Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 3, 1889, Page 4

e THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UNS( TION. 1y Mo 2 SUSDAY, D or o For Six Mon B0 For Three Months 250 TN5 OMAHA SUNDAY BEE, address, One Year WhrKLY [1EE, One ¥ " OMAHAOFFICENOS. 014 AN 10 FARNAM STREET. CHICAGO OFFICE 47 JKEIY BUILDING, NEW YORKOFFICE, ROOMS 1§ AND 15 TRIBUNE BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 013 FOUNRTEENTI STREET. on) lncluding mailed to any 20 200 CORRESPONT All communicat] Finl maLier shou ¥ THE BED s BUSINE 3 Al business lottars mitiances should be fddressed 1o THy BEE PUBLISIING COMPANY, Oxviia. Drafts, checks and postofice bemade payable to the order of the cor ¢ Beg Pablishing Company Prourietors E. ISEWATER, F -— THE DAILY BEE, nd edl- EDITOR Sworn Statement ol Circulation. Btateof Nobraska, County of Douglas, ek, se 1y, does s | fon of T week ending Fobruary {89 atary of The Ras Pub- emnly swear that the DAlLY e for the . 1880, was as follow: Shursany Friday, Fub, 1 Baturday, Feb GEORGE B.TZSCHU Ch. ribed in my ruary, A, D, 1885, N. P. FEIL, Notaty Public, ebras ‘a, ity of Dougias, e 1, Tzschuck, being snys that he jy secret ublishing company, that the actual average Aaily circulation of THE DAILY Bek for tho Zoith of J 205 coples; for Feb. Tunry, 1888 or March, K88, 19.050 coplet; for | 186X, 15,744 copes; for May, 1848, K 1K} copies: for June, 1K, 19,243 coples: ly, 645, 18,513 coplen: for Angust, 1558, 1,183 coplos or Septomber, 1888, 15,154 coples;’ for October, BES, was 18,084 copies: for November, 1885, £185 coptes: for Deceniber, 1884, 15,223 coplas, Bworn to before moe ani subsc in my Presence this Sed day of January 1550, N L Notary Public. | {58, duly sworn, de. y of the Bee country can console itself for not ging in a tussel with Bismarcl the fight of the dry goods job- NTANA is about to pass law hibiting gambling in the torst it %5 as 1f the three-card will have to move on. monte UNDER a prohibition act Providence, R. I., has five hundred and twenty- nine liquor saloons flourishing in open defiance of the law. Let our prohibi- tion friends roll this morsel under their tongues at leisure, Tie normal school craze which has takon hold of twenty Nebraskn legisia- fors finds its counterpart in the free text-book idea running riot in Illinois. A package of bills to that effect has been introduced in that state, and all the back county members have not yet been heard from. TiE committee on legislation of the oity council of St. Paul has recom- mended in its report that the expense for the maintenance and improvement of that city be cut down from three illion two hundred and fifty thousand X:fllurs called for by the estimates to one million, five hundred thousand. That would look as if economy and re- trenchment were to be something more than mere promises, and would indicate that St. Paul has got to the end of her pursc-shriugs. TiE laws of Kansas do not adequately trnhml mechanics and laborers from the loss of their wages. Contractors wnd employers have grossly abused this power in their dealings with them, and in consequence relief has been msked from the legislature. A bill has fust been introduced into both houses to give the workman a first lien upon the property he creates. This will undoubt- edly be enactea, and the remedy will be applied which will be adequate to se- cure the mechanic and laborer from fraud and imposition. THE government cannot be accused of shirking in its duties toward educat- #ng the Indians. The statisties indi- eate a slow but gradual growth in the work of Indian training. The govern- ment supports two hundred and thirty- three schools, with an enrollment of pver fifteen thousand pupils, mai tained at a cost of one million, two hundred thousand dolla The Indian problem can only be solved by teaching the young to read and write the Eng- Lish language, and to become skilled in manual work, THE army, as well as that part of the public interested in marksmanship, will be intorested in learning that the Nevada Trophy, one of the most valued of the prizes annually contended for in the sorvice, was awarded this year to Company H, Seventh infantry, Cap- fain H. B. Freoman, stationed at Camp ilot, Butte, Wyoming. It is gratify- g to learn that the records for marks- ganship for all previous years were broken by Company H, Seventh infan- gry. This would certainly indicate that B high degree of excellence in rifle phooting has been attained, and that our crack shots can compare favorably with any marksmen in the English or German armies. Se————— THE proposition which it 1s reported Me. Hall will submit to the legislature pext Tuesday, declaring vacant the flisputed seats in the house from Doug- 1as county, aud opposing the seating of any of the republican contestants, is not worthy of being seriously entertained. fhe house cannot justly dispose of the matter by any such arbitrary make- phift, even if the constitutionality of guch a proceeding were not questionable, Pouglas county is entitled to full repre- :onlauon in the legislature, and it is e duty of the house in the contested “* meats before it to determine who are entitled to the seats in dispute, so ghat the right of this county to be pepresented by a full delegation shall not be abridged. It would be discred- ftable to the house to avoid its