Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1890, Page 4

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Tzschuck, befng dul poses and says that ho 18 secrata Puplishing Company, th anily circulation rn, do- of Tiik Bex t the actual average The DALY DEE for the month of ¥ was IL0% coplos; for March 18, M coples: for April, 1850, 18,659 coples:for May, 1540, 18,600 coplos; for Jutie, 1889, IRRGK copies: for Tuly, 188, 4735 canlos: for Aug: L, T8, 18,651 coples for Sehtomber, 1580, 18710 cople for October, 1589, 18,407 coplea; for No- yember, 1650, 10,410 coples for Decomber, 1839, 20,048 coples for January, 1800, 10,55 coples, GEONGE B, T/SCHUCK. Bworn to nefore me and subscribed m m. Dresence this 14th day of February, A, D.. 180 (Seal.] N.P. Frir, Notury Public. - CETE L S e B S IpAT0 and Wyoming are moving along toward statehood at a steady pace. NEW YORK now consolos hersel( with the assertion that the city had no ‘‘real desire to get the fair.” — APPLICANTS for vacant city offices are not obliged to show a certificate of volitical integrity from the Samoset chiefs. TuREE more plums bave fallen to the favored foew 1n Nebraska. Assistant law makers and the oil room contingent are prospering amazingly these winter day CANADA proposes to reconstruct the taviff wall around the country. The dominion promises to become a rich field for immigration ageats next sum- mer. AT the rate English syndicates are dispensing their bullion in this coun- try. it is evident that John Bull’s opin- ion of Uncle Sam has undergone a radi- cal change. —— Ir1s hardly fair to charge up to Neal all the unpunished crimes committed in the state, When Douglas county gets through with him, rival counties can preempt tho remains, As A measure of public safety, the streot sweeping gang should be ordered out to brush the suow and frost off the new denot, viaduct and bridge. These great improvements should be kept in full view. the city govern- ment of Salt Lake to the gentiles the Mormons handed overa surplus of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Extravagance 1s not among the many sins charged up to the saints IN the transfer of THE report that twenty to thirty per cent of Chicago whisky is water comes too iate to effect a revulsion of congres- sional taste. Had New York stumbled over the fact a few daysago, the world’s fair would have been anchored east of the Alleghenies, ‘WiEN Attorney General Leese pro- posed u radical reduction of local freight rates to the state board of trans- vortation the corporation collars imme- diately tightened, and the silence of the wearers was distinotly audible. The proposition struck the members dumb, —_— THE unseemly haste in awarding damages for the ‘“‘opening” of Burt street, which has been open for years, is characteristic of the council com- bine. If the alleged owners of a slice of that strcet possess a just claim to compensation they should be permitted to establish it in court.’ Em—— Tig members of the state board of transportation who recently distin- guished themselves by bobnobbing with the railroad managers in Chicago, were painfully silant when called upon to acv on the question of reduced local freight rates. The late display of anx- iety for the suffering farmers seems to deprive them of sufficient force to ap- ply the remedy in their own hands, Tie third party is in the field with straight tickets in Vermont and Io- diana, Their action in Nebraska this year depends on the success of the non- partisan dodge as a campaign prelim- fuary. If republicans swallow the bait \hie prohibitionists will cheerfully per- mit the procession to proceed to the po- litical cemotery, and pay the expenses of u brass band —— THE late Prof. Billings has been in- oculated with railroad virus and blooms a8 u champion of the oppressed corpor- wations, The professor injects tempo- rary vitality into the late exploded theory that ruilioad freight rates regu- lated the market price of grain. Mr. Billings' training as a dispenser of bogus hog virus throws a halo of light over his contortions as a railroad char- \atan, ALARMED MANUFACTURERS. The report that the cofmittea on ways and means proposed to reduce the duty on steel rails fron seventoen and a half dollars to ten dollars a ton is said 1o have caused something of a conster- nation among the manufactur These gentlemen claim that a tariff of ten dollars a ton would in no wise be sufficient to protect the industry, and that tho whole tariff might as well be removed as to reduce it to that point. They assert that at present English steel rail manufacturers can suc- cessfully compete with American manufacturers on the Pacific coast, in southern markets, and at other sea- board points where they haye the ad- antago of cheap ocean freights. They might