Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 18, 1894, Page 4

‘TvE OMAHA DALY BEE [ — ———— B, ROSEWATER, Pitor. - UBLISHED EVERY MORNINt TENMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.. lly_Tiee and Sunday, One ix " Montha ires Months Inday Liee, turday Dee, ‘eekly Dee, — One Ons_Yea One Year...... OFFIC Omaha, The Bee Building. | ha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. | 1 Fearl Bireet 317 Clinmber of Commerce. ‘lm Rooma 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washi 0T ¥ Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE. All eommunications relating to naws and edi- fal matter s be addressed: To the Bdltor BUSINESS LETTERS. ANl business letters and remittances should be | aAdressed 1o Tha Hea Publishing company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 1o made pavabls to the order of the company. THIZ BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 888338 ngton, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George [. Tachuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Mshing comp: being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complets copies of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday printed during the month of September, Was as follow 1 1 2 Zesw deductions for unsotd and returned | Coples .......... ERBEAL 01840 .100u0iines ily average nef circulation. .. | — | *Sunday. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK Bworn to hefore me and subserived in m presence this st of October, (Seal.) STUBBORN FACTS. [ Who hired Seth T. Colo to conduct Sen- ator Tuylor out of the state while the New- berry bill was pending? OfMclals of the Burlington rallroad. Who paid Seth T. Cole for staying with | Huylor to keo that he fulfilied bis contract with the oil room boodlers? The Furlington | Who kept the senate | ud. deadlock while | Taylor was being spirited away? Thomas J. Majors, | Who certified to a fraudulent voucher for Taylor's pay after he had been abducted? Thomus J. Majors. | i w Who drow the 875 which was pald out of the treasury on the fraudulent voucher? Mujors' private secretary, Walt M. Seely. These nre stubborn facts and no amount of cuttlefishing cun befog the people. We may be sure that we will hear again from Senator Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland by the day after the elec tion next month, at the latest. The enlargement of the free list unde the new democratic tariff won’t cut a eaper to the enlargement of the railroad free list in Nebraska during the present campaign. Baltimore 1s fast recovering from her grief over the loss of the Temple cup. By the time the season opens next spring Baltimore will be as base ball mad as ever, The: campaign of bugbears’ threats and intimidation which the calamity crusaders arve trying to make in the in- terest of the tattooed ecandidate will prove a boomerang in the end. 1f Cuelid Martin is opposing populism Without reference to polities, why is he 80 eager to have the secrotary of state compelled to accept the certificates of the democratic rump candidates? Chairman Wilson is still busy explain ing his London speech. If the voters of his West Virginia district do their duty Mr. Wilson will have all the time he can desire to explain that speech after No vember 6. OF course it would mean financial dis- aster to the railroads in Nebraska to put the maximum freight rate law in foree, while they are placing their whole passenger traffie at the disposal of Tobe Castor and Tom Majors. A stranger succeeded in passing §$100 Iu old state bank wildeat paper in In- diana the other day. If arrested we presume he will plead in excuse that lie thought the tax on state bank issues | had already been removed. Americans in China are assured that their safety will be properly looked after by the Chinese government itself, with- out assistance from the American lega- tion. The safety of Americans in China will doubtless be well provided for, but it is just possible that it may be the Japanese government that will be active in the matter, The discharge of democratic federal employes, because of their refusal to vote for a republican candidate for governor, anywhere else than in Nebraska would be regarded as an act of insanity. Tl explanation lies in the fact that the administration machine in this state is Jrun from railroad headquarters in the interest of railrond candidates, whether republicans or democrats, The railroad de in control of the democratic machine have no objec- tion to continuing a republican in | /charge of the Omaha postoffice so long a8 the postmastership can be used as a club to keep the would-be Nasbys in Mne for the election of a railroad re- publican to the governorship of Ne- braska. There will be no change In the Omaha postoffice until after election, [ The democrats In New York City who are opposing Strauss for mayor and sup- ‘porting Hill for governor, both Tam- many candidates, ave in a peculinr po sltion with respect to the election frauds usually practiced by Tammany heelers. They would not object to having Iill profit by these questionable practices, “but they do not want them to be em- ployed at the same time against their own mayoralty candidate. Nearly one hundred election officials were convicted of violating the election laws last year, but at least two of them who have