THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : FHIDAY , NOVEMBER < 1 , 1808.
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE.
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State of Nebraska , Douglas County , st. :
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Publishing company , being duly sworn ,
says that the. actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally , Morning ,
Hvenlnsr and Sunday Bee , prfntcd during
the month of October , 1S33 , was as fol
lows :
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4 2B.810 20 . 25,27:1 :
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10 20,300
Total ' Hin.OllS
Less unsold end returned papers. .
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Net dally average 25,718
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Vote for prosperity.
Saturday Is last registration day.
!
i America Is now making armor plate
by the Krupp process for Kussla. And
It can furnish them to Germany , too ,
whenever required.
Just read over again a few of the
popocratlc campaign documents of two
years ago and see whether you want 'o
put faith In popocratlc predictions again.
Several sections of territory arc this
year Included In the American thanks
giving proclamations which were here
tofore barred out of Uncle Sum's turkey
feast.
The more one compares the republican
school board candidates with their op
ponents the stronger becomes the In
centive to vote the republican school
board ticket.
No one should fall to register this year
under the Idea that a previous registra
tion quallflcs him to vote. No registra
tion will count for the approaching elec
tion except that made this year.
Governor Ilolcomb ought to find plenty
of things for which the people of Ne
braska should bo thankful , chief among
them , however , peace , prosperity and the
most successful exposition ever wit
nessed.
The popocratlc organ assures us that
AV. S. Kelker Is an experienced legislator.
This Is no doubt true , but the experience
the people have had with Mr. Felker
Is the kind that has destroyed all their
confidence In him.
Not over half of the voters of Omaha
have registered so far this year. Only
one more day remains to complete the
registration. Any one not registered
who falls to register Saturday will prac
tlcally disfranchise himself.
If every time England or Franco
places orders for a new coal supply for
their naval vessels Is n sure Indication
of war we are In danger of being per
petualiy on the verge of armed conflict
between all the great powers.
Why Is the local popocratlc organ so
silent about Walker and Koutsky , the
two disreputables on the republican leg
Islative ticket ? Is It because the editor
of that paper hopes thereby to get the
support of the vicious and criminal
classes for the candidacy of G. M. Hitch
cock for congress ?
In view of the advanced age of Leo
XIII the announcement of the sudden
illness of the head of the Itonmu Cath
ollc church Is not likely to cause a shock
Ing surprise , nor would the demise ot
the pope he followed by any serious
complications which were Incidental to
changes In the papacy so long as the
popes were temporal as well as splrltua
rulers.
The purchase of n largo amount o
American coal by the Hrltlsh naval an
thorltles can by no means be taken as
foreshadowing ; a war with Franco o
any other nation , but It alTords strlklin ,
proof of the elllclcncy of the Hrltish ad
mlralty In making prompt provision fo
an abundant supply of fuel to meet an >
emergency. England has always llvei
np to the Idea that the best way to preserve
servo peace Is always to bo prepared fo :
war.
The promotion to rank as coinmls
stoned olllcers In the volunteer army o
members of the colored regiments o
regulars who distinguished themselve
for gallantry Inthe lights nt El Cane }
and San Juan is a merited reeojjnltloi
by President McKlnley of their service
which the colored people everywhere
will appreciate. Tl'pre was no color lltii
In the display of bravery at the fron
in the war against Spain , and the presl
dent recognizes no color line In the dls
trlbutlon of honors , The colored troop
fought nobly In Cuba and Porto Hlct
and they will bo to the fore again when
vcr they may be needed.
.1 DCl'Y TO VOTE.
Every citizen vested with the right of
suffrage owes It to himself ilnd to his
fellow-citizens to exorcise that right.
The duty to vote Is hot only one of the
most Important duties devolving upon
tint cltb.ru but Includes the duty to
< imillfy for voting by registration or
otherwise whenever such conditions are
required under the law.
If people realized fully flip grave re
sponsibility resting on the voter and un
derstood the serious consequences that
follow failure to meet It , they would
hesitate long before willfully neglecting
a duty fraught with such momentous
consequences. In our system of gov
ernment every man's vote lo supposed
to count as much as every other man's
vote and one vote may determine ques
tions on which the whole course of the
nation may turn. 1H > ' > tlng the possi
bilities of a single vote , the following
examples are cited In it recent news
paper communication by Wilbur P. Bry
ant of Ilartlugton , Neb. :
At the council of war before tlio battle
At Marathon , eleven generals were to decide ,
by n majority vote , whether or not the
Athenians should give battle without waitIng - '
Ing for the arrival of the Spartans. Five
voted to Hunt ; live voted not to fight. Cal- ,
llmachus had the casting vote and at the ,
earnest solicitation of Mlltladcs voted for
battle. Every college-bred man will rccol- i
lect how graphically the Greek historian I
Herodotus describes that council of war.
