Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY “ B ROSEWATER, Editor. M " FUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION {ly and Sunday, One Year o m ix months 500 hreo Months . 250 Iny Ree, 0o Year, 2m Kly lee, One Year with Preimium. 200 OFFICES, ymaha. Nee Buflding. Ticago Otfice, 7 Ko okery Bullding Tovw §ork. Reoms 14 and 15 Teibuns Building. ¥ashington, No. 513 Fonrteenth Street, {ounctl Itlutts, t louth Omaha, Corner M CORRESPONDENCE, anfeations relating to news and edl rizent [ S 8 AN businetnlotiets and fomitténces should be uadressed to The Bes Publishing Company, n. Drafts, checks and office orders © be mivde payable to the order of the Compauy, e Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors, sex Building Farnam and Seventeonth Stroets The Bee on the Traina. There s no excuse for a fatlure to get Titk Bre m the trains. All newsdealers have been notis ed 10 carry & full supply, Travelers who want Ty, BEE A can't get it on trains whers other ymalia papers re- carriod are roquested to t Dariicular to glve in_all onses tull mation as to date, raillway and number in, Give 1is your name, not for publication or 1n- \eccessary use, butas & guaranty of good faith. THE DAILY BEE. fworn Statement of Oirculation, $tate of Nebraska, s County of Douglas, George B, Tzschuck, secretary of Tnx Bex Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that Ihe actual circulation of Tre DALY BEE for the week ending February 1. 1600, was as follows: Snnday, Keb, 0. Monday, Feb. 10, [usuday. Fet, 11 IWednesd ay, o, L Jaturiny, Feb.ib . POTTRPPPRPRY PRTRTIT 19.723 Average.... " GEORGE 1. TZSCHUCK. Eworn 1o before me and subacribed to in my resence this Iith day of February, A 800. {Seal.] N.'P. FEIL, Notary Pubiic. Ftate of Nebraska, Conaty ot Uo\l‘lh\n. George B, Trschuck, hmng Auly sworn, de- Joses and saya that ho la secrotary of Trs e Puniishing Company, that the actual average Haily circulation of Tik DAILY month of Fevry 0, 1, 18,00 copless tor Mhrch, optes for April, 18, 18669 coptel A6, 14,609 copita: For Juiue, 1885, o iy, 1480, TATH Copios: Tor At , 18,651 ‘coples: for September, 158, IRTI) -unlvs. for October, 1584 47 coples: for No- vember, 1850, 10,310 coj for Decombor, 15, 10,048 copies; for Jenuary, 189 for 1oplen Sworn to pefore me presence this 14th uf February, A. D., 18%0. [Seal.] . FriL, Notury Public. :——————-————q The weekly bank statementshows the resorvo has decreased $2,362,000. The banks now hold $7,497.000 in excess of legal requirements. Emreror WILLIAM'S solicitude for the down-trodden workingmen of Ger- many increases as the election ap- proaches. ASSURA now come from Wash- ington that an early settlement of the postoffice site title ‘“‘is barely possible.” This is mighty interesting, if true. WHERE was the wateh dog of the city treasury, the vociferous major, when the lights went out and the Btreet railway company wentinto the wvault ? P —— PROPERTY owners on residence streets should carefully canvass the ndvantages and disadvantages of the various paving material before signing petitions presented by interested parties. There is every reason to believe that a radical reduction in the cost of dura- ble material will be secured this season, and several paving monopolies’ broken up. DispATcHES from Pittsburg repre- sent Rt. Rev. James O’Connor, bishop of Omaha, in a-dying condition, This nnnouncement will creale sincere and widespread sorrow. During his four- teen years residence in this city Bishop O’Connor endeared himself to all classes ‘hy the simplicity of his life and his un- affected zeal in the cause of religion. He loved the city and has done much to promote its growth and prosperity. Tue refunding of the paving tax ad- vanced by street car companies was one of the greatest outrages ever perpe- trated on property owners, Itisano- torious fuct that these corporations re- fusod to lay tracks on streets before the pavement was laid for the purpose of evading their share of the cost by cog- ing in one year later. Eleventh street is a notable instance of this system of tax shirking. The ordinance requir- ing advance payment of the paving tax was passed to meet this scheme, but a magnanimous corporation council re- mitted the morvey paid and shouldered the Bntire cost of paving on the abut- ting property. * Tue movement to barness the inex- haustible power of Niagara falls and make it contribute to the industrial progress of the country promises early success. Stimulated by the liberal prizes offered by the city of Buffalo, plans have been perfected and & com- pany has been organized t» control a portion of the enormous power now going to waste, Two and a quarter millions will be spent in constructing @unnels, race ways and bulkheads at a point above the falls and in the erec- tion of fuctories adjacent. The power thus secured will also be utilized for iMuminating and other purposes in Buf- falo, twenty miles distant. SEESSm— SENATOR EDMUNDS has introduced a bill to peorganize the public school system of Utah and place it beyond the Influence of Mormonmism. At present Vhe schools of the territory are merely aonexed to the church, controlled by Mormon officials and managed for the sole benefit of the children of that sect. The bill provides for the appointment of a territorial school commissioner, who, with the governor und probate Judge, shall select school superintend- suts for each county. Instruction is to he given in temperance, manners and ‘morals, in