served their sentences have been reap- poluted this year. Tammany may be relied upon to attempt all its old tricks, and only the utmost vigilance will be | #ble to prevent thelr success. | Bvery law Is pres they THE BULLSEYE OF THE TARGET. The maximum rate law enacted by the lnst legislature was to go Into effect upon Atigust 1, 1802, The law was hung up in the federal courts at the instance of the railroad managers, and is ntlll' hanging there up to this day. The act: | fon of the federal court was the most | outrageous interference with the rights | of the people to govern themselves, | med to be binding the people until it has been decreed as unconstitutional by the courts. In this instance the common rile has been reversed. The law en- | neted for the relief of the people from | extortion and diserimination by com- | mon carriers has been nullified before | the courts could pass upon its legality. : | | upon all I the other laws enacted by our tures were hung up until the fod courts would see fit to let them go into effect there would be anarchy in every state of this union. Since August 1, 1892, when the maxi mum rate law should have gone into effect, many shippers have been paying the old rate under protest, and in the event that the law is declared valid will sue the railroad companies | for the difference between the rate es- tablished by the maximum freight law and the amount they have paid. Not only has the old rate been maintained, | bt it has been slightly inc [ provide a fund for fighting the law. | Now, why are the railroads mnkln;:} sueh o desperate it to elect Majors? They well afford to spend $100,000 | to keep the bill hung up and stay fur- | ther legislation by having a man in the | governor's chair who will veto any bill | ts the defects which the | nets may point out as existing in the | el law. Another point is very clear. If the federal eirenit court declares the max e rate law valid the overchar; will be collected by the elevator men, Tnmber dealers and neayy shippe The farmers will not get a penny. The money which should have been paid to the farmers in increased prices for their products by veason of reduced freight rates will remain in the pockets of the n speculators and heavy shippers What is the interest and duty of our farmers under these conditions? First, they should help to eclect a governor who will not interpose his veto in case it becomes necessary to re-enact the maximum freight law next winter, | They should pledge the eandidates for | the legislature of all parties to vote for i new maximum rate law in conformity | with the rulings of the courts, This de cision is evidently Dbeing withheld by Judge Brewer until affer the election | at the instance of the railronds. The | pledges ‘ted from the candidates for the legislature should be iron-clad. They should be in writing, and they should also be made in public mectings. Any candidate for the legislature who wob- bles or equivoeates on this vital issue should be defeated. Thix is particularly applicable to can- didates for the sf ate. The cor- porate monopolies are centering all their efforts upon the state senate, If they control seventeen members they i block all legislation, and if they fail to control the senate they will tr to Dblock all legislation through Vors. rased LATEST FIGURES ON CONGRESS. The managers of Loth the great par- . fully appreciating the great impor- tanee of the political complexion of the next house of representatives, are wateling the progress of the congr sional campalgn throughout the country with the keenest interest. The great democratic majority in the present con- gress naturally gives the demoe managers a feeling of nfidence t it will not be overcome, notwithstanding the great change that evidently has taken place in public sentiment, while the republican managers, although he- lieving that the next house will be un- der republican control, concede that the task of making it so demands constant and earnest work up to the very day of election. The present situation is this: IFrom the sixteen states embraced in the solid south the democrats have 121 representatives to six republicans. Assuming that this southern democratic representation will be maintained, the democrats only need fifty-eight to make a majority of the house, and they have twenty-eight states to elect only fifty- nine members from. But the repub- ans must secure 172 members in th twenty-eight states. In other words the demoerats have only to elect fifty nine members, allowing them an unbroken delegation from the southern states, while the republicans, in order to con- trol the next house, have to elect 172, There i8 a very good prospect, how- ever, that the number of democratic representatives from the south will be reduced and that the republicans will gain ten or twelve in that section. Ken- tucky is expected to send two repub- ext house, Louisiana one, and possibly two, Maryland two, and zains for the republicans arve confidently looked for also from Missouri, Tennes- see, Virginia, West Virginia and pes haps Delaware. y in the can palgn some of the more sanguine proph- ets fixed the republican majority in the nest house of representatives as high us fre lore conservative estimates do not it 8o high. The most recent of e make a total of 187 republicans, 160 democrats and uine populists, giving