Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1895, Page 4

s — e — OMAHA DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Bditor, PUDLISHED EVERY MORNING. | TERMS OF SURSCTRIPTI | Dally Nee ¢ das, One ¥ apm Daily Jice One’ Year. ® Montha... .. vy Bew, One Year o Baturday Tes, One Y ser 0 One Year s OFII Pulidin W Corner N and 24th Sta 0 217 Chamber of Commerce N 154 e 16, Tribune Bailame. | t, N. W. | SPONDENCE. | \tians relating to news and ed! 10 e nddressed: To the Editor ¥88 - LETTE Omah i amd pot b made p the order of the T UBLISHING COMPANY. Al rommi torlui mat FATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. of The Tiee Pub. 4 that th Qeorg 0 sok, secretnry Hshing conpany, beins duly actual nomber of ful Dally Morning, | during the mor 45,00 19,004 19,016 Tt | Lo nenid copins . Not aalos L. Dally avorage Hund; GEORGE B, Sworn to hefore m ubseribed in my pres nee fits Tat day of Jine &t Y Public. A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. IN A HOLLOW OF THE HIL A splendid serial of California life by Bret Harte, the famous and popular novelist—A &tory dealing in his old-time way with road agents, night adventu in @ forest, mine discoveries and eart quakes—An attractive love tile, in Which the principal actor wili live as one of the roblest and most lovoable charac- ters in all the fiction Harte authorship— mence in The August 11—-Watch THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. A NEW SERIAL STORY. T Well, most people usually expeet some warm weather in Angust. The republican state convention will De a big thing this fall-big to the ex- tent of over 1,000 delegates, This much is already certa 1805 will not be known as a drouth year | in any considerable part of Nebraska. Superintendent of the Census Wright thinks the end of the eleventh census is in sight. So is the beginning of the twelfth census. It won't be long before Attorney Gen- eral Churchill will be rendering long- spun written opinions holding that every hotel and boarding house s an asylum. President Harrison nppointed Justice Jackson as a republican. But Presi- dent Cleveland would not think of such a thing as making a republican his suc- cessor, The Postoffice department has ren- dered a decision on the question whether answers to prize puzzles are mailable, and Mr. Kollsaat is happy once more Only five weeks from now -until the state fair opens. Whatever is yet to be done to make the exposition attractive and accommodate the visitors must be done promptly. ived in the city of n munielpal office must seek the man, and the ounly way to down self-seckors is to support the citizens' reform movement. The time has ar Omaha wl And now the killing of the Indians at Jackson's Hole is to be officially in- vestigated. Another enjoyable junket will therefore be had by the officer de- tailed to investiga The very intimation that President Cleveland has another opportunity to nominate a justic of the supreme court makes Senator Hill prick up his ears in anxious expectation, A lower fax rate and a wholesale re- duction of expenditures to maintain county and city governments is one of the vital issues upon which the local fight this fall must be waged. A municipal ticket comppsed of high class men pledged to strict economy in city affairs and to paring down the tax rate will win hands down in Omaha this fall. There was never a more propitious opportunity for a suceessful citizens' movem Dick f World-He rase arguments, have written the s of the injunction | He is invariab'y made out the giant who slays his adversaries with the ease of falling off the log, while the attorneys on the other side are always nonplussed, befuddled and between the devil and the deep sen. Mr. Hall has certainly won a nomina- tion to the district bhench. According the Indian bureau at Washingt out of 247,000 Indians in the United 8 y axes. If this is a correet the red man is doing quite well The proportion of white men _piylng taxes in these duys of commer- cial depression cannot make a much Dotter showing. Perhaps the only good Indian is not a dead Indian after all. istics compiled hy Silver Dick Blaud is supposad to have Dblown several more cubic feet of air into his presidential boom at the Mis- sourl free silver democratic convention, Bland had everything practieally his own wa But getting the presidency of a convention and getting the presi dapey of the United States ave two very different things. Blaud's presidential ambition gives strong evidence of meet- ing the » fate that overtook that of Weaver—there Is danger that it will get | liguor, wines and v 11, and if 5o, on what terms | of executin | sively LOCAL OPTION IN NEW YORK. The cfforts of the new polie miesion of New Y xcise law, which prolibits the s of liquors on Sunday, have led t enssion of (e proposition t popular vote the question whetl not lquor, wines and beer may be sold (visory council of dhe confoderated good government elubs at favor of the sub. on Sunday, The recent meeting declared in loeal option. It resolved that Jeet of oxcise rogulations, as far as wunicipality, town and village is cerned, should be rele, shonld have the final de of the entire question, includin right should be mitted at and conditions and at what time The attempt to enforce the excise law |in New York City has not been entively vious time suecessful, thongh at no pr sinee the law was enacted has it been mu s0 well enfore nicipal administration, d as by the present The police « mission, which is