Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1889, Page 4

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Give s yo necessary There 18 no ticular to give inall cases full s 1o date, raflway and number of r name, not for publication or un- @, but as u gnaranty of good faith, THE DAY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Etate of Nobrask: Lt County of Douglas, | Georgo B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Des J ublishing Company, does solemunly swear that X : DAILY BEE fortho L was s follows: Wednesday, N Thursday, Nov, Friday, Eaturday, N Average. ... GEOK £tate of Nahraska, County of Douglas, Sworn to beforo moe and gubsc presence this 3.th day of November, A, (Seal,] N. P FRIL, Notary uvie State of Nebraska, | .o County of Douglas, |*° 1¢o B. Tzschuck, boing duly sworn, de- Doses and says that he Is secrotary of The s Fublishing Company, that the aciual averag damly circilation of Tar DALY BeE for the month of Decomber, 18, 1 coples; for January, 1560, 18,574 coples; for February, 159, SO0 coples: "ror: Mare for April, 189, 18,000 coplés: for June, 180, 1858 cople July, 189, 18,733 coples; ror August, 188 01 coples: for Soptember, 15, 18710 coples; for October 188, 18,997 coples; for November, 1880, 10510 coples | GrouaE B. T7ScRU Sworn to before me and subscribed hl IVIY Presenco thisith day of November, A (Eeal JUDGING by the number of bills intr duced: the western members went to Washington with their grips loaded. . il THE first duty of Mr. Cushing is to come home and parcel out the spoils among the horde of hungry patriots who are laying pipe lines to the city treasury. ENGLISH papers will hereaflter leave Mrs. Mackey’s antecedents severely alone. It is dangerous to trifle with the quecn of American snobbery, even on foreign shores, BroArcn and Vanderbum are a pre- cious pair to prate about law and order. The former a double-dealer ana pre- tender. the latter an oil room jobber and railroad procurer. Tne silver men threaten Secreta Windom with cart-wheel dollars. The white metal advocates should remember that vhe treasury is loaded with ammunition of the same sort, to assault THE western congressmen who rallied to Reed’s suvport in the sveakership contest are not likely to receive their reward in chairmanships. Thedemand exceeds the supply, and several ambi- tious young statesmen are doomed to disappointment. T1r Kansas expert who has discov- ered a method to make arid lands pro- ductive without irrigation, should pool dissues with the Connecticut genius who is turning out “*gold” bricks from base metals and chemicals’ The combina- tion would be a world-beater. A POLL of the members of congress on the guestion of the location of the world’s fair elicited one hundred and seventy answers, a majority in favor of Chicago. Though a straw vote it shows that two liundred and thirty members are on the fence, awaiting a proper time to jump off tho perch. CASHIER SILCOTT, the thief of the house, was a reminiscence of bourbon rule. Though au active partisan, he proved an offensive mugwump in deal- ing with congressmen. Political affili- ations did not affect the liberality .of his hand when he reached for the cash box, and friend and foe were fleeced with equal facility. His peculations will give him high social standing in the American colony in Canada. —— Tue hirehings who did the bidding of Broatech at the polls on election day openly boast as they jingle democratic dollars in their pockets, that they saved tho republican majority in the council. According to their purchased testimony they saw defeas staring thoe party in the face and they considerately jumped into the breach with stilettos in their hands to rescue u few councilmen by kuifing the remainder of the ticket, The inspir- ation for this scoundrelly work can be readily traced to the treachery of tho mayor und the potent influence of dem- ocratic boodle. Emeess——— THEg action of Senator Manderson in briuging to.the attention of congress the disputes regarding the boundary line between lowa and Nebraska, is timely. While it is necessary that the ownership of land transferred from state to state by the changes of the river “ channel should be settled, it is of far more Jmportance to both states that the jurisdietion of the courts, especially in criminal matters, should be fixed on & natural geographical line. Justice and security demand that the middle of the Missouri' river should be the per- manent boundary, without regard to the shiftiog of,the channel. That is the only safe means of settling the authority of the respective states and preventing the contusion which has heretotore resulted in bulking justice snd in the escape of eviminals, & JEFFERSON DAVIS DE: The death of Jefferson Davis has re- moved from this world’s stage a figure that must always Dbe conspicuous in American history. The name of the leador of the greatest rebellion in all history cannot be blotted from the record which preservesalike the heroic struggles of patriots