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0 TILE OMAHA DAILY BJ2E : SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 30 , 18UJ ) THE OMAIIA DAILY DEE PUBLISHED IJVEUY MORNING. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION , pally Bee ( without Sunday ) , Ono Year.IS.00 pally Bee and Sunday , One Year 8.00 pally , Sunday and Illustrated , Ono Ycnr k.Zo Hunuay and Illustrated , Ono Year 2.2 * Illustrated Bee , Olio Year 2.W Sunday Bee , One Year 2-W baturuay utc , Ono Year 15 Weekly Bee , 6na Year < OFFICES. Omnha ! The Bee Bulldlnjr. South Omaha. City Hall Building , Twenty-fifth and N Streets. Council Bluffs : 10 Pear ) Street. Chicago : 1C40 Unity Building. MW * ork. Tempio Court. \Vashlnnton : 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Opmmunlcatlono relating to news and edi torial matter should bo addressed : Omaha Bee , Editorial Department. , _ BUMNhSS LETTERS. . . , Builncs * letters and remittances should bo addressed : The Bee Publishing Company , Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft , express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accented In payment of moll account * . Personal checks , except on Omaha or Eastern exchange , not accepted. THUBEK Vl'ULISIIINO COMPANY. bTATJSME.Vr OV CIUCU1.A.TION , Stale of Nebraska. Douglas County , ss. : GforKe B Tischuck. secretary of The Bea Publishing company , being duly sworn , says that the actual number of full and complete cooles of The Daily. Morning , Evening and Sunday Bets printed during the month of August , 1893. was as tollows : 1 24,810 17 2l,00i : 2 2I,7.'JO 18 Sl.HOr 3 21,870 19 24,771 4 24,770 20 20,27a 6 21,040 21 21,881 C 20tOO : 22 21,041 7 2t,75 : ! 23 24,020 8 21,8(50 24 2I.4UO 9 2I.7.-.0 25 25,000 10 23,100 26 2 , WI 11 2I.O40 27 25,8 4 12 21,730 28 21,002 13 20 , . * > 0n 29 20,200 14 21,1)00 ) 30 25,010 IE 24,802 31 27,000 IB 24,717 Total .781,8:10 : Less unsold and returned copies. . . . 10,143 Net total sales .771,087 Net dally average 21.8UU GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK , Subscribed and sworn before me this 2nd day of September , A. D. , 1S99. M. B. HUNGATE. fBeaU Notary Public. The Sunday Bee will bo the best Don't miss It. Salute the queen , the royal consort of the great Ak-Sar-Ben V. The photographic Illustrations In The Bee each Sunday are the only news paper pictures ! worth preserving. The numerous poets who Imagine they Imve a license to perpetrate bad rhymes on Admiral Dewcy should make sure the license has not run out. Wonder If Colonel Bryan Is still travel ing on editorial mileage furnished lu part liquidation of unpaid salary as ed itor of the local popocratlc organ. Venezuelan revolutionists are violat ing all precedents of South American political upheavals. They uro actually killing people In their battles down there. Our exposition guests , the Filipinos , arc getting a touch of high Ufa these crisp , autumnal mornings. Their opinion auent the climate of this region would , we fancy , not read well In print. General Wheeler has had his flrst op portunity of seeing how fast a Filipino can run. The general Is somewhat of a sprinter himself and when he gets his opponents fairly "sized up" will give them a race for their money. The American mule Is evidently to play on Important part In the Impend ing -war In the Transvaal. He Is recom mended to Brother Jolm as a serviceable animal , but with a disagreeable habit of marching with , both hind feet In the iiir. Admiral Dewey Is amply competent to Judge of the quality of fireworks touched off In New York for his benefit Ho has had a habit of sitting up nights planning realistic displays of this kind and the last exhibition given by him was very effective. The frontispiece of The Illustrated Bee Sunday Is a fine large portrait of Judge Reese , the republlcau candidate for supreme judge ; It should bo hung In the window or on the wall of every business establishment In Nebraska enJoying - Joying republican prosperity. If every suspect arrested at the Instance - stance of the chief of police would upon release elect to sue that ofllcer and hla bondsmen for damages ho would bo compelled to attend court every day In the year. Happily the laws and ordi nances protect police oJDcera In the per formance of their duty. Colonel Bryan Is trying to make cap ital by asking his audiences Avhether they think the election of 1890 was an unequivocal endorsement of the gold standard. We suggest that Le ask them whether they do not think It was an un equivocal repudiation of his doctrine of 1C to 1 free Bllvcr coinage without the Hid or consent of any other nation ? Wo should like to sco the reception which Council Bluffs Is preparing for the returning regiment of Iowa volun teers an unqualified success , as It no | doubt will be. Last year the leading * men of Council Bluffs helped to make Omaha's greatest exposition enterprlso go and It should bo the aim of every Omahau to do everything expected of him to further the plnns of the reception committees. The