Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 4

THIE OMAHA DAILY By S\ TURDAY, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. — B. ROSEWATER, B PUBLISHED EVERY MORNI _ — AMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Batly Dee (Without Sunday). One Year fly Bee and Bunday, One Yeat...... Bix Y Three Mo Bunda; Baturday Boe, One Y. Weekly Hee, One Year... OFFICES, Omaha, The Ties Bullding. Bouth Smaha. Singer Bik., Corner N and 2ith Sta Council Biufls, 13 Pearl Biroet. Chicagn Office. 317 Chamber of Commerce. ew York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, T:ibune Bullding. ‘ashington, 107 F Street, N, W. CORRESPONDENCH. Al communications relating to news and et lal matter should be addresscd: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and remittances should be @ddressed to The Bes Publishing mpany. | Omnm.d w"v?‘ checks and puatstice orders 16 | made pavahle fo the order’of the compas ’l!‘""? BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN = T OF CIRCULA BTAT Georgs B, Tzschuck, secretary of ' Pub. fishing comp: boing duly sworn, saye that the actunl number of full and plete coples of the Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Tee printed during the month of September, 1505, was ax follows: L 1ME L vdpdon 15.5% 0 10,665 1098 | 141 a9 20,285 19 161 19413 19,258 18,901 tH © 10,798 10912 20,29 Total Lewn doi coples . Net sales Daily avern Sworn to hefore me presence this 15t day of O (Seal.) N. P. F! —————————————————————— The sultan of Turkey appears to be rapidly approaching the point when he and his subordinates will either have to fish or cut bait. So long as the war cloud hangs over eastern Europe the Central American republies will gladly postpone indulging in hostilities over their little disagree- ments. . Judge Helsley's brief address before the citizens' city convention was a gem. Tor eloquence, force and brevity it has rarely been equaled in convention halls in this cit Ex-Congre n has, it is re- ported, returned to Nebraska. If his return meant a return of his newspaper to its senses his home-coming would be a welcome event, Tt may not be out of place to reiterate the fact that the organization of the Nebraska Manufacturers and Consum ers associntion grew directly out of The Bee's agitation in favor of patronizing home industries. The only way to check extravagance and boodling in the city government is to elect a mayor who cunnot be tam- pered with and a council that will ap- ply business prineiples and business methods to the administration of the city's business, Governor Altgeld wants it known that he has not yet announced his candidacy for re-election. He may later conclyde to hoist his boom, but he does not want to anticipate the action of President Cleveland. If Mr. Cleveland insists on re-election, so probably will Governor Altgeld. Cut rates to the east of us and cut rates to the west of us, but no reduction in local grain rates from points in Ne- braska to the great markets for our prod- ucts. What this state needs is a re- duced grain rate that will move every bushel of surplus grain and trausform it into sh. It will be just as impossible for the campaign managers to make free silver the issue of the election in Nebraska this year as it would be to revive the income (ax as an issue. Interest in the silver discussion is dying out. The peo- ple want something new to interest and entertain them, Weather forecasts by means of colored kite signals would unquestionably be a novelty. It is possible that these signals might prove valuable to the people, but that must first be demonstrated by ex- periment. Should the experiment sue- ceed popular stock in the weather bu- reau will go a-Kkiting. v Despite a season of depression unex- ampled in the history of Nebraska the Manufacturers and Consumers associa- tion has held its own and increased its field of usefulness. Results of its labors are like those of advertising. They are seen today, tomorrow and a year hence, and always for good. The governor of an has an eminent example to follow in the action taken by the governor of Texas to put a stop to the proposed prize fight in the Lone Star state, «lhe proposition to have the fight in Arkansas ought to have as chilly a veception there as it did further south in Texas. The Citizens' Reform evolved its plan of cam mitted its tick people. While league has uign and sub- 18 to the suffrages of the party lines have' been obliternted, each of the three parties are fairly represented, a fact insignifi- cant i view of the main purpose to ne The AND POLITICS, for reform In th movement munfelpal administration of New Y. K business men, Is who wrgely the work of having had their eyes opencd to the corrupt condition of affairs went to work vigorously and zealously to apply a remedy, r dless of partisan | politics, A year ago the New York | Chamber of Commerce took the initia- | tive and this year it has been equally active in bringing about the fusion of parties and political factions to keop up the fight for good government, This action of the leading business organization of the