Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1894, Page 5

1 THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor. ERY MORNING. UPTION, One Year I BURSC Sunday) One Year Duity nily and § Hix Months Three 3 Bunday 1 Baturday 11 Weekly 10 00 & 00 160 20 1% % OFFICES. N"na Twenty-tourth 8ts 12 Penrl treet lumber of Commeree. New York, Tuom 13, 10 and 15, Tribune BIdg. ‘ashington, 613 Fourteenth strect. CORRESPONDENCE. Al commun Inting to mews and edl- torial madter e Wrcesed: To the BAItor BUFINESS L ANl business lotters nddressed () i Omahn, . Drafts, che Omatn, ) Bouth Omain ouncil s, Chicago (MMee ations 314 b | " peryiney of The Ties STATEME: Goorge 11, Trsehuck, e Publiahing company, being du the actual number of full and ¢ The Daily Morning, Kvening and Sunday e printed during the month of February, 1504, was as foll oy 13 Total for 538,604 Less reductions for ‘coples unkaldand’ returned 17,803 Total sold 3 4 Dally average net cireulation ... Sitvvi *Sunday. S0 171 tbed in Sworn to hefore my 4 v y Publie. From the very cvident reluctance of the unemployed to enlist in the industrial army it Is apparent that the move on Washington will be a dismal failure unless the draft 18 resorted to, The pullbacks, mossbacks and tax shirkers are opposed to raising the assessment. The progressive taxpaying class of citizens de- mand that it shall be raised not less than 25 per cent this year. The senate did the appropriate thing In passing a resolution expressing regret at the death of Kossuth. The liberty-loving patriot deserved a tribute from the groatest govern- ment founded upon individual liberty. The democratiS natlonal headquarters at Washington are to be formally opened by a reception to the democratic members of the two houses of congress. It will probably bo closed with a wake over the corpse of the party. The Interstate Commerce commission may yet establish itself in the confidence of the people. It has figured out that one person 18 Killed by railroad accidents in this coun- try out of every 1,491,910 who ride twenty- four hours. The blizzard which swept over northern and western Nebraska this week was a blessing In the guise of a disaster. Three fect of mnow will guarantee good crops for a section of the state that never has too much moisture. Whenever the lawyers at the state capital suffer from business depression they file a few petitions with the district court im- plicating a fow more prominent citizens in the Capital National bank swindle. The big failure is likely to tarnish a good many hitherto good reputations. It Is strange that congress should have left the Yellowstone park this long without the protection of law for the preservation of wild animals within its borders. It should make up for this omission by the prompt passage of a game law now while there is still game to be preserved. The recruits for the great peace army are rapidly converging upon Massillon and prep- arations are almost completed to start the march bright and early Sunday morning. Nothing less than an eclipse or an earth- quake will be sufficiently momentous to serve as the signal for breaking camp. Increasing complications in the garbage situation demand that the council apply it- selt to the devising of some means by which the refuso of the city may be disposed of. The present haphazard system is ineflicient and dangerous to the health of the commun- ity. The council should not shirk its duty. Koep it before the police commission that the law abiding citizens of Omaha have no confidence In or respect for detectives who close their eyes to notorious violators of law, make false reports to the mayor and chief of police, and use their positions for blackmailing purposes and the gratification of thelr own lust, The Chicago school building that burned the other day Is described as being con- structed of pine scantling, veneered with a layer of brick. And yet the lives of hun- dreds of small children were endangered by the flimsy walls. The narrowly averted holocaust at Chicago may have a tendency to set afoot an inquiry into the character of school buildings all over the country. Here Is an opportunity for the Iowa woman suftraglsts to shout. The new mulet liquor law provides that no female person shall be employed In any place where liquor is sold In that state. This 1s rank discrimination, It closes to women one of the occupations open to men, and thus deprives them of an equal chance with men to earn their living, There can never be equal civil and political rights in lowa so long as women are ex- cluded from the ranks of the saloon keeper. We have heard nothing yet as whereabouts of George Woolridge alias Woollngton, a man charged with forgery who pleaded gullty when arralgned in court on February 20. The appearance docket says ho is In jall, but the jall record shows that he did not return to jail after Judge Scott declared 'his sentence suspended. ‘There is something wrong somewhere about this Jail delivery, and somebody ought to enlighten the citizens of this county about the discrepancy and mystery of disappear- ance. to the The new Towa mulet liguor law prohibits the ale of liquor to any one who has taken any of the recognlsed cures for drunkenness. The question immedlately arises what is a recog- nized cure for drunkenness. It will be the Interest of the jag cure establishments to avold coming under the legal classifica- tion, as a penalty of such severity against their temporary Inmates might prove disastrous to their patronage. No one will want to take a recognized cure for drunkonness if it threatens to remove for- over the chances of a relapse. to | AN IMPOSITION ON BHE GOVERNMENT. According to a recent dispatch from Wash- ington, Mr. Enloe, one of the congressmen from Tennessee, is highly Incensed publication just by the Education, which he considers as upon the good name