Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY more than the government Il get from it in revenue If it should stand a quarter of a century, will not be removed by the Present congress, As already said, the proposition to abandon it will probably pass the house, but it will undoubtedly be de- feated in the senate. The result of that could in all probability be a commer al warfare that would still further serfously cripple our BEuropean trade, already reduced to a lower point than for many year: BEE: SATURDAY vestigation revealed a condition of things in the gompstic relations of the unfortunate c 1 to which their rash- ness is attrib@@b® and which is better 1 left unsaid. knocks the premise of the hysterical writer into smithereens. New brooms p clean. The new fire chief is trying“to have the fire fight- ing force of tgjaity placed on a metro- politan footing . with apparatus and equipments to Correspond with those in use in the Wading cities of the coun- try. This is commendable, but we would remind the new. ehlef that Rome was not built in a day. Omaha is still a v young city and the municipal treasury must first be relnforced before we can attempt to make all the pur- chases recommended by him. There s nothing to prevent the 1 lature from instructing the pros tors and representatives to employ their influence and votes in opposition to the Union Pacific funding bill. That DIl proposes to saddle forever upon the people of Nebraska the fraudulently Issued bonds and watered stock upon which they are being compelled to pay interest in abnormally high freight rates. This is not a party question. Success in sccuring the state fair for Omaha ought to prove a stimulus to- ward inereasing and strengthening the membership of the Commercial club. By taking advantage of the favorable situation the list of members might he considerably lengthened. Success brings JA ARY OTHER L. 19, 189 THA D OURS. State Into a Belgian colony will therefore only anticipate a practically settled reversion by some five years. Inasmuch as the Brus- sels govefnment will now have additional ducements to spend money in develop'ng the resources of this great African dependency, all foreign nations interested In the Congo trade are likely to be materially benefited by the conversion of the state into a Belgian colony. | - CORRUPTION AT DEATH OF MISS STEVENSON, THE OMAHA DAlLY Br B. e PUBLISHED EVERY MOR = The supporters of constitutional pro- | v libitlon in South Dakota have made a very earnest fight against resubmission, — [but the indications are that they will HFIV.- beaten. The bill for resubmission (Without Sunday), One Year.., passed the lower house of the legisla- b o B o tew days ago and is now in the % scnate, whore a vote on it is expected nest week. The prohibitionists Thave by no means given up the fight and still profess to believe that they will secure a majority in the sens against resubmission, but there is trust- worthy opinfon that the bill will that body. Prohibition constitution was been year For more than a century past France has been a nation of crises, convulsions and cata- clysms. The Bourbon monarchy of Louls XVI was subverted in 1802, and was suc- ceeded by the first republic, which, under the convention, the directory and the con- sulate, in succession, managed to hang on to life until 1804, when it was succeeded by the first empire headed by Bonaparte, which was upset in 1814, when the Bourbon regime was restored by the bayonets of the allied European powers. This government was subverted in e revolution of 1830, and the tule of the house of Bourbon-Orleans, under the “Citizen King” Louis Phillippe, began. In the convulsion of 1848 this monarch was [ driven cut and the second republic was estab | lished, which was bet | Louis Napoleon, in 1852, and the sec m- pire, with him as emperor, created. Neme- €ls hit Napolecn in 1870 in the Franco-Ger- man war, avenged the “great crime” of 1852, and the third republic, which is still in ex- istence, came Into being. . ROSEWATE | Daughter of the Vice President Sucenmba B to tho Ravages of Consnmption. ASHEVILLE, N. €., Jan, 18.—Miss Steven« | son, daughter of Vice President Stevenson, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. died at 1:15 p. m, today. ' o 5 Vi1 Miss Mary G. Stevenson, the oldest daughe ter of the vice president of the United States, died al the Battery Park botel in this city at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon. Ter father and mother and {wo sisters surrounded hor bedside when the end came, the only absent member being her brother, Lewls Stovenson, who Is at the bedside of his sick wife in Bloomington, 1l Miss Stevenson, who was Three Months . day Be One Year Tice, One Yenr.. e, One Yenr OFFICES, Omaha, The fiee Duildin Bouth Omaha, Singer Tk, Cor. N and 2ith Cm]lnrl] Dlufrs, yl‘.\VrntrL re hleggo Office, 317 Chamber of Commeres, New' York, I W ond 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 140 CORRE . All communications relating to news and edl- Lortal matter should be addrecsed: To the Editor, RUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be ddienscd " to The ® Bes Tublishing company, Omahn, - Drafts. ehecks and postofiice orders to Be made_pivabic {0 the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. — . STATEMENT OF CIF LATION. Georgo 1. Trschuck, secretary of The Tice Pub- Hshing Welng uly “aworn, says that amber of full and complete copies 2ily Morning, Evening and Sunday Iee Printed during the month of November, 1594, w a5 Tellows. ATLANTA, Waeekly Be Amos Raker Exonerated, Three | 1 Susponded and Investigution Demanded. | ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 18.