Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1891, Page 4

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IT is painful to observe thg lifelessness of the slotter house troop these mellow days of presentations and parades. GENERAL Economy has mounted the legislative saddle. It romains to be seen whether he will st Tk logislabure paid a tender compli- ment to the Lenten season by oncour- aging the fish committee in its labors, NoW let Mr. Hill pronounce for free and unlimited silver coinage. Nothing less will restore democratie equilibrium, The profound silence that envelopes Tort Sheridan forms an effective back- ground for the jubilant demonstrations in the vicinity of-Fort Riley —— Tur report of the revival of an Indi- ana man after being boxed for burial dis- credits atself. The victim was neither an office holder nor a prospective one. THE mention of congressman Dor name in connection with the treas portfolio is doubtless one of those p tical rib-ticklers to which the gentle- man is adicted. FOR the next six months Messrs, Dil- lon and O'Brien will enjoy a respite from thestrife of faction. But itis not likely the anxioty of the government for their welfare will fill them with admiration for Balfour. THE conclusions of the president, sec- retary of war and commanding gendral not only exonerate Colonel Forsythe but effectually dispose of the claim that the battle of Wounded Knee was a pre- meditated ‘*butchery.” — RESUBMISSION is marching on in North Dakota. The outlawry developed by prohibition has forced the better class of citizens to unite in remedying an evil by striking a‘ its source, and substituting restrictive laws that will be sustained by public sentiment. THE Dill to relieve the governor of consideration of pardons is another scheme to beat around the constitu- tional bush. The pardoning power is vested solely in the governor and any attempt to shift the responsibility on other shoulders is in direct conflict with the constitution. In the light of recent experiences the legislature should be extremely careful in trifling with the organic law, THERE i8 no longer any excuse for delay in granting Omaha sufficient force for promptly handling the mails. The final declaration of the census of tho state furnishes the postal department the necessary data on which to base an crease of force, and the state deloga- tion should see to it that the city re- ceives the full quota of carriers and clerks to which it is entitled by law. Tur swell republican club of Pitts- burg appears as anxious to censure Sen- ator Cameron now as it was to elect him a foew woeks ago. His voteand views on tho silver bill are not called in question, but his side speculation in bullion is an offense that cannot be condoned, With a six year commission in his pocket, to- gether with several snug margins, Mr, Cameron can snap his fingers at Pitts- burg and reiterate the immortal chal- lenge of the late Mr. Tweed, — THE experience ot other states should serve as a warning to the legislature to exercise the greatest cave in drafting ir- rigation laws. The present discussion of the subject serves to enlighten mem- bers on the methods pursued in the mountain states, but the conditions under which Nebraska labors demand laws which, while developing irrigation. will not foster a monopoly of water rights, 'This is the vital point. Under the stim- ulus of sudden popularity the legislature is liable to go too far and grant rights and privileges which would prove a per- manent mwenace to the prosperity of the western counties, ‘OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1801 MORNING. | | no THE PEOPLE WILL NOT STAND IT. The people of Nebraska are in no mood to have themselves taxed to pay the attorneys’ fees and incidentals of the contest over state offces, The republi- can and prohibition lawyers may have agreed to saddle this e wordinary bill of expenses on the people of Nobraska, but the legislature has business to carry out such an agreement. The whole contest was an imposition from the outset, gotten up by aset of vindictive prohibition agi- | tators and professionals for the purpose | of bolstering up a future campaign and getting up capital for their party in the campaign of 1892 in which they expect fo cut a wiae swath and sell out to the | highest bidder, as they did in 1884 when Blaine was sold out by St. John. So far as the prohibitionists are con- cerned, their purpose has been sub- served by blackwashing Omaha and building up a mountain upon a mole hill of facts, They were adroit enough to inveigle the independ- ents into . pulling their chestouts out of the fire. The alliance has already been bled to the tune of 81,200 by the foxy prohib agitators. They will hardly be justified in levying upon the taxpayers for the pretentious claims of a gang of mounte- banks and platherskites who are trying to work them for all they can get. 1t is true that the state officers whose places were contested upon the most shallow pretexts have incurred a groat oxpense in defending themsel and they have a right to expect to be reim- bursed or havethe expenses of their law- yers paid, but we do mnot beliove it is good policy for the legislature to allow ¢ claims. It would be paying a wium for frivitous contests every time some mercenary or seventh-rate