Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 11, 1893, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ) /ATER, Baitor. — = — PURLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Datly Bee (withont Sunday) One Year. Dally and Sunday, One Year ix Months hree Months Bunday Beo gat Week OFFICES, Omaha, The Ree Bullding. Somth G, cormer N and Teventy-stxth streets Council Blufts, 12 Pearl street. 3 Chiengo OMee. § New York Washingtoy DENCE. Iating 10 news and edi sed: o the Editor njentions ter should be RUSINESS LETT A remittances should be i company, Omaha. wed 10 T 8 10 be mads nddre Drafts, che payabie 16 the order of the company. Partien leat i (he eity for the summer ean have TR TRE sent to el r addross by leaving an order at business office THE (98 PUBLISHING COMPANY, SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraskn, 4 i ‘County of Donglas George 1. Tzachuck, secretary of THE BER Pub- 1iwhing company. docs solemnly. awear that the aetunl eirenlation of TiE DALY BER for the week ending November 4, 1593, wis as follows Bunday, October Grono B. T 3 ore me and subserived {n my of November. 1803, 11 Notary Publie. e —— e Average Circulution for October, 24,815, m————— e S10UX FALLS is the place for Mosher. Nebraska can spare him. Take him hence. GOVERNOR BO1ES has decided nov to use the gubernatorial chair of lowa as a stepping stone toa seat in the United States senato—at least not for several years to come. REPORTS are beginning to come in from various quarters of the restoration of salaries that were cut down during the late monetary stringency. Let the good work go on. WHAT Omaha needs is a mammoth union depot, centrally located and bear- ing a monstor gold-lettered sign read- ing: ‘“Any Railroad in the United States May Enter Here.” T7 18 safe to assume that the next time a canal proposition is submitted to the people of this city it will be hedged about by sateguards that will stand the test of popular approval. The canal project is all right when we know that it means a canal. THE fact has been developed during a pending trial that every bailiff of the district court has been presented with a street railway pass. What claim these bailiffs have on the company outside of their supposed influence over witnesses and jurors has not yet come to light. THE bone of contention among the board of lady managers of the World’s fair now promises to be transferred to the halls of congress aud there fought « wout. The management of the lady man- agers has been chiefly concerned with the distribution of the appropriation that was placed at their command. SINCE the election of Judge Harrison all the oil room lobbyists, professional boodlers and corporation heelers are drawing a breath of great relief. Every mother's son of them may be expected to become candidates for the legislature or for a state oftice. This is but the first natural result of the glorious victory of railroadism over republicanism. THE proposition to contest the validity of the election of Irving F. Baxter will not find many supporters. The district court has already passed upon the point atissue when it decided that the designa- tion “nonpartisan” alter Baxter’s name on the official ballots was legal. Baxter's plurality is iarge and decisive. Judge Eller may as well put a check upon the ardor of his fool friends. IN PRINTING the list of disgruntled patriots who want to start a new repub- lican daily the Omaha F.-F. includes the name of Dr. Mercer. Now whatever foolishness D¢, Mercer may have been inveigled into by spurious friends and scheming enemies Dr. Mercer is the very last man who could be induced to pour money into a newspaper rat-hole. THE Ilinois Central railway is looking for an inlet to Omaha. The new inter- state bridge is about ready to treat with eastern roads that may have an envious oye upon the traflic of Omaha. The in- estimable advantage of such an alliance has been many times set forth. It is somewhat strange that the Commercial club has not taken up this matter, Ex- isting railroads should not be permitted to control the club on this issue, which promises so much for the future of this oity. Low water mark in the cash balance of the treasury at the present tim® is due beyond a doubt to the delay in the passage of the repeal bill. If tho treas- ury had been spared two months silver purchases it would have been just so much better off. Delay simply per- mitted the drain upon the treasury to continue, while had the compromise proposing to postpone repeal until next year been adopted it would only have made the loss of revenue more marked. It is quite bad enough as it is. THERE is rcarcely ever any comment on politics in Omaha and Douglas county in the rural Nebraska press that is not distorted for partisan purposes or from perscnal animosity. A Kear ney paper, for instance, tells us that Judge Harrison's plurality in Omaha was 4,420, and nearly 8,000 more than the plurality of Bemis, republican candidatefor mayor. The fact is that the 4,420 majority for Harrison eoyers Douglas county, includ- ing South