—The special coun- ofl committee engaged for the past three days With investigation of the charge preferred| in ner 950 year, was taken NI with & cold against City Court Clerk Amos Baker by | while at Bar Harbor, Me., with her mother Chief of Detectives Wright has startled the| and sister last summer. The attack des clty by its report exonerating Baker but sus- | Yeloped Tonty Che. tengy, Bak Aoy pending Betectives Wright, Looney and finally rallied ‘(Ilml'h‘:ll])’ to be lfzk.l‘h south, son and calling on the counc where it was hoped a milder climate would vestigation of the police ald her recovery. About the middle of Oe- partments. This report is signed by all six tober ghe was brought to Asheville, in the members of the special committee and 18 | mountains of western North Carolina, whers almost certain to be adopted by the general the air is usually dry and balmy. The change council at its next meeting, In which start- at first appeared to Improve her health, but ling developments are looked for. Simulta It d1d not last, owing to the fact that a com- nesusly with the recommendation for the sus- | plication of diseases had set in and had al- pension of the detectives the Board of Health | ready told severely upon her system, the removed Sanitary Inspector Ray for accept- | most serlous of these belng uraemia poisons ing from ‘fruit and meat dealers and | ing, Dr. 8. W. Battle, one of the most emi- City Councilman Mason has preferred dam-| nent physiclans in the south, formerly & aging allegations against City Warden Hunter. | naval surgeon, but now a resident of this which may develap into probabilltles when L ——— place, was summoned to seo her, but sho the session opens. On the other hand. all OFFICE WAS T00 TiRk was (0o far gone (o permit of recovery under speculations at present are subject to be i any_treatment i overthrown. by the official program, which [ Popullst Sheriff No Itesloged by 1f1s Friends | After reaching here Miss Stevenson has not yet been announced. Public opin- that e Was ¥ 1 to Resign, l_‘]" her "”‘“lrl 'I"{“ '“:I ""{"‘{ Pt ol ion s settled around the Welsh and Irish| SPRAGUE, Wash, Jan. 18.—Popullst Bt I, VAW, Although the ol ‘tamily x’y‘.\l: vrw rl‘l'":v.l\n'"u{“nul;r azib \'1I;|‘""“””' Sherift Williams was Inaugurated Mond still cherished hope that a change for tho BOVErRHeAL ANNBE hold the, Ttlah arid Welis, | Put was besieged by applications for | better might eventually come, For the past members In line on any othor terms, and | A°PULYShIDs that e entered into an agree- | ton daya sie has baen slowly sinking, and it Without their support it must fall, jMment with J. B. Gray, the outgolng republi “l«“ ;\ if"p he x‘|“ bl n\; ulm;n od ol b ccurats forecast, laving 1o fcan county clerk, wherehy Gray should take | that Vice Prestdent Stovenson s dauhtenl ] lmw .~:v‘mlueu‘( of minister or ac-|the office, run it and 1 $110 the | podside, left the senate chamber and came (o DYOIINNS 01 A Triai s govern v TLORBERAE | mentuTy “ualaty, The Sremutning /E10) hE) WARI| ABHBVIIE 1o Fotai o G e e promise cf ‘an Irish government bill, the | gty "t 3 ALl RS G L) tectives IERMAN'S PLAN. If the present congress will not pro- vide for the deficlency of revenue in any other way than by increasing the public debt, then the plan proposed 1 Senator Sherman s perhaps as good any that can be devised. This author- izes the secretary of the treasury, at his discretion, to issue and sell at not les than par in coln either of the descrip- | tion of hHonds authorized in the resump- | tion act to an amount sufficient to pay the current deficiency of revenue, the bonds to bear interest not exceeding 3 per cent per annum and to be redeem able at the pleasure of the United was incorporated in the of South Dakota when it admitted to statehiood and has nominally in operation for five , though as a matter of fact it has been effective in only a small portion of the state. It is of record that 1,100 liquor licenses are fssned by the inter- nal revenue authort in South Da- B % kot east of the Missouri river, and as 367 (o |1t Is estimated there are not more than daen 200 drug stores in that district there | must be 000 saloons, or places where lquor is sold as a beverage, which is one to every 800 people. 1t is a fact of | States in coin: or in lleu of any of common knowledge, also, that over afthege honds the secrotary may issue large portion of the state saloons are | catificatos of Indebtedness of the y ¥ . 482 | running wide open, making no effort at | United States, payable in coln _in de- %, concealment, and many counties report | nominations from $5 to $100, to bear s, deaacans g rgor number of liquor sellers than | yarest at 8 per cont, the cortificatos to e ever had under license. Thus the | yave the same qualitios, privileges and B iliyiaverans Fet SIsIAtion evidence Is conclusive that no respect | oxemptions as bonds. On the deposit of whatever is being pald to the 1aw In | aiher bonds or certificntes mnational ar- for a full | and detective de- gis ‘nt sen- Rosebery's government question of the may split disestablishment ot urch In Wales, for it will have all the servative elements In the Commons op posed to it, or It may fall by the desertion of the Irishmen, These are possibilities the the on SOME. never months BiTRCS S emunmanua s0 authori| of he v 21612 GEORGE I TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hefore me and subseribed in my pres- ence this 34 day of December. 