Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1895, Page 4

SUBSCRIPTION Dally ithout Bunday), One Yea Dally 1ae and Sunday, Une Year.. Ble Mearhs' f ‘Threa Months Bunday e, On Baturday Bee, One ¥ Weekly Des, One Year. Singer Dik., Corner N and 2ith Sta, ‘H, Pearl vrflr;(_ . 17 Chamber of Commerce. 71013, 14 and 13, Tribune Dullding. un ¥ reet, N, W, con SPOND! B, 2 ol All communicalions relating to news’ ang o Wiial matter sh b addressed the Editor. s, 0 Offfen ‘ashington, Al bustns Pt e | Onaha, be made o THE he oa Pub- | that A of nany o 1 1893, Tvening 1onth of 6. 010 9 212 TCK: ped Inmy tary Publle. coguize the fact things that are " Lord West should 1 that there are some best unexpladned. When It comes to rate cutting it is not the road that is in the hands of receivers that is at a disadvantage. We take it that the danger of Indian outbr on the Winnebago reservation I8 now completely removed. It there te to be any bond proposi- tions submitted to the voters at the coming clection it Is high time that they be taking tangible shape. the settlers on the ation in consenting ait the decision of the e cases has been The wisdom of Winnebago re to peaceably aw court in the land proved beyond eavil. | tion which framed the present consti- | ganie law, lengne has o arduous task of nominat- ing candidates for the varfous munici- pal offices to be filled at the coming electlon. Taking into consideration the | difficulties encountered in the apportion- ment of places on the ticket among the various elements and the reluctance of active busin men to consent to serve the city In any oficial capacity, the league convention has acquitted it- self most ereditably. The nominces are l | all well known eitizens, cach and every one qualified for the discharge of the | duties of the respective offices to which they aspir Hon. Charles H. Brown, candidate for mayor, is one of the best known citi- zens of Omaha. e has tilled many | positions of honor and trust and has | lways borne an unsullied reputation | for integrity and fidelity to the public | interests. As a member of the conven- | | tution of Nebraska be contributed his full toward perfecting that or- As a4 member of the state during several important ses- | he labored zealously and fpith- fully in promoting measures beneficial to his constituents and in opposing job- bery and extravagance of all descrip- tions. As mayor of Omaha in the early days he wmade an executive whose course Inspired univer contidence, More recently, after a long period of retivoment from public life, he dis- cliarged the duties of police commis- sioner with such decision, firmness and impartialit raised the standard of police efficiency higher than it had ever been before. No man in Omaha is bot- ter cquipped than Charles H. Browi for assuming the responsible duties that devolve upon the head of the mu- nicipal government and no man in this city possesses in a higher degree the confidence of the taxpaying eitizens. Thomas Swobe, the nominee for city treasurer, has for years been identified with Omaha's growth and has Deen an active factor in promoting its prosperity. While always prom- inent in political life, he has not been a eandidate for any public office since he served as county elerk back in the G0s. His qualifications for the position of city treasurer are undisputed and his integrity cannot be ealled in question. In nominating IR, Doane for the very responsible position of city comp- share senate ons eratle eampaign the ide the party can possibly win anything. That 1t will lose the legislature is ab- solutely assured and the way In which Campbell Is earrying on his campaign cannot win him votes, or even hold together the party strength, The re- publicans, on the other hand, are making a splendid fight, are entirely harmonious and have the inspiration of prospective victory. NO GROUNDS FOR OPPOSITION. It is passing strange that the man- agers of the Rock Island and Milwau- kee rallroads, who drve constantly bid- ding for the patronage of the business | men of Omaha, should be opposed to the erection of a metropolitan unfon passenger station in the business conter of the city, No other city of Omaha's population and commercial importance lias been treated in the shabby way by the railroads to whom its people con- tribute thousands upon thousands of | dollars annually as have the people of Omaha. The hencoop depot which was to have been built on Tenth and N streets would never have been satis! tory either to the railroads or to the public. It would have been difficult of access, inconvenient and insufficient in accommodations, On occasions like the state fair, when great crowds of people are moving in and ount, it would have been as dangerous to life and limb as the old Tenth street crossing before the viaduet was built. The conditions under which the te minal company proposes to erect metropolitan union depot at the foot of Farnam street are much more favor- able to the respective railroad com- panies whose trains are to make use of the station than are now accorded