Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1889, Page 4

.THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TRRMS OF S8UBSCRIPTION. Dally (Morning Raition) fncluding SUNDAY Mg One Yeur i x Mcm!h- . . ron Months Tuk OMAns BUNOAY liki, maiied € any 2 address, Ohe Year < WERKLY Tikw, Ono ¥ 200 OuanA Orricw, Now 014 und 710 FANA AV BTIRET. CHioA Drrice, 07 Rookery BuiLpiNa. i I OF IR, ROOMS 14 AND 15 ThisuAs NGTON OFFicR, No. CORRBSPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- Jorial matter should be addressed to the Epiron O THE BER. WUSINESS LETTERS, \J hunlnun lotters and rem ittances should be dressod to Tie NER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafty, checks and postofiice oraers to o mado payablé to the order Fot the company. %6 Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DALY llls.l'}. Sworn Stateient of Circalation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, *"'- (George . Taschuck, secrotary of the lee Pub- Hshing company, does solemuly swear that rho actual circulation of THE DAILY Die for the Weok ending March 25, 1880, was as follows: Sunday, March 17, v 18410 onday. March 18 1008 esdav, March 19, 18813 Wednesday, Marcn 20, 18,804 Thursday, March 21 Eriday. Marh 2t Baturday, March 25,0, AVEPURO. . ovvvriinss sesn o GROKGE B. T78C Bwornto betore me and subscribed his 24 d-vnr March, A. D. 1889, Seal. . P. FRIL, Notary Public. Btate of Namun\ Gounty of Do fos. ey . Tuachuck, baing duly sworn, de- cnon. Kot says that o 18 m-az-r ol the Bos ilshing cmnuln{ actual verage daily circulatio T IG D\IL\' B wre opiear " 18 coblen: copIu. tor M\‘tsmmr. T AT Covlens cobloss for Novem: ::" Yar 3‘2..”.5’.’,','.'!.5?{ TR eopies: tor Pob: m"‘ i “‘“m EORGE R, TZCRUCK, mo and subecribed in thy o BT 9% OE MARE: Rotary Pablie. ‘SeriNe” poctry is mlmsbmn Sun- Gy reading in Omaha, THE qmnfiVubfish ;emnnnt sale will take place in four weeks. CorPORAL TANNER has planted his flag on the dome of the pension office. A NEW gold field has not been dis- covered in California for n week. The supply of salt is exhausted. THE mayor has generously moditied his Sunday closing order so as not to in- clude newspaper “'slugs.” THE t|go;_;ms desr;m(; from his perch in Council Bluffs, There is no limiton the ground floor. THE Paine-ful cries of bleeding Kan- sas are at end. Oklahoma has been thrown wide open by the president. TitE boodle combine is rapidly dig- ging its own grave. Conspiracies . against public welfare are foredoomed to failure. Tie Los Angeles editor who intro- duced Murchison to the world demands his reward. Salary is noobject if promi- mence is assured. THE growth of the treasury surplus is particularly alarming to congressmen. Their anxiety for a raise of salary is only afew lups behind. ——— THE democratic national committeo has a job lot of bad debts for sale cheap. ‘This distressing condition is the natural result of bankruptey in principles. THE public printer bill has been knocked into a galvanized pi-box. Hon. Chris Specht furnished the design and sixty-five members volunteered to act a8 pall-bearers. i fem———— THE inter-state commerce commis- sion has again affirmed the long and the short of the law, but the railroads continue perpetrating the ‘‘long haul” on the public with unvarying success. Derew’s chances for the English mission have been seriously comprom- ised. He perpetrated an Ivish dintect anecdote at a St. Prtrick’s day gather- ing in New York. — OUR amiable two-cent contemporary on Douglas streot is painfully afMicted with Rosewater on the brain. The dis- ease has again bocome acute, and nothing short of bankruptey will effect & cure, 1. HODGSON has been nominated—to stay at home. James B. Windrom, of Philadelphia, has been appointed supervising architect of the treasury. Becretary Windom has doubtless heard the story of the precarious condition of ‘She Minnesota state house. PREPARATIONS are being made in New York prisons w carry into effect the law abolishing the gallows, and providing for the execution of the death sentence by eleotricty. This will reliove the public mind of much anx- dous suspense and confine the shock two the vietim, e———— Tue New York mugwumps have 1aised a wild outery against the threat- ened removal of Postmaster Pierson. The pernicious influence of noun-parti- sans cannot prevail against the united “demands of republicans and democrats Wor Pierson’s head. The latter thirst for mugwump gore. Ee————— Tue United States district attorney for West Virginia refused “to resign when requested, claiming that the in- witation was punishment for trying to convict republicans of illegal voting. A democratic jury promptly acquitted the prisouers and Mr. Watts was imme- diately bounced. Fuilure to convict robhed him of a martyr's crown. ES————88 CADET TAYLOR is pressing himself _ %o the front as a candidate for the posi- Mlon of secretary of the state board of Sransportation. His qualifications for b. position are elogquently set forth in report on his macage- of the public printing office, t by his later career as of the Rounds estate. Taylor 1 & job lot of cheek, & bankrupt stock parade for @ price. THE POSTOFFICE SITE. Thé determination of Secretary Win- dom to defer nction on Mr. Linton's selecsion of the postofMice site for Omaha is eminently wise and proper. Our Washington dispatches give the inside history of the scheme hatched at tne national capital to select the Planter’s house site and ignore the wishes and convenience of the public. The