lawyers could induce ted candidates to enter upon a contest under any trumped- up charg® however absurd or baseless, Such a precedent would be dangerous. THE LATE ADMIRAL PORTER. Another of the men who did distin- guished service for the union in the civil conflict and uchieved world-wide re- nown, has passed away. David D, Por- ter, admiral of the navy, who died sud- denly in Washington yesterday, had a notable and honorable career. His first naval experience was in the service of Mexico, but for more than sixty years he was in the servico of the United States, attaining to the highest rank. He had won honorable distinction bafore the rebellion, but it was then he found opportunity for showing bis ability as a naval officer, and he made a record that will perpetuate his name as one of the most wuseful men in that conflict. Some have undertaken to dis- parage his well-earned fawme, and ho found it necessary to engage in several controversies in defense of his record, always with results to his advantage. His operations at New Orleans and Vicksburg wero of great value to the union cause, and he conducted them with a skill and courage which merited all the commendation he received. Admiral Porter was one of the most earnest advocates of a thorough system of coast defenses, not alone on the sea- board but on the lakes also, and he wrote largely on this subject to show how entirely we were at the mercy of a hostile foreign fleet, pre- senting the matter in a stronger light than almost any one else has done. He was also in favor of an adequate navy, believing in the prin- ciple that although no daunger threat- ened it is wise to bo always prepared. His suggestions and recommendations have had influence with congress, though what has been done is far short of what he advised. Admiral Porter had reached the ripe age of 77 years. Few men in our naval annals did greater service to the country, and his record, covering a period of more than three score years, will honorably compare in scope and usefulness with that of any of his contemporaries, —— CLEVELAND'S SILVER VIEWS, Shortly after his election to the presi- dency in 1884, Grover Cleveland wrote a letter on silver in which he took decided ground against increasing the coinage of that metal and irndicated what the policy of the administration would be regariing silver. This enunciation was sharply denounced by a majority of the democrats in congress, but undismayed by this manifestation of party hostility to his views, Mr. Cleveland appointed as his secretary of the treasury a pronounced gold standard man, and at no time during his administration was any favor shown to silver. On the contrary the policy of the treasury department under Secretary Manning and his successor, Secretary Fairchild, was distinctly antagonistic to that form of currency. As far as practicable it was withheld from eirculation, and every influence of the administration was ex- erted to bring it into popular disfavor. There has been no reason to that the views of Mr. Cleveland had changed since his retirement from the presidency, and hence there is nothing sarprising in his latest utterance re- garding silver. But Mr, Cleveland’s letter to the re- cent meeting In New York to express opposition 1o the silver bill pending in congross has creatod widesprond dis- affection toward him in his party. In this letter the ex-president is as explicit in his opposition to the free coinage of silver as he was in the letter written a few months before he became president in opposing the incrense of the coin- agoe of silver then proposed. And his present ennunciation is denounced no less rigorously than was his first one. Leaders of more or less prominence in the democracy, and a few party organs, are proclaiming that he cannot again bo the candidate of the party for the presi- dency,that a campaign with Cloveland as the standard bearer would be hopeless, and that if he should be nominated it would be useless to try to hold the party in the wost together in his support. The letter appears to have created conster- nation among the democrats in congross who are almost a unit in favor of free coinage, even so conservative aman as Senator Carlisle hawing voted for it and declared his belief that the experiment will have to be tried. Cleveland’s position on announcement this his wil of question supDOse* What effect Mr. | have upon the future course of the rep- resentatives of his party in congress is problematic, but it would seem from the attitude they have taken that they can- not well do otherwise than repudiate the views of the ex-prosident. This circumstance gives, a changed and somewhat moroe interesting aspect to the political situation. It introduces an element of discord in the democrati ranks the working of which will be watched with decided interest by men of all parties, The probability is that it will tend to make Mr. Cleveland stronger with his party in the eastand weaken him in the west, nnd possibly also in the south, There is a large ele- ment in the purty that will be very likely to aggressively demand some other man as the éandidate in 1802, This clement may rally to Hill, al- though it is not known that he enter- ns vie vs more favorable to silver than Cleveland. It is moro likely to sook wostern man, but the