Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 10, 1889, Page 4

i St 6T P WA AT BEE, ING. - THE DATLY PUBLISHED EVERY MOT TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Patly (Morning Raition) ine Tuding SUNDAY 11k, One Year [l For <1 Months ForThree Months Ty OMAUA SUNDAY ER, niniled o any nddress, One Year WrEkLy BEE, One Yonr OMANAOFFICENOS STEAND U CHICAGO OFF ROOKERY MK OFFICE, NG, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NTH STRERT. BUILDING. ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIRUNE No. o ¥ounr CORRESPONDENCE AN communications relating to news and adi- #orial mattor should be addressed to the Enitor ¥ T E BEE. o PR QINRSS LETTE Allbusiness letters and remittances shonld be addressed to Tiy. BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Owm . Drafts, checks and postofice orders (o e, ALI6 o Lhe order of the conpaRy. . The Bee Pablishing Company Prooristors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. —_— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement ot Ciroulation. Btataof Nebraska, 1, o Countyof Douglas, {3 George 1%, Tzachuok, sacretary of Tha fles Puh- shing Company, dos solemnly sw that th sctual circulation of Tie DATLY Brk for the week ending February 9, 1850, was as follows: EBunday, Feb. Monday, Feb, 1. Tuesdny i Wednesday, 3 Ceee e e 10,011 ;'hluuln\' Felb, cereiaes . e Nl Friday, ), 8. veee . cee e Baturday, Feb. ¥ 19,120 EORGE B, TZ8CHUOK. Sworn 4o hefore me and_subscribed in m: presenco this ith day of February. A. D, I Seal N.P. FEIL, Notaty Public. Btate or Nebras ‘a, s County of Dougias, {5 Georaoe B, Tzschuck. being duly sworn, de. l)0!|1~ and says that he {s secrotary of the Hoe Publishing company. that the actual average daily circulation of THE DALY BEe for the month of January, 188, 15,208 coples; for Feb- Tunry, 1889 15,008 coptes: for March, 148, 19,059 copies: for April, 184, 18,744 coples; for May, 184, 18 183 copies; for June, 1888, 10,245 coply for July, 1884, 18,033 coples; for Angust, 1538, 18,183 copie: Tor Beptember, 1558, 18,164 coples; for October, IF88. was 18,084 coptes: for November, 1888, 1898 coplos: for December, 1585, 18,27 coptes, Bworn to betors ma ani subscribea in my Presence this ird ll’l" of )\mp‘ 1880, N. P. FELL_Notary Publi Average. Now that the Kuights of Labor have dotormined to oppose the movement in the east to create a monopoly of fresh meats in favor of the local butchers, the prospects of adverse legislation against western dressed beef ave slim indeed. TFor the benefit of the uninitiated it may be well to say that the committee on publiclands and buildings in this is not a free-for-all excursion v, although a great many members of the committee are laboring under that delusion. Tne people of Colorado want to know why their state treasurer should be per- mitted to pocket the interest on a mil- lion dollars of deposits while the state is paying interest on that amount of debt? A similar conundrum has been propounded in Nebraska, but nobody seems capable of answering it. A VERY interesting medico-theolog- ical question has just been passed upon an JTowa tribunal. The presiding judge of the Sioux County district court has ordered the discharge of two Chris- tian science doctors on the ground that ng fora sick neighbor cannot be as practicing medicine with- out a license. A QUESTION of great importance to railroads and shippers in general is now pending with the inter-state commerce commission, A decision in the so-called car-load cases is awaited. The com- mission on previous occasions has recog- nized the right of railroads to dis- criminate between car-load and less than car-load shipments due to differ- enue in cost of service and loss of time. The point to be settled is one of appli- cation rather than of principle, and the interpretation of the law should go far in settling the difficulty. DURING the recent disastrous conflag- ration at Buffalo where property to the value of millions of dollars was de- stroyed, the fire department was badly impeded 1n its efforts to control the fire by tho maze of overhead wires. Omaha should take heed of the re- peated warnings from the experiences of Buffalo, St. Paul and other cities which have suffered severe losses from five, and put a stop to the indiscriminate stringing of electrie light, telephone and telograph cs by the various companies wherever they ploase on our of the Produce Ex- change of the City of New York has organized for the purpose of making a special exhibit of corn at the Paris ox- position. The exhibit, il sufficient funds can be raised for the purs pose from the subscription of the people of the country, is to be under the supervision of the agricul- tural department of the American com- mission. The plan involves the erec- tion of a corn pavilion of unique design and gracefnl architecture. This is certainly o high compliment to corn, and & recognition of the worth to the coun- sy of the corn raising states. And well may corn be crowned king, and supplant the reign of cotton. ILast year on seventy-five millions of acres, a crop of two billion bushels of corn was raised, whose value at a low estimate is worth six hundred million dollars. Long live king corn! From the very outset eminent law- yers have regarded the dual submission bill as of doubtful validity, While this may sound as a paradox to say that a constitutional amendment can‘'be un- constitutional, yet this is literally true. Its constructive form may be so defect- ive us to make its submission to the people inoperative. The double-ender amendment bolongs, in the opinion of eminent jurists, to that category. Mr. Dempster’s resolution, requesting the Bupreme court to submit an opinion as to the constitutionality of the submis- sion bill as 1t passed the legislature, is doubtless inspired by a desive to as- certain whether or not the bill would stand the test of the highest tribunal in case its validity was assailed after the logislature had adjourned. The ques- tions proposed to the court involved points that go to the very bed rock of constitutional government. The opin- ion of the court will be looked for with great interest by the law makers and lawyers, aud the people generally. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: pre————— SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1830.~TWELVE PAGES. g - el i 54 ART IN THE SENATE. There was recently presented in the Unitod Statos senatea bill from the sommittec on library, proposing to au- thorize that committee to purehase a life-size portrait of Abraham Lincoln, to be hung in the capitol. The portrait was painted during the life-time of Lin- coln by G. W, I, Travis, a painter of high reputation, if not of great fame, and the price asked for 1t isfifteen thou- sand doflars. There was a discussion which terminated in an order relegat- ing the bill to its place on the calendar, but which possessed intorost, showing the estimato of art by certain senators distinguished in other depart- ments of culture. The principal champion of the bill was Mr. Voorhees, who described the painting as superb, and who was quite to pay the sum asked for it. But ctical, if not less generous senator from Ohio, Mr. ted that fifteen thousand v for some willing the more p and patriotic Sherman, ohje dollars was an_ enormous sum to aportrait. o knew that portraits of the highest style of art, by the most eminent American painters, in full life size, ave painted at from twenty-five hundred to five thousand dollar; To the support of Mr. Shorman rallicd Mr. Hale, Mr. Hawley. Mr. Chandler and Mr. Palmer, connoisseurs who knew nothing about Mr. Travis, the puintor, and professed little acquaint- ance with the Lincoln portrait, but all of whom were quite confident that the sum asked for the picture, was ver much greater than it was worth because portrait painting is done both in Ku- rope and in this country Dby distin- guished artists for very much lesd@i'he Michigan senator, Mr. Palmer, who has perhaps devoted to artas much time as he could spare from politics and the lumber business, observed that it seemed to him that *‘probably the portrait may be worth twenty-five hundved dollars if this artist has a very high reputation: otherwise not, because reputation is very often what determines the price. It always does with the class of buyers who have no other basis of judging n picture. It was to no purpose that Senator Evarts reminded these gentlomen that the question was not what would be the rate by which an eminent artist would now produce a portrait of Mr. Lincoln. Doubtless a life size portrait of the mar- tyr-president could bo had from any of the several distinguished American painters for one-third of the sum asked for by the library committee to purchase the Travis picture, but a por- trait painted to order would possess none of the historical interest of that produced by a portraiture from life, and that interest has a value quiet distinet from the worth of the portrait as a work of art. The view of Mr. Sherman that “the measure of value is the cost of producing a like article™ may be par- doned of a statosman whose habit of mind is to value everything from the economic standpoint, but a prineiple that may properly be applied to deter- mine the value of a locomotive, a mow- ing machine, or a pair of boots, will not apply to a historical painting, the morit of which, asa work of art, is admitted. The is but one life-size portrait of Abraham Lincoln, painted during his life, and it is conceded to be an admir- able picture of that great man, It should have a permanent place in the national capitol, and no patriotic citizen will find fault with the costof giving it such a place, even though it be three or four times greater than the price which the most ominent artists charge for paint- ing portraits. There are some things the value of which cannot be measured by the cost of producing a tike article, Mr. Sherman to the contrary notwith- standing. — SHOULD BEGENERALLY OBSERVED In a number of cities preparations are making to properly observe the centen- nial anniversary of the birth of the na- tion, which falls on the 30th of April, the date of the inauguration of George Washington in New York City, in 1789, This event, the beginning of the consti- tutional existence of the government, is to be prandly celebrated in New York, and there is every reason that patriot- ism can suggest why that celebration should he supplemented by an appropri- ate observance of the day throughout the country. No event in American his- tory surpassed in importance the tran- sition from the colonial state toa con- stitutional form of government. The splendid courage of the founders of the republic in declaring their independ- ence of Great Britain was not more admirable than the great wisdom which led them to the consummation of a union of the colonies under a national constitution, Thus the achievements of the one were made secure and per- petual by the other, and a great re- pul created whose influence is now felt throughout the world, whose mar- velous growth is without a parallel in the history of mankind, and whose des- tiny is yet far from fully accom- plished. There is no portion of our history which presents more to stimu- late admiration of the wisdom of the founders of the republic and to strengthen the love of country than that which records the framing of the constitution, its acceptance by the colo- nies, and the final establishment of the government under that instrument—in- compurably the greatest in the wisdom of its provisions ever framed by any people, and measured by results the most important political compact in the world’s hiswory. These considerations urgeits general celebration as in the interest of the universal education of the people in patriotism and the knowledge of the foundations of their government. Chi- cago and other cities are arranging to have such celebrations, and why should not Omaha? The question is one that is commended to our political organiza- tions in this ecity. e——— Tue pust week has shown a