Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1889, Page 4

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Tue only New Yorker who is at pres- ent out of danger from the deadly elec tric current is Conviet Kemmler in his cell at Buffalo. — Now that the lawyers in the case have finally taken their seats the luke breeze will once more resume busi- ness in the Windy City < DOUGLASS does not please ns. “The trouble is he lives 00 economically, walks when he should ride and dresses without the signs and trappings of diplomacy. the Hayt IN view of the number of rainbow lines projected in the west, 1t looks as if Caivin Brice had abandoned his chase for the Ohio senatorship and lent his in- spiration to the Union Pacific manage- ment, Frody the number of complaints recently presented to the New York police bourd it would seem that many of the Gotham blue coats fail to note the subtle distinction betvecn a rounds- man and a *‘rounder.” THREE hundred organ grinders are to be turned loose in New York, licensed to torture the residents. By proper concentration and combined eoffort on Murray Hill and on the Tarrytown road. this implement of destruction could be effectiv wielded in swelling the world’s fair fund. Tue World- Herald must be in desper- ate finuncial straits when it concocts and publishes a falsehood to fleece the people. A journal that plays upon pop- ular interest only to defraud and mis- lead, deserves the contempt of the read- ing public. The Cronin iury verdict ¥ circulated Saturday morning was a bold and successful scheme to obtain money under fulse pretenses. YEARS and experionce abroad have developed in Stanloy au abnormal bump of admiration for the kings and queens of the cgntinent, His first thought on striking civilization was to inguirve after the health of Queen Victoria and dispatch his compliments to the Ger- man kaiser, with the benediction, “Long live the noble Empéror Will- iam.” His native land was not worthy of a passing thought, According to veports from Lincoln there is a possibility that Judge Max- well will vetire from the state supreme bench Lo aceepta more remunerative po- sition as counsellor for the consolidated street railways of Omaha. The retire- ment of Judge Maxwell would ba a pub- lic misfortune, It would seriously im- prir public confidence in the court, and not without cause. Itis not too much to say that Judge Maxwell has been the bulwark of the people in their struggle against the encroachments of corporations. He has interpreted the law so as to conserve the public 1nte est, and his houesty, ability and sin- cerity have never been questioned. Men of his talent and experience in the pro- fession do not lack tempting offers to devote themselves to private interosts, and the fact that inducements have been tendered him to retire from the bench is a compliment to s worth. It is a misfortune thatv the salary of the office 15 not suflicient to command and hold the best legal talent. Even the proposed increase to five thousand dol- lars does not compare with the lavish salaries which attracy the brightest in- tellects to the service of corporation: N TONAL AID TO EDUCATION. The long ponding quostion of giving federal awd to education promises to oc- cupy more or less of the time and atten- tion of the present congenss, as it has of 1876, It was in that year that Senator Blair introduced his now famous bill to appropriate an- nually from the national treasury a gen- orous sum to be applied to public cdueation, the chisf purpose being to nid and promote such eduen- tion in the southern every congress since this bill has been defeated 1 one house or the other, but its nuthor has adhered to it with st faith “in the justico of the scheme, notwithstan ill-fortune nd the fact that it was very generally disapproved by the public. 14 has had, however, some strong and and there are still s who believe it to be just and beneficent measure. cvery congress since states. stead ing i in congress ¢ atos, n wise, Referring to the question of national aid to education, the president in his annual message says he does not think the direct sury ean suggests the power of congre cducation of the people by a grant of money from the tr be seriously questioned, but h that it is essential, if much good is to be accomplished by such aid, that the sympathy and active interest of the people of the states should be enlisted, and that the methods adopted should be such as to stimulate and not to suppiant local taxation for school pur- poses. The president was of the opinion that the exceptional conditions croated by the sudden emaacipation of the slaves, and the impairment of the ability of the states having these new citizons to adequatebly provide edu- cational facilities, justify a nutional grant in aid of education, but he recom- mends that any appropriation made for tiis purpose be so limited in annual nount and asto the time over which it is to extend as will on the one hand givi the local school authorities opportunity to make tho bhest use of the first year's allowance, and on the other deliver them from the tempta- tion to unduly postpone the assumption of the whole burden