Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1891, Page 4

4 e e THE DAILY BEE. =5 nose WATER, Eorron. EVERY MORNING. SUBSCRIPTION PUBLISHED TERVE yally Bee (without Bunday) One Year....# 8 00 (ly and Sunday, One Yeur v 1000 x Months . 600 Three Months 2 50 Eunday liew, Ong Veir 20 Eaturdny Bee. Ong Year. 5) Woekly Bee, One Year, 100 OFFIC Omaha, The Bee Butlding Fouth Onuhn. corner N Council Blufrs, 12 Pearl Chienso O 7 ¢ humber of Commerce. New York,Roons 1, tdand 15, Tribune Building Washington, 513 Fourteenth Streot CORRESPONDENCF to news and All communieations relating editornl mutter should be addressed te the Editorinl Depurtmer BUSIN LETTERS, etters und remittances should I to The lee Publish ng Company, afts, chocks and postoffice orders payabie to the order of the com- All busin waha. | 1o be mad pany. The Bee Publishing Company Proprictors THE ) BUILDING, = EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIC Ftate of Nebruskn el County of Douglas. Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of BER Publishi ipany. does solennly swear reulation of Tie DALY Bee iber s, 1501, was us iE 00 snursdny. Dec, Criday, Dec. 4 Buturday, 1) Averago........... i 24,080 GEOL R TZ3CITUC Sworn to | cfore me and subscribed In my presence th s oth day of Decepiber. A, D, 1891 BEAL. E. N. BOVELL, otary Public. The growth of the averaze daily circulat on of Tne Bek for six years is shown in whe fol- Jowin to1le e ARG January 204{15,200| February 1410815 v 18 March. 4400 | 10,080 19,¥54| 20815 | 24,065 April 1AL 18344 18 4| 23,028 May . 18 150, 2840 June 3| 18,855 | 20,301 26917 July. 18738 A 1 Fe 15154 18, 18054 18 THE aluation of Omaha must be v 6,000,000 if we expect to market our $1,160,000 in bond3 and maintain our present good credit. THIS democratic cong its time purloying for vresidenti election. Theve will be nothing sincere in any so-called re- forms. The exhibition will be alto- gether for the grand stand and not a test of merit. COLONEL SPRIN probably reflects the sentiment of the democratic house of representatives when he announces that no attempt will be made to make a general re on of the tariff. The democrats decided to straddle tariff re- form when they elected Crisp speaker. —— SECRETARY BLAINE has agreed to make a public address in Boston next month. The secretary thus unseals his mouth and the democrats throughout the union are already quaking in their boots lest he shall say something that will embarrass them in the coming national campaign. ss will spend position in the AN AMERICAN jury would never have convicted Mrs. Maybrick of murder, and the English jury would not have con- victed her except for the unusual rulings of an apparently prejudiced but cer- tainly erratic court. Americans all hope the efforts for the poor woman’s release from prison may be successful. A COFFIN factory is to be removed from Dubuque to Omaha, attracted per- haps by the fact that this city is deter- mined to patronize home industry. The managers should be discriminating enough to understand the delicacy of this case, however, and must not expect much encouragement to begin with. OMAHA would gladly help Lincoln se- cure the national prohibition convention if it were practicable, but Omaha and the prohibitionists scarcely speak as they pass by. A flittle brush which oc- curred something over a year ago left a coldness which has not yet been re- moved. However, Omaha wishes the Capital city succoss. SENATOR PADDOCK, ‘‘by the courtesy of Senator Manderson,” introduced the Hastings public building bill in the sen- ate this yoar. The correspondent adds: *'The courtesy is extended because Pad- dock is entitled to South Platte mat- ters.” This is simply absurd. A sena- tor represonts his state and not a sec- tional division, which the people of the state have long ago outgrown. THE oil inspectors, both present and past, who have been endangering the livos of our citizens by theiv reckless nogligence, cannot pavry the effect of THE Bee's expose of the defective luw and its lax enforcemont by claiming that this paper is actuated by motives of political revenge or spite. The facts are above politics and the inspectors are merely incidents to the disc A BILL has been introduced in the senate to authorize the sale of mineral lands in the territories to aliens, A de- mand for legislation of this kind was made by the mining congress held in Denver a short time ago, a resolution having been adopted with practical unanimity declaring that the clause of the alien land law which ex- cludes foreign capital from invest- ment in mining lands in the territories is unwise and injurious, and calling upon congress to repeal it. This expression undoubtedly voiced the general sentiment of the people in the territories, not only those directly inter- ested in mining properties, but all to whom the development of such proper- ties means a better market for their products and therefore greater prow perity. It is not questionable that the effect of the exclusion of