commer- | cial metropolis of the fon was a recognition of the intimate velation be- tween honest municipal government and | tures and will hope for a continued i business prosperity. The axpa New York were being robbed of mil- [ to be derived from the inerease reported lions of dollars annually by an un- [ by the bureau of isties and cer- serupulous political organization which | tainly nothing to warrant any exulta- cared only for power. Corrnption ob- tained everywhere fu the municipal ad ministr . from the lowest to the highest, Even the courts w not free from the contaminating and demoralizing meth- that prevailed. This state of af- fairs, which had growh steadily wors for years, menaced the prosperity of the city, as it must that of any community small or t. The remedy was in reseuing Tministration of affairs from the politicians and placing it in the hands of men of character and in- tegrity. This the business men of New York, led by the Chamber of Com- merce, undertook to accomplish and the result is well known. Since the veform administration came into power t city I had an honest, clean, law forcing * government and the men are still in line to keep it so. They arve preparing to devote themselves to the work of the pending npaign as energetieally and zealously as they did a year ago and there is reason to b lieve that the result will be no less gratifying. Here is an example which business men generally should give heed to. 1t is true of them generally that they give too little attention to public affairs and es clally to municipal affairs. Popular ernment, it has been well said, can be %ood government only when it is made popular governient in the fullest sense by the active participation of the entire body- of citizens in popular elections. The business man who shrinks from sueh participation from any cause is not in any sense a friend of good municipal government. No class of citizens, cer- tainly, have a greater interest in the honest, capable and faithrul adminisira- tion of city affairs than the busine men and they are recreant to their own ods en- business interests, to say nothing of the weifare of their fellow citizens, when they sur- render to professional politicians the whole responsibility of saying who shall administer municipal government. They eannot do this without inviting and e couraging corruption, boodlerism and maladministration, from the effects of which they must necessarily be the greatest sufferers, ¢ A distinguished statesman recently safd that “the importanee of an honest, economical busin administration of ty offices cannot be overstated. A city so managed attracts business and population.” In order to secure such an administration the best citizens must ae- tively inter themselves in the election pable and honest officials and upon no class is this duty more strongly de- volved than upon business men. READY FOR STATEHOOD. OKklahoma wmak a good showing for statehood. According to the report of the governor of the tervitory to the secrotary of the intevior the population is about 275000 and allowing a rea- ble reduction from this for possi- ble exaggeration it is certain there i a sufficient number of people there to give OKlahoma a fa claim, on single claim, to statehood. As to the consideration, an Important one, whether the population is fitted to as sume the responsibilities of statehood, there can be no question. The governor says the territory is peopled by Amer- icans who are industrious and thrifty. This would seem to be sufficiently at- tested by the statement that the val- uation of property for taxation pur- poses Is over $39,000,000 and has more than doubled within a year. That the canse of education is not being neg- lected is shown by the fact that 77,000 children attend the schools. Oklahoma has certainly grown with remarkable rapidity and it would seem that its prosperity is on a substantial founda- tion. 1t is a fine agricultural region, capable of supporting three or four times the present population, and with statehood its advance would doubtless be more rapid than it has bLeen. The people of Oklahoma will ask the next congress for admission as a state and undoubtediy the request will not be in vain. Indeed, it is pretty safe to say that all the territories seecing statehood will have it granted by the Fifty-fourth congress. The public sentiment of the conntry 18 unquestionably favorable to this being done. 501 NOT A GREAT SHOWING, Tt 1s to be expected that the friends of the present tariff will try to make cap- ital out of the statement that for the elevate houest and efficient men to office In this city and county In his speceh of acceptance Mr. Brown admonished the citizens' city conven- tion to put men of strength and inte rity in nomination for the city council. His were words fitly spoken and the convention eapped the climax of success by naming a ticket which is absolutely flawless. It will be elected by the larg- est pluralities ever scored in a council- manie contest, — e—— The daughter of Jacob Bigler, who, it will be remembered, was given a place In the land commissioner's office