Ak-Sar-Beu pageant Thursday was an artistic , spectacular triumph , * surpassing lu magulucenco and beauty any former attempt. All critics will agree that nowhere In this country , north or south , has it ever been excelled , and wo doubt whether Mardl Gray in its palmy days over approached it lu rich ness of color and artistic conceptions of design. Tbo success attained is the highest tribute to the ability of its promoters. I The Philadelphia Record , a sound money democratic paper , says there fane no doubt of the peril to .public finances timl credit In the absence of remedial legislation by congress. It refers to the threat of Mr. Bryan that if president ho would appoint a secretary of the treas ury with Instructions to pay the public creditors lu silver or gold at the option of the government and observes that the first exercise of this government option In favor of depreciated silver would precipitate a financial catastrophe and make superfluous any legislation for free coinage at 10 to 1. "Even If the United States supreme court , " says the Record , "should hold that under the provision of law requiring the govern ment to maintain the "parity * of gold and silver It Is necessary to redeem the public obligations In gold , the decision would be too late lo avert the calamity of depreciation , repudiation and ruin. " It Is urged that the republicans lu the next session of congress should prevent this danger by an amendment substituting " " " " the tuting "gold" for "coin" wherever latter word appears In the laws , thus putting It out of the power of any sll- verlto secretary of the treasury to at tack the gold standard or tamper with the public credit It is pretty well assured that the Fifty-sixth congress will enact legisla tion unequivocally establishing the gold standard. The demand for this has come from every republican convention of the year and there can be no rea sonable doubt that the great majority of republicans favor such legislation. There are some who contend that it is unnecessary , on the ground that we have the gold standard and it is al ready sufficiently safeguarded by law. As a matter of faot our actual money standard has been gold for sixty-five1 years , but it remains true that a presi dent of the United States , by a simple administrative act , without any legisla tion whatever , could overturn the standard of two generations and send us to a silver basis. The existence of this executive power causes doubt as to the stability of the standard and it Is necessary to the firm establishment of financial confidence that this doubt bo removed. A declaration by congress that all the obligations of the government are pay able In gold would seem to be sufficient , but uo harm would bo done by substi tuting "gold" for "coin" wherever the latter word appears In the laws. This would leave no room for any possible question regarding the money In which the obligations of the government are payable. The government has paid Its obligations In gold or Its equivalent ever since the resumption of specie pay ments and there appears to be no valid reason why the word "coin" should be retained. Dropping It would not de prive a creditor of the government of the privilege of asking payment in other money than. gold. There is a plain and straightforward way of dealing with this question of the standard which the republican congress should adopt without hesitation nnd If it ehall adopt it there can bo no doubt that it will have the approval and en dorsement of the country. It is an op portunity which the party that has steadfastly maintained the Integrity and credit of the nation cannot afford , lu our judgment , to let pass. " TUB SUtfDAX DEE. People who appreciate a first-class , up- to-date Sunday newspaper will find The Bee Sunday filling all requirements. From a news standpoint It will be more complete than any other paper printed In this section , giving the best cable letters from European capitals , the most comprehensive telegraphic news reports from all over tlie United States , supplemented by dispatches from Us large corps of special correspondents in Nebraska , Iowa and Btirroundmg states and an accurate chronicle of all local events. Its special Sunday depart ments covering social , dramatic , musical and sporting circles give the week's happenings in each of these fields and Its editorial page discusses current top- leg in an Intelligent and instructive manner. In addition io the news features The Bee will give its readers a feast of pictorial and literary matter unequaled anywhere. The Illustrated Bee Is prac tically a weekly news magazine. Wo need only to enumerate the contents of tomorrow's issue : The frontispiece Is a fine large portrait trait of Manoan B. Reese , the repub lican candidate for supreme Judge , re cently nominated by the state conven tion at Omaha. This portrait is repro duced from Judge Reese's latest photo graph , taken especially for The Bee , and is accompanied by a sketch of the judge , detailing his career of usefulness