addition to the usual pubiic ichool course, Sectarian or denomina- lionul books are prohibited. The bill #1l doubtless secure the approval of pougress, as it aims to remove an ovil which practically deprived the children »f non-Mormons of the beneiits of pub- Yic sobools and multiplied private pebools. It is in keeping with the new drder of progress and enlightenment in te tervitory. L TR ALAIANUUNAV A AU, AVUUL AN LAY L AU D, A GOVER ENT TELEGRAPH. More than twenty years ago the leg- islature of Nebraska by joint resolution instructed the representatives of this stato in congress to exert their influ- ence and give support to the proposi- tion to establish a postal telegraph system. The sentiment in favor of postal telegraphy has been steadily growing and the country is today heart- ilyin accord with Postmaster General Wanamaker's efforts to enlarge the usefulness of the postal system by plac- ing it in condition to transmit dis- patches and money orders by telegraph. The benefits that the people would derive from the establishment of the postal telegraph have been very ably «ot forth before the congressional com- mittees by the postmaster general, who has evidently given this subject ex- haustive study. The cheapening of telegraph tolls, the improvement of message delivery and the increase of telegraphic facilities are objects which vitally concern all communities and all classes of our citizens. The problem with which the ad vo- cates of postal telegraphy have vainly grappled for years has been how to bring about the proposed reform. At the outset Mr. Gardoor Hub- bard sought to induce congress to create a rival of the Western Union monopoly by chartering a postal tele- graph company that would enjoy special privileges and was doubtless designed to be a stock jobbing concern on a gi= gantic scale with the government as its backer. Then came the project, fath- ered by Senator Edmunds to construct, atthe government’s expense, experi- mental lines between the leading com- mercial centers and have them oper- ated by the government in competition with existing telegraph companies. This scheme was impracticable for obvious reasons, The government tele- graph lines would have been con- structed at extravagant prices and operated at a heavy loss, The subtle jufluence of the Western Union would have undermined the enterprise and made it too costly to be maintained for any length of time. Had the experi- ment proved a financial failure after rea- sonable trial, postal telegraphy would have received a set-back for many years. The proposition of Postmaster Gen- eral Wanamaker to lease a limited num- ber of wires and operate them between the carrier aelivery cities is somewhat more feasible, but falls short of what we believe to be essential. It is at best only a half-way measure. The postal telegraph can only become an absolute success by heroic treatment. The government should be the absolute owner of all the commercial telegraph lines in the country. This is essential as a measure of sell-preservation in times of war and it 1s equally essential for the intercourse of the people in times of peuce. So long as the govern- ment does not own all the telegraph lines the present system enormously in- flated by over capitalization and chiefly operated for gain and speculation, will flourish and prevent the people from getting the most perfect service for the least money. ‘The true remedy for the oxisting defects in our telegraph sys- tem is the purchase of all the lines by the government at their appraised value. This appraise- ment may be extravagantly high but the government could better afford to puy even the market price of all the stocks now afloat than to allow the con- tinuance of the balloon system by which rivals of the Western Union are periodi- cally swallowed by Mr. Gould’s ana- conda, and millions of stock are issued in payment for additions to the Western Union plant that are not needed. and therefore merely a dead weight. On all this fictitious stock the Western Union must constantly tax its patrons in order to keep up dividends. This is the real obstacle to the cheap- ening of rates and material improve- ment of the telegraph system. The telegraph service must necessarily con- tinue to be a monopoly. Competition has always been and always will be fol- lowed by combination and consolidation. Is it gsafer for the people that this mon- opoly shall be in the hands of the govern- ment or in the hands of a private cor- poration? THE BEE nas for eighteen years fear- lessly advocated government ownership of the telegraph. It still believes that sooner or later the government must purchase the existing lines, and the sooner it does sothe better. PARNELL'S VINDICATION. The Parnell commission, fromn which unguestionably the tories hoped to get vesults that would at once increase their political strength and check, if they did not crush, the home rule movement, has rendered a verdiot acquitting Parnell on the charges which were the basis of the inquiry. The judges concede, what the world already knows, that the alleged Parnell letters were forgeries; that there was no proof conuecting Parnell with the invincibles, and that the Irish leader and his associates were sincere in their denunciation of certuin crimes. But as if anxious not to leave the uno- cusers and traducers of Mr, Parnell without a single prop, the commission finds that the [rish did eater into “a conspiracy of coercion and intimidation to expel