difficulty will be to find one that has availability oven inthe west. The namo of no western democrat suggoests itsell who could probably curry New York or any of the doubtful states. The democracy cannot go south, even so far as Kentucky or Maryland, for a candidate. But the present fact of interest to the republi- cans is, that while Mr. Cleveland is still far in advance of any rival in the prosi- dential race his chances of winning are not 80 good as they were a woek ago, and the fresh disaffection he has caused in his party can hardly fail to work to republican advantage. THE 10WA ISSUE. An Jowa republican congressman is quoted as saying that the republican leaders in that state are willing to con- cede liconse and local option in certain localities where it must bedone to retain votes. It is charitable to assume that the congressman is misquoted,but if not, it is to bo hoped that he misrepresonts the feeling among the republican lead- ers in Jowa. It is not difficult to under- stand the perplexity of these leaders re- garding the policy which the party should adopt toward the prohibition issue. Between the alternativesof taking a position squarely against the policy which the party has championed and upheld for the past ten years, dospite the fact that it has proven a fail- ure, and that of risking defeat by allow- ing the democracy to goto the people with a demand for the abandonment of prohibition ir favor of a policy that will not fail, it is conceivable that the poli- ticians may be embarassed as to which to choose. But it is clear that the party cannot relieve itself of responsibility or gain any permanent advantage by adopt- ing such a course as the congressman quoted suggests, The plain way for the republicans of Towa is either to adhere uncompro- misingly to their past position or un- qualifiedly renounce it. They have nothing to gain by a haltway policy, or by trying to beat the devil around the bush. The proposal to concede license and local option in localities where it must be done to retain votes is unworthy of the ropublican party. It would bea narrow and questionable expedient, and the party that should have recoirse to it could not hope to long retain the popu- lar support. It is not to be believed that tho intelligent republicans of lowa would give their supportto any such plan, and it is questionable whether any reputable ‘leader of the party has the hardihood to seriously urge it. The re- publican party of lowa will have to either stand by prohibition or repudi- ate it, RECKLESS SENSATIONALISM, Tho most outrageous and damaging report that has yet been published in any paper concerning Nebraska is pub- lished under flaming headlines by the World-Herald. It represonts the people of Keith county in a state of frenzied desperation, brought on by starvation and lack of fuel, and sends broadcast a lurid description of a midnight attack by these destitute people upon the Union Pacific station and freight trains con- taining provisions and coal. The report proves to be what might have been known to any rational editor, a down- right fabrication. But our enterprising contemporary, like the fellow who tried to lift himself over the fence by his boot straps, resorts to such sensational libels upon the state under the delusion that it can work up a circulation which no paper ever has been able to sustain without enjoying popular confidence as a reliable medium of the news of the day. But evenif the report had been true, the fact that it would work irre- parable damage to the repulation and material welfare of Nebraska should have deterred the paper from giving it a conspicuous place and placing it under head-lines that would attract universal attention. The trouble is that a newspaper in the hands of an amateur is like a gun in tho hands of a hoy. THE eleventh hour payment of a por- tion of the deficit in the accounts of the registor of deeds should not deter tho county commissioners from insisting on a full and vomplete settlement. The law explicitly provides that no public money shall be held by the register ox- cept the amount necessury to pay dep- uty and assistants. The paymenf of $4,000 leaves a balance of 85,500 due the county. Add to this the surplus for the remaining years of the term, and the county will be in the hole to the tune of #22,000 at the end of theee years, with a 810,000 bond ns security, The duty of the commissioners 1s clear. Thoy must protect the taxpayers by demanding a full settlement up to the close of 1890, and insist on adequate security for tho payment of the surplus fees at least once a year, —_— THE Union stockyards management squelches the attempt to make the market o close corporation. All ship- pers wiil in the futureas in the past enjoy equal rights and privileges und no diserimination will be tolerated, Any other course would be fatal to the pros- perity of the yards and allied interests. ITis tobe hoped Senator Mander- son's effort to increase the appropria- tion for the new public building to $1,200,000 will be successful. That | would, in a measure, compensate Omaha for the two yones’ delay in starting the construction of §hf butlding. As a mat- ter of fact, a publ®) bullding, and constructed offfranite and durable stone that would e for the wants of Omaha for the neft 50 years, cannot