possibly be able to get along, they say, if the tariff was lowerod to fifteen dollars a ton, but if the entire home market is to be saved the tariff on steel rails should be advanced rather than lowered. They say that under the present state of affairs some of the large steel rail mills of the country have ceased to make rails bocause they cannot make them with profit. Of course these man- ufacturers aro concerned for the interests of labor. If the tariff is reduced, they say, there must be a reduction in the wages of the workmen, from the men who take the nude ore from the mines to those who put the finishing touches to the rails. “Give us labor as cheap as Knglish labor,” they sny, “‘und wo will furnish rails just as cheap.” Most of the mills that manufacture steel rails are working to their full capacity, with orders on hand that will keep them busy for months ahead. The Philadelphia Iecord says that in the present or any probable condi- tion of the trade the proposed duty of ten dollars a ton would as fully serve the purposes of protection as the existing rate, and that at the es- timated consumption of two million tons for the ensuing year this rate of duty would still enable the Bessemer combination to divide between ten and fifteen million dollars above legitimate profits. Should the existing rate be maintained the division will be be- tween seventee and twenty-two million dollars in excess of legitimate profi The present price of steel rails is thirty-five dollars a ton, so that it would appear thav the manufacturers are getting from eight to ten dollars in excess of a fair profit, or in other words that steel rails could be sold at from twenty-five to twenty-seven dollars without forcing the manufacturers into bankruptey. They have sold within a vear at thirty- two dollars without any loss to the man- ufacturers, and it has been shown that there is no danger from English com- petition, below the price of about forty two dollars a ton. That is, the English manufacturer must realize at least twenty-iive dollars a ton for his rails to make it pay him to send them to the American market, 50 that a ten dollar rate would be an ample protection for our manufacturers at the present price of rails, and they can be sold at a good profit several dollars below the prevail- ing price. There is not much probability, how- ever, that the proposed reduction will be made, though it is possible the rate will be somewhat lowered, perhaps to fifteen dollars. As the whole plan of tariff revision is likely to be a patch- work of compromises it is to be expected that the steet rail makevs will be suc- cessful in preventing any very great reduction of the duty on their product. SOUND SUGGESTIONS. Governor Boise in his inaugural ad- dress makes sound suggestions regard- ing the duty of the state to require that railroads within its jurisdiction shall be maintained in proper condition for safe and efficient service. He remarks that upon the perfection of these roads snd their equipment, and the skill und care of those who operate them, more than money depends. The lives of a multi- tude of passengers and an army of em- ployes are at stake. The govern- or, therefore, urges that the au- thorities cannot go too far in demand- ing safeguards against accidents on railronds and demanding that the cor- porations shall keep their property in first class condition. This should be the policy of every state. Everywhere in this country too little consideration is given to the very vital matter of requiring that the rail- rouds shall supply every practicable protection for passengers, and shall maintain their roadways and bridges 1n such condition as to secure the greatest possible security against accident. It is different in FEuropean coun- tries, There the privileges and com- forts of railway travel may be inferior to those enjoyed in this country, but the safeguards required and enforced ren- der travel much more secure. Acci- dents are extrewmely rare,and yet on the English roads especially very fast time 18 made, fifty and sixty miles an hour being a not unusunl speed on sev- eral of the more extensive lines. The simple explanation is that the roads are subjected to government inspection and there are adequate peualties very sure to bhe enforced in the case of accidents resulting from careless management, he rail- roads are not a power in politics, and the laws enacted for their regula- tion in the public interest they are compelled to conform to. Consequently travel in Europe 1s very much safer than in the United States. The annual record of loss of life in this country from railroad accidents, due to the penurious policy of mana- gevs, careless and reckless manage- ment, ineficiency ot employes by rea- son either of ignorance or overwork, and other