themselves. Furthermore, the president smd that as necessity of a national grant in aid of aducation grows chiefly out of the con- dition aand needs of the emancipated slaves and their descendants, the relief should, as near as possible, while nece: sarily proceeding upon some general lines, be applied to the need that sug- gested it, s to promote This is a conservative view of the sub- ject which removes some of the more serious objections to the proposition of national aid to education as embodied in the Blair bill. It recognizes the fact that the essential foundation of every sound educational system is local in- terest and local support, and that any policy which would 1mpair or destroy these must eventually do greater harm than good. It also recognizes a duty on the part of the government that will be widely admitted to see that the large clement of the populution which was given freedom and citizen- ship by the act of the gov- ernment shall not be deprived of adequate opportunities of education. But it recognizes as well the probable futility of nationanl aid to education without the sympathy aznd active in- tevest of the people of the and the idence is that the people of the south generally do not desire the pro- posed aid aad would notapply it if given the opportunity. A few of the public men and of the educators of that section have approved the proposition, but the leading journals, voicing the consensus of popular opinion, have steadily and strongly opposed it, insisting that the south was able to take care of the edueational interests of its people and would do so, and this feehing 1s stronger today than when the agitation of this subject was started. Is it worth while to give further serious consideration to a proposition which the peoole who would be most greatly benefitted by it repudiate, and which were the oppors tunity given them they would undoubt- edly very genevally refuse to avail themselves of? Why seek to force upon unwilling communities that which they say they do not want and doubtless would not accept ? es, The agitation of this subject, how- ever, has had a most wholesome effect. It has served toarouse southern interest in public education and to stimulate effort, with results that have been ox- ceedingly satisfuctory, Very generally throughout the south the school system has been strengthened and broadened during the last ten years, and the progress made assures a further ad- vance. The last report of the commis- sioner of education shows what under the circumstances must be regarded ns a vory gratifying condition in the southern states, where he says the colored children ave apportioned an equul shave of the schoot fund, This being the state of affairs, with the cer- tainty of further progress, 1t is obvious that the south does uot nced national aid for promoting education, while her péople, having demonstrated their ability to take care of this matter for themselyes, are less disposed than ever to accept assistance, ———— ROBERT BRAWNING, Iu the death of Robert Browning the world has lost its most picturesque peetical genius, Whegher he was the greatest poet of the times or merely learned versifier with an unnecessarily obscure style the reading public is not ugreea, His position in literature has been extensively debated. Those who like Browning’s poetry like* it very much, and those who do not admire it find very many things tocriticise, One thing appears tolerably certain. A taste for Browning has to be acquired, and when once confirmed it has all the tenacity of the opium habit, Some years ago Browning became a fud in England and in this country. Societies and clubs named after him sprang up like mushrooms in the most ed places and he became a sort of demi-god, at whose shrine many devotees knelt. The fad is now waning. It may require some time before the late poet's exact place in literature can be deterwined. That Browning was o deep and ociginal thinker is bardly to be gainsaid, but that does not muke him In | | & great poet. Tis verse lsgenerally too obscure and involved to afford that pe- culinr pleasire to the mental ear which is the essonse of true poetry. The poet's mission is not to furnish the public with puzzies and en Tennyson's verso emphasizes this fact. o is as learned as Browning, but his poems have all the charm and melody of song. At the same time it cannot be snid that Brownit not a poet. e had the poc temperament. If the matter 'an be summed up in a sentence, it may be said that he was a gifted singer with an unfortunate method of expression, He 15 too obscurs to become widely | pooular ening was born in 1812 and edu- t the university of London. He vritten much and his works include dramns, but these never achieved nny decided success on tho stage. In 1846 he mavried Elizabeth Burrett, ono of the greatest women of the age. A new volome of pooms was published just before he died. This will receive universal attention now that the author is dead, ymas, sover:; VERY MEAN TRICK, If there is one thing meaner than an- other in this world it is rubbing the bloom from conceited self-complacency. A community will forgive a thief, a murderer, a conspirator, even a bogus