The character of modern civilization and
destiny ot the world was decided by that
vote. ;
Aaron Burr , Benjamin F. Wade and Sam
uel J. Tlldcn each lacked one vote of being
president of the United States. One vote
would have made Toombs president of the
southern confederacy , Instead ot Jefferson
Davis. At the general election In the state
of Massachusetts for the year 1839 , held on
the llth of November of that year , Edward
Everett received for the office of governor ,
50,725 votes ; Marcus Morton , 61,034 votes ;
ill others , 307 votes. It then required a ma
jority to elect and as the total vote was
102,006 the number necessary for a choice
was 51,031 , which Morton received. And BO
Marcus Morton was elected governor of Mas
sachusetts by one vote.
In 1801 Andrew Jackson was made major
general of the militia of Tennessee by the
casting vote of Governor Itoanc. That vote
made Jackson.
Ono ot the most prominent members of our
last legislature was selected by a single voto.
The most remarkable case I ever knew
occurred In my own county. It was In 1891 ,
the first time wo elected our commissioners
by districts. The vote was not as heavy In
that district as It Is now and stood as fol-
ows : Luclen n. Bruncr , 167 ; Charles F.
Clark. 160 ; John Lorang , 163 ; total , 408.
With a knowledge of the weight of
very vote and the importance of voting ,
Ight , what excuse can the stay-at-home
oter offer for deliberately shirking his
oleum duty ?
DELUSION m ? OPPORTUNISTS.
At the outbreak of the rebellion of
SOI William II. Seward prophesied th.-it
he war would not last more than sixty i
lays. The same prophecy was made
by Jefferson Davis. But both of these
eminent statesmen shot far from the
nark. Instead of being concluded In
sixty days the war lasted more than
four years.
The prophecy of Seward , made thirty
vcars ago , that "tho Pacific ocean ,
ts shores , Us islands , . , , and , the
vast region beyond will become
the chief theater of events in
the world's great hereafter , " will
loubtlci * prove true. It Is not precise ,
nutl If the great events do not happen
n the near future they are sure to
happen In the world's great hereafter ,
which will Include not merely the twen
tieth century but the thirtieth , fortieth
uul fiftieth centuries , as well as all that
ncalculable procession of years between
our times and eternity.
Just now Seward's prophecy about the
great hereafter furnishes ample mate
rial for wide and wild speculation. One'
of the great New York commercial |
dallies , whoso mission It Is to promote
the extension of American export com
merce , points to the fact that In the
states of North , Central and South Amer
ica bordering on the Pncillc there are
10,000,000 of people ; In Australasia and
Oceanlca there are 51,500,000 ; in the
Malay peninsula , Slam and French-Indo-
China , there are : IO,500,000 ; In British
India nnd Burmah there are 290,000,000 ;
In eastern Siberia , ( i.000,000 ; In Japan
nnd Corea , ( JO.000,000 , nnd In the Chi
nese empire 400,000,000 a total popula
tion of 878,000,000 out of a probable total
of 1,500.000,000 representing the whole
population of the earth. "Here , " ex
claims the New York visionary , "Is to
bo found the chief industrial outlet of
the United States , for here there Is , or
shouRl be , neutral ground , to which we
possess nt least the advantage of near
ness. "
This Is an alluring picture for the ad
venturer and the opportunist , who , like
MIcawber , is waiting for something to
turn up. The thoughtful and Intelligent
student of political economy and com
mercial law will want moro substan
tial evidence than is yet In view to con
vince him that we jire on the eve of n
marvelous revolution in our commercial
lelatlons to the billion people that In
habit the lands that are watered by the
Pacific ocean. If all these people have
not bought the fabrics of the American
mill and factory or the products of our
soil It is not because Spain occupied
the Philippine islands , but because most
of them had nothing to pay with , or
because they could supply their wants
In other markets for less money or get
more tilings In exchange for the prod
ucts of their toll from the traders of
England , Hussln , France and Germany.
There are millions of people next door
to us across the Canadian border. They
Kpeak our language nnd arc American
In their food , clothing and habits. Why
have not they been persuaded to patron
Ize American industry and do their
trading In America ? Why have they
preferred to deal with England , Ger
many nnd France ? Is It because they
Hvo under the British Hag or because
they can buy cheaper In the European
market than In the American market ?
If the British flag is the real cause or
discrimination by Canadians In favor of
European commodities , why will not th' <
same rile | obtain In British India and
every other country covered by the flags
of England , Franco , Germany or Bus-
sla ? Must wo nnnex all these countries
before wo can hope to get their trade ?