18, ) P. FEIL, Notary Public. Of cour: Nebras ties wl Secretary Morton had nothing to do with poli atever. What the citizens of Omaha expecet of the city council is that it keep the tax rate down. French people have the peculiar habit of taking a man who tenders his resig- nation at his word. The Pacific mortgage foreclosure i nothing more nor less than a hold blufr to boost the funding bill. Senator Tl may have the white house dinners, but Senator Gorman will not o hungry so long as he is able to feed himself, Not till Sceretary Morton is again at his post of duty the country may be assured that the government at Wash- ington still live That Union Pacifie foreclosure is a pretty good bIuff. It is just what the people want, but just what the bond- holders do not want. one president of France has served out the normal term of seven years. President Faure would like very much to be the second. Only The question of the hour: How will the one hundred odd employes of the state senate determine which sixty-six of them shall draw pay? Perhaps the Chicago republicans will now content themselves with beginning a still hunt for the place in the United States senate now occupied by John M. Palmer. —_— The South Omaha Board of Rduca- tion is grappling with the problem of enforced economy. When will the Omaha board settle down to this most important business? If all the departments of city govern- ment could point to the same saving of public money as the street department, the finances of the city would be in a much more healthy condition. As might have been expected the managers of the Brooklyn troliey lines are following the illustrlous example of the marquis of Pullman by declaring that they have nothing to arbitrate. If the first mortgage bondholders of the Union Pacific railroad want to fore- close on the road let them do so. Con- gress must not let the threatened fore- closure procedure be used as a club to compel It to betray the Interests of the people. The State Board has reorganized for the coming electing a new president and secret If the new board follows the example of its predecessors that will be about all the business it will transact during the biennial period of While in the business of investigating the state printing bids the special house committee might do’ some good work by looking into the matter of padding public documents by which the number of pages charged against the state is neadlessly multiplied. —— An editorial in one of the Chicago papers Thursday discussing the presi- dential candidates in Irance describes almost every Frenchman of suflicient prominence to be mentioned in this con- nection except the one who is now president of the French republic. The Commercial club has made a good start this year, but it should not tive of well-doing. ‘The club shonld keep right on campaigning against mossbackism and the blues, Every cloud has its sil- ver lining and the way to bring out the white metal is by hard polish, It is con- certed work and hammering on one pro. jeet at a time that counts, People who ask the legislature to es- tablish new state Institutions and peo- ple who clamor for appropriations to enlarge existing institutions should bear in mind that the state debt is now over & million beyoud the constitutional limit and that the expenses for running the state government during the past three years ha been larger by several hundred thousand dollars than the amount of taxes collected. Under sueh conditions no prudent man would connsel or countenance any proposition that would plunge the state further into debt. Just think for a moment what condition the state would be in if over- taken by another drouth year, ‘o the greater portion of the state, and therefore that prohibition in South Da- kota, as elsewhere, is a complete fail- ure except in a few communities where public sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor of it. It is a repetition of the experience of Towa and Kansas with this policy The supporters of prohibition in South Dakota are unable to show that it has been of any service to the state, and their arguments for retaining it are on the same old platitudinous lines that have been followed for time out of mind. 1f the state has not, on the other hand, suffered ‘as severely as some others from the policy, it is be- cause less effort has been made to en- force it than in other stat It is said that many lquor dealers are opposed to resubmission, being very well Is- fied with the situation as it is. Un- doubtedly the traflic is more profitable to them than it would De under a proper license system. The people of South Dakota ought to be given an op- portunity to pass judgment on this ques- tion, and if they are allowed to do so there is good reason to helieve their verdict will be against continuing pro- hibition. In that se . judicious 1i- cense and local option law could be enacted from which every community where liquor is sold would derive a revenue and the traflic be subjected to proper regulation. It would seem that the people of South Dakota, or at any rate that portion of them who can look at this question in a practical and com- mon sense way, cannot need any fur- ther experfence to convince them that the policy of prohibition is a mistake from whatever point of view it is re- garded. It has elsewhere failed of its purpose ‘and it always will fail. THE TROUBLESOME SUGAR DUTY. It secms highly probable that the one- tenth of a cent differentinl duty on w will stand. The bill to remove this duty which the ways and