Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 21, 1903, Page 6

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REMITTANCES. express or postal order, Publishing Company. nccepted In payment of rsonal checks, except on 1t maha hi o8, not accepted. O Bt PUSTLISRIRG COMPANY. @TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: B Famchick adcretary of he Bes d Net total Net averago sales GEORGE B. TZ8 K. Bubscribed In my presence snd_sworn ® fabru . D. bafore me this 28th day of 100 HUNG, (Beal.) Notary Publio. ————————— Cuban annexation will be left for the present for further incubation. ] A legislature with less than one em- ploye for each member would be ac- cused of not being up to date. ETe———— No Nebraska names this time in the holdover list left hanging in the air by the adjournment of the senate's extra sesslon. et—— Douglas county road supervisors may have overreached themselves in pad- ding their bills, but how about other ple biters on the county pay rell? —— Ex-Treasurer Bartley might at least bo polite enough to send that legisla- tive committee a letter telllng how much he is enjoying his little -bnnu_ ‘rom home. E— President Roosevelt prefers not to have an escort to guard him during his Wyoming bunting trip, There are no anarchists roaming about the prairies or hiding In mountain fastness in the liberty loving west. Emp— No matter how many fusion back- sliders turn against the proposition for equal taxation of rallroads with other property for city purposes that will not Justify republicans assisting the rail- roads to evade their taxes. As was to have been expected, some of the democratic senators who have been loudest In arralgning the repub- licans for not doing something for Cuba recorded themselves against Ouban recl- procity when the treaty came to a vote. President Palma's son seems to have solved the Cuban question for himself a month ago by annexing a handsome AmeFcan wife and ratifylng the mar- riage treaty so secretly that news of it did not even leak out of executive ses- slon, —— Lucky that the legislature is sure to adjourn within a reasonable time after the sixty pay days have elapsed, or ex- Governor Savage might have to ask for a time extenslon on the return part of the pass that carrled him from Ne- braska to the Puget sound country. g There is no trouble in finding able lawyers to defend the big corporation mergers. The assurance of a big re- talner, with prospects of a still bigger contingent, will make the best legal talent wax eloquent over the benefits of monopoly and the philanthropy of \e trust magnates. E— Members of the Douglas delegation to the legislature who refused to give the citizens of Omaha the right to elect thelr own water commission or the ATURDAY MARCH 1903 21 COLOMBIAN OPPUSITION. The Colomblan congress will meet next month and its first business will be consideration of the canal treaty According to advices recelved at Wash ington the Colombian administration is using its best efforts to further the rati fleation of the treaty, but is much hand leapped. There 18 sald to be strong op- nositiont to the conventlon, h ed by the former minister at Washington, who was relieved of the duty of nego- tiating the treaty after having shown an obstructive digposition in regard to it and a tendency to ereate compliea tions. It Is also stated that British and German interests In Colombia ave hos- right to elect thelr own police commis- slon insist on home rule for the regula- tion of telephone charges. Consistency does not appear 10 be a jewel with the Omaba delegation. The Missouri legislature has adopted A constitutional amendment that will require railroads in that state to furhish free transpartation to executive officers and members of the legislature, Sueh an amendment to the Nebraska consti- tution would be highly desirable. Pass bribery s an admitted evil that has done more to demoralize and debauch public officials in this state than all other pernitlous agencles combined. S Wonder If the women expect by hold- ing their sesslon of the National Woman's Suffrage assoclation in New Orleans to persuade the southern politi- clans to extend the suffrage to them while withdrmawing it from the blacks. And It the southern states undertook to glven wolen the right to vote, would they be asked to let the negro women in on the same terms as the white women? ‘Woman suffrage only strikes more com- plications when It goes south, tile to ratification and are endeavoring to allure the Colomblans with a prop- osition for a great international syndi- cate to take over the rights of the canal company If the treaty fails, The; promise the Colombians a canal in any event and argue that an international waterway would be more beneficial than one controlled by the United States. A Washington dispatch says the Colombian representative there is much disturbed over the prospects of the treaty. Doubtless there is some substantial ground for these statements, but it 1s improbable that the opposition will prove to be quite so serlous as rep- resented. The treaty is most fair