will bo. Tho seloction has narrowed down between Robert Blickens- derfer, ex-superiotondont of the Nobraska division, and_‘Irainmuster Groen. 1t is thought that Groen's chances are very good, owing to the light in which ho is held by {\Lumgul Cuming, of the consolidated sys- em, In the Line of Notice was filed with Registor-of Deods Megeath, by the Union Pacilic railway com- pany, appomnting Edwin F. Atkins, of Bel- mont, Mass. a trustee, ns successor to the late Elisha Atkins, of the Omaha bridge company. The original board olected in 1871, consisted of John Edgar Thompson, Phiiadelphin: John Pierepont Morgan, Now. York and Elisha Atkins, Boston. Thompson was tho fivst to dio and’ the other two se- lected Frederick Amos to take his place. Then Atkins passed away, and now Morgan and Ames have appointed Edwin F. to suo- ceed him. His accoptance was filed with the apoointment, The Usual Outcd 7. 0. Phillippi, of the Missouri Pacifle, has returned from a trip to Lincoln, woore ho was summoned to appear befora the state board of transportation and show oauso why rates on anthracite and soft coal should not be oqualized. Owing to sovoral of tho Ne- braska lines not bolu reprosented, the hoar. ing was postponed indefinitely. Raflrond Notes. General Manager Burt of the Elkhorn, has gone to Lincoin. Generat Superintendont Fughes, of the Elkhorn, has returned from the west. tendent Resseguio of the Nebraska n of the Union Pacific, will return from Cheyenne Tuesday noxt. Superintendont iter, of tho Utab diis- fon of the Union Paciflt, . has uppointed A, I, Doromus to the position of roadmuster of that division. Indications aro that tho series of harvest excursions will atiract a largor crowd of people from the east this year than on any preceding occasion. Henry Cheyney, assistant goneral passen- ger agont of the Blkhorn, haa returned from a meeting of the Trans-Missouri associa- tion. Nothing but routino business was transacted. Assistant,_General Manager Dickinson of tho Union Pacific, has gono. to Kansas City to meet his brother, James Dickinson, who is chiel of the fire department of Cloveland, O., und who Is attending tho session of fird clilefs at the former point, e IN QUIET PASSED AWAY. Death’s Termination of Miss Worthe mgton's Noble Life. Miss Lydia Louise Worthington, the only sistor of Bishop Wortaington, diod at her brother’s residence on South Teuth street at 10:30 Thursday night. She has been confined to ths house for nearly a year with cancer and although death had been expected, the blow is none the less severe on her grief-stricken brothers who survive her. The funeral exorcises will take place at Trinity cathedral this afternoon and the rewsins will repose in a royal purple plush-covered casket, thav color having been a favorite one in life. Miss Worthington was born in November, 1839, in Lennox, Mass., und was two years the senior of the bishop. Sho grew up in a home of Christian refine. ment and matured into a cultured, conscien- tious woman, She joined the Episcopal church when buta mere girl, and has always been an earnest Christian woman. She was a lady of singular will power and was dis- tinguished for her loyalty to her friends, Like her brothers. she has always remained single, and has been the Jight of tha bishop's home., She was devoted to thoduties of the housebold, and both in Lennox and Omaha won the respect and devotion of all whe knew hel ‘Three years ago she came to this city, but her happiness here has been biighted by the alment which slowly but suroly wore away her life. The end was quiet and without, a The remains will be sent east for emiains of Honry Miller were taken y, by his family and nearest relatives, to Huron, Inc . Services wero held a hi 23 South Ninetoonth street, at o'clock, and at- tended by @ large number of sympathizog friends and soveral members of the fire de: ment, of which organization the decoased was & member. Tho floral offerings wera numerous and beautiful. ~ PIMPLES TO SCROFULA, A Positive Cure for every Skin, Scalp, and Blood Diseaso t Ichthyosis, Paorinsis 8 vears. 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