Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1891, Page 4

THE = DAILY BEE F. ROSEWATER Enirtor, PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SUBSCRITTION, Dadly Bee (without Sunday) One Year., .8 8 (0 Daily and Sunday, Oue Y éur 10 0 Kl mion the » 50 "Three mont Eunday I Weekly B MORNING, Ono Yeir g 2 Ot Year 100 OIVICES N and arl St 7 Chaniber of Commerce, H Lodms 14,1 and 15, Tribune Building urteenth street 1\ b Stroets Counotl BT Chiengo Oflice New Yor) Washington, 513 | CORRESPONDENCF All commun to news and gditorinl mut 1dressed to the Lditorial Departn BUSINESS 1, 3 Allbusiness lotters and remittances sh e nddressed to The Bee Pubiishivg Comy Omnha. Drafts, checks and posioffice 10 o miade payable to the order of the com- pany. The Bee Publishing Company. Provrietors THE BEE BUILDING. "TON e BWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULS Beate of Nobras it County of Douglas, (%% Georzo It Tzaehuic sk, secrotary of Tie BEr Publikhing company, does solomnly swear that the actual cirealation of Tik DALY Hek for the week ending Murch 12, i801, was as follows Eundiy. Mo Tuesdny 26,303 4 arch 15 ., March 16 Mazch 5 23,08 Nednesday, March 1§ 31 Thursday, March 19 3. I March 2 Zi0 Ggns el 28,841 GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK Eworn o betore o and subscribed in sy presence this 21st day of March A. D, 181 . e NP Frin. Notiry Public Etato of Nebrask | County of Donglas, | George B, Trachuck, 1eing duly sworn Joseh ana vy thict he'fs seeretary of Ti ublishing company, that the aciual averag diily circulation of THe DALY BEE for the month of March, 150, was 20.815 es: for April, W4 coples: for My cople F Juine, 180, 20,00 co for Septe +70 copies 1800, 207 for Novembor, jies: for Deceniber, 1800, 24471 coples: for nuary. 1801, 28,446 copies: for’ February. 1801, 12 conle GroloE B, TZSCiUCK Eworn to Fefore me, and subseribed in my presence, this 3th day of February, A, D.. 1501 ’ NP e Notary Pubiic e i iy WHEN do and thoy most gene who shall decid tors aisagree, y do. THE merchants of covered the Omaha have dis- difference he paper and a club. Tie legislative deadloek will form one of the andalous chapters in Nebraska’s political history. WiTH two Washburnes, Creiger Cartor Harrison all running for mayor of Chieago the municipal election in that city promises to be interesting. ween a news- Lincoln most s and public improvement will add more to the appearance of the central part of Omaha than the St. Mary’s avenue grade taken together with that of Douglas strect. No Prorosen THE neinnati - Commercial-Gazette wants the warring republican factions to bury the hatchst. Thatis exactly what they have been doing: burying it to the hilt in each other’s heads. SoME of the difficulties that beseta president may be inferved from the statement that there aro 200 applicants for the nine circuit judgeships author- ized by the recent nct of congress. WrrniN few daysthe legislature will generously vote away its furniture and members will carry off cha tionery and such other a purt of the realty unde law, ifles as are not the common Ex-Gov , nssist- ant land commissioner, declines to ap- ply for the commissionership of the gen- oral land office, but it does not appear that he will refuse the position if offered him. COLLECTOR ALEXANDER throws a ray of sunlightintothe postoffice oblivion by the information that the supervising architect of the treasury hopes to lay the foundation of the new public build- ing during the present your, Rev. Howarb McQUEARY of Canton, 0., was suspended the other day by the Episcopal church for horesy. The rev- orend gentleman hasalready been offered three or four remunerative pastorates in another church in consequence. It pays in these days to be a he WELSH tin plate manufacturers have agreed to sell thls country tin plate without added cost by renson of the ad- ditional duty. This isa clear caso of the manufacturer paying the tarifl tax, and likewise a proof that the astute Welshmen appreciate the probability that this country has entered the field s & competito THE San Francisco Chronicle is authority for the statoment that it will take 700 establishments equal to those at Grand Island, Neb, and Watson, ville, Calu., to supply the American home market with beet sugar. Inas- much as the peopleof this country pay out $16,000,000 anunually for beet sugar to Germany it issafo to pre dict that the beet sugarindustry is in its very tenderest infanc, A BILL has passed both houses author- lzing the organization of county mutual Insurance companies, which Tng Beg fears will lead to an immense amount of dissatisfaction and litigation, Its terms make all insurers stockholders and re- sponsible to ench other for lossos, It also prevents stockholders from with drawing from the corporation and its | liabilities