rail- roads enjoying similar privileges in the principal cities of the country The usual rental is 6 per cent on the valua- tion of the grounds and buildings, while the terminal company proposes to-exact only 5 per cent on the actual amount invested. In the Mason street depot the grounds ave appraised at something like & million and a half, while the building would have cost but $200,000 or $300,000. In the proposed Farnam street depot the site will cost not exceeding $500,000, while the structure and approaches will cost from a million to a million and a lalf. Assume that both plants are stocked and bonded for equal amounts, the rental exacted from the ads - | lie: the votes of the independents and de- cent citizens generally scattered, the return to power of the corrupt political organization that was turned out last year would haye been inevitable, The fusion probably Insures a repetition of last ar's victory, when under like conditions the plurality against Tam- 00, giving the City of New York a reform government which has very greatly Improved the political and moral condition of that of lat the fusion of republicans and all Who desired to rid the metropolis of the (nation of corrupt and dishonest government was a wise and good thing last year's results amply attest. Such fusion is no less proper and expedient now, for the reform desired is not yet fully attained. Tammany was badly crippled in last year's battle, but it needs to be erushed. As the Advertiser says, “its power to corrupt, to rob, to degrade, to betray, is still great. It must be broken, trampled in the dust, ground into fragments by the might of | honest citizenship.” What the repub- ns of York have done in the of good muni- {cipal and county government re- publicans everywhere may properly do. Th ifice no party principle and no t by uniting with democrats or any other political ele- |ment for the purpose of securing an honest and local affai York City s, set an example which may properly be emulated by repub- licans wherever there Is necessity, in the interest of good government, for their doing so. The incalculable benefits which will follow the clection of a citizens’ munici- pul ticket may not at first flush oceur to the avernge voter who cares nothing for politics but wants to vote for the best man in every ease. In the present reform movement leading men have put their shoulders to the wheel and are endeavoring to sink party prejudices long enough to elevate strong, trust- worthy and capable men to important offices in the city hall. They ask every voter to assist in the under- taking. They believe there is moral stamina enough in the citizenship of Omaha to accomplish needed reforms. They address themselves to all those who want honest government. Non- Colonel Akin has withdrawn from the race for the dervish nomination for city treasurer, He was in the swim {n earnest until yester- day, when he found that the three Charleys, Unitt, Djureen and Johnson, who had charge of his Interests In the Ninth ward, had sold | out and were working for Dumont. That fact, coupled with the further fact that he had become possessed of an organ that had swamped the political chances of several other prominent candidat induced the colonel to withdraw and leave the field open to Bdwards and Dumont. John Jenkins served with bravery through the war, but his heart failed him when he faced the touching committees that were after the candidates for the mayoralty noml- nation and ha withdrew from the race, I have been feeling the pulse of the politiclans of the different wards and T find that they want money and lots of it," is the explanation Mr. Jenkins gives for declining to make a | fight for the nomination. decelving Mr. Jenkins, Jim Allan, Claus Hubbard, Sam Macleod, Char. ley Youngers, Van Alstine, Jasper I1iff, Frank Somebody has been Burman and that class of patriots would take | then money for their influence in an election, Broatch and Chaffee will tell you that they never us: money, but confine their disburse. ments solely to promises. Sam Smith and Claus Hubbard say that Chaffee tricked them in filing the Broatch list of delegates from the Third ward with the dervish city central committee. Chaffee says he didn't. The man who ig interested enough to take sides has his choice between Chaffee’s word and that of Claus Hubbard and is entitled to another guess if he misses it the first time, Van Alstine and Hon. Jim Allan are try- Ing to get to the city dervish convention as delegates from the Eighth ward. They will g0 unpledged. There's a couple of lads Who wouldn't give a cent to get Into a con- vention pledged to support any one. They are in politics only for their health. Judge Gustav Anderson has announced himself as a candidate for the nomination for police judge. He is No. 13 on the list. Prof. Rathbun s serlously handicapped in his race for the nomination for city comp- troller. There is nothing to indicate that he will get through with his $5 a day job of investigating the books of Olsen and Bolln fn time to assume the duties of