Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTIO Dafly Bee (without Bunday), One Year $6.00 Dafly Bee and 8t e Year Tiustrated Bee, O Sunday Bee, One Saturday Bes, One Y Weekly Hee, Year OFFICES Omaha: The Hee Bullding South Omaha: City Hall Bullding ty-Afth and N Streets Council Bliffs: 10 Pearl Street Chicago: 164 Unity Building New York Court Washing a urteenth Street Sloux City: 611 Park Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communicat relating to news a torfal matter should be addressed Bee, Editorial Department SINESS LETTERS, te nd remittances Bee Publishing Year o ar One e should Com.- Business o nddr Omaha REMITTANCES, 1t by draft, express or to The Bee Publishin t stamps accepted In | it of Personal ehecks, except on not accepted v be pany ased e nl payab! Only mafl account Omaha or Bastern exchanges, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAY ord Compans TION STATEMENT OF CIRCUL, te o Nebrfaska, Douglas County yrge B, Taschiick, secret Publishing Company, being ave that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning unday Hee printed during the mber, 1000, was as follows 17 18 8 duly sworn 47,440 27,080 27,170 27,340 13 " 15, 16. 27,280 27,745 27,650 20,005 26,005 206,970 tal Less unsold and returned copies Not total sales Net dally uverage 20,0 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subseribed in my presence and sworn to before me_this 3ist day of December, A, D. M. B. HUNGATE. Notary Public The warring base ball magnates are L of thew entitled to a base on bawls. — The grip claims the distinetion of be tni the fashionable disease to start the new century. Ransom’s riotous rampage seems only to have left the mud-slinger floundering in his own filth. South Omaha is finding it nearly as hard to get a charter to fit as did Omaha. Consolidution Is an excellent remedy. Senator Tillman asserts that with all Bryan's faults he loves him still. The senator has an eye single to his own welfare With a new directory, the Commercial club has a chance to exemplify once more the adage about the new broom that sweeps clean, 1f the bill wachine keeps on working full time the legislature will be forced to keep busy or else strangle many of the embryotic measure: In conneetion with dining-car service enronte the Ameriean army recruit pro- coeds on the theory that “only the brave deserves the fare.” 1. 4. Dunn ean furnlsh constructions and interpretations of law to fit any old His greatest diffieulty lies in get- ting courts to agree with him, Count de Castellane was evidently as free with his promises as a popocrat tn full chase after an office and no more ready to make them good. L If the state editors do all that is be {ug promised for them when they come to Omaba they will have to hold their convention several days longer than is advertised. County Attorney Shields' Kindu putting over those South Omaha bi cases will doubtless be appreciated and reciprocated it he finds asxistanee neces. sary in iy contest suit. That auditorium project must be something wore than x mere renl estate deal. The subscription fund will have to he shoved up several pegs yet before the structure can materlali The superintendent of the State Insti- tution for Feeblo-Minded Youth has re signed, to take offect April 15, The superintendent desires as long a time to get out as it required for him to get in, The majority of the popocratic mem- bers of the Montuna legislature ab- sented themselves from the senatorial caucus, It is becoming evident Would- Dbe Senator Clark must tap another cop per wine, Ove Towa judge has declaved the Titus amendment to the constitution in valid and another put himself on ord as of the opinion that it is legal and the law of the land. It is now up to the supreme court, Congressman Gamble's fellow citizens of Yankton gave him a most euthusi astic welcome on his return from Plerre. The next senator from South Dakota hus earned his promotion by his devotion to the state's interest. Congressman Cushman of Washing- ton made a most telling speech agalnst the river and harbor bill. And then spolled It all by owntug up that he wanted a big appropriation for the Seattle ship canal. Such Is the powe of “pork.” Dining-car conduetors complain that soldiers on their travels work them for better meals than the contract pre vides for. Evidently the American sol- dier has not lost any of that faculty of getting the best that was going which made the march of Sherman's arwy celebrated in song and story, ry of The Bee | THE OMAHA DAL T 1 THE ONLY SAFE PLAN Differences to agreement | seem now to have been brought down to the method of voting for the senatorships, substanttal harmony hav ing been reached on the wumber to nominate and the roll vall ballot. The object of a caucus is to merge the in dividual preferences into a party pref | erence and no cauens can be satis factory to enough legislators to make it | effective unless it affords ample guards to insure fair play to all candidates. The procedure of the « must be such as to place all candidates on an equal footing, giving no artificial | tvantage to an Two plans separate