so long as such liabilities are unliquiaated. This measure will in the long run, prove anything but a blessing to the farmers for whose benefit the bill was passed, TRUCK gardening has never been e tensively attempted inthe vieinity of Omaha, though it oughtto boa profita- ble industry employing hundreds of people. An ideaof the profits of this business may be obtained from the census bulletin just issued showing that up- wards of $100,000,000 are invested in it and upwards of $76,000,000 s annually realized nfter payment of freights and commissions. This city importsa vast smount of garden produce annually, much of which oughtto be grown in | in tho county or legi gurdens hereabouts, WHEN FOREIGNERS CAN HOLD OFFIC Any foreigner who has resided in Ne- braskasix months and taken out his dec- laratory papers thirty days before any election is not only & voter hut eligib to hold any municipal or county off Any fore ided one year ative district may be u member of either house of the state legis Any foreig sided in the stat months and ory papers gner who has re pture, r who has reo- six aken out his declar may hold a state office excepting that of governor and 1t governor, fill the office ot judge it he has re- state six months voter, but no foreigner can serve on the state supreme bench unless he is a citi zon of the United States and has led in the state three yours preceding rmay of ity eided in the or distr and isa election. It is difforont with congressmen and senutors. No foreigner can be n mem- ber of the lower house of congress until he has been seven yoars a citizen of the United States, ard no foreigner can be member of the United States senate un- til he has resided in this country at least 14 years and been a citizen of the United States for nine years, LAWRENCE BARRETT In the death of Lawrenco Barrett English-speaking stage sustains which it ill aflord, its Listory has it been so poor in the loss can since rarely in nmatic and its advancement and Among those who in later years have striven to bring the stage up and to give the tional ent America, as He was th his profession; the applause it from @ and dramatic genuinely devoted to d arnestly secking elevation to higher standards drama broader scope n educ it not Henry profoundly in love « for arrett wi pre-eminent, in Trving is 10 England, 1ot the gains or him, but worth ihie brou deep bo capable, under ulness, to conditions, of for tho intel- moral improvement of man- kind, and he sought, to the extent of his ability and his opportuni to sur round it with Tho drama and the stago no de use right doing an invaluable work tual and ies, conditions. have had he, defender more carnest, and his professional exam- hable privatecharacter gave him an unquestionable right to speak for them. Mr. Barrett was not a great actor. 1 art confined within narrow iimitations, and yet he will be long r membered for some work of excentio excellence, He did not ative talent, and therefore pursued for tho most part long-trodden paths, and still what he did was marked by very distinetive individualit; It not, however, of that character which takes a strong grasp upon intelligent judgment and makes an impression that grows in favor with study and compar- ison. Doubtless very fow people who have seen Mr, Barrett act, even the most discriminating, were not at first weil pleased with his work, but although he remained always a popular actor, he did not grow in the esteem of the best qualified judges as an exponentof dram- atic art. A man of more than aver: intellectual ability and o careful student, his work was always char- acterized by an intelligent appreciation of what was required, but he rarely ronched an exposition of the highest possibilities of any character he inter- preted. Itis not necessary here, how- over, to consider critically " the work of Lawrence Barrett as anactor, or to in- dieate where his place should be among those who went before and who survive him. [t issufficient to remember now that his talents were always conscien- tiously employed, that he strove to ele- vate the stage, and that by a carcer of manly effort and correct living he hon- ored the profession of which he was a distinguished member. The death of Mr. B: tv naturally suggosts roflections regarding the im- mediate future of the English-speaking stage when the only remaining great exponents of the drama, Edwin Booth and Henry Irving, shall have passed away. Booth isno longer in the full possession of his powvers, and it is very probable he will retire while his fame is unimpaired. Teving appears to be still himself, but heis at that age when change will be decline. There is no one to take the place Barrett has va- cated, and greater actors will be called for to replace the other two. What a galnxy of great names comes to memory that within o