his office in case of a nomination and election, Major Dan Wheeler is a candidate for the nomination for councilman-at-large from the Fourth ward. The major has never got over the loss of his pull for insurance which t 15 not possible that | (o AME Recent Additions to the Expressive Terma of the Stump, t Chicago Times-Herald, G00-g00 18 the latest political nickname. Naturally it comes from New York, where 1t Is applied to a class of persons or & party whose object is good government without || respect to party aMllations, These people are goo-goos. Those who oppose them think they are pigeon-hearted and lack gall— | & that they are Ilily-livered and not to be cata- | logued among virile men. This is New York's way, and, in truth, is the general way. When argument can not bo met with argument it can be met with abuse, and when logic Is unanswerabls it is names. 1t doesn’t answer, but it suits the | ! multitude. I “Whoover was made the w called Holofernes?” said t Johnson, but, nevertheless the sensitive Gold. | B smith récolled at being nicknamed The force of nicknames has aiways been recognized in politics. “Democrat” was | | word of opprobrium In Washington's time, | and many a man shrank = from the appellation yather than from | | thing itself, and voted wlth the federalists even' against his convietions It took Jefferson twelve years to make the name even palatablo to his supporters, and | ¢ It was by long approaches under the |} softening appellative of democratic-repub- lican, t en there was that offensive designation, | | “locofoco,” " which originated In New York | ¢ somewhere during the '30's and was given | to a particular party faction, but was so apt and 8o expressive of insignificance that it came to be applied to the whole democratie party in 1840. Log cabins and hard cider was the popular cry in that year, but no one can tell how many people were driven from tho support of Van Buren through fear of being nicknamed eofo: That name survived until Polk's time and then gave way to ‘“barnburncr” and which tn turn were succoeded by and “softs | I Silver grays” was the designation of the Fillmore wing of the whigs at one time, and " was the nickname given | , by tho elder Bennett to the nascent repub. lican party in 1856, More recent factional names originating inConkling's time are “stalwarts”™ and “half-breeds The name “mugwump,” which came into use in the first Cleveland campaign, was of Indian origin and means “Big Chiet," or one big and wise in his own canceit, o Most of these nicknames and many more | r originated in New York, a place fertilo in | t such inventlons, for there, if anywhere, politics is a gamo which is to be won by any means, elther fair or foul robust Dr. | t |0 v 1 M t! 5 THE sHow, These are melancholy days for silver. the landscape is turning to gold. The boom of Potato Pingree of Detroit for the presidency has attained a deliclous peach- blow tint. A man staggering under the name Swindle is runuing for office in Ohio. a lawyer by profsssion. o Now the festive candidate outstretches a| s horuy palm and essays to love as a brother every voter in his bailiwick. With fusion an accomplished fact in New Even b o of | & He is | § h mak natlyistio orga such triumphs as Morse got 301 republican convention all Massachusstts republi ca easy to throw mud by way of a few nick- | They will have to nominate vse for heing | does When the majol he did not h | A declined to be seared, o Uis political y people public officor, heaven; | hea tles they are able to command. move. | for cars will be away beyond precedent. down of the THE DER Out of 1,762 delogates to republican state conver RO Globe-Demoerat: he Massachuset tion 891, according to the vote on candida for governor, appear to have been A. P. A. men. members of the order who did any talkin This 18 not as good a showing as the promised. t is a It 1s safe to say, howover, that tter ghowing than the order could fn any other stale. The prosent atlon will nover win any s great progenitor of the 0s achieved. New York Sun: votes Hon. Eljah In_the Massa Ho I8 the friend of P. A, and the 't escape him, m next year, the recently formed Roclety for the ion of Intelligence in Massachusetts extraordinary work In (he next No “worthy family in the to go without stove Adams husetts the virtues and the A. e o, an welve months, lay State will polish for some tine to come S 1: Governor Green- sotts has been a straigl and consistent execatl ty of his party il the legis- s which he thought unwise, When th he Milwaukea halge of Massach orward, honest atueo passod bi esitate to veto b P. A's attempted to intimidate him He has stood up. tiberal platform of repube hreatened with the ruin he held the even mpt was made to cat his re 1t proved an absurd failu like courage and consisten and an overwhelming majority ot the delegates of the republican state vention of Massachusetts, on the first ot, voted for his renomination. — - - TOWA PRESS COMMENT, he broad and can principles, enor of his way. organize a movement to d. nati Des Moines Rog Let them