landlords,” distribated news- papers tending to incite sedition, ac- copted assistance from the physical force party in America aud that the in- crease of crime in Ireland was coiunci- dent with the league’s greatest ac- tivity, This 1s the sum and substance of the court’s conclusions, after an exhaustive inquiry covering a period of sixteen months, The so-called “crimes” which are ascribed to the league were never denied. It is true that every effort wns made to extlerminate the odious system of laudlordism, whick is the chief cause of the country’s wretched condition, and assistance for that pur- pose was accepted from all classes. The attempt to justify the preseat policy of coercion and the suppression of the league by quoting statistics of agravian crime, aud holding the league responsible, isentirely worthy | of a court which declares that the tes- timony of Le Caron, the British 8py, ie entitled to greater weight than Parnelt’s. Noone will deny that the people of Troland in 1882-8, ground be- tween tyrannical laws and rack rents, employed what Gladstone termed “the forces of civilization” to attract the at- tention of the world and force the gov- ernment to adont measures of relief. The moment Giadstone confessed the failure of coercion, loosened the bars of Kilmainham prison and pledged the ministry to a poliey of coneflia- tion, the influence of Par- nell and the league restrained the passions of the people, and that influence has been ali-powerful to the present time. Although goaded and harassed by Balfourism on every side, the biudgeon, the bullet and the batter- ing ram devastating the land, editors and honored lenders imprisoned by packed courts, free speech suppressod, and every engine which a vindictive secretary could invent, omployed to drive the people to open resistance, they remain true to the league and demon- strate that forbearance, not coercion, is responsible for the present orderly con- dition of the country. The Parnell commission was organ=~ ized to convict. The circumstance which gave it birth and hedged its every act pointed to a court created for a political purpose.” Ostensiby called into being to determine the truth of the Parnell letters, it raxed the high-, ways and the byways for material to discredit the home rulers. Every means at the command of the tories, backed by the power of the govern- ment, was employed to cover up the main issue. When the ‘test came and the villainy of the forgery was revealed in court the entire case col- lapsed, and the Pigott shot in Madrid sealed the verdict of the world. The report of the commission is the triumph of truth over falsehood, of honesty over rascality, of justice over a conspiracy to stom the tide of human progress. 1t places Parnell and his as- sociates unscathed before the people of Eegland, disarms the enemy of the weapons of calumuy, and brings the home rule cause to the threshold of success. THE SCHOOLS AND THE FLAG. There has been a good-natured con- tention through the columns of THE BEE as to which school in Nebraska is entitled to the honor of having first un- furled over its building the national flag. We believe it is settled that this destinction justly belongs to the Lake school of Omaha, although it is claimed that some eight years ago the then patriotic principal of the school at Fairbury, Jefferson county, hoisted the stars and stripes over that school. But this was simply an individual act, and while highly honorable to Mr. John W. Bar- ry, who thereby established a claim to be remembered among the patriotic teachers of Nebraska, can not properly be associated with the acting of the Omaha, Sidney and Endicott schools, which was general amoug the teachers .and pupils, and was marked by appro- priate public exercises. But as was happily suggested by one of the correspondents, it matters little who is flrst, but let all” fall” into line. “The idea,” suid this writer, ‘‘that a spirit of reverence and love for the flag and the government should be taught to children is the right thought, and the school is the right place to teach it.” This iden is rapidly "gaining ground, and it is only a question . of time when it will find general expres- sion throughout the coun Two or three vears ago some patriotic teacher in the east suggested that the country’s flag should float constantly over every public school house, so that the youtn of the nation should not only be- comer familiar with the na-~ tional colors, learning more and more every day to love and reverence the flag, but also become interested in the glorious history 1t represents. The suggestion took root and grew rapidly, and now the national colors wave con- stantly over hundreds ot school houses in New York and other eastern states. Evidence is nov lacking of most gratify- ing results from this patriotic innova- tion, It has produced agreater interest io the study of American history, and has given a great stimulus to the senti- went of patriotism among the pupils of the schools, The value of this upon the future lives of these children, when they shall assume the duties and obligations of citizenship, cannot be overestimated. Let all fall into hine is. the admoni- tion of patriotism. ILet the benutiful | and glorvious flag of the free every- where greet the eyes of the youth of America as they go to their daily school tasks, impressing upon their young minds the greatness of their country and the inestimable boon of free institutions. It will be a aaily tesson that