Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED 7}“,\'1-1![\' MORNING , TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily nnd Sunday, One Year 1X HONhS. ... Three mont &mtln,\' Bee, One eekly Hee, Ons Year. OFFIC Omahn, The Bee Buliding, Eouth Omahn, Corner N and 20th Streets Councll BIufs, 12 Pearl Street. hieago Office, 17 € er of Commerce. u"w\'urk.l(vmn\l(llluml Tribune Buliding ashington, 513 Fourteenth Street. CORR! VENCE All communieatio ating to news and o po addressed to the £10 00 A 00 250 200 100 TTERS. te nd remittances shonld sed to The Bee Publishing Company, i Drafis, checks and JNV(MI"[I'I' orders 10 be niade payable to the order of the com pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Beo B'1d d Seventeenth Sts — — FWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION !ln;t-nr Nxv!xrrn?)\:’n " 1 20 ty ol | Gocrie b OTAsennek. focrotary of The Tee Publishing compuny, aoes lemnly swear that the actual circulation of E DALY Bee for tie weex endlug Nov, 8 1800, was as fol- en Bunds M Fworn to before me and subseribed In my pregenco tnis 8th day of November, A, D.. 150, TERAL. | N. P. Frit, Notary Publio. Etuteof Nobraska, }“ County of Douglas, Georgo B. Tzsch being duly sworn, de- 3 s secretary of The Bee ing Company. that the actual average dnily cireulation of Tur DALY BEE for the inonth of Noverber, 156, was 19,310 coples; o, 16 or January, 'y, 1800, 10,- 1800, 20815 copies; : for May, 1800, 20,130 copies? tor’ July, 20,750 coples or October, for April, 1500, 2,564 coples copies; for June, 1800, 20, 0,0 D ONGE B, TZS0HUCK. £worn to before me. and subseribed in my. presence, this st ay of November, A.D.. 1600 Notary T ettt il St O ‘I'ie democrats continue to make héavy LyeN Tom Moonlight eclipsed in tho Kansas gale. was totally Me. BURROWS’ tea. store is once more n operation and peaco reigns on Salt creek, DEMOCRATIO majorities and railroad robberies are the leading products of Missouri at the present time, THINGS are not as bad as they might be. Governor Thayer has been clected president of the charity ball association. KANSAS cast forty-eight thousand less votes than in 1888 and Nebraska eighteen thousand more. Prohibition is A great success as adiminisher of popula- tion? —— THE bionnial distribution of railroad annuals to legislators will soon begin. {Of course the railroads do not expect fa- wors from the coming legislature. Passes are given as proof of corporate courtesy. WHEN Chicago gets her “‘modern tower of Babel,” perhaps she would like 10 buy the Nebraska legislature of 1891 to people it. It would be difficult to obtain & more peculiar conglomeration of heterogeneous elements for the pur- pose.* TuE lesson of the Pennsylvania result has not been lost on the republican news- papers of Philadelphia. They have in- formed Mr. Quay that he cannot con- tinue to run things in the Keystone state withoat regard to décency or public in- tervest. His candidate was defeated not by democrats, but by republicans. IENERAL BRAGG of Wisconsin appears to have been kicked out of obscurity by the recent eruption. At least he im- agines that a suffering country demands his services as a senator. Bragg achieved notoriety for two things—con- gratulating Cleveland on “the enemies he had made,” and opposing the nomi- nation of Peck because it was *‘carrying a joke too far,” L. L. POLK, president of the National Farmers' alliance, announces that his party is in the business to stay, and that in afew yoars the producers who are members of the order will enjoy the earth and the fulness thereof. It should be remarked in this connection that President Polk finds politieal campaign- ing far more profitable than farming, and enjoys a fat salary at the expense of the tillers. COLONEL ST, JORN, who precipitately fled from Nebraska to escape the deluge, turns up in Kansas City with his mouth in good repair, The dofeat of prohibi- tion in this state did not affect him in the least. In fact, he was joyful, and confided his enthusiasm in a reporter. He chuckled over his engagement in Nebraska, and doubtless laughed im- moderately as he thought of the gudgeons whom he buncoed out of one hundred dollars per night. Well may this mercenary reformer exclaim, as he Jingles his coin, “What fools these mortals be 1" — Tie harmonious blending of the dis- cordunt elements in the alliance and democratic camps will require some re- markably fino work. Assuming that Burrows, Powers & Co, will coutest the election of James B. Boyd, the battle ‘begins at the threshold of the organiza- tiou of the legislature. On the face of the returns the alliance has a working majority in both houses, but in this cai- culation the alliance is credited with logislators elected on combination tick- ets. Inseveral districts the democrats endorsed alliance candidates, and vice versa. Tho republicans and the alli- ance also united in a number ¢f districts. ‘Will these men repudiate their party obligations? A serious attack on Boyd means an immediate rupture of the demo-alliance engagement and a decla- ration of war, It is apparent, therefore, that Burrows, Powers & Co. must ecall off their dogs if they desire to lle down with the democratic lamb, Viewed in any light, the prospect of harmony: is de- cidedly remote. Meanwhile, republicans will calmly enjoy the spectacle of the victors slaughtering each’ other, CONTESTING THE GOVERNORSHIP Laxcony, Nov. 10, ~Te the Editor of Tue Ber: Aro yoa not mistaken as regards the modo of conducting a contest for state offl- cers, Examine the Revised Statutes for 1859, chapter Elections, page 461, INDEPENDENT. THE BeE concedes that its conclu- sions ns regards the method of conduct- ing n contest for an executive office before the legislature were erroneous. The mistake springs from the fact that there has never been such a contest in this state and the canvass of the returns for state officers always had been here- tofore conducted by the legislature in the same manner as is the canvass of the electoral vote by the congress of the United States. Our vevised statutes do, however, make a broad distinction between the method of contosting the clection of ex- ecutive officers and that of legislative, judicial and county officers, Under our statutes the contest for executive officers is heard and determined by the legisl ture in joint convention,with the speaker of the house acting as presiding ofticer. The preliminary steps to such contests are the same ns those taken in contests for the election of members of the legisloture or of judicial and county officers. 