Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1887, Page 4

4 v THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF RUBSORIPTION ¢ (Morniag Edition) Ineluding Sunday Yenr. $10 00 o1 s o ;flrThrm Montha .. The Omaha Senday address, One Year.. .. 018 FARNAM STRE , TRINUNE BUILDE ATA OPPICE, NO. 014 AN fa FOURTEENTH TR W YORK OFFICE. ROOM ASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. OORRESPONDENCE! All communiontions relating to news andedi- torial matter should be addressed 1o the Epi- TOR OF THE BEE. BUSINESS LETTERS! All business lotters and remittances should be addrossed 1o THE BE# PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders 1o be made payuble to rder of the eompuny, THE BEE PUSLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { & * Geo, B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemply swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Mar. 4th, 1857, wus as follows: ednes Thursday, Friaay, Mar. 4 Average....... . GEO. B, Subscribed in my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 7th day of March A. D., 1857, [SEALI Notarv Publie. Geo. B, 'I'zschuck, bolni first duly sworn, deposes and says that he s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily circulation” of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,657 coples; for Avsru, 1886, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1856, 12,- 430 coples; for June, 18%6, 12,208 coples; f July, 188, 12,514 copies; for Aucust, 18,404 coples; for September, 1838, "1 copies; for October, 1556, 12,080 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 covies; for December. 1886, 18,237 copies; for January, 1587, 16,260 coples; for February, 1887, 14,108 copies. @r0. B, TzZSCHUCK. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A. . 1887, [SEAL.I N. P.FEm, Notary Publie. TyERE are r;lnny t;rccnmlingn of this legislature, wicked and shameful. His- tory must never repeat itself. THE committee on miscellancous sub- Jects made a favoraple report on the pro hibition bill. Death awaits it on final ac- tlon. It is to be hoped that Hugh Con- way will not becalied upon to finish the second volume of the late Beecher's book. ¢ FReEDOM nmever shricked like Mr. Agee did when he spoke on the Omaha charter. Freedom couldnot do it, and ++ hold its job. v IN a fit of unguarded generosity the legislature legalized the bill donating 238 lJots to the city of Lincoln. The lots be- longed to the state. THE third party organized at Cincin- nati, when it adopted the greenback safety valve, peacefully died before 1t had been christened. It {s wonderful how unanimous the wote of the legislature always is, when the names are called on an appropria- tion bill to pay members. TaE railroad lobby is about as strong as ever at Lincoln. At least it isas strong innumbers. The winter dissipa- tion may have physically weakened it. ! THE members of the legislature so de- voted and honest to their constituency, refuse to patronize the leading opera house of Lincoln, but all go to the *‘Peo- ple's Theatre’- & matter of policy. f EE———— MR. CALDWELL was once an actor. It may bo possible that he can act. In “‘doing" the character of the animal with extenuated ears, nature has done more for the Lancaster statesmen than ho ever did for himself. y m——— THO3E who opposed the sale of the Sa- line lands, and issued the circular ap- pealing to the people, could have accom- plished more good had they signed their mame to the document. Moral cowardice accomplishes nothing. Our esteemed senator of many bills, Colonel Colby, is something after the style and habit of a century plant. He blos- soms but once in ten years. And for this reason when he is in bloom he pro- poses to make up for lost time. * Tnose members, or some ot them, wvoting against the appropriation bill to . pay themselves, were shrewd and far- secing, They had already drawn the warrants—sold them to a Lincoln banker, and then voted against the bill, ——— . AN exchange says: “The yards and ! orchards of California, at this time of . year aro green and beautiful.” Waiu- i Ing the beauty of the picture, 1t can be remurked that our legisiators bear a ‘most striking resemblance to the yards of the Golden state. — In all his glory, Wedndsday, in the senate, Mr, Robbins arose and eagerly wondered: “What are we here fort" Just a3 he asked the question, Vande- mark came in, in a salubrious state of enchantment. That solved a problem ‘which a few moments before seemed strange and bowildering. ETeS— IT 18 to be regretted that Mr. Alexan- der, of Nemaha, Tom Major's man Y¥riday, so far forgot himself as to smk ~ whatever individuality he might pos- [ soss. Mr. Aloxander, the Johneon mer- . . chant, voted for Majors to succeed Van- . Wyck believing Majors stood a praying ~ chance. Men who cling to the marve- Jous and hug such wild delusions will ‘mever again sccure_the confidence of the . people. P OEEE————— Tue Saline land bill is nothing more mor less than a job. Its passage would . be a crowning piece of infamy. It is Tom Kennard's latest effort to plunder “ghe state under the most flimsy pretext. T'wo years ago the fifty year's lcase of _ghe Salino lands was pushed through the 1 Inture under the pretense that the 1 was a part of the Fa'ine grounds oh the state was forbidden to sell. , with forty-eight years more of At & nominal rental, the logislature importuned to make to the parties who the loase, a deed for the wroperty Phioh they baye no ngbt to sell. s " THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY MARCH 11, 1887. Infamous Lawmakers. Ono hundred and thirty-three lawmak- ers are holding daily sessions in the legis- Iative halls at the state capital. On the fifth day of January each of these men held up his right hand and bound him- self by a most solemn oath adnnnistered publicly by Chief Justice Maxwell of the supreme court. Each of these members called Almighty God to witness that he “‘would discharge the duties of legislator to the best of his ability, and that he had not accepted nor would he accept or re- ceive directly or indirectly any money or other valuable thing from any corpora- tion, company or person, or any promise of office for any act or influence or for any vote he may give or withhold on any bill, resolution or appropriation.”’ At the principal hotel of the capital city thirty or forty men are holding daily and nightly gatherings and orgies, whose notorious vocation is to improperly in- fluence and corrupt men who have taken the solemn oath above cited. The bold- ness with which these conspirators against the public weltare carry on their criminal em of bribery, and the reck- lessness exhibited by members in their intercourse with them, affords the most shocking exhibition of depraved public morals in this state. Per- jury and bribery linked together seem to have lost all terror upon men who only two months ago would have shuddered and been ap- palled at the mere suggestion. It is now common to hear the procurers of the lobby, and even members, ask each other, has Senator Such-and-such or Representative So-and-so been *‘fixed” on this or that bill or resolution. Former legislatures have been pered with, and had their black sheep, but never before has a legisiature tolerated and countenanced such a lawl mob of en dealers in 1 e dishonor. Bargains are openly made to defeat meritorious measures and to carry through the most gigantic jobs. Members who have once bartered away their soulsand integ- rity are held in chains more degrading and abject than the fetters that ever bound a slave or felon. The honest and unpurchasable minority are baffled and disheartened over the lamentable demor- alization. The state is watching the dis- graceful proceedings with alarm. The truth 18 dawning upon the people that the criminal farce in progress at Lincoln for sixty days foreshadows a tragedy. The utter hopelessness of being honestly served by men elected under the most solemn pledges, points to a remedy be- yond the pale of law. What else can the people do, aud what shall they do when the conviction becomes universal that representative -government is a doomed failure unless representatives are made personally accountable for their treason? Courts of justice do not reach such offenders, and political death has no terrors for men whose acts and votes have placed them beyond all hope of political resurrection, —_— The Bee's Policy Endorsed. The Herald under its new management has surprised 1ts readers by the enuncia- tam- The matter has received further attention since from a Philadelphian, who has ob- tained statistics from the nssessor's office and communicated the result to 7% Nation, These statistics show that there are about 90,000 individual owners of land in that city. 7These owners represent about one-nalt of the vpopulation, all directly interested in land as owners. There are 183,000 dwelling houses in the city, of which about 40,000 are valued, including the lots, at less that $1,000 each, and about 60,000 are valued at between $1,000 and $2,000. These facts sufliciently explain the smallness of the George vote in Philadelphia, There is nothing more conducive to conservatism than the abso- lute ownership of a home, however hum- ble, or the possession of savings devoted to the acquisition of a home. 1t is not those who own something, but those own nothing, that aceept Mr. George's theories about state paternalism. It has been well said in regard to the socialistic theory of an equal division of property, that those who before had nothing and claimed that division was right, would as strenuously oppose a second division which would involve a reduction or loss of their share iu the first. In no country in Europe is there s0 many small holdings of land as among the agricultural population of France, and in none is that class of the popula- tion 8o conservative, so loyal to the ex- 1sting government and 8o zealous in the upholding of law and order. Let a work- ingman be once inspired with the idea of saving until he can get a little home of his own and that very ambition, however remote its realization, becomes a bond to his community for his diligence, sobriety, good conduct and exemplary care for his family. And when at length nhe ob- tains that which he has worked and saved so long to secure, there is a pride of ownership that giv that independ- ence and sclf-respect which are the most valuable qualities of the citizen. If the great corporationsof the country were truly wise they would aid their workmen' everywhere to become owners of homes. The pride in these homes, the care and improvement of them would establish a community of interest between employer and employe that would make strikes and lockouts un- known, because the disposition to adjust all differences by friendly arbitration would leave no room for passion and prejudice. If the workingmen of New York were like those of Philadelphia, largely owners of their homes, however small or distant, or were saving to se- cure them, the land theories of Mr., George and Father McGlynn would not have called ont 70,000 votes in their sup- port. It may be more difficult for labor- ing men in New York to acquire homes