Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1891, Page 6

WANA DALLY DBl SALTUKNDAY, DAILY BEE o8 ';\:A'l ER Epiron. EVERY PUBLISHED MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datiy Bee (without Sundny)One ¥ Tl d funday, One Year. Bix months B Three months, Funday Bee, Weekly Bee, One ¥ 8800 ¥ Gommerce. 14,14 and 15, Tribune Bullding rteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and editorinl should be addressed to the Editorial Dy Allbustnesslottors and romittancesshould be addressed to The Bee Pibiishing Com| ny Owaha. Drafts, che 1 postoffice orders 10 he made payable to the order of the com- pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Prooriefors THE BEE BUILDING, - e e EWORN TATE Btate of Nel Irr|~l< - County of Douglas. § Grorge Mt huck, s Tubllshin docs that the for the follows: Banday, March 15 Monday, ) 16, Tuesday. N Fednesduy, X . M ENT OF CIRCULATION, tary of Tne Ber solemnly swear D! fon of TRE DAILY BER Woek ending March 12, 1601, was s worn to hefore me and Fibed In Ty this21st day of VAL D, 1801 N. P. Frir. Notary Publie. Ftate of Nebraska, | County of Dou; George ‘B, Tzachn k Veing duly sworn, de- Jioscs na say t tary of Tie BER Ubiishing compiny, that the novnal ayerage Iy efrculation of Tk DALY BEe for gho month of was 20815 copies; for April, 18 ., 20,10 coples; oples; for August, Tor ‘Foptember, 180, 20,870 co for Nove her, 1400, copie G ore me, und subs ce, this 28th duy of Febr for October. ] 1800, 22,150 copics; for De Junuary, 1 2 cop! worn 10 prese Pasciticx. ribed in AD 1k, P, freit, Notary Publie. e TREASURER HUSTON keeps himself and his resignation before the publ but he continues to draw his salary. i treasury raiders have assomblod in force at Lincoln. And it is the busi- noss of the legislature to see that they are beautifully repulsed. It 18 acurious and instructive fact that as the Cleveland boom gets smaller the Hill boom gets no larger. How doos Uncle Dave account for that? THE Arkansas legislaturo has taken down the portrait of George Washing- ton and put the portrait of Jeff Davis in Its place. There’s a portrait of Arkan- sas for you. THERE can be no lasting political union between a party that aims to cheapen money and enhance the cost of living and the army of workingmen in the Unitea States. ‘Wno paid for the senatorial medals and what was there about their bur- nished surfaces to attract the most notorious oil-room lobhyist and corpora- tion bireling in Nebraska? Tue spectacle of the republican presi- dent of republican Frauce accopting an fmporial decoration from the czur of Russia is one which shocks the Ameri- can notion of republicanism THE Culifornia legislature has ad- journed after electing two United States senators. Lok out now for the organi- zation of a new bank with a capital that ‘will throw the Bank of England into the shade. THE Kunights of Reciprocity isa boom- ing organization in Kansas and other ‘western states. Considering the author- phip of reciprocity, it is to be assumed that the members are all plumed knights. —_— WISCONSIN democrats have managed o gerrymander that state so as to make six out of the 10 congressional districts sufely democratic. Wisconsin domocrats aro as conscienceless as those in New Jerspy. GOVERNOR BOYD has not hud as much experience in the newspaper business as the candidate for governor on the demo- eratic ticket at the election of 1888, but nevertheless he was able to give the democratic editors a few valuable sug- gestions, — AGAIN it may be remarked that the Omaha man is irrepressible. Her old eitizen, R. A. Harris, is about to open an extensive packing louse in San Fran- cisco. He made a fortune in this busi- ness hero and will make another at the Golden Gate. — TRUSTS are not confined to America. The worsted manufacturers of Bradford, JEngland, have entered a combination to raise prices and control the wool market. In Great Britain worsteds are being trusted, so to speak, while in this coun- try trusts ave being worsted. THE democratic governor of Rhode Island has recognized the right of the occupant of the gubernatorial chair of Connecticut to ask for the return of es- caped criminals. The Rhode Island man may not be a good democrat, but he is a man of good common sense, THE bill to protect farmers from news- paper publishers isa useless measure. The present postal laws prevent them or any other citizen from boing imposed upon. All that need be done to save them from being compelled to pay for a newspaper they do not want, have not subscribed for and on which they owe no subscription is to refuse to take it from the postoffice, It thereupon bo- comes the duty of the postmaster to notify the publisher that his poeriodical is refused by the party to whom it is addressed. The responsibility of both postmaster and party to whom the paper is addrossed coases, If the publisher ignores the notice he has no recourse upon either. If the pustmaster fails in his Quty, the party whom it is sought to force intoa subscription is not to Dlame, and no publisher will have a wvalid claim against him. The bill is un- nocessary. 