of the state by him in congress. Mr. Enloe a resoly of inquiry In the requesting the secretary of the Interior to in- form that body “by what authority the com- missioner of education published at the public expense an attack the state of Tennesses, and whence the commissioner of education derived the authority a cenorship over the educational any state.” All this Indignation aroused by the last monograph in the series of clrculars of information by the bureau purporting to give a history of higher education in Tennessce. Had the author rested content with narrating the simple facts of the case, the attention of Mr. Enloe would probably never have been attracted to the monograph. But he did not. Accord ing the resolution introduced into the house, he charges the state of Tenn oo with being false to her trust, niggardly and ungenerous, and besides using other expres- slons derogatory to the state and its people holds up to ridicule its private institutt of lerning, speaks In disparaging terms of the whole educational system of the state and In addition thereto impu its charac- unt of the manner of the settle- ment of the co-called state debt. It the house decides to make inquiry into the abusc of the publi of Educatlon it should not stop with this one pamphlet that happens merely offe sive to the state pride of one of its members. In this particular c may perhaps urged that the criticism which th offers upon the progress of higher education in Tennessee is truthful and just and war- ranted by the facts, however severe and offensive it may be. The question at issuc 18 the wider one of how far the federal gov- ernment shall go in compelling the taxpay- ers of the United States to pay for pub lishing books that have but an extremely limited public importance. The Bee not long ago called attention to another one of this series of of information, entitled “Benjamin and the University of Pennsylvania,” which contained almost noth ing about Benjamin Franklin and hundred pages devoted to crass laudation of the wonderful ‘work of that university and of the eminent professors who have been favored with remunerative chairs in that institution. While the University of Penn- sylvania has a perfect right to issue an ad- vertisement In this form, it goes a trifle in doing so at the government expense. So, also, with these histories of higher educa- tion in different states. The Bureau of cation has been perverting its publication facilities to the use of students in several colleges, who have used them to secure the free printing of thelr graduating disserta- tions and to be paid in addition out of the public treasury for the work which they have been doing as part of the requirements for their college degrees. The histories which they have written may some of them be interesting and desirable reading, but it is safe to say that the few for which there is any real demand would have been fssued without the intervention of the government. There have been many instances of impo- sition people in the matter of works published at the governmentt printing office, from learned treatises on the discas of cattle down to the insertion of Henry George's works Into the Congre: Rec- ord, but the Bureau of Education’s circulars of information will hold their own with any of them in this regard. There is. of cours a legitimate fleld for these circula this they ‘have wanderpd so far that they stand in urgent need of some action on the part of congress to point out the way back and to insist that it be followed. at a Bureau of reflecting spresented has offered re tssuied fon house exercise of has been to system issued to ter on ac fons of the Bureau to be se 1t be author circulars Franklin several far upon the sional THI PRESSURE ON THE PRESIDENT. The pressare on the president in connec- tion with the selgniorage bill has been very great, both from the friends of the measurc and those who think it ought to be vetoed, and Mr. Cleveland ought by this time to be pretty well informed as to the senti- ment of the country, represented on the one hand by the financial and business in- terests and on the other by a class of demo- cratic politicians, regarding this legis- tion. With respect to the latter the uniform testimony is that they have lost no oppor- tunity to impress upon the president the political importance of allowing the seign- forage bill to become law. It has urged that the future of the democratic party in the south and west depended very largely upon the disposition made of this measure. It has been reported that the arguments from this source were not alto- gether without influence with the president, partly for the reason that the opposition to the bill had seemed apath It not until after it begun to be seriously thought that Mr. Cleveland might sign the seigniorage bill or allow it to become law without his signature that the financial and business interests of the country felt called upon to take vigorous action. Before this these interests had implicit confidence that the president would be faithful to the record he had made as the friend of sound finance. Having this confidence the passage of the bill through congress did not greatly alarm them, and they only became aroused to a full of the danger when it became understood that there a possibility of Mr. Cleveland renouncing his far as to permit this legislation to go into effect. Since then the president has re- celved from leading commercial bodies of the country and from influential financial sources expressions in, no uncertain terms of thelr regarding this to “coln a vacuum.” If he at any time really believed that the great inte &) of the country were indifferent to this legis- lation ho must be now undeceived, and If he entertained the thought, as represented, that notwithstanding the admittedly bad character of the seigniorage bill its