voting natorships simultaneous contemplates ns cnuens two safe the | uens | | | . for two | | for plan one are for and proposed—one ench of th the othe clioiee. The first the nomination of first and the second afterward, while the second plan requires all to | rewain on the same plane until both ive the required majority. For | | simultaneous chol the roll would be | called, eueh member answerlug with the names of his two preferred candidates, and halloting would continue until two | | were successtul on the sume roll eall, | after which would he determined by | the ucus, by agreement of the| nominees or by lot, which should be 1 to the loug and which to nn-i senator short term, Not only would simultaueous cholee | place alt candidates on an equal plane, | | but it ost efficacious in we- | nplish edily as possible the | real purpose of the caucus, which is| the election of two repablican United | States senators to represent Nebrasgka | at Washington Balloting for one at o time would tend to produce a caueus adlock, because cach eandidate, be ing pitted against all the others, would endeayor to hold his strength without bending. Should one place be filled, the other would be the object of still| greater competition, threatening to be ndless unless the sexator already elected should yield to the temptation to dictate his associate. It might even e to the interest of the man elected to encourage a deadlock as to the second | senatorship, leaving him in full sway as | the only senator from Nebraska, with | undivided control. This is entirely apart | from the chanee of piacing both the senatorial nominations In the same n of the state without regard to onsiderations of equitable geographical | distribution. The stmultancous caucus | nomination, above all, fs the safest way | of making sure that both the senators | shall be chosen by the republican mem- bers charged with the responsibility without risking interference of the minority members of the legislature, The plan of nominating two senators in caucus on the same ballot is there- fore not only the only one that is fair to all, but also the quickest and safest and altogether the best because the most promising solution to the senatorial situation. 0T COME TO AMERICA Bt WILL The proposal or suggestion subwitted by our government to the powers, that negotiations with the Chinese govern ment be carried on at some other place than Pekin, having encountered objec- tions, will not be further pres It appears that the distance and the panie- stricken condition of the Chinese im perial court led Minister Conger to sug- | gest that cither at Washington or at | The Hague the subjects of indemnity and future commerclal treaties be con sidercd and it was upon this that the Department of State acted. The object in view was to facilitate negotintions | by avoiding the embarrassments likely to arlse in Pekin from the influcnce of local conditions. According to a dispatch from Paris three reasons are urged for the opposi tion to removing the negotiations from China. One Is that all the information is at hand regarding the situation, a other is that the commerce of this cow try with China being compuratively small the United States 1s not entitled to expect the negotiations to be con ducted at Washington, while the third and doubtless wost potent reason is that “the European powers have not felt sutticent confidence that the United States government might not find itself influenced in negotiations at Washing ton by the pressure of nterests having an eye to the exploitation of China It is further suid that other motives influence some of the powers, the op position of Great Britain being partly mpted, it is thought, by the attitude of this country toward the Clayton Bulwer treaty, Our government has shown no great anxiety to have the negotiations car- ried on at Washington, so that the op position to its suggestion is uot regarded as A serious matter, but it 18 very de- » have the negotiations begun without unnecessury delay and a set tlement reached as soon us possible, Yor the attainment of this it has ac- cepted conditions not. in accord with its original position, Some of the terms proposed by the other powers this government at fivst declined to accede to, but ylelded in the Interest of unity. The lutest instructions to Minister Con gor are to urge forward the completion of negotiations at Pekin, It is by no weans assured, however, that it will not yet be found expedient to transfer the negotlations from Pekin, at least as to the questions of indemnity and commercial treaties, which manifestly can be considered as well outside of China as at any place within that empire. In the event of a tratster being found expedient it would | seem that The Hague, also suggested the United States government, would be the most desirable pta As to the prospect for an carly be- ginning of negotiations, it does not ap- pear to be altogether favorable, it the continued reports regarding the ob- Jectlons of the lmperial court to some of the conditions in the of the PoW » trustworthy sirous uote a The remarks of Herman Kouutze he- fore the Real Estate