Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 15, 1890, Page 4

ATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 THE E. ROSEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SURSCKIPTION, Dally and Sundag, Ono Year Eunday e Weekly Be: OF X Omaha, The Beo Bullding. Bouth Omaha, Corner N and 26th Streeta. Councll Riuffs, 12 Pear] Street. Chicago Office, 817 Chamber of Commerce. Now Y ork. Roc 3,14 and 15, Tribune Bullding Washington, 613 Fou th'Stroet. CORRESPONDENCE All_communications reiating o news and editorial matter should be addressed 1o the Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTRRS A1l business lotters and remittanoes should Ye addressed to The Beo Publishing Company, Omahn. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the eom , pany. The Bec Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Bee Wld'g, Farnam and nteenth Eta MENT OF OIRCULATION Etafoot Nobraskn L g9 County of Douglas. George 13, Tzschuck. secretary of The Bea Publishing compuny, oes solemnly swear inat the netual oirculation of THE DAILY Brg for the weex endiug Nov. ¥ 160, was as fol- 0! Bunday, 105 Monday, Nov. i, Tuesday. Nov. 4. Wednesdny, Nc ursaiy. No Friday, Nov. Baturday, Average.... . Grouae 1. T2scHuck. Fworn to before me and subscribed In my presence tnis 8th day of November, A, D., 180, IFEAL.| N. P.FEiL, Notary Publio. Btute of Nobraska, County of Dougla: George B, Tzschuc bou seing duly sworn, de- s and snys 1hat he Js secretary of The Bee ishing Gompanv., that the actual avera daily circulation of Tuw DALY REE for tho month of No for 150, %61 co for Ay for May, 1800, for July, 70 coples ., 1800, 20,570 coples: for October, coples, Gronae B, TZsCnuck. to before me. andt subscribed In my presence, this 1staay of November, A, ., 1800 N P. Frir, Notary Publie. itk erop of senatorial candidates in Wyoming is not affected by the prevail- ing drought. RAILROAD politicians are bracing themsolves for a long, hard winter and thanking God that Lincoln has a new hotel. SIDNEY DILLON'S ascendancy in the management of the Union Pacific would be a sourco of joy and profit to the rivals of the comp Ir 15 surmised that two men are pre- paring inaugural addresses for the edifi- cation of tho Nebraska legislature. The name of one of these is Juy Burrows. DEMOCRATIC rejoicing over the pros- pective retivement of Senator Ingalls is decidedly premature. The famous Kan- sas senator i3 not of the retiring kind. E— SHOULD Jay Gould become the power behind the Union Pacific throne the debt extension bill would tumble into a premature grave, For which western people will be duly thankful, THE official returns of the clection for delegate in Utah show a Mormon gain of six thousand to three thousand lib- eral in two years, As a political party the saints are as active as ever in busi- ness at the old stand. —_— ACCORDING to friendly accounts, Ret Clarkson is again deluged with flatter- ing offers to engage in business in vari- ous leading cities. - It is a dull and dreary week that the gentleman from Des Moines fails to let the public into his confidence by the free use of the As- Bociated press. “I AM commissioned,” exclaimed Cleveland at the “Old Roman” banquet, “to claim for my state her full share of the glory.” Who issued the commission? When did Clovelund come into possession of New York? These questions are commended to the atten- tion of Governor Hill and Charley Dana. THE police of Leavenworth are en- titled to the thanks of the local democ- racy. They executed a masterly flank movement on the Bandana club, cap- tured thirty eallons of claret, and thus prevented calamitous results to the in- terior departments of the members. As a consequence the collective head of the olub retained its natural proportions, E—— OF THE many causes contributing to the recent panic in Wall street, the alli- ance mgvement was a leading factor. The capture of the legislatures of Kan- sas, Nebraska and the Dakotas fore- shadows a repetition of the so-called granger legislation " of ten years ago. This apprehension induced speculators to unload a few tons of watered stock, without waiting for the day of reckon- ing. IN view of overtures being made by the democrats of Nebraska to pool issues with the alliance, the opinionsof eastern party organs regarding the union will prove interesting, particularly to the farmers, The Brooklyn Eagle warns the demoeracy that it must steer clear of “certain agrarians and iconoclasts re- turned from western and southern " “There is no telling,” says the *to what measures of madness these men may seek to commit the dem- ocratic party. Judging from cortain de- mands made by the Farmers’ alhance in the southern commonwealths, we may expect to witness the introduction of bills as wild and visionary as the worst dreams of a chronic dyspeptic.” The Eagle suggests that sensible men in the republican and dem- ocratic parties come together to defeat *the looting schemes of .fanatics who were washed to the front on the top wave of Tuesday’s triumph.” “Fanat- ics,” ‘‘visionaries,” ‘‘madmen” and “chronic dyspeptics” are not the endear- ing terms that usually precede a politi- cal union. The east will have none of it, and should the Nebraska democracy attempt to push the ‘‘wild dreams of chronio dyspeptics,” it will be promptly and vigorously sat upon. The Kagle voicgs the honest party sentiment, and reiterates what THE Bee pointed out during the cam- paign — that the democracy encour- ages the alliance as a moeans of rid- *fag into power, A TIME FOR STUDY. A large majority of the members-elect 10 ihe next legislature of Nebraska bave no practical