foreign cap- tal has been to materially re- tard the development of mining in the territories, and a# there is no valid reason why aliens should not be allowed to put their money into mining lands— In other words, to invest it in American machinery and American labor—the sooner the law which keeps this capital out of the country is changed in this re- spect the better it will be for our mining industries, HE EFPILS OF THE GERRYMANDER. All good citizens, regardless of party afMliation, will concur in the views of the president regarding tho evils of the mander and the danger to our in- from this method of over- ger stitutions throwing the control of the majority. The action of the last Michigan legisla- tie, in provid- ture, which was democ ing for the ¢ of presidential el stricts, such districts or ‘‘gerryman- stors nged Michigan is a republican state, furnished to the president a subject which he dis- Jdearly and patriotieally cusses wisc It is a matter that ought to command the serious attention of every citi- zen, to the end that if intel- ligent public opinion disapproves this unrepublican method, char- erized by the president as politieai robhery, it may find such expression as will ct the progress of the o It is not to be doubted that had the demo- crats at the last elections secured con- trol of the legislatures of Ohio and Towa they wouid have adopted the Michigan plan in those states, and there is danger | of this plun being adopted in any repub- lican state in the ovent of the democrats securin ry con- trol. s party feels in the of the solid south, this method has no regard, but there ure few democrats in the north who are not willing to have it adopted by their party whenever opnortunity may offer. The president points out that the ger- ymander has already found effective np- plication to the choice of ors and tempora Where the deinoc i secure, as sta an, representatives in congress, and if the purpose of * making it apply to the choice by the s of electors of president and vice president shall be nccompiished, “we shall then have threo great departmentsof the government in the grasp of tho ‘ger mander’—the legislative and executive divectly, and the judiciary indirectly, through the power of appointment. The president does not exnggerate when he suys that our chief national danger lies in the overthrow of majority control by the suppression or the perversion of the popular suffrage. Asthe primavy in- tent and effect of the gerrymander has relation to the selection of members of the house of vepresentatives, the president sugoests that the power of congress is ample to deal with *‘this threatening and intolerable abuse.” He recom- mends, in view of the fact that all the states have determined that the choice of electors by a general ticket is the wisest and safest method, such regula- tion of this matter by con- El tional amendment as will secure uniformity and prevent disgraceful partisan jugglery. There i small probability of this subject receiv ing any attention from the present con- gress. The democratic house would do nothing to eliminato the gerrymander, because southern democrats care noth- ing about it and northern democrats pro- pose to profit by it whenever a chance shiall offer. But it presents a question the importance of which, as President Harrison forcibly shows, cannot easily be overestimated, and which soon or late will have to be met. CHINESE The interminable question of Chinese exclusion is again brought forward for consideration. It receives attention in the annual reports of the secretary of the treusury and of the attorney gen- eral, and already a bill has been intro- duced in the senate supplemental 10 the exclusion act. This measure is sweep- ing in its character. It proposes to muke it ualawful for any Chinese laborer to enter or remain in the United States for any purpose whatever. It precludes the entry into this country not only of Chinese laborers who have never been here, but all who have been here and departed or may hereafter depart, and also all Chinese persons who muy desire to pass through or over the United States or any part thercof for any purpose whatever. The existing law provides that Chinese laborers found to be unlawfully within the United States shall be removed thevefrom “to the country from whence they came.” A different construction has been placed upon this provision by the courts and the treasury department in the case of Chinese who have come into this country from Canada, the former holdIng that the intent of the law is that they shall be returned to Canada, and the department taking the position that they should be sent back to China, The view of the depart- ment seems the more vreasonable, and it is supported by the fact that tho last congress made a specific appropriation to enforce the law and ro- turn to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States. It would obviously be a waste of time and trouble to send back to Canada and Mexico such of these people as camo into