enact- ment might do no great harm, he must have learned from the opinions of prac- tical financlers that there fs danger of great harm, affecting the interests and wel- fare both of the government and the peo- The unanimous judgment of all prac- men who have expressed themselves on this question is that if this measure shall become law it will revive the distrust and depression from which the country is now gradually recovering. It will also pro- duce an unfavorable impression abroad which would be very likely itselt in a return of American securities and a consequent™ drain of gold. A loss of gold co-incident with an increase in the obliga- tions of the government that must be kept at parity with gold In order to maintain the public credit would be & very serious mat- ter. Thero have been reports of agreements and pledges in connection with the approval of the seigniorage bill. One statement was that certain southern senators made the signing of the bill & condition to thelr vot- been was sense was record 80 views scheme business to show THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ATYRDAY, MARCH 24, 1894 TWELVE PAGES, tarift bill a pledge had been given by the siiver men that if the president would approve the selgniorage bill no further effort wiil be made during this congress to pass measures favorable to silver coinage, Thera Is proba substantial foundation ‘for these re It i hardly credible that Mr. Cleve land would submit his offic influenced by threats or that he would enter into a partnership with the free coinage ad ing for the bly no ports. to have al action vqeates, for whom he has hitherto shown no He appears to be disposed to give the subject careful consideration, though It would seem that If he proposed to be con sistent with his record a day would serve as Il as ten in which to reach a conclusion. This Is why there is apprehension that he will approve the measure. The constitu tional time, ten days, in which the president hold the bill will next Friday It he does not sign it before that time or re turn it to the house in which it originated with his disapproval it will then become law without his signature, country will probably know by the middle of next week what is to be the fate of th bill, and the prediction is made upon what appears to be good authority that it will cer tainly not go upon the statute with out Mr. Cleveland's signature. consideration. may expira Congress and the books LECTRIC POINT Right on the Leels of the brazen attempt to prevent competition In electric lighting and the abolition of the office of city elec trician comes a resolution by Councilman Hascall directing Gas Inspector Gilbert to move Into and occupy the office In the city hall set apart for the city electrician in the face of the affidavit submitted by Mayor Bemis with his vcto of the ordinance abolish- ing the electrician, in which Mr. Cowgill deposes that 8. L. Wiley declared to him that he had kept Gilbert for two years in office, although he not reappointed. Hascall's latest move is an electric pointer. It means that Wiley and his tools in the council propose to thrust electric inspection upon the gas inspector, although the latte declares that he knows nothing about el trical inspection. The probability Is that the Wiley contingent will endeavor to whip the devil ‘r was ound the stump by conferring upon the gas inspector the power to appoint an assistant who shall perform the duties devolving the city electriclan. In other words, the scheme is to cut the magor out of the appointment of the inspector and play into the hands of Wiley in making the selection. In this scheme Wiley and the Jobbers will strike a snag fn the following provision of the charter: Section 135—The mayor shall have power by and with the consent of a majority of the entlre council to appoint all officers that may be deemed nccessary for the good government of the city other than those provided for in this act. The power to appoint a city electrician to whatever department he may be assigned is clearly with the mayor. The council, of course, will refuse to confirm anybody that does not suit Wiley and the mayor will refuse to appoint anybody known to be under Wiley's influence. And this is why we shall go without electric inspection until some of the councilmen are deposed or a new council shall be elected. A SUGGESTION TO REAL ESTATE MEN The county commissioners are getting ready to expend $150,000 for paving roadway: That will only give us three stub roads on the outskirts of the city for a distance of perhaps two or three miles out of town. What Omaha should have and what this county needs is a paved roadway to the west end of the county that could be used for an clectric motor tramway. Such a road wou'd glve the farmers and people of the villages and towns along the line facilities to come and go all the year round, market their products and do their trading. It would give Omaha people a chance to take an out- ing to the country without going to the ex- pense of hiring a team and would moreover cnable town people to have summer cottages in the neighborhicod of groves and orchards within two hours’ ride of town. When that road is built another tramway should be ex- tended to the northwest corner of the county and another line from South Omaha to Fort Crook to connect with a roadway through Sarpy and Cass counties to Plattsmouth. With trains running every two hours or hourly to settlements within a radius of twenty miles the lands in this county and in adjacent counties would double in value and the retail trade of Omaha would increase 50 per cent. The rise in the value of lands would more than offset the increase in taxes. In fact the marked advance in land valuss and the improvement in real estate values in Omaha would make the building of these rcads a paying investment from the start, Permanent