means committee has decided to report to the house m: pass that body. It is to be presumed that the deciston of the com- mittee was not reached .until it was ascertained that the proposition to re- move the duty would receive sufficient support to carry It through the house. But the attitude toward it of the house republicans foreshadows an opposition in the senate, in the event of it going to that body, which doubtless would defent it. It seems to De the accepted view on all hands that this differential duty is responsible for the exclusion of American cattle and dressed meats from European countries, and it also appears to be the general opinion that if it is allowed to stand the policy of retaliation on the part of those coun- tries will not stop where it is, but will be extended, as far as practicable, to other Ameriean product The most carveful investigation prosecuted by the Agricultural department has shown that not the slightest ground existed for the claim of the European governments that our cattle was diseased, so that the only reasonable presumption is that the differential duty is the real cause of the action of those governments. It was stated by the chairman of the ways and means committee that this is the view of the administeation and it is fally warranted by the facts. The simple practical question therefore, shall we let this duty s and thereby giy Juropean not only an excuse for main isting embargoes against our cattle and meats, but ground for extending the policy of retaliation, or abandon it and remove the ouly cause which those countries have for the course they are pursuing? The duty is confessedly of no importance either for revenue or protection. Its only benefit is to the sugar rvefining trust, at the instigation of which it is understood to have been levied. As was said by Mr, Wilson, this duty has alveady done great Injury to American commercial interests and its retention means still greater injury, Morcover, it violates treaty obligations, as our government has acknowledged, The opposition to the removal of the duty on the part of the house republi cans is not justified by their arguments, It is trifling with a very serious matter to treat this question as the republicans are reported to have done, and no par. tisan considerations can excuse it. As to the argument that to remove this duty would establish a bad precedent by permitting foreign governments to force legislation by threats, it is so evidently insincere as not to be worthy of consideration. Having made a mis. take it is our duty to correct it, even if there were no question of self-inte est in be creditable to us as a nation. is, and countrie; aining ¢ But there is reason to apprehend that | this troublesome duty, which has ul ready cost oune of our most important ved, and the precedent would | banks shall be entitled to receive elreu- Iating notes to their par value, but not to exceed the amount paid in as eapital stock. The secretary of the treasury has au- thority under the resumption act of 1875 to issue three descriptions of bonds, one limited in amount to $200,- 000,000 and bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum; another lim- ited to $300.000,000, with interest at the rate of 414 per cent per annum, and the third limited to $1,000,000,000, with in- terest at 4 per cent per annum. The measure proposed by Senator Sherman is in line with the recommendation of Secrod Carlisle in his annual report for , and it Is o be presumed, therefore, will have the approval of the administration. The question is whether such bonds could be sold readily under existing conditions. The purchasers of the last issue of bonds, it is understood, are not entirely satisfied with the re- sult, so far as the market price is con- cerned, and whether another equal amount could be sold now is problem- atical. However, if the loan were made a popular one it would probably be taken up in a short time, and it is likely this would be the policy of Sce- retary Carlisle, who, it is said, regret- ted having sold the last issue of honds to a syndicate of bankers. But in the event that the bonds did not sell read- ily and freely there can be no doubt that the creditors of the government would gladly accept cerfificates of in- debtedness bearing interest at 8 per cent and payable in coin. But whether bonds or certificates of indebtedness are issued the public debt will be increased to the extent of such issue, and this should be avoided if a practicable way can be found to do so. That there is a practicable way will hardly be questioned, but the party in power will not adopt it. The way is to provide for more revenue by such changes in the tariff as will insure larger returns from customs duties, and in order to attain this no very great modifications would be nece: present cong will not do this, how- ever, and therefore the government must borrow to provide for deficiencies. This being the case the plan of Senator Sherman seems to meet the require- ments of the situation. A BID FOR IMMIGRATION. The following paragraph from the New York Sun exposes to view a part of the meat in the southern relief train cocoanut: The states of the south have for years striven to attract immigration to their fertile fields and unoccupied lands, We believe that their service In helping Nebraska will be more effectual in attracting to themselves immigrants of the desirable kind than all the conventions for the encouragement of immigration that have been held in recent years. Gifts of provisions by those who have abundance are