be built for less than $1,250,000. An $800,- 000 fire proof structure on a block 264 feet square would look rather diminu- tive and would beentirely out of propor- tion, and within a few years it would scarcely accomaotpte Omaha as well as the present postofii®e building does. THE house appropriations committee puts the knife te -the root and draws blood with every cut. The excessive cost of maintaining state wards justifies the vigorous polidy of retrenchment in- augurated by the committee. IT 18 apparent at this early day that silver will be a conspicuous factor in next year's campaign. But there is no reason to believe that gold or green- backs will be rejected by political pa- triots on that account. It is a mistake to suppose the Samo- sets went to Lincoln to encourage the irrigation movement. Tothe genuine, full-blooded brave, water is a side issue. THERE is o large amount of room for improvement in pushing the commercial and industrial interests of Omaha. —_— POLITICAL or personal friendship ceases to be a virtue when the public interests are involved. —_— Civilization is Working. New York Sun, Hon. American Horse seems to be a sensible sort of patriot. He says that the copper-colored brethren would like to get the federal offices in their part of the country. Here 1s the chance to corral the Indian vote, ' sl x4 ixpect Too Much. Bpoch, foner in a neighboring y indicted for assaulting a colleague. Some of the school commissioners of New York city ought to be indicted at once for murder —murdering the English language, g e SEALS A Man's a Man, Ete, New York Herald. The high and mighty ‘400" who constitute New York's best society, would feel very queerly if they were compelled to tell how their 400 grandfathers made their living. It doesn’t pay to monkey with genealogical trees in this country. Chicago News. Roast Chicago all you please and tomahawk the world’s fair monomaniacs as you will, but presume not to utter a word or breathe a breath against that ineffable organization, the board of lady manggers! That's the pet corn on the Chicago 1§_ . Omaha Located. Lincoln. Journal, Colonel Champion . Chase has invited the next pan-American congress to meet at Omaha. The colonel produces a map and shows that Omaha 'Yis{the most central city of the world.” Witha! tape line and a chro- nometer he demonstratés that there is just as much space north of het as south of her, east of her* as west of her, and that the space east and west of her is'about the same as that north and south of her. Sheis also on the sun's meridian bLalf an hour before high noon, standard time. . PR, 5! T Plain Talk in the Legislatuj Elijah P. Fowler of Whitewood and two other republicans of Lawrence county who were elected members of the South Dakota, legislature were bounced by the democratic- independent combine, Here is an extract from Mr. Fowler’s farewell address to the hous entleman, I know that this scat is mine, and I cannot and do not believe that any man ot ordinary intelligence who has lis- tened to the elucidation of the evidence, both pro and con, cau help but know that this soat is mine, and were ita piece of prope nature or kind that it were possible to be taken from mo by any one man, gentlemen, there is not ono among you who would dare toattempt it, and if you did dare I would either kill you or you would me, before I would give up my possession.”’ Y —— A Picturesque Character. Nebraska Signal. One of the amusing and interosting feat- ures of the present legislature is the patriotic zoal and dovotion displayed by Hon. Church Howe in the persistent introduction of bills to protect the western farmer against the usurious demands of western-bankers. As a lively competition and a fair supply of cash makes it possible for the farmers in Howe's own bailiwick to procure money on real es- tate security at 6 and 7 per cent per aunum, and from the baukers at 9 and 10 per cent per annum, it only decpens the mystery, Church has donned his cocked hat, drawn on his top boots and is out gunning— in fact presénts a decidedly romantic and picturesque appearance. However, we sug- gest that our alliance friends keep their weather eye open toward the gay and defiant avenger. Heis after too small game and is in the wrong pasture. His deflant declama- tion and heroic attitude border on the spec- tacular, but it shall arrest and hold the at- tention of the legislature at the expense of more important measures, why—Church will put on his diamond and go home. B D CUPID'S EXCHANGE, Kate A. Bradley, They both were square,cream-tinted missives, Addressed in scarce readable hand, But one said, *Miss Katheryn Melvaney." One, “Miss K. Muldoney” did stand. S0 who could be blaming the postman, Whose bag overflowed with love's lore, When one he gave out to the footman, One, left at the avea door. If he happened, notdooking too closely, To leave for the heiress in state The poor little lovenanissive Barney Had sent to the cook, Irish Kate: And gave to sweet, Fosy-checked Katie The poem that Cupid had meant To draw from the heart.of the beauty, The love he knewytireye was impent, “Dear you tnow I love you— 1 noédn’t gay it more; But tell meyou'ji be mine And DIl win gold galore, And at your et I'll all My love #fid riches pour Defective sho knewgas the motro, But naught