charged with the duty cted aggres has nl v pro the prineiple that it s business of th whether the law There Is, low ular sentiment of liquors on Sund itself folt efforts of the commission, atens to be effective the law, wronsly, no part commission to conside 1s, or, 0 very strong Linst stoppit to the embarrassment of while it in a pe and that in is casy to nnder great cosmopolits of wine and beer s Sunday would be regarded | not intemperate, as a p Bspecially is this the with duced to think that hecause some the privilege of drinking on Sun, they should be called upon to sae what they have been taught from child- ry it number of these people Sunday is liood to regard as harmless. To a v the only day of th Kk on which th can go with their milies' to the dens and rvesorts, and as the wine or the mug of beer is ¢ the enjoyment of their re deprived of it they natu a very serious matter their personal | tolernted. foreign-born citizens who are no strongly opposed to the strict enfore ment of the Sunday law. we 188 In the event of the local option propo- sition being submitted to popular vote the result, there can be no doubt of There would be a very large nst stopping But manifestly course is to submit tl people and the indics will be done. HOW TOMAKE OMANA A GRAIN MARKE You can build 1 a day, but it takes y build up a commercial stone, brick and iron. be made a great g Dbuilding storchous handle gy the rs of time metropol ind elevator for a great grain market. either be a larg or special facilit country, Minneapolis is a great grain market flonring mills in the world and converts millions becaunse she has the largest of bushels of wheat into flour that it to almost every nation on ¢ Chicago and Duluth are great mar| ast just Chicago consumes a grain in local industri sumes a vast quantity of the meat pro- [ ¢ Buffalo i ot because of the mal and the demand of her large willing in- duet of her packing houses. an fmportant grain mav the advantages of her location on lake and at the head of the Brie terests. Omaha never could have become great live stock market with only stoc yards to shelter and hangdle the stoc in transit. It ouired extensi slaughter houses, meat nneries, factories and so forth to create : ket that could be permanently tained In competition with those other cit never will be until she ean vert the wheat and corn of the tribut conntry into flour, glhicose, products and distilled spirits. must have besides storage w! and elevators are flonring mill factories, cereal mills and = dis conversion In grain annually for manufactured products. with and elevator facilities will be nee nets for handling and these is no adequate demand. Incidentally Omaba will require di- Da- Duluth. | & reet railw connection into South kota and an air line road to Without the first we can not secure grain of the desived qu necossary quantity ay lity the lakes of the traflic we shall remain at the m. Chicago ronds that pool for the long haul and 1 further west. To accomplish all these things it will take heavy investments of capital and our ou the business must concerted action most enterprising fore all things, part of men, 1 we recupe fully from the commereial depression by i western cities, has been compelled 1o defer the eets and enter restoration of con fidence will bring with it the opportuni pital for This is in Capitalists with ty, like all other inauguration of new proj prises. The gead ties for procuring the needed ¢ renewed industiial activity, the not very distant future. and investors are alvendy looking no further than a hopeless nomination, At it geis that far. greater favor upon Omaha as a field for They realize profitable undertakings. om- k City to enforee the | ey Py a dis- |y submit to or con ated to the con | trol of the eitizens of such localit | that they to determine whether the sale of ! per- n- | convention | i be wise or expedient. | por < the sule ¥ and this is making the also itieal 1 city like New York the closing of saloons and the inhibition ling in gardens on thousands of people, the great majority of them itive hardship. that large body of foreign-horn persons who Kknew no such restriction in their native land, do not consider it consistent with vepublican prineiples, and eannot be in huse gar- of sential to ation, to be |y, 1y regard as a curtailment of 1ty not to be paticntly There are many besides the loss) the sale of liquors on proper question to the fons are that this 7. great city on paper in to in Omaha can not in market by merely To n in transit or to store it for speculation is not the only prerequisite There must local demand for grain for grading and re- shipment to the export ceniers of the is rth. grain ets because of their special facili- ties for .