Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 8, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEF: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER &, 1894 'm;. OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. RCSEWA TER, Bditor, TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION, ally Bee (without Sunday) One Yeat...... Daily_Tios and Sunday, One YOAF....... ... tx Monihe e bl hrea Montiis One’ Your One, Year . ‘One Yenr P ailding Ter 1 %nd_ Twenty-fourth Sta Peart Sireet 2 Chamter of Commeree 10, 14 ana 15, Tribune B4 T Bereen, N W, CORRESPONDENCE AN eommunications relating to news and sét- torial matter should be addressed: To the Kditor. RUSINGSS LETTERS | o remittances should b Eaplistong company, | Omaha, Tha T Bonth Omahn, ¢ Counell Dluffs, « ) Office, K, R ‘ashington, All Lusiness addromsed to The Ties d Omahn. Drafts, checks and postofiice orders 1o e m wayible to the order of th THE NER PUBLISHING ters TATEMENT OF George 15 7 " U « duly sworn, b actinl ) full_ and com of The Daily Morning, Bvening and printed during the month of Augus na follows CIRCULATION 21,08 281 Aotal Losn dedu Total sold Dally avera * Sunday, BEORG Sworn to before me and nee this 4th day of September, 150, ) N. P. FEIL, Notary Pubiie. in my Has it come to this that the democrats of Saline county have to label themselves? Better set the democratic victory in Ar- kansas off against the republican victory in Vermont and call it a dead heat so far. The populists appear to have had the happy fortune of acquiring nearly as many United States senators ele by other parties as they have been able to elect to the semate themselves. With over 300 school teachers once more | earning salaries ranging from $40 to $150 per month the retail merchants of Omaha ought to feel the effects of the reopening of the public schools. Something must be done to stimulate the growth of. Omaha that she may keep pace with rival citles west of Chieago. What 18 to be done and how it is to be done, and when, is the problem. 80 There are several courses of study in the High school curriculum that are ornamental only. They attract but a handful of puplls and the comparative cost of instruction is extravagantly high. Lop them off. Secretary Morton s now expected to com- Pose a text book on frrigation that will tsach the promoters of irrigation projects pre- clsely what they ought to do in their con- gresses it they want to avold official cen- sure. Senator Vilas missed the life at the Wisconsin democratic state con- vention, He should have repeated his ful- some eulogy of President Cleveland when he had an audience before him that could not well get awa chance of his A seasonable spell of autumn weather is now In order. We have now reached the stage of the sere and yellow leaf, and cooler weather would be a relief to people who have sweltered for three months, and to retall merchants who have made extensive prepara- tions for the fall trade. i “Set Peoria on Fire” is the striking head- line that introduces the opening of the dem- ocratic senatorial campaizn in that city to “the readers of Chicago papers. It Is not clear whether the great distillery city was set on fire by Mr. MacVeagh or by the whisky that was so rtecently taken out of bond. . It is really painful to watch the almost superhuman exertions of the members of the State Board of Transportation to keep up the pretense of trying to enforce the transfer switch law. Never before did they realize the difficulty of deceiving the public, but they have varlous resources still at hand to enable the raflroads to keep the law hung up in the courts. It is yet too early to confess that the law can be enforced. According to the Bradstreet compilation of cleating house returns Omaha did 21.3 per cont more business in the week ending on Thursday night than in the corresponding timo in 1893, This is encouraging in itself, but is more than encouraging when com- pared with the increase of the country at large, which is but 8.4 per ceat, or with the figures for the chief Mvals of the Gate City In the jobbing trade. During the spectacular exhibition at Court- 1and beach the street railway companies have been showing the people of Omaha what they can do both in the matter of fares and ac- commodation when they are favorably in- clined. These urraux‘vmems will be remem- bered whenever there may be occasion for asking similar facilities. Tt is certain that the street railway companies will not suffer on account of any liberal treatment they may accord the public. Mayor Bomis Is not doing all the vetoing of extravagant appropriations and cxcessive | contractor claims in these parts. Mayor Johnston sent a seathing veto message to the South Omaha council, in which Le reviewed some of the remarkable operations of cer- tain contractors for grading and cther public improvements by which the taxpayers of South Omaha were being chiseled out of several thousand dollars. In taking a firm stand against all inflated claims aud lawless appropristions Mayor Johnston is entitled to the gratitude of the property owners, who are already overburdened with special taxes. The smoke nuisance ordinance does not, A3 many cltizens seem to imagine, call merely for the use of some alleged smoke consuming device, whether the latter does what is clalmed for it by its Inventor or not. It re- quires the abatement of the smoke nuisance, and if one smoke consumer does not do the work It demands one that will. It requires also a moderate degree of care on the part of the fireman In firing, because the best smoke consumer cannot overcome shiftless firlng. We do