Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1892, Page 4

i'l'l!l,l\l!l D EVERY MORNING OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dafly Pee (without Eunday) One Year Diai]y and Sunday, One Year. Fix M onths . Three Montha fundny Bee, One Yenr, Enturduy Beo, Ong Yoar Weekly Bee, One Year. OFFIC Omaha, The Bee Buildin Bouth O corner N and 206th Stroets Council Bluffs, 12 Pearl Streot Chicaco Ofice, 37 ¢ ham ber of Commares, New York.Roon &17, 14 and 15 Tribune Building Waushington, CORRESPONDENCE s relating to nowe and 1d e Al _com editorial Faitorinl Departm addressed tc the BUSINESS LETTERS A1l Vusiness letters and remittances shonld 1eaddressed 1o The Bee Publishing Company, On Drafts. ks and postoffice orders 10 be mude piyable to the order of the cor vany. 11¢ Bee Putlishing Company. Preprictor CIRCULATION SWORN STATEMENT OF Etate of Nebroska, ) County of Douglas, (%% Georgo 1. Tzachuck, socretary of Tho Beo solu Publishing company, doos that the nctual eireilntic for the week ending May lows: Sunday. 1 nday. May 2 Tuesday, M v Weodnesdny, May 4 Thursday. May 5 Fridny, My 6000 Buturday, May 7 Average.... . Sworn 1o 1 N. 1% FEIL, Notary Public ige Cirenlation for March, 24,0 _— Wittt space enough in the ci far il the oflices now in existence or 1o be croated for the noxt fifty years, it is sheer nonsense to talk about the new building becoming inadequate. Frei rural delivery is a coming post- office reform and it is coming so fast that within five yenrs it will bo a fixed featurs of our postal system if a repub- lican administration succeeds President Havrison, ON WEDNESDAY the democratic st convention of Town will meet in Counc Bluffs, and if Horace E. Boies has not neglected tooil the machne his presi- dential boom will begin whizzn on that oceasion with considerable vigor. PERIAPS somebody interested in de- feating the Nebraska Central proposi- tion has influence with the directors of the Omuha club and this may in part ex- plain the veason why the Fuke Factory has changed its mind re that enterprise. Tie Omaha freight burc isa fixed au fact and when a commissioner has been appointed who understands his business thoroughly we may expect jobbars and other shippers to be in a position to en- force their reasonable demauds upon the railroads. KANSAS Crrv being farther south by 200 miles leads Omaha in the summor pack of hogs thus far, but her lead will not last long. When the senson fairly opens Omaha will again give her down- river rival a torvific fright lest sho shall lose second pla TLLINOIS has 340 millionaires,the larg- est number of any stato in the union, California next with 162 and Connecti- cut third with seventy-nine. According to the New York Tribune not more than one-fourth of the miliionaires of the country have amassed their fortunes in protocted industries. THE joint committee of the Board of Trade, Real Estate Owners asscciation, county commissioners and city counpcil can porform a signal service for this city and county if they shall devise a better system of tax nssessments, Thoy deserve the encouragement of the com- munity generally and Tnr Brer has grear faith in the results of their delib- erations. PRRUAPS it 18 unkind to mention it, but in looking over the program for tho colebration of the Nebraska silver an- viversary at Lincoln, we noto the omis- sion of the name of the silver tongued van. Porhaps, however, this is intentional and consented to. The last attempt of Bryan to make headway for silver in Nebraska was alamentable ailure filled with personal chagrin. — Dr. PARKHURST of Now York, who has created o sensation by his sermons against the immorality and inofliciency of the metropolitan police force, has not yet weakened in his fight. In fact he suys he will keop it upaslong as ho li The police oflicers upon invosti- gation find he is of a long lived family oighty to eighty-four being the usual The length of life of his ancestors. prospect is not encouraging for an cossation of hostilitie MONROE county, New York, is repub- lican and has u population of 181,000, The IHill legislature in its apportion- ment gives Monroe threo assemblymen. Albany county is democratic and has 156,000 people. The same legislature by its apportionment bill gives this county four membors of the assembly, No wonder Senator Hill tells his friends Now York’s legislature will nereafter be safoly democratic. Fairness and decency are not known to tho New York gsvrymander, ———— Tnere is danger that judges will be overloaded not divectly in line with th, tions, They now name Park Commissioners. They gre expect- ed to try impeachment and other charges against city ofticials. 