talk of this is heaven, and it Is the best n because it is ours. After God made owa He came back and smiled on His handi- | | work. Sloux City Tribune: decisly Captain Beck has won e victory over the contractors who were “doing” the Winnebago Indians and he is which must sink in the scale. to be congratulated. Those were evidently hired to newspapers malign him Davenport Demoerat: There s no corn or wheat famine in this country this year, but a ar famine 49 seriously threatened. Western allroads see ahead of them more business an they can possibly handle with the facili- The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad company has 000 freight cars of its own, and several housand more under lease, but one of its uperintepdents says the system is 1,200 cars hort already. Grain ds just beginning to A month from this time the demand Lemars Sentinel: The mayor of Sheldon as adopted the curfew scheme for keeping rder on the streets of that city, =o the steady 0ing citizens who go to bed with the going n will not be disturbed in thelr lumbers. No new curfew bell has been Wung to toll the knell of departing drunks to their Sunday slumbers, but when the hour and on the town clock points to the middle i "4 \ of the tenth hour it becomes the duty of the city policeman to gird up his lolns and sally forth with his basswood club and nippers to harvest his fees from the unlucky citizens or visitors who have taken too much of that would be higher by one-fifth, or 20 per cent, for the Mason street abortion than it would be for a magnificent million- depot at the foot of Farnam. he had when he was the watch dog of the city council. Visions of the snap he had in those days dazzle him so that he loses sight of the figures by which the voters of the troller the convention paid a high com- pliment to the younger element of our citizenship, partisin officers will work a revolution in city politi Party machines will be powerfess to bring pressure upon York, recognition of the helligerent rights of Tammany excites profound indifterence, Mr. Horace Boles proposes to take the stump in Towa and lend some variety as woll lists would be willing to givo up their proposed fight were it not Those pug! that they dislike to throw away the value of all the free advertising they have received in conneetion with it. No one should aspire to become a member of the Board of Edueation who 15 mot content to serve lis term through without using the machinery of the schools us a lever to sccare higher Lonors The visit of the lberf south ought to cement more firmly the different sections of (he nation and im- press anew the idea that liberty was originally proclaimed throughout all the land. bell in the Nebraska has lots of room new and industrious settlers. The immi- grant who Is looking for a promising place to locate will make no wmistake in stopping when he gets within the Dborders of Nebraska. for Nebraska's gold fields ave still the center of a large arvea of speculative excitement. Nebraska’s corn fields may cause less excitement, but they will pan out better and they will not be exhausted quite so soon. The Hawaiian cholera scare about subsided. The United States has got ten over taking alarm over the threat- ened invasion of the cholera pest un- less there are substantial grounds f expecting it to mate Business men in the glve us a business city government. The man who has no other visible means of support except what he makes out of his position as a city councilman is the man who should be kept out of office. ¥ couneil will Congressman Mercer can make him- self felt in South Omaba just now if he cares to assist in recommending a sunitable site for the new postoftice building. What certain property owners down there want more than anything is a pull in the office of the steretary of the treasury. Chicago has an illustration of the fnevitable result of the appointment of receivers for the same concern by courts of different jurisdictions—a fight between rival receivers claiming title under different judicial tribunals. The outcome, it is said, will be almost end- less litigation, and the lawyers' shares of the assets will be correspondingly increased. Because the supreme court cleared out the trustees of the Nebraska City Iustitute for t Blind illegally ap- pointed by the legislature is no o why the new superintendent of that institute should imagine it to be his duty to clear out the entire tenchir faculty. In reorganizing the force in charge of the institute some regard ought to be paid to experlence and qualifications for the positions. A business adihinistration of a state in- stitution will reflect mora credit on its head than any number of vindictive or partisan decapitatious. —_— Tt looks as if Land Commissioner Russell and his associates on the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings are about to project themselyes iuto the breach made by the decision of the su- preme court declaring vold the ap- polutment by the legislature of a board of trustees for the Nebraska City In- stitute for the Blind, and