roadways have become au ab- solute necessity for rural traffic and motor tramways are bound to become an Indispen sable adjunct of suburban trafiz for cvery large clty. If the real estate men of Omala will center their efforts in this dircetion end impress upon the commissioners the pro- prioty and advantage of submitting & propo- sition for half a million dollars in bonds for grading and paving roadways ‘hey would stimulate land and property values im- mensely. One or more of these roads cun be bullt this year and that alone should spur tho real estate men to actlvity in favor of the movement. We need employment for idle workmen this year and we can save money by building this year because lubor is abundant and cheap. The benefits of the construction of these roads will not on!: acerue directly to the land owner and labore) but also to the merchant and manufacturer, There can be no doubt that a roadway bond proposition would carry if submitted this spring, upon The figures telegraphed from Washington comparing the progress of removals of fourth-class postmasters under the present administration and under the previous ad- ministrations must be gratifying to the dem- ocrats who were fearing that the republican incumbents were not being compelled to make way for them with sufficient rapldity. They are informed that the work of decapl- tation since the renewal of democratic con- trol has beaten all former records. If they happened to be unfortunate it is only be- cause some other democrats have b fortunate, en more Governor Waite of Colorado thinks it the proper thing for him to address complimenting the stato militla for its conduct when summoned for action at Cripple Creek and Denver during the recent disturbances at those points. No has heard the militia complimenting Governor Waite for his conduct in calling out the militia to back up his arbitrary will against the order of the courts. Issue an one Sixty dollars for a duly authenticated pass- port is rather steep in these days of low prices for all the various necessities of life. Chinamen object to being fleeced to this ex- tent for the signature of the New York con- sul, especially when otker people are not required to o to gny such expense when Another was that | contemplating a trip abroad | works s & mygsterious way its wonc The Chinese are subject to enough annoying restrictions imposed by vithout having this de- mand made upon them for the benefit of the onsul's private ac the law finance sunt The of the sta ent law whiclygoverns the apportionment chobl money among the diff distficts of Nebraska o be distributed the number of children of school age resid ing within the respective districts. To ascor tain the number of children frem 5 to 21 years of age WMteh entitle each district to its share of the state apportionment, the law further provides for the taking of an annual school census, accogding to the of which the distribution is to The point fs now, raised, although for the first time, by President Powell the Board of Education In his report issued from the press, that the school nsuses of Omaha have for years failed to credit this city with the actual number of children of school residing here and that as a of this Omaha failed to receive her just proportion of the The importance of the matter to the people of Omaha lies in the fact that this money which she is entitied to have goes to swell the sums apportioned other of the state, while her taxpayors compelled to make up the difference by so much added to their annual tax levy. school requires those fund according to re- turns be made. not of Just age consequence has state school func to districts are dflatory cases, as The railroads are keeping up the tactics with the for switeh they have done with reference to ever: regulation to enforce which an npt was ever made. The transfer switch though nominally in force, has inoperative for months, The railroads hope to hang it yet for several periods of six months. A little vigorous action the part of the State ‘Board of Transporta- tion might expedite matters. Is Omaha to have thé benefit of cheaper electric lighting this year? The city Is offered an opportunity: to get its lighting at greatly reduced but the council pears to be doing everything in to avold taking advantage of the opportunity. If Omala to paying the rates for electric lamps the members of the present council will have to shoulder responsibility for it. tray re. striction or att law, been six up on rates, ap. its power is compelled to continue present exorbitant the Judging from the expenditures for coal at some of the state institutions three or four years ago, the coal consumption should as sume larger proportions from this time on until September. Under the old order of things the state consumed more coal in July than it did in January. This year it is dif- ferent. Who shall say that the impeachment proceedings did lay the groundwork for a much needed tdform? . All Coming Our Way, Globe-Democrat. The returns from the town elections in New Hampshice_show unprecedented re- publican gains, 6r. in other words, the live- liest kind of kicking against the Wilson bill and other dgmocratic abominations. Sl (T Let Hun Dictate It. New York World. Mr. Olney has so exhausted his energies in_his unrelenting fight on violators of the laws against conspiracies in restraint of trade that he feels too weak to write out his resignation, but perhaps after a few more duck huntf and fishing excursions Mr Cleveland may begbme sufliciently recuper ated to help him. Promature Explosign of Patriotism. Bdfralo Express. It fs all cleared up at last. The Dritish are in Blueflelds because the best citizens, including the United States consul, aske them to land a force to preserve order. T United States would Have had a co-ope inz force there If the Kearsarge had been wrecked. Those