Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1890, Page 4

AR MARIA DALY nn.'m. SUNDAY, MARCH 9. 1890. WENTY-FOUR PAGES. THE DAILY . BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING ——— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and sumhy. One Year, ¢ X months hreo Months ’ sunday Bee, Ono Vear, Weekly foe, One Year with Prommiin, OFFICES, Omah Bullding, New. § Tribuns Building. Whenington, No. oth, Pourtaonth Sireot. Council Bluifs, No. 12 Pear] fllronl South Omala, Corner N an t 2:th § CORRESPONDENCE, Allcommunications relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor- inl Department. BUSINESS LE1TERS, All businessletters and remittances should he aadressed to The Bee Publishing Compauy, Omaba. Drafts, checks and Postoffiee orders 10 he miae payable to the order of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, : Building Farnam and Seventosnth Stroets. THE BEE ON THE 7IHI”S. "Ihere 15 no excuse for a tailure to got Titx BEx ¢n the trains, Al newsdeaiors have been nott: fled to carry full lupl\l{ Travelers who want 78 i can't got 1€ on trains whet other - raquested to Tl o b paricular to give in all oases full fyformation as tv date, raily..y and aumber train e —————— THE DAILY BEE. !vrt n ftatement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, 1on County of Douglas, y Geoige B, Tzschuck, secretary of Tie Bem Publishing Confpany, does solemnly swear that thie actunl circnlation of Tir DAILY BER for the week ending March & 1800, was as follow: Fatnrday, Miron 6" 3 AVETBZE. .00 iirivese State of Nebraska, Connly ot Doufilu. f""- Georgr ‘1, nck, being duly sworn, de- es and saye that ho 18 secretary of Tar Der buplishing Company, that the actiial avera daily circulation of ‘Tae DAILY B monith of Maroh 1880, 1RHG coplos: for' Apeil, 1850, 18,009 coples: for May, 1850, 18,609 copies: for Juiio, 1889, 18,K38 coples: for July, 188, 18,768 covies: for August, 180, 18,651 copfes: for Sep- tember, 189, 18710 coples; for October, 1889, 18407 coples; for November. 1680, 10310 copl for Dacomber, 1889, 20,048 copies: for Jsnu 1800, 10,65 coples; for February, 1 copies, Grorae B, Tz Sworn to pefore me and subscril Dresence this 1st day of March, A. D.. 180, [Seal.| N. P. Frix, Notary Public. —_— Up (o 12 o'clock last night incrcased ‘orders for The Sunday Bee had swelled the cireulation of today's issue to 25,800 copics. Now it is proposed to investigate the county hospital biil of extras. An in- vestigation of the condition of the building would throw a few arc lights on the claims, T Vandervilts could profitably ex- pend a few of the millions squandered ou floating palaces in making the Lake Shore rond reasonably safe for travelers. ‘TnEre is morve fiction than fact in the reports of English syndicates in- vading various lines of trade in this country, The name is a conyenient mask for American pools and trusts. ‘T best possible argument in favor ot the defeat of Blair's educational bill is furnished by the author. A measure which must be supportea by wild ravings, wholesale assaults on the press, and reckless untruths, is in desperate straits, and should be promptly buried out of sight. IN Minneapolis the use of electricity and the dangers likely to result from oxposed wires aro to be putin charge of the fire department. But in Omaha no regulations will be enforced nor pre- cautions taken until some unfortunate loses his life or a costiy conflagration takes place from wires improperly strung or insulated. THe great engineering triumph of recent years was culminated a few days ugo in the dedication of the railvoad cantilever bridge oyer the river Forth at Edinburgh. Seven years were taken in its construction and it stands today, owing to the breadth of its two greatest avch spans and its height above water, one of the wonders of modern bridge building skill, HAVING practically forced tho rail- roads to make the Missouri river a bas- ing point on west-bound rates, the com- mercial organizations of Omaha should exert themseives in securing the ap- plication of the same brinciple to eas bound rates. The sum of the two locals should apply to rates both ways. With tho exception of live stock, the rates as &t presont manipulated ave a detriment %0 tho city. They diseriminate against the city and in favor of Chicago, and as long as they exist all efforts to estab- lish a grain market at this point are futile. T BEE notes with pleasure that the enterprising cities of the state are en- -~ couraging the location of factories, The activity displayed in this dirvection is highly commendable. The vast surplus products of the state, the profits of whieh are now absorbed in reaching a market, could be largely used at home by the increase of industrial enter- prises. They not only increase populi- tion, but furnish permanent employ- ment for labor, thusenlarging the home market. actories which will consnme the products raised in the state are cer- tain to be successful. The growth of the state and the gradual widening of the muarket for munufactured articles are attracting active capital, and every live town miustbe vigilant as well us cautious, to