knowledge of law making. Many of them have necessarily only a very limited acquaintance with parlia- mentary practice. It is safe to say that not u few of them have something to learn of oxisting statutes, and of the re- quirements and limitations imposed by the organic law upon the legislative branch of the government. There will be enough men of practical experience in both houses to point the way to organization and the preliminary work necessary to put the legisla- ture in & position to do busi- ness, but some of the men are dangerous file leaders. It is a notorious fact that bad leader- ship and ignorance of legislative usage are responsible for useless or vicious legislation in most of the states, Every two years the responsibility ef law- making is dovolved upon men who have no practical knowledge of such duty, and who donot take the trouble before entering upon it to inform them- solves as to what course they may or must pursue. Knowing almost nothing of parliamentary requirements, very little regarding ing laws, and still less of constitutional permissions and inhibitions, they step into the legisla- tive arvena wholly unprepared for the work they wish to do, but pretty sure to malke themselves ridiculous and by their stupidity obstruct and retard the course of business, even if they do not succeed in getting into the statute books im- practicable or injurious laws. The logislation of this country bears abundant evidence of the ill-directed labors of poorly-informed legislators, some of which has worked very great injury. The men of this class.who have been clected to the Nebraska legislature should endeavor to study the manuals and previous legislative records and fit themselves for the great responsibility of law makers for more than a million of people. They will doubtless be sur- prised to find, if they earnestly address themselves to the task, how much there is to learn, and do tho best they may something will still have to be gained by practical experience. But we are entirely suro that such equipment as they may be able to obtain during the time before the legislature convenes they will find very serviceable in the work that is before them, and it is an obligation they owe to their constit- uents, TAND FROM The growth and prosperity of Omaha during the next two years will depend largely on the character of the men chosen next month to manage city af- s, Nine ward councilmen will be chosen, on whom will rest much of the responsibility of advancing or retarding the progress of the city. The combine now controlling the city council has shown itself utterly unwor thy of public confidence or support. Ev- ery page of its record is stamped with jobbery, dishonesty and venality. At the outset it fortified itself by bestowing lavish public favors on franchised corpo- tions, regardless of the rights of the people, and when it wasoverwhelmingly repudiated at the polls last December it purchased a new lease of power with money extorted from the corporations. It is a matter of court record that five thousand dollars were raised to purchase and control mercenary democrats who Dbartered their manhood to place the com- bine in control of the council and its principle committees, ! From that moment tax-eaters and bar- nacles have had free access to the city treasury. Every effort made the minority to reduce penses and dispense with sine- cure officers drawing inflated salavies was met by the solid twelve, who not only balled every movement toward economy, but actually multiplied offices for the benefit of the Twenty-eighters. The multitude of barnacles at the pub- lic crib are there solely to draw salaries in return for political services rendered to members of the combine. The odious record of trickery and mercenary scheming which marks the recent history of the combine has no parallel in municipal affaivs in the west. It is a succession of knavish pretenses, high-handed recklessness and downright rascality. If any member of the combine dare seck a ‘‘vindica- tion” at the polls, THE BEE proposes to drag out the skeletons in the Tammany closet and show the public what manner of men control city affairs and seek to fasten themselves on the public by the cohesive power of plunder and patron- age. AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, This was the sentiment to which the Hon. Grover Cleveland responded at the Thurman banquet in Columbus, Ohio. It is an inspiring theme, rich in sugges- tions ef elevated thought and ennobling sentiment. There is no prouder &itle than that of American citizen. Citizen- ship in this republic confers upon a man greater honor and larger opportunity for usefulness to his fellow men than citizen- ship in any other land. It confers rights and powers in the exercise of which the " humblest in condition is the peer of the most favored. It opens to all who re- celve it a pathway to public honorsin the sor) of the people. It is the badge of sovereignty, carrying with it the high- est prerogative of authority under free institutions, American citizenship com- prehends all that men can enjoy, under the necessary restraints of government, of individual rights and liberty, and far more than is conferred by any other cit- izenship, The occasion when Mr, Cleveland spoke certainly warranted him in treat- ing his theme in this spirit. It was in honor of a man whose pol'tical career has splendidly illustrated the possibili- ties of American ecitizenship, and there were present [ large number of distinguished ecitizens, the records of many of whom bear like testimony. But the ex-president did not rise to the character of the occasion. While