exchange about the necessity of keeping the tax rate [ in point at the pr | responsibility | sented time, Dividing the the tax rate by vesting the taxing power in so many in dependent hodies altogether versive of the property owner's rights It the tax levy were finally made by & single responsible authority upon whom | could be enforced the temptation to expansion of the tax rate could be held in check much more read fiy than under the present council, sehool board and county board for itself. ANOTHER CANAL REPORT, Part four of the report of the senate | committ interoceanic eanals, pre- | few days ago, unqualitied® de- | clares that the house bill provides the | just, safe, true and honorable method for the construction of a canal through the isthmus of Darien—the Nicaragua | route-to be under the exclusive owner- | ship and control of the United St 1t lared to be needless that any government, corporation or combination | of tudividuals shonld attempt to divert | the United States from fts fixed policy as to the ownership and eontrol of such 1, and that element of discussion is dropped The report gives a finishing touch to what it calls the pretensions of the Panama route, in setting forth what is | elaimed to be the fatal defect of that| and in asserting that the hear ings and reports of members of the Panama company lead to the unavoid able conclusion that the company Is still endeavoring to defeat a canal through Costa Riea and Nicaragun, as it was in | 18 It is made apparent from this that there is no chance of the Panama route receiving any considera tion in the senate, The report favors immediate action on the canal biil. It declares that “no ex cuse remaing for delaying the action of congress elther to gratify the new Pan- ama canal company or to dally with any other power fu negotiations over a weasure that enters deeply into our uational financial policy and will shape the action of our government and peo- ple in a great many other important watters that coneern them.” 1t s stated that if the house bill is passed in the senate and becowes a law “it is safe to expect that an agreewment 1 be wade with Great Britaln as favor- able, at least, to the United States as that contained in the amended Hay Pauncefote treaty.” This expectation, the report says, is based upon the fact that the canul when built will be of in culeulable value to the British slous in this continent and that Great Britain can never realize these advan tages without the consent and nss anee of the United States. 1t i fur- ther declared that neither cgn Great Britain or any combination of powers construct and maintain a canal at Panama without the consent of the United States, There 15 no doubt that there is re- flected fn this the opinion of a majority in the senate, but it is still question able whethier that body can be induced to take action on the pending bill while the position of the Britlsh government | in regard to the amended Hay-Paunc fote treaty is to be ascertained. The us- sumption that the passage of the lhouse anal LIl by the senate would not in- terfere with a perfectly satisfactory ar rangement with Great Britain is pos- | sibly correct. The conditions are cer- | tainly lurgely iu favor of this country. But on the other hand we must bear I mind that we have obligations to fulfill that canuot be safely or ably fgnored. We do not beliey the United States se regard of the sent responsibility for system of ench v on serious Posses honor that will act in dis- «w obligations, The apportionment hill the house has been favor to the senate. As it is practically none the senate’s affair there is every probability that it will be passed and shraska will retain 1ts present num- ber of members. The way Nebraska is booming at present it will not be compelled to ask any favors when the thne comes to make another apportion- ment, as it passed by reported of Omaba bullders look forward with much anticlpation to a lively campaign during the year. The demand for mod- eratesized homes in Omaha s far in excess of the supply and must be met. tnvestors realize this and the result is thut Owaha will gain by the construc tlon of mauy homes built on modern | lines and yet within reach of men of | modest meu The Chinese authorities are reported | to be drilling an army of 85,000 men | and are confident they will be able eat the army of the allies if the ut trouble comes to the issue of | war, It would be advisable in the | drillmaster not to omit the counter- | warch from the tacties, as the arm might want to get back down the il again, The finding In the Douglas county | contest cases Is that fraud, as alleg is proven, but not suficient except in the case of Rohwer to change the re sult. 1f the fraudulently elected fuslon- ists hold their seats it 1s only becaus their South Omaba colonizers and r peaters succeeded In covering up part of thelr trac Loading down proposed business en terprises with onerous conditions not infrequently defeats their realization 1t should be the aim of the authorities to encourage vather than discournge those ventures which promise to ald in bullding up and developing