count, but thore is no pardon for one who has convicted itsmembersof ignor- ance where they supposed themsclves wise. New York has of Iate years been pos- ing as a patron of art and a8 a connoi seur of ood painting. The art circles of that city are now furious over a little joke which one Robert Fuiterton re- cently played upon them, and that in- divid has forever ruined his chances of becoming envolled among the noble four hundred. © 1t was thus: Among the pictures put up for sale at an aristocratic art auction was a painting which bore the legend, “*A Sunset, by George Iuness” Now, art enthusiasts can always tell from in- ternal evidence who painted this or that picture, and the subscription, “*Smith Pinxit,” wholly superiluous far as they are concerned. The knowing ones at the sale at once saw the characteristics of George Inness’ brush in that sunset. The broad touches, the fine perspective of the well known avtist were all there, and thuoy wanted the painting. The fiest bid was $50, the competition beeame sharp, and the painting was knocked down for $175 toaspecial admirver who would have run the price upto $500 rather than let any one else carry away the nrize. Now comes the mean part of the story. The picture was not painted by George Inness at all, but by the aforementioned Robert Fullerton, who executed it in about half an hour and who had never before handled any other than a clothes brush. After the sale he and his friends let the story of the painting leak out. This lightning artist had heard it said that the value of a painting at a public sale depends altogether on'the reputation of the art- ist and he resolved to test the matter. So he dashed a lot of blue paint on the center of his canvass. to do duty for the distunce, and then “‘went in” for the Ten minutes were required for this delicate operation. He determined to have a ‘‘guthering storm” and rubbed a blacking brush across the hor- izon and the storm was there. Some greenish-blue paint was daubed along the bottom to represent anything the beholder might fancy, and the work was done. This sad fable teaches once more how powerful isthe human imagination and how weak the judgment: how difficult it is todistinguish the sham from the genu- ine when the glamor of a great name is thrown about it. This incident is also an illustration of the luck of art knowl- edge which characterizes Americans as aneople. We have been too busy about the more essential affairs of life, per- haps. to educate ourseives in art mat- ters, and perhaps the dwlul art depa ments of some of our coutemporaries huve had much to do in debasing the artistic sense of the pnblic. Whatever the reason the fact remains that our knowledge 1in this direction is very limited, sky. AN IMPORTANU!' DECISION., Judge Brewer's decision in the case of the East Omaha Land company af- firms the well settled principle that the owners of lands abutting a water line acquire title to all accretions thereto. Obyiously tne principle is a correct and justone. Lands bordering on water- ways, whether navigable or not, possess adistinet value, To deprive them of that value by reason of the changing of the water line is manifestly unjust. But the question arises, how far this principle can be safely applied to the Missouri river. The shifting character of the channel is such that acres of Nebraskaor Towa land are linble to be trarsferred from side toside by unusual floods. This point was re- viewed in detail, the court holding that the accretions in dispute covered a period of twenty years, “‘and might be going on imperceptibly from day to day and from week to week, which during the lapse of these mauy years would vesult in the addition of all the lands ns alleged.” Cutoff island, wherein the disputed land lies, requires astreteh of judicial precedents to be classed as an aceretion. It was created by a radical change'in the river chan- nel, If, for example, the river should resumo the channel occupied in 1869 and throw the island on the Iowa side, would the land, under Brewer’s de- cision, become an accretion to the property sbutting the present channel? The decision has a direct bear- ing on the boundary line between the states, In 1876 the Nebraska supreme court decided that the eastern boundary - line of the state did not change with the shifting of the river. Although the enabling act des- ignated the middle of the chunnel of the Missouri river as the line, the court beld that the line us then ostablished did not change with the shifting of the rviver. This created an indefinite boun- dary and onerated 0s a barrier to the enforcoment of the luws. Judge Brewer wipes out this indefinite line by waking the disputed land an accretion 0 the property fi8ifing the river at the time the govermygnt survey was made, con- scquently the boundary of the stato re- maina whepe congross intended, in the middle of the channel of the river. 