Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 29, 1894, Page 4

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Hishing company, being duly sworn. seys that the nctual number of full and oomplete copic of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday De Printed during (he month of September,” 184, as follows: 598 i 1 1. 18, 1 2 il 22 2 .. 2 o120 ool T 1 21,057 2042 20,967 Total _sold.. Daily average *Sunday. GEORGE R. TZSCHUCK Sworn to hefore me and subseribed In my presence this ist of October, 184, P. TEIL. (8eal.) Notary Public. \all the people rul 1s the supreme issue. Ex-Chancollor von Caprivi and ex- Chancellor von Bismarck may now sym- pathize together. If there are any unemployed men in town on election day it will not be for want of opening; Only three neellors in twenty-three years is not a record of instability or fickleness on the part of the rulers of the German empire The men vho wish the hadn’t adver- tised themselves as members of the Rafl- road Business Men's association are in- asing 1n number ev e gorgeous banner of the Rattrond Business Men's association is {attered and torn sult of the pre-election winds of This is & suggestive il omen. Tom Reed has turned his back on Nebraska. His presence in this state in the face of the contingent frand re- port would have been a source of morti- fication to republican The attempt to defeat Isnae W. Noyes, republican candidate for the senate, should be discountenanced by republi- cans. Mr. Noyes is a clean man and merits the confidence aud support of all republican: The (wo co'un'ns in Dan Honin's paper that have NOT been engaged by the re- publican stat mmmluw present read- ing matter much more interesting than any of the literature sent out from the headquarters of the tattooed candidate. Attention is directed to the record of the auditor’s office, under the manuge- ment of Hon. Eugene Moore. It is ¢ tainly a record to which Mr. Moore can point with pride, and entitles him to the usual recognition which faithful services have received at the hands of the people. The students of Orle to have gotten the Ne sudly confused. The other day over Chure of over Tom Major; eminent republicans twins, the mis serious disuster. 18 college seem aha statesman enthused the Howe instead lut, as these two are as Siamese > will not entail any John W. Johnson, candidate on the republiean ticket for the lower house, s a lawyer in good standing and comes highly endorsed by those .who hav come in contuct with him. He has been an active republican since his advent in Omal nd should receive the undi- vided support of his party. Ex-Bocretary Whinn courageously admits that the financial depression is not to be laid at the doc of republican tariff legislation, all that his democratic assoclates ave saying to the contrary notwithstanding. Gi the democrac time and it is possible that she may come to her seuses at the last, Some of the associates of Tattooed Tom are wondering why it is that none of the “space enguged by the republi- can state committee” is devoted to can- didates on the republican ticket other than the candidate for governor. They are only now becoming aware that they have been engaged for a one star show. Comparison is invited of the foreign news service of the Sunday Bee with that of would-be competitors. All the momentous questions that are upper most in the public wind in European centers were treated fully and intelli gently. To keep abreast of the news of the warldl, the people must read The Bee. A word of vindication from Thomas B. Reed would have been more convine- ing to the voters of Nebraska than two columns of personal abuse from the con- tingent candidate for governor, or a whole page of puerile vaporing from the poor old Royal Bengal who is grow)- tng at so much a growl in the Burling- ton menagerie. Mr. Majors says he was vindieated two years ago. How about that over- draft of his mileage acconnt? Has the statote of limitations also run against the fraud perpctrated by him on the state when he collected $28.80 mileage for 1801 and §28 for 1898 when he was only entitled to mileage from Yeru to Lincoln and back—146 miles, which, at 10 cents & wile, amounts to just §14.60. This is a small matter, but like the Dbogus Tuylor voucher, it shows hovest Tom up in his true light 2338 Nebraska? This | THE OMAHA DAILY BER: MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1894 | THEY CAN'T SMIRCH HOLCOMN. 