the county and city. 1t would be interesting, if it were pos- sible, to take a look into the brain of the man who places obstructions on | rallway track “just for fun The mechanism of a brain which could | evolve fun out of putting the lives of men in jeopardy must be peculiarly con- | structed, » When the session of the legislature 18 ended and some of the members who have introdu: bills by the score sur within reasonable limits are des 1dedly. vey the results they will find them- | ostriches | Boers altogether. | means in the | and Y B selves iu the predicament of the fisher man whose cateh was not large enough to make good the expenditure in bhadt nted Re: shington rganization of the the New York democrats Samuel J. Tilden didn't books it newspapers \ nder Post 8 J. Tilden reminds lecture, muel b by that write us Lesson Not Wholly Lost. Indianay Press now a private citizen prospe of remalning such. These words from Mr. Bryan indi that the people’s delicate hint of last November | was Dot entirely lost upon ex- | | 1 am P with ate nim. | Minneapolis Thirty-one legislatures are congress is grinding merrily away, but the country perfectly safe. In the course of time the judicial branch of the govern- ment nullifies a goodly proportion of the bad work of the legislative and everything comes out right in the end. It is rather expensive, but it makes work for deserving lawyers in session and is 0 Swift for Good News. Chicago Chronlcle Of course iL is gratifying to learn that | England has decided not to exterminate the The trouble appears to b that Lord Kitchener cannot get Dewet to | stop shooting long enough 1o hear the glad | tidings. His lordship evidently finds it somewhat embarrassing to be gracously forgiving when the object of his magnanim- ity insists that he doesn't want fo b glven and fills the atmosphere with Mauser bullets whenever the subject is broached e of Springtield Republic Before taking office Mr. Odell disposed of all his holdings in corporations which might | concelvably come before the executive for | action of any sort, just as W. Murray Crane | disposed of his holdings of Boston & Albany | stock before becoming governor of Ma sachusetts. Ta ch case the action was quietly taken and knowledge of it leaked | out. This Is a matter of declded interest to the public, because revealing such an | attitude of mind as becomes the governor of a state. Distranchisement of the Buffalo Express The literary qualifications in Louisiana reduced the zumber of legal voters in New Orleans from 000 to 41,000, Now the first results of a poll-tax restriction are being learned and it is found that the num- ber of voters is reduced to 20, The ef. fect In the state at I e is similar. That is not merely restriction of negro votes. It is the disfranchisement of the poor of both races and the establishment of an oli- garchy. Poo | | An Overdose of k. ew York Tribune. The passion for absorbing as much con tiguous territory as possible scems to have somewhat abated among well known Ameri- can citles. So many abuses and evils have followed the creation of Greater New York | that municipal ambitions both in the east| and the west have encountered some stacles. Chicago has not yet taken the whole of Cook county within its borders and Jersey City 1s staggered at the thought | of swallowing the entire area of Hudson county. Undue haste In such schemes is exceedingly unwise. ob York Sun. The river and harbor bill which President Arthur vetoed, which the Forty-seventh con- | gress passed over hils veto and which at the election occurring @ fow months later swept the republicans out of power in the house of representatives, was the most extrava- gant ever enacted up to that time. Yet it approptiated Icss than $19,000,000. The river and harbor bill just reported to the house is a $60,000,000 measure. It appropriates directly for the next fiscal year not less than 22,702,711, 1t gives authority for incurring obligations under the continuing contract system, for work to be done after June 30, 1902, amounting (o $37.142,704. The total actually carried by this bill is § AL5, A Rival to St Hele Phlladelphia Times. Guam is becoming a rival to St. Helena. To the latter island the British have trans- ported the captured Boers. General Mac- Arthur has utilized the precedent and is sending Fillpino cfficers to Guam. They will | be safe there. Only United States vessels touch at G $0 there is no getting away. The only danger is that they may put revo- lutionary notions into the heads of the in- habitans If many Filipinos should be taken, the population of Guam might become uncom- fortably congested, but this 1s not an im- mediate peril. A great wany Filipinos are shot from time to but not very many are captured. As hetween the two methods of pacification, deportation Is at least the more humane. WEAL AsTER, Cares and Resp 1o the Possessi Kansas City Star The care and the responsibility attach- Ing o the possession of large wealth was 1lustrated in a striking manner in the case | of the late Philip 1. Armou There is little reason to doubt that his incessant attention to business and ihe demand