Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1894, Page 4

e ———— 4 L — ____ _____ Trr,_OMAHA DAILY BEE. OCOUNTT BOXD CURRENCY. I Notwithstanding the plank contained in the democratic national platform de- | manding the repeal of the tax on state bank issves, wly its agninst a return to the days of «ddog bank notes and wildeat cur wey. The federal tax on state hank ssies is prohibitive, and so long as the mposiug it remains upon the tute books our currency will be free intrusion from that guarter. But HOW comes 4 new menace to our cir- | euluting medium, a deviee that origi mates in the south, the section particu Inrly anxious for the restoration of the antebellum shinplasters. Floyd county, ia, threntens to place upon the arket a series of small denomination TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: fly Bee (without Bunday), One Vear. ally Bee and Buoday, One Year... X Momthe aeee . . Ty S T i Bee. Ome Tear.....l. ; Baturday Dee, One_ Yt ..ooroes law Weekly Bee, One Y. ~t OFFICES: Tuflding, er N and Twenty-fourth Sts. wvarl_Street Omaa, The Ties Bouth Omana, Cor Conneil Winita, 13 Chengn O, 37 Chumber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, M and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 I Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relatiog to news and ed! torial maiter Dbe addres 1: To the Edtor. nUS P88 LETTERS. AN business jetters and remittances should be afdressed to The ¥ Publishing company, Omata " Drifte Ciecks” and postofice orders 10 | county bouds, payable to bearer, and o Tada pavanis o the oraer ol the com s e e Bk PUpTIENG COMPANY. | intended to supplant the use of United | - === | Ntatex notes in that loeality, if not in still wider territory. alnst a county bond same objections may against the state bauk sone restrd BTAY T OF CIRCULATION. Grorge 1 ok, secrotary of The Bes Pub Mshing compan v w that | the nctual number of full and complete coples of The Dully Moraing, Evening and Sunday Bee Jurine e of September, otlows currency the be urged as notes. While tlons upon 1, Timiting their wensures for restrictions different states and some of them that avily arise difference the bonds. County tace value sell for on the wmarket in small denom ... . Most states pha e e w7 | the issue of connty i amount and theiv redemption varied in inudequate i © st value f preseribing yet these o e neces i the 1 the smine s of different Issuing them o iy prices Tota Loew “Aeduci cop'es S $is | for “unsold and rety o, Total nold 3 2307 Daily average " eirculation. of & howogencous cnrrency, each dollar el in value to every other, we wonld | lave a currency with constitug wents, fetuating o valne with credit of the counties belind them Overissie would be nevitable, and with overissie would come deprociation. 1n of insolveney the process of tguidation would be even more ditficult more proteacted than it ever was (he old state bauks. A county bond crreney without federal safegnards would mean an utter demoralization of trade and commerce amd the derange ntof our whole monetary system. The offietads of 1° vgia, | seem these dith 1 for sotie tine *Suniay. GRORGE B Bworn to befors me and subs presence Uiis 1st of October, 1891 (Seal) N.'P. FEIL Notary Publie “This mild weather is readily traccable to the lieat of the eampaign. TZSCHUCK. ibed In my t ole | the | President Clov serving that my speech is and s patiently ol I commended rule that and silence golden. Al Tor Now that the Germun emperor's sonsg has been set to English his lit- ry fame may be regarded as estab- 1 lished verse to have McKinley could not resist R the invitation to spend just a little time | (. with AFTLG T he fo ihe fn West Virginin putting a few spikes | iy of fikhas i tn Chalran Wilson's political coffin. |0 utlorized 1o dixpose of them, far ns state lnws nre ned, they withheld them uutil they might tin whether there was to be any tion from Washington. It was feared that an issue of bonds of this Anracter would be regarded as a hank ing operation, and that the transaction | ; - = ould be in violation of the banking | Enelid Martis wants a correetion of a | WU e iu violatio i [ laws of the United States. The ques misstatenment that he would doubtless | " S sto for Majors. Ilo intends to yote | ' WAS referred i the solicitor of the for Sturdevant. We make the eorrec | who. after careful iny . tion cheerfully. But kow about his JERNEGIHLIDWELLIAG tharo /i wtes omacted by con- couchin ¥ | < LR o Auly incorporated oty Wds of any crs of the Rail (nd Business Men's nomination it may prefer. Not satistied | manifesto are tumblin one an | other to repudiate any sympathy with | with the sonnduess of this ruling, ey Carlisle declined o affirn it until the of calumity, We did not suppose that Majors” candidacy was to | he had heard from the attorney general bring repudiation quite so soon outhe subject. The opinion of Attor: ———— noy