more potent arguments than all the speeches that can be made. Al- ready we have advices that a good many of the cultivators of the oft-blighted regions of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa are moving southeastward; and there need not be any doubt that this movement will be greatly enlarged when it becomes known that the south has food to spare, besides millions of acres of arable land that can be procured on easy terms. We do not mean to say that the de- sire to bid for immigration the con- trolling motive in the eases of all the individual donors, but it doubtless has bad much to do in urging on the wen who are so actively engaged in extol- ling the generosity of the south, The people of the south have only in recent vears awakened to the advantages of transplanted labor and capital. They see their opportunity to attract settler from among those who are dissatisfied with their condition in the drouth- stricken area, and they are not letting that opportunity pass unheeded. What is needed under the circum- stances is concerted efforts on the part of the people of Nebraska to prevent partial depopulation of varions counties by reason of the persuasive induce ments held out in other states, The relief committee in each county should make it a part of their work to demon- st to those aided that they cannot better their positions by ewmigrating elsewhere. Nebraska could easily have taken carve of her own destitute, She accepts, with many thanks, the gen erosity of the southern states, but she will not admit for a moment that they on that account offer better prosp to intending settlers than '8 Nebraska., A local writer, in a fit of hysteri declaims against The Bee for declining to publish exaggerated reports of drouth suffering and cites the Paxton trage alleged to have been caused by impend ing starvation, in proof of The false attitude. The double snicide in Keith connty had not the vemotest lation to crop failure or destitution, Bee's re 1o AR L% 3 e S T R acquisitions and in numbers there is strength, Boies Made a Discovery. St. Louls Republic, loles of Towa has enunclated a plan. - Since his last campaign in vernor Boles has evidently disc that natio questions are distines Governor, currenc Towa ( ered in it —_— Comtort for John G, Kansas City Journal, N0 reason to suppose that See- ry Carlisle is an admirer of Senator man, but Gorman's words of praise must have sounded very sweet in the sec- retary . They are the first he has had. e “Arter tho Horse is Stolen." Chicago Her The governor of Montan riting of the awful explosion at Butte, ina truly Amerlean fashion, that *s t reguli- tions will now be adopted to enforce the laws against storing explosives within_the city limits.”” What is needed just now is an’earncst movement to punish by hanging r otherwise the gover: s, sher- iffs, policemen and others in Montatia who have failed to enforce these law g s Hawalinn Cable Nonsense. 8. s of congress about which Great Britain_ is being a menace to the United States se of war s nonsense, The United States is in no danger of war, and if it were the cutting of a cable would be the very easiest task that an American cruiser could be assigned to do. The first American cable landed on British soil, but nobody opposed that for fear it would’ give England u military advantage, although at the time there was se dinger of war between the Unijed §tates and t Brit- vin. The talk of the Pacific cable planning to la Gre: M Significant Politieal Changes. New York Sun. The increased.. representation of repub- licans is greater in the citics than in the country " districts, and the significance of the change is to"he found in the fact that the republican party has been making great headway in the strongholds of the demo- atic party. Nor is(it in the cities of the t class ‘only that. the republicans will represented in the next house. Denver New Haven, ‘Indianapolls, Louisville, troit, St. Paul, Omaha, Newark, Columbus, Pittshurg and’Milwaukee will have repub- lican congressmen. 1 Alliances with rural populists are not. conducive to the growth and strength of democracy. The big citles of the ‘United States are the centers of thought and influence and the loss of them to the democracy s not encouraging. —————— Arbitration und Kapacl Chicago Tribune. It is a suggestive illustration of the value of the arbitration with Great Britain on the question of ‘preserving the seals that the herd was almost entirely destroyed by the Canadian poachers last year and during the sitting of the Parls ‘tribunal. It has been discovered that 30,00 pups perished because their mothers ‘were — massacred while far out at sea in quest of food by these Canadian murderers. The seal is now rapidly on its way to extinction, in spite of conventions for Its preservation, It adds to the grim satire of the situation that the Cleveland administration is in favor of paying these Canadian murderers and poachers half a million dollars for killing off these thousands of female seals and indirectly killing thousands more’ of pups. Will congress sanction this folly? —————— Regulation the Post Minneapolls Tribune, South Dakota will probably “resubmit” the prohibitory law, and so will North Da- kota, in time. It has been demonstrated {hat prohibition doesnt prohibit in' Maine. It didn’t prohibit in Towa, nor has it roven efficacious anywhere ‘Where it has . When states and communities of experimenting with prohibition, they will do well Lo come to Minneapolis and see how beautifully a high licens system works in connection with a