for- merly occupied by a union veteran's daughter In pursuance of a bargain be- tween “Colonel” Russell and the straight democratic candidate for commissio of public, lands, has been promoted to a better position in the same office, Thus the doughty “colonel” Is continu- ng to show his appreciation of the old soldie fiest eight months of the current year there was an increase in the exports of our manufactured products amount- ing to a little over $11,000,600 as com- pared with the corresponding months of the preceding year, but they will hardly find it possible to satisfy intelligent people how any credit for this ean be given to the democratic tariff. In the first place, it is to be noted that $8,000,- 000 of the increase was of refined mineral oil, which was not affected to the slightest extent by the change in the tariff and the larger foreign de- mand for which is due wholly to na- tural conditions. The other 3,000,000 increase is distributed among a great many articles and cannot be reasonably ascribed to any influence of the t But if it be adwmitted, for the s argument, that the present tariff has had something to do with the increase, what progress is this toward capturing the world's warkets, as the advocates of the law promised would result from that measure? Suppose we should go ers to export representative | during the same period of last ye s of | e ation, tainting all-classes of ofli- |} Reott for re-election to the district beneh dering imp and man. and to w enemies, vile ha that | on Increasing our exports of manufac tures at the rate of a little more than | a million dollars a month, how long would it take us to eapture the world's markets? And what does (his Increase of exports amount to as an offset to the enormously increased importations | under the present tavif, which in the | Inst fiscal year were $77,000,000 greater | than during the proceding year? Fur thermore, what s it cost American labor to enable American manufactur- in elght months of this | $11,000,000 more products than r? | | | year The truth is, that while everybody will be glad to know there hms been growth in the exports of our manufac- isfaction e, there Is no great tion tarifr n the part of the friends of the law. For every additional dol- s worth of manufactured products sent out of the country since that law went into effect there has come in from §7 to $8 worth of foreign man- ufactures, A TRAVE " OF JUSTICE. nomination of Cunningham R. is a defiance of that unwritten law which bars from the judiciary all men whose temperaments unfit them for ren- rtial judgment between man No man should ever be pe mitted to hold the seales of justice who would use his position on the bench to punish and 1 s political opponents Wk vengeance upon personal No man should be empowered to deprive men of their liberties and property whose mental condition brings him to the verge of insanity. Viewed from that dispas point, the continuance I, Scott upon the bench of this judic district would be a travesty of justic Is any man fit to sit on any bench who has repeatedly disgraced himself | by broils and violent outbreaks in Iht'l court room? | any man fit to administer impartial Justice who singles out lawyers who displease him and commits them with- out & hearing to imprisonment for con- tempt ? Is any man fit to act as judge who maligns the supreme court and habitu ally insults and traduces his colleagues on the beneh? Is any man fit to be clothed with ju- dicial honors who trails the ermine in of Cunningham the mire of ward politics and delivers the with make blush that the would town angues scum of shame? Is any man fit to preside over s nal trial involving life and libe | in a public meeting openly proclaims | that he would gladly pay $1,000 for h photograph showing the body of one of | his political adversaries ging from a telegraph pok And yet instead of sending this ers judge to an insane asylum or more charitably vetiring him to the obscurity of private life, a convention claiming to be representative’ of republicanism, but in verity representing the hoodlum faction of the A. . A.'s, has had the audacity to place this man’s name at the head of a judicial ticket for which the suffrages of law-respecting and respectable citizens arve asked. Can it be possible that this community is so bereft of sense of justice and so lost to all regard for equity and judicial honor t it would ratify the action of such a convention? We do not believe it. | If we know the temper of the people of this district, they will put an em- phatic seal of condemnation upon the candidacy of this judicial monstrosity and make Scottism forey odious in the eyes of every man who aspires to place on the bench. An Illinois grand jury has returned an indictment 1inst one of the mem bers of the late legislature of that te for accepiing a fee of nearly .