General Olney, just made public, ac China and Japan have tacitly ag conds the salicitor of the to an intermission in their little fracas | the way for the to enable the newspaper reading public | heginning of & connty houd curreney fu the United States to devote their en- | (e point to which the attorney general tive attention to the battle of the bal- | | he does not feel ealled lots scheduled for the fi way perhaps point ot Novenhe + to the plan and one 1 cnmot e remeved withont legisi It is contained i the coneluding “That s the question whether such honds, if issucd, will be subjeet to tax: under the aet of Fehruary, 1875, does 10t avise upon any facts and i one upon whieh my opinion i not asked, T refrain | Three weeks ago Judge Brewer toid | 1 cxProssing 1" It I8 fair to infer o from this language that the attorney | A veprexentative of The RBee that his de- . : soneral is iuclined to extend that law cision in the maximum fref rate case | i i i . 10 all notes in clrculation not issued in would rendered within the nest | 5 ; ity itk ek 0t (s ilong overdie: Wiy it ja|| DUEsIIC of fedural puthority, whetlite *ich notes go by the e of honds or being withbeld no man knows, but the LIGEERE O 1 Should the bonds be subject to delay may or may not be manmual tax of 10 per cent of their value it will not be loug before to the Hawmilton club of Chicago 3| (¥ are quickly called in. It such magnificent tribute to Alexander Hamil. | "108 are not subject to thnt tax the ton, the father of the American systom | #% 0ught o he amended without deluy of protection, after whom.the clul wax | Weltde them hayond cavil numed. This was certainly a very | clever way of paylug a compliment to lis losts, enltios ave praposed | I Martin says that the Save-the not in the interest of Majors, but of Sturdevant. Buclid had better consult his associates in the movement to the purposes of conce Eueli State i ascer ory op some trensi tiga: tion, render nothing in the s to prevent a from issuing de | over canse with that of wy and clears but whi st Tuesday in | wpon to ded refers another obstiac Senator Allison I8 shrewdly seeing to | ! it that i presidentia) | '™ hoom be ot contined to a single state He is carefully civeulating through the states surrounding Towa, sentation 1n a national nominating con vention would be most dositable roots his ptasaph on whose repre now existing Ex-Speaker Reed mnde his address | ' DEPRESEION AND MONKEY SUPPLY. For the parpose of relieving thei _ of the responsibility for the depre An houest assessment and a low tax that the hard rate must go hand in hand. Limiting | were due to a lack of mon This the tax rate will doubtless contribute ix an argument cspecially with those toward increasiug the valuation of tax- | who advoeite the free colnage of silver. able property. Had the assessors listed | Ax was pointed out by General Havri propecty at its real worth, as required | son in one of his recont addresses, when | under the present law, the tax rate | (he panic 1 1 there was more money | would long ugo have been down to the | in circulation per capita than there had it now proposed. een for many years hefore, The gov- e ernment had for several years been is The text of the canal proposition s | wuing treasury uotes in payment for Bow advertised in The Bee is the best | i purehases of silver to the nmount explanation of the conditions of the | or 4,500,000 ounces n month, the ad. proposed issue of bong that is to be | dition form of gurrency to the had. Men who wish to vote intelli- | ensing it by about §155, gently upon this question have ample | 000,000, Then the reduction of the opportunity to make themselves famil- &, treasury surplus by the redemption of far with it. The proposition is to be | ponds added many millions to the cir- | published until shortly before election, | culation. In this respect the policy of | aud no one will be able 1o say that #t | (he last republican administration was was not necessible to him. quite different from that of the demo- N T TR Herutg, | “atic administration that preceded it. vovery iutelligent pors > [ The plan of the latter was to let the I person knows that the senate sugar seandal investigating 108, wrheciyse Af spiied ins | committee was appolnted to whitewas), | "FEUICRE fUr A reduction of tarlff du- and mot to find out.” Every intelligent | U0 The Arst adwinistration of Mr person cortainly suspects that that way | C10VCI0A had the same authority as | the purpose, but if so, the inyestigators | 1 OF I8 Stecoxsor o use the surplus | made a wouderful wistike In making | ® TeduCing the public debt, but it did | Senator Allen a member of that com wEnd slmpie forhs | mittee. No one will impugn. such a mo- IS Ua sian wiw 40 atnialn thp | tive to the purt which the Nebraska sen. | SWTPIUS for political effect. The demo- | ator played In the | e crats at that time vigorously assailed | n