Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1893, Page 4

DAILY ROSEWATER, Editor, LY MORNING. BEE. PURLISHED EV TRRMS OF SUBSORIPTION. Daily Tieo (withont Sunday) One Year Datly and ix Months Three Months Sunday e, One Saturd Weekly Twe, ( OFFICES, i idine il Twanty-sixth streots Omaln, The T ating 10 news and edi- B e To the Editor torial matte: BUSINESS L inees Tettors And remittances showld be fice Publishing company, Om Al Y dors 10 be made | f the conpany ity for the summer can have thelr address by leaving an order payable 10 1F Parties lony T KK e e At business offer WIS TEE PURLISHING COMPANY. The Bee n Chicngo, Grand I Auditor Great N Gore hotel. Laland hot Files of Tne braska building and the Administ ing, Exposition grounds. 1 hotel, BEE canboe seen at the Ne- on bulld- SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. state of Nebraska, | ‘ounty of Douglas Qaorge . Trach ek, seorotary of Ti BR Pub- Mshing compi ily_swear that the Aetual eiren Bre for the woelk ending Octobe Bunday, October 8. Monday. October 6., Tuesday, October 10, Wedneaday, October 11. % Thursday. 3 Friday, Octo Saturday, Oc ribed In my of otober, 1403. Notary Public. "Ta1s s Manhattan day at the World's fair. HAS anyone heara any encouraging news rccently concerning that 5-cent bridge motor fare? usually pay their bills But Mr. L. 0. U. Bach- 0 leave his unpaid. « CANDIDAT before clection. elor prefc Wit Senator gaged in promoting republican victory in Towa, the campaign across the river gives promisa of veritable humming from now until November. THE fact that there is no possibility of ameading the senate rules which prevent majority legislation at present does not put those rules into any greater conformity with the constitu- tion. BLEEDING Kansas is no sooner on the road to recovery from one malady than it is overwhelmed by another. Woman suffrago supplants prohibition, but prom- ,ises no improvement. Kansas deserves the sympathy of all who have escaped her fate. NEW YORK people want Manhattan day to come next only to Chicago day in point of attendance at the Columbian exposition. So do the World’s fair directors. Every dollar taken in now counts as a contribution toward the stockholders’ aceount. SENATOR BUTLER thinks that the re- veal bill is merely paralyzed. Its friends have quite generally acknowl- edged that it has been irretrievably dead for some time. If its inanimate condition is due to paralysis only there may be faint hopes for its recovery. THE democratic administration will have been in control of the government one year in March next. By June, the end of the fiscal year, the treasury de- ficit will, according to Secretary Car- hsle’s estimate, be not less than $50,- 000,000. Some facts speak for them- selves. b of the hogns THE last r tate Banking Board at the bond investment companies puts at vest the false claim of some of the swindlers that they were legally incorporated and operating under the protection of the state laws. Such assertions are on a par with the other misleading statements of the bond swindlers, THE unsavory record which Ira C. Bachelor has accumulated in this city Quring a brief residence is a disgracd to the bar of this city, of which Bachelor is & member. After the disclogures made by THE BEE it is certainly in order for the grievance committee of the bar to move for Bachelor's disbarment. He is 8 fit subject for discipline. THE time is neur athand when the WNebraska building at the World's fair must be torn down and carted away. The exhibits contained therein, as well as these i Agricultural, Dairy and For- estry buildings, must be packed and shipped back to their owners. This will cost money, of course, but there is solace in the fact that the balance in the World's fair appropriation fund is sufli- clent to meet the purpose. Other states have not fared so well in this respect at loast. FATHER KNICKERBOCKER and Miss Chicago expeet to make each other's acquaintance at the World's fair today. If they find one another's society agreo- able they may conclude to unite their fortunes. They have been leaning toward one another for some time past. Miss Chicago has gotten as far Indiana, while old Knickerbocker is stretching far into Now Jersoy. It is expected that the union will take place at some intermediate pointconveniently situated to both. LET a poor man who is freezing steal & bianket or an overcoat to keep himself warm and he goes into tho iron cage of the county jail to be subjected with the most rigorous prison discipline, Let a bank president rob several hundred de- wpositors who have trusted him with their scanty savings and he can have the most sumptuous fare and may roam about the city and enjoy entertainments at public houses 8o long as he is willing to pay for them. This is exactly what has been done under Sheriff Bennett's sdministration, And yet we are told that it is wrong on the part of THE Bee to refer to such scandals because it would hurt other candidates. VAN ALEN CONFIRMED. 