secure a share of the incoming in- dustries, Tue possibilities of the phonograph wre unlimited, It can be made a store- house of joyful song or speech, of mel- ancholy periods or griefs too deep for voeal utterance, At arecent funeral in New York the phonograph furnished wll the music. The hymus which the de- censed loved and sang in life were pro- sorved in the barrel, and reeled off with na‘ural unction at the bier of the silenced songster amid u chorus of sobs from sorrowing friends. The services were piting and vealistic. To hear the voice of the dead st hisown funeral is truly & startling innovation. Those contemplating a voyage over the dark yiver should lay aside afow loaded whouographs, so thas T ~Mueless con- Aition af.thu ehoir nor the iliness of the organist will not provent the trip being made with the latest fushionuable acces- sories, THE GREAT LABOR CONFERENCE. Labor interests throughont the eivil- 1zed world will await with extraordinary solicitude the deliberations and con- ciusions of the great international labor conference which will assemble in Ber- lin on the 15th of the present month. The distinguizhed and exceptional char- acter given to the agsemblage by the fact of its having been proposed by the emperor of Germany, and the compre- hensive scheme suggested and the earn- est desire manifested by that ruler for the amelioration of the condi- tion of labor, give to this con- ference n measure of importance and a claim to consideration beyond thatof any other ever held for alike pur- pose. It will be remembered that when a month ago Emperor William issued his rescript inviting an international conference to consider questions of labor, and set forth some views of his own as to what might be desirable for bettering the condition of working- men, the project was quite generally regarded'as visionary and impractica- ble. Not only was there doubt ex- pressed as to the sincerity of the em- peror, whose motive was thought to be to influence the then pending elec- tions favorable to the government, but it was the genoral opinion that none of the governments invited to par- ticipate in the proposed conference would accept. A brief time served to show how_ut- terly mistaken were these views. The course of the emperor at the meeting of the council of state called by him to consider this matter fully vindicated his sincerity of purpose, and the sub- sequent acceptance of the invitation to the conference by all the governments except Russia showed how far public opinion was from rightly measur- ing the influence of Emperor William and the interest of Eu- ropean governments in the subject he had presented to them. Some of the governments might have declined on the ground that their laboring inter- ests were contented and were not ask- ing for any of the ameliorating condi- tions proposed for the consideration of the conference, but to have done this would have shown a lack of concern in the welfare of labor certain to incur a popular resentment that no other ‘government except Russia would ven- ture to brave. Whether or not the German emperer foresaw this, it is obvious that Eungland, France 4nd the other countries which will participate in the conference, could not wisely have declined to do so. Even Switzerland, which had arranged for a similar conference before the kaiser issued his rescripts, was in- duced to abandon her project in defer- ence to that of Germany. This international assembly, formally recognizing by the governments of Ku- rope the paramount importance of giv- ing serious consideration to the rights and welfare of the toiling masses, may be the beginning of a new epoch in Buropean diplomacy. Whether or not it shall lead to any im- mediate practical results along the lines proposed for its deliberations, it will certainly have the effect to so- lidify the masses and encourage them to more persistent effort in urging uvon governments attention to their wants and wishes. Itis a concession to the people which the people will hardly fail 1o henceforth use in demanding that their welfare and intorests shall bave first concern in intcrnational ar- rangements and in determining the 108 ot peace and war. It is not to be expected that the delibevations of this conference will resalt in revolutioniz- ing the labor systems of Europe and producing everywhere the ameliorating conditions which all earncst friends of labor hope will some time universally vrevail. The methods and conditions of lubor 1n the various nations differ so wiaely that the task of harmonizing them must be one of the very greatest ifficulty, if not quite impossible of ac- complishment. Any effort to adjust the wages of labor, for example, in the several countries to a common stand- ard, would undoubtedly prove abortive, and an attempt to establish uniform hours of labor throughout urope would probably fail, though a short- éning of the hours of labor 1n most of the countries may be found practicable. But there are other matters, as Sunday labor, fixing the age below v hich children shall not work, exeluding women from certain pursuits, some of which are inhuman, providing ways for the