1t is now proposed further to ask the legislaty to give them aothority to appoint a city assessor, All these things will tend to mix up the judiciary with municipal politics, a thing which should certainly be avoided. Wae think 1t unwise to have the city ussessor, when the office is ereated, appointed by the judiciary. If appointed at all, the mayor and council aro the proper parties to make the se- lection, the district with dati v high posi the Board of THE OMAIIA 4 YEAR FOR BOSSES, It will bo the desiro of the masses of the republican party, not the wish of a few political bosses, that wiil control the wction of the Minneapolis convention. The paramount question with every de egate who earnestly desires republican next November will be who among the available lenders of the party do the great body of republican voters throughout the country want as the can- lidate, rather than who will be satis tory to a political boss in New York or Ponnsylvania, or & combination of such The ropublican party isnot this year in the control of these men, what r may have been the case in the past. It 15 not dependent for success upon the success bos: conciliation of disgruntied politicia whose dissatisfaction is due largely or wholly to the facc that they have not been permitted to use the public patron- age for their own interests. It is true of nearly every man who is opposing the renomination of President Harrison and plotting combinations against him that his hostility grows out of disappoint- ment in not being allowed to unduly control patronage or from the failure to iro such personal recognition as an cverweening ambition led him to ex- peet. This is the fact regarding Platt and Quay, the Colorado senators and somo others of less prominence in antag- onizing the president. The republican party is not dependent for success upon these malcontents be- cnuso it is able to go to the people with arecord of uble, clean and patriotic ad- ministration of public affairs unsur- passed in the history of the country and making a claim upon' the confidence of the people which cannot be denied. Tt is an administration of which every citi- zen can be proud, for it has met its groat responsibilitios with distinguished wisdom and courage, and while promot- | ing domestie welfare has elevated tho nation in the respect of the world. It has enlarged the commerce of the coun- try, has stood out firmly for the main- tenance of a sound financial tem and has pursued a policy regarding our in- national relations which given tor security to American interests o and American citizens abro: With such a record, in the making of which every [ minded man will con- cede that President Harrison deserves large shave of credit, the republican party ean go to the country with confi- dence and wage an aggressive campuign without the aid of men vho are ready to imperil the success of the party in order to 1 disappointment. It is in a position to appoal to the common sense and the common interests of the people, and against this the voice of the disgruntled, self-seeking politicians will have very little influence. The intelli- gont voters will not abandon able, con- ientious and faithful leaders at the call of men who have established no claim to popular confidence, but whose political career, on the contrary, has been chiefly distinguished for the abil- ity they have shown in intriguing for their porsonal g ndizement. 1t will not be seriously questioned that the very great majority of republican voters throvghout the country desire and expect the venomination of Presi- dent Harrison. This being confessedly the ease the plain and imperative duty of the Minneapolis convention will be to accede to the wish of the party, asun- mistakably manifested in the expressions of nearly every state and district con- vention, and there is cvery reason to be- lieve that this will be done. TIHE T RULE. There has been somo talk of an effort to be made in the national democratic convention te do away wita the rule re- quiring a two-thirds vote to nominate, which has provailed for many years. A moyement for this purpose would orig- inate, of course, with the supporters of Mr. Clevelund, and the indications are that they will have the strength in the convention to make it successful. It is not to be doubted that some of them contemplate making an effort to socure nge perse nros such a departure, but the move sagacious among them may conclude that it would be bad polities to reverse a long-established law of the party in order to assure a particular nomination. The attempt to do so would bring on a bitter fight the effect of which would be to create more disaffection in tho party and strengthoen opposition to the candi- date in whoso itterest the change would bo proposed, The two-thirds rule has been observed by democratic national conventions for sixty yours, having boen first adopted by the convention of 1832 as an out- growth of the political difference between Juckson and Culhoun, which resulted in the defeat of the latter and the nomination of Martin Van Buren for the second place on the presidential ticket of that year. Since that time numerous attacks have been made on the rule, tho most dotermined effort to overthrow it for the majority rule hav- ing been made in 1844, when the condi- tions were very similar to those which secm likely to obtain