cannot fail to be most fruitful in loyalty and devotion to the republic, It is gratifying to find that the patriotic iden 18 extending iwsell among the teachers of Nebraska, and it is to be hoped that before the present year has closed there will not be a public school in the stuve without a national flag. i s . * TECHNICAL TRAINING. The practical extinction of the ap- prenticeship system in most industrial occupations naturally suggests the ques- tions, how shall the supply of skilled la- bor be maintained, and what shall the youth of America do for subsistence if they cannot enter the trades? The se- rious character of the problem involved in these questions is apparent to ail thinking men. Toa very great extent this country has depended upon Europe for its skilled workmen, but the same processes that are oper- ative here to vreduce the number of such workmen are also at work. though to & somewhat less extent, in European countries. The old appren- ticeship system no longer prevails as to wost industries in Evgland, and it has been very materially modified in Ger- many, France aud Belgium, So that the time is coming when we cannot draw skilled labor from Europe to any- thing like the extent of our wants, We wmust create here a supply to meet ‘the nwatonal demand or go without it, with the result of placing ourselves ata serious disadvantage in competition with other "smmtries that can rotain their skilledwmor. of young men States, and thé creasing, who trades. apt, quick t more or 1ess 3%“ for mechanical pur- suits, and even if this were not the case the proportil who can nflnrxths time and money nec- essary to acqy professional suit. The army of book- keepers and Tc'x cessof the demand. employment in tions for all. youth of America who are compelled to earn their bread in the sweat of their faces do if they will not be allowed to learn trades? the problem, and with very gratifying suced trial training schools in the larger cities of the country, and it would seom inevit- able that in time this expedient must become of trade schools established some eight or ten years ago in New | referonce only to the effect likely o be pro- P : heart of all sociological problems and humbly York City have accomplished | duced on the elections—in other words, was Not Corn But Money. confines itself to the simple duty of reduc- a most valuable work in fitting young and the excellent example has been to some extent followed. cational one of the most useful is the Penusyl- education two morefpowerfal editorfal articles showing that Now York is of no importance to the democracy, and that all the western ropubli- oan states aro suroly democratie. No won- der St. Lo relying on wills to carry out projocts en- tortained in life. Mr, Carnegie’s mu- nificence is not dependent on the whims of hoirs, Ie is onjoying the fruits of his liberality in the apolause of a thankful public, and rearing monu- ments that will link his name with on« lightened generosity long after marble pillars and bronze tablets have erum- bled to dust. Omaha’s millionaires, with similar projects in view, should not wait for post-thortem glory, but fol« low in the footsteps of Mr. Carnegie. for violating the expulsion law: then par doned by President Carnot and sent acrosa the frontier. They have a theotrical way of d oing s In France which sometimes ap- pe ars ridiculous: but whatever ridicule ma A ttach 1o this particular caso will fall on the + y cung pretender. The knowicdge that a bourbon has beon led out of France by a couple of soldiers must be galling to the mou- archist faction, are tons of thousands nd boys in the United umber 1s annually in- re anxious to learn Most of these are intelligent, learn, and possessed of Meantime the Pohind the Procession. Chicago Tribune, Tho Philadelphia Prosbyterians are not ready for rovision. The question should havo been sprung on them soomer. In 100 yoars from now they will have caught up with their brethren elsewhere. Lmperial Sociatism. New York World, The German emperor’s dailliance with soy cialism 18 significant. It is an attempt o dospotism to strengthen itself by an alliance with discontent. It is liberty that mankind wants, not gracious coddling. It is the right to ma the most of powers and opportuniti man in s own fashion, and not lation us the stable propristor kiv horses in order that they shall not be over workéd or underfed, 1t 18 hard for hereditary princes and priv. ileged persons to loarn the lesson of modern discontent, but the intuition will continue, in ono form or another, till the last of them has found out that human equality is a fact which is disposed to insist upon itself. The professions are overflowing, is small of persons - - An Eloquent Silence. Chicago Tribune, Now Orleans papors are cloquently and voluminously silent as regards the propose transfor of the Loulsiana Stato lottery North Dakota. e the knowledge for a BEGINNING tomorrow railroad rates from the Missouri river to Chicago wiil be reduced thirty-three and one-third per cent. This is more than an emer- geney rate. Itisa war rate, and ex- tends to all classes of freight. Now we shall see whether market prices will tumble in proportion to the rate reduc- tions, as predicted by the railroads. rks is very greatly in ox- There is not enough the unskilled occupa- ‘What, then, shall the Beaten by Britain Aeain. Lowisvflle Courie urnal, It is painful to learn that wo are far be hind the mother country in our smaller breods of pet