0'The confirmation of tire nomination of Mr. J. J. Van Alen to be ambassador to Ttaly moaus that the senate will not in- quire into the motives which have prompted the president to make any particular nomination to office. it moans that President Cleveland can se- oure the requisite majority in the sen- ate to buck him in puying off his politi- cal debts by means of appointments to positions of honor or profit. And, finally, it means that the senate does not propose to interfere with any of the prefevences of the president manifestod in h plomatic nominations, however obnoxious they may be to the people, or however unsavory th8y way avpear to his political supporters. Mr. Van Alen lias been confirmed be he is the president’s choice for the place and De- cause there is nothing to be said either for or against the new ambassador's per- sonal qualifications. The republicans, as a body, had no interest in his re- Jjection: the democrats, as a body, did not desire to cross the wishes of the Atso haps no high appointment in re- cent years has caused so great a storm of popular indignation and newspaper eriticism as was aroused by the ap- ntment of Mr. Van Alen. The Van Alen bargain has for weeks been paraded up and down the land to show to what depths the new democratic ad- ministration has fallen. The mugwumps have covered their faces in horror and have threatened, much to the delight of the machine politicians, to withdraw their homage from the former idol of their political dreams. All this tem- pest because the apostle of civil service reform, who constantly decried the use of money for campaign purposes during the late presidential contest, has dared to reward with an important foreign mission the man who, above all others, contributed to his own corrup- tion fund. Not that the president has been entirely without defenders in his recent action. A few volunteers have come to his rescue and have maintained that there is nothing " in it to demand disapprobation. Mr. Van Alen, they say, is not influential, and could not in- duce many personal friends to vote the democratic ticket. He i< not an orator and could not take the swump for his candidate. He is mot a political wire- puller and could not assist in tho man- agement of the campaign. He has money, however, and he gave liberally toward the corruption fund. What more could he do? How otherwise could he secure a claim' to a presidential ap- pointment? On the other side, it is argued that this conceded lack of ability, this want of more than average intelligence, this of oratorical powersand this de- moralizing superabundance of money, all tend to disqualify him from accept- ably fulfilling the office to which he has aspired. But the great fact that weighs against him is that he paid $50,000 to the democratic cumpaign fund and sub- sequenily applied for the position of ambassador to Italy on the strength of that contribution. He virtually bought his appointment and was appointed for no other reason. His confirmation stamps with the approval of the senate a bargain almost universally condemned by both people and press. It rewards with victory the stubbornness of Presi- dent Cleveland in refusing, at the call of his most intimate friends, to withhold or withdraw the nomination. It shows the people that they have nothing to expect from ths democratic party in the way of retorm in politienl methods. A NEGLECTED REFORM. ‘When the present administration came into power it was promised that the pol- icy of civil servico reform would he greatly advanced. It was said that Mr, Cleveland was peculiarly the represen- tative of that reform and that he could be depended upon to do evervthing within the power of his admir ation to advance and promote that principl It was not a particularly conspic issue in the campaign of last year, al- though the independent element, 80 called, which was allied with the _ democratic party, made a point of the proposition that if Mr. Cleveland should be elected he would do more to advance the cause of civil service reform than his prede- cessor had done. Perhaps this did not have a very great influence upon the voters generally, but there can be no doubt that it had some weight with a certain element particularly devoted to reform in the civil service. This ele- ment, while admitting, as it was com- pelled to do, that the MHarrison adminis- tration had done much to promote the cause of civil service reform, was still dissatisfied with the