obliga- gion in this matter by doing an injustice to the people of Douglas county, and we 0 not believe a majority of the repub- icuns in that body can be induced to ‘@pprove the proposition of Mr, Hall. WELVE PAGES. PUBLIC SCHOOL The board of education XAMINATIONS. of St. Paul has unanimously authorized the entire | nment of Yhe system of examina- tions for promotion in the city high school, and the substitution therefor of an individual record, based upon the judgment instead of upon marks given for daily recitations, Al- most coincident with this action of the St. Pau appeared the re- port of a committee of the New York board of education appointed to investi- gate the method of teaching and study in the public schools of The report attributed such 1s as exist under the present system to the mar and examination meth- ods employed. In the opinionof the committee these methods place both the pupils and the teachors in a false posi- tion, and one that is disadvantageous for the production of good and enduring work. The committec unqualifiedly. It says that it of inducement to all tenche to every energy to the proparation for the expected and dreaded examination, and the worl of instruction at times carried on with a total disregard of the re. weement of the children in knowledge, character or mental power. It furnishes astimulus to the teacher to cram and load the memory of the pupil with facts and fi a time then drawn proper moment for the expected and looked-for questions. of statement and correctness of answer are counted far peyond their true value, and even amongr the youngest children the memory is used as an edu- cational tool to a degree that should not be tolerated even in the education of adults. Objec- tions to the examination system of a nearly similar nature were brought to bear on the St. Paul board of education. It was urged that the practice of promo- tion by marks, the examination and not the daily recitation the great feature of work, thus encouraging nming and discouraging patient daily study; that it subjects pupils to a mental and nervous strain which is de- trimental 43 hicalth; ihav 1t consumes time which might move profitably be spent in the regular work of study and instruction, and that it tends to dis- honesty by enabling the teache to work up examination pa pers beyond their deserts, in order to geteid of an undesirable student, to promote a favorite, or to sceure an in- dividual record by advancing the greatest possible number of pupils to the next highest grade. This concurrent testimony from re- sponsible sources against the generally prevailing examination system in the public schools of the country might be supplemented by the opinions of intelli- gent educators, both in England and this country. But without such en- dorsement the testimony is worthy of serious consideration. The evils that are found in the public schools of New York as a result of the exami- nation system must necessarily exist to some extent wherever a like system is in vogue, and if the system has no ad- vantages there it cannot reasonably be expected to show any elsewhere. It has its advocates, but the weight of cv- idence is obviously against the system, and its general abandonment in favor of a method more in accord with the suggestions of experience and more en- lightened views of school goverment is doubtless only a question of time. aband teacher's hoo! bos condemns the an davote of the ofttime ures to be retained for and out at the INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION. The rejection by the United States senate of the Phelps-Roseberry extr dition treaty, negotiated three years ago, postpones indefinitely an exten of present treaty stipulations betw Great Britain and the United stotes for the surrender of criminals. The nego- tiation of the ted treaty was un- dertaken in compliance with a strong sentiment in this country that the time had come to shut the doors of the Cana- dian asylum for American empezzlers and defaulters, but in order to secure this concession from Great Britain our minister was required to agree to the surrender of a class of political offend- ers, Mr. Phelps having stated in his note accompanying the treaty vhat it would be impossible to effect any ad- ditional extradition agreement that did not include this provision. A very vigorous sentiment was immediately de veloped against the section of the treaty relating to political offences, and 1t was stricken out. But a large majority of the senate seems to have concluded that the wiser course was mnot to rele- ate the matter to diplomatic con- troversy, but to make final dispo- sition of it, leaving it with the next administration to renew extradi- tion negotiations if itshall think proper to do so. Thus the Canadian asylum re- mains open to American rogues, with less chance than before of its being closed. The significance of this will appear when it 15 stated that a partial list of embezzlements committed in the United States during the past three years, by persons who fled to Canada, amounted to upwards of four million dollars. The Webster-Ashburton treaty, ne- gotinted in 1842, is still in force, but its extradition features are admittedly in- sufficient. It provides for the surrender of persons charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to