the United States from those coun- tries, for they would simply repeat the attempt to get into this country as often CLUSION. as thoy were returned. According to the report of the secretary of the trensury, syndicates have beon formed and much capital has been invested to further this unlawful immi- gration, and he suggests that if it is still the purpose of congress to prohibit it a thorough revision of the statutes velating to the subject is necessary. The attorney general points out the diffi- culties met with in the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act, and suggests that if it is desired to make these laws effective they should be so changed that they cannot be misunderstood. It is remarkable that after all the logislation on this subject beginning with the nct of 1882 suspending the im- migration of Chinese laborers for a period of ten years from the date of the act, there should be such misunderstand- ing of the meaning of the lawsas to rendor necessary further legislation in order to muke their meaning plain and romove diflicultios to their enforcement but such is the case. Of course it will be the duty of congress to remedy this with as little delay as possible if the policy of exclusion is to be main tained, os it doubtless will be, At any rate this question ought to be settled fully und toally, It is the opinion of with a view to securing a ma- ity of democratic cougressmen and ctors, regnrdless of the fact that | the secretary of the treasury that any legislation will fail of its {ull purpose so long as the Canadian government admits Chinese laborers to Canada and gives them permits toleave and return to that country at pleasure, and if this vi is sound, as it inly seems to be, manifestly the first thing to do is to endeavor to inda change of policy in this particular, This would not be an cusy matter, howev since the Canadian government imposes a head tax of $300n Chinese coming into that country from their native land, and doubtless one of the inducements pre- ited to them for emigeating is the chiance they will have of getting into the United St securo from ( o THE UG DOCTORS, The vindictive warfare which has been going on for two or three years between Dr. D. E. Salmnon, chief of the bureau of animal industry of Washington, D. C., and Dr. I'rank Bullin of the patho-hiological laboratory of Lin- coln, Neb., has broken out afresh. Tt will bo remembered that the hog cholera and swine plaguo expert of Washington attacked the inoculator and all-round swine exvert at Lincoln oviginally, be- rauso he said that swine plague is an stra- anismal infoq smi Any man who would think of disputing this proposition is, of course, s0 long a remove from the infected he himself as to be ignorant of the senti- ments and experience of his swineship To prove this Dr. took about 400 pages of his report, printed at the expense of the university. The Nebraska Pasteur director ious septi- Billings 18 obliged to beat his own tom-tom for the most part, while was fu De. Salm and w clevical fo 1 funds to make it effeetiv The result was damaging to the N braska patho-biologist, who lsft the st partly because he was mad, but chiefly to sell hog cholera medicine. Time mel- lowed down his rage and our somew remarkable board of regents finally in- vited him to return and resume his old position. The Agricultural department expert, Dr. Salmon, was not yet satistied. Bil- lings had knocked two or three teeth down his throat with his 400-page volume and sundry other documents. however, nished o 1 and natior te A man who can carry so much title on so small a salary could not patiently submit to further brutalities. Hence it camoe about that Dr. Salmon challenged our friend from the university to make a practical test of his inoculation theory Dr. Billings had killed a sick pig and shown the furmers of Ottawa, Ill.,, how to dis- sect it and make a ‘‘culture” of the germs for incculating purposes, and hav- ing sold out his patent business in Chi- cago he was sure every man could be his own inoculator. Dr. Salmon seized the opportunity to humiliate his old enemy and claimed that Billi > inoculation was worse than a failure. He cited the fact that 400 hogs out of every 1,000 inoculated in Nebraska in 1889, 50 per cent of those inoculated at Peoria in 1889, and still more at Davenport, Ia., in 1890, had died.