Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1891, Page 4

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Oct, 2 Baturduy. Average Sworn to before nie and subseribed in my resence this 2ith day of Octoter, A. D, 150L PReAL 4 E. P. ROGUEN, Nofary Public. The growth of the averazo dally circulntion tor six years Is shown In the fol- Inorder to glve every rea in this state an opportunity to keop posted on the progress of the campaien in both these ptates we have declded to offer Tir BEE for the balunce of this year for TWENTY CENTS. Send in your orders carly. Two dollars will be accepted for a club of ten numes. Tue BeE PriLisnizg Co. Omahia, Neb., No known boodlers will be eclected at the coming election. Bur two registration days remain. Bo sure your name is on the list next Friday or Saturday. THE furniture scandal will break the backs of several very prominent candi- dates for cily offices. CHIcAGO does not need the national convention. If she has good luck the World’s fair will leave $200,000,000 in hor exchequer, GOVERNOR BorEs has been on the do- fonsive from the very beginning of the campaign. Instead of & campaign of education ho has made one of explana- tion. WiaT sort of o figure would Henry Ostoff@ut as mayor in a speoch welcom- ing the | conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to Omaha next Ma, THE two mile limit saloonkeepers wore duly arcmgned on complaint of the county attorney upon the chargo of selling liquor without license. Tho purtner of oue of the assistants to the county attorney will defond the erring barkeopors. CHICAGO is fast becoming noted for monuments. One is now to be orected in honor of Hans Christian Andersen to cost $25,000. It is bavely possible Chi- go’s monumental enthusiasm is in- tonded as much to humiliate New York 8s to beautify her public parks. . FRANCE has o national debt exceed- fng $6,000,000,000 and lovies a tax of $680,000,000 annually. Her debt per capita is$150.75 and annual tax is $17.80, In America tho por eapita is $14and the annual tax $7.41, eance is not a good country to draw parailels from in argu- ments to prove that Ameriea’s financial logislation is wrong. GREAT BRITAIN lovies a tax of 811.26 por capita for governmental expenses; Germany, #%7.77; France, $17.80; the United States, $7.41. The debt of Great Britain is $87.03 por capita, and that of America 811 The gentlemen who howl 80 florcely about the burden of taxation in this blessod land should™ look at the figures of other countries. OMARA people ave thoroughly aroused in favor of the good old doctrine: Pat- ronize Home Industry. The effective- ness of the campaign here has awakened nearly every city in the country. We have set a good oxample; let us keop it up, and by giving Omaha manufacturers the preference stimulate Omaha facto- vies and build up Omaha commerce, GENERAL MILES knows the long experience, but he disc Indian’s intelligence and his own skill in suppressing Indian riots when he de- liberately writos to the departinent that thero is a vossibility of a general upris- ing of tho Indians of the entire country. There are too many whites in sight and too many Indians who have seen whites at a distance from their tepoes to make it likely that anything like a common eause can now be made by tne scatterad tribes against the whites, Indian by odits the 40, yes, w o prohibition,” suys a Malne man, “but the trouble s we haven't got the Dbiamed thing quite fixed 50 that it will pro hibit.” That appears to be the weak point In prohibition every where.—OMAHA BEE. Thero secms to be some difficulty just now fn Omaha about making the law pronibiting mob violence prohibit. Wil Governor Thayer advise the legislature to repeal the 1aw i—New Yurk Voree, (Pro.) The parallels are not well drawn, The law prohibiting mob violence has been set at defisnce in Omaha, but once in twenty years. The law prohibiting the rum trafiic Is being violated somewhere in Maine every twenty seconds and pos- Jlbly even oftener, 1HE UMAHA DALLY BEE. THE SLANDERS REFUTED. The dastardly assavit upon the good name and reputatfon of Judge Post has i intense indignation not only among the peonle of this state in which he has heen known a man of ex- emplary moral character for more than fifteen years, but in the state of Towa, and @iy in the town of | Leon, from which it he | had been compelled to run away to es- ape the wrath of an incensed commun- y. Bve material charge made against Judge Post now turns out to be kless fabrication. Judge Post was not indicted by the grand jury. He was not expelled from the Masonic order, and on the civil suit trumped up against him allowed himself to smirched rather than to expose an in- disereot personal friend. The foilowing letter speaks for itself : Loy, Ta, Oct, 35, —A. M. Clark, esq., 2517 Haruey street, Omuha, Neb, : Dear Sir—You nodoubt have read the malicious assault mado upon Judge A. M. Post by the World-FHerald of Omaha. As he is one of my best and most osteemed friends, it is my dosire that all my friends should know tho truth in regard to the matter. Judge Post's statement in Tur Osana Beg Is fair and candid, and it isa fact that he was not expelled from the lodge, nor was ho indicted by the grand jury. Houssumed the position he took to screcn the girl and a third party, who w her