in the Chicago convention. A majority of the dele- gates to the convention of 1844 were instructed for Van Buren, but many of them voted ngainst changing the rule, and thereby doomed their candidate to defeat, Itis quite possible that many of the delegates who have been instructed for Cleveland would rather their candidate be defeated than that a time-honored law of the party should be abandoned. But another principle has prevailed since 1836 which practically assures the nomination of a eandilute who can com- mand a mijority of the votes of a con- vention. In that year tho competitors for the nomination were Buchanan and Douglas, and when the former raceived amajority of the votes Douglas advised his friends, on the und that the wishes of the majority should be re- spected, to give Buchanan the votes needed to nominate him, and thus the principle was established that a candi- dute who commands a cloar majority vote is entitled to receive the nomination. This, however, does not have the im- perative force and binding effect of the older rule, and it is hardly probablo it would have any influence with opposi- tion to Mr. Cloveland in the coming convention in the event that he should have a clear majority vote, as it now appears likely he will bave, The wore probable thing is that Cleveland will fare as Van Buren did in 1844, in the event of his friends making an attemnt to overthrow the two-thirds rule. If he goos into the convention with less than a majority his case will be hopeless. —_— UNJUSTIFIABLE DISCRIMINATION. The arbitrary course pursued by the Board of Public Works in connection with the selection of ing materials and the letting of paving contracts is indefensibl There is such a manifest unfairness in the award of contracts and the exclusion of materials which property ownors have designated in their petitions, that the inference is forced upon us that the chairman and a majority of the board are either actu- ated by personal spite or interested with preferred contractors in direct violation of the letter and epirit of the law. Under the charter property owners are given the privilege of designating the material with which streets abutting their property are to be paved. The board -may exclude such materials as have heen found wanting in durability, but it has no right to foist upon this city inferior for superior asphalt when prop: orty owners petition for and are willing to pay for the best, The board has no right to reject the lowest bids of responsible contractors for stone pavement or curbing which arve 1n accord with its own specifications with a manifest determination to vlay into the hands of a favored contractor. It has no excuse for delaying public wor by rejecting bids where there a tie between a favored contr and a proscribed contractor. duty under such circumstances expedite the work by awarding o each of these contractors an equal proportion of the curbing. On behalf of the taxpayers ThHe BEE appeals to the mayor and council to force the board to award contracts im- partially and give property owners the material they petition for. The Board of Public Works was noY created as a board of discrimination. Its duty 1s to expedite public works under proper safo- guards, not to retard them in the inter- est of favorites or for the purpose of punishing political or personal encimies. is AMPLE ROOM FOR THE BOARD, ‘When the city hall building was pro- jected and the location fi gat- eenth and Farnam o contract was en- tered into between the Board of Educa- tion and city council for joint occupancy. The estimated cost of the building con- structed on the Myers plan w 0,000, The board agreed to contribute one- eighth of this sum ($25,000) and the council agreed to reservo one-cighth of the floor space in the city hall building for the school board. The Myers plan contemplated a four- story building. The Beindorff plan which was substituted raised its height from four to six stories and, instead of 10,000, the building when comploted, will cost over $450,000. ward this outlay the school board has contributed 20,000, or less than five per cent. The board approved tho plans ns finnily adopted with reference to their apartments being divided into six rooms with 4,706 square feet of floor space, or about one-twelfth of the aggregate floor spaca in the building, ‘lusive of the basement, which is at the disposal of the board for the storage of supplies. The offices assigned to the Board o ducation are light and aivy and large. The mectings of that body are seldom held in daylight so that even if they were dark it would not have been a ma- terial defect. Two years hence when the new library building is completed the Board of Education can occupy the ontire fifth floor if such spacious quar- ters are needed. In view of these facts it is very strange indeed thatany officer or member of the board should suggest that the rooms assigned to the board are not ade- quate to the purpose, or that in a few years they will be altogether too