- This was cruel, of course, and ought to have satistied u reasonable being, bat Dr. Salmon in- sisted then and there upon making an experiment to test the value of the re- spective theories. Dr. Billings with becoming dignity shut himself up within hisown conscious supremacy and declined to be drawn further into the controversy. Dr. Bil- lings is no fool and he knows, too, when he has had enough. He had been sur- feited, and therefore Dr. Salmon was al- lowed to make his test by himsell with one of Dr. Billings’ pupils, famous as the inoculator. We protest on behalf of our experi- ment station and the discoverer of the “hypothetical etiological connection of these micrococel” and ‘‘Salmon contra- dictions” against this department inter- ference. We want Billings and Salmon to have a fair show at each other, and this they cannot have with Uncle Sam acting as second for Salmon and Miss Lincoln holding Billings’ coat. The seconds are no match for cach other. Secretary Rusk ought to take both the porcine pest peddlers over into agricul- wural park and let them fight it out without referee, audience or second. The controversy is one in which neither the peoplo nor the hogs are interested, It is purely personal, UNITED WE STAND. Omaha is in need of intelligent, ener- getic and ~ harmonious co-operation among the men who ave vitally con- cerned in promoting her future growth and prosperity. We have already de- monstrated what can be done to stim- ulate home industry by concerted co-op- oration. 1t remains yet to bo seen what can be achieved when all our com- mercial and industrial concerns pull to- gether, with one end in view. At the present time we have four distinct or- ganizations in Omaha whose labors are in the main directed to the same end. These organizations should get together and agree upon & co-operative division of labor, We have the Board of Trade, Real Estate Owners association, Manufacturers and Consumers asso tion and the Central Labor union. of these is organized for a different important purpose and each wor singly, but all with a common aim accomplish a vast amoant of good. ' BEE suggests that representa- tives of these organizations meet and ar- range a plan of campaign for the winter which shall utilize the especial force of each for the advantage of all, and pre- vent a waste of energy. The Board of Trade should and will naturally take up the the all matters relative to traffic and transportation, The Real Estate Owners association should keep close wateh upon city and county expendi- tures, look after the winter's advertising nd negotiate for new enterprises, such as jobbing houses and factories. The Manufuacturers association devote itself to the encouragement and develop- can ment of our existing industrios, seek to build up a better fecling between the peoble of our tributary territory aud the business men of Omaha and cultivate the sentiment ulready crented for home patronage. The Central Labor union s help all the others, but can be espec- iully useful by fostering the home indus- OMAHA DAILY i | tries, educ BEE; SATURDAY atl the working people to give this citythe proforence in all pur- chases of sufipies and by inducing public officinls to thiak first for Omaha and cont by 8 prc can assist bo an irre- upbuilding of Omuha workingmen in publi These four omganizations division of th& work in hand each other ahd unitod will the sistible Omaha. fored for THE Roal" hus made o place for itself in this com- munity by its activity in correcting some evils in county and municipal pol tics, It has also done a great deal in the way of advertising Omaha in the east. Its seel ry is in constant com- munication with firms, individuals and corporations looking for factories and other entorprises, It has planned a winter campaign which promisesdefinite association and important results, Our citizens should all lend a helping hand to this organization, [t stands closer to the taxpa than any other in the city. an work the press av ense of the government, but Dr. Billings hus no government printing press at his back and no franking privi- lege to save postage. The advantages in the controversy over hog cholera, swine plague and inoculation, are there- fore with Dr, mon. Tis city should never accept proporty for buildings upon convey with a reverting clause. What real estate the city improves, it should own in fee. nees A Dingerous Orank. Albany Erpress, David B. Hill fs a more dangeroas crank than a mere bowb throwor. He has been trying to destroy republican institutions at one fell swoop. e ST Prepared for Emergencies. Cinetunati_Commercial Now York capitalists are arming them- selves, and tramps who calt for slight loans to tide them ovor prosont emergancies are in danger of having their heads blown off. R Where, Oh Wher B slon Globe. 1f William E. Russell were known to the country as well as ho is known to Massa- chusetts there would be no doubt about his prosidential candidacy. But he is bocom- ing more and more generally known every day. His candidacy grows on the country. P March of Reciprocity. (/ Kansas City Jowrnal, Nearly every nation in the western conti- nent bas asked for reciprocity with thoe United States,. This is conclusive evidence to prove that thete is room enough on this continent for only ono flag—the flag with tho stars and stripps. This is the financial and political solution ot tho Americau problem. e Lybeanains Wait Till the Returns Are In, New York Tribune, Tammany is on top again. Not content with “‘running” New York City and New York stato, it has laid hands upon the speakership of the bouse of representatives. Of course Tammany 1s making reaky to nom- inate the demogratic candidate for president next summer. - What does the country at large think of a uational Tammany hall? e e SATURDAY SMILES. Binghamton Teader: The smugglor ap- pears to be n fellow who has no great amount of respect for the customs of the country. Baltimore Americun to biukers to know v bave caused wheat 1t may be nteresting cent political events appear in a uew role. per's Bazar: Wag is u very scholarly person. Quigléy -Why so? Wagg “Ilo hits usisn over Is plo counter, “Such stuff as dreams are made of.” le—Who's that swell Smith, the buker, Detroit Free Pr 2 man over there? 