results, as it proba- bly always will be, and supported Mr, Cleveland in the hope that he would do bette! It is a familiar fact that this element has not been satisfied with the course of the administration thus far in regard to civil service reform and that it has criticised Mr. Cleveland quite as much, if not more, than it did his predecessor. The basis for this is in the fact that the president has shown little interest in the question of reform and has done absolutely nothing to promote it, A careful analysis of the ap- pointments made will show that almost no attention whatever. has been given to a recognition of the re- form principle, while the action of the president in practically turning over the whole matter of making appointments to his cabinet was, in effect, to ignore, 80 far as he was concerned, the whole principle of civil service reform. In taking that course Mr. Cloveland prac- tically said that the politicians of his party were to be given an opportunity to be heard without any regard to the vestrictions imposed by the civil service regulations, The authority to carry out the re- form regulations is in the handsof the chief executive, and when he in effect abdicates this power and says to tho heads of departments that the whole matter of appointments, save in excep- tional cases, shall rest with them, therce is small probability that civil service re- form will receive the attention that it deserves. That it has not been given such atten- tion there are abundant facts to attest. With the single exception of the secre- ous l THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY tary of state, who from the very begin- ning refused to have anything to do with the appointments in his department, evory cabinet officer is a spoilsman and has done what he could to carry out vhe spoils principle. The Treasury department furnishes a strik- ing example of this, Outside the abso- lutely restricted, classified service, which the Civil Service commission has to watch with the utmost vigilance, the scerotary of the treasury has left scarcely any ropublicans or those who may be suspected of having been repub- licans thirty years ago. The secretary of the interior hay followed very closely in the same tracks, and, in fact, all the devartments have shown that they have very little regard for the principle of civil ser- o reform. Mr, Cleveland has practi- 11y left the whole business of appoint- ments with his heads of departments, thereby unloading his resvonsibility for a proper observance of the reform pr ciple, but the country cannot bo deceived by this expedient and will hold the dem- ocratic party responsible fop a distinct betrayal of the prineiple of civil serviee reform, to the promotion of which the administration was unqualifiedly pledged by the national platform. . NOT BLGGING FOR QUARTER. The champion of Jeff Bedford has the temerity to intimate that THE Bir has made an apeal for quarter on behalf of Mayor Bemis «when it demanded that the campaign should be -fought on decent lines. Now THE BEE has never begged for quarter either for itself or any candidate it supports. Good wine needs no bush. Mayor Bemis does not have to be defended for the course he has pursued as chief executive of the ity, He has had the courage of his convictions at all times and bas never shirked a duty. He may have erred, as all men do some times, but his errors have not jeopardized the intevests of the taxpayers. Can anybody expect as much from Mr. Bedford? How did he act when he was in the council? How muych of his time did he devote to the duties devolving on a councilman? The official record shows that Bedford served two years and seven months in the city council. During that period 226 council ions were held. From May 10, 1887, to December 31, 1887, Mr. Bedford was present at forty sessions; absent, twenty-five sessions. In the year 1838 he was present forty-two sessions, absent thirty-seven. In the vear 1889 he attended forty-five sessions and was ahsent from thirty-seven ses- sions. Summary: Out of the 226 sessions held during his term as councilman Mr. Bedford was absent ninety-nine ses- sions, or very unearly one-half of the time for which he was drawing pay. With such a record as councilman what have we to expect of him as mayor? If he could not attend more than half the sessions of the council, which a held at night, would he devote from four to ten hours a day to the business of executive? But negligence is not the most vulner- able part of Mr. Bedford’s vecord as a councilman. ‘If anybody shall beg for quarter before this campaign closes it will not be Mr. Bemis ALTOGETHER TOO TE The other day the republican city cen- tral committee held a meeting wnich was reported 1in