Omaha, Bennington, Millard, Florence, Fast Omaha, Waterloo, Val- ley and the county precincts. Bemis was voted for in Omaha alone. Harrison has no plurality over Irvine, the demo- eratic candidate, while the plurality for Bemis is computed as against Belford, the democratic candidate. Bomis had nearly 6,000 plurality over Mercor, if that is suy criterion, but the gabble of the average ghost dancer in tho country papers reminds one of tho dog burking &t the moou. WRECKED POLITICAL HOPES. The politioal hopes of & number of mon more or less conspicuous in the pub- lic attention were wrecked in the elec- tions of last Tuesday. Of these Gov- ernor Boies of lowa is porhaps the most prominent example. When the demo- cratic national convention met last year he was 1n the list of presidential possi- bilities, and not at the foot of the list, either. He had been twice elected gov- ernor of his state, thoreby acquiring a national prestige. If notregarded as an oxcoptionally strong man, he yet had made a crcditable record, In compari- son with other democratic leaders in the northwest he stood well, and those democrats who believed that the time had come to take a candi- date from the section west of the Mis- slssippi regarded Boies with a greatdeal of favor. In the national convention he received 103 votes, a highly compli- mentary support for a man who only a fow years before had been a republican. Had Governor Boies been a wiser poli- tician than he has showa himself to be he would have been content to rest his political hopes upon the two state vie- tories he had won, but he was induced by his over-zealous friends to believe himself invincible, and with the sena- torial bee buzzing in his hat he al- lowed himself to be persuaded to run for a third term. The prestige he had acquired was swept away in a day, and it is entirely safe to predict that Governor Boies will have reached the end of his political career when he re- tires from office in January. Mr. Lawrence T. Neal of Ohio is an- other whose political ambition has been utterly wrecked. When Neal succoeded in having his resolution declaring pro- tection to be unconstitutional incor- porated in the democratic national plat- form, as a substitute for the moderate plank reported by the committee on resolutions and with the approval of Mr. Cleveland, he felt that the tide of his political fortune was in the flood, and when in the presidential election the people appeared to endorse this doctrine, although it had beeu re- pudiatod by the leader of the party, Mr. Neal felt sure that the day of his political preferment was not far off. From that time he began laying his plans and they were successful in secur- ing him the nomination for governor of Ohio. He went into the campaign pro- claiming himself still the uncompro- mising advocate of the doctrine enunc ated in the national platform of his party and he came out the worst beaten man in the history of Ohio. excep’ the apologist and champion of secession and rebellion, Clement C. Vallan- digham. Mr. Neal may as well aban- don his political hopes, for it is hardly possible he will ever again bs heard of for any clective office of importance. Governor Flower has greatly dam- aged, if ho has not altogether ruined, his chances of further political prefer- ment. He has cherished an ambition to be president, but he must see in the just rendered verdict of the people of New York against the political machine of which he is a part that he will not be able even to succeed him- self as governor of that state, to say nothing of attaining the presidency of the United States. Having made him- solf tho tool and puppet of David B. Hill and Tammany and used his gcreat office in furtherance of their corrupt and lawless methods he shares with them the popular condomnution. His wealth may again win him aseat in con- gress, but Roswell P. Flower may as well give up hope of political prefor- ment becyond this. The result in New York turned down David B. Hill as a presidential possibility, and he, also, will doubtless end his political career with his retirement from the United States senate. These are the more prominent poli- ticians whose political hopes were wrecked in the landslide of last Tues- day. Of the many others who met de- feat some will doubtless recover from it, because less known or not fairly to be held responsible for the party disaster. It was a notable blow to political ambi- tions that was struck last Tuesday. TVE BRAZILIAN BU -INESS, A London dispatch of yesterday states that the Brazilian insurgent leader, Mello, is seeking recognition asa bel- ligerent from European governments, on the ground that the danger to life and property would thereby he de- creased. The report also says that the foreign representatives consider the ap- plication premature. 