generation have illumined tho American stage—Hkdwin Forest, E. L. Davenport, James W. Wallack, John MeCullough, Lester Wallack, William Warren. When shall we look upon their like again? THE HT-HOUR DAY. Most of the strikes now impending in American cities will have for their ob- jeetive point the adoption of the eight- hour working day. This is the chief aim of the Federation of Labor, and this body now includes nearly all of the or- gunized trades., Modern industrial stantly operat the working du wore formorly first important strike was organized amc of New Englund, the working day hours, The nextgr such votee more sincere than was possess the cre evolution has con- d to reduce the length of The from Iaborer’s hours "he in this country g the ship builde who demanded that hould be limited to 12 at movement on this line was for 10 hours, and it was stubbornly resisted. The demand for nine hours has been conceded in a few cities and quickly followed by a demand for eight. There are now states in which eight hours constitute a legal day’s work for mechanical labor, as fol- lows: California, Connecticut, Tilinois, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, There are also other states in which the eight-bour day is recognized by agreement between cer- tain trades und employes, These several demands for the redue- tion of the working day have been supe ported and combatted in each instance by the same arguments, aployers have sought to get the most, and labor- ers to give the least, for the wage paid and received, but in the long run capital has been compelled to yield to the just demands of labor, There are many good arguments (o be sun to sun. seven honestly urged on both sides of the present issue, but it is a strange fact that throughout the whole long cussion labor has apparently never scen the real point of the matter. Thisisthe undeniable truth, that the eight-hour wy is a the worker instead of - capitalist. The om- ployer is as well off in the end with eight hours as with 10. Ho will ualways rveadjust the pricos of the product of labor and exact from the customer the full costof what he sells. And the sumers, who in the main aro the great mass of toilers, pay the bill. The ope atives in the cotton mill may eventually work eight hours instend of 10, When they do the cost of cotton cloth will be increased, but not at the expense of the manufacturer. He will add the increased cost to the priceof the cloth, and the purchasing public will pay it. Thus the eight-hour day represents a generous concession on the part of the employed to the unemployed, who will be quickly and surely benefited by it. And if labor is willing to make this sac- vifice concession, capital should not com- plain. Indeed, the best and strong- est argument that can be urged in favor of the further reduction of hours is its good effects on the army of the unemployed. The idle elementin the country has hecome a real The streets of Chieago have recently been filled wivth marching thousands of idle men, attracted there by the promise of liberal employm: buildings. The latest statistics upwards of 1,000,000 men in the United States are today without re work In this aspect of the case the adoption of the cight-hour day would be a real blessing to the country, but it will be a blessing for which we shall be indebted ity of labor itself, UNIVERSITY EXTENSION. in the eastfor uni- versity und school extension is exciting great interest in educational circles, and there is most favorable promise of it ss, A meeting sontly held in New York city to d the move- ment, at which Yale, Princeton, Colum- bia. Rutger's and other institutions of learning were represented by their presidents and all wore most hearty und enthusiastic in their approval and prom- ised their best efforts to muke it success- ful. The idoa or plan of university exten- sion originated in England, where for some years it bas been in opera- tion with the most gratify- ing results. Its purpose is to some of the advantages of the university—us many, indecd, as possible n the y of education and stimulat- ing influence beyond the borders of the university itself to persons who cannot enjoy the full privileges which it offers. The full privileges of the university can be enjoyed only by those who live within its walls,and the desire of the promoters of this movement is, as explained by Roev. De. Dwight, president of Yale, that what may be given should be given to all who may be able to receive it, and thus that somewhat of that which is within may be sent forth without for the furtherance of what is highest and best in the educational sphere. The plan is the de- velopment of the progress of ideas with respect to education which has taken place within the last quarter of a cen- , during which time the movemont of thought has beon away from