THE BEE as other politi- cai meetings are. Among the matters included in that report was a remark made by a member of the committee that Jeff Bedford had been disloyak during the war. This seems to have nettlea the fool friend adjacent to the ruin of the Farnam Street theater. Now what is there about this charge that is not substantially true? Mr. Bedford was reared among confederates and bushwhackers and his sympathies during and after the war were with the rehels and not with the defenders of the union. This was his record and reputa- tion when he landed in Nebraska. His nomination for mayor has rvevived the unpleasant reminiscences, just as it naturally revives every other incident connected with the career of acandidate who aspirves to become chief magistrate of a city like Omaha. Mr. Bedford’s en- listment in Colorado was not in defense of the union. Had it involved a fight with confederates instead ‘of a war against red skins he certainly.would not have enlisted. He had a chance to do that in Missouri, NDER. PROCEEDINGS AGAINSI THE TRUSTS, Press dispatches from Washington announce that the Department of Jus- tice is seviously intending to institute proceedings against some of the com- binations that are amenable to the anti- trust law. This would be welcome in- formation if it were possible to give it credenco. There wasa similar report some four or five months ago which proved to be without authority, al- though given out as being well- founded. The fact that the country is anxiously awaiting some action on the part of the government looking to the enforcement of the anti-trust law in- duces everybody to cordially receive the slightest intimation of an intention on the part of the authorities at Washing- ton to institute proceedings. Within two months after the present administration came into power, that action would be taken at the earliest possible time to thoroughly test the existing law for the suppres- sion of trusts and combinations to control trade and regulate prices, as described in the act. The presidenthad announced in his inaugural address that it was the duty of the government to exercise whatever powers belonged to it for the protection of the peple against the extortion and the oppression of aggregations of capital and business in- terests. His language in reference to this was of the most uneguivocal char- acter, and it was accepted by the people of the country as an assurance that the administration would give prompt and earnest attention to this very important matter. Within two months alter its advent to power it was given ous throngh channels entitled t0 confidenca that the Department of Justice was getting ready to act, and there was a universal feeling that at last the law which for nearly three OCTOBER 21, 1893, years had beén a dead letter was to be given vitality and force. This expectation was disappownted, for what reason the public has never been informed, andferhaps never will be. So far as known Mya single step has ever boen taken by #4 present administration with a view nforcing the anti-trust law. Not n st He effort has been made to redeem the implied promise of the president made in his inaugural address. No federal distfict attorney anywhere, 0 far as thej public is aware, has been instructed to m‘t‘u any action under the law. The statute remains up to this time adead let.er. In view of this no great confidence can be placed in the latest report that the Department of Justice is preparing to institute proceedings againsu the trusts, with a view to thor- oughly testing the law, and yet tho pop- ular hope will be that such is the case. The forces of monopoly are today stronger than ever before and there is a practi- cally universal domand that they be overthrown. Th »xist in defiance of law and in hostility’to the publie inter- ests and welfare, It is the duty of the government to protect the citizen against their exactions and there can be no ex- cuse for delaying the performance of this obligation DEBATE in the senate is furnishing repeated illustrations of the saying that makes a great difference whose foot is pinched. Senator Stewart the other day threatened to insist on having the gal- leries cleared because the occupants por- sisted in applauding the points scored by the advocates of unconditional repeal. Senator Stewart would never think for an instant of having the galleries elearcd in case the audience were magnanimous enough toaccord him some of its plaudits. Whenever hie gots up to speak the force of his wide reputation as a wind- beg serves to almost clear the gal- leries without aid from the ser- geant-at-arms. If the senato would only adopt a rule by which the officers of that body could be summoned to prevent the