un- seemly haste in advertising for bids, the short time allowed property owners to make tenders, and the special agent's hurried arrival and cursory examina- tion, are strong confirmatory proofs that the Folsom property was decided upon weeks before Mr. Linton left Washington. The opposition of leading citizens to the approval of this seloction is wide- spread. Socretary Windom is deluged with telegrams and petitions protest- ing against this jug handle arrange- ment. The government has nothing to gain wnd much to loose by hastily as- senting to a conspiracy hatched in Washington and engineered in Omaha by the men who were rebuked six weeks ago by the overwhelming majority of the voters. The hue and cry raised by the parties who expect to profit by the approval of Linton’s sclection is increased by the jealous ravings of the would-be rivals of Tue Bee. The Hitcheock-Nye-Craig combine displayed the cloven hoof of hatred in the postoffice matter, as in all other public questions, by unitedly op- posing the demand of Tie BEE and the citizens generally for a hearing. The secretary, however, will carefully weigh all points presented, and wiil undoubt- edly dispatch another agent to this city to determine the best of the two sites, to which the selection is now narrowed. —— SENATORIAL SALARIES. There is a great deal to be said on both sides of the senatorial salary ques- tion which was raised by the resigna- tion of Senator Chace. The plea that senators cannot live in Washington on a salary of five thousand dollars a year as bafits the dignity of their pesition, and as is required by the social demands upon them, is not likely to have great weight with a large majority of the people. A senator resides in Washing- ton not to exceed twelve months for an ordinary term of congress, so that his salary is very nearly a thousand dollars a month for actual time spent in the na- tional capital as a legislavor. Most people will regard this as sufficient to enable a man of reasonable desives in the matter of living and social enjoy ment to gratify them. But the claim that the present salary is not adequate compensation for the service rendered is entitled to more serious consideration. The people will not object w paying a just salary for labor performed, if it be possible to determine the value of such labor, but they will object to al- lowing any consideration of style to eater into the matter. In any event there will be a very small popular sup- port of the proposal to double senator- ial salaries. Doubtless there are sen- ators whose services ure worth ten thousand dollars a year to the country, but a considerable ,number of them are overpaid at half that sum, aud that could be no assurance thai an increase of salary would free the senate of inferior men and others who give very little attention to their duties. It is certuinly not desirablo that the senate shall become a rich man’s club, nor on the other hand is it desirable that an overtaxed people should be required to pay for the un- necessary style and luxuries of their representatives. It unquestionably costs more to live respectably in Wash- ington than any other city in the coun- try, but the great demand comes from the extravagance and the lavish display of society at the na- tional oapital, and these are growing from year to year, and steadily getting further away from the modera- tion which ought to prevail in a repub- lican government. If senators are to be paid so that they may be enabled to meet the requirements of this extrava- gance, there will have to be a general revision of the national salary list, for thore are other servants of the people who have quite as reasonable a claim to an increase of compensation. MANUAL TRAINING DISCUSSED. The national convention of public school superintendents recently held in ‘Washington has received less general attention frem the press than its im- portance merited. It was of far more than usual interest in the broad scope of its discussion of subjects having rela- tion to public education, as the work of state and city normal schools, teachers’ institutes, high schools, and particu- larly the question of manual training in connection with the public schools, which received more attention and discussion than any other subject. It was shown that these edu- cators clearly see that the old apprentice system has gone, with no probability of its ever again being re- vived, and they agree that there must be recourse to some other plan in order to enable the youth of America to ob- tain manual or industrial training to lay the foundation for skilled workmen, such as may be provided by technical and trade schools. They separate, however, on the ques- tion whether manual or industrial training should be made an integral part of the public school course, and whether such training has any educa- tional worth apart from its practical value. It is instrucive to note that this difference marks the dai- vision of age and conservatism from youth and progressive ideas. The former insist that there is no eduea- tional value in industrial training, and that consequently it should have no place in the public schools, but be con- fined to schools specially provided for such instruction. The younger and progressive element waintain that io- dustrial trainiog for both sexes should be made a part of the eurriculum of the public schools through all the grades, begiuning with the simplest forms of clay moulding aud painting in the primaries, and advsuncing so as 0 