quicken- ing in the pulse of the iron market the first barometer to feel the revival in trade. Prices in this commodity have touched their lowest point, and as the season advances the market must of ne- cossity become active, due to the in- creased demand for all kinds of iron. Another favorable fact to be noted comes from the cotton manufacturing Alstriets. Dospite the faet that last year was one of great prosperity to the mills an® large Qquantities of print cloths, cottous and calicos were put on the market, to-day there is absolutely no stock on hand. The mills of W England are running full force. The total production of the week, is said, have boen shipped at once, and the sales for future delivery are reported to be extromely satisfactory, with no fall- ing off in the demand. The the times certainly point to a prosper- ous sonson. — Tue passage by the legislature of the law authorizing the consolidation of stroot railway compnnies will go far to insure the extension of cable and street railway systems generally during the coming senson. 1t may now be counted upon as an assured fact that the Omaha street railvoad systems will be consoli- dated under one management. With the franchises properly protected by legislation the local companies will have no difMieulty in interesting eastern capitalists. The extension of the cable and perhaps other systems will result in the outlay of more than a half a million dollars this year. Without adoubta line 1 be extended from Fort Omaha to South Omaka and our citizens will be given the best of service. The prospects are that Omaha will within a short time vival Kansas City in the extent of her cable lines and in the facility for rapid transit to all parts of the city. signs of © PAnrts has another sensation. A sword duel has just been fought in which a man was cut twice on the upper lip. —_— A Washington Sensation. Pioneer Press, Current gossip divulges that Miss Hu King i, a Chinese beauty, is making auite a sensation in Washington society. But let no one misunderstand the true significance ‘of the word *‘sensation’’ as understood in Wash- ington society. The inadvertent dropping of a lump of sugar or taking thewrong wine at the second course are considered Washing- tonian sensations. Xt S ner Will Tell. New York World. A good deal of discussion has been caused by Max O'Rell's ox cathedra assertions re- garding the richest men in the country. It 18 claimed that he made great blunders in his hst, The truth of the matter will be learned next summer, when the public finds out what famlics are indulging n ice. — Rough on Lowell. Ploncer Press. Lord Coleridge pleasantly observed at the dinner to Minister Phelps that “‘no minister had left England amid so much universal and unmingled regret.”” Verily, this is rough on that other eminent mugwump, James Russell Lowell = Listen, Rosina. Philadelphia_North American, Tt is said that Rosina Vokos will manage a New York theater. Well, next to running a newspaper there is no way in which the charming Rosina ean more rapidly part with her surplus money. — —— His Partners Might Object. Chicago T¢mes. It is announced that Mr. Cleveland will have more time for fishing this summer than he bas had for four years. Bangs, Stetson, Tracy and MacVeagh may have something to say about where he fishes. SR Waiting For the Returns. Chicago Herald. Mrs. Harrison has finally concluded her Now York shopping expedition, and the general is waiting for the figzures with an anxiety almost as intense as on the night of the presidential clection b oI Democratic Malice. Chicago Tribune. Senator Sherman’s friends hereabout look upon the story that he pronounces Samoa Sammyo as merely a_fresh ovidance of the Samoald hatred the demoorats have always folt for him, ————— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. All Caused by Monkeying. Beatrice Demoerat, Money was made scarce in Nebraska, and interests high, because of the absolutoly un- reliable disposition of our legislaturcs. They aro always monkeying with the usury laws, and threatening forcign capital that sceks investment, and while they rarely ever make a change that disturbs values to any extent, the continual agitation tends to keep things unsettlea, Again for the past few years the extravagance of our law-makers tends to alarm castern investors. Thls is the reason that Kansas has had more foreign capital to assist in its upbuilding, than Ne- braska has. It Will Settie Tr. Columbus Jowrnal There are several reasons why this is a good thing. As matters are now, any logis- latureso minded, can alter or repeal the present (local-option) law. If ocither of these proposed amendments carries, a change of policy cannot 8o easily be made under a constitutional proviso. This mode of sub- mission brings the preseut law and prohibi- tion to a direct issue, one against the other. In either event the probability is that the subject will not for some years thereafter engross public attention, Look Before You Leap. Schuyler Herald, It is now for our citizens to got ready for the fight and prevent the enactment of a law that will kill the prosperity of this growing state;n law that would be an imposition upon the free born American citizen. Let the laws regulating the liquor trafio in this state remain as they are. They can nov bo improved upon and are meeting all emergen- cles. To change them for prohibitory laws would be, to say the least, going from bad to worse, Sizing Up a Judas. Grand Island Independent, A man who violates his pledge and betrays his constituency is not to be respected by any honest man, whatever may be his opin- ion as to the cause to be effected by violation and betrayal, Even thoso who profit by the betrayal must, in their seorot hearts at least, hold the betrayer in contempt for his dishonest method of helpimg what they deem a righteous cause, Beneath a traitor there is nothing. The vilest reptile that crawls the earth is king by the side of & Judas, Worse Than a Misfortune, Grand Island Independent. The appointment of an abject