not belleve of bulldings in this city are at all anxious to perpetuate the smoke evil. By directing thelr sltention to the exact seat of trouble a con- slderable improvement can and will doubtless be obtalned. the owners THE CLAIM OF ECONOMY. There will be a great deal heard in the course of the pending campaign about the renction of expenditures by the presant con- should in mind ever a demoeratic speaker or newspaper talke this that there Is to sessfon of the Fifty-third congress and that done in the mattcr of appro the extra and first regular # not furnish an entirely a8 to what junt the total appropriations of this ¢ will reach. The rule is that the approptiations of the sccond ot exwed those of the first session, to suppose that the exception. claim in the would not recommentlation of that especially in of tho fact that saving which they claim have ered by the cutting and oft of the pensions old wator Vilas, re- dumocratic the gress. Tt be borne when- on point be anothes what pria. tions at does was sions safe criterion 1o an. ssion congress nd there is present congress If all that 1o reason will make an the democrats now omy great wa were coficeded it be a very party. the entire made is co the soldiers. spectabl dress to that the appropriations of of the Fifty-third less than th than view to down of the very his stated eutting who is authority, in ad- Wisconsin convention, the first session congress 3,000,000 the preceding congress and § those of are § last 1,000,000 less last of the Fifty But why, if he desired to be did not Mr. Vilas make the of the appropriations of this con- I those of the first sessions, instead those made at session of the session first fair ar comparison candid, Bress w of the last, of the preceding two congresses That make a different showing, according to the statement made to the house of representatives by the chairman of the committee appropriations. The truth fis that the appropriations this year are greater by $27,000,000 than were those made by the last republican congress, characterized by the demoerats as the “billion dollar con- gress,” and they are less than the appropria at of the congress to the amount of only a little over $25,000,000, which is below amount of the reduction in the appropriation for this year, that little over §29,000,000. The estin congr various departments of the government cailed for appropriations for the coming fiscal year amounting to $520,000,000. cut these estimates down in the aggregate $30,000,000, and there can be no doubt that a large part of this amount will have to be appropriated at the next session by way of deficiencies, so that it may be re- garded that priations be made congress will considerably exceed $500,- 000,000 and carry grand total beyond the figures of the Fifty-first congress, the case with the last congres: the democrats had two-thirds of the The fact is, and it should be recog- nized of all the demands of the public service have become so great that a proper regard for them will not allow any very material from the ex- penditures of the last few years, and it is only reasonable to expect that a few years hence, with the growth of the country and the extension of the public service, a higher rate of expenditure will be necessary. The demand will perhaps steadily de- crease, but the falling oft in this account will more than offset by increased de- mands in other directions. In crediting the present congress with ex- traordinary economy Senator Vilas cited the fact that over 600 offices have been abolished, effecting a saving annually of $700,000, but he mado no reference to the fact that there have been many increases in the salaries of democratic the diplo- matic and cor which, in the aggregate, will not fall far short of the saved by abolishing offices. Judi- cious economy in public expenditures is to be desired, but no good citizen wants economy the price of which is inefliciency in any de- partment of the public service. As to the claim set up by the democratic party in this particular, it will be well not to con- cede it until the tenure of that party in control of the government has come to an end. would even on tions made the second session Fifty-secon the pension being a sent to s by the Congress certain the still ppro- to this by the as though house. was by men parties, reduction pension be officials, especially in ular service, amount THE NEW YORK TAILORS' STRIKE. What gives indication of being one of the most important strikes in this year of great labor controversies is under way in New York City, where from 12,000 to 15,000 tailors and tailors’ assistants are out on a strike against the garment contractors, who occupy an intermediary place between the clothing manufacturers and the clothing operators. It is estimated by those con saut with the situation that there are about 32,000 op-rators in the metropolis, the greater number of whom have been driven to the very verge of starvation by the competitive methods that prevail in the clothing trade, Their condition has been aptly termed “truly pititul Many of them have been working regularly sixteen hours a day in wretched sweat shops, from 4 in the morning until § at night, and earning no more than §5 weekly. This, it is alleged, is the natural and inevitable result of the tosk system In vogue, and it is against the task system that they have at last broken out in open revolt, demanding loudly immediate abolition, The actual workings of the task system have been described substantially as these: There are three factors in the matter, the merchant, the contractor and the operator. The contractor agrees