seaucer. Ho did everything in his power to preserve the character of the girl, and took all the blame upon himself; and today he will not allow any reflection to be cast upon her character that would in the least berefit himself, and thero is much that could bo said. Judge Post is a man whom, if you knew, you could not help but esteem. Ihis is a sad blow to bim, his wife and daughts and no one but a felon would resurrect the deeds of a young man who bad buried thom for twenty years by a character that is be yond reproach. If you can in the least as: wme in vindicating my esteemed friend I shall ever be under obligations to you. Yours truly, H. R. LAYTON. Mur, Layton is one of the oldest citizens of Leon. He resided in the little Towa city at the time of the incident which the Omaha World-Herald has sought to use to the disadvantage of Judge Post in his candidacy bofore the people for judge of the supremo court. He voices @ sentiment of disgust at the Kdgerton organ which prevails not only among the intimate friends of the victim of its vile slander but among good people generally. But the aroused especi was charged he ist most scathing rebuke to Judge Post’s slanderers 1s administered by the alliance organ of Leon, Ia.—the Leon Fucet, in its last issue of October 22, Our oldest citizens who know the charges mado and met and the general circumstances surrounding them pronounce tho article re- ferred to grossly false and malicious.” WIS R * . * * Tho zontemptiblo measures of the newspa- rer voferrod to {tho World-Horala] is shown by its sending a bundlo of the issue contain- ing the slandorous article hero for distribu- tion. These papers wore sent to members of the party opposod to Mr. Post, but to their credit bo it said they refused to handle thom and returned them to the publishers, = * * We can overlook or excuse a great deal in the heat of a political campaign when used for political purposes, but the sending of these infamous papers iuto our midst exbibits a majicious- ness and meannoss below tho ordinary depths of partisan politics. * * * The writer of the above bolongs to the party of Judge PPost’s political opponents but cannot repress a fooling of profound indignation at the un- warranted dragging into the cesspool of partisan politics mattors long azo buriod in oblivion and fora supposed partisan ad- vantage traduce an upright judge and bring suffeving and shame upon ostimablo and innocent women and children. In the face of facts of record in the courts, the vindication of former citizons, its own admissions that its orixinal chargas aro false, the prompt and explieit denialof Judge Post, his upright, honorable reputation asa citizen, father and public officor for twenty years, the positive recolloctions of officials whoso duties made them failiar with the facts and tho almost universal iadignation which tho slander has aroused among decent people, the contemptible sheet goes on revamping and attempting to reinforce its libel day after day! NOT A REPRESENTATIVE GERMAR. When Henry Osthoff was placed in nomination for the oflice of mayor Mr. Birkhauser, his chief sponsor on the floor of the democratic convention, de- clared that he wu to be thus hon- ored because he was a representa- tive German, Mr. Birkhauser knew, as overy well informed eitizen of Omaha kunows, that this was a reflection upon the intelligence of our German-Amor- icans, Henry Osthoff is in no sense a represen ive German-American, He has neither the good breeding, social standing, education or culture that would entitle him to be classed as a rep- vesentative German. He has never been s0 1 by men of his nationality. Thoy have never scen fit to honor him with any position of prominence within the gift of their so- cleties clubs. He has nover besn called upon to preside over any German- American meeting and could not do so with any degree of credit to himself. There are represon- tative German-Americans in Omaha any one of whom might aspive to the mayoralty., Such men as Henry Pundt, Judge Beneke, Ernest Peycke, Dr. Grossman, Henry Meyer, Charles Bur meister, Alired Arnemann, Henry Grebe, Frederic Metz, Ge Heimvod, Udo Brachvogel and dozens of others we might namoe would properly rank as vepresentative Germans. Tho mere fact that Henry Osthoff has served one term in the eity council would oly warrant the claim that ho must be looked upon and recognized us o rep- vesentative German, It would be indeed a humiliating ad- mission upon the part of German Amer- icans of Omaha that a man who scarcely possesses the rudiments of a Gorman education und lacks every qualification which the mayor of a city like Omaha should should be palmed off upon citizons us o representative of the most enlightened people in all urope. It would bo an admission of inforiority that would only tend to lower the Germans of Omaha in the estimation of ull other classes of citizens. Tue BEE cortainly has no disposition to disparage or belittle the Germans, but they must not disps » and belittle themselves by prosenting such a mun us Henry Osthoft for the position of mayor on the ground that he is a tive German THE Gorman-Americans of Omaha or POsSO8S our representa- | wood address | man in the ave o intelligent not to know that uo | man is fit to be mayor of Omaha unless \ command and inspire popular ro- | ho spect. He must be o man capable of ex- pressing himself fairly in the language | mun of | | sailors, in which one of He must b a who can entertain the guests of the city and impress them favorably by his own presence with the character and intelligence of the com- munity., In short, he must bo a gentle- broadest sense of the torm., THE INCREASE OF SALARIES. The city comptroller’s report for 1800 shows the total sum paid out by Oma in salaries for the yoar to be 3300,804. 