avoidable causes, is appall- ing. Hardly a week passes without its record of vrailroad disasters that a little care and precaution would have prevented. And it very rarely happeuns that any one responsible for these casualties is punished; indeed, those primarily vesponsible are never annoyed by even a threat of punish- ment, and their influence is generally sufficient to secure immunity for those who may be charged with accountabil- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ity for the railroad’s victims., A fow of the great corporations of the country, as a matter of business under the pres- sure of competition,are fairly liberal in king provision for tho safety of 31, but nowhere is there the extent of solicitude and care in this matter that is observed generally by the Bu- ropean corporations, It ought to be possible to secure here an equal inter est or care on the part of railroad man- agers in providing for the safety of the traveling public, and at any rato the effort is worth making. THE ROCK ISLAND The proposed extension of the Rock Island road from Omaha to a connec tion with its Colorado line is no longer a matter of speculation. The surveys have been made and distances over sev- cral routes are definitely ascertained, but whether the road shall be built by way of Lincoln to Fairbury or from Omaha direct to Beatrice has not been fully decided. The survey to Lincoln effects a saving of cight miles over the shortest existing route, an advantago of considerable importance in view of the the capital, On the other hand the Beatrice route would open up a new ter- ritory to the trade of Omaha and give the people of Beatrice and contiguous towns direct communication with the metropolis of the state instead of the present oxbow lines, The route chosen will depend largely on the pressuro brought to bear on the company, and the inducements offered by the cities dircctly interested. The advantage lies with Beatrice as the junction, the distance being consider- ably less than by way of Lincoln and Fairbury, thus effecting a great saving in the cost of construction and right of way. Whichever route is finally chosen the intention of the company is to make it as short as practicable, without re- gard to intermediate towns, so as to make it the shortest road between Chi- cago and the Sait Lake valley. The pro- posed cut-off is virtually a connection of the main stems of the Rock Island ystem—reducing distance between terminal poiuts, and placing the road on an equal footing with rival lines for the trade of the west. The construction of this short line is of paramount importance to the com- merce of Omaha. Not only will it fur- nish a direct competing line to the trade of the Republican valley and northern Kansas, as an offset to the en- croachments of Kansas City, but also to the trade of Colorado and Utah. The change of the Rio Grande Western to a standard gauge road, and its connec- tion with the Midland Pacific, from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction, Col., both of which are allied with the Rock Island, will in a few months en- able the latter to run its trains direct from Chicago to a connection with the Central Pacific at Ogden. But the most important feature of this great system to Omaha is the extension southwest through Indian Territory and Texas and eventually to the Gulf, bringing the Jimitless ranges of the Lone Star state into close com- munication with the Omaba stock mar- ket. In viewof thevastinterests involved, not the least of which is the entrance of the road into the city.it behooves our business men to work with a will and secure the construction of the Roclk Island short line at the earliest possible moment. THE selection of Judge Caldwell, di trict judge for Arkansas, to succeed Jus- tice Brewer as judge of the Eighth cir- cuit, in which fowa and Nebraska are embraced, is one of the most commend- able judicial appointments made by the present administration. The promotion of Judge Caldwell is said to have been made on the score of seniority, he hav- ing been on the district bench nearly twenty-six years, but it is none the less a recognition of his high abi and iotegrity and an acknowledgment of his just claims by rcason of these as well as the fuct of long service. Judge Caldwell was appointed to the federal bench by President Lincoln in 1864, and his record of more than a quarter of a ceutury is a most honorable one. He is one of the strongest symputhizers with the interests of the people ugainst monopolies and combinations, and has done good service outside of his judicial position in defending the vights of the publie from the encroachments and abuses of capitalistic power. In this re- spect the appointment of Judge Cald- well to succeed Justice Brewer is pecu- linrly fortunate for the people of the states which constitute the Eighth judi- cial circuit, —— Ir 15 a rather cold day when Mr. P. O’Hawes is not retained to push some- body’s claim against Uncle Sam or the state of Nebraska. Just now Mr. Pat- rick O’Hawes is the repository of dis- gruntled properly owners and lesees in. the new postoffice block who claim that the appraisers have done them up. If this was a claim whicnh Mr. O'Hawes had for his own relief before the Ne- braska legislature, Tie Beg would ven- ture to predict that the appropriation would go through before the legisiature adjourned. P. 5.