Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1891, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE.| i SEWATER, Eniton i PUBLISHED EVERY TERME OF 8UBSCRIPITON Puily Ree prithout Sunday) Ono Year nily and Sunduy, One Yenr. Bix Sonths v Thiree Months. ... Eundny e, Ono ¥ Buturdny Bie, Ong Weekly Bee, Ono ¥ MO orner N L 12 Pearl Streot 17 « hamber of Com et 14 and 15 Tribu i Fourteenth Street IRESPONDEN( All_communieations reluting to dftorial mattor should b addross: $idtorial Dop i riments BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business letters and remittances should Adressed 1o The Bes Publishing Company, | Omuha, Drufts, checks and postoflics orders 1o be made viyablo to the order of the com- "fll[}’BGB Publishing Company, Proprietors THE BEE BUILDI aro o Bu ding Washington, ol aws and 1 te the | BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etatpof Nobryekiv T County of Donglas, (5% Geoe B, Trschiuck, soerotary of Tne Bee Solemniy swear ) THE DAILY BRE I, was a8 Publishin: company, does hat the actual eirenfation for the week ending Noven follows: Funday, Nov. 2 NMondiy, 0¥ Tricadi Wedu fhursday. vriduy, 50 4 Buturday, Nov, 2% Average. § presence th s 2Sth SEAL arn to Leforo me day of Novem! N eI Notary Public The growth of the averaze datly cireniation of Tik PEy for six yours is shown in vhe fol- Jowine tuble: 188 [ TRST [ 1B [ TR Jnnunry 10778 16,204 15,200 18, February .00 0 10,65 14,108| 15,904 15 March 11597 | 14400 19680 14, 120700 | 142816 18 744 18 {12430/ 14,227 | 17,181 18, LIAT 10243 13, 14 108 15,033 18 August TR {14151 | 18,183 180 Feptembor 1309 14349 18,154 18, Cetober 1280 14443 19,084 18, Novomber. VLM 15,220 18,008 10810 22,180 24,009 comber 320,048 28,471 OUR democratic friends are advis use smokeless powder at the battle for the places of honov, trust and profit in the lower house tonight. THE all-conquerfng American hog has rooted his way into Austrin. The hog never sees the stars, but he promises, if given a show, to take in most of the earth. Tue Ketcham furniture contract was conceived in scandal and born in d grace. It should hide its head in shame and slink out of the sight of honest people. GENERAL POSTMASTER WANAMAR- ER'S report shows very clearly that a business man of ability has been at the head of the Postoffice department for about threo yeal Tuis is the year when the republicans can look on and laugh while their demo- tic friends rip open the backs of each other in a struggle for the speakership and the committees. A CIRCULATION of more than $20,000,- 000 would be required to meet the de- mands of the people’s independent party for a volume of currency sufficient to do tho business of the country on a cash basis. Tire postmaster genoral’s views on postal telegraph and postal telephone lines may not prove that he is an elec- that they av THE WORLD'S FAIRCOMMWISSION. Tho suggestions of Titk BrE relative tuthe inadequacy of the World's fair | any and the importance n(} | | opriation energetic efforts to awaken enthusiasm on behalfof the b exhibit are bearing frait. T one and all assure the local and ka o commissioners nve he peopls through metropolitan nawspapors | though | tion hill | s by no means idle the limitat ns of the o prope! Gioliids Viry: OtIve "ntil aftor | ODtining in England and France re- January 1, Undep the terms of the act, | S4raing silv LA A8 (LOE LT | . : oy ances of Mr. Goschen converned it not to exceed $5,000 of the entire $50,000 | bodptre | 1 " | may be easy to exwggerate thoir im- | isavailuble the presont youar, The salary $ ) | of th mmissioner general and per portance, and a tandency to do this has | e e T the vommie. | Already been manifested. They do, in- ¢ (o C OBer eXPORets B L e s | dced. show n willingness on the part of ‘r“‘:“ AU A A . ot | the British government, under cortain LRl ‘”\”““" Ll Ly ot | conditions, to favor u lnrger use of sil- '”“m”‘ut" Gty ””'" b '”! : heen | VOr in tho curcency, but this cannot he 16 work so far undectaken has been | preliminary, and the commissioners ure depanding mainly upon corvespondence to awiken the interest of the people at large upon the subject. THE I is glad to be officially in formed that the appavent indilferonce of the Nebraska commissioners is not real. They have made so little noise about the | their appointment b governor that we bacoming uneasy lest valuablo time by unimproved. Thoy mistake in failing to inform through the newspapsrs of vhe progress they are making from time to time. Upon the press largely depends th ress in arousing patriotism and enthu- m. They assure however, that the foundation is laid for good effectivo work next year. We content 0 await -the developments of 1502, but would again urge tho commissioners to organize for n campaign which shall ex- tend to the school houses of the state, and wili not only interest the county boards of supervisors, the boards of trade and the agricultural societies, but likewise men, women and children ebraska homes We want 3 in be- sides the hundreds of articles which shall represent