46, This sum does not_includa any expendi- tures pard out of specinl smonts by citizens. In looking over the list of offi- s it is found that there has been a general incrense of salarics all along the line from mayor to eity scavenger. The mayor's salavy is in- creased %600 per annum, The salary of each of the eighteen councilmen is raised from $600 to $500, involving an addition of 33,600 to the total. An addition is made to the salaries of clerks in the comptroller’s office ag wing $1,- 079.97. In the office of ntendent of buildings $543 is added to the list. The ecity physician’s s reducod from $2,400 to $2,000, but a sanitar of the country. supel > ommissioner is ereated at #1,200 per annum and health inspectors ave authorized to take up further funds In the city attorney’s office a city proso- cutor is added at a salavy of $1,200 per annum. Several new clerks, stenograph- ors and typewriters ave dropped in hore and there and a large inspection service is maintained. Everywhere the increase appears and only in two or three instances is there any reduction. In 1885 the city attornoy hud a sulary of $ o now ho receives 33,000, and he s o 50 an assistant at $2,000, a prosecutor 500, and clerks amounting to at leust $1,000 more In the county govern- ment the increase of tax eaters is also apparent. A few years ago a prosecut- ing attorney at 31,500 transacted the business of the distric Now the county attorney draws $2,500, has two assistants at $900 a year each and one at %600 a year, besides special sums ¢ ionally for special assistance. [1is office rent, telephone vent and clerk hire is also paid. There is a tendency everywhere to multiply tax eators which the people should re- buke in a most effective manner at the coming election by electing to city and county offices men whose business expe rvience clearly entitles them to confi- dence, and who will favor an economical administration of public affai IN THE INTEREST OF CORN. The transmississippi congress ap- pointed a committee of three from each of the states represented in the congress to adopt ways and means to introduce corn as an article of food in the coun- tries of the worla. Nothing which the congress did is more promising than this of good resuits, if the gentlemen appointed give the mat- ter the attention which its importance merits, the representatives of the corn-growing states will not fail to do this. Tue BeR has move than once urged the expedi- ency of united action by the statesin the corn belt looking to the introduction of corn into Burope as food for the people, and theve wili probably never be a more auspicious time than the present for in- augurating this enterprise. It is learly demonstrated as can be done by figures that before the next crop year Furope will have to find a substituto for wheat and rye for tho bread of the masses of its people, and corn alone will meet the requirement. Jt will not be wise, bowever, to wait for that exigency to be reached. It is rather the part of wisdom to seck to avert it, and in order to do this the task of eduecating Euro- peans to eat corn bread should be entered upon as soon as practi able. If a hundred million bushels of corn should be worked up into meal for the use of Europeans during the next ten months the problem of a supply of bread for the millions who must suffer if made dependent on wheat and rye would solved. It is possible to do this if the people of Burope are taught bread from corn is whole nu- tritious and palatable—far more so than the coarse rye and wheat bread that is eaten by the masses of the people. An effort to introdace corn to the tables of Furopeans has been made for two or three years, and it hasbeen meas- urably successful. It was fiest instituted at the last Paris exposition, and at the big food show at Glasgow a couple of years ago the state of Nebraska had an agent preparing and serving Indian corn for visitors in every possible vaviety, and with quite favovable results, A short time ago this gentleman, Colonel Murphy, was commissioned by Secrotary Rusk to o to Berlin and call the atten- tion of the German governmeat and people to the merits of our great coreal. Ho has the assistance of Minister Phoelps in presenting the matter, and it is re- ported that the German went officials have been ably impressed with what thoy have learned of the excellence of In- dian corn ns human food. Onee having overcome the prejudice that keeps this coveal from the tables of the peopleand corn will bo as generally usod in Buropa as it is here Obviously the fivst thing to bo done is to establish in half a dozen of the principal cities of Europe kitchens wheve corn can be properly prepared and served in the great varioty of ways in which it can be made palatable. Such a plan is entively practicable, and the cost of putting 1t into effect would