—We want 1t dis- tinetly understood that this is not a paid advertisement. . —_— NOW THAT the secretary of war has finally approved the plaus and profiles of location of the Nebraska Central railiond company’s bridge, the pro- motors of that project are in position to proceed without further delay. It s to be hoped that they have by this time succeeded in enlisting sufficient capital for the undertaking. It goes without saying that Omaha needs a competing railway bridge with tolls fixed so moderately low as to make the ap- proaches into Omaha accessible for all railroads, —_— SECRETARY PROCTOR, in reply tw the house resolutiou calling for a report on the condition of the government works at Rock Island, recommends the estab- lishment of some factories there, in con- nection with the making of heavy ord- nance and field materials. Accompany- ing the reply are reports from Colonel Whittemore and General Benet, the former favoring a gun factory at Rock Isiand, and the latter in opposition, | placing a plant for the manufacture of extentof traflic between Omaha and® ATURDAY mainly on accoupt of distance from the soucce of supply and the sea coast. On the score of ecorromy and facilities, the Rock Island 'drsenal 18 superior to Watervliet, whope the government is heavy fenses. vrdnance for sea coast de- The water power surronnding the island is prugtically unlimited. It is the only avseupl in the country pos- sessing such power, affording a large saving in fuel alone. The stone build- ings already eredted and unused, could be turned into factories and equipped with machinery for the manufacture of guns av a trifling 'expense, compared to the cost of the Waterviiet plant. Both factories, nowever, can be operated in dependently with profit to the govern- ment. The Rock Island plant affords overy indicement for the economical manufacture of field guns and light ar- tillery as well as small arms, having cheap nower and buildings to over- balance distance from the source of sup- ply. Another important fact in its favor is its location near the center of the continent, making it availuble by water and rail communication in case of war, and the natural security from ex- ternal attack, WHEN a battle is over it is always in- teresting to know just how the battle was fought. Just now the Chicago papers are explaining how Chicago won the fight for the world’s fair. Their explanations do not, however, explain, We take it that Chicago won the fight this winter by very much the same tacticsemployed when she won the fight for the national convention two years ngo—by libeval use of lubricator and champagne. The fears of a collapsed maricet in- dulged by the ralroads in opposition to a reduced rate on corn proves to have been the veriest twaddle. At the pres- ent moment whon every availublo car is moving the crop to market, Chicago revorts un advance iu prices, buying more pronounced than usual, and a strouger feeling prevailing in the mar- Kket. THERE i8 more chicanery back of the garbage inspectorship than apnears on the surface. ‘The ery of municipal cconomy which the mayor and the combine indulged in recently was a mask to deccive the bidders for the prize and pave the way for one of tho roustubouts of the solid twenty-cight gang. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Appearances indicate that the attention of the Briush pariiament will bs devoted al most exclusively to the- con ation of tho affaics of Ireland, io spite of the avowed de- termination of the governmeat to keep the Irish question m the baccground. ‘The re port of the Parnell commission will bs made the excuse for an interminable debate, in which Mr. Gladstone promises to exhaust the resources of his matchless eloguence in defense of the accused Irish members. Tho government wiil fiznt hard for the unqual- fied aporoval of thg roport, but thero is reason to believe thay Mr. Calne's horror of the whols anti-Parnell conspiracy is snared by many of the members on the tory and unionist benches, and the debate may provo the beginning of disaster to the government. When the report of the Parnell commission 15 disposed of there ure other questions af- fecting the volicy of the government