Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY ' BEE: THE DAILY BEE. B, ROSEW ATER, Hditor. I‘UBLISHED BEVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION T‘MH and Sunday, One Year. Bix Mont [ "Three Monthis, Bunday Bee, One Weekly I omfna, Bee Butlding. Chicago Office, 47 Rookery Building York, Houms 14 and 15 Tribune Build- wunl»(nrmm hn B Conncil Blufis 0. Lincoin, 1020 7 ? Eouth Omaha, ( onxur N and 25th Stroets, oicteenth Street. rl Street. CORRESPONDENCE. ANl egmmunieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- ial Department, RUSINESS LETTERS. All Lusiness letters and remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omnha, Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers (o e made payablo to the order of the company, The Bee Publisting Company, Proprielors arr Building Farnam and Seventreenth Stre: ains. Thiero 18 no excnise fora faflure to ot Trik DER on the trains. All newsdealers have been noti- flod to carry & full supnly. 4 who want e nd can’t get 1t on trains where other Ormana pers ure carried are requested to no- iy Tie I Tieato be particular to give in all cases fall information as to date, railway and number of rain. Give us your name, not for publication or un- Ticcessary use, but as o guaranty of wood faith, A Y THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statoment of Circulation. Ftate of Nebraska, . oCounty of Doulas, e B, Trachuck, secretary of The Bee TuTthing Company. do s solemily SWeAK that iho actual clro ) Bk forthe week ending December Tuesday, Dec. Wednesduy, Dec, I8 yec, 10, Eaturday, Average.. G E( Bworn to before me and sub Ppresence this 2ith day ot Decen: (Seal.| ounty of Donins, |5 George B Nzschuck, being duly sworn, de- poses and says that he Is secretary of The HBes Hublishing Company, that the actual average daily circulation of’ mont of Docember, Jamary, 19, 1557 copi tor 38000 coples: for | Maxcll, 180, Isa Foples: A 0 1600 6oplos tor u-( 1889, for June, 1580, 18K copies; for 8783 coples; ror August, lmn 19, be &0, 18,710 coples November, N. P, FEIL, Notary Public to of Nobraskn, i, DALY B for the 19 -u..,,,ht« July, I, 310 coples i /SCHUCK. Sworn to before me and flll\‘)p ibed in m; presence thisdith day of November, A - D., 188, [Seal.] . FEIC. Tue weekly bank statement shows orve has increased $765,075. The banks now hold $3,393,725 in excess of legal requivement: THERE scems to be an impression nbroad that the “Opoen Door' is arefuge for the lame and the halt, as well as the indigent. Fven the city police look upon it 1s an asylum, and dump such of the police - court refuse there as is re- fused shelter elsewhere. This is all wrong. The city is old and strong enough to provide a hospital or asylum for its sick and destitute. AMONG the lofol ms instituted by Pension Commissioner Raum none was anore desirable than the abolition of the Donrd of review. This was a combine created by the late democratic adminis- tration to delay and harass honest pen- sion cluimants. The commissioner’s action will simplify the routine of the office and facilitate the dispatch of busi- ness. THE honor and integrity of the courts demand that the Chicago jury fixers should be vigorously prosecuted and punished if guilty. Thereshould be no discrimination, however. The men accused of tampering with the jury in favor of the conspirators committed no greater crime than those who threat- ened the jury with bodily harmifa verdict for hanging was not returned. According to the reports of the jury- men, both sides are guilty of bulldozing. Tue late Alfred Cowles, secretary and treasurer of the Chicago Zwribune company, whose death occurred last Friday, was one of the most sagacious and successful newspaper muanagers in the country. Mr. Cowles had been identified with the Zvitunc as a stock- holder and business manager for nearly thirty-five years, and the financial suc- cess of that great and prosperous journal is in no small measure due to his ex- cellent business judgmentand his un- tiring industry. He was widely known among vewspaper publishers. and all who enjoyed his acanaintance will learn of his death wath regrot, T New York World anticipates the work ol the census bureau by present- _dug an exbaustive review of the taxable ~ wealth of the country. The statistics were obtained from the treasurer of - each state, and are based on the actual returns of the respective offices. The total assessed valuation of taxable prop- erty is twenty-three billion seven hun- drod and nineteen million dollars, and the actual value sixty-one and a half billion. The incrense since 1880 is equal to twenty-five per cent and since 1886 mwe per cent. In addition, the people of this country own three billion dollurs’ worth of property abroad. Es- timating the population at seventy millions, the total value of property, if turned into cash, would give every man, woman and child nine hundred dollars, ONE of the finest library buildings in the west was dedicated in Minnea polis last weels, The structure isan ornate and enduring monument to wise and well directed liberality and a permanent storehouse of literary and art treasures, The building represents an expenditure of half a million dollars, sixty thousand of which was raised by private subscrip- tion, the remainder by an anunual tax of half a will. Thirty thousand well so- Jected volumes were placed on the shelves. The conception and execution of the plan veflects credit on the taste wad eaterprise of the