and the malignant | deeds of traitors. The character of the man who was most largely responsible for a civil conflict that Arenched his country inblood and filled it with widows and or- phans, is presented for the serious and just analysis and judgment of mankind. It will peceive a measurs of attention and discussion that would be given to few other men of this time —perhaps to none other—in any part of the world. There is an injunction that wo shall spenk only good of the dead. It ean- not be 1 ted in the case of Jefferson Davis. Justico to the he- roic dead and the loyal living, whose 1 and sacr s preserved the union, demands that the foremost tor of modern times shall be so characterized and remembored, and that the great erime against the nation 80 largely due to his treason shall not be extenuated or palliated. Sympathy for those of the family of the leader of rebellion who survive him muy properly be felt, but it must not be permitted to stultify the patriotisin of the past and the loyal sentiment of the present by condemning tromson, Truth garding Jeffe rson Davis is all that nis most ardent admirers can fairly ask. Loyal men wiil find it enough, but they will be satisfied with vothing less than the truth. Jefferson Davis nright have been il- lustrious in his country’s history. He had ability of a high order, force of character, and capacity for lendership —qualities which gave him while still a young wan exalted position, and which had they been di- rected by & true patriotism might have carried him to higher dis- tinction than he attained under the government. He chose a different course. Yielding to a false political sentiment and for the maintenance of the institution of slavery he became a traitor and a rebel. He turned his sword against the government which had educated him, which he had sol- cmnly sworn, as u soldier, a member of congress, and a cabinet to faithfully serve, and or- wizer of rebellion the dismemberment and oi the union. This is plain, un- varnished trath of history, and this great crime, with all its bitter and terrible consequences, Jefferson Davis never repented of, Without regret or remprse for what he had wrought, but vather proudly cherishing his treuson, he chose to live and die a man without acountry. And so he closed his oyes o this world unpurged -of a crime which in all civilized lands, since governments were instituted, has been deemed the highest of which the citizen can be guilt The pride and devotion which Jeffer- son Davis manifested for his record of treason had a very great influence in perpetunting in the south a feeling of vegret forthe “lost cause” and aspirit of hostility toward the government. A large number of people in the south re- garded the obstinate refusal of Mr. Davis to seek a veturn to citizenship as a lofty example of self-abnega- tion made in the.cause of a great prin- ciple, and as an evidence of his love for that section, whereas it was unquestion- ably prompted mainly by the inordinate and unbending pride of the man, But it served to keep alive the fires of sec- tional animosity, and thus Jefferson Davis,who by a single act which all just men would have approved, could have done more than any hundred men in the south to cool the passious left from the war and bring about a speedy pacification of the sections, was a potent influence in retarding the growth of good fecling and checking the work of national readjustment. That the removal of this unfortunate influence will be beneficial to the south is at least to be hoped for. For such service as Jefferson Davis did his country before his treason lot him receive full credit, He wasa brave and useful soldier against the Indians and in the war with Me As & member of both houses of congress and a cabinet official his rec- ord was not without credit when the character of his political education is fairly cousidered. But with this all is said that justly can be favorable to the r and character of Jeffer- Undoubtedly his wmemory will be widely honored among the peo- ple of the south, This can be pardonéd. But the people who opposed the rebel- lion and preserved the union raust think and speak of him with the candor which the facts of history demand. spol ood officer as the sought overthrow the A MONUMENiVAL FRAUD. Mr. W. J. Broatch has seen fit to enter the arena as a defender of the conspiracy batched under his personal inspiration against George W. Lininger and the republican ticket. Like the cut- uefish, he tries to cover his crooked tracks by shedding in his wake a great quantity of ink. Insteadof cleaving his skirts from proofs of deccit, treachery and double-dealing, he devotes himself almost entirely to a personal tirade agminst mysell, The ouly poiut worthy of note in all his vindictive bluster abyut me is the churge that I'm no bet- ter than he and his infamous coparcen- ers, anl his barefaced lying as regards my course toward him and his election as mayor two yeurs ago. It is true that I have on several ocecasions