our growth and urces. N is rich, and she cannot afford to outdone by her are aubject since the wors should making the people pass ave us, ave cash, bo neighbors at the World's fair, W too close to Chieago not to improve the une give us for inviting home investors. campled opportunity the fair will sokers and TELEGHR TION, E POSTAL PH QUE: It can be said with the utmost confi- dence that the establishment of a postal telegraph system in the United States will be accomplished. It may be some years yet before it is established, but the unquestionable fact that a large majority of the people ave in favor of it, and that all the weight of argument is on the sido of the proposition, make it cer- tain of realization in time, and its introduction may not be so remoto as the friends of existing telegraph mo- nopoly would have it. The argument presented by the postmaster general in his annual report in support of the pro- posal to unite the postal service and tho tolegraph is so cogent and conclusive that it ought to be cavefully read by “every citizen interested in a cheaper and move officient telegravh service than it soems possible to obtain under present conditions. The postmastor general makes a telling point when he says that while the business of the entire world is today so dependent upon electricity that its withdrawal would seriously affect almost every interest that exists, yetthe trician, but they do clearly show thut he has appreciation of the opportunity which the carly expiration of the tele- phone patent presents the government. PERHAPS some of our enterprising business men will appreciato the sig- nificance of the following paragraph clipped from the Sioux City Journal: “That is a rich country in Nebraska around Plainview and Creighton. Sioux City has long wanted the business of that section. We now have a Sioux City line there. Tet us get together.” TARIFF and [ree coinage are the is- sues which malke the spealership con- test intoresting, aside from the persoual considorutions involved. Mills meuns freo trade, Crisp freo coinage. Mills’ election will be a victory for Clevoland and so-called tarif reform, Crisp’s election will push free coinage to the front and give the *Stuffed Prophet” a desperately black eye. SuouLp Colonel Crisp of Georgla cap- ture the speikership at the democratic caucus today, Colonel Charles H. Jones of the Louis Republic will be forced to expatrinte himsell. Having failed most signally as the champion of Phabo Couzins in the World’s air wrangle it will be a bitter disappointment to the eminent Missouri democrat and journal- ist to fall flat on his back as the most active and efticient licutenant of the gontloman from Texus. Kansas Ciry is making every effort to secure u large attendance at the Mis- souri River Improvement convention which is to occur December 15 and 16, The convention ought to be and prob- ably will bo u success in numbers and influenco and enough delegates from Omaha should participate to make it perfectly clear that she is a port on the somewhnt creatic stream and favors fur- ther improvement appropriation for protecting the river front. MASSACHUSETTS is miserable. Since John Quincy Adams, the old Bay state hus not had a president. She thinks now that her youag governor, William Justis Russell, is justabout the right size and shupe to squeeze between New England and the south into the white house. Mr. Clevelind, Mr, Hill, Mr, Flower, Mr. Gorman, Mr. Gray, Mr, Palmer and Mr. Boies ure all of & different opinion but the cod fish demo- crats insist that next to a man unanimously favored from New York, Governor Russell is the only demo- orat worthy of consideration, The governor will not be 85 until next January and they think his youth would be his strongest card The Boston (flobe has undertaken the task of ereating a boom for Russell and is doubtless disappointed to find, after a wonth’s effort, that no echoes worth mentioning have been heurd iu the state house at Boston. chief servant of all the people, the post- office, which by its equipment is able to make tho largest and most beneficeny use of it, is so limited 1n its au- thority that it can only adopt the slender methods, *‘and a man out of monoy in San Francisco must stop six days while he waits on the mail to bring a $20 money order from New York.” In a progressive country, the most im- poctant function of whose government is to subserve the welfare of the peo- ple by the employment of every agency that will contribute to that purpose, such a fact as the apove is distinctly discreditable, and the more when it is considered that the postal 50 telograph i3 not an oexperimont, but that its practicability and benefits have been most fully and conclusively demonstrated by tho principal countries of Burope. “Sixty-four millions of poo- ple,” says the postmaster genoral, “are taxing themselves today to the amount of 370,000,000 annually to maintain the postoflice plant and aro denied the right to vitulizo this magnificent machinery with the mightiest force which science has given to rendor