be utterly insignificant in proportion to the value of the results. But it will not be under- taken by ang one state, and if a compr hensive movement fo into Europe is to be carried to success it must be backed by the united support of all the corn-growing state: — CHILI TO BE CALLED T0O ACCOUNT. Advices from Washington indicato that the administration deciced to demand from the Chilian reparation for the outrages committed upon American sailors. It is under- stood that the president has dispatched instructions of this Ministor an, and it is indmated to the intention of this to firmly iusist upon as be s0me, govaorn- favor- introducing corn has government nature to ho government prompt and it should be safe to say that. DAY. OCTOBER and complete Q\T-uunifiun of its rights Investigntion fnivde by the naval officers of the United States at Valparaiso shows that themttack made in that city a short time ggg by & mob on American the sailors was killed and a number more or less se- veorely injured, was entirely without provoeation, It was an ebullition of the popular hatred of Americans, which has become quite gonoral in Chili and appears to be shared by the members of the new government. The authorities have made no effort to app=ehend the perpe- trators of the outrage, but as if to show how bitter is their dislike of Amer and to encourage the popular hat they imprisoned a number of American sailors, who wero only released after a very earnes’ protest from our minister, of @ no self-rospecting govern- ment, able to protect its citizens and enforco its rights, would permit such things to pass unnoticed. The new Chilian government has on the whole behaved very hadly toward the United States, This nation was the first to recognizo that government, having the moment it was officinlly that the revolution was but this fact appears to count for nothing with the junta. It has persistently manifested an unfriendly spirit and has acted as if it desired to break off friendly relations with the United States. Our minister has annoyed and harrassed in every possible way, even to the extent of having his residence put under police surveillance, and rights which he claimed, in the matter of giving an asylum and safe conduct to refug have been bluntly rejected. It is plain from the whole course of the present Chilian government that it is imbued with the same feeling toward this coun- try that found brutal expression in the attack of the mob on American sailors in the streets of Valparaiso, and in the circumstances the government of the United States would be unworthy the respect of other nations or of its own people if it should fail to assert its rights and to demand justice for the wrongs committed against its citi- It will by ned in this course by the unqualified popular approval, whatover the consequences may be. However, no very serious reeults are to be apprehended. Although the mem- bers of the junta are doubtless some- what inflated with a sense of thewr prowess, and the average Chilian feels that his country is capable of achic: almost anything in a military it is hardly probable that the govern- ment would care to provoke a war with the United States. Such a conflict would, indeed; not be so entirely one- sided, as the difference in population, woulth and resources of the two coun- tries naturally suirgests, for Chili has a navy superiorto ours, but there could be no uncertainty us to the outcome of a war between that country and this. ¥ done so advised successful, been 08, 7008, sust COST OF ELECTIONS. The largely increasod expense of an fon under the Australian system noted by Nebraskans. The general sentiment s, of course, thata pure ballot is chea . at whatever cost. In Omaha we shall pay out for judges and clerks alone over $3,600. The printing of tickets and stationary will cost probably $5,000 more and the booths for the city and county ave to involve an outlay something near to say nothing of furniturve. It is very safe to ume that the election next month will cost Douglas county and Omaha not far from $40,000. The ex- pense uppears great by comparison, for heretofore it has not been to exceed $10,000. There 1s comfort in the thought oo, that future elections will not cut so deep into the public treasury unless we grow with remarkable rapidity, for the booths purchased are substantial and noed not be replaced for a long period of years, Elections are expensive luxuries everywhere. Probably they cost more in New Yovk City than anywhore else in the country. The machinery of eloc- tions in that gront eity is very cumber some. Itisestimated thatevery vote cast in New York City costs $1.75. Last year’s balloting ~ required $464,743. Under the old system 50,000 was the outside cxpenditure. The prosent year this will bo reduced, but $206,800 is required for election in- spectors, poll clerks and ballot clevks: $108,000 for rent of polling places and fitting them up; $11,500 for advertising: $8,000 for pay of the chief election officer and his clerks; $5,000 for contingencies, and $60,000 for printing the official bal- lots. There ave 8§87 clection distriets. It requires 7,000 officials to conduct vhe olections, These 7,000 election officers will por- form a vast amount of clerical work. In an article in the New York Sun the fol- lowing figures ave given to show what a vast wmount of stationery will be re quired in order that the will of the votors of that great metropolis may be accuratoly dotermined on a single day in Novembor: Five thousand five hundred bottles of bluck ink, 10,100 Igad penciis, 2,000 pons, 10,000 penholders, 10,000 pieces blovting (00 bottles mucilage, ench la- und haylhg a brush. Boesides this thove will harequired 900 quires of foolseap, 900 piaces of red tape, 110 dozen additionad lead pencils, war ranted [ write TItalian, Bo- heminn or German names with- out breaking. 