small, There must be some ulterior motive in a movement looking to the refusal of the board to accept the spacious quar- ters which have been set apart for its use in the city hall building. The scheme for demanding a refund of the amount paid in to the city hall fund is pot in the public interest. The city hall is amply large to accommodata the city offices for the next twenty-five years at least, and will have room to spare even at the end of that period. The proposi- tion to decline the rooms in the city hall is absurd. The board should proceed immediatoly to advertise for bids for furniture, giving home manufacturers the preference, price and quality equal, and if the council will deduct the amount to be expended for furnishing the new Board of Education quarters from the 85,000 still due from the school district, under its contract, further con- troversy should be dropped. THE statement that the approach of the presidential campaign attracts much attention in France, would doubtless ap- ply to all European countri It is oasy to understand that there is pro- found interest throughout Iurope, and particularly in England, as to the prob- able effect of the presidential election on international commerce, The mer- chants and manufacturers of those countries fully appreciate the fact that democratic success next November would be of the greatest value to their interests, and thoy would welcome such a result with all the enthusiasm which the prospect of an increased commund of the American market would warrant. Republican success, on the other hand, would mean the continued growth of homo industrics and the consequent steady reduction of the demand for for- oign mado articles, It need hardly be said, therefore, that Europenn interest in the presidential campaign is not friendly to the republican cause and that whatever influence muy be exerted upon the campaign from that source will not be in behalf of that cause. Prance, says the dispatch, wants o modification of the McKinley law, and so does all of FEurope. The American people will naturally ask themselves whether it is probabls they could ad vance their own interests and welfare by | consulting, by favoring, the desire of foreign countrios 1n this particular, e l OMAUA must raise what money is nec- DATLY B DAY, essary for tho ‘dntertainment of tho people’s fanal convention. —_———— The Dembemmtic Catspaw, o emoerat. St. John positivel§ deciines to be a can- didate for presidert ths yearon the prohi bition ticket; bu the democrats can securo his sorvices at thausual price all the samo. - - - soking for a Job, Philagelphia Ledaer -Senator Iugalls, who recently an- nounced in a conciffatory way that ho was at tho service of his pagty, is to return 1o po litical life at the headof the Kansas delega- tion to the Minneapolis convention. Later on he will, no donbt,be a candidate for his old seat in the senate, A State m— Tightening the Tiger's Grip. Chicago Tribune. Governor Flower of Now York is still signing the bills which Tammany is laying before him. One of theso s & measuro cro - ating & board of commissioners of record of New York City. It will cost that city §500,- 000 & year. Auother bill iucreases the num- ber of aldermen, which will give ,000 a year per head to a lot of bummers who couldn’t earn 8500 a year in any respectablo business, These bills simply croato new places for Tammany beelers and tax the peo- plo that much more, —— New Namo for the Big Dollar, St Pawl Pioncer Press. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat figures out that the pieco of silver mentioned 1in the bibla as the kind of coin in which Judaw' treachory was pmid was about 063 cents. Judas therefore received & sum about equal to twenty ropublican or thirty democratic aollars. Thero is considerable sigrificance in the Qiscovery that Judas’ piece of silver was of the same intrinsic value as _tho dollar which the free coinage democrats propose to give the American nation. The Judas dollar 18 a good name for it. The Fair ox in Wyoming Politics, New York Sun. The Wyoming republicans have elected six delegates and as many aiternates to the pres- identiul convention of their party. Two of the alternates are women, and both of them will appear avtho Minneapolis convention, ready to serve as delegates. If thoy are re- quired to servo as such, they will of course bo admitted to tne convention, and their ad- mission will be an interesting incident in the history of American politics. Both of the women aro iufluential politicians in Wyo- ming, and both of them are said to ve forc ble speakers on the stump, energetic worke! av the polls, and skilful operators of the party machine. R -y The Californin Platform, San Franciseo Chronicle., The declaration of principles adopted by the republican state convention is an ablo in- strument, full of meaning, abreast of tne spiritof the times, and calculated to put California squarely into line with the great national republican party. There is but one paragraph in it which