the republicans a majority of eighteen over all. It Is suggested In connection with this estimate that perhaps suffi- clent allowance has not been made for populist strength in the west and south, but it can be taken for granted that where a populist is elected he is more than likely to displace a democrat, and that when elected he will generally act with the demoerats. Therefore the re publican calculation will stand. This estimate contemplates a gain of sixty vepublicans, at least fifty of which must | be made in the twenty-eight states not mbraced in the solid south, This is a large gain to make, but the Indications seem to fully warrant the prediction that it will be made, and may even be | somewhat exceeded. There would be no doubt of its belng exceeded it it were | British THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: a number of states, some of which are republican. The democratic managers, according to reports from Washington, are divect- ing pretty much all their efforts to the eastern, middle and northwestern states. It is with them only a question | of how mitich they ean afford to lose and still maintain control, while with the | republicans it is a question of how much they must have in order to obtain supremacy. The control of | the next house of representatives by the republicans seems assured, but | probably by not mueh more than a safe | working majority. THEY ARE NOT ALARMED British manufacturers are not the least Dbit frightened at the threat of American competition made by the pol- iticlans in this country who propose to g0 on tearing down the defenses of Ameriean industries erccted by the pro- tectionists, Referring to the declaration of Mr. Wilson, that tariff veform would forward from this time forth by own impetus,” the London Times, volcing the sentiment of the industrial interests of at Britain, sald: “We wish we could feel sure of this, for v 1 that freedom of trade is #ood for all the world and we are not at all ed by Mr. Wilson's highly- colored picture of the future supremacy of the United States in industrial pr duction and in external commerce, Why should they be alarmed? The pol- fey of the taviff reformers proposes to the British manufacturers the ey market in the world, fn which our own manufacturers wilk be able to maintain themselves only by reducing the price of American labor to the Brit- ish standard. They will not be able to do this at once. Its accomplishment will take time, for the workingmen of this country will not submit to having their wages, and consequently their plane of living, brought down to the Buropean level without making a most determined struggle against it. In an industrial conflict British wa turers would find their opportunity to aecquire a larger foothold in the Amer iean market, and having done this can there be any doubt that they would possible effort to maintain The inevitable effect would be that American industries wou erippled or driven to astrous results to Ame 20 its convineed st it? 1 be se. the wall, with di ican la- bor. As to the assnmption that under the poli the tariff reformers we would be enabled to capture foreign markets, manufactur can regard it the slightest apprehension. havdly a market to which of Great Britain now which the manufactures country desire to 1 tain wh they lave not secured so firm a grip that it will require long years to break it, if indeed it ever be broken. In nearly every country to which British trade extends there are investments of British capital in securi- ties, railvonds and financial institu- tions, by which have been established the most intimate commereial relations Detween such conntries and Great Brit- ain nd I8 a great creditor coun- try. A lavge part of the world pays tribute to her, and because this is so she exerts a power and influence in the trade of the workl unequalled by any other tion. Her fleets of merchant vessols are on every sea, carrying her products to all lands and transporting the products of all lands to her own and other markets. With her vast re- sources of capital she dominates the world’s finanee How shall the United States, with its present development, compete with such a power for the world’s markets? If American capital were satisfied with small returns, if American labor would be content to work and to live on the level of ropean labor, if we had a merchant marine to convey our products to the world’s markets, we might unde such a competition, but none of these conditions exist. They may come at some time in the futute, but will be when the American market no longer furnishes an adequate field for Amer- ican enterprise, The industri S without The! the is goods and of that n interests of Great Brit- ain want free trade in the United States not from any interest in our welfare,” but solely for the reason that it would give them larger access to the world's greatest mavkef, with the pos- sibility that in time they would prac- tically control it. The talk of our rout- ing them out of other markets causes them no anxiety or alarm. On the con- trary, it is prebably rather amusing to them, VOTE 1HE PAVING BONDS. The ordinance passed by the city council at its regular meeting providing for the submission at the coming el tion of a bond proposition authorizing the sale of $75,000 in bonds for the pur- pose of defraying the