Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1890, Page 4

HE DAILY BEE. " P. ROSEWATER, Bditor, _ -TUEIJSHED BEVERY MORNIN TERMS OF SCBSCRIPTIO! Dallg and Sundas, O Vear.., Bix Months Three Months, 5 Bunday Bee, Onie Year . v Weekly Bee, One Year with Premium. ..\ OFFIC oakers Bl ookers Mnilding T4 and 15 Tribune Bufld: s u 500 0 200 200 Omana, Bee B’ Chicago OMce, f New Vork, Ho Ing Washington, No. 513 Fourteenth Strest. Connell Blufts, No. 12 Pear] Streot. Lincoln, 1029 ¥ Stieet, Fouth Omaha, Corner N and 26th Strosts. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Rditor- inl Departnient BUSINESS LETTERS. All Vnsiness letters and remittances should 1 ndaresyed to The Bee Publishing Company, Onaha, Drafts, chiecks and postoftice orders to e nindo payablo (6 the order of the company, lishing. Company, Proprietors I'arna nth Stre on the Trains, 15 for a faflnre to get Trir BEx All nowsdealers have been notls fll supnly. 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Tzschuck, being duly sworn, do- poses and says that he'is secrotary of Tho Heo Lulishing Compnny, that the actual averago amly circulation of ‘THE DAILY BeE for the montn of January, 188, was 18, February, 1549, 1800 coples: for March, 1859, 1k 8 oF April, 184, 18, or May, 53 for June s coples; 8,753 coples for Haptembe ser 18, IKIT cop! 0 coples: for Toce GEOUGE B, T78 S nd subscribed in my nee this dth day of January, A. D.. 1830, [Feal.] Nofary Public. £iate of Nobraskn, r democratic end of the city ad- ministration is threatencd with a pro- zed und bloody the outset. THERE i3 no justific tuining line betw tion for main- A ten-cent toll on the motor n Omaha and Council BlufTs. : way the railrond manngers are ding with broadaxes indicates that some gore will be spilt befere a truce is vatehed up. — Tu is quite evident that the Tall Sye- amore of the Wabuash did not know tho pentleman fromn Vermont was loaded und primed on Indiana politics. RAaNBow id" to have flipped @ copper to determine with which party to cast his fortunes. Jus now he is casting fortunes among th legistators of Ohio. G AL BUTLER joins with Senator Gorman and FEugeno Higgins in de- nouncing the Australian system of bal- lot roform. The people, however, re- spect it for “the encmies it has made.” Tne council combine purposely and deliberatély snubbed two faithful and honorable republicans in the make-up of the committees. It is a long and lonesome political lane that has no turn. Tie deal by which the Dodlin com- bino captured the city council was due largely to Wo, Us & Co., who manipu- “lated the five democratic members 1o avenge themselves on Ford and Lowry. The harmony which now prevails in the demoeratic camp is thie to turn the edge of a razor. is ample room for another smelting works in Omaha, The marvel- ous success of the present plant, now couceded to be the largest silver reduc- tion works in the country, is an assur- auce that o like industry, with ample cupital and good management, will aet the owners handsome returns on the in- vestmont. ArFTER all tha interested talk about the splendid condition of the new hos- pital, and anxiety of the contractors to unlond, Superintendent Coots finds con- siderable important work yet tobe done and the commissioners have endorsed his recommendutions. It will be time enough to accept the building when 1t is completed. —— Sourn OMANA residents have regis- tered n protest againt excessive tele- phone tolls, eepecially the oxtra tax for connections with Omaha. The remedy is in the hands of the citizens, and may be stated 1n one word—aunexation. By joining the parent city they can not only dispense with the toll, but ma- terially assist in reducing the price charged per month COUNTY AUDITOR EVANS has sue- &eded in plugging a large lenk in the connty treasury. Heretofore bids for supplying stationery were limited to compuratively few articles, more than “half the necessaries being lumped at _Whatever the bidder chose w exact, Under the new schedule the price of every article must be given. A com- parison of the old and the new bids shows a reduction on scores of articles " rangfug feom one hundred to four hun- dred pov cent. A large saving to the taxpayers will result, Tne Missouri democrats had searcely recovered from their joy over the dis- covery of boodle methods in the repub- lican legislature of Kansas when & sim- ilar bomb was exploded in their own camp. St. Louis butchers raised a purse of threo thousand dollars to grease the passage of a meat inspection bill in the logislature. It went through the house with a whoop, but met a roil of twenty-five thousand in the sonate and died there. Now the buteliers have squealed, and interesting developraents and indictments are vromised. A LESSON FROM MASSACHUSETTS. The people of Massachusetts last year overwhelmingly defeated the proposi- tion to prohibis the manufacture and sale of liquor 1n that state by constitu- tional amendment. For many years tho state has had a licenso and local option law, and the results of ation have been so satisfactory that popular sentiment by a very large ma- jority decided to adhere toit. How vell this law has worked restricting the liguor traffic is shown by facts pre- sonted in the message of Governor Brackett of Massachusetts, Under the existing law the sale of in- toxicating liquor is absolutely pro- hibited in all the towns and cities of the state excopt those whose citizens vote to license such sale. Last year, of tho three