to Colombla, our government making every reasonable concession that coun- try asked, so that it is not ensy to see whut valld objection to it can be urged on the part of Colomblans, if they de- sire the completion of the canal. The opponents of the treaty must under- stand that nothing more is to be ob- tained from the United States than is provided for In this convention and if the treaty falls the project will be abandoned and this country will take up the Nicaragua route. Therefore while a considerable opposition to rati- fying the treaty may develop, it scems entirely safe to say that it will not pre- vail. INTERBSTING MUNICIPAL CONTEST. Because Tom L. Johnson is again a candidate for mayor of Cleveland the campaign and election in that eity this spring will command more general at- tention than perhaps any other munfe- ipal contest of the year. Johnson has been a unique and picturesque execu- tive of the Ohio metropolis. Having al- most autocratic control of the affairs of the city under the federal system, soon to be modified, he has been in the most comprehensive semse a political boss. There 1s no question that he is & man of ability and force, as well as of considerable astuteness as a poli- ticlan, and he has aggressively used his power In bullding up a machine which is absolutely obedlent to his will. He aspires to be governor of Ohio and may even have a higher ambition, so that he will make a most determined fight for re-election to the mayoralty. The republicans have nominated a very worthy man and are preparing to make a strong fight for the redemption of the city from Johnson rule, which a prominent democrat and former mayor declares has been demorailzing in the extreme. Oleveland {s normally repub- lican, but the republicans have not been harmonious for several years. If the party can now be united there will be & very good chance of beating Johnson and at least temporarily retiring him from politics. — STRIKING 'AT AMERICA. The feeling in Europe against Amer- lean competition, which has long been manifested, appears to be as strong and active as ever, If indeed It 18 not grow- lng. A few days ago there was a dis- cussion ir the Prussian Diet of an ap- propriation for an educational exhibit at the 8t. Louls exposition, in the course of which one of the speakers expressed regret that the government had ac- cepted the Invitation to participate In the exhibition, remarking that “the amenities which we have received from the United States are not great enough for that.”” Another speaker, while sup- porting the appropriation, sald that “owing to their unjust and arbitrary treatment of us we are not favorably disposed toward the Americans.” The appropriation was voted, but the sent! ments expressed showed very clearly that this was not done from friendship for this country but as one of the mem bers of the Diet remarked, “for our own advantage.” Switzerland has just adopted a new and higher protective tariif which levies Increased duties upon our meats, not- withstanding the fact that we buy from that country a great deal more than we sell to it. This action of the Swiss republic is noted as significant at once of the general tendeney toward higher protective barrlers among the conti- nental states and of the leadership of Germany in continental comuwree. It seems clear that Switzerland proposes to stand with other European states in discriminating agaiost this country and there seems good remson to think that German influence I8 measurably re sponsible for this. It is true that Switserland s & manufacturing coun- try and may-deem it to be necessary to better protect her- industries in view of the higher tariff policy of other con tinental countries, but this does not ex- plain the increased duties on our meats. While this action will not materially affect our trade it Is yet signifiennt. So far as Germany is concerned her purpose appears to be to make commer- clal treatles with the vontinentsl coun- tries that shall in effect create a kind of tarif league agalnst the United States. Her tariff was framed with direct reference to trade with this coun try and the proteciion of the agricul tural interest and some lines of manu- facture from ‘our competition. This is shown in the increase of the duty on wheat and other cereals and on flour, as well as the advances on meat prod- ucets and certaln kinds of wackhicery, - the from this country and produce the ipetit.on that Is felt in the Ger man markets. What action, If any, our government should take to meet this situation the next congress may be called upon to determine, In the last congress It was proposed to Instituto an inquiry in regard to tariff discrim Inations against the United States, but no netlon was taken. Reciprocity pre- sents a way to counteract the German poiley toward us, but this is not at present in such favor as to give much promise of its adoption. becanse lrge REPRESENTALION OR MISREPRESEN- TATION, The good people of Omaha are having their eye teeth cut by the object lesson in representation furnished by the course of the Douglas