people of Minne- apolis. It is substantial evidence that the people of the west, while conquer- ing and populating new common wealths, _do not neglect the elevating aud en- nobling influences of education and art. Certainly money cannot be better spent than in providing those things which . tend to higher snd better life. The ex- awple of Minneapolls commends itself to the Omaha library board, A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. The establishment of a national uni- vorsity in Washington has been dis- cussed for some time by distinguished friends of higher education. President flarrison was urged te recommend such an institution to congress, but he made no reference to it in his message. One of the large edueational bodies which met last summer adopted a resolution favoring a large government appropria tion for this object, and the matter has derived additional interest from the proposal of Genator Edmunds to com- memorate the four hundredth annives sary of the discovery of America by the establishment of a national university at Washiugton. Those who think fa- vorably of the project urge that a coun- populous, wealthy and great as this, should be independent in its edu- cational resources, as well as in other things, of Eutope, and that its young mon should not be obliged to go abrond to tho great schools of England and Germany to com- plete their education in any branch of science. They contend that American youth ghould find here at home tench- ing as thorough as itisat Oxford, at Vienna, at Heidelberg or Freiburg. The advocates of a national univ sity consequently propose a very com- prehensive plan. Their idea is that its teachers be detailed from all the prin- cipal existing seats of learning 1n the United States, which are to send dur- ing certain seasons their most learned and accomplished professors, instructors and Jecturers, who woula compose the facuity, and though the institution would be maintained by the govern- ment, its control would be in the hands of a board made up of the most experi- enced and able managers of the other colleges and universities of the country. The course of study outlined is as com- prehensive as that of . any of the great schools of the old world, and the faculty, made up of all the eminent teachers of the country, would be as notable snd efficient as that of auy institution of learning in the world. The reason for establishing the proposed iustitution at Whashington is not only that that is the national capital, but thats there the highest judicial tribunal sits, there con- gress meets and thero the business of government is conducted, all invalua- ble aids to those pursuing cer- tain branches of study. The students of science would also findin the na- tional museum, the patentoffice and the government laboratories object lessons and facilities for study more valuable than they could find elsewhere in the country. 1f a national umversity were to be established Washington would un- questionably be the most desirable lo- cation for it. There favor of such an tion, but there are also some reasons to be urged against it. Un- doubtedly its advantages would be many and great, and 1t seems that this coun- try should offer to its young men every educational advantage that they may secure elsewhere. But 1t is not easy to see why the existing institutions—Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and others—should not grow to the com- pleteness and usefulness of the great schools of Europe, or why they should not together establish a great university, with teachers tho most learned of their soveral faculties, for post graduates. One obvious objection to a national university maintained by the government is the constant danger that it would be made a part of the po- litical machine, controlied by the poli- ticians rather than by those learned in the management of such institu- tions, and that the members of its fac- ulty would be men who could com- mand the greatest political influ- ence instend of being recommended for selection by their superior ability and acquirements. Another objection to the proposed stitution is that the au- thority of congress to establish it is questionable, the constitution confer- ring no power on the government to maintain a national university, the general welfare clause being the only one under which congress could find any justification for main- taining such an institution, and a very broad construction of that clause would be necessary to make it applicable to such a case. While, therefore, it may-be freely conceded that a national university on the plan proposed would be & most valuable addition to the educational system of the country, 1its establishment and maintenance would come most fitly from the voluntary gifts ®f the people rathor than from appropriations of con- gress, the authority for which is doubt- ful, to say nothing of the possible effect, sooner or later, upon the character of the institution fre————— THE SECRET SESSION. The young man who, a few days ago, was discovered in the gallery of the United States senate while that body was in executive session, he having fallen asleep and been overlooked by the doorkeeper, said to the newspaper correspondents who interviewed him that *‘thar wan’t nothin’ to see.” He stated that everybody was smoking and tilting back in the chairs and laughing. Yet his presevce there caused great ex- citement among the august sena- tors, and the intruder having been