limita- tions so far as numbers are concernod and toward wide extension. It has also been toward the possibility of larger re- alization for the individual. The pre- vailing thought is that education is not for the few only, or for those alone who can move on to the highest attainments. It is not for those alone who have un- limited time for it, or for those who intend w0 use it some spocial lines of workings. Moreover,it need not be con- fined within its narrowest bounds in the case of those who cannot move with the utmost freedom into the broade beyond them. University extension does not contem- plate giving to those who may avail themselves of it all the advantages of the higher institutions of lenrning. This would obviously bo impracticable. What is aimed at is to bring the oppor- tunitiesof the best teaching and the best learning, together with the im- pulse and inspivation which these may bear with them, to those who desire larger measures of knowledge in differ- ent lines, and to do this to the extent which may be profitable within the lim- itations of time and circumstance in all cases to be recognized. Many people who have never had the advantage of a university education may find help from this plan, It will help those who feel that they did not avail themselves of all their opportunities while at colloge, and who wish to pursuea certain class of studies, and there are spacialists whode- sivo to have u general knowledge whom this plan will help to attainit. In short, it will open the way to thous cure learning which they wish for but under oxisting conditions camot ac- quire, and in doing this 1t will exertan influence most beneficial to the colleges. 0 departure ov innovation made by the higher institutions of learning in this country in recent years was more important than this movement for uni- vorsity extension, and it promises to be fruitful of results that will be most valuable and beneficent in their effect and influence, It isa move- ment which it would seem certain must advance and expand until it has taken in the whole country, 5o that in time every university and collegein the land will extend its advantiges, so far as pr wble, to those outside of its walls who may desire them, and will exert its in- fluence to popularize learning. dis- concession by wage con- menace. on the world’s fair show ular to the gen The movement sued was e uss car sphere nds o se- and school PONSIBILITY, It is evident that the president fully appreciates the gravity of his responsi- bility in connection with the appoint= ment of the judges provided for by the law creating circuit courts of appeal. The present administration has boon ex- ceptionally fortunate in its judicial ap- pointments, and the pullic has come to fully recognize the fact that Presrident Harrison has an elevated coneeption of what the judiciury should be and is detormined to appoint to it ouly men nform to The courts will whose ability and character the high standard he has set nization of ~ $e new a radical |departure in our judicial the effect of which, a8 was saidlby ono of the justices of the or system suprome crt, no man can fore: It is necessafy, therefore, that the shall be men of the very highest professional standing, the equals, in this respect, of the members of the supreme cqurt, o part of whoso duties they will l'\nnllv discharge. [t is altogether commendable, then, on the partof the president that ho he mined totake ample time to « and thoroughly consider the qualifica- tions of the numerous candidates for theso positions, to theend that when the appointments are made the propri- oty and wisdom of the seloctions will bo acknowledged by the country. Tt apvears from the latest information that the president has reached the con- clusion that the appointment of the new judges ought to be mado with the *‘ad- viceand consent of the senate,” and as it would be necessary to call a special session of the senate if the appointments were made before the date at which the act requires that the new courts of ap- peal shall bo organized, it is stated that the president will not make the appoint merts until the meeting of the senate in next. This will not int fere with orgunizing the courts, which can be done by the justices of tho the judgoes new judgoes Decomber court nd of the lower courts authorized b, the law to sit in the circult courts of appenl, but it is never theless a question whether it would mnot be best to have the now courts completo at the time designated for their ization. However, this conside far important than the mattor of making the appointments so that question can arise as to the constitution- ality or the propriety of the proceeding, and in reaching tho conclusion that thoy ought to be made while the senate is in the president has adopted the course which is at once sufe