railroad tool, talented as he may be, for secretary of the interior, would be the greatest misfortune that could befall the republican party, The enemies of the republican party are anxiously ‘waiting for such a false step to be made by our president-elect, in the correct hope that 1t would pe & hard blow on republicism, @ blunder like those that Cleveland commit- ted to the ruin of democracy. The West Disappointed. York Times. There are many good people in Nebraska who will be sorry that Senator Allison has declined to go into the cabinet. They do not cure 80 much what becomes of Clarkson or Father Sfellor, but ¢ cost ropresented in the son, who is lars cabinet by a man 4 pst chair in the nation, enoligh to fit the L How McNigle Was Caught. Pt Herald whose deciding bill, is sit nights wondering héw *Attorney General will sound before his name. That was tho sop offercd him by the submissionists. They took him up on a KNI and offered him the earth, when they hadn't a title toit. But ok the bait. vote ol of Thomsoelves. Holdrege Citizen. 08 are engaged in the foolish isant pastime of fighting At torney-Geeneral Leeso, There is not another state officer, we think, with as many warm friends all over the state as eneral L und these papere make themselves lud while aceomplishing no good ovjact. ake Omaha dail but to them pl A Chanoe for Fame, Tecumsch Journal. 1f some member of the Nebraska legisla- ture wishes to immortalize himself, he will introduce a bill to establish the whipping post for the punishment of such crimes as potty stealing, wife beating, ete. The erimi- nal would have far greator frar of twenty five lashes than of thirty days in jail. A Fillmor nty View. Fawrmont Signal. The result of the agitation of tho prohibi- tion question will, we firmly believe, be the eradication of the greatest curse of eiviliza +ion from our midst. Prohibition will carry, IS0 prohibition will prohibit, notwithstand- ing the false statements of the liquor dealers and those dependent on them for support. 1t Caused No Anxiety, Serard Reporter. The Omaha Republican scems to “have it in” for Attorney General Leese, but that does not worry anybody. All the railroad influence in Nebraska pitched into him last fall without success and the Republican will have a hard job to make people believe that Leese is not all right. The Dead-Letter Law, Ewing Demoerat, 4ess legslation and fewer laws would be more beneficial to the people generally than the vast number enacted by the legislatures of the various states, only to be violated or totally ignored. Chicago Times: Sherman Samoal Sadaam. Philadelphia North American: The French oabinet wanted to resign, but the president of the republic when they made the roquest to him Sad I Carnot permit you to do so. St. Paul Globe: A billin the Texas legis- lature provides that all executions shall take vlace in the penitentiary before aaylight. This is evidently in the interest of tha morn- ing papers, Boston Globe: A Frenchman in Guaicago has museular power over the drum of each ear, 50 that he can make himself deaf at pleasure. He ought to be one of the happiost men in the United States, Chicago News: The latest news from Hayti is that President Legtime has cap tured the insurgent town of Marmalade. He 18 evidently poaching on General Hyppolye's preserves. Philadelphia North American: “Doos Religion Pay?" was the subject of one of Rev. De Witt Talmage's recent sermons. Considering the fagt that he reccives some- thing like $12,000 per annum, we would say 1t did. Ohicago Times: The ladies composing the Society for the Extension of Sympathy to Murderers are said to be preparing acircular requesting geutlemen who contomplate the assassination of their wives to postpone all such displays of eccentricity during the pre- sent inflation of florists’ prices. A fair and buxom widow, who had buried three husbands, recently went with a gentle- man who in his younger years had paid her marked attention to inspect the graves of her dear departed. After contemplating them in a mourntul silence she murmured to her companion, **Ah, James, you might have been in that row now if you had only had a little more courage.” St. Paul Pioneer Press: He—Well, Mabel, T would like to ask the old, old question. She—O, George, this is sudder: what is it, dear— Ho—If Joseph A. Moore, of Indianapolis, had stolen only $50 instead of a million, don's you think he would have been pinched? " Wny didn't Senator Perhaps he wanted to but— P A A Neglected Grave. Frederic Allison Tupper. Tho grass grows ranicand tho grass grows high, And the'weeds grow too apace,— Apaco— Till a name on a stono is hid from the sky, And a cold neglect sooms to rule the place, Why, even the stone bends lowly down, Like one in grief to earth,— To carth: And closely the mosses green and brown Cling to the dates of death and birth. The hedge untrimmed and the grass uncut, The violets choked once blue,— So blue! The path is gone, and the gate that shut With an iron clank has vanished too. But a red wild rose that no neglect Or winter's storm could blight or kill,— More kind than thou to recollect, Thou son or daughter,—blooms there still, 1 tear the moss from the sacred name, Aud hold the grass from the crumbling stone, What name is this? The very same Tlove more fondly than my own! Only a word was hidden thero, IMid woeds and grass and olinging moss, “Mother” it was, of names most fair, “The loss of whom 15 the greatest 10ss. I smoothed the grass on the sunken mound, 1 pulled the weeds from the violets wealk, And as I passed from the burial ground, 1 felt the tear drovs on my cheek, e The eroticin American fletion is a recent and exotic growth, not native to the soil, writes the editor in the Jast number of Bel- ford’s magazine. It is, therefore, unhealthy and unwholesome. It is out of place in this cold northern air. In its own climate it is a gaudy flower; in this tethperate zone it is & poisouous, spotted lily, blistering to the touch. The licentiousness of Theophile Gautier, s clevated by the power of