fair hearing and redress of grievances, and encouraging self- veliance and thrft among laborers, which will give the conferecnce ample scope for deliberation, and as to all of which it may lead to valuable results. The United States will not participate in this assembly, but the workingmen of Ameriea will none the less feel a great intorest in what it shall accom- plish for the amelioration of their European brethren T (10N The necessity of providiuir a different method than burial for the disposal of the dead becomes every year more im- perative. This is particulacly the case with the great citie: whose rapid growth renders impossible the extended territoey for cemeteries which the great rate of mortality demauds. The more numerous the living inhabitants the greater the populution of the ities of the dead and necessavily in timo their territories must overlap and the dust of dead ancesters becomes the streets of the living desceddants, Apart feom the sentimental side of the question there is the terrible possibility that scientists muy be vightin their theorios of the long life of the disease germ. At stated intervals certain localities ave scourged by a relentless epidemic before which wedical science stands helpless. There lies back of these outbroaks something which science calls a germ and which has lain dormant till fuvorae con- ditions have roused its fatal vitality. I§.would seem reasonable to supposo that the burial of its victims in such enormous numbers, aud carelossly in many instances, is merely providing convenient lurking® place for thess gerws, whence in time thoy mayemerge to taint the air and water which give life to the living. Cremation or would inciucration seem to solve the difMculty in n satisfac- tory manuner for the philosopher, but all people are not philosophers. There are the sentimental objectors who are horrified at the idea of consigning to the flames the remains of loved ones, and for whom the loathsomeness of the grave has no terrors. Famiiiarity wish the erematory would no doubt in time con- vert these, for what is customary and conventional is always right and in- novations are usually startling. The religious objectors, of whom there are many, will be harder to deal with, though it is difficult to conceive what biblieal pgrounds they have for their objections, for by whatever means the result he accomplished it has been written and will inevitably bo accomplished, “‘dust to dust and ashes to ashes,” whether in the crematory or vhe grave, Itis only with a view to the welfare of the living that the ques- tion must be considered. The dead it cannot concern —— AN IMPRACTICABLE MEASURE, It is to be hoped the committee 1n charge of the immigration bill of Sen- ator Chandler, to which we iiave here- tofore made reference, will not permt that measure to again see the light. A more indefensible piece of proposed legislation was never introduced into congress, and it is remarkable that so intelligent a man as the junior New Hampshire senator would father such a bill. Had it came from his colleague from that state no one would have been greatly surprised, but so unstatesman- like a measure is unworthy of Mr. Chandler. So far as this bill goes in prohibiting the landing of idiots, insane, paupers, criminals and contract laborers, it sim- ply embodies what is already provided against by law, and if the statutes relat- ing to these classes of persons were ef- fectively administered there would be not the slightest necessity for acy further legislation on the subject of immigration. But following a senti- ment far too common in the ecastern section of the country, and for which there is no reasonable justifi- cation, Mr. Chaundler proposes to estabiish a system which would keep out of the country the most desirable class of foreigners, and sub- ject those who came to the United States, either on business or pleasure, to the most annoying espionage. If this bill should become a law persons could not enter the United States for travel, pleasure or temporary residence with- out first making a declaration under oath before a consul that they have no intention of residing or seeking or ac- cepting employment in this country, and if they should afterward conclude to remain here and accepted employ- ment, they would be liable to im- prisonment and to a fine of from one hundred to onc thousand dollars, half of which would go to the infocmer. Besides this the employer of such alien would be subjected to hle penalties. Other features of this extraordinary bill are hardly less repugnant to common sense and sound policy. Such a iaw would undoubtedly put a very effectual check upon immigvation, at least of a respectable and desirable character, for the people who have no regard for the obligation of an oath would be most largely the class who would cume here, but what sort of an attitude would such a law put the country in before the world? It would bring on us the reproach of all eulightened nations, and put the re- public on & plane with Russia in the matter of subjecting foreigners to the most irritating and oppressive espi- onage. With what propriety could we