'The testimony in the contest over executive officers is trans- mitted to the sccret of state and through him to thespeaker of the house, and by the speakor to the legislatur which by concurrent resolution resolves itself into a court to hear and determine the issue. But we may as well call attention to the fact that this “statute relating to the mode of canvassing the vote for execu- tive officers is somewhat at variance with the constitution, setion four, article five, of the constitution, headed- “Executive Department,” reads as fol- lows: The returns of every election for the offi- cers of the exccutive department shall be sealed up and transmitted by the returning officers to the secretary of state, directed to the speaker of the Louse of representatives, who shall immediately after the organization of the house, and before proceeding to other business, open and publish the same in the presence of a majority of each house of the legislature, who shall for that purpose assemble in the hall of the house of representatives. The person having the highest number of votes for either of said offices shail be de- clared duly elected; but if two or more have an equal ard the highest num- ber of votes, the legislature shall by joint vote choose one of such persons for said office. Contested el ions for all of said offices shall be determined by both houses of the legislature by joint vote in such manner as may be prescribed by law. Now the manifest and clear intent of the constitution is that the function of the legislature is ministerial first and judicial later on in case of a contest. The first joint convention is simply to hear the returns read, publish the same, (which means make them public) and declare ‘he persons that receive the highest number of votes duly elected. If these veturns are attacked on the ground of fraud or miscount in any county or precinet, the legislature in jointconvention,acting as a judicial body, is to investigate the charges and deter- mine whether they offset the majovity by which the candidate who has received the highest number of votes on the face of the returns had been declared elected. It seems to us, however, that the can- vass and publication of the returns and declaration of the result on each execu- tive officor must precede any action the legislature may have to take in deter- mining the claims of contestants. In other words every candidate who has received a majority or plurality of the votes cast for his office, on the face of the returns, cortified to by the respect- ive county clerks, must be declared elected and be given the opportunity to qualify for the discharge of the duties of his office. If, following such canvass, the legislature after due investigation reaches the conclusion that any con- tested executive officer was not right- fully entitled to his position, they have the priviloge of so decreeing snd un- seating him. DETERMINE THE PARTY POLICY. The republican party has suffered a national defeat. It has three months more of absolute power in which to work out its plans, Party interest and patri- otic duty alike demand that its press and its leaders give immediate attention to the matter of determining its present and future poliey. The prevailing democratic opinion ap- pears to be that the vepublican party has been erushed beyond resurrection, It is even possible that some enthusinstic partisans think Grover Cleveland has been elected prosident and that Benja- min Harrison is about to resume the practice of the law in Indianapelis. On the other hand, every worthy republi- can opinion that has found expression is steadfast in the faith tha t the great pol- icies of the party that has ruled in this country for the larger part of the time since 1861 will still be the choice of the people when they render a verdict on issues purely national, Many strange ele- ments entered into the election of No- vember 4. It is not fair to say that the result is due to universal distrust of re- publican measures. But it is fair to say that republican leaders must find and study the lessons of the rveturns, and that they must immediately determine the policies on which they will appeal to the country in 1892, First of all, therg is the tariff. The republican’ party 1s the historic sup- vorter and defender of protection. ~Its rank and file ure firm in the belief that the results of the protective policy have been beneficent and that the prosperity of the country is to be found in the con- tinuance of that policy. So far as the ‘McKinley bill inereases duties on goods which can be manufactured here and are nct, so far as it retains the duty on goods already made here to the end that the difference between the cost of cheap labor in Europe and well-paid labor in America may be made up, and so far as it reduces or entirely removes the duties on goods that no longer need protection, the McKinley bill has®the approval of the republican masses and a mujority of the people of this country. Englishmen believe the democratic yietory is a verdict in favor of free trade. Grover Cleveland belicves it is evidence THE OMAHA DAILY BEH,,TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I1, 