Wo now have treaties with China
equal in every respect to those of thu
most favored nations. The heathen
Chinee Irf credited with great business
Bhrcwiluesj. When he buys BrltNh-
made goods or German-made goods or
itusslnn-mnde goods It Is not out of nyni'
pathy for cither of these countries or
the proximity of their colonies , but because -
cause he can drive the best bargain with
them. The advantage of competition
with all other countries has for years
been open to American merchants In
Australasia , Japan nnd China and when >
ever they have been able to underbid
competitors or furnish a better quality
of merchandise for the same price they
have captured the business. This Is the
law of trade and that law Is ns irrevoca
ble as Is the law of gravitation.
The only way we can absolutely se
cure the trade of colonies in the Pacific
Is by underselling all competitor or
fencing them out with colonial export
nnd Import duties. That course will
only be u repetition of the policy which
caused the good people of Boston to
dump the British tea into Boston har
bor. We venture to assert , ' however ,
that no well-informed person will con
tend that the trade with 8,000,000
Malays will pay the cost of keeping an
army and navy there to safeguard our
commerce.
TJIK IMTLWIVK TOWAUD I'ltOllWtTJUX.
William A. Poynter , candidate for
governor on four platforms , stands
pledged to the democrats against pro
hibition and Is supported by the pro
hibitionists because they know him to
be a radical prohibitionist and expect
him to help pull prohibition through the
back door itistead of through the front
door.
door.William
William A. Poynter , G. M. Hitchcock
and all the lesser lights of sham reform
are pledged to favor the initiative nnd
referendum. That means In plain Eng
lish that they are pledged to favor the
submission of prohibition , woman suf
frage and every other Ism to the voters
every time n petition is tiled demanding
a popular expression for nnd against
any such proposition.
This pledge meets all the wants of the
prohibition agitators. It will , if carried
into effect , enable them to renew the
crusade for constitutional or statutory
prohibition and to keep it up year in and
year out until Nebraska Is brought into
line with Kansas.
Like the fabled camel that first pro
jected its nose Into the Arab's tent , then
his head , then his hump and finally
crowded the Arab out entirely , the pro
hibition scheme contemplates taking the
first step through the initiative which Is
represented as simply a recognition of '
the right of the people to express their
wishes directly through the ballot box on
any measure which they may desire to
enact into law. While William A. Poyn-
tcr , G. M. Hitchcock and the other sham
reformers understand as well as any
body what the effect of the Initiative
will be , they adroitly pretend that they
are pledged to oppose prohibition and
expect the support of the opponents of
prohibition , while at the same time they
are secretly obtaining all the aid and
comfort that prohibitionists can give
them.
OMAHA AS A JIUO MAIIKET.
According to the Cincinnati Price Cur
rent , which is the recognized authority
on statistics of the hog Industry , the
number of hogs slaughtered In the
United States during the eight months
ending October 31 Is computed at 115,910-
000 , as against ll.GGO.OOO for the same
period In 1897. This represents an aver
age gain of 19 . per cent for the present
year over last year in all the packing
centers of the country.
In the comparative exhibit Omaha not
only maintains its position as the third
largest packing center , but shows a
marked ascendancy over competitors in
its territory. While Omaha has In
creased Its output by 190,000 hogs ,
Kansas City has Increased Its output
only 50,000 , Sioux City 03,000 and St.
Louis 153,000. Within the eight months
Omaha has slaughtered three times as
many hogs as Cincinnati , the former
Porkopons of the country , more than
five times as many us Sioux City , six
times as many as St. Paul and 315,000 ,
more than St. Louis.
Up to within twelve months the hog
output of Kansas City packing houses
was twice that of Omaha. Today Kan
sas City overlaps Omaha only by
slightly more than one-third , with Omaha
steadily gaining. If the rate of pro
gression which has been made during
the last eight months is kept up for the
next two or three years Omaha Is des
lined to overtake Kansas City nnd start
the twentieth century ns the second pork
packing center In America.
Wncn the voters of the Second com
mlssloner district , comprising the Third ,
Eighth nnd Ninth wards , come to make
their choice for commissioner next
Tuesday at the ballot box they will have
to decide for themselves whether they
desire William I. Kierstead to continue
to represent them for another term , or
whether they prefer James J. Connelly.
Klcrstcad has an honorable and suc
cessful rms'iness record of nearly twenty
years in Omaha , while Connelly has no
record of success in any business.
Kierstead has filled several Important
positions In the public service creditably ,
Including that of councilman , member of
the Board of Public Works and county
commissioner. The only position Con
nelly ever aspired to before was that
of constable , but the voters did not sec
lit to honor him even with that.
Among the men nominated on the re
publican legislative ticket none are
more In touch with the labor clement
than Miles D. Houck. From boyhood
he has been In the workshop as a prac
tical mechanic nnd has been actively as
sociated with working men in every
movement for the betterment of the con
dition of labor. He Is thoroughly sober ,
intelligent and industrious , as well as
familiar with the wants of this city
and county In the matter of legislation.
