Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1894, Page 4

_'I-‘ma OMAHA DALy BEE ROSEWATER, Bditor, LISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUDSCRIPTION: Daily Hee (without Sunday), One Year... Datly Bee and Sunlay, One’ Year, ix M x e oivsovse sorvesas Three Months Fisevivs Sunday One Year.... ... Saturdny I, One Year..... Weekly Bee, One Year OFFICK The Tes Rulldin N arl 8 2528883 Omaha, South Omaha, ¢ sunell DM, 1 Chicago Office, 317 Chatn New York, Ttooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune BId Washington, 1407 I Street v, CORRESPONDENCE, ations relating to news and edi- uld be nddressed: To the Editor. SRS, nd Twenty-fourth Sts et of Commerce. Al commun torial matter sh BUSINESS L neas loiters and remitiances should be addressed The Bee Publishing company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 1o be made_payablo to the order of the eompany. THE BEE PUDLISHING COMPANY. ANl bu; OF CIRCULATION. George I cretary of The Des Pu 1ishing ecompany ng_ duly wworn, says tha the mctual number of full and complets copies of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, was as follows 8 12 3% 21,254 20,190 2,273 Total Less deduc coples Total sold Dally averag; “for " unsold and 40,424 21,347 *Sunday. 3 B. TZSCHUCK. rubscribed in my 1504, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Swarn to hefor It will be colder yet for the tattooed candidate on the day after election. It begins to look as if the decision on the maximum freight rate case were not to be made public until the railroads give the word. Every man who registers should glance over the names of those clai ing residence on the same street and make sure that no one registers who is not legally entitled to do so. Wait until all the reports of registra- tion figures in all the large cities are in and we shall have a new data for comparison of relative size and growth since the promulgation of the census statistics. The Manufacturers and Consumers as- soelation will be kept busy for months plugging up the blowholes in the trade of Nebraska wholesalers and jobbers now being made by the allies of the rail- road candidate for governor, Ex-President Harrison's promised speech in New York on Wednesday will be looked for with unusual interest by all the politicians, particularly those who have been hesitating as to which way the breeze of '06 is blowing. At last the officials of the immigration burean have discovered that it is not Mr. Morton's conchman who is a candi- date for governor of New York, and their zeal to send him back to gland has abated in a corresponding degree. Suggest to the s and busine men who have signed the railvoad man- | ifesto that it is u ssary for them to | employ a dishonest man to take c! of their affairs in order to restore their credit and they will laugh you out of counte: No one who hopes to see the state re- cover the money lost in the Capital Na- tional bank wreck should fail to register Is protest against placing the comtrol of the case against the bondsmen of the late state treasurer in the hands of the eandidate who is part and parcel with the ring. Tom is noted for his generosity. He was occe the author of a resolution authorizing the members and employes of the legislature to appropriate and earry off the furniture which the tax- payers had d for. The fact that the furniture did not belong to him ought not to detract from Tom's reputation for generosity There i no opposition to the intersee- tion paving bonds, so that the only dan- ger to this proposition lies in the possi- bility of voters neglecting to express themselves upon it. A failure to vote on the paving bonds is equivalent to a vote against them. Everyone who wants to see public improvements go forward in Omaha next season should record him- self in favor of the paving bonds. It is intimated that the reason why President Cleveland refused to register in New York is because he had grave doubts as to whether he still retains a legal residence in that elty. If this in- terpretation of the law should become the commonly accepted ome, we shall not be surprised some day to see the president of the United States resigning his office in order to recover the elective franchise. Our business men who ar to stand up for Omaha might exert their influence with the management of the Elkhorn road to bring the fast train that Is soon to run between Chicago and the Black Hills a little closer to Omaha than Missouri Valley. The new sched- ule leaves Omaha out of the course en- tirely and thus takes all the northwest- ern traffic by without stopping in or even passing through this eity. Omaha would certainly derive marked benefits from a change that would give her a share of the traffic. It 1s something worth trying for. E— Every one must admire the courage with which Princess Alix enters into matrimonial alliance with the heir to the Russian throne. The czarewiteh, it I8 true, wmight, it he wished, renounce the succession, but he finds himself in his present position by mere accldent of birth. He could not escape the plots oif nihilists and other enemies If he wished, The princess, however, assumes the risks knowingly and voluntarily, To her It Is a duty which she has to per- form to maintain the royal house. It is # duty that involves courage and self- sacrifice which few can appreciate. 