people from leaving the gallorios during the progressof a speech, it may confidently be asserted that Sen- ator Stewart would be the first and most constant applicant for the enforcement of the rule. He would probably also become a chronic objector in case any of his political opponents wanted the rule applied. It is a poor rule that won't work both ways. THE following card has kindly been sent to the editor of THE BEE by the ff of Douglas county: Vote for GEO. A. BENNETT, « Republican Nomines Fou suEntvr. Now we wanddi like very much to comply with Mr. Bennett's request. Wo should like to votd for him and be glad to ask others to vote for him if we knew him to be competent and believed him to be honest and fafghful in the discharge of his official duffes. But the proofs to the contrury afe ovapwhelming. WHEN the World’s fair closes its doors by a week from next Tuesday wo will reach the point where the drain of money out of Omaha and Nebraska can be computed. The most moderate esti- mate runs into the millions. And what is there in the shape of benefits to off- set this? Pleasant recollections and interesting individual experiences. But then we have the Nebraska building. i1 1S in accord with the eternal fitness of things for tho republicans who helped to elect Cushing to now work for the defeat ot Bemis. They are re- formers with a big R, Strange Things Wo See. Chica_o Post. Common sense, like politics, makes strange beafellows. Bub we doubt if anybody ever dreamed of secing David B. Hill and John Sherman- lying peacefully under the same coverhd, -— Let the Call Be Made. New York World, If Vice President Stevenson will call Sen- ator Hill to the chair some aay when there quorum of earnest vepealers present the ordian knot of red tape whieh binds tho senate Lo inaction can be cut neatly and quickly. A Conter Shot, Minneapolis, Times. The municipal campiign in Omaha is warming up. Tue Bee informs a candidate or the council that he is a “chronic bilk and professional cheat” and the republicuns of Omaha will never vote for him, Now, that's somethiug like the politics of our forefathers, e Airatd of 1ts shudow. New York Herald. It is a curious coincidence that the demo- ic parvy occupies upon its return to very much the same critical position > the country as it occupied when it went out with James Buchanan. It is con- fronted by an issue vital to the nation und 1o its own existence. nd it is prepared to meet it in the same way it met the issue of 1860, 1t is split into three factions, cach at war with the other two, Just us iv was when jtcame out of the Charleston vonvention and continued to be until national calamity followed 1ts indecision and bickering, As o gunorivy it hus proyen itself strong, alert, urcetul, compative; us & majority it is n weal, vacillating, disunited.” It is afraid of its own shadow. —————— ho Campaign in Oblo, Philadelphia Press, ‘The republicans in Ohio are conducting the most euthusiastic cawpaign known to them for years. 1t 1s evident from the re- ports from that state that votes will be given tno repuyli ticket this year by muny who were diceivea into votiug for a chunge last November. They have scen cuough of the change to want as little of it as possibie, and xightly conclude that the best wuy 1o call a halt is to throw up the largest possible vepublican wmajority. I'ne estimates of the majority in Ohio range all the way from 20,000 to 50,000, but the latter isa figure which s probably entirely too much to expect. {hat the people are deter- mined to change uhe change buck is certain, however, ‘I'hey began that job in Indianap: olis lust week, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. 1o spfte of disclaimers and denials, Europe believes that Erance and Russia aro allies for peace or war, and that in that alliance is danger for all the powoers. They recognize that mow that France feels no longer alone, ita people may forco the government to some overt act of offonse toward Germany which will put that natioa at once in the attitude of war, The czar is no friend to Germany, although he was porsuaded into the position of passive ally in 1866 and 1870. He has never shown any of Fmperor William's cousinly enthusiasm for a closer relationship | between them, ana has tef: the latter's visit unreturned. Germany has always sided with England, and Austria is oppusing the extension of the Russian empire to the south and east. Gorman influence has been ndinst Russian encronchmients in the | and has stood in the way of Russian designs on Turkey These facts should be considered in connection with. the wriff war now pending botween these countries, and the strong anti-German feeling which it has aroused fn Russin. Germany was the chief foroign