111§ s RECENT BLECIRIC TRAGEDIES. Thero i9 no lack of tragedies to arouse the people to n sense of the dan- gers of high tension electric The shocking death of Lineman Feeks in Now Yok a fow ago was a frightful anfl ytartling reminder of the deadly force of electriei Though not the first, the tragedy surpassed in horrible surrourdings any perpetrated since this subtle power stretched its deadly coils around the cities of the country. Last week n clerk was in- killed by accidentally tonching > with o metal ball. A on of the [Feeks tragedy was en- 'd o fow days with the usual accompaniments of blue lame and burn- ing buman flesh in mid-air, Every city in the country as New York to be thrilled mont with deaths equally terrible. only is life constantly menaced by this deadly power, but it isan unseen in- cendinry kindling destructive fires in untooked for places, An investigation into the causes of the recent fire in Bos ton, by which millions worth of property were destroyed and precious lives lost strengthens the suspicion that the dis- aster was the divect result of a low power wire coming in contuet with a highly charged wire. The Lynn and Minne- apolis calamitics are to some extent chargeable to the same cause. In the former city tho network wires harassed the firemen in the work and prevonted them from operating promptly and effectively on the burning building: Tho coron- jury in Minneapolis declares that “had it not been for the obstructions met with in the electric light wires the ladders would have been erected in time to bave saved all the people that were in the sixth and seventh stories of the burning building.” Precious time was lost in the ladders and nearly a score of lives were sucrificed in consequenc: What is the remedy? How sons and proporty be spoedily oughly protected from the dangoers? The concensus of opinion is that wires should go under grow The New York grand jury, which gave special attention t the subject of olectrical subways, condemns the laws granting ery separiate cor- poration the vight to tear up streets and put down it own conduit for cleatric wires, and recom- mends that 40 all cases where such a course is pdsstble subways should be built which will provide space in one tunnel for dll'wives, pipes and belonging to the various com which now ogeypy separvate portions of the streets. The tunnel system is the solution of the whole conduit problem. Tt will reduce eledtrical dangers to a min- imum, remove tho overhead wires and concentrate gas, water and other pipes in one portion of the street, where they will beaceessible for repairs at ail times. While the first cost would neces- sarily be great, the reatal to be charged for occupancy, together with the saving in street repairs, would soon compen- sate for the outlay, This is a question which Omaha must soon grapple with. The marvellous development of electricity and its ap- plication to street carsas a pronelling force, has been so rapid that the people have granted rights which cannot be reudily rescinded. They have acquicsced in the overhead system, heedless of the dangers which lurk therein. While the system exists, every precaution should be taken to protect the public from the shocking tragedies of New York and the disasters of Boston. A competent inspector should be employed by the city to regulate the pressure of the current, to watch the wires and compel the companies toobey such rules and regulations as may be adopted from time to time. Sufety applinnces ave im- proving constantly, aod the city should be 10 posivion to compel their adoption by electrie light and motor companies, wires, wetks repetit ac of ng - per- wnd thor- creasing T s a disposition in congress to give the supreme court of the United States much neceded relief, and as the matter is receiving serious consider tion it is probable that a practicable way to do this will- be found, although the efforts heretofore in this dicection have signally failed. A proposition already discussed is to add two to the wembership of the court, making it oleven, but while this would doubtless give some relief, it could obviously be only partinl and temporary. What ap- pears to be required is an intermediate court in which a cectain class of cases can receive finnl adjudication, but there appears to be some question as to whether such a tribunal can be created, or at any rate the suggestions for creat- ing a court of this kind have not re- ceived very sorious attention from con- gress, although having the support and advocacy of some of the ablest lawyers in the country. 'Meanwhile the necessity of doing somothing for the re- lief of thefedersl supreme court is growing more'urgent. The docket is now several yeurs behind, the admis- siou of new states will increase the bus- iness of the court,and already the mem- bers of it are greatly overworked. Chief Justice Fuller recently said that he was working harder than ever be- fore in his lile, and said that every member of the'eourt finds it next to im- possible to get'th bed before one o'clock in the mornings and their lamps are often burning much later. Such u state of affairs must pf course be remedied. The interests of justice 1mporatively demand this. But how to remedy it has thus far proved a most knotty prob- lem, and the solution of it would seem to be as remole as ever. — Tue railroad convention to be held in Mitehell, South Dakota, Tuesday next, promises to solve the question of a road