made upon his vital force by the management of his_extensive properties shortened his lite. ‘There are thousands upon thousands of men recelving salaries of a few thou- sand dollars a year who enjoy much more easo and leisure than fell to the lot of Mr. Armour. It may be assumed that it was not the desire or the intention of Mr. Armour (o enslave himself to his business, but it is difficult for a man situated as he was to do anything else, Wealth 18 much coveted by the vast majority of people, and it brings many things that are to be desired, but it is a hard taskmaster. The responsi bilities which it creates cannot always be delegated 1o others. It is not easy to pick up managers with unusual executive ability, and money will not invariably command the sort of talent which is required in conduct- ing colossal enterprises The mind which directs the sort of ac tivities fn which Mr. Armour was engaged is never {die. The guiding hand at least must belong to one man. That, of itself, is an exacting task, and it admits of Nittle surcease. When a man has as much at stake as Mr. Armour had he caunnot afford to be indifterent or neglectful. Bvery day brings 1ts work and If the hands are not busy the | brain s p It §s well known that “the late Cornellus Vanderbilt sank under the burden of his enormous fortune. There was not a wage earner in the whole city of New York who labored more arduously than the great rail road milllonalre Under a tenslon less vere he might have iived for years the teaching of experience that enough better than a feast. Pe ns with sufficient means o obtain the comforts of life are in better shape than those who have a great To whom much is given, much Is Vast fortunes such as are built age of the world are by no nature of unmixed blessings. They are associated with certain exactions penalties which are remitted in only | rarely exceptional cases, and this 0 obvious and is brought to mind with such frequency that it fs surpristng that it does | not contribute more fully to the content ment of ple who enjoy comfortable com- petencies without the burdens of perpetual Attached of Riches. ool is | is excess. quired up In this her | conjectural | These men RY 12, 1901 CUBA N T rohable Relati the United Fitzhugh 1 In Lesie Weekly. Cuba stands at the portal of self-govern A constitutional up of delegates supposed people, is now in session at Havane and is proceeding with deliber which be a hopeful sign. The more careful | delegates are in reaching a conclusion, he mor ting the results of their work There are several results this tion may reach he opening of century. It may declare for free independent of the United States and the | rest of the i Our govern nt s pledged to blish. a stable government in the fisland, and make this pledge good there must be supervision the convention's work Washington Wheth the United have suzeralnty or protectorate, or no control | at all, over Cuba's affairs depends upon the form of constitution adopted, and the power under it to maintain a stable gov ernment capable of protecting life and property, and to give confidence to capital Our government will have to consider, too the commercial relations proposed between uba and the United States. To predict the form of governme proposed by the convention would premature. Everything as yet in stage There Is, for inus sentiment among Cubans that thelr sular government should be as full and free as that of the United States. They belleve the Cubans to be capable of self- government, as enlightened and effective as any in the world. And some of them would leave the matter of commercial relas tions with us, to be determined at a con- venlent time fn the future There are other Cubans who, while desir- ing absolute home rule, believe it desirable that the United States exercise some kind of protectorate and limited responsibility e in favor of at once estabe lishing with us trade relations of the closest racter and sealed by imperishable agree ment There is a third class of Cubans, who. while agreeing more or less with both of | the two former propositions, belleve that Cuba should first of all have her own gov- ernment, and that, after this government has existed for a while, the people of the | island should then apply for either partial | or complete annexation. These people | would desire extremely favorable trade lations from the beginning. Thelr principal | reason for wanting a temporarily national i, that they would take pride in demonstrating to the world the ability of | e insular people to provide honest and capable government Then there is a fourth class who are out- and-out annexationists. They belie that the great future of their people is in their complete absorption by a rich and powerful ighbor. The first three classes have each meny subdivisions of opinion. This is one of the reasons why g t deliberation necessary and commendable Whatever preposition comes to us from the consti tutional convention, it is well that it should the best aspiration of the | convention, made to be elected by fon. a the conven- | (he new Cuba w o8 a some f e from to the | nee, in- come Cuban AL