8o Judge Holcomb Is a mortgage shark and usurer, is he? makes this charge and why made on the very eve of elee {tion? If it is true, why was it not | mada two years ago when the raflrond s it and corporation combine were working | tooth and toe nail to defeat him? If | the story is trae it Is very strange that it should emanate from the office of a mortgnge khark and usurer at Fremont, and it is fug stran that all the mortgage sharks and 3 per cent a nonth { gougers should all fall in with the Fre- | mont three-ball patriot. Ordinarily men of that ilk would prefer to have a man in the governor's chair who has been in the business himself, and would natu- rally be opposed to any serious attempt to interfere with their vocation i- dently the mortgage sharks bave mor confidence in Tom Majors else they Auything to beat Hol- A the means jus. motto. They have and irth to find Holeomb, They county canard. omb is their song, ¢ tifies the end the ransacked | | something vens gainst % [ spent months in their seach for an afhi- him, but fail- they had to fall their own it of the is com- chattel davit that would smir ing in all these efforts, back upon a story that expose methods of keeping up the state, As a matter of fact, mon for lawyers to draw mortg the fact that a mortgs writing of any lawyer payable to him, is no proof that transaetion was for his benefit. It s manifest to every rational per- son that the charge: Judge Holeomb were fabricated for | campnign use, and the fac simile frag- ments of mortgages were Ingeniously compounded with a v upon popular eredulity on the eve of tion, when it would be diilicult to 1ch the mass of voters with cont dictions. It is not likely, howevi that the imposture will deter any ra- tional voter who desires good govern- ment from supporting Judge Holeomb. Any man who might be inclined to give credence to the mortgage canard wonld think twice before he would give prefer enee to Majors with his indefensible record over a clean man like Judge Holcomb. T it up ge is in the hand- the ele * THE WAR ON THE LORDS. The public declaration of Premier Rosebery, that the leading question in the next general election in Great Brit- n would Dbe the abolition of the House of Lords, is unquestionabl the most important political nouncement that has been wade in the United Kingdom for years. There can be no doubt as to the abso- lnte earnestness and sincerity Rosebery in making this declaration. It is not the outcome of a hasty con- clusion or a sudden impulse. The pre- mier has considered the question care- fully and deliberately. He has felt pub- lic opinion on the subject. He vndoubtedly consulted with the peer themselves, And as a result he has veached the conclusion that the time his come for putting (o the test of pub- lie opinion® the question whether the | hereditary branch of the legislatly power of the nation should be longer maintained. It will be that Mr. Gladstone, just before his with- drawal from public life, warned the House of Lords that its time of trial I fore the tribunal of the people could not be much longer delayed, but it was ap- prehended that his successor, himself a peer. would not be disposed to advocate or even to countenance any movement looking to the abolition of the House of Lords. His sveech at Bradford that there w . no reason for such this declaration the question given paramount importance in British politics, It will take precedence of every other subject, and it is hardly necossary to say that it will canse one of the most vigorons and Dbitter con- tests ever known in the politics of the United Kingdom. The peers will not surrender their power without most determined fight o retain it, for there is involved the esseutial principle of the British politieal The Houw of Lords is the bulwark of the mona chy. Destroy that and the way is open for the institution of a republican sy tem of government. As to what the popular verdict will be on this question there is little reason doubt that it will be largely in favor of abolishing the Lords, and yet tradition is still strong with the English people, 1f Rosebor shall succeed in the policy he has do- clared his name will figure among the greatest of British statesmen, GEURGIA IN THA SENATE. The balloting for United States senator in the joint session of the Georgin leg- islature does not commence until next week Tuesday, but alveady the prelim- inary skirmish bLetween the ambitious aspirants is assuming an interesting phase, There are two elections to be lield, ome for the uncexpired term made vacant by the death of the late Senator Colquitt, which, however, extends only through the short session of congres that is to end Murch 4, 1805, and the other for the full term, to follow this unexpired portion. For the first there will be no conte for the reason that it is not cousidered n big enough prize to coutest for. ator Patrick Walsh, who was given the appointment by Go: ernor Northen when Speaker Crisp d clined the honor, will be permitted to | serve through the Fifty-third cong uniolested. For the long term the struggle Is to be lotly waged. The new senator will, of course, be a democrat, heca the demoerats have an overwhelming preponderance in the legislature, but sull the populists are so strong that it has been deemed advisable by the democratic leaders to resort to the cau ens, a plan that has not been followed in Georgia for mauy years, ‘While there are four avowed candidates, the choice has narrowed down to two, (o onel A. O. Bacon and Congressman Turner, Congressman Tuoruer is the adwministration candidate, and the fed- eral forces are leaving nothing undone to assist him in Lis canvass. Colonel Bacon, therefore, poses as the anti-ad- ministration