end with the training of the workshop 1o the grammar and high school grades. In the views of these more modern educators many OMAHA D boys who care little for books would be keenly interested in the work of man- ual training, and that very generally public school pupils- would like such work if it wera scientifically graded witha view to edueational ends. They insist that industrial training has an educational value, serving to develop the child both intellectually and mor- ally, and that this gives it a yery posi- tive claim to be made a partof publie school education. The importance which this sub- ject has attained in”the minds of edu: cators, with the manifest trend of pub- lic opinion favorable toa wisely-ordered system of manual training in connec- tion with the public schools, promises that the experiment will become very general in this country within a few years. The position of the advocates of the reform is strongly fortified by the fact that wherever adopted the results have been highly satisfactory. Reports from a number of cities where the sys- tem is in operation were all favorable, presenting a most formidable argument against the assumption of the conserva- tives that there is no educational value in industrial training. The problem is not one of results, but of how to best ar- range the system so as to obtain from it the highest usefulness; without inter- fering with the intellectual develop- ment, but rather aiding it PROHIBITION IN THE EAST. The people of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, who are to vote within the next three months on prohibitory amendments to the constitutions of those states, are deep in the discussion of this question. All classes are mani- festing a profound interest in the con- troversy, and opinions are freely ex- pressed by leading clergymen, college presidents, lawvers, merchants, politi- cians and others. In both states the weight of opinion of these classes, so far as obtained, is against the proposed amendments. A Boston paper that in- stituted an inquiry among the lead- ing citizens of the state has published replies from two hundrea and sixty-one persons, one hundred and cighty-eight of whom stated that they were opposed to the prohibitory amend- ment, and seventy-three favored it. =~ Of the sixty-seven clergymen who veplied to the inquiry, there was a majority of three in favor of the amendment, but of lawyers, merchants and college presi- dents, there wasa very large majority opposed to the amendment. Such lead- ersin the religious world as Rev. Drs. Peabody, Dexter and Barton expressed themselves forcibly against such legis lation. Dr. Dexter, who is presumably familiar with the experience of Massa- chusetts with prohibition, said he feared he adoption of the proposed amend- ment would increase rather than dimin ish the evils against which it is aimed. President Eliot, of Harvard, said he should vote against the amendment be- cause for promoting temperance he pre- ferred local option and high license to prohibition. Prof. Norton, of the same college declared his belief that the amendment is wrong in principle aud mistaken in policy. In Pennsylvania many prominent clergymen have courageously arrayed themselves against the proposed prohib- itory amendment. One of these said he regarded prohibition as unscrip- tural and wrong in principle. As 8 practical measure of temperance reform,” said this m ter, *‘prohibition has been largely a fail- ure, and tends to create a community of spies, informers and hypocrites—the most abominable state of society that we can conceive.” Aunother who had personally observed the effects of prohi- bition in Rhode Island and Maine ex- pressed the opinion that the proposed amendment means virtually free rum. The contest in these states is becom- ing very active and very earnest and according to the most trustworthy ac- counts the driftof popular sentiment isin opposition to the proposed amendments. In Massachusetts the history of the complete failure of prohibition fifteen or sixteen years ago, notwithstanding the stringent character of the law and the regulations for its enforcement formidable argument against repeating the experiences, with all the evil and demoralizing consequences incident to it. In Pennsylvania the successful operation of the high license law in restricting the sale of liquor and pro- moting tho cause of temperance con- fronts the prohibitionists with stub- born facts the force of which they can- not deny. That law has been in cperation less than one year, and it has reduced the number of licensed saloous in the state ome-half, while doubling the revenue from licenses. The effect has been to lessen the amount of drunken- ness, diminish the number of police ar- rests, and to redeem and improve many localities that had long been the haunts of vice and crime. With ample experience demonstrat- ing that probibition does not accomplish what it aims to, and indisputable evi- dence that the cause of temperance is promoted by a properly enforced sys- tem of high license, there would seem little reason to apprehend the success of prohibitory constitutional amendments in Massachusetts aud Pennsylvania. E—— THE mineral development of Wyom- ing should receive the active encour- agement aud assistance of Omaha cap- italists. The progress of the territory is closely linked with vhat of Nebraska. The railroad systems of both are the same, and the growth of one materially affects the prosperity of the other. A large amount of