-\U..nlng by cheap water routes. quantity of she con- K| gelt in oleo mar main- | 3 of con- What we chouses , glucos illerie that will require millions of bushels o into connection industries enlarged storage iy reshipping surplus and grades for which there hope to nd | cian as most of his ciass, to supply our mills, Without the second as a divect outlet to their the benefit of Chieago as against all poinis 1IE OMANIA DAILY B SATURDAY, that this section ix on the eve of an er of revived prosperity, and with proper ouragement from our bhusiness men and bankers will soon supply the money aquired for the promotion of every promising industrial project. MAKING THE TARIFF AN ISSUF} Althongh demoeratic leaders aud ans porsistently assert that the tarif the present issue in the or question s disposed of fc and cannot be an i | national campalgn of next year, dem conver continue to prominence to this question in their platforms. Every convention of that party held this year has proclaimed its approval of the taviff legislation of the last cong despite the fact that it has failed to provide the government with adequate vevenue, some qualify fug the approval by the demand that there shall be further legislation in the dircetion of trade, thus showing that the party has leained nothing from the disastrous cffects of its econom poliey. Byery chairman of a democratic has made the tarift a con- spicnous feature of his address, uni formly declaring that it the policy {of the party to continue the assault upon made cratie tions protectio Towa demo ie < that the “uprooting of McKinley i one of the “works worthy the history and prestige of the Wt | democratic party, of the couraze of the democratic administration,” and the chairman of the convention in his address glowingly commended the party’s action in having “wiped out the a [ MeKinley taviff and enacted a law for rovenue and not for robbery,” though he did not go so far as some others in wrging upon the party the duty of keep ing up the fight for free trade, As everybody knows, the present tavii is not what the large majority of the democratic party desived. It not wo far enough in destroying protection For this reason Mr. Cleveland would not sign it, declaring it to be in large part not in line with honest tavift re- form. What the administration and a majority of the democratic party wanted was the Wilson bill, and it was the ap. prehension of this legislation that brought on industrial and business de pression. The country was saved from ¥ measure by the fi six cative democratic senators who had the wisdom to the disaster that would result from it and the courage oppose it. To nine-tenths of the democrats of the country the failure of the Wilson tariff bill great a disappointment as it was to Mr. Cleve- land. But while that measure would ave prolonged the depression, and per- »s rendered impossible a general re sumption of industrial activity, the present law has failed as a nue measure, although encouraging heavy fmportations of merchandise to the great benefit of foreign manufacturers and the steady increase of our foreign indebtedness, The republican party will not hesitate to aceept a challenge from the opposi- tion to again discuss the tarviff bef the people. It will not hesitate to pose a policy which does not provide the government with sutlicient revenue to meet its expenditures and maintain its credit. Nor will it be possible while 1his Tairs exists to abandon the tariff a n-issne, to say nothing of the relation of that question to the welfare of Ameriean industries and American labor, platform de- was and does or con S0 was op- state ¢ One of the Chinese officers who has received particular mention for his mili- ary prowess during the recent w: between China and Japan is a young man who had studied in an Ameri nni and 1 but recently turned to his native country. ought to disprove for all time the charge that the colleges of this country exhaust themselves in teaching foot ball and row- ing. A college that ean turn out a re- nowned military der as well foot ball player must be all right. ma going a trifle home to inquire’ about the pects in i, but in thes international competition the Russian grain has a direct influence upon the price of American grain. Aft looking out for tid crop prospects in A his own immediate vieinity the modern, up-to-date favimer must Interest him- the erop prospects of every country with whoso products he may come into conflict on the war ersity far from crop prc days of price of voseem Russ x-Councilman Ike I an old book in Tom A L which positively de res that 3711 grains of pure silve stitute the unit of the dollar of our daddies. That ought to settle the whole silver question with- out further controve all has found Murray's cellar co Loulsville i This talk about some meeting of some political squed=cks somers or ruther north east by south sou'west in Ohlo to put Sena Brice “in line for the presidency” will do well enough to kil time with these dull days, now that_the Horr-Harvey debate is debated and the Holmes serial is getting stale Journal Morton's Object Lesson, Buffalo Iixpress, forton is s> ardent a sound at he Is going to pay one of his who is a free s'lverite, in silver an object lesson. This may pear an impressive argument to the fat witted secretary, but it is doubtful if even a free silver man, though he be as poor a logi will be convineel y m assistants, coin h by it. ———— Reslstance to Compulsion. ¥ Philadelphia Record. Temperance is one of the most desirable of virtues. But education, not repression, is | the most effective method for its propagation, Tell a boy it Is wrong to read literature of the Decameron or Boccaceio species and th Doy, If he has any sense at all, will listen (o you aad give such reading a wide berth Forbid, under a severe penaity, to do so and that boy will have the book in his hand every chance he can get. Elootrle Development. Boston A combination of the Westinghouse Electric and Baldwin Locomotive works is surely a very appropriate arrangement in these times of electrical development It looks very much like taking time by the forelock, and it is a big step In the direction of superscding steam with electricity, Per- haps, we shall