searchingly questioned as to his presence there and warned not to lev it happen again was summarily ejected, whereupon the grave senators doubtless resumed their smoking, their tilting back and their lauvghing. This little incident has disclosed a phase of the senate secret session which had not been suspected, and which may explain the tenacity with which most senators adhere to this essentially un- republican oustom. The general im- pression has been that when the senate shut itself in from the public and gave itself up to secret deliberation it assumed a severe solompity and dignity and de- voted to the matters peculiar to vxecu- tive sessions the most serious consider- ation and discussion, But such is not the case, or at any rate not always the case, The youth who strolied into the senate gallery and fell asleep, thereby escaping the attention of the veteran wnd vigilant doorkeeper, saw, just try so much be said in institu- is to enough to dissipate the popular delu- sion that the eoxeccutive session is really an occasion when senators do most gravely and seriously consider what is best for the general welfare. We now know that the secret ession is mum‘!iny‘s. if not always, a sort of *‘free and easy” for the senators. Away from the public eye and ear there is a re- laxation of dignity, the story that ex- cites laughter goes round, the sinoke of the “Henry Clay” and the ‘La Belle Senora” fills the -chamber with their fragrance and their soothing influence, and thuslazily and cheerfully the mem- bers of the “upper house” dovote an hour or two daily to passing upon nominations and other executive business, much of which re- coives only the most perlunc- tory consideration, This_ is the ridiculous sspeot of the secrot session, But it has its serious side, and it is this which m: it most objeetionable. It is the privilege which the secret session gives senators to gratify their personal animosities, and aided by “‘senatorial courte: to puta stigma upon the character of their fel- low citizens for which there is no re- dress, that renders this star chamber custom so repugnant to the American senso of fairness. 1t is the opportunity afforded by the seecret session for doing the gravest in- justice with impunity that condemns it in public opinion as utterly antagon- istic to the principles of our republican system. In short, the sonate secret ses- sion is from every point of view un- American, there is mo necessity or excuse for its existence, and it ought to be abolished. <o SOUTHERN PREJUDICE. Prejudice and fairmindedness never go together. Prejudice is an index of a narrow, uneducated mind incapable of looking at a question except from one standpoint, generally an intensely per- sonal one. These statements are as true of a community as of an individ- ual, From tho recent discussions of the race nroblem, and from the -general dnift of comment in connection with the death of Jeff Davis, the south has plainly demoustrated that it has not yet outgrown 1ts old-time narrowminded- ness. Some progress toward liberality has been madesince the war, but where prejudice shackles. mind and conscience as it does in the south, complete eman- vipation will be a process of long years. Looking at the matter from a philosophical point of view, this un- fortunate mental attitude is the natural outgrowth of past social and industrial conditions. So we of the north should not blame the present generation so much as wo should help to enlighten it. The beliefs and conditions among which an individual or a people has grown up appear to be absolutely right. Only few winds can lift themselves above their surroundings and judge things in their wide relations to all the world. Southern society was for sev- eral hundred years based largely upon the feudal idea. There were a few great “‘egoists’ to whom the many little egoists -owed absolute -allegiance, and every question, public and private, was considered only in reference to its bearings upon the welfare of the former. No other mode of ilife or thought was tolerated. Though to a less extent, the spirit of intolerence still prevails. - The south does not think so.but that does not olter the fact that its people are still narrowminded. It makes nodifference as to the firmness of a conviction whether the belief on which it is based is right or wrong. A person is justas tenacious of a false as of a true position, providing he thinks he is right. The past and present history of the south is a striking illustration of this principle. Southern sentiment is still rabid on the race question. There has of late been much discussion of the ‘‘race vroblem” as it is called. It has been treated in these columns and it is the intention to touch only upon the tyrannous social prejudice still mani- fosted against the negro, Recently the Atlanta Constitution said of Mr, Cable, the gifted writer, who had been guilty of allowing himself to be entertained by an intelligent negro at Nashville: “Of course his intimate association with the negroes will hereaiter cause the whites of the south to bar their acors to him, but his is just what the little tenegade desires.” This is absglute, unrelieved intoler- ance. Emanating from a journal so in- telligent as the Constitution is supposed to be, it is without excuse, It fully substantiates the position we ‘have taken as to southern prejudice. Can the Constitution think of anything more tyrannical and narrowminded than the sentiment which thus dictates as to