dogs. British supremacy on the doap ought to be enough. Partiah-e N Food for Republicanism. St. Louis Post-Dispateh, Tho government of Portugal is giving the best kind of encouragement to republicanism by suppressing popular meetings with swords and bayonets. Republicanism thrivos under such suppressive measures prompted by the foar of rulers, An attempt is being made to solve OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The aadress of Emperor Willlam to the council of state, convenod to hear reports as to tho condition and wants of thoe working classes, and to propose or consider methods for their amelioration, ought to have the effect of dissipating the impression that the interest professed by the emperor had The Shotgun Solution, > t. Lowis Globe-Demoerat, Courts and jurios may bo sometimes puz- #lod to properly adjust thoso soclal and po- litical difforonces that often arise betweon the two races, The Mississippi shotun iy never tro ubled with vexed questions of juris- prudence or political cconomy. With rare intuitive insight 1t goes unerringly to the 88, by the establishment of indus- general adoption. The ing republican majorities. It may be truly said that, in its porfect adaptapility to the purposes of its creation, the evolution of the Mississippi shotgun is a most completo and perfect illustratign of the soundness of that philosophy to which Herbart Spencer has given his long and vseful life. A SIERRA SNOW STORM. There aro Vory Fow Sights 80 Mag- 2 nificently Beauti “There are few things so magnifi- cently beautiful as a great snow storm a mere piece of political the emperor is not sincere, then he has a capacity for em- ploying language o conceal thought which the oldest politicians and diplomatists ot Eu- rope may well envy, and which would cor- tainly show him to be a rare genius in this regard. But we heliove the emperor is sin- cere, and that he not only heartily wishes to botter the condition of labor, but is deter- mined to put to the test some of tho remedies he has proposed for that purpose, wheth- strategy. If Kansas City Times, The ToWkt Capital doesn’'t think that the emergency rate will do the Kansas far- mers much good and suggests that elevators along the line of the railroads, in which the farmers can atoro thoir grain uutit prices ad- vance, would affora more certain relief. The trouble about this scheme is that it isn't the corn but the money the Kansas farmer wants, men for various mechanical pursuits, Among thoe edu- institutions of Philadelphin vania museum and school of industrial urt, in which young men of moderate means are given a thorough technical in dyeng, designing and This school has turned out ol Not Enough Funds. St. Louis Globe-Demoorat. weaving. i s i he shall obtain the co-oper- . high in the Sierras,” writes thi raduates who are occupying responsi- | °F It is understood that tne’ Lowsana State | high up in the Sierras,’ writes the 4 L LA SThL ation of the countries ho has asked | it & it of about $500,000 a | editor of tho Slt Lake Tribune. *The ‘ ble positions all over the coun- | " Gormany in @ labor confer- | OVCrY makes a profit of about $800,000 8 | o ho eepoctally toward th storn 4 try. Chicago has a school for 3 month, The men at the head of that con 298§ ¥ e 1 ¥ 9 e Lk 3 ence or not. It is doubtless true that a part | \ioos 1owever, have not enough money to | S0P I8 not excessively cold. The instruction in watchmaking which | of the suggestions of the emporor are uto- o ) n BIERTEY; flakes come down as large as a man’s e~ | i P buy up the legislature of the progressive and < | is very successful in the num- | pian, and others Germany might not find it onlylmgv,enod gre “b“cl;‘ .“mg of North palm. They catch and cling to the limbs ‘ ber of attendants. The success of | practicable to carry out alone, but thore are | Daiota, P s of vhe elorified pines and turn them these efforts to provide technical train- | others which may be accomplished with — into “““Pl;"’ AR 0‘“"“‘] great ing for y > i benefit to the people and to the government. COUNTRY BREEZES. trees are the pillars, while all above is ing for young men who desire to enter but & mass of exquisite work in green b s £ i The present outlook is that the other gov- —_— Lr2 sl L the trades gives promise of an effective e e S Doubts His Sincerity. and white. When the sun shines means for supplying the futuredemands | 2 HEAH WL AOk SERPOAC O B K do. Red Cloud Chicf. through the rifts of clouds the of the country for skillful labor. This | ¢4 some of the plans the emperor has pro- | - Tha¢ poor, coutomptible hypocrite of the e i .’”‘1” Sl R method appears to afford the most favor- | hosed, will not diminish his claim upon the | Times tries to say a fow mean, dishonorablo like the gates of pearl that guard the i entrance to the eternal city. There are festoons and streamers and the soft soughing of the wind comes to_the ear like the muffled beat of the breakers upon a low coast to' one who listens from afar. It requires strong ner not to be impressed with the immensity and wild grandeurof everything around. When a mountain storm sounds all its solemn pipes and starts upon the march, it is a sovereign spectacle. The clouds are its sable banners, the winds are its buglere, the falling suow scems but the dust which is raised by the head of its columns. Then the wild beast secks his lair, the bird of prey his eyrie; the voices of the brooks grow still and the groat pines bend their shaggy tops as though