THE OMAHA DAILY JIEEl SATUHDAY , DECEMBER 10 , 1808.
TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE ,
E. KOSI3WAT13R , Editor.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska , Douglas County , ss. :
George B. Tzschuck , secretary of The Bee
Publishing company , being duly sworn ,
nays that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally , Morning ,
Evening and Sunday Bee , printed during
th month of November 1693 , was as fol
lows :
l zn.oin 16 21,4 : i
2 24,877 17 21,115
t 34,831 18 24,07(1
4 24.U3O 19 2UUU (
S 24,805 20 24UtU !
< 85,28(1 ( 21 25,7Ua
7 34.1122 22 24,281
8 24,801 23 25,01)2 )
9 30.7.1O 24 24l > 27
10 27,832 25 IM.OHI
11 24,427 26 23i2t : :
12 24,200 27 24.H55
13 24,825 28 2U.NN1
14 24m2 29 2I.7H1
15 24,300 30 24.42U
Total , .747.ii4 :
Less unsold and returned copies. . . . I0i2s
Net total sales 7:11,80 :
Net dally average K4iuu :
GEOIIGE B. TZSCHUCK.
Sworn to before m and subscribed In my
presence this 30th day of November , 1898.
N. P. FEIL ,
Notary Public.
Frank Ransom's partner will not bo
city attorney for awhile yet.
The Omaha Evening Bee Is the newspaper -
paper of largest circulation In Douglas
county.
Under modern medical science even
smallpox has .become a comparatively
harmless contagion.
The B.CQ does not have to give Its ad
vertising away. Advertising worth hav
ing Is worth paying a fair price for.
Charter revision committees are al
ready In active operation In Lincoln ,
South Omaha and other Nebraska cities.
Now let the Omaha committee get to
work.
A business i legislature conducted on
business methods , giving the people leg
islation in the Interest of economy , Is
the demand of the people irrespective
of political party.
With a new trial ordered , in the Oerter
gambling case the efforts of the gam
blers' gang to have the attorney who
defended Oerter appointed to prosecute
him will be redoubled.
The ice harvest has commenced , but
the harvest of the Ice companies Is de
ferred until next summer , when people
will probably bo compelled as usual to
pay prices prevailing in the tropics.
The decision of the supreme court In
the Bartlcy bond case is hardlycalcu ,
lated to give encouragement to State
Treasurer Meserve In his quest of sure
ties on his new official bond.
If congress does not expedite the army
reorganization bill It will not bo for lack
of pressure from the friends of volun
teers whose mustering out must await
the enlargement of the regular army.
Hostilities will now be resumed be
tween the state of Nebraska and the
Hartley bondsmen. There is still room
for hope that a portion of the vacuum
In the state treasury may bo refilled.
The Bartley bond case will go to a
trial shortly and the sheriff will be
given another chauco to impress a few
moro intelligent jurymen into the serv
ice who never even heard of such a man
as Bartley.
The local popocratlc organ finds It
hard to determine over which it shall
shod the roost tears the extinction of
the Broatch claim to the mayoralty or
the nufflnc out of the Hcrdman gang
of outlaw police commissioners.
Applicants for liquor licenses or drug
gists' permits will toke notice that by
the decision of the supreme court of Ne
braska The Omaha Evening Bco is the
newspaper of largest circulation by law
entitled to the publication of all license
notices.
The War Investigating commission Is
attempting to llnd out why the Spanish
prisoners of war were sent home at the
expense of thltj government. That Is an
easy one. It was cheaper to send them
homo than to feed them , especially In
view of. the appetites cultivated by long
continued short rations.
Tbo announcement from Lincoln that
the populist state committee had settled
up the financial affairs of the late cam
paign with still a balance In the treas
ury will be ad news to the hungry
popocrats who see no chance of securing
a dividend until another campaign. A
campaign surplus Is a sure sign of cam
paign mismanagement
The report comes from Chicago that
all hard and fast agreements regarding
freight and passenger trafllc having
been declared Illegal , the railroad man
agers will adopt another plan to etop the
mutual throat-cutting. Each Hue is to
nmko its own tariff ehect , so thu fact
that thu rates from all competitive
points are the sumo on all roads will bo
only a coincidence. In the railway ver
nacular this will be no pool , no traffic
association , but simply "an agree
ment , " and when It Is all done the pub
lic pays the freight
A HIUIITBUUS
Nebraska taxpayers will hall with
satisfaction the righteous order of tlio
supreme court for a now trial In ilia
Hartley bond cane1. At the time the ver
dict was broughtIn last February , wip
ing out all liability of the sureties on
the bond , The Bi'o denounced It as an
unmltlgatqd outrage in the following
emphatic language :
The verdict rendered by the jury In the
suit brought by the state to recover on the
bond at Joseph S. Hartley the amount em
bezzled by him during his second term as
state treasurer li an unmitigated outrage
upon the people of Nebraska as well as a
travesty upon law and justice. The make-up
(
of this jury made It practically certain from
the start that the state could not secure a
verdict at Its hands whatever the proofa
might be. Out nobody , not even the attorneys
of the defending bondsmen , believed that
these twelve men couM be persuaded to
bring In a finding relieving Bartley and his
sureties from all responsibility.