Omaha capital and en- ergy is already invested in the oil and coal fields, but there are other minerals as yet untouched which insure profit- able returns on the money. The vast deposits of iron ore in the territory are now attracting attention. In quality and quantity they equal the Lake Su- perior article, and the investment of local capital in their development would play an important part in the industrial growth of Omaha. ————— THE fishermen of Gloucester, Mass., have made a remarkable request of the legislature of that state, They have petitioned that august body to adopt measures to prevent the ocean-going steamers from crossing the cod-fishing waters off the banks of New Foundland. Thelr complaint Is that the fishing floot off the banks xposed to much danger from thfnfmn, and thoy ns« sert that a considefbld proportion of the loss of life and property in those waters is caused by col between oecean steamers and fish ho«mer-. There may be someth “ this, but the remedy cannot np lml by the Massa- chusetts legislat hose jurisdiction ends somewhat nhnrt of the New Found- land banks. The Gloucester fishermen are, however, to bg pardoned, in view of what has been { them by the advo- cates of their eldifls and demands during the past twoyears, for imagining that there is no limit to their domain, and that the jurisdiction of the Massa- chusetts legislatare is co-extensive. Boss StouT and Butler have trans- ferred their tools and affections to the senate. Coquetry will not count there. The upper house has developed a mania for kicking boodle hills into the waste basket that the momentum acquired cannot be checked till the session closes. THE appropriation bills have been reduced over three hundred thousand dollars in a week, and the pruning process has just commenced. When the senate completés the dissection the parents of the steals will be unable to recognize their ill-gotten offspring. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Joseph Nicola, a full-blooded Indian, rep- resents the Menobscot tribe in’ the Maine legislature. A Connecticut Yankee has been appointed commissioner of patents. The crop of wooden nutmegs is secure from infringe- ments. President Harrison was slightly indisposed Thursday. The exhumed bones of Valentine filled the white house with the odors of & ‘morgue. Lord Randolph Churchill, the mugwump of England, boasts of three actual followers. To avoid political extinction he is graaually nearicg the liberal party. The Chicago Tribune insists that there are more children in this country named after Grover Cleveland than all the other New York lawyers put together, The passageof Brad Slaughter through the nominating machine appears to have shattered the cogs. The Nebraska end is a melancholy specimen of inaction. Mrs. Ehjah Hulford named her Florida home ‘“‘Hoosier's Nest.” The bait won't work. The Hoosiers will roost in the white house grounds for the next three years, John Burroughs nas practically abandoned literature for what hg finds a botter paying cultivation—that of the soil. He finds the sward mightier than LMT 1 Senator Stanford, of Ca rnia, has sent his check for §,000 to the committee in Bos- ton engaged in raising a fund of $109,000 for Mrs, Philip H. Sheridan, widow of the late general. Cutting, the Foraker of the Rio Grande, who threatened to ‘mop the earth with the greasers of Mexico, has not yet applied for an office. He is busily watching young Cut- ting teeth. Ex-Senator Tabor was ht one time an em- ploye of Secretary ¢ffWag Proctor's quarry. Since that time he Ha§ acquired a divorce, an extensive wardrobeafid the haughty stride of a millionaire. L Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New. York, has crawled out of the rumsof the November earthquake. His mouth did not recover its wonted frequency till he reached Chatta- nooga last week. Count von Moltke, though eighty-six years old, fully retains his love for music and hardly ever misses a court concert, He used to be a frequent performer on the piano, too, but has reformed in that respect. Gearge Peabody Wetmore, ex-governor of Rhode Island, is the favorite in the race for the chair vacated by Senator Chaca. Mrs. Wetmore is the handsome lady who declined an introduction to the Prince of Wales at Hamburg last summer. Mrs. Richard Perkins, of Boston, has pre- sented to the Bostonian society a three-page letter that John *ancock wrote from Lou- don on March 3, 1751, to the Rev. Daniel Perkins, of Bridgewater. In it Hancock smd: *Ishall with satisfaction bid adieu to this graud place with all its pleasurable en- joyments for the more substantial pleasure I promjse myself in the enjoyment of my friends in America. * * * The greatest estate in England would be but a poor temptation to me to spend my days here.” Mrs. Eureka Storey, widow of the late Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Times, has gone to New York to decide upon a suitable design fer a monument to wark her husband’s last resting place. A great number of drawings and models wrought in various quarried stones have been -submitted for her approval. Her choice is said to have fallen upon a shaft of red granite that will be quite as high, if it can be quarried, as the Egyptian obelisk. S Riddleberger Will Not Down. Cineinnati Enquirer, Riddleberger is not yet through. He swears that he is going to be a collector of interaal revenue for Virginia or know the reason why. He will probably know the reason. ——— The Coming of Spring. Nora Perry in