in fear of reverence, It is such a majesty as the ocean puts on when en- gaged, and thera is nothing else lllm n, in all the phenomena of nature. other mountains have such llisnlnyn i able assurance of a solution of the prob- lem involved in the questionssuggested in the beginning of this article. It has shown that thore is a great demand for it, and it is not to be doubted that in every considerable city of the country— every city of the sizs of Omaha, for ex- ample—a well-conducted school for technical training in some trade or in various trades would get most satisfac- tory suoport. THe merit and value of the system wherever tried have been fully demonstrated, and its continued growth and expansion is to be expected and encour things about this paper. For a man who professes to have embraced Christianity he 18 the thinest specimen we over saw. His Rall surpasses his religious habits one to ten. confidence of the toiling wasses of his own people. The condemnation of the duke of Orleans to imprisonment for two years 1s variously commented on, but the most intelligent and conservative opinion is that it would have been quite as well to havo treated the matter as a youthful indiscretion aund sent the young man out of the coungry. The indiffer- ence with which the escapade has been gen- erally regarded, however, is viewed as con- stituting a remarkable tribute to the solid- ity andpower of the French government. It is seen that the republic is so strong that sensibie politicians do not look beyond it. Krance has resumed her old place among the nations. ‘Smce November last Itaiy has put an end to the economic wur whioh for years she has been waging against France, and has resumed all the umicable relations of yore. Spain loses o Ungallant Youths of Norden. Noraen Borealis. ‘Wha a gallant pack of young men there is in cVorden and vicinity. Any of them will lot a young lady walk home alone, 12 o'clock at night, probably living three.quarters of a mile from tho gathering. You are one daisy 1ot of young fellows, you are. No Monopoly, Clem. Mason Cily Advocate. C. V. Kimberling's suburn-haw girl of tiroken Bow says he will have to quit her or the lady at Mason City, Take your medi- cine, Clem. N\ NG * SENATOR EDMUNDS appears deter- mined to press bis bill providing for the inspection of mcuw for exportation, Risked the Quartes. z - i i . Central City News. the Sierra Nevada: ke because prohibiting the {hportation of adulter- | occasion of expressing her warm sympathy Conun 3 b erra Nevadas make because no ated articles of food or drink, and au- | for her trans-Pyreneean neighbor, and evon m“; ',’. ':::"L‘“fl f;“::;dw:tx‘c::o:‘mfl O'&y: :fl u{{lhelg-_s 3”“1 such fores On m&a thorizing the president in certain cases | Germuny s ondeavoring to cultivate A s il stete Rt ul) G e L to suspend_importations by proclama- France's good will by meuns of a reluxation | 5°W® doubt about its being good avd so had | frosts as if intent upon murd: On the the butcher, but when he learned it was all we hud he said ho would take his chunces rather than book our purchase. The Blizzard is Warm. Ord Blizzand. We would like to see tire rain down from heaven in Ora, like it did in Sodom and G o- morrah, just to sce if there was enterprise enough in the people of Ord to get a little “mosey’’ on them enough to get away from fire, Sierras they come like armies on the march, and the tercor is forgotten im the splendor of the spectacle.” of the stringency of the frontier regula- tions. Moreover, Emperor William-and his ministers have on several recent occasious gone far out of their way to perform acts of courtesy to the ‘‘Erbfremd” which would have been out of the question a few years ago. Russia s today even more anxious for a perfect understanding with France than she was when the czar publicly declared thet the keynote of his foreign policy would be to render more close the bonds of friend- ship between the most eastern and most western powers of Europe, and by way of a climax Great Britain has at length given way on the subject of Egypt and come to terms with the Paris government in the matter. tion. The purpsé of the measure is retaliatory, it being designed. to ex- clude certaip apticles. imported from France and Germany which are shown to be adulterated in the event of those coun tries adhering’to the policy of ex- cluding American meats from their markets, after their inspection here, on the specious - plea that they may be disensed. The efiorts of the state department to get this subject to the attention of the foreign govern- ments have met with little sutisfaction, and unless those governments manifest a better disposition in the matter the public sentiment of this country will demand such legislation as Senator Ed- munds proposes. The claim that Ameri- can meats are not safe is of course a mere pretext, but while the right of France and Germany to exclude them, from whatever motive, is unguestion- able, we have an equal right to ex- clude articles from those countries that are shown not to be pure. Iv would not contribute to the good feel- ing between the United States and those governments to resort to a retali- atory policy, but we are not bound to perpetually tolerate injustice and im- position in order to maintain national comity. The discrediting of Amer- 1can meats by France and Germany has injured our trade to an extent that is not fully measured by the loss of the markets of those countries, and it is our duty to resent