‘S,‘-lmq for looking out for some legislation that was pending before tliat body. Phe accused is a lawyer, who tried to conceal the nature of the bribe behind the claim that the payment was a re- tainer. If a Nebr grand ju should houestly investigate the subject in connection with the legislature of this state it to be teared that it could not possibly stop at one indictment, The practice of accepting money for legislative influ- ence under cover of lawyers' fees and %0 forth is altogether too common, Let one or two of the guilty parties be sent {o the penitentiary in each state and the betrayal of public trust will cease for a while, Secretary of State Piper, by his pecu- tiar rulings in the matter of the certifi- cates of nowmination of the different candidutes for state ofiices, has com- pelied the regular free silver democrats to apply for an inianetion to prevent him from placing the names of the ad- ministration democratic nomine on the ticket with the democratic party designation. The law seems to be so plain on the disputed points that there ought never to » been any misun- derstanding about its construction. The controversy is only another example of what a muddle publie officer will make whenever he attempts by sharp practice to pervert the law to partisan advantage. Iu the long run the offend- ing political purty is sure to suffer. —_— Another d b has been traced di- rectly to the dreadful cigarette. "This time, howevi it is not due to the poisonous naturve of the paper-covered | destroyed guulyonc of ita tunoc | ers. | railrond company while at the same time it mixture. Quite the coutrary, the per- son who smoked the cigarette escaped unharmed, but the building which took fire from the smouldering stump was t o cnpants unfostnnately burned to death, Yot we féfy/fhat this lesson of the wicked cluggrtfc will be 1o more heeded than its puwlicessors, [ b — With Chagles I, Brown as mayor and the nine men nominated by the Citizens' teagne conyention In the council there will be 1o ahnnge for jobbery, taxenting ul boodle combines, An honest and fearless maydt, backed by seven honest conneilmen, east stop any raid upon the treasury and miiy crooked deal. Mayor Bemis has never, been wanting when the | public interests demanded a veto, but | lie has been handicapped by a council | combine strong enough to override his objections, One point in our favor is shown by the dffficulty encountered by the g pmgilists in finding a safe and suitalie place to pull off thetr fistic encounter. It is 1ot S0 wany years ago when the could have set up a grize fight in almost | every state in the union. During the past few years there has been a wondor- ful progress of the sentiment agains pugilism on its own acconnt. It is this owing sentiment that has erystallized into laws prohibiting such contests. The difference between the judicial ticket nominated and endorsed by Citi- zens' league, democrats and populists and the ticket put up by alleged repub- licans is that there is not a self-seeker on the former, while on the latter ever. man save Ke sor nursed Lis boomlet for months before the couvention. The great mass of voters of this judicial dis- trict are in favor of a nonpartisan ju- diciary first, last and all the time. Mr. Ritchie's resolution, adopted by the democratie judicial convention, will e endorsed by nine-tenths of the voters of this judicial district. The judiciary must be kept as far as possible out of party politics. The refusal of Scott's convention to reward faithful service of republican judges now on the bench WS 4 scurvy partisan trick which will be resented by republicans who will vote for the nonpartisan nominces. Indianapolis republicans are now willing to admit that they made a serious political blunder on the saloon question. This hind- sight bus gettivg a little monotonous. — e Polishing O n Native, Sioux City Tribune, Stove Polish Morse was the A. P. A. can- didate for the republican nomination as gov- ernor of Massachusetts. He was beautifully polished off by the present incumbent, Green- halge, an English born citizen. ——— Protests Too Mu Loulsville Courler-Journal, Ex-Speaker {risp has written another letter informing the world that ‘he thinks he io still for free silver; and yet the world re- fus>s to wobble & hair's breadth. If the ex-speaker realiy wishes to keep from drop- ping out of the public procession he should et him a bicycle and a pair of kaickerbock- i gt Drawing the Color Line., ! Globe-Democrat, » The suffrage clayse to be Inserted in the new constitution of South Carolina provides that the voter mus} ba one “who can read a section of the'cousfitution to the satistaction of the officers gt the election, ar who can explain said section when read to him to the satisfaction of said oflicers. Registra- tion officers will thus decide who shall vote, and a black citizen might read a clause like a Garrick and expound it like a Webster without satisfying those whose chief business is to draw the color lin Trib a Ameriean. and Ex The deatn of W. W. Story removes a man known chiefly to the world as a remarkable sculptor, and to Americans who knew him as a charming friend and host, but he is likely to live in the minds of future genera- tions quite as vividly in his character as a literary man. He has written things which extraordinary, in their originality of r force and