com- mit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper. The embezzler and the defaulter were not so common forty- eight years ago as they have been within the last dozen years,or this class of erime would doubtless long ago have received treaty recognition. Mean- while a new political offence has also appeared, and it seems quite probable that so long as tiis country refuses to regard.it as extraditable, Great Britain will not close the doors of its American colony to our embezzlers. The immediate tendency of this may be to encourage this class of crime, but unfortunate as this would be the government could not abandon its tra- ditional polioy im order to avoid the danger of ‘increasing the colony of American rogues in Canuda. We have simply followed Eunglish example with reeard to political offenders, and there | can does not appear to be any sound reason why we should now depart from it, vartioularly as the British government ought to fec nxious with the government United to protect the Dominion of Canada against the increasing invasion of Ameri- 10, s It is impossible to say whether the next admin- istration will renew megotiations for enlarging the list of extraditable offenses, but it would scem that Canada in self-protection would adopt measures toexclude American fugitives from jus- tice who are guilty of crimes not 1ecog- nized by treaty arrangements. THE presidents of the western rail- roads, after a week of hesitancy, have completed their work of revising theiv agreements and are now awaiting the signatures of the twenty-two roads to the document which is to be as ss d as the constitution. The avowed object of this inter-state v wion is the enforcement of the provisions of the inter-state commer act, In other words, one railroad is to watch the other. and if the offender is caught cut- ting rates, discrimination in favor of persons or places, bribing sealpors or of those tricks of practiced only by gen- raileond managers and their it is to Dbe promptly handed over to the mereies of the in- ter-state commission, B it is that railvoads « made to observe faith with each other as well as to obey the law of the land. In order to earry out this plan, A, Walker, one of the members of inter-state commerce commission, is to ked to leave his position ot seven ad five hundred a year and to the chairmanship of the new association at twenty-five dollars. So far but little fault can be found with tho action of the railroad presidents. Their agreement looks fair, their choice of Commissioner Walker is cx- cellent. He is a man well qualified as the arbiter and harmonizer of conflict- ing interests. He identified with the railvond question for vapg L equally of the States iiwny assoc doing any the trade expectc the ailway thousand has heen S6d Coming fresh from the inter-state commerce commission to the railroad association from the entan- glements and prejudices which taint so many raileond men. Whether the eement, if finally adopted, will be effective when put iuto foree remains tobe seen. It may be but a rope of sand, or it may succeed in adjusting the differences and evils complained of. > s fr SENATOR ALLISON'S declination of the treasury portfolio will be very gen- erally regretted by republicans in the west and northwest. Indeed, no other man, except, perhaps mator Sher- man, would be so aceeptable to republi- cans throughout the country at thoe hoad of the treasury, and not even the Ohio senator would enjoy more fully the confidence of the business public. Thedeclination is both disappointing to the party and embarrassing to the pres- ident-elect, but its most serious results may be that a western man will not be selected for the treasury departmont —certainly mone can be of equal capacity with Senator Allison, and pos- sessing to the extent that he does the confldence of the public. If his motive, as inferred, for declining to go into the cabinet was mainly personal, he has surrendered far more to individual friondship than the circumstances juse tify. The party had a claim upon him which he should have held superior to all others. WiAT is Omaha doing to attract the flow of eastern capital and to encourage investment and enterprise Within the next fow months the millions of idle dollars in the banks of the east will soek an outlet. Cupitalists are scanning the maps of the countey from Lake Superior to St. Louis, and from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Moun- tains for those cities and industries which offer them the greatest induce- ments, There valry in all the w awake cities, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City and Denver to induce per- manent investment in their mid In this race Omaha can not afford to sit still and allow her rivals to take the lead. It demands unity of action, con- fidence in our resources, faith in our future and public spirited energy on the part of our citizens, But more vital than all, Omaha cannot afford to repu- diate her pledges of good faith, nor shake the confidence of foreign invest- ors in her honor. A RAILROAD bill has been introduced into the Colorado legislature for the purpose of regulating the transporta- tion rates of that state. It provides for the election by the governor, auditor, treasurer, secretary of state and atter- ney general of a board of three railroad commissioners, who are vested