see, one of thise days, th same locomotives that now go lumbering wolsly aloyg under a high sieam pressure, pulling théir long trains easily by the heip of an clectrical motor attachment, The old proverb that “there is nothing new under the sun,” has loug since failen into disuse. We soxm just entering upon a grand era of new things e X e e S e s | rally of the vetgrape at Bennington. | give | wasn't in F. P | This is due to syat IN CHATTER, Colonel €. Rifithr Seott id not attend the Ho was arrounced to speak to the old soldiers and went as far as the union depot in Omaha There he met a'19€ of the old boys in thelr faded coats of blad, The very sight of the uniforms gave the colonel symptoms of the | theumatism of the heart that froze his valor when it was time for him to g0 to the front With the Anamosa boys in ‘6. Colonel H. €. Akin attended the reunion of veterans at Bennington Thursday. He went out early ‘and’ captured a good seat in front of the hotel and kept it all day. When he got tired once she went over to a saloon and watched the boys have a glass of beer with a rival candidate for clerk of the court. He returned 1o his reserved chair down until traln time. He & P, with the boys worth a then and hald it cent. nies that he signs him- and P."* Conditional mem- privilege of denying their con- the fraternity and consider it 10 sin to lie to an outsider anyway 5 Mr. Hitehfake ¢ self “Yours in F. bers have the nection with Judge Berka ed that he would tall pure republicanism in his speech at National hall last night. He had an audience than a score. The dervishes who follow in the Scott wake won't listen to anything pu except pure rot. annou of less Uncle Hiram Savage breaks Into print to defend his wooden leg and denounce Cam paign Chatter. No one has more respect for men who served their coantry than has Campaign Chatter. Uncle Hiram's wooden leg i3 all right. His wooden head is not so much respected. Between laying water political wires Alonzo B. Hunt, president of Council 125, and superintendent of the Omaha water works, will be kept awfully busy until after election day. pipes and laying adet Taylor is nursing a mayoralty boom, but up to date it is only a boomlet. As a substantial ognition of his emi- nent legal advice, which brought the council before Judge Hopewell for contemp, Coun- cilman Saunders has been elocted president of the Fifth Ward Republican club. It's changed again now, and Johnny Me- Donald is to be the chief of police if the Churchill-Russell board gets into power. Rufus Windy Gibson has overdone the thing and has spiked his chances for nomination for the office. He thought he had the place cinched and got so obstreperous that there was no living with him. Even the Win- spear pull can’t get him onto the track again. Chairman Pyburn beads at H. Timme and Secretary H. got it where the woman wore the Bennington. They had planned a big political blowout as a side show to the soldlers’ reunfon. Hahnemann Pyburn nailed his banner to the wall of a hall and a com- mittee of veterans tore it down and com- pelled Pyburn and Timme to not only de- claro the political meeting off, but as a further and greater punishment and repri- mand, made them pay for their own drinks during their stay in town. Strickler and,. Vaadervoort are both howl- ing for the local pepulists to keep in the middle of the ,road; this fall and nominate full county and city. tickets. Paul and Vir- gil Ovid may be relied upon to carry out their part of the dervish plan—if the other side don’t raise the price. Colonel Redfield has no rulés of modern, warfare. waiting, and chafes under the restraint Here he is with his Home Guards all in readiness and Stryker's serfs ready to as- sist him, and the foreign Invaders don't in- vade worth a cent. The colonel must have gore in some shape before he leaves the field. patience with the He is tired of this It is safe to wager that the Daily Hitch- fake will not print Charley Greene's speech Council 125 had adjourned, and the der- vish gang had disbanded for the night. Rufus Windy Gibson had closed his face, wrapped his whiskers over his classic phiz and was in the arms of Morphens. While Rufus slept the drowsy god played him a scurvy trick. He dream He was no longer a plain dervish of either the howling or the dancing kind, but had been honored by his: fellows, and was in a place of au- thority. His rusty brown sult, that had done service since the real estate boom, had given way (o a uniform of blue with buttons that glittered like gold. A star, donated by his brothers In F. P. and P., glittered In the sunlight and bore the inscription, “Chief of Police, Omaha." Servants came at his beck and call, his trusty licutenants were at his side to do his every bidding, and anticipate his slightest wish. His ambitions had been realized. 