expense of paving and repaving street Intersections will doubtless be promptly signed by the mayor and ought to receive no opposi- | tion whatever at the polls. Under the | plan of making street improvements in Omaba the cost of paving s assessed against the owners of the abutting | property, while the city at large is called | thirty to forty, but later and |upon to pay the cost of paving the street | intersections. This has been done uni- formly up to this time and it is re- | quired in fairness that it be continued | with reference to repaving and future street improvements, The amount of repaving that will | have to be done next year cannot be | accurately estimated at the present moment, but $75,000 for intersections is a conservative figure and there will be no difficulty in finding opportunities to expend the whole amount. Voting this money for the intersection paving fund means the paving of many miles of streets and the expenditure of many times that mmount for labor and ma- terials, It is absolutely necessary that Omaha continue her work of public im- provement, not only that streets may be again placed In passable condi- tion and her reputation as a well paved city maintained, but also that the laborers accustomed to find employment with the paving contractors may be re- uot for the democratie gerrymanders in | B | and the slightly unpleasa | stimulus will that the bonde secure the requisite rity of twp-thirds of all the votes the ward Blubs, labor unions and other organizat@®ns should take it npon themselves fo i@press npon their mem- ers the necesdlly of voting and work- ng for the succliss of this proposition at | the polls, cast John Burns, labor leader of Commg Americ the celebrated English | and member of the House | . 18 to start next month for | 18 o delegate from the English | trades union to attend the | annual confercuas of the International | Pederation of Labor to be hel In December. By whatever ronte Mr. Burns goes to Denver he must neces- arily come very close to Omaha and could doubtless be prevailed upon to stop off in this city. The labor unions ought to get together at once and decide upon a grand labor demoustration, in- cluding delegations from surrounding cities and towns, in case he can be in- Auced to make an address at this point. n opportunity of this kind is inde and no efforts should be omitted to ke the best of it. cong o “A sight of Judge Holcomb at once set at rest uneasy minds which feared his clection would injure the state or its credit.” This is the report of Judge Holcomb's advent into Tekamal. Wher- ever the judge goes his presence alone Is enough to dispel the stories of the danger which his clevation to the gov- rship would bring upon the people. The stamp robbers at t printing and engraving have good pros- pects of belng stinped with sentences to penal servitude. An Op: Thilad Question. il Times questionable whether we need a army, “An enemy might get over the ocean, but he could never get over this country — Afticting the Mourners. Chicago Dispatch, One of the saddest features of the d of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is the that it hus resurrected an army of ama obituary poets, who are pouring brog of club-footed verse into his memory W AT Carlisle’s Boomerang. Buffalo Expiess. The boomerang 18 still in active political service. Secrelar; Carlisle's spectacular ar- rest of Mr. Morton's coachman has served only to cail attention to the fact that he himself keeps a_conchman, a footman and a butler, all of whom are carried on the rolls of the asury department public of- ficials and paid out of the United States ath fact cur Asides — g o Man in Clo Philadelphja Inquirer., While it may not be true that the long- talled overcoat is a sure guard against rheumatism in the knee-joints, s of the aesthetic In men's dress to learn that this style is fashion again. Wher prop made | decidedly the handsomest kind of top ment which can be worn, assuming, of course, that the Wearer knows how to carry himself. And tHen it v the short cast never is—it is warm. When the bliz- zards howl the mah With a good long coat only smiles, Hewis not cold and he looks vityingly upon the poor fellows who, need- ing a top-coat, haye yet not the under- standing to get one which answers the de- d purpose —— d Conceit. Minnéapolis Tribune, Vhether the report that China Is on her knees to Japan and suing for peace be true or not, one result of the war is certain. It will shak® out of China that colossal cor ceit and conservatism which for centuries has stood in the way of her progre She will learn that in all the arts of war the western nations are far ahead of and | the adoption of new modes of warfaré will pave the way for the admission of other | western ideas, which will change the | whole face of her civilization, as they have | done in n. The progréssive men of China, like LI Hung Chang, while they be- | lieve 'the intellectual religious devel- opment of thelr empire superior to that of the United States and Kurope, admit that in material development, and the useful arts, the Occident has far out- them. This war will be a great teacher opener to the arrogant Celestial ever its outcome may be, they will be like in future to learn wisdom from the e ample of Japan, the little neighbor whose fancied weakness and foolishness they have so