1t will merely cumber the statutes THE FLAG AND THE SCHOOL FOUSE, The bill pending in the legislature | roquiriug every” school houso in No- braska to float the stars and stripes pro- poses to burden tha state with a large and wholly unjustifiable expense. It ought not to becomao n 1 w. In 1883 Nebra had 5,187 school houses and now has more. The lowest prico for which a sorviceablo flag can bo bought is 810, and it would require at least two of these to outlast a year of such breozes as wo enjoy in this bracing western climate. Even on the figures of 1888 this would require an annual ex- penditure of $103,740, which is interest at 10 per cent on move than $1,000,000. Has the state, in its present stage of de- volopment, no botter or wiser use for this amount of money? It is to bo read- ily. conceded that the passage of this law would be a go od thing for Ben But- ler and other bunting manufacturers, but it is difficult to understand how the people of Nebraska would receive any proper return upon their investment, It looks like the class of legislation in- spired by somebody who wants a con- tract. ho idoa of the flag on the school house is a worthy one, from n senti- mental standpoint. It fosters patriot- ism and keeps our nationality prom- inent sfore the future citizen in the most impressible period of his life. But ther is absolutely nowarrant for voting alarge sum from the trensury overy 3 In Massachusetts and elsewher vory gen- erally provided themselves with flags through the libe izons or the efforts of the children. Funds for this purpose have been raised by entertain- ments and otherwise, and when the flag these neans it becomes doubly dear and significant. Nebraska schools may well be encour- aged to provide the stars and stripes and float it perenially from their roof But the legislaturo could make no cuse to tho people if it should vote aw over $100,000 a year for the purpose, VALE VANDERVOORT. At the medal jamboree Paul Vandervoort announced in most thr illing and ear-piercing tones that he was done with the republican party henceforth and forever, and would from now on be found in the ranis of the Favmers® Alli- ance independents. This is an acquisition to which the in- dependents are weleome. The repub- licans of Nebraska can truthfully ex- claim, “Good riddance of bad rubbish Had it not been for Paul Vandervoort and his ilk of oil-room procurers there would have been no occasion foran Alli- ance uprising. Even at this very legis- lature Vandervoort has been the paid lobbyist of the telephone and telegraph monopolies and is probably now on the puy-roll of the railroads, playing inde- pendent for the grand stand. Six weeks ago Postmaster General Wanamaker learned through a special agent that Vandervoort was lobbying and capping at Lincoln while draw- ing pay at Omaha as superintend- ent of mails. And when Paul dis- covered that his head was about te drop he sent in his resignation. That ac- counts for his disgust with the republi- can party. So long as Gresham and Wanamaker remain republicans, Paul has no use for the party. But for goodness sake, Messrs. Inde- pendents, keep the reprobate in your ranks. [If the republicans of Nebraska can get rid of him and about two dozen of his associates, there is good prospect. that the party will be able to resume full sway in this state and redeem all the pledges it has made to the people. TIN PLATE MANUFACTURE. It takes time to inaugurate a new in- dustry. dVhen the new tariff law in- creasing the duty on tin plate was passed it was promised that it would lead to the establishment of mills for the manufac- ture of the plate, but because this was not done at once 1t was assumed by some, in their eagerness to discredit the influ- ence of the tariff in this particular, that the promise had failed. Its fulfiliment, however, was simply delayed. It is now announced that the St. Louis stamping company has begun the erection of the first tin plate works in this country, which, when completed, will employ 2,000 men. Companies have been or- ganized elsewhere in the country for the purpose of manufacturing tin plate, and the fact that they have not already erected mills is not to be regarded as conclusive evidence that they will not. The statement is made upon what ap- pears to be good authority thut none of the stock of any of these companies is for.sale, and if such is the fact it is not only on assurance of confidence in the possibilities of this industry, but of ulti- mate large investments for its develop- ment. The increased duty on tin plate goes iato effect July 1 next, and it is reported that the agents of the Engiish manufas turers are offering tin plates duty paid to the dealers in the United States at low a price us they are paying at pres- ent. If this s true, and it is by no means improbable, it may have the effect to re- tard the development of the manufac- ture of tin plate in this country. It wys said at the time the duty was increased that the increase w not sufficient to have any effect in reducing the importa- tion of the foreign product and thereby stimulating home manufacture, and it is not unlikely that some of the companies organized to carry on this industry may have postponed active operations until the foreign manufacturers have demon- strated what they intend to do in order to overcome the. increased tariff duty and vetain the American market. If they can afford to pay the duty of 32 per ton and sell here at present prices it will show that they are now realizing a splendid profit on this branch of trade. There 1s another