1t was his time to howl, He wanted wolf meat, and wanted it raw. Could all this be true? Yes, there could be no doubt of it. Hadn't he seen all the boys. Hadn't- Winspear seen Broatch_and Chaffee and squared the play. Hadn't Broatch and Vanderyoort been fixed. There could be no mistake, and he gave himself up to the lux- ury of thinking what a good time he would have, how pleasant he would make it for his friends, and how his enemies would suffer when he really got a whack at them. These pleasant contemplations were rudely broken. Rufus Windy got a hunch in the ribs and an invitation to get up and go to the baker's for some bread for breakfast It was a rude awakening. Generations may come and go, empires may riss and fall, but nothing in this world or the next can rob Rufus Windy of the memory of the good time he had the night he thought he was chief of police, e The Cost of Cleaning Berli Berlla Correspondence Chic It is true that mugicipal afairs a erally speaki egnducted h more economically and much more thoroughly than is the case in Americgn cities. Thus in 1875 the streets of Berlin, covering a total area of square. meters, were cleaned at an annual expestiiture or 2,000,000 marks (3500,000). Now, -the varea of Berlin having increased by J895 to over 8,000,000 uare meters, the sfreets are cleaned for but $400,000—and”eleahed, let me say, better than in any othar large city in the world o the excellent pave- ments, constantly ed and mended, and to machine sweepjng which costs 60 per cent less than the sweeping done by hand. It is the same with strget sprinkling. This is done during the seagon whenever on hot, dusty days twiee, and 1,200,000 cubic mefers of water até Used up In the thorough system of sprinklihg between April 1 and November 15. The bfty does it at an ex- pense of but 2,36400% marks this year. The Missionary Massacre. Minneapolls Tribune, The massacre of Christian missionaries in Ching is apparently coufirmed. Four womeu have been killed, one of whom is an Amer- fean, What act'on the powers will take in the case remains to be seen. One trouble seems to be that the Chinese government is not strong enough to make its guarantees of protection good, and it is posaible that all missionaries will have to be withdrawn from | the interior to save thelr lives o e The Desire for Seclusion. Kansas Clty Star Reed is in the woods of Ma!me, Harrison is in the wilds of w York, McKinley is somewhers in Ohlo In reti; pent, and Steven. son and all of his funlly are golug as fast as locomotives will carry them to far-off Alaska. h & remarkable desire for seclu- sion less than a year before the mational con ventious has uever been kuown in political uistory. | antColonel streets | needed, | AUGUST 10. 189 WERE, 0N THE VERGE 0F WAR| United Btates Came Near Be'ng Involved in the Late Eastern Conflict. IMPORTANT EVENTS JUST COME TO LIGHT Inuisted American Therefrom Ching Upon the Right to Search Vessels and Take Who In the event of a Jupan the United unwilling party, WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. war between Russia and States may find itsed an unless the Japanese retreat from a position which (hey assumed toward the United es during the progress of the war with China. It is not generally known that just before the declaration of the armistice which preceded the signature of the treaty of peace an fssue had grown up between the United States and Japan that threatened to lead to actual hostilities between the two countries and that a hostile clash was perhaps only ted the conclusion of the Chinese This issue arose through the assertion the Japanese authorities of the right of search of American They Insisted that they had the right to board an Ameri can vessel and if they chose to take from her any Chinese or any enemy they might find even though they were but passengers. Min- ister Dun promptly denied the existence of any such right on the part of a combatant and a hot correspondence ensued, The Japanese insisted on their right, and even when Mr. Dun reminded them that the Ji States had gone to war with Great n on just this lssue and had forced the abandonment of any claim to such a right, they refused to abate thelr pretensions one Jot, though the minister intimated that the first assertion of such a right would be re garded by the United States as an unfriendly act, and therefore likely to lead to war. The matter progressed to that perilous state that when Admiral Carpenter was about to escort an American merchant steamship out of a Japanese por., to prevent her retention by the Japanes:, the lattor, it s said, gave orde s to the shore batterles at the mouth of the harbor to fire upon the American naval ve: sels if they attempted to do so. This fact came ou. after the conclusion of the armistice which fortunately occurred just at this point in the negotiation, thereby preventing an in- cident that would certainly have led to war, but the signific:nt point is that since that time the Japanese have steadily clung to the same contention, promising serious trouble in the event of another war in the cast. RESULT IN MANY PROMOTIONS. nt of Colonel Abbott Will Bring Out New Commissions. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The retirement of Colonel Henry L. Abbott of the Corps of En gineers will bring about many changes in the stations of the officers composing the forc corps. Abbott was the first member of the corps brevetted general. He reaches his 64th year on the 13th of this month and retires according to law. The colonel has a splendid war record and since the war has been con- nected with some very important englacering works. His retirement will promote Lieuten Peter C. Haina to be colonel; Major William Ludlow to be lieutenant colo- nel; Captain Joseph H. Williard to be major; IFirst Lieutenant James C. Sanford to be cap- tain; Second Lieutenant Charles Keller to he first lieutenant and additional Sccond Lieuten ant George P. Howell to be second lieutenant. While the retirement of Colonel Abbott re- sults in the usual promotions, it is the many changes that will probably follow in the as- signment of officers of the Engineer corps which