1890, that the country regards the tariff as “iniquitous” and that the people want o tariff only high enough to provide “a revenue for the expenses of the govern- ment economically administered.” Re- publicans see no such lesson in the re- turns, They believe in protection for its own sake, wisely adjusted to the needs of our manifold industries and in- terests when considered in detail. But those who are not tariff-mad see that there are mistakes in the McKinley law, They see that such necossities of life as lumber, coal and salt—the raw products of the earth—ought to be ad- mitted free. There is no reason why we should protect the trees of the forest or the bowels of the earth against the com- petition of pauper nature in Europe. There is no reason why duties should be raised on cotton and woolen goods, which are already manufactured here extensively and very profitably, Such mistakes as these should be remedied by the present congress, for their un- sonableness is so palpable that they judice the people against the whole protective system, There are other questions beside the tariff, but perhaps none on which the y 18 serioysly divided. The republican duty of the hour is to face tho situation, rectify its ont blunders and firmly uphold the cardinal principles that have inspired its found- ers and placed it in control of national affairs for more than a quarter of a cen- tury. A HOPEFUL VIEW OF FARMING. Secretary Rusk reports that the farmers of the United States are inthe enjoyment of a growing prosperity, a fact, it is to be feared, of which they were not all previously aware. In his annual review of our agricul- tural interests he shows that the pri; of all staples are now higher than a ago. He admits that this is due in part to the difference in the size of the crops for thetwo years, but expresses the oy ion tl it is also due to re legislation. He calls attention to the wsed duties on farm products and demonstrates by actual figures that the total amount of imports of this class have been quite large. The secretary un- doubtedly has good reason to congratu- late the farmers on the effects of the new tariff law. It is plain that its work- ings must be to their advantage so faras it affects them at all. Tt will increase the home market, help them to sus- tain prices and keep® out whatever Canadian competition they huve hereto- fore encountered. The increase of the duties on linen will also encourage the culture of flax by securing a better mar- ket and better prices. Seeretary Rusk does not forget to men- tion the sugar beet exporiments in Ne- braska. He speaks enthusiastically of the outlook for this industry. One in- toresting point in his report is the state- ment that the government has seat an agent abroad to consider the possibility of extending the market for Indian corn in® the interest of the western corn growers. The report expre: satisfa tion with the present and future aspects of farming conditions. Jorry Rusk is an honest man and doubtless bases his hopeful view of the situation on reliable statistics, The fact remains, however, that seventy thou- sand farmers in Nebraska, one hundred and six thousand in Kansas and fifty-five thousand in Minnesota have just drawn out of Jerry Rusk’s party and voted that they are not presperous. It Is to be hoped that the secretary’s vision is clearer than the BALLO! REFORM. The application of the new ballot reform laws in New York and New Jer- sey at the late election appears from the testimony of all sides to huve worked very satisfactorily. Both laws are a modified form of the Australian system and are ossentially similar. The adop- tion of the law in New York was accom- plished after a struggle of several yeavs, and the final enactment was a com- promise, adopted by vhe republi lature to overcome the objections of Governor Hill and the democrats gen- erally. One of these objections was that its operation would be so slow as to deé- prive some people of an opportunity to vote, but the objection most insisted upon was that thetaw would in effect discriminate against the illiterate vot- ers. Neither of these objections was sustained by experience, there having been no serious trouble with the work- ing of the law in New York City, where the mass of voters is greater and the number of illiterate eitizens larger than anywhere in the country. A large vote was polled there without any friction or difficulty that interfered with any one exercising the franchise, andstrange as it may appear, what little trouble there was with the practical operation of balloting occarred not in the ranks of the ignorant, but among the educated class. This is explained by the fact that for seme time before the election the politicians instructed the uneducated voters in evening classes all over the move thickly settled portions of the city. There has thus been given another very distinet verdiet favorable to the Australian system of ballot reform, mod- ified so as to meet the peculiar require- ments of our political system. The New York and New Jersey laws do not com- prehend as much of the Australian plan as the Massachusetts law, and a careful comparison of the operation of the dif- ferent laws may be in favor of the latter, but at any rate it is certain that the former laws avea great improvement upon the system of voting they super- seded, and the general opinion is that they will stand, undergoing from time to time such changes as experience shall suggest to be necessary to render them more effective in securing a free and faie ballot. This added evidence in favor of ballot reform will give a fresh impulse to the movement for its general adoption, which is only a matter of time. One by one the arguments against it have been overthrown by practical tests, untal there no longer remains anything of force to be said in opposition. Wher- aver tried the veform