op- posed candidutes nominated in repub- lican conventions, But 1 have always opposed them openly and given reasons why the public interest demanded their defeat. [ never have pledged support to any man and sold him out. 1 never have taken part in any convention as a delegate and knifed the men I helped tonominate. It is a matter of history that in one instance, when a county convention fraudulently unseated o rightfully elected delegation, I publicly denounced the act and withdrew from the convention after due uotice that [ would not consider mysolf bound to support canaidates feaudulently nom- inated. In the recent county cam- paign Me, Coburn was notified by me weeks before the convention that he | Coburn is manl THE OMAHA DAILY BER: | SATURDAY, could not count on the support of Tur Bre, and after is nom- ination 1 personally appenled to him o withdraw. And unlike Broatch, ; enough to admit that rd him was honorable. lacks every instinct of an honorable man, Jle has the audac- ity to state that he was elected mayor in spite of my opposition in the face of the fact that he owed his nomination to my personal efforts with delegates who were disposed to distrust his pledees, and in the face of the fact that I con- tributed over six hundred dollars toward defraying the expensesof his mayoralty ecampnign. Thisis, however, of minor importance. This man Broatch has been posing s a model of integrity and a yal upholder of goad governmont and the strict enforcement of law and order. By cunning and duplicity he has man- ed to create the impression among the best people of this city that he has been a sincere and uncompromising op- ponent of everything that is disreputa- ble, disorderly and lawless. Broatch has proved himself a monu- mental fraud. His career as mayor has been one of constant deception and self- ish scheming for personal ends and am- bitious designs, During the memorable struggle between the council and the police commission, when he had en- listed the active support of good citi- zons agninst the combine that sought to starve the polwe, he was constantly negotiating comoro- mises. While myself and other citizens had raised a fund to pay the police, and I had personally ficed thousands of dollars by upholding the police com- on in the face of threats that the y hall would be relocated, Mr. Broaten stood ready to make terms for furthering his own ends. In the very hert of this exciting struggle, while the title of Chief Seavey was being tested in the courts, he signed the ordi- nance and the warrant to pay Tom Cummings his salary as city marshal. 'h practically giving away the se. Seavey and Cummings could not legally hold the oftice of chief of poli at the same time. My earnest remonstrance against pay- ing Cummin met by Broatch with the respouse that Cummings was hard up and needed the mouey to start a saloon “Why don’t you pay Cummings out of your own pocket?” I asked. But Mr. Broatch preferred that the city pay two salaries because Cummings needed money with which to start a sa- loon. A few d later, when Seavey, who had become tived of the fight, tendered his resignation, Broatch promptly voted to ept 1t and moved as a substitute for Seavey one of his Solid Twenty- eight, who had for years kept a saloon on the northeast corner of Douglas and Fourteenth streets. This would have been a complete surrender to the auti-police combine, but Broatch cared nothing about the law and order part, so long as the new (‘llmf was a man who would be a polit- tool. Mr. Broateh, however, was foiled by my personal appeal to the members of the police commission to reconsider their action and uphold the status in which their stood in the courts at that period. But the most disgusting imposture which Broateh has been playing upon credulous people who regard him as the law anda order champion has been since he commenced to set his pins for re- election. The spy system which he in- augurated has been a sham and a frand, gotten up chiefly for the purpose of holding clubs over the heads of sa- loonkeepers, dive owners and gamblers. Mr. Broatch and his detectives soon became accessories to the most scandal- ous violations of the law. Lastsummer, after Dufl Green was forced to resign from the police force, I called Mr. Broatch's attention to the fact that there was collusion between his detec- tives and certain gambling hells. One of these resorts, the Diaumond saloon, was then running and still continues to ruo faro tables and other games, by and with the tacit covsent of Broatch. This saioon has always been the trysting place of the bogus detectives. I asked Mr. Broatch why he tolerated these lawless pluces, especially during the fair when strangers and visitors were liable to be swindled or confidenced out of their money. Mr. Broatch contended that he was unable to suppress these crimi- nal vesorts. But they never were dis- turbed, although M. Broateh’s detec- tives have achieved renown by climb- ing transoms and breaking open doors in private houses