candidate, and, according to best accounts, is cousiderably In the |lead despite the hostile lafluence from rsten to 88 s Who | would not have trumped up the Custer | ge papers for their clients, and | even when made | of usury against | W to imposing | an- | of Lord | has | remembered | ‘Washington. Renator Wa Is also a eandidate, but all agree that he is prac- tically out of the race. The cancus will most probably be held this week, that its decision may be promptly rati- | fied when the legislative houses meet | | 1 jolnt sessio It is quite possible, however, complication may ensue, out of which | Speaker Crisp may emerge as a suc- cessful dark horse, The spenker last week publicly announced his refusal to stand as a candidate, alleging as the nson that he is confident t the | use of representatives will be tie and will need his seryi as its presiding officer. Were his expecta- tions in this direction disappointed, e would doubtless be glad to give reign his well known ambition for the senate. It so happens that the election of senator by the Georgia legislature and the general elections throughout the United States are fixed for the same [ It the former could be held off | until after the news of the coming re- publican victory shall be confirmed, | Speaker Crisp would certainly be among the competitors in the senatorial lists. 80 that a to THE KESIGNATION OF CAPRIVI. | To those who have given close at- | tention to the conrse of political events | In Germany during the past two yenrs | the resignation of Chancellor von Caprivi will not 18e surpri It has been likely to happen at almost any time | since the socialist question been a matter of serious discussion under the | regime of the present emperor. The policy of the kaiser has been peculiar. He does not favor socialism, and yet lis course has been rather to encourage | the growth of socialistic ideas. An e | perimenter in the affairs of government, | the young emperor has talked on al- most every oceasion in o way to stimu- | late socialism, probably without intend- ing to do so. The firm policy of Bis marck with pect to this politi 3 tem was rejected by the sover retirement of that great statesm public life was due to this. cessor, General von Caprivi, pointed becanse his known te be more libe favor the doctrines of soc the other hand, he did not b in | tren measures. Under the rule of Bismarck socialism did not make much headway. After ho rotived it assumed fresh activity and made rapid progress. With the growth of 1l there was developed |nrehism. It may be contended | there s legitimately no conncetion | tween these doctrines, but the faet | mains that in Germany, at least, soc ism seems to have generated anarchy With the development of the latter came the necessity, in the estimation of the imperial authority, for repressive meas- es that swould reach out to the so- ts. It was at this point that the sue was made between the emperor | and the chancellor. Caprivi did not believe in a policy intended to crush soclalism. He had no sympathy with anarchism, but he did not think it nec- essary to strike at the socialists in order to reach the anarchists. His idea was that if the former were given the freedom they asked for they would i time work their gwn self-destruction. This view was nét acceptal to the emperor and to ofhers whose counsel he sought, and when the confe of ministers decided against the chancellor his only was to resign, The event has naturally created some excit=ment in the political circles of the | German empire, but there is nothing in the nature of a ¢ The prompt ap- pointment of a successor to Caprivi shows that the emperor had been pecting what has taken place and was fully pre d to act. The important | fact in the situation is that socialism has gained such headway in Germany that it is able to exert a tremendous | influence upon the government, even to {the extent of compelling a radical | change in the ministry. The question that naturally suggests itself is, what | is to be the future of this power in the | political affairs of the German empire Will it decline or continue to grow? We should say that the probabiliti re in favor of its growth. The socl will be rather ¢neouraged and lated than otherwise by the confession of their inflnence implied in the re: tion of Caprivi, and may be expected | to urge their doctrin with ter vigor tlmn ever, There is strong reason to believe that Emperor Willilam has made a mistake, POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS. Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt offers some very cogent arguments in favor of an extension of the classified | service as a means of protecting em- ployes of the government against polit- ical assessments. He says the necessity for such extension becomes more appar- ent with every eloction. Persons not in the elassified service are foreced under | threats of dismissal to contribute to campaign funds, this sort of thing, which the commissioner characterizes as blackmail, ving been freely prac- ticed in portions of the country in the present campaign. A Philadelphia paper recently published a cartoon illustrating the way the practice was earried on at the mint in that city, and the civil ser- vice commission has a number of cases under consideration of assessments that Lave been made on persons in the class fied service, although th law is in- tended to protect such. Mr. Roosevelt refers to a particularly aggravated in- stance of this practice at Pittsburg, where a candidate for office sought to levy a political assessment amounting to a month's salary upon the employes of the internal venue service, and he states that similar efforts have been made to assess postofice employes, no regard being had for the political aflilia- tions of the employes. The commissioner denounces this method of obtaining money in unmeas- ured terms, declaring it to be “a mere plece of blackmail and just as if gained by knocking down clerks on the high- way,” and he says it is hard to under- stand why an intelligent community will tolerate so gross an abuse, where a man deliberately plunders a set of public servants that he may get funds wherewith to debauch voters, But the community can do nothing to shield the vietims, It can show its disapproval of pmcll & practice ouly by defeating the ign. The an from His suc- was ap- sentiments were He did not | alism, but nn‘ ieve e e ide of t elali the spirit 1 be- course Ris, e | and bur |ing to be phindered, and the s | | public | ments, | cording to their hon | men who Tosort to It, and this onght to be donelin every case where the facts are knowr, 8o far as employes of the government | the classified service are | concerned, the law gives them sufficlent | protection It the heads of departments | aus will sustain them in refus- me con- sideration should be shown to those in | the unclassified service. The purpose of the law is to 'shield every man in the | service from political nssess The right of persons to make | | political contributions is not denied, but they easy should be voluntary. It is very to understand, however, that if government employes may be asked to make contributions, and Attorney Gen- | eral Olney has ruled that this does not violate the law, very few of them will be disposed to refuse, for they will natur ally regard such a solicitation as having all the significance of a demand. Mr. Roosevelt thinks that the law is not strong enough. He suggests that it ought to prohibit any one from making a contribution to a government off Certainly experience with. the Iaw pears to not afford ployes of ap- melusively show that it does the protection to the em the government it was in- | tended to, Lut this is probably in large | deg; the fault of the superior officials, who caunot be relied upon to stand by subordinates who may insist upon their right under the law to refuse to con- tribute to campaign funds, If the higher officials would do their whole duty in the matter there can be little doubt t the political assessment practice w o STOP THAT FOOLISHNE: Why should any retail merchant, manufacturer, property owner or em- | ployer of labor lend his support to the candidaey of Thomas J. Majors? The great mass of people in this vieinity are posed 0 Majors and repudiate the calamity ernsade inangurated by the bankers and jobbers. The merchants of Omaha should and many of them do repudiate the much-vaunted busin men's save-thestate movement, which | Las already worked greater injury to | the int of onr jobbers and whol sale merehants than they can possibl; r in months hard work after the election. The movement was an ill-adyis scheme upon the part of the railroads and ¢ in interests that arve closely allied with them to foist & man into the governor's chgir who will do their bid- ding. The hue and cry about the | eredit of the state being impaired by the | election of ‘an honest man is too pre posterous to require refutation. Quite the contrary, an honest man will { store the credit of the state by enforc ing the laws and protecting the state treasury and the state's interests. The election of a boodle man or a man who is elosely associated with pub- lic plunderers, contractors and state house vings will impair the credit of the state by making necessary largely in- erveased taxation. Now, Omaha pays fully one-tenth of the entire state tax. No com- | munity of property is more | deeply conéerned in up leaks than is Omaba. By all me pudiate the business | men’s movement and let the people o the city and state do their voting a. st convictions. ed ng the | The awful holocaust at which the lives of sixteen pef women ard children, were draw momentary attention to the dan- | ger from fire that surrounds so many of our hotels and hoarding honses. In | this the building is described as o mere wooden shell, coated with sheet iron. Being patronized by the cheaper class of t ‘nts, it was not subjected | ous inspection as it would | ther an apartment build- t-class hotel. It is know! edged, however, that the guests lite ally took their lives in their hands when entrusting thems Ive to its merey. The lesson is the old one that ever of this