has given satisfac- tion and received the approval of the friends of honest elections of all parties. It 1s time that Nebraska had a ballot re- form law, and the subject will undoubt- edly receive donsideration from the next legislature. Mhe platform of the re pub- lican party dééldted in favor of sucha law, and the metjbers of that party in the legislature may be expected to give it their support.. The alliance representa- tives are bound « by a like pledge, and there is no readon to doubt that if such a law passed the legislature it would be approved by Governor-elect Boyd. Such a mensure will require careful considera- tion, and the subject ought to be among the first to receive the attention of the legislature, ORGANIZE FOR BUSINESS. The more progressive members of the Real Estate exchange realize that the time has come for o more active busi- ness organization, They hold that rad- ical changes in the principles of the or- ganization are ecssential to permanent good. The conservative element, how- ever, are content to plod along in the old rut and Micawber-like wait for things to “turn up,” The value of a vigorous organization is conceded by all. But just what sys- tem to adopt puzzles the management. Past experience demonstrates the uselessness of the original plan, To meet for an hour each day, list property and announce sales is a formality without practical benefit or lasting results, An exchange must be one in fact as well as in name. To continue in former paths is a waste of time and cncrgy. Steps should therefore be taken to place the organization on a business basis. This will require persistent work and unfaltering confidence. Rome was not built in a day. Noraan a rveal live exchange be put in operation in a day, a week or a month, It takes time and effort, coupled with zeal and devotion, In the lexicon of energy, intelligently directed, there is no such word as fail, and if the active members of the Real Estate exchange take a firm hold of ad- vanced projects and put their shoulders to the wheel, the success ina short time, but set an ex- ample of enterprise and boundless confi- dence that will reanimate other com- mercial associations and put the Micaw- bers to shame, xeitement of the elec- tion, the suspension of business fora day and the post-bellum rejoicing, the vol- ume of busine as reflected in the transactions of the Omaha clearing house, show an increase of nearly twenty-two per cent over the correspond- ing week last year. The record is a flattering one. IT is not too late to remark that the teachers of the public schools of Omaha would cheerfully, paint a section of the local horizon, 1f the propricties would sanction the departure. Steady employ- ment and high salaries are to them the benefleent fruits of the “triumph of rea- son.” THE tin-horn brigade is again ten- dered the freedom of the city, We might as well be generous in stch mat- ters. The brigade would take the town in any event, THE Hon. J. Sterling Morton grac- iously tenders his advice and counsel to the governor-clect. But where was the sage of Arbor Lodge while the battle was raging? It is amazing what vitality and energy the Samosets display when political an- nuities come in sight. Tae weather clerk is ignorant of the mighty proaching Omaha. painfully “blow” ap- THE permanent welfare of the city de- mands a radical extension of the fire limits. Another * Late Unpleasantness." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It was another “late unpleasantiess.”. Headed Toward the Bottom. Philadelphia Times. The ocean racers are gradually lowering the record. Possibly they will get to the bottom of it aiter awhile. P Pattison as a Probability. Kansas City Globe. In naming Pattison as the next democratic candidate for president Murat Halstead hit pretty near the mark. His victory in Penn- sylvania makes him @ conspicious figure among the probabilities rather than tne possi- bilities. —— Sights Better Left Unseen. Indianapolis News. The heir to the Russian throne is about to make a tour®o acquire such knowledge ss the czar of all the Russias should possess. He is coming west to America. If he went towards the east he might strike Siberia and learn some things he would rather not know. e RISIBLES. Lowell Citizen: “Ready for the fray”—a bundle of clothes booked for the laundry. Chicago Iuter - Ocean: Trivvet — Miss Ophelia has a wonderful flow of language, Dicer—Yes, she speaks in liquid tones. Pittsburg Chronicle: The design of the silver dollar is to be improved, but it is ex- pected to be just as hard as ever to get the coin, Binghamton Reptbtican: A “youthful reader” wastes a 2-cent stamp to inform us that the best kindief paper to malke kites of is fly paper. ' Philadelphia Press: Consistently obitu- ary poets should share the emoluments with the undertaker, for they play a conspicuous part in the last sad writes. America: Mrs. Moddle—Well, Maud, how did you and Mabelgujoy the performance of “Hamlet? " Maua—Not very,well, mamma. Mrs. Moddle—Wss the acting poor? Maud—-O, I suppose the acting was weil enough, but we forgst to take any caramels. Boston Trauseript: “Ouly think,” said Maud, *‘they used to say that the drama was going to the dogs, Now the puppies seem to be ging to the drama,” and she swept with her eyes the rows of seats filled with turbu- lent immaturity, Norristown Herald: A medical journal says that o well, healthy man will suffer more from the prickof a pin than he will from the pain of dissolutian in case he dies a natural death. Perhaps so; but he is more apt to recover from the prick of a pln. Epoch: Independent Voter—Well, how is the campaign progressing! Practical Politi- clan—Favorably, I think. We intend to bring this reign of fraud and corvuption to an 4 end. Our committee has obtained a fand of 25,000 to be eirculated among the doubtful voters elaction day. This cirtainly