to undertake to complete the addition to the build- Ing begun by the defunct trustees. There 1s no color of law for such a proceeding, but no omission of that kind would ordinarily stand in the way of Russell If there is a chance to let # contract or give some favorite em- ployment. Few men in Omaba enjoy a wider popularity than William Coburn, can- didate for city clerk. And no man will el him in eapacity for the work requived of the incumbent of that office, Lee Helsley has been nominated for the- position of police judge, an office which he has filled before and for which he is eminently fitted by experi- cnce and ability. The candidates for the council, which is really the board of trustees for the municipal corporation, are exception- ally strong. In fact it is the ficst coun- eil ticket ever placed in the fiekl made up exclusively of representative busi- ness men. The candidates for the Board of Education were chosen with special reference to their ability to manage the schools with strict economy and with a“sole desire to restore them to that degree of excellence which they had reached before sectavian partisan- ship had run riot in the “scl The ticket as a whole commends it- self to the hearty support of every cit- izen who desives to redeem the city from the incubus of misrule under which it has been brought by star- chamber combines and reckless and dis- honest ofiicials, —_— OHI0 SILVER DEMOCRATS. in the Ohio campaign i somew enlivened by the action of the leaders of the free silver demo- crats of the state. In a manifesto is- sued a few days ago they declare war on Senator Brice. They eall upon all democrats to support the state ticket, but to oppose candidates for the legis- lature who are not willing to pledge themselves to vote against a gold stand- ard or pund money” democrat for the United States senate. The mani- festo do not name Brice, but it is none the less directed against him, and it is said to have created some conste nation in the party, as well it may in view of the strength of the free silver vote. Although it failed to carry the state convention there is no doubt that not far from half the democrats in Ohfo are in vor of the free coinage of the white metal, but if the number be not more than one-third th can play havoe with Brice's hope of suc- ceeding himself in the United States senate, provided they follow the coun- el of the leaders. But as the Cin- cinnati Commercial Gazette remarks, Senator Br “hath winning ways with him,” and a great many of the free silver democrats may be per- suaded that it would not be good poli- tics to oppose the men whom he wants chosen to the legislature. Still the probability is that a considerable num- ber of democ will do as they have been advised by the free silver lead- ers and thus make doubly sure the election of a republican legislature and the cholce of ex-Governor Foraker to succeed Brice. There has been little veason to doubt this result in any event and now there is none at all As to the free silver democrats sup- porting Campbell, the candidate for governor, It has never been supposed that they would not do so. They voted for his nomination and thus committed themselves to his support. The mani- festo does not, therefore, affect the situation so far as the state ticket is concerned, or at any rate the head of it. But a little matter has been made public which may cost Mr. Campbeil some of the votes of this element, This is @ letter endorsiug a reply to “Coin's Financial School,” written by a prowmi- nent Olio republican, for which Camp- bell predicted “a wide eirculation, with much resulting good.” It is reason- ably thought that the silver wen will huardly relish this endorsement of sound money by a man whow they have urged Interest their fellow democrats to support. The cowplications In the Ollo demo- All things considered, should not every ailrond that enters Omaha eheerfully co-operate in an enterprise that will centralize the passenger business in the business center and give the public the long-awalted accommodations to which it is cntitled? What excuse can these railronds give for discriminating against Omaha and denying it the facilities which are granted every other city on their lines? THE FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR. The long and expensive struggle of the French to obtain control in Mada- gasear has resulted in sue as was inevitable. The Hova capital fell into the hands of the invaders on the last day of last month, and a treaty negotiated which undoubtedly accords France all she demands. A dispatch from Paris states that it is intended by the French government to lish a rigorous protectorate over the island, which will assure to France preponder- ance in the entire administration of affairs and doubtless, M the course of time, absolute control, for nothing less than this will satisfy Irance. The triumph over the almost defenseless Hoyv: which lhas cost nee more than 5,000 men and over $20,000,000, appears to have caused considerable exultation at Paris, for President Faure promptly