Omaha will have many important in
terests fo protect and promote in the
coming legislature. Quite apart from
all political considerations , Its taxpayers
are vitally concerned In electing com
petent and trustworthy men to repre-
ncnt them. Among the men nominated
for the btnto bciiatc J , II , Van Uuseti
Is as well equipped as any for legis
lative work on the floor and In com
mittees. He Is u forceful speaker and
n good parliamentarian. He Is ambi
tious to make n reputation and may bo
depended on to exert himself on all oc
casions In the Interest of his constitu
ents.
Senator Kyle of South Dakota says the
management of the populist party In his
state is too bad to have any claim upon
his support and he repudiates It openly.
The number of conscientious populists
ready to emulate Senator Kyle and re
pudiate the spoils grabbing machine that
has seized control of the party in Ne
braska Is also likely to cause several
surprises at the coming election.
The express companies are still dis
criminating among patrons In different
stales , In one throwing the war tax bur
den on the shipper , nnd In another as
suming it themselves. There Is In truth
no good reason why these companies
should not pay the stamp tax as con-1
templated in the law In Nebraska as
well as in Texas , and In every state In
the union.
A dinner of Front.
Indianapolis News.
Spain Is thinking less of honor and moro
of money now.
I'lmt for ( he Printer.
"Washington Star.
England has Issued a blue book on the
Fashoda question , and France has put out
a yellow book. The only people who feel
really sure'of their position In the cneo
seem to bo the members of the typograph
ical unions.
IiiNonnraliU' Com "union * .
Globe-Democrat.
Of the forty-ono railroads reporting for
the month of October thirty-nine show In
creased earnings over the some month In
1S97. An Increase In earnings means an In
crease In wages and number of employes.
The railroad vote of the country ought to
speak out very emphatically In favor of con
tinued prosperity.
Harvey Rlt-i'K fr"ii , n Deficit.
New York Tribune.
"Coin" Harvey , collector of campaign
funds for the national democratic commit
tee , has resigned , giving up his emblem of
office , which was an empty purse with a hole
In It. Contributions flowed as slowly as a
molasses barrel In January ; It was useless to
sit at the receipt of customs when none
came In. Nobody can blame him for re
tiring and making .room . for a successor to
audit his deficit.
Undo Sum nn a flvlllzcr.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The reports of various Indian agents show
that the condition of the Indians under the
tribal and reservation policy has not Im
proved In twenty years. The aborigines
'have been coddled and taken care of by the
government until they arc llko spoiled chll.
dren and their morals have suffered as well
as their physique. The only way to make
men of the Indians Is to give them land In
severally and set .them to work to earn
their own living.
The Outloole for Trade.
New York Sun.
Agriculturally and Industrially we have
prospered In splto of the distractions of
war. There Is Ices' to bo said that Is en
couraging concerning domestic trade , but
with the hands of the administration up
held In Its efforts to1 gather the fruits of the
war with Spain anil with sound money
legislators atlho stitio Capitals and In Wash
ington tlicro.'nro > 6 reasons for doubting
that 1899 will be 'more'prosperous ' com
mercially than any year since 1892 , or , per
haps , than any year In our history.
IteJeetlnK the Culiim Debt.
Philadelphia Press.
There Is no Cuban debt for Spain to weep
and wall over before sympathetic European
thrones. There la a "Spanish debt , " con
ceived In corruption and perpetrated'in gov
ernmental Iniquity. If Spain cannot bear
this burden , so much the worse for the
bondholders , who were willing to help he *
olio up n debt when the Impossibility of her
paying It was easily foreseen. Sympathy
with Spain over this debt Is pure crocodilian
hypocrisy. The United States Is no task
master In repudiating it In behalf of Cuba ,
but acts for common sense and common
honesty.
XOIVTII CAIIOMNA'S IIACB WAIl.
Serloun Htntc of AfTnlrn In Senator
TUlmuii'M Ilnlllirlek.
Washington Letter In Chicago Record.
The news from North Carolina Is more
and more alarming , and there seems to bo
a general expectation that If the negroes
offer to vote In the larger cities a great deal
of blood will bo shed and many lives lost.
It Is not merely a question of negro dotnlna-
'tlou , although that Is the ostensible Issue ,
but an attempt to enforce the right of tax
payers to rule a protest against universal
suffrage.
In Wilmington , for example , where the
greatest danger exists , the white people pay
06 per cent of 'tho ' taxes and own 97 per cent
of the property , but out of a total popula
tlon of 25,000 .the negroes cast 1,200 moro
votes than the whites , fill 78 per cent of the
offices and expend the money which the
whlto taxpayers contribute to the treasury.
For several years the tendency has been to
ward negro domination , and the white *
claim that It has already become Intolerable.