caredtfio heiress for that! The love light shone o'er her proud eatures— Ab, Cupid knew yhathe was at! “T'm 'rich—ho is paspy” $ho said so‘tly, “Nor dares dreau. his love I'd v quite, T know aow ho loves me—1'll show him My heart’s in his keeping tonigut,” Below stairs fair Katio was reading A letter that soared high above The little sho knew about syntax But said not a word about love, “Faith, this Oi don’t call a love ter She cried, *‘lts all about lowers An’ birds, an’ the clouds, an’ the b eozes! Oi've washted well nigh on two Lours » the quare wrin , Barney, ye wrote it so fof 1t's about made mo think OVd best take ye Tonight, fer me own valentoine! And tho mistress that weoed her | roud lover With shy, happy blusb—or the i aia Ne'er kuew how the God had befcoled them, Or what a sly trick be had playcd. fire proof ! | OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. By a majority of 83 the house of commons rejocted Mr. Gladstone's religious disability bilL: 1t was not until 1520 that Roman Catho- hes in the United Kingdom were relieved from the various penalties and disabilities to which they had been subjectod by the in- tolerant logislation of the sixteenth and sev- enteonth centuries. They followed their re- lighon at the risk of sovero punishment, nov inflicted, but legally authorized, and at the cost of complote exclusion from all share in the government of the country. They could hold no offee under the crown, they could not enter the house of commons, they could not cast a vote, th ey had no political rights whatever, The vepeal of the Test acts in 1828, which the duke of Wellington declared would infallibly send the country to the “demnition bow wows," removed the worst of the discrimination against them, but there remained two great offices, the lord chancel lorship and the viceroyalty of Ireland, from which they were excluded, and it was the ob- Ject of Mr. Gladstone’s bill to remove this last vestige of the bigotry properly foreign to the spirit of the times. There may be some plausibility in requiring that the lord chancellor shall not be a Roman Catholic, on the ground that he i3 in a way the keeper of the sovercign's conscience, but as to the other office, the viceroyalty of Ireland, there is a more plaasible reason why a Roman Catholic should hold 1t, seeing that three-fourths of the Irish people are of that religion, * W Leopold I1, tho king of Belgium, 1s a mon arch of oxceptional qualities, There is no ruler in Europe who is his equal in point of accomplishments, ability and breadth of mind. He is tall, with a straight, well-built figure. He has a vefined face. 1Its features are regular. The lower partof his face 18 set off by a short brown beard. Although he is fifty-seven vears of age, heshows littlo trace of the sorrows and trials he has been called upon to enduren his reign. Helisa hard-working monarch. Heleads a most regular life. He is refined in all of his tastes and is devoted to study aud the aavancement, of his country. He is always in s bed before 10 o'clock at night unless kept by some special court function, As soon as he1s out of bed in the morning he dressos and goos out for a ride on horseback. Some- times this continues for an hour. Ho is al- ways out of doors for half an hour at least, and in nearly all weathers. Then he comes back to his bath and his coffee, and at once addresses himself to his work. This contin- ues during the morning. He goes carefully over every bit of his correspondence and the papers laid before him by his ministers. He also receives during the morning numerous delegations. Heis anaccessibleman. Any one who has an; | business with him finds no trouble in gaining an audience. Foreignersof position who wish to see him can readily have an ‘interview, when tho demand is formulated by their ministers. The morning is taken up with correspondence and the re- ception of delegations. After his cond breakfast the king goes back to his study and works hard upon public iness until dinner. He s neatly always at work. Occasionally he is obliged to take part in the fetes or royal functions of the y These are almost his only recreations. Even his evenings are de- voted to work. He is a student fond of abstruse subjects, and is thoroughly well- versed in the literature of the day., It seems to be aamitted that the new Ttal- ian cabinet is far from havinga majority of the chamber atits back. The elements which combined to overthrow the old regime never combined before, and are very likely to never combine again, Prophecies aro freely in- duiged in by those who think they know, that Rudini will be out and Crisplin again before auother yearrolls round. It is certain that the- olectors not. loug ago voted by an overwhelming majority to sustain the status quo, and they may take the earliest possible opportunity to rebuke the representatives who are liable to have to answer to the charge of misrepresent- ing the electors, If, however, the new order of things continues for a iength of time, sev- eral interesting consequences are possible, Oneof these is a veadjustment of the long time strained relations between the vatican and the quirinal.