made the successful general a grand officer of the Legion of Ionor. Madagascar is in the Indian ocean and is the largest of the African islands. It contains a population of about 5,000, 000, consisting of several uncivilized tribes, though the ruling tribe, the Hovas, has made some pro, s toward civilization, the present queen, Rana- ano I1L, who is-to bé allowed to remain, having been favorable to the growth of civilized methods among her people. Doubtle the Prench will wake their occupation of the island profitable, though it will take some time to reimburse the cost of getting possession, FUSION IN NEW YORK. The fusion of the republicans and state demoerncy in New York Clty is a continuance of the contest there for zood municipal and county government and promises to administer another de- feat to Tammany as signal as that of last year, if there shall be no dis- turbance of the harmony of the allied forces. The fusion was not effected without a great deal of effort on the art of those republicans who clearly AW in it the only means of overcoming and furthering the cause of good government. A very large num- ber of republicans were in fave nominating a straight republican tic) but better counsels prevailed and a division of candidates was made ne cording to the relative strength of the chief parties to the fusion. Had the extreme republicans had their way and the state democrats been denied reco nition on the ticket Tammany's success in November would have been assured, but it is there is good reason to be- lieve that the fusion ticket will be suc cesstul and another great step be taken in the Interest of honest government in New York. Referring to the action taken, which it had persistently and ably advocated, the New York Adver- tiser says: “The leaders of metropoli- tan republicanism have shown them- selves equal to the crisis that confronted them and worthy of the trust imposed upon them. They have not bartered republican principles nor sacrificed ve- publican honor. They have kept steadfastly in view the paramount issue of upright government.” What they have done is to keep In the course which last year led to victory and it is the only one by which Tammany, still a vital and powerful organization, can be beaten. With the republicans and state democrats actiug separately and et, the men clected or cause them to dis- ace themselve nd scandalize the No subordinate can be forced upon the pay roll beeause of service rendered as a ward hustle Men will be employed au their merits and indi- vidual fitness. © It will be an innovation which cannot fail of appreciation at the hands of the taxpayers of this city. The State Board of Health announces that medieal students who fail to. come up to the' requirements of instruction and experience will-not be permitted to take out c braska patignts. It rests with the state board to protect the people from the fmposition of physicians who are not equipped to pursue their profes- sfon. There is only one way to per- form this duty and that Is to bar out all who are not entitled to practice under the law. Life is too short for The Bee to con- tradict all the lies and fakes which are being concocted by the World-Herald in order to afford that sheet a sem- blance of excuse for supporting the . P AL candidate for clerk of the dis- trict court. If the men who are run- ning the organ that sells out to the highest bidder had any maunhood they would declare openly for the whole dervish ticket and have done with it. The Shrewd John Bull. Globe-Democrat. Great Britian's idea of honor in interna- tional controversies is to arbitrate only with one of her own s —— A rican Skill Sets the Pace. St Louis Republic. American locomotives have been shipped this year to Asla, Africa, Soath America and Australia. And now comes an order from Europe for twenty freight and an equal num- ber of passcinger engines. Russia may b backward in some matters, but she Is ahead of many other countries in railway equip- ment. e Maligning Nebraska's Flower, Stoux City Times, There is an editor in Cayuga, N. Y., who will never emigrate to Nebraska, where the goldenrod is the state flower. “It makes one sick,” he wrote, “to read the effusions of city’ poets about the ‘waving goldenrod,’ which they appear to regard as the acme of floral beauty. In fact, the goldenrod is a stinking weed, covered with green flies and noxious insects.’ ' e ¥ for Defalentions, ‘Washington Post, One of the companies which make a busi- ness of insuring against losses by employes urges that the time has come for a concen- troted movement against this evil. The cir- cular very pertinently and forciably argues that there is-a dual responsibility for many f the defalcations, and that those highest up in the busiaess of the victimized concorn bear at least a censiderable share of the blame for the losses.e The clear inference from this 19 tht the losses should be charged to Lhe man or men:fn autherity by whose neglect of duty they were rendered possible. - ng Itself. Washington Star. It it be frue, 'as stated, that General Har- rison s earylng legal fees that net him an income twd. or three times as large as that which the ‘gountry paid him while he occu- plel the white=house, there would seem to have been, found an answer to the much- ‘What shall be done The best possible would appear, is to let them They are In no danger of o man who can step out of tion of $50,000 a year into a Responsi with our exw) { thing to dg,. i severely albrig| starvatiol to hecomzn\ulflu‘k of public charity. - Prodding the Slek Man. Chicago Tribune, The representatives of the great power have sent a collective note to the Turkish government talling attention to the rec:ni of disorder and violence in Constan- tinople and the inadequate police measures taken to stop them, also demanding the re- lease of all prisoners who are innocent of wrong doing, the cessation of arrests, and a thorough investigation of the receni riots. This is commendatory so far as it goes, but If it goes no farther than the demands made by the same powers several months ago upon the Turkish government to institute Arme- nlan reforms, It will amount (o nothing. If the powers had insisted upon their demand and backed it up with the menace to throw the Turks out of Burope and partition Tur- key among themselves there would have been no riots In Constantinople to investi- gate. All of which shows that the powers will ‘have to share the responsibility for the receny Armenlan butchery. riiffcates to practice on Ne- | upwards of $1560,000 is likely | ward repudiated him when he asked a re- election at their hands. On Monday night Colonel Akin's paper, the official organ of the dervishes, called for the retirement of both Broatch and Chaffee from the race for the mayoralty nomination. Last night it asserted that either Broatch or Ch fee would be an acceptable candidate. Sur- face indications lead to the conclusion that Broatch and Chaffee both took the hunch. There fs something radically wrong with the times. Nelther Ernest Stuht nor Pete Schwenk is trying to break Into the dervish cervention as a delegate, Doc Saville is being overworked these days. Between his duty as health commissioner and the demands upon his time and attention as chairman of the dervish stecring committee he is the busiest man in town. When mat- ters become too pressing he passes up the ity business as of secondary importance. That's the rule that has been adopted in city affairs since the Jdoctor’s friends got into power. J. B. Piper is accumulating a crop of dis- He thought the announcement of his candidacy for the nomination for city comp- troller would cause an “‘uprising of der peo- pies” in his behulf, but the yeomen of the clty have admirably restrained their en- thusiasm at the mention of his name, He can’t understand it. Piper is a little slow in th uptake. He ought to be told that the sig- nal of distress was given from another quar- ter some time ago. Hitchcock's candidate for mayor is A. J. Hanscom. It Mr. Hanscom were only run- ning Hitchcock might make a dicker for an extension of the mortgage loan which Hans- com holds on his property in exchange for political support. For a few weeks Scott will make a pretty speech from the bench on the slightest prov- ocation. In every sentence his unspeakable love for the lowly and his contempt for the great and powerful are played to an appre- clative grandstand. Merciful and upright Judge! Rats! e Reverencing Snered Dell. Brookiyn Eagle, Who says that Americans are a dry, un- sentimental people? They are not. Look at the progress of the liberty bell in the south. It is not an imposing piece of metal. Yet the idea that it stands for endears it to the heart of the nation, and in its way through ths country it is greeted with song and salute, with = waving of flags and speeches, and even with tears of pride and Joy. These are proofs that we are a united and patriotic people, and also that we have a large fund of emotion. fi%@@%@& o as gaiety to the financial cure-alls afloat, 2x-Congressman Bryan tarries in San Fran- cleco, while the faithful of lunar tints at home suffer the pangs and tortures of a financial vacuum, The queen of Madagascar is an inveterato chewer of tobacco. Sinee the French have taken her capital it is likely she will masti- cate the rag for a season. Tsaac Michael Wittkowsky asked the New York courts for permission to change his name. He did not wish to lose his Witt, so he simply asked that the kowsky part be eliminated, A number of American autograph hunters have been taken In with postal cards bearing & bogus signature of Gladstone. The cards command This is one of the ways in. which can “do” America. Theodore Roosevelt has made a collection of all the cartoons about himself that he could get hold of, and has pasted them on the walls of a room at his home. He says he gets a lot of fun out of showing his “cartoon room” to his friends, Last May the country was flooded with re- ports of dieastrous frost blight in the Chau- tauqua grape belt of New York. Now the Buffalo Express reports an enormous crop in the district. Eyldently