causes a great deal of interest. Colo- nel Abbott is a division engineer and has charge of the northeast division, which in- cludes all river and harbor work, fortifica- tions and lighthouse building in New Eng- land, New York ‘and on the great lakes as far west and including Lake Erie. He is a member of the board of engineers, board of fortifications and also of the board of engi- neers that Is to report on the harbor lines for New York. He will vacate these positions, which will be filled by some higher officer on the active list of the Engineer corps. All these places may not go to one man, Colonel Abbott's atteinments as engineer rendering him particularly available for these important positions. Colonel Hains, who is to be pro- moted, is now division engineer of the southeast division. Major Ludlow is military attache at the court of St. James and has re- cently returned from Nicaragua, where he went as a moémber of the government com mission to survey and report upon the route of the proposed canal. vessels. Venezuelan Situation Unchanged. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Minister An- drade of Venezuela returned today from Deer Park. The status of the British-Venezuela question remains unchanged. Recent ad- vices received at the legation give the text af the official resolution by which Venezuela confirms to an American company a vast tract of land south of the Orinoco and near the scene of the British contention. The resolution sets forth that this grant was originally made to the Manoca company of the United States, but was subsequently transferred to the Turnbull company, in which English interest predominated, but in view of the fact that the Turnbull company has not proceeded with the development of the concession the resolution recites that the Turnbull grant is cancelled and all rights of the original Manoca company are revived and renewed. This gives the new American syndicate the same terms under which the Manoca company operated Houses Proof Ags hquake, WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Consul General Jones at Rome has sent to the State depart- ment an account of a plan just patented in Italy by Louls Dini, a civil engineer, for building houses proof against earthquakes. It consists in erecting the bullding as though it were of one piece by means of iron frames, rigld and inflexible. This would not suffice, continues the consul, unless the center of gravity were maintained at the base of the structure. Mr. Dinl claims to have solved this problem. — PERSONAL AND OTHERWIS! Dr. Arthur G. Webster of Clark university recently received notice from Paris that he had won the Elihu Thompson prize of 5000 francs for the best treatise of electricity. The subject of Dr. Webster's thesis is “An Experimental Determinations of Periods in Electrical Oscillations.” rano> has refused to decorate the World's fair managers with ribbons of the Legion of Honor, as was intended, because the latter treated the French exhibitors shabbily. But the managers' fame is secure without ribbons. Twonty-one volumes devoted to th work insures them a niche in obscure corners of Tbraries. - While the Princeton geological studants who were lost from view for a while were the guests of Chief Washakie of the Shos- hone tribe they gave a coll:ge yell for the benefit of the red men. The effect was elec- trical. Some of the Indians endeavored to stop their ears, others retreated, and a few rushed from their tents, seized their rifles and awaited results. The chief himseif, fore- warned by the interpreter, was unmoved. onel Julius A. Taylor, whose death in Memphis, Tenn., is announced was once callel to preside at a convention In that state. The gathering was uproarious and disorderly and for a time business at a stand- still. At length, whipping out a huge revol- ver, Colonel Taylor laid it on the desk in front of bim and stated that he proposed to keep the peace. As bis reputation as a good shof was known throughout Temnessee, the convention from that time on was harmo niouz Willam H. English, the democratic nom- inee for vice president in 1880, has devoted his energies and means during the past ten years in writing the history of Indiana. A man who has recently visited him says that he has traveled extensively through Virginia, Kentucky, indiana and “Old Northwest” in arch of historical documents, and has made an immensely valusble collection. He verl- fles every statement made in his history, and is as lavish in bis expenditure of mo as he is of time. He frequently has five or six assistan's alding him, and he has expended fully $50,000 in the purchase of historical documents. Mr. English lacks a fow weeks of being 73 years oid. He is said to be the largest indiv'dual owner of real estate in the state of Indisua, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The attorney general and the logal adylisers of the British government are oxercised over a curlous state of affairs discovored In connec tion with the duration of Parllament in the event of the queen’s death. By the act of 1696 it was provided that Parllament should not last more than six months after the de- miso of the crown. This applied to Seotland and Ireland after they entered the Parliament of the Unikted Kingdom, but the reform fran- chiso act of 1867 enacted that the demise of the crown should not affect the duration of Parliament. This act applied only to Eng land and Wales, A similar reform franchise act was in 1868 passed for