Youths' Companion. There's something in the air That's new and sweet and rare— A scent of summer things, A whirr as if of wings, There's something t00 that’s new In the color of the biue That's in the mornigg sky, Before the sun is high. And though on piain or hill, "Pis winter, winter spill, There's something; scoms Lo say That winter's bad its day. And all tius cugiging tint, This whispering stir Aud Hint Of bud and bloom and wing, Is the coming of th¢ spring. And to-morrow of ‘to’day The brooks will break away From their icy, frozn steep, And run sod laggh gnd leap. And the next I.!nm‘ in the woods, The catkins in their hoods Of fur and silk will stand, A sturdy little baud, And tne tassels soft and flne Of the hazel will untwme, And the elder branches show Their buds against the snow. So, silently but swift, Above the wintery druft, The long days gain and gain, Until on bill and plain, Once more aund yet once mora Returning a8 before We see the bloom of birth Make young again the earth. The Bald Knobbrrs' Cases. Sr. Louis, March 28 —A special from Jef- fersou City, Mo., says that io the last of the Bald Kuobbers' appeal cases, that of Dave Walker, the supreme court has afirmed the Anuhqot the h court sad the execution FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK, The defeat of the prohibitory amendment in Now Hampshire, says the Glabe-Demo- crat, is rendered especially impressive by thq fact that it is one of & long series of re- verses which the prohibitionists have wet with in the past year ar two. Within this period Oregon, Michigan, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia have voted down propos- nilar to that which has just been re- jected in New Hampshire. Two other states will be called on this year to pass judgment on this question, These are Massschusetts and Pennsylvania, Undoubtediy the ver- dict will be the same in both as that which has been rendered in the other states which have recently spoken on this subject. Throughout the entire country high li- cense and county prohibition are gaiving ground, while state prohibition 1is losing. These tendencies are marifested along the Atlantic seaboard, in the Mississippi valley, and on the Gulf coast. While the states which we have mentioned have rejected tho proposition to put prohibition in the state’s organic law, Rhode island, which already has it iu its constitution, wants to take it out. This does not mean, of course, that the people have relaxed in their determination to throw restraints around the liquor traffie. It simply means that the peo- ple have discoversd readier, more practical and more. effoctive methods of doing this than that which the prohibitionists propose, Discussing the question as to whether in- sanity is on the increase, the Philadelphia North-American says: The estimated fo- crease of population since 1830 in the states is only one-fifth, while the officially deslared increase of the inmates of asylums is nearly one-talf. Making due allowances for the de- cline of popular prejudice, this increaso is altogether larger than was expected. Causes connected with common life must be oper: tive or this disposition could notexist. Un- doubtediy such causes may be found in the indescribable hurry of Americau life, in the mode of living and the rage for acquiring greater or less wealth. No class escapes. The greater number of insane is always con- tributed by the working classes simply be- cause those various classes constitute the vast majority of the total population. We cannot see that one class contributes pro- portionately more to swell the list than any other. The tension seems almost universal and without much relation to circumstances. There is no lover of the play who will not learn with sincere regrot, says the Philadel- phin Ledger, of the illness of Miss Anderson which compels her temporary retirement from the stage, of which she is 8o conspicu- ous and honored an ornament. Greater ac- tresses than sho have possibly claimed the admiration of American audiences for their art, but we know of no other who both as artist and woman has presented greater claims to the most respectful regard of the public than she. Miss Anderson is an actress of the most lovely personality, a woman of rarest refinement and goodness. She has won the general affection and esteem’by}her conspicuous nierits, She has honored her- self profoundly by respecting her art. Her aspirations have always been elevated, noble; she his presented nothing on the stage, ap- peared in no play in which there was not made evident her own beautiful, high ideal of art. It is such women who give character and splendor to the staga. Holding them- selves and their art in high regard, they readily inducs the public to hold them in high esteom. The stage is made purer, brighter, and more attractive by and through their presence. In an editorial on the proposed movement for an increase in congressmen’s salaries the Detroit Free Press says: The pay is in- suflicient to enable a senutor or a represent- ative to give fine entertainments from it, or, for the senators—and they are the ones who are complaining—to have grand mansions and to live in sumptuous elegance. Nor would it if it were quadrapled. A man can- not live *in style'” on $5,000 per year, but no public servant has the right to ask the peo- ple to pay him so that he can. The presence of so many millionaires in the senate—the dominance of money in politics—has led to a great departure from the simplicity of our ancestors; but