Therefore they naort to bullets to over
come ballots and openly proclaim tholr In
tention to kill the negro voters who have
the temerity to como to the poll's and ex-
crclso the rights guaranteed 'them by the
constitution. The city Is practically In a
state of siege and the ban has been placed
not only upon the colored race , but upon
all white men who encourage or defend
them tu asserting 'their ' rights.
It Is no secret movement. There Is no
Ku-Klux-Klan and no white-cap or
ganization. The crusade for the su
premacy of the taxpayer Is preached
from the pulpit , proclaimed in
the dally newspapers and asserted In every
shop and upon every street corner. Not only
must negro candidates for office be do-
featod. tut negroes who now hold ofllco
musl resign. Death la tha penalty In both
cases.
It ! s asserted that out of the fifty magis
trates In tto city of Wilmington thirty-six
arc negroes and most of them are extremely
Ignorant , although they have power to try
all casts of misdemeanor which do not go be
fore the criminal court. They can flno and
Imprison and they have Jurisdiction In prop
erty cases to an amount not exceeding $200.
There is a negro registrar of deeds , a negro
coroner , who Is not a physician ; negro po
licemen , appointed by the mayor and the
aldermen ; negro deputies , who cannot read
the warrants gyen | them to serve nor write
their own names.
The citizens are armed and make no secret
of the fact. There Is a new Ratling gun In
the local armory and 2,000 Winchester rifles
are said on trustworthy authority to be dis
tributed among private residences. In each
block of the city Is a lieutenant , whllo every
six blocks Is In charge of a captain. Each
block has Its place of refuge already se-
Ipcted , to which the women and children can
flee for safety when the race war breaks out
and where they will be protected by the
men of their vicinity. The same conditions
prevail In every city In the eastern part of
the state. In the western countle * the whites
are very larcely lii the majority.
OMAHA AMI TIIIJ IJXI'OSITIOX ,
llotli Co in in mill the Conntry'H Ailinl-
rntloti nnil t'oniiiK'Hilatlon ,
Chicago Tribune : The Transmlsslsulppl
Exposition at Ouiaha has closed Its doors ,
nnd the Omahans nro rejoicing , and not
without reason , that they Imvo closed with
a record of total attendance over 2.C23.000.
nnd a surplus ot nearly $100,000. That
shows good management. It Is u record-
breaker of which the officials have every
reason to bo proud. Again , all the mcdnls !
and diplomas will bo given out before the
exhibitors leave Omaha. That Is another
thing ot which to be proud. Hut there Is
n rift in this tuneful lute. The Wild West
show Is going Into court to get $30,000 , the
Oriental companies to get $50,000 moro , the
Streets of Cairo company for another $50-
000 , nnd the slot machlno man and several
other concessionaires want heavy damages
for alleged violations ot contract. If they '
are all successful the surplus may be wiped
out. Let us hope not , however. Omaha
deserves to Imvo that surplus.
Chicago TImes-Horald : Nothing but
good words and compliments are to bo given
to Omaha and "tho parts adjacent thereto"
for the splendid triumph ot the Tranamls-
Bisslppl Exposition. Rarely if ever has a
local exposition been moro attractive or
moro 'beautiful , and never has ono been more
fortunate financially. In this last respect' '
It has excelled the World's Columbian Ex
position , showing a surplus that will prob
ably repay all of the stockholders.
This was certainly a good investment for
the people of Omaha , who entertained , In
structed and amused over 2,500,000 guests
and gave world-wide fame to their city. The
Times-Herald takes equal pride with the
(
actual promoters of the exposition In Its
magnificent results , for they are a victory
for American character , courage and In
dustry. In these respects the exposition was
national.
Chicago sends greetings to Its younger
sister on the sunset side of the I3lg
Muddy !
Indianapolis News : The Omaha exposi
tion , which closed Monday night , was In
every way a brilliant success. It Is reputed
to have been the greatest exposition the
country has ever seen , with the single ex
ception of the great Columbian fair five
years ago at Chicago. In some respects , as
In the electrical , the mining and the agri
cultural display , Omaha surpassed even
Chicago. Moreover , the fair was a financial
success. We suppose this does not mean
that the Income paid all the coat of Installa
tion , for much of this was Ijorno by public
appropriations. But the revenues were suf
ficient to reimburse the men who ventured
their money In the enterprise. The exposi
tion speaks volumes for the energy and
faith of the people of Omaha nn ( Nebraska ,
who , through the recent years of stress , went
on with their preparations. This exposition
affords , also , an Impressive Illustration of
the vastness of our country. East of the
Mississippipeoplehavo known and cared little
about the exposition. Perhaps If the war
had not absorbed so much attention they
would have known moro of It , but as things
have been , they have failed to realize how
great the fair really was. It may bo , too ,
that the many expositions In recent years
have taken the edge off the public appetite.