has any uncertmn sound, and that is the one relating to the coinage of silver, which is only another ex- pression of tho desire of the party here, as elsowhere, to keep tho question of free coin- age out of the campaign and confine the issue to protection. The endorsement of Presiaent Harrison’s administration is full, free und unqualified. ————— Restataiica to Tammany, Harper's Weekly. The exporience of this winter has demon- strated more clearty than ever, 1if it were possible, that the only chance for honesty in any branch of administration in the city lies in the union of all good' citizons against Tam- many hall. If democrats and republicans do not gisregard party wholly in their ection for municipal administration Tammany will remain supreme. The great advantage of the new City club is that 1t prevents the waste of all the enerey and time and money which are put into tho impromptu cfforts to deal with Tammany hall. Even n the event of defeat, all these resources will not be scattered, but will remain for renewed ef- fort. A still greater advantage will be the weakefting of party idolatry, which must necessarily follow the cordial co-operation of men of different parties to promote honest non-partisan public administration. Just in the degree thut the spirit from which the club springs extends, 8 wholesome political independence will be stimulated. e THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT. Denver Nows: The Chinese quostion as related to free government in America is not to be settled frons the standpoint of Chris- tian theology. It is a problem for states- manship of & nonpartisan type. Boston Advertiser: Itis to be regrotted that the senate conferrees were so unwise as to accept the amendment to the existing ex- clusion law, which was already strict encugh, and itis not yet certain that the action of congress will result in no injury 10 American interests in China. New York Advertiser: Not only Motnodists in Omaha, but the Bapti Atlanta, are after the presideut for the Chinese oxclusion bill. This is s If the Methodists ana Baptist combine in this matter we do not betieve the Presbyter- ian president will be in it. New York Recorder: It of course, a narsh measure, but we have been forced to adoptit. We must protect our own civiliza- tion, our own labor. = The Chinese can never becomo welded into the American systom. Amalgamation is impossivle. They are an industrious, a patient and a gentlo raco, with a great history behind them, and, we trust, with o great future in tba foreground, but still Amorica and Chica are for tho present better apart. Washington Star: The president agroes with congress that the Chineso must not come unrestricted and cannot stay if they do come. The people and the government here are in perfect accord. Tho specula- tions as to what the Chinese government will do. following the promulgation of the new law, will not affect the main question of Amoricun polity. ‘The nation has no quarrel with China or the Chinese. Execcute this act rigidly sud proteot the country from an objectionable immigration. — T COMMENT ON THE CONFERENCE, tho Washington Star: The twenty-first gen- eral conference of tke Methodist church in session at Omaha gignalized its opening by assigning soparateseats, after some opposi- tion, to the laity, 'he lay element is be- coming more und more an important factor in that church. St, Louis Globe-Democrat: The test of merit in such a case is the value of the re- sults achieved, Methodism has boon tried under all couditioms, and in every mstance it bas proved to be reljable and beneticial. We ave not obliged to®idorse all of its doctrinal precepts and tendencies, but we are bound to acknowledge that it is a force of suporior gor aud an agenoy of vast practical ad- vantage to the worldy, New York Sun; . Finally, the bishops urge and long for thé wnion of tho separated branches of the demiodist family, with its total membership of alnost 5,000,000, They ought to come together. Divisions which are geographical aad 1n raco only ought not to continye. The chumpions of the samo faith ougtit to rally under the same colors, and it would be an immense blessing if the union could extend so far as to include Protestunts and Catholios in one great army cousolidaled for the war awainst the devil Chicago Advance: There is undoubtedly a tendency toward democracy in the Method ist churchi, such as these recomwendations (admission of women as delezates and abol- ivion of prosiaing clders) indicate. The laity is growing restive uuder the monarchisl rule of the bishops; the settiug aside of pas tors of their choice by presiding elders and the practical nullity of their tnfluence in the couference on wccouvt of the numerical superiority of the clorgy, AL prosent tho 2,500,000 communicants of the Methodist hurch are represented in this confercnce by 50 ministors and 150 lav delegates. Prof. owusend’s dewocratio seatiments yolee the 1892. MAY 10, opinton of a large lny element. Methodists may bo a litle