must be @ government of the people. will not only achieve | ADMINISTRATION REVERSES, Congressional Klectlons Between Presidential Ones for Fafty years. Cinetnnati Commercial-Gaztte, The political reversal which has just oo- curred in the election of congressmen must have been in the prophetic mind of Mr.Blaine when he spoke in Philadelphia last Saturday and reminded his hearers that according to his belief from the time of John Quincy Adam: Abraham Lincoln, with one excep- tion, every administration lost its second con- gress, The following summary of congres- sional elections between presidential years for the past fifty years is interesting in this connection and at this time. 1340—Willlam H. Harrison, whig, elected president. ngress elected stood: Whigs, 1 locofocos, 10 The congress elected in 1842 stood : Whigs, 60: locofocos, 140, 1844-James K. Polk, democrat, elected president. Congress elccted stwood: Whigs, 763 10cofor 35, '] congress elected in 1846 stood : Whigs, 11 ln'n(m'll) 'll)"fi. \ 1848~ Zachary Taylor, whig, elected presi- dent, Congress elooted stood: Whigs: 111 locofocos, 116. Congress elected 1850 stood: Whigs, 88; opposing 140, 1852—Franklin Pierce, democrat, elected president. Congress elected stood: Whigs, 713 demoerats, 159, The congress elected in 1854 stood Republicans, 108; democrats, 85; Filmores (Americans), 43. 1856--James Buchanan, demoerat, clected president. Congress elected stood: Demo- crats, 1815 republicans, 92, Congross elected in 1858 stood: Republicans, 114; democrats, in 1860—Abraham Lincoln, ropublican, elected resident. Congress clocted stood: Repub- icans, 106; democrat unionists, 42 The congress elected in 1862 stood: Republicans, 102; democrat. 1564—A braham elected president, Republicans, 1 Lincoln, republican, re- Congress elected stood: 5 democrats, 40. The con- gress elected ia 1866 stood: Republicans, 143; democrats, 40, 1808—Ulysses S, Grant, republican, elected president. = Congress elected stood: Kepub licans, 159; democrats, 61, The congre clected 1n' 1570 stood! Republicans, 181; democrats, 4. 1872—Ulysses S. elocted presiden Republicans, gress elected in 1085 democrats, 108, 1876—Rutherford B, Hayes, republican, elected president. Congress elected stood : Republicans, 140; democrats, 153, The con- gress clocted in' 1875 stood: Republicans, 1305 democrats, 149, 1850 —James Garfield, republican, Congress elected stood: democrats, 130. The con- Grant, republican, re- Congross elected stood democrats, 83, The con- 1874 stood: Republicaus, 8 ar 1193 demos 1884~ land, democrat, elected resident. ngress elected stood: Repub- icans, 138; democrats, 1 The congress elected in' 1886 stood: Republicans, 159; democrats, 160, SIS PETS ON A MAN-O'-WAR. The Affectionate Monkey and the Ma- ternal Love of the Chameleon. It is impossible for a landsman to imagine the amount of pleasure derived from pets on board of one of Uncle Sam's cruisers in for- cign seas during the dog watches, when Jackey is in want of new diversions, The monotony of shipboard life would be oppress ivo1n the extreme were it not for the pa- tience of Jack in fondling, caring fof and training animals found in forcwgn climes sermission to visit the shore1s granted ailor. While the writer was serving on Brooklyn a few years ago a number of pets were gathered from their wild homes in Africa and Madagascar prior to and after the transit of Venus expedition of 1883, Captain Weaver had a fine collection of gray parrots from Cape Town, of which he thought a great deal. One of the most prom- ising met with a watery grave while impris- oned in his cage, due to” the carelessness of a steward who attempted to clean the home of the beauty on the gangway, hold on the cage, which felland sank beneath the quiet watersiof the Rio de la Plata, Another of the number excited attention and comment by calling “Comein!” to the knock of the oxderly on the door of the cap- tain. As time wore on the the attention of ofticer mand to strike “E wateh,” given with the rd began to arrest and men by its com- sht bells and call the L the expressive em- h officer anxious for when % o'clock had been announced p The commanding officer con- sequently became very much attached to his bird, which learned to repeat o seutences calculated 1o be especially gratifying to the captain's children 1n after days. E On th it of the Venus expedition a of pets was secured, among vhich a young guanaco was tho most, con- ous. This was a beautiful animal: its lustrous eyes were so expressive of gentle- ness that it scemed a pity to keep it m cap. tivity, The tried every means totame it, but it died before it becane accustomed to its new surroundings. A young ostrich lived on the forecastle for some weeks, and as- tonished all by a voracious appetite. 1t finally died, however, from undigested copper On the Madagascar cruise the greatest variety of pets were collected. Among the most amusing and entertaining was a monkey named Mayjunga, after Mojanga in Madagas- car, where it was given to the marine officer. This monkey stood about 3 feet 6 inches high it was very good natured and was secured by a heavy chain, notwithftanding which she frequently broke adrift, and the efforts to capture her in the rigging and in dif- ferent parts of the ship created a good deal of fun. Her frequent ex- cursions to the quarters of the officers provoked many execrations from the confines of the ward room, when an inkstand was found to be upset, the tecth of combs wrecked, photographs of loved ones at home seattered and a vatiety of other trying misde- mernors committed. Freauent appeals to the owner of the monkey for relief resulted in a saleto an American circus company, and Mayjunga was one of the attractions of the showy postars, At Montevideo, Jackey, with a view of having a Thanksgiving ~dinner, secured a young pig, which was duly named “Denn1s.” t