But In the great new west , between the
Mississippi and the mountains , the pcoplo
have been vastly Interested , and from the
opening to the close of the fair have poured
Into Omaha by the tens of thousands. Wo
congratulate the city and the managers of
the fair on the great success they have
achieved.
Washington Dispatch to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat : The sale of the Trans-
mlsslsslppl Exposition stamps has more than
realized the expectations of the Postoffice
department. Up to date about $2,000.000
worth of them have been sold. Prob
ably about $350,000 of these have gone to
collectors. The department will continue
to Issue the cxpoBltlon stamps up to Decem
ber 31. The estimate of the third assist
ant postmaster general is that about
2,500.000 In all will bo issued. The stamps
were a great advertisement to the expn.tl-
tlon , attracting attention to it throughout
the world. The "Omaha stamps , " as th y
are called , are considered the handsomest
ever Issued by the department , and are In
great demand by stanp collectors every
where.
PERSONAL AMI OTHERWISE.
Senator Tillman never writes a speech and
rarely , if ever , depends on any notes.
William Brown , deputy keeper of the
records of Harvard. Is compiling a list of
all persons connected with the university
who served in the late war.
The latest Blander on Richard Crokcr Is
that ho consulted a fortune-teller who ,
however , does not seem to have disclosed
how Mr. Croker'B fortune was mado.
Prof. Edgar W. BOBS of the United States
Mlfitary academy at West Point , who has
Just been retired , has held the chair of
mathematics In that Institution since 1878.
A tablet to the memory of T. Buchanan
Reid , the poet , has been put In the front '
of his former Cincinnati home , Just below '
the window of the room where he wrote I
"Sheridan's Ride. " I
"Old Man Hearst , " the veteran prospector , I
who was Mark Twain's partner In the days
when the material for "Roughing It" was
gathered , Is still a miner and is working a
claim near the Black range In New Mexico.
Just 100 years ago Francis McKlnley ,
grcat-unclo of the president and master of
the old homestead in County Antrim , Ire-
laud , was one ot the prominent "United
Men" under Henry Joy McCracken In the
rebellion of ' 08.
The New York Times announces that the
successor to Harold Frederic as Its London
correspondent will be Henry Norman , who ,
as correspondent of the London Chronicle ,
nnd from several visits to America , is well
known on this side.
It Is said that when Judge Day nnd Sen
ator Gray were Introduced Into the court
room at the Dreyfus hearing the otbor
day they attracted more attention than
cither the lawyers or the wife of the un
fortunate Israelite.
President Eliot of Harvard said the other
day that the modern university sometimes
"develops a very peculiar human being , the
scientific specialist. Ho wants his name
known , not to millions , but to Dvo or six
students of the Latin dative case. He does
not make money , because , llko Louis Agns-
slz , ho hasn't time. "
A man named William Smith robbed the
railroad depot at Hunter's Creek , Mich. , ot
sorno express packages recently. The
agent's name Is Smith , as Is that of the
express company's representatives at that
place. The latter succeeded In running
down the culprit , who was brought before
Judge Smith ot the circuit courl and sen
tenced to the penitentiary.
Members of the Chicago Board of Trade
who visited the Omaha exposition last
month have commemorated their trip to the
exposition city by Issuing a beautifully
Illustrated pumphlet , which Is dedicated to
the passenger department of the Chicago ,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. It Is an ar
tistically devised llttlo book , whoso pages
are bound between tinted blue covers. It
contains In addition to the official cor
respondence between the travelers and the
railroad officials n complete description of
the trip > tu and from Omaha , with pictures
Illustrating various phases of the Journey.
On the last page appears this simple In
scription ; "Our motto : As we Journey
through life let us llvo by the way. " j
MILLIONS FOR THE PIIIMIMMXHH. J
Philadelphia Record : H will require very
substantial proof * of advantage to Justify
the United Stales In paying $10.000,000 $ for
thd title to Islands which the Spaniards have
never been able to completely posses * ,
Anxious ns some ot the European nations
npear to be for n stronger foothold in the
east , wo doubt If any of them would pay
$10,000,000 for the privilege of stepping Into
thu shoes ot Spain ,
New York Herald : Before discussing tlie
worth ot such an Indemnity It would bo
well to ascertain beyond cavil to whom the
money would bo paid. If It ROCS Into the
Spanish treasury there ts llttlo doubt that
the senate will ratify such A treaty as a fair
bargain ; If It should go Into the pockets
of holders ot Phlllpplno bonds there will be
loud protestation ! ) the country over , and
speculation In those bonds , which Is already
reported from Paris , would "become " n glar
ing scandal ,
Chicago Chronicle : Even If wo proposed
to Join the noble company ot robber nations
wo would flnd the Philippines dear , as Sen
ator Halo has suggested , If Spain should
glvo us $10,000,000 with them. U will tnko
an army of at least CO.OOO men to garrison
the Islands , to say nothing of the coat of
war ships or of civil administration , and
this army alone will cost us at least $100-
000,000 a year , unless wo Imitate the example
of the nations of continental Europe nnd re
sort to n system of compulsory military
service. Wo could not get halt this sum out
of the people of the archipelago , even If wo
should outdo Spain herself In merciless tax
ation. It will cost us more than $50,000,000
a year over and nbovo all the taxes wo
can squeeze out of the pcoplo whom we are
going to uplift as wo have been uplifting
the Indians 'for ' more than a century , nnd ns
seine of us nro now engaged In uplifting
the negroes In the southern states.