Scotland and Ire- but does not contain any clause re ring to the demise of the crown. Hence, in the event of the queen’s death, Seo and Ireland would have an election within six months thereafter, unless Parllament should extend the clause of the English act of 1867 to them. In view of the qu and the sizo of the prasent Parliamentary ma Jority, indicating that the House will last for seven years, the matter becomes of prac tical importance, whila the delicacy of the subject makes it difficult immediately to in- troduce an act there That Turkey exists as an autonomic state solely at the will of the Kuropean powers is as well known as that it exists at all. Three of the powors have united fn a demand—it is fact—for a mixed commission for the better government of Armenia. The sultan has not that demand and obviously because no two powers are agreed upon anything like a permanent set- tlement of the eastern question. The sultan is a proscrastinator by nature and tradition and evidently expects the combination to fall to pleces, He judges by the past, and he owes it to England and France that he holds his court at Constantin today. While France has united in the demand, it has a grudge to nurse and wreak against England, latterly on account of the Egyptian occupa- tion. Russia covets more power on the Med iterranean, and has been balked twice in its efforts to extend itself to the southward. But Russia i Jealous of England’s empire in Asia and all these considerations will hinder the enforcement of the demand upon the Porte. But Europe will soon find it necessary to pay attention to the demand of the power behind the thrones upon which the powers are seated. The Christian world is much in earnest over the Armenian question, and while the powera are fighting their own bat- ties, the people are becoming impatient of lclay. The end of it will be the retreat of the Moslem from Europe and Armenia. It Is absurd to suppose that this sort of pro- tectorate for Turkey can endure much longer The Moslem s an_anachronism in modern civilization. The calif holds an advanced po- sition on the Bosphorus by favor of the pow- ers, who cannot agree upon the partition of the empire. But the weakest maritime power in Europe could make an end of Turkey in Europe in thirty days. a demand, in complied with The rumors that Russia would probably recognize Prince Ferdinand as ruler of Bul- garia have been effectually disposed of by the government at St. Petersburg, which de- clares that it will never enfer into relations with Bulgarla so long as that country is goy- orned by a usurper. The cowardly Coburger seems to have overreached himself in his ef- forts to secure the friendship of Russia. If he did not connive at Stamboulofl’s assassina- tion, he, at least, knew that it would happen and permitted it, thinking that by this means he would propitiate the czar. But he failed that potentate is still his enemy, and besid he has incurred the hatred of the Bulgarians and the contempt of the civilized world, and dreads to go back to Sofia for fear that he, in turn, may die by bomb or dagger. The condi- tion of affa'rs in the Balkan peninsula is a very serious one for Buropo to confront. Not only is there restlessness in Bulgaria, but the revolt in Macedonia appears to ba spreading. Russia 1 intrigue is believed to be behind the uprising, and Austria has been charged with the duty of restoring peace, while Turkey is mobllizing a large force of troops to cope with the insurgents. The powers of Europe have guaranteed the peaceful government of Macedonia, and they are in duty bound to put down the revolt, but even when that has been accomplished there will still remain the fficult task of determining finally the dispute over the throne of Bulzaria. e France is playing a brilliant part just now, carrying a chip on her shoulder for all Bu- rope and doing great things in West Africa, Madagascar and Asia, but her finances are in bad condition, and it is a question with her consorvative citizens whether she is not Roing to the bad. In the Economiste Fran- cals M. Leroy Beaulieu says the anuual deficit 500,000,000 and 400,000,000 francs. The floating debt fs enormous and Is con- cealed by shifty expedients. It is hid by short loans at high rates rather than let the public know its amount and shoulder it by a public loan. One-fourth of the budget of 1895 was provisional. The Logislature recently, by a logrolling operation, repealed taxes on wine, beer, cider, etc., to the amount of 207,000,000 trancs, in spite of the existing deficit. Under the lash of fifty socialists the 500 other mem- bers have accepted the principle of superan- nuated pensions that _will ultimately cost $200,000,000 annually. Recently the minister of public instruction, in a fit of generosity, turned over fees paid by students in the uni- vorsities to the faculties. The army and navy continue to increase their outlay. No- where is there economy. The civil service a growing multitude, a large part of which s suparfluous. Our officeholder is merciless to the taxpayer, but he is nothing, it is said, to the French officeholder, who is the “tightest barnacle” upon the treasury that the world has yet evolved. The republic, in & word, is drifting, Its financial difficuities have be- come 50 great that it is found to be most agreeable to forget them. The idea seems to be prevailing at present at the great capitals of Burope that war has become an unwarrantable luxury and is to be avoided if possible. It