that machinery most offective.” ral has no diffi- sposing of the sophistical arguments of the opponents of postul telegraph. **To propose to in- clude in the problem.” he says, and in effoct this s what the opposition does, “the transfer to government ownevship of buke shops or breweries or anything else, is an attempt to conceal the real issue, unless it can be shown that such agencies aro necessary to enable the government to perform its constitu- tional functions Any argument that can justly be made against the union of the telegraph with the postoffice applies with equal force againss the administra- tion of the postoftice itself by the gov- ernment.” The trath is that not a sin- glo objection raised by the opponents of The postmaster gene culty 1 effectually d postal telegraph, and thoy hay: hausted theie igenuity in findi objections, has been found to have any soundness or validity when subjected to intelligent and candid exumination. The success of the postal telegraph systems of European countries is beyond question. There is no reason why tho system cannot be made equally success- ful here. It isbelieved by the postmas- ter general that it would show oven more favorablo results: in this country and the opinion is grounded upon sub- stantinl facts. At any rate the ditions which make an urgent de- mand for postal telegraph in the Unitad States ara as numerous and as important as those which it beneficially serves in England and France and Germany, and thoy are incrousing from year to yeur with the growth of population and busi- ness, It is perhaps not to be expected con- that the incoming congress will do any- thing to promote this policy, which has received persistent and able advocuoy from a republican administration, but while it may be postponed the public interest in the question is too genor and eurnest to permit it to be: doned. | c—— | SILVER SENTIMENT IN FUROPE, | It would from the recont ex- prossions of Mr. Goschen, chancellor of soom the British exchequer, and from in- | mation given the se ey of the | asury by American bankers in Fu- | rope, that a mora libe:al sentiment is garded ns nocessavily implying a dis- position on the p: of that government to assist in promoting those conditions. The chancollor of tho British e chequer has simply said that in the event of un international agreement respecting silver, which would involve the establishment of a common ratio and the free coinage of silver by tho countries entering into the agreement, the gov ment would ask the Ban England to enlarge the use of silver This is cortainly somothing of a con- :ssion, from which the friends of silver may warrantably derive encouragement, but it falis fa- short of committing the British governm in favor of 1l intornational agreement. Ths infor- mation said to come from France is moro reassuring. [t is said that Secretary Foster has been advised, by lettors from the accredited represontative of the Treasury departmont, Mr. Seligman, and from other American ban in Llurope, that the fesling in France in favor of an international agreemont re- specting silver is stronger than ever, and that an invitation from that country for another in- ternational conference i3 probablo withig o short time. Pranco has always been “the most friendly of Kuropean na- tions toward silver, and there are some substantial roasons why sho now feel disposed to restore that metal to its former position in her monetary systom, under an international agreement that would give assurance of making the re- storation permanent. The obvious suggestion of this infor- tion is that the United States should ve silver legislation where it is, or ub any rate do nothing in the direction of freo coinage, since that policy would undoubtedly defeat any movement for an international agreement. It would seem that our present attitude regavd- ing silver is having the effect of inviting such an agreement, and it logically fol- lows that this would not be the case if ars 'Hit OMAHA DAILY BEE:)$ATURDAY we wero to make this country the dump- ing ground for the world’s silver. THE HELFiENSTEIN CLAIM AGAT) There is no species of theft more de spicable than that which digs up duried inaccuracies in old instruments of con- veyance and bases legalized blackmail upon them. The Helfenstein claim to o tract of land in the north part of Omaha isone of the most brazen attempts to profit by just such tacties. The claim of title is so gauzy as to be useful only in frightening timid property owners into paying for quit claim deeds. It will not stand the test of the courts and thus far has not been tried with any degree of confidence that it was worth bringing to a final hearing. The Helfenstein people have had no izht,title ovinterest in theland for yoars, if indeed they ever enjoyed any sort of moral or logal vight to the property claimed. The present owners and their predecessors and grantors have paid the taxes, improved the lots, dedicatea and opened the streots and alleys and por- formed all the functions of absolute ownership. Against tho opening