pr ance. to us people. ent the whole matter is in abe Only one thing is certain, and that | is that the United States cannot and will | not step in and override any wise form of constitution or government that the people of the island decide upn. It was explicitly | declared in congress' resolutions of inter- vention that this country was seeking not | conquest but the provision of good, just and ble government for the Cubans. The alth of the United States is pledged, and theroe is every purpose of keeping that faith In the negotiations that may be said to have started in the opening the constitu- tional convention the rights of both high | contracting parties should be consideredq and observed. In the interests of peace the plan accepted must have the sanction of the United States and the unqualified ap- proval of Cuba. The first agreement reached may be but temporary and subject to amendment fn the light of further rela- tions and experience. THE Emphaxized ater Calumity, IXpress of pltiful horror wires brought from Rochester yesterday suggests the question, Are not such things preventable? There is no evidence that the fire in the Hubbell Orphan Asylum was due to any disregard of the ordinary precautions for the safety of the bables within that insitution, but it seems to bo clearly evident that such precautions as wero taken there, and as are taken in al- most all large buildings where many per- sons sleep, are utterly inadequate for pro- tection. That is proved every time the dispatches tell of a fire in a hotel, a col- lege, an asylum or an almshouse. The ter- rible tecord of loss of life is always ap- palling, but in the case of the Rochester tragedy It is especially soul-wrenching be- cause of the inevitable feeling that the ing nocent and helpless little ones were sacri- fleed to the parsimony of a public that calls itself charitable. They were in th asylum through no fault or velition of their own und were unable to save them- selves unalded, even had the most modorn system of fire escapes and alarms been pro- vided. As it was, they were housed in a thoroughly inflammable building, provided with such poor arrangements for the de tection of fire that when it broke oyt it was not discovered until a passerby saw the end of the bullding alrcady wrapped in flames The story of the slaughter of the iuno- cents that followed s heartrending, but how much more heartrending 1s the thought of the cold-blooded “charity” that would consent e of s0 many little lives under such conditions? The lesson of the Rochester fire is that no orphan asylum should be allowed to take in more inmates than it can provide with adequate pro tection as well as food and clothing. Better less money spent on maintenance and more on bulldings. Better twenty children well cared for than a hundred exnosed to such dangers as finally engulfed the Hubbell arylum! BABIES, Lesson he An 011 by story which the to the sto TERSONA Gamble of South name. He has a dead senatorship. Lord Wolseley is to receive pension of §10,000 a year as retired com niander-in-chief over and above his pay | of $6,000 a year as a fleld marshal of the | army. The park commissioners of Brooklyn have sent back to Henry Bauer, the sculp- tor, the statua of General Edward B, Fowler, late commander of the Fourteenth regiment of Brooklyn, to have him put, as they say, “more lifo into it Frederic Degeton, the newly elected del cgate from Porto Rico, speaks English fluently and has won fame as an author and lawyer. He 16 a graduate of the uni versity of Madrid and holds degrees from the colleges Salamanca and Granad Robert Dick Douglas, a grandson of Ste phen A. Douglas of Illinole, has boen ap pointed by Governor Russell to the office of attorney general of North Carolina Ill"‘ but 25 years old and the youngest man | to fill that position in North Carolina | A News Orleans has scored a | vietory for her profession by declaring that it was @ sclence. She arrested for violating the law which prohibits fortune ling and brought before mayor where she made such a vigarous defense of her “science’ that the charges were with drawn and the mayor, won by her plea NOTES, Dakota belies sure thing on his the a special “palmist | sible German invasion by [ in | lenco of murder and ¢ | be inevitable. | would form OTHER LA AN OURSs, long ago the Fremch Chamber ¢ Deputies adopted a resolution providiog fo | the dismantlement of a number of fortified | places in the northern departments, fnclud ing Lille. This action led to discussion the whole matter by the higher was council, with reference to a pos Not | | | Olse and the Helgian boundaries of the Chamber was criticised vigorously by several commanders, notably hy Beziat, formerly governor of Lille, neral Donop, president of the ommi: The latter urged that be dangerous to touch fortifi tever, He sald that even h defences could be utilized to hamper and lelay the march of cnemy. General Baussler, ex-governor of Paris, and General ere were of different opinion mer disputed the utility of certain north and northeastern fortifications, taining that the true policy of defense con sted in energetic