Mr. Thurman made no reference to politics except to say that he was not and would not be a candidate for any of- fice, Mr, Cleveland improved the oppor- tunity to make a political speech, in which the sentiment given him to talk to was largoly lost sight of. He talked for the people outside of the banquet hall, who wouid be reached the next morning by the press of the country, rather than for those who were his im- mediate auditors. There was a chance tomalke a point for “my policy,” and the fullest possible advantage was taken of it. There was never a more palpable instance of an attempt to make personal political eapital at the sacrifice of every proprioty and dignity belonging to an oceasion essentially social and non-polit- ical in its nature. There unquestiona- bly were democrats there who did ap- prove the views expressed by Mr. Cleve- land, as there certainly are thousands in the country who will not agree with them, and there are many more who will vegret that the acknowledged leader of the party should have shown so little discretion and senso of proprioty as to have made the event of honoring the birthday of another leader of their party the occasion for a very common- place stump specch, The circumstance furnishes another forcible example of the solicitude with which Mr. Cleveland looks forward to 1892, e sees former friends dropping away from him and feels the urgent necessity of utilizing every opportunity that offers to counteract the influence of these desertions, He will accompiish little in this direétion by such efforts as he mado at the Thurman banquet. LET THEM VINDICATE SIDNEY DILLON, And now comes the report that Sidney Dillon is to be reappointed president of the Union Pacific road as a vindication of his former management. That would be a vindication indeed. It will take a great deal more than his re-olection to the presidency of the road to vindicate the Dillon regime for converting Nebraska and the states through which the road runs into mero political provinces, degrading the em- ployes into mere political hanchmen and stripping the trans-Missour: region- of every dollar the traffic would bear. Charles Francis Adams is not very popular on the line of the Union Pacifie, but Sidney Dillon is execrated by all who have a spark of manhood and integ- rity about them. 1f we a1 to return to the methods of the political road agent and the reckless buceaneering that exploited the road of what was left by the Credit Mobelier for which he also played his part, just vin- dicate Sidney Dillon and make him pres- ident of the Union Pacific once moy SEWHERE in this HE BEE prints the complete official vote of Doug- las county as canvassed by the county board. The table will prove of value for vefevence, and as being the only publica- tion of the footings made by the official canvassers, In no instance was a ma- terial change made in the county re- turns as pullished in THE BEg immedi- ately after the election. In this connec- tion it may be remarked that TiE BEE'S figures on the general result have with- out exception been verified by the offi- cial counts. Iris an open secret that Councilman Olson has never had much in common with the combine and is not at the pres- ent time co-operating with the efforts of Tammanyites to keep themselves in con- trol of the council. While Mr. Olson voted with the solid twelve in the organ- ization of the council last winter, he never was tied up beyond agreeing to vote with them on the election of presi dent and clerk. THE transfer of the Armour interest in the Omaha packing industry to Mr. Cudahy.insures an immediate incrense in the ity of the plant and the prosecution of other improvements hold in abeyance pending a division of the company’s affairs, The change marks another stride in the progressive march of Omaha. FursoMe praise will not materially alter Mr, Kem's vegard for the jackass battery. The somevsault of the battery to Thompson ten days before election swelled Mr. Kem’s vote by several thousand and practically “fived” him into congress, while the man at the breach wus fatally wounded. ‘WHILE the council displays a spasm of energy in the erection of n engine houses, it is significantly silent on the vital matter of extending the fire limits, Public interests are lost sight of when the political welfare of the combine is at stake. THE experience of the Indian bureau in civilizing Sitting Bull provokes sighs of regret that the government did not transform him into a genuine “‘good™ Indian when his crimes cried out for vengeance. THE people have repudiated the Twenty-eighters twice by decisive major- ities, and they will do so again, with in- crensed force, should the gang provoke the issue. 10ROUGID A 1 reorganization of the council is demanded by the best inter- ests of the city. The boodle element must be stamped out. THE real estate exchange approaching a business basis. is steadily Mr. Brice as a Humorist. St. Louis Globe-Demacrat, Calyin S. Brice has entered iuto the race for the presidential nomination, Thus does fate inject a dash of humor to the dry prac- ticalities of politics. e Not Quite Everything. Chicago Tribune. Last year the corn crop of the country was twenty-six bushels to the acre. This year it | averages only nineteen, and twhisky is bound 10 become dearer, The democrats are not having quite everything their own way. R Bl The Boastful Bournos St. Joseph Herald, The democrats claim everything in Kansas and'Nebraska, and yet In truth they have absolutely nothing. In the first named state the republicans have the state ticket and the alliance the lower branch of the leglsiature. In