of the stroets, their use by the city and their improvement by grading, paving and guttering no protest has been mado. The gas, street car, water and other franchised companies have occupied them without let or hiudrance, The owners of lots have expended hundreds of thousands of dollavs upon them. W ver there is of present value b yond the original worth of the unim- proved iand beforo tho city grew out to it, has been added without a dollar of assistance from the present claimants, If the Helfensteins have any moral or legal right to claim the property why do they ignore tho city of Omaha, the gas, water, street car, telephone, tele- graph and electric light companies in their alleged suits for possession or tres- s? The fact is they seek only to ex- tort money from individuals. They dare not attack the corporations or the city lest the cloud which they have raised upon the title to the prop- erty in question shall be quickly removed. The city should intervene in the suits brought and the corporations interested should take a hand and putan end to the disreputable attempt to black- mail innocent purchasers of small means. It can be done if the cases be prosecuted with proper vigor backed by compotent legal ability. ALTHOUGIH tho terior dashos ico water upon the sug gestion, it is quite probable that the recommendation of the commissioner of Indian affairs for a better system of laws, and courts to enforce them, on the etary of the in Indian reservations will meet with favor in congress. Senator Pettigrew is formulating a measure which will probably meot the views of the Indian ofice and Indian Rights association. The senator’s well known success us a law-maker leads to the beliel that ho will perfoct his measure and push it through congress. - SOMEBODY should be compelled to clean tho paved streets. They are a dis- grace to the city and the city govern- went which permits them to remain in their present condition, Mayor Cushing should reach back into his memory for a little of the indignation he stored up last spring for future emergencies. An emergency is here, OUR very sarcastic and accurate con- temporary in criticizing an editorial in THE BEE upon the question of the ad- mission of Arvizona and New Mexico refers with cutting ivony to the *‘bril- liant Fifty-second congress” and its nction on thy pdmisston of Montana, [ Idaho and Wyoming. As the Fifty- second congrebd? hus not yot elected a | be anything and), ghomises to speaker but brillinnt, the satirieal reference is decidodly impressive, The paper al the foot of the hif“should consult its ¢ | grossional dikggto A — PUBLIC sentiment cannot be ed by n whitewashing report upon the fur niture scandal,” Facts enough were veloped in the ‘nvesti to satisly public sentimerit thut the judgment of somo councilmen is readily wacped by the warm rays of gold coin and the al- luring attractions of treasury notes, Thero was enough truth unearthed at | the investigation to bring the blush of shame to honest members of that body. ation term of court will prob- ably be called in Junuary, Perhaps this is to avoid postponing the May term until July. Thoere are some odd things about the legal profession, but it is ap- parently a mistake to suppose that law and equity courts in this city are al urdly technical, A GRAND jury should be cailed for the Februavy term of There is a good deal of husiness to come before that body, The district judges are reminded court. that the people expect them to order a for that term. grand jur rate would be Nebraska and should of ansit to Tne milling int highly advantageous Omaha. The local railronds back the arguments of our Board Trade committes with their approval, CoxrrAcroR Coorsshould take warn- ing. His Farnam street shed may yet causo him a dumage suit. OMAIA'S English sparrows as relentloss a fate as those of Chiengo. The Bee Pichting for § Hastings Nebraskan. Nobraska should not be made the dumpius ground for the rofuse oil of other states Give us good oil. I Lost in the Timber. Chicago Mail. A train was robbed 1n St. Louis 'ast night, and the robbers, though hotly pursued, es- caped through the underbrash and weeds. s deserve Don't Want a Monopoly. Baltimore American, The only troublo about electing Springer of Illinois to the speakorship of the house of representatives, is that he might want to do all the talking himself. The Prostrated T Glitie-emo ra, Ex-Dictator Fonseca is still suffering from nervous prostration, but congress, when it passes on his case, will furnish a preserip- vion which will effectually cure him of this malaay. tator. Oh’o's Imforted Senators, New Yok, Advertiser (dem.). If Mr. Brico was a citizen of this state at the time he was clacted to the United States senate ho should not be permitted to take his seat. The question should be sottled by a contest, e Bl Excessiye ~elf-Esteem, Chicago Mail. The Gorman kaisor is in a condition bor- dering on frenzy because “his omnipotence has beeu chailonged.” He should not parmit himself to got worked up over such an obviously malicious slander. — Bay