the payment of large salaries would not make matters any petter. The people can relieve the senate from the charge of being a rich men's club by sending men there who, while comparatively poor in this world's goods, are well endowed with brains. It is not the meagerness of the present salary which keeps poor men out of the senate. It is the large purse of men of the same political faith who opposo them as candidates. It was this that enabled Stock- bridge, to whom salary is no object, to sup- plant Conger, to whom it was. Larger pay will not opeu the doors any wider to poor men, and there is therefore uo necessity for increasing the present compensation, Commenting on a series of resolu tions pre pared by the prohibitionists in New York de- clarining eternal and uncompromising war- fare with high license, the Brooklyn Times remarks: ‘“This is a free country, and even those who are ready to dictate to others how they shall eat, drink and live are allowed to have their way. It isa glorious country to live in. It affords a splendid opportunity for all kinds of cranks to ventilate their peculiar opinions. ‘Fhis freedom is a good thing. It is a safety valve that lets oft the superfluous steam of nll sorts of speculative extrava- gancies and follies and so far the end has been that sober reason has finally and every time come to our relief and given us the wis- dom'and the vision that have led to reason- avly good government. Occasionally Blaines and Millers are defeated aud Clevelands and Hills are elected, but we go safely through these crises and recover ourselves again when good sense and reason again have their way." ol e Thes Dominion government has been spending @ good deal of money for some years past to secure immigration, says the St. Paul Globe, and shiploads of substantial- looking people have come pretty numerously to make the waste places glad; but somehow in the general round-up there is not the ex- pected swelling of figures. For instance, in Manitoba and the northwest territory, eight years ago the population was 110,000, The immigrants since 1381 have numbered 220,000, and still the total is but 250,000. A similar condition is reported in the ceuntry at large. ‘The population in 1881 was 4,524,310, and the immigrants have been about 500,000; still the present total is less than 5,000,000, or nearly 1,000,000 short of expected figures. The result of the effort is not at all encour- aging. The trouble is that the best part of the immigration, and much of the old stock, comes over the line. This country gets the cream. Dakota and Minnesota should be grateful to the Canadian government. et ] VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Slaughter's Cholce. Nebraska City Press; This lots Mr. Bies bower out. The Press will receive and care for any funds raised for his relief. Fremont Tribune: Bierbower had to go. That's something. The democrats couldn’t get him out. Fremont Herald: We congratulate you, Brad—you've got a republican out when the democrass couldn’t do it i four years' trying. Beatrice Democrat: The ofice of United States marshal should have been filled by a domocrat four years ago, but under Mr. Cleveland's mistaken policy Bierbower was pormitted to serve during the four years of BEE: SUND MARCH . 24, 1830.—-SIXTEEN PAGES. the so-called democratio rule, This ohange alone more than compensates the demoorats of Nebraska for the loss ol the November election, The Kind of p Man He In. Hastings Nobraskan: Mr. Theissen, who is before the legislature asking a bounty for the promotion of silk culture in Nebraska, claims that a newspaper correspondent tried to “work" for pecuniary benefits by promis- ing to speak favorably of a message before the legisiature to appropriate a sum of money for a silk station. The Nebraskan has reason to belive that he is the same man who permitted his name to be signed toa democratic campaign document last fall, al- leging that millions had been spent in the United States senate bribing the members thereof to proteot the silk monopolies of the country. They'rve All True. Talmage Tribune: The Omaha Bes s en- gaged in the laudable enterprise of showing up the iniquities of the Douglas county poor farm. If half of the stories told of the woman in charge are true she ought to re- ceive a heavy dose of the same kind of treat- ment sho gives some of the poor creatures placed in her charge. e i AS OTHERS SEE US, New York's Only Rivals, Chicago Tribune, If New York City succeeds in increasing her population to 8,000,000 by means of an- nexation she will be safe from the ambitions rivalry of Chicago for many a year to come. The only cities she will have to fear, in fact, will be Duluth and Omaha, Nebraska's Statesmen. Los Angeles Tribune. Nebraska is full of statesmen. Senator Manderson, of that state, says that a direc- tory of the state is included in the number of applicants for government positions, Our Bect Sugar Bounty. Chicago Tribune, Nebraska will pay a bounty of 1 ccnt'a pound for beet sugar produced in the state. Nebraska will have to do better than that if she expects to attract in the slightest degree the attention of the gentlemen who manufac- ture the pure maple sugar of Vermont in so many sections of this glorious country. What is a bounty of 1 cent a pound to them? A Santa Barbara Incident. Time, Tourist from the east~What do you call that dish, my friend ! Waniter—Cuttle-fish soup, sir. Tourist—Oh, all right. I was afraid I had | stopped off at Omaha a little too long and some of those Nebraska svakes had followed me up. We're Getting Them, Anyhow. Chicago Tribune. Kansas City and Omaha are welcome to Chicago's pigs if they will only take the clover, too. Beets and—Beats. Pioneer Press, Nebraska papers are trying to induce farm- ers to raise beets forsugar. Nebraska is be- coming noted for raising beats who carry off the “sugar’’—bank presidents. 