vlf THE DAILY JBEE : TUESDAY NOVEMBER U The Omaha Bee. I'ahllfthod every morning , except Sun day. The only Aland ay morning dally. TERMS BY MAIL- One Year..810 05 I Three Months.$3.00 Six Months , . 6.00 | Ono Month. . . . 1.00 Till ! WEEKLY BKB , published every Wednesday. TXKMS TOST PAID- One Year ? 2 00 I Three Months. fX ) Six Month * . . . . 1.00 I Ono Month. . . . 20 AMERICAN NBWS COWPANV , Hole Agents for Newsdealer * In the United States , CORRESPONDENCE All Communt- cation * relating to News and K'lltorlal matters ohnnlii be addressed to the Kntion or THK HKK. BUSINESS LETTERS-AM B.tslnes Letters and Remittance * should bo id dressed to THE Umtl'unuH IIINO COMPANY OMAHA. Drafts , Checks nnd PostofHco Orders to bo made payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING 00 , , Props , K. UO8EWATER , Editor MOTTO for the Third ward judges o election : "This time don't count. " JAY IIUHDELL'H district wont republican lican by 11,000 for another man. E. K. TO ins ? C clerk : Slap on tbo whitowath , let It thine , And I will be your Valentino. FIIOM the accounts in the Now York papers it looks as if Mrs , Liugtry is an actress for rovonno only. NOTHING succeeds like success , ant Boa Butler's admirers nro already talking of the White House 1884. OASTINO its ayes towards Massaohu- setts , the Louisville Couricr-Journa remarks that it never did believe that spoon story anyway. WHATKVEU else the election in the Third district showed , it made it perfectly foctly plain that the majority of voters didn't want E. K. Valentino. TUB belief that Sf John was a tool of the railroads contributed to his defeat feat in Kansas. The time lias come when no railroad candidates need apply. WILLIAM MoAcoo , the fearless antimonopoly - monopoly advocate in Jersey City , N. J , , was triumphantly elected to con. gross over the Pennsylvania railroad candidate from his district. It is evident that William did't MoAdoo about nothing. GENERAL SHKIIMAN readily falls in with the suggestion made In General Crook's last report from the Depart ment of the Platte , regarding the con centration of troops at a small num ber of posts on or near the railroads , and the building of permanent and substantial barracks of brick or atone for the companies , which may bo sta tioned at thuso military centres , Ha aays : "Tho tlmo is now como for a radical change in the whole system of piecemeal work in quartering the troops of the United States. For a hundred years wo have been swooping acrots the continent with a skirmish line , building a post hero and another there , to bo abandoned next year for another line , and BO on. Now wo are across and have railroads every whore , BO that the whole problem Is changed , and 1 advise the honorable secretary of war to go to congress with a plan than will approximate permanency in stead of , as heretofore , mooting specific temporary wants by apooial ' w appropriations , often in the interest 'l of private parties. " Ho recommends that the following posts in the department of the Platte should bo hold permanently , and that quarters should be erected of brick or stone for the number of companies mentioned : Fort Omaha , ton com panics ; FprtD. A. Russell , Ohoyonno. ysix companies ; Fort Douglas , Utah , six companies ; Fort Laramie , Wyoming , sircompanios. Fortho , improvement and enlargement of those and a num her of other military posts in otner donattmoms , General Sherman recom mends that the secretary of war ask of congress annually $ L,000,000for five years , to bo expended at his diacrctloi by the oflhurs of the quartermasters department , and by that process he thinks wo will have for the whole army an abundance of good quarters which will ouduro for DO years. ! > wil bo remembered that early last spring plans and specifications were drawi up under Goncnl Crook's direction for the enlargement and improvement of Fort Omaha ou the basis of a toi company post , and an estimated expenditure pondituro of over $102,000. It ma ) not generally be known that the com blued efforts of the Minnesota and Kansas delegations have f always been directed ugains any appropriations to the dopartmenl of the Platte which would seem to usure iU permanency , as Fort Omaha was considered as detracting from tin importsnco of Forts Snelling ana Leavonwcrth. The efforts of our con groulonal delegation should now bo directed to securing such aid fron congress as will secure to both head quartern and line in Omaha and its vicinity ihe needed accommodations I and quun Ta , whoso substantial con lj atruotion tiill bean earnest of thuir permanency , tftjd the definite location for fifty years to como of the depart ment of the Plat to and a large garri son In our city and its outskirts. A DANGEROUS MOVEMENT. Tho.o are Indications that the greal railway corporations are preparing for an aggressive movement , and are mar- ehalling their forces for the repeal o ell laws intended to sccnro free com petition or to put any bounds to mo nopoly methods and extortions. The St. Louis rost-Diyatdi points to the fact that their newspaper organs , both republican and democratic , are teem ing with articles and specious arrays of figures pretending to prove that the great railway consolidations have vol untarily reduced transportationchargos below the maximum rates fixed by law , and have thereby increased the price of labor. The Omaha Republi can is a good