from Omaha to Yankton and the James river valley. The convention will be made upof representative men from all towns and cities intercsted. Omaha sends a delegation of energetic business men, who will voice the unani- wmous sentiment of our people for a north road, and signify their readiness to do their share towards securing the much South or needed highway to the trade of Dakota. The will ystalize the wants of the region, com- bine the soveral propositions to aid the construction of the road, and determine upon a plan of action to be carvied to a successful conclusion during the winter months, convention THE expedic paper currency isagain boing discuesed, and it is prot 11 will bo intro- duced in congress, similar to the one re- ported in the last cong vroviding for a fractional papoer ney. The bill reported for this purpose two years ago met with n good deal of opposition, but there has since been n growing de- mand for it, coming chiefly from pe: sons who find it necossary to make small remittances from time to time and are remote from postoftic Thero is something to bo said on hoth sides of the question, but there can bo no doubt Lo moderate issue of frac- tional paper curvency would prove to be a very great convenience to a large body of the people ourr T w York supromo court nounces overhead elebtrie wives a pub- lic peril and a common nuisance, and \ilivms the right of munici author- ities to suppress them. The decision puts the ¢ to the root of the man- pro- Tgnatius Donnelly is reported il Bacon as wstendy diob is not conducive to good health, The last purchase reported by the ever- lastne English syndicate is that of the ele- vators at Duluth.g Price, $2,000,000, Lord Tennyson prefers a handsome woman us a guest to one who has no claims to beauty. Aftor all these poets are very much like other people. A down-the-viver contemporary believes that Kansas City will yet become the milling center of the southwest. If these malls could be operated by wind ~but Or can afford to b charitable. A statistical demon has just computed that the people of this country annually spend $225,000,000 on births, §300,000,000 on mar- ages and £75,000,000 on burials. This isa tromendous outlay. What o snug sum we might have suved by not being born at all, No more wooden nutmegs from Conne cut. The only man v as munufacture; them, from the original Charter Oak, was lust week prostrated by paralysis. 1t was to be feared that somocthing dreadful would happeu to this indivia Next thing we know there will be a wooden ham o trophe, George W. Cable, tho w 0 entertained at the manty negro in Nashville, Constitution takes oce: course his ntimate association with the negroes will herearter cause the whites of the south to bar their doors to him, but this is just what the little rencgade desires.’” A man died at Madison the other day from causes wiiich the doctors conld not under- stand. An autopsy revealed five jackknives in his stomach. It is well known that juck- knives are dificult to digest and tc eat more than two at a time 1s highly injudicious. e 2 Hustling vs Dignity. New York Star. The contest has drifted into one between dignity ana western hustling. - Without Pavallel. Washington Capital, In the Kansas penitentiary a male keeper was brained by a woman. He is not the first man who has lost his head because of a woman, i ter, was not long use of a gentle- nd the Atlanta ion to say: ‘“Of Nu The Brookiy cure have been arrested and locked up. This is an odd happening to take placa in the City of Churches. e A Song of Home, The Omaha Hyphen, C. Pulsifer Murdercd—A Wealthy Gramn Merchant at Crowell Murdered on His Way Home—Coming Home With His Lantern He is Riddled With Butlets in Sight of His Home, e T Might Ut the Wires. Louis ‘ourier-Journal, New York might carry out her electrical exccution for- murdorers by getting them appointed linemen. 1t would be a great sa ing to tho state, and the element of tainty would insure the popularity of this method. Cincinnat's Fair Billiardists, Lowiseille Cowrier-Journal, The young ladies of Cincinnati, deter- mined to make themselves quite as useful as the young ien, ure learning to play bil- liards, A illiard cue is lighter than a broomstick, and the fominme players, it is thought, will s00n surpass the masculine ex- perts. adful Ko wibility. Chicago Tribune, A new and dangerous $10 bill, raised from 85, is in circulation, Tho rooted and un- conquerable repugnance to honest labor that will lead a man to devote $5 worth of time and skill to the production of a job of this kind, at the risk of the penitentiary, will arive hun sooner or later into politics, - At H ®in the Feld. Impertat e pubdican, Although the average editor can hardly tell a cornstalk from a cactus, the senior of this great family sheet has a tield of corn on his farm enst of town that is turning out forty-two bushels per acre. While there are muny knights of the sanctum in No- brasks who can beat us all hotlow on writ- ing a gilt-edged editorial, we defy any of ‘em 0 do us on corn. LR L, The War on the Combines, t. Louls Globe-Democrat, The president is sound on the trust ques- tion, aud 8018 the president's party. The