what oclass of human beings a man shull associute with? God maae and can tolerate the colored race, but the editors of the Constitution can not tolerate a white person who' takes dinoer with a negro. To the world at large such a dictum as the above will appear silly, but not tite south, because southern people are still blindea by race prejudice. It has been the correct sen- timent to them for many ganerations, and they have mnot yet outgrown it, No one asks the south to take the mnegro to its bosom to marry him, to dine with him, to have anything to do with him at allif he does not wish to do so. Butan enlightened age does demand thatthe eouth shall not pronounce anathema upon anyone who wishes to associate with his dark brother. Every individual is entitled to his I’ es and dislikes, but he 18 not entitled to condemn him whose likes and dislikes do not coincide with ~his own, Southern people often assert that the aotipathy against the negro is stronger in the north than it is in . the south. ‘Without going into an argument .as to the truth or falsity of this assertion, for it does not affect the question under consideration, it 1s suflicient tosay: that northern sentiment does not ostracise a man of revognized character and stand- ing if he sees fit to dine with a social inferior and herein lies all the difference between tolerance and intol- erance. y The Atlanta Constitution stultifies itsell 1o calling a man of Mr, Cable’s character and ability cosrse names, It is the very essence of unreasoning prej- udice, If thi south wishes south and do inteliigence that is a proc cused on the “hlw vlomnut of the maintain control of the 0 by means of superior ainst ignorant numbers, ding which may be ex- oundof expediency and justice to somd extent, But there is no excuse in thisdge for persecuting a man because he temporarily associates with an inco\hgnm?pmm.n being some of whose ancestofs were born in Affica. THE NEW m‘ I'S OlllGlhAT()R Now that the party press has ceased chanting the dailv pacns of praise with which Secretary Whitney was accus- tomed to be regaled, and since a now administration has taken charge of the naval department, the public is learn- ing something more than they knew six months ago as to the real condition of our navy, its progressin the pust eight years and who is entitled to the chief eredit for the changes made. Those who can read between the lines of Secretar, s simple but business- liko report recontly presented to con- gress, note that the .secretary, unlike Mr. Whitney, is not disposed to ignore the work of his predecessors. He de- clines to take away fromn Secretary Whitney any of the honor wh has acerued to him through the designing and construction of the vessels which signalized his administration of the navy. But he declines equal'y om- phatically to ignore the wisdom and foresightand energy which character- ized President Arthur's secretary, William E. Chandler, who, as Mr. Whitney's ‘predecessor, mapped out, panned and laid both the foundations und alarge portion of the superstructure of the “new navy” for which Mr. ‘Whitney, through his friende, has for four years claimed the credit. Senator Chandler while secretary of the navy let the first contracts for steel ships, organized the bureaus for future oxtended construction, sent naval offi- cers abroad to study foreign ship yards und docks and gathered for his sucessor a mass of statistics and details without which the planning of the Baltimore, the Charleston and the Yorktown would have beeen difficult if mot impossible within the time expended. Secretary Tracy is not chary in the praise which he awards to Socretary Whitney’s predecessor. He does not mince words in his disapproval of the partisan methods used by Whitney to discredit the vessels built uuder Mr. Chandler’s administration, and which have since bv the best of all trial tests, sea voyages around the globe,vindicated the iutu\llgcm‘ planning and honest construction o }110 navy department and their builders. The much abused Dolphin, disputes over which drove Roach into bankruptey, has proved her- self the best constructed vessel of her class in any navy and the Atlanta and Clicago, both of which had their keels laid under Secretary Chandler’s admin- istration, are today objects of admira- tion among the navies of Burope. Secretary Whitney made an efficient head of the navy,but he is not entitled to all the credit for the changes of eight years, The man who sounded the knell of the policy of patching up wooden ships and who will receive in the history of the navy the honov of having begotten the new navy is mot Wiliiam C. Whitney, but Willium E. Chandler, DECADENCE OF NARROW GAUGES. Narrow gauge railroads are rapidly disappearing from the west. The in- dustries. they vitalized, the mineral dovelopment they made possible, and the thriving communities they were instrumental in upbuilding have reached astage of growth demanding broad gauge accommodations. The country has outgrown the requirements of infancy and stands on the threshold of maturity, strong, energetic and self- reliant, with unlimited resources to command the attention and the means of investors. In nosection of the country did narrow gauge railroads reach so near perfection as in the mountains of the west. They are a destinctive western institution. They penetrated apparently impassible canyons, wound a shimmering trail round lofty peaks, tunneled through walls of granite and rolled along level