inatanco in point. It asks us to believe that the selfish cunning of unrcsttioted monopoly , looking only to dividends on period ically watered stock , will provo a bat. tor safeguard of the public interest than any "demagogue statute , " and that all legislation vgainst monopoly combinations and consolidations , or for the purpose of restraining extortion tortion nnd fraudulent nnd un just discrimination , is unwiao and hurtful to the industries of the country , Thouo arguments , artfully prepared to blind the public , and to convince the savoring , are being - ing spread broadcast by the monopoly press , They are intended as preliminary nary to more effective measures in the various legislatures throughout the country , not excepting that of No braskn. The success of monopoly alllano3 with corrupt politicians has stimulated the hope that n general movement nlong the line may carry the day. In republican Ponnsyl va'nla and in democratic Mis sourl the restrictive measures of the constitution have boon trampled under foot through the connivance nivanco of the dominant party in each of those states. In our own state the provisions of the Dcano law and the statute providing for the taxation of corporate property have boon defied through the liberal purchase or bull dozing of officials and by monopoly control of the state board of equaliza tion. It is now announced that n powerful cifbrt will bo made next winter to repeal the Illinois railroad and warehouse law , and that the managers of the movement are con- Idont that they will at least succeed n practically nullifying this law by laving the board of railway commis sioners abolished. It is expected that ho democrats and one faction of the republicans will lend themselves to his movement ou the ground that the joardhas become a more political maohlno in the hands of the exeou- ive. Bays the Pott-Dispatch ; "Wo have aeon BO much of this sort of thing that t has oreatod In the popular mind a profound distrust of the managers of rath parties in connection with quos- Ions of thU character , and if they are wise they will recoil from the brink on which they are treading. It would bo well for the great corpora- ions and their allied monopolies if hey also couldonly bo induced to in- ortain a suspicion that their power over politicians may bo once too often flaunted in the face of an indignant lubllo. Already the prevailing boliot a that their attorneys and trained cohorts of retainers are in every caucus andwiold too much influence in di recting the action of every party convention. The fact that a few colossal aggregation of capital in pos session of all the transportation of our vast domain have combined to put down all competition , to sustain each other in violating laws , and to exact from overawed or corrupted officials the privilege of charging "all the traf fie will boar , " or of discriminating as they please in the exorcise of an nuto cratia power over every interest and every industry of this country , la ciuoo for alarm and for counteracting organization upon the part of the poo- plo. And sooner or later the power of the people to uphold their conatllu tion , to enforce their laws and to exact < act a strict loyalty from their public servants , will assert itself. The only danger is that the final provocation may urge thorn too far. Already the talk of putting down the overgrown and arrogant power of the corporations is swelling to a na tional chorus. At present it goes no furthur than the suggestion of laws limiting aggregations of corporate capital , providing for the periodical decease of corporations and for put ting them to death and confiscating their property for cauao , ( hat they may bo like persons , more amenable to the police power , and moro carol ul about the part thuy take in loxiclation. The hwtinct of Bolf-prctorvation should in struct them to pay a little less atten tion to conventions and legislatures , and u little moro respect to laws up proved by the people at the ballot box , Churches have been disestab lished and vouerablo religious commu nities broken up and dispossessed of their property ou less provocation than is implied iu a policy which-can bo oxprrssod iu the words of Vauder- bill , "Tho public bo d d. " TUB Slate Journal , vhlch has fat tened off the Nebraska public treasury by Us successive printing steals , is again out with the advertisement ol proposals for public printing , The coming legislature will do well to keep a closely okinuod eye on the Lincoln and Omaha sharks who had to fly to Colorado two years ago to escape testi fying bcfora the committee appointed to uncover their frauds. PROHIUITION AND THE ELEC TIONS. Wo shall hoar leas of prohibition as a political issue. Tuesday's elections have settled forever the question , and popular opinion has assorted itself BO strongly at the polls that the iasno of sumptuary legislation is not likely over again to bo dragged into the arena of party politics. Temperance will continuo - tinuo to bo agitated , nnd very properly. The propriety of high license laws f jr taxing the traffic in liquor will still bo canvassed and their advisability as party measures In legislatures m&y bo discussed , but the tyranny of the prohibition movement has received Its death blow In the same election which overthrow the tyranny of politi cal bosses , A glance over the field is only necessary to show how complete and