hundred and fifty: towns and cities in the state, two hundred and eighty-eight voted against and only sixty-three in favor of lieense, and the governor suys if the towns vote this year the same as last, there will bo absolute prohibition in over four-fifthsof the cities and towns of the common weaith, And this prohibi- tion is complote and effective. In the communities which decide against licensing the sale of liquor there liquor sold. The will of the people is rospected and enforced, and not evaded and defeated as is done in the prohi- bition states. No *‘joints,” ‘‘speak- and “‘boot-leggers” carry on an illicit traffic in the Massachusetts com- munities which refuse to license the sule of liquors. Iurthermore, in the comparatively few towns ana citics vot- ing to grant licenses the gov- ernor says the restrictive feat- ures make it lavgely o1 is no of the law prohibitory. Under the limitation act of 1888 only one license can bo granted in Boston for every five hundred in- habitants, and in other cities and towns only one for one thousand. Sales in these tewns and cities are prohibited between the hours of eleven at night and six in the morning on every weck day, atall times during the Sabbuth, on all election days and on legal holi- days, except in certain cases by drug- gists and by licensed innholders to their guests. They are pro- hibited in auy building within four hundred feet of a public school, and 10 any building within twenty-five feet of any real estate the owner of which duly objects to the granting of a liceuse therefor. Every license to sell liquor to be drunk on the premises is subject to the condition that the licensee shall not keep a public bar, and shall hold a license as an innholder or com- mon victualler, and this latter he is not entitled to hold unless actually carrying on the business specified. The governor says the obvious intent of the law is to do away with the dram shop and the public bar, and to confine the sale of liguor to be drunk on the premises to hotels and restaurants. The result is actual over eighty-two per cent of the towns and cities of Massachusetts, while in those communities wheve a majority of public sentiment authorizes the sale of liquor it must be carried on under reg- ulations and restrictions which reduce the evils from it to the winimum. The operation of this law has been dis- tinetly in the interest of tem- perance, the facts showing that absolute prohibution is more general in Massachusetts now than when the state had a prohibitory law and went through the sume oxperience that other states have had with such a law. The prac- tical lesson which the treatment of the liquor question in Massachusetts fur- nishes isobvious. While inthe prohibi- tion states of Iowa and Kunsas liquor selling is openly carried on in some towns and cities without any control or restriction and an illicit traflic widely prevails, 1t being safe to say that there is not complete prohi- bition in one-half the towns of either state, in Massachusetts eighty- wwo per cent of the towns and cities are absolutely free from the traffic in liquors, and in the other eighteen per cent the business is carefully regulatea and pays roundly for its privilege. It is astriking example of the superiority of local sef-government, as to this ques= tion, over the attempted exercise of state authority in local afiairs. prohibition in The effort of Senatos Voorhees of In- diana to make political capital for him- sell or his purty out of the alleged Dudley letter, which was thrust upon the country lute in the last presidential campaign as evidence of a corrupt scheme on the part of the republican national committee to carry Indiana, does not promise to be largely profitable. In fact, it may be said to have already failed, Mr. Voorhees affectad to believe that because the United States district attorney at Indianapolis did not procurs tho arrest of Colonel Dudley, the al- leged author of the ‘‘hlocks of live™ lotter, on the occasion of his recent visit to that city, he had probably been instructed not to do 5o by the depart- ment of justice at Washington, and he introduced in the senate a resolution calling upon the attorney gencral for information as to whether there had been any correspondence rogarding this mavter between his department and the district attorney at Indianap- olis. On this resolution Mr. hees made one his char- actevistic spoeches, which was respouded to by Senator Edmunds in a way that disposed of the Indiaoa sena- tor almost as thoroughly as had been doue on a previous occasion by Senator Ingalls, The senate, however, very properly passed the resolution, in an amended form, and it appears to have been very promptly forwarded to the atlorney general. At any rate, that official has girendy respouded to it with the information thut the is- trict attorney at Indianapolis had received. no inseructions, oral or written, on the subject of the arrest of Dudley, and that no com- munication hud been seut to him or re- ceived from Riui by the department of justice, directly or indirectly, with Voor- of reference to the subject. Thus the Indiana statesman is utterly discomfited in his flust onset, and there will be some iuterest to know what next he will do, ts oper- | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY for he will hardly permit himself to be thus easily and summarily vanquished. There has been a great deal said in the democratic press from me to time regarding this alleged Dudley lettor as seriously reflect'ng upon the republican man- agers of the last presidential campaign, and it would perhaps be well if the mystery could be cleared up by an in- vestigation. But it should be borne in mind, as was pointed out by Senator Edmunds, that a democratic United ates district attorney had ample time in which to do this, with certainly every incentive to do so if the result would be damaging to the republican managers and party, and his ilure to take any proceedings warrants the in- ference that after sifting and preparing the evidence **hesaw,"” as Mr. Edmunds expressod it, “such a flood of light that he did not care to have any hand in the business and resigned.’ That, light was doubtless a conviction that the let- tor was aforgery, which unquestionably the great majority of intelligent demo- crats, at least outside of Indiana, believe it to huve been, WILL BEAR WATCHING. The election of Mr. Chaffee to the presi- dent's chair is a guaranty that the cit business will be conducted upon business. like and honest methods.—World-Heral Where is the guaranty that the eity business will be any more honestly con- ducted by- Mr. Chaffee in the chair than 1t has been conducted by Mr. Chaflee on the floor? Do figs grow from thistles? A yeur ago Mr. Chaffee was an un- known quantity. Outside of the very narrow cirele in which he moved as a lumber broker nobody knew anything about lum. He had never been promi- nently connected with any Omaha on- terprise and had done nothing to entitle him to prominence. Now he is a man with a record. As a member of the council during the past year he has becn the mainspring of a star-chamber coterie that has done a land office busi- ness on very small eapital at the expense of the taxpayers. As chaivman of the com- mittee on public buildings Mr. Chaflee was the chief manipulator of the very unbusiness-like reconstruction of the city hall and Vandervoorts right-hand man in the Dodlin granite job. If Mr. Chaffee’s methods in the chair are to be aduplicate of his serpentine ways in committee work he will bear watching. But our amiable contempor: always has been, and always will be, consist- ently inconsisient. On Tuesday last Broatch was held up in one column as model for all our future mayors, and raised to the skies as a man of ster- ling honesty, while in the adjoining column Broatch was blackwashed with gas (bill) tav. By the way, Mr. Chaftee voted for that gas bill—but he is a model ty and his methods are always 3 decision of the state board of transportation in the Elmwood elevator case is eminently just and equitabl The attorneys of the Missouri Pacific have uot attempted to controvert the state of facts shown at the original hearing. They merely deny the right of the board to interfere in the prem- ises. This has been exploded so often in the courts that the repetition of the threat to appeal is solely for the pur- pose of delaying action. In the present instance the Farmers’ alliance rebelled against the clevator combine and de- manced the right to build an elevator of their own on the company’s grounds on equal terms with those in existence. The company refused, but the state board of transportation decided that the farmers are entitled to the privilege, To deny them that right would have placed - them at the mercy of the ele- vator monopoly. The opposition to the order is not inspired so much by the railroads as by the inside rings of offi ciuls, who ave largely interested in maintaining the power and profits of the elevators now in existence. If the monopoly is disturbed by a competitor controlled by the producers, the rai road will not suffer, but the inside cliques will be touched in a tender spot —their pocketbook. This is the reason why the rairoad officials rush to the assistance of the elevators, and attempt to coerce shippers to patronize favored concerns. «TiE BEE is confident that the order of the boa will be affirmed if brought before the supreme court. Tk Omaha packing interest,” says the Chicago 7vibune, “is now able to appreciate the value of the old saying that what is sauce for the goose is snuce for the gander. It built up an active business by dint of securing a heuvy freight discrimination, in com- mon with other Missouri river points, as against Chicago.” The Tvilunc mag- nifics a mole hill into a mountain. The discrimination against Chicago is more imaginary than real. On the contrary, Chicago has prospered and grown fat on railvoad diserimination, and not until the Missouri river cities re- belled and demanded commercial free- dom did the railvroads grant them equal rightsand rates with Chicago. Now the Chicago porker squeals because its rivals are strong enough to enforce their rights. The decay of Chicago as a stock market and packing center is in accord with the laws of trade, which impel all industries to follow the source of supply. Chicago wrested the pack- ing industry from Cincinnati, It is now shifting to the Missouri river, and no amount of lamentation or misrepre- sentation can alter the fact. The as- sertion thut Omaha is out in the cold is absurd. Omaba’s position as third packing center of the countr disturbed by the envious wails Chiecago. e—— Tue state department is said to be again agitating for a removal of the embargo placed on American meats by France and Germany. It was under- stood to have been a part of the in- structions of our ministers to those countries to endeavor to bring about a more liberal policy