@ Rudini signalized his advent to power by declaring that it is not good policy to persecute the church. Just what and how mucn he meant by that remains to be seen. If he should inaugurate a policy looking to & reconciliation with the pope, big events might swiftly follow. Leo XIIL has shown on more than one occasion a more tractable spivit than was exhibited by his predecessor, Pius IX. If some concilin- tory phrases on one side were to be followed by an apostolic benediction from the other side, and thus the feud between the spiritual and the temporal power in Italy bo ter- minated, then, indeed, Premicr Rudini’s ad- ministration would be renderad forever mem- orable. e It 1s not to be supposed that even so in- formal an arrangement as the triple alliance will bn hastily broken underany new leagers. Austriz has followed Andrassy's policy since the death of that statesman, and Bismarck's foreign policy still prevails in the German foreign bureau. But the new ministers bave; nevertheless, in each case to face elements which make strongly for the rupture of the alliance. The ceutral part of the agreement of 188 was the maintenance of large standing armics. In Germany we have at present the speetacle of the em- peror himselt leading a par- tially sentimental movement for actual disarmament, and dismissing his gon- eralin-chief because the subject could not agree with the sovereign. In Austria the people are restive under the taxes neces- sitated by the large and idle army. In Italy the maintenance of the present standing armament was the distinet issue on which Crispi was overthrown. These forces may come irrosistible. The broaking up of tho ole alliance would bring Europe face to face with new problems, or rather, perhaps, with old problems newly put. The question will at once arise whether Bismarck's idea of international terrorism, as theonly guarantee for European peace, is true or false policy “The question must bo solved, sooner or later “Pe resignution of Bismarck was tho first jim- portant step towards its_solution. The rise of the now European policy in the cabinets of the three governments may not improbably forco the hand of Europe, e The revolts against the Spanish govern- ment have of late years arisen mainly in the form of wilitary mutinies. The government of an infant king, under the regency of a queen mother, of course affords the most on- couraging environment possible to plots of all kinds. But it 18 significant that the recent plots in Spain have been not at all dynastie, but avowedly republican, in their origin and purposé. A close election at Barcelona is the pretext for the present disturbance seems to be no more reason than th ys is a such oases for suspecting the gov- ernment to have favored unduly its own can- didates, but that suspicion sufficed to have set on foot a formidable riot. It is to be ex- peeted that this disturbance will be sup- pressed, but it is also to be expected that a similar disturbance will oceur wherever there is a similar provocation, und the chances of the infunt king for a peaceful oc- cupatiou of the throne of Spain do not seem w be great. g Brooklyn Eagle. Senator-elect Peffer is & self-made maa ana worships bis creator, CUPID'S HOLAD AY, Love's Telegraph. Hearts havo wings on St. Valentine's day ; | "Thoy fly to each othior Trom far away. And hearts that sigh one another to greet, Ou St. Valentine’s day aro sure to moet | It is singuine that tho first saint to be can. onized should have for his memorial o custom as amusing and sentimontal as that whioh has made St. Velentine's day one of general | observance in all civilized countries, St Valentine was a koutle and charitable Chrjs- tian bishop who for the great crime of con verting the pagans was first beaten cruell with clubs and then beheaded, His wartyr- dom occurred in 270, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius Claudius, ipon February 14. As a saint he is supposed to have special power in cases of epilonsy, There was o 1o his memory u church in Rome by Pope Julius, called “the chureh of St. Praxades, and the gate to the city was named Porta Valentind after the good bishop, Now comes the modern historian to inform us with due gravity and some wuthority that the day and custom antedated St. Valentine and was a pagan holiday of the Saturnalia and Lupercala, the first the annual holiday of the siaves, the last a festival heid in the ry in honor of two hoathen deities, Pan and Juno, says tho Detroit Fron Press. The custom of the day was lottery in which the names of young women wera drawn from a box by the young moen. The drawing rosulted 1n an attachment or com- panionsbip which lasted until the next ob- servance of the day, These customs con- tinued until Francis de Salos, in 1600 or thereabouts, substituted the names of saints in the lottery box, which refined and pious custom still exists in old and dovout fami- lies in Italy, It is the only religious toaturo that over attended tho festival which has for its orikin the pagan love of merry-making. Two Val ines. Some roille Journal, A dainty little thing, of lace And ribbons quaintly fashioned, A picture of a girlish fuce, A bit of verse impassioned; This was the tentler valentine, I sent my love to show her My wish to link her lifo with mine— Now as my wife all know ber, 1. A dalnty little thing, with laco And ribbons all about it ; An innocent, sweet baby face, My oldest—who coutd” doubt it This is the tender