circumstantial the verdict was. The prohibition iasuo entered into the political struggle cither directly or indirectly in six. states. In Ohio nnd Indiana the republi can party was credited with favoring thin invasion of personal lib. orty. In neither was a prohibitory law directly voted upon. In conso- quonoa the attack of the opponents of prohibition was directed to the repub lican candidates with the result ot alienating enough republican votes to have cost the party the day if no other influence had boon at work. In Ne braska fully 5,000 republican votes changed on the same account , and In Wisconsin the loss of three congress men was the result of like causes. But Iowa and Kansas are the monumental mental oxamplcsof the results of party trifling with the prohibition mania. If any two states could have boon considered safely republican , they were the ones. But , unfortunately for republicanism , the party openly identified itself with the prohibition ists. In both states u prohibitory amendment was secured by republi can assistance , and voters on Novem ber 7th expressed at the polls their opinion ot the measure and its opera tion. In Iowa a republican majority of 80,000 was cut down to 15,000 , and three members of congress were lost , in a state where the average republi can majority in each district had boon 3,000. The reaction was so universal , so marked and so emphatic that there can bo no mistaking its moaning. And Kansas , blooding Kansas , whose republicanism was deemed aa solid and unflinching as the Bock of Ages lansas , which two years ago elected a republican governor > y a majority of 00,010 votes , and wont headlong Into the prohibi tion net which ho oaat for the party Kansas , the state of St. John , de feated the arch apostle of prohibition- ism by a rousing majority , and to show just what that defeat meant , elected the remainder of the republi can state ticket. The people have pronounced their verdict , and party managers will not mistake its significance. The order ot the universe cannot be overturned \ > y statutory enactment. Imprac ticable legislation in the end defeats itself , and the tyr anny of undue and un necessary restraint is sooner or'la ter repudiated by the people. Ne braska has dealt with the temperance question in a sensible and straightfor ward manner. It has im posed a high license upon liquor selling , and thrown the business into responsible hands. It has provided for its schools and compelled the liquor dealers directly and the liquor drinkers Indirectly , to contribute towards the maintenance of her system of education. By BO much it has lightened the burden of taxation. While prohibition moans free whhky , as has boon proved in every instance whora the law has Rene In effect , a wall enforced license law moans the repression of the worst evils connected with the traffic. And it la the appreciation of this fact which made itself apparent in the late elections , and which will provout in our own state any further dalliance on thu part of republicanism with the prohibition bait. ALTHOUGH the now congress will not moot until a year from the coming' December , the scramble among doino- cratio politicians for the spoakorahip has already begun. Among the can- didntca already mentioned are Randall of Pennsylvania , Morrison of Illinois , Blackburn and Carlisle of Kentucky , Tucker of Virginia , and Uurd and Converse of Ohio. The objection being urged against Sim llandall is that ho is not in favor of revenue reform while the people of the United States plainly aro. This will ba the chief ground of opposition to him ou thn part of the southern members. On the other hand complaints are made of Mr. Hurd's too bold advo cacy of absolute , free trade. A demo crat holding middle ground between the two , iu other words a good strad dler on a question which is attracting moro and moro attention will probably bo selected. TUB legislature of Illinois is cer tainly republican. There will be a vacancy In Divid Davis iron braced chair THE PAVI NO QUESTION. Now that election is over , the ques tion of paving Tenth street will again como to the front. It cannot be sot1 tied any too soon , If the contracts are lot within ton days no work can bo done until spring. The quarries will bo kept busy all winter getting out the atone and the grading and preparation ot the bed for the blocks cannot bo begun until the frost is out of the ground. But for all this the Board of Public Works ought to lot the contracts in accordance with the petitions of the property onners on Tenth street , the expressed wishes of our citizens and the mandate of the City Council. There haa already boon too much do- lay. Thora has also boon some un derhand work which has aroused sus picions that members of the board have private interests to forwarded by postponing the letting of the contracts with Sioux Falls granite. Trips to U. P. headquarters have boon too num erous on behalf of certain par ties to escape attention and the hard fight which is being made for an inferior paving material gives good grounds for the belief that a niggor is concoalcd somewhere in the wood pilo. pilo.When When the idea of creating n board of public works was first broached this paper advanced as , an objection the possibility off just ouch a deadlock as has slnco taken place. It suggested that antagonism between the council and the members of the board , consti