with authority to determine what are just and reasonable rates and to prohibit extortionate charges and discrimina- tion. But as the bill provides no pen- altios and affords shippers no velicf not already available under the law, and only increases the difliculties of obtain- ing redress, the whole affair seems to be a convenient back-door arrangement for the benefit of the railroads them- selves, THE insurance bill introduced in the state senate should receive very careful consideration, so that its provisions shall be made so explicit that there will be no possibility of evading them, The proper regulution of insurance com- panies is a matter that has given the legislatures of the older states a good deal of trouble, and in some of them a reform in insurance laws is now de- manded, The exposure of fraudulent insurance companies in New York within the past two years made a rather startling showing of how a law supposed to be very nearly perfect could be evaded and the people defrauded by swindling schemers pretending to be mutual insurance companies. Nebraska should profit by such experiences. Erp—— THE annual session of the National Educational association which takes place this summer at Nashville, Tenn,, will be of more than ordinary interest. A prominent feature of the meeting Il bo an progress south. points e and pleusing exha made in ive showing of the education in the Prominent 'educators from all of the southiern will be nt in order to poipt out the necessities of thit to note that people have taken a in this subject. , Governor Taylor, of Tennessce has spoken favorably of the meeting and the necessity of awaken= ing a universal interest for education through tho south. If the National Educational associgtion be instrumental in stirring up a revival of learning in the states where the great- est illiter of the greatest value, not only to the people of the south, but to the whole country, states section. Tt is the strong southern interest 1ine exists, its mission will bo AN OPEN LF To Isanc S. Hascall: You have taken 1t upon yourself to propound some ques- tions to me through the columns of the Republican, over the signature of “Union Laborer,” which [ propose to answer frankly and without reserve. You in I candor whether 1 should consider a space 132 foct square ground enough for a city hall of ngrow- ing city like Omaha, if the lots adjoin- ing belonged to anybody excepting my- f. In answer to this T will ask you and all others who have doubtsou this point, to make an inspection of the interior of the New York Life building, which ersa space of 1205152 feet,and of Tite BEE building, which isexactly 132 feet square. here twenty very large offices ow York building floor. s enough to There cight ask are the on mir are from twent offices ing, with a to thirt Tie Bk build- in the center, forty-four fee Now. if the city has thr the use of the ol cials, and one story for a couneil cham- ber and committee rooms, there will he ample accommodation for all city ofti- cials Omaha m have within the next handred year: At nte room for o city of a1 ion of people, and nearly double the space that is now occupied by the municipal of w York city in their hall. Tho two remaining will afford 11 the spa for the public library and of education and leave more than a dozen large offiees without occupunts. Aud if in due time a public library building is erected elstivhere the city will have rooms to/let in the city hall. You want to know whpther the trade between Hon. William . Paxton and the city and county officials was not made through my intluence with these oftieial I.do not pretend fo deny and have denied that I persona the trade between Mr. Paxton and the county and city whereby Omaha se- cured the ercction of the three hundred thousand dollar Paxton block iu place of alaw suit between' the city and count The trade h given Omuha and Six teenth street within four ye: not only the Paxton block %hut “the board of 1 building, the Y. M. C. A. build- ing and J. J. Broan’s block, not to mention two buildings above Sixteenth street, on which over eleven hundred thousand dollars have been expended. As you were a councilman when this trade was made between Paxton and city officials, and you voted for the ex- change of property, you know best whether my personal influence was po- tential in the consummution of this ar- rangement. You ask me whether or not the or nance locating the city hall on I nam was passed through my promise to BEd Leeder to support him for sheriff, No such promise was made by me di- rectly or indirectly, although Leeder may have expected my support at the fall election if he was nominated. You inquire whether it is not a ct that atthe time Iewas of d ten thous. and dollars by members of the couneil above the appraised value of my lots adjoining the city hall, but refused to sell? This isone of the falschoods that hav industriously by yourself and your asso- ciates in the present campaign. How could any member of the city council offer to buy my lots when at the time of the location of the city hall there was not a dollar in the treasury with which to build even tne founda- tion of the city hall, and the council had to contract with the school board for an advance of twenty-fiv thousand dollars. Moreover; the propo- sition submitted to the people in 1853 did not authorize