0. that's Maltby, and he's a corker. She—I bez your pardon? Ho—A corker, don't you know? beer bottlinz establisiment. Works in a A HOPELESS CASE, Aflanta Constitutun, Sald the doctor to the editor: ol and an overd And constant hurning fir Said the editor: *Heaven help us all! is not u thiug for lnughter: My ploasure in this world is small— Heat here and heat hereafter.'” New York Herald: Abe Lincum—Pop, kayn't yo! spahr me dat fishin’ rod toany? Pop Lincum—W'y, yo', Abum Lincum.doan't yo' know dis am dé Tawd’s d Abe Lincum—Vahs; but de Luwd doan'tsay nuflin’ agin tishin', Pop Lincum—Doan't hey? 1 “Spuhir de rod an’ spile de chile? n't he say ors should remind us (ke our lives sublime At the serateh the world must find us When the referee shouts “Time!” Dallas the goln, ews: [tisnot the coming man but uan who gets there. Lowell Courier: Tt Is noticeable that man who owes money does not enjoy & paying busi- ness. Washington St tarmer gittin’ foo town, : “They talk about the d every time he goes to said Mr. Bogosh. "ropliad his nefghbor, “they do." ou jos walt till [git in with this load of garden truck I'll jes bet ye thore'll Do u fow city folks green-goodsed Dofore I glt through.” SOME FOND NAME. New York Herald. Some tond pet name I must invent For littie Bess. the swoetest maid That e'er made lover's mind content That pathway sho h strayed. What sl T inust muako hasto For here she mes with smile divine L'l clasp my aris abott her waist— Those pins! Al sho's my poroupine Kate Field's Wash thut hus 15 bis “No: why' “Becansc it is hest for a horse tale like that to be cut shore." “I havea horso wenty." Boston Courle ast fare e proper break for athletes: FUOVOrS. Imira Gazettes (The kangaroo 1sa funny ant It has four jegs in all, but two of Iis legs are longer than 1ts fore legs but together, Your flanceo 1s a Boston Yes.” “Thon I supposo she s ar with Bowning? I beg your pir- don. Tho trudHoston girlls never fumiilar with anybody." ¢ H ARl 1 LOVE MY MAMMA 50, Boston When I dot up lis morning I fought I'dfigk a bit About dis boo'fil, zrea’ blg world An’ de folks'tiie live in 1t B0 | dess turned over in my ewib And cuddled fn o bull, An'den I foudie an’ tou But couldn't'fnk at all s would tum nto my. head il v dey would pop out 1 dot u chance Lo know it un' fought, Befo' What dey was all wbout. Dess one fought 1 wemembuh, An' dat one you mus' know Was nuflin but dees little words: Llove my manma so! Itried to fink about my nurse, Dat howwid, ewoss old tiog, Dt Goesn't i¢t ae wun an' jump, Nor. play. noranyfing: I twied to'tink dat She was dood, An' sweot an' kind—~but oh, De tou bt would wlways tura 1ike dis— Tlove my mamma so! My nioa's pretty dood, you know, Bt dem. Do s 4 man. An' miuns tan't love us Hittle folks As much as mammas b An' do on'y fouzht dat [ tould fink About d folks I know Would always tum out Llove my muwius 80! less liko dis— DECEMBER 12, 1801 OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Tho dopreciation of land values in Eng- 1and 18 attrivuted by the surveyors, who are compelled in the practice of their profession to make a careful study of tho subject, to its true causes, namoly, bad seasons, and, above all, cheap imports of food staplos advanced copy of an abstract compile the Board of Trade, tho distribution of Eng lish imports of breadstuffs for the yoar 1800 was exhibited o amount of g from Russia was, in cwts., in meal and flour, 10,585,240, From Rou- mania the imports of grain and meal had risen from 200,000 cwts, in 1856 to 4,663,000 in 1800, Irom Australasia there were imported last year 3,158,000 owts, of Rrain and meal as against 811,000 owts, in 1886, From British (ndia the amount of grain and meal recoi last year 4,111,000 cwts, From the United States tho United Kingdom bought 17,201,000 cwts. of grain, and of meal and flour, 3,000 cwts, Of course the failure of the Russian harvest bas for a time extinguished one of the Brit- ish farmer’s most formidable competitors; and although tho American crop has been good this year, exports of wheat from the United States can not long be maintained on tho present scale in face of the enormous growth of tho population. Thero is reason, therefor feve thateven for the British farmer thora is a relatively good time ing, thouzh it is doubtful whether arablo lands in England can over recover the values of fourteen years ago. taken T'he occupation of Ieypt by England is anomalous