The evidence presented In the bond suit
was the eamo as that upon which Bartley
had been convicted of embezzlement and
sentenced to a twenty-year term In the peni
tentiary. The charge of the judge positively
Instructed the jury that the bond was valid
and that the bondsmen must be held re-
sponslbfo for whatever shortage was proved
to have originated during the.t.wo yca.rg for
which Ita given. While there might have
been an honest difference of opinion as to
the amount embezzled by Bartley during his
second trrn , no honest man who heard and
undercut he charge could render a ver
dict thai ould nullify the bond and release
the suretu. . from every dollar of obligation.
The proa that a verdict In favor of the
state was demanded a * a vindication of Gov
ernor Holcomb's action In approving the
bond Is very Ingenious , but It Is not for a
jury to rob the taxpayers In order to cen
sure the governor. The governor's reckon
ing must be with the people at the ballot
box or with the legislature when It cornea
to review his acts. A censure that costs the
taxpaylng public of Nebraska from $400,000
to $600,000 Is rather en expensive way of
expressing displeasure.
In bringing In such an outrageous verdict
In defiance of the Instructions of the court
the jury throws upon Douglas county the
burden of another costly re-trial which the
supreme court win undoubtedly order. It
la bad enough that this county has been
obliged to stand the enormous expense of
Dartley'a criminal prosecution with the In
cidental coat of boarding him for en Indefi
nite time. To Impose upon the county -the
further burden of & third trial of the bond
suit Is 'utterly without justification.
The case against the Bartley bonds
men will have to be tried again and it is
hoped with better success for the state.
The legislature , however , should reim
burse Douglas county for the tremendous
deus expense it has been put to in the
prosecution of Bartley and his bonds
men because this expense properly be
longs to- the people of the whole state.
OBJECT LESSON FOlt FREE TRADERS.
An English paper remarks that the
American export figures are so prodig
ious as to confound free traders and thu
time has arrived for England to con
sider her whole economic position.
While the exports of the United States
have been rapidly increasing , at no
time more so than since the present
tariff act went Into effect , the export
trade of England has declined. A
short time ago the president of the Brit
ish Board of Trade said he regretted to
have to confess that the exports for the
year which ended with October had
decreased $13,000,000 , "chiefly through
the alteration of the United States tar
iff " further that "
, observing "although
wo ought not tO'be surprised that we are
being so rapidly overhauled in exports
by other nations , especially by the
United States and Germany , It is a re
grettable fact that while since 1801 the
exports of the United States have in
creased 18 per cent , Great Britain's ex
ports have decreased 5 per cent. " But
such facts have no weight with the
American free traders , who go on in
sisting that our tariff policy Is a hin
drance to our export trade.
It should be understood that British
reference to our exports relates entirely
to manufactured products. It is the in
crease in this direction that Is signifi
cant. This it is that completely upsets
the free trade contention that our pro
tective policy kept us out of the world's
markets and that we could never expect
Industrial supremacy until we aban
doned that policy and adopted the Brit
ish economic system. The facts are most
conclusive against free trade doctrine ,
yet It continues to have adherents and
advocates , though evidence is not lackIng -
Ing that their number is decreasing.
CARELESS PEA'SION LEGISLATION.
At the last session of congress Sen
ator Galllnger , chairman of the senate
pension committee , referred , dcprccat-
ingly to the carelessness and haste of
pension legislation. He said that of the
many private pension bills Introduced at
every session very few received the con
sideration that should bo given such
measures , but they were rushed through
regardless of their merits. The New
Hampshire senator Is a sincere friend
of the pension system , but he had seen
so much abuse of It In this way that
he felt it to be bte duty , as it unques
tionably was , to call attention to the
matter and to urge that more considera
tion bo given to these bills.
Senator Vest of Missouri has an
nounced that he proposes to have a stop
put to this sort of loose pension legisla
tion. Ho declared in the senate on
Thursday that "this thing of passing a
lot of pension bills simply by the reading
of the ttltlcs and when a quorum of the
senate is not present has got to be
stopped. " The chairman of the pension
committee agreed with him and so will
the people. Everybody desires that
those who have a just claim upon the
beneficence of the government shall re
ceive it , but it Is the duty
of the representatives of the people
to know that the claims for pension
presented to them are just and meritori
ous and it is a gross Injustice to thu people
ple to allow sucu claims without having
given them adequate investigation. The
statement of Mr. Vest that pension bills
are passed in the senate simply by the
reading of their titles and when a quo
rum of the scnato Is not present Is a
serious reflection upon that body. Doubt
less the house of representatives Is
guilty of the sumo looseness. .Such
careless voting away of the public
money cannot bo too strongly condemned
and with the pension account steadily
growing It is time to put an end to
hasty and reckless pension legislation.