with the merchant to turn out 0 many coats in a given time, and to do this he has to distribute the work among operators, basters and finishers. These are confined, often to the number cf a dozen, to a small room, and this is called a “sweat shop.”” An operator gots from the centractor what is called a task to do, and hitherto this has consisted of about seven ceats. By working hard on these for three days the operator could finish them, celving about 33 for his work; the basters would got $2.60 and the finishers $1.50 What the men complaining of now Is that the task has been increased to ten, twelve and, in some cases fitteen coats, while tha pay has remained the same. They say that the most they can make under the old system Is about $6 a week, and that they would not make a penny more under the change, while being obliged to work nearly twice as long. They say they are willing to work ten hours a day and be paid for a day's work, but they refuse any lopger to submit to the present conditions. Strange to say, the contractors profess to be in hearty sympathy with these demands, and say that they are quite amxions to ace cede to them, provided only the merchants and ‘manufacturers will make contracts at prices that will enable them to do so. The contractors insist that they are paying as much as they possibly can under exist- ing contract prices, and that they have been driven to the present low level by the manu- facturers, who in turn attempt to shift the responsibility upon a demoralized public taste that requires ready-made clothing to be marketed at bed rock figures. Another pecullarity of this great tallors® strike, and one which b:des no littls good, 1s the very active sympathy which the strikers are receiving from a group of its re~ are even wealthy philanthropie workers, headed by Mrs, Josephine Shaw Lowell, who has in- vestigated thoroughly the conditions of the tenement house poor in New York City. think," Mre. Lowell is “that the of moral and financial support,’ the w to enlist ported as saying, deserves to follow end cause these people ' and, rd with the the peopl strikers attain A strike In the blic rallroads, act, she § oring services of a number effort to assist their object if clotl trad trafic a es a there will be rt of the the 1t a just of a public wont to belle reason should from of prom the possible inent in an s does not in- terrupt the strike on and ther the p =0 long as no disposition on anthoritios to interfer strikers conduc themselves peaceably. cure the powerful opinion ause can se assistanc spinion public why the ob- con- as be striking New tain material tractors and manufacturers we are there is York tailors concessions to no not the THE CANAL ONCE MORE, The Platte project has again been brought to the attention of the ecounty commission-rs through the report of the city engineer volume of i supply and Elkhorn reaffirms th with regard ing a steady water 20,000-horse power at park t us. The greatest to the project is the financiering and subsidy which the canal company see to obtain. The canal agreed on month commissione in particular Unless these defects are eliminated the propo- river canal concerning the the Platte, 1 report ter om The conclusions up rivers. practically reached to the feasibility flow the ob \eretofor of proet that would insur ymour rmi acle proposition, as ago by veral ¢ some the is defective ssential sition would stand no chance of receiving the necessary two-thirds vote, Another question that presents itself nal- urally is whether the proposed canal should be owned and operated by private corporation or undertaken by the city and county jointly or the county There i little doubt that the authority for public owner- ship can be secured next winter through the L:gislature. This, of course, might delay the construction a few months, but in the end it would the public interest better than ownership, and save us from alone very subserve private the clashing with and obviate the perr our cit which i Wha prope private corporate interests with joners detrimental. commis cious interference councils and boards of comn s0 demoralizing and the county as regards the ¢ tever action > to take be taken at an foners should DISAFFE The de planters, day, in lican party of a degree of dissatisfa on influential class of the people iana which may well alarm the democrats of that state. It appears that the conven- tion was thoroughly representative in charac- ter. many of the lead- state, nearly il TED SUGAR PLANTERS, of the convention held in New Orleans favor of an alliance w national aration of sugar Thurs the repub- is significant among a most ot on on issue: Louis- There were present sugar planters of not quite all of them democrats, and the action taken was not hastily reached, but was the result of careful deliberation. The report states that a serlous break in the democratic party of Louisiana is threatened and that republicans may be sent to gress from two or t the ced in the sugar regiwon. isaffection of these sugar planters is most natural under the circumstances They have a very substantial grievance against the democratic’ party. The legisia- tion of that party regarding sugar means a serious loss to'all of them, and perhaps bankruptey and ruin, Under the bounty clause of the McKinley law these planters were led to greatly enlarge the area of sugar production, make extensive im- provements on their plantations, and other- wise make large expenditures in expectation of recelving the bounty, which they re- garded as in the nature of a contract the part of the government. As was by one of the Louis senators