unceriain as to just where thuy now are, but thera can be little doubt &8 10 whither they aro tending. - THE READIN More Details of This Great Deal-Discontont Among the Wyoming Valley Miners, Trextoy, N, J., May 8. —Although General Stockton is preparing to take legal action against the New Jorsoy railroads interosted in the Roading deal, he is doing so under the advice of Governor Abbott, who intends to have the courts declare the leases wvalid on the ground that it is an evasion of the law of 1885, which prohibits the leaso oi any state corporation to any foralgn nonresident own- ers. The attornoy general is at work on the injunction, which will be filed in the court of chancery in a fow days. The law of New Jersey prohibits the loas- ing of its corporations to a forelgn corpora- tion, and the Central to got in a deal, which, it was said, was really planned several yours ago, hud itsolf leased to the Por* Reading a compuny controlled by the magnates of the Reading and Lackawanna, and yot was so insigniticant that it lias never made any re- turas for taxation to the State Board of As sessors, as by law il railroad corporations aro bound to'do. Now Governor Abbott has instructed Attorney General Stockton to file & oill in the court of chance! etting up the lease of the Central to the Port Reading and charging that the lease is an evasion and fraud on the law forbidding loasing to tor- eign corporations or nonresident ownors and praving for an order decrceing tho loase to be invalid and directing its cauvelation. Labor Leaders It WiLkesnanue, Pa, May 9.—Murmurings of discontent among the miuers of the Wyoming valley, since the consummation of the Reading deal, are increasing, and an or- rauized effort is being made by them to re- sist it, John Shadrack, oue of the most prominent labor leaders in the north anthracite regio suid today that thore was & spivit of unrest among the workmen, “They have waitod patiently,” ke continued, ‘“for some boua flde action by the state government looking to the enforcemont of tho constitution against the combine, but huve becomo dis- gusted at the evidentinsincerity of thosein a vosition to bring the combine to terms. Now they propose to take tho matter into their own hands. The men claim that in order to pay the guarantee given by the Readiug ono of two things’ must be done; the price of conl must be advanced 40 cents a ton or the wages of the maners reduced !, to 1 percent. ‘They cannot see how it 1s possivle to advance thecoal in the market, aud thus concludo that the ouly other alternative left is a reduction of their wages to a_starvation point. They want no less than forty delegations of miners from the coal regions to waitupon me in order that the business men who are dej dent upon the mines for their prospe might be induced to stand by the working- men in their fight against the combine, Itis tho universal opinion that tho policy of ro- tronchment already inaugurated “by the Reading will bear heavily upon the miners and for the sake of their homes and their little ones the men are dotermined that tho constitution #hail be obeyed or scrious trouble will follow B Quarry Lockout fhreatened. QuiNcy, Mass,, May 0.—The manufactur- ers’ association has decided to return to the quarrymen’s union at the old bill of prices, accompanied with a positive refusal to grant any wcreaso. This formality is undorstood 0 be simply a prelude to a formal lockout next Saturday by the manufacturers, when 2,500 granite workers in Quiney and 50,000 in New England will take an irforced vacation, —_— MAY MERRIMENT. tless, Dallas News: The youne lady without an engagement ring has nothing” on hand to speuk of, Washinztos win- nings by grain_sp most populur cereal s ure among our Men of the highest re- imes stand in front of a 1 doliberately wink at a €oda fountain violation of the Constitution: Undertaker (to dying hat shall we place on your tomb- Sditor (feebly)—We are hiere to stay. stone! tloon has Al report s, y for O'tem= Philadelphia Ledger: A liquor been opened in Boston, alocal jou “gorgeously fitted up and exclus ladies.” And for Beston ladies, too. pora, O mores, O Beans polis Journal: “Now, you will admit n is tho lutellectual superior of woman nerally speaking, T might. But some- how, when the case I8 narrowed down to ono "l'“l“! and one woman, she usually gets ahead of him.” THEY'LL FERL IT NEXT FALL. Washington Star. 01d King Coal Was a merry old soul, And he thought ia jolly stroke To raise more “dist” By a nice neat trust; But tho public can’t sco the joke. Now YorkSun: OCaller—Is Mr. Jones i Mun—Sure'n’ O dunno. Come in here out uv th' dar-rk an’ it me see {f yoz have rod whiskers. 