character shonld 1 upplied with every possible deviee that will make it less dangerous to life in case of five. But the lesson, it is to be feared, will not be widely learned. Senttle, € Hoke Smith's trip to Georgia in order to inculeate among the people of his state the doety of sound money and true finanee was ) vain, The a legislatur s just refused to consider a resolution declaring for free ver at 16 to 1 and condemning those entatives in congress who voted the repeal of the silver purchase clause of the Sherman law. The adop- tion of such a resolution would have | been equivalent to a vote of censure on | the administration of President Cleve- Iand, and would have becn a source of everlasting mortification for the man | who had been summoned from Georgia | to oecupy a place In his eabinet. Under the circumstances, Hoke will be per- | mitted to lold his job a little longer. Mortow's home organ has sud- denly discoyered that Judge Holeomb is a very, very bud man and that Tobe Castor's straw miln, Pete Sturdevant, is a truly good democrat whom every square-toed mossl should vote for. Nothing else was to have been expected from that quartey. But democrats who are neither deaf nor blind will doubt- less realize thut two votes for Sturd, vant are as good 48 one vote for Majors. Mr. Omaha is to be the meeting place o the annual convention of the Switc men’s Union of North America in Octo- ber, 1885, Dhis I8 the national organi- zatlon of switehimen which has just been perfected at 'Kadsas City as the suec- cessor to the old' Switchmen's Mutual Ald association. The plan of the new union Is practically the same as the old association, the members being entitled to weekly sick benefits in time of need. | sist public plunderers and jobbers be- | | ciples. | ing tr { authorities If they | but_you enter | home | Buil. | makes | Major The headquarters were fixed at Kansas City, but Omaha secured the first con- vention. Tt goes without saying that the switchmen will be accorded a hearty welcome and appropriate eutertainment when they become the guests of this | clty. The Bee is a republican newspaper | and reputable republicans never have | had and never will have aoy diffi in securing its support without pay nml‘ without promise of rew: true in the present eampaign, as it has | been in past campaigns. The Bee has lieartily endorsed republican candid whom it could endorse without self- stultification, but it cannot and will not lend itsel! to forging the links of cor- porate borndags upon the people, or as- cause they are sailing under the republi- | can The Penuut wnd the Pothouse. New York World, When Secretary Carlisle wrote the sched- ule giving the Bugar trust the protection it | demanded he put himself In opposition to the honest democrats of the country, and if | he I8 ever to reinstate himself in their good opinipn it must be by a return to their prin- not by the peanut methods of pot- | house politics A A Ereak in the Conl Combioa. Iphin Press sstricting the output of | al has ended and all the | arc working full time and arket without any refe reement made last month, ieally a conl war is on, and it is prob able that lower ices will prevail during the rest of the seusol The Model Speaker. Minneapolis Times (dem.). Whatever may be suid about ex-President Harrison as a politician, he knows how to make a specch straight from the shoulder, and his hearers know that he is not Tepeat: ing_extracts from text books on political economy or parroting paragraphs from the Comgressicnal Record, |10 15 well for man- agers on the opposite side to remember that there is no greater mistake than underestl- mating the strength of the enemy. New Waorlk for the Troops. Denver Republican. There should be no hesitation in employ- ps to suppress the lawless bands In the Indian Territory if it cannot be done by the civil authoriti Lawlessned prevailed in that territory for a long time and to a disgraceful degree. It seems, how- ever, that It is growing worse, and that the need of suppressing It has become so urgent that there will be no excuse for the do not do their utmost The pretense of the anthraeite c great compani 1o put it down. S I B otorm e Kansas City St “You are a republican, we are democrats, this fight, not as a partisan as the champion of all honest the hordes of corruption,” of the New York state y committee in tenderin b Cols mayoralty nomination of izens. The sentiments ex- »d by Mr. Green should be emblazoned on the banvers of all bands of citizens bent upon municipal reform. st o Whooping Up Free Trade. Indianapolis Journal it that Mr. Bayard has come whoop up” the cause of free fire the American heart with admiration for England and Englishmen. His head has been turned by the atten- tions bestowed upon him as an avowed ad- vocate of free trade, and he has essayed the unpatriotic task of convincing the Amer- ican people that they ought to sacrifice their own interests to those of the great, and good, and disinterested friend, John From present indications the people are not likely to be convinced. e The Bicyelo in the