despised. It Is prophesied that it will not be long ere China adopts western in- ventions, sclence and modes of education, and subScribes to the principle of religious tolera the new era in Japan. e A Flagrant Nullity and Dead Lotter. Chicago Herald. Chin In every res commerce act was framed as a pre shippers against diserimination a tablish uniformity of rates for transportation, it is a failure and a dead 1 It is yiolated every hour in the day v substantially every railroad in the cour try. It Is as absolitely without enforce- ment as the Sunday saloon law in Chicago. he Interstate Commerce Co 1dle, useless, ineffective, costly incumbrance and humbug. It fails absolutely to enforce the law by which it was create the mere matter of drawing salaries by the commissioners. Its attention has been called to repeated, constant, flagrant violations of the law by the railroads, but not a wrong has been corrected nor has an offender been punished. The railroads ride rough over both the law and the commission The interstate law bristles all over with penalties which the rafiroads meet with audaclous and festive deflance. 1f the pen- alties fixed by the law had been enforced against the railroads for every violation of its_terms the sums collected as fines since 18%8 would have amounted to more than the national debt at the close of the war. But not a dollar has been collected for all the multitude of enormous fines which are pro- vided for infringements of the law, and no ather criminal punishment has been in. flieted on railroad officers, however frequent and gagrant may have been the offenses. e Spirits from Beet Root Molasses. cago Tribune. The manufacture of spirits from beet-root molasses now i3 an assured success. The Columbia Distilling company at Omaha Is using a carload of the syrup each day. The basic material is obtained from the Oxnard ot Sugar factory at Grand Island, Neb., t taste natural to it 18 neutralized by a cheap process similar to that used in some French distilleries. If this rate were kept up through the year it would absorb move than one-third of the annual production of molasses at Grand Tsland, and If the work proves a commer- clal success, as now séems beyond doubt, & bel giyen to the use of molasses in other dlstilleries and to the production of beet sugar and molasses In other factories to be built in the near fu- ture. One of the latter s said already to be under arrangements for bullding _at Omaha. Hitherto molasses has been a by- product at the beet sugar factorles, and though not rated as worthless, was hard to dispose of at a satisfactory’ price. Now there is room for a vast increase In its pro- duction, and perhaps even for the cultiva- tion of ‘the beet for the purpose of having its entire saccharine constituent used as a basis for spirits. - With a tariff protection of 40 per cent, or about 1% cents per pound, there is no good FedSbn Why heet growers and the men who operate beet sugar fac- torles should not enter upon the business more extensively and find it highly profit- able. They ought to be able to make more sugar because of the Increased value of the molasses, all of which can find ready sale to the distillers. fon to to es- railway SDAY, OCTOBER 18, on, which marked the beginning of | pect by which the interstate | nmission is an | xcept. in | 1894, PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Il does not drink, yot he Is re garded s an expert in “setting ‘em up. The New York Herald Is taking an active and agmressive part In the ecampaign—in China. Political campaigning of kleptomania. See how the stump. The appearance of Thomas Bracket Reed in New York proves conclusively that he is out of the woods. Ex-President Harrison objects to_vestibule platforms of the Chicago varlety. The broad guage Minneapolis is just his size. Twenly fashionable women of New York are out gunning for the Tammany. They insist on getting the pelt for a parior orna- develops a species many persons take Denver | ment. | Vice President Howard of the American Railway Union Is inconsolable. Some measly sneak pinched him for several raiirond an- nuals, In the light of the shallow brevity of h speeches, it is evident Governor Flower appreciates the folly of “shedding fragrance on the desert air. The Penn statue on the city hall of Phila- delphia will be 430 feet above the sidewalk Like the principles of the venerable Quaker, his statue is out of sight The emancipation of woman Is progressing southward. A woman in Greensboro, Ala., captured a man under her bed. She didn't do a thing to him—merely yelled at him. General Wolseley once predicted that China would make a conquest of the world. His prophesy Is as far from realization as his criticism of American union generals were distant from truth A federal grand jury up in Wisconsin in- dicted sixty persons for making fraudulent entries on pine lands. There are so many prominent persons mixed up in the deal that Justice is sure to slip several cogs. The story of how an influential Chinese official bought 300,000 worthless guns from Germany for two (aels apiece and sold them to his own government for nine tacls each reads just like one of our own taels of an army contractor of the 1861-65 period. The genlal and jovial Dick Tate, who plucked the state treasury of Kentucky seven years ago and took a prolonged