parly for having allowed Some of the men whose names appear umulntion of n large surplus, but | ou the Railroad Business Men's mani- | their administration declined to avall it- | festo urging all to unite in preserving | self of the opportunity to reduce it by the credit of the state by electing the | the legitimate process of paying off the tattooed candidate for governor appear nationnl debt and reducing the Interest also as siguers of the appeal of the dem- | burden. That would have beeu good ocratic rumps bidding for support for | business policy, but not for the demo- the 8. d. tcket (siraight democrat or | cra v good polities. straw dumy, as 1s preferred). There | Accordiug to the last report of the is really no luconsistency here, however | socretary of the treasury the volume fuconsistent this action may appear, The | of money in the country, outside of the | men who put up the straw dummy | United States treasury, ticket are working in the interest of tween November 1, 1802, and November Tattooed Tom and do not propose to 1,198, $112000,000, certatuly an in. throw awuy their votes on third ticket | crease far in excess of the dewand, Of candidates, They have no pangs of | this iucrease over $56,000,000 was in fgonsclence in associnting themselves | gold. The depression began early in | with the calamity crusaders (1593, und while 1t was growing in lu. | democrats assert tin s TensC vest, increased be. | Bee Las given both the | | very heavy | to run along with men whos | reputable b | on |turn to Majors for relief in orde | constitutionality | heritunee tax law tensity the supply of money was stead- 11y being inereased, so tint obviously the panic was not due to any lack of mone; There swas more currency in the count in 1803 than duving the previous year of unprecedented industeial activity and Dusiness | but it was not wanted in remained in the banks because the people who ofvned it did not have the confidence to put it inte cnterprises What was it that lnd shaken confidence? The pledge of the democratic party to radieally alter the e policy which had prevailed for more thaw thirty years. There was nothing to warrant the sudden change from a Ligh st confidence of profound distrust and appre hension, Nobody could tell how far the democentic party, haviig achieved full contrel of the government as tl vesult of 0 most extraordinary popular delusion, would go in carrying out the docirine of s national platform, and had the supply of money been double what it was it difference. We shonld depression just the The cirenlation has been declining for some months now than it i no compl mor legitimate business., is not fully sperit business, 1t o have had t) b the per capita s loss year ago, but t anywhere of a lack of the demands As yet confidend nl people having 1l 1o invest are still eautions an nservative, They are waiting for the sult of the appronching congre wils for meeting alter this condition of affwirs. [nstend | olections, which will determine whetlier | the war on protection is to ceane or on. If there is a republican how representatives elected the idle curs Wil get into employment will remain for an inde unused, g0 e time longer AS TO THE ( Onl lecion WPONTTION Wo weeks remuin from now il dny. Burring the which every citizen in the stat the politienl the nx Omaha and Douglas county are vit interested in the proposition to vote aid (o the projected Platte river camal. On this subject there s naturs very decided diversity of opinion. and The concern has in contest of omoters and oppenents of the pro fair hearing There doubt whatever that the coustruction of thix eanal would very materially Denefit Omaha, first by the mple Lof a lavge fo; of working- men and heavy nditure of the cir culating medium, and later on in the stimulus to manufacturing ent amd reduction i the cost of elecirie Highting and power. From an engineer the f bility of the st ox ing standpoint canabs generally ded D who are qualified to speak as to the volume of water to be secured and the elevation of the Platte and Elkhorn ivers. The reall the taxpayer serious problem is whether we justified in voting the subsidy asked ang whether the interests of the publi re sufti- ciently protecied to insure the comple- tion and maintenance of the eanal. On these points every voter should enre fully scan the proposition submitted by the commissioners, the condition of unmany nomi wition for mayor of New York that cer tain objectionable men who cured places on the Tummany ticket - men wie had implicated by the Lexow Investigatiug commiitee in the i of Dlackmail aud extortion - should be foreed to retive. That is to en o Tammany leader refused have se. been tice Wy, e acters sul 1them to the gravest and who could not be defended from such accusations, This was wost unexpected, particularly from Mr. ¢ who, when mayor, had played into hunds of all the dis who were fattening