Jack Frost fs not as black as he Is painted. Willlam R. Hearst is said to be negotiat- ing for a New York newspaper and is likely lo try his hand at the helm of the Journal, which John R. McLean dropped with a quar- ter of a million. Mr. Hearst has money to burn and can afford the luxury of journal- 1stic rejuvenation, St. Paul papers give details of the alarming disappearance of lakes in Minnesota. Of the 7,000 lakes in the state in 185, fully one- third have permanently dried up and many of their basins have been transformed into cultivated flelds. This condition furnishes St Paul the longed-for excuse for severing rela- tions with Minneapolis and annexing Mil- waukee. One Mr. Forbes, a Briton who had some connection with the engineering department of the Niagara Falls power plant, takes occa- sion in & home paper to monopolize ail the glory of the fob and incidentally breaks out in this strain: “There are two great mis- takes commonly made by Americans. One is that they are original inventors; the other is that they are humorous. Nelther of these propositions is true.” As Mr. Forbes has been proven guilty of copying original plans in the Westinghouse factory and palming them off as his own, the humor of his re- marks takes high rank for inventive origin- ality. Speaking of the visit of Lafayette to this country in the winter of 1824-25, the Ameri- Monthly Magazine of Washington, sys It was during these days that George Ticknor of Boston presented a foreign gontleman to ex-President Adams. Politics was a tabooed subject, but just as they were to take their leave Mr. Adams asked Mr. Ticknor how the election was proceeding in the house. Mr. Ticknor replied that he understood it depended upon the vote of New York. Mr. Adams arose and exclaimed: “Then God help us! As boy and man I have known New York politics for several years, and her politics have always been among the devil's incomprahensibilitie m with the chase. Richmond England D! th hi ki > th h B o e Broken Promises have done a great deal to increase the difficulties of reaching the public heart by advertis- ng. Even the trustworthy dealer has to overcome prejudice that he doesn’t deserve to encounter. He can’t help that, however. What be can do, is to keep on with announcements in # good faith and, backed by good goods and trust to the good sense of the public. That is what we are doing now in offering these gar- P ments of our own manufactute. Fall Suits........$8.50....$12.50....%$ 18,00 Fall Overcoats ..$8.50....$18.00....$20.00 BROWNING, KING & CO. S 00 0 0 a uniform price of 15 shillings. Why Mrs. Longtong dismisse two-mile ware of (l weary wandercr. me when I say t deed, when 1 lost th eye I wax one of th men in Chicago.' mother, “dou It nicrobe-infested water of which the Insine hospital committee reported to the legl:lature. Chicago Tribune: The bandits that bloom In the fall, trolley la! have nothing to do Dispate wonder I'm N stuck,” sald the bewildered pedestrian; “I've run against the forks of the road." Ada—Do you think the word be omitted from the marriage Omitted? Certalnly not. It be transferred to the other party to the contract Hiland—T wonder her.old family hysiclan and called in Dr. Sugarpill? Haf- et—Old Dr. Barnes advised her to take a Ik every day, and keep her lips ightly closed. Pittsburg Chronicl Statesman: As the itinerant with me in full view of the sn, *'Be- dogs,” he passed on to thé next ouse, emitting from his machine the well nown notes of, "I don't want to play in our yard." ' sald the you will believe I have not always been ttered wreck you see hefore you, In- se two fingers and this most prosperous alder- he Indianapolis Journs “The boy whose B continually. velling ae him - te the cornfed philosopher, “may * a very good time, but he will make e father. He will have 8o vivid a of his own misery that he will let is children alon KINGSLEY UP TO DATE. W Yorl World. o kod, sweet mald, and let whoever wil e Clov Do noble things, not marry them, at least not for long. Don't tie up for life and death and that fast forever, r titles are now going for a song. A BALLAD OF PURE LAZINESS, Pall Mall Gazelte. Though some may sing the joys of work, The virtues of ‘the laboring man, Toil and its griefs T fain would shirk With indolence Mahometan. Existence s the briefest span Ere merging in Eternit Then toil who will, and fofl who can, A lazy life's the life for me. I long to lle where serpents lurk Among the flowers of Castalan; To smoke like any turbaned Turk In some luxurious divaj 1 would recall the d > sylvan charms of Ar A lazy life's the life for me. T shun the city’s grime and murk, Mero rustic laborings 1 ban; No_minister of state or Kirk, No councilor 1, to plot and plan, But, with a lotus-flowered fan, 1 founge beside the summer sea; And sigh, mid dreams of far Japan— “A lazy life's the life for me.” ENVOY, Gain! Ever since the world hegan, Misgyided men have wrought for thee; r endless strife 1 scan, the life for m 380 480 28 480 80 340 4000 0 0 good name, 160 0 0 2 30 200 000 300 R R RO R R R SR SR IR R R [