consumer of Russian ccroals until the duty of 50 per cent upon them prac tically shut them out of her territe The land owners feol this loss of a market, ana are correspondingly bitter against the gov- ernment which has closed it to them. 1t may be that Russia is convinced that the combined foréds against het are 100 power tul to be withstood alone, or at least power. ful enough to prevent her carrging out her projects in the east alone, and so seeks the only ally possible in Krance, This is the view taken by those who are surest that theso Toulon festivities have a deop politi- cal siguificancd, and the possibility that this is the correct view to take is what keeps ull the powers, including England, on the alert, N The simple truth is that political reasons of the strongest kind are compellinge Russia to combine with nce. livents proved that the czar has nothing to hope for from the Berlin government, and that the Houenzollerns are as aeaf to the claims of gratitude as were tho Hapsburgs. Nicholas lived to deplore his interposivion in Hun- gary; and Alexander 11 had equal cause to regret that his attitude n 1566 and 1870 made possible the two final steps in Prus- sian aggrandizement. When he sought the compensation which he had fairly earned, and had pushed his armies within sight of Constantinople, he was summoned to a congress at Berlin, where he was de- spoiled of almost everything wrested from the Turk at San Stefano. From that day to this the Prussians have conmved at the Austrian intrigues n Bucharest and Sofia to thwart the r's attempts to as- sert his legitimate influence 1 the Balkan peninsula. It has become clear as daylight that the Romanoffs have nothing to expect frora Prussia but a flint-like opposition to the extension of the northern empi Russia cannot afford to remain some ally she must have in the face of tho unfriendly loague of the three central powers. The only possible ally is France, ana for that reason the czar overlooks the fact that the French are republicans, and remembers only that they possess one of the most powerful armies in the world. e The causes of the recent religious riots in India continue to be hotly discussed in the native press, The congress Organs express indignation at the attempts which have been made to fix the responsibility on their party. The Hindu papers, witha few ex- ceptions, maintain that the Cow-Protection league had nothing do with the move- ment, and assert with Thoro or less vehe- mence that the blame lies with the govern- ment, with the Mohammedans or with the youth and inexperience of the magistrates in the disturbed districts. Some more vio- lent journals openly declare that the Furo- pean officials instigated the disturbances with a view to gain credit for putting them down, or for the purpose of bringing the agitation for the larger employment of natives into di One Cal- cutta paper published in English warns the government that if it persists in suspecting the Gaurakshini Sabha 1t will lead the na- tives to belicve that it does so because the English are a beef-eating people. Sir Charles Crosthwaite's speeches and minutes have drawn down a torrent of abuse upon his head, but some few Hindu journals take the view, which is almost universal among the Europeans gnd Mohammedans, that he may be right 1 tracing a direct connection be- tween the Gaurakshini Sabha and the riots in Bengal. The government has selected Mr. Le Mesurier of the civil service for special duty in Behar, to inquire mto the histor and ramificutions of the cow-protection move- ment, and into the differgnces that exist be- tween the Hindus and Mohammedans, * #e most iuteresting features in the coming elections for the Prussian Diet is rrel betweea the two wings of the , who do not seem to be much in- clined to make peace by mutual concessious. The correspondent of the London Times in Berlin says: “Herr Richter is muking o te fight to maintain his former pos tion as tyrant of the radicals, but the effort i .y palpable and will scarcely be of long ion. He is still the able and unscru- pulous representative of a purely destructive and negative policy, but he is very much mistaken if he believes that he can keep to- gether the shattered remnants of the radi- cal party withour developing & positive program. The first step to this end must be the renewal of the union between the two wings. Both actions are doomed if this cannot bo ur- cod; and, though Herr Richter's po- ability and insighv must have con- 4 him of this long ugo, he still pe severes in his attempt to ruin German liberalism, Apart from the mlitary ques- tion the differences of opinion between the two groups arc not so wide thut they cannot be bridged over. This would, it is