mountain-locked val- leys, encouraging and strengthening industry and thrift in their wake. Par- adoxical as it may appear the narrow gauge rosds were the commercial ar- teries of a brond gauge people. They served the good purpose of deveioping the wealth of the Rockies, and assisted in laying the foundation of prosperous commonwealths. No better evidence of western devel- opment can be shown than the fact that the railroads are forced to enlarge and extend. The Union Pacific has de- cided to abandon the narrow gauge lines in Utah and Idaho, or rather change them to standard gauge roads, From a commercial and economical point of view the change is a wise one, as it does away with the annoyances of frequent translers and the discom- forts of crampedi ears. The focus o f thi'revolution, however, is in the Rocky mountains. When man first penetrated the fastnessef with the iron horse the multitude of doubt- ers scoffed and jeered at the enterprise. 'The difficulties overcome, the patience and 'indomitable 'courage of the pro- jectors, and the dn;‘inz character of the plans carried to;sugcessful completion, today oommund,‘ the admiration of the world. The beauties of flower-clad valleys, the grhmleur of rock-walled canyons, and th? finjesty and inspira- tion of cloud-fringed peaks were har- nessed by railroad pluck and engineer- ing skill and made to contribute to the prosperity and happiness of mankind. The broad guage will follow where the narrow guage leads, True, the former can not wind as reck- lessly around the crags and oliffs or dodge boulders at right nngles. But muscle, means and dynamite will lengthen the curves to broad and grace- ful lines without marring the majesty of creation’s miracles. The charges now going on between Denver and Salt Lake City insure & through broad guage highway between both points within a few months. The Rock Island company is directly concerned in the euterprise, which will give it con- nection with the Central Pacific and place it on a plane to successfully com- pete with the allied lines. The Bur- ling ton company is also adtively at work in the mountains, bound for the Utah metropolis, The system of narrow gauge railroads in the west is the growth of a dozen years. The fact that they have to a large extent outlived tneir usefulness furnishes striking proot of the progress of the country. What has been accom- plished in tho last decade will be sur- passed in the future. The broad gauge marks a new era in the development of the mountain regions. THE semi‘annual entrance examina- tions of the National Conservatory of Music of America, New York, will be held from January 6 to 11, and will embrace examinations for singing, piano, violin and cello, chorus and orchestea, It should be understood that this is a thoroughly national in- stitution, inviting and aceopting pupils from every part of the country who are qualified to enter and propared to accopt the conditions under which tuition s given. It is the desive of the board of managers of the conservatory to gather from all parts of the United States pupils whose after labors will advance the cause of music in their native land. This insti- tutfon, conceived in the most patriotic spirit, has already done a great service for musical eulture in the United States, and its possibilities for good are im- measureable, DISASTROUS floods are playing havoe with the richest valleys of California. The Sacramento river is bank full, owing to unusually heavy rains, and it is not improbablo that the destruction wrought by the overflow of the river fifteen years ago, will bo repeated this year. The river bed is practically on alevel with the surrounding country, undshould the levee give way thous- ands of cultivated fields would be buried under mud and ruined. Whatever losses are sustained can be charged up to hydraulic mining, which in years vast poured miliious of tons of earth into the river, filling the channel and making it a constant menace to farmers and residents along its banks. THE combine of western representa- tives, if judiciously handled, will be productive of great good to the country. Eastern people are slow to comprehend the necessities of a rapidly growi empire, and umity of action is neces: to insure the success of measures essen- tial to western welfare. EW ‘The rumor that the World-Herald is to change form aud blossom out as a ladies' magazine is probably unfounded. The shoemakers of Portlund, Me,, are on a strike. They will probably continue to striko till thoir last foes expire. San Francisco had a shower of crabs dur- ng the recent wet weather. Now don’t let the persons who tell the story crawfish, It is said the ex-sergeant-at-arms yielded quite as often to the temptations of Wash- ington as the absconding casnier. Did Silcott Leedom astray ! Awerican visitors 1 Paree should avail thomselves of the present prevalence of in- fluenza to master the nasal accent in the French language. *“There 18 nothing in the constitution to prevent the sending of an idiot to congress,” 15 the verdict of the supreme court of Michi- gan. This is true but not new. The fact that the influenza bears a foreign brand will popularize it with the Anglo- maniacs. The public will cheerfully give them a monopoly of the Czarry epidemic. Juror Culver wanted all the Cronin sus- pects to be acquitted. Farmer Piorson wished to hang them all and so voted. What an accidental thing jury justice.is after all. Five cities on the Pacific coast are