offensive tactics, clally in the case of French soldi and by cavalry 1t would 1 plac fon any ern main “pe «, who! assaults on an enemy. General advocated the destruction of fortifications under discussion ervation of Langres, in the Department of the Upper Marne, which, he said, formed a large intrerched camp, operations for an army engaked in watch ing the enemy's flank closed by to demolis Brugere most of the but the pres The discussion was resolu of the council not the strong places at Lilte, Lan gres, Laon and La Fere, and a declaration that the Chamber had voted the dismantie- ment of the fortifications of the capital of the Department of the Nord too hastily The military authorities apparently intend to make the northern and northeastern de fences thoroughly serviceable. A disturbing element in the domestic af fairs of Belglum is the question of religious instruction in the communal or siate wch which, apparently, is about to Le reopencd with all that bitternces of party spirit which seems to be unavoidable in all such countroversies. The education bill of 18056 provided for religious fustruction in primary schools, but did not enforce ft i/ parents chose to plead nsclentious scru- ples. The bill, how remained a dead letter, owing to the hostility which it had roused throughout the country. ‘The Roman Catholics now announce their Intention of putting the law in o tion by making the experiment of clerical fnstruction in the communal schools of Brussels. This has been the signal for a vigorous protest from various scholastic bodies, notably the Ligue de I'Enseignment and the commit for the protection oi public schools. e latter are placarding the walls of Brussels with a notice calling upon parents to retaliate by pleading the dispensation clause. A pub- lic meeting, uader the presidency of M Buls, the late burgomaster, has been called and a lively campaign is expected The correspondent of the Vienna, after referring London to the sort of outrage in Macedonia, says that there is a general suspicion that the Turkish authorities a directly responsible for a great part of the lawlessness prevailing there and that they deliberately encourage it. The motive is alleged to be a desire on the part of the sultan to convince the Greeks that the state of Macedonla s so bad that in the event of the annexation of Crete an insu rection against the Greek population would The sultan is sald to expect a vigorous movement in favor of the In- corporation of Crete with Greece, with possibly a declaration to that effect by the Cretan assembly in the hope of forcing the hand of the powers by an accomplished fact. A similar notion is said to exist in different European capitals, notwithstand- ing the warnings given to Prince George during his recent European tour. He met with discouragement everywhere, although his reception was more kindly in some places than others. All the governments concerned, even that of the czar, conslder tlat a revival of the Cretan question spring would be highly inopportune, if not dangerous 1o peace. Greece, however, is not always guided by the wishes of the great powers, nor yet by consideration for the convenience of others. There is only a speck, says the correspondent, upun the horizon at present, but there s no assur ance that It may not grow into a thunder cloud. Times preva ery For some time the press of Paris has been furnishig statements from its correspond ents In Vienna tending toward the estab- lishment of the idea that the Triple Alli- ance was not looked upon with encourag- ing cyes by the Hungarian government, and that at some future date this attitude the subject of serious repre- sentations to the government of the dual monarchy. These statements were recently refuted by the Hungarfan oremier, M Szc1l, in a speech in the Hungarian Chamber of Deputi In replying to the accusation of tho French press that Austria-Hungary allowed herself to be exploited by Germany, M. Szell postively declared that the Hun- garian government, the bulk of the popula tion, and the overwhelming parllamentary majority did not shdre that opinion, but be- lieved that the Triple Alliance was as ad- vantageous for Hungary as for the dual monarchy. He said that it was not only since the conclusions of the Dreibund that Hungary bad cultivated friendly and in- timate relations with Germany. Ever since 1867 Hungary had regarded such relations as a fundamental prineiple of her policy That peace alliance par excellene was eminently calculated to safeguard the in terests of the monarchy, more so, indeed than ny other arrangement It was en ely incorrect, he sald, that the Dreibund served exclusively the interests of Germany and that is was only to say, by favor that the participation of Austria-Hungary was tolerated. inally it was the opinion of M. ell that if they departed from their A Pair B a fresh pair of trouse luxury, but not an ex several hundred simeres, serges, ete, ufactur We'd r what they cost than profit. Therefore we did values at $2, $2.50, No clothing f R. S. Wilco care. greed with ber and ordered her discharge. Omaha’s Only Exclusive Cl a serious the valley of (he