beauty of diction and of metrical music. He was a painter, a musiclan, a linguist of . skill and accomplish- ment. — More than any other man of this century he resembled in his varied and ey traordinary gifts his prototype in many sided genius, Michael Angelo. Pacific Railrond Debts. Denver Ttepublican. The best way to dispose of the debts due by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific roads to the goverament Is to foreclose the mort- gages and. let the government take posses sion. These two llnes_could be operated in this way with more advantage to the people than under the management of either corpora tion. The idea of government control of a railroad is repugnant to some persons, but it does mot appear that there is any reason to believe that the government acting directly would not do as well as when it acts in- directly through the medium of a court and receivers appointed by the court. It is fact well established that a receivership m agement often promotes the interests of a Jurist, a very unusual learni gives the public as good service as private management. L The Spanish News Dureaun. Philadelpita Press. The Spanish government has little knowl- edge, apparently, of the character of the peo- ple of the United States, oth-rwise it would Dot insult them by establishing here an offi- clal news burcau to disseminate alleged news about Cuba. The people of this country get the news from their newspapers, which are disinterested and which send correspondents to the front. For the Spanish government to deny these correspondents the right to see for themselves the condition of affairs in Cuba, as the Spaniards have done, is to confess that the Spanish government does not want the real situation known. The establishment of a burcau here to disseminate “official news™ is further proof of the necessity, in Spanish eyes, of misleading the American public. But the public cannot be fooled in that mana®r, It has had too:dmuch experience with the official lles given out at Havana. el That I yed Gol Pakdtdiphia Inquirer. Gold in [Ifl)‘mg'[]l\imnltlen is said to have been found along: the line of a cortain rail- road near Milford, ‘Neb., and there i a rush of “investora™ {o'thb ipot and a flerce de- sire to purchasé’adficent lands. The latter bave increased etiormously in value over night, and the sydculators are said to have already turned Smany fortunes. They and the railroad arsiteonly parties to the find that will make amything out of It. It is pos- sible, of cours:, that there may be gold in the neighborhood but. in the majority of such cases thei-ima owners of such land whistle mournfuliy, for the ore that never comes. BEspecialy; foolish are those resi- dents of other sjatés, who are reported to be breaking up their, homes In order to get to the sene in a4 hurry. Before another three months elapses they will be working at lower wages than they got at home, or perhaps, be counting the railroad ties on the return track. 1 Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Ryl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE. OCTOBER 12, 1895, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, France's latest colonial oxploit is suc- ceeding better than did that of a fow years ago in Tonquin. There have been serious blurders and terrible losses in the Madagas- car campaign, no doubt. But the army has at length captured Antananarivo. The native government is overthrown, and all organized opposition to the invaders is ended. Scattered bands may here and there for a time defy the French, but will be unable to re-establish the overturned throne. We may therefors reckon the conquest substsntially complete Madagascar has fallen. France has one more coiony, and the world one less nation. Many will_grievously deplore this latest triumph of European land-grabbing. Madagascaf and its queen have commanded much popular Interest ever since their .official and whole- sale conversfon to Christianity. Innumerable references have been made to that occur- rence as a literal fulfilment of the prophecy that “a nation in a day” should be converted. There have been some expectations that the native population, under the native govern- ment, would aiso become civilized, and the ieland kingdom rank among the cultivated d_enlightened powers of the world, much a3 Japan is now doing. Such visions have now faded. It is seen that despite their ac- ceptance of Christlanity, the natives of Mada- gascar remained savages. They made no real progress toward clvilization. And the fate has befallen them that must befall every savege people. e The Turk proves again the truth of the adage that a threatened man lives long. Torkey has been again and again, and ma: times again, threatened with dismemberment, with annihilation, with every possible punish- ment or penalty, by her powerful neighbors, either of whom could have made good the threat if permitted to do so by the other powers of western Europe; but the latter have stood by ‘lurkey o long, regardless of her crimes against humanity, as to lead her to believe that by pitting one against the other, as occasion