in a in the senate, the sugar crop of the present year is predicated upon the the bounty for the year. Contracts were made by the planters based upon the beliet that the bounty for the year would surely be paid them. A caucus of democratic sen- ators had agreed that this should be done. The planters had complied with every re- quirement of the law. They had performed their share of the contract. But notwith- standing all this, and the fact that at least part of the bounty had been earned before the passage of the new tariff law, the pro- vision abolishing the bounty was retained without any qualification, and the only chance of redress left to the sugar planters is in an appeal to the courts, which is not only uncertain, but subject to long delay. Under such circumstances it is not at all surprising that these men, who feel that they are being robbed of millions of dol- lars fairly earned, should be disposed to repudiate the party responsible for the wrong done them. They have justifiable reason for resentment. We shall not ven- ture any prediction as to what the effect of this action of the sugar planters may be on the democratic party or Louisiana, but it they are earnestly determined to rebuke that party and unitedly exert thelr influ- ence to that end it is possible for them to take the state out of the democratic column national issues. Sugar produc- tion is Louisiana’s great interest. An enor- mous capital is invested in it and it em- ploys an army of labor. It would hardly fail to control a mafority of the popular vote on any issue involying its security and prosperity. the con- distriets re, to some on said iana speech continuance of on No better argument for the postal tele- graph could be advanced than is daily being presented by the closing of dozens of railway telegraph offices on th: ground that the rail- way trafic does not Justify their These railway telegraph stations main- tained solely for the benefit of the railroads, and the and necessities of the public are never consuited. By shutting up these offices the people of vast sections of the country are deprived of even that miserable and inefficient which they have hitherto had. It is true that postoffices are open:d and closed from time to time, but they are never bolished except when there 1s no adequate public demand. They are not closed simply because railway traffic has fallen off. The postal telegraph offers the only way out continuance, are convenience telegraph service Some of the eastern democratic organs are trying to decry the importance of the hoat sugar Industry in Nebraska in order to con- vey the Impression that it makes littl: dif- ference whether it Is crushed out by hostile tarifl legislation or not. They present figures to show that only a fifth of the money paid in bounties on beet sugar went to Nebraska industries and that the product of Nebraska factorizs was but 1 per cent of the total sugar consumed in the United States last year. but they fail to state that the beet sugar indus- try is comparatively new to Nebraska, hav- ing been in operation but four or five years, and not yet Gompletely out of the stages of experimentation. They neglect to Inform the public that the froduct has kept increasing In amount apd 'yt for the threatened aboli- tion of the bounty would have been very | much greatsngn Arippling the beat sugar in | dustry the grgud of promised to ex g..‘g.. part of the American pand- over a gar s stunted. The importance of such | an industry is not to ba belittled what Conde West and Grow Up. Chlcago Record, Both Mr. Morton and Mr, Whitney are excellent andihic men, if they serfously aspire 10 the presiden will 1o weil to change th#r postoMce address by moving into the heart luf the country. uddi-: ARty On 4 Rocky Koad. Aflanta. Constity The democrats will have to &tand on their new tariff law. When it gots into operation the worst thing abowt it that will need any defense will be Mr, Carlisle’s sugar schedule, Which cannot be defended, and the worst j aboat it that will need expianation will be Mr. Cleveland’s refusal to which cannot be explaine e Tattuoed Tom, Paul ¢ on. andidate of the re. lor in Nebraska, will d to come out into his state es for him. He has a that it was only a few commended ‘the {ndict- ment and prosecution of Majors for forgery after an investigation made by a commitiee of which he was the head b - The Senato Holds the | Springfield Republican The two ends of the democrutic sional committee, senate and house ping together worth a cent. end naturally wants to denounce fensible features of the tariff senate doings, while the ite end would distribute only such speeches as praise the bill in toto. “As Gorman holds the commit- tee purse he will beat the house lead gain, Majors, the blicans for ask Tom R and make syoe paintul recoliection years ago Iteed r se. congres- are not th bill_as - ta Majority Me Philadelphia 1 A republican majority in not only means that there agitation in the next congre b notice to the present the remaining months ot must keep I3 hands off. backed by the votes of the people, will have to be heeded both by president and representatives, and heeded it will be. That is what the republican party is seeking in the control of the next house. - Passing of the Homan Leg. Philadeiphia 1t A professor in the Uniy has asserted in a paper that “all the inventive are now directec human leg as a he predicts the that appendage wh th , but it will congress that in its” existence it Such a notice, rsity of Geneva recently published encrgies of science to the superseding he means of locomotion,” and uitimate disappearance