n Ire- land that will force themselves to tho froat., If the English pacfiament 18 to legislate for England, Ireland must bo ailowed to geta varliament of her own, e Agrarfun reform 1 Scotland will press for attention from the present parliament. The crofter commissiol is the first but not by any means the last application of the prin- iblo ewbodied in the Gladstand® land act. According to that princivle the land of any given couatry belongs not to its ostensivle owner, but 10 the nation, whose representa- tives 1 parliament have the right to deter- mine how much rent shall be imposed upon it. Should the radicals obain a majority in the next house of commons, the turn of the English landlords will surely s, anl after commissioners nave taken from thom the power of fixing the rontals of their farms it will not be long before the rentals of house property in towus and cities will be subjected to ofticial regulation. This, bo it remembered, is the purpose not of the rela- tively small fraction of Euglish voters who have adopted tae doctrines of Mr. Henry leorge, buv the avowed and oflivial pro- gramme of the great body of English radicals whose tgpical representative is Mr. Brad- laugh. These meo, who look forward to controlling parliament, do not wish tho land to bear all the burdens of the state, but they are resolved to limit a landiord’s power of raising rents at will, ‘The growth of socialism in Germany has been rapid and steady. The cmvira started n its career since 1871 with a socialist vote of 123,075; but the strength of the party at that time was 80 scattered that only a couple of its candidates gained admission to the reichstag. At the next election, in 1374, the socialists mustered a vote of 3 which threo years later had increased to 403,238, or 8.5 per cent of the total vote cast at tho elec. tion. Then followed the attempts of Hoedel ana Nobiling upon the lifo of the emperor, the enactment of the anti-socialist law, the Missolution of the reichstag and the appeal to the country on thess issues. i As a result of the depressing effects of thess eveats the socialist vote at the extraordinary election in 1877 foll off to 437, a decrease of about 50,000 votes as comparad with the regular election in the bepioning of the same year. , After three years of stringent en- forcement of the antisocialist law, the party was able to poll 311,031 votes in tha ele in 1881, Three years later, after seven yoars of repressive leislation, its clectoral strength” was 530,000 votes, represented hy uwenty-four members in the reichstag. In the election of 1557 the socialists lost thir: teen seats, although they increased their popular vote from 555,000 in 1884 to 774,133 in 1857, 1n the gity.of Berlin alone the so- cialist vote was swelipd to 93,000 turee years ago. At the last elggiion the party doubled its vote of thmoe years 8go, the total vote cast for all sociahay candidates being esti- mated at 1,500,000, or, ppwards of 15 por cent of the electorate, and at least 25 per cent of the total vote cast at the election. It will thus be seon that iu less than twenty years the socialist party has grown to rauk among the dominant parties in the empire and the federal parliament, ) The French goverument wisely aecided to sot aside the sentence 1nposed on the young duke of Orleans for violation of the expul- sion law, and ke was accordingly released and escorted to the frontier. The popular demoustrations on his behalf in the streets of Paris wero devoid of any particular po- litical signiticance, and the chamber of depu- ties refused by a large wajority to eutertain & motion for the repeal of the expulsion act; 80 that the government wight have felt it- self safe lo carrying out the sentence im- posed on the latest descendant of Henry IV, Jhe trial was a disgrace to the country. MARCH 1. 1800 But the infliction of punishment would un doubtedly have strengthened the public sympathy for him, and some untoward circumstance might have arisen to erys tallize this feeling and croato a sorious menace to the safely of the republic. Even as it is, the monarchists will undoubt- | edly claim that the action of tho goverament was due to foar, and will sock to make capi- taloutof it. Though the youngost Louis Philippo has lost the first trick in the game, he has made himself the foremost of the pretenders to the throne of France, Th young Victor Bonaparte aad the ‘‘brave' General Boulanger have fallen far in his rear. If the French nation should again in. cline to monarchy the first in their thoughts would be the royal youth who walked up to the bureau of enlistment in Paris and asked t0 be inscribed as a private soldior, In aso there would bo no need of a second Li fayette to present him to the Krench people A8 ‘“the best republic.” He has only to bide