suggests, she can do what she will. The situation seems at present a hopeless one for the wretched Armenian Christians, or for civilization itself, as Eng- land is the only country that appears dis- posed to interfere for their protection, and even she does not enforce her demands for re- form, as she enforced those only the other day, in an almost similar case, against China, at the mouth of her cannon, It England were to use the force at her disposal before Con- stantinople she would first have to settle with her powertul, jealous continental neigh- bors, who have no'love for her, and to whom the balance of power, or territorial acquisi- tion, s more than the safeguarding of Turkey's Christian people. aes The speech of Herr Liebknecht, socialist, At the opening of the socialist congress at Breslau, in which the Bmperor William was defied, cannot fail to attract much atten- tion. Referring to the emperor's denuncia- tion of soclalists who would not join in the Sedan day festivities, Liebknecht charged his Imperial ‘majesty with “insulting” soclalists ‘throwing mud.” This is a retort the emperor has brought upon himself by under- taking to govern as well as reign. Most kings these days efface themselves and give over responsibility for the course of affairs to their ministers. Not so Willam II. He is in politics. He plays his own hand, He revives kingship and profits by the discredit into which parliamentarism has fallen all over Europe and in some other countries in the last decade. Tho Reichstag's divisions, petty spirit, pacity to take broad views and general mefficiency have given him a chance to show the merit of a strong execu- tive, and he has improved it to the best of his ability. His people, he thinks, want a leader and a hero, and he s willing to pose for both characters. In a contest with Lieb- knecht he has certain advantages, even with- out invoking the elastic statute of lese ma- Jestie. It will be interesting to ses how he will mest his fres spoken assailant. The jealousy felt by Germany of England's plans in the Orient is beginning to find loud expression in the Fatherland. German edi- tors and politicians are complaining bitterly that Germany, “which acted the part of the uonest broker in the present Aslatio trou- bles,” “is coming out at the small end of the horn, as usual,” and is to have no ad- vantage from the confliict between China and Japan. According to statistical reports, the volume of trads between Germany and China is only sccond to that between China and England. In tho last five years the value of the fmports from China by Germany has in- creased from 7,000,000 to 14,000,000 marks, and that of the exports from Germany to China_from 24,000,000 to 33,000,000 marks, The North German Lloyd and the Hamburg- Kingsul lines send their ships thither; the trade carried on along the coasf of China by German vessels amounts to about 100,000,000 marks a year, and millions of marks are in- vested in various ports by German merchants In the face of these facts, the “Allgemeine Marine und Handels: Korrespondent” de- mands that Germany show her power in China by maintaining a permanent squadron in Chinese waters, and that she secure nec- essary concessions which will enablo her to take her proper place in that part of the world. The afleged plan of England to secure the Chusan islands excites a writer in the National Zeitung of Borlin, and leads him to demand that Germany take dmmediate steps to obtain possession of the islands, having failed to do so “twenty-five years ago, when this course was first recommended.” ac hout delay, or Germany will lose an opportunity which can never be regained. These references give an idea of the intensity of feeling among Germans on this point. It will not be surprising {f the nation should adopt & vigorous policy in the east, and per- haps add to the complications now existing. v Russia has not bothered China with the necessity of looking after the safety of mis- slonaries. She has pot sent shijs of war to threaten the Chinese with destruction If they did not humble themselves and pun- ish men guilty of murdering hated foreigners, On the contrary, Russia has furnished China with money to rid Chinese territory of Jap- anese garrisons. She has forced Japan to glve up the Chinese province on the main- land which the conquerors were inclined to keep. Allogether, Russia has been very good to China, as the Chineso ser things, All this is in perfect accord with the traditional policy of the Muscovite empire. A great he writer declares that something must be | Asiatie natlon, the commerce possessions of which are Iikely to become bones of con- tentlon betwoen the foremost powers of Eu rope, I8 being made hosiile to England and tolerant of Tussian fnterference with its | afMairs. The way for ever.increasing Rus- slan influence and Russian aggression, velled under the speclous cover of friendship which the Russians know so well how to use, will be casler because of the events of 1885 in ern Asia, and the dream of British states- men that China could be employed as an fm- mense .buffer to fend Russia away