Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1894, Page 4

e eeeee—r—— 15, ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION Pafly Bee (withont Sunday) (mm Year Drifly and Snncay. One Yew tx Monthe Three Mont Suiiny Bew, ome Yo Sattirday Bow, ome Yeu Weelly Tee, One Your FRLOHS, o fire T € 400 10 00 5 00 2 50 2 00 160 05 1 Tywenty-(OnFL Broots. 3 X Commeren v York, rotme 11 14 an 1 Tl il g CORMESPONDENCE p—— at ynfeations relting S LETTHRS JSHING COMPAY RN STATEMENT OF CIROUL: of Nebraaa, | ity of Doviglas, { Goorge Tt Taselek, sooretary of THE BEE Pub. L i contpany. does solemnly swear that the wetnal efrenlation @ woek ending Janunry | Sunday. 1 DATLY TR for & Frida Saturda Gronay 11 T2CHTCK iy of January Stary Pubiic , 35 PRI, Clreatation for em b MiLD winter weather may be a bless- fng for the destitute, but it doesn't help business materially. Tie battle at Washington is raging fiercely over the custom house, but Ales ander the Great continues to hold the fort. 3 THERE is small hope of further distri- bution 6f patronage in Nebraska until your uncle Tobias turns over a new leat in his memorandum book. WiTH an initiation fee reduced to 31 no scalp-hunting however hungry. can afford to remain outside the wigwam of the The best is always the cheapest. Tue Hon. Charles Goss was altogether t00 provious when he gently insinuated to his friend that he was liable to be hauled up for violating the statutes by publishing the Louisiana lottery ads. ALLEN LEASE, nominally of the report that she will adit apopulist daily paper in Omaha. The people of Kansas will not let her go. ‘Without Mary’s mouth life in that stato would be monotonous fhdeed. democrat, Samosots. MARY Kansas, den FOR the benefit of a large class that does not patronize the Sunday paper THE BE ill print in Saturday's edi- tions extracts from an articlein the Jan- uary Porum by Rov. G. Monroo Royce on *“The Decline of the American Pul- pit.” I NEBRASKA' ropresentatives in congress wish to serve their constituents they will entera unanimous and em- phatic protest against any attempt to strike down the boet sugar industry, which is just obtaining a foothold in the Platte valley. THE tariff debate is attracting more attention in Washington than usual. Still this fact does not provent the pub- lic from self-congratulation the fact that the flood of oratory will be effectually covked up at the close of the present month. over PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will not sum- mon Senator Turpie for advice on his Hawaiian poliey. After a spoech in op- position to the administration’s plans the senator need not expect Indiana patronage to fall his way with any great rapidity. WE ARE pained to observe that the green goods swindlers of the east con- tinue to find suckers among the people of this state. The insatiable desire of mankind to get something for nothing is largely responsiblo for the success of these flimflamme SPEND what money you have to spend with Nebraska merchants and thus assist in securing a business revival in this state as early as elsewhere. All Nebraska industries should stand to- gether. Patronize them and your own business will feel the beneficial results. Tne good features of the depository law ave rapidly becoming recognized in Nobraska. Since the beginning of the new year many countios have commenced the observance of the law and the tax- payers will reap the benefit. The fact proves that a little timely agitation of the question has 1ot come amiss. Ex-CONGRESSMAN I'RANK Lawr whose lengthy petition failed to fe the Chicago postoflice, is said to be still living on hope. Porhaps hope is a neces- sary antidote Lo that sonian dinner which he helped to demolish in Omaha this weok. But we foar that hopo will be a poor diet until the next Jacksonian sproad. NO ANXIE of the con- gressional candidatos in the Towa sona- torial eontest to get back to their work at Washington at the oarliest possible moment was strong enough to prevent a postponement of the caucus swhich is to decide their hopes. Public business is not in it when sanatorial aspivations are at stake, on the p war WHILE this s not expected to be a boom year for any city in America, Omaha is in a position to make vor, substantial in 1804 and place herself in position to have a genuine ro- vival of prosperity next year. We must not, however, attempt too many projects at the same time. It don’t to ham mer down more than one nail at a time. progross men and W w YoUNG men, middle-aged men who sit in the front ballot is on the boards will miss the op- portunity of their lives if they do not 2o to hear the sermon on tho social evil Sunday evening by our own Pavkhurst We also desire to announce that the so- cloty reportor of this paper will make out & list of the gentlemen presont, to: gother with a synopsis of the thrillin portions of the sermon for persons of the proseribed sex. hen a THE SOUTH AND THE SUGAR BOUNTY. The sugar producers of Florida have | united with the augar planters of Louis- iana in opposing the proposed abolition of the sugar bounty. e people of Florida have unbounded faith in the capabiiities of that state for producing sugar and they-believe that with proper encouragement, such as is given by the moderate bounty under the present tariff law, this industry would become & source of immense wealth to the state. A writer in one of the leading papors of Florida presents some Agures which are oxcoedingly interesting. He says it has been proven by careful surveys that there are in the state 4,000,000 acres of the vrichest land on the face of the earth, capable of producing from 4,000 to 6,000 pounds of sugar to the acre, and this entire territory can be reclaimed and brought into a condition ready for cultivation for #20,000,000. This would be a trifling out- lay to attain the results figired out by the writer referred to. Stating the population of the United States at 65,000,000, though it i¢ lacger than this, and estimating the annual consumption of sugar per capita at sixty pounds, 1t is seen that 3,000,000,000 pounds ave required to supply the de- mand. The 4,000,000 acres in Fiorida at 4,000 pounds would yield 16,000,000,000 pounds of sugar, or four times as much a3 the con- sumption of the whole country. Of course such estimates are very much exaggerated, but they are not wholly without substantial support. There is a sugar plantation of 1,000 acres at St. Cloud, Fla.,, which yields 4,000 pounds to the acre, and it i3 not to be doubted that there are other portions of the state which would do as well. Assuming that there are not more than 500,000 acres in tho state capable of producing sugar and estimate the pro- duction at 2,000 pounds per acre and we geta possible annual sugar production for Florida alone of 1,000,000,000 pounds. An industr able of such develop- ment is certainly deserving of encour- agement and the people of Florida should spare no effort to secure it. If the ' sugar. producers of that state and of Louisiana will stand firmly together in defense of this most important interest they may succeed, with the assured help of the friends of tho beet sugar industry in the west, in compelling congress to reject the policy which proposes to destroy by agradual process the domestic sugar- producing interests. What will finally be done with the sugar schedule cannot now be foretold with any degree of certainty. The dem- ocratic majority in congress is divided on this as on almost every othev feature of the new revenue policy. The most likely thing, from present indications, is a duty on raw sugar and the immediate abolition of the bounty. A duty would not leave the sugar producers wholly unpro- tected, but it would not have as good ef- feet in encouraging the industry asa bounty, and, besides, a duty would in- crense the costof sugar to the consumer. Nothing can be more certain than that the amount of the duty would be added to the price, and it is quite possible there would be something move, for it is highly probable that an export tax would be placed upon sugar by the for- ign countries producing it, which of course the American consumer would have to Ataduty of not more than 1 cent per pound on sugar it is as certain as anything can be that the American people would pay from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 more for their sugar than they pay under the present policy. per acre A TRANSCONTINENTAL RATE WAR, The breaking up of the transconti- nental passenger meeting at Chicago without accomplishing a single step toward harmony, after a scssion lasting a whole week, is taken by many railway officials as & certain indication of an impending transcontinental rate war.’ The present situation has been precipi- tated by a demand on the part of the Canadian Pacific and its adjunct *‘Soo” lino for differentials on all passenger traffic to San Francisco by any route its The Canadain acifie has soveral outlets to the Puget Sound country and water route connec- tions with San Francisco. Its officers insist that nothing short of a concossion ranging from #3 to $10 on through fares would put their road on anequal footing with the American lines. It is evident from ings of the recent meoting the Canadian Pacific had determined not to yield its position before it promulgated its proposition. The Ameri- can roads seemed anxious to prevent the precipitation of a rate war by some sort of a compromise and offered sevoral counter propositions to the Canadian line, which, however, were unacceptable to the latter. To the full extont of the al demands they have rofused to o, preferring war to the odious differ- entials. It is quite possible and highly probable than somo further attempt to reach an agroement on transcontinental rates will bo made, but unless the tempers of the parties thereto are considerably softened the prospects for sucoessful negotiation will not be very bright. The American ronds avnounce that if the Canadian its to fight they will let it have all the fight it wants. They prom- ise to make corresponding veductions in the fares over their lines just as fast as the Canadian officials make publie dif- ferentiuls for their patrons. The aim of rate war is to wro for each party the bost basis for a settlement, and in the test of endurance the road which Tholds out the longest at the lowest rate is bound to gain its point. To the public such a rate war is but a temporary advantage: it supplies low passenger fares for a brief veriod of time, put with the certainty that they will bo raised as soon as one road or the other is forced to make terms. For the eailways such wurs are usually disas- trous as rogacds r There is nothing to stop them from cutting rates bolow the profit mark, and unless a new traflic is developed duving the war chances are that it will result in heavy losses to all concerned. A transcontinental rate war, then, cannot be rogarded as desira- over road. the procoed- that every so venue the ble just now from any standpoint, and all must regret the ineffectual efforts to reach an agreement as to the disputed differentials at the Chicagd meeting. If there remains any way to patch up the difficulty it certainly ought to be ex- ploited before the war is declared on. TERMINAIE THE CONTROVERS Y. o Amorican peopls have grown tired of the Hawaiian controversy and would heartily welcome its termination, but an element in congress seems deter- mined to keep it going, though it Is clear that no useful purpose is to be accom- plished by doing so. After the senate commission has obtained all the evidence it desires what is it going to do about the matter? No action of congress can bring about any change in the situation. The annexationists in that body cannot compel the president to return to the sonate the treaty he withdrew ortoenter into further negotiations looking to an- nexation. The administration policy has been clearly defined. It is opposed to annexing the islands or to extending a protectorate over them. This position will undoubtedly be firmly adhered to, and it is not in the power of congress to require it to bo changed. That body may express an opinion, and that is as far as it can go. What the senate should do is to pass the resolution introduced by Senator Turpie of Indiuna and there drop the subject. This vesolution declares it to be unwise, inexpedient, and not in ac- cordance with the character and dignity of the United States to consider further, at this time, either the treaty recently submitted and with- drawn from the senate or the project of annexation, and that the ex- isting government of Hawali having re- celved recognition from this and other governments the highest international interests require that it shall pursue its own line of policy, and that foreign in- tervention in the political affairs of the islands will bo regarded as an act un- friendly to the United States. An ex- pression of this kind on the part of con- gress is all that is necessary. Tt would announce to the factions in Hawaii that the government of the United States would have nothing further to do with their difficulties and it would notify other governments that they are expected to keep hands off. Then the Hawaiian people could proceed to settle their domestic disturbance free from any out- side influence. Partisan feeling has entered too largely into the consideratfon and di cussion of this subject, and this applies tomen in both the political parties. There was involy in the question a principle vital to the character of our government and it should have been considered and treated in a broad and patriotic spirit, but party expediency and the chance of making political capital operated, as they do with re- spect to every question of public con- cern, to influence the judgment and di- rect the action of those in authority. But nothing can possibly be accom- plishod by continuing the controversy and its early termination would be hailed with pleasure by nino-tenths of the American people. IN ONE respect it must be confessed that Omaha has been behind Kansas he men who have made the lat- ter city have beon wise enough to see the sity for a system of railroads owned and practically controlled by them- selves. They built the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf system, tapping the rich coal fields of southern Kansas and Missouri and traversing the immenso forests of northern Arkansas. This road has brought the commercoe of large parts of three states to Kansas City. Then Kansas City men built the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern, strik- ing boldly into territory that should be- long almost exclusively to Omaha. Tho road hasg proven a valuable feeder for Kansas City in spite of its somewhat erratic career. Recently it has fallen into the hands of the Missouri Pacific, and it is now in the hands of men who will more than over operate it for the benefit of Kansas City prosperity., The St. Joseph ¢ Grand Island is now practically conducted in the interests of the city on the Kaw, and tho little, despised Kansas City & Omaha road, starting as it does at Nowhere on the map and having its terminus at Nowhere, isall the samo a feeder for Kansas City business. There is a lesson for Omaha in theso things. Omaba should own at least ono strong competing line to the west and north- west. She shouid also control one or two short lines which tap the coal fields of lowa. These roads would give Omaha cheap fuel and also bring to her packing houses the immense herds of cattle in the northwest. Undor her present sys- tem of railroads Omaha gets what the roads are pleased to bring her. With hor own systam she would get what she went aftor. nece: THE attention of Tur BEE has been called to the fact thut the article re- cently printed in this paper showing the list of the counties which had observed the depository law, tozether with the amounts of in‘erest received during the past year, does not credit the full amount of interest received. A closer reading of the article in question will show all interested parties that the amounts credited to the several counties wore not for the entire year, but for the partof the year included in the reports of the county treasurvers to the auditor. The amount coll by the counties for the entire yeur vould swell the grand total by many thousand doliavs. oted FILING articles of incorporation doos not build a railroad, as the projectors of the great North and South Interstate & Gulf road will learn before long. A capital stock of 318,000,000 for a line with no other real backing than its papor plan is not fortheoming in a particularly in these days ef vative investments. Make up your minds to wait a fow years for the north and south vailroad moment, THE plan for setting idle laborers to work at beet favming may be very good, but it can not furnish present oemploy- ment. What the unemployed want now is work. They will take to beet farming when the time comos provided that vo THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ATURDAY, J cation offors them desirable opportuni- ties for earning waffes. In the mean- time, however, en d {dloness is the great cause of compMint. The romedy must bo a rnnu»d,-"’r @ present and not of the future THE government at Washington soems to be keepjyg:ja-vigilant watch upon the course of affairs in Brazil. Secret instruetions were sent to Rio yes- terday which acll bélieved to be of a highly important character, though con- jecture is at sea ap-totheir purport. It would seem from the late dispatches that matters at Rio ave approaching a climax, but whether in the interest of the government od the rebels cannot be determined. The roports of a fow days ago that Peixoto had resigned turned out to be untru but it seems that there is a great pressure making by his friends to induce him to resign, conditioned upon Mello and his followers agreeing not to seize control of the government, pending the election and installation of anew president. Mello has professed that he not fighting against the re- publie, but solely against the military ruie of a dictator, and if he is sincere in this he might accept the proposed ar- rangement, but it is hardly probable that anything will come of it, admitting the correctness of the report. It would appear that there is a great lack of en- ergy and vigor on the partof the gov- erament, since according to trustworthy advices it hasat its command a force considerably larger than that of the rebels. The rnment fleet now numbers twenty-one vessels and they are well equipped. A fierce naval bat- tle, which will probably be decisive, may be expected at any time. gov EcoNoMy is the rule in all depart- ments of government, regardless of con- sequences to the publicservice. Numer- ous instances are noted hereabouts. The force of whisky gaugers has been re- duced and there are but three micr scopical meat examiners at this point, where there were forty under Secretary Rusk. There may not have been neces- sity at all times for the latter number, but in view of the fact that our packers are increasing their export trade there is certainly great neea of at least twenty meat examiners here if the government wishes to keep faith with foreign nations that have admitted Ameri- can meats on express condition tha they shall be inspected. It is known to b a fact that there are not enough gaugers at the distilleries here to do the work properly or to protect the in- terests of the government. We believe that it is false economy to reduce the force of gaugers to a point where it is a physical impossibility for them to do the work. i THE annual report of the state super- intendent of banks to_the governor of New York comes ovt strongly in favor of a law forbidding any officer or official employed in any bank doing business under a state law from obtaining any loan from the bank without first having his application passod ipon in a meet- ing of the full boayd of directors. The ease with which bauk officers have been to withdraw lavge: sums from the sets of the bank and to sub- stituto worthless’ securities or en- tirely unsecured peesonal notes has been at the bottom of no fow of the last season’s bank failures. Itisargued that if bank officials have to run the gaunt- let of the board of directors every time they want to borrow money they will bo more caveful about the security they offer than when loaning other peoplo’s money to themselves. This is a subject which is by no means local in its scope, and every state will soonor or later have to muke legal provision for its regula tion. THE town council of Sioux Falls, S. D., has done for the unemployed there precisely what THE BEE has urged the county commissioners to do for the idle men here. That city contemplates the building of a city hall and out of the fund provided for that purpose laborers will be paid for taking the nccessary stone out of the quarries. The men will be paid 15 ceats per hour for an eight- hour day. No better solution can bo made of the problam that perploxes nearly every city in the west. The idle men want work, not charity. They can accopt such terms as the county commis- sioners might offer without a sacrifice of pride or self respect incident to receiv- ing alms. There can bo reasonable objection to the method proposed. In fact, public sentiment is largely in favor ot it. no Tue oil fields in the neighborhood of Casper, Wyo., are boing developed to some extent. If the railroads leading to that territocy will reduce the taviff rate on lubricating oils a great industry can be built up ina fow years. Tariffs heretofore in effect imposed charges on this commodity three timesas high as the rate on cattle in carload lots. This is extortion in its most flagrant form. Omaha is interested in the development of the oil industry and it should be the policy of her people to work for a re- duction of the unr¢gsonablo tariffs, PHILADELPHIA merghants ave raising heartrending criesinapposition to Post- master ( 'al Bissell's place the New York ‘and Chicago post- offices in a sepavato class and to leave that of Philadelpiid Where it now is. 1f Philadelphia succeeds in pulling into the highest class'Boston, Brooklyn and St. Louis will haye their local pride to make similar complaints of imination. The only for the postmastor general to satisfy all of these cities will bo to create n sepurate highest class for each one of them. propusal to way OTHER LANDS THAN OURY. Belgium at the presont moment s in the throes of a political orisis of & uniquo char- acter. Some months ago the two Chambers of the National Legislature, sitting in foint congress for tho purpose of determining the rovision of the constitution, accepted what 18 known ns the Nysson schome of propor: tionate franchise, whereby every man who has attained the age of 25 1s entitled to one vote, and to & second vote ten years later, or enrlior if he chooses through matrl- mony to make himself the representative of othors. This plan was embodied in the revised constitution which was promulgate by the king last year. It was left, howover, to the two chambers sitting separately to deviso the means for putting tho clectoral principles thus sanctioned iuto practice, and a confllct has now arisen batween the ministry and its parliamentary majority in the Chamber of Deputies on the subject of this franchise bill, especially that portion thereof dealing with tho representation of minori- ties. Under ordinary circumstances a differ- ence of opinion botwoen the cabinet and its party might bo met by an appeal to tho country. But this is impossible in the prosent instance, A dissolution is out of tho question, for, were Parlinment dissolved, every man over 2 would be entitled by the new constitution to his one vote, and evory married man, or one 3 years old, to his two votes, But how, when or where tho votes should be cast no one could decide, sceing that tho electoral law determiuing all these poiuts has yet to bo enactod In Austro-Hungary the two domestic questions of superlative moment are con- corned with the agitation for home rule in Bohemia, and universal suffrage * in the Cis Leithan kingdom. The demand of the young Czechs for the same powers of self- government as have been conceded to the Magyars scoms, at first sight, plausiblo enough; but the analogy is imperfect, for the reason that the Hungarians bave fought for their rights within the last half century, whereas the Bohemians, since the beginning of the thirty years' war, have not tried to make good by force their claim to autonomy. Then again, it is fraught with more peril to the Hapsburgs to grant self: government to Slav_people, which makes no sccrev of its liking for its Rus- sian kinsfolk, than to yield like pri- vileges to the Hungarians who are traditional cuemies of the great Slavonic cmpire. As it is, the Czechs have a provin- cial Diot which deats with their local cerns; and, except as a result of o Kuropean convulsion, they are unlikely to obtam a Larger measureof independence at the hands of the Vienna government. As for the close approach to umversal suffrage proposed for the Cis-Leithan kingdom by Count Taaffe, this carnot be hoped for as long as the present reactionary coalition remains in pow The innovation was opposed even more bitterly by the Gorman liberals, who are recruited almost exclusively from the muddle class, than by the aristocratic land- owners of Galicia and Moravia. It is tain, on the other hand, that an overwhelm- ing majority of the Vienuese favor extenston of the franchise, and Count.’ who still retains the confidence of the em- peror, is said to be determined to effect iv the moment he returns to oftice. con- The government af ltome admits that the Sicilians have genuine griavances and promises that they shall be rectificd. On the whole, the union with Ttaly has been a great blessing to Sicily. [lliteracy has been greatly reduced, the people enjoy more com- forts, and even a few good highways as well as railroads now lead through the valleys and over the hills. We are too prone to derive unfavorable impressions of people from the evil repute of their worst elements. The Sicilians, as a whole, are industrious and farly orderiy and law-abiding, but they have beem unjustly estimated by many who think of their island chiefly as the abiding place of the Mafia and the home of robber bands haunting the southwestern regions. The fact is that in recent years the government has been making headway against brigandage and other unlawful practicos icily hns been called by travelers an ugly island containing some spots of exquisito beauty and many objects and places of archwological and historical interest. What- over its power to attract the traveler, it is certatn the island has been fitted by nature to bo the hiome bf & numerous and prosper- ous people. For veurs Sicily has been grow- iug in population faster than any other part of italy. With 128 people to the square kilometre, there are only three of the com- purtimenti of Italy that surpass her, rugged as she is, in density of population. 1f, fora time, the progress of Sicily is to be stayed, it 15 not the fault of her people, but of crimes of administration in high places and low that have already 1nvolved many men of thie public service of Ttaly in scandal, Although Switzerldnd has hitherts been regardedt as the cradle of liberty, and tho most enlightened ana progressivo of Buro pean countries, yot it has just issued o de- cree of a singularly reactionary and arbi- teary character. Henceforth every foreign newspaver sont into Switzertand will have tobo addressed and stamped separately, and, although this wiil not interfere with the postal delivery of papers to individual subscribors, yet it will prevent dealers from handiing them, as 1t will be impossible for them to get the papers in quantities. Stricy orders have been issued to the postal author- Jties to provent the entry into the country of any lind of mewspaper literature in bundles, the avowod object of the goveri- ment bewne to diminish as far as possible tion of [talian papers in the ntous; of French papers speaking cantons; and of German mnewspapers in the jerman-speaking cantons. Nov is Switzer- Jand the only foreign power which is thus manifesting a lack of liberality in dealing with foreign newspapers: for, according to a receut decision of the Paris courts, each forelgn paper Pranco has to stamped with the name of the French news- dealer by whom it is sold, and who is held thereupon resvonsible for ever arement of a libelous character therein contained Inusmuch as it is impossible w0 expect Frouch newsdealers to act as the respousi- ble editors of the English, Germao, Italian, Spanish and Russian papers that they han- dle, it practically putsa stop to the sale in France of forelgn newspapers through s, a result which, in view of the large can colony estabiished ot the bunks of the Seine, Is not without interest to the press of this country the dissem! Ttalian-speaking ¢ in the French sold be Tho result of this dispute between Nor- Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, al Re frczez0) Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE R ———— ] way and Swedon may bo of tho most far reaching and important character. Se much, indeed, depends upon its peaceable sottloment that it scoms acarcely possibls that an armed conflict will be permitted if 1t 18 possiblo to avert it. War between Nor- way and Swedon would probably mean ‘war botween the greater neighboring powers, and o war which might again radicaily chango tho map of Kurope. Russia, if her traditions hold good, wuuld like nothing bottor than an opportunity to sbize the Scandinavian peninsula, and a conflice botween Norway and Sweden might offer a temptation which she could not resist England and the memvers of tho ‘Trivle Alliance would not suffer Russia to ac- quire so important n vantage ground without dotormined resistance, and in the event of such a confliot Krance might im- agine that she saw her way to revenge for the humiliation and ddofeat of the last German war, nif hostilities could be contined to Norway and Sweden, the success of the former would scarcely bo regarded with complacency by emperors and monarchs in view of its republican tendoncies, Re- publics inthat case would be becoming too common in Kurope to bo pleasing to absolute rulers. A republic in France, another in Switzerland {and a third in Norway would furnish too many object lessons in domocratic government. It secmslikoly, therefore, that the existing troubles between Norway and Sweden will be adjusted by outside interven- tion if they can be settled in no other way, for if they should come to the arbitrament ot the sword the wholo of Europe might feel the effects of the conflict. The French-Russian understanding makes a collision between Iranco and Great Britain more serious than it would other- wise be. It 1s true that France has her own griovances against England, though they are in fact griovances against the French government of ten years ago, which missed the opportunity then offered to 1t of exer- cising a joint control of Egypt with Great Britain, If this gricvance be both unreason- able and sentimental, Russian hostility to Great Britain hasa more solid basis. The dismemberment of the British empire would be a matter of congratulation both for Russia and for France. On the other hand Great Britain, as Sic Charles Dilke the other day reminded her. no friends in Europe. The tendency of such incidents as that of Sium and as this of Africa is to force ingland intoa virvual if not a formal mem- bership of the Triple Alliance. Got a o ant Floct Louisviile Courier-Journal Tt is all well cnough, perhaps, now that we are getting a costly and ponderous navy on our hunds toseek to put it to some use, and, therefore, station it at various foreign ports with the hope of stimulating and protecting our foreign commerce. We t first, however, zet a foreign commerce; and asimple free trade statute would do more for securing that than all the navies ever afloat could do, even if they were owned by the United States and made every harbor on eartl® respleudent with the stars and stripes. Our merchantman, sailing under our flag with the unrestricted right to trade where and how she pleases, would be worth mgre to our international commerce than every clumsy warship in our navy. —~——— g Questi rat. A Bu Denver Republican, Just at present many people in Massachu- sotts ave taking a great deal of interest in the subject of cremation. A shori time ago a crematory was built near Boston, and the body of Lucy Stone was cremated, That event att great deal of attention, for 1t 1 instance of cremavion n Ma: 5 Subsequently the tody of sdevic A. Henshaw was incinerated. In view of all that may bo said in favor of cr mation, it 1 str: hat it is not resorted to more frequently. Tne reluctance to adopt it 15 to be explainod only by the sirong hold which the customs and prejudices of uges have upon people. The arzument from san- itary grounds alone is suflicient to justify its general use, ——— Kansans' [ntense Wuy. Kansas City Star. ars of agois in jail in Dodgo City charged with a probably successful at- tempt to assassinate an entire family com- prising four people. The fired a load of buckshot throu; in such a way as to take very member of the household. This crime would secm 1o bo without pallintion, but there is a ity. Wh scato once heard of a tr qually horrible she observed: “This dos Dot signify the Kunsans are cruel or bloodthirsty— simply their intense way.” A Slap at Cleveland, Buffalo Erpress. The rejection of flornblower is a direct insult to President Cleveland, coming, as it aoes, from his old enemy, Hill. It probably marks the peginning of a long battle be- tween the president and his own party in the seaate. This ule, il it goos against the exceutive, will result in the nomination of D. B. Hill for the pre in 1590, o B A p 1 i ROWNING, i VEOPLE AND THINGS, Tywo hundred and eighty-five porsor Jilled by trains on tho stroet cross 5 ast yoar. Horeafter murders are to be reported to the ¢ the mayor expecting by thism the council