There Is no demand on thu government
which calls for closer scrutiny than that
of pounlon and there Is none that \ \
given lea * . A change In this particular
will meet with universal approval and
thcro can bo no doubt would effect a
considerable saving to the national treas
ury.
AX OUST/Icorm ; TKKATV.
A resolution has been Introduced In
the United States senate declaring It to
be the sense of that body that the presi
dent enter into negotiations with the
government of Oicut Britain for the
purpose of abrogating or modifying the
Olnyton-Hulwer treaty "DO far and to
the extent that the MI inn may be
deemed to prevent the United States
from owning , constructing , controlling
or operating an Intcroeeanlc canal
ncrons the isthmus of Darleu. "
This treaty , negotiated forty-eight
years ago , Is held by some to Interpose
an absolute barrier to the acquisition of
military control of the Nicaragua canal
by the United States. It provides that
neither Great Britain nor the United
States shall In peace or hi war ever ac
quire "any exclusive control over the
said ship canal , " that "neither will erect
or maintain any fortifications command
ing the same" and that the two govern
ments will guarantee the neutrality of
the canal and Invite other nations to
enter Into similar agreements with
them. It has been urged by some of
our statesmen that the treaty has In
effect been abrogated by reason of the
violation of some of Its terms by the
British government , but others hold
that It is still in force and it Is needless
to say that this Is the British view. He-
ferrlng to what President McKInley
said In his message favoring the con
struction of a translsthmlau canal the
London Times said : "If the freedom of
the waterway Is secured to the ships
of all nations , as In the Suez canal , we
shall not need to stand strictly on claims
which originated when circumstances
were altogether different. " Other Brit
ish papers have clearly indicated that
they regard the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
as being in full force and also that the
United States will be expected to com
ply with all lt conditions and re
quirements , should the government
construct and control the Nicaragua
canal. But as auggcsted in the
remarks of the London Times ,
Great Britain might not insist upon
claims made under altogether different
circumstances If the canal should be
neutralized , that Is , If it should remain
open to the ships of all nations , whether
In time of war or In peace. Otherwise
It is not doubted that Great Britain
would protest and very likely with the
support of ttie other maritime powers.
The advocates of government control
of the Nicaragua canal do not want It
neutralized. In peace it would of course
be open to the ships of all nations , but
they desire that It shall be In the power
of the government to declare It closed
to the ships of any other nation In time
of war. In other words , they want the
United States to have the exclusive
military advantage of the canal. The
treaty stands in the 'way of this. As
suming that the senate resolution will
be adopted , the question Is will the
British government agree to abrogate
the treaty or to make such modification
of It aswill permit the United States
to have exclusive control of the
Nicaragua canal without any guar
antee In regard to Its neutralization
In peace and war ? It is very doubtful ,
for obviously such a concession might
place Great Britain in a very awkward
position , since it would certainly en
counter the vigorous protest of other
maritime powers. There could not be
a more auspicious time , however , for en
tering upon negotiations with a view
to the abrogation or modification of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty. That compact
has for years been a source of more or
less Irritating controversy between the
two governments and it is clearly In
the Interest of friendly relations that
this cause of. difference and dispute ,
growing out of conflicting interpreta
tions , be removed. The proposed nego
tiation should be authorized and entered
Into as soon as possible.
THE PAPER OF LARGEST CIRCULATION.
The decision just rendered by the su
preme court interpreting the law relat
ing to the publication of liquor license
notices In the newspaper of largest cir
culation In the county in which the ap
plication Is made is a complete victory
for The Bee on the points at issue. It
establishes , as far as the court could dose
so , the right of The Omaha Evening
Bee to all advertising by law required
to be published In the paper of largest
circulation in this county.
This decision should furthermore ef
fectually put at rest the absurd pre
tense made by the publishers of the
Morning World-Herald and the Evening
World-Herald that for purposes of legal
advertising those two papers constitute
one paper under the fictitious name of
the Dally World-Herald , whose circula
tions can be combined for comparison
with the circulation of The Omaha Even
ing Bee. The supreme court substan
tially declares that there Is no such
newspaper as the so-called Dally World-
Herald and the decision has the unani
mous concurrence of all the judges.