consideration that may also have a deterrent influence, and that is the chance that the duty under the new tariff law may not be al- lowed to stand. Nobody doubts that the law will be attacked in the next con- gress, and it is altogether likoly that the tin plate duty will be one of the foatures which the democratic house will vote to lower, with at least a possi- bility of being sustained by the senate. These are the chief obstacles now in the way of u rapid development of the tin manufacturing industry in the United MAKCH 28, 1891--TWELVE PAGES. States, and the last mentioned is per- haps more soriously regarded by those who afe disposed to engage in the in- dustry than the first. It is nevertheless ouraging fact that s substantial beginning has been made, for if that is successful and the results obtained justify the promises held out,other on- terprises will follow, and their value being demonstrated their permanet will be assured. NDING K CRIMINATION. Tie BE& has received a communica- tion in which tho writer characterizes as the “height of impudence” the de- mand of the United States government that Germany and France shall aban- don their unjust discrimination against Amoriean hog products. He asserts that those countries did not adopt this policy for the purpose of protecting the home producer, but that having laws which require the most careful micro- scopic inspection of pork they were com- pelled to exclude our hog products be- cause we had no such thorough aystem of inspection. He claims that the Amer- jean hog Is much more subject to the disease peculiar to that animal than the foreign swine, but remarks that even if they were not it would be impudent to expect Germany and France to let Americans do what their laws expressly forbid their own people to do under se- vere penalties. Our corvespondent is right regarding the inspection laws of those countries, but in the ease of Germany at least they s adopted after the restrictive policy n pork was put into ef- the German stockrs wanted protection they needed something more plausible with the public than the injury to their interests from American compotition, and they made their appeal chiefly on the ground that the pork of thie country could not safely bo used for human food. Bismarck was ready enough to grant them protection, but such aplea was neeessary to silence popular opposi- tion to a policy that was certain to raise the price of meat and to benefit those who produced it at tho expense of tho great body of consumers, The effect, however, was to disparage all pork as an article of food, and in order that the home producers might not suffer therefrom stringentinspection laws were adopted. Tt is not true, how- er, if the reports of our consuls ean bo depended on, that these laws are strictly enforced, the fact boaing that a great deal of pork enters Germany and goes into consumption without being in- spected. With regard to France, it has never been pretended that the chief ob- ject in prohibiting the importation of American pork was not the protection of the home producers. This was clearly implied in the correspondence with Min- ister Reid of the Krench minister of agriculture, who could not sustain the noliey of his government on the ground that our pork was unsafe as an article of food. There has never been any ade- quate testimony presented eithor in France or Germany to justify such a claim, for if there had been our govern- ment could not and would not have asked the removal of the discrimination against our meats Our correspondent says that our so- called inspection is not such inspection us the German statutes prescribe. We take it that he has not read the new law or the regulations under it promulgated by the secretary of agriculture. It would be hard to couceive of anything more thorough in the way of inspection than these require, and there can be no doubt that they will be rigidly enforced. They are intended to secure the most complete protection, both to foreign and home consumers, against unsound or dis- eased meass, and when in operation mno foreign government will have any excuse for excluding our meats on the grounds they have heretofore setup. It will cer- tainly not then be the ‘“‘height of im- pudence” to demand that the discrim- ination against us shall be abandoned, nor in the event of the demand being rejected shall we be to blame if we have recourse to a policy of retaliation. MINNEAPOLIS MISREPRESENTATION . There is room in the great west and northwest for & score of prosperous cities. Omaha will, of course, be the greatest of these and this conclusive probability occasions a great wailing and gnashing of tecth among her pr grossive and more or less prosporous rivals, It was a bitter dose, for Kunsas City to swallow whicA Superintendent of the Census Porter, propared and forced, by the logic of facts, down her unwilling throat. Omaha had out- steipped the “young Chicago” ina five year race for population, Kansas City dies hard and hopes against hope to re- covor her former supremacy. It is vain, of course, as time willibundantly ptove. The future is with Omaha, and Kansas City must acknowledge it. Minneapolis is now facing the dread cortunty that Omaha will sweep past her within the next ten years. She is oven more aggressive than our Missouri neighbor. Recently two emissaries