to ferret out men or women who were consorting without marriage licenses. While Broateh was pulling the wool over the eyes of the goody-goody people in suppressing Higgins’ saloon he was enlisting the support of the dive keep- ers who were ten times as bad as Hig- gins, In place of Higgins and in the same building, we have McGucken and his upper story chambers, Ed Rothery, whose resort is headquarters for thugs, bruisers and toughs, was taken to the bosom ‘of Broatch and on last Tuesdny Broatch put fully twothousand dollarsinto the pock- ets of Rothery by locating the voting place of the Seccond precinct of the Third wavrd in Rothery’s high-toned den. And while all the worst rum holes were being favored by Broatch, other liquor dealers were blacklisted and per- secuted because they refused tolend Broateh their political intluence. Broatch prates ahout the enforcement the Sunday law—the old fraud! He did enforce the Sunday law rigidly for whe first nine months this yoar, but for the last two months every Broatch saloon has had a bandy back door open, with the assurance that the police would not molest them. With these facts before them, our law- abiding eitizens can no longer bemoan the merited defeatof Broateh, Hebasnot only imposed on good and pious people, but merits their everlasting contempt. Broatch is not only an imposter, buta dangerous political desperado. His at- tempt to carry the primaries by an army of hirelings and repeaters, while suiling under law and order colors, and Lis manipulstion of the Third ward primary election judges avd clerks, my courso tow But Broatch was of who were instigated to felonious in- terference with the poll list and to sign fraudulent returns, surpasses in infamy anyth{ng that has ever been porpeteated by MeGarigle ana the Chi- cago ballot-box stuffers. A chief exee- utive who will resort to such must bo indeed desperate, if not abso- lutely crazy, to hold his office. The faint attempt Broatch makes to exonerate his late confederates who treacherously 861d out Lininger and the ticket for boodle is scarcely worthy of notice, Thesd 'men will all go down into political history asa most uncon- scionable set of knaves. ROSEW HIS ADMINISTRATION. Mayor Broatch never tices of point- ing to his administration as a model of integrity and cconomy. As a matter of fact Broatech and his administration were clean oaly in spots. In a number of instances Broatch has made a good record by refusing to sanction measures that were unclean or questionable. But th spasws of integr! wore offset frequently by his winking at fraud and paloable jobbery. Ineverything Broateh was always n calealating politician, ready to overlook crookedness when- ever it was fathored by councilmen who were his supporters, oe outsiders who pretended to be his backers. The We, Us & Co. paving and grad- ing frauds were condoned because Hon- est Jim pretended to be an ardent Broatch man. But Fred Gray’s paving blocks were all rotten after Gray had shown himself adverse to Broatch’s ad- ministration. The city hall fight was begun out of spite by the council combine agaiust the police commission. But Broatch played into the bands of the combine at the beck of Jim Creighton and Joe Redman, beeause he expected political favors from them. This collusion on the part of Broatch with the city hall wreckers has lost the city not less than fifty thousand dollars. Broatch cancellod the Meyers plans and released the contractors and bondsmen for the city hall basement. That en- tailed a direct loss of twenty-five thousand dollars at least. After the courts had enjoined the re- location scheme Broatch joined Has- &all, Counsman and company, and ap- proved the ordinance ordering the re- submission of the location. That en- tailed further delay and more expense. When Wheeler, Chaffee and Couns- man hatched out the new city hall jug- glery by which ‘the entire walls of the basement were destroyod, and tho plans were required to leave no option for anything but, Dodlin granite, and a curtailing of * the building on tho alley line, Mr. Broatch closed his eyes to this manifest jobbery and robbery of the taxpayers and approved it. This act cost the: city fully Gtwenty-five thousand dollars, besides botching up a nublic bulding that will cost three hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars When Wheeler and Chaffee pulled through the appropriation ordinance to pay the architects over twelve thousand dolldars before a stone had been laid on the foundation that model ol integrity, Mayor Broatch, approved the ordinauce, and the job was only checked through the exposure made by THE BEE. Other instances of the peculiar meth- ods of “‘the admimstration” of Broatch could be cited, such as the employment of supernumeraries in the ecity oflices for political cnds, and the reckless waste of the public funds in byways and highways. Nobody of course con- tends that any man will be immaculate, but when Mr. Broatch poses as the only clean and vigilant mayor Omaha has