trusts which are due to the tariff will be vruck at the custom house, and the others will be attacked by such legislation as prom- ises to the most ready and effecvive oper- ation. No quarter to the “combines” is the motto of the republican party. Gotham's Jealousy. Chicago Luter-Occan, 1t Uid not suit the New York Herald in 1its report of the opening of the Auditorium to pubuish in full the president’s most truthful and appropriate little speech, and it pleasea itself ana anxious New Yorkers by such fuint praise, in its head lines, as this: +Grand openiug of the greatest amusement hall iu tho west.” In the ‘“‘west” forsooth. On tue whole American contiueat, by thunder. A Dr e Beyond the Common Ken, Boston Globe, When heavy loads of car rails through the streets all day ou Sunda; ear bursting effect, it is doubtless a “work of necessity and charity.” It seems strauge, noue the less, that when a quiet citizen wants a few iunocent toilet conveniences h should be shut out by the Sundsy laws. But then the world is full of strange contradie- tions that are not for common derstand. [ —— VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, people to un- An Excellent Starter, Norfolk I And now they are g to establish a 'a gallery in Omata, Next to a rail 1 to Dakota the gallery is the crying need of Nebraska's mot will undoubredly laction of swashbucklors, men, cormorants and starter, ro| his choico ¢ satraps, hench- mountsbanks as o First Criticiam of Liaws. Hastings Nebraskan, Tt was well undorstood that Mr. Laws was inan extremoly embarrassing position to distribute official favors 1 the district that bad long boen neglected, and it was not thought he could possibly please the various contonding elements, but tis course thus far lins been such as to cause almost widospreaa dissatisfaction, murmurs of which aro rising in all parts of the district to the volume and strength of a tompost, filled with sad foro. bodings for somebody Tho Boy Governor's Ambition. Columbus Telegrams Itis snid that Albinus Nance, who onco display Ability in the gubornatorial chair of the state, is making a still hunt already for the United States senatorshp, to succead A Timely Warning. Lincoln Jowrnal, Some of the frosh gentlomen connected with the Omaha pross are boginning to talk about Mr. Rosewater's war record, They would better “‘cork up." T'he courts of Omaha properly award libel damages against auybody that meddles with Mr. Rosewater's war record. He Wasn't Built Right, Grand Island Indcpendent. Dado Agee, it apvears, got left in the judgeship race, a8 we folt sure he would from the start, Dado Acce is not built of that sort of stuff which fit men [for judicial positions, where troachery and double deal- ing should be at a discount. As we have pre. viously remarked, he had & monstrous check to ask the apoointment. Traflic for the By O'NelL Tribune. The pedestrian trafic botween high licouse Omahn and probibition Councit Bluffs hus become so hieavy on Sunday that the citizens of the former city have voted bonds for the construction of a new bridis at that point, i order that they will bo certain of procuring their beer on the Sabbath. we. COUNTRY BREEZES, Two Thrilling Blaine Con. While alighting from a wagon Saturday Mrs. C. W. Aikins camp near serious injury. Her skirts caught on tho spring of the soat. Assistance was close at hand, Adventures. dews. While crossing tho old bridge Moaday one of Commissioner s horses got a leg through ono of the numerous holes. Luckily the animal made a spring and freed himself, We Are 3ip on Corn. Harristwrg Journat, While the editor of *I'ta y Day” is “‘dancing’ attendance upon the society peo- ple, the editor of this paper wishes to inform its subscribers that tae issue of the Journal is replete with good, sound advice to the farmers, When wo raise our little bazoo, its going to be about wheat, clover, fruit, e and the bost manner of raising them, not about some molly coddle up of guff, imagzmation and Stakesp quotations. Our readers ave requested peruse with groat care our article on cora in tins issuc. and ikibosh made Remarkable anl itefeeihing. Kearncy Hub, It is refrashing to learn that the new mayor of Omaha, who was etected on a San- day closing platform, had the support of all the saloonkeepers, who opposed tho defeated candidate because he was supposed to be in sympathy with the Sunday saloon. This is a remarkable bit of information, which proves nothing so much, perhaps, as that Omaba saloonkeepers are great sticklers for aw and order, and in deference to pubtic sentiment ave willing to pull down the blinds aud leave the back door ajar. No Use for Dados. Fremont Tribane. Governor Thayer has just filled the va- cancy in the Sixth judicial district, caused by the promotion of Judgze Norval to tho su- preme bench, by the appointment of Jerome H. Smith as his successor. Mr. Smith from Aurora and s Dado Agee of that pl was “legging it” for the position it looks & though dados are notin favor at the executive office. Without knowing anything of tho qualificatious of Mr. Smith it is safe to as- sume of two Aurora evilstho governor chose the least. Might Have Been Forgiven. Kearney