1t hus beon stated in recent Washington dispatches that the Brazilian situation was causing dis- quietude *in official oircles, the belief being that the insurgent forces ave re- ceiving assistance from ab-oad. It is said to have been even thought probabie that the movement of which he is the leader originated in Europe, being prompted and organized by some power which seeks to bring about the restor tion of the empire, The dispatech’ from London would seem to dispose of this idea, and yot it is 50 vague that it is questionable whether much importance can bs attached to it There are undoubtedly some valid reasons why certain of the Kairopean powers would like to see the republican system of government in Brazil over thrown. 5) far as they give any atten- tion w the watter the kings and princes of the old world doubtless d» not re- gard with complacency, and certainly not with apuroval, the growth of the re- publican idea and they might reason- ably be expected to improve any favor- able opportunity that should present itself to check its spread. But no single uropean power, it is altogother safe to assume, would undertake open politi- cal interterence with any independent government in this hemisphere and it would be impossible, under existing con- ditions, to effect un alliance of European governments for this purposo. Great Britain, Germany and France have very extensive interests in Brazil which they desive ta protect, but snybody who has any knowledge of thoe ' re- lations botween these counuries must sce that they could not combine for the purprse of overthrowing the republican government in Brazil and restoring the old system. Yet nothing less formidable than such an alliance would render at all possible the suceess of au attempt lu this direction. An ' undertaking of this kind by European powers would compel the United States 1o go to the assistance of the Brazilian government and there can be no doubt that this country could call to 1ts aid Mexico and almost every other inde- pendent country in the Americas. A European interference of this kind would unquestionably arouse the re- sentment and resistance of the entire westorn hemisphere. It is not to be doubted that the states- men of Rurope perfectly understand this, whether or not the kings and princes do, and they know, moreover, that the result of such a conflict would be the loss to Furopean powers of every vestigo of territory they possess in this hemisphore. Krom this point of view there is no substantial reason for appre- hending any action on the part of any Furopean government or any alliance of European governments looking to the overthrow of the republic in Brazil and the re-establishment of the empire. 1tis possible that the insurgents may have received some foreign encouragement, but they profess not to be hostile to the republican system and are simply war- ring against a policy which thoy claim to be essontially unrepublican. This Brazilian trouble may ultimately in- volve the United States inan interna- tional controversy, but the possibility of thisappears somewhat remote. A MAN WITH A DEFECTIVE John L. Webster last night w following message to THE | LaxcoLN, Now 9.—To the Editor of Tnre Bee: You charge me inan editorial with having said last Monday that I intended to vote for Mercer, and then saying I intended to vote for Bedford to defeat Bemis. I never made such statement, and never had such intention. 1Ivis against my political ethics to vote against the nominee of republican conventions. Please do me the justice to corvect the errorneous statement. JouN L. WEBSTER. THe BEE does not presume to say how Mr. Webster voted for mayor last Tue day, but simply asserts that Mr. John L. Webster in the presence of a re- sponsible business man of Omaha de- clared on the day before election that he had intended to vote for Dr. Mercer, bat belicving that his vote would be thrown away in so doing had decided to oast his vote for Mr. Bedford. If Mr. Webster insists upon it the gentle- man inavhose presence this statement was made will verify our assertion. Mr. Webster made a speech night before election at Exposition hall and never re- ferred to the candidaoy of Bemis once, but he will probably also deny that fact. John Webster’s memory is not very clear. He says he has no acquaintance with Mosher and never spoke to him. Did Mr. Webster ever have an ac® quaintance with Bill Stout? Did he ever know such a person as James Mon- roe Pattee, the legal enterprise lottery man? If not, General Cowin probably can refresh his defective memory. MEMORY. red the THE SCHUOL BUARD MUST REIRENCH. The Board of Education will have to grapple with some very difficult prob- lems this winter. The first thing that stares the board in the face is a very large deficiency in its income that could have been foreseen by anybody conver- sant with the situation. The principal income of the board is derived from licenses and police fines. With the de- pression of business there must neces- sarily follow a marked decrease in the revenuo from the liquor trafic. Two years ago the number of dealers averaged 275, this year there were less than 250, and next year the number will not exceed 200. That means a shrink- ago of 850,000 from this source alone. The income from police fines will also be smaller, while the amount received from the state apportionment will probably be slightly in excess of