State Nonsense. Cineinnati Commersil, Tt is utter nonscnse for the democrats to claim Massachusetts because of young Gov- ernor Russell's ro-olection. The governor’ plurality was 6,477, given him by personal friends and sore-hoaded republican friends of Mr. Crapo, who was beaten in the nomi- nation for governor. With the exeeption of Mr. Russell, tho whole republican state tickot was olected by pluralities from 11,000 %0 15,000, A “Barkis ix \Wilin New York Recorder. David B. Hill has, through the Hill state committes, unanimously requosted Go7ernor Hill to neglect the duties of United States senator auring the month of December and to continue to discharge the functions of chief executive of New York for the purbose of completing, if possible, the larcsnous mis- appropriation of the legislature of the state, It is understood that Governor Hill will com- ply with this spontaneous exprossion of his own desire, all objections of Senator Hill to the contrary notwithstanding. el Consecrating Cleveland. Pitts) wg Gazette. It is announced that tho democrats of Can- ton, O., will colebrats the anniversary of the issuance of Mr. Cleveland’s tariff reform message, Decembar 8, with an elaborate banquet. Distinguished democrats will be invited to speak, among them Governor Campbell, and tho occasion will be a notable one. Canton is the hom> of Governor-elect MeKinley, and this placo is selocted to give emphasis to tho zeal with whichthe Ohio democrats heve ‘“‘consecrated” themselves, as Mr. Cleveveland would say, to the cause of free trade. A veasonable interpretation of results would seem to suggost that a funeral would be more appropriate for the lanton cemocrats than o jubiiation. R The New York Conspiracy, Phitadelohia Press., The revolutionaty character of the pro- ceedings which Governor Hill has instigated 1w Now York to overturn tho republican ma- jority in the legisthturs is brineging down upon him thecriticism of all fair newspapers, democratic as well as ropublican. How the schema is being carpied out may be judged from the fact that a democratic supervisor in Onondaga county tank tha election returns which the supreme’court ordered to be cor- rected and fled beyond its jurisdiction. He is thought to have estuped to Canada. After the legislature is organized and Hiil has got his majority the sapervisor will return, 1f sentenced by the eourt for contempt he relles on a domocratic gd¥éfnor to pardon him, 1f this is not revolutipuary it would bo hard to designate it. (3! Drake's Magazine, They were standing ‘noath a window Tn'the moonlight's As ln dule son Tow shide, biod t tones they s 0f lover's suronnde ourts” und *and “vows' here's some one at th As a dgure moves above. apld and *lo window,", Then tho lattice gently onens, In the diw, uncertain | And d selosds —loy! A femule 1n divinity bodi “How many of you Whispers she [ jecents (0w, “Only two.” one biithely ans “Only two—myseif anid Jou, it ro th “Will you Just divide betwoen you This slight token of re zard:" 15 i Ditcherful of witer. And 1t strikes thow plump and hard, As they 1 tipuling nore. " 5! they'd b Adinz Tho ola iauld who dwol.s nex DECEMBER 5, 1891 OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Tt is a long bistory tuat leads up to the prosent rebellion in the Chinese ompire, but the real exnlanation of the revolt is the hos. tility running through many generations of the aboriginal and nativo Chinese to the Mandehu or Tartar dynasty, The clement of the population from which this dynasty comes hins stoadily dogeneratod and pumbers but about 10,000,000, and realizing its wonk ness tho native Chiveso believe that the moment has come to supplant the obuoxions Tartar rule by an emperor of their own race Among thoso who seem predestined by povu lav sentiment for the imperial diznity is Chang Cho Tung, viceroy of Houkwang and tho leador of tho reactionary and ratrogrado varty. In opon opposition to the authoritios at Pekin, whoro his groat Li Hung Chang, the viceroy of the metropolitan provineo of Pehioli, is tho moving spirit, ho has grouped around him all tho disaffected. His namo has becomo a watchword for the malcontents, among the most bitter and des perato of whom aro tha 100,000,000 natives engaged in the tea industry, which has been almost ruined by Indian and Cingalese com- potition, Tho fact that the insurrection- ary forces now marching on IPekin should have been rmsed and orgatized in Mand- churia and not in Cnina proper is ex plained vy the fuct that after the Mand chu invaders swoopad down upon China 230 years ago and overran the empire, thoir lands which thoy left vacant were gradually col onized, and in course of timo densely settled by native Chinese of an adventurous and law- loss character. Up to within a few years ago these settlers availed thomselvos of tho exemption from taxation formerly enjoyed by the Mandehus to evade making ntribu- tion toward the imporial revenue. Recently, however, an attempt has been made by tho central government at Pelsin to form the an cient Mandchurin intv three now proviuces, and