the expsnditure of more than two hundred thousand dol- lars, and the building alone would cost at least thut sum, You ask me whether itis not a fact that I located Tur B bouilding six feet east of our lot line before the city hall was commenced, and thereafter changed the plans and buill up to my own line, carried nineinches of the foot- ing into the city hail line and endan- gered the east foundation wall of the city hall by building the basemont seyv- eral fest deeper than'the city hall basement walls? These questions also qmbody a tissue of falsehoods concocted to delude, de- ceive and prejudice citizens against the Farnam street site. The city hall foundations were begun in the fall of 1886 and I had no plans for T BEE building until July, 1887, and did not begin work on foundations until Octo- ber, 1887, at a time when the basement of the eity hall was wheye it was left by the contractors. I had proposed to the city council to deed to the city eight or ten feet of my lot if Seventeenth sireet was narrowed to ninety feet, which is ten feet wider than Broadway, New York, and providing that I was allowed to purchase and oceupy the ten feet ad- joining our lots. The city council passed the ordinance narrowing Seven- teenth street; the appraisers were ap- pointed and the appraisement made, when the new council, of which you were a member, came into power. That council, at the outset, started its fight on the police commission and against the introduction of the metropolitan po- lice system, wunless the coun- cil could dictate the police ap- on each floor of court als of city stories needed board never advised many impudent beon ecireculated I was convincod that you | were arrayed rainst law and order, 1d at the risk of having your enmity I planted myself in favor of the lawas I understood it. This was immediately followed by the repeal of the ordinance narrowing Seventecnth street and by yon the city { pointment the vicious war lo- cation, When the council went back on its former action and refused me the prive ilege of purchasing the ten feet on Sev- enteenth street thoy abrogated the ar- ran 1t securing part of my lots, My architect, Mr. Beema thought it a wasto of space and un- sightly toleave a twelve foot gap at the main front between Tie Ber building and the city hall, but he left a rocess 8ix feet wide by fifty-two feet deep mid- way of the west wall of T BEE build- ing, which he considered ample for all the light and ventilation of voth huild- ings. It s false that W part of THe Bk building footings occupy city cound, Weo asked the council for the privilege of party line footings, which is granted by all adjoining property owners, but vou were the very man to object and defe the resolution. The hue und ery raise by Building Inspector Whitlock bhout the danger to tho ecity hall foundation from Tue Bee building vars of your plot for work the city hall veryl that the west walls of T1 with 8-foot buttr of are a perfeet bulws agninst any possible spreading of earth between the two buildings. You and your associates in the plot to repu- dinte the eity’s obligations may dupe some people by your gabble about the dang to the city building, but you can’t name a responsible builder or reputable hitect who will venture to support your alleg- ation. to your question about the convict labor bill two years ago, which can he 1o heaving in this city hall campaign, [ you to Hon. C. J. Smith, who was a member of the hous and earngstlv y i tell you that your inuendoes are not only baseless, but that I urged him from beginning to end to oppose the bill. was stopmng buildir four solid rock refer nas Only In His Mind. Fremont Tritun hn M. Thurston and his to the nope that the te man of the national convention will iy into Goneral Har binet as secretary of the interior. In all probabulity John will fail to hoar the still small voice caliing him up higher, friends still sou's ¢ Altogether Too Serious. Kvarney Hub, An Omaha clergyman who has beon preaching ou the *Mother-in-Law,” con- cludes that there i8 too much brainless jost- ing and satire on this familiar subject. Un- doubtedly he is right. The Hub always re- gavded the mother-in-law matter as entirely 100 serious to be jested about. What Prohibition Will Do. Girand Istand hidependent, Prohibition would result in a least doub- ling the direct taxation in this city, and would also necessitate an increase of oc tion tax to at least ten times the present amount. It would prove a business curse some of its most carnest carnest advocates would be only too glad to shake of. And Mr. Harrison Knows It. Picrce County Call. The Nebraska delegation in congress are pressing Johu M. Thurston’s name for sec- retary of interior. However mucn the Call may admire t bilities of Mr, Thurston, under the circumstances General Harrison could not make worse blunder than to attorney at th 1 of thie apinet dosition. The interior de- partment been controlled too long al- ready by railroad influence. They Had Better Not Dodge. Hastings Nehraskan. A joint resolution is now pending before the lecislature instructing the board of transportation to adopt a schedule of rates to prevent railronds from making unjust dis- criminations. This is populariy understood 10 be one of the chiof duties of the board, anyway, and this instruction is equivalent to telling