con- tending for the honor of the Sullivan-Jack- son fight and large sums of money are offered by each competitor. Boston culture ls evi- dontly appreciated on the coast. The Paris exhibition has passed into his- tory and the profits into the pockets of the Parisiaps. The books have been balanced ond show a large sum on the right side of the account. Mr. Greeley, chief of the signal service, evidently camo home without any specimens of Arctic temperature. But if he wishes to do his duty he ought to give us a higher barometor and a lgwer thermometer for Christmas, New York’s Four Hundred will doubtless welcomo the distinguished foreigner, Influ- enza, with open arms when it is known to have come down from the oldest families, Hippocrates records an epidemic of the dis- euse in the year 420 B. C. If the civil courts fail to deal with Hunt- ington it is said that the governing board of the New York stock exchunge will ask an explanation of bis Houston & Central Texas deal, Napoleons of finance are not nearly as popular as they used to be, A learned Boston journal maintains that the hottest place on earth is on the south- western const of Persia, Mr, Culver proba- bly imagines, however, that it is not very far from the office o( Ceunty Attorney Longeaecker, The New York Sun points out the danger of a strong current electrifying the elevated rallway. Everything in New York seews to be in immediate danger of this enliveniag in- fluence except Mr. Kemmler and the World's Fair commttee, One of the features of the entertainment to the Pan-Amoricans in New York was a visit to o normal school, where 1,709 pretty girls sang “My Country, 'Tis of Thee” for the specal bevefivof the delegates, Every wan of them may now be considered safe for reciprosity. Marshall P. Wilder presented the prince of Wales- with a copy of his book *People I've Smied With,” which has since beea bound in moroceo with the title and presenta- tion engraved in silver. Mr. Wilder knew where to touch bis royal highness in a tender 8pot. A small reyival in the coutributions to the Grant memorial fund has taken place since New York began to compete for the world’s fair prize, The whole amouut now collected 18 8140,000. Some of the sanguirie knicker- bockers think the memorial will be finished in time for the exbibition. To less visionary people it seems as though it might be well to secure the fair and the mouney for the monu- ment before such predictons are made. e ——— Cruel Labouchere, Chicago News, Mr. Labouchere is rendering himself li- able to punishment for extreme and re- peated cruelty to the British sristocracy. e ‘The lssue in Maine. Springfeld (Mass.) Republican, The Maiue state democratic committee, at au informal conference this week, proposed the resubwission of the prohibitory amend- meny as the issue of the next cawpaign, ‘They assert that the liquor] trafiic has not "vain and milly and self-feekin, diminished in the Pino Treo state under the prohibitory law, but that the rovenues have. Goneral Neal Dow will doubtloss bo heard from in promot and vigorous ochallenge of this position. — Rather New York Te The rumor that soveral citizons of New York had developed mlls, owing to the hy- grometric richness of the ataiosphere, proves on Invostigation to be prematuro. - Two of a Kind. Brooklyn Times, It's & fact not very creditable to the Onio democracy, but Colonel Brice of New York scems to have the mside track in the raco for the United States senatorship. Irice will be a it succossor to H. B. Payne, By Telezeaph From Oapornan New York Telegram. The newspaper ayndicate which s hand- 1ing Dr. Talmngze's sermons had a special dispatch from Capernaum—probably sent by some prophet early in the Christian era and just delivered by a telegraph messenger boy. - s The Fire is Started, New York World, "\Vhere\ or thore is a king or an aristoo racy the fire is smouldering in the straw, and there are eager broaths awaiting oppor- tunity to blow it into flame:" Barnum and the British, Boston Globe, Barnum has already shown tha Londonors what ho knows about the benerits of adver- tising, to the tune of $200,000. Tho big post- ers even seduced the prince of Wales into tne gallery among the boys in disguise. They May be Mistaken, The Alliance. The snobs who declare tnoy're the cream of the land— The superiative few, the select of the race— Should remember the process that nature nas planned Puts the cream and the scum in the very same place, P T Dom Fedro's Little Joke, New York Commersial Advertiser. Tt is said that the ex-emperor of Brazil built and maintained a lunatic asylum with the money that came to the crown by the sale of titles of nobiuty. The inmates of the asylum were not, as & rule, and as might have been expected, the actual parchasers of the titles, for these would naturally have drifted into retreats for mere idiots and im- beciles, for cases of arrested development or chronic softening of the brain, =l sy OUR CONTEMPORARIES. The Eight Hour Systom. Boston Herald. An operative in & cotton mill cap at the present day produce more in ten hours vhan one similarly situated thirty or forty years ago could produce in fourteen or fiftecn hours, and one risks little in saying that in the future the work of eight hours will easly duplicato the present work of ten. Whether that point has now been reached is a question upon which we do not pretend to give a defi- nite answer. If1t has, then there wil! be no loss, If it has not, a loss somewhere and to