Nebraska tho republicans have the eatire state ticket except the governor. The demo- crats got the latter on the prohibition issue. The alllance bas the legislature. ——— Kem's Brief Biography. Fremont Tribune. It must bear very many semblances of a dream—a sort of stupefying exhileration— for a fellow who has trudged along all his Life, seeking oftice first in this party and then in that, finafly gatiing to be deputy treasurer of a frontier cflily at a meager yet adoquate salary and thepelf having a life-long yearn- ing appeased MY awake and find himself elected to rep t 500,000 people in the halls of congress at a Mlary of $5,000 per year. This is & condensed biography of O. M. Kem. 2 - Dictator Burrows' Opportunity. QrandTsland Independent. If the legislatuge goos into the counting out business it ought not to stop short of the entire shooting ihatch, ‘'here should be no halfway -busingssi No republican, and no democrat should by loft in any office over which the legisTature has contest jurisdiction, carrying with it éxclusive power to defy the wilt of the people as expressed at the polls. What was lost in the election should be gained in the contest. To defranchise Douglas county will do the whole business, and count in the entive alliance ticket from top to bottom, and why should jnot Dictator Burrows do this thing. Just once to sce what effect it would have on the alliance movement two years hencey - - A Monopoly Knocked Out, Chicago News, It is not. exactly according to the ethics of polite warfaro to kick a man when he is down, but Judize McConnell's recent orderof ouster against the Chicago gas trust is the final blow by the people at a badly disfigured tagonist. If the gas trust can finda sin- glespot inits auatomy that nasnot been soundly thumped it will please stand up and get knocked down again, — - We're All Right. St Louis Glohe-D=morrat, Senator Sherman declares that *“the repub- ican party is all right;" and when he says a hing is all right, that sottles it. - - RISIBLES. Chicago Times: “Here's looking—atchoo!" said a man as he took a pincn of s friend’s snuff, St. Joseph News: In trying emergencies the burglar is the man to bet on; he always carries off things so well. Chicago Times: Ten fresh eges will bal- ance a pound weight, and one decayed will depress a 150-pound ham, St. Joseph News: The thermometer is one of those lucky things that can take a drop or two without getting drunk. St. Joseph News: Somebody bowails the fact that there arono dukes in America. It is evident that he neverreported a prize fight. Atchison Globe: You sometimes see peo- vlo too old to read, and too old to write, but did you eve? see a man too old to count money ! Fliegende Blatter: Tailor (to would be customer) ~So! You want me to make you afull su Look here, now; a full suit is a little too much, I would raiher, I think, lend you 10, Washington Post: ear for usi an amateur. “Has Yelloton a good da department clerk of t kuow,” was the reply. iceable “Didu't gev elected i L you writ for me ought ter iter it “Beg pardon, sir guft?" “Why, what yer gots off to yple *bout promices which dey know yer never mean to keep.” Chicago Times: Prof. Schrotter of Vienna has discovered a cure for consumption by the use of Prussic acid. The remedy taken in suficient quantities is warranted to free the patient not ouly from the disease,but from all necessity of ever azain employing a phys cian, THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD, Marble polishers talk of a national union, German laborers are the worst paid in Eu- rope. The Brass-Worlkers’ Internationgl brother- hood has been formed. isco glass-blowers complain be- cause ¢ 1mported §0,00) worth of glass bottles, Brooklyn and New York varnishers are winning the demand for §2.50 for inside work and § outside The granite-cutters of New York are going to malce a vigorous fight against prison labor cengaged in cutting stone, The shoemakers of Saxony aud Bay the number of 2800 are on a stril question of wages and hours, The miners’ federation in Great Britain, which is said to have 150,000 members, is about to demand an advance of 5 per cent. 1co the Brothernood of Locomotive En- gineers was formed wages have doubled, and 5,000,000 bave ocen paid to families of de- ceased. Accordingr to reports which hs been published, Germany employ: women i industrial puvsuits; Ergland, 4,000,000; Francs, 0003 Ital 10,000, and Austro-Hungary nearly the same num- ber. Nearly every mining camp in the state of Colorado is just now experiencing a scarcity of labor. Hundreds of men in addition to those now employed will be wanted during the winter, The average wages paid aro §3 a day. Notwithstanding the low fares of the rail- roads in Vietoria, the wages of labor are twice as largoas those paidin any other country, High wages arenot accompanied by costly living: food and clothing are cheap; and there is time for education and amase- ment. The cight-hour law has been ob- served for thirty-four years in Victoria, and three years ago an cariy-closing law went into effect regarding clerks in shops. ey IS RISEN', a to vo recently 5,500,000 HAYSEE A, T. Worden, in Judge, We kin all of us remember how long about September, The papers used to tell abont the o the fair, End them fellers fyngn the city used ter git almighty witty, On the feller with the duster what had hay- seed in his hain acus or They had fun in legislaters with the man what raised perlaters, Lf by any hook or trook or chance elected and sent theve, End the reportorial friskers used to comment on the whiskers, ¥nd the carpetsuck of Billson, what had hayseed in his