TESII'KRAXCU IN AMERICA.
StntlatlcH Show-Inn the Unlteil Stntcn
the Mont Temperate 'of Nation * .
Cincinnati Commcrclnl-Trlbuno.
The theory that this Is a bibulous nation
loses something In Its weight of odium by
a comparison of estimates In the matter of
liquor consumption with other countries.
There la the authority of Great Britain that
the United States Is the most temperate nn- 1
tlou in the world. The figures show a de
crease In the consumption of wine In this
country , whllo the malt liquors appear to
bo gaining In popular favor. i
The volatile and excitable French , ns I
usual , lead in the consumption of wine.
The 38,000,000 pcoplo of Franco drank In
1S9G ten times as much wine aa the pcoplo
of the United States , Great Britain and
Germany combined. The table of the Brit
ish Board ot Trade Is as follows :
CONSUMPTION OF WINE.
1S93. 1S9 ( ? .
Per Per I
Onl. Capita. Gal. Capita.
Ot. Britain. 13,768,000 .33 15.770.000 .01
France SIS.StH.OOO 21.31 1,137,22-1,000 29.EO
Germany * 550000'o i.oo
U. States . . 18,213,000 .32 1C.57S.OW .22
1S33. I 1 I
The fact that the maft liquors are grow
ing In favor In nil countries , not even ex
cepting France , Is shown In the following
table :
CONSUMPTION OF BEEIt.
1S93. 1S9S.
Per Per
Gal. Capita. Onl. Capita.
Gt. I3ritaln..973W5,000 27.1 1,211,529 , 0 W.70
Franco 1&2,9 > 2.000 4.fi 199,122,000 522
Germany . . . .908,2.12,000 198 1,333,090,000 23.50
U. Stolen . . .470,578,000 S.S 800,101,000 12.70
The statistics of the British Board of
Trade also show that the United States la
the most temperate of all nations In the
consumption of whisky. The per capita
consumption of this beverage In this country
has not kept pace with our population , but
has shown a marked decrease.
The statistics are Interesting , oa well ns
comforting. They offer some slight ground
for hope that In the cans to como the caimo
of temperance may reach Its fruition of
complete conquest by the uons and daughters
of Columbia.
RI1 > E FOR HOME RULE.
Powerful Evidence of the American
Spirit AIIIUIIK the Ciilmn * .
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It Is reported that General Wood on his
visit to Manzanlllo discovered that 2,000
Insurgents , COO ot whom are officers , wcro
asking , almost demanding , positions In the
civil service. This Is an unusually small
proportion of officers , but perhaps It em
braces all there are there. The 1,500 others
must 'be privates. It Is not the practice to
glvo offices to private soldiers until the
officers aru first served and It is not stated
whether there are offices enough to supply
each commissioned officer with a place In the
civil service.
The claim which these Insurgents put for
ward Is ono that appeals powerfully to the
professional office-seeker. If they do not get
offices they will have to go to work. Of
course the latter alternative Is not to bo
I thought of by llio officers. Apparently sauu
of the privates are willing to work , for It U
stated that the rank and fllo are > anxloui to
lay down their arm * , but the leaders will
not let them. If the officers were furnlihcil
with good positions In the civil service thry
would , ( loubtlcsK. consent to the disbanding
of the armed forces.
The dnunuit of General Rlos that the
mayor of Mnnznnlllo be removed bcrauta
ho Is not n Rlos man , notwithstanding he M
competent and faithful , shows that thu grn-
' oral Is not Imbued with the principles of
civil service reform , which wrro so cordially
endorsed by the republican party In thclf
last national platform.Vo can hardly blame
Rlos nnd his fellow-li.Biirgcnts for his atti
tude , since the very republicans hero who
were ro enthusiastic In their endorsement ol
the reform Idea In 1S36 nro literally raving
against It now as a tram ! , a humbug , an In-
sultera'blc ' Injustice. They are Insisting thai
It bo set aside anil nullified oven mori
strenuously than they Insisted on Its exten
sion two years ago. They are against U for
the same reason that the Insurgents desire
places. They cannot get along without the
offices. They are out of meat. What
are platform pledges , promises , veracity and
similar abstractions to the promptings ot
Insatiable hunger for place and perquisites ?