that received last year. Meantime school attendance has increased and with it the number of teachers. The erection of new school houses during the present year has also made a material increase in the cost of fuel and in the number of janitors The question now is how is the board to meet the problem of keeping down expenses within the limit of the income. For the first time in many yoars it be- gins to dawn upon the school bourd that its running expenses have been extrava- gantly high. No other city of Omaha's population and property value has in. dulged in 80 many high-priced fads and high-priced supernumeraries. We have been raising salaries constantly without increasing the income. We have in- vested in teachers of musie, high art and modern languages, which shopld really be paid for as accomplishments by peo- ple who can afford the luxury, We have ralsed the salary of the superin- tendent gradually from $2,400 a year to $4,000 a year, and made a corresponding inerease in the higher branches. In some instances the increase of salary was merited and well earned. In other cas the advance has been a matter of personal favoritism. This comes from the fact that the tail has been wagging the dog. The janitors and teachers have dominated the committees and were allowed to dictate their own pay und perquisites, Most of the teachers and janitors are efficient and not overpaid, but there is room for lopping off ex- penses wheve the saluries ave out of pro- portion to the service rendered, The first thing the board should do is to dispense with supernumeraries. There is no need of a superintendent of buildings in the winter. The necessary vepairs can be made by the foreman who has been doing the work for the last six weoks while the superintendent has been devoting his precious time to elec- tioneering. When Mr. Baxter takes his place as judge next month the oftice of Board of Education attorney should be abolished. The city attorney will doubtless give the board all the legal advice it needs and in an emergency a iawyer can bo employed for specific cases at a stated price. When the school buildings now under way sre comploted and settlement has been had with con- tractors the school hoard architect be dispensed with, Should the b decide to build additional school houses thoy can either he modeled after those already erected or an architect can be engzaged for a stated sum. If the present Board of Education does not use the pruning kaife the new baard must inaugurate the veform. We be- liove that good wages will secure good SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1893. sorvice, but-there is no excuse for throw- ing away mopgy on supernumeraries or paying oxteavagant salaries to favor- ites. In any e¥ent we must cut our gar- ment accordihjz to the cloth. IN CONNMOMON with the reported florts to profeet the interests of the federal govesnment so far as they are involved in thé Union Pacific receiver- ship, the Boston Advertiser says that ‘‘the public would feel more hopefulness if the attorney general were not so closely identified with vailway corporations and if he had hitherto shown mora vigor in enforcing the laws of the lamd against corporate and insolvent violators of federal law.” The railways soom to have no fear that the interests of the United States will be prosecuted very greatly to their disadvantage under the existing administration. PHILADELPHIA banks have declared their dividends for November without decroasing, with one exception, the usual rate of returns on banking capital a single iota. iled banks throughout the country cannot, of course, ‘declare dividends this quarter, but the banks that have pulled through the stringency do not seem to have had their earning eapacities impaired in the least. The banks manage to shift the losses occa- sioned by withdrawal of deposits over upon the borrowers in the shape of higher rates of interest and discount. Banking is still a profitable business. Two DAYS after the election Secre- tary Carlisle directs an ordar to bo given requiring all subordinate officials in the Treasury department to refrain from participation in the local politics of the place where they may be stationed for duty. The secretary has evidently taken pains vhat his order should come too late for operation dur- ing the present year and early enough to be forgotten before another election is at hand. The partisanship of federal officers is usually condoned, provided it is excrted in favor of the party of the administration, ndiating Catamity. Kansas City Jowrnal. Kansas is evidently tired of calamity dem- agogues and povulist gloom and has decided to come out and abide in the sualight here- after, pot i A Foeling itemark, Globe-Democrat. We feel on this occasion just about as the democrats felt a year ago when we were begeing them, for heaven's sake, notto carry Vermon ——————— His Misston Knded. Chicago Tribune. ‘Without some knowledge as to the size of Judge Maynard's campaign contribution year it is impossible to say whether there is any foreign mission or consulship open to him or not. i Cause for General Kejololng. Indignapolis Jou nal. There are two ' features of the election which even democrats ought to view with complacency—the ofeat of Judge Maynard of New York and the election of Judge Gary in Chicago. In both instances good government is triumphant, LS ——— The Prostrated Lion of Towa. Philadelphia Inquirer. The campaign which Governor Boies has conductod in Towa this year has not been free from personalities, but' no one in the country will refrain from joining in the hope that he may speedily récover from the seri- ous illness from which he 1s now suftering. ————— Hope Springs Eternal. Chicago Times, But just as certainly as that at the present moment the democratic party has suffered a check just as certainly will the reaction come and a .party ordimarily secure in the affections of the people will achieve tri- umphs when triumphs will be of the highest utility. Chicago Inter Ocoan. But it is a victory prelusive of yet greater wriumphs. Exercised by skirmishes in county and city elections, the great repub- lican army will go forth from conquering unto conquering until, in 1896, it will close a long campnign by floating its banners ove) the halls of congress and the presiaential mansion. —————— Colorado Getting Down to Work. Denver Republican. Colorado people have only to go to work with a will and unitedly in order to bring the prosperity of old in so faras it is practicable under the general conditions of business in the country. The time for mourning is ended. Let the past and its sorrows bo forgotten. Coloraao's face is turned toward the future, and with high courage and noble effort it will achieve the greatness which has been predicted. e A Clty of Great Feople. Philudelphia Rezrxd. Chicago’s Columbian museum project which was giver: such an impetus by Mar- shall [ield’s magnificent donation, is going ahead at a4 pace that leaves no room for doubt of a successful consummation. It is the fashion to speak of Chicago as a city peopled by foreigners, but there is some- thing aamirably American in the way in her hand to enterprises of piti ind moment” and pushes them along to success. e Uncer v ks the Way. Philadelphia Ledger. Business is reviving slowly, but surely. All the reports are encouraging. It is true that the season is 80 fur advanced that a great deal of the lost ground will not be re- covered, but this was inevitable when the senate settled down to interminable debate and ‘“courtesy.” Had cougress acted promptly on rresiaent Cleveland's recom- mendation of repesl the business revival would have manifested itself unmistakably two months ago. Now, If the democrats will Jet the people know without delay what chunges they propese iu the tariff, business men will know how Lo prepare for the new conditions, Uncertiinty as Lo the future would be more destructive of commercial in terests than moderate tariff reduction. CANPARGN ECHOES, Lincoln News: While the vote does uot indieate any populist gains itshows a falling off in republican votes. The meaning of this is not difficult to deciper—the spectre of rail- road domination which bas stood :behind Judge Harvison th¥olighout the campaigu wemay as well speak the truth—caused many republicans Lo stay at home. Plattsmouth Journal: I'ne Burlington railwiy has nothiug; to complain of bunds of its emplogg in this city. y only earn the monéy thoy get for whit they do. but they voted afmost, if notquit solidly, for the candidate fOF the supreme bench fuvored by the corpbration. The loyalty of these men to the company, both in politics and in labor, is not Lo be questioned. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, It is something for Kogiand to have the possibility of being unable to stop the czar from going through to the Mediterranean put beforo her so bluntly as has been done. Great Britain has stood as the guardian of tho porte so long that, as the London News sald the other day, she has come to regard herself as ““the earthly providence of every sparrow which falls to the ground in Con- stantinople.” Tt is something of a shock to bo menaced with summary removal from this position through this Franco-Russian coalition, and more of a shock to know that the probable successor to this guardianship is Russia. With a Russian naval station at Villefranche the Baltic fleot of that power will have a rendezvous and coaling station in tho Mediterrancan, and coula co-operate splendidly in any assault the Black sca floot mizht make on Constan- tinople. Turkey has practically no navy, and any naval opposition to such an assault must come from Ingland or the Triple Alliance, which must oppose Franco as well as Russin. Seemingly, this Franco- Russian understanding has in it serious pos sibilities for England. It at least avparent], compels a large increase in her naval force in the Mediterranean, or an abandonment of her traditional guaraianship of the porte. The prosent mnistry would probably as soon accept tiiis latter alternative asa war with France as one of eat Britain’s an- tagonists, It is quite likely, however, that the British val force in these waters will be strengthened, and that Parliament will set in motion the building of new ships to bring the navy up to tho desired eofficiency. The Times said not long ago that “the na- tion will never forgive the minister or minis- try thav leaves it weaker at soa than any possible combination of France amd any other power." ) Lord Salisbury's warning, utterod some years ago, to tho effect that Morocco was far more likely than the Balkans to be pro- ductive of complications calculated to bring about a Kuropean war, 1s apparently within measurable distance of its fulfillment, since the dispatch of a Spanish expeditionary force to North Africa has led not only to sharp remonstrances on the part of France, but likewise to a decision by the Paris gov- ernment to increase the military forces stationed along the western and southern frontiers of Algeria. The conflict between Spain and Moroceo is, in tho present in- stance, of a far more serious character than those which have taken place from time to time between the tio countries, since it as- sumed the form of a full-fledged attack by the Moors on the Spanish fortress of Meli; comprises the town of the ne name, built on a peninsula united to the Morocean shore by a rocky neck of land, almost opposite Gibraltar, and is, next to Ceuta, the most important of the footholds which Spain has retained on the northern coast of Africa. It has formed an integral part of the Spanish realm ever since 1498, when it was cavtured by the duke of Medina-Sidonia, and, in view of the loss of life sustained by both the garrison and the pooulation of the town during the recent attempt by the Moors to storm it, it is not astonishing that the Spanish government adopt measures to obtain reparation for the outrage in the form of cession of some terri- tory, which, however, 1s certain to lead w0 objections on the part of the other uropean powers interested in Morocco, and particularly on that of France. s It scoms that the empercr of Austria, who was loth to part with Count Taaffe, was forced to yield to the representations of Count Kalnoky, who became alarmed at the danger to the Triple Alliance resulting from the remodeling of the House of Deputies in conformity with Taaffe's bill. The exten- sion of the suffrage would have been certain to strengthen the Slavic and clegical ele- ments to such a degroe as to eive them a majority, immical to the alliauce with Ger- many and Italy. Although Taaffe was will- ing to drop his bill at the last moment, his utter isolation rendercd his retirement in- evitable. He is succeeacd by Prinze Windischgratz, who, although a feudalist, has shown himself a mau of char: ter and, though a large landed pro- prietor in Bohemia, has held out firmly against the patriotic ravings of the young Czechsg, to which so many members of the Bohemian aristocracy succumbed. From the coalition ministry which he has formed the Czechs derive no encouragement whatever, while the Poles, the German liberals, and the feudalists capture each two seats. Herr Plener, the aole leader of the Germans against the aggressions of the Czechs, finds himself, as minister of finance, in strange company, but he has long been in training for ministerial honors in the event of a lib- eral triumph, of which the present cabinet may be only the precursor. As for Windis- chgratz, he, like every premier nowadays, is glad to take an able flnancier where he finds him. Herr Plener, whose father heid the same portfolio thirty years ago, suc- ceeds Dr. Steinbach, who has won lasting laurels by his share in the monetary reform of Austria-Hungary. * » By Catholics throughout the world it will be recognizea as undeniable that, 1f the Vatican has ceased to be a fit place of de- posit for its art treasures, it can be no longer a safe place of sojourn for the pope, 1t may also be argued that only by the with- drawal of Leo XII from Rome at a time when King Humbort's government would not venture to forvoid 1t, could the hold- ing of the next conclave outside of Italy be assured. Italian newspapers, which are be- lieved to express official intentions, declare that, should the pope's death tske place in the wmidst of a European war, King Hum- bert's ministers would compel the conclave to be held in Italy by the simple process of prohibiting the Italian cardinals, who con- stitute a majority, from leaving the penin- sula. But if Leo XIII should decide to seek a place of refuge in some foreign country be- fore the outbreak of most of the Twalian cardinals would accompany bim, and the Italian government would lose all power of controlling the next conclave. There signs that Catholics all over the world are at last awakening to a fact, to which they have long been straugely blind, the fact, namely, that the fate of the Vaty can and perhaps that of the pope himself are bound up with the issue of the conflict in which the three central powers will be pitted against France and Russia, »u It bas been said in some of the Italian papers that the Sicibuns are meditating separation from the continent. This 1s un true. What they have claimed from the flust is a certain autonomy which Mazzini, the most absolute and rigid unitarian, ad- Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE l mitted to be necessary ina certaln dogree for the island. Siocily cannot be governed from Rome any more today than in the olden times, whon the great slave wars kept Rome at bay. The men who represent Sicily in the Italian Parliament are not the chosen of her people, with very few exceptions, but government candidates, who succeed by government corruption, by the interforence of the police, who ought to be looking after thioves, blackmailers, vagabonds and evil-doors in general. And Ttaly does ill thus to neglect and 1lltreat the patriotic population of the island, which has ever sided with Eu rope against Africa, with civilization against barbarism, and which now, with F nossession of ancient Carthage, with ports and military stations ovorywhere on the op- posite coast, will still be Italy's bulwark in the strugglo that seems inevitable and may soon commence. Tho Sicilians are Italians to the backbone; the presont movement of the masses is not directed agaiust [taly, but against the classes who oppress them, The most “extraordinary feature of the move ment is the entrance on the scono of Sicilian women. The outlook is gloomy indeed, and not only for Sicily, but for the whole of Italy v sl TOLD IN THE HEADLINES. Boston Globe (dem.): Mowed down. Minneapolis Times (dem.): Floored. Paul Globe (dom.): Virginia is ours St. Louis Globe-Democrat (rep.) roosters, nssorted sizes. w York Advertisor (rep.): Horse, toot and dragoons. St. Louis Republic (dem.): hit the democrats very hard. Minnoapolis Tribuno (rop.) importance gets away anywhore nnati Commerci and flag of glory in the sunshine u Kansns City Times (dem.): Tt wi ear, hence a great big landslide occurred. New York Rocorder (rep.): No moroe boss domination! You can't fool all the people all the time, Rocky Mountain News (pop.): winter strikes Cleveland and cuckoos. New York World (dem.): wrath of the pe machine, Kansas City Journal (rep.): T Republicans win splendid vl along the line. Cincinnati Enquirer (dem.): wie es geschneit hat! Ivs all any other language. Milwaukee Sentinel (rep.): republican victor; alanche undor which the democr rty is overwhelmed. Louisville Commercial (rep.): Landslido and cyclone! The only words which willad- equately express yestorday's republican vic- tory. Buffalo Beaten Hard times Nothing ot The bird An early his little Smashed ple falls on the demo The atie umphant torics all Ach’ Gott! the same in Nou simply a vress (rep.): Hear what the Shout, elory from the house- -tongued bell, for free- shricked w all jthe gang and blue- eyed Billie fell ———— MEXRY ARKS, Cupid nocds only a o when he s0ts in to kindlo “love's fior. hen Galveston Nows: of I flame. Binghamton Republican: not necessaril abounds in larks. The saloon bar I3 a bar of music becuuso it New Orleans P of bottling comp have corking good times. Buffalo Oourler: is seldom consalted as to the cut of his uniforw, the cloth is always striped to suit him. en the members onvention they Chicago Tribune: Miss Ticklowell—By the way, Mr. Cabokia, how do you like Ibsen? Mr. Cahokia (cordlally, but with ings) It it's well done, Miss with {mushrooms and plenty of gravy, itlsn't at all bud. Philadelphia Record: Extract from n new novel: “Stand where' you are, Reginald de Coursey! Advance one step nenrer and I will tell you what T saw at tho World's falr!” “Folled again!” hissed the villain, as he faded nway from view. Kate Field's Washington: Pipiin—I doubt if iron enters very largely into tho composi- tion of the humai body. Potts—Why? Pipkin—1've noticed that when a man is hot it doesn't improve his temper to throw cold water on him Detriot Freo Pro: lttle hand?” ho pl “Reglnald, this h replied. “I will redeem {t," heanswored absently, “if you will let me na've the pawn ticket.” Puck: resolute. the arma “Will you give me this lovingly. nd is already pledged,” she The Spartan mother was 2Hor hatd tromblod as It re d shoulder of her only s &0 forth to battle, but her 1ips wore and her oyes wero dry. “My boy.” sho sald solemnly, “come back with your shield or upon it and thauk your lucky stars it's only war, and not foot biall." palo but ted upon about to tsternly FAME AND THE PRIC Washington Star. It {s enough to turn the gazo From bright ambitlon’s flame ote the pri o thut must bo patd man 1 come to fumo. Thero died o good unselfish man; He didn't even gt The usual p| ph, Because he dled in debt, DESIGN OF THE CANDELABRUM. Cunrsrrn, Neb,, Nov. 0.