Army. Philadelphia Ledger. In his annual report as commander of the Army of the Calorado, General McCook a stropg plea for the use of the bieycle for military purposes. Most of the Furopean armies have adopted it for certain of the fore and the commander believes that, as a substitute for the horse, for the men engaged in s reconnoitering Iments. ader, but citizens ap said Ch m Tt is evi to trade and nd’ keeping communication [ open, the bicyele is “an emicent succe | He Speaks of the special adv It porkesses, ot the 1ast important of whic is that it can double the distance y that horse n. Doubtless the bicycle destined to play a more conspicuous pa tofore has in the matter of bus service. What will help its introdu for ordinary and special purpases is th agitation for good recads, which is recelving reat attention at present, but nothing like as much as it PSerye It does not seem likely that the wheel will be of direct vantage in actual fighting, although in an indirect way it may prove of incalculable benefit. e A LOAN OF GAYETY. Philadelphia Record: that sings is generally a s The washwoman yrano, Atchison Globe: Some men never told & lie because they never had a cow run over Wy the raflread. Washington Star All the " qusted one misanthrope. replied another. “An’ ld story. A lot o' cute fell L fer supers is tryin' ter star." Indianapolis Jou “Well, you are a Aude id the hired girl when Dismal Dawson appeared at the kitchen door. “Yes'm,” admitted Mr. Dawson. dewed." world's a it's the 5 that's Ye same cut ¢ Mil- “One thing T like about reporter whose busi the political meetings that it enables me to ly from the campaign cigar.’ Chicago Tribune my job," said the it end i away enti Harlem Life: Editor's Wife—Oh, 1o want you to notice that Shoddeigh” over there, Editor (absently) Certainly, my love; dollar a line for reading notices, Detroit Free Press: She- of yours must have been a terrific one, The Major—It was 1 (proudly) T wish T might have had a photograph of myself taken on the field. She—But they didn't take instantaneous pictures then. Wa o That last battle shington Star hen er man smites er,” said Uncle Eben, “tu'hn de uddah eek. Den ef he's mean 'nuff ter tek ad- Vantage ob ver Christianity, he deserves de bes' lickin' yoh knows how ter gib 'im.’ Buffalo Courler: “Houser asked me up to take pot luck with him last night, confound him!" " “Thal's a strange way to speak of a friend’s hospitality.”” “Not much it ain't! 1 Jost every blamed one T opened.” HYMN OF CIVILIZATION, Cineinnati Tribune. See the foolish heathen, Bone rings in his nos: Not a notion has he Of good shoddy clothes. Cateh him and reform him, Tauke him from his land; If he kicks, call out the troops And strew him on the strand. Onward, Christian sold With your Maxim guns; Thousand shots a_minute, How the heathen runs! —_——— MOLLY, Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Co If Molly's eyes would shine fe 1'd give the sun fair warnin He needn't rise to Hght my ski Because the beam er Molly's eyes Would make my mornin’, It Molly's lips was red fer me, In weather sad or sunny, T'd say to every buzzin' bee: “You needn’'t rob the rose fer me— Her lips Is honey If Molly's heart would beat fer me So low I jes' could hear it, 1'd give the world—leastway: Fer jes' the beat er Molly's An’ my heart near it! my part— eart, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8. Gov't Report Royal ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking owder | ton that Clevela | Chinese army and PEOPLE AND THING Some very animated folat debates may bo heard In a butcher shop. The melancholy days are permanent quarters at Peru Perhaps Von Caprivi was arranging for too ‘hasty in | erlticising the “Scng of Acgir.” | “1 would natlon than war lord Advices from Cluny Castle Indicate that Mr. Carnegie's armor plate {8 in a precarious condition. New York dem rather compose (he rule it," was not ngs of a written by a rats seem to have forgot- d wrote two interesting cam palgn letters last summer A wise prophet prediets storms about election time. will oxpedite the mopping There {5 one link of sympathy between the the Man-Afraid-of-His Both are running to the rear Lomuel Ely Quigg is making such a vigor ous canvass for congress in New York that people trip up on his name in the mad rush to hear him warble. President Cleveland has arranged for a duck-shooting expedition down the Potomae. This is more enjoyable than shooting off his mouth In New York Mr. Nathan Strauss’ brief career as a can- didate for mayor of New York produced a partlal nausea, and he has Burope to finish the fob. It is cvident Mr. Hill's Writer” was sent to Mr. messenger. There is no other counting for the delay in delivery Mrs. Charles Robinson of Lawrence, Kan., wife of the ploneew, governor, told the story of his life the other day to a phonograph cylinder. which Is to be preserved by State Historical soclety. Trabuco, who was implicated in the Orsini conspiracy and condemned to imprisonment for life, but who was released by the com- mune, has started from Antwerp on a tour of