ever had, he presumes too much on the ignorance and eredulity of our citizens. WE HAVE been treated to confirma- tions and contradictiouns of the reports of distressand suffering in the Dakotas. At first the appeal for aid met with a ready response from generous poople in adjoining states, but the boomers and speculators, fearing that the appeal to the charitable weuld effect their busi- ness, denounced the accounts as false- hoods and insulted their benefactors by declaring that they were able to take care of their own poor. After all these assertions and denials comes a confes- sion by Governor Mellette of South Dakota that the reports of distress were not exaggerated. Personal investiga- tion convinces bim that outside aid is necessary. Jtis unfortunate that the mercendry gpirit of the boomers was permitted to chill the wellsprings of generosity. The help tendered by neighbors was the offering of prosperity to unavoidable misfortune, and should have been accepted. It is doubtful if an appeal for aid will now meet with a hearty response. M compliments Broatch as “‘a pure and faithful administrator of a public trust.” Noone outside of the mayor’s coterie of traitors ever discov- ered his purity. That certificate of character cost"the city just four thousand dollars when Broatch ap- proved the Dodlin granite job for Vanderbum, »1» —— VANDERB BRrOATCH assures us that he and his coachman voted for Lininger. This was characterigtic of the man. While he' was publicly proclaiming his fealty, the understrappers were work- ing at every poll . with malice in their hearts to accomplish the defeat of the repubiican candidates, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. In his recont uddress at Maunchester, Mr., Gladstoue outlinéd’ the programme of the liberal party in broad and general terms, yet as fully as could be expected bafore a liberal return to power, aud doubtless quite fully enough to satisfy the demands of those who bave desired such a statement. Mr, Glad- stone said tne local government bill did not meot the legitimate demands of the country. He advocated granting the county councils powers of taxation, the control of the police and the Liquor trafic, the care of the poor, power to deal with the question of ground reats and to form district councils, and he would possibly go further and ostablish the varish priaciple of governmeuny, and thus convey to the vural population the first elements of their public elucation and create a sense Of public duty, which is the highest @m of a statesman, These suggsstions are all io the line of liberal policy, which is to thorouguly adopt the principle of home rule and give it & wide | #ate the woes of the crofters, means | L d [ DECEMBER 889, and almost universal apvlication. This will be an education to the voters and a check upon the larger action of parliament. Mr. Gladstone also referred to the growth of public sentiment n favor of legislation to provide better homes for the poor, to miti- to disestablish the church in Scotland and Wales. He even gave cautious moention to the growing feel- ing against the bouse of lords. He spoke of his increasing weight of years and doubted whether he would personally have a share in many future roforms, and closed by pro dicting a liberal victory at the next genoral fection, Mr. Gladstone’s speech has es. pecial intorest because of the almost cor- tainty of such a liberal victory. 1t will not be long now before the party of Eagland's future will have anothor opportunity to im- press its ideas and convictions upon legis- lation. Evidently when that time comes Britain will see startling changos. Nothing could show more clearly the little hope Lord Salisbury has of checking the liveral tide of success than the rovival of the old and threadbare threat that the posrs will throw out tho home rule bill even it it docs £0 through the commons. It 1s clear from his recont spoeches that the tory leader scos ar enough into the future to realize that his party rule is doomed. But so ridiculous o threat is of no earthly use in the campaign, as it will not only fail to attract a single vote, but it is not backed by any authority except bury’s own, wh is not likely to pre- vail in the matter, That the house of lords would take great pleasure in killing a home ruie bill can be taken for granted, but this august body has frequently voted for meas- ures against its will. The house of commons represonts the popular will and the poers are becoming more and moro chary of opposing this. Given the alternative of its own aboli- tion the house of lords would no doubt gladly vote for home rulo or anything else. Salis- bury’s threat wili not worry the homerulers. With Gladstone again in command of the government they will be perfectly willing to take their chances for home rule. *n One result of the German Kaiser's visit to Constantinople has been a disclosnre of the real state of things in the Ottoman empire. Every effort, indeed, compatible with national bavkruptcy was