delegation to the leglslature. They have discovered to their sorrow that the trust reposed in men elected on the broad platform of personal honor without specific pledges has been misplaced. Can the cltizens and taxpayers of Omaha afford to re- peat the blunder at coming city election? TIs the next city council to be no improvement on the last? Are the men who are to manage and direct the affairs of the municipal corporation to be dictated and controlled by the rail- roads and franchised’ corporations, or are they to be men who will fairly rep- resent all the interests in the commu- nity, without fear or favor? In the langauge of the St. Louis Re- public, which is just now discussing municipal issues of St. Louis, a city that has recently been torn up and disgraced over municipal corruption: “You can elect precisely the type of men you think your several wards should have to represent them. If you have no cholce, if anyone will do, the inference is plain—yon will be satisfied with misrepresentations, old conditions and old malpractices.” Omaha needs competent and unpur- chasable officlals and councilmen as much as St. Louls or any other city. The men who manage the properties of a corporation that owns more than $100,000,000 worth of property should be above the low water mark level. In any event they should at all times and under all circumstances represent the interests of the municipal corpora- tion and its stockholders—the tax- payers; otherwise, the city cannot hope to prosper or progress. That there will be a very material change in the per- sonnel of the present city council is a foregone conclusion but unless the citi- zens of all parties manifest an active interest in the selection of worthy candldates at the primary elections of their respective parties, there is no pros- pect of a change for the better. It 1s an open secret that the corpora- tions are making extensive preparations to capture the primary elections of aft parties so that they can name what they call “safe men” for every office to be filled at the May election. In cor- poration parlance, a “safe man” is a man who ‘will do whatever he Is re- quested to do without asking questions. A public officer who has a mind of his own, or who s disposed to resent cor- porate dictation s not a “safe man" and, therefore, not available. In view of the fact that less than three weeks remain from now until the meeting of the municipal nominating conventions it is imperative that all Who desire a representative rather than & misrepresentativa government for Omaha for the next two years should encourage men of known capacity and integrity to stand for nominations for the various positions that are to be filled by popular election this spring. City Clerk Elbourn clalms the sole patent for the primary test oath bill by which the political spotters will be able to run down every suspect who did net vote as he was instructed. If, for ex- ample, a street car conductor, or motor- man, presents himself at the next pri- mary he will be asked to state under oath whether he voted the straight ticket at the election last fall and If he declines to answer, or admits that he scratched several candidates, the in- quisitorial judges of election will refuse him the privilege of voting and leave bim to the tender mercies of the car line superintendent. If the patriots, who are organizing dark lantern clubs for the redemption of Omaha from alleged misrule and ex- travagance, have any more cards up their sleeve they may as well play them. What with test oaths, police clubs and cast iron rules that will ex- clude all candidates who do not declare for the “keep it dark” candidates they ought to be able to round up and lasso all the voters at the coming republican primary. —_— The Elbourn-Gilbert test oath bill, ex pressly prepared to spot workingmen who do not always vote as they are in- structed, has passed both houses of the legislature as an emergency measure, It does not require a sigual service ex- pert to forecast a large area of grief and mourning for the fond parents of Spotter Bill before their progeny Is a year older. If the delay in getting down to work by the Stuefer investigating committee has not given the parties time enough to fix up thelr stories and get the telltale documents buried, the committee might take an adjournment for a tew days longer to accommodate them. Too Clever by Detroit Free Press Sometimes Senator Gorman is so clever that he buncoes himselt. Dead Timber Available, Philade!phia Reeord (dem.) At a banquet of the Democratic Itoquots club in Chicago on Monday night the elo- | quent Representative De Armond of Mis- souri cheerfully expressed the opinion that the bour would bring the man for demo- eretic standard bearer 1a 1304 Thea he | his classmate, implicated | ndded that the mah should be one who had fought under the banmer of free silver in 1896 and 1900. For & third defeat under that banner there {s no need of searching far for the man, Sippery Crooks. Washington Post. Detroit's convieted banker has been de- nied & new trfal, and now his