the board to perform its duties fear- lessly aud impartially, upon the assumption that it had not done so. The board must understand, howaever, that the duty of low ering and equalizing the local tariff is an im- vorati ¢ that it is not well for them to dodge. But It's No Good. York Times, Local freight rates in Nebraska, according to the report furnished the logislature by the state board of transportation, average about 50 per cent higher than n lowa. We are compelled that anount solely because the state board does not compel the transporta- tion companics to take less, lowa formerly paid extortionute rates, as Nebraska is doing now, but the state board of railway commis- s cut them down to their present rates. still doing business in lowa, at the old stand, though the people are paying loss than two-thirds of what they used to pay, wnd of what Nobraska unow pays. If our state board was good for anything at all it would proceed to knock off one-third of the local freight tariff, without delay and with- out ceremony. As It Should Be, New York World. Is it not in the nature of things that our Policy should be peacefult lowa's Horrors. New York Weekly. Towa Lady: “Where is my husband?” Servaut; “He just stepped out to the drug store, mum.” *My goodness! Is he drink- ing again( e Not Surprising. Philadetphia. North American. Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger is the nane of the man who has captured Paris, With three middle names, it is no wonder he creates a sensation, ——— Editor Harrison's Opportunity. Hutehingon News. Russell Harrison, son of the president eleot, is going to start a daily newspaper at Helena, Mont. He ought to get a scoop on the cabinet appointments. o S How to Win Bismarck. Boston Globe Bismarck is now saying nice, comp limen- tary things about England. If we had a bigger navy, perhaps he would be whisper- ing soft nothungs to Miss Columbia. e Something Wrong at Harvard. Chicago New The cause of higher education strikes very rocky pleces of road now and then just as do other systems of mortal endeavor. This profound reflection is reudered seasonable by the news that Bates, the crack pitcher of the Harvard ball team, has been ‘‘cutting” his recitations, is far bebind in his examina- tions, and consequently is in danger of being e will j expolled, In the face of this Impending calamity what is there ln existence for a Harvard mani ——— Pity Poor Now York, Chicago Tribuna, With a stroet car strike, a gingham war, and Mrs. Jamos Brown-Potter on hand all at the samo time, New York is ontitled to the tender sympathy of all good peoplo. — Another Donnelly Wantod. New York Morning Journat, The latest thing that has boen proven is that not only did not Bacon write Shake- spoare’s wooks, but that neither did he write his own, inasmuch as thoy were the produo- tious of Ben Jonson. It now remaius to be | discovered who wrote Ben Jonson. Good Reform Material. Philadelphia Ledger. Two out of four White Caps arrested fn Bloomington, for having attempted to un- lawfully rogulate the moral of the commu- , were recognized as old offenders, each e a suspended penitontiary sentence hanging over his head. They aro just the kind of people to take up with that kind of “reform,” [ S — SUBMISSION AND PROHIBITION. The Situation as Viewed By a Few State Papers, braska City News: There are times when submission does submit. Give the re- publicans duo lit. For once they kept their promises and we will have submission. The republican party has virtually hoisted prohibition upon the p They alone are responsible Plattsmouth Jour A citizen of the Second ward said this morning, (in view of wssage of the submission of the prohibi- v _amendment) that his homo vroperty cost 81,500, and he would be glad to make an arcangement with some prohibitionist, in the event of that amendmont carrying, to take por cent of present value on the adoption of prohibition in the state. Beatrice Democrat: The campaign for two years will be on a double-headed constitu tional amendment, The result will be to de feat them both, Some will vote for the high license amendment who otherwise would tave voted for prohibition. The anti-pro- nibitionists will voto solid, and as a result, the constitutional amendments will be de- feated. Had the proposition been fairly made upon prohibition. it wanld ried, As it s, the question will probably be no nearver settled in two ycars than itis to- Nebraska City Press: If Nebraska adopts prohibition it will be in the position of the boy who was warned not to play with pow- der, by someone who had had “exverience. He said e bada no use for any second-hand sxperience. The funeral was well attonded We have all heard of the youth who tickled the hind legs of a mule. As his father re marked on looking at the wrecked counten- ance: “He'll never be so handsome again, but he'll have a darned sight more senso.” All of which reminds the Press that som veople insist on vrohibition for Nebraska, Kearney Hub:—The whisky journals have claimed that a majority of the voters of the party are opposed to the submission amend- ment. This statement is meeting with the ridicule it deserves at the hands of the sub- missionists, The majority of the republican party not only favor submission, but whon the vote upon that question is counted it will be found that a majority also favor