vacation, has been discovered in Japan enjoying the fruit of his successful loot. He is not as- piring to office, but there is little doubt he could be Induced to manipulate the finances of the Japanese war. In California a constitutional amendment is to be voted on in November which, if adopted, will shut out aliens, except those of the white race or of African descent, from acquiring any real estate or personal property in that state. The San Franclsco Chronicle denounces the proposition as a return to the age of barbarism when cvery alien was deemed a public enemy. General Danfel H. Hastings, the republi- an candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, possesses a memory for faces and names that is nothing less than marvelous. As ad- jutant general of the state, in his many campaign tours and in his business relations, he has been brought into vontact with great numbers of persons, and to a friend he re- cently renarked that he believed he could call 60,000 people by name. Richar i Smith, the Philadelphia type- founder, who died recently in Parls, left $500,000 for the erection of an elaborate monumental memorial, _ornamented with statues of distinguished Pennsylvanians who took active part in the civil war, This me morial is to take the form of granite arche one to be used as a driveway and two others as footways, in accordance with plans al- ready prepared and approved by the testator, It has often been noticed b strangers who visit the Ne marshes in mosquito time that tives are quite exempt from their attacks. Some interesting experiments lately concluded by Mr. Edison indicate that their fondness for Jersey lightning accounts for this immunity. Mr. Edison filled a leather bag full of light- ning and exposed it to the ravenous insects, Their beaks punctured the leather readily, but as soon as they had tasted the whisky they fell down dead drunk. The average period of recovery was eleven hours, forty- nine minutes and sixteen seconds, Ollie Teal Is to the political show business of New York what Tom Johnson Is to Cleve- land, 0. Ollie is nothing if not original. A one ring show is beneath his dignity. I belleves in republican success, and propose: to carry his campaign into the slums of the metropolis in a spectacular fashion, To escape an acquaintance with the Bowery crowd, he has established a twenty chair barber shop, where shaves and hair-cuts may be had for nothing. He will have one mile of mass meetings in the Bo: Ty tonight, Wwith 100 speakers. These will be followed with other novelties, but no one can tell what new and startling shoot the manacled warrior may take CE JOCULAR JOINT DERBATERS. Detroit Free Pre tening? He—-1 never United States senator. She—Isn't sugar fat- tried it. I'm no Indianapolis Journal: * satisfied with your lot," phe hope said vou are the’ philoso- Not " vestor, on it.” quite,” replied the real estate In- “But I would be If it had a house It's funny, but a sp. is most expressive ut. Yonkers Gazette ing countenance the mouth is k- when Cineinnati (sleepily snoring? not. Tribune: Mr. Smallwort What is the matter, dear; was 1 Mrs. Smallwort—No, you were That's what made me wake. Leslie's Weekly: Chappy—I weally believe I will study languages, doncherknow. Mis James—Tow perfectly ' delightful! You will commence with English, of course? Syracuse Post: | Hoboo now? He mun over everyhody. MeSwitte fulfilling his “ambition. on a trolley car. McSwatte was alwa —~Where's wanting to Well, he's He's & motorman | Indianapolis Journal: Mrs. Wickwire— Anything in the paper this morning? Mr., Wickwire—Here is a fashion note that lmflv interest you. It says that owing to | the hard times vests will not be so full as | they were this time two years ago. Truth: Mrs. Greyneck—Al little about a woman's sorrows. Women suffer in silence. Mr. Greyneck—Yes: in face, I suppose that's their greatest suiter- ng. men know so Judge: Jinks—There Is one drawback to these self-made men that they usually over- look. Filkins—What is 1t? Jinks—They're seldom able to select their materials. WOMAN'S WITCHING WAYS, Minneapolis Journal. He's very young. Hence by a smile He's easy thrown into a daze, He feels his very being warmed By lovely woman's witching ways. Yes, he Is young. 'Tis not long since hat top and marbles were his piays, Though then, as now, he oft was warmed By lovely switching ways. ANITARY SIN. British Medical Journal, 1 met my modest Minnie by the windmill in the trees: We walked among the lilies, neither toil nor spin But a demon danced between howled above the breeze, “You may love the little lady, her affec- tions you may win, But Kissing is o Sanitary Sin, I married her one morning in the church- yard down the lane, Far away from the trouble and the tur- moil and the din. Ere the earth had made its journey round the orb of day again, We'd a baby girl; but'p our little Min. For Kissing Is a Sanitary Sin, those that us, and he er did we kiss Oh, we love each other dearly; but our lips have never met, Though her silvér threads are and nty thatch Is growing thin. To the act of osculation we have descended yet, For we know, since fell diseases such a practice ushers in, That Kissing is a Sanitary Sin, — coming, not Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S, Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE tained among us. In order to be certain DOUBLE THE STANDING ARMY Gencral Schofield's Buggestion is Given a Prompt Second. SOLDIERS NEEDED TO SUPPRESS ANARCHY General Howard S Country 1n Vexatious Questio Outaide Serlous Monnee to the ment of “Many N Aggres the Sect Dunger fron WASHINGTON, Oct, 17.