would produce, it is argued, mutual exhaustion and imperil the future of Eurocpe from an cconomic point of view. “The tasks of to- duy,” says the North German Gazette, “lie in other’ quarters of the globe. It 18 im- possible to obtain a regulating and ruling influence in those parts of the world unless Within Europe itself disputes are put aside.” This points doubtless to Asia, which is to be the scene of the next scramble for territory. Africa has been parceled out. Certain parts of the Soudan are not yet allotted, but tho rest has been distribuied among the powers of Europe. Asia opens another fie'd, Japan has shown that Chiua is a geographical expression only, not an empire with power to protect itself. It is, therefore, to be divided up. The process began when Russla took the Amoor country, France selzed Ton- quin and England appropriated Buj These were outlaying dependencies that recog- nized the suzerainty of China, Now Japan has torn Corea and Formosa from China and attempted to acquire part of Manchurla, which is an integral part of the Flowery Kingdom. The next decade is to a further partition, Russia geiting the first and largest slice. With the increased wealth and power obtained by exploiting the resources of China, Persia, Syria and Asia Minor, the great powers of Europe may be expected to attempt to go further. South America |s for the most part as incapable of self-defenss as Asia. It possdsses even larger attractions as a receptacle for the surplus population of the overcrowded countries of Europe. There is at present no evidence of designs upon it on the part of any European power, but when Asia has passed under the -control of Europe it is lkoly that South America’s turn will come next e Berlin is esten up by usury, and they are trying the most flagrant usurers and sending them to Jall in squads and platoons, but they are too numerous to be uprooted altogether and hold a strong grasp on all classes here. Although the country 15 so proud and power- Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Rl ful, It ta really poor. The Incomea of the arlstocracy are hardly ever up to thelr needs and pretensions, and for the other orders of sovlety they have a constant strugglo to pay tholr taxes and make ends meet. The cound try has economie, industrial and sociat perils to encounter, as well as the menace of outside artiles and alllances, But Burope generally fs in & like condition-—~mortgaged to money lenders, crushed down with war taxes, ine filtrated with feudal ideas, Impelling large numbers of the most expensive sort of peopla to try to live without carning anything. Time will enforce some sort of corrective, but in the meantime the situation is oppressive, bringing grist main| the usurer and his kind and plunging the rest of soclely into deeper and deeper difilcultie The happiest children of the Fatberlaud are those who have emigrated, especlally those who have come hither. O —— REFRESHT ATF, Philadelphia Record: matter how try, my work is always done in van says the weather-cock manufacturer Puck: He—And T will promise that 1 will let_¥ou have your own way in everythings She--Oh, I don't require that! He—~Youn don't? She—1 mean the promise Chicago Record break in_the play Wi “Eg “There was a very bad last night.” urnal: “Have you a ‘Pale inquired the' gentleman 1 clerk, new to the book Indianap of Blue F of the pretty | busines not he replied ‘Of course )\ they are brown? Nt you see promptly; that New Orleans Picayune satisfied under in seems to sour There 1s a the tart Cineinnat said the manager of receiving the lain in o most awl I do,” admitted the long since I had the real stuff to me, 0 rehearse with That was a bright the other day who who was making for her purse: You fumble and Hebrow street ¢ American girl in the said to her companio the usual femaie search “Let us divide this, Ithel. 'l pay.” “It seems to me* poxtrophizing . tha Chicago Tribune: groaned th T reflection of the acl soth in (he looking, glass, “that for as small a customer as you are you've got lots of Boston Johnny—But my Buess he knows, know about that. time givin' away an't have much rust to a man with what he Transeript: vs %0, and T Reuben—1 what's al knowledge to other peop! left for himself. I'd rather who isn't all the time partin knows. don't the Gramp allow any Truth: Ol M thought you didn't these flats? The Landlord—Hush; don't loud. That one is the Janitor's. Washington Star: “Y, less farmer, I got buncoed onctet b the foller that done it." (slowly)—1 children i complain 80 sald the gulle- But 1 got w? thout knowin® there, he come summer board." anythin’ out our way ‘hout my lvin lookin® fur HANDSOME, Philadetphin_Kecord, He held her b And yet she Because, gentle i, but simply te poker, and she didn't She held a royal flush Was not propis- hing her to play Know I TOLD YOU New York Truth T shirk no trials a man m: While journe: on this e sphere, I can eat my though sour or sweet, And take m ces withoul a fear; i dread not po s presence dre I will face misfortune’s cruelest blow But I shrink and cower when com anear The terrible prophet, * ~told-you-sc T can bow to the fate that brings defeat And smile at the world's unfeeling jeer, But Satan’s self 1 would rather grost Than list to this wizard's half-hid sneer; Than have him prate in my tortured ear The wordy reasons I sadly know, That tear my wounds like a Jagiged spear, The terrible prophet, *I-told-you-s0." 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