100,000 bound of election informwation, 1,000 telograph blanks, 7,200 végistration blanks, 2,700 penholders (in atldition to those already provided, and 8f anothoer kind), 64,500 pens for the ingpectors, 9,00) iron spin- dles for use as files, 13,000 manilla onvol- 5,000 registry books, 7,000 pay-roll blanks, 7,000 cortificates of appointment, 10,000 straw envelopos for notifications to officors, of 1,000 printe leases, 1,000 copies of tho comptroller’s pay-roll, 2,700 printed recoipts, 1,800 sticks of soanling wax, 1,000 printed s, and 10,000 places of string Lo hold poeneils, pape belled hools opo: eloction, wuid 50 that tho votors in their excit rood or absent-mindodnoss will not walk off thom to the impoverishment of the city mont, with 1 1AS been wisely suggestod that building should Worlds fair for statos of thoir bo provided wn oxhibit by the and - pu 25, 1891— IXTEEN PAGES. of public education, The National | Buroau of Edueation will have an | exhibit in the govornment building, but this will not be sufficient to convey an adequate idea of popular educ tion in the United States. Our system is of great interest to all the world, and there ouglit to be th st possible opportunity given for its study by foreign visitors. An educational building, such ns is desirable, and universities, tho institutions should contain statistics schedules of studies of the great methods of other successful of learning, and illustrations could be given of the modern mode of teaching the deaf and dumb. An exhibition of this kind would be of very groat intorest to the thoughtful, whether or not it would attract the mereiy curious, and as a means of instruction it would coded in value by no othor feature of the fair, The commissioners will make a sevious mistake if they fail to provide for a thorough educational exhibit, be o ACCORDING to the insurance commis- sioners of Massachusetts, 50,000 persons in that state have lost #3,000,000 through the operations of the swindling endow- ment Doubtless other stat could show an even worse record of rob- bery by these institutions, which hava flourished as freely in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio as in Mas- sachusetts, Taking the whole country together it is probably not an oxaggeration to estimate the losses sufferod through theseswindling orders at $25,000,000. They still exist and do business in somo of the states, but they are being suppressod as rapiv oS- sible. What is needed in every state is move stringent legislation against such institutions, and meanwhile their ex- posure through the press is a duty to the public. Such facts as those trom Massachusetts ought to teuch people to keep their money out of all endowment orders, ordors, as MRi. HENRY OSTHOFF'S paper, pub- lished in two langunges, is fairly burst- Ing with rage and wants the editor of Tie Bk areaigned before the bar of eriminal justice, Nothing would please us better. Just let Osthoff come into court and he will be furnished abundant proof for all we have charged and more too. AMONG candidates for justite of the peace none ave better qualified for the position than Mr. J. D. Pilcher. Mr. Pilcher has resided in this city for more than four years and is highly spoken of by wembers of the profession. SouUTit DAKOTA is not receiving much favorable advertising on account of her lax divoree laws, but she is redeeming herseli to a consid erable extent by pros- ecuting the Louisiana lostery officials. Canada's Weak Point. Baltimore American. Canada will strengthen her coast dofenmes, but what needs bolstering up the most is her finances, —_————— Where to diake Your Mark. keimah Bur onian. If you wish to have on the bench a judge of abliity, abiiity of that broad and fair-minded nature that will recognize no fricad, noe ' 1o party. no creel. you should make your murk (X) after the name of C. R. Scott. - Fighting for Fitness. Beaver Valley Tr bune, The mational republican committee will meet at Washingtc D. ¢, on November Lo et a place and time for holain the na- tional republican convention in 1802, Omal has been makine a dete edeffort to secure the pri and in the eternal fitness of things sho ought to have It. Sdo Ol S Too Much Ornament. Phi'adelphia Record, Rov. Tleber Newton msists that the public schools must be “den ocratized.” Less money he thinks, should Le spent on the accomplish- ments of the few, and more on the necessitles of the ma In this view we think the rev- crend gentleman is right. 