his transcondent genius of the lane of the art. In America it sinks into a denizen of the gutter. The styles of new gowns indicate that there will be a return o full sleeves. Even heavy cloth dresses and wraps have made the step by lengthening the shoulder and el bow puffs. A pretty young womau in town wears with her simple street dress a long coat of cigar-brown ladies’ cloth th ts the figure closely, has a touch of brown velvet at the collar and full wrinkled velvet sleeves that extend from the puffed shoulder to the elbow to meet & tight brown cloth cuff. ——— It is said that Colonel vate secretary to Prosident Clevelan a8 been offered the position of general passenger agent of the New York Ceatral railroad, which was vacated some weeks ago by the death of Henry C. Monett, and that he will assumo the duties of that position as soon as possible after the 4th of March, —— New “ork World:—Grocer — What kind of tea will you have, madam? Black, I suppose, a8 [am in mourn- iug. Dan_Lamont, hprie ravnk of smell, and ) CURRENT TOTWSs, wnd France have both moro than doubled agtual sirength of oth of their armics, says the Kansas City Times, and the total w seven continental powe Balkan states as one 10 10,450,000, or nearly ¢ add to this host of trained fighters on & war footing of the of partially trainod niop in the second and final reserves, we got an imposing total of 93,000,000 soldicrs all liablo to be drawn into the next Kur war, and now more or irawn poncof ata total annuul cost of £500,000,000. This vast war taxation, wrung from people who do not hate each other, — who not want to ficht, who ' nsik only for opportunitics for peaceful industry and mutual trafMc, is a tor- rible burden. This biood tax or blood money must be borne, however, for no botter Feasoi than that it is still in the power of a fow fam ilies —Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgs, Romanofts, Bourbons and Coburgs—to set all of Burops on fire with their dynastic intrigues and am bitions. It is only when these modern figures of armies and war taxation aro studied, fig ures at which Fredorick it or Napo leon would have p od with_amazement, that one can thoroughly and perfectly realize what kkingship means, Sinca 1872 Gorma; the has loss wi A negro exodus from South Carolina las started up within o fow weoks. Arkansas and Louisiana are the states benefited or burdened by this movement. One would think by the press discussion in the south of late that a commonweulth witha colored population of 600,000 or more would be quite resigned to see asmall percentage of them drift to other parts, says the Springfield Republican. Such, however, is not the ¢ in South Carolina. ‘The fariners thero furious over the activity of colonization agents. One farmer is quoted as saving: — L don’t know but one remedy for the evil, and that is to keep off the emigrant agents. A year or two aco they became so obnoxious in‘the upper part of the state that they werb warned to stay away. ‘This warning was sufticient, and-1 know it would be unhealthy for uny of the agents to go back toany of the places where they were warnedto —dis continue their visits” It's a bad Sstate of affairs n my scetion, and I hope and trust that somebody will' suffer for the literal invasion in our country and farms. We farmers are heavy losers by this exodus, and if itis mot summarily ended 1 fear there will be much more trouble. feature of this noxious de velopment is the prominent part taken in it by women, 1t is somewhat startling to find upon the title page of a work whose cold, deliberate immorality and cynical disregard ot all social decency have sct the the teeth on cdge, the name of a woman as the author. 'We are so accustumed to associate modesty of demeanor, delicacy of thought and word, and purity of life with women, that a certain set of adjectives, expressive of virtue and morality, have come to include the idea of femininity in their siguification. It is certainly surprising. if not repellant, to find women the most industrious laborers in the work of tearing down the structure of honor and respect for their sex which has so long been regarded as the basis of sociul ex- istence. If this breaking of the holy images be but another manifestation of the revolt of women against the too narrow limits of an- cient prejndice, it is only additional proof that misguided revolution easily becomes mere anarehy. Tt is probable that the women who write this kind of fiction_are misled by anity rather than actuated by evil im- pulses. They imagine that in thus throwing all restraint they are giving cvidence of nality of thought and force of charac- whereas they ure, in fact, courting un- worthy suspicion and winning only that sort of applause which is thinly veiled contempt. A remarkable Such a colonization policy as Cierman pursning can result m nothing but ultimate disaster, says the San Francisco Chrouicle, The very first serious reverse will inspire the anti-colonial party in Jermany with new courage, and will bring the timorous and wavering over; and be- forc he knows it Bismarck will have strred up such a fierce opposition at home that he will be ouly too glaa to mako his peace with the people by abandoning his ambitious scliemes. Germany is & mon- archy, it is true, and Bismarck is almost an autocrat; but i the end the people arcal- ways stronger than their rulers, and emper- ors and chancellors have to bend before their will. There is more dangor to the im- perial power in Germany frow the colonial policy of Bismarck than from the combined armies of all the hostile nowers of Europe, for it cannot fail to excite domestic discord and dissension. Itis th2 testimony of public prosccutors everywhere thav the effect of very severe penalties for vote-selling or bribery is to render convictions almost impossible, says the New York World. We should like to sce the experiment tried of disfranchismg for five years any man convicted of sclling his vote, and providing for posting his name and sentence on the registry lists, This