over-zealous papers which were clamoring for the a. sertion of the Monroe doctrine without waiting to find out whether it had been vio- lated were digging at the wrong wood- chuck hole. ntnher S o S Absurdity Stamped on Tts Cinclnnati ¢ ted openly by some of our demo- eratic contemporaries that the pr depression in_business is continued or ag- gravated by manufacturers, who desire o defeat the so-called tariff reform. The ab- surdity of this lies upon its face. Mere sentiment s never persisted in by busine men when it places accounts on the wron side of the ledger. Not one wheel, or one loom, or one anvil would remain idle a single week, nor would an army of willing workers be ‘unemployed if there were rea- sonable prospects presented for success, - Noble Impulses Under Ragged Coats. Philadelphia Ledger. All the heroes do not do deeds of pie- turesque daring and self-sacrifice, There are noble Impulse r ragged coats, Kingston, N. Y.. ago, men--Thomas Dunléayy Edward Van Gasbeech—met _their death while attempt- ing to rescue two comrades who were over- sme by coal was in the kiln of a cement pany. Thoroughly aware of the dan- braved it and perished while lantly performing the highest act of servic to lay down one's life for a friend. Thi act of supreme courage should not go with- out some substantial record. Dana Sheds Jeans. New York Sun It takes almost superhuman keep track of all the great Jeans Debbs of Te ance. ‘How many even thoughtful men have known that Jeans Debbs of Terre Haute has left the democratic party, sworn to be & populist, and with the populists stand, and even gone as far as Omaha to catch'a little of the free breath and mad- dened whirl of populism across the Missis- sippl? Yet Jeans Debbs has gone. Debbs has left. He will be the populist candidate for govérnor in Indiana in 18, the populist devotees of Debbs say. Yes, Debbs has gone, and the -Hoosier democracy is still Brogisy with the blow. God in the Constitution. New York Sun. We learn by o dispatch from Washington to a contemporary that, after the clersy n had made thelr specches before (e house committee on Tuesday, a lawyer arose and said that “there wWere persons who desired to bg heard on the other side of the question. 'The suggestion was a shocking one to tHE religious representu- tives, and for a moment a dead silenc filled the room. The chairman in low tone: responded that the committee would con sider the request.'| It does not seem 1t s indust men of “this e Haute, for to to us necessary or de- sirable that the other s of the question should be heard by the committee, The change sought for by & few men Is not de sired by the American people. It would not be in the intercst of religion. It would not promote the religious or the political or other interests of the community. It could not affect the goyarnment of ‘God. The of its advoe: seem 1o us grossly rent, especially w 1 they speak of oring the Almight putting His name in the federal ution, as an amendment thereto! B Man as a Jumplog-Jack, Loulsville ‘Courier-Journal, There are two prificipal reasons average woman finds it easy to Jumping-jack of the ayerage man, One I8 that the average man Is a very valn creature, and the woman who knows best how to play upon his vanity can Sound what stop she pl Another reason, and one not com- monly understood as the first, I8 be found In constitutional attitude toward w That Providence hich 5 o perform has s0° created an that he neces- sarily canoniz the woman who has the power to make him single her out from other women. Such @ woman, even though she be the weakest and most commonpluce of her sex, 1s the only Incarnation of those ideals of 'womanhood that the aforesald Providence implanted in the protoplasm from which was deyeloped the male human being. Call it either the divine blindness or the divine second sight, it Is the at secret of woman's power to make “jump ing-Jacks'” of men, and, laugh at such ng-Jacks as we do, It is & mighty | ding to prevent the Jacks frc Knaves, const why the make u becomin OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, the appreciuted and hastenod Lord Rosebery evidently diMculties of his position, y in his Bdinburgh address that the mean ing of his remarks in the House of Lovrds had His oxplanation was and_his Aiffors al vint been misapprehanded not as lueid as it s atement of the language from what he is reported to have Stll he made himself clear on one and that is that he siders home rul sible, even It a majority of the Fuglish mom bers of the House of Commor to oppose It. Thix statement {8 so far satis facory to the friends of rule. Rt the misfortane is that any explanation shonld be necessary. He sald that howe rule was a subject that he could not aveld mentioning in his speech in the House of Lords, and in this he was right. He was not only bound to mention it, but it was of the greatest fm portance that his utterances on the subje should be clear and unmistakable. In this latter particnlar he made a failure, a la mentable failure, the effect of which lias been only partially removed by his explana- tion of what he meant. On a question vital his utterances should not require explanation. It is just as well, therefore, to recognize the fact that Rosebery has made a bad start. The armor of Gladstone is rather too heavy for him; but the same remark might be made of any other man in Great Britain he time hns not arrived to despair of the success of his administra- tion. Rosebery is a man of unquestioned ability, and of high character. He is one of the comparatively fow British peers who have a serfons purpose and a positive talent for official work. He may have somewhat overrated his powers and have adjusted the mantle of Gladstone to his shoulders with too jaunty an air of self-confidence, 1f o, he probably understands hetter by this time the perils