1t sometimes hap- pens that your idealist is delivered of a very sane and sensivle optnon. e S Nature Demolishes Vagaries. Kansas Citu Journa', crovs of 1801 are worth 8 per acre Our export The gr: more than were those of 1590, un surplus will be more thun ten cater than {v was last year. And yet slation of “reliel,” no groat increase of culition “per capitor” has taken place to put the farmer In this fine situation forees of nature seen to have conspired to overturn and show o lous the v aries of the people’s party. and Honorable Judge. Blair Pilol. hio people of this county have long re nized in Judge Hopewell the personifieation of an honorable man and & just ju lze. As the representative of our sister county, Burt, on the beneh of the distriet, in the trae spirit of ndly regerd for that county’s wishes and intorests. and in recognition of the honorable record of the man and judge, the people of this county, regardloss of portical aliiiation, should give to Judze M K. Hopewell an eurn ost, onthuslastic support, and wo beileve they will, no s ridic Just A A Progressive Age. Eleciricity, Over fifty years ago there lived and taught weertain professor of physics. Ono duy explained to his class the experiments of Dr. Franklin with his kite, by which ho estab- Iishied the identity of lighting and frictional city. At the eloso of his lecture he said to his elass: “Younz men. you wero born too Tate to witness the dovelopment of this groat scienee,” 1€ the shades of the departod allowed to VISiU this oarth and know okt 5 om, We et easily i o th state of ustonishment that our g00d profussor hus been In during the yours of 1's sojourn in the Land of shadows at What some ot his puplls have Hved to sec = e A Great ion. Frank Leslie's Wearo the most prosverous peoplo in the world, and the favmer Is tho basis of our pros- perity. Larsge crops moan larzo lucouies for the farmer and large fnconies mean lurgo oxpen- ditures with the morchant and the banker, ALLthis means o stimulus to dustey and ¢ terprise such us always follows u natural n- ure what s wroionzed crease of wealth In 1800 the Un tod States fmported 130,000 0 2,700,000,000 pounds, sugarin addition 1 this country tthe rate of over fifty woman and child in One quartor of proluction of sugar 18 Wo fmported \ourly 400,00 bass of coffe fng this the largest coffeo customer in 1. Over 22000,00) pounds of tobi: ht fu. We are consuming so much in S0 prosperous times that the prices of s for export huve risen and vilil prob= MG Lo Fie. tons of 5 and producod suficlent sonsumptic gar, equival mike the total 5,000,000,000 pounds, o pounds for every man, the Unitel States tho world's consumed in this country, mak the were producers of the abroad of cotton worth; to ths added 1115, and 316,000,000 s $11,000,000 worth Last yeur wo sont i 0 worth of br neral these figures we and prosperous any other b nues 0 W worth of n f live oattle o Whon we beglii to sppre try ud why, beyond b fuce of t Yo, It s0st L tgration sateniplat ato how lar PASSING JESTS, Columbus Post: This 1s the so yonr whon the young man g wnd pulls his gin ovor the f n of the 0 to his funeral nee aftor hin, ram: Mra. Peck=1 was an | on [ married you Wall, you aw York old fool w cortalnly haven't | the Pennsylvania Chicago Tribune: “Harclay,” said tho wite of the sick mun. “hare I8 Rov. Mr. Goodian Who lias coma to talk to you *DId ho bring anyody to idontity him?'" fo. quired the bauk cashior, feobly FIOM HEELS TO HEAD, Detroit Free Press. Ere worman was emancipate, She Kuit with care his socks Exalted to her higher state, Sho knits with care his maniy brow. buat now, Noew York Horald: Bridges have a big advantage ovor manufacturing of voters, Brooks-—i fall to seo whoreln Bridges—\Why, 1ts no offonso to start a flour | will, Dutanythibig 1n the taucot iine roauires license You domocrats us as regards the Boston Transoript quire on hehalf o tion you advertise, suit you. Mo and =" Shonkeeper-Oh, that doesn't signity. he know before he wont thore will pro coumo baek to him In time, Paront-1 camo to in- my son about that situn Tdon't know as ho wiil s Juft graduated from college What iy Good News: Noar-sighted ladg—The boy whao 18 trying to tlo that tin can to that poo dog's taif ought to ve thrashod within an fneh of his 11fe-~thie horrld ittle brute. Mafd—-11's your boy, mumn. Sy boy s, num. o1l him, it he'll stop, cake." I'll give bim some THE TURKEY'S COUP, Philadelphia Press Tho tarmer hied h'm to the coop, And found no turkoys there He forthwith loudly walled. and tore His fragmontary halr. *Where are my turkeys fair and fat Which yesternizht wers horo? Alus! alns! somo thieving wight Has stolen them, I fear.” Hizh overhead, what was that noise That 1ike a chuckle seeme Somo turkey-cock. it must have bed Was talking as lio dreamca, The trees were And lonves w 8o nothing th And hoi The turke And e And sa So wo 11, the branches high, o yet t the farmer saw, © he soon was gone, nestled as he went, oh one winked an eye, “Thankszivinz Day is near, 00sting high,™ WHY SITE'S cHipeeR, Buffa o Erp ess Ble' chippe s a school-girel And is several Uies ay gy, She keens simperinz and glzgling At everythin: you V. Tn spite of paint and wrinklos Her heart seoms full of bliss, For she's of thirty And has just had her first kiss. New York Herald: Charlie—\What makes the ol eat howl s0? Walter—1 euoss you'd make a nolso was full of tiddle it you THAL FACT, They olaim that fishe: Bt "tis a s For talking of the wondrous west Don't all know that Pike's Peak? have no specch, Detroit Free Pres Somehow the girl who learns 1o ride a bicyels doesi't