did not take long for his porkship to come drilled into the wishes of his_trainers, He was_always on band at the hatchway when the vell steuck S for meals. In the rear guard of the diners Dennis would waddle along with his charastic grunt. During meat hours Deunis would trot the deck with “Tom," @ noble, knowing cat, and a terror to mousehood, astride his back, spectacled, and with a cigarettein his mouth, At Capetown, -South Africa, a_chameleon was one of the steerage pets,’ This strange creature, called Dicls, was fed with flies, and after getting remarkably fat one day gave birth to twenty-one little chameleons, The youngsters thrived for awhile and finally died Dick grieved so much over her loss that she pmed away until one morning early her lifeless body was found on the table by Jimmy Legs on his rounds. Referring to Mayjunga, the incorrigible monkey, the writer cannot refrain from tell- ing of &' combat with his highness. On the occusion of his transfer to the circus pre- cincts ne showed signs of insubordination toward his trainer, His sense of suveriority over his dwarfed companions when in the arena for drill caused the monkey temper to raise, much to the anuoyance of his kindred wdd 'the master of ceremonies. For his stubbornness cotinement with dry bread and very little water was the punishment in- flicted to bring him to terms of pupilage. Being in the vicinity of the circus grounds one warm afternoon a desire came over me to visit *Mayjunga,” ~ While ecting the various performing animals 1 inquired kow our monkey was making out in his new de- parture. The answer was auything but encouraging, and on my expressing sym- athy fov the trainer in his vam ef- anu to eurb the obstinate spirit, I was in- vited to have a look at the animal. As soon as the door of his kennel was opened and his monkeyship espied me, a squeal, rush and embrace around my white-apparelled body cnsued eve I could catch a breath, Faney 37§ feet of monkey flesh clinging to me ‘with up- turned face and oyes full of entreaty to re- store him to his former home and save him the humiliation of consorting with a minor family. Of course my persuasions had to come in play, so I asked for @ piece of cube sugar and threw it on the ground, when his grasp was loosened and I was beyond the reach of his chain with an imprint of his muddy paws and body on coat, vest and trousers. A change of clothes was soon made, and I vowed ven- geance on that monkey while retiring from his viteous cries, Volumes could be written concerning the pets trained on our cruisers. THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES. The Question as to When the Number Shall Bo Inoreased. TWO STAGE STRUCK OMAHA GIRLS, A Travelingman Runs Off With His Employer's Property — Mra. Jones' Story—Other Oapital City Gossip. LixcoLy, Neb, Nov. 10.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Ber,|—~Now that the amendment to the constitution increasing the number of supreme judges from three to five has carried, the question is being asked when does the law gointo effect. The legal fraternity say that when the legislature moets ana is organized the spoaker will sub mit the returns to a com- mittee. This committes will of course re port that the ameudment has carried. After the report is adopted the governor will be notified of the fact, and he by proclamation, issued fn- side of ten days, will declare that the amend- ment has become a law. Then the question” arises does the law go into effect at once, creatigg a vacancy of two Judges in the supreme court,and if it does not, what shall be done concerning these vacancies before the next general election? ief Justice Cobb of the supremo court was seen in regard to the matter: and asked for his opinion. He declaved that he was somewhat puzzled himself over tho matter and did not show a dicposition to commit him- sclf. He finally exprossed or vather intimated the opinion that the law went into effect at once and consequently created a vacancy of two judges, When asked whether the governor had the power of appointing two judges to fill the vacancies the chicef justice said : ““There is no statute governing that point that I know of except the one to the effect that the governor shall have power to ap- point persons at his discrction to fill any vacancies that may occur in the state offices, Still I believe that the tegislature at one time voted down a bill that provided for the appointment of supreme judges by the goy- ernor in just such an emergency as this. But this action would have no effect on any statute existing today that gives the gov- ernor the power of appointment in Such cases, The governor, 1 presume, will, in conjunction with the senate, choese some suitable persons to fill the vacancies that evi- dently will exist. If no appointments aro made tie-ups are liable to be made by one judge disagreeing with the other two,” The will bavely constitute a majority atare by law declared at that timo to constituto the supreme court. So on the mere matter of choosing a bailift ofusal of one judge to concur will pre- vent such choice. “This same question arose in Kentucky about sixty years ago and caused one of tho most bitter and exciting fights ever known in the political history of the country.” WANTED TO DE ACT s, A telophone message was received at police headquarters this motning stating that two girls who bad run uway from their homes in Omaha were at a leading hotel, and the police were requested to arrest and hold them until their parents could come after them. Cap- tain Carder went over to the hotel and found that two _young girls named Fannie Brega and Katie Willis were occupying a room there. They acknowledged that they had come away from home without their parents knowledge, and intended going to Denver to join @ theatrical company. They came to the city yesterday from Omaha with several