than in Philadelphia, but it is not im- possible, and especially is itnot in our newer cities in the west. Letevery work- ingman in Omaha strive to own the roof that covers him, and every employer ren- der such aid as he can to those striving in that direction, and in time the happi- ness, prosperity and comfort of our toil- ing thousands will be as marked and en- vied abroad as our excptional progress a8 a city is to-day. tion of a *‘policy.” The BEE had charged that the opposition to the Omaha charter came from the ‘‘monopolies and rings that seek control of our public works;"” that *‘the secret of that opposition lies in the fact that the provisions of the new charter are very stringent with regard to the regulation of gas companies, street railways and telegraph companies,” and that *‘the new proprietor of the Herald is evidently in full accord" with the com- bination of corporations, syndicates and rings against a charter designed to pro- tect our city from their dark designs. This smoked the Herald out of its hole, and compelled it to declare its belief to be: ‘That every gas, water, street car, telephone or telegraph company, enjoying public privi- leges, should be subject to regulation by the city councll. This paper holds that the city has the right to fix the prica citizens s hall pay for either gas or water; that the city has the right to regulate charges for telephones; that the city has the right to fix amount of fares and the Lours of running horse cars and cable cars; that it has the right, and should exereisa it, to tax the property of cor- porations and individuals alike; that too many privileges have already been granted to corporations witout adequate return, and that there should be a stop put to the prac- tice. In a paragraph our neighbor gives as a ‘‘quiet tip” that ‘“‘newspapers which are endeavoring to formulate the Herald's policy will do well to call at these head- quarters for pointers. The Herald is ed- ited at the Heruld office.” For one, it is not necessary that we should call. Our editorials have gone there, and from the quotation mado above it is evident that though the Herald is edited in its own office, it has drawn its inspiration from the BeE office on the question of civic control of granted franchises. The creed which the Herald publishes as its own is ueither new nor original. The BEE has for years been preaching this doctrine; it has slaimed the right and duty of the state to regulate and control the railroads of the states so that priv- ileges granted for tho public good shall not become agencies of public oppres- sion. It hasalso contended that priv- ileges or franchises granted by the city are to the same general end—the public good and comfort and convenience. It holds and has always contended that our municipal authorities, as agents of the people, should vigilantly guard the peo- ple’s rights and compel every corpora- tion enjoying granted privileges to deal fairly and justly with the public. The IHerald under its new ownership echoes us, whether sincerely or from motives of volicy we will not inquire. The paper that should venture to declare that city privileges and franchises once granted ceased to be subject to municipal reg- ulation and control in the public interest would exhibit the courage of the bull that attacked the locomotive, and also repeat that bull's folly. We hopo the Herald is sincere in its adoption of the BEE's policy. Conservatism of Ownership, Shortly before the late municipal elec- tion in Philadelphia Henry George vis- ited the city and made a speech to the workingmen on his hobby of the state ownership of land. The result was doubt- loss disappointing to him, for at the elec- tion the ticket designated by his name received only 1,064 votes out of about 155,000 votes cast. This was explained at the time by the statement that many workmen in Philadelphia owred their homes, and many more were striving snd saving with the same end in viow. * Drummers '’ Not Taxable. Every manufacturer and merchant who sends his representatives, commonly termed ‘‘drummers,” to extend his busi ness into other states than the one in which his business is located will be in- terested in the decision of the supreme court of the United States, handed down afew days ago, that state laws subject- ing such representatives to a tax are in conflict with the constitution. A similar decision was rendered some months ago. Both were based on that clause of the constitution which declares that congress shall have the power to regulate com- merce among the several states. Laws taxing commercial travelers exist in a number of the states, and are quite gen- eral in those of the south. It is only rarelv they encounter any opposition, and for this reason the first decision of the supreme court against the validity of these statutes, which should have brought about their general repeal, was given very little regard, only one or two states repealing the obnoxious laws. Whether the later decision will have a more ex- tended effect remains to be seen, but it is questionable. So long as the commercial travelers pay these demands, rather than suffer the expense and detention incident to arrest, they will continue 10 be made in those states where the necessities of the public treasury are a stronger argu- ment than respect for constitational lim- itations upon the powers of the state. In rendering the decision, the supreme court expressed the opinion that the question was of great importance to the peovle of the United Stutes, both as res- peets their business interests and consti- tutionul rights. The