The vote General weakest The | temperament inclined them toward vigorous useful as a basls of patterns des of fancy worsteds, select an extra pair ther sell them now for present policy, the importance both of Huu- gary and Austria would diminieh in Europe For, whilo he recoguized that the econo situation left much to be derired, Germany was accustomed to separste her commercial policy from her general policy, not only in dealing with Austria-Huugary, but also with other & Hungary should do the same. , A e Since the return of Prince George to Crete it has been semi-officially unnounced in the island that there is no immediate chance of the powers interested agreelng to an extension of the jurisdiction of the government of the island, which Is at present nominaily a tributary state of the porte, ruled by the powers through Prince | George of ce as high commissioner It is further intimated that Great Britain, | from which Prince George had hoped to iragement that should shortly lead to tho establishment of an autonomous principality, has no encouragement what ever to offer. Apropos of the Cretan intel receive en | ligence on the subject, it s authoritatively stated in Berlin that there is a decided disinclination among the great powers gen erally to lend an ear to any sugestion for a change in the relations of Creto toward Tarkey, notwithstanding that dis turbing ce pli, fons may arise from the status quo. e moment is considered in opportune for reopening the question, and no action that may eventually be taken by the Cretan pational assembly is deemed likely to induce the powers to depart from thefr resolve to maintain the status quo Prince George s represented as boing much | discouraged over the prospect, as he does not see how Crete can be further developed with conflicts of law and administration constantly arising between his government and Turkey King Carlos of Portugal in his speech on the reopening of the Cortes again took occasion to refer to the recent visit of a British fleet to the Tagus as having “em phasized the solemn affirmation then made of the cloke friendship and alliance which unites the two nations.”” It may be, there fore, accepted as a fact that Great Britain would have an ally in Portugal in the event of u serious European complication. The contribution of men and ships which Por- tugal could make to the allied forces would not be great, but her home ports and those of her colonies in Africa and the far east would be invaluable naval bases for British squadrons operating in the bay of Blseay, the Mediterranean, the North and South Atlantic and the Indian ocean. | LAUGHIN: .. | He~Your life shall | Yok, but how about lamplight? Can | you undertake to keop the oil can filled Washington ta "hat was a ringing &peech you m de the other duy." Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, A friend ‘of mine sald it rem 1 him of an electric bell, with a blg corporation press- ing the button.” Cleveland Plain De; very robust appetitc “Yes, I'm 80 ashamed of him overeats when w the er: “Your son has a | He atways ompany.” e 1 cver git,” said have c terrible infant The World & Detroit Journal “They are marrying in haste the World In horror Two more hasty Dire Fate, sotto vo extreme immoderation 4 aghast xelaimes puddings and remarked 1 laughed with Philadelphia Times: leading Lady—Once last winter 1 pl amille’” and the audience nctually waited at the stage door and ook the horses out of my carriage. Soubrette—Poor thing! Anda mude you walk home in the cold! Phila with a el phia Press: “There goes # man ery interesting history,” safd 1 k in the book store. You don't say? quired the ow do you Know?" Just sold it to him." stomey. 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The dark Redan, In silent scoff, Lay grim and threatening, under; And the ta nd of the Malakoft No longer its thunder Sing while Will bring ex joy lay along the battery's side, Below the smoking cannon; Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde, And from the banks of Shannon, They sang of love, and not of fame; orgot was Britiin's glory; Each heart recalled w different name, But all sang “Aunie Laurie.” Voleo after v Aught up the song, Until it tender passion Rose like an anthem. rich and strong— Their battle-eve confession Dear grl, her name ho dared not speak, But, us the song grew louder, someihing upon the soldiers cheek Washed off the staing of powder. Beyond the darkening ocean burned bloody sunset’s embors, Crimean volleys learned | ielish love remembers | | a fire of hell Russlan quarters am of shot, and burst of shell, lowing of the mortars! sh Nora's eyes are dim singer dumb und gory; And English Mary mourns for him Who #ang of “Annie Laure.' soldiers! still in honored rest Your truth and valor wearing; o bravest are the tenderest The loving are the daring, 5 of Trousers It seems like a luaury to be able to wear ers every day. Ttis a pensive one. We have in different cheviots,” from which you can 1t about cost to man- ras- carry them over at a offer you these splen- $3 and $4 its like ours. Browning, King & Co., X, Manager. lothicrs for Mca and Boye