made to throw dust in the eyes of the Sultan’s guests. The old-fashioned ironclads were patched up, the troops sclected for review were freshly uniformed, tbhe front walls of houses were whitewashed, the streets were cleaned, and some of them were carpeted. Nuvertheless, the truth could not be hidden that Turike, has never been more helpless against foreign aggression or more exposed to internal revo- lution than she is today. But few woras need be wasted on the notorious ineMciency of the Turkish fleet. The ships are con- structed on an old and now discarded system, and they proved almost useless in the last war against Russia. The army, which still exlnbited traces of its old energy at Plevna, is now disorganized and disaffected. In the provinces the pay of both officers and soldiers has been in arrears for some two years. Even the pay of the privileged garrison of the capital is six months overdue. The whole body of civil officials has a similar grievance, and is fur- ther exasperated because the machinery of government is incessantly thrown out of gear by the sultan’s capricious interference, due partly to the clandestine influence of palace favorites and partly to unmistakable symptoms of inherited insan The out- rages perpetrated on Cnristians in Crete and Arwenia are indisputable, but, what is less generally known, the Turks themselves have quite as much to suffer at the hands of their despot. Thousands of upright and zealous Moslems have been condemned to exile. Hundreds have shared the fate of Midhat Pasha, the one resolute and almost tri- umphant Turkish reformer of our time. e The stake which Portugal is playing for in Africa is unquestionably a great one, and she is putting forth supreme efforts to win it. It includes, in the first place, the practical con- trol of the entire valley of the Zambesi, one of the great rivers ef the continent, the very greatcst that empties on the east coast, and a valuable highway for a commerce yet to be developed. Next, Portugal’s aim 1s to con- nect her colonies around Benguela on the west coast and Quilimane and Sofala on the «east coast by a broall transcontinental zone, through which in future years she may run railroads, and thus find a double outlet for the products of the interior. In this attempt. she hopes to ohtain the support of France and also that of Germany, both of which countries have looked upon her claim not unfavorably, while a judicious withdrawal from terri- torial conflicts with the latter on the west coast will belp her. Itis obvious that the cuse has now come 10 a direct issuo. Oust- ing Portugal from her claims over the basin of the Congo has not disposed Great Britain to allow ner to indemnify herself by any ex- clusive jurisdiction on the Zambesi. This was clearly shown by her decided refusal to submit to Portugal's practically probibitive customs duties on that river and her efforts to confine the trade to steamers flying her flag. It is also very likely that the Nyassa expedition, under Serpa Pinto, will be ac- cused of encroaching on British rights, But ibe immediate question raised is as to the right to Mashonaland; and Portugal will be fortunate if she 18 able to securo out of tho resuiting disnute a conceded right to even @ narrow territorial strip connecting Mozam- bique and Angola, . *"n An event of no small interest in the Euro- pean situation was the weakening of Austria 1n its relation to the ugreement made with Germany last month concerning Bulgaria. When Count Kalnoky visited Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe he agreed, as the czar had done, to give the German chancellor a free hand in the settlement of the Bulgarian difi- culty, Hut the count, it seems, has not been able to keep his word. His great aual em- pire is, diplomatically considered, an intri- cate if pov a rickety machine. Kaluoky is minister of foreign affairs for the whole em- pire. Taafe is minister of the interior for Austria vroper, while Premier Tisza is presi- dent of the Hungarian council. The Fried- richsruhe compact was indignantly resented in Hungary, and threatened to overthrow the Tisza ministry, Kaluoky was thus forced to break his word with Bismarck in order to avert a crisis. Quotations of the Buigarian loan were again allowed in the regular stock reports, and Prince Ferdinand was agaimn given assurances of Austria's friendship for Bulgaria, It1s Biswarck's next move, and Europe is wondering what it will be, A statue commemorating a touching little episode in the life of the late Gerwan em- peror, Frederick, is about to be erected st Kaiserlautén, When Frederick was crown vrince he visited one of the orphan asylums of that town, Among the children was & sickly and sad-faced little boy, Frederick noticed him, took him in his arms, snd thereupon agreed to become his godfather. The child, to whom a caress wus a straoger, appeared somewhat frightened at first, but s00n got over his dificulty, and began to play with the prince’s medals and decora- tions, The statue