and in cord with tho ght of opinion, past and present. suprome orgzan- ation is loss no session we PRESIDENTELIOT ON THE WEST. The prosident of came west to enlighten its lending cities on the needs of ““the higher education.” Interviews published sinco his return to the classic shades of Cambridge indicate that he acquired quite much knowledgo as he imparted. Ttis evident that the distinguished ed- ucator expected to encounter a sort of barbarism when he crossed the Missis- sippl. He had the natural contempt for western institutions which is bred by the supererudite air of eastern un- iversity towns. He was ready to concede tho superiority of our agricul- ture and of our bedf cattle, and he had a whole ome respect for the marvelous development of owr mining industry, but he looked with exceedingly contracted vision on our schools, colloges and gen- eral educational atmosphore, Wiat he now says of the subject is thereforo pll the more gratifying to western pridein view of the unfavor- able impression with which he set out. He embodies his ised opinions of the west in the following felicitous expres- sions: Harvard coll ege as “The advance which the west has educational matters in the last few marvelous. 1 was particularly with the rapid strides whicl all the st universities have made. They have advanced wonderfully and have become broader aud more geucrousiy equipped in every way These western colleges have been able,owing to the great scientific improvements of the last twenty vears, to make an advance wh it took our old Puritan fathers a couple of centuries to complete, This is a tine compliment for western colleges, from an eminent source, The people of this section would hardly claim more than that they have accomplished in 20 yeurs the progress rearcd by Harvard in 200, Another ineresting discovery which President Iliot made in his recent trip was the fiet that the highly educated product of the eastern universities is well ‘distributed throughout the west, and that the general educational stan- dard among business and public men is therefore equal to that of the eastern states, He finds that Yale has the strongest representation in the central west, but that Harvard men are oceupy- ing the field west of the Missouri mov largely than the graduates of any other great eastern college. It is pleasant to note the educational offect of President Eliot's trip, and to add his name to the list of men who have learned 10 appreciate the qualities and possibilities of the western empire, AMERICAN MEATS IN GERMA The German government has re: ceded from its long maintained hostility to American meats, .\ dispateh from Berlin a few days ago announced thut the chancellor had removed the em- bargo upon American cattle landed at Hamburg, and later advices from W ington that the state department has been notifiea that both cattle and he from this country will be ndmitted into German ports when pre tagged to show that théy have received the American inspection. In view of this, extensive preparations are making at Hamburg and other ports for the trade that is expected toresult. The riman diserimination a; American cattle and hog products has existed about ton years, and during that time our govermment urged its removal or modification. real motive for establishing it was to protect the home produc but the protoxt which stebdily served to main- tain it was thatcour cattle and hogs were disensed. It was to no that facts were presented to disprove this, Every case of disease avising from eating pork was charged to the Ameri- can hog, although great quantities of pork are brought into Germany from surrounding countries, much of it of a vory inferior quality. The policy of Bismarck was to protect the ( an cattle and hog growers against Ameri- can competition, regardless of the in- terests of who must pay more for or go with- out it, and it served his purpose to keep up the pretext that American meats could not be depended on to be freefrom disease. No atten- tioa was paid to the representations of made in cars 15 impress sh- has repc purpose consumers their meat our govornment or the appeals of the German people. Within the last yoar the German gov+ ornment has been assailed by an increas- for a romoval of tho Amorican monts, It only a source of privation to the poople, to many thousands of whom meat was alusury to bo enjoyed onl nally, but the packers found no from it, while the cattlo ortation interests sufferod. The stockraisers alone were benofitted. But theso conditions when o upon the attontion of tho ment made little improssion It was not until the United States adoptad heroio monsures for dealing with this unjust diserimination that the German government manifested a disposition to give the matter fair and sorious consid- eration was nob ocons! ad trans itage oven Fove