and indefensible, if tho treaty of Berlin 1s to be considered ns still in force: and none of tho cosignatory powers have as yet ventured to describo it as abrogated. By that agreement the sultan’s right to rule Jgypt through the delegated authority of a Khedive was acknowledged, and the safe guarding and noutralization of the Suez Cunal were to be assured by concerted action. Lord Salisbury has never donied that the rights of Turkey and the intentions of the Berlin congress ave held in abeyance while a British avmy garrisons Egypt and British agents shape the administrative course of Tewfik Pasha. Ho has aly been careful to speak of tho existing regime in the Nile country as provis fonal, and to profess a purpose of withdrawing the British troops as soon as native means of maintainihg order can be organized. It is well understood, however, by holders of Kgyptian bonds and by the tory party that the Nile land will never develop a self-governing capacity to the satisfaction of Lord Salisbury. Whereas it is equally certain, since Mr. Gladstone's spoach at Neweastle, that the advent of the iborals to power would be followed by an immediato relegation of Egpyt to the status contemplated by the congress of Berlin. We may add that Mr. Gladstone, far from sharing the tory dislike and distrust of Russia, regards that power with sympathy aud even fricndship, and that he would much rather see the czar domivant in Bul garia than a Hapsburg master of Bosnia. It will be seen that not only is there an irre- concilaple difference Letween the policies of the Franco-Russian coalition on the one hand and of the triple alliar on tae other, but that the question which of the two will be carried out depends on tho result of the next general election 1n the United Kingdom. If Lord Salisbury is retained in oftice, England will practically become a coadjutor of the three central powers, while if the Gladstonians shall triumph, the weight of the English in- fluence in diplomucy will be thrown on the side of I'rance and Russia, because it will be exerted in the interest of existing treaties, M France galns littlo in population from im- migration and loses Jittle by the same means, its zains and losses from this source probably approximately balancing each other. Recent statistics seem to indicate th t guins noth- ing from natural increass, but that tho ex- cess of the death rate over tho birth rate is steadily dimimishing the population. The figures for the years 1550 and 1500 show that tho number of marriages has fallen off 1 i there having been 3,602 fewer in 1 than in 1850, Divorces increased in number in tho former year over the latter, for in 159 tho ratio had grown to seven in_every 10,000 of tho population, or & total of 5,457 The figures of the births and deaths in the two years show that there wora 830, 1839 births for and 835,050 in 1800, @& decrease Itis noticeable that the annual birth rate has not fallen so low before since 1870-71, and the 1890 rate was but a little larger than that of the war period. The number of deaths 1n 1890 was 81,000 more than in 1839, an increase supposed to be due largely to the grippe. The net loss in popula- tion from natural causes alone would thus be 143,000 in one year. The average number of chuildren per family in France is now three, which is much smaller than that in the United States, which is about five. The pro- portion of adults to children boing 8o large, it follows that the high death rato of France 18 10 be oxpoctoed, and that this process of the wasting away of hor population will have serious consequences in the nesr future The formation of a Iuropean zollverein under Gormaa influence is now a settled fact, and the political triplo allianco Is roully strengthened by a commercial droibund This is the application to Kurope of tho reciprocity policy. alvoady established bo tween somo of the American ropublics and the United tes. It will be noticed, in deed, by the international tarift figures laid before the Beriin reichst that thoy all indicate a reduction in duties, which is the natural object of any zollverein, or customs house union. This leads, of course, to & more or less intricate political union, &nd Germany has suc ceeded in goaxing Belgium into that mercial corfpact, to which it is said that Switzerlant will soon b also o party Franve will thus fiud herself commercially isolated in Sarope, whoso nations she has estrangod by the ultra-protectionist policy adopted by the chambers, despite the ontreat ies of tho government and the warnings of moderate protectionist writors. Spain, being more independent politically than [taly, will not enter the new IKuropean zollverein formed under the loadership of Germany, but she is preparing her frontiers against French products, in retanation for the excessive and really probibitive duties adopted in [rance against the importation of Spanish wines to closo 5 i HARRISON'S THIRD ANNUAL Denvor News (dem,): The messago as a pt_in discussing the Michigan businesslike in tone