Lincoln young men and were at the hotel the greater ‘part of the day, and entertained a number of callers at their room. The) both wood-looking girls and well dréssed, ‘The police kept them under surveillance ti rest of the nigut, and this morning sent them on the early train to Omaha, in response to word from Mrs. Brega, the mother of one of the demoiselles. The girls. who ave only fifteen years old, said that when the “You and 1" theatrical compauny was in Omaha they went to the manager and asked permission to join the troupe, The manager told them it wonld not be safe for himto allow themto join at Omaha, butif they would run off to Denver and meet the company there he would add them to the troupe. The Brega girl seemed to be familiar with the wicked ways of the world, but her com- panion was very ladylike in her actions and favorably impressed the police. ROBBED HIS EMPLOYERS, Messrs. Barber & Fowler, the North Tenth street implement dealers, are anxious to_re- new a casual quaintance Willey, who acted as traveling them in this and adjoining counti ploy of the firm for about four months, com- ing here from Tecurseh. He is about twenty- four years old, five feet nine inches in height and not a bad looking fellow, with dark hair and blue eyes. On October 27, just two weeks ago today, he left the city on'a tour, taking with him a dappled gray mare aad a new open buggy. The next heard of him was after the patience of his employers had been exhausted and thoy procceaed to make in- quiries was at alton, where he had at- tempted to dispose of the horse, buggy, har- ness, robes, ete., at a ridiculous figure, From Walton be went to Eagle, near which place lives Ed Willlams, who had recently purchased a windmill from Barber & Fow- er. The account was unsettled, and Willey weut out, got Williams' note_for' $35, which he disposed of at Bagle for 874, From there all trace of him was and he has evi- dently skipped the country. Postal cards were 1ssued yesterday by Sheriff McClay offering a reward of 0 for the arrest and conviction of the thief, and $25, offered by Barber & Fowler, for the return of the prop- erty stolen, Mr. Fowler is firmly convinced of the truth of tho old adage that it never rains but | it pours. Within the past two weeks he lost wo horses, two sots of harness and a buggy, representing in all about $500, by fire, with not a cent of insurance, FOUR MONTHS OF MARITAL AGONT. Mr. John M. Jones has filed a reply to the {K‘litk\ll of his wife, Jane, for a divorce, and he emphatically denies that he is the cruel monster that Mrs. Jones declares him to be, He further says that notuing on earth could please him better than to be divoreed from her, but he declares he1s the one to whom the decree should be granted. He then un- ravels a list of faults on the 't of Mrs, Jones that he claims have made home a pan- demonium and existence under the same roof with her unbearable. He says that she eon- tracted the nabitof imbibing intoxicating Ii- quors; thatshe is ill-tempered; continually Ilndmg fault avout trifles, and is a perpetual scold; that after causing him infinite misery for four months after marriage, she finally deserted him without cause and much to his jov. Ho earnestly hopes that the coart will give hera perpetual ticket ot leave. STATE HOUSE NOTRS, The Stockman’s National Building, Loan and Savings union of Chicago has applied to the secretary of state for permission to trans- act business in this state under the laws gov- erning such organizations. The capital stock 1s 850,000, Today Governor Thayer issued notarial commissions to the following: L. R. Wright of Omaha, Elmer E. Ferris of Hastings, H. E. Norton of Kenesaw, Coarles A, Potter of Omaha, T. M. Timbliu of Hampton. Only about one-half of the official returns have yeu been received by the secretary of state, RDTURNS FOR AUDITOR AND TREASUREI. The official returns from eighty countics have been received for auditor and state treasurer and show the following figures: For auditor, Benton, 71,884, Beattie, 08,447, For state treaserer, Hill, 71,928 ; Wolfe, 67,95, The following counties are 'yet to be heard from: Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Furnas, Hooker, McPherson, Scotts’ Bluffs, Sheridan. ODDS AND ENDS. The negro dive of E. E. Weir at Seventh and N, streets was raided by the police last night, and William Jones and John Grant, | two operators, and E. F. Weir, Ella Burns, May Moore, Beatrice Smith brought to the station. All wero colored, with the excep- tion of tue two first named. The dive is the one where John Taylor was shot a week ago, and {s one of the worst in the bottoms, With the exception of irant, all were fined $10 and costs this morning, Weir being the only one 10 pay out. E. Cummings, a student, was arrested &t the opera house Saturaay night for dis- turbing thnpubllcr«(-a by forcibly expross. ing his disapproval of the play on the boards. He put up money for his appearance, but was discharged for want of prosecution this morn- ing. I°. Warnor and 8. A. Lewls were the solo expositors of the plain drunken condition and nelther was able_to poy tho 86,50 asked by thecourt. ¥, A. Murphy was also drouk, but had the added glory of befvg disordorly also. He caught §.80, and found a friend in Sam Hudson, who went seourity for his fine. C. C. Hawkins came in from Wollfleoi this morning. Ho reports that embryo city as booming, contracts having been lot for £16,000 hotel and a §25,000 dam, the latter to furnish power for tho -contemplated beot sugar and starch factories. Ho says thatin all the western counties whoro crops were ood the republicans were winners and tho alliance won in every county whero crops were poor, Roy Redding and B4 Wright, two young fellows accused of tearing Henry Holtze's wagon to pieces Hallow-e'on night, wero ar- rosted today, Tije polico are looking for the other mischiovous