seou to get on very well at first. Elmira ( Iiber; give etto: You ean't estimate n man's ¥ by what he thinks you ought to Mencesport Times: The Loy who begins in_carly life to stay out iato of nights and smoke elgarottes, ven thowsh he does noth- Ing worse, hasn't long to stay. He soon be- comes an angel s . drop When the curtain of a theater t s snce £0 the majority of the ma out to foliow suit. Chicago Times: In tho game of life the opera composer makes the most scores. Dispatch: If the women of today vowdered their hair it would be easier to Jloak Review: Wito—We are gofng to dis- nd our sewin socioty. Husbind—Why, what is the trouble? Wito—~AlLl the “wonen in the parish Jjolned. have Detroit Pree Pres: “Please pass me the butter,” said a guest at the hotel table to a pompous individual on t e, entleman, s he replied with a v, beckoning 1o the waiter. s what [ thouzht when I asked you,” said the first man quietly and the other dropped out. Philadelphia Times: A youth n lnte with o virl and show exceeding the corset that oes nround her greatest staye sit up wall, hut waist s the It Is enouzh to make a Boston Transeript some men that elzar Tndian snlcker o seo thelr wives are Jealous Moth caten clothes holey show of u New Orleans Plex out to air. o woman's ward Rochest thing suy 1 pretty good a fellow to Post: Horsesense 1s @ havo uttmes. It eacnes zh, Kate Field's Washingto —How many “sticks" s clsm of Lhis new play? Zditor—The whole Dramatie Critic 11 give o the oriti- st ON STIATE Burtonian: POINTS OLITICS. Kkam anl Vandoervoort is no maseot Creto Vidette: Paul Vindervoort is tr ing ovor the state olfering the peop ¢ form doetrine. Lot's see. Who was 1t offered Christa seetion of the earth? York Times: Those farmers who sought re- Hef trom excessive tixatlon by voting the in- dependent tieket should remember that uhe Last leglstature which was controlled by the independents. spent ov 0,000 more than wny preceding legislature. orth Nebrask iy ster who iy ther the repibiic for nefarious pra the Independont ranks for purity, honesty ar a spectucic Grand Island Independent: No court has wny richt to decido any caso on sympathy juttze shoutd be blind to ull things exeept the law. the evidence and unbiased justice, and when ¢ eall for tho cleetion of o pian hecunse ho will he movod by sympathy™ that cluss, that 15 0o reason for overy jost man o vote against that candidate, wint our courts conduc on the 0. Class COUrts ars i curse to ro- that poittical 2 from Yo gods, what The Edzerton ¢ spadr and on wmpalgn 15 In vorge of i this br cheoring fntolligence thit donts allke, by hun- 1d by thousiands, are openly d Uit thoy eani I not ald v shystor lnwyer and politioal mou to a position on the supremo bench of the stite. The sobor worth: Lo :al superiority and ity wdzo A, M. Post in”con parison with Fdgerton ¢ 3 s Lion to tne public us to the duty of the hour it by eleotion duy fow will be found out- Sddo of the most radical catamity shriekors who will not support the iucorruptible judzo— the honest man. rather thian the shyst attorney with a corrupt record. - . rAM'S HORNETS, nd collupse the nd | ou ean't tell Low much a lion weighs by his ronr God's fires never buen up anything but the el zood talker 15 one much Ilarsh words to a child sometimes kill an anzol Whon troubles are tho tarthoest trom us they Look the big There 15 no such ha no such love as Christian love The laws which control us most are those which hayo neyer been written, who never says too as rollglous hate, and WASHINGTON QOSSIP, WasHINGTON Bunmiv or Titn Brs, 513 FovnTRENTA STREnt, Wasiizatos, D. C., Oct, 24, Tt must have boen & groat gratification to Mr. Blaino to see so many familiar faces at raiiroad station to groot and wolcomo him upon his return to Wash- on this aftornoon, Ho must have taken notico, however, of the disappointment de pleted upon every fac o which he looked as onch ono failed to sce any physical evidoncoof that improved condition of health which the press dispatchos had lod thom to expect, The socrotary of st looked at a glance ora short distauce, much tho same man physically that ho was when ho loft liero onrly iast summer for his vacation and rest. A closer inspec: tion, however, showed that though ho had 1ost tlosh and was weary there were no traces of disease or severo illness at hand Ho looked rather like ono upon whom the decay of time had fallen with moro than usual wolght in o short period. ‘There was the samo keen oyo and plensant smile, but it was ovident to tho most casual obsorver that Mr. Blamo is soon jnded. Tho secretary did not stop Lo recognizo any of his friends, but with Mrs. Blatne on Lis left arm and his son James G. at his vight o walked through tho station aud directly to his carriage without a pause. His brother, who is considerably more slight of build but boars n strong resomblance to tho distin- guisned socretary, was at the earriage door, and it was obsorved that ho, like all others, was most interosted in the apvearance of the arrival and gazed intently at him A Mr, Blamo walkod up the long platform in the station and through tho waiting rooms and past tho largo crowd, there was a hustied si lenco and nevor did men and women look harder into the faco of any All wero keenly futerostod in gathering personal im pressions ard