with regard to the impogtation of American weats, but there has been no intimation of any movement on their purt in this direc- tion. . There is a very cousiderable popular sentimeut in both Frauce ana Germany hostile to the policy of those governments in exclud- ing our meats, but the probabilit that this is stilk overborne by the de- mand of horhis producers for protoction agninst Amgrican competition. It is suggested that af the Fronch and Ger- man governments do not show a more favorablo dispbsition in this matter a policy of retiiliation on our part would be justifiable. We might properly and advantageously shut out the ad ulterat- ed wines and some other articles that come from France. At any rate, those governments ought to be made to un- understand our displeasure with their unfriendly policy toward our products. THE remarkable growth of the State Farmers’ alliannce during the last year is a gratifying evidonce of an awakening among the producers. A ar ago there wore only forty local or- ganizations with & membership of fifteen hundred. Tod there are nine hundred alliauces, representing thirty thousand members. Organi tion among the farmers had become an urgent necessity, Confronted on every side by combines and trusts, they are forced to unite to protect themselves from the grasping greed of corporations. It is to be hoped that strong, conserva- tivo men will bo placed at the helm of the allianco—moen who know the right of the producers and who will demand and secure just treatment from the transportation companies of the state. Tue status of Indian citizens on the liquor question has finally been deter- mined by the United States court. Having severed his tribal relations, he is invested with the rights and im- munities of American citizonship, and may even celebrate with red five and red liquids like the pale face, but no white man ean legally sell or give him the cssential firewater. Unaer this de- sion the Americanized red man is thrown back on his own resources and must become his own distiller and brewer, or move to a prohibition state where the stuff can be had without ques- tion. THE testimony of Sioux City confirms the charge that there is more money than morals in the enforcement of pro- hibition, According to the latest a counts three officials who were parti larly active in chasing bootleggrers last vear succeeded in squeezing twelve thousand, six humdred and enty- soven dollars out of the business, one- fourth of which represent overchavges. This snug sum (ropped into the pockets of the oflicials, iand accounts for their “high sense of ‘duty” in enforcing the law. u- Have Their Hands Full, Baltimore American, New York politiciaus are unablo o keep tho streets clesned. It requires all their time and attentjon to keep the treasury in that condition, el ol Marry, Why Don't You Marry? Chicago Tribune. Miss Mary Anderson would confer a great favor on tho telegraph editors of this coun- try if she would kindly consent to marry some worthy youug man, Eat bse e Shamed By the South. Minnzapolis Journal, The southern people have alroady raised money enough for a monument to Mr. Grady. New York is thinking of asking them to take the Grant monument fund in hana, o Faith Wouldn't Work. Chicago Tribune. A faith-cure doctor in Pennsylvania has been compelied to suspend practice in order 0 bo troatea for cancer, and the hard- hearted old ‘*regular” who has the case cheerfully exhorts him to have faith and charges him $15 & visit, The Man Is Spotted. Beatrics Bzpress, 0. H. Rothacker, at one time editor of the Omaha Republicab, and a bitter personal enemy of Rosewater, publishes a card ex- pressing the opinion that the charges made by Vandervoort against that gentieman are untrue, He intimates that there is a mix- ing-up of persons and circumstances, and that the offenses named were not committed ‘by. Rosewater, but by a former member of his staff. The chances aro that Rothacker knows what he 18 talking about, i Mt Must Shake the Gang, Fremont ibuie, It is the opinion of the Tribune that the Omaha Republican will never succeed until it shakes off the gang that has hung on to it for years, using tha paper in attempts to tear down Rosewater and Tne Bru. Some other reason for existence should be adopted, and the entire concern reorganized on a new basis. [ighteen years of constant warfure on Rosewater and Tre Bee hus only built them up, and it is strange that some of the many publisners the Republican has had have not discovered this fact and acted ac- cordingly. Ll Ry Enforcing (?) the Prohibitory Law, he Maine newspapers koow Irom ex- perience what governors' proclamations in favor of the enforcement of the prohibitory law amount to, The Portland Press recalld the fact that several similar proclamations have been issued in the state of Maine, but it says that “their effect has not been aston- ishing.”” Tho difficulty in the way of the en- forcement of the law in New Hampshire," it adds, “is the sathe as in Mmoo -in certain localities public sdntiment is not up to its vigorous execution”—and *‘that difficulyy,” it declares, “‘can no more be removed by ex- ccutive proclawation in the Granite state than in the Pine Tree state.” The great principle which Maine has thus come to com- preliend by its experience with prohibition— that, as the Ppesp puts it, “the sentiment immediately susrpunding public ofiicers is the one thab will control them in the long run’—is al4e the principie which under- lics “the southbun problem” and which ren- ders absurd Lhu'fmuugu of federal election laws. [ e ——— STATHAND TERRITORY, 15 b Nebraska Joitings. A movement'is oo foot to form a council of the Royal Arcanum at Hastigs, ‘The Stockville Seatinol has made its ap- pearance with B, A. Harlan as publisher, An effort is being made to orgauizw a ?a::»an.y to build an opera house ut Nor- olk. The doors of the furniture house of George A. Stewart of Hastings bave been closed on & wortgake, H. W. Woodcock of Newport has caused the arrest of Charles Potter on a charge of shooting with intent to kill. The Atkiuson 3oe has boeu sold by H. W, Dudley to Chapman & lurbauk and its politics will be changed to republican. The Nor hwestern Nebraska Live Stock Journal is & new publication ut Hyauuis, Grant county, in the interests of tue live stock men of that section. The annual stockholders' meeting of the Citizens' bank of Hennet was held Monday wight, and the following board of directo elecied for the ensuing year: J. E. Vaader- lip, G. W, E, Pierce and the past wore fund, making it $19,000 Tho stars and stripes will soon wave over every schoot house in Adams county. The f flag was raised last woek ovor the school in the Wallace distriot Mrs. Mina Hopwood won tho contest for tho county superintendency in Phoips county, a reconnt of tho vote showing that the lady had a majority of fourteen. Mrs. J Chubbuck, an old aod well known residout of I'remont, rotired Weda duy night apparently in excellont health, but at3o'clock in the morning her husband awoke to find her a_corpse. Heart discase is supposed to huve been the cause. Tho Weekly Current is a new newapaper venture at North Platto undor the direction of William H. Mullane. The paper is demo- cratic and announces that it will bo ‘‘fer- nenst”’ prohibition and advocate tariff re form, Australian ballot system, high Iicon: high botds, Sunday saloon closing, fron and rear, and enforcoment of the luw. The people of Kearney are proparing to give a royal welcomo to the Nobraska Press association, which moots in that city Januar; 23 and 24, "An intercsting progranme cov ing the twodays has boen prepared, and the business sessions will bo mado both enter . On the eveuing of the ooy will give a grand nbers of the association at Midway hotel, All members of the association and editors and publishers in the stute who desire to becoms members, to- gethor with their wives, arecordially invited to uttend the annual meeting. McClay, ©. A, Tho oarnings of carried to the surplus the lowa 1tems, A new high school building is to be erected at Cedar Rapids. Tramps and footpads make shalltown vory live The seminary at Nora Junction aged by fire to tho extend of §1,000, ‘The benevolent union of Keokulk is work- ing to found a home for unfortunates in that city. » project of a wagon bridee across Mississippi is again being agitated lington, ‘The biennial report of Charles Bearasley, state wspoctor of illuminating oils, shows that he has ten deputies, and the fees during tho year amounted to $35,085.53, or $10,000 a year, i Otto Link, a nino-year-old orphan boy re- nily sent to the Eldora reform school from Fort Dodge, died in that institution. Otto was ono of the brightest little follows in the school. Several constables from Edgewood visited Ikader to search for hquor. The Elkader- itesarmed themselves with shotguns and chased tho invaders out of town. Several shots wera fired, but no one was iujured. Theroare 154 students enrolled in the Towa college for the blind at Vinton, ranging in age from six to thirty years. The sexes are about evenly aivided, seventy-five bein wales and seventy-nine females. The lego is one of the best in the United State A bad wreek occurred on the Toledo & Northw Lawn Hill, forty miles north of aused by the breaking of a switch rod. Two stock cars were thrown from the track and soveral head of cattle killed. Fireman H. Loyson had his knoe smashed and collarbone broken, and Brake- man Kenlor suffered a sprained ankle. Walter Allard of Waterloo is in extremel hard luck, He is the proprictor of a ten co saloon and was warried Monday night to an estimable young lady of that ity. While the marriage feast was in pro- ss officers broke in upon the festivitios rrested the groom on tho charge of selling 1ntoxicants. Tucsday mormng ho pleaded guilty of selling hard cider and was seat to jail for sixty da life in Mar- was dam- the at Bur- The Two Dakotas, Castalia now has a brass band. Brookings will have a trade carnival Feb- ruary 14. The Franifort mills recentl order for flour to be shipped to Scotiand. Contracts will be let 1n February for the erection of a packing house plant at Sioux Falls to cost $300,000. By eoming n contact with the hind leg of a bronchio a Lower Brule Indian is now laid up with a broken jaw. Bd Kennedy, a rising young lawyer of Parker, has jusi fallen "heir to the sum of 300,000 by the death of & rich uucle in New Yorl state. Mrs. Anetonte Osmandeon, supposed to be the oldest woman in the Dakotas, died at her home near Chamberlain reccutly avthe age of 100 years. Of some twenty wells put down in the vicinity of Ashton, at a depth of from 120 to 225 feet, gus in greater or less quaotity bas boen found in all of them. ‘The dates for the grand encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Dukota department, at Sioux Falls, have been fixed for March 19, 20 and 2L Grand Commander A. J. Alger of Michigan is expected to bo Dresent. Says the Kimball Index: Saturday, while euwaged digeing for water, Joseph Strausly and a comrade struck a flow which filled to within a foot of the top of the well. Notic- ing an oily appearance upon the water Mr, Stransky commenced (0 skim off the surface and secured several gallons of oil which burned freely when a cloth wick was highted, 1f such a flow continues it will be wel to in- vestigate the matter. The spotis about twelve miles southwest of Kimball. The oldest man in_ Sanborn county is James Kimble, who lives with his son m Artesian. The'old gentleman was born in Oxford, England, Jauuary 11, 1769, He is a mason by trade and has traveled all over the world, part of the time in, the embloy of the British government. In 1322 he was sent to the British military station at Ascension Island to do some mason work, and while there did the stone work on the tombstone of the first Napoleon and carved the dead emperor's name upon it. After dritting around he finally came to the United States in 1545and has remained bere over since, moving 10 Dakota two years ago, He is in very good bealth and in the bracing at- mosphere of the southern twin promises to outlive the century. S Prohibitior Hamburg (la,) Free Speech. This question of Iate has become 80 pro.i- nent in Towa's issues that we would be out of place not to recognize the issue aud con- tribute our mite towards its solution, We don't know that tho time is yet ripe for pre- senting onr views ou it, and this is one rea- son why we have said little, as it is quite easy to try to do good and then get kicked for it. We are strong in favor ot temporance, bnt believe prohibition to be a false and in- competent mousure in its interest, We be- lieve men are honest in support of it but mistaken, and that they should be is not strange, a8 ouly a few generations back they hanged and burned their fellow men in the name of morality. We believe they were honest but misguided. We believe the pros hibitionists are doing the same thing in spirit, and would 5000 appeal to any means o carry out their ideas, * * # But you ask how will we got rid of the whisky evil if we desist from forcible sup- pression, Woell, we answer justas you change in favor of any other moral. Intemperauce is @ crimo that is wide- spread and belongs to prohibitionists and others alike, It way be denomioated as that restless spirit that leads us in all_excess in labor, in eating, in drinking, in dressing, in money making and everythiog we do inordinately. Hence the treatment for this complaint should be broad snd comprebensive; it should be studied in & wore comprehensive manner thun the mere treatment of 4 sore from a corrupt system. That our people should discuss tbe guestion as developed by alcobol and all other evil fruits with a view to prevent dunger to our peo- ple is quite important and s proper, but to reduce 1t to the contortions of u few fauatics on one hand and a few heartless wretches on the other, who only have in view plunders from their fellow men, is @ basis that is hu- miliating to our great state, which boasts of its schoo! @nd learniog snd its liberal, broad- minded eitizens. We think lowa bas been clouded by this pitiful farce long enough and now as the people are sull auxious to do something why can't the comumon sense citi- Zens rise up in thelr might and stop it by scme prudent treatment of the matter, for certainly the prohibitionists and saloon- keepers are neither qualified intellectually or any otoer way to do it and we don't be- lieve every person in the stute should be bored about twice a yt with them. Don’t buy trashy imitations. Get the genuine Red Cross Cough Drops. filled an | standing, surrounded | transformed litarally intoa statue of A BATTLE IN THE DARK, Marvelons Exploit of A Company of Russian Infantry. Tho Russian soldior dies at his post. Ihave scen him in winter on sentry duty on the_heights of Shipka, says & writer in Harper’s for January, die with snow, and ice: I have seen him die on tho march, striding over the sandy desert, and yielding up his last breath with the last stop; 1 have scen him die of his wounds on the buttle field or in the hos- pital, at a distance of 3,000 miles from his native village—and in theso su- preme moments 1 have always found the Russian soldier sublime. In the Khiva campaign on thenight of July 15 our troop broke camp at2 a. m. Hardly had the first squadron, with Bugene de Leuchtenberg at their head, started along the rond, than sud- denly the air trembled with clamor, howis and savage war crios from n crowd of soveral thousand men, and seven Turkoman tribes, men and women together, fell upon our troop. Our squadrons were flung back upon the rest of tho cavalry by force of the shock upon the in ry. The coufusion was terrible. We could not sce the confu- sion, for it was too dark, but we felt it. No more could we distinguish friends from enemies t this moment 1 was crowded in the midst of a group of Cos- sucks. and my horse was pushed gently and slowly, a8 if by waves, fivst one way and then the other. At fiest not a single shot wus heard, but only the thud of bers striking human bodies and the amentable eries of the wounded. Sud- denly there was o flash and a glare in front of us, and a violeat explosion. then a socond and a thivd, The rocket battery, being amongst the first squad- rons, had succeeded, thanks to the dark- ness, in placing its stands right in the middle of the enemy. Unfortunately the rockets burst without rising. Prob- ably they had got wet and the hoat had split them. However, tho explosions frightened the Turkomans, and had the rosult of forming for a moment a littie opening in the muss of the combatan ““Then I heard behind m n enc getic voice, *Make way! as two compan- ics of the Second batailion of Turkistan riflemen passed through the midst of the cossacks, and hed to the spot where the battery had taken its stand. I joined the right wing of the first com- pany. ‘Kirej’ ve-echoed the word of command, and a discharge was heard so uniform that it sounded like a single shot. ‘*Five!” T heaurd immediately alongside, and anotner similar di charge followed. ‘*Iirel alittle further, and yet furthor, and then further still, to the right of where I was, one volley after another, and at last, in the dis- tanco mear the gavdens, wo heard tho ing of the cannon. Bight succes- ive rounds werce fired by the compan- ies near which [ was, and in peace timo, during reviews, I have orten heard worse firvin Between the second and the third rounde a group of Turkomans dashed through the first company and killed four sol- diers, but this did not prevent the reg- ularity of tho fiving. The company was there, stunding firmly as if 1t had not even remarked this little episode, waiting all attention for another ecom- mand to fire. Whou the sun. with the rapidity usual in the east, rose on the horizon, our troop was found to be drawn up in a semicirele, one company by the side of the other, in an order as ret asaf the manauve: had heen executed in brond daylight and by special word of command. [t was the regular volley firing which had shown the battalions their pluces. 1f the firing had been confused and irregular the troops would not have been able to discover their whereabouts in the general chaos, In the camplay the decad and wounded Turkomans and Russians. The chief of the detachment, General GalowatschelT, and the chicf of the staff, were both wounded with saber cuts. In front of our companies was piled up a compuct mass of fallen enemies, and in the dis- tance the horizon was literally covered by the tall caps of the flecing Turko- mans, e QUEEN VICTORIA'S YACHT. ‘the Palace on Which the English Bover ign (rave The exquisite cleanliness of every- thing strikes one forcibly on bourd the Victoria and Albert, says the Londoun Truth, The deck is Inid with cork loow cloth, offer which when the aueen is on board, a carpet is placed, and every- thing olse that is to be secn is of pure while, with gilded relief work and " sil- vermountings. There are very com- fortable little sitting-rooms on the promennde deck. which has three windows and askylight. It is furn i green morocco, and the ceiling is painted in white and gold. Tho state apartments below are pluced on either side of a corridor, and they are furnished with a very protty chintz, 'he queen's bins “are on the starboard side und her sleeping apart- ment containg a large and old-fash- ioned but very comfortable-looking bedstead, with pillars and canopy, an next is the dressing-room, which was formerly Prince Albert’s cabin, and 1% remains as he left 1t, his little writing table and wardrobe never having been moved. Large mapshang on the walls, The cabins occupied by Princess Be- utrice (or any princess who happens to be traveling with the queen)ure all of her majesty’s quarters, and on the otber side of the corridor ure the cabins of the princess and a large bath-room. The breakfast-voom is in the after part of the vessel, and it has very large win- dows and_is hung with the portraits of all the officers who have commanded the royal yacht, The drawing-room is for- ward on the port side, and it is fur- nished in bird’s-eye maple, with a piano and several hunulilul]x carved side tables. It is hung with portraits of members of the royal family, and in this room is a small library he yacht is now lighted wish clectiicity, except the queen’s own cabins. e R COOKING IN BRAZIL. The Coffee-is Delicions but the tely are Wretched Places The domestic cooking of urban Bra- zilinos, s a rule, is exquisite, says the New York Times. 'J'flwm is a very large Krench population in Rio, and ‘rench customs, styles and cuisine are in vogue. The wines are superb and cheap. The Oporto clavet,which comes from old estates in Portugal to relatives in Rio de Janeiro, isdeliciously mellow, and unrivaled in flavor. Sherry and Madciva are likewise fine, but of course Oporto is the specialty. The red wines ave always good, even vin ordinaire. Fraits form a principal part of the des- ert, and such fruits! Fruit of Conde, Pernambuco pincapples, Bahia oranges, grapes of Petropolis—ah! the memory thereof will last always, and tantalize onein dreams! And the coffee! It is elixir—fit for the gods! But when one leaves the citios one bids farewell to palutable cooking. Black beans, charqui and farinha form the staple of edibles, unless, indecd one is given “toncinho,” greasy pork, with B ack beans snd farinha, The mandioca root supplies the “'staff of life” to the Brazilians of the interior. Farinba is the coarse meal—the grated juice-ex- vressed, over-aried mandioca. The raw wandiocs is poisonous, but the Ho- ison, being vory volatile, is driven ot by heat. Oconsionally one finds a fuiy bottle of claret or some rare old port, but usually the wine is sour, villainous stuff, The coffee is always good speak now of the vendas—tho common, the ouly country inns. If one is thrown dpon. the hospitality of the priests, us often _happens, or the doors