-To the Editor of Tne Ber: In Tan §orNiva Bee of No- vember 6 there is an article headed, “Honors for Nebraska,” in whioh Mr. F. M. Russell 18 credited with both the designing and making of the candolabrum from Nebraska that was exhibited in the Woman's building at the World's fair. 1 do_not think this statoment emanated from Mr. Russell and [ wish to correct it here. T was largely inter- estod 1n the design of this candelabrum and will refer you to the evening edition of Titn Berof Aoril 90, 1503, wherein 1 at least ro- ceive mention under the heading of “Ne- b A Artat the Fair” How much I was interested 1 will here state by giving a little history of the designs, In December, 182, T designed the pedestal on which the candelabrum rests. Docombor 23 Mrs, Candace Wheeler, in a personal lotter to me, accepted tho design. Any one by looking at the two objects can sce that one is & repetition of the other in motif. The candelabrum was not desizned until the lnst of Febr nd first of March, 1863, My igning of the candelabrum was nthian_column to correspond with the column of the pedestal, the thicket or circlo of corn leaves to correspond with those on the podestal—the conventional beot leaves, the ears of corn, all found in the de. sign of pedestal. Strip the candelabrum ot allthese paris and ornaments and what have you left? 1 care not who claims thess ornaments; but it is evident to any and atl fare-minded persons that whoover the pedestal designod the artistio the candelabrum, and 1 also have n corr spondence to bear meout in those ments Hoping this wrongfimpros yours, is sufcient ion, I romy Mis. ANNA to right the N, most_sincorely, ML) CAMERON, K cintion, Torexa, Kan., Nov. 9.—A meeting of this ation will be held in the Board of ado hall, Wichita, commencing at 10 o'clock on Wednesday. Novembe 1tis proposed to keep up the good work which has been started, til we roach practical results, Ablo papers will be presented and opportunity ggiven for discussion. The fol- lowing are among the toples to be covered: “National Legislation as to Water and Avid Lands,” “State Legislation as to Irrigation Supervision, ete.,” “Water 8 Peron- nial, Undorflow, Interstate, Power for * Pumping—Steam, Ile Wind,” “Effects of Irrigation Horticulture, Prosperit; and Their interest i Governmoent's Inte sults of Government Investigations,” gation in Southern California, Other subjects wilt ba added befc final program is announced vaper will be limited to ty crangements are being made xte vs of irrization machinery, pumps, 1 rates are promised on all ra “This notice is sent to you in order that may send to the secrotar onee—Fi any su; stions as to pix Am ny special topic that you want to have dis- od. Third, the names of any persons ) whom you woald like to hear on any subj Wo shall hear from tho Los Angeles_inte igation congress at this meeting. E. 1. Cowarrr Secretary. Al s When Gold Was at w Premium. Tortue Emron or Tue Ber: Ploase an swer the following question: 12 maintains that there nover was a time in the history of the United States that a United States paver dollar would not buy as many pounds of sugar as a gold dol A maintains that when gold was at a premium during the war it would buy as much more as_its differenco in value or at least more. H. K. Avans. Ans.—When gold was at 2,60 it exchangod for $2.60 in paper and 286 times as much sugar as did one paper dollar. n Ass Railroads sty minutes, To Pu New York, Nov. prominent Brooklynites a committce was ap- pointed to devise and carry out plans.for tho punishment of John I. McKane, the *Graves- end Boss," for the many crimes with which he is charged. A treasurer will bo up- pointed to receive subscriptions to fucther this object. IT'S QUITE A STEP from tho great, griping, dreadful pills to Doctor Picrco's Pleasant Pel- lets. See what an ad- vance thero is: Thoso littlo Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard seeds, are the smallest and the easiest to tako-— tiny, sugar- - coated granules that every child is ready for. They act in the mildest, casiest, most nat- ural way. No violence, no reaction after- ward, and their hulp lasts, They E‘;“‘"m nently cure Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, Sick or Bilious Headaches, and all derangoments of tho liver, stomich and bowals. They're put up in sealed vials. This keops themn always fresh and_reliablo, unlike ti ordinary pills in wooden and’ pasteboard boxes. They're the cheapest, for they're guaran- teed to give satisfaction, or your money is ro- turned. You pay only for the good you get. No matter what you've tricd and found wanting, you can be cured with Dr. Sagv's Catarrh Remedy. BROWNING, KING Largost Manufacturers and Ratallaes of Olothing ln the Worll. You can hear it Wherever you go—in the bank, in the work- shop, in the office, after the ball—the praises of Browning, King & Co. and their clothes are sounded by all. And why shouldn’t they be-- Is there anybody who makes any bet- ter overcoats or any l;;au.er suits. -Tail})rs don't. The fit, finish, fabric and fashion of oursuits cannot be excelled. If you can't afford to buy an overcoat for $35, buy one for $30, or buy a suit or an overcoat for $25, or for $20, or for $15, or for $10—it makes no difference— every thread is reliable—we can't afford to sell anything else, for we expect to sell you again some time. We have just received some novel novelties in little boys' eaps and suits—maybe you'd better see them. BROWNING, every evenlog till 6.4l Btore nper 8T arany sl 1 KING & CO, |8, W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sls. o A AT BT gy