80 anxious | THE OMAHA DAILY KEEP THE BULIS-ETE IN VIEW, Let it be borne in mind by every voter fn Nebraska that the desperate effort made by the confederated corporations and e liouse ving of boodlers to elect Thom J. Majors is not in the Interest of good government ot for the protection of the credit of the state. The railroad managers want Majors because, and only because, they know they can use him for defeating every measure that tends to curtail thelr power to levy | tribute on our producers and keep up | the system of discrimination and favor- | itism Dby which they have been able to dominate the state. The railroad man- agers want Majors because they want a man in thé governor's ehair who will veto the maximum rate bill if it is de- clared defeetive on technical grounds by Judge Brewer and will have to be re- enacted before it ean go into effect. The state house ring wants Tom Ma Jors to help them bridge the chasm which Mosher's collapsed bank created in the state treasury and place them in condition to continue the plundering schemes by which the state treasury has been looted out of over a million dollars within the last ten years. Last, but not least, the bondsmen who have been called into court to make good the $236,000 and interest lost to the state by Mosher's forgerics and swindles want Majors elected to give them a chance to get from under that hond. These varlous Interests are all banded' together under pretense of averting eal- amity and general ruination of the bus- iness fnterests if an lonest man, who hias never trained with political footpads and highwaymen, should be elected to the office of governor. With these facts held in view the intelligent and con- seientions citizen will be in condition to stand up for Nebraska and her eredit without stumbling into a railroad cul- vert covered by republican colors. LET TTIE BOARD ENFORC: ITS ORDERS. The Omaha Board of Health should either attend to its legitimate business or be abolished. The business of the Board of IHealth is not to boom candi- dates and levy blackmail upon butchers for political barbecues. Its function is 1o protect the health of the community from contagion and see to it that stale vegetables and tainted meats shall not be sold to consume The board opted a resolution some months ago prohibiting all of its cmployes from med- dling with polities, but this der honored in the breach rather than in the ance. The:e has never been the slightest attempt made to enforce it. Quite the contrary, the employes have been allowed to pack primaries and at- tend conventions while drawing pay for full time. The most blatant and defiant employe of the board is Meat Inspector Prank. He has not only persisted in defying orders, but has taken it upon himself to hold up buichers for con- tributions to a political barbecue. A more scandalous abuse of power has never been attempted by any public offi- It stands to reason that the pack rs and butel e s who have compl ed with his demand for oxen and sheep will be let alone, no matter whether they violate the health ordinance or not, while the butchers who do not col tribute will be on the black list. This is 2 nice state of affairs for a city like Omaha. Is it not about time for the Board of Health to give Inspactor Frank a permanent vacation and let him boss politics for a living? If the boarvd does not take action it will show clear that it has outlived its usefuluess os o health Board and should be abolished. City officials have a vight to vote as they se, and when they are not on duty may attend politi meetings. But when they spend most of thelr time in bulldozing voters and levying tribute upon parties whose business comes under municipal supervision they should be displaced by men who will not sean- dalize the department with which they are connected, 0 is cer. INCOME TAX NOT THE ISSUE. The New York Sun has been for a week or longer exerting the most frantic efforts to make the repenl of the income tax the issue in the pending campaign and it has suceeeded in drawing out ex- pressions from nearly all the congres- sional candidates in New York City, without regard to party lines, condemn- ing the existing income tax law and promising both to vote and to work for its repeal. The Sun, however, has not been able to subordinate other questions to this one question. In other states the congressional nowinees have in some cases explained where they stand on the income tax proposition, but in none of them is the battle being fought upon this line, Whether the house goes e 1.o- cratie or republican, therefore, the peo- ple will not know whether it means a majority in favor of or against the tention of the income tax. The reason why the income tax has been, as it were, temporarily shoved into the background, seems to be that it has not yet really gone into effect, and no one is in a position to say what the act- ual results of its enforcement are to be. The new law provides for a tax upon the income derived during the current year, but that tax does not become pay- able until the begivning of the year 18,5, The poor have not been lightened of any bure by it up to this time. But neither have the rich been forced to pay the very obnoxious tribute to the tax collector. The income tax under the present law is an unknown quantit The people know no