tuted oa it is , was certain to result , and that any two members could combine to sot at defiance the wishes of the property owners whom it was their duty to servo. It remains to bo soon whether the persistence of Messrs. Barker nnd Wilson in their opposition to granite pavements will require legal action to compel them to perform thojr duties ncco'rding to law. Of ono thing they may bo certain. Omaha is determined to have durable and substantial pave ments. She will not bo satisfied with anything olao. Her people are in no mood fo/r / experimenting with materi als which have proved to bo n failure olaowhoro. The cost of paving our atroots will be lee heavy to permit any such waste of money. Granite is the only approved pavement for heavy traffic. It has boon tried in our larg- cot cities and not found wanting. And wo very much mistake the temper of our people if they do not succeed in securing the kind of pavement that they want. THE SULTAN'S WIVES- A Country Where the Monarch Is Compelled to Marry Once a Year. Constantinople Correspondence Philadel phia Press. It does not appear to be generally known that the sultan is obliged to marry many women against his will ; yet such Is the case , and at least ones in each year , whether his majesty be young or old , sick or well , does the taw of the country oblige him to marry. This law haa not always been In force , but was Introduced by the Sholch-ul-lslam , or head of the shurch , about 169 years ago , to force Sultan Solim who , wishing to abolish polygamy , kept ono wlfo only , to maintain and uphold the ancient and authorized custom. The ceremony of the Caliyh's marriage is so important an event that a description of it will Interesting. The prophet's birthday , or rather birthnight , aa the Moslem's call it , is a festival com mencing at sunset of the 18th day of Bamazan , and ending at sunrise of the following morning , thus making a purely night holiday. It is after the holiday of the Courtian Balram , which took place only a few days ago , and at which General Wai- loco , United States minister to Tur key , assisted the greatest of Moham medan festivities. Besides being a religious holiday , it is a national ono also , as on thus very night Constanti nople was taken by the Turks after a slego whioh4 lasted many years , dur ing which not a few thousand of the faithful were sent to El Wady , or Paradise. Constantinople during thia night , which the Turks have named Kadir Gogoisl , presents an appear ance which can nowhere else bo equal ed , ns , although Europeans may in vent all sorts of artificial means of illumination , there is no spot ou the fuco of the earth which presents such natural beauty , and the immto taste of the splendid and magnificent for which Orientals are famed , is fully appreciated on the birthnight of the prophet.- v * AjJtOVKI , WAY OK ILLUMINATING , v The mode ot illuminating is in Itself exceedingly simple , consisting of i'mall lamps filled with water of many colors , at the top of which oil is burned. Millions of them are ueod on all the public buildings , and , indeed , on every building , rich or poor , in thu town. The bridges over the Golden Horn are studded with light , and so are all the ships nnd the mcn > of-wnr ; both in the inner and outer harbor. The most beautiful , however , of all are the thousands of moaquoa , whoso uiinarots have the up- pearauco of enormous flaming spaare , and as the city is built on seven hills the whole presents an appearance - poaranco not easy to bo forgotten. For many days previous to the cere mony the palace officials are busily engaged in selecting the girls who will bo allowed 'to bo present on the even ing of the Kadir Gegosai , and from whom his majesty will select ono as wlfo. Singular as it may appear to Americans , there la hardly a Moham medan family which does not do its host to got its daughters Into the harem , although they know full well that it U already adorned with some hundreds of wives or slaves of great beauty , and from all countries. i'OUTIOAI. INFLUENCE IK THK HAREM , The original custom was that girls of all ranks and conditions of society should take their chauoos on the birth night of the prophet , but now much influence , both political and financial , is brought to boar on the officials selecting the maidens that few , if any , of the poorer classes are over permitted to enter the lists. These officials accept bribes and presents from peasants and guardians , and make decent fortunes every year nt the time of selection. Towards the close of the reign of Soltan Abdul Mcdgid , that monarch ono night refused to select a wife from amongst those who ' were presented to him , 'and breaking through the ring , selected n poor girl who was standing in the crowd soiling flowers , to the astonishment of nil the Pashas and Boys pros ont. , For several years after this the officials conscientiously did their duty , selecting the prettiest girls , irrespect ive of the positions or influence of their parents ; now , however , bribery and corruption will open the door to a rich girl , to the detriment of a poor ono , who may bo over so much moro beautiful than the favored ono. The number of maidens allowed to compete is 101 , and when the election is com plete , invitations or rather imperial commands , nro issued for them to nttend , with instructions ns to dross. The dross consists of a largo white