which environ one who stands in the flerce light which beats upon a British prime minister with more pitiless force than on the British throne. When it is considered that the passage of the bill relating to the commerclal treaty with Russia has compelled William II. to grievously offend the stanchest upholders of his throne and to depend temporarily on those sections of his subjects which are least friendly to the monarchical system one can well believe that he has been actu- ated by international rather than econom fcal motives. He wished, unquestionably to do something to weaken the effect of the reception of the Russian naval officers in Paris and (o stem the current of feeling and opinion which has seemed o be sweep ing the Russian empire into an Intimate connection with France. But to what ex- tent can a treaty of commerce be considered a guarantee of peace? The existance of a Zollverein in 1866 did not prevent several of the north German states from siding eagerly with the enemics of Prussia, their asso- clate in that customs unfon. Italy would gladly renew tomorrow a treaty of com- merce with France, but such a transaction would not, in the cvent of war between France and Germany, hold back Italy from aiding the Berlin government, in pur- suance of the duties to which she Is com- mitted by the triple alliance. It Is quite reconcilable with historical precedents that long before the termination of the commer- cial treaty just concluded between Russia and Germany the two countries should en- gage in war, . The treaty, In short, is no safeguard of peace; it simply relieves the tension which had 'for some time been in- ing between the Russian and German courts, and affords a basis for overtures toward a re-establishment of friendship. Should the comparatively free commercial relations now agreed upon be followed by an Interchange of visits between the Rus- sian and German sovereigns, then, in- deed, we might reasonably infer that the chance of the czar's co-operation with Franco against the central powers had been materially lessened, and, consequently, that the prospect of tranquillity on the continent had been essentially improved. In a word, the international insignificance of the treaty of commerce, as well as its bearing on the home politics of Germany, can only be dis closed by time. So far as it goes, it is an augury of concord; but such signs have proved misleading in the past, and may again prove so in the future. e gns in Africa and warfare with African potentates, especially when the lat- ter are killed, are found to Involve after- consequences, in the shape of black widows, not contemplated in the declaration of hos- tilities. Since the death of Lobengula his former wives have been reporting for ra- tions at British headquarters in such num- rs as to press severely on the commis- sariat, and according to the most respected local authorities, they have only begun to come. The conquerors will find” themselves under the necessity of providing for the permanent support of a procession of colored widows reaching from Matabeleland to the sources of the Niger, all relicts of the de- parted chieftain and equally entitled to sub- sistence. This obligation will be severely felt in the army estimates at home, as well as among the distributing officials of the conquered territory. Such an army of turbulent and destitute dowagers is far more difficult to deal with than the one Lobengula led to defeat, or which any other chieftain of that sweltering region will be likely to gather under his banners. It will, perhaps, put a new face on military operations i South Africa for some time to come, and bofore another sovereignty Is invaded care should be taken to obtain a roster of the conjugal retinue surrounding the throne, an estimate of their average longevity, and their probable outlay in boads and bangles during the rest of their lives. Only in this way can the cost of the expedition be ap- jroximated and a judgment reached as to whether it will be worth the outlay. If Britain bad the money back which Matabele war has cost her, and Lobengula could be restored to hls wives, and all the warriors, black and white, slain in the contest resuscitated and set in their several ranks agaim, it is likely that every- body would be better off and all the inter- ests of justice and civilization quite as hap- pily subserved. have been e used might ntinu ny Cam The veteran Saint-Hilaire cannot see how France, springing from the revolution, can be the ally of an autocratic power like Russia. Russia, he says, comprises numer- ous populations, but she does not yet constl- tute a nation. Czardom is one single will overriding all individual wills. Czars may be killed, but czardom will not be Killed for centuries, The czarg-have their eyes con- stantly fixed on Constantinople. Russia ex- tends from Finland to Bering Straits, from Archangel to Beloochistan, She covets Af- nistan, and whenever she possesses Con- itinople, and shall be simultancously at Constantinople, Moscow and St. Petersburg, she will command 150,000,000 souls. She will have Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. She is already almost mistress of Persia, and she will then be a formidable menace to the whole civilized world, which will have to re. sist her supremacy. She has one immense advantage over other nations. She has a compact population of 100,000,000, who can- not be reached. If she allles herself with France, it Is because she dreams of conquei ing Constantinople with her aid. If France and Russia emerge victorious from a future war, France, it is true, will have the Raine frontier, but Europe will be vanquished, and Russla, seated at Constantinople and St Petersburg, with 150,000,000 men, wiil have universal sway. e The recent demonsération in Buda-Pesth in favor of the ecclesiastical policy of the gov ernment