would take venal voters out of the market as fast as discovered and tend to bring tne practice of vote-selling into greater disre- pute. For the briber scverer penalties might ve imposed, and could probably be enforcod it the person who accepted the bribe were offered indemuity against prosecution for testifying to the cor- ruption. Such a measure, in connection with a ballot reform law, would go far towards purifying elections. M. Carteret, tho leader of the Swiss radi- cals, whose death is announced, was an illus- tration of the extremes to which men in power may be carried when it is proposed to grant to the people the full possession of civil and religious liberty, says the Philadel- phia Record. While ostensibly scoking to divorco church from state, M. Cartorot proved himself to be autocratic and intol- crant, suppressing the Catholic church and setting up in its place a subsi- dized establishment in which overy man_ was tobe a law unto himself. The !'c_sull, of course, was disorganization, and religious in- differentism, Centuries ago Geneva was the center of thevlogical dissonsiou, and it scoms to be perpetuated to-day even under a government purely republican, Like the Marshalsea and the Fleet, Now- gato prison 1s 6600 10 becomo a thing of the past,and London will be bercft of another of its old landmarks. A body of architects has just been paying it a visit to note the peeu- liarities of its structure. The origmal build- was in use for the confinement of prisoners of rank as early as 1216, It was_rebuilt two bundred years afterwards, and again after its destruction by the great fire in London in 10 Just before the Gordon rivts of 1750 it was recoustructed- uud the interior being burned in those disturbances, so vividly de: scribed in Bicken’s “Barnaby Rudge,”” was shortly afterwurds restored. In 1 It was altered to bring it more 1 accordunce With the humane spirit of the age. Now it is, doubtless, to disappear finally Though the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius was a great success on her trial, she was a failure as a financial venture for her con- tractors, Though bullt by Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia,she was contractod for by the Pneumatic Dynamite Gun company of New York, and the ofticers of this company say that they have lost about $100,000 on her, as her total cost amounted to #150,000, while the contract price was only 350,000, In con- sequence of this loss on tue Vesuvius, appro- priations for vessels of bhor class to be au- horized by the present session will be $450, 000. ‘Thoy will also carry & premium for tho attainment of a higher speed thau that guar- anteed in the coptract On the subject ot ‘morning prayers Pres dent Eliot, of Harvard, in his aunual report just {ssued, says: “Tho assured success of the voluntary method in the religious servi- ces of the university, concerning which some auxiety was felt during the first year of trial, was @ s0lid satisfaction to every mewmber of the university, whether teacher or student. It meant the permanent removal 0f & ques- tion of eonscience, the drying up of a con stant source of irritation and 11l feeling, the reparation of what many believed to be. a grave injury to religion aad tho establish- ment at the heart of the university of & fresh, strong influence for good,” ITS A PARADISE OF TOUGHS. A Town Which Always Wears a Vermillion Hue. TOO MANY FOR THE MARSHAL. Ho Tries to Keep Order, But the Hard Citizen is Overwhelmingly Num- erous — Dark Mysteries of the River, Perdition's A Covixatos, Neby, I%eb, 6.~ [Correspond ence of Tne Ber.] —The inconsistency of the prohibition law could not be more plainly de monstrated than it is daily, here at Covin ton. There twelve known te Room, od at this rum-selling rtation le objects are the carrying of from Covington to prohibition Sioux City, and there peddling it out to the thirsty mul titudes, and from the number of trips madoe cach day by the wagons of these concerns, they arc doing a land-oflee business right in the heart of the city that has dono more Dhoasting over the great accomplishments of that king of all known legislative farces— prohibition—thau all othor towns and citics in lowa, In f. aro or to zani taventy “Trans| place from institutions smpanics,” whose vhisky a man may start on the ice in the conter of the river between this town and the one on the opposite side, for ten hours cach day, and it would be a very difticult matter to determine from which direction the largest number of drunken men will pass during that time, Thero is, since the closing up of the river, a constant stream of humanity coming and oing from morning till night. Thoey get drunk in Sioux City and come here to clean out the town, and get drunk here and go there to do the same thing. The only perceptible difference between the two places is that here they can give vent to their cussedness without tuking so many chances of being ‘‘run in," as they would be compeiled to take on the other side. And right here, 1 would like to correct a false impression’ which has been spread throughout the country by a projudiccd writer on a local paper to the effect that the marshal of the town, Frank Williams, docs not attempt to keep order. This is false, and does that official a grave injustice. He cannot always keep order. Neither could any other one man. He has too man hard characters to deal with, ana the only surprise to me is that he has been able to kecp his life as long as ho hos, The place is filled with tiu-lorn gamblers, prostitutes, tramps and outlaws from every quarter of the globe, whose very counto- nances, as well as their actions, stamp them a dangerous, daring lot, Last evening about half past 9 o'clock, I stopped out of John Paysen’s saloon next 'to the river, and leisurely strolled up streot till I reachod the corner where the Boy’s Home is located, and while standing thore men- tally ndmiving the sparkle of the eleotric liglit across the street, I heard the shrick of a woman as if in_distress. Hurriedly look- ing to the rear of the Boy’'s Home and on to avacant lot, 1 saw two men, one of whom seemed to be holding a large fur coat over the head and shoulders of the other was apparently dr: by the wrists to some point against her will, ) hastily stepped into the barroom of the Boy's Home, and informed a_good-natured looking man' who was standing near the stove, and whow I took to bea farmer or laboring man, of what I had heard and scen Looking me square in the eye, he growled: “What of itz Are you looking for a lost Iriend?" 