his time; and should the monarchial fruit again ripen inFranve it might fall into his nds. The sweeping nuture of the reforms to be discussed by the Swiss Laborj confarence is sufliciently indicated by the oficial pro- gramme which has just been issued. The questions to be aiscussod include the re- striction of Sunday work, the minimum age of which children may be employed, the maximum hours of labor for men and women, compulsory school attendance as affecting the working hours, u sliding scale of hours for children of different ages, res strictions upon the employment of womon and chitdren in dangerous occupations, tho employment of women sad children in night work and the proper method of enforcing labor rogulations. This is a comprohensive programme In all tho matters covered by theso ques tions tuere is quite as much danger of en- thusiastic reformers going too far as there is of not going far enough, The effect of inter- national competition, when unrestrained by tariff protection, is to check the possibility of reducing hours beyond a certain point un- less an international agreement can be reactied. Again, putting special restrictions upon woman's labor which are not also placed upon men’s acts in many cases merely as a handicap upon the sex already handi- capped by nature in the struggle for bread. Such restrictions might be well meant, but would certainly bear badly upon many women. Despite all the dangers and dim- culties of the situation, however, the con- ference can accomplish a great deal of good and it is to bo hoped that it will succeed in doing so. *"s At the request of Mr. Hirsch, our minis- ter at Constantinople, Moussa Bey, the Kurdish chief and governor of the Turkish province of Armenia, has been imprisoned to insure his appearance for trial on charges of robbiug and maltreating two American missionaries named Knapp and IReynolds several years ago. The storm of indigna- ton w h was aroused throughout Europe by the recent acquittal of this notorious.op- pressor of the helpless Christians is likeiy to bring him at last to account, either upon some of the seventeen grave accusations yet untried, which the sultan’s subjects have brought against him, or upon the complaints of American missionaries. Tlis man, not yet thirty-five years old, is accnsed by the wretched Armenians of the most terrible abuse of power. Many witnesses made the long journey to Constantinople to tes- tify in court that he had burned their houses, assaulted their women, robbed them of their propert and shot their kinsmen down in cold blood, but the accused Bey was received at the capital as the in nocert victim of calumny, and was tried be- fore a commission of Mussulmans, who be- lieve it is wrong to ‘accept the testimony ot Christians. The result was that the poor, bewildered strazglors were browbeaten and intimidated, Moussa Bey was declaved 1n- nocent of the three particular offenses that erc lumped togethor in the investigation, and the public prosecutor was incensed be- cause tho Christisns were not punished for daring to testify against their govervor. The best friends cf Turkey confess that 1t Moussa Bey gets his deserts now, 1t will be because the moral pressure brought to bear by the powers is too potent au mnfluence for Turkey to witnstand. Ivnow seems likely that the Kurdish raiders will soon be sup- vressed, either by the Porte itself, moved to action by the indignation of Europe, or by Russia, which now hasa forco along the American border, aod would be nothing loath to udd the tof Armenia to the ter- ritory she won when Kars fell into her hands, . P The Russian nation is in a state of tran- sition at the present time, A very scvere internal labor is goingon. Never at any time of its bistory hus the struggle for ex- istence been 80 merciloss as av the present time, and in it of course the weakest and st selfish are put to the wall. The liberal, ealightened and less selfish part of the sty 15 right when it says that the systewatic suporession of education and of political rights by the government has r sulted in giving & most undesirable direction to the faculties of the people. |Brains cannot be legislated out of existeuce; noris any nation composed of martyrs who are eager to sacrifice their own hife and well-being in order Lo rid the country of oppressive des- potism, And so it comes to pass that able Russians of the lower ciasses have thewr brains turned into smartness, for lack of ed- ucation that would bave made them clever, useful members of the community; while the ablest scions of the impoverished nobil- ity—having the universitics closed aguinst mauy of them—develop into *'Napoleons of finance,” successful swindlers and chevaliers d’industrie whenever thero 13 enough selfish- ness in them to prevent them from joining