linen shoot thrown ever the shoulders in Iloman fashion , and sandals to the foot. All the maidens have to drcas alike , leaving their hair hanging , and no gems or ornaments of nny descrip tion nro permitted. HOW THE SELECTION 18 MADE. On the night of the ceremony the sultan proceeds to the auliomnnich moequo on the Stamboul side of the Golden Horn , accompanied by nil the palace officials , ministers of state and pashas , all in gala uniform , nnd. sur rounded by his nids-do-camp in their picturesque costumes representing the various nationalities ever which his majesty reigns supremo. The streets through which he passes are lined with ooldiors , who , to raako the scone more , tffjctivo nnd to illuminate their master's passage , have Chinese lanterns stuck on their bayonets , nnd military bands play the sultan's march at short distances along the route. Arriving at the Suloimanlch mosque , his majesty is conducted to the holy carpet , whereon ho al ways stands during the service , and where ho hears the regulation sermon , or rather ndvico , preached by the Shoichul-Ealum , in which he is en joined to bo a good and true Mussul man , and to take warning by the mis hap which befol his ancestor Solina in that very mosque , bocau&o ho took only ono wife unto himself. His majesty otays in the building for about halt nn hour , after which ho proceeds to the square facing the nlosquo , where ? roat preparations are made for iiis reception. On a largo tem porary elevation are all the digni taries of the state , the clergy of the Imams , Mollahs , and Hawagas occupying the places of honor. In the centre la a pavillion of scarlet velvet , embroidered in gold , with the "Tou- rah" or sultan's monogram , which is always the official emblem ot Turkey , banging in each corner. It is covered at the top , and supported by four sil ; vor columns , thus leaving the sides open. In the pavilion are the Sheich- ul-Ifllam and the heir to the throne , while around it stand the 101 maidens drawn in the form of a complete cir cle , each maiden being attired in the regulation white sheet and holding a towel in her hand , which , being sub ject totno restrictions , vary In color , design and quality. After a short prayer , the heir to the throne approaches the sovereign and , kneeling , offers him two pigeons , which he begs of him to sacrifice to the Almighty and invoke his assis tance in selecting from amongst the bystanding maidens ono who will be come a faithful wife , a loving mother , an ornament to thn crown and an example - ample to other women. The sultan then takes a knife from his bolt , ftnd , kneeling himself , sacrifices the pig eons , invoking the help of the prophet in the selection which ho is about to make , after which ho rises and pro ceeds to wash his hands in a golden basin hold by the Shiok-ul-Islam. Hi ) majesty ia in no hurry to finish his ablutions , however. On the con trary he proceeds exceedingly slow , carefully scanning the pretty girls surrounding the pavilion meanwhile. It must bo no easy matter to deter mine , seeing that all the competing damsels are very graceful and beauti ful , and many a little heart must bo throbbing terribly while this examina tion goes on. Some of the Caliphs have been known to continue washing their hands for an hour , while others have made their selections In a few minutes ; but it has boon generally remarked that the younger the Sultan is the sooner ho washes his hands. As ho advances in years , however , ho becomes more diffi cult to please , and being experienced , takes his time , proceeding with great deliberation. Having made up his miud ho leaves the pavilion and goes straight up to the maiden ho has se lected , and takes from her hands the towel she ia holding , upon which ho wipes his wet hands. No sooner has ho made the refection than the poor , flurried creature , who by this act has become the wife of the highest in the land , ia immediately seized by half n dozen attending eunuchs , who thrown thick veil ever her and rush her off tea a crrriago , which is made for the pur pose , the windows of which are of dark glass , so that nobjdy can sea through them , and the is galloped off to the palace. The bands strike up , the artillery roars , the people shout , thu officials congratulate his majesty ou hid wieo selection , and the aultun him self looks highly pleased. The palace treasurer then throws ba s of small coins to the crowd , and while they are scrambling for their possession the culiph loaves the pavilion , nnd mount ing his horan , returns to the seraglio , the chances being that months will elapse before ho again thinks of his now wife , whoisloadinga lifoof idleness and luxury in the harem , never Booing anybody but her "coiidooura" and the attending eunuchs. M. Novripnpor .Editor. O , M , Ilolcomb , of Bloomville. Ohio , riae * to explain : "Had th&t terrible dU- ease catarrh , for twenty years ; couldn't tiute or smell , and hearing waa falling. Thomai' Etltctnc Oil curttl nt , Theae are facU voluntarily given acalnet a former prejudice of patent medicine. " McCAKTHY&UQRKE , Undertakers , 218i4TH ST. , BET. FARNAM AND DOUGLAS. COFFEE AND SPICE ilLLS. Roasters and Grinders of Ooffess and Spices , Manufacturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDER I Clark's Double Extracts of BLUEING , INKS , ETC. JI. G. 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