more about it since the law was enacted than they did when the proposition was debated in congress. It may be taken for granted that the republicans in congress will, as a rul be opposed to the income tax and favo able to its repeal. A small minority of the democrats will be in agreement with the majority of the republicans upon this point, but there will be such differences of opinion as to what should take its place that the prospect of new revenue legislation cannot be very brilliant. The exigencies of the treasury will not per- mit it to give up the expected income tax receipts without substituting some- thing in their stead. What shall be the substitute is where the opponents of the tax will divide, Even were the presi- dent Inclined to approve an act to do away with the Income tax provision of the law he would scarcely approve one that carried with it the vestoration of any of the protective tariff duties. In a word, even If the Income tax were the Issue of this ecampalgn and a majority agninst it were secured in both houses of congress, it wounld still be very un- likely that any legislation looking to its repeal would run the gauntlet of the executive mansion and be finally pro- mulgated as law. All the appeals that the New York Sum may print eannot make an incotbe tax issue for the coming election. COHERENT AND CONSISTENT. Ex-Regent Marple, who belongs to the class of political fungl that thrive on railroad pap, has seen fit to take his text in a speech before a university club at Lincoln the inconsistencies of The Bee and Its editor. According to the Burlington Journal Mr. Marple vamped what The Bee had sakd concern- ing the fitness of David H. Mercer for a place in congress two years ago and what it said of him at {he opening of the present campaign. Toa man of Mr. Mar- ple’s makeup, who sees nothing improper in the debauchery of lawmakers by paid lobbyists, the standard set up by The Bee for aspirants to higher office may scem too exacting. But men who consider probity and moral reetitude as essential prevequisites for positions of honor and trust take a different view from that of the spectacular Mr. Marple. As nmatter of fact, The Bee has been nsistent and honorable in dealing with Mr. Mercer, as he will acknowledge him- self. It would have been Inconsistent and dishonest for The Bee to laud Mr. Mercer in his first canvass in the face of the fact that its editor is on record in the volumes of testimony taken be- fore the senate railroad committee and the Pacific railrond commission regard- ing Mr. Mercer's former vocation as a paid lobbyist. On this point The Bee has no retraction to make or apology ta offer. In commending the conduet of Mr. Mercor since he has been fn con- gress and crediting him with the good work he has done The Bee has shown itself cdpable of doing what its tra- ducers have never admitted. It has never failed to treat all public men fairly. It commends them when they render good service and condemns them when they betray public confidence. What object had Mr. Marple in re-. calling at this time the unpleasant things The Bee had sald coneerning Mr. Mercer? Was it for the purpose of de- precating what The Bee had said in his favor? Was it not really a cowardly Wb in the back of a man who has dis tanced him in the for political pre- ferment. A L WAR IMMINENT. With the foretaste of winter we are having consumers of coal will learn with satisfaction that a war seems im- minent anong the anthracite coal pro- ducing and carrying companies, the ef- foet of which would, of course, he to reduce the price of coal. The monthly meeting of the sales agents of the coal companies was held in New York last week, and it is noted that for the first time in eral years the meeting ad- journed without adopting any resolu- tion concerning the restriction of the output of coal for the month of Novem- ha It is said the result will be that the vavious producers will mine to the full eapacity of the market. The meeting went through the formality of ordering an advance in cireylar prices for Novem'er, but with unr sirieted pro- duction and active competition in all markets a cutting of prices will be in- evitable, The official eireular prices are not being regarded generally, cuts from them hay- ing been made in various mar| advance in prices ordered for N ber are regarded in the trade as made largely for effect, the idea being that they might cover up the disagreement among fthe larger interests regarding production, even though they did not re- sult in netting better prices for coal to the producers. A conservati timate of the amount of anthracite coal that will be mined in November in the ab- sence of a restrictive agreement is 4.250,000 to 4,750,000 tons. This amount has only been exceeded in June last, when, under the influence of the soft conl miners' strike, the output of anthra- cite reached about 5,250,000 tons, every company having worked its mines to their full capacity ‘o get out this amount of conl. Since June the ontput has not been veduced in proportion to the de- crensed demand consequent upon the resumption of production of soft coal, so that a great deal of anthracite must have gone into stock or been marketed in the west at low prices, the latter probably being the case. Assuming that to be so, the future demand is likely to be below the