the ranks of the revolutionists, »s The French governwment is said to ron- template a celebration on the anniversary of the establishment of the republic next Sep- tember. There is probably soms truth in the raport. At all eveuts there would be a propriety and an impressivencss in an ob- servance of the eveut which mustappenl strongly to the French love of the picturesque and dramatie. The republic will be vwenty years old at tuat time. It has already lived longer than uny otuer system which France has had since the downfall of Louis XVL, a hundred years ago. For noarly three-quar- tors of a centucy there has been a supersti- tious belief in that country that it would never bave a government which would endure for twenty years, which forebodiug six months hence will be proved to be groundless. Aside from this cousideration, however, the coming auniversary is worthy of appropriate recog- mition. The present government is the best which France ever bad, and the chauces for its perpetuation, havpily, are highly encours agiug at this moment, . The flow of British capital into Mexico is almost ay extensive as its Influx to this coun- try, Nearly $100,000,000 of English gold wi wvested there 1ast year; sod railroads lands, mines, manufactures and bauks have all participated in this Pactolean stream to such an extent Lhat the maintenance of order in the republic has beeome almost as import- ant to Great Britain as to Mexico herself. ‘The Mexican railroad, the National, the In- teroceanic, the Central, the Mexican South- ern aud the Tehuantepec lines are every one of thew strictly English companies. British capitalists bave undoriaken the stupendous work of draming the valley of Mexico; and according to roport recently issued by the London foreign office, 1 two provinces alone several miltions of acres of fine land aro owned by English subjects engaed in cattle raising. Emin Pasha writes that ho is resolved to roturn to Wadelin and attompt the recapture of the equatorial provinces in the interest of Germany, As Emin could not hold the ter- ritory for Egypt when the conditions were more favorable than they are at present, 1t is aifficult to imagine the means by which he expocts to regain the authority unless he has had assurauce of help from Herlin. Bis« marck once remarked that he did not con- sider the eastern question worth the bones of n Pomeranian grenadier; but the recent action of tho imporial government iu regard to Africa would indicate a willingness to make considerable sacrifice of men and treasure in order to gain supremacy on that continent. - A FEW SMILES. Yes, Several of Th Boston Herald, A ring on the finger is worth two in the pawnshop. A Case 1o Blind Socing. Binghamton Leader Love may be blind, but ne knows when the parior lamp is 100 high. Another One for Tommy, Lawrence American, Sunday School Teacher—\What caused the death of Lot's wife? Tommy Jones-—Salt rheum, T guess, How is it When She Reaches for His Head. Binghamton Republican. Spriggins says his wifo is 80 short that she. has to stand on a chair to reach the top of her head. A Nice Distinction. Puck Mrs, Reeder—I see by the papers that thore has been a revellion in the deat and dumb asylum, Mr, Reeder—Not a rebellion, mutiny. my dear; a A Word ot Advice. New York Weekly, Mrs, McInty—An’ phat did th’ docther soy was th' matter wid y'r eye, Patsy! Small Son—He say-cd thur was some for- eign substanco in 1t Mrs. Meluty (with an “I-told-you 80" air) Now maybe ye'll kape away from thim Oytalians, Explaining a Mystery. Doston Courier, It has been discovered that kissos—love Lisses, we mean—aro full of electrioity. Now we know why old maias have ulways called kissing shocking. ‘The Shock Too Muc The Epoch. Cumso—I see that a Denver detective has mysteriously disappeared. IPangle—He's probably found the criminal he was looking for and the snock killed him. - 2 PHILOSOPY. for Him. KANSAS Atchison Globe, It takes an impatient man to make a pa tient woman. Honeyed words belong to the confidence man and the lover. Even if marriage is a failure it does not follow that divorce is a euccess, Eloquence in telling les is what makes people believe you are telling the truth, The girl who laughs av everything grows o bo the womun who cries at everything. How soon forbearauce ccuses to be a vir- tue when the forbearance 1s for the faults of those we dislike! There never was a boy who could be made to believe that any other boy's hair was naturally curly. For his own sake o man should not boast before he wins, and, for the suke of others, he should not boast after. The woman who recognizes.a man’s wrongs never has reason to complain that he does not recognize her rights, What comes easier to a man than to per- suade himself that he has not the ability to do the things he don't