hair, Yes, b'gosn! he nigehls- pass out end Lo used ter blow the igas out, End he used to .fiu hard cider when he went out on & tha End he used to pingh; used ter holler, End the man ¢ut up ree-e-diklous what haa hayseed in his hair, dollar till the buzzard But, by gum, ef you've been readin' you ob- serve a strange perceedin’— Ivs the feller with chin whiskers that is slowly gittin’ there, End it won't be too surprisin’ ef by slowly organizin’, Old parties may wake up to fnd ha fu thelr hair, ‘When the fashions change, you fellers will all carry green umbrellers, End trousers wide across the seat to make the dudelets stare; In them times ef you pass muster you must wear a linen duster, End ef you wunt tew throw on style put hayseed in your hair, e over a OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. National politics entor into municipal eleo- tions in England, and when the result of those elections is in favor taken as a whole of one party, that fact may be taken as & pointer of considerable significance. At the eloctions held two weeks ago the net literal gain was large cnough to be noteworthy. In liberal cities the Gladstonians. increase their reprosentatives on tho offices over last year, and in tory communities they also make net gains. Whilo it is true that theso city elec- tions were contested largely on local issues, yet the home-rule question had considerable influence, and these elections scem to be nc- cepted by unfonists and Gladstonians as in- dicitive of the drift of public opinion. I1f we apply this standard to_the Scoteli elections, it shows something of* a reaction in favor of the conservatives across the border, Tn Ed- inburg, Baillie Walcott, who froposed and* carried the resolution giving Mr. Parnell the freedom of the city, has boen refused re-elee- tion, with two of his colleagues, on th issue. Elsewhere in Scotland the home rulers have held their own, and have made a net gain of at least forty in the United King- dom. In the meantime Mr. Balfour con- tinued his journcy through Ireland, app: ently, at least, giving caroful attontion to the study of the situation. His purpose scems to be tosatisfy himself as to the real amount of destitution in the country and the best means to relieve it. So far as indicated his plans only contemplate the expenditure of govern- ment money on railvoads, bridges and high- ways. His aim evidently is to win the good will of the peaple by promising them imme- diate relief, and future prosperity. If he can quiet their discontent in this way he will de- vrive the Parnellites of ono of their most effective weapons. He has, s yot, shown no signs that ho sees reason to modify his gen- eral policy of coercion, or materially amend his land purchase bill. ~ On the contrary, his speech at Glenties means that he intends to press the bill in its present form to passage at the coming session of parliament without delay, He should haye added, if the minor- ity will permit, for his experionce of last winter ought to have taught him that puss- ing this bill against the minority is by no means a simple undertaking. There is a proposition to tax titles of nobl- ity fn F'rance. Under the provisions of the Moreau bill the tariff of titles is nicely grad- uated. If the rich tradesman or stock gambler who has invested a part of his profits in a country seat will cantent himself with the simple te indulgence of vanity will cost him only $100 a S0, too, the relatively modest title of alier, the lowest recognized under tho ut regime, will only imposc upon the licensee an annual expenditure of $200. The steps are move serious. He that calls limself a baron must pay every twelvemonth 1,000 & vicomte will be muleted in 82,000, o comte in $4,000, and a marquis in $5,000. When we recali how common the title of marquis is in France, and how narrow are ‘omes of many of its possessors, we can seo that a yearly tax of 30,000 francs would eem a grievous burden, but would in many cases be positively prohibitive. M. Moreau proposes to levy on a duke $10,000 and on a prince $20,000 a year, but here he reveals an iguorance of a peculiarity of the old French pecrage which is creditable to a radical. In the I'rance of the old monarchy the title of duke was,asa rule, more highly esteemed than that of priuce, the latter being often horne by the elder sons of dukes,but dropped on thefraccession to a dukedom. Thus the eldest son of tho Duke de la Rochefoucanld was called Prince de Marsillac; the eldest son of the Dulfe de Rohan-Chabot is the son of the Duke dela Tremoilleis the Prince do Tar- ente. Under the Morean tarift cither of the two last mentioned dukes would have to pay ice as much for his eldest son as for him- "This was not intended by the author of the measure, who has obligingly provided that where the wives and children of a noble desire to bear titles, s the; “rance, they need only pay feos ra 5 10 50 per cent of th exacted from ths head of the family, e woney accruing from the licenses to use innerited titles will, with what to radicals must seem delicious irony, go to the fund for the relicf of aged workmen. The Greek church, inits warfare with the porte, has just borrowed from the west and put into pernicious activity an ecclesiastical weapon which has been obsolete sinc mediaeval times. It has declared a general interdict upon the Ottoman empire, An in- terdict may be defined as a general ecclesi- astical strike. While it lasts the churches are shut, the altars stripped, the bells silent; nooffices are said, no sacrements are cele- brated save baptism, the dead are not, buried, and the whole country (so far as it is sensi- tive