usual amount, which, to- gether, with an unrestricted output, would certainly compel a lower range of prices. The existing situation is the result of competition with the anthracite pool, made up of the great companies that produce nearly the entire output of hard coal. his competition consists of the New York, Ontario & Western and the New York, Susquehanna & Western roads, which arranged for handling an anthracite tonnage independently of the older companies. Being refused a share of the pool business, these two com- panies began marketing coal at cut prices, and they succeeded in bringing the pool to their figures. Then trouble in the pool, and the differences appear to be of a nature that will be settled only by radical treatment. That an adjustment will be reached may be confidently predicted, for the interests involved are not going to make any sac- rifices that can be avoided, In the mean- time the consumers of anthracite coal will be benefited, or at any rate such of them as arve in a position to take ad- vantage of the existing conditions. It is certainly high time that the public be given some advantage, for it has nearly always been compelled to pay large tribute to the greed and rapacity of the anthracite coal pool. s The democrats in New York are sald to be doing precisely what the republie- ans of Nebraska are doing—ramely, mak- ing use of the state house employes for the clerical work necessary to the pros- ecution of the campaign. This is, of eourse, an abuse to be reprehended, without regard to the party to whose advantage It accrues. The state em- ployes are paid out of the public treas ury to do the public work, and it is their duty to attend to the same aund to make it take precedence re- | H: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 380, 1894 [nf all private enterprises. To Impress Into the €®F¥1te of candidates for office men who are supposed to be engaged in public business is the same as lovying a tax on the. semumunity to defray cam- paign expanses. The mere suggestion of such a g 1s enough to prove the viclousnessof-the practice. T. J. Majors' record as lientenant gov- ernor is one of tireless and unremitting service to the rallroads of Nebraska, As | president of [the senate he was the con- | stant associate and hoon com railroad dappers and paid lobbyists, When the maximum freight rate bill was before the senate he manipulated ev step taken to block I passag and was in close communication with | the rallrond contingent, ready and will ing at all times to do their bidding. On one notable oceasion, when a erisis had been reached in the consideration of the bill, & railrond lobbyist passed a note up to Majors, who was presiding over the senate. The note read: “Tom: What have we got you there for Tom knew what that meant. It was notice from the railrond managers that he must not be eaught napping at his post of duty when the fnterests of the railroads were in jeopardy. Should the raflroads suc- ceed In disfranchising enough voters to put Majors in the governor's chair they will then know, and he will know, what they have got him there for! Mr. Bryan and populist co-laborers may talk free and unlimited coinage of silver to thelr learts' content, but Ne- braska produces no silver. It is a na- tional issue. The fight in Nebraska has simmered down to a square contest he- tween confederated monopoly on the one side and the masses on the other. The question is, shall the government of this great state be placed back into the hands of the people, or shall the corporations continue to usurp every function of gov- ernment? Supporters of Silas A. Hol- comb are determined that railroad Dbosses shall be foreed ont of polities and compelled to confine their efforts to lo- gitimate railrond business. That is all they ask, and they have this year made up their minds that (he people must and shall resume control of the state govern- ment. great of common people sing four-firths of the voters of are watching the action of re- tail merchants in the present campalgn. v propose to let each merchant mg his own che in lending support to ¢ corporation ci@flidate for governor or to the candidatg who is being fought by the confederated corporations of this state. Tgnorange of the true issue will exempt no man. There is not a citizen of Omaha who cannot learn in one lour's time that every device known to political warfare is being resorted to by the allied corporations to compass the election of T. J. Majors. Against this powerful foree is arrayed the un- purchaseable and conscientious voters of The anfon of | PROPLE AND THINGS, Japan 1s convinced thero is nothing to arbl- | trate. Governor Waite is (n Chicag a bridle tour. Snow fell several schedule time. A marked revival will be felt presently in various political boneyards Levi P. Morton is the bettor man in New York. The odds continue in his favor. | Mrs. Cleveland has increased her weight to 180 pounds and cultivates a matronly double chin. Affairs are about down in Guatemala. It has been a time between revolutions down there Washipgton has the distinction of being the first city to bring the price of bread within hailing distance of the reduced cost of flour. Vivisection of worms has supplanted some of the three R's in Chicago schools s0 as to enable the rising generation to inteiligently pass