of a coffee plauter’s ‘“‘bazenda” iy open by letters of introduction the traveler fairs sumptuously. hospitality is always tho rule and the. exception, Everywhere one de welcome, even by the poor on the vendas—not often cloan comfortable—huve a hospitable one comes to pay the reckoning. The hotels thronghout Brazil, even in Rio de Janeiro, are wrotehed aflgirs. The Hotel Estrangeiro is the best, tho rooms being large and airy and tho beds clean and comfortable. " The res- tuurants,as a rule, are poor,even in It Tho Globo is farely good. Butter comes in from the United States and Sweq ) and is to be avoided. Milk, o cufo au lait in the morning, is not in demand. Familios are_served directly from the cow driven, with ealf at heels, 1o the door, and the modicum milkod while the black servant waits and gos- sips with the milkiman, THE PARIS DETECTIVES, The Force Founded by Vidocq Hew Developed to 300 Men Some interesting information respect- ing the Paris detective police has been given by M. Valbel in his book o sureto, which is in reality a se biographios of the principal members of the for The police de sureto must be distinguished from the suvete gener- ale, which is really the “political police foree” acting undoer the orders of the ministor of the intevior. and in u most seeret mannor. The police de surete, on the other hand, is a body the mem- bers of which look for their orders to the prefect of police, or cabinet du profect, and perform their dutics openly and without any of that impene- trable mystery which cnvelops the pro- ceedings of the ministerial myrmidons. The Dogberry of the surete could not, in fact, pursuo his investigations with- out making himsolf known—generally Icing—although when following up aclew in a eriminal case he does not disdain to adopt the disguise which 1s supposed to be permanently used by ox- tra elever detectives of **blood” and thunder fiction.” The ordinary **plain clothes mau® rejoices in the high- sounding designation of “‘inspector,’ and has as his respective chiefs the sub- brigadier, the brigudier and the prin- cipul inspector. This force was first founded b, famous Vidocq in 1832, when - it comprised thirty-one men, to wero added fourteen *‘outsider were called ind body was increased to afterward reduced to s at last brought up to its present re- doubtablo number of 500 “inspectors who are directed by M. Goron, now London engaged in the “Millery mys .7 He has under him on the staff ono chief clork., who acts as his princi- understudy;™ four other s or secret ten brigadi diors, 00 detective inspectors are at- ed to sections, such as the special brigade of picked men, the department of informatiorrand warennts, that of ve quisitions or ‘senrches,” the pawn oflices, the streets, and the disorderly There is also another impor- tant section, that of the center or per- munence, to which belongs the detectives told off for various eventualities. During a period of fifty- seven years the suvete has had twel chiefs, of whom the best-known, not including Vidoeq, was € whose memoirs obtained a world- reputation. In later times M. Ma another head of the detective depart- ment, has published his experiences in the famous force und has therein venti- lated various theories about its failings and shortcomings. Notwithstanding such criticism, however, the French whom , until it w s, and twenty sulh surete maintains a high charaeter for efliciency, and its victorys have been by no meéans nconsiderable during re- cent years, e The Right of Sanctaary. Sanctuary was a place of refuge and of safecy for offenders of various kiunds. All churches and churchyards were, down to the time of Henry VIII., in vested with this protective power. Tho possible stay in sanctuary of any fugi tive was limited to forty days,at the ox- piration of which time he was oound to quit the realm by the nearest port ns- signed him by coroner, During his journey to the sea coast the claimant of sanctuary privileges was puaranteed immunity from wmolestation as hy trudged onward, cross in* hand. 1o seoms odd that no farther back in the Ymusty past” -than 1624, the twenty first year of the reign of Jumes I., mu derers, highwaymen and all villians of that class, had but to do their deviltry in the graveyards, which formerly su rounded all places of worship, in order to he beyond the reach of justice, but such was the case. James I. abolished the laws granting sanctuary the year before his death. A PROMINENT REGULAR PHYSICIAN Of Now York City gives the following di- rections FORPREVENTING AND CURING INFL NZA OR “LA GRIPPE” ¢ Evaporato morning evening a fow table- spoonfuls of POND'S EXTRACT and in- hale the vapor. Pour the POND'S EX ‘PRACT into a tin cup, which hold over the flames of & lamp; hold the noge over the cup that the vapor may be inhaled. By this treatment the membrans of the nose and throat will be in such condition that it will rosist the polsonous action of Lhe germs which are the cause of this disease; and if the germs have already beeu innaled they will bo destroyed, The symptoma of “La Grippe'" are inflammation of the lining of the mem- brane of the nose, which may extend to thg _ lungs, with congh, sncezing, runniug at nose, sad perhaps severe g buins high fever.” These airections are fo POND'S EXTRACT only, It may be un- safo to use any other article this way. HAVE POND'S EXTRACT I READ 8. Made only by the Pond's Extract Co, New Yorkand London. Furnishing Goods 43 ) ries, five chicl inspec; <