at the bar , on the bench and at the head of the State University law school. Portraits traits are also given of the two repub lican candidates for university regents , 13. G. McGllton of Omaha and Dr. Wil liam B. Ely of Alnsworth. Illustrating the street fairs and autumn festivals so numerous this year throughout Nebraska are a number of portraits and snap shots of the various celebrations. From Hastings we have views of the exhibits and parades on the streets , the prize winners In the floral carnival and a group of the carnival queen and her court Similar pictures from Lincoln show the most attractive street booths and the most striking vehicles in the fiower parade there. From David City we have two handsome - some pictures of the celebration of the home-coming of Company E , First Ne braska volunteers , one showing the procession - cession passing under Uio arch of wel come , and the other the dinner served by the Sanitary Relief commission , Omaha's Ak-Sar-Ben festivities are represented by a complete group of portraits traits of the board of governors of the organization. Among the other liilcivstlng pictures are & portrait of the lute Rev , Henry W Kuhns , a view of the ruins of Lin coln's recent disastrous fire , the corner stone laying at Blair's new High school building , Kearney's crack base ball team and a group of Postmaster Trey- nor of Council Bluffs and his staff. The living fashion pictures this week ns usual reproduce photographs of models posed In the latest garments , while Carpenter's x Interesting Porto RIcau letters describe Hie government of the newly acquired Island and arc set off with pictures of a Porto Rlcnn post- olllce ami a Porto Rico mall carrier. This gives this Issue of the Illustrated Bee the most varied contents of any number that has been produced , People who want a high class news paper for Sunday reading will not fall to buy The Bee. UESOLTS OFAffAfltWAft WAX. The imminence of war In South Africa naturally calls attention to the possible effects of such a conflict finan cially and commercially. In the event of its being a prolonged war the con sequences would certainly bo serious , but a war of short duration , while It would have more or less Important re sults from a commercial point of view , would not gravely disturb the world's business. The flrst effect of hostilities would bo a cessation of the export of gold from South Africa , which furnishes about one-third of the world's supply. This would be felt most severely at the out set by England , but eventually , particu larly If hostilities should be protracted , the financial Interests of other countries would be affected and perhaps none more than those of the United States. It Is to be apprehended that Avar would bo followed by a great mining share panic In England , English capital being largely Invested in South African mines. This would very likely brlug about heavy sales of American securities held lu England and a consequent de pletion of our stock of gold. If the war should involve the whole of South Africa , as it probably would , a large part of our trade there , which last year amounted to $18,000,000 , , would be cut off. off.Of Of course this country Is well able to stand any probable demand for gold that may arise , Its present stock being esti mated at $975,000,000 , with some still duo from Europe , but a large call would advunco the Interest rate for money and thus perhaps fliave a somewhat unfa vorable effect upon business. As to British trade it would necessarily suf fer materially. The latest Indications point to war as inevitable and In view of the possible commercial effects the situation has more than a sentimental Interest for Americans. A REMARKABLE RECORD. The police force under Chief White has made a remarkable record during the paat week' . Omaha has been filled with crowds of strangers from all parts of the surrounding country viewing the Ak- Sar-Ben spectacles , offering the most inviting field for thieves , pickpockets and confidence men. Practically all Omaha has turned out at night to see the parades , leaving houses and dwell ings unprotected. Yet the complaints of crimes of this class of offenders have been no greater than during ordinary periods when everyone is staying at home and the streets carry only their or dinary traffic. It will bo remembered that during the first Ak-Sar-Ben carnivals the spectators lining the streets offered a veritable carnival for pickpockets. Scarcely a night passed without an exciting chase of some nimble-fingered party caught in the act of despoilment The next morn ing areas and alleyways were covered with empty pocketbooks thrown away by mobs of pickpockets , driving their business without let or hindrance from an incompetent police. So far this year not a single report of a pocket being picked along the line of march has been made. When It Is con sidered that the pollco force of Omaha has been cut down to the very bone to meet the requirements of a depleted po llco fund and that the chief and his as sociates are hampered on all sides by the inadequate number of men at their command , the pollco deserve congratu lations on their achievements nnd their efforts should be appreciated by the community reaping the benefit of their vigilance. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ One of the most persistent bones ot contention among Methodists Is the pas toral term limit , which is now five years. A pastor must be appointed to a charge annually , but ho cannot remain over five years In any ono place. A strong clerical and lay party In the denomination con tend for the abolition of the time limit , which from the days of the Wesleys down to the ' 70s was one year. The gen eral tendency Is for the wiping out of the limit and many Methodists predict that the general conference at Chicago next year will pass such a law. This agitation only emphasizes the fact that a church system suitable for the people of ono generation Is found inadequate for those of tlio next. The Dubuque Telegraph , whose editor is the recognized leader of the demo cratic party In Iowa , serves notice anew on the gold democrats that they can come back Into the party fold only as probationers. The class Is not likely to bo largo enough to give the managers much trouble keeping them from the path of the backslider. The Illustrated Bee Sunday will bo adorned with a large , handsome portrait trait frontispiece of Judge M. B. Reese , the republican candidate for supreme Judge , reproducing Ills latest photograph Just taken specially for this paper. Every republican lu Nebraska should procure extra copies for preservation and circulation among friends. Sawdust and confetti ( this Is the Ital ian for paper &craps ) afford the small boy the long-desired means of torment- lug his fellows , but the combination soon proves itself an Infernal nuisance. Boys will be boys , to be sure , but the license given them on festal occasions Is mire to be abused. At Lincoln this new nnd Idiotic practice of throwing dust and cut paper at evcrylxxly on the street was carried to extreme * , as It was also In Omaha. .Terry Simpson of Kansas was not noted among the guests of any ot the Dewey receptions. Since his escape by the stage door when ho told a gathering of old soldiers he would rather light be hind Aguinaldo the sage of Medicine Lodge luis been busy at homo attempt ing to deckle "just where he Is at. " l.litht , rirnnc. "Philadelphia , nccord. Forming a big cigar trust will not any the less raako this principle ono o the burnIng - Ing questions ot the day. A Conntltutlniinl Ailment. San Francisco Chronicle. Over 12,000 men are on strlko In Havana. It there Is ono prhllego for which the Cuban will fight with dcspernto energy It Is the tlmo-honorcd right to make the other follow work. aoml Uiilc < n l Minneapolis Times. Bettor a day or two ahead of time than an hour "behind time , says Dewey. If moro people would obseno that rtilo In the ordi nary affairs of life , this would be a happier world. The World Tnkcno Intercut. Philadelphia Ledger. Spain's present insignificance Is abundantly shown by the Indifference of the world at largo to her Internal troubles. It Is reported that the Carllst agitation Is gaining ground and that a ministerial crisis Is Imminent In consequence ; but the world refuses to take alarm at the news , and evidently thinks It makes very little difference whether Carlos or Alfonso shall occupy the throne. JJcinocracj'ji llonclcHH Tank. Buffalo Express. Colonel A. 1C. McClure of the Philadelphia Times puts the case pointedly when he says that the Democrats could elect Dewey onslly If they nominated him without a platform , but they "couldn't elect the Apostle Paul if headed by the Chicago plat form. " And ho might have added that it Is about as easy to think of the Apcstlo Paul running on a democratic ticket as of Dowey. Xo Calamity There. Boston Transcript. The bank examiners of South Dakota have made the Interesting discovery that of $12,745,036.26 on deposit in the tanks of the etato $3,908,766 Is the money of farmers , stockmen and miners. Churches , societies and municipalities have trusted about $1- 500,000 to the banks. These figures are en lightening to the populist understanding , as showing that the capitalists do not con trol the deposits. Otlxeciln Help. Chicago News. "Otis Is overworked , " Is the generous and tactful way In which Admiral Dewey char acterizes the Philippine situation. It might bo suggested that a satisfactory lessening of Otis' burdens could bo achieved by sending General Miles over to Manila. It might bo ' noted , also , tlhat Dewey never had any trouble -with the war correspondents , and that no round-robin ever sung on the crosstrees - trees of the Olympla. Suear-Conted Subtildlcn. Philadelphia Record. It is constantly reiterated toy the Shlp- Subsldy looters thate are paying yearly J182.000.000 to foreign shipowners for serv ices rendered. Thx Y-argue that we should do our own carrying and pay this $182,000- 000 to our own shipowners. The fact IB that