coustitution gives to congress the power to rcgulate com- merce among the states, and that power is necessarily exclusiye whenever the subjects of it are national in their char- acter or admit only of one uniform sys- tem or plan of regalation. The failure of congres to act where it has exclusive power indicates its will that the subject shall be left free from any restrictions or 1mpositions, and any regulation by the states, except in matters of local concern only, is repugnant to such freedom. ‘The only way in which commerce be- tween the states can be legitimately af- fected by state laws is when, by virtue of its police power and its jurisdiction over persons and property within its limits, a state provides for the security of lfe, limb, health, comfort and prosperity, or when it does those things which may in- cidentally affeet commerce. But in making such mternal reg- ulations a state cannot impose taxes upon a person passing through or coming in merely for a temporary pur- pose, nor upon property imported and not yet become part of the common mass; and no discrimination can be made by any such regulation adyersely to the per- sons or property of other states, and no regulation can be made directly aflect— ing inter-state commerce. 1n the matter of inter-state commerce the United States are, in the opinion of the court, but one country, and are, and must be, subject to one system of regulations and not to a multitude of regulations, It seems to be forgotten, 8aid the court, that the people of this country are citizens of the United States as well as of the individual states, and that they have some rights under the constitution and laws of the former, inde- pendent of the latter, and free trom any interference or restrait from them. It is rathor for the broad principles en- uciated and the explicit definition given respecting the rights of the state in mak- ing regulations affecting the commerca N of tha country, thad for the specific mat- ter under consideratiof, that this decision possesses & generdl fntorest. We have reached the time when state authority is to be exerted in the regulation of com- merce to an extent Aot'thus far attemptod, and there will be a demand for the clear- est and fallest light upon tho limitations of that authority. The decision referred to is a contribution to the required intor- mation, and therefore has a larger inter- est than its application to the single ques- tion with which it primarily deals. Uaptain James B. Eads, In the death of Captain James B. Eads this country loses another of its eminent men. He was, like so many great Amer- icans, of humble origin, scant opportun- ities in youth and essentinlly self-made. A mun of original genius, mdomitable courage and great enterprise, he has left worthy monuments of his engineering skill in the magnificent steel bridge at St. Louis and the jotties at the mouth of the Mississippi, and could he have lived, would have ndded another in his ship- railway across the lsthmus of Tehuan- tepec. The conatruction of the first fleet of Mississippi iron clads in one hundred days was a remarkable achievement. Much of the timber for them was still growing in the forest when they were be- gun; they were novel in design and many of the appliances for their construction had to be improvised as the work pro- gressed. In the second year of the war he designed and constructed a second fleet of heavy iron clads, in which for the first time steam was applied to the hand- ling of heavy guns. These vesse the princival agencies in recovering onssession of the Mississippi and other rivers from the rebel forces. In the construction of the gr Louis bridge he applied for the in this country, and for the first tima in any country on so great a scale and to s0 great a depth, the caisson principle of sinking piers, Throughout the whole work unexpected and peculiar engineer- ing difficulties were met with which only his original mind and wonderful re- sources could have surmounted. The jetty principle was also not new, but the extent of its application and the results obtained here tar surpassed any in Eu- rope. Captain Eads undoubtedly regarded his ship railway as the greatest project of his life. 1t was daring in conception, but the most eminent engineers, in this country and Europe, have pronounced it entirely feasible. Without his master spirit to push, it is possible that this great enterprise may now fail. We have produced many great engineers, but none greater than James B. Eads, and the enduring monuments of his hands will remain to give lustre to his name and perpetuity to His fame. More Talk of Oabinet Changes, Secretary Manning has taken his final departure from the ‘lrensury department. 1f Washington advices are trustworthy, he should bein New York to-day and will sail for Europe next Tuesday. When Mr. Manning tendered his resignation the president requested that it should not take effect until {iie close of the cur- rent month, to which time it was desired that the secretary should remain in such active control of the office as the condi- tion of his health would permit. Itap- pears, however, that he has been unable to hold out until that time, and that a hurried journey to Eurove is urgently necessary. The failing physical condi- tion of the secretary appears also to have had a depressing effect upon tne new bank project of which he is to be presi- dent if he shall again be - strong enough to assume the duties. There is no defi- nite information asto who may be his successor, and while it is believed quite generally that Mr. Fairchild, the assis- tant