such treatment after every reasonable effort to secure less unfair consideration has failed. —_— THE citizens of Omaha are to be con- gratulated upon the promise of two op- eratic performances at the Coliseum building by the great combination under the management of Mr. Abbey, un- doubtedly the finest and most complete operatic organization that was ever heard in this country. The very gen- eral desire to again hear Mme. Patti nssures an audience on the occasion of her appearance that will tax the capacity of the Coliseum, while therd will hardly be a legsuniversul desire to hear the great 1ifpr, Tamagno. The Coliseum managemant has shown most commendable enterprise 1n engaging this exceptionally excellont orgauiza- tion, and if in «the short time of two weeks it can |)ro\'mp adequate facilities our citizens will I» given an opportun- ity to witness the production of opera with a degree of artistic excellenco only to be expected of such a combination. - - Comtiriable B oms 'n Winter, The problem of making rooms ut once healthful and comfortable during cold weather is not an easy oue to solve. ‘ The general rule as to the temperature of living rooms limits the degree of heat to 68 degrees or T0 degrees Fahrenheit. But the lean, the aged and the invalid often demand a higher degree of heat than this to be really comfortable, while {those who are young, adipose, in health, going in and out of doors constantly and taking abundant exercise, find rooms so heated almost 1ntolerabie. Those who require a higher temperature, higher than 70 degrees, should put on extra flannels rather than more fuel into the range or furnace. The question of venrilation iseven more ditficult than that of heating. If - one uses a stone the oxygen in the room must supply the fire as well as the lungs of the inmates, and unless it is constantly re-enforced from the out- side it will become exhuusted, and the air of the room will be unfit to breathe, both from the exhaustion of the oxypren and from the exhalations from the bodies of those who live init. A good way to ventilate is to close the doors between the living room and tho one udjoining; then in the latter oven all the windows until the air is entirely renewed; then close the windows and open the connecting doors. This has been used with success in the case of invalids, Awvother way is to raise one of the sashes a few iucgnes. and havea strip of wood fitted snugly in below the sush., The air will then enter upward between the sashes and will cause no draft. g i, The Secret of Long Lite, ol Those who are concerned at the re- 4 morseless approach of the last supremo moment may find comfort in the life of Louis Cornaro, a noble Venetian, of the middle ages. Up to the age of forty helived the life of alibertine and epicure. His physi- cian then told him he would not live two months, 50 racked was hnlbody with pains and disease. However, he set himself to work to ward off the grim reaper. He put him- self on ndiet of twelve ounces aday and never varied from it. He soon be- came as strong as aver. Kor sixty years he thus continued, and might be living yet only that he wus thrown out of his carriage by runaway horses in his 100th year and fatally wounded, Pro Bonn Pubhien, Red Cloud Republicon. The experience of eight years has taught us how to deal with a Nebraska skunk. ‘Walk around him if possible, but if he still insists on fouling the road where your busi- pness friends in your own city must walk, then All him up with cold lead, and keep fillag him up until his perfumed tail ceases to wabble. Only on account of the disgrace and bad odor which the poor little Chier has brought on our city have we finaily consented to waste a little ammunition on him, +*s The Australian colonies are particularly noted for their intense jealousy of one an- other, and it wiil be interesting to observe if the proposed federation will go far to allay this unhealthy sentiment. When Mr. Carl Lumholtz was at Adelaide a while ago he was told that if he wished to be handsomoly welcomed by the citizens of Melbourne he must tell them that Adelaide was a littie the worst hole he ever struck, and when he reached Sydney he must loudly assert that there was notiing in all Australia equal to its glorious harbor. The rivalry between Melbourne and Sydney presents some funny aspects to mere lookers on. It was a trifle inconvenient, however, when the two -colo- nies, after long conferences, were unable to agree upon the gauge for the raiiroad that was to connect their capitals. The result was that botn Victoria and New South ‘Wales carried out their own views with re- gard to ralroud gauges, and to this day all passenger and other traflic have to suffer for this stubbornness by being transferred to another traia at the colonial frontier, . 