young men fmplicated. G. W. Blake of Lincoln and I D. Chambor- lain of Stromsburg, Nebraska delegates to the meeting of the goneral assembly of the Knights of Labor, left today for Denver, A telegram from Toreace, Utha, recelved yestorday by 8. M. Ashby, gives the sad news of the death from consumption of J. M. Millspaugh, formerly a dry goods morchant in this city, Mr, Millspaugh has been fn 111 health for a long time, and about & year ago removed to Utah in hopes of bottering his health, . He leavos a wifo, but no children. The Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railtoad company and Detective James Malono filed a reply this morning to the suit brought by Wiliiam Schonemann for damages because of improper arrest. They claim that they had good reasons to believe that Schonemann was guilty or they would not have coused his av- rest. Perry Thompson, the young farmer who was foolish cnough to dispose of his cattle, although mortgaged for $1,700, s still in the county jail. DTV e DACK FORESTS, Their Permane nt Maintenance Neo essary to the y of New York. The state of New York has nearly a million acres of mountain forest lands, not in ono compact body, but in scattered tracts, separated by private holdings, says the Contury, In this situation the property of the state cannot be quately protected from spoliation, properly administered as a of revenue. Those who ha given attention to the mattor in this state, therefore, favor disposing of out- lying tracts, by sale or exchango, and the acquisition by the state of sufiicient additional territory to constitute o large state park, or foreign resorvation,around the sources of the Hudson river and tho other great waterways of the stato. This plan was presented in a mossago from the governor to the senate du ring the last session of the le ature, and by the concurrent action of both branches of that body was committed to the pres- ent forest commission for thorough in- vestigation, the finding to be reported to the legislature at its next meeting, This is one of the most important forestry enterprises over undertaken in this country. The business and com- mercial proserity of the city of New York depends in very large’ measuro upon the forest conditions around the sources of the Hudson river, and the in- torests of large portions of the interiov of the state are also closely connected with the destiny of the north woods. No part of the Adirondack mountain forest region is adapted to cultivation. It is naturally suited to the perpetual pro- duction "of timber, and to this crop alone, The five or six millions of people who will soon be dwellers in the great city which is so rapidly growing up on and around Manhatlan island will soon need the whole Adirondack wilderness for an outlying park and forest play ground for their summer rest and re movements to preserve these mountain forests, and to make the region a public possession, should have the cordial sup- port. of all eivilized anglers and hunts- men, of lumbermen and owne { timber lands, and of public spirited citizens in general. At present large portions of the region are being rupidly and irve- trievably ruined. st e Who Votes in London. nor source 9. I London’s new government rests upon afranchise so popular that practically nobody who would care to vote is ex- cluded, says the Century. In the firet place, all houscholders are enfranchised, and this includes every man who rents o place for his family, éven if it bo only a small room in the garret or cellar of a tenement house. It also includes those who live within fifteen miles of the metropolis, but own or oc- cupy metropolitan quarters, for any’ purpose, worth a cortain very limited rental. Owners of free- hold property in London, no matter where they live, if British subjects, are entitled tovote. Widows and unmarried women who are householders, occupiers or owners of property are also author- ized to vote for county councilors, The principal basis of the franchise is the household; and the chief disqualifi- cations are receipt of public alms and failure to pay rates that have fallen due. Any resident of the metropolis or vicin- ity who is entitled to voto is eligible to election. KFurthermore, an; British subject who owns land in London, or who is possessed of a limited amount of r"onurty. no matter where he lives, may be chosen a councilor of the county of London. The fact of residence in ono district does not disqualify, either in law or in the popular judgment, for can- didacy in any other district, Ll (ONCERNING COURTSHIP. Chicago A correspondent wa girls sliould be This puzzles us, since wo have stmply wor- shipped thei from af We're renlly not experienced, but, If they'ro us reported, We think they should be treated just tho s4me 48 Short ones are, “how long YOU CANNOT GO To Carlsbad, but you can have Oarlsbad brought to you.Procure abottle of genuine imported Carlsbad Spradel Salts—dissolve a toaspoonful of 1t in a tamblerful of water,and the wonderful life-giving aualities of the Oarlsbad Spring itselt will be taken Into your system. Be sure (o obtain the genulne im- ported article. OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Bubsoribed and Guaranseed Capital. .. .8500.00 Pald fu Oapltal veererenarrireess 850,000 Buys and sells stocks and bouds: recelves fl'i;‘.f‘.u..... takes charge of property, eol lects taxes, Omaha Loan&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. 8, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. Pald n Capital. ceveeisae i 50,000 Bubscribed and Guaranteed Cupltal. ... 100,008 Liability of Stockholders. ................ 200,00 Interest 14 o eposits. 8 Fer Cont Xk RS o, Ofoers: A U, Wymun, president. J. J, irown, vice-president, W. T, Wyman, treasurer. Dircotors:—A. U, Wyinan, J. H. Millard, J. J. Brown, Guy O. Barton, F. W. Nusk, Thomes L Kiwoull, George B, Luke N N Ve