secretary, hasthe best chance for the place, the delay of the presidentin naming a successor suggests a doubt that the appointment will goto him. The latest surmise coming from a source worthy of consideration is that the president's preference is for Mr. Carlisle, but the fact is that all speculation on the subject is valueless, and it is not improbable that Mr. Cleve- land will surprise the country by the ap- pointment of a man who has not been thought of in this connection. Other cabinet changes continue to be talked of. A New York paper presumed to have fayorable opportunities for cor- reot information states thut about May first Secretary of the Navy Whitney will retire to private life. According to this journal the secretary has recently be- come very much dissatisfied, caused chiefly by the reflections indirectly cast upon his administration of the depart- ment in congress. The expressions of prominent democrats of a want of confi- dence in military and naval boards mighec very easily have been accepted by the secretary of the navy as a thrust at some of the boards of his creation, ana their operations certainly gave warrant for the distrust of these congressmen. It is quite probable, also, that the seccretary may have found a grievance mn the ap- parent fact that his influence has not been very great with the demo- cratic house, although in this re- gard his experience has not been different from that of other heads of de- partments in the pregent administration, The truth is that the® y department is not a field in which ghes is much chance, under present circumstances, to win glory, and it has beeh véry apparent that this is what Mr, Wiitney has desired to do. Unless he is misrapresented he has an ambition for higher Ppolitical honors, and it would not bdsux)rising if he has discovered that the path to their achieve- ment does not lie through the navy de- partment. Howevgr, , there is better promise for that much neglected arm of the public service, hnd if Mr. Whitney can be patient he may yet be enabled to «o something for which’the country will commend him. 1 There are guarddd rumors of other cabinet changes, but they lack substan- tial foundation. They serye, however, to warrant the suggestion that the presi- dent has refrained from nominating one cabinet oflicer when so much else 1n that line was m view. It may be remarked that these rumors have ceased to bear to the public ear the name of Attorney General Garland, The conclusion seems to have become settled that the Pan- Electric representative is there to stay. — THE genial Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio, is an nest advocate of reci- procity with Canada. He introduced a bill just before the adjournment of con- gress for this purpose, and he is sanguine that this question will grow in popular regard. He is reported In a recent in- terview to have said that the failure of the fortifications bill may have hastened the progress toward the time when there shall be complete reciprocity between this country and Canada, ihe passage of a bill for warlike preparations must have retarded movement in that way. “A complete reciprocity,’’ said Butter- worth, “is to the interest of both coun- ' and it is in accordance with the fecling in both countries, excopt among a few fishermen. The progress of civili- zation cannot tern off' its course on ac- count of the smell of a rotten mackerel. The Canadians are the ssme people with ourselves, all except a very few half French that don't count in the popula- tion. There should be no distinction be- tween the trade between Canada and the United States, and that between New York and Pennsylvanin, There should be a unity of interests and one grand American brotherhood from the Gulf of Mexico to the region where you might read the declaration ot independence by the light of the aurora borealis.”” Cana- dian annexationists would respond with a loud amen to these sentiments.”” —— PresipENT CLEVELAND having cleaned up the work that pressed upon him just before and immediately after the adjourn- ment of congress, is entering upon a sea- son of relaxation, which he will undoubt- edly apvreciate. The vpresident is not afraid of work, and the executive oftice affords abundant opportunity for the ex- ercise of industry of the most laborious kind, besides the strain of its many an- noying and perplexing incidents. The president of the Umited States who faith- fully attends to hie duties earns his sal- ary. He works harder than the head of any other nation on earth. No one would deny him whatever release he can prop- erly obtain from the various, and much of the time onerous duties of his oflice. Tug Herald says that it “‘holds that every gas, water, street car, telephone or telegraph company, enjoying public priv- ileges, should be subject to regulation by the city council.” The course of the Herald, however, does not support this declaration. It has aided the lobbyists of all these corporations in every way possible 1n their fight against the charter. —_— Ex-GoverNow FUrNAS is asking too much of the Nebraska legislature. An investigation of the merits of his claim of five thousand dollars will show that he is fairly entitled to nothing of the kind. He has been well paid for his services as Nebraska's commissioner at the New Orleans world's exposition. It is about time to close the legislative grab-bag. —_— OMAmHA claims no great boom, but the city's growth continuesto be steady and substantial, with no prospect of a stand- still or set-back. More handsome build- ngs will be erected and more money will be expended