4 Don't Misjuage, Gantle Readoer. Grant Enterprise. In addition to the other ivebriations which, from the lateness of our paver this week will appear 1u evidence us W the de- moralization of its editors, our readers will observe that our two pages of home matter are not in their hereaitary positions, but oc- cupy the second and seventh pages, Lot the reader not presume that we are maifferent to public judgment. We profounaly regret the blunders and delays which have at- tended our publication during the past two morths. We take great pride in getting out o paper which, 80 far as our education will permit, is above scholastic reproach, and we strive also to be on time, Touched Our Heart, Red Clova Chicf. We always had a good aeal of sympathy for the poor shiftless jack-of-ull-trades who is trying 10 edit the organ of the big 8, but when he sent forth that pitiful, heart-ren- dering wail last week, calling on the good people of Red Cloud and vicinity for assist- anceto help him keep the poor weakly crea- ture (of society contention and disturbance) alive, we wore affected boyond description It sounded so much like the song of the dy- ing swen that we couldn't help it. We did feol badly. We thought of how lonely we would be when the voor thing dies. It makes us feel a8 Mark Twain did when he stood by the grave of Adam, and like he, we dropped a plaintive tear. ——— OUR CONTEMPORARIES, w7y Regarding the free school question in Eng- land the position is this: The conservative party does not in its heart wish for free schools, but it sees they are coming whether it wiil or not, and desires to maie the best bargain it can for the echurch. Many churghmen themselves, finding it bard ‘work to keop un the eMoiency of their volun- tary schools, would be delighted to have free education if only sectarian schools are preserved and receive public grants equaliy with board schools. On the other hand the liberals and radicals are almost to & man for free schools, but minus the ~ublic endow- ment of Avglicanism and Cathoticism. That 18, in & word, just how things stand at pres- ent. " The latest volcanic eruption in Japan oc- curred well toward the southern extremity of the main island, fully 600 miles southwest of the scene of the awful explosion in July, 1888, which it somewhat resembles. At that time, however, one of the big peaks of tho Bandassan volcano was blown bodily intothe air, as though it had been dug up by the roots; while on the present occasion only the top of Mount Zoo has heen blown off, snd, as the debris spread over the country is far less in voluwe, the losses have nou been #o enormous, A calamity, however, that in the wwinkling of an eye has destroyed over #,- 000,000 of property, is sufiiciently appalli even though the loss of life is small. Naturd seoms to reserve the grandest exhibition of her destructive energies for these belts of voleanic vents in the Orient, where, within rocent years, mountains like Krakawa snd Handaissan have been blown into atoms, in- volving many thousands of people in death or misry, Died From the Stabbing. ATCHISON, Feb. 15, —([Syacial Tele- aram 1o, Thn Ban)—Antoala Horane the Sac and Kox half-breed Indian who was bbed 80 viclously st White Cloud, near the reservation, Thursday night by Ed Bar- bor, died last night. Marber is the county jwilor st Troy. The nama Desolation. Chicaga Times. The French had unbounded faith in De Lesseps. His failure, after spen aig much more than he at tirst sswd would suffice complete the canal, has probably given them shock from which they will not quivkly re- cover. The Panswa project is probably dead for at loast score of years and the hope of isthmian ship transit now centers in the Nicaruguan enterprise, under American direction and backed hy American capital, MRE. ANDREW . (ARNEGIE, the fa- mous iron mongef!ef Penusylvania, is distributing s sififflus wealth in pub- lic benefices in aggenerous manner. The endowment of iy public library in his native city in wland is supple- mented by liberality to the cities in which he reared a colossal fortune, He has given three hundred thousand dol- lars to found a public library snd wusic ball in Allegheny Civy, and one million dollars to establish a similar institution in Pittsburg. Mr, Carnegie’s examp'e should be emulated by the wealthy men of the country. How much better it is to found institutions for the public good during life and witness the bene- fits conferred than to trust philan- thropic plans to avaricious heirs with the usual accompaniment of & will con- test? The aefeat of the cherished plans of Samuel J. Tilden shows the folly of LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Mormonism l)nuhad. Phitadelphia North American, Mormonism has received a blow by the election at Salt Lake City from which it will never recover, For the first time in forty-three years hus the control of the municipal government been wrested from the Mormons, The Edwmunds-Tucker act 18 of course mainly responaible for the de- struction of uu Mormon vote, but aside from this, It has been declining materially of late. The vowe of Utah nn uunl.y yoars ago was: Mormon, 21 nnt lo, 1,460. i A 08 1w~ migrants aad the mandate “Bflmm have broken the power of poipgamy as & political factor st luw e " Subscribed & Tlllrulubd o;mm Paid in Capits Buys snd sells stocks ard commarclal papor: recclvesund executos Srutas acks ws trens! 0t trustee of corpora- tions; takes uhurflo of praum.y, oon.“. r.m.- OmahalLoan &TrustCo SAVINGS BANK 8. E. Cor, IM .na Doulla Stroots. Paid in Ouvitel.. $380:20 nds; negotiates e — Another Bourhon Setback. St, Paul Pionesr-Press. Havo Generals G, T. Beauregard and Jubul A. Early heard soythiog drop in North Dakotat FRANK OrricuRs: A.U. Wyman, prosident; J.J.Brc Vice prosidaits Wok: Wymsn ouairer DinkoTous: A, U. Wnnn. J M Millard, J. J. Barto W, whos, 110 R P WA e erty, and on Collateral Becurity, at Lowest Current Rates LA The Backbiting Democracy. New York Sun. Two able earthquake shocks were felt in $t, Louis Monday morniog. We iufer that Hon, Charles Hill Jones has been writing It is now reported that the duke of Orleans will be sentenced 1o & term of imprisonment