1 got out of the serape the best T could, and permit me to here remark that since that occurrence I have been less mquisitive while meandering about this little criminal resort, for such is certainly its proper and wost appropriate name. ‘The respectable people of the town as well as _ re ts all over Dakota county, are justly indignant at the way the laws ire d- Hiamtly viotuted in this place with impunity, and threaten resorting to mob law unless something is soon done to stop 1t. But how, pray, can the county attorney or any other 'official prosecute and convict man of a crime until it is first proven that he is guil Vhere s this proof to come from which is 80 essential to successful proscoutions and convictions! The sad fate of the Rev, Had- dock is to fresh in the memories of the re- spectable and honest portion of Covington's citizens to warrant one of them in making the first move to suppress the rapidly in- cruaslui crime that to-day surrounds and curses their heretofore peaceful and happy homes. In conversation with one of Covington's oldest and most highly respected citizens, whose name I would give he not especially requested me not to do so, I yes- terany gleaned the following information in reference to the state of affairs existing here to-day : “How long have you resided here?” “Tywenty-nine years ago the latter part of last October.” “Well,” T continued, “do you consider this place any worse than other places iu the county " “Y¢s, sir; 1do most emphatically believe this town to-day is the wickedest and most dangerous place I have ever been ing and 1 tell you, young fellow, I have scen some tough places.” “How is it, then, there seems to have been no murders reported from this place, ex copting one or two some thirty odd years agot “That 18 easy to explain,” the old gentle- man explained, as he pownted toward the river. “Do you mean to tell me that you sincerely believe that men have been murderéd and wrown into the river, and no inquiries made ter them by friends’s” “Exactly, Many of them.” “If that is the oase, why do not you and some of your friends ' commence " regular legal war against them,” “My friend,” he sald, “it would be far cneaper and much safer for us to leave the country and lot them have the hell-hole that it is, than to uttempt to run them out, and that is what sev eral of us intend to do in the spring. ““Then, you are absolutely afraid to com- plain against them " “Lam, sir; and 1 am not the only one, elthor, who fear them.” Many other good eitizens of Covington and are beyond doubt completely intimidated by the lawless clo- ment surrounding them, JuLivs, s =, A QUAINT LIQUOR LAW How the Traflic Was Regulated Three Hundred Years Ago. To the Editor of Tug I3 In a moment of leisure I was looking over the notes and queries, and ran across the following license Taw, adopted just three hundred years ago; and it occurs to me that it may interest your readers in these days of prohibition, *‘local option,” “high license,” “‘no license,” “moral suasion” and *‘hurrah for Fiske and Brooks.” It shows that the evils of drink- ing was then very much as they are now; but that our forefathers were more wisely strict than wo are in our legislation. They did not dream “of probibition, and though zealous religionists, as an act shows, the bad no soruple i “licensing an iniquity, but were anxious that good peo- pie of that day should be protected from bad beer, and that they should have it cheap; and thut there should he no more saloons than ‘‘a convenient number, and no more,” The phrase, ‘“Ihey that had uo other means to live by,” reminds me that inmy early days in the highlunds of Scot. land it was no uucommon thing for church people, o assist some worthy widow, to open out her house as & dramshop, in compliment, as it were, to the good conduct and the re- ligious ardor of her late husband. It was in deca, as I remember it, a good way of visit- ing the widow iu ler aflliction,” and w indeed a curious form of “‘pure religion showing the force of custom and associatiol Those good people, who cuffed whe young geueration for whistling on Sunday, wnd who could not tolorato broaking the Sabbath by playing on a “kist of whisties,” saw nothing strango in the deacon’s widow opening a Stippling house.” [t was also tho custom and considered the proper thing for the min ister when he married a couple in country 0 remuin always until the first dance was over, and he was looked upon as no gentlo man if he did not do 8o Ay the samo good divine rofuses to sit at the communion tablo with his American Prosbyterian brother boecause of the organ question ; and his Amer fcan brother, on the other hand, is more or less scandalized by his Scoteh brothor's love of @ dram and his approval of danci soems strange how much we all makoe of small mattors; and to me the moral is that wo are all creatures of habit and rarcly ox tend beyond our environment wo ofton “protend to be frigh mouse and have daily to do with the Following is the license law reforred to: Certain orders conceived and st down by the Lords and others of Her Majosty's Privy council, for reformation of groat disorders committed by tho excessive number of Ale and Tippl Juses, and browing or Ale and Boer than is wholosome for man's body, which are by the Justices of the Peace in the several Counties 1o bo put in exccution and strictly looked iuto, A, D, 04 The Justices wore to “take view of the numbe s, Victualling and Tip- pling town, parish, village and hamiet within their jurisdiction,’ “To