Tammany is ves and thugs in of dishonesty the s Tammany s willing to let the th L appointive positions, but it draws s line where thelr eandidacy for « tive offices jeopardizes the success of the whole ticket. ‘hants who were Chicago police wendiarism when r possession thirty- four pusses on different American rail- wids, These passes, the authoritics think, indicate that the prisoners were wed in smuggling on a s senle, and that th had the tacit ¢ operntion, if not the active su the ruflway officials. Such a disclosure wmerits searching investi ion by the luterstate Commerce commission, interstate commerce law prohibits the issue of free transportation except to rallway employes. How caa the rail- The two Chinese taken into custody by tl the ol also engs possession of these | these merchants violation of Can the ra parties to the Chinese What better evidence of a the law ean be desired? road officials have been smuggling transactions? The interstate commerce should not until it has sifted the affair to the bottom, stop While we sympathize with the men who have assumed a liability on the late wurer's bond, the taxpayers of Ne- ska are con d In the ment of the bond to the tune of § nd interest, which makes the tc a quarter of a million by this t if the court d of Hill were released when he turned over Mosher's worthless certificate of deposit, then the bondsmen of the p nt trensurer come in for their share of agony are also on Burtley's bond, and hence calamity stares them In the face which- ever way they turn. No wonder they to eck over nd the credit of the state from w W ruin. he supreme court of Massachusetts has rendered a decision aficming the of thes colluteral in- passed by the legis- lature of that state in 1891, The law was attacked on the ground that the state had no power to tax inheritance on the ground that it contravened the state constitution calling for equal and reusonable taxation, and on the ground that it selected certain classes of prop- erty to bear an additional tax. The court held that the tax was in the na there | y | | prises experts | personal | port of, | enforce- | les that the bondsmen | eral of Hill's bondsmen | ture of an | which was Jfll within the legislative | functions, -and that it was rensonable | In amount-and jndiscrimigating be- | tween parties in the same position. It | regurded t) privilege of receiving leghcles a taxdble commodity Within | the meaning of the constitution. This decision wilbdloubtless give an impetus to the movement for the inheritance | tax in other American commonwealths. It is certainly strange that the pa machines m this county should find suitable men for positions as judges | and clerks of election so scarce that | they should place upon their list of | recommendations the names of nearly every ward bummer and political hack who has preyed upon party spoils for years past. As o |"~M|Il it devolves upon the appointing power to make the best possible selection from the names | at hand With a cholee thus Inulh‘ll‘ It is inevitable that some incompetent | | men will be appointed, and when the returns sent o we shall have the sme errors and the same instances of | | neghige against which complaint is | rexularly made. If the party commit- | wonld their duties conselen- | tiously they would see to it that they recommended no one for the of judge or clerk of ction who is not qualitied to perform the work intelli. | gently and with dispateh. Anent the annonncement wired over the Tand that Henry W, Yates, prosident of the Nebraska National, and a life long democrat, would support Mr, | Majors for governor, the Chicago Tribune excluims: A thunder-bolt | conld not have produced a more electri | fying eect” W rather opine that | an aunouncement that Yates would vote | ngainst Majors would have produced u [ more electrifying offect in this [ munity. In faet, it wonld have 1 [ paralyzer (o the iron bank and wight |have Jost that institution the deposits railrond are toes do | poxition com el {of the B. & M 1 D= Domucrat alling New York a doubtful The only doubt is as to 5 lead will be 60,000 or 80,000 10,00 Nobody | state any | whether Mort or only 30,00 cr Nize of <levelnnd’s Obligatic might easily get over all the sendink in M0 check, Hill dsome sum by relievin, ment of income tax tmuch Cleveland trouble by saved him a ha him from the Upward Tendoncy of Prices, Springtiell Hepablican | A forced auction sale of a large invoice of ribhon, amountiog . to some ) cartons, | was held at New. York Thursday, when everything offercd was sold ot pii-es averag. ing Wwithin 10 per cent of the regular mar- Ket quotutions. The purchasers were nearly all retailers, prices rubing too high for job- bers to buy at a profit, and the success of the sale is r fed as ap evidence that the steadily improving. ——— The opposition wh hown toward the government a1 the last session of Parlia- ment in Japan wasixo