'Twas Better Thus. 4 Los Angeles Tribune. Nebraska feels fairly comfortable after all. She did not get a cabinet office, but Buffalo Bill was invited to the inaugural ball. Repeal It Rocnester Post-Express, There seems to be a persistent effort mak- ing to secure prohibition for Nebraska. The next question is: What will Ncbraska do with it if she should get itt Buffalo Bill's Ambition. Pioneer Press, Buffalo Bill wants w be a general in the Nebraska militia. The child-like, simple- hearted showman! “‘Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.” SE MEN'S FASHION NOTES. Outing caps in stripes and Scotch plaids promise to be very popular this spring. Tan-colored shoes will be the rage next summer as a sort of complement to the flan - nel shirt mania. The sailor knot in neckware still holds its own, notwithstanding the many innovations that have tried so hard to knock it out. The straw hats now being made ready for summer wear arealmost extravagantly giddy 1 both color and shape. lancy bands are the rule. The pini and rose tints in spring neckware are catchingon. They are so loud, some of ‘em, that one needs to jab one's thumbs into one's cars as they pass. Diagonal stripes in promise to become popular. are not so hateful they used to be, caprice of taste. Three studs in a dress shirt-frontare a rarity in New York, fine dressers wearing two and in some instances one. Things are different in London, however, the leaders sf preferring the three-eyelet vercale shirt-fronts Loud effects to exacting dressers as owing to some strange fashion there bosoms. The styles in men's handkerchiefs are undergoing a noticeable change. Silk is supplanting linen and cambric in a great measure, and plan white patterns are giv- ing way to tints ana combinations of color, axcept for outing purposes, where silk is not considered in good form. The prevailing craze for checks and stripes is felt in the domain of mouchoirs quite as much as in scarfs and trousers. To counteract the influence of the flannel shirt craze, which threatens to carry country by storm next July and August, me of the wide awake shirt manufacturers are producing a featherweight swmmer shirt in light cambric and linen. These shirts will weigh but a few ounces. The ladies have caught the flannel shirt idea from taeir sweethearts and big brothers, and will wear jaunty flannel blouses during the hot weather. "The biouses are mado principally in loud checks and stripes, and are designed to be worn on all informal occasions where frecdom and comfort are studied. Regarding the mooted abolition of the swallowtail suit, a fashionavle New York tailor said: “Such talk is all bosh. Tne clawhammer coat is the only correct thing for gentlemen. It is the grand result of the ages of experiment in men’s attire, and to bolish it would be o step backward and not a stride in the dircetion of a higher civiliza- tion, as it is thoughtlessly claimed. Sim- plicity and harmony are the crowning vir- tues of the present fashions in evening dress. Garish colors are esscutially vulgar. Imag- ine a practical New Yorker in knee breecties, velvet coat and satin waiste Fudge! - the The English Speaking Race. Chicago Tribune, The number of people wiio speak the Eng lish language is estimated by a recent writer 10 be 110,000,000 1f the population of Texas be acded to the couut the grand total will be nearly 112,000,600, saca B LR Not True of Officranekers. Minneapolis Tribune. Flls Wheeler Wilcox asserts that when onc weeps one weeps alone, bat as wo in I fancy listen to the low, mournful wails of | the disappointed oficeseekers along the Washinglon turapike we are disposed to doubt Ella's verscity. BUZZINGS., —_— It 18 now more than twenty-oné years since the second legal execution took place in this city, The criminal was Ottway Q. Barker, the murderer of Woolsey D, Hig. gins, The crime was committed 1n the bricle building on the southwest corner of Twelfth and Farnam streets. Thousands of peopls pass the place daily,but not one in ten knows of the ghastly deed perpetrated noarly a gen- eration ago, to which those ancient walls bear. testimony, Like many of the mortals Wwho have sought a livelihood and woalth within them, the memory of the night of No. vember 21, 1806, has passed into oblivion. Thomas Falconer, the custoalan of the high school, however, has a memento of the event, which is probably the only one extant. It is a small photograph of the scone at the execution. The latter took place about 8 quarter of a mile northwest of Capitol square, The little picture is faded, the foat- ures are indistinct, but the outline of the cul- prit, the attendant clergyman, Rev. F', Bgan, pastor of St. Philomena’s, Shoriff Sutton, to- gether with the curious multitude aud an array of all kinds of vehicles, g ives an ex. cellent idea of this early expiation. Mr, Fal- coner is immortalized ns one of the mortals almost beneath the scaffold, though the feats ures 1o which he points as belon ging to him 1n the absence of their former brilliancy are strongly suggestive of u cadaver from the pyramids, - e Some days ago Editor Hitchcock, with