Is said to have been one of the most remarkable manifestations of popular feeling seen upon the continent In recent times. There was an open-air meeting of no less than 150,000 persons without any dis urbance or disorder, and the crowds marched through tho town o procession without the assistance or interference of the police au horities. Dep utations numbering 70,000 persons were present from the provincss, Among the pro mot were members of the Hungarian aris. tocratie families of Andrassy, Szechenyl, ZI chy, Pallty, Karolyl, Nopasa and others, and the educated middle classes, together with a great proportion of tho peasantry, were rep resented, There was no distinetion of par'y or of rellglon. The enthusiasm i favor of the government reforms was uUDAnimous and was accompanied by a marked display of loyalty to the king. The meeting was held to dipose of all the efforts that have bee made by the ultramontane press 10 repre sent the ecclesiastical policy of the govern ment as unpopular and of artificial orig In the Reichstag Count Theodore Andrassy banded the president t resolutions adopted at the demonstration amid the applause of the whole house. Gros ORK. “Make Your Own Torms d Chil- dren HMave Nothing t has been much dispu tarift of 1346 wowedly modeled, My Wife Eat tion upon brought says the as to There whether the low which Wilson's bill s good or bad times to this country New York dor he following Is a description of how New York City throve under the 1548 tarilt on from Horace loy's great Tribune of 1854 Who s hungry? and see. You that are full-fed and not what it Is to be hungry--perhaps saw a hungry uan-—go and Go se0 thousands, men and_ women, boys and girls, old and young, black and white, of all natlons crowding and jostling each other, almost fighting for a first ehance, acting more 1ike lungry wolves than humaif beings in a land of plenty “It is two pol of of know never ind efforts of be kept food 1s only by th men that continuous the crowd can in order or made to wait till the ready for distribution, Such a scene may be scen overy day between 11 and 2 o'clock around the corner of Orange and Chatham streets, where charity gives a dinner to the poor, and soup and bread to others to carry to their miserable families. On Saturday we spent the hour of high tide. We have never seen anything like it before. Upward of 1,000 people were fed with a plate of soup, A plece of bread and a plece of meat on the premises, and In all than 1 Oon the same day 1,130 portions of soup were dealt out from Stewart’s ‘soup Kitchen,' in the rear of the great store, corner of Reade strect and Broadway “At the rooms on Duane for the rellef of the poor, on the same day they ga food to 2,256, In the Sixth ward alone over 6,000 persons were fed by charity on Satur- day, January And this Is only one day in one ward. Meanwhile- scenes of a like natur being cnacted all over the city A procession of geveral thousand persons kept marching about the streets yesterday, with flags and banners which bore such in- scriptions as . ‘Hunger is a Sharp Thorn,' ‘The Last Recourse,’ ‘Live and Let Live, ‘We Want Work,' ete. ich are the scenes that are being en- rcted Aaily before our eyes, while the cry of \ard times reaches us from overy part of the country. The making of roads is stopped, factories are closed and houses and ships are no longer being buflt. Factory hands, road makers, carpenters, bricklayers and laborers aro idle; paralysis is rapidly embracing every pursuit in the country. The cause of all this stoppage of cir- culation is to be found in the steady outdow of gold to pay foreign laborers for the cloth, the 'shoes, the iron and the other things that could be produced by American labor, but which cannot be so produced under our pres ent revenue system “If we could stop the import of the foreign es the gold would cease to flow out to v for them, and money would then again become more abundant; labor would then again be n demand; shoes, clothing and other mmodities would then again be in-demand, and men would then cease to starve in the streets of our towns and cities, everywhere crying, ‘Give me work! Only give me work! Make your own terms—my wife and chil- dren have nothing to eat.’ "' From which graphic account of life in New York under the low tariff of 1846 it appears that Walker's bill worked just like Wilson's. — - PEOPLE AND THINGS. an_hour th t stroot, Reports from several sections show a marked upward tendency in gasoline. Father Adam was not a Kentuckian. He relinquished paradise and clung to his temp- ter. Freddie Gebhard denies that he presented a silver bathtub to his bride. Nevertheless, the pair are in the swim, The many lurid tales emanating from Kansas contradict the reported extermina- tion of the Ananias family. Blizzards in the north and floods in the south! For versatility in weather as in other things, the country is peeriess. A Philadelphia mortgage shark charged borrower interest at the rate of 4,000 per cent per annum. The report that the Quaker City was slow and sleepy is vigor- ously refuted. Bill Nye is about to close his face on the lecture platform and edit a model farm in North Carolina. The Nestor of the forty liars s ambitious to rival the seed bureau in Washington. Colonel Guerilla Mosby threatens to con- test Commonweal Coxey's right to lead the crank party in 1896, Waite, Pennoyer, Till- man and other noted aspirants insure a rib- splitting free-for-all. The man who edited Mr. Cleveland's speeches and was rewarded with a consul- ship is dying of consumption. Poor fellow He unwittingly tackled a consecrated job and wrecked himself on the ponderous rocks of congested English. . Admiral Benbam will go on the retired list when his 62d birthday comes, April 10, whether he is on land or sea. April 9 may be commander of a ship sailing o'er the ocean blue. The next