not only tosubjoct the population thercof to the sume rule, but also to the same fiscal obligations as the population of the other provinces of the empire, It was the efforts ou the part of the government to bring about this that led to tho riso of the Chinese sot- tlers in Mandchuria who aro now marching 0a Pekin. Tho advatce of Russia on ths northwest- et frontier district of India through Pamir, a desolato tableland of almost Arctic climate, owing to its great plateaus of 16,000 feet 1n heigat, is exciting much concern 1 the minds of European statesme:. These same statosmen, Wwho seem ever to be like jellyfish, all a-tremblo on the slightest proy ocation, bavo a frosh cause of agitation in tne rumor that Frauce has secured an island in the Perstan gulf. Indin being thus menaced on the northwest and southwest, tho balanco of power ix Europe is approach- ing 1ts favorite stato of unstable equilibrium, So umportant is the move on the part of Russia considered in India that the visit of Lord Lansdowne to Cashmere, just north of Pamir, has beon made an occasion for cementing the friendly relations botween the | icoroy of India and the Malarajah of that | indopendent state. On this visit Lord Lans- | downe, in. a speech, virtually told Russia ' that she might oceupy Pamir, but must coase tointrigue for passage to [nain througin ashmere. Perhaps if the now eastern ques tion—which is getting a little more eastern than tho old question enwrapped in the com- plications with Turkey should come to a nead the famous Vale of Cashmero would become moro than a word known to the | world of women by reason of Cashmere shawls., India seems to be the new eastern question, with Russia, France and England asa trioof leadng solveuts of tho same, whilo Gormany looks on longing to have & finzer in the pie. The protocol of tho now treaty proposed between Chuli and Bolivia appears to follow outin tho main the one which was agreed upon by the junta at Iquique last summer. That 15 to say, whilo it reaflirms tho sov- ercignty of Chili over the conquered sea- coast provincs of Cobiju, it concedes to Botivia free entry for its goods in transit at the port of Autofagasta, allowing her to col- lect duties on their reaching her own fron- tier. In adaition it makes to Bolivia some very substantial pecuwiary concessions pased on debts and indemnities arising out of the last war between Chili, Pern and Bolivia. There is po doubt that the existing government at Sauntiago appr clatos tho obligation 1t is under to Bolivia, which was tho only one of the South American republics, and in- | deed, wo believo, the only country in the world, which was willing formally to recog- nizo the junta as a belligerent power, while still establishod ouly in the north of Chily, practically out of reach of the Santiago anthori No dount Bolivia’s own pocu- liwr geographical situation and trade relations | made it a mattor of interest, if not of neccss ity, for horto bo on £ood terms with the actually controiling authority in the nitrate region of Chill. Still, she ran a risk of the illwill and retaliation of the Balmaceda pacty in tho south; and, at all ovonts, it is oreditable Lo tho supporters of tho now tri- umphant junta to procoed toward the formal and legal accomplisment of its agresment with Bolivia mado in its days of doubt and trial. | Although M. do Giers nas made no secret at Berlin that a closeand detinito undor- standing oxists betwoen Russia and i'rance for the purpose of “‘maintaining the respoct for treaties,” yet it is evident that the czar still votains his former reluctance to bind uimsell down to an_ allianco with his fricuds on the buuis of tho Scine by any formaily signed and soaled contract. While glad euough to borrow monoy of Frauce, aud pleased with the prospect of enjoviug her diplomatic and mititary co-operation shoula occasion therefor arise, Alexander remains determined to retain his absolute independ- euco of action. This he would no longer pos | overthrown at | hose of Russin soss woro his government fottored by any hard and fast troaty with that of Franca: and the forefgn, s well as in & minor degres the doniestic, policy of the Muscovite empire thus rendered in a mensuro subsorvient to and dependont upon that of tho cabinet which happens to be in ofMice at Paris, As in the case of all governments where the ministers are forced to depend for their maintenanco in offlee upon tho support of a parliamentary majority, tho Fronch cabinet is luble to be any moment and an admin- istration appointed in its place with viows upon foreign politics that are not meroly dis- cordaut, but even diamotrieally opposod to It is thorafora unlikely that the much-talked-of Franco-Russian allinnco which was to constitute the counterpart of the triple allianco of Germany, Austria and Italy will ever consist of anything more than a mere friendly understanding, de pendent on the one side upon the caprice of an ireesponsiblo despot, and on the other upon the vacillating parliamentary majority of a French logislatur gL ANZTY IN THE FIELD FAMILY, 1 Two Members Besides Edward Have Been Crazy. New Yong, Dec. 4.