patrol limit, The confining of the saloons to the business portion of the city, and within strictly defined limits, so as (o bring them under” the surveillance of the police, will insure the best regulation possible—under an honest and eflicient administration, 1t absolute prohibition Is impossible, as it seems to be, then effective regulation is the next best thing. ——— itryan Hus n Flun, Chicago Journal, William Cocksure Bryan of Nebraska has a plan to dissolve all our financial trouble into the thinnest kind of air without smok. or odor or unpleasant results of any sort, According to Mr. Bryan himself, the bill which ‘he introduced yesterday fintroduces 1o new prnciple; it applies thrce new prin- ciples, It provides for coinage of the selgniorage, amounting (In Mr. Tiryan" eye) to $65,0:0,00; declires the risht of th government to redeem coin obligations in £old or silver, and makes it a felony punishable by imprisonment for not less than five years ) t greenbacks or and de gold for them purpose of embarrassing the goy- ient of the United States, for the pur- pose of injuring the credit of the United Stat - the purpose of compeliing or securiig an issue of United States bonds.' This s luminous, but not conyinel How can the seigniorage be coined? Cin we coln a vacuu If s, lct us enrich ourselves on the Hryan headpiece, How can the government redeem its obligation in “either gold or silver” (which mear silver), when its honor is up for their re demption 'in gold? - Is our national less sacred than our Ingividual honor? How an we discover and make plain beyond reasonable doubt that a man who denos his legal rights, kffibmed to him by Cone tract, demands themi for any one or all of Viclous purposes enumerated by Mr. Nehraska evclone 18 noisy and pow- 3ut he is only revolving wind, wut BIAL) HER PECULIARITIES, ound Floating. doth the littls, blushing maid imploy’ each shining hour? Doth she in sober thought arrayed Learn knowledgé that is power? Say, doth she mend her father's socks, And cook his evenidg meal? And doth she make hér own sweet frocks, With adolescent zedl? t much; not muoch She doth not need {o learn She thinks of nawiht but rout or ball, And which youth will be her'n. e hustles for a diamond ring; he cares not for her dad e does not make him any thing I2xcept, she makes him mad, ing. erful, N She knows it all; character of which has not been indicated. To a large extent the policy of the govern- ment seems to bo opportunism, and its pro- & Is quite likely to be largely modified to fit the drift of public sentiment when the session opens, wee If there be any truth in the circumstantial story Just brought to Tripoli by the first great caravan that has reached the northern coast from the western and central Soudan since 1892, the English have stolen an important march upon all other European powers in- terested in obtaining a share of the spoils of Africa. It secrs that the immensely fo tile and important kingdoms of Bornu, Bag- hirmi and Kanem, embracing a territory of nearly 300,000 square miles, with a popula- tion of over 5,000,000 inhabitants, have been conquered by an ex-Egyptian officer of the name of Rabah, who has established him- self not only as king or emperor over the country, but has likewise set himself up as a sort of second Mahdi. Among the people of the district it is accepted that he is an emissary of the English government, an as- sertion which seems to be borne out by the almost unlimited resources that he appears to command in the shape of breech-loading rifles of modern English manufacture, as well as of freshly coined silver Maria Therese dol- lars, which are turned out nowadays only by the mints at Birmingham. Whatever truth there may be in this tale, the fact. re- mains that the anarchy formerly raging in the western and central Soudan is at an end, that order has been restored south eastern Sahara and that the great trade and caravan routes leading thence to Tripoli have once more been opened to commerce, bax The Austro-Hungarian empire has often been called a thing of shreds and patches, and there are, at present, strong signs of an upbeaval In Hungary which will increase the Jealousy of rival races and menace the quiet of central Europe. For months a fierce politi- cal contest has been waged between the lib- eral and reactionary parties in Hungary, and Emperor Francis Joseph has at times ap- peared to sympathize with the party of progress. The Wekerle ministry struggled hard to sccure the passage of bills which were in accord with the idea of popular gov- ernment. Three of thoso bills were put through the House of Magnates, after the most determined opposition, and they finally received the sanction of the emperor-King. The Hungarian people were jubilant, and messages poured into Vienna commending Francis Joseph for the stand he had taken, But the opposition of the nobles still mani- fested itself; imperial support and encourage- ment became weaker, and, weary and dis- couraged with the struggle, the Wekerle ministry resigned, the resignation being ac- cepted by the emperor. Count Hederyary was called upon to form a cabinet, but he was not successful, and now the task has been assigned to Baron Banfy, So far he has not been able to do anything, and the crisis 1s daily becoming more serious. e No wonder that Egypt is anxious to get rld of forelgn interference in her affairs. Her present budget, as also twelve months ago, shows a surplus of revenue over expenditure to the extent of several million dollars, yet the khedive's government is prevented by