a great deal of this money Is paid ! to our own shipowners , but they are put under such , serious disabilities by our navigation laws that they are obliged to sail their ves sels under foreign flags. But If fchiswere not true and If the owners of foreign ships should be willing to cairry for us for less money than our own shippers , why should the government bo asked to make good the difference ? Why should anybody In the United States bo encouraged to do an un profitable business nnd have his losses made good out of the pockets of the taxpayers ? Instead of paying subsidies let us withdraw the premiums we offer to foreigners In allow ing them to have a monopoly of cheap ships and give to our own snipers an unhampered opportunity a the carrying trade of the na tions. SPAIN'S I/ATEST FOLLY. Undeserved PunlNlimciit Bletccl Out tea a Defeated Admiral. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Spain's harsh treatment of Admiral Mon- tojo shows that that country has not learned quite so much from her recent disasters aa ijer well wishers ithroughout the world had hoped. In condemning him to retirement from the navy without the right of promo tion' Spain's supreme court has punished -unfortunate - admiral for offenses com mitted by his political superiors , and tram the consequences of which he , aa shown In the trial , vainly endeavored to save them and his country. It was the ministry , mvl not ita naval commander In the Philippines , who -were responsible for the fatal weak ness which revealed Itself when Dewey sailed Into Manila bay on that historic morning In 1898. When Englnd executed Admiral Byng In 1757 for falling < to rellovo his countrymen In Minorca from conquwt 'by ' the French fleet and ( army It committed a crimu for which It has been denounced by all historians since that day , but the punishment of Man- tojo , although It docs not Involve death , IH even Ices defensible than was England's , and it la committal a century and a half later , when more humanity and enlighten ment are supposed to be abroad in the world. It la known that Montojo pointed out to the Sagasta cabinet that with his force ho could make no defense against American attack , and asked for reinforce ments which .woro never sent him. Byng's political en oral OB In England secured his conviction on tbo ground of cowardice , which , aa history proves , was on absurd charge in bis case. But oven the mast vlo- oiU and benighted of Montojo's foes In his own country will not bring any such accusa tion against this heroic but unlortunato eallor. It was to be expected , of course , that a proud nation like Spain would bo inclined to punish somebody or other for its dis asters , but in this instance it has passed o\er the right persons , so far as any ono particular cot of Individuals can bo said to bo accountable for calamities which were tbo result of foil 163 and vices which have been under way for generations. The per sons immediately responsible for Spain's disasters in the war of 1898 were Weyler nnd the Sagasta ministry , but the ministry merely carried out a policy which was a heritage from previous administrations for a century and moro. It is grossly unjust .o ' visit the sins of Spain's barbarous prede cessor of Blanco in Cuba and her cor rupt and Incapable politicians on Cervera , Montojo , Toral and the other fighting com manders on the sea and land , who pointed out long before the war began the disastrous course the ministry was pursuing , and who did their duty courageously and unquestionIngly - Ingly when tbo hour of trial came. Spain's treatment of her unfortunate naval end military commanders who did the actual tight.UK iu the war of 1898 will be con demned in history as strongly aa will her bllndnces and wlclcedn sa which brought Lha war about. KC1IOU9 OK T1IK AVAIL Acrr York' * MnKiilllcciit Gift for Admiral Devtc- . Having the distinction of 'being ' the first American city to welcome homo the hero of Manila bay and his men , New York City Is not content with the tribute of cheers bud ehouts , gorgeous decorations , forests ot fluttering red , white and blue , two days ot parades nnd the varied melody of a hundred bands. These nro appropriate and charac teristic , but temporary. In an hour they become ft memory. The city supplements the outward show of admiration anil wcl- como for the admiral with two handsome and costly souvenirs of the occasion , beau tiful specimens ot the goldsmith's art. The flrst la a gold loving cup , the other a gold badge encrusted with diamonds and other precious stones. Both arc to be presented to the admiral nt the city hall reception this afternoon , The gold loving cup , the handlwoik ot Tiffany artists , Is Uornan in form and made onUrely of elghteen-karat gold. The three handles nro three dolphins , beautlfullj wrought in green gold. Around the neck of the cup , as In the firmament , cluster forty- flvo stirs the sisterhood of states extend ing a greeting to its greatest hero. The han dles divide the body of the cup Into thrco sides or panels. These ere employed for the ' principal decorations. On the front panel la a finely wrought portrait In relief of Ad miral Dewey , surrounded oy a wreath of oak leaves In green gold , tho'whole resting upon an eagle with outetrctched wings. Under neath this panel , upon the band around the foot of the cup , are the letters "O. D. , U. S. N. , " nnd an anchor. The second panel has chased In half relief an excellent picture ot the United States flagship Olympla , and be neath it a shield containing the four ad miralty stars and the word "Olympla. " On the third Is nn escutcheon , upon which ap pears a suitable Inscription , and , beneath , the coat of arms of the city of New York. In addition to the ornamentation noted , the rich decorations around the foot Include a I series of anchors , a rope tied In thrco knots , dolphins , seaweed , etc. i The cup will stand about thirteen Inches high , have a capacity of four and one-half quarts , and will undoubtedly rank as the richest gold loving cup ever made In this country. The cup rests on an tfhnnv K , . , , , flvo nnd three-quarters inches high , and the whole Is fitted in a massive and superbly finished quartered oak chest , bearing a plate with appropriate Inscription. The medal rivals the loving cup as a work of art. The pin above the medal Is of rose gold and Is entwined with laurel wreaths of green enamel. The chains and shield are of rose gold. The Inscription on the shield , "Manila , May 1 , 1898. " is In blue enamel. Surrounding this is a border of rubles , sap phires and diamonds. The "D" suspended from the shield is of diamonds. Behind there is a rod , white and blue ribbon. The medal proper is of bright yellow gold , bearing a bust portrait of Admiral Dewey , surrounded by a laurel wreath. The inscrip tion Is , "Reception of Admiral Dewey by the City of Now York , 1899. " Encircling the medal proper is a chain of bright yel low gold , each link of which contains a gem. There are sixteen gems in the chain. They are diamonds , sapphires and rubles. POLITICAL DUIFT. There are flvo tickets in the field In Iowa. Voters who cannot make n choice from that layout are pretty hard to suit. Dick Croker says' ' Admiral Dewey Is a gen tleman and a fighter. The admiral's opin ion of Dick was lost In the thunder ot sa luting guns. State elections will bo held in twelve etaitea on November 7 , but in six only will ; overnors be chosen , namely Iowa , Ken tucky , Maryland , Massachusetts , Mississippi and Ohio. New York state adopted a new constitu tion a few years ago. but it dcean't fit well. Pour patches are now proposed , and voters arc ur&ed to give their approval at the No vember election. The * Mazet investigators have brought out the fa t that Now York City Judges pay all the way from $2,000 to $15,000 each "to in sure election. " That is not an excessive aum for a twelve-year Job and a salary or from $8,000 to $12,000 a year. It having been insinuated that a populist leader in Kansas betrayed plutocratic lean ings by wearing a silk hat his friends have protested against hasty condemnation. They are prepared to file papers to prove "his hat has gone through three national and six state conventions , thrco democratic banquets , seventy-four caucuses and twelve county conventions. According to Philadelphia papers the greatest political graft flourishing in this country today is that of the commission in charge of the construction ot Philadel phia's city hall. Twenty-nine years ago it started out to tmlld a $3,000,000 structure. It has Epent $23,000,000 ostensibly on the building and it is not finished. The best efforts ot Tammany do not approach the Quaker City class. ( Attorney General Davis of the state of Now York has decided that aa the United States Is still in a state of war , and a num ber of New York state citizens are engaged in military duty in the Philippines , fho election law passed when the United States was at war with Spain must bo enforced. A roster will have to bo made of all citizens of the state engaged in military service abroad and hallots will have to to sent there ns in 1898. In reply to the suggestion of a northern contemporary that it might Borne day "worm up" to Grovcr Cleveland , the At lanta Constitution says it "will bo a cold day in August" when the heavyweight ex- president presents himself before the pub lic again as a democrat , "and a still colder day in the same ardent month when the Constitution 'warms up' to him politically , " But there will be no shortage of warmth for drover In Georgia while Hoko Smith re mains on top of the sod. DID NOT CLEAR THE SIDING lOlurlit 1'crMuiin Injured nt Bloiitcxiiinn , Inil. , in n. ColllMloii which Do- NtroyH n Sleeper. INDIANAPOLIS , Ind. , Sept. 29. Train No. 4 , rastbound , of the Indiana , Decatnr & Western railroad went into tbo siding at Montczuma , Ind , , at 3:15 : this morning , The rear sleeper did cot clear the main track and was struck by a fast freight train westbound. The sleeper was upset and seven perrons were hurt. The car caught fire and was ruined. There were eighteen passengers in the sleeper. Among those in jured were ; H. E. Osborn , Waukesha , Wls. J. L. Shaikey , Chicago , Adam P , May , Sholbyvllle , Ind. Miss Mollie Meredith , Indianapolis. O , H. Bradfeet , Cedarvllle , 0. C. A. Gosnell , Cambridge City , Ind , Ollvor Reveal , Indianapolis. Dr , W. B. Hendrlcks , Martinsvllle , Ind. All will recover. OTIinil IiA.VUS THAN OUHS. H Is Impossible that the abnormal nnd undesirable condition ot affairs In Austrln- Hungary should Indefinitely continue , Cer tainly It could not ho maintained after the prct-ent emperor's decease nnd the notion of , the Austrian ministry , which must not , i however , bo confounded with the Imperial ministry by which the affairs of the empire i proper arc administered , may bo nn Indl- I cation that A crisis is approaching. How 1 wilt result , In what way the pressing prob 1cm will bo solved , bafhca the conjcctur ot the beet Informed and most engnclous It is Impossible to foresee how the Irre presalblo conflict will develop or to what mo mentous consequences It may lead. H I 1 a conflict of races which threatens , unles Homo manner of assuaging it can bo devisee to tear the Austria-Hungary empire Intc fragments and perhaps plunge all Kurop Into war. The immediate trouble Is eve a decree by which the official use In Ho hernia of the Czech language was Icgnllzoc The Austrian ! ) , whoso representatives In th Itelchsrath nro responsible for the disturb ances wlilch have reduced that body to 1m potcnco , want that decree roclmlcd. If thn is done disturbances of the most scrlou character In Bohemia will certainly ensue Knczovltcb , the half-witted fellow , wh was publicly shot at Belgrade on Monday last for alleged conspiracy against the llf of his former boon companion , ex-King Milan , 'was ' a victim of his misplaced confidence denco In the honor of princes. The nt tempted assassination was so evidently a clumsily managed farce as to Incline ono to Tjellevo the report that the performance we pre-arranged by the ex-king himself In th hopes of restoring his damaged reputation and fading popularity. The coolness dls played on the occasion by Milan , who Is a notorious poltroon , was sufficient in iUel to arouse suspicions ; nnd these were con firmed by the utter Inability of the mlsera bio Knczpvltch to glvo a motive for his deed In spite of the careful coaching to which ho had been subjected by the stage managers of the affair. The fear of being found out. of course , was a sufficient motive for cxKlngMilan's subornation of the court to condemn his truthful henchman What a picture of Servian "civilization" do the goings-on nt Belgrade present ! Siberia , long looked upon as a frozen waste , Is becoming a veritable Mecca for Immigrants. Their number last year was 400,000 ; and with Increasing facilities o travel the movement thither Is likely to become - como of a volume comparable to the flow of population toward the United States n Its highest. The attractions are fertility o soil and mineral wealth. Between Tomsk and Koozncek Ho 23,167 square miles o < oal lands , while the existence of iron ore yielding ns high as 60 ner cent in clodo proximity to coal in Amur territory gives promise of an industrial future. Whea ripens in the region of Irkutsk within 107 da > s and the cold season lasts only ninety- seven days. The imlgrants , however , are llkoly to come exclusively from the con gested districts of Russia. He would be a rash man who would put his neck under the ' , < Russian autocracy for nil the nllurcmema Siberia has to offer. The dissolution of the empire of Austria Hungary must result ultlmately.it It thought In the absorption of the German element by German and the Slavic element by Rus sia. Reflection upon this aspect of the present movement has served , it Is said tf , restrain many of its advocates , since the severer rule ot Berlin and St. Petersburg la net desired. But the events of the year have tended mostly to show that a revolution is In progress which may end with the dis appearance of Austria from the map. Since Germany is Protestant and the clergy have been active on the wrong side , largo num bers of German Catholics are going over to Protestantism showing that they 'tako their politics moro seriously than their re ligion. Wo see whole German villages passing from Catholicism to Protestantism as a kind of protest and as a movement for alliance , if only by the bonds of re ligion , with the great evangelical German empire. The discontent has been increased by Count Thun'a decree adding slightly to the tax on sugar. Riots fcave occurred in Carlnthia , Bohemia and other places , even where there were no race differences. Such is the spirit of faction that any act of the government , good or bad , Is suspected ant resented. The socialists , moreover , are quick to fish In the troubled waters. It re mains to bo seen what Hungary will do in case Austria neglects to appoint in a constitutional manner the officials through whom the