to ecclesiastical censures) is made to fecl s under the wrath of God. 1t was a terrible weapon in its day, as Robert found it to be in France and Stephen and John in England; and if Henry VIIL and Elzabeth found little terror in it, iv was because its day was pasteven in theirtime. But, besides the grave fault of anarchronism, the Holy Orthodox synod has, it would secem, fatally miscalculated its chances in another way, Turkey, from the religious point of view, resembles os little as possible the uniformly Catholic France of the middle age. Tho Giaours of the Ottomon * empire con- stitute, all told, not more than a third of its population; and of this number ouly a third—that is, one-ninth of the whole popula- tion—are faithful orthodox. One can imagine how the caliph, the vicar of Mohammed, the commander of the true beligvers, looks upon this infidel minority, and with what consides- ation he s likely to treat it. Another danger to the Greeks lies in tho existence beside them in Turkey of other Christian churches —not orthodox, to’ be sure, but almost, identi- cal with them in dogma and ritual and gen- eral appearance. These churches and their clergy will keep on in full activity, and doubtless will make many converts among the orthodox whose own ecclesiastics ave on strike. They furnish a curious parallel to the class called “‘blacklegs” in England, to whom our liberal walking delegates give a grosser name. Nevertheless, absurd as tho whole business seems, there aro aspects of it which are serious. Notonly the orthodox subjects of the sultan will be stivred up, but all the sympathies of Hellenism will be moved, and perhaps also those of Russia. The interdict marks the end of tho religions pence which has 50 long existed between the chiefs of orthodoxy and the dynasty of Oth- man, o ‘While the illustrious founder of the state of Congo s resting from his labors, the state itself is passing through a serious crisis, This is the situal The work of founding the state cost the king of the Belgians §1,750,- 000; and for nearly six years he has person- ally borno the expense of maintaining it, minus about $100,000a year from export dues, The cost of maintaining the state has never been less than $400,000 in one year, and the building of new stations and new roads and the extension of the polico system have swelled the sum now to 50,000, To meet this the king of the Belginns can give only $200,000 and the Belgian government 400,000, If we add to these sums $125,000 export dues, there is still left a deficit.of §125,000, Nor is this all. The recent auti-slavery congress at Brussels imposed upon the state the duty of making greatly extendod efforts to sup- press the slave trade, to do which will, of course, cost much money. Where is the vitorial particle do, this | 'money toocome from! This question must be soon answored, and upon the nature of the answer tho future wolfare of Congo vory largely depends. . Now that England, France, Germany and Portugal navo rodrawn, more or less satis- factorily, and with lines more or less oxact, the map of tho dark continent, what have they gained that they did not have beforet Efforts to subject Africa to trade and zation are no now thing, although the opinion vrevails among many Englishmen that they are about to engage in an_ enterprise that has never been attempted. From the days of Queen Elizabeth down to tho time “‘within the momory of mon still living” England has chartered company after company to pone- trate this realm of jungle, slavery and deadly fever. They have issued prospectuses filled with glowing acoounts of its vast undevel- oped wealth, and of its charms as the future home for emigrants from the overcrowded cities of tho mother country. With these appeals to the material interests of the Englishman have boen coupled appeals to his piety and philanthropy—appeals to assist in® the noble work of spreading Christianity and of extirpating human siavery. Butall these companios have been failures from first to last. No trade of consequence has ever boen builtup. Central Africa is as pagan as over, It has yet to become the home of European colonist.. It was these stubborn and dis- couraging facts that inspired the parliamen- tary report of 1865, which declared “that the further extension of territory or assumption of government or new treaties offering any protection to native tribes would be inex- pedient.” The oxperienco of other powers has in no wise been different. It is a very serious question whether Africa is worth having. Wa Mr. James W, Wells. who for many years has been prominent in the Brazilian railroad surveys, has recently supplied some interest- ing facts with regard to the lines which Bra- 211 is now extending many hundreds of miles into the hitherto almost inaccessible interior. He says the Mogyana railroad is to be the great central line of the eount 1t has now entered the state of Goyaz, has nearly reached the capital of that state, and will bo rapidly extended to distant Cuyaba. aThis town, on the Paraguay, is a thousand miles from Rio de Janeiro, and the trading caravans botween 1he sea and Cuyaba have often been several months ou the w Another g tem of lines, 1,600 miles in length, is building from Suo Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul, along tho uplands back of the const mountain ranges, an enterprise that will place Rio de Jaieiro within easy reach of the southern part of the republ After their hard beginning in railroad building the Brazilians think they are having a very easy time of it today, for the tableland railroads do not cost over $25,000 fa mile, as against the coast