in question will represent the prince with a baby in lus arms, ava the youngster tugging at nis cordons and crosses. e Will Bear the Matrimonial Loudsville Cowrter-Journal, Market. The British bill to vrevent improvident ] warriages 15 & howhog piece. of tyranuy. Under the American eagle every man, aud some boys, may go into domestic life ana trust to Juck for provisioning an ever-in- cronsing family, What would become of charitable institutions under a despotio ays- tem requiring every man 1o know how to lonestly support his offspring! Perhaps Stanley Can Fin St. Loufs Globe-D:moscrat, Stanley has arrived ot tho coast all safe and sound, but some of the men who started in to rescue him are still lost. - - Even Democrats Acknowledge It. Kansas y Times (Dem.) Since the appointment of Judge Brewer we hereby rotract all that we have said about the president and that 82,000 majority. — Where Scctionnl’'sm Prev. Cineinn Commercial-GGnzet, The sectionalism in the country all in the south. Al of it that is threatening is there, The plan of campaig n that the southern whites who happon to be democrats shall vote twico whilo the north ern whites, whether democrats or republi- cans, shall vote but one, is the fountain of mischief. We aro all glad to have t ern atate and statesmen in their father's house, but it does not follow that thoy shall be bossos or have griovances. Why do the N0t g0 on with thewr business like the rest of the country i The is nearly vious and tne south- A Humiliating Reminiscence. Chicago Tribune, “The Americans engross nearly all the whaling trade of the Pacitic ocean.” “Ior one_ English slip wo wet with American.” Those startling assertions, gentlo reader, are neither the wild imaginings of Jules Verne nor the hallucinations of a lunatic. They are words of truth and soberness, taken from the oMcial “Narrative of the Voyage of Her Majesty's Ship Herala,"* ten *Printed thirty-six ycars ago, — CLEVER WOM Mrs, Sarah J. Hale, of dey's Lady's Hook fame, was the first woman to support herself by journalistic work. Mrs. Oliphant, the authoress, is sixty- years of age. The poet and novelist, known as E. Nesbit, is Mrs. Bland, who is describod as a pretty, delicate woman, with soft brown eyes. Mrs. George Bancroft, a remarkably close observer, said she never knew an Enghs! man, however cmment in art or science, who, if he bad dined with a duke, could heip mentioning the fact 1 ali his acquaintanes ‘The dowarer empress of China takes a great interest in tho development of the Ce- lestial empire, and spends a greav deal of time in consultation with railroad projectors. Margaret Deland pat the finishing touches to her new novel at Kennebunkport, Me.— tho same place where she comoleted the Last chapters of *Join Ward, Preacher. Charlotte M. Yonge, the historical writer, has written and published exactly one hun- dred books. She is now engaged upon her 101st work, to be published shortly. Queen Olga, of Greece, fond of American literature. stant reader of the principa azines and newspapers. Her favorite of all authors is Nathanie. Hawchorne, Mrs. Augusta-Evans Wilson, the southern st, 1s short and stout, with a good- natured, intelligent facs, having an expres- sion of happy contentment, showing that she is on good terms with her husband and the rest of the world. Mrs. Todd, the wife of the American as tronomer who has gone to Africa to observe the eclipse, helped hor husband greatly in is preparations. She read every book con- cetning the coast to which the expedition was going and read him selectod passages daily. Shealso worked up formulas and detalls of geography for him, The recent appointwent of Miss Joanna Baker to the chair of Greek at Simpson col- lege, Indianola, Ia., is o significant fact as showing the progress of women since it was first permitted to her to acquire the al- phabet. Miss Buker succeeds to the position filled by her father, Prof. O. H. Baker, sev- enteen years ago, in the same institutio Queen Margherita of Italy, has a fan for pearls, perhaps on account of the mean. ing of her name. Every year the king, her husband, gives her a new string of the finest, that be can get, and the necklace now falls in @ solid mass from below the throat to her waist. One string on this necklace was given hor by ber young som, who could not afford to pay for it all at a tim he ar- ranged with the jeweler to pay for it on tho wmstallment plan, There is no other row valued more highly by her majesty. Miss Helen Chalmers, daughter of Dr. Chalmers, the eminent Scotch divine, lives in one of the lowest parts of Edinburgh. Her home consists of a few rooms inan alley, surrounded by drunkenness, poverty and suffering, Every nightshe goes out into the lanes of the city with her lantern, and she never returns to her quarters without one or more girls or women she has taken from the strect. The people love her, and she is never molested or insulted. - —— SATURDAY SCINTILLATIONS, is particularly She is a con American mag- Texas Siftings: Hens are kept busy fiad- ing the means for moving their crops. Philadelphia Inquire: A record is about the only thing that improved by baing broken. New York News: Fruit and vegetable dealers are always in favor of moderate weasures. ‘Washington Capital: The head-dress of thenter-going young ladies reminds 0ne of castle in the hai Munsey's Weekly: Constant reader is in- formed that an air line is not necessarity run altogether on wind. Boston Herald: If Mr. Stanley's collec- tion of ivory 150t an elephant on bis hands, it is at least a part of one, ‘The Spellbinder: D said the boodle alderman, *1 shall notlend my vote to such u thieving scheme.”” And he dida’t lend it. He sold it. Burlington Free Press: What is the dif- ference between a pugilist und a bellt One peels before he is struck, and the other is struck before it peals, Binghamton Republican: Talk about gen- eralship! If Napoleon bad ever seen a girl climb & barbed-wire fence he would haye held the houors of Austerlitz as nothing. Life: *“‘How is it that you call Gore *col- onel' now!” asked @ northern visitor to Ar- kansas. *‘Ho was @ plain ‘mister’ when I was here six montns ago,”” O, he's killed o nigger since then.” Epoch: Dunn—When can you settle this account, Mr, Short! Short—0, come around next week. “Will you pay me then?" I can't promise thut exactly, but ! can tell you then when 1 come again.”’ Now York Commercial: The craze for proportio ury to plant s1gns along the banks of the river requesting visitors to “Please keep off tho cataraet.” Texas Siftings: Robinson Crusoe (1o hu servant) —What makes you so dow: ——————————————————————————— Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. §7hen Daby was sick, ‘we gave lier Castoris. ‘When she was a Ohild, abe eried for Castoria, \7*ien she beowwe Aliws, she clung to Castoria, Wi onsbie had Childrea, she gave thein Castoria ~Just discoverod & hat is vory untucky. secause It was bora mouth, Friday! molo on my “Why 19 it on Friday. ‘Thero was a young dudo from O} Put bis hand on an electrie light wire, They buried a boot, And a swallow-tail suit, Bul tho rest was consumod 1 the fire. Electro-Mechanie, - How to Avoid Strikes, Chicago News, The London gas light company of England has given 700 of its employos a share of the company ofits through tho medium of & co-operativ m, the condition imposed upon the men so benofited being that they shall agreo in writing, in consideration of their participation in the profits, that thay shall have nothing to do with strikes or labor organizations. This at first sight sooms a radical blow at all organizations of labor. In reality it is mercly an evidence of the trond of capita and labor to como togethor on n friondly basis of mutual good 1z and co-opera- tion, It is claimed that the employes of the London gas light company heartily approve of the scheme and have willingly signed the *h absolve them from further reanizations, The labor statistics of Ar startling facts as to the An insignificent proportion of these labor struggies by forco aro snccossful even in o moderate degree. The majority are failures, bringing disaster alike upon om. ploye d employed, The leading labor organizations have declured against strikes. A fow atill aghere to the strike romedy as o sort inextraordinary cases, but tho themselves admit that peaceable compromise should be tho universal rule. 5 i Ten Millions Papersd to Forty-Fives Chicago Tribune. all that has been said about the and abuses of stock-watering the practice goes on unchecked wna a frosh transaction of the sort of large proportions is just reported from Kansas. The munici- palitics v that state which subscribed to the stock of the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska raiiroad are now resisting the foreclosure of the mortgage on the company. For every dollar justly paid by shippers four must bo from them for roturns on bogus There seems to be no remedy for such robbery of the publie. Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, in discussing this general subjoct in wo o fow daya ngo, said he could not see “any way out of the trouble,” and that ‘‘there was no other way but for the people to continue p ansportation charges based on the aton aud not on what the roads could be dupli- cated for." In other words, rates caunot bo roduced because the holders of fictitious stocks and bonds want interestand dividends on pretended capital never actually wnvested, and must have such profits, Senator Dawes seems to tiunk the people will continue with- out complaint to pay hundreds of millions annualiy to supply undue and illegitimate profits on preteaded investments, Friday fen show s outcome of stril With frauds Sioux Chicfs Going to Washington. Ciamnereay, S, D, [Special Tologram to Tu Bee.|—The Indian agent at Crow Creek and Lower Brule agencies has been oraered to start for Washington as soon as possivle aud take a number of Sioux chiefs frow his agencies along with him. 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