prohibi- tion. The opposition to allowing the ques- tion to come before the people is a wise move on the part of liquor dealers, and when sub- mission becomes a settled fact another wise move on their part will be to get ready to leave the state or to engage in some other business. Once in the hands of the people all talk of defeating the question is simply nonsense. It can't be done. Perhaps four counties in the state will give a small major- ity in favor of high license. To offset this there are more than fifty counties in which the vote for prohibition will be practically unanimous. Ml PANELS FOR THE CABINET. Denver Republican: It would be sound policy for President Harrison to select s cabinet outside the senate. Minneapolis Journal: Mr. Allison's de- clination is a calamity. The country needed him in the treasury department. Buffalo Express: And if John Wana- wmaker shall finally be made postmastor gen- eral, we think the country will be glad of it. Atlanta Constitution: John Wanamaker doesn’t know whether he is going to Europe ornot. He can find out by applying to some of the newspaper correspondents. Chicago News: “Thurston for an Office,” is the headline over an article about Ne- braska's candidate for cabinet honors, “Thirsting for an Office” would include re- publicans too numerous to mention. Chicago News: If Mr. Wanamaker is pe- culiarly fitted for any place it is the post- master generalship. Doubtless he would make a respectable secrotary of the but at the head of the postoftice de, he would have an opportunity to bring about important reforms which it needs a business man to handle. Chicago Tnter Ocean: is no accidental novice. He kuows the lead- ing men in the republican party, and for years has himself becn one of them. And what is more, he has the great good fortune of having the entire republican party, the party of intelligence and patriotism, to ose from. ilobe-Democrat: The Globe-Democrat has not attempted to do much in the way of cabinet predictions, but it has asserted for some time that Mr. Blaine would be secre tary of state and Mr. Allison secretary of the treasury. We are now more confident than ever of these two appointments, And they will be good appointments, too. ew York Herald If then, weo are to have a distinetively republican administra tion during the next four years, and a dis- tinctively republican policy—the people so decreed at the polls in November-~Haurrison can find no one more willing or able to by his share of national respousibility than Mr. Whitelaw Iteid. Kansas City Journal: The democratic papers of New York City are lively in their opposition to Mr. Wanamaker for post- master general, and the republican papors of that metropolis are not urgwig his claims, Porhaps Now York pcople fear that w would have very slow mails un der a Ihil delphia administration. HUM OF THE PRESS, Akron Telegram : Secretary Bayard should visit an underwriter, He necds a foreign policy badly, St. Paul Globe: Thedull times have struck Chicago. There hasn't been ao anarchist sensation for two weeks, Atchison Globe: Did you ever talk to a fair, sensible sort of @ man that you did not feel ashamed of yourselfi Hutchinson News: Commercial travelers may not hold anybody up, though they may Justly be styled road agents. Quincy Whig: Isw't it about time that somebody asked for Samoa particulars about tho trouble iu the Pacific oceant Kansas City News: The backbone of win ter stiffens, but the backbone of the secre- tary of state,— Ah! Where s it Minneapolis Tribune: Prado, the vietim of the guillotine, read astory by Jules Verne just before the execution, = Perhaps he tried “Iwenty Thousand Leagues Under the General Harrison have car- ¢ Sea, 80 as to familiarise himself with the geography of his newly chosen home, Chicago Tribune: A man whom the papors call Jack the Ripper prowls about tha stroots of St. Louis after dark and kissos young women whom he meets alono. He is un- questionably insano, Chicago Inter-Ocean: Tt is statod that the king of Samoa woars nothing but whiskors and & string of boads, The inclemont woather of late in his domain has caused him toputon & worried look. His only dissic pation nowadays is dancing the Geerman, Boston Globo: If Lord Salisbury is the ramping, roaring, red haired jingoatatosman that he has been reprosented to be, a wide sphero of usefulness would appoar to be open to him in the vicinity of Samoa. The waves need ruling badly out there, if Brite annia has her rulor handy, Denver News: Jack Klein, who seema to be largoly responsible for the Samoan war tempest, 18 a roving newspaper reporter of the Cutting build. If the Germans don't got his head, Jack will be quite a lion when ho returns to the United States, Ho wont out to Samoa about a year ago in the interost of a 'Frisco nowspaper syndicato, and finding business a little dull, just got up a war for the fun and the money there was in it fo @ news way. PR — GOOD OLD POEMS, NDEN, Campbell, On Linden when the sun was low All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, Aud dark as winter was the tow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dend of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her sconery. i and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade, And furious, every charger noighed To join the droadful