1f yer an’ yer name fs Blith- ers, the boss aln't in. I huven'tany cash with *but if you will Washington m nid the young man. tako my siznature for a loun. “Excuso me,” said the old timer, “but pokcr is something that can’t be played by note." Philnde who takes a wife Klin's maxims, hut are he might ot a a Pro; was one of F sometimes it he took more Dotter wife. Good News: Teachor—Give n s which shull include the words “moasures, nov mon." Bright Pupil—A dressmaker moasures not men. Binghamton Republican: The swallow Is n bird of easy flizht, That 15 why a man 18 flighty when he has taken several swall Siftings: A collector of curiosities wants to got tho original brush with which the signs of tho times were painted. New Orleans Pleayune: A discussion chureh canons brings out all the big guns. —_——— ON OF SHOWERS. on THE James Whitcomb Riley, Barefooted boys soud up the stroot Or skurry under sheltering shoea And sehool girl fuces palo and Gleam from the shuwls about th Doors | or volo : and rus hubove Tt all | roverberutes. And then abrupt, the rain, the rain!.... The earth des gasping: and the oyos Behind the streaming window- Smile at the troublo of the The hizhway smokes, sharp echoes ring; Tho cattle bawl and cow-bells clanks And into town conies galloning The farmer's horse with stoaminz flank. Thoswallow dips benoath the eaves, And flirts his plumes und folds his' winzs; And under the catawba leaves The caterpiller curls and clings. Tha bumblebee Is pelted dow The wet stem of the holly) And sullenly in spattered brown Tho exicket low > gurden walk, Within, the baby clups Lis hunds And crows with raplure surange and vague; Withont. beneath tho rose bush stands A dripplng rooster on one log. r heads, y Bitos it In the family are more often the result of disordeved digestionthan most peop'e know. BEECHAM’S Pl LLs will heep peace in Jamily, by curing Nick Headache, Weak Stomuch, Impatred Digestion, Dlsordered Ll'oln Conatipat al X Bl s Disorders 0 Covered with & Tasteless & Soluble Coating, Of all druzgiats. Price 2% conts i box. Naw York Depot, 363 Cannl i, Intreee. Ve HORRIBLE CHINESE TORTURES Accomplices of Mason in His Rebellion Given Inquisitional Treatment EX-PRIME MINISTER CRISPI STAYS OUT Rupture of Forelgn Commercial Treaty Negotintions—Now Party in Buenos Ayres—Survivors of the Wrecked Vise [ 1. SAx Fraxcisco, Cal, May 0, hai newspapers which arrived by the Oriont vesterday, contain full accounts of the atroc 10us torture of the Chineso suspected ot bo ing accomplicos of Mason in his foolish re bellion against the government. The poor wrotches who were accused have declared that they were simply hired by Mason and knew nothing of his plan. An Euglish roporter got into the prison and saw one of the tortured men. His legs wero par- alyzed from torture, o said he had boen hung up by the thumbs, flogged and had been burned under his nose, but had rofused 10 confess, because ho was innocent. Then Yu had his head fastoned to bis knoes by a chain. A bamboo was suspended from his 1ron collar, the stick being stretehod across under his knees. His hands were chained behind him, Tho jailors then piaced him with his naked kanes kueeling upon chains, Aftor a long time they puta bamboo across the calves of bis iogs, npon which two at- tendunts sat il tho vietim fainted with agony. Althoagh it had boon soveral weeks sinco this torturo his legs still bore tho marks and were without lifo or motion. Tho flesh below the knee cap is still ray and inflamod. The legs of auother man wero brokon. Six attendants jumped upon the bamboo until the benes wers crushed. Two other men who had just beon removed from the torture chamber could not be seen. The foroign von- suls at Shanghai have appoaled to their gov- ernmonts to suppress this hideous cruelty. Thoe Shang- PR IMIER CANOVAS' STATEMENT. Imports and Exports Steadily and Hoavily Deelinlng, Loxvoy, May 9.—The News correspondent, e e e e e e e e e mmn. NAVAL REVIEW TANGLE, Retirement of Admirals Gherardl Walker Snggested as a Solation. ew York, May 0. — A doal in connoction tho home squadron and the naval re. is being talked of, tho latest suggostion being the relief of both 1ar A tmiral Ghor. ardi and Acting Rear Aumiral Walker and concontration of all tho vessels of the N w vio two fleots into one squadron under the com mand of Roar Admiral r, who is at pros ent ohairman of tho light house board Privato advices rocontly issuod in Wash inglon, says the Horald's corcospoadeat, are to the offuct that Itwar Admiral will ask to be rolieved soo ftor coming north and Acting Itoar Admiral Walker has ofMciaily intimatod his dosiro to b rolieved his two years aro up this summor. Admiral Greor's succossion to the con of the joint forces would boa happy of tho wholo matter, as it would for Commodoro Walker's us board, & posis Ghorardi mand solution open the way signment to the light house tion tie much desires. As senior admiral of tho navy, miral Gherardi will naturally bo in of the forces during the naval review in 180, 80 that bis detachment to preparo for that evont will bo a compiiment 1o bim. The cruiser New York will be reaay for servi und wiil doubtless be tho flagship. Roar Ad- ommand Tho conl morchants of the northwost, con- tho tinucs rald, have succoeded v in ducing cy to ocdor the use of Anerican coal for vossels of the navy