friends ex- pect o have him paroled at an early date. It 18 hard work to keep a dishonest finan- cler under lock and key Baltimore American. Great Britain is to expend nearly $180,« The 000,0 excu “On naval armament this year. made by the secretary having the estimates fn hand is that this emormous expense is rendered necessary by reason of the large expenditures of other nations. On that principle. the matter will be as ondless ac the little boy's process of trying to make his bread and his butter come out cven, but kept taking first too much bread for his butter, then too much butter for his bread. However, as this country is on the wrong side of safaty as yet, and will be for many years, tle problem need not concern American: \ The Towa 14, Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. In ‘such talk as this Governor Cummins represents not only a dominant section of his party in Jowa, but a large part of the republican party of the whole central west. The tariff reform issue is certainly an issue within the republican party as well as withdut. It cannot be kept quiet, for it concerns the pockets of the people in rela- tion to trust combinations, and the people are becoming very much alive to the fact. The question is bound to enter prominently into the mext presidential campaign, and it will be forced there by western repube leans as well as by democrats of all sec- tions, ' Nature's Checks and Balances. New York Tribune, In certain parishes in Louisiana the noise of lamentation is heard because the de- struction of alligators has permitted the multiplication of hordes of muskrats, and these pernicious creatures burrow In the levees to such ,an extent that disatrous floods follow. ~ Alligators devour muskrats, and where .the big fellows are plentiful the smaller vermin are not abundant. So nicely adjusted are the checks and bal- ances of Mother Nature! It may possibly be advisable for some of the southern states to offer bounties for the propagation of alligators, and to restock the bayous, lakes and rivers with the uncouth saurians. RATTLED THEORISTS, Professional Trouble-Borrowers vised to' Try the Plow. Loulsville Courfer-Journal. The farmers of Nebraska and Kansas have been making such big crops for four or five years and getting such good prices for them that many are leaving the plow and taking up their residence in the citles. A m-fuk. dispatch says: Ad- ‘Peveral of the professors at the State university have been glving little talks recently about what they declare is a bad thing for the country. The bad thing is tha farmér géts rich before he gets old. Each spring and fall there is-a big hegira from the ‘farms to the towns and cities of men who have made their pile in the wheat figldsvand, mwant to rest and educate their childrén.'” ®:¢ o ““This, the horpified . protessors say, will lead to the' d ition” and demoraliza- tion of the western farmer, and will soon place agricultural conditions on the same level as in England any and Austria, with Iundlor&fl&; lqn“l‘:xury in the citles and the temantry fmpoverished.” Perhaps the situation is not as ominous as the pi ors’ tell us. If it comes to the worst it might be remedied by re- stocking the abandoned farms with profes- sors. It might take some tfme to make good farmers of these loquacious theorists, but thelr practical occupation on the farms ought to result in material good to the country generally by {insuring sufficient quietude to enable it to get a good night's sleep now and then. MILITARY LONGEVITY. Secret of the Long Soldiers. Portland Oregonian, The death of General Willlam B, Frank- Lives of Old lin at 80 removes from this world the last | surviving rorps commander of the original Army of the Potomac as it was organized by General McClellan before he departed from Washington for his 111 rred ‘“‘penin- sular” campaign of 1862, With the excep- tion of Fitz John Porter, who commanded the Fifth corps, General Franklin, whe commanded the Sixth corps, was MecClel- lan's ablest lieutenant. He graduated at the head of his class in 1843; he was dis- tinguished in the Mexican war, and as commander of the rearguard of the Army of the Potomat in its retreat from Rich- mond to the James river, General Frank lin displayed all the best qualities of a military engineer and an able commander & Infantry at Savage station and White Oak swamp in standing off the assaults of General Magruder and Stonewall Jackson He was disticguished at South Mountain and at Antietam. He personally beggel McClellan to renew his attack on Lee the morning after Antletam, but to no pur- pose. General Franklin was relieved from com- mand after Fredericksburg, where he com- manded balf of Burnside's army: he was General Banks' military adviser and execu- tive in the Red River campalgn of April, 1864, in which he was wounded. In July 1864, Gemeral Grant in vaiz arged the ap- pointment of General Franklin, who was for command of the army to operate against General Early in the Shenandoah valley ing: “1 know hi to be capable and believe him to be trust- worthy.” Stanten and