revelry, Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steed to battle driven And londer than the bolts of heaven, Far flashed the red artillery, But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained suow, And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser rolling rapidly Tis morn; but scarce yon level sun Can pierco the war clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurus canopy. The combat doepens; On, Who rush to glory or the grave; Wave Munich, all thy banners wave And charge with all thy chivalry, Iew, fow skall part where many meot, The snow shall bo their winding shoet, And every turf beneath thoir feot Shall be a soldier’s sepuleher. -~ MUSIUAL AND DRAMATIO, Rhea is playing the New England ciroult Another Barnum's museum is threatened for New York. W. J. Florence is thiuking seriously of playing “Falstaff.” Gus Williams is ill of rheumatic gout at Coutland, N. Y. 3 Charles Coghlan's *‘Macbeth”” s not liked by the New York playgoes. Miss Minnie Palmer’s season in thq west is proving the most prosperous one she ever had. Emma Abbott has rejoined her opera com- pany, and has resumed her professional du- ties. Miss Julia Marlowe, whose businoss con- tinues to be phenomenal, will not appear ig New York this season, Mary Andersou’s business in Philadelphia has averaged $2,700 a performance during her engagement in the Quaker city. Kate Forsythe is to support Nat Goodwin during the engagement of the crimson- crowned comedian at the Fifth Avenue, New York, in “The Gold Mine." Marie Wainwright s to add Lady 'leazlo to her repertoire soon. She acted the character in San_Francisco early in the season and met with unexpected success. Fidna Carey, the pretty girl who played May Joyce in “A Dark Secret,” has had to retire. A plunge into a tank of water eight times a week was too much for her, Rice's “Corsair” company, after an un usualy long and successful _out-of-town tournes, will return to New York on tho Uth of March, opening at the Star theater, A new historical open air spectacle, simi. lar to “*Nero,” of last season, I8 in course of preparation 'by Mr. Imre Kiralfy for pre- sentation at Staten Island next summer, Clara Morris is to play a fortnight ongage- ment next scason at Mr. Murtha’s Windsor, New York city, which is a long engagement on the Bowery, where frequent changes of programme ure demanded. Kathryn Kidder has not accepted Wilson Barrett’s offer to actin his support next season, which was cabled from Kngland, having been forced to decline through oir cumstances beyond her control, De Wolf Hopuer expects to make “the hit of his life" in “Fatmnitza’ with o topical duet, words and music by Eugene Oudin, the popular baritone of the MeCaull company. Hopper sings the duet all by himself, Mrs. I'rances Hodgson Burnetthas signed a contract with Daniel Frohman to w 1y cemedy for the Lyceum The play wiil be finished and will probable befora the close of the' s says that tho finished a ‘Our Mary" became thirty Januury 25,1550 Lay this para- n som for seven- curs, and then matter on the saue subject. Itis nct generally kuown, says a New York theatrical gossip, that’ Miss Paulmo Hall was a pupil of lima di Murska, the 10us prima douna, whose death in povorty was announced last’ weck, Much of Miss Hall's success as uvocalist is to be eredited to the caroful training given her by her ablo instructor. Manager E. E. Rice says that,owing totha dificulry he lias had, all'on account of the inter-state commerc law, ho proposes to 10 build u r 1 himself ‘for the aecommo- dation of the Rtice and Dixey companies. Tho will be slecoers, each membor to bave a private room, Clara Louise Kellogg-Strakosch has tired of the tribulutions which her recontly insti- tuted venture as the head and front of an English opers company have brought her, ad she is dotermined to withdraw {rom all connection with the organization and return to New York. Suits for salary and for un- fullilled contructs in connection with tho opera company wiil probavly be numerous. Stuart Robson will begin bis tour as an in- dividusl star under the management of Wil- lism R. Hayden about October 1, in Stoelo Mackaye's writtou-o-order romantio play, Tho seenc is laid in Spain iu the seventecnth contury, and Mr. Robsou’s character is a quaintly bumorous one deawn, we are told, upon Shiakspearian li The scenery will o by 17hil O The new play 4" will comprise Mr. [tob- aud the tour will extona to coust. F'rank Mordaunt or M. ISennedy will probably be seen in Mr, Crane's role in *The Henrietta,” If Mrs. Potter plays Rosalind next season o will wear short boots in the Forest of Arden scene, (irace Hawthorne is i1l in London, The fight to establish hersolf there has exbausted her physically, Maggie Mitchell is to produce a new play, ay,”” ab the Fourteenth street theater, New 'York city, in February, Modjoska, in San ['rancisco, bogan what will probably be her farewell Wour as @ star, Alengthy period of idleness passed at her ranch in “southern California has had bene- ficial effect upon her hLealth and her pers sonal appearsuce. Mrs. Jumes G. Blaine, jr., has finally signed with Daslel Frohman™ for a period of two years. She will be a star under his manigement, and will have & salary and & percentage of the profits, She is also Lo bo rovided with dresses, snd female travek § companion at Mr. Frohman's expenso.