The passage by congressof the inspection law attested the desive of our government to doeverything practicablo to satisfy foreigners thut only healthy cattle and meats freo from disoase should bo exported, while the rotaliato vision iv contains was a warning we seriously intended to moot dis nation with a like policy. It gether probable that the inspection without this provision would have pro- duced little effoct, for it appoars that it was only aftor tho department bad instructed oue minister to Germany to notify the German that unless the emburgo was removed imme dintely, diseriminating dutios would at onee imposed on German products, that the action g the German ports to Amev! cattle and In this nee it would seem s policy of rotaliation has found ory vindication pro- that mi- is alto statn government was taken openi n It vemains to be seen what the Fronch government will do rezardir of prohibiting the importation of Amor fean meats, It has thus far shown a ubborn disposition to adhere to the policy, but it is possible that it may ho induced to g its policy take n more blo view of tho matter If it will not be due to the oxample of Germany, but to the cerlainty that our nmaent il with [ to take Json- gove pursus that it Gormany if the former continues to refuse to deal with us fairly and justly, Meanwhile American rowors are to be ratulatod upon the successful offor the governmentin abta full to the markets of whose mund tor exports trade, same course raneo pros posed with tock nm- L country de- for our cattle and meats will ma- illy swell the aanual valuo of the this branch of our foreign in PROPOSED RAILWAY CONSOLIDATIONS According to report a great scheme of railrond consolidation is about to be put into effect. This is nothing less than to unite all the great northwest@m railronds into one system and all the southwestern roads into another, and to operate both in harmony., This is to be accomplished. the report says, by pur chasing outright a 1 ty of the stock of all the companies which it is desir- ble to control, and amopg these are named the Chicago & Northwestern, the St. Paul, the Great Northern, th Burlington & Quincy, and the North- ern Pacific in the northwest, and in the southwest the Atchison, the South Pacific, the Missouri Pacific, the Denver & Rio Grande, the Rock Island, the Wabash and all Texas roads. Such a scheme, if it could be carried out, would be the most gigantic combi- nation of this age of great consolidations of capital. ticable, As an eastern paper suggests in reference to it, given a printing office for the production of new shares of stock in a company formed by a fow of the master spirits in the various roads in question, and there is no doubt that they could in time buy a mujority of the shaves in all the corporations which it is desired to control by the simple pro- ¢ of issuing new stock for the old. In many cases the mere cessation of rvivalry and destructive competition would suffice to make the exchange an attractive and profitable one to the parties who have lirge sums invested. The plan holds out a pros- peet of gain to those who take part in it, and it chimes perfoctly with the pre- vailing tenden It would, perhaps, have to meet the objection of consorvi tive and investors who regard such schemes with distrust, but this would hardly be a serious obstacle. would the public disfavor be likel) count much with the projectors of thae plan. The complaint that such a com- bination would be dangerous to the pub- lic interests would be met by the plausi- ble assurance that the greater economy in management thut would result would enable the consolidated corporations to deal more liberally with the public. It isnot to be doubted that a scheme of this kind has beon seriously consid- ered, if it has not already been agreed upon, and vast as it is, contemplating uniting under practically one m: ment roads operating nearly or quite 0,000 miles, it is not to be r npossible. Nor is it necessarily impr sober arded as Unquestionably there are great difficulties in the way, but nono which the enterprise of the time in the direction of ay find perable. 