from India seems less likely than ever before of realization . The opposition newspapers in Rome, clerical and republican, declare that ;\‘(‘lll festivities in Rome were not the out- come of national feeling, but an official demonstration having uo poiitical importance. They say that the Garibaldi monument was erected by the government at the cost of 1,000,000 francs, and that the beautiful statue of Cavour unveiled in the presence of the royal family is the result of a municipal Job. The inauguration, however, of the column at the Porta Pia—a marble shaft surmounted by a gilt statue of Victory—was decidedly a popular demonstration, according to the London Times' correspondent in Rome. It is erected by public subscription to commemorate the opening of the breach through which the Italian soldiers entered Rome fn 1870, and its Inauguration was wit- | nessed by 544 Roman and 128 provincial as- soclations, mostly of the working classes, and by 180 deputations from Malian municipalities. One hundred thousand men marched to the spot where the last struggle with the papal troops took place, preceded by banners and accompanied by twenty bands. The minister of war allowed the colors of the twenty regi- ments who took part in the Roman campaign to be brought to the capital and to be present at the inauguration. The correspondent says that the popular enthusiasm was heart-stir- ring and spontaneous. e 1C VICTORIES, both the re- ATHLE Detroit Free Press: In the misleading lan- guage of th: worldly sporting man: ‘Yale didn’t do a thing to the English athletes from Cambridge.” She &imply pulverized them. This has been a very discouraging season for the “manly sportsmen’ from across the way. Chicago Tribune. Are British youth de- terlorating in physical strength? Is British engineering ekill on the decline? And is this to be followed by the Intellectual supremacy of the Americans alw? In a recent article in the London Que:n Walter Besant, no mean judge of literary events, acknowledged not only that the American editors were making better magazines than the English but that the American magazines were dis- placing the English in their own home mar- ket. Wil the merican book be the unext victor? That old insulting question, “Who reads an American book?" may yet be sat- isfactorily answered in England itself. Chicago Times-Herald: As fair tests of naval construction and of seamanship have demonstrated the superiority of American brain, so the better quality of American mus- cle has been shown in the tugs of the field, Too much beer and plum pudding is what ails John Bull's sons. Our men eat less, drink less, sleep less and have less time than our over-sea feilows for social indulgence that weakens sinew and renders muscle flabby. The superb exhibition, however, of the visitors' training cannot but have good influence upon American athletics. Our men are the better individually, but when it comes to discipline, whether on water or on land, the American is not as docile and as patient as the Englishman. That was shown beyond cavil in all previous contests of num- bers against numbers, Philadelphia Times: There fs just one thing to be sald about the Yale victory, how- ever—it could have been wished that it were less complete. Not ant of sympathy for our hardy visitors, for they would scarcely con- sider themselves unable to bear defeat with- out a cheerful smile, but because the vie- tory will be construed to mean as it is—a victory for the American system of training. The fact is, American collegians today t too hard. or health's sake and for amus ment's sake the English system is far better. Competition in athletics should be pursued to show what the normal man can do in health—not what he can do when he is on edge. An agreement to relax severe training all arcund, and to abjure professional tralners altogether, would greatly benefit us. It fs to be feared ‘that the effect of the Y: tory will be the other way, and that American amateurs will only be confirmed in the bad habit of wasting nervous force in the strife to win. 1 WILLIAM MAHONE. Chicago Tribune: In 1881 he held the bal- ance of power Tn the senate. By acting with | the republicans he gave them the control ot | that body, but he cut his throat at home with the 0ld secession democracy. When his term expired his officz holding carecr ended. New York World: General Mahone had much evil spoken of him in his lifetime, but his worst enemies always thought best of his abilities as a fichter. No one knows exactly when ha began fighting, but he kept it up as long as he lived. His whole life was a fight. Chicago Post: In a survey of his political career the most notable feature scems to be the almost unwavering support he received from the negro questionably there was a strong imaginative trait in the man who could thus attach to his fortunes a race which he and his soclal custe had once so cruelly oppressed. Detroit Free Press: If the name of the late ex-senator were connected in any way with legislation of great public intercst, or with measures of national importance, the act by which he achieved his prominence