of “This will be something of handicap o the political kickers of the dim future, but it will be a_godsend to the politiclans 'whose nether extremities have been subjected to the process known as “pulling. Wheat in Pork and Beet. St PaulPioneer A great many farmers good ‘Tound dollar a bushel or for their wheat by converting it into pork and escaping the freight charges on the grain, failure of the corn crop has given an imm stimulus o this move- ment. The farmers in the southern coun- ties of the state Have taken hold of the idea. Corn is high and wheat is cheap. A bushel of wheat contains, it is said, about 25 per cent more of the nutritious ments nec for making pork than a bushel of corn. By putling their wheat into pork, therefore, they realize a much higher price for it ‘than by sending it to market in the crude form. B Decay of the Dedieated. Plyiladelphia Inquirer, veral of the -republican newspapers charge boldly thal esident has low ered his own Standard by accepting TS at the hands «of corporations whose munism of pel€” he has scored. Well, what it he ha I there anything strange in that? Did he not lower the standard which he himself set up in the mutter of civil ice reform? Did he not lowsr it in the matter of terrftorial appointments? - Did he not lower it when he allowed a perfidy- and-dishonor tarifi to become a law? To | tell the truth, there is not a public ques- tion that we cancat this moment recall upon which the president has not lower his own standard, excepting always his sublime confidence’ in his personal infalll- bility. Press. obtaining a thereabout —————— POINTED PARAGIAPHS, Washington Ha man 1s the prope in this countr the seashore in heaven. chet: Fiv tion of chu. The same. and will women to one *h attendance ratio holds good likewise continue Boston Transcript: Sho—I don't belleve you think half =0 much of me as Tom Dinsley does. He telis me he could die for me. He-That's nothing. 1 love you well enough to live with you. Mistress Ward—Yes, m to have 0, ma'am. Harlem Life: lady I was out? tress—Did she s about it? Ward knew you wasn't. Did tell _the ma'am. Mis- ny doubts She said she you Indianapolis Journal: “The wicked may triumph for a while,” exclaimed the ora “but the blind goddess of justice has, her eye on them, don't you forget It.”" Chicago Tribune: “I call him a_bouncing baby,” said the father, tossing the infant in the air, “considering the fact that we're raising him on the bottle.’ “How else do you raise babies, sah?" inquired the Ken- tucky colonel, eyeing him sharply, Mickey Donnel on, Mary Ellen Ryan. I brim wid Jaff at me fa horty beauty, w'en yer lo Losom of ‘em filled ‘wid C nite, I'll do de scorn_ack, beal de band, too. See? Star. verybody speaks of a rising young man,” said the young and Judg (bitterly)—Laft Il yerself ter de der's pants. But ks on de swellin sey's apples ter- T'll do it ter Washington him 2 woman, “Yes, repli he never lose: a lady a se d the voung ma; a chance to g t in a horse car. “Did you tell the new girl of our custom, my dear, of deducting the amount of her breakage from her wages at the end of the month?” “Yes, 1 did.'” “And what did she say?" “Bhe didn't say anything. She broke six glasses, five plates and the soup tureen, packed’ her valise and skipped.” Buffalo Courfer: Summitc—Miss Gayley seems thoroughly imbued with the idea that youth will tell. Bottome—Yes; you see she has three or four small brothers. Harper's Bazar: Chicago Tribune: Alderman ‘Steenth)—How do you do, Mr. Ayerline Fine morning, Isn't it? Just happened to be passiog by and casually dropped in General Passenger Agent K., X. & ( Railway (taking a blank pass and dipping his pen in the ink)—Where to? (from the OUT-SOLOMON SOLOMON. Detrolt Free Press, Behold the youih iu the white duck pa He toils not, peither s he spin, in ‘ajl his glory Yet Solomon, Had no such ‘clothes as he was in, Behold how more than fair he Fit mate for any daughter lovely papts (not trouse is, ———— e A MILEAON O 50, Brobkiyn Life, Hug 1'd be hizhest degree, mammap wherever What chatpis they would In whatéyer pleased me, It T hat'bat a million or so! What bestity and grace They would fiad in my face, With a :oul én me pure as the snow; No womafi Would think For o mahieny to shrink, 1 T had vet'w million or so! What a In_the To r'd go; What a feature I'd be At a german or tea, What a man for all women to know; And men, none the less, Would my Virtues confess, If 1 had but a million or sof OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, Mr. Estrup, who has just resigned his office of prime minister in Denmark after nineteen years of continvous service, 1s one of the most remarkable characters in Eu- rope. Sinca he office, in 1875, he has always had a lib ority opposed to him in the lower house, but as the upper house |s naturally conservative, and King Christian 1X. has stood by him firmly, they have never been able to turn him out. The refusal to vote supplies in 1881 brought on the extraordinary conflict, which seems now to be ended, between the government and th nt. The king for thirteen years pro and dissolved one Parllament another without obtaining a vote of plles, and Mr. Estrup, acting on vlews of royal prerogative which seemed strangely it of place in the ninoteenth century, car- ried on the government by taxes collected on the authority of the Kking's proclamation alone, In uiter disregard of lHaments More than onc> attempts have heen made to turn out King Christian, in spite of his per sotal popularity, and even to assassinate Estrup, but they have resulted in nothing He has carrled through the measures of the