conclusions on the ull-absorbing. subj Mr. Blaine did not pass through the ladi waiting room whore, in July, 1881, the assassin's bullet felled Prosident Gar ficld as the latter and the prosent secrotary of stato wore promenading. He went ont at a side door. It is_understood that on Mon day Mr. Blaine will go to the state depart- ment for bis usi .l duties, but that ho will write most of his annual report at his rosi- dence, where he can have absolute quict. A. Gorman, democrat, who bas just re turned from the Grady coremonies at Atlanta, says that the most marked feature of tno occasion was tho evident collapse of the proposed Hill boom. “Governov Hill went to Atlanta to revive his drooring presidential boom,” said this spectator, “‘but he only succeedeu in demon- strating its wealmess, There was no en- thusiasm in bis botalf, only a b lite and kindly reception. Evéry effort to give a political turn to his presénco thero feil flat, and L am suro he saw for himsell that therd was no chance for developing a Hill boom in tho south.” retary of the Interior Chan- dier today afivmed tiie decision of the gencral land office in_the timver culturo contest of Dometris A. Hurd vs Angust Anderson from the North Platto district, The contest is dismissod. The following postmasters woro appointed today: Nebraska—Byron, Thayer county, D. Whitson, vice D. Caldwell removed ! Kramer, Lancastor county, J. Klein, vice W' W. Lewis rosigned; Saltillo, Lancaster county, J. K. Knicheloe, vico A. Z. Reed re signed. Towa—Lyunville, Jasper county, M. Dry- den, vico W. W. Dryden died. 1. S, H. — ROMANCE OF THE SEA. Assistant S¢ Arrival of an Eloping English Coupla at New York. New Youk, Oct. 24.—Ou the steerage dech of the White Star steamship Britannic, when she reached her pier yesterday stood a young couple who wero regarded with wore than ordivary faterest. Thoy were on the pas- songer list as Mr. and Mrs, Motram, but ac- cording to a cablegram from Liverpool, just after the Britannic sailed, the young lady 1s or was, Miss Harriett I3lls, daughtor of tho Rev. Mr. Ellis, pastor of Christ church in Burnloy, Euog, and Albort Edward Motram, who formerly lived m Wigan, Eng., where it is said he lefta wifo and faluily to elopo 10 this country with Miss kilis. I'hey were pointed ontas the same people bo tried to elope on the Oceanic on Octover but were prevented by Rov. Mr. I3tlis, who took his daughter ashore. Ho wus quoted then in a cablegram as declaring that Motram wis a marvied man. “'he couplo managed to slip tained passage ou tho tused to give any torday, except 1o de vied. “My namo is Altert Edward Motram," suid the man, “and | have oue wife; sho is here by my side. | have nothing further to say."" “What a shame, Kddio,” exclnimed the girl. “How could they tell such stories about us? How could th v that wo cloped_and that my fatber took me off tho Oceanc.” Motram added thut it was nobody's busi- ness whore they came from where thoy were going. Ho would answer all lozal quos- tions at the barge olice, he said. o proba- bly will. COMMON OCCURR Revolution in Central America of' Not Much Account. 1ca6o, 1L, Oct. 24, —Hoinch young merchant from Guatemala, who is at the Auditorinm, says the stories about tha wreat numbar of prowlo kitlod in tho rovolu- tion in bis country are untrue, “It is & fact we have a revolution ¢ tittlo while,” ho said, * but they aro no more than iarge sized vio's, and the ate little excitomont, Oc- casionally a few peovle are killed, but, in my cxperience in temala, T nover heard ot 1y great slaughter, Theso rovolutions will alivays occur when the presidonts endeavor to establish themselves as dictators, and it ms that all the prosidents of theso little iteal American republics are attempting to perform the czar act. President Barviilag 15 teying it, but I doubt whethor no witl suo ceed, away and ob Britannic. Thoy ro- ccount of tuemselves lare that they were o Haggoman NTMENT, [HORACE'S ODES, 1LY one Pie'd in Chicago News, I hato tho common, vaigar hord! mper when 1 booh' 'emg 10 nice youns mon ‘oo wh ny lyries to Bt pretty girls Observe proper s 1 choose to sing Tho kings of earth, whoso flating pow's Excites our homieo wnd our wondor, Arc proelows small beside old Jove, 11, who droy Ants out of Sight, by thunderl loves farming, that man law, While this one follows pithwiys martial= Wit moots it whither mortal turn? Grlm fae from her mysterious urn Doles out the lots with hunds lmpurtial, Nor s ptuous fensts nor studlod sports Delight the hoart by earo tormontod; e R at imon el Knowoth not Thhe Dt Ot to the Towhy cob Lol i St Lo tie Swain conteutods touehed of discontont W ity ws i foathor; He doos 1ot growl sbout tho crops, Or worry when the market drops, OF frot about the chanzeful weathor, Not 50 with him who. rich In fact Uil seeks his fortine to redouble; Phough dig he deop or bulld he high Thoso scourses bwidn shall lurk anigh— clontiess ¢ rolontloss Troublo. Lt nolther palaees nor robes NOr Anuents nor expens ve toddy Tnsuro Coutentment’s soothing biiss, Why should [ bulld un editico 2 Whore Envy comes to frota body? Nay, I'd not shur T rather S iy rust While that sweet hoon the Tho peace your mansion Biessed iy lowly Sabin your sumptuous cheer, s Dotk b3 bostow— cannot know— cott —— Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE \