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Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
TIE p pEAcE.

According to Count Kalnoky, the Aus
trian minister OF foreign affairs, there is
nothing whatever threatening the peace
of Europe. All the events which others
have regarded as presaging II conflict
not very remote are dismissed by Kali
noky as having no such character or
bearing. The visit OF the French fleet
to Cronstadt, the interview between
the Russian minister OF foreign
affairs and the Italian premier, even the
movement of Russian troops on the Aus
trian% frontier, are circumstances that in
the opinion Of the Austrian minister of
foreign affairs furnish no reason for APP
pretending u disturbance of European
peace. On the contrary he regards the
outlook as quite peaceful, in evidence of
which he cites the fact that he did not
ask as large credits for the purpose of
armament as he would have done had he
feared war.
Count Kalnoky is a statesman whose
views regarding the European situation
are entitled to respectful consideration,
but they are not shared by all %intelli-
gent and careful observers of events. If
it be true, as has been reported and is
said to be known at the Ber-
lin war office, that 80 per cent
of the effective strength of the
Russian army is massod on the
frontiers of Austria, Germany and
Roumania and that only enough troops
have been left in the east to prevent
savage incursions and to preserve order
among the people, it is difficult to be-
lieve that such action on the part of
Russia is intended to perpetuate peace.
1t is stated that over 600,0 00 meu are in
position between Odessa, the Prutte, and
Warsaw and if the massing of this force
in that quarter does not NEAR war the
motive of the Russian government in
sending them there is incomprehensi-
BILE. Was there no significance in the
studied evasion of the German emperor
by the car when the latter recently
passed. through Germany? Certainly it
seems reasonable to suppose that had
the car entertained only peaceful in
t%entions, and expected or desired a con-
tinuance of peace, he would have taken
so favorable an opportunity to reassure
Europe by paying his respects to the
German emperor.
There is doubtless very little danger
of war in Europe before next spring, and
in the meanwhile circumstances may
arise TO still further postpone a conflict,
but despite the confident expressions of
Count Kalnoky the prevailing conditions
are strongly suggestive of Il probable APP
peal to arms by the nations confronting
each other within the next year.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

bearers. Several hundred carriages swelIod
the procession 10 the grave.
The deceased was u step-son OF Hon. r.. r.
Roggen, "a years OF age and was very popular
not only among his comrades but In ali walks
OF life, a brave fireman, n genial, compln.
ionablo young man, an active and Intelligent
worker, he offered up his life on the altar Of
his duty.
ODDS y ENDS
Frank Moros, n member Of tho university
football team, was knocked scnseless by a
collision with Sweeney, of the Doano college
eleven, In n match game at Crete yesterday
afternoon. He was brought home this morn.
ing but ia still in a half da2od condition.
Physicians believe no will recover.
X. l.. Barrett will be arraigned in Judge
Cochran's court tomorrow morning for kill
ing A. S. Hayes, Il book agent. TIL indlct.
ment against him Is for murder In the second
degree.
Mary Hallock, a buxom young girl Of Is,
who ran away from her grandparents ut,
Malcolm. this county, two week since, was
found at work In a Lincoln restaurant last
night by her sister. She said she left home
because her grandfather gave hcr sister a
new dress aud neglected to provide her with
one. The police sent her home.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
VINO WAS RIGHT?

Defeated in it's efforts to palm off a
bogus claim of local circulation on the
police commission, the World Herald
crows with great gusto over the decision
rendered by Judge Doane in the South
Omaha liquor cases.
Its attempt to make people believe hat
THE BEE was trying to blackmail the
liquor dealers is on a par with all
the arrant knavery and hypocrisy that
has characterized its course on every
other occasion. The editor of that sheet
was anxious for Judge Doane to affirm
the position of The BEE and would have
made Just as desperate an effort to Sc
cure the publication O. notices for two
consecutive weeks as he made last
spring for the South Omaha notices
after his claim had peer rejected by the
Omaha police board.
Now rs to the decision. Ten years
ago, when the Slocumb law first went
into effect, THE BEE insisted that the
plain intent of the law was the widest
publicity of the application for license
during u period of two full weeks. In
this claim THE BEE was fortified by a
written opinion sustaining its position
from one of tho ablest attorneys at the
Omaha bar--no less IL person than the
Hon. George w. Doane. This opinion was
not concurred in by the city attorney,
whose versions of the Slocumb law had
as many holes as Harry Deuel's skim
mer, and were reversed by the supreme
court on every point. In view of the
fact that the validity of the whole
Slocumb act was being contested at that
time in the courts, and THE BEES
readerless competitors raised the same
howl about bleeding the liquor dealers
as is now raised by the Double Ende,,
THE BEE aid not persist in its claim and
simply inserted the notices Of applica-
ton once each week.
Lawyer Doane's conclusions in 1881 as
regards the intent of the Slocumb law
are now decided to be all wrong by
Judge Doane, but THE BEE does not
propose to rest the case there. Within
a few months we shall ascertain through
the supreme court whether Lawyer
Doane was right in 1881 or whether
Judge Doane interprets the law COR
rectly in 1891.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
FoUR HUNDRED MiLLiOSs or YER,
Haypey's JVedly,

HdrDer's Weekly,
The treasury OF tho United States had in
store on the 1st of October, 1891, 34s,3 4l 1913
silver dollars; SIS, $500 in the form OF sub
sidiary silver; silver bars to the value Of
il,579,253; trade dollars (bars), S2,394, eco
total, 800, 1Gt, 1926, or in round numbers,
S400, 900, 900. The government, furthermore,
ia increasing this immense store by buying
seven additional tons of silver every working
day in the year.
Now what does 800, 900, 900 worth of silver
meant Stated in figures or expressed in
words it conveys TO minds as ordinarily con-
stituted no definite idea other than that of an
incomprehensible something, endowed with
certain potentialities possibly for good, pos
sibly tor evil. Yet silver is a physical entity,
possessing the properties of length, breadth,
thickness, capacity to occupy or fill space.
aud weight. Let us apply these properties
TO the $500, 900, 900 and note some of the re-
suits of such application.
Coined Into dollars, the product will weigh
over %, 900, 900 pounds av~oirdupois, or II 900
net tons; and IL its movement is desirable
will necessitate for so DUNG the use of 1000
railroad freight cars carrying eleven tons
each, or 2.20O cars carrying five tons each, or
$500 two-horse wagons carrying each two
tons.
A cubic inch of pure silver weighs about
OBS pound, and a cubic foot about 65I
pounds. Hence the 800, 900, 900. ii melted
into a solid mass, would occupy some 33, 800
cubic feet, which In turn would make a solid
column of pure silver q foot square and
about SIX and one-half miles high-the Wash
ington monument being $50 feet. Assuming
a load or 100 pounds per man, an army of
$1,000 men would be required to carry the
mass, and would make q file, IN close order,
eighty miles long, occupying thirty hours in
passing a given point" allowing nothing
for halts or 'rests.n
The treasury counts its silver by weighing
1t, which is tho part of wisdom, in view of
the fact that a man counting at the rate of
2On dollar pieces per minute steadily for eight
hours a day. Sundays included, would be
kept busy for considerably over eleven years.
Piled one upon the other the 500, 900, O0O
would attain "a height of 675 miles; and
placed side by side they would carpet a room
fifty feet wide and nearly twenty-four miles
long.
Great, however, as is the mass of silver at
present in the treasure houses Of the gov
eminent, it is being steadily increased by the
purchase OF 1000, 600 additional ounces
every year, or at the rate-as before stated
of seven tons for every working day of the
wear
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
Ay NCONsIsrkNr OM4HOG,

An imposter ought to be endowed with
u good memory. But our contemporary
lacks that essential quality. He forgets
his dlsreputable record on the city hall
and postoffice location. He lays great
stress on the fact that out of our II, 200
votes only 2,400 voted against the
library building bonds.
In 1891 the city hall was located on
the corner of Eighteenth and Farnam,
with only thirty-seven votes against.
The ground belonged to the city and
was acquired for II city hall lot.
1t vas the most slightly spot
in the city and afforded IA
foundation as solid as the eter-
nal rocks. Moreover, the location
was in close proximity to the court house
and therefore very convenient for inter
change of business between city and
county officials,
In the face of this the half-baked edi-
tor led IL crusade against this site, de-
layed the building three years md en-
tailed Il loss upon the city OF over $4,000
Now, when it is proposed to erect II fire.
proof building on a hole in the ground,
surrounded by fire traps and
tied up with conditions that
would if complied with involve a waste
of from $l0O,O 900 to $500, 900, tho great
bachelor fiat builder points to the fact
that only 2,40o people voted against this
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
A Record for -, coops."
Washington Star.

uA6iltJtbH ottT.
The present administration has made an
admirable record in many respects. 1t has
proved itself clean, strong and intelligent,
and as proof conclusive on the last point IL
seemed to show by its foreign appointments
a proper appreciation of the press of the re
public. But withlp the last year, while
maintaining the appearance of a friendly dis
position toward the American newspapers, II
has played upon them a game which they de
spise by "scoopings, on two important ooca-
sions tho whole journalistic fraternity. Tho
president gave the first news OF Minister
Mizner's recall in an annual message. The
arbitration treaty with Great Britain is first
announced in an argument before the SUI
preme court. The bafled, Inundated and in-
furiated newspapers of the country gnash
their teeth and whet their knives. Let the
administratisn beware
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
LIKE BANQUO'S GHOST.
Cara, the Mexican Revolutionist,
will Not Down.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. 15.-There can
be no longer any doubt that Catrlno Cara
has opened the revolutionary ball IN Mexico
in earnest. AS stated the Mexican troops
had a brush with the revolutionists near
Guerrero yesterday and it was reported that
Garza's forces were routed. A dispatch was
received here stating that Cara made an at
tack on Guerrero late yesterday evening,
and was driven off after a stubborn resist
ance on the part OF the Mexican garris on
there. In the conflict one Mexican officer
was killed and another wounded. The loss
on Garza's side is not definitely known.
The fact is evident that the insurgents
have been quietly increasing in force and
now have begun an active campaign. 1t is
further stated, in a dispatch received from
Rio Grande City, that the reyolutionists are
well armed and have many sympathiaers
among the MeXicans on this side of the
bn,.1ar
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
scheme. Consistency is not Il jewel in
the snout of thai Omahog.

THE latest advices from Ohio indicate
that Senator Sherman will be his W
successor in the United States senate.
A canvass of the republicans elected to
the Legislature appears to show u safe
majority in favor of Mr.. Sherman, and
If such is the case that majority will be
far more likely TO grow than to
decrease between 10Y and the
Time Of election. The republicans
Of Ohio have learned that the
party throughout the country very
earnestly desires to see Mr.. Sherman
continued in the senate, and they will
not be insensible or indifferent to this
universal desire. There is nc wish
anywhere among republicans to
depreciate Mr.. Foraker. His ability
and his services are recognized and cor
daily acknowledged. But the feeling
is that the retirement of Senator
Sherman from public life at this time
would be II national misfortune, and
hence the appeal from all quarters to
the republicans of Ohio to keep him in
the senate, where his services have been
of immeasurable value to the nation,
and whore his wisdom and experience
will still be needed. 1t is gratifying to
believe that the appeal will be needed.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

almost unanimous request to hold tho con-
ventton In our midst, now more than ever
necessary to restore the prestige
and invincibility Of the party IN
the transmississippi river regioul State
after state, with Iowa in the lead, has de-
clared in favor of holding it in Omaha, and
that ambitious city is putting on her armor
to secure tho prize. She is ~abundantly able
to take care of it. Chicago, ST. Louis or
Minneapolis will not do in this emergency.
They are too far cast, and out Of the way for
the great population of the central west and
the Pacific slope. The convention ought to
be held in this section of the country, at
Omaha as the most convenient, for tho in
fuonces of the republican party to radiate in
every direction to secure success in the next
presidential campaign. So mote IL be.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
PRTVATE RIGHTS IN PROPERTY.
Opinions BcId by Leo NIlI-An Inter-
view with MGR. O'Brycn.

Opinions Held by Leo Nlll-An Inter
view with Mgr. O'Brycn.
ST.. Louls, Mo-, Nov. 15.-Rt. Rev. Mgr.
O'Bryen, one of the papal chamOcrlains,
has arrived here from Rome, whence he
comes as the papal representative
to attend the jubilee Of Archbishop Kondrlck.
Concerning the pope's recent encyclical
letter Mgr. O'Bryen said: ''rho pope in his
encyclical has done nothing more than on.
force a principle contained in the command.
ment Thou Shalt Not Steal" Private prop.
erty in land has existed from all timo. To
deny the assertion that the pope has no right
10 enforce that principle would be to deny
the actual facts of its existence. ] think my.
self tho ideas of the socialists are rather
that some individuals possess too much
property, and that n redistribution would
benefit society, and in that they are right.
It is impOssl Die TO suppose nditiO of things
where tho world would have so changed
that all men would give up their rights. But
If such - change did take place then, OF
course, tho pope would fall III with the views
of the new order. II by legislation n change
could be brought about which would give tho
land to a greater number, then | think il
would be very good. The church has always
been democratic. She has taken the part Of
the people against their oppressors.''
Touching upon the position of the pope, he
said The world looks dpon it as untenn-
BILE. He will not leave Rome unless com
PEELED TO. As to whether he can be COM
PEELED to or not, that is a matter which only
the future can reveal. Tho Jews and tho
Free Masons are the backbone of tho revolu-
ton, and it is by them that the present rulers
have been pltchforked into power. But tho
pope Is immortal--Le roi est mort; vive 10
roi! Leo XIII may die; another pope shall
spring up to take his place, as they have for
1000 years.
''1s there any truth in the reported ap-
p%ointnent of q new American cardinalFn the
reverend prelate was asked. Five o'clock
tea talk, - was the laconic reply. AS for an
American even being elected pope, he
secuted the idea. 1.-THE question of temporal
power,'' he said sis tho cause of nearly all
the strained relations existing between tho
vatican and the Italian government. 1t
would increase the difficulty OF the situation
to have a foreigner holding sway over tho
Italian soil. But why discuss the election of
popess IL is the Holy Ghost and not tho
cardinals who does the choosing and his
selection whether an American, n German or
an Italian, will be the proper one for the
church ~
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
Capital Stock Increased.

FT. SCOTT, Kan, Nov. ia special meet
ing of the stockholders and directors of tho
Kansas & Colorado Pacific railroad took
place at tho office of the company here
yesterday. Tho stockholders authorized an
increase of the capital stock of the company
from 100000, 900 to 500 0 900, and also
authorized the directors and officers Of the
road to complete the purchase OF the FIT.
Scott, Wichita IL Western road, aud to lease
ing from Wichita, Kan, to Pueblo, Colo.
Another meeting of the stockholders ana
directors OF the Kansas Il Colorado Pacific
will take place in a few weeks TO ratifv tho
purchase of one road, and the lease of tho
other.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
The First Bubble runctured.

NGW lOrN RGCOIIer.
In connection with the general collapse of
the alliance nat money boom, especially in
Kansas and Nebraska, the Ohio result is
bright with promise for the friends of honest
money and wise and enterprising American
government. The election of Flower does
not mean adherence to the short-dollar con-
struction of the Saratoga forgery plank, be-
cause the hard-money sentiment of this state
is too strong to be tritied with. Now that
the initiation craze has gone down in the west
not even Hill will think Of trying to revive it
in the east. a4E
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

NEW YoRK's commercial Importance
has never been so fully realized or
recognized abroad as within the past
few months. Financial and political
revolutions in South America, bank
ruptcies In Berlin, loss of credit in st.
Petersburg, uncertainty in Spain and
feverish anxiety in Paris have combined
to brighten London, until English CAPT
talists turn perforce of circumstances to
New York as the least variable of
financial magnets. American secure
ties alone offer safe investment and
American commercial conditions
promise brighter things for the future
than those prevailing elsewhere in
the world. II 1892 is not a year of
marvellous commercial activity and per-
onal prosperity, the pessimlsts are the
Jnly people entitled to confidence
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
Tho National Convention.

In the present month tue national repub-
lican COMMITTEES will hold its session in tho
city OF Washington to select the location OF
the national convention next year. IL must
and Will be manifest TO all that tho north
west must bo recog uized in the location of
the convention west OF tho Mississippi Tho
inyiuciblo column of the northwe tern repub-
liean states has been brohen, aad Iowa holds
out her hands TO raise ner once more to the
proud position IN which She stood. VIII the
committee need this cryt VIII hat body
OF distinguished meu turn a deaf ear 10 the
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

CORONER HABRIGAN has been mex
cusably negligent, but perhaps the most
aggravated case of malfeasance is found
in the case of Samuel r. Robinson. This
man died early in September but the
verdict of the coroner's jury has not yet
been returned. Meantime the family OF
the dead man is in almost destitute cir
cumstances and the insurance upon his
life cannot be paid pending the action of
the coroner.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

CAPTAIN ARMSTRONG announces it
rs his intention to lick the iron works
out OF the duke OF Orleans, the CO.
his wife, Madame Melba, or stronger
words to that effect. This scheme for
settling their little domestic difficulty
will ave the transatlantic cables from
n vast quantity of unsavory testimony
which may otherwise be drawn out by
the counts
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
TRAIN ROBBERS FRUSTRATED.
Warned in Time tho Officials OF the NJ,
x 4. II Hrnnnrn for , Hold I'm

"A. Il L. Frepnre Tor 4 Hold Up.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 15.-An attempt to
rob tho Missouri, Kansas & Texas south
bound tram NO. 3 at South Canadian, l. H.,
was frustrated by the officials of the road
last night. A telegram was sent to Muskogee
informing the officers that the Daltons were
seen in the vicinity of South Canadian hiding
in the river bottom. An extra was run
ahead of the regular train and guards placed
in the postal and express cars. 1t is believed
that one or two of the gang got on the train
at Musliogee and sigualled the robbers to not
attempt the robbery as the train was guarded.
Officers have been put on the track Of the
robbers.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

PEOPLE familiar with the deplorable
happenings on the Sioux reservations
last winter will be slow to give credence
to stories o being circulated that the
remnant of Big Foot's band intends to
go on the warpath, or that any other
Indians in that locality will again put
their trust in the ghost shirt. Wounded
Knee and its awful fatalities are too
fresh in the aboriginal mind to warrant
any fear of trouble at Pine Ridge.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

ALL bids for excavating the federal
building site having been rejected, there
will be nothing done upon the structure
before spring. Now if the supervising
architect will turn his genius upon the
superstructure and prepare a better plan
and more attractive building perhaps
we shall feel compensated for the delay!
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

WHEN the average farmer reflects
upon the fact that the railways of
America have cost $40, 0O0, 900 1000, his en-
thusiasm for government ownership
loses a great deal of its %fervor, because
he sees no practicable way of paying for
the lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

THE Maryland duck trust is not
organized in behalf of sportsmen, nor
to protect the feathered bipeds with
web feet. 1t is to control the manufac-
ture of the cotton cloLh known as duck,
SO per cent of which is manufactured
in that state. 1t is another illustration
of the poverty of a language with but
100, 900 words.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
Table taxi.

Table TAX.
The pedagogue among his pupils had
A maiden fair.
lie loved her; who would not. Her eyes were
soft.
And turned to has with saucy glance full oft;
And when his tireSOme Latin put her out
Here pretty lips were all too prone to pouti
lie lon sed TO Kiss had made him
mad
But did not dare,
One morn he met her on the way TO school.
the hour was late;
But wait he would not, could not mus he
sighed;
sweet maid, / prlthee, be my beauteous
bride:
Already hast thou marked, nor need | tell
That | have loved thee long and passing wen !
Nor time nor absence can my passion COOL
Let's ~conJugute''
'Ah!" with arch mOdesty replied the fair,
THAT wOuld be fine;
But tbs impossible, for, as thou Know ST.
Small stock OF learning can Thy pupil Doast;
The first declenSiOn now aDSOrbs my thouthti
The verb | have not yet at all been taught
1 cannot Conjuglte; all | may dare
Is to de line
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16
Nebraska silver Jubilee.

SDFIlHVtTu IHuSF'I IttpNDEICuH.
The twenty-ifth anniversary of tho ad-
mission of Nebraska into the union will DO
celebrated March l in an appropriate manner,
If the advice of the local press is followed.
In a quarter of q century that commonwealth
has increased in population from less than
100, 600 to over 1000, 900, and in assessed
wealth from $50, 900, 900 to $3.50, 900, 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

THE Knights of Labor have adopted
n resolution recommending local assem-
blies to refuse membership to office
holders and office seekers. If the alli-
ance will establish n similar rule it will
be saved some of the infections which
befell that excellent farmers organiza-
ton at Lincoln last winter and during
the late campaign in Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

ain and the United States, while the
protection that ought to be given the
seal fisheries cannot be made so com
plete as is desirable. This controversy
ought to be disposed Of before the arri-
val Of the next sealing season.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

SOME idea Of the rapid growth ard
steady prosperity Of South Omaha
may be obtained from the information
that fifteen new business houses have
been erected along Twenty-fourth street
within a month.
Omaha daily bee., 1891-11-16

GENERAL AMNESTY may yet take
command of affairs in Chilli. If so peace
will not be long delayed. General
Amnesty settles civil wars after one fac
tion is victorious far more speedily and
satisfactory than general punishment or
any other form of prescription.