pronounced that the mikado prorcgued dhat legislative body Since that time there has been a pretiy wide distribution of offices, and the Parlia- ment which hits just been called upon to vote upon the war estimates is expected to very harmenions. The Japanese are idly mastering all the intricacies of mod- political seience. ——— Evidence of Good Times, Philadelphin Record If the testimony to the good t have com 1 demoeratic soure might have been set down to p an timism. But the evidence as to the reviy of industrial operations throushout the land comes frow: wholly unbiased and authoritu- tive sources, such ax the commerclal agen- cies, the representative trade journals, the head of the American Banker's assoctation, ete.; and to these eminent authorities must | be ‘4dded the foremost protectionist journal in the United State ork Tribune. | Jncksonian States Chicago Terald, methods of Statesmanship In use in to be unreservedly commended eut, the well knawn Hippolyte. and his minister of war, engaged in a hand- to-band encounter the 'other day and both were sericusly dnmaged. This 18 far better for Hayti than if the president and minister had declared war on the inhabitants gener- | ally ‘ag aguinst some foreign power. 1f all belligerent potentates and politicians would “fight it out wmotg themselves” how much mare blessed the history of nations would be e nd a Traitor? Atlanta Canstitution (dem.) While, of course, & word from the presi- dent would go a long ways toward undoing the harm that has been done by his dela it would be impossible for him to canc the dizastrous resulting from his p cullar course Yet we cannot believe that Mr. will persist in his refusal to extend a h ing hand to hix party, which now needs as- sistance more than it has in years, which is confronted with the dunger of de- feat next month We cannot believe be a traitor to his party be! o should alone The Hayti are The pi eland will he cannat that Mr. Cle surely ————— PEANUT POLITICN, Philadelphia Ledger: The democratic party of New York has won one victory. It h succeeded In having an order issued for the return of Mr. Morton's imported coachman to England New York World: Judge Lacombe's de- cision in the case of Howard, Mr. Morton's coachman, leaves the Treasury department in a worse position than before. The judge says: It Is entirely clear that Howard was ‘strictly a personal or domestic servant' in Mr. Morton's employ,” and is therefore ex- empt from the operations of the anti-contract labor law Springfield Republican: Domestic | sonal servants are exempted from the opera- tion of this law, and the Issue in the Howard case was simply whether a coachman is or is not a domestic or personal servant. Judge Lacombe decides agufmst the coachman, and ‘rughll_\'. under the ldw This, -however, is not saying anythlug i favor of the contract | labor law, which in ‘this case, as in many others, makes the United Stales ridiculous Washington Post But all this, it ap- | pears. does not save the coachman He is to be shipped bagk w0 England in the charac ter of a tribute.tp the majesty of our in stitutions. He will then return, and Mr. | Morton, being a freée citizen, will no doubt employ him afresh. The law will have b celebrated with “beeoming pomp, aud per- sides renderi most economical. But she say: | our immigration bureau, with that roaring opera bouffe known everywhere as “Tweedledum and Twoedle- dee; or, the Final Apotheosts of Humbug.' Brooklyn Eagle: The Baglo regrets to say that not only dig Levi P. Morton import an English coschmin, but that David B. HiI eats English mutton chops aud flavors them with orange colored mustard New York Herald: In the case of ex. Vice Pregident Morton's imported coachman whose arrgst end deportation had been or dered by Secretary Carlisle, Judge Lacombe of the United States court decided yesterday that a coachinan is clearly a domestic serv ant who may be brought to thig country under contract, but that the act of congress makes the secretary of the treasury the final Judge as to whether any alien is entitled to remain o this country or lMable to be sent back. If that is the law congress should loss no time in repealing it, since it confers UPOp One MAn Al autocratic power over per- sonal liberty which is tyrannical, dangerous sslfPmscsmrase AND THINGS. and repugnant to American sentimen | | PEOY The president is disposed monopoly gf the talking Speaking generally and particularly, calamity crusade is u lonesome affair The “Song to Ac is Intended to fortify Emperor William's claims as a divine writer. | Dick Croker's return te the command of the Tammany horde insures a picturesque stable campalgn The wild tumultu land provokes tra party breastworks The slating of the on the royal sick )i to give Hill a the 18 silen orous of Grover Cleve- hisses inside the ameer of Afghanistan has reinvigorated the | bearded pun his title suggests. Susan B, Antlony