conservative party, the reorganization of the army and the fortification of Copenhagen; and this year, taking advantage of dissen slons among the liberals, he secured from th lower house the substantial ratification of his past acts in return for certain military concessions. His withdrawal may make parliamentary government again possible in Denmark. Mr. Betrup is 69 years old Baron Reedtz Thott, who has just succeeded Mr. Estrup the Danish cab inet, Is 5, a life-long conscrvative and very wealtly, as he holds large estates in Zealand, which have been In his family for generations. Two y ago he was made minister of forelgn affairs, the office which he held at his promotion. to sup: 18 president of a man of It is and not surprising according to that the czar fs fll, the reports—always veiled as much as possible in such cases—he is likely not to recover, and his authority is in no long time to pass over cessor. The fate of his father has alwiys been before him, and he has lived a hunted nd ibly beleagugred life since his accesslon to the throne. He will leave no great mark in Russian history, though he has widened her eastern frontiers and made a good beginning with the great trans- siberian raflway, one of ths most important enterprises of modern or any other time What his inheritor will do it is, of course too early to forecast. He is rather young yet for the responsibilities of such unlimited authority as will fall to him, but has been 1l instructed, and may turn out as well s persons of his class usually do. They are out of place in the modern period, and seem in process of gradual extirpation, but while they last interest appertains to them, and the departing and the incoming sovereign make a transitory pageant on the stage of the world's affairs. They come and go like shadows, effecting little substantial change the course of things for all of their tions and pretensions, and it is coming to be known that the business of mankind can get on quite well without them. The d-ath of the czar will n somewhat more, po- litically speaking, than that of the Count of Paris, now in his last days in exile at Stowe, in England, the seat of the proud bankrupted old Buckinghams, dismantled and untenanted for a generation, but not much more, and things will go on after it much as before to his suc- French finance is an fintricate subject, be- [ e of the complicated way in which her budget is made up. But although there has been considerable financial mismanagement, and lier tarift experiments have been costly, there is no cause to doubt the financial sta- bility of the republic. In spite of her enor- mous debt, the interest on which amounts 10 over $255,000,000 per year, and in spite of her annual expenditure of about $200,000,000 for national defense, French finance fs im- proving instead of ‘running down toward bankruptey, ¢f which there is at present not the smallest sign. The annual military and naval expenditure of Germany fs about $190,- 000,000 Compared with France, Germany is a poor country, but the burden Is borne with comparative ease. The interest on the German public debt amounts to only $17,000,- 000, and although the separate states of the empire have separate state debts, these, with the exception of Prussi re small The Prussian debt is nominally large, cwing to the purchase of railways by the government. At present the debt amounts to $1,560,000.000, but the interest charge of 00,000 is more than counterbalanced by a net income from the railways alone amounting to $90,000,000 a year. and Pru s well as all of the cther German states, recelves large incomes from state domains, forests and mine Christianity appeared in Corea in advance of missionaries, in 1777, some of the natives having recelved Christian books translated from the Chinese, in which the Jesuit pre- cepts and teachings were set forth. In 1794 a Chinese Jesuit went there and organized a little company of the faithful, but in 1801 e was slain. Thereafter, for thirty years, no missionairies came, but in 1835 they ap- pearad again, French Jesuits this time, dis- gulsed as mourners, whic in the Corean cities keep to the obscurer thoroughfares, and neither speak mor are spoken to by otk They ministered sccretly to the little flock which remained, performing their religious ceremonies at dead of night in the Christian houses, but in 1839 were found out, and they, too, wers destroyed. After an interval others came, and in 1865 these were also sacrificed, together with a con- siderable number of belicvers, men, women and children, who were offered pardon if they would abjure their faith, but not one was found to do this, and they were all be headed. Since 1885 Christian mission work, Protestant and Catholic alike, has been un- impeded, but this recital of its initial steps will serve to show tha bitterness of the way these traversed, and the courage, fortitude and fidelity of the early workers there. If the blood of the martyrs is yet the seed of the church the harvest in that far-off and mysterious land ought to be an abounding one. . It will be a great relief to Belgians In general, and to their king in particular, when the present chamber comes to an end and the chamber elected under the revised con- stitution enters upon its duties; for so long as it remains In existence the king will continue to be callzd upon to deal with polit- feal crises unprecedented and anique i1’ par- liamentary history. It was only by exercis- ing the most remarkable pliancy and astute- ness that he was able to effect a compromise of the ministerial complications that arose during his absence in Switzerland last