inte demaundiog e Ihera promisos to be a very | contest for the position of state libratia Kontucky, Six young women have u entored the race, and as most of the uumarried and about equally endowod wit physieal charms, the problem of cholee of candidates is iikely legislative mind sove Mr. David H. an estate in Lynn, Mass., that has owned by members of his family for yoars, His ancestor, Hugh Alloy, came this country in 1885 ana settiod u; farm. Most of tho old homestend roma in the fon of the family until when 10 tax owns and oc confrontod w opulent condition. Astronomior street railway company has vy of 1114 per cent o lust year's bi and Inid aside a reserve fund of million, His remarks, when addressed the fathers, will have, therefore, o vory prossive, motalic sound. If there is thing in sight that he wants, e Las bu ask for it Wormley, son of the well i FWashington hotolkeeper, while remoy some personal offeets which his father Ut away in A closel many years uwo, can across i ourious relie. 16 was a o ) cang, highly polished, and with a cold hea Engraved upon the nead was the nscr tion: “Hon. Charles Sumner, from o of Liberin," Tho Massachusotts statesiia had presented the cane to Mr. Wormley as a wark of friendship. It had disappeared and was supposed to be lost. All Jersey is onjaying the reports of Min or RRunyon's gorgeous display at the Now Year rocoption 1 Borlin, “Jtuson dr 3 the palace in great style dormen Just He had f galore, Amevican eagles decora riage, and his aristocratic person w in the trappings and bullion of a 1 eral’s uniform. All of which tick Tt is said Runyon was commissionod a g eral of volunteers and that when he struck the gait at the firsu Bull Run he kept tho pace till he ianded in Newark, Of fichting that was enough. But he preserved his com ission and an unwavering affection for oftice. Efal o RELING FLIGHTS. sP. Chicago Dispatch: Ofie of the most populne Nl asures in South Carolinu is th cord: His Wile (s thoy start for jat necktio of yours i hor Well, no one will hear k whilo your hat is in the noighborhood (trical companios that Elmira Gazetto: Theatric o with the most do the least walking are th legs. New York Il yr—-Ho can play “drunken parts” better than any one in yrofession ager—Yes, but the troub he s too fond of rehearsing Boston Transeript that Fenderson 18 ¢ fool ted hin as o without ¢ “But how do you know *UWhy, they se miurder trial Cleveland I Burglar (zruflly)— Your money or y ones (sleepity)—Y o drawer thereoThey're L might send you that. ¢ John—What did the old for his da I find_some bills in the 11 in bu the butcher's, bod night! o Prod: n you asked him ter Willie—He didn't say a word; he whistled for the dog. our eys on Philadelphin Record: won b an or in a Ninth that m: whispered the barten stroet saloon ho propricto HWh vhat's the him?" asked the boss. He clain wus the starbled roply, “and ordercd a plain lenon- ude.” w Orleans Pieayune: years (o be fighting 'fo alf is ovidently tightin £ of Florida n L and the other Indianapolis Journal: been $4,200 heretofore, employer. “Yos," assonted the head clerk “Well, we will just knock the two hundred off fron now on. ~ That will enable you to es- cape the inco Mr Penns, THE DANCE. Philadetphia Tines. And now tonight vou'ro fairer still, Beyond the power of pen and ink To puint, as in the? witltz you move, ‘Alviteliing harmony in pink. ' givo the world 1o win i glance But then, you see, I do not dance! 1 watch your partner take your and— What Dlessings on him L invoke He bends and whispers in your en I think he mukes o modest jok You smile responsive. 1appy he But, ab, such swiles aro not for mel e i THE GROWING DA Tielen B. Starret in Interior, The days ure growing long again Sl futer fail the shades of nig wrlier breaks the golden ditwn, rting through the suhshino bright L thelr little throuts, chirruping, ow signs in carth and air portend “The glad returning of the spring, And as T note how winter's spel Is broke he budding trees and balmy utr, pzies, to 11k & Co. The largost mas fine elothe Your money’s worth ra and 8ollors of 3 o Barth or your money bask. and $12 at $8.50. will sell \ ‘, ; Still Sweeping Some of the grandest bargains in suits and our regular $20 line. ‘em out-- overcoals and underwear for boys' and men ever shown in this city. Then we are giving twenty per cent off onour winter caps. Elegant suits that sold in December for $10 are now being swept out The $15 ones go at $10. You can't get a better suit than we you for $16.50. They are The same proportionate cut maintains all over the store. Over- coats, underwear and the like are put down to such low prices that it is no trouble at all to sweep them out. Will bay tho express If you send the money for §20 worth or more 30 O | O 1 O |- S Store open till 10 o’clock Saturday night. BROWNING, KING & CO., - W. Cor.15th and Douglas $ L T A AR A A A S U e