upon the live issues of lake water. The revelations of the Lexow explorers do not excite New York half as much as the as tounding discovery that the registration Chicago places the lake city dangerously o to New York for first place. Despite the array of brass hands in democratic campaign in York, the melody to down the discordant mnotes in the he sonorous tones of groverian chin music are wofully lacking It is to bo regretted that the Towa girl who kicked a hole in her father's ribs for chastising her brother committed sulcide af ter the act. She should have lingered awhile and helped to elevate the stage. The Boston scientific school reports that the male crow sings a beautiful song. This is an tmportant and mighty interesting dis- covery, and will tend to mitigate gastronomic nausea in varlous quarters next week. Mr. Christian Conrad of Delaware county Ia., claims to have reached the remarkable ago of 115 years. Some doubters ridicule the ciaim, but Mr. Conrad points to the fact he has used tobacco and whisky for 100 years as irreputable proof of his five score and fif- teen, The offer of a Detroit woman to give for missionary purposes all revenue derived from the sale of eggs laid by her hens on Sunday was promptly laid on the table. The meet- ing at which the tender was made could not encourage Sabbath breaking even though the heathen perished Dr. H. T. Humbold is dead. ago his name adorned every covered columns in nine out newspapers iu the land. among patent medicine men, and spent mil lions in advertising his “buchu.” For overy dollar he spent in advertising he made ten, and was at one time a multi-millionaire. Insanity and an asylum ended his career. Some incautious male resident of Fort Gib- son, Indian Territory, sneered at the prowess of ‘the modern woman and ridieuled her ability In town painting. Miss Louisa Cook, sister of the eminent train robber and cut- throat, heard the sneers and resolved to end the author and rebuke the town which harbored him. Riding into town clothes-pin fashion, she pumped lead into the windows of the houses, sent every straggler to cover and made a sieve of the railroad station. No one tried to arrest her, indeed the greatest deference was shown her during her visit. de i RMAN MINISTRY. probably on days ahead of the to take a fresh long the Twenty years dead wall and of every ten He was a Napoleon THE Minneapolis Times Hohenlohe-Sehil- lingsfuerst, the new chancellor of Kaiser Wilhelm IT, seems to have been well provided with a name when he made his first en- trance onto the stage of life. A High-Low- Schilling-Prince is rather suggestive of high, low, jack, and the emperor will probably fur- nish the game. Chicago Tribune: In France and Spain govermental methods are very similar to these ot England. In Germany, however, everything depends upon the mood and whims Omala i support of Judge Holcomb, Choose ye this-day whom ye shall serve, Artisans and workingmen of Omaha are delermnal that the co \‘ederat dcor porations shaM not govern this state at their own sweet will. They know, as everybody else knows, that T. J. Majo is the eandidate of the railroad bosses, who are spending thelr money and de- tailing their agents in every quarter of the state to force Majors upon the peo- ple of this state. They know that If Majors is elected he will simply be the puppet of the railroads, and will not he permitted to represent the great mass of citizens on any Issue involving rail- rond interests. They know that Silas A. Holeomb will, when elected governor of Nebraska. treat the railroads fairly and | that he will see to it that the rights of | all the people are protected. He stands for equality before the law. Certain busitess men who signed the save-the-state manifesto are wishing they had not been so ready to do the bidding of the ra ses and de- positor They did not stop to con- sider what the legitimate results must be. They now see very clearly that the corporations have led them into a trap which is hound to cost them many hun- dreds of dollars in trade. Their travel- ing men come back with empty orde books. The country merchant has de clared that he can buy his goods else- where—in cities where wholesale mer- chants and bankers have too much sense to commit the fatal blunder of mixing business with politics. Men who have been working all sum- mer on the B. & M. extension in Wyo- ming and Montana are not entitled to vote in Nebraska. Every one of them who attempts to cast a ballot in this state renders himself liable to prosecu- tion, and, on conviction, to pe servi- tude in the penitentiary. Promises of pardon from Tattooed Tom will not be of much avail, for the very simple rea- son that the railroad eandidate will not be in a position to issue pardons to any one. Whoever attempts to cast a frand- ulent vote at the coming election will do s0 at his peril. The advent of cold weather will be immediately noticeable in the ealls for assistance made upon the county poor authorities. That there will be at least the usual nuuiber of dependents to look | after this year is taken as a matter of | course. The ommissioners have endeay- ored to de op a systematic plan of action, and this'should be followed from the start. There are too many worthy poor to waste the resources at our com mand on frands and impostors, The ssués Trouble Horace. Chicago