Enterprise, The last words of Jofferson Davi excuse me.” If he had said, *Pray, fo me,"” before he died, hé would Luve stood bettor in the eyes of tue indissoluble Union of forty-two ndestructible statos, e OUR CONTEMPORARIES, Senator Vest’s Committee, Fhiladetphia Ledger, Senator Vest's special committee struck some interesting testimony plainly showing that contractors for government beof con- tructs were subjeoted to boycotting by the Chicago fresh beef firms, with the ultimate result of throwing the business into the hands of those firms. If Senator Vest can find some way of stopping such uafair doal- ing (and he ought to be able to do it with governmeat contracts at loast) he will do a service to the country, whick wants fair play 10 all business men, . Too Many Guns Against Him, Boston Advertiser, Chairman Canuop of the appropriations committee at Washington, just appointed by Mr. Reed, is a pronounced opponeat of civil service reforu, und is quoted by the corr: spondents as thrustening Lo 0ppose uuy vote of money to continue the work of the com- mission. If Mr. Caunon concludes to do this, e will wonder waat led him 0 be so stupid, when the vote is taken on the amend- ment to iusert the necessary wmount_in tho bill. Itwill bo adovted, and Mr. Caunon will do well not to provoke an issne whon the odds will be $o heayily against him that his firing wil] hardly bo hoard. idaho and the M Ohicago Tribune, ‘Thq best method, perhaps, for the rescue of Idaho from the ensuing clutch of the Mor- mons would be to divide it in three parts, giving the pan-handle to Washington, the cast half of the remamder to Wyoming, which would expadite the admission of the latter into the union, and the west half to Oregon, Thus Arizona and Idaho can bo saved in the wanner here indicated from be- coming Mormon states, Utah must still be left wo future consideration. 7The most prac tical method thus far suggested is to give the east half of Ugah to Colorado and the west half to evado. Colorado would speedily and eftectually take care of her half, but the despair of this method is that the west half would just as speedily and ef- fectually take posscssion of Nevaaas and then carry on polygamy under the shield of state autbority. “I'ne thorough and effeotive manner in which the Morwons are colonizing the territories adjaceut to Utah calls prompt consideration by congress. 1t will be wise if it does not wait for the evil to grow, A% in the case of Utah. It will be easier to savo thoso territories now and crush out Mormon colonizing than it will ve a fow years henco, A Erench Prophets San Franeises Ch Emile Ollivier, whose early republicanism was not proof against the uctions of Na- poleon 111, and who was promior in 1870 under the empire, has rocontly pubiished o book in which ho contends that tio bost form of government 18 & wonarchy. Ho vropho- sies that a Ciosar will yet arise.in Amorica unless she “mitigates her omnivorous dem- ocracy," and thav still more suroly twill one ariso in Erance if tho state is delivered over 1o the ‘eynical voracity of politician It is obvious that the conyerson by Louis Napoloon was lusting, Ollivier believes that the world oved since he went out of oftico in 180, His own countey has r rather an amusing oxportence with n wounld. e Civsar, who just now tarries in_tho istand not darivg to cross the Rubleon of the chanuol, wronght nd that s not August, entlo had A is coneeraed. A omnivorous det the United States e may at once dismiss all fear of Covserism, Where it has been shown conclusively that agreat military londor, en titled by every considoration to his country's gratitudo an Uwith the laurels yot unfaded n his brow,cannot overstep thoe teaditions nd bo even nominated for u o presidential oftice, there is 1o fear that the po bow their necks to the yoke of a ¢ it Ollivier ferred racy” of Buaried with His Bonss, Chicaz Horald, So long as he lived he was the emboliment of n lost cause, of o disappointment, of state and porsonal disaster, of collective and indi- vidual sorrow. Now that he is dead the sen) timent with which he has been regarded will manifest itsell nawrally in various ways characteristic of the southern people; but \ bis disappearauce we niay bo snro the will 0130 vanish many of the regrets which his presonce always conjured up., With Jefferson Davis' bonos will bo buried_ the lust lingering ember of robellion and dis- union, s SOME NEW BOOKS. * las xperiences of men aud women. ‘fbe trials and struggles, the griefs and hoartburnings of humauity are reflected in fiction. Roeaders of the average novel test the characters in the crucible of their narrow vision and declare that the cvents, narratod ana the persons sketched are figments of over active imagination. Yeb the wenuine novels of our day, not the evanescent but those that have stood tho test of popu y in all civilized nations, not “point a moral,” but are the annals of living men aud events maslked under assumed names. (Gieorge W. Cable's new book, “Strange True Stories of Louisiana,” pub- lished by Chnarles Secibuers Sons, New York, expresses in the title the charact the contents, Many of theso stories w published in the Century