1s0, the success of such a scheme would not be an unmixed evil, since it would hastenthe time when the question of government control of the transportation interests of thecoun- try will command more serious public attention than it has yet done. The spiritof combination is cortainly active, and it is not to conclude that any project, howover gigantic, is impossiblo of accomplishment. The important question is, wnether it shall bo allowed to run its course, with all dangers to the public welfare which that might involve, or the people shall make themselves secure against these vast ag- grogations of capital by themselves tak- ing the control of the transportation in- terests of the count combination Perhaps, wise the possible THE decision of Judge Do the injunction ordering the ties to withhold tho from the Union Pacific company, will bo veceived with general satisfaction in this community. The judge does not lutely decroo the bonds illegal and the contract void, but he squarely takes the that the fulfill fons in all essontial particus depot o granting y authori- bonds and d abso. position must its oblig lars before the title deeds to the company turnod citizens of Union « tho ombargo over its 1s tho depot facilitios roads that desire to ¢ the river into Omaha, the visduet bonds and title deeds to thedepot grounds will bo cheer: fully surrenderod. SENATOR AYLOR, who has taken French leave from his colleagues in tho logislature, has turned up in BlufYs, The rgoant-at-arms, tracked and treed the fu, a requisition from the governor, Tho sergeant-at-arms will call in vain, The senate may compol the attendance of its members, but it cannot cross the stato boundary in sitions ave only issued sory return of ¢ from tho legislat among criminals, although in this in- stance it {8 almost cortuin that Mr Taylor did not absent himselfon account of his health. bouds are the taxpaying Whenever and all grounds This is Omaha desive, Pacifle reme bridge and il and transfor ovor, the nocessary to all the Council who tive, calls for pursuit of them. for the compul- minals, An absenteo ro cannot be Requi- classed TrRbill for the to agricultural b farm s o t to the frout in the estate schemers at Lincoln through dingonally, and has been for u third reading in T Bek has alveady this proposition in strong terms, right to ruin property for tho benefit of real tho city of Lincoln pay for o boulevard if it wants one, destruction of the vin futevest of who the ordered tho od colleg roal wish to wact engrosed run a houlevard houso, denoun The logislature has no stato estato speculators, T Tie va switehing off not content bill, ¢ tion high hand and 1 do when they ching onders have succeeded in seventeenth man, but blocking the railroad the with want to blockade all legisia- things witha hows what corporations their Lturo. I'his is carrying ma- v to benr on alegi Making a Vietne of Necessity. New York Sun There is great virtuo about a behind s well as before s . ihe Best Kearney Hub: Judge Grofl made an ex lent ofticial, the best periaps that has ev filled that position human - Envious of' Its Climate. Prize fighting is allowsd in 2 but the champion's nose f he can get ina lick pJournal, orth Dakota, es white before B Scme States Have Fools. San Franciseo Correspondence 1 Salt Tribune. That California politics aro worse than pol- ities tn other states 1 am not ready to afirm, bat £ do that California politic: criminal. Lake lenow Highly Commended. Springfield Monitor: Mr. Groff being a western man and knowing the condation of the homesteaders made bis rulings aceording to his idea of justice, and in all cases thoy were highly commended by westerne — No Worse Than Our Neighbors. Cincinnati Times-Star, That lively newspaper, the € Ttecord, hasat last suspended publication, It was caterprising to the end, the final num- ber containing a speech delivered in the house as lato s Decomber 17, 1590, . Theifty Landiord, San Franciseo Correspmdanes, Mr. Plhelan is accused of having gone into the grounds of & mansion that had fallen into his hands by virtueof a mortzage and, not being quite himself, sluggod the statuary there for not paying eround rent Democracy and the Atliance, New York Tribune. It is curious to notice how carefutly demo cratic leaders push 1nto dark corners the peculiar measures most favored by the allianco. It will be less easy to get thoso weasures out of sight and out of mind next winter. OwAnA, Neb., Maren 10 Tue ks Will you ans quories thraugh the “Notes wmnn of your paper? 1 with tie branded hand? man n the fron mash about the famous leanin Answer—1, Captain Jonathan Walker sala to havo boen branded with a lar tal N ght hand Ot that the brand consisted of two “S's" and tha thoy were put ause Walker had beon convicted of stealing.” The bravd ing was done in the jail at I’ensacols, 1lay i 184, Tho identity of the fumous “Man fn tho Tron Mask'™ has nover made known, — Tne historical 1 of iron, however, as has L \ | posed. but of biack velvot. Tt | light of modern historicai research e | that the M tho Iron Mask* wa 1t Matthioli, a ministor of Clarlos 11 of Mantua. ~ This ministor had boer v bribed by Louis X1V, and had pledged hini solf to urge Charles 11 to give upto Frauce the fort of Casalo, which was tho key o tho whole of Lombardy, According to the | Touis found that Matthioli was playin false, lred him to the French frontior and then had him secrotly arrested and oned. This Is only one of the many st 1\ that have been tola concorning this myster| ous personage. _ Whoever ho was, he died 1ast in the bastilo, November 10, 1 as buried in - St Paul's cemotery, Paris under the name of Machioti, 8, The fc dation of the “I ing Tower of IPisa 1aid in the year 1174 by Bonanus of Pisa, and was finished some two hundred years lator by Wilhe , the Gern architoot, k 1 “Wilhelm of Innspruck.” The twor is 170 feot in height, fifty feot fu_ diamoter, and leans about thirteen foet from the perpendic ular. canl on his 0TS 8 n be: slave wa PLATTSMOUTH, No ftor of throush B 1= DIt Santn 1oose o leg durin States and that ro 2110, what battie was it in? and faos, Mareh 18.—To the 130 Tre Bee: The following opestions Notes and Querlos™ in - Tk WeRKLY Ama. the Moxican eeacral : the war botweon the United 5 Give dates R.1' O, g from tho Answer 1 offocts of a trying to Santa Anna lost his i shot wound r pel the Fronch t thirough some diffieulty with s\ were trying to « alanding at Vera Cru this, in'the year 1837, some nine or ton years before our trouble witn Mexico. Santa Anua did, in one sense of the word ** during our strugele with that republic of d but it did not g@ve him much pain, v cork leg which had boen fastened impof the ono he had lost during bl at Vera Craz’ above mention s historical “wooden leg case At the battlo of Cerro Gordo, April 8, 1 the Mexican army wascomplotely route Santa Anna was so hard pressed that ho « sertea his carriage, cut the harness from o of his n 1and mado_good his « cape, leavini his wooden or cork les in th carriage. An Illinois soldier namoed Waldren Seaptured” the log and sold it to a couple ol liers from Pekin, 11l 1t was kept as a curiosity at Pokin until 1562 when it wa sont to the patent offico, Washington, . ¢ tobe kept among othor relics in the musoum WAvNE, Neb, March To the Editor ot Bee! Staie the nuiber of governors the terrtory of Tndinn had and how Tong eieh served. 2 Who Inyented the life Doat? J. S, Ans.—1. Tndiana had three territorial gov. ornors. Willism H. Harrison, the grand ather of President Harrison, was tho first He served from 1800 to 1511 John Gibson served two years, from 1811 to 1515, Thomas Posoy ncted as izovernor from the last named o until thetime of the admission of the territory as astate, in 1810, Writers dis agreo a5 to who tho 1nventor of the life boat was. One accords the honor to Henry Groat head of Shiclds, England; others to T, Lukin, a “conch builder and eabinetmaker of London;" William Wauldhane, also of s another claimant. Kach and all { theso gentlemen seem to bo entitled to dis tinetion for work in thelife boat line, how over. Itis smd that Lukin was the only one towhom a patent was granted—this in'1735. Pine Ring ey, S, D, Mureh 16,0 the Editor of Tre Wiien” anything ridicu- Tously absurd (8 under discussion 1u1s safd to D “oq ual 1n 18 absirdity Do ainst the comets" dic 1ssue an od et aguinst o con Ans.—The comet of 1455 was ono of excey tional brilliancy, having a tail abont sixty degroos in length. The superstitions peonl of Rome, as_well as those of other Buroy countr d the “fiery monster with Mohamet 1T and his religion ainin quarter. The Cath olics feared that their form of religion was doomed to besqueezed out of existence. Tho t, of course, wns given the credit of cansingall this uproar. Calixtus TIT was vopo; reputed to bea man of ability, vet, like vs of Moses, *a poor astronomer. ! commanided the people to say extra Ave Marias, each to end with, *“God save us from the devil, the Tarks and the com Upon this rests the wholo story of the “pope’s bull agmnst the comet.” That he really issuod a bull in writing under the pontifical soal, has long been denfed by historiaus and biog- raphers, CiEvESSE, Wyo., March 18.—To the Editor of Got to Come West. Interview w th Senator Wade Hampton “Presidential candidates? Well, if New York goes to the convention with a sotid delegation it will get the nomination; if not, the nomination will go toihe west. The most obseura man in a break away from the favorites usually captures tho nonor, - arift Logislation. New York Tribune, What American statesmen deliberately in- tended was eck the destruction of in astrics in this country by the excessive competition of Bradford and othor foreign producers, It is gratifying to have the Lon dou Times admit that, to this extent at least, tho republican leaders knew very well what vhoy were doiug. ——— Pablic Monevs for the Church, New York Herald, Cardinal Gibbons is soundly orthodox his view of logislative appropriations says: 41 do not wish to sce the day when the church will invoke or receive any govern- ment aud to build our churches, or to pay the salury of our clergy, for the government may then begin to dictalo to us what doctrines we ought to preach, or rather what wo oughtnot to preach.” That s our dea precisely. 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