were dispatched by her business men’s association to Sioux City, Omaha, Den- ver and Kansas City, appurently to pick up points which should brace up the courage of her citizens and persuade in- vestors to continue to pay boom prices for Minneapolis real estate. These emissaries after accepting the hospitalities of the Omaha real estate exchange and after being ufforded ex- ceptional facilities for obtaining accurate information, retyrn with false state- ments regarding the business in- terests of the city. Omaha has in her banks, deposits amounting to $160 per capita—$20 more than Minneapolis— but the report of the spies places it ut $93. Omaha employes abont 15,000 per sons in her wanufacturing establish- ments but these individuals deliberately inform their friends that about 6,000 is the number, Omaha has $25,500,000 d posited in her banks which have a capi- tal representing 865 por capita. Minne- apolis has deposits amounting to half a million less and banking capital, includ- ing surplus, of but 836 per capits. The Minneapolis ambassadors put Omaha banking capital at $36 per capita. Other like gross misstatements are made und published to the world as truth. This eity is not in the habit of tradue- ing her neighbors in her own interest. The truth is good enough for Omaha. she must resent misrepresens tations, howasge; even if in doing so she exposes the wedknesses of her traducors, Omaha is willlog to concede that her northern rival is a beautiful, a prosper- ous and a promising city, hut Minneapo- lis should not lay herself open to attack when her armonr is so vulnerable The Minnéapolis Jowrnal of last Wednesday contains the information that on the dif preceding the finance | committee of tho city hall commission met for the |n ‘pose of opening bids for a block of «-n ‘\n m- v, 4 per cent bonds, amountig ,000, Bighty requests for bids hnd been sent out by this committee and the date of opening the bids was advertised far and wide. To the chagrin of Minneapolis and her city hall commission not a single bid yas offered. Omaha has marketed hundred of thou- sands of dollars worth of her bonds, and they have been greedily taken by inves- tors at a premium, Her credit today stands higher than that of any westorn city. The last 44 per cent bonds offered by this city were soid at a premium of 8 per cent on a market which refused bonds at par, bearing the same rate of interest, from the city of Chicago. Omaha has an indebtedness of $2,000,000; Minneapolis $7,000,000. Omaha has never defaulted nor detayed in the pay- ment of either interest or prin- i Her city treasurer ro- ceives letters every month from castern brokers asking for Omaha secur- Hor 4} por cent bonds are good today for from 4 to 6 per cent premium. Minneapolis has apopulation of 164,- 000; Omaha 139,000, Minneapolis has reason to fear the growth of this me- tropolis, but the Flour City cannot afford to waste any time attempting to under- mine the prosp of this city. She will have her hands fullif she keeps thelead in population for five years. She should devote her energies to the development of her own resources and do her aggressive fighting nearer home. She wili be worsted in any contest with Omaha. nts todlay, In an_lnter- view with Colonel R. J. Hinton, the first complete statement of the plans for the coming season of the irrigation inquir of the argicaltural department. Itisa matter of great interest and importance to the people of Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas and Montana. The general public has little conception of the pos bilities of artesian and underflow water supply for irrigation. Colonel Hinton tes that the Missouri river receiv above Omaha 300 eubic miles of water by precipitation, Of thie vast total 15 per cent is poured into the Mississippl. A part of the rest is lost in evaporation, but by far the larger portion goes into the earth. To, locate this water and bring it to the surface is one of the prob- lems with which the present inquiry deals, among many others. This single statement veveals: its importance. The results will be awaited with great in- terest. NEBRASKA'S w0 .senators are after everything in sight in the way of official patronage. The dispatches announce that they have presented candidates for land commissioner, for judge of the court of land claims, for register of the treasury, for minister to the: Central American states and for assistant at- torney general for the court of claims. Among the names presented are those of Judge S. P. Davidson, Judge O. P. Mason, Hon. L. W. Osborn and General L. W. Colby THE judicial apportionment bill has passed both houses. The seramble for appointments is nov as indiseriminate as might be expected. Aspirants forthe places it creates are waiting for the su- preme court to say who is governor be- fore laying out their plans of campaign. Some do not know whether to seek dem- ocratic or republican endorsements, Others are seeking both, MAYOR CUSHING alls down the chairman of the board of public works and street commissioner with a public statement to the effect that more than a month ago an order was issued to these officers to keep the crossings in the business portion of the city clean. What excuse will be offered by the two gentlemen who draw the salavies for looking after these matters for this neglect? A MAJORITY