morning he will be nothing but a passenger. Some newspapers achieve greatness; other are born great. The Washington Times, just launclied, 15 one of the laiter class. At one bound it leaps from birth to maturity, if the assurance of the publish- ers Is accepted. The Times starts out “on a paying basis,” thus escapiig one of the great Joys of the business—that of wrest- ling with a vacuum on pay day. In other respects the Times Is right up to its name. Henry J. Browne is manager and Marshall Cushing editor. The largest m our money Now, boys-- SUNDAY FEATURES, Among Sunday foatures of be found many noteworthy Bee (tomorrow) ‘may following Wyoming Female Voters—A spectal corr spondent reviews woman suffrage in that state and proves it to have been a failur It was first adopted as the result of a political deal and made a legislative foot ball in early | territorial days. An interesting history ot the measure. | Political Bossism Denounced-—Congressn | HMarter discusses machine politics as dist| | guished from disciplined organizati This | able paper is one of a series that is attr ing widespread attention. Students of | litieal economy will appreciate its value After tho Vanished King—Story of a bu falo hunt in Nebraska twenty-three yoars ago. A week’s adventure on the frontie highly Interesting and unlque In descriy Side Lights on the Railroad Conferenc budget of storles from rallroad trainn reminiscent and anecdotal The local soclety page, secret socloty umn, unrivalled market reviews and quot tions, local and general, and complete sume of the day's doings at hom with full press reports, speclal and special dispatches from points, go to make up a newspaper. | | | | tog THE HUNGARIAN PATRIOT. Rocky Mountain News fame must ever form a the world's straggle ¢ Chicago Inter Ocean A full life, in deeds as well as in yea years being passed usefully in th active period of the world's history Boston Globe: Kossuth in all has been one of the great he world In the contest for human froedon and cverywhere they who love liberty must hold him high In honor. Globe-Democrat: For more than forty he was a man without a country, lingering on the stage of life long after nearly all the chiet figures of his perlod of activity had left it, and altogether out of touch with the world's interests and activities. Detroit Free Press: His was a lifo of many vicissitudes, and at times many hard ships; but he bore himself throughout with herolc fortitude and manifested a devotion to principal which secured him the rosp nd admiration of the lovers of freedo ywhere, Chicago Post: A nonogenarian, the world will pardon him the strange conceits of old age for the sake of the glorious services to lberty which shed an imperishablo r nown upon his prin There has been something half amusing, half melancholy in the spectacle of the sturdy old maicontent in his dim stone den at:the Turin palazzo a sort of Mecca for Hungarians—stubbornly refusing the blandishments of the Haps burgs and regretting nothing but the advance of the destroyer who would remove hi from the coveted privilege of watching over his native land. Kossuth regarded himsell as the sainted figure of modern history; and if we cannot give him that distinction, we may award him a great place in tho annals of those who have lived to mako His deeds bright chapter inst fmperia He lived a larg his ¢ BROWNING, K| & cOo. kera and sollars of fine clothe men free. e TRIFLING POINTS, Plain Dealer: The robber usually attacks a train in a tender place. Glens Falls Republican: The clown may be thick headed, but he is usually quick to take a tumble. 1 have always had a Chicago Tr gentim Miss Pahsay, “that L presentiment should die youn, “But you didn’t have to, did y replied “Miss Ahtless, stroking brown hair tenderly. " Witts—Yes, thermom- are ull right for cold, ou, dear? Her pale Buffalo Couriel eters, as you but—— Watts—But what? Witts—A furnace is to register heat. the only correct thing New York Commercial: “What on earth has come over Fitzzoober?” muttered Pul- cloping into a first class he's in y her Press The | corkscrew sprouts in a modest way, the balt Jug starts UL the fishpole tree on . the grassy lea— *Twill soon be flshing time. SIGNS OF TIHE SEASONS The earth exhibits signs of spring And brighter grow the days; Aldign that birds will shortly ‘sing For us their merry lays. except son's nearl nothing, fraining now; fishing sea Detroit Free Bach season has its signs—the fall, Spring, winter, as they pass, And that of summer s for all The sign, “Keep off the grass. e THE RIGHT TIME. When should a girl marry? I asked her one night, With her orbs, dark and starry, All briming with light. In youth, sweetly tender, Like a rosebud halt blown? Or when womanhood's splendor Encircles love's throne? y tell me, my de; My heart shall obe: And wed the one neareit The age that you say. She answered me, “Fredd Pardon my funi fit, 1_think, any year, After she's won.'” i on earth, worth or your monoy bac'e. As we promised something nice for the boys a floor. few days ago, we wouldn’t go back our word for and on Saturday we give away a beautiful on anything; Easter Lily, potand all, purchaser to every suit the department the sceond in \)U_y‘i on Then we begin our grand spring opening of boys' wearings and as we wani Lo make a good im- pression at the start we offer this pretty present as a sure inducement. We have an elegant line of new styles, and if you want your boy to have the very latest and best Saturday night. We have at a barg vin, come Saturday and mads a much larger pur- chase of Easter lilies this year than last, and are con- fident we have enough to last the day and night— but you better come early to make sure. BROWNING, KING & CO., t 1 kend ore 1rey theexpress if yo them crey {01 i:0warihior | S V. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, e il S e 4