magazine and at- tracted conviderablo attantion vot ouly for their literary morit, but_for their value as listorical sisotches of early life in_the ex- extreme south. ‘The custom al life, the hardships endared by the early French set- tlers, tuken from the letters, documents and court records, form a thrilling chapter on lite in the pioncer days of the Crescont state. The book is illustrated with portraits of the chief characters and fuc similes of old letters and priuts. “The Key to Theosophy,” by that prolific and erudite writer, Madame H. P, Blavat- s hings of hicn ure and “Septenary Madame Blavaisky 15 a Kussian by 1d 0 uwturalized citizen of America, who it 183, in_counection with Colonal H. . Olcott, founded the theosophical socioty hs made considerable prozross in all the countr globe, and a branca of winch 18 1w this city. This book presents many ideas that are new to the western wind, and while some of them aro startling thero is no reason thut we can sea why they would not be zood food for thought toall studeuts of mysticism and 1o those who daro to pull away from aceepted beliofs, A careful perusal will convinco uny ono that theosophy possesseas maerits, at least in an cthical way, inasmuch as it teaches that man i it and not a dependent croa- tare on a cosmic or intra-cosmic God; and that Karma is the ultimate law of the uj vorse and Roincarnation the result of a violation of that law. The teachings of the seven principles in nian is more complicated and requires an understanding of castern systems of thought with which the writer is not familiar, We, however, recommond this book to all thoughtful students and to others to whom mysticism is u boon, “Over the Range to the Golden Gate" is the title of an claborate guide book written by Stanley Wood and published by R. R. Donuelly & Son, Chicago. The author takes his readers with him on & trans-acontinental tour beginning at the Missouri river and meandering from San Francisco southward to Sun Diego_and northward to Portland, Seattle and Tacoma. The book has beer prepared with great care aud most minute accuracy. and abounds in exceedingly valu- able and interesting statistic: But it must not bo considered as i mere bundle of statis. tics, for it is written 1n a hiterary vein as well. The book coutuins 1 pagos with 150 illstrations, more thau half of them full page pictures of the most maguificeat scenery on the coutinent. There are also many ¢ teristte sketches, giving the reader tho ¢ est possible idea’ of o marnors, customs, costumes and peculiarities of tho inhabitants of the places desgribed. Tho book is issuod 1n the intorest of%he Denver & Rio Grande railroad. i As a reference book for the teachior or stu dent and home circle, “Every Dy Biogra- phy," edited by AmeliaJ. Calver, fills the bill. Itisa collection of brief biographies arrangod for every duy in the year, and com. prises sketches of the lives of eminent persons of all ages, giving, as is entirely proper,chief atttention ' to the distinguished of wolern times, This is in many rospocts a very use- ful volume, und the labor of its preparation must have been great. Designad oxpressly ase a useful book, Miss Calver has sparod uo pains to make 1t &8 complete as 4 book of moderate sizo and small cost can weil be. Published by Fowler & Wells company, New York. b, Oue of the most infefesting and valyable books of the season 18 “Great Senators of the United States iorty Years Ago,” vub- lished by Robert Bonner's Sons, New York, “Cue author is Oliver Dyer, who was at_that time court reporter of the senute, wnd en- joyed facilities of observation and iuter- course which enables him o skotch the giuuts of 1845-9 in all their varying moods, in it are vivid pon pictu Calnoun, Benton, Clay, Webster, eral Houston, Jefforson’ Davis, William H. Soward, = Martin Van _ fur and other distioguished statesmen of th riod. It is impossible to real the remin. iscencos without fecling oneself carried back to the great fornm and witnessing tho for- ensic combats of tho groat sonatorial gladia- tors. ‘Che side lights thrown on their char acters,and the complimentary even eulogistic references to the great ullifier Calhoun, and the confederate chieftain, Davis, sho that Mr. Dyer simply records the impr sions made at that Ume, and docs not per mit the convulsionsof war and jolitics fol lowing to change his cstimate of men. The book is necessarily fragmentary, bat at the same timo & treasure house of informution of the groatest group of statemicn ever asseie bled iu the senate. jen Few books contain more solid advice and sound COmmOD Seoso than s compressea botween Lho covers of “Life,” by James, ¥, S. 5., New York. The purpose of the author is to show that life 1s worth liviug, aud to point out the paths which Jeads Lo thrift and happiness ou earth, . “The Arcua’ is the dile of the latest can diaate for popular fuvor wimon ¢ gud i Social, economic and religious (uestions are discussed by distinguished men wod wo new in tho initisl number, aud judging froum thy staff of contributors, the succooding number s cannot fail 10 seoure widesprasd atteation. B. O. Flower i the editor, Fo.ton is t4e publication office