So many misleading statements have
been made with reference to the con
tests for liquor license publication that
it is not impertinent to inform the pub
lic correctly upon several points. From
the enactment of the present license law
In 1881 The Omaha Evening Bee has
been continuously the paper of largest
circulation in Douglas county and
thereby entitled to this advertising. No
applicant who advertised bid notice In
The Omaha Evening Bee has ever been
refused a license on the ground of de
fective publication. In nil pretended
comparisons of circulation before police
boards thu publishers of the Morning
and Evening World-Heralds have com
bined the circulations of these two pa
pers against that of The Omaha Even-
lug Bee , yet In every instance The
Omaha Evening Bee has shown a cir
culation to bona fide paid subscribers
in this county In excess of the com
bined circulations of those two papers ,
in most Instances In excess by several
thousand.
These facts should be of Interest not
only'to the general newspaper reader ,
but also to the newspaper advertiser ,
who here has tangible proof of thu mi-
pcrlor circulation of The Bco over all
compoHtom.
The planting of jovery new gun In the
batteries Intended for the defense of
the harbors of the United States wirves
as a basis for a war-scare article In the
newspapers War deportment officials
affirm that nothing In this Hue is being
done except to put In place the guns
on hand and being built. The fortlllca-
tloim were planned years ago and the
construction 1ms gone steadily forward
fin fast as appropriations would admit
and will be continued In the future
until a fiy.stem of fortifications which
will umku the coast line cafe from at
tack is completed. The mounting of
more gnus , therefore , Is no sign that
trouble of any kind Is anticipated. On
the contrary , to remain In a defense
less condition would be to Invite trouble
with any naval power which might
think it had a grievance against the
United States.
How gratifying that when the SpanIsh -
Ish leave Cuba It will be Impossible to
carry tile island itself away with them.
Having- neglected no opportunity to take
everything movable , they seem still to
be looking for more. It has been cus
tomary for certain officials of whom
a bon'd was required to put up cash with
the understanding that the money
would be returned to them , but It now
develops that the higher Spanish offi
cials have either spent or appropriated
this trust money. Unless the officials
who must stand this loss differ ma
terially from their superiors they have
long ago made up for this misfortune by
appropriation of public funds on their
own account.
Three regiments of regulars destined
for the Philippines arc to be sent from
New York by way of the Suez canal.
Enrouto they will make several stops
at European ports , and the people of
those countries will have nn opportunity
to gee what manner of man It was that
confounded European military critics.
If they look for gold lace and gay trap
pings they will be disappointed , but In
a mlxup they will find the bluecoat a
pretty shifty fellow.
Congress Is not doing just the right
thing by the noted members of the
Canadian commission , who have several
times been present as guests at Its ses
sions. They would have enjoyed a spe
cial performance showing Speaker Reed
presiding and Bailey of Texas In a state
of active eruption.
The constitution of Nebraska requires
the annual reports of state officers to be
In the hands ol the governor ten days
before the opening of the legislative
sesslpn. It remains to be seen whether
this provision will afford opportunity
for another exhibition of sham reform.
A Connotation Purse ,
Philadelphia Times.
While this country gets most of the glory
Spain can Console itself that it's got $20-
000,000 to Us credit.
Jio Second Piddle In Ours.
Chicago Times-Herald.
A careful perusal of the president's mes
sage will convince mo t Europeans that we
are going to play .something better than
second trombone lot the concert of nations.
Honor to'the I > a t.
Globe-Democrat.
On departing from 'Cuba General Blanco
drew his salary In full up to the day of de
parture. One of the military troubles of
Spain la the discriminating habits ot its
paymasters.
Friendly Interest In Weyler.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Naturally we Americans take more Inter
est In Spanish politics now than we ever
did before , and we follow General Weyler's
fortunes with peculiar attention because we
feel so well acquainted with him. Just now
It looks as If the former tyrant of Cuba
was about to become the political boas ot
Spain.
A Trace to Wnr.
Globe-Democrat.
France Is giving one strong guaranty that
the peace of Europe , eo far as she can Influ
ence peace , will not be broken for two years
at feast. She gives this assurance through
her International exposition of 1900. A
world's fair is something more to France
than It Is to any other country. It Is a mat
ter of national sentiment and patriotic pride
to every Inhabitant of France , while In the
pther countrlca which have them such affairs
are chiefly regarded as business enterprises ,
which are got up to make money for their
promoters and to advertise their country's
resources and capabilities.
Plain Tulle In Bent.
Chicago News.
Sir Edmund J. Monson , England's am
bassador to France , thinks the press , the In
novations ot the mother country , and the
originality of the American mind "ever
restleealy watching to Improve everything"
will , perhaps , "end by whipping the diplo
matists of the old school oft the earth. " It
Ambassador Monson refers to diplomatists of
the kind that delight In "European concert * "
in aid ol barbarism and the repression of
people striving for freedom from oppres
sion , It Is to be hoped his prediction will
be fulfilled. That would be a "consumma
tion devoutly to be wished. " The soonsr they
get off the earth the better for the cause
of humanity , liberty and progress.