some one is inevitable. Davis and the Southern Pross. Boston Advortis It appears to be the chief aim of the south ern nowspapers, now that Jeffarson Davis is dead, to prove that he was warmly devoted to the causo of the union and that he wont into the secossion movement with husitation, If, as they also insist, the secession mov ment was commendabie, why this attempt? Would it not be better for_ the south to drop Davis and secession with him and come back into the union? Women nnd Education. Philadeiphia Enquirver. Tducation is necessary for man in the posi- tion of & bread winner, but woman is differ- ently situated. We think experience has pretty clearly demonstrated that woman makes and maintains her social position en- tirely independent from those conaiderations which affect man, and lack of a higher edu- cation will prove no bar to her success. The Beam and the Mote, New York Commercial Advertiser., The Christian powers of Europe enzaged in the partition of Africa may incidentally crush the slave trade for the continuation of which they hold the Mohummedans responsi- ble, but it is tolerably certain that greed for territory aud not hatred for slavery is at the bottom of their work in the dark continent. How the Trusts May Be Reached. Mirneapolis Tribune, 80 far as trusts are fostered by the tarift, they might be effectually attacked by a pr vision of law authorizing tho president to suspond the tariff upon any article or class of articles the proauction of which had boen monopolized by an artificial combination. Such an arrangement wonld be wper| feasible, and it would go a long way towards showing the country that the republican party is sincere in its avowed opposition to trusts, Blina and Lazy Congressmen. New York Sun, The goings on in the office of the sergeant- at-arms bave long been such as ought to have aroused the attention of every mem= ber of the house; and there is no sense and no justice in mulcting the people of the United States because thelr representatives bave been blind aond Iazy whon flagrant licentiousness and undisguised extravagance should have made them vigilant. Tne Australian System in Boston, Toston Journal, Hated by the heeler, abjurgated by the bummer and the professional politician, the polling booth and the quiet mechanism of the Australian tem which it symbolizes, mark a new era in on politics,. The secret, state-printed ballot smashes machines, It shivers the moat carefully- comstructea “slates.” It-deranges the most active wire laying. It places vpoa all nominating bodies the necessity of putting the best men to the front. It qives intelligence an advant- age over ignorauce. It prevents coercion or undue pressure. It favors independence aud compels discrimination. It is cortain to work surprises, somo of which will be satis factory and others perhaps not entirely 50, but in'the long run it will surely work the dominance of the best men and the bou principles, It must be supplemented now by an improved caucus system. Halstead on Prohibition. Cineinnati Commerclal-Gazette (Kep.) The republicans seem to be in the way of bad luck 1n Jowa. Even the accidents of sickness toll against them in tho legislature, The trouble at the bottom is ‘the same as that in Ohio—cranks. In Iowa the crank is sunply mad about prohubition, aud the re- publicans, under the plea of the advance- ment of moral ideas, have committed them- solyves to the forms of constitutional prohi- bitlon, Of gourse this does not satisfy the professional prohibitionist, who always, under all varieties of surrounding, wants more legialation. What be has' makes no difference whatever, He wants more. In addition the vrohibitionist is becoming in the most solfish and meanest and most cor- rupt senso & practical politician. He is) not ‘wht:llng to have prohibition at the ghanas of ) H:.rr:u-v. WOrk ;hmuun bis own little gang or be is the mortal anel?y of -verymlnr Therugubllun- have tried prohibition in Towa thoreughly, and yet the more they do for prohibition the more mwalevolent and devilish the prohibitionists are, We are tired of these mischief-making, frauds. The idea that 26,600 of them should have thrown away their votes in Ohio last fall, three- fourt) unnom republicaus, is horrible and shameful, Ropublican public opiuion should visit its severest condemnation upon those who pre- tend to hold republican principles and yet ald the democratic party in all critical entor prises and are 1n themselves making applic cation to themselves of the line “leaving o reputation to all times tinked with one virtue and & thousand crimes." - - VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS, The Papors Will Survive, Norfolk News, The mimsters of Omaha are now ongagod in taking a whaok at the Sunday nowspa vers. The Sunday newspaper, howaver, will manage to survive tho shock, and will con tinue to print and sell moro papers on Sun~ day than any other day in the weok. There are a good many things in Omaha that need denouncing more than the newspapers. Liaws as an Antobiographer. Kearney Enterprise. We obse that Congressman Laws' auto- biography in the congressional directory ex coeds in length that of almost any other membor. writton twice as mich about himself as did Tom Rsed or MeKinley. It would not be fair to conclude from this cie- cumstance, howo that Mr. Laws means to estimal doublo that of the burly speaker from Maine, or the trim Napoleon from Obin. It was his first effort. His biographies will shorten as