the world. Trabuco is now 70. A Baltimore paper goes into rhapsodies over a bevy of beautiful girls in a street car. *It was like a burst of sunshine, and everything was fllumined and enlivened.” Wonder who ars the Omaha girls doing the Monument city? Attorney General Olney imagines Minne- sota is a vast collection of Cripple Creeks, in which every man carries a gun and bathes in hot gore. This is a cool reflection on a hot subject, and leaves a doubt as to whether Olney knows beans. The spectacle of J. Adam Bede resigning the United States marshalship of Minnesota 10 take the stump for a friend Is a species of political sacrifice paralieled by the pathetic shouts of Nemaha's Damon for his neighbor- ing Pythias. And yet while the lengthen- ng shadows of early dawn wrap themseives about the victim, Damon's sleeve is being replenished with subdued laughter. A Boston writer, who appears to speak by the card, says that the doctor alluded to in Dr. Holmes' poem, “The Boys,” was Dr. Chandler Robbins; the judge, George T. Bigelow of the supreme court; the speaker, F. B. Crowninshield; the mayor, George W. Richardson of Worcester; the member of congress, George T. Davis of Greenfield; the reverend, James Freefan Clarke of Boston; the mathematician, Prof. Peirce; the squire, Benjamin Curtls; (he * youngster of ex- cellent pith,” Rev. S. Smith, author of ‘America,” all members of the Harvard class of 1829, numerous rain Coplous showers Record. Letter a ‘Complete Cleveland by way of o -— A ROYAL SPECTACLE. Chicago Record: So far from belng romantic, the present fate of Princess Alix is peculiarly prosaic and even squalid in the vulgarity of its details. Betrothed to the czarewitch as a matter of political neces- sity, she has been from the first the least consulted of all the parties to the transaction. To be sent in this wise from her home to Russia were bad enough, even were she sure of greeting by a willing lover. But there is plenty of reason to believe that the caare- witch is not only indifferent, but has even placed his affections elsewhere. ansas City Star: The thought cannot be suppressed that she (Princess Alix) has left the happlest days of her life behind her. There can be little for her in the future but anxiety and fear, which will not be modified by the plendor of her imperial station. She has journeyed to Livadia to receive the blessing of a mowarch who is going down to an early grave because his burdens were greater (han he could bear. and to become the wife of the royal heir who is to assume the grave responsibilities which crushed his father. The simplest and humblest bride who goes forth tods under the sweet sunshine of freedon favored land is happier by far, and is morc to be envied than the woman who is to share the throne of the greatest empire on the globe. Chicago Herald: Princess Alix of Hesse has been taken to Livadia, where, in the presence of a moribund sovereign, she has been betrothed to an unwilling bridegroom, already known to live in the marrlage rela tion and to be the fathor of children. by another wif he marriage is one of the regulation royal contracts. The Circassian slave dealer that presents his eiled cap- tives In the market performs his brutal in Dis oriental and ‘“pagan’ way. These ‘“royal” parents, “Christians,” barter off sons and daughters with equal brutality in their way. Rather than lose his right to the crown of Russia the sen of the em- peror breaks his vows to another woman, stigmatizes his own children and sets to the young men of his country an example of licentiousness they will not fail 1o make the most of. | States; shipped for | the | OUT OF THE ORDINARY. ! There are 5,466 rallway surgeons employed | by the railroads of the United States and Canada, Not long since, in a Geinan town, a_man was fined for sneezing too loudly in the streat at night. An aorolite which fell at Carson, | wolghed ten tons and ylelded gold, copper and lead Corner lote on Fieat strect, Pleadilly and other desirable business locations in London are worth $100,000 a front foot, M. Eiffel, bullder of the famous Riffel towor, estimates that for every $20,000 spent in engincering work one man is killed. At Leeds, England, thero is an electrio clock which has becn continualiy ticking since 1840, Its motive power Is naturi electrioity There are 68,000 postoffices in the United about 67,000 do not pay their running expenses, The profit of the New York City postoffice is $4.000,000 a year. A letter thrown overboard from a Danish vessel was found six days later in the stomach of a cod caught 1 miles from Ne! sitver, | the spot where the missal was thrown into tho sea. Civilization 15 advancing in Montana, for & lorse is no longer considered more valuable than a man A horse thief has just been sentenced to tmprisonment for life, instead of being lynched. A creek of cousiderable size, which rises in the mountains seven miles from Tucson, Ariz., 18 ¥aid to havo waters which possess the properties of couverting all soft sub- stances to solld stone. A large whale waehed ashore on the coast of Labrador on August 