Halleck oppgsed the appolntment, and it was given to Sheridan General Franklin, like Hancock, Porter, Gibton, Warren, William F. Smith, Slocum, Meade, Hooker, Couch and the rest of Me- Clellan’s inner circle of military friends was an unflinching democrat all his 8ays but there was mothing remarkable in this for at the outbreak of the civil war the only officers of the regular army that were not democrats were General Nathaniel Lyon, General Doubleday, General Hunter and jeral Saxton The wonderful. thing about these regula officers of the el¥il war is their longovity Generals Frapklin and Smith have just passed away at 80. Generals Tower, Getty, Gilbert, Wright, Abercrombie, Buell, Howo J. J. Reynolds, Schriver, Van Vliet, Hun- ter, Hatch, Rosecrans, Newton, Patrick Johuson, Palmer, Paul, Humphrevs, Augur % BAKING PONDIR Highest Honors World's Falr Highest tests U.S. Gov't Chemists PRICE BAKING POWDER ©MicAGO o POLITICAL DRIFT. Local politics of the warm brand per- vade Cincinnati. The Commercial-Tribune has reached the small-pica editorial stage. Missouri legislators have reached a stage of prosperity almost rivaling the buttered solons of St. Louls. Several of them have changed $1,000 bill Carter Harrison hasn't & supporter among the leading newspapers of Chicago. Even the democratic Chronicle shies when his name is mentioned. Senator Stone, familiarly known as Gum- shoe Bill of Missourl, is one of the dry smokers of the upper house. That's & pe- culiarity of Bill when thinking up trouble for his opponents. Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansas s In trouble again, though he has not pulled his gun. Jeff is charged with doing consid- crable grafting in state land sales. An investigation is on. Ex-Governor Hogg Intimates that the membera of the Texas legislature are sup- plied with railroad passes and actually use them. Just like Hogg. Probably his “re- quest” was turned down. Hon. H. Dink, one of the pillars in Chi- cago's temple of fame, is a candidate for re-election to the city council. Mr. Dink achieved fame as a dispenser of that which gave Milwaukee a reputation. The Maine house of representatives has retused, by & vote of 94 to 46, to resubmit to the vote of the people the constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale of intoxts cating liquors within the state. The registration in Chlcago the first day was 67,486, which is 6,903 greater than in 1901, and more than 20,000 greater than in 1899, which indicates an unusual interest in the pending municipal election. Three pillars in the rotunda of the Mon- tana state house were jarred loose by the | late earthquiake. People have been appre- hensive of some calamity since the plcture of Grover Cleveland was hung in the bulld- ing. At the Troquols banquet in Chicago Mons day night the name of Grover Cleveland, who sent a letter of regret, was recelved with much greater cheering than that which greeted any other. Keep your eyes on Grover. Former President Cleveland is coming west to attend the dedicatory exercises of the world's fair at St. Louls next month. He is certain. to receive distinguished at- tention and may deliver a few speeches during the trip. In the latter event the public will hear a roar from the suburbs of Havelock, Neb, QUESTION OF JURISDICTION, Confilet ot Nat Chicago News. Judge Chetlain’s decision taking the case of some of the indicted coal operators from the jury and setting the defendants at lib- erty assumes pecullar interest in the light of certain other recent court decisions. The court’s reason for dismissing the case is that while the agreement of the operators to fix prices was made in Chicago this agreement was part of a contract affecting Interstate commerce and therefore under {the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States courts. The alleged restraint of trade was brought to bear upon a com- modity shipped from one state to another and there sold In car lots, thus partaking of the character of interstate commerce. The powers of cougress to regulate and protect such commerce, the court holds, are absolute, plenary and exclusive, the Illinols anti-trust law therefore being applicable only where the commerce restralned is wholly within the state. The decision serves to illustrate the need for & thorough judicial review of the whole question of state and federal jurisdiction pertaining to trusts and Interstate com- merce. It seems futile to hope for satis- tactory legislation on these questions until a clear and authoritative opinion upon the | subject has been secured from the federal supreme court. In the present case we find a state unable to punish a violation of its own law because the act of violation was part of a larger act which comes under the Jurisdiction of federal law. In interesting contrast to this we have the recent supreme court decision in the sugar case, which at- firmed t as the sugar monopoly lay in the production and wanufacture of sugar and its sale and transportation were inci- dental thereto the monopoly was not within the prohibition of a federal act