—The confinement of Edward M. Iield in an asylum makes throo mombers of the family who bave been de clared fnswne. [our years ago, Edward ield's sister Alico acted so strangoly tbat experieuced attendants wero engaged to s0o thut she did not harm hersolf. She suc- coeded, however, in getting away from the two attondants lato one night and the next morning the family discovered that sho had disappeared. 1t was fivo days before sha was found, several hundred miles from Now York. She bad taken a train to Buffalo and from there had gone to Niagara Falls, Sho had engaged rooms at one of the hotols noar tho falls and was 1iving quietly enough when aiscovered. She told her friends when thoy came to see ber that she could not slecp unless sho was within hearing distauco of the roar of the falls id a gentleman yosterday who s fumiliox with Alice Fiela's case: *'She insisted upon remaining at Ningara avd her wishos were gratified, but when she began to talk about throwing herself over the falls and about people disappearing forover in the whiripool, the family thought it about time to contine her in an asylum. Logal stops were taken, and without tha knowledgo of the public Alico Field disappeared and is stiil an in mato of & maahouso. Her caso is probubly a hopeless one. T'he other unfortunate mem- bér of the Field family, whom I knew to be aeclured insane, is a cousin of Edward Field I do not wish to give his name or his famil counections, because he bas been pronounced cured and i5 not confined in any institution at tho presont time.” — - MARRIAGE D TO DEATH. PREFERR An lrate Father Causes a Very Hasty Wedding. Bueraio, N. Y., Dee. 4.—A strange wed ding has boen celebrated at Frodonia, N. Y. For some time George White, a young man of tho village, has beon paying sttontion to Hattio Hill, a protty voung daughter of Charles Hill. White called at tho girl's home last evening and Mr. Hill usked him the na- ure of his attontions, Some words follow ed. Tho irate father domanded that White marry the young woman at once. \White refused. Then Mr. Hill sont for a clergyman, and when he arrived the angered fatiier pointea a rovolver at White's head and oxclaime “You may take your choico—marry my daughter or have your brains vlown ouf." White quickly agreed to tho former prop- osition. e THE MEKRRY JEST. Columbus Post: The burzlur takes great “pried” in coming Into your house. crossed Falis, ngering ake's Mugazine: A young i walked to the brink of Ninz: fed his cont. took ono long. look at the abyss —und went home. Sho—Will you Instruct your daughter in the dilferent la ? Great mud a womun. ae 18 suficient for WIAT'S 13 Brovkiyn E A prim madonn o5 lay far b nd the skies; A brim don The other v Whose hopes all centere | round the flies. Clothier and Furnisher: Rrizes—I hear you t rooming with Plankington any moro, us—No. 1le got so stout L couldn’t wea s suit. Dircetor Palace Car ¢ ane. and this is his Weekly: Harpor is incurably in: pany—11 office, We pay him $.000 o vead Visitor (in~ astonishment—What! Pay a Tunatic $5,00) n year? Dircetor—Yes; he evolves the names of our cars, Washington Star: The spintor remarked, “I am sure you will i That as patriots none are our betters: Bug as to *Unit ates,’ glve us the kind That are speit without cupital letters. azine: Never laugh You don't know At aman Drake's M what may with @ pug nos turn up. utely tmpossible to soof nwatoh. ~What In what enso is 1t absc be slow and su In the e New York Herald: Teach rato of interest in this sta Pupil—Six per cent twelve a month to Toncher—Whit Pupil—Your “ur is the year to outsiders; wolatives, O ive charges that? t THE MELANCHOLY DAYS Allanta Constitutum, This 1s the timoe when peoplo i things hove gone to smush; Whew tho eiureh wanls a new steople, And the heathen eall fo ped his uickel in the slot ow hizh his weight had got The needlo would not i Because the job was worth a dime, Tom De Witt— e rank amonz col- ard ow—Why not? Kitty Win, Tom Do Witt—Well, for one thinz, never publishes in the newspapers the ni of hsr oldest liylug graduate. Rochester Post: Man wants tho earth, but t 18 the housekeoper who zets the dust Washington Star: “You'ro well enough to wash with,” said the ohampazuo to the water, “but Thave the inside track.’ IWORK OF FLAMES AT BLAIR, Several Businass Buildings Burned at an Early Hour This Morning. 0SS OVER THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Firemen Fail to Tarn Ont Secause Ihey Did Not the Alarm and Citizens Fight the Fir Hoar Tolograr mor Bram, Neb., Doc. 4.—[Special to T Bre.]