of the commitiee to ex- amine applicants for positions in the Omaha city sehools should be entirely disconnected with the schools in eyery other capacity. At least one of the two teachers n)w on this committee should resign. Let us have an examining board wholly disinterested. Tre Union Pacific railway company or the Union depot company, one or the other, should put Seventh street under the viadugt in passable condition. One of these corporations or the other has imposed upon the good nature of the city ond citizons long enough. MINNEAPOLIS ‘voted long time bonds for a new city hall, Bids were called for in the usual snapner, and to the sur- prise of all concerned there was not a single bid offered for a block of $100,000. e —— PROFII cross sections and other en- gineering details and all clerical work incident te exténsive strect improve- ments can be and should be done while outdoor work is imflnwlin-ub\u. EVERY m.n in the bascment of the court house on thq city pay-roll should bo at work preparing for the summer, We must push pu\),lm work without un- WEe shall have 50 per cent of the county road tax for our city streets the coming year. That in itself is enough to start extensive public works. E———— MoRE public work: more money in cir- culation; more private enterprise; more people emploged and more overything leading to ]) osperty. OMAMA is bound for second place as a packing center this year. OMAHA bonds never went hegging for buyers, It is strange that any papers lost by committeemen in the city council should be in the nature of petitions to compel railway or other corporationsto do their | duty. Welcome to a Tenderfoot. Santa Moniea (Cala.) Outlook: Monday noon a friendly cow stuck her nose In the front door of our oditorial sanctum, | and the question is whether she was drawn hither by the luxuriant grass that abounds around our office or whether she had heard of the change in the Outlook office and was seeking to devour the verdant young team inside, _—— Only General Who Made a Mistake. SenatorElect- Palmer of Tllinois may or may not have been & good general during tho civil war. But atany rate he was conspicu- ous as 0no of the few, if uot the only officer who confessod that he made a mistake. In lus offiotal report to his corps commander of the part taken by his division in the engago- ment at Chickamauga ho says: “Hazen had been relieved by General Turchin, who had formed on Cruft's loft, and he (Hazen) had retired to fill his boxos and protect some artillery which was throat- ened from the rear. I then committed tho error of directing Grose to move to the right to engage in 4 severs fight going on lu that direction.” et Leg slators Rob a Graveyard. Arthur MeEwen's California Correspindence. A gentlemen from Sacramento tells mo that the custodian of the cemetory there has of late been very greatly incensed by tho theft of flowers from the graves. For a time he vainly sought to detect the thieves and finally had his suspicions aroused by the fame which three senators had achioved by their lavishness in gifts of flowersto their lady friends, who went ahout everywhero with lovely corsage bouquets, and appearing 1n society looking like perambulating war- dens. Thelibel further runs that one of the senators, being under tho influonce of some- body else’s liquor, committed the error of sending an elaborate floral design the founda- tion of which was wire. The composition was exeeuted in white immortelles, bearing in violets the word *“Rest.”” il b On the Ground of Equity. Albany Jowrnal, Certainly on the broad grounds of equity a man who has been to allintents and purposes a loyal and devoted or more than two scores of years is entitled to considera- tion 0s & citizen even if unwittingly he failed to comply fully with tho techuical require- mentsof the naturalization laws. Indeed, the non-compliance was the neglect of the father rather than the son. A similar case in the Fiftieth congress will be recalled where Captain James B. Whito, the republican congressman-cloct from the Twellth distriet of Indisna, rotained his seat in the democratic house through the aid of the soldier element among the majority, It was urged against Captain Whito by his democratic competitor that he had never fully complied with the requirements of the naturalization laws, and the charge appeared to be well founded. But on thebroad ground thata good record as a citizen and gallant conduct as a soldier of the union outweighed the technical neglect Captain White retained his seat. James E. Boyd is quite likely to be de- clared the governor of Nebraska, but the in- convenience to whieh public men are ocoa- sionally subjected, as illustrated in the Boyd aud White cases, should lead to dué care on the part of foreign-born citizens to perfect their technical titles to citizenship. U b 1 DEMON OF THE BAEBER SHOP. Philadelphiz. Times, ‘i'he deepest depths the ocean holds May be both plambed and gauged, The highest mountain top and peak By daring scaled and staged. But where's the plummet thit cau sound, With all the aid of art, The caverns of the human breast, The dark way of the heart Upon him gazed a score of eyes, By inward fire fed, As tho' euch were a basilisk, Tho’ not a word was said; For seldom had that barber shop Scen such a fearful sight, For he was having his hair cut on A crowded Saturday night. —_— OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The reported alliance between France and Russia gives interest to past nogotiations lookmng to such a relation. Since tho days of Poter the Great almost every Russian sov- ereign has attempted, although unsuccess- fully, to form an alliance with France. Poter was anxious that his danghter Elizaboth should marry Louis XV, and his successor cndeavoredto bring about & match batween her and a younger prince of the Fronch dy- nasty. Both projects failed, howaver, and although France and Russia duving the lat- ter part of Elizabeth's reign wore alhed with Austria, there was no community of inter- ests between thom. Catherine, the wife of Peter III, never forgavo tho French ambassador for refusing the loan she wanted with which to win over the imperial guard so as to securo the crown for herself. Indeed, she entered into an alliance with Austria-and Prussia looking to the par- tation of Poland, and went so far in_ her con- demnation of the promoters of the Fronch revolution that she expelled all Frenchmen from the empire who would not take an oath that they detested its principles. Napoleon, when first consul, made an attempt to induce Catherine's son, Paul T, to form an allinuce with Franca, but beforo the alliance could be carried oui Paul was assassinated. Then Alexandor ], after his defeat at Friedland, betrayed the king of Prussis, doclared war against Eogland, and accepted Napoleon's proposal for a partition of Europe. Butall these schemes proved abortive through the rofusal of Napolcon to give Constantinople to Alexander, and the disastrous cam- paign of 1812 ended the relations between the two countries. At the congress of Vienna, in 1814, Alexander's pretension to annex Poland led to a secret allisnce of K'rance, England avd Austria agalist Russia and Prussia, although because of * the return of Napoleon from EIba it came to nothing. After his coup d'etat Napoleon I1Tattempted to form an alliance with Russia, but Nicho- las showed himself to be stroagly opposed to the president’s assumption of imporial dig- nity, and the estrangem:nt thus caused brought about the Crimean war, Passing down the record of events between 1870 and 1834, we come to the time when Russia bogan to assumen hostile attitade toward Germany. Then it was that the Muscovite party, headed by Katkow, demanded an alliance with France. For a time everything ssoméd to favor the hopes of tho Pan-Slavists, and France supported avery move of the Russian policy. But the death of Katkow and the rosignation of President Grovy acted as & check upon a closer friendship., e For some timo there has been fn Scandi navia an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the policy whicn the king and his advisers have for many years pursued. Toe Swodish farmers are opposed to tho introduction of universal obligatory military service, while tho landowners insist on highor protective duties, the increase in the revenuo from this source to be applied to the remissiom of the taxes on land. Butitis in Norway that the spirit of unrest has beon most plainly seon. National cqualily with Sweden Is strongly Insisted upon, its advocates domanding tho abolition of the Norwegian vicaroyalty, of the dologation of the council of state in Stockholm, and of the unlon symbol in tho Norwoglan flag; and, abovo all, that the of the United Kingdom e conducted by a eouncil of in which the iwo countries shall have oqual reprosontation, ‘The re- fusal of tho governmont to mocede o these domands has led to a crists in Nor wegian politics, and there 1s ovory prosp of fierce strgglo botweon tho Swodlsh con- sorvatives and the Norwogian radicals. A contention of this nature naturally attracts attention boyond the national boundaries; and it is, therefore, not surprising to hear that Russin is eagerly watohing the] progress of events, in the hope that Internal dissen- slons in Seandinavia may give her territorial advantages. She is said to bo auxious to ex- tond her northwest frontier to the seaboard, and to got, possession of a port on tho west const corvesponding to Viadivostock, near Corea, on the east. By this moans she would bo enabled to extend her railway sys- toms from ocean to ocean. The continucd frustration of Russia's designs upon Bulgaria has not weakened her porsistence nor hor genius for 1trigue; but in attompting similar tactics with the Scandinavians sho 1s not likely to flad weak and pliant tools, The condition of rural France has somo resemblance to that of rural New England. The Feonomiste Francais givos a digest of & number of recent documents relating to the condition of the agricultural laborer there. Wages of farm hands have quadrupled dur- ing the present century, and the greatost fncreaso has been in the lowest form of Iabor. The man of all work who was paid 06 francs per year in addition to his board in 183 now gots 400 francs, while the shepherd, “'tho aristocrat of the farm," who received then 360 francs and board, now gots only 600, His wages have not doubled, while those of the humblor work- wan havo more than quadrupled. The fn- croasoof wages of farm hands is ascribed in part to the demand for Iabor in factories and on ralroads, and in part to tho mill- tary service, which takes young mon from the farms at the period when their