- annual re- port of Major General 0. 0. Howard, com- manding the Department of the East, las been made public, General Howard, in speaking of the movements of his troops necessitated by the late strike, says that fortunately his apprehensions of serious ob- struction to commerce of the east and south were not realized. But should such dimi- culties arise again and simultaneously in clties far apart, the necessity for regular troops and more of them than his depart- ment now affords, he says, s apparent Just now the mnational guards in several states in the department are well organized and respond promptly to every call of duty, still it more than one state is involved in events growing out of anarchy the execu- tive will always require his own troops. They will be essential to his execution of laws and maintenance of order. Ot course governors of states should co-operate, but they might disagree or be reluctant in mak- ing sudden emergency calls, Therefore, General Howard strongly recommends an in- crease of the army to at least Jouble the size of our present force In his judgment it will be the best possible thod of pre- serving the peace until many vexatious ques- tions which are now troubling the country are put at rest by a solution satistactory to the people of the nation. General Howard expresses the opinfon that already our coast defenses are in fairly good condition. And that in conjunction with our ever increasing naval armament there would be little fear from outside aggression. REPEATS TH DENIAL, Republican Committes Relterates Tts State- ment Concerning A P. A, erature. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Chalrman Bab- cock of the republican congressional cam- palgn committee today issued the following formal statement to the press: *I have been today handed what purports to be an ad- vance sheet of a document now belng printed in this city. It is entitled ‘A bold appeal to bigotry; republicans circulating A. P. A. literature. The congressional committee do- ing the work but shirking the responsibility.’ “The document is made up of extracts from nowspapers, and is so utterly devold of truth that it would hardly seem necessary to deny any such tissue of base falsifications. I have repeatedly stated to the press that the repub- lican congressional committee had absolutely no connection of any kind, either directly or indirectly, with any sccret soclety, or, in fact, with any other society; that it has conducted the campaign strictly upon the lines indicated In the last national platform, realizing that the committee has no author- ity to make or inject any lssues into its cam- paign not authorized by its party platform. Wo have worked steadily on this line and all the literature thyt has been published or handled by the committee has been exposed for the public and the public uses in our re- ception rooms &t the headquarters in tbis city. No one has ever been refused any of t documents published or Issued from: this com- mittee and they have all been scattered broadcast over the land as the committes thought, and still think, In the Interest of good goverument and protection to all. 1 desire to say once more that the statements in this pamphlet, so far as they seek to con- nect the congressional committee of the re- publican_organization in charge of the cam- paign with any organization of any kind, are absolutely and unqualifiedly false in every particular, so there s not, nor has there been, any connection with any organization outside of the authorized state central and district congressional committees, nor has this committee handled, mailed or asked to bo mailed, any literature of any kind except that exposed for public use In its reception rooms."" British bassy Vaeant. WASHINGTON, Oct, 17.—A letter from | Sir Juliay Pauncefote, now in London, says he will sall for this country with his family on November 4. Mr. Gaugh, tho new first secretary, is expected the same time. The | present first secretary will then return to England. There las been no British repre- sentativo in Washington for several months and for this reason there is added doubt of | the truth of the recent reports that Great | Britain has made a formal proposition to this country to intercede in the China-Japan war. ‘Such an important proposition would hardly be made by mail. Another Internationnl Incldent Closed, WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Mr. Terrel, the United States minister to Turkey, has suc- | cessfully closed another international incl- dent with credit to himself. On September it the Turkish police pounced on séveral vo Armenians at Aindab, on a charge of sedition. Incidentally they undertook to gearch the Amerfean college at that town to discover papers bearing on the conspiracy. Mr. Terrel protested that this should not be done except in the presence of him or his representativy The Turkish government ylolded this point and today Mr. Terret | cabled Acting Secretary Uhl that the search had been in the prosence of Mr. Brown, his | secretary of legation, and that the rties