true, necessitate Herr Richter taking a lower Place, and that, after 8o many years of un- disputed despotism, he is ot nclined to do. His influence is still fur too great to allow of an open mutiny, but the statistics of the elections will probably show tnat he has tried to make his last fault good by commit- ting a second.” One of the . o Mr. H. H. Fowler, president of the local government board, in & t speech, gave some interesting figures in regard to local self-government, local indebtedness, and local resources in gland. In 1518, when the population was below 12,000,000, and when he country was very much Jess rich than it is now, it spent some £7,750,000 on poor retief. Now, with a population just under 80,000,000, and vastly increased resources, it spends only £5,500,000 sterling on the poor. In Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE 1883, the poor rate, pure and was 8 shillings 4l pence; 1 shilling 1 pence. The present total local debt is £200,000,000. Of this, £31,000,000 represent and docks, ,000,000 wate sup 15,000,000 light ing, £5,000.000, markets, €1.000,000 tram- w All these aro productive items. n, £19,000,000 stands for schools, £20,- 000,000 for sewerage, £7,000,000, for hos- pitals, asylums and cemeteries, £6,000,000 for libraries,parks and baths, £5,000,000 for artisans' dwellings and £20,000,000 for public improvements. The local and national debt togethor are less than the national debt after Waterloo. The loeal dssets have groatly increased. In 1818 tho ratablo value of the country was £40,000,000. It is now £152,000,000. Such figures as these, Al Fowler doeclared, proved that the Jocal EOVOInMIent was & success, Hangary is one of "the last of European countries 1o roquire a clvil marriage in all nuptial contraots, a ligatory in Frand 7 in Spain,* In Hun the Roman chu bas been able to prevent hitherto any suct legislation and the clergy has refused to re port marriages to the civil authoritics and maintained an intolerant attitude toward mixed marriages. Tn tho papal declaration on the subject the Roman See cited the law on marriage i this country ns o model, 8o farus the liberty of the church was con- cerned, and urged like practice in Hungar, but the determination to m: subordinate to the state in these matte resistivle in Kurope. Hero we lot ench R0 its own gait and each is freo i its own sohere, simple, now it is harhors um, and oven ke the church Gt T The Overhead Wire Evil, Philadelpnia Times, Tt is evident vhat it may beco 3 for tho lexislatures of the states to inter- vene by the passage of laws requiring the erection of guards above all trolley wires whether in city or country unless in the de- velopement of the electric railway u substi- tute is spoedily found for the overhead s tem. There s no doubt that all heavi cnarged electric light cables should go under ground, for iv has been demonstrated times without number that the insulation of these cables is not to be relied upon. “Another guif hor- o beheld the sena- s month, Lowell Courier: to make very cutting ron they cond, d to doat s were wont 5 1o felons whom by the guillot Elmira Gazetto: Jagson says the man who declares that ho will forgive but can nover forget hus nover trled to mail bis wite's lot- ters, Buffalo Courier: The unskilifal printer finds little consolation in the fact that his ef- forts always receive the most murked atten- tion at the hands of the proof reader. Philadelphia Times: Whatever happens, the siiver senators will no doubt Insist the key to the sitaation s a miner key. Kate Field's Waushingto —A pebplo alien to oul halt-civilized, turbulent and unruly! How could it ever be assimilated as a part of the unfon?" _“Oh, well, you know, we might annex it to Kansi Annex Hawali! Philadelphia Record: Joax—I had a dis- cussion with Coldwaters last night and got the best of him. Hoax—How was that? Woll, you know, he's a prohibitionist hen Ibet him he could drink 20 glasses of beer he took water. ndidate for ed that the Jinks—Yes, he Is un- 1of promise. There is tever about that, 1, that's all right, of course, but T oung man of fulfillment best. doubt 10 quies Jenk: ke a Detroit Tribune: hat Is the iden in call ing a consultation of physictans?’ “Oh, that's when the doctor who originally took the case gun't think of any miore” excuses o give the amily.” Washington Star: “After all, there is n creat : tisfaction in being in'love with a lit- 1" he suid, reflectively. en if she has to_decline_you, she is ys polite about it. She never forgets to udd “with thanks.' Buffalo Courfer: “Was there any one to biame for Downer's hanging himself?