habits are forming, and gives them a taste of town life from which they are never wholly weaned, When their term of service ex- pires, they begin to 100k for situations in tho towns and to worry the public men to find places for them. These drafts upon the rural population, tending to lessen the number of farm laborers, raiso the wages of those who romain. ‘The result is smaller profits to tho farmer and a sort of agricultural erisis. Still another fact in the matter of raral depopula- tion is noticed, namely, a diminution in the numbet of children. Several cantons aro named in which thero has been a marked do- crease of population since 1883, In tewo of these the ascertained reason for a diminution of the number of births was “the desire of the parents to improve their own condition,” and it is added that this effect has followed. Hero we find real Malthusianism in practico. s Tho agricaltural class in Russia Is carry- ing on a desperato strugglo against adverso conditions. The land has been rapidly losing its productiveness and has been in many places thovoughly exhausted: yet in propor- tion as the profits have diminished the taxes have been steadily increased. To pay these taxes the peasant is compelled to borrow at & high rate of interest, and in some districts it has become a regular custom for whole com- munities to borrow monoy for this purpose at 60 per cont interest, although we are told that 100 por cent s the usual rate of interest, and that in many cases from 300 to 500 por cent hias been obtained! Many wretches who have borrowed money and repaid it several times over have boen obliged to soll their labor for the ensuing harvest, and others have been forced to toil for'a numborof years in theservice of their ‘‘benefactor,” who is called tho *‘soul-dealer.” These dealers scour the country in search of children, whom they buy fromneedy parents for a triflo and forward to St. Petersburg, whore they are resold for double and troble the money to manufacturers and shopkenpers. Nothing even remotely approaching prosper- ity is visibloin any cormer of the empire. Mendicity is becoming the profession of Lundreds of thousands. Moneyless, friend- loss, helpless and almost hopeless, the veas- antryare rising up evey year in tens of thousands and migrating to the south, to the west, anywhere, not knowing whither taey are drifting, nor caring for the fate that may await them, Tho moral effect of these hard conditions upon the peasants of the young generation is admitted even by Russian news- papers to bo truly horrible. Soms persecute their fathers, and druuken fathers dissipate their property aud abandon their families to despair. *Chis,” ono Russian official says in his report, *1s not a proletarial; it is a re- turn to savagery. No traco of anything human has remained.” e There is 1o other crowned head in the uni- verso who has contributed so much as King Milun to bring royalty and monarchial insti- tutions of every kind into disrepute. His cowardice during the Servo-Bulgarian war, his extremely questionable financial transac- tions, his scandulous conflict with his wife, and his flagrant immoralities, have rendered his very name & by-word and term of re- proach throughout the civilized world, At the prosent moment he is employed in ox: changing accusations of murder with his former vrime minister, M. Garaschanine, The latter has responed to vhe charges brought against him of having caused or oon- nived at the murder of two women imprisoned for an attempt to assassinate Milan by broadly insinuating that it is his former master and accuser, and not himself, who is responsible for their death. Inasmuch as M. Garaschanine was absent on leave in France at the time, and as, moreover, ho is abloto show that the or- dinary guards of the prison were replaced by soldiers of the king’s own bodyguard on the eve of the muraer, Milan appears to have dis- tinetly the worst of the argument, and to haveadded to his other numerous offenses criminal responsibility for the violent death of two defenseless women. Acting under in- structions for the council of rogents, the pub- lic prosecutor at Belgrade has begun an in- vestigation of the charges and counter- charges that are being bandied between Milan and M. Garaschanino. Andin view of the anxiety of the Sorviau government to putafinalstop to the perpetual intrigues and interforence of the ex-king, it is not only possible, but even provable, that the worid will shortly be called upon to witness the presence in the eriminal dock of one of the lovd's auointed on a clarge of complicity in tho murder of Lwo women. PASSING J Baffalo Expross: cess as an athlete, o war, “Unclo Sam fsn't & suo. He has Just lost two tugs Baltimore American: The next timo the grip gets to work hore it will be, wo Lope, on tho cablo roal, Boston Herald: Many persons admive the bouget of Atchison Globe: Never boast of the re lutions you have fornwed until you liavo trie ayear or s0 10 prove that you can keep thew, Indianapolis Journal : “These money grab. bers," said Bohemian A, “disgust me. Look atold Gotrox, He would imperil his soul for 50 cents,” “Why shouldn't he?'' asked Bohenian A on whom Mr, Gotrox held a chattie mortzage, “The investment would be well worlh the risk." Texas Siftings: Annie lair Miss Fanny has. own ! Bessie—T don’t know whother she bougnt