ask the people of other iands to partici- pate with us In celebrating the dis- covery of America with such alaw on our statute pooks? The policy em- bodied 1n this measure, outside of that portion of it which contains provisions of law already in operation, is most clearly and distinetly unrepublican, cannot be justified by any requirement 1n the interest of our people, and its adoption would not alone be a stigma and reproach to the nation, but a source of harm not easily overestimated. For the credit of tl.e senate itshould never again be obtruded upon the public at- tention. A DARING ENTERPRISE. The mosi wonderful of natural ob- jectsin America,1f not in the world, is the grand canyon of the Colorado river. That mighty crevicein the heart of the Rocky mountains appulls the adven- turous, and at the same time the majesty and mystery of its surroundings form an irresistible attraction for am- bitious explorers. Descriptions of the grandeur of the canyon, or succession of canyons, cun give but a glimpse of the wierd and almost inaccessible chasms of marble, the abysses of water to which sunlight never penetrates. and the thrilling silence broken only by the rour of plunging waters. The first exploration of the Colorado river, of which tnere 1sa detailed ac- count, was made by a party in eharge of Major J. W. Powell in 1869. The hard- ships and sufferings of the men, the difficuities they had to contend with, and the then unknown dangers that besct every turn of the river, forms a vecord of exciting adventure and daunt- less energy ravely equalled. Numerous efforts have been made since 1869 to malke a thorough survey of the canyons, but asuccession of disasters and loss of life until lately deteried the most reck- less from venturing far into the depths carved by natuve, Ambitious capitalists and enterpris- ing railroad buildeps saw in the can- yons of the Colorado the foundation of great fortunes if a pathway could be ed through the battlements of the river. A thorough survey of that mag- nificent gloomy gorge hus just been completed and the engineers report that it is practicable to build a railroad along the river. That this wonderful engineering feat will be undertaken there is no reasonable doubt, but the enterprise presents dificnities and dan- gers compared with which all mountain railroading pales into insignifi- cance. The majesty of the Royal gnd Toltec gorges, the splendors of Black canyon, and the inspiring grandeur of Pike's Peak and Marshall pass, if rolled into one, could be dugped into & corner of the Colorado eanyon. The proposed raflrond will extond from Grand Junction, Colo., to Fort Yuma, Arizona, a distance of eloven hundred miles, following the course of the river. The canyon proper is three hundred long, Hanked with granito, buskld ahd limestono walls, rising from one hundred to thirty-five hundred feet, and in one instance to the npp'xlllnqaholght of six thousand foet. Imagine n railroad at the foot of vortical walls of rock from halt to a mile high, with a rapid, raging river washing the ballast. The dauntless energy displayed in overcoming apparently unsurmountable difficulties, penetrating the chasms and climbing the peaks of the Rockies with the iron trail, is an assurance that like energy and perseverunce will make the scenic wonders of the Colorado river accessible to the world, The enter- prise of railroad engineering and con- struction, and the unequalled attrac- tious it will afford travelers, will force the present scenic routes of the west to haul down their signs. tHE IRON IS HOT. An official of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad has given the assurance that the gap of eleven miles between Verdigris and Niobrara will be closed before the end of the year. This proposed line will give a direct route from Omahato the Niobrara river and open up communication with the Sioux reservation in Nebraska as well as Southern Dakota. The reason for the failure to complote this line is not difficult to discern. So long as the Northwestern system had a monopoly of the carrying trade of that section, it proposed to profit to the last hour in the long haul to Chicago. The speedy tapping of this rich territory by rival roads as well as the opening of the Sioux reservation have brought home to the management of the Northwestern the danger of its position. Its selfish policy must now be abandoned. It must give to the people of that region access to the nearest and best markets regardiess of the length of haul, Be that as it may, the appeal of the delegation of business men of Niobrara for co-operation of the representative capitalists and merchants of Omaha in securing the earliest possible extension of the Elkhorn road should be heeded. Much can be done by united action in influencing the-directory of the North- western to immediate action. For that reaspn Omaha should send its delegation in conjunction with that from Niobrara and elsewhera !'to lay the whole truth before President Hughitt nexi Tues- day. Now 15 the time to actfor a speedy relief from the embargo which has so long handicapped this city. Tue solicitude professea by Zion's