in the senate would by this time have been dwarfed, it not forgott:n. There is, how- ever, no such act or measure to his credi| Buffalo Express: Mr. Mahone was always addicted to railroad speculation. He lost his fortune in it after his retirement from the scnate, and since has been engaged in trying to lobby through congress a bill to pay an exorbitant price for a buflding site which he owned in Washington. There never was a more tyrannical boss In American politics than William Mahone, Kansas City Star: In a country where physical powers and appearance count for a great deal, where “big” men divide public admiration with fair women, Mahone made bis way, incumbered, if the word incum- brance can be used of any object so slight, with the frailest and least imposing of bodies, the head of a man with the frame of a slight boy, so spare that when during the war his MIRTH O IN REYM Detrolt Free Press, ‘aintly now we catch the odor, On the circumambient alr, OF the moth-ball, which all summer, Has been In our winter wear. Washiagton Star. 1 care not who shall make the laws Nor who shall write the songs, If_vou will let me be the boss To whom the pull be Chicago Tl For an antidote To every joy Mix a large tin horn And a small bad boy. Hoston Budget I much commend Jeannette and John, Their thrift could never be outdone; Though twenty chairs are In the roorn, Night after night they use but one. Detrolt Tribune. Two souls with but a single thought Were they. What have they done? They've gone to South Dakota, Where two are made of one Clevelana Plain Dealer. Sweet Indlan summer sings its song ere burning fevers dwelt— And the apple dumpling comes along, o fill a want long felt Judge. On the banks of the placid Nile Lived a beautiful erocodile; And on its face, With ease and grace He wore a nine-foot smile, Puck. When midnight's gloomy spell doth blind Iach tree and flower, each wave and rociky is then we find that love is blind So blind It cannot see the clock. Brooklyn I Come, Bessie, don your breechaloons, And span your speedy bike, I'm sure the world since Adam’s fall, Has never seen fts like. Then seeks the shades of Prospect Park, In haste your wheel to straddle In deference to the quoted rule “Headquarters in the saddle.” What wonder eager eyes should stare As down cach walk you wiggle, Or, like a frog galvanic § With strange erratic wriggle? e You lift your animate feet, We marvel as they g While up and down_ the Your skirts inflated flow. ezy wheel Alas, no Terpsichorean grace Atfends your ‘“scorching’ stride. 1 wonder how would Juno look If thus the gods should ride? The sympathetic horse departs The steel that needs no feeding I crowding out the turned down style Of gallop, trot and speeding. Then_hurrah for evolution, And who knows where '{will stop, With the women wheeling man wise The bicycle atop. But “bike" along, I'm rather old, If this the seed your sowing, I greet with awe the coming girl And thank the Lord I'm going. PECIAL THE OMAH.AEUNDAY BEE. A WOMAN INTERVENE! Second installment of Robert Barr's rew novel, which was begun a week ago and which has been received with such favorable comment—The story is beauti- fully illustrated with artistic sketches and’is of entrancing inter: LIGF rt Ball, JATURES. OF THE SUN: the famous English astronomer, discisses the diffusion of light from' the great orb of day and explains bow the sun's rays are carried to all parts of the solar system, giving light and life to their inhabitants, TROUSSEAU OF A DUCHES! Description in detail of the wedding preparations belrg made by dressmakers, milliners, furriers, giove manufacturers and shoemakers for the coming duchess of Marlborough, the wealthy Miss Cone suelo Vanderbilt. OPPOSITION TO REALISM: The brilliant paper on the characteris- ties of modern novelists read by Miss Irene Byrne of Omaha before the State Federation of Woman's Clubs at Lin- coln, which was received with unwonted enthusiasm by the club women who were present at that session, CAREER OF K} Sketch of Minnesota's junior senator, ex-Governor Knute Nelson, the most prominent man in American public life of Scandinavian origin—A remarkable type of the self-made man. IN WOMA TE NELSON: DOMAIN: The fashions in sleeves for the women who want to be in s on—Slee yle the present for dresses, sleeves for wrappers, sleeves for thing—Defense of tne' mother-in- ws notes about women of world- putation. SPORTS DURING AUTUMN DAYE: Comment on the Important events of the week in professional and amateur sporting circles—Outlook In the foot ball field—Gossip with the gun and rod—In- teresting grist of live sporting news, PUMPING ALONG ON WHER ogress of the bleycle and growth of bieycle &lubs in France—Timely sug- gestions for wheelmen who nt to avold “accidents—What the local bi- cyclers are doing—Wheel notes from all the world oves THE COMING GENERATION: Another quaint storge for the little folks by Joel Chandler Harris, about Mr, Rabbit” and Mr. Thimblefinger—Cricket as a boys' game—Prattle of the young- sters—Reading thut pleares the small people. 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