Itch ( or OtHce Holding.
Rocky Mountain News.
Offlceholdlng has become a mania. The
official Itch has become a disease which
permeates all'classes from the smoky at
mosphere of a justice of the peace's court
and the dingy room of the police sergeant ,
to the elegant appointments of the state
executive and the dignified precincts ot the
white house. Once the mania Is fastened on
a man It clings to him for life. Two or
four years In public office unfits a man for
ordinary business , and he drifts Into politics ,
there to stay , In the effort to gain a pre
carious living off the public. Every city ,
every state capital and the national capital
are full of men whose lives have been
wrecked by office-holding and politics. It
Is not a healtfu ! sign. It Indicates a weak
ness that Is not creditable to American man
hood. It has been fostered by the spoils
system , which Is one of the unexpected I
growths on our system of government.
TUB I'HKSIDKNT'S MESBAUG3.
Chicago News ( Ind. ) : On the whole , the
message Is a calm , conservative , business-
Ilka review of the condition and needs ot
< hu country , entirely frco from boasttulnots
and Indicating the "safe" qualities the
president has conspicuously displayed , It
Is the measured statement of one who has
made history as well as of one who can In
telligently review It.
Philadelphia Ledger ( rrp.i ) The reticence
of the president's message as to the future
status of the posiwslons coming to us un
der the Paris treaty will be generally ac
cepted by the American public as prudent
and sagacious. This reserve ot the execu
tive respecting the disposition of our pros
pective Island ncqutsltl&ns and the relation
In which they shall stand to the union Is
entirely proper at this time , and In taking
this course the president has observed the
limitations of executive functions.
Indianapolis Journal ( rep. ) : The whole
message bears upon Its face the purpose ot
the president to lay before congress and the
country the general acts of the administra
tion , the condition ot public affairs nnd our
relations with other nations. What recom
mendations ho has made will not arouse
partisan hostility or create dissensions In his
own party. If the country does not nnd new
policies set forth , It will find that President
McKtnley IB the head of an administration
and Is familiar with all affairs ot the gov
ernment. . . .
Philadelphia Tlmes , ( dcjm.l : The president
ventures upon no suggestions concerning the
revenue , though the estimate of a deficiency
of $112,000,000 in the current fiscal year
would Indicate that the subject Is not unim
portant. This Is perhaps the most Con
spicuous omission In a message that Is , In
general , a comprehensive report ot a success
ful year , and a statement of the require
ments growing out of new conditions. He
has apparently confined his ImmeJIate recom
mendations to such as ho may reasonably
hope to have acted upon nt once.
Brooklyn Eagle ( dem. ) : In the very re
spects In which Mr. McKInley Is sometimes
critically called a halting , cautious or 1m-
posltlve president , he has shown himself In
the past the mauler of clement and concil
iatory statesmanship , needful to the unity
and efficiency of the republic In great crises ,
and we think he will show himself , and
wisely , that kind of a president always. As ,
however , he has never failed to act with pre
cision and wUdom , when action has been
called for , so win he fall neither to denote
nor to take effective action when It shall
again bo called for , as often It will be , in
the days that are at the door.
N w York Times ( dem. ) : In declining to
"discuss at this time the government or the
future of the new possessions which will
come to us aa the result of the war with
Spain , " President McKInley renounces that
leadership of public opinion which our great
presidents have cherished as the noblest ot
their privileges. "Such discussions , " Bays
the president , "will be appropriate after the
treaty of peace shall be ratified. " No.
That will be too late. They are appropri
ate now , lu order that the people may form
and express their opinions before the senate
takes up the consideration of the tieaty.
Detroit Journal ( rep. ) : The recommenda
tion of the president that the standing army
bo Increased to 100,000 men docs not , It ap
pears from the message , mean necessarily
a permanent Increase to that number. But
as the Philippines , Porto Rico and Cuba
will each require garrison * of soldiers , and
as It Is'the Intention to discharge the
volunteers at the earliest moment that they
can be replaced by regulars , It Is possible
that for a year or two the full number of
100,000 will be under arms. When tran-
qutllty Is restored to Cuba and the Philip
pines the site of the
army may be again re
duced to proportions more in keeping with
the peace policy of this nation.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Mr. Simon , the new senator from Oregon ,
Is the smallest man In congress smaller i
than General Wheeler and Senator Wilson ,
who weighs onlyi 98 pounds. If , .
Olive/ Hazard Perry Belmon't succeedjfex-
Governor Flower as president of the Demo-
cratlc club of New York , the organization
supported by Tammany. Belmont , like
Flower , Is an anti-free sliver man.
The efforts of the yellow democratic clique
to oust Joe Bailey from the leadership In
congrcs are not prospering. Speaker Reed
recognized the Texas statesman as the demo
cratic leader , and the speaker know * a
leader when he eeei one.