want to do! There is only one thing greater than the useful things & man forgets in a lifetime, and that is the usoless things he remembers. It is safe to say that there never was a funeral of a married person that someone on the way back from the cemetery did not say something about the short time it would be before the one who is left would marry again, — BIG RUMPUS AT RUTGERS, Students Capture the Faculty and Cut Other Monkey Shines, EW YOoRrg, Feb, 23, —|Special Telegram to Tux Bee. | —The studeuts of Rutgers col- lege “made thicgs howl” Wednesday night. A. 3. Wells, one of the men who had beeu suspended for tne theft of the clapper of the colloge Lel., returned to college recently and the studeuts, partly from a desire to cole- brate this eventand vartly because they d kept quiet for over two weeks and couldn’t staud iv any longer, resolved on a demonstra- tion. The troubie began when Prof. Mer. rimav visited the observatory in the evening with the junior class to make observations, Hardly bad he entered the building when & mob of students collected on the cumpus and began pelting the door. Big stones were turown ou the roof and others were carried up stairs aod then rolled dow When tho professor attempted to come out to ascertain the cause of the trouble he found the door barricaded ‘I'hen they locked up Prof, Shumway in his room und derided bim by calling for a speech, As he wus fast 10 his rodm Lis remurks were not audible. T'he janitor next received their attention, His cart was seized, mashed into kinaling wood and burrea on’ the college campus. Part of the college fence was also torn down. Then the junitor got assistance und rencwed the ussault, but the students wero again cqual 1o the oceasion, lussooing Lim and dragging bim by the neck all over the campus, and then maliug off beloro they coula be iaentified, A banguet was beld at the Cafo Butes at which Wells and otber students made speechies, Ad attompt had been wade to get THEY TOOR HIS GOLD, The OMcers Who Arroste | Walton y bezzisre Deep Trouble, 81, Jonxs, N, B, Feb, 28 —[Spacial Tele gram to I'ne Bee, | —It now appears that when Walton, the Texas ombezzior, was arrested and searched at St. Johins the act was iilegal, there being no warrant issued by the Mon- treal authorities until two days iater. In court the prisoner's counsel turned the tables by reading aMdavits charging Detective Grosse and Express Manager Vickers with having appropriated to their own use a gold coin taken from Walton. Grosse and Vick ors took the gold coin to Paze & Ferguson's jowolry store and had their initiuls and the date engraved thereon today, fixing up the coin as a souvenir medal of tho arrest. ‘The judge was thunderstruck and issued an order for tho examination of all the partics concerned under oath, stating that he wovld make the most searching 1mvestization into tho arrest and treatment of the prisoner oven if it took three months. This deflance of the court iu holding back Walton's gold coin is likely to result in serious troublo to the Montreal ofticers, and coupled with their attempt to induce the chief of polico to dis rogard a suprome judge's habeus corpus order and let them carry off tho prisoner to Mon treal, has aroused public indignation, - Brutally Assaulted a £ chool Teacher, Warennury, Conn, 28, —Miss [Lazzio Cowan of Middlebury y & hand- some and popular school teachor, was bru- o flasn of light picture of the crowd as in- criminating evidence against the men, but it failed and the students were jubilunt over 3he affuir, Slavin Challenges the World, Ew YORK, Feb, 28,—|Special ‘lelegram to Tue Bee. | —The following cable was sent from Melbourno: **I'wo prominent gentles wen of this city will back Fravk P. Fluvio against John L. Sullivau for £1,000 to £2,000, the Police Gazewe champion belt and the championship of the world,and if the Amer- can champion will agree to meet Siavin in Australia, the Melbourne athietic club will aad & purse of £),000 to huve the muanage- ment of the affawr; Sullivan to be allowed £100 pounds for his expeuses and the Sports- wano of Melbourae to be the final stake- holaer. Should the American champion re- fuse Lo meet Slavin, the same terms are of- fered Jake Kilrain, Peter Jackson or any other man io the world. Slavia has agre ed to the terms.” -~ 1tems from Mexico, Ci7y o Mexico, f'eb. 28,—The Illinois ed- itorial excursion arrived last night The government hus ordered & strict in- 1ation ro‘iurdln[ the counterfaiting of Awerican colu o Guysmas, tally assaulted while on her way home from school just after dark last night. She identi fled Dan Webster, a worthless fellow, as sailant. There is much excitemont o assault. Webster hus confessed and was examined today and bound over. 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