and Mary about to indulge in a joint debate and weather prophets look for a pherie perspiration The marvelous celority shown by in pumping lead into t inese them to considerable prominence veyors of modern civilization Two discredited chiefs are about to retire permanently to private life. Geronimo Is to be transported to his reservation, to dig or die. and The-Man-Afraid-of-His-Reeord will muzele his mug in a fow days and weep amid the Nemaha willows. Mineral development in the great Lead- ville district of Colorado is progressing at a lively pac Attention s directed entirely to gold production and the prospects are so | oheering that it is probable the camp's out- | put of yellow metal will soon surpass the best | duys of silver | General Ely 8. Parker, who served with | distinction on the staff of General Grant | during the war. is reported to be seriously | ill at Fairfiel, Conn. He is a lineal de- | scendant of the famous Indian chief, Red Jacket, and is the last surviving chief of | the Seneca tribe of the Six Nations The great labor leader of Mussachusetts is ex-State Senator “Bob” Howard, who for | the past twenmty vears hus been .engaged in the effort to shorten the hours of labor and | raise the rate of pay. He was a mill opera- tive for many vears, is now a ruddy-faced, stout and jolly bachelor of 5 and is well | Lease are in Kansas lense atmos- the Japs entitles as pur- | fixed finarcially Late | bulletins from the Ahkoond of Swat indicate that the duffer is nearly himself again. The dis- turbed state’of his mind vanished with the Leheading of mne of his wives, reducing the establishment to a Teace fpoting. His appe- tite, too, 18 on the royal' read to recover Four squares a day, with a gallor of rum and & dash of whisky at each meal?® encourages bis councllors in the hape that_he will pres- ently attain fafr hewlth and nofmul capaeity. Mrs. Sylvia Bogort of New -York signulized her entrance into the swagger set by order- Ing a puir of tailor-made bloomers. The artistic masouline drapbr turned out a pair of sawed-off beautics, a veritable poem in pantaloons. Mrs. Bogirt's bloomer ideal was a trifle higher than the model produced. Somehow the garment did not catch on to er graceful curves, and she “obfected to being made to appéar like a contemporary of Hendrick Hudson instead of a modern Amer- an woran Her refusal to take the bloomers resulted in a suit for $11, which is now pending in the courts palace of the royal | TARE-OFFS, olis Journal afftiction > TRIVE fan; nful Do “Unspea is loc iy kjaw | wings of the Irish party | with & number of costly gitts from the king | | disturb the peace of the east Orleans Picayune: Th terbaard vacht {s most important in a race, on - a pleasure trip th thought most of Washington Star: “One ob choly sights,” sald Uncle ob de young ‘man who g an’ thinks hab mek meney le mos® Ehen, % ter a hoss r foun’ er new way ter 2t UL never heard ¥ hing punctuality, positive mania with h replied Mamfe. “Yesterday she had the clocks taken out of her stockings because some one told her they were fast.” such . girl for sajd Maud.” “it's a exchange, in reply remarks that * a anp makes an acceptable present for @ ide with polished brass legs, onyx and a shade of sl with lace fring Troy Press: A to a correspondent, banquet Indianapolts Journal s sald Wickw| “that they are making inders of soup now.’ cleaner record, 1 suppose,” said without taking his nose out Mrs phono fakes a Mr. Wickw £ his new Truth: First Bri Here is one for you Reggy, my boy. What is the difference be- tween hunting at home and here? ccond Briton—Give it up, by Jove, irst Briton—Well, at home we hunt the (hare, and here we hunt the heiress Detroit Free Press: Kate—l don't men are 8o bad us some Women w m. Ruth—I don’t know me women would have worse than they ure "HAN Juder »arling, tell me that you love Oh, be'true, and tell e whot)er In the happy vears before us I xnend our lives togethe “1 am sorry for you, Harry I've gone further than | r with you 1 ne'er can 1 1 will be your friend; and then, Do not say vou'll be'a sister, Ifor I'll never be a brother! “No. not that; for I've just promis I shall be your own stepmother. e HER FORTE. New York Sun She is fond of all athletics, thoy are her soul's delight, And at tennis, ball ply out of sight But at present she has banished all pleasures from her mind, she loves a game of foot than all the rest combined think | uld have | about that. | them @ good deai | MORE A SISTER. meant to, e too—* and rowing she is sim these ball more She thut she was a twenty times u day, It makes her mad to tell isn't built to play; 1 always her on the g there's a_gam the 1oking at it s monotonous and tame. wishes man some her that she mds whenever Of course, you say, she'd no a foot ball team, sppearances, they ways what they "Fis true that in the nothing but a stick she'd make a dandy ought to see hor Kick. use upon But are not al rush line she'd be But full back; Ll E Rovar Baking Powbegr, be- ng the food more |t s said palatable and wholesome, is, because of its higher leavening power, the The United States Government, after elaborate tests, reports the Royal Baking Powder to be of greater leavening strength than any other. « —Bulletin 13, U. S. Ag. Dep., p. 599. fold, which left Shanghal on Beptember 20 [ for "Tien-Tain. ___ | NEW NORWAY IN THE NORTHWEST, PARIS FUNDS ARE RELEASED Colony of Scandinavian Farmers Settling on the Fjords of Ritish Ootumbin. VICTORIA, B. (., Oct Rev. 8. @. agstadt minister of the Lutheran ch in Minnesota, with his little band of hty farmers, have got thus to Della Coola, whero with 000 of their they pur- blishing a new Norway among the Columbla mountains and fjords, %o of their natlve lan The Norwegians purpose engaging in mixed farming and devclopment of the deep sea fisheries. They are the first to take ad | vantage of the Britfeh Cohnnbia governs ment's new terms to settlers These Norwegians sre a and promise to muke good settlers. families and friends will follow as a8 they have completed bullding the houses, whose construction will be their first duty. Rev. Saagstadt says that in all his settiements will have a population of about 3,000 souls and will have a capital of 500,000, Freeman's Journal Announces that Justice McOarthy Now Holds the Oash, ploneer | et TERMS OF THE IRISH PARTIES' COMPROMISE | ¢! far ot about British | tike thos Notweglan thelr way SRS countrymen Redmond Gets One- Pay OfF Parbell's Debis. £30,000 to Go te Evicted Tenants. The Other the DUBLIN, Oct. 25.—The Freeman's Journal announces that the sums of money subsoribed for the Irish cause, generally known as the Paris funds, are now in the hands of Justin McCarthy, chairman of the Irish National party. The statement was recently made by the correspondent of an English newspape &t Paris in regard to the Irish fund: “The Jjudgment of the French courts, under which the Lrish funds in Paris, amounting to £40,000, will be released and handed over to Justin McCarthy, M. P., is likely, according to the opinions expressed by sevoral Irish men- | caApp bers, to give a stimulus to Irish agitation | «py during the forthcoming autumu months. Th | oy, furds could not have been relcased but f0r | wyiners at Kimbories the compromise arrived at between the two | proauet during and it open | g14 400,000, Ref secret that out of £40,000 the sum of £10,000 | will be handed over to Mr. John Rediond and deposited in the now empty exchequer of the Parnell party. It would be a mistake 1o assume, however, that the whole of the £10,000 ean be appliad to the propagation of rmellite principles in Ireland. Before and some consfderuble time ufter the death of Parnell debts to u considerable amount | had to be incurred and one of the terms of | the compromise is that these debts are to be discharged. The Parnellite members are more than pleased that this burden is to be removed from their shoulders. They believe | Levan, Fifesfiire, Scotland. In the course that a balance whl remain With which they | of s remarks he said the statement that intend to begin an active autumn campalgn, | (he cabjnet bad been recently summoned and they belicve that should more funds be [ 14" ooiider grave comphications. botween recelved tne discharge of old debts Wl | Greai Britain and France was the 1diact sufficiently revive their credit to enable them | goritn that had ever entered the brain of to carry on the agitution untll the dissoln- | nou™ TI0 e ant Chat Dritish diplomasy tion comes. The most sanguine = of the | y,q gustained a serious rebuff in the great Parnellite members hope, In the event of & | oapjiyls of Kurope was utterly destitute of compromise not heing arrived at with regard [ (RIS W ESTPE O e to their measure of represeutation, that | sturdy lot of Their soon FOR FREE TRADE AND RECICROCITY, Cecll Rhodes Thinks fe Nense Into Iir TOWN, Oct. 23 ond King" and Colony, at a a Schemes to or donatban. Cecll Rhodes, the prime minister ot ceting of De Beers aid that the diamend the past year was valued at ring to the American duty said lie was for free trade | but also for rectproeity. 1f they put Broth Jonathan's products out of Cape Colony, they would perhaps bring him to his sens He would not again ask the shareholders to vote $60,000 1o exiibit their diomonds in | America, “The moral was that they should | teave America alone on diamonds ¥ Cabinet Ministers Make Some Deonlals. LONDON, Oct. 23.—R(. Hon. Herbert As auith, home secretary, addressed the first of a series of meetings of his constituents at they will more than double their present strength The Me( £30,000 remaining of of the cvicted tenants Urges 1 LOURENZO tugal MARQUEZ. Chamber of Portuguese Aceapt Delagoa Bay, Oct. 23.—The Commerce has bled to the government say ing that the condition of affairs existing here is unbearable, that business is ruined and that an epidemic is threatened. Conse quently, Portugal is urged to accopt the " offer of the Transvaal government to send Oct. 23.—A Corean | a force of Boers to relieve the town from second son of the | the siege to which it has boen subjected b inl envoy to the | the hordes of Kaffire for some time past visit ofs Mar- rthyites are the pledged to devote the fund to the relief CHINESE MUST BE PUNISHED. the Mikndo to cumu oK. Japanese Diet Urges Tuke Strong M HIROSHIMA, Japan, embassy, headed by the King of Corea, who is a spe mikado, charged to return the quis Slouy, the Japanese envoy who recently visited Seoul, Las arrived lere and was re. ceived in aud the emperor of Japan Search for mn Arctic Explor ST. PETERSBURG, Oect. 2 The steamer Minoursinsh has loft Yenisofsk, Asiatic Rus- ela, In arch of the steamer St. Jernen, ghs SOoTekn) e is majesty | which, with the well known Arctic naviga tor, Captaiu Wiggins, who opened up tho nerthern passage to Siberia, and a crew of forty men, bas not been heard of since sho e by voy presented of Corea. The special sessions of the Jupanese Diet closed yesterday. The bills introduced by government in order to further the pr s of the war were passed unanimously. in addition the Diet presented a memoran- 3 dum to the cabinet urgently requesting the | Wen's focietiessthroughout the kingdom have government o execute the imperial dechara: | been dissolved by goverument decree. The tions in order to achieve a complote victory | offices and domiciles of the members wero over the Chinese and to restore peace fn the | searched and some important documents east while raising tfe glory of the nation. | sof Some impotent protests were mado The Diet also recommended that China be | agninst the action of the government, but severely punished, and in a manner which | there was no disorder, would not permit of her being able to again = = Brigands Wreck an Observatory. PANAMA, Oct. 28.—Advices from Lima, | Peru, state that a vandal act has been perpe- trated on the observatory. Brigands are reported to have stolen all of the valuable instruments and destroyed the buildings. The observatory was established by Harvard university and was one of the fluest equipped in the world All the socialist working- Finally, the Diet recommended that the | ministers should let it be distinctly known that Japan will not tolerate any foreign in. terference which would prevent her from at taining the objeets of the war, INCIDENTS OF THE WAR LONDON, Oct. 21.—A dispatch from Tien- | Tsin alieges the Japanese officials at Seoul | open and tamper with dispatches o the Brit ish consul. This hus caused sharp diplo- matic_correspondence. A dispatch o the Times from Tien-Tsin says n Teport is current that seventeen Japan ese war ships, under Admiral Tio, have as Papal Editor Expelled from Traly. ROME, Oct. 23.—Mgr. Borglin, editor and proprietor of the Moniteur de Rome, has been arrested and will be expelied from the sombled in Ping-Yang inlet. Thornton Haven, | gountry. The Moniteur de Rome hes stopped ever been occupied by the | puplication. Boeglin has becn in trouble be fleet Is reparted (0 fore with the authorities because of artiole: Hai-Wei his paper, which is a church KONG, Oct. 2: be published in ~The caplain and | gy owners of the British steamer Tai Yuen have demanded satisfaction for the action of the French cruiser Forfait, which summoned the Tai Yuen to display her flug,-firing guns to enforee the demand. SHANGHAI, Oct. 23 district has asked the foreign consuls to in- struct foreigners ot 10 procced into the Turkish Decorations for Bulgarians. SOFIA, Oct. 23.—The sultan of Turkey has conferred the grand cordon of the Order of Osmanich upon M. Storloff, Bulgarian prime minister, and the cordon of the Order of the Mejidieh upon M. Nachevitch, minister country on business or pleasure, as the sol- | of foroign affairs. This is the first time dlers of the Kansu province would probably = Turkey has cver decorated Bulgarians not understand the reasom for their presence. | — - The steamer Chung Wing, which has ar- ican Seamen Kesouod. rived here, reports a Norwegian steamer | Oct. 23.—The crew of the been ‘m--rmu‘qull’ oft |\A\m’s I-”n" 1;‘:::1" (r""n‘;"“"“' American schooner Alice T. Boardman, taken ory a Japanese war sl she Han been (aken o Japan atter it hayimg | from the wreck of hat vossel off Highland been shown that she had merchandise on | light, Boston, by the British steamship Dure board which was under the classification of | ham City, has been landed hore, Al hands contraband of war. The vessel referred to | were saved. The rescued men will be sent is probably the Norwegian steam ome by the United States consul The Tao Tai of this YOUR MONEY'S WORTH OR YOUR MONEY BACK. ol 18 the Chinese nnit and 18 worth todiy abont 68 cente tn U. 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