that otber distinguished man, Dave Mercer, canvassed the town solio- iting the names of leading citizens to a peti: tion asking for the appointment of Puul Vandervoort as general superintendent of the railway mail service. Among the gentlo. men called upon was Euclid Martin, presi- dent of the board of trade. Ho was solicited to sign the document in his official capacity. Mr. Martin said he could not sign for tha board of trade because it was not a political organization; he was opposed to Vander voort politically and did not know but that he was also opposed to him on personal grounds. However, he would thiuk the mat- ter over. He did think it over and decided that he would not sign for Paul. And he didn't sign. The solicitous editor signed, however, and Vandervoort was defeated. The editor of the World also signed for Thurston and John Mortified was defeated. And yet, Thurston was to be the president's right hand man in Nebraska! Rosewater and Saunders were to have no influence with the administration. To prove his assertion to that effect regarding the last two, the edis tor aforesaid endeavored to induce the presi- dent of the board of trade to prostitute his position for the support of a chronic place- hunter, a railroad ringster and o disgraced attache of the very service at the head of whicn he desired to be placed. The influence and advice of the editor in Washington seems to be of that order without which the admin. istration can get along very well. s “The county commissioners are throwing dust in the eyes of the people,” said a banker yesterday. ‘‘They rush immediately. to ex- amine charges against the matron of the poor farm who, if but one of the acts of ill. temper and violence of manner, as alleged, be vroven, ought to be removed immediately from the care of the place. But they pay na attention to the demand of the public that they investigate themselves. Mrs. Mahoney may be charged with unfitness for the office but these men should be charged, I think, with robbery. They paid too much for the vauly balcony, by at least $1,000. They are afraid to admit it. They are shaking in their clothes fearing that the matter will ba brought into the courts. Their interest in the Mahoney business is a blind. They dis« play it to distract the attention of the peoe ple from themselves." The new Omaha and Council Bluffs bridgs is a great benefit to Omaha, but what a great benefit will it not be to the motor combine, when, if its tracks be allowed on Sherman avenue, the turnouts of this city are com- pelled to cross it to the drive on the other side. As an old citizen said yesterday: ““This is one of the greatest conspiracies, o recent years, by Omahans to injure Omaha that I have known.” . B Omaha now needs & boufevard to enable the spider-web motor to destroy it with wires. . S Judge Beneke yestorday reminded John C. Cowin of an episode which took place at the B. & M. depot twenty years ago, just as the train was ' about to leave for Lincoln. Sheriff Grebe had about a dozen prisoners whom he was taking to tha penitentiary. Cowin, who was at the depot, was district attorney atthe time,and all of thd prisoner had been convicted by him. Tho brizhtest was a scoundrel who had abducted a girl for immoral purposes. In bidding good bye to the prosecutor this fellow in- quired: “Say, ain’t you general ticket ageat to the penitentiary - Colone! Hall, acting inspector general ef the Department of the Platte, is soon to leave for Los Angeles, where he is to assuma the duties of the same position in the De- partment of the Pacific. His departure is greatly deplored by all bhis brother officer ‘They regret that he did not receive the appointment to superintend the records of the late rebellion for which, by inclinas tion and training, the colonel is especially qualifled. This department, they claim, will suffer an almost incalculable loss. He has a most thorough knowledge of the duties of Lis position, und his mind is so trained to ac- curacy and so stored with intormation that he has been of great assistance to officers in all thy anches of the service where he has been located, Compliments are always in order, and newspaper wen know how to appreciate them. s one following, coming as it does from so gifted a lady as Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will be indorsed by thousands of readers of Tur SUNDAY Bee: “Tng Bee is an admirable paper; the best no doubt, west of Chicago. The press of our conntry is one of our institutions, in which all Americaus may justly take pride,'" s The oldover, ™ Detroit Free Press. You talk about the dread mirsge, Au’ the ignis fatus - They arn't a marker to the things That's jest now foolin’ us. Prowetheus was right well oft An’' Tantalus in clover, Compared with him who stumps his toe Against a blamed “holdover.” B -~ 1he Campaign s Cver, Coloanal, Chicago % imes, If Editor Shepard, of the and Express, will sit down and listen to somehody who knows something he will learn that Harrison was elected last Novewmber He can then tell his compositors to kil that campuign editorial be koeps standing in the columns of his religious daily, —_——— The Congressional Salary Grab, Kansas City Times, Probably there is not a man in either house who could mot be replaced withia twenty-four hours' mnotice with auother equally able aud equally acceptable to the peo ple, without an increase of satary. Ubnder usual laws of demand and supply the people bave every roason 10 thick that §5,000 & year is euough.