Tribune. Ex-Governor Béies of lowa is still a dem- ocrat, but he cannot rid himself of the conviction that most of the issues ought to be taken out of polities this year. e The Mennce of Czars. Clicago Herald, That an Insidious polson is really the cause of the czars still unexplained illness is credited throughout Europe, but denled by his medical attendants under absolute or- ders from the sufferer himself, Curlosity Severely Punished. Philadelphla Ledger., The old story of the Frenchman who complained that when an Englishman in a car called to him to “look out” he meant that he should look in, has had a tragic {llustration in ilinols, Where the brakeman of m car, having notified the passengers of danger—meaning that they should keep within the car—excited thelr curiosity, and al who stuck their heads out of the w to look for danger were struc by projecting cattle chutes and badly i Jured, one of the number being killed, of the emperor. He can appoint and throw out chancellors at his own sweet will. It would ba better for the government and for the peo- ple of Germany if their parliamentary methods were more nearly assimilated to the English and if the chancellor had a party at his back In the Reichstag instead of being the mere creature of the emperor and always at his mercy. If this is not done some day it will make serious trouble for Germany. turn | VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Niobrara Ploneer (rep): Judge Holcomb s & man who promises to fulfill the laws, and he knows, as a lawyer, what these laws are and has the courage of his convictions and the moral sense of his obligations. He need not be an orator 1o accomplish (ho pur- poses for which he shall bo elocted. — He knows the law. He obeys the law. Ile will executa the law. e il R W Have Wit Tode and hopefully for Thomas J. Majors to refute the many charges brought against him an his past record and wo earnestly hope he may see fit to yet come forth with a denlal and proof of these serious charges. He should not expect us to stand up and main tain he is all that is good when he dare not arrest his slanderers, it they be such. Aurora Sun: Rosewater proposed that Mujors go before a jury of preachers and re- | fute the chasges that has been made against him relating to the census fraud, the cert fication to a fraudulent voucher, and the charge of converting his (Majors’) office at the cabitol Into a barroom. But Majors is not looking for trials. Denlals, not by him- selt—he has denied nothing—but by his friends, wil sufice Tom. Things arc bad enongh’ now without evidence before a court If Majors had wanted, or could be exonerated by trial, the trial would have long ago been had, and in the shape of a criminal libel sult against Rosewater. It could have been worth thousands of votes to Tom Majors and his railroad friends to have gotten Rosey convicted of premeditated libel. BRE ¥ BITS OF FUN. 1t fem ohin Record: ow that a man. e f ot not carpenter Phi sarily a plane " neces- le is Chicago Inter Ocean suppose [ was called nine poisoning, what thing to be done? Student—8end for a doctor that could tell you what to do. Washin that time ful man, Dr. Quack—Now in a case of stryc would be the first I have often " said the thought- r realized the force b till I watched them putting up a government buflding. heard Harper's Razal There s som about you that I like exceedingl Mr. Callowhill to Miss Ricketts. “That's your own Inordinate egotis replied the girl. “My egotism? es, sir, for nothing is about me quite as much’as you." ution: Judge—Why didn't urn the money to the man? Prisoner—He wouldn't give me time, Judge—Well, take six months, and if that ain't time enough let me hear from you! Indianapolis Journal: “Tell us,” cried the up of maldens, “how to remain always g and attractive.” “That 18 just dead easy,” replied the sage, without even lifting his ¢éyes from his book. “Get a fortune and stay single. Puck: Mr. O'Maha—I'm told that Miss Broadsole beiongs to an old Chicago family; that her grandfather was one of the earlies pork packers in the city. Porkington—An old family! Why, ipa packed pork right before hers ever saw a &1 here in Chicago hog. poor man, how did ome to lose your foot—in the war 0, ma'am. T used to live in the suburbs, and in running for a train on an_early spring morning 1 caught my foot in the mud and left it there, Life: table. that Judge: "W 1 The eminent physician was irri- Calling the janitor, he said: “Who is Jkeeps singing, ‘I would not live the lady in the apartment above, Well, tell her that as a professional man I am prepared to assure her that she won't, and that there is consequently no cause for further agitation on her part.'” WHEN WOMEN CRY. Kansas City Journal, When women. cry the starry skies Look down with sympathetic eyes, And mountain helght and vasty deep Pull out their handkerchiefs and weep, While wretched man doth hang his head And wish sincerely he were de: When women ery, DER DEUTSCHER'S MAXIM. Charles Follen Adams. Dhere vas vot you call a maxim Dot I hear der oder day, Und T write id in mine album, So id don'd could got avay Und I dells mine leedle Yawcob He moost mind vot he's aboudt; St. Paul Pioneer Pre The resignation of Chancellor von Caprivi and Count Euhlen- Dborg, president of the Prussian council of ministers, is likely to prove