and clear enough to be understood, Minuneapolis Tribune (rep.): The will repay caroful perusal, as it is abiest, clearest and most intor 10ssaro 2 of the ting state papers ever issued from the white house. As Chicago News (ind.) straightfor- ward business document, hed in digni tied and terso language, President H messago is one of the most satisfactol comprehensive of recont years, Denver Sun (rep.): It is a plain, straight- forward busiross document. It presents in terse, lucia phrase the condition of our na tional And that is the appropriate presidential messa Timos (dem.): His words up thus: *“The country ed upon huving a statesman at . Keep me hore and no harm can bo- fall you. Michigan threatens mo and should be robuked.” Chicago Mail (dem.): As a wholo the mes- sage shows a cloar comprehension of the m- portant questions before congress and the government for settloment. While it con- taius no evidences of unusual statesmanship, it is a document of avorage ability, lucidity and force. Chicago Iutor Ocaan (ind.): Presidont Harrison’s annual messago conforms adiira- oly to the genoral puvposo of such a docu ment. 1t is a resumo of the year, from the standpoint of the United States government, in all its departments and leading bureaus, vegimning with foreign affairs. Cincinnati Commercial (rep.): The prosi dent’s message 1S long, but1t is a readubl document. 1t will refresh the mind, by a most careful and intelligent discussion, on topics of great pubiic importance which, in the rush of recorded events, may have been almost forgotten. Tho prosident has ad- mirablo skill in graceful and lucid exvres sion, and through this has invested a formal official paper with a pleasant charm. iKansas City Star (ind-dom.): Modeled upon the old lines, from which Prosident Cleveland atone had the courage to depart, the document is necessarily diffuse, and >3 mostly to routine affairs; as asainst t is well written, though not striking v of its utteraaces, and offers pensation that any one who reads it all will save himself the trouble of reflox. Chicago Post (dem.): President Marrison’s message is more deserving of perusal than such documents usually are. Tho fiscal year has not been lacking in events ot gonuine i terost, and Mr. Harrison has veviewed them in clear, idiomatic language. Tho president is not encumbered, .as_G. C. might say, with superabundant rhetorical impo liments. His diction does not sag under cumbersome “in- nocuous desuetudisms.” The wayfaring man understands what the president savs, even though he may not agree with him St. Paul Pioneor Press (rep.): Tho dis- tinguishing charactoristic of the messuie of President Harrison 1s 1ts_intense practical- ivy. Itis a business man’s document: such a statoment as the hoad of au enormous com mercial concern might propare for its board of directors, but on & scale commensurato with the mighty and manifold interests i volved. 'There is nothing of the seusational or the dramatic about it; its earnestness is that of a man of sincera patriotism, charged with tho mightiest responsivility placed, any- wherein the civilized world, upon the brain and the conscience of a single individual. ———— Will Sue for Millions. New Yorx, Dec. 11.—The heirs of Thomas Donyan, governor of the colony of New York 1 1600, are preparing to bring & sensational suit to test the title to millions of dollars worth of real estate located In this city aud now in the possession of some of the wealth- jost and most influential mon i the city. The property invo!ves many lots in the lower part of the city between Whitehall street and tho reading the | department veports, of which it is largely a | city hall, and the majority of lots touon Broadway, making thom the most valuable pleces of raal estate fn the city, e - POPE LEO'S HEALTH AND PLANS, Ho is Able to Walk About o Not Leave ito F New Yonrk, Dee, 11.—The Right Rev. Mk, O'Bryan, one of tho popo's chamberlains, and who was seat by his holiness to settlo an ecclosiastioal dispate In Canada and to rep resont the popo at the golden jubilee of Arch bishop Kenrick in St. Louis, is stopping n [n answer to a quostion regarding the 's health, he id The pope's health win is very good. He is ablo to walk about, out the doctors do not allow him to do S0 ns they are afraid he might overtux himself. He'ls often carriod when he miught walk, There is nothing th matter with him, but 7ou know when u ul.