Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1889, Page 4

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There 14 no excuse for a faflure to get Tk BER All newsdealers have been notl- all supnly. fravelers who want Bk and can't gat it on trains where other Omahavapers are carried are roquested to no- ey Ik e, leass be particular to give in all cases full informution as to date, rallway and number of Aln. Give us your name, not for publication or un- necessary use, but as a guaranty of wood faith. P Lt Aol i S M) Sworn Statement of Circalation. Etate of Nebraska, - County of Douglas. {frerd Ucorge 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Aolemnly swear that g DAILY BEE for the wa: Average.......... GEORGE 18, TZ Bworn to before me and subscribed to in my Ppresence this 2th day ot December, A. D. 1850, [Seal, N. P, FEIL, Notary Pubilc Stato of Nebraska, County of Douglas, § Georgo 13, Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de- poses and says that he Is secretary of Thé Beo Fublishing Company, that the actual average dnily circulation of Tk DAILY BEr for the month of December, 18%, 18.2% coples; f January, 1889, 1,674 coples; for February, I8 caples: tor h, 1880, 15854 coples for April, 189, opleaitor’ May, 1889, 18,000 coples; for June, 16, IKEGH coples: for July, 180, 18733 co or August, 1880, b1 coples: for Septe 59, "8 TI0 coples; for October 18, 18,997 copies; for November, 1660, 10.310 coples ' GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribod in my Presence thus 3ith day of November, A D. (Seal.| N.P. Fi e weekly bank statementshows the reserve has decreased $1,372,050. The banks now hold $2,031,675 in excess of legal requirements. Tne British squadron will make a foint on - Lisbon to force a satisfactory solution of Serpa Pinto’s attack on the Malkalolos. Ifthe Portuguese should happen to put on their war paint and twist the lion’s tail there would be a lively commotion in the modern Baby- lon. I must be consoling to the victims of “la grippe” to learn that the disease is old enough to have moss on its spine. Three hundred and eighty years ago the influcnza swept through Europe, and has made fifteen tours of the con- tinent since then, the last bewng in SIDENT FONSECA of Brazil de- clares that “'the new republic is firmly and finally established, and it has the enthusiastic support of the people.” This glowing view of the situation does not harmonize with the facts, if the latest reports are rehable. The estub- lishment of a drumhead military court for the trial of ‘*‘all persons found endeavoring to corrupt the soldiers, or contriving or proposing any measure for active opposition to the republic,” and the censorship of the press, show that there are a few discordant notes in the ‘‘enthusiasm of the people.” Fon- seca and his followers have yet to learn the true principles of republicanism, PoLE cutting is the liveliest industry in New York just now. Nearly one thousund miles of electric light wires have been brought to the ground since the campaign opened, and the business of leveling the mau-killers goes on with unabated vigor. The electric light companies arve discharging their em- ployes, shutting up shop, and display- ing other evidences of the sulis, but the slaughter of voles goes right on, and the people are cheertully returning togus. After the first shock is over, the companies will be found burrowing for conduits and burying the wires. The profits ul_thc business are too great to be neglected for. any great length of fime. T Tue latest charges preferred against Charles Stewart Parnell seriously affect his moral character. The author #f the charges, Captain O’Shea, achieved notoriety four years ago, as the one member of the Irish natioual party who botrayed his constituents and . voted against the passage of the Glad- stone home rule, Elected by an Irish constituency and favored with the con- fidence of the leaders, O'Shea violated his pledges and deserted the cause to whieh he owed his elovation to the house of commons. A man who basely betrays his political friends caunnot possess a'very high rvegard for truth. The crimes imputed to Parnell are doubtless the outgrowth of O’Shea'’s treachery. Tne agitation in favor of jury reform, stimulated by the outcome of the Cronin trial, will not be fruitless of resuits. It has developed the fact that there is a widespread and growing sentiment among luwyers on the bench and at the bar agalnst the requirement of unani- mous veedicts. A jurist of national re- pute has recently declared against the inconsistency that requires only one- half of a legislative body to enact a law, but permits one-twelfth of a body of men on whom its enforcement depends to practically ropeal that law in any given iostance. This jurist suggests that if it is thought a verdict ought not to be rendered by a bare majority of jurymen, let the limit be fixed at two- thirds or even three-fourths, but take it out of the power of a single individual to practically defeat a law as a member of a jury. This idea is unquestionably gainiug adherents, and it is more than likely Lo take form in law at no very re- mote day. DAILY BEE.| THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: GROWTH OF MANUAL TRAINING. The very general dissussion that has been given during the present year to the subject of manual training in the public schools promises to be productive of a wido extension of the system Gur- ing the coming year. Boston {8 pre- varing to give more attention in her schools to physical training than here- tofore, it being intended to require all teachers to interest themselves more fully in the system, and in otber cities boards of education are giving the mat- ter consideration with a view either to instituting physical training or enlarg- ing 1ts scope where alrendy established. The signs are altogothor encouraging to the advocates of this aadition to pub- lic school instruction, “There has just been published by the New York college for the training of teachers two papers by Charles R. Richards, director of the mechanic department of Pratt institute, Brool Iyn, and Hoenry P. O'Neil, prin- cipal of grammar school No. 1, New York City. These mono- graphs contain many interesting views and siggestions which ought to recive the attention of teachers gene and particularly of those who favor manual training as a part of public school in- struction. Mr. Richards assorts that it is not yet possible to lay outa scheme of manual work which will fit into the present conditions of our school system, one which will in eash stage be perfect- ly adapted to the deveiopment of the pupil and which will, asa whole, be comprehensive and harmonious. In the two extremes of popular education, from the kindergarten thvough the high school, the problem of manual training is to a great extent solved, but in the middle period, that of the pri- mary and grammar schools, the prob- lem is still in the experimental stage. It is here, however, that the new meth- ods must be developed and perfected if they are to affect broadly the educa- tional work of the country. In the first year of the primary grades Mr. Rich- ards says the work must be of the simplest character. There can Dbe very little application of thought on the part of the pupil, for as yet there is very little thought power developed in him. The first stages must deal with observation, expression must come later. In the beginnings of the grammar school work, when the pupils have reached the average age of oleven years, the mothods used may change somewhat in character. A higher _range %f study will be em- ployed, and the pupils in the previous grades having studied the properties of form, which is simply pure geometry, now approach the subject in its more exact relations. The subject of geometry, the science of form, instead of being left to the higher schools as a dreaded logical study, is here learned 1n the doing and making. Particular stress is laid by Mr. Rich- acds, whose expert opinion is entitled to the highest respect, upon the im- portance of having the nature of the worl suited to the age and development of the pupils dealt with, What is fit for the enginecring school is not necessar- ily fit for the manual training school, and what is fit for the manual training school is not necessarily fit for the grammar school grades. Mr. O'Neil states that 1n extending the introduction of manual training methods into all the public schools of New York City, which itisthe intention to do within a few months, the work- shop, or working in wood as a neces- sary factor, will be omitted, leaving to future development its grhdual intro- duction. Beginning in the primary departments with the development of conceptions of form through seeing and haaaling objects, clay modeling, ete., the pupil progresses to the study of the sphere, cuvbe, cylinder, hemisphere, cone and vase forms, modeling the forms of solids in clay and paper. In all the grammar grades mechanical drawing is taught to both boys and girls, which includes a knowledge of the use of the ruler, triangle, square, compass, scale, protractor and India-ink pens. In the six lower grammar grades geometry is taught by means of graphic solutions to both boys and girls, aud in the highest grade plain geometry, taught by means of the logical method, supple- ments the former method. Workshop practice is givea in allof the five higher grammar grades for boys, involving preparatory working-sketches and work- ing-drawings to scale. Girlsare taught cooking and sewing. Such in partis the system in practice in the public schools of New York city, and Mr. O'Neil bears ungualified testimony to its value and efficiency. The question of extending the system in that.city has during the present year received most thorough consideration from a special committes of the board of education, and the decision to extend 1t is the best possible evidence in favor of manual training. Much remains to be learned beforo the system is brought as nearly as can be to perfection, buv the sound- ness of the principal is so generally acknowledged by educators that it is certain to in time become of universal practice as a part of our public school instruction, — NALIONAL CAPITAL SOCIETY. Washington society would hardly be able to settle down to its annual obser- vances without a commotion over the old question of the order of precedeuce. Thas year a new issue is presented, and according to reports it has caused very great perturbation 1n the social life of the national capital, Mrs. Harrison is under the restraints of mourning, and it is said intends to have her place at the New Year's day reception held for her by her daughter, Mrs, McKee. That lady has no official status, and the pro- posal that she shall greet the visiting statesmen and their wives in advance of the wives of the vice president, the speaker of the house and the members of the cabinet, is reported to be warmly resented by those ladies who have an official status. Perhaps the matter will not result so seriously as has been threatened, that is, the preceded ladies will doubtless not refuse to grace the New Year’s reception with their pres- ence if Mrs. Harrison shall insist upon having her daughter occupy the vlace of honor, but if such ah inneva- tion be allowed to pass without some sort of protest where may it not lead to? If the prosident’s wife can assign a daughter to act for her on state occa- sions why not any other Indy relative or friend? The precedents which are cited are not satisfactory. Mr, Buchan- an’s niece and the sisters of Mr, Arthar and Mr. Cleveland, who did the honors on public oceasions, were given an*‘offi- cial” character by those presidents, to whom their assistance was necessary. Can Mrs. Harrison do this for her daughter? It is true that Mres. Andrew Johnson was sometimes represented in public by a daughter, and also Mrs. Bagard, both of which are referred to ns precedents. But this only happened when Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Bayard were ill and unable to do the honors thomselves, a condition which under all ciccumstances carries the fullest pardon for omission and amply warrants the assignment of a social duty to a daughter. The sticklers for etiquette may not be able to see that Mrvs. Har- rison’s situation furnishes quite a par- allel. Seriously, however, these periodical commotions in the ofcial society of Washington over questions of preced- ence are not at all creditable to that society, and they are not entirely con- sistent with our republican system, which while not forbidding a reason- able rule of etiquette among those in official station, does not justity such extrome and absurd punctiliousness with respect to precedeace as [re- quently has marked these periodical controversios, formerly leading to bitter animosities and life-long es- trangements. In the present matter the ladies most concerned will doubtless wisely decide that ivas- much a3 the president’s wile cannot with propriety assist her hus- band at the New Year’s raception the presideat may properly have the assist- ance of their daughter on the occasion, and he doubtless has the right to give her whatever official status may be re- quired for the purpose. WESTERN FARM MORTGAGES. Western senators and members of congress are very properly indignantly resenting the assaults madeon the finan- cial condition of the west through means of the exploded farm mortguge sensation. The charge that the westis howed down by the weight of the lifted mortgages upon its farms did well enough for a campaign cry and democratic tom tom. But it was suffi- ciently ventilated nearly two years to need no further disinfection, Figures wore gravely published then in reput- able papers and reprinted with all the solomnity of accompanying debate in the Congressional Record which showed a greater mortgage indebtedness thaa the entire taxable valuation of a number of western states. They were promptly ana effectually disproved by official statements from govenors, auditors and state treasurers, but the same old falschood once more reappears to do service for campaign and partisan pur- poses. € There are enough sound arguments for a reusonable tariff reduction with- out advuncing the misleading records of uncancelled mortgnges as evidence that the western farmer is stageering under a burden of impeundiag bank- ruptey. Theve are millions of dollars of mortgages of record in the west which have been paid off and the evi- dence of payment not spreadon the books. There are many other millions not fully satisfied on which the greater vortion has been paid. And there are more than both combined in which the mortgage represents an actual invest- ment as balance of purchase money or as funds borrowed to add to flooks and herds, improve the farm house and add to the barns. In facta western farm loan is recognized as the safest of loans, because in nine cases out of ten it represents an investment and the money thus borrowed is used to increase the value of the security. The western farmer is thrifty enough to borrow money where he can double in profits the amovunt of the loan through its use. He is fur-sighted enough to know that good barns and sheds are a capital investment for the stock grower, even if a mortgage has to be placed on the pasture to secure them. He knows the value of a mort- gage at eight per cent over a note at bank of ten or twelve, and he uses his knowledge. The records of the sub- stantial loan companies of Omaha show that western farm mortgages are car- ried readily and paid promptly. State- ments, such as those with which the mortgage question has been again brought before the public, are calcu- lated to greatly injure western credit if permitted togo unchallenged, —e SUNDAY PRIVILEGES. In all clvilized countries the poor have been granted the same opportuni- ties for public enjoyment as have the rich. The latter class meet no obstacle when they seek quiet and refreshing pastimes on Sunday. They are per- mitted to ride wath coach-and-four upon the public bighways, while the poor man must content himself with the street caror stay at home. And to stop the street car from doing service on Sunday would be just as. great a hard- ship and inconvenience as would the stopping of bakers, milkmen and butchers from supplyivg patrons on Sunday during the hot season, Among civilized peoples cleanliness is considered next to Godliness. The wealthy classes can provida ample means for bathing and washing in their own homes, but thousands of poor peo- plecannot. The latter class must be afforded the privilege of a public Sun- day bath house, and it cannot with sense or reason be denied, The shave is just as essential as the bath., Thous- ands of workingmen toil from dawn till dusk, and go home physically ex- hausted, They have & right to the comfort and privilege of the Sum- day morning shave and bath at a public place, and no code of Puri- tanic rules or ordinances should be permitted to interfere with this right. In any city ol considerable size the hotel registers teem with fresh arrivals late naturday night. Some have been on the road all woek and seek the best accommodations possible for the Sun- day respite, No sane man would deny these men the refreshing Sunday mora- Y, DECEMBER 29. i880,.~SIXTEEN PAGE ing shave or bath. It is just as essen- tial that these accommodations be pro- vided as it i that tho engineer in the basement shy 1 conl into the furnace in order to #fperly heat the building, or to em cooks in the kitchen to prepare Sunday meals. All effor restore the hlue laws o Connecticut ghust fail. Modern ocon- veniences can not be discarded by any amount of Sunday logislation. When Lincoln was shot in Ford's theatre the religious people of America wero shocked at the idea that Abraham Lin- coln should have attended a play. But when Benjamin Harrison the other day delivered the opening address at the Chicago anditorium nobody suffered a perceptible shock. President Harrison 188 good Presbyterian and walks to church on Sunday when his carriage is ot promptly af hand. The Sunday paper has been denounced time and again from the pulpit and yet the Monday paper is the one that is produced on Sunday. There is, of course, no necessity for dives and dens to be opon at auy time, and nobody contends that a proper ob- ance of the Sabbath shall not be re- spected by all who can do so without very great inconvenience to lurge num- bers of people. There is too much hypocrisy iu all these things. Let us be honest and make the warld as good as we cau under existing conditions. GROUNDS FOR CAUTION. The republican mujority in the house of representatives is so meagre that the greatest wisdom and caution will be nocessary to make it effective. Inthe first place strong leadership and an in- telligent and active following of such leadership will be required. The loss of Mr. Reed from the floor is not un- naturally considered a serious one to his party. Since the removal of Gar- field Mr. Reed has set the key note for republican action. His leadership has been fertile in expedients, rich in re- sources and abundant in shrewd calcu- lation of forces at command and in op- position. It was characterized especial- 1y by a quickness to estimate values iu the provailing situation and a remark- able alertness in seizing for his party the key to the battled-for posi- tion. In these respects and in the unquestioned following which he secured Mr. Reed was in many in- stances decidedly the superior to any opponent forkthe floor. He made the republican minority an aggressive and often victorious fighting force in the house of representatives. It remains to be seen whether his mantle has jast fallen upon any suc- cessor. In at least two instances since organization the republican majority has been heaten on minor questions by the minority in spite of what help was given to hig party by the chair. In Doth cases the result was secured by the absence of d'tecognized leader on the republican side. There is no'fack of men of brains and expericnce tojtake Mr. Reed's place. Major MeKfuley 1s fully com- petent to ibear the brunt of debate. Butterworth of Ohio, perhaps the most tactful of floor skirmishers wou'ld be a safo man to follow in times when quick action and as quick re- sponse will be needed to turn the ene- mies’ position. Henderson of Iowa, recognized as one of the brightest and ablest of ready debaters and tacticians, would be competent to lead the victori- ous hosts, Burrows of Michigan would fall little behind him., But the danger in the existing situation is one of sur- plusage rather than of deficiency. The menace lies in the lack of combination, not in the absence of ability to lead such a combination. With such men as Randall and Carlisle, both of whom are accomplished pacliamentarians and denaters, no republican can afford for a moment to sulk in his tent. There is need of union for strength of loyalty s @& prerequisite for victory and of quick response to the tones of a selected leadership. The present session promises to be one of the most exciting in debate in the history of congress. A vigorous and aggressive policy has been marked out by the majority. An equally vig- orous and aggressive opposition is prom- 1sed by the democratic minority. Every republican vote will be required to stamp the seal of accompiished legisla- tion upon proposed laws. THE IN TERNATIONAL RAILWAY. It is probable that one of the results of the All America congress now in ses- sion in Washington will be the further- ance of the long cherished plan of a nortn and south system ot railroads co necting the lines in the United States with those of the South American con~ tinent. One effect of the extended trip of the delegates through our country has been to open their eyes to the man- ner in which distance has been annihi- lated and engineering difficulties over- come by the railway builders of this country and to, force upon their atien~ tion the feasibility of rail connections between the'two continents. A movement is already said to be in progress for the formation of an international railway to connect the Mexican mailroad system with that of the northern republics of South America and, 1t is understood that the president has already been consulted as to the willingmess of our government to furnish nva%é] army and navy officers to assist in the preliminary explora- tions. 1 Should theintervening states,through their represemtatives in the pres- ent All Afidbica congress, pave the way for the removal of existing custom house obstructions, such a plan would be ensier of development and execution. The people of the United States are so generally ignoraut of SBouth American progreas that few of them are probably aware that a great ., east and west line crossing the Andes from the Pacific is now rapidly ap- proaching & junetion with the system which runs wostward from Buenos Ayres and gridirons the grow~ ing Argentine Republic. A few months will see a double line of rails spunning rivér and mountain and connecting the Bouth Atlantic and the Southern Pa- cifie, wnile a northwestern branch ruan- ning towards the Carribean sea is to meoot the projected road through Con- tral America. The international road suggested by the meetings of the all-American congross is intended to join the system of the Mexican railroads now pushing south towards Central America with the great system of South American roads just roferred to. It is probable that the cost of sucha road would be small compared to that of a trans-isth- mian canal and that its certain effoct would be to link the manufacturing sections of the United Statos to the great markets of the equatorial countries, Tie Austrian government has been investigating the methods employed by promoters of emigration to this country. A Dbad state of affairs has been brought to light. -It appears that in one district from which over twelve thousand pens- ants have emigrated in the past two yeurs the police and othor officials were the willing tools of the steanship com- panies, using their official position to y and sometimes force ignorant ants into selling their little prop- erty and coming to America. Many of these people were robbed of nearly overything they possessod, and were sent out of the country with only neces- sary baggagoe and thelr passago paid to New York. Doubtless practices of this sort are not confined to Austria. There is good reason to believe that many Italians have emigrated under like oir- cumstances. [t is well understood that 1n the past theagents of sleamship lines have employed the most unscrupulous methods to secure business. But this sort of thing has not been found profitable for the last year or two, so far at least as bringing such omigrants to the United States is con- cerned, on account of the greater vigi- lauce that has been exercised by our authorities, and there is likely to be less opportunity in the future for the steamship emigrant agents to carry on business with this country successfully, though they may find a good field in the South American countries. The result of the Austrian government’s in- vestigation is likely to strongthen the demand for more restrictive immigra- tion legslation here, and it ought to have the effect to induce a more rigid application and enforcement of the ex- isting law. ——— SIXTY prominent citizens of Texas have been indicted and urrested for participating in the lynching of two negroes. This isan outrage on native liberty which every Texan will resent. It behooves the judge and prosecuting attorney to provide liberally for their widows and orphans before the trial opens. Not if Thoy Know Thewmselves. Detrott Journal, ‘The question is, will the Ohio democrats wive away their United States senatorship without money and withouv Brice? The Curse of Civilization, Loutsville Courier-Tournal, When railroads begin to cross the Dark Continent is it to be supposed that the Af- rican cannibals will content themselves with railrond sandwicnes? Lo ong of David. veland Leader.y The a “Let me control the patronage and I do [ not care now many speeches Grover Cleve- land makes, I'll down him anyway.”—Gov- ernor D, B, Hill, e DN il The Trusst Honor to Grady. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The best way for the south to honor the memory of Mr. Grady is to accept the ideas of enterprise and progress which he 80 elo- quently advocated. @That's an Easy One—In the Soup. Minneapolis Tribune, In what position would our goverament have found itself if Mr. Blaine had followed the advioe of our democratic *jingoes” and recoguized the legality of a Brazilian republic which appears to have no existence? 3 The United States of Great Britain? Cleveland Leader, Great Britain can becomo a republic with oven less shock than was felt in Brazil, and the signs multiply that when Queen Victoria dies, if not before, monarchy among Enghsh- speaking nations will be at an end. 1s the Jury System a Fail Pittsburg Dispatch, If we can not got juries with sense and courage enough to either punish men as they deserve, if they are proved guilty, or else to acauit them if they are not proved guilty, let us do away with juries altogethar. e? el Mr. Bellamy's Persimmons. New Fork Commercal Advertiser, We judge from recent utterings of Mr, Edward Bellamy that he believes this coun- try is going to perdition. As a literary man we admire Mr. Bellamy, but as an observer we think he has devoted so much time to “Lookmg Backward” that in 8 prophetic sense he is not a success. B Anything for a Pretext, Defroit Free Press. It looks a little as if the natives who were attacked by Serpa Pinto lad availed them- selves of tho casual possesion of some British flags to embrofl England and Portugal, But if England makes up her mind that she wants the Portuguese possessions in Africa the flag excuse will be as good as any. It doesn’t make any difference to hor wether it was this lamb or his grandfather that roiled the water. . . i Bogus Mugwump Piety. Boston Advertiser. The New York Evening Post, seemingly at a loss for occasions to find fauit with Presdident Harrison, now attacks him for in-~ consistency to his religious convictions in going to hear Patti sing at Chicago, While alfecting to commend the act 1t quotes co- piously from the acts of the Presbyterian neral assembly to show the president's llogical position, If President Harrison commits no more heinous sin than to go to hear Patti sing the couatry will be safe for some n the future. -— OUR CONTEMPORARIES, The Mission of Mr, Grady. New York Commercial Advertiser, 1t was Mr. Grady's good fortunethat he, equipped with the keen iusight and fervid eloguence of our old public leaders, was placed in an epoch and & community where the reconciling of the north and the south called for just these powers, Presently, when the wave of closer commerclal inter- course aud better mutual understanding shall have swept with uuprecedented rapid- ity over the whole nation, the feelings which made such meditation necessary wil be quite dead. But the work of the men who led the way is not likely to be forgotten. The Dospotism of Prohibition. Philadelphia Record. Drinkiog beer or cider, or any other liquor that has uudergone a natural prooess of fer- mentation, is & crime in the ethics of prohi- bition, and must be punished as such. The object of prohibition is not so much to re- strain the abuses of the liquor trafMo or to suppress intemperance as to punish the mod- erate and reasonablo enjoyment of a gift of bounteous nawure, Such a policy in its vio- lation of the commonest personal rights of the citizon is neceasarily @ despotism, and can be enforced only by a code of dospotic laws. The liquor law of the North Dakota legislaturo s theroforo entirely consistent with the purpose of the prohibitory amend- ment. It is not probable, even with the strong majority which adopted prohivition in the young state, that this barbarous code can be enforced; but less drastic penal mens- ures to prevent the enjoyment of beer, wine and other liquors 11 North Dakota would have proved futileand ridi R ia's Loss, Our Gain, Minneapolis Jowrnal, The snowless condition of the groat wheat growing area of southorn Russia is naturally exciting approtiensions thero about the win- ter coreals, That portion of Russia pro- ducos the most wheat—which fs what is called winter wheat—for export from that country, and England usually takes a large portion of it. Tis gloomy outlook for Rus- sia, if actualized, will result in making a considerablo demand for our surplus stock of wheat. Restriot the Pardoning Power, New York Commercial Advertiser, Undoubtedly in all states whore juries have the right to fix the penaltics of murder governors should be denied the power of un- fixing it. Iwprisonment for life is, in itself, afearful puoishment if it truly means what it impiies. In F'rance juries have (in effect) the right to commute the death penalty. But in France imprisonmont for life means con- signment to a dungeon till death frees tho prisoner. It means something tnere. It should mean something here, Brazil and the Czar. New York Warld. The czar of Russia is aispleased with the Brazilians, Their example may be con- tagious, but when the Russians get ready to send Alexander about his business they will do 80 with scanter courtosy than the Brazil- 1ans showed to Dom Pedro. He has & poor record as a divine-right master. Liawleas Okiahoma, C teveland Leader, There ought to be little dispute over tho bill providing a territorial government for Oklahoma, At present this distriot is with- out any recognized form of government, and it _ought at once to bo organized ns a verri- tory. The case is 80 clear and the demand for action so imperative that a bill ought to pass congress without delay. i e 1890. L. 0. Harby in Ladies' Home Journal, With song and laughter welcome to our lands, The youngest born of Time—the glad New Year! The peoplo of the earth with foutstretched hands And eager hearts, give greetings; not one tear Shalldim his birth! He comes to usa King— Clothed in a royal garb of hope and love. While in his train fast follows each rare thing Which dowers man with happiness—to prove ‘That life is bright and joyous, true and good Despite the storms which oft disturb its floods. Then Bells, cheerily, He 18 blithsome and bonnic and dear; And while we are pealing our hoarts will be feeling That tho hearts of our loved ones are near. Ring in the North—and summon yo forth The friend by uis deeds contessed; Ring in the South—for the swoet warm mouth Of tte woman we lovo thebest. Ring in the East—and the Now Yeur's feast Shall make the land its own Ring in the West—the Pacifi'c broast Re-achoes each jovous tone! chime morrily—ring him in e COUNTRY BREEZES. More Kuil. World-Herald. The Great Reaper could nothave cut down any American whose future was more full of splendid promise. The Editorial Stocking. Tckemah Burtonian, What dia you have in your stocking Xmas? We had (as usual) a 2x4 hole in one of ours, and the other—w-e-l-l,—the truth 18, wo only have one, the other one has been doing good service asa roller-core for the job press. Might Season 1t Too Much. Columbus Telegram. Tho Telegram acknowladges the receipt of @ couple of gallons of excellent wine from tho proprietors of the Fleming. It was in- tended to put the jugs in tho writer's socks, they being plenty large enough, but tho colonel thought it might spoil the flavor of the wine. We are Loaded. Franklin Republican, The free advertising so gracionsly ac- corded us by our contemporarics in the county is nothing to what they will give us in January. The Repubican will make some of the members of the county board wish we weroe in some other clime than tbis, To Liet Willie Rest, Hardy Herald, In order that Willie Hayes, our printer boy who has worked in the ofiice for the past two years without missing an. issue of tho paper may visit friends elsewhere, next week we will not. 18su the Herald next k'ri- day. Don't forget and annoy the postmaster aboutnot receiving the paper when you go to the office next Saturday or he will think you can't read and didn't see this notice.. Sclentific Olassification, Scotia Herald, Influential Faucett says wo look like a dog. Lavater (Faucett will wonder who in hail he 18), says that every buman being resembles in the face some species of the brute croa- tion. Accepting this theory as correct we have taken some trouble to determine what the Bung Hole looks like in his mug, We kuew that he had too handsome a face to #ind its counterpart among terrestrial things. So we turned our attention to wrial brutes, osnd found that among all the birds of the air Faucett resembles most the dodo, but that he acts exactly like a loon. ——— AS OTHERS SEE US, A Rising Westerner. Loufsville Courier-Journal, Mr. Yoast has beon made a postmastor in Nebraska. Mr. Yeast is a rising man, Omaha is Above It, . Chicago Tribune, “All 1s fair in love and war,” but the suthor of the saying would almost turn over o his grave if he could see New York trying 1t beat Chicago out of the world's fair by invoking the csusoless envy of Kansas City, Miuneapelis, St. Paul and Omaba, and dig- ging up for public inspection the moldy bones of & *“mvalry” that once existed between Chicago and St. Louis, The Dakota Kickers, Minneapolis Tribune. Tus OMAEA Bee complaius that the Dakots representatives are distinguishing theo- selves as “the greatest combination of kick- ers ever sent to Washington,” Well, they have 8 good deal to kick about; and more- over, what injthe world are they there for! Falled to be Specific. Kansas Oity Times. The Omaba newspapers, having failed to dovote the major portion of their spaco to & roport of the procoedings of the interstate prohibition convention, the convention promptly resolved that the proes of Omaha was subsidizod by the liquor interosts, We aze somewhat surprised, however, that the convention failed to name the exact amount of tho subsidy each newspapor recsived. —_—————— IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE. Among the many attractivo holiday num- bers which have roached this office pono de- sorve more praise than that of tho Capital City Courior. Always aneat and tasty paper, carefully edited aod admirably arranged, the Christmas issue possesses many features which entitlo it to special mention. It is issued in folio magazine form with a very at- tractive design on the cover and the iuside fairly teeming with good things from pen and pencil. In addition to a number of fina cuts of celobrated pictures, among which is included Millot's “*Angelus,” it contains po traits of loading citizons of the capital oity, pictures of tho boautiful homos with whioh coln abounds and of some of its more blo public buildings. Both from an ar- and _liverary point of viow the holiday Courier doos ereat credit to Mr. Wessel and hus able associato editor, Mr. Benzinger. The Denver Times of the 21st inst. is an issue, of which its proprietors may woll be proud. The mes, always ono of the brightest evening papers in the west, has made special efforts in this edition to reflect credit on itself and on the city and state in which it i published, and the purpose has been admirably accompiishod. The most prominent feature is a complote and exhaus- tive account of the mineral resources of Colorado, The showing is the most thor- ough, which has yet bdon presentod and cannot fail to be of great benefit to tho min- ing interests of tho state. That a city of the sizo of Boise should have produced a periodical at once so artistic and 80 completo as the holiday number of the Idaho Statesman would astonish snyone not familiar with tho extraordinary push and = enterprise of the nower west. From cover to cover, every part of it is a_careful and conacientious resentation of the attractions and resources of tho city and of the territory to tho reading public. It is beautifully od, handsomely illustrated and would do credit to any metropolitan paper w the country. That very attractivo juvenilo journal, tho High School Register, marks an epoch 1n its history by issuing a holiday number just be- fore the Christmas vacation. The reader is editorially wformed that its .best efforts have been put forth for the occasion. The result is in every way croditable to the bright and progressing young ladios and coutlemen who contributo to its pages and all its roaders will join in wishing the Reg- ister a vory happy aud prosparous New ear. ot A A GUEST OF THE PRESS. Royally Enrertained by the Journalists of Ohicago, The Chicago Horald publishes the followt Ing account of the reception given by the, Press clubof that city in honor of Mmo! ™ Patti-Nicolini last Thursday night. Mmne. Adelina Patti was the guest of tho Press club of Chicago lust night. Tho peer- less songstress was tendered an enthusiastic reception by the newspaper men ot Chicago and several hundred invited guests. The pariors of the Pross club never looked pret- tler than last might when the distinguishod guosts were announced. Among those as- sembled to greet Pattiand the scarcely less famous Nicolini were many of the leading musical people of Chicago. Madame Pattl was announced_at promptly 9 o'clock. In company with Nicolini and President James W. Scott of the Chicago Press club, Madame Patti ran the gauntlet formed by four of tho most superb potice officers who ever donned brass-buttoned un- itorms. Lieutenunt Backus and Lieutenant Ross stood guard over the front door impres- sive and sublime in their six foot two of muszular manhood, Sargeant Dutton held the fort at the head of the grand staircase, and Captain Fiwpatrick, resplendant in white gloves and an immaculate uniform towered above the main entrance. Madame Chatterton, latehford, Kavanagh, the won- dorful boy soprano, and Prof. H. B. Ronoy. arrived o few mwutes after the Patti party. Mayor Cregier was one of tho early arrivals and lost no time in making himself agreeable to the distin~ guished guest of the ovoning. Patti was dressed in an almost indescribable combina- tion of whito sutin aud black silk. She looked younger than ten years ago and equally as gracious, Snugly enscouced in cushloned clair Paiti soou found herself sur rounded by a throng anxious to do her hom- oage. At the east sido of the main parlor Valisi's mandolin orchestra rendered selec- tions of light musio. President Scout did tho honors and a Lulf an hour was devoted to introductions. Mume. Patti bad a smile for everyone, aud was democratic 1o hor fayors to a degree most satisfactory to the more humble members of the nowspaper profess- 10n. The formalities ended, & delicate colla- tion was served. OMAHA A Paul MAKRVEL, An Outside V. w by a Prominent Kansas Editor, Mr. William P, Tomlinson, editor of the Daily Democrat, Topeka, Kas., recently vis- ited Omuha to iuvestizate the workings of the high license law. He prints the follow- ing in a recent Issue of his paper: Omaha afiords a striking illustration of maryetous growth and prosperity under nigh licenso. Inno state, perhaps, m the union is there & beuter regulation of the liguor traflic than in Nebraska, Undex the rigid license luw in force in our sistor state, Omaha derives o revenuo of #204,000 u year from its saloons, which, be- sides paying $1,000 each into the city troas- ury, are under heavy bonds not tosell to minors, not to keep open Sunday, ete. Of course the receipt of this princely sum of overa quarter of a million dollars a year {rom its saioons keeps the flaances of Omuha ip_a splendid coudition, Hard times are literally unknown in this marvel of western cities. With un esti- - mated porulation at the present time of 125,000, Omahi bas grown more rapidly this yeur thn at any previous period in its his- tory, At this® timo it is estunated tacrs are upwards of ono hundred business blocks in the course of erection in that city, many of which in cost and e'egance will compara favorably with those in the ieading cities in the univn. ‘The erection of residences at the presont time in Omaha is also enormous. But the reveaue derived from the saloons 18 only one cuuse of Omaha's wonderful prosperity. A conservative estimate pluces the capitul iuvested in the several distil- leries and broweries in that city st uot less £3,500,000, this estimate not including the million or more of capital employed in the Jobbing liquor houses and licensed saloons in Omaha, One firm of brewers has re- cently refused an offer of $1,000,000 for its property. The following figures show the business done by one distillery in Omata during the year 1850 up to dhte: Corn, bushels Rye, (o Malt, Cattle, head fed. Hay, tous fed.... Coal, tons used., . Barrels used.. Men on pay roll, . " This much from the financial standpoint. Hut from the moral standpoint as well, the comparison is decidedly 1n favor of Omaha. in each instance, an examination of the dockets uf the police und district court of the two cities carefully jnstituted and extendin, over the past six mouths, I: in favor ol Omaba, taking population Into considera- tion, that city bemg four timesthe size of Topeka. To this way ba added the indispute able fuct Konsas, under so-called prohibivion, Lias more inmates in ber staty penitentia in proportion to the total population tLaa bas her sister state of Nebrusia under high 180, In the light of the above figures it wonld be more seusible for the good peopie of No- braska, both from the moral and fnancial standpoiut, to reciprocste efticious interfer- ence with their affairs by coming down to Kansas 10 do needed wissiouery work in the interest of temperance sud high lice: this state.