vaientine That now—what makes you wink sot Her valentine surpasses mine, Now, honest don’t you think so? How the 400 Do it. If you are a swell young man, anxious to do just the correct thing in valentines toward your best girl, don't send an That is, don't send any of the ordinary kind. This_ advice comes from headquartors— Ward McAlister—reports the Continent. “Send a lady some pretty trifle appropri- ate w the day, something that can be put to some use and that does not smack of the rus- tic simplicity that the ‘I-love-you' cards do, and you will not make yourself ridiculous- in fact, you will be perfectly correct. Or you could go even a step further and not ansgress beyond the bounds of strict social rules. You could send a lady a bouquet of cut flowers, with something pretty in the way of verses concenled between the leaves, She would consider such a valentine a com- plunent. But not an ordin You are my queen’ kind of affair, ng but that, you want to be considered & person who is to move in the highest circles.” Mating Tim Dr. Donne, ‘‘Hail, Bishop Valeutine, whose day this is! All the air is thy diocese, And all the chirping choristers And other birds ave thy parishione Highly Colored. As to a hungry darky’s heart The melon on the vine So is the sight of 10 me, My dearest Vale The first vaientine ever written was penned of Orleans, who was n cap- neland at the time. 1t leaves the im- press of his character, and the age of chivalry in_which he lived, and the quuint French rhymes compare woll with our fine modern love verse. O1d Ways the Best. In the south formerly socioty people al- ways gavea “Valenting party,” says Ward Allister in the Continent. This has been perseded by a Twelfth Night party in New York at least, but i can’t say that the as been so much for the better, parties were always picturesque g and it would perhaps be a good thing to go back to them rether than keepup the cele- ion of T'welfth Night. ven in the Louse of v ladies, Upon enter- ing you would be handed a basket filled with sealod envelopes. F'rom these envelopes you ect one at random, and inside on a card would be written the nameof alady. Old dowagers never figured. Any hostess who should have caused the namé of any young lady who wasu't young and prettyto be written on these cards would have i{nsulted her male guests and lost her social prestige. But, then, there were always plenty of young and prett) 1s in the south, so, that there was no need of taking chances, However, to proceed with the party. After you took your envelope you could claim the lady whose name was written ou the card for the eatire evening. Some Modern Valentines, New York World. An ivory paper cutter, on whichis writton with & drawing ven, “No%nife can cut our lovein two.” Stamp boxes, paper weights and blotters, all tied with ribbon, on which is painted, *“To my Valentine.” Violets still hold their own as the floral decoration. The tender meaning which the sweet little fiower conveys makes it appro- priate. Broad ribbon bookmarks with “There is nothing half so sweet in life as Love's young dreams’ written on the ribbon with a draw- ing pen. Ruttonlole bouquets for men are of a few violets made in the shape of a heart, and the valentine souvenir for each man may be a scarfpin representing a tiny Cupid. A very useful one is a penholder. Some of these have a gilt feather as ahandle, tied with ribbon, and painted of the ribbon is, Look, then! into thine heart and write.” Cardboard cut in the shape of alarge heart, a layer of wadding over the top, and this sprinkled with sachet powder und covered with white crepe. In gilt lettering put “Pansies aro for thoughts; these are for my Valentine. Take two pleces of cardboard and cover with any delicate shade of silk, Tie tozetner with ribbon, but cut another piece of card- board in the shape of a small heart, silver it, t neatly onto the silk cara but in such that it will Jift up, and inside put a tiny picture of yourself. One of the daintiest valentines 1s a jewel case made of silk, in the exact imitation of a cap. This verse goes with it : Tam pining for a lover 1 have long had one in view, What if you should now discover 1 have set wy cap for yout This Valentine's day the telograph com- panics will have to fight agaiust some stroug competition, as a new corporation is to make its appearance, baim he Cupid Un- ion telegraph company. St. Valentine's gen. eral manager, Mr. Wellwisher, is presigent, The telegraph biauks are in the usual form, “The envelope hias a tiny figure of Cupid dono in bronze in the corner., PASRING JESTS, Drake's Magazine: A felloo of Jost makos the hub tired. Infinite Drake's Magazine: Die Wacht am Rhoin looking out for trichinw. Binghampton Republ What's the matter with a g darau of an assombly ¢ No one could find fault with his rulings an ¢ Yonker's Statosman: The chiropodist's 1ot is not & happy one. Ho bogins at the foot and nover gets any higher, Fliogende Blactter have you given are golng to lea SI can't stand her any longor. Wagnerian, and I am | masters Martha's Vineyard Horald: You can’t toll how valuable a girl's affecticns are unti) you are sued for blighting them, “Say, Lisotte, why ur mistress notice that you She s o dovoted to the old Puck—“Tow tho wind_ whistles ! but it doesn't whistle ‘Little