lines’ cost of from $125,000 t0 $160,000 per mile. At the rato these and other enterprises are now being carried for- ward the railway map of Brazl will soon show a very diffcrent appearance, —_-— NEBRASKA AND PROHIBITI New York Mercury: Nebraska voted last Monday upon the question of constitutional prohibition and the tectotalers mustered all their forces and beat their drums wildly from one end of the state to the other, On’ Wed- nesday they wolke to find themselves buried under 40,000 adverse majority, The example of the ovil effects of prohibition on the indus- tries of a state, shown in Towa and Kansas, wapned Nobraska away from such a_suicidal course, Toneka Republican: Forsix months past many enterprises in Omaha, Lincoln and other Nebraska cities were at a standstillbe- cause of a feeling of uncertainty in regard to the outcomo of the vote on the prohibitory amendment. But now, as Tite Bee says, “general activity pervades all departments of business.” O, that the people of Kansas had the business tact, the broad-mindedness of the Nebraskans, 1f they had and_would manifest it by the overthrow of prohibition Kansas would at once bound ahead and lead her sister state on the north, L e THEY TALK OF BLAINE, New York Herald: Mr. James G. Blaine alone can afford to smilo. In the profound recosses of uis heart there is hidden a good deal of resonant chuckling at the discomfiture of his competitors and his own unscatched condition. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Mr. Pattison has twice carried Pennsylvania, and his re ord, both political and personal, is infinitel better than that of Mr. Clevelahd. This sig- nifies that he standsa good chance to be beaten by Blaine for the presidency in 18! Minneapolis Tribune: There are two gen- tlomen, each of whom, for diametrical! site reasons, belioves things have by ing his way'of late. One is James G. Blaino and the other Grover Cleveland. Months ago Gath predicted that it would be Blaine and Cleveland 1 18%2, and it looksas if tho prophecy would bo fultilled. i ke tE 3 . Down in South America. The following intercsting letter was re- cowed today by Secrotary Nason of the board of trade from his son, Dr, George L. Nason, who hias gone to Central America to practice dentistry, It is dated Guatemala , October: As tho mail goes out tomorrow, T avall my- solt of the opportunity of sending you another Tetter. It will be ton” or twoive days befors anotlior mall will leave hore, This fs an Interesting place. From the root of the ofice oceupied by us can be plainly seen fou canoes, which are distaut about ten miles each. Guatemala City 15 situated in some respeots like Salt Lake City. The scenery I8 immense. The nights are cool enough for two blankets as bed covering and the days just warm_enough to make anove coat upneeessary. The climate, inmy judg- ment, s fur superior to that San anclsco, The walls of our office ure at least three foot thick. All of the houses are built on the samo plan s those In Mexican cities. | am very much pleased with the people. My erplo; ddle horses, which are at the dis- posil of myself and other frie The even- ings arespent oither av the Pluza oratt t live fixed up n room f myself above the off hich wili be quite comfortable, The bedsiead, washstand and table costabout $100. I send you i copy of o ’~pu|n-rp;:| shed on the steamer during 2'to have malled to me regu- UNDAY Bre. With best wishes to quaintan all my friends and ac- s TOO BAD, WASN'T IT? E ange. Only a kiss did T beg of her, One little kiss of love Something to hetp mo bear the pain Of parting never to meet again, While down o'er the waving flelds of grain Soft shone the stars above, Faintly trembled the beautiful 1id: “Quick! for I must away " T can not!” the answer came with a moan, ® CANDIDATES' EXPENSES. ‘What an Election Costs a Man in New York City. New Yonk, Nov. 14.—[Spectal Telogre m to Tur Beg,|—In New York thoro is a law com- pelling candidates to file statem nts of cam- paign expenses. Unifi today the figures have Dbeen nominal. Mayor Grant mado 118 elec- tion cost him only a few hundre ! and his de- foated opponent, Scott, paid less than a hun- dred, Today's statements, however, wore more interesting. The campaign cost De- lancy Nicoll £6,452.06, while Mr. Goft, his op- ponent, only spent $1,807.24, Comptroller Myers' expenses nggregated 5, whilo it cost Leonard A. Goodrich 5,548 1o be elected county clerk, Nicoll pmd John Mo- Quade, treasurer of Tammany hall, £ 000, and used the rest for other purposes.’ Jid, David McAdam, Tammany candidat judge of the supreme coart, paid #4,5 Contributions aggrogating $10,000 were 1 nde on his behalf to the organization that n mis d m, Theodore W. M) 5, were divided as followa J. Cande, treasurer of tho ('<l\l||l') £),000; Poter Rush, chairmau of t first district county democracy, & John MeQuade, treasurer of Tammany hall general committee, §2,500, It cost aldermen from £1,500 to §2,000 apiece and assembiymen about the same, ' and the municipal league paid nearty $30,000 fgr the privilego of fighte ng Tammany for no’ purpose. oLk By UNITED S COURT. Morning Session Devoted to Memorial Servioes to Justice Miller. In the United States court yestorday morn- Ing's session was devoted to the reading of the memorial and resolutions on the life and death of Chief Justico Milier. After this “Dr.” Harlowe Davis and bis wife, Lester Davis, otherwiso kuown as Sophia Search and “Bright Star,” wero ar- raigned before Judge Dundy on indictments returned by tho grand jury, chavging them with sending obseene, libelious and threaten- ing matter through the mails to Mrs. 1. M Hay of