spring, and now the reconstructed cabinet flnds itself checksd in its efforts to put into force the proteéctionist measures which con- stitute part of' its program, and which are demanded by the vast majority of the peo- ple. The present chamb:r—the last under the old constitution—has hitherto been re- newable in sections, half retiring every two years. The term of offic: of one-half ex- pired some weeks ago. Inasmuch, however, as the details for th enforcement of the electoral reforms provided by the revised constitution have not yet been entirely com- pleted, it was agreed that the retiring haif of the chamber thould contizue to sit until the goneral election In October next. The liberal members of the contingent that should have retired have now discovered that ir consciences would not permit them to continue to sit except for two indispensible pleces of business, namely, the completion of the electoral regulations and the supplement- ary estimates. This has had the effcct of rendering the maintenance of a quorum im- practicable, and the ministry has therefore been forced to yield and to give up all hopes of enacting its protec'io st projects. The empress dowager of China would like to have the $40,000,000 provided for her birthday fete which occurs this year handed over to the war fund, and this may be done, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S, Gov't Report Ra al Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE though the ministry will make an earnest | 8an Salvador wers continued today tn the effort to provide a sufclent sum to whip | United States district court. The testimony Japan with and not interfere with the ap- | 8dduced, however, wus but a repetition of pointed royal celebration. It shows a patri- | {Hof of desterday, tha prisonces continuing n 0 testify 1ot own behall to substans otle spirit on the part of the empress, how- | tiate their claim that at tnie of the ever, and does her more credit than any | commission of the acts charged ngninst amount of pageantry and freworks. She is | them a state of war existed In San Salva not the emperor's mother, but only his ownt, | dor, and that the alleged murdors and robe and was once an articie of merchandise, berles wero but Incidenta of actual warfares having been sold by her porents to n man. | A Pamphlet containing the military laws of darin, and by the mandarin permitted to | San” Salvador was introduced evidence @ | this afternoon after bitter opposition on the enter the clvil service examination required | part of the prosecution. Under these lawi of candidates for the position of kin, | X %0 have been Mstihed cubine, when she carrisd off high s con- | the defendants claim to have been justified and rose to the highest position of influence honors | in their every act. which she still maintains. Her proposal to (ol of P trengthen her popularity and make her as fmportant a figurehead in the affairs of the middle kingdom as Li Hung Chang has long been and still continues to be ity OING TO RETLL in| A distinguishing featur ond paper of Hon uperintendent of “Public of national debt, and the government nations of by Says He Ha f Resigning, FRANCISCO, Sept T United States minister De: ¢ the diplomatic corps have arrived from the east and on Saturday. When asked as to the truth of a telegraphic rumor that he would retire from the position as minister to China in favor of his son, Colonel Denby sald: “I do not intend to retire, i is no foundation for N a report in. tend to remain longer in this cou I have used up the two months leave of absence allotted to me, and now that war | tons that have reduced their debts the prevalls ‘between China and Japan the | past decade, while other nations have made president feels that the minister should be of progress that direction 1t Pekin, and with this view [ quite agree increased thelr obligations from yeas: Had not’ war broken out 1 cooid no doub - have obtained an exte n of the leave of The aggregate debt states has luced by mbout $8,00,000 in ten absence, but under the conditions now ex iating T feel that T should be at my, bost while the municipal, county and although my son, who has charge during | gehool district debt has been inerensed A L, Teally ‘commotens & | school district debt has been increased. A HttoRd 16 ih of the office and has | Most interesting table is given, showing the bonded and per capita debt of the lead- ing cities, Omaha’s net debt per capita is the confidence ministration ) far as my retiring that my son may sue- $13.79. Mr. Porter's article is of great value political and witl ceed me, I can settle that rumor by stating appreciated of The No Intention SAN Denby, and Mr the empir will sail to will be the Robert P, Porter, ex- the census, upon the sube Det This article treats state, county and l compares the ve stages debt of other the world. 1t that the States and Spain are the only na- soc- succe: with th 18 show no n or that while I'am on my way back to Pekin my son will shortly leave that city to re- turn to America. He comes home to be married,” added Minister Denby HOP GROWERS IN HARD LUCK, o Destroying the Crop in the Willamette Valley. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. Reports from the hop yards in the Willamette river of a very discouraging nature. With prices for hops, the ravages of the 1 students o highly economy by readers mon to Corea and the modes of punishment practiced by the officials of that benighted realm. Crimes most atroclous are ted in revolting torture and death. fal offenses mect with sey | while the r | Mould and 1 expi- Triv- st punishment, latives of crioninals must share Carp's letter is startling in de- use | tall and of consuming interest thorughout. and rain, and consequent black mould, the A copyrighted interview by Hamlin Gar- ralsers have a sorry time of it. The rains | land with Edward Kemeys, the American which have fallen since Sunday, it is | Sculptor, Is an artistic feature, Mr. Gar- claimed, have done great damage to the [ land never fails to interest his readers ripe and ripening crops. Wherever the vines |~ The inspiring — history of are infested by the parasites mould imme- nry, famous for its rated with water. This has been the case, | Baltimore A it is feared, with a gr ny yards reviewed briefly, coup yhoday a prominent hop degler received a sketch of the life of Qispateh from Woo in Marion county, uthor of the S which saya: ¥ haif of the hop yards A in this section have been abandoned WG hil ) of patriotic exe day, commemoratiy count of the lic {f A merchant the same its blishment The Train I n, says that a great many of the yards around that part of the country would not e picked, owing to lice a ould, ¥ bSPTIR A exploits of Gris urbs of Chicago nd dare deviltr the sharp de of which An incldent { Carpenter's letter tells of the crimes com- are low | their fate defense of of 1812, s with an inter- Francis Scott Spangled Ban- fort will be the clses next Wednes- of the centenuial of as & goveramont pest widing Profesh—The amate ld and Lake in the eub- contrasted with the dash of western ralders, and line fn the value of the hauls, Big Springs holds the rocord illustrated article describing scenes to an ocean voyage in the steer- age will be an attractive feature of The Sunday Bee. One of the brightest news- paper men of New York City recently made a round trip to Hurope in the steerage ond details his novel experience. This subject has been treated before, but never in a more interesting and graphic style than this. . The woman's page is made wholly of original matter. There §s not a dull or uninteresting item, but the fresh- est and best matter obtainable will be found in it. We invite the critical atien- tion of all readers to this department of The Sunday B A spe contributor favors The Sunday Bee with an article on the admission of Utah, reviewing at some length the suc- ssive stages of agitation and strife which were happily terminated Ly the congres- slonal act admitting Utah to the sisterhood of states. Peace and harmony now pervade the people, who look forward to an era of unbounded prosperity and substantial growth. In discussing remedies for social disorders, Rev. Dr. Wayland suggests radical meas- ures for the suppression of vice. He rec- ommends the quick application of sdtate surgery for the prevention and cure of manifold evils which beset society and adds a few pointed observations on the common methods of administering so-called charity The sporting esting Key, ner.” scene in D. Work on the Canal to Few We NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—After a suspe: of nearly five years work is to be on the colossal Panama canal project some time next month, French and American capitalists have, it is said, been quietly pre- paring the way during the past few months and now are nearly ready to begin opera- tions. One of the first necessitites was the passage of a law exempting the property of the canal company from seizure by its creditors. This being effected, as soon as the assets of the old concern are transfcrred to a new corporation, all will be smooth sailing as far as the management is con- cerned. Begin Ks. Again in a on resumed up almost Accidents Caused NEW YORK, Sept. 7. over land and water in tion until late in the forenvon today. The passage of ocean steamers from quarantine to their | ¢ in this city was much delayed. Two boats plying on the Bast 3 but neither sustained much rear-end collision took place al raillway of New Jerse trains carried 300 passengers, who recelved y shaking up, but escaped without ous’ injury. The rear eng damaged. avy Fogs. vy fog hung sex One of the Shot a Burgl PORTLAND, Ore., (o} Smith, an east side grocer, opened his store this morning he found a man about of age lying dead in a pool of blood on the floor in front of a trap gun which had been set for burglars. Papers found on the man indicated that his name was W. H. Moore- house, a resident of Montavilia. He had entered the store some time during the night. Smith’s store had been entered by burglars recently, and he had set a gun for the man's second vi page will be quite as at- tractive as ever. A review of the week's events, with gossip of special Interest to sportsmen, & letter describing the common sense ladles’ bicycle costun and an article telling how to devise a home-made gymna- 7. | sium form the important features of the page. In its news-gathering facilities The Suns Qay Bee ranks with the great dailies of the country. Its cablograms are full and com- plete, while the full Assoclated press service 18 unrivaled, Do not fall to read THESUNDAY BEE, d University Opens. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, —The fourth year of the Leland § Jr., university opened today. and twenty-five students have already reg- istered, exclusive of about 100 post-gradu- an increase of 15 over the number of students present last year. The total reg- istration for the year will exceed 1,200, Sept wford, Eight hundred z Tis Acts. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.—The extradi- tion proceedings in the cases of General Antonio Ezeta and his fellow refugees from YOUR MONE WORTH OR YOUR MONEY BACIK. 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