—~Kire startod hore this of Komp's drug storo. How it caught is not known, but it was probably by spon- taneous combustion, as tho store contained coal, dry paints and other light material, The alarm was given by two men just starting home from the club room. Thewind was blowing hurd from the northiwest and at one time it looked as if the wholo busine: vart of tho town would go. The city has poor facilities for giving o fire alarm, with only a small bell on o short towor,and so only a few persons mnear by were aroused. If the fire boys could have been awakened in time, the stock of nearly all of the stores could have beon saved. Tho chief of the firo department heard nothiag, out the peopio who were out worked hard, and after getting three streams turned on succeedec in proventing the flames from spreading much, although tho wind blow sparks several blocks aud ignitod hay and paper in the stroots. The first building attacked by tho Hames was that of the Odd Fellows, corner of Washington and Fiftn streots, occupied by S. B, Kemp, arugglst. Komp's stock was valued at £4,000 with an insurance of §1,600. The building of the Odd Fellows was valued at §2,000, with insurance of §1,200. I'he building of J. W. Newell, occupied by ewell & Jackson, flour and foed, was next destroyed. The loss ou stock is $2,500 and the building $1,200, with no insurance as tho policy ran out a month ago. The building of Harry Higley was con- sumed. It was valued at’ $1,300, with an surance of 300, It was occupied by Mrs, S, 1.3 Higley, a widow, as a millinery store, on one side, and by Harry Higley, confection- ery and news stand and the teleohone ex- change on the other. The loss to Mrs, Higley is 82,500, with no insurance. Tho loss to H. Higley is §00, with an insurance of %00, ‘Ihe damago to the telephono ex- change is §200. The oxchango is a total loss, Mrs. S. 13, Higley, N. M. Ostorlund and S. 1. Kemp have probably lost every dollar thoy aro worth. 1t i impossible to get all tho companics that sustained losses, but partial list is as follows: .§ 1,600 Tor- Oaldland Home of Califorma. ... Western Insurance company of onto. B ARt port, Tii. . t Charter of Now York Milwaukeo Mechanics ‘'ho building of N. M. Osterlund, dealer in general furnishing goods, was a total loss. “Tho stock and building woere valued at §17,- 000, and an insuranco of §1,500. #d Kalgreen, clork ' in Osterlund’s store, nearly lost his life. He was sleeping in the building and was awakened by par- ties, but went to sleep again. Wheon the building was in flames someone dragged him out noarly suffocated. e — Hypnotic Influence. The Des Moines Leader of Decomber 3 said: “Tne performance of Miss Iay was not very wonderful, it occurs to me, when wo considor the astounding truths volative 1o the mind that have of late yoars been dis- covored by the students of the world in tho lino of hypnotism. In that exhibition one of the most wonderful attributes of human con- sciousness was dragged 1nto service as an agent to trick tho spoctators of u perform- ance of only modium excellence at the best. The fact of tho matter is sunply that the 'ecturcr of the even- ing, tho manager of the combination, had experionced his hypnotic mfluenco upon tho sudienco and mado it bolisve it saw that which it did not. Some years ago two En- glishmen took pictures of tho most mysteri- ous of an oriental juggler's performances, and upon doveloping the negative found that the Indian had not moved from his seat unon tho ground, though tho spectators had _seen him elimb o rope into the hoavens and pull tho rope up after him. So with tho per- formunce the other evonine; the elementary bypuotic influences, to which every ono is niore or less susceptibio objectively, wore at work in the minds of all tho spoctators, and thoy saw simply as the agent of the mind of the mesmerist on the stage.” e Government Control of Telegraphs, NEWw Youg, Dec, +.—The Timos this morn- ing says: “Not sinco its organization has the Electric club had gathered within its spacious parlors at 17 East Twonty-second streot such a number of distingaished prac- cal electricians and tolographers us assem- bled there last night to listen to and take partin a discussion of the question of gov- erument control of telographs. “I'he discussion was oponed by Mr, Rosewater, oditor of Tie Osaia Ber, in paper entitled, “Tho Government Pelogtapns of Kurope.’ ” Then follows the addross, over o column, which 15 familiar to the public now and winds up with: *Thero were soveral spirited rejoinders to Mr. Rosewater's papor on the part of Erastus Wiman of tho Wost- ern Union Telograph company and tho Northwaostern Tolegraph company of Canadu; President A. B. Chandlor of the Postal T graph company; A. R Foote, special govorn- ment agent for the eleventh census on eloctricity, and others. Mr. Wiman said that the govornment ought to buy out tho Standard Oil company rather than the West ern Union Tolegraph company, as it was o greater monopoly. ‘Postmuaster General Wanamaker,” he said, ‘may be a good mau for the bargain countor, but he don’t succeed elsewhere,” To which Mr. Rosewator aptly vepliod, ‘Lot us pot the telegraphers fivst aud we'll then get the oil.) " ————— Suicided Because He Lived Too High ‘Tiextoy, N. J., Doe. 4.—John T. Staplos, a cracker manufacturer and a prominent local business man, shot and killed himse He had an estate worth $150,000, but thought he was becoming 1mpoverished by high liv. ing. 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