the forelgn powers—particularly by France—from using this surplus for a much needed re- mission of the heavy land tax. The powers Insist that this money should be banked, and 0 to swell the hoard in the hands of the so-called public debt commission, which rep- resents tho interests of the foreign bond- holders. This commission has already in its possession a sum of $25,000,000, the accumu- lated surplus of several years, which, instead of being applied directly to' beneficial pur- poses for the country and for its people, is kept lying idle, with a view to the eventual amortization of the debt. This Is all the more mischievous since agricultural depres- sion—name of terror in Europe—has likewise tvaded the land of the Nile, and the culti- vator of the soil has found his profits ma- terially diminished, If hie could get the land tax diminished it would be of great assist- ance to him and go far to atone for the de- crease in the value of his produce, The khe- dive and the English government have be- sought in vain the great powers to give way in this matter, but the latter adhere to their treaty rights, and hence Egypt Is pretty much in the same condition 25 Italy and other im- poverished Buropean states, since a country which {5 In posscssion of surplus revenues but unable to use them, is hardly less to be pitied than one In financial straits, ves Portugal proposes to obtain a modern navy in a novel manner. First-class shipbuilders are to be asked how many vessels of speci- fled types they will supply a year, for twenty years or less, in consideration of $550,000 a year and certain monopolies. The award will 20 to the firm that offers the most in the st time and for the shortest period of mo- nopoly, The government ship yards will be closed and one yard established at Lisbon, to which all the ‘existing machinery and op- eratives will be sent. The plant, material and fuel will be free from duty: all repair- ing work for the government, both In Europe and the colonies, will go to' the new estab- lishment. The cruisers are to be of wood, copper sheathed and of the pattern of the Japaneso Yoshino, of 4,200 tons and twenty- three “knots, with'a radius of 10,000 miles at ten knots, There are to be ten destroyers of the Havoe, type, but with twenty-eight knots and a radius of 4,000 miles at ten knots, and a large number of torpedo boats and gun- boats. P No opposition Is anticipated on the part of the powers to King Leopold's proposed sur- render of his sovereign rights over the Congo Free State to Belgium. When in 1890 he borrowed for the state a sum of $4,000,000 from the Belgian treasury he gave by way of security for the loan not only a will be- queathing bhis African possessions to the na- tion, but likewlse a right to annex them after ten years, in case of certain financial eventualities, The transformation of the Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report B ot Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTEEY PURE of the turn over to Willlams. The populists held an indignation meeting, sent for Wil- liams and prevailed on him to resign. Gray, who had entered on the charge of his duties, vacated the office. he county com- missioners then appointed Samuel Do fill the place. TAL Fort Worth Gazette: urer of South The republican ex- Dakota, who defaulted for $250,000, was not entirely destitute of consideration for his constituents. He re- fused to carry off the office fixtures, Deadwood Pioneer: The largest find yet ported in these days of great discoveries as bruited abroad a day or two ago. Ex- State Treasurer Taylor prospecting In the basement of the capitol building discovered an immensa nugget welghing over $300,000. He immediately left for the Philadelphia mint, where this immense amount of preciou: metal will be reduced to twenty-dellar gold pleces and make glad the hearts of the South Dakotans. The find was kept a secret for some time, owing to the keen competi- tlon of election, and also the danger of train robbers, The claim from which this immense nugget was taken has been thor- oughly worked by his successcr, but only a small amount resulted. Owing to the claim not having been located according to law there is some talk of contesting W. W. Tay- lor's right to the immense nugget. Relatives and bondsmen are feeling aggrieved because he did not disclose the rich discovery be- fore leaving. o CUT TO PLEASE. Tt does not increase of a donkey to add Milwaukee Journ the social standing horseshoes to his Detroit Free Pre: 3 51 sup- pose 4 good many womeén go to church merely to see what other people have. on. Mrs. “Slurkins—And 1 do not. doubt that many men attend the theater for quite the opposite reason. Buffalo Courier: “Colonel Spouter claims that the women supported him during his campaign, if the men didn’t.” “Yes; his wife took in washing and his mother plain sewing."” When T was down in aid the returned drummer, I found just one busy man. He had the salt-rheum and a Waterbury watch. When he wasn't seratehing himselt he was winding his watch, Pittsburg Dispatch dear, did_the their candidate hurry right back, about the church without making Mr. Rasp—Well, my mancipation club decide on Mrs. Rasp—0, my, I must Somebody started to talk fight and ‘we adjourned any nominations, Fliegende Blactter: Stranger—Zum Don- nerwetter, now you have cut my chin a second time. If you can’t shave better than that you will lose all your customers pretty quick. ‘Barber's Apprentice—Not at all! T am not allowed to shave the regular cus- tomers yet. I only shave strangers! Chicago