Rooney.' Aunnie St Joseph News: The man who marries a souprette and demands that she renounce hor protession is ono kind of stage robber, Mrs. Tomdik—What do you think of my new bonnet! Tomdik—Isn't it rather smallt Mrs. Tomdik—Ob, yes; but then I don't intend goiug to the theator any more this winter, Tough Utah Beef. Sal Lake Tribune. “Say" remarked a man to the butcher of whom he purchases his daily supply of meat, “that last ploce of steak 1 boughtof you mus have been from a steer old enough to vote, ““Was it tough " inquired the man of moat. “Tough! Well I should say it was. L could hardly cat it “Oh, is that allf Weli, you ought to have heard avother man kicking a day or two ago. He bought a piece that he said was so tough tie couldn’t get his fork in the gravy," Patent They Were Rightly Named. Chicago Inter-Ocean, “The growth of the patent offico business is vory remarkabic,” obseryed Dinwiddi Yés," replied 'Mrs. Dinwiddie, Yeve thing is patonted nowadays, even lawye What on earth do yon mean?" “Well, I saw a sign'on an ofice down town, ‘Robb & Steele, patent lawyors,' " Lost. She is such a merry and musical maid With mclody all she impresses ! And even her dressn For accordion pleats in her dr ) Has Its Advantages. By Frederick Courtenay Barber i Drake's Maga- pald Beneath my ulster's sheltoring Her soft white hand on my arm was laid; A smooth little hand of tempting shape, Whose slightest touch my heart obeyed. We walked in silenco along the street, My hand held hers, but nobody knew She sighed, then murmured in accents sweet : “Ilike this season’s style; don't you ! TAKEN TO SCOTLAND YARD, Dillon and O'Brien Treated Courto- ously by the Police. Loxnoy, Feb. 13.~[Special Cablegram to Tur Bre]—The Folkestone train by whioh Messys, Dillon and O'Brien were traveling in charge of an.escort of police, arrived at Charring Cross railway station at (:40 last night. Colonel John P. Nolan, M. P., Jonn O'Connor, M. P,, and a crowd of friends who had been notified of tho arrest, were in wait ing at the station, and as the train came toa standstill at the platform they besicged the carriage which contamed the two members tof parhament who were in custody. The most cordial greetings wers exchanged be- tween the prisoners and thew friends, all partios being courtcously treated by the police. Inspector Litticchild of Scotland who was in the carringe as the polic aftor a pause suflicient to aliow M lon and O'Brien to recoive the their friends, escc carriage which was in w driven to Scotland Yard. During the time Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien were held in custody at Scotland Yard, Mr. Parnell, Mr. Thomas Sexton, Sir Thomas Ksmonde and Sir Henry Roscoe called there to s ) prisoners. greetings of soners to g aud they wera Came to Life in His Coffin, EvAxsy Tnd., Fob. ~[Special Tele- gram to Tue Ber.]—Bryan Golns, a farmer who lived just beyond the city limits, was supposed to have died on Mouday afternoon at 3 o'clock after a long illness due to lung " trouble. At midnight the watchers who were dozing fn their chairs were aroused by muffled noise in the direction of tho coffin,and lifting the cover up found the supposed dead man with his eyes open. He was hastily lifted from the casket and put in _bed and re- storatives applied. He lived until this morn- ing, when ho again closed his oyes. The doo- tors say life is certainly extinet now. Myrtha's First Appeara New Youk, Fob, 13.— i@pecial Telogram to B —Sara Bernbardt’s big Danish hound, Myrtha. made its first appearance on any stage at the Garden theater, to the great astomshment of the audience who was watching the first act of “La Tosca.” It seems that the nctress kuv{m the dog in her dressing room when she is at the theater. He walked on the stage from the prompt side and licked his mistress’ hand. The play came to a stand-still_instantly. The actress took him by the collar and led him off, Then she came back aud finished the act. sl Ll L Perished in the Flames. Orrawa, Ont., Feb, 18,—Mrs. La France and her two grand-children were burned to death in & house near the village of St. Al- bert, and Mr. La I'rauce was so badly injured that he will die, CuicaGo, Feb. 13, —Mary Ann Reardon and Mrs. Kehoe, two old women living alone in a shanty, were suffocatea to death this morn- ing by the burning of their dwelling, - Sk Steamship Arvrivals. At London—Th2 Baltimore from more: the Missouri from Baltimore. At Philadelphia —The British Prince from Liverpool; the Switzerlind from Ant- werp. At Southampton York. At New York he Westernland Autwerp; the Circau: ce. Balti- The Trave from New from ian from Glasgow. 1 Spaulding. . —President Hartwell has received a lotter from the missing eash- fer, Spaulding, in which he statos that the y bio took for four years from the bank was lost in speculation.” It is stated this evening by the examiner that the loss of the First National bank is apparently sbout §27,000, Murdered for His Money, Casseuton, N. D, iFeb, 18.—J. B, -Flett, agentof the Northwestera elevator av Arthur, near here, was found wurdered and robbed, ‘I'ne murderer securod §1,000 in money and Flott's gold watch aud chain, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S, Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889. htsman for speaker ) \ . 7/ e 5. ¥ Py ’ ——