governing interstate commerce. Granting that both decisions are perfectly logical and sound, | where is the line to be drawn? Where do | the powers of the state begin and those of | the federal government terminate? At what point on its journey from factory to retailer’s store does a given commodity be- £in to be a part of interstate commerce? It is evident that the country must have | a much clearer definition if it is to frame te and national laws so that they will dovetail together properly and provide a Growing State .and onal Laws. | terference with trade. At present there is | disagreement among even the best authori tles. Recently, for instance, Attorney Gen- {eral Knox expressed the belief that the { tacilities and instrumentalities of inter- | state commerce might be denied to a corpo | ration guilty of monop practices, even | though the momopoly | locality. It is to be assumed that the fed | eral government may do indirectly through | one of its own laws what a state, on | practical working device for restraining in- | { | | limited to ome | | —all lived to be mearly 80, and several of | count of that law, is prohibited from doing? | them were considerably past 80 at death. General Greeme lived to be 95, General Harney was about 89. General Rucker, who entered the army in 1837, and Major Austine of the class of 1838, are the olde meu on the retired list, which includes also General N. J. Dapa. who graduated in 1842, and Geperal Thomas J. Wood, who graduated in 1845. General O. B. Willeox is atout 50, and General Alexander 8. Webb | is in his 7S(h year 014 soldiers are as a rule long lived folk. | This is due to the fact with sound cemstitutions, that they start receive a physical training in youth and lead largely outdoor lives, or at least they did befors @ carry as eficer 1o his military statios. | Or are the Knox theory and the present cision regarded as corollaries—the ing certain powers on behalf of federal government and the govern- ¢ assuming (o return certain functions in the jurisdiction of the stat | the |w | lying partly w state? Yigor without Volume the eivil war. When there were no railroads | I'C OTHER LANDS THAN OUR London fs much wrought up at last over what s generally described as the “alien question,” In other words, the constant INFLUENZA AGAIN wnd apparently rapidly increasing Inflow of | ANOTHER EPIDE"”"; OF THE GRIF foreign paupers from the continent of Eu- rope. The papers began to agitate tho question several months ago, and by aint of keeping everlastingly at it, have finaily succeeded in achieving parllamentary con- slderation of the matter, with r prospect of some restraining legislation. It Is al-| leged, with occasional instances cited to prove the allegation, that many of thesc | foreigners are of the criminal class and | IS ANTICIPATED, Many Casex Reported Already in This part of the Country—A Common Sense Remedy for the Disease and Its Effects, Owing to the climatic conditions this only paupers in the sense that what money | year many physiclans fear another epi- they bring in is only enough to establish them with headquarters for unlawful op-| erations to bleed the British public. In | addition to the investigation in Parliamert a royal commission has been appolated to look iato the whole subject, and the gen- eral expectation is that the law to meet the case will be something very drastic and far ahead of any similar. legislation on the same subject. Some of the Inflowing aliens are said to be persons of title, and among these are the most adroit of the criminals. It is also asserted that the parades of the unemployed that have drawn 80 much money recently from the pockets of the charitable onlookers have been largely composed of these newly arrived alien paupers instead of the unfortunate British workingmen, as was taken for| granted, o The Prussian court is not among the most brilliant . in Europe, spectacularly, and the queen of Prussia, who is also Ge man empress, cares less about finery than most of her crowned sisters. But what the woman eschews the empress is obliged to adopt. Hence at court balls the em- | press moves in an atmosphere aglow with starlike gems. Five milllon marks, cr $1,250,000, is the walue, roughly calculated, of the preclous stones which she wears on these occasions; the greater part of them, however, is the property of the Prussian treasury. As consort of the reign- ing sovereign she s entitled to wear, but not to dispose of them. The Jewels which the empress owned as princess of Schles- wig-Holstein, or received since then from the kaiser or her connections as presents, belong to herself, but none others. And of presents from the emperor she has re. celved’ quite a number. But the late Rowager Empress Augusta bequeathed to her the most costly gems of her private collection, which {s now valued at 2,000,000 marks, or $500,000. This comprises, among other things, thirty diamond, sapphire and ruby rings, numerous bracelets and brooches, which circled the fingers, clasped the wrists or adorned the attire of various deceased luverplg} women. In