Herald regardiiiy; the pledge made on behalf of Omaha in connection with the invitation to hold the next general con- ference of the Methodisv Episcopal church 1n this city may be entirely sin- cere. That journal says the Method- ism of Omaha could not and should nov vudertake to bear the burden of enter- taining the conference, which would amount to some thirty thousand dollars. It says” the church is abundantly able to provide, as it has heretofore done, for the entertainment of its delegates, that the church is placed in a humiiiat- ing position in being made to appear as a humble mendicant seeking a generous host, and advises that Omaha “‘now re- lease its claim and re-assert it at the next general conference, when it may be accepted without limitation.” All this appears fair and plausible, but the oncluding paragraph of the [Her- ald’s article is sigpificant. In thisiv says that ‘‘with so much of denowi- natipnal interest now concen- trated upon Waslington as the sent for a = great national uni- versity, with the excellent hotel ac- commodations offered, it might be wisest to fix upon the capital as the location for the next general confer- ence. “Will it be an injustice to the Herald to essume that its apparent concern for Omaha is due to its desire to have the conference held in Wash- iv.won, and that in this it doubtless roflects the interested wish “of its eastern constituency? The pledge on behalf of Omuha was made in good faith. and the proposition was accepted by the conference. This city can make good the pledge if itis given asufficient chance, and under the circumstances it would seem only fair that the church authorities should give Omaha the greatest practicable latitude in the matter, The generous disposition of the Methodism of this city should com- mand the most liberal treatment from the authorities of the church. Then if it cannot perform the task it has under- taken let the conference go elsswhere. NO LAW passod by congress has been as outrageously perverted and twisted as that relaling to foreign contract labor. The letter and spirit of the law was intended to check the importation under contraet: of Furopean cheap labor. Itwas'th emergency law de- signed to protéct labor from the hordes of the old world, and prevent them from flocking to thiy' country to tauke the places of strikers, The law, howaver, has been stretehed so as to include every person coming to this country under a priorsengagement to work, eithex in the prdfessions or at common labor. Under thearuling of the treasury department, foreign ministers and edu- cators have Bébn shut out, if en- gaged in adysnce, while thousands of ymmigrants land’ every week. The ab- surdity of the law is illustrated by the case of a Canadian clergyman who was called to the pastorate of a church at Lewisburg, Pa. The clergyman was born in the United States, but when three years old the family removed to Canada, where his father became a cit- izen of the dominion. Notwithstand- ing the fact that the clergyman never excrcised the rights of citizenship in Canada, claiming citizenship in the United States, the assistant secretary of the treasury decides that he is an alien and cannot be imported under contract, This view of the law has not beeu passed upon by the supreme court, but it ought not to be nocessary to ap- peal to the court. Congress should de- clare the true ntent of the act, and break down the Chinesc wall which the law seeks to build around the country. — CoLLEeE hazing is a practice which has defiod all expoedients for its extine- tion, partly by renson of the fact that college facultios gonerally are disposed to be more or less tolerant of it, but it occasionally ocours in forms that sug- gest the necessity of very heroic treat- ment for its suppression. Two such in- stances happened during the past week. One of these was at Kalamazoo, Michi- gan, where some twenty stadents in- duced a couple of professors to visit the room of a senior, and having them there bound them hand and foot, conveyed them a couple of miles into the country and left them in a corn field. The other case was at the Hamline university at St. Paul. where the sophomores stole the viands of a banquet that had been spread by the freshmen class in honor of the juniors. A free fight was the result, in which a number of the participants received in- juries thay will not soon recover from. The indignity to the professors is alto- gother the more serious and reprehensi- ble of these two affairs, and those guilty of it:shoutd be seversly punished, but both incidents serve to suggest that the average college student is a far too reckless and belligerent animal and should be subjected to a more rigid dis- cipline than is common at American colleges. eEERgEEeE—— THE McCalla case, unfortunately, is not the only instance of brutality in the navy. Rumors are rife that considera- ble trouble exists in Admiral Walker’s squadron, now in foreign waters. The commander of the Chicagois under sus- pension, the captain of the Atlanta has been ordered home and the chief engineer of the Boston and other officers of the fleet have been tried by