a ested were exonerated and the Incidens ~d ANOTH President y What They May ¥ WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—From an official newspaper just recoived here from Hayti | 1t would appear that the president of that dis- turbed country, General Hippolyte, is prepar- ing himself to meet another rebellion and is |ready todeal in the most summary manner with the prime mover. Here is what the Moni= teur of August8 has to say: Last Sunday his excellency, tho president of the republic, In the presence of some government offclals and other citizens expressed himsell as fol- lows “Before I was elected chief of this stats T had taken part in the administration of the affairs of my country. Everybody had recog- nized in me an honest man. Today some of theso partics who aided my promotion ap- pear to tax me with being a thlef. It is | uredly a glaring offense on their part be- cause thy knew me to be a thief and, having selected me as chief of the nation, they are thieves themselves. The public tranquility must be maintained at any cost and to effect | it there is no sacrifice I would not make. I | have by my side at the present time young, oted men, who, should the oppportunity present itself, only necd to hear from me 1o act. 1 know ail that is said—all that is done, hence they fix the 17th as the date to attack by arms. I shall, for my part, be like- wise ready then as well as on all other dates | And s0 much the worse forthem should the attempt fail. The example to which I shall treat them will be terrifie, bocause 1 will not remain on that day at the palace—it would bo impossible, for it would be contrarywto my temperament. They may perhaps attempt my life. I shall not allow them to do me as they did President Carnot, because the uides do camp that are near me know what will be the penalty should they through neglect allow individuals to approach me without my giving them orders to that eftect. They v even, If thoy prefer, shoot at me with I announce it now, they have only to the Plotters DRAWING FROM BLUEFIELDS. Naval Vessels No Longer Considered Necess sary at that Point, WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Secretary Her- bert, after consultation with the State de- partment, has decided at length to relieve the United States naval vesscls which have been so long at Bluefield Nicaragua. To- day he sent orders by telegraph to Captain Sumner of the Columbia to proceed with his vessel to Kingston, Jamaica. The commander of the Marblehead was ordered to proceed with his ship to Carthagenia Colombia, if the state of affairs at Bluefields would war- rant the complete withdrawal of both war- ships. The reason for sending the Marble- head to Carthagenia is probably to guard against any Injury to the American Interests there—mainly in the hands of Boston firms- through revolutionary movements growing out of the selection of a president to suceeed Dr. Nunez, who died not long ago. If the Colum= bla remains near Jamaica for a time she will be in a position to return at short notice to Bluefields if the occasion requires it. Senor Regifo, Colombla charge aires says his country is entirely tranquil and without signs of revolution or other disorder which might affect American interests. President Nunez, who died about & month ago, has been succoeded by Vice President Garo. The cabinet have also designated General Quintero Caldero to a position equivalent of vice president. Senor Regifo says he would bo advised by cable of any disorder, 80 he Is at a loss to know what in- duced the reports on which Seeretary Her- bert ordered the Marblehead to Colombia. HURTADO WILL COME BACK. blan Minister Will Now Probably Ree sume His Duties. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—A sharp diplo- matic disagreement between the United States of Colombia and the United States of Amer- ica has just been brought to a close. The difterences grew out of, and have existed, ever since President Harrisonin March, 1802, issued a retaliatory proclamation against Colombia, under the provisions of the Mc- Kinley act, because of the latter's refusal to negotlate a reciprocity treaty with the United States, as had been done by other Central and South American countries, Senor Hu tado, the Colombian minister, proteste against the proclamation, and after a warm correspondence with Secretaries Blaine and John W. Foster left Washington, and has re- turned but once since, that occasion being a call on Secretary Gresham. For two years Colombia's protests have been before the State department. Now, however, the new Amer- fcan tariff does away with' reciprocity and retaliation, so that the retaliatory proclama- tion against Colombla is annulled. ~ As a re- sult the strained relations between the two countries are ended, and it {s thought Senor Hurdato will take up his residence in Wash= ington. Colon IS YOUR MONEX'S WORTH Facts. OR YOUR MONEY BACK. We propose to furnish in our adverlisement a OFFICIAL VOTE. The vote in this state two years ago was as follows: Governor. CROUNSE (Rep.)..........78,426 VAN WYCK (Pop.)........08,617 MORTON (Dem.)...........44,195 Lieutenant Governor. MAJORS (Rep.)........... 81,500 SCHRADER (Pop.).........62,501 WaALBACH (Dem.).........46,421 whether on subjects ical, or simply pertaining garments. 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