the genter of the kaiserl {adem there is a dazzling diamond about the size of a cherry, which is the most costly gem of the Prussian treasury. The announcément made that the Uganda railroad is now practically finished, and that Sir George Whitehouse, the man- ager and engineer-in-chlef, will leave for England in April, on the completion of the construction works. All the steel viaducts, including the twenty-seven bridges from the United States, have been put in and all that remains to be done is the sub- stitution of steel structures for a few small and unimportant temporary bridges. As a result of the completion of the rallway, great commercial development is sald to be taking place. Italian, German and Indian firms are establishing branches in East Africa and Uganda, and both Indiaps and Italians are placing trading vessels on Lake Victoria, on which a German trading schooner also plies. Round Nairobi, the headquarters of the Uganda railway, great rogress is being made in the cultivation of "potatoes, forfy to fitty fows of whidh are exported to South Africa”every month. Hitherto these were obtained in South Africa from Portugal and Central America. Two twin-screw steamships, put together at Port Florence by the Uganda railway staff, will provide mail, passenger and cargo service on the lake. They are ves- sels of 600 tons displacement, capable of carrying twelve first-class and 100 deck passengers. They were built at Paisley, are 175 feet long and have six feet draught. They will run between Entebbe, the head- quarters of the Uganda administration, and Port Florence, the terminus of the rail- road, which reaches the coast at Mombass, nearly 600 miles distant. oee From a Russian source, a special report by the consul at Kharput, come some in- teresting figures concerning public educa- tion in the Ottoman empire, which is sald to contain altogether 36,320 schools, at- tended by 1,331,240 scholars—that is, about one pupil to every twenty-four inhabitants. In virtue of a statute law introduced some twenty-five years ago, elementary instruc- tion s obligatory upon girls from 6 to 10 years and upon boys from € to 11 years of age. This Includes, besidgs the Turkish language, the Koran, morality, the fund mental rules of arithmetic, universal hi tory, geography and various kinds of hand- work. Every vilayet has several middle. class schools (there are twenty-five in the vilayet of Salonika), in which the pupils remain from 11 to 16 years of age. The curriculum In the latter institutions in. cludes Turkish literature, the French lan. guage, the ground principles of political economy, universal history and geography, chemistry, physics, geometry and natural history. There are in Turkey none of the bigher educational institutions organized on the linep of the westem universities. Notwithstan@ing this provision for publie instruction, says the report, the enlighten ing influence upon the people in general is practically unappreciable, owing to the sim- ple fact that all elementary teaching is in the hands of the mullabs and ulemahs, who yleld implicit obedience to the Shelkh- ul-Islam. The government created a min- istry of public instruction to counteract this influence, but it has made little fm- pression. Hopeless in .. Star. Cleveland will Nebraska and the democratic nominee Kansas City It may be true that Mr. be unable to carry Kansas, the silver states for president mext year. Mr, Bryan But meither cap demic of the grip, that torm of influenza which so mahy ‘have cause to remeémber. 16 some cases this disease has run its course with but litile more severity than a Lard cold, In others it has caused acute sickness. In nearly every case it has loft a train of after effects more troublesome than the disease itself. It is characteristio of tho grip that ordinary medicines will not cure it permanently. The patient seems to have recovered and then suffers a relapse more severe than the first attack. The trouble in such cases is that the dis- ease was not thorughly eradicated frem the system by ghe treatment employéd. Miss C. A. Peck of No. 633 East Four- teenth street, Minnéapolis, Minn., had a very severe attack of grip in 1889 and it left her prostrated. I could not get over | that feeling of utter exhaustion,” she says. “I had no ambition (o do anything and any lttle exertion made me out of breath and tired out. I grew thin, nervous and |irritable. Then 1 decided to try Dr. Wil- | llams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and the first box made me feel better. Four bo: restored me to my natural good health. The after effects of the grip are often worse than the disease and many times they baffle all efforts of the best physicians to drive them out of the system. Health is shattered—the blood becomes poor, the flesh falls away, the sufferer Krows nervous and irritable And even slight exertion causes shortness of breath. These are dangerous symptoms and indicate that the system is in a state that invites pneumonia, bronchitis or even consumption. 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