\g gots to be over S0 yeurs old he must take goos care of himself. Ho will never leave Itome. He nover had any Intention doing 80 When he protests against bigns living thero, the peoplo jump to the conclu sion that the popo 18 koing to leave. The pope has nevor entertained the idea for an mstant. King Humbert is tho one who must go. When Humbert goos thon the strained reln tions which havo existed botwscn the vati- can and the govornment for twenty years can readily bo arrangod by diplomacy. = But it nover will be until Humbert g 1 do not know who will be nominated for cardinal at the coming consistory. | do not think another A rican will be raised to that honor just now. of two sov WANIED A FREE PASSAGE, Alleged Neb aska Mail Robber Re- 1in London. Loxnoy, R. C. Palmer, tho self- styled American who gavo himself up to tho policorecently, charging himself with steal ing somo mail bags at Clark, Neb., and who was remanded at the Bow stroet police court Decowbor 1 to await the action of the United States legation, has been released from cus tody, the representatives of the United States failing_to press for his extradition. The Scotland Yard authorities a grumbling ov subjected b, ¢ tho unnecessary work to which thov are what may be called bogus crooks from " / a—fellows who accusa themselves of haviog committed crimes in the United States and surcender thomselves to the potice in the nopo of buing extradited for imaginary offonses, thus getting a fr passage to their uative land, where they are awaro that they can speedily secuve their liberty. As to PPalmor, there is somo aoubt evou as to bis hailing from America, ——— NIING IS MONEY, DIED WHILE €0t An Old Man Discovered Dead with Wealth Scattered About. West Sveerion, Wis,, Dec. 11.—Thomas Koehr, an old man, did not appear as usual yesterday and a neighbor broke into his resi- donce. Koehr was found strotched dead on the bed. A little pile of gold lay beside him, a bundle of bills was on the tabie, and a qis- cellaneous assortment of government bapt mortgages and other securities wero sean tered on the stoop. Wealth to the amount ot 000 was strawn about tha room. An investigation suowed thut the old man had ovidently been engaged in counting his wealth when stricken by heart disease. He was a bachelor and lived aione, DYNAMLT v HIS PIPE. Attempted Practical Joke Which Re- sulted Serions'y toa Laborer. Bostoy, Mass., Dec, 11.—Dynamite, which was probably used by au indiscroet practical joker, caused the 10ss of & part of the hand by Angelo Marino, an Italian, aged 32, last o ing. Marino is employed 'in_the 'Metropoli- tan Sewer company, and while lying on- his bunk he lighted bis pipe, which suddenty ex- ploded, taking off tno euds of three of his finwers and n thumb, and makiag a holo 1n tho thivd finger of the left haud. As thereare 10 marks of powder on the hands, it is sup posea that dynamite was the causo of the ox- plosion and that it was placed in tho pipe by somebody Who did not roulize What intght ro- sult. CRANKS SC. “RNOR HILL, David Now ed About Him Day and Night. ALsaxy, N. Y., Dec. 1L.—The epidemic of crankism which has set in lately has awakened the fears of Governor Hill, or at least of his friends. The governor heroto. fove hus been 1 the habitof proceeding ta the executive mansion from Lhe capitol at all hours of the night and through lonely streets unattended. Now, however, three d tives shadow bim 'constantly in his goings and comings, and a watchman stands guard throughout the night in the grounds at tha executive maasion. CANNOT CONF B oklyn Juries Always Acqu cions of Wealthy Familics. £w Youk, Dec. Il--District Attorney Ridgeway of Kings couuty, is far from being satisfied with tho verdict of ‘*nou guity" rendered by the jury in the case of Darwin Meserole. Nover in the bistory of K he said yesterday, ‘‘has a man’s son been convicted of homicide. This was a cold- blooded murder and the lawyer for the do- fense was afraid to put Mesorolo upon tna stand. You may putme down as sayirg that a Rrooklyn jury cannot be found to convict a gs county,” rich man’s son,” per ct. difference. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Strongest, Purest, Most Economical. Certain baking powder makers are publishing falsified extracts from the Government reports, with pretended analyses and certificates, wherein an attempt made to compare their baking powders with the “Royal,"gor making bogus tests from house to house, their obvious purpose being to counteract the recent exposures of the inferiority of their own goods aris ng from their impurity, low strength, and lack of keeping qualities as shown by the Government chemists and others. As to whether any of these baking powders are equal to the “Royal,” the official tests clearly deter- mine. purchased from the grocers, and analyzed by the United States Government Chemists and the Ch and City Boards of Health, the reports revealed the fact that the “Royal” contained from 28 per cent. to 6o per cent. more leavenir tartar baking powder, and also that it was more perfectly made, of purer ingredients, and altogether wholesome. As these powders - of the Royal Baking besides the advantage bread, biscuit, and cake made perfectly light, swe tages not to be had in the use of the low-grade, cheaply made baking of as When samples of various baking powders were nists of State g strength than any other cream of are sold to consumers at the same price, by the use Powder there is an average saving of over one third, ders that contain lime, alum, and other impurities, ured purity and wholesomeness of food, and of , and palatable—advan- NOWs