embarrassing to Emperor William. For it is apparently the outbreak on the surface of differences which are likely to lead to the disruption of parties as well as the cabinet. The immediate ques- tion at issue seems to have been how o treat the socialists. The chancellor favored a moderate policy. Euhlenberg wanted sternly radical measures of repression. The latter represents, In an_extreme degree, the ideas of government which make socialists. So- clalism flourishes in Germany because it is the natural form of the reaction from the imperial paternalism of the reigning dynasty. THE POOR COAL DEALER. Chicago Mall: The sorrows of the anthra- cite coal dealers should soften the hearts of the people who have to buy coal. These dealers have been doing business at a loss selves have said so, and it must Many causes” are given why this has been so, but they don't need to be re- capltulated. The public has complete trust in what the coal dealers say, and when they say business has been done at a loss that is enough. Chicago Post: The anthracite coal miners deserve notice for their unusual rapacity. They have developed the business of grinding the faces of the poor until it has become a science. Families of means usually buy their coal in the summer and early autumn Probably the cellars of most well-to-do per- sons are filled already. But it is not until the first shrewd days of November that the necdy begin to make provision for the cold weather, They buy a ton or a half a ton at a time, beginning about this period of the year. The conl miners meet the situation with rare discrimination. They promptly raise the price of coal, and continue to add a littlo more each month till the winter breaks up. In the process the families of the poor are milked drop by drop for the Keenest necessity of life. _The coal operators grow fat and happy. Their dreams are peaceful, their lives are without worry, but they pros- per on the misery of others. [I'rom him that hath not shall be taken even that which he hath, —————— Rands OF of Hawall, Denver Republican. The United States ought to construct at least provide for the co cable to Hawall. But or and it may be that the proposition of cer- tain English capital the Hawalian government In rega aying such a able will be accepted r modifications. I is o matter of satisfaction that the r ports say that the government will not con- sider that part of the proposition which in- volves the cession of one of the islands to Great Britain in the event that the other members of the group are annexed to the United States. Buch a cession would meet with much hostility from the people of thia country, and the United States should not permit the acquisition of any territorial in- terests in the Hawailan group by Great Britain_or any other Burop would be a nice thing for could induce the Hawallan gover surrender to it one of the islands, of which it might eventually make any use it pleased. Pillng in the Stufr, Minneapolis Journal. democratic tarlff went into Ish tin plate makers have been pourige their product into the country by the ship load. Every pound of this tin pla imported from abroad is displacing Ame can labor, which, under the republica tariff, found a new field of industry in increasingly large manufacture of A can tin plate. A train of fifteen cars tin plate from Wales Is on 1t5 way to Mil- waukee from Baltimore now. e A Nation Tuxed to Death, Buffalo Express. Italy Is again confronted b, the budget. The country | there is a ring of clvil in Keeping up taxes, and its position in the Triple alliance obliges the kingdom to maintaln a naval establishment beyond its means. No stalesman has yet arisen who has courage encugh to tackle the problem of reducing the public expenditures, . Army OMcors as lodian Agents, Kansas City Star. The many gentiemen who have been pull- ing all sorts of wires with the end In view Since the effect the W a deficl tehed) rvants intereste of serving their country as Indian agents have wisely concluded that army officers will have to go Into mourning or hunt some other jol cretaries Smith and Lamont make bettér agents for the red men than sny of the civilian aspirants, 'Tis too late to lock der shtable Vhen der horse he vas gone oudt.' Vhen I see ubon der corners Off der streets, most Der loafers und'der hoo Who do nix but shvear und’ fight, 1 say to mine Katrina: Let us make home bright and gay Ve had better lock der shtable, 8o our colts don'd got avay. Vhen you see dhose leedle urchins, Not mooch ofer knee high tall, Shump righdt indo der melon patch, Shust owf der garden vall, Und vatch each leedle rashkell Vhen he cooms back mit hees 'boad] Look oudt und lock your shtable, So your nag don'd skydoodle Vhen der young man at der counter Vants to shpecgulate in shtocks, Und buys hees girl some timond' rings, Und pil righdt oup der rocks, nk oudt for dot young feller; Id vas safe enuff to say Dot der shiable id vas empty Und der horse vas gone avay. Dhen dake Time by der fetlock; Don'd hurry droo’ life’s course tememper vot der poet says, “Life’s but a shpan”—off horse: Der poy he vas der comin' man; e careful vhile you may; Shust keep der shiable bolied, Und der horse don'd got avay. TOM JONNSON'S CIRCUS. Great Froe Trader's Novel Show at Cleves Tand, Olio. “Almighty God, Forbid!" That Is the plous exclar an editorial