William M. Bunn , one of th men men
tioned for the republican nomination for
mayor of Philadelphia , Is a westerner ot
much experience. He waa territorial gov
ernor of Idaho under President Arthur , and
led a lively fight against Mormonlsm In
that section.
Charles J. Dumar , former president of
Typographical union No. 6 , New York City ,
Is a candidate for appointment by Governor
Roosevelt as commissioner of labor statis
tics. Mr. Dumar , who was one of the origi
nal Roosevelt men , Is endorsed for the posi
tion by practically all the trade organiza
tions and labor unions of the state. He is
also vouched for by Seth Low , Samuel J.
Compere and many leading republicans and
independents.
Only two large states in the country will
have democratic governors after January 1.
These are Mlesourl and Texas. Texas
chose a governor at the recent election ;
Missouri didn't. All tba most Important
states have , or will h&vo after January 1 ,
republican governors New York , Pennsyl
vania , Ohio , Illinois ; Massachusetts , New
Jersey , Indiana , Michigan , California , Ken
tucky and Wisconsin.
Governors were elected In twenty-one of
the forty-five states this year , and there
will be elections for gov rnor In only a
few states next year , notably Ohio , which
the republicans carried overwhelmingly at
the late election ; Iowa , which Is again se
curely In the republican column ; Ken
tucky , which Is again democratic ; Mary
land , which has a republican governor , but
Is doubtful between the parties ; Missis
sippi , In which suffrage Is more restricted
than In any other state , and Rhode Island ,
which still adhere to annual elections for
governor. With the exception of Mary
land , none of these states can b regarded
as close.
The hottest local fight of a generation Is
on In Chicago. The street railways are Im
portuning the city council for a fifty-year
franchise In accordance with the notorious
Allen law , which created such a scandal In
the last legislature. The first and the best of
existing franchises expires In 1903. An ordi
nance providing for the fifty-year extension
Is now before the council. A majority of the
members favor the extension on the terms
proposed by the companies 3 per cent of
the grow receipts be paid into the city
treasury , but without reducing the C-cent
fare. Mayor Harrison announces bis opposi
tion to the measure and will veto It. The
problem before the corporations Is to secure
enough votes to override a veto. At the last
count they were thirteen votes short. Mean
while the warmet kind of Indignation meet-
Ings are being held throughout the city to
denounce extension.
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OT1IRH I.ANIHI THAN OURS.
> ) Dr. von Mlquer'a expulsion policy tor It
is attributed to him seem * to bo causing
a good deal of trouble between Prussia and
her neighbors , It began with the expulsion
of a hundred or more Danes from Schlcswlg.
That was particularly exasperating to the
Danes , because Schleswlg was formerly a
Ianl h province and was forcibly wrested
from Denmark by Pruesta In 1804 , where
fore expelling the Danes from It seems to
them llko expulsion from their own right-
fur home. But the Prussian government did
not stop there. It went on to expel a num
ber of Dutch folk from Westphalia. Then
It drove from Brrslau some Pofish Jews who
had ventured across the border. And
flnatty it expelled , also from Brcslau , n
number of Austrian Sla\s , from Bohemia ,
Denmark and Hottand had not ventured of
ficially to remonstrate , though their news
paper press raged against King William's
government not against him personally ,
since he was then on his pilgrimage to the
Holy Land. But Austria has not been so
cotnptacint. Her prime minister Is the great
Bohemian Slav nobleman , Count von Thun ,
'
and ho spoke and acted with decision. Ho
prevailed upon the Imperlar foreign min
ister , Count Ooluchowskl , a Slleslan Pole , '
to make strong protest and he assured the
Relchsrath that Austrlans In Prussia would
be protected or , If necessary , retaliatory
measures would be adopted. That , of course ,
made trouble. Down to that moment many
Important Prussian Journals had disapproved i
or questioned the wisdom ot Dr. von
Mlqucl'9 policy , But these utterances at ,
Vienna turned them Instantry to hot support
of the government. Bo at present they are
showing their teeth and growling all manner
of dire menaces at Prussia's or Germany's
ally In the triple alliance and even sug
gested that Prussia Is entirely ready to see
that alliance dissolved.
A letter from St. Petersburg to the Ham
burger Correspondent glvea some Interest
ing detail of the activity and energy dis
played by the Russians at Port Arthur.
The writer says that the work ot deepening { I
and enlarging the harbor goes on day and
night and before long there will be water
for the largest Ironclad. In the town
masons , carpenters and all sor's of artisans
are busy. Storehouses , arsenals , government
buildings spring up In a night and the place
Is rapidly araumlug a clvlflzed appearance.
Private enterprise keeps pace with official
activity. The number of commercial houses
which establish branch offices there is dally
Increasing. Contrary to Its custom , the
Russian government is doing everything to
promote the development of the place. Pos
tal affalra are zealously regulated and pri
vate steamers and men-of-war keep up regu
lar Intercourse with Chefoo and Nagasaki.