Tribune: perienc woma Merely as a new ex- Wendell,” said the Boston young , blushing' faintly and wiping her lips, “I find it not disagreeable, but do not let it happen again. It is utterly illogical, irrelevant, and recent sclentific investigation shows that it is fraught with microbes,” It seems the foolhardy young man had kissed her, HE PLAYED WITH BOOTH. Philadelphia Record. T played with Booth,” the stranger said. Sald the old man: “Say no more, For acting died when Booth was dead, Come rest at my cottage door. “Iplayed with Booth,” the stranger cried, Said the old man: “What did you play?" played the drum,” the tramp replicd, alley late he had been drinking heavily, and to family have been patient and devoted watch- ers, but their ministering was useless, and this afternoon the fair young sufferer passed away. Only the members of the bereaved family were present at the deathbed sce The end was seemingly painless, the dying young woman having relapsed into uncon- sclousness a fow hours before, The remains will be taken to Bloomington, 1., the family home, for interment. The family will lcave here with the body to- morrow afternoon over the Southern railway by the wa Knoxville for Cincinnati. Then they will take the Big Four route direct for Bloomington, reaching there Sunday evening. The funeral will take place on Monday. Railroad Ticket Thlef Arrested. HUTCHINSON, Kan, Jan., 18.—Howard olly, wanted in Memphis, Tenn., where ho s charged with stealing railroad tickets and embezzlement, was arrested on the Santa Fe passenger train on its arrival here from Den- ver. When arrested Jolly was considerably excited. He refused to talk to reporters. City Marshal Hedden had been notified by wire from Denver that Jolly was on the train, and easily located him when it arrived, The officers will hold him, awaiting instruc- tions from Memphis —_— Cremer Wi Visit Mr. Cloveland. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Mr. Randall Cre- mer, the British member of Parliament, who is now In Washington to further the adjust- ment of all difliculties between the United States and Great Britain by arbitration, Is meeting with fair success in his undertaking. Since his arrival Senator Sherman has in- troduced a bill to give effect to the Allison act providing for permanent arbitration, and the president will receive him this after- noon and afford him an opportunity to pre- sent his memorial. e Negro Killed by the sband, CANTON, Miss., Jan. 18.—Reports come from Camden, a small town in this county, of the kiling of a negro by an indignant husband. Last Thursday Jim Goodloe made an assault on Mrs. Boutelle, drawing a knife on her, but the opportune arrival of neighbors caused the negro to flee. Goodloe was ar- rested here, and whils being carried back by an officer was shot and killed by Riley Boutells, the husband of the intended victim. et e ol Four Killed by a Boiter Explosion. ALTO, Tex., Jan. 18.—At Manuel Hamil- ton’s sawmill, seven miles cast of town, the bofler exploded, resulting in the death of four men, Tobe Richards, Alex and Lew Wil- lis and Abner Lee. Tho injured are Alex Hamilton, arm broken; Richard Loftin, leg broken; Noah Miller, Peter Van Buren and Manuel Hamilton, badly bruised, and sev- eral others, names not learned, badly scalded. All are colored. — Cup Defenders Byndicate. NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Commodore Brown has given out the following statement: A cup defender will be built by the following members of the New York Yacht club: W. K. Vanderbilt, Commodore B. D. Morgan and C. Iselin. Mr. Iselin will have complete charge.” Nat Herreshofft has been com= missloned to build the yacht. el ound Dead on a Plekot Fence, JEFFERSON " CITY, Mo., Jan. 18.—Gen- eral James S. Hackney, formerly adjutant general of the state, was found dead this morning, hanging over a picket fence in an near the Missourl Pacific depot. Of “Onthe Salvation Army lay. this caule is ascribed his death, Yeur Money Worth or Your Money Back. Underwear Sale— The broken lots ot men’s furnishings given below represent the cream of our stock—the best makes—the most rveliable qualities—the prices are cut so low to close them out Saturday— Under Shirts 50c. A lot of nice natural merino under- shirts, all sizes, formerly $1, now G0c. Shirts or Drawers 75c. Small lot of all wool red shirts or drawers, formerly $1.25, now 76c. Shirts or Drawers $1. Lot of heavy cashmere or drawers, formerly $2, now $1. Lot of sanitary natural wool shirts or drawers, formerly $1.50, now $1. Lot of heavy French ribbed wool shirts or drawers, formerly $1.50, now $1. Lot of heavy weight balbrig shirts or drawers, full fashioned, for- merly §1.50, $. Lot of fine camel's hair shirts or drawers, formerly $1.50 and $1.25, now $1. Sox 2be. Men's fine natural wool hose of ex- cellent quality 26c or $1.35 for half a dozen pairs. Genuine Cotswold balf hose now Zbe. wool shirts now merino, seamless shaw knlt, regular 40c grade, Colored Shirts $1.50. Large lot of very fine colored shirts, with collars attached, formerly $2.60, now $1.60, Madras Shirts $2. Choice selection of madras, colored, shirts, with attached, non- shrinkable neck band, formerly $2.50, now $2. Linen Handkerchiefs 35¢. Big cut in pure linen handker collars hiefs all our fancy bordered linen handker- chiefs that were G0c are now Ge, or 3 for §1, Mufflers 25¢, Fine fancy and neat mufflers at 26e. line style Gloves and Mittens. Big reductions in warm lined gloyes and mittens, BROWNING, KING & CO. Reliable Clothiers, S. E. € ‘or. 15th and Douglas.