In the democratic Plain Dealer protesting the Hon. Tom Johnson to congress Congrossman Johnson has provided himself with a movable campaign tent and s cone ducting a political clrcus according to his |own notions. There Is plenty of tongue sauce and peanuts in it, and it fs the great nightly attraction of the town Sven those Who distike his free trade doctrine confess that he has done more than any one else to kin- dle general interest in the approaching elee- tion. He Is a handsome man, and bears upon his ample forehead the stamp of a elear, capable, fearless and dominating intellect, He has a strong, clean eut mouth and reason- ably developed lips, a long chin and a des clded Jaw. His cheek bones are prominent, his eyes full and strong and he wears no hair on his face He s fearloss and pos- sesses so much of egotism that once sure of his motives and principles he suffers litile inconvenience from the quips and eriticlsms of the outside world. Every one in Cleveland Is fond of him, but many agree with the old farmer who said, “Tom'll always be a good man, but he'll never amount to shucks in politics, ‘causs he's too durned ready to spit out what he thinks." 8o it happens that Mr. Johnson's ecircus draws a big crowd, no matter in what part of town or the surrounding country he chances to pitch his tent. It is the regula- tion 100-foot round top circus tent, with two fifty-foot middie pie Tiers of seats extend around the wall canvas, except along one end, in which o movable vlatform fs fitted. There is sawdust on the ground, and the tent is lighted by gasoline chandeliers around the three center poles. No peanuts are sold In (he tent, but as a erowd wouldn't feei contentod in a tent with- out cracking “goober peas,” they procure them in unlimited quantities from stands outside. So with a band with as strong lungs as any that ever blew brass in a cross roads show, with ushers seating the throng, with boys hawking single tax tracts, and with half the crowd munohing peanuts, it looks like a real old-time country circus Just before the procession begins. The tent (s pitched on a new lot every day. Mr. Johnson speaks every night, and he is ‘supported by other speakers, all of whom seem to enjoy the novelty of the thing. Mr. Johnson has already challenged all the most prominent republican speakers in town to debate in his cireu them, and a populist accepted, there will be some rattling shows next week. Some of the swallowtall democrats profess to scorn what they are pleased to call ““John- son's tomfoolery.” To which Mr. Johnson, In a speech the other night, retorted: “I'd rather the old fogies would be against me this year than not. It's the young men I'm after. The old fellows never learn anything anyhow After every speech Mr. Johnson invites the crowd to ask questions. Then there is fun. Republicans come loaded with the most perplexing queries, which they fire at him in volleys. This question and ‘answer business is a good deal like the dialogues between Master Merryman and the ring master, for they keep audience In almost continuous gulaws. Sometimes Tom gets the beiter of & ques- tioner and sometimes he Is worsted, but It is all fun for the crowd. The crowd had a great treat the other night, when Mr. Johnson made humorous and satirical comments on this paragraph from a local newspaper: “Johnson's Juneberry Jelly Is represented by the fat fakir to be tho most wonderful discovery of the closing decade of the nine- teenth century. It is sald that from what- ever it comes in contact with poverty dis- appears. A simple application of it is sald to produce warm overcoats for the coatless, plenty of ready cash for the penniless and unbounded happiness for the sorrowful and idle workmen. A skillful analyst has found that the ingredients contained in the pasty mass are free trade, which is a slow poison found on the Island of Chaos; single tax, a deadly herb which first took root in the skull of a deceased lunatie, and the essence of the brains of country wreckers. And this is the concoction that ‘Dr.’ Tom L. Johnson has been trying for (he last two weelis to palm off on the Intelligent people of the Twenty-first congressional district.” He laughed with the crowd while reading the paragraph, and they laughed harder over the quips and bumor of his replies. So one is pretty certain o see some new fun every time he or she visits Mr. Johne son's one-night stand circus. - TERN PENSIONS. ation which heads Cleveland return of the leader besides, have WS Veterans of the Late War Rememberod b, the General Government. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2).—(Special)—Pen- slons granted, issue of October 18, were: Nebraska: Relssue—John W. King, New- port, Rock; William H. Coleman, Omaha, Douglas; William W. Leas, Omaha, Doug- Robert Sneath, Pender, Thurston. inal widows, etc.—Emily C." Morse, Ord, Original—Willlam H. Marsh, Adel, Dallas. Additional—-Osborne Allen, Bristow, Butler; Willlam Cook, Anamosa, Jones, Increase—Benjamin Hifl, ~ Mechanicsville, John Hurley, Creston, Union. Re- issue—Thaddeus 8." Tickel, Carl, Adams; Michael Fitzpatrick, Holbrook, lowa. Orlgi- widows, ete. ( A, hols, Oclwein, ayette South' Dakota: Increase—Lyman C. Keech, Hot Springs, Fall River. Colorado: Original—George W, Denver, Arapahoe. 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