when- ever practicable so 1o do,and are now guarrel- ing awoog themselves for tho contracts, So many letters havo ty been roceived at the Nuvy aepartment from persous inter- ostod 10 coal mires in the northwost, claim- ing that his particular coal is tho best, that the dopartmont, to ostablish a good standard of Pagific const’ conl, has authorized the ap pointmont of a board of naval offizors to muko a thorough test of the steaming qual 1tios of the different bituminous coals of tho Pacific const. Horeafter, also, no special kind of bituminous coal will bo used by tho navy for making teial trips of cruisors, rRINCE ATTACKE or's Suceessor lego the Mother New Yok, May 8. Sinco RRov. man Abbott, the successor of Honry ard Beecher, avowed a disbelief iv oternal damna- tion there has not probably been such siguifi- gant utterances fnthe religions world as were covtaived in Dr. Abbott's sormon in Ply mouth church vesterday. 1o a od and Col- Dr. Ly- rig commenting upon the rupture of foreign | condemned Princoton semnnary nd its commercial treaty negotiations, says: | methods. He charged that tho spiritof tra- Premier Canovas, besides being bound to the | ditionalism shown in tho teachings of tho school is the brecacr of sctism ana aivision protectionists, has mado his agomonts with America and says they canuot_include Wost ludian colonies in auy Iuropean roaty of commer d he aoes not desire to concluce other treaties whilo ho rotains o lope of obtaming a I'rench couvention for nes. Tn the meantime imports and exports de- cline hoavily, The deereaso it no fo Mareh was £310,000, before A 100,000, The government ore c t on tho sudden departure of the 'rench ambassadors fol owing the rupture with England. i | | Wind St Jonss, N mile-a and Fire in St. B., May 9. Jotns. ded by a fifty- n-bour wind several houses and a Methodist church were burned yesterdaysbe- fore chocked by pulling down other build- ings near by. Nearly all the occupants burned out are poor people. It is estimated that eigkty families are homcless, night mattresses wore put in the Iipiscopal church and all were provided with food. The loss is varioasly estimated from §i5,000 to £100,000, and wsurance £30,000. Sur rs of the nt Landed. Loxpoy, May 9.—The Iberia has landed at Plymouth tho survivors of the crew of the British ship Viscount, which was wrecked at Stanley, Falkland islands, while on a voy ago from the islands to Liverpool. They w still suffering from the effcets of tho priva- tions to which they were subjected aftor the wreck. Distress Fund Report, —A report of the Balfo Iris LONDON, M Zetland Trish distress fund for 1501 shows that 5,041 pe vea £30,000 worth of meal; that chool children were provided with food and clothing and that the subscriptions amounted to £49,007. Azores Cabl uble, Lisnoy, May 0.—The Portuguese govern ment aunounces that it has decided to put the contract for the Azores cable to public tender, presumably as the only means of issue from the dilemma prosented by the conflicting English and French interests. Note, Loxbox, May 9.—The Standara’s Buenos Ayres correspondent sags: Roca is strongly advocating tho formation of a_new conserva- tive party as @ means to simplify tue politi- cal situation. The meoting of congress has boen postponed until May 13. Five Miners Killed, BrusseLs, May 9.—As thoe cago was being lowered into a mine near Gilty this morning the supporting cbain broke and the cage plunged to the bottom of the shaft. Five miners were 1nstantly killed, and several others injured. Only Four Perished, Loxnoy, May 9.—It has beon sottled that the four waiters burned 19 death in tho fire in Scot’s oyster bar last night were tho only | ones that perished. Thero were eleven others | iu the building, but all mauaged to escape. Largest Manufacturer of Recent Rar and 1 combination of wall paper 000. ve | the rumor but would divulge ning today army of food or clothing 10 th univer: the name (T =2 8JROWN x!NcE’ K INGBM\fl Clothing in the World On account We've put nearly 400 suits on the other of skepticism, De. Abbott also declured that the spirit of teaditionalism engeuders the spivit of hypoe risy becauso it drives men from the pulpit and from the church it they donot betieve,and that it is depriving the churen of some of its best and noblest men. Said Dr. Abboti: I ndict the spirit of traditionalism_vecause it 15 the mother of skopticism. — While it pretends to defend tho faith, 1t is destroying the faith, and it is de- stroying the faith becauso 1tis aemanding that mon shall believe, not the great truths of religion, but tho tr al addendn thi bavo gathered ubout the great truths of re- ligion, “raith is faith in God. not ina faith is faith in_ Christ, not in o Wi ster divine: fuith 1s faith in tho lifo that is rovealed in the bible, not in the teachings of the ninetoenth contury, nor the teachings of the sixteenth century about the biole.” cre Wall Paper Burrato, N. Y., N —George K. Birge, of M. P. 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