affairs of the Empire are to bo managed. There can bo no Joint govern ment if but ono of the two states takes part. The affairs of Sorvla cut a email figure in the world's nowa by the side of Dreyfus and Deroulodo and Paul Kruger. Neverthe less It is worthy of note that a great state trial bos Just come to an end at Belgrade , after nearly three week's duration , with re sults not much moro satisfactory than was the verdict at Rennes. The object of it was to dispose of the men who were charged with complicity in the attempt to kill the ex-king , Milan , on July C. Tbo outcome of It la that Konzovltch , who actually ehot at Mlllan with a revolver , has been publicly put to death , ten men have been sent to Jail for twenty years , coo for nine years and seven for flvo years , six have boon acquitted and ono , tbo radical leader , Positcb , bos ibeen condemned to death and then par doned. A SMOKELESS LOCOMOTIVE. SncccMNfiil Experiments Conducted on nil Ohio Iloiul. Tbo Queen & Crescent road ot Ohio an nounces that It has a locomotive which makes no smoke. If , at last , the great prob lem of smoke , coot , dirt nnd cinders has been solved it is really a tremendous tri umph. It Is hard to conceive of on engine which breaths no smoke , Bays the Now York Journal. It is harder even to bellovo that the day Is approaching whem railroad travel no longer means soiled clothes , black faces and grimy hands. John Phoenix , many years ago , declared that the great need of the ago was the In vention of a baby "that would consume Its own crying , " And tbo public has come to bellovo that the stnoko-consumlng locomo tive was about 00 incredible as Phoenix's suggestion. But tbo Queen & Crescent road 13 eerlous In Us claims and tbo following is the report of the flrst test of the new cn- glno made last week ; The start waa made from the Control Union station on train No. 1 the Cincin nati , Florida and Havana limited , tbo loco motive being In charge of Engineer Glenn and Fireman Griffin. Just ahead of us was a train of another road , from the locomotive of which belched forth huge "olumes of black smoke. Our engine occasionally showed a bit of haze over the stack not enough to bo noticeable at a distance of 100 feot. Out over the Cincinnati Southern bridge wo went , through Ludlow nod up the POWDER 4BS01UTEIY PURE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome ftOIl KAKINO rOwOM CO , HI * VORK. Erode to Erllngw , no moro smoke to utna from the stack on thU grade , which nt places ascends seventyfivefeet to the mile , than was In evidence or rather , not In ov- Idnco when the train wns running on tha level , In the run of moro thnn twenty miles that wo made into Kentucky on thl trip the locomotive put forth smoke only on ono occasion , and that wns when the super- j Intcndent ordered the fireman to flro In the old way to show the difference between tha method practiced by all the firemcm of thla rend nnd the method generally employed. There nro two factors in this smokeless firing of the locomothe. The first la tin L i t construction of the flro box and the second f A Is the rule laid down for the firemen to follow - low In firing the locomotive. The construc tion of the flro box Is an Idea of Mr. Fel ton , the receiver of the road , nnd wns built under the supervision of Superintendent Murphy nnd Superintendent McCuen. It consist * of special hollow flro brick nrches nnd deflecting nlr tubee , the latter being lo cated In the sides of the Cro boxes and so constructed as to deflect the nlr admitted through them to o. point above the flro where It mingles with the gneea thrown off by the coal , the gases thus becoming part of the fuel by being consumed , leavingno smoke. Under no 'circumstances is moro thnn ono shovelful cf coal put Into the flia box at one time , and nftcr each firing the door is not entirely closed , but is loft on the first notch ot the catch , which arrangement permits nlr to enter and mix w tth the Rases at n time when nn extra amount Is usually required. In order to obtnln the best results posslblo In the prosecution of their efforts to mnln- taln a strictly smokeless line of trains the company provides all Ha officials with "smoko cards" on which reports are sent In to the superintendent of the time and placa at which smoke wasn Issuing from tha stack of a Icmotlvc. A record Is kept of these reports and the promotion of the fire men is governed thereby. Ordinary soft coal Is Used in firing on these engines , mak ing the result of the Invention all tbo moro remarkable. TAUT THIFICS. Chicago llccord : Pearl Never bo down , my dear. You know the preachers always wish people to "look up ! " Ruby So do the merchants who have ads in the street cars. Philadelphia Inquirer : "Were there no servants In the Intelligence ofllcc ? " nnkcd his wife. "It was full of 'em , " returned the lonely hupband , "but they had all worked for us before. " Indianapolis Journal : . "Won't you have a glass of this now elder ? 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