From the Russian poitofflce at Cbefoo dairy
communication by land with Irkutsk , via
Tientsin , has been 'organised , so that from
Port Arthur the most distant spot In Euro
pean Russia can be reached in about four
weeks , while only a short time ago months
were necereary. Telegraphic communica
tion , which is still by way ot Vladlvostock ,
leaves much to be desired , but the govern
ment is devoting serious attention to this
point. It la positively stated that the gov
ernment intends soon to begin building ex
tensive docks , etc.
*
Rahelta , a strip of rand on the Red Sea
under the nominal protection ot Italy , Is
just now said to be coveted by France and
Russia , while In Rome It Is asserted that
English Influence Is being brought to bear
upon the Italian government to part with
it to the British empire. The other day ,
as waa told by a cable dispatch , a party of
French marines landed there and only with
drew after several sharp messages had
passed between Rome and Parts. Rahelta
Is said In official circles In London to be of
as much Importance to England as to Itaf/ .
This is recognized as a fact In Rome. The
territory lies half way between the French
settlement of Tadjura and Obok , and the
Italian colony ot Aseab , forming the west
ern coast of the Btraltn of Bab-el-Mandeb.
It ! believed that In hostile hands In the
case ot war , It might neutralise the dmppr ?
tance ot the I land ot Psrlm , which , as a
possession of Great Britain , represents the
key to the Red Sea from the Indian ocean.
With the exception ot this possible strate
gical ! Importance , Rahelta Is recognized In
Paris as well as In Rome , but perhaps not
In London , to be next to worthless. The
coast Is almost completely deserted. Ten
miles to the north of the point opposite
P rlm there is a small and Inconvenient
bay , where only small ships can eater.
Thence n path , about five miles long , leads
to the village known as Rahelta , capital of
the region , and the only settlement of any
Importance. Prof. Glusjppe Sapeto , the
representative of the Rubattlno Steamship
company in the Red sea , was the founder
ot the Italian possessions In this part ot
Africa , as he purchased for Italy the terri
tory of Assab and waa Intrusted latsr on
with the task ot enlarging it. December
IS , 1880 , acting on behalf of the Italian
government , he signed with Bercban , the
self-styled sultan of Rahelta , the treaty by
which the latter accepted the Italian pro
tectorate , receiving in exchange a yearly
money compensation , Not long ago tb
question of Rahelta was brought up in the
British House of Commons , when the rumor
got abroad that Menelek , whose vassal , the
"sultan" of Rahelta is , had ceded the.ter
ritory to Russia. Since the defeat of the
Italians by the Negus , three years ago ,
their traders nave practically abandoned
that part of the coast
Some significant figures have Just been
published by M. Noel , a Frenchman , show
ing the rates of mortality In tht French
army , especially In the colonies. It ap
pears that while the mortality of French
officers In France In 1895 was 5.07 per 1,000 ,
In the "colonies" It was 39.8 , nearly eight
times as great. It was greatest among
lieutenants , especially the unaccllmatlzcd ,
In detached posts , least among seniors leas
exposed. Among the troops the mortality
I per 1,000 WM a * follow * ! Franco , 6.01 ; At-
' * > , 12.27 ! Tunis , 11.4 ! tht marine , It ;
colonial army , 42.9 $ , Here the men In lh
"colonies" sufferrd times
just seven M
much as At home. It scorns that the Itst
men are removed from their accustomed X i . .
work , the smaller their mortality ; the " * * r
moro exacting the military aervlcs
required , the greater the mortality ; the
moro men uro "selected , " the less the
mortality In the army , Th Inference Is
that many of the rccrulU In the French
army undergo a very superficial medical
examination on conscription and are really
unfit for active service , tropical or other-
wise. The highest death rale In France
among soldiers la under twenty-three years
of age ; after this mortality declines. !
the various garrisons In France the lowest
mortality , 3.18 per 1,000 , Is at Lille , and
the highest , 8.01 , at Clcrmont ; chiefly due ,
In 1S95 , .to Influenza , pulmonary diseases ,
and typhoid fe\cr. In Algeria the death
rate Is Influenced essentially by typhoid
fever. Both thcoo death rates are low
compared with 103.1 In Madagascar and
107.1 In the Sudan ( West Africa ) . In the
home army the heaviest mortality Is dur
ing the period of Instruction that Is , num
bers of French conscripts succumb In trainIng -
Ing ; In the colonies It Is the prolonged ex
posure which kills.
General Lord Kitchener's appeal for
funds to found a Gordon Memorial college
at Khartoum was responded to with truly
remarkable alacrity , the 1500,000 required
having been subscribed within a week. No
memorial ot the hero ot Khartoum could
have been devised that would have beta
moro fitting than the establishment ot a
seat of learning at the place where be wai
overtaken by the deluge of barbarism. Ac
cording to Lord Kitchener the Institution
will carefully abstain from all efforts In
proselyting , It being considered preferable
to make good Mohammedans than bad.