iton the installment plan or not. —What boautiful I wonder if it is her New York Recorder | man nas succeeded in training geese to per form.” Now let some one train goose Keep still whilo'_other parsons are perform g YA famous show Texas Siftings: Indians are not much dis posed to join secret societies, aithough they are fond of establishing lodges. At aball an adoring admirer approsched a young gir! who was drossed in black. **May Task you to dancel” he asked. *Yos,'"" sho replied, “but please dance very slowly; I an not yetout of mourning.” : “Are Harvard boys genorally fast(' So fast that the faculty of Har vard think they can get through the pre scribed coursa in three ye Washington Star: He the Easter ball, Celeste | She-How can 1! I've nothing to woar. He—Well, isn't that enought N. Y. Recorder: “Why is laziness tho most prevalent of all shortcomings ! asks o religgious contemuorary. Because it is tho ensiest, for ono thing: Aro you going to : Rounds—I've seon peoplo laugh till v cried, but T never knew of a fellow cry ing’till b laughed. Nephews—Guess you never lost a rich 1t was Bacon who said that ‘“writi l malkes the exact man.”” Therveis a good of writing nowadays that makes the ex: | man vory tived. Tompy, litle | Judge: Father | go and see your Smith? Tommy -—Because he won't come and sco me when I’m dead. THE SUNDAY BEE, why don't von dead friend, Johnny The Novel of the Futu e—Leading authors of to- day express thelr opinfons of what t future novel will be fn a highly fascina and instructive style, Re taste will find in these pap willuppear oxelusively in T Among those quoted are Bishop Newman of Omai. James McCos! John Habberton, Kate Holmos. i distinguished me Exrpensive Congressional Punerali—*Cu celebrated Washington correspondent, tributes to Tie SUNDAY BE S a highly inter- estingbudget of exclusivo gossip. Hisleador Is upon the subject of expensive congres- stonal funcruls and the novel items found on funeral bills. The lettor s u striking teature. Questions and Answors—Tar Bew'S packet of questions was quite large this week and the answers prepared form a speclal and in- structive feature. Thisdepartment Is galn- ing infavor. It s fail of substanc The Lounger in the Lobbj—An Interview th Lounger had with Luwrence Barrtt fs r called when the tragedian was lust in Omaha starring in_conjunetion with Edwin Booth, Society's Resoits John P, Ended~The gay world ro leased from tho thralldom of Lent will now commanee agaln the round of ploasures which Ash Wednesday brought to a closo for the period enjoined by the church “The Lord #t Risen’—Tho Eustor story ro- counted and the manner of the day's ob- servance by various natlons. Prox 9 of the services in tho Omiha church Work of pastors and plons poeopl General Greely's Insulators—A story on the chief slgnal service man couplod with n recital of umusing Incldents in the carcers of well known army officers. Owr Sporting Page—The basebill season arrived and Omaha’s pennant winners ar on the grounds. Patrons of the n game andlovers of gentlemanly athlet et the latest news to thelr liking In Tur SUNDAY BEE 28 In no other western puper Omaha's Pyinters—Th ading feature of the labor pagein THE SUNDAY this woek willbe a review of the growth of the tyj- graphical unfons of the city. News of Ii- s terest for all Iabor organizations. Mason and Catholie—A story of Lawrence Bir rett's last hours in which he, thoush Mason, received the lust rites of the Catlo lio churchforms the leader of the depa mentdevoted tosecret socloties, This s partment 18 replete this week with latest news of the lodge room and of tho floy ing fraternal socleties of Omah Fun for the Mitiion—A little nonsense now and then Is a good thing fn any newspaper. T Suspay Bee will eontain abunch of frosh Jokes that you have never read. el it and lsugh a bit. Tor the Ladies—This department o v varlety of toples dear to the feninine heart —the Iatest fadsand fancies in wnd fashions; what busy women aro points on soe forms and observanc a thousand new Ideas especially interesting to the falrsex. Swept the Town Away.—The tenth analve of the big flood on the Missour! that nearly wiped out the thriving town of Niobrara wnd did great damage in Omaha, Miscellaneous Matters.—Readers of the miscel- laneous news in Tur Brealwuys e class of matter as it is culled by an exper! enced editor from the exchanges of country as they come fresh frop tho pross The departments are carefully elited and will be found Interesting Crumes We've Shuddered At.—Brief reviewsot thenoted murders and erlminalcascs thit have marked the history of Dousg The Busi s Pa The man who orsells n andise, live stock, graln or stocks, finds in Tue Bee the fulle 1M0St AeCurato reports from the ters of the world. The local u thoroughly covered. The murket page feature of the great SUNDAY LEk business mun afford to miss It Our News vice,.~Whenever anything | pens n the world, in the busy meirop the humble hamlet, special correspond wire the facts in detull to Twue Bee. N paper in the west attempts to rival Tir | inthe completeness and effectivontss of telographic service. Read the speclul nows teatures of DAY B ao; Highest of all in Leavening Power.— U, 8. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE e— fino wines, but almost any kind of liguor will make & nose gay if you use cnough of i, ~