Perish the thought that solemn promise *
have any validity after the election.
LINKS TO A I.AV01I.
Cincinnati Enquirer : "I see , " raid tlm
Cumnilnsvlllo c.-w. "that there nre Hires
varieties of don that never bark , but I
never had the luck to sleep next door to
one of them ; never yet. "
Somcrvlllo Journal : The old comparison ,
"poorer than Job's turkey , " does great In
justice to the turkey , as you will admit If
you will stop to think of It for n moment.
If the turkey was poor , It was Job , und
not the turkey , who was to bin me.
Detroit Free Press : "I want a i"ilr of
ohortt , " said thu rural school teach * . , ns he
stepped Into one of the big department
Btorcs.
"What number ? " asked the pr'ltc clerk. '
"Two , of course , " wn the Indignant
answer. "Doss my appearance justify the
conclusion that I'm n centlpcdo ? "
Puck : Friend Some men nrc remarkably
unqratcful after you Imvo had thum elected.
The Boss YCM ; the moment some men nro
elected they begin to think they did It
themselves.
Detroit Journal : "Aha ! Then you de
cline to bleed further for Cuba llbrs ? "
"Caramon1 No ! It Is not I who decllno
to bleed ! It Is others who decllno to bo
bled ! "
Boston Transcript : HlgKlns Whnt Is It
you have nffulnsl Plnpcroe ? They say you
KO on awfully about him.
Wiggins Ho deceived me shamefully.
Ho made mo think ho pot $50 n week and
when I got his Job nwny from him I found
the pay was only half that amount.
Chicago Trlbuno : "You nre not capnblo
of a generous Impulse , " said the pcoldliiK
uncle. "Whnt have you ever done for
humanity ? "
"I've. Httendctl four oyster suppers given
for chnrlty this fnll ! " exclaimed the way
ward nephew , burning with righteous In
dignation.
Atlanta Constitution : "Well , " snld the
oM inly , "tlio wars' ' over. John's got his
pension , the mortgage ls > done paid oft the
irnle nn' now , If we could Jest have an
other war we could git the housn painted
nn' put a new door on the burn ! "
TIIUHU'LL COMU A TIMC.
The wondrous show nt last In o'er
We'll have some pence , porlmp" , once more ,
We II take ihe slcn down from the door ,
Which told of "Rooms for Kent , "
And then our thanks will free ascend ,
That It , nt last , has had nn end ,
And we'll bo Rind that over } ' friend
Took UD his trunk and went.
Of nil thlncs to bo thankful for.
Now thnt this greatest show Is o'er ,
Thoro's one wo did not know before ,
Who our relations nre.
And though wo never had a chance
To think how many uncles , nunts. - ,
And other kin tro'had , pcrHkrtce- '
We Itnow , though scattered far. ' '
First some old man wo never saw
Showed up In our Kront Omaha ,
And then some nwoet nleco with her man ,
Ciimo on to swell the crowd ;
And then they'd toll how they had planned
To como and shnko our honored hand ,
And visit in our city Brand
So "foro the storm wo. bowed.
And then they'd stny perhnps n week ,
Ami e cr fnrewell they'd ceased to apeak ,
Out In the back yard we would sneak
And breath n thankful sigh ;
And then , e'er they were out of sight ,
Another hncklond would nllght ,
Relations , too. oh , what n fright ,
Wo wished thnt we could die.
So they would como nnd they would go ,
The whole darn family back nnd fro ,
Whllo we would try to let them know
That wo were Bind they camu :
And nfter they had stayed their stny ,
They'd go rejoicing on their way ,
Whllo we would kick the livelong day ,
And cuss our ancient name.
nut now , nt last , the show Is o'er.
There's one thine we nre living1 for.
To see our relations tralore.
Say , thnt will be hot stuff.
Next summer we will trnvel 'round ,
And sec reliitlons newly found.
Oh , wo il be even , I'll be bound ,
If wo live lone MioiiRli.
Omnhn. Neb. No J& *
TiM [ IS MONEY
In the final setllement of the interests of the
Henry W. King estate , in the business of Browning ,
King & Co. , it becomes imperative that wo dispose of
our wholesale part ot the business and the large
etock manufactured for that branch of fho business ,
in the shortest time possible. Time is money to us
in this transaction and our necessity is to your imme
diate advantage. We have never sold finer winter
clothing before at anything like the present prices
and while the stock lasts a money saving opportunity
is presented to all our customess.
Men's Suits from $7.50. to - $20.00
Men's Overcoats from $10 to - $25
Boys' Suits from $2,50 to - - $6.00
These goods are marked way below their true \
value , and wo ask you in good faith not to neglect
this chance.
Browning , & Co
S , W. Cor. 15th and Douglas.