17 hud a long anchor chain wrapped three times around his body. The auchor, which was still attached the chiain, weighs nearly a half ton. There's a farmer in St. Albans, Vi, who has a most remarkable cow. When she gets back from pasture she takes a milk pail off the bench with her teeth, carries it to the back door steps, goes and gets a_stool and then waits there to be milked. After- ward she goes to the stable and into her stall. On rainy nights she goes to the stable the first thing. According to the Paris Figaro, Mr. Coates, the American “millionaire,” during the whole of his lifetime has never taken any medi- cine. He has constantly consulted doctors and chemists, and all the medicine they pre- seribed for him he put away in a room. The result of (his strangd fancy is that Mr, Coates has now 1900 bottles of medicine, 1,370 boxes of powders and 870 boxes of pills, -— INDUSTRIAL NOTES. The south produces over 60 per cent of all the cotton in the world. Of every 100 miles of rallway in the world forty-one are in the United States. Every day there is made in the United States one glass of beer for every man, woman and child in the country. The Louisville and Madison woolen milly at Madison, Ind., have been sold to an or- ganization of the bondholders, and their operation will be resumed. Soap has been substituted for wax on the recording surface of (he phonographer by a Berlin inventor. The advantage galned is that soap is unaffected by ordinary changes of temperature. The preparation of human hair for the market gives employment to 7,000 Parisians, The agricultural resources of the United States are equal to supporting a population of 1,000,000,000. In dressing down an axle at the Pennsyl- vania shops at Fort Wayne, Ind., recently a machinist turned off a steel shaving twenty-two feet long. This is by two feet longer than the one exhibited at the World's fair. The largest ropes In the world, It Is said, are thote being made by a New Bedford firm to be used on the driving wheel of the Chi- cago Cable Railroad company. There will be twelve ropes, each measuring three inches in diameter, eleven inches in circumference and 1,260 feet in length. The Pla~e for surnlus W New York Sun, The experiments made by Kansas farmers this year in the feeding of their surplus wheat to cattle, hogs and fowl ralsed for the market have been very successful, ac- cording to a report of the Kansas Board of Agriculture. It is more profitable for them to use their wheat thus than to sell it at the prevailing low prices, which are not ikely to advance soon to the desirable notch of $1 a bushel There h: b for some oat. o o great cry in the south rs, "Diversify the crops,” and n influence upon many of the and farmers. The Kansas wiy of diversifying the crops, which has been largely adopted this year, s somewhat of a noveity there. If there is @ better market for the cattie, hog and chicken p than for the wheat or corn erop, the Kansas farmers are acting sensibly in’ take ing advantage of it e Poctical Character of Tirvoklyn Eagle. A correspondent asks the Bagle how can the poetical or nonpoetical character of verse be determined? By turning the state- ment made by the verse into prose form, If it retains the poetical quality, the mind will recognize it. Thus the miracle of the changing of water into wine has been ex- pressed: “The consclous water saw Its God and blushed.” | whilo Fope's Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor iles, 1s not poetry at all, but only the expression of & moral and philosophical truth in poeti- cal form. Anvihing that is poetical 18 poeti- cal without the form, just as anything that i funny is funny without brogue or didlectio tricks or misspellings. verse. hat is manifestly poetical, YOUR MONEY'S T was a gone. UNDERWEAR. A natural fleece lined silk | trimimed, smoothly woven winter | weight shirt or drawers that is worth an even dollar, for &e. | HOSE. | Another special thing 1s o pure wool hose in black, blue or browa, | at e, worth B o, | Was that sale we starbed Saturday, and we'll keep it up till they're WORTH OR_YOUR MONEY BACK. ~ THE VOTE. ‘ Yor years Shoem: (nd,), * | b, e y debush (Pro- MEN’S SUITS. In sacks only; double and single breasted, or box style They are plain black cheviots, also |m cassxmeres and mixed goods. Every one of them is a new style garment, this year's cut; heavy serge lining and double silk sewed in every seam. $8.50 and $10. equal to Three prices, $7.50, Nothing them at these prices sold outside of our store. OVERCOATS. late overcoalings; sleeve linings. Plain colors in cheviot and all the new styles, Prices, $8.50, $10, $12.50. flannel lined, salin Children’s Department. - 2 piece suits $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50, dark mixtures, cheivots ete. ages 4 to 14. reefers 4 to 9. Long pant late styles, $5.00, $6. Juniorsinagas 3 to 7, and suits in sizes 14 to 18 all 59, $7.50. CHILDREN'S CAPE OVERCOATS sizes21-2 to 7, $3.60 and $4.00. Boy's ulsters $5.00, $6.50 and $7.50, Browning, King & Co,, Reliable Clothicrs, . W, Cor, 15th and Douglas 43