Waterloo, Ia. Two indictments were returned against’ Davis and one against his wife. Both pleaded ot guilty and were re- manded to jail to await trial. John W. “Thompson of Chadron, a colored man, was arraigned und pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with selling 1i- quor to Indians. In reply to the question of the court, hesald he had no attorney, and the court told him to look around and select one to defend him. The prisoner created con- sideravle merriment by deliberately looking over the erowd of lawyers preseut and finally polnting out a corpulent looking geutleinan, who was appointed to defend nim. Moses Roberts,another colored man, pleaded not guilty to the same charge. At the afternoon session the Helfenstoin cases wero taken up aud the attorneys for the defense commenced theargument on their objections to the documentary evidence in- troduced by the plaintiff’s attorne; Jobhn D. Howe opened the argument, objecting to tho patent_issucd to Shiclds, on the ground that the was incorporated by the lozisla ture in Kebruary, 1857, while the filing on the land was not’ mado until the following September, and the entry was not perfected until November of the same year. The yalidity of the patent was also aitacked, the speaker quoting the act of congress of 1820, bearing upon the sale and title to government land, to show that under the pre-emption ct the title to the land was not vested in the purchaser until the money had beon paid. At the hour of the evening adjournment Mr. Howe had not completed his argument, and as the court has announced that the gen- tlemen will have all the time they desire it is not_likely that the arguments will be con- cluded before the middle of next week. While the attorneys were looking up somo authorities John W.” Grandstaft and Joseph Sucha, both of Verdigre, were arraigned on an indictment containing two counts. The first charged them with selling Jiquor at wholesale without a license, and the second charged that they failed to display their license for selling liquor. They were allowed to plead guilty eas to the first count and Juot guilty as to the second count. Judge Dundy fined them cach $50, which they paid. . District Court. On the 12th of September, 1889, James I. Olson was in the employ of the Omaha packing company at South Omaha, and whilo he was at work on a scaffold, tho structure gave way and he was thrown to the ground, a distance of many feet, As a result of this accident he was bru about the head and body ard confined to his bed for several Now he alleges that the breaking of the ffold was due to carclessness upoa the part of the packing company, and has com- menced a suit in the district court to rocover $10,000 on account of the injuries sustained. - PUBLIC WORKS, *“Iho' Tlove you, darling, the truth must bo known, My tiny kisses areall full grown; And a little kiss don't ask, T pray, For it happens my mouth isn't built that 260Ds remOIl REMEDY FORPAIN Cuarbing and Paving Estimates Al- lowed by the Board. All of the members of the board of public works were present at the session yesterday afternoon. Samuel Katz agreed to grade Tenth street from Blaine to the north line of Van Camp addition. He got the contract and agreed to do the work at 12 2-5 cents per cubic yard. For constructing the sewer in distriot 127 the contract was awarded to McGavock & Dailoy. For lowering and relaying the sewer on Twenty-socond street and St. Mary's avenuo the contracts wero awarded as follows: ‘Twenty-second street, Graham Park; St. Mary’s avenue, C. F. Hamann, There was but one bid for resetting tho curb on St. Mary’s avenue from Twentys sixth to Twenty-seventh. C. I, Hamann bid 25 cents per lineal foot and got the contrac The following estimates were allowed Hugh Murphy, curbing ighteenth strce from Webster to California, £1,610.60; the Barker asphalt company, paving Twontys sccond street from Davenport to Dodge, 7, Binney street from Sherman avenue to Twenty-fourth street, $4,0: $ Tweaty-ninth avenuo from Leavenworth street to Half Howard, $020.59; anklin street from Twenty-fourth to Twe inth, $20,324.00; J. B. Smith, paving Twentieth street from Izard to Luke, 83,849.11, Mr. Kierstead, who has just returned from Columbus, 0., entertained the board by telling of pavements he saw in the Ohio cities. He thought the Hallwood brick the best paving material and said that some sam- ples will be sent to the board ere many days. e — France May Issue a New Lioan, Pawrs, Nov, 14,—[Special Sablegrom Tur Bere.]-M. Rouvier, minister of finace, states that the government will issue & new loan in January next provided the chambers sanction the measure before adjournment, He belioves the approval of the chambers will ‘be obtained. LSBAD SPRUDELSALT.S GENUINE IMPQRTED .& Cure)Consfipahcn»ham igeshion i}q orrecls Audily -NaluresOunRemedy % BEWARE OF IMITATATIONS r8MendelionCo Newfork SOLE AGENTS LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY., Subseribed and Guaranted Capital. Pald in Capltal..... il © 0,000 Buys and sells stocks and bonds; negotintes commercial paper; rocelves and executes trusts; acts as transfer agent and trustee of corporations, takes chargo of property, col- lects taxes, Omaha Loz;n&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. ald in Capital .. ... .8 6,000 Subscribed and Guaranteed ( 100,009 Liabllity of Stockholders. 200,000 5 Per Cent Intorest Pald on Doposits. FRANK J. LANGE, Cushlor. U. Wyman, president. J. J. Brown, vice-president, W. T. Wyman, treasurcr. Director A. U, Wywan, J. H, Millard, J. J. Browa, Guy 0. Barton, E. W. Nasb, Thomas L. Kiwoall, George B. Luke, #300,000 ]