* #Nop; clear case of his own will and u cord." - CHOLY DAYS. Washington Star. The autumn song has come again, The song we heard of yore; 1t thrills with pain, that wild refrain; *Dud blame it! Shut the door!" ME Phitadelphitc Reeord. October's winds ore growing With st But uutu D old, 15 of rain and sleet, 's chill is lost in shrill aunds for “Birown the whewt!" Chicago Inter Ocecan. It 1s not the cloudy weather, Or tho winds thut ehill us through, That mu but, the old query, 15 this cool enough for you?” Kansas ¢l Jowrnal. Hore's sy, Whose lu Whose un And whose overcont’s in sonk. n broke, THE GREAT FRENCH CAPTAIN, Chicago Herald: He diad as he lived, an honest. upright soldier And gentieman. Dotriot Free Press: He was a great man oven in this century of great men and the works that won his world.wide fame secured t0 him the lasting love of his country Chicago Record sturdy, seif-rliant figure, full of the confidence of his Irish lineage, combined with the elan of tha EFrench soldier, he will live in history as ono | of the gonuine of France. Cleveland Loade Ho was a living monument of the best in the France of the past, and today tho wiser of his countrymen will mourn as sincorely as the Bourbons the loss which his country and theirs has sustained. Kansas Cit MacMahon other of the adornod_t eurth, 1t 1 that Irish- men were en Lin the first pitched battle fought under heaven Chicago Tribune : not successful, but as o { himselt able, skillful, ana_gallant, and ha vill be remember Y France with ion and gratitade for his brilliant storming of tie Xoff fu the Crimean v, for which ho received the decoration of gion of Honor. New York Tribune as & soldier combined { the ol4 and now schools. He had the Na- poleonic genius in_ sudden en i had also n d_the war, and had left the im) mind upon the reorginization of the French army and the frontier defenses go Inter Ocean: ‘There ater soldiers und preater statesien, but in both capacities he deserves high rank and fu the application of the ideal milit spirit to political conduct ho desorves to bo held in tho very hizhest esteem by the coun- he served 50 truly and the peoplo to se welfaro ho gave his every energy and purpose. New York He: whom France lo Star: moves Tristi arm, The death of Marshal from the long list an- names - which have ry nation on he proved Marshal MacMahon the beat qualities of have been With the soldier erday morning disap- ures of modern Mahon's s ficld, ho at one erit ench history rendered he It was as president of at his unselfish honesty shono out with a purer and brighter ilght tha any time during his long and glortous mili- reer. 1o Joxpress: Tf thero had never been a Von Moltie, shal MacMabon might have become the greatest soldicr of moderr Europe. 1f MacMahon Lnd been by astrong. energetic, capable KoV as Von Moltke was, and if he had been given sotdiers equally well equipped, ho might even have buen able to contest Von Moltke's claim to supremacy. By coss is the chief title to fame. ,Von Moltke wMacdahon failed. And tho gener place m history must bo in the sccondury rank of com- manders. county moment i s - The Kuven(er), Boston Adve tise Onco upon & miduight dreary as T po dered wealk and weary, in a_state of sleey stupor on_the quict senate floor; white T nodded, slumber secking, suddenly thero came a squeaking as of some one alw: speuking, speaking on the senate floor. is only Cockrell.” thought I, “speaking on the senate floor—only that and nothing mor “Cockrell,” said I, quite emphatic, “popu- list” or democratic, whether fate or somo worse evil sent thee to this senate floor, cannot you but once be quiet from this eve lasting dict, from this weary, winton viot of just talk.and talk so poor? Is theve. is there any respite?” Teil me, tell me, I im- plore!” Quoth the Cockrell, “Nevermore." “But the times are dull and dreary, all the land is tived and weary ana depression rules in every factory, mill ana retail stove. Whilo you stund there fug, taliiog, danger through the laud is i Censo this y, endless balking. Take a vote at haif- past four. Letus vote at least by Christ- mas, if we cannot vote before.” Quoth the Cockrell, ¢ more ! So the still is firing colnmas of the direst speeches over mortal hourd before, and his eyes ha: all the seemine of a demon's that is dream- ing, and the light upon him streaming shows an empty senate floor. Sull he talks and talks, although he knows he is an awful bore. Wil he stop? Ab, n A LONG STRING of diseases follows a “ run-down” system when the liver is nuctive and the blood in disorder. Look out for **breakers abiead " Iy putting tho liver and'blood in'a healthy only t—Condition. You've . turn to the right remedy to make ourself seciiro from disease. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery prevents as well as cures. 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