court-martial. There is evi- dently something rotten in the ser- vice. It is hard to believe that the highest officers of the navy are ruffians and that the rnnl%a.nd file are inhu- manely treated. m the other hand it is claimed that the person- nel of the navy has deteriorated in tone and efficiency during the long period of service in the old wooden hulks and tvhat it needs reformation in order to meet the discipline pecessary for the swift and powerful cruisers of the present. The court of inquiry to try the charges against McCalla is likely to be but a preliminary step to a thor- ough investigation of the condition of the navy department. Secrotary Tracy can be trusted to probe the evil to the bottom and cure the abuses wherever they may be found. THE metropolis of the country with all its wealth, resources, public institu- tions and benefices does not contain a first-class freo cireulating librar that of Boston and Cincinnati, The anomoly of this condition hasexcited the attention of New York’s leading citi- zens, and a movement is now oo foot seconded by Seth Low, Grover Clgve- land and other prominent men to estab- lish such an institution. At a mass meeting at Chickering hall a day or two ago Mr. Cleveland in the course of his remarks referred to the neces- sity of a public Lbrary ‘as an element of strength and safety in organ- ized society. 'I'he teaching of the pub- lie schools must lead to the habit and the desire of reading to be useful; therefore the same wise policy and intent which opens the doors of our free schools also suggests the completion of the plan by placing books in the hands of those who have been taught to vead.” The public library in our present day is a factor of civilization which cannot beignored and its work and influence should bs encouraged in every com- munity. IN a few days George Francis Train will shake the dust of American soil off his feet and take passage in a trans- Pacific greyhound for his trip around the world. Local interest is aroused in whatever Mr. Train attempts to do. His feat to break the record as a globe- trotter, if successful, will redound not aloue to his credit; but to the glory of Omaha as well. It is feryently to be hoped that the mysterious ‘*Psycho” which attends the philosopher of Madi- son Square will not desert him when away from home and in the land of strangers, but that he may be brought safe and sound back again within the time allotted Firm and Unchanged. New York World. An edge-tool trust is in process of forma- tion. Untortunately tnis does not moan a cut in prices, B The Soheme of Mr. Blair. Nashville American. Having talked the senate into a stawe of mental imbecility Senator i3lair now looks upon the passage of his bill through that body as a sure thing. ions Dying Oat. Kansas City Times, It begins to look as if the day of railway associations is drawing toa ciose, All of the great associations of the country have either died within the last few montbs or placed themselves in such @ position that their demise may be momentarily expected. - Ahe Lay of General Greeley. Louisville Cowrier-Journal, It is General Greeley who says: If you want some actual winter, Aud to blizzard weather cling; If you want a real nose-tinter, Just you wait for gentle spring. Sl S Senator Bla ototy pe. Phitadolphia Recor Senator Blair, n his desire to be reported, plays the part of Cewsar, who, “Bade the Romans Mark him and write his speoches in thew books.” . But, come to think of it, thero was an- other of Shakespeare's characters vory anx- ious to have full reports made, This was Dogberry, who wahted to be “writ down' as much as Senator Blair, and to much thesame effect. — The Only Truly Good, San Francisco Bullelin, There is & proposition afoot to substitute for the head of the Goddess of Liberty on our coins the heads of men famous in the history of the country. It is to be hoped that they will all be the heads of dead wen. It is entirely too risky nowadays to put the hond of a living man in such a place. There 18 no knowing what he may do before he dies. sl . Huntingtor Fine Work. San Franeiseo Chrontele. Congress should olosely inspect the phrase- ology of the Pacific railroad refunding bill. 1t no doubt will contain a joker designed to legaliza all the outrages hitherto committed. by tho Central Pacific corporation, such as seizing mineral lands on the pretense that they are part of the railrona land grant, eto —_—— Slayery in the Navy. Boston Globe, Secrotary Tracy must make a rmd inves- tigation into the conduct of the officers of the United States ship Enterprise. Uncle Sam can’t afford to 1et one of his ships ro- ronin “a floating hell,” as the sailors call it, The reported fact that seventy of them de- werted in foreiga ports and the others mu- tinied iy pretty conclusive testimony against the officers in charge. New York World, Dr. Newlands, son-in-law of the late mil- lionaire Sharon, is investing liberally in Di trict of Columbia real estate, He nourishes exvectations of filling a seat in the United States senate, as did his father-in-law, and to that end is acquiring in Nevada some such residence qualification as Calvin S, Brice re- cently achioved in Ohio. The bad example of the millionaire in politics is aiways catuh- ing. i An Assistant Secretary of War. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, The proposition to create an assistani secrotary of war, which has now becomo law, has often been favored by heads of that department in the past, and has more than once been urged by members of congress. The army, it is true, is oot increasing, but as compared with a dozon or fifteen years Aago, it has fallen off somewhat 11 numbers, On the other hand, however, the duties which it must perform and the lavors at- tending its suvervision have been materially augumented in recent years. The act which has just been signed oy the president provid- ing for this new official is an intelligent and timely attempt to meet the necessities of the service in this direction. Wl LS A Strike for Liverty. Siowx City Journal, ln the wain, the result in Sioux City on Monday vindicated the hole-in-the-wall, Prohibition was lmd out cold. To be sure there was no prohibition ticket or candidate in the field, but Don Quixote was abroad after the windmill and Sancho Panza was at his back. The news has been telegraphed to Des Moines: “‘We are the people.” The understanding is quito clear in certain quarters in Sioux City, however, that it doesn't very much matter if the legislature shall file a demurrer. In this particular Sioux City quarter it is held that it will be wise for the legislature to govern itself ac- cording to the verdict of the petit jury, but whether or no that all right, Watch the Lottery Snake. Chicago Tribune, ‘The scheme has been fully exposed in ail its iniquity. Apart from its immoral tenden- cies and 1ts damaging results from the pure- Iy moral point of view, and leaving out of consideration the conspiracy of the ringstors to unload thousands of acres of worthiess town and country property upon the invest- ors, the principal arguments made by its ad- vocates—namely: that it would bring in a large revenue to the state and thus relieve its criopled finances is shown to be false, The alieged material benefit is shown to be only a pretext set forth with the intention of deceiving the people until the conspirators could get their charter and tnus gain con- trol of the state. In the face of this show- ing can it be possible that there are sufficient members in the legislature to secure the enuctment of this iniquitous measure? The peovle of North Dakota must keep on the alert to head off this unscrupulous gang, and if their scheme cowes to the surface again muat stand by their governor and make their sentiments felt by protests about whose meaning there can be no mistake, ‘'hey have apparently only scotched the sualke, not killed it, S VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Here's an 1dea, York Republican. The interstate commission should be com- posed of the chairmen of all tho state boards of transportation. ‘That would put the man- agement of the railroads where rates could be fixed through all the state: Approve His Consistency. Crete Vidette, Avtorney General T is not accomplish- ing much on tne railroad board, but his whole course has beon consistent and merits the approval of the farming community. Slogan, Bealrice Demoerat, On to Omaha via the at route, Rock Island A Tale witha Moral, Ulysses Dispateh, Talking &bout highway robbary, read the Qufference in the fre ght charges in lowa and Nebraska. They tell o tale that should posi- tively mean & political sommersault for Ne- braska next fall. Railroad republicans and hoodlers must go, should be the campaign platform. B Prefers Business to Politics, Grand Istand Independent, A number of state pavers are taking S. N, Wolbach of this city up as a candidate for zovernor on tho democratic ticket, but Mr, Wolbach is not willing, having had enough of poliuies and being determined to stick to business in the future, Look Out for This Fall, Blair Pilot, When Attorney General Leese of the state railway commission made a motion be- fore the board a few days ago 10 order a re- duction of rates on Nobraska lines, to cor- respond with te Towa schedule, ho could not gev & second to his motion, Yet the gen vemen who failed and refused to act aro the same who junketed off to Chicugo recently and retusned to advocate the 10 per cent re- duction proffered by the railroads as a just and proper racoguition of tho publio dewmand for low rates, ‘I'no people are to eloct a new board of transportation this tall. Marc Helen Tunt Jacksoi, Beneath the sheltering walis the thin snow clings— Winter's white, Disjointed, crumbling, on unfriendly fieids. The inky pools surrender tardily At noon, to putient herds, u frosty drink £rom jageed rims of a subtle red Of life is kindling every twig and stalk Of lowly meadow growths; the willows wrap Their stems in furry white; the pines grow gray A little in the biting wind; midday Briogs tiny burrowed creatures, peeping out Alort for sun. art Kind-hearted, threats, And, out of sight, violets! Dead skeloton, left bleaching, Ab, March! we know thou spite of ugly looks and art nursing April's AS