consider upon view in overy place what number of them are necossary and fit and thereupon to discharge the supertiuous number, and to pormit and aliow a conven- tent numbor and no more." That those that were allowed should bo of honest conversation, and that had no other means to live by, and to give new Bonds to perform the Orders following 1. To take strict order with the Brewors that they serve no beer or ale to any ale houso keepor, but at such rate and prices as by the Justices of the Peace should be set down and appointed by the Statute of 23 Hen, VIIL cap. 4 The Justices to sat down and appoint a reasonable price for evory barrell and kilder- Kin, or othor vessell of Hoer, as they may affurd the same for half @ ponny a quart. And yet the same 1o bo well sodden, aml well brewed of wholesome grayne as it ought to be, upon pain, ete, 3. The Alo-house keeper to give bond in a competont sum not to utter any beer or alo but such as is wholosome 4. The keeper of the Ale-louso to certify to tho Constable of the Parish or Villaga whorcof they be, the namos and surnames of all_and overy person or persons that they shall lodgo in their houses or dwelling plac mystery and condition of every one of thon ana whether every one of them entendeth to travel, as the gucst shall inform them, and this to be part of the condition of their bond Not tohave Cards, Dico or Tables, not uffer any to play in their houses, yirds, This to be part of the condition of the to s ete. bond. 6. No Ale-house keoper, cte., to pormit any person or persons to lodgeé in Lis house above a day and a night, but such as he will answer for, as the Statutes yet in force do requiro. Also condition of bond. 7. Not to dress, or suffer to be dressed or eaten within his house, any fleshe upon any forbidden day, saving for himself or his se vants m case of necessity, according to tho statute in that behalf provided. Also a con- dition of bond. , 8. That no Vietualler, Tiplor, or Ale-houso kecpor shall permit or suffer any persons dwelling within a mile of their houses to cator drink, except substantinl houschold- ers and their wives, children, and servants in their company travelling to the Church, being a mile distant from their house, or for some other lawful occasion; and that only for their reasonable time of their eating and drinkmg for the nccessary repast and relif. 9. The constable to scarcn and enquira after disorders every fifteen days. 10. The justices dividing themselves into certain limits one in twenty days, to see tho execution of these articles within their di- visions. (Signed) Jonx Banxe, 1tve. Yousa, Trosas Wavp, = A “COLORADO KICKER." Some Highly Interesting Items From the Hoyloke Advocate. The new town of Holyoka, Colo., jus across the Nebraska line, has an ente prising paper callea the Advocate. Among the interesting items which ap- peared in its last issue ave the follow- ing: During the progress of the Sullivan- Pearson hearing, a witness was asked by defendant’s attorney: ‘““When you first entered the saloon did not Mr. Sullivan treat you kindly?” The wit- ness,in a straight-forward and honest tone, replied: “No, sir. He didn’t treat us at all.” I'red Brobst suod us for stealing his leads and slugs from his outfit. After hearing our side and hearing him de- liberately lie under oath, the justice threw the case out without hearing any more testimony and charged it all up to Drobst. How they will get the cost from Brobst is a question, us ho was uever known to pay anything he could get out of. If he was not able, it would be differcnt, but he simply wont pay. We heard it said he owes for his wife's coflin to this day. Oh, he's a bird. Hog Anderson and his man Brobst have reaped the harvest t comes a8 a reward for perjury and low-livednes which these gentlemen have done dur- ing their short stay in this city, Thoy are despisod and abhorred by all the itizens of this community. They have fully branded themselves with an odi- ous namo. Have demonstrated their lack of faith in God,and their con- tempt for honor. They have shown how little they care for an oath by their brazen conduct on the witness stand. Had these men two grains of common sense to a oubie inch of brain, they would ke out of ht of all honor- able men, like whipped curs. Hog Anderson gets his work in on one more unfortunate, He forccloses on Old Man King. bicknessin his fam- ily and poor business places Mr, King in the u‘nlr‘lu‘fl of this human vampire. Shylock will have his pound of flosh, On Monday evening, between the hours of 4 and 5 o'clock, a shooting took pluce in Sullivan Bros’ n, in which Dan Sullivan shot one 7 Poarsoll, the ball entering the loft breast just above the nipple. Fortu- nately the ball steuck a rib and ran avound the side, lodging under the shoulder. This man Pearsoll has on former occasions played the bad mun act in the ahove mentioned place, shoot- ing through the floor and Hourighing his gun with the usual amount of dime novel quotations, cleancd out the Pate hotel, and his success in his former acts had evidently impressed him that ho was to bo the Billy the Kid of his time. What Pearsoll did in the saloon to provoke the shooting we have not yot learned. Reports ave conflict- ing, but that he gave sufficient cause for Sullivan defending himself and getting the fivst shot is understood, The days for blood and thunder aots and inaividuals starting grave yards of their own, it would seem Lave gone by. Wae think the young man has learned o lesson, and will take it well into his heart and try in the future & more gonial path of lifo. Later—As we o to press we that Sullivan was acquitted. Fred Thompson the editor of the Sun, was smacked over the mouth by n yonn lady on the street on Tuesday,for insult- ingly coughiog at her when she pussed him on the street. Thompson is just starting out in life, perhips too yoing to see right from wrong, and may have thought his actions smart, but the re- budkce he received will, no doubt, tes hima lesson. It don’t pay to be too fiip in this western country, learn