Christians of the natives. In this under
taking , ns In others , the Sirdar bids ( air
to provo his sagacious foresight. There
are 20,000,000 Moslems In Kordofan and In
the Bahr-el-Ghazel region , nnd their recon
ciliation to British rule Is quite as Impor
tant as was the defeat of the Dervlfhe * .
LAVOIII.NO GAS.
Somervlllo Journal : Only a bold man will
wear a tall silk hat In snowball time.
Puck : The Medium The plrlt of youi
deceased wife Is now here. Do you wish to ,
nsk her any questions ?
Ncwly-MailoWldowcr Yes ; tell her I want If
to know where she put my winter flannels.
Truth : Miss De Style Oh , major ! did you
ever go to a military ball ? .
Old veteran No , my dear young ladyt In
those days 1 had n military ball come to
me. It nearly took my leg off I
Chicago Post : "You seemed to have every
confidence In your candidate , " th y said to
the political manager. "How did he go In s
the race ? " . V
"Ho went lame , " was the disconsolate re- §
ply. f
Cleveland Plain Dealer : "Speaking of
money , " said the Cheerful Idiot.
"Bv what right ? " asked the sarcastic
boarder.
"It often takes a round sura to square )
things , "
Detroit Free Frets : "How can you endurs
that man ? " asked one member of the club .
of another , "there's nothing In him. "
"You never made a greater mistake In
your life , " came the quick reply , "he's full
of himself. "
Indianapolis Journal : The Fnt Man I be-
llevo my wife ( oaks on me as a piece ot
furniture.
The Thin Man-Very likely , but how'dld
you find it out ?
"She told mo the other day that my chin
was so 'handsome ' that I ought to grow * a ,
beard to protect it from the weather. "
Washington StarVe : Insist on being-
as Independent ns possible , " said tlio Filipino
pine argregslvcly.
"Exactly so , " answered the wise old man
of the tribe. "Now' the question In my
mind IH this : Hadn't we better be careful
how we go about it ? Ifn't a man liable
to be more Independent before he's been
whipped than ho Is after ? "
NEW ROUTES FOR DRUMMERS.
1 *
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Hal Morfts W Commfrclo TravfclerVt'Blji. '
letln.
When the commercial travelers return from
present Tips ;
And walk Into the office , to obtain their
new route-slips.
Perhaps they will encounter some surpris
ing changes when
Thev jrlance o'er the schedule ( some section !
I append. )
"From Chicago unto Denver , and work
Seattle too-
Then take a run up the Yukon and Dawson
City , do.
Come back to San FranclKo , next
Hawaiian Islands take.
From there , perhaps , the Ladrone. Isles you
had better investigate.
"Now work our new possessions round
Manila , best you can :
And I reckon we will branch out and cry
China nnd Japan.
There Is bound to be some business 'long
the new Siberian route :
But don't bother now witn Europe from
Moscow southward 'scoot. '
"Work In Asia Minor , before the German *
gobble all
The trado. the kaiser's trip most surely
will Install.
Then tackle the Nile valley , and Fashoda
and Khartoum ,
Wake up with our advertising and malt *
these sections boom. ,
"Run around by Madagascar next Paul
Kruger Interview-
Then se if Cecil Rhodes don't want a
cargo lot or two. ,
Take the steamer then for Bydnty , but
don't linger long time there ,
For we want you quick as possible to get
to Buenos Ayres.
"Through Mexico and Yucatan , a flying
trip will do ,
For we want the Iple of Cuba worktd
through and through ,
And after a short canvass in Porto Rico's
little Isle ,
Perhaps you may run In a we k Juit to see
your wife awhile. "
Great Srott ; If the "Expansionists' ' con
tinue to annex ,
I wonder where tht firm will think of send
ing us nextT
For In the wako of conquest you will find
progressive firms
Sending out the "hustling drummer" soon
as powder's ceased to burn.
Wednesday we told you about Reefer Suits the kind
always sold at 6.50 , 7.50
and 8,00 we were clos-
* * * clos$5.00
Yesterday we also told you about Russian Blous ?
Suits the 6.00 , 6.50 and
7,50 qualities that we
we were closing out at. . . < fist f\C\
Today we are going to tell you about our high
novelty Sailor and Vestee Suits Here
is a , great opportunity All of these
dainty novelties that we carry , and there
are many different styles of material and
oddities of make and trimming hardly
two alike suits that have sold at 6.50 ,
7.50 and 8.50 , we offer
you your choice of any
suit mentioned at < & Bit f\f\
6 * W. Cor. I0th and Dougtmm 9t * .