OTHFARS SEE US. Not in the Books, New York Herald, A Nebraska lawyer, in taking exception toa judge's decision, made a motion that cannot be found in any of the legal author ties. The n.tion struck his honor in the Beets and Beats. Washington Gritie, A Nebraska nan has raised a baat mop than three foet long. Around some Wash ington howel lobbies they can be found aix feet long and, paradoxical as it may secu, invaribly short, Where Wood May be Loaded. Detroit Free Press, In Towa, Ncbraska and Missouri you can bore a hole in a stick of firewood, plug it up after fliling with powder aud leave it whoro o shief may get it and blow his house up. These are the only three states, howevor, All the others have laws making such a thing a misdemeanor. The Editor—Hmm Mark. Sommerville Journal. Stranger (to hotel clerk)—What are all those strange marks on this rogister! It 1ooks as 1f fifty hens had boen walking over it Clerk—Keop quiet, man; those are the autographs of the Nebraska editors, PN AP COUNTRY BREEZES, The Sensation Didn't Pan. Auwrora Republican, It was reported this morning that Gov- ernor Ageo hud a new girl at his house, but after ruoning down the revort we wero greatly astonished and somewhat chargined to learn that it was & Swode girl, eightoon years old, weight 160 pounds. Startling Innovations. Creighton Courier. We are pained to announce that our fore- man has lately boen showing etrong symo- toms of insanity. Last week e not only bought a new paper collar, but insisted upon wearing it, and the further fact that ho lugged a canary bird into the office aud scat- tered bird seed all over the floor but con; firms our worsi. fears, A Hols In Our Exchequer. Mason City Transcript. If you should be so lucky as to find $25 that does not beloeg to you, you can earn the deepest gratitudo v the editor of this paper by returning the same to him, who was 80 unfortunate as to lose that amount of money out of a pocket Monday afternoon. The return of the monoy would not only be of great benefit to us, but would, no doubt, cause our boarding boss to greet us with a more welcome smile, and at the same time lift a heavy load off the conscience of the The Tribune can furnish anybody who de- sires it & compieto category of the crimos committed by the editora of its hated con- temporaries, The rocords are on filo in this oftice and show enough corruption to stop & train of cars or dam the Niagara. But under ordinary circumstance the The Tribune pre fers to let thoso interested call and get the facts. It does not believe in filling its col- umns day after day with matters concerning theso vipers, The peonlo are not craving such stuff and they don’t wantto basurfeited with a percnnial banquet of this sort. Jim is Lonesome. Winside Watchman. Jim Elliott needs a wife to read the alma- nac’ana wind the clock. - For a‘lady of ma- turity and experionce herc is an excellent chance, but no seatimental maidon of sweet sixteun need apply. Jim was in town day with his dairy produce ana looking for the Union Pacific freight with the intention of gong to Wayne on business, laboring under tho delusion it was Saturday, and it cost him several cigars to become convinced that he had lost a day somewhere. We sympathize with Mr. Eliott, for we have ‘been a bacbelor ourself. The © he Out o Debt., February, 1800, has been for us a memor- ablo month for many things, but principally in this, that the liberal donations of the fol- lowing persous huv enabled us to pay up th Mr. H. Kountze, Mr. Holcombe, $100; Mr. B. Wood, $2; 2505 'Mr. Markel, sw- Mr. 8. W, Nash, $i; ir, Yates, $25: Mr. J, Mr .’ N. H. Patrick, $25; M N Moyor, $1: Mr. . Rosewater, i Mr., W. V. Morao, 3105 A. Millard, $10; McCord, M A P. 'Hopkius, $10} Mr. Buclid Martin, $10; Richardson I company, $: Markel & Swobe, $25 by M “Thomas, §5: Mr. Decker, #3; one who wi to be l|nknu\"n £260. Our reception given February 22 in honor of our prospect of being free from debt was an |'njw\ able affair, ho at present has a larger num boarders thun at any time pre vious, which 15 very. gratifying o the board of mana) Mus. War. W. Kevson, Secretary. e Hawthorne Literary Cirvelo. Tho regular weekly meeting of the Haw- thorne Literary circlo was hold Thursday evening at the residence of W, A. Gardner, No. 4120 Nicholas street. A very pleasant ovening was spent in the discussion of “Sir Walter Scott,” the subject of the meoting, after which the cirele adjourned to meet in two weeis at the residence of Dr. H. M. McClanatian, The subject for noxt mosting will be “Dickens.” ‘Those present at Thurs- day's meeting were, Mr. and Mrs, Clarlos Van Tuyl, Rev, aud Mrs. Palm, Dr. and Mrs. McClanahian, Mr. and Mrs, ' Flomiog, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner. Mrs. Holtz, Miss Lows, Miss Kingsbury, Miss Thompson. Thoe circlo will not meet ngain for two weeks. -— Homo Musie. Mr. Frank Duncan, well known in Omaha mus ical circles, has composed a pretty littlo lullaby entitled “Sieep Little Darling.” It has been passed upon by & number of musi- cal critics aud pronounced @ fine piece, protty and takig. 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