his torm lengthens, Nebraska's “Third” Oitios Kearney Enterprise, Of the cities compoting for third place 1n the census of 180), cach one has spacial en- torprises 1 hand at this timo and spocial achiovements to by ton dowa in the history of 1830 Within the past woek woek Grand Island has celebrated the con- quest of a beet sugar factory by a torch- light procession, and Heatrica the comple- tion of the railroad from Kansas City with a banquet, at which the leading mon of the Missouri giant sat aown. Hastings is boring into the ground for a trinmph, and various other cities are gotting roady to spread the story of the yoar's progress befors tho world, The development of the agricul- tural interests goes steadily and silently on, feading the new industries and new com- mercial enterprises of the oconters of trade in connty. It is tho bost and most hopeful state of the west, this state of Nebrasks, and overy one of its cities is a Clydesdale stallion on tho team of progress, Judge Norzis' Ambition, Fremont Tribwne, It is beiug whispered about 1 many ners of this great Third distric bailiwick that Judge Norrcis would not bo aversoto going to congress. At this time it is competent to remark that there are several men in the district who would be no better for that place than Judge Norris. We will say nothing strongor in his favor than thiy for foar he may not like it cor volitical four on Beet Sugar. Plattsmouth Jowrnal, The last stato legislature passed an act giving a bounty of 1 cont a pound on the manufacture of beet sugar. Nobody seri- ously believes the law coustitational, but there is evidence that capitahists are prepar- g W put in plants for the making of this sugar. The common people aro to be taxed to build up this ndustry, and wo shall then probably sce that the first thing the manu- facturers do is to join the sugar trast so that the common people get no benefit from tho caphy of a Spy. Howells aonrnal, We notice by the Sun that “Colonol” H, C. Russell is going to furnish that paper with some accounts of his expericnce during tho war, When ko cxhausts this subject (and the paticnce of his readers) he might con- tributo an article undor the heading of “What I didn’i ao for Van Wyck.” e — COUNTRY BREEZES. The Cigars on Elijah, Cambridge Kaleidoscope, The types caused us to make a blunder last week, in saying that Mr, and Mrs. Elijan Cowles were the parents of a bouncing boy baby. Itshould have read Elijah Conklin. However, we did not miss it very much, for on Monday their home was brightened by the appearance of a little girl. This makes us even on cigars, we beileve, Elijah, Patience Its Own Reward, West Union Gazette, On account of delay in waiting for legal - notices we come out late this week, but as an mducoment for our readers to withhold thoir wrath we are thus enavled to report the startling news of a 50 cent horse race and a 10 cent shooting mnh‘h No dog tights. An Opening '0- a Journalist. Fort ltl'r(lu Times. A good healthy boy between fifteen and seventeen years of age. who desires to learn the priuter's trade, can obtain a place at the Times ofica, We don't want a boy too smart, becauso we don’t want to have to re- study for anotlicr part, just one of ordinary intelligence, who can chew gum without u string througn fear of swallowing it, will come in when it rains without prompting, and can collect his wages when they become due. This last item is of much moment, for our last devil had greater difficulty in that shan in any other partof the trade. Come early and avoid the rush, Broin as an Evangelizer, Scotia Herald, During the revival here last weei one lady, in giving hier experience, said sue never went to but one circus, and then there was a +bar’ gou looss and sho thought it was the devil, Then sho turned to Jesus, The min- ister wishod o bear could get after a lot of Scotia siuners, But there seems to bo s soarcity of that kmd of bruins in this sec- tion, All But Eight. West Union Gasette, Every rosder, excopt sbout eight who paid n advance, owes us 25 cents on subscription, Now gentlemon, please call in and pay that small amount and st least that much more in advaace, if you are nov afrsid %0 pay more for fear we will rup away Can't Irifl+ With Us, Stratton Herald, The editor of this religious journal took exceptions to an articlo in the News last week and wheu the editors met on the street we proceeded to do him up 1 artistic style, but as he belongs to tne shanty crowd it was a small job. We got a little satisfaction out of im by slappivg his mouth in good shape, and then marching down to the justice's office and paying § aud trimmings for our fun, We were then pulled up before the justice and asked to keep the peace and to give bonds for tho same, but we thought we would not do that and, stood the trial, They sent to Culbertson and Trenton for the most brillisut attorneys they could employ aud still they failed to bind us over. The editor of the News swure that he was afraid we would do him some bodily harm. The poor fellow was in the - regular urmy for years aud is drawing & peusion for brave service. If the regular army is made up such fellows as Irous, one Indisu could put to flignt a whole regiment. All we ask of Irons 1s to let us aloue sud we will do the same by him, & With Marriages. Lamar Leader. unaway wedding down near Champion this week, but we are almost afraid to say aoything about the matter, as we have recently had some trouble about thi marrying business,