for improvements during 1887 than during any two previous years. How about that much talked of union depot? fsn'tit about time, now that the new Union Pacific bridge is rapidly ap- proaching completion, for the proposed enterprise to materialize in some sub- stantial shape? The old cowshed ought to go. THERE were but two dissenting voices in the house when the Furnas appropri- ation was voted on.” But when a bill was mtroduced to reduce the salary of teachers in a prominent state institution, ungrammatical statesmen shrieked that it was best *‘for to gt down salaries.” —_— LINCOLN'S real estate boom is spread- ing. If a man owns one lot down there, he at once sub-divides it, puts it on the market, charters a few columns of adver- tising space, and then piously prates of his “addition” to the city, ‘‘just on the meurket.” It begins to look as if there is a great deal of natural gas in the recent coal discovery in this city. The gas, however, is not of the kind that is used for heating and illuminating purposes. —— Tue street cleaning gang will clean the streets if it takes all summer, and it will probably require all that time at the rate they are now doing the work. Ir Nebraska gots an oil inspector he will find plenty of work at Lincoln. The oil rooms in the capital city alone would keep him busy. Tur Republican says that Mr. Garvey as a legislator 18 a man of much merit. “Birds of a feather,” ete. Kansas City's busiest establishment is a wind factory. SeriNG candidates are beginning to blossom. LITERARY OHAT. J. E. Cabot’s authorized life of Emerson is now completed. James Russell Lowell will sall in a few weeks for Kngland. Joel Chandler Harris has been trying his hand at a war story, The novelist, E. P. Roe, is writing a book in Santa Barbara, Cal. Richard R. Bealey, the Lancashire poet, died at Nottingham lately. Robert Louis Stevenson has three new books ready for publication, Mark Twain Is, in Germany, the most pop- ular of all American writers. Sir James Stephen has abandoned his at- tempt to write a life of Carlyle. Mr. Glaastone contemplates a work of some extent ou the Olympian religion, Congressman 8. 8. Cox's book on Con- stantinople is to be published this spring, The attempt to found a Shakespeara library at Stratford-on-Avon has proved a failure. The holograph manuseript of *The Mask of Anarchy,” by Shelley, was recently re- covered. Marion Geawford’s *With the Immortals” i8 said to be half romance and half literary eriticism, M. Taine has begun a series of articles In the Revue des Deux Mondes on the First Napoleon. Miss Mary Booth,edltor of Harper's Bazar, is going for recreation to Europe. She bas worked like a slave for twelve years, 1tis said shat the mikado and the leading statesmen of Japan favor the Enklish lan- guage for the ofticial purposes of that country, The Earl of Rosslyn has written a “jubl- lee lyric” entitled *Love that Lasts Forever,” which the queen approves of and has desired to see published. M. Feuillet do Concues, whose death is an- nounced, edited ' the corrospondence and papers of Marie Antolnette, Madame do Maintenon, Madame Eilzabeth and Louis XVL 1t is now twenty-four years since the first volume of Kiuglake's “Invasion of the Crimea” was published. The author has at last sent the conclusion of his manuscript to his publishers. S —— Not Proof Against Sin, New Orleans Picayune, A good position in society Is not proof againstsin. Adam and Eve were the very best people in the world when they were cast out of Eden. e And 2,000 Wives Belicved They Did, Albany Argus. A Boston paper recently published a com- munieation on “The Model Wife,” and 2,000 Boston husbands swore next morning that they wrote it ———— Bellicose Ingalls, Chicago Times, Senator Ingalls has gono home to Kansas. Fortunately for a man of his ardent military temperament, the county-seat wars of that state are furlous enough to satisfy his thirst for war pending the completion of his ar- rangements for the destruction of England. ——— The American Bounce, Vew York Commercial Advertiser, ‘The abler uss of the English language in America than in the mother country is illus- trated by the abrcumstance that the English newspapers, in dascribing uses to which the public moneys were put, assert that wages were paid to ‘‘chuckers-out” to preserve order at political meetings, How much shorter, neater and more eloquent, graphic and plcturesque is our word “bouncer” to describe gentlemen of this calling! To bounce conveys the idea of suddenness, force, sweepingness and grace all in the same motion: but to chuck signifies an awk- ward, dragging and labored ejection, To bounce is to selze the bouncee by the trousers and the collar, swing him clear off the floor and through the door in a clean-cut parabola. To chuck out is to heavily drag the chuckee to the door and laboriously = shove him through it. e Destiny. Samuel W. Dugleld in Wide Awake An elm tree and a pine tree rew by a castle wall; rie was strong and full and broad, e other straight and tall— And the elm tree and the pine tree Grew by the castle wall. There came a shipman to the shoro And hewed the pine tree dow Tiiere came & woodsman to the wood And felled the elm tree's erown ; Tiere cane two men who needed both And marked and hewed thom down. And now the pine tree sails the sea A topmast straight and tall; =7 And now the el tree cradle stands Where little children call; And the el tree and the pine tree Have left the castle wall. il 'y STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Hastings has a board of trade in run- ning order. Loup City is promised another church and a skating rink. Ord business men declined to put up $5,000 for a creamery. Fremont threatens to brace up with a starch factory imported from Ottumwa for the purpose. The $10,000 hotel project has been thawed out in Tecumseh and shows signs of returning life. The First National bank, of Fremont, has increased its capital st from $50,000 to $100,000. Burglars made two calls on Grand Islanders Tuesday night and extracted $6.60 for their trouble. Fifty thousand sheep were fattened in Dodge coumi last winter. They are now going to market by the thousand, The Johnson County Journal has passed the eighth mile post with its democracy brightened by age and experience. Fremont and Norfolk are indulging in a little commercial rivalry, and there is no danger that either will sutfer from an overdose of confectionery. A new station on the Seward branch of the Elkhorn Valley road will be planted within a mile of North Bend, and the residents are sorely troubled. Two precincts in Fillmore county de- #-sted the bond proposition for the Elk- horn Valley extension, so that but $46,- 000 of the $60,900 bonds were voted. The town of Taylor has a gepius who combines the talents of u druggist and a barber, and guarantees to scour man- kind “with neatness and dispatch,' boxed and stropped. A dark cloud, about the sizo of a woman, hovers over a_prominent busi- ness man of Albion. The female expects him to award her damages for nonfulfill- ment of a contract to link his destinies to hers. He preferred not to link. Work will be resumed on the govern- ment building in Nebraska City next Monday. The walls are now to the sec- ond story and it is desired to get the root on, if possible, by fall, that work on the interior may proceed through the winter, The bridge company in the employ of the Northwestern railroad, commenced work again March 1, on the first bridge west of Lindsay, and_will work toward Albion as fast as possible. 'The road will probably be all completed and trains run- ning by the lst of May, clear through to Oakdale. The daughter of a prominent resident of Ayr is said to have sloped witha livery stable chambermaid named Jim Davis, The Ayry maiden is only sixteen and silly, while Jim is streaked with the odors of thirty livery seasons. Tidings of the pawr are anxiously wanted. There 1s nothing strange or startling in the story that the noted ‘‘Coal-oil Johnny," a reminiscence of Oil Creek, is hustling baggage at a station of the B. & M. in this state. Experience entitles him to the job. Back in the seventies he was chief trunk tosser at Rousyille station, on the Oil Creek road in Pennsylvania. The tearful interview with which Colonel Sabin rushed to Lincoln, ropping up the rotten foundation of the Beatrice Mutual Benevolent Insurance company, recently ventilated in the B: is going the rounas of the state papers, paid for by the yard. The doletul colonel forgets to'add 'to the cure-all certificates that little card of withdrawal published by the Lincoln “‘advisory board.” ‘The Schuyler Quil! is saturated with envy at the continuance of the real estate boom in Omana, and predicts an carly collupse. There are scores of just such evil prophets in Omaha who, lacking the grit to keep up with the procession, are cursing their more fortunate neighbors and their own stupidity. With $2,000,000 worth of buildings contracted for, exten- sive public works mapped out for the summer, two bridges across the Missouri, anda scores of lesser trifles, there is no such thing as fail in Omaha's future, lowa Items. A basket factory will locate at Dubuque. Dubugque has thirty-six miles of im- proved streets. Senator Allison will be fifty nine years old on April 14. The school énrollment at Cedar Rapids for the past year reached 2,041, The Cedar Rapids National bank has been authorized to begin business. Miles Aldrich, the oldest man in Du- buque, died on Qnurdly last at the ad- vanced aged of 93. An ordinance is pending and will pass atDubuque making the office of captain of police a continuous position to the oc- oupant as long as he behaves himself, Jennie Wright, of Albis, while helping her father save his team in an foe gorge had hor hand caught betweon a rove and a tree and died before assistance could bo rendered. Five bachelors of Fort Dodge gave a reception at the opera house at that placo on the Bth inst, that for brilliancy of conception, taste and elegance eclipsed eyerything in the social filuu that city has ever witnessed, Dakota. There are 138 prisoners in the two pen- itentiaries, Deadwood authorities will make war on the opium joints, Under the new territorfal marriagoe law, boys of eightcen and girls of lifteen years of age may marry with the written consent of their parents, A scheme is being worked up at Arling- ton to attach a cane mill to the creamery machimery and raise a crop this year to be worked up as an experiment. . Mixing hard and soft wheat and mak- ing the whole hard is an old scheme, but the latest device in Dakota towns is to mix soft conl and sell it for hard. There is r(implu'ml of this in several towns out west, Under the new postal law Huron, with £10,919.82 gross annual receipts, and the Sioux Falls with $12,803,37 are entitled to froe postal delivery. Grand Forks, with FU.:;:I.87 falls just below the $10,000 imit, . William L. Sackett, ex-county commis- sioner of Lawrence county, wus arrested last Mon¢ 'ged with attempting to po the F ar-old daughter of James Sackett. The prisoner is about fifty years old, is married and has heretofore” borne an Irrn]]vr hable character. The miners talk of lynching. Sackett claims to be a vietim of blackmal. The Pacific Coast. Greeley proposes to invest $15,000 in the construction of drains, A party of Missouri Pacific railway surveyors began running a line cast from Pucblo lust week. Real estate transfers in Deaver for Feb- ruary amounted to $1,043,041, ‘The Santa Fe engineers are staking tho route of extension from Pueblo to Denver, The Tabor Grand hotel In Leadville, which cost $75,000, was recently auction- cered for §33,000, The Union Pacific has opened a library for employes at Como. The company hus also started a library at Cheyenne and Pocatello, Idaho. W. E. Eakers, assistant sergeant-at- arms of the house of representatives, has been arrested for attempting to bribe a member to oppose the pawnbrokers' license bill with &lUO, Among the parlor mottoes left by a lato revivalist at Denver are the following: “‘No man who wears tight pants can be a christian, and no woman who pays $4 for an eight-button vair of kid gloves oan ever enter tho kingdom of heaven. I sco that you girls are inclined to kick at that, but I'don’t care. Hell is full of people who kick at the truth.” The biggest striké ever made in tho Aspen district is reported in the J. U, Johnson mine. It1s impossible to get at any particulars, but it is pretty certaln that a body of ore as large or larger than the famous body in the Aspen mine has been developed. A large part of this im- mense ore body runs as high as 600 ounces of silver per ton. The manage- ment {s very close-mouthed. - North Nebraska Health Resort. LonG PiNg, Neb., March 8,—To the Editor of the Bre: There have been a great many people who have come to northern Nebraska, and were suffering Wwith pulmonary diseases, and a great many with ague. ‘fhese people wero poor and did not come here particularly with any idea of being cured of any of these discases but to secure for them- selves a home. Within the last five years it has been gradually coming to hight that there are some curative qualities in the climate and water of mnorthern Ne« braska from the fact that these people have either been cured entirely or in part, 8o that it has attracted the atten- tion of the medical profession. Those who have been cured of their ailments, without any particular attention huil:r put forth to that end have been herald- ing it all over the country, so that people of means have heard of the advantages of this country and have been sending their invalid friends here, The railroad men have been agitating the advantages of building _a large hospital along the line of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missour: Valley railroad. ‘They have been soliclt- ingthe aid of the company and have finally been promised the required assist- ance, At a meeting this week it was de- cided to locate the railroad hospital at Long Pine, Neb.,, and the grounds aro now being located for the erection of us fine an institution as there is in Nebraska. The building will cost about forty taou- sand dollars when complete. The main reason for locating it at Long Pine was on account of the healthful climate, and more 8o because the water of this placo possesses properties that are conducive to health. People have been shipping this water all n]nnlz the line. No other part of Nebraska has unytmnfi similar, The efforts of Dr. Leese, of Neligh, N‘* g railroad surgeon, have been towards the location of the hospital at this place, and ho has finally gained his point, and under his supervision the institution will ba managed. M, e The Car-Lighting Problem Solved. New York World. The Boston & Albany Railrond com- pany deserves great credit for the prompt- ness with which it has attempted to solve the problem of safe car heating and lighting since it has been determined that the old and dangerous methods must be be relinquished. While the company may not have decided fully upon the sys- tem of heating to be adopted, it s mak- ing practical exporiments which will lead to the desired result. But in the matter of lighting by electricity the com- pany appears to have found what it was seeking for. It has for some weeks been testing an apparatus for storing electricity and giv- ing light in a car which has been running regularly on one of its branch roads, Enough electricity is stored in_cells car- ried under the car to last all night, yield- ing a much better illumination than can be obtained from the lamps commonly used. The batteries, charged daily, are guaranteed for two years ata certaln price by the company furnishing thom. The cost each nigll;c per car 1»?.03 or the two years. ut the batteries will last more than twice the time guaran- teed, it 18 said, and the cost will be thus much lessencd. At all events, the com- pany has gli en large orders for the apparatus, being satisfied that the ex~ pense is not a suflicient, if any, objection, “Thus is the problem of doing, tway With oil lamps solved. »2 [t is now proved to be entlrul¥ feasiblo to do away with all danger of railway holocausts